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Boston Ballet's Ultimate Balanchine
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I would also gladly review the program myself, but I feel it would be somewhat self-serving since two of my children dance there and I have some other pretty definitive favorites. I can say generally that I thought opening night was a good one. I did feel that Four T's was a bit shaky with the standout (for me) being Nelson Madrigal in Sanguinic. This is not usually "his thing" and I applaud him for taking this on so well. Apollo heated things up a bit, but I won't comment on it, as one of my dk's was in it. I do think this cast was beautiful together (Pavel Gurevich, Lia Cirio, Rie Ichikawa and Whitney Jensen). Theme and Variations - believe it or not, I have never seen this live. Whoa. What a spectacle of a ballet. When the curtain went up, the audience really reacted with an audible sigh. All the dancers did a wonderful job. Kudos to James Whiteside and Misa Kuranaga who were beautiful. I am looking forward to seeing the rest of the shows this weekend with the varying casts. What impresses me about Boston is their depth and their ability to do so many things so well, especially with the size of the company. After their Balanchine run, they enter into a two-week run of Kylian's Black and White, and then a five-week tour to Spain with two shows alternating - a Balanchine show (different from the one they are currently doing) and a contemporary program...
Posted 08 May 2010 - 09:08 AM
I am grateful that Boston is putting on these works and doing such a creditable job. It's important to expose American audiences outside New York City to these classics in the best possible fashion, and it sounds like BB has done that.
What impresses me about Boston is their depth and their ability to do so many things so well, especially with the size of the company. After their Balanchine run, they enter into a two-week run of Kylian's Black and White, and then a five-week tour to Spain with two shows alternating - a Balanchine show (different from the one they are currently doing) and a contemporary program...
On the whole, Balanchine is alive and well in Boston, Miami, Arizona, Seattle, Philadelphia, etc., etc., as well as in New York. Miami is more likely to combine Balanchine with Robbins, Taylor, and Tharp rather than the contemporary choreographers favored by Jorma Elo. I don't see Kylian making their way down here in the forseeable future, though I'd love to see MCB one of his pieces. Elo, Villella, Boal, Anderson, etc., each seems to have his own sense of what to put into the program blend.
The 5-week tour to Spain sounds exciting. Miami is also considering proposals for a European tour next season. The idea of exposing Europeans to American ballet warms my heart. Especially with new and recent choreography, Europe and the U.S. seem to be on different planets and not just a few thousand miles apart.
Did anyone else get to see a Boston performance of this program? Or do you have any thoughts about the company. We'd love to have a more active Boston Ballet forum on Ballet Talk.
Posted 08 May 2010 - 09:19 AM
Unfortunately, we don't have a big contingent from Boston and reviews are sparse, usually from New Yorkers who travel. Some of us outside NYC () try to keep the flame going for companies in our neck of the woods -- Miami City Ballet, San Francisco Ballet, Ballet Arizona, Pacific Northwest Ballet -- and we hope to turn from Don Quixote into the Pied Piper. That's why it's really important to get impressions from Ballet Talkers and to know when a dancer performs a role that is atypical or makes a breakthrough or even when the performance is not so successful.
I think we all have favorites for different reasons, some of them having nothing to do with being onstage, for better or worse. Direct conflict-of-interest -- reviewing a family member or a family member's partner, ex-partner , or professional nemeses -- require disclosure of the relationship. Plus, no one is required to review everyone in a program, and if you know the lead dancer is constantly harassing the ballet mistress' dog or is a horrible person and don't want to give the dancer any props, you can ignore him or her. (I don't know any dancers, so when I leave someone out, it's usually age showing...)
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I thought BB, did a very credible job with "4 Temperments". The attack may not have been as sharp as City Ballet's, but it was technically cleaner than the performance I saw in NY--(except for one ankle bobble by Ms. Jensen in the Theme beginning, but she was able to continue and dance in T&V later so I'm hoping it was ok.) Both Cirio dancers were very good--Jeffrey Cirio in Melancholic, and especially Lia Cirio in Choleric; finally someone who not only got the steps right but the body language and understanding of phrasing too. I thought one quartet of women--sorry can't remember which variation (1 or 2?)--weren't in sync as much so the "crispness" of the choreography was kind of smudged, but otherwise the whole work was very well done. (PS. Until I went to see NYCB do this last week, I hadn't seen it in 25yrs, so I'm really glad that I actually remembered quite a lot of the choreography, and of course the music.)
APOLLO (Y. Yanowsky, M. Hough, R. Ichikawa, M. Kuranaga)
Boston Ballet does the version without the 'prologue--birth scene etc.', so I guess it's Mr.B's later revised version. (I thought BB used to do it, because I seem to remember seeing them do it before I saw ABT do it. But maybe I'm confused?) This ballet, which I've seen many more times by several different companies really struck me for a reason that had nothing to do with the dancing and choreography--it was body type. The BB dancers (at least at this matinee) were much more petite and compact, which made the choreography look totally different in its execution. In my mind's eye I kept seeing the longer lines, limbs, and more experience, of Suzanne Farrell and Julie Kent, so I had to keep reminding myself to watch the BB performance "holistically" and not as much individually; so I didn't keep seeing it 'in miniature'. (I certainly do NOT mean that in any derogatory way, the dancers were fine, just looked different--which is probably a good thing.) But overall I did think the phrasing and even extensions, hip rotations, and pointed or flexed feet weren't as 'sharp' as City Ballet and ABT do it. It's hard to describe, but overall the dancers seemed 'softer' in motion; not as 'pointed' in the phrasing; kind of blurred through the steps. It was clean technically, but not 'bright'.
THEME & VARIATIONS (Erica Cornejo, Nelson Madrigal)
Of all the costume color variations I've seen for this, I thought BB's were exquisite, subtle, sparkling without being distracting, and exemplifying that 'imperial age' that still exists in our fantasies or ancient memories.
Oh, I was SO very happy to see Erica Cornejo! I've missed most of her performances this year: wrong timing, or unable to attend for business or $ reasons (see above). What a joy to see her sleek, tight footwork, airy jumps, and expressiveness in upper body. She shone in this like a bright crystal, spinning through it fleet and fluent.
Nelson Madrigal was okay, but seemed rather tired to me. (Sorry not sure if it was simple weariness, age, or any past injuries or performance issues?) For a Cuban, I missed those strong perfect pirouettes I'm used to see his compatriots do (eg. Acosta, Carreno et.al.) and he drifted quite a lot in the double tours/pirouettes in his solo. I kind of wanted to see the younger BB dancers I saw do 4T's try it. (Sorry to Mr. Madrigal if it was just a bad day. I don't usually have any problems watching him.) Like most of what I saw today, his T&V was clean, but not brilliant.
(I also had very strong memories of AC doing T&V, and the dble tours etc. he did in class which are visible in my doc trailer.)
I thought the BB corps was good, in the first variations, and better at the end. The bourees, during the all-female enlace action were a little loud; I know we all need hard pointe shoes for this one, but it was a little distracting over the flutes. However, it was great watching Erica's control in arabesque and penche during this variation.
Very glad I could make this BB performance. I'll try to catch the Kylian, but now BB's schedule is getting rather tight with the NY season.
PS to bart: The 2010 tour to Spain will be the SECOND time Boston Ballet has toured there. They had so successful a tour--their first overseas in very many years--they are returning this year. ( I wonder if all the former ABT dancers in BB, will try to see their former colleagues in CBCL while they are there? Or vice versa.)
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Boston Ballet will this time be in Barcelona at the Coliseum. A pity as the stage is not very large. According to Boston Ballet web page:
Boston Ballets 2010 Spain tour begins on June 4 when more than 60 dancers, artistic, production, wardrobe, music and additional staff depart from Boston. The tour opens with six performances, June 8-13, at Barcelonas Teatro Coliseum where the Company will perform a special kick-off program featuring George Balanchines Ballo della Regina, Helen Picketts Tsukiyo, Sabrina Matthews ein von viel, and Jorma Elos Brake the Eyes.
Posted 10 May 2010 - 04:30 AM
On another note, I didn't know there were no longer general rush seats available. That's disappointing.
Posted 10 May 2010 - 05:09 AM
The 2010 tour to Spain will be the SECOND time Boston Ballet has toured there. They had so successful a tour--their first overseas in very many years--they are returning this year. ( I wonder if all the former ABT dancers in BB, will try to see their former colleagues in CBCL while they are there? Or vice versa.)
So this year will be their third trip.
Posted 17 May 2010 - 06:10 AM
APOLLO (Y. Yanowsky, M. Hough, R. Ichikawa, M. Kuranaga)
Boston Ballet does the version without the 'prologue--birth scene etc.', so I guess it's Mr.B's later revised version. (I thought BB used to do it, because I seem to remember seeing them do it before I saw ABT do it. But maybe I'm confused?)
No 4mrdncr you are not confused! Boston Ballet has done Apollo over it's 50 years a number of times with and without the prologue. The last time it was presented before this current time was in 1993 and it was done with the prologue. There were several casts most notably Fernando Bujones and Patrick Armand. A minor but interesting note as well was that Maria Arnillias (Mr. Bujones' wife) was a handmaiden in that prologue. Boston Ballet also danced Apollo with Rudolph Nureyev back in the late 60's in Mexico City and again as guests in Madison, WI.
Mme. Hermine is correct that this will be the third tour for BB to Spain. The tour in 1991, included Giselle and a mixed bill of Balanchine's "Allegro Brilliante", Mark Morris' "Morte Subite", and Lander's "Etudes". On that tour were Fernando Bujones, Trinidad Sevillano, and Patrick Armand, all favorites with the Spanish fans.
Hmmmm....... why is it the current BB staff seems to be so unaware of the companies history.
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So, I thought it would be nice to get everyone a little more. What do you do in life? Student? Where do you work? I thought it might be nice to get to know each other a little.
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Few years ago I tried to make a simple 3D game - billiards. Completed like 50%, stuck with physics. Basically, I only need to calculate balls rolling over flat surface, but it would be nice to make something more flexible. I know all the formulas and laws (most of them, anyway). the problem is I have no idea of how to make good physics engine architecture-wise. I tried google and other forums but didn't find what I was looking for. The only suggestion was to look at open-source engine, but I'm not that good a programmer to make heads or tails out of it...
Want to develop my own primitive physics engine, don't know how to start with its high-level architecture. Suggestions? [closed]
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How to start an Architecture/Design Task: With pen and paper.
Get yourself a large sheet of paper and start drawing out the components and items that will exist within your engine. What properties each entity will need so that you can model the physical interaction.
You'll need to figure out what entities your code will have to deal with, which entity has the responsibility of running the physics simulation (and which bit of the simulation).
Then you'll have to figure out how the entities are interacting. Use colours.
Now go to sleep. leave the design for a few days and do other stuff. If you have some friends you can talk to, this is a good time to ask them about what they think.
Return to you design. You'll see some obvious problems and will feel the urge to make it more elegant. Do it.
Start coding from your second design. Rinse and repeat until you feel proud of your design and implementation. Then ask for criticism from people whose technical skills you respect, and realise that you've barely scratched the surface and that your engine is held together with duct tape. Rinse and repeat.
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That last point is most important. When you get stuck, try to explain what your engine should do to a friend, on IRC, or in an email to someone whose work you respect. The act of trying to explain it to someone else will often reveal what your problem was in the first place. (You don't actually have to hit the "send" button, if you feel shy...)
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Lebanese Leader Quits Over Strains With Hezbollah
BEIRUT—Lebanon's Prime Minister Najib Mikati resigned on Friday, effectively dissolving the government and thrusting the country into political uncertainty at a time when the conflict in Syria is sparking sectarian tensions here.
Mr. Mikati's departure stemmed from a dispute with the cabinet about naming a committee for upcoming parliamentary elections, and over extending the mandate of the Internal Security Forces chief, Maj. Gen. Ashraf Rifi.
Mr. Rifi is a Sunni, allied with an opposition political group which is seen as more pro-Western and openly critical of the Syrian regime. Mr. Rifi would retire because of his age on April 1, but Mr. Mikati was in favor of amending regulations to extend his term. The cabinet, which is dominated by a faction allied with the Shiite political and militant group Hezbollah, refused to do so.
Keeping Mr. Rifi in office for a longer period would have been a symbolic gesture to ease the fears of Sunnis in Lebanon and allow them to keep their grip on the internal security apparatus.
"The region is heading toward the unknown and the regional fires are hitting us with their heat," Mr. Mikati said in a live televised announcement of his resignation. "The domestic divisions have left deep wounds and economic pressures are increasing from all sides."
In Tripoli, the northern city that is hometown to Messrs. Mikati and Rifi, violence erupted shortly after Mr. Mikati's resignation, local media reported.
State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said the U.S. was closely watching the situation in Lebanon.
"Our basic view of this is that we believe the Lebanese people deserve a government that reflects their aspirations and one that will strengthen Lebanon's stability, its sovereignty and its independence," she told reporters. "And we have grave concerns about the role that Hezbollah plays."
Mr. Mikati, an affluent Sunni businessman, entered Lebanese politics in 2011 when the political faction allied with Hezbollah nominated him as prime minister after forcing the collapse of the secular, pro-Western government of former Prime Minister Saad Hariri.
Since then, Mr. Mikati has navigated between Lebanon's two rival sects and political blocs loyal to Sunnis and Shiites. He is credited by many Lebanese, including Sunnis and Christians, for keeping the country insulated from the Syrian civil war by acting as a buffer among brewing sectarian tensions.
In October, the head of intelligence for Lebanon's Internal Security Forces Gen. Wissam al-Hassan, an ally of the U.S. and supporter of Syrian opposition, was assassinated in a car bomb.
The two political camps have been at an impasse over revising the country's electoral law over the past few weeks. A parliament election was scheduled for June but it seems unlikely it will take place on time.
"Everyone is trying to absorb the shock of his resignation. It's unlikely that it will spark widespread violence because no one wants the situation to explode here," said Hilal Khashan, a professor of political science at American University of Beirut.
The resignation drew initial contradictory reactions from political factions here.
The Sunni camp, critical of Syria's regime and Hezbollah, said Mr. Mikati's departure was a sign that he could no longer work with the other side.
The Shiite-allied political faction downplayed Mr. Mikati's resignation with parliamentarians saying nothing will really change, since he will remain in a caretaking position.
Mr. Mikati's government will remain in place until President Michel Suleiman consults with parliamentarian blocs to nominate a new prime minister. This could be as early as next week and Mr. Mikati could be reappointed again. However, it is unlikely that the new prime minister could quickly form a government given the current divisions.
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DateField does not allow unsetting the max and min date values
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Version(s) of Ext GWT
Ext GWT 3.0.4 (and probably all of 3.x)
Browser versions and OS
(and desktop environment, if applicable)
- Not tested w/ IE, but checked on:
- Chrome 24, OS X 10.8
- Chrome 24, Ubuntu 11.10, GNOME
- Firefox 18, Ubuntu 11.10, GNOME
Virtual Machine
Once set, DateField.setMinValue(Date) and DateField.setMaxValue(Date) do not allow the values to be reset by passing null as a parameter. Rather they throw an NPE because underneath it attempts to create either a min/max date validator with the null value or set the min/max date on the existing, internal min/max validator w/ the null value.
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Steps to reproduce the problem
- Start running in development mode in Eclipse
- Open app in browser
- Construct a DateField object, say "dateField"
- call dateField.setMaxValue(null) and/or dateField.setMinValue(null), results in an NPE.
Expected result
No error, expect it to reset the underlying min/max dates
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An NPE is thrown
Test case
public class DateFieldTest implements EntryPoint { @Override public void onModuleLoad() { final DateField dateField = new DateField(); FieldLabel fl = new FieldLabel(dateField, "Start"); CssFloatLayoutContainer cflc = new CssFloatLayoutContainer(); cflc.add(fl); cflc.add(new TextButton("Set Null Min", new SelectEvent.SelectHandler() { @Override public void onSelect(SelectEvent event) { dateField.setMinValue(null); // throws NPE } })); cflc.add(new TextButton("Set Null Max", new SelectEvent.SelectHandler() { @Override public void onSelect(SelectEvent event) { dateField.setMaxValue(null); // throws NPE } })); ContentPanel cp = new ContentPanel(); cp.setPixelSize(600, 200); cp.setWidget(cflc); RootPanel.get().add(cp); } }
Debugging already done
- The problem is that the underlying code constructs a min and max date validator and uses the date parameter value unchecked whereas the very next if block checks that value for null before attempting to set that value on the validator that was just constructed.
Possible fix
- The proper behavior is probably to unwire the validator if the parameter is null and perform any other bookkeeping (e.g., talking to the date picker).
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Thanks for the report! I have opened a bug in our bug tracker.
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This issue has been fixed and is available in SVN. It will be available when 3.0.5 is released.


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"Ghost Burgers?" Really?
Kuma's, a Chicago burger joint, decided to market a "Ghost Burger," featuring an unconsecrated host as a garnish.
Needless to say, this scheme provoked protests by Chicago Catholics. It wasn't only the older group that was upset at this marketing ploy. Here's an eloquent response by Justin Bartkus, a Notre Dame grad and a Chicago resident.
So here's my question: Where is the line between good-natured joshing and offensive mocking? I don't believe that Kuma's intentionally planned to offend Catholics--it's bad business in Chicago, if nothing else. But how do businesses, and comedians for that matter, decide where the line is?
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Great to have Cathy back on the blog. So, where's the line? I think Stephen Colbert said it best at the Fordham event last year: the only religiously-themed jokes he said he's ever refused to do involved the crucifixion or the Eucharist.
According to the restaurant, the Ghost Burger was conceived, not as a way to mock Roman Catholicism or exploit Eucharistic imagery for profit, but as a tribute to a rock band that the owners love, called Ghost. Apparently, Ghost makes use of Roman Catholic imagery in a subversive way. From its Wikipedia page:
Ghost are easily recognizable due to their eccentric on-stage presence, five of the group's six members wear hooded robes, while the vocalist appears in skull make-up, dressed as a Roman Catholic Cardinal. The nature of their identities is highly secretive and their names have not been publicly disclosed; the vocalist calls himself Papa Emeritus and the musicians are referred to only as Nameless Ghouls. Musically, the band is often compared to groups such as The Doors, Black Sabbath, Blue Öyster Cult, Mercyful Fate and Kyuss.
A Nameless Ghoul explained that Ghost has its roots in 2006, when the members were in another band together and he played the riff that would become "Stand By Him" to them; "I said that this is probably the most heavy metal riff that has ever existed.", "When the chorus came to me, it haunted my dreams. Every time I picked up the guitar, I ended up playing that progression, and when I fit the words in, it seemed to cry out for a Satanically-oriented lyric."
This Kuma's story was on a couple of local newscasts within the last week or so. Several customers and locals were interviewed; one of them sensibly noted that inasmuch as the elements weren't consecrated, it's not really the body and blook of Christ. FWIW.
Hmmm...the old "it's just a joke" line. Well, how oft the truth is spoke in jest. I draw the line at mocking and this runs the risk of, if not is, mocking. The line for offensive humour should be the same as the test for verbal harrassment; namely comments that the person saying are known or ought reasonably to hav been known to cause discomfort to another. We presume good faith on the part of people that they are not trying to offend but this is generally the test under human rights when there is a question of where to draw the line.
I can give you a concrete example. Over lunch many years ago following the OJ case, I was at work in mixed company and the case was brought up and people were saying how sad it was that Nicole was killed like that. Now one guy, who has a sharp wit, shook his head somberly and said, yeah...sometimes they just won't listen. That broke the mood and many burst out laughing. One woman took offense and said that he should not be joking about domestic violence. He apologized but there was still some furtive chuckling. Now clearly, he did not literally mean that. He was interjecting a joke. It did not go any further but the point is that it could have.
My Finnish mother HATED Finn jokes but her brother told the best ones of all!
Humour needs to be evaluated in context and some places humour is acceptable and others it is not. There are implied kinds of community standards that exist.
In this instance, he went over the line with using an unconsecrated host. Some things are tricky to joke about. Altar boy jokes and priests are among them. You won't hear those kinds of jokes on this forum even in a sideways kind of fashion but you might in other non-Catholic settings.
Sometimes those jokes can veer into the anti-Catholic territory.
Well, of course, there isn't any objective criterion or standard for determining where the line should be drawn "between good-natured joshing and offensive mocking." As George D. suggests, I suppose one should look to the sensibilities of the offended parties, but I think that his criterion of causing "discomfort" is too vague and perhaps too exigent and that there is likely to be considerable disagreement among the parties with some greatly offended and others not even discomfited. I have occasionally been offended at the flip way in which some participants in this blog have referred to things Catholics have traditionally held sacred, whether beliefs, sacraments, figures, etc., but obviously sensibilities differ. Conversation may help.
My Finnish mother HATED Finn jokes but her brother told the best ones of all!
George, you can't just bait the hook like that. Let's hear 'em!
Back in the day, when Life of Brian came out, some of my friends were offended, or thought they should be offended, by what seemed to be points too sharp and sacreligious. I have always believed that religions leave themselves open to satire by being satarizable, and God knows, Christianity generally and Catholocism specifically have left themselves wide open for some serious comedy; or perhaps I should say Christians generally and Catholics specifically ...
By the way, I have always thought Life of Brian was a hilariously funny movie. I have never seen anything funnier than the stoning scene:
Jim, just listen to "A Prairie Home Companion" and when Garrison Keillor jokes about Norwegians, just change "Norwegians" to "Finns."
There shouldn't be a distinctive form of bread for consecration, such that it has, in its unconsecrated form, an unambigous identification as the eucharistic species. This whole problem would not occur except that the wafers are identified with Eucharist and only with Eucharist, in advance of their consecration, so it seems irreverent to eat them in other contexts.
We'd never object to bread being offered in a restaurant. We don't object to the drinking of wine.
I think the message is terrible as it stands. The restaurant should not be offering a "host garnish" on the menu. But the scandal is really only possible because we've created a situation that can be exploited in this way.
Jesus didn't say: produce a form of bread that will be recognized only as a rarified, sacramentally appropriate substance, and eat it, all of you...
I'm with Colbert on this one. It's a bit like pornography: You might not be able to define it but you know it when you see it. There's an inherent humor to offense ratio that must exceed a certain threshold. If what you're doing is offensive to many, it better be really, really funny.
The function of humor--especially with regard to ethics--is addressed in this quote from Lonergan's Insight, chapter 18, on the Possibility of Ethics. You can decide for yourself whether it is an objective or subjective genetive...(ho ho)
"It is in this [existential] context that the profound significance of satire and of humor comes to light. For satire breaks in upon the busy day. It puts printers to work, competes on the glossy page of advertisement, challenges even the enclaves of bright chatter. It enters not by argument but by laughter. For argument would presuppose premises, and premises that would be accepted easily also would be mistaken. But laughter supposes only human nature, and men [and women] there are. Moreover, as it is without logical presuppositions, so it occurs with apparent purposelessness; and that too is highly important for, if men are afraid to think, they may not be afraid to laugh. Yet proofless, purposeless laughter can dissolve honored pretence; it can disrupt conventional humbug; it can disillusion man of his most cherished illusions, for it is in league with the detached, disinterested, unrestricted desire to know.
…the significance of satire and humor is, I suggest, out of proportion to their efficacy. …. the satirist is likely to clip one head off the monster he attacks only to witness another sprout out in its place. Again, because the point of humor is transcendent, it is apt to be missed. But if satire and humor are weighed, not by the results they obtain, but by the potentialities they reveal, then theirs is the signal importance of marking with a chortle the chasms that divide successive orientations of man's polymorphic consciousness"
Lonergan Insight p 649
Not a line, but a tight rope. Colbert seem to walk it every night!
A rule of business: when you play games you take chances.
They played.
It looks as if they may have lost.
They just killed their chances for franchises.. probably no business plan either, so 'no IPO for you'... . .Seinfelds Soup Nazi had a plan....so come back next year. .
Obviously, it was just a fun way to honor a rock band. Sure. And chickens have lips.
One of the local television stations is now reporting that the restaurant has offered a $1,500 donation to Catholic Charities of Chicago as a sort of peace offering, but Catholic Charities is refusing it.
As someone who goes about life offending people (mostly out of stupidity), I offer this story:
I recently went to a friend's grave to say a rosary. Afterward, I poured about a quarter of a small cup of Tim Horton's black coffee on the grave; my friend and I frequently went to Tim Horton's as an outing when she felt well enough during her last year of life. My companion, also a close friend of the deceased, was horrified and said it smacked of paganism and had no place in a Catholic cemetery. I explained I did it as a memorial and apologized profusely, of course. I still don't see that I did any harm. It wasn't like I left anything messy there. But I expect future visits to that gravesite will be solitary ones.
Fr. Komonchak's comment that conversation sometimes helps is on target, I think. Justin Bartkis's response to Kuma's was reasonable and helpful, though it strikes me as a little thin-skinned toward the end ("anti-Catholicism is the last acceptable prejudice"). Hope the restaurateurs will listen.
In general, I think that a whole cluster of factors should be taken into account when it comes to evaluating activity that may be offensive, while at the same time recognizing that there will always be fuzzy and downright rough edges. For example, I kind of get the sense that the proprietors of this burger joint actually didn't anticipate that what they were doing would upset people, which is kind of pathetic. I think that being deliberately blasphemous (or whatever) is actually probably better, because it involves owning your actions and intentionally framing what you're doing in a particular way. When it comes to being intentionally offensive, again, there are lots of factors, none of which everyone will evaluate in the same way. Creativity and execution should count: offensiveness is all too often carried out through cliché and laziness, because offending people makes shooting fish in a barrel look like rocket science. I generally hate it when people write off offensive jokes by saying that the worst crime is when the jokes aren't funny (because that's bullshit), and I'm aware that something similar can apply here ("the biggest crime is that the blasphemy is just unoriginal"). Still, if blasphemy can escape the mire of cliché and achieve something genuinely striking, if it can be truly interesting...well, that's something else. One problem is that something like Poe's Law can affect religious offensiveness: As grotesque a portrayal of religion as you may make, the odds are that that religion is fully capable of portraying itself in an even more grotesque fashion (How could deSade ever top stories of saintly nuns drinking pus from the sores of lepers?)
I think that when institution and bodies of teachings, traditions, and practices present themselves as repositories and arbiters of what properly denotes the holy, then they are begging to be torn down--at least just a little. Who doesn't like it when the sanctimonious or the know-it-all gets revealed with his pants around his ankles? I am not sure if it just isn't healthy and maybe downright necessary to maintain a bit of agency in the face of Grand Edifices of the Holy by deliberately (if perhaps just occasionally) resisting their prescriptive powers over your life
I am aware that such neat distinctions can't be made with full confidence, but I also think that there can be a difference between mocking institutions and mocking peoples, and between mocking privileged people and powerless ones. Is your blasphemy meant to chip away at the authority of those entrenched in positions of power, or are you going after the disenfranchised? Is mocking a religious institution a cover for mocking an economic class or ethnic group? Like I said, neat distinctions aren't always possible: in mocking a vaunted institution, you run the risk of stepping on the toes of the people who value said institution.
One last thing, if anyone's bothered to keep reading: many people like to be offended, so there is often a sort of symbiosis at play in blasphemy and the like. Bill Donohue and his ilk want to be offended. They wants to believe that "anti-Catholicism is the last acceptable prejudice." I've said it before, and I'll say it again: the guy paying a dominatrix to whip him does not resent her. The situation with offensiveness is pretty much the same, except the nature of the relationship demands that nobody acknowledge what's going on. Bill Donahue gets to be offended, and the blasphemer of the day gets to be offensive. Everyone wins.
Jean: it think that there is a significant difference between a cup of coffee, with no liturgical significance (except to. possibly, coffee-aholics) and the eucharistic wafer. And to expand a completed grave to an ongoing liturgical activity is really stretching it. Are we now to be forbidden to walk on a grave? leave flowers there (talk about paganish!)?
Jean - I thought your gesture was wonderful, sort of an oddball irreverence that is not offensive. Abe, I don't know if you agree, but I might classify it as a salutary or therapeutic act of resistance.
And compared to some of the objects I've seen placed in caskets before they're closed, a few drops of coffee is nothing.
Jean: Your story reminds me of another I heard somewhere: At a cemetery one person criticized another for bringing some food item and leaving it on the grave: "Do you think the deceased is going to eat that food?" The neat reply was: "Do you think he's going to smell those flowers you just left?"
Just before they closed the coffin on my mother's body, two of my sisters came up and placed a paper hanky inside the sleeve of her blouse, my mother's favorite repository for the item.
I saw a perfectly new 9 iron placed in the coffin in the hands of the deceased. He never made the long par four in two. .
If I were at Catholic Charities, I would accept the donation.
We give offense wittingly and unwittingly. Sometimes we take offense too quickly, or too easily brush it aside. Aristotle noted that "it is easy to fly into a passion -- anybody can do that; but to be angry with the right person to the right extent and at the right time and with the right object and in the right way -- that is not easy, and it is not everyone who can do it." Nor is it easy to be reflective, to express sorrow, or to extend forgiveness.
On the other hand, who would want a world without comedy or satire? And what sort of literature, art or music offends no one at all?
Claire - I agree.
Just in case people are curious, using wafers meant (in other contexts) for communion is pretty standard in forms of cooking: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lebkuchen -- there is nothing obviously bad, I think, about using bread marked as standardly meant for communion, for other purposes. After all, that's what's special about mass.
Also -- in line with what others have remarked -- if I were in charge over there in Chicago, I'd accept the donation, so long as a kind of clarification were issued by the restaurant, as it seems to have done. Or, better, I'd accept the donation perhaps on condition that copies of Anscombe's ``On Transubstantiation'' were placed somewhere near the door of the restaurant.
It appears to me that the restaurant did do this out of ignorance; and, as such should provide a teachable moment for those who are offended. If the offer of a donation could be made as a part of an apology, then Catholic Charities should publicly accept both the apology and the money.
Jean, recently I have attended several Buddhist memorial services for the mother of an Asian friend. The main purpose seems to be offering food to the deceased once a week. The family brings food and sets up a table. The chief mourners hold food with chop sticks against their foreheads in front of the table with a picture of the deceased in the middle of the food offerings. One daughter told me about an incident from her childhood when an aunt died and the family neglected to hold services. The deceased appeared to a sibling and said "I am hungry, why don't you feed me?"
No one can say for certain that Jean's friend was not aware of or did not enjoy the offering of coffee. But, it was the remembrance of times past that counted. Remembrance is very important in the Kingdom of God....."Remember me, O Lord, when thou comest into thy Kingdom."
Satire serves a purpose if it makes a person examine their beliefs and practices, habits and rituals. If satire is an ignorant attack, there should be a teachable moment response.
Is anyone familiar with the satire of Paris Arrow whose columns regularly appear on Abuse Tracker? She says the same things over and over again, and it seems pretty far out sometimes. I don't know what to make of her writings; but she does make me laugh. Has anyone ever challenged her in print?


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From the Washington Post comes this interesting map (HT Mark McKenna) of the dominant religious denominations in different regions. Catholics are blue, Baptists are red and Lutherans are in yellow/orange. The similarities to red state/blue state maps is striking. The other maps (which cover things like religious diversity, nonChristian religions, and religious participation) are equally interesting. Go take a look.
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All of he maps are interesting. If I can quibble about something, I'm not sure that "dominant" is the right word to use to describe this distribution of religious denominations. For large swaths of the blue areas in the map pictured aboce, Catholics seem to the largest minority in which there is no majority religion or denomination. Comparing the map shown above to the map showing denominational diversity is instructive. The blue (Catholic) areas tend to be relatively diverse, while that Southern bloc of counties is a good deal less diverse.
As a follow-on to my previous comment:
- It may be that Catholics flourish best where diversity is more welcome. Historically the Catholic church has been a minority church, and periodically an oppressed, discriminated-against minority.
- That the map above resembles (at least in broad strokes) the red state/blue state maps may be an indication that Democrats are better at coalition building than Republicans, as the blue Catholic areas tend to be the more diverse areas.
Help me out on your statement - "The similarities to red state/blue state maps is striking"
Texas is split between blue/red but (even with the significant Hispanic/Catholic population) is an extreme Red State; California is majority catholic but a Blue State; But Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, both Dakotas, Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, Missouri, Iowa are Red States - which only works if you assign methodist, lutheran with baptist and thus RED.
If anything, it suggest that Red state catholics have adopted the evangelical/baptist political stance - as someone raised in the 1950-60s, that is a significant shift. Who would have thought you would find baptists, church of christ in the same political party as catholics?
I gather from this map that Catholics like to congregate near water, and Baptists are mostly inland people.
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Could it be because of the Baptists' full emersion ritual? I saw a Baptist being baptized in a bayou as a child, and it was scary. From a distance it looked like a drowning on purpose!
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Who would have thought you would find baptists, church of christ in the same political party as catholic?
As one raised Catholic in the 1940s-50s, I, too, find that surprising. Living in a blue area of a purple southern state, I live among Catholics who talk and think more like Billy Graham than Fulton Sheen. It still always brings me up short.
as ,a latino catholic and a non-alingned conservative-liberal,when it comes to this red,blue,purple not sure that represen 'fusing" doctrines. the maps are quasi politcal? quasi religious affilition?we cannot separate in a diverse culturally country. the sense of 'individual' communites is always protestant. Latino communities of faith are ethnic. I am at a loss as to what is the map representing as a trend.
What the map says to me is that the South is full of Baptists, there are a lot of Mormons around Utah, and a fair number of Lutherans around the Scandinavian parts of the Dakotas and Minnesota. You can learn that listening to "A Prairie Home Companion" on Saturday nights.
The map doesn't account for non-denominational "free-churches" that, group together, seem to be a substantial subset of the Christian demographic in the US. These may be large evangelical mega-churches or small Pentecostal / Charismatic congregations. Add to these those groups where there is a denominational affiliation (e.g. - the Assembly of God) or a somewhat looser federation (Vineyard Ministries) and the non-mainline Protestant segment becomes even bigger.
There are so many varieties of "Southern Baptist" that I can't see that those designations are valid. I mean, how much alike are the beliefs of the people in all those states? Yes, they call themselves by the same name, but how are they all alike? Or even mainly alike, except in rejecting Catholicism of verious sorts.


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NEW CUMBERLAND - Like so many things in the world of jurisprudence, the success of Hancock County's lawsuit against Mountaineer Casino, Racetrack & Resort hinges on the definition of a word.
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Mountaineer General Manager Chris Kern, appealing to an advisory opinion from the West Virginia Department of Revenue, said it's not reasonable to charge a tax for free services.
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Davis said the county looks at the issue differently and he makes no apologies for going after the money.
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Hotel tax revenues are split evenly between the county, for parks and recreation purposes, and the Top of West Virginia Convention and Visitors Bureau, for the promotion of tourism.
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Rewards in the form of "comps" are especially important for West Virginia casinos, the lawsuit reasons, as a way to attract potential gaming customers away from competitors in Pennsylvania and Ohio. Other West Virginia casinos to which the hotel tax applies are: Wheeling Island Hotel-Casino-Racetrack in Wheeling; Mardi Gras Casino & Resort in Cross Lanes, a suburb of Charleston; and Hollywood Casino at Charles Town Races, in Charles Town.
Commissioner Danny Greathouse, who also is director of the Top of West Virginia CVB, said it's his understanding that none of those casinos collect the hotel tax on complimentary rooms. Officials from the three other West Virginia casinos did not return calls seeking comment.
Because of his position with the CVB, Greathouse said he abstained from votes and executive session discussions on the Mountaineer lawsuit.
Patricia Hamilton, executive director of the West Virginia Association of Counties, said it's ironic that the county is going after money that is restricted for tourism promotion purposes - from what is arguably the biggest tourism draw in Hancock County.
Hamilton said other West Virginia counties will be watching to see what happens with the Hancock County case but that the law is clear.
"The (West Virginia) code does say that, regardless of how the room is paid for, it does not exempt the hotel tax. No matter how the room is acquired by the person, they are to pay the hotel tax," she said. "It does not seem to say that comped rooms are exempt."
New Manchester resident Mark Tetrault, who is running against Davis as the Republican candidate for county commissioner, has sided with Mountaineer, saying that the county's legal action hurts the local business climate.
Gaming patrons, he said, "allow Mountaineer to provide jobs in the casino. These customers purchase gas and food in our county. Most importantly, these customers contribute to the growth and stability of our county."
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Here's some information about Plant Therapy:
"Plant Therapy was founded with one goal in mind… we want to provide the highest quality essential oils (and accessories) at a price that everyone can afford. Plant Therapy provides oils that are 100% pure, undiluted and therapeutic grade. We source each oil from top suppliers around the world, buy in large volume, and negotiate the best prices possible."
Check out my recipe for a Homemade Disinfectant. It's more economical than most commercial cleaners, not to mention, much safer. Our bodies are inundated with chemicals – in our food, our air, our water, our clothing, etc… It's time for us to step back and look at where we can easily eliminate some of those chemicals. Essential oils will help you get started.
Homemade Disinfectant
I got this recipe from a friend of mine who is a Naturopathic Doctor.
She uses it to disinfect her office and toys between client visits.
10 drops of oregano oil (a natural disinfectant.)
10 drops of tea tree oil
1/2 litre of water
5 drops of an essential oil (I use orange)
1. Place all ingredients in a spray bottle, shake gently to combine.
2. Store in a dark cupboard, away from sunlight.
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What Forum Software should I use?
If I'm starting from scratch with any CMS I want, which one has good support (or a plugin) for discussion forums?
If I'm starting from scratch with any CMS I want, which one has good support (or a plugin) for discussion forums?
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The obvious choice is Drupal. Very popular and tons of plugins. It has a good integrated forum. Because of this, though, there aren't a lot of options for alternative forum softwares.
However, while it's not a true CMS, Wordpress can be very powerful as a CMS web site and has tons of plugins, including forum plugins. http://chasesagum.com/5-best-choices-for-wordpress-forum-plugins
Wordpress has a large library of plugins and there are scripts out there to allow intergration with the major forums including PHPBB, Invision and VBulletin.
PHPbb has a good support community and has a lot of MOD's. if you can't find the plugins you want, you can easily request on the community forum so many developers will help you out.
The Vanillaforum is a great opensource forum that now has a feature that is supposed to let you embed it in sites. It says it is working with Drupal and Wordpress. http://vanillaforums.org/addon/embedvanilla-plugin


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Unanswered: Video in Carousel does not allow carousel to be dragged / paged through
I have a video tag in some of my carousel cards. If I swipe from the very edge of the screen it will change cards normally. But, if I begin the swipe on top of one of the videos, the carousel will not 'hear' the drag; will not be taken to the next page/card.
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I developed scientific software for use in my own scientific research. I am considering porting it to another language such as Java, and releasing a closed-source, commercial version of it for sale. I have been looking into Java, but I have some questions about the legal issues related to licensing Java for a commercial application, and the people who answer the phone at Oracle tell me that they do not talk to developers.
I have carefully read the JDK license agreement here. But I still have questions. Does anyone reading this have any experience releasing commercial, closed-source, applications running on Java?
If so, can you send me some links to information about the legal issues? My own web searches keep coming up with the same stuff.
My understanding is that I would have to redistribute Java 6 with my application, and that my application would have to check to see if Java is installed in the end user's computer, and then install Java if it is not installed, or if a newer version of Java needs to be installed. Many of these end user computers might be in large organizations which might not have purchased Oracle licenses.
Can my commercial application distribute the Java platform for free in this way without paying a fee to Oracle? Or are there fees or other restrictions involved? Can you please post a link to any information on the web about this?
From what I have read, the only fees seem to be related to the commercial features of Java, which are limited to tools for optomizing large enterprise applications. But I would like to hear from other developers, and to read the information that you might link to on the web in your replies, if you are willing.
Alternatively, I would consider writing my application in C++ or in c#.net instead.


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I am thinking it will be good if we can start a monthly magazine in which all the top voted questions & answers will be published and explained.
It will be useful for people who are travelling or who don't have internet access on free time places.
I am thinking it will be good if we can start a monthly magazine in which all the top voted questions & answers will be published and explained.
It will be useful for people who are travelling or who don't have internet access on free time places.
Doing something like this would be moving us backwards as a society. In my workplace, we've just about eliminated the use of paper. Everything we do is paperless. Even HR forms that we fill out are done digitally. I can barely remember how to print anything anymore as it's been so long since I've printed anything.
I'd like to think that Stack Exchange is just as progressive, forward-thinking, and green when it comes to reducing their carbon footprint. The amount of paper that would go into these magazines, for worldwide distribution, would be staggering.
Plus, it would be a waste of time, as darvidsOn says, since the Internet and the digital world have enabled content to constantly improve. Printed media just cannot compete.
As for being away from the Internet, perhaps there's another solution you could think about and propose. For instance, if the Weekly Site Newsletters could be downloaded, that would be a good possible first start. Anything that would involve downloading content to your smartphone before you go on that Arctic vacation could solve this issue. ;) You don't need Internet to read content offline. ;)
I don't see the point of actually publishing a magazine for all the reasons already stated plus one more.
There is already a forum where this can occur, the blogs. Rebecca Chernoff's original blog post outlining the "official" site-specific blogs explicitly encourages this:
If you'd like to do an in-depth analysis of a question then submit something! Unless of course you'd like someone else to do all the work? If that's the case then you're going to have to encourage them to do so.
Unfortunately blog.stackexchange.com and block.stackoverflow.com are currently the same thing. There is no dedicated Stack Overflow blog, so you might have to do as Rebecca suggest in order to get a Stack Overflow specific blog started:
I don't think this is a good use of SE employees' time.
Even if it was done on a volunteer basis, the combined knowledge required to explain top questions across all SE network sites means that at least


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First Lady flub: no touching the Queen
posted at 8:47 am on April 2, 2009 by Ed Morrissey
This seems to be getting a lot of traction in the headlines, so let's talk about Michelle Obama's supposedly grand faux pas in meeting Queen Elizabeth II in London. Time Magazine reported that the British (which include the "English") sputtered with indignation when the First Lady touched Elizabeth's back. The reaction seems a little exaggerated, considering the circumstances, but it still broke protocol:
The rules are set in stone, and so the eagerly watching British media sputtered when the First Lady of the United States, Michelle Obama, briefly put her hand on the back of Queen Elizabeth II as the two chatted at a reception. …
Of course, there are corollaries to this. One must certainly touch the Queen if the monarch offers her hand (though you should return this not with a firm handshake but just a touch). On Wednesday, Michelle Obama put her hand on the Queen only after the Queen had placed her own hand on the First Lady's back as part of their conversation. So there is room for theological argument as to whether the American reciprocity of touch was allowable given the social dynamics of the situation. …
In any case, the touch lasted just a second or two, and the Queen did not seem particularly perturbed — though she appeared slightly surprised as she drew away.
I'm not much a fan of royalty and the pomp that accompanies the monarchy, so I tend to see this as a much lesser offense than getting the name of the country wrong. The gesture from the Queen would normally prompt a human response of reciprocation. Time's explanation of the miraculous healing powers of the Queen's touch is interesting from a historical perspective, but since Americans don't tend to believe such things about monarchs (we made that clear in 1776, although the Princess Di infatuation may have confused some people), Mrs. Obama's treatment of Elizabeth II as a mere mortal is somewhat understandable.
Of course, diplomatic protocol exists for a reason, and it's clear Mrs. Obama didn't adhere to it, if she ever got instruction on it in the first place. As it turns out, she might not have had it, since her husband hasn't gotten around to staffing the White House protocol office. Apparently, no one told Barack Obama that the State Department had staff to fill the gap, either:
Only a few weeks on the job, Obama created a minor diplo-mess when British Prime Minister Gordon Brown came to the U.S. for a visit. Obama's historic Oval Office desk, a gift from Queen Victoria to Rutherford Hayes, is made from the timbers of the HMS Resolute. Brown proudly presented Obama with a pencil holder carved from its antislavery sister ship, the HMS Gannet. Classy! Obama lamely reciprocated with a DVD set of Hollywood movies, including "Psycho." When Brown got back home, he discovered they didn't work in his European player. "At a minimum you don't want to give offense," says a former White House official who helped orchestrate foreign visits for a previous president. "That was really phoning it in." (The official, like others quoted here, asked not to be named disparaging a sitting president.) Apparently it was a rookie mistake. According to a person close to the situation, Obama hasn't yet appointed a chief of protocol and his staffers, still unpacking, didn't realize that the State Department has an entire office dedicated to foreign visits.
Hiring a chief of protocol isn't as high a priority as staffing, say, the Treasury, but the position is quite obviously critical to not looking like Ugly Americans when traveling the globe as head of state. I don't think anyone has called this the Greatest Transition Ever in a while now. I think the bloom has left that rose, and this is just another example of the problem. Obama really had no clue as to the scope of this job.
So yes, Mrs. Obama committed a a small breach of protocol, but it's not on the same level as the Angela Merkel back rub or replacing "Great Britain" with England.
Note: Comments copied from Headlines post.
Update: The offending gesture, from the Daily Mail:
Eh. I just can't get terribly worked up about this, since the Queen has her arm wrapped around Mrs. Obama.
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I am a programmer, or could be called so because with my laziness with programming I am more often doing half a job and then start gaming. The other half I do tomorrow, next week or next month.
What would you do if you are a programmer, but you cannot get rid of your laziness to do programming. You want to finish the things as soon as possible, but the thing is you would not take immediate action and keeping delay the job (because you are too lazy to continue again). Any advice is welcome, even crazy advice.


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Treating Mild Anemia
Q: My 20-month-old son was diagnosed with mild anemia recently. He was given a prescription for an iron supplement, which he does not like to take. Why is it so important for him to have it? Will the anemia harm him?
A: I'm presuming from your question that he has iron deficiency anemia, rather than other types of anemia. It is important to try to fix the anemia. Recent studies have shown that iron deficiency anemia probably does have an effect on how well the brain works. It is felt that anemia can cause some impairment of intellectual functioning (IQ), particularly in the infant and young child because the brain is growing and developing rapidly. Significant anemia can cause your child to be more tired. Anemia also makes a child more prone to lead poisoning if there is lead in the environment, that's why it is important for him to take the iron. But while the iron supplement will help to correct the anemia, a good diet that's high in iron will help to make sure he does not become anemic again. Good sources of iron in the diet include leafy green vegetables, red meats, eggs, and iron-fortified foods.
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Sasol is developing plans for its proposed GTL complex, with company officials targeting a new product portfolio including diesel, specialty waxes and lubricant base oils.
(Editor's note: see video at end of story for our exclusive interview with Sasol's Mark Schnell.)By Ben DuBoseOnline Editor
HOUSTON -- Sasol is emphasizing a diversified product portfolio as it continues to map out plans for the new gas-to-liquids (GTL) project at its complex in Lake Charles, Louisiana, a company executive said Tuesday.
In the keynote address at the inaugural GTL Technology Forum, Mark Schnell noted that initial GTL proposals from the 1970s were designed primarily to produce diesel and naphtha.
But in the modern energy landscape is offering additional opportunities for the GTL industry, explained Schnell, who serves as Sasols general manager for marketing, strategy and new business development.
In Louisiana, were trying to diversity significantly, Schnell said. On the heavy end, that means looking at specialty waxes and lubricant base oils. On the lighter side, paraffins can be ideal feedstocks for detergent.Sasol is expected to make a final investment decision on the new Louisiana project in 2014, after the engineering and design review is finished. The plant is estimated to cost near $15 billion, making it about three times as expensive as a new traditional refinery. However, the ability of a GTL plant to directly tie into the affordable market for natural gas feedstocks could easily offset those costs.
The plant's two phases would start operations in 2019 and 2020, becoming the first facility in the US to produce GTL transportation fuels and other products.Schnell noted that a diversified product slate might not make sense for units in other locations such as the Middle East,, where Sasol operates a 34,000 bpd GTL facility in Qatar. But the mainland US is a major consumer of those items, and Sasol is adjusting its strategy accordingly.
The wax market is somewhat limited, while the base oils market is slightly larger, he said.
Even so, Sasol is still keeping a close eye on the domestic diesel market as well. Diesel produced through the GTL process is cleaner than conventional diesel, Schnell explained, particularly given that it is zero-sulfur.
Globally, diesel remains the workhorce for economic growth, he said. Diesel growth is consistently outstripping other petroleum grades, and our expectation is that trend will continue.
In addition, it is becoming more difficult for conventional refining to meet the required product mix, not to mention the increasing requirements for stricter fuel quality standards, he added.
If current projects are built, GTL processes would supply under 2% of the diesel market. But Schnell notes that if supplied locally or regionally, GTL diesel could have bigger impact.
GTL could be the ideal solution to fill the growing diesel gap, Schnell said. Sufficient product is there to justify significant engine development around GTL diesel.
The question is whether the market will ultimately prioritize clean diesel, thus giving GTL companies like Sasol the economic incentive to produce it in higher quantities. Factors that may spur development, according to Schnell, include tighter emissions policy measures, an increasing desire for domestic energy security and the need to move away from crude oil feedstock.
The availability of affordable natural gas is unprecedented on the global stage, Schnell said. Its on us to step up as a business and provide solutions.
GTL products are unique, with higher quality than conventional equivalents, he added. The challenge is how to best position these products to capture that value.
Sasol isnt the only major company to target the US market for new GTL plants. Shell has also said it is considering a new project in Louisiana, with a final decision likely by the end of the year.
There are now two big players looking at sizable plants in the US, Schnell said. As long as gas remains competitively priced in the US, the opportunity for large-scale GTL investments is there. Its a matter of who is going to provide the technology and step up and make those decisions.
The inaugural GTL Technology Forum continues through Wednesday at the Houston CityCentre.
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Very enlightening and simply put. I am sure that all the associated environmental, social and health risks and opportunities have been eye- balled during the opportunity framing process prior to FID. well done.
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Nice article that presented fresh perspective for GTL economics and future. Is it possible to contact Mr. Mark Schnell by email or phone? May I have the contact information?
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For my continuous integration builds, I want to make sure no stray files have been deposited in my git sandbox, and none of the files have been inadvertently changed.
I know about
git reset --hard HEAD, and this solves part of the problem. But I guess what I want to do is delete all the untracked and ignored files. I could do it the brute force way and just do:
rm -rf *
git checkout -f
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Let $G$ be a finite abelian group. When $\prod_{g\in G\setminus 1} (1-g)$ vanishes in (say, complex) group algebra of $G$?
It is easy to see that for cyclic group $G$ such product does not vanish, since $G$ may be embedded into a (complex) field.
Oh, it looks like it is obvious: for non-cyclic $G$ there is no exact complex representation of $G$, so for each character $\chi$ there exists $1\ne g\in G$ such that $\chi(1-g)=0$, so our product vanishes.


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Whenever I have to peel potatoes, I spend much of the time fighting the slippery, just-washed potatoes and keeping them from shooting out of my hands...what's a good way to peel potatoes more efficiently/easily?
This may sound like a silly answer, but it actually isn't: just do it faster. I've worked in professional kitchens, a lot of the time on prep shifts, and although there are lots of great tricks for prepping vegetables, the single thing that helps the most is to simply concentrate and move your hands faster. Build up your speed slowly so you don't cut yourself. And of course be sure you have a very sharp peeler. But mainly, work on slowly increasing your tempo until your hands are a veritable blur, and it won't seem like such a chore anymore.
I noticed the term "just washed" in the question.
My suggestion is -- don't wash them before peeling. Wash them after peeling.
Water is what makes them slippery -- if anything, dirt adds traction as you're peeling.
(and I tend to do one end, then the length of it, slowly rotating, then the other end ... no idea if that's faster or less slippery ... but for carrots, I always do the fatter end first, as I find it'd harder hold a peeled skinny side while peeling the fatter end)
I know this might sound crazy, but is your potato peeler old or dull? Sometimes a nice new peeler does the trick. Also, I'll sometimes hold the potato with a paper towel if it's slipping in my hands.
If the potatoes really are shooting out of your hands, you might try something as simple as loosening your grip. When I peel potatoes, I don't even squeeze with the hand in which I'm holding it. Generally, putting a lot of pressure on anything when working with knives or other sharp implements can be risky.
A different idea, don't peel them at all. I can't think of a dish where I wouldn't rather have the earthy, crispy, chewy skin of a potato. Just run them under water and lightly brush the dirt off, cut out any eyes, and be on your way. This is somewhat of a non-answer, but it's how I approach most tedious cooking tasks.
Also, you can hold the potato with a towel, or if you have one, one of those "jar openers" that is just the round silicon grip improver. Those work great!
You might have good luck with holding the potato similar to how a football is held for a field goal kicker - place one end on the table and hold the other end with the fingers of your left hand (if you're right handed), essentially sitting the potato vertically, and peel down from top to bottom. You'll still have to pick it up to get the ends, but you should be able to get 90% of the potato done this way. To keep the potato from slipping off the counter, rest it on a paper towel.
Mary Ann from Gilligan's Island presents and even easier method in this video. Basically, you score the potato all the way around, put it in boiling water for 15 minutes, then drop it into an ice bath...and the skin will just come off. Very cool! Of course, you'll want to reserve this method for potatoes that are going to be mashed or otherwise need to be softened for one reason or another.
If you don't mind buying a device specifically for this there are some pretty cool potato peelers on the market, but it might not be very cost effective unless you eat a lot of potatoes!