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A Theological Analysis of Boredom
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Cathleen Kaveny is the Darald and Juliet Libby Professor in the Theology Department and Law School at Boston College.
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.Lovely, Cathleen. Thank you!And now that you mention it, I must say that I can imagine few studies more boring than theology. My eyes would glaze over like a franchise doughnut..
What a great topic! I think of Neil Postman's Amusing Ourselves to Death and wonder about the ways we set up boredom in relation to other mental states.
Fun piece; he's such a charmer of an essayist. I'd love to see a theological meditation on boredom jump off from notion of boredom being experienced in the area of the brain that is the "crossroads of time and desire." That nails it, I think.
@WmFG, Yes! I was also thinking of Postman. The relation of technology to the lived experience called "boredom" is key.
One thing that needs unpacking is boredom as a response to others, the attribution of "boring" we project on others. One thing I devoutly desire and pray for is a deeper interest in other people.
@WmFG/Yawn/ Sorry, man, were you saying something?:)
Would I rather be boring or frumpy? Hmm.
Kierkegaard's Either/Or. Loved it many years ago as undergrad and the moral stuck with me (thank God).Certainly appropros given the Weiner fiasco. Here are the spark notes from the book, Kierkegaard's pseudonym is "A".http://www.sparknotes.com/philosophy/kierkegaard/section1.html
Don Juan is the ultimate selfish aesthete. Repetition dulls the pleasure of an act, so Don Juan never repeats the act of love more than once with the same woman. Although he never sleeps with the same woman twice, by so doing he continually repeats the act of sleeping with a new woman. He can never enjoy the woman he is with because he is in such a hurry to get to the next one. A is devoted to pleasure as well and sees repetition as an enemy of pleasure. However, A believes that obtaining true aesthetic pleasure requires a more measured approach than blindly following ones passions, as Don Juan does.The extreme difficulty of achieving true aesthetic pleasure leads A to claim that boredom is the most common, and unpleasant, human state. In fact, A goes so far as to claim that it is the root of all evil and makes a number of proposals for how it ought to be dealt with.
"Rare is the contemporary parent or grandparent who has not heard these kids, when presented with a project for relief of their boredomgo outside, read a bookreply, with a heavy accent on each syllable, 'Bor-ing.'"In my own experience, after the children say "Bor-ing", the parental "trick" that often works best is to leave them alone. Inevitably (well okay, not inevitably....but usually!) within 10 minutes they've found something to interest them---a friend to visit, an old game pulled out of the closet, a book to read, an abandoned-for-months crafts project restarted. I don't know about a theology of boredom, but I'd posit a connection between boredom and creativity. And maybe from there a connection between boredom and certain aspects of "waiting on the Lord"?
I am generally a fan of Epstein's essays, but this one was a bit boring. I liked it when he raised the value of boredom in modern life, and the idea/affliction of acedia in early monastic life, which Kathleen Norris has written about so well. I am envious of boredom, having found the deepest spiritual and creative satisfactions in stretches that would be described as boring. But boredom, like acedia, can bleed into depression, and that becomes perilous and confuses the two states. I think most of what people think of as boring is simply doing what we don't want to do, as in tedium. Whether that is different from boredom, or whether boredom has so many meanings and situations as to make it almost meaningless, I don't know.
I too found this essay boring. He never penetrated the heart of the question istm, and instead simply went over more and more and more related phenomena without coming to a point or an insight worth persevering for.I've heard boredom defined (it was Nathan Mitchell, I think) as what results when you are "compelled to attend to things that are insignificant" and that was my experience of reading the article. I probably would have abandoned it sooner, but because Cathleen recommended it, I assumed that it would come to a point!
Hmmm, I suppose our experience of boredom could be explained by one of two differing theologies about movement in the early Patristic period:Origen, on the one hand, assumed that primordial humanity became stagnant as a result of the fall, and that a second creative act of God brought us into greater motion... in other words, salvific creation had a trajectory of increasing motion. Theologians like Maximus the Confessor, however, assumed that we started out chaotic and divided, and that God's will is to bring us into eternal rest in Him... a trajectory of decreasing motion. (I'm not sure which is a better picture of how world is becoming better aligned with God, but I'm inclined to follow Maximus's notion of distracted chaos settling into simple rest, since it provides a fairly positive theological explanation for the anthropological fact that humans age and can't move as fast or do as much stuff as perhaps they once used to.)If we experience boredom, perhaps it is because we are still in the process of entering into that mode which God wants for us. Maybe our eschatalogical trajectory is indeed away from movement/chaos/division towards rest/simplicity/unity with God... but that doesn't mean we immediately recognize or embrace that restful unity as a good thing! For example, there's a part of humanity that's very much addicted to distraction... in our fallenness, we'd actually rather run around like chickens with our head cut off, creating drama and agitating against one another on blogs or on battlefields or whatever, because.. at least its interesting and keeps us busy! We have a hard time imagining the the fulfillment of absolute rest/simplicity/unity (with each other and with the divine) as a truly good thing. Not knowing what that is, we fear it and try to fight it. Swimming upstream and going nowhere, we experience 'boredom' as a frustrating, unsettled, and futile desire for distraction and preoccupation.
I'm with Rita. Joseph Epstein is a textbook counterintellectual: a man with a fancy education, a pleasant prose style, lots of spleen, and almost nothing to say. He may be right about novels: they may be worthy of interest even if they don't have much of a plot. But a conceptual essay without an argument isn't worth reading, whether or not it's boring.
I always thought the afterlife in the movie "Beetlejuice" was a hilarious riff on boredom. Likewise, Kurt Vonnegut's take on the afterlife in "Slapstick." The dead mill around a vast waiting room getting an occasional chance to talk to the living--like phone privileges in a prison, I guess. The dead refer to the place as "the Turkey Farm."Theologically, I've always wondered whether heaven and hell are the same place, the difference being that those in heaven will be content to contemplate the face of the Almighty for eternity, whereas those in hell will enjoy it for about ten minutes and then start looking around in vain for a deck of cards or a DVD.
"Theologians like Maximus the Confessor, however, assumed that we started out chaotic and divided, and that Gods will is to bring us into eternal rest in Him a trajectory of decreasing motion."Stephanie --Ugh! Even a Heaven that is always the same sounds like Hell. Brownies without end. I've always thought of Heaven as a continuously increasing discovery of God ("ever ancient, ever new"), and of His creatures too, all the way into eternity. Otherwise it would be boredom all the way up.What's the existential difference between being bored and being boring? Can one be existentially boring? Sounds like a self-contradiction. It's not topics that are boring, it's people who are bored.Somehow this article on "planking" seems relevant. Totally boring, but folks do it.http://jobs.aol.com/articles/2011/06/10/pink-slips-for-planking-on-the-j...
Ann, I submit that people who are boring never seem to be bored.
"Even a Heaven that is always the same sounds like Hell. Brownies without end."Depends on what they put IN the brownies, no? I have to go do some planking now. (Yes, very strange ...)Can you tell I've finished grading freshman research papers? Talk about heaven!
Re: planking: *Woolworths* is the largest employer in Australia? Is that the same retail outfit that my mother used to refer to as "the dime store" when I as a lad?
I agree that the symptoms of boredom to sound more than a little like depression. Maybe boredom doesn't cause depression - maybe it is the other way around.
I heard my daughter say the other day: "My mother always said that only boring people go around complaining about being bored all the time, and she was right." I guess making sweeping statements, runs in the family.But I will stick with that one, insofar as it describes a person's habitual mindset. Samuel Johnson once said that someone who was tired of London must be tired of life. And I do think a lack of interest in life is nothing to boast of.The occasional tedious misery of being trapped in isolation in which there is little opportunity for diversion from one's plight is another matter. The worst case scenarios are things like hospital rooms in the middle of a sleepless night. Prayer is no doubt an intermittent option, but I am not the sort of spiritual athlete for all-night stints. Maybe one can train oneself up to such situations , with a well-filled memory and a will of steel, but most of us are probably not up to it though we may deeply admire those who can. Just think of Tony Judt, trapped in his situation. What a gallant and admirable use of his resources he was able to make. No complaints about boredom there.As to the connection with theology, my first introduction to mind -blowing boredom in church was an ill-thought out scheme under which the elementary school children at my parish school were required to attend AFTER SCHOOL every Monday, for dreary year after year, an interminable "Miraculous Medal Novena" that included the same rigamarole introductions and prayers every week, and involved a soppy sermon given too often by a young priest who constantly worked up to a natural conclusion, and then got a further inspiration and trailed off on some other tack. We easily exhausted the meager attractions of the little booklets we got... even the stories of miraculous cures in the back palled. It was like waiting for a train that would never come....
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Im with Rita. Joseph Epstein is a textbook counterintellectual: a man with a fancy education, a pleasant prose style, lots of spleen, and almost nothing to say.
Had to look up that word. Apparently, it's a really nasty insult in the culture wars. What might Epstein call you? Just curious. It's fun watching the shells fly back and forth over the battlefield.
Whenever I am bored, I remind myself that eventually a day will come when I have only a few hours or minutes left to live, and then I'll wish for all the time I wasted sitting around being bored.
Most of us understand boring when we are foreced to do something. Sit with a mother or spouse's friend, a required class, talking to someone who will not stop for a second so you can excuse yourself, an unprepared sermon and so on. Other than that our boredom is due to our attitude The less generous a person is the more bored and boring they are. George Sanders seems like a good example. He was very boring and full of himself.
David,I suspect Jospeh Epstein wouldn't bother calling me anything. He doesn't bother with small game; he specializes in dropping a big name and then giving it a good kick in the ribs. The term "counterintellectual" may figure in the culture wars, but it isn't exactly Epstein's conservatism that I had in mind. It's his intellectual complacency and lofty disdain for those who are less complacent -- and, in partcular, for anyone guilty of perpetrating a theory. Epstein doesn't go in for theories. Theories are for people who take themselves too seriously. Epstein prefers anecdotes, allusions, and drive-by insults.
A triad of observations:The most perceptive thinker on boredom of recent vintage was Walker Percy whose fictions (redolent of Kierkegaard) examine the problem of "everydayness." I was almost tempted to do a theological analysis of boredom the other day as I sat through the business meeting of the Catholic Theological Society of America.Joseph Epstein, whom I have read over the years, is clever and clever people are boring in large doses.
Didn't Walker Percy's father kill himself, and didn't he suspect that his mother also did? I'm quite sure there's such a thing as pathological boredom, and I don't doubt it's the same thing as clinical depression.


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"Do we have a brilliant, street-tough janitor who can take a look at this?"
The criminal screamed in Khan's face and demanded he empty the store's register, swearing to God that he'd kill him dead, like, so hard. Khan, showing only slight annoyance at the possibility of having his brains aerated, carefully explained: "You're swearing to God, and you have a gun in your hand. It doesn't make any sense to me. If you believe in God, you shouldn't be holding a gun at my face, so you better leave."
The criminal, who we should stress, had a fucking gun, wasn't fazed by this, because A) Khan was a 49-year-old Indian man who probably weighed 100 pounds soaking wet, and B) He had a fucking gun.
Possibly a blunderbuss.
Upon coming to the conclusion that the robber wasn't going to leave, even despite his bitchin' speech, Khan strolled to the counter and grabbed a handful of chili powder -- which you'll note is absolutely not money -- threw it in the criminal's face and then punched him with a chili-laced fist for good measure. Now if you've ever touched your eyes or, heavens forbid, your wang after handling chili powder, you can just imagine this criminal's immense pain, which was hopefully only compounded by the punch to the face and the resulting shame he felt as he ran bawling while Khan chased him out of the store.
The best part, though, was Khan's reaction, as he claimed that he wasn't a hero, just a guy trying to do his business.
His business being whipping up a curry of pure kickass.
#4. Army Staff Sergeant Stops Bank Robbery Like It Ain't No Thing
Robbing a bank is never as glamorous as it looks in the movies, but, hey, at least in real life you don't have to worry about some muscle-bound action movie hero busting in and slapping your shit to the ground. That is, unless your name is Matthew Rogers and you decide to rob a bank that Eddie Peoples, Army staff sergeant and Iraq war veteran, happens to be visiting.
"Having kids means I can do my weight training anywhere, anytime."
Rogers walked into a Bank of America in Sarasota, Florida, and pulled out a gun -- otherwise known as "strike one" -- and proceeded to wave it around and point it at random people in the bank. Peoples and his two sons initially laughed at Rogers, thinking that the robbery was a joke. But to confirm his seriousness, Rogers then pointed the gun at Peoples and his children -- "strike two." Upon detecting the threat to his kids, Peoples went straight into Papa Bear mode, constructing a barricade around them from some nearby chairs. And then he switched over from fatherly instinct to Army instinct.
Peoples' sons, shown here unable to escape his gravitational pull.
Rogers had the bank tellers fill a grocery bag with money, and on his way out he warned that "the big black guy" shouldn't try to stop him. And if he did, "The kid will get it," Rogers added, gesturing with the gun toward Peoples' sons -- "strike three." Peoples "could not let that pass," or in other words, Rogers' teeth became an endangered species at that precise moment.
His threat delivered, Rogers fled the building and ran to his car. Peoples followed. Before Rogers could speed away, Peoples jumped into his van and blocked him in. Realizing that he was stuck between a rock and a hard place, Rogers decided that the only appropriate course of action was to try and jack the rock's van, an idea that ranks right up there on the stupidity scale with using a toaster as a masturbatory aid. The second Rogers put the gun to Peoples' head, Peoples twisted it right out of his hand (or possibly just twisted the hand right off of the arm, we're not sure) and introduced him to sweet Lady Cement.
As demonstrated here on George Stephanopoulos, who presumably changed his underpants immediately afterward.
Peoples stepped over the puddle formerly known as Matthew Rogers and back into the bank, where his oldest son asked, "Did you get the bad man?"
Peoples' response? "Yep, I got the bad man." To which the bank erupted into applause.
Oh, and in case we haven't driven Rogers' insurmountable level of dumbassness home yet: His gun -- the one he used to rob a bank and then condemn himself to a lifetime of suffering from Twisted Arm Syndrome by sticking it in the face of a massive Army man -- turned out to be a realistic toy.


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Unanswered: Direct link to pictos icons
I'm trying to link directly to a pictos icon from one of my views but not sure what the url is. Here's my code:
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'<tpl for="seat_order">',
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Basically I need to find out what to put in the src attribute for <img src=""
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I'm not sure. What it does do is put a black bar where the image should be (See Screenshot). You'll notice I have other images that just have a question mark place holder. That's because the src url's on those are definitely wrong.
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I've seen the black bar thing before. When I added a iconCls to a button. I didn't apply the @include pictos-iconmask(myicon) so the image wasn't showing up.
So I've included that mixin again for this image but still nothing.
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Here's a screenshot when I prepend "../" onto the url so src="../lib/touch/resources...
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Ok got it working. I had forgot to compile my sass
But for future reference you must include the following in your scss file
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Different tires for different conditions.
For bare/wet roads I've been real happy with my Continental Grand Prix 4-Season with Vectran tires.
With snow, it depends on the clearance through your brakes... On a typical road bike with standard brakes, you may not have enough room to add tires with traction. If you have a cyclocross bike or bike with V styled or even disc brakes, you can put on something with a bit of traction for snow and packed snow conditions. I like the Challenge Grifo 700x32c Black/Brown Clincher. On my mountain bike, I love to ride in the snow and use Kenda Nevegal tires.
I tend to not ride in icy conditions, but you can create your own 'studded' tires with zip ties. About every 2 inches cinch up a zip tie around your tire and rim.
Snow and ice are two entirely different conditions.
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Writing a good story is hard. Making a good video game is hard. Trying to make a good video game that also tells a good story is damned near impossible.
Not that they don't try. Video game makers are working hard to achieve their dream of a playable movie, or at least a game that looks like a movie in a two-minute trailer. But when you're playing the games, that "I'm in the movie! Whee!" illusion disappears as soon as you hear things like...
#5. "Hey, Nico! Instead of hijacking that armored truck, let's go bowling!"
In Grand Theft Auto 4, your average GTA player's thought process generally flows something like this in-game:
1. Steal a car
2. Find old lady
3. Run over old lady
4. Sex with hooker
5. Run over hooker
6. Grab Hot Pocket from microwave
7. Kill some cops
8. Visit car wash to get old lady and hooker bits out of stolen car's grille.
...and so on. If you were to follow that thought process from start to finish, not once would you see the words "I want to watch my fat cousin eat." But guess what you had to do, frequently, over the course of the game?
"Ooh! I know!"
And it wasn't just your cousin, oh no. Thanks to the relationship minigames they decided to include, practically every hard-bitten gangbanger you came across turned out to have abandonment issues, copious amounts of free time and a love of pool and darts that bordered on fetishistic.
I'd rather be playing darts.
The girls in the game are even more high-maintenance; bailing out on the relationship if you don't take them out often enough, or ramp your car into the river just once during a date. Though they can't hold a candle to the women you're supposed to "marry" in Fable 2. People have made detailed How-To Guides on how to stop a woman from divorcing you in that game (hint: get ready to spend lots of time gathering gifts and being romantic with her).
Seems Like a Good Idea Because...
It's just like the lovable characters in a good novel or, even better, real-life friends! What better way to add depth and drama to a game?
Doesn't Work Because...
We do favors for friends in real life because we enjoy their company. They're never going to code a video game character who'll give us anything like the feeling we get from human companionship, and it's probably unfair to expect them to. Instead it becomes a bunch of tedious minigames played with a robot who only knows 10 pre-recorded phrases, done purely out of an artificial sense of obligation.
It's Sort of Like...
Spending time with your in-laws during the holidays.
#4. "I can get you what you need. But first, you must do something for me."
You're the Hero of Goodness on a quest to save the world from the evil machinations of Dark Lord Fuckblade. You're walking through town on your way to his Pointy Castle of Badness when WHAM, you walk straight into a locked door being guarded by some schmuck who with only two lines of dialog:
Pictured: The Mighty Dark Lord Fuckblade.
Not pictured: Machinations
"Sure, I'll let you through to the Pointy Castle of Badness," he says, buffing his nails on his lapel, "just after you go to the forest of Everthorn and gather me the testicles of six night slugs."
Fuck that guy, and all guys like him.
Bioware is a frequent offender of this kind of game-length-padding bullshit; in Mass Effect you play as Commander Shepard, a Spectre Agent. Spectres are basically space-flavored double-oh spy-types, empowered to exercise ass-kicking protocols and initiate the taking of names.
That is a complex expression on his face right there.
In one mission, Shepard and his/her crew touch down on an icy planet to investigate some shady goings-on. At one point you need to get into a garage, so you go find someone who can give you a pass to get in. But to get the pass and progress into the game you're forced to first participate in some corporate espionage that your average gamer couldn't give a fuck about even if you hooked them up to a fuck-giving machine.
This gimmick is at its worst when you near what you think is the end of the game. You're ready and excited to finally face the evil nemesis and- "Wait! First you have to go over the entire map again and find the five broken pieces of the ultimate weapon!"
This almost killed the Bioshock experience, where after the big showdown with Andrew Ryan is foreshadowed in the game's big twist, you're then forced to go on a series of "fetch quests" to get the stuff you need to take him on--a process that takes about as long as the entire game up to that point.
Seems Like a Good Idea Because...
More game is better, right? If the player is having fun, if you give him more stuff to do he'll have even more fun!
Doesn't Work Because...
Do you know why we didn't watch John McClane hunting for tape in Nakatomi Plaza for 15 minutes? Because it's not important to the plot that they spent the first 80 percent of the movie building.
Storytelling is a delicate thing, it takes pacing and well-defined objectives. When, in the name of making the game longer, you force the player to go circling back around a bunch of hallways it brings the narrative to a screeching halt. It also frustrates players by making them run around searching for macguffins like demented magpies.
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Stopping a rollercoaster every 30 seconds to make everyone get out and grease up the tracks.
#3. "Got the files? Good work, now come on home. You can go out the way you came in."
You have just tirelessly battled through hordes of foes, finally fighting your way into the heart of the enemy base/lair/dungeon to finally find and grab the macguffin. Your character grabs the secret files/treasure/magical orb and you set the controller down, ready to see a congratulatory cutscene.
Nothing happens.
You're just standing there. Suddenly the horror dawns on you that the game is going to make you turn around and fight your way back out of the building.
You are boned.
This happens in one of the last levels of Halo 3 (Cortana). You have to infiltrate a flood-infested covenant ship. It's filled with waves of enemies and it's incredibly disorienting, due to the fact that the fleshy walls make it seem like you are lost in an endless tunnel of meat.
After what seems like hours, the Chief finally rescues Cortana, and the player can finally breath a sigh of relief. The ordeal is over- wait, no it's not. Cortana tells the Chief that it is time to clear out, yes, back the way you came. To add insult to injury, even more enemies are coming out at you now, further extending your nightmarish romp in the bouncy castle of flesh.
Have you had enough of the meat carnival? No? Good, because you're doing it all over again.
Though that is not as evil as The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass and the fucking Temple of the fucking Ocean fucking King. To access each new level of the game you have to go back through the same temple over and over again, solving the same puzzles, avoiding the same enemies. Over and over and over and over and over and...
Seems Like a Good Idea Because...
"We spent a lot of time designing this damned level! We'll be damned if you're going to just go blowing right through it!"
Doesn't Work Because...
Here's the thing. A movie ticket is the same price whether you're going to see Inglourious Basterds (153 minutes) or Zombieland (88 minutes) and moviegoers are OK with that. They really don't judge the movie by how much movie they got.
Maybe more Wikus.
Games are different. Gamers partly judge value by how long the game is, and that makes storytelling really freaking difficult. As we said before, stories have to move at a certain pace, and can only have so many plot points and twists before they start to seem pointless (see the middle seasons of Lost). So how in the hell do you extend it and make the gamer feel like they got their money's worth?
Honestly, pretty much anything but this.
It's Sort of Like...
Shooting a movie that's only 50 minutes long, but stretching it out by having every other scene be a flashback... of the previous scene.


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Nash, 26, has recorded six goals and 13 assists in 53 games this season split between the Rampage and Hamilton Bulldogs. The 6-foot-3, 206-pound defenseman is also tied for the team lead with a plus-10 rating. San Antonio acquired Nash via trade on Jan. 3 and the defenseman has tallied five goals and six assists in 27 games for the Silver and Black. Of Nash's 11 points with the Rampage, five have come on the power play (three goals, two assists).
The Rampage travel to Houston for a two-game series tonight (Thursday) and Saturday in the team's final two road games of the year. Puck drop for both contests against the Aeros is 7:05 p.m. The Silver and Black will return home on Sunday for a 3:30 p.m. tilt against the Texas Stars in the final Express-News Sunday Funday of the year.
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Brooke sophomore Jessica Wayne won the 200 free (2:23.83) and 500 free (6:27.98) and teamed with Sara Riggs, Michelle Woodstuff and Hannah Cebula to take the 400 free relay in 4:25.37.
Riggs also captured the 200 IM (2:39.02) and 100 back (1:09.96).
Cebula touched the wall first in the 100 free (1:03.45) and teammate Emiley Czesztilcki in the 100 fly (1:19.26).
The Bruins' Jordan Harlan won the 50 free (25.10) and 100 free (54.97) in the boys meet.
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Turns out the so-called "Corpus Wafers" are part of artist John Baldessari's Cremation Project, in which the artist cremated all of his works executed between May 1953 and March 1966. He announced what he'd done in a local newspaper, photographed the event and baked cookies laced with the ashes.
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The title pretty much says it all: how can I type Unicode characters - specifically the em-dash —?
Control-capital-u means Unicode, and the four-digit hexadecimal number for em dash (or any other Unicode character) can be found via the Character Map in Ubuntu (
The first option allows you to separately type the correct digits for your character, which appears upon hitting Enter or Space. You can also edit the numbers you typed using backspace before pressing Enter.
I could not find a way to type it using AltGr and default settings, but I found another way:
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I believe this is the best way to have some special chars, but I don't know if it works with all keyboards.
Im my Brazilian ABNT2 keyboard I can get it with the Compose key more tree hyphens. The compose key is mapped to my right Ctrl key, so:
To get the en dash, use Ctrl + --. (hyphen, hyphen, dot)
A bonus one, for the … type:
You can configure your Compose key in: settings → keyboard → shortcuts → typing
The following keyboard layouts contain the em dash:
Personally, I use Colemak, in which the em dash is AltGr+Shift+-.
I prefer remapping one of my lesser-used keys to an em-dash so that I don't have to type a crazy combination of keys in order to get it.
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Note: this method has been referenced previously but it has changed in 14.04 and the link to the compose key character reference is now broken.
The settings dialog to set the compose key has moved in 14.04.
Now all you have to do to is press and release the
To get xmodmap to run on startup in Ubuntu 12.10, Go to Dash Home. Type in Startup. Click on Startup Applications. Click Add. In the "add startup program" window, give it a name. In the command box, enter: xmodmap -e "keycode 94 = emdash ellipsis"
Then, click on Add. You'll see the program name you just gave this under startup applications. Close the windows. The command will run the next time you start the computer. (I just spent a week and many hours reading these posts here and finally figured it out on my own.) This might not be the best way to do this, but it works.


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I used to travel 500 Km to my native village with a fully loaded vehicle along with 5 person in my WagonR. I also used to cruise with speed in between 80 to 100 Km/hr but the vehicle braking decrease very much in respect to only travelling with 5 person with little baggage.
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Might need better tires, may need bigger brakes. Make sure you're using appropriate tires for the load and conditions. Consider trying better brake pads or possibly upgrading to a big brake kit. Perhaps better brake cooling (such as cool air ducts) would help.
First you're going to have to identify the weakest component in the list so that you can upgrade it.
Tires are going to be the biggest change you can implement. The widest, stickiest tires you can get for your conditions.
Typically, any car can lock its tires up under normal conditions (average load, speeds). If it can do this, the braking system is more than adequate, and the tires are the first thing you should change. Now, when you start upgrading tires, the braking system typically starts to fall behind. Then you can worry about upgrading other braking components.
If you have a heavy load, I'm betting your getting pretty good grip out of your tires, so getting better discs, calipers, etc. would be the next step. Unfortunately, this is an upgrade that's more aimed at racing enthusiasts, so finding parts suitable for street use might be difficult.
There are a few things that you can do to gain better braking ability.
If this is a vehicle that you just bought it is possible that the brakes just aren't as good as your previous vehicle. From the information I could get online, this vehicle is equipped with drum type rear brakes. The problem may be that they are not adjusted correctly. Although the front discs do the majority of the braking ,the rear brakes must be adjusted correctly to achieve maximum braking. To an extent the rears brakes are self adjusting. There are a variety of self adjuster types from different manufacturers. Some require that you drive in reverse and apply quick pumps to the brake pedal, other require setting the park brake several times. The best self adjusters are marginal at best. The best way is to periodically have them adjusted as part of routine service. If after verifying that the brakes are working correctly you are still dissatisfied with their performance you may want to look at upgrades. The original pads were installed as a compromise of cost, noise, durability and stopping power. To stop faster you will most likely give up one or more of these characteristics. They may not last as long, they may wear rotors faster or make more noise. They certainly will cost more. Vented and drilled rotors will give better brake performance but at an increase in cost. An alternative would be to use engine braking.


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Sleep deprivation is a major problems for parents of a newborn child. Are there methods which could help young parents cope with sleep deprivation or reduce it? Have you tried any of them? What is your personal experience?
Sleep deprivation comes with being a parent of a baby, however you will cope. It isn't fun but you will get through it. Although you cannot avoid it here are some general recommendations:
To reduce sleep deprivation, sleep when the baby sleeps and do not prioritize tidying or cleaning over sleeping. Work out what things you can do in the company of an awake baby and do those things then so that you can sleep. Many babies love to be in a sling while you shop, vacuum, or read something, or to be in a baby seat or swing while you cook or tidy. They are less happy to be in a sling while you type on a keyboard or talk on the phone, though.
To manage to function well on less sleep than you really need or most certainly less uninterrupted sleep, make sure your room is perfect for sleeping - if you need to, change your mattress, change the kind of blankets or pillows you have, get blackout curtains, a white-noise thingy if there is noise from outside, and so on. Don't use alcohol or caffeine for a while. If you have trouble falling asleep in the little time you have and then you stress anxiously "I can't get asleep and now it's going to be even worse!" then learn relaxation exercises or meditation.
Try to set your life up so you can be safe and functional even if you're a little groggy. This might mean taking the bus or walking instead of driving, or outsourcing the bookkeeping for your family business. To prepare for things like losing your keys, locking yourself out of the car or house, etc, make plenty of copies of keys and hide them on the property or leave them with a neighbor. When you cook, cook a large batch and freeze some so that another time you don't need to cook. Plan your meals in advance and put the plan on the fridge where you can see it, so when you forget, you will be reminded what has defrosted or what has been bought and needs to be cooked before it spoils. Use "information radiators" like wall calendars, bulletin boards, written todo lists and the like to spare yourself from having to remember or from having to tell your spouse that something important is or isn't done. Sleep deprived people forget things. Technology can help to remind you. This sort of preparation can smooth over the rough patches dramatically.
Many families choose one parent whose sleep will get back to normal much sooner (eg Daddy is going back to work so his sleep can't be messed with) and one who handles nighttime parenting and possibly gets a nap in the daytime. Even if both parents have returned to work sometimes they make this deal, with the up-at-night parent napping in the evening when the other parent is also home, or the up-at-night parent holding a job that doesn't require a lot of mental acuity or physical dexterity. If this is what you plan to do, make sure both parents agree this is the plan.
Usually somewhere between 6 months and a year your sleep is close to normal, and then eventually you will forget the details of it. That's how second children come to be :-)
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Come heck or high water, Gracie Snow is determined to drag the legendary ex-jock Bobby Tom Denton back home to Heaven, Texas, to begin shooting his first motion picture. Despite his dazzling good looks and killer charm, Bobby Tom has reservations about being a movie star -- and no plans to cooperate with a prim and bossy Ohio wallflower whom he can't get off his mind or out of his life. Instead, the hell-raising playboy decides to make her over from plain Jane to Texas wildcat.
But nothing's more dangerous than a wildcat with an angel's heart in a town too small for a bad boy to hide. And all hell breaks loose when two unforgettable people discover love, laughter, passion -- and a match that can only be made in Heaven.
About the Author
Susan Elizabeth Phillips soared onto the New York Times bestseller list with Dream a Little Dream. She s the only four-time recipient of the Romance Writers of America s prestigious Favorite Book of the Year Award. A resident of the Chicago suburbs, she is also a hiker, gardener, reader, wife, and mother of two grown sons.


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Women's Law Forum to Honor NJ Supreme Court Justice Jaynee LaVecchia '79 at "Ladies Day" Program
November 04, 2010 –The Women's Law Forum (WLF) at Rutgers School of Law–Newark will recognize the contributions of New Jersey Supreme Court Justice Jaynee LaVecchia and other prominent women lawyers in the public sector at a special "Ladies Day" program on Wednesday, November 10, 2010. The program takes its name from the 1960s practice of a Harvard Law School professor to call on female students to speak in class only once a semester – on Ladies Day.
WLF will honor Jaynee LaVecchia, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of New Jersey, with its "Outstanding Woman Lawyer of the Year Award" for her trailblazing success and inspirational public service. Justice LaVecchia, Class of 1979, will also participate in a panel of women lawyers engaged in public service, government and the judiciary.
In addition, WLF will announce the creation of the Women's Law Forum Public Interest Grant. The grant will be awarded to a Rutgers-Newark law student who is committed to public interest work on issues affecting gender rights.
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|Women's Law Forum "Ladies Day" Program
|Hon. Jaynee LaVecchia '79, Associate Justice, Supreme Court of New Jersey
Hon. Camelia Valdes '96, Passaic County Prosecutor
Hon. Barbara Buono, Rutgers–Camden Law School '79, New Jersey State Senator, Majority Leader
Hon. Jennifer Velez '96, Commissioner, New Jersey Department of Human Services
Maureen Ruane '93, Assistant U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey, moderator
|6:30 pm, Wednesday, November 10, 2010
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Juggalos can't be scientists. Awhh too fuckin bad.
Juggalos can't be scientists. Awhh too fuckin bad.
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"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." -Arthur C. Clarke
"Us Juggalos have deep imaginations, and an awesome sense of humor." -Violent J
The video Miracles has earned Insane Clown Posse many new fans and an unfair reputation as being anti-science. Insane Clown Polytechnic is trying to clarify this misconception. Shaggy 2 Dope and Violent J have explained in interviews that they were promoting a positive appreciation for the natural wonders of the world. See the full explanation below.
Some people say we, the Juggalo fans of "The Insane Clown Posse", lack basic scientific understanding on subjects like fucking magnetism, light, and nature. Fortunately, us Juggalos will be outside the Warfield Theater on June 5th, 2010 to show that Juggalos understand science too.
To that end, we will be setting up a Science Fair outside the Warfield between 6pm-8pm to demonstrate several of the scientific principles which some people think confuse us.
We are not haters, we are family. We love science, we love ICP, we love the Fam, and we think that the more Juggalos who stand up as scrub for science, the less the jocks and the haters will make fun of the geeks and clowns and ninjas who really run the muthafucking world.
The original creator is a QUEER
Ohhh haha. Gotta love wikipedia.
Violent J Explains ICP's Stance On Science
We try hard to even manage we have a hint of what the fuck a magnet is.
Participate in juggalo hate! Oh look that rhymed! Woopity fuckin doo!
Juggalos can't be scientists. Awhh too fuckin bad.
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The "I HATE JUGGALOS" fan page on facebook :D
Juggalos must jump people cause they can't fight one on one.
Explanations For Nature's Miracles
- Pyramids
- Niagara Falls
- Oceans
- Stars
- Mountains
- Trees
- Seas
- Lava
- Snow
- Rain
- Fog
- Pets
- Sun
- Moon
- Mars
- Milky Way
- Shooting Stars
- UFOs
- Rivers
- Trees
- Rainbows
- I can take this one. However, it might be better if we had a more focused presentation on magnets, but with some ancillary experts on topics that Juggalos may be interested in. Flipzagging 17:08, 1 June 2010 (UTC)
- This is the one I've sat an thought about presentation ideas for. Really depends on how deep one wants to go - Huygens-Fresnel and wavefronts bending will need to be around if we wanna dig down, but the basic idea I've been thinking about is "Light bends when it slows down. Different materials let light go at different speeds. It all depends on wavelengths, and thus on color. Look here - a prism and a white LED keychain." Michiexile 02:10, 2 June 2010 (UTC)
- Richard Feynmann attempts to answer this question, with difficulty, after explaining that any answer he gives is likely to be unsatisfying. It's hard to discuss the fundamental forces in any terms other than their own. Mandatory listening for whoever's doing the magnets poster. -18.104.22.168 19:05, 4 June 2010 (UTC)
Light never slows down, ever. Different colors refract at different angles because of their energy level. But all colors regardless of wavelength travel at the same speed - the speed of light. quasar
- Michiexile is correct. The velocity of light varies within substances. Snell's Law expresses the index of refraction at the boundary of two substances as the ratio of the the velocities of light within those substances. For example light goes almost half as fast through arsenic trisulfide as it does in air, so arsenic trisulfide has an IOR of 1.9. -Laszlo 18:20, 2 June 2010 (UTC)
Cool, I did not know that. I see what you're saying. The way I'm reading it, it's not the light slowing down so much as light taking a break and spending some time in an electron. quasar
- A first approximation at something that can be said, and quickly, to this subject:
- http://img.skitch.com/20100604-p6kip79xgceh24ane4gqsjrwpy.png
- Michiexile 22:18, 4 June 2010 (UTC)
- How far do you want to go into this? "Why does light bend?" Eventually you will start to overlap with the magnet explanation! :) --Macegr 22:33, 4 June 2010 (UTC)
- It won't take long at all to start overlapping with magnets here. Not all that surprising either! The next step, however, is to talk about Huygens-Fresnel, and viewing each point along the refraction boundary as a wavesource, and then showing how the speed change makes the wavefronts change direction. Going even this deep, however, puts the whole explanation way past the one-sentence explanation, and even way past the 1-minute elevator talk. Michiexile 17:43, 5 June 2010 (UTC)
- Another part that I haven't even started to adress is "Why is the rainbow round?" - which ties in with the rainbow "really" being a circle, and with how we see each colour only through the exact raindrops that are at the right position for the light to bend just right to hit our eye - which happens, for a point-shaped light source (the sun) to be in a circle: the circle of things that are just the right amount of (angular) distance from a straight line, thus giving the circular "rainbow". Final bit of _this_ explanation, then, is the observation that usually, rainbows are visible with the sun in such an angle that the rainbow is partially hidden by the horizon. Michiexile 17:43, 5 June 2010 (UTC)
- I'm bringing a colour printout of the illustration I linked above today. If anybody wants to use it in an explanation of rainbows, that's awesome; otherwise - big deal. I'm a lab assistant, not a scientist (see above), anyway, so I won't do that much explanation tonight.
- How far do you want to go into this? "Why does light bend?" Eventually you will start to overlap with the magnet explanation! :) --Macegr 22:33, 4 June 2010 (UTC)
- Air
- Fire
- Water
- Solar Eclipses (dibs - Reed)
- Weather
- Magnets
- Pelicans
- Giraffes
- Music
- Love
- Dirt
- Metamorphosis
- Genetics
- Crows
- Ghosts
Laszlo would like to present cognitive dissonance theory as an explanation for how misattributed anger toward scientists can lead to their mischaracterization as motherfucking liars. Scientists can be Family too.
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Faygo soda makes us insane cause of its sugar but insane amounts of Faygo cause premature death among Ninjas so I'm thinking to do a poster about the health benefits of "less is more" when it comes to Faygo. This is possibly a risky strategy as this pop is their holy sacrament and I'm not suggesting criticizing it, only advocating judicious use of this powerful high-fructose corn syrup-based sacrament.-Parintachin
- Consider going into the metabolic breakdown of fructose. I wasn't really sold on sugar being a problem until I saw Dr. Lustig's talk, and he's got some good stuff there. The catch is that sucrose is 50% fructose, and HFCS is 55%, so it's almost as bad either way. -Laszlo 20:07, 5 June 2010 (UTC)


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Newt Gingrich is trying to carve out a middle way on illegal immigration, pushing a "Red Card Solution" that would essentially expand the guest-worker program without giving those immigrants a pathway to citizenship.
But Gingrich's compromise isn't eliciting much praise within the immigration community: Activists on both on left and right say that Red Carding fails to address fundamental problems with the U.S. immigration system.
On the right, advocates who want greater restrictions on immigration say the Red Card Solution simply gives businesses a pool of cheap labor at the expense of native-born workers. The Kriebel Foundation, which developed the idea, "has an interest in a modern-day form of slavery while wages have atrophied for less-skilled American workers," says Dan Stein, president of the conservative Federation for American Immigration Reform. "This is effort to create a stratified labor force that provides wealthy employers with a way to get employees at below-market rates." What's more, he warns, guest workers with Red Cards might simply overstay their visit when their work permits expire.
Pro-immigration advocates argue that the Red Card plan would undermine the rights of immigrants and would be massively difficult to put in place. "It virtually guarantees that we create second-class status for workers and their families — lawful but with no real rights," says Mary Giovagnoli, director of the Immigration Policy Center. She described plan's the elimination of birthright citizenship for Red Card workers as "eradicating rights." She also says the proposal ignores the need to reform the legal immigration system.
Giovagnoli disagrees with the plan's supporters that it would be easier to find political consensus on increasing the number of temporary workers than on creating a pathway to legal citizenship. "The red card is wrapped in a pretty bow…they make it all sound so simple, but the contours of a temporary worker program have been bitterly fought over in all major immigration packages," Giovagnoli says.
Countering the backlash, the Kriebel Foundation argues that there are jobs that native-born Americans are reluctant to fill and that the Red Card Solution is the most politically viable way to address the resulting worker shortages. For example, Alabama farm owners say they have struggled to find enough employees to work the fields since the state's strict immigration law — among the toughest in the nation — went into effect.
"Do we have enough dishwashers in American society? The answer is no," says the Rev. Louis Cortes, head of Esperanza USA, a Hispanic evangelical group, in a promotional video for the Red Card Solution.
Gingrich's endorsement of the plan sets him apart from the rest of the 2012 Republican primary field. And despite their strong criticism, some in the pro-immigration camp applaud Gingrich's call for compassion for illegal immigration and his interest in finding a workable compromise.
"While we see deep flaws in the plan as described, we like that he is drawing attention to immigration policy instead of just immigration rhetoric and politics," says Jenny Werwa, a spokesperson for the American Immigration Lawyers Association.
Frank Sharry, executive director of America's Voice, says: "Gingrich, while hardly a reformer in the tradition of Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush, at least deigns to acknowledge the reality that it is neither practical nor humane to drive 11 million people out of the country." Sharry says that GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney, who has slammed Gingrich's plan, "wants 11 million people who live in our communities, care for our children, take care of the elderly, clean our homes, and are Americans in all but paperwork to get lost."
Still, those pushing for tighter immigration restrictions believe Gingrich is "out of touch" with their priorities, according to FAIR's Stein. "Romney's discussing E-Verify, that's a big priority for us," says Stein. "He's opposed to amnesty and seems to have a strong position when it comes to robust interior enforcement."
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De Blasio: Exploring a mayoral candidate's past
I don't know if the name of Bill de Blasio, the odd-on favorite to be the next mayor of New York City, is much known outside the New York area yet. But if the Democratic nominee succeeds, he surely will be a national figure.
Yesterday and today, the papers carried two articles that delve into his background in interesting ways. The Times's Javier C. Hernandez details de Blasio's ardent support for the Sandinistas, his interest in liberation theology and his work for the Maryland-based Quixote Center.
And the Daily News's Greg B. Smith has offered new details on the complexities of how de Blasio's name changed from Warren Willhelm, Jr., to Bill de Blasio.
Both articles give some avenues for insight into the man who would lead the nation's largest city. Before making too much of The Times's reporting on de Blasio's youthful left-wing activity, I would recall that Mayor Rudy Giuliani had been a supporter of George McGovern in his earlier years, and that Mayor Edward Koch was a Greenwich Village reformer. Still, de Blasio's commitment to this movement was deep; it would have to be an important influence on him.
De Blasio's decision to embrace the Italian ancestry on his mother's side of the family may well be the purely personal matter he says it is, but ethnicity is such a big part of New York politics that it deserves the full review the News gives to de Blasio's name changes.
At least in the past, New York politicians with dual ancestry identified with the single ancestry suggested by their last names. Al Smith was part Italian, but never told anyone, even though Italians made up a large constituency. Fiorello La Guardia was half-Jewish, but did not make much of that despite the importance of the Jewish vote. (In any case, his progressive politics and his opposition to the Nazis appealed greatly to Jewish voters.)
The current mayoral campaign seems to mark a change in New York's tribal politics. In the primary, Democratic voters in the heavily Italian-American sections of Staten Island favored a black candidate, Bill Thompson, whose roots are in the Caribbean, rather than de Blasio, who took a more liberal tack. Black voters across the city split evenly between the Italian-American de Blasio and Thompson. De Blasio's campaign emphasized his marriage to a black woman, and showcased the couple's son Dante in very effective ads opposing the police stop-and-frisk tactic.
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Paul Moses, a professor of journalism at Brooklyn College/CUNY, is the author of The Saint and the Sultan: The Crusades, Islam and Francis of Assisi's Mission of Peace (Doubleday, 2009) and An Unlikely Union: The Love-Hate Story of New York's Irish and Italians (NYU Press, 2015).
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The Sandinistas? Liberation theology? The Quixote Center? Seems to me that Bill de Blasio is in good company. Perhaps, "our day has come" even in New York City!
What's the big deal about de Blasio embracing his Italian heritage? For especially a politician, embracing Italian culture and traditions of practicality, with their live and let live philosophy of life, is certainly a helpful aspect of de Blasio's candidacy, especially in the ethnic soup of NYC politics.
I have a Welch surname; my middle name though is from my maternal Calabrian grandfather. The major formative influences that enrich my life to this day come from these poor, uneducated immigrants, not my father's family. My mother grew up in a place and time when being a daughter of Italian immigrants was something you let go of because the social imperative to be assimilated. [In fact, my nanu/grandfather was thrilled that at least one of his five daughters, his youngest daughter, found an American husband!] I have many relatives who anglicizied their surnames - to be more accurate, the nuns at the local parish school changed the spelling of their names to be more "American."
Face it, de Blasio's family is what America - even NYC - increasingly looks like. Being a clever politician, de Blasio is only exploiting his personal strengths. [Just like Barrack Obama emphasizing being raised by his WW2, white maternal grandparents.]
Here in California, whites are no longer in the majority. I fully expect our politicians in the future will increasingly reflect that reality. One of the most prominently mentioned possible successors to Gov. Jerry Brown is our Oakland-born, African-American, Howard Univ. and Berkeley law grad, decidedly very liberal, Attorney General Kamala Harris.
California's, New York City's, indeed all of America's future is De Colores - Made of Colors!
I firmly believe that at least among the young ethnicity is no longer relevant. New Orleans now has a white major -- elected largely by a very large African-American majority. And -- wonder of wonders -- the State of Louisiana elected an Indian-American (Bobby Jindal) who is as dark-skinned as most African Americans! On the tribal front things are looking up :-)
I wonder how the waning of traditional tribal politics in NYC tracks with gentrification of large sections of city, the shrinking working class, and the weakening influence (and fracturing coalitions) of labor--and the consquent shifts in the content and subtext of political debate at the neighborhood level. De Blasio as candidate built initial support in what may have once been called brownstone Brooklyn but which now describes more a class, or even an aspirational lifestyle, than a geographically defined precinct. Anyway, for poignant counterpoint to de Blasio piece, there's this Clyde Haberman interview with old-school former mayoral candidate Sal Albanese.
That deBlasio was against Ronald Reagan invading Nicaragua to get rid of the Sandinistas has got to be a major plus in any campaign....... out side the Tea party areas.
Alex Pareene at Salon has a very good response to/analysis of the NYT DeBlasio piece. He suggests, correctly I think, that the article seems to have been meant to "cause trouble," but in fact ends up making DeBlasio more sympathetic, at least to people who don't find a background in progressive activism inherently frightening.
de Blasio's Republican opponent is really over the top in trying to make hay of this:
"Bill de Blasio needs to explain himself -- and explain himself now -- to the hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers who escaped Marxist tyranny in Asia, Central America, and from behind the Iron Curtain in Eastern Europe.
"Mr. de Blasio's involvement with the Sandinistas didn't happen in 1917; it happened 70 years later when the cruelty and intrinsic failure of communism had become crystal clear to anyone with a modicum of reason," Lhota said. "Mr. de Blasio's class warfare strategy in New York City is directly out of the Marxist playbook. Now we know why."
The Central American solidarity movement, including opposition to the US-funded Contra war against the Sandinistas, was fairly popular in NYC in the 1980s. There were sister city programs. Plenty of declarations of solidarity in City Council votes. Churches were sanctuaries for refugees. Sandinista leaders were feted by church and political leaders when they came to NYC. Ortega packed Riverside Church several times. Even the lone Republican US Representative, Bill Green voted against aid to the Contras. I can't imagine this helping Lhota at all in NYC. Anyone with a modicum of knowledge of the history of Nicaragua in the 1980s knows that the main cruelties of that era came from the US funded Contras. de Blasio was on the right side of history period.
Lhota is proving to be an unthoughtful, brash, loudmouth bully. Anyone who paid attention to his reign at the MTA would know that.
Jack Marth: Good points -- though you can't blame the guy for using whatever he's got! Also from Alex Pareene's piece:
In New York City in 2013, I think Republican Joe Lhota is going to have a tough time making de Blasio's support for the Sandinistas into a successful attack line or wedge issue.
(NB: America has a lot of still-respected public figures and statesmen in this country who loudly supported the Contras, and apartheid, and Pinochet, and worse, and none of that is ever dredged up as controversy-bait except by cranky lefties.)
Some good letters in the NY Times today on the topic:


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We've begun work again on episode 19. I won't deny there's a lot of work to do and that the work is often depressing given the circumstances, but the show will continue. It wouldn't be wise for us to estimate a release date at this stage, but I will say that the next episode will be released either directly on purepwnage.com or at a short-notice Bloor Cinema event (if the cinema happens to be available on short-notice). As soon as we're able to announce a solid release day, we will.
We've been keeping very busy at ROFLMAO these past five months. On top of the web series, there are two new major projects in development. As is usually the case with super-awesome projects, we're not yet able to discuss one of them publicly, but the other is finally nearing
When I was growing up, I used to run a BBS out of my bedroom that focused on multiplayer games (and of course some 1337 p/h/a/c/v). This was pre-Internet stuff, back when individual computers used modems measured in bauds to call other individual computers on the phone and exchange data at a rate that was slower than you can read text... assuming you were lucky enough to not get a busy signal in the first place. As archaic as it seems already, this was really the dawn of 'online gaming' and a very memorable time in my life. While most of the games were simply text, it never stopped them from being incredibly fun and addictive. The 'massively multiplayer' game was born.
I've always felt it's a shame that some genres didn't evolve the way I expected them to, and I've always wanted to take a chance (or two, or three) at creating games of my own. In fact, from the age of 10 I had intended to pursue a career in "making games". Life being how it is though, I stumbled into and fell in love with stand-up comedy while in university and never looked back. The success of Pure Pwnage these past few years gave me the chance to revisit my childhood dream and I couldn't pass it up. In the summer of 2007 I met with two interested and talented coders in Toronto and we started to draw up plans on how to properly bring my favorite genre of BBS game into the 21st century. The result is a massively-multiplayer turn-based web game with a flash interface, gorgeous artwork, high-quality music and sound, live-acted video content delivered through the game, and of course no worries about getting a busy signal when you want to play.
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