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The big, bloggy news today concerns a supporter of Rand Paul, the Republican candidate for Kentucky's Senate seat, who reacted badly when a female MoveOn.org volunteer went in for a harmless prank. (For the record, I too am a Paul supporter.) Writes the Louisville Courier-Journal (boldface emphasis mine):
At one point, violence broke out when Lauren Valle of MoveOn.org approached Paul and tried to give him an employee of the month award from Republicorp. Republicorp is a fake business MoveOn created to symbolize what it says is the merger of the GOP and business interests controlling political speech.Television video shows Valle, of Washington, D.C., being pushed to the ground and at least one foot stepping down on her head.
There is video of the incident at the first of the links above.Now, one would have thought this an opportunity for conservative pundits, especially of the Christian persuasion, to disown such violence and remind their readers and listeners that politics should be conducted in a spirit of charity, no matter who your opponents happen to be. But when it comes to Jim Hoft, of the First Things-sponsored "Gateway Pundit", such predictions tend to fall through:
Unhinged MoveOn.org Activist Tackled and Stepped On at Rand Paul Rally (Video)Posted by Jim Hoft on Tuesday, October 26, 2010, 4:46 AM
Another day Another unhinged leftist stalks and lunges at a Republican leader.MoveOn.org contract employee Lauren Valle wasnt counting on this reaction by Rand Paul supporters.She was tackled and stepped on by Paul supporters. (TPM)Look for the state-run media to make her into some kind of saint by the end of the day.
There is more in the same vein here. First things first, indeed.
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I saw the clip on CNN. I didn't know at first who was involved, but my reaction was "This is HORRIBLE". Later I read the closed=captions and found out just what it was about. Oh, I should qualify my condemnation. Somebody did have the decency to remove the woman's glasses. Then somebody kicked her.
I'm not sure what to make of this but the current version of Mr. Hoft's entry, stamped 5:47 am, includes this: "It certainly was over the line to put a shoe on her shoulder or head."The version of Mr. Hoft's entry included in this thread was stamped 4:46 am, and does not include that sentence. Presumably, the inclusion of that sentence would have removed much of the impetus for this thread, which is stamped 4:09 pm.For the record, I am not a Rand Paul supporter (but do support First Things).
"Presumably, the inclusion of that sentence would have removed much of the impetus for this thread, which is stamped 4:09 pm."It's not a question of versions, but rather of one post followed by another, and in any case I don't see why what you say should be so. For one thing, the earlier post made no such remark, and that wa despicable. For another, there's the question of emphasis. Two substantial posts impugning the woman's character and mocking the expected media response, and one throwaway line about going "over the line"? (By the way, one wonders what Hoft makes of her having been thrown to the ground.) It seems to me that the outrage is being directed rather selectively.
I know I learned something about it being either permissible or impermissible to step on someone's head when I was taught the principle of double effect. It was something about using a younger sibling's head as a footstool to fetch an item out of reach on a closet shelf. I believe in order to be morally permissible, the intended good (retrieving the out-of-reach item) must be proportional to the foreseen-but-unintended negative consequence. I am not making this up. I distinctly remember a teacher using this example.
The brown-shirt mentality at work in the Tea Party is starting to surface. Recall that a few weeks ago, some of Joe Miller's henchmen in Alaska "detained" a reporter for asking questions. Add to that the loony Sharron Angle's intimation about "2nd Amendment remedies."
Southern chivalry.
"The brown-shirt mentality at work in the Tea Party is starting to surface."Ooh, boy - Nazi comparisons! Somehow I don't think this helps.
OK, somebody cue the conservatives to enter stage left and say that "liberals do lots of bad stuff, too, but nobody on dotCommonweal ever seems to post THAT" before we get to the Nazi comparisons, and the jokes are supposed to come MUCH later.Yeah, people can be scumbags (which is not an obscenity), all the time and everywhere, across the racial, political and religious divides. That's why God sent Jesus.When are we going to talk about Juan Williams?
John -- Oh, but they do. For one thing, political violence is nothing new in American life: anti-abortion killings, the Oklahoma City bombing, the Kent State shootings, lynchings of African-Americans, lynchings of Irish Catholics, lynchings of Mormons, Know-Nothing riots, the civil war in Kansas and Nebraska before the Civil War, etc. Most of this violence, I might add, has come from the political right -- the Weather Underground and the Haymarket bombing (if, indeed, the anarchists were guilty) pale before the carnage of right-wing extremists. As for fascist comparisons, none other than Sinclair Lewis, in the 1930s, wrote It Can't Happen Here, where one of his characters uttered ominously, "if fascism comes to America, it will come draped in a flag and carrying a cross." Why do you believe that the United States is somehow immune to the fascist mentality? Fascism, recall, is a form of right-wing populism -- Hitler and other fascists have come to power riding tidal waves of popular rage and resentment. At the same time, we've got a semi-fascist political economy: corporate capitalist economics and a fundamentally feudal politics, i.e., corporate domination of the state. E. J. Dionne's recent pieces on the Commonweal site are only the tamest intimations that our political culture is now a state of corporate plutocracy. Chris Hedges is absolutely right when he says that there are millions of Americans out there who are seething with fury at their sense of dispossession and grasping at religious/libertarian redemption. Under the right conditions -- enduring unemployment, political inertia, a mobilized and ferocious right -- fascist or shall we say very undemocratic movements could have -- and are having -- a very real appeal. Obviously, they will look different in American conditions.
And Barack Obama is a socialist. Give me a break, Mr. McCarraher.
Why do I get the feeling that when Mr. McCarraher speaks, liberals cringe.
I don't know why you get that feeling, Mark. Change in barometric pressure? Lack of sleep? Not enough selenium in your diet? Wishful thinking?Lord knows I'm not a people person, and the older I get, the more I just wish they'd leave me alone. And I have a soft spot for Sinclair Lewis, especially "Elmer Gantry." But I don't cringe when Eugene speaks (or writes). But there are three things working against fascist takeover in America. One is the fact that America survived and eventually rejected one of the worst fascist threats, the KKK in the 1920s. The last time the Klan rallied in Lansing, the only people who showed up were the anti-Klan faction. The second is the fact that Americans are too diverse and contentious for any fascist movement to organize them to any great degree.The third is "The Daily Show."Keep Fear Alive!
John -- I don't understand how that comment follows from what I wrote, but no, Obama's not a socialist -- I wish he were. As his policies and his advisors show, he's the head of the executive committee of the corporate state. He has no desire to disturb the corporate domination of the economy, and as his prosecution of two wars demonstrates, he has no desire to disturb the U. S. imperial arrangement of global power. So no, I won't give you a break.Mark -- I don't care if they cringe or if they applaud. I'm a socialist, not a liberal, so I couldn't care less. Liberals -- who do not constitute "the left" -- are too damned timid, ideologically and politically, and they've let the right call all the tunes for the last forty years. Note, readers, that neither John nor Mark takes issue with the substance of my remarks.
Jean -- Thanks. It's nice to know that you're not cringing.My point isn't that fascists are going to impose a right-wing dictatorship. My point is that a homespun American fascist movement is not at all inconceivable, and that it would take the form of a Christo-libertarian-nativist tendency. I think there are plenty of white voters who are susceptible to the appeals of such a political imagination.But I am also serious that our political economy already is far along the way to resembling the classic "fascist" model: capitalist economics, feudalized politics.
"Note, readers, that neither John nor Mark takes issue with the substance of my remarks."Yes, I do. My not-so-subtle point was that your remarks re: impending American fascism are about as plausible as the idea that Obama is a socialist, which is to say they're not especially plausible.
Eugene--It is true that I did not take issue with the substance of your remarks; I had trouble finding substance in them. For example, the tired tactic of trying to tie non-partisan violence to those you disagree with politically may work in the classroom, where there's a captive audience dependent on the professor for a passing grade, but in the real world those who are far from the left read stuff like that more with bemusement than seriousness, and those close to the left wish it would just stop. But I will say, and I mean this with all sincerity, I do find your forthrightness refreshing.
Eugene McCarraher: Which of Chris Hedges' writings are you referring to? A new book, or (God forbid) is he blogging someplace? Thanks.
I read most of Mark's posts with more pity than seriousness, but I will say, and I mean it in all sincerity, that I marvel at the way he manages to extend his swipe at Eugene to include him among those fabled liberal college professors who flunk everybody who doesn't agree with them--a tired cliche for which I wait in vain for some sort of quantitative proof. Because there isn't.
One is the fact that America survived and eventually rejected one of the worst fascist threats, the KKK in the 1920s. The last time the Klan rallied in Lansing, the only people who showed up were the anti-Klan faction.
Eugene, was there some indication of aversion in my comment/request?! I find Hedges pretty bracing, sometimes over the top, a kind of Hauerwas type. I don't have a particular opinion, but the passing summary you gave struck me as interesting and inisghtful. I haven't read Hedges much of late, so will check him out. PS: The Hauerwas piece in the Guardian has some pointed observations:http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/belief/2010/oct/16/faith-america...
In fact, I am not convinced that the US is more religious than Britain. Even if more people go to church in America, I think the US is a much more secular country than Britain. In Britain, when someone says they do not believe in God, they stop going to church. In the US, many who may have doubts about Christian orthodoxy may continue to go to church. They do so because they assume that a vague god vaguely prayed to is the god that is needed to support family and nation.Americans do not have to believe in God, because they believe that it is a good thing simply to believe: all they need is a general belief in belief. That is why we have never been able to produce interesting atheists in the US. The god most Americans say they believe in is not interesting enough to deny, because it is only the god that has given them a country that ensures that they have the right to choose to believe in the god of their choosing, Accordingly, the only kind of atheism that counts in the US is that which calls into question the proposition that everyone has a right to life, liberty, and happiness.
What does "feudalized politics" mean? Is it a typo?
Jean -- Yes, it is a tired cliche. Mark is apparently one of those who sport their advanced degrees from the College of Hard Knocks -- a school in which all of us, Mark, have had some education. So enough of the Ivory Tower Egghead. It's boring.David -- I'm referring to American Fascists, as well as Empire of Illusion. And he writes on Truthdig.com. I don't have the same aversion to Hedges that you apparently possess. I find his attacks on liberals -- especially for their abandonment of the working class -- all too accurate. You don't?Felapton -- By "feudalized" I mean the transformation of the public good into a set of private bailiwicks. Just as feudal nobles would dispense justice, provide protection, etc., corporations now increasingly write laws, fight our wars, etc. The military-industrial complex is a perfect example of such quasi-fascist, "feudalized" government.
The attacker was Tim Profitt, Rand Paul's Bourbon County Coordinator; the campaign has distanced itself from him. According to the victim., the men involved knew who she was from previous events and had moved in front of her as soon as Paul's car showed up. http://voices.washingtonpost.com/plum-line/2010/10/stomp_victim_speaks_a... of the context, I find it extremely disturbing to see a woman knocked down and a man's boot grinding her face into the ground. Why hasn't he been arrested?
Sorry, missed a comment at the above link, The attacker has in fact been served a criminal summons.
I posted this and Captioned it "Freedom of Expression"You value your free speech and decry us up here in Canada, and yet I cannot imagine a similar scene in Canada.
To the theo-politicos a question: Can libertarians of the Ayn Rand variety be Christians? (I grant that they may think they are, but are they?)
To Margaret: Can Marxists be Christians?In each case - that of the Randians, and that of the Marxists - it's obviously impossible to be fully orthodox in both directions, as Marx and Rand were both materialist atheists. But I don't think it's impossible to be a basically orthodox Christian whose political worldview is significantly informed by either of them. Mistaken, to be sure, but not impossible.
McCarraher: " Im a socialist, not a liberal" Actually, the icon of Karl Marx on your official college web page would indicate you are more than a run of the mill "socialist". Nice of you to include Jesus alongside Karl Marx, by the way.John Schwenkler: "Can Marxists be Christians?"Christians perhaps, but not faithful Catholics. CCC 2425 "The Church has rejected the totalitarian and atheistic ideologies associated in modem times with "communism" or "socialism."
The Church has rejected the totalitarian and atheistic ideologies associated in modem times with 'communism' or 'socialism.'"Yes, and by the same token the Church has rejected the ideologies associated with Randian libertarianism; e.g. http://www.scborromeo.org/mobileccc/p3s1c2a3.htm. My point was that these sorts of things can come in degrees.
After hearing the Seabrook/Overby piece NPR today on the cloak and dagger pacs based in Washington, what I fear more than the facism the right Eugene thinks is coming, but the oligarchy posing as democracy that the Randians so desperately want.
My question was: Can libertians of the Ayn Rand school be Christians? The answer is not, Can Christians be Marxists? It depend on what kind of Marxist. Leninist? Probably not. Trotskyite? It depends. My question was prompted by the flap over the Aqua Buddha fracas. Apparently Rand Paul is not an Aqua Buddha, since he insists that he is a Christian. But elsewhere I have read that he is a Libertarian of the Ayn Rand variety. Hence my question to those better read in Libertarianism than I am.
Margaret,The implication of my response was that Randian libertarians can be Christians in just the same way as Marxists can, namely by denying certain claims that were made by the founder of their "school". Moreover there are just as many "kinds" of libertarians, even of libertarians "of the Ayn Rand variety", as there are kinds of Marxists. Just as you (and I) would grant the existence of authentically Christian Marxists, I see no good reason to doubt that Rand Paul is a Christian libertarian, even if his policy positions are - as indeed they are - less than entirely Christ-like.
John, awesome update: The stomper wants an apology...http://thinkprogress.org/2010/10/27/head-stomper-demands-aplog/
Some great comments under that article.
Flanagan -- I reject your snarky and false implication that I'm not a faithful Catholic. Are you one of those ideological police beloved of "orthodox" Catholics?
"You value your free speech and decry us up here in Canada, and yet I cannot imagine a similar scene in Canada."Michael C. --I couldn't have imagine it here until yesterday. Even the Klan wouldn't have dared do its dirty work with the media around with lights.
Rand Paul Supporter Who Stepped On Activist's Head Wants Apology; Victim Says Incident was PremeditatedTim Profitt, the former Rand Paul volunteer who stepped on the head of a MoveOn.org-affiliated activist outside of a debate on Monday, said he thinks the woman, Lauren Valle, owes him an apology."I don't think it's that big of a deal," Profitt said of the incident in an interview with CBS affiliate WKYT. "I would like for her to apologize to me to be honest with you."Profitt, a Rand Paul supporter who used to serve as a campaign coordinator for the Kentucky Senate hopeful's campaign, was caught on video on Monday stepping on Valle's head after she had been wrestled to the ground. Valle had been trying to offer a satiric award to the candidate.Profitt later said he was sorry "that it came to that," but he argued to WKYT that Valle was not an innocent bystander. . . .On CBS' "The Early Show" Wednesday morning, Valle - who suffered a concussion as a result of the incident - suggested that the attack was "premeditated." She said her companion had overheard Paul supporters saying, "We're here to do crowd control and we might have to take someone out." . . .
Flanagan,Your quote from the catechism doesn't quite answer John's question. Obviously faithful Catholics cannot be totalitarian atheists. The question is whether one can be a Marxist in any meaningful sense without also being an atheist and a totalitarian, and there is no easy answer to that question because Marx has influenced different people in different ways. For example, analytic Marxism still helps us to describe features of the market that many Christians oppose for reasons that have nothing to do with dialectical materialism.
P Flanagan,Can a Catholic be a capitalist?
Pope blasts capitalism ahead of G-8 meetingROME, Italy (CNN) -- Pope Benedict XVI, on the eve of a global economic summit, lashed out at modern capitalism for being shortsighted and short on ethics."Today's international economic scene, marked by grave deviations and failures, requires a profoundly new way of understanding business enterprise," the pontiff said in his third encyclical letter, "Charity in Truth," which was released Tuesday.The papal letter was released as the heads of leading industrialized nations started gathering in central Italy for the Group of Eight economic summit, which begins Wednesday. . .In his letter, Benedict challenged bankers to turn away from the practices blamed for bringing about the global economic crisis and instead use their power to help the world create wealth and economic development."Above all, the intention to do good must not be considered incompatible with the effective capacity to produce goods," Benedict said. "Financiers must rediscover the genuinely ethical foundation of their activity, so as not to abuse the sophisticated instruments which can serve to betray the interests of savers."The world financial crisis and the downturn in markets took a big chunk out of the retirement savings of millions of people.
We all saw the foot push down on the neck and lower head. But Fox news said it was the shoulder. Fox also said she attacked Paul's car with a sign and one commentator said she was the aggressor.....When did the media go bad? newsreels/cable went bad when Goebbels showed film footage in 1939 alleging the Poles attacked Germany.
I think the crime itself and some of the reactions to it have been pretty misogynistic and I wonder why that hasn't been noted much in the media coverage. Some blogs and articles have been minimizing the savageness of the attack or implying somehow that the girl deserved it. That she was the aggressor, looking to spark an incident, etc, etc. Or that she is some kind of madwoman.
"You value your free speech and decry us up here in Canada, and yet I cannot imagine a similar scene in Canada."I don't know if that comment was meant in jest, but wasn't Canada the country with the "Human Rights Commission" that wanted to jail Mark Steyn for daring to exercise this right with speech that the "Human Rights Commission" did not approve of? Or was that a different Canada?
Mark, what are you talking about? As I understand it, the CHRC condemned some of Steyn's more vitriolic statements, but refused to take action against Steyn or Macleans, the publication in which some of his screeds appeared, when a Muslim group complained.http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/hearings-decision-could-aff...
So, I guess the answer is Yes, you can be an Ayn Rand libertarian and a Christian.
Add "Depending on what you mean", and yes - that's my answer.
"So, I guess the answer is Yes, you can be an Ayn Rand libertarian and a Christian."The guy who heads up the Tea Party here and is a member of the John Galt Society belongs to the local parish. It's a puzzle to me how he squares all that, but people can hold a lot of conflicting notions in their heads sometimes.On the other hand, having seen Tea Party rallies here at the local level, I think it would be wise not to demonize these people.While I find some of their ideas aborrhent, the group is by no means doctrinaire. It seems to be a loosely organized bunch with a variety of concerns about government debt and spending, the struggle of "ordinary" people (i.e., rural white blue collar workers in my area) and who are looking for local or even communitarian solutions to problems the feds have been unable to fix. I agree with some of their concerns, even some of the suggested fix-its.In fact, I'd say that the rallies here have been very good steam valves. Some yelling, some stridency, but certainly no stomping or whomping. They even wrapped a fundraiser for the local school into their first event.
Hi Jean! Your local tea partiers don't sound like libertarians; more like conservative communitarians (and some of them receiving Social Security and Medicare benefits that candidates like Rand Paul hope to reduce). When the feathers settle (I hope my Valentine's Day) I think we'll see some sharp divisions between the libertarians running on the TP manifesto and the normal Democrat/Republicans that probably make up a good part of your TP neighbors (AKA Reagan Democrats).
Jean,You say - "OK, somebody cue the conservatives to enter stage left and say that liberals do lots of bad stuff, too, but nobody on dotCommonweal ever seems to post THAT before we get to the Nazi comparisons, and the jokes are supposed to come MUCH later."Well - yeah. That was my reaction, but here's why.It's not just some sort tit for tat, you guys do it too, and it isn't just about hipocrisy. I am always being accused of doing that, and I think people are missing the point.Yes, there are hipocrytes on both sides, and yes, people do bad things on both sides. That being the case, isn't it bad analysis and unfair for the people who post things like this to do it selectively and to extrapolate these incidents into something more than what they are?You can't be credible if you say you apply neutral principles if you only apply them to people with whom you disagree. So when I make these points, it is less a criticism of liberals per se as it is a criticism of people like some of the posters who engage in moral high dudgeon when these things happen to support their point of view and don't care (or more often find excuses) when they don't.As for this situation, after seeing the videos, while this lady was obviously trying to provoke some kind of reaction and was foolish, stomping her is clearly not the appropriate one. The guy needs to be prosecuted.BTW - I think your last post regarding the nature of the Tea Party movement is pretty spot-on. Here (in New ENgland), however, I think the TP also includes a lot of small business owners and middle/upper middle class white color types.
sorry hypocrites - hypocrisy
Stepping on heads is inexcusable! Altho Democrat, I would never condone stepping on Republican heads! Its a temptation I could certainly control. Why can't the R's????
I agree with Sean. The guy (Tim Profitt) needs to be prosecuted -- and he will be: he's been ordered to court -- and the Rand Paul campaign needs to disassociate themselves from him -- and they did: he's been fired by the campaign. End of story?
I hope Ms Valle sues the pants off the guy who stomped on her head and neck.While the Tea Party movement may have some legitimate gripes, I think we are seeing some of the fringe wackos who gravitate to this loose organization.Not a pretty picture.
" , , , to extrapolate these incidents into something more than what they are?"Sean --Something *more* than they are? Come on. When was the last time you saw or even heard of such a brazen incidence of violence at *any* American political gathering? Or do you consider two thugs kicking one small woman on the ground a minor infringement of the law? We're not talking about man-handling here, Sean, or even a quick loss of temper -- we're talking about considered brutality.
AnnOutside two Health Care town hall meetings last year a union thug actually bit the end of an anti-Obama protester's finger off and a group of white union members stomped on and kicked a black tea party supporter while calling him a an N-word. Unlike this woman, he had to be taken away in an ambulance. All this was happening during a time when Tea Partiers were being accused of "Brown Shirt" tactics. I saw the tape. Like I said, the guys should be prosecuted. My extropolation argument is that. Just because one guy loses his temper and commits violence, you can't extrapolate that to the whole group.
Dear all, please remember the post you're commenting on is not so much about whether it's out of line to stomp on someone's head, which I think we've established. The post questions the propriety of responding to such an event with a sneering attack on the victim -- and that on a blog hosted by First Things. Which is something that actually happened, and that no one need "extrapolate" to find alarming or significant. That makes this a particularly bad occasion for you, Sean, to try to balance things out with tales of liberal brutality. You're changing the subject. Again.
Margaret, my point was really that the Tea Partiers are a pretty amorphous group. The guy who organizes a lot of these things is a hard-nosed hard-core libertarian John Galt-er. And there are some others like him. There are also some people who really hate Obama because they believe all black people are invested in expanding government handouts and quotas in jobs and education. And there are the communitarian Republicans and Reagan Democrats you mention.I think the reason things didn't get out of hand at the local rallies here is because a) the organizers have encouraged people to use the open mic sessions to talk about what they think should be improved, rather than just griping about how awful everything is (though there is a lot of that), and b) the rallies aren't about any single candidate, but about ideas.One of the fellows who was largely responsible for keeping things constructive at the rallies is running for village council this year, and I will probably vote for him. I disagree with his political ideas, but he's at least willing to bring new perspectives to problems here, and he's not a contrarian.
Guys - back on pointThis was a criminal assualt, not a difference of political opinion. Anyone who writes commentary that the victim "had it coming" or "caused" the incident is misrepresenting a pretty clear video record and trying to turn it into a political argument. It is not. Lauren presumably has a good lawyer and all the perpetrators should be prosecuted.It remains to be seen whether the Tea Party or Mr. Paul's particular incarnation of it, somehow contributed to the assault in setting a hostile environment or stirring up anger to the point of incitement. Since I had already voted for his opponent, this has no effect on me. I hope my fellow Kentuckians will think twice and check to see if this affects their opinions of the man.
MollieAgain, I was responding to the implication made posters that this behavior was somehow the natural result of the political leanings or beliefs of the people involved.e.g. "The brown-shirt mentality at work in the Tea Party is starting to surface" and "While the Tea Party movement may have some legitimate gripes, I think we are seeing some of the fringe wackos who gravitate to this loose organization." and Ann's implication that this is a behavior unique to conservatives.Obviously, you ignored my point - that if this is about violence and civil discourse, it ought to be about that rather than an opportunity to make hay about nutty conservatives and libertarians. Sorry you think that's off subject.
"Anns implication that this is a behavior unique to conservatives."Sean --I made no such implication. I even pointed out that this was untypical of *either* liberals or conservatives. But it is a fact that it happened at the rally of an extremely conservative candidate, and it seems to me that conservatives should be asking themselves -- why would anyone think that such behavior would be acceptable at a conservative rally?If one of your kids stole a car wouldn't you be wise to wonder why and not just dismiss it at a minor event? It's your minimizing of the incident that I fault.
I'm not sure Sean is minimizing the behavior, just resents it being exclusively associated with those who share his political leanings. Certainly, there are influential liberals who will hammer on this theme remorselessly, as anybody who watched Bill Maher last night learned. (Disclaimer: I stay with my widowed mother two weekends a month--your prayer intentions are appreciated--and she controls the remote.)But it might be useful to clear up this matter through scientific study a la research psychologist Richard Nisbett. He looked at several indicators that offered quantitative and qualitative evidence that Southern males are more prone to violence than Yankee boys. back iin 1992.http://www.psychologytoday.com/articles/199211/southern-discomfort


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- Jake
- SuperQ
- Terry
- ryan (software)
- davidme
Current Implementation
Keypad hardware hooked up to Minotaur at /dev/ttyS3 - The fucking doorkeypad is finished
Backend software (baron.py)
On Minotaur:
/usr/local/share/noisebridge-baron/baron.py - baron script, takes arguments --port=/dev/whatever and --codefile=/var/blablabla/codes
/etc/init/baron.conf - jesse's init script
/usr/local/share/noisebridge-baron/codes.txt - codes file, any line starting with a 4-7 digit number (ignoring whitespace) is interpreted as a valid code, # is used for comments
- Keypad accepts 4-7 digit codes.
- When a valid code is entered, the light turns green, a happy noise is played, and the gate is buzzed.
- When 7 digits are entered (that are not a valid code), the # or * keys are pressed, or 5 seconds passes after the last keystroke, the light turns red and a sad noise is played.
- If the gate API throws us an error, the light turns red and a sad noise is played three times.
- The list is checked at each keystroke, so if both 3345 and 334567 are valid codes, 334567 will never be usable — the gate will open immediately once a user types 3345. This was a design decision to make it faster/easier to enter a code, but it can be changed if desired.
- Add an access log of some sort, and switch out stdout debug/error messages for something more useful
- Add a way to add/remove codes (from Pony?), somehow syncing the file to Minotaur.
- If you change the way codes are loaded, please ensure it's done in a way that won't interrupt a user in the middle of using the keypad. (So, don't just restart the process.) Currently, it tries to refresh the codes list in a background thread every 30 seconds — if the file is corrupted or missing, it continues with the last good list.
- Add a "bad" codes list, to block codes from being reused.
- Add the ability to expire codes - maybe a comment in the codes.txt file?
Keycode System Features
- Numberpad on front door
- Database of codes... on pony? With notes? Probably we need a basic schema for what info we do and don't want to log.
- Tom wants it to be a text file with a pin or rfid code per line and comments delimited by hash marks
- Logging keycodes (necessary to be able to shut off problem codes)
- keycodes not formally associated with individuals
- member keycodes differentiable in some way
- keep logs for 7 days
- require 2 users to access logs (cryptographically)
- Keycode Generation
- Distribution
- how to distribute without leaving electronic records associating code with individual?
- the most paranoid users will not trust the system anyway
- Disabling keycodes
- presumably not a feature needed immediately.
There are 3 components to a doorlock system:
- A code entry box (physical hardware)
- Security controller (computer) (we already have minotaur which controls the doorlatch)
- Electronic doorlatch (i.e. buzzer [may be silent])
Commercial door control systems usually have a central controller which is physically located inside the building and cannot be accessed from the entry box. The code entry box is connected to the controller via hard wires (usually serial). The controller can activate the doorlatch via the existing Noisegate relay.
Potential Products
- Jake has volunteered to design and make serially-accessed codepads, one for the gate and one for inside.
- The fucking doorkeypad is finished
- HID prox reader - Supports RS422 and Wiegand
- HID keypad with 125KHz (prox) + 13.56MHz (iClass) - Only supports Wiegand
- Will may need a Wiegand interface:
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiegand_interface
- Cost is about $100-150
- Talked to Terry tonight who says he has a friend who has a bunch of access system gear that we could get donated. linuxman2001@gmail -- User:Hurtstotouchfire
Implementation Considerations
- Should we buy or build the controller?
- Shannon wants to replace the current keypad system with something fancy
- Jake thinks we should just add the keypad onto the gate with U-bolts
- we would need to talk to the landlord to do this (unless we can do it without drilling?)
- at present, we plan to just add an additional keypad and only replace the button system if the keypad is successful


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Interesting New Website: Biblical Studies Online
MSH | January 24, 2014
This new effort looks very worthwhile. It's goal is simple: "The goal of Biblical Studies Online is to provide both biblical scholars and the interested wider public with ease of access to quality biblical scholarship, as it comes available online." Check it out! Technorati Tags: biblical, online, resources, scholarship, studies


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Leesa Richardson, M.D. will never forget the woman who came to her Vein Treatment and Aesthetic Center, 201 Fairfax Ave., with some of the worst varicose veins she has ever seen.
"True varicose veins are a medical issue – they're painful and can cause cramping, leg fatigue, swelling and other problems," she said. "They can make people self-conscious, too. That woman got up before dawn to workout at the gym, before other people arrived. She was hiding herself."
Such problems are at the heart of Leesa's phlebology practice, although she began her career as an anesthesiologist.
"I loved doing the procedures; but since my patients were unconscious, I couldn't develop a relationship with them," she said. "So I went into emergency medicine. I loved the work and patient contact, but the swing shift – bouncing back and forth between nights and days –wore pretty thin."
For years she worked in an urgent care center, which had "much more livable hours," and later took extensive training in venous disorders through the American College of Phlebology. In 2007, she bought a 1920s-vintage house on Fairfax Avenue, remodeled it, and moved her practice there during 2008.
"I like the concept of having a doctor's office in a cozy, warm environment, and what I can do here in a small office setting is pretty comprehensive," she said. "We do a lot of cosmetic work on 'spider' veins, and are busiest from January through May. Patients wear compression hose before the procedure, and they want to wear them under long pants, before summer."
In addition to more patient contact, Leesa likes treating medical complications from venous disorders with minimally invasive techniques. Instead of the traditional method of surgically stripping a major vessel in order to collapse it, she can thread in a laser fiber that is thinner than a guitar string – no major surgery, no long weeks of recuperation.
Many problems are treated with injections through tiny needles, accompanied by only a little stinging or itching that usually ends by the time the patient leaves the office. Some procedures require several treatments, although in other cases, results may be seen almost instantly.
Leesa, assisted by Colleen Hepfinger and Ann Stewart, provides additional services such as hair removal, skin rejuvenation, photo facials (light therapy that decreases unwanted red or brown pigment), and reduction of age spots. They also help patients select medical-grade skin care products by brands such as SkinCeuticals, Obagi and GloMinerals.
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Hi, I want to find an example of a Morse-Bott function such that for at least one of the critical submanifolds, the orientation sheaf O is nontrivial.
You can find such a function on the Klein bottle. If you think of the Klein bottle as $S^1\times [0,1]$ with the two boundary components glued together via a reflection $\phi$, and if $f:S^1\to {\mathbb R}$ is a Morse function with two critical points which is invariant under $\phi$, then $f$ extends to a Morse-Bott function on the Klein bottle such that the circle of maxima has a nontrivial orientation sheaf.
You can get a large class of examples if you look at the real projective space $\mathbb{RP}^n$. Each point $L\in \mathbb{RP}^n$ is a one dimensional subspace in $\mathbb{R}^{n+1}$ and we denote by $P_L$ the orthogonal projection onto $L$. Fix a unit vector $v\in \mathbb{R}^{n+1}$ and denote by $U$ the orthogonal complement in $\mathbb{R}^{n+1}$ of the line $L_v$ spanned by $v$. Consider the function
$$f_v: \mathbb{RP}^n\to\mathbb{R}, \;\; f_v(L)=(P_Lv,v). $$
Note that
$$ 0 \leq f_v(L)\leq 1,\;\;\forall L.$$
This is a Morse-Bott function with precisely two critical submanifolds: the locus of minima where $f=0$ and consisting of the real projective space $\mathbb{P}(U)\subset \mathbb{RP}^n $ of lines in $U$, and a unique maximum point, $L_v\in\mathbb{RP}^n$ where $f_v(L_v)=1$.
The normal bundle of $\mathbb{P}(U)\subset \mathbb{RP}^n $ is the tautological real line bundle over $\mathbb{P}(U)$ which is nonorientable.


text: "What does the fox say?" "Ring-ding-ding-ding-dingeringeding!". I actually did this lesson for my little sister because she has been fascinated with the song as she sings the ring-ding-ding-ding dingeringeding phrase all day long. I already did a tutorial on Ylvis, but I thought it would be fun to make a lesson on the actual cartoon character figure from the song that I created. Anyways, I did my best so go ahead and have fun with drawing the fox from Ylvis. Adios mi amigos and enjoy.


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I don't really come on here often, so if this has been suggested a million times before don't shoot me down.
Personally, I'd love to see a more in-depth set-piece creator. Set-pieces are one of the areas where managers make the biggest difference, so It would be great to be able to have some kind of 2D drawing board where I could direct my players to exactly the areas I want them to be attacking within the penalty area.
I find that free kicks on the game can feel as though you don't really have enough control over what's going on, and the list of commands feel slightly limited.


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text: Okay, so before I end the whole animal eyes submission for a while, I wanted to make sure that I uploaded a lesson on "how to draw dragon eyes", step by step. The simple design ends up coming out really nice, and very traditional. The gloss in the eyes, and the texture of the dragon's scales makes this tutorial look so exciting to tackle. I have always loved drawing dragon eyes because I can be as creative as I wanna be. So enjoy this tut folks, and remember to stick around to see what else pops up. Peace!


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Eating and drinking:
There are various restaurants, cafes and bars.
Shops include duty-free, a tobacconists, a supermarket, a clothing accessories shop and a perfumery.
The left-luggage office (tel: (0511) 977 2644) is located on the Arrivals level B, while lost property is handled by the Airport Service Centre (tel: (0511) 977 1899), also on the Arrivals level B.
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- Binding: Hardcover
- Era: 20th Century
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- Subject: Submarines
- Date Available: January 2013
The 'X' stood for experimental, but it might equally have meant extraordinary, exotic or extravagant, as this giant submarine attracted superlatives—the world's largest, most heavily armed, and deepest diving submersible of the day. X.1 was a controversial project conceived behind the backs of politicians, and would remain an unwanted stepchild. This book explores the historical background of submarine cruisers, the personalities involved in X.1's design and service, the spy drama surrounding her launch, the treason trial of a leading RN submarine commander, the ship's checkered career, and her political demise. Despite real technical successes, she would finally fall foul of "black propaganda", aimed at persuading foreign naval powers that the cruiser submarine did not work; even today uninformed opinion repeats the myth of her failure. Well-illustrated with technical drawings and historical photographs, this book pays belated tribute to the real importance of the mysterious X.1.
Roger Branfill-Cook is a professional translator from French into English. He has written numerous articles for specialist magazines and is both a novelist and an author of non-fiction books.
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"X.1: The Royal Navy's Mystery Submarine will be of great interest to readers who are submariners, naval enthusiasts, or historians of military technology. It describes a lost era: before advances in radar and sonar made the life of the submariner more precarious; before the snorkel acoustic quieting and ultimately, nuclear propulsion, turned submersible boats into true submarines. It offers a unique glimpse into an unhappy period of the Royal Navy's epic history."
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WINTERSVILLE - The Upper Ohio Valley Camera Club recently held its annual competition at Two Ridges Presbyterian Church hall.
There were 15 categories in prints with 553 pictures entered and six categories in slides with 65 total slides entered.
The Best of Show in prints was awarded to Melissa Bendle of Amsterdam, Ohio, with her picture of a Victoria Crowned Pigeon, "Seeing Red," taken at the Pittsburgh Aviary. Best of Show in slides was awarded to Ruth Bovalina of Burgettstown, Pa., with her close-up picture of a purple flower, "Purple Beauty," taken at a workshop in Aliquippa, Pa.
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WINNERS?AND?JUDGES — The Upper Ohio Valley Camera Club recently held its annual competition, and the Best of Show winners and judges included, from left, Melissa Bendle, Best of Show winner in prints; Kylene Sisk, judge; James Metcalf, judge; Breanne Wilkerson, judge; and Ruth Bovalina, Best of Show winner in slides.
The Best of Show winning print and slide are chosen from among all the first-place winning pictures in the various categories.
The judges for the competition were Kylene Sisk of Newbrough's Studio in Weirton; James Metcalf Eastern Gateway College photography instructor; and Breanne Wilkerson, Weir Middle School art teacher.
Some of the topics for the print competition were scenics, sunrise/sunset, children candid, pets, people formal, sports, humorous and architecture. The winners included Diane Bannister with one second-place award, and two third-place awards; Melissa Bendle, two first-place, three second-place and one third-place award; Ernest D'Andrea, one second-place award; Chris Horvath, one third-place award; Barb Momyer, three first-place and two second-place awards; Claudia Norris, two second-place awards; Dave Rees, one first-place and one second-place award; and Sam Rees, one second- and one third-place award.
Other club members who won awards included Don Roberts with one second-place and one third-place award; Steve Roberts, one third-place award; Leanne Sinicropi, four first-place and one third-place award; Debra Snider, one second-place award; Andy Tindor, two first-place, one second-place and three third-place awards; Karen Tindor, one first-place award; and Anissa Wellington, two first-place, three second-place and two third-place awards.
The topics for the slide competition were people, sunrise/sunset, nature, special effects, close up and pictorial - open. The winners included Ruth Bovalina with four first-place awards, four second-place awards and three third-place awards; Jim Malloy, one third-place award; Norris, one first-place, two second-place and one third-place award; Dave Rees, one first-place award; and Steve Whiting, one third-place award.
Camera Club members were presented ribbons for their winning pictures, and all the award-winning pictures were displayed recently at the Fort Steuben Mall for the annual exhibit. All the winning pictures can be found on Facebook at the Upper Ohio Valley Camera Club page.


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A Virtual Wall prevents your robot from entering areas that are off limits. Each emits an adjustable infrared beam that your robot will not cross. Requires 2 D batteries (not included). Compatible with iRobot Roomba® 400 Series (excluding SKUs 43501 and 44001), Discovery Series and Original Series robots.
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Ameda Manual Breast Pump ... an ergonomic one-hand pump.
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Hello everyone, I am new to java and am having quite a bit of trouble with it. I have to write a random number generator with numbers between 0-50. I also have to put something in with a determineLowest to return the lowest number. I am using Eclpise to write and test the program. Can anyone offer me some pointers or places to start? I have browsed through my book, and it did not help me at all. Thanks.
Beginner in java, need to write a random number generator.
Did you try Googling "java random numbers"?
One of the first results from Google. Enjoy:
import java.util.Random; /** Generate 10 random integers in the range 0..99. */ public final class RandomInteger { public static final void main(String... aArgs){ log("Generating 10 random integers in range 0..99."); //note a single Random object is reused here Random randomGenerator = new Random(); for (int idx = 1; idx <= 10; ++idx){ int randomInt = randomGenerator.nextInt(100); log("Generated : " + randomInt); } log("Done."); } private static void log(String aMessage){ System.out.println(aMessage); } }


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5 Fan Theories That Make Classic Movies Even Better
#2. Willy Wonka Makes Candy Out of Children
In Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, five children win special tickets to visit the titular factory. Wonka is hoping one of them could be the heir to his business, and conducts this search mostly by being a massive dick to the kids. It's OK, though, because nearly all them are little shits.
The film has recently found new fame by providing a way to express sarcasm on the Internet, finally.
In the end only the kid named Charlie is left, since all the others get whittled down in various ways. Charlie proves to be worthy to succeed Wonka, but the only question is, why are there so many opportunities for children to suffer candy-related injuries?
The Theory:
Because Wonka's candy is made from children. That's why he's so protective of his secret formula: The list of ingredients includes "child murder" in it. Suddenly, the Tim Burton remake with Johnny Depp impersonating Michael Jackson doesn't seem like the creepier version, does it?
Well ... maybe.
In the remake we see that the children are OK at the end of the movie, but the original didn't include that scene. Now think back to the way the children are disposed of. Veruca and Augustus are sucked down a garbage chute and a pipe in a chocolate river, respectively ...
At least we hope that's chocolate.
... while Mike and Violet suffer bizarre transformations: Tthe former is shrunk to the size of a human sex toy, and the latter gets turned into a giant blueberry.
Or a Na'vi that really let itself go.
We accept what happens to each kid because, seriously, they are terrible, but think about it: Why should the pipe leading from the chocolate river be so large? Large enough for an overweight human child to be sucked through it? Because it is built to transport humans.
Meanwhile, Wonka has developed technology that can A) transform kids into giant, juicy blueberries and B) shrink them down to an edible size. All he has to do now is package them. Then there's the fact that after Augustus falls in the river they all get on a boat that has the perfect number of seats. Shouldn't there be two extra, one for Augustus and one for his mother? No, because Wonka knew the kid would fall. He was counting on it.
"I, uh, have a garage full of boats with different number of seats. Yeah."
And if that's still not enough for you, there's also the fact that Wonka pretty much admits all this in the original draft of the book. Roald Dahl wrote a chapter where a sixth child falls into a mixer along with her father. Her mom says to Wonka: " You're grinding them into powder!" Wonka replies: "Of course, that's part of the recipe!"
Everyone spent the rest of the chapter violently vomiting and crying before resuming the tour.
#1. In Inception, Cobb's Totem is His Wedding Ring
Inception is known for having a soundtrack that went BWONG every three minutes and accompanied an infuriatingly open-ended final scene designed to make you argue with your date as you left the cinema. Leonardo DiCaprio plays Cobb, a widower who invades people's dreams to plant ideas in their subconscious. Each dream-planter has a personal object, or totem, to let them know if they're in a dream or in the real world, because getting lost in someone's head without realizing it is a legitimate concern in this line of work.
Cobb's totem was a spinning top: If it kept spinning forever it meant he was dreaming, and if it fell down he was not. In the last scene, Cobb makes the top spin on a table ... and then the movie cuts to black. So did it keep spinning or not? The Internet has been furiously debating this for years and we are no closer to an answer.
For our money, Cobb was definitely a replicant.
The Theory:
... and that's because we've been looking in the wrong direction. The top was never Cobb's totem -- it was his wedding ring all along. This is based on the fact that, every time we see Cobb's hand in the dream world, he happens to have the ring on it; you can see it in the opening scene, and again in that crazy dream in the cafe.
In fact he keeps flashing it to the chick from Juno, because he knows she's into married dudes.
Meanwhile, every time we see Cobb's hand in the real world, he doesn't have it. It's not there on any of the present-day, non-dream scenes at the beginning, and it's not there in the last few scenes ... meaning that the ending wasn't a dream. Check it out, this is right before he makes the top spin and the director pulls a The Sopranos on us:
Close the Internet, we're done.
Keep in mind, Cobb never said the top was his totem. Seriously, go back and rewatch the movie: He doesn't. We see him clutching the top in his hand when Juno asks about totems, but there's a good reason for him to do that: The top belonged to his dead wife, and, as the movie doesn't hesitate to show us, Cobb is still slightly hung up on her.
To the point where every time he goes to sleep, she chases him like a freaking Terminator.
In the movie we're told that totems must be something unique that only the owner knows well. Since the top was previously his wife's, that means Cobb must have had another totem before, right? The ring seems like a perfect choice. He stopped wearing it when she died, but was too cheap to buy a new totem.
Now that that's settled, let us put this movie to rest and overanalyze something else. What the fuck was that monkey Lincoln statue at the end of Planet of the Apes, anyway?
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Oklahoma City LP: What the Investigation Missed--and Why It Still Matters (Large Print / Paperback, Large Print)
On April 19, 1995, Timothy McVeigh drove into Oklahoma City in a rented Ryder truck and detonated a deadly fertilizer bomb, obliterating one-third of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building and killing 168 people. McVeigh claimed he conspired only with his old army buddy Terry Nichols, who had helped him make the bomb the day before. At least officially, the government believed him. But McVeigh's was just one version of events, and much of it was wrong.
In Oklahoma City, veteran investigative journalists Andrew Gumbel and Roger G. Charles puncture the myth about what happened on that day. Working with unprecedented access to government documents, a voluminous correspondence with Terry Nichols, and more than 150 interviews with those immediately involved, Gumbel and Charles demonstrate how much was missed beyond the guilt of the two principal defendants: in particular, the dysfunction within the country's law enforcement agencies and the unanswered question of who inspired the plot and who else might have been involved.
About the Author
Andrew Gumbel has worked for more than twenty years as a foreign correspondent for British newspapers the Guardian and the Independent, including assignments in the Balkans, Italy, the Middle East, and, since 1998, the United States. He has won awards for investigative reporting and political commentary, and written widely for U.S. publications including the Los Angeles Times and The Atlantic.
His book Steal This Vote: Dirty Elections and the Rotten History of Democracy in America was published to great acclaim in 2005. He was born in England and educated at Oxford University.
Roger G. Charles is a retired lieutenant colonel of the U.S. Marine Corps and an awardwinning investigative journalist who has worked with a wide variety of media outlets, including Newsweek, Vanity Fair, ABC (Nightline, Primetime Live), CBS's 60 Minutes II, and the BBC. In 1996 and 1997 he was a consultant on the Oklahoma City bombing for ABC's 20/20. He also worked as an investigator for Stephen Jones and the legal team defending Timothy McVeigh in his federal trial. Charles was born in Texas, raised in West Virginia, and graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, in 1967.
Praise For…
"Extraordinarily well-researched… The book brilliantly deconstructs the investigation."
-Wall Street Journal
"The story of the Murrah building bombing receives its most comprehensive accounting yet… It is a cautionary and at times startling tale, filled with bizarre characters from the outer fringes of American political life, with continuing relevance today."
-Michael Isikoff, The Daily Beast
"Impressive... There are enough freak-show touches to keep an FX drama stocked for three seasons… As Gumbel and Rogers tell it, the bombing investigation fell short of discovering the truth because of sloppiness, self-serving intra-office politics, and obstructive turf wars among law enforcement agencies."
"A well-reported, sober assessment... They make a strong case that some individuals involved in the bombing remain at liberty...the message is important for the future security of the U.S. citizenry."
-Kansas City Star
"Credible and relevant... Offers a perspective other than what was proved at the trials of Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols...and explores the unsettling question of whether such an event could happen again by homegrown perpetrators."
-Tulsa World
"This crisply written, fully documented book will anger you."
-The Tucson Citizen
"The most comprehensive account yet...will dash the smug assertions at the time that the feds had caught all the perpetrators."
-The Commercial Dispatch (Mississippi)


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February 28, 2013
Dance your heart out – Flickr pic of the day
This image of vibrant Cape minstrels at Wale Street near Bo-Kaap was captured by our Cape Town. Live it. Love it. Flickr group member Sumaya Hisham.
Says Sumaya: "The image was captured in Wale Street as the minstrels marched towards Bo-Kaap on the evening of January 2. Participants in the traditional Cape Town Minstrel Carnival dance through the city streets."
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Twist and shout!
Twist Fall 2010 is UP! Norah and I both have designs in this issue. It's my first design for Twist and I couldn't be more excited about it! Norah designed a pullover called Orange Pop, a really fun turtleneck with quirky details. Using Mary-Heather's exact measurements and fun personality as inspiration, Norah designed a figure-flattering Ultra Alpaca sweater with lots of waist shaping, reverse Fair Isle and a unique pointed turtleneck collar.
I designed a dress called Kiloran. It was an absolute joy to work on from the initial inception to the agonizing wait for the debut issue.
In the past couple of years I have really tried to figure myself out as a designer. One item or shape I return to again and again is the dress. I think I like the design challenge of making something that won't stretch out of shape or look shapeless and unflattering. Two things that are vitally important are yarn choice and the judicious use of seams. I am all in favor of knitting things in the round and avoiding seams when possible, but in certain situations, a seam or a bound-off edge can add much-needed structure. Kiloran features several seams and where it makes sense, easy circular stockinette.
I was first inspired by dramatic open necklines seen on the runway and on Princess Anne of Battenberg of all people. The loose, elbow-length sleeves and fitted empire waistlines gave way to full skirts, sometimes with generous bustles. Precisely the kind of dress I'd want to wear in early fall! Here is my mood board for the dress:
The knitting seemed to zip along, I'm not sure if it was because I was working with the very well-behaved 3-ply Ultra Alpaca in a new shade that I adore (Candy Floss Mix is a strange, evocative dusty pink) or if it was because I had discovered my new favorite film while working on the dress. "I Know Where I'm Going!", directed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger in 1945 is funny, wistful, gorgeous and endlessly entertaining–I finished the dress in under two weeks time, unusual speed for me that I completely attribute to Powell and Pressburger's masterpiece.
The front lace insert is knit in Ultra Alpaca Light:
I'm really hoping to knit a Kiloran for myself this fall, perhaps in romantic Flannery Red…though I do love the Candy Floss colorway I used (this is a back view of the bustled skirt):
The Kiloran dress is lovely. Thanks for sharing the mood board; it's fascinating to see the genesis of your beautiful design, Princess Anne of Battenberg in particular!August 3, 2010
Such wonderful work from both of you!! Huge congrats! And I can't say it enough – I *loved* wearing Orange Pop! First – what an honor to get to model one of Norah's designs. Second – that sweater is freakin' MAGIC! Loved it and the second I put it on I felt like I looked like a million bucks. YAY!August 3, 2010
I love this dress! What a beautiful design!August 3, 2010
When I saw the photo of the back of this dress in the Twist fall collection, it stopped me and my jaw dropped. Oh my, so pretty. Then, the photo of the front, wow! Stunning! It is so romantic and and beautiful. I love that you've shown us your inspiration board and a peak into your creative process, thank you.August 11, 2010
Love the sweater AND the dress!August 18, 2010
Jan Isaacs-Wade #
The name Kiloran, as well as the design is just fabulous, and oh so flattering. I can fully understand the inspiration coming from the wonderful film, I Know Where I'm Going! It's one of my favorites, as well! It was considered by Hollywood of the 1940's, one of the best screenplays ever written. If you haven't seen many of the Powell and Pressburger films, I highly encourage Black Narcissus, The Red Shoes, and A Matter of Life and Death. I'd love to see what you'll create watching those gems!
Thank you both for continuing to make knitting a lovely journey for us all!
JanAugust 27, 2010
Jan Isaacs-Wade #
Thanks for the heads up about that great site! I'll be anxious to find out how you like the others. The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp is also a great one with Roger Livesey and Deborah Kerr working so well together! The color in the Red Shoes is so lavish that I bet it inspires you!
Have fun watching and creating!
JaSeptember 3, 2010


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This work presents the theory and practice of abdominal diagnosis with the greatest care ever applied to an important diagnostic technique. Beginning with an historical and cultural perspective on the use of palpation in general, and abdominal palpation in particular, the book details the information required to master and extend the techniques presented. Introductory chapters concern the role of the emotional, mental, and spiritual aspects of Chinese medicine. Detailed etymologies, historical context, and classical sources are used to acquire a greater insight into hun, po, zhi, jing, and shen, as well as many other seminal concepts.
The text offers an exceptionally well detailed exploration of interior meridian pathways and the role of classical Chinese energetic anatomy, including concepts such as source and origin. This is followed by a description of the anatomy and physiology of the body�s energetically active fascial system, drawn from the latest Western studies, that establishes the authors� rationale for acupuncture based in a complex biological information system. Detailed, step-by-step procedures for practical diagnosis and therapy are accompanied by profuse illustrations and useful case histories.
The treatment systems described are coordinated through the abdominal patterns and are staged from the general to the specific. Therapies and techniques include hara shiatsu, sotai and breathing exercises, and five-phase treatments. Clear instructions are provided for using Manaka�s ion pumping cords, mu point diagnosis, O-ring diagnosis, and secondary diagnostic and treatment strategies such as palm diagnosis. The text concludes with a full description of biorhythmic treatment procedures drawn from the Da Cheng and Dr. Manaka�s practice. This chapter contains the information necessary to use the biorhythms, including tables for the bi-hourly and daily meridian rhythms, stem-branch rhythms, the ten-day cycle of the phases and source points, and the sixty-day cycle of the extraordinary vessels. The point associations are detailed, as are the selection procedures.
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Criminal Master Mind
For scholar and public intellectual George Fletcher, a career overflowing with influential contributions to the academy portends even bigger things to come.
High atop a filing cabinet in George P. Fletcher's book-lined office sits an elegantly framed triptych of placards, in which the Cardozo Professor of Jurisprudence takes evident pride. The art-quality documents feature a dramatic title script set against a painting from William Blake's Jerusalem series that depicts a male figure engulfed in flames, arms outstretched. At first glance, the signs would appear to announce events sponsored by a department of visual or performing arts. But they are actually artifacts from Fletcher's 2001 New Haven lecture series, which formed the basis for his book Romantics at War: Glory and Guilt in the Age of Terrorism.
If the advertisements for these lectures were more colorful than typical law school fare, this is entirely appropriate. So was the lecturer.
Since abandoning the mathematician's lab for the law library in the mid-1960s, Fletcher has earned a reputation as one of the most provocative and original living theorists of American and comparative criminal law. "Some might call me flamboyant," he says without apology. The New Haven "Romantics at War" lectures, which challenged accepted liberal conceptions of war guilt just months after the 9/11 attacks, were one representative piece of Fletcher's lifelong project, going back nearly half a century, to broaden the scope of transatlantic theoretical legal inquiry.
Befitting the cosmopolitanism that defines his scholarship, Fletcher has assumed a central role in mentoring Columbia's international students and preparing them for the study of law in America. Since 2000, he has taught a three-week introductory course each fall for 200 students trained in other legal systems. "Columbia Law School allows me to be [the students'] first encounter with American law," says Fletcher. "It's an annual 'boot camp' that is great fun and intellectually very challenging."
Another influential class developed by Fletcher is a seminar he teaches on biblical jurisprudence. Expanded in recent years beyond its original focus on the Old Testament to examine other religious texts, such as the Koran, the course—which Fletcher describes as an "intellectual happening"—has become a comparative law class dealing with ancient religious codes instead of secular legal systems. "I provoke students of all religions to think about the moral and legal implications of the biblical texts," says Fletcher. "Many of our institutions in the law make no sense without understanding our roots in the lost paradigms of the biblical world—and the students are thrilled to find an alternative to ordinary law classes."
Although his career has been peppered with high-profile moments in the public spotlight—from three nationally televised Fred Friendly seminars to regular appearances on CNN during the O.J. Simpson trial—Fletcher remains best known for his first academic treatise, the seminal 1978 work Rethinking Criminal Law, which has been the subject of symposia and is still regarded as one of the most important books on criminal law published in the past century. But Fletcher has never rested on his laurels. The California native, who speaks eight languages, has since published eight critically acclaimed books that approach legal issues from unique and unpredictable angles. His works focus on everything from the nature of loyalty to the political philosophy of Abraham Lincoln.
At 70, Fletcher shows no signs of slowing down his creative output. Last October, he published Tort Liability for Human Rights Abuses, which makes the original argument that the Alien Tort Statute can and should be used to prosecute human rights cases. He is also planning two further volumes of The Grammar of Criminal Law, which seeks to do for criminal law what Noam Chomsky did for language.
Fletcher credits his success to an early childhood exposure to languages. The child of Hungarian immigrants, he grew up in a multilingual home in Glendale, Calif., and
began teaching himself Spanish as a boy. That was followed by intensive undergraduate study of German and Russian and, later, the acquisition of fluency
in French, Hebrew, and Italian.
"You can't know a country's law without knowing its language," says Fletcher. "I didn't have a clerkship at the Supreme Court starting out. I wasn't in the top three of my law school class. It was languages that gave me a leg up."
After graduating from the University of Chicago Law School in 1964, Fletcher received a scholarship to study German law at the University of Freiburg. It was there that he came under the influence of Hans-Heinrich Jescheck, who stimulated his interest in comparative law. While in Freiburg, Fletcher also met the legendary economist Friedrich von Hayek, who was impressed enough by the young American to invite him to a private lunch at the posh Colombi Hotel. "I doubt whether great personalities like Hayek could possibly realize the impact a single private conversation can have on the future of an aspiring young scholar," says Fletcher. "That chat over lunch still influences me in the way I think about economics in the law."
Fletcher returned to the United States enthralled with the German approach to law, which he describes as more rigorous, more systematic, and requiring more robust thinking than the American or French approaches, with their fixation on
isolated precedent.
More than 10 years passed between his return from Germany and the writing of Rethinking Criminal Law, which occurred during an intense six-month period in 1978. Three decades later, Rethinking continues to reverberate on both sides of the Atlantic. The two decisions so far handed down by the International Criminal Court have cited the publication—the only text with that distinction. "The book allows you to say, 'This is true in most legal systems.' It crosses national boundaries," says Fletcher.
Post-9/11, Fletcher finds his work on the legal front lines intersecting with the day's biggest headlines—and not for the first time. In the 1970s, Fletcher, joined by Columbia Law School's Telford Taylor, made a series of high-profile visits to Moscow, where he helped liberate dozens of Soviet Jewish prisoners on the basis of legal arguments centered on Soviet sources. In 2006, four Supreme Court justices endorsed the argument made by Fletcher in an amicus brief for the landmark case Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, wherein he argued conspiracy charges were not permissible under the law of war.
Fletcher is currently focused on legal questions related to terrorism, specifically the overlap between crime and war. The topic, he says, is of critical importance, and his scholarship is driven by the belief that academic legal discussions must continue to cross national boundaries, perhaps now more than ever. "There has never been a more urgent time for serious jurisprudential and comparative reflection on terrorism, international violence, and war," says Fletcher. "Immediately after the bombing of the Twin Towers, I realized that the basic issue of the times is distinguishing between crime and war. The problem is complicated by the reciprocal ignorance of international and criminal lawyers of each other's fields. International and criminal lawyers need to educate each other—and quickly."


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You can not call Miles and Green quality players when we traded them....
Come on Portland, you have an off night against Miami really guys. Pull it together and win this
It depends. Will this trade result in a ring? If yes, then it doesn't hurt at all.
Tonight, all flags must burn, in place of steeples.
Autonomy must return into the hands of the people.
They weren't in our system. But NBA people knew they were. Why do you think Plumlee was non negotiable from the Suns. They saw the potential.
Great game between Miami and Portland right now. Coming down to the last few minutes.
ok I completely agree with you there, to me you made it sound like Plumlee and Green were quality players on the Pacers...but I see what ya mean now
We didn't know if Miles was a quality player because we never gave him the chance to prove himself. He didn't play. Green wasn't a quality player for us but he's been great in Phoenix's system. It's all about fit in his case.
Tonight, all flags must burn, in place of steeples.
Autonomy must return into the hands of the people.
Plumlee is the one thing that is giving me hope with Solo, despite how lost he looks. Gonna need him next year I figure.
Chris Bosh is so great.
There is no NBA player named Monte Ellis.
Don't tell me that the Blazers are going to lose this freaking game
This game is so much fun.
There is no NBA player named Monte Ellis.
Yes baby yes
karma Miami.....karma
Blazers just don't lose close games. Probably means they will lose a bunch of close games in the second half of the season.
There is no NBA player named Monte Ellis.
Bosh is going to shoot a 3 book it.
Watching the box score. Was that a touch foul like Allen got against the hawks?
I don't care about Green. Vogel saw plenty of him throughout the year and didn't like what he saw as it pertained to our system. I'll trust Vogel on that one.
I don't care about a draft pick which might very well be the last pick in the first round. Solomon Hill 2.0
Plumlee intrigues me and I do wish that we would have given him more clock last year. But he's in a better situation for himself now and I seriously doubt that he would be getting big clock here. We needed a proven vet in Scola.
The price we paid was absurdly low at the time. To get a player like Scola, you gotta give something up. It sucks that we didn't get him in 2012, but we couldn't do anything about that in 2013. Bird paid a pretty low price at the time, all things considered. He knew that the 2014 pick would be low and that Green wasn't going to work in the system. He probably didn't want to give Plumlee up, but you gotta do what you gotta do.
ooo geez
Man wade still has that explosiveness.
There is no NBA player named Monte Ellis.
Wade hacked him....was an obvious foul...just like the foul Lebron should have gotten on PG
So the coach took Lopez out for some reason, it brought Roy Hibbert/Vogel memories back ...
Blazers get bailed out. Wade with two dumb fouls.
There is no NBA player named Monte Ellis.
how does allen complain about that call?? clearly a foul....god I hate Miami


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Erase Errata formed in 1999 and quickly earned national attention via tours with electro grrl band Le Tigre and Japanese noise rockers Melt Banana. They released their highly acclaimed debut album Other Animals in 2001, followed by At Crystal Palace in 2003, both on the Troubleman Unlimited label.
After founding guitarist Sara Jaffe left Erase Errata in 2004, singer Jenny Hoyston switched to guitar and the group drafted a male vocalist named Archie McKay, a move that alienated many fans. The group eventually settled on a three-piece lineup, with Hoyston handling both guitar and vocal duties, and joined the Popfrenzy roster for the 2006 album Nightlife.