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Monday, October 27, 2008
Ghosts with the Most
Monday, October 27, 2008
The label says "The 'Boo' Cake", but it looks more like a "boo-hoo" cake - that, or "when ghosts scream". I guess this is why ghosts shouldn't wear mascara, huh? (Get it? Ma-SCARE-a?)
Some say 'carpe diem' (seize the day) and others say 'carpe jugular' (seize the throat). I'm guessing these cupcakes are more the latter:
Huh - I've never seen ghosts with claws before.
The ghost on the left looks like a cheerleader with pom-poms. The ghost on the right looks...uh...[noting kids in the room] ....cheerful. Yeah. Like, giving you his full attention kind of cheerful.
These teeny-tiny "cupcake" creations are almost as bad as Cupcake Cakes. Not only do the bakeries leave the paper wrapper on the cupcake, but they also pile on enough icing to make even the most die-hard sugar addict develop a facial tic.
As for this particular Wreck, I have just three words: "albino squid mouth". And "ick". Ok, so maybe four words.
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That first ghost is a little off but I still think he is cute in a depressed kind of way.
- October 27, 2008 at 8:47 AM
- HorribleLicensePlates said...
That first cake needs a Xanax.
- October 27, 2008 at 8:50 AM
- Quartermaster said...
Carpe Jugulum...A Disc World reference?
- October 27, 2008 at 8:52 AM
- Eternal Lizdom said...
What is it with bakers and phalluses???
- October 27, 2008 at 8:52 AM
- Jacki said...
Oh my the first one looks like a bird pooped on a white tablecloth! The others are more sad than scary.
- October 27, 2008 at 8:53 AM
- The Courteous Chihuahua said...
Picture #3: Is that a ghost on your cake, or are you just happy to see me???
- October 27, 2008 at 9:11 AM
I, I think, well, O just forget it, I got nothin.
- October 27, 2008 at 9:16 AM
- Jennifer Good said...
Maybe some of these decorators suffer from penis-envy?
- October 27, 2008 at 9:17 AM
- Miss Kolleen said...
i almost like the claw ghosts.
- October 27, 2008 at 9:18 AM
The ghosts in the second picture look like they're being sucked into cupcake quicksand and are screaming for help. Kinda freaky...
And the first ghost is just crying tears of joy that he made it onto a famous blog like Cake Wrecks. :D - October 27, 2008 at 9:24 AM
- WonderLori said...
I'd just like to say that "Albino Squid Mouth" would be a great name for a rock band.
- October 27, 2008 at 9:33 AM
- Mary Ellen said...
Oh my. I was just considering making some fun ghost cupcakes with my daughter but these truly scared me. The first one looks like someone stomped on it! and i agree. I'm not sure i would want my 5 yo seeing those oh so very happy "ghosts" on that cake.
Thanks for the continued Halloween frights . . . - October 27, 2008 at 9:33 AM
- April said...
oh my... I choked on my coffee at "Like, giving you his full attention kind of cheerful." lol! you need to come with a warning!
What *is* the idea with that last one? yikes. - October 27, 2008 at 9:34 AM
... jugulum?
- October 27, 2008 at 9:37 AM
- Unknown said...
Those aren't claws...they're little quotation marks.
- October 27, 2008 at 9:37 AM
- Laura said...
OMG, I just laughed out loud at the ghost which is a little too 'excited'. My boss is giving me very strange looks.
Note to self, do not surf cake wrecks at work unless you are alone.
www.fromuktous.blogspot.com - October 27, 2008 at 9:53 AM
- Melinda said...
Wow! I guess I just have never considered how hard it is to make a ghost!
- October 27, 2008 at 9:57 AM
- Kevin said...
They leave the paper on????
That's just wrong. - October 27, 2008 at 10:11 AM
- Ghost Rider said...
Okay, even my four year old (who knows I look at funny cakes, but usually doesn't understand why they're funny) goes "What's that black stuff on the cake?" at the first one. "Ghost" didn't even come to mind, and he's Halloweened to the max right now.
- October 27, 2008 at 10:15 AM
I've said it before and I'll say it again. If you're going to do more than frost the top of a cupcake, TAKE OFF THE DANG PAPER.
I sort of like the claw ghosts too. - October 27, 2008 at 10:31 AM
- Leslie said...
OK, someone back me up here. In the claws one, after looking really hard and trying to figure out what the decorator was aiming for, I think each cupcake is supposed to be 3 ghosts. A mama ghost and two babies...? Just a guess, because claws are a little odd for the traditional ghost. But then again, a ghost with claws would scare me a bit more I guess.
That first one was oh so close to not being a wreck. It just looks so runny! - October 27, 2008 at 10:38 AM
I...Well, I especially like the little curlicue of black...hair, at the ... base of the ..."happy ghost".
- October 27, 2008 at 10:40 AM
Anonymous -- Carpe Jugulum ("seize the jugular") is the title of a Terry Pratchett novel in the Discworld series. If you enjoy fantasy or satire (or both), the series is a must-read.
Huh -- ROFL.
The thing about the Albino Squid Mouth that gets me is that they leave the paper on. Miss Emily Post herself could not dig through that much frosting without making a mess, and I hate to think what a toddler would do with it. You'd be cleaning the kid, and the kitchen, for hours. - October 27, 2008 at 10:43 AM
- Jackie said...
Some bakers should just skip Hallowe'en altogether.
- October 27, 2008 at 10:45 AM
- nycbride said...
Yeah, the first one looks more like a "Poo", not a "Boo" cake to me...
- October 27, 2008 at 10:53 AM
- Yarnhog said...
Leeches. The first one's being attacked by leeches. See? It *is* scary!
- October 27, 2008 at 11:05 AM
- The Honorable Mayor of Bethville said...
Some ghosts have claws. Ghost wolverines. Ghost mountain lions. Ghost badgers.
- October 27, 2008 at 11:07 AM
- Jennifer said...
Take the mouth of the last cake and the right ghost on the second to last cake and you've got yourself a little erotic icing-ghost on icing-ghost action.
- October 27, 2008 at 11:08 AM
- Brian said...
The ghost cupcakes are making "scare quotes" with their fingers.
Get it? SCARE quotes?!?
HOO HA! I kill myself. - October 27, 2008 at 11:26 AM
Oh dearie me...One of the ghosts got a little excited.
Word verification: arditic.
That almost sounds like an actual word! :O - October 27, 2008 at 11:29 AM
I'm glad I read through these comments first - Jennifer said exactly what I was thinking!
What does it say about me that I looked at that first cake and didn't think "squid", but rather "female anatomy"? - October 27, 2008 at 11:36 AM
- Jennifer said...
Some of these bakers really need a crash course in how to design a Ghost.. A Ghost does not look like a over drawn penis! lol
www.waiting4news99.blogspot.com - October 27, 2008 at 11:45 AM
I've never seen a ghost that even resembles these...hahahaha
~Amy B. - October 27, 2008 at 11:56 AM
- Peachy said...
Ghost #1 looks like shoe size 5.
- October 27, 2008 at 11:59 AM
I'm with you on that cupcake thing - it just looks like a mound of icing!
- October 27, 2008 at 12:02 PM
- The Courteous Chihuahua said...
I know you shouldn't make fun of the dead..............but is that first one the ghost of Tammy Faye Baker??
- October 27, 2008 at 12:04 PM
- Rebecca said...
Cake Wrecks has changed my life.
I never used to go into the backery section at all but now, now I browse through looking carefully at each creation just hoping beyond all hope to run across a wreck!!!!
Thank you Cake Wrecks! - October 27, 2008 at 12:08 PM
- sues2u2 said...
So what gives w/ all of the, hmmm (kids in my room too!) "happy" cakes? Do you think maybe the decorators are thinking things? Maybe they've just gotten their prescriptions for Viagra renewed!?!
- October 27, 2008 at 12:28 PM
2d props to huh! haha
maybe the 1st is an "alli" cake (think weight-loss pill) - complete w/ side effect warnings of "loose stool"
-bg - October 27, 2008 at 1:12 PM
- Chrissy said...
Okay, here is my opinion on the number two cake... I think it is supposed to show three ghosts coming at you but the smaller ones are further away. That is my guess. Like out of a black hole or something.
As for cake #3. Surely there must be at least some internal debate over whether or not to leave such a phallic ghost there. I mean really! - October 27, 2008 at 1:25 PM
- Nicole said...
That 3rd one (the "cheerful" one) reminds me of the "ice cream cone" my 4-yr-old stepson drew on a birthday card for my mother this weekend! I could have cried, I was trying SOOOO hard not to laugh at his art!!
- October 27, 2008 at 1:27 PM
- Tracy Griffin - Artist said...
hee hee... wiener ghost! The ghost of my last husband! Just kidding... I'm still married to my last husband. :)
- October 27, 2008 at 1:28 PM
Oookay. Apparently, the filter on my work computer thinks all but the cheerleader/happy ghost cake are pornographic and won't let me see the photos. Which, naturally, makes me even more curious. Now I have to wait until I get home to view. :o\
- October 27, 2008 at 1:42 PM
- Unknown said...
Those little ghost cupcakes with the claws look very yummy actually! The claws are silly, but they still look good!
- October 27, 2008 at 1:43 PM
- Amydeanne said...
that last one.. i was thinking a bell pepper gone bad!
- October 27, 2008 at 2:41 PM
- heartafire said...
Jen you are too too funny. Thanks for the laughs today.
I have to say, that first one really looks like someone started icing out a pattern of dance steps.
Only one person was an amputee. - October 27, 2008 at 2:52 PM
- The Creeper said...
Man, Freud would have a field day with some of these cakes.
- October 27, 2008 at 3:11 PM
- Juliet said...
That first ghost looks like the ghost of a panda bear.
- October 27, 2008 at 3:47 PM
- Unknown said...
Is there any cake under that last cupcake? I'd argue that it's just a glop of frosting.
Then again, around in these parts, some bakeries sell one ounce "frosting shots" of delicious buttercream or any other flavor, just in case you don't want to bother with the whole cake part of the cupcake.
50 cents a sugar hit.
The weeping ghost made me laugh. Awh, a boo-hoo cake! - October 27, 2008 at 5:19 PM
- Amy Lee said...
Oh lord..I think my husband needs his eyes checked. He looked at me with a straight face and asked what was wrong with the very first ghost cake (the one with the dripping eyes and mouth.) Then he said it was cool....He was right on the money with the 3rd cake though (you know the one who is happy and at attention.) LOL
- October 27, 2008 at 6:13 PM
- Zoltar Panaflex said...
"Not only do the bakeries leave the paper wrapper on the cupcake, but they also pile on enough icing to make even the most die-hard sugar addict develop a facial tic."
I choked with this one, unfortunately not on cake.
The cakes at my local store were of the generic crappy variety - I think there was a big sale on sprinkles. - October 27, 2008 at 6:25 PM
- Miss Lexiloo said...
The first one wouldn't be that bad if they'd get the face right...fondant is better than 3 lbs of white icing...
- October 27, 2008 at 6:38 PM
ghosts with jazz hands.
- October 27, 2008 at 6:42 PM
- Unknown said...
"albino squid mouth" is sweeping the nation
- October 27, 2008 at 6:47 PM
Ghost with pom-poms...
that's actually a much more innocent image than what immediately popped into my filthy brain... - October 27, 2008 at 7:32 PM
- Pyewacketcat said...
These are just so wrong, .... a serious lack of talent in the bakery world.
But they do provide a good laugh! - October 27, 2008 at 7:43 PM
- Aviatrix said...
I'm usually pretty tolerant of the accidental phalluses. I might have served the fireman cake. I was willing to let the quebecois penis balloons ride, but I gasped aloud when I saw that happy-to-see-you ghost.
Maybe it's a thing that bakers do: to see how obscene they can make a cake without getting caught. Airline people sometimes challenge one another to incorporate words into PAs. Listen carefully to phrases like "Have a comfortable flight" and you may discover that your pilot or flight attendant is winning a bar bet.
I just can't believe all these icing penises are entirely accidental. - October 27, 2008 at 8:03 PM
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Hey Jen,
You've been tagged! Check out my blog, A Daughter of the King for details. Nothing crazy just post 7 random things about yourself in a post and tag 7 other people.
Jen - October 27, 2008 at 10:29 PM
- andie said...
I agree that those ghost cupcakes show one ghost flanked by two other ghosts -- they're backup singers! Maybe "Casper and the Ghostettes" could open for "Albino Squid Mouth."
(BTW, Cake Wrecks is the first hit for a Google of the words "albino squid mouth".) - October 27, 2008 at 10:54 PM
- fuzzandfuzzlet said...
actually the eyes make it look like the saggy BOOb cake.
- October 27, 2008 at 11:29 PM
- Keemster said...
I agree with the others who say that it looks like a bird flew over the first one and left a deposit.
- October 28, 2008 at 12:12 AM
- MARIE-HELENE said...
obviously the baker didn't have a long enough training...
- October 28, 2008 at 1:29 AM
- Susanna said...
I think the "carpe jugulum" cupcakes kind of look like fleur du lies with faces... maybe it's supposed to be "scary" french wallpaper come back to haunt you?
- October 28, 2008 at 2:28 AM
JRM, I actually had the same thought.
Indeed, Freud would have a field day with these cakes. - October 28, 2008 at 3:18 AM
- Beth said...
Those aren't claws in the second picture.
They're jazz hands! - October 28, 2008 at 3:32 AM
- librarylass said...
Is it wrong of me to think that the first pic was of a white mound where three plops of bird poo landed with unerring accuracy? There is a drip like curve to the bottom of the 'matter' which adds conviction to mt theory.
Err.. Happy Halloween, or whatever. - October 28, 2008 at 4:45 AM
About the cupcake cakes, I am a fan. I can't tell you how much I hate cutting and serving cake to birthday party guests. All the whining "I want more icing" and "Oh Oh I want a big peice, yeah that one, with the big rose..." or "You don't want that peice, I licked it hahaha". I just don't need all that. You want a big peice? Here's two cupcakes. You want more icing? Here two cupcakes and no I don't care what you do with the cake. I do still lick the good ones. That's the only way you get anything in my house.
- October 28, 2008 at 10:23 AM
wow, cupcakefan... Cutting the cake is fun, and regular cakes are moar pretty than cupcakecakes..
Don't worry I hate things that are fun and pretty too. - October 28, 2008 at 11:16 AM
Picture #3: That's quite a booner.
- October 28, 2008 at 12:17 PM
- heartafire said...
I think that comment posted at 4:22 by "Anonymous" might just BE that ghost.....
WOW...to think....a GHOST posting on your blog.....
oooooh.....sca-ry. - October 28, 2008 at 12:38 PM
So much hate!
Glad you weren't in charge of any of my parties. If you are so uncaring of your guest's enjoyment, why bother to have a cake at all. Just give them some peanuts and a soda and tell them to get out. - October 28, 2008 at 5:57 PM
- Six Green Zebras said...
I think the ghosts are trying to give the infamous Costco cake a run for it's money.
- October 28, 2008 at 11:49 PM
- Lhyzz said...
A shout-out to all my fellow Discworld fans! :D
- October 29, 2008 at 1:27 AM
Don't know why my last comment was rejected. You know, Monty Python reference. "Science fiction" sketch, blancmanges, THEY MEAN TO WIN WIMBLEDON. Anyway. http://www.orangecow.org/pythonet/pics/blancmng.jpg
- October 29, 2008 at 2:57 AM
lol Wow. You guys don't mess around over here, do ya?
I'm not hating on the traditional cake, I just find the cupcakes easier.
Oh and anon, you can't give people peanuts and soda at a birthday party. You have to bribe them with a cake(or cupcakes) and ice cream to get the good gifts:-)
This is great site, btw. I laugh my butt off everytime I visit! - October 29, 2008 at 5:37 PM
"Carpe Jugulum" is a book by Terry Pratchett. A pretty book, too.
- October 29, 2008 at 7:43 PM
- Al said...
I don't know if y'all saw this but the in the background of the first picture there was what looked to be like a deformed pumpkin head. maybe it's just me.
- October 30, 2008 at 6:04 PM
- verminjerky said...
The first one would have been really cute if his face hadn't melted, which is what I'm pretty sure is what has happened here.
Decorator must have forgotten that they sit under warm lights all day. - October 31, 2008 at 7:57 AM
these really just blow my mind because, really- HOW HARD IS IT TO MAKE A GHOST!?!?!?!!!!!
i swear this blog makes me want to work at a bakery so i can either make some halfway decent cakes or some really spectacular wrecks. - December 29, 2008 at 2:36 AM
The ghosts in the third picture.... are.... O.O
- May 20, 2009 at 11:18 PM
- Darci said...
The second ones look like angry polar bears.
- October 10, 2009 at 12:50 AM
- Cupcakes Lady said...
Freud would have a field day with these cakes. So true. xx
- October 7, 2010 at 4:58 PM
*Has* to be a Disc World reference! <3
Sarah - March 19, 2011 at 9:06 PM
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MLOCK(2) BSD System Calls Manual MLOCK(2) NAME
mlock, munlock -- lock (unlock) physical pages in memory LIBRARY
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#include <sys/mman.h> int mlock(const void *addr, size_t len); int munlock(const void *addr, size_t len); DESCRIPTION
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fork(2), mincore(2), minherit(2), mlockall(2), mmap(2), munlockall(2), munmap(2), setrlimit(2), getpagesize(3) HISTORY
The mlock() and munlock() system calls first appeared in 4.4BSD. BUGS
Allocating too much wired memory can lead to a memory-allocation deadlock which requires a reboot to recover from. The per-process resource limit is a limit on the amount of virtual memory locked, while the system-wide limit is for the number of locked physical pages. Hence a process with two distinct locked mappings of the same physical page counts as 2 pages against the per-process limit and as only a single page in the system limit. The per-process resource limit is not currently supported. BSD
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Miller, Clark A. and Ira Bennett. 2008. "Thinking Longer Term about Technology: Is there Value in Science Fiction-inspired Approaches to Constructing Future." Science and Public Policy. 35(8):597-606. doi: 10.3152/030234208X370666 |
Porter, Alan L., Martin Meyer and Ismael Rafols. May 2008. "The Cognitive Geography of Nanotechnologies: Location and Knowledge Flows of Nano-Research in the Map of Science." Presentation. NBER Conference on Emerging Industries: Nanotechnology and NanoIndicators. Cambridge, MA. |
Porter, Alan L. and Ismael Rafols. September 2008. "Science Overlay Maps: Easy-to-use Tools to Help Visualize and Track Bodies of Research, A Deeper Look at the Visualization of Scientific Discovery in the Federal Context." Presentation. National Science Foundation Workshop. Arlington, VA. |
Porter, Alan L., Philip Shapira and Jan Youtie. October 2008. "Nano Social Science: An Emerging Specialization." Presentation. Nanotechnology and Society: Emerging Opportunities & Challenges Networks, Risk and Knowledge Sharing. University of Massachusetts. Amherst, MA. |
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When I look at the harsh dark shadows, the distorted angles, and the magnified expressions on people's faces in the exhibition Masterworks of Expressionist Cinema: Caligari and Metropolis, I feel at home. What might be disturbing to other viewers seems to be ingrained as a nostalgic memory in me, as part of the German collective subconscious.
At the turn from the nineteenth to the twentieth century, the role of man (and woman) changed radically with industrialization. Life became more self-determined, structuring powers like the church and the monarchy were gone. But with self-determination came not only freedom but also fear. Accomplishments of modern life were celebrated: electricity, speed, machines, automobiles, and weapons—but at the same time there was fear, which was exponentiated by the outbreak of World War I. The lost war left Germans traumatized. While psychological trauma stayed mostly hidden, the ruins and crippled war veterans were out in the streets for anyone to see.
Artistic response to the trauma was split between focusing on the body versus mind; on glorification versus accounts on fear. One artistic stream was to glorify the strength of the wholesome athletic body, the exact opposite to the crippled war veterans in the streets. The idea of the man-machine, made popular by industrialization, was fortified. Artists and intellectuals of the Weimar Republic became fascinated with sports in general, and with boxing in particular—a metaphor for life-or-death struggle. Playwright Berthold Brecht and painter George Grosz paid court to German boxing legend Max Schmeling. Later, under Nazi rule, the idolized athletic body transformed into the soldier's body. What stood for trauma healing between the wars turned into aggression and new destruction in World War II.
Another artistic stream centered on the psychological trauma and the unconsciousness. Madness, insanity, and betrayal are topics expressionist films and art explore. The disenfranchised and the troubled souls are portrayed, their fears and pains screaming out loud. Ordinary people lead lives devoid of meaning and damaged by modernity. Their inner worlds are made visible by non-realistic, geometrically absurd cityscapes, by bold contrast of light and shadow, by expressive make-up and acting.
In the films Metropolis and The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari a man-machine (the robot in Metropolis and Cesare in Dr. Caligari), programmed by a self-delusional man of power, brings torment and death to the enslaved and the vulnerable. Put on a pedestal at first, the man-machine is ultimately subdued. Both films reflect the trauma of World War I and may be read as foreshadowing what was to come. Expressionist art was later denounced as degenerate by the National Socialist Party.
Fritz Lang as well as many other German artists fled to the U.S. And the expressionist "baggage" they brought influenced American gangster and horror films. Highly stylized set decoration and exaggerated and dramatic lighting are some techniques employed by Orson Wells and Hitchcock to make emotional worlds visible—fear, horror, and pain.
Some of my favorite more recent movie examples are Ridley Scott's Blade Runner, which borrows from Metropolis's expressive set design with its modern and monumental buildings in a city where the wealthy literally live above the workers. A similar design concept distinguishes Gary Ross' The Hunger Games. And in Tim Burton's Edward Scissorhands, Edward, just like Cesare in Dr. Caligari, is an outsider with a strange condition. He's not a villain, though look at Edward's make-up and wardrobe. Look at his distorted Gothic castle high up on the hill within the darkest of shadows. Dr. Caligari could just as well be living there.
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Depending on who you ask, the Tibetan word "Lhagang" means either "the place loved by the deities" or "deity ridge." The latter etymology (Tibetan: ལྷ་སྒང) has numerous interpretations. According to one, the town is generically called Lhagang because it is part of the Minyak Rapgang area. According to another interpretation, the name refers to the fact that Lhagang is overlooked by a ridge (Tibetan: སྒང) system with three mountain peaks, each of which represents a deity from Buddhist cosmology. Coming into Lhagang from the south, the first of these deity mountains is Jampeyang (Sanskrit: Manjushri), the Buddhist deity of wisdom. The second is Chenrezik (Sanskrit: Avalokiteshvara), the Buddha of compassion (noted for the banners or prayer flags all along its side). Finally, on the northern side of town is Chana Dorjé (Sanskrit: Vajrapani), who represents esoteric Buddhism or tantra. The presence of these mountains and their corresponding deities make Lhagang a special place on the Tibetan landscape and many Tibetans say they seek to visit or live in Lhagang in order to receive blessings from the deities.
The former etymology of "Lhagang" as "place loved by all the gods" (Tibetan: ལྷ་ཐམས་ཅད་ཀྱི་དགའ་ས) also has numerous interpretations. One common interpretation ties back to a story from the seventh century in the early days of the Tibetan empire when the famous Jowo statue (traditionally one of Tibet's most sacred statues) passed through Lhagang en route to Lhasa from China. It is said that at that time there were actually two Jowo statues, not one. One statue is said to have spoke out and declared a wish to remain in Lhagang and so it did. Because of the Jowo Buddha statue's affection for Ba Lhagang, it received the name "the place loved by the gods."


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Does the capture of Ahmed Abu Khatallah, a key suspect in the deadly 2012 Benghazi attacks, alter the political polarity of the episode?
If so, the change wasn't immediately apparent.
While Republicans said Tuesday they welcomed the news, they also made clear that their suspicions toward President Obama on all things Benghazi were far from assuaged.
Indeed, what appeared to happen was that Khatallah's apprehension added to — rather than subtracted from — the GOP points of contention with the Obama administration.
Khatallah's capture rekindled a dispute over the handling of terrorist suspects that goes back to the start of the administration, when Obama wanted to put Guantanamo detainees through the criminal justice system and close Gitmo. The issue: Should such suspects be kept in U.S. military custody as Republicans (and some Democrats) preferred or tried in the U.S. criminal justice system, Obama's preference?
In a statement, House Speaker John Boehner put Obama on notice that Republicans want Khatallah to be squeezed for all the intelligence value he can provide the U.S military before the administration moves the suspect to law enforcement.
"It is obviously good news that this terrorist is now in American custody, and I am grateful for the work of our military — assisted by the FBI — in capturing him," Boehner said in a statement. "I look forward to hearing more details regarding the raid, and I expect the administration to give our military professionals time to properly gather any useful intelligence he has." The implication was that the administration might be in a headlong rush to get Khatallah into the criminal justice system.
Boehner was tame, however, compared with some other Republicans. For instance, Allan West, the former Republican congressman from Florida, accused Obama of using the capture as a distraction:
"Hat tip to our U.S. Special Operators but this smells of typical politics and especially the politics of expediency and Orwellian message control. We know the liberal progressive media depends upon an easily distracted populace. By the end of the week, this Abu Khatallah will be forgotten, but what will not be forgotten is the neatness of this and the timing of the announcement. So I guess Obama and Clinton can now tout that the perpetrators have been brought to justice — what took so long? — if indeed this pans out."
As did other Republicans, West questioned why Khatallah was captured only this weekend when he was out and about and doing interviews with Western media for some time after the attack that killed four Americans, including U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens.
Democrats had no such issues with the timing. "The success of this operation is a tribute to the incredible dedication of our military, law enforcement and intelligence personnel," said Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., the top House Democrat. "I commend President Obama for his resolute leadership in tracking down the perpetrators of the Benghazi attacks.
So, in the end, Khatallah's capture seemed little more than than one more talking point as the House slogs its way to the still-unscheduled Benghazi hearings.
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We're pleased to announce the 1.5 release of PyPy. This release updates PyPy with the features of CPython 2.7.1, including the standard library. Thus all the features of CPython 2.6 and CPython 2.7 are now supported. It also contains additional performance improvements. You can download it here:
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This release includes the features of CPython 2.6 and 2.7. It also includes a large number of small improvements to the tracing JIT compiler. It supports Intel machines running Linux 32/64 or Mac OS X. Windows is beta (it roughly works but a lot of small issues have not been fixed so far). Windows 64 is not yet supported.
Numerous speed achievements are described on our blog. Normalized speed charts comparing pypy 1.5 and pypy 1.4 as well as pypy 1.5 and cpython 2.6.2 are available on our benchmark website. The speed improvement over 1.4 seems to be around 25% on average.
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- The CPython extension module API has been improved and now supports many more extensions. For information on which one are supported, please refer to our compatibility wiki.
- These changes make it possible to support Tkinter and IDLE.
- The cProfile profiler is now working with the JIT. However, it skews the performance in unstudied ways. Therefore it is not yet usable to analyze subtle performance problems (the same is true for CPython of course).
- There is an external fork which includes an RPython version of the postgresql. However, there are no prebuilt binaries for this.
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"The mindset of a wrestler is to go out there and attack, attack, attack, and beat your opponent and break his will." - Benson Henderson
If you've ever wondered what makes two of the most laid-back and affable fighters in the UFC battle for 25 minutes as if their lives depended on the outcome, UFC lightweight champion Benson Henderson can give a little insight on what he believes pushed Frankie Edgar and himself during their first fight in February, and what will likely do so again in their rematch this Saturday in Denver.
"We don't have that primadonna mindset," said Henderson, referring to the state of mind possessed by that toughest of tough species – the wrestler. "We're wrestlers at heart and if we're not the best, we want to beat the best so after we beat them we can call ourselves the best. So I think a lot of it stems from being wrestlers."
That means that while there may be some flashy techniques or jaw-dropping moments at times, for the most part, the end result will be determined by who can suffer the longest, and who can endure through the pain, the blood, and the sweat and break down his opponent. What results is usually a Fight of the Year candidate, and that's the good part for the fans. For fighters like Henderson though, it's not about putting on a good show, though that is a nice fringe benefit.
"I don't feel pressure or anything like that," he said when asked about being expected to deliver epic battles each time out. "It's just the way we (he and Edgar) fight. Every time Frankie fights he puts on a good show, and when I fight I always try to do the same thing."
So what is the endgame for the man dubbed "Smooth" but whose all-out aggressive style is anything but that?
"The mindset of a wrestler is to go out there and attack, attack, attack, and beat your opponent and break his will," he said. "Even in practice, I want to break my opponent. I want my teammates who I love, my brothers who help make me better, I want to break them during practice. Those hard, brutal, tough practices develop and sharpen your killer instinct and that desire to wrestle the best and to beat the best."
It's far from what you would expect to hear from the comic book-loving, toothpick chewing Henderson, who looks to be better suited for an eventual gig as a college professor than as a prizefighter. Then again, that's what makes him such a compelling figure in the sport. Frankly, there's no one like him, no one to really compare him to, and that's the way he likes it. He wants to be a pioneering force in the game, but not because of what he does outside the Octagon, but because he wants to break records and reign atop the 155-pound weight class as long as he possibly can. And he doesn't want to do it by tiptoeing through the lightweight landscape.
"I don't want MMA turning into boxing," he said. "And I think fighting in general in the UFC and MMA is not like boxing. It's not like, oh, you call out who you want. I want this guy or I won't fight this guy. To me, it's more like the NFL. In the playoffs, you don't have a choice. 'Oh, we don't want to play the New York Giants, we want to play the San Francisco 49ers.' Well, guess what? You don't have a choice, the New York Giants won and you have to play them next. For me, I don't care who I fight next. Honestly, I want to fight everybody. I want to fight everybody and I want to beat everybody. It's just a matter of them doing their job and waiting to get to a title shot. I have no control over who the UFC picks next, and I don't care. It's up to them to win and get to a title shot, and I'm gonna work my butt off to make sure I have this belt a long, long time, and hopefully I can fight all of them."
In the past, I've brought up the name of boxing legend Joe Louis to Henderson, talking about the 12 year reign of the Hall of Famer who defended his heavyweight crown 25 times during that period. Henderson's enthusiasm to possibly make the MMA version of that run was evident, and it wasn't for a catchy soundbite; it was because he meant it. As far as he's concerned, that's what defines a champion.
"If he's the next guy in line, and he's good enough, and he's the guy who (UFC president) Dana White says I fight next, you get in there and you beat him up, and then you fight the next guy and the next guy. It's plain and simple."
Henderson doesn't hesitate to say that he owes much of this attitude to his time wrestling at Dana College in Nebraska.
"It's just my personality and the type of person I am," he said. "If we go play a Monopoly tournament somewhere, I want to play the best guys and beat the best guys. It was also developed and sharpened in college wrestling because you want to wrestle the best guys. You can go to the easy tournaments and wrestle a bunch of chumps and win every tournament and go undefeated; it's really not too hard. But if you want to challenge yourself and truly be the best, you can do that, and college wrestling definitely instilled that in myself and in a lot of the top fighters."
So if you expected a post-title winning letdown from the 28-year old, it didn't happen. He may be working even harder than he did before, and this is a guy whose work ethic has always been one of his biggest attributes.
"Life hasn't changed," he said. "It's pretty much the same. I'm a pretty low-key kind of guy. I spend a lot of time at the gym and train a whole lot, and I'm training even more with the belt because I want to keep it. That requires me doing a lot more than what it took for me to take it."
Yet as you talk with Henderson about life as a champion, his goals, and what he wants his career to look like, you do get a look at what may be the true catalyst that pushes him as hard as he goes in the gym and the Octagon. And it all goes back to his reign as WEC champion, one that ended at the hands of Anthony Pettis in December of 2010. After that fight, Henderson was on his way to the UFC and obviously things worked out well for him, but when he talks about losing the title, there is still that sense that he hasn't forgotten that pain of defeat.
"Having the belt and losing it kinda stuck with me and it was a big moment in my life, so I definitely want to make sure that does not happen again," he said. "You're gonna lose eventually, that's just gonna happen, but hopefully for me it doesn't happen for quite a while."
In 18 pro fights, many contested against top-level opposition like Edgar, Pettis, Donald Cerrone, Jamie Varner, Clay Guida, Jim Miller, Anthony Njokuani, Mark Bocek, and Shane Roller, Henderson has only lost twice, to Pettis and in his third pro fight in 2007 against Rocky Johnson. Guys like that don't take defeat well or lightly. Edgar is the same way, with his record currently sitting at 14-2-1. Someone will take a third defeat this Saturday, and Henderson is determined to make sure it's not him. That means taking the approach that if ain't broke, don't fix it.
"It is different, and it is another dance, but really it's just a matter of who got better at what they do," he said. "Obviously there will be a few new dance steps and a few new twists and twirls and all that, but it all comes down to fundamentals and who improved the most in those basics and whose team can put together a solid gameplan. My coach, John Crouch, and my teammates, we do a pretty good job of putting together a gameplan, and I'm able to go out there and implement that gameplan most of the time."
As for the peculiar details that come along with fighting someone a second time, Henderson is keeping the focus on himself and not on what Edgar is planning on doing to reverse the verdict of the first fight.
"We always try to focus more on ourselves rather than our opponents too much. Obviously if our opponent has a huge high kick, we know that he has a very powerful and dangerous headkick and he knocked out his last five opponents with it, so we'll watch out for that, but for the most part we're worried about ourselves and how we're gonna get better, what we're gonna do, how we're gonna work our gameplan, and how we'll instill our will during the fight. Anytime you do see the same guy again, I think it's important not to get complacent and not completely miss what he brings to the table and how much better he is in rematches. We all know Frankie is way better and way tougher in rematches, so you just can't dismiss him out of hand in a rematch."
This is the third time New Jersey's Edgar has faced the same opponent more than once, and in those bouts, he's 2-0-1 (two bouts with Gray Maynard and one with BJ Penn). This is only the second rematch of Henderson's career, but he didn't do too badly in that one, as he revisited his five round 2009 war with Cerrone by ending the 2010 rematch in under two minutes.
"Not too bad, huh?" he laughs. "Sometimes you get a rematch and I have a little chip on my shoulder. I go out there and perform well."
Will there be a repeat to this pattern this Saturday night?
"I definitely want to end the fight," said Henderson. "I don't like having fights go to decisions, but Frankie's tough. To make that happen, it's gonna take a lot of hard work."
Well, hard work's never been a problem for a former college wrestler like Benson Henderson.
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