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No one finds "Merry Christmas" offensive, but "Happy Holidays" is more inclusive, as it includes non-Christians and it acknowledges that there's more than one holiday during this season.
What would the Right do with their time if they weren't angry about everything 24/7?
Sign looks Photoshopped, BTW.
There is nothing Christian about that. Nothing.
You want to put 'Christ' back into Christmas? How about putting 'Christ' back into Christian? Instead of being hostile and petulant every December, you'd all be a lot happier.
Growing up in the NE, where we had many Jewish friends and neighbors, my rightwing fundie family always said "Happy Holidays" except at Church. Of course, that was back in the day before Hate Radio, Fox & even the 700 club made being polite, gracious, mature and inclusive a SIN and cause for ChristoFascists to behave like tantrum-throwing nasty ugly children.
At least 10 steps backwards, imo.
I duly note the number of people who say "Merry Christmas" to me at this time of year in very hostile and aggressive tones. What they believe they accomplish by this approach - when I haven't even said the terrible horrid unforgivable politically incorrect "Happy Holidays" to them - is beyond my comprehension.
Way to win converts... NOT.
Most. Obvious. Photoshop job. Ever.
From now on I'm going to say something silly like "Season's Greetings" and use "X-mas" for christmas ( notice the lower case "c" ) just for spite to break the fundie's balls.
I continue to say "Happy Holidays" because I'm not insecure, and I have a diverse group of friends who celebrate different holidays or none at all. Ramming your particular belief system down everyone's throats doesn't strike me as a winning formula.
Try wishing everyone "Happy Allah Days." Watch their heads explode.
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Happy Ramadan and Happy Kwanza!
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Happy Ramadan and Happy Kwanza!
Typical Mike Hawk non sequitur; Ramadan begins June 6, 2016.
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They give you one wish at the Make-A-Wish Foundation, and a 15-year-old boy from Barre, Vt., wanted to meet his New York Football Giants and spend one Sunday night at MetLife Stadium with them against Aaron Rodgers and the Packers.
"Go out there and play like you're world champs," Adam Merchant told his team at practice Friday.
Chris Snee saw the boy, his stomach ravaged with cancer, on the sidelines before the game, and shook his hand, and promised him:
"We're going to play like champions."
Then Snee said: "He kind of smiled at me, and I ran in the locker room."
Giants 38, Packers 10.
"It was amazing," the boy said.
He was seated in the locker room next to Justin Tuck, wearing a blue wool Giants cap and a No. 90.
"It was a dream come true," the boy said.
Dream come true watching Eli Manning show up as the two-time Super Bowl MVP.
"You could really feel the inspiration that he gave us, and we didn't forget it man, and I think it really was a catalyst to help us play inspired football tonight," Victor Cruz said.
"This kid, of all the places he wanted to go for his wish, he wanted to come to watch us practice and to come to this game," Snee said. "When he said, 'Play like champions,' I think we all stopped and thought about it. … We are the champions, and we need to play like that."
That was no tired arm on Manning and that was no tired team they might have called the Smackers last nightat MetLife Stadium.
Quarterback slump over.
Woevember over.
Second-half swoon over.
By the time it was all over, Manning had passed Phil Simms atop the alltime Giants quarterback chart with his 200th career touchdown pass.
But more importantly, he won another showdown with Rodgers and helped make a wish come true for a lifelong Giants fan who has been dealt a terrible hand.
"It was good to see his arm come back alive and be able to hit us on some crucial plays," Cruz said.
Manning had started the night with 99 straight throws without a touchdown pass, and the drought reached 107 before it ended with a 16-yard strike to rookie Rueben Randle.
Manning didn't have to worry about Clay Matthews or Charles Woodson, the Packers' defensive leaders both out with injuries.
Rodgers (five sacks) had to worry about Corey Webster and Osi Umenyiora (strip sack) and Jason Pierre-Paul (fumble recovery) and all those Big Blue champions who played like champions.
Manning (three touchdowns, no interceptions) didn't even need a healthy Hakeem Nicks this time.
Until he needed him to wrest the club record from Simms, whose career stretched from 1979-1993. Manning has done this 11 games into his ninth season. Different era, different philosophy and all that. It doesn't change the fact that he's the best Giants quarterback of all time, even if Simms has removed him from the elite pedestal.
"Anytime you're mentioned with Phil Simms and Charlie Conerly (now third in Giants history) and some of those quarterbacks, it's an honor," Manning said.
It was already 31-10 when Manning fired over the middle for Nicks, who caught the missile at the 2, rolled on top of Davon House, and stretched over his shoulder and extended the ball over the plane of the goal line with his massive right hand. Tom Coughlin successfully challenged the officials' ruling he was down at the 1.
Play like a champion running back: Ahmad Bradshaw sparked the opening touchdown drive with a 59-yard screen catch-and-run, and it was Bradshaw whose 13-yard TD romp followed Jason Pierre-Paul's fumble recovery of an Umenyiora strip sack of Rodgers.
Play like a champion quarterback: Third-and-7 at the Lombardi 34. Manning dropped back. Saw an opening wider than the gap between Michael Strahan's front teeth. Channeled his inner Tim Tebow, and lowered his left shoulder into Tramon Williams at the end of his 13-yard gain.
"It sparked our sideline, that's for sure," Coughlin said. "It sent a message to the rest of our team as well that whatever you have to do to succeed, do it."
He threw a slant behind Nicks. That made 107 passes without a touchdown for Manning. There wouldn't be a 108th. Manning lofted a rainbow in the back of the end zone for Randle, past House and M.D. Jennings, and it was Giants 14, Packers 7. It was 24-7 when Manning found Cruz with a 9-yard touchdown bullet.
Wish granted.
"He said, 'Go show everybody you're the world champions, and why you're the world champions, and play that way,' " Manning said. "I think it got everybody fired up, and we came out and played the way that we know we can."


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This is a question that's come up quite a bit lately with author and editor friends. Are the current standard ebook royalties (25 percent of receipts) fair? And if not, what would be fair?
The argument for raising royalties to 50 percent or greater of receipts is that ebooks don't cost publishers anything to produce: no paper, no printing, no binding, no warehousing, no shipping, no returns. Whatever investment in editing, promotion, typesetting and design that the publisher made, had to be made in order to produce the print book. Producing an e-version is a trivial additional cost. So authors should get at least half because for the publisher, ebook revenue is gravy.
That argument assumes that everything stays the same in publishing and that ebooks will continue to be a small portion of books sold. We know, however, that publishing isn't staying the same. Sales of e-readers and ebooks have risen dramatically in just the past year. Between the Kindle and the iPad, almost everyone expects that the ebook will be embraced by more readers. The pace of adoption should increase dramatically. The open question is how to quantify that adjective "dramatically."
And for virtually every ebook bought, a print book isn't.
Right now, ebooks are estimated to be about 5 percent of the market. What happens to the industry when they're 25 percent?
Anyone who has read this blog more than once knows that I'm a fierce advocate for writers, am against the Google settlement because it's a worse deal for writers than writers can get on their own from Google, and have urged writers to stand up for their rights on pay, copyright, and other issues.
So you might be surprised to learn that I'm not convinced that writers should demand 50 percent of receipts for ebook royalties.
I agree that 25 percent of receipts is too low. Publishing guru Mike Shatzkin estimates that on hardcover books, the "standard" royalty of 15 percent works out to about 27 to 32 percent of receipts, which in turn, after expenses, splits profits about 50/50 between author and publisher.
A 50/50 split of profits is fair. But that's not the same as a 50/50 split of receipts. One day soon, e-publishing won't be all gravy. It will be the way we publish books. And all the costs associated with publishing books (minus the printing and other costs that printed books incur but ebooks don't) will have to factored into ebook pricing and royalty calculations.
You can bet that publishers are already factoring the future into their calculations as they set their 25 percent of receipts royalty schedules. Nobody can accurately predict the future though, and publishers are giving themselves ample padding.
The issue we need to address is how should receipts between publisher and author be split to account for a future where ebooks are a big chunk of the books sold? The goal should be that, after publishers' costs are covered, authors and publishers share the profits 50/50.
The percentage of receipts authors would get with a fair (50/50 profit) royalty system is not 25 percent of receipts. But it's not 50 percent of receipts either.


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Each day this week, Baltimore Sun reporter and blogger Matt Vensel will break down a key matchup from Sunday's Super Bowl. Today, he looks at how Haloti Ngata could blast a big hole in the 49ers offensive line.
In today's NFL, with offenses lighting up the scoreboards, the battles in the trenches between 300-pound linemen often get overlooked. But sometimes, as you watch the pretty-boy quarterback drop back in the pocket or the back emerge from a forest of linemen, you can't help but notice the massive blur flash before your eyes.
Ravens defensive tackle -- or is he a defensive end? -- Haloti Ngata is a big man who does things that big men aren't supposed to be able to do, which is why, when healthy, he is considered one of the NFL's best defenders.
But in Sunday's Super Bowl, barging into the backfield won't be easy for Ngata. The San Francisco 49ers have one of the NFL's best offensive lines, a group of five bulldozers that excels in run blocking. One of their top priorities will be moving Ngata out of the way. It is a matchup that is being overlooked this week, but it is one that will likely impact the game in a major way, big bodies paving the path to a championship.
"Their offense prides themselves in being physical and trying to run the ball. They have a physical running back," Ngata said. "We want to be physical all the time. I expect it to be a real physical game."
Ngata is one of the most fascinating physical specimens in the NFL. Listed at 6 feet 4 and 330 pounds, the man -- at least I think he is mortal -- is built like a refrigerator, but a refrigerator that would probably smoke you in a foot race. His torso is as thick as yours is wide, and his powerful legs are seemingly the size of Ray Rice. The four-time Pro Bowler is capable of playing multiple positions in any defensive front and creating a mismatch wherever he lines up. The Ravens move Ngata all over their three-man line.
"Most men that size can't move around and play multiple positions on the D-Line. He's unique," Greg Cosell of NFL Films said.
For the third straight season, Ngata had at least five sacks, which is a nice number for interior linemen, and he made 51 tackles. But admittedly, the 29-year-old has been slowed by nagging injuries to his knee and his shoulder, and while limping toward his first Super Bowl, Ngata questioned his football mortality. Still, his 38 total pressures ranked sixth among defensive ends playing in a 3-4 scheme, according to Pro Football Focus, who also graded him out as the team's best run stuffer and overall defender this season.
His Ravens teammates are still awed whenever they see Ngata flash across the screen in the film room.
"He is a grown man playing a childhood game," defensive end Arthur Jones said. "I just love watching him. That's a guy you have to account for every time he's on the field [if you're] an offensive lineman."
The good news for them is that the massive man mountain isn't difficult to spot before the snap, but once they figure out where he is lining up in the Ravens' front, they must quickly adjust their blocking assignments accordingly. Then comes the difficult part, of course. Asked what is most challenging for offensive linemen when facing Ngata, ESPN's Ron Jaworski chuckled as he blurted out, "Blocking him."
"He's not only stout at the point of attack, but he can rush the quarterback, he can bull-rush, he can get outside and make plays, he can split a double team," he said. "Clearly, he is a complete interior lineman."
The San Francisco offensive line is arguably the league's best group when it comes to pushing around defenders. Coaching legend John Madden thinks so, as do the guys over at Pro Football Focus. And that is what the 49ers had in mind when they started to build a Super Bowl contender through the NFL draft.
The 49ers drafted Pro Bowl left tackle Joe Staley in the first round in 2007. Three years later, they selected both Pro Bowl left guard Mike Iupati and right tackle Anthony Davis in the first round of the 2010 draft. They later rounded out their offensive line with a couple of free agents -- center Jonathan Goodwin and right guard Alex Boone -- and that group started every single game together this season.
"The offensive line is always going to be the pillar of your team because you can't pass the ball, you can't run the ball if they're not playing at a high level," 49ers offensive coordinator Greg Roman said. "So it all starts up front, the pass protection, the run blocking. ... And those guys are really, really dialed in. [They] bought in. And they're at the point now where there are five guys that are really functioning as one."
The 49ers aren't great in pass protection, having allowed 41 sacks (though the sacks are down with Colin Kaepernick under center). But they are excellent in run blocking. According to Football Outsiders, they are the league's best in that department, especially when it comes to getting running backs Frank Gore and LaMichael James to the second level. The 49ers ranked fourth in the NFL with 155.7 yards per game.
"Their offensive line, they're big and strong, and Iupati is one of the best pulling guards I've seen in the league," Jones said. "That's one of the better offensive lines we're going to face this year. They know it. We know it. We respect them and they respect us. It's going to be a big physical dogfight."
The 49ers have overwhelmed opponents with Kaepernick, Gore and the read-option running game. With Kaepernick in the shotgun or in the pistol, the 49ers force their opponents to pick their poison, as I explained in this piece earlier in the week. But the real secret to their success is that power running game.
"Usually, when the running game plays well, it's because of clichéd reasons, but it's the reason: They're physical, they're athletic, they're very cohesive," Cosell said. "That's how you get really good offensive line play."
The 49ers appear to have the edge in the trenches against the NFL's 20th-ranked run defense, but Ngata is one man who can blow up their backfield. Quick penetration will disrupt their running game, especially when they use their read-option plays. Rest over the past two weeks will likely serve him well, and if Ngata is close to full strength, Cosell thinks he will be a handful for Iupati, Goodwin and Boone on the interior of their line.
"Ngata has been a little up and down only because, I'm sure, of injury," Cosell said. "There have been plays in which he has been dominant like the Ngata we expect to see. There have been other plays where he has been moved. I would expect with two weeks, he'll be more like the Ngata of old, so I think he's a really intriguing wild card in this game because of his great athleticism for a man that size, his unbelievable strength, and his position versatility."
Jaworski said the matchup between Ngata and the San Francisco front line will be "critical," and with a chance to win his first Lombardi Trophy, it sounds like Ngata is looking forward to jumping in the fray.
"[Playing like a Raven] means being nasty and playing rough, tough football," said Baltimore's gentle giant, who was swarmed by media this week. "Playing with some type of cruelty, but not trying to kill somebody. It's a nastiness where you're going to impose your will on teams, so that's we what want to do."


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Five and half years ago, at the end of the spring semester of 2009, I sat down and over the course of 30 days drafted my book Delivering Development. The book was, for me, many things: an effort to impose a sort of narrative on the work I'd been doing for 12 years in Ghana and other parts of Africa; an effort to escape the increasingly claustrophobic confines of academic writing and debates; and an effort to exorcise the growing frustration and isolation I felt as an academic working on international development in a changing climate, but without a meaningful network into any development donors. Most importantly, however, it was a 90,000 word scream at the field that could be summarized in three sentences:
- Most of the time, we have no idea what the global poor are doing or why they are doing it.
- Because of this, most of our projects are designed for what we think is going on, which rarely aligns with reality
- This is why so many development projects fail, and if we keep doing this, the consequences will get dire
The book had a generous reception, received very fair (if sometimes a bit harsh) reviews, and actually sold a decent number of copies (at least by the standards of the modern publishing industry, which was in full collapse by the time the book appeared in January 2011). Maybe most gratifying, I heard from a lot of people who read the book and who heard the message, or for whom the book articulated concerns they had felt in their jobs.
This is not to say the book is without flaws. For example, the second half of the book, the part addressing the implications of being wrong about the global poor, was weaker than the first – and this is very clear to me now, as the former employee of a development donor. Were I writing the book now, I would do practically nothing to the first half, but I would revise several parts of the second half (and the very dated scenarios chapter really needs revision at this point, anyway). But, five and a half years after I drafted it, I can still say one thing clearly.
Well, I was right about point #1 above, anyway. The newest World Development Report from the World Bank has empirically demonstrated what was so clear to me and many others, and what I think I did a very nice job of illustrating in Delivering Development: most people engaged in the modern development industry have very little understanding of the lives and thought processes of the global poor, the very people that industry is meant to serve. Chapter 10 is perfectly titled: "The biases of development professionals." All credit to the authors of the report for finally turning the analytic lens on development itself, as it would have been all too easy to simply talk about the global poor through the lens of perception and bias. And when the report turns to development professionals' perceptions…for the love of God. Just look at the findings on page 188. No, wait, let me show you some here:
For those who are chart-challenged, let me walk you through this. In three settings, the survey asked development professionals what percentage of their beneficiaries thought "what happens in the future depends on me." For the bottom third, the professionals assumed very few people would say this. Except that a huge number of very poor people said this, in all settings. In short, the development professionals were totally wrong about what these people thought, which means they don't understand their mindsets, motivations, etc. Holy crap, folks. This isn't a near miss. This is I-have-no-idea-what-I-am-talking-about stuff here. These are the error bars on the initial ideas that lead to projects and programs at development donors.
WDR's frames these findings in pretty stark terms (page 180):
Perhaps the most pressing concern is whether development professionals understand the circumstances in which the beneficiaries of their policies actually live and the beliefs and attitudes that shape their lives.
And their proposed solution is equally pointed (page 190):
For project and program design, development professionals should "eat their own dog food": that is, they should try to experience firsthand the programs and projects they design.
Yes. Or failing that, they should really start either reading the work of people who can provide that experience for them, or start funding the people who can generate the data that allows for this experience (metaphorically).
On one hand, I am thrilled to see this point in mainstream development conversation. On the other…I said this five years ago, and not that many people cared. Now the World Bank says it…or maybe more to the point, the World Bank says it in terms of behavioral economics, and everyone gets excited. Well, my feelings on this are pretty clear:
- Just putting this in terms of behavioral economics is actually putting the argument out there in the least threatening manner possible, as it is still an argument from economics that preserves that disciplinary perspective's position of superiority in development
- The things that behavioral economics have been "discovering" about the global poor that anthropology, geography, sociology, and social history have been saying for decades. Further, their analyses generally lack explanatory rigor or anything resembling external validity – see my posts here, here, and here.
Also, the WDR never makes a case for why we should care that we are probably misunderstanding/ misrepresenting the global poor. As a result, this just reads as an extended "oopsie!" piece that needs not be seriously addressed as long as we look a little sheepish – then we can get back to work. But getting this stuff wrong is really, really important – this was the central point of the second half of Delivering Development (a point that Duncan Green unfortunately missed in his review). We can design projects that not only fail to make things better, we can actually make things much worse: we can kill people by accident. We can gum up the global environment, which is not going to only hurt some distant, abstract global poor person – it will hit those in the richest countries, too. We can screw up the global economy, another entity that knows few borders and over which nobody has complete control. This is not "oopsie!" This is a disaster that requires serious attention and redress.
So, good first step World Bank, but not far enough. Delivering Development still goes a lot further than you are willing to now. Delivering Development goes much further than behavioral development economics has gone, or really can go. Time to catch up to the real nature of this problem, and the real challenges it presents. Time to catch up to things I was writing five years ago, before it's too late.


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This weekend my cute cousin Lydia helped me vamp up some of the pillows on my couch.
1. I found this cute fabric at Hobby Lobby.
2. I decided to make fabric flowers to add the the pillows. Cut out 3 different sized felt circles.
3. Cut strips of the different fabrics and scrunched the ends. Then hot glue the end of the fabric to the felt circle.
4. Once glued, continue to fold and scrunch the flower in a circle. Then continue to hot glue the fabric down as you wrap it in a circle.
5. Cut the extra felt off the sides of the flowers.
6. Next, hand sew the flowers on to the pillow.
6. Add more batting to the pillows if needed. I did since mine are a little older.
7. Ta-da revamped pillows!!


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Agencies Prohibit Hunting Over Bait
Hunters are reminded that hunting big game over bait is prohibited on all state owned or managed wildlife management areas, all U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service national wildlife refuges and waterfowl production areas, U.S. Forest Service national grasslands, and all North Dakota state school, state park and state forest service lands.
The governor's proclamation relating to chronic wasting disease also includes a provision that prohibits hunting big game over bait on both public and private land in deer unit 3C west of the Missouri River, and all of units 3E1, 3E2, 3F1 and 3F2.
In addition, any firearms, equipment or accessories used by hunters on Private Land Open To Sportsmen acreage may not be left unattended and must be removed when the hunter leaves the area. This includes, but is not limited to, guns, blinds, stands, baits, scents and decoys. This means a hunter cannot place bait on PLOTS prior to or during the season and leave it there. Any bait would have to be brought to the PLOTS tract by the hunter the same day and taken out by the hunter the same day he/she leaves.
Hunting over bait is defined as the placement and/or use of baits for attracting big game and other wildlife to a specific location for the purpose of hunting. Bait, in this case, includes grain, seed, mineral, salt, fruit, vegetable nut, hay, any naturally derived scent or lure, or any other natural or manufactured food placed by an individual. Bait does not include agricultural practices, gardens, wildlife food plots, agricultural crops, livestock feeds, fruit or vegetables in their natural location such as apples on or under an apple tree, or unharvested food or vegetables in a garden.


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Walter Abish
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Walter Abish (born December 24 1931) is a famous Austrian-born American author of experimental novels and short stories.
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- America fears the unshaven legs, the unshaven men's cheeks, the aroma of perspiration, and the limp prick. Above all it fears the limp prick.
- Walter Abish (1977). In the Future Perfect. New Directions. pp. Pg. 22. ISBN 0811206602.
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- "All About Abish", John Updike, The New Yorker, February 2004.


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Dennis Quaid Files for Divorce, Seeks Joint Custody
The actor offers to pay alimony to his wife of eight years, Kimberly
Dennis Quaid is ready to end his marriage for good.
After his wife of eight years, Kimberly Buffington-Quaid, sought legal separation in October, the Vegas star filed Friday for divorce in Los Angeles Superior Court.
The actor requests joint physical and legal custody of their 4-year-old twins, Thomas and Zoe, and offers to pay spousal support, according to the petition.
This will be the third divorce for Quaid, 58, who was previously married to Meg Ryan and P.J. Soles.
Kimberly, a former real estate agent, initially filed for divorce in March. She put the divorce on hold a month later, pulling the papers so they could work on their marriage, before then filing for separation.


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Have you visited my facebook page? I usually post lots of images and other wedding photography information on there first, along with the occasional wedding photography offer.
I share hundreds of other wedding photography images on my Pintrest account and my instagram all the little detail shots, venue shots, and lots of other wedding day items which are featured on my website.


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Japan's Toei Kyoto Studio Park: Samurai, ninjas and the original Power Rangers
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capital from 794 to 1868, is one of the biggest stars on the Japan tourism trail, recently voted "
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" by Travel + Leisure magazine readers.
Is it deserving of the title?
Unless you're a traveler under the age of 12 and don't give a hoot about learning the correct way to whisk a bowl of matcha green tea, exploring ancient UNESCO World Heritage sites or counting how many torii gates there are at the Fushimi Inari-Taisha Shrine (10,000, for the record).
When traveling to Kyoto with kids, the mutinous cries of "Not another zen garden, dad!" will inevitably ring out, threatening to derail that dream family vacation.
This is when you need to hit the
Toei Kyoto Studio Park
-- or Toei Uzumasa Eigamura -- and spend an afternoon geeking out on some of the most familiar icons of Japanese pop culture, from samurais and geisha to "Dragon Ball" and "Sailor Moon."
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'The Hollywood of Japan
First, you'll need to toss your Universal Studios fantasies out the sliding shoji screen door.
There are no rides here.
This theme park celebrates the best of Japanese film-making, filled with huge Edo-period (1600-1867) sets you can explore on foot -- preferably decked out in a funny samurai-style wig you rented in the costume shop near the entrance.
Often overshadowed by its traditional cultural allures, Kyoto was called the "
Hollywood of Japan
" between the 1920s and 1960s, until its thriving film industry
went into decline
Toei's movie production studios are adjacent to the Toei Kyoto Studio Park .
In response, film-making leader
Toei Studios Kyoto
opened up parts of its sets to the public in 1975.
Further development followed and the theme park grew in popularity among tourists.
Today, many of Japan's "jidaigeki" period dramas are still filmed on these sets.
On my recent weekday visit to the Toei Kyoto Studio Park, crowds were light and no TV shoots were taking place, but I was able to get a behind-the-scenes sample of what happens on a typical Japanese historical drama shoot at the park's Jidaigeki Show.
More relevant to most foreign visitors, however, is the Anime Museum, filled with impressive displays, pictures and cells from shows produced by the Toei film company's animation arm, including "Kamen Rider," "Sailor Moon," "Dragon Ball" and "Super Sentai," on which the U.S. based its popular "Power Rangers" series.
In addition to Toei's dozens of film-related displays, the park has live ninja and samurai shows, a Haunted House, Ninja Mystery House, Trick Art Museum, 3D theater, maze of illusions, science museum, indoor kids play areas and a lovely Japanese "ukiyo-e" woodcut print gallery.
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Haunting, but not horrifying
Given that the Toei film company is behind some pretty terrifying horror flicks, as well as the controversial cult classic "
Battle Royale
," I expect something a bit more grotesque than what awaited in the Haunted House.
Still, it's pretty darn scary, in a slightly cheesy way.
The sound effects alone left me fighting an urge to seek out an emergency "chicken" exit as I hissed aloud, "Why did I come in here?" (Expletive deleted.)
An actor, playing the role of a bloodied "dead" body, popped up in silent reply.
Next, bearing in mind the words of author Jarius Raphel -- "Ninjas don't wish upon a star, they throw them" -- I eagerly hit the Ninja Mystery House, where staff conducted a quick primer on the history of the cloaked assassins' residences before setting me free to get out of a fun maze of false walls and doors.
Alas, no ninja stars were thrown.
Over in the Trick Art Museum, quirky 3D anamorphic art and props made for a perfectly Instagrammable experience.
As I was traveling solo, a staff member was kind enough to accompany me through the space and take photos with my camera, doing a fine job of stifling her cringes as I struck awkward, unconvincing poses.
Though few would likely make a special trip to Kyoto to see the Toei Studio Park, it's definitely a kitschy and fun way to spend a few hours.
Shows, like this samurai sword fight demonstration, are presented in Japanese. But the best parts are highly entertaining even if you don't speak the language.
Buy the kids a souvenir ninja costume with their own set of throwing stars and you might even earn yourself an extra day of zen garden exploration.
Additional Toei Kyoto Studio Pak informatio
Many of the shows are presented in Japanese only, but inasmuch as they're highly visual, they're still worth watching.
Park displays include English text, while staff give out English-language maps at the entrance.
Toei Kyoto Studio Park has multiple restaurants throughout, which serve Japanese, Chinese and Western cuisine.
Admission is 2,200 yen ($21) for adults. Some attractions require an additional charge.
Toei Kyoto Studio Park
JR Uzumasa Station,10 Uzumasa, Hachigaoka-cho, Ukyo-ku, Kyoto; +81 (0)75 864 7716
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Fred Stoller is best known for being "that guy" in classic sitcoms like Murphy Brown, Seinfeld, and Everybody Loves Raymond, and he recalls his life of almost-fame in this humorous and revealing memoir. Ray Chase gives an uncanny performance that uses a languid and slightly adenoidal voice to mimic Stoller's droopy, sad sack persona. It isn't all an act, however, as Stoller examines the downsides of his success with a bracing forthrightness to go along with the juicy tales of the celebrities he's worked with, making Maybe We'll Have You Back a candid look at TV's perennial guest star.
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Fred Stoller has played the annoying schnook in just about every sitcom you've seen on TV - Friends, Everybody Loves Raymond, Scrubs, Hannah Montana, My Name Is Earl - and was even a staff writer for Seinfeld, but he's never found a solid gig. When it comes to Hollywood, it's a case of always the bridesmaid and never the bride, except in his case he's always the snarky waiter, the mopey cousin, or Man Number Two.
This hilarious and bittersweet rags-to-rags story of the hardest-working guy in showbiz follows Fred, who started his career as a stand-up comic, from set to set as he tries to find a permanent home for his oddball character. With candor, Fred shares stories of his great adventures pounding the Hollywood pavement, including a humiliating encounter with Billy Crystal, a disastrous one-night stand with Kathy Griffin, and plenty of awkward run-ins at craft service tables. And he always shares his ups and downs with his skeptical yet loving mother waiting by the phone in Brooklyn.
Everyone can relate to searching for a dream job or their next big break, and will root for Fred as he weaves his way through the cutthroat world of Tinseltown.
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- Jack Merritt
- 05-09-2014
Who in the world is Fred Stoller?
I like hearing stories about different kinds of jobs but who in the world was Fred Stoller? Well as it turns out everyone has seen him in as least some the hundreds of appearances he has made as a guest star but (as I learned from this book) guest stars should never outshines the lead actors. Fred is a regular guy who act and writes, he takes us through his career and what it takes to get these guest spots. It's really not about gossip but there is just the right amount sprinkled into the story. When you hear lead actors talk about their shows they certainly don't talk about what the lunch caterer served or if the crew was invited to eat of just the regulars. I laughed many times with his deadpan style as he would make fun of himself. My favorite was when he went up for a part that was described as a "Fred Stoller type" in the description and he didn't get the part! We learn about the casts of Murphy Brown, Everyone Loves Raymond and many others. Because he is also a writer, we also learn about what it is like from that standpoint. As a member of the Screenwriters Guild he was able to see movies for free for a short time every year, it was hilarious to hear how people who never spoke to him would try to get him to take them to movies or flat out ask for his pass.
This book kept pulling me back, I think I finished it in three days. In the end, I really liked this guy. I'll admit I YouTube'd him to see who he was, then; "oh yeah, I remember him". It was delightful to see the television business from the unique angle
I would have preferred Fred reading it himself but the narrator did a great job and I often had to remind myself that in was not Stoller speaking.
Good job Fred!
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- 02-07-2014
As Good As It Gets
Where does Maybe We'll Have You Back rank among all the audiobooks you've listened to so far?
This audiobook ranks near the top of the dozens I have in my Audible collection.
I worked with Fred Stoller for a few days twenty years ago and picked this book up on a whim when I saw it listed.
It far exceeded any expectations I might have had.
"Maybe We'll Have You Back" is funny, revealing, poignant and extremely informative; I can't imagine that a better book has ever been written about what life is like for a character actor in the TV trenches.
Not incidentally, I was a bit concerned that the audiobook is read by Ray Chase and not Fred - but I quickly discovered that Chase reads the material with a perfect approximation of the author's Brooklyn cadence and inflections. I think he does Fred better than Fred.
A must listen.
Who was your favorite character and why?
It's a toss-up between Fred and Fred's mom...
What about Ray Chase's performance did you like?
His performance is natural, fluid and perfectly captures Fred Stoller's comedy rhythms.
Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?
It made me laugh several times. It did not make me cry at all.
Any additional comments?
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- Angela M. Steiger
- 15-09-2020
Atrocious narrator and story. I wanted to like this so bad, but it is excruciating. At least it was free. 🤷♀
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- 09-03-2016
A man who overcomes obstacles to realize his dream
It was an enjoyable experience listening to the ups and downs of carving out a unique niche in Hollywood.
- William J. Dempsey
- 08-12-2015
I found it very slow, plodding and repetitive.
Would you try another book from Fred Stoller and/or Ray Chase?
Would you ever listen to anything by Fred Stoller again?
Who would you have cast as narrator instead of Ray Chase?
If you could play editor, what scene or scenes would you have cut from Maybe We'll Have You Back?
Any additional comments?
I am a big Fred Stoller fan, but this book has a slow pace (which isn't surprising given it's Fred Stoller) and I found it rather boring. Most of the stories seem like variations on a theme (he can't get a regular gig), but the stories to me feel rather humorless, and that's a bad combination. Hard to get through.
- Shannon Manning
- 05-08-2015
Fred is awesome!
What did you love best about Maybe We'll Have You Back?
I just love Fred Stoller's story. It is great to hear his "behind the curtain" stories of his many appearances on so many television shows, etc. Fred is an original and seems to be a genuine person. Plus, you learn all kinds of fascinating tidbits about all the actors he has worked with over the years.
What about Ray Chase's performance did you like?
I was disappointed that the book wasn't read by Fred Stoller himself. I really enjoyed listening to Fred read his last book. Ray Chase did a fine job, but he's not Fred.
Any additional comments?
Give this book a try! You won't be disappointed! I'm waiting for the next one!
- Sylvia Graves
- 27-02-2015
Insightful and Heartbreaking
The narrator was good but I wish the author would have read the book since he has such a distinctive and unique voice. The book was great and insightful. I loved it. It made me want to buy Fred Stoller a jacket.
- Elyse
- 25-06-2013
Funny Look at the Reality of Life as an Actor
I thoroughly enjoyed Fred Stoller's account of his journey through tvland. I just wished he'd read the book himself. Fred's own voice would have enhanced the listening experience. The qualities he brings to his guest roles and voiceover characters would have enhanced the telling of his personal stories.
- Amazon Customer
- 15-05-2013
I want more Fred Stoller
I first heard Fred on Marc Marons podcast and became strangely obsessed with getting more of Freds story. This book was a great listen to, and while Ray Chase does a good job reading, I wish it had been Fred narrating. He has such a wonderfully unique voice and way of talking, I wonder why he opted out? Also, if you like show business stories and the general "inside baseball" talk of the business, this books gives you a unique view of the world behind the camera.
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Why are so many of the men of fall TV taking off their shirts?
If you've made a point to watch many of the new season's premieres over the past two weeks, it's been hard not to notice all the male flesh being flaunted out there. We've had:
- The male torso as punch line:
Jake Johnson' s of Fox's "New Girl" has a great technique to try to impress a girl: Even if in your own living room and flanked by your roommates, try taking off your shirt and see if magic happens. That's what Johnson's character Schmidt does while interviewing Zooey Deschanel as a potential new roommate. Getting no magic, he tries it a few scenes later with her model friend. Nope, no magic there either.
- The male torso as a sign of a character flaw:
Noah Mills, playing Robbie on CBS's "2 Broke Girls" apparently got the take-your-shirt-off-to-impress a girl memo, too. But when he doffs his tight hipster T to mop up a mess made by his girlfriend's new friend, and gets a little too close, it's clear he is after more than a first impression. He doesn't get magic either -- "Back off, Jersey Shore," says Beth Behrs' Caroline. And his girlfriend later tells him to get lost. (We should mention this technique may have actually had more positive results in real life: Mills is a former model, who is even shirtless on IMDB profile photo. )
- The male torso as a marker of vulnerability:
Hank Azaria, playing a freshly divorced PR exec Alex, gets three whole scenes with his shirt off in the premiere of NBC's "Free Agents." To be fair, his character is clearly a little reluctant about it -- especially as he is undressed in a fitting room -- but you can't deny his chest is a plot point as he nervously returns to dating. The scenes don't feel forced, but they do convey how awkward he feels. "It's organic," Azaria says in an interview with New York magazine on the topic.
- The male torso bared in triumph:
James O'Mara's Jim Shannon went through hell to get his family to Terra Nova, the prehistoric namesake planet of Fox's new series. And when he puts in his first honest day of work in their new home, hacking giant weeds from their compound's massive fence, he takes a moment to rejoice. No shirt, fists in the air, he is filled with pure joy as he whoops and hollers. It's an emotional moment, but you just know that any celebration like that means our hero doesn't quite know the hell he is in for ahead.
- The male torso -- and considerably more -- as the answer for everything:
It may be true that Ashton Kutcher is spending more time without his shirt than with it on CBS's "Two and a Half Men." He's naked in the morning, noon and night and seems to have no concerns about who sees or inadvertently touches him. Will it wear thin? As his character Waldon says, "I am tall, smart and good-looking." So that's a no.
So what's going on here? As background, the New York Times points out that there is a bit of a "power shift" going on in TV, as more shows are created by women. For example, "New Girl" was created by Liz Merriwether, and Whitney Cummings -- star of NBC's "Whitney" -- is executive producer of "Two Broke Girls."
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But it'd be a little bit facile to say women writers means male flesh is a given. And in fact, the chest-baring scene -- often executed with some drama -- has become sort of standard thing in modern super-hero movies from "Spiderman" to "Captain America." But at least one could argue the whole point of those films is physical transformation, and a little evidence makes some sense.
Would this fall's shows be as entertaining with a few less nipples? Could we still see "2 Broke Girls'" Robbie as a snake? Would Hank Azaria's Alex look any less lost if he kept his shirt on? Would Ashton Kutcher still be hot?
It's hard to say where all this is coming from. But it is true that male semi-nudity is often still regarded differently than female semi-nudity on television. It is somehow comical; the source of discomfort; or a sign of counter-culture fringe. "NYPD Blue" took it seriously, what with many butt-baring scenes of everyone from David Caruso to Dennis Franz. But the concept somehow never took off beyond that.
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SUBHEAD: A overview of attempts at farming & homesteading encyclopedias.
By Sharon Astyk on 27 February 2012 for Casaubon's Book -
Image above: Photo of farmer reading Progessive Farmer, by George Ackerman, 1931. From (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ackerman_farmer.jpg).
I admit it, I'm a generalist in a world of specialists, and I always have been. Looking back on my career history, for example, I see the way I attempted to make the academic model of specialization adapt to my own taste for generalism - my doctoral project was a little bit insane, integrating demography, history, textual analysis and half a dozen other disciplines across a 250 year timeline - just the sort of thing advisers hate to see.
The polite word was "ambitious" but "nuts" is probably more accurate. As you can probably guess from the title of this blog (for those who haven't read George Eliiot, Casaubon is trying to write the ultimate unified theory of everything - and failing miserably), both the joys and dangers of generalism are something I try and keep in mind.
Having left academia behind, it is perhaps natural that I would find myself a career as a generalist- as a writer covering a wide range of subjects and as a farmer, the ultimate generalist. Agriculture requires a wide-ranging set of skills vaster than almost any field I can imagine, and while one becomes deeply expert in some parts of the work, it is still necessary, even imperative, to constantly be gaining some superficial understanding of a host of new things.
The generalist is jack of many trades, but master of few. That's not a criticism. Being good enough at things is often sufficient for most of a life - particularly an agricultural life. I don't need to be able to handle the most complex medical crises in my animals - only able to handle the day to day ones that come up regularly. It is fine with me to call the vet for the hard stuff. I don't need to be able to knit objects of incredible, perfect artistry - only to be able to make enough mittens to keep the kids' hands warm.
I can get a mechanic when something seriously breaks down, but need to keep the tiller in order for most common problems, can propagate most plants, but leave the germination of rosemary seed to others. I can make a passable fruit tree graft, build a bentwood fence that will mostly keep things in or out and produce bread that will never pass for european artisanal, but that tastes awfully good. I'd like to get better at many of these things, but I don't NEED to - the comfortable level of passable generalism is sufficient for much.
Not long ago, I was asked by a publisher if I would consider writing a farming/homesteading encyclopedia, and I declined, although it was an interesting idea. Still, I think much of that ground has been covered or is being covered by others, and I'm working on another project at this moment. It did, however, make me think about the way the ground has been covered in the past.
These overview books on starting up a smallholding/homestead/small farm/urban sustainable oasis are often the first books any of us come to, precisely because we need that encyclopedic breadth so badly - eventually we may need to know more about growing melons or delivering a calf or butchering a rabbit or canning pickles - in fact, most of us end up with specialist books on all these things. But at first the best of these books give you a picture of the whole range of the work you are entering into - and that's what a lot of us need. When they are really good, they also come with enough thoughtful detail that even experienced farmers and homesteaders learn a lot from looking through them.
The criteria I use to evaluate them are these. First, can you follow the instructions enough to actually accomplish the things they show you? Second, do you get misinformation or inadequate information from them - in their attempt to be concise, do they leave critical things out? Next, are they enjoyable to read? Finally, are they books worth buying and having on your shelves - that is, once you move past the beginner stage, will you still go back to them?
Encyclopedia of Country Living
Carla Emery's book is, of course, the be-all, end-all of encyclopedic farming, food and homesteading references. Full disclosure - Carla was a personal friend and I was involved in the revisions for the 10th edition (along with a lot of people at the Homesteading Today forums). Even given my bias in Carla's favor, it is the most complete reference out there - if sometimes idiosyncratic. Moreover, its focus on recipes - ie, it will teach you how to make a BLT starting with wheat seeds, a pregnant sow, a hen and a long row of empty garden - really makes the "food to table" connection clear.
That said, this is a BIG book, and a friendly, chatty, idiosyncratic book - one that attempts to do two simultaneous things - talk to you like a neighbor would and cover the landscape. Most encyclopedic texts don't try both - and it can occasionally be hard to find what you are looking for, but the book is so warm and friendly and fun to read or just meander through that I can't wish for less that was personal. It is manifestly possible to do many of the things that Carla suggests with her book - I know people who have butchered their first pig that way, or milked the first goat with the book in one hand. Carla has been helping people actually do for themselves for a long time.
For the 10th edition, Carla attempted to really sort through all the thousands of recipes and update it with a lot of help, and it really is a good job. Still, there are some recipes left that aren't that great and a few incoherencies, but if you were to buy one farming or homesteading book, this would be it.
I wouldn't recommend just one - in fact, I have come to think that Carla's Encyclopedia actually is even better with a companion book, and I know just the book. Carla's book is a product of the fist back-to-the-land movement of the 1970s (in fact it is just about as old as I am) - if there's a new back to the land movement now, as some have claimed,
The Ultimate Guide to Homesteading
Nicole Faire's book is the logical companion to Carla's book. This book filled with pictures (and very, very good pictures at that!) is truly a collection of encyclopedia entries - from "how do I make a homemade tasty toothpaste?" to "how do I thatch a roof?" Everything from first aid for a range of medical conditions to making tools, fiber crafts and food storage is covered here, in brief and with images.
Most of the entries are brief enough that you probably won't use them as a primary reference - for example the explanation of how to knit or crochet is totally inadequate and the pictures don't really even tell you what you are seeing. Some entries are more complete than others and more detailed.
Sometimes you can do things from the book, sometimes all this is is sufficient information to make you want to find a better book. But even someone who has been doing this for more than a decade (me) and counts herself as reasonably famliar with much of this stuff learned new things from this book - and was intrigued enough with the basic explanation to want to follow up with more detail from one of my collection of specialists. This is a good and interesting book, and together with Carla's Encyclopedia, is probably the best two-piece basic reference I can think of.
I love the idea of John Seymour, and I want to use;
The Self-Sufficient Life and How to Live It
as a reference, but I find that I rarely turn to it for that - it is more for inspiration. It isn't the Britishness of it - other guides to British-style smallholdings hold my interest, but much as I like Seymour's writing in itself, I find it very hard to follow his instructions for most things - I don't find him clear at all.
He tends to make flat statements like "spray potatoes with bordeaux mixture in April." Why? Why should I spray them? What's bordeaux mixture (ok, I know that, and I can guess why he suggests I spray them, but many beginners won't - and I don't spray my potatoes or need to.) Some sections of the book are excellent (his illustrations of how to fell a tree are better than any encyclopedic book I know, his description of scything is pretty good and almost followable), and the illustrations are visually very appealing.
I know a number of people who have done major homesteading operations from Carla Emery's book - every time I try to follow John Seymour's instructions in the same way in order to butcher, preserve, garden, etc... I find myself wondering "but wait, what about..." I really do like his work, but either British beginners already have a culturally embedded memory of who to cut up a chicken or he leaves a lot of things out. Still, I do refer to it sometimes and I'm glad I own the book - but I don't think I'd list it as truly necessary. I see his books as more useful for conveying a picture of the British farm past than for the homestead present. For this they are deeply enjoyable and very readable.
In the 1980s, Readers Digest put together several books on Homesteading and small farming, all of which are back in print in new editions now
Back to Basics: Traditional American Skills
being the most famous of them, but there are several related books. These are the opposite of the previous three books, all of which allow the author's personality to shine through - these are true encyclopedias, written in the dry abstract.
That said, they can be useful - they are well illustrated or have good photos and cover a fairly reliable landscape. Want to build a sauna? Make a raft? Graft fruit trees? Make a basket? Braid cornhusks? Learn regional US cooking? Put up fencing? As a straight reference, they give more information and clearer instructions than any of the previous references - you can always pretty much DO what they show you from the instructions. The books lack the chatty personal element, and once you know the basics of these projects, you will surpass them pretty quickly, but the sheer functionality of the books is useful - a great adjunct to some of the others.
Storey's Basic Country Skills
is the most boring useful book on the planet - from its visually unappealing cover to its pages with plenty of white space lest your eyes be over-excited by something interesting, it is a hard book to really look at. I don't usually complain about the formatting of books, but this one is so unpleasant to look at and read that I rarely open it, even though there's some good stuff in there.
The book brings in experts to produce each section, and there are some really good people in there. Louise Riotte's Wetland gardening section is something I really have found useful. Stephen Bushway has produced the best section on woodburning and wood heat in any book not wholly about this subject. The range of projects is good, and there's a heavy emphasis on home repair which most of the books lack. If you can get past the fact that it is actively unpleasant to read - as big and heavy as Carla's book with none of the charm and humor - it is a useful thing to have around.
If you are planning on doing this on a smaller scale, either urban or suburban,
The Backyard Homestead
edited by Carleen Madigan has a neat focus - exactly how much can you produce in a small space by optimizing. That said, its focus is also oddly narrow - it doesn't talk about water issues, it says goats can't fit in your backyard (ummm...), and it has I think most of the disadvantages of encyclopedic books, without most of the advantages - it is almost impossible to follow the directions successfully, and it has only enough information to intrigue - but little to offer someone with more advanced knowledge I don't think highly of this volume, even though I want to like it - if all you are interested in is food, however, this is probably a good very basic work, but take it out of the library.
Integral Urban House
The 1970s-era by the Farallones Institute was re-released in 2008, and in many ways is still a really important book - the focus on urban sustainability was prescient and it is very good in a lot of ways - that said, it is also very dated and could stand to be radically revised and updated. The book is derived from the direct experience of an urban collective, and seems ripe for revision - I'd add this to any urban homesteader's list of important books, recognizing, however, that it is extremely dated. Still, in many ways it has a freshness missing from the more polished but less useful _Backyard Homestead_ book.
The Self-Sufficient-ish Bible
Andy and Dave Hamilton's is a really nice book, and has a nice, contemporary and thoughtful feel - I love that besides "do it yourself" they include ethical banking and purchasing. freeganism and other ways of economic disconnection. The book is definitely geared to more urban life - community gardening, rather than your own yard, livestock only gets a few pages and focuses on the small,. and the urban low-cost decor section seems a little over-emphasized, but basically it is really nice book with a lovely emphasis on reuse and repurposing. I like it a lot. and I enjoy its aesthetic. When it lists a project, you can always actually do that project from the descriptions here
Householder's Guide to the Universe
If there's a non-rural successor to Carla Emery, it is definitely
Harriet Fasenfest. I've written before about how much I like her book, but it deserves a mention here, because it has what Carla's book has - that chatty, funny, "I'm your neighbor and we're talking over the back fence about this stuff that we're trying to figure out" quality. There's a lot here - including both absolute basics for the kitchen and household and also much to make use of for more advanced folks. Following Fasenfest's instructions is a delight - probably no other author here is as clear and complete. If she says you can do it, you can be sure you can.
So which of these books do I need to own? Well, I don't own all of them, but I find that there's a place for half-a-dozen of these books on my shelves - they all have different strengths, because after all, so do their authors. Different authors see different elements as central - ultimately most publishers won't let you publish anything the size of a Britannica, even if (like me) you could write that much - so choices must be made.
More about cows or more about community gardens? More about housebuilding and insulation or more about getting along without money? These are the kind of choices all authors make and ultimately, no one book can cover the landscape for all we'll need - even all we need to begin. There are some that come close, but the happiest outcome are shelves that have a few of these covering a wide range of possibilities.
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SIMFEROPOLl, Ukraine — Masked gunmen put a Russian tricolour atop the Crimean parliament after seizing the building overnight, adding another level of complexity for Ukraine's acting government, which is to be sworn in Thursday.
Police and the pro-Russian crowd that gathered outside the parliament Thursday said they had no idea who had taken the action. But it appears very unlikely that they had any connection to the Russian government. The crowd believe that most of the rebels were from the heavily Russian port city of Sevastopol.
The rebels made no demands and said they would not negotiate with anyone.
Meanwhile, Russian news agencies report that ousted Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych has asked for, and been granted, protection by Russia. Yanukovych was quoted in a statement saying he still regards himself as Ukraine's legitimate leader.
"I, Viktor Fedorovich Yanukovich appeal to the people of Ukraine," his statement reads. "As before I still consider myself to be the lawful head of the Ukrainian state, chosen freely by the will of the Ukrainian people.
"Now it is becoming clear that the people in southeastern Ukraine and in Crimea do not accept the power vacuum and complete lawlessness in the country, when the heads of ministries are appointed by the mob."
At the Crimean parliament, a light snow and drizzle fell while several hundred Russians shouted their encouragement to the rebels and screamed pro-Russian slogans and demanded that Crimea secede from Russia.
The seizure seemed to be connected to the abrupt interruption of a parliamentary debate Wednesday on Crimea separating from Ukraine by a group of Turkic-speaking Crimean Tatars.
In a bizarre irony, deputies picked their way through the rebel barricades to return to the parliament on Thursday, to again consider the question of Crimea's future, while some of the gunmen "helped" oversee their work. Or so it seemed, although journalists were not allowed to check this for themselves.
"We have to make sure they vote the way we want them to," said Oleg Sluzarenko, a former deputy, who addressed the protesters with a megaphone urging them not to go home.
Refat Chubarov, the Crimean Tatar leader, said Thursday that the Tatars hoped to establish civil defence units to work with local officials. Road blocks remained on the road from Simferopol to Sevastopol Thursday but they were smaller and far less aggressive than the had been on Wednesday. Sailors from the Russian base in Sevastopol were also less visible Thursday.
There were Russian news reports Thursday that Viktor Yanukovych, whose presidency ended after an explosion of violence in Kyiv last week, was reported to have left Sevastopol on a Russian ship and had taken sanctuary in Russia.
Yanukovych is wanted by the acting Ukrainian government for mass murder. It alleges that the deposed president was responsible for 82 deaths during last's week revolt.
An armoured personnel carrier loomed beside a checkpoint controlling access to Sevastopol on Wednesday while other heavily armed vehicles moved into public places to guard Russia's Black Sea fleet in the Crimean port, as Russian President Vladimir Putin further ratcheted up the pressure on Ukraine's caretaker government.
Earlier, Russia placed 150,000 troops near the Ukrainian border on alert and ordered urgent exercises to test combat readiness. The snap exercise is scheduled to last four days. While it includes a large territory abutting eastern Ukraine, it does not involve Russian troops based closest to the Crimea.
The unprecedented moves — which included men wearing combat gear, ski masks and armed with assault rifles searching vehicles 40 kilometers north of Sevastopol — sent a clear signal to Kyiv and to the West of Russia's determination to continue to defend what it regards as its interests, and the interests of Ukraine's large Russian minority, in places such as the Crimea.
While obviously designed to intimidate Kyiv, what Putin was also doing was reassuring anxious ethnic Russians in Ukraine that they had not been abandoned.
Ukraine's deepening political fault lines, and the potential for mayhem, were not only evident in Sevastopol and Moscow. They were on clear display Wednesday 100 kilometres to the north in Simferopol. Crimean Tatars loyal to Kyiv and chanting "allahu akbar" clashed with a group of Russian-Ukrainians who shouted their support for Moscow. A group of Tatars pushed their way past riot police and into the Crimean parliament where they succeeded in stopping debate on a motion to secede from Ukraine.
During the fierce jostling several protesters suffered bloody head wounds.
Russia's actions came four days after a bloody coup by pro-European activists forced former Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych to flee Kyiv. After 82 people died in bloody street fighting in the Ukrainian capital last week, there has been rising apprehension in areas with large Russian populations such as the Crimean peninsula.
Russia was "carefully watching what is happening in Crimea," Putin's defence minister, Sergei Shoigu, said on Wednesday.
Without elaborating on consequences, Washington warned the Kremlin over the weekend that it would be "a grave mistake" if it were to send troops into Crimea or other potential flashpoints such as the Donbass, where many Russians have been demanding that Moscow protect them from the new pro-western government being put together in Kyiv.
The Crimea is a particularly emotional subject. It had been part of Russia until Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev suddenly gave it to Ukraine in 1954 in what many in this country believe was a drunken stupor. Although the Crimea became part of Ukraine, the peninsula has remained the main port for Russia's Black Sea fleet and has many other Russian institutions in the city such as a branch of Moscow State University and Dom Moscow, which is funded by Moscow taxpayers.
The city is of crucial importance to the Kremlin as it is Moscow's only major all-season naval base in the south, which they used to access the Mediterranean Sea where Russia has a small but strategically important naval facility in Syria. Another emotional tie is that it was declared one of the Soviet Union's 12 hero cities for withstanding a long Nazi siege before falling during the Second World War.
"Crimea has ended up in the middle of a quarrel between Ukraine and Russia and we will defend Crimea," said a Tatar at the demonstration in Simferopol who would only give his name as Edem. "Our problems are not with Russians but with Russia's politics and its leader, Putin. He sees the loss of Ukraine as a serious event because it could lead to more trouble between Russia and its neighbours."
Like many Tatars from the Crimea, Edem invoked his families bitter memories of the Soviet deportations, when almost the entire Tatar population was deported for several decades to Central Asia.
"Russia did this to us, so why would we ever want to remain with them," the furniture maker said.
Only 50 metres away, behind what were, effectively, Russian lines, Pavel Popovich, had a radically different opinion.
"We Russians in Crimea love this place and we have been here for decades and centuries," the former Soviet army officer said. "I hate what they did in Kyiv. I want to be part of Russia and I want that today because we are brothers from the same nation."
"Crimea is not Russia," was one of many chants that the Tatars screamed before their assault on the parliament. The echo from protesters loyal to Moscow was "the Crimea is Russian" or simply "Ross-i-ya."
Given the proximity of the two sides in Simferopol and the incendiary rhetoric they hurled at each other, it was extraordinary that they did not end up in a far more vicious free-for-all. From morning to nearly nightfall thousand of Tatars and thousands of Russians pushed uneasily against each other jeering, chanting and whistling while waiving Ukrainian, Tatar, Crimean and Russian flags in front of the autonomous republic's headquarters. Only a thin line of police kept the two sides apart.
About 60 per cent of those who live in the Crimea are Russian. Ukrainians, many of them strongly Russified, make up about 25 per cent of the population. The 240,000 Tatars make up the remaining 15 per cent of the population.
"The Russian forces are here in Crimea to protect the Russians, or so they say," said Elzara Abdaramanova. "They have forgotten that we are the original people here and we must have a say. And what we say is that it is very dangerous for us to have Russian forces here.
"The real reason a lot of the Russians here support Moscow is because they are dependent on them for jobs associated with the military."
One of the most unlikely protesters and one of the few who actually remembered the deportations was 78-year- old Gulsa Mamedovna Samidinova. Speaking in a mix of Tatar and Russian, the tiny woman said she blamed "politics" for the near riot.
"That Vladimir Putin is the one to blame for what is happening here today," Samidinova said. "I would like to say more to you but I can't."


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SAN LEANDRO — Masked gunmen brazenly stormed a busy Walmart on Monday afternoon, making off with an undisclosed amount of cash, police said.
Officers were dispatched at 2:53 p.m. to the 1900 block of Davis Drive, just east of Doolittle Drive after multiple reports of a robbery in progress at the business, said Lt. Randy Brandt
When police arrived, the armed suspects had already fled the store.
No one was injured in the heist, Brandt said.
Witnesses told officers that two suspects wearing bandanas over their face entered the store and demanded the store's money at gunpoint.
The store's employees cooperated and the suspects fled from the front doors of the store heading north, Brandt said.
Police described the suspects as black or Hispanic males, 5-foot-7 to 5-foot-10 and between 18-25 years old. Both men wore dark hooded sweatshirts and blue jeans.
"We are thankful that nobody was hurt during this robbery and that everyone in the store cooperated," Brandt said. "This is unusual for a large retail store to be targeted during peak business hours when it was filled with holiday shoppers."
The armed robbery remained under investigation on Tuesday.
Anyone with information regarding the armed robbery is asked to call police at 510-577-3237 or 510- 577-3233. Anonymous tip may also be sent to police by texting the word SLPD and the tip to 847411. Anonymous web tips can be submitted from the department's website at http://www.sanleandro.org/depts/pd/at.asp.
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Suge Knight Wants To Lay Hands On Rick Ross Over His Song "Tupac Back"! "I'll Beat The Dog Sh*t Out Of Rick Ross" + Speaks On 2pac's Hologram
"I can't sit up here and say I'm bitter to Rick Ross, 'cause like anybody else, we don't know Rick Ross,.. That's a guy who uses somebody else's name. This guy comes from being a correctional officer. I don't got nothing negative against him personally..I just feel like he do do good music, and you can't take that from him. That boy got bars, he's gonna write…at the same time, I feel like there's a line you cross, and Rick Ross crossed that line. If you're gonna be with guy Diddy who killed Tupac, you can't go turn around and do a record called 'Tupac Back'. Rick Ross is a grown ass nigga. I'll beat the dog sh*t out of Rick Ross for manipulating these people out here." - Suge
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Well, Myspace may be back from the brink to join Google+ and Facebook in the social media race — and this time, Justin Timberlake's bringing Myspace back.
Wait, what? So JT is trying to jump-start Myspace, hot on the heels of the Facebook flick "The Social Network"??
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Specific Media, an advertising network located in Irvine, Calif., invited Timberlake to the team to serve as the creative force of Myspace.
"As we were looking at Myspace as the one we wanted to partner with, there was also a need to invigorate the Myspace brand. We needed to find one of the most talented artists we could get to really drive the creative strategy. The first name on that list was obviously Timberlake," Specific Media CEO Tim Vanderhook told BBB.
The idea to renovate Myspace occurred about a year ago when Vanderhook wanted his advertising business to transform to something bigger — something that will attract more users and become a digital media company.
Sold for $35 million on June 30th, Myspace is now aimed to have a different approach for its users. "There's a need for a place where fans can go to interact with their favorite entertainers, listen to music, watch videos, share and discover cool stuff and just connect.
"MySpace has the potential to be that place," Timberlake said in a statement that Mashable.com picked up.
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Among the many privileges given to you as a student of SJSU, you are also granted special access to the resources at the Martin Luther King Jr. Library, located on the northwest corner of campus. Below is a list of links that SMD students might find especially useful:
Library Guide to Dance
Find some useful pdf handouts about available online resources as well as video tutorials on using article databases and the library catalog.
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This page gives you a list of links to online databases that include articles, periodicals, and dissertations relating to dance.
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