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Fucking Seattle real estate market - just CRASH already! Who are the fools actually buying it at the current prices? I'm waiting for the dotcom-style crash to buy in.
The burbs may suffer, but downtown condos won't. Inventory is very limited (even with all the new building planned through 2010), viable sites for development are disappearing and the developers are effectively keeping the flippers out of the current developments with occupancy contracts. You won't see a crash downtown, just continuing increases in value.
Well, that's the deal all over the country. The exurbs and suburbs will see a huge correction while any location where sane people want to live, in or near the city, will stay about the same. I don't predict prices going down in San Francisco either.
That number is not real. Expect a large revision to that estimate in a month or two when nobody is looking.
April 2006 went from +4.9% to -2.6%. April 2005 went from +0.2% to -5.1%.
Such is the world of statistics.
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Egypt to Let Iran Warships Transit Suez Canal on Way to Syria
Egypt yesterday approved a request by Iran to send two warships through the Suez Canal on their way to Syria, a move that has ratcheted up Middle East tensions and driven oil prices higher.
The decision was reported by Egypt's state television network and confirmed by an Egyptian military official who would not be identified in line with policy. Iran's request to use the waterway specified that the vessels don't hold nuclear or chemical materials, and aren't carrying or delivering weapons, the official said.
The ships will go to Syria, where they will anchor "for a few days" after a trip through the canal that is "routine according to international law," Iran's state-run Islamic Republic News Agency said, citing the country's ambassador to Syria, Ahmad Mousavi.
Suez Canal officials didn't have details on the ships' arrival date. Crude oil rose to the highest level in a week in New York as anti-government demonstrations continued in Yemen, Bahrain and Libya, heightening concerns that instability in the Arab world will affect energy supplies.
Crude for March delivery settled at $86.20 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Earlier, it touched $87.88. Futures gained 0.7 percent this week. The more active April contract increased 87 cents to $89.71 a barrel.
'Responsible Behavior'
U.S. financial markets will be closed Feb. 21 for the Presidents' Day holiday.
The U.S. is "monitoring" Iran's plan to send warships through the Suez Canal, White House press secretary Jay Carney said yesterday. Iran doesn't show "responsible behavior in the region, which is always a concern to us," Carney told reporters traveling on Air Force One to an appearance by President Barack Obama outside Portland, Oregon.
The 120-mile (190-kilometer) Suez Canal carries about 2.5 percent of world oil output, according to Goldman Sachs Group Inc., and is a key route for ships carrying Asian consumer goods to Europe.
The ships are a British-built, 1960s-era Mk-5 frigate and a supply vessel, according to Israel's Yedioth Ahronot newspaper.
The passage of the Iranian vessels would be a "provocation" to Israel, Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said this week. He said Israel would not "ignore forever" such acts.
Iranian Dissent
After the Egyptian approval for the ships' passage, Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman Yigal Palmor said by telephone that he had nothing to add to what Lieberman had said on the issue.
Iran hasn't sent warships through the canal in "many years," Lieberman said.
Iran has accused the U.S. and Israel of stoking domestic dissent, which has revived in the past week under the influence of Arab revolts, and rejects international sanctions against its nuclear program.
Officials in Iran have said discussions of Israel's nuclear development should be part of any talks on its own atomic work. Israel hasn't confirmed or denied possession of nuclear weapons.
Israel and the U.S. suspect that Iran's nuclear program is aimed at producing weapons. Iran says it is for generating power. The United Nations has imposed four rounds of sanctions on Iran over its nuclear development.
The Islamic nation deployed security forces to put down a Feb. 14 rally by opposition groups that was the biggest since the re-election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in June 2009 prompted mass rallies claiming the vote was fixed.
Opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi could not be reached and may have been detained, the New York Times reported yesterday, citing comments the leader's daughters made to an opposition Web site.
The daughters said that both parents have been unable to be reached since Feb. 15 and that their home has been surrounded by security forces, according to the report.
Demonstrations Planned
Nationwide demonstrations are planned for Feb. 20 to mourn those killed in this week's protests, according to the Web site of Mousavi, who ran against Ahmadinejad in 2009 and led protests after the vote.
Opposition groups liken Iran's regime to those of ousted Arab autocrats such as Egypt's Hosni Mubarak. Iranian state-run Press TV said two people were killed in this week's unrest.
Mousavi, the Iranian diplomat, accused the Israelis of "perverting the truth," calling passage through the Suez "routine" and part of Iran's strategic relationship with Syria.
"The Israeli side is interpreting international law according to its own interests and is perverting the truth," IRNA quoted him as saying.
According to international law, Egypt cannot forbid any vessel from passing through the canal unless that country is at war with Egypt, Ahmed El-Manakhly, transit director at the Suez Canal Authority, told Bloomberg Television Feb. 16.


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Amor Mundi 7/12/15
Hannah Arendt considered calling her magnum opus Amor Mundi: Love of the World. Instead, she settled upon The Human Condition. What is most difficult, Arendt writes, is to love the world as it is, with all the evil and suffering in it. And yet she came to do just that. Loving the world means neither uncritical acceptance nor contemptuous rejection. Above all it means the unwavering facing up to and comprehension of that which is.
Every Sunday, The Hannah Arendt Center Amor Mundi Weekly Newsletter will offer our favorite essays and blog posts from around the web. These essays will help you comprehend the world. And learn to love it.
The Blessings of the Black Church
Walter Russell Mead, a son of South Carolina, argues that one lesson of the response to the Dylann Roof shooting is how the black church holds an exceptional place in American culture. "But beyond all the yapping and the buzzing about gun control, the Confederate flag, and whether Dylann Roof was a terrorist or not, a very powerful truth emerged from the horror in Charleston: that the African-American church remains one of America's great national blessings. Yet again the African American church in the United States bore steadfast witness to the boundless, the infinite, the compassionate love of God. When the families of the murdered, martyred saints told Dylann Roof that they forgave him, when they prayed that he in his darkness might somehow find the light and the love of God, they reminded us what heroism truly is, and they showed us all what it means to follow Jesus Christ. Too often the worst people in the religious world dominate the headlines: hucksters and hustlers, money-grubbing televangelists, preacher-politicians, judgmental hypocrites, and sanctimonious snake oil peddlers. But every now and then something happens to show us what Christianity really is, and when it does the world stops in awe. President Obama was right to make grace the focus of his riveting eulogy; grace is always amazing, and without it no person, no family, and no nation can stand. Watching the news from Berlin, I was reminded yet again that if the United States can be said to be an exceptional nation, it is the black church that has helped to make us one. Beginning in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century, blacks (often after suffering rejection by white churches) organized their own congregations and denominations. Black churches were the first serious social institutions that African Americans were free to shape and control in their own way, and the spiritual and cultural blessings that have come to Americans of all races and indeed to the whole world from the witness and work of the black church are greater than most of us have ever understood."
In an essay formed as a letter to his son, Ta-Nehisi Coates takes on an American rhetoric on race derived from a certain very famous speech about a dream: "That Sunday, on that news show, I tried to explain this as best I could within the time allotted. But at the end of the segment, the host flashed a widely shared picture of an 11-year-old black boy tearfully hugging a white police officer. Then she asked me about 'hope.' And I knew then that I had failed. And I remembered that I had expected to fail. And I wondered again at the indistinct sadness welling up in me. Why exactly was I sad? I came out of the studio and walked for a while. It was a calm December day. Families, believing themselves white, were out on the streets. Infants, raised to be white, were bundled in strollers. And I was sad for these people, much as I was sad for the host and sad for all the people out there watching and reveling in a specious hope. I realized then why I was sad. When the journalist asked me about my body, it was like she was asking me to awaken her from the most gorgeous dream. I have seen that dream all my life. It is perfect houses with nice lawns. It is Memorial Day cookouts, block associations, and driveways. The Dream is tree houses and the Cub Scouts. And for so long I have wanted to escape into the Dream, to fold my country over my head like a blanket. But this has never been an option, because the Dream rests on our backs, the bedding made from our bodies. And knowing this, knowing that the Dream persists by warring with the known world, I was sad for the host, I was sad for all those families, I was sad for my country, but above all, in that moment, I was sad for you."
Whose Keys Are Under the Doormat?
Governments around the world insist on the need and the right to read and listen to what potential terrorists or enemies write and say. To balance security with privacy, there is a demand that governments have the right to subpoena records from internet and telephony providers. And governments--worried that new encryption technology will make such practices impossible--are considering legislation that would essentially mandate the keys to the internet. But a fascinating report by leading encryption experts argues that such a move would be disruptive and dangerous. "The goal of this report is to similarly analyze the newly proposed requirement of exceptional access to communications in today's more complex, global information infrastructure. We find that it would pose far more grave security risks, imperil innovation, and raise thorny issues for human rights and international relations.... The greatest impediment to exceptional access may be jurisdiction. Building in exceptional access would be risky enough even if only one law enforcement agency in the world had it. But this is not only a US issue. The UK government promises legislation this fall to compel communications service providers, including US-based corporations, to grant access to UK law enforcement agencies, and other countries would certainly follow suit. China has already intimated that it may require exceptional access. If a British-based developer deploys a messaging application used by citizens of China, must it provide exceptional access to Chinese law enforcement? Which countries have sufficient respect for the rule of law to participate in an international exceptional access framework? How would such determinations be made? How would timely approvals be given for the millions of new products with communications capabilities? And how would this new surveillance ecosystem be funded and supervised? The US and UK governments have fought long and hard to keep the governance of the Internet open, in the face of demands from authoritarian countries that it be brought under state control. Does not the push for exceptional access represent a breathtaking policy reversal? The need to grapple with these legal and policy concerns could move the Internet overnight from its current open and entrepreneurial model to becoming a highly regulated industry. Tackling these questions requires more than our technical expertise as computer scientists, but they must be answered before anyone can embark on the technical design of an exceptional access system."
Hannah Arendt's Cosmopolitanism
James McAuley has an essay holding up Arendt's idea of the conscious pariah as a model for a 21st century cosmopolitanism. "[T]here is more to Arendt's unsettled legacy than glamour, controversy and a provocative set of historical and philosophical interpretations. Forty years after her death, perhaps the most enduring contribution of this decidedly 20th-century thinker is her thinking about a cosmopolitanism suited to the challenges of the 21st century she'd never see.... Hannah Arendt never wrote explicitly on cosmopolitanism, or indeed even used the term, but she was a model cosmopolitan. She loved her adopted US, but never effaced her past to fabricate a new present. Her understanding of Jewish history and her experience of her own Jewishness remained central to her life and to her work, helping to illuminate a disparate, difficult whole. Arendt was fascinated by the concept of 'the pariah', the outcast, which in her mind conveyed the Jewish experience in Europe. As she wrote in Origins of Totalitarianism, Jews 'always had to pay with political misery for social glory and with social insult for political success'. For Arendt, being a pariah was not an inherently negative position; it could also bring a certain value. In a series of essays written in the 1940s, she referred to the poets and writers Heinrich Heine, Rahel Varnhagen, Bernard Lazare, and Franz Kafka as conscious pariahs. By this, she meant they never escaped their Jewishness but also used their difference 'to transcend the bounds of nationality and to weave the strands of their Jewish genius into the general texture of European life', who administered 'the admission of Jews as Jews into the ranks of humanity'. In other words, who did not efface their particularity but celebrated it, finding within it a world of substance on a universal scale. This was the crux of her cosmopolitanism."
Slavoj Zizek argues that Greece and its debtors aren't talking in the same language, and then he picks a side: "That a compromise formula always eludes at the last moment in the ongoing negotiations between Greece and the EU administrators is in itself deeply symptomatic, since it doesn't really concern actual financial issues--at this level, the difference is minimal. The EU usually accuses Greeks of talking only in general terms, making vague promises without specific details, while Greeks accuse the EU of trying to control even the tiniest details and imposing on Greece conditions that are harsher than those imposed on the previous government. But what lurks behind these reproaches is another, much deeper conflict. The Greek prime minister, Alexis Tsipras, recently remarked that if he were to meet alone with Angela Merkel for dinner, they would find a formula in two hours. His point was that he and Merkel, the two politicians, would treat the disagreement as a political one, in contrast to technocratic administrators such as the Eurogroup president, Jeroen Dijsselbloem. If there is an emblematic bad guy in this whole story, it is Dijsselbloem, whose motto is: 'If I get into the ideological side of things, I won't achieve anything.' This brings us to the crux of the matter: Tsipras and the former finance minister Yanis Varoufakis, who resigned on 6 July, talk as if they are part of an open political process where decisions are ultimately 'ideological' (based on normative preferences), while the EU technocrats talk as if it is all a matter of detailed regulatory measures. When the Greeks reject this approach and raise more fundamental political issues, they are accused of lying, of avoiding concrete solutions, and so on. It is clear that the truth here is on the Greek side: the denial of 'the ideological side' advocated by Dijsselbloem is ideology at its purest. It masks (falsely presents) as purely expert regulatory measures that are effectively grounded in politico-ideological decisions."
Three Cheers For Post-Humanity
Martin Rees makes the optimist's case for the human capacity to evolve past our human limitations. "The far future will bear traces of humanity, just as our own age retains influences of ancient civilisations. Humans and all they have thought might be a transient precursor to the deeper cogitations of another culture--one dominated by machines, extending deep into the future and spreading far beyond earth. Not everyone considers this an uplifting scenario. There are those who fear that artificial intelligence will supplant us, taking our jobs and living beyond the writ of human laws. Others regard such scenarios as too futuristic to be worth fretting over. But the disagreements are about the rate of travel, not the direction. Few doubt that machines will one day surpass more of our distinctively human capabilities. It may take centuries but, compared to the aeons of evolution that led to humanity's emergence, even that is a mere bat of the eye. This is not a fatalistic projection. It is cause for optimism. The civilisation that supplants us could accomplish unimaginable advances--feats, perhaps, that we cannot even understand."
Jill Lepore profiles Vermont senator and Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders: "Sanders ran for office four times--twice each for governor of Vermont and the U.S. Senate--before running for mayor of Burlington and winning by ten votes. In 1981, he took office in Burlington; Reagan took office in Washington. Sanders isn't a Debsian socialist; he's a socialist in the sense that Reagan used that word to describe L.B.J. 'He campaigned on the promise of a better life for the working man,' Alan Richman wrote in the Boston Globe. 'Nobody seemed to mind that the dream Sanders believes in is called socialism.' He drew the attention of the national press when he ran for reelection, in 1983. In the Wall Street Journal, for instance, Jane Mayer (who is now at The New Yorker) reported that Sanders began a speech at a fundraiser for the United Way by saying, 'I don't believe in charities.' (He later explained by pointing at the donors: 'Most of them were conservative Republicans busy cutting services to low-income people. Then they go collect nickels and dimes, mostly from working people, and congratulate each other on their generosity. I find that hypocritical.') The head of the Burlington United Way told Mayer, 'His speech was, uh, a little longer than we expected.' He was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1990, as Vermont's only congressman. He told Elizabeth Kolbert, then a political reporter for the Times, that there were perks to being the only socialist in Congress. 'I can't get punished,' Sanders said. 'What are they going to do? Kick me out of the party?' At the time, the most notable way in which he had bucked the Democratic Party had to do with gun control: Sanders opposed the Brady Bill, which placed regulations on the purchase of handguns, a position that's come up, lately, now that the press is taking him a bit more seriously. (Sanders said then that he did not believe gun control was a federal matter; more lately, he has said that, as a man who holds a middle ground on the issue, he can broker a compromise. Many critics are unpersuaded.) After serving eight terms in the House, he was elected to the Senate in 2006. He is the longest-serving independent in the history of Congress."
In an appreciation of Finnish author and cartoonist Tove Jansson, Sheila Heti relates the moment when she discovered the power of the line: "One day my mother--who immigrated from Hungary forty years ago--was visiting my apartment. She noticed that on the fridge my boyfriend and I had taped a large picture of Charlie Brown, which we had torn from the pages of The New Yorker. It was just Charlie Brown standing there with his hands at his sides. Upon seeing the picture she stopped and said, 'What a nice boy! Who is it?' The remarkable thing wasn't only discovering that my mother had strangely never encountered Charlie Brown, but that upon seeing him for the first time, she immediately liked him, felt sympathy and tenderness. Until that moment, I had not fully understood the power of comics: I had never witnessed so starkly what a perfect line can summon. A line drawn with love can make us as vulnerable as what the line depicts. Whatever cynicism I had about how commerce creates familiarity creates conditioned responses creates 'love,' it crumbled in that instant. An artist's love for what they create is what creates love. The first time I encountered Tove Jansson's Moomin strips, I had the same feeling as my mother: what a nice boy! (Or whatever sort of creature Moomin is--a creature from a tender dream.) There is such vulnerability in his eyebrows, in his little round tummy, in the way he doesn't have a mouth, in the babyish slope of the bottom of his face. It was strange, then, to learn that Jansson's first drawing of Moomin was an attempt to draw 'the ugliest creature imaginable' after a fight with her brother about Immanuel Kant."
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This week on the Blog, Hans Teerds discusses how Arendt reveals that by having an interest in local issues, people can band together, create shared initiatives, and thereby disclose the promise of action in the Quote of the Week. Henry David Thoreau reflects on how continuous thought helps to create a deep mental path that will shape our lives in this week's Thoughts on Thinking. Finally, we are pleased to share an image of a personal Arendt library sent along by Natasha Saunders, a student at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland, in this week's Library feature.
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Amor Mundi 12/14/14
Hannah Arendt considered calling her magnum opus Amor Mundi: Love of the World. Instead, she settled upon The Human Condition. What is most difficult, Arendt writes, is to love the world as it is, with all the evil and suffering in it. And yet she came to do just that. Loving the world means neither uncritical acceptance nor contemptuous rejection. Above all it means the unwavering facing up to and comprehension of that which is.
Every Sunday, The Hannah Arendt Center Amor Mundi Weekly Newsletter will offer our favorite essays and blog posts from around the web. These essays will help you comprehend the world. And learn to love it.
Adam Gopnick sees a nationalistic error in the way that some are defending the crimes revealed by the CIA torture report: "The North Vietnamese were under far more direct threat from American bombers than Americans have ever been from mostly remote Arab terrorists, yet no one would ever suggest that the Vietnamese were justified in torturing American pilots, even if they could have found out about, say, the targeting and timing of bombing raids, which might conceivably have saved Vietnamese lives. That was, we said, and would say again, no excuse. We have none, either. This is a good place to make it clear that, in this case, comparisons to Nazi and Communist tortures, far from being some kind of wild violation of decorum, are exactly what's essential--essential because without the belief that, even in wartime, there are acceptable and unacceptable forms of violence, the post-Second World War war-crimes trials, in which we place great pride, would indeed be no more than what the ex-Nazis always said they were: pure victor's justice. If we believe, as we do, that those trials were truly just, then that is because the acts that they sanctioned, including the torture of prisoners, were evil inherently, not just evil when done by other folks." The idea that we must be making those kinds of comparisons is compelling, but we must also remember that the fact that torture on the scale described in the report was committed in the name of a nominally liberal democracy. The comparisons are important so that we keep our heads in the right place, but we must not forget that these crimes were committed and also repudiated in our name and for our benefit.
On the day the Senate's torture report was released, Andrew Sullivan and his team at The Dish read through the document and responded to both it and reactions in real time. The transcript is fascinating because it follows Sullivan's commentary as the report unfolds right there in his hands. The magnitude of unredacted things that were revealed, the nature and kind of the torture perpetrated by the US under the auspices of national interest, seems even larger when consumed in this way. Here's one of Sullivan's comments on the text: "Here's a real bombshell: Bush was first briefed on waterboarding in 2006! And he didn't like it: '[D]espite agency efforts to keep the Bush administration informed about the program, top White House officials repeatedly resisted having the CIA brief cabinet-level figures about the details, and CIA officials were not permitted to brief Bush directly until mid-2006, more than four years after the president signed a broad executive order authorizing the program, according to Senate Democratic aides who briefed reporters ahead of Tuesday's release. When Bush finally heard the details of the harsh interrogation techniques that were used against CIA detainees, he was "uncomfortable" with some of them and expressed dismay that some detainees were required to remain in stress positions for long amounts of time, to the point that they had no choice but to soil themselves, the aides said.' What does it say about our democracy in the last decade that the one person ultimately designated to run the war was utterly oblivious to what was actually going on in such an extraordinarily vital area such as torture? That others were really running the country? That he was a disastrously disengaged and incompetent figure-head? Well, I guess what we suspected is now out there. But who was ultimately responsible for torturing suspects in a manner far far worse than stress positions if the president wasn't?"
In an interview, poet and National Book Award Finalist Claudia Rankine, author of Citizen: An American Lyric, discusses the way that seeing oneself as a progressive liberal, defining oneself as not-racist, can be a kind of trap for those who want to see a better world: "That's one of the fallacies that are out there, that we're above it, that these kinds of things belong to a supremacist world and not the world that the ordinary citizen lives in, that the ordinary educated middle-class person would never do these things, would never say these things. Not many people in writing about Citizen note that the book really lives in that space, in a kind of liberal American space. I'm sure the prosecutor in Wilson's case felt he was a liberal-minded person and his own liberal subjectivity was going to allow him to then move forward in a fair way."
Remember, But Please Don't Tell
Ian Johnson takes a peek at a Chinese history newsletter that, at least officially, doesn't exist: "E-mailed to subscribers as a seventy- to ninety-page PDF every other week, Remembrance's articles and first-person accounts are helping to recover memories that the Communist Party would prefer remained lost. Remembrance has no listed address, let alone bustling editorial offices. But if it has a home, it is here, in one of Tiantongyuan's concrete apartments, a dark, ground-floor unit lined with bookcases and stacked with boxes of banned books--a fittingly anonymous home for a publication that officially doesn't exist. Remembrance is part of the rise of unofficial memory in China, a trend that resembles the appearance in the Soviet Union during the 1980s of groups like Memorial, a historical research society that helped undermine the regime by uncovering its troubled past. Today's China is more robust than the Gorbachev-era Soviet Union, but memory is still escaping the censor's grasp, posing challenges to a regime for which history represents legitimacy. The government still controls official history through textbooks, museums, movies, and the media. But memory is more private, and setting it down on paper can be presented as a personal enterprise, even when the outcome is highly political."
Foucault In Praise Of Neoliberalism
The Jacobin republishes an interview with Daniel Zamara on his controversial new book about the philosopher Michel Foucault. Zamara has ruffled feathers by arguing that Michel Foucault was, in point of fact, sympathetic to the neoliberal order he explored and described. Ballast asks: "By making Foucault compatible with neoliberalism, your book could ruffle a lot of feathers." And Zamara answers: "I hope so. That's sort of the point of the book. I wanted to clearly break with the far too consensual image of Foucault as being in total opposition to neoliberalism at the end of his life. From that point of view, I think the traditional interpretations of his late works are erroneous, or at least evade part of the issue. He's become sort of an untouchable figure within part of the radical left. Critiques of him are timid, to say the least. This blindness is surprising because even I was astonished by the indulgence Foucault showed toward neoliberalism when I delved into the texts. It's not only his Collège de France lectures, but also numerous articles and interviews, all of which are accessible. Foucault was highly attracted to economic liberalism: he saw in it the possibility of a form of governmentality that was much less normative and authoritarian than the socialist and communist left, which he saw as totally obsolete. He especially saw in neoliberalism a 'much less bureaucratic' and 'much less disciplinarian' form of politics than that offered by the postwar welfare state. He seemed to imagine a neoliberalism that wouldn't project its anthropological models on the individual, that would offer individuals greater autonomy vis-à-vis the state."
The Spirit Of The Cuban And American Revolutions
A story in The Princetonian revisits a 1959 speech by Fidel Castro at the Wilson School specifically to a seminar titled "The United States and the Revolutionary Spirit." One participant at this seminar was Hannah Arendt who later credited her time at Princeton as the inspiration for her book On Revolution. Arendt's book argues that the American Revolution succeeded where the French Revolution failed because it focused on the foundation of freedom over the satisfaction of needs. No evidence exists that Arendt heard Castro's speech, and she doesn't mention Cuba in her book. But Castro's words do mirror Arendt's own view of the American Revolution that, free from misery, set its sights on the public happiness of acting together with others. According the Princetonian archives, "Castro told the Princeton students and faculty members that one of the particularities of his revolution was that it had triumphed in a Latin American nation with a relative degree of social welfare. The Cuban revolution, according to this young Castro, had been more a political and moral revolution against a corrupt dictatorship than a class-based uprising of poor against rich. For this reason, the revolution had been supported by '95 percent of the people,' generating 'unanimity of opinion,' a phenomenon unheard of in Cuban history."
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Arendt and Intergenerational Justice
"If the world is to contain a public space, it cannot be erected for one generation and planned for the living only; it must transcend the life-span of mortal men…. There is perhaps no clearer testimony to the loss of the public realm in the modern age than the almost complete loss of authentic concern with immortality, a loss somewhat overshadowed by the simultaneous loss of the metaphysical concern with eternity."
--Hannah Arendt, The Human Condition
Intergenerational justice is a central idea in contemporary political thought about the environment, sustainability and global climate change. That we must live today in a manner that does not degrade the life chances of future generations is an intellectual response to the depletion of natural resources, particularly fossil fuels, and the global warming fostered by the use of these sources of energy. As one political response to climate change caused by fossil fuel use, intergenerational justice may be described in terms of a revivifying of public life and a corresponding cultivation of trust in politics. That is to say, intergenerational justice is conceived best not in abstract terms, but as a matter of directing concrete political action, which Arendt argues has a transformative nature, against the anti-political and anti-ecological encroachments of "the social realm" that prioritizes economic thinking, growth and bureaucratic efficiency over concerns for the future. In this sense, we appeal to Arendt, who shows us in On Revolution that the founding of new public space and the revitalization of citizenship are always possible.
The Politics of Non-Movement
Did the Arab Spring come from nowhere, or was it preceded by modes of social and political action that might have eluded our common conceptual frames? How do ordinary people in the Middle East manage and even alter the conditions of everyday life despite the recalcitrance of authoritarian governments? These questions formed the starting point for Asef Bayat's lecture "Non-Movements and the Power of the Ordinary," which he gave in Olin Hall on Thursday evening, February 7th. Bayat is the Catherine and Bruce Bastian Professor of Global and Transnational Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, where he teaches in the sociology and Middle East Studies departments. Throughout his illustrious career, his research has focused on social movements, religiosity, and urban space in Iran, Egypt, and other Middle Eastern states.
Contrary to common public perception, Bayat insisted that these countries' subaltern populations do not resign themselves to adverse economic and political circumstances. Indeed, the region has well established traditions of activism among leftists, unionists, women, Islamists, and post-Islamists, among many other constituencies. But it has often proven difficult to create and sustain organized social movements when Middle Eastern states have been so reluctant to tolerate opposition. How then might citizens foster meaningful political change?
Bayat argued that many Middle Easterners, rather than overtly confronting authoritarian governments, have resorted to what he calls "social non-movements." Such non-movements are defined not by formal lobbying and protest, but rather by fleeting moments of mundane but nevertheless contentious action. Such action constitutes a "quiet encroachment of the ordinary" to the extent that it slowly alters everyday conditions in a manner that authoritarian state forces must respond to but cannot easily prevent. At the same time, social non-movements are propelled not by bureaucratic organizations that governments can readily identify and target, but rather by constituencies of dispersed individuals and groups who mobilize around common experiences and grievances.
In an effort to lend empirical weight to these general claims, Bayat offered a series of illustrative case studies. One concerned the actions of the poor. In Egypt and many other countries of the Middle East, large numbers of rural residents have sought to escape grinding material scarcity by moving to larger cities and building their own homes from scavenged materials. The formation of these squatter settlements is rarely if ever coordinated by any formal collective organization, but it nevertheless results in a dramatic reshaping of the urban landscape. Although government forces may initially destroy homes built in this fashion, the persistent construction and reconstruction eventually compels them to alter urban planning protocols, provide water, electricity and other utilities, and incorporate these makeshift districts into the "official city."
Another case study turned on pious women's myriad efforts to carve out more satisfying places for themselves in Iranian public life. The Islamic Republic has long sought to regulate female bodily coverage in the street as one means of assuring the nation's moral and spiritual integrity, but hundreds of thousands of women have opted to defy government dictates by wearing "bad hijab" (i.e., headscarves and chadors that leave a few centimeters of hair visible). These women's subtle but consistent sartorial challenges, which circumvent but do not entirely disregard the state's norms of bodily coverage, have gradually shifted the requirements that government actors can effectively enforce on a day-to-day basis.
Moreover, large numbers of women wear hijab while hiking, jogging, driving cars, and engaging in other activities that are not conventionally regarded as gender-appropriate, or they choose to live alone and unmarried rather than in the homes of their parents and spouses. Once again, these varied practices have not been centrally orchestrated or institutionalized, but they have nevertheless altered the terms of women's participation in everyday life.
Bayat acknowledged that social non-movements like these can and do coalesce into more organized and concerted activism, and he recognized that both movements and non-movements constitute important means for subaltern groups to claim de facto citizenship. But he also insisted that these two modes of action cannot be readily equated. Whereas social movements pursue a politics of overt protest, non-movements engage in a quieter, less obtrusive politics of everyday presence and practice. They are also driven less by specific and explicit ideological commitments than by inchoate desires for more expansive and appealing life chances. Nevertheless, they also provide a nutritive context within which more articulate claims for rights and resources might be formulated.
Bayat's lecture offered a suggestive framework through which to conceive practices and processes that often do not meet our established expectations of politics. Much of the ensuing discussion then attempted to probe and delimit the contours of his argument. What, for example, are the conditions in which a social non-movement might pivot into more cohesive and institutionalized forms of collective protest? How can a social non-movement be distinguished from a dissenting subculture or counter-public, more conventional forms of deviant or illegal behavior, or the glacial drift of wider social change? And to what degree does the notion of a social non-movement presume the existence of an authoritarian state, whether in the Middle East or in other parts of the world? Could we also identify non-movements, for instance, in the liberal democracies of North America and Western Europe?
Here Bayat contended that non-movements were closely tied to authoritarian states that retain a degree of "softness." That is to say, these states aspire to exert thorough if not complete control over the social field, but they ultimately lack the capacity to make such control a living reality. As a result, they necessarily leave "opaque spaces" that subaltern groups can turn to their own advantage. Bayat's remarks obviously referred to the many Middle Eastern governments that have recently teetered or toppled as a result of the Arab Spring. Yet he also suggested that the gradual undoing of Prohibition in the 1930s U.S. might also illustrate the concept of a social non-movement and its long-term incremental effects.
In his reading, the ban on alcohol was undermined less by concerted lobbying and protest than by millions of Americans' spontaneous, mundane but eventually consequential disregard for existing legislation.
To my mind, this apparent discrepancy was not a flaw in Bayat's analysis as much as an invitation for further inquiry. Like the lecture as a whole, it demonstrated the rewards but also the challenges of breaking out of our intellectual ruts to wrestle with complexity in new ways.
-Jeff Jurgens
Readers who would like to delve further into Bayat's argument should consult his book Life as Politics: How Ordinary People Change the Middle East (Stanford University Press, 2010).


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i was wondering how i use wp-admin/sidebar.php. it's supposed to open as a sidebar bookmark in firefox i think, but i don't know what it's for and how i use it. thanks!
i was wondering how i use wp-admin/sidebar.php. it's supposed to open as a sidebar bookmark in firefox i think, but i don't know what it's for and how i use it. thanks!
Sidebar is the menu that typically appears on a blog with things like links in them ?
If you have a wp install, please link directly to that from your name please.
Different sidebar - this is the one that's supposed to open as a Firefox sidebar, with a posting form.
The Codex has this (bottom of the page).
You'll find the link to it at yourdomain.com/wordpresswp-admin/profile.php - your profile in the admin interface. Doesn't work for me with Firefox, don't need it enough to work out why...
yeah, i just get a blank page when i try to use it in firefox
i'd like to get it to work though, cause i don't like going to the dashboard to post.
ok, found it in a different topic. open admin-header.php and comment out or delete
"@header('Content-type: ' . get_option('html_type') . '; charset=' . get_option('blog_charset'));"
Wrong link, Lorelle.
The thread is about this: http://codex.wordpress.org/Your_Profile_SubPanel#Sidebar
moshu: clicking that link sucessfully adds the bookmark in Firefox, but when clicked just displays a blank page:
Which link? The one I gave above in the Codex? Or...?
Excellent, KrazyKid! I've commented out the line of admin-header.php that you refer to a few replies up and I can finally sample the admin sidebar in Firefox. Always wondered what was wrong with it, but never cared enough to go hunting.
very confusing, to have an administrative interface named sidebar.php that's such a wholly different animal from the themes' sidebar.php
moshu: in my own WordPress install. After I comment out the above mentioned line in
admin-header.php though, it works.
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|2006-09-05, 21:28
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That could be true and i wouldnt mind that one bit. It sucks that im so torn Tamao and Nagisa would make a great Etolie they are both caring and already carry themselves like big sisters to a lot of the girls. But i want Nagisa with Shizume romantically.
They need to do an OVA and make it all Chikaru that would be fun she so didnt get the props she deserves.
|2006-09-05, 22:08
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Like a side story OVA hm? Too bad Chikaru's always on the side lines or behind the scenes. She rarely have an screen time at all. When she does have one, it also includes Remon, Kizuna, and Teddy Bear girl Kagome-chan
|2006-09-06, 02:28
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What's happiness...?
haha, it could be possible, this is allready a strange storyline.
agree agreed. Chikaru deserves some alone time.
|2006-09-06, 03:07
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Angsty Shizuma!!!
Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: New Castle
already download strawberry panic ost :
heres my favourite :
track 10 - Kanashiki Kako * really sad song
track 11 - Hiren
track 12 - Hitori Setsunaku
track 13 - Unmei ** recommended
track 29 - Kaori no Theme
I really like the composer, Hirano Yoshihisa
|2006-09-06, 03:16
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What's happiness...?
thats reminds me on Nagisa ;Pp
|2006-09-06, 07:50
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Beautiful fighter.
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: England, UK
Age: 29
Heh, it was pretty easy to tell that by the near end of this series.. everyone would be going pretty crazy about who should end with who. ^^;;
As for the ost.. i have to wait a few days for it to arrive in the post, though there's no way i can wait that long.
Edit: I was afraid that the tune i've been wanting since episode 17 wasen't going to be in there, but at track 10 & named Kanashiki Kako, i'm happy to see its there.
Seriously, its such a perfect piano piece.. through each second of the piece of music, to remember just everything thats happened since then - and well, you know what happens then. ;_;
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*sigh* I hate straightforward anime.
Btw, what time does this show air in Japan?
|2006-09-06, 09:28
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But besides that, I don't think Shizuma has done anything that great to deserve Nagisa. In everything that happened so far, she needed some form of plot device for her to realize just how important Nagisa is. Kaori dying and her final words were one of them. Miyuki informing Shizuma about Tamao-chan and Nagisa running for Etoile is another. When they were on the roof by the pool, she had to see Tamao-chans ribbon on Nagisas wrist to take any form of actual action, outside of just her usual teases. In all cases, she needed to know something. In all cases, something had to pull her head out of her ass for her to realize what may be her feelings. That's pretty lame to me. Or maybe I'm just not romantic. That could be why my boyfriend left me so long ago. But, whatever. Anyways, Tamao-chan has shown SO much support and just bent over backwards SO many times for Nagisa that it's really frustrating when Nagisa outright ignores her for something that doesn't even have that much grounding in the first place. And I ask the question, what's so great about Shizuma outside of the pictures and her obvious role as the other main girl? To me, none. She's never shown the respect to Nagisa like she deserves, and has done plenty of really stupid things to boot.
|2006-09-06, 09:31
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Join Date: Apr 2004
To all Tamao fans, today would be her turn in the Saimoe tournament.
Remon (part of Chikaru's harlem) also features today.
Both their groups would have really tough opponents. From SHUFFLE!, Mai Otome and Fate Stay/Night respectively.
Me? It's a tough choice, but sadly I won't be picking StoPani characters today. The least I can do is to inform anyone here who might be interested in picking them for today.
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|2006-09-06, 12:45
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Japanese broadcasting stations uses a bit strange twenty-four-hour system. For example, TV Kanagawa, which is one of the stations that broadcast Strawberry Panic, starts its broadcasting activity at 6:00am and ends at 3:15am. For some techinical reason, they deal with their work time as 06:00 - 27:15. Strictly speaking, Strawberry Panic is aired at 2:45am on Tuesday (Japan Standard Time). But the program list says it starts at 26:15 on Monday.
By the way,
2:45am Tuesday (Japan Standard Time)
= 5:45pm Monday (Greenwich Mean Time)
= 9:45am Monday (Pacific Standard Time)
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As well as releasing each individual season on DVD, Fox has been periodically releasing select themed Simpsons discs as well. This is the case with The Simpsons Christmas 2. Four holiday themed episodes are included on this disc for Simpsons fanatics to enjoy. They are:
Homer vs. Dignity
To make money, Homer lets Mr. Burns hire him to perform increasingly degrading acts. Finally, Homer is forced to choose between wealth and self-respect when Mr. Burns orders him to spoil a holiday parade.
Skinner's Sense of Snow
A freak blizzard traps the students of Springfield Elementary inside their school. Their lives at stake, they are at the mercy of the rescue efforts of a woozy Homer and Ned.
Dude, Where's My Ranch
Homer's attempt to write a Christmas carol turns into an anti-Flanders ballad that goes to the top of the charts. To escape it, the family heads to a dude ranch, where Homer battles beavers and Lisa falls in love.
'Tis The 15th Season
Homer spends his entire Christmas bonus on an extravagant gift for himself. But when he watches "Mr. McGrew's Christmas Carol" on TV, he sees the error of his ways. He becomes the nicest guy in town, leading to a battle of good vs. goody-good with Ned Flanders.
While these episodes do have their moments, there is no denying the fact that these are just the leftovers. The classic and more well known Christmas episode are included in the first Simpsons Christmas DVD. It's nice to have some of these episodes considering their respective seasons won't be released for a few years, but that alone doesn't quite justify a purchase.
The artwork and packaging is nice so there's nothing to complain about in that department, but the complete absence of extras is very careless. Overall, there is nothing too special about this disk. Unless you're a complete fanatic, my verdict is skip it. But if you absolutely need your Christmas Simpsons fix, get the far superior first Simpsons Christmas DVD.
Content: 6/10
Extras: 0/10
Packaging: 7/10
Value: 3/10
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Image Entertainment // 2008 // 126 Minutes // Not Rated
Reviewed by Judge Ian Visser (Retired) // September 5th, 2008
Rumble in paradise!
Broadcast live from Honolulu, Hawaii, Uprising is the latest mixed martial arts (MMA) offering from EliteXC, a fledgling fight league. EliteXC is doing its best to make a mark on the sport, through regular pay-per-view events on Showtime and a recent deal with CBS to broadcast fights during prime time.
EliteXC: Uprising features the middleweight championship bout between Murilo "Ninja" Rua and "Ruthless" Robbie Lawler, in addition to four other fights broadcast during the event. These matches include:
* Murilo "Ninja" Rua vs. "Ruthless" Robbie Lawler
* Nick Diaz vs. "Iron" Mike Aina
* Gina Carano vs. Tonya Evinger
* Jake "The American Dream" Shields vs. Renato "Charuto" Verissimo
* "Killer Bee" Riki Fukuda vs. "Smokin'" Joe Villasenor
In my recent review of EliteXC: Street Certified, I took the organization to task for hyping a Kimbo Slice/Tank Abbott fight to impossible levels, while delivering a collection of low-quality fights. I'm pleased to say that Uprising rectifies that shortcoming, by providing a solid collection of bouts in the broadcast portion of the release.
Where Street Certified barely offered twenty-five minutes of fight time, Uprising packs considerably more action into its show and at least three of the five fights are top-notch offerings. The Fukuda/Villasenor bout is a tough knockaround for both fighters, the title match between Rua and Lawler delivers the goods with some serious pounding by both participants, and the battle between Diaz and Aina is an unpredictable mix of both stand up and grappling action.
One of the areas where EliteXC differs from its competitors is the inclusion of female fighters. I'm pleased to report this particular brand of fighting is handled with considerably less exploitation than I had expected. The female fighters get the same attention as their male counterparts and the featured match is gratefully absent of any bikinis or Jell-O. The fight itself is not altogether entertaining, but at least the endeavor is handled with maturity. It's a bit early to say if women fighters will find a place in the sport, but it's nice to see that they are at least getting a chance to show their stuff.
I continue to be impressed by the quality of EliteXC releases. The widescreen image does a good job of delivering the action, with black levels appearing nice and deep and few defects being apparent. The audio also performs admirably; there are a number of instances when the impact of the punches comes across so loud and clear that it creates a nice "you are there" atmosphere for the viewer.
It's nice to see that EliteXC is willing to provide additional materials to flesh out the second disk in this set. In addition to bonus matches, fans get a series of behind-the-scenes segments, fighter bios, photo galleries, a fight glossary, a list of rules, and two collectible trading cards featuring Murilo Rua and Robbie Lawler. The behind-the-scenes section includes pre-fight interviews, training profiles, weigh-in footage, post-fight speeches, and a promo for the event.
Seven matches not included in the broadcast are listed on Uprising as extras:
* Kala Kolohe Hose vs. Jeff Cox
* Elias Delos Reyes vs. Chico Cantiberos
* Justin Buchholz vs. Ikaika Choy-Fu
* Tyson Nam vs. Albert "Bad" Manners
* Mark Kurano vs. Jose Diaz
* Mark Oshiro vs. Nui Wheeler
* Brandon Wolff vs. Chad Klingensmith
Unfortunately, in terms of quality, these undercard bouts can't match the main event. Two of the fights are finished in just over a minute, and another lasts barely twenty seconds. It seems EliteXC still has a way to go, when it comes to finding a balance of talent among its newer fighters. It's great that these fights are included, but the organization needs to up future value, in order to make their inclusion more worthwhile.
A superior effort compared to other EliteXC releases, Uprising provides some solid fight action tied up in a nice package. The company still has to work more on getting evenly balanced fighters together in the ring, but fans of MMA can be confident adding this release to their collection.
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Judgment: 86
Perp Profile
Studio: Image Entertainment
Video Formats:
* 1.78:1 Anamorphic
Audio Formats:
* Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo (English)
* None
Running Time: 126 Minutes
Release Year: 2008
MPAA Rating: Not Rated
Distinguishing Marks
* Seven non-broadcasted fights
* Behind the Scenes features
* Glossary
* Rules
* Fighter bios
* Photo gallery
* Fighter trading cards
* Official EliteXC Site


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Developers Launch Battle Of Brooklyn
The battle to build Brooklyn's tallest tower is about to begin with two developers planning to break ground next year on residential buildings that will loom nearly 100 feet over any of their predecessors.
At the beginning of next year, Stahl Real Estate, a company with 60-year roots in the borough, will break ground on a 590-foot tower at 388 Bridge St. That would make it the borough's new tallest tower.
But its reign could be short-lived. By late next year AvalonBay Communities Inc. plans to begin building its new Willoughby West project just down the street, which will rise 57 stories and 596 feet, adding 861 new rental units to the market.
The developments will continue a shift for brownstone-dotted Brooklyn, which has been seeing a steady growth in the number of luxury apartment towers.
While development slowed in the years following the recession, it's seeing a resurgence thanks in large part to strong demand for rental apartments.
Manhattan developers have competed for decades over who has built the tallest tower. Currently, for example, Extell Development Co. is building what will be the borough's tallest apartment building across 57th Street from Carnegie Hall, at 1,004 feet. Meanwhile, a venture of Los Angeles-based CIM Group and developer Harry Macklowe are planning a 1,300-foot building a few blocks away on Park Avenue.
For more than 80 years the Williamsburgh Savings Bank Tower—37 stories and about 512 feet tall—presided over Brooklyn's skyline. In 2010, the Brooklyner, developed by Equity Residential and the Clarett Group, put the title back in play when it edged out the bank building by about 2 feet and more than 14 stories. The recession put a temporary halt to such ambitious projects, but now developers are dusting off their plans.
Stahl's 388 Bridge St. "will become the tallest apartment house in New York City outside of Manhattan, rising approximately 600 feet, and 53 stories," says an early marketing document.
The developer has spent years assembling air rights and designing the project. It recently cleared a final hurdle when it obtained a loan from a group led by M&T Bank, allowing the $265 million project to break ground in the first quarter of next year.
Gregg Wolpert, co-president of Stahl Real Estate, is well aware of the rival tower across the street, but notes that AvalonBay's project still has a couple of hurdles to clear. "Anyone can say anything they want, that they're going to build the tallest building," he said.
Stahl Real Estate was founded by Stanley Stahl, the son of a Brooklyn butcher, and now owns more than 3,000 apartment units and five million square feet of office space, along with the 50-branch Apple Bank for Savings.
In recent years, it's built The Laureate, a luxury condo that shattered records on the Upper West Side, and the L Haus in Long Island City. This will be its most ambitious project in Brooklyn in a number of years.
The tower at 388 Bridge was initially planned as a condo, but after the condo market went south a couple of years ago, Stahl is now hedging its bets and 234 units on the lower floors will be rentals, while 144 on the upper floors will be condos.
AvalonBay's project is still in the planning stages and won't break ground until the latter part of next year, said Phil Wharton, vice president of development for AvalonBay. "Rents have recovered to the point where it's back where we thought there was going to be really strong demand for this," he said.
Median Brooklyn rents climbed to nearly $2,300 a month in October, up from just over $2,100 in March, according to MNS, a real-estate company. The median rent for two-bedrooms climbed to nearly $2,900 in October, up from $2,686 in March.
But it remains to be seen if Brooklyn can support the current development boom, as it's poised to add hundreds of rental units in the next couple of years downtown and on the waterfront. The boom is thanks in part to a decision by the Bloomberg administration to rezone Downtown Brooklyn and the Williamsburg and Greenpoint waterfronts in 2004 and 2005 respectively to allow for more high-rise development.
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Running Time: 125
Director: Mike Rubinstein
Company: Devil's Film
Cast: Papillon, Missy (I), Mr. Marcus, T.T. Boy, Steve Hatcher, Christi Lake, Simone (I), Byron Long, Stephanie Swift, Mickey G.
Critical Rating: AAA 1/2
Genre: All-Sex
A poolside encounter between Missy and Mickey starts off this mostly-anal soirée. Missy is scorching as usual, and Mickey shows his "experimental side, by appearing in a bikini. Strange? Sure, but when his rod reaches her rectum, there's no doubt about who's who.
Stephanie Swift takes a break from her cookies and coloring book to entertain T.T. Boy and his condom-covered crayon. IT doesn't get into her as, but it does manage to pump a load of cum on her face. Don't fast-forward through the Steve Hatcher monologue that kicks off the next scene with Papillon; he's genuinely funny. A basic but nicely-done couch scene follows. Another pool scene, this time with Christie Lake and three black studs, an a hotel-room screw with Simone and a nearly-unseen stud, round out the vid.
Good sex, good production, and a great picture of Missy on the box cover make this one a winner.