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Your Majesty, Calm Your Anger and Don't Swear Violently!
Zhang Yuan knew that the Emperor was interested in this, but he did not dare say anything resolutely. He could only vaguely say: "Who knows."
The Emperor became unhappy: "What sort of thing is that? If you don't know anything, why do I keep you around?"
Zhang Yuan felt wronged, "The intentions of the Emperor cannot be blasphemed, and her Highness' intentions also cannot be blasphemed! If this servant said something wrong, if your Majesty tears this servant's ears off, this servant will not be able to hear anything in the future. How could I still take care of your Majesty!"
The Emperor angrily chased him away: "Out, out, go stand outside. So annoying."
Zhang Yuan quietly went outside. Who knew that just as he exited the hall, he saw a palace maid carrying a box of food and was walking over. He thought that imperial concubine might have come to send food to the Emperor and was about to say a few words to not send it for now. Presently, anyone that offended the Emperor right now would end up dead.
But just as he took a few steps forward, he felt that something was not quite right. That palace maid did not walk in the direction of the hall. Instead, she walked toward Feng Yu Heng.
Zhang Yuan thought quickly and stopped moving. Stopping, he looked carefully at the palace maid and felt that she looked familiar. Only after the palace maid brought out pastries and tea for Feng Yu Heng did he have a sudden realization!
He no longer had time to continue watching. Turning around, he rushed back inside.
The Emperor saw him hastily run back inside. A bit of surprise appeared on his face, as he could not help but feel shocked. Anxious, he asked: "Could it be that there have been movements on that side?"
Zhang Yuan rushed forward and nodded, saying: "Your Majesty, they've come! That side sent a palace maid to deliver pastries and tea to county princess."
The Emperor was very happy and quickly ordered Zhang Yuan: "Just watch from a distance. Let that girl eat for now. When she is almost done eating, chasing that person away."
Zhang Yuan asked him: "Then how long will county princess need to keep kneeling?"
The Emperor said: "Naturally, she will continue kneeling until she personally comes!"
Zhang Yuan was speechless and wanted to ask, what if she doesn't come? You'll exhaust county princess!
But the Emperor had his temper. Could something that he had decided on be changed? Zhang Yuan saw that he no longer spoke and had returned to reading reports, he helplessly shook his head and left the hall.
At this time, the palace maid that had brought the food was saying to Feng Yu Heng: "Wasn't it just beating a prince, and he wasn't beaten to death. The Emperor punishing you, he really must have nothing better to do."
Feng Jin Yuan could not bear to hear this, as he said: "Bold palace servant, who gave you the courage to say such a thing about his Majesty?"
The palace maid was not afraid fo Feng Jin Yuan in the slightest, calmly saying: "Imperial concubine Yun. Just now, those words were personally said by imperial concubine Yun. This servant only complied with imperial concubine's orders to bring that message to county princess. Prime minister Feng, if you cannot get used to hearing such things, you can choose to not listen. Or perhaps you can go and file a complaint to his Majesty about imperial concubine, but this servant must remind Lord Feng that it is possible that his Majesty likes being cursed in this way."
Feng Yu Heng picked up her cup of tea and brought it to Feng Jin yuan: "Does father want to take a sip?"
Feng Jin Yuan turned away, not wanting to pay any attention to her. Feng Yu Heng no longer asked as she continued to just eat pastries and drink tea. While eating, she looked at Zhang Yuan, who stood in front of Heavenly Hall.
The palace maid said: "County princess, just relax and eat. Imperial concubine said that the fight in the afternoon already used up some energy, and you came to kneel later in the night without even eating food. These pastries are meant to help fill your belly. In a while, the kitchen will prepare some more food for you."
Feng Jin Yuan began sweating upon hearing this. Imperial concubine Yun, in this world, only imperial concubine Yun dared to do this.
But Feng Yu Heng refused the additional food, saying to the palace maid: "Thank imperial concubine mother for her kind thoughts on my behalf. Just these pastries are enough. There is no need for anything else. No matter how little, I still must give father Emperor some face."
The palace maid nodded, "Good, then this servant will go tell imperial concubine later."
Feng Yu Heng smiled and looked at the last pastry on the plate then said: "There is no need for later. Someone has come to chase you away."
Just as she said this, Zhang Yuan came over with an unhappy expression: "What are you doing? This place is Heavenly Hall! Kneeling here is equivalent to admitting culpability to a crime. Who has ever been allowed to eat here? Quickly go back! Go!"
The palace maid was not scared of Zhang Yuan's shouting. Without hesitation, she tidied up and watched Feng Yu Heng eat the last pastry then asked: "County princess, does it taste good?"
Feng Yu Heng nodded.
"It's good if it's delicious." The palace maid deliberately raised her voice to say: "These pastries were made by imperial concubine Yun herself. Originally, there was a plate here to be sent to his Majesty, but eunuch Zhang is chasing us away in such a hurry, and Lord Prime minister Feng does not like seeing us, so this servant can only go back." After saying this, she picked up the box and left.
Zhang Yuan was frozen. There was some for the Emperor? Handmade by imperial concubine Yun?
This time, it was him that broke out into a cold sweat.
It was over. It was incredibly rare for imperial concubine Yun to make food for the Emperor, but it had been sent back by him like this? If the Emperor found out about this, would his legs be broken?
Feng Yu Heng consoled him: "Eunuch, there is no need to feel regret for father Emperor. Although imperial concubine mother rarely makes pastries and is even more rarely makes them for father Emperor, father is in a bad mood today. Chasing away a servant like this is something that you are quite helpless to do anything about. This is not eunuch's fault. Do not mind it."
Zhang Yuan's eyes lit up. Why did it sound more and more like it had been said by the ninth prince? Was county princess Ji An relieving him of his guilt?
Feng Jin Yuan was confused, "When had I chased away that servant? It was clearly just eunuch Zhang…"
"Father!" Feng Yu Heng's eyes became fierce, "You are the court's prime minister. Whether or not you have the ability to help father Emperor take care of the country is one matter, and whether or not you you are a man of indomitable spirit do not need to be spoken of. Most importantly, are your ears still capable of hearing? Just now, that palace maid said that Lord Prime minister Feng does not like seeing her when she left? Did you not hear her?"
Feng Jin Yuan was so angry that his liver hurt, "But she also said that eunuch Zhang was in a rush to chase her away!"
"Did she?" Feng Yu Heng looked at Feng Jin Yuan then looked at Zhang Yuan, "Who heard it?"
Zhang Yuan shook his head, "Either way, we did not hear it."
Feng Yu Heng pointed at herself, "I also did not hear it. Could it be that only father heard it? Then this cannot possibly count."
Feng Jin Yuan knew that she was doing this deliberately! When had this girl ever been reasonable? She had always been one to spout lies with a straight face. It was as though she was in a race with the ninth prince to see who could invent more stories and who could invent wilder stories.
But he was afraid! Feng Yu Heng making up stories about other things was fine, but now she was inventing stories related to imperial concubine Yun! His mind immediately conjured up images of the palace banquet with head imperial concubine Bu and Lord Bu. The Emperor had picked up head imperial concubine Bu and fiercely thrown her at Lord Bu. One died and one was severely injured. The floor had been covered in blood. Just thinking about it now, his heart began to tremble. Feng Jin Yuan felt that if he could not resolve this situation, the next person to die would likely be him.
Perhaps when it came to other things, the Emperor was a rational ruler. No matter whom he favored, he would not go too overboard; however, whenever something was related to imperial concubine Yun, that was a completely different matter. The rational Emperor would immediately change. What fairness, what wife, what child, as long as they offended imperial concubine Yun, even the king of heaven would be in trouble. How much ability did he, Feng Jin Yuan, have to live under the oppression of imperial concubine Yun?
Feng Yu Heng watched sweat appear on the forehead of the person beside her, and her smile became even more profound, "Father also knows fear, huh? Daughter really believed that father really did not fear anything to curry favor with the third prince."
The more she said, the more Feng Jin Yuan was afraid; however, at the same time, the thoughts that he absolutely had to get rid of Feng Yu Heng became even more profound.
Zhang Yuan did not remain any longer. Turning around, he returned to Heavenly Hall. Inside the hall, the Emperor was still holding a report. It appeared that he was still reading it.
Zhang Yuan walked forward and looked at the report. Helpless, he said: "Your Majesty, she has already left. Just stop pretending."
The Emperor angrily snorted, "What are We pretending to do? Zhang Yuan, have you grown tired of living?"
Zhang Yuan pointed at the report: "You still say that you aren't pretending. When this servant went out, you were already holding that report. After returning, you are still holding that same report. There are a total of two lines of text written on it."
The Emperor lost his temper and simply threw the report onto the table, "I'm done with reading it. Hah! Say, what is the situation outside?"
Zhang Yuan told him about the things that had happened outside. Of course, he would definitely be more vague about chasing off the servant. Either way, county princess Ji An had already found him an excuse. As long as he repeated it, it would be fine.
Sure enough, just after he said this, the Emperor became angry, "Fuck! Has Feng Jin Yuan grown tired of living?"
These words were shouted with the use of inner energy. The sound was too loud, as the father and daughter outside could hear it clearly. Feng Jin Yuan immediately fell to the ground, and a cold sweat appeared on his back.
Feng Yu Heng asked him in surprise: "Father, what is wrong? Could it be that you've kneeled for too long? Daughter will have eunuch Zhang call an imperial physician for you!"
Feng Jin Yuan could no longer speak. He felt that he was on the verge of dying. The Emperor had become so angry. It would be odd for him to be able to continue living.
Sure enough, immediately after that, they heard a loud shout come from inside: "Feng Jin Yuan! This grand old man will cut you into ten thousand parts!"
Feng Jin Yuan completely collapsed.
Inside the hall, Zhang Yuan was desperately trying to console the Emperor, repeatedly consoling him: "Your Majesty, calm down! Haven't you said it before that keeping Prime minister Feng will allow a great number of clues to appear. How come you are unable to endure now?"
The Emperor said: "But my dearest made pastries for Us!"
"Hah! There will be more opportunities in the future!"
"Is that possible? It's not like you don't know her temper! After this, how could she possibly still care for this place? Feng Jin Yuan, that Feng Jin Yuan, simply tearing him to shreds is not enough to relieve me of the hatred in my heart!"
Upon seeing that he could not be consoled, Zhang Yuan simply brought out a fierce trick: "County princess is already 13 this year! If you were to kill Prime minister Feng now, county princess will need to mourn for three years to fulfill her filial duties to her father. His Highness the ninth prince already said that he wanted to marry county princess as soon as she turned 15. If you caused him to wait two years, at that time, his Highness the ninth prince will be unhappy. Then, mother and son will both be against you!"
Sure enough, this trick actually worked. The Emperor, who had been filled with rage and had wanted to rush out to kill him, immediately gathered himself. Looking at Zhang Yuan, he thought about the things that he had just said. With a helpless expression, he said: "Those two really are a pair of debt collectors!"
Zhang Yuan quietly whispered: "Who told you to owe them a debt!"
"What are you saying?" The Emperor became furious once more, "Lowly servant, say it to Us one more time!"
Zhang Yuan had a bitter expression and said: "Your Majesty, you misheard. This servant did not say anything. This servant was just cursing Prime minister Feng!"
"Hmph!" He had been infuriated. Flicking his sleeve, he returned to his throne, "Hah!" Waving to Zhang Yuan, he called him over, "Provide some analysis for Us. If We allowed county princess Ji An to continue kneeling outside for a while, will dearest come here personally?"


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Police: Shooting victim was 16-year-old girl
Authorities identify victim as Ahjee Harrod
Baltimore City police said a young woman who was shot to death in the northwest part of the city Sunday night was a 16-year-old girl.
City police said the teenager was shot in the head shortly before 10 p.m. Sunday in the 6200 block of Fairlawn Avenue.
Police said no arrests have been made in the case so far.
Tuesday afternoon, investigators were back on Fairlawn Avenue.
"When the officers got there, they found a young girl, 16 to be exact, suffering from an apparent gunshot wound to the head. The medics did pronounce her dead on the scene," said Detective Donny Moses, with the Baltimore City police.
It took a day to identify her as 16-year-old Ahjee Harrod of East Baltimore.
Within hours, word spread and thousands of people "liked" a memorial page on Facebook in her honor.
A family member, who did not want to be identified because she was worried about her own safety, said Ahjee was a student at the Baltimore Community High School who dreamed of becoming an actress.
"She just loved the power of words. She loved poetry ever since she was very little. We would just find pieces of balled up paper with her poems and her thoughts," her relative said.
But it's not clear when Ahjee last attended school.
"She had a few tough weeks, but it's all just part of growing up," the relative said.
But police said it was more than that. They said Ahjee was well-known to police and was reported missing months ago.
The family member said she talked to Ahjee on Saturday and told her to come home and to start going to school, but she said Ahjee hung up on her.
"And I never would think in a million years that would be the last time I hear her little voice because she was still a baby. I don't care what happened. She was still only 16," she said.
Family members said they have no idea why Ahjee might have been in Northwest Baltimore.
Baltimore city police are asking anyone who might know anything that could help them solve this case to contact them.
Meanwhile, homicide detectives are handling another fatal late-night shooting in northeast Baltimore.
Police said they found the unidentified victim around 9:30 p.m. Monday in the 600 block of Dumbarton Avenue. The man was taken to a hospital but did not survive.
There's no word yet on a suspect or motive in that case, either.

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Steps away from a replica of the revolutionary 1837 steel plow at tractor company John Deere's headquarters sits a combine as big as a tank and packed with computer wizardry that harvests huge volumes of valuable data as it gathers crops.
The original "plow that broke the plains" enabled American farms to grow massive swathes of wheat and corn with its lightness and durability. The modern machines are using data to take another giant step in efficiency and output.
But as big agricultural companies pour money into data storage and analytics tools that aim to turn micro detail on crops and furrow-by-furrow weather into more grain for less pain, concerns are growing about how the data might be used and how secure such a gold mine for traders is.
Now, at an unprecedented meeting on Thursday, the national independent farmers' group the American Farm Bureau Federation (AFBF) will try to hammer out guidelines with Deere and fellow industry heavyweights such as Monsanto and DuPont Pioneer - which together control nearly three-quarters of the U.S. corn seed market.
"Virtually every company says it will never share, sell or use the data in a market-distorting way - but we would rather verify than trust," farmer Brian Marshall of the AFBF told the U.S. House Committee on Small Business in February.
The data would be a gold mine to traders in commodity markets and could influence farmland values.
While there are no documented instances so far of data being misused, lengthy contracts packed with open-ended language and differing from one supplier to the next are fueling mistrust.
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John Deere's enterprise privacy statement, tucked away on its website at http://www.deere.com/wps/dcom/privacy_and_data/privacy_and_data_us.page, shows that the company can collect data on Deere equipment or any devices connected to it such as an iPad, unless the farmer opts out.
The list of the company's uses for that information includes customer service and marketing, but also "analytics." And data gathered by its machines can be retained by Deere indefinitely.
DuPont Pioneer says anonymized data, including yield and products used as well as GPS location information, can be used and disclosed by the company "for any purpose."
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John Deere has said precision services and its "intelligent solutions group" would be a major piece of doubling its size from a $25 billion company in 2010 to a $50 billion company by 2018.
Monsanto underscored its devotion to farm data analytics when it bought weather data-mining company the Climate Corporation in October, describing it as its "entry ticket into a $20 billion market opportunity."
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Already, feedback from crop tours organized to inspect the harvests are keenly watched and can move markets.
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Conservative principles of law-and-order and limited government clashed this morning in United States v. Comstock. At issue was the constitutionality of 18 U.S.C. § 4248, which provides for the federal government's civil commitment of sex offenders after they have served out their full sentences in federal prisons.
On the one hand, section 4248 keeps off the streets convicted sex offenders deemed by federal authorities to be a continuing threat when they otherwise would be released back into the state where they committed their offense. This much seems wise: if a state is unwilling to exercise its police and public welfare powers by rehabilitating its violent sexual offenders upon their release from federal prisons, the federal government surely shouldn't just let those deemed a continuing danger to society roam free among, well, society. This is the United States' position in Comstock.
On the other hand, section 4248 relies on provisions of the constitution that may not authorize such federal action, however wise or well-intentioned. Specifically, Comstock argues that the Commerce Clause and the Necessary and Proper Clause of Article I, both relied upon by Congress in creating section 4248, do not cover civil commitment of criminals when the federal government's power, through the prison sentence has been exhausted.
Solicitor General Elena Kagan rested her argument for the United States largely on the Necessary and Proper Clause, with barely a nod to the Commerce Clause. That much in itself was a victory for the late Chief Justice Rehnquist's "federalism revolution," which, to varying degrees of success, sought to limit the expansive reach of the Commerce Clause to issues more closely connected to interstate commerce than the permissive post-1937 Courts often allowed.
But only Justice Scalia truly seemed to believe that 4248 also strained the bounds of the Necessary and Proper Clause to maintain law and order. Justice Scalia looked to the text of the Necessary and Proper Clause, finding nowhere that it authorizes the federal government to act according to what is "necessary and proper for the good of society." Rather, he maintained that the clause enabled the federal government's actions that were necessary and proper to execute another power given to the federal government by the constitution itself. As such, he agreed with what would be the defendant's argument that the states and states alone are responsible federal prisoners whose sentences have run.
Kagan countered that indefinite civil commitment of sexual offenders under 4248 was necessary and proper to the "responsible exercise of operating the criminal justice system." On this point–that the federal government needed its own civil commitment regime as a "backstop" for when the state governments refused responsibility for released federal prisoners–Justices Alito and Breyer seemed sympathetic. They peppered G. Alan DuBois, a veteran federal public defender and counsel for Comstock, with hypotheticals about the constitutionality of the federal government's ability to deal with prisoners who grows more violent while in prison or, in the opposite instance, is injured in jail in an attack by another prisoner as his sentence ends. Per these and several other hypotheticals, Alito and Breyer both seemed to believe that the federal government does have the power to retain custody over prisoners that it deems dangerous to public health and safety, or to themselves, upon their scheduled release from federal custody.
As Justice Breyer persisted in exploring the federal government's power to set up, for example, national mental hospitals, Justice Scalia clutched his head in frustration: "No, No, No! The Issue is not setting up hospitals, it's detaining and committing people!" Scalia simply could not believe that any governor or state attorney general, upon receiving a note or a call from the federal government, would deny his or her obligation to civilly commit a sexual offender and rather face the electoral consequences of letting such a criminal roam the state without rehabilitation. Justice Stevens then took the opportunity to look at the statute from the opposite end of Scalia's looking glass, suggesting that the Court look to the wisdom of the statute and "assume there are cases out there that there is no solution" like Scalia's belief that all states would naturally accept responsibility for rehabilitating federal prisoners released within their borders.
But DuBois stood firm against Stevens', as well as Justice Ginsburg's, apparent approval of the federal "backstop" when states refuse to cooperate. Chief Justice Roberts tested DuBois's position, asking that "if a state says no" to receiving a released, but still dangerous, federal prisoner, "then the federal government says, 'you have to'?" DuBois dug in: "Yes, the Constitution requires it."
Scalia remained astonished that the other justices even entertained the federal government's claims of responsibility. Noting that states have involuntary commitment procedures, he wondered why the federal government could not simply fund an office that brings state proceedings for involuntary commitment. "They should do that!" Dubois actually shouted in reply. When Stevens tried to get the Court back to assessing whether 4248 itself was constitutional, Scalia shot back that the statute "isn't even necessary!"
Towards the end of the argument, Justice Sotomayor interjected with a compromise, asking DuBois if it would be constitutional for a judge to mandate civil commitment for a sexual offender during his trial's sentencing phase. If such a mandate contained protections to avoid turning indefinite commitment into interminable detention, then it would be constitutional, replied DuBois.
Sotomayor's trial-judge pragmatism may persuade all but Scalia (and possibly the ever-silent Justice Thomas) to side with public safety over rock-ribbed federalism and uphold 4248 as constitutional. If this happens, then Scalia, confronted with Sotomayor's aggressive questioning this term and her possible coup over his Melendez-Diaz decision in yesterday's Briscoe v. Virginia, may finally be meeting his match.
UPDATE: Read the official transcript here and use the comments section to call me out on my own transcription errors.
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If Sotomayor succeeds in fully overturning the silliness that is Melendez-Diaz, she will earn the "Wise Latina" title in my heart forever.
I have to ask. I am not a lawyer, but helped found a public interest law firm ( treatmentadvocacycenter.org ). We are family members of the mentally ill and work to try to enable some to get care "before" they become danger to self or others. (Existing law largely requires it).We are talking about a small group with a history of violence that is associated with going off medications. I have long believed that the Kendricks decision has application to the work we are doing, even though it was developed for SVPs. I.e, the Supreme Court has defined an easier to meet commitment standard that could have use to with helping the mentally ill get treatment. Am I wrong?
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In a move rarely seen in MLS circles, Toronto FC has asked Ali Gerba to leave the team's training camp in Charleston, South Carolina. The Canadian National Team forward will head back to Toronto.
"Ali's performance this pre-season has not been up to our expectations," said manager, director of soccer Mo Johnston in a statement released by Toronto FC on Tuesday morning. "We hold all our players to a high standard, and we think that the best thing for him is a few days away from the team. This will be addressed further when the team returns back to Toronto."
Gerba, a 28-year-old Canadian National Team forward, was signed by Toronto FC on June 23, 2009. He scored on his MLS debut on July 25 and that would stand as his only goal of the season. The native of Cameroon started in just five games last year.
"He's worked hard but his play was not up to scratch," Johnston told the CBC on Monday night.
Toronto FC is in Charleston for the Carolina Challenge Cup. Gerba played in the club's first match last Saturday, starting and lasting the opening half of a 0-0 tie against third division club Charleston Battery (USL 2nd Division).
While Gerba continues his preseason in Toronto, the MLS club will train in South Carolina through March 21, following two more matches against D.C. United and Real Salt Lake.


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Go ahead and gripe, Virginia faithful. Your Cavaliers gift-wrapped plenty of ammunition Saturday night.
But when you haven't won a football game in more than 10 months, booted your poet-laureate coach and last beat Duke three years ago, take anything you can get.
Virginia 34, Richmond 13.
Yes, it was ragged. And no, a certain band of Trojans isn't quaking in their Nikes.
But consider a few things.
Championship Subdivision pedigree aside, Richmond is not a pushover. Heck, the Cavaliers poached the Spiders' head coach, Mike London, for their very own after he guided Richmond to the 2008 national title and a 2009 playoff quarterfinal.
Moreover, Spiders quarterback Aaron Corp is a Southern California transfer — only a leg injury prevented him from beating out Matt Barkley for the starting job last season — and he was throwing into a secondary absent starting cornerback Ras-I Dowling and safety Rodney McLeod.
And after last season's 3-9 nosedive, which cost Al Groh his coaching gig and prompted his bizarre, copycatted-from-Bill-Parcells poetry reading, fans couldn't have expected a seamless opener.
Nor did they get it.
"We're not world beaters," London said with a smile.
Indeed, Dontrelle Inman's lost fumble, and two missed field goals, one each by Robert Randolph and Chris Hinkebein, and a sack of Marc Verica doomed four drives.
Offensive coordinator Bill Lazor temporarily forgot how the Cavaliers steamrolled the Spiders on the opening possession, when Perry Jones had runs of 38 and 5 yards, and Keith Payne rumbled for 10 and a 2-yard touchdown, the first of his four scores.
But a year after squandering its opener against William and Mary, Virginia owned the second half, outscoring Richmond 20-3.
Payne (114) and Jones (73) combined for 187 yards rushing, Verica threw for 283 (210 to Inman and Kris Burd), and LaRoy Reynolds had three tackles for loss, plus a stuffing of Kendall Gaskins on a third-quarter fourth-and-1.
"For the most part, London said, "I was satisfied."
The Cavaliers, he added, were aiming "to play a game (where) we don't self-destruct."
Hey, if a coach can't set the bar low in his first game, when can he?
London led Virginia onto the field at precisely 6 p.m., and 10 minutes later, Payne burrowed into the end zone. It was no-frills, I-formation, power football, which Lazor didn't rediscover until the third quarter, when Richmond drew within 14-13.
On consecutive plays Jones ran for 13 yards, Payne for 15, 13 and 15, and Raynard Horne for 3. Three snaps later, Payne scored from the 2.
"You could see they were kind of wearing out a little bit," London said.
Which is precisely what should happen when a Bowl Subdivision team faces a FCS opponent.
So when might we get an accurate gauge on these Cavaliers?
Next Saturday at Southern California? Doubtful. The Trojans have beaucoup athletes on offense and will be playing their first home game under Lane Kiffin and first since an offseason turned rancid by the Reggie Bush affair.
VMI? The Keydets' victory over Lock Haven on Saturday notwithstanding, they're no match for Virginia.
Florida State? The Cavaliers upset the Seminoles the last time the teams played in Charlottesville, in 2005, but the talent gap five years later is wider than Morgan Moses.
That brings us to Oct. 9 and 16, when Virginia plays consecutive games against Coastal Division rivals, at defending ACC champ Georgia Tech and home against perennial disappointment North Carolina.
The Cavaliers have won five of their last seven against the Yellow Jackets, including a 2008 upset in Atlanta. The Tar Heels haven't prevailed at Scott Stadium since 1981 and are hip-deep in allegations of academic fraud and improper benefits.
Those are fair fights and will leave Virginia halfway through a 12-game season.
As expected, the 2010 Cavaliers won't ever be world beaters. But for the first time since November 2008, Virginia has a winning record.
Enjoy it, fans, while you can.


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Why Use Social Bookmarking?Every time you add a bookmark to one of your pages in one of these sites you create a backlink. If you bookmark every piece of content you create in all of these sites you can build a lot backlinks over time. For best results, you want to make sure that the bookmarking sites provide a real, do-follow link. There is much debate as to whether or not no-follow links are still useful so I won't get into that here. However one thing you do want is a real link. Several sites don't provide real backlinks – they use their own form of dynamic link which does not count as a backlink.
One other thing to be aware of is that even though these are your personal bookmarks, you need to ensure that they are public – that way other people (Google really) can find them. But be careful, some bookmarking sites such as Connotea have a specific niche and probably wont appreciate your toenail clipping bookmarks.
Some Notable AdditionsThere are some bookmarking sites that are either nofollow or they use a dynamic link structure. However, leaving aside the nofollow debate for a moment, there is also a matter of traffic. If the content you are bookmarking is high quality then it could get votes from other readers and in the case of some of the big sites, getting your bookmark on the front page can result in massive amounts of traffic! In the case of particularly big sites such as Delicious, those bookmarks often get copied to many other places so one nofollow link in delicious could actually result in about a dozen links elsewhere though this tends to happen only with popular links.
In this situation I'd recommend submitting to these sites also, and just forget about whether or not they follow!
How to Bookmark For SEOThe purpose of this exercise is to generate backlinks to our content pages that help them rank better in Google. I'll assume that each piece of content is optimised for some keyword. There are usually three places where you can add information for SEO:
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|Snow Pack
|Written by Matt Ryan
One of the best weather making operations to perform is the building of snowpacks. Throughout the West rivers, streams, creeks and reservoirs all depend upon the snowpack for their year's water. Beginning in the early winter, periodic rainmaking operations are done to influence snow buildup in the major mountain ranges – Cascades, Sierras, Rockies -- and all intervening mountains and highlands.
This approach is very effective as we have demonstrated in winter operations in Montana , Idaho , Oregon , California and New Mexico .
Scientists attributed this growing glacier to a unique over-abundance of snow on Mt Shasta in the recent years past, unlike, for some reason, the rest of the extensive chain of Sierra and Cascade glaciers.
I moved here in July of 1992. That month began the 7th water year in a row in drought, extremely severe at that point with water rationing throughout the state. By the end of that winter season, however, Northern California had experienced one of its greatest water years on record, every reservoir and storage facility in the entire state was filled.
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day 52:
According to our growth charts, Limi may discover that she has hands and feet at around this stage. This is a big deal because up until this point, eyes and hands have done their own thing: eyes looking in one direction, while hands move randomly in another (feet don't even feature!). If we have any hope that she will one day be the first girl to play for the national South African/ Australian/ English cricket team (depending on how good she is..in that order :)...then hand-eye co-ordination is a necessary skill....okay well maybe not, in all cases!
The science says that: 'newborns are unaware that their hands and feet are part of their bodies. Most of the time, their hands are outside of their vision, and they are not even aware of them. To hot-house this hand-eye co-ordination, you should encourage them to grasp rattles.' The theory is that their automatic gripping reflex, will mean that they grasp and shake the rattle, look for the noise and then voila...see their own hand! You can then throw the rattle out of the window because their hands will become their new, most fascinating toy. Waving them in front of their face in amazement.
Well, hands have not been a problem, Limi discovered their chewability a few weeks ago and has been trying to gain control of them ever since. Not always successfully...as she still often pokes herself in the eye or punches herself in the nose!
Feet on the other hand, have remained an out-of-vision enigma. This may be because for the majority Winter, they have been encased in fabric....not exactly enticing fascination. I have tried to encourage things with endless games of 'This Little Piggy', even making things more topical by Piggy 1, being a tie-dye, t-shirt selling, market-stall owner, Piggy 2, showing agoraphobic tendencies and Piggy 4, being vegetarian.....but this has only resulted in Limi looking on (whilst chewing on her favoured left fist) with mild interest.
But today....she made the great discovery! There was a definite moment of: 'Hey, I have a foot..hey there are two of them! And they have grabbable 'pigs'....Now I know what she was on about!' This was followed by some intense attempts to grab them. Hand-eye-foot co-ordination! (Painful to watch...but ridiculously cheered by myself when she succeeded....in a cheerleader-leaping-clapping sort of way!)
Anyway, we wait with anticipation for the next step.....discovering the double-whammy of fist/toe chewing. After that, we will start with some fancy, face-on, footwork training!


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This post is also Part 2 of my Balance of Nature Page. If you would like to read both parts, you will find the Page along the top menu. Although various British woodlands are mentioned here, I took all the photos in … Continue reading


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The Sony PlayStation Network is currently suffering some downtime, with all Sony Online Network services unavailable for use.
Although Sony has posted a blog post saying that it is not yet sure what has caused the outage, speculation is already rife that Anonymous is behind it.
The anonymous collective is the group behind the website attacks in support of Wikileaks some weeks ago, and recently named Sony as its next target.
Sony's European blog manager, James Gallagher, didn't rule out the possibility of outside interference, writing: "Our support teams are investigating the cause of the problem, including the possibility of targeted behaviour by an outside party.
"If the reported Network problems are indeed caused by such acts, we would like to once again thank our customers who have borne the brunt of the attack through interrupted service."
Sony invoked Anonymous' ire by legally pursuing PS3 hacker George Hotz and "violat[ing] the privacy of thousands" in the process; the case has since been settled out of court.
So, as you head off for your long weekend at half five, spare a thought for the poor Sony engineers working overtime while you enjoy the sun.


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However, they are NOT there to bring you beer.
So please don't call them to make a beer run for you.
A Blog detailing the insanity of my medical practice and the stupidity of everyday life.
One of our regulars recently called to report somebody stole his wallet. When we got to his house, he said he wanted us to go get him chicken wings.
Don't you wish you could cuff him? (On the side of the head?)
"I don't get it. It worked in the commercial. And the EMTs were all beautiful girls in bikinis."
"But it's so much colder when an emergency vehicle brings it, since they don't have to stop at any lights."
That's the worst thing since the Tastes Great/Less Filling Riots of 1987.
"I offered them twenty dollars and some change to sit with me, and they didn't go for it, so I figured, maybe if I have some beer..."
"Mayday, Mayday!"
This is the Coast Guard, what is your emergency?
"We're out of bait."
massive entitlement-itis
That's awesome. I guess officers could supplement their incomes in times like this.
If he was one of your patients, he'd have called you and asked for a prescription for beer to be called in to a pharmacy that delivers.
I never got asked to run for beer, but got a couple requests to supervise parents wanting to give their kid (and his friends) some alcohol.
Um...so many ways no, lady.
Little Calf Creamery. Delicious homemade ice cream and food in Thousand Oaks!


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The artist states, "Madison in the 1960's was a Midwest way station between San Francisco, Berkeley and Greenwich Village for a tidal wave of rebellion and cultural evolution.
The 602 Club had become by then the watering hole for artists, activists, literati, intellectuals, and a mixed bag of scholars and misfits from all disciplines. It was also one of the early public gathering spots on Friday and Saturday nights for the gay community of Madison, and the University Art Department faculty meetings generally ended up there as well. It was an exhilarating scene--the characters were iconoclastic, the mood rowdy, and the conversation heady. Proclamations rang out, and the closer to closing time, the grander (and louder) they became.
I tended bar there during my undergraduate years, very early in my photographic career. While serving schooners, mixing drinks and making change, I was shooting with a 35mm Nikon SP in what little there was of available light. I was twenty-two, ignorant, arrogant, idealistic, and ambitious. And along with most everyone else, drinking way too much. Just home from two years in France and Germany studying French and German literature and philosophy, I was enchanted by the diversity of people and the sophistication of wit and language on all sides. It was this enchantment that stimulated me to record the raw power of the personalities, the physical beauty of the people, and the exotic ambiance of the 602 Club. This exhibit is my record of that time and place."
This exhibit offers rare interior images of a Wisconsin bar during this era. It also offers a window into a pre-Stonewall Midwestern gay gathering place. During the 1950s and 60s, The 602 Club was one of the few public places LGBTQ folk were welcomed to gather in Madison. To date, we do not have a similar photographic record of any other Madison LGBTQ meeting place during the 1950s & 60s.
This exhibition is presented by the Wisconsin Union Directorate Art Committee and generously supported by the University of Wisconsin-Madison College of Letters and Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison Archives, Madison LGBTQ Archive, the Madison Reunion, the Conference On Madison In The Sixties, Tamarack Studio and Gallery, and University Housing.


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Scottish Songs
Auid lang syne (1)
From "A Song-book of Folk and Pop Music"
by Mario Papa & Giuliano Iantorno, Zanichelli Editore, Bologna, 1977
Should old acquaintance be forgot
And never brought to mind?
Should old acquaintance be forgot
And days of auld lang syne?
And days of auld lang syne, my dear,
And days of auld lang syne,
Should ald acquaintance be forgot
And days of auld lang syne?
And there's a hand, my trusty friend,
And gi's (2) a hand o'thine' (3),
We'll take a cup o'kindness yet,
For auld lang syne.
For auld lang syne, my dear,
For auld lang syne,
We'll take a cup o'kindness yet,
For auld lang syne.
1. This song was oríginally written by Robert Burns in Scots. It means, in English, 'old days gone by'. The music was an old Scottish tune. The famous poet, born in Scotland, wrote about three hundred original and traditional songs, both in the Scots dialect and in standard English. People in Britain generally sing this song on special occasions such as New Year's Eve when they gather eíther at home or in the local pubs and enjoy their glasses of whisky or beer!
2. Gi's: give us.
3. O'thine: of thine; thine: yours (old use).
The News Chronicle Song Book gives an easier alternative, 'A Smile', which may be sung to the tune of 'Auld lang syne'.
A Smile
A smile is quite a funny thing,
It wrinkles up your face,
And when it's gone you'll never find
Its secret hiding piace.
But far more wonderful it is
To see what smiles can do,
You smile at one, he smiles at you,
And so one smile makes two.
Robert Burns (1759-1796)
Robert Burns, Scotland's national poet, was born in 1759 at Alloway, in a cottage which now ís a Burns museum. Robbie Burns' Night, the date of the poet's birth, is celebrated all over the world by Scotsmen. Burns had a great capacìty for love, friendship, and hearty tavern fellowship, and these attitudes provide the chief themes of his poetry. The song 'A Red, Red Rose' is an example of the poet's qualities.
A Red Red Rose
O my love is like a red red rose,
That's newly sprung in June;
O my love is like the melody,
That's sweetly played in tune.
As fair are you, my bonnie lass (1),
So Jeep in love am I;
And I will love you still, my dear
Till all the seas go dry.
Till all the seas go dry, my dear,
And the rocks melt with the sun;
And I will love you still, my dear,
Whíle the sands of life shall run.
And fare you well, my only love!
And fare you well a while;
And I will come again, my love,
Though it were ten thousand mile.
R. Burns
(1) Lass: girl


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LETTER- Give thanks for higher water rates
As a long-time resident of Albemarle County, I am delighted that water prices are rising. ["County to sell less water, hike rates 12+%," online March 19; print March 26]
Finally, people residing here will realize that water is a precious, non-renewable resource. The only way to draw attention to water conservation is to "tap" consumers in their pockets. With rising population here, water is a finite resource, and it must be respected for all to share.
Diane LaSauce
Free Union
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non-renewable resource????
What about rain?
If the RWSA has their way and builds their 112'dam and up-hill pipeline for $200 million you will be able to be a complete water hog and not have to conserve an ounce--but to pay for their ocean of water your rates will go a lot higher than 12%. Remember the more you conserve the higher your rates --it has nothing to do with preserving a valuable resource it's all about RWSA paying their bills
I have to disagree with the letter writer. Raising the price for people who conserved just shows everyone that it makes little difference to their pocketbooks whether they conserve of not. Saving money would have been a great incentive to conserve. The message that has been sent now is that conservations is largely pointless.
I put a quarter under my pillow each night to pay the well fairy to fill my well with water.
I put $3.00 under my pillow each night.
At the end of the month I take it all out and pay my city water bill.
From October to April I have to toss in another $5.00 to $8.00 each night to pay the city for gas heat.
I was born and raised there and i left about the time this lady arrived. I had no idea they had public water in Free Union.But let me just guess. This women came down here with big money otherwise she wouldn't be in Free Union. Any hike in fees wouldn't hurt her lifestyle in the least. If she even would get a rate hike. How about cutting salaries on the boards and directors that run these operations. I feel it's a shame that you have to be a mega millionaire to live in Albemarle County and have some privacy. All the "planners" want to cram everybody together. They'd rather have them next door to each other then have huge common areas. How about going back to 2 acre division rights and having people process their own waste instead of pumping it to sespools next to rivers!


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Psychology in Society
On-line version ISSN 2309-8708
Print version ISSN 1015-6046
Psychol. Soc. n.41 Durban Jan. 2011
A clinic in the "real"
Bert Olivier
Philosophy Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University Port Elizabeth
Parker, I (2011) Lacanian psychoanalysis: Revolutions in subjectivity. London & New York: Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-45543-5 pbk. Pages ix + 238.
If Ian Parker's published work has created a certain level of expectation in his readers, his latest book will not disappoint them. Not only does he come across as someone who "knows his Lacan" (and, incidentally, his Marx), but also perhaps chiefly so here as a knowledgeable, practicing Lacanian psychoanalyst, who is aware of the potential "therapeutic value" of analysis for analysands who are willing to confront their own alienation under capitalism, and in the process question their own understanding of, and relationship with, power. At the same time Parker is clearly someone who is under no illusion about any supposedly direct translation of the "return to themselves" of analysands under clinical conditions, into social and political action outside the clinic. No doubt his familiarity with Marx and Marxism is a contributing factor in this regard. His understanding of the relationship between the two kinds of "revolution", alone, makes this book worth reading, and re-reading.
It is impossible to do justice to the richness and intellectual complexities of the book in the limited space of a book-review, hence I shall have to be selective regarding what strikes me as being most important among the many themes and questions tackled here. It is therefore important to note that, in the Introduction, Parker articulates, rather densely, the structure of a Lacanian psychoanalytic session, in the process indirectly imparting insight into the conception of the subject that underpins this practice, notably, that it is a "lacking", rather than a "full" subject. As such it corresponds with the absences and indeterminacy that characterize the Lacanian psychoanalytic session.
One might add, here, that Parker also draws attention to the (significant) "desubstantialization" of concepts that one encounters in Lacanian psychoanalysis, which subverts the all-too-human tendency of reifying events and processes. Throughout, by the judicious (if repetitive) use of "-ising" (e.g. "psychiatrising", or "hystericising"), he reminds his readers in Lacanian (and, as it happens, Deleuzian) fashion that subjectivity (in fact, the world) is always in process. In this respect he remains true to Lacan's contention, that human knowledge has a "paranoiac" structure, of which, by implication, the psychoanalyst will assist analysands in disabusing themselves, at least as far as their own subjectivity is concerned.
Not surprisingly, therefore, Parker shatters any illusions that might exist on the part of readers, that the Lacanian psychoanalyst in any way pledges his or her assistance to the client in helping them "adapt" to (alienated) capitalist society. In a manner reminiscent of Husserlian phenomenological reductions and the "epoché", he shows how the quest for Lacanian psychoanalysis pares away those alienating, ideological layers covering up the space where a disruptive, dislocating (but desirable) encounter with the limits of our symbolic horizons can occur. He broaches the historical construction of psychoanalysis as theory, as well as of psychoanalysis in the clinic, and points to the link between "revolutions in subjectivity", enabled by psychoanalytic "working through", and social revolutions such as those prompted by Marxism and feminism.
To the less historically-minded among his readers, it may come as a revelation, that psychoanalysis has, since its inception, been entangled with psychiatry as far as diagnostic categories and treatment are concerned, and continues to have a fraught relationship with it, the present signs of distancing itself from it notwithstanding. Parker's informed discussion of the reductive effects on the individual (regarding sex and pathology) that accompany the ambiguous relationship between psychiatry as medical treatment and psychoanalysis as "talking cure", should alert readers to the fact that such reductions ultimately serve the theoretical and practical governance of the individual in contemporary society. Instead, he cautions against the fatal reduction of pathology to the individual, turning instead to Lacan's insistence on the role of the signifier (and therefore, dominant societal discourses) which surpasses the individual in the pathologization of the subject.
Put simply, if I understand him correctly, Parker is saying that, as long as the individual is pathologized, and "medical" psychiatry can extend "treatment" to her or him, the fact of pathology being a function of an alienated society can be conveniently overlooked and the social, economic and political status quo maintained. And neither is it simply a (liberating) matter of following Lacan's insight into the subject-constitutive role of the signifier; as Parker (like Foucault) intimates; today, to a large degree, it is in the discursive domain where individuals are exhorted to look for "sexual meaning", and where the regulation of individual behaviour continues unabated. The task facing Lacanian psychoanalysis is indeed formidable, and as one discovers in the course of reading this complex, but illuminating book crucially involves the Lacanian "real" as that (the only thing) which can have a significant impact on the symbolic structures in which subjects are enmeshed.
One of the most interesting insights encountered in the book is that concerning the tacit complicity of psychiatry with feudal structures the psychiatrist as Hegelian feudal master which are perpetuated in psychiatric practice, and which psychoanalysis has the task of combating via a Lacanian discursive understanding of the relations between signifiers, together with a historical conception of "structure" as a function of the system of signifiers.
One cannot help noticing the compatibility between Parker's argument here and that of Foucault (whom he acknowledges) regarding normalization and pathologization of individuals through discourse. One could perhaps take issue with him on his claim that the tension between the signifier and the dominant discourse is embedded in a historical process rather than the "underlying structure of the mind". Is the latter solely a function of historical scientific or discursive preoccupations, or is it (discursively) conceived in relation to discernible functions of the mind under (any) historical circumstances? It is no accident that one finds counterparts to Lacan's three registers the imaginary, the symbolic and the real in other thinkers' models of the mind (Kant's forms of intuition, space and time, as well as the productive imagination, the understanding, and the noumenon or thing-in-itself come to mind). These seem to be suggested by the common human capacities of intuition/perception, conceptualization and the awareness that this is not-all, that something surpasses their domain. Hence, I would argue that "structure" is both: it is functionally suggested by cognitive operations of the mind, themselves unavoidably discursively articulated, which means that they are always already historically mediated.
Parker leaves no doubt that the practice of ("hard-core") Lacanian psychoanalysis is difficult, in that it constantly has to face a host of challenges and temptations. It has to resist biological or neurological reductionism, the tendency to pathologize subjects as "patients" through a proliferation of diagnostic categories, and the danger ever present in Lacan's emphasis on the signifier of lapsing into an idealism, instead of being attentive to the "materiality of the signifier" (as evident in representations of the body as its effects). In all of this, the refusal of, and resistance to, psychiatry and normalizing psychology on the part of psychoanalysis as a revolutionary practice of/on the subject, is highlighted. There is a concomitant vigilance, however, against the alltoo-easy conjoining of the space of the clinic and that of political praxis, that is, of the revolutionary self-questioning by the subject and a revolutionary remaking of society. It is only by focusing and working on the former, Parker argues, that the Lacanian psychoanalyst may hope for change in the latter.
Where Parker outlines the way that psychology has developed into an alternative to psychiatry, in the process assimilating material from it as well from psychoanalysis, his exposé of "psychologization" as a process which accompanied the rise of capitalism in so far as it produces the ideological subject required by capital is especially valuable. This subject is the (supposedly) "free", aggressively competitive, workerentrepreneur. Here psychology replaces politics and, via strategies of mental health, effectively limits social change and promotes the compliance-inducing bureaucratization of society. Particularly illuminating, in this context, is Parker's account of Lacan's critique of the concept of identity, regarding both institutional wars and Lacan's own evolving theory. He helps one understand why Lacan's insistence on the "differential work of language" is revolutionary in as far as, through analysis, it subverts "identity", and with it, the kind of individual required by capitalist power. This, in turn, connects with the subtleties, foregrounded by Parker, of Lacan's nuanced understanding of life under capitalism in terms of the "hystericization of truth", as where he is careful to note Lacan's refusal to think literally in gendered terms: both men and women can, and do, "conform obsessionally" to the established order (a "male" thing), and similarly, both women and men can, and do, "resist (the status quo) hysterically" (a "female" thing).
Parker does not refrain from addressing the difficult question concerning the conception of the good in relation to psychology, nor that of the psychoanalytical approach to ethical issues. As intimated before, but worth repeating, one of the strengths of this book is the way it highlights the complicity between psychology and the dominant economic order of capitalism, within which psychology plays the role of "restoring individuals", who are constantly split between their reifying relation with capital and their potentially creative, but betrayed and neutralized, relation with their own labour power. It is under these economic conditions that the exemplary ("male") psychological subject, the obsessional neurotic, is produced.
In his illuminating discussion of alienation in terms of Lacan's notion of the "real", Parker simultaneously indicates what important role Lacanian psychoanalysis plays under conditions of capitalism. Subjects who have access to it via the clinic would be afforded occasions of self-understanding, in relation to their alienation under the dominant system, which may clear the way for corresponding action.
It would surprise many psychologists and students of psychology to learn that the psychotherapy they offer potential clients merely serves to reinforce the ideological conception of the alienated "capitalist" individual, and that, by contrast, the kind of psychotherapy that Lacanian psychoanalysis may lead to, is, at best, indirect. At the same time Parker issues a timely warning, that the fashionable (but ideological) valorization of the protean, supposedly "postmodern" subject plays right into the hands of powerful economic and political forces which benefit substantially from its behaviour.
It is in this light that Parker's characterization of the space of the (Lacanian) clinic must finally be understood, namely, as a clinic in/of the "real", with a paradoxical, "extimate" relation to (exterior and yet intimately connected with) society. On the one hand, it is predicated on a theory of social revolution outside the clinic, and on the other, it simultaneously enables a revolution in subjectivity inside the clinic as a site of refusal, but a refusal of a contingently organized society, one that bears the imprint of capitalism.
This does not imply a direct causal relationship between the revolution in subjectivity (with its echoes of Kristeva) that may happen within the clinic, and a potential social and political revolution outside of it. But precisely because the subject of Lacanian psychoanalysis is enabled, or perhaps provoked, into questioning her own relationship with power, any participation in the revolutionary transformation of social reality is "prepared for" at the level of individual subjectivity. And to this end the clinic of/in the "real" that is, a clinic oriented by "hard-core" Lacanian psychoanalysis can contribute in a major way. I recommend this book by Ian Parker unreservedly: it may just contribute to the kinds of revolution that it thematizes so eloquently and persuasively.


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By Eliot Van Buskirk, Evolver.fm
Do you make music? Is it any good? No matter – you, too, can build your own music app in just a few minutes to unleash on an unsuspecting populace.
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Conduit Mobile, the app-building company behind the Waka Flocka Flame app and other major-label apps, just made it possible for any musician to create their own music app in minutes using a simple wizard, and it does everything that Conduit's major-label apps do.
The kicker: You can pay (almost) whatever you want for this, thanks to a pricing-optional Radiohead-style publicity stunt announced Thursday, starting at $1/month in return for unlimited installs.
To find out how Conduit's artist app builder really worked, I dug up some old MP3s from my solo project, Planet Vegas, and built my own music app this morning.
It only took a few minutes to build the HTML5 version, which is fairly rudimentary in my case, but you can make them more elaborate if you want (see modules to the right). You can try it here.
Building my own artist app really couldn't have been much easier than it was with Conduit. You can include a number of elements: social network feeds, RSS feed, music (of course), tour dates, photos, videos, contact information, reviews, web links, a map and even a link that lets fans call you on the phone, if you dare.
Pick a style, upload a background image and select a color palette. Then it's time to name your app and fill out a description, and boom, you're done.
If you have recorded some music and you want your own app, it's hard to see how this service wouldn't be worth at least $1 per month. However, we do offer some caveats for those considering it.
First, Conduit doesn't host any of your band's large media files for this low price; instead, it relies on your use of outside services to handle most of the stuff in the module. You'll need to upload your music to SoundCloud, Beatport, your RSS feed or any other location on the internet, and your videos to YouTube, Vimeo, RSS or another internet location. That's to be expected, considering the cost of hosting large media files for streaming to an unlimited number of users.
Also, your $1 per month or more payment to Conduit only covers the creation of an HTML5 web app, which users can bookmark on their phones and use as they would any other app, replete with an icon on the home screen (if they're clever enough to figure out how to do that). If you want to turn your creation into an official iOS, Android or Windows Phone app, you'll need a developer's account with Apple ($99), Google ($25) or Microsoft ($99) respectively.
Finally, and this is really a nitpick, the app defaults to your Twitter feed upon launch; it would be nice to have the ability to build a fancy splash screen, instead of presenting your fans with a bunch of random news updates right off the bat. But did we mention this only costs a minimum of $1 per month?


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