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I can't wait for the "HE SHOULD SPEAK ANYWAY!! WE DESERVE TO KNOW NOW!!" crowd to chime in.Hide replies
Only a matter of time before they jump in and demand his release. If not, they want Mark Attanasio's head on a platter.
I guess if you don't live with a moral code of ethics....you would feel that way.
People release isn't going to happen, The Milwaukee Brewers are contractually obligated to Braun until 2021 and that obligation is $130,000,000, they aren't going to eat that amount,nor is Braun going to offered to be bought out. The reality is that they're stuck with each other until at least 2020. He's untradeable and toxic right now, the best the Brewers can hope for is that he reutrns and is a productive player for them. I doubt he'll do it but I think negotiating a settlement with the speciment collector and getting on his knees and begging Brewer nation for forgiveness would go a long way towards starting to repair a rep that is in tatters.
Ghost of host. You have no clue what you talking about. The brewers are not going to release him. No chance.
Oh boy...even more reiteration that he can't speak on the PED's subject. Where are all the Braun crucifists clamoring for an admission of guilt?Hide replies
Right HERE! Braun wouldn't have accepted a suspension unless MLB had overwhelming evidence against him.
The question is, overwhelming evidence of WHAT?
Ryan Braun has proven that you can't believe anything he says.
"I know it was difficult for everybody, but I was not, and still am not, legally allowed to say anything yet."
There is no law that says he can't speak, what a joke.Hide replies
You must an attorney?
You sure aren't.
Correct, but unless granted immunity anything he says can be used against him by the authorities. See Lance Armstrong/Tyler Hamilton/Floyd Landis situation as a prime example.
So Mr Iguanna, you have first hand knowledge of the conditions of whatever agreement he worked out with MLB?
How do you know he hasn't reached a legal agreement with MLB?
And how do you know he has?
Actually, there IS A LAW that says that one must abide by a legal agreement and typically legal agreements of this nature require that neither party comment on the matter involved
Love the jail house lawyerin'. There is no law that says he can't speak to the media about his situation.
No, there's no "law," but it would be pretty stupid for someone accused of a crime to talk about their part in said crime while an open investigation is going on.
According to Dan Patrick, there is not that much evidence against Braun in the Biogenesis case, but a lot against people connected to Braun. If these people are still under investigation, Braun may not be at liberty to make public statements about the case.
@david b. what crime was committed? He took synthetic testosterone that was prescribed by a dr and/or physician. Not a crime.
He cheated. Not a crime
He lied to baseball. Not a crime
Aaron Hernandez killed a guy. That's a crime.
Braun is not looking at jail time for the actual cheating. However if he signed an agreement stating he won't speak until the full investigation is over to preserve the results for the remaining players he could find himself in a lot of different legal troubles.
The crime that was committed by Braun and or those around him was the use and distribution of a controlled substance without a doctor's prescription (and yes, jrsinicki, that is indeed a crime). There is presently an on going investigation happening, particularly around Braun's associates (who were apparently the direct connection to biogenesis).
Every agreement is legal contract covered by law. If he entered into an agreement not to comment, he would not legally be allowed to talk about certain things. I agree he should have come out and said something. He is either super arrogant or has really bad advisors. I would have made a statement before the announcement of the suspension.
Mr. Iguanna, There is criminal law and civil law. You are correct that there is no criminal statute that bars him from speaking. It is possible, even likely, that his agreement with MLB regarding the suspension was conditioned on the fact that he not speak about anything related to Biogenesis until the completion of their investigation. If he violates that then MLB would have legal recourse.
Wouldn't you expect it to be true that any deal would have included a provision whereby Braun would agree to keep his mouth shut through the duration of the investigation? So while he's not bound legally to avoid talking about the case, the deal he made with MLB could probably be overturned by MLB if he did.
I'm sure they told him to keep his mouth shut but it's not a law so legally he can say whatever he wants to. To claim he legally can't talk about it is ridiculous .
And obviously you still don't know or understand anything about a legally binding agreement.
If Braun violates the terms of his agreement with MLB, MLB could void the deal and seek further punishment against Braun. Possibly a lifetime ban. I'm pretty sure if you cut a deal with the DA to plead out of a criminal case and they told you that you couldn't talk about it to the local news team or run the risk of losing your deal, you'd stay quiet too. Legally, he can say anything he wants but his deal might not be there when he comes back from answering all your questions.
All the lefties at the Capitol in Madison should go to Miller Park and demand Braun speak since they don't have jobs or anything better to doHide replies
profoundly dumb comment
profoundly accurate comment
You are correct, inside pitch ... bingcherry's comment IS "profoundly accurate" ... Thank you for your support!
Looks like you have some time on your hands as well, Anon.
Break time, at my job
I hope someone gives him another chance in baseball, but do we really want to have to root for him with the brewers for the years to come? trade or release I think. even if the brewers are worse without him I would have more fun rooting on a team with out braun.Hide replies
Why don't we wait for more details to come out and for Braun to say his piece before we judge whether he is worthy of being a Brewer anymore.
He hit 40 home runs last year when he was clean. I don't respect the guy anymore, and I don't know if I'll cheer for him anymore but I'm willing to get a shot at a World Series ring with an a-hole on the roster vs another 26 years of futility
Who says or believes he was clean when he hit 40 HR last year?
People have short memories. Barry Bonds is still worshiped in S.F.
@insidepitch. No they don't. I went to San Francisco and AT&T park in November of the year he retired, they were already removing most of his plaques
Personally I am very sad and disappointed with what Ryan Braun has done and the lengths he has gone to continue on with the lie. That being said, those calling for his head or to be shipped off somewhere is, in my opinion, based in emotion and a personal hurt that fans of the Brewers feel. Let me ask you, those carrying the biggest and brightest mob torches to lynch Braun, have you ever lied, have you ever done something you were less than proud of and had your world, personal, or professional come down around you, have you ever paid a price for being dishonest, have you ever been or wished to be forgiven so that you can make amends or prove to people that what happened was a decision you made, but did to define you as a human being? If you can answer yes to any one of these self examining questions then apply that to Braun. The next year in his life will be a very humbling one for him. If HE does the necessary work and self examining and grows as a person because of it then keeping him will be a move that can be viewed as smart. If he learns nothing, and remains aloof and arrogant with hollow words, then ship him off. Everybody has made mistakes in their lives, some bigger than others, and many people have been given a second chance. What Braun has done is terrible and wrong and has compromised his image, but it is not unforgivable, or I redeemable. I for one will be watching what he says how he says it and what steps he takes to correct his egregious actions. But as a Christian I will forgive him and hope he takes care of his business the right way and decide at that point how I will support him or not.
That's one great post bbartel!
Ryan Braun "I will lie ... AGAIN"Hide replies
George Constanza, "Jerry, it's only a lie if you don't believe it"
He's waiting for his attorney's to come up with a better hand typed apology letter.
I will speak, I will read the carefully worded non-statement from my attorneys, I will say nothing.Hide replies
Mistakes were made, I can neither confirm nor deny due to an ongoing investigation and the threat of litigation, I will comment on baseball-related matters only, etc. The usual doublespeak.
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Sasha De Sola first performed with the Central Florida Ballet as Maria in its 2001 premiere production of "The Nutcracker".
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What does 'excited much' or 'stalker much' mean exactly, and which context are they used in? I don't get the usage of much after a noun or adjective. I often see this construction in comments, for example.
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Mark Liberman of Language Log discusses the "X much?" idiom with a recent entry from OED (some emphasis mine, some examples omitted):
Liberman notes that the idiom uses much in novel ways: "Jealous much?" insinuates that the target is quite jealous, whereas the conventional "Are you jealous much?" would inquire as to frequency, not intensity. He also notes how people use "X much?" even for words that don't easily expand to a full question: "Ad hominem much?" or "Martyr much?"
In my experience, the idiom ranges from whimsical to critical to sarcastic. Sometimes it's a teasing accusation, and sometimes it's even a boastful suggestion that the target should be "jealous much." A similar idiom, "You mad bro?" has gained currency in recent years for cases where the target is angry.
I think you are referring to a construction in which a characterization is presented in one word followed by the word much, read as a rhetorical question and intended as a criticism. It is not intended or imagined to be grammatically correct.
"Excited much?" would be "Do you get (this) excited often?" and is intended to paint the subject's enthusiasm as unwarranted and to suggest that it reflects on or represents the subject's general character.
"Stalker much?" is an attempt to portray behavior as stalker-like and would be grammatically written "Do you often behave like a stalker?"


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First of all, I haven't read the book (shame on me).
I remember one of the last scenes of Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King shows Frodo, Gandalf, Bilbo and some others leave by ship.
Where are they going to, and why?
First of all, I haven't read the book (shame on me).
I remember one of the last scenes of Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King shows Frodo, Gandalf, Bilbo and some others leave by ship.
Where are they going to, and why?
Frodo leaves Middle-earth for the Undying Lands with Gandalf, Bilbo, Elrond, Celeborn, and Galadriel.
This is considered a mystical land, home to the Valar, a race of 'angelic' elves also known as the 'masters of spirits'.
From the LotR wiki:
Now, as to why they made the journey, there seems to only be speculation, although the most common agreement is that Tolkien chose to have his beloved characters travel there, seemingly to remain, in order for them to live forever.
EDIT: It has been pointed out that, as mortals, eternal life would not be an option for the hobbits, so perhaps we should consider it more of a happy retirement.
Another, more thorough, answer could be the following, from Yahoo:
The characters you mention are accompanying the elves-- Galadriel, et al-- back to Valinor, the Undying Lands, across the sea to the west. The reasons for the elves' departure are detailed in the Silmarillion. It's a long story, which I encourage you to read, but to summarize very briefly:
Gandalf goes with them because that's where he's from. He's one of the Maiar, essentially a minor god. He's only in Middle Earth because he was sent there on a mission, which is now complete. He could probably magic himself back but it's not his style, so he travels with the elves.
As for Frodo, Bilbo, and eventually Sam, I don't think the reasons are explicitly stated. It seems that they have been invited to live among the gods-- an unprecedented honor for anyone not an elf-- as a reward for their service related to the ring.
They are traveling to Valinor, the Undying Lands. these exist outside the human world. Men cannot go there. The ending of LOTR ties back to material from the Silmarillion. The Appendices to The Return of the King provide added detail. As noted, many of the elves, Galadriel included, returned to Middle Earth in rebellion against the Vala to wage war on Morgoth, who stole the silmarillions (gems). The Vala are not "gods." There is but one creator-God in Tolkien's mythology. The Vala are created and participate with Illuvatar in fashioning the world.
Frodo, Bilbo and even Sam have been altered by their contact with the One Ring. They have also performed great deeds. Frodo is specifically given leave to travel to Valinor because of the unhealable wound from the Morgul knife. It is a grace of the Vala to permit them to come to the Undying Lands. Gimli, by the intercession of Galadriel, is also given leave to come to Valinor. Like the elves, and unlike men, the dwarves are tied to the world. Elves and dwarves go to the Halls of Mandos (a Valar) when they die. Men pass beyond the world - the "gift" of Illuvatar, but subverted by Morgoth.
The Silmarillion details the creation of the world by Illuvatar (a variant of the term "All-Father" - JRR Tolkien was a philologist and there are cognates to English, German and other languages in those spoken in Middle Earth). The Vala are created beings - created by Illuvatar in the long past. The Maia are another angelic order of beings, below the Vala. Saruman and Radagast are of the same order as Gandalf. Sauron is also a Maiar.
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How many times faster were the printing presses, which gave Europe an advantage over other continents in term of access to knowledge, compared to copying of books by hand?
According to Wikipedia, the average human handwrites at about 22 words per minute or 1300 words an hour when copying something. The bible has about 800,000 words and the Gutenberg has about 1200 pages so that's 660 words per page. Along that logic a person can copy around 2 pages per hour. The wikipedia entry suggests about 4 pages per hour by the way. Obviously it would be longer if you want to try to make the script look really pretty for a rich patron.
Now Gutenberg's first printing press could supposedly print about 25 pages per hour. So that's 10 times as fast. I suspect setting up the type for that page took quite a while, considerably longer than handwriting the same page would take. However, you could theoretically make up for that in volume by printing out lots of copies of that page.
Later presses of course improved on this, improving the speed of setting the movable type being a priority. Wikipedia's printing press entry has pretty good typical numbers:
Basically where throughput is concerned, the two aren't even comparable. In a world that includes printing presses, a person trying to promote an idea via hand-copying is bringing a knife to a gunfight.
By the way, the idea of copying a book page by page (so called block-printing) was already used in Asia for more than a thousand years. At the time of Gutenberg, Chinese printers where said to achieve up to 200 pages an hour. So it is inacurate to say that this gave Europa an advantage. It would take another 400 years before printing speed was significantly increased but by then the speed increases were fast and dramatic.
T.E.D.'s answer is the definitive one here, but the other thing to remember is scalability: it might take a while to set the type for a printed page, but every copy after that first one takes a fraction as long to print because the type has already been set. Copying a page by hand takes just as long the 1,000th time as it did the first, and that's not even accounting for the possibility of errors that would render a page unusable.
Thus, printing presses might NOT have been much faster for projects requiring only 1-2 dozen copies, but the benefit would grow proportionally to the size of the project. Printing jobs requiring many, many copies, like the Bible or a widely-circulated pamphlet, were able to reap not only the short-term benefits of printing speed, but the repetitive bonus of cranking out copy after copy from a single design.


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Veronika Part: divided opinions?
Posted 09 January 2008 - 08:42 PM
"I am a hardened and, I sometimes feel, a numbed observer of ballerinas in Swan Lake , hopes fading as yet another nice young woman collides with the role and goes to her (and the ballet's) doom. On Sunday afternoon (lightning strikes at a matinee!) Part took the stage in that simple leap, then assumed the Swan Queen's initial pose. And everything was right. And more than right. What followed was a display of Kirov style at its most noble as a discipline to shape a magnificent interpretation, both physical and emotional."
Link to the full review (also in today's links):
Posted 09 January 2008 - 10:35 PM
And so we wait, till 2 PM, Saturday, May 31. Every Part O/O (in NYC) has been a revelation, and each revelation a different one. The month after, two Part/Gomes Bayaderes. Thank you, Gene Schiavone, for my favorite recent ballet photo:
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As a Londoner I very much hope she does not join the Royal Ballet.
Why not, Mashinka? The Royal Ballet seems to be the troupe that Part would like to join, if one 'reads into' the article to which Dale provided a link. Anything less than a national-level troupe with a classics-heavy repertoire would be a step down, after a Kirov or an ABT, IMO.
On second thought...
Mashinka & others - Do you think that Part's talents could perhaps be better served in a smaller, chamber-sized company, i.e., be the undisputed 'prima' of a smaller company, rather than fighting through the ranks of yet another mega-troupe?
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So perhaps the Chamber Ballet route would be a more felicitous one for her?
Posted 06 March 2008 - 11:12 AM
...So perhaps the Chamber Ballet route would be a more felicitous one for her?
Perhaps someone could alert Mr. McKenzie of her availability and he could entice her to ABT with an offer to be Principal. After all, she is that company's best Odette/Odile, Nikiya, Raymonda, Lilac, Myrtha, "Mozartiana",...
Another choice would be the Mariinsky. Perhaps their next A.D. might wish to return to the Mariinsky style: what more perfect choice?
Posted 06 March 2008 - 01:03 PM
London's Ballet Magazine is reporting Veronika Part will leave ABT at the end of the Met season. The link is here.
Interesting article but rather thin on listing all the ballet opportunities Part has had with ABT. From ABT's website:
"Her roles with the Company include Terpsichore in Apollo, a Shade in La Bayadère, Twig in Cinderella, Prayer in Coppélia, Mercedes and the Queen of the Driads in Don Quixote, Myrta in Giselle, leading roles in Ballet Imperial and Mozartiana, the Sugar Plum Fairy and the Snow Queen in The Nutcracker, the Chief Nursemaid in Petrouchka, the Polovtsian Princess in the Polovtsian Dances, Raymonda, Henrietta, the White Lady and the Lead Spanish Dancer in Raymonda, Lady Capulet in Romeo and Juliet, Odette-Odile, the Polish Princess and a Big Swan in Swan Lake, a leading role in Les Sylphides and Symphonie Concertane, Terpsichore in Sylvia and the second movement in Symphony in C. She created a leading role in Kaleidoscope and Within You Without You: A Tribute to George Harrison. "
While I certainly understand Part's frustration with the politics at ABT.... she is very much loved by Director, Kevin McKenzie, and has been given many more opportunities than this article at Ballet.co suggests. Problem is, that there are many other principals (avec imports) and soloists who are stronger.
I think ABT's recent choices of rep at City Center and at the Met have also been a problem.... Part's not a Ballo type.... and the company hasn't done Mozartiana or Sym in C for some time - roles in which Part excelled. I think the audience and ABT's dancers would benefit from a better variety.
Posted 06 March 2008 - 01:15 PM
......Another choice would be the Mariinsky. Perhaps their next A.D. might wish to return to the Mariinsky style: what more perfect choice?
Drb, I'm afraid that she would have the same problem as before because of her naturally plush physique. Look at what's happened to the other 'plush' ballerinas of Part's generation (mid-1990s graduates) at the Mariinsky, Tatyana Amosova and Tatyana Serova. It's not just Makhar Vaziyev; it's the mindset of the teachers and coaches. Secondly, the main apologist for Part's talents -- her teacher, then coach, Inna Zubkovskaya -- passed away shortly before Part left Russia. Zubkovskaya was also the 'protector-coach' of Serova. Amosova had Udalenkova as teacher but, I think, Zubkovskaya as coach in the theater.
If you don't have the prescribed physique (attenuated - hyper-slim), then you at least must have a political heavy-hitter on your side. Zubkovskaya was that heavy hitter for Part.
I can't speak for the ABT years in Part's life except that she was not cast in leading roles all that often and, when she was, not all were succesful -- most notably last year's Aurora experience. The above-cited interview reveals more about the ABT years than any of us could state.
That said -- I LOVE Part's Lilac, Odette, Symphony Concertant, Leaves Are Fading, Sugarplum, etc., etc. She will be missed. I hope that she will find a company where she can shine as 'prima' right at the start and not have to fight her way through the ranks yet again. Enough is enough!
Posted 06 March 2008 - 03:14 PM
Perhaps someone could alert Mr. McKenzie of her availability and he could entice her to ABT with an offer to be Principal. After all, she is that company's best Odette/Odile, Nikiya, Raymonda, Lilac, Myrtha, "Mozartiana",...
I could not put it any better.....my ABT attendance will seriously dwindle next season...for the coming season I hav e tickets to see Part, Ananiashvilli and Vishneva---the rest of the roster has never measured up for me to TRUE ballerina status.
Posted 06 March 2008 - 03:17 PM
Clearly last season was supposed to be the turnaround where she was featured in the opening night gala with the other principals, given the opening night of a new production and danced a new role in a full-length classic, "La Bayadere". Well, it didn't happen quite so smoothly. Her performance in the opening night gala was a dud. I must disagree with Natalia, I found her lovely but miscast as Aurora but she didn't disgrace herself or the company or Petipa. Much of it was lovely and her serenity and grace helped anchor that messy production. She brought class to the evening. Unfortunately perhaps the failure of the production rubbed off on her, conveniently for the real malefactors. The "Bayadere" was a total success, especially the second evening. Then she got injured yet again and missed the yearly event of her Odette/Odile in "Swan Lake" with Marcelo. I am very sad to see the splitting up of the Marcelo/Veronika partnership. That had magic that consoled one for losing Ferri/Bocca.
This has been coming for some time. I am afraid but when the casting for the Fall City Center season went up, I knew that Veronika's moment had come and passed. Good things were not going to happen for her at ABT. I think Veronika can take some of the blame, her dancing and physical conditioning have been uneven - especially in her first seasons when she was new to the company. Rehearsing and classes may not have been as smooth and stress-free as possible due to some language barriers and insecurities. Despite not dancing all that often, she has had a full share of injuries over the last six years. It seems she also plateaued at the Kirov-Mariinsky before she left Russia. I wish her the best and hope she finds a wonderful new home somewhere where she can fulfill all her potential in an understanding and supportive environment that also challenges her, supports her talent and uniqueness and imposes the discipline that will make her talent fully manifest itself.
You take our love with you, Veronika.
Posted 06 March 2008 - 04:24 PM
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All I can say is that Veronika made ABT a more interesting and diverse company. But she needs to be a prima, not a soloist because she is so different, so unique. This uniqueness also makes her not an ideal "team player" which is what McKenzie clearly wants. I am not sure that given the way her career has been shaped that she is so "adored" by McKenzie but that is just informed speculation.
Roger that.
Good luck to you Vika - much love always !
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DAMASCUS, Syria (CNN) -- North Korea asked Iraq this week if it could fly a plane through Iraqi airspace to Syria, an adviser to Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki told CNN on Friday.
Al-Maliki rejected the request because there was suspicion that the plane would be carrying weapons, said adviser Ali al-Mousawi, without providing additional details.
The prime minister talked by phone with U.S. Vice President Joe Biden on Friday afternoon, officials said. Biden asked Iraq for help in stopping weapons from reaching Syria, according to a statement released by his office.
Biden stressed to the Iraqi prime minister "the need to prevent any state from taking advantage of Iraq's territory or airspace to send weapons to Syria."
Al-Maliki "expressed the Iraqi government's discomfort with some informal U.S parties of stirring suspicions about Iraq's position toward Syrian crisis," and that Iraq has held a "firm position in rejecting any weapon supplies or violent activity over Iraq's territories or its airspaces," according to a release from his office.
"Al-Maliki reiterated the position of the Iraqi government based on the need to find a peaceful political solution for the Syrian crisis and its rejection to supply ammunitions to any party involved in the Syrian conflicts," the release said.
Opponents of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's rule are concerned about the shuttling of arms to his government by entities such as Iran. Iraq borders Syria and Iran. Earlier, Syria's besieged president slammed the rebels battling his government forces, but said the "door to dialogue is open."
"Dialogue with the opposition is the only way out to address the crisis," al-Assad said in a magazine interview published Friday.
The cries for freedom and democracy that spread across the Arab world last year also reached Syria. That set the wheels in motion a standoff that morphed into a civil war in the country between the al-Assad government and a growing rebel movement.
More than 26,000 people, mostly civilians, have been killed in the one-and-half-year-long conflict, according to opposition activists.
Al-Assad, who blames the violence on terror groups, told Egypt's Al-Ahram al-Arabi magazine that "armed men are engaged in terrorism against all of the state's institutions."
"They have no support in the society. Rather, they have harmed the interests of the people by targeting the infrastructure that serves the people and killing innocent Syrians. Ultimately, they will not emerge victorious," he said.
He said backers of these forces "think the only solution is through a Libyan scenario." That's a reference to rebel forces, with foreign backing, toppling Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi and his government.
"But a decisive end (to the crisis) will take some time, of course. However, the door to dialogue is open and we have offered several initiatives for amnesty for all of those who put down their arms in order to encourage dialogue," al-Assad said.
The president took jabs at Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Qatar -- all supporters of the opposition.
"They suddenly saw money in their hands after a long period of poverty and think they can change (the role of) history and geography, and play a regional role," al-Assad said, referring to Saudi Arabia and Qatar.
Before the Syrian conflict started last year, Saudi Arabia served only as a "mediator with the West that does not appreciate the axis of resistance against Zionism advocated by Syria," the president said.
"Let me correct a prevalent idea that Saudi Arabia, Syria and Egypt are the triangular axis of stability in the region. This is not true. It has always been, and will remain, Syria, Iraq and Egypt," he said.
As for Qatar, it "uses the power of money and revolves in the orbit of the West by providing weapons and money to terrorists to repeat the Libyan scenario," al-Assad said. And Turkey, he said, has "lost a lot" by taking its stance on Syria.
"They are unconcerned about the interests of its people, focusing solely on its ambitions that include the new Ottoman Empire," he said.
Twenty-five "bound and blindfolded" bodies were found in a mass grave in the al-Qadam area of Damascus, Syria's state news agency said. Authorities blamed the deaths on "armed terrorist groups."
The government also said its armed forces "killed a number of terrorists" in the Damascus area town of Beit Jen.
The opposition Local Coordination Committees of Syria said regime forces conducted a "massacre" in the suburb of Buwaida. Seventeen people were stabbed to death after soldiers stormed the area, it said.
The LCC said the 17 were among 117 people killed across Syria on Friday. Forty-eight deaths occurred in the Damascus area. Seventeen people were killed in Aleppo, and 15 each in Homs and Idlib provinces. Violence also raged in Daraa, Raqqa, Deir Ezzor, Latakia and Hama provinces.
The U.N. refugee agency says it is making progress relocating Syrian refugees in Lebanon.
It is also working to enroll refugee children in Lebanese and Iraqi schools, the agency said Friday. Nearly 73,000 Syrian refugees in Lebanon have registered or are awaiting registration with the United Nations. There are now more than 29,000 Syrians in Iraq.
A second Russian plane transporting 38 tons of food arrived in Damascus, according to the Syrian Arab News Agency, which reported the arrival of a similar shipment Thursday.


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How do you define a Christian? How do you define what kind of person is your brother in Christ and what kind of person is not?
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If someone professes faith in Christ AND is aligning their behavior with the Bible, they are my brother. As the verse indicates, they have to both be called a Christian and behave like one.
Anyone who believes in Christ as his personal Lord and Savior is my brother or sister in Christ.
I agree that their actions must agree with their beliefs (i.e. walk the talk), but that does not comprise at all the basis by which one decides whether they are my brother or sister in Christ.
Romans 14 talks about "Cultivating Good Relationships".
Do not interpret this the wrong way, this is not an excuse to say that all denominations and religions are variations of the same thing, they are not. My point is that we interpret the Bible differently, such as what we can eat and not eat, but we still believe in Christ as our personal Lord and Savior.


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Everything Bad is Good for Youand other thoughts about pop culture
Posted 15 June 2005 - 11:54 AM
In this week's THE NATION, there's an interesting review, by Russell Jacoby of UCLA, of two books on the subject:
Everything Bad is Good for You: How Today's Pop Cutlure is Actually Making us Smarter (Steven Johnson, Riverhead)
Mediated: How the Media Shapes Your World and the Way you Live it. (Thomas de Zengotita, Bloomsbury).
Here's the Link
The starting point appears to be the thesis of Josef Weber, described as "a forgotten essayist who pondered, among other things, popular culture, which did not please him." (This was back in the 1950s). Among Weber's points, apparently, is the idea that people increasingly know about things and decreasingly about social reality." Jacoby paraphrases: "Later reformulated as the law of the falling rate of intelligence, it posits that intelligence sinks in society as the production, selling and advertising of commodies rises. We face a cris of the overproduction of idiocy."
Recent Ballet Talk threads on the topic leave the impression that several of us seem to take an intuitively Weberian position, while others are more tolerant. This review -- thoughtful and very shrewd indeed -- helped me in my own attempt to reach a balanced view.
Posted 15 June 2005 - 11:58 AM
So, not being able to read Mr. Jacoby's more balanced position, I'll stick with my own intuitively formed one
More seriously - is the full article available online, or only in the print edition?
Posted 15 June 2005 - 12:10 PM
I tried to find a way to download the full article, but you need a subscriber's registration. The site has recently been redesigned. Some content is available to all -- but not this one.
Here are some of Jacoby's points:
"Steven Johnson, a savvy writer on technology and its pleasures, offers a thorough-going challenge to [Weber's] bleak outlook on popular culture. To be sure, Johnson's contrariness may be a pose, inasmuch as it depends on opposition that has all but melted away. Apart from a few depressed followers of Josef Weber and his ilk, who today believes in falling cognition?" Champions of popular culture can be found throughout this broad land. One need not venture very far to discover courses on soap operas, situation comedies of Star Trek offered by cultural studies professors... To be sure, doubt about the legitimacy of their subject matter haunts even the most avid boosters of popular culture. I sometimes ask my students a variant of an Internet dating uestion: Whom would you rather date, someone who indicates their favorite pastime is to stay home to play video games or to step out to a ballet or museum? Even the most avid enthusiasts of television balk at dating their own soul mates."
"Johnson tells a 'progressive story,' in which popular culture, far from dumbing us down, becomes ever more complex, intellectually stimulating and sophisticated each year." For instance, he compares the single narrative structure of an old Dragnet episode with new shows like The Sopranos which juggle numerous characters, plots, etc. He finds the Fox series "24" to be "at least three times as complex as the old Dallas." Films, Johnson says, are also becoming increasingly complicated.
Jacoby responds: "How complex is complexity? Or, more precisely, does an ability to master complex narratives and intricate games reflect an expansion of general intelligence?" The recognition of attention-deficit-disorder shows that many people today cannot focus on one thing for long -- not usually associated with high levels of "intelligence" Jacoby: "The new complex intelligence does not foster a capacity to follow the 'sustained' argument of a typical book. Johnson must make this concession -- after all, he offers us an argumentative book, not a blog or a video game." Jacoby's final word on the book, which he praises generally: "Media complexity may express the dwindling force of cognition in the era of attention-deficit-disorder."
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Posted 15 June 2005 - 01:20 PM
I prefer a win-win situation: getting smarter and having my soul nurtured.
Posted 15 June 2005 - 01:29 PM
Much of the popularity of show dancing, interpretive dancing, Fosse movements, acrobatic dancing, etc. -- as well as the sexualized dancing now being discussed on another thread -- is precisely that it is easy to follow, oddly predictable and familiar from other parts of our daily dose of culture. And you can often tune out for a while in the middle of a performance without missing anything essential. I would imagine that Balanchine -- or Taylor for that matter -- or even the complex steps in story ballets like Swan Lake or Sylvia -- would be very tiring for some people to follow, if they tried.
Posted 15 June 2005 - 02:10 PM
I don't think that is a generational thing. I've been attending performances of ballet and opera for almost 35 years, and there have been nappers and snorers of all ages.
What about this point about weak concentration and attention-deficit. With an art like ballet, isn't so much of the beauty in the details? Doesn't ballet require precisely the kind of extended concentration (as well as cognitive knowledge) that Jacoby claims is in deficit in our culture?
Posted 15 June 2005 - 02:26 PM
As the review bart quotes points out, many people have observed that pop culture is not always and only junk food for the mind, so I think that is something of a straw man.
Posted 15 June 2005 - 03:53 PM
Which makes us not exactly smarter, but wiser, or at least offers us that possibility.
One of the problems I have with the argument is that art (for which pop culture is being substituted) isn't supposed to make us "smarter." It is supposed to feed our imaginations and our souls and enrich our lives.
Posted 17 June 2005 - 05:39 AM
Go to the bottom of the main page and hit Opinion -- this leads you to David Brooks's columns.
Brooks begins with his redisovery of an essay on Hemingway from a 1961 issue of Time Magazine. Among his points:
"If you read Time and Newsweek from the 1950s and early 1960s, you discover that they were pitched at middle-class people across the country who aspired to have the same sorts of convesations as the New York Boston elite. The magazines ... devoted as much space to opera as to movies because an educated person was expected to know something aobut oepra, even if that person had no prospect of actually seeing one."
Posted 17 June 2005 - 05:59 AM
Joe Strauss to Joe Six-Pack
It's interesting that Brooks, rather than attacking pop culture as being what corrupted us, or blaming Joe Six-Pack for being dumb, seemed to place most of the blame on intellectuals in the 1960s who attacked middlebrow culture. Tom Wolfe has written and spoken on this -- that prior to the 1960s, the great writers and musicians and painters wanted an audience, or perhaps needed an audience because somebody had to pay the bills, and though art could be excellent, it was also accessible. When art became deliberately rarified, when artists started making work for each other rather than us, people turned away.
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Posted 17 June 2005 - 08:51 AM
I'm not a fan of David Brooks. Be that as it may, who is Joe Strauss?
Joe Sixpack's middlebrow-striving-for-highbrow forbearer.
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The Nebraska City boys' soccer team, 6-4, will open play in the Eastern Midlands Conference tournament at 7 p.m. Tuesday at home against Plattsmouth.
Nebraska City beat the Blue Devils 2-0 on April 5 in Plattsmouth.
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The best selling author of "Tuesday with Morrie" visits Western Kentucky University to share his views on what really matters in life.
Mitch Albom spoke to a crowd of students, teachers and excited fans... about experiences with his favorite college professor, Morrie.
He says one of the greatest lessons he learned from that relationship... is to remember those who make a difference in your life.
Albom says that although we live in a "taking" society... the most meaningful part of life is giving back.
And faculty at Western agree... Albom's life lessons on relationships are a valuable part of Western's curriculum.
Albom also spoke about his newly released novel, which deals with the impact we have on others as we live our own lives.
It's called "The Five People You Meet in Heaven" and it's available in bookstores now.


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The 6 Most Ridiculous Superhero Weaknesses
Look, we get why superheroes need weaknesses. You can't just have them going around doing as they please without any limitations or every crisis would be over in five minutes.
But for whatever reason, comic book writers ran out of weaknesses that make any kind of sense at all right around the time that they decided the Green Lantern's weakness is the color yellow.
#6. Wonder Woman: Having Her Hands Tied by a Man
Wonder Woman, besides usually being the only thing that keeps the Justice League from turning into a complete sausage party, has transcended comic books and become an enduring symbol for feminism. She's always been portrayed as a badass Amazon warrior who doesn't take shit from anyone and, unlike Batman, she isn't afraid to break a neck or two when she has to.
"Guess I'm in quite a snappy mood today, haha ... but no, seriously, that's murder."
Why do you think Gotham City gets all the great villains? Most of them are too afraid to go near Wonder Woman's turf.
The Ridiculous Weakness:
Of course, originally Wonder Woman was created as, well, pretty much the exact opposite of what we just described. We've mentioned before that her creator believed bondage was the key to a healthy relationship and tried to include as much as of it in his comics as possible -- what we didn't tell you is that he also made it so all of Wonder Woman's amazing powers were rendered completely useless if her hands were bound by a man.
"I'm a normal woman now! What fate could be worse?"
And yes, it only works if a man does it, so when you think about, the real weakness here is scrotums. However, her one weakness was also apparently the only thing keeping her destructive tendencies in check: If Wonder Woman's Bracelets of Submission were broken, she would "launch into an uncontrollable rage."
This wasn't just in the '40s, by the way -- the same ridiculously offensive weaknesses were still being used as recently as the late '70s, while the live-action Wonder Woman TV show was on the air:
It was only in the '80s that DC Comics started ignoring all that crap. Fortunately this still gives us 40 years of material to take out of context and make fun of.
A henchman chipped her nail in issue #45 so she just sat down and waited to be shot.
#5. Thor: Letting Go of His Hammer for 60 Seconds
If Wonder Woman is about feminism, The Mighty Thor is all about how wonderful it is to have a penis. It would be silly to pretend that comic book writers are completely unaware of the phallic nature of Thor's hammer -- it's, uh, kinda hard to miss. He even gave it a nickname ("Mjolnir") and has been known to flaunt it in front of the ladies.
"Too easy." -Cracked Caption Department
With his super strength, flight, control of lightning and (at this point) superfluous magical abilities, Thor is possibly the most powerful superhero ever. All those powers are derived from his massive dong-like hammer ... you can probably see where this is going.
The Ridiculous Weakness:
As explained in the early Thor comics, if he lets go of his hammer for more than a minute he loses his god status and becomes human, while the hammer itself turns into a flimsy walking stick.
Marvel Team-Up #26 (1974)
Though he does gain the new powers of walking away nonchalantly and filing his taxes.
To make matters worse, Thor's secret identity (med student Donald Blake) is basically a younger version of the main character from House, right down to the crippled leg, the scrawny physique and the annoying god complex (though in this case it's somewhat justified). Think about it: Thor is the mightiest hero ever, but he can't even fall asleep without firmly clutching his hammer under the covers and oh God the penis similarities keep coming. But all of that is beside the point. This weakness wouldn't be so much of a problem if Thor's main crime-fighting method didn't consist of throwing the hammer great distances.
"Really should have thought that through."
Usually Mjolnir comes back by itself, but the only thing his enemies have to do is make sure it doesn't and Thor is completely fucked. This happened more often than you'd think.
It slid under his car one time and he got all muddy and flustered while retrieving it.
Oh, and if anyone else happens to pick up the hammer while Thor is rushing to reach it, if they "be worthy," they gain all of his powers. Eventually, Thor's laughable 60-second limitation was removed through complex mystical methods.
#4. Venom: Tiny Amounts of Fire
Venom is one of the deadliest and most terrifying villains in comics (at least when he's not being played by the guy from That '70s Show). If Spider-Man's powers are a drawn-out metaphor for Peter Parker going through puberty, Venom represents that one time Pete became addicted to hard drugs and ended up mugging his own aunt for crack money.
His ensuing mental breakdown was covered extremely sensitively in the third movie.
Venom started out as Spider-Man's powers-enhancing black costume and later turned out to be an evil alien entity with a mind of its own. Spidey hasn't "used" Venom for about 20 years, but he's been cleaning up after that mess almost every day since. So how do you stop a merciless killer who knows everything about you, routinely bonds with your worst enemies and hates you with the passion of a scorned lover?
The Ridiculous Weakness:
Fire, and we're not talking flamethrower here. We're talking matches. According to Marvel's website, Venom is "extremely vulnerable to heat" (and also loud noises), and they're not kidding. Check out the time Venom was about to kill Spider-Man ...
Peter Parker: Spider-Man #16 (2000)
... only for some random guy to save him with a cheap lighter. Lucky for Venom he wasn't also carrying an air horn.
Peter Parker: Spider-Man #16 (2000)
"Why would you be so mean, Spider-Man?!"
At this point Venom completely loses his shit and his clothes literally jump off his body out of sheer terror. Over a $1 lighter. The real question here is why Spider-Man doesn't carry one at all times.
Peter Parker: Spider-Man #16 (2000)
Wow, the writers just went full on meta here and admitted they repeat themselves a bunch.
Think about the implications of this. The guy wearing the Venom costume typically must keep it on at all times, so cooking with anything other than a microwave is impossible. The Fourth of July must be terrifying, as he could be held at bay by any group of 8-year-olds with sparklers. Even the other Spider-Man villains make fun of him because of it.
"Come on Electro, Kraven and Fishbowl Helmet Guy, let's leave this silly motherfucker alone."


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Cheshire runs wild in victory over Lyman Hall
CHESHIRE — The Cheshire Rams ran all over the Lyman Hall Trojans to the tune of 495 yards in a dominant 47-7 victory Friday night in an SCC interdivision matchup.
Gabe Vega led the way for the Rams (1-1), running six times for 162 yards and three touchdowns. He had two scores of 67 yards each and another from five.
"Seeing everybody passing by me from the side, there's honestly nothing like it. It's crazy," said Vega of his 67-yard scores. "I got a chance to show that I could make some runs."
Starting tailback Jack Cunningham ran nine times for 141 yards and two scores in the first half, before giving way to the underclassmen to close out the game.
He got things going early for Cheshire, taking his first carry for 29 yards before he scored on a 10-yard scamper on the next play to put Cheshire in the lead, 7-0.
His second touchdown came on the third play of the second quarter. With Cheshire already leading 21-0 at this point, Cunningham ran off left tackle and sprinted 35 yards untouched into the end zone. It was his last carry of the day before handing off running duties to Vega and Co.
"It was nice to get some younger kids some reps," he said. "It was fun to cheer on some of the other kids that don't really get as much playing time, and they played great so it was good to see."
The Rams' other big runner in the first half was Andrew Yamin.
He ran the ball seven times for 92 yards and scored twice in the first quarter. He punched in a goal-line carry with five minutes to play in the quarter, and then ran 27 yards on a cutback to put the Rams up 21-0.
Cheshire's offensive line overpowered the Trojans' (0-2) defensive line, and the Rams were able to rack up 409 rushing yards in the first half alone.
"We're going to put our hand on the ground, and we're going to run the football. It starts up front with those guys," Cheshire head coach Don Drust said. "We're going to put our hand on the ground, and we're going to run the football. We have about eight guys that have the ability to do that for us, and that's a mentality.
A key for Cheshire in the game was the way it limited its mistakes.
Durst noted that his team did not make the mental errors or commit the turnovers they had a week ago in a 17-14 loss against Ridgefield, and won the turnover battle 2-0 over the Trojans.
Lyman Hall was able to manage 304 yards against Cheshire's defense, but could only string one scoring drive together.
Justin Brown scored for the Trojans from a yard out.
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