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Growing up in the United States, the phrase "Eat your Brussels sprouts" was often used in playground banter as an example of how unfair or mean parents can be. Perhaps, I was lucky because I was never forced to eat Brussels sprouts. Avoiding it at all costs (having remembered the horror stories), I never tasted this mini-cabbage until after I left college. Believe it or not, after first tasting them, I thought Brussels sprouts were delicious! What had I been missing out on? Why did everyone complain about these wonderful tasting vegetables and why was it the butt of many jokes in American family sitcoms? I'm not sure, but I think it might have to do with overcooking. Forget the Brussels sprouts of your past and try this fast, simple, and flavorful preparation.
Like many people, I like braising Brussels sprouts in salt water for a couple reasons. First and foremost, it's a very fast cooking method. Using only a small amount water means the waiting time for bringing that water up to a cooking temperature is minimal. The Brussels sprouts cook fairly rapidly without becoming water-logged. Another great thing about this recipe is that it really highlights the natural flavor of the Brussels sprout without the unappetizing smell and taste that cause so many people to avoid this vegetable.
You can buy Brussels sprouts on the stalk or as individual heads. Choose heads that are about 1 inch (2.5 cm) in diameter. At this size, the Brussels sprouts are generally regarded as at their peak tenderness. Also, try to choose uniform sized heads so they will cook at the same rate. The heads should be composed of green leaves that hold together tightly. Try to avoid Brussels sprouts with loose leaves or leaves that are yellow, but don't worry too much since these leaves can be removed before cooking.
For this recipe, I picked up a pound (450 g) of Brussels sprouts, a good amount for two hearty eaters. To scale the recipe, just increase the size of the pan.
If you bought the Brussels sprouts on the stalk, simply cut them off the stalk. When I buy them as individual heads, I like to slice off the very base of the Brussels sprouts because the base has often lost moisture in the store and may be tougher and more fibrous.
Peel off any loose or yellow leaves.
Wash the Brussels sprouts thoroughly under running water to remove any dirt or small clinging insects. (Some cookbooks suggest soaking them for 15 minutes in lemon or vinegar water to clean them of potential insects, but I've never tried this.)
Select a pot or pan that can hold all the Brussels sprouts in one layer. Put just enough water in the pot to create a depth of about 1/4 inch (6 mm). Cover and bring the water to a boil over high heat. Once the water is hot, add about 1/2 teaspoon table salt to the water. If you're scaling the recipe and using a larger pot, be careful how much salt you add. You want to get the water to be quite salty, but not so strong that if you tasted it you'd feel that it is unpalatable. We add the salt after the water is hot because if you add the salt while the water is cold, the salt may not immediately dissolve. Salt crystals sitting in an aqueous environment has been known to cause pitting in stainless steel, so whenever you add salt to water (e.g. when preparing pasta), do so when the water is hot so the salt dissolves rapidly.
When the water is boiling, add the Brussels sprouts to the pan. Make sure they form only one layer on the bottom and none of the heads are sitting on top of the other heads. Cover and reduce to low heat to maintain a simmer.
After about seven to eight minutes, the Brussels sprouts should be tender. The base of the head should allow you to sticking a knife in with a little gentle pressure. If you overcook the Brussels sprouts, it will produce an unpalatable sulfurous smell. Cooked just right, the Brussels sprouts should be sweet and nutty with a slight hint of bitterness (but not even close to the bitterness of many other vegetables such as bok choy).
Remove from the water and toss in 1/2 Tbs. butter and season with fresh ground black pepper to taste. The addition of butter helps augment the nuttiness of the Brussels sprouts.
Serve hot, warm, or cold - they'll be delicious at any temperature.
I should probably note that the name is "Brussels sprouts", not "Brussel sprouts" or "Brussel's sprouts" because they are named after the Belgian city of Brussels.
Braised Brussels Sprouts
(serves 2-4)
1/4-in. (6 mm) water
simmer 8 min.
1/2 tsp. table salt
1 lb. (450 g) Brussels sprouts
season to taste and toss
1/2 Tbs. butter
fresh ground black pepper
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Posted: Fri Sep 30, 2005 10:35 pm
Post subject: Brussels Sprouts are really good.
I stayed away from Brussels sprouts because my mom never made them and she said they were disgusting. Not having lived at home for many years now, I decided to give them a try and see why they had such a bad reputation. I was surprised at how delicious they were. Braising is a great way to cook them. I also like to saute a few minced cloves of fresh garlic in olive oil and toss the braised sprouts in the garlic oil with some fresh ground pepper right before serving. Good call on this vegetable with the poorly desered reputation.
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Posted: Sat Oct 01, 2005 2:00 am
Post subject: B Sprouts
I have recently cooked Brussels Sprouts under the broiler. I sliced them in half, rubbed them with olive oil (in a plastic bag) salt and pepper. Added a couple of tbs Balsamic Vinegar and a handful of pecan halves. Really great, but I've always liked sprouts!
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Posted: Sat Oct 01, 2005 4:19 am
Post subject: The foods we love to hate.
I saw this article on Cooking For Engineers and thought of all the Brussels Sprouts that my brother was forced to eat. When we were little we each got to choose a vegetable when we were at the grocery store. I tended to choose Brussels Sprouts because I knew that my brother didn't like them. He likewise tended to choose lima beans because I didn't like them.
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Posted: Sat Oct 01, 2005 5:02 am
Post subject: My secret for sprouts? Burn 'em.
They only way I've ever liked sprouts is as follows.
Heat heavy nonstick pan over medium high heat. Add olive oil. Cut sprouts in half and place in pan in a single layer, cut side down. Cook 8-11 minutes or until deeply browned. Turn sprouts and cover pan. Cook 10 minutes until tender. Salt to taste, finish with 1/4 cup heavy cream and 2T grated parmesan if desired.
Even without the cream and cheese, they're the only way my family eats them.
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Posted: Sat Oct 01, 2005 7:04 am
Post subject: Steamed sprouts instead of boiling and using butter
When I was a kid in the 50's my parents were always buying brussel sprouts, asparagus and any number of other veggies. Mom always boiled everything as was the custom back then. You all know the old Donna Reed type of cooking. I would slather everything with butter until it was almost unrecognizable. And I loved it. All of it. But what I probably loved was the butter. Now that I've gotten much older and a little wiser, thanks to the help of my bride, I don't put butter on very much. We either place our sprouts of asparagus for example in a steamer and eat them in a nearly-cooked state or grill them on the Weber with just a little EV Olive Oil with a sprinkling of Kosher. Cut the sprouts in half to get a little char on the cut side as well. Wonderful. And I do agree that they are very much like a very small cabage but much sweeter flesh. Another note... Brussel Sprouts grown on a stalk will keep much longer and stay fresher. They just take up a lot of room in the Fridge unless you cut the stalk in half. Get out the chain saw though because the stalk in very tough. If you could show a picture of one of the stalks I think many readers would find it very interesting.
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Michael Chu
Joined: 10 May 2005
Posts: 1654
Location: Austin, TX (USA)
Posted: Sat Oct 01, 2005 8:34 am
Post subject: Re: Steamed sprouts instead of boiling and using butter
Michael wrote:
If you could show a picture of one of the stalks I think many readers would find it very interesting.
Currently, none of the grocers in my area have Brussels sprouts on the stalk, but as soon as I see one again, I'll take a picture and add it to the article.
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Posted: Sat Oct 01, 2005 12:45 pm
Post subject: Great Shots!
Could you talk about your camera and settings? Great close-ups on the Brussels sprouts. And yes, I agree, it's the smell that turns most folks off. Gag reflex was a rather powerful sensation, as I remember.
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Posted: Sat Oct 01, 2005 1:28 pm
Post subject: Brussels Sprouts
The first time I tasted them, was when I was a teenager at my now ex-husbands parents house. I thought that they were delious and cute.
I steam them, and then put them in a frying pan with some butter and a couple of slices of velveeta cheese. Let the cheese melt, while stirring. The best in taste, and the kids love it this way too.
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Posted: Sat Oct 01, 2005 3:28 pm
Post subject: Brussels sprouts!!!
Thank you for giving time to this food of the gods.... may I share my son's favorite way of preparing these little gems?
Chop small and saute in butter - 2 medium yellow onions. Medium heat, continue sauteeing until tender and fragrant.
Prepare brussels spouts: wash, remove tough outer leaves, cut off stem close to each head, and slice head through the stem so each half remains held intact by the base of the stem. Rinse lightly and put in microwave safe bowl; microwave on high until just tender.
Add brussels sprouts to onions, and continue sauteeing until lightly carmelized. Salt and pepper to taste.....YUM!
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Location: Iowa/Chicago
Posted: Sat Oct 01, 2005 5:45 pm
Post subject: Skeptic
My mother fed us brussels sprouts once, they were awful. Since then my sister tried them and she liked them, said that our mother overcooked them. Think I'll add them to today's grocery list and give them another shot if the store has them in stock. We'll see
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Posted: Sat Oct 01, 2005 6:31 pm
Post subject: Re: Great Shots!
PhotogFan wrote:
Could you talk about your camera and settings? Great close-ups on the Brussels sprouts. And yes, I agree, it's the smell that turns most folks off. Gag reflex was a rather powerful sensation, as I remember.
Through the magic of EXIF, I can tell you this about that nice Brussels Sprout pic:
Camera: Nikon D100
Flash: None
Focal Length: 180mm
Aperture: F/2.8
Shutter: 1/100
Metering Mode: Pattern
Camera Program Mode: Aperture Priority
Does that help?
By the way, Michael, PHP has
support built in for EXIF
, if people are interested it might be a neat side feature to add a way to view embedded data on the photos (click the image for a popup or something, maybe).
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Posted: Sun Oct 02, 2005 1:59 am
Post subject: Grilled Brussels Sprouts
Grilled, with oil, salt, and pepper. It's is a real treat! Put em in a vegi griller on the propane, or other grill. Just like grilling corn. They come out a little crispy and great tasting.
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Smillie - OzFire
Joined: 26 Sep 2005
Posts: 24
Location: South Australia
Posted: Sun Oct 02, 2005 7:10 am
Post subject:
Another great way to cook them is similar to the braised method above but with i/2 cup of cider vinegar instead of the water and knob of butter... not marg... and nutmeg and a little chili. Served with parmesan cheese on top.
Tastes like little hot, sweet sauerkraut parcels
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Michael Chu
Joined: 10 May 2005
Posts: 1654
Location: Austin, TX (USA)
Posted: Sun Oct 02, 2005 7:31 am
Post subject: Re: Great Shots!
tabacco wrote:
By the way, Michael, PHP has
support built in for EXIF
, if people are interested it might be a neat side feature to add a way to view embedded data on the photos (click the image for a popup or something, maybe).
I've taken advantage of the EXIF info for some of the other websites that I've worked on, but since this site's photography is less technical than my other work, I didn't include some of this info. I'm in the process of overhauling the look of Cooking For Engineers, and including the EXIF info is definitely something that is on my feature list.
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Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer says he won't run for governor
Dyer makes announcement in State of the City
Dyer made the announcement in his State of the City speech Wednesday morning.
On his Facebook page, Dyer said: "After careful consideration, I have decided that I will not run for Governor. I have a responsibility to the people of Orlando to finish what we started. When I think about our residents, there is no place I'd rather be than Orlando."
In his speech, Dyer pointed to lower crime in the city and new projects and investments downtown.
He said the property crime rate has been reduced by more than 22 percent, murders are down 14 percent and robberies are down 13 percent.
The city will be installing 17 police cameras on Semoran Boulevard.
He also said the economic state of the city is strong.
"Today, signs of movement are everywhere. Our unemployment rate is the lowest it's been in four years, and our region is expected to see more than 27,000 jobs created in the year ahead," he said.
He also discussed the possibility of a new soccer stadium in the city.
"Thinking about the next 10 years of downtown also means not shying away from big ideas," he said.
He said there are eight projects underway that represent at $670 million investment downtown.

subset: commoncrawl


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"In case you haven't recognized the trend: it proceeds action, dissent, speech." ~ davidly, on how wars get done
"...What sort of meager, unerotic existence must a man live to find himself moved to such ecstatic heights by the mundane sniping of a congressional budget fight. The fate of human existence does not hang in the balance. The gods are not arrayed on either side. Poseiden, earth-shaker, has regrettably set his sights on the poor fishermen of northern Japan and not on Washington, D.C. where his ire might do some good--I can think of no better spot for a little wetland reclamation project, if you know what I mean. The fight is neither revolution nor apocalypse; it is hardly even a fight. A lot of apparatchiks are moving a lot of phony numbers with more zeros than a century of soccer scores around, weaving a brittle chrysalis around a gross worm that, some time hence, will emerge, untransformed, still a worm." ~ IOZ
Apr 20, 2012
Make Me A Sandwich
"That's the new bro thing, dad."
"At school?"
"Yeah. And elsewhere. It's the new put down."
"Like, 'make me a sandwich' is a dismissal? Why? Is it because..."
"...girls make sandwiches for boys, Dad. It's a 'women belong in the kitchen' and 'bitches make sandwiches' thing, Dad."
"But it's said by dudes to other dudes?"
"Yeah, Dad."
So, yeah. Let's be clear. These are fifteen, sixteen, seventeen and eighteen year old boys. Future grown ass men. Future boyfriends, husbands, bosses, rapists and abusers. And just like last year, and the year before, and all the way going back to the first Sumerian priest-landowner's decision to mark a symbol for cattle in clay and trade out his daughter for the right to own more cattle in the future...it's the same as it ever was. And the way boys reinforce their place in the hierarchy is by treating their presumed inferiors...
...as women.
No surprise in that, of course. But it is nonetheless amusing to read, witness and watch men, dudes, broheemers and anti-feminists deny the pervasiveness of a nearly ubiquitous idea, that "woman" defines "inferior," and in doing so, sets the value for "governable."
54 comments:
"Shut up bitch! Go fix me a turkey pot pie!" - John Bender, The Breakfast Club (1985)
The more things change...
- April 20, 2012 at 8:56 PM
- Big Bad Bald Bastard said...
How do you combat this in your own children?
It's utterly depressing.
- April 21, 2012 at 10:48 PM
- Justin said...
You write like a girl.
- April 22, 2012 at 5:34 AM
- Jack Crow said...
The distilled message of "eighties movies" is that it's cool to challenge authority as long as you are (a) white, or (b) not a red, gay, a woman or a black person from the city; it is also essential, according to the underlying ethic, to reinforce the system with your act of rebellion.
I don't know. As wary as I personally am of disease/infection analogies, there's something to be said for viewing the matter prophylactically.
Welcome back.
- April 22, 2012 at 11:44 AM
- High Arka said...
Maybe you should have raised your children better. My boys would never think of saying that to me.
- April 23, 2012 at 7:46 AM
- fish said...
That is a new one for me. I am still dealing with "pussy."
- April 23, 2012 at 2:41 PM
- Enron said...
"My boys would never think of saying that to me."
She kidnapped herself, man!
- April 23, 2012 at 7:34 PM
- d.mantis said...
"My boys would never think of saying that to me."
I'm looking forward to Arka's manual on raising children to be posted entirely in a fucking comment thread.
Drop some knowledge, yo!
- April 24, 2012 at 9:53 AM
- gamefaced said...
i don't know about sandwiches, but i do make a mean carrot cake.
is it about being a woman, or is it about being a caretaker?
my husband has said that to me, as a joke, but it's only funny cause it's mostly true. is there anything wrong with that? only when there is no appreciation from the 'sandwich receiver'. does your son appreciate when food is prepared for his consumption by his mother? same appreciation if food is prepared by his father? cousin? aunt? uncle?.. at the end of the day, appreciation for what is provided should be the ultimate goal, not who does what job or what sexual organ they were attached to while consuming/preparing.
- April 24, 2012 at 11:05 AM
- High Arka said...
Prove your cred by insulting men! That proves--proves, I tell you!--that you don't secretly harbor sexist attitudes. That's how I know Mr. Crow is on the side of women: because he so vigorously and constantly reminds us.
- April 24, 2012 at 11:39 AM
- High Arka said...
Oh, I forgotta say...lol @ Bill!
- April 24, 2012 at 11:39 AM
- Jack Crow said...
Is English your first language?
- April 24, 2012 at 12:15 PM
Yep Arka, his penis-bashing negates his Y chromosome and shows how sincere he is about helpin out da ladies.
- April 24, 2012 at 1:10 PM
- Jack Crow said...
It fascinates, Anon, that you equate criticism of certain learned male behaviors with the bashing of penises.
- April 24, 2012 at 1:20 PM
- d.mantis said...
Appreciation is not the point. Actually, it does not enter into the equation at all.
It is about the dismissal of a 'lesser' person to perform a task that is stereotypically done by women. The inference being that whatever task the two individuals are doing, one of them is not fit to perform. Therefore, the other dismisses them to perform a menial "woman's work" type task.
- April 24, 2012 at 4:30 PM
- d.mantis said...
While I like putting words in people's mouths as much as the next guy, I have a question. Regarding "Mr. Crow is on the side of women"...what exactly is wrong with that position?
By the way, I like my penis waaaaay too much to bash it.
- April 24, 2012 at 4:39 PM
- gamefaced said...
mantis - all you've done in your comment is explain why such a statement is offensive. i understand the why. i was speaking more about how to parent when confronted with stereotypes as simple minded as "a women should be making a sandwich for her man, that is all she is good for'. children should be taught how to judge stereotypes authentically and also how to redirect their own thought processes in order to rise above them. a parent could easily say " no! bad boy! don't do that ever! wrong! " (as high arka said, her children wouldn't dare think such a thing) or a parent can prompt their child to dig further for the reasons behind the stereotype and gauge their validity with their reality. hopefully the end result is to dismantle such stereotypes from their minds altogether.
- April 24, 2012 at 5:41 PM
- High Arka said...
d.mantis, if being "on the side" of Group A does not mean being "not on the side" of Group B, then there's nothing wrong with it. Mr. Crow has previously suggested using violence against men based on a history of past injustices, much the way most violent coercive behavior relies on past injustices. E.g., Eve's sin. Taking his latest in context, it's not much of a jump to be wary of what it means when he is on one group's side.
Mr. Crow's daughters should not be demeaned because of Eve's sin. My sons should not be demeaned because of western patriarchy. Recycled discrimination tastes just as foul as the original.
- April 24, 2012 at 7:03 PM
- High Arka said...
Jack, no; to what end?
- April 24, 2012 at 7:12 PM
- Jack Crow said...
Because it's obvious, that's why. You made a grammatical word order assumption that a native speaker of english would not make.
My son was not telling me to make a sandwich. He was telling me what he heard. You presumed that he was speaking in the imperative. None of the native english speakers who commented in this thread made that assumption.
- April 24, 2012 at 8:24 PM
- High Arka said...
The way in which you told your story, such that "make me a sandwich" appeared as the first spoken line from your son's character, had nothing to do with "grammar" or "word order assumption," but rather, everything to do with the order in which you typed it in.
Your son then went on to explain why he had said a rude thing--"because everybody else does it."
My sons would neither give the rude command to begin with, nor attempt to justify it by explaining that everyone else does it. Nor say "bitch" when speaking about something other than a female dog.
"That's the new bro thing, dad...girls make sandwiches for boys, Dad. It's a 'women belong in the kitchen' and 'bitches make sandwiches' thing, Dad."
"The new bro thing" sounds rather, er...Spartan. In the navy now. Maybe he was deliberately being ironic.
Or does it go one step further? Did they learn to come home and report "un-PC" occurrences because it gives Dad something to blog about?
One generation ahead of you, my mother wouldn't've put up with that crap, either. In this country or any other.
- April 24, 2012 at 9:00 PM
"It fascinates, Anon, that you equate criticism of certain learned male behaviors with the bashing of penises."
Ha ha ha!
"If a person does not wish to have his dick chopped off..." -- Jack Crow
"If you meet that man on the road, fucking castrate him." -- Jack Crow
Maybe you're just pedantically insisting it should have been PENIS-CHOPPING instead of PENIS-BASHING?
- April 24, 2012 at 9:24 PM
- Jack Crow said...
I'm sorry you read it wrong, but it wasn't said as an imperative, and your unfamiliarity with colloquial english shows.
You, of course, elide the context entirely. Do I think rape victims should castrate their rapists, if they want to? You bet. But, castration is testiculectemous, to coin an amusingly clumsy term. It is not a penilectomy. And my suggestion that rapists ought be castrated is limited to...rapists.
- April 24, 2012 at 10:33 PM
you use this word in conversation, do you?
what a pretentious piece of crap you are.
- April 25, 2012 at 12:54 AM
- High Arka said...
Jack, maybe something was said before that first line, like:
Son, walking in the door: "Hey, Dad, I'm home."
Jack, quickly closing copy of Penthouse (j/k): "How was school? Did you learn anything new?"
Son, by way of answering: "'Make me a sandwich.'"
This one simply doesn't understand how the conversation you provided in the initial post makes it 100% clear that the first sentence was not an imperative. In the interests of improving English, would you be willing to divulge what it was?
Hopefully, you will also limit your criticism of men to "American men" or "American men who go to my son's high school." Surely you must concede that not all men across the world's many cultures are being raised in the same way?
- April 25, 2012 at 1:01 AM
- Jack Crow said...
Context, Arka. And, no, the criticism is not limited to American men.
Is it possible to revisit "judging stereotypes authentically"?
That's the thing: the us or them assumption about women and men. I don't think criticism of pervasive learned male behaviors puts one on a woman-oriented team. I just think, as it seems you do, that it's in keeping with the larger critique of anarchism.
I wouldn't die on a Bolivian hillside over the word "elide," but whatever gets you through the night is alright with me.
- April 25, 2012 at 7:37 AM
- gamefaced said...
every stereotype contains an itty bitty truth. in this case, the truth is that in prior generations, the majority of women were homemakers and took pride in caring for their husband's stomachs. there isn't anything offensive about that remark, because it is true. this premise has been trumped up, distorted, and regurgitated by children - into something that is supposed to be funny - to children. we are talking about children - not "MEN".
to look at the stereotype authentically, strip any emotional reaction you have to it and look at it for exactly what it is. many times has my son come at me with some stupid joke based on a prejudice or stereotype and we sit and hash it out, most times he doesn't even understand why it is 'funny'. once he knows the why, and what itty bitty truth brought about the why, it loses it's funny. my son is only 10, so for me, the goal is still just teaching him to learn how to cut through the fluff and get to the gut of it. and it seems your son did that all on his own...
also, there is absolutely nothing that my son couldn't say to me, or would 'never think' to say to me. i am not attempting to raise a robot. i want my son to think for himself. if my son ever said, go make me a sandwich, in a dismissive way, i would know that he was vocalizing hostility towards me and going about it in the wrong manner. he'd make his own fucking sandwich and we'd have a nice long talk about what was getting at him. i don't think taking such thing personally or holding on to bitterness regarding shitty jokes amongst kids does anything more than give the stereotype more power.
- April 25, 2012 at 9:41 AM
- d.mantis said...
We must be talking past eachother. Thank you for your clarification of your point.
My clarification (and my focus) was on the dismissal of the task at hand and the unworthiness assumed in the larger context of women's place in society.
Nevertheless, I like your comment about stripping the stereotype out of its emotional impact.
This seems to be a begining for anarchists to construct a critique akin to Stein's "there is no there, there". It has always seemed to me that the cultural hierarchies that anarchists should rail against as much as the 'state', are simply false cathedrals built to marginalize and distract.
"Surely you must concede that not all men across the world's many cultures are being raised in the same way?"
Surely you must concede that not all states across the world's many cultures are torturing, murdering and destroying humanity in the same way? Does this invalidate the critique of anarchism?
I'm talking macro, not micro.
- April 25, 2012 at 12:42 PM
"in this case, the truth is that in prior generations, the majority of women were homemakers and took pride in caring for their husband's stomachs."
No, that's not the truth, that's a man-made ahistorical myth like the one about happy hookers, and the bit about "pride" both a fallacy and a non-sequitur. The majority of all women in all of the European and post-colonial North American history to which you are alluding have always worked at something or other, outside of the home, for wages, although they were mostly excluded from trade unions and professional guilds.
"there isn't anything offensive about that remark, because it is true. this premise has been trumped up, distorted, and regurgitated by children - into something that is supposed to be funny - to children. we are talking about children - not "MEN".
Again, no. "Make me a sammich" or words to that effect is a meme devised and propagated by adult men, mostly on the interweb, mostly to feminize other men or remove women from important male conversations and spaces.
Feigned or real ignorance is not a reasonable defense for this brand of stupid apologia.
- April 25, 2012 at 3:49 PM
I don't know why it has to be explicitly stated, but treating women as a monolith and white, affluent women living in the latter half of the twentieth century and the first couple decades of the twenty-first as stand-ins for the rest of womankind (extrapolating from their privileged* experiences hard and fast generalizations that don't apply to the majority) makes you blinkered, not reasonable.
*being a "homemaker" (dressed up professionalism trying to hiding the oppression that necessitates) or a SAHM is not the privilege anti-Romney folk make it out to be, but it's not half bad, either. Working class women usually have to earn wages on top of "making" the home. Ignoring single women and homosexual women.
- April 25, 2012 at 3:58 PM
- gamefaced said...
anonymous -
um, it is not a myth that women primarily - prepared the food that their husbands ate. doesn't matter if she worked two fucking jobs and is a happy hooker on the side, if she was a woman and had a family i put my money on: she was doing the cooking. you can't argue that. i don't quite understand why you're even trying? i am a homemaker. so is my husband. we both work toward keeping our home, laundry, dishes, floors all that (still, i do the majority of the cooking). i also work full time. my husband works full time. homemakers work both in and outside of the home, just like you said. what is your point?
so what if men use this term too? is ignorance something that you can control in other people? can we legislate stupid? do the masses of grown ass men sitting on the internet cracking sexist jokes matter to me in the slightest?
why don't you try reading my comments in relation to the fucking post, instead of interjecting your own assumptions and projecting.
- April 25, 2012 at 4:26 PM
- High Arka said...
d.mantis, what is "the critique of anarchism" to which you refer?
Mr. Crow generalizes about "men," and slurs this vast subset of population based, in this case, on an event in his private life.
In response to the subsequent discussion, this one posed the rhetorical question, "Are all men the same?" expressed with regard to their raising across different cultures.
This ploy is designed to help Mr. Crow (and/or supporters of bigotry) realize that generalizations do not apply to all individuals.
Your response was not to answer the question, but to ask if all states were the same. This rhetorical ploy seems designed to suggest that because all states are not, of course, the same, one can still criticize "states," and therefore, one can still criticize all "men" even though they are not all the same.
Is that what you're trying to get at? Or is it something else? I'll show you my answers to your rhetorical questions if you'll show me yours to mine.
- April 25, 2012 at 11:18 PM
- davidly said...
I dunno, High Arka, I got the context on the very first read. I can't really see how you'd not, unless you're being deliberately contentious, stemming from a personal problem with an overarching theme you're projecting onto the narrator of the dialog in question.
As a matter of fact, I read the same from his ever-shifting pseudo-anonymous would-be arch-rival.
Might that be?
- April 26, 2012 at 6:17 AM
- davidly said...
Jack: Interesting take on the Brat Pack era. Though I doubt John Hughes had anything in mind beyond a "we're f'd because you're f'd" look at the patriarchy with the emotional-candy in question.
- April 26, 2012 at 6:35 AM
- High Arka said...
The violent sentiments against men are not rare occurrences from Mr. Crow; they're the centerpiece of his whole show. If you prefer, they're the "overarching theme" of this blog. This is one guy who really, really wants to prove he's on the side of women. Which could be considered a personal problem.
Long ago, many someones like him came up with overarching themes about why men should be empowered to crush evil matriarchs. It wasn't then popular to question their generalizations or motives, as it is not now popular to question Mr. Crow's counterpoint. Nonetheless, I'm still here.
Infant torture becomes vaginal mutilation becomes female genital cutting. Respect the culture.
Infant torture becomes penile mutilation becomes circumcision. Respect the culture.
Jack's on a terrible path, and he feels very righteous for being there, because, like, "patriarchy." Let not the temporally popular set you down the same dark path. Turn aside and return to us all while you still have a chance.
- April 26, 2012 at 6:41 AM
- Jack Crow said...
It is your position which is least generous towards men, since it assumes that a condemnation of learned behaviors is instead a condemnation of essential maleness.
You equate the criticism of behavior with the criticism of gender, and base this equation, it seems, upon a gender essentialism which refuses the distinction between conduct and the assumed essence.
I think you're right about Hughes' work, in large part. But, the eighties movies cannot help themselves. Struggle as they might against the constraints imposed by the US/Soviet grand narrative, what still emerges over and over again is that a person must first be normal and normative in order to have the right to rebel. Which is unrealistic, like most things coming out of that formative falsely structured snapshot of a decade.
- April 26, 2012 at 11:29 AM
- Jack Crow said...
I think we will have a hard time seeing eye-to-eye on the interpretation of past roles, but for what it's worth, I think even patently false culture stories are still not without lasting effect.
I find the good/evil, light/dark dichotomy as boring and as fruitless as earlier attempts to Freudianize from afar.
- April 26, 2012 at 11:32 AM
- Jack Crow said...
It's worth returning to the "overarching theme," isn't it?
I can't imagine having to be a feminist and do it all over again, again and again, because some blockhead reads "men shouldn't rape" as "men are evil and only women are ever right" and responds to the misreading instead of the original, refusing also to ever return to the original, insisting instead that only the lazy, piss-poor interpretation must be discussed; that if it is not discussed to the exclusion of all else, the person who offered the original and now ignored critique is not only psychologically defective, but is also arguing in bad faith.
- April 26, 2012 at 11:37 AM
- gamefaced said...
where i am from, and from what i have read about the culture and gender roles in this area (shenandoah valley of virginia) from authors who grew up here, preparing food was something that women took pride in. they weren't cursing their existence as women or pining for a way out of their daily household duties. do you honestly believe that the majority of women, historically, have not done the cooking for their families? or do you believe the false is something to do with women taking pride in this work? please give me your reasons i should believe that the majority of women were instead in a perpetual state of distress, loathing the act of preparing food for their families. i'm asking honestly - because i don't quite get where this is coming from.
- April 26, 2012 at 11:48 AM
- Jack Crow said...
The error is mine, and therefore the misunderstanding. The quote to which I referred, but which I did not specify, was this: "every stereotype contains an itty bitty truth."
I do not agree with it, and am not likely to concede agreement in the future. It is my counter-experience, in fact, that stereotypes more often than not exaggerate traits, behaviors and habits which do not exist, because they are mostly projections onto the foreign bodies of alien Others.
As to "women enjoyed cooking," I really haven't addressed the emotional component. Thinking it out now as I type, I guess I'd have to say that plenty of people learn to take pleasure in lives which are nonetheless still mostly characterized by obedience and compulsion. I don't think we should confuse a survival mechanism with approval for the larger despotism.
- April 26, 2012 at 11:54 AM
- gamefaced said...
jack - of course a stereotype is projection and fluff. i absolutely agree. when i said itty bitty truth, it was in reference to teaching children to strip stereotypes down to that bit of truth. this truth could be historical origin. this truth could be cultural phenomenon. anyway, concession wasn't my aim. thanks for clarifying.
- April 26, 2012 at 12:07 PM
Your original assertion, gamefaced, was not that women cooked and enjoyed cooking (the latter is not fact, but speculation, and is beside the point), but that they practiced homemaking to the exclusion of any other work prior to women's "liberation." That's what homemaking means: you work at home, you don't collect wages, you clean up after and cater to your own immediate family. That's a patently false reading of history, but to reiterate it and pretend that it's true serves a precise political purpose.
"where i am from, and from what i have read about the culture and gender roles in this area (shenandoah valley of virginia) from authors who grew up here, preparing food was something that women took pride in."
Then you probably ought to read up more on the cultures of the so-called Shawnee and the Iroquois. That is, unless you're continuing to use white women as the basis for all comparison in a discussion about women's historical oppression.
Your preoccupation with happiness as you define it in the face of hardship reminds me of historical revisionists who long to convince the world at large that American slaves were most content when they were on the farms. Were you somehow able to prove that it were so, an impossible task, whose agenda do you believe you are advancing in advocating inequality?
- April 26, 2012 at 1:01 PM
- gamefaced said...
actually, my original assertion was just that women, historically speaking, fed their families and took pride in that. YOU decided that i was speaking of practicing homemaking at the exclusion of any other work. YOU put that on ME. you are taking a narrow simple minded definition of homemaking and deciding that is how everyone must define it. you can't refute that in the past homemaking was primarily the woman's responsibility DESPITE what other responsibilities she held. this is STILL FUCKING TRUE.
another thing YOU are putting on ME is a "preoccupation" with happiness. the same way you're insisting that women as a whole were not cooking and did not value their contributions to their family's survival. i never said, "all white women were blissfully happy when cooking their husbands meals"
also, where does this white bullshit come from? did i say white? did i say i've never read about the indians in this area. did i ever say that i'm a DESCENDANT of the native americans from this area?
and now we're talking about slavery? it's like all you know how to do is speak in generalizations. you're attempting real hard to prove me an idiot. keep fucking trying. from your comments it appears you just want an excuse to hoist yourself up on a soapbox and start spewing shit everyone already knows.
and fuck everyone's agenda, including yours.
- April 26, 2012 at 1:58 PM
- d.mantis said...
High Arka,
I did not intend to be cryptic in any way.
critique of anarchism = simply the argument leveled against the state or any hierarchy meant to dominate and rule and the calling into question of its legitimacy.
Perhaps that was a bad analogy anyway. Let me propose a different one. (to dig up and continue beating the dead horse) George Zimmerman honestly believes he is not racist as do many people. However, we operate in a social context that elicites reactions that are racist. It is a learned behavior that is internalized and institutionalized in the form of profiling, the drug wars, the welfare system, blah, blah, blah.
Assuming that there exists certain extremely well raised children (like your own) who are not personally racist, can we not critique our societies racism as a whole?
- April 26, 2012 at 2:39 PM
- High Arka said...
d.mantis, we certainly can, and perhaps even should critique society. Targeting a specific group, though, can have its own associated problems. For example, it's true that many black fathers are poor parents, even if they are, as a group, statistically better parents than, say, American white fathers. Mr. Crow could critique institutional policies of sexism without saying in so many words "men suck."
Given how bigotry works, when someone starts suggesting mandatory state sterilization (castration, in this case) for people possessing the wrong viewpoint, members of the subgroup being so threatened might feel understandably, well, threatened. And might want to defend themselves.
On a side note, I love watching men pompously lecturing women on how they're not feminist enough. It's the new, improved patriarchy.
gamefaced, whether you're right or wrong, it's an honor to watch you give a woman's perspective to a domineering male like Mr. Crow, who's telling you exactly how you should feel about the history of women in your culture and how you should feel about raising your children.
Because he's a man, after all. Your savior and protector. He has so much more education and social awareness than you do, it's his duty--and burden--to explain what feminism should mean to you.
- April 26, 2012 at 4:47 PM
- High Arka said...
d.mantis, our state's formal policy is no longer racism per se. The traditional image of racism--being rude or discriminatory because of race--applies to large numbers of yokels, but in a macro way--as you might say--it's really a class issue. Didn't you read all the articles when that rich black Harvard prof. was pulled over by the cops?
The shitty way that ethnic minorities get treated by the cops and social service agencies is, essentially, the way that white trash has always been getting treated by those government agents. Black presidents and Hispanic cops can and will fuck up the shit of the underclass, too.
If you're really interested in racism, the most traditional racism still being practiced by Americans is not inside America, but is delivered in the form of munitions implanted into the bodies of Africans (yes, including northern ones) still living in Africa, and southeast Asians still living in southeast Asia.
- April 26, 2012 at 4:51 PM
- gamefaced said...
guess my first comment turned into more than i intended. i am the only parent to my son, there is no 'parenting' coming from the dad side. i can't ever be that side no matter how bad i want it or try. same goes the other way, i suspect.
jack and anyone else who questions my take on people taking pride in manual labor, specifically farm labor/life : joe bageant's 'rainbow pie'. speaks to the psychology behind finding grueling labor for the benefit of survival satisfying. enough to carry on. something about the fruit in the strength behind your own bones. don't discredit it. i'm not talking about slave labor - calm down. no one wants to be 'owned' by definition, another person.
but we are all owned by our primary needs. and when we fulfill them with our bodies, with our strengths, we find ourselves content. ever wonder why everyone hates their jobs pushing paper? stuffing boxes? driving around? because these jobs aren't satisfying our immediate, primary needs. meh, i'm rambling. but it is a very good book.
- April 26, 2012 at 5:19 PM
- High Arka said...
Yeah, Bageant is an asshole, but he's a very good writer.
Are we all enjoying pushing internet paper here? This one is.
- April 26, 2012 at 5:41 PM
- gamefaced said...
was an asshole, he's dead.
a bonus yes, i love getting paid to write blogger comments. if i keep at it convincingly enough, i can save the world!
- April 26, 2012 at 5:45 PM
- Jack Crow said...
You are practiced at projection.
- April 26, 2012 at 6:09 PM
- High Arka said...
Well, he always predicted it. And he cheerfully knew he was an asshole inasmuch as public went. Like Silber, though, he was also an asshole in private, which really sucked. /sigh
Mr. Crow, we share here another opportunity to discuss the issues that claim to have brought us here: if this one is projecting, (1) which viewpoints are the projection? (2) Which of those viewpoints are not also your viewpoints? (3) Which of those viewpoints are not also accurate?
Must every interesting discussion break down into a sad ad feminem? If this one really, truly sucks, dissect the words and demonstrate it. Respond to this one's accusations and show how they were put wrongly or do not apply. If you people can never learn how to use this thing to do more than posture, you're going to be stuck here forever.
- April 27, 2012 at 5:12 AM
Tone and concern trolling, along with spaghetti Latin. It is to have a sad, and on someone else's behalf.
- April 27, 2012 at 3:42 PM
- Unknown said...
You get the funniest trolls Jack. I think that's a badge of honor. You are obviously saying truths if you are getting on the nerves of these people. Makes me wish I had trolls... The only thing I ever get is emails by good Christians telling me how they are going rape my mother with a lead pipe and wishing me and my children eternal torture. From a Christian perspective that makes sense.
For the record, rapists should be castrated and that misogyny is an ancient evil that should be exorcised at all costs. Patriarchy is endemic and deeply embedded in many cultures. Hard work and intelligence is needed to combat its effects. And my kids are well aware of the folly (and danger) of being chauvinist or racist or classist or otherwise despicable. All any of us can do is talk to them and try to help them become empathetic and sensible people.
- May 15, 2012 at 3:58 PM
- Jack Crow said...
It's a hard term to come to grips with, this patriarchy. The -archy on the end, in common english usage, implies an identifiable thing when it fact it's not, it's much more slippery, for all that it's pervasive.
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S;G 17 - And if we just believe it, there is a waking dream that grows
Or, as I shall think of it, "Reclaimed! The Paradise of Nerds ~Beyond the World Line, Parent and Child~".
Moving on.
The transition to the OP was very well done.
Very Feris, or should I say, Rumiho-centric episode. A perfect example of the butterfly effect too. So Feris' wish those many months ago wasn't to take the moe out of Akiba - she seems fond of it in this timeline too. A hobby is just a hobby. But putting her dad back in the picture somehow removes it. Painful on her end, but Rumiho is the type to keep her spirits up no matter what the scenario. And Rintaro and Kurisu's idea is exceedingly simple. To undo what's been done, undo what's been done.
Though next on the list of people to undo is Ruka. This should be interesting.
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I love this show. I do.
I generally don't mind forcing a plot in one direction or another. That's what fiction is when you boil it down to brass and bolts.
However, this is just dumb. If you are going to use D-Mail to undo all those previous D-Mails, wouldn't it be far simpler to send one D-Mail to the past telling yourself not to let all those others (ie: Feyris) send a D-mail in the first place?
I know. I know. Doing that would be boring. So now we have Okabe doing this convoluted attempt to revert those D-mails one at a time. Which is more interesting from a story-telling point of view. I get that. But, they really should have come up with a clever reason why he can't simply send a D-Mail saying "Don't let anyone send a D-mail", or better yet, "Don't develop a time machine".
Oh well. At least Suzahu died thinking she was successful this time around.
Lastly, are we to assume it is possible to remember events from another worldline without the "Reading Steiner" ability? ie: Feyris. Or is Feyris a special case?
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Another very good episode. Feryis is a really good person. She sacrificed her new found happiness for the sake of Okabe and Mayuri. That says a lot about her character...
However, I felt this episode was a little weaker than the string we've received lately, though not by much so 8/10.
What Okabe and Kurisu are doing is sending a 2nd D-mail to cancel out the other one. Because in their current time line the person in question received the message, but the person who sent the message never actually sent it in that time line. That is why they can cancel it out with another message, but they cannot stop the message being received in the first place.
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Wow, what a troll pre-opening. Confirms Kurisu is alive and fine, Okabe thinking about how he saved Mayuri, and then... "That's strange, Mayuri's watch isn't working..."
Feyris is an odd one. Seems she has the Reading Steiner in some capacity as well. Poor Feyris, though. Having to choose between friends and family. I got pretty choked up at her last words to her dad. At least she got to change that part.
Oh yeah, just thought of something. How did Okabe manage to use the Time Leap without Suzuha there to distract and take down Moeka's group? I can only assume he started activating it before they even burst in, though it didn't appear that way. It's the only way it makes sense.
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That opening, well it just blew everyone's speculation that Kurisu is dead and that Mayuri was saved
Kurisu theorizes that in order to retrieve the IBN5100, they have to undo the previous D-mails. Suzuha's D-mail was undone, so Feyris was next.
Through the various chasing events, Okabe somehow makes Feyris remember about the previous worldline before Feyris killed moe. We then discover that she sent a D-mail to save her father's life from a plane crash. Specifically, she sent a D-mail saying that she was kidnapped and that the kidnappers demanded a 100 million yen ransom.
Feyris accepts that her life up until now was a dream and agrees to send another D-mail to cancel the other. The divergence went up from 0.4 to 0.45.
Good episode, although they cut down a lot of detail on Feyris' chapter.
This episode now opens the question, do other people also have the Reading Steiner ability like Okabe? If Feyris was able to remember, then that must mean the others might have it as well.
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This episode also marks the branching point for Feyris' ending in the VN. Here's the video. This ending is also a bit depressing...
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The cold open was trolltastic indeed, one of the speculation last episode was that Kurisu was the one dead instead since she wasn't seen...and it raises our hopes by showing her, yet immediately after we heard the ol' dead watch again. At that point all I can think about is nononono-BAM. Nice transition though, with just a sound it tells everything we already knew and need to know without replaying scenes again.
About the Feyris/Rumiho episodes, I'm of two minds about it. I love that it really gives characterization to Feyris, and I'd be lying if her whole dilemma didn't touch my heart strings in any way. And yet...I feel like it's a bit forced, that it can all be avoided somehow. First off, the whole bitter card game enemy sets up an ambush thing. I expect this from Yu-Gi-Oh, but here's it seems a bit much. I mean, sure it's the Grand Championship and all, but it's still just a card game. Getting angry I can see, but running around the city just to get her? The phone implies that there's a deeper reason than that, probably a pervert behind it all, but it all just seem too sudden without any foreshadowing, all to make Okarin the savior of Feyris.
But more than that, I'm confused as to why won't Feyris at least try to let Okarin exhaust some other possibilities as well. All they needs to was to not let her Dad get into the plane, maybe try another way to avoid his death? Like maybe emailing the airport crew to check the plane to avoid accidents, or at least email him to let her open a maid cafe? You know, try to keep it as close to the original timeline with the sole exception of his Dad still being alive.
Well, in any case, thanks to Kurisu's thinking (seriously, I love that girl) we know have some sort of idea as to how to proceed. Next is to find the IBN, I wonder how they're going to do that? Obviously they can't contact Moeka to know her D-Mail, so next is Ruka? Does that mean the previously untrapped Ruka is going to be re-trapped now?
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So Kurisu was just fine after all. I scared myself over nothing
Interesting that Feyris managed to remember the previous timeline. This raises the question of whether other people could do the same if Okabe pointed them in the right direction, or if Feyris is simply special (does this only happen to eccentric people like her and Okabe? ). Anyway, the "ability" she displayed is different from the Reading Steiner, as she retained memories from both world lines.
I really love Feyris. She's a very fun girl, and above all, a true and loyal friend. She sacrificed her father and a some of her own happiness in order to save Mayuri. Few people would have done that.
Next one on the list is Ruka's D-mail, but I don't think there's any need to cancel it. I'm putting it under tags since speculations seem to annoy a few people:
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Oh yeah, I forgot about Feyris' ability to somewhat remember past events, just like Kyouma's Reading Steiner...I wonder if that' special to Feyris, or does anyone have it to varying degrees. What I meant by the latter is that Okarin took her to May Queen, as well as filling her in with other details, and that may be what causes her to remember a bit. So, it doesn't have anything to do with her specifically, that if Okarin were to do something similar (say, showing Ruka things that makes her remember she uses to be a boy) other people will remember vaguely too even if they forgot it at first.
And yet, the whole close up on her eyes, that she seems to remember her adventure in this episode by what she says at the end of the episode, as well as what Kanon said of how her ability is a bit different than Reading Steiner by how she remembers both timeline...this one may be more plausible too. I just hope that just because we're done with her story, she won't show up again in future stories. Her -nyan suffix can be really annoying, but she's still a good girl and interesting character.
Oh, and I just realizes this; if you pause at the right moment when Okarin time leaps to two days ago and try to find Feyris, the time counter says 2011 AD as opposed to the usual 2010. If this a mistake of the animator's part, or is this a totally out of nowhere twist? I hope it's the former, as it directly contradicts what Suzuha said about time travel only going to the past as well as the capabilities of the Time Leap Machine, making this whole thing not making any sense, even for a time travel story...
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I felt the direction of this episode was really lacking compared to Suzuha's ending. It might have been because of the idiotic chase sequence that really diffused the character exposition behind Feyris' D-Mail (some really quality issues during that entire scene too). It would probably been better if they had cut out that scene out all together and focused entirely on Feyris. Although, the end managed to hit the high notes of my heart strings.
Rumi-... Feyris blushing and falling in love with Okabe seemed a bit forced, since we rarely had episode where she was actually present. It was still cute though.
I can already see the pattern once Kurisu brought up the theory of canceling out past D-Mails. So next one is gonna be re-trapping Ruka-chan to Ruka-kun? I am conflicted and ambivalent about the matter.
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WTF stop killing Mayuri i can't take it. So the plan now is to undue all the dmails. That means Ruka is next. So how did Feyris remember sending the dmail. Does she also have reading steiner? Very hard for to make that decision, but shows her true character. Interesting that Suzuha did give it to her dad but he had to sell it off. Couldn't Okarin just ask him to remember who he sold it to, i know easier said than done.
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Is it just me or did the boss guy on the phone sound a lot like Daru? He does seem to have an almost stalker-ish fixation on Feyris. Maybe I'm just hearing things and those guys never show up again but it stood out to me.
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Duquesne University symposium tackles JFK assassination on 50th anniversary
Second-gunman theory takes center stage; Supporters want case re-opened
For three days, acoustical, photographic, neurological and investigative material will support speakers at a symposium focusing on the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, nearly 50 years after his death.
Forensic pathologist and former Allegheny County Coroner Dr. Cyril Wecht organized the symposium at Duquesne University that presents evidence supporting a two-shooter theory that there was a second gunman on the grassy knoll of Dealey Plaza in Dallas.
The Warren Commission published a report that concluded Kennedy was killed with a single bullet fired by Lee Harvey Oswald.
However, Wecht and other speakers at the symposium that began Thursday dismissed the Warren report, saying Kennedy was shot by two shooters and the fatal shot was towards the front of his head from the grassy knoll.
"When the head literally explodes into a crimson burst, that was the first shot, that was the first shot that hit the president in the head, and that was definitely shot from the front right side," said Wecht. "It is clear what the Warren Commission has reported is erroneous."
(VIDEO EXTRA: Watch the full Wecht interview)
Author David Talbot believes the CIA was behind the Kennedy assassination, and that will be focus of his next book.
"Absolutely. Nobody else had the kind of organizational power to do it in the kind of way of covering it up in the CIA," said Talbot.
Ultimately, people attending the symposium want the United States government to reopen the investigation into the Kennedy assassination.
Talbot said it's "disturbing and sad that, 50 years later, the American people don't have the full story."
"What this is all about is opening up the case -- you know, cold case investigations," Wecht added.


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23rd ANNUAL SUNSET SUPPER
Fri. August 17th 7:30-11pm
General Admission: $175
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Celebrate the fun of Seattle's Pike Place Market by enjoying the bounty of local food, wine, brews and more! At the height of summer in Seattle we invite you to join us for this special evening at the Market where you will sip and savor your way through many of the region's best restaurants, wineries, breweries and distilleries – see a complete list by clicking here! Meet local chefs and winemakers, try your luck in the "Pig Pen", and dance under the stars to live music.
The Market will transform into the perfect party venue for 1,400 guests and 90+ of our region's finest restaurants, wineries and breweries. All ticket levels include unlimited food and beverages while they last. CLICK HERE to see pics from a recent Sunset Supper!
Proceeds from this event benefit The Market Foundation's mission to end hunger, care for the sick, educate kids, and find homes for those without – right here in Pike Place Market. Learn more about our work supporting over 11,000 seniors and families in the Market community.
Look below for your favorite local restaurants or discover something new! Sunset Supper features the best food, spirits, beer, and wine the Northwest has to offer.
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Look below for your favorite local restaurants or discover something new! Sunset Supper features the best food, spirits, beer, cider, and wine the Northwest has to offer:
- Savory:
- All Water Seafood & Oyster Bar
- Athenian Seafood Restaurant
- Bomba Fusion
- Café Campagne
- Copperleaf Restaurant
- Cutters Crabhouse
- Davids & Co
- DeLaurenti Food & Wine
- Etta's
- Fairmont Olympic Hotel
- Honest Biscuts
- Ivar's Acres of Clams
- Knee High Stocking Co.
- Lecosho
- Local Tide
- Matt's in the Market
- North Bend Bar & Grill
- Outlier
- Pasta Casalinga
- Pikes Pit Bar-B-Que
- Pike Place Chowder
- RN74 Seattle
- Scout at Thompson Seattle
- Seatown Seabar
- Succulent Catering
- That Brown Girl Cooks!
- The Essential Baking Company
- Uli's Famous Sausage
- Woodinville Cut Shop
- Brews & Beverage:
- Dry Cider
- Elysian Brewing Company
- Flying Lion Brewing
- Fremont Brewing Company
- Hellbent Brewing Company
- Louis Raison Cider
- Los Agaves
- Lowercase Brewing
- Number 6 Cider
- Old Stove Brewing Company
- Pike Brewing Company
- Rachel's Ginger Beer
- Schilling Cider
- Seattle-Lite Brewing Company
- Silver City Brewery
- Snoqualmie Falls Brewery
- Woodinville Ciderworks
- Wine:
- Airfield Wines
- Alexandra Nicole Cellars
- Anne Amie Vineyards
- Armstrong Family Winery
- Baroness Cellars
- Charles Smith Wines
- DeLille Cellars
- Goose Ridge Estate Vineyard & Winery
- Guardian Cellars
- Hedges Family Estate
- K Vinters
- Latta Wines
- Lauren Ashton Cellars
- Maloney Wine
- Market Vineyards
- Maryhill Winery
- Northwest Tastings
- Patterson Cellars
- Radix Winery
- Scarlet Oak Barrels
- Sinclair Estate Vineyards
- Torri Mor Vineyards
- Succession Wines
- Treveri Cellars
- Tsillan Cellars
- Two Winey Bitches
- Westland Distillery
- Wilridge Winery
- The Woodhouse Wine Estates


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Michael Vick talked about "God's plan" Tuesday while giving a speech to area kids in support of the Humane Society's quest to end dogfighting.
"Use me as an example of what not to do," Vick said to kids and their parents at Covenant Baptist Church in southwest Washington.
Vick was convicted and spent almost two years behind bars for his part in running a dogfighting ring.
The former Atlanta Falcon just returned to the NFL and is now with the Philadelphia Eagles.
It was Vick's idea to get involved with the Humane Society. He approached the organization and asked what he could do to help.
Vick said he was exposed to dogfighting as a child and continued involvement in it as an adult.
"My plan failed, God's plan worked, and that's the reason I stand here", Vick said.


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Neil's Column: The Hard Stuff
Let's be known as a city that won't tolerate domestic abuse
By: Neil Heinen
Madison Magazine
I've always been interested in how cities define themselves. Some elements of a city's identity seem more serendipitous than others—historical impact, geography, the presence of a particular industry, the designation of a land grant university. But there are also cities that have been proactive in creating an image, consciously choosing an issue or vision as a civic priority.
I remember being in Baltimore in the mid '90s and being struck by the Baltimore Reads literacy campaign that was promoted throughout the city from bus stops to billboards. It seemed bold and progressive, a big challenge with a potentially big payoff. These campaigns are essentially proclamations of shared values, statements along the lines of, "This is who we are and this is what we stand for." Some seem to reflect leadership, either elected or hired, at the local government or business or nonprofit level. Some suggest more grassroots effort with more volunteerism than money.
Madison, or more accurately, Dane County, has an opportunity to make such a defining statement by supporting a historic campaign to build a new shelter for DAIS, Domestic Abuse Intervention Services. After thirty-five years of providing high-quality services in a low-quality, crowded facility at a location that was always kept as secret as possible, DAIS is engaging the community in a $7 million capital campaign to build a new facility with more than twice the beds and room for programming and services. It's at 2102 Fordem Ave., and there's nothing secret about it.
The practical need for the facility is unquestioned. The current twenty-five-bed shelter is the smallest per capita of any county in Wisconsin. And, no, sadly, it's not because Dane County has fewer incidences of domestic abuse. There is a constant waitlist for a bed, to the point where admission is granted based on the likelihood of imminent death. Half the beds are filled by children. There are two bathrooms. No, Dane County's lone shelter is what it is due to the nature of the work and the prevailing thinking about victim safety inhibited doing it better. Until now. Thanks in part to DAIS executive director Shannon Barry, a more aggressive board and cast of supporters, and a county-wide law enforcement sector that has long been among the nation's leaders in addressing domestic violence, by 2014 Dane County will have a new, fifty-six-bed facility, with more square feet for programming and services, more rooms, more bathrooms, more space.
I say that with certainty because this is Madison, and some person or group of people will believe in this project and this cause and make sure it gets done. Loren and Boo Mortenson are the honorary campaign co-chairs; Holly Crèmer Berkenstadt is the campaign chair. Enough said. What I'm really interested in is how the broader community will respond. Will we see the same kind of response we see to hunger, homelessness and clothing drives? This is a very generous community and we are justifiably proud of our ability to provide for our needier citizens. And when it comes to the arts, recreation, community centers, learning and research, we have no shortage of willing, generous donors.
But domestic abuse, like mental illness, is a tougher sell. They're a little harder to look at. A little harder to talk about. Here's my dream: in addition to all the other good stuff (and I love all the other good stuff), that Madison be known everywhere in the country as the city that provides the best, safest and most comprehensive shelter and services for victims of domestic abuse, and the most progressive policing and law enforcement because we, citizens of Madison, reject the silence and the stigma and the crime of battering women and we are committed to ending it. I think people might want to live in a place like that. If you feel the same way contact Jan Loiselle at firstname.lastname@example.com and help get this shelter built.
Neil P. Heinen is editorial director of Madison Magazine.
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NAHMA HUD Update: HUD Hosts PIH Stakeholder Call Recording for PHAs held on Friday, April 3, 2020
Dear NAHMA Members,
Please find below, a recently recorded stakeholder call and accompanying power-point slides from HUD's Office of Public and Indian Housing(PIH) on the recent passage of the CARES Act:
The Department has posted a recording of the PIH stakeholder call for Public Housing Authorities that the Department held on Friday, April 3rd.
The recording can be found here. The slides from the recording are attached.
Kind regards,
Michal Machnowski
Coronavirus information:
Update 4/30/20 on AHMA Trainings: All gatherings with over 50 participants are now prohibited. We have cancelled any in-person events that were scheduled for May and June. Webinars will continue as planned.
Update 3/16/20 on AHMA Trainings: All gatherings with over 50 participants are now prohibited. We have cancelled any in-person events that were scheduled for March and April. Webinars will continue as planned. We will wait to make a decision on any in-person events in May.
AHMA Trainings 3/9/20: AHMA of Washington is monitoring the situation and will follow the guidance of the Washington State Department of Health and local County Public Health agencies. At this time, they are communicating that there is no need to suspend public events. Should their recommendation change in the coming days we will respond accordingly.
Click here to view the latest updates on Coronavirus - March 26, 2020
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Certified Professional Of Occupancy (CPO) Training - June 23-25- CANCELLED
Tax Credit Training & SHCM Exam - October 20-22 - CANCELLED
EIV Basics Webinar - August 25
Denver Satellite office of the Multifamily West Region HUD - COVID19 Collaboration call - Sept 10
USDA RD Update - Sept 15
Denver Satellite office of the Multifamily West Region HUD - COVID19 Interactive Session - Sept 16
Advanced Legal Seminar - Western Wa Issues - Sept 23 Rescheduled to a webinar
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How to Detect Resident and Applicant Fraud Webinar - Sept 30
Combined Funding Challenges: Student Eligibility, Over-Income, and Rents/UA Webinar - Oct 7
RD Essentials Webinar - October 27
Understanding the Unique Behavioral Challenges Associated with Untreated Mental Health Conditions Webinar - Nov 12
Webinar Catalog:
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Basic HUD Occupancy Webinar Part 1 & 2
Challenging Behaviors Associated with Untreated Mental Health Conditions
Do the Right Thing - Property Management Ethics webinar
Documenting Resident violations webinar
Elephant in the room:Non-smoking policies: best practices webinar
It's About Ethics: Creating and maintaining personal and professional boundaries
Legislative Update July 2019
Mental Health Crisis Planning with Residents in Affordable Housing
MH 101: Basic overview of Mental health conditions
Preventative Maintenance Webinar
Reasonable Accommodations: Pet Policy vs Service-Companion Animal webinar
Reducing Fair housing claims by providing exceptional customer service
Role of the service coordinator in preventing bedbug infestation in public housing
Tenant Selection Basics
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2011 TV's Emmy Award Nominations Announced
As expected, 'Mad Men' and 'Modern Family' were among the top series nominated for the 2011 Primetime Emmys, announced early Thursday morning.
'Mad Men' picked up an impressive 19 nominations, the most of any drama series, including Outstanding Drama Series, Outstanding Leading Actor (Jon Hamm), Outstanding Leading Actress (Elisabeth Moss) and Outstanding Supporting Actress (Christina Hendricks).
Meanwhile, last year's Outstanding Comedy Series winner, 'Modern Family,' earned an additional 17 nominations this morning. Better yet: All six of its principle actors were nominated in the acting categories, including Ed O'Neill, who was the only major cast member not to receive a nomination last year.
Among the surprise nominations were Mireille Enos, who earned a Outstanding Leading Actress in a Drama Series nomination for her performance on AMC's 'The Killing,' and Johnny Galecki, who joins his 'Big Bang Theory' co-star Jim Parsons in the category of Outstanding Actor in a Comedy Series.
But perhaps most surprising were the multiple nominations for the much-maligned miniseries 'The Kennedys,' starring Greg Kinnear, Barry Pepper and Katie Holmes. In addition to Kinnear and Pepper, the ReelzChannel miniseries earned a jaw-dropping nomination in the Best Miniseires or Movie category.
Notable snubs included Lea Michele, nominated last year for her performance on 'Glee,' and Kyra Sedgwick, who last year won a surprise Emmy for 'The Closer.'
The nominations were announced by Melissa McCarthy, nominated this year for 'Mike and Molly,' and Joshua Jackson of 'Fringe.' HBO led the field with 104 nominations, due in part to great showings by 'Boardwalk Empire,' 'Game of Thrones' and 'Mildred Pierce,' the year's most-nominated program, with 21 nominations.
The 2011 Primetime Emmys air Sept. 18 on Fox.
Get a rundown of all the major nominations below:
Outstanding Drama Series
'Boardwalk Empire'
'Friday Night Lights'
'Game of Thrones'
'The Good Wife'
'Mad Men'
Outstanding Comedy Series
'30 Rock'
'The Big Bang Theory'
'Modern Family'
'The Office'
'Parks and Recreation'
Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series
Kathy Bates, 'Harry's Law'
Connie Britton, 'Friday Night Lights'
Mireille Enos, 'The Killing'
Mariska Hargitay, 'Law & Order: 'Special Victims Unit'
Julianna Margulies, 'The Good Wife'
Elisabeth Moss, 'Mad Men'
Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series
Steve Buscemi, 'Boardwalk Empire'
Kyle Chandler, 'Friday Night Lights'
Michael C. Hall, 'Dexter'
Jon Hamm, 'Mad Men'
Hugh Laurie, 'House'
Timothy Olyphant, 'Justified'
Outstanding Miniseries or Movie
'Cinema Verite'
'Downton Abbey'
'The Kennedys'
'Mildred Pierce'
'The Pillars of the Earth'
'Too Big to Fail'
Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series
Edie Falco, 'Nurse Jackie'
Tina Fey, '30 Rock'
Laura Linney, 'The Big C'
Melissa McCarthy, 'Mike and Molly'
Martha Plimpton, 'Raising Hope'
Amy Poehler, 'Parks and Recreation'
Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series
Alec Baldwin, '30 Rock'
Louis CK, 'Louie'
Steve Carell, 'The Office'
Johnny Galecki, 'The Big Bang Theory'
Matt LeBlanc, 'Episodes'
Jim Parsons, 'The Big Bang Theory'
For a complete list of Emmy nominations, visit the Emmy's official website.


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Now, whether anyone wants to watch movies on a 2.2in, 240 x 320 screen is another matter. The long and ignoble history of mobile video suggests this is technology looking for a market. If the screen was a little larger, we could imagine watching 30-minute shows on a train or a plane at a pinch. Fortunately for Moto, the Z8 doesn't stand or fall on the public's appetite for mobile movies.
Making a call from the standby screen
The Z8 includes a two-megapixel camera, with eight levels of zoom. This is adequate, but there's no auto-focus. As is the norm with phones these days, it defaults to landscape - you take snaps with the phone aligned horizontally. Confusingly at first, when the Z8's slide is open, it uses the lower-resolution front-mounted 3G video-call camera, rather than the main, rear-mounted camera. Moto bundles the Shozu photo-sharing app with the Z8 - an excellent choice.
The handsets proved rather good for audio playback too. Note that although the retail Z8 is bundled with Moto's own new stereo wireless headset, it doesn't take a standard headphone jack, but instead uses mini USB. With the final retail package unavailable, we tested them with Sony Ericsson's lovely HBH-DS70 stereo headphones, and it worked very well indeed.
A major advantage is the lack of an artificial ceiling on media. The Z8 takes Micro SD cards, but it will be able to handle 32GB cards when they're ready: a welcome bit of future-proofing. And it's good to know there's now another home for the likes of SanDisk's 4GB Micro SDHC card, reviewed here
Unfortunately, there's no TV output. While I can't imagine a mass-market for tiny-screen video, we can envisage video enthusiasts using the phone as a portable cache for content they've acquired - as a kind of sneakernet - particularly since the USB transfers are rapid.
The Z8 uses the standard UIQ applications bundle, which includes a rich messaging client, Tasks, Notes and Calender - here called Agenda. However, as text input is so limited, the Z8 is really a read-only device. And you'll need to install Documents To Go or RoadSync for Office compatibility. The Agenda application demonstrates how good UI design - sensible layout and judicious use of fonts - can make a limited space effective.


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March 16, 2011 |
SF Fire to Implement CPR iPhone App
At a press conference, today, March 16, The City of San Francisco became the first major city to publicly announce support for the San Ramon Valley Fire Protect District-pioneered "Fire Department" iPhone application.
In a media release the San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera and San Francisco Fire Chief Joanne Hayes-White announced the SF Fire App Initiative, an extensive citywide effort to reduce heart attack deaths with the implementation of the Fire Department smart phone application which will notify CPR-trained volunteers to assist nearby cardiac arrest victims.
Earlier this year, San Ramon Valley Fire Protection District Chief Richard Price launched the Fire Department iPhone application that links to the SRVFPD computer-aided dispatch (CAD) system to notify CPR-trained volunteers in the vicinity of sudden cardiac arrest events in public spaces and to pinpoint the nearest automatic external defibrillator (AED). Price and his team are forming a foundation to extend the app to other smart phone platforms and provide support to other municipalities seeking to implement the technology.
"When I first learned of the great work by Chief Price and his team, I knew we needed to do everything we could to bring this application and its life-saving benefits to San Francisco," said Herrera. "The kind of partnership we are building within city departments shows that even in challenging budget times, smart governments and engaged citizens can increase benefits to the community. Just as the state of California has been proactive to ensure that Good Samaritans are protected from civil liability when they assist in times of great need, I'm committed to ensuring that San Francisco is a place where all of us are confident to help each other. I am grateful to have the partnership and support from San Francisco Fire Chief Joanne Hayes-White on this initiative."
Herrera also announced the launch of a new website, http://www.sffireapp.org, where interested San Franciscans can get information about CPR trainings and volunteer to assist with the initiative. Because the response in the first minutes of a sudden cardiac arrest are critical, the goal for the development launch is to increase the number of local volunteers with CPR training, to increase implementation and awareness of AEDs, and to work with Department of Emergency Management, Fire Department, and the local technology community to deliver the application to San Franciscans as soon as possible.
Bystander CPR and defibrillation combined are the most effective response to a person suffering from sudden cardiac arrest, and can greatly increase the likelihood of the victim's survival rate. In 2010, the San Francisco Fire Department responded to 356 active cardiac arrest incidents and 39 patients survived to admittance to the hospital. One third of these incidents occurred in a public space, away from home.
"The San Francisco Fire Department is committed to spreading the word that bystander CPR is critical to increasing the odds of survival of a cardiac arrest event," said Chief Hayes-White. "In San Francisco, compared to other large cities, bystander CPR is initiated too infrequently. Our hope is that this initiative will provide our residents with the support they need to get trained in CPR and to get involved."
In San Francisco, civic developers including representatives of Granicus and Firmstep have already volunteered to support development of the application and public access to AED maps.
"This app showcases the real power of mobile, real-time data delivery to connect people and save lives," said Javier Muniz, CTO and co-founder of Granicus. "We're excited to support the City & County of San Francisco and the San Ramon Valley Fire Protection District in whatever way we can to scale this app and empower citizens."


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Shirin Ebadi accepted her Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo Wednesday to standing ovations and blanket media coverage of her mission to improve democracy and human rights in Iran.
But at home, Iran's state-run Channel One ranked Ms. Ebadi's achievement twelfth in the lineup - after a Taiwan earthquake and a trade fair.
The now-famous defense lawyer - the first Muslim woman to win the Nobel - has been heralded by some as a hero who can energize Iran's embattled reform movement. But she has been largely ignored or threatened by hardliners who see her global prestige and continued push for human rights in Iran as a further threat to their rule.
The thin media coverage points to the difficulties Ebadi faces as her profile rises in Iran's relentless, rough-and-tumble political battlefield.
"This prize has put Ebadi on the front line in Iran," says an Iranian analyst who asked not to be named. "She is stuck between those who advocate nonviolence and those who ... use violence - between [those] who call for gradual change and those who want it now."
Ebadi was Iran's first woman judge before the 1979 Islamic Revolution. She has often taken on prickly cases - including one in 2000 that led to her imprisonment for collecting sensitive video evidence. Most recently, she has joined the case of a woman photojournalist with dual Iranian-Canadian citizenship who was killed during interrogation in July. Yet many Iranians never knew Ebadi's name before she won the Nobel.
Vice President Mohammad Ali Abtahi, when asked about the Nobel, told parliament: "It's a source of pride for Iran that an Iranian is given the Nobel Peace Prize."
But the reform newspaper Shargh - aware that more than 100 reform publications have been shut down in recent years - ran a Page 1 photo of the ceremony, but showed only a close-up of Ebadi's hands as she received the Nobel diploma.
Fleeting footage on Iran TV showed just a glimpse of the Nobel ceremony, bypassing the prizewinner herself. The hard-line paper Jomhuri-e-Eslami - in a clear bid to emphasize the scale of her disrespect - was the only newspaper that ran a full photograph of Ebadi accepting the Nobel, and the $1.4 million prize - without a head scarf. The story made disapproving mention of the fact that Ebadi shook hands with a man after a BBC interview.
At the ceremony, Ebadi lambasted US and Israeli double standards on human rights, and dug at regimes that use Islam to justify their hard-line rule.
"Some Muslims, under the pretext that democracy and human rights are not compatible with Islamic teachings ... have justified despotic governments and continue to do so," Ebadi said in Oslo, pointing the finger at Iran's ruling clergy. "In fact, it is not so easy to rule over a people who are aware of their rights using traditional patriarchal and paternalistic methods."
While Ebadi has been heralded in the West as a new symbol of Iran's reform movement - which has withered under constant attack from unelected hard-liners - in Iran her position is far less secure.
"Considering the indifference and frustration that hang over people, this Nobel Prize has appeared as a slim light of hope," says Davoud Hermidas Bavand, a professor of law at the Supreme National Defense University. "But [Ebadi] is in a very delicate situation. People are looking to her, and she's trying to walk a tightrope."
Analysts say the Nobel gives Ebadi a new degree of protection, but doesn't bestow power to bridge divisions in the reform camp, or a "golden key," as she says, to open cell doors for political prisoners.
Highlighting Ebadi's privileged but difficult position, the reform newspaper Yas-e-No ran a cartoon Thursday, showing a bright gold Nobel medal emerging as a flower from a tangle of thorns.
The fact that Ebadi has not been overtly political before adds to her clout today. "The conservatives are frightened by this phenomenon of Shirin Ebadi winning the Nobel," says Hamid Reza Jalaeipour, an editor who has seen seven of his reform newspapers closed, and now teaches at Tehran University.
"Why are they afraid? Because she has good influence with the secular elite, as well as Muslim reformists," says Mr. Jalaeipour. "In the midterm, she can protect the democratic trend in Iran."
Ebadi gets points for bravery for vowing to continue her legal quest for human rights, he adds, since hard-liners here consider such work "against God and anti-religious activity."
Indeed, death threats from vigilantes who consider Ebadi a "Western mercenary" - such as those who recently rushed the podium during a speech at a women's university, shouting "Death to Ebadi!" and forcing her to seek shelter among supporters - have prompted officials to provide a car, driver, and bodyguards.
But hard-liners are not Ebadi's only critics. Students have deplored her insistence - echoing the once-popular President Mohamed Khatami, who is widely criticized for wasting the mandate of two landslide election victories - that Islam and democracy are compatible, and that change should come from within. Students are also critical of Ebadi's call to vote in February parliamentary elections, while some angry reformers demand a boycott. "Ebadi has many experiences; most students on campus have little experience. They have high demands that they can't manage," says Jalaeipour. "When she goes abroad and takes off her head scarf, it's a revolutionary activity in the Iranian context. They don't understand that."
Still, some who witnessed Ebadi's return from a European visit at Tehran's airport, after the prize was announced in October, were not impressed. Those who greeted her were tearfully joyful but few. A phone text message had been widely circulated: "Shirin Ebadi. Tuesday night. Mehrabad airport. See you."
"Why did only a few thousand come? There should be so many, in a city of 10 million," says a reformist who was there. "It's embarrassing. The apathy is so thick."


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What recession?
We've said it before, but Apple continues to tear the cover off the ball, in the midst of slow times for the rest of the country. Though Wall Street's estimates were missed, Apple did make its own expectations (per usual).
The Cupertino tech giant just released its quarterly earnings report, and here are the highlights:
- $35 billion in revenue, ahead of the $28 billion from last year
- 26 million iPhones sold, and 17 million iPads sold, 4 million Macs sold
At first blush, not enough to excite investors, and Apple shares (AAPL) fell as the numbers got out. There was a drop in iPhone units of 9 million, compared to the previous quarter.
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All this comes, of course, ahead of Apple's expected launch of the newest iPhone. The guesses seem to have the new phone coming out in time for the holiday shopping season. That will generate lots of buying once again.
And, in three more months, we'll see how that moves the needle.
Scott tracks Apple on Twitter: @scottbudman


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Lindsay Lohan's father has pleaded not guilty to attacking his ex-girlfriend during an argument earlier this year in California.
Michael Lohan entered the plea to misdemeanor domestic violence battery Monday in Beverly Hills.
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He was arrested in March after his ex-girlfriend, Kate Major, accused him of abusing her and preventing her from calling 911.
Michael Lohan's attorney says his client is looking forward to resolving the case and sorting out the conflicting stories of the events that led up to his arrest. A trial is scheduled for July 5.
VIEW THE PHOTOS: Scenes From 'Jimmy Kimmel's Live After The Academy Awards'
The Lohan family patriarch has a fractious relationship with his movie star daughter and has a history of arrests in New York after his ex-girlfriends accused him of harassment.
If convicted, the 51-year-old could spend up to a year in jail.
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SOUTHWEST MIAMI-DADE, Fla. – A Coral Reef Senior High School student died after contracting bacterial meningitis, but health officials said his death is not related to the fungal meningitis deaths linked to contaminated pain injections.
Christopher R. Valdes, 18, died at 8 a.m. Friday, Miami-Dade police said.
The Miami-Dade Health Department held a news conference Friday night at which Dr. Alvaro Mejia-Echeverry said people would have had to be in contact with Valdes' saliva to become infected with meningitis.
"Not every single person who knew [Valdes] has to be worried," said Mejia-Echeverry.
Mejia-Echeverry said the teen died within an hour of arriving at a local hospital Friday.
Officials said the teenager had visited an urgent car Thursday, but that the name of the center was being withheld from the public.
Officials with Miami-Dade Public Schools and the Health Department said procedures were being followed to safeguard the health of students and faculty at Coral Reef Senior High School.
"Children have a tendency to not be as cautious as far as sharing lipstick, makeup and stuff like that, and the kissing there is a little more promiscuous than they should be," said Patricia Harper Garrett, a retired Miami-Dade County teacher.
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Letters were sent home to the families of students detailing the symptoms of the disease.
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Miami-Dade County Public Schools' Student Services Crisis Management Team has been notified and will respond to the school as needed.