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Sofia Coppola's second film Lost in Translation begs for a warm night and some takeout sushi. Set in a fancy Tokyo hotel, Scarlett Johansson and Bill Murray dance a delicate waltz of isolation in an overwhelming city until they find each other. The intensity of Japanese culture shock forms a unlikely bond between them, and running around the city with a newly met stranger sounds like the best way to spend a summer. –Amy Merrick
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One of my favorite movies of all time. This is an awesome round-up — makes me want to go home and watch the movie on this rainy oregon morning! :)
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ah, yes. nice job finding those undies. (oh my!) but surely they are one of the first images that come to mind when thinking of lost in translation.
A favorite of mine as well, I never tire of this movie…or of Bill Murray for that matter. Thanks for the great post!
Love that movie. Great feature! I, too, am craving a couch, some sushi, and some Bill Murray and Scarlett Johansson.
I love this movie. My husband actually has that briefcase, it's fabulous.
This is such a beautiful movie. I used to watch it all of the time, but I haven't seen it in so long. Time to pull it out again. Great soundtrack, too!
This is one of my all time very favorite movies. One I really would live in, so thanks!
Gah! I love this movie so so much!
Oh this is too wonderful! y'all are SO clever!
This is a great movie, but I wonder if whoever wrote this post has actually seen it…
"Running around the city with a newly met stranger sounds like the best way to spend a summer"? The two characters are deeply unhappy and lost in their lives, and, yes, they find and understand one another, but's not exactly a light-hearted summer romance movie. It is, however, beautiful made and totally worthy of a "living in" feature.
Dang… I was so hoping you were going to include that awesome stuffed owl Bill Murray gives her in the hospital. I can't tell you how much time I've spent trying to find one!
Regardless, great post. I love this film.
Love this! I've been looking for paper flower mobiles similar to the ones she hangs in her hotel room for years. Any ideas?
Another Bill Murray movie I would love to done as a Living In is The Razor's Edge
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Sigh. Love this movie. Great job capturing it as well.
Great movie, one of my favorites. I thought you would get a pink wig on the list too!
no way! i *just* watched this yesterday. awesome.
The cherry blossom mobile is like a ghost…. I've been looking for it since the movie came out, I even went to Sakura Festival IN Japan and couldn't find anything like it. If you find it let me know (c:
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I was so inspired by this movie when it came out…thanks for the reminder!
The 1990s Tokyo guidebook is an odd choice, especially when there are so many great current independent guides to Japan. A round-up of independent travel books/zines would be nice feature sometime.
Watched this over the past weekend :) One of my all time favorites! And I was totally thinking "design sponge" should do a living in for this movie.
the sakura [cherry blossom] fake flowers are not exactly mobiles but that is such a good idea we can make such!
I did not get this film at all so appreciate everyone's comments. I have a friend who saw it as they could not sleep! I think it is further than that. Anyway, San Francisco's Japan Town NihonMachi has shops that sell these and perhaps online please look at J List.com. maybe this will help.
Also, when you are a non Jpnse in Japan , it is easy to bond with another and go around, even with a Jpnse. so not so strange.
This is a favourite of mine; I just watched it again with friends last week!
These 2 actors are such an unlikely pairing, and the romance is so sweet and touching….I was very surprised at my reaction to them finding each other. I always cry at the end!
The music is amazing, the cinematic shots are stunning and sensitive…and the strange details of the environment makes you feel as if you are living in a dream. I mean, the jazz singer all in red in that womb-like bar at the top of the hotel?? Fantastic….
Thanks for this one – I've been living this movie in my mind for a week now and I shall spend another thanks to this little reminder. Compai!
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Definitely a favourite movie of mine. Loved seeing it interpreted in your Living In feature, Amy. Nice work! :)
I didn't see anythng pertaining to the flower arranging class she stumbled into…did I miss it?
gorgeous film with gorgeous style!!! such a fantastic way to look at home design, the use of film as inspiration has got my imagination running riot!! i managed to find a leather topped foundry table at a store in london called camerich so i am now determind to push this look further. so looking forward to your next blog post! thank you!
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Love this! My favorite movie. Now I want to go watch it again.
A friend and I were wondering recently why clear bubble umbrellas never really caught on in the US, even after Lost in Translation. In Japan every other person on the street carries a clear umbrella when it rains. And it's so practical too, when you think about it!
oh, one of my all-time faves…sofia coppola's quite amazing and captured many of the emotions that i felt while living in japan as a single girl way back when…not a fan of animal prints, but am savin' up for a pair of those sheer pink bloomers ;)…umm, time to throw that one in the player…thank you!
I've been waiting for this post for forever! Made my week.
aaaah…. my favourite movie, thanks SO MUCH xo
A must see movie! And you pretty much nailed it with the round up for it! Isnt' that umbrella so fun?!
One of my all-time fave movies…loved Scarlett's hotel room there with the cherry blossom mobiles…and this is one movie wherein Scarlett wasn't "Hollywood-ized" yet. :)
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Manville is a small ville within Lincoln, Rhode Island. This will be the tenth year I have attended this event to display swords, talk with the public and generally enjoy a get together with some of the local sword enthusiasts.
The particulars of this public event can be found here
Rain or shine, this is an open invitation to display, chat, cut (when there are targets) and generally hang out. Plan on bringing your own chair if we are outside and you are staying the day (we can always shag/borrow a couple few from the club if need be).
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Any vendor. smith, crafts or demonstrations aside from the general display we share are welcome but if a separate entity with a lot of gear/set up requiring lots of space, please contact the Manville Sportsmen's Club directly to give them a heads up. The main field is fairly spacious and there is an upper field as well but as far as I knw, space is first come first served.
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Family friendly and activities vary. As you can see, there are buses and a wagon to get the public from the main parking, two short blocks away. If you are loading in a bunch, let the orange vest guys know (say Glen told me to) and then drive straight ahead, otherwise, the main entrance is actually another park at the main road in. It is residential for the two blocks from the main road but the club is straight ahead and dead ends. If you are there before they start in the upper lot, just drive straight ahead and right at the end down to the field.
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There are hotels/motels in the area and some of the re-enactors have camped out from Friday to Sunday
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Check in at your local sporting and gun shops and you will find different venues. There is a list by states on this page.
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We are still several weeks from this event. The core group seems to all be on track and New England weather trends predict a couple of nice aearly autumn days.
Barring unforeseen issues, I plan be being there bright and early both days. A couple of others more local to the scene means there will be something going on regardless.
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A great additional display began last year and looks to be a regular. These are stationary hit or miss engines from the early years and have a distinctive note lending more background but any gearhead would enjoy seeing them. Some decades ago I had gone to many of these engine meets and had a passion also for anything steam Steam Punk before it was a fad. This came about at Manville, as one of us sword nutz had a dad that likes to play with toys. Good stuff.
Possible thunderstorms over the weekend but who really knows these days.
A week go for this. Weather predictions so far look terrific. Rhode Island is not prime foliage territory just yet but New England is gearing up for the autumn show. The swamp maples actually started here near Woosta a couple of weeks ago.
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OpinionPoliticsA response to Joseph Massad's 'Hamas and the old/new American Crescent' The US and its allies spent decades and billions to prevent the arrival of the Islamists to power, but have failed. 23 Aug 2012 10:07 GMT | Politics, US & Canada, Egypt, Iraq, Israel Massad "follows an elitist analytical itinerary" and overlooks the Arab masses who authored the Arab Spring [EPA]By Larbi Sadiki Larbi Sadiki is an academic at Qatar University where he teaches international affairs. Story highlights"The US and its allies spent decades and billions to prevent the arrival of the Islamists to power. They have failed."It is fallacious to argue that Hamas is somehow driven to ride the wave of Islamist-US "détente" or hypothesised rapprochement. To argue thus, as intimated by the learned professor, Joseph Massad, is to sacrifice nuances, subtleties and complexities that dilute the "stories" we all narrate and make about how we interpret Islamism's many permutations in the context of the Arab Spring. What Massad leaves out in his take on the "New American Crescent" is a story that may necessitate a constructivist lens to re-read the unfolding scene heralded by the Arab Spring élan. Identity, ideology and agency are all ditched as if the Arab Spring is an American invention. It seems to me that Professor Massad's understanding of the assumed collusion across the Arab Spring between the diverse Arab brotherhoods and Islamists of their ilk can additionally be reproached on grounds for haste in passing judgment on events, actors and socio-political phenomena that are far from determinacy. Eighteen months of uprisings and elections coupled with flirtations with the Western powers amount not to stable phenomena; the short-span histories in which they are incubated render them incomplete and provisional to draw generalised and certain conclusions, desiderata for all searchers of truth such as in the social sciences. Points and pointers On this occasion, I beg to differ almost on most of the assumptions and arguments advanced in Massad's article. This is not for the sake of difference. The real value in interrogating some of the points made by Massad, one of the most authoritative writers on Palestine today, lies in opening up a forum for collective reading of how, on the one hand, Arab Islamisms have been swept off their feet by the political tsunami that is the Arab Spring, and, on the other, how Islamist forces from Egypt to Libya and discourses embraced and helped, amongst others, shape the Arab Spring. Palestine's hamas and Fatah sign unity deal It is not Massad's use of quotation marks when referring the Arab Spring that hint at lingering doubt, quite common amongst many Western observers, which call for explanation. Rather, it is his misplaced doubt when doubt is due that begs questions the article's answers may have not convincingly addressed. The "crescent" is Americanised. James Henry Breasted's term "Fertile Crescent" has been rendered vacuous. This cannot be blamed on Massad. Breasted's crescent oozes with fecundity, including in terms of civilisational know-how and continuity. In its reconstituted Realist and geostrategic forms, all variations of the said "crescent" are fertile but in conflict, conspiracy and international subterfuge and counter-subterfuge. Massad's article somewhat follows this deviation. The "New American Crescent" reads as if the previously assumed and totalised rival "crescents" are at an end. We all recall the "Shia Crescent", the axis stretching from Tehran via Damascus all the way to the Southern suburbs of Beirut, and which for many today stretches to Baghdad where Iranian Islamism reigns high. In Breasted's original usage, depending how elastic it is made, the crescent includes lands extending from the Euphrates and Tigris (Iraq) area to encompass Iran, Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, Turkey, parts of Palestine and Israel, and even Egypt. Religiously, the "crescent" hints at the Islamic identity of the region. One somehow hears "the cross and the crescent" or "the crescent and the star-spangled banner" as the eminent Africanist Ali Mazrui wrote in the mid-1990s. Geo-strategically, this is the territory where US foreign policy has since the 1950s (the Baghdad Pact) traditionally sought to "semi-encircle" their former Soviet rivals. After the Shah and Sadat, the "crescent" is halved. Buoyed by its Islamic revolution, Iran no longer played second fiddle to what the Americans schemed for the region when the Shah was anointed policeman in the Gulf region. To this end, Iran recruited Pan-Arabist and secular Syria, Lebanon's Shiite Islamists, Palestinian Sunni Islamists, including until recently, Hamas and Islamic Jihad, and to a large extent, Iraq, the US' unintended biggest "gift" to the Islamic republic. So what is left? Turkey: yes Muslim, Sunni and led by the Islamist AKP and can hardly be oversimplified as an American "poodle". The Turks maintain relations with Israel and their NATO membership does not translate into complete subservience to US interests. There is no denial the AKP (Justice and Development Party) is pragmatic, but its pragmatism ends where Turkish sublime interests begin. One interest is to re-enliven ties with the Arab and the Islamic worlds: Turkey stands by Gazans, endorses Hamas, and uses its own brand of soft power to carve out for itself a sphere of influence independent of US and European ties and interests. Even the pliant Saudis and rent-seeking Jordanians follow foreign policy agendas, which are shaped by fragments of identity, ranging from political conservatism, or religious orthodoxy, geographical neighbourhood and economic necessity (oil rent for the Saudis and aid for the Jordanians). They do not get their foreign policies designed in Washington, DC. Many Saudis wish Iran bombed for different reasons from those Americans who favour the same policy. In the 1990s, Jordanians devised an election law to downsize their Islamists; they still do and this member of the American crescent may not favour the US' endorsement of Islamists in the context of the Arab Spring. The point is that there is no fixed and single way of painting the so-called "new American crescent", which may turn out to be a fallacy. I have been in Tunisia and audience with its seminal Islamist ideologue, Rachid Ghannouchi, and interim prime minister, Hamadi Jebali. Agreeing with the US is not a "given". Massad may care to note how the draft Tunisian constitution criminalises "normalisation of relations" with Israel. This does not fit the view he has blown out of proportion about US-Islamist ties. As we speak, the Muslim Brotherhood through President Morsi are subtly recording displeasure with the Camp David Accords - and sending troops into the Sinai without prior Israeli approval as stipulated in the terms of the Accords is not the kind of détente the US brokers wish to have with the Islamists. Libya celebrates democratic transition Massad's line of argument lacks the kind of evidence only long-time span political practice and consolidated trends deliver. They are in shortage in this article. Arab masses Massad somehow follows an elitist analytical itinerary. He overlooks the Arab masses: they authored the Arab Spring. His "story" ignores that the US, perhaps more hastily than the Europeans, rushed to salvage its foreign policy failure in the Arab Middle East. It often sided with dictators; excluded Islamists, only intermittently and sporadically, from its management of relations in the region; and as he notes correctly deserved the epithet "most formidable anti-democratic force". The US and its allies spent decades and billions to prevent the arrival of the Islamists to power. They have failed. The Islamists are a fait accompli and it would be stupid for the Americans to keep on repeating the same mistake. They face a new learning curve; but so do the Islamists who cannot ignore the US. It is a case of many an elephant in the room. We all recall how when the Arab Spring began, Islamists were actually excluded from it. The who's who of Western journalism and a number of scholars and observers hasted in stating Islamists had nothing to do with the Arab Spring. Where? Which version of the Arab Spring? In Egypt, they are wrong. In Libya the role assumed by the Islamists cannot be denied, a space to be watched over the coming years. Syria's Muslim Brotherhood, including its youth branch, are amongst the key actors in the Syrian uprising and now tragic civil war. In Tunisia, Nahda Party had no role in the revolution - and nor did any other liberal, leftist or secular party - but the first democratic poll in October 2011 favoured the Islamists. The Islamists should not make sense only when they oppose, fight or exclude the US. Mutuality, reciprocity and equality, if ever achieved, should not mean "selling" Palestine, hating the Jews or shunning dialogue. Islamists live in a world where membership of every club, financial, political, cultural, technological or diplomatic, has both a degree of American lineage and leverage. All we can trust is that the Arab citizenries who vote Islamists into office ensure they are represented with the same zeal, professionalism and dedication Americans represent their own interests. Nascent democracy will ensure this is the case: gone the days when single rule surrenders all in the name of external legitimacy or political survival. At least, one expects this much the Egyptians, Libyans and Tunisians where the Arab Spring's democratic debut look promising - despite the travails expected in such a process. The Arab Spring (in quotation marks) is treated with a tinge of disdain - and the peoples who made it are excluded for the history Massad narrates in his article. Even the US has bowed to the Arab Spring. Enough of the kind of self-flagellation that in everything positive we find "conspiracy", as if the US is hijacking the Arab Spring, truly the most single emancipatory moment in modern history - in the case of Egypt and Tunisia entirely home-grown and driven by people's power and quest for dignity and freedom. It is one aspect of Arab history with which the International Misery Fund has nothing to do. It is not made in the US. Hamas, ideology and constituency The erudite Massad gets his Hamas story completely wrong. The assertion of Qatar supporting Hamas to win the 2006 elections is grotesque. In fact, the "most formidable anti-democratic force in the region", i.e. the US, had more to do with the elections than Qatar. The elections were held under the Oslo Accords framework and with EU and US endorsement and support. Pity they did not like the winners: Hamas. Freed senior Hamas leader vows to fight on That is when Qatar stepped in: when international machinations were set in motion to cancel the will of the Palestinian voters, besiege the experiment, and derail Palestinian coalition and capacity-building. Qatar poured millions to support education, especially after the unity government failed and Hamas inherited an empty treasury, courtesy of the Abbas-Fayyadh duo. The victory has nothing to do with outside factors or actors. Fatah lost the plot on every front: rampant corruption. One recalls Mohammed Dahlan's accusations to this effect in 2003, when Arafat was down and weak. The patrimonial Arafat hit back using four words: qatil abeeh la yarith (patricide disinherits). This is the same Fatah that worked in cohorts with the Israelis, serving as the oppressor of the Palestinian people on behalf of the colonisers. In 2005, Fatah's primaries exposed the democratic credentials of Arafat's heirs: they burned the ballot boxes. Hamas won the January 2006 elections partly on the back of Fatah's crisis of de-legitimacy. Massad misses the ideological content of Hamas' politics, including international and foreign relations. Elites in Hamas are expendable. Neither Khaled Mishaal nor Ismail Haniyya can hijack the influence of the rank-and-file in Hamas' decision-making. Built into this ideological matrix is a religious content and education that inform the shaping of membership, political behaviour and political philosophy. Plus, there is the democratic-shura-cratic (consultative) ethos that governs Hamas internally. Like most Islamist movements, Hamas' pragmatism has limits. Relations with the US are not something that can be decided by the politburo, a few leaders or devolved to Qatar, for instance. Such affairs are decided through arduous processes starting with surveying with opinion at the grassroots level and ending with systematic consultation involving voting by all members. Thus it took two years to get endorsement for participation in the 2006 elections. The leadership suggests ideas or policy change, and it is entitled that much in decision-making. However, it is expected, and it does, refer to the constituency for change of policy. Hamas has red lines: it cannot in the name of pragmatism accept Israeli occupation of Palestine or relations with the US that facilitate such an outcome. It would splinter and implode. In the 2007-2009 period Hamas lived a most critical period since its inception as a result of suspending military resistance. Despite heightened discipline, many rebelled and even left Hamas, forming groups such as Jaysh al-Ummah (Ummah Army). Even al-Qaida was able to recruit from within Hamas. "The US and its allies spent decades and billions to prevent the arrival of the Islamists to power. They have failed." However, this trend was stopped by the 2008-09 war with Israel: Hamas had a chance to renew its commitment to military resistance and restore confidence in its ideology and religious identity. There is a conservative core-leadership that always keeps Hamas on the straight and narrow as far as ideology goes. For instance, in 2007 state of disorder owing to difficulty to control the Gaza strip was easily put under control, thanks to the influence of leaders such as Nizar Rayyan, Said Siyam (both killed in the 2008-09 war with Israel), Fathi Hammad, Younes Al-Astal and Wael Al-Zird. Hamas is deft at playing politics. It has a mini-Hamas assigned with floating balloons or trying alternative policies on the margins. For instance, Ahmad Youssef was once given some leeway in throwing ideas such as abandoning military resistance or upgrading diplomacy. However, this led to now major breakthroughs and he is today quasi isolated. He is not alone and there are others who even call for direct talks with Israel. However, majority opinion may still prevent this. In the final analysis, ideological substantiation is needed for major change of policy. I do not see that Hamas is co-opted or easily co-optable as if the Arab Spring is some kind of charm offensive to flirt with the Americans, or vice versa. Talking, sitting at the table with the Americans, speaking to them secretly or through the Qataris or other intermediaries do not amount to shedding ideological spots that still mark Hamas, a political animal par excellence. One cannot tell Hamas by the friends it keeps or wants to keep. One thing always tell Hamas: its ideology. On this account, Massad misses the point. Dr Larbi Sadiki is a Senior Lecturer in Middle East Politics at the University of Exeter, and author of Arab Democratisation: Elections without Democracy (Oxford University Press, 2009) and The Search for Arab Democracy: Discourses and Counter-Discourses (Columbia University Press, 2004).Source: Al Jazeera
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Call it a pre-emptive strike. Call it craziness. Call it whatever you like.
It doesn't really matter, because here it comes regardless – an alternative take to what is sure to be conventional-wisdom seeding on Selection Sunday.
Specifically, the focus here will be on the No. 1s that will be announced for this season's NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament.
All of us know what they'll be before a single tip-off takes place in the ACC, A-10, Big Ten and SEC postseason finales. We're looking at top-ranked Gonzaga, Duke, Indiana and Louisville. Bank on it.
No argument here on the first and last ones noted above. But the middle two – sorry, no way do either deserve such billing on the March Madness stage. If this is truly about "rewarding" the teams who proved themselves to be worthy of such distinction throughout the 2012-13 campaign, no way are Indiana and Duke No. 1s.
True, you can't judge each squad's entire season off a single weekend – but you don't ignore it, either. That is part of the season, and, frankly, Indiana – long considered the best team in college hoops – hasn't exactly been lights out the last couple months. The Hoosiers are 7-4 in their last 11, including a blowout loss to Wisconsin on Saturday.
Heck, while the media has spent so much time pushing for athletic IU junior Victor Oladipo for national player of the year honors the past few weeks, it seems to have failed to notice the 27-6 Hoosiers are stumbling onto the Big Dance floor on a 3-3 run.
If that doesn't trump their rep and regular-season conference title, then dropping a 12th straight to the Badgers – a day before the Big Ten title is even played – does.
Duke has even less "legs" to stand on. The 27-5 Blue Devils got bounced in the ACC quarters by Maryland and can't even claim a regular-season conference crown. They're 5-3 in their last eight, including a pair of losses to a Terrapins team that, at best, has the dreaded "bubble" label attached to it for today's proceedings.
Who should be joining Gonzaga and Louisville as top seeds? It seems quite obvious that Kansas, which shared the Big 12 regular-season title with Kansas State and then walloped the Wildcats for conference tournament honors on Saturday, is worthy.
After that, look to the Sunshine State. Right now, it's really a toss-up between Miami and Florida, teams that play in the ACC and SEC finals, respectively, on Sunday afternoon.
The 26-6 Hurricanes – not Duke – already won the ACC regular season, and in head-to-head matchups with the Devils they split, winning by 23 and losing by 3. If they win today against North Carolina, only pretzel logic works in rationalizing how Duke is more deserving of anything more than Miami.
The 26-6 Gators topped the SEC in the regular season and are expected to handle Ole Miss today in the tourney title game. Take note, it drilled Wisconsin this season by 18 – the same Wisconsin that just handled IU by 12.
Thing is, even if Miami and Florida fall today, the selection committee still has a better choice for that final No. 1 than either Duke or IU – New Mexico.
The 29-5 Lobos just completed the double in the Mountain West – adding the tourney title to a regular-season one in its NCAA portfolio. No big deal, you say? Considering the conference is the top-rated one in the country, going off the RPI, yeah, it is a big deal – and the Lobos' No. 2 standing in the RPI for teams is looking more and more legit all the time.
But, there is no need to worry. Conventional-wisdom seeding ultimately will rule the day, and IU and Duke will get their No. 1s. They just don't deserve 'em.


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In Ohio, the Next Chapter in a Fight for Workers
by Cynthia McCabe | October 15, 2012
AFSCME Pres. Lee Saunders tells GOTV volunteers about the plight of Bain Capital-owned Sensata in Freeport, Ill. (Photo by Tessa Berg)
COLUMBUS, Ohio – Illinois is not a battleground state. It is projected to be firmly in the blue when they tally the votes for president three weeks from now. But that didn't stop a group of AFSCME members gathered here in the Buckeye State Saturday morning from worrying about Illinois.
Because in Freeport, Ill., 170 workers are about to lose their jobs at a Bain Capital-owned company named Sensata. Bain is shipping their jobs to China, but not before requiring the American workers to train their Chinese replacements.
Volunteers gathered at the Ohio get-out-the-vote event this weekend gasped when Pres. Lee Saunders relayed the Sensata story. Ohio union members understand the gut-punch that comes from seeing American jobs – their sisters and brothers' jobs – outsourced or privatized. It's a reality of life in any Rust Belt state, but it's not one these volunteers are willing to see made worse in their state, Illinois, or anywhere else, by the election of Mitt Romney and likeminded politicians.
So on Saturday they mobilized, knocking on doors across Columbus to urge people to vote for Pres. Barack Obama, Sen. Sherrod Brown and to vote yes on Issue 2, a measure that will ensure Congressional district lines are drawn fairly, by a bipartisan committee. They are aware that once again, the eyes of the nation will turn to Ohio in these final weeks of the election.
"This is about the middle class and the assault these politicians have made on us," Shirley Hubbert, a member of Local 11 (OCSEA), said. "It's about fairness and giving everyone the opportunity to have people behind them."
In 2008, a massive volunteer mobilization in Ohio helped President Obama defeat Sen. John McCain 51-47 percent. The New York Times would later report that twice as many Ohioans said they were contacted by a volunteer on behalf of Obama than a GOP volunteer during the run-up to Election Day.
OCSEA member Shirley Hubbert says the 2012 election is about the middle class. (Photo by Tessa Berg)
This year, the stakes will be even higher than 2008, said AFSCME Council 8 Pres. John Lyall. But the election follows a protracted battle against Senate Bill 5 in the state the year before, when voters shot down by a 2-1 margin Gov. John Kasich's plan to cripple collective bargaining. Members of Council 8, OAPSE and OCSEA joined in coalition with We Are Ohio to defeat SB5.
"We knew whatever happened with Senate Bill 5 was going to reverberate across the country," Lyall said, adding that the same volunteers who pulled out that victory for working people had to quickly turn their attention to the presidential and Congressional races. Lyall reminds them what's at risk if they aren't active in these final three weeks of the campaign: America's economic recovery, Medicare, Social Security, affordable health care, workers' rights. "I tell them what (Iowa Sen.) Tom Harkin says: We always say this is the most important election of our lifetime, but this is the scariest election of our lifetime."
Earlier in the week, AFSCME members gathered in Cleveland heard a similar message of urgency from OAPSE Exec. Dir. Joe Rugola.
"I'm trying to make sure our members connect what happened with SB5 to the choices we face this year," Rugola said. "Our opponents want people to be tired of the message we're delivering. They want us to spend our money. There's only one way we're going to overcome them: with hard work and staying at it."
For Saunders, an Ohio native, there's no way around the work that faces AFSCME's ground troops in the next three weeks in his home state.
"The weight of the world is on your shoulders," Saunders told the volunteers in Columbus. "But the weight of the world is always on your shoulders. I'm going to be here for the end. I'm going to be here for our victory."
Are you all in? Whether you're in Ohio or any other state, your participation is crucial as the campaign enters the home stretch. Visit AFSCME.org to find out how you can get involved.
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Sam Allardyce is planning to take his West Ham players abroad for a winter break in preparation for the hectic run-in to the Premier League season.
The Hammers boss yesterday reopened the debate over a mid-season break in English football, saying: "You wouldn't flog a racehorse like they flog our players."
Having been knocked out of the FA Cup by Manchester United on Wednesday, West Ham have no scheduled fixture next weekend as other clubs play their fourth round ties.
And Allardyce, who treated his players to a short training camp to Dubai last February, says a free weekend could give them the chance to get away again.
"Last year we managed to put it in there and it worked well because I think we went on to only lose one game that season," said Allardyce, whose side won promotion from the Championship after last year's break.
"I think we'll have a better window now because our exit from the FA Cup.
"We might have a better window where we can take a few days and then we wouldn't have a game the weekend we come back.
"Then we would build up the following weekend to start the big push to the end of the season."
Asked why he values such a break, Allardyce added: "It's about doing a little bit of training in a warm climate.
"But it's about enjoying each others' company and relaxing and switching off mentally and physically.
"I talk about the mental side of it more and more and more. It's more about resting yourself mentally as well as physically.
"It's a fantastic time to just recuperate," he continued.
"The body's healing process speeds up quickly in a warm climate, without any need to think about the next game that's coming up."
Quizzed on whether he worries about what his players might get up to when given the freedom of a winter holiday, Allardyce harked back to his playing days and said with a smile: "They were my days, that doesn't happen now."
He added: "It can get a little bit jovial on occasions but generally that would be born from too much alcohol.
"Obviously from my point of view it's not an alcohol-fuelled trip, it's a relaxation trip and a recuperation trip.
"It's not a chance to have a binge like we used to when we played."


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Huntington Police Use Social Media To Make Arson Arrest In US Open Of Surfing DisturbanceHuntington Beach Police Wednesday announced the arrest of a suspect they said committed arson during the post US Open of Surfing disturbance.
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Deadly Monterey Park Officer-Involved Shooting Caught On CameraA deadly officer-involved shooting in Monterey Park was under investigation Monday after police responded to a disturbance call and shot a man, who reportedly went on a rampage.


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After the success of last year's Life Cycle, the Vice-Chancellor and his team are taking to the saddle again at the end of August to raise funds for
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The Impact theme for Nottingham Life Cycle 2 is Nurturing Talent, with the specific aim of providing scholarships and bursaries to students from disadvantaged backgrounds and supporting outreach targeted at changing opportunities for young people, helping more into further and higher education.
Last year's Nottingham Life Cycle saw the VC and his team riding from John O'Groats to Land's End to raise funds for the University's Sue Ryder Care Centre for research on Supportive, Palliative and End of Life Care. This year the team will be tackling the opposite end-to-end diagonal as they cycle over 1,100 miles from Cape Wrath, Scotland to Dover on the South-East coast.
He may have had a year to recover, but the Vice-Chancellor – who turned 60 in March – recognises the challenge that lies ahead of him:
"Last year was an amazing experience. Despite being pushed well beyond our comfort zones, the journey surpassed our expectations. The amount we raised was way beyond our initial target, eventually reaching almost £230,000, and the fantastic support we received throughout was outstanding and humbling.
"A new goal is now in our sight. Raising the aspirations of students from disadvantaged backgrounds and supporting them financially to achieve their ambitions is something I feel passionately about. It is a cause which will provide real inspiration for an even tougher challenge, and the motivation to succeed."
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My 3GS' Video Recording Switch Has Disappeared!I'm not sure when this happened, as I don't regularly use the video record feature of my iPhone 3GS, but it's often enough that I'd miss having it. When I went to use it yesterday I noticed that the switch at the bottom of the Camera app is no longer there. I can't switch into video mode without it!
I immediately went into winterboard and shut off just the themes I was using, resprang, and it still isn't appearing. I tried shutting off EVERYTHING in winterboard, resprang, and nothing. I tried the same methods, except doing a hard reset instead of respringing, and still nothing.
I've tried searching for anything on the internet that might tell me a plist that I need to edit in order to reactivate this function, but all I keep finding is stuff about how to get the video record on the 2G/3G models.
The M68AP.plist already contains the "video-camera" boolean, so beyond that, I don't know what else I can do. Does anyone know what I can do to restore this function? The internet is not helping me with this at all, but I CAN'T be the only person this has happened to, can I?
By the way, this is my first time posting, but most definitely not my first time on the board. This community has unknowingly helped me out plenty of times, so hopefully this will be no exception. Any help you can give me is much appreciated!
The instructions I found for activating video recording on the 2G/3G are as follows
Now if you want the video recording software to work then by all means go to your M68AP.plist in SpringBoard.app and add in boolean "video-camera" and set it to 1 for yes in the capabilities dictionary. Presto! You get the video camera software.
I also noticed that I no longer have the option to upload to youtube in the camera roll. Furthermore, I had downloaded an app from the appstore called "Video Stabilizer" specifically for the 3GS, and when I open it, it says that my device is not compatible. This tells me that, somewhere in the phone, it's no longer marked as a 3GS.
I realize this isn't a quick "google the answer and post a link" type of fix, and requires some real effort to solve the problem, but isn't there ANYBODY on here with some inkling as to what the problem might be?
Nevermind, I figured it out.
The problem was in the N88AP.plist.
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goodwill (4226) 2013-10-03 9:49
Hello Jasmis,
A difficult shot to focus, and to execute.
Tough one, and the reuslts...........cracking.
I can hear the sound of the cracks here dear.
Good One,
carry On,
holmertz (59194) 2013-10-03 11:49
Hello, "Cat",
What a surprise! Welcome back. I hope you have come to stay. This is an interesting experiment where the sparks have created a strange and beautiful pattern. It's certainly a difficult shot but I like it very much. It is very much different from most photos here.
Kind regards,
papagolf21 (109390) 2013-10-04 0:21
Bonjour, Jasmis,
Très belle réalisation peu courante sur le site.
L'image parle d'elle-même. Les gerbes d'étincelles forment un bien joli feu d'artifice.
Très bonne journée.
rigoletto (34279) 2013-10-09 13:34
it feels so good when the ghost cat appears from time to time, to show us the extensive borders of photography, and what one can do with a mindful grabbing of the gears. an explosive long exposure. see you again (in 6 months, probably)
saxo042 (37966) 2013-10-22 7:49
Hi Jan,
A very pleasant surprise to see you back here, I hope this will not be a one-off occasion. You always used to have very interesting pictures from the "real" life with workers in their true conditions. This is another of your very innovative and realistic pictures. A veritable eye-catcher! An excellent picture!
Kind regards
mark88 (2) 2013-12-20 14:32
Ciekawy efekt. Fajne odwiedzasz miejsca.
Rzadko bywam na TE, ale zauważyłem u Ciebie brak foty faceta w kasku z reflektorem.
Szkoda, że skasowałeś.
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Jewish World Review May 27, 2014 / 27 Iyar, 5774 Random ThoughtsBy Thomas Sowell
JewishWorldReview.com | Random thoughts on the passing scene: • Will the Veterans Administration scandal wake up those people who have been blithely saying that what we need is a "single payer" system for medical care? Delays in getting to see a doctor have been a common denominator in government-run medical systems in England, Canada and Australia, among other places. • Class warfare rhetoric would have us resenting "the top ten percent" in income. But that would be a farce, because most of us would be resenting ourselves, since more than half of all Americans — 54 percent — are in the top ten percent at some stage of their lives. • Some people act as if the answer to every problem is to put more money and power in the hands of politicians. • Freedom means nothing if it does not mean the freedom to do what other people don't like. Everyone was free to be a Communist under the Stalin dictatorship, and everyone is free to be a Muslim in Saudi Arabia. Yet whole generations are coming out of our colleges where only those who are politically correct are free to speak their minds. What kind of America will they create? • In Thomas Piketty's highly-praised new book, "Capital in the Twenty-First Century" he asserts that the top tax rate under President Herbert Hoover was 25 percent. But Internal Revenue Service records show that it was 63 percent in 1932. If Piketty can't even get his facts straight, why should his grandiose plans for confiscatory global taxation be taken seriously? • Sometimes I think that this is an era when sanity has become controversial.
• Republicans in Congress seem to be drawn toward the immigration issue like a moth toward a flame. How turning illegal immigrants into Democratic voters, while demoralizing the Republican base, will help either the country or the Republicans is a mystery. If ever there was a high-risk, low-yield investment, this is it. • President Theodore Roosevelt said that his foreign policy was to "speak softly and carry a big stick." President Barack Obama's foreign policy is to speak loudly and carry a little stick. They say talk is cheap, but loose talk by a President of the United States can be very expensive in both blood and treasure. • One of the scariest aspects of our times is how seldom either people or policies are judged by their track record. • Why in the world are the Baltic states in NATO? The Russian army could overrun them before NATO could get a meeting together to decide what to do. • If the Democrats retain control of the Senate after this year's election, Barack Obama can load the federal courts from top to bottom with judges who will ignore the Constitution, as he does, and promote his far-left political agenda instead, long after he is gone. • I get nervous every time I see Mitt Romney showing up in the media. He seems to be maintaining his visibility, in hopes of another run for the White House in 2016. He might well get a second chance to fail. Romney is the Republican establishment's idea of the perfect candidate for president — no matter how many times such candidates lose, even under promising conditions. • Anti-Semitism may have the dubious distinction of being the oldest of the group hatreds. You might think that the world would have gotten over anti-Semitism by now, but Jews have been singled out for separate treatment by the Russian insurgents in Ukraine. • "We cannot insure to the vicious the fruits of a virtuous life; we would not invade the home of the provident in order to supply the wants of the spendthrift; we do not propose to transfer the rewards of industry to the lap of indolence." Democratic presidential nominee William Jennings Bryan said that in 1896. Today's Democrats do all those things that Bryan rejected. • Any fool can say the word "racism." In fact, quite a few fools do say it. But clever people can also say "racism," in order to get fools to vote their way. • Those people who want Hillary Clinton elected president, so that we could have our first woman president, seem to have learned absolutely nothing from the current disaster of choosing a president on the basis of demographics and symbolism. • The old saying that taxes are the price we pay for civilization has long since become obsolete. The amount that the government spends to defend us from foreign attack, or to maintain law and order at home, has been overtaken by the money it spends just to transfer some people's money to other people who are more likely to vote for the reelection of incumbents. • Government policies to "bring down the cost of medical care" almost never bring down those costs, and often increase the costs. These policies simply refuse to pay the full costs of medical care. Any one of us can do that, but we know there will be consequences. There will also be consequences when the government refuses to pay the costs, but these consequences will be concealed and/or denied. • The old saying that "politics is the art of the possible" is dead wrong. Politics is the art of making the impossible seem possible, and even plausible and desirable. That is how ObamaCare got passed. • To let the world's leading terrorism-exporting nation get nuclear weapons can prove to be the most irresponsible and catastrophic decision in the history of the human race. It was also an irresponsible and catastrophic decision of the American voters to elect as president someone who would let that happen, basing their votes on rhetoric and racial symbolism.
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There are dead skin cells all over your body. Our grooming expert tells you how to get them off your hands, feet, body, and face.
The average man loses more than a billion dead skin cells per day, and while there's no biological imperative to scrub them off your body, there is an aesthetic one: They're dead, and when they combine with your natural oils, they lead to dull, waxy pallors and clogged pores. So unless you like the idea of having skin reminiscent of a motel bedspread, here are some products to consider.
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Hansen for Men Heavy Duty Hand Cleaner ($7; sallyhansen.com) looks like it belongs in the garage, because it does. It removes transmission grease as easily as the oils that accumulate on your hands, but it won't leave you feeling like you dipped your hand in battery acid. Use it once a week or every time you change your spark plugs.
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Dr. Bruce Katz, a clinical professor of dermatology at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, warns against removing all your calluses. (They look nasty, but they're protecting you from chronic irritation.) Pumice stones work well for heels, but for the rest of your feet, try the less abrasive Collective Wellbeing Buffing Bar ($6; collectivewellbeing.com).
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You don't really need a loofah to apply Ole Henriksen's Loofah Body Scrub ($28; olehenriksen.com), which is one of the reasons I like it. You can just rub on the strong, grainy beads with your hands a few times a week, but be careful not to scrub as vigorously on your arms and legs, where your skin is thinner.
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According to Dr. Katz, your face is the oiliest part of your body and the most in need of sloughing. Katz recommends exfoliating daily, unless you have sensitive skin, in which case two to three times per week will suffice. I liked the light, not-too-abrasive scrub of Gap G7's Power Scrub ($9.50; gap.com), the first product from the company's new grooming line.
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Abuse Cluster pin•cer double envelopment military movement Being abused by one large corporation is bad enough. If several gang up, we consumerists are in a pincer. When my wife's Microsoft Outlook email stopped working last week, each of the corporations needed for the service tried to send me to one of the others: Covad Communications […]
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My name is Charles Selden. I write this blog for consumers who have been abused by corporations. Like you.
That's right. Abuse is not confined to children, spouses, the elderly, or baseball umpires. The most regularly abused person is the American consumer. It has gone on so long that most people accept it as "just the way things are" and are sure nothing can be done about it. You have been abused as a consumer--unless within the last 12 months you have not shopped for food, called a toll-free number for technical assistance, tried to find "your question" in a list of FAQs, bought an appliance or computer, eaten out, booked a flight, watched cable TV, taken a vacation, used a credit card, paid a medical bill, bought an item on the Internet or purchased a cashmere sweater. If all of your purchases and calls for help ended happily, you are either exceptionally lucky or a wee bit delusional. The fact is abuse of consumers is profitable for corporations, although abuse is not a word they would use.
There's no shame in being a consumer abused by a corporation. The shame is that more consumers do not fight back when abused. That's where this blog comes in.
I've been a consumerist for more than four decades. I look forward to corporate abuses, especially the compensation and fun parts. The corporations do their part and I do mine. This blog chooses a few of the "better" episodes to amuse and instruct consumers. The blog will not urge you to join a movement or contribute to a cause. Indeed, it is absolutely not about trying to change what corporations do to consumers. Why spoil a good thing?
As for my Manifesto, it owes a lot to Thomas Jefferson's Declaration of Independence. He used the word abuses to describe what King George and his cohorts were doing: "a long train of abuses…to reduce them under absolute Despotism." Corporations treat consumers that way.
To see how I fight back, try my blog for a while. Laughter is good for your spirit and getting compensation for abuses is good for your bottom line.
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