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Earth from Space: Copenhagen, Denmark
This Proba image shows the historic port of Copenhagen, the capital of Denmark. Appearing off the coast like a string of pearls is a 21st Century addition to the city: one of the largest offshore wind farms in the world.
Copenhagen was first founded as a fishing village around a thousand years ago, subsequently growing in economic significance as a consequence of its natural harbour facing the Øreund, the busy strait that divides Denmark from Sweden and links the Baltic to the North Sea.
Today Copenhagen has 1 116 979 inhabitants, making it the largest city in Denmark. It is located on the eastern side of the island of Zealand and the island of Amager, which was significantly enlarged during the 1940s when its western section was reclaimed from the sea.
Adjacent to the modern port facilities on the eastern edge of Zealand can be seen a green patch, and within it the star-shaped fortification known as Kastellet, which means the Citadel. A relic of Copenhagen's violent past, this fortress is more than 340 years old. Between its easternmost bastion and the sea is found the statue of the Little Mermaid, famous symbol of the city.
Trace the coast of Zealand westward to find an area of land enclosed by an inverted-U. This is the small island of Slotsholmen, which is the location of Christiansborg Palace, home to Denmark's Folketing or Parliament and also the Danish Royal Library.
Since 2000, this historic city has also been home to one of the largest offshore wind farms yet built, the Middelgrunden Offshore Wind Farm. It is situated on a natural reef about 3.5 km east of Copenhagen harbour, which was used in the past as a dumpsite for harbour sledge and contaminated waste. Just above it can be seen the fortified island of Middelgrunds Fort.
Anchored in concrete foundations, the windfarm's 20 turbines are positioned in an arc measuring 3.4 km in length. Each is equipped with a rotor 76 m in diameter standing 64 m above the waves. Middelgrunden is half owned by Energi E2, the local electricity utility and half by the 8 553 members of a local cooperative.
The farm produces 89 000 megawatts of power annually, enough to supply upwards of 3% of Copenhagen's electricity needs. Denmark has been supporting wind power through tax incentives and subsidies since the 1970s. By 2040 Denmark plans to meet 40% of its electricity needs using wind energy, up from a figure of 13% in 2001.
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The "Why Madison? Listening Tour" offers JMU alumni the opportunity to share with President Jon Alger their thoughts on why Madison matters. Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jeff Gammage ('82), who returned to campus in September to lecture and advise media arts and design students,offers his response. Gammage will be back at JMU during Homecoming to accept theDistinguished Alumni Achievement Award.
Madison matters to me for many reasons, but here's a big one: It was two people at JMU who taught me how to be a journalist. When the Pulitzer Prizes were announced, and The Inquirer newsroom went from expectant to chaotic, people hugging and crying and sharing champagne, I thought of Flip De Luca and Dave Wendelken, the advisors to The Breeze when I was there. It wasn't just that they were smart journalists and good teachers. It was that they gave enormously of their time and insight. Many, many nights Flip and Dave were at The Breeze when we were finishing production at 1 a.m., or 2 a.m., or later. When I talk to JMU grads, I hear about their own special mentoring relationships with particular teachers. I don't think that happens by accident. It happens because it's valued in the culture of the university. That's a rare and important thing, but it's also a fragile thing, and needs to be nurtured.
JMU has always been a place where students learn by doing, and in the world beyond college that makes all the difference. I want young people at JMU to have the same experience that I did—or better.
Does Madison matter to the state or nation? Undeniably. Its grads run corporations, discover new animals, forge paths in science, lead armies, write novels—and those are just the people we hear about. Thousands of others do important work in labs and classrooms and even at Madison itself.
Reconnecting with JMU has meant a heck of a lot to me. For too long, my main tie to the school was writing a check once a year. While it's important for all of us to send JMU a few bucks, especially in this era of diminished state funding, it was more personally satisfying to talk to students there. And to try to repay a small part of what Flip and Dave gave to me.
When to follow. How to lead.
I don't know if JMU trains people to think and work collaboratively, or if people who think and work collaboratively tend to choose JMU. Either way, the ability to work as part of a team has probably never been more important. Companies are leaner and less-staffed—certainly in the news business. That means you depend more on your colleagues, and they on you, even during the times when you might not be thrilled with one another.
I clearly remember a night at The Breeze when I had a battle over a photograph with Chris Kouba, the editor, who then and now is a brilliant guy and wonderful journalist. The next morning, we had to let go of that spat and move forward, because the success of The Breeze depended on both of us. And again it was learning by doing, the negotiation of interpersonal relations toward a larger goal.
At The Inquirer, the five reporters on the "Assault on Learning" series depended on each other for different things at different times. Kristen Graham helped me sort through months of reporting at South Philadelphia High School to find the essence of that experience. Dylan Purcell freely shared the data he had gathered on violent schools. Newsrooms can contain more than their share of people who don't play well with others, but I tend to shy from those folks, and move toward those who naturally tend to work together. It feels familiar, going all the way back to The Breeze.


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Post-rehab training involves continuing the process of returning to a pre-rehab state or returning to what normal function was for that individual client. For most health clubs, the typical personal training clients are trying to lose weight, just beginning their exercise regimen or signing up for a personal training session to stay motivated. While your personal trainers can make a difference in their lives, there is more of a need for post-rehab trainers due to the amount of individuals who are being discharged from physical therapy, occupational therapy and/or their medical doctor early due to the ongoing changes in managed care. Clients are now turning to personal trainers for continued guidance in their rehab and as the bridge between therapy and an independent workout program in a fitness facility.
Post-rehab clients are usually very motivated because something has happened in which they may be unable to do things they enjoy or may have disrupted their life financially etc. Some post-rehab clients may also be depressed from their condition. Personal trainers' role is vital to clients' success and motivation.
To better serve your clients in your club, your personal trainers can specialize as a prenatal or postnatal trainer or work with individuals with injuries. Personal trainers may also find themselves working with members who have suffered a stroke or heart attack, who may be in treatment for cancer, or who have a disease such as Multiple Sclerosis or Cerebral Palsy.
This is an area where trainers should consider specializing. The more trainers work with this population, the more knowledgeable, confident and natural they will be with their clients.
It may seem overwhelming for your trainers to work with such a broad population, but they are not expected to act as a doctor, physical therapist or be able to cure anyone. By using the following steps, they can work with post-rehab clients in a less intimidating way.
1. Prepare. With the use of the Internet, your trainers can look up a disease or condition and gain some general knowledge.
2. Get the client's physical therapist's or medical doctor's name and phone number and ask the client for permission to call. Trainers should let the medical or rehab professional know they are their patient's personal trainer, and they want to work with them in order to design a safe and effective exercise program. This will help them start designing an exercise program, gain information on their client's condition and develop a relationship with the medical community.
3. Your trainers should talk to their clients about the program they designed and explain short-term goals. Make their goals attainable especially at the beginning. Prepare your clients for success.
4. If the client can't afford to work with trainers more than once a week, they should give them a specific exercise prescription for the other days they should exercising. They should also make them accountable for those sessions by either giving them a workout card to be given back to you or report what they were able to accomplish.
5. Most facilities offer one-hour personal training packages. One hour may be too long for this population depending on the individual's client and condition. Do not feel like you have to kill an hour with a client. Consider 30-minute training sessions.
6. Start your training sessions slowly. Take the first few sessions to feel out the clients, see what works and what does not. With this population, slower is better.
7. Trainers should never assume they can cure someone. Their goal is to get their client at the highest functional level that they can. On the other hand, they should never give up on thier client.
For example, imagine your trainer is working with a client who had anterior cruciate ligament repair. The client is done with his physical therapy but needs to continue to strengthen the knee to get back to work. Your client has been out of work from the injury because he is in sales and can not bend the knee enough to get in and out of their car. This may seem overwhelming, but after following the steps above, he will have talked with his physical therapist who can tell you exactly how to progress this person using the equipment you have at your facility. As your trainer works with the client, always remember not to continue an exercise that causes pain. As your trainer's client progresses with the exercise program, do not hesitate to contact the physical therapist again if needed.
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Oil rose to the highest level in more than four months as the Federal Reserve maintained an asset-buying program to boost the economy.
Oil advanced for a third day and the dollar weakened against the euro after the Fed said at the conclusion of a two- day meeting that it will keep purchasing securities at the rate of $85 billion a month. Crude headed for the biggest monthly gain since August as the Labor Department may say on Feb. 1 that hiring increased in January.
"There's increasing confidence about the economy, expectations for a positive jobs number Friday, and the Fed said it's going to continue with stimulus," said Jason Schenker, president of Prestige Economics LLC, an Austin, Texas-based energy consultant. "Oil is moving higher because there's reason to be optimistic about the economy."
West Texas Intermediate for March delivery rose 37 cents, or 0.4 percent, to $97.94 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange, the highest settlement since Sept. 14. Prices are up 6.7 percent this month. Trading was 1.7 percent below the 100- day average for the time of day at 2:40 p.m.
Brent for March settlement added 54 cents, or 0.5 percent, to $114.90 a barrel on the London-based ICE Futures Europe exchange. Trading was 9 percent above the 100-day average.
The Fed asset purchases will remain divided between $40 billion a month of mortgage-backed securities and $45 billion a month of Treasury securities.
Labor Market
The central bank repeated that the purchases will continue "if the outlook for the labor market does not improve substantially." It also left unchanged its statement that it planned to hold its target interest rate near zero as long as unemployment remains above 6.5 percent and inflation remains below 2.5 percent.
The euro rose as much as 0.7 percent to $1.3587, surpassing the $1.35 level for the first time in more than a year. A stronger euro and weaker dollar boost dollar-denominated oil's appeal as an alternative investment.
"A weakening U.S. dollar will provide some support to crude prices," said Tom Doremus, an analyst at Tradition Energy in Stamford, Connecticut.
The Labor Department may say on Feb. 1 that the U.S. economy added 165,000 nonfarm jobs in January, up from 155,000 a month ago, according to a Bloomberg survey. The U.S. is the world's biggest oil-consuming country.
Mideast Conflict
Oil also climbed as Agence France-Presse reported Israeli jets attacked a weapons-transport convoy near Syria's border with Lebanon.
The AFP report, citing people it didn't identify by name, comes three days after Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued warnings about the dangers posed by Syria's chemical-weapons arsenal in a country suffering a civil war.
"It reminds us that the geopolitical risk factors are still high," said Phil Flynn, senior market analyst at the Price Futures Group in Chicago.
Oil fell earlier as U.S. inventories gained more than twice as much as expected last week as the nation's economy unexpectedly shrank in the fourth quarter.
Stockpiles increased 5.95 million barrels in the week ended Jan. 25 to 369.1 million, the Energy Information Administration, the Energy Department's statistics arm, reported. Analysts surveyed by Bloomberg expected a gain of 2.5 million.
"This is a bearish report for crude oil and is further evidence that the U.S. crude-oil market is not physically tight," said Tim Evans, an energy analyst at Citi Futures Perspective in New York.
Cushing Inventories
Inventories at Cushing, Oklahoma, the delivery point for New York oil futures, grew 0.6 percent to 51.7 million barrels.
Oil flows through the Seaway pipeline, which runs from Cushing to the Gulf Coast, were curtailed last week by electrical problems at the line's Jones Creek, Texas, terminal.
The expanded 400,000-barrel-a-day Seaway, from 150,000, was limited to bringing 175,000 barrels a day to Jones Creek, Rick Rainey, a Houston-based spokesman for pipeline co-owner Enterprise Product Partners LP (EPD), said Jan. 23.
"Expectations that the expanded Seaway pipeline would reduce inventories at Cushing are not bearing fruit here," Evans said.
The EIA also reported that U.S. refineries operated at an 85 percent rate, up 1.4 percentage points from a week earlier. Analysts expected a drop of 0.35 percentage point.
U.S. gross domestic product dropped at a 0.1 percent annual rate last quarter, weaker than any forecast in a Bloomberg survey.
"The GDP number is a big surprise," said Tariq Zahir, a New York-based commodity fund manager at Tyche Capital Advisors.
Electronic trading volume on the Nymex was 434,647 contracts as of 2:52 p.m. It totaled 649,676 contracts yesterday, 31 percent above the three-month average. Open interest was 1.55 million.
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A new gun, a steady aim and a few reassuring words from her father helped 13-year-old Sophia Bland of Larose bag a massive trophy deer and, in the process, a deer-hunting competition.
A new gun, a steady aim and a few reassuring words from her father helped 13-year-old Sophia Bland of Larose bag a massive trophy deer and, in the process, a deer-hunting competition.
The teen killed a 32-point buck over the Thanksgiving holidays on her grandfather's Broken Spur Ranch, a 417-acre high-fenced ranch in Kerrville, Texas. She shot the deer with a .45 Winchester Magnum, a handgun she had not previously hunted with.
This month, Sophia learned her Thanksgiving kill won first place in the high-fence youth north division of the 2012-13 Exotic Wildlife Association Big Buck contest.
What experience Sophia lacked that day with her .45 Winchester Magnum she made up for with a gunslinger's confidence and seven years worth of practice shooting on her grandfather's ranch.
"All I need is a gun to shoot a deer," Sophia said. "It doesn't matter what type of gun."
While she had to wait three months for the official results the Larose-Cut Off Middle School seventh-grader knew she had a winner as soon as the buck came in her sights.
Only one thing momentarily stood in the way of her victory — the deer.
It spotted Sophia, all 5-foot-1 and 80 pounds of her, and bolted away.
Thirty minutes later, the girl and her father, Jodie Bland Jr., tracked the deer to a location where they had previously seen several large deer. There, the prize buck waited, some 400 yards away.
Jodie Bland Jr. urged his daughter to remain calm, as not to spook the animal a second time. A moment later Sophia fired what her dad later described as a "sniper's shot."
"It went straight through and through the heart," Sophia recalled, noting the buck did not stagger before collapsing to the ground.
Sophia's grandfather and ranch owner, Elton Arceneaux, had previously informed her about the contest, which his ranch co-sponsored. But on the day of her big score she did not set out to find a prize deer.
"She was hunting out there just to hunt," Sophia's father said. "When she saw the deer she said, 'oh my god, look at this deer.' It was a spur of the moment thing."
Sophia competes in gymnastics and softball, and in both displays the same calm under pressure she showed in shooting the buck, her father said. Sophia is the type, he continued, the other girls "circle around" when they're in the same room with her.
Jodie Bland Jr., 37, also placed in the competition, earning a "Jacket Buck" distinction in the Adult Heavy Buck Division with a 12-point trophy buck.
Sophia's 10-year-old brother, Connor, and mother, Talisha, also bagged deers on the Thanksgiving trip.
The family hunts at Broken Spur Ranch on holidays, Sophia's father said. That tradition will continue. Perhaps too Sophia will seek to defend her title later this year.
"It all depends on what I see," she said.


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This thesis deals with modeling aspects of generalized Newtonian and of non-Newtonian fluids, as well as with development and validation of algorithms used in simulation of such fluids. The main contribution in the modeling part are the introduction and analysis of a new model for the generalized Newtonian fluids, where constitutive equation is of an algebraic form. Distinction between shear and extensional viscosities leads to anisotropic viscosity model. It can be considered as a natural extension of the well known (isotropic viscosity) Carreau model, which deals only with shear viscosity properties of the fluid. The proposed model takes additionally into account extensional viscosity properties. Numerical results show that the anisotropic viscosity model gives much better agreement with experimental observations than the isotropic one. Another contribution of the thesis consists of the development and analysis of robust and reliable algorithms for simulation of generalized Newtonian fluids. For such fluids the momentum equations are strongly coupled through mixed derivatives appearing in the viscous term (unlike the case of Newtonian fluids). It is shown in this thesis, that a careful treatment of those derivatives is essential in deriving robust algorithms. A modification of a standard SIMPLE-like algorithm is given, where all the viscous terms from the momentum equations are discretized in an implicit manner. Moreover, it is shown that a block diagonal preconditioner to the viscous operator is good enough to be used in simulations. Furthermore, different solution techniques, namely projection type methods (consists of solving momentum equations and pressure correction equation) and fully coupled methods (momentum and continuity equations are solved together), are compared. It is shown, that explicit discretization of the mixed derivatives lead to stability problems. Further, analytical estimates of eigenvalue distribution for three different preconditioners, applied to the transformed system arising after discretization and linearization of the momentum and continuity equations, are provided. We propose to apply a block Gauss-Seidel preconditioner to the transformed system. The analysis shows, that this preconditioner is able to cluster eigenvalues around unity independent of the transformation step. It is not the case for other preconditioners applied to the transformed system as discussed in the thesis. The block Gauss-Seidel preconditioner has also shown the best behavior (among all preconditioners discussed in the thesis) in numerical experiments. Further contribution consists of comparison and validation of numerical algorithms applied in simulations of non-Newtonian fluids modeled by time integral constitutive equations. Numerical results from simulations of dilute polymer solutions, described by the integral Oldroyd B model, have shown very good quantitative agreement with the results obtained by differential Oldroyd B counterpart in 4:1 planar contraction domain at low Weissenberg numbers. In this case, the Weissenberg number is changed by changing the relaxation time. However, contrary to the differential Oldroyd B model, the integral one allows to perform stable simulations also in the range of high Weissenberg numbers. Moreover, very good agreement with experimental observations has been achieved. Simulations of concentrated polymer solutions (polystyrene and polybutadiene solutions), modeled by the integral Doi Edwards model, supplemented by chain length fluctuations, have shown very good qualitative agreement with the results obtained by its differential approximation in 4:1:4 constriction domain. Again, much higher Weissenberg numbers can be achieved when the integral model is used. Moreover, very good quantitative results with experimental data of polystyrene solution for the first normal stress difference and shear viscosity defined here as the quotient of a shear stress and a shear rate. Finally, comparison of the two methods used for approximating the time integral constitutive equation, namely Deformation Field Method (DFM) and Backward Lagrangian Particle Method (BLPM), is performed. In BLPM the particle paths are recalculated at every time step of the simulations, what has never been tried before. The results have shown, that in the considered geometries both methods give similar results.


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Anytime I get a referral I'm not familiar with, I usually take the time to check it out. That's how I came across Irina is Always Right, which is now a daily read. Over the last few days I've been getting quite a few hits from something called DC Late Night Shots. So, I click.
I am taken to a website that says the following:
LateNightShots is a closed social network which allows you to explore Washington DC's social landscape and bar scene.
Membership is open through invitation only.
Invitation only? EFF THAT.
Since I have yet to be invited to this august organization, I have no way of seeing what was written about me. My very fragile ego can't handle that suspense. I am just going to assume disrespect.
Anyways, the welcome page is filled with some hilarious pictures. You can find them yourself if you click on that link and press the refresh button. Now, let's have some fun at other people's expense!
So far, so good. I mean, what young District gentlemen doesn't like spending time with his favorite drink and his four favorite girls? Hmm, maybe this group isn't as bad as I assumed.
Again, not bad. I love cheap champagne. Love it. The sweet delicious sugary drunk and the woeful sugary hangover the next morning. What's not to love about champagne? And, thank the Lord, no popped collars. And is that a celebrity? I think that's Fred Munster on the way left. Any group that allows Munsters (I'm looking at you, Lily) is fine by me!
I have no idea why that guy on the right has such a shit-eating grin. Maybe he's really happy he got into the DC Late Night Shots Club? It appears he is the only one in the picture not touching a girl, so why the 90-watt smile?
Uh-oh. I mean, don't get me wrong, I love the ladies. I mean they rev my engines. But this...this looks like trouble. I can't figure out if this is really "DC Late Night Shots" or if I just stumbled upon the annual meeting of the DC Chapter of the Sex and the City Fan Club. And those seven ladies are all smiling, but there's no way you can tell me that the majority of them aren't dead on the inside.
I KNEW IT! I FUCKING KNEW IT!! You can not have a social organization in this city without "those guys" showing up. You just can't. Ugh. THIS PICTURE HAS FOUR WINGMEN!
That Potomac jersey is also the lamest thing I have ever seen in my entire life. Die in a fire, Mr. Potomac.
Although, I must admit, I am really intrigued by that lady. She has the Avril smile. I love the Avril smile! She's in quite a few of these pictures, so she might have a leadership position in this
circle-jerk club. If she is "leadership," she probably wants me dead. If she doesn't want me dead, contact me, cute girl! I swear, I am sort of attractive!
Wow. This is some club. To their credit, it's kind of honorable that they take time out of their social calendars to party with people with Down's Syndrome. That dude flashing the devil horns has the Down's, right?
This is the best picture in the history of life. First, a quick shout-out to the cute girl:
Anyways, greatest picture ever. It certainly says quite a bit about the herd mentality that's so prevalent in DC. Three of those guys are wearing the exact same thing! Granted, there's probably a reason for this. A reason is not the same as an excuse.
I can't get enough of their drinks of choice. That's five, count 'em five, bottles of Miller Lite all in a pretty little row. That, my friends, is herd mentality.
Well, that's it. Judging by the pictures, it looks like the DC Late Night Shots Club might have something to do with Georgetown. If so, they're probably smarter than me and I should lay off. But I can't allow such ridiculousness to go unpunished. I just can't. Especially when they're potentially complimenting me behind my back. Unacceptable!
I demand to know what was said behind the iron curtain of DC Late Night Shots membership! Please! My sanity depends on it!
And if it turns out to have been a compliment, I owe you guys (and cute girl) a HUGE apology.


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A bold experiment
In order to understand Iranian society, one has to take a closer look at the Basij militia, a popular militia that is loyal to the regime. Set up in 1979, Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini deployed tens of thousands of Basijis during the Iran–Iraq War, which lasted from 1980 to 1988. Many of them, including many young people, lost their lives in suicide missions.
Today, the Basijis also operate as an auxiliary branch of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard ("Sepah-e Pasdaran"). In 2009, they brutally pursued peaceful demonstrators belonging to the Green Movement.
Mehran Tamadon, an Iranian filmmaker who lives in Paris, has already made a film about the militia in his 2009 film "Basiji". At this year's Berlinale, the Berlin Film Festival, he presented his latest documentary, "Iranien", a Franco–Swiss co-production. The focus of the film is an unusual discussion: the director spent two days with four loyal supporters of the Iranian regime at his family's country house outside Tehran and discusses with them on camera their different perspectives on Iranian society and religious matters.
Mehran Tamadon left Iran as a child in 1984. The son of active Communists, he studied Architecture in Paris before returning to Iran in 2000, where he worked as an architect before turning to filmmaking.
Playing by the hardliners' rules
In "Iranien", the four men invited to take part in the dialogue are friendly and even amusing. Complaining that his own wife rings him repeatedly during filming, one of them expresses his envy of Tamadon because the director's wife leaves him in peace for the weekend. Another offers to use Tamadon's abandoned villa from time to time so that he can avoid having to pay the higher property tax – for a fee, of course.
It quickly becomes apparent that it is these friendly Islamists who lay down the rules in Tamadon's country house. Women don't take part in the discussion; they are only seen briefly while cooking or taking care of the children. However, the atheist filmmaker accepts these rules because the discussion is so important to him.
"It was a big success to get people who think completely differently to me and who regard me as an enemy into the same building and in front of the camera," Tamadon told Deutschlandradio. He intentionally lowered the bar and was satisfied with very little because for these Iranians, this was "already a lot", he explained.
Lively debate
Although fundamentalists are ten-a-penny in Iran, it took Tamadon three years to persuade four of them to agree to an on-camera debate. So he dusted down the radiators, laid carpets on the floor, sat down opposite the four Islamists and explained to them that his ideal society is not religious, but secular.
The guests, above all the scholar Ali, are somewhat amused by this idea and roundly reject it accusing "Mr Secular" of also being religious, the only difference being that his religion is Secularism, a belief he wants to enforce by dictatorial means.
Ali is Tamadon's rhetorical superior. "If a woman can walk in public unveiled, why then should she not walk around completely naked?" he asks provocatively. He goes on to say that one has to protect society from adultery and from divorce because men are weak and driven by testosterone. And in the West – God forbid! – women want to look like Barbie dolls, which is why they don't bear children any more. Tamadon is often left speechless. When the discussion falters, Tamadon even joins in the prayers, which leads the Islamists to joke that they'll soon convert him.
No desire for a verbal battle
Unlike the Iranian viewers at the Berlinale, Tamadon says that he wasn't interested in a verbal battle. "They expected me to get into the ring, fight them and win," he said. But he had no desire to fight; the discussion was his top priority.
But it isn't always like that. At the Berlinale, for example, it took the filmmaker days to comply with my interview request. At first his PR agents said his schedule was still unclear; then they insisted that the reporter watch the film first; then they said that priority would be given to film critics; then the interpreter was not available (even though Tamadon speaks good English, at least he did so in our short chat at the festival); then it was said that Tamadon would only talk about his film. Finally, he rejected the idea of an interview altogether because he said he didn't want to risk getting into a political conversation.
There are reasons for his reservations: the Iranian authorities put obstacles in his path, refused to allow the filmmaker to leave Iran and even confiscated his passport. It was only after a month that he was given permission to leave the country. Since then, however, he has not been allowed to return. It is highly likely that the film footage was smuggled out of Iran. In short, although his fear of an interview is understandable, it is certainly also disappointing for viewers who would like to know more about the film and the director.
Igal Avidan
© Qantara.de 2014
Editor: Aingeal Flanagan/Qantara.de


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In hip-hop terms, using three names in four decades qualifies as a sign of remarkable consistency.
So expectations were high when Snoop Lion, the rapper born Calvin Broadus who rose to fame in the gangsta rap 1990s as Snoop Doggy Dogg, emerged Thursday for the premiere of his new movie, album and identity.
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For "Reincarnated," the documentary that made its domestic debut at the South by Southwest Film Festival, filmmakers followed Snoop to Jamaica, where he marinated in Rastafari culture. He emerged with the new name, plus a reggae album and a political agenda.
Some of his views marked more of a departure than others. In the song "No Guns Allowed," for example, he renounces gunplay.
"Anti-bad things," said the film's director, Andy Capper, "whereas before he celebrated the bad things."
Dressed in gold-rimmed shades and a red track suit with orange stripes, Snoop did not strut the red carpet so much as hang out on it.
He offered a loose handshake and spoke in barely audible tones. He was smiling, kind of.
Asked about his enduring touchstone issue, the legalization of marijuana, Snoop turned relatively animated.
"Wake up," he said. "It's the 21st century. Some of these laws and rules we have are 18th century and 19th century and 20th century. People need to understand that some of these laws and rules need to be tweaked to the people of today."
Capper suggested any tweaking should be kept on the mild side.
"I don't know if you'd want to legalize the kind of marijuana he smokes," he said. "Because if you did, people would be walking around going crazy."
Before strolling off to watch the film, Snoop distanced himself from all the political talk.
"I'm not a politician," he said. "I just like dealing with the reality of it."
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Nearly 2,000 lose power in Brookfield for a while Friday
Residents in Brookfield were dealing with a few power outages Friday afternoon.
Barry McNulty with We Energies said that a report of wires down on West Burleigh Street near 184th Street may be the cause of an outage for 1,300 customers.
VIDEO: Wind knocks out power in parts of Brookfield
The Brookfield Police Department, Brookfield Central High School and the post office were affected by the outage. Students had to eat lunch in the dark.
School officials kept students in the school building during the outage.
More lines were down near the intersection of Calhoun Road and Royalcrest Drive. An additional 600 customers are affected by that outage.
It really put Kari Kafkas at Precious Paws in a pinch.
"Obviously, everything we use is electric, so we have some dogs here that are still kind of wet," Kafkas said.
She said she had to call owners early to come pick up their pets.
By 4:45 p.m. Friday, almost everyone had their power back on.


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If you ask Marik Lingo about her heroes, she'll name three. The first is her little sister Tessa, the second, her oncologist and family friend Dr. Gale, and the third is St. Louis Children's Hospital and the cardiothoracic surgeon who performed her heart transplant.
Marik's path to transplant began just after she completed chemotherapy for Acute myeloid leukemia. "When listening to Marik's heart, a nurse heard a 'gallop', says Carrie Lingo, Marik's mom. The family was sent straight to an ICU where she spent more than two months until her heart could be regulated with medication. The diagnosis: dilated cardiomyopathy. This heart condition was a side effect from one of the drugs used to treat Marik's leukemia
"We were so thrilled that Marik's cancer was in remission," says Carrie. " Everything was looking up—we were ready to move on from cancer. We were literally moving into a new house and we were also moving on to a healthy new life. So when we found out Marik was in heart failure, and would eventually need a heart transplant, we were in shock. "
"While Marik wasn't sick enough to be put on a transplant list, she could barely walk to the mailbox," says Carrie. "Her body was always cold and she had no strength. After a while, she required around the clock intravenous medication and an external defibrillator. "
"At one point I remember getting upset with my sweet husband when he talked about a child with a heart transplant that was now healthy and playing soccer. I told him I didn't want to hear about that—I couldn't imagine Marik ever playing sports again."
In February of 2007, after a bout of the flu, Marik was put on the transplant list. Carrie credits the doctors, nurses and staff of St. Louis Children's Hospital with bringing "a ray of hope" into their life. "They were so positive and made us feel like everything would be okay. Marik's cardiologist, Dr. Canter, and his whole team were always truthful—they never offered false hope—but they helped us envision better things for her. "
In May of 2007, Marik received her new heart. "It was amazing--she started to look better as soon as she came out of surgery," says Carrie.
Now, whenever Carrie sits on the sidelines of Marik's volleyball, or basketball or Lacrosse games—she smiles when she thinks about the conversation she had with her husband about Marik and sports.
"Grateful does not begin to describe our feelings for everyone at St. Louis Children's Hospital –and more importantly our donor family. While I don't know who they are, or where they live, I sometimes imagine them coming to one of Marik's volleyball games. I'd of course tell them thanks, and then I'd point out the tall, healthy teenager on the volleyball court and simply say—she's number ten."


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7th Annual Shootout on Whiskey Row
Location: Montezuma Street at Goodwin Street, Prescott, AZ
Event Date: Sat Jul 28, 2012 thru Sun Jul 29, 2012
The 2012 7th Annual Shootout on Whiskey Row
A big Thank You from the Prescott Regulators & Their Shady Ladies, Inc. (PRSL) to all of our members, community sponsors and vendors, competition groups, entertainers and many other community contacts for helping to make our "7th Annual Shootout on Whiskey Row" an overwhelming success.
This was the first year for the Shootout to utilize the vacant corner lot at Montezuma and Goodwin Streets to set up a great amphitheater where our competitors and entertainers had a professional stage to "strut their stuff." Thank you to Steve Pierce for his continued support of PRSL.
The cooperation of the merchants along the side of Montezuma Street which was closed for our vendors, exhibitors and children's play area confirmed that Prescott is a great place to be.
Each day the event was opened by the posting of colors by PRSL's own Ft. Whipple Regulars, an authentic military unit from the late 1870's.
As usual, our competing groups outdid themselves in their re-enactment skits. The placement of the competitors resulted in the following awards:
First Place: The Arizona Ghostriders from Tucson, Arizona
Second Place: The Guns of the Round Table from Riverside, California
Third Place: Guns & Garters from Running Springs, California
People's Choice Award: Colorado River Riders from Yuma, Arizona
The ever popular costume contest was a real crowd pleaser, especially with the antics of the award announcers Melissa and Dale.
Please go to our Calendar Page and click on the July 28, 2012 Shootout listing to see some fun photographs taken at the Shootout.
Ideas for our "8th Annual Shootout on Whiskey Row" are already being mulled around in the minds of the members in our group. Continue to check back for updates on the 2013 event.
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"The only convincing love story of our century." —Vanity Fair
"Lolita blazes with a perversity of a most original kind. For Mr. Nabokov has distilled from his shocking material hundred-proof intellectual farce…Lolita seems an assertion of the power of the comic spirit to wrest delight and truth from the most outlandish materials. It is one of the funniest serious novels I have ever read; and the vision of its abominable hero, who never deludes or excuses himself, brings into grotesque relief the cant, the vulgarity, and the hypocritical conventions that pervade the human comedy." —Atlantic Monthly
"Intensely lyrical and wildly funny." —Time
"The conjunction of a sense of humor with a sense of horror [results in] satire of a very special kind, in which vice or folly is regarded not so much with scorn as with profound dismay and a measure of tragic sympathy…The reciprocal flow of irony gives to both the characters and their surroundings the peculiar intensity of significance that attends the highest art." —The New Yorker
"Lolita is an authentic work of art which compels our immediate response and serious reflection–a revealing and indispensable comedy of horrors." —San Francisco Chronicle


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He is portrayed by professional drummer John Lock.
He is seen with the William McKinley High School Jazz Band during the Don't Stop Believin' number. He is also seen in the Can't Fight This Feeling extended number.
He appears performing in Don't Stop Believin' (Quinn's Version). He is also seen at invitationals with the Jazz Band, he drums in Last Name and also in the final number, Somebody To Love.
He drums in both Mash-Ups, It's My Life/Confessions Part II and Halo/Walking on Sunshine.
He is seen in Will's Group's performance of No Air. He is also seen in the episode's final number, Keep Holding On.
He is just present in Puck's song, Sweet Caroline.
He is seen in the final number, Lean on Me.
He plays the drums in the New Directions mash-up number, Hair/Crazy in Love, and also for the Haverbrook School for the Deaf performance, Imagine.
He is playing the drums while Rachel tries to teach Finn how to smile for the yearbook with the song, Smile.
He and The Jazz Band go on stage after Rachel sings Don't Rain on My Parade to play You Can't Always Get What You Want as New Directions' final number of the competition. At the end of the episode, he is seen playing the same "instrument" he used in Vitamin D, now for the song, My Life Would Suck Without You.
He is part of Hello, I Love You and also Rachel's number, Gives You Hell.
He is in the first Madonna number for the assignment of the week, Express Yourself. He also participates in the mash-up, Borderline/Open Your Heart, he doesn't look happy about Finn taking the drums. In the middle of the performance, he is seen in a hurry when Finn throws him the drumsticks.He is also part in the New Directions Boys performance, What It Feels Like For a Girl.
Mr. Schuester goes straight to him and says "hit it" to start Ice Ice Baby, this is also the first performance in which he is not involved as a singer. At the end of the episode, he and the Jazz Band perform in Rachel's number, Total Eclipse of the Heart. He, along with the rest of the Jazz Band, stays with Rachel after New Directions leaves her alone.
He is replaced by Finn in the middle of the Jessie's Girl performance, Finn gives him back the drumsticks but this time in the hands. After this performance, he also helps Puck with Lady Is a Tramp. Later in the episode Kurt refers to him as "Gentleman" as a way to start with Pink Houses and according to his face, he's also impressed by Kurt's new outfit. He also participates in The Boy Is Mine.
The McKinley High jazz band assists the New Directions by playing a funk number, Give up the Funk.
He is seen on stage in Faithfully,Any Way You Want It/Lovin',Touchin', Squeezin' and Don't Stop Believin'. He is also seen in To Sir, With Love.
Even though he's in the choir room, Finn is the one who play the drums in Billionaire. He is also seen in Sunshine's first solo, Listen.
He is at the school assembly and plays the drums in Toxic, even when Sue pulls the fire alarm he stays with the whole band and New Directions.
He uses a different kind of drumsticks in Only The Good Die Young. He is also seen in I Want to Hold Your Hand and later in Losing My Religion.
He replaces Finn in the middle of Don't Go Breaking My Heart. Later in the episode, he is seen alongside the band to help Santana and Mercedes in their duet, River Deep, Mountain High. He is also in the choir room for another Rachel and Finn duet, With You I'm Born Again. He also play the drums in Lucky, the first Fabrevans duet. At the end of the episode, he and the Jazz band take part of Happy Days Are Here Again/Get Happy.
He is there while Carl shows Will he can take a part in the musical in Whatever Happened to Saturday Night?.
He is first seen in the girls mash-up Start Me Up/Livin' on a Prayer. As an apology to Coach Beiste, the New Directions boys with the Jazz Band perform Stop! In the Name of Love/Free Your Mind.
He is in the choir room when Ms. Holliday arrives. He plays the drums in Forget You.
In the first episode in which he is seen in all the performances. He and the Jazz Band play while Sue and Doris Sylvester are singing Ohio. Then he plays the drums in Marry You. At the wedding reception, he is seen playing in Sway and Just the Way You Are.
Even when it is Sectionals time at McKinley, he is just seen in the final number of the episode, Dog Days Are Over.
New Directions and the Jazz Band go caroling with the song, We Need a Little Christmas. During the performance, the students in the classroom react negatively to the performance and the teacher throws her shoe at the drums, which results in New Directions fleeing. After Finn rejects Rachel's Christmas present, she asks them to continue with the Merry Christmas Darling performance.
He takes part in Rachel and Puck's duet, Need You Now. Later, he is seen in the Titans performance, She's Not There.
He is seen in the song that Puck performs for Lauren, Fat Bottomed Girls. He also helps Artie and Mike in their P.Y.T. (Pretty Young Thing) number. He is also in Rachel's solo Firework, making this performance the 2nd in which he is part but the bassist not.
He is involved in the first number by The Justin Bieber Experience, Baby. After, he is seen in the Diva-Off performance, Take Me or Leave Me. His last scene in this episode is during Lauren's solo I Know What Boys Like.
He is seen in the assembly against alcohol alongside the Jazz Band playing Tik Tok.
He is seen in Holly Holliday's solo Do You Wanna Touch Me (Oh Yeah) and also in her duet with Will Schuester, Kiss, but just in the beginning and ending of the performance.
He takes part in five original songs. He plays the drums in Trouty Mouth and immediately after this he takes part in Puck's original song Big Ass Heart. At Regionals, he and the Jazz Band are on stage for both New Directions songs, Get It Right and Loser Like Me.
He is on stage when Sunshine sings All By Myself as a way to ask permission to New Directions for chance to participate in their benefit concert. In The Night Of Neglect he is part of I Follow Rivers, performed by Tina and later in Ain't No Way by Mercedes as the final number.
He is part of Rachel and Quinn's duet, I Feel Pretty/Unpretty. He is later seen in I've Gotta Be Me. While he is having lunch, Blaine appears and start singing Somewhere Only We Know, immediately he and the bassist join to the performance. This is the first episode where we know they spend time together,even when very often they performed together. He is also part of Kurt's solo, As If We Never Said Goodbye.Dreams. He is later seen in another duet, I Don't Want to Know. Even when Finn takes the drums in Go Your Own Way, he's part of the performance playing for his first time on screen a tambourine. He is also part of the last number for the episode Don't Stop.
As Will's idea that people will take turns in the performances as a way for everyone to enjoy the prom, he's replaced in Friday for another drummer. Glee's official drummer takes back his place in I'm Not Gonna Teach Your Boyfriend How To Dance With You. He is later seen in the closing number, Dancing Queen.
He takes part in all the auditions for a solo for Nationals. He is first seen in Santana's audition song Back to Black and later in Some People performed by Kurt. In the second part of the auditions, he is seen on stage for Try A Little Tenderness by Mercedes and his last scene is in Rachel's solo, My Man.
He is seen in We Got the Beat and shares the drumsticks with Finn but is replaced and starts playing guitar. After the food fight he is not seen until Kurt and Rachel's duet of Ding-Dong! The Witch Is Dead where he is seen playing the Tambourine while the drummer who appears in Prom Queen replaced him in drums. He plays another percussion instrument. He is involved in Blaine's audition song for New Directions It's Not Unusual, at the McKinley High courtyard.
He's seen at Rachel's audition for the role of Maria, Somewhere. He is also in Kurt's audition, I'm the Greatest Star. He's finally seen in Blaine's audition, Something's Coming.
He's in the first number for the episode Spotlight. He's also involved in Cool as an audition for Mike for a role in West Side
He is first seen in Last Friday Night. He's later seen in the first Troubletones performance, Candyman. At the end of the episode he is also involved in Take Care Of Yourself by Rory.
He and the Jazz Band are off stage for West Side Story, he is seen in America.You and I/You and I. During the New Directions mashup I Can't Go for That/ You Make My Dreams he is seen using the same moustache as the boys. He is also in the Troubletones mash-up, Rumour Has It/Someone Like You.
The Drummer is seen in the first Lady Music Week performance, Perfect. He is also seen in I'm the Only One. He takes part in the all-girls number, I Kissed a Girl. He is also seen in the last performance of the episode, Constant Craving.
He has a much larger than usual role in this episode. He is seen having a conversation with the bassist and the guitarist when the New Directions decide to draft the band members as Glee club members to fulfill the 12 member requirement. Sam appears later on and during Red Solo Cup. He is seen stacking cups during the performance of Red Solo Cup. Later, during a boys dance rehearsal, he takes a seat and when Sam proposes body rolling as choreography for Sectionals, he is seen practicing it before Sam and Blaine argue over it. Santana and the Troubletones arrive to the choir room and he seems to be offended by Santana's comments. He, along with New Directions, watch The Unitards' performance, Buenos Aires. Then the Troubletone's performance of Survivor/I Will Survive. He is seen performing with the New Directions in ABC,Control, and Man in the Mirror. When the Jackson Medley ends he walks over the bassist. He is overjoyed when New Directions are obtain first place. Later at the end of the episode, during We Are Young performance, he is seen playing the drums and back as a member of the Jazz Band instead of the New Directions.
He is seen in the opening number,All I Want for Christmas Is You,he is also seen in Rory's Christmas song, Blue Christmas. He is also involved in Extraordinary Merry Christmas.
He is seen in The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face, and also in Rachel's song, Without You.
He is part of Never Can Say Goodbye, performed by Quinn and he is seen in Mercedes and Sam's duet, Human Nature. He is seen in I Just Can't Stop Loving You.
He is seen in Mercedes's solo, Don't Wanna Lose You.
He is seen in L-O-V-E sung by Tina and Mike.He is seen at the McKinley High courtyard to play Stereo Hearts. He is also part of Rory's solo, Home. He is also seen in both performances at the Sugar Shack, Cherish/Cherish and Love Shack.
He is seen in Cough Syrup. He is also part of the New Directions performances for Regionals. First in the mash-up Fly/I Believe I Can Fly, then in The Troubletones number, What Doesn't Kill You (Stronger) and finally in Here's to Us.
He takes part in duets, he is first seen in I'm Still Standing and then in Hungry Like the Wolf/Rio in the choir room. His final duet appearance is in Somebody That I Used to Know, where he is performing backup vocals and playing the drums.
He is part of Night Fever and Disco Inferno. He is later seen in Santana's solo If I Can't Have You. He is backup vocals in How Deep Is Your Love with the William McKinley Jazz Band. Finally, he is seen in More Than a Woman.
He is seen in I Wanna Dance with Somebody(Who Loves Me)and Saving All My Love for You.He also takes part in So Emotional,he is also present for It's Not Right but It's Okay.I Have Nothing is the final performance where he is seen in this episode.
He is part of School's Out. He is also seen in Not the Boy Next Door and Don't Rain on My Parade as Kurt and Rachel's NYADA auditions.
He is seen carrying the xylophone with the bassist until Becky tries to destroy it. He is seen during Big Girls Don't Cry. After the performance, he and the band members stayed at their places and started to talk. During the prom he is seen in Dinosaur. Then in What Makes You Beautiful, Sam start playing with the drums. Then he is seen on stage and start the drumroll to announce the Prom King and Queen. His last scene is during Take My Breath Away.
He is seen during "The Teacher of the Year" award and when the Senior Royalty announce the winner, he is excited about Mr. Schuester's victory and exclaims "Yeah!" while he starts playing the drums. He is part of We Are the Champions with the other band members.
He is seen in I'll Remember. Later, he is part of You Get What You Give, as the seniors' song to the juniors. He is also seen in the next performance, In My Life. His last performance for the season is Glory Days where he replaced Finn in the drums, he is not wearing a graduation gown, meaning he is still at McKinley.
He plays the drum during Call Me Maybe, he's present in the auditions of Marley and Jake: New York State of Mind and Never Say Never, respectively. Finally, he's present during Chasing Pavements.
He's present during Boys/Boyfriend.
Along with the guitarist, he comes to the choir room when Santana performs Mine.
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He helps perform Born to Hand Jive for the Grease call backs.
He is present in the performance of Come See About Me.
He plays drums in Don't Dream It's Over.
He is present during the performance of Don't Stop Me Now.
He can be seen during the performance of Footloose.
He plays drums and talks to Becky Jackson during the performance of I Still Believe/Super Bass.
He is present in the performance of Wannabe and seems really annoyed by the performance.
He is present after Tina's performance of Revolution is cut short by the bell ringing, so he leaves, and is seen during the Let It Be performance. He is also seen during Marley, Jake, Ryder, and Unique's performance of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band at prom.
He is seen a little bit after Santana begins her If I Die Young performance.
He is present at the beginning of the Roar performance, being called "Band Geek" by Sue.
He graduates in this episode along with Artie, Blaine, Brittany, Sam, and Tina.
He plays during the performance of Lovefool.
- He, the bass player, Lauren, and Sue are the only New Directions temporary members to be part of the club for more than one day and perform in a song. Jacob and Sunshine were part of New Directions, but never performed.
- In an interview, he said he appeared on the set saying "I can drum." He also said he received an email from his college about the show.
- His character does not yet have a name. Source
- Sometimes, Finn just throws him the drumsticks. Source
- Is friends with the bass player.
- During Red Solo Cup, he is seen stacking cups while standing up and is on the 2nd to last row with only one more cup to put on. A few shots later, he is sitting and has more cups to put on the tower.
- He can also play a kind of "DJ" stuff as seen in Vitamin D and Sectionals.
- The drummer is very often seen with sweaters but John Lock doesn't like the sweaters he wears in the show.
- John Lock made Trouty Mouth REMIX.
- He is temporarily replaced during Sexy and I Know It by a guy with similar clothes as him.
- Is the second band member with a line.
- John Lock stated in his Twitter that he ships Brittana.
- He is New Directions' full-time drummer now that Finn graduated.
- As of Feud, though, he now shares drumming duties with Ryder Lynn.
- He performed at 2011 Sectionals during ABC, Control, and Man in the Mirror.
- John Lock is one of the producers on Naya's album.
- John Lock co-write one of the songs (What Is Love) on the Lea's album, Louder.
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|Alistair • Jane Hayward • Madison McCarthy • Mason McCarthy • Myron Muskovitz • Spencer Porter
|Artie Abrams • Blaine Anderson • Brittany Pierce • Quinn Fabray • Finn Hudson • Kitty Wilde • Kurt Hummel • Mercedes Jones • Mike Chang • Noah Puckerman • Rachel Berry • Roderick Meeks • Sam Evans • Santana Lopez • Skylar • Tina Cohen-Chang • Unique Adams
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"Words of Steel" by Joe O'Connell and Blessing Hancock
A series of six typographic "lantern" sculptures, each featuring phrases in many languages, were commissioned by the city of Palo Alto for public exhibit throughout the plaza between the Palo Alto Main Library and Arts Center. The sculptures are made up of multi-lingual phrases collected from the community, cut out of steel and welded together in three-dimensional lantern-like forms. Each of the sculptures lights up at sundown, and each sculpture is equipped with LED lights that change color upon being touched by a passerby.


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A few of the top six singers remaining on "The Voice" turned in their riskiest, most intense performances yet Monday night, in the hopes of buying themselves another week and another chance to win the title.
There was no time for that fast-dwindling clutch of singers — that would be Sasha Allen, Danielle Bradbery, Amber Carrington, Michelle Chamuel, the Swon Brothers and Holly Tucker — to rest on their laurels, and on Monday night, they each took to the stage twice: Once with a song of their choosing, once with a song of their coaches'.
And after last week's unexpected ouster of two Team Adam members who'd been presumed front-runners, coaches and contestants alike knew the stakes were high — even though only one of them would get the boot Tuesday.
First on-stage Monday was Holly Tucker, who took on Martina McBride's "When God-Fearing Women Get the Blues" at her coach Blake's behest.
"She's gonna have to get out there on the stage and absolutely set it on fire, and I think this song is gonna give her the opportunity to do that," Blake said.
As far as he was concerned, her performance, slinging more of the attitude she'd first unveiled last week, did just that. "That is by far my favorite performance from you," Blake said, though Usher admitted, "I did want to see more."
Next came indie-dance-pop singer Michelle Chamuel, whom Usher assigned the Brit-pop band Keane's "Somewhere Only We Know." The pair had grown close as Usher has helped Chamuel overcome some stage fright. "I don't feel like a coach anymore, man, I feel like a friend," he admitted in rehearsals.
On Monday night, Michelle gave the song her trademark treatment — beginning with her voice fragile and hushed, building into a crescendo and a belt and winning plaudits from all the coaches. "I think that's the sign of a really great artist," Adam said, "when you see them carve out their own spot in the universe."
The Swon Brothers followed with a pick of their own, the current country hit "Wagon Wheel" by Darius Rucker. Their coach Blake admitted that picking a current hit to cover was a risky choice, but he had faith. "These guys are incredibly talented with tons of charisma."
On-stage, the Swon Brothers may have been upstaged slightly by the gaggle of saloon girls gyrating across the elaborate Old West barroom set. But their spirited, thoroughly country take on the song won over not just Blake but also country neophyte Shakira, who attributed country's mainstream crossover to "artists as talented as you."
Following them came her own sole surviving team member, Sasha Allen, who opted to tackle the tall order of Aretha Franklin's "Ain't No Way," a song she said she'd always loved, thanks to her mother's influence. ("She's definitely the reason that I am in music, period," Sasha said of her mom.)
On a stage set up to look like a TV set bandstand in the '60s, Sasha crooned, then belted her way through the song — to the delight of her coach, who considered the risk in covering the Queen of Soul one well taken.
"Nobody could do that song except for Sasha, because you have this cinematic voice that just transports the audience for another place and time," Shakira said. "Thank you, girl."
As far as transporting audiences to another time…? Blake took a similar cue for his pick for his teen country prodigy Danielle Bradbery. Saying he loved introducing new audiences to classic country songs through the 16-year-old, he assigned her Pam Tillis' early '90s hit "Shake the Sugar Tree."
"You make my job easy, because your voice is so pure," he told her after her performance.
And Adam, for his last remaining team member Amber Carrington, likewise picked a throwback song — albeit one his young charge had never heard of. He assigned her the '80s metal band Skid Row's power ballad "I Remember You."
Her emotive performance earned Shakira's praise, plus her coach's. "I'm so happy that you represent my team, because you're willing to take those risks," Adam told Amber. Indeed, the song came after she's recently nailed country songs as well as — for the first time ever on "The Voice," according to her coach — an Adele song.
The Swon Brothers returned to the stage next, and this time, they were singing a song of Blake's choosing, though it was one they clearly were giddy to perform, too. That was Merle Haggard's anti-hippie, '60s backlash anthem "Okie from Muskogee."
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Blake insisted that his lone duo leave their own imprint on the song instead of just imitating the Bakersfield country icon who penned it. For a song so thoroughly dated, that may have seemed a tall order, but Monday night, the Swon Brothers handled it with aplomb, the coaches agreed. ("I don't think there's a song on this earth that Blake has ever wanted sung more than that one," Adam remarked.)
Fast forward a couple of decades, and a newer country hit was what Holly was set to perform, of her own choosing: Rascal Flatts' "My Wish." The song's plaintive tone — and the violinists sawing onstage alongside a fog-shrouded lighthouse — were befitting of the country singer's wholesome mien, and Blake praised her versatility after her bad-girl number just an hour earlier.
Michelle was next to perform, with a take on Taylor Swift's "I Knew You Were Trouble." As if tackling a monstrous current hit weren't pressure enough, who should show up to rehearsals but Swift herself? Michelle — unsure if, star-struck, she were still supposed to keep singing for her guest — earned some of the star's gushing praise for the emotion she infused into the song.
Onstage, Michelle was a far cry from a Taylor Swift acolyte. Backed by a full rock band, the long-time band frontwoman looked, and sounded, right at home. Bringing the country-pop hit to a rock and roll fever pitch, she left the audience roaring and the coaches at a loss for words.
"I don't need to say anything — listen to these guys — it's unbelievable — stop it already!" Adam said. "I'm so freaking jealous right now," Blake said. "That was just so intense."
Adam's own Amber was back on stage next, this time with a song that she picked to go back to her own country roots, Patsy Cline's "Crazy." Picking such a classic was a risky move, but it was one in keeping with Team Adam's spirit of risk-taking.
She delivered the song with a modern approach that, coupled with her spiderweb-studded '80s-prom-style dress, made clear from the outset that she wasn't looking to ape the inimitable. And even country purist Blake admitted she had won him over, even if he did consider the song "sacred ground."
That wasn't it for country Monday night, though. The genre, heavily represented this season, got its last hurrah of the night with another performance by Team Blake's youngest member, Danielle Bradbery, who chose to sing Sara Evans' breakup song "A Little Bit Stronger." The 16-year-old didn't have much heartbreak of her own to draw on for inspiration, so she turned to her older sister's.
And with her rendition of the song, the teen broke through the cucumber-cool expression she's mostly held all season, showing more emotional range than she has in the past. Adam's praise: simply telling her she was "good to go."
Finally, for the night's last performance, Sasha was back with a song of her coach Shakira's choosing, the Carrie Underwood hit "Before He Cheats." In Sasha's hands, the hit turned from a country rave-up into a diva's anthem of vengeful paranoia. Sasha stalked gleefully around the stage, her big notes alternately growled and soaring, to the delight of the audience.
"There's more than one Sasha Fierce!" Usher quipped, and Sasha basked in the Beyonce nod. "You've got an incredible voice, and that was just really remarkable," he added.
"You just worked that stage like a star!" Shakira added, clearly thrilled and beaming like a parent. "Your performance was fierce from top to bottom."
With 13 fierce performances Monday by six of the competition's fiercest singers, that could make for a tough elimination process heading into Tuesday.
"The Voice" airs Mondays and Tuesdays at 8/7c.


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Aunt Jemima. Uncle Mose. Sambo. Pickaninny. Amos 'n Andy. Certain younger generations may not view Andrea Ellen Reed's haunting photographs at the Peoria Art Guild through the lens of other equally haunting times.
Aunt Jemima. Uncle Mose. Sambo. Pickaninny. Amos 'n Andy.
Certain younger generations may not view Andrea Ellen Reed's haunting photographs at the Peoria Art Guild through the lens of other equally haunting times.
Neither they nor their parents were around when Al Jolson hit it big singing "Mammy." They weren't born when the country literally shut down to listen to Amos 'n' Andy on the radio. They may not know how wildly popular "L'il Black Sambo" books were, that Sambo's was a restaurant or that Coon Chicken Inn was something like the Kentucky Fried Chicken of its day.
It may be hard for them to believe that at one time, the face of black America was the bug-eyed, juicy-lipped face of the happy darkie - on salt and pepper shakers, toys, song sheets, souvenirs, post cards, cookie jars, advertising, cleansing powders (as in the Gold Dust Twins), and food products (Uncle Ben's, Cream of Wheat and whose mama was on the pancake box?)
And so, they may start the journey through Reed's photographic essay in blackface somewhere in the middle or near the end, rather than at the beginning.
The face was born in the U.S.A., bred by American mass production, spread by white performers singing and dancing in blackface. That big-eyed, grinning face was so much a part of American life that once black performers broke onto the popular stage, they, too, had to blacken their faces with burnt cork.
Certain younger generations grew up knowing a Martin Luther King holiday and a Bill Cosby as America's favorite dad. Heroic resistance, for them, was as simple as Rosa Parks refusing to sit in the back of the bus. They voted, with pride and hope, for a man named Barack Obama.
For me, a sometime collector of the blackface household goods that grew out of blackface minstrel, the impact of Reed's photographs is incomplete without them.
Her real-life black faces are done up in the blackface and exaggerated red lips of minstrelsy. But they are not the happy darkies of other times and others' imaginations.
Black memorabilia, produced and consumed roughly from the 1880s to the 1950s, typically portrayed blacks as happy, servile, submissive, often lazy, often dumb but always willing to please - white people. Historian and collector Kenneth W. Goings argues that the images and distribution of what is now known as black memorabilia coincided with distinct periods.
Depictions were at the most demeaning and derogatory, for instance, during the period after emancipation and post-Civil War Reconstruction. Everyday household items stood in as innocent propaganda, subtly persuading a country weary of war that blacks had been happy as slaves, were happy as second-class citizens, deserved to be treated as less than full citizens.
Reed's larger-than-life photographs say otherwise, but from a much different perspective than her brother, R. Rashad Reed, whose sculptures and paintings make up a second part of the Art Guild exhibit.
Her portraits turn blackface notions inside out. There are no bowed heads, no grotesque grinning teeth, no lawn-jockey poses, no smiles whatsoever. Instead, the subjects of her photographs make eye contact, compelling the viewer to look beyond blackface to the blank faces separated, yet connected, to a Barbie doll in one set of photographs, to a gun or a crack pipe in others, to an arresting set of a woman and children connected, yet disconnected, to a man.
The props in some photos, the juxtaposition of others lend themselves, obviously, to comments on the state of black family, black self-image, drugs, violence and a bankrupt materialism among the hip-hop crowd. The damage of contemporary blackface, they seem to say, is not what whites do to blacks but what blacks do to one another.
Then comes the image of a boy reading a book. He's holding the book upside down. The book is entitled "The Art and History of Black Memorabilia," and it is a devastating final comment not only for what it says about the state of black education today, but how it got that way and why it persists.
Pam Adams can be reached at email@example.com.


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RE: "they will become like us" - I think you may be misreading this Cliff, when you take that to mean "gods (plural)" - royalty speaks of itself in the first person plural, as in, "We are not amused." The author is simply assuming that the Bible's god would do the same.
Further, A & E didn't need knowledge of good and evil to understand, "Don't eat the fruit of this tree!"
The bible is so convoluted, Christians can find passages to defend almost any position, but so can I. In this case, the bible in many cases indicates that there is no such thing as free will, as it states in Proverbs 16:33, that "The lot is cast into the lap, but EVERY decision is from the Lord." As "every" is a universal term for all--this indicates there is no such thing as free will. There are at least four other passages which are very similar to the one above.
As for Lucifer, that argument too falls flat on its face, as heaven is said to be without sin. If that is true, then it would then be impossible for Lucifer to rebel against god in heaven.
Christianity is a religion which practices "sin, repent, sin repent...repeat when necessary. There is no justice for their victims on earth, unless secular laws are involved.
Hi Cathy,
I was actually trying to reply to Chris' original post . . . but couldn't enter anything into the text box!?!
Anyway . . . here's what I had to say . . .
. . . Despite the fact that most Christian denominations teach free will, the Bible itself is rife with determinism and predestination. Because we all live as if we have free will, it's highly unlikely that anything we author will not give lip service to free will. When we take credit for our actions or blame others for theirs, we're paying lip service to free will. Thus, the Bible has many verses consistent with free will but is, nonetheless, a largely deterministic tome. Here are just a few examples (for brevity, just the verses are listed) that clearly state that God determines who is going to heaven or hell and that there's nothing you can do about it:
Acts 13:48
Romans 8:29-30
2 Timothy 1:9
Ephesians 1:4-5
2 Thessalonians 2:11-13
Jude 4
Romans 9:11-22
Even the Lord's Prayer contains 2 instances of determinism:
1.) Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done. On earth as it is in heaven.
2.) And lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil.
In an effort to discover why the Bible is so inconsistent on this issue, I tried many Google searches, using many keywords. I couldn't find dates for the concept of free will but I did find references to those who developed the concept. It appears that the concept of free will stems from the concept of freedom and that it grew very slowly, taking centuries to mature into a formal doctrine.
From the 4th century to the 2nd century B.C., the seeds of free will were being planted. Plato had a concept of rational governance which flirted with but skirted the concept of free will. Aristotle added an element of voluntary action but still skirted free will. The first, primitive, form of free will appears to arise with Epicurus, around 300 B.C. Determinism did not mesh with his observations. He diverged from the strictly deterministic Atomists of his day by claiming that atoms do not move in a pre-determined way. Making the motion of atoms random allowed him to break the perpetual causal chain of events kick-started by the Prime Mover. This opened the door for his assertion that man has free will. At around 50 A.D., Lucretius wrote his epic (6-book) philosophical poem, "De Rerum Natura", explaining Epicurean physics. In it, he explained how atomic collisions can occur in the first place and why it is necessary to postulate randomness in the motions of atoms ("an unpredictable 'swerve' at no fixed place or time"), to account for the evident fact of free will. Otherwise we would all be automata, our motions determined by infinitely extended and unbreakable causal chains. This uncanny resemblance to the randomness postulated by modern quantum physics has helped make this passage a favorite in the free will debate. But it is, in fact, Epicurus, not Lucretius, who originated the idea of indeterminacy in the motion of atoms.
It's hard to understand how the ramifications of free will would take centuries to fully reveal themselves to our ancient philosophers. With the introduction of Christianity and its morality, particularly after it became the state religion (Roman Catholic Church) of the Roman Empire in 326 A.D., the development of free will was given a boost. Free will matured into doctrine, thanks largely to St. Augustine. He began advocating free will, around 400 A.D, to promote good works and responsibility for our own actions.
That's 700 to 800 years of free will as a neglected, fuzzy, immature concept! It's hard to imagine when most of us are now familiar with the concept(s) of free will.
The Old Testament was sealed about 200 B.C. (others claim it was sealed between 500 and 100 B.C.) and the New Testament was written between 45 A.D. and 140 A.D. This means that the concept (much less doctrine!) of free will didn't even exist in the region while the Old Testament was written and was, at best, a primitive and fuzzy concept when the New Testament was written. Free will still hadn't been fleshed out when the Roman Catholic Church was created in 326 A.D.
So it appears that the Bible is so inconsistent with the application of free will because a formal concept of free will wasn't available to the Bible authors. The authors lived in a deterministic culture, so that's (mostly) the way they wrote.
A deist might claim that God is just a cosmic God . . . the Creator . . . the Prime Mover . . . and has never actually been a personal God who intervenes in human affairs or meddles with the physical universe. Such a God could be reconciled with free will.
But a personal, theistic, God is absolutely incompatible with free will. A God who performs miracles or answers prayers is a God that usurps our intentions and actions. We would not be able to have any confidence in cause and effect and would never know if our plans work because we anticipated events properly or if the events merely coincided with our plans (due to God's meddling on behalf of a neighbor or stranger or whoever). God's meddling would mean the suspension of natural law. How are we to guess how that meddling ripples through other events?
If we could prove the existence of free will, we would simultaneously disprove the existence of a theistic, personal, God.
I really, really enjoyed this post. Thanks. Good stuff to ponder... :)
But Leibniz ignores the point that if every cause is the effect of some prior cause, and God is the cause of anything at all, then God must be the effect of some other cause. Clearly he simply DEFINED God as the first cause and then took a brain nap without thinking of the implications.
In Isiah, god actually states that he creates evil, but as to the first cause argument, we then have to ask what caused god?
Creation. Isn't God the cause of everytyhing? If He caused it, He owns it, evil included!


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Heya guys,
I'm making this thread to hold whatever odd testing requests I dream up from viewers to improve Kongming's Archives, and giving it a name some of you might actually keep in mind and check when new posts are made. I'll be including odd bits in it from this point on, starting with the one below.
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Internet Explorer Windows users. After clearing your cache, please visit the site listed below and tell me if the line spacing is accurate. Ideally, the hanzi and super text (the numbers and roman numerals that hang above text) shouldn't displace the line heights. I want to know if this is happening to everyone, which means yet another shortcoming in Microsoft's implementation of CSS.
(Note: Biography is incomplete at this time.)
Here is an image of the anomoly I'm experiencing (which is not how the document is supposed to display). This is exactly what I'm trying to avoid...


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Suppose $S\subset \mathbb{P}^n$ is a smooth del Pezzo surface and $C$ is an irreducible smooth curve (you can make it rational if it simplifies the setting) such that $\mathcal{L}=\vert -K_S-C\vert $ is non-empty. To simplify you may consider $-K_S$ is very ample and let me deal with the degree $1$ and $2$ cases. Moreover suppose that $h^0(S,\mathcal{O}(\mathcal{L}))\geq 2$ (i.e. $\mathcal{L}$ is at least a pencil).
It was my understanding that by Bertini's theorem one could choose a general member $L\in\mathcal{L}$ such that $L$ is smooth (and reduced and connected). I have been told this is wrong and after going to Hartshorne (and Wikipedia and some expository paper by Kleiman that Francesco added to the comments) I am also of the opinion that it may actually be wrong, but that $L$ must be irreducible away of the base locus of $\mathcal{L}$.
However I am unable of providing a proof nor a counter-example. Does someone have an insight on this? I also suspect the base locus of $\mathcal{L}$ may actually be empty.
Edit: Originally $H$ was a hyperplane section. The question is actually motivated by 'the' hyperplane section so I have rephrased it to meet this point. Apologies for the confusion.


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