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Merlin's 5 year run came to an end nearly two weeks ago and there's not a single topic on it? Come on, I know Merlin has a few fans on this board. Anyway, I thought The Diamond of the Day was a fitting end to the mediocrity that was Merlin. Merlin's reach has always exceeded its grasp and that is most evident when the show attempts to go for a serious tone. Mordred and Morgana's anticlimactic deaths and the poorest excuse for an epic battle that I've seen outside of Married With Children really goes to show that this show doesn't know how to do dramatic. Although Merlin reigning thunderbolts on Morgana's army was awesome. Where the show truly excels is in its interpersonal relationships. The best scenes in Merlin weren't the battles or the plots (lol), but the smaller, intense moments between the characters. I can barely remember a single plot from the first four years of the show, but I'll never forget Gaius finally confronting Uther or the dozen great father and son moments between Uther and Arthur. And the best of these relationships is obviously the bromance between Merlin and Arthur. The writers knew why the fans were watching and wisely devoted nearly the entire final episode to Merlin and Arthur alone in the woods. This isn't HBO though, so it was just lots of talking. I could go on for a while about the failings of the plot, but that wasn't the focus of the episode. The focus was on Merlin and Arthur and I don't have any complaints about that. Merlin's tearful confession, Arthur's slow realization of everything that Merlin has done for Camelot without recognition, Merlin's absolute refusal to give up on his friend despite the odds, and Arthur's final words of "Thank You" to Merlin were just perfect. Yeah, it was obvious that Arthur was going to die in the end, but that doesn't change how heartbreaking it was to see Merlin lose his best friend – his destiny. Colin Morgan really knows how to cry. This was probably the saddest series finale I've seen since "Sleeping in Light".
It had it's ups and downs, some nice moments to be sure. Now I want a sequel set in the future (maybe 2150ish) where Arthur returns, is constantly befuddled by how things have changed and Merlin showing him how things are now... or then. Honestly, if he has to return make it funny!
His argument shouldn't have been "Please accept me" it should have been "Change the damn law" Did they know the show was cancelled when they made the final episode because, if they're given another season by surprise (it happens) they would completely have to change the wardrobe department.
It wasn't cancelled, they decided to end it on a high. Though they had originally planned to do 5 years they were asked to do a 6th and the cast turned it down, apparently.
They chose to finish the show of their own accord, which was their choice. Following the metaphor, they had a non resuscitation order and then resisted unwanted and uncalled for cpr, because the cast turned down season 6. Rather then a suit walking in and saying you're all fired, we hate you, sod off, which would be murder. I wish I knew who the hell stole my Camelot 3000? It's not that they really really stole it. They borrowed it, then put it under something and it just became lost. Out of sight out of mind, and even if they did realize that they had it, and how miffed I am after 15 years, they still wouldn't give it back until after they read it which they can't until after they found it... I hate my friends.
It was an pretty good finale for a show that had become rather dismal. When the show first started, Richard Wilson commented on the whole Merlin Vs Doctor Who by saying that unlike Doctor Who, Merlin had a lot more room to change and evolve. Even though I was a Doctor Who fan I agreed with him. There was just so much dramatic potential in Merlin and it was a brand new show. Shame it didn't live up to it. Heck, it didn't even come close. After a while the show was living just on the supposed bromance and whatever excuse they could find to get someones shirt/armour off. Doctor Who has now been going on for 7 years and out of the two shows it's the one that feels dramatic and takes chances. Even RTD's cartoony Master was more 3-dimensional then the comic strip villian that Morganna had become.
Glad they finally put it out of its misery! The show had some great moments, but when they drew out Gwen's brainwashing for wayyyyyyyy too long, I just couldn't stomach it anymore, even with the finale right around the corner.
I enjoyed it, and had a lump in my throat but it did feel a bit rushed (I'm not entirely sure I buy the "We always planned 5 years" argument) Mordred and Morgana deserved better send offs really, and I found it a bit sad that Gwen didn't really get a proper goodbye with Arthur, nor Gaius with Merlin. As always Colin and Bradley played it perfectly, and I'll be honest, Arthur dying did surprise me a little, given the show has played fast and loose with mythology over the years I half expected them to have Arthur survive. Merlin's been a fun show for 5 years though, and whilst it's never reached the heights it could have done (I'd have loved a final series with Merlin 'outed') I will miss it.
If Agravaine hadn't been so rash, there's no way that a serving girl would have been able to hold the kingdom together without some royal baby in her, and really with Arthur gone, all the local princes would be lining up to fill'er'up. Did I miss the hint that Arthur knocked her up? Taking the adultery out of Gwens story line opens the kindom up to a potential thousand years of prosperity if she can keep her shit together, especially if Merlin backs her up.
I'm still tickled about people grumbling that the show played 'fast and loose with the mythology' as if there were some kind of definitive source.
I think that King Arthur and the Knights of Justice was, ultimately, a better take on the mythology. But Anthony Head was such an awesome Uther, that can be forgiven.


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Album Rating: 4.0This is only my first review. so. Sorry if it was too extensive. or, too vague.
Album Rating: 4.0if you listen to bands like expolsions in the sky, they will sound alot less repetitive. not saying that explosions aren't great cause they are. just i think you should get more fromilar with your post rockThis Message Edited On 07.17.08
Album Rating: 4.0 | Sound Offaphelion is so good. i played a show with these guys like 3 weeks ago they were phenomenal
Album Rating: 4.5This is really good, his clean vocals are a bit meh at times, but the music overpowers it.
Album Rating: 4.0armfarm: yeah. and I realize that though, I'm fairly new to post rock. Electric city: Really? that's awesome. I'm actually supposed to be staying in brooklyn next week and they have a show there, so I'm going to try and convince my brosef into taking me. Pebster49: i thought the same thing. not that his singing is necessarily bad, but the music does distract from his voice sometimes.
yeah this is great
Album Rating: 4.5Alastika is massive e e
Album Rating: 4.0 | Sound Offbeen spinning this a lot lately. shit
Album Rating: 4.5the middle end of "Grow On, Grow Up, Grow Out" is huge
Album Rating: 4.0 | Sound Offyeah seriously, it's my favorite off the album. 8105 is ridiculous too. they're all really good, but im not sold on sol solis
Album Rating: 3.5someone told me to get this
i'm gonna be getting this soon for reals
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Album Rating: 4.5well....now you must get thier new ep as well. my only qualm with this band is that i ordered pneuma off thier webstore and after 3months it still hasnt arrived. jerks
Album Rating: 3.5pretty gay music
Album Rating: 4.5yeah they're no TBS
this is awesome, i should probably get the foreward ep
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A Reader on Reading
By Alberto Manguel
Yale University Press £18, 320 pages
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What makes human beings unique? We are political animals, Aristotle said. We are the only animals who laugh, linguists have added. For Alberto Manguel, our defining trait is the capacity to read. "I believe we are, at the core, reading animals," he writes in the introduction to his latest essay collection, "and that the art of reading, in its broadest sense, defines our species."
Much of Manguel's work has been concerned with this "art". His earlier titles include the illuminating A History of Reading and, more recently, A Reading Diary. It is the reader's journey that fascinates him, rather than author's intentions. In this he echoes his hero, Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges, who, when asked how he wished to be remembered, allegedly replied: "As a good reader."
Borges is salient among the author's literary affections. Some of the most memorable essays in A Reader on Reading describe Manguel's personal encounters with "the Master". Once, "over the usual colourless pasta at the restaurant of the Hotel Dora", Borges declares his opaque belief in "the mystery of women and the heroic destiny of men".
But Borges is only one of many authors Manguel uses to illustrate his ideas. "A Reader in the Looking-Glass Wood", an essay on how literature shapes our experience, is typically promiscuous. In a few paragraphs Manguel skips effortlessly from Lewis Carroll to the Talmud, André Breton, Stéphane Mallarmé, Karl Marx, Dante, Homer, John Bunyan, Tom Stoppard, Osip Mandelstam and John Keats. His knowledge, lightly worn, is impressively eclectic.
Some of the essays in this volume are deeply personal meditations. "Room for the Shadow" is a candid admission of his failure as a novelist. "On Being Jewish" is a plea to be allowed to shape his identity without outside restraints. "The Further Off from England" suggests that Manguel, an Argentine-born anglophile who adopted Canadian citizenship, might have become a British citizen in the 1970s had he not been turned away at Dover by immigration officials.
"Meanwhile, in Another Part of the Forest", which begins as a reflection about the folly of categorising books, becomes an essay about the pointlessness of the term "gay literature" and, more generally, the "gay" label itself: "Like our literary tastes, our sexual affinities need only declare allegiance and define themselves under duress."
His bookishness does not prevent Manguel from being topical. The assassination of Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink, in 2007, spurs him into reaching for Cervantes and Plato, while the outrage following the publication of a caricature of Mohammed leads to timely reflections on "Art and Blasphemy".
Manguel reads passionately, and is a passionate communicator of his likes and dislikes. The latter include the novels of Bret Easton Ellis and the "unspeakable" translator of the "abominable" American edition of Borges' A Universal History of Infamy.
Scrupulous readers may note that little is new in this anthology. Its content, give or take a few essays, is almost identical to Into the Looking-Glass Wood, published in 1999. This version even uses the same illustrations from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Most unforgivable, Manguel has recycled the old preface and acknowledgements.
A more substantial criticism, perhaps, regards Manguel's open-ended characterisation of reading: "We read our own lives and those of others, we read the societies we live in and those that lie beyond our borders, we read pictures and buildings." Such a broad definition of the uniquely human "art" is provocative but, ultimately, meaningless.
Yet A Reader on Reading offers enough pleasure to supersede such objections. "There are," writes Manguel, "certain books that, in themselves, are an ideal library." This book might be one of them.


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In some ways, Hitman: Absolution is more like a puzzler than a shooter. That's because you need to think your way around the game rather than blasting your way through it.
As with puzzle games, getting the solution makes you feel smarter, or in this case, stealthier. Playing protagonist 47, I slipped in and out of disguises to bring death to anyone in my dossier. And I had a great time doing it.
Although it's an excellent game with an extraordinary crowd AI, Hitman: Absolution fails to reach perfection due to some minor flaws (repetition, crashing) and one major problem (seriously strange misogyny).
See my full review, here.
Release date: November 20, 2012
Platforms: Onlive, PC, PS3, Xbox (PC version reviewed)
Developer: IO Interactive
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A Federation ambassador brings newly-promoted Captain Sisko orders to take the Defiant on a patrol of the Tzenkethi border, where a destabilizing coup has just taken place, but everything is not as it seems. (Season finale)
- "Commander's log, stardate 48959.1. It is with mixed emotions that I record this, my final commander's log. The last three years have been the most demanding, and rewarding, of my career. I can only hope that the future will hold even greater challenges."
"Dad, there's something I've been wanting to say to you for a long time and now that I finally have the chance, I'm going to make it short and simple..."
The opening words in the wardroom from Benjamin Sisko's son Jake as he proudly places a fourth pip on his father's dress uniform, proclaiming him Captain Sisko. The two embrace as cheers erupt from the crew; being congratulated by his colleagues and as Quark serves the champagne, Chateau Cleon, 2303, Federation Ambassador Krajensky informs Sisko that a coup has taken place on the Tzenkethi homeworld. Sisko is to take the ambassador and the USS Defiant to that sector to remind the Tzenkethi of the Federation's presence on nearby colony worlds.
In the Defiant's engine room, Captain Sisko orders Chief Miles O'Brien to begin preparing the ship for combat in case the Tzenkethi start looking for trouble. As O'Brien begins his work, he hears a noise in the engine room, but sees no one.
Act OneEdit
- "My son, the writer, thinks that I should say something profound on this occasion. He even offered to write me a brief statement. I told him I'd take care of it myself, but as it turns out, the only thing I can think of is: Begin captain's log, stardate 48960.9."
In the Defiant's turbolift, Lieutenant Jadzia Dax asks Sisko if he has told Kasidy Yates about his promotion. Sisko says he hasn't, and that he barely had time to tell his father the news. Dax presses Sisko about his relationship with Kasidy, saying that the whole crew is curious. Sisko tells Dax that the next time he sees Kasidy, he's taking her to the seventh game of the 1964 World Series. Dax, amused by Sisko's response, concludes that he likes Kasidy.
Arriving on the bridge, Sisko orders the Defiant to get underway. Not long after departing Deep Space 9, O'Brien is working in a jefferies tube. He hears the noise again; then suddenly takes a great fright before Doctor Julian Bashir appears from another tube. He asks the doctor why he didn't answer his call; Bashir explains that he was tying a new medical console into the main power grid. After Bashir leaves, a curious O'Brien takes a look at what the doctor has done and seems impressed, saying it wasn't a bad job for an extension course.
In the mess hall, Sisko tells his Chief of Starfleet security, Lieutenant Commander Michael Eddington, to keep the ambassador out of harm's way in case the Tzenkethi decide to engage the Defiant. Eddington again congratulates Sisko on his promotion, and mentions how he wanted to become a starship captain himself when he first joined Starfleet.
- "Captains log, stardate 48962.5. We are twelve hours from the border. I haven't been in this area since the last Federation-Tzenkethi War. Being here brings back a lot of memories, most of them bad."
On the bridge, Constable Odo picks up a distress call from Barisa Prime. The colony reports that it is under attack before the Defiant suddenly loses contact.
Act TwoEdit
- "Captains log, supplemental. We've been unable to re-establish contact with Barisa Prime. Therefore, I have no choice but to assume we are at war with the Tzenkethi."
The Defiant sets course for Barisa Prime, and Sisko asks Odo to notify Starfleet Command of the situation. Dax tries to contact the USS Ulysses, which is the closest starship, but to no avail. Odo reports that the communication system is malfunctioning. O'Brien and Dax are dispatched to make repairs.
In the jefferies tube, Dax and O'Brien find several tendril-like devices working their way into the Defiant's systems. They are protected by force fields, making them difficult to remove. O'Brien reports to Sisko that the devices are all over the ship, attached to almost every critical system. O'Brien states that these devices were not aboard when the Defiant left Deep Space 9, leading to the conclusion that someone on board is a saboteur. O'Brien reluctantly informs Sisko about his encounter with Bashir in the jefferies tube earlier. Sisko insists that he is not accusing Bashir of sabotage, but still would like to speak with him. However, Dax comes up with an idea to find out for sure who placed the devices.
On the bridge, Sisko notifies his crew of the situation. Dax scans the crew for tetryon particles, since the saboteur would have been exposed to them when the devices were installed. Dax points out that she and O'Brien's scans have come up positive since they were exposed to the particles when they found the devices, meaning that if no-one else tests positive then they'll be the prime suspects. The senior staff tests negative, including Bashir, much to O'Brien's relief. As Dax scans Ambassador Krajensky, O'Brien talks with Bashir about their encounter in the jefferies tube, of which Bashir has no memory. The scan completes, and Krajensky tests positive. Suddenly, the ambassador changes form and escapes the bridge, revealing himself to be a Changeling.
Act ThreeEdit
The Defiant cloaks and Sisko orders Dax to bring the ship out of warp, but she cannot. O'Brien cannot uncloak the ship and Major Kira Nerys reports that the ship's weapons are armed. The crew has lost control of the Defiant. Sisko orders Odo and Eddington to begin a search for the Changeling before he can do any more damage, but they are unable to locate him. Odo is confident that the Changeling is still on board, saying that he will not leave until his mission is completed. Sisko believes that the Changeling's goal is to start a war between the Federation and the Tzenkethi, speculating that the distress call from Barisa Prime was faked, and goes so far as to suggest that their entire mission was engineered by the Dominion.
Knowing that the Changeling can impersonate anyone on board, Sisko orders all non-essential personnel to be confined to quarters and sealed in with force fields, and that no one be left alone. After issuing weapons and orders to the security officers, Odo tells Eddington how he has never found it necessary to fire a weapon or take a life throughout his career. In the middle of their conversation, O'Brien calls for a security team to be sent to the engine room. Odo and Eddington arrive to find Dax unconscious. Bashir reports that she has a severe concussion and takes her to sickbay.
On the bridge, Bashir tells Sisko that Dax will be unconscious for the next couple of days, leaving O'Brien alone in his attempts to regain control of the ship. Sisko tells Kira that he cannot allow the Changeling to start a war with the Tzenkethi, and that if O'Brien can't regain control of the ship, he'll have to destroy the Defiant.
Act FourEdit
Sisko briefs the crew on their mission: They will break into two-person teams, each one equipped with phaser rifles, and systematically sweep the ship for the Changeling. A Bolian security officer voices his suspicions that the Changeling could be anyone of them, and Sisko reminds everyone to keep their partner in sight at all times for that very reason, and orders that anyone spotted alone be escorted to the brig.
The crew begins searching the ship. Eddington asks Odo where he thinks the Changeling might be, but Odo is unsure, unable to put himself in the Changeling's position since he does not know his own people that well. Meanwhile, while Sisko and another security officer are searching a jefferies tube, the Changeling suddenly attacks them. The security officer is knocked out, leaving Sisko to pursue alone. Having been alerted to the Changeling's position, the crew moves to intercept. Arriving in the transporter bay, the Bolian security officer fires in Sisko's direction, believing that he has spotted the Changeling. Kira arrives from the opposite direction and insists that she is who she says she is, despite the fact that she and her partner have been separated for several seconds. The Bolian continuously accuses Kira of being a Changeling, and is paranoid to the point of ignoring a direct order from Sisko to lower his weapon. Just then, Odo appears and knocks out the Bolian. Eddington appears a split second later from Kira's direction, leading Sisko to conclude that any one of them could be the Changeling. Odo notes however, that Sisko is bleeding and therefore could not be the Changeling, as material removed from a Changeline reverts to its natural form, and his blood is just that – blood. Sisko calls Bashir and orders him to meet them in the mess hall.
In the mess hall, Bashir begins performing blood screenings of the crew. Kira and the Bolian security officer prove to be themselves, but when Bashir tests Eddington, his blood reverts to a gelatinous state. As he is escorted to crew quarters, Eddington maintains that he is not the Changeling. As Eddington is about to be forced inside the room, the adjacent door suddenly bursts open to reveal the real Doctor Bashir yelling for help. The Changeling that took Bashir's place morphs into the ventilation system and Odo pursues. A call comes in from the bridge notifying Sisko that the Defiant has entered Tzenkethi space.
Act FiveEdit
Kira reports that the Defiant is twelve minutes away from a Tzenkethi settlement on M'kemas III. With this news, Sisko and Kira activate the auto-destruct sequence and set the timer for ten minutes. Sisko calls O'Brien in engineering and asks if he has had any progress in regaining control of the ship. O'Brien thinks he may have a way to shut down the force fields and deactivate the devices. As O'Brien works, Odo and the Changeling – who is disguised as Odo – make their way into the engine room and each one tries to prove to the chief that the other is the saboteur. O'Brien refuses to play "choose the Changeling", and has the other officer in engineering keep his phaser on both of them while he deactivates the force fields. As the force fields deactivate, the Changeling drops his disguise and attacks O'Brien and the engineering officer, leaving Odo to face the Changeling alone. As the two struggle, the Changeling tries to convince Odo to return to the Great Link, but Odo refuses and pushes the Changeling onto the warp core, fatally wounding it. Before he dies, the Changeling whispers something to Odo, which startles him.
O'Brien regains control of the ship. After Sisko and Kira abort the auto-destruct sequence, the Defiant leaves Tzenkethi space and heads back to Deep Space 9.
- "Captains log, supplemental. We've returned to the station without further incident. However, I'm concerned about my chief of security, who hasn't said a word since we left Tzenkethi space."
In the wardroom, Sisko tells the senior staff that the real Ambassador Krajensky disappeared on his way to Risa. Starfleet Security believes that he has been kidnapped, or possibly killed. Bashir asks about the coup on the Tzenkethi homeworld, to which Sisko responds that it never happened. Odo joins the meeting and informs Sisko of the Changeling's dying words: "You're too late. We're everywhere."
Memorable quotesEdit
"You'd be surprised. People don't enter Starfleet to become commanders. Or admirals, for that matter. It's the captain's chair everyone has their eye on. That's what I wanted when I joined up."
- - Michael Eddington
"Why are you protecting these solids? You don't belong with them. You belong with us. Let go. Don't you see? You've lost. It's too late for you to help them, but it's not too late to help yourself. Link with me, Odo. We can escape together."
"I... don't... think... so!!"
- - Changeling saboteur and Odo
"Getting jumpy in your old age, O'Brien."
- - Miles O'Brien, to himself
"Oh, JULIAN!"
- - O'Brien, after the Changeling impersonating Bashir surprises him in a Jefferies tube
"Dad, there's something I've been wanting to say to you for a long time and now that I finally have the chance, I'm going to make it short and simple. Congratulations, Captain Sisko!"
- - Jake Sisko, at his father's promotion
"Now that you have another pip on your collar, does that mean I can't disagree with you anymore?"
"No, it just means I'm never wrong."
- - Kira and Sisko
"This calls for a toast!"
"That better not be from a replicator, Quark."
"Chateau Cleon, 2303 – I already put it on your account."
- - Quark and Bashir
"Don't you trust me?"
"No, I don't."
"I know exactly how you feel."
- - Kira and a Bolian security officer
[O'Brien is faced with two Odos]
"Look. I've got more important things to do than play 'Choose the Changeling'. Keep the phaser on both of them."
- - O'Brien, when faced with deciding which shapeshifter is the real Odo
"Captain, there's something you need to know. The Changeling, before he died, he whispered something to me."
"Go on."
"He said, 'You're too late. We're everywhere'."
- - Odo and Sisko
Background informationEdit
Story and scriptEdit
- The working title of this episode was "Flashpoint". In the Deep Space Nine Chronicles intro, it is stated that the episode was untitled until a contest was held and "The Adversary" was selected.
- The producers had initially planned to do a show that had a cliff-hanger ending involving Changelings on Earth. The story was set to introduce Joseph Sisko and would take place in Starfleet Headquarters, with the end to revolve around Benjamin Sisko saying that the Founders had infiltrated the very heart of...and that was the end of the show. However, for reasons still unknown, Paramount nixed the idea, saying they didn't want a cliff-hanger ending, and so the writers came up with a story about a Changeling wreaking havoc on the Defiant instead. As Robert Hewitt Wolfe puts it, "That's when the idea of the Defiant heading inexplicably toward destruction, like the death machine that she really is, being all locked down and going like a runaway train, became the basic hook that everyone really liked." However, the Changelings-on-Earth story later served as the basis for the episodes "Homefront" and "Paradise Lost" the following season. (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Companion)
- The scene in the Defiant's mess hall where the senior officers are taking blood samples of each other to determine which one of them is the Changeling is very reminiscent of the 1982 John Carpenter film The Thing. This film is based on the 1938 John W. Campbell, Jr. (writing under the pseudonym of Don A. Stuart) short story "Who Goes There?", which contains a very similar scene. However, the writers cite neither the original story nor the Carpenter film as their primary inspiration for this episode, but rather the 1951 Christian Nyby film adaptation, called The Thing From Another World. That film did not feature the theme of paranoia or shapeshifters as the story or the later film adaptation did. Paranoia was something the writers were interested in exploring, as it was something rarely seen in the Star Trek universe. (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Companion)
- The writers decided to use the line "No changeling has ever harmed another" as an important element in this episode. This line had been heard a few times already (in "The Search, Part II", "Heart of Stone" and "The Die is Cast"), and its importance would return in the fourth season finale, "Broken Link", where Odo receives his punishment for killing a fellow Changeling.
- The character of Michael Eddington was deliberately set up as a red herring in this episode. The writers felt that the way actor Kenneth Marshall had portrayed the character in "The Search, Part I", "The Search, Part II" and "The Die is Cast" had always implied some kind of underlying threat, so they decided to use that to their advantage in this episode. Indeed, after the episode aired, the word around the internet was that Eddington was a Changeling infiltrator, and that this was obviously going to have a bearing on the upcoming season. Upon hearing this, the writers decided that they would never make Eddington a Changeling.(Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Companion) Later on, it would be revealed that Eddington was a threat, but not in the manner people expected: he was a member of the Maquis who would eventually betray Starfleet.
- Sisko's opening log entry was not in the final draft shooting script.
- The fight between Odo and the Changeling at the end of the episode was extremely complicated to put together due to all the morphing effects. Producer Steve Oster points out that there are more morphing effects in this short scene than in the entire third season. According to actor Rene Auberjonois, after principal photography was completed, all the cast were allowed to leave except himself and Lawrence Pressman. He explains that during the main shoot, he and Pressman had filmed the scene as normal, but to make sure the effects would work properly, each of them then had to re-enact the scene separately, looking at a monitor and matching their movements exactly. (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Companion) There are actually some clips of both actors shooting the fight without the other present in the Deep Space Nine Chronicles intro to this episode.
- The scene when Krajensky morphs into a Changeling and escapes through the vent is one of visual effects supervisor Glenn Neufeld's favorite shots from the entire seven years of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.
- Kenneth Marshall commented that the episode was: "technically one of the more interesting shows I've done. It's fascinating how they do the morph sequences. I haven't seen them do the actual special FX, but they shoot it three different ways on the set. In the last shot, everyone tiptoes off the set so as to not disturb anything even a fraction of an inch". (The Official Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Magazine Vol. 15)
- Ronald D. Moore is a big fan of this episode because he considers it to be very un-Star Trek; "It really appealed to me on this sort of visceral John Wayne level. There's a monster on the ship, it's after us, and we're gonna hunt it down and kill it. We're not gonna negotiate with it, we're not gonna worry about whether it's sentient, we're not gonna play any of the usual Star Trek games with it. It's just, 'Find and kill the monster.' There was something very pure about that show." (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Companion)
- Ira Steven Behr sees this episode as an important step in the show's movement towards serialization, which would reach a peak in the six-episode arc which opened season six and the nine-episode, ten-hour arc which acted as the finale of the series itself; ""The Adversary" was the first one where we really knew we were going to be starting to get the S-word, serialized, just a tad. In spite of all the finger-wagging and knowing we weren't supposed to, it was just a little bit, a little bit." (The Birth of the Dominion and Beyond, DS9 Season 3 DVD special features)
- This episode marks the first appearance of several new sets aboard the Defiant, namely main engineering, the mess hall and the extended corridor set.
- According to the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Companion, the rifles used in this episode are the first rifles ever seen in Star Trek which actually have a trigger.
- In the teaser for the episode Sisko is promoted to captain; however, in the opening credits of the show he is still credited as "Commander Sisko". This is the last episode to credit Sisko as a commander. It is also the last time Sisko is seen with hair and it is the last episode to have the opening credits from Season 1. In the next episode onward, Sisko is now bald.
- This episode marks the last time Alexander Siddig is credited as Siddig El Fadil as an actor. As a director, however, he remains credited as Siddig El Fadil for "Business as Usual".
- According to Jadzia Dax, there are 47 people on board the Defiant in this episode.
Video and DVD releasesEdit
- UK VHS release (two-episode tapes, CIC Video): Volume 3.13, 25 September 1995
- As part of the DS9 Season 3 DVD collection
Links and referencesEdit
Main castEdit
- Avery Brooks as Captain Benjamin Sisko
- Rene Auberjonois as Constable Odo and Changeling saboteur
- Siddig El Fadil as Doctor Julian Bashir and Changeling saboteur
- Terry Farrell as Lieutenant Jadzia Dax
- Cirroc Lofton as Jake Sisko
- Colm Meaney as Chief Miles O'Brien
- Armin Shimerman as Quark
- Nana Visitor as Major Kira Nerys
Guest starsEdit
- Lawrence Pressman as Krajensky and the Changeling saboteur
- Kenneth Marshall as Michael Eddington
- Jeff Austin as a Bolian security officer
- Majel Barrett as the Computer Voice
Uncredited co-starsEdit
- Sam Alejan as a Human medical officer
- Ivor Bartels as a Human security officer
- Jeff Cadiente as an Human engineering ensign
- Tory Christopher as a Human medical lieutenant
- Kathleen Demor as a security officer
- Randy James as Jones
- Mark Lentry as a command division lieutenant
- Dennis Madalone as a Human security officer
Stand-ins and stunt doublesEdit
- Tom Morga as stunt double for Jeff Austin
- Unknown stunt performers as
- Stunt double for Rene Auberjonois
- Stunt double for Nana Visitor
- Photo double for Rene Auberjonois
1964; 2303; Alpha Quadrant; ambassador; Autarch; Barisa Prime; blood; Bolian; centimeter; Chateau Cleon; concussion; cortical analeptic; coup d'etat; Dax, Curzon; Dominion; Dominion cold war; duridium; Engineering extension course; Entebe; expanding energy pulse; Federation; Federation-Tzenkethi border; Federation-Tzenkethi War; Founder; Helaspont Nebula; holosuite; Jefferies tube; kayaking; M'kemas III; ore; power grid; promotion; radiation poisoning; replicator; Risa; sabotage; shield generator; Sisko, Joseph; Solais V; Starfleet; Starfleet Command; Starfleet Security; tetryon; toast; tricorder; Tzenketh; Tzenkethi; Tzenkethi warship; Ulysses, USS; warp plasma conduit; World Series; Yates, Kasidy
External linksEdit
- "The Adversary" at Memory Beta, the wiki for licensed Star Trek works
- "The Adversary" at Wikipedia
- The Adversary at StarTrek.com, the official Star Trek website
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Measuring Growth of Labor Quality and the Quality-Adjusted Unemployment Rate in Switzerland
This paper presents results on human capital accumulation for the Swiss economy. We find that the index of labor quality has grown at a rate of 0.5% per year from 1991 to 2006. The main sources are the growth in average levels of education and the passing of the baby boom cohort through the age structure of the workforce. Projections over the period 2006-2050 suggest that labor quality growth will slow down with time. We also calculate a quality-adjusted unemployment rate and find that the unemployment rate is reduced by about 0.3 pp when human capital accumulation is taken into account.
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Ok, first of all, it bugs me that the author spells Lyon as "Lyons." Apparently that is an old spelling. Not sure why she chose to do that, since it seems outmoded and outdated. I spell it L-Y-O-N. That's how people spelled it when I was there.
That said, Vieux Lyon is fantastic. We stumbled upon it walking down from the Basilica. We walked down Rue du Boeuf, and it was as if we had gone through a time machine. The restaurants looked amazing; we regretted not knowing about these places earlier so that we could have made a reservation.
We did stop for a crepe and cappucino at this one place to rest our weary toes. Wow, was that good! Mine was a Princess Crepe made with a chestnut creme. It was positively heavenly.
Lyon is known for its bouchons, which is a casual restaurant with bistro fare. Lyon is right up there with Paris when it comes to gastronomy. We ended up at probably not the best place to eat in Vieux Lyon that night for dinner, but the only place we could get a table; and the place was still packed to the gills when we ate at 10 pm. Like I said, had we known how busy it would be we would have made reservations at a good place prior to getting into town.
Vieux Lyon is certainly worth visiting though. The Basilica up the hill from there, and the old Roman ruins just down from the Basilica are also worth seeing (but not in Vieux Lyon).


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October 27, 2006
"After we clean the world of the White House first..."
The demands that Hilaly step down follow his horrible statements about women and rape: "If you take out uncovered meat and place it outside on the street, or in the garden or in the park, or in the backyard without a cover, and the cats come and eat it ... whose fault is it, the cats or the uncovered meat? The uncovered meat is the problem."
50 comments:
- Dave said...
I can't take Islam seriously as a religion when its "leaders" make comments like these. But then I don't take much of religion seriously.
- Goesh said...
Right on! What I find most savory though are the taxi drivers who won't carry passengers who have alcohol in their possession. Walk for the right of religion, baby! Is this an existential dilemma for Liberals or what? Cut n' run and placate - what else can we do when it's their religion and we have none?? Ya' gotta' luv their logic - kill the power that allows women to become exposed meat. I think that one plane taken down back on 9/11 was intended to clean the White House.
- knoxgirl said...
The most prominent muslim cleric in Australia.
"Religion of peace" ... if you're not a girl! - 10/27/06, 8:10 AM
- DaveL said...
There's a pervasive idea in Islamic law that men have no control over their sexual desires, and so women who do anything that might arouse them are the problem, not the men who react.
So, the analogy with a cat (notoriously untrainable) with a man is utterly mainstream in Islamic culture. - 10/27/06, 8:13 AM
- dick said...
So according to the Muslims because you can't control yourself it is my fault and my problem and I have to change? I am sure that half our population or so will really appreciate that if and when the Muslims win. Of course when CNN puts out the Muslim propaganda - err, news report -- that will make it all better.
With leaders like this one, we should make sure that we don't lose, n'est-ce pas? - 10/27/06, 8:23 AM
- mikeski said...
Reuters paraphrases the quote above as a statement that "he would not go until the White House was cleaned out." Somebody needs to learn how to read.
Everybody at Reuters reads just fine, Ann. It's objectivity (or, at least, the appearance thereof) that Reuters needs to learn about. - 10/27/06, 8:42 AM
- tjl said...
"Is this an existential dilemma for Liberals or what?"
If it's an existential dilemma for liberals, they're doing a pretty good job of concealing the fact.
Crazed imams are no problem for the Left because of that key tenet of multiculturalism: if you find any non-Western practices disturbing, it's only because you are wrongfully applying oppressive neo-colonial judgmental standards. The Reuters paraphrase shows how to make the obligatory cultural adjustments. - 10/27/06, 9:09 AM
- Balfegor said...
There's a pervasive idea in Islamic law that men have no control over their sexual desires, and so women who do anything that might arouse them are the problem, not the men who react.
It's not just Islamic law -- it's shot through modern American discourse, the notion that the discipline to refrain from sex (e.g. when you are a teenager and still in school) is simply unattainable, and any program that attempts to inculcate that discipline is dotty and out of date. - 10/27/06, 9:48 AM
- tcd said...
I can understand why Reuters paraphrased the imam's statement that way. It's because liberals think President Bush is the problem and not the terrorists. If only President Bush was out of the White House and the US abandoned Iraq, the terrorists would leave us alone. Of course, liberals won't come out and say it. Instead, they make a movie about assassinating President Bush. Wishful thinking on their part.
- Ann Althouse said...
tcd: That's my point. They are reading the statement through the cloud of their political opinions.
That's right. Of course one has to overlook things like, oh, the Khobar towers, the USS Cole, the Nairobi embassy, and the '93 World Trade Center attack. We could even go back to Beirut '83 and Tehran '79, but those don't fit the storyline.
"If it bleeds, it leads"? Nah.
"If we can blame Bush, give it a push." - 10/27/06, 10:15 AM
- john(lesser) said...
Dave's response is classic. It isn't a threat if you can dismiss it out of hand as not serious. This news has been floating around the internets for a few days now, so I spent a bit of yesterday trolling the high trafficked "feminist" blogs looking for comment. Nothing. I did, however, find out there is a reproductive rights crisis going on in Nicaragua.
- Pogo said...
Re: "uncovered meat "
So will we see the righteous indignation of US feminists against Islam?
Does it not unnerve the Left that Hilaly and Osama and Dean and Pelosi sound like they're reading from the same page of talking points? - 10/27/06, 10:31 AM
- charlotte said...
Paster Jeff,
Even 9-11 wasn't in response to Bush- it had been planned for several years prior to his eight months in office. Reuters and reflexive Bush bashers have as simplistic, uninformed and dark a worldview as the Islamists.
In Atlanta, an immigrant Ethiopian father is on trial for cutting off his two year-old daughter's genitals with a pair of scissors. The girl is still suffering recurring nightmares and has an altered life to look forward to. Jail is too good for the devout dad. They should just cut off his pleasure parts.
And that imam should be left out uncovered in a cage of big carnivorous cats, in my lapsed Presbyterian opinion. - 10/27/06, 10:40 AM
- PatCA said...
John, Pogo,
I think Americans are starting to "get it," if the feminist hierarchy doesn't. Ironically, the media's free pass to Islam accompanied by continuous use of images of outrage and misogyny, is doing the West's job for them in the PR department.
BTW Aussie Tim Blair has more coverage of this idiot...er, imam. - 10/27/06, 10:42 AM
- JorgXMcKie said...
Does this mean we're free to refer to non-chadored American women as 'uncovered meat' now? I kinda miss 'chicks' but I guess 'uncovered meat' is a reasonable substitute.
How about it Lefties? Are the feminists our there in agreement with this? Or do I have to claim to be Muslim to do this? - 10/27/06, 10:43 AM
- chickenlittle said...
I think the left has a closeted desired to resist this evil, even violently. But they refuse for the moment for the almost treasonous reason that THEY are not in charge.
- charlotte said...
(Ha, so sorrie Past-o-r Jeff. I usususaly tipe and spel bettor than that!)
- Tibore said...
Islam is being turned from a religion into a philosophy of anger by those poorly and narrowly educated leaders. If this isn't nipped in the bud soon, a whole generation of people will be raised enabled to hate under the cover of their religion. And this is simply not acceptible.
I'm heartened to hear Pope Benedict strongly emphasize the importance, even centrality of reason in the Catholic Church. I wish I'd hear more of that sort of thing from Muslim leaders. - 10/27/06, 11:06 AM
- Derve said...
"Does this mean we're free to refer to non-chadored American women as 'uncovered meat' now? ... How about it Lefties? Are the feminists our there in agreement with this?"
In cleverer terms, I think we already do. Watched any beer commercials lately? - 10/27/06, 11:38 AM
- Christy said...
I've been pondering the Imam's "uncovered meat" comment for a couple of days now. The attitude is deeply disturbing, yes. But what scares the bejeebus out of me is the idea of any Muslims at all on a jury where the crime is violence against a woman. Yes, I'm getting hysterical. I've gone from a girlhood crush on Saladin and an enchantment with Sufism to someone who believes Muslims should be allowed nowhere near the civilized world. What has happened to me? This seems to be a passion over which I have no control. The object of my passion must be removed from my sight! De-fanged, so as not to engage my rage!
- Doyle said...
Little Green Althouse.
- john(lesser) said...
Only clever in your own mind, Derve. Your equivocation and lack of seriousness is telling. This is happening in Australia. I am sure they have American style beer commercials there.
- john(lesser) said...
I guess that is Doyle's way of saying this really isn't a problem, and anyone who points it out is a right-wing troublemaker.
- Finn Kristiansen said...
Dave said...
I can't take Islam seriously as a religion when its "leaders" make comments like these. But then I don't take much of religion seriously.
Dave is extremely right, and extremely wrong.
One of the results of our actions in Afghanistan and Iraq is that Islam has been pulled out into the open: increasingly we are able to see what Islam's leading voices believe and preach, and it is a far cry from what a religion ought to express.
That a few liberal types keep trying to play up a distinction between radical and moderate Islam is tenuous, when the moderate voices lack the authority or the will to speak up.
That Dave, in the luxury of his life and mind, can dismiss religion though, is absurd. It's like Rumsfeld after we took Baghdad and the Iraqis were looting everything (including weapons). Rumsfeld said something like, "Oh they are just letting off steam."
Unfortunately the things we choose to dismiss come back and bite us hard.
Then too, on the flip side (the positive view), the sheer magnitude of the beneficial effects of religion in history ought to make Dave slightly less intellectually inert. - 10/27/06, 11:52 AM
- Doyle said...
Of course not. I would never minimize the importance of Australia's leading Muslim cleric, or Reuters' shameful misrepresention of his remarks.
If this isn't nipped in the bud soon, a whole generation of people will be raised enabled to hate under the cover of their religion.
Sadly, it's been going on for a generation already in the Middle East. That's why we are dealing with large populations of angry, ill-educated, violent young men.
In places like Egypt, Palestine, Lebanon, and Saudi Arabia the governments have either ignored or encourged hate-filled anti-American and anti-Israeli propaganda.
You're so right, Doyle. Nothing to be worried about. Once we get rid of Bush, the Islamic world will go back to loving us again. - 10/27/06, 11:59 AM
- brylin said...
Those who can't take Islam seriously better reconsider. Look at the fertility rates in European countries and think what the future demographics will be like in 20 or 50 years. And can you name any moderate Islamic religious leaders?
So all uncovered meat beware! - 10/27/06, 12:37 PM
- chickenlittle said...
"think what the future demographics will be like in 20 or 50 years"
sort of turns Morrison's line "They got the guns but we got the numbers" on its head huh? - 10/27/06, 12:54 PM
- chickenlittle said...
What would Jim say?
- Daryl Herbert said...
I think Doyle's on to something.
As soon as any reasonable person starts to pay attention to Islam, they start to sound more and more like Charles Johnson.
Because, after all, Charles Johnson is a reasonable person who has paid a great deal of attention to Islam. He knows what prominent Muslim community leaders are up to all over the world. There is nothing at all surprising about this comment coming from a very prominent Muslim figure. And they're not much different here in America. - 10/27/06, 1:40 PM
- Craig said...
The uncovered meat analogy is a statement is horrible because of its callousness towards women (i.e., the disregard it has for the effects of its stance), but it is also a horrible statement about men.
In his analogy, the cat cannot be blamed because it is not a moral creature but rather a mere mechanism. If the rape statement follows the analogy, then it is whoever fails to sufficiently cover women that is to blame. (Some) men are not to blame because, apparently, (some) men are not fully moral creatures.
Query what policy implications this has: if the men are not to be blamed for rape, what other "crimes" (which of course are no longer crimes once the putative actors lose moral status) are no longer crimes? Taking the same analogy, we claim to train dogs, not to teach them.* We eat many creatures, and widespread social discomfort at eating them arises almost always after we ascribe moral capacity to them. Hence, as more and more people decide that dogs do, in fact, have the self-awareness to have some understanding of right from wrong, we feel bad eating them. If (some) men are mere mechanisms, can we eat them? And just how far does this go? (Alternatively, do these conclusions, which are not far behind the cleric's conclusion, reveal his true position -- a loathing of women more basic and not derived from any analysis of capacity or responsibility?)
More interestingly, his analogy is posed awkwardly, for of course the meat does not cover or uncover itself. The question should be: whose fault is it, the cook or the cat? The meat cannot cover itself. Well, its initial effort -- growing skin -- was rewarded with slaughter, and since then, it can't cover itself. So the question becomes whether the cook is the same as the meat in this case (i.e., is the woman the actor) or is the cook society and its norms?
Under the second reading, this is an argument that isn't terribly far from those who argue that Western society's elevation of sexual satisfaction and energetic hunt for sexual desirability (which is, perhaps, tantamount to "uncovering the meat" in some sense) is at least partially responsible for rape. (That is a oversimplified version of such an argument, but I wanted to show how the analogy gets there, not to make such an argument.)
* I myself find the strict division of humanity away from the rest of the world an unresolved question. Regardless, consider any thing not considered as capable of acting in light of moral rules, e.g., a computer. When a computer does something undesired, we blame mechanical failure or programming error; we do not say that the computer is culpable. - 10/27/06, 1:48 PM
- Pogo said...
But Daryl, Charles Johnson is full of hate, while the imams are just talking truth to power in their multicultural diversity paradise, merely giving voice to a culture ruined by Western colonialists, protecting all that uncovered meat.
- Pogo said...
Craig, you're making the egregious mistake of analyzing this. The cleric means only this: It is so because I say it is so.
You can't use logic to convince a barbarian, but you can whack him over the head with a very large book. - 10/27/06, 2:14 PM
- Craig said...
That was, indeed, the concern behind my parenthetical "Alternatively, do these conclusions, which are not far behind the cleric's conclusion, reveal his true position -- a loathing of women more basic and not derived from any analysis of capacity or responsibility?"
- Craig said...
Also, Pogo, to continue the thread, there is a certain risk to regarding others as barbarians.
If it is central to being a barbarian that you are sensitive to pain* but not to logic, then barbarians, like cats and computers, are not moral creatures.
You may be correct that the barbarians aren't worth analyzing, but what about us? If we are moral creatures, then surely it says something about us that we conclude that they are not moral creatures?
And surely such a conclusion has implications for permissible actions? First, judging them becomes problematic -- is a computer virus evil? Second, but perhaps oppositely, we don't need to grant them the respect conditioned upon being a moral creature. No one cries out when a computer is tortured -- the claim doesn't even make sense.** So if they are truly barbarians, and if the term is more than rhetoric (as you suggest when you point out the limits of logic for barbarians), then there might be nothing wrong with obliterating them if that is what is most beneficial for us and the other moral creatures.
But then the American public apparently does not have the stomach to do this -- we treat our cattle horrendously worse than we treat such barbarians. Where is the gap? Finding that gap might be very beneficial (if not for policy implications in this political situation, maybe for merely telling us more about what we really think about morality and what it means to be moral).
* Here I blithely treat your book as mere weight, even as the other meaning hangs in the air.
** Torture is difficult to analyze, because it is a varying combination of pain, fear, and other effects (compare here, re: definitional difficulties, Nietzsche's threads of punishment definitions). Talking about pain outside the context of the potential for consciousness is difficult -- what would that mean? Can a plant feel pain? And talking about animals at all, as mentioned in my first comment, is difficult because the moral status of animals is varying and controverted in Western culture. - 10/27/06, 2:42 PM
- chickenlittle said...
"So if they are truly barbarians, and if the term is more than rhetoric... then there might be nothing wrong with obliterating them if that is what is most beneficial for us and the other moral creatures."
I think our elected government (regardless of who populates that entity) must consider doing just that, under extreme circumstances. - 10/27/06, 3:10 PM
- Craig said...
The importance of morality, though, is that there is a serious position* that obliterating barbarians (where barbarians are non-moral creatures) is permitted for any net benefit to moral creatures at all -- not in extreme conditions. If we want to live there, we can obliterate them; if we feel the slightest bit endangered, obliterate them; heck, if it amuses us, obliterate them.
(For all of these, of course, one must be concerned for the effects obliterating them might cause on us or other moral creatures, but there is no concern whatsoever for the barbarians.)
* Really, this represents a class of positions where, for various reasons and in various ways, something truly matters only if it matters to someone. That is, I'm a moral creature, so I matter, and you're a moral creature, and so you matter, and the things that affect you or me matter exactly and only inasmuch as they matter to you or me. So, the earth matters because we live on it. Torture matters because it affects us. Animal cruelty matters because it harms us to know of it, it is a sign to us that the actor is errant and might later harm us, and it is believed to cause a deleterious affect to the actor -- the actual suffering of the animal is not in itself important. - 10/27/06, 3:20 PM
- Pogo said...
Re: "If we are moral creatures, then surely it says something about us that we conclude that they are not moral creatures?"
That's statement is based on a false conclusion. It is simply not 'central' to being a barbarian that they are not moral creatures. Rather, they choose immorality, or choose to ignore the issue altogether.
In short, barbarians aren't excused as animals simply because they behave as one.
And self-defense is not immoral. - 10/27/06, 3:24 PM
- Doyle said...
Come on, Ann, there's some pretty highbrow moral philosophy going on in here, and you're sitting it out!
Inquiring minds want to know: Where do you stand on barbarian obliteration? - 10/27/06, 3:42 PM
- Revenant said...
I'm never sure what to make of descriptions like "most prominent Muslim cleric". Pat Robertson is probably the most prominent Christian minister, but most Christians think he's a jerkoff. Does "most prominent Muslim" just mean "guy who's in the news the most" or "most representative Muslim religious figure"?
- ignacio said...
Yvonne Ridley had a piece in the Washington Post recently: "How I learned to love the veil." She was of course kidnapped by the Taliban, but guess what...they turned out to be great guys! And she discovered that Taliban-style Islam respects women more than the West.
Because we have, uh, beauty contests and stuff...
No questions were asked of her. She was allowed to propagandize and have the last word. A friend of mine at ABC emailed to me: "But wouldn't the suppression of unpopular viewpoints be... censorship?"
Yvonne Ridley, having been a journalist in her previous life, is a little more media-savvy than the "uncovered meat" sheikh. - 10/27/06, 4:46 PM
- brylin said...
But Doyle, who are the barbarians? Islam or the decadent West?
I guess it depends on your perspective. - 10/27/06, 4:56 PM
- Bleepless said...
The original piece was in "The Australian" newspaper and quoted the slimeball accurately. But it then went on to say the statement was aimed at George W. Bush. I sent the paper a little rocket, pointing out the difference between the President and the White House. I sent it about an hour ago, so so response yet and, considering how foul the Aussie media are, there probably never will be even any acknowledgement of the exstence of another opinion.
- chickenlittle said...
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- chickenlittle said...
None of the long-time Madison people have remarked here about the similarity to what Judge Archie Simonson said about 30 years ago (others might Google his name). I seem to recall a lot of feminist outrage then, and a successful recall election. Where is their indignation now? and why is feminist outrage still mostly directed at Christians? Is just a case of act locally, tolerate globally?
- tjl said...
"Yvonne Ridley had a piece in the Washington Post recently: "How I learned to love the veil." And she discovered that Taliban-style Islam respects women more than the West."
Now that she's embraced Taliban-style Islam, shouldn't she be staying home and sewing herself some new burqas? After all, the Taliban took a pretty dim view of literacy for women, and proved it by eliminating girls' schools and killing the teachers. A woman writing op-eds in the WAPO is definitely fatwa material.
There's something unfathomable about an educated Westerner like Ridley adopting such a perverse and self-negating belief system. The only explanation must be that Ridley is deeply sado-masochistic and experiences exquisite delight as she grovels. - 10/27/06, 7:58 PM
- Derve said...
"Does this mean we're free to refer to non-chadored American women as 'uncovered meat' now?
Derve: Your equivocation and lack of seriousness is telling. This is happening in Australia. I am sure they have American style beer commercials there."
He made a wisecrack about American women; I referred to American tv commercials.
Come off your high horse and stop seeing things that aren't there? - 10/27/06, 10:15 PM
- Elizabeth said...
chickenlittle, the sky isn't falling. You must not be reading any feminist blogs, because the story is on them, with outrage intact. Read Broadsheet at salon.com, and go into the comments, for a start.
- Harry Eagar said...
revenant, Hilaly is not just a noisy imam. He was appointed mufti for Australia of its largish Lebanese Muslim community.
Not only is he their chosen spiritual and moral guide, they are cheering him on since his statement. We can safely assume that he had made it to them earlier, anyway, since some of his flock has been raping infidel women and claiming provocation as a defense.
The discussion about moral/immoral barbarians seems wrongheaded to me.
Humans are necessarily moral actors. Some humans choose to act immorally, even to set up religions -- Islam -- that glorify and require immoral behavior.
These immoral actors are then open to whatever punishment their actions deserve (including, conceptually, extermination), not because of what they believe but because of what they do.
As a practical matter, when the moral community is finally outraged enough, it will throw out the appeasers (Bush) and bring in the hard men. The hard men will not exert any effort to distinguish between 'good' Muslims and 'bad' Muslims, just as the Allies in the 1940s killed Germans indiscriminately. - 10/29/06, 3:29 PM


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Posted on August 17, 2010, in Uncategorized and tagged bagel, bloggers, Clif bar, cream cheese, greek yogurt, gum, Healthy Living Summit, laughing cow cheese, salsa, sunflower seeds, Trader Joe's, travel. Bookmark the permalink. 34 Comments.
Ugh, so jealous….. i should have planned my days in chicago better to include a trip to TJs!
And maple salmon cream cheese sounds intriguing!
i like the way you broke down your HLS recaps! this post was awesome to see/read. naturally, as i love food. good to hear going back to work wasn't as horrible as you anticipated! it is nice when you do something you love! the photos of you taking photos is the best. i am not a bagel thin fan either, only because it doesnt taste or have the consistency of a chewy bagel. it is like a sandwich thin with a hole! i love your TJs finds! it was fun to see what you snagged. i have multiple jars of that corn salsa in my cupboards right now. i love it. and wow–what a difference in the cheese wedge slice! my costco JUST started carrying the chobani. i am not usually a flavored yogurt fan because of the sugar–but you are right, it is a great option to squeeze in extra protein and plus.. SO cheap. $10 for 12! my specialty cream cheese would definitely involve sun dried tomatoes and chunks of artichoke. and lots of garlic. if we are talking sweet, i would probably opt for a cinnamon peach cream cheese.
LOVE YOU SUSAN! glad you are back from your trip, had a blast, all that jazz. it's been fun to live vicariously through you.
also, wanted to thank you for the comments yesterday. they meant a lot! your words always do.
Funny – of all the blogs I follow yours was the only one that mentioned having anything but make your own cream cheese on Sunday's breakfast. Protein whore! ;) just kiddinggg
As a fellow gum addict, I LOVE the orbit watermelon. It tastes just like watermelon jolly ranchers. DELISH!
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girl you made ALL the right TJs choices! i haven't tried that corn salsa yet but it's totally on my list of future tries! glad you scored big time :) and i love that the chocolate edamams have 7g of protein! wooo hooo!
LOVE that sunflower seed butter. It is my absolute favourite dipped with apple slices. Heaven. Not joking.
Also, you look so pretty in all those photos! Lovely! -
So jealous! I am making a trip to the States in the Fall and I CANNOT WAIT to hit up Trader Joes!!!
Yay, I'm so glad you made it to TJ's!! Now do you see why I'm obsessed?? ;)
So great meeting you, Susan- glad you made it home safely. If you ever want to venture back down here, let me know!
All your food looks great. I eat well and exercise often through a lot of sports but your blog makes me feel like I'm a couch potato! If I make it to TO I would love to shared recipes!
As for cream cheese
Sweet: Blueberries and cinnamon
Savory: Salmon, cracked pepper and a squeeze of lemon on top -
Wow what tasty eats! One day I'll make to the us and get to try all these amazing foods! x x
The food is what matters most after all. :D And I always love "blogger in action" pics.
That strident citrus mint gum is awesome!!
LOVED this post, I love hearing about new foods!
Sundried tomato, basil kalamata olive cream cheese. Mmmm
Kris -
So sorry we aren't in Canada yet for you :( I'm glad that you enjoyed the yogurt AND got it at an awesome price. I'll be sure you're on the list for fun sampling when we make it to your turf. Keep up the awesome bloggin'!
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omg that corn salsa! my mom ALWAYS has that in her cupoard its like a standard item she just always has incase guests come over or dinner parties, she just takes it out and BAM so so so good!! i love taht you tried so many different things from TJ's! the dark chocolate eddamame, thats a new one to me! looks so interesting, but salty and sweet? that combo can do no wrong!!
i love that cream cheese station idea! what a great idea for a party!!
I wish TJ's would come to Australia!
My specialty cream cheese would have mashed banana, cinnamon and a little bit of honey, YUM!
I miss TJs! They don't have them in my area and we loved shopping there. Those PB pretzels are like crack to both John and I :D
I get those little Chobani containers. Perfect for a lunch.
Wish I could have been there. Probably would have had a better time than being in Montreal……
I'm so glad you had a great experience in Trader Joe's. I am a fan of some of those goodies too.
"All "my kind of food." Tortilla chips with a feta dip (crazy delicious), hummus stuffed cucumber, chicken and feta skewers, watermelon/basil/feta skewers, legitimately tasty pita chips with more hummus."–
I would have starved! omg i sense all weekend, i would have been in vegan/allergen hell. LOLSunflower seed butter, those cliff and Z bars, lunas, the orbit gum, i can vouch for all of those products. mango..some batches ROCK and some are overdone and hard. it's a crap shoot on the mango at tjs but when it works, it's awesome as is flattened bananas. if you ever have a baby, they can teethe/gnaw/gum on dried fruit all day. tj's saved the teething days in this casa!
Hey Susan,
You can totally buy those Chobani in TO. I can look up the name of the place I went if you want. But….they were almost $4 each!!!! Ridonkulous! Deeeelish but not worth that price for me.
Love the photog-in-action shots!
All that food looks so good!
I LOVE Trader Joe's! I have yet to purchase something that I didn't rave about. The TJ's Sunbutter is truly magical! It has the perfect amount of salty and sweet.
Sunflower seed butter – looks interesting! Will have to try that sometime for sure, it looks like you can find lots of great stuff at Trader Joe's!


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Not surprisingly, the annual St. Patrick's Day parade in South Boston drew thousands of festivity-loving spectators, and ended in dozens of alcohol-fueled outbursts.
Boston Police said they made 26 arrests for disorderly conduct and ticketed 336 people for public drinking, but parade-goers were apparently more tame on the MBTA.
Transit Police said they only made five arrests, and put two people into protective custody. There were also two separate incidents of assault, and three fare evasions.
"Officers did a very good job at managing the crowds. The vast majority of (transit riders) were orderly," said Transit Police Superintendent-in-Chief Joseph O'Connor, adding that most of the arrests were due to fights and alcohol consumption.
"Later in afternoon and into the evening some people had a little too much to drink did create disorder in our system," he said.
The most extreme MBTA crime Sunday happened around 4:30 p.m. at Downtown Crossing Station, where a Lowell man allegedly kicked a woman in the throat because she was too young to go out drinking.
Patrick Kelley, 25, was arrested after Transit Police officers found the woman lying on the ground crying and clutching her neck. She had travelled into Boston with Kelley and a larger group for the holiday festivities, Transit Police said.
He was charged with assault and battery with a shod foot.
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IMCR-006, February 1, 1998
Many people in the fight against unsolicited bulk email (UBE) believe that not allowing UBE senders to use SMTP gateways unrelated to their business would reduce the amount of UBE. Further, many companies who have had UBE sent through their SMTP servers have suffered losses in time and money dealing with responses sent to them.
It should be noted that relaying messages through an SMTP server is completely normal for people affiliated with that SMTP server. However, it has become common for malicious UBE senders to use an SMTP relay that they are not associated with, thereby offloading the costs to someone else.
It is often (although not always) in the best interest of the maintainers of an SMTP server to only allow known users to send mail out to the Internet through the SMTP server. Most commercial and freeware SMTP servers allow such control, and this feature is becoming more of a requirement for purchasers.
To date, there have only been anecdotal reports on how many publicly-known SMTP servers allowed anyone to relay through them. Because the reported percentages varied widely, and the test methodologies went unstated, IMC recently tested a large random sample of SMTP servers to see how many of them allowed relaying from users not within their realm.
The results show that over 55% of mail servers that are named in mail addresses allow relaying. This number is much higher than many estimates, and shows that a great deal of work must be done before the number of relays is so low as to make it difficult for a UBE sender to find an available host other than one with which they have a business relationship.
IMC's 38 mailing lists have a total of 6427 names. These names represent deliverable addresses at 2839 unique mail hosts, that is, unique names on the right-hand side of the "@" in the email addresses.
For each of the 2839 mail hosts, the program found the lowest-numbered MX record for the host, then found the A record for that MX record. If no MX record was found, the A record was used. In some cases, no MX or A record could be found, and the host name was discarded. This left a list of 2813 hosts and their respective IP addresses. A random sample of 500 of the remaining 2813 hosts was chosen for the relaying test.
The test was run on the evening of January 24, 1998. The test program noted responses to each SMTP command in separate logs, as well as keeping a log of how far the program got in sending the relayed test message.
In the following steps, "ABCDE.COM" was the name of an existing domain associated with IMC (but that is not actually "abcde.com").
The steps in the test were:
To: email@example.com From: email@example.com Subject: Relay test Sent from [name of the host sent to] [timestamp]If the DATA command was rejected, the program terminated and logged "DATA". 2 hosts which had given positive responses to the RCPT TO command give 4xx or 5xx responses to the DATA command. One rejected the message because it wasn't local, the other rejected the message because it had no date field.
The responses in the main log were:
Response | Number | Percent |
There could be many reasons for the 5.6 failure rate to connect. The most likely is that the hosts named in the addresses of the mailing lists are no longer around (some of the mailing lists have not had messages sent to them for many months). Also, if the program had tried higher-numbered MX records for the hosts that failed to connect, the percentage of failures would most likely be lower.
Of the 288 who fully accepted the message, 259 actually delivered the message to the recipient. 24 of the hosts sent messages to the address in the From: header saying, in many different ways, that the message could not be delivered. 1 human postmaster also followed the automated message with a message to the addresses in the From: and To: fields saying that relaying would not be tolerated.
Most people who are familiar with SMTP, particularly those working on the document to define exactly what is meant in SMTP, agree that the proper time to reject a message for relaying violations is after receiving the RCPT TO command. This is where the majority of servers that would not relay did, in fact, give the result code that would reject relaying.
In order to track whether more organizations are beginning to disallow relaying, IMC will perform the same test again in the future. This report will be updated with the the results from future runs of the test.


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In pretty unsurprising news, considering the regular season begins in a week and he'd yet to enroll at Liberty Christian, Guyer senior quarterback Kevin Dillman has decided he will stay at Guyer and play junior varsity football after being ruled ineligible on Aug. 11 by the UIL.
Dillman, a three-star recruit according to 247Sports, committed to Nebraska in April, just two months after moving to Lantana from La Mirada, California. Then, two weeks ago, he was ruled ineligible by the UIL meaning he'd either have to play JV as a senior or transfer to a TAPPS school with hopes of being ruled eligible by that governing body, which likely would've happened.
Dillman, a Sweden native, who by all accounts is already a team leader for Guyer despite just having arrived in February, said he made the decision on his own, and without advisement from the coaching staff at Nebraska. He said he considered both Plano Prestonwood and Liberty Christian, but the decision ultimately came down to Guyer and Liberty Christian.
"Oh yeah, it was definitely a hard decision," said Dillman, a 6-foot-3, 215-pounder with a rocket arm. "I've yet to hear from Nebraska what they want me to do, so it's a decision I based on myself. Pretty much, it's the people I was around here. They had a more competitive edge in football and their attitude [at Guyer]. That's why I felt I fit in more here."
For more on the Dillman decision, which leaves Guyer with probably the best JV quarterback in the free world, see Tuesday's edition of the Denton Record-Chronicle.


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M.A., Anthropology, Columbia University, 1989
B.A., Sociology, University of California, Berkeley, 1985
Professor Cesareo joined the faculty of Saddleback College in 2000, after having previously taught at several other colleges/universities including Whittier College, New York University and Columbia University. She is a cultural anthropologist who continues to do research, primarily in Brazil, on issues of agrarian reform, social movements, and the construction and use of social memory. Other areas of interest include visual anthropology, especially the use of photography in the construction of memory, the role of religion in social change, and the politics of ethnographic practice.
Her current projects include a study of the "landless workers movement" in Brazil and the creation of a nostalgic ideology, and a study of comparative death rituals and mourning practices in southern California.
Professor Cesareo is also currently Chair of the Anthropology and Ethnic Studies departments and President of the Faculty Association.
Courses Taught
Anth 2 – Cultural Anthropology
Anth 3 – Culture and Language
Anth 21 – Women, Gender, and Culture: Cross-Cultural Perspectives
Anth 14 – Introduction to Visual Culture
Anth 5 – Anthropology of Latin America
Anth 13 – Magic, Relgion, and Witchcraft
Anth 1 – Biological Anthropology
Anth 6 – Global Issues in Anthropological Perspective
ES 1 – Multicultural Experiences in the United States
ES 2 – Multicultural Identities in the United States
ES 3 – Chicana/o and Latina/o Cultures of the United States
Awards, Grants and Fellowships
Wenner-Gren Foundation Grant (1995)
SSRC-MacArthur Committee on International Peace and Security Research Workshop Award (1995)
Lindt Dissertation Writing Fellowship (1994-5)
Fulbright-Hays IIE Grant (1992-3)
Wenner-Grant Foundation Grant (1992-3)
Columbia University Traveling Fellowship (1991-2)
Sigma Xi Research Foundation Award (1991)
American Women in Science Award (1991)
Inter-American Foundation Master's Fellowship (1990)
Institute of Latin American And Iberian Studies at Columbia University Travel Grant (1990)
MacArthur Foundation Dissertation Development Grant (1989)
Columbia University Presidential Fellowship (1988-98)