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Friday, January 09, 2009
BETRAYED! Final Notes On The Speechy Conflict
First, to Rob Breakenridge:
I suppose there's some political calculation here on Harper's part, but I can't for the life of me figure out what it is.
Simple, Rob. The Speechy uprising was led by a combination of Neo-Nazis, Mark Steyn, journalists, Ezra Levant, and professional scribblers like Margaret Atwood. Harper took note and decided that, politically speaking, this was a coalition of luzers. If you took a poll that ranked the "respectability" of public figures and certain professions in Canadian society, none of the people on this list would have finished above grave-robbers and fungus.
Meanwhile, Jay Currie is working on plan B:
...20-30 hard right/libertarian candidates running in marginal CPC seats with the sole objective of denying those seats to the CPC.
Whoo hoo! Another political party to fight over votes with the Western Concepters, The Christian Heritage people, The Freedom Party, the Super Duper Freedom Party, the Libertarians, the Libertaranians, and Hellyer's Exo-Politics movement (who feel the government needs to come clean on aliens among us).
Jay's got an idea where this would all lead:
I can live with Iggy as PM.
Yeah, nice thought kid, but wake up, you're battling over a total of 23 votes Canada-wide. You won't be denying nobody nothing.
Chris Selley bemoans the incivility of it all:
Sooner than delight in having reached near-consensus on point one, propose changes, and pursue a rational dialogue on the next two points, certain high-profile members of the Canadian commentariat almost instantly started calling each other Nazis and fascists. It was, in far too many cases, the intellectual equivalent of a foodfight at a middle school cafeteria. Now the combatants are all covered in mustard and whipped cream, and nobody's any further ahead. I hope they had fun, at least.
Yeah but I for one never called anyone a Nazi who wasn't a literal, dyed-in-the-wool Nazi. The fact is, Speechy warriors found it impossible to make any kind of argument against Section 13 without regurgitating filth straight off Canada's premier white supremacist websites. In the case of the "hacked wifi" controversy, Selley's own newspaper was willing to report as truth "information" from an American Neo-Nazi who did time for attempting, with the help of a number of Canadian-based white supremacists, to launch an invasion of Dominica. Ask Jonathon Kay and the NP legal team where that kind of shit landed you guys, Chris.
On yeah, and your side lost the food fight. So Nyahh, nyahh, freaking nyahh!
Kathy Shaidle says she will hate as she pleases, no matter what the law says. Ah well, we all need a hobby.
Mark Steyn appears to still be formulating his response. But here's a tip, Mark. If I see you in a Canadian publication ever again, I've already got my HRC complaint form handy, and a couple QCC forms from Heritage Canada. Tell Kenneth Whyte, if you surface in Macleans one more time, I'm coming for his government stamps.
I'm also taking my campaign against you South, as I try to convince your American publishers that your English accent is totally fake.
Ezra Levant is spinning madly, quite madly, so madly that he has forgotten to ask for donations. That's how you can tell he's upset.
And here's a you-tube clip of me doing a victory dance. Warning! It contains semi-nudity and fatness! But that's what you come here for, isn't it?
10 comments:
- Ti-Guy said...
I love how Chris Silly asserts that both (all) sides in this were the same. It's exactly that lack of nuance which prevented me from treating the speechy arguments seriously. As a matter of principle, I just never take the side of stupid, angry, dishonest people.
Blazingcatsass in unconsolable. Maybe you should send him/it a basket of mini-muffins.
- Harry Abrams said...
Jenny Craig...eat your heart out!
- MgS said...
Don't bank on it being over. Give Harper a majority, and I think you could expect to see a lot of civil liberties and rights rolled back to the 1950s - starting with GLBT rights.
- Ti-Guy said...
No kidding. It's not like the bulk of Harpy's supporters are suddenly going to become reasnnable and sensible.
The speechy war really was a manifestation of just how singularly ignorant the Right has become, most specifically its so-called "intelligentisia." In every instance of these cases, I could have written what Steyn and the rest did while quite easily avoiding charges of hate speech.
The only argument left was that expression of hate itself is legitimate (with which I do agree), but they just don't know how to do that. It's easy to hate putrid or nonsensical ideas and hate the named individuals who advance them but wingnut intellectual sloth (very much rooted in xenophobia, chauvinism, bigotry and outright racism...with a few instances of genuine mental health problems...Levant, Shaidle...thrown in for good measure) can't be overcome enough to articulate what it is they hate more carefully, more compellingly and more convincingly.
If Harper's disappointed them, they only have themselves to blame.
- Unknown said...
Who's afraid of Section 13? Nobody.
The cases against Steyn and Levant collapsed because the left conspired to suppress normal political discourse.
Keeping Section 13 on the books is a pyrrhic victory. The left is welcome to it.
- Ti-Guy said...
You're graceless in defeat, Paulie.
- Reality Bites said...
Um, Steyn and Levant weren't CHRC cases Paul. DO try to keep up.
Section 13 is and always has been used against out-and-out Nazis.
The real question is why Steyn and Levant love Nazis so much they'll pretend they're martyrs. Try as I might, I can't come up with a single explanation that doesn't boil down to them being the absolute scum of the earth. Groups like the ACLU have defended the free speech of Nazis for years without ever pretending they were in any way admirable. This is somehow beyond the ability of Levant.
Disgusting piece of shit that he is.
- Admin said...
Whatever you think of Margaret Atwood's views, people will still be reading her books after the rest of us are gone and no one remembers the controversies that we currently think are so important.
And people think it's only Tories who systematically denigrate our country's artists.
"Section 13 is and always has been used against out-and-out Nazis."
Do Christian pastors count?
We certainly know Muslim Imams don't.
- Jeremy Maddock said...
"Give Harper a majority, and I think you could expect to see a lot of civil liberties and rights rolled back to the 1950s - starting with GLBT rights."
So... if I understand you right, shoring up free speech rights would be a rolling back of civil liberties? And yet Canada's Civil Liberties Associations want Section 13 abolished. Maybe they're Nazis too...
The simple, yet radical message of classical liberalism is the most ideal and beautiful political message that mankind has ever articulated. It is far more revolutionary and intelligent than anything you guys (and in you guys, I include Stephen Harper) could come up with...
Deep within human nature is the desire for basic liberty. Don't count on this debate being over. Not even in the short term... Just because our idiot of a PM doesn't care about freedom doesn't mean that freedom is dead.


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The campaign for Illinois governor took a jarring turn Monday when a former state employee accused a Republican candidate, state Treasurer Dan Rutherford, of sexually harassing him and regularly forcing him to do political work on state time — allegations Rutherford denied as "absolutely, totally political."
Ed Michalowski, a former lawyer and director in Rutherford's office, filed a federal lawsuit alleging Rutherford started making unwanted sexual advances toward him in April 2011, shortly after Michalowski began working in the office. He said the harassment continued for more than two years.
The lawsuit also claims Rutherford asked Michalowski to set up meetings with potential donors for campaign contributions and organize parades and petition drives while on government time.
At a news conference late Monday, Rutherford said the claims have no merit "whatsoever" and questioned their timing, coming just weeks before the four-way GOP primary. He said his office has documents and correspondence that refute the claims and that to his knowledge, there are no witnesses to the alleged incidents of harassment.
"I absolutely believe this thing smells of politics," Rutherford said.
Political analysts say the allegations could severely damage Rutherford's chances, particularly among the socially conservative voters who typically turn out to choose the Republican nominee. One political analyst called the claims "toxic."
But Rutherford said an independent investigation would clear his name. He repeated earlier accusations that a Republican gubernatorial rival, businessman Bruce Rauner, is behind the lawsuit in an attempt to undermine Rutherford's campaign in advance of the March 18 primary. Rauner has denied any involvement.
Michalowski submitted a letter of resignation to Rutherford's office last week.
The lawsuit names both the treasurer and his chief of staff, Kyle Ham. In it, Michalowski alleges that he attended an April 2011 overnight retreat at Rutherford's Chenoa home. He says Rutherford told him other staff members would be there but that no one else arrived.
The lawsuit alleges that Rutherford entered the guest bedroom where Michalowski was staying that night and grabbed his genital area. Michalowski says he pushed Rutherford away and later told Ham about the incident. Michalowski alleges Rutherford's chief of staff told him, "At least we have job security."
In a statement from Rutherford's office Monday, Ham "vehemently" denied Michalowski's account. He said no such report was made to him.
Rutherford also said travel vouchers that Michalowski submitted for reimbursement show he traveled to and from the retreat — which the treasurer said wasn't at his home — the same day and was back in Chicago by 4 p.m. But Michalowski's attorney, Christine Svenson, told The Associated Press late Monday that Rutherford asked her client to file inaccurate information on the reimbursement form.
Michalowski also claims Rutherford made unwanted sexual advances toward him in August 2011 in Springfield and during 2012 Republican National Convention in Florida.
The suit also claims Rutherford made Michalowski do work for his own campaign as well as for 2012 Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney. Rutherford was the Illinois chairman for the Romney campaign.
Rutherford, a former state lawmaker, was elected to the office in 2010. He's facing Rauner and state Sens. Bill Brady and Kirk Dillard in the GOP primary to take on Democratic Gov. Pat Quinn.
Rutherford said his office conducted an internal investigation into the allegations and they showed no merit. However, because he's treasurer, Rutherford said he was launching an outside investigation with independent attorneys and consultants and asked them to complete it "as expeditiously as possible."
Meanwhile, Rutherford claimed Michalowski's attorney was linked to Rauner's campaign and had solicited a $300,000 payout from Rutherford to "walk away and keep it under wraps."
Rauner has said the attorney was paid a one-time fee for a lease agreement and has called allegations he was orchestrating the lawsuit "ridiculous."
Michalowski has a history of financial troubles but told The Associated Press his motivation is neither financial nor political. He said he waited to file the claims until he had a new job and was able to quit the treasurer's office.
Public records show Michalowski and his wife — who are in the process of divorcing — filed for bankruptcy in November 2011, claiming assets of $295,000 and liabilities of $642,000. A judgment of foreclosure and sale was entered in October against Michalowski's Chicago condo.
Michalowski has been active in Democratic politics and worked for Democratic Secretary of State Jesse White's office for more than a decade. He described himself as personal friends with Rutherford and recently told the AP he joined the treasurer's office because he "liked the idea of expanding a working relationship with the other side (Republicans). ...Expanding my mind."
Political analysts, meanwhile, said the allegations could hurt Rutherford's ability to raise money during the critical final weeks before Election Day.
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Maine State Police Respond To Man's Gun Tattoo
Michael Smith of Norridgewock works the night shift, so he sleeps during the day.
Little did he know that a tree crew hired by a utility company to clear trees from his property would show up at 10 a.m. this past Tuesday.
When Smith was awaken by the sounds of chainsaws and other running equipment he went outside to tell the crew from Lucas Tree Experts to leave. Smith was shirtless when he did so.
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|Elmo steps in for Super Grover
|Air date
|October 8, 2008
|Season 39 (2008)
|Written by
|Annie Evans
|What's the Word on the Street?: Stuck
|Chris welcomes the viewer and meets up with Elmo, whose toy airplane is stuck in the tree. He suggests using a ladder, when all of a sudden, Super Chicken and his assistant, Robin, fall out of the sky. The duo begins to formulate a plan when…
|SCENE 1 cont'd
|…Super Grover crash lands to save the day! Elmo counts the superheroes he now has to save his airplane. Super Grover remarks the Elmo doesn't need "super poultry" to save the day and plans to jump up to the tree to get the airplane. As he makes several failed attempts, Robin flies into the tree and grabs it down. Elmo thanks the super duo and they go off on their way.
|SCENE 1 cont'd
|Grover remarks how easy it is to do a job when you have a super sidekick and wishes he had one when suddenly, the doors of 123 Sesame Street fly open to reveal Horatio the Elephant in a superhero outfit, announcing that he is up for the challenge. Grover accepts his assistance and they hear moaning of in the distance. Horatio rushes off to help them, but goes the other way, with Super Grover following after.
|SCENE 1 cont'd
|Horatio gets stuck in the doorway of Hooper's Store. Super Grover tries using his "super strength" to get him out, but to no avail. Chris helps him pull while Elmo goes off to help the people in trouble.
|SCENE 1 cont'd
|Baby Bear was the one who made the cry for help, as he and his choir group have a problem. They need four animals for their quartet, but he only has three, until Elmo points out that Baby Bear is an animal too, thus completing his quartet. Baby Bear then hears an odd noise coming from Hooper's…
|SCENE 1 cont'd
|Now aided by a Honker, Chris and Super Grover are able to pull Horatio out. They rush over near Oscar's trash can to help, and Baby Bear tells them of what happened and how they need four animals. Grover quickly counts them off and takes credit for solving the problem. Just then, three kids get their basketball stuck on the hoop. Horatio rushes to help, with Grover in hot pursuit of him.
|SCENE 1 cont'd
|Elmo goes over to the kids who point out their problem. Elmo is too small to reach their ball and thinks of a way to get it down.
|SCENE 1 cont'd
|Meanwhile, Horatio is now stuck in the Laundromat entranceway. Leela, Super Grover and two other monsters pull on him, but they can't get him out. Leela suggests using soap and water, so long as it's hypoallergenic. ("I have very sensitive skin!")
|SCENE 1 cont'd
|Elmo suggests using a ball to get it down, but the kids don't have another one. Just then, Elmo comes up with the idea of him being the ball. With the help of Chris, Elmo gets lifted up to the hoop and knocks the ball down. Just then, Horatio gets unstuck and they rush to the scene. Horatio "solves" the problem by getting the ball "unstuck" from the boy's hands. Horatio rushes off to find more situations to help with, trampling Grover in the process.
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The detectives of the Special Letters Unit search for a missing letter M.
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Murray's lamb, Ovejita, leads him to another secret escuela, with the clues of medias (socks), un gorro (a hat) and patines de hielo (ice skates). The school turns out to be Ice Skating School, where Murray learns the basics of skating.
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| Kenya and Cherie are friends, even when they disagree about how they do their hair.
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|Leela now has a whole gang of people pulling on each other to get Horatio out. They un-free him and he announces the sponsors. He then dances off to Hooper's for a peanut butter sandwich and once again gets stuck.
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This is an amateur film of the seaside village of Staithes in North Yorkshire. The film includes footage of the houses in the village, the surrounding coast, and fishermen with their catches of crabs.
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This promotional film shows the production of Wimsol cleaning products at their factory in Keighley; including research, production, distribution, selling and marketing of the final product. It also shows a works outing to Blackpool.
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Round heels confirms, plus a Chinese version
Posted by DOR on February 12, 2004
In Reply to: Wow, I'd better check my heels! posted by Lotg on February 09, 2004
: : : : : : : : : : An Irishman described a neighbor with the above..... I didnt ask for a definition. Can you help?
: : : : : : : : : Round heels = promiscuous.
: : : : : : : : There was a biography published last year;
: : : : : : : : A Round-Heeled Woman: My Late-Life Adventures in Sex and Romance by Jane Juska.
: : : : : : : Or maybe he said "well-heeled."
: : : : : : Which begs the question, why does well-heeled, imply well off or of a well-to-do background. Is there an implication that people with good shoes must be well off?
: : : : : : And is 'round heeled' the same thing?
: : : : : : I've never heard the term 'round heeled' before. Accompanied by the word 'lassie' suggests more Scottish than Irish to me. Have I got that wrong?
: : : : : I've never heard 'round heeled' before. 'Well heeled' implies that the person is able to afford to get his/her footwear repaired with new heels, before the shoes reach a point on no return. Thus, comfortably well off.
: : : : The first time I heard "round heeled" was a New York character in the movie "Norma Rae." He said something like, "What do I care if she has round heels."
: : : : Well-heeled and round-heeled are two different things. I was trying to be amusing.
: : : ::: It was appreciated as such. I have no comment on the round heeled part of this discussion, since I have no experience relevant to the topic, but I wanted to add another perspective to the well heeled subject. When one is down on their money and luck, they are said to be downtrodden, or down on their heels.
: : Round heeled - is used to suggest that the girl in question tips backwards easily i.e. is ready for sexual intercourse in the missionary position. Obvious when you think about it.
: : Well-heeled - used of the wealthy. as one wears shoes and boots, the heels wear down due to abrasion on the surface. heels can be replaced by a cobbler. a poor person cannot afford to have his/her shoes re-heeled as often as a rich person, so a person being well-heeled suggests that they are not poor. simple.
If I may jump in, "round heels" does indeed refer to a woman who spends more than the usual amount of time on her back, i.e., engaged in sex.
To add a twist, in Chinese the phrase "broken shoes" has much the same meaning: one to takes off her shoes "too much" -- for sex -- until they break.
DOR in HK


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Posted: Wed Aug 15, 2007 6:48 pm
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I got the 9th correct, but thought it was September...and I missed the year of your birth - I THOUGHT you looked younger than my calculations! Good clues, all of them!
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We are having the same dilema... where to go for holidays??? We have sep/oct as our time off, so it is off peak. In some ways easier, but in other ways ahrder. A few places are closed by then and so we may find ourselves a bit limited in selection.
Think we have narrowed it down to a seaside resort in Croatia. It looks gorgeous and has loads of cafes and restos nearby. Heaps of history and beautiful scenery. As it is a resort everything is laid on and I do nothing but rest and recuperate. My husband can do as much or as little as he likes. All in all something for each of us.
The 2 resorts we are tossing up are at Mlini and Pula.
Interesting to hear about others trips though. We were thinking of Greece, but the package to the resort in Croatia was so much cheaper and had heaps more on offer. Favourite places in Greece anyone?
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I'm staring 52 in the face at the end of September. Not really a milestone, but I've enjoyed traveling for several memorable milestones. And I used to be much more adventuresome when I was younger.
16th b'day: taken in the summer before -- went on an almost month-long excursion up the west coast of the US, from Los Angeles to northern Washington. Pacific NW Rocks!
High School grad gift was a week's vacation in Hawaii along with my mom & my best friend & her mom. Mostly spent in non-touristy places (are there any left in Hawaii?) Trekking volcanoes, sailing, etc. While our moms spent their time more sedately.
Summer before 20th b'day, at close of my Jr. College days before heading off to big uni to finish my degrees (interior design & art history) was spent in Europe. Mostly on the continent. Didn't get to scandiavian countries or Ireland. Would love to do both, still.
21st b'day: A summer in Mexico, mostly at *way* remote, but archaeologically/art history important places that had generators to provide electricity in the evenings til 10pm. But enough time to enjoy Mexico City & the museum of anthropology there. I was studying pre-Columbian art history in uni at the time & it was one of the best milestone vacations ever!
30th b'day: Canadian rockies, horsepacking, rafting on the Athabasca River. Love me some whitewater!
50th b'day: spent the weekend in my beloved TX Hill Country, getting a designer-jeweler friend to work with me on a new ring with my g'mom's diamond that my mom had made into a youthful design for my 18th b'day present. Stayed at a rural B&B with free-roaming deer & other wildlife. Quiet, beautiful, and in the company of people I love. What could be better?
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Years ago I went with my class on a trip around Italy looking at the Renaissance art and I loved Urbino. I'd love to go back there and this time see the ducal palace - we saw Raphael's house instead, which was lovely and I wanted to move in... but apparently there's laws against that sort of thing..
There's a series on the BBC at the moment about the Ganges (to celebrate 60 years of Indian Independence) and I'd love to go to the 'roots' of the Ganges. It looks so wild and beautiful. Unlike me on a Monday morning - I just look wild and untamed! Sigh!
I would love to see snow leopards and watch the Lammergeiers (big eagles with baggy breeches!) soaring through the air. Tho' I would of course prefer to see the leopards from a safe distance as I think they eat Griffins given half a chance.
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Debbie, Corfu (the food!) and Mykonos were unreal, but it was 25+ years ago. It was cheap and gorgeous--maybe that's exactly what Croatia is now.
Just curious-- why aren't Germany, Switzerland, Austria mentioned much in these forums--? They're close to France but both food
travel talk here sort of ignores them, and they're right next door!
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Posted: Thu Aug 16, 2007 5:38 pm
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Croatia is wonderful. Both Mlini ( near Dubrovnik) and Pula ( Istrian peninsula) are beautiful places , but also well located to visit a lot of interesting places nearby. Of course, you'll need a car. The Istrian peninsula is full of venetian style seashore townlets, beautiful mountain villages , good food. As for Duvbrovnik and the surrounding villages and cities, there are tons of books to read about. September is preferable. Good for you not to see hoards of tourists.
As for Mykonos, Santorini&co,they are very very very disgustingly touristic, but no tourist invasion can ever alter the sunset ..
Have a nice vacation
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Posted: Thu Aug 16, 2007 6:52 pm
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Good question, GP. Why not indeed? Maybe because these countries are not associated with "exotica", no sea, sun and sand ( well, the Baltic is not the Mediteranian), maybe because they are "heavy" eating contries, associated with winter rather than summer. I don't know, but we do vacation 2 weeks since 2003 in Seefeld, Austria, mainly because my mother adores mountains ( she is 88 YO) and she loves Seefeld. Not very exciting, but exceptional scenery and and calm . No surprise
foodwise either, good old solid Austrian-German shnitzels and strudels. Very good Strudels you can eat in every post-card like cafe facing the mountains.
Do you think there might be other reasons?
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Simona, yes, I was also thinking the food associated with Germany and Austria is too heavy for readers of this particular blog! But surely all the people in those countries are just as enthusiastic/knowlegeable about fresh/organic/healthy as everyone else is trying to be.
I think maybe Germany and Switzerland and places nearby are expen$ive. Classy and beautiful and civilized but expen$ive.
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Switzerland is indeed very expensive, but Austria, and especially Germany are much cheaper compared to France or Italy, not to mention England which has become out of reach . So I don't think that's the problem. Also, I believe that Americans are less eager to visit these countries, they prefer to spend they $$ in France or Spain, more attractive tourist wise. But there is a lot of inter-european tourism who "invade" these countries in the winter, and during the summer too, especially July- August. Berlin, for example, has become,- and righlty so- one ofthe "hottest" tourist attraction in Europe.
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About a year and a half ago, I reviewed Malcolm Gladwell's excellent book Outliers. In that review, I talked about one of Gladwell's key points in the book, that a great deal of practice will make a person good at anything:
The more important (and interesting) part of the chapter, though, discusses the huge role that nearly-obsessive practice plays in making people great. Gladwell uses The Beatles and Bill Gates as examples here, showing how they both were able to take advantage of stupendous amounts of practice time to become very, very good at what they did. In each case, Gladwell estimated that it took 10,000 hours of practice for those individuals to hone their natural raw talents and become world class – roughly ten years of multiple hours of practice (3 or so on average) every single day. Gladwell offers many other examples of how this practice pays off, but that magic number of 10,000 hours pops up again and again.
10,000 hours of practice? That seems like an incredible amount of time invested in something. I tried to think of the people in my life who have ever put 10,000 hours of practice into anything in their life.
I have probably spent 10,000 hours writing over the past twenty years – and currently I'm making a living as a writer. The skill I've cultivated isn't that of writing some sort of great work of fiction or nonfiction, but the ability to express ideas and produce a lot of solid writing very quickly. I can usually sit down with an idea and crank out something workable almost as fast as I can type – in fact, the vast majority of my work is coming up with ideas and filtering the ideas I do come up with.
I know two musicians who have likely invested 10,000 hours in practicing their instrument over their lifetime. One of them earns a solid side income from her piano playing – the other one makes a full living from offering lessons.
My father has spent 10,000 hours (at least) fishing in his life. He is just unbelievably capable of catching fish and has forgotten more solid techniques and tips than I'll ever remember. He's similarly spent that kind of time in his garden and manages to make (literally) acres of bountiful vegetable gardens look practically effortless.
What's the point of all of this?
The point is that the only real cost for these people to gain the kind of skill that they can use to make a living was time. The actual cost per hour that they spent doing these things that they love was really, really low.
Take the second musician I mention above, a piano teacher. She got her start playing piano by banging on a neighbor's piano as a young girl and began to discover that she really enjoyed playing. It became her primary hobby. She got an old piano as a gift when she was in middle school and purchased a $400 used piano herself as an adult. She guesses she's spent $200 on sheet music over her life and maybe $250 on piano repairs. Add that up and you get $1,000. In other words, she's invested only ten cents per hour in her life playing piano, doing something she loved, and she wound up with a skill that she's earning a living from.
Every person I mention above has a similar story. Once they found the thing they loved doing, they just stuck with doing it, investing hours each day into the hobby, and the end result was a cost per hour measured in the pennies. What did they get out of it? Many, many hours spent doing what they love and a skill so refined that they could earn a living from it if they so chose.
Many people are highly eclectic in their hobbies, but there's a huge cost associated with that. For starters, most hobbies you undertake have a startup cost and a maintenance cost. If you have ten hobbies, then there are ten startup costs and ten maintenance costs.
A much better approach is to dabble until you find a hobby or two that deeply resonates with you. Not only are you reducing your hobby costs, you're focusing in on a smaller set of hobbies and are likely to become more skilled at those hobbies.
This is something I'm really starting to discover in my own life, mostly due to the piano lessons I've started taking. I've slowly been stripping away hobbies in my life over the past few years, leaving me with just a small handful. What I've found isn't boredom – in fact, it's the opposite.
I now feel like I have the ability to really dig deep into the hobbies I have remaining. The more time I spend playing the piano, for example, the more I enjoy it. The keys feel more natural to my fingers. My fingers aren't stumbling over themselves (as much). My ability to sight-read music is getting stronger and stronger. I can play a couple simple songs from memory and can tackle quite a bit of simple music that's in front of me. I'm getting better and I'm enjoying every second of it.
Spend some time asking yourself what hobbies you have – and which hobbies you could afford to trim from your routine. You have a garden, but are you really passionate about it? Pare some of the things you're less passionate about out of your life to make room for things that you're more passionate about.
What happens then? You spend less on your hobbies. You get to dig deeper into the ones you care about. Best of all, you open yourself up to the possibility of building a skill set that you can base a second career on, one deeply in line with what you care about the most.


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SCARBOROUGH – The Scarborough Public Library will kick off its 2015 Summer Reading Program on Wednesday, June 17, 2015 at 6:00 pm with a performance at the Wentworth School cafeteria by Double or Nothing. The show is a fast-paced variety show of zany humor and incredible juggling feats starring Steve Corning and Shane Miclon. The event is free to attend. No pre-registration is required.
Families can register children for the Summer Reading Program the evening of the kick-off, or by visiting the Youth Room beginning June 15, 2015.
The Summer Reading Program lasts for eight weeks and offers a family-friendly schedule of reading incentives and exciting special events for ages pre-K through high school. Information and special program details for children up to Grade 5 can be found on the Youth Page of the Library's website at www.scarboroughlibrary.org/youth. Details for teens Grade 6 and up can be found on the Teen Page at www.scarboroughlibrary.org/teens.
Young authors in Grades 3-5, 6-8, and 9-12 will also be invited to submit original stories to the Library's "The Writes of Summer" contest. Stories will be read by guest judges, and winning entries will be posted to the Library's website.
All Summer Reading Program events are made possible through funding provided by the Friends of the Scarborough Library. For more information, contact the Youth Room at 883-4723 option 3, or visit the Scarborough Public Library website at www.scarboroughlibrary.org.


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This is it y'all.
Y'all is time 4 me to 'hit the proverbial demerol' via some shady docbro and 'accidentally commit suicide' via intentionally 'leaving this world' and 'quitting the game while i am ahead' so my 'legend can live on' and i don't get 'old and ugly', like MJ. Miss you MJ. Some people have emailed me 2 say 'WTF is happening with ur blog' and 'U R not srs R u?' and 'do u rly rly read Marian Keyes? F U penguin'. Y'ulz, don't stress. This is not 'goodbye 4 eva'. Just facing up 2 the fact that 'i have changed' and 'things have changed' and as a 'cre8ive person' i am 'too zany 2 do something too specific 4 too long' (via ADD).
Have 'taken my learnings into account' and have 'cre8ed a new vision', one with 'space 2 let me grow' and 'realise my potential'. NEwayz. Gonna miss some things so much, like making interns cry. And being in love with ideas. And reminiscing bout bein an ad student. Y'ulz just gotta know that these things will 'live on' via this blog and via my new blog identity. I think. Kinda 'not rly sure'. But app 'life is a rollercoaster jus gotta ride it'.
See y'ulz monday, 'all shiney & new'. So long & thanks 4 all the RT's.


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THE STEVE GRIMMETT BAND, the new group fronted by legendary British heavy metal vocalist Steve Grimmett (GRIM REAPER, ONSLAUGHT, LIONSHEART), has entered the studio with producer Dennis Ward (KROKUS, SILENT FORCE, PINK CREAM 69) to begin recording its debut album, tentatively titled "Personal Crisis". The projected track listing for the effort is as follows (in no particular order):
01. Enemy
02. Freedom
03. Afterglow
04. Fallen
05. Invincible
06. Wait Forever
07. I'm Your Nightmare
08. Promises
09. Lonely
10. Strength
11. Karma
12. Slipping Away
Check out demo versions of "Enemy", "Freedom" and "Afterglow" at this location.
THE STEVE GRIMMETT BAND is:
Steve Grimmett (GRIM REAPER, ONSLAUGHT, LIONSHEART) - Vocals
Ian Nash (LIONSHEART, SEVEN DEADLY SINS) - Guitar
Ritchie Walker - Bass
Pete Newdeck (PAUL DI'ANNO'S KILLERS) – Drums, Vocals
Grimmett recently appeared in a Superbowl commercial for Garmin Satellite Navigation Systems. The commercial was played during the Superbowl about midway through second quarter. Watch it online at YouTube.com.


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|STS097-704-084 (9 December 2000) --- This picture is one of a series of 70mm frames exposed of the International Space Station (ISS) following undocking at 1:13 p.m. (CST), December 9, 2000. This series of images, as well as video and digital still imagery taken at the same time, represent the first imagery of the entire station with its new solar array panels deployed. Before separation, the shuttle and space station had been docked to one another for 6 days, 23 hours and 13 minutes. Endeavour moved downward from the space station, then began a tail-first circle at a distance of about 500 feet. The maneuver, with pilot Michael J. Bloomfield at the controls, took about an hour. While Endeavour flew that circle, the two spacecraft, moving at five miles a second, navigated about two-thirds of the way around the Earth. Undocking took place 235 statute miles above the border of Kazakhstan and China. When Endeavour made its final separation burn, the orbiter and the space station were near the northeastern coast of South America.
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Billy's Best Bottles Book is Back!
Is it just me, or is time passing faster than ever? The Deaconess says that Christmas follows Labour Day, and it appears that she's correct. It's actually a series of four rapid impacts: Labour Day, Thanksgiving, Hallowe'en, and then Christmas; each one hitting faster than America can attack deserving Middle Eastern nations that need to be be bombed and annihilated into freedom and democracy!
Endless war is awesome!
But I digress...On a better note, my friend Billy Munnelly has just released his 2012 edition of Billy's Best Bottles - just in time for Christmas, or to celebrate the immanent attacks on Iran's nuclear programme, even though the Persians have not attacked anyone in the last 300 years.
Oops...there I go again...
Anyway: Despite the fact that Orwell was prescient and the world has gone mad, Billy has given us another reason to go on living, namely the best wines at the best prices. If you haven't purchased his fine book before, you need to go here and order it immediately. His method of choosing wine by mood rather than varietal, makes so much sense, you need to adopt the system, as I have. It seems the Common Man is catching on, and Billy's seminars are always sold-out at the Gourmet Food and Wine Show; something the deconstructionists and complicators need to take note of...This fabulous little book fits in your back pocket and will effortlessly guide you through the labyrinth of the Lick-Bo and safely bring you out the other side, with money in your wallet and wine that will perfectly match the way you feel. It's a real bargain too, so stock up on several copies. They make great hostess gifts or stocking stuffers for the winos on your list.
And while we're on the topic of books, check out Starlight Books in Newmarket. It's a nice Sunday afternoon jaunt from Toronto and well worth the trip. If you're still able to read anything other than texts or tweets, Starlight will have a book you'll love. It's well laid-out and there's a British Food shop in the plaza just behind it, so you can store up on Pontefract Cakes, tubes of Coleman's mustard and Worcestershire Sauce flavoured potato chips. Those who enjoy this sort of shop will find it to be just the sort of shop they enjoy.
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Developer's Reading List, January 24, 2012 The latest books off the press cover code readability, Java performance, hunting for and prying open security defects, game testing, architecture, and even OpenVMS.
The Art of Readable Code: Simple and Practical Techniques for Writing Better Code
Dustin Boswell and Trevor Fourcher
Being the editor of Dr. Dobb's gives me a special stake in a topic that has long entertained my thoughts: making code readable. So, when this book slipped into my inbox, I gave it a very careful read-through. At 180 pages, it can be read in one sitting — in part due to its easy-going style and sensible content. The book avoids finger-wagging or laying down inviolable rules; instead, it carefully walks through well-chosen, illustrative examples that elegantly communicate the authors' recommendations. The authors make good arguments for avoiding things like ternary operators,
while-loops, and other constructs (The book applies equally to all languages with C-based syntax). The text also tackles meatier topics: variable naming, writing clear unit tests, when to write comments and how. In some places, where flame wars are likely to erupt, the authors do a good job of stating their opinion and the reasons for it and they avoid waving red flags or inveighing against opposing positions.
While books of this kind are often positioned toward beginner and intermediate programmers as well as self-taught developers, even code masters will find value from a read-through. Highly recommended. — Andrew Binstock


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I've recently received a review copy of one of the newest AFOL-driven books, BrickGun, by Jeff Boen, published by No Starch Press. While this is off-topic for my blogs, I'm going to post this review across most of my blogs (except SciBricks and GodBricks), because I want to support AFOL authors and also encourage publishing houses to produce more books for and about the community. You can learn more about Jeff Boen, see additional models that did not find their way into the book, and even purchase kits to build these guns on his site, BrickGun. Also, if you are interested in purchasing this book, right now No Starch has a 40% discount if you buy through their site.
First up, a bit of a disclaimer and then a defense. I understand that a lot of people do not like the idea of a book celebrating full scale models of realistic weapons. When Huw reviewed this book on Brickset a week and a half ago (yes, I'm slow), a lot of the feedback was very negative on even the idea of this book, and some criticized Huw for reviewing it at all. Some people pointed out that playing with full scale LEGO guns can get you in a lot of trouble. Of course, so can playing with fig-scale guns. As I said, though, I do understand the concern. I previously reviewed No Starch's LEGO Heavy Weapons book, and it was right in the aftermath of the horrible school shooting in Newton Connecticut, and I was torn about the idea. On the flip side, I think a lot of the hue and cry is hypocritical. There are a huge number of militaristic MOCs out there, and we don't see similar comments on the latest tank or fighter plane. When the custom dealers such as BrickArms or BrickForge come out with a new realistic weapon, people run out to order them for their next WWII diorama. Even official sets come with some sort of weapon as often as not. My own theme of choice is castle, and my figs are usually carrying some sort of sword or battle axe. I'm under no illusion that these were for peaceful purposes. Like it or not, weapons are a big part of our LEGO play.
Anyway, on to the book itself. It is pretty much a set of full instructions to build five guns. Four are replicas of pistols and are life-size. They have moving features like triggers that can be pulled, and one has a magazine that can be inserted. The MAC 11 subcompact machine pistol is 'working', in that it fires rubber bands. At least to my untrained eye, the models themselves look very authentic. The instructions are detailed and in color. One critique is that since these are built almost all out of black, it might have been nice in the instructions to print the previous layer in a faded color, so that the new bricks being added would stand out. I have not built any of these, but reading through the instructions it seems that any reasonably experienced builder would be able to follow along with no problems.
There are a few pages of text at the start of the book, but IMO these could have largely been left off. Aside from a few building tips, most of this text is autobiographical and IMO a little self indulgent (basically saying how he built the MOCs and describing all of the great response he received). Perhaps the book would have been improved by a little bit of history of the weapons depicted in LEGO form, as seen in the LEGO Heavy Weapons book. That suggests a bit of side-by-side comparison of BrickGun (BG) with the LEGO Heavy Weapons (LHW) book. I haven't built the models from either, so I can't really compare them, but based on the pictures I like the look of the BG models better. The BG models seem to be based more on basic bricks, plates and slopes, while the LHW ones seem to use more Technic elements, though both books use both types of pieces. BG has color pictures on glossy paper, vs the black and white LHW. Color doesn't seem necessary, since the models are mostly black, but it does make the book seem a little nicer. BG is about a third shorter (222 pages vs 354 for LHW). This seems odd since BG has 5 models vs 4 for LHW. Flipping through the instructions it seems the LHW models have more fiddly bits, which probably explains the greater number of pages. The LHW models are supposed to launch bricks, while one of the BG models fires rubber bands. Oh, that reminds me of what I found quite funny. On the last page of BG, you're told to not fire rubber bands at people. Were the publishers never kids? That's pretty much the point of a rubber band gun - from the simplest rubber band looped over the end of a ruler up to these highly detailed LEGO versions.
As I've said, No Starch has previously published the LEGO Heavy Weapons book, and they also have Badass LEGO Guns and some guns in the Forbidden LEGO book.
One complaint is that these, especially the BrickGun and LEGO Heavy Weapons, seem to be a little repetitive. At least they seem so to me as a non-gun-guy. One humble suggestion is that if No Starch does another of these books, they may want to go back and do historical guns. Imagine a book that had a LEGO musket, pirate-era pistol, a six-shooter from the old west, etc. A very cursory look on Flickr finds, for instance, this WWI era revolver by Cole Edmonson. Going further back into history, there are lots of people who have made full-scale LEGO swords, shields, and other medieval weapons. Or, they could go the other direction, and do futuristic weapons. There are a lot of builders who have made 1:1 scale models of different weapons from the Star Wars universe, such as Captaininfinity's Han Solo blaster. I would imagine that a book of these would tap into both those builders interested in full scale models of weapons, and also the vast Star Wars fanbase. Alternatively I've seen full scale LEGO versions of Star Trek weapons or other sci-fi accessories. One last direction, Ken Robichard has done a series of full scale Avengers accessories, and there are others who have done 1:1 models of different comic book items. Of course, all of these last ideas would necessarily run into licensing issues.
Anyway, in summary, this is a pretty niche market, but fits that market well. I can understand why some people would not want to build life-size LEGO guns, but if you do, this book (and the other No Starch offering) is perfect for you. The book is well made and a good addition to your LEGO library. I hope they continue to make AFOL-driven books like this, perhaps focused on different subject matter as well.


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For boolean algebra, let's take Roman Sikorski's Boolean Algebras as our reference. After giving a set of axioms, he proves (p.9) that the join of A and B is the least element of the algebra such that A and B are its subelements. He also asserts that since that's so, the join of A and B can be defined in terms of the ordering relation.
In the Appendix (p. 198), Sikorski defines a closure algebra as a boolean algebra with an additional operator, a closure operator, and gives axioms for it. He also defines an interior operator in terms of the closure operator.
The assertion about the definability of join in terms of ordering leads one to ask whether the same might be true of the closure and interior operators. Given sufficiently strong axioms for them, one might find that:
The closure of A is the least element of which A is a subelement.
The interior of A is the greatest element which is a subelement of A.
This idea just occurred to me this evening. I imagine the answer depends on the axioms for the closure operator. Has this topic already been explored? Thanks for any help or references.


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The fall of the United States in Reporters Without Borders' World Press Freedom Index seems attributable mostly to the war on whistleblowers. "The whistleblower is the enemy," the report states, singling out the harsh treatment of Barrett Brown, Chelsea Manning and Edward Snowden.
Politicians go out of their way to denounce whistleblowers and "leakers" whose revelations of classified data, they claim, have harmed national security.
But it's always worth pointing out that the outrage is selective.
Take the revelations this week, reported by the Associated Press (2/10/14), that the United States is considering a drone attack to kill a US citizen purportedly working with Al-Qaeda. The report was based on information provided by at least four unnamed government officials. At the request of the government, the AP withheld the location of the American who is targeted, but a subsequent New York Times report (2/10/14) asserted that the American is living in Pakistan.
So we have what is certainly a sensitive government operation to kill a US citizen in a foreign country being splashed across the national media, based on what is surely considered extremely sensitive information provided by government officials.
So where are Rep. Peter King (R.-N.Y.) and Rep. Mike Rogers (R.-Mich.), politicians who have assailed the likes of Edward Snowden for revealing sensitive secrets? There is little condemnation of this story to be found, and no calls to round up the leakers.
So why not?
Perhaps because on the surface, this story would seem to be an official leak–one where the government divulges information in order to put its policies in a more flattering light. In these accounts, the White House is carefully weighing the pros and cons of a possible assassination, reconciling it with Barack Obama's speech about the new limits he aims to put on the US drone program. Or perhaps it's a leak from within intended to portray the White House as being too cautious. In either case, it doesn't seem to be generating the usual complaints about reckless leakers handing over sensitive intelligence to the media.
As for critics like Rogers–he's speaking out on the issue, but it's not those who divulge secrets that he's mad at; it's the White House for not acting fast enough to strike. Assassinating US citizens involves too much "red tape," the Times story notes as his objection.


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Russlynn Ali is vice president of the Education Trust and founding director of the Education Trust-West, the West Coast partner of EdTrust. The Education Trust organizations work to promote high academic achievement for all students at all levels, with an emphasis on serving Latino, African American, Native American and low-income students. Ali has held senior positions at several other education-related organizations, including liaison to the president of the Children's Defense Fund in Washington, D.C.; chief of staff to the president of the Los Angeles Unified School District Board of Education; and deputy co-director of Advancement Project. Ali attended Spelman College and graduated from American University with a bachelor's degree in law and society. She also holds a law degree from Northwestern University School of Law. Ali practiced corporate and civil rights law and served as an adjunct faculty member at the University of Southern California School of Law prior to her career in the non-profit sector.


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On our way from Portland, we stopped in Bend to stay a night with Jeremiah's family. For some reason, that 3 hour drive felt like an eternity. Thankfully Detroit Dam is a pretty little stop, and we were able to take in some fresh air, walk around, and take a few scenic photos. Just don't use the restroom. I mean it!
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Back then superhero chic was all the rage, and the higher-ups at Intellico decided the world was primed for the real deal. Mike had a bona fide super power, but Intellico's Advanced Marketing had other plans for him. They decided instead he'd make the perfect sidekick for their perfect hero, Vega-Man.
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Intellico spent millions trying to prep Vega-Man for the outside world with little success. At least until one of his moronic handlers gave him a stack of comics and pointed out the similarities. Vega-Man latched onto the idea and the world's first real superhero was born. But he needed someone to keep him moving in the right direction. The Big Green Bean had a tendency to get sidetracked, sometimes by something as simple as his own reflection.
It became Mike's job to keep Veggie on task, and Mike's role as a sidekick was the perfect cover. Mike actually grew to like Vega-Man, though their relationship was probably on par with a seal trainer and his favorite flippered performer. But at their official debut Mike was dealt an underhanded blow. Advanced Marketing decided to forego Mike's suggestion for a codename, "Shrinking-Man" and settled instead on the belittling name "Shrinky." When Mike protested they said the packaging for the action figure was already done. From that point on Mike was able to shrink down to just under three feet.
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Everyone knows the girlfriend of the superhero is the natural prey of the supervillain. And that's where this was destined to end. We were sent to deal with international hitman, Nicholas Al Guzman Kumar. It was a trap. Kumar figured eliminating Vega-Man would do wonders for his reputation, and he knew more about Vega-Man than he should. When confronted Kumar simply told Veggie that he had discovered his "kryptonite," something he dubbed the Vega-Ray. Mike and I knew there was no such thing, it was only a black-light. But Kumar's suggestion was enough.
There we were, Vega-Man trapped in the "Vega-Ray," me stretched between the floor and an industrial hoist, and Mike held at gunpoint. Kumar held the gun in one hand, and the yellow control box for the hoist in the other.
"First I kill woman, then stupid sidekick," he said.
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Then Mike glared at Kumar gritting his teeth with fierce determination.
"Shrink, I squash you like insignificant bug." Kumar spat.
A growl came from Mike as he lunged and tackled Kumar. The gun went off.
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