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Writing is writing, but I am not confident enough to take on creating a whole world from scratch. Will writing fanfic or writing in other shared world spaces be beneficial, or will it simply allow me to get into some bad habits?
As long as you approach it with good writing practices and treat it as you would your own real writing project, it can help you practice the art of putting words on paper.
What it will not prepare you for, however, is world-building, which is the other half of the battle when you write, and is just as important as your ability to write. You can be a brilliant wordsmith, but without a story to tell and a world to tell it in, your talent is wasted. At the same time, you can have the most compelling story ever conceived, but if you don't know how to put it in words, there's not much you can do with it.
In short, writing fan fiction only partially prepares you for the "real deal".
In general, I feel that fanfic is a crutch that keeps a lot of people from honing their craft and moving on to original fiction. After years of NaNoWriMo and some side work with an editor, I've only seen one person start with fanfic and graduate to doing their own, thoroughly original work.
It's like they're just too scared to ever leave their comfort zone, and why wouldn't they be? The fanfic community tends to do its own thing, not overlapping much with other types of writing, so it's easy to feel like a big fish in a small pond -- to go from there to being a guppy in the ocean of original fiction is probably a jarring experience to say the least. Plus, if you are writing fanfic, we all know you aren't writing for publication, so it's not like not getting published would be a failure you might have to cope with. By not trying, you feel like you can't fail.
Now, I said "in general" at the beginning, and I meant it. Here's the exception:
Once something has found its way into the popular consciousness, and simmered there awhile, it can be the basis for a new work that, if not original fiction per se, is at least legitimate and useful fanfic. Some examples that come to mind are the Disney retelling of classic fairy tales, Wicked (a retake on the Oz world), and Treasure Planet (not sure if this is Disney or not, but it's a resetting of Treasure Island in the future, in space, with a cyborg).
The difference here is that instead of creating fanfic of Harry Potter, Twilight, or some other thing fresh off the presses (which in addition to the issues above does not make you look like you are serious about your craft) -- the authors took something that has had a generation or two (or more) to sink in, and instead of trying to ride the coattails of other storytellers, the authors have used the archetypal status of the characters as a tool for their own craft, playing on our preconceptions. Or, the work has been made more accessible to a new audience:
If you find yourself having trouble creating your own fiction, ask yourself what it is specifically about this source material that you like. It won't help to wholesale copy characters/settings/etc from a source, but it's certainly okay to find inspiration from the elements that compose your favourites.
If you're having trouble world building, perhaps you can draw inspiration from real world locations. Every fictional city/street/country draws something from one or more counterparts in the real world.
I have encountered numbers of excellent fanfics out there which could stand out on their own, and be excellent works by themselves if the author just didn't constrain himself into the pre-created world.
I'm not saying that you should always create your own worlds, but when you're confident about your work and people start to appreciate it, it might be a good time to whip up your own universe and make a recognition for yourself.
It's a crutch.
The scariest thing about writing is the idea that nobody will like (or even understand) the stories and characters you create. Writing fanfic is an attempt to dodge that risk by using stories and characters that are already well liked and well understood instead.
The problem is that you never learn anything without taking a risk, and so by hiding behind other peoples' characters fanfic writers stunt their own development. The way you learn how to write good characters and compelling stories is by writing bad and boring ones. The things you do wrong give you insight on how to do it right. But this never happens in fanfic, because you always have that world's established tropes to fall back on.
In other words, to tell great stories you have to be willing to fail completely, and fanfic writers aren't.
I know many people who started out writing fanfiction and then turned this into the basis of a professional career. Off the top of my head, both Paul Cornell and Una McCormack both started by writing fanfic and are now professional authors.
Unfortunately it can be all too easy to spend all of your time there. If you think you'll enjoy it, write fanfic by all means. You'll certainly learn lessons from it and be able to take that knowledge forward into your later, original work.
I'd urge you, though, to remember what your aim is, and that's to write your own worlds.
Fanfic can be a great training ground for a writer; but it can also be a seductive echo chamber. Good fanfic, like good everything, is rare, and will receive a lot of praise. And leaving the nest can be a harsh experience if you're used to praise in the fanfic world, and find that you need other tools in your writer's toolbox to make it on the outside. Many people never write anything other than fanfic, and that's fine, but from your original question it seems you're aiming for something more than that.
At some point you'll need to start writing original stories anyway. Whether you decide to write fanfic to get some experience first or not, I'd urge you to start on your own work sooner rather than later.
It is not a crutch. Writing is writing.
As Jeff Atwood put it:
If fanfiction is what gets you writing, then write. It doesn't mean you have to do it for the rest of your life! But whatever you are interested in doing enough to get you writing is good.
As a parallel, my mother wanted to discourage me from reading comics when I was a kid, but my father argued that anything which got me reading--even if it was reading with pictures--was a good thing.
People here have variously argued that fanfiction is a crutch, that it is limiting. But that is silly. It's limiting in the sense that you couldn't go and sell it, but other than that, it's an art form like any other. Some people here claimed you couldn't do world-building with it; that is wrong, because you can always build on top of the existing world the fandom is set in. You can always add characters to the ones already in the fandom, and you can always take the characters in a direction that was not obvious from the show, so good character building is also possible.
In short, there is nothing you can do in any other form of fiction writing that you can't do in fanfiction, and any skills you hone while writing the latter will help you in the former.
I agree with most of the answers here: put all that effort and creativity into your own work, instead of standing on someone else's. Aside from that, some authors get very upset at the idea of other writers taking their creations and putting them into stories.
I think fanfic can a very good training ground. They have provided characters, settings and most importantly audience. That lets you focus on hone your other skills.
The biggest advantage is that it has a built in audience that tends to review what you've done. You get feedback and that is the most valuable thing you can get.
Think of it as a form of deliberate practice. You can practice dialog with existing characters or describing existing settings and so on. You can even create new characters and settings and insert them into the story.
In theory I have no problem with fan fiction, however the fact that the fan fiction community's standards are absymally low is enough to dissuade me from ever associating my work with them. Using another writer's characters, setting, and themes is perfectly reasonable though and has been used by professional and accomplished writers throughout history. I would just avoid categorizing anything as "fan fiction."
I am a bit of an amateur writer and I have always considered fan fic to be the bottom of the barrel. The people who write it are generally those who have obsessed over some one else's work. They may re-arrange the concepts and plot, but they are creating nothing really new. Most are also so inept at writing that in truth they detract from it.
As some one else mentioned, world building is a large portion of writing fiction. Without those skills, you are ruining your own potential as an author. Honestly you should take the time to write completely original short stories. Share these stories with a few friends to get their honest impressions, then toss them aside and work on another. After a few months, once the story is old and mostly forgotten, re-read it yourself, and re-write it.
Someone asked in reddit whether fan fiction can be "taken seriously". Here's what I said - much of the same points as others are saying:
And as far as not having confidence trying to design worlds from the scratch goes: The dirty secret of world design is that a) it's really not that difficult and b) it's almost criminally fun when you get started. And like characters, the milieu will just keep growing when you tell the tale - it's useless to design everything in advance.
I think fanfiction is a great start if you enjoy writing. There's nothing you can gain from writing completely original stories that you can't gain from writing fanfic. As for no confidence in creating your own world, with fic, you can build on that confidence. You could try putting some of the characters in a world not mentioned in canon, an AU, which would improve world building. Also, you could create original characters in the story. Once confidant doing that, you could tell the fanfic from the OC's point of view about the main characters. These are things that won't hurt a writer to learn.
Fanfic can help you learn writing skills if you treat it as a professional project. If you strive to make it the best it can be, then you will have learned something while doing it. Good luck!
Doesn't it all depend on whether you intend to show anyone else this fanfic? If you write a story using someone else's characters or world just for your own private practice, surely that is useful for you and does no harm?
It might help to avoid worries over creating worlds, characters, or even a plot, if you just use an established starting point you are familiar with, and write from there as practice. True, you won't get any practice at creating characters, but that is just one of the many facets you need to work on.
When you are first attempting to write fiction, fan fiction is a good way to practice. It gives you existing characters and a world setting so you can focus on drama (or comedy), characterizations, writing sentences that make sense, and creating a story others can understand.
Please note, your first attempts will suck and will most likely (and deservedly) end up in the trash can. Expect to spend a few thousand hours writing crap before you produce anything worth showing to others.
After you have cut your teeth writing some fan fiction, you should ask yourself a question and be honest: Are you writing for the fun of it, or because you want to create something publishable (or at least something others will take seriously).
If you want your writing to be taken seriously, then quickly leave fan fiction behind. Good writing requires mastering a wide variety of skills, such as creating interesting characters from scratch, building your own world with its own mythology, and so forth. Fan fiction won't help you in those areas, except perhaps as initial inspiration. Relying too much on fan fiction will retard those skills and make it harder for you to branch out into other areas.
It's a crutch if you don't make it solid enough to stand on it's own. Write good stories that can be read in any context and you'll be able to mitigate that.
Don't let yourself get stuck in niche fanfic cultures. Don't write stuff that requires people having read every other fanfic on the forum to understand. And don't let fanfic be the only type of story you ever write.
Understand that you're just choosing the constraints and backstories of your world. People that write non-fantasy use the real world as their source material. It's not a crutch for them, it's a choice.
I think many write fan-fiction simply because they're inspired by a universe someone else created. I have no doubt it can be a crutch, but it doesn't have to be.
Perhaps you should ask why you're writing. If it's simply because you enjoy writing or because you want to explore a universe, then fan-fiction can be a great outlet.


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@Jumbowoot says we need someone to represent Deals.Woot on Price Is Right. Who do we send?
I always think up these AMAZING questions but never post them because it's too late at night, well duck fat, not this time! This question is golden and I expect it to be the most thought provoking questions ever asked here.
Who do we send? and if we can't all agree on someone it's going to be @iggz.
A lot of the game is being able to know the MSRP on items, because of this I'm thinking of sending pinhead zippy, that guy always seems to have an eye on the MSRP of things so I figure he'd be the best bet... or would it be better to go with a more spicy wooter who posts more deals?
Jeeze I can't believe I almost let this gem of a question slip away. Started typing it at midnight, posting it at 3:38 AM.
Anyways. Who do we send guys? we can't get beaten by Jizzbee or those other guys at Jammin butter win.
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I have a question of my own. How much drinking is involved when you come up with these AMAZING questions?
I think the clear answer is me. I have my on Plinko board built in my back yard.
Let's send @snapster.
@tarasadie17: None.
Are you not supplies?
@gideonfrost: Plinko is good, but you have to get to the plinko board before you can play plinko board. I don't know if we can leave price picking to someone who confused buzz lightyear for megamens
I'll second for @gideonfrost. I can find deals, but suck at the other parts.
@cowboydann: You're never gonna let me live that down are you.
Not me, when I see the show, I say 'no way I would pay that much for that!'
I am the clear choice. You need to send me. My first words were "Come On Down!"
My pets are spayed and neutered
I'd let the guy who is most modest, which wouldn't be the OP.
I volunteer! Woot, send me a blurry question mark shirt. We'll mess with everyone's head.
How about ohcheri? I bet she'd get Drew's attention.
I believe the creator of the incredibly awesome DoC's should go...I am looking at you @cowboydann to represent us
@natedogg828: Thanks but I wouldn't be any good, put me in the same boat with @caffeine_dude
@carl669 isn't camera shy is he? He'd probably get my vote maybe.
Oh whoops! I didn't see you there carl. Already showing off impressive strategy. Rookie move @lichme, saying $1 before anyone else has placed a bid.
@cowboydann: I would like to take this time to rule myself out of the running, I would most likely "tattle" that the deal is a dupe once they presented it
@cowboydann: i hereby accept your nomination. as a DW representative at TPIR, i would uphold the values and morals cherished by the DW community. that is to say, when learning of the MSRP of a product, i would immediately yell "Downvote!!".
if i weren't able to play plinko, i would say, "The Price is Right with no Plinko? it's like a woot-off without a BOC. Worst. Price is right. Ever."
if i were to win any prizes, i would also immediately complain that "it's not like the old days of Bob Barker and Rod Roddy".
and of course, if any of the prizes contained cheese, i'll be sure to shove that cheese right up @lichme's ahem...
I can always guess the prices when I watch the show on TV, but then again I'm horribly shy and get stage fright. My bid for that awesome set of skis may just be "orange" because that's the first thing that pops in my head.
I'm really shy so I would be watching with popcorn at home yelling at the screen and stuff.
@carl669: For this answer not only do you get my vote but I also present both you and Carl's Jr. with 1 internet each! !cheese
Duck fat! He said duck fat!
I'd put my name in the hat.
As a kid I never liked staying home when I was sick, but I always found a bit of solace in watching The Price Is Right.
@threepiecewoot: o0o wow a celebrity, I might have to go give you my vote.
@threepiecewoot: Oh, are YOU sorely missed! :-((( My vote is definitely for you. Had thought of jumbowoot, cause he'd say $5 each time and would win. ...Eventually.
@threepiecewoot: The Man, The Myth, The Legend has returned! I wish you still had the square with your name however!!!! Hope all is well, really good to see your name around these parts again!
@threepiecewoot: You get my vote because you know the true value of crap. No one will ever fill your shoes here though. Good to see you around these parts!
@cowboydan: Maybe I just haven't noticed, but I don't think I've seen you around too often lately, welcome back!
It should be whoever is #1 on the Leaderboard at the time, you know, so it finally means something.
Based on the community, I'd say we'd lose from giving too many snarky prices. Or guess 420 for everything like that one guy.
@luvche21: Even if you have been paying attention I haven't been the easiest to spot around here the last few months. Me moving homes and them monitoring all internet usage has lead to me having less time to hang out around here. I've been finding more time here and there so I'm trying to spend some of that time here :3
@curtisuxor: Oh man, if we send someone to guess 420 for all the prices we should send up @poopfeast420
#1 isn't a bad idea, We'd have to let everyone know we're doing it (everyone except for @lichme of course) and then we can have a good competition to see who gets chosen. I like it!
@threepiecewoot: I just got ridiculously happy seeing you post. HIHIHIHI.
I vote for 3piecewoot.


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In a previous post i've presented you 3 space games, today i add one to that list: Oolite
Oolite is a space sim game, inspired by Elite, powered by Objective-C and OpenGL, and designed as a small game that is easy for users to pick up, modify and expand upon. Almost every aspect of the game can be changed by using simple, free graphics packages and text editors.
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Samsung 16GB MicroSD Card, SD Adapter and USB Card Reader for $4.77
Justdeals.com has the Samsung 16GB MicroSD Card, SD Adapter and USB Card Reader for $4.77 + $5 shipping. It's the 3rd deal down on the right.
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Class 2 :( After using a class 10 card, I can't imagine using anything less for cards larger than 2 or 4 gb. Maybe if it were free shipping and you didn't have an sd and USB adapter already, but save up a few more dollars and get a class 10, you'll be glad you did. Or if your budget is really that tight, get an 8 gb class 10, you'll get more out of it than a class 2 16 that you throw at the wall out of frustration ;)
At $9.77, this isn't a deal. Class 4's go for this all day long. And a lot of times you can scoop up a class 10 for $10-11 from the Newegg e-blast.
A miracle that the "deal" got thumbed up 48 times.
@liu208: Because we're not forced to include shipping in the total displayed in the title. A lot of people don't open the deal before voting. It's a flaw in our voting system that I've brought up a couple of times. I guess others didn't agree.


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SCP601: AP Physics Part I+ (2013-2014)
CURRICULUM PROGRAM: Science
COURSE TITLE: AP Physics Part I+
COURSE LENGTH: 36 weeks
About the Program:
AP Physics 1: Algebra-based and AP Physics 2: Algebra-based is a two-year sequence equivalent to the first and second semesters of a typical introductory, algebra-based, college physics course. Each of these courses is a full year course. AP Physics 1: Algebra-based covers Newtonian mechanics (including rotational dynamics and angular momentum); work, energy and power; mechanical waves and sound; introductory electrical circuits. AP Physics 1: Algebra-based covers fluid mechanics; thermodynamics; electricity and magnetism; optics; and atomic and nuclear physics. This framework shifts away from a traditional "content coverage" model of instruction to one that focuses on the big ideas in an introductory college-level physics sequence and provides students with enduring, conceptual understandings of foundational physics principles. This approach will enable students to spend less time on mathematical routines and more time engaged in inquiry-based learning of essential concepts, and it will help them develop the critical thinking and reasoning skills necessary to engage in the science practices used throughout their study of algebra based AP Physics and subsequent course work in science disciplines
Major Concepts/Content: The AP Physics 1: Algebra-based and AP Physics 2: Algebra-based concepts are introduced together as a single concept outline representing the full scope of conceptual understandings students will acquire from a full year of introductory college-level algebra-based physics. The key concepts and related content that define these courses are organized around seven Big Ideas that cut across traditional content boundaries to provide a broader understanding of the physical world. Specific topics within each of the Big Ideas can be found on AP Central at http://apcentral.collegeboard.com. • Big Idea 1: Objects and systems have properties such as mass and charge. Systems may have internal structure. • Big Idea 2: Fields existing in space can be used to explain interactions. • Big Idea 3: The interactions of an object with other objects can be described by forces. • Big Idea 4: Interactions between systems can result in changes in those systems. • Big Idea 5: Changes that occur as a result of interactions are constrained by conservation laws. • Big Idea 6: Waves can transfer energy and momentum from one location to another without the permanent transfer of mass and serve as a mathematical model for the description of other phenomena. • Big Idea 7: The mathematics of probability can be used to describe the behavior of complex systems and to interpret the behavior of quantum mechanical systems.
Major Instructional Activities: Instructional activities focus more time on student-centered inquiry that promotes rigor and active engagement to develop enduring conceptual understandings of foundational physics principals and less time on mathematical routines. A minimum of 25% of instructional time will be spent in laboratory investigations with emphasis on analysis, making conjectures and arguments and collaborative problem solving. AP science revisions focus on seven overarching practices that capture important aspects of the work of scientists. Science practices describe the knowledge and skills that students should learn and demonstrate to reach a goal or complete a learning activity. • Science Practice 1: The student can use representations and models to communicate scientific phenomena and solve scientific problems. • Science Practice 2: The student can use mathematics appropriately. • Science Practice 3: The student can engage in scientific questioning to extend thinking or to guide investigations within the context of the AP course. • Science Practice 4: The student can plan and implement data collection strategies in relation to a particular scientific question. Note: Data can be collected from many different sources, e.g., investigations, scientific observations, the findings of others, historic reconstruction and/or archived data. • Science Practice 5: The student can perform data analysis and evaluation of evidence. • Science Practice 6: The student can work with scientific explanations and theories. • Science Practice 7: The student is able to connect and relate knowledge across various scales, concepts and representations in and across domains
Major Evaluative Techniques: Evaluation will center on appropriate tools to assess knowledge of the course content and science practices. Teachers are expected to devote a minimum of 25 percent of instructional time to lab investigations. Research based reports and teacher developed assessments will also be used to evaluate learning.
Course Objectives: • Develop a conceptual understanding of physical science and crosscutting applications in other sciences. • Develop and apply science practices that enable students to establish lines of evidence and use them to develop and refine testable explanations and predictions of natural phenomena. • Develop skills in communication, teamwork, critical thinking and commitment to lifelong learning.


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Say my opponent plays Dryad Arbor. Can I counter it with a Cancel from my hand? I know that lands can't be countered because they don't go on the stack, but what about land-creatures?
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The short answer is that Dryad Arbor can't be countered because it can only be played as a land, not a spell. Here's the supporting statement from the card's Oracle rulings:
And the card's reminder text:
If you prefer rules over rulings, let's start with the rule saying you can't counter land:
Moreover, you'll want to note this section of the comp rules:
Essentially, this rule is saying that the Land card type overrides the normal behavior of the various spell card types.
This rather esoteric rule isn't actually required for Dryad Arbor to work the way that it does -- simply having no listed mana cost would mean that you can't play it like a normal spell, while being of the Land type would allow it to be played as a land. My best guess as to why it's there is that the original multi-typed lands, Mirrodin's artifact lands, were much more "land" than "spell," so this was codified in the rules for playing them. I take it as not so much saying that a land with a mana cost would still be uncastable as precluding the existence of such a card altogether.


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I don't understand how this is possible. I made this banner based on the design of another one. I've been struggling getting decent quality. I notice the quality is pretty good in the one I'm copying. I decompiled and saw that the images alone are 125kb. This is bizarre because the total size of the swf is only 45kb. What the hell is going on here?
It seems that if the source PNG file is too big (and in this case, even 25 kB seems to be "too big"), Flash decides to use JPG compression on the imported file by default.
The default amount of JPG compression is defined under
The compression can be overridden by–object basis through the
Note that the original PNG is 25 kB and Flash reports its lossless file size as 135.6 kB; it may be the case that Flash will base its calculation to a redrawn bitmap.
This might answer your question — or not. I noticed that a SWF file containing just the PNG image (25 kB) results in a file size of 16 kB. (For what it's worth, a SWF file containing the same PNG image, this time compressed with 97 JPG compression, results in a file size of 20 kB (well, the increase was expected))
So Flash does some abracadabra in between of which I currently have no idea; but changing the default compression to your liking might solve the crippled image quality of your SWF output.


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A Young Lorde's Royal Tour
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Seventeen-year-old Lorde has been in a whirlwind since an EP of her music was posted on Soundcloud in November 2012. After some 60,000 free copies were downloaded, Universal Music Group, to which she'd been signed since the age of 13, decided to release it formally. That was a year ago this week. Then came "Pure Heroine," her debut album, which also included the tracks from her EP; the album was nominated for four Grammys, with "Royals" winning Song of the Year. Now Lorde is headlining her first U.S. concert tour; it opened here Monday night.
"Pure Heroine" presents Lorde—who was born Ella Marija Lani Yelich-O'Connor in Takapuna, New Zealand—as an artist not merely emerging but in full bloom. Her lyrics reveal her as a wise young woman with a wary worldview and a dry wit. As a vocalist, her delivery is her most winning trait: Avoiding pyrotechnics, it balances confidence and a trace of innocence. With sparse, percussive arrangements designed by Ms. Yelich-O'Connor and producer Joel Little to emphasize her strengths, "Pure Heroine" unfolds as a formidable work.
Studying good writing, Ms. Yelich-O'Connor said during a conversation prior to her show, helped sharpen her skills as a lyricist. "When I was 14, I began to read a lot of short fiction, and I had such a reaction to it. The words were where they should be," she recalled. "I'd read Tobias Wolfe stories out loud to figure out what he was doing to make things rise or crash the way they did." Friends called on her to edit their schoolwork, but then groused when she demanded precision. "I became very particular."
Until she began working with Mr. Little, Ms. Yelich-O'Connor was reluctant to circulate her writing. "I never showed my lyrics to my parents. At some point, Joel said: 'This is good. You know how to put words together.' When I look back, I wasn't very good, but after six months with him, I'd begun to improve. And I started to have experiences that I wanted to write about."
"Royals" was a turning point. In the song, Ms. Yelich-O'Connor scorns the role of materialism in today's pop scene. "It was a big idea to fit into a song that's pretty short," she said. "But I attacked it like a story or an essay." Selling some five million copies so far, it's the kind of enormous hit that can define a career before it's begun, but as Ms. Yelich-O'Connor points out, she's had two other hits in the U.S. since: "Tennis Court," which opens "Pure Heroine," and "Team."
"I'm green enough that I'm afraid I'll wake up one day and it'll be gone," she said of her way with words. "I still ask myself: Is my life interesting enough to write about?"
Though she sang "Royals" at the Grammys ceremony in late January before a huge crowd at Los Angeles's Staples Center and to some 28.5 million viewers on television, Ms. Yelich-O'Connor said she was still getting used to live performance. On Monday at the Austin Music Hall, she was accompanied by Ben Barter on drums, Jimmy McDonald on keyboards, and recordings of her voice as overdubbed during the "Pure Heroine" sessions to serve as a choir. Ms. Yelich-O'Connor's limited repertoire compelled her to reinvent, however modestly, some of her songs. Mr. Barter punched through the waves of synthesized sounds on a reading of "Biting Down," and a tweaked arrangement of "Buzzcut Season" created tension that was released at its catchy chorus. On "Bravado," Ms. Yelich-O'Connor sang to delicate single notes by Mr. McDonald. Her cover of the Replacements' "Swingin' Party" gave her a chance to show how she can make another composer's song her own.
Earlier, Ms. Yelich-O'Connor waved off comparisons to other contemporary concert artists. "I'm too weird as a performer to copy anyone else," she said. "I kind of thrash around. It's unsettling to look at. But I can't dance." All true, it turned out, as the show progressed, but she never surrendered to affectation. The 70-minute concert built to an exquisite end, with vibrant readings of "Ribs" and "Team" bookending a subdued "Royals." By the time the confetti floated down from the ceiling during the finale, Ms. Yelich-O'Connor had overcome the sonic limitations of her prerecorded sounds and two-man band to hint at her potential as a live performer. As she continues to develop, it's likely her preternatural talent and self-possession will carry her through.
"If you believe in yourself," she said, "you think what you've done is all right. And then other people might think it's all right too."
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Corrections & Amplifications: Lorde performed at the Austin Music Hall on March 3 accompanied by Ben Barter on drums. An earlier version of this article misstated Mr. Barter's first name.


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Crooked Circle: A wealthy man is murdered and the doctor is framed for the crime.
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Just posted to our website, William L. Portier on Francis and his "pastoral rhetoric of invitation."
Over the past two months, Pope Francis has begun to fashion from the interview/conversation form a new genre of papal pronouncement, minimally authoritative, but unprecedented in its reach. ... In the give and take of conversation, Pope Francis's ad hoc interviews play off his interlocutors. From Skorka to Spadaro to Scalfari, he does not fear to give up full control and places himself in their hands. The in-flight interview had the highest degree of spontaneity, while Spadaro heavily edited the Jesuit interview. Amazingly, the conversation with Scalfari appears in the latter's own redaction. Despite variations, the three papal interviews to date have much in common. The pope's irrepressible and unaffected spiritual joy comes through each time. His interviews do not appear in Acta Apostolicae Sedis. Rather he injects them into the flow of the secular news cycle where they share its immediacy, interactivity and ephemeral nature. ...
This new genre of papal pronouncement dodges grasping handlers and bureaucrats who would brand the pope restrictively, frustrate his wishes, and control his access. Pope Francis is now an anticipated part of the news cycle. The papal news media interview takes him directly to the people, all the people.
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Over the past two months, Pope Francis has begun to fashion from the interview/conversation form a new genre of papal pronouncement, minimally authoritative, but unprecedented in its reach.
Fr. O'Leary has posted some comments here to this effect, as have I.
This may be a new and refreshing thing for the pope, but of course, cardinals in the US have sat for lengthy interviews. I expect Bergoglio did so in Buenos Aires.
The knives are being sharpened:
Pietro De Marco analyzes critically the first acts of this "magisterium" (Note the " ")
Maybe this pope is trying to send the message that every time he raises an eyebrow, there isn't a need to have a cadre of spokesclerics running around, clarifying, expanding, or otherwise turning a purse into an ear ... or vice versa.
This man is extemporaneous. That's good. That means that sometimes he will say some things that aren't exactly kosher with what the last 50 years of papacies said and did.
The Holy Father has been successful so far in managing the message. That is not always a given with a media interview. As Portier notes, the one being interviewed places himself in the hands of the interviewer. I don't know whether or not papal approval prior to publication is a precondition for these interviews, but there is some prudence to it on the part of Francis. One wonders what would happen should the pope or his people *not* approve a particular interview or request some edits or elisions. The media org could publish it anyway, or it could leak. The risk could be real. But Francis seems to take risks.
"The Holy Father has been successful so far in managing the message."
I dearly hope so! There are of course people who are saying that he's been misinterpreted, misrepresented, and taken advantage of, especially in the most recent big interview.
I appreciate the Pope's candor in his interviews. I think that's the way to do it; even if it runs the risk of his remarks being taken out of context or mis-reported, it's not the end of the world. He can always disavow an interview if it's inaccurate and not give interviews in the future to that particular outlet. If the Pope says he didn't say something, and a journalist (who didn't tape the interview), says he did, which of the two would you believe?)
If the Pope gives enough of these comprehensive interviews over time, the culmulative effect will give us all a pretty clear idea of where he's coming from.
Thanks, Jim McCrea for the Chiesa link. If the vitriolic commentary there is any clue to the nature of current backstairs chatter among the Vatican old guard, Pope Francis made some prudent decisions about his living arrangements.
I believe the fellow who translated Pietro de Marco's article did so using the principles of Liturgiam Authenticam :-)
"new genre of papal pronouncement, minimally authoritative, but unprecedented in its reach."
That's a good way to put it. What he is doing will not fit neatly into a book written for specialists. He will not be footnoted for it by double-doctor theologians. As thought spreads, it gets thinner. But. As it spreads, it reaches more people. Make disciples of all nations, not just the highly degreed of the nations.
I liked Pope Benedict's writing (especially after the way his predecessor's philosophical categories rumbled like a wooden cart through Mitteleuropean monsoons). But not even Deus Caritas Est had a large fan base. Francis is writing to an audience that is not going to go back to check the translation against the Italian original, and is not going to review the literature. But it is going to hear what he is saying.
I especially commend William L. Portier's penultimate paragraph, which should be read and considered before this thread wanders off into a discussion of the frightened fire-eaters who are getting all heated up.
Could it be that Francesco's real pastoral genius lies in his commitment to speaking [directly to the people, all the people]?
IMHO, no reform and renewal will ever come from any "commission of cardinals," nor from any hierarch for that matter. The fact is that most, if not all, hierarchs are hopelessly irrelevant to and dangerously alienated from the lives of most Catholic men and women.
Only the People have the capacity to rescue the church from the pit into which the hierarchs have led the church over the last four decades. Only the People have the spiritual resilience to overcome the obstacles that confront Catholics today. It's the only way to save the church.
A similar vein of conversation worth following, allowing for the usual collection of vitriolic comments that crop up there: http://ncronline.org/blogs/distinctly-catholic/stop-parsing-pope
Jim J. --
You glorify THE PEOPLE the way some people gloriy the popes. When the laity finally does get a share in running the Church that will be a fine thing. But anybody who imagines that the laity won't present some problems of its own doesn't know human nature. I suspect that there are even more power-grabbers among the laity than there are among the clergy and religious for the simple reason that there are many, many more of us.
In case anybody missed it Robert Imbelli, contributor to this blog, asked a question in an article in America magazine of the pope which looks like a criticism. "Holy Father, in the first conversation you seem more critical of "restorationists" and "legalists" than of "relativists" (who so troubled your illustrious predecessor). You do briefly refer to "relativism," only to posit that the God of the Bible, whom we encounter on the journey ("nel cammino"), transcends relativism. I think the many eavesdroppers on the conversation would profit greatly from further elucidation of your thinking in this regard. How can we speak today of the God revealed in Jesus Christ as "absolute"? http://americamagazine.org/issue/article/ongoing-conversation
The pope will rightly not get into such questions as he is on message with the message of Jesus which is to "free the captives." As long as the pope stays on the essential message the Gospel will remain true.
That quote from the America article is not vitriolic but respectful. Yes, it looks like veiled criticism (and I would prefer it less veiled), but so what? There is nothing wrong with criticizing pope Francis, or any pope, or any one else's ideas.
Can you find something new to say? Your comments are repeitive and thus tiresome.
Bill, every time you say, "freeing the captives," I'm gonna take a shot.
Cheer up Abe, I'm saving your soul.
Oh, cool. I'm glad somebody's on top of that.
"there is another form of poverty! It is the spiritual poverty of our time, which afflicts the so-called richer countries particularly seriously. It is what my much-loved predecessor, Benedict XVI, called the 'tyranny of relativism', which makes everyone his own criterion and endangers the coexistence of peoples. And that brings me to a second reason for my name. Francis of Assisi tells us we should work to build peace. But there is no true peace without truth! There cannot be true peace if everyone is his own criterion, if everyone can always claim exclusively his own rights, without at the same time caring for the good of others, of everyone, on the basis of the nature that unites every human being on this earth." - Pope Francis, March 22, 2013
Thank you, Bender. The whole paragraph tht you quoted has to be read. Francis puts relativism in its perfect context.
Here is the Address of Pope Francis cited by Bender. I do wish that words to that effect had been included in the conversation with Scalfari that has drawn criticism from some. It would have avoided the concerns I and others have expressed. However, perhaps they were present and they simply did not register on Signore Scalfari.
Claire, thanks for your commonsense observation. "Vitriol" here may well be in the eye of the beholder. Though if one has the stomach to taste true vitriol, one could re-visit some of the threads apropos Summorum Pontificum.
As for "veiled" or unveiled criticism, I tried to insert the reflection within the "conversational" genre initiated by the Pope and Spadaro, asking for further elucidation. Indeed, I may have been the first (on September 25th) to have actually used the word "genre" of conversation as an interpretive category. But perhaps I claim too much.
No, the knives are not just being sharpened ... they are out!
"This morning the Vatican announced that Pope Francis is calling the third "Extraordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops", which will convene a year from now, in order to discuss ""The pastoral challenges of the family in the context of evangelisation". "Why should we panic?", do you ask? The answer is simple. Pope Francis has made more heretical statements in the past few weeks than any pope in history. He has displayed numerous ideas that are questionable, to put it kindly. Just recently, when discussing the sodomites, Pope Francis asked, "Who am I to judge?". Not to mention another recent comment in which he said that the Church should stop focusing on social issues. There is clear cause for alarm here. Pope Francis is the epitome of the "Spirit of Vatican II", which is obsessed with not offending anybody (losing tens of thousands of souls in the process). Word from Rome is that the synod will focus on the church's position on divorce and the eligibility of remarried couples to receive communion. What could possibly go wrong?"
From the "When in wonder, when in doubt; run in circles, scream and shout." school of Catholicism.
Ann Olivier: I'm not "glorifying" THE PEOPLE. I'm just desperately trying to survive. What else are we to do? I don't see any other way out of the pit that the Catholic Church has fallen into over the last 40 years thanks to the hierarchs.
Categorical, reductionist thinking doesn't help. I'm not suggesting that THE PEOPLE will get it all-right, all the time. You're constructing a strawman argument. If fact, I planning on THE PEOPLE making mistakes, lots of them - because THAT IS THE HUMAN WAY! It is our nature. It provides with our greatest victories when we overcome them. [Think Martin Luther King, Jr. and the civil rights movement.]
Of course, there will be "power-grabbers among the laity" but at least in a democracy these mistakes will be OUR mistakes, which then we will have the competency to change, reform and make amends - NOT relying on some paternal, anti-feminine, power-hungry feudal hegemony.
The problem with an all-male feudal oligarchy is that there is no natural self-correcting mechanisms because as a class the hierarchs are always acculturated to b _ _ t-kissing their way up the clerical ladder - except for the intervention of the miracle in the person of a John 23rd or [we'll really have to wait and see?] Francesco.
Besides being a Catholic, I am also an American. I believe in democracy. I believe in government for, of and by THE PEOPLE. For me, I don't know about you, it's in my genes. For all its faults - which we know are legion, democracy may be the best gift American culture has to give to the Catholic Church.
Ann, either you believe in the priesthood of THE PEOPLE or you don't. Which is it for you?
LET THE PEOPLE DECIDE! The only way we will survive. The only way we will endure.
@ A Andreassi: Unlike you, I am certainly not in that enlightened a state: I need the repetition.
My sainted sixth-grade teacher, Sister Mary Adelaide, often would say, but I learned later, was quoting St. Paul: "I planted the seed, Apollos watered it, but God makes it grow."
I think I'll keep repeating it, keep watering it, until I start detecting evidence of some germination, some sprouting. Sorry about being so tiresome for you: It's just that you seem really parched, really thirsty.
I'm really afraid that this moment in time will be lost if the church doesn't take a completely new path. The only way out of the mess Catholics are in: LET THE PEOPLE DECIDE!
"Of course, there will be "power-grabbers among the laity" but at least in a democracy these mistakes will be OUR mistakes, which then we will have the competency to change, reform and make amends.. ."
Jim J. --
This is where we differ. I don't think there's anything auomatic about any group's solving their problems, and that includes the people of a democrac. Generalizations such as "Let the People decide" gets us nowhere. WHAT should the people decide? HOW should they decide?
Before you can even begin to answer those questiosn, you need to analyze the current situation, identify the basic problem(s), consider alternative solutions, then choose the best one. Unless and until you (or somebody else) does all this, merely appealing to the wisdom of "people" is just crying in the dark.
@ Ann Olivier: I disagree. You're making the perfect the enemy of the good.
There is no possible answer to all those questions and conditions to cover all the contingencies that will develop over time. It reminds me of a patient who wouldn't accept the life-saving treatment because the doctors couldn't assure her that he life would be just like it was before. But they could assure her that she would be dead.
There is no road map or "how to" out there for a future church community. That is the nature of revolutionary movements. We can only look at our experiences over time [in this case it is centuries] and apply our best collective judgement - with a whole lot of praying.
What we do know is that if we are to even survive till the end of this century as a church, we must reform the way Catholics do priesthood from parish to pope. Maybe we need to start over again, as if we were 1st century Christians reeling from persecution, the death of the apostles and first witnesses? Maybe we have to re-discover what resurrection really means in our time?
An inexorable evolution toward a Peoples Church has been underway for a very long time. The signs are all around us - just check the number of empty pews each Sunday for the most obvious "signs of the times". The best principles we could adopt, the best controlling idea to apply to reform and renew our common religious and spiritual life together is to LET THE PEOPLE DECIDE.
Face it, to pull ourselves out of the pit we have been abandoned in by the hierarchy, we will have to do a lot of experimenting, a lot of trial and error, until we find new pastoral models that work for the 21st century. In the words of Mao Zedong: Let a thousand flowers bloom!
My suggestion would be to borrow from the ecology and environmental movement of the last 50 years: Think globally - Act locally! Let's find out how serious this new pope is about the principles of subsidiarity.
If I ruled the world, I would start on the parish level and empower each community to make all the decisions critical to their own religious and spiritual life: Each community could choose their minister(s) - including their bishop. What ministries that community would foster and develop, even their own liturgies. Each community would be charged with how it spends its resources.
[Something that could be done right now: Each parish drawing upon its own members should institute its own independent trust or foundation (a 501.c.3 non-profit corporation) to receive and manage the donations and charity of the group - no more hand-overs of $billions to the clerics. This would drive a stake through the heart of the corporation sole monopoly of the clerics - which I contend is one of the core malignancies of the church today. The golden rule of politics is she/he who has the gold rules!]
Over time, somethings will be solidified into permanent church sturctures of governance. Maybe around mid-century after decades of experimentation and a good faith effort to really implement Vatican2 on the local level, it will be time for a true ecumenical council where women and men, not just clerics, are represented.
In the meantime, we must do what we have always done: Teach. Pass on the Beatitudes and corporal works of mercy to new generations. Await the day when new voices once again are value and honored in the church of our birth.
My sainted sixth-grade teacher, Sister Mary Adelaide, was right: "Christianity is not for sissies." Let's get crackin'.


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In the original Star Wars movie, the Rebels almost didn't make it. Despite the fact that Han and Luke saved Leia, they stupidly led the Empire right to the rebel's doorstep. But they saved the day, right? Luke blows up the Death Star mere moments before it ends the rebellion in a single shot of sweet lasery explosiveness.
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Vader's the one in the middle, not exploding.
At that moment, Darth was still free to blast Luke from existence. And that's when our nameless TIE fighter pilot comes in. He's the one on the right up there.
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... and crashes into Darth Vader.
He literally shouts "Look Out!" before swerving directly into Vader's fighter. Vader goes spinning off into space...
...the fighter pilot crashes into the trench, and Luke is free to fire his torpedoes and save the day.
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Incidentally, this also brings to light the fact that Han Solo had a once-in-a-lifetime shot to take down the Dark Lord of the Sith and squandered it on a wingman. Apparently stupid goes both ways, since if you have a three-man formation and the guy in the center has a completely different vehicle, odds are pretty good he isn't just some grunt being escorted to the Imperial Birthday Party Wing of the Death Star while a battle rages around him. Han had the element of surprise and apparently his total pick of who he was going to shoot, because it was an instantly lethal shot.
"I knew there was more to you than money!" "Yeah, weed. I totally shot one of those guys. Got any food?"
So Who Was This Nameless Pilot?
So what quirk of fate lead Darth Vader to wind being escorted by literally the worst pilot ever shown on screen in the original trilogy? He hand picked him. OK, hand picked him, at random, because he happened to be in the hall at the right time. Right before Vader takes to his TIE fighter, he walks into the hall, approaches what appear to be two random pilots and says, "Come with me."
Does Vader even know this guy? Was he even a pilot? Based on his decision making capabilities, it seems more likely that he was a trainee. Or a Stormtrooper who accidentally grabbed the wrong uniform in the locker room. Or Grand Moff Tarkin's nephew. The point is, just because someone is standing around in a uniform doesn't mean he is qualified to fly.
Of course, if any of those things were true, there was no way for Vader to know. One thing he should have realized though: TIE fighters are being sent out en masse to intercept the Rebels and this guy was standing around in the hallway. Vader, we think they left him behind for a reason.
If Another Pilot Had Been Chosen, How Would Things Have Been Different?
Had this TIE jockey not lost his mind, or had an actual competent pilot been chosen, Darth would have placed his next shot right up Luke's colon. He had it all lined up in his Pong-quality targeting system.
No, Han Solo wouldn't have had time to stop him--again, he'd already wasted his one strafing run on Vader's nameless escort rather than Vader himself. Luke would have died in flaming chunks, just like all of his fellow pilots, and would never have gotten a chance to fire the torpedoes into the Death Star's air conditioning vent.
The Death Star then would have rounded Yavin and blown up the rebel base. Were there other rebel bases? Presumably, but this one had the entire upper echelon of the Rebellion in it, including the Princess herself.
"Somebody get that goddamned robot out of here."
All of the people who would eventually lead the movement to bring down the Empire a few movies later--including Luke and Leia--would have died. And how long would the other Rebel bases have lasted? The Death Star would have been free to do what it was designed to do: roam around the galaxy blowing up unruly planets.
Wait, couldn't one of those other groups of Rebels just staged a similar attack, maybe have some other farm boy fire torpedoes into the same vulnerable spot? Almost certainly not. Having survived the attack, the very first move on the Empire's part would have been to figure out just what exactly the Rebels were trying to do when they attacked the trenches with their tiny ships. "Oh, right, the shaft. We need to fix that before next time."
"Tell them to throw a grate on there."
Remember, the only reason the second Death Star in Return of the Jedi had the same vulnerability was because it was half-finished, its guts open to the world. Not so with this one. They'd have been free to retrofit it with one of those fancy shield generators like in Jedi only, you know, one that's actually on board the Death Star and not located off-site on a moon full of Care Bears. Clearly the Rebels couldn't penetrate such a shield, since they wouldn't even start the attack in the third film before it was taken down.
But just in general, surviving the first assault would have taught the Empire some important lessons about surviving the next one. Specifically, that you need something more than those grossly inaccurate turrets and a hand full of TIE fighters to defend the thing. More invulnerable than ever, they would have started systematically blowing up any planets giving them even a hint of trouble. Like, say, Tatooine, or Dagoba, or Hoth. Remember, these people blew up Alderaan out of spite.
None of that happened, thanks to one nameless TIE fighter pilot with a habit of yanking randomly on his control stick at the sound of loud noises. So somewhere up on that stage at the end, when they honored basically everybody (including the damned repair droid)...
...there should have been a framed picture and a plaque commemorating this guy:
None of those people would be alive without him.


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Going to Pocatello was also a burden on Montpelier's small police force. It takes an officer off shift for entire day to conduct one interview, costing the department overtime to cover the shift. Having a satellite office in Montpelier is better for the victims and will save manpower and money said Butler.
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My client reports that [this page][1] I designed is blocked by his antivirus (Norton) : . The rest of the website is not blocked. Do you have any idea why Norton would block this page ? The report says "web attack: mass injection website 5".
There is definetively some JavaScript embedded in that page that looks fishy. It is a js that is obfuscated by being put as numbers in an array.
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So if you haven't put it there, the site is somehow compromised.
EDIT: If you were to execute the above code in its entirety then it would generate and execute the following JavaScript:
Which, as you can see, creates a hidden
probably someone injected malicious js code in the page. but checking with google it doesn't seem that there are anything: http://www.google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic?site=http://intlwellness.com/
I have just experienced the same. Someone actually managed to put a bizarr action in my htaccess and at the same time then inserted a very similar code into my header.php (this was on a wordpress installation). I stripped the htaccess and removed the numbered array from the header. Then, the next day, the code was back in the header, but not in my htaccess. So I removed it from the header again, and now it seems to be gone. At least I am not blacklisted any more. For the time. (I upgraded my wordpress and installed a plugin called bulletproof security). The date on my altered header.php was not changed.
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5 Shocking Ways Monkeys Are Just as Dysfunctional as Us
You'd think that monkey society would be pretty straightforward: They eat, they poop, they fling said poop at each other for no particular reason, and the rest of the time is spent having sex. If that isn't paradise, then it's pretty damn close. It's not like they spend their days paying for Internet porn and getting lied to by smooth-talking authority figures. Oh, wait, they totally are ...
#5. Monkeys Pay to Look at Porn (But Only if It's Hot)
Some of the greatest scientific developments happened by accident, like the time when 40 years of conclusive research were overturned when a monkey stared at his balls in a mirror. Seriously.
Scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison were testing the effects of an ADHD drug on rhesus macaques that had been given skullcap-mounted implants to monitor their brain activity. The scientists were surprised to see one of the monkeys looking at itself in a mirror and touching the implants, even though previous research had concluded that these monkeys didn't have self-awareness. This in itself was shocking enough ... but then the macaques started adjusting the mirrors and contorting themselves to look at their own junk, which usually isn't visible to them.
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"I am a tasty burger."
Yep, once the monkeys realized that they could see themselves, their first thought was "I wonder what my taint looks like." This proved that the rhesus macaques have a concept of self, like humans, and that they are major pervs, also like humans.
In a different study in the growing field of monkey boners, a group of researchers at the Duke University Medical Center took photos of female macaques' behinds and loaded them on a computer (it's unclear why they couldn't just type "monkey butts" on Google like the rest of us). The researchers then showed the pictures to male rhesus macaques and rewarded them with juice every time their eyes moved from picture to picture.
To set the mood, the headphones are playing Yello's "Oh Yeah" on repeat.
However, they found that male monkeys were willing to give up juice to continue looking at compromising photographs of females. Not just any females, but high-ranking ones -- essentially, they were paying to look at top-quality porn, because even monkeys know that you can get the amateur stuff anywhere for free. On the other hand, when the researchers put low-ranking females on the screen, they had to give the macaques extra juice to make them watch. They had to pay monkeys to look at ugly butts.
So what does this prove? For starters, that monkeys discriminate against each other based on their social status, just like us. The low-ranking females weren't necessarily "uglier" than the high-ranking ones; they were just more submissive. The other thing this proves is that monkeys will give up material goods to get momentary satisfaction, which leads us to the fact that ...
#4. Stressed Monkeys Are More Likely to Do Drugs
Monkeys may not have jobs or mortgages or malfunctioning alarm clocks, but they still have to deal with stress, especially low-ranking monkeys, since they have to put up with having their stuff taken away all the time or just being beaten up for no reason. Studies have shown that monkey depression is physiologically very similar to ours, which led researchers to wonder whether high- and low-ranking monkeys dealt with stress differently. So, naturally, they gave all of them cocaine dispensers.
"I noticed the budget for this experiment requires 200 kilos of cocaine ..."
The scientists placed the test subjects in separate cages surrounded by unfamiliar monkeys. After 40 minutes of monkeys jabbering at one another to get them all stressed out, researchers gave them the option of pulling a lever that delivered food or another that spit out Colombian marching powder. Oddly enough, the dominant monkeys were more likely to choose food, while the subordinate ones kept choosing cocaine -- apparently, the stresses related to belonging to the monkey equivalent of the lower social class makes them want to do hard drugs.
In a different test, researchers gave a group of monkeys access to high-fat banana pellets, which is like their version of a bucket of Haagen-Dazs. Although all of the monkeys, regardless of their social rank, could take as many banana pellets as they wanted, the high-ranking monkeys only dabbled in the stuff, while the low-ranking ones went on eating binges, gorging themselves on junk food because, dammit, they've been putting up with bullshit all day, and they deserve a little break now, don't they?
"You try flinging poo eight hours a day without stress eating."
Scientists think that this happens because high-calorie foods help block the release of stress hormones like cortisol, or simply because the snacks activate the reward pathways in the brain and these pushed-around monkeys don't get a whole lot of pleasure in their everyday lives. In the end, it comes down to the fact that stressed-out monkeys make the same poor decisions as we do -- any day now they'll do a study where a monkey ends up finding out that he bought all 24 seasons of Cops on DVD from eBay, for some reason.
#3. Monkeys Use Other Monkeys as Scapegoats
We've previously talked about how monkeys can go to war, which obviously means that one of them has to act as the "general." This isn't exactly decided by an open election: In macaque troops, the alpha male is basically the monkey who's the biggest jerk. Like human dictators or schoolyard bullies, dominant monkeys use frequent and unpredictable aggression as an effective form of intimidation; in other words, they'll literally go apeshit on your ass, just to show that they can.
The shocking part is that the troops themselves also react to these intimidation techniques in a surprisingly human-like manner: by using scapegoats.
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"Before you punch me, you should know that Phil over there is doing your wife."
When a mid-level macaque is attacked by a stronger rival, victims will sometimes turn to innocent bystanders and beat the ever-loving crap out of them -- they direct the attention away from themselves onto a weaker, lower-status monkey that no one is going to defend. And it works: The alpha male doesn't really care whose ass gets kicked as long as it's sufficiently well-established that he's a crazy bastard that could go off on anyone at any moment. Once a scapegoat has been selected, the two of them will proceed to pummel the poor loser whose only mistake was being close by.
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It's like monkey junior high.
But scapegoating isn't always just about saving your ass: Sometimes the monkeys use it as a type of political strategy. Often times the aggressor and the original victim will bond over beating the scapegoat and become allies, united in their douchebaggery (tearing into a helpless schmo is how bullies make friends, after all). And if a mid-level macaque takes the risk of choosing a high-ranking one as a scapegoat during a beating and it works, he can rise in the group and eventually become the top asshole.
But, like with humans, some monkeys are born to be leaders, and others are doomed to be punching bags. Many mid-level monkeys have favorite scapegoats that they'll pick every time there's a need for some dickish misdirection. So whenever a fight breaks out, you'll see low-ranking monkeys making a run for it, regardless of who's involved, so they don't accidentally end up being beaten by a mob for no reason.
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"Maybe if I go under they won't notice ..."
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ABILENE, Texas (AP) - Bryson Oliver threw for 256 yards and five touchdowns on just seven completions and Throckmorton won its second straight six-man Division I championship with a 72-30 victory against Abbott on Saturday night.
Oliver had scoring tosses of 46, 66 and 47 yards to Gary Farquhar, who had five catches for 190 yards. Farquhar had 14 tackles and a fumble recovery on defense.
Throckmorton (14-1) won its third six-man title since 2005, while Abbott lost its first bid for a state title in a game that featured seven scoring plays of 46 yards or longer.
Tyler Russell rushed for 197 yards and two touchdowns and Dillon Beims added 142 yards and a score for Abbott (12-3).
Levi Taylor had two touchdown runs for Throckmorton, and Hayden Farquhar caught TD passes of 68 and 25 yards from Rawlin Morrell and Taylor.


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Elysium: The IMAX Experience
|R (for strong bloody violence and language throughout)
|Release Date:
|August 9, 2013
|Running time:
|109 minutes
|Matt Damon, Jodie Foster, Sharlto Copley, Alice Braga, Diego Luna
|Neill Blomkamp
|Bill Block, Simon Kinberg, Neill Blomkamp
|Neill Blomkamp
|TriStar Pictures
Web Site: http://www.itsbetterupthere.com/site/
Description: In the year 2154, two classes of people exist: the very wealthy, who live on a pristine man-made space station called Elysium, and the rest, who live on an overpopulated, ruined Earth. The people of Earth are desperate to escape the planet's crime and poverty, and they critically need the state-of-the-art medical care available on Elysium - but some in Elysium will stop at nothing to enforce anti-immigration laws and preserve their citizens' luxurious lifestyle. The only man with the chance to bring equality to these worlds is Max, an ordinary guy in desperate need to get to Elysium. With his life hanging in the balance, he reluctantly takes on a dangerous mission - one that pits him against Elysium's Secretary Delacourt and her hard-line forces - but if he succeeds, he could save not only his own life, but millions of people on Earth as well.
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5 Insignificant Things That Determine Who You Have Sex With
If nothing else, this website is devoted to helping you find a mate ... using science (as evidenced here, here and here). After all, attracting a partner is still a thankless chore full of wearing pants and pretending to care.
Or is it? Turns out there are even more things that get people to consider knowing us in the biblical way, and they're so subtle and random that pants-wearing just seems stupid now. Things like ...
#5. The Tilt of Your Head
Yep, the angle of your face is a strong determinant of how attractive people think you are. Now rest your head against the back of your chair and think about that for a second. BAM! We just improved your appearance to your potential romantic partners, and since pretty people don't need to think, we guess you're done for the day. To the burger depository!
We had to crop this picture carefully to avoid the ocean of boobs he's buried in.
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Researchers at the University of Newcastle discovered this tilt effect when they showed volunteers in their study several computer-generated faces, both male and female, looking straight ahead but at various pitches (chin up or chin down).
Freak on or freak out.
The results were pretty clear. If a woman has her head tilted back, she's regarded as less feminine and less attractive; chin down, however, and suddenly she's more feminine to volunteers, and also hotter.
But the same neck strain for men had the opposite effect: They looked less masculine with their head tilted forward and, as you might expect, were consistently rated as less attractive. "Chin up was the money for dudes," Dr. Darren Burke, co-author of the study, never said, but could have if he wanted to.
"I can see right up your nose."
So how can the same head angle earn men and women completely different reactions? There are a few possibilities. The first is simple height statistics. Men are usually taller than women, if you hadn't heard. Hence, seeing the underside of someone's chin could somehow work out in women's minds as making them more masculine. Conversely, looking down on a person, physically, would be how a man usually sees women, making shortness a feminine trait, explaining perhaps why no one wants to date the tall girl in every sitcom ever.
But aside from wearing stilts or chopping your legs off, the only option for people lacking height or believing they're too tall is head tilting, which simulates the appearance of tallness or shortness.
Which is why most Danny DeVito films are shot by Roomba.
For men, tilting your head back also enhances, however slightly, the width of the jaw. A wider jaw, according to previous studies, indicates more testosterone. And more testosterone? Yeah, that's what ladies specifically looking for a roll in the hay find attractive.
#4. How Much You (Don't) Smile
Many of you out there may be in the habit of practicing your smile in the mirror because you think it will somehow make you acceptable to the opposite sex. You smile in pictures, you smile when you meet somebody -- it's how you put your best face forward.
Well, if you're a male who's really into smiling, stop it right now -- she prefers that you never smile again. As for the ladies, let's see those pearly whites.
"No, really, that's not patronizing. Studies say ... you're going to spit in my food, aren't you?"
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It's another case of what works for men doesn't work at all for women. In a study specifically examining how emotional expressions influence attractiveness, participants looked at and rated photographs of members of the opposite sex expressing happiness, pride and shame.
But apparently not fashion sense.
Men, it turns out, were most attracted to the smiling woman up there, but found the upraised arms kind of a turnoff. Conversely, women liked the guy's show of pride and were even more attracted when he was sad. But what was most objectionable to the women was the guy smiling: They found this pose the least attractive, meaning virtually every other pose, including the neutral one, was sexier to them.
You probably could have guessed that, considering that (for instance) every Twilight poster features Jacob or Edward either scowling or brooding. But why? Why don't women long for the happy guy?
Research suggests that smiling may be regarded as a generally feminine trait. Happiness isn't really the most domineering expression, and as much as we hate to say it, domination cues play a role in sexual attraction. Hence, the guy without a stupid grin on his face is closer to what ladies looking for sex want. (Besides sex.)
But this hardly explains why the sadness expression beat out the pride expression. Isn't reveling in the crushing of your enemies, seeing them driven before you and hearing the lamentation of the women more domineering than looking like your dog died? And even if you aren't smiling, that doesn't necessarily mean that you're sad looking, so what's the deal?
Finally our crippling depression can be revealed to the world!
Shame, according to Professor Jessica Tracy, co-author of the study, has "been associated with an awareness of social norms and appeasement behaviors, which elicits trust in others." Or, in other words, a woman not looking to be screwed over may favor the humble fellow more than a guy who looks like an arrogant douche. Surprisingly.
Also, researchers suggest that both men and women might see a sad person as someone in need of help, which is almost a positive idea until you realize that women were most attracted to the sad guy, meaning they either care more than men or just really prefer somebody with problems over a happy, smiling guy who doesn't need therapy and hours of self-indulgent pity.
"I just want to reach out and tell him, 'Yes, me too. Me, too.'"
Men were still attracted to sad women, but probably because it comes across as submissive.
These studies almost never say anything good about us, do they?
#3. A Long Ring Finger Determines Facial Attraction
We've previously mentioned how the length of your ring finger is an indication of how much testosterone you were exposed to in the womb. The longer the ring finger, the more testosterone. So it's easy to imagine that women would come to see the long finger as an attractive trait, if even on a subconscious level.
"I know what those long fingers are good for ... opening all those jars in my cupboard. Get to it."
But even if the finger isn't visible, it still works -- women think guys with long ring fingers have more attractive faces.
Science Says:
A study led by scientist Camille Ferdenzi of the University of Geneva confirmed that, above all other factors (including body odor drawn from the sweaty armpits of men of varying degrees of manliness), the length of the ring finger pretty much sealed the deal on how attractive a man's face is to a woman.
This hand later stuck the scientists' heads down the toilets.
Determining this relation between testosterone and the face involved a complex experiment of showing pictures of men to a bunch of women and having them give a rating for masculinity and attractiveness. Over and over, long-ring-finger guys were all rated as having the best faces.
What's odd but consistent with what we told you in this article about women being attracted to feminine male faces was that a positive attraction rating wasn't always paired with a masculine rating. This means that it's possible that a man could have a longer ring finger, which means having more prenatal testosterone and thus a more attractive face, but not actually look more masculine. We're calling this the Legolas Effect.
"My elf ears hear the swoonings of women and the exasperated sighs of their husbands."
But don't start plucking your eyebrows and donning your elf ears just yet. Like we said, this is prenatal testosterone, which is different from the fluctuating adult testosterone determining your tone of voice and body odor, and it's more or less unchangeable because its work is done once you're born. Once you're out, no more fetal testosterone for you.
And no amount of crying and begging will increase it.


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Today in Tweet Beat, Katy Perry is psyched about marrying Russell Brand, Lily Allen is having anxiety at the supermarket, and Teresa Giudice shares the family Halloween costumes, past and present.
Is it just me that gets the feeling I'm being judged on my bag packing abilities at the supermarket checkout. Is there a right way?
If you didn't see last week's People mag, these are our costumes: Gabriella is Lady Gaga, Gia is Katy Perry http://www.twitpic.com/30sl0d
Milania is Ke$ha, Audriana is Sue Sylvester from Glee & I'm one of the contestants on "Dancing w/ the Stars".. http://www.twitpic.com/30slbc
And 2 years ago they were Chiquita Banana Girls (Audriana wasn't born yet, she was still in heaven ♥) http://www.twitpic.com/30smie
Thank god I get to go back to Atlanta, me and my kids got VIP tickets to the aquarium I am Vedy exite. Ready to see some stingrays and shit
there is always one young woman who gets on a flight clutching a large stuffed animal with a kind of vacant look.
Just saw my 1,476,835th photo of a dinner plate with the caption "Mmmm." From now on, Facebook postings should only be used for emergencies.
Driving back to boca from O-town reading an old avn magazine. Looking at a list of parody titles. Some are very funny.
Black Snake Boned, Genital Hospital, The Da Vinci Load, the Last whorehouse on the left .
Shabby chic makes me want to barf.
Is anger the new sex? Temper the anger, wear love.


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Jerry and Bobbe Johnson from Portland, Mich., will celebrate their Golden Anniversary on Sept. 1.
The former Bobbe Daugherty and Jerry Johnson were married Sept. 1, 1963 in Three Rivers.
The couple's children and their spouses are Jerry and Denise Johnson, Mike and Kelly Grys, and Chris and Jamie Trierweiler, all of Portland, Mich. They also have 10 grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.
A Family Weekend Celebration is planned to commemorate the marriage milestone, along with a trip planned to Scotland, England and Ireland.
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The F3 button on my rMBP has a figure which shows 3 rectangles, pressing the button without the FN key initiates the Expose function. I want to modify that key for another function. However I cannot directly modify it via preferences because pressing that button does not register as a specific keyboard shortcut.
You could also change it to a normal F-key with FunctionFlip.
If anyone else is looking for a way to change it with KeyRemap4MacBook, just create a private.xml like this:
The keycode constants are defined in src/bridge/generator/keycode/data. The test folder has a checkbox.xml with all the predefined mappings.
Take a look at KeyRemap4MacBook, it should do what you're looking for.