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- Men on Reddit lamented receiving socks, cologne and toiletries for Christmas
- Posters suggested coffee, liquor, beer and electronics as worthy alternatives
- Some recommended being happy with what you get, as it's the thought that counts
Fretting over what holiday gift to get the hard-to-shop-for man in your life on Black Friday? Well, so were the users of the social media site Reddit this week. A post asked: "Who thinks 'Mens Gift Ideas' are always super lame? Men of reddit what lame 'guy' gifts are you tired of receiving? How would you edit these lists your wives, mothers, sisters are reading?"
Posters listed everything from cologne to mugs in their catalog of terrible man-gifts. They also shared which items will bring grins instead of groans. See the gallery above for the best gift ideas for men. Below are10 of the worst presents you can give, according to Reddit users:
Worst gifts for men:
1. Underwear
"Boxers and socks. It's nice to get them, don't get me wrong, but I like a heartfelt present too," posted TheGreatGingerOaf.
2. Beard oil
Men should use this facial hair conditioner, "Only if you have a performance grade beard," said Toribor.
3. Calendars
"Please, no Page-A-Day Calendars focused on something that I mentioned in passing that I had a slight interest in eight months ago," complained khdutton.
4. Cologne
"I have an entire shelf in my medicine cabinet dedicated to the various colognes I've received as gifts. I do not need a bottle every single year," said Beholdereye.
5. Golf-themed items
"My grandfather spent at least a decade getting nothing but tacky golf-themed calendars and knick-knacks. He must have been the king of white elephant parties," recalled Tadhgdagis.
6. Soaps and toiletries
"No one, men or women, want (uninvited) toiletries for a gift. The End," noted 7719.
7. Knickknacks
"Everyone hates those gift sets they have at Dillards and other department stores where you can get a mini golf ball polishing machine for your desk or a mini fishing rod to carry around," contended fishrocksyoursocks.
8. Candy
"I've got christmas candy going back a few years in the cupboard," said Walletau.
9. Flasks
"I own four flasks. I consider myself a moderate-to-heavy drinker, but this is overkill," said ReluctantRedditor275.
10. Handkerchiefs
"It's never appealed to me to put a snotty rag back in my pocket for later use," explained uk_bloke.
But Reddit user JoshuaRWillis summed up a recurring sentiment: It's the thought that counts. "If someone cares enough about me to buy me a gift with at least an attempt made in getting me something they think I'd like, I'm a happy man. The easier it was for them, the better," he wrote.


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With a name that triggers in your mind the name of his hip-hop group (Foreign Legion) and a storefront design that makes you think it's an Irish pub that's been there for years - Zack Turner's recently opened The Legionnaire Saloon on Telegraph Ave. between 23rd and Grand, also has the feel of a bar that's been there for years. However this latest Oakland music bar/club only opened at the start of March this year, in the space formerly occupied by gay bar Club Paradiso, but since then has taken off big time and established itself as an important component of the vibrant Uptown District nightlife scene of Oakland with entertainment (with a lot of love for the DJ including hosting The 45 Sessions) ranging from hip-hop to rock, comedy to burlesque, and (yes) even Irish traditional music nights.
The Legionnaire Saloon is the lifelong dream of Zack Turner (AKA talented hip-hop emcee Prozack Turner) the former co-owner of Oakland's Layover bar/club and member of longtime Bay Area hip-hop act Foreign Legion. In fact a few weeks ago he and Foreign Legion partner in rhyme Marc Stretch, along with current DJ Tim Diesel, performed upstairs at the venue during the premiere presentation of the monthly Blunt Club Oakland. Even though Zack and his wife just had their first born (a baby boy named Cassius) about a week earlier (Marc Stretch became a new dad a week later) Zack was full of energy and seemed like the happiest man on the planet or at least in the room. At the end of the above interview video is a short clip of Foreign Legion that night doing their 2002 single "Happy Drunk" which, with its references to drinking and partying in Oakland, seemed it was prematurely written as the theme song for Turner's new bar.


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The Recreation Vehicle Dealers Association (RVDA) contends that its hands are tied with regard to the issue of RV manufacturers being forced — under various circumstances — to buy back product from dealers.
So the national trade association, based in Fairfax, Va., isn't taking a concrete stand one way or the other in what is becoming a major issues within the RV industry.
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In a March 9 letter to RVDA President Mike Molino, Richard Coon, president of the Recreation Vehicle Industry Association (RVIA), asked RVDA to support amending or defeating "buy back" legislation pending in 17 states, warning that RV manufacturers and dealers alike could be put out of business by the slew of legislation.
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At issue are what RVIA characterizes as onerous provisions requiring inventory, in some cases regardless of age, to be repurchased by manufacturers "with or without cause," along with "blue sky" requirements that would mandate manufacturers to compensate dealers for the value of their businesses and "facilities assistance" for up to three years.
"The dealers in the different states will take initiatives (that) we will support, possibly reinforce, at their request," Troutt told RVBusiness. "But we do not think it is appropriate to take initiatives as a national dealer organization that would cause dealers in different states to have to abide by some 'law' that they didn't initiate or address themselves within their states. It's a state's rights thing.
"I'm not aware of any (dealer) who disagrees with that."
RVDA Treasurer Andy Heck, president of Alpin Haus, Amsterdam, N.Y., said coordinating state laws would be too large a task for RVDA to muster.
"Each state has different laws," Heck said. "(Buy back laws) just happen to be one of them. For RVDA to get involved at the state level would be a gigantic task."
Debbie Brunoforte, RVDA 1st vice chairman and owner of Little Dealer, Little Prices in Mesa, Ariz., said dealers are "reasonable (and) fair-minded" and that manufacturers should communicate directly with dealers about state laws that concern them.
"The difference between RVIA and RVDA is that most of the manufacturers are in Indiana and a couple of other places," Brunoforte said. "Yet, (RVs) are retailed throughout the entire country. So RVIA has to have a more political view and I understand that. At RVDA, we have dealers in every single state, and we've always felt that dealers in a particular state should choose how they want to do business."
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Other agencies making presentations are the Treasury Department, Secretary of State, Department of Cultural Resources, Department of Information Technology, Office of Energy and Planning, New Hampshire Retirement System and a number of state boards.
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The Alessi Research Centre (CSA) was set up in 1990 for two purposes: to draw up theoretical papers on topics associated with objects (to be published as books), and to coordinate work with young designers. Up until that time Alessi had only worked with "major designers", and I felt a certain degree of responsibility towards young, upcoming designers. Alberto Alessi
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OLD HICKORY, Tenn.—The 15th-ranked women's golf team finished second in the BSC/Centre/Rhodes Tri-Match on Sunday at The Hermitage Golf Course.
The Panthers carded a team score of 351, led by sophomore Kaleigh Toole with 86, which tied her for fourth overall. No. 4 Centre College finished first with a score of 339, led by individual winner Emily Bachert with 81.
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Chelsea Reiter (24 and a veterinary student) and Dillon Lohmer (25 and a commercial airline pilot) outfitted their romantic garden nuptials in ethereal shades of plum, white and green with glam pops of gold.
Guests received Bee Bomb seed balls and birdseed favors made by a local company that employs workers of all abilities to create eco-friendly products. "In addition to thanking our guests for celebrating with us, we wanted to make a larger impact and give back to the environment," Chelsea says.
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The mother of the bride hand-folded 1,000 origami cranes that were used throughout the escort card display and reception. "The cranes are a Japanese tradition, symbolizing loyalty, nobility and beauty," Chelsea says.
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I see that the California Initiative For Internet Privacy (CIFIP) is turning up the heat on Google and other search engine provides with threats of legislative campaigns or a push for a ballot initiative regulating data collection.
When it comes to the contentious issue of data retention, search companies are basically damned if they do and damned if they don't. That is, if they DO collect / retain search terms and records, the privacy zealots go crazy and run to Rep. Ed Markey (or, in this case, California legislators) and ask for new laws strictly limiting what can be collected / retained.
On the other hand, if they DO NOT collect / retain any of this info, then the "law and order" / "we must protect the children" crowd in Congress and state AG offices start breathing fire down their necks and demand *mandatory* data preservation / retention, potentially for lengthy periods of time (and for quite a bit of information).
How in the world is Google (or any other search provider or even ISP) supposed to balance those conflicting policy goals? I have no idea, but there is no doubt that this will be one of the top technology policy issues over the coming year. (For our perspectives on the data retention debate, see these TLF essays by Jim, Hance and me.)


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When Cambodia recently staged a national film festival, serious drama was in gruesomely short supply: almost half the entries were low-budget horror flicks.
It wasn't always thus.
In the 1960s, now-retired King Norodom Sihanouk was not only the patron of a Cambodian film industry, he was one of its most active practitioners. He wrote, directed and even acted in his own high-minded if formulaic romances and tragedies.
More than 300 Cambodian films were made during that vibrant era, some well-received in other Asian countries.
But when the communist, puritanical Khmer Rouge regime came to power in the mid-1970s it banned all kinds of entertainment and smashed cameras and film-making equipment.
As the country's spirit began to recover from the Khmer Rouge era, and economic revival took hold in the early 1990s, the industry began to rebound. More than 100 production houses sprang up, mostly using video equipment to churn out movies on a shoestring.
But most of them collapsed because of their amateurism, and the industry is still struggling to recover its former glory.
These days, about five movie making companies have the expertise and strong finances to succeed, said Chheng Sovanna, head of the Culture Ministry's movie production office.
``Most of them are accidental producers, who just spent US$3,000 on a camera, bought some tapes, turned on the light and started shooting,'' said Chheng Sovanna, himself a director who graduated from Russia's State Institute of Cinematography. ``We don't understand the way they make movies.''
And the filmmakers lean more toward anarchy than artistry on screen.
At the recent festival, a typical movie featured a female vampire baring her canine teeth in a grin as she looked for prey. In Nieng Arp, or Lady Vampire, a flying female head with internal organs dangling beneath it chased a terrified couple in the dark.
Nine of the festival's 22 entries were in a similar vein.
``We make movies to suit the domestic market and the demand of our youths,'' said Korm Chanthy, the manager of FCI Productions, which made Nieng Arp.
``They like to watch horror movies because they make them feel excited, thrilled and terrified,'' he said.
The government wasn't impressed. The filmmakers ``injected too much hallucination and superstition'' into their work, complained Culture Minister Prince Sisowath Panara Sirivuth.
``Their understanding of moviemaking is that it's just business,'' he said. ``And they have this misperception that, without training, they can still make movies.''
The government has touted the idea of establishing a film school, but in a country so poor and reliant on foreign aid as Cambodia the idea is unlikely to get off the ground anytime soon.
Producer, 29-year-old Heng Tola, was looking to diversify his computer business when he founded Campro three years ago with several friends.
Making a movie takes Campro about three months and costs an average of US$30,000, including about US$1,000 for the lead actor, he said.
Despite the current taste for horror movies, Heng Tola believes a more serious trend is emerging, prompted in part by the resentment many Cambodians feel about its colonial past and toward domineering neighbors such as Thailand and Vietnam.
One of the festival entries was a nationalistic epic about a peasant protest against high tax imposed by Cambodia's colonial rulers, the French.


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Mopti (Mali): Mali`s military and French forces have pushed toward the Islamic extremist stronghold in the city of Gao, in their farthest push east since launching an operation two weeks ago to retake land controlled by the rebels, residents and a security official said on Friday.
The soldiers were seen in the town of Hombori, according to residents, who said they stayed several hours in the area before heading back westward.
"They were in eight all-terrain vehicles and two armored vehicles," said Maouloud Daou, a resident of Hombori. "They asked us if there were Islamists in the town and we told them they had left. People were very happy to see the Malian and French military."
A Malian security official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to journalists, confirmed the advance.
Hombori is located 150 kilometres beyond the current line of control in Douentza, which came back under government forces earlier in the week.
The eastward push puts them just 250 kilometres away from Gao, one of the three main northern cities held by Islamists since last April when the rebels took advantage of the chaotic aftermath of a coup in Mali`s capital.
Malian soldiers are attempting to recapture northern Mali from the Islamic extremists with the help of the French military and troops from other African nations.
The Islamists have retreated from several cities in central Mali following a barrage of French air strikes, but the extremists still control the north including Gao, Kidal and Timbuktu.
The French currently have some 2,400 forces in the country and have said that they will stay as long as needed in Mali, a former French colony. However, they have called for African nations to take the lead in fortifying the Malian army`s efforts.
There are currently some 1,750 troops from countries in the region, including Togo, Nigeria, Burkina Faso, Benin, Senegal, Niger and Chad.
The Malian army, however, has been accused of committing retaliatory violence against civilians who appear to be northerners or those with suspected links to Islamists.
A French-based human rights group the International Federation for Human Rights, or FIDH by its French acronym, charges that Malian forces have been behind about 33 killings since fighting erupted on January 10.
Malian Army Capt Modibo Traore called the allegations "completely false" but declined to comment further. A government statement issued yesterday called on the military to respect human rights, saying "the army should be irreproachable."


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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Senator John McCain pressed on Monday for the United States to suspend its $1.5 billion in annual aid to Egypt, saying the removal of Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi from office appeared to be a coup led by the military.
McCain said he understood that Mursi's removal was undertaken with broad public support and could eventually lead to a more representative civilian government.
But as Washington debates how to respond to events in Egypt, he said in a statement that U.S. law forbids foreign assistance to countries where there has been a military coup against an elected government.
"It is difficult for me to conclude that what happened was anything other than a coup in which the military played a decisive role," said McCain, a senior member of the Senate Armed Services committee and a leading congressional voice on foreign affairs.
"I do not want to suspend our critical assistance to Egypt but I believe that is the right thing to do at this time," he said.
McCain began calling for the suspension of Egyptian aid last week.
Some other lawmakers have said Washington should wait and see how things develop in Egypt before deciding what to do about the aid. President Barack Obama's administration said on Monday it is not in the best interest of the United states to immediately change the program.
The United States is due to provide $1.3 billion in military aid and $250 million in economic aid to Egypt this year, almost all of which would be stopped if the administration formally deemed Mursi's ouster a coup.
So far this year, two-thirds of the military aid has been disbursed, but very little, if any, of the economic aid has made its way to Cairo, congressional aides said.
At least 51 people were killed in Cairo on Monday when the Egyptian army opened fire on supporters of Mursi in the deadliest incident since the elected Islamist leader was toppled by the military five days ago.
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Well, I'm not a fashionista myself, but with rich and vibrant colors and textures like Manish Arora's collections, I'd make a room for these gorgeous. If I could ever afford it, that is! ;-)
I first saw him on the Elle Decoration UK March 2006 edition. Then I saw him again in local newspaper last week, The Straits Times, April 14, 2006 for his coverage at India Fashion Festival, which has just ended recently. He has way too many amazing pieces that I have to talk about. :)
Manish Arora is India's most sought-after fashion designer. The 33-year-old designer graduated from the National Institute of Fashion Technology, New Delhi in 1994, and established his label "Manish Arora" in 1997, and "Fish Fry" in 2001. His collections are available at selected retailers worldwide from India to U.A.E., France, Italy, Monaco, Spain, Turkey, Russia, U.S.A, and more. He has been known to dress the riches and famous stars. With the fine detailings, gorgeous patterns, and rich colors like these, you'd understand why. :) Check out his collections at London Fashion Week 2006, here. They are marvelous!
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Gunners heap misery on stuttering Reds
Liverpool were condemned to their worst start to a season for half a century as Lukas Podolski and Santi Cazorla gave Arsenal a 2-0 victory at Anfield.
On what would have been Bill Shankly's 99th birthday, the Reds equalled the record of his newly-promoted side in 1962-63 by collecting just one point from their opening three games. After a lack of activity on deadline day, both owner John Henry and manager Brendan Rodgers are now in the firing line.
Gunners boss Arsene Wenger will reflect that he could easily have been in the similar position had Arsenal lost. However, with Cazorla capping an excellent display by profiting from a Jose Reina blunder after summer recruit Podolski had opened their account for the season before half-time, the Gunners chief can start looking forward with confidence.
Fabio Borini and Raheem Sterling had Liverpool's best chances before the break. The latter continues to catch the eye and his excellent turn onto Steven Gerrard's knockdown created the half-chance he belted against the outside of a post. Borini was rather more rash with his openings, two of which he sent sailing over the bar.
The impression Liverpool were in control was a misleading one. With Cazorla continuing to impress and Abou Diaby thriving in space, Arsenal looked capable of opening their opponents up on the counter. That worrying statistic of potentially becoming the first side to start the season with three successive scoreless games hung heavy for a while.
However, after a wayward Gerrard pass allowed Thomas Vermaelen to set up a break from the edge of his own box. Podolski fed Cazorla, then kept motoring. By the time Cazorla was in a position to play the killer pass, Podolski had arrived in support and the German drilled expertly past Reina from 10 yards.
Liverpool emerged with more purpose after the break, and once Stewart Downing was introduced they had more penetration. The winger had a shot deflected wide by Vermaelen not long after Per Mertesacker, who had been booked very early on, had sent Luis Suarez to the deck with a clumsy challenge that could easily have brought Liverpool a penalty.
As it turned out, Arsenal were merely softening their opponents up for another body blow.
Substitute Jonjo Shelvey failed to track Cazorla's arcing run around the corner of the Liverpool area. After an excellent one-two with Podolski, Cazorla also left Downing standing before firing a shot goalwards from an acute angle which Reina was unable to keep out.
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I'm conducting LGM with Mplus using three contsructs (each with 3 measurement points) as growth curves 1. social goals (multiple indicator curve), 2., withdrawal behavior (multiple indicator cureve) and social status, and interested in conducting regression among these constructs. I was wondering the following set of questions:
1) When wanting simply to indicate, that one construct (A) predicts increases in another construct (B) over time, which again predicts increases in another contruct (c), is it O.K. simply to predict the trend of B with a level of A, and the trend of C with the level of B?
Sometimes reseacrhes use the level of A to predict the level of B, and the trend of A to predict the trend of B, and so on. If I'm not interested in predicting change with a change, is the former approach suitable?
2) When setting linear trends as growht factors, is it common to stick to the original 0, 1, 2, loadings, even though there is a singificant negative mean for the trend, suggesting that there is a decrease rather than increase over time?
If so, then the results would be merely interpreted taking into consideration a decreasing rather than increasing trend? For instance, when wanting so show that the higher the level of goals, the higher the increases in withdrawal over time, there is a significant, negative estimate when predicting the (decreasing) trend of withdrawal with the level (intercept) of goals. Does this seem right? Given that the loading of 0 defines the level of a given construct, it would seem that if the trend was replaced with loadings of 2,1,0, the interpretation of the level would change?
3) How excatly are multigroup differences for gender conducted in the LGM framework? Are each of the estimated latent constructs, along with the estimated regression paths, tested individually by estimating them freely and constrained to be equal among genders (i.e., setting the variace of the given parameters equal accross the groups with a (1) marking in the syntax)?
4) I have defined a model including the three growth curves mentioned at the beginning, and have significant regression coefficients among the level of A and the trend of B, and the level of B and the trend of C., and almost O.K. model fit. However, due to negative variance of two of T1 and T3 withdrawal (latent) indicators, these were set to zero, after which the CFI dropped to .86. Given that RMSEA coefficient is O.K., this seems unfortunate. Is there something that I could do about this? For instance, have I forgot to fix some correlations os something, or should I do something for the starting values of the withdrawal curve? I have newer defined starting values before.
5) If a level of a trend is negative (esimate of the intercept mean is significantly negative), is this O.K., if the variable in question (measured in three time points) can have negative values (there is a growing trend in this construct with loadings 0, 1, 2)? Does this indicate that the average level of that contsruct is below zero?
Thank you so much in advance,
posted on Tuesday, October 18, 2005 - 7:05 pm
Here are quick answers that should be viewed critically since I don't know enough about your research situation and don't want to get into general consulting.
1) Certainly sounds reasonable. As long as the intercepts are allowed to covary.
2) All of that is correct and it is perfectly fine to stay with 0, 1, 2, ... even with a negative trend.
3) Yes, you put say (1) at the growth factor related parameters that you are interested in testing gender invariance for - such parameters are typically means and regression slopes.
4) One common reason for a misspecified multiprocess model is correlated residuals across processes - look at your Modification indices. Starting values shouldn't matter here.
5) Say that you have observed outcome values for an individual at the 3 time points of -1, -2, -3 and have a negative mean for the slope factor of -1. With time scores of 0, 1, 2 this still adds up fine since this models says that the outcome mean declines by 1 each time point (the mean change is the time score times the slope mean).
Charles Saunders
posted on Tuesday, November 15, 2005 - 1:44 pm
In an unconditional growth model that is set up in logs (i.e. ln(Y) = a + b(ln(Time)) - how do I interpret b and a? In OLS b would give the % change per % change in x - but how do I interpret that in terms of time? Thanks.
posted on Tuesday, November 15, 2005 - 5:53 pm
As ln(Time) changes one unit, ln(Y) changes b units. Note then that ln(Time) changing one unit corresponds to different time changes for different time levels since ln(X) is nonlinear in X. So you have to consider specific time intervals in the interpretation.
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So says the wedge-shaped cuneiform script on the little Cyrus Cylinder, one of the most celebrated discoveries from the ancient world. Obviously, Cyrus was no shrinking violet.
Fall Arts Preview art exhibitions: An article in the Sept. 15 Arts & Books section about fall art exhibitions included incorrect information. The Huntington's "Face to Face: Flanders, Florence, and Renaissance Painting" is not the first exhibition of its kind. It was inspired by a 2008 exhibition presented at the Palazzo Pitti in Florence. The paintings "Portrait of Philippe de Croy" and "Virgin and Child" by Flemish artist Rogier van der Weyden are not being displayed together for the first time in the U.S. They were shown together at an exhibition at the National Gallery of Art in 2006. The Huntington exhibition will be the first time they will be seen together in the Los Angeles area. In addition, the California African American Museum's exhibition "Soul Stirring: African American Self-Taught Artists from the South" has artworks that date from the 1950s, not the 1970s. The late artist Sam Doyle descended from slavery, but neither of his parents were slaves.
Dug up in 1879 in the foundations of a ruined Mesopotamian temple by an excavation team working for the British Museum, where the object is permanently housed, the 4-by-9-inch clay cylinder records a pivotal episode in world history.
More than 2,500 years ago, Persian conqueror Cyrus the Great established a centralized government for a vast empire that encompassed all of the ancient Near East and parts of Central Asia.
The cylinder is a cultural document, more than a conventional work of art. But the impact is profound for what it reveals about literature, religion, politics, art and virtually every aspect of ancient society. Partly its narrative is an adventure story of the conquest of Babylon. More important, it also represents a monumental cultural shift.
Sometimes called the first "bill of human rights," the Cyrus Cylinder reflects the multi-ethnic nature of the Achaemenid Empire centered in what is now Iran. The king restored freedom of religious practice to the far-flung empire's peoples, while those living in exile in the wake of earlier wars were allowed to return home. In the frankly grandiose declarations made by a self-styled king of the universe, power is on vivid display; however, it is power yoked to an insistence on justice and compassion.
These days, because of the repressive and bloody turmoil in the Middle East and the seeming inability of other nations — including our own — to come to terms with their own responsibilities in relation to it, that's an event in world history worth remembering . The Getty Villa show, organized in partnership with the British Museum, the Iran Heritage Foundation and the Smithsonian's Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, might help bring the idea into clearer focus .
Also this fall:
'Canterbury and St. Albans: Treasures From Church and Cloister'
Stained glass doesn't turn up often in traveling museum exhibitions, partly because of the difficulty in shipping such fragile works of art. But panels from Canterbury Cathedral, southwest of London, will be shown with pages from the St. Albans Psalter, a lavishly illuminated book of psalms from a cathedral northwest of the city, in an unusual effort to show relationships in medieval art following the Norman Conquest of England.
J. Paul Getty Museum, 1200 Getty Center Drive, Brentwood; free (parking: $15); www.getty.edu
'Face to Face: Flanders, Florence, and Renaissance Painting'
Art from northern Europe helped make the Italian Renaissance happen, as this show — said to be the first of its kind — intends to underscore. Among the 29 paintings will be the "Portrait of Philippe de Croy" by the incomparable Flemish artist Rogier van der Weyden, displayed for the first time in the U.S. alongside "Virgin and Child," its companion diptych panel from the Huntington's own collection.
Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, 1151 Oxford Road, San Marino; $8-$23; www.huntington.org
'Forrest Bess: Seeing Things Invisible'
Practically a hermit, the eccentric Texan Forrest Bess (1911-77) described himself as a visionary painter; in his work, he claimed to merely copy the shapes, lines, colors and forms he saw when he closed his eyes tight. Fifty of those eyes-wide-shut abstractions will be in this traveling exhibition, organized by sculptor Robert Gober.
UCLA Hammer Museum, 10899 Wilshire Blvd., Westwood; $5-$10; www.hammer.ucla.edu
'Soul Stirring: African American Self-Taught Artists From the South'
Making art from vernacular materials at hand, often to tell stories, has a long tradition, not least in the American South. This show will assemble work dating since the 1970s by a number of well-known self-taught artists, including New Orleans preacher and painter Sister Gertrude Morgan; Georgia housemaid Nellie Mae Rowe; rehabilitated ex-con Herbert Singleton; and South Carolina store clerk, porter and son of slaves Sam Doyle.
California African American Museum, 600 State Drive, Exposition Park; free; www.caamuseum.org
'High Desert Test Sites 2013'
If all goes according to plan, the latest installment of "High Desert Test Sites," initiated by artist Andrea Zittel, will unfold over the course of a week in 60 diverse projects along Southwestern roads and highways between Joshua Tree and Albuquerque. Among the participating sculptors, installation and performance artists, filmmakers, photographers and others are Angela de la Agua, Michael Bisbee, Lars Fisk and Chris Kallmyer.
HDTS, various locations; free; www.highdeserttestsites.com
'John Divola: As Far as I Could Get'
A collaborative project with components already on view at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Pomona College Museum of Art, this three-venue retrospective of photographer John Divola is the fall's most eagerly anticipated solo museum show. An artist's artist, Divola has used his camera over four decades in unfailingly inventive ways to question assumptions about art, perception and social experience.
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 1130 State St., Santa Barbara; $6-$10; www.sbma.net
'Richard Diebenkorn: The Berkeley Years, 1953-1966'
Last year, the Orange County Museum of Art gave us a compelling overview of the abstract "Ocean Park" paintings that Richard Diebenkorn began in Los Angeles in 1967 — often considered the capstone of his career. This show surveys the run-up to those works in paintings he made in Northern California, including abstract landscapes and rigorous figure studies.
Palm Springs Art Museum, 101 Museum Drive, Palm Springs; $5-$12.50; www.psmuseum.org
'Adam Silverman: Clay and Space'
Adam Silverman, studio director at Heath Ceramics, has been making pottery in Los Angeles for 15 years. For his first museum exhibition, he'll be showing installations of clay pots and video that promise to mix just about the most ancient and modern artistic technologies imaginable.
Laguna Art Museum, 307 Cliff Drive, Laguna Beach; $5-$7; www.lagunaartmuseum.org
'Snow: Yutaka Sone and Benjamin Weissman'
Remember when an obsessed Richard Dreyfuss built that mud mountain in his living room in "Close Encounters of the Third Kind"? For the centerpiece of this show, sculptor Yutaka Sone and writer and artist Benjamin Weissman have collaborated on a monumental, animatronic ski mountain, outfitted with working chairlifts and a variety of skiers. Let it snow.
Santa Monica Museum of Art, Bergamot Station, 2525 Michigan Ave.; $3-$5; www.smmoa.org
'Calder and Abstraction'
Alexander Calder didn't invent kinetic sculpture, but he did move it in directions both playful and profound. In the process, he gave avant-garde abstraction a vernacular American twist, which will be examined in an exhibition whose installation is being designed by architect Frank O. Gehry.
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 5905 Wilshire Blvd., $10-$15; www.lacma.org


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As ThinkProgress has documented, the "U.S." Chamber Of Commerce has for years received at least hundreds of thousands of dollars from foreign-owned corporations. While the Chamber claims that the foreign funds it receives do not fund its $75 million in partisan attack ads, it would be highly unusual for these foreign corporations to be donating to the organization without expecting some sort of political activity on their behalf. Now, a new Chamber paper advocating for a change in a U.S. law intended to crack down on American-based multinational corporations bribing foreign governments may provide an answer as to why these foreign firms are doling out cash to the right-wing lobbying group.
Yesterday, the Chamber kicked off its U.S. Chamber Institute For Legal Reform Legal Reform Summit 2010, where it is advocating for its pro-corporate "legal reform" agenda. As a part of the agenda, the Chamber is presenting a paper at its summit titled "Restoring Balance: Proposed Amendments to the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act."
Since 1977, when it was first enacted, the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) has been the government's main enforcement mechanism to stop American-based multinational firms from bribing foreign governments in order to win special business advantages. The anti-corruption law has been especially strong during the Obama Administration, during which FCPA-related fines collected by the Department of Justice (DOJ) and Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) dramatically increased — in just the first two months of 2010, they totaled $1.2 billion, far more than the measly $87 million collected in all of 2007 by the Bush Administration.
Therefore, it makes sense that, now, with the "likelihood of a Republican wave in midterm elections" being increasingly high, the Chamber would release a paper proposing amendments to the law that would serve to gut many of its core provisions:
— Limiting a company's successor criminal FCPA liability for prior acts of a company it has acquired: The Chamber's paper advocates for restricting the amount of liability a company can take on from a firm it merges with that is guilty of FCPA violations. This would allow companies to engage in corrupt practices and then merge with other businesses and reduce the penalties they face. (page 14)
— Limiting a parent company's civil liability for the acts of a subsidiary: This amendment would restrict the ability of the SEC and DOJ to hold American companies accountable for the actions of their foreign subsidiaries as long as the American parent firms could reasonably prove that they were not aware of the actions of their foreign subsidiaries. The problem with changing the law in this way is that it could greenlight corruption abuses by foreign subsidiaries that the parent company would profit from but not be held accountable for. (page 22)
— Clarifying definition of "foreign official": The Chamber complains about a 2009 case by the Obama DOJ and SEC where they fined Control Components, Inc. for bribing state-owned companies in China, Malaysia, South Korea, and the UAE. The government defined bribing state-owned companies as the same as bribing foreign governments. The Chamber seeks to limit this definition, which it believes is too broad. Overly restricting the government's ability to hold firms accountable for bribing state-owned companies just as if they were bribing foreign governments would potentially open up new channels of corruption. One of the Chamber's cited cases of supposed abuse of this government authority is for fining defense contractor KBR for bribing a company that is 49 percent owned by the Nigerian government. Presumably, 49 percent is not a high enough threshold for the business lobby to consider it corrupt influencing of a foreign government. (pages 24–26)
In trying to weaken the FCPA so as to allow corporations greater leeway in engaging in corrupt practices, the Chamber is not simply acting out of ideological solidarity with the big business interests it champions. Numerous members of — and donors to — the Chamber have engaged in FCPA violations or are currently under investigation. Here is a short but far from comprehensive list:
— Dow Chemical: Dow, which donated $1.9 million to the Chamber last year, paid a $325,000 settlement with the SEC in 2007 for FCPA violations.
— Shell: Petroleum giant Shell is a dues-paying member of the Chamber that refused to quit the organization despite its climate change denialism last year. The company is currently nearing a settlement with the DOJ and SEC over an FCPA violation related to bribing Nigerian officials. Analysts expect it to pay at least $30 million.
— General Electric: Chamber member General Electric (GE), while denouncing its climate change denialism, also refused to quit the organization over it. GE settled with the SEC with a $23 million settlement earlier this year for FCPA violations related to the Iraqi oil-for-food scandal.
— Halliburton: Halliburton, a proud member of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, had a record-breaking settlement with the SEC in 2009, paying $800 million for an FCPA violation related to bribery in Nigeria.
While the Chamber of Commerce continues to use the slogan "Fighting For Your Business," it is increasingly apparent that the people it fights for above all else are its funders — multinational corporations whose loyalty is not to American consumers or transparency and good governance, but rather to their own bottom lines.


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Charlie Nicholas broke off from rambling on about "set PCs," and Blackpool players "Kaka" and "T.J. Campbell" to deliver a great contender for worst comeback of the century on Soccer Saturday this weekend.
"Well… m-maybe you should go also then Jeff, because, erm…"
Brilliant. Just make sure you have a decent "your mum" cuss ready for the next time, Charlie.
This post, written by Richard Gilzene, is republished with permission from The Spoiler. Go there often if you like soccer stuff.


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Hey! I don't know about this arrangement — Salon ran an article I really wanted to rip into, and while I was distracted, Chris Clarke snatched it away from me, and made all the good points. Now I'm left with the dregs.
It was an article that asked "Where are the women of New Atheism?", while weirdly and obliquely citing a number of prominent woman atheists and putting pictures of atheist men at the top. I felt like screaming, "They're everywhere! But lazy media always makes the story about the men!" But Chris already said all that.
So, dregs. That story actually annoyed me from the very first paragraph.
"New Atheism" is old news. Enter "New, New Atheism": the next generation, with its more spiritual brand of non-belief, and its ambition to build an atheist church. It is an important moment for the faithless.
Say what? The author really is trying to build up her bizarre misperceptions into a reality. I see no significant effort to incorporate "spirituality" (whatever the hell that is) into atheism, or to mimic the trappings of institutional religion. There are a few scattered individuals who are doing that — atheism is diverse and unregimented, so of course there are varieties of exploration of the implementation — but no one I know is interested in building atheist "churches". I have seen no shift in the newer atheists towards the spiritual — if anything, the young atheists I know are more likely to take for granted that spirituality is meaningless. The new, new atheism is about taking material action.
I really wonder if the author has had any experience with atheists at all, because this was more of an outsider's warped view of struggles within the atheist movement (we are all trying to end discrimination against women and broaden our reach), distorted into her preconceptions about what it should be like.


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Not sure if anyone has noticed but I have been stuck in one of my "What should I write about?" spirals. The interviews have been helping a great deal, they are fun for me and to be honest…it means very little writing on my part. I just ask my silly questions and wait for the cool ass folks to answer them. I really do enjoy doing them but it has been pointed out to me that while they are or can be funny, some people miss hearing my voice. I think part of it has been lack of sleep. I've been living a life of little catnaps lately; wake up at four of five in the morning wide awake and my mind going a mile a minute. I get out of bed because I cannot tolerate the whole tossing and turning thing, just pisses me off…and I spend my morning with MSNBC, coffee and my laptop. Go to work feeling wide awake and ready but find by around four I am starting to wind down, feel sleepy. Get home to make and eat dinner and then I find myself nodding out on the couch around nine, not sleepy enough to go to bed but not able to keep my eyes open. Little naps keep me awake until one of two in the morning, stumble into bed and sleep until….four or five, think it's getting to me.
I will confess that I have let this blog consume me a bit, when I am not checking my counter thing I am responding or playing around on one of the other blogs I spend time on. Work is the one place I am able to just leave the blog alone…I'm still thinking about it but in a less than consuming way and I do allow myself to check stats or respond while I am eating my lunch but for the most part I've learned, (and this took some time) to just let my obsession with this place be something I indulge in when I get home. Once home I am in full on stat checking and wracking my brain for topics that people might be interested in, that might pertain to wine and I can write about mode.
So I had been struggling a bit already and then I saw the announcement of the Wine Blog Awards…sigh. Now last year I was painfully addicted to watching this thing unfold over at Fermentation. My dear friend Benito of Benito's Wine Reviews was kind enough to nominate me last year for one of the writing categories, I was so flattered and so aching to be taken seriously in this whole wine blogging business that I let myself get swept away a bit. Now I knew I would never win but was hoping to make it to the finals…well I did not of course and this year, a year later I am not only aware of why I did not….I'm comfortable knowing that I should not. These awards are for blogs that are much more wine related than Samantha Sans Dosage, sure I write about wine but there are just as many posts here that have nothing or very little to do with wine and you know what, I'm comfortable with that. I no longer ache to be included and rather like the fact that my blog has become a place where people come to read about something other than wine reviews…they seem to come to visit me. In that I have found the true award/reward. No little badge to post on my sidebar, no my award is found in the comments section of my posts where people not only respond to my stories they share some of their own, love that.
I was talking to my husband the other day, telling him that while I love having this place, adore the people that visit me here…that this blog may have run its course. I was feeling guilty about the idea of shutting down but feeling even more guilty that I may not have anything compelling enough to give my loyal readers. Totally stuck and leaning towards shutting down for a couple weeks just to think it over, that's when my husband sent me a link to a blog ranking sight and one of my posts was very high on the list…not even sure what that means by the way but it was a very sweet gesture. I was still pretty sure it was time for a break at the very least when I woke up to find a couple new followers and a couple new comments, one from a brand new reader…now what to do?
I gave myself a few more days to think it over, just to make sure it wasn't PMS or me just feeling lonely or some other crazy chick behavior…posted my latest interview and told myself to just spend a day or two away to clear my head. So I was working yesterday afternoon and a fairly regular customer of ours came up to me with her cart, "Can you help me find this wine?" she asked and I took her to find it. "While I have you here can you help me find some everyday drinking wines? I love your French wines and you always find me the tastiest daily drinkers" feeling all flattered I pulled the end of her cart around my French section depositing my latest discoveries into her cart. Clink-clink-clink the bottles landing upon each other as I "Oh you have to try this" and moved on to the next stack. "Oh and I need a good bottle of Chablis" she told me with a serious but strangely lit up face. "I am celebrating and I want to do it with a great bottle of Chablis" she continued. Now I always assume when people tell you that they are celebrating that they want you to ask them why, I mean why else share that right? So I did, I asked what she was celebrating….so did not expect to hear what I did.
"I have breast Cancer. I had it ten years ago so this is my second occurrence and they are going to have to do a mastectomy" I stood there, heart thumping at my ribcage, eyes filling up and with no words. "Now I know it might sound weird that I want to celebrate but everyone had been telling me that I would have to give up my wine" still no words from me. "I just talked to my surgeon and he told me that even though the surgery is invasive I will still be allowed to drink my wines, I'm just so grateful that I can still have that" I didn't know I had been holding my breath but when she said that I felt and heard a loud exhale escape my body. She gave me a very wise look and I helped her pick a Chablis worthy of her celebration, the celebration of true courage and finding a silver lining. When I was ringing her up she held the bottle in her hand and said, "I will drink this tonight and think of you" I stood there feeling like I had just found my fairy godmother. "I should buy one too and drink it thinking of you" I responded. Spent the rest of the afternoon with busy work, getting stuff ready for this weekend's big Cheese & Wine Fest, preparing to go to a trade tasting and putting up wines that had arrived during my days off…the day got away from me but that woman's words, the spirit with which they were delivered did not. I did not buy that same Chablis but pulled one that had been resting in my little wine fridge from the same producer, Herve Azo 1er Cru Vau de Vey. Last night an older woman drank a young Chablis to celebrate her good fortune in the face of enormous loss and this slightly younger one drank and older Chablis to celebrate courage and wisdom. Cannot think of anything more unifying…
Cheers to you dear woman. Thank you for sharing…your story and courageous attitude, and the glass of Chablis. Reminding me how profoundly powerful that combination can be.
Guess I'll keep plugging away, sharing with my readers and hoping I can inspire them to see that wine is about so much more than what's in the bottle....


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VolleyWorld relives the action of the 2013 FIVB World League
This month's edition of VolleyWorld brings together all the highlights of this year's premier event in men's volleyball. It also takes an in-depth look at the winners and the quality of the sporting action on display in the World League's first year following a new competition format.
This issue also reviews another first for the competition; the use of the Challenge System, which won praise from players, coaches and fans alike.
And with social media a hot bed of activity during the 2013 World League, this month's VolleyWorld showcases some of the best videos, tweets and comments that were shared.
VolleyWorld is a monthly publication produced in electronic format only.
Click here to read or download this edition of the magazine.


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Welsh Whitte, again in Lancashire was another estate of the same family. It was originally known as Walsewythull and Walshwittell. "In 1707 it was forfeited by the treason of William Dickenson, then owner, but, owing to legal technicality, the manor was not seized by the crown; and the Dicconsons, his descendants, have since been the principal proprietors." [1]CITATION[CLOSE]
Lewis, Samuel, A Topographical Dictionary of England. Institute of Historical Research, 1848, Print.
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The sound of bursting fireworks competed with the cacophony of clanging pots and pans here last night, marking the second day of protests over last weekend's presidential election results.
Supporters of President-elect Nicolás Maduro and opposition candidate Henrique Capriles sought to use the fireworks and kitchen utensils to drown each other out peacefully across the city following post-election-related violence that left 61 people injured and seven dead this week.
Tensions have been steadily rising since Sunday when the National Electoral Council (CNE) announced that Mr. Maduro's margin of victory over Mr. Capriles was less than 2 percent. Capriles's campaign has publicly contested the election results, citing some 3,200 irregularities in the count and demanding a full audit.
"What are they afraid of?" screamed David Alvarez, a student and one of dozens of protestors in the upscale Plaza Altamira last night demanding a recount. Taking a pause from blowing into a horn, he continued, "We're not afraid of losing, we just want to know the truth."
Although Altamira leans heavily towards Capriles, protests have erupted in some bastions formerly held by the late President Hugo Chávez. And while the government continues to refuse a recount, many believe the prolonged crisis could have serious repercussions for the Maduro presidency, which lacks the same mandate frequently won by Mr. Chávez and faces a clearly split country.
The president of the CNE, Tibisay Lucena, refused Capriles's requests on Monday, saying that the electoral system worked perfectly and that some 54 percent of the votes had already been audited. "There they are, we won't deal with harassment, threats, or intimidation. The Constitution or the law are the only routes respected by true democrats," she said.
"It's a radical, inadequate, clumsy position. Instead of calming [the country] they're inciting national polarization," says pollster Luis Vicente Leon, president of the polling firm Datanalisis, referring to the Maduro administration's stance. "[The government] is facing off against almost half the population…and if it continues to not recognize its legitimacy, in the midst of an economic crisis, [Maduro] could face losing his [base of] popular support."
Tuesday was filled with a heated exchange of broadcasts. Capriles held two press conferences and Maduro, three. Both sides pinned blame on the other for widespread unrest across the country. At one point, Maduro used the national broadcast system to cut into one of Mr. Capriles conferences.
"Here we don't negotiate with the bourgeoisie. Here there is revolution," said Maduro in a national television address. "And if [the opposition] continues with violence, I am ready to radicalize the revolution."
Maduro told his supporters to light fireworks and prohibited a planned opposition protest march scheduled for Wednesday in Caracas, calling it "a chronicle of a coup foretold."
The president-elect's increasingly harsh rhetoric and hard-line stance is seen by some as an attempt to consolidate power now that his party is faced with the absence of the charismatic Chávez.
"He's trying to occupy a position that's not his," says Eloy Torres, a political science professor at Santa María University and a former Chávez administration diplomat who long worked under Maduro when he was foreign minister.
Mr. Torres, who says he has been taken aback by Maduro's tone since election results came in, adds that rather than resolving the conflict "he's pouring gasoline on the fire."
Capriles in a press conference yesterday told Maduro to "calm down a bit." Fearing potential future clashes, Capriles called off a march scheduled for today in favor of further cacerolazos – the popular Latin American protest involving the banging of pots and pans. "Whoever is involved in violence is not part of this project, is not with me," he said at a news conference.
While it remains to be seen if it can hold steam, Capriles seems intent on continuing his campaign for a recount. Analysts say that regardless of the outcome, the efforts present serious difficulties for the future of Maduro's presidency.
Maduro faces an uncertain future, says Carlos Romero, a political scientist at the Central University of Venezuela. Mr. Romero points to similar scenario in 2000 in Peru when then-President Alberto Fujimori was forced to resign, or in the case of the 2006 Mexico election, when then-President Felipe Calderón managed to survive a recount but then faced political strife when his opponent refused to recognize the results.
"You can't say where the Venezuelan case is going to go, the only thing we can say is that unexpectedly close results like this bring more problems," says Romero.


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SAN Myths Uncovered 2: The LD mode (Brocade)
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I didn't blog for a while now because of an internal project. Like each software development project it's never really over and development will be going on in the next years to bring in new functions, but I hope I have some more time for blogging again now. :o) I also decided to go a bit away from the long blog posts I did in the past to more conveniently readable short posts if possible. Long... [More]