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Exception handling
In my previous post I mentioned work on a new register allocator. Something that was missing from my Church-State project was error recovery. Most languages today use some form of try-catch exception handling (although the Go language uses deferred statements to perform cleanup).
The biggest challenge in implementing exception handling is that functions that use "callee-saved" registers may save these register values on the stack and then use them to store private values. Under normal control flow these values will be loaded from the stack and restored when the function returns. In the case of an exception, the runtime has to inspect each stack frame on the call stack between the point where the exception was thrown and the point where it will be caught and restore the values of these callee saved registers.
The implementation I chose was to emit a label for the function 'epilogue', the final sequence of statements before the return instruction, and store this in the object file. At exception handling time I have a routine implemented in assembly which will walk the stack and arrange to invoke this epilogue stub for each function (adjusting the stack pointer appropriately so that the function can find the saved values). Finally it jumps to the exception handler in the context of the function with the try-catch handler.
One complication arises in that it is not possible for variables that are used in the catch block to be stored temporarily in registers in the try block. The risk is that control is transferred out of the try block to the catch block and the catch block won't know which register holds the current value. This can be avoided by treating every single statement that could raise an exception as having an extra control flow edge to the catch block. I implemented a simpler solution which was to mark all variables used in the catch block for stack allocation only. These variables are effectively permanently spilled to the stack.
The assembly routine to handle exceptions and restore callee saved values from the stack is pretty hairy but I'm quite happy with the solution.
7 ;; // Thread local storage has the following layout 8 ;; // (some other thread's heap) <------------ limit-pointer 9 ;; // heap 10 ;; // heap 11 ;; // heap 12 ;; // heap <------------ allocation-pointer 13 ;; // heap 14 ;; // heap 15 ;; // heap start of heap %r15 16 ;; // limit pointer -0x8 (%r15) 17 ;; // allocation pointer (initially points to start of heap) -0x10(%r15) 18 ;; // saved exception object -0x18(%r15) 19 ;; // saved return address when calling unwind stub -0x20(%r15) 20 ;; // saved frame pointer for exception trace -0x28(%r15) 21 ;; // working stack pointer to be used during stack trace traversal -0x30(%r15) 22 ;; // saved traversal stack pointer -0x38(%r15) ... ;; //-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 57 ;; // Exception handling 58 ;; //-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 59 60 61 ;; //transfer to exception handler 62 .globl __l_throw_exception 63 64 65 .macro switch_to_original_stack 66 mov %rsp, -0x30(%r15) 67 mov -0x38(%r15), %rsp 68 .endm 69 70 .macro switch_to_working_stack 71 mov %rsp, -0x38(%r15) 72 mov -0x30(%r15), %rsp 73 .endm 74 75 __l_throw_exception: 76 ;; // first argument is the exception object 77 ;; // save it in thread local memory 78 mov %rdi, -0x18(%r15) 79 ;; // also save the frame pointer so that we can generate a stack trace later if necessary 80 mov %rbp, -0x28(%r15) 81 ;; // and keep a pointer to a 'working stack' so that we call helper routines without destroying the original stack frames 82 mov %rsp, -0x30(%r15) 83 __find_exception_handler: 84 ;; // get the return address from the stack 85 ;; // and check if there is an exception handler installed around that address 86 mov (%rsp), %rdi 87 switch_to_working_stack 88 call __l_find_exception_handler 89 switch_to_original_stack 90 test %rax,%rax 91 jnz found_exception_handler 92 ;; // if there is no exception handler, unwind this frame by finding the unwind stub for this function 93 mov (%rsp), %rdi 94 switch_to_working_stack 95 call __l_find_unwind_stub 96 switch_to_original_stack 97 test %rax,%rax 98 jz no_unwind 99 ;; // pop off the return address (restore the stack to the calling function's expected value) 100 pop %rcx 101 ;; // get the return address of the previous frame and save it to thread local memory 102 mov 0x8(%rbp), %rdx 103 mov %rdx, -0x20(%r15) 104 ;; // do some magic to get the address of 'after_unwind_stub' 105 lea 0x6(%rip), %rcx 106 ;; // save it in place of the normal return address 107 mov %rcx, 0x8(%rbp) 108 ;; // branch to the unwind stub 109 jmp *%rax 110 after_unwind_stub: 111 ;; // now restore the real return address that we stored in thread local memory 112 mov -0x20(%r15), %rax 113 push %rax 114 ;; // repeat from the top until we find an exception handler 115 jmp __find_exception_handler 116 117 found_exception_handler: 118 ;; // load the exception object that we stored in thread local memory 119 mov -0x18(%r15), %rdi 120 ;; // pop old return address 121 pop %rcx 122 ;; // branch to exception handler 123 jmp *%rax 124 125 no_unwind: 126 no_exception_handler: 127 mov -0x28(%r15), %rdi 128 mov -0x18(%r15), %rsi 129 switch_to_working_stack 130 call __l_top_level_exception_handler 131 ;; // no return? 132 int $3 133
Register allocation
I've been reading a lot about register allocation algorithms, register allocation is probably one of the most complex parts of a compiler.
A SURVEY OF REGISTER ALLOCATION TECHNIQUES by Jonathan Protzenko is a great overview of what algorithms are suited to a particular compilation scenario.
I focused on the family of linear-scan register allocators first proposed by Poletto and Sarkar. The `c compiler has a really clean implementation of linear scan in C but I discovered later that the machine architectures that they targeted are all "register-rich" architectures which can easily accommodate a few registers reserved as "scratch registers". Since I think that the "register poor" 32-bit x86 code is still important I researched more complex algorithms such as Linear scan with Interval Splitting and Extended Linear Scan.
Initially I was hoping for a really lightweight algorithm that could be used for generating code on the fly with the potential for an optimizing compiler to kick in later when necessary. As I implemented some of the interval splitting logic I realised that the implementation was getting too complex and I decided to fall back to a simple linear scan algorithm that uses an SCC (Strongly Connected Components) analysis to determine interval lifetimes. The implementation (on 64-bit x86) requires three scratch registers to be reserved and should probably be reconsidered for a 32-bit implementation.
The SCC analysis works by tracing out the control flow of the basic blocks and determines sets where each node can reach every other node. These are loops. Identifying loops is important for the lifetime of a variable because you need to keep it alive up until the end of the loop and at the top of the loop until the first use.
The intervals calculated by SCC are very coarse and as a result the allocator generates a lot of spills that could be avoided with a more fine-grained analysis or through interval splitting.
The interval construction takes place in the bottom half of this file baste-pass3.church and the register allocator is in baste-pass4.church
I implemented some rough visualizations of the interval lifetimes and allocations, unfortunately it doesn't display very well here. Each range has a hex number indicating which register is has been allocated or "S" if it is spilled. On x86-64 we have to be careful to preserve function arguments which are passed via register (and also used in calls). I do this with "fixed intervals" which guarantee that a specific register is available for these special cases.
Int. M Spill Reg Ranges
v26(f) 7777777777777777777777777 [0-24]
v25(e) 8888888888888888888888888 [0-24]
v24(d) 9999999999999999999999999 [0-24]
v23(c) AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA [0-24]
v22(b) BBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBB [0-24]
v21(a) CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC [0-24]
v5 5555555555555555555555555 [0-24]
v4 44444444444444444444444 [0-22]
v3 333333333333333333333 [0-20]
v2 2222222222222222222 [0-18]
v1 11111111111111111 [0-16]
v0 000000000000000 [0-14]
v15(x) 88888888888888888888888 [26-48]
v27 777777 [26-31]
v31 77777777777777777 [32-48]
v30 99999999999999999 [32-48]
v29 AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA [32-48]
v28 BBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBB [32-48]
v32 CCCC [48-51]
v16(y) 88888888888888888888888 [52-74]
v33 CCCCCC [52-57]
v37 CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC [58-74]
v36 77777777777777777 [58-74]
v35 99999999999999999 [58-74]
v34 AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA [58-74]
v38 BBBB [74-77]
v17(z) 88888888888888888888888 [78-100]
v39 BBBBBB [78-83]
v43 BBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBB [84-100]
v42 CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC [84-100]
v41 77777777777777777 [84-100]
v40 99999999999999999 [84-100]
v44 AAAA [100-103]
v18(x1) 88888888888888888888888 [104-126]
v45 AAAAAA [104-109]
v49 AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA [110-126]
v48 BBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBB [110-126]
v47 CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC [110-126]
v46 77777777777777777 [110-126]
v50 9999 [126-129]
v19(x2) 88888888888888888888888 [130-152]
v51 999999 [130-135]
v55 99999999999999999 [136-152]
v54 AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA [136-152]
v53 BBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBB [136-152]
v52 CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC [136-152]
v56 7777 [152-155]
v20(x3) 88888888888888888888888 [156-178]
v57 777777 [156-161]
v61 77777777777777777 [162-178]
v60 99999999999999999 [162-178]
v59 AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA [162-178]
v58 BBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBB [162-178]
v62 CCCC [178-181]
v63 CCCCCCC [182-188]
Church-State developments
Since the last release of Church-State I started investigating whether it might be possible to make the runtime multi-threaded and to have the compiler execute on multiple threads.
Multi-threaded runtime
This turned out to be quite a lot work. For every global variable used by different threads in the compiler and parsers I had to introduce locking mechanisms. In the runtime I had to ensure that there was way to allocate dynamically generated machine code into a thread-local buffer. Care has to be taken with inline caches and self-modifying code. Any output to shared streams (such as stdout and stderr) need to be synchronized in some way. The garbage collector needs to ensure that only one thread can allocate at a time and collection needs to be coordinated so that mutating threads don't run during collection. My approach was to use signal handlers to interrupt threads, each interrupted thread records the extent of its stack and then waits for garbage collection to complete.
Copying garbage collector
I also started experimenting with a copying collector instead of the existing mark-sweep implementation. Copying collectors are harder to implement because whenever you move an object you have to ensure that all the references to the old object (including on the call stack) are updated to point to the new one. Hashtables that hash object pointers need to be made aware of a completed garbage collection (and rehash if necessary). I never finished the new garbage collector because I felt that State (the low level language used for implementing the runtime) was a limited by a lack of language features. State does not have something like structs in C or pointer arithmetic. It doesn't have a real looping mechanism (I use a lisp-style DO macro which I find ugly without pointer arithmetic). It doesn't have syntax for array/pointer dereferencing or low level operations like bit shifting and masking which are common in runtime code.
I decided it would better to experiment with a richer low-level language and so I started creating a compiler for a language code-named 'baste'. Baste has a syntax derived from Church (with Python/Haskell like indentation) and a 64-bit backend (Church-State is only implemented for 32-bit systems). My current experiments involve implementing a new register allocator that calculates live intervals for each variable and then allocates registers using a linear-scan register allocation algorithm. This new work is included in the Church-State source repository.
New release of Church-State
I have made a new release of Church-State.
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In January I added some optimizations to my OMeta implementation to compute FIRST and FOLLOW sets for certain (hard-coded) grammar rules to try and predict which parsing rule to apply when faced with many options. This needs to be extended to automatically select rules that will benefit from this optimization.
I was recently looking at the GLL parser described by Elizabeth Scott and Adrian Johnstone. Does anyone know how easy it is to implement a parser like this? How does it compare (in implementation effort) with something like OMeta?
That reminded me of Matthew Might's post on parsing with derivatives. I had a look at it again and I am very much compelled by the elegance of the implementation. However, looking at it closely reminds me of how much I suffer from Scheme Envy. The 500 line Racket implementation uses streams (lazy lists) and makes heavy use of hygienic macros. It uses dynamic binding (make-parameter / parameterize), delay/force, the pattern matching facility and weak hash tables. How many potential implementation targets provide facilities like these?
A parsing issue that worries me a lot is how to parse languages that rely on indentation (eg python, haskell) and still maintain some kind of composability for user defined grammars.
A new garbage collector
This is a new release of Church-State
New hashtable
In this release I have added a new hashtable implemented using the State language. Previously I was using a hashtable implemented in C from the kazlib library.
The new hashtable uses open addressing with double hashing to resolve probe collisions. Besides the standard hashtable which maps one key to one value, I have also implemented a two-key two-value hashtable used for the memoization of the OMeta parser results. For each grammar rule (key1) and the input position (key2) we store the result (value1) and the end position of the cached result (value 2). Previously I used two levels of hashtables for this.
You can see the hashtable here:
New garbage collector
I have also added a new garbage collector to replace the Boehm collector used so far. Like the Boehm collector this is a conservative mark and sweep collector.
The implementation is fairly simple, we create two heaps. The first is divided in pagelets which are 1024 bytes in size. Each of these pagelets can store objects which are 8,16,32,64,128,512 or 1024 bytes in size. We maintain bitfields to remember which objects are allocated within each page. When all the objects in a pagelet are freed during garbage collection that pagelet is returned to a free pool and may be used to store objects of a different size. As part of this work I have implemented a guard page and an associated signal handler to help detect when new free pagelets should be assigned to a size class.
The other heap is for objects larger than 1024 bytes. We use a simple first-fit strategy. To help mitigate the effect of the fragmentation of free spaces, we coalesce adjacent free spaces into larger blocks during the sweep phase.
My measurements show that the new allocator is about twice as slow as the Boehm allocator when allocating cons cells. For the entire bootstrap process the new allocator adds about 2 seconds of overhead, taking the bootstrap time from 23 to 25 seconds.
The new garbage collector is in state/runtime/state_runtime.state .
System R
Recently I came across a reference to a paper describing early work on query plan generation for relational databases.
Unfortunately the original paper was a rather poor scan and I decided to recreate the original text and diagrams.
This turned out to be more work than I had anticipated, but I persevered and you can see the result here:
Access Path Selection in a Relational Database Management System.
New OMeta interpreter for Church-State
This is a new release of Church-State
This incorporates a new OMeta interpreter that I have written to replace the parser generator used in previous versions.
Implementing the Church parser with an interpreter rather than with a parser generator has two main benefits:
- There is no longer a requirement to have the church compiler available to generate a new parser. This caused some bootstrapping issues and made it harder to provide user-extensible parsing.
- The new approach is faster than before. Usually interpreters have more overhead than compiled equivalents but in this case the compilation overhead was very large for the generated church parser. Overall it's faster to parse the church grammar file into an intermediate structure and interpret it than it is to generate and compile a very large generated parser.
The new system bootstraps in 28 seconds now (versus 34 seconds previously).
Grammar actions
The most novel part of this new interpreter implementation is the way that I handle "grammar actions".
Previously I implemented both a parser generator and an interpreter which used runtime code compilation to turn grammar actions into executable closures.
Take this example of the grammar rule for an assignment:
assignment = assignable-expression:lhs ws* "=" ws* expression(nil):rhs -> <<`[_assign ,lhs ,rhs]>>
which would parse the following Church code:
a = 1
In some parsing frameworks it is convenient to automatically construct a parse tree from a given grammar. In the case of scannerless parsers (which is what I use in Church) we would like to elide the nodes that would result from parsing whitespace. So in the example above the parts that we want to keep are labeled lhs and rhs. The section at the end describes a quasiquoted list template that has the values of lhs and rhs substituted into it.
When evaluated, this action will return something like this:
[_assign [_var "a"] [_number 1]]
To implement this one can create a closure with the following code:
fn arg1 arg2 -- `[_assign ,arg1 ,arg2]
which is called at parse time with the values for each labeled part.
This requires having the entire compiler framework available at parse time, including the parser which you are implementing!
To avoid this kind of bootstrapping issue and to simplify the parser, I decided to implement grammar actions with a simple quasiquoting syntax.
Quasiquoted actions
In the grammar actions implemented in the latest Church-State parser it is only possible to quote a list or symbol, unquote a variable or a list and specify a literal.
For example the following grammar rule:
pattern = cname:name ws* (ws* pattern-argument)*:args -> <<`(_pattern ,name ,@args)>>
creates a list starting with the symbol _pattern followed by the pattern name and then containing all the elements of the args list.
With closures it is possible to use list functions like cons, first and rest or to call routines to convert strings of digits into integers. This is not possible with quasiquoted actions and they require a later pass of the parse tree to do the necessary conversions. I have added routines to perform these transformations so that the resulting parse tree is exactly the same as that returned by the previous parser implementations.
The interpreter can be seen here:
along with the grammar for parsing ometa grammars:


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You're going to bust your ass for 5 years for $200.....?
Just make sure you use good form....and if it does'nt go away soon, try a healing stack of Glucosamine to speed up the joints' healing process and Flax/Cod liver oil to lubricate the joint.
Are you cutting or bulking? Because 2,300-2,500 calories a day for someone who weighs in at 200lb is'nt a-lot. I weigh 210lb and NEED to take at least over 4000 cals a day to stay in an anabolic...
Losing hair is purely genetic.
All the steroids in the world won't make you lose hair if you are'nt genetically pre-determined to. On the other hand, if you look at your dad, your grandad, and all...
I can relate.
Right now, I have an injury in my right rotater-cuff which is'nt too bad, but it prevents me from doing any shoulder work at the moment. I'm taking glucosamine to try and speed up...
As long as you account for it in your daily plan. If you're bulking - 2-3 yogurts is nothing (I eat more than that myself). But if you're cutting, it's enough to stall your weight loss.
That article does'nt suprise me....it's written by Pete Sisco. He is promoting his own 'hidden agenda' of static training, partials, and the heaviest weight possible routines.
For those of you who...
You're arms are probably swollen from your 4-hour training stint - and that's why they are bigger.
Because IFFB pro's and top supplement experts wright the articles (Bruce Kneller, L. Rea, Dorian, William Llewylen, etc.).
I'd say a good long-term target for you would be to dead 1.5-2.0 x your bodyweight.
The reason why your muscles appear "flatter" on a diet is because your bodys' muscle glycogen levels are running low. Less carbs in the muscle = less water = less fuller muscles.
To combat this...
Teenagers usually get it due to puberty and fluctuating hormonal levels....but they soon grow out of it as they get older.
If you're an adult and you've got it - then it's a little bit more...
There is something such as a 'MASS DIET' - but there is no such thing as a MASS ROUTINE....only a diet dictates whether you are in an anabolic or catabolic state irregardless of the routine.
If you only have 2 days to work out, why don't you do a upper/lower split:
Day 1: Upper Body
Day 2: Lower Body
This saves mix/matching bodyparts that have nothing to do with eachother.
I have been eating before bed for years and have a solid 6-pac to show for it. I usually eat something like a small tub of cottage cheese coupled with a glass of milk. These dairy...
Falling off a treadmill at peak hours.
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Don't worry fishbrains, everybody has to start from somewhere. :cool:
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References on course evaluation
Below are some reading references for further information on the topic of course evaluation and the transition to online CEQs. Many were used in the SCCE review process to determine the best practices to implement for the CEQ at Memorial.
- Ad Hoc SCEP/SCFA Subcommittee. "Recommendations on Modifying the Student Evaluation of Teaching Form at the University of Minnesota." Revised Report 8 November 2007
- Avery, R. J., Bryant, W. K., Mathios, A., Kang, H. and Bell, D. (2006). Electronic Course Evaluations: Does an Online Delivery System Influence Student Evaluations? Journal of Economic Education, 37 (1), 21-37.
- Burton, W., A. Civitano, and P. Steiner-Grossman. 2012. Online versus paper evaluations: differences in both quantitative and qualitative data. Journal of Computing in Higher Education, 24(1): 58-69.
- Dillman, Don A, Smyth, Jolene D., & Christian, Leah M. (2009). Internet, Mail, and Mixed-Mode Surverys: The Tailored Design Method (3rd edition). John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: New Jersey.
- Delaney, J.G., Johnson, A.N., Johnson, T.D., & Treslan, D.L. (2010). Students Perceptions of Effective Teaching in Higher Education. St. John's, NL: Distance Education and Learning Technologies.
- Dommeyer, Curt J. , Baum, P., Hanna, R.W., & Chapman, K.S. (2004). Gathering faculty teaching evaluations by inclass and online surveys: their effects on response rates and evaluations, Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 29:5, 611-623.
- Fike, D.S., Doyle, D.J., Connelly, R.J. (2010). Online vs. Paper Evaluations of Faculty: When Less is Just as Good. The Journal of Effective Teaching, Vol. 10, No. 2, 42-54.
- Gravestock, P. and Gregor-Greenleaf, E. (2008) Student Course Evaluations: Research, Models and Trends. Toronto: Higher Education Quality Council of Ontario.
- Johnson, T. D. (2003). Online Student Ratings: Will Students Respond? New Directions for Teaching and Learning, Vol. 2003, Issue 96, 49-59.
- New Directions for Teaching and Learning (2003). Special Issue: Online Student Ratings of Instruction, Vol. 2003, Issue 96.
- Nulty, Duncan D. (2008). The adequacy of response rates to online and paper surveys: what can be done?, Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 33:3, 301-314.
- Stowell, Jeffrey R., Addison, W.E., & Smith, J.L. (2012). Comparison of online and classroom-based student evaluations of instruction, Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 37:4, 465-473.
The following links are for institutions that have successfully implemented an online course evaluation questionniare.
McGill University: Course Evaluations
University of British Columbia: Student Evaluations of Teaching
University of Toronto: Course Evaluation Framework
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University of Louisville: Online Course Evaluations
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In the California Desert, Wilderness Torah Takes Judaism Back to Nature
Founder Zelig Golden, an environmental lawyer turned rabbi-in-training, tries 'to reconnect the Jewish people' to the earth
Shortly after he finished law school in 2007, Zelig Golden went on a "vision quest" in California's White Mountains with Rites of Passage. Although it was "a religiously universal program," Golden said, he had "what turned out to be a very powerful Jewish experience."
It began as a 10-day group trip in the wilderness, at an altitude of 10,000 feet in the high desert, but the focus was on preparing for three days and nights Golden would spend alone afterward. "I was guided to go spend three days and three nights fasting and praying," he recalled. He intended to reevaluate his "work in the world" because he'd decided that being an environmental lawyer wasn't satisfying enough. "I came back with a very simple vision," he said. "I wanted to connect my people to the earth."
By "my people," Golden meant the Jews. Two and a half months later, he turned his vision into reality, organizing the first "Sukkot on the Farm" in Dixon, Calif. "It was a little festival," he said, "not so organized but well-intentioned." A small, informal group of Bay Area Jews camped out at the edge of a vegetable field, where they prayed, built a sukkah, learned Torah, and toured the farm. Out of this festival, Wilderness Torah was eventually born—a Berkeley-based group Golden calls "a manifestation of this vision to reconnect the Jewish people to this thing we were once deeply connected to."
Wilderness Torah has developed from a small gathering of campers to a full cycle of outdoor festivals tied to Jewish holidays—Sukkot, Passover, Shavuot, and Tu B'Shevat—as well as other back-to-nature wilderness quests for adults throughout the year. The group has also created a nature-mentorship b'nai mitzvah program called B'Naiture for 11-to-13 year-olds, and an outdoor-education program called B'Hootz that takes younger kids camping, hiking, and into the wilderness to learn Torah through outdoor experience with mentors.
Wilderness Torah's numbers are rising. That first Sukkot on the Farm festival in 2007 drew 35 people; this year's now-annual event drew 300 campers to Green Oaks Creek Farm in Pescadero, Calif., featuring organic kosher meals, a talk by tracker-author Jon Young, lessons from the teachings of the Baal Shem Tov, music by the band Tevat Teva, kids' activities, meditation, and more.
As Hanukkah winds down this year on Dec. 5, Wilderness Torah is partnering with Urban Adamah, a Jewish urban educational farm and community center also in Berkeley, for a "Hodaya Hoedown"—hodaya meaning "gratitude" in Hebrew. The fundraiser will be held on the Urban Adamah farm with live "Jewgrass" by the band Shamati. "People's interest in food and nature is burgeoning in the Bay Area right now," said Adam Berman, a board member of Wilderness Torah and the founder and executive director of Urban Adamah. "Twenty years ago there was not a need, desire, or passion for this type of connection."
Growing up in Spokane, Wash., Golden was active in the Jewish youth group USY in high school and attended synagogue regularly. But, he said, "in college I was more focused on exploring the natural world so that synagogue life and traditional Judaism took a back seat for a while. I studied ecology. I became obsessed with the environment. I was a serious mountain climber and hiker." The quintessential environmentalist, he was later a botanist and a park ranger in the back-country Alaska wilderness, lived on organic farms, and worked as a guide for Colorado Outward Bound.
In 1998, two years after earning a B.S. in ecology at the University of Washington, his Judaism and environmentalism were fused when he served as the first program director of the Northwest Jewish Environmental Project in Seattle, an affiliate of the Coalition on the Environment and Jewish Life. "To bring these two parts of my identity, of myself—my passion for Jewish heritage and the natural world—to bring these together and to teach about these things was like a dream come true," he said. "At that time it was just a dream I didn't know I had."
Golden went on to earn a J.D. from the Berkeley School of Law, intending to become an environmental lawyer on behalf of the "organic agriculture, GMO-fighting industry, protecting the organic food industry." In 2004 he finished law school, started a law fellowship "suing oil companies to clean up the environment" and began a maggid training program at a small synagogue in Berkeley, which trained him as a spiritual leader and storyteller. "As a lawyer," Golden said, "I was also asking the deeper existential questions: What is the deeper value of this work?" He knew something was missing: "I was feeling called to re-evaluate my work in the world."
That led him to the Adamah Jewish Farming Fellowship at the Isabella Freedman Retreat Center in Connecticut in 2006. After the farming season, he started his first job as a lawyer for the Center for Food and Safety back in San Francisco, where he worked on behalf of organic farmers and food producers, as he said, "to keep GMOs honest." But again, practicing law proved to be not enough for Golden. He was still searching. That was when he went on his vision quest.
The notion of once again putting Jewish practice in a natural setting was one thing, but bringing it down to earth was a whole other matter. "There was a beautiful moment on my vision quest," Golden recalled. Mike Bodkin, the Jewish man who led the quest and later became Golden's mentor, told him: "When we have a clear path set before us, we have to go home and slowly integrate and take one step, one step—really walk the vision in human time."
A few months after the first Sukkot on the Farm, Golden joined forces with Jonathan Rosenfield, whom he calls "a Ph.D. fish biologist conservation guy," and Adam Edell, "a garden and food educator in the Berkeley school system." "It wasn't Wilderness Torah then, it was just some volunteers creating experiences," Golden explained. Julie Wolk, an environmental and community organizer who attended that first event, joined with Golden, Edell, and Rosenfield and stepped up to the role of founding co-director in the years that followed.
"Human beings are disconnected," said Wolk. "Adam [man] comes from adamah [earth]. When we disconnect from that source, from the earth—we are disconnected from ourselves, our community, we are ungrounded. We can see it all over society how people are longing for connection." By taking Jewish community out of the synagogue and placing it in community camping, hiking, and prayer experiences outdoors, Wilderness Torah hopes to re-forge that connection.
"That's where the path was leading," said Wolk. "I am the poster child for the wayward Jew who re-found Judaism through somewhat radical practice—which is what Wilderness Torah is doing." Raised on Reform Judaism and summer camp, she became interested at a young age in science, environmentalism, and earth-based spirituality. But like Golden, she pursued these interests through her college years without connecting them to Jewish practice. She wanted to get back to Judaism. "I am not unique," she said. "There are tons of Jews looking for ways to connect in alignment with their values."
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The study finds no robust evidence of an increase in investment by either the public or private sectors, even if PSP leads to an increase in operational efficiency. Nor is there robust evidence of a change in average residential prices as a result of PSP. Given the well-documented underpricing of utility services in many developing countries, this result may reflect the economic and political difficulties of aligning tariffs with the costs of service provision.
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Kuldeep Manak (Punjabi: ਕੁਲਦੀਪ ਮਾਣਕ) ( 15 November 1951 – 30 November 2011) was a noted Punjabi singer of Indian Punjab. He was best known for singing a rare genre of Punjabi music, Kali, also known by its plural form kalian or kaliyan. In the late 1970's and early 1980's Manak was generally regarded as the best Punjabi singer in the world. His high pitched strong voice was unique.
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New Yorkers Welcome Bill de Blasio's Leftist Utopia
New Yorkers don't really vote anymore. In yesterday's mayoral election, where the Democratic candidate, Bill de Blasio, trounced Republican Joe Lhota, less than 9 percent of the city voted. Regardless, he's now set to become the first unabashedly left-wing mayor of New York City in 20 years, and he's put together an impressive base of white liberals, blacks, and Hispanic voters. Now both sides of the political spectrum expect him to turn the city into a leftist utopia, following a decade of billionaire incumbent Michael Bloomberg making life awesome for city elites.
Exactly what kinds of changes are in store under de Blasio's Sadinista-loving administration? I spoke to some experts on urban policy and de Blasio's pals across the city's political scene to get a sense of exactly what's coming.
Income Inequality
De Blasio ran on a promise that he'd address the city's massive wealth gap. Constantly referring to New York as "a tale of two cities," where super rich Manhattanites ship their kids to DJ schooland outer-borough minorities don't even have two pennies to rub together.
De Blasio intends to raise taxes on the rich to fund universal pre-K and expanded after school programs. To do this, he'll need his pal, and old boss in Bill Clinton's Department of Housing and Urban Development, Governor Andrew Cuomo to sign off, which is tricky to say the least. But the need to reorder the local economy is obvious, as Bloomberg has been content to lionize the city's wealthy for their occasional outbursts of charity. "In many ways, New York is like a spoiled child, living off Wall Street money and the investment of the local rich," explains Joel Kotkin, professor of urban development at Chapman University and former columnist for the New York Times.
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If you have not heard by now about Charlie Sheen you've been out of the loop. The millionaire bad boy, formerly known as Carlos Estevez, is the son of Marty Sheen. The actor made his debut powerfully in the 80's by staring in point roles in films such as Wall Street and Platoon. Since his 80's run he hasn't failed to live down his stardom. Now the former star of Two and a Half Men, he was reportedly paid an astounding $1.8 million dollars an episode. A now drug proclaiming, whore hiring, Hollywood stunt man, he has been on a path of destruction for almost two decades.
He has now broken world records with the creation of his phrase on twitter #winning. Charlie Sheen continues to make a mockery of the American society.
With countless reports of abuse to women, he has never once served jail time. Even with the convicted and sentences he has managed to slip authorities. I can either say he has damn good lawyers, or he is truly favored. Stating he snorts sometimes up to seven grams of cocaine, sooner or later your luck will run out. And you won't be #winning anymore.


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A release from the National Park Service highlights the reasons for safety and sobriety when you are on the New River.
Rangers with the National Park Service were called to the Berry Campground in Hinton on Friday around 5 p.m. According to a release, a 55-year-old man from Sophia, who had reportedly been drinking, went swimming in the New River and got into trouble. The man was not wearing a life jacket and began calling for help. Rangers and the Green Sulphur Springs Volunteer Fire Department were called in to rescue the man. He was taken to a Summers County hospital. The man, who's name has not been released, has been charged by the National Park Service with Public Intoxication and Creating a Hazardous Condition. The New River was reportedly at 6.8 feet.
This apparently was not the first time the man had done this, either. The release from the National Park Service said that Summers County Sheriff's Deputies responded to a call on Thursday that the same man was having trouble in the New River.
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A Wahpeton, ND gas station was robbed at gunpoint Friday morning.
The robbery happened just after 2 a.m. on Friday at the northside Tesoro station.
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"The surface of the Earth is the shore of the cosmic ocean... Recently, we've managed to wade a little way out, and the water seems inviting." - Carl Sagan
Tracking clouds on Venus
The most detailed record of cloud motion in the atmosphere of Venus chronicled by ESA's Venus Express has revealed that the planet's winds have steadily been getting faster over the last six years.
Venus is well known for its curious super-rotating atmosphere, which whips around the planet once every four Earth days. This is in stark contrast to the rotation of the planet itself – the length of the day – which takes a comparatively laborious 243 Earth days.
By tracking the movements of distinct cloud features in the cloud tops some 70 km above the planet's surface over a period of 10 venusian years (6 Earth years), scientists have been able to monitor patterns in the long-term global wind speeds.
When Venus Express arrived at the planet in 2006, average cloud-top wind speeds between latitudes 50º on either side of the equator were clocked at roughly 300 km/h. The results of two separate studies have revealed that these already remarkably rapid winds are becoming even faster, increasing to 400 km/h over the course of the mission.
Dr. Khatuntsev's team determined the wind speeds by measuring how cloud features in images moved between frames: over 45,000 features were painstakingly tracked by hand and more than 350,000 further features were tracked automatically using a computer programme.
On top of this long-term increase in the average wind speed, however, studies have also revealed regular variations linked to the local time of day and the altitude of the Sun above the horizon, and to the rotation period of Venus. One regular oscillation occurs roughly every 4.8 days near the equator and is thought to be connected to atmospheric waves at lower altitudes.
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Take away his 10 state championships and 15 district crowns. Take away every gold medal in Reverend Jerome Milton's career.
He'd still be considered one of the best coaches in East Texas.
"It goes beyond state championships and district championships and gold medals," said Bishop Gorman athletic director Jeff Smith. "It goes to the molding and shaping of young men and women."
After 25 years as track and field coach at Bishop Gorman High School, Rev. Milton has decided to retire.
"It's going to be very difficult from where I started from," said Milton. "Nurturing and nursing and leading and guiding and with what the Lord has blessed me to bring the program to. It's going to be difficult but at the same time I see a lot of joy."
Clearing hurdles his entire life, Milton has helped young student athletes do the same. In his quarter century of coaching, Milton has helped 105 of his track and field athletes earn college scholarships.
"They'll remember what he said to them to motivate them," said Smith. "They may not remember the race, but they'll remember the man that inspired them to be better than what they thought they could be."
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While investors get caught up in the hype of new technology products and services, some of the other tech companies are often left out in the cold as the masses flock to buy the next growth name. The old tech giants that are sometimes forgotten due to the inordinate amount of coverage that more 'sexy' and exciting tech names such as Facebook, Apple, and Groupon, include deep value picks Cisco Systems (NASDAQ: CSCO) and Intel (NASDAQ: INTC). These and other 'unsexy' tech names operate much of the behind-the-scenes technology that powers company infrastructure and technology devices, from enterprise software/hardware to networking and communication products. Each also has a market cap at or above the $100 billion mark, making them true tech giants.
Cisco expects to continue to see solid growth in fiscal year 2013 with revenues expected to be up 6.5%, then up 6.7% in 2014. This includes product demand increases for data centers and communication software. Cisco is gaining share in routing and also driving customer acquisition with strides in offering system wide solutions in the enterprise networking arena. What is expected to help drive Cisco's long-term growth is a continual rise in bandwidth usage, which is a product of rising populations and prospering nations. Cisco saw billionaire Jim Simons betting on the tech company in 3Q, with a new position of over 13 million shares (check out Jim Simons' new picks here).
Intel is a global chip maker that has seen weakness in its shares - down 15% year to date - on uncertain PC demand. The likes of tablets and smartphones have been slowly eating into the market share for conventional PCs and revenues are expected to come in relatively flat for 2012. Slowing PC demand will in part be countered by data center growth, but the outlook for Intel remains bleak, with expected 2013 sales to come in at only 1.3% higher than 2012.
Oracle (NYSE: ORCL) is another less sexy tech name that offers enterprise software and hardware products. Oracle expects modest growth for fiscal 2013 of only 3%, but its product diversity has allowed the company to perform well on a stock basis, with its share price up 25% year to date. Oracle has a solid growth avenue in software licenses, with the segment expected to be up 5% in 2013, but also has the opportunity of better hardware market penetration with the full integration of its Sun Microsystems' acquisition. The recent acquisitions - totaling $3.5 billion so far this year - in the cloud computing space will be a fundamental driver of the long-term growth for Oracle.
International Business Machines (NYSE: IBM) has five different segments, making it quite the diversified IT company. Even with the breadth of service offerings, IBM is expected to post sales down 2.5% in 2012, but growth in emerging markets should put IBM to a 2.5% sales growth in 2013. This less-than-stellar revenue growth makes IBM a questionable growth investment, but its solid balance sheet and ability to generate cash flow is a reason Warren Buffett loves the company. IBM continues to be one of billionaire Warren Buffett's favorite stock picks - with Berkshire having nearly 20% of its 13F invested in the tech company (see Warren Buffett's latest picks).
One of the relatively new names, compared to the trading history of the other tech giants, is SAP (NYSE: SAP), which started trading on the NYSE in 1998. SAP is one of the better growth stories of the past and the future. Of our five tech giants, SAP is up the most by far over the past ten years at 280% - versus the next closest stock, Oracle at only 185%. The enterprise application company expects future growth to be driven by its in-memory database technology. Other key products for SAP include mobile apps for real time database analysis and cloud computing. First half fiscal year 2013 results showed software sales up 12% - beating consensus by four percentage points, and orders were up 36% from the first half last year. Billionaire Ken Fisher - founder of Fisher Asset Management and Forbes columnist - was the top fund owner of both SAP and Oracle during 3Q (check out Ken Fisher's newest picks).
From a valuation standpoint, it appears there is quite a range for our five 'unsexy' tech stocks, with some showing solid growth potential and others exhibiting value-opportunity characteristics. Outlined below are some key metrics for our five tech stocks:
As expected, SAP trades at a premium valuation given its outsized growth potential - some of which we believe is not fully accounted for in their long-term growth rate. We believe investors can still find value in SAP, more so than is currently being offered by Oracle. On the low end of the valuation spectrum is Intel, which also has one of the more robust growth rates - making it a 'growth at a reasonable price' play, but we remain concerned it could be a value trap should PC demand continue its slide. Intel is also the big underperformer of our five tech stocks; over the past ten years Intel is relatively flat in terms of returns.
Although it appears to be a middle-of-the-road company, where it trades in the mid-range of its peers on a valuation, growth and dividend basis, we tend to make the bet with Warren Buffett that IBM has an industry-leading position and the wherewithal to boost its dividend in the near future. Cisco trades near the bottom of our tech stocks on a valuation basis, but for good reason given its less-than-stellar expected growth rate. If Cisco could make a strategic acquisition, particularly in the cloud computing sector, we believe the tech company could rapidly move up the list. Three of our five 'unsexy' tech stocks are on our list of top ten tech stocks loved by hedge funds.
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£4300 has been raised at The Great Orchestra of Christmas Charity (WOŚP) in Wrexham!!! This is a truly impressive result and we're so proud to be a part of this event. Yes, it's been hectic, crazy, noisy but that's great - because that's the nature of GOOC and this is what it's always like at GOOC in Poland! Well done to the Poland - Wales Cultural Society Cymrades for organising and delivering this event and to all of you for having big hearts and coming along to support, collect and help improving lives of the most vulnerable children and elderly...
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Gerards P.O.V
I woke her up at 7.00am because it was her birthday and we had to catch a ferry at 7:45.
"Sam! Get up now!"
"Whatever Gerard" she mumbled into her pillow.
"But we've got a ferry to catch!"
"Ugh. Fine. I'm up!"
She pushed me out of the way and ran into the bathroom. I chuckled and changed into skinnies and a avenged sevenfold t-shirt. she came out of the bathroom in purple skinnies and an iron maiden t-shirt. She smiled at me and grabbed her purse and phone.
"Let's go"she smiled.
"Happy birthday by the way" her smile. changed to a frown.
"Ugh. Don't remind me"
"September 11th is the worse day of the year" she rolled her eyes.
"If you say so"
"By the way can we please go to the world trade centre later?"
I smiled.
"Of course"
We walked out of the hotel and down to the port and hot on the boat.
Sams P.O.V
We had talked a lot over our time in New York. I'd began to remember the angel in the hall and how beautiful he was.
"So...teach me your Moms song" he said curiously.
"Um. Okay.
I never said I'd lie and wait forever. If I did we'd be together. I can't always just forget her. But she could try. At the end of the world. Oh the last thing I see you are never coming home, never coming home. Could I ? Should I? And all the things that you never ever told me and all the smiles that'll never , ever..."
I sang quietly.
"Is that it?" He asked.
"Um. Yeah."
"I think we should make up some more..."
"Um. Okay."
"Okay...never ever...get the feeling that you'll ever..."
"All alone and I remember now...Erm"
"At the top of my lungs , in my arms..."
"She dies, she dies"
"Okay...at the end of the world, oh the last thing I see you are never coming home, never coming home,Should I?Could I? And all the things that you never ever told me and all the smiles that are ever gonna haunt me."
"Never coming home, never coming home. Should I? Could I? And all the wounds that are ever gonna scare me for all the ghost that are never gonna catch me..."
"If I fall..."
Our lips got closer.
"If I fall down..."
Our lips grew closer, and closer until his eyes widened at something behind me.
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Grocery shopping with two small kids is no easy feat, so I have quickly had to learn how to get in and get out of the store without a meltdown (or two) and with enough healthy groceries to last our new family of four for a long while. There are a few tricks of the trade when it comes to bringing home healthy goods for fair prices and fast dinners, and I've got it down to a science. The "rules" are pretty simple: buy fresh, keep a well-stocked pantry for go-to suppers, and shop the perimeter. With these simple rules put in action, you can make grocery shopping even with two or more kids a breeze…well, most of the time, anyway!
1. Buy Fresh
There's no easier way to make a meal taste delicious than by using the freshest ingredients. I'm always checking expiration dates and buying the freshest meats, seafood, and produce around. Nothing beats a Saturday morning trip to the Farmers Market, but if time doesn't allow, the produce department in my local store is my go-to. I always try to stock up on greens and fruit – both can be used in smoothies to make nutrient-rich meals fast and easy, but that's a topic for another day. The rule here is it's good to have at least one green and *only* one starch (like potatoes, beans, or rice) on the supper table. Three or four greens can be stretched out over a week's time easy making trips to the grocer less frequent – a win win!
As for buying fresh meat, this is typically my one splurge. Just because it's on sale, has a coupon, or is "manager's special" does not necessarily mean it's going home with me. I steer towards wild-caught fish and healthier meats like Paula's endorsed Springer Mountain Farms for the health benefits they provide (ie. humane conditions, no use of antibiotics and pesticide free) and for their sustainability to our environment.
2. Keep a Well-Stocked Pantry
I've learned through express shopping (aka shopping with kids) that there are a few basic pantry staples that always need to stick around the house. Aromatic flavors like garlic, lemon, celery, and onion are always good to have on hand. Just cut up those basic flavors or other fresh herbs to give your meal that "oomph" that they need to add a burst of fresh flavor without spending a lot of money. Chicken broth, bouillon cubes, cream of ¬¬you-name-it soup, and canned tomatoes are also always good to have around too. With these items, soups, stews, gravies, and sauces can be made in no time flat. I also like to season well, so The Deen Brothers Funky Chicken Spice and Paula's House Seasoning (available by calling 866-95-PAULA) are staples around my house. They dress up any meal without reaching for any other spice in my cabinet. Time saver? I'll take it.
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All of the freshest ingredients are on the outer walls of the grocery store. On the end of every aisle, sale items try to lure us down each row looking for items we don't necessarily need. After becoming a "perimeter shopper," I've found that most of the food in the inner aisles is just junk anyways, filled with fillers, preservatives, and artificial ingredients that we think we want but certainly do not need. Avoiding these fillers by snacking wisely on nuts, fruits, and other healthier options keeps the bad stuff out of our carts and the good stuff in our bellies. Think of all the money you can save by avoiding the inner aisles except to stock up on pantry essentials!
I wish they taught this stuff in classrooms across the country – or at least the ones I was in throughout high school and college! I basically lived off of tuna salad during my college days because I refused to eat the ramen noodles in the pantries of my friends. So college kids, bachelors, and new moms take note! Grocery shopping to eat well doesn't necessarily have to be out of reach. You just have to know how to shop!
Mary, check the freezer section! Frozen veggies are much healthier than the canned alternative and are affordable too.
By Martha Lee on February 12, 2013
Enjoyed this site. I shop the perimeter of grocery stores as well. Grew up poor.........throw little away!
By Peggy on November 18, 2012
I cant grow veggies in my apartment bldg., and am disabled so money is very very very scarce. I wish I could afford fresh vegetables instead of canned. The canned ones have so much salt too, and if you don't get it with salt it tastes awful. Any recommendations for me on how to get fresh vegetables without braking the bank?
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Just curious... I loved Jamie's show - Home For Dinner -when can we expect new episodes??
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Paula, I love watching you and your family. I miss seeing your show, I watched you everyday. My son lives in Charleston S.C. He took me to the Lady & Sons to eat. Oh my goodness! People are always telling me that I look just like the cooking lady Paula Deen. I always tell them that you are my hero. May God Bless You
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I just bought Paula's Peach Salad Dressing and wondered if anyone has a good recipe that they use it in?
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Congrats Bobby. Loved the family picture miss you Paula on TV will be watching online. Jack is getting big. Looks like his mom but Matt aka moose has your face. Your eyes cheeks hair even falls to his face like yours except to the left. Good luck on your next venture. You give us other 60+ yr women strength to move on. Keep up the good work.
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"When i first watched the Princess and the Frog, noticed how Tiana, at some parts, looked like Mulan. The face, the way the lips and eyes looked at times (but obviously not all the time since Mulan is a different race). I swear I am the only one who notices these things, no one else seems to realize how simliar they look. it bothers me that no one else sees it."
"I think Disney contributed to the development of my eating disorder"
I find it rather sad anyone who feel that an entire fictional fantasy world of princesses and fairytales could contribute to such a serious thing. Someone needs to learn how to separate fantasy from reality. That's just not healthy to begin with. Get help anon.
No. I find it sad that every single princess is stick thin, when very few people are like. I find it sad that the whole culture that makes thin people more readily presentable in stark contrast to lived experience and bodily diversity. I find it sad that some asshole who's so wrapped around Disney's lower rectum that they feel the need to respond to a secret about eating disorders with "you need to separate fantasy with real life" when according to media, the fantasy body is the only thing worth presenting.
In other words, in honor of the OP, go fuck off.
Coincidently, I was just talking with a friend of mine who has admitted to having food/body issues for most of her life and she was telling me that Jasmine was her least favorite of the princesses growing up because she was too "voluptuous", she saw her as fat, and as a child she didn't want a "fat" princess because that wasn't "beautiful".
Trust me, OP, people internalize the images presented to them as children, and carry them into adulthood.
If you don't think there should be a fat, ugly, or gay princess you don't really understand what Disney is all about. It's about inspiring all people to love themselves and reach for their dreams, not about traditional values and good looks."
you clearly don't understand what Disney is about.
it's a children's entertainment company that teaches good morals.
that's it.
Y'all gay people, fat people, ugly people don't have good morals! We need to protect the children from them because only straight mostly white skinny princesses can teach good morals! The rest of you need to be hidden from society because you teach kids to be bad!
Right, so that racist ass depictions that Disney has had TOTALLY means that they push good morals. Peter Pan and it's racist ass monolithic depictions of Native Americans, The RACIST AS FUCK pickaninny Sunflower the Centaur from Fantasia, The Song of the South? All in good moralistic fun, huh???? Quit PLAYIN.
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"I truely believe that everyone deserves a chance at love. And that everyone should be taught to believe in gay rights, and things. But for all the people who want Disney to do a movie about a gay couple, it can't ever happen. As much as I want everyone to accept everyone, and six year old doesn't need to see that all the time. Sure, Disney can hint at it, but they can't make them the main couple, and that really is sad but it's true."
Um… what? No? "As much as I want everyone to accept everyone, and six year old doesn't need to see that all the time." I'm sorry, but I'm going to have to say I don't think you do want everyone to accept everyone because you are positioning gay relationships as "dangerous for children to see." As Disney and other movies show us, kids see hetero relationships "all the time" but you don't identify this as problematic.
Being "taught to believe in gay rights, and things" also includes being exposed to the idea that gay isn't some sort of communicative disease. This means allowing children to see gay relationships and not assuming it will make kids gay, and not assuming that kids wondering if they themselves are gay is something heinous and unconscionable and we should prevent it at the cost of excluding gay relationships from all media.
These things are not "sad but true," they're sad but changeable. Change society and you change what society is willing to accept as a storyline. Disney can hint at it or they can eventually make it a main storyline- it will one day be not only possible, but probable.
"Making a big deal about race only made people refer to Tiana as 'the black princess'"
Actually they noticed she was the only black princess by her being the only black princess. Kids notice these things without adults making a "big deal about it."
Wait… is she not the Black princess?


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Well I've got 5 months left to graduate from Art Institute of Dallas. I chose the concept or Previz tract here so I could hone my illustrative skills. But now I am addicted to school. I soaked in everything that was given to me and more. My next move is to get a job and continue with a Bachelors degree in Illustration. I will have to milk this one though because I'm sure the world out there is going to be many hours of work and not much time for school, I'm ok with that. So any suggestions on how to go about milking a degree while working. I am committed, I sacrificed a military retirement to persue my dream of being a professional artist.
What do I need to look for in an Illustration degree, or what schools are recommended for schooling at a snails pace?
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Mitch -
maybe it's just me... I can be slow sometimes...but I'm not sure what you're saying...are you intending to complete the degree at Dallas (bachelors?) and go on to get another bach. degree in illustration OR are you thinking about moving to another school to complete the bachelors' and change from what you're doing to "illustration"?
Are you looking to move to another part of the country? If that's what you're looking to do I'd recommend either West coast or East coast, but there's some great schools inbetween too. I can give you a list of 'skools' in California; or my 2 cents on what I would've done if I had it to do over...everybody's got an opinion...
It's tough to find a quality accredited school that allows a part time student - I was thinking about getting an MFA myself, so I've looked. non-accredited --- there are some interesting options.
Right now AID does not have a Bach degree program. I will have to choose a school that is in the area of where I will be working after I graduate here. Who knows where that will be. Anywhere in the world is a possibility, home is where I hang my hat. So with that; Is it possible to do a Bachelors while busting ass in the industry? The schools I WANT are all in Cali. L.A. , S.F.. soo. Is there someone on this forum in my simillar situation?
There was much rejoicing in the realm of the Harvest Gods when man created the beer, light could not penetrate.
well....i AM in your situation somewhat. i am about to graduate from the art institute here in Chicago. kind of a mistake going here but...you live and you learn, and i want to continue learning. i have actually taken Jason Manley's advice and am pursuing a mentor like relationship. there is a painter here who teaches at our school and runs his own school downtown. Bruno Surdo is his name, i had him in one class and he's into helping people that are committed. he's a traditional painter enthusiast galore. maybe you could search for a similar approach. sorry about not knowing any schools. but this is how i am going to approach it.
Im going to be doing the same thing as keyth, trying to sit down with one of my fav teachers once a week, and show him what im doing and discuss it. Im at the art institute of phoenix, the one thing good about the school i can say is that I've gained good presentation skills. Not enough art skills though, barely any acctually. Not sure how to approach the whole mentor thing though. Im almost done with school (10 more months) and i feel i need another year. Im getting my BA in Computer Animation, and while working in 3d so much and not getting enough time practicing drawing has dulled my drawing skills to say the least.
I got an internship at a Game Publishers in scottsdale, AZ, I'm learning alot about the industry from a publishers point of view. This is helping out alot and im getting some good resume stuff and class credit out of it which is nice. I'm starting to try and take my hope for a better education out of the school and into my own hands.
I think if you get a good job that you want and work with other good artist. That would be enough extra education in itself. Unless you want a BA for high paying jobs or what ever it does in the art field.
I didnt help you out at all... sorry.
Last edited by nick reynolds; August 31st, 2002 at 11:53 AM.
Nick -
Have you taken any classes or workshops at the Scottsdale Artists' School? Great stuff! World-class painters and teachers from all over come there to teach. They've got life drawing/open studio 2-3 times a week on evenings and weekends too, if I'm not mistaken, for pretty cheap. They also run "local" evening classes too. Relatively speaking, the classes are very reasonable in cost -- though for "starving college students" I'm sure it's still costly.
I try to come out every year or two for a workshop. I'd even recommend cutting classes for a week to take a top-class workshop with someone say... like Richard Schmid or David Leffel or Dan Goozee or Daniel Greene, etc.
If I lived anywhere close to Scottsdale, believe me, I'd be a regular. I'd guess some at the university might look down on this "school", but it will certainly offer you a lot of good training in traditional drawing and painting methods that seems only in the last few years to be coming back in fashion to more mainstream colleges and universities, (imho).
hey thanks alot, Ill definatley look into that. Its hard for me to sit in on life drawing classes at my school, because they are always full or they are conflicting with my schedule. Hopefully this will be a good option.
thanks agian
Hey Mitch,
I graduated from AI houston w/an Associates myself. I really want to obtain at least a bachelors degree. So we're kind of in the same boat. I've heard of people having problems, so you might need to check on the transferability of those pesky art institute credits. I couple schools I've contacted said they would take none of them and I'll basically have to start from scratch.:o UNLESS i stay within Art institutes international chain of schools. but that's not gonna work for me this time.. I want a real education in art.
So what to do?
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Last edited by Grooveholmes; September 9th, 2002 at 01:51 PM.
That sucks. You know I'm not so concerned about diplomas on paper, I mean it would be cool to get credit for everyting I've learned, but aside from maybe two classes, I wouldn't trade any of it. screw diplomas, it's what you learned while doing it that really counts. Right?
There was much rejoicing in the realm of the Harvest Gods when man created the beer, light could not penetrate.
oh yeah of course, its just tough paying for a year or two that won't transfer a second time. Pilling on the debt.
Paper doesn't concern me as much as learning really. I was just catching my stride when the two yrs I was in school ended.
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