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LAS VEGAS (March 6, 2005) Photo: Tom Casino / Showtime: WBC Lightweight Champion Jose Luis Castillo earned the right to face his WBO counterpart, Diego Corrales, by scoring an impressive 10th-round TKO over former IBF titleholder Julio The Kidd Diaz Saturday on SHOWTIME. The eagerly anticipated world title unification bout between Castillo and Corrales, while not signed, is expected to take place May 7 on SHOWTIME. In the SHOWTIME CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING co-feature, undefeated Jeff Lacy retained his IBF super middleweight crown with an exciting seventh-round TKO over Rubin Mr. Hollywood Williams. Saturdays world championship doubleheader, which aired during SHOWTIMEs nationwide Free Weekend Preview, was shown at 10:30 p.m. ET/PT (delayed on West Coast) from Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino. It was co-promoted by Top-Rank, Inc., and Gary Shaw Productions, LLC..
Castillo (52-6-1, 46 KOs), of Sonora, Mexico, dominated Diaz and dropped him twice in the 10th round. He floored Diaz with a left hook at about the 1:40 mark, and then again with a left-right combination less than a minute later. Shortly after the last knockdown, the bout was stopped at 2:23. Castillo, who never looked like a loser, was ahead by the scores of 88-83 on the three judges scorecards going into the final round. The victory was the sixth in a row for Castillo, who was making the second defense in his second stint as WBC 135-pound champion.
Diaz (30-3, 22 KOs), of Coachella, Calif., had a six-fight winning streak end. He gave his best, but could never get into the rhythm. The switch-hitting Diaz showed plenty of courage: at bouts conclusion, his eyes were badly swollen, but Castillo was too strong and experienced. Diaz was making his first start since voluntarily relinquishing his IBF belt for the opportunity to face Castillo.
Lacy (19-0, 15 KOs), of Tampa, Fla., was leading a fast-paced, terrific action fight by the scores of 59-54, 59-55 and 58-57 when it was stopped 47 seconds into the seventh round. Lacy, who was appearing on SHOWTIME for the 12th time, was making the second defense of the IBF 168-pound belt he won with an eighth-round TKO over Syd Vanderpool Oct. 2, 2004, on SHOWTIME. The first 2000 Olympian to win a world title, Lacy was busier and stronger than Williams and landed numerous solid shots in the slugfest, but could not register a knockdown.
Williams (26-21, 15 KOs), of Detroit, Mich., has a seven-fight winning streak snapped. A tough kid who had better ability than many expected, Williams had good success with the jab and occasional right hand, but Lacy had too much firepower.
SHOWTIME CHAMPIONSHIP BOXINGs Steve Albert and Al Bernstein called Saturdays action from ringside with Jim Gray serving as roving reporter. The executive producer of the SHOWTIME telecast was Jay Larkin, with David Dinkins, Jr. producing and Bob Dunphy directing.
The next SHOWTIME CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING fight card is Saturday, April 2. The two boxers widely recognized as the most talented in the exciting cruiserweight division will square off when undefeated World Boxing Council (WBC) champion Wayne Big Truck Braithwaite (21-0, 17 KOs) faces World Boxing Association (WBA) titleholder Jean-Marc Mormeck (30-2, 21 KOs) in an eagerly anticipated world title unification bout. The divisions most enthralling match-up in years will be shown on SHOWTIME at 11 p.m. ET/PT (delayed on the West Coast). Don King Productions will present the event at the DCU Center in Worchester, Mass.
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By Larry Fine
NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York Yankees reliever Joba Chamberlain was found to have a ligament tear in his pitching elbow and will likely miss the rest of the season, manager Joe Girardi told reporters Thursday.
The injury was revealed by a test done on the burly right-hander, who had been placed on the 15-day disabled list Wednesday with what was thought to be a strained muscle.
"The interesting thing about this is if you do every strength exercise on Joba, he passes it with flying colors," Girardi said.
"And he has no idea when it happened. He's pitched. He played long-toss yesterday and his power was there. He said it was a normal long-toss for him, so it really has us all kind of scratching our head."
Girardi said Chamberlain would be getting another medical opinion, but was likely headed for surgery that would end his season.
Chamberlain was 2-0 with a 2.83 earned run average in 27 appearances.
Losing Chamberlain would further hurt a depleted bullpen that was considered one of the team's strengths going into the season.
Also on the disabled list were set-up man Rafael Soriano and lefty specialists Pedro Feliciano and Damaso Marte.
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First, the bad news: That whole breast business from the previous post wasn't really the main theme of this series - it was just an analogy to illustrate the point I was trying to make. But apparently the breast speculation was much more enticing than the discussion about doping, so I've made a mental note that the topic of celebrity breast augmentation could be further explored in this space at some point down the road. After all, this is a full service blog.
However, if you've come back today looking for more boob refernces, I'll save you some time and tell you there aren't any in this post. But I do mention Dutch hookers and shrunken testicles. Intrigued? Then read on to Part 2...
Q: Can't we just ban all performance enhancing drugs?
A: This is the primary reason why I've never had strong feelings against the use of performance enhancing drugs: because it's impossible to draw a consistent line between what substances should be legal and what shouldn't be.
We have three major professional sports leagues in America (no, I don't count hockey anymore) along with the NCAA for collegiate athletics, and none of those four organizations have the same list of banned substances. If you're a 19-year-old playing single A baseball, you have a different list than a 19-year-old playing baseball for his college team.
If we're considering Olympic or international sports, who decides what is legal? The host country of the event? What if there is a track meet in Amsterdam – can athletes load up on ecstasy before the event and solicit a prostitute afterwards without any legal repercussions? (And in that case, what's more dangerous to the athlete's health – temporarily heightened sensation with sleep alteration, or an STD from the local brothel?)
For American sports, do we just ban drugs that are illegal? Then the government would have to keep up with rapidly changing, highly creative laboratories. That technology gap I mentioned yesterday would come into play again – except in this case, the guys with the slide rules and graph paper also have to deal with bureaucratic red tape and institutional inertia to implement any changes. The bad guys will always be light years ahead of the game. As soon as the Feds outlaw one group of drugs (like anabolic steroids), athletes can turn to something else that isn't regulated (like HGH).
Plus, some of the most potent drugs are perfectly legal. For instance, EPO is a common blood-boosting medication provided to many cancer patients. Modafinil is the main ingredient in prescription anti-narcolepsy medication. And it's certainly not against the law to own testosterone-boosting pills – in fact, there is a billion-dollar industry built around it, as testosterone is the primary ingredient in the rapidly developing field of "female vitality" (think Viagra for women) medications. Talk about enhancing performance.
So legality can't be our litmus test. Do we ban drugs that are harmful? That becomes a personal liberty issue, just like alcohol prohibition in the early 1900s. If someone wants to destroy his kidneys, shrivel his nuts, lose his hair, and have a back full of acne while experiencing constant rage and paranoia, that's his Constitutional right (if not exactly what the Founding Fathers had in mind). Major league baseball didn't care that Mickey Mantle drank himself to an untimely death, and effectively looked the other way during the cocaine epidemic in that was rampant in the sport in the late 1980s.
Besides, it's possible for any high school kid to walk into his neighborhood GNC store or surf the Internet and stock up on hundreds of products that are just as harmful as steroids over the long term. Think about Mark McGwire and androstenedione – Big Mac is pretty much considered a villain now, but that particular product was available over-the-counter at the time he used it. The farthest he had to travel for his juice was the local shopping center. If these drugs are so hazardous, how come they are easier for a teenager to buy than a pack of cigarettes or some sleazy skin magazine? Should players be punished for using a supplement they bought at the mall?
Finally, who determines what drugs are performance enhancing? Andro has since been put on the banned list – but what about creatine? Or Sudafed? Or the painkillers that many runners pop like candy? (Remember the commercial where a woman made it to the finish line of a 5K only because of all the Alleve she took? She even handed them out to other runners during the race. Could they make a similar commercial like that today with a bunch of women injecting testosterone into each other's backsides? I promise not to skip through that one on my TiVo.) How about caffeine pills or antacid tablets? All of those products provide a clear performance benefit, but are harmful if taken in high doses over a long period of time. How many of you ultra runners out there would like to have your Tylenol, NoDoz or Tums prohibited during your next 100-miler?
I once ran the Boston Marathon while suffering from a hellacious bout of the flu. If it wasn't for the megadoses of Sudafed and Advil I took before and during the race, there's no way I would have finished (or even started, for that matter). If the USOC had taken a urine sample afterwards, I would have failed, because most cold medications are on the banned substance list. While I obviously wasn't trying to win the race, I definitely benefited from the performance enhancing properties of those meds. (Um...nobody from the BAA reads this, right? Because there's no way I'm giving my medal back.)
To further complicate things, why are we merely focused on things that go into our bodies? What about all of the equipment changes that have revolutionized nearly every sport? Is it safe - for the server or the recipient - to swing a racket that sends a tennis ball 130 mph? If you are a blood doper riding a bike that is capable of going downhill at 80mph, are you more likely to suffer from kidney failure, or a career-ending spinal injury in a crash?
How about oxygen-deprivation tents that can boost someone's red blood cell count over a period of months, just as effectively as blood doping? Why is doping wrong but living in a $30,000 high-elevation tent acceptable? At that point, we're merely splitting hairs based on the method of blood cell production.
The point I'm making (over and over) is that banning various substances is a very slippery slope, without much consistency or logic driving it. You can't simply have a blanket zero-tolerance policy. Even assuming - which we can't - that these drugs could consistently be detected, there will never be agreement on where to draw the line.
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- I used Vintage Modern by Bonnie & Camille. The lining is from Cape Ann by Oliver + S. I bought the solid blue twice and forgot to note what it was both times. My zippers came from Purl Soho (Red, 30" non-separating, and Aqua 10" non-separating zipper).
- While I did not use the "quilt-as-you-go" method, I follow their tips. I pieced my panels, and then quilted them with a layer of batting between my exterior and a "backing" of canvas. I trimmed my batting 1/2" smaller on all sides. I just quilted as desired, though didn't over do it, and my panels are very sturdy.
- I made my piping using my zipper foot, which worked nicely. But after I finished I saw a tip about using fusible tape rather than stitching, so you don't have to worry about covering your stitches when assembling the bag. I wish I'd read that tip before, because I would do it, my piping has stitches showing out the wazoo.
- Straps: I cut three 6" wide x WOF strips. I cut 45 degree angle off one end of two of the strips, then folded my 3rd strip in half and cut a 45 degree angle off of the folded end. I then attached those two halves to the long strips like you would sew binding strips together. They end up about 10" longer than the pattern calls for, which is the perfect strap length I think. (I couldn't find any specifics about strap length, though I knew a lot of people lengthened theirs.)Then to make the straps, I pressed each long side 1" towards the middle. Then I folded in so that the final width of the strap was about 1.25" (I believe you fold one side in twice and one side in just one time.) I cut two lengths of canvas 1" wide x length of strap and tucked them inside the layers of folds, and then stitched the handle closed with a straight stitch about 1/8" from the edge, down both sides. I added a decorative stitch, to held stabilize the handle, using a scallop stitch on my machine.
- For my center panel I did not do the 6 layers of interfacing. I had one iron on interfacing at home already, and I applied one layer of that. I think I should have added a second, but I wasn't sure how the two compared. I think that mine feels stiff enough, but maybe a little more structure would have helped me avoid my puckering on the corners.
- I added a hidden pocket to my lining using this tutorial. I just adapted it to the size of my zipper (10") and wanting to be able to tuck important travel papers inside it if necessary.
- I machine stitched my lining to the interior of the bag around the zipper. I pinned carefully, then stitched along the same line already holding the zipper in place on the exterior. I stitched the rest of the lining in by hand, but I went skimpy, only doing the bottom sides.
- I also added a key fob to one of the small outside pockets, but apparently I don't have a photo of it. =)
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I would like to take a moment to thank Simon at CP LTD for all his hard work on a recent large desktop / laptop order.
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Phoned Simon at CP who ran round trying to source a replacement printer but only new printer compatible now with the cartridges is HP 2800 - Bugger!
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Jon votes. He mutters something about something, but I can't be bothered to figure out what the hell he said, frankly. I take his incoherence as a blessing. Lill votes. Christa votes, saying she sure as heck hopes everyone else is doing the same thing she's doing. Burton votes. Darrah votes. Sandra votes for Lill, repeating her bit from earlier about how nice a lady Lill is. Jeff is off to tally the votes.
Lill takes the votes of Christa and Sandra, and everyone else goes for...Christa. (Sars: "Bye, Misty of Chincoteague.") Christa brings over her torch. Snuff! Jeff calls this "a third surprising vote," and sends them home to think about what they've done, dammit. And they can just clean their rooms, while they're in there.
In her farewell speech, Christa claims to have made great friends. Oh, doesn't everyone? She crazy.
Next week: Burton doesn't think the chicks have a mutiny in them. Jon thinks he's got an intellectual advantage. Sandra wants to get rid of the "jackasses." Jon kicks the non-corpse of Non-Dead Old Granny Fairplay some more. It's a good thing he doesn't believe in whammies.


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Mia Deaden. Speedy II. Ultimate plush.
She's done! She's finally done! And I love her!
She almost killed me for the following reasons
- This was the first time I used a sewing machine. All my other plushes were hand-sewn. There is a lot of hand-sewing on her, but I self-taught myself the sewing machine while making her. That was fun. And terrifying.
- The hood. I've never sewn one and I made three before I finally got one I seemed to like and it's STILL too small, in my opinion.
- PONYTAIL. I am most proud of the ponytail (and bangs) I made for her. Seriously, you don't know how giddy I was when I figured out how to sew that. Proudest moment ever.
Her face gave me some trouble too and I thought about just putting the mask on there since she already had the hood but I kept the removable mask because I wanted to test how to do it. I did cut the quiver though. I didn't know how to put it on. O_O I still need to figure out if painting the face is easier. It might be. We'll see.
But what do you guys think? I'm so happy with her, she's not that hard of a design and Mia needs a lot of love. But I'm seriously proud of her. I think I'm almost to the point I can ask for commissions!


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From a 2011 BLDGBLOG interview with China Miéville:
. Novelists have an endless drive to aestheticize and to complicate. I know there's a very strong tradition—a tradition in which I write, myself—about the decoding of the city. Thomas de Quincey, Michael Moorcock, Alan Moore, Neil Gaiman, Iain Sinclair—that type-thing. The idea that, if you draw the right lines across the city, you'll find its Kabbalistic heart and so on.
The thing about that is that it's intoxicating—but it's also bullshit. It's bullshit and it's paranoia—and it's paranoia in a kind of literal sense, in that it's a totalizing project. As long as you're constantly aware of that, at an aesthetic level, then it's not necessarily a problem; you're part of a process of urban mythologization, just like James Joyce was, I suppose. But the sense that this notion of uncovering—of taking a scalpel to the city and uncovering the dark truth—is actually real, or that it actually solves anything, and is anything other than an aesthetic sleight of hand, can be quite misleading, and possibly even worse than that. To the extent that those texts do solve anything, they only solve mysteries that they created in the first place, which they scrawled over the map of a mucky contingent mess of history called the city. They scrawled a big question mark over it and then they solved it.
Arthur Machen does this as well. All the great weird fiction city writers do it. Machen explicitly talks about the strength of London, as opposed to Paris, in that London is more chaotic. Although he doesn't put it in these words, I think what partly draws him to London is this notion that, in the absence of a kind of unifying vision, like Haussmann's Boulevards, and in a city that's become much more syncretic and messy over time, you have more room to insert your own aestheticizing vision.
As I say, it's not in and of itself a sin, but to think of this as a real thing—that it's a lived political reality or a new historical understanding of the city—is, I think, a misprision.
BLDGBLOG: You can see this, as well, in the rise of psychogeography—or, at least, some popular version of it—as a tool of urban analysis in architecture today. This popularity often fails to recognize that, no matter how fun or poetic an experience it genuinely might be, randomly wandering around Boston with an iPhone, for instance, is not guaranteed to produce useful urban insights.
Miéville: Some really interesting stuff has been done with psychogeography—I'm not going to say it's without uses other than for making pretty maps. I mean, re-experiencing lived urban reality in ways other than how one is more conventionally supposed to do so can shine a new light on things—but that's an act of political assertion and will. If you like, it's a kind of deliberate—and, in certain contexts, radical—misunderstanding. Great, you know—good on you! You've productively misunderstood the city. But I think that the bombast of these particular—what are we in now? fourth or fifth generation?—psychogeographers is problematic.
Full Story: BLDGBLOG: Unsolving the City: An Interview with China Miéville
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Sci-fi writer Tim Maughan on graffiti:
My own interest in graffiti dates back to my first teenage introduction to hip-hop culture in the mid-1980s, when the first images of New York subway art started to make their way over the pond in magazines and, much rarer, snippets of TV alongside those first rare glimpses of block parties, scratch DJs, rappers, and breakdancers. Apart from their raw visceral energy, both hip hop music and graffiti struck me as intensely science-fictional. Both are about the appropriation of technology to create something new?—?hip-hop taking samplers and turntables to generate new sounds they weren't designed to make, and graf taking car repair paint and the very architecture of cities to create new visual spaces and canvases. They are, perhaps, the most literal expression of William Gibson's famous cyberpunk-defining phrase 'the street finds its own use for things'.
Gibson's early works, and those of his many lesser imitators, would herald the hacker as the rebellious hero of the future; a trope that would immeasurably shape everything from political activism to venture capitalism in the decades to follow. Perhaps the stereotypical image of the hacker as lone digital warrior, skulking over keyboards in screen-glare lit rooms seems very far removed from the image of the spray can welding, shadow dwelling, trespassing graffiti writer, but the two subcultures share a startlingly similar set of goals, values, and approaches: both look to subvert existing infrastructures and systems, both value one-upmanship and bragging rights, and neither can resist the illegal thrill of breaking-and-entering?—?whether physical or virtual?—?even when the risk of being caught may well lead to ruthless, draconian punishment. Both also share, perhaps most importantly, an aesthetic obsession with the future?—?something apparent in the work of artist Leonard McGurr, better known as FUTURA 2000.
Full Story: Futures Exchange: Graffiti: 40 Years of Hacking New York City
Maughan's short story on graf "Paint Work"
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"Think of a City is a new storytelling project, where a number of artists from around the world build a city, page by page." It's like an exquisite corpse — each artist draws a page then hands it off to the next. The project was created by Alison Sampson and Ian MacEwan.
Contributors will include: Brandon Graham, Sarah Horrocks, Morgan Jeske, Ales Kot, Jamie McKelvie and many more.
One could argue that the resurgence of our cities does not necessarily portend the fall of the suburbs. But while many cities have been benefiting from an influx of wealth, the suburbs have been suffering a rise in poverty. From 2000 to 2010, the number of poor in the suburbs or the nation's largest metro areas grew by 53 percent to a record 15.3 million. And while poverty has increased in cities as well, the growth rate in the number of poor living in the suburbs was more than twice that in cities during the decade—and the suburbs are now home to the largest and fastest-growing poor population in the country. This isn't just the Great Recession at work; as early as 2005, the suburban poor outnumbered their city counterparts by almost a million. "We think of poverty as a really urban phenomenon or an ultra-rural phenomenon. It's increasingly a suburban issue," says Elizabeth Kneebone, Brookings fellow and coauthor of a recent Brookings book on the topic, "Confronting Suburban Poverty in America."
But as with most things, decay isn't evenly distributed. More affluent suburbs are "revitalizing":
Some developers have actually turned their focus on these dead or dying malls. Ellen Dunham-Jones, architecture professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology, and June Williamson, associate professor of architecture at the City College of New York, have documented this phenomenon in their book, "Retrofitting Suburbia: Urban Design Solutions for Redesigning Suburbs," a comprehensive look at efforts to retool, reinhabit, or return to nature abandoned suburban forms. In some cases, this means turning gargantuan forgotten malls into hip, urbanized residential villages. One such experiment is under way in Lakewood, Colorado, an affluent suburb west of Denver. The former Villa Italia shopping mall, a 1.2-million-square-foot indoor mall built in 1966 that had fallen on hard times, has been turned into Belmar, 104-acre pedestrian-friendly community that has apartments, condos, town houses, office space, artists studios, and a shopping and entertainment promenade on twenty-two walkable, urbanized blocks. Now, instead of turning into the mall's giant parking lot, you end up cruising along a downtown main drag, Alaska Street, which is lined with old-fashioned streetlights, coffee shops, boutiques, and restaurants. There are more than a thousand housing units, which range from town houses to loft condominiums to small-lot single-family homes, as well as a row of ground-floor artist studio and business incubator spaces. A public art project called "Urban Anatomy" has installed small works of art and fragments of poetry on manhole covers, sidewalk joints, and grates throughout the development, highlighting overlooked details of the urban environment.
The whole setup is definitely still suburban—the new urbanized village includes a Zales, Yankee Candle, and Sur La Table—but these suburbanites can leave their loft apartments on foot, pick up an espresso, and go hear a poetry reading, all on a site where Foley's, Dillard's, Montgomery Ward, and JCPenney once sat. There are dozens of these projects at other malls around the country. "It's time to let the suburbs grow up," Dunham-Jones says.
Full Story: Salon: The suburbs are dead — and that's not a good thing
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See also: Abandoned Walmart is Now America's Largest Library
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From Web Urbanist:
There are thousands of abandoned big box stores sitting empty all over America, including hundreds of former Walmart stores. With each store taking up enough space for 2.5 football fields, Walmart's use of more than 698 million square feet of land in the U.S. is one of its biggest environmental impacts. But at least one of those buildings has been transformed into something arguably much more useful: the nation's largest library.
Meyer, Scherer & Rockcastle transformed an abandoned Walmart in McAllen, Texas, into a 124,500-square-foot public library, the largest single-floor public library in the United States.
Full Story: Web Urbanist: Abandoned Walmart is Now America's Largest Library
I think this might be the Walmart that my family shopped at when I was a kid.
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Simon Kuper on how even the upper middle class are being priced out of New York City, Paris, London, Tokyo and Hong Kong:
Corporate mergers and takeovers meant global headquarters got concentrated in fewer places. Crime declined, making cities less scary. And so great cities grew richer. Fancy architects put up lovely buildings. House prices rose.
First, the working classes and bohemians were priced out. Nowadays the only ribald proletarian banter you hear inside Paris is from the market sellers, who don't live there anymore.
That was gentrification. Now comes plutocratisation: the middle classes and small companies are falling victim to class-cleansing. Global cities are becoming patrician ghettos. In 2009, says Sassen, the top 1 per cent of New York City's earners got 44 per cent of the compensation paid to its workers. The "super-prime housing market" keeps rising even when the national economy collapses. After Manhattan, New York's upper-middle classes are being priced out of Brooklyn. Sassen diagnoses "gradual destruction".
Full Story: Financial Times: Priced out of Paris
San Francisco is well on its way in this regard as well.
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Anthony Galluzzo writes:
Even as the New York Times and its ilk now use hipster-bashing to delegitimize the new political awareness among the same un- and underemployed twenty- and thirty-somethings — previously taken to task for their avoidance of politics — the same bashers employ this all-purpose dummy to ventriloquize their own refined and slightly ridiculous consumption habits.
And while Rupert Murdoch's reactionary gazetteers at least acknowledge the ongoing, and (in the case of 13 Thames Street) partly political character of the evictions in which they delight, the enlightened New York Times will always opt for the "fucking hipster" show — the 21st century bourgeois liberal's preferred flavor of minstrelsy — over any 'hard times' depiction of downward mobility among artists, anarchists and other riffraff.
That, after all, could depress today's gentrifiers or tomorrow's property values.
Full Story: Jacobin: Mocking hipsters in the service of capital
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Above: generative cities and architecture by Aranda & Lasch
Futurist Chris Arkenberg outlines a possible scenario for urban planning and architecture:
As complex ecosystems, cities are confronting tremendous pressures to seek optimum efficiency with minimal impact in a resource-constrained world. While architecture, urban planning, and sustainability attempt to address the massive resource requirements and outflow of cities, there are signs that a deeper current of biology is working its way into the urban framework.
Innovations emerging across the disciplines of additive manufacturing, synthetic biology, swarm robotics, and architecture suggest a future scenario when buildings may be designed using libraries of biological templates and constructed with biosynthetic materials able to sense and adapt to their conditions. Construction itself may be handled by bacterial printers and swarms of mechanical assemblers.
Full Story: Fast Coexist: Cities Of The Future, Built By Drones, Bacteria, And 3-D Printers
This reminds me of the recent sci-fi short story "Crabapple by Lavie Tidhar:
Neighborhoods sprouted around Central Station like weeds. On the outskirts of the old neighborhood, along the Kibbutz Galuyot Road and Siren Road and Sderot Menachem Begin, the old abandoned highways of Tel Aviv, they grew, ringing the immense structure of the spaceport rising high into the sky. Houses sprouted like trees, blooming, adaptoplant weeds feeding on rain and sun, and digging roots into the sandy ground, breaking ancient asphalt. Adaptoplant neighborhoods, seasonal, unstable, sprouting walls and doors and windows, half-open sewers hanging in the air, exposed bamboo pipes, apartments growing over and into each other, growing without order or sense, creating pavements suspended in midair, houses at crazy angles, shacks and huts with half-formed doors, windows like eyes–
In autumn the neighborhoods shed, doors drying, windows shrinking slowly, pipes drooping. Houses fell like leaves to the ground below and the road cleaning machines murmured happily, eating up the shrunken leaves of former residencies. Above ground the tenants of those seasonal buoyant suburbs stepped cautiously, testing the ground with each step taken, to see if it would hold, migrating nervously across the skyline to other, fresher spurts of growth, new adaptoplant blooming delicately, windows opening like fruit–
For more of Arkenberg check out our interview with him. Want to learn to think like he does? Here's his guest post listing his favorite books on systems thinking.
And for more big, mad ideas about architecture and cities check out:
Conway's Game of Life generates a city
Matthew Power on the urbex subculture:
Despite his scholarly bona fides—his doctoral work in geography at Royal Holloway, University of London had garnered wide acclaim—Garrett scarcely looks the part of an academic, neither tweedy nor fusty. Thirty-two years old, with a trimmed goatee and a mop of straight brown hair hanging over black plastic frames, he grew up in Southern California and ran a skate shop before deciding to pursue a doctorate. His face, which is frequently lit up in mischievous, eyebrow-raised delight, still bears the pocks of over a dozen piercings he dispensed with in the interests of maintaining some veneer of academic respectability.
But it was his doctoral research itself that was perhaps most punk rock. His dissertation in human geography, which he had defended the previous year, was entitled "Place Hacking." The title came from his argument that physical space is coded just like the operating system of a computer network, and it could be hacked—explored, infiltrated, re-coded—in precisely the same ways. He conducted a deep ethnographic study of a small crew of self-described "urban explorers" who over several years had infiltrated an astonishing array of off-limits sites above and below London and across Europe: abandoned Tube stations, uncompleted skyscrapers, World War II bomb shelters, derelict submarines, and half-built Olympic stadiums. They had commandeered (and accidentally derailed) an underground train of the now defunct Mail Rail, which once delivered the Royal Mail along a 23-mile circuit beneath London. They had pried open the blast doors of the Burlington bunker, a disused 35-acre subterranean Cold War-era complex that was to house the British government in the event of nuclear Armageddon. The London crew's objective, as much as any of them could agree on one, was to rediscover, reappropriate, and reimagine the urban landscape in what is perhaps the most highly surveilled and tightly controlled city on earth.
Full Story: GQ: Excuse Us While We Kiss The Sky
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From the press release:
A 15-unit apartment building has been constructed in the German city of Hamburg that has 129 algae filled louvered tanks hanging over the exterior of the south-east and south-west sides of the building—making it the first in the world to be powered exclusively by algae. Designed by Arup, SSC Strategic Science Consultants and Splitterwerk Architects, and named the Bio Intelligent Quotient (BIQ) House, the building demonstrates the ability to use algae as a way to heat and cool large buildings.
Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2013-04-algae-powered-hamburg.html#jCp
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Honestly, School of Hard Knocks is not evil due to difficulty. It is evil because, to paraphrase one of the wow insider columnists (forget who, it's been almost a year), it basically destroys the battlegrounds for the week. PvP achievements for holidays throw the PvP game out of whack because the holiday meta is the only way to get a 310% mount outside of being a gladiator or hard mode raider. So all it accomplishes it flooding the PvP game with people who have no interest in playing that aspect of the game.
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Seared Pork Chops in Tomato-Mushroom Sauce
Low-sodium soy sauce is the secret ingredient in the tomato-mushroom sauce. Serve these chops with sautéed fresh spinach and a piece of crusty bread to soak up the juices.
Yield: 4 servings (serving size: 1 pork chop and 2/3 cup sauce)
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- Calories: 279
- Calories from fat: 31%
- Fat: 9.6g
- Saturated fat: 2.9g
- Protein: 29.8g
- Carbohydrate: 15.3g
- Fiber: 2g
- Cholesterol: 69mg
- Iron: 2.1mg
- Sodium: 749mg
- Calcium: 37mg
- 4 (6-ounce) bone-in center-cut pork chops (about 3/4 inch thick), trimmed
- 1/4 teaspoon black pepper
- 1/4 cup all-purpose flour
- 2 teaspoons olive oil
- 1 (14.5-ounce) can organic diced tomatoes with basil and garlic (such as Muir Glen), undrained
- 1 (8-ounce) package presliced mushrooms
- 1 medium onion, thinly sliced and separated into rings
- 2 teaspoons minced garlic
- 1/4 teaspoon dried rosemary
- 3 tablespoons low-sodium soy sauce
- 1. Sprinkle pork chops evenly with pepper; dredge in flour.
- 2. Heat oil in a large nonstick skillet over medium-high heat. Add pork chops; cook 3 minutes on each side. Reduce heat to medium; cook an additional 4 minutes on each side. Remove pork chops from pan, and keep warm.
- 3. Add tomatoes and next 5 ingredients to pan. Bring to a boil; reduce heat, and simmer, uncovered, 10 minutes. Add pork chops to pan; cook an additional 5 minutes or until thoroughly heated.
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A pair of injured Met shortstops continued their rehab up in Triple-A Buffalo last night. Both Ruben Tejada and Ronny Cedeno took another step towards getting activated off the disabled list, as Tejada manned short and Cedeno took second base for the duration of the Bisons' 5-3 loss to Norfolk last night. Terry Collins said earlier in the week that he would like to see Cedeno find his swing with Buffalo before rejoining the Mets, but that doesn't seem to be the case anymore.
Collins said that both their first and second string shortstops could make it back in time to face the Yankees at some point this weekend, with Cedeno getting the call first, as he is anticipating getting activated tonight before the Queens edition of the Subway
Series gets underway. Unfortunately, Ronny hasn't hit very well during his stay in the minors, going 5-for-29 in his rehab assignment, most recently going 0-for-4 with three strikeouts against last night. The Mets are hoping that he will be able to find his stroke at the Major League level, especially since New York is facing Andy Pettitte tonight and need every available right-handed hitter to be in the lineup.
On the other hand, Ruben Tejada is the closest he's been to returning to the Mets since he landed on the DL May 7th with a quad strain, as he played his second game with the Bisons last night. He once again played the whole game at shortstop, showing no ill effects from his injury while going 1-for-4 with a double and RBI. The organization wants Tejada to continue his rehab assignment just a little longer to ensure he has his legs underneath him, but it looks as if his return to the Mets lineup is imminent.
Talk about music to Mets' fans ears! When Jose Reyes left for the Miami Marlins over the winter, even though we had plenty of emotions running through our bodies, the one thought I had was we probably wouldn't have nearly as many injuries at that position as we've had in the past. Talk about jinxing it; we've not only had to endure Tejada being out for approximately six weeks, but his back-up and the back-up to the back-up going on the DL as well. It has been said many times here, but the performance of Omar Quintanilla can't be overlooked. He did make a couple of crucial errors along the way, but he has been the far superior choice over using Jordany Valdepsin, and provided enough offense to show us that the shortstop position was not going to be a black hole until the regulars returned from injury.
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The travails of India continue. I am constantly bombarded with so much noise, pollution, and all-out paradox that define India, that it's best not to leave my apartment unless absolutely necessary.
Why do I come here, again?
I am here for yoga and, specifically, the study of yoga asana. Even more specifically, I'm here to practice a particular sequence of asanas called "Ashtanga Vinyasa" made popular in the West by a man named Sri K. Pattabhi Jois who passed away earlier this year (in '09) at the ripe age of 93. Over the last 70 years or so, this man (whom I called Guruji or "dear teacher") taught a sequence with very little variation from the way it was taught to him by his guru: a man named Krishnamacharya. It is safe to say that this method, more than the guru, is the real teacher. In his broken English, Guruji was famous for saying, "practice, practice – all is coming" and "yoga is 99% practice, 1% theory." This is because in this method, the aspirant only learns by practicing. There is no short cut; the benefits cannot be learned; they must be experienced.
The primary series, known as yoga chikitsa, is a sequence of about 100 asanas designed to cleanse the body. It is a purification from various toxins that accumulate in the muscles and organs as a natural result of daily bodily functions: eating, breathing, processing hormones of the endocrine system, etc. It is focused heavily on forward bends and some spinal twists. After 5 years of daily practice (give or take a few months to recover from the occasional injury), I have developed enough proficiency in the primary series, to be allowed to complete the sequence here in the shala. Now, as of my second month here, I'm finally allowed to progress into the Intermediate series, known as nadi shodana, which focuses on cleansing the nervous system. I've only been given the first pose but, it doesn't really matter. It all stops mattering. Ultimately (and daily, really), I don't really care if I get another pose here or if I just practice what I know on my own for the rest of my life. I don't care what the person next to me is doing. Competing with anyone else is pointless. It is about me, directly experiencing this, alone, on my mat. Comparing myself to how or what I did yesterday leads nowhere. The only thing that really matters is what I am doing right now. Right now, both on and off my mat, is the only thing that means anything. Everything else is just mental noise. So I take a deep breath, focus all my attention on the present moment, find balance in it, rinse and repeat. This is not always possible. I am, for example, essentially living in a construction zone in Brindivan extension (a suburb of Mysore); the neighbors are performing a gut renovation or their house for 11 hours every day: sawing marble, sawing steel, hammering everything within an inch of its existence… every day, since I got here.
Every. Single. Day.
You cannot imagine.
It wreaks havoc on my nerves and it's all I can do to prevent myself from severely reprimanding the next Indian I see hitting their dog or throwing their plastic on the ground. I am reminded of something one of my teacher's (John Berlinsky) told me, "the easiest part of my yoga practice is on my mat." …but, I digress
The name, Ashtanga, is actually two words in Sanskrit: astho, meaning "eight," and anga meaning "part," "stage," or "limb." Vinyasa is also two words: vi, meaning "in a special way," and nyasa meaning "to place." It refers to how one of the eight steps, asana (postures), should be practiced. Lastly, the word yoga is Sanskrit for "union" or "joining," as in controlling the connection between the physical with the spiritual, between nature and consciousness. Thus, the Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga system is an eight-step path to enlightenment; the unification of the body/breath, mind, and spirit. This isn't to say that everyone who practices this method will attain enlightenment and to my knowledge, Guruji never spoke about enlightenment to his students – certainly not to many foreigners. But it is interesting to note here that yoga is both the path and the result of this practice. To participate in this method requires that the practitioner follow specific codes of conduct such as moral restraints and spiritual observances and, in fact, it necessitates a certain lifestyle: one that is based on routine, repetition, dedication, and devotion. This technique dictates that I am to make the same sequence of asanas every day, one after another, without variation and, if possible, daily, without interruption, for as long as I can. Each movement is associated with either an inhalation or exhalation. There need not be extra breaths between movements and one is never to hold one's breath. The must be constant flow. Inhaling and exhaling, moving the body this way and that. Squeezing the internal organs and stretching the muscles. Bending forward and backward. Up and down. Massaging, kneading, activating, relaxing, concentrating. There is a lot of sweat and, in order to control the body, and keep the mind from wandering, there is the breath and the drishti, specific points on which to focus one's gaze. The result is concentration that is focused like a laser, void of distraction (from external stimuli such as other people, noises, smells, and internal stimuli such as thoughts, memories, emotions). You could call this level of mind control a "psychic ability," if the term weren't so loaded with images of crystal balls. But, no, really, that's what it is. And with this psychic ability, it becomes possible for a person to cut through all distraction, both external and internal, remaining focused on a single point of consciousness, known as ekagrata. Thus, after exercising considerable discipline to study myself, control my mind, and humble myself before all of Nature (i.e. surrendering myself to what is), the ancient texts state that I will become stabilized in unshakable serenity, regardless of the circumstances. Sounds nice, right?
But, it's certainly not for everyone and those of us who practice this method are often accused of being cult-like devotees which, I'm sure is what it looks like, especially given the way I've seen some of my fellow practitioners behave.
For me, however, this practice has provided all sorts of perspective-shifting, mind-blowing, life-enhancing experiences that have been altogether earth-shattering. Most of them have been so personal, so weird and unexplainable, that they are hard to articulate. I really can't talk about some of the things that I've experienced on my mat, nor can I explain some of the changes that have taken place off my mat. It's beyond reasonable dialogue. Sometimes, it's a feeling. Other times, it's a realization. Every time, it's deeply subjective. It happens to me. In me. This is not to over-sell or mystify the practice. This is simply to say that, for me, for my temperament and disposition, for my needs and strengths, this style of yoga was exactly what I was looking for. This method aims to calm the endless chatter in my mind, redirecting my attention towards my inner experience rather than my extroverted personality. Because, there are so many other paths that are not for me. Perhaps you didn't know there were many different yogas? I'm not just talking about the recent incarnations in your local yoga studio: Anusara (ShriDaiva?), Jivamukti, Bikram, Forest, and Baptiste Power Vinyasa Flow. Or whatever. Nor am I talking about the more traditional form of Hatha. Perhaps you didn't know that there are yogas for action (karma), devotion (bakhti), chanting (mantra), and knowledge (jnana). What we call yoga, in the West, is really just one specific physical component that looks more like Hindu gymnastics than a philosophy of life… And this is what is most frustrating to me and my Ashtanga ilk. Since we take our yoga practice so seriously, since we hold this noble science in such high regard, and since we know that the physical practice is only preparation for higher stages of meditation, it's sometimes painful to see how this deeply personal pursuit has been marketed, packaged, and sold to the masses. It's irritating to see 20-something ex-bartenders become "yoga teachers" after attending some 200-hour certification. I mean, come on! It takes 1,500 hours to be a hair dresser! It would be funny if it weren't so sad.
But, it doesn't matter, those who want to open the door to personal development will find their way. Those of us who want to go deeper will just have to look a little harder to find the Truth we are seeking. For me, for now, it's this. Yoga is a means to liberate my mind from 30+ years of social/parental/intra-personal conditioning, a way to drop all the bullshit I think I know, about everything I think I know, and actually find out who/what I really am. It is so much more than a work out. It propounds a philosophy of existence. It proposes a theory of Mind. It presents a map of consciousness, the intellectual environment, the material universe, and it identifies a path to transcend all of it. It is all this but, at the same time, it is not a religion. And though the new-age set promotes it as such, it is not fluffy spiritualism aimed at opening your heart chakra. Unless, I guess, it is. But, whatever. It isn't that, for me. For me, it doesn't need any magical thinking or imagination to be more wonderful than it already is. I am like a scientist on my yoga mat: I experiment, observe, and repeat. In this sense, yoga means to make a laboratory of my body and mind in order to study the nature of consciousness in an attempt to understand the life-force that animates all living things. The thing behind the thing, if you get my drift.
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February 25, 2014 By: Tomek Kondrat
A boot animation is the first thing a user sees after turning on a phone or tablet. This introductory part of the ROM is very important, and directly influences our experience of said ROM. For this, Android uses PNG files and a desc.txt bundled into one zip. The text file contains resolution and frame rate information so that the boot animation displays at the correct size and with the desired speed.
Making a public preview of boot animation wasn't as easy as it sounds. Recording from a device with a video camera definitely doesn't look professional, and the video quality leaves much to be desired. If you ever planned to make a video of your boot animation, you should definitely give a try to a Windows-only tool written by XDA Forum Member makers_mark. A batch script pulls down the boot animation from the device using ADB. Then, it converts the bootanimation into an MP4 file that is ready to be uploaded to YouTube or similar video delivery services. The script uses such tools like 7zip to unpack the archive and FFmpeg to convert those files into a video. The process is carefully described in the thread, with an explanation of the particular elements that go into boot animations.
The tool works only on Windows machines, and it can be downloaded from the original thread.
May 29, 2013 By: Samantha
If you've already taken a look at the boot animation utility featuring 400 different animations for your Android device, but haven't seen anything that catches your eye, you may want to create your very own boot animation. If this is the case, you may want to check out XDA Senior Member ayushrox's guide on how to do so.
A guide written for Windows Users, it lays down the foundations by explaining just exactly what a boot animation is, what it consists of, and what each component's purpose is. A process that is actually quite simple, ayushrox breaks it down into 10 'bite-size' chunks, or steps, for the newcomer who may not know all the pedantic details that is required. Accompanying screenshots and examples of code are also conveniently provided for the steps that may require some visual aid. Ayushrox highly recommends the use of image editing software such as Adobe Photoshop, and having either 7Zip or Winrar installed when creating boot animations, as they are necessary for the required steps.
Again, it is quite a simple process that, with a bit of practice, will become second nature just like any of the other tasks involved in theming your Android device. So if you would like to create the perfect boot animation for yourself, or have a custom animation for your ROM or kernel, be sure to check out the guide at its original post.
May 24, 2013 By: Samantha
The default boot animations on any device, no matter which manufacturer, are generally pretty bland and boring, which is probably why many of us dedicate an unreasonable amount of our time in our quest for the 'perfect' boot animation to greet us every time we turn on our device. Well, there is good news, as XDA Forum Member Vincent8111 has compiled nearly 400 boot animations into one program for our pleasure and convenience.
The BootAnimation Changer runs on Windows PCs and delivers an extensive collection of boot animations spanning a multitude of different themes. Animations can be sorted either by name or file size, and range from the opening sequence of The Simpsons, to anime, to colorful abstract patterns, and of course, our beloved Android mascot. If you would like to see the entire boot animation, you can conveniently do so with the preview button and window.
One notable feature of the BootAnimation Changer is that although each animation comes by default in its own native resolution, they can be resized to the dimensions of your device. Now, one would think that this would limit the amount of choice for users with unconventional resolution devices. However thankfully, Vincnte8111 included a homothetic option. This keeps the proportions of the animation while resizing, rather than stretching the animation to fill a larger area which will result in warping and loss of quality. However, devices with higher resolution will still be restricted in terms of choice, as there is no way of actually enlarging images while keeping the same quality and details. When resizing boot animations, you can also set the the quality of the JPEG image files of the animation on a '0 to 10′ scale if you would like to adjust the animation file size.
The other nifty useful function of the BootAnimation Changer is the ability to export the boot animation as a zip file, which you subsequently flash onto your device through a custom recovery. And for users who own devices with no external storage capabilities, the flexibility to flash the animation onto the device through Android Debug Bridge (ADB).
A bit of a warning though, especially for those with limited broadband usage, the program comes in at a pretty hefty 1.6 gigabytes thanks to the 400 or so boot animations that comes with it. The BootAnimation Changer comes in French, and English, and is free from the original XDA post. If you would like to know more, visit the program thread for more information and download.


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Earlier in the interview Maher made another Nazi reference when asked if Republican strategist and Fox News contributor Karl Rove is the last person to "admit if something new is happening."
"It was a little Hitler's bunker, wasn't it? I really wanted to rush in with a cyanide capsule there," Maher said. Referring to the 2004 German film "Downfall," Maher continued, "I thought he was gonna say 'I do not want to live in a world without National Socialism' — OK Mrs. Goebbels."
"Downfall" has been the subject of many parodies, known as "Hitler Reacts," that feature a scene in the bunker where Hitler is told that he was going to lose the war.
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Finally Christians and Muslims have something to agree on: They don't want public school teachers teaching their children on matters that go against the teachings of their respective religions -- topics ranging from homosexuality and birth control to evolution and global warming.
In Ontario, Canada, newly passed Bill 13 promotes diversity and acceptance in an attempt to curb bullying. Punishing bullies used to be sufficient, but apparently not anymore. Now our kids need to be taught about sex -- both homosexual and heterosexual -- to avoid hurting anyone's feelings.
Here's a concept: Why not teach kids to respect all people, regardless of their skin color, gender, religion, or parental status? Why all of a sudden do kids need to be taught about sexuality, environmentalism, and religion (but not Christianity! Never Christianity) in order to play nice?
Back to Ontario and this Bill 13. Many parents have complained about the new policy, and have asked that they be notified when the controversial subjects will be taught in class, so that they may exempt their children from those sessions.
One parent, Steve Tourloukis, says:
I'm not an extremist, but I must ensure that my children abstain from certain activities that may include lessons which promote views contrary to our faith.
Tourloukis is suing the Hamilton school board for their refusal to communicate with him before his elementary aged son and daughter were taught in the classroom about "family, marriage, and human sexuality." He is supported by the Parental Rights in Education Defense Fund.
Parents absolutely should have a right to notification and an option to withdraw their children from controversial teaching. Teachers' rights to teach do not supersede parents' rights to parent, and their wishes should be respected. After all, we're the ones that are raising them -- from diapers to graduation caps; it's parents that do the heavy lifting. When they turn 18 and go out into the world, they can complain to their therapists that mom and dad wouldn't let them stay in class to hear how fish are more important than people, or how lesbians do it.
The state does not know how to raise our children better than we do, and the implication that they do is insulting. Kids don't have to be taught about homosexuality in order to be nice to the kid with two mommies or two daddies. Kids rarely care about that stuff anyway. Let parents decide how much they want to tell their kids about alternative lifestyle choices.
While they're at it, they should teach their kids to be kind to everyone, no matter what their families look like.
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Well if you're the one raising your child then you should be damn well educating them about things that go against your beliefs so your little brats don't bully those that are different than them.
I understand where you're coming from Jenny, but as marabie points out, there are inherent contradictions to your argument. How can you teach your child to respect those who are different if you refuse to teach them how they are different? You can't get one without the other. If you're that opposed to your child learning what life is like outside your religious box, then send them to a private religiously affiliated school. That's what they're there for. In the mean time, public schools shoud continue to serve those who want to know what the real world is like and have no interest in being sheltered from reality.
Also, I have a huge problem with this sentence, "Now our kids need to be taught about sex -- both homosexual and heterosexual -- to avoid hurting anyone's feelings." By not acknowledging that there may be some students who are different, isn't that hurting THEIR feelings by shaming them and making them think their differences are unacceptable by not talking about them? Kids need to know that IT'S OKAY to be different. In order to know that, discussion needs to be faciliated. Why should kids whose mommies are sheltering them get "their feelings" protected (who knows if it's even their feelings, it's most likely the parents'!) while the kids who are different get THEIR feelings hurt? It makes no sense.
Wow, so global warming is environmentalism! Sorry lady, it's called science, you know the stuff that brings you the medicines that you take to treat your boo-boos. Again, birth control and human sexuality, are facts of life. To be taught about something does not mean that your child is being told to behave one way or another, he or she is being EDUCATED! Evolution= science! Global warming=science. They can't teach all worldviews, creation stories, myths and legends, so isn't it great that schools teach facts! Homosexuality is a fact. Sexuality is a fact. Birth control and how it functions in combination with our health (for treatments) and for family planning= fact.
What I don't get is that if people's worldviews and religions are so prohibitive about what can be taught to their children, then perhaps it's because there aren't good enough arguments for that religion or worldview. Otherwise, these people would not feel threatened by their children being taught facts and science at school. Schools obligations are to educate, as a parent, your job is to interpret and discuss with your child. Your job is to influence them everyday.
I grew up in the Hamilton area and was educated in the public school system in Ontario. I can tell you that the education I received was excellent and without religious influence. When I took sex education, there was never a question of opting out, because it's necessary medical and scientific information, regardless of a parent's religious values. I will reiterate was Marabie said: how can we teach our children to be loving and accepting of people who are different if we will not educate them about our differences? Knowledge is power and it leaves little room for ignorance. The public school system has a responsibility to provide education free from religious or political influence of any kind. That includes the responsibility to teach about such "controversial topics" as homosexuality, world religions, climate change and others. Just because you don't like it, doesn't mean it isn't fact.
I would just want to know what my children would be taught before the lesson took place. I think when you have children you should expect that sooner or later your children will be exposed to something that you will need to talk to them about. My parents are divorced, so I grew up with four very different views of the world and I think it taught me to think for myself. All of the topics you listed are bound to come up sooner or later and if you don't want society to be the first impression on your child then you should talk to them first. I think we also need to understand that as we try to fight this bullying problem and teach our children to be more excepting we will make mistakes along the way.
The comments you get, Jenny...amazing. Very tolerant of differing views, aren't they. It's inspirational.


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Jim Carrey Tweets Support For Tiger Woods, Claims Elin Nordegren Had To Know Of Infidelity
Tiger Woods has an unlikely supporter in Hollywood — funnyman Jim Carrey.
On Friday, Jim hit his Twitter page where he defended the golfer, who returned to the course this week professionally to compete in The Masters, Tiger's first tournament since his infidelity scandal broke in November of last year.
"Tiger Woods owes nothing 2 anyone but himself," Jim Tweeted. "2 please his father he gave up his childhood and his freedom in the world. That's enough!"
Earlier this week, Nike unveiled a new ad featuring a solemn faced Tiger, who faces the camera as the voice of his late father, Earl Woods, asks, "What did you learn?"
It has since been revealed Earl Woods' words were taken out of context from a 2004 quote about Tiger's mom Kultida.
Jim, who announced on Monday some news of his own – that he and Jenny McCarthy had ended their five-year romance – also shared his opinion about Tiger's wife, Elin Nordegren.
"No wife is blind enough to miss that much infidelity," he wrote. "Elin had 2 b a willing participant on the ride 4 whatever reason. kids/lifestyle."
On Wednesday, Jim made several other pro-Tiger posts.
"If you really wanna see sexual disfunction get 2 know your favorite basketball star! Curling is the only safe sport 4 a married man!" he wrote.
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I spent part of my childhood in Albuquerque, NM and as a young adult moved to Santa Fe. I have since moved back and forth between central and northern New Mexico, but now find permanence, roots and home with my husband Michael in Santa Fe. I am mother to two daughters who are half blood Navajo (Dine'). These two young women bring me joy beyond measure, pride that swells my heart, hope for our collective future and a deep desire to love out loud.
I find the language of art a fundamental form of communication. My art is my dictionary, my thesaurus, my way of claiming words and giving them form.
The creative process is a natural extension of my thoughts. Words become images - become ideas - become form - become expression. Linked. Complete. This process is a way for me to speak beyond words, straight – quite literally – to the heart of the matter. Past gender, race, religion and language to the voice within us all.
Creating is my spiritual journey. This journey has taken me down many paths but I find sculpture the truest expression of my spirit and the best way to speak my truth.
My Grandfather first nurtured my love of form and of building when I was a very small girl. We would spend hours down in his basement and he literally gave me the free reign over all manner of tools and equipment. My Mama nurtured my love of drawing, painting and mothering. I never went anywhere without my art materials and my doll. My Dad gave me the gift of learning and taught me permanence. I knew from a very early age that my dream was to be a mom and an artist. That dream was always nurtured for me. I once though that was simple and easy, I know now it was quite extraordinary.
I studied Studio Art and Art History in Sweden and Scandinavia while on an exchange program in college. It was at this time that I was exposed to Vigeland's Park in Oslo, Norway. I was suddenly face to face with figure and form that spoke to me in a language that I recognized immediately.
Through that language, I was given the great honor of being First Assistant to Sculptor, Gyuri Hollosy on Aspirations of Liberty, a 19.5' bronze memorial of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution on permanent display in the financial district near the waterfront in Boston, MA. This solidified my desire to create works in bronze and I have done so ever since.
I came home to New Mexico and to Shidoni Foundry to learn the craft of my art. I now manage the foundry and facilitate other artists to learn the craft of their art as well. A dream come true on all accounts - mom and artist.
I was meant to speak through my hands and from my heart.
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Check it, drool over it, follow it here.
Third one down.
Less than a year ago, I was still working at a food ingredients plant wearing steel-toed boots, ear-plugs, safety-glasses, hair and beard nets, and a hard hat, while driving a fork-lift on alternating weeks of day and then night shifts. I was applying and interviewing for advertising or in-house design jobs in the Southern Maine, Coastal New Hampshire, and Greater Boston areas… basically anything relevant to my BFA in Visual Communications/Graphic Design. My long-term sights were set on eventually finding my way into the world of letterpress but - like I said - that was long-term and I hadn't the slightest idea how to get my foot in the door. I was drooling over the work coming out of shops like The Mandate Press, Studio on Fire, Mama's Sauce, Cranky Pressman… you get the picture. I had an arguably unhealthy dose of admiration and respect for these shops (and still do) but never imagined I would find myself in the midst of that world and certainly not so soon. Fast forward less than a year: I'm printing full-time at The Mandate Press and Studio on Fire just started following theGraveyard. It looks like my foot is in the door. Now, where do I go from here?
- First, I thank Mandate - again - for the investment made in my training/education.
- Second, I thank Studio on Fire for the follow and for the rekindling of the fire under me arse to legitimize this blog; to mold it into something a little less self-serving and a little more you-serving.
- Third, I remind myself to stay focused in my efforts to become more adept in the pressroom.
- Fourth/Last, but absolutely not least, I thank those of you that have been behind me before I even knew this adventure was beginning. Thanks for your support and please chime in with your feedback. The road ahead is not a short one but it's looking pretty exciting these days.
Maybe you remember different times that I've mentioned The Mandate Press in the past. Whether it was Shyama Golden's beautifully illustrated and hot-pink-edged business cards or my recent discovery that the Salt Lake City letterpress shop was offering a summer internship. Either way, you should probably be ready to hear more about them.
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As more and more of the layers of inner aspects of Tai Chi Chuan and other internal arts are peeled away, we can appreciate how much more there is to these arts than just accumulating movements or styles.Several articles in this issue refer to these important inner aspects.
Internal work is more than just getting the form correct or being successful at push hands. It is really not moving ch'i "from here to there" or becoming a ch'i "athlete."Internal work involves the continuing stretching of awareness and attitudes so that we let go of self-centered or wrong ideas.
For example, relaxing and getting form "correct" serves not just an aesthetic purpose but has everything to do with how much we can put ourselves into what we are doing while at the same time getting rid of excess baggage.It has everything to do with focusing and working with the mind. It has everything to do with modifying instincts that tell us we have to push our partner and not let him push us.
In truth, internal work is hard work because in its essence it depends on dealing with frustration and the pain of failure and obstructions.In times of great productivity in work or personal satisfaction, our inner light often dims. When the going gets rough, then we try to turn up that light to see what is going on.
Inner work has its own contradictions; one of them is that it requires "outer work," too.One of the biggest problems is to maintain a good dynamic balance between the two. Fortunately, T'ai Chi serves that purpose ideally.


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Katie Kishi tossed a one-hitter with six strikeouts to lead the Elliot Eagles to an 11-0 rout of the Golden Sierra Grizzlies on Friday.
Erica Musgrave was 3-for-4 at the plate and Jamie Lewis was 3-for-3. Kaylee Buhrkuhl was 2-for-4 with three RBIs and Kishi and Emily Jo Copeland had two hits apiece. Tori Villagomez, Emily Costa and Breanna Sanford each had a hit.
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