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T32 has significantly better turret than IS-3.
I frontally penetrate IS-3s turret in my KV-5 reliably (the TOP of it). No way I penetrate any part of T32.
T32 has significantly better turret than IS-3.
I frontally penetrate IS-3s turret in my KV-5 reliably (the TOP of it). No way I penetrate any part of T32.
I reliably penetrated the T32 front hull with the 122. Mostly on the KV-1S, though, but the IS-3 has an even better gun, so it should be able to rip straight through.
I know, you dolt.
I know you know, you saucepan.
Just did the spinning glitch with an IS-7 in my Ferdinand and managed to flip both of us opposite ways so I got out of there and turned around and killed him. This is the second time this has happened, I really need to have the battle replayer on.
Snip , wrong thread.
I think the Large calibre rammer is better. Also, get the upgraded turret, it's much better.
I'm reasonably sure this should be impossible, at least post-armor normalization patch, the T32 has about 188mm of frontal LOS armor, making it pretty hard to pen with the D-25T/D-2-5T.
Also trust me, in a one on one, the T32 driven by a half competent driver should rip an IS-3 to shreds. I've played both the IS-3 and the T32, and I do far better, and have far more fun with the T32 than I ever did in the IS-3.
So I went and did the calculations for thread on the WOT forums.
The kinetic energy contained in a full speed KV-5 is the same amount of energy released by 3.3 lbs of TNT detonating
Thats a lot of ramming power
I wonder whether they're gonna limit the top speed of the M18 once it comes out.
If they don't, it'll be one hell of a race car with it's top speed of 60mph.
The game's engine is capped at 72 kph (which is fucking bullshit) so it doesn't go over that.
the top speed for the games engine is 72km/h. Thats roughly 44mph I think.
To be fair, I don't think the hellcat would ever reach those theoretical speeds in a combat situation and off road.
Neither would the IS-7 but I don't see anyone complaining about it
Neither would most tanks I would imagine.
But this is sports tanks arcade edition anyway.
Crit viewing skill also shows them on friendly tanks. Pretty cool.
Well yeah, true. But it sure would be fun to play with once/if they release physics, knowing how lightly armoured american TDs are
Tried a few games, 1 win the rest were losses due to incredibly idiot morons on my team. As always.
This game is going to get uninstalled from my PC if matchmaking 2.0 is crap. I was top tier in a panther II yet the enemy had an IS-3 and a VK4502A
The IS-3 has to rely on slopes for it's armor, which are less reliable (bounces are a lot more random rather than guaranteed) than straight up armor of the T32. To put it more simply, the T32 is the only tank I've ever had a 152 HE round bounce off of.
Besides, the IS-3's ammo rack is like directly behind the weak part of the lower hull every shoots (or at least it seems to be), the top of the turret has the same issue the T29/34/30 have in that the turret top slopes upwards, and has no armor, making it a weak spot (if hard to hit at range).
With regards to side armor, both tanks have somewhat poor side armor but the T32 has more covered in tracks, and has an odd tendency to bounce all sorts of stuff.
As to the guns, I remember the T32's gun being more accurate (which, if I remember right, the game says they have the same accuracy so I don't know), but I don't really recall having much of a problem with tier 9's with either the T32 or the IS-3.
Personally, I recall enjoying the T32 at lot more than the IS-3, but that was a long time ago, so plenty might have changed.
I had a 152mm HE round dinging off my T29's mantlet
and it was coming from a SU-8.
It was my biggest "what the fuck just happened" moment in this game.
T5 matchmaking is trash when you're not in a KV. I was top tier on my team as a PZIV with a church hill and a M4. Enemy team had 3 KV-2's with 107's. match didn't last 3 minutes before the majority were slaughtered.
I've had people penetrate the top of the turret often, but I try to avoid facehugging the biggest tanks that have an easy time of doing this. With the improved turret, a lot of hits from most other tanks simply bounce. The spaced armour on the side is pretty good, if it gets hit parallel, from the front or rear, the hit wont do any damage.
The armour slopes on the front are good but you have to face your target head on lest you give them a better shot on either side of the prow. I always have to goof around getting the tank into a good spot to face headon so they don't hit the side of the prow that faces them. I have no troubles with T32s in my IS-3, I either rarely find them hull-downing or I manage to get them at close range or from the flanks.
With the BL-9 the IS-3 is fantasically and exponentially more fun that it was before with the old 122 guns. Like all big guns, it seems to have ground-seeking rounds enabled and I miss unfortunate shots that should hit but the 225 (226?) penetration on par with other high end guns makes up for it.
Had a similar round with four KVs v one KV, two M4s and a PzIV.
Did I mention how our KV was stock gun in the KV-2 turret? And how theirs were platooned groups with two 152mm and two 107mms. Yeah. Didn't last.
Rear armor of my Chaffee, truly my biggest WTF moment ever
I wish I had replay enabled when I got my Kolobanov medal in my KV2 :C
Bought Leopard on the test server for nostalgia.
First match in it I get campinovka, by just bushscouting I got 2k exp (without the 10x) and 31k credits (thanks to the +40% income buff, it would have been just 22k creds in 7.1).
It might be a viable credit grinder along with the PzIII in 7.2.
PzIII probably better, because the matchmaking is way fairer and it has better guns
Those matches were you take on 4 IS-4s pretty much alone as an IS-7 and take no damage is why I keep playing the damn tank. T10s need to be more rewarding, but that was good enough.
20k away from the Lorraine and I run out of premium
3k exp KV round on the test server, without the 10x. If that had happened on the real server it would have been my second highest exp ever achieved (the 2801 still holds my record)
Damn, I wish we had the replay when it was me versus 6 other tanks on Ruinberg in my T28. Kicked ass and killed them all. A angled T28 bounces everything T8 and down. Lowe's are pretty much the only thing able to penetrate it reliably and that is when it isn't angled. I sure miss my T28. Might buy it again since it was unstoppable in a T8 match.
My highest experience ever achieved still beats yours
How much? :o
3,024. I beat you by 15 experience. Woop. Does that make me the Facepuncher with the highest achieved experience?
Is that with or without premium?
My highest was 2,167 in my chaffee without premium. With the 50% bonus....
3,250.5 xp
Orkel did his in a T5 light tank too. So... T5 light tanks OP.
I know you guys like to hate on the KV-3, but I've been having a lot of fun with it and I don't even have the 122 mm or engine yet. Averaged 575 xp (without premium) on my last 6 battles (two of which were losses).


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The world–including even the previously sanguine Japanese–is now catching on to the fact that Japan's 12-year slump has deteriorated into a full-blown crisis, threatening a wild global ride. Falloffs in various indicators in the world's second-largest economy resemble the plunge of such countries as the U.S. into the Great Depression of the 1930s.
What about the theory that Japan is so rich a nation that it can buy its way out of a financial collapse? After all, it is said, the huge debt overhang from the country's rotten banking system and the actuarial deceit of its postal- and insurer-based retirement systems is just a case of Japan owing itself. This is not Russia or Argentina or Thailand.
No, it's not Russia or Argentina. In fact, it is potentially something far worse.
"Japan is 42 times bigger than Thailand," says Kenneth Courtis (who is interviewed on page 58), vice chairman for Goldman Sachs in Asia, referring to the country dubbed the epicenter of the 1997 Asian crisis. That bout cut world output by $300 billion in a year. Japan represents the "largest economic crisis since the 1930s," says Courtis.
"The world is heading for a once-in-a-century economic crisis," says Ryoji Musha, a strategist for Deutsche Bank in Japan.
How so? Consider the notion that, with perhaps $11 trillion in savings, the Japanese have enough wealth to cope. It sounds as if they do–until you realize that the total on- and off-balance-sheet claims on the household, corporate and government sectors in Japan are about $30 trillion, according to estimates by Goldman Sachs. That sum is six times Japan's $5 trillion GDP. (The total of U.S. public and private debt is $19 trillion, two times GDP.)
Those ratios in Japan are being made worse month by month, year by year, by deflation, which at perhaps 4% annually in Japan (measured in consumer prices) is the most pronounced in the world. Deflation aggravated the Depression in the U.S. in the 1930s. And it can spread. Cheap Toyotas are already putting pressure on U.S. auto prices. What if Japan devalued the yen, taking it from 133 to the dollar to 140 or 150 These Toyotas would then be even cheaper for U.S. customers. Robert Jay Pelosky, the chief global strategist for Morgan Stanley,
says: "This would send a price shock into the U.S. and Europe at a time when we [the U.S. and Europe] are flirting with deflation."
At the same time Japan faces a debt bomb at home, it is also the world's largest creditor. If its banks were panicked into calling in overseas loans, by, say, a run on deposits, an economic contraction would sweep America and the globe.
True, the specter of a withdrawal of Japanese money has yet to materialize despite having been raised for more than a decade. Some economists pooh-pooh the idea that lenders could or would move much of these funds home to low yields. And a lot of the $3 trillion in overseas assets is in the form of hard assets, such as factories, which cannot be repatriated.
Nevertheless, consider what happened on a far smaller scale in 1997. It took only the collapse of a midsize Japanese bank, Hokkaido Takushoku (with assets of $80 billion), to expand Thailand's problems into a regional crisis, says Thomas Byrnes, a sovereign-risk analyst for Moody's. Within three months of the bank's collapse, he says, Japanese financial institutions pulled $118 billion out of the global economy, mostly from Asia and Eastern Europe. South Korea, the world's tenth-largest economy, was effectively bankrupted by the withdrawal of Japanese money, he adds.
Mired megabanks | ||
Bank | Total assets ($bil) | |
Mizuho Financial Group | 1,250 | |
Sumitomo Mitsui | 915 | |
The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi | 830 | |
UFJ Holdings | 700 |
The four biggest of Japan's troubled banks alone have total claimed assets worth $3.7 trillion, (see table, left). It would not be only Korea and other Asian countries that would suffer if these banks' latent troubles erupted. Japan is the world's main source of capital. Much of its $3 trillion in overseas assets is in liquid instruments, such as $333 billion worth of U.S. Treasurys and bank loans to the U.S. and Europe worth $340 billion and $363 billion, respectively. Byrnes sees signs that Japanese banks have already begun to repatriate some of their money.
Is anyone paying attention? The business press is more preoccupied with Enron and maybe even Argentina. But there are some voices of concern, including that of Paul O'Neill, the U.S. Treasury secretary, who prodded the Japanese in a return visit to Tokyo in January.
Paul Volcker, the former head of the Federal Reserve Board and a famous worrier, says that he can't recall in his career a touchier global economic situation. "The U.S. situation is fragile: The stock market feels good, the short-run outlook is reasonably good, but it is fragile in that it depends on consistent and big imports of foreign capital," Volcker says. "This is not going to last forever."
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Japan's debts as % of GDP | US debts as % of GDP | |||
National debt | 143 | National debt | 37 | |
Off-balance-sheet claims on Japanese government | 280 | State and local governments | 14 | |
Bank loans (corporate and consumer) | 132 | Household debt | 77 | |
Nonbank-loan corporate debt | 54 | Business debt | 70 | |
Meantime, Edward Gramlich, a governor of the Federal Reserve, is calling for more U.S. savings to cut reliance on lending from abroad, which is now running at 4.4% of GDP.
So when might the piper get paid? Insurance on time deposits worth more than $75,000 at Japanese banks is supposed to expire at the end of March. A crunch could come at that time if enough money exits the system. A recent drop in savings of 9.5% at smaller financial institutions (in anticipation of the end of these deposit guarantees) is a sign that this may already have begun.
If a panic were to cause Japanese to flee yen-based holdings, the U.S. dollar might soar in value, creating a dollar bubble that could fuel a temporary
speculative stock market boom. It might feel good at first, but as post-1980s Japan and the post-2000 internet and telecom sectors show, bubbles have nasty
After three yearly downgrades, Japan has a sovereign credit risk rating of Aa3 with a negative outlook, the worst of any developed nation. Moody's Byrnes sees no default within five years, but he admits that Japan is in "uncharted territory." John Makin of the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.C., whose bearish views are being picked up on Wall Street, cautioned in a recent essay: "Ratings agencies in Russia, Latin America and Asia have repeatedly demonstrated their inability to signal coming crises for the debt of governments because they persistently heed the admonitions of governments that it would be irresponsible' to warn investors to get out of assets whose value is about to collapse."
Independent Strategy, an analytical outfit in London that's headed by David Roche, a columnist for FORBES GLOBAL, says: "There is no record of any government being able to repay debts equal to several times the annual output of its country in real money. Japan will be no exception."
A shrinking majority opinion still believes that Tokyo can muddle through. One common scenario, mentioned by Masatoshi Kikuchi, a Japan strategist for Merrill Lynch, calls for one to two years of contraction accompanied by steady economic restructuring and followed by a recovery in late 2003. This would be followed by a gradual paydown of Japan's debts. (Although, as Kikuchi admits, "Nobody knows the true debt total because it is extremely politically sensitive.")
Another scenario: Japan could simply continue decaying until it descends to the status of a developing country, much as Argentina did after World War II. "We are very afraid of Japan becoming another Argentina," says Taiichi Sakaiya, who was Japan's economics minister until recently.
A popular and seemingly painless step is to have the Bank of Japan try to reinstill inflation through the money supply. But, Volcker says, "My long experience says that it would be hard to produce inflation in a deflationary world economy."
The central bank has in fact been buying government debt, bypassing the banks and pumping money directly into companies; it's also been filling the banks with more money at 0% interest than they can digest; all to little effect. The next step would be to print money to buy all the bad debt, which would cause the yen to plunge to its lowest level in decades.
A true solution would likely entail nationalizing or recapitalizing the banks, bankrupting more than a third of Japanese companies (and much of the rural support base of the ruling party) and selling off the underlying assets at 10% or so. The banks' refusal to reprice assets has prevented the market from finding a bottom even as hundreds of eager vulture funds lie in wait (see page 16).
Radical deregulation of distribution and retail and better legal accountability are other moves that make economic, if not political, sense. The trickiest knot to untie, however, may be demographic. Japan could deal with its aging, soon to be shrinking, population by letting in 700,000 immigrants a year, essentially the number its work force is losing; other developed nations are fitfully adjusting to population plateaus by tolerating considerable influxes. For Japan, a wealth of potential improvement in productivity resides not far away, in China. Yet for historical and cultural reasons, it has barely been tapped.
As O'Neill said in Tokyo, the Japanese do have the ability to act boldly and effectively when they resolve to do so. Recent isolated examples of this–though ones that took significant foreign instigation–can be found at two significant companies, Nissan Motors and Shinsei Bank.
Nissan was losing money for most of a decade before Carlos Ghosn stepped in as president. Within two years he took it to record profits. Nissan just won the auto of the year award at the Detroit auto show. To get there though, he had to shut down five factories, fire 20% of the staff and cut out half of his parts suppliers. Shinsei Bank has become a highly profitable financial institution but only after half its assets were written off by the government and a large contingent of outside experts came in to shake up its inbred corporate culture.
Japan's reform-talking prime minister, Junichiro Koizumi, has repeatedly promised to do "whatever is necessary to avoid a financial crisis," but after nine months in office he has produced little beyond rhetoric. "This government that won in a landslide [by promising] to bring significant reforms has not done anything," says Michael Petit, the man in charge of sovereign-risk analysis for Japan at Standard & Poor's. "There are a lot of vested interests, so that it's extremely difficult to get anything done."
However, the pace of deflation that's already gripping Japan makes a grind-it-out scenario for recovery less likely by the day. When asked if Japan faced the danger of a Russian-style collapse, Shoichiro Toyoda, the honorary chairman of Toyota Motor, says, "It is already in the middle of one," but he complains that the country's leaders don't recognize it.
The world can only hope that when George W. Bush visits this month, he will focus those Japanese minds.

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Synopsis: Asymmetry in Strange-Beauty Mesons
In particle physics, a rare event is a thing of beauty—even if it's expected. The standard model of particle physics predicts that most particles follow the same laws of physics as their mirror inverse antiparticles—an equivalence called charge-parity (CP) symmetry. Now the LHCb experiment at CERN has observed one of the rare—albeit predicted—exceptions for the first time. The collaborators measured CP violation in a comparison between the decay of strange-beauty mesons (bound states of an antibottom quark and a strange quark) and their antiparticles.
Until the early 1960s, physicists had assumed all particle processes were CP symmetric, in part because they had never seen any that weren't. They were therefore shocked in 1964 to discover CP violation in K mesons (bound states of a strange and a light quark). Ten years later, Makoto Kobabyashi and Toshihide Maskawa, building on the work of Nicola Cabibbo, showed that CP violation arises naturally if the standard model includes a third family of quarks—the top quark and the bottom quark (also known as the beauty quark), which were subsequently discovered. In 2001, the BaBar and Belle experiments also observed CP violation in beauty mesons (bound states of a bottom and a light quark).
Searches for other examples of CP violation continue because even small deviations from what the standard model predicts could signal new physics, such as evidence that there is more than one Higgs boson. So far, the LHCb experiment sees no sign of anything unexpected. The researchers compared the rate of strange-beauty mesons decaying to with the rate of anti-strange-beauty mesons decaying to . They found a CP-violating asymmetry in the decay rates of , in agreement with the predictions of the standard model. – Robert Garisto


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Annual sprinkling restrictions go into effect from June 1 through the end of September for Franklin Water Utility customers. Odd number addresses are allowed to sprinkle on odd number days and even number addresses sprinkle on even number days.
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During periods of heat and drought, lawns dry out. During extended periods, lawns will go dormant (natural protection). Sprinkling tends to fool the lawn into a temporary recovery and a commitment of daily sprinkling will become necessary. Let your lawn naturally protect itself.
If watering is a must, morning is the best time. Cut back on watering when the weather is cool and moist. Do not water on windy days. Remove weeds as they are water thieves. Leaks in hoses, sprinkler fittings, faucets, and couplings are costly. Use a kitchen timer as a reminder to turn off the sprinkler, and remember to tightly turn off the hose faucet after each use.
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Verb TensesAll Tensed Up: Using Verb Tense CorrectlyOkay, so now you know that verbs form different tenses to show different times. Now you have to learn how to use the tenses correctly to show the timing of one event in relation to another. And we all know that in life, timing is everything. Get your bearings with the following table. It shows how the tenses are related.
Get the inside skinny in the following sections. Past TenseWhat's past may be past, but only if you get your past tenses straight. Use the following table to leave the past in the past.
Back to the FutureThis table explains the future tenses.
A Note on Verbs for Non-Native SpeakersVerbs present special problems for people whose first language is not English. Here are some guidelines to make your life easier (at least as it relates to verbs).
The following recipe for chocolate cake (1040 version) contains many errors in tense. Rewrite the paragraph to correct the tenses. Don't make the cake.
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Definitely purple smokey eyes.
A look that I can use for any occation. Not overdone with crazy colors, but definately more than just mascara and an invisible eyeshadow! Which is hard to create!
I want a little bit of everything! lol
Dont wear eyeshadow. i tried putting some and it looks terrible. it seems like someone punched me on the eye. so i gave up on that lolz
I don't wear eyeshadow daily. But every once in a while, I put on green, silver or copper eyeshadow on my outer eyelids and below the eyes (veeeery important!) in a smoky way with MAC's Cream Color Base in Pearl on my tear ducts. On my brow bone and inner eye I apply DuWop's Doubleglow7.
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Who is the blonde? I must know.
Like those pussies
fuck it good
why are her cloths off i just dont get it
great backround music
Brunettes name is Jilise Bull the plonds is Holly Kiss
the name of the brunette please!!!
Great background music. Anyone know the artist?
shes so technical in the beginning almost detached. in the end its quite good
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Four more posters have been released for "Star Trek Into Darkness," each focusing on an individual character. So far, posters have arrived for Chris Pine, Benedict Cumberbatch, Zachary Quinto and Zoe Saldana.
The new additions, care of Moviefone and Huffington Post, round out the Entrprise crew, featuring Simon Pegg (Scotty), Karl Urban (Leonard "Bones" McCoy), John Cho (Sulu) and Anton Yelchin (Chekov). In Yelchin's poster, Chekov is shown in a red shirt. That's a change for his character, who usually wears yellow. Hopefully it isn't a sign of things to come, as "redshirts" in the "Star Trek" world are normally the ones who die in episodes of the original series.
"Star Trek Into Darkness" has seen many clips and trailers appear online in the months leading up to release. It's scheduled to land on IMAX screens May 15, before opening nationwide May 17.
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This was fine - it made my blog posts look neat and tidy again - but it had its drawback. It was a major pain in the ass to use - any of my blog posts, of any length, would include 2, 3, or more formatting elements, which I would have to surround each one.
So today, whilst browsing Blogger Help Group: Something Is Broken, I come across Blockquote problem w/ Minima template, with a better workaround.
Go to the Template | Edit HTML tab. In the CSS (top) section of your template code, find the post section. In this section, under the ".post p" heading, find the line that says: line-height:1.6em. Move this line to the ".post" section.
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The Unitarian Universalists of Southern Delaware will host the Third Annual Delmarva Unitarian Universalist Celebration at 10:30 a.m., Sunday, Oct. 13, at Cape Henlopen High School, 1250 Kings Highway, Lewes.
The celebration is a gathering of the eight congregations on the Delmarva Peninsula: UU of Central Delaware, UU Fellowship of Newark, UU of the Chester River, First Unitarian-Wilmington, UU Society of Mill Creek, UU Fellowship at Easton, UU Fellowship at Salisbury and UU of Southern Delaware.
The Rev. D. Michael Smith, minister of the UUSD congregation, explains, "We are honored to host the assembly of over 300 members and guests of the Delmarva congregations in Lewes for the first time. We extend a warm welcome to interested local residents to attend this special free event."
The celebration consists of a multigenerational service highlighted by uplifting, joyful music by the combined congregations' choir led by Marcelle Schiff, UUSD's music director.
Children are welcome, and the service includes a Story for All Ages, "Babble" by Erika Hewitt from her book, "Story, Song, and Spirit" involving the participation of kids from the congregations. A qualified ASL interpreter will interpret the service for the deaf in American Sign Language.
The event concludes with a fabulous luncheon from local vendors, giving attendees the opportunity to meet and become acquainted with each other.
The theme of this year's gathering, the Warming Spirit of Community, reflects the spirit of Unitarian Universalism, an inclusive religion rooted in love and freedom, rather than creeds or dogma. Unitarian Universalism provides a liberal spiritual home for people of all faiths valuing the dignity of each person, diversity, and social and environmental justice.
The celebration will replace the UUSD service usually held each Sunday at 10 a.m. open to everyone at the church at 33739 Marsh Road. Childcare and nursery care are available.
For more information, contact Event Chair Pam Smith at 302-424-4015 or go to www.uussd.org.


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NFL Investigator Finds Dolphins Starters Bullied Martin
Mason Levinson and Aaron KuriloffMiami Dolphins lineman Jonathan Martin and other teammates were harassed by three starters before Martin's departure from the National Football League franchise last season, investigator Ted Wells found.
A report by Wells, co-chairman of litigation at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP, found that three fellow members of the offensive line persistently taunted Martin, another offensive lineman and an assistant trainer with racial, sexual and homophobic slurs. Dolphins coach Joe Philbin and members of the front office were unaware of the abuse, the report found.
Martin left the Dolphins in late October and the team a week later indefinitely suspended fellow lineman Richie Incognito, a ban that lasted through the rest of the NFL season. Fallout from the episode, including media reports on explicit text messages, revealed behavior in the team's locker room that included racial and homophobic taunting.
The 148-page report showed that in the Dolphins' locker room, at least, there was a "pervasive culture of bullying," according to Dan Lebowitz, executive director of the Center for the Study of Sport in Society at Northeastern University in Boston.
"I don't think the league can or will turn a blind eye to it," Lebowitz, whose organization worked with the NFL on workplace conduct training in 2010, said in a telephone interview. "They'll start looking at other locker rooms or they'll do the thing they have in the past, which is to find a positive educational response."
Reports Conclusion
The report concluded that offensive linemen Richie Incognito, John Jerry and Mike Pouncey "engaged in a pattern of harassment directed not only at Jonathan Martin, but also another young Dolphins offensive lineman and an assistant trainer," Wells said in a news release.
The harassment included racial slurs, homophobic name calling, improper physical touching and making sexually explicit remarks about Martin's sister and mother, the report said.
Other Dolphins linemen, including Nate Garner, Josh Samuda, a third teammate referred to as "Player A," and assistant trainer Naohisa Inoue, born in Japan, were also the recipients of either threats or racial epithets.
The NFL said it would review the results of the report before commenting.
Incognito Response
Incognito's attorney, Mark Schamel, said the report is "replete with errors."
"The truth, as reported by the Dolphins players and as shown by the evidence, is that Jonathan Martin was never bullied by Richie Incognito or any member of the Dolphins offensive line," Schamel said in statement.
Kenny Zuckerman, Martin's agent, didn't respond to a request for comment, nor did Joel Segal, Pouncey's agent, or Bus Cook, Jerry's agent.
Incognito was aware of how the persistent taunting and harassment was affecting Martin, the report said, citing entries in a book of fines the offensive linemen kept between themselves. In the hours after Martin left the team, Incognito recorded a $200 fine against himself for "breaking Jmart." A week later, he texted Pouncey and Nate Garner saying: "They're going to suspend me Please destroy the fine book first thing in the morning."
Incognito said two days ago on his Twitter account that he felt betrayed by Martin and was ready to move on. Martin was not telling the truth about their interactions, he said.
"I'm guilty of being a loyal friend and good teammate," Incognito said. "I apologize for my poor language and rude remarks. I've never denied it."
Incognito Grievance
Incognito has filed a grievance with the NFL Players Association in an attempt to recover about $500,000 that he says he is owed under his contract. He is now an unrestricted free agent. The NFLPA said in a statement that it would review the findings closely and confer with its players and all relevant parties,'' spokesman George Atallah said on Twitter.
Martin was placed on the Dolphins' non-football injury list on Nov. 30, ending his season with full pay. He is under contract with the team through 2015.
Incognito said that Martin was a willing participant in the behavior between the different members of the offensive line and that the exchanges were all in jest.
The report included text-message exchanges Martin had with his parents in May in which he said he was anxious and depressed over not knowing how to defend himself from the abuse.
Bullying Culture
A lot of people within the Dolphins' organization embraced the negativity of the bullying culture, Lebowitz said.
"People want to say he played along or was involved in it as well," Lebowitz said. "If they actually put themselves in that situation they'd be trying to find, almost immediately as a sense of self-protection, a way of being accepted. That was probably the most immediate avenue for him."
Philbin and members of the team's front office were unaware of the mistreatment, the report concluded.
"We are convinced that had Coach Philbin learned of the underlying misconduct, he would have intervened promptly to ensure that Martin and others were treated with dignity," the report said.
Martin had claimed that offensive line coaches Jim Turner and Chris Mosley had overheard "raunchy" comments about his sister, according to the report. Turner denied having overheard the remarks, while Mosley admitted to hearing crude joking about Martin's sister, the report said.
Coaches Aware
"Based on the entire record, we find that coaches Turner and Mosley were certainly aware of some of the insulting comments directed to Martin by Incognito, Jerry and Pouncey, although we cannot determine the full extent of that awareness and whether they had any appreciation of how hurtful this language was to Martin," the report said. "It is undisputed that these coaches never sought to stop the behavior."
The report's conclusion encourages the creation of new workplace conduct rules, and guidelines that will "help ensure players respect each other as professionals and people." It says that while the NFL is not an ordinary workplace, players can be "driven to despair" by bullying and insulting language.


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Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's Justice and Development Party (AK), which has dominated Turkish politics since 2002, scored a decisive win September 12 in a strongly contested national referendum on changes to the constitution (NYT). "The majority of the Turks want change," says CFR Turkey expert Steven A. Cook, though he observes that while many see the results as a step forward for Turkish democracy, there are some concerns about whether it could instead be "another step down that road of a less democratic, more religiously oriented political environment." Cook adds that if the AK continues to show strong support in next June's parliamentary elections, "those elections and this referendum taken together will leave them in a very good position to begin the process of writing an entirely new constitution, which is something that they have wanted to do." He also notes a recent improvement in U.S.-Turkish relations, as well as a modest lessening of tensions between Turkey and Israel.
What's the significance of this vote?
Beyond the specifics of the amendments, overall the vote says the majority of Turks want change. They want to change the constitution that the military dictatorship wrote for them in 1982. They want to get rid of the authoritarian legacies of that era of Turkish politics. Of course, the referendum was held on the thirtieth anniversary of the 1980 military coup, so in and of itself the vote was heavy with symbolism. The question remains whether these amendments improve the quality of Turkish democracy; whether this is another step in the direction of a more democratic, open, and liberal Turkey or whether this is another step down that road of a less democratic, more religiously oriented political environment. I would say that the most controversial of these amendments are the ones that are related to the judiciary, the public prosecutors, and the military establishment.
How does this referendum affect the judiciary?
It gives the government and the parliament the ability to actually appoint judges and prosecutors. Previously it had been reserved solely for the judges to determine who is promoted and who gets to sit in what powerful position. It was a self-regulating body. The judiciary has been dominated by strict Kemalists, secularists, and nationalists. So if you had a position or political view that was perceived to deviate from the strict interpretation of Kemalism, your chances of promotion or, for example, sitting on the constitutional court or being appointed a state prosecutor and advancing in that position were severely limited.
Could you define "Kemalist" views a bit?
These are the principles laid out by the Republic of Turkey's founder, Mustafa Kemal, known more commonly as Atatürk. Without getting too much into the details of it, Kemalists these days interpret those principles as ones of strict secularism. This is not, though, a separation of church and state; in fact, it's a situation in which the state controls religion and tries to make sure that religion does not enter into the public sphere. It is a perspective in which Turkish nationalism is very important and plays an influential role in the Turkish world view. It's also a commitment to the unitarian nature of the Turkish Republic. These are the basic tenets to which the judiciary has been attached for quite some time.
This came acutely into the public domain recently when the government tried to eliminate the rule that said women at state universities couldn't wear the hijab?
The opposition sees the constitutional amendments not as strengthening the checks and balances, not as strengthening the judiciary, but actually undermining the checks and balances.
Right. That is a hot-button issue in Turkish politics. In the context of Turkish politics, to committed secular nationalists, the hijab is almost reactionary, whereas in other Muslim societies the hijab goes basically unquestioned and is part of the landscape. In Turkey, because of this ban, and because of the official secularism of the republic, the head scarf has taken on a symbolic meaning well beyond its religious significance. It has taken on a political significance. But it's not just a question of the hijab.
What's happened since the Justice and Development Party has come to power and dominated the parliament is that it passes legislation the opposition is opposed to but can't do anything about, because they don't have the votes in the parliament to stop it. So, the opposition has sought redress in the court system. And because the courts were dominated by these Kemalists, they would as a matter of course declare all or much of this legislation as unconstitutional. So, the Justice and Development Party has taken upon itself judicial reform.
Nobody would argue that the Turkish judiciary isn't in need of reform. It's hardly independent. It hardly meets international standards. But the concern has been that these amendments go too far in the opposite direction--so that the government would have significant influence on the makeup of the courts and the worldview of those judges who are appointed and promoted, and that if the opposition sought redress in the courts, the courts would return friendly verdicts to the Justice and Development Party. This is the crux of the issue for the opposition and those who are deeply suspicious of what the Justice and Development Party seeks. The opposition sees the constitutional amendments not as strengthening the checks and balances, not as strengthening the judiciary, but actually undermining the checks and balances.
The opposition parties are aware that there is supposed to be a general election next summer. Is this vote on the referendum an indication that Erdogan's party is going to win big next year too?
Turkish politics never really crystallizes until three to five weeks before an election. The default position of observers should also be that the Justice and Development Party, which has been in power for eight years, has developed a sophisticated network; it has done extremely well on the economy; it does represent and enjoys the support of a majority of Turks. You see that in the returns on this referendum.
If Justice and Development and Erdogan have another very successful election in which they control a majority of seats in the parliament, those elections and this referendum will leave them in a very good position to begin the process of writing an entirely new constitution, which is something that they have wanted to do.
Was the referendum vote discernible by region?
Although Erodgan supporters won by a very large margin--58 percent to 42 percent--the vote actually went against them in places like Istanbul and Izmir. Its returns were strongest in central Anatolia, which is a further indication that Turkey is actually quite polarized over these issues. The returns on the referendum track very closely to the returns from the local elections in March 2009, in which the Justice and Development Party did not do well in western Turkey and along the southern coast, but really had strong support in central Anatolia. The party represents the people of central Anatolia, which in many ways represents a new social class that is exercising both its economic and newfound political power for the first time. These are people who did not feel that Kemalism and the Kemalist elite from Istanbul and Izmir and Ankara treated them well, whether it's the control of the big holding companies in Istanbul that had shut out rising entrepreneurs in central Anatolia or the perceived political discrimination against the people from central Anatolia. What we're seeing there is a real reversal of fortune, and it is, as I said, quite polarized.
In Turkey--in Istanbul, say--do most of the women wear the hijab or not?
Actually, no. There's been a number of credible studies that show that actually the number of women who are wearing the hijab has not increased with the rise of the Justice and Development Party. It's just that women who do wear the hijab are showing up in places where they've never been before: certain quarters of Istanbul and certain restaurants. All of a sudden, women who wear the hijab are finding it comfortable to do so. One of the things that the Justice and Development Party has done is make it safer for Turks to express their Muslim identity in ways they hadn't done before. It's not that there's been a wave of women taking hijab, it's that they are more visible now than they ever were before.
On the one hand, I guess secularists deplore the rise of religion in society, but on the other hand, it sounds like Turkey is becoming a freer society.
That's exactly what women who wear hijab and their supporters and others say: that this is a question of freedom of expression, and the ability to wear it in different places and the desire to lift the ban on wearing it in state-funded universities is the natural progression of a society that is transitioning from a semi-authoritarian or authoritarian system to a more democratic system.
If the Justice and Development Party wins again next year, what does that mean?
Although it's difficult to draw any kind of conclusion about what the results of the national elections will be, which are scheduled to happen sometime before July 2011, it would seem to me that if Justice and Development and Erdogan have another very successful election in which they control a majority of seats in the parliament, those elections and this referendum taken together will leave them in a very good position to begin the process of writing an entirely new constitution, which is something that they have wanted to do. They began doing that in September 2007, [but] they were thwarted by their political opponents.
Would they rewrite it in a very drastic way?
The draft that they produced in September 2007 was actually quite a liberal document. It was drafted by a Turkish political science professor with a legal background, Ergun Ozbudun, who is a well-known liberal. But there was tremendous concern on the part of secular circles, and this concern was whipped up in part by the press about this specific issue of the hijab. The political situation became too tense, and Erdogan decided not to continue with the process.
Turkey has been at odds with Israel since Israel attacked a Turkish aid flotilla trying to break the blockade on Gaza and nine Turks were killed. There's also been a strain in Turkish relations with the United States over Turkey's and Brazil's support of Iran in the dispute over sanctions. How are relations between the United States and Turkey right now?
Despite the tension over those issues and the flotilla incident, the Obama administration continues to value the relationship with Turkey and recognizes the reality of Turkey as an influential economic, political, and diplomatic actor in the region [and recognizes] it's difficult to ignore Turkey, and it would be wrong to penalize the Turks. And if, in the administration's perspective, these set of amendments were indeed a step toward a more democratic and open Turkey, then they were certainly going to acknowledge that to Erdogan. I don't detect the administration wanting to necessarily punish the Turks. They want to work with the Turks where they can and try to support U.S. interests.
The rhetoric from Turkey against Israel seems to have slackened.
That's true for a number of reasons. The Obama administration made it clear that it was unhappy about this rhetoric and that it was doing no one any good. There's been some effort on the part of both the Israelis and the Turks to find their way back to a place where they are not engaged in an ugly and public spat. Part of that has been the agreement to work on this UN-sponsored investigation of the flotilla incident, where there is an Israeli representative and a Turkish representative. That has ameliorated some of the tension. I don't want to go too far and say that things are back to normal between the Israelis and the Turks. But both sides saw that continuing down the road they were going was not serving either of their interests.


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SAN FRANCISCO — Fresh off a disappointing initial public offering, Facebook is getting a big boost from Apple, which is building the social network deep into its iPhone and iPad software.
With the next version of Apple's software, users will be able to update their Facebook status by talking to their phones.
Users will also be able to "Like" movies and apps in Apple's iTunes store, Apple executive Scott Forstall said in San Francisco at Apple's annual developers' conference.
Siri, Apple's voice-command application, will add a host of new languages, including Spanish, Korean and Mandarin Chinese, Forstall said. "She" will also be able to launch applications and movies.
Apple hasn't said when the new software, iOS 6, will be available. It will run on iPhones, iPads and iPod Touches.


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TheatreSquared Artists' Forum: Fall of the House
Join Ozarks at Large host Kyle Kellams for an intimate conversation with the cast, director and playwright of T2's upcoming production of Artistic Director Robert Ford's The Fall of the House, a nominee for the 2011 Edgar Award, running April 12-May 6 at Walton Arts Center's Nadine Baum Studios. Cast members will perform a live sneak preview selection from the production. Kevin C. Fox, who previously directed Sundown Town at TheatreSquared, returns to direct this new work, and joins Ford and the cast for a public forum on the production and the creative process. Highlights will be broadcast on KUAF 91.3FM.


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The Next 'Bourne' Won't Feature a Matt Damon/Jeremy Renner Team-Up
by Matt Singer January 9, 2015 @ 10:18 AM
Currently there are two entirely different 'Bourne' franchises in the works in Hollywood. The first is the actual Bourne series (let's call it Bourne Classic), with Matt Damon returning to the role of mentally-scarred super-spy Jason Bourne alongside director Paul Greengrass. The second is the sequel to 2012's 'The Bourne Legacy' (a.k.a. Diet Bourne), which kept the franchise alive after Damon and Greengrass left by replacing Bourne with Jeremy Renner's Aaron Cross, another traumatized government operative on the run. Universal previously planned to continue Cross' adventures in a sequel directed by Justin Lin, but when Damon and Greengrass recently announced they would return for another 'Bourne' film (due in theaters on July 29, 2016) the second Cross movie was delayed.


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this is genius! people need to watch this to be reminded of our capabilities and responsibilities. i wept at my failure to 'face up" to my giving up on myself and the human race
i watched all and it is great! emotional and momental it contains the traces of your creative mind if you have a oppourtunity, go for the film im sure itll touch the stars if made as perfect as the graphic novel.wish u good luck fr it
Are you sure this series is just a experiment?? its hinting Masterpeace here!
or w/e u like to call it....atm i cant describe how awesome this series was. i aint big on religion but.. this toon was vary interesting. nice work man!
was the most dramatic and amazing flash series I have seen in my entire life. I think it would be even better If it was made into an anime, but that's just my suggestion.
An amazing end to an amazing series.
At first, i wasn't sure about the series when i first watched it. The first episode intruiged me. as i watched more and more, i kept trying to figure out what was happening. you pulled out the story slowly and surely, only making a revelation in the storyline where it needed to be. The music fit the parts perfectly. I can only say thank you for the wonderful series.


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Set in contemporary New York City, a seemingly ordinary teenager, Clary Fray, discovers she is the descendant of a line of Shadowhunters, a secret cadre of young half-angel warriors locked in an ancient battle to protect our world from demons. After the disappearance of her mother, Clary must join forces with a group of Shadowhunters, who introduce her to a dangerous alternate New York called Downworld, filled with demons, warlocks, vampires, werewolves and other deadly creatures. Based on the worldwide best-selling book series.
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Indianapolis, Ind. (SportsNetwork.com) - Indianapolis Colts punter Pat McAfee has agreed to a new contract.
Terms were not disclosed, but McAfee told "NFL AM" on the NFL Network that he has agreed to a five-year deal.
The Colts made McAfee their franchise player last year and he played the 2013 season under a one-year tender.
McAfee, a seventh-round pick in the 2009 draft, holds Colts career records with a gross punting average of 45.6 yards and a net average of 38.4 yards.
McAfee averaged 46.0 yards with a 38.5-yard net on 76 punts last season. He set a single-season record with 27 punts inside the 20-yard line, including a team-record six during a Week 7 game against Denver.
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India and Pakistan take on one another in the ICC World T20 2014 clash at the Shere Bangla National Stadium, Mirpur. This is a contest the people of the two nations would be glued to and they would only expect victories from their side. This is the first game of the Super 10s stage of the ICC World T20 2014, with the qualifying stages out of the way. Bangladesh are the qualifying team that have made it through to this round and will join Pakistan and India in their group.
Catch the Live Scorecard of the India vs Pakistan match here
A few weeks ago, Pakistan had beaten India in a tense last over finish. Shahid Afridi was the star on that occasion as he smashed two sixes off Ravichandran Ashwin in the last over. That will certainly help Pakistan coming into this game, but they have never beaten India in a World Cup of any form. So far, they have met each other thrice in T20 World Cups, and India have been triumphant on all three occasions.


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Ahead of polls, Alwar made the 'sports hub' of Rajasthan
- Dailybhaskar.com
- Jul 08, 2013, 15:57 PM IST
Alwar: A high quality synthetic track will also be constructed in Alwar for the athletes. The announcement in this regard was made on Sunday by Union minister of sports and youth affairs Bhanwar Jeetendra Singh.
The minister was in Alwar to lay the foundation of Khel Sankul on Indira Gandhi Stadium premises.
"Alwar will soon be developed as a sports hub of the state. We will ensure that no talent in the district gets wasted for want of resources and funds. A high-quality international synthetic track worth Rs7 crore will also be constructed for the athletes," said Jeetendra Singh.
A 'Centre for excellence' worth Rs 50 crore is also proposed to be constructed in Alwar, he added.
He said the Union sports ministry has also decided to open Khel Sankuls in 7,000 blocks across the country including Rajasthan.
The construction cost of each Sankul will be Rs2 crore and sports equipment of around Rs15 lakh will be given to each Sankul.
He announced that the Union government is also planning to open sports schools in each district of the state for which a provision of Rs25 crore has already been made.
"Khel Sankuls will be opened in 7,000 blocks across the country. All sports facilities will be available there. In Rajasthan, sports schools will also be opened in every district of the state," said Singh
He added that Rajasthan has immense potential in sports. "If proper facilities and resources are made available, the state can excel in sports at the international level. A lot is being done to promote sports in the state. If we need to excel, we must build proper infrastructure and tap the grassroots potential. Several new things will come up in near future," said Singh. Several local Congress leaders were also present on this occasion.
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For some years Paton's literary reputation rested on two successful novels and a handful of short stories. But the judgment of the future may rank his biographies of Jan Hofmeyr and Archbishop Geoffrey Clayton as well as his own autobiographical writings as a comparable literary achievement. (p. 92)
Paton's Hofmeyr is, essentially, about the moral and intellectual development of a man whose lot was to become deputy prime minister for a time and afterwards to be rejected because of his liberal views on civil rights. Although Paton had been Hofmeyr's friend, and a great admirer of his moral courage, the biography was not persevered with through years of difficulties simply out of friendship or admiration. There were those who thought that "of all the lives waiting to be written, Hofmeyr's was the least promising—dull, virtuous, conventional, with no wine, women, or song." Paton, with a novelist's discernment, realized...
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Posted about 8 years ago It died in committee the last time it came up....I guess the problem is how to pay for it?! Anyhow, how do you feel about it? I won't be utterly distraught if we don't get it because I don't think the state should be cavalier about the high risk designation, but at the same time I truly think we earn it every day. |
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| Posted about 8 years ago midnightspumpkin says ... If it's retro, I'm all for it! That would put me 1.5 years closer to retirement! |
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| Posted about 8 years ago I agree with you 100%, I copied and pasted this from "How do you guys do it?" I posted my thoughts of this 8 months ago. Keep up the good work , thanks for everything...... I do feel that Emergency Dispatchers should recieve benefits under the Administrative Special Risk category. As it stands in Florida 911 dispatchers have to put in a full thirty (30) years of service in order to retire with only 48% of their average salary. If they could be put under the Administrative Special Risk category they could retire in only 25 years in the Florida State Retirement System.
I dispatched for a little over two (2) years and I really enjoyed my job as a dispatcher, but I can honestly tell you the skill level and mental acuity required to function in a busy 911 center makes it very difficult for dispatchers to reach that thirty (30) year mark. The shift work and stress frequently lead to medical problems *God Bless You Jan*, that force the hard worked dispatchers to retire early which in return lead to significant FRS penalties.
When I was Employed with the SO our CPT offered all of us dispatchers a letter, and all information reguarding this. We all sent letters to our local senator and representatives; however the request was shot down. I feel that if enough dispatchers got together to adv. on this subject maybe things could change for the better. |
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| Posted over 7 years ago midnightspumpkin says ... High Risk Retirement died in committee because there was no clearly defined class of recipients... Yes, money is a HUGE issue. Another problem is the fact that the legislation only extends to those receiving State retirement benefits. If you work for an agency that doesn't receive State retirement, you are excluded. Folks like Clearwater PD - Metro Dade - Tallahassee PD won't see benefit from it... at least not upon passage.... that is if it is ever brought back to the Legislative floor. |


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The author of 24 books, Lev Raphaelin writes in a wide range of genres from memoir to mystery to Jane Austen mashup. He has had a passion for storytelling since second grade and has been a reader of catholic tastes since he discovered his first public library.
Mr. Raphaelin has published traditionally with both large and small houses, and recently gone indie because it appears to be the wave of the future. His latest fiction, Rosedale the Vampyre, grows out of his love of The Gilded Age.
Lev Raphaelin has worked in several areas including jobs as a newspaper columnist, a radio talk show host, a DJ and even an academic. He currently writes and reviews full-time and is working on three different book projects.
Readers can learn more about Lev Raphaelin and his works by visiting the following links:
Blog ~ Website ~ Facebook ~ Twitter ~ Amazon
Could you please tell us a bit about your book? The story? The characters?
Riffing off Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth, I've hijacked one of her characters into the outside world and the world of the supernatural. Simon Rosedale's a banker grieving the loss of his wife and infant child, drowning his sorrows in bordellos; then one night he's attacked by a vampyre [sic] on the streets of 1907 New York and everything changes. The book mixes the stunning realities of the Gilded Age with the supernatural, and it's written in a period style.
How did you come up with the title and how much say did you have on the cover design?
The title is a nod to the famed Victorian novel Varney the Vampyre and I kept the older spelling, even though my book takes place later, as a way of heightening the period feel.
This is actually the second cover. I found art I liked and had the cover designed, but when it was done, decided it wasn't evocative enough. Discovering the art that's now on the cover, I had one of those "I want it!" moments and the designer made the change. I'm glad, because people really like this cover.
Do you have a favorite line or excerpt that you would like to share from your book?
This is a transition from Rosedale's work day to his night crawling before he becomes a vampyre:
"In the evening, Rosedale dismissed his valet and dressed himself with dispatch for the opera, though intent on a different kind of spectacle. He eschewed his shiny new brougham with the sable lap robes and even his newer motor-car. Rather than let his liveried driver know what he intended, Rosedale hailed a hansom on Seventy-Second Street outside The Dakota where he lived in spacious apartments across from Central Park. Asking the driver to proceed without dawdling to West Thirty-Ninth Street, he closed his eyes and lolled back against the worn cushions, withdrawing from the city's nocturnal clamor, anticipating the pleasures ahead downtown. He was abroad in the dark marketplace that was nighttime New York where nothing could be easier to procure than oblivion."
What are some of your favorite ways to promote your work?
I love it all, but doing reading is the best. I've published 24 books and have done hundreds of invited readings on three different continents—and with one memoir when I appeared in Germany, I even read the German translation. That was wild! I have a background in theater, radio, and teaching–so I approach every reading as a performance. It helps that I'm an extrovert, too.
What is a typical writing day like for you?
They're all different because I can be working on a novel, a blog, and a review at the same time. It all depends on deadlines, and it also depends on what's going on in my non-writing life. If one of my Westies is sick, then a vet visit and caring for him takes precedence. But I'm always writing something in my head anyway. Doing this interview, at the back of my mind is the next part of a chapter in a suspense novel I'm two-thirds of the way through.
What are some ways that you like to relax?
Working out, walking the dogs, listening to music, reading, watching movies, cooking, travel, planning trips, hanging out with friends, sitting in my hot tub, and an all-time favorite: napping.
What author/s do you think are overlooked in the writing/reading world today?
I love the mysteries of Michigan writer Loren D. Estleman. He's written sixty books, won tons of prizes, but doesn't have the national name he deserves.
What author would you most like to meet and why?
I had my own radio interview show for a few years on a local college station and interviewed authors of all kinds. The show was pre-recorded and the interviews were by phone, and I often spent time chatting with the author before and after the actual interview. I'd like to meet Salman Rushdie face-to-face, because he was so deeply intelligent and warm over the phone, and profoundly human.
Do you have any upcoming projects that you would like to share with readers?
My newest book is Writers Block is Bunk, advice for writers of all kinds from wannabes to newbies to veterans. I don't think anybody truly prepares you for the realities of publishing, not agents, not editors, and not even other writers—and certainly not writing teachers.
What is something about yourself that would come as a surprise to many people?
English was not my first language.
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Sing the Body Politic: Of Montreal's Skeletal Lamping challenges and shocks listeners
By Keegan Hamilton
Published on October 21, 2008 at 11:05am
Avant-garde artists, and in particular musicians, have struggled to strike a balance between genius and pretentiousness for decades. From Lou Reed's infamous noise exploration Metal Machine Music to the Flaming Lips' Zaireeka, which required listeners to simultaneously play four separate CDs in four separate stereos, art rockers have always braved a backlash when they eschew broad appeal in pursuit of a singular (and usually bizarre) creative vision.
Such is the case with Skeletal Lamping, the ninth album from the Athens, Georgia, group Of Montreal. Charged with the daunting task of following up 2007's Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer? — the band's most critically and commercially successful album to date — lead singer Kevin Barnes crafted fifteen songs that are all nearly unlistenable. A disjointed blend of funk, disco and porn grooves, the record is as tedious as it is bizarre.
Like the brief and woefully inadequate curator notes that accompany contemporary art exhibits, advance copies of the record feature a four-paragraph essay that takes a stab at dissecting the music. "The record has its own internal logic," the back album cover proclaims, "and its many tangents and detours feel entirely intuitive and organic in context." The essay continues: "[Skeletal Lamping] rejects the notion of a fixed identity and encourages the listener to embrace their contradictions and to accept that one's self is nebulous and mercurial." It even calls the album "bizarre, complicated and dense."
Reached in Asheville, North Carolina, the second stop on a short North American tour, Barnes maintains the essay isn't just PR-firm penned nonsense.
"[Lamping] made itself in that way," says Barnes, who wrote and composed every song on the album by himself. "It could be complicated because of the way it's shifting and changing. It never really stays one style for that long. You could call it fragmented or schizophrenic."
The music itself certainly fits that description. Lamping completely abandons traditional verse/chorus/verse songwriting; instead, each song is a patchwork of minute-long bursts of sound that change rhythm and melody without rhyme or reason. For instance, the song "And I've Seen a Bloody Shadow," opens with a Scissor Sisters-do-Elton John piano lick. A sudden time change and moaning synthesizers take over. Just as abruptly, layered vocals of Barnes bawling over a drum machine appear before a brief but catchy palm-muted guitar sequence. It fades out with droning vocals and the same minor-key guitar chord strummed over and over. The song is just two-and-a-half minutes long.
"[The album] doesn't follow any logical path. I wanted to create something full of surprises and unpredictable," Barnes says. "Pop music can be so predictable and a lot of people follow the 'rules' in a way that's not very creative or interesting. I did that a lot in the past and I kind of learned to break free from that."
Barnes' lyrics are as fragmented as his production style. Many of the songs are written from the perspective of a black transsexual man named Georgie Fruit, a Barnes-invented character who he says was once a member of a failed '70s glam-rock band.
"It sounds pretentious but I really feel it just happened, I didn't sit down for weeks and weeks and create a character," Barnes says with a faint Southern drawl. "This voice was just unlocked inside me, and I gave it a name. All of these songs were flowing out of me, I thought it was a foreign entity speaking, but I realized it was a different part of my psyche that was unlocked and speaking to the world."
The 35-year-old Barnes, who is happily married (to a woman), insists he has no problem writing sincere songs about the life of his alter ego.
"I don't make a division between me and Georgie Fruit," Barnes says. "In fact, I sort of regret creating a name for that creative spirit. It might make people feel like it's less genuine, like it's fiction. I want people to realize that it's genuine, and it's coming from the heart."
Lyrically, Barnes has always bared his soul, particularly on Hissing Fauna, where he often sang about a painful separation from his wife and his struggle with depression that followed. But where he was able to distill his neurosis on that album into catchy, three-minute pop songs with sing-along-friendly choruses about chemical imbalance, Lamping feels like a hackneyed attempt at sexually transgressive shock art. It's not just the Georgie Fruit songs, either — often speaking in bizarre abstractions, Barnes alludes to everything from blowjobs in the boys' locker room to a prostitute turning tricks on the hood of a car.
The album drips with crude sexual imagery. He opens the song "St. Exquisite's Affections" by bellowing in his eunuch-like falsetto, "I'm so sick of sucking the dick of this cold, cold city." Other times he sings, "I took her standing in the kitchen/Ass against the sink" and "We can do it softcore if you want/But you should know that I go both ways," and "I want to make you ejaculate till it's no longer fun."
Barnes, who recently told Spin, "For a while, I really wanted to be gay but it didn't work out for me," again maintains that earnestness is not an issue when it comes to writing songs about homosexual encounters.
"I don't make the division between physical reality or intellectual reality or fantasy or dream reality," Barnes says. "Just because you held a brick in your hand and threw it through a window, doesn't mean it doesn't have the same value as dreaming you held a brick in your hand and throwing it through the window. Everything I'm writing about, I might not have physically experienced it — but I did experience it."While the songs on the album are the sole work of Barnes, he says his bandmates have been critical in translating the album's hypersexuality and out-there imagery into a dynamic live act. And thus far, sneak previews of the Skeletal Lamping tour have looked like a three-ring circus on acid. A recent New York show featured a nearly naked Barnes riding a live horse onto the stage at one point and emerging from a coffin slathered in shaving cream at another. Band members were dressed like cowboys, tigers and the mythical creature Pan.
Barnes, Of Montreal and their peers in Athens' famed Elephant 6 Recording Company have always experimented in the hope of stretching the boundaries of contemporary music. For a time Barnes even lived with Jeff Mangum, the singer/songwriter behind Neutral Milk Hotel. But while Mangum was able to craft the creatively brilliant album In the Aeroplane Over The Sea from a series of recurring dreams he had about Anne Frank, when Barnes attempts to channel his own strange inner voice and shed all the trappings of pop music in the process, the result isn't as transcendent.
"You just create what you feel compelled to create," Barnes says. "It's more fulfilling that way. I've never tried to create for an audience or demographic because that would just be...well...really weird."


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Awesome find Shane! Keep us posted. You will have a lot of work to do to be ready for 2010 season.
Ok guys and ghouls here are the first pictures of the outside of my new Haunted Attraction Disturbia located in Huntsville Alabama. I will use this thread to post pictures of the progress! First is front view, then side view, back side, loading dock, and back corner. Great thing here it was rainig heavy yet she is nice and dry inside no leaky roof, no flooding, heat and air if I want to pay for it lol. Shane and its more to come! Shane this time!
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Awesome find Shane! Keep us posted. You will have a lot of work to do to be ready for 2010 season.
Good looking building with alot of parking.
Here is more its 97,000sqft! First is back looking to loading dock, then loading dock, frint view it has 450 parking spaces, corner shot, and back corner! Tell me what you think of my location guys! Shane and its I got my work cut out for me! Shane this time.
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thats huge!!
sweet .....there s plenty of room to entertain out in the parking lot....and indoor of course......
Wow that's awesome Shane! What a great location with tons of space and parking. Can't wait to see the inside. This thread will be great as you add more and more photos of your progress.
Damn, did you post 97,000 sq. feet! You building a theme park or a haunted house.lol. I think that the Guiness World Record maybe changing hands soon. Shane if I'm right and that is a old grocery store are you going to use the coolers, meat dept, ect? Very nice, can you post the address? I want to map quest it.
Never know what you will find Ice! I can tell you this it will be disturbing! Address I will post it I don't have my paper in front of me as I have not memorized the address yet LOL! Shane and its come see me! Shane this time.
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Amy Jackson's debut movie Ek Deewana Tha (EDT) didn't manage to have any impact at the box office, but the actor surely got noticed. And thanks to EDT, Amy now has a Tamil, Telugu and a Hindi movie in her kitty.
While working in Tamil and Telugu movies meant that Amy has to spend hours learning the two difficult languages, the babe isn't cribbing. And here's why. Amy, who is barely six-month-old in the Bollywood has already made a place for herself in the Times Most Desirable list. And responding to this good news she says, "It is very flattering. It makes me blush! I have only been here for six months. And to be 18 years of age and be amongst the most desirable, it is amazing." We agree!