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Economist Carmen Reinhart Shares Her Grim Outlook for the U.S. Economy
The senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics predicts five more years of slow growth and high unemployment.
It's been almost four years since the start of the financial crisis that brought on the deepest recession since the Great Depression. While many experts hoped the recovery would be robust, it's proven disappointingly slow and shallow -- even slower lately. That's no surprise to Carmen Reinhart, senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics. Along with Harvard economist Kenneth Rogoff, she's written a book, This Time is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly, which looks at boom-and-bust economic cycles over time.
Reinhart and Rogoff show that when real estate bubbles burst, financial crises often follow. They, in turn, lead to large losses in the financial sector, which are frequently addressed by government-funded bailouts that, in the end, compromise the fiscal health of the nation in question. Recovery is slow and protracted.
We checked in with Reinhart to see whether the U.S. is facing a long period of anemic growth. Here is an edited transcript of our conversation.
KIPLINGER: What's in store for the U.S. economy?
REINHART: The U.S. is facing a slow-growth problem for essentially the next five to six years. My husband, Vincent Reinhart, and I wrote a paper, titled "After the Fall," that examines economic growth following a negative economic or financial event. In a developed economy, economic growth is about 1% lower in the decade following a severe financial crisis than in the decade prior to the crisis, and unemployment rates remain stubbornly high. In half of the 15 most-severe post-World War II financial crises that we studied, unemployment does not return to the pre-crisis low in the decade after a financial crisis.
Why is this the case? These recoveries are so protracted and so anemic because of high levels of indebtedness and the slow process of paying that debt off. Prior to the financial crisis, the worst recession since World War II had been the 1981-82 recession. However, in 1982 household debt was 45% of gross domestic product, and when interest rates began to come down markedly, people paid down debt, allowing them to begin spending again. The economy came roaring back. Today household debt is more than 90% of GDP, and interest rates are already low. People will be paying off debt for a lot longer instead of spending in ways that make the economy grow. As a result, for the next five to six years the economy will only grow around 2% a year after inflation, and unemployment will remain high.
How does our situation compare with Japan's lost decade? We should be worried about a Japan-like scenario. That's one in which the private sector was highly indebted -- especially the financial industry. Lenders delayed writing down bad debt, and the government stepped in to guarantee bank deposits. Japan kept interest rates low, but that failed to get its economy jump-started. Instead, the country experienced a prolonged period of slow growth and deflation, with prices falling because of waning demand. We have a similar situation here in terms of debt and how we're dealing with it. We should be worried about those strong similarities.
Your outlook is decidedly more grim than the U.S. government's. Have our policy prescriptions been the right ones? The federal stimulus coupled with aggressive action by the Federal Reserve was needed to put a floor under the free-fall situation in the fall of 2008. But we should not have allowed foreclosures to be delayed, and mortgage loans, as well as mortgage-backed securities, should have been made to reflect the decreased value of real estate. How do we reconcile the fact that real estate prices in the U.S. have fallen by almost 40% in inflation-adjusted terms, but we have mortgage securities that are sitting on the books at the purchase price?
Banks should have been forced to recognize billions in losses in those securities instead of putting the losses off. Those loans are like albatrosses, weighing down lenders and households. Kicking the can down the road instead of acknowledging losses and taking the hit is not healthy for recovery. Anything that causes the public and private sectors to pay down debt and to free households to spend in ways that are healthy to the economy will help bring us out of this situation faster.
What do falling home prices mean for banks that are still grappling with bad mortgages? We have loans that are tied to real estate prices that have not shown any sign of important recovery. These loans are zombie loans -- they should be in default but have not yet been written down. Just as happened in Japan, real estate prices looked as if they were stabilizing last year, but now they have softened again. As unpleasant as it is, taking write-offs and ridding the balance sheet of that debt is constructive for both financial institutions and households.
What should Uncle Sam be doing now? We need something constructive to signal that the budget mess will be addressed and that we will deal with our debt. We're still generating big deficits. Our public debt is building up. We have serious liabilities with Social Security and Medicare. The government may still need to rescue the nation's largest banks should the real estate market, the economy or both continue to deteriorate.
Is the U.S. facing a fiscal crisis? A fiscal crisis is not around the corner because the dollar is held in significant quantities by governments around the world and because the U.S., Europe and Japan all have problems. And, frankly, our problems are not as bad as those of the rest. So as we muddle through, crisis is not around the corner, but neither is recovery.
Any thoughts on the European debt crisis? The European Union has been kicking the can down the road by bailing out member countries with debt problems. That approach is a Band-Aid and can only go on for so long. Greece, Portugal and Ireland need to restructure their debt -- and that will happen at some point. If the restructuring is done in a favorable environment with the support of the European Union, instead of in a disorderly fashion, I don't foresee it posing a risk to the global financial system because the market and the authorities are already attuned to the situation.
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Paolo Nespoli has been at the International Space Station on his six-month MagISStra mission with his crewmembers Dmitri Kondratyev and Catherine Coleman since December 2010. Paolo's Earth images and views out from the Station are on his Flickr photostream.
Photos from the Star City and Baikonur, with Paolo and the whole crew in final preparations, are here.
The older photos prior the final exams at Star City and quarantine time in Baikonur are here and a selection of MagISStra 3D photos (anaglyphs) is here and on his Paolo's photostream.


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I see that I have posted the last few blog posts to DRAFTS. I'll bring them back up and post into blog.
As you know, I began CrossFit March 1. After a few weeks of learning the ropes, our Coach offered up a challenge. The challenge was to complete the workout 'FRAN' on Day 1. Fran consists of thrusters and pullups, in sequence of 21, 15, 9 for time. (21 thrusters-21 pull ups, 15 thrusters-15 pull ups, 9 thrusters-9 pull ups) Here is the workout
We would then follow a Zone nutrition program for 28 days. on Day 28 we would again complete the Fran workout. The goal was to improve time and strength, improve body composition, record daily nutrition and workouts.
After completing TheWhole 30 and feeling excellent I was a bit apprehensive about changing the nutrition up a bit, but I was willing to try it. I had never tried zoning before and as long as I'm not eating sugar, splenda or processed crap I'm willing to try and learn.
I added back in .5 cup of oats each morning and learned immediately that it caused inflammation. I could feel the swelling immediately. After a few weeks I dropped the oats again as I could feel my discs began to squeek. Not cool. The one thing that did puzzle me was that oats were on the preferred carb list but sweet potato on the non preferred carb list. Interesting. I don't have any inflammation from sweet potatoes.
I did see some members 'bastardize' the zone. You know, zoning a snickers with a preferred carb, etc. "It's still zoned". Meh. I just kept my opinions to myself.
My workouts rocked, running was great, no problems. Except I was hungry. Coach had me add in a few blocks of fat near the end of the challenge and that helped immensely. I should have added in more fats much earlier!
Below is the synopsis from Coach Ryan, posted to his website.
"Performance Improvement Champion: Julie Berg 40% FASTER
Julie is an Ultra Marathoner but has only been doing CrossFit for a few months. While endurance is no problem for her, a high power output workout like Fran was a daunting task early on. Julie performed the workout with 55# for the thrusters and using our black (medium) band for the pullups at the start and end of the competition to compare time improvement. She took her time on this workout from 13:30 down to just 8:29 in just 28 Days. Julie was the runner-up in the points division with just 1 point shy of perfect on the logging, total blocks, balanced meals, and favorable carbs part of the contest. She might have lost just a few points for not following through on some of the recovery days but did an overall excellent job. All these numbers mean Julie finished the same amount of work in 60% of the time with just 28 days of high performance fuel and training. Wow."
Yah, so I took over 5 minutes off my time and lost 2.6 pounds of fat. I logged every bit of food for 28 days but I didn't take off the 4th day as a rest day. I'm OK with that. I imagine a zoned paleo challenge would work well for me, too.
I do prefer the squeaky clean of Whole30, however, so that is where I will stay. I am really looking forward to the release of It Starts With Food, by the authors of TheWhole 30, Dallas and Melissa Hartwig. I think I can talk Coach into a Whole30 challenge for the CrossFitters!


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text: News Posted 06-06-2014 Getting Fishing Act Together Recreational fishing interests fight for provisions in Magnuson-Stevens Recreational saltwater interests are fighting for more representation. (Mike Suchan photo) By: Steve Rogers, OutdoorChannel.com Officials within several fishing and boating organizations are continuing to pressure Congress to include more provisions that will assist recreational fishermen as legislators continue to explore reauthorization of the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act. Originally enacted in 1976 and amended several times over the years, the Magnuson-Stevens Act is the primary law governing marine fisheries management in United States federal waters. While much of the act deals with optimizing commercial fishing and efforts to prevent overfishing, members of the recreational fishing community are seeking substantive legislative changes to improve saltwater recreational fisheries management as the act awaits Congressional reauthorization. "We would like to have seen more done in this bill to address the needs of the recreational fishing community," said Mike Nussman, president and CEO of the American Sportfishing Association. "This bill includes several provisions that we support, such as easing the strict implementation of annual catch limits and improving stock assessments for data poor fisheries, but unfortunately our top priorities are not meaningfully addressed." In February, the House Natural Resources Committee, chaired by Richard "Doc" Hastings, R-Washington, approved the reauthorization bill, House Resolution 4742, and it now awaits a vote on the floor of the House of Representatives. The Senate Commerce Committee is expected to release its Magnuson-Stevens reauthorization bill soon, and full reauthorization of the bill may not occur until the next session of Congress. Members of the Commission on Saltwater Recreational Fisheries Management met in 2013 to debate strategies to help the recreational fisherman in the bill's reauthorization. Co-chaired by Bass Pro Shops founder and CEO Johnny Morris and Maverick Boats President Scott Deal, the committee was composed of biologists, economists, conservationists, fisheries managers and policy makers. Their findings culminated in a report, A Vision for Managing America's Saltwater Recreational Fisheries, which was introduced in February at the Miami International Boat Show. The commission, largely known as the Morris-Deal Commission, submitted a report that offered six recommendations for the Magnuson-Stevens reauthorization concerning recreational saltwater fishing: Establishing a national policy for recreational fishing Adopting a revised approach to saltwater recreational fisheries management Allocating marine fisheries for the greatest benefit of the nation Creating reasonable latitude in stock rebuilding timelines Codifying a process for cooperative management Managing for the forage base Nick Stanczyk of Bud N' Mary's Marina holds a Spanish mackerel caught in Florida Bay. (Mike Suchan photo) "For many reasons, I'm deeply committed to protecting and enhancing our nation's fisheries to ensure a bright future for the great American tradition of fishing," Morris said. "Sharing our outdoor heritage with our children and grandchildren means we must work hard now to improve saltwater recreational fisheries management." Deal added, "This is the first time the recreational fishing community and the fishing and boating industries have clearly set forth what we believe the majority of the nation's recreational anglers want regarding our saltwater fisheries laws, management policies and regulations." According to the ASA, approximately 11 million Americans saltwater fished recreationally in 2011 and spent about $27 billion in the process. That generated more than $70 billion in economic output and sustained approximately 450,000 jobs. However, some officials are concerned that the House Natural Resources Committee largely ignored the recommendations of the Morris-Deal Commission as well as other glaring needs. "In addition to overlooking the priorities of the Morris-Deal Commission, we are also disappointed that the federal management failure with red snapper in the Gulf of Mexico is not resolved in H.R. 4742," said Patrick Murray, president of the Coastal Conservation Association. An update of the 30-year-old Gulf red snapper allocation between commercial and recreational sectors is being pursued heavily by the CCA and other organizations. "It's vital that Magnuson-Stevens reauthorization addresses this management train-wreck by transferring Gulf red snapper management over to the states, which are much better equipped to successfully manage this important fishery," Murray said. Jeff Angers, president of the Center for Coastal Conservation, said the time for the Magnuson-Stevens to assist the recreational angler as well as the commercial fishing industry is long overdue. "Since its inception, the Magnuson-Stevens Act has focused primarily on commercial fisheries to the detriment of the nation's 11 million recreational fishermen and the nearly half a million jobs they support," he said. "Revising the law in a way that incorporates the goals and needs of anglers is long overdue. "Our community has put forward the policy changes that will set the foundation for an effective saltwater fisheries management system, but we need Congress' help by enacting these common sense and nonpartisan policies." Share This Story Related Fishing : Posted 05-26-2014 Salt Water Fish Catch & Release Tips View Comments


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02 September 2010 - Stamford, CT (USA)
Tagetik reports strong first half 2010 in the USA
Tripled turnover and growing customer satisfaction strengthen Tagetik to market flexible performance management platform
Tagetik, a global provider of Performance Management, Enterprise Governance, Risk & Compliance and Business Intelligence software solutions, today reported strong business figures from its U.S. operation, Tagetik North America LLC, as well as positive customer feedback for the first semester of 2010 Fiscal Year.
"We are very satisfied with these positive results in U.S., especially in a doldrums business climate," says Manuel Vellutini, EVP Chief Operating Officer (COO) at Tagetik. "Tagetik North America has tripled the revenues compared to last year and leverages more than 10 satisfied customers as well as new partner alliances. These figures are in line with the corporate double-digit growth – both consolidated (+33%) and on new license revenues (+61%) –, 32 new customers from all international operations and a growing relationship with Microsoft Corp., confirming an outstanding H1 for Tagetik worldwide and encouraging investments to further develop a key-market to us, like North America."
Tokens of this bright performance are first hand customer experiences and market's growing demand for fast and flexible performance management solution. "We had been contemplating a change in our CPM approach for the past couple of years and Tagetik 3.0 provided a very flexible solution overall with powerful built-in functionality that met our strict requirements for the new forecasting methodology we planned to employ at our firm," commented Timothy Armstrong, Chief Operating Officer at Vinson & Elkins LLP, an international law firm based in Texas. "Compared to SAP, Tagetik was the clear winner for replacing our SRC product. During the evaluation phase, we could already see how the solution would fit in our environment."
"At Propex we need a budgeting and consolidation tool that gives us the ability to create solutions that are sophisticated, comprehensive, flexible, and integrated for our global business," comments Steve Powell, VP, Global Treasury and Financial Planning at Propex Operating Company LLC a global manufacturer of industrial fabrics headquartered in Chattanooga, Tennessee. "After looking at numerous platforms we chose Tagetik because of their flexibility, extensibility, and breadth of experience in the field. In the coming weeks we look forward to partnering with Tagetik to design and deploy a world class solution for our budgeting and forecasting processes that can realize our business goals."Tagetik North America, which has been active on the U.S. market since 2008, attributes their growing demand to the slow but steady recovery following the recent economic crisis. "Now that the clouds hovering over the business climate are finally starting to lift, many organizations are looking to invest in technologies to help them better weather the next economic storm," explained Mark Corsetti, Vice President & General Manager at Tagetik North America. "With Tagetik 3.0, companies can quickly implement powerful CPM solutions that flexibly adapt to their individual business and industry requirements. Best of all, each of these processes – from planning and budgeting to financial consolidation or rolling cash flow forecasts – are unified on a single platform. This ensures that companies can better manage their assets and business performance while lowering the total cost of ownership for these systems at the same time."Last but not least, Tagetik won Bobrick Washroom Equipment , a leading manufacturer of commercial bath accessories and bathroom partitions, who will implement Tagetik 3.0 for their budgeting, financial planning and consolidation processes.
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Dinges tallies goal, assist; Walter, Dolesh also score in 4-3 defeat
OXFORD, Ohio – In a high-scoring, back-and-forth affair, that included three lead changes and three ties, the Miami University women's soccer team fell to Milwaukee in the closing minutes, 4-3, Friday afternoon at Miami Soccer Field. The match saw the RedHawks (3-3-0) and Panthers (1-5-1) combine for six second-half goals, with Milwaukee scoring the final two in the last 10 minutes.
"We're going to have to go back and watch the videotape on it," head coach Bobby Kramig said of the final 10 minutes. "I was concerned about our organization back there and I was concerned about our communication back there. But sometimes if I don't hear it, it doesn't mean it's not going on. So we're just going to have to go back to the video and see if we can get it sorted out. Clearly, we have to be better than this defensively."
Miami applied good pressure in the opening minutes, earning multiple corner kicks and had several close looks with UWM keeper Paige Lincicum often coming off her line, but the RedHawks couldn't put the ball in the back of the net. The Panthers took the first lead in the 28th minute when Kelly Lewers sent a pass up the middle to Kelsey Holbert, who split a pair of RedHawk defenders and slotted the ball in the back left corner of the net passed senior goalkeeper Allison Norenberg.
Just over five minutes later, Miami nearly drew even when freshman midfielder Rachel Marble found a loose ball alone in front of the cage but her shot slid over the crossbar, as the RedHawks went into halftime down a goal. The opening 45 minutes were relatively even, as both sides managed four shots, each putting two on frame, while Miami held a 4-2 edge in corner kicks.
The fireworks started quickly in the second stanza as sophomore midfielder Haley Walter scored in her third straight game just 1:29 into the half. Junior forward Hailey Pleshakov slipped a pass through two Panther defenders, while senior midfielder Kayla Zakrzewski ran onto the ball from the left flank and fired a shot to the far post around the charging Lincicum. The ball was nearly across the line when Halter made sure it crossed with a boot to knot the contest at 1-1 on her third tally of the year.
Miami then grabbed its first lead of the afternoon in the 67th minute when senior midfielder Katy Dolesh cleaned up a corner kick in the penalty box. Junior midfielder Kelsey Dinges picked up the assist as her corner slipped through Lincicum's hands and fell to Dolesh, who volleyed the ball out of the air and into the back of the net for her third goal of the season.
In the 75th minute, Milwaukee pulled even at 2-2 when Krissy Dorre put a shot from inside the penalty box into the back right corner of the frame, after taking Lewers' through ball up the middle. Sara Stern also earned an assist on the score. Only 21 seconds later, the 'Hawks regained the lead when Dinges blasted a long shot from the top right corner of the box under Lincicum's hands and into the far corner for a 3-2 Miami lead. It was her third tally of the year, as well, giving her a three-point night.
The RedHawks would not score again however, while Milwaukee scored twice. In the 81st minute, Dorre fed Morgan LaPlant, who found a seam in the defense and ripped a shot into the top right corner of the goal to level the match at 3-3. The Panthers then scored the game-winner with just 1:14 remaining in the contest as Lewers dribbled through the defense and blasted her shot upper 90, again on the right side, to give UWM the 4-3 victory. Lewers completed the day with a goal and two assists.
Despite the loss, Miami finished with an 11-9 advantage in shots, and also earned six corner kicks to Milwaukee's three. Lincicum totaled four saves though to help the Panthers get the win. Norenberg had three saves in the loss, while the four goals allowed were the most she had given up in a regular-season game in her three-year career. Miami was the more physical side, committing 13 fouls to just two for UWM, but it did not slow the Panthers down
"I think we'll be ready to go (Sunday). I'm not too terribly worried about that," Kramig said. "I'm concerned about some of the organization problems in the back. I know our kids will come to play."
The RedHawks look to snap a two-game skid on Sunday when they host Big Ten foe Purdue for Senior Day. Kickoff is set for 1 p.m. at Miami Soccer Field while Miami's six seniors and four senior managers will be honored prior to the game. The match will also be streamed live on MURedHawks.com via the Miami All-Access Subscription package.


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This movie, man. This movie.
The Raid : Redemption was a 2012 martial arts movie filmed in the Philippines and directed by Welsh filmmaker Gareth Evans. And it was one of the best movies of that year and one of the best action movies made in at least the past 10 years. And now The Raid : Redemption looks pretty quaint in comparison to it's sequel.
This movie is much bigger and improves upon every aspect of the previous one. The first one had a pretty simplistic plot and characters, the second one has a more complicated plot and stronger characterization. The level of acting was completely fine in the first one but in the second one there are stronger performances by the returning actors as well as several new ones including Takashi Miike regular Kenichi Endo and the Nightmare Detective, Ryuhei Matsuda as members of a yakuza family in Jakarta. And with the larger cast and resources, you a lot more action scenes in a large variety of locations and circumstances.
While I don't want to give away too much of the story, because it has a lot of frequent twists, the basic premise is this: The main character of the previous movie is sent deep undercover in the criminal underworld of Jakarta to find evidence of the link between organized crime and corruption in the higher ranks of the police force and ends up being sucked in to a highly destructive gang war caused by a conspiracy.
Iko Uwais, who plays Rama, the main character, was a pretty generic boyscout-ish good cop who also happened to be some kind of god of fighting. In the second one he's still the least corrupt person but he does show more acting chops. He makes a pretty convincing thug and throughout the events of the movie his performance does show that Rama is getting tired of the constant fighting not just physically but also mentally because it's now consuming his whole life.
Arifin Putra plays Uco, the son of the mob boss Rama works for, and is really good at playing this slimy, arrogant spoiled idiot who you want to punch in the face and is a pretty effective villain alongside Bejo, a mysterious crippled gangster with a small army of assassins at his disposal.
But that's not what you want to hear about? You want to hear about the awesome fighting, right? Yeah!!
Oh man. This movie has some of the best fights I've ever seen in a martial arts movie. Like, the hallway fight and the last fight between the brothers and Mad Dog in the first movie were great fights but pretty much every fight in this movie is like those but better. You have Iko Uwais versus dozens of angry thugs armed with anything pointy or heavy enough in tight spaces, large rooms and open areas. You have several one on one fights with crazy and awesome assassin characters, with the final one on one being the most brutal kitchen fight since Riki-Oh.
Yayan Ruhian, who played Mad Dog in the first movie, returns as a different but very similar character and has two amazing action scenes. Julie Estelle and Very Tri Yulisman play two assassin siblings credited as Hammer Girl and Baseball Bat Man, who are insane and awesome murder machines and Cecep Arif Rahman as "The Assassin", who I won't say anything about besides "oh my god I can't this fight is too good oh shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit yooooooooooooooo".
There's also a really great car chase with cars flipping and crashing and people shooting each other that is destructive enough but doesn't turn in to a boring car spectacle like in A Good Day to Die Hard or the new Need for Speed movie.
So yeah. I think you should watch the first one and then find the nearest place where they're showing The Raid 2 : Berandal and watch it. Several times. It's the best martial arts movie in decades and shows what actual talent behind and in front of the camera with actual work ethic can do and puts the mediocre results of bloated budgets and overproduced focus tests of Hollywood to shame.
The Raid 2 : Berandal is in theaters now and you need to pay real cash money to see it because I don't think you'll see a better martial arts explosion on the big screen in a long time.


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- Were you looking for There and Back Again (Alliance)?
The subject of this article or section is part of Brewfest, a seasonal event that lasts two weeks. Once the event has run its course, this will no longer be available until next year, but there are no guarantees.
There and Back Again is available during the Brewfest event.
Get a keg from the goblin stranded on the road to Razor Hill and return it to Ram Master Ray's assistant. Do this 3 times before your ram goes away.
Am I glad you're here, we are in big trouble! The goblin that was supposed to be bringing us more brew, had an accident on his way from Razor Hill. You gotta get us that brew!
I'll put you on one of my racing rams and you follow the road to Razor Hill.
Once you get near him he'll toss you a keg, then you run the keg back here and toss the keg to my more capable assistant. For now, all we want are 3 kegs. Do a good job and maybe we'll have another job for you.
Thanks for your help! As long as Brewfest is going and the Dark Iron Dwarves are attacking and our supplier is stuck in that canyon, I'll need some help shipping kegs. So if you want to work for more tickets, talk to me every day.
Here are the tickets we promised you. Have fun!
- Brewfest Prize Ticket x10 (Discontinued, 2008)
(Changes to 2008)
- After you complete the quest, you can start a similar non-quest task by talking to Ram Master Ray. You have four minutes to complete as many runs as possible, with each run awarding two Brewfest Prize Tokens and adding 30 seconds to the timer. It is possible to keep your Ram at a gallop the entire time; make sure you pass by each apple basket.
- Unlike daily quests, the repeatable version of this does not have a set reset time; once the ram disappears, it will become available again after twelve hours have passed.
- There and Back Again is a book 'translated' by J.R.R. Tolkien as The Hobbit.
- [70] Now This is Ram Racing... Almost.
- [70] There and Back Again
- [70] Bark for Drohn's Distillery! or [70] Bark for T'chali's Voodoo Brewery!
- [70] Another Year, Another Souvenir
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See also
- See the Racing Ram Tips on the Brewfest page.


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Judge Orders Pa. County to Stop Issuing Gay Marriage Licenses; Heralded as 'Victory for Marriage'
A Pennsylvania judge ruled Thursday that a rogue county clerk in the state must stop distributing marriage licenses to same-sex couples. The judge agreed with Gov. Tom Corbett's lawyers in saying that the clerk does not possess the power to decide who may receive marriage licenses in the state.
"Unless and until either the General Assembly repeals or suspends the Marriage Law provisions or a court of competent jurisdiction orders that the law is not to be obeyed or enforced, the Marriage Law in its entirety is to be obeyed and enforced by all commonwealth public officials," Commonwealth Court Judge Dan Pellegrini said on Thursday.
Pellegrini ordered that Montgomery County Register of Wills D. Bruce Hanes, who has been distributing marriage licenses to same-sex couples since July, must now "cease and desist from issuing marriage licenses to same-sex applicants, from accepting the marriage certificates of same-sex couples, and from waiving the mandatory three-day waiting period."
Pellegrini also rejected the request of dozens of same-sex couples who had received marriage licenses from Hanes and wished to intervene in the case to argue that the validity of their licenses depended on the judge's ruling.
Hanes began distributing the marriage licenses to same-sex couples in July, shortly after the Supreme Court's ruling that struck down a key provision of the federal Defense of Marriage Act. He said in previous interviews that he personally felt the state's 1996 law explicitly banning same-sex marriage was unconstitutional, and therefore he had the right as an elected official to distribute marriage licenses to whom he chose. Since he began in July, Hanes has distributed 174 marriage licenses to same-sex couples.
Pennsylvania Governor Tom Corbett, who has voiced his opposition for same-sex marriage, filed a lawsuit against Hanes in August, saying that Hanes had overstepped his boundaries as a county official and his practice "risks causing serious and limitless harm," including an imbalance of powers in the state.
Pellegrini's 35-page ruling was not clear on what would happen to the 174 marriage licenses issued by Hanes.
County Clerk Hanes told the Associated Press that he was "disappointed" in the outcome of the trial, and was considering an appeals process. "The decision to issue a marriage license was not made in haste, and what we're going to do next, based on this decision from the court, will not be made in haste," Hanes said.
The National Organization for Marriage heralded Thursday's ruling, with the pro-traditional marriage group's president, Brian Brown, telling CNN that the ruling was a "victory for marriage."
"This is a victory for marriage. We are pleased that Judge Pellegrini reiterated that Pennsylvania law expressly defines marriage as the union of one man and one woman," Brown said.
Pennsylvania, the only northeast state to not legally recognize same-sex marriage or civil unions, is currently facing another lawsuit by the American Civil Liberties Union that challenges the state's ban on same-sex marriage. Attorney General Kathleen Kane announced in July that she would not be defending the state law because she personally found it to be unconstitutional. Gov. Corbett said in a statement that Kane's announcement was an "improper usurpation of the courts."


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Before the season you would have got long odds that the Dynamo's Giles Barnes would have more headed goals by now than Chris Wondolowski, Kenny Miller and Kenny Cooper, to name three strikers admired for their close-range scoring ability.
With three headed goals in MLS, Barnes is in a group of eight players behind only Tim Cahill (seven) and Eddie Johnson (four). The Englishman scored with his head in last week's 5-1 rout of Chivas USA and is hoping to be a threat in front of goal again on Saturday night when the Dynamo visit the New England Revolution in a crucial contest between Eastern Conference play-off rivals (6:30 p.m. CT; CSN Plus).
Barnes also scored with a confident low finish when put clean through on the Chivas goalkeeper, Dan Kennedy, to take his tally for the season to a team-leading eight in MLS, one ahead of Will Bruin. The 25-year-old is in double figures for the year since he also found the net with excellent strikes against FC Tucson in the U.S. Open Cup and against Stoke City in the BBVA Compass Dynamo Charities Cup.
His previous best goal haul came when he was a teenage prodigy in 2006-07 and scored eight times in all competitions for English second-division club Derby County.
Having been a winger or attacking midfielder for most of his career, Barnes's performances and production have fully justified the decision of Dynamo head coach Dominic Kinnear to use him as a central forward. To some extent it was a move forced by circumstances at the start of the season, as new signing Omar Cummings had not recovered from knee surgery.
But Barnes seized the opportunity, and his aerial prowess is a valuable bonus for the team considering that Barnes is best-known as a playmaker with a penchant for the spectacular who likes to run from deep with the ball at his feet.
At his previous club, Doncaster Rovers, he was even deployed as a defensive midfielder. But he loves getting forward and testing goalkeepers rather than simply being a provider.
"It's a transition from delivering the ball to attacking it," he told HoustonDynamo.com. "I'm enjoying it. It's more scoring, more creating. I was looking to add more goals to my game … I've never really been in those positions before."
According to Opta, Barnes has taken 60 shots in MLS this year—eleventh-most in the league and only nine fewer than Wondolowski, last year's runaway Golden Boot and MVP winner. And when Barnes is looking like he might score, that's good news for Houston—as they are 5-0-1 this year when the former English Premier League man hits the net.
Winning breeds confidence, as does fitness. "Having everyone healthy helps. We've had to play people out of position numerous times," said Barnes. "[Kinnear] gets to play the team that he feels is the best on the day."
The Dynamo arrive in New England on a three-game winning streak in all competitions and looking to put more daylight between them and Jay Heaps' side. Houston have a three-point lead on the Revolution, who occupy the fifth and final playoff spot with five games left. After Saturday's test, the Dynamo return home to host the Montreal Impact next Friday.
Both games between the Revolution and the Dynamo this year have been close, fractious encounters. New England drew first blood with a 2-0 win at BBVA Compass Stadium in May, but the Orange struck back with a 2-1 victory at Gillette Stadium two months later that featured an all-time great goal from Adam Moffat.
After enduring a three-game winless streak, New England returned to the East's top five last weekend courtesy of a 2-1 come-from-behind victory over bottom club D.C. United. Their talented striker, Juan Agudelo, missed that match through injury, but he might return on Saturday.
"We just focus on our game. We feel it's been clicking quite well recently," said Barnes. "We'll be looking to give them a headache. They're a good team, they get the ball down and play. They've got good players all over the park—but I'm sure they'll be saying that about us."
Tom Dart is a contributing writer to HoustonDynamo.com. Former editor and reporter for The Times of London, Dart currently freelances for The Guardian and SI.com.


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Snapshots from The Plum Bistro Vegan Pop Up at No Vacancy, Los Angeles
In the gritty heart of Hollywood, flanked by cheap pizza and a noisy hookah bar, I was lost. I had an address, but the location of the Plum Bistro Pop-Up seemed to not exist. It wasn't until a helpful bartender on a smoke break pointed me through a commercial courtyard, behind a charming Queen Anne cottage constructed in 1902, that I found any indication I was in the right place.
One of the oldest houses in Hollywood, the cottage underwent a stunning restoration by the Houston Brothers, and will open to the public next month as No Vacancy at the Hotel Juniper. Last week,Makini Howell, chef and owner of Plum Bistro in Seattle, took over the kitchen for a four day vegan pop up restaurant with the help of Roberto Martin, author of Vegan Cooking for Carnivores, and Shawain Whyte, Executive Chef of Blossom Café in New York City.
"I met the owner of this place a couple years ago and asked if I could do my pop up here," explained Chef Howell while sipping a glass of Vegan Vine. She is current traveling from city to city, touring for her recently released cookbook, Plum: Gratifying Vegan Dishes from Seattle's Plum Bistro.
Chef Howell opened her first café in her hometown of Seattle in 2005, after a series of frustrating vegan dining experiences while living in New York. As a lifelong vegan, she felt many restaurants "miss the satisfaction factor because you're getting sides or something. I wasn't getting what I wanted." Plum Bistro's dishes rely on whole foods and familiar ingredients, elegantly composed into substantial, refined vegal meals.
Check out Howell's creations in the slideshow.
Plum Bistro
1429 12th Ave. Seattle, WA 98122 (map) 206-838-5333; plumbistro.com
No Vacancy
1727 N Hudson Ave. Los Angeles, CA 90028 (map) 323-465-1902; novacancyla.com
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Tuesday, August 30, 2011
Yann Arthus-Bertrand: Fine and Furry Farm Animal Portraits
Posted by Jay at 7:31 PM
It's been awhile since the Reel Foto blog featured any animals, so this week will be devoted to just that. While the last posts on the subject were focused on strange creatures underwater and close encounters of the wild kind, it's time to come back to those animals that are closer to man's heart. Man's best friend has already graced the Reel Foto blog twice, but nothing has been said of man's other best friends. Photographer Yann Arthus-Bertrand seeks to amend that by presenting fine and furry farm animals in all their glory.
Sunday, August 28, 2011
Annie Leibovitz: The Master Of The Portrait
Posted by Jay at 6:20 AM
Both Yousuf Karsh and Arnold Newman have rightfully earned their place among the legends of photographic portraiture for their ground-breaking work. Their images continue to be a source of inspiration for this generation's professional photographers. On the other hand, new generations of portrait photographers have to look for a fresh source of inspiration for today's digital age. Fortunately, they don't have to look far in order to see the works of commercial photographer and portraitist Annie Leibovitz.
Thursday, August 25, 2011
Arnold Newman: The Environment Is The Portrait
Posted by Jay at 6:17 PM
Right around the same time that photographer Yousuf Karsh was working on his incredibly evocative and minimalist portrait style, another portraitist was taking a different approach. While Karsh relied solely on the subject to bring out the portrait within, fellow portrait photographer Arnold Newman believed that the opposite was true. For Newman, placing equal emphasis on the subject's environment was just as important to producing a great portrait.
Tuesday, August 23, 2011
Yousuf Karsh: The Art of Immortality
In the world of photographic portraiture, only a handful of names immediately stand out. Pioneers in the field such as Edward Steichen and Richard Avedon reacted to the times they lived in and were celebrated for coming up with unique yet modern approaches to portrait photography. Today's photographers such as Annie Leibovitz and Platon continue that fine tradition. One name however has been immortalized as the unparalleled inspiration for all photographers, past or present. That name is Yousuf Karsh.
Sunday, August 21, 2011
Gjon Mili and Pablo Picasso: Light Paintings
Posted by Jay at 5:49 AM
This past week has seen just a fraction of the awesomeness that comes when one takes inspiration from art while working on photography. From recreating iconic artworks as in the case of RES, or using the old styles of painting to create new portraits as in the case of Eugenio Recuenco, the possibilities are endless. However, you can't talk about art and photography without featuring one of the 20th Century's most influential collaborations between the two fields: Pablo Picasso's Light Paintings or Light Drawings as photographed by Gjon Mili.
Friday, August 19, 2011
Eugenio Recuenco: The Old Ways Are New
Posted by Jay at 8:28 AM
Photography imitating art as in the previous post shows modern viewers how the techniques of the old masters are truly deserving of their accolade. While the photographer recreating these masterpieces is to be commended for his effort, most of the time it's the original artist that gets the praise. This is the case when photography directly recreates art instead of being inspired by it. Photographer Eugenio Recuenco takes the latter approach by borrowing the elements of the old ways to create something completely new.
Tuesday, August 16, 2011
Raúl Eduardo Stolkiner: Conatus, Past and Present, Art and Photography
Posted by Jay at 6:02 PM
Carl Warner's Foodscapes and Klaus Enrique Gerdes' recreations of Arcimboldo's portraits both show just how much photography is inspired by art. With the theme of art and photography being so popular, it's only natural that the Reel Foto blog should continue to feature photographers and artists with the same passion. Artist Raúl Eduardo Stolkiner, popularly known as RES, fits the bill perfectly.
Sunday, August 14, 2011
Arcimboldo's Portraits of Food by Klaus Enrique Gerdes
Posted by Jay at 6:25 AM
Carl Warner's Foodscapes from the previous post has been rightly lauded over the past years, but his was not the first artworks to feature food in such a breathtaking manner. Photographer Klaus Enrique Gerdes takes his cue from the artist Giuseppe Arcimboldo in creating his fanciful portraits using fruits, twigs and flowers.
Thursday, August 11, 2011
Foodscapes by Carl Warner
It's not uncommon to play with your food. Sometimes, (as in photographer Sayaka Minemura's case) you create cute culinary constructions using only what's in front of you. Carl Warner seems to have created a whole new level with his Foodscapes, which are complete landscapes made entirely from food.
Tuesday, August 9, 2011
The Breakfast Project by Sayaka Minemura
Posted by Jay at 6:06 PM
Today is the beginning of a new day and a new week, which means it's doubly important to start your day right with a hearty breakfast. For photographer Sayaka Minemura, a hearty breakfast also means one that has a little bit more character and charm like those that are featured in her breakfast project.
Thursday, August 4, 2011
David LaChapelle: Forget Glamour, It's All About Sex!
Posted by Jay at 8:48 PM
There's no glamour, it's all about sex! Well, at the very least, sex plays a big part in fashion and portrait photographer David LaChapelle extensive commercial work. Some 50 years after the legendary George Hurrell defined the setting for glamour and style, LaChapelle turns it all upside to produce some of the most provocative, ridiculous and beautiful portraits in the industry.
Tuesday, August 2, 2011
George Hurrell: Lights, Camera, Glamour!
Posted by Jay at 5:47 PM
Ever since the advent of the motion picture over a hundred years ago, film studios have advertised their movies through billboards, posters and post cards. In order to attract an audience, the faces of the leading lads and ladies of the screen were used for publicity. The more successful films would use images of their stars that were more adventurous, sometimes provocative but almost always glamorous. And in 1930s Hollywood, nobody did glamour better than portrait photographer George Hurrell.
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Guadamur Castle
- Autonomous region: Castile-La Mancha
- Province/Island: Toledo
It is around 12 kilometres from Toledo and contains an important palace-fortress from the 15th century, which has been perfectly restored and furnished in an attempt to recreate the original period decoration. Built on the site of a previous Arab castle, it was used as lodgings by, among others, Felipe el Hermoso and Juana la Loca, Cardinal Cisneros and the emperor Carlos. The main section is square, with circular towers on three corners, the rectangular keep on the remaining corner and triangular towers in the centre of the walls. The fortress is surrounded by a moat which follows the shape of the exterior walls. Also recommended is a visit to the hermitage of San Antón, nowadays the Museum of Popular Customs and Art of the Toledo Mountains; the hermitage of Nuestra Señora de la Natividad, and the parish church.
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Must see views in: Guadamur
In the following map you'll find the locations of all the incredible views that we have recommended. Don't miss a thing!


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2012 Seat Ibiza review
* UK drive of face-lifted Ibiza * Price 9995 to 16,840 * On sale now...
The Seat Ibiza supermini has been refreshed for 2012.
It gets a smarter, more grown-up look, thanks to cosmetic changes that include new bumpers, a smaller front grille, new headlights and foglights, plus a crease in the bonnet.
In the cabin, the Ibiza gets a restyled climate control unit and instrument dials, along with new steering wheel designs. Seat's new Portable Media System already in the Mii will be available in the Ibiza later on this year.
The engine range is unchanged, but the estate model is available with the sporty FR trim.
What's the 2012 Seat Ibiza like to drive?
The 2012 Ibiza has no mechanical or chassis tweaks over the previous car, so feels exactly the same to drive.
The 1.2 TSI engine is responsive and revvy, but not out-and-out rapid. The 1.4 TSI offers much more in the way of genuine pace, while the 1.6-litre diesel is strong and flexible, but rather clattery.
We also tested the 69bhp 1.2 petrol version. This is the more powerful of the two three-cylinder units there's a 59bhp 1.2 and it copes well on most roads. A little extra oomph would be welcome on faster roads, and it gets a bit clattery when pushed hard, but this quietens down at cruising speeds.
Road noise is well subdued, but wind noise builds as speeds increase.
The suspension soaks up nearly all bumps without upsetting the car, and it handles corners perfectly. The light steering is a little short on feel, though.
What's the 2012 Seat Ibiza like inside?
The driver should be able to get comfortable, using four-way steering-wheel adjustment, and seat-height controls. Front visibility is fine, but over-the-shoulder vision is restricted by thick rear pillars.
The centre console looks dated, but it's easy to navigate. The plastics aren't as nice as those in a VW Polo, though.
There's room for three in the back just. The three-door Ibiza's rakish roofline makes headroom an issue, though, while rear leg- and kneeroom will be a problem for those over six feet tall. However, the 292-litre boot is on a par with those in many of the Ibiza's rivals.
The Seat is well equipped, too, with all trims getting electric front windows, remote central locking and MP3-connectivity as standard. Other options include Bluetooth and automatic lights and wipers.
Should I buy one?
One of the Ibiza's key selling points is the price: the 1.4 84 petrol model, for example, is around 1000 less than the equivalent Vauxhall Corsa. The Ibiza is also cheap to insure and run.
However, it's not as fun to drive as a Ford Fiesta. It's not quite as classy, either, but the Ibiza is still a fine, sharp-looking alternative to the usual supermini suspects.
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A pre-Code wildflower that carries an indelible whiff of the risqué (even by today's standards), future Stella Dallas and Duel in the Sun director King Vidor's 1932 film Bird of Paradise -- rescued from its ultra-perishable original silver nitrate media and preserved on 35 mm film by the George Eastman House, and now presented by Kino Classics in this new Blu-ray edition -- is outrageous on several levels. Adventure story, sexy romance, and unreconstructed-racist fantasy projection/act of unmitigated exoticization, the film has accumulated layers of different kinds of value over its 90 years: Its seafaring, death-defying action is still rousing, its overpoweringly physical, overheated, and tragic love story still incredibly sensuous for something from the Depression era, and all of that raw energy still pumps swiftly through its hot-blooded veins. But it now holds additional interest, too: to film scholars and historians, as a marker of what one could get away with in American movies before Breen Office prudishness took hold in 1934, and as a work that bears fascinating vestiges of the transition from silents to talkies; and to the culturally and sociologically-minded, as a time capsule holding some genuinely naďve and thus straightforward (or shameless, if you prefer) examples of colonialist-era, way pre-racial enlightenment attitudes toward non-white, non-American customs, beliefs, languages, and skin colors.
The film's pure-fantasy tone, which makes its ludicrous conceptions of "foreign" people and ways at least somewhat more palatable, is set from the get-go, when we're introduced to the crew of a vessel voyaging in the South Seas: the cocktail-mixing party guy and the big softie clearly too pampered for life at sea (both very "gay" characters supporting The Celluloid Closet's case that such flamboyant personages were one of the first things to go when the Hays Code began to be enforced), along with an affable skipper (Wade Boteler) with a fatherly attitude toward our handsome, strapping young sailor-protagonist, Johnny (Joel McCrea, Sullivan's Travels), seem to spend most of their time drinking, playing cards, and exchanging repartee. It's a swell cocktail party at sea until they approach a narrow passage near what's vaguely referred to as "one of the Virgin Islands"; after barely making it through (in one of the film's several abrupt upshifts into indulgent thrills of one sort or another), the boat is greeted by a fleet of native islanders in canoes with whom the sailors start up a large-scale, friendly splash fight that's rudely interrupted by a hungry shark, to which Johnny plays prey and from which he's rescued by a mysterious, beautiful native girl, Luana (Dolores del Rio).
Johnny and Luana fall hard for each other in a very memorable sequence -- reminiscent of the gorgeously erotic underwater romantic fantasy Jean Vigo so magically concocted for L'Atalante -- in which Luana lures Johnny from the boat for a little barely-clad night swimming in the sea, their respective body languages communicating in a sort of luminous, dreamily shot underwater ballet of flirtatious evasion and pursuit -- and Johnny decides to stay on the island until the ship passes by again some time later. In the meantime, however, he will discover that the "taboo" nature of his paramour that his shipmates were teasing him about is for real and deadly serious: Luana is a princess, the daughter of a leader of the tribe, and betrothed to a native prince. Defying this inevitability, Johnny, in an act of daring rescue and escape, whisks Luana right out from under her husband-to-be's nose in the middle of their wedding ceremony, followed by an interlude wherein the two become a sort of South Seas Adam and Eve, alone together in an idyll away from the prejudices and restrictions of their respective societies, though Johnny never does stop talking like a back-slapping American Joe, and it is, of course, Luana who will learn his language, not the other way around. (As one of the more noticeable indications of Bird of Paradise's silent-to-talkie transitional nature and reminders of Vidor's long pre-sound Hollywood career, several onscreen-text bits of labeling and exposition, like the one that opens this section and reads "PARADISE - the secluded island of Lani," appear over the course of the film.) But the volcano god Pele is, according to the islanders' belief, angered by this breach, roiling and belching smoke and threatening to erupt (Pele is a Hawaiian deity, actually, but this film's concern is less concerned with accuracy than creating a more or less interchangeable islander "type"); tracking down Luana and Johnny, then sacrificing them to the volcano's hungry maw, is the one sure way to appease it. Only the most serendipitous twist can save them, and even if that comes to pass, their love is, tragically, not meant to be, and each will have to return, lovelorn and alone (and, in Luana's case, destined to save her people by sacrificing her life) to their own world.
The headstrong, notoriously interfering David O. Selznick produced Bird of Paradise, and as with Hitchcock's also Selznick-produced 1940 film Rebecca, it's a hybrid of the director's vision and the producer's, with sheer action, spectacle, and titillation vying for pride of place with the parts more likely attributable to Vidor, such as the aforementioned lyrical underwater love-swim or a strikingly composed, very low-angle shot that frames Johnny as a tiny figure against a vast tropical sky as he prepares to leap down onto an oversized palm tree. This back-and-forth of sensibility actually dovetails well with the film's episodic structure, with long digressions for "tribal" dance numbers and that rapturous stretch of the lovers alone on their island wherein del Rio, a strategically-placed lei barely covering her lovely femininity, and the similarly stripped-down McCrea just frolic in the flora under the sun and emit their palpable chemistry. The film still holds onto the plot as its guidewire and through-line, though, and the alternation of rapid-fire eventfulness with exotic(ized), sensuous languor that comes off less choppy than like a string pulled taut, then allowed to go slack for a spell, then pulled back to plot-driven tension again -- not at all an unpleasant effect.
What could be construed as unpleasant is Bird of Paradise's helpless condescension to Luana and her tribe, through which they are reduced to little beyond that hoary old ethnocentric repository of dark, alluring, dangerous "savagery" and the unfettered sex and violence of the "uncivilized." The ostensible tribal language and customs shown in elaborate, gyrating dance-performance rituals and the silly backwardness of the way the natives talk and behave are, to put it mildly, probably not based on any kind of anthropological or ethnological research; they're so clearly Hollywood fantasies of a scary-sexy-exotic Other that, from the perspective of 2012, they appear more like a satire of long-discarded notions than anything vicious or poisonous. It's not so much that they're now harmless as that what's harmful in them has simply lost its potency; at this point, most things in the film seem equally far-fetched, whimsical -- a light breeze of tropical escapism with strong undertones of brimstone for danger and musk for the raw release of unbounded sexuality. However problematic it may remain in some respects, in its best sections it still has the power to transport a viewer into a state of delirious, escapist sun-and-sea euphoria -- its vision of paradise as, simultaneously, the idyllic serenity of heaven and the burning passions of the other place is presented by Vidor and Selznick in a strange, uniquely cinematic potion of sound and vision that saturates the senses and leaves you inflamed and intoxicated.
The AVC/MPEG4, 1080/24p transfer, presented in the picture's original aspect ratio of 1.37:1, shows its age with fairly frequent scratching, flicker, and even a jittering frame or two, but considering that the film has been restored and preserved from a nitrate (i.e., extremely perishable) source, this is undoubtedly the best-looking available extant print of the film, and it certainly has been cleaned up to a passable degree, with the bonus of not having too much of its texture digital-noise-reduced away.Sound:
The uncompressed PCM 2.0 monaural soundtrack is rather harsh; it has a distant, somewhat distorted, tinny-speaker quality to it throughout, but at least this flaw is consistent, suggesting that any measures that could have been taken with the sound probably were, and some of the poorness in sound quality may even be due to the sound technology of the period shortly after the pictures started talking or, more probably, the innate audio flaws in a very old and very fragile nitrate print transferred, fuzzy sound intact, to 35 mm. It's neither inaudible nor awful to listen to, but in general terms, as forgivable as it is considering the circumstances, Bird of Paradise has sound quality inferior to what one usually hopes for (and, under more favorable conditions, has a right to expect) from Blu-ray editions of even older films.Extras:
Nothing other than some trailers for other Kino Classics releases: Pandora and the Flying Dutchman, Nothing Sacred, and A Star is Born.
One of Hollywood's strangest, sexiest pre-Code fever dreams, King Vidor's 1932 Bird of Paradise is a potentially tawdry tale of a seafaring sexual adventure to the tropics that transcends its titillation (though it does have plenty in the way of the risqué going on) to offer up a true dream world -- a sheerly escapist, almost entirely invented analogue to any recognizable reality, with Dolores del Rio no more believable as its "native" Virgin Isles princess as Joel McCrea is as the seasoned sailor, and it doesn't matter, because their attractive limbs here look like they were made for the sole purpose of being entwined. The whole thing plays like the sexually/racially charged fantasy of a "civilized" (read: white) dreamer as regards a voraciously fetishized and irrationally feared darker people, but as potentially problematic as that is, it enhances rather than saps the film's interest. At this point, its story of the forbidden, intensely erotic passion between a muscular white American and a bronze, nubile islander feels much less like actually objectionable racial simplemindedness than a privileged peek into someone's (perhaps even yours or mine) fascinating, delirious, delusional subconscious, not to be taken at face value; it plays like a wet dream, with about as much plausibility and with the same odd, sometimes unexpectedly beautiful and focused intensity. It's rife with a kind of quasi-pornographic reduction of character to erotically physical presence, but however crude its racial and cultural assumptions may be, the appeal and power of Bird of Paradise survives its surface nonsense and soars anyway, escaping the fate of being a mere relic through its unique narrative structure, potent imagery, and the palpable eroticism and chemistry that engulfs its two leads in a swooning, hyperdramatic blaze of passionate sensuality and doomed love so hot that it leaves the viewer a little singed in its wake, too. Recommended


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Deixis and Pragmatics
William F. Hanks
Deictic expressions, like English 'this, that, here, and there' occur in all known human languages. They are typically used to individuate objects in the immediate context in which they are uttered, by pointing at them so as to direct attention to them. The object, or demonstratum is singled out as a focus, and a successful act of deictic reference is one that results in the Speaker (Spr) and Addressee (Adr) attending to the same referential object. Thus,
(1)A:Oh, there'sthat guy again (pointing)B:Oh yeah, now I see him (fixing gaze on the guy)
(2)A:I'll have that one over there (pointing to a dessert on a tray)B:This? (touching pastry with tongs)A:yeah, that looks greatB:Here ya' go (handing pastry to customer)
In an exchange like (1), A's utterance spotlights the individual guy, directing B's attention to him, and B's response (both verbal and ocular) displays that he has recognized him. In (2) A's utterance individuates one pastry among several, B's response makes sure he's attending to the right one, A reconfirms and B completes by presenting the pastry to him. If we compare the two examples, it is clear that the underscored deictics can pick out or present individuals without describing them. In a similar way, "I, you, he/she, we, now, (back) then," and their analogues are all used to pick out individuals (persons, objects, or time frames), apparently without describing them. As a corollary of this semantic paucity, individual deictics vary extremely widely in the kinds of object they may properly denote: 'here' can denote anything from the tip of your nose to planet Earth, and 'this' can denote anything from a pastry to an upcoming day (this Tuesday). Under the same circumstance, 'this' and 'that' can refer appropriately to the same object, depending upon who is speaking, as in (2). How can forms that are so abstract and variable over contexts be so specific and rigid in a given context? On what parameters do deictics and deictic systems in human languages vary, and how do they relate to grammar and semantics more generally?
Meanings of Constructions
Laura A. Michaelis
Meanings are assembled in various ways in a construction-based grammar, and this array can be represented as a continuum of idiomaticity, a gradient of lexical fixity. Constructional meanings are the meanings to be discovered at every point along the idiomaticity continuum. At the leftmost, or 'fixed,' extreme of this continuum are frozen idioms, like the salt of the earth and in the know. The set of frozen idioms includes those with idiosyncratic syntactic properties, like the fixed expression by and large (an exceptional pattern of coordination in which a preposition and adjective are conjoined). Other frozen idioms, like the unexceptionable modified noun red herring, feature syntax found elsewhere. At the rightmost, or 'open' end of this continuum are fully productive patterns, including the rule that licenses the string Kim blinked, known as the Subject-Predicate construction. Between these two poles are (a) lexically fixed idiomatic expressions, verb-headed and otherwise, with regular inflection, such as chew/chews/chewed the fat; (b) flexible expressions with invariant lexical fillers, including phrasal idioms like spill the beans and the Correlative Conditional, such as the more, the merrier; and (c) specialized syntactic patterns without lexical fillers, like the Conjunctive Conditional (e.g., One more remark like that and you're out of here). Construction Grammar represents this range of expressions in a uniform way: whether phrasal or lexical, all are modeled as feature structures that specify phonological and morphological structure, meaning, use conditions, and relevant syntactic information (including syntactic category and combinatoric potential).
Noun-Modifying Clause Construction in Japanese
Yoshiko Matsumoto
The noun-modifying clause construction (NMCC) in Japanese is a complex noun phrase in which a prenominal clause is dependent on the head noun. Naturally occurring instances of the construction demonstrate that a single structure, schematized as [[… predicate (finite/adnominal)] Noun], represents a wide range of semantic relations between the head noun and the dependent clause, encompassing some that would be expressed by structurally distinct constructions such as relative clauses, noun complement clauses, and other types of complex noun phrases in other languages, such as English. In that way, the Japanese NMCC demonstrates a clear case of the general noun-modifying construction (GNMCC), that is, an NMCC that has structural uniformity across interpretations that extend beyond the range of relative clauses.
One of the notable properties of the Japanese NMCC is that the modifying clause may consist only of the predicate, reflecting the fact that referential density is moderate in Japanese—arguments of a predicate are not required to be overtly expressed either in the main clause or in the modifying clause. Another property of the Japanese NMCC is that there is no explicit marking in the construction that indicates the grammatical or semantic relation between the head noun and the modifying clause. The two major constituents are simply juxtaposed to each other.
Successful construal of the intended interpretations of instances of such a construction, in the absence of explicit markings, likely relies on an aggregate of structural, semantic, and pragmatic factors, including the semantic content of the linguistic elements, verb valence information, and the interpreter's real-world knowledge, in addition to the basic structural information.
Researchers with different theoretical approaches have studied Japanese NMCCs or subsets thereof. Syntactic approaches, inspired by generative grammar, have focused mostly on relative clauses and aimed to identify universally recognized syntactic principles. Studies that take the descriptive approach have focused on detailed descriptions and the classification of a wide spectrum of naturally occurring instances of the construction in Japanese. The third and most recent group of studies has emphasized the importance of semantics and pragmatics in accounting for a wide variety of naturally occurring instances.
The examination of Japanese NMCCs provides information about the nature of clausal noun modification and affords insights into languages beyond Japanese, as similar phenomena have reportedly been observed crosslinguistically to varying degrees.
Agustín Vicente and Ingrid L. Falkum
Polysemy is characterized as the phenomenon whereby a single word form is associated with two or several related senses. It is distinguished from monosemy, where one word form is associated with a single meaning, and homonymy, where a single word form is associated with two or several unrelated meanings. Although the distinctions between polysemy, monosemy, and homonymy may seem clear at an intuitive level, they have proven difficult to draw in practice.
Polysemy proliferates in natural language: Virtually every word is polysemous to some extent. Still, the phenomenon has been largely ignored in the mainstream linguistics literature and in related disciplines such as philosophy of language. However, polysemy is a topic of relevance to linguistic and philosophical debates regarding lexical meaning representation, compositional semantics, and the semantics–pragmatics divide.
Early accounts treated polysemy in terms of sense enumeration: each sense of a polysemous expression is represented individually in the lexicon, such that polysemy and homonymy were treated on a par. This approach has been strongly criticized on both theoretical and empirical grounds. Since at least the 1990s, most researchers converge on the hypothesis that the senses of at least many polysemous expressions derive from a single meaning representation, though the status of this representation is a matter of vivid debate: Are the lexical representations of polysemous expressions informationally poor and underspecified with respect to their different senses? Or do they have to be informationally rich in order to store and be able to generate all these polysemous senses?
Alternatively, senses might be computed from a literal, primary meaning via semantic or pragmatic mechanisms such as coercion, modulation or ad hoc concept construction (including metaphorical and metonymic extension), mechanisms that apparently play a role also in explaining how polysemy arises and is implicated in lexical semantic change.
Eva Hajičová
In the linguistic literature, the term theme has several interpretations, one of which relates to discourse analysis and two others to sentence structure. In a more general (or global) sense, one may speak about the theme or topic (or topics) of a text (or discourse), that is, to analyze relations going beyond the sentence boundary and try to identify some characteristic subject(s) for the text (discourse) as a whole. This analysis is mostly a matter of the domain of information retrieval and only partially takes into account linguistically based considerations. The main linguistically based usage of the term theme concerns relations within the sentence. Theme is understood to be one of the (syntactico-) semantic relations and is used as the label of one of the arguments of the verb; the whole network of these relations is called thematic relations or roles (or, in the terminology of Chomskyan generative theory, theta roles and theta grids). Alternatively, from the point of view of the communicative function of the language reflected in the information structure of the sentence, the theme (or topic) of a sentence is distinguished from the rest of it (rheme, or focus, as the case may be) and attention is paid to the semantic consequences of the dichotomy (especially in relation to presuppositions and negation) and its realization (morphological, syntactic, prosodic) in the surface shape of the sentence. In some approaches to morphosyntactic analysis the term theme is also used referring to the part of the word to which inflections are added, especially composed of the root and an added vowel.


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An anti-abortion heckler during the inauguration festivities on Monday climbed a tree to avoid police.
A known anti-abortion heckler tried to avoid police at Monday's inauguration festivities by climbing a tree.
Rives Grogan, a silver-haired man wearing a brown Carhartt-style jacket, had climbed up a tall, thin evergreen tree, protest sign in hand, near 1st and Maryland Avenue by the Capitol Building. The sign he held read, "Pray to end abortion."
Grogan, who was not carrying identification, had a ticket and went through security screening, according to a police report. He has been a pastor at New Beginnings Christian Church in Los Angeles, according to the Philadelphia Inquirer, and he has twice disrupted Supreme Court proceedings.
As U.S. Capitol Police roped off the tree and propped a ladder up against it, the man kept climbing, reaching nearly 40 feet as he shouted, "Democrats are baby killers!" (He took a break when Beyoncé sang the National Anthem, politicker.com reported.)
When he climbed down the tree some time later, police arrested the man - his identity unknown at the time -- and placed him in handcuffs. The crowd, frustrated by his disruptive shouts throughout the speeches, bid him adieu singing, "Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye."
Grogan faces three charges, including contempt of court and injury to property.
Related stories:
- NBC/WSJ poll: Majority, for first time, wants abortion to be legal
- 40 years after ruling, more states restrict abortion


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CO2 Jet Car Rear View of Streamlines
Submitted by symscape on February 3, 2010 - 20:00
Airflow around the Basilisk Performance CO2 Jet Car entry for F1 in Schools. The simulation was performed in Caedium Professional and rendered by POV-Ray. The image shows streamlines colored by velocity magnitude, where blue is low and red is high.
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My Favorite Flower Teas: Hibiscus, Jasmine, and Chamomile
I've always had a fondness for flower teas, even before I discovered that many of them are also good for your health.
Tea made from flowers just smells so good. And it doesn't contain any caffeine, so you don't risk getting headaches or insomnia from drinking oceans of tea all day.
My favorites are Hibiscus Tea, Jasmine Tea, and Chamomile Tea. These are great tastes to try, even if you've never stepped beyond basic black or green tea. They are refreshing, flowery and delicately delicious, as well as good for you.
Flowering tea
If you are looking for a more exotic flower tea, or for a special tea to give as a present, I highly recommend flowering teas.
Flowering teas are made from tea leaves and flower leaves that are tied together in a beautiful flower shape. The tea flower opens when hot water is poured on top, and it looks as though the flower is blooming.
This tea is best drunk in a glass teapot, so you can see the tea flower expand.
Hibiscus Tea
Pure hibiscus tea is harder to find in stores than most other flower teas; that was actually a big reason for building this site.
I always recommend pure loose leaf hibiscus tea first, because it's 100% flowers with nothing else added, but there are also some good tea bags to be found.
- Taste: Tart and fruity, a bit like cranberries. Some people like to add honey to lessen the tartness, but I like it just as it is.
- Health Benefits: A recent study (see our sidebar!) shows that a couple of cups of hibiscus tea a day can lower blood pressure.
- Which Hibiscus Tea To Buy: My sister and I love Davidson's organic loose leaf hibiscus tea. Or if you prefer tea bags, the natural hibiscus teabags by The Republic of Tea.
Jasmine Tea
I always think Jasmine tea is the princess among teas. Or maybe that's just because of the Aladdin movie.
All kidding aside, this tea is special. It has a very delicate aroma and taste, and is so fragrant.
It's usually composed of green tea mixed with jasmine flowers; I've never seen pure jasmine flower tea, I imagine that would be very costly.
One thing is very important: don't use boiling water when you make jasmine tea. That is, you can boil it first, but then just let it cool down a little before you pour it over the tea. Otherwise the tea can turn bitter, and that's a shame. Jasmine tea should not be bitter at all, just flowery and delicious.
- Taste: Just like jasmine flowers smell; gentle, flowery, a little bit sweet.
- Health Benefits: Green tea is an antioxidant, and many people also drink it to help them lose weight.
- Which Jasmine Tea To Buy: Rishi organic loose leaf jasmine tea is the best we have found. The leaves are very fine, and hand rolled into small 'pearls' that unfold as the tea steeps. It looks, smells and tastes beautiful. If you'd prefer tea bags, we advise Davidson's jasmine flower tea bags.
Chamomile tea
Chamomile tea is the only one of these three teas that may be a bit of an acquired taste; I love it, but some of my friends don't.
Sometimes they like chamomile tea when it's mixed with something else, rather than by itself. And the funny thing is, the taste and scent aren't all that strong; a little bit like new-mown hay.
Like hibiscus tea, chamomile tea is composed of 100% flowers. You can pick your own chamomile flowers and dry them, if you're lucky enough to live in an area where they grow, and voilà, you have chamomile tea. But it's also an inexpensive tea to buy.
- Taste: Grassy, a bit like new-mown hay or straw.
- Health Benefits: Chamomile tea is well-known as a relaxing, soothing tea. Drink it before bedtime if you have trouble sleeping, or any time when you need a moment to calm yourself. It also has other benefits; some people swear it lessens menstrual cramps, for example, and chamomile is also said to strenghten the immune system.
- Which Chamomile Tea To Buy: Once again I recommend Davidson's excellent organic loose leaf chamomile tea in bulk. And if you'd rather have tea bags, go for Twinings pure camomile herbal tea bags.
I hope very much that you'll enjoy these flower teas. And if you have other favorites, please let me know in the comments!
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Java.next Overview
As we reach the middle of our second decade of Java experience, the community has learned a lot about software development. Many of our best ideas on how to use a Java Virtual Machine (JVM) are now being baked into more advanced languages for the JVM. These languages tend to provide two significant advantages:
- They reduce the amount of ceremony in your code, allowing you to focus on the essence of the problem you are solving.
- They enable some degree of functional programming style. Think of it as a dash of verb-oriented programming to spice up your noun-oriented programming.
I have picked four "Java.next" languages to demonstrate these concepts: Clojure, Groovy, JRuby, and Scala. I have written a series of articles and conference talks describing how these languages can make teams more productive.
This page is the top-level table of contents for Java.next, and I will update the links below as new articles and talks become available.
Articles on Java.next
- Java.next #1: Common Ground
- Java.next #2: Java Interop
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- Java.next #4: Immutability
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- Java.next Presentation #1: Common Ground
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W30 is now fully operational. Bill Goff has it running nicely; he is doing some tweaks on the mount, but many programs are underway. We are implementing an rsync process to transfer the images from California to HQ in a more efficient manner.
OC61 at Mt. John University Observatory (NZ) is now fully operational. We are running some test projects, but have inquiries in with the University of Canterbury to get their researchers involved, and are accepting AAVSO projects for this nice southern telescope. The seeing over the past few weeks ranges from about 1.1 arcsec to 2.0arcsec, acceptable.
BSM_NM has been installed at Bill Stein's observatory near Cloudcroft, with the help of Tom Smith. The remaining issues before commissioning can take place are to get internet properly installed and configured, and to polar-align the telescope.
BSM_Berry is operational on the HQ roof. Gary Walker has built a nice automated enclosure for it that will be installed in a couple of weeks. After that, this system will be used on every clear night in the Boston area.
John Briggs has been working on the echelle spectrograph that will go on the Morgan telescope. While we are waiting for that telescope to be completed, the spectrograph will be used at David Mittelman's observatory in Colorado, with time being made available to the membership.
Work continues on the Schiaparelli Observatory (Italy), where Mario Motta's 80cm mirror resides. They have the mirror cell completed, and are waiting for the new Cassegrain secondary. They hope to have first light with this telescope in the summer; the AAVSO will get a fraction of the time on this telescope for spectroscopy.