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Funnyman actor Seth Rogen is taking on hosting duties for the 2012 Film Independent Spirit Awards, being held in a tent on the beach in Santa Monica on February 25th. To promote the gig, he spoke to members of the press about why he thought it seemed like a fun thing to do.
During the interview, Seth Rogen talked about being as nervous about flubbing or tipping while hosting as he is in any element of his life, that he's been watching all of the nominated movies in preparation, the hosting advice he's gotten from Judd Apatow, what films he responded to in 2011 (Take Shelter and Drive) and what he's looking forward to this year (The Dark Knight Rises), the TV shows he enjoys watching (Breaking Bad, 30 Rock and Parks and Recreation), and that Pineapple Express is his favorite film that he's done. He also talked about how his directorial debut, The Apocalypse, is coming along, that he'd like to do a Kung Fu Panda 3, that he doesn't know if there will ever be a Pineapple Express 2, and that he doesn't think there's any chance of there ever being a Freaks and Geeks movie. Check out what he had to say after the jump:
Question: Are you nervous about flubbing anything or tripping, or anything else, while hosting?
SETH ROGEN: I guess I'm as worried that I'm going to trip and do something stupid, as I am in any element of my life, which is a pretty constant level of concern with me. But, it's no more than usual.
If this is successful for you, do you want to go on to hosting bigger award shows?
ROGEN: I find that insulting because, to me, this is the holy grail of hosting gigs. That's not true. Honestly, it just seemed like a fun thing to do. I probably put much less thought into it than most people would assume I did. It was not a part of some grand, calculated scheme to one day replace Ryan Seacrest.
What preparation have you done, to go into this hosting gig?
ROGEN: I've been exercising a lot. I became vegan. No. I've been drinking nothing but juice. I don't know. I just watched the movies. That's pretty much it. That's the only preparation I could do, really. And I've been sitting with my friends, who are writers, trying to write jokes. That's pretty much it. It's not as complicated as it looks.
Is there a movie that you're having the most fun poking fun at?
ROGEN: It's so easy, and the answer is Shame. There's no way around it. And "poking" is the exact right word.
Have you gotten any hosting advice from any friends or industry people?
ROGEN: Judd Apatow said I should just try to be myself. That was his advice, which I took.
What can viewers expect from you being yourself?
ROGEN: I don't know. It always seems crazy to tell people what to expect. Has that ever worked out well? That never works! So, I don't know what to say, other than that they can expect me, however you interpret that. I hope it's funny. That's all I can say. They should expect an award show. Awards will be handed out to the winners, none to the losers. If it's 50/50, then I may steal one and leave. I don't want to set anyone's expectations too far in any direction. The truth is that we don't know what we're fully doing yet.
Have you gotten any advice from James Franco, about what to do when hosting an award show?
ROGEN: Just, "Don't host the Oscars."
50/50 received nominations at the Independent Spirit Awards, but how do you feel about the Oscar snub of the film?
ROGEN: I don't know. Overall, I feel like there are very few moments when the Oscars' tastes intersects directly with my taste. I don't consider it a snub, to be honest. That implies that I assumed it was going to happen. No, I work under the assumption that, generally speaking, my taste and the taste of the Oscar voters are not one in the same. Maybe the sequel will get nominated.
How is The Apocalypse coming along?
ROGEN: It actually seems like it might happen, so that's really exciting for us. Studios don't greenlight movies anymore. They just slowly let you realize that you're making it. But, if they still did greenlight movies, we would probably be greenlit right now.
Is it still going to be called The Apocalypse?
ROGEN: I actually just heard that Fox owns that title, so I don't know if we can use it anymore. So, if we end up with a shitty title, you can blame Fox.
Do you think there will ever be a Pineapple Express 2?
ROGEN: I don't know. The Apocalypse essentially has the same cast as Pineapple Express, so maybe we'll write it while we're filming.
Were you a fan of award shows, growing up?
ROGEN: I actually was, honestly. I remember, when I was a little kid, I used to say, "I would rather host the Oscars than win an Oscar." To me, that seemed like the more appealing, fun gig. I don't know if that's still true, but it shows my mentality. To me, that was the fun part. That was when Billy Crystal was really on fire with it, and it just seemed like the tonal sensibilities of the country were perfectly aligning with what he was doing, which was perfectly complimenting whatever movies were nominated. That song he sang about Scent of a Woman is still stuck in my head. I definitely grew up watching that stuff. And then, when I started actually making movies, I completely lost interest in it.
Is Kung Fu Panda 3 going to happen?
ROGEN: I have no idea! That's a good question. I would like it to, but I don't know for sure.
Being a part of the indie film community, how was Sundance for you, this year?
ROGEN: Oh, it was amazing! I was honestly mostly there as a +1, for the most part. My wife (actress/writer/producer Lauren Miller) was really the reason we were there, honestly. But, to be able to observe a tiny movie (For a Good Time, Call . . .) go from being conceived to made for no money to getting into Sundance to selling at Sundance was unbelievable. It was truly an amazing experience. I'm in her movie for two seconds, but it was mostly just something to watch. And it really actually made me think that [it can happen]. Sometimes you get disillusioned with the independent filmmaking process, in some regards, and people complain about Sundance being over-commercialized and stuff like that, but seeing something like that happen was really inspirational to me. I'm sure it was less inspirational to the people whose movies didn't sell.
With hosting essentially just being stand-up, when was the last time you actually went out to a club and did some stand-up?
ROGEN: Probably while we were preparing for Funny People, so that must have been almost four years ago, at this point. That was the last time I actually did stand-up in a nightclub. I've hosted little things and presented little things at charity events since then, and that definitely has a stand-up feel to it. But, the last time I was in a club was probably in preparation for Funny People.
Is that something you feel like you've moved on from, or do you see yourself doing it again sometime?
ROGEN: No, I don't think so. I remember, when I was an up-and-coming comic, how annoyed I would be when the famous guys would show up and just take everyone's spots. On top of that, I'm just not that good at it. When there are guys like Louie C.K. out there, there's no reason for me to be doing stand-up comedy. I don't make the best movies in the world, but at times, I do feel like I'm adding something to the cinematic community. I don't feel like I'm adding anything to the stand-up community.
With so much hype around The Artist, what are your thoughts about the film just winning so much this award season?
ROGEN: I actually haven't watched it yet. It's one of the ones on my list. I have to watch it before the award show next weekend. It's not surprising that a black and white silent film is getting a lot of artistic acclaim, I guess. If I was to write a joke in a movie, that's what it would be.
Obviously, you want 50/50 to win an award, but are there any other nominated films that you would like to see get some acclaim?
ROGEN: Take Shelter was awesome. I think there are a few movies like that. I'm not the most in-tune guy with what is getting nominated and winning these awards, in general. I'm not on the awards blogs, generally speaking. On the grand scale, I'm not awards savvy. I honestly don't know which of these movies have been nominated or won other awards, and shit like that. I just know which ones I thought were awesome, and I'll probably make that clear while I'm hosting.
Is there anything that you feel should have been nominated that wasn't?
ROGEN: I honestly thought Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol was one of the best movies of the year. It got no love from awards, whatsoever. I loved that fucking movie! It was great! And, I thought Drive was awesome too. That got nominated for an Independent Spirit Award, but didn't get any Oscar nominations. I thought that movie was awesome!
What did you like about both Take Shelter and Drive?
ROGEN: I'm just a huge Michael Shannon fan, so that's what attracted me to Take Shelter. And I like apocalyptic-themed movies. That got me into it. I knew it was one of the best-reviewed movies of the year, and it was awesome. With Drive, I like action movies and I like violent movies, and I also like movies with Ryan Gosling not talking for hours on end. Those things drew me to that movie.
ROGEN: Yeah, I watch a lot of TV. I love nothing more than having a good TV show on DVD, to just plow through. I just watched all four seasons of Breaking Bad, in a matter of weeks, with my wife. I love that! To me, that's awesome. And, I watch shows that are on. I watch 30 Rock and Parks and Rec. I watch The Soup. I watch comedies that are on television. I think Breaking Bad will start to give me bad dream, eventually.
Do you actually go to a theater to watch some movies, or do you watch screeners of everything?
ROGEN: No, I go to the theater, all the time. I'm not one of these secret movie, watch a 35mm print in my living the weekend it comes out guys. I'm not Jon Bon Jovi. I go to the Arclight, like a regular asshole.
Are you anticipating any of the movies that are coming out this year?
ROGEN: Yeah, a lot! I just saw Chronicle, which I was really looking forward to, and I thought it was fucking awesome! I'm excited for the Batman movie (The Dark Knight Rises). I'm excited for The Avengers, but it seems like it might be too much of a good thing. But, I'll definitely go see it, 100%. Joss Whedon has not ever horribly failed me, so that could be good. Jeremy Renner looks a little goofy in the costume. That, I will say.
What will you do if/when 50/50 wins an award at the Independent Spirit Awards?
ROGEN: I'm going to go crazy. It's more about what I'm going to do when we don't win any awards. I'll be happy, if we win. It's nice to win an award, I would assume. I've never won one, but I would imagine it's great. I have no idea what I'll do. The good news is that, since I'm hosting, I get to read my acceptance speech, whether we win or not. I'll just read it before the award is even announced.
What's more nerve-wracking, hosting or finding out if you'll win?
ROGEN: I would say probably hosting. It's much more painful to bomb in front of a group of yours peers than it is to not win. Tons of assholes ain't winning awards, but only one guy will be bombing. So, that's much more nerve-wracking.
If there was one award out there that you could have, what would you want it to be?
ROGEN: I've already won the one award that I would want to win, and I won it twice, and that is High Times magazine's Stoner of the Year. I actually lost the title to James Franco eventually, but I think I get a point for the assist on that one.
Would you like to do more drama, in the future?
ROGEN: I did a movie (Take This Waltz) with Michelle Williams that Sarah Polley directed, that was definitely more dramatic, and I enjoyed it. I don't know. I like all types of movies, but I don't plan ahead that much. I just see what idea is entertaining to me, at the moment that it's time for me to think of the next movie to do.
Were you surprised that Jonah Hill got an Oscar nomination, or did you always know that was a possibility for him?
ROGEN: All my friends are talented enough to get nominated for awards. I just am always surprised when things and people I like are also liked by things like the Oscars. [James] Franco got nominated last year. Jay Baruchel is one of my best friends, and he's in Million Dollar Baby. I remember us being stoned off our asses, watching the Oscars in my tiny, shithole apartment, and Clint Eastwood won and thanked Jay, who was sitting right next to me, in his underwear, on my couch. That was the first moment I realized that the people who do these Oscars are actually aware of these guys I'm friends with and it could break through, in some way. It's awesome when it happens, but it's always surprising to me, to be totally honest. It's not because I don't think they're skilled or talented. It's just because I always view my taste as more on the outside of what I assume those people's tastes are. I should say that I'm an Oscar voter, so I am literally one of these people.
Do you think there is ever a chance of a Freaks and Geeks movie happening?
ROGEN: I don't know. I just don't even know if they could legally actually do that. It's not something anyone has ever actually seriously talked about. It would be funny if they did. They don't usually make movies out of TV shows that nobody watched for free. I think they figure, if no one watched it for free, the odds that people are going to pay $15 to leave their house to go see it is probably pretty slim. Maybe one day. They made a Firefly movie, but it probably didn't do well enough to ever justify making a movie out of a failed TV show again.
Out of all the films you've done, do you have a favorite?
ROGEN: Pineapple Express is our favorite movie, and we didn't expect it to get any more critical response than it got. Me and (co-writer) Evan [Goldberg] talk about it all the time, just because I can't believe they let us make that movie.
For The Apocalypse, you're stepping into the director's realm. How did that come about?
ROGEN: Over the years, we've become more and more creatively involved in the movies. We've been executive producers on our movies for years. We've been producers now on a couple. When I look at the movies we've written, I'm really thrilled that they've been directed by the people who directed them, and I think they've added a lot to them. It's going to be really interesting to try to execute our own script for once, and see how that goes. I think that's more what it is. We were like, "Well, we always write these and give them to someone else to do. Maybe we should just try to do it." That's how it came up. We're the writers, producers, directors, and I'm one of the main actors in the movie. It's going to be the first time we are almost completely in control of the product.
The 2012 Film Independent Spirit Awards will be televised February 25th at 10pm ET/PT on IFC.


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Astronaut and Professor Jay Buckey on the Future of NASA and its Human Spaceflight Program
Dartmouth Now
July 20, 2011
In the pre-dawn light on Thursday, July 21, Space Shuttle Atlantis is scheduled to land at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., returning to Earth after 13 days in space. When it comes to a halt on the tarmac, so too does the nation's space shuttle program. Atlantis is on the final flight of the shuttle program, having spent its last two weeks carrying a four-person crew and a cargo of supplies and spare parts to the International Space Station.
Much has been said about what's next for NASA. For Jay C. Buckey, who was a payload specialist astronaut on the STS-90, Neurolab Mission in 1998, he remains optimistic that NASA will continue to be the inspirational force it's been from the time he was a young boy watching the moon landings.
Now a professor of medicine at Dartmouth Medical School and an adjunct professor at Thayer School of Engineering, Buckey was one of the thousands who made the pilgrimage to Florida to watch American ingenuity and imagination take flight one last time.

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Connecting Cells
Normally several individual cells are connected together to form a battery pack. Similar to a chain, the weakest link, here the weakest cell, determins the performance of the entire unit. Manufacturing tolerances, different self-discharge rates and much more lead to different remaining capacities of the interconnected cells. To get an efficient system, these differences have to be balanced or avoided. There are two possibilities to solve the problem of a different residual cell capacity in daily practice. Thus, a residual capacity balancing between the cells of a battery pack can be carried out at all, it is necessary to follow some basic rules already during construction of a battery pack:
- Only identical cells from one manufacturer and from one lot (out of one box) may be connected to a stack.
- Never mix up cells with a different past life, a different age or different charge states in a stack.
- Already when buying battery-operated equipment it should be maintained that it has a deep-discharge-protection and an uniform heat load (eg lighting) of the battery pack used, since the self-discharge-rate is temperature dependent. In operation warmer cells lose charge faster than cells which stay cooler. Warmer cells become the weakest link within a short period of time, which leads, in the worst case, to an useless battery pack.
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|Mariel Hemingway
Carriage Ride
by DURGA CHEW-BOSE
Of Manhattan's 96 minutes, 25 of them swap comedy for candor and the veneer of midlife fitfulness for a snowy and plainspoken 17-year-old Dalton girl named Tracy. While she only occupies a quarter of the film's runtime - thirteen scenes, one cry, one carriage ride, five toppings on her pie, two close-ups, and the line, "Let's do it some strange way that you've always wanted to do it" - Manhattan belongs to Mariel Hemingway.
From the moment we see her sitting at Elaine's with her 42-year-old lover, Isaac (Woody Allen), and his married friends, Yale and Emily, Hemingway typifies teenage limbo: a discomfort with oneself that for a lucky few, can yield the most luminous glow. As Yale waxes about "the essence of art" with Isaac, and as Emily, on cue, rolls her eyes and apologizes, "We've had this argument for 20 years," Tracy smiles and accepts. Her age and inexperience might keep her on the periphery this time, but her silence and presence, and elbows resting keenly on the table, suggest considerable aplomb.
|Mariel Hemingway and Woody Allen
Tanned and wearing a dark crewneck sweatshirt, teardrop necklace, and her hair pulled back in a loose ponytail, Tracy's softness is offset by her sturdiness. She looks like she might have, moments before arriving at Elaine's, practiced her serve and volley in P.E. or finished her lifeguard shift at the local pool. She is incandescent in the summer and dimmed in the winter. She is Coppertone® and Hyannis Port personified.
In a piece titled, "The Littlest Hemingway" in a June 1979 issue of People, Kristin McMurran describes Mariel's first Cannes experience. "It had been a full day — a morning jog, four interviews (her French is serviceable), a TV short and a rich lunch at the three-star Le Moulin de Mougins—all amid the hustlers and hookers, yachts and yes-men that characterize the international film festival. Now "Merts" (her childhood nickname) was preparing for her big night."
|Mariel Hemingway
On the opposite page, a photograph of the back of Hemingway's head topped with "a sprig of flowers in her hair" reveals Cannes' vintage cross of glamour and mania — a cascade of tuxedoed photographers wrestling for room on the red carpet and a shot of the young actress. With frenzy of that kind, one can only imagine that Hemingway's smile was akin to Tracy's: shy and appreciative, as if her cheeks and lips were somehow curtsying. Later, as the film's final moments played, Hemingway nearly fainted in the theater. "A doctor was summoned, and Mariel fell into a deep sleep while the others caroused until dawn at the party in her honor downstairs," McMurran writes. "The next morning Mariel blinked awake. 'Did I ruin everything?'"
Her reaction at Cannes matches Tracy's type of distress — one that she too affects with questions rather than statements. At Ike's apartment while she reads reclined on his couch, looking miniature against his wall of books, she responds to his own doubts about their relationship with, "Well don't you have any feelings for me?," "Well don't you want me to stay over?" The following Sunday night at the pizza parlor, upon receiving a letter in the mail accepting her to the Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts in London, she asks Ike, "So what happens to us?" Her featherweight voice (with the inflection of a foreigner) — that in some moments squeaks like "the mouse in the Tom & Jerry cartoon" — appears extra shaky when speaking about matters of the heart. For her, nothing is more perilous than those matters.
Tracy is not yet cynical; she hasn't been corrupted. She hasn't begun referring to friends as "geniuses" and art as "derivative." She insists on "fooling around" instead of fighting in bed. She thumbs her earlobes when she's listening and combs her hair until it's soft. She begins sentences with "Well" and "Guess what?" and asks Isaac "to have a little faith in people."
|Woody Allen and Mariel Hemingwa
In the film's most devastating scene, the two sit at a soda shop; him with his harmonica and her with her milkshake. Here Hemingway looks especially pure. Her hair is wrapped tight in a french twist, her cardigan is creased on the sleeves (either new or ironed,) and a single ring sits on her pinky finger. Her wide elfin features and thick eyebrows appear holy; the product of one single brushstroke or carved painstakingly out of wax. The moment's melancholy anticipates itself and Isaac breaks up with Tracy. While she dips in and out of adolescence — "Gee, now I don't feel so good" and "I can't believe that you met someone that you like better than me" — her sincerity and logic remain heartbreaking. She lists what they had going for each other and the tally, for any couple, is near perfect.
1. We have laughs together
2. I care about you
3. Your concerns are my concerns
4. We have great sex
While Mariel is no Tracy and Tracy is no Mariel — "I'm different. I'm from Idaho," she told McMurran — their reactions to life are rich and replete with teenage-speak and sage musings. It's no wonder that lines like, "Are you kidding me? You should talk!" came so easily to Hemingway who described her Persian cat to People as "such a nerd" and scoffed at Woody's initial interest in her: "Give me a break." That duality of perceiving oneself and others at a young age while also staying young is incredibly rare and is what freed Manhattan of any precociousness and caprice.
Tracy possesses you like the giant she is, standing five inches taller than Woody, able to cup his head like a basketball or drink it like a coconut with a straw. But her personality compliments and her thoughts are sound: "Maybe we're meant to have a series of relationships at different lengths," or better, "You keep stating [the break up] like it's to my advantage when it's you that wants to get out of it."
In real life too, her words were undisguised: "I feel closer to adulthood now, but it makes me sad. I get excited and depressed. If I have a problem I go to someone or just let it out by screaming and crying. Some people are too young when they become famous. I think I'm old enough to handle it now."
Durga Chew-Bose is the senior editor of This Recording. She is a writer living in Brooklyn. She twitters here and tumbls here.
|Mariel Hemingway and her sister Margaux
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Tuesday, November 04, 2008
Pro-am economics
Ten or 12 would be closer than two or three.
What does that say about the field of economics, which claims to be a science?
It's an enormous blot on the reputation of the profession. There are thousands of economists. Most of them teach. And most of them teach a theoretical framework that has been shown to be fundamentally useless.
James K. Galbraith, 31 October 2008 (htp: Jesse)
And I thought I ought to start reading academic textbooks on economics. It seems that the difference between an amateur and a professional is that the latter gets paid.
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- Wolfie said...
The explanation is quite simple. Economics professionals and even traders have for some years been hired or have advanced in their career not because of their intelligence or competence but because they have said what other people wanted to hear. Indeed it was in early 2006, shortly after joining credit risk that I approached my boss with evidence that the S&P/Moody ratings were "fantasy figures" and was told almost through pursed lips to keep my bloody mouth shut. This whole mess is not just an economics problem, it's a social problem. Its about how we evaluate risk, prepare for the future and judge people through prejudicial eyes. Taleb talks a lot about this in FBR.
- 4 November 2008 at 09:52
- Nick Drew said...
keep my bloody mouth shut
yes, it's even simpler than Taleb often says (banging on about the failings of log-normal distributions)
in the immortal words of Dilbert's Evil Consultant:
I can show you how to loot this place and escape
- 4 November 2008 at 10:15
It's clear to me, a layman who sold his house several years ago in anticipation of this crash, that Galbraith should have said:
"Of the 15,000 professional economists, only two or three were dumb enough to tell the truth. Most of the others kept their mouths shut to keep their jobs."
Unprofessional, and immoral? Maybe yes, but who can blame them?
Senior politicians and regulators were in a much better position to not only cry wolf, but much more importantly to do something about it. This is where the failure lies, with our leaders, not with the troops in the industry.
- 4 November 2008 at 13:41
- AntiCitizenOne said...
The failure lies in government creating far too much temporary money (debt) for the economy, primarily by lowering reserve ratios, but also by faking the inflation figures.
- 4 November 2008 at 16:44
- Sackerson said...
Wofie, ND - most interesting; JE, ACO - agreed.
- 4 November 2008 at 17:58
- James Higham said...
Wolfie's comment is sound but doesn't take into account that this has been induced on an agenda. Economists can't incorporate that into their theories. I've been saying this since 2006 and it is becoming more apparent by the day. 2009 will be a big year for this.
- 4 November 2008 at 23:34
- Sackerson said...
What agenda, James?
- 5 November 2008 at 07:30
It's pure psychology. Most people don't want to rock the boat. They don't want to have to put their heads above the parapet and risk getting it shot off. Far better to keep schtum, go with the crowd, keep safe. As it used to be said "No one gets fired for buying IBM". Look what happened to Tony Dye at Phillips & Drew in the Dot Com Boom. He eventually lost his job over his prediction that the market was over valued. Ironically, months after he left, the crash started.
So only a very brave or independently minded economist would dare say the emperor has no clothes. Or someone with no related job to lose - ie us normal folk. But how many of us had the guts (and I realise some did) to act on their theories? Sell their house in 2005/6/7? And wait for the crash? Plenty will have predicted the crash but not had the courage to act.
- 5 November 2008 at 13:47
I tried to persuade my wife that we should sell in summer 2005. She very reasonably pointed out that if I was wrong - what, me? - we might never be able to afford a decent house again.
- 5 November 2008 at 19:47
Maily DAIL:
The Queen spoke for the nation yesterday when she asked how the credit crunch could have taken so many economics experts by surprise.
She described the financial crisis as 'awful' and inquired that, since the meltdown was so massive, 'Why did nobody notice it?'
The royal concern was revealed at the London School of Economics, where she opened its £71 million New Academic Building.
Professor Luis Garicano, director of research at the LSE's management department, said: 'The Queen asked me, "If these things were so large, how come everyone missed them?".'
- 6 November 2008 at 13:02
- Sackerson said...
I've thought of writing to her.
- 6 November 2008 at 15:58
- Paddington said...
Economists are logical, the stock markets are emotion-driven. We haven't been able to model that well, although the Social Scientists tried Catastophe Theory in the 1970's.
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Versatility in Cross-Cultural Variations of Personification
Literature was first structured by great figures' literary and non-literary works that gave birth to the metaphorical conceptualization. The personalities like Dante and Rumi who developed the first social-cultural universality by using personifications – though from two different parts of the world. The power of poetry which can be created in personification is one of the different ways to bring universality of the metaphorical expressions into literature. Although personification is the important part of metaphorical poetry, very few researchers analyzed it. To this end, inspired form Kovecses (2007) classification of metaphoric expressions, it was attempted to analyze Rumi's Masnavi Ma?navi's (Spiritual Couplets) first (4003 verses) and second books (3822 verses) in terms of personification along with Dante's Devine comedy including Inferno and Paradise. Chi-square test was run to find the type, the frequency and significance of the personification's application in these two poets' works. Findings revealed significant differences namely, nature and animate personifications in these great works. Finally, it was revealed that poetry could manifest different socio-cultural and religious bonds between different societies.
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Last month we reported that the occupation of Iraq would be "prolonged indefinitely" and that a substantial number of U.S. troops would remain in the country beyond the December 31 deadline, which is precisely what transpired yesterday when the Obama administration announced its intention to abandon the original withdrawal plan.
"The Obama administration has been debating how large a force to propose leaving in Iraq. It made its proposal now in hopes of spurring a request from Prime Minister Nouri Maliki's government, and to give the Pentagon time to plan, the officials said," reports the L.A. Times, confirming that plans for a full withdrawal by the end of the year have been all but scrapped.
Senator John McCain has also called for 10-13,000 US troops to remain in the country for for "intelligence capabilities".
Of course, these troops will be supplemented by security guards, mercenaries and innumerable other assets, swelling that figure by tens of thousands.
How were we able to forecast that efforts would be made to prolong the occupation beyond the set deadline? We didn't have to rely on any crystal balls – we were merely going on leaked information from the 2011 Bilderberg Group meeting – a conference of global power brokers that the establishment media still claims has no influence on world affairs.
While the mainstream press was busy obsessing about Weiner's Weiner and claiming Bilderbergers were merely gathering to play golf and idly stroll through the mountains of St. Moritz, Bilderberg members themselves were busy forming the consensus on the big issues, namely Iraq.
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"When you think of Iraq, think big," one US Bilderberger remarked during the discussion, suggesting that the country will merely be used as a launch pad for a wider regional war that will "include every nation in the Middle East except for Israel."
We reported these leaks more than two weeks before the Obama administration announced its intention to scrap the withdrawal plan which mandated that the US presence end on December 31.
This is yet another example of how the consensus that is set at the annual Bilderberg meetings has an almost immediate impact on world affairs, just as it has many times in the past, notably when Bilderbergers agreed that the initial invasion of Iraq was to be delayed until 2003 when most observers had fully expected it to take place in the autumn of 2002.
Barack Obama swept to power on the promise that he would "immediately" withdraw troops from Iraq.
In reality, even before the August 2010 "withdrawal" of U.S. troops, the New York Times reported that, "Mr. Obama plans to leave behind a "residual force" of tens of thousands of troops to continue training Iraqi security forces, hunt down foreign terrorist cells and guard American institutions."
When the supposed August 2010 "withdrawal" was announced, a senior military officer spelled it out more plainly to the Los Angeles Times, "'When President Obama said we were going to get out within 16 months, some people heard, 'get out,' and everyone's gone. But that is not going to happen,' the officer said."
While telling the American people one thing publicly, the Obama administration has fallen in line with the carefully contrived consensus of the global elite in ensuring the U.S. occupation of Iraq becomes a permanent fixture for many years and even decades to come.
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Here are some further thoughts on our ridiculous cultural cringes over foreign names, largely stimulated by a contribution from Geoffrey Warner.
Geoffrey writes :
'There are problems in transcribing a foreign language into English, especially if the foreign language has no alphabet and is tonal. This is the case with Chinese. Unlike Mr Hitchens, I don't see the use of the Pinyin system of transcription instead of the Wade-Giles as demeaning in any way. It is simply better. I recommend an article on the web entitled "How Wade and Giles did a disservice to the English speaking world" which explains the matter in more detail. If the two systems were similar, it might not matter, but confusion can arise. Thus, a student of mine inadvertently created two separate Chinese warlords in an essay simply because the name of the single warlord in question was transcribed differently in the books she read!'
I reply: I don't in principle disagree with this, though I personally find Pinyin ridiculous, because of the way it expects the reader to know that letters such as 'Q' and 'X' are pronounced in a way quite unknown to any culture which uses the Roman alphabet. The man who was for years named in British newspapers as Liu Shao Chi, is now Liu Shaoqi. How is that a better guide to how his name is actually pronounced? And it does daft things, like substituting the hissing, unpronounceable 'Xinjiang' for the easily pronounceable 'Sinkiang', friendly to an English tongue and eye. Why bother?
I'd also point out that the Chinese language does not really exist in the way that the English language does.
An example from real life: I travelled some years ago deep into the Canton countryside (which Pinyin would insist I called the 'Guanghzhou' countryside), to interview a woman who had had her house demolished by the Chinese Communist Party , for daring to refuse an abortion and instead have a second child. This story itself may explain my hostility to any attempts to pander to the Chinese state.
She spoke a Cantonese dialect. The Mayor of the village translated this into standard Cantonese. The driver of our taxi, hired in the city of Canton, then translated this into Mandarin for the benefit of my own translator, who put it into English for me. And of course, the other way round. The interview, as you can imagine, took some time.
So attempts by any English person to attempt an authentic 'Chinese' pronunciation are pretty much absurd anyway. And the wide differences in the language spoken in different parts of Planet China are one of the reasons why our names for Chinese cities are often so far from the pronunciations of them in modern 'official' post-Mao Mandarin. And this, I suspect, is itself a very different language from pre-revolutionary Mandarin. In the same way, post-Soviet Russian is different (even the alphabet was changed) from pre-1917 Russian, and Estuary English is different in shape, grammar, vocabulary and intonation from the 'Oxford' English still unselfconsciously used by the upper crust in my childhood and early teens.
But back to the main subject. There simply is no consistency in the great fashion for using 'authentic' names for various countries and cities. The only thing these affectations have in common is a desire for self-abasement.
For a start, they very seldom apply to the *countries* involved as well as the cities. Why not? How many people who pretentiously call Bombay 'Mumbai'(more on this later) or Calcutta 'Kolkata' call India 'Bharat'? But that is in fact its name, if you believe that we should call foreign places what their inhabitants call them. Likewise, how many of those who insist on calling Peking 'Beijing' , and Nanking 'Nanjing', refer to China by its actual name of 'Zhongguo'? In my experience, none of them even know that this is what this country calls itself. My favourite is of course 'Baile Atha Ciath', the 'official' name for Dublin, which appears on the numberplates of cars registered there. No British person uses it, and quite a lot of Irish people don't either.I am sure London liberals would use this name if they could only work out how to pronounce it, but it hasn't happened yet. They compensate by calling Londonderry 'Derry'.
Nearer to home, we simply don't do this at all. Nobody calls Paris 'Paree', and seventy years ago English people familiar with France would have called Marseille 'Marseilles' in writing and pronounced it 'Marsails'. I am fairly sure that 'Lyon' would also have been known as 'Lyons' and pronounced 'Lions'. In the 19th century, English people simply did not bother to use French pronunciations for internationally famous French names. In his 'History of England', Thomas Macaulay refers to Louis XIV as 'Lewis'. This is not because he was ignorant, but because it was normal to Anglicise French names at that time.
So it still is when most other countries are concerned. I know of nobody in Britain who speaks or writes of 'Sevilla', 'Wien', 'Roma' , 'Den Haag', 'Kobenhaven' , or come to that 'Sverige' or 'Suomi', let alone 'Hrvatska' , 'Polska' , 'Magyargorszag' or 'Ellas'. Though there is a small society of pretentious persons who insist on calling Barcelona 'Baaathelona' , like the BBC experts who call Afghanistan 'Afxhanistan' and the Taleban the 'Tarlabarn'.
I used to get anguished queries from sub-editors about the 'right' way to transcribe Russian words into English. There isn't one. The Cyrillic alphabet, currently with 32 letters, simply doesn't do a direct transliteration. Gorbachev or Gorbachov? Who cares? Yury, Yuriy or Yury? What does it matter? The same is even more true of Arabic and Farsi. 'Asad' or 'Assad'? 'Osama' or 'Usama'? Tehran or Teheran? Frankly, who needs to know? The chances are that a non-Arabic speaker or non-Farsi speaker wouldn't even spot these familiar names in a sentence when they were pronounced by a fluent Arabic or Farsi speaker.
Russians don't say 'Saint Petersburg'. They say (roughly) 'Zankt Pitterbourg'. When it was called 'Leningrad', my Russian teacher, who came from there, despaired of teaching me how to pronounce the 'Lenin' part as a Russian would speak it.
Half-educated people think that Moscow is known in Russian as 'Moskva'. But it isn't. It is pronounced to sound much more like 'MaskVA' with the emphasis heavily on the 'VA'.
On and on the examples go. A little learning is a dangerous thing. Do they think foreigners call England 'England' or London 'London'? Not often. They have their own names for our country and its famous cities, and this is a compliment to our country and those cities, for being important enough to deserve a Russian or French or Italian renaming. I might add that the last time I checked, major French, German and Italian newspapers referred to the capital of Zhongguo as 'Pekin', not as 'Beijing' . Perhaps, not having had to kowtow to China over Hongkong, they just don't take part in our cultural cringe.
And so back we come to Bombay. A good friend of mine who comes from there is livid at the way people in the West, thinking they are being enlightened, call it 'Mumbai'. He associates this name with a rather nasty local demagogue, a Hindu nationalist who insisted on the name change, and he (along with many of his friends and family from Bombay) flatly refuses to use it whether he is there or here. In his view, every time a Westerner uses 'Mumbai', that westerner helps strengthen a nasty political tendency, of the kind he would almost certainly disapprove of, if it operated in Britain.


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Boyes scores on OT power play to give Isles win
Brad Boyes scored a power-play goal on a rebound at 2:01 of overtime and the New York Islanders beat the Devils 5-4 on Thursday night, handing New Jersey its third straight loss in overtime.
John Tavaras scored twice, and Keith Aucoin and Mark Streit once for the Islanders, who avenged an opening-night loss to the Devils. Evgeni Nabokov made 28 saves for New York, including a big one on an early Devils power play in overtime.
Adam Henrique Steve Bernier, Ryan Carter and Henrik Tallinder tallied for the Devils, who three times rallied to tie it. Martin Brodeur made 30 saves, but had the puck stolen from him by Boyes, setting up the game winner.
Boyes banged in Frans Nielsen's rebound, while Tavares also picked up an assist.
Nabokov and Brodeur both came up big early in the overtime, which was witnessed by the Devils' fourth sellout in as many games. Nabokov stopped defenseman Marek Zidlicky late in a power play that started late in the third period.
Tallinder picked up a cross-checking penalty with 3:13 left in the overtime and Boyes tallied 14 seconds later.
Henrique, who missed the first five games while recovering from surgery on his left thumb, came back in style, roofing a loose puck in front past Nabokov to tie the game with 6:10 to play.
Streit had given New York a 4-3 lead a little more than two minutes earlier when his shot from the point was deflected past Brodeur by New Jersey defenseman Adam Larsson, who also was playing in his first game of the season.
The Islanders, who had scored only one goal in each of their last five games with New Jersey, took leads of 2-0 and 3-2 only to see the Devils tie the game at 3-all after two periods.
Tallinder, who did not score a goal last season after missing much of the year with a blood clot in his leg, tied the game at 3 with a shot from above the right circle after the Islanders failed to clear the puck out their zone after sustained pressure.
Tavares, who didn't score in the first four games, had put New York ahead with his second goal of the night and fourth in the last three games. Nabokov made a save on David Clarkson and Matt Moulson sprung his center for a breakaway tally that seemed to catch Brodeur a little too far out of his net.
Bernier and Carter had rallied the Devils from a 2-0 deficit with goals in a 3:08 span in the second period.
Bernier put the rebound of Stephen Gionta's shot just 32 seconds after Keith Aucoin's power-play goal had stretched the Islanders' lead to two goals.
Carter tied the game at 2, swatting the rebound of a ankle shot by 30-year-old rookie Matt Anderson, who was playing his second game.
The Islanders, who came into the game converting 30 percent of their power-play chances, got their first two goals with the extra man.
Tavares hit a wide-open net after Boyes faked a shot and slid the puck to him alone at the side of the net.
Aucoin tallied his fourth of the season, swatting his own rebound past Brodeur after taking a nifty cross-ice pass from the point by defenseman Travis Hamonic.
NOTES: Larsson, the 20-year-old defenseman who was in and out of the Devils' lineup as a rookie, set up Bernier's goal with a nice pass from the point to Carter. If there were three assists allowed, he would have gotten the third one. ... Anderson played seven seasons in the minors before finally getting the call to the NHL. ... Stefan Matteau was given the night off while the Devils decided whether to return him to junior hockey after playing five NHL games. ... Devils D Mark Fayne was out with an arm injury. ... Islanders RW Colin McDonald served the first game of a two-game suspension for boarding Penguins D Ben Lovejoy on Tuesday. ... The Devils and Islanders will play again on Sunday in Uniondale, N.Y. ... Former Devils Eric Boulton and Krystofer Barch of New Jersey slugged it out early in the game.


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