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One of the things the fitness industry does well (or not so well, depending on how you look at it) is imitation of any model that proves successful. If one person finds a niche, 100 others jump on board and try to copy it, perhaps suggesting that they are perfecting it.
That bandwagon mentality led to a ton of racquetball/tennis facilities in the 1970s, to a proliferation of multipurpose fitness facilities in the 1980s (and continuing today), to circuit training facilities/women-only facilities (based on Curves' initial success in the 1990s), to low-price clubs (based on Planet Fitness' current success) in the 2000s.
These days, we are seeing a growth in alternative facilities and alternative membership models. These models include personal training studios that focus on small group and large group training more so than one-on-one sessions. They include CrossFit studios, group cycle studios, and boxing and mixed martial arts studios.
This trend will only grow as the industry tries to discover what will attract the multitude of people who have never belonged to a club or who keep joining and failing and then quitting. The expansion of these business models is encouraging.
Some of these alternative models stem from the growth in functional training and the popularity of CrossFit as an in-your-face way to get fit.
But some of the growth also stems from the recession's effects on credit. Many of these alternative clubs are smaller, so rent is cheaper. They also have minimal staffing costs and use fewer, if any, large pieces of equipment, focusing instead on smaller (and cheaper) functional training products.
These clubs also are experimenting with different membership models. Instead of selling just monthly memberships, they may sell packages and tiered levels of memberships.
As word of success from one and then another of these alternative clubs has gotten out, others have swarmed in to join the ranks. Even some larger clubs are looking at revising their membership models based on these success stories. That often means a reworking of a club's business plan and structure, perhaps staff and definitely sales. It is a hefty undertaking that is not for the faint of heart.
I do not advocate that everyone jump on board and switch to a smaller facility with small group training and a tiered level of membership. Some club operators have determined their niches and are serving them well with their current models. What I like about these new clubs is that they are diversifying the types of facilities from which consumers can choose. Some consumers will always want the luxury experience they get at a high-end facility. Others just want to "rent a treadmill" for $10 per month. Some want to be yelled at and encouraged by their peers while doing their 100th pull-up. And others want to punch that heavy bag.
What I like is that I do not feel the models that the industry offers the public have ever been more diversified than they are today. That is a good thing. If you want to jump on a bandwagon, feel free. But perhaps you are better served to come up with another model that has not been thought of yet for those consumers who still have not found the type of facility that suits them.
Note: For more about diversification and how it has affected sales, purchase this Club Industry report: Health Club Sales Strategies 2012.


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The School of EducationStaten Island Campus
While the traditional four-year college is still the most appropriate for a majority of students, the Staten Island campus at St. John's is introducing a three-year option for those who are able to complete intensive programs of study. These programs are in response to emerging public questions about the response of universities to the abilities of students who can (1) complete their undergraduate education in a unique way (2) who are ready to absorb academic learnings to meet the challenges of the 21st century and, (3) whose families are interested in saving time and money while their children pursue a quality educational experience.
Students who pursue an accelerated program of study will move through their respective programs as a cohort, creating not only a unified curriculum, but also creating groups that will support one another and encourage the exchange of ideas that typify high-level, quality colleges and universities. They will be supported throughout their three years and two summers of study, including participation in a required study abroad program which will enhance their global knowledge during one summer at either of the University's two splendid campuses in Rome or Paris.
Admission Requirements
Recognizing that St. John's is Staten Island's only University, we are looking for students who exhibit high qualities of leadership in their religious institutions, community groups, service organizations, or those who aspire to become these leaders now and into the 21st century. Those students accepted into the three-year degree program, will form a cadre of people who want to make a contribution to the nation and to the world.
Curriculum Requirements
Students will be required to complete 18 credits during each of six fall/spring semesters throughout their program. They will complete 9 credits during each of the two summers in which they are matriculated at St. John's – following their first year on campus, and following year two (18 credits total).
Enrollment Requirements
For entrance into the three-year degree program, all applicants must complete the Enrollment Confirmation Form and the Tuition and Academic Agreement Form (PDF). For more information, visit our Student Financial Services page.
The New York Times reported in late October, 2010, that the average college debt rose to $24,000. This is the approximate amount that will be saved by the three-year program, one of the first of its kind in the nation.
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Godflesh is the eponymous first release by the influential industrial metal band. It was originally released in 1988 through Swordfish Records, and was later reissued by Earache Records with two additional tracks.
Sometimes overshadowed by the impact of the follow-up Streetcleaner album, the self-titled EP is possibly just as influential and important a release in the industrial metal field, if not even more so; highly regarded for its originality and innovative lo-fi production-based progression of sounds pioneered by the likes of the Swans and Throbbing Gristle through very heavy discordant guitars and bass, brutal drum machines and Broadrick's bile-filled vocal delivery.
Musically, the album's generally slow and extremely heavy riffs are virtually a polar opposite to Broadrick's fast-paced work with Napalm Death on their genre-defining grindcore debut, Scum.
File under Blast From The Past, Culture, Music, SeMeN SPeRmS Approved, SeMeN SPeRmS BLArRrG
Conjured by o~ SeMeN SPeRmS ~o on October 18, 2012


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Mids roll over Delaware, start season 2-0
Navy beats Delaware 51-7 on Saturday
Navy's Keenan Reynolds completed 10 of 13 passes for a career-high 233 yards with two touchdowns, including a 63-yard strike to DeBrandon Sanders, leading the Midshipmen 51-7 over Delaware on Saturday.
Reynolds also ran for 109 yards on 15 carries. Sanders finished with 86 yards on three receptions, while Geoffrey Whiteside rushed for two touchdowns. Navy (2-0) also forced three turnovers and amassed 591 yards on offense.
Navy has scored 92 points in its first two games. The Midshipmen also beat Delaware (2-1) for the third consecutive time and improved to 10-7 in the series, first played in 1931.
Trent Hurley, who is one of 11 FBS transfers on the Blue Hens roster, was 17 for 25 for 152 yards with a touchdown and two interceptions. It was the most points Delaware allowed since a 49-21 loss to Appalachian State in the Football Championship Subdivision title game in 2007.


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Hidden Side Effects of the Most Popular Diets
Many diets discourage consumption of carbohydrates, including the Atkins diet, low-carb paleo diets and other diet plans. On these diets, there are some carbs consumed, though the majority of food eaten contains mostly protein and fats instead. Low-carb diets have been found to promote weight loss in numerous studies. Do your research on whether low-carb will promise the benefits you are looking for in your eating plan. However, it's also important to do your research on the alternative side; here are some of the side effects of low-carb diets.istockphoto.com
Low-carb: Low energy levels
Carbohydrates are the body's preferred source of energy; if you limit them, you may feel the effect. Sugars and starches are utilized in a number of processes in the body. According to Ginger Hultin, spokesperson for the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics and owner of ChampagneNutrition, lethargy is often a side effect of low-carb dieting.istockphoto.com
Low-carb: Difficulty concentrating
Your brain prefers to use glucose in order to function properly, says registered dietitian Cheryl Mussatto. "If carbs are strictly reduced, the brain will be cut off from its main energy source, which can drastically alter brain functioning. One such change can occur with serotonin, a chemical produced by the brain. Serotonin regulates our sleep cycle, mood and appetite, all of which will be noticeably altered along with experiencing brain fog."istockphoto.com
Low-carb: Hormonal changes
Every person's carbohydrate needs are different, says registered dietitian Jillian Greaves. Certain low-carb diets may restrict carbs to a level that's too low. "If you're overly restricting carbohydrates, this is a form of stress on the body that can disrupt normal endocrine function," Greaves says. Your endocrine system, responsible for your hormones, is related to many other systems in the body. "This disruption may contribute to cravings, an irregular or stopped menstrual cycle, hypoglycemia, mood swings, anxiety, chronic fatigue, suppressed immune function and thyroid disturbances."istockphoto.com
Low-carb: Less muscle growth
If you aren't eating enough carbs, you might see fewer results after strength training at the gym. "Carbohydrates are important for building lean muscle, which is key for maintaining a healthy metabolism and for bone health," Greaves says. Your body needs carbohydrates to undergo a process called "muscle glycogen resynthesis," which is an integral part of building muscle. Without an adequate supply, this process is going to occur much more slowly, which could stall your progress.istockphoto.com
Low-carb: Binge eating
Your body prefers to use carbs for a number of basic brain functions; so eating too few of them can cause your brain to fight back. "Cutting out carbs through any low-carb diet (including paleo and keto) can set a person up for binge eating in part because when we don't eat enough carbohydrates, our body releases a brain chemical called neuropeptide Y," says registered dietitian Julie Dillon. "This chemical's job is to tell our body to eat carbs - and eat them now." When a person's brain is flooded with this chemical, it can result in an animal-like instinct to go crazy on carbs - attack a plate of brownies or eat an entire pizza, for example. "It can feel like every cell in your body is demanding carbs, which can lead you to feel that you lack willpower," Dillon explains. "But it has nothing to do with discipline. Rather, this neurochemical is trying to save your body from experiencing fainting, dizziness or worse!"istockphoto.com
Low-carb: Lower alcohol tolerance
You might have heard the common advice to load up on carbs before a night of drinking. There's actually some science that supports this theory. Studies show that high-carb meals eaten before drinking can reduce blood alcohol content. If you cut down on carbs, you may find that you feel the effects of drinking more severely.istockphoto.com
Low-fat diets have been popularly recommended for decades. These diets involve limiting foods with both unsaturated and saturated fats. Whether or not these diets are effective or healthy is highly controversial, especially in recent years, as evidence of the health benefits of fats accumulates. However, conclusions have not yet been drawn by the medical community. Regardless of whether or not there are benefits to a low-fat diet, here are some side effects you should know about.istockphoto.com
Low-fat: Increased hunger
"Fat is a bit slower to digest than protein and carbs, so when you cut back on the fat in your diet you could find yourself feeling hungrier faster," explains Hultin. Eating meals with multiple nutrient groups, including fats, helps your body to remain satiated until your next meal.istockphoto.com
Low-fat: Vitamin deficiencies
Certain vitamins, including vitamins A, D, E and K, are fat-soluble, meaning that your body needs fats in order to absorb them. If you do not have enough fats in your body, the vitamins you eat may pass through your system unabsorbed. This can result in nutrient deficiencies, which may cause other negative health effects.istockphoto.com
Low-fat: May harm cholesterol levels
While it's true that too many saturated fats may not be great for your cholesterol, too little fat overall may also have a negative effect. Studies show that low-fat diets were associated with more of the "bad" cholesterol that could damage your arteries. Certain types of fatty foods, including olive oil, nuts and seeds, may actually help keep your cholesterol down and keep your heart healthy.istockphoto.com
Low-fat: Poor brain health
High-fat foods such as avocados, nuts and oils are some of the top foods neurologists recommend eating for brain health. Your brain, which is actually made up of 80 percent fat, relies on dietary fats to function. If you don't eat enough of this nutrient, you may miss out on some of the brain-boosting benefits of dietary fats including better memory, lower risk of dementia and Alzheimer's, and better focus and concentration.istockphoto.com
The Whole30 is a fad diet based on a book by Melissa and Dallas Hartwig that advocates for eliminating major food groups such as grains, legumes, soy and dairy, as well as added sugars and alcohol, for 30 days. It is similar to the paleo diet, but more restrictive. The diet became extremely popular and continues to receive thousands of tags on social media each year.istockphoto.com
Whole30: Poor relationship with food
"This is far and away the top diet that people cite when they seek my support for disordered eating and healing their relationship with food," says Harbstreet of Street Smart Nutrition. "Often, this comes after multiple rounds of the 30-day program where they initially wanted to eat more healthfully but became increasingly disordered with each successive round. It's harmful because it's promoted as a 'lifestyle' not a diet, yet the food rules are rigid and inflexible and lack evidence to back up the sensational claims." The most common effects Harbstreet sees in patients are orthorexic behaviors - meaning an unhealthy obsession with "healthy" eating. Additionally, those who complete the 30 days of dieting often report feeling large amounts of anxiety once the 30 days are over. Transitioning back into eating normally without fearing certain foods can be extremely stressful for the dieter.istockphoto.com
Whole30: Social isolation
Though it may not be the first thing you think of when you think of your health (what with all the restaurant food and alcohol involved), your social life is an integral part of your well-being. Since the Whole30 diet is so restrictive, it can eliminate (or at least complicate) the possibility of participating in many social outings and occasions. This is also true of other restrictive diet plans such as intermittent fasting, which only allows you to eat during certain time windows, and other diets that eliminate large food groups. "Dinner dates, drinks with friends and snacks at ball games or movies all become obsolete if you're keeping a strict schedule," says Hultin. "As a registered dietitian, I want my clients to have flexibility with their food and eating schedules, so it's important for someone to think about their lifestyle when considering a diet."istockphoto.com
Keto diet
The keto diet is a popular diet trend based on the idea that if you eat a small enough number of carbohydrates, your body will be forced to burn fat for energy in a state called ketosis. On the diet, you can eat large amounts of fatty foods and animal proteins, but can only eat very small amounts of foods that are sources of sugar, such as fruit, grains and vegetables with carbohydrates like sweet potatoes or carrots. Whether or not the keto diet is actually safe, many have turned to the diet (which originated as a last-resort treatment for epilepsy in children) in order to lose weight. However, this diet can cause a number of other reactions in the body. Here are some side effects you should know.istockphoto.com
Keto diet: Risk for heart health
The keto diet is built around the idea that by eating mostly protein and fats and an extremely low number of carbs, the body will be forced to burn fat for fuel. However, this level of restriction is difficult to achieve. "Most people are probably not actually getting into ketosis, and are eating a lot of dietary fat without burning fat for fuel," explains registered dietitian Glenys Oyston. "The potential for harm to heart health can be high, especially if people are including a lot of saturated fats." Many keto dieters eat large amounts of foods high in saturated fats such as bacon and butter, while skimping on heart-healthy foods such as fruit and whole grains.istockphoto.com
Keto diet: Constipation
Dietary fiber, which is found in whole grains, fruits and many other carbohydrate-rich foods eschewed by the keto diet, is essential for maintaining proper digestion. Cutting many of these foods from your diet to remain in ketosis may back things up. One study testing the efficacy of the keto diet to manage epilepsy in children showed that a majority of patients on the keto diet complained of constipation.istockphoto.com
Keto diet: Weaker bones
"The keto diet may weaken bones," says Oyston. "Ketone bodies may make the blood too acidic, causing calcium to be leached from the bones to neutralize the acidity." Ketone bodies are released into the bloodstream when the body is in ketosis. This lack of calcium can put the dieter at risk for weak bones that result in bone fractures or, eventually, osteoporosis.istockphoto.com
Keto diet: Acid reflux
"The keto diet may be hard on digestion, as many people find a high-fat diet aggravates acid reflux," says Oyston. Eating large amounts of cheese, red meat and these other common heartburn triggers could become really painful.istockphoto.com
Keto diet: Bad breath
Some people who try the keto diet notice that their breath smells like nail polish remover. This is a side effect of ketosis that can be seriously unpleasant. Besides ketosis, other scenarios that may cause this chemical change include fasting, starvation, prolonged and intense exercise, alcoholism and untreated Type 1 diabetes. Some people also notice an unpleasant vaginal odor that occurs for similar reasons. This is a side effect referred to as "keto crotch." It's thought by some gynecologists and dietitians that the same chemicals that cause "keto breath" cause a pH change in the vagina that causes the smell, though this theory has never been thoroughly studied.istockphoto.com
Keto diet: Keto flu
Many who try the keto diet experience a set of symptoms referred to as the "keto flu." In some studies, the keto flu afflicted over a third of those who attempted the diet. Symptoms vary, but they generally include nausea, vomiting, constipation, diarrhea, headache, irritability, weakness, muscle cramps and soreness, dizziness, poor concentration, stomach pain, difficulty sleeping and sugar cravings. Reportedly, the symptoms subside after a week or two, but some people don't shake them off as quickly.istockphoto.com
Many people believe that limiting their calorie intake to a certain number will help to prevent overeating and aid in weight loss. Limiting calories imposes a limit of available energy to the body. Some believe that this will then influence the body to burn fat cells instead of calories from food. While this may be true in the short term, there are some aspects to calorie counting and restricting food intake that they may not be taking into account. "The hidden side effects of dieting and energy restriction may not become apparent for months or years afterwards, so this approach is especially worrisome when it's treated in a very cavalier fashion," says Harbstreet. Here are a few of the potential consequences to consider before you try it.istockphoto.com
Low-calorie: Slower metabolism
Many people believe in the philosophy "calories in, calories out," but this theory fails to take metabolism into account. "Calorie restriction triggers our bodies' survival mechanism," explains registered dietitian Alissa Rumsey. "When you eat too few calories, your body thinks you are starving so it decreases your metabolism and increases fat storage." This habit is one of many that could slow down your metabolism over time.istockphoto.com
Low-calorie: Food preoccupation
The Minnesota Starvation Experiment, conducted in the 1940s, revealed groundbreaking information about how calorie deprivation affects the human brain. "It demonstrated that a lower calorie intake provokes the mind to overly think about food," explains Dillon. Even years after the study had ended and participants again began eating a higher number of calories, participants who had been limited to diets of 1500 calories per day found they felt fixated on food. Some participants even changed their careers, eventually becoming chefs. "Dieting provokes the brain to dream about food and consume thoughts. We believe this is a necessary evolutionary response to not eating enough," Dillon says. "This food obsession is designed to keep us alive yet in the modern world keeps us distracted from what we really want to do in life."istockphoto.com
Low-calorie: Hormonal changes
Low-calorie diets may seem like a benign way to prevent overeating, but research shows that they have their consequences. Some studies show that low-calorie diets result in an increase in the stress hormone cortisol. Cortisol is released in many scenarios wherein your body is under duress - lack of sleep, eating tons of sugar and drinking excessive amounts of alcohol, for example. Too much cortisol in your body can cause some serious negative health effects over time.istockphoto.com
Low-calorie: Loss of hunger cues
If you're restricting your intake to a certain number of calories, it's likely that you're making your decisions about what and when to eat based on numbers, rather than whether or not you're actually hungry. "This keeps you very externally focused, which means you could lose sight of your body's own hunger and fullness cues," says Rumsey. To keep these signals working properly, it's important to pay attention to and respond to them.istockphoto.com
Low-calorie: Obsessive behaviors
Calorie counting is a form of food tracking, and it involves keeping tabs on what you're eating every day, whether in your head, an app or some form of food diary. "This can trigger obsessive behaviors, guilt and anxiety around food," says Rumsey. These behaviors can have detrimental effects on mental health over time or even lead to disordered eating, she explains.istockphoto.com
Low-calorie: Feeling cold
Even moderately limiting your calorie intake could affect your body temperature. If you feel cold all the time, not eating an adequate number of calories could be the cause. In a study of middle-aged men and women, those who consumed an average of 1,769 calories per day had a significantly lower body temperature than those who consumed over 2,300 calories, regardless of physical activity. Additionally, dietary fats (often found in high-calorie foods limited by low-calorie diets) are used by the body to keep warm. Limiting both calories and fats can result in colder body temperatures.istockphoto.com
Dieting in general
While specific diets have their individual side effects, all diets share a few important side effects. Before you pursue weight loss by limiting your food choices with any diet, here are a few side effects you should be prepared to face.istockphoto.com
Dieting in general: Depression
"Research suggests going on any restricted diet places a person at a higher risk for experiencing depression," Dillon says. "Mood is regulated by hormones that require enough calories, carbs and fats through food to be adequate." Any diet that limits these things could affect your mood.istockphoto.com
Dieting in general: Weight cycling
Weight cycling occurs when a person repeatedly loses and regains weight, which often results in a net weight gain over time. "Long-term diet research (two years or longer) suggest that most people regain all the weight lost during a diet, whether they stick to the diet or not," Dillon says. "In fact, many regain more weight than was lost in the first place." Weight cycling is not only stressful for the dieter; it's also connected to other health complications such as increased insulin, blood sugar, blood pressure and cholesterol. It also is connected to a slower metabolism.istockphoto.com
Dieting in general: Increased inflammation
Weight cycling, mentioned above, has also been linked to increased inflammation in studies. "Inflammation is a necessary human function. When our body has to do extra work more inflammation occurs," Dillon explains. "However, inflammation can make you feel drained or foggy and harms health. Short-term research suggests many diets lower inflammation, but research looking six months out or more shows that inflammatory markers increase."istockphoto.com
Dieting in general: Worsened body image
You might think that going on a diet would make you feel better about your body, but research shows quite the opposite. A study of college students showed that for men and women, dieting (even diets described as "normal" in severity) resulted in an increased concern with weight and a lower self-esteem. Another larger study showed that both men and women who reported dieting behaviors were less likely to have a positive body image. Instead of dieting, consider trying one of these simple ways to feel better about your body right now.istockphoto.com
Dieting in general: Trouble sleeping
When your body is feeling hungry or deprived of certain foods, it's less likely to get quality sleep. Studies have connected restricted dieting behaviors with poor sleep quality. In one study, even a short period of dieting (four weeks) resulted in a significant decrease in the amount of time women spent asleep and a greater difficulty falling asleep. Sleep is an important part of health and a lack of sleep can result in inflammation, increased disease risk and other unappealing (and serious) side effects.
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You already knew that, of course, but in case you were thinking that was just me blathering at you, here's a U.S. senator saying that something smells fishy to him too.
I asked Lee about speculation that the joint dissent filed by Antonin Scalia, Anthony Kennedy and Clarence Thomas and Alito – which argued for invalidating all of Obamacare – was originally drafted as the majority opinion. Among other things, the dissent spends much of the time attacking the government's arguments, as well as a dissent from Ginsburg, and only passingly refers to the actual majority opinion. This has been seen by some as a strong indication that Roberts may have changed his vote.
"I noticed the same thing," Lee said. "Although I don't know exactly what happened within the Court, these are the kinds of signals you tend to see when something like that does happen. It made no sense to me that the dissent referred repeatedly to the 'Ginsburg dissent' instead of the 'Ginsburg concurring opinion,' for example. And it was written like it was expected to be a majority opinion. And although I don't know exactly what happened there, that is the sort of thing you tend to see when somebody switches their vote."
Did Obama's "intimidation tactics," to borrow Lee's phrase from his interview with Philip Klein, in preemptively attacking the Court put enough pressure on Roberts to get him to flip? I don't really believe that. The One's gotten ferocious pushback from our side for grumbling about the Court; he's been conspicuously quiet about it since oral arguments were held on O-Care back in March aside from some half-joking lines at his fundraisers about having to revisit health care in his second term. Some liberals were so worried about him rolling over and playing dead if the Court struck down the law that they felt obliged to beg him publicly to get angry if things didn't go his way. And of course, poll after poll shows the balance of public opinion on the side of tossing the law in the trash. Even Anthony Kennedy felt comfortable in voting to cashier the whole thing. Yet somehow John Roberts was afraid of The One, whom virtually no one listens to anymore? C'mon.
Orin Kerr wonders if maybe Roberts didn't change his vote after all:
So it might have happened like this. The Justices voted at conference and there were five votes to uphold the mandate on the tax argument and at least five votes to strike down or modify the medicaid expansion. The first group is Roberts plus the liberals, and the second group is Roberts plus the conservatives. Roberts is the swing vote in this case and this is the biggest case of his time on the Court, so he quite naturally assigns the opinion to himself. Roberts doesn't know how many votes his opinion will get, and he tries to write in a way that might persuade some unlikely votes to join him. Maybe Justice Kennedy will change sides and make the case 6-3, which would avoid the dreaded 5-4 vote. Or maybe he can get some liberal votes to join the section blocking the medicaid expansion…
After Chief Roberts circulates his majority opinion, the conservative dissenters decide to write a joint opinion in response. Why a joint opinion? It took Roberts a while to circulate his proposed majority opinion, so the time pressure is particularly intense on the dissenters. The dissenters have a lot [of] issues to cover and very little time in which to say it, and making it a joint effort allows them to pool resources. They divide the pieces with different Justices working on different issues. The result is a 65 page opinion that is a bit of a patchwork, with different parts by different Justices having different lengths and some portions not really necessary (like severability) included. Some parts may have been drafted before the Roberts opinion circulated, which might explain why parts are duplicative of the Roberts opinion.
Interesting, but this doesn't explain why the conservative opinion bizarrely passes on the chance to unload on Roberts for his ruling on the tax issue. If Roberts was voting to uphold the mandate on tax grounds from the beginning, Scalia et al. would have had plenty of time to write a withering dissent on that point. Instead, the tax section in the conservative opinion is framed as a straightforward rejection of the government's argument — just like you'd see in a majority opinion — with nary a word about Roberts's tiebreaking vote the other way. It's beyond strange. The simplest explanation is that Roberts was with the conservatives on that point until late in the game, when he finally switched and left them with so little time to respond that they were forced to stick with their majority draft as a "dissent" instead. (Alternately, maybe the conservative bloc was so pissed off at Roberts that they refused to re-shape their opinion into a traditional dissent, precisely so that Court-watchers would pick up on the "signals" of a vote switch that Lee mentioned.) But even the vote-switch theory has problems. For one thing, why would Roberts switch so late? There's been left-wing media pressure on the Court since the day they took the case. Roberts hasn't heard anything from them lately that he didn't hear from the very beginning. Another thing — if Kerr is right that Roberts was voting with the conservatives from the beginning on the Commerce Clause issue, why do their opinion and his opinion both contain sections addressing the Commerce argument? Why didn't the four conservatives simply sign on to Roberts's section on Commerce to form a majority? If there was a vote switch at the eleventh hour, it's mighty odd that anyone devoted time to drafting an entirely superfluous second opinion on the Commerce point.
One more theory via David Frum, quoting a reader who clerked for an appellate court:
I imagine the dissenters either had Roberts's vote or that Roberts left the post argument conference without commiting to a side and saying something to the effect of "let me see how it writes." He certainly didn't trust the dissenters, as he clearly instructed his law clerks to begin working on an alternative majority opinion (the final product was too polished and too long to have been written at the last minute). And he waited to see what was written.
What was written was not measured judicial analysis, but rather an opinion that started with a goal — throw the bill out — and then figured out how to get there, blowing by any precedent in its path. The challengers were right in one respect, in that the mandate was a unique use of federal power that had not been considered by the Supreme Court. But severability had been considered by the Court literally dozens of times, and the four dissenters charged right by what those decisions had said.
So Roberts was left with a choice: engage in the severability analysis himself (a messy task indeed) or find some other way to uphold the bill. He chose the latter, and the result is what we have today.
I'm unconvinced, although it's natural that an argument involving hyperpartisan conservatives alienating "reasonable" moderates like John Roberts would appeal to Frum. Two problems here. One: Would Roberts really have left the first conference undecided, smugly inviting the two ideological blocs on the Court to dazzle him with their opinions and win him over? I'd imagine that would have pissed off everyone, especially in a case of this magnitude. Since when does any justice get to pass on the initial vote in order to position himself as the ultimate decider? Two: Why would Roberts switch his vote to uphold the mandate just because he was unhappy with the conservatives' severability section? If that was the case, he could have persuaded the liberals to join him in creating a five-justice majority for a much narrower holding on severability. That arrangement would have been a bit odd given that the liberals wanted to uphold the whole law, but if there were already five votes against the mandate, they surely would have joined Roberts on severability in the interest of saving as much of the law as possible.
There is one good point here, though: Roberts' opinion was indeed polished enough to make the reader think he and his clerks had spent a lot of time on it. But … if he had enough time after his alleged vote switch to produce a cohesive opinion, why didn't Scalia et al. have enough time to produce a direct rebuttal to his tax argument in dissent? Granted, the other justices were writing majority opinions for other cases whereas Roberts had been focused entirely on this one over the past few months, but surely they could have squeezed in an extra section in dissent on the most explosive Supreme Court case in ages. I don't get it.


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I'm talking non-stop ruffles! This skirt was made as a special order in my etsy shop for a returning customer of mine. In fact, I've made each of her soon to be three-year-old daughter's birthday outfits! She was looking for something very ruffled and suggested the Nie Nie skirt by Pink Fig Patterns.
I had the pattern on hand, although I had never made it before, so we gave it a whirl. It wasn't too difficult to construct, although it was kind of tricky getting all of the tiers of ruffles lined up and spaced evenly. It also took a lot longer than I expected, but overall I think it turned out pretty darn cute!
I used a total of four different fabrics. My customer had requested Amy Butler's Fuchsia Tree in Carmine from her Soul Blossoms line, which is the fabric in the drop waist and the third and sixth row of ruffles. I added Sandi Henderson's Meadow Dots in Geranium from her Meadowsweet 2 line (in the first and fifth row of ruffles), Amy Butler's Honey Comb in Rust from her Midwest Modern line (second row of ruffles), and Anna Maria Horner's Cathedral in Zinnia from her Gold Folks line of fabrics (fourth row of ruffles).


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September 19, 2013, 9:27 am
Hiroshi Yamauchi, former Nintendo president, dies at 85
Former Nintendo president and chairman Hiroshi Yamauchi died Thursday of pneumonia, according to the AP. He was 85.
Yamauchi was the company's president from 1949 to 2002, guiding it through its growth from being a card company to a leader in the video game industry. He was instrumental giving acclaimed game designer Shigeru Miyamoto the opportunity to create classic games such as Donkey Kong, Super Mario Bros. and The Legend of Zelda.
Yamamoto was born Nov. 7, 1927 in Kyoto, Japan. He was the majority owner of the Seattle Mariners from 1992 to 2004, when he sold his stake to Nintendo of America.


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WASHINGTON, Jan. 25, 2005 — The Defense Intelligence Agency's new Strategic Support Branch is providing enhanced human intelligence capabilities to better support combatant commanders in the war on terror, senior defense officials told Pentagon reporters here Jan. 24.
The new teams, made up of about 10 civilians and servicemembers, are being deployed to support combatant commands' warfighting capabilities with improved human intelligence, officials said. The teams may include case officers, linguists, interrogators and other specialists from the Defense Human Intelligence Service, DIA's long-standing human intelligence arm.
The Strategic Support Branch was developed over the past year in cooperation with the CIA, and information gathered by the teams will be shared with other U.S. government intelligence activities, officials explained. The teams are managed and developed by the Defense Intelligence Agency, but officials emphasized that when deployed, they and their activities remain under the control of military commanders.
Officials told reporters the new teams were formally established after Congress was consulted about them and approved their funding in the fiscal 2005 budget.
DIA received the funding to stand up, manage and develop the teams.
Officials stressed that the new teams are "not a spy network," as some media reports have suggested, but rather, an element that collects human intelligence not readily available through high-tech intelligence-gathering methods.
The 9/11 commission report pointed out the need to improve the U.S. human intelligence capability "across the board." President Bush reiterated this view during a recent press interview.
Since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and well before the 9/11 commission's report was released, the Defense Human Intelligence Service was already taking steps to become "more focused and task-oriented for the global war on terror," Pentagon spokesman Larry Di Rita noted in a statement released Jan. 23. A key objective, he said, was to improve the level of tactical and operational intelligence available to assist combatant commanders for specific missions involving regular or special operations forces.
"The closer we looked at it, the more convinced we became that we did not have the right organization, the right structure, the right training," a defense official told reporters. And most importantly, he said, it became evident that the department's human intelligence capabilities weren't organized to serve on a rotational basis in two places like Iraq and Afghanistan.
Defense officials said the new teams, which may operate in a clandestine manner, will provide a rotational human intelligence base that provides sustainable support to combatant commanders. They stressed that this was not being done to compete with traditional CIA activities, as some press articles have asserted, but rather, to enhance the military's ability to gather the intelligence it needs to support its own operations.
"You simply cannot fight a long-term war with a pick-up team" that's pulled from other locations as needed to support a human intelligence requirement, an official said. "When you do that, first, you don't have a long-term sustainment kind of capability, and second, you deplete the capabilities from the place where they were drawn from."
Officials said enhancing this capability is expected to have a big payoff to DoD as it transforms itself to better confront 21st century challenges. "We're simply now facing new challenges in the global war on terror, and DoD is looking for better ways to organize to meet new world challenges," an official said.
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Kabbalah (Hebrew: קַבָּלָה, literally "parallel/corresponding," or "received tradition") is an esoteric method, discipline, and school of thought that originated in Judaism. A traditional Kabbalist in Judaism is called a Mekubbal (מְקוּבָּל).
Kabbalah's definition varies according to the tradition and aims of those following it, from its religious origin as an integral part of Judaism, to its later Christian, New Age, and Occultist/western esoteric syncretic adaptations. Kabbalah is a set of esoteric teachings meant to explain the relationship between an unchanging, eternal, and mysterious Ein Sof (infinity) and the mortal and infinite universe (God's creation).
While it is heavily used by some denominations, it is not a religious denomination in itself. It forms the foundations of mystical religious interpretation. Kabbalah seeks to define the nature of the universe and the human being, the nature and the purpose of existence, and various other ontological questions. It also presents methods to aid understanding of the concepts and thereby attain spiritual realization.
Kabbalah originally developed within the realm of Jewish tradition, and Kabbalists often use classical Jewish sources to explain and demonstrate its esoteric teachings. These teachings are held by followers in Judaism to define the inner meaning of both the Hebrew Bible and traditional Rabbinic literature and their formerly concealed transmitted dimension, as well as to explain the significance of Jewish religious observances.
Traditional practitioners believe its earliest origins pre-date world religions, forming the primordial blueprint for Creation's philosophies, religions, sciences, arts, and political systems. Historically, Kabbalah emerged, after earlier forms of Jewish mysticism, in 12th- to 13th-century Southern France and Spain, becoming reinterpreted in the Jewish mystical renaissance of 16th-century Ottoman Palestine. Safed Rabbi Isaac Luria is considered the father of contemporary Kabbalah. Twentieth-century interest in Kabbalah has inspired cross-denominational Jewish renewal and contributed to wider non-Jewish contemporary spirituality, as well as engaging its flourishing emergence and historical re-emphasis through newly established academic investigation.
The Zohar is the foundational work in the literature of Jewish mystical study known as Kabbalah. It is a group of books including commentary on the mystical aspects of the Torah (the five books of Moses) and scriptural interpretations as well as material on mysticism, mythical cosmogony, and mystical psychology. The Zohar contains discussions on the nature of God, the origin and structure of the universe, the nature of souls, redemption, the relationship of ego to darkness, the relationship of the "true self" to "The Light of God," and the relationship between the "universal energy" to man. Its scriptural exegesis can be considered an esoteric form of the Rabbinic literature known as Midrash, which elaborates on the Torah.
The Zohar is mostly written in what has been described as a cryptic, obscure style of Aramaic. Aramaic, the day-to-day language of Israel in the Second Temple period (539 BCE – 70 CE), was the original language of large sections of the biblical books of Daniel and Ezra and is the main language of the Talmud.
Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai ("Rashbi"), a rabbi of the 2nd century during the Roman persecution, hid in a cave for thirteen years studying the Torah. He was inspired by the Prophet Elijah to write the Zohar. This accords with the traditional claim by adherents that Kabbalah is the concealed part of the Oral Torah.
Tikunei haZohar, also known as the Tikunim (תקונים), is one of the main texts of the Kabbalah. It is a separate appendix to the Zohar consisting of seventy commentaries on the opening word of the Torah, Bereishit (בראשית), in a style of Kabbalistic Midrash. Containing deep secret teachings of Torah, stirring dialogues and fervent prayers, the explicit and apparent theme and intention of Tikunei HaZohar is to repair and support the Shekhinah or Malkhut — hence its name, "Repairs of the Zohar" — and to bring on the Redemption and conclude the Exile.
Tikunei HaZohar is almost entirely in Aramaic, except for quotations from Tanakh that are used in building the lessons. The Aramaic of Tikunei HaZohar differs somewhat from the Aramaic of the Talmud, and from the Aramaic of the rest of the Zohar.
By Tikunei HaZohar's own account, the book was composed by Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai and his son Rabbi Elazar, with contribution from the soul of Ra`aya Meheimna (The Faithful Shepherd, i.e. Moshe) and from Eliyahu, of blessed memory; and with help from the souls of Tzadikim, headed by the soul of Adam haRishon and several Sabbas ("Elders") who came from Gan Eden to reveal new secrets of the Torah to Rabbi Shimon and his "Chevraya Kadisha" ("Holy Friends"). This accords with the text of Tikunei HaZohar having a somewhat different dialect from—and much less stylistic variation than—the rest of the Zohar, which according to tradition was compiled by Rabbi Shimon but includes earlier sources and contains additions by later generations.
The Zohar Chadash (parashat ki tavo, daf 73a) states that because no human knew the hiding place of Rabbi Shimon and his son, the Chevraya Kadisha would send notes to Rabbi Shimon with their questions by means of a dove, and he would reply to them the same way, via the dove. Rabbi Shimon was distressed that there was nobody to reveal the secrets of the Torah to the Chevraya Kadisha, and therefore when he went out from the cave he began to reveal secrets of the Torah to them, part of which is the book Tikunei haZohar.
Rabbi Shimon Bar Yohai was the 2nd-century sage in ancient Israel, said to be active after the destruction of the Second Temple in 70 CE. He was one of the most eminent disciples of Rabbi Akiva, attributed by many Orthodox Jews with the authorship of the Zohar, the chief work of Kabbalah.
According to the Babylonian Talmud, Rabbi Shimon bar Yohai criticized the Roman government and was forced to go into hiding with his son for thirteen years. They sheltered in a cave (which local tradition places in Peki'in). Next to the mouth of the cave, a carob tree sprang up and a spring of fresh water gushed forth. Provided against hunger and thirst they cast off their clothing except during prayers and sabbath to keep them from wearing out, embedded themselves in the sand up to their necks and studied the Torah all day long. There he wrote Tikkunei HaZohar with Moses, Elijah the Prophet and Adam. He and his son left the cave when they received a bat qol (divine revelation) saying that the Roman emperor had died and consequently all his decrees were abolished.
Rabbi Yehuda Ashlag (1885–1954) or Yehuda Leib Ha-Levi Ashlag, also known as the Baal Ha-Sulam(Hebrew: בַּעַל הַסּוּלָם, "Author of the Ladder"), was an Orthodox Rabbi and Kabbalist born in Łódź, Congress Poland, Russian Empire, to a family of scholars connected to the Hasidic courts of Porisov and Belz. Rabbi Ashlag lived in the Holy Land from 1922 until his death in 1954 (except for two years in England). In addition to his Sulam commentary on the Zohar, his other primary work, Talmud Eser Sefirot is regarded as the central textbook for students of Kabbalah.
Ashlag developed a systematic method for interpreting the wisdom and widespread promotion of Kabbalah. In line with his directives, many contemporary supporters of Ashlag's teachings, strive to spread Kabbalah to the masses.
Isaac (ben Solomon) Luria Ashkenazi (1534 – July 25, 1572) (Hebrew: יִצְחָק בן שלמה לוּרְיָא אשכנזי commonly known as "Ha'ARI"(meaning "The Lion"), "Ha'ARI Hakadosh" [the holy ARI] or "ARIZaL"the ARI, Of Blessed Memory, was a foremost rabbi and Jewish mystic in the community of Safed in the Galilee region of Ottoman Syria. He is considered the father of contemporary Kabbalah, his teachings being referred to as Lurianic Kabbalah. While his direct literary contribution to the Kabbalistic school of Safed was extremely short-term (he wrote only a few poems), his spiritual fame led to their veneration and the acceptance of his authority. The works of his disciples compiled his oral teachings into writing. Every custom of the Ari was scrutinized, and many were accepted, even against the previous practice.
Abraham ben Samuel Abulafia was the founder of the school of "Prophetic Kabbalah". He was born in Zaragoza, Spain in 1240 and is assumed to have died sometime after 1291, following a stay on the small and windswept island of Comino, the smallest of the three inhabited islands that make up the Maltese archipelago.
Abulafia's literary activity spans the years 1271–91 and consists of several books, treatises on grammar, and poems, but amongst which only thirty survive. He wrote many commentaries: three on the Guide of the Perplexed – Sefer ha-Ge'ulah (1273), Sefer Chayei ha-Nefesh, and Sefer Sitrei Torah (1280); on Sefer Yetzirah: – Otzar Eden Ganuz (1285/6), Gan Na'ul, and a third untitled; and a commentary on the Pentateuch – Sefer-Maftechot ha-Torah (1289)
In his later books, Abulafia repeatedly elaborated upon a system of seven paths of interpretation, which he used in his commentary on the Pentateuch. Beginning with the plain sense, includes also an allegorical interpretation, and culminates in interpretations of the discrete letters, the latter conceived of as the path to prophecy. Abulafia developed a sophisticated theory of language, which assumes that Hebrew represents not so much the language as written or spoken as the principles of all languages, namely the ideal sounds and combinations between them. Thus, Hebrew as an ideal language encompasses all the other languages. In his writings, Abulafia uses Greek, Latin, Italian, Arabic, Tatar, and Basque words for purpose of numerology


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|Pa. Turnpike Celebrates Start of $151 Million Reconstruction and Widening Project in Montgomery County
Turnpike leaders, lawmakers and others break ground on Northeastern Extension six-lane widening
|HARRISBURG, PA (03/04/2011)(readMedia)-- Transportation leaders and elected officials this morning marked the launch of a major Pennsylvania Turnpike construction project to improve the busiest section of the Northeastern Extension. Officials broke ground on the $151 million endeavor to completely rebuild a six-mile section of the toll road including the construction of one additional lane in each direction. Preliminary work on the project is expected to commence March 6, weather permitting.
The improvements are focused on the southernmost stretch of the Northeastern Extension, Interstate 476, in Montgomery County, just north of the Mid-County Interchange (#20). Work on this massive reconstruction and six-lane widening project is expected to last nearly three years until its anticipated completion in late 2013.
Pennsylvania Turnpike Chief Operating Officer Craig Shuey, Chief Engineer Frank Kempf, Turnpike Vice Chairman A. Michael Pratt and Turnpike Commissioner Pat Deon joined state legislators, local leaders and project consultants in breaking ground at a site adjacent to the Turnpike's northbound lanes where Route 202 crosses over the Northeastern Extension in Whitpain Township.
"This stretch of I-476 between Mid-County and the Lansdale Interchange is the busiest four-lane section of highway across the entire Turnpike system, with average traffic exceeding 65,500 vehicles per day," COO Shuey said. "What's more, traffic volumes here are expected to surpass 100,000 vehicles per day by the year 2030, so this improvement project is vitally needed to safely accommodate rising traffic."
Turnpike leaders were joined by State Rep. Kate Harper, State Rep. Matthew D. Bradford and county and township officials to celebrate the start of construction in the work area which begins just beyond the Mid-County Interchange at milepost A20.3 and continues northward, terminating near where Berks Road crosses the Turnpike at milepost A25.7. The work zone encompasses Plymouth, Whitpain and Worcester townships.
"This project is also significant because it represents the first total-reconstruction initiative undertaken on the Northeastern Extension since it opened more than 56 years ago on Nov. 23, 1955," Shuey added. "But we're not stopping here. Once we've completed this project, we'll begin a similar reconstruction and widening of the Turnpike to the north, from Berks Road to the Lansdale Interchange."
Scheduled to begin in 2014, the northern portion - which includes four and a half miles of toll road - is expected to be completed in late 2016. The projects are part of a statewide initiative to rebuild the Turnpike from the ground up. To date, the Turnpike has rebuilt about 73 miles of roadway, most of it widened to six lanes.
Throughout the three-year A20-A26 project, the Turnpike will take steps to ensure that traffic disruptions and delays are kept to a minimum. Four lanes will be available most of the time, with single-lane closures limited to off-peak hours only. In later phases, the contractor will need to implement intermittent stoppages or detours in some cases, but such work is restricted to off-peak hours and early Sunday mornings.
Full-depth reconstruction involves removing all original pavement and sub-base and replacing it with an entirely new roadway with gentler curves and grades. The existing, four-lane highway will be replaced with a six-lane highway with 12-foot-wide shoulders to the left and right of travel lanes. (By comparison, the current roadway has a 1-foot left shoulder and a right shoulder width of 8 to 10 feet.) All other facets of the highway will be replaced, including lighting, barriers and guide rail, noise and retention walls and drainage systems.
Early construction activities next week will include installation of temporary concrete barrier along the right shoulder. Once the barrier is placed over the next three to four weeks, crews will then work outside that barrier to construct what will eventually become the new right lane and shoulder. Once finished, the contractor will shift traffic out onto the newly built right lane and shoulder and begin to excavate and replace the existing travel lanes and median.
The contractor will widen and replace the seven mainline bridges where the Northeastern Extension crosses over Hickory Road, Township Line Road, Jolly Road, Wentz Road, Skippack Pike, a SEPTA line and North Wales Road. No detours will be needed on local underpasses but occasional single-lane patterns may be necessary during overhead work. (To accommodate the widening, three overhead bridges that carry Bethel Road, Walton Road and DeKalb Pike were replaced between 2008 and 2010.)
The project - funded wholly by toll revenues without any state or federal tax dollars - is being built by Walsh Construction Co. of Canonsburg, Pa. The Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission awarded the $151 million contract to Walsh on Dec. 21, 2010.


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Honourable Billy Mwaningange, born on 25 November 1945 at Eembidi Village in Ohangwena Region, is the current Deputy Minister of Defence since 21 March 2015.
Prior to his appointment as Deputy Minister, he served as the first Regional Councillor of Ondobe Constituency and Governor of Ohangwena Region from 1992 to 2004. He has been a member of Parliament since 2010.
He joined SWAPO in December 1964.
In September 1975, he was appointed as the Northern Eastern (Caprivi and Kavango) Regional Military Political Commissar of the People's Liberation Army of Namibia (PLAN). He was also assigned by SWAPO to head the Diplomatic Mission in the former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, covering other neighboring countries such as Albania, Turkey and Cyprus. During that time, he was responsible for organizing scholarships and training of SWAPO students and military cadres as well as mobilising material support for the Namibia's Liberation Struggle during 1982-1989.
He returned to Namibia in 1989 and was assigned by SWAPO as Head of Elections Sub –Centre in Ohangwena District. He established the SWAPO Party Regional Office at Ondangwa, Oshikoto Region; covering the two current political regions of Oshikoto and Ohangwena during 1990-1992. He has been a Member of SWAPO Party Central Committee since 1992 to 2013.
Hon. Mwaningange holds a Postgraduate Diploma in International Centre of Public Enterprises, Slovania; Diploma in Management and Development Studies (Legal and Constitutional Affairs) UNIN-Lusaka, University of Zambia; Teaching Certificate Ongwediva Teacher's College 1965-1968.
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And said to him.
"You will be a donkey. You will work un-tiringly from sunrise to sunset
carrying burdens on your back. You will eat grass,
you will have no intelligence and you will live 50 years."
"I will be a donkey, but to live 50 years is much. Give me only 20 years"
God granted his wish.
God created the dog
and said to him:
"You will guard the house of man. You will be his best Friend.
You will eat the scraps that he gives you and you will live 30 years.
You will be a dog. "
"Sir, to live 30 years is too much,give me only 15 years.
" God granted his wish.
God created the monkey
and said to him:
"You will be a monkey. You will swing from branch to branch doing tricks.
You will be amusing and you will live
"To live 20 years is too much, give me only 10 years."
God granted his wish.
Finally God created man ...
and said to him:
"You will be man, the only rational creature on the face of the earth.
You will use your intelligence to become master over all the animals..
You will dominate the world and you will live 20 years."
Man responded:
"Sir, I will be a man but to live only
give me the 30 years that the donkey refused,
the 15 years that the dog did not want and
the 10 years the monkey refused.
" God granted man's wish
And since then, man lives
marries and spends
working and carrying all the burdens on his back.
Then when his children are grown,
he lives 15 years like a dog taking care of the house
and eating whatever is given to him,
so that when he is old,
he can retire and live 10 years like a monkey,
going from house to house and from one son or
daughter to another doing tricks to amuse his grandchildren.
That's Life.
Is'nt it ??????????
Mirror, mirror on the wall, who is Kuldip, tell us all…
He is all that can be and nothing that could never be:
To describe him would be discourteous, to him and to you as a reader, as it can never be done accurately. All that he is, is made of tedious work. The hair is, if noticed carefully, dyed and colored but naturally white, due to all the stress undertaken. The black eye bags denote the insomniac sleeping behavior in recent times. The lips move less compared to others as it expresses the thinking before saying anything. The broad shoulders and widened body frame illustrates him as the descendant from Haryana of a Jat family. Feet firmly rooted in the grounds display the humble upbringing by parents and a manner of respecting the elders. Big palms tell stories of giving more to the needy than of greed of wanting more.
"Perfectionist." Whoever knows him, vouches for the same. Every aspect of anything has already gone through his head before yours. Is known to get under stress and annoyed if things are not done as he would do them: perfectly.
"Businessman." Almost never has lunch on a normal time. There is no moment that he's not thinking about the markets, buying and/or selling steel. Did a favor to the others by not entering the corporate world.
"Photographer." Each pixel needs to be there for a reason. After having clicked more than 40000 digital pictures, he now shoots the world with his Nikon D80 Digital SLR camera.
"Blogger." Esperienza, allows to witness the world through his eyes. Could possibly become a module itself in a time-management course.
"Cook." Stories of his version of Maggie has travelled like wild fire around the world; a specialist in cooking chicken, and also has a chicken dish named after himself, the kuldip chicken. Expertise includes Thai & Italian cuisine.
"Good listener." Was never known as someone who talks too much, but has a knack of listening to other people, unfortunately, his memory doesn't always serve him right. As a result has some very talkative friends.
"Movie buff." There are very few weekends which are spent without watching at least one or two movies. Comedy, thriller, drama, romantic, anything, as long as it keeps him entertained and seated in one place for around 2 hours.
"Mr. Photoshop." The software was created for him to master. He can turn any image to his own creation with some time with Photoshop. He made a habit of gifting photos of his work and there's nothing else that can be that customized for anyone. Don't forget to get yours.
"Mr.Glove-Hands (Cricket Fielding)." He has broken batsmen's glasses with his googlies; he has tainted bowling figures of the best bowlers in the Webster Sixers; but he was never selected in a team for either of the qualities. He was taken for the ability to be able to hold on to catches. And it's a very simple procedure: see a ball flying, just put up the hand, and close the grip, that's it, done.
"Fast learner." To be able to study for exams with only a hour left, would be hara-kiri for most, but that was the manner in which the Bachelor's degree in Business Administration from Webster University was acquired.
"Webmaster." The 'web' bug hit him at a young age, made a gang called "Spaceboyz" for designing web pages, etc. Took the hobby further to start up iPixel Studios and later designed the WUT's presence on the web, currently mastering the 'esperienza' blog.
"Traveler." Has traveled to more cities in Thailand than a resident in the country for over 20 years. The digital camera has never rested in any of these trips and doesn't expect to get any in the future trips.
"Creative." His tendency to get bored in a spilt of a second has heightened a hormone called creativity to double up in his blood levels and as a result is illustrated through his photography, designing, blogging, etc.
"Treasurer." Put him in a room filled with money, and he will make it talk. Having mantled the responsibility for handling the greens for Webster Thailand Student Council, he decided to do the same with his business.
"Helpful." Although no enemies are known, nonetheless, even his enemies would vow of this quality and ability of his. Where many think of their self-interest, the thought of the common good comes first to him.
"Trustworthy." Another quality that sets him apart from the crowd, if he's given his word, you wouldn't need anything else.
"Dynamic." Hardly a man to get bored with; if you want to learn multi-tasking the recommended dosage of one hour with him would be more than enough.
"Marketing guy." The persuasion skills taught by a certain professor are instilled so deep, that he can sell anything and everything under the sun. Well, for starters, he makes good money selling steel. His work can be visited here.
"Prankster." This is the meaning of 'fun' in his dictionary. A manner in which to de-stress, who needs the Osho Ashrams?
"Chicken lover." Any place with good chicken: be it a restaurant, friend's kitchen or even a dhaba which boosts of any well prepared chicken dish, he can be found.
"Good soul." There could never be any accurate or any other means of measurement for the soul. As a very famous Indian poet and saint has penned: "...Jab paida hue toh jag hansa hum roye; aisi karni kar chalo, hum hanse jag roye..."
If I tell you more, then you will be in awe, and that would be a mistake.
As told by the mirror on the wall.


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Brownies are a controversial subject. By varying the proportions of a few simple ingredients you can get drastically different outcomes. Which style of brownies do you prefer: Cake-like fluffiness or batter-like gooeyness? Take this Espresso Brownie recipe for example; it is a standard recipe that I have enhanced with a shot of espresso. The addition of two fluid ounces of espresso changes the consistency and the depth of flavor. It adds a barely perceptible nuanced layer to the chocolate flavor profile, making it richer and more delicious. The consistency changes too. If you like moist and gooey brownies, try this recipe!
Because the ingredient list to make Espresso Brownies is quite short, it is important the ingredients are of the highest quality you can find, especially the espresso. Believe it or not, I started making this recipe by roasting my own espresso beans. This is not for everyone, but it is an interesting process to undertake. I roasted a quarter pound of unroasted green coffee beans in a Behmor 1600 electric coffee roaster. The roasted coffee beans then sat for four days in a canister so they could give off carbon dioxide in a post-roast process called outgassing.
Next, I ground the freshly roasted coffee and used a Chemex pour-over preparation invented by a German chemist in 1941. The borosilicate glass carafe is inert and does not impart any flavor to the final brew. Espresso blends may be prepared using other coffee making methods too; you do not have to have an espresso machine at home.
Once you have prepared the espresso, pre-heat your oven to 350F and select the pan you will use. A common size used for baking brownies is a 9-inch square pan. Other pans equivalents are: 11x7-in baking dish, 9-in round 2-in deep-dish pie plate, or 9x5-in loaf pan. I used an 8x8x2-in glass Pyrex knowing these Espresso Brownies would turn out even gooier.
Gather the ingredients together. The dry: 1/4 tsp. (1.3 g) baking powder, 1/2 cup (80 g) all-purpose flour, 1/3 cup (80 g) cocoa powder, and 1/4 tsp. (1.5 g) table salt. And, the wet: 1/4 tsp. (2.5 mL) vanilla extract, 2 oz. (60 mL) prepared espresso or strong coffee, 4 oz (115 g) unsalted butter, 1 cup (200 g) sugar, and 2 large (100 g) eggs.
Stir together the melted butter, sugar, vanilla and prepared espresso in a bowl. Add the eggs. A silicone spatula works well for stirring the wet ingredients and incorporating all of the dry ingredients. Take your time, it can get messy if you go too fast. When thoroughly mixed, use the spatula to spread the batter evenly into a greased pan.
Predicting the length it takes to bake Espresso Brownies is the trickiest part of the whole process. Depending on your oven's consistency, the pan size and whether it is glass or metal makes a difference in baking time. Pull the pan out after 30 minutes and visually inspect the brownies. Have they pulled away from the sides of the pan? Also check the center to see that it doesn't jiggle. Then use the toothpick method. Take a toothpick (or in my case a unicorn shaped corn on the cob holder) and insert it into the center of the pan. If it comes out coated in batter, bake again and check after ten minutes. If the center doesn't jiggle and there are just a few crumbs on the toothpick then the Espresso Brownies are done.
Let the brownies cool completely in the pan. This could take hours or overnight.
Enjoy with a nice hot cup of coffee or espresso!}?>
Espresso Brownies
Butter and flour an 8x8-in pan
Preheat oven to 350°F (170°C)
4 oz (115 g) unsalted butter
fold in
bake 350°F (170°C) 30 to 40 min
1 cup (200 g) sugar
1/4 tsp. (2.5 mL) vanilla extract
1 shot (4 Tbs; 60 mL) fresh brewed espresso or very strong coffee
2 large (100 g) eggs
1/2 cup (80 g) all-purpose flour
1/3 cup (80 g) Hershey's cocoa powder
1/4 tsp. (1.3 g) baking powder
1/4 tsp. (1.5 g) table salt
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In the picture you show baking soda but in the recipe you call for baking powder. The first batch of brownies that I made were relatively hard and I am wondering if perhaps I had an ingredient wrong?
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I have not be able to turn up the recipe anywhere else -indeed the picture and the text are curiously not the same.
and , , , I have seen brownie type recipes using baking powder, or baking soda, and both....
it's certainly unclear - if you give the baking soda a try, let us know how that compares to the as written baking powder.
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BerlinDave wrote:
In the picture you show baking soda but in the recipe you call for baking powder. The first batch of brownies that I made were relatively hard and I am wondering if perhaps I had an ingredient wrong?
Sorry, the author was on vacation. I've gotten an update on the recipe and it is supposed to be baking soda. I've updated the article. Sorry for the failed batch of brownies!
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Instant espresso (in granular (dry) form) can be used in brownies instead of actually brewing some.
Try 1 tsp. Then for next time , if prefer more or less of the flavor, adjust the measurement accordingly.
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Criticism and Context; Jia Zhangke
One of the most intriguing aspects of the Movie Mutations project is that it brought together a number of film critics of a certain generation who were geographically dispersed across multiple continents and yet shared a lot of common ground in terms of taste. The films and filmmakers they treasured and championed were often equally (if not more) dispersed in terms of nationality and culture, and yet there was often significant agreement among these critics about their worth. When I first read Movie Mutations, I remember thinking: Does lack of knowledge of context — social, historical, cultural, economic, political, artistic — pose no barriers to the appreciation of a filmmaker's work as it travels around the world?
My own position on this is simple: Contextual knowledge is not a prerequisite for appreciating cinema, but it definitely can, whenever available, contribute to a deeper and wider understanding of both the film at hand and its place within multiple larger structures — social, historical, political, etc. In other words, I'm rarely nervous about expressing praise for a film I like, no matter its global source, simply because I lack the contextual knowledge to appreciate it fully. The fact that it appealed to me for certain reasons is enough for the moment. But there's a part of me that continues to be curious — for new knowledge and insight, both contextual and critical, that might revise, rethink, or even just elaborate, in ways large and small, my appreciation.
Case in point: I've enthusiastically followed the films of Jia Zhangke for almost a dozen years now but a fascinating piece in a recent issue of New Left Review — "Poetics of Vanishing: The Films of Jia Zhangke" by Zhang Xudong — deepens my view of his films by situating them in certain revealing particularities of background. (The piece is available online for a fee.)
Zhang describes how 'Fifth Generation' filmmakers like Zhang Yimou and Chen Kaige were responsible for breaking Chinese cinema into the global culture market. They rejected the studio-bound socialist-realist tradition that preceded them, and instead chose to evoke a mythologized past with a visual reliance on "sweeping, dehistoricized landscapes":
The elevated style of these films, reifying what they depicted into something 'timeless', seemed distant from the concrete experience of their own times, and failed to represent or recount the ongoing, epic social transformation of the country itself in the era of Deng Xiaoping's market reforms […]
Where the Fifth Generation sutured together a mythological whole—embodied by vast, empty shots of a pristine, ahistorical landscape, from Shaanxi's loess plateau in Chen Kaige's Yellow Earth (1984) and Zhang Yimou's Red Sorghum (1987) to the icy mountain ranges of Tibet—the Sixth was eager to portray the shabby, formless texture of everyday life in county-level towns, where socialist underdevelopment meets the onslaught of marketization.
Specifically, Jia's films, Zhang tells us, portray a very particular kind of place: they are set in xiancheng, or county-level cities. There are over 2400 such cities in China, but they are extremely under-represented in film and literature. Zhang writes:
To focus on xiancheng is, whether consciously or not, to zoom in on the underbelly of China's socialist modernity and its Reform Era. Nominally part of 'urban China', xiancheng stands apart from the fantasy of a pristine and authentic, custom-bound rural world […] On the other hand, xiancheng is decidedly not a metropolitan area: if anything, it offers the opposite of urban sophistication, white-collar jobs and access to national cultural and political power […]
In terms of material or symbolic capital, then, xiancheng is proletarian China par excellence. In terms of urban forms and their visual representation, xiancheng is usually found to be shapeless and unattractive. […]
In other words, this is the in-between, generic area where the daily reality of contemporary China is laid bare. With no clear-cut boundaries or sharp distinctions between rural and urban, between industrial and agricultural, between high and low cultures, xiancheng becomes a meeting place for all kinds of forces and currents, whether contemporary or anachronistic.
Jia's "hometown trilogy" (Xiaowu, Platform, Unknown Pleasures) marked the 'discovery' of xiancheng in Chinese cinema, Jia even referring to himself as a "cinematic migrant labourer". After being so closely identified with this milieu, he tried to move beyond it in the setting of The World. Zhang comments:
But this setting [of The World] is in fact a xiancheng within the nation's capital, at once a migrant labourer's village and a xiancheng imagining of a globalized world. Indeed the ultimate irony of the film is aimed not at the Disney-style theme park, but at Beijing or even China itself: a giant xiancheng, whose concrete, contradictory realities co-exist with a virtual, mirage-like unity.
Finally, he makes this ironic observation about the reception of Jia's work:
The idea that Jia's films are representations of working-class life that only high-cultural audiences can understand, or that they constitute laments about urban demolition funded by the demolishers—24 City, for example, was funded by the very developers behind the project featured in the film—are ironies not lost even on Jia's supporters.
Jonathan Rosenbaum has long advocated for the crucial place that information occupies in film-critical writing. His book on Kiarostami, co-written with Mehrnaz Saeed-Vafa, is a good example — as is so much of his other work — of this element of critical practice. Iranian politics, history, poetry, and cultural tradition are all summoned to the task of helping to explicate Kiarostami's work.
Another example that comes to mind is Andrew Horton's book on the films of Theo Angelopoulos, which attempts to draw upon centuries of Greek history and culture, Byzantine iconography and ceremony, Greek music hall traditions, and shadow puppet theatre to help sketch a broad context for the director's art.
I'm wondering: Are there other examples of books, essays or even documentaries that perform this film-critical work of helping to provide any kind of context to better appreciate certain films or filmmakers? I'd love to hear any recommendations.
Some recent reading:
-- A lovely joint piece by Adrian Martin and Cristina Álvarez López, "Secret and Impossible," available in both Spanish and English, at Cine Transit.
-- The new issue of the journal Experimental Conversations contains a terrific essay by Fergus Daly called "Sidney Lumet: Experimental Filmmaker?". David Hudson handily rounds up the issue for us. David also collects links to pieces on David Cronenberg on the occasion of his NYC retrospective. Also: Jim Emerson's 12-minute video essay, "Written in the Flesh: A Crash Course in David Cronenberg".
-- A fantasy double features piece at MUBI penned by several writers.
-- Matt Zoller Seitz's "Vertigoed: A Press Play Mashup Contest" has almost 100 participants including Catherine Grant, Jason Mittell and Kevin Lee. The contest required them to take the same Bernard Herrmann cue -- "Scene D'Amour," used in a memorable moment from Vertigo -- and match it with a clip from any film.
-- The Village Voice lays off J. Hoberman: David Hudson has a post that collects links. Hoberman's "year in film"; and in the NYT, he talks about the Village Voice and film culture.
-- Jonathan Rosenbaum and Ignatiy Vishnevetsky on Bresson's Affaires Publiques. Also: Ignatiy on Tomas Alfredson's Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy.
-- Kent Jones and Jonathan Rosenbaum discuss Bresson and Godard. Also: Kent has an essay on Jean-Pierre Gorin's films on the occasion of the new Criterion/Eclipse box set.
-- With this post on Diary of a Hitman (1991), Zach Campbell launches a new series of pieces at MUBI.
-- David Bordwell on the expressive use of hands and hand gestures and why they are comparatively rare in cinema today. Also: his post "Tinker Tailor: A Guide for the Perplexed".
-- This Onion story is pretty funny: "Miranda July Called Before Congress To Explain Exactly What Her Whole Thing Is".
-- The Academy sounds an alarm about the fragility of digital production media.
-- The Senses of Cinema 2011 World Poll.
-- A brilliant video montage set to Lionel Richie's "Hello". For a "key" to where the clips are drawn from, see this post.
-- At Moving Image Source: Patrick Keiller on "landscape cinema and the problem of dwelling"; and a group of essays by several critics on films in the "First Look" program at the Museum of the Moving Image.
-- Several links via Adrian: Claude Chabrol on adapting La Ceremonie; A great interview with Bob Dylan by John Elderfield; "What If": movies imagined for another time and place"; The Journal of Aesthetics & Protest; Anne Bilson in the Guardian: "Why restyle Great Women of History as cockamamie feminist role models?". Related: Laura Flanders on The Iron Lady at Truthout.
-- Ben Sachs in the Chicago Reader on Adam Curtis' All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace, which can be viewed online.
-- An epic essay and music mix by Trevor Link, "Pop Utopianism: A Manifesto"/"We Need to Talk About K-Pop: A Mix"; and, via Trevor, a discovery of Cinefiles, a large and valuable database.
-- Olivier Père will be curating a complete Otto Preminger retrospective at the Locarno film festival this summer.
-- At The Guardian: a piece on the birth of UK film criticism, 100 years ago.
-- At the MUBI Notebook: "The Lost Pasolini Interview"; "The Posters of Robert Bresson"; and Dan Sallitt's defense of Julia Leigh's Sleeping Beauty.
-- Rowena Santos Aquino on filmmaker Kim Ki-duk.
-- Via the Film Doctor's blog: At Filmmaker magazine, "6 Filmmakers Talk About Documentary Films in the Digital Age"; a story on the "found-footage horror movie" at The Atlantic; an interview with Frederick Wiseman at Filmmaker; and at Observatory, "Reassessing the Saul Bass and Alfred Hitchcock Collaboration".
-- At Little White Lies: Yusef Sayed on F.J. Ossang; Hong Sang-soo; and Philippe Grandrieux.
-- The current issue of the Director's Guild of America Quarterly includes pieces on Michael Mann and Leo McCarey.
-- Time magazine proclaims Godard's Histore(s) du Cinéma "the DVD of the year".
-- An interview with Nouvelle Vague cinematographer Raoul Coutard at the Film Comment blog.
-- Completely unrelated to cinema (or is it?): I finally know the difference between dork, geek, dweeb and nerd.
pic: Jia's Still Life (2006).


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There you have it — the magic between Kroeger and Lavigne was clear from the start. The singer went on to detail that the two were having so much fun that they were spending some pretty long days together.
"I'm having a lot of fun. Actually I just got home from tour and just hanging out in the studio and getting a lot of work done, like 12-16 hour work days — nothing else really exists in my life right now, other than music. It's awesome."
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"I'm pretty far [into the album]. Almost done. But for me I'm not really thinking about when I want to put it out and hurry up. I'm taking my time and while I'm in that mood and in that mode to create and to write and to record I'm just going to keep doing it because I have the energy for that right now. And it feels good right now. It's what I'm supposed to be doing and I'm having a good time."
Lavigne Tweeted out a photo of herself and Kroeger "bro'ing out" together in the studio back in February and the Tweets kept on coming through August 19 — a week and a half after the two got engaged! Now that's keeping a lid on things.
Bro'ing out with Chad Kroeger in the studio twitter.com/AvrilLavigne/s…
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After 10 days straight in the studio w/ Chad and
@hodgesmusic it felt really strange to not be around music today. Can't wait to get back!
— Avril Lavigne (@AvrilLavigne) March 27, 2012
@nickelback just raid my fridge? What the hell isthis? I need to stop drinking. Seriously instagr.am/p/JwPn4Bux1g/" yes, we did" hahah 😉
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That's a wrap boyz
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