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If you are in a game, and the projected score is 32,000 to 0 (with you being on the zero side) it may be time to rethink your game plan.
If your significant other says "no way" 32,000 times — without you ever reaching first base — you probably should get a new line. Or a new S.O. Or just go away.
We're talking here about the first round of sequestration- triggered budget cuts, which began last year and resulted in the furloughs — some extended — of 800,000 civilian federal workers.
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The furloughs, which many thought would never happen, resulted from the White House-designed, Congress-botched sequestration program. The concept of "sequestration" was so weird, so unusual, most people had to look it up.
The threat of sequestration — in this case a decade-long series of automatic across-the-board cuts — was supposed to scare politicians. Scare them into doing their job of budgeting, appropriating and sometimes compromising with the opposition. Democrats thought they had Republicans cornered. Republicans thought the Democrats would never dare. As often happens, the threat of a political stink bomb nobody wanted to go off went off anyhow.
The first round of sequestration forced a total of $1.2 trillion in spending cuts and forced a number of federal agencies to furlough civilian employees. Defense, the biggest, took the most hits. It originally planned 22 furlough days, but whittled that down to 11, then six days of actual furloughs. Each furlough day in each agency meant a 20 percent pay cut that week for workers. It was a nuisance for some, a major we-can't-make-the-mortgage event for others.
The White House and Congress created the sequestration stink bomb, then allowed it to go off. Yet members of Congress and most of the Presidential staff remained on the job (with full pay) looking for ways to get us out of the mess they got us in. That's SOP in Washington.
On Wednesday, Federal News Radio's Michael O'Connell looked at a Government Accountability Office report, which said what Defense should do when looking at future furlough savings.
It said the Army furloughed more than 221,000 civilians, while exempting 45,000 as essential. Navy furloughed 152,000 civilians and spared 53,000. Air Force sent 57,000 home and kept 23,000 civilian on the job, and other DoD agencies furloughed 92,000 and exempted 20,000.
As part of the furlough follies, federal unions advised employees who were furloughed to appeal their cases to the Merit Systems Protection Board. The very small MSPB normally gets about 5,000 to 6,000 cases a year. Because of the furloughs, it got 32,000 appeals. That's the most since it was jammed up with appeals from 11,000-plus air traffic controllers who were fired after going out on an illegal strike in the early 1980s.
The scoreboard is:
Appeals denied: all, to date. Appeals approved (won): none, to date.
MSPB has said it needs more funding to finish off the furlough appeals (which employees are entitled to) even though most can probably see the handwriting on the wall.
The backlog, and the outcome, is not the fault of the MSPB, nor the employees. The blame rests with furlough-proof politicians (of both parties) at opposite ends of Pennsylvania Avenue.
Thanks to the ultimate partisanship, they have developed a unique role: They create, then cure, the problems.
More Americans think including an Oxford comma — the final comma before "and" in a list of three or more things — is more grammatically correct than leaving it out, according to a new survey. Fifty-seven percent of Americans prefer the extra comma compared to 43 percent who don't.
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DoD needs updated cost savings data when considering furloughs
A new Government Accountability Office report says the Pentagon needs more comprehensive information about potential cost savings when it considers implementing future administrative furloughs.
Social Security closes offices as baby boomers age
Even as millions of baby boomers approach retirement, the Social Security Administration has been closing dozens of field offices, forcing more and more seniors to seek help online instead of in person, according to a congressional report being released Wednesday. The agency blames budget constraints. As a result, seniors seeking information and help from the agency are facing increasingly long waits, in person and on the phone, the report said.
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Michael Kors Holdings (NYSE:KORS) estimates and price target have been reduced by Citigroup following channel checks that show the proportion of sales in retail stores either has grown or remained the same from its checks during November's second half. On the other hand, Citi decided to keep its Buy rating on the stock.
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I don't understand Portuguese, but your logs are in English, good enough. I see 39 ES, which is fairly low for a 369s fight. Minimum you should have 369/6 or 61, and that's not counting LnL procs. You had 12 LnL procs, which should translate into 24 (worst case) to 36 more ES. Horridon is a burn-an-add with incidental cleave fight, so ES should still be used on CD. You only had 7 barrages in a 6m fight, out of a max 13. There might be points where you delay Barrage a few seconds for an anticipated add wave, but not so much that you miss 6 of them.
Lastly, you were using Dire Beast, which is like, the worst talent of the 3 on this fight. Dire Beast depends on it constantly hitting its target, both for the damage it does, and the focus it provided. However, in fights with lots of adds (IE, lots of target switching) the pet spends lots of time running to new targets, being bad because of bad pet AI, etc. Not to mention, in fights like this with ground-effect AoE, beasts die prematurely. IN a 6m fight, you have an opportunity for 13 DB not even including Readiness. Each beast should hit 8-9 times per summon, giving you a range of about 104-117 hits, for about 520 to 585 focus. Your Dire Beast attacked 71 times (36 hit, 25 crit, 9 glancing, 1 miss), and gave you 325 focus (it counted 65 of the hits, IDK what's up with that). That's not only a lot of lost damage from the beast, but a lot of lost focus you could have spent on other abilities.


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Brussels attack doctors treat 'war' wounds, 'shredded' bodies
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text: Terrible Doctor Insists Woman Is Pregnant When She Actually Has a Giant TumorCassie Murdoch3/18/12 9:30pmFiled to: malpracticedoctorHospitalUterinetumorBarcelonaSpainPregnancyPregnantwomanI Didn't Know I Was Pregnanttweetshutterstock277EditPromoteShare to KinjaToggle Conversation toolsGo to permalinkIf there was a show called I Didn't Know I Was Pregnant...Because I'm Not, this would be a prime contender for the season premiere: A woman in Barcelona went to the emergency room after suffering from severe abdominal pain, and doctors declared she was pregnant. The woman, whose name is being withheld, says she was "treated with contempt," and one of the doctors said rudely to her, "Haven't you ever heard of contraception?" She was told she her pains were caused by a panic attack and sent on her way.AdvertisementAfter two pregnancy tests came back negative, she went back to the hospital and insisted she be reexamined. At that point, they finally gave her an ultrasound, and the doctor exclaimed, "Gosh, what a huge cyst." Turns out her "baby" was actually a 24-pound uterine tumor. Given the kind of bedside manner she was getting, it's surprising the doctor was able to resisting the urge to make a Kindergarten Cop "It's not a tumaah" joke. Fortunately, she is now being treated with chemotherapy and has opened a case with officials at the hospital.24-pound tumor misdiagnosed as pregnancy [UPI]AdvertisementImage via Monkey Business Images/Shutterstock.Reply277 repliesLeave a reply


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BP is fighting the settlement it agreed to last summer that let the oil company avoid thousands of potential lawsuits over the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill.
Just after the spill, when oil was still gushing into the Gulf, BP touted the $20 billion it set aside for claims. But now it says the claim process is corrupt and is hoping a court will overturn the settlement that established the claims fund.
Ending the claims would mean stopping a well-oiled machine.
Claims are processed at the Deepwater Horizon Claims Center, a warehouse about 50 miles from New Orleans. Hundreds of people work on economic and property claims against BP, 8:30 a.m. to 10 p.m.
According to Shandy Garr of Garden City Group, the company BP pays to run the claims center, the center receives a few thousand pieces of mail a day, down from about 100,000 a day it got early on.
Settling Claims
BP has set up a new hotline people can use to report fraud on Deepwater claims. Billboards advertise the hotline number along the highway, the word "fraud" as tall as a person. BP has also taken full-page ads in The New York Times, shaming claimants and their lawyers for what it calls "outrageous windfalls."
U.S. attorneys have prosecuted several fraud cases involving people who pretended to lose jobs they never had or businesses they didn't own. But it's tiny compared to the hundreds of thousands of claims.
In response to questions about fraud, BP declined to be interviewed but released a statement: "We are defending our rights, shining a light on abuses and keeping people informed."
New Orleans lawyer Melvin Albritton sees it differently. "I would call it a smear campaign," Albritton says.
On a map, he draws a thick black line around vast areas of Florida and Texas, and the entire states of Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama. Anyone who lost money in these places after the four-million-barrel spill is eligible.
"I've heard a lot of commentary, people reminding us that Huntsville [Alabama] is a really long way away from the Gulf of Mexico, and while I appreciate that geography lesson, it's one they should've given to BP's attorneys before they recommended this settlement," he says.
Albritton says BP didn't count on so many people filing. Now it wants to scare them off before next April's deadline for claims. "Folks who were on the fence about it, after seeing the campaign, hearing the news media, they've changed their mind," he says.
The administrator of the BP settlement is 75-year-old lawyer Patrick Juneau from Lafayette, La. He's run other huge settlements, like the Vioxx pharmaceutical case. His refrain: "When in doubt, file a claim."
"We don't have any dog in this fight. It's an open process, there's no closed doors, there's nothing hidden here. And if you qualify, you can and should get paid," he says.
BP's official complaint is not that Juneau has paid false claims. It's that he's paid too much.
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His office has sent checks for about $5 billion already. BP expected to pay about $7.8 billion total in individual claims. The settlement will be a lot more. But, he says, that's the deal BP made.
"People have got to understand, there's no cap. Ninety-nine percent of cases that I've seen, you put a cap. And however that prints out, then that's what I've got to do, to implement what they agreed to," Juneau says.
BP asked a federal judge to remove Juneau and halt claims. The judge dismissed that request, twice. Now BP is trying to scrap the settlement altogether.
Down the road from the Deepwater Horizon Claims center, Brenda Harris owns a gas station and sells fresh seafood. She and her husband assumed they didn't qualify for a BP claim. But a few months ago, they filed.
"Well, different businesses said 'You really should do it because the money is there, it's got to be dispersed,' " she says.
Harris heard about BP's efforts to stop claims. She just hopes hers goes through. If others get paid, she says, why not her?


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Here's one from the morbid file...London's Daily Mail newspaper is reporting that interest in and sales of Rockstar's ultra-violent Manhunt have skyrockted, likely due to the publicity and furor that erupted over the murder of 14-year old Stefan Pakeerah in February.
According to various reports, the 17-year old accused of stabbing Stefan to death was a big fan of the game. Also, it was revealed last week that Stefan was also in possession of the game.
A spokesman for HMV, one of the UK's biggest retail chains, told the Daily Mail that demand for the game has "significantly increased" and that the boost in sales is larglely due to the fact that "many think it's going to be banned."
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Our popular annual symposium and golf outing highlights women's leadership in the workplace and raises awareness of the College's many innovative programs for women. Attended by more than 150 business women from the region, the event is a stellar opportunity for networking, learning, fun and kinship.
In 2015, we raised over $40,000 to support women's scholarships. A special announcement was also made at the Brunch Symposium portion of the outing: In honor of her leadership and commitment, the Foundation Board of Directors unanimously and enthusiastically voted to change the name of the event from the "Leading Women Symposium & Golf Experience" to the "Karen A. Stout Leading Women Symposium and Golf Experience."
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- A learner's program for beginners to learn the sport's basics from a professional and test their newfound skills in a team skill contest (golf equipment provided)
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Wednesday, May 09, 2007This was Andrews week to choose cookie of the week. He is so easy to please. I just had to ask him if he could pick betty crocker brownies, and of course he said, sure. Lets face it, a girls got to do what a girls got to do. No time for measuring ingredients when you have a deadline to meet. However, time must be put aside to take pictures of your cookies/brownies and post them on your blog. :) And when it comes to your family, you can't be a total slacker!
I have made a lot of progress on my Hanne, and think it should be finished by friday. I have not had to pull an all-knitter yet, however, I did knit until 1:30 a.m. last night. I was, of course, up at the crack of dawn, so I am dragging a bit today.
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You make even boxed brownies look mouth watering. My favorite way to eat boxed brownies is a big 'ol slice straight out of the oven, hot and gooy and topped with ice cream and loaded with hot fudge and caramel sauce. Then I eat half of it and say, 'honey, do you want the rest? I'm stuffed.' It's the bomb!!
Looking forward to seeing your swing coat. Oh you devilish woman! I read your posting last night just before bed and swear that I could smell chocolate all the way upstairs. The only remedy is the whip up my own package of brownie mix today. It is Quaker, so I hope it looks as good as yours did!
I am sure Hanne will look beautiful when finished, can't wait to see it.


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It's almost here, folks! Breaking Dawn Part 1 is out in theaters Friday, and I'm so excited to see what design inspiration I can glean from the much-anticipated wedding scene! While waiting, I realized Hollywood vamps have updated their aesthetic from the days of spider web-laden crypts. The Cullens, for example, have an undoubtedly modern sense of style while Bill and the gang from True Blood love their sweet Southern dwellings. But as they say, God is in the details, and much of the fabulous furniture finds can be easily overlooked by all the brooding, sexy, six-pack action. Let's see if you've been paying attention!


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The Village Voice has a completely unsurprising story up that talks to unnamed sources who report, gasp!, that Lil Wayne is being treated better than normal prisoners at Riker's Island. In fact, he gets more visiting time than other inmates! And guards bring him food! And basically the plot of Avon Barksdale being in prison during the second and third seasons of The Wire!
Jail staffers also bring Lil Wayne food from the nearby Jackson Hole restaurant and local pizzeria, says our source. They are also said to tip him off so he knows when he is going to be searched. Lil Wayne is causing a big stir at Rikers -- even more than typical celebrity inmates, sources say. Last week, a female Department of Corrections captain allegedly barricaded herself in a locker room, demanding to see the hip-hop artist. In May, the rapper was busted for having headphones, a charger and a watch that doubles as an MP3 player in his jail cell.
Seriously. Does this surprise anyone, anywhere?
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How to launch two Java programs?
Hi everyone!
I wrote a server program and a client program. I need to first launch the Server program and then launch the Client program. The problem is that the Terminal won't let me. For example, I wrote:
javac Server.java
javac Client.java
java Server
java Client
But the Client program will only start when the Server program closes and will then have a connection error because the server is no longer available. I am using mac OS. Can someone please tell me how to launch both programs simultaneously?
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too many poly~?
I am beginning to wonder, is it good or bad practice to place most things such as oscillators, lfo's, effects into their very own poly in order to conserve CPU?
I've found that going through my own patches i'm able to drastically decrease cpu usage by doing this because these objects will basically be muted/off until I require them to be on. I just didn't want to continue with this practice and one day figure out that there was a much more efficient way of doing something like this.
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i once built an FM synth where almost every object was placed in a poly~, and where additional empty poly~ were used as gates to cut off further parts of the dsp chain. in the end it took ages to load that stuff and used twice the CPU when everything was turned on.
that's incredible, I'm assuming like most things, there must be a good balance. Maybe not every object should be put into a poly, perhaps just the msp ones…
I'm sure i'll find out wether or not i've had good habits once this patch is complete but i couldn't help but ask as I reluctantly admit i've done a complete overhaul on this very same patch, ohhhh i don't know, 3 times now ;).
My understanding of max/msp as of right now tells me the best solution to turning off items which eat up a lot of MSP/CPU is to use this poly~ method, which i've found to be very rewarding when you don't require them to be on.
I also have come across another route which consists of enabling and disabling pcontrol in a sub patch, where the msp objects lie in a patcher. I find that route to be less efficient for some reason when referencing the activity monitor though…
I think you're taking the right approach: trying different options for your specific needs. There are general best practices like poly~ use but in the end what works best depends on the actual cases.
I have to say that since I reengineered the vst part of my system so that VSTs now live in poly~ objects, I've seen much better CPU utilization. The way my system works is that I have slots for about ten VSTs. During any one song, up to ten will be needed but not at the same time. Before I switched to poly~, the CPU utilization stayed up high all the time. Now, the average CPU utilization stays around 15-20% for the most part and often drops down to 5-10%
Right now I have a separate poly~ for each VST, I'm not yet leveraging the 'target' stuff that (I believe) would allow me to have multiple VST objects with different plugins inside a single poly~ so that I could leverage multiple processors. That's my next reengineering project.
Each poly uses the arrival of a MIDI event to unmute itself and a peakamp~ object is used to detect that there's no longer any audio coming from the poly so as to mute it again. So the mechanism is completely dynamic, polys~ turn on and off as needed.
The only thing to be careful about is that if a poly~ is muted and you try to edit the underlying VST, you will experience painfully slow response time to the point where you will think that Max is completely unresponsive or broken.
Very pleased with this, wish I'd done it years ago. It's given quite a bit of new life to my system.
sounds like you were experiencing the same thing i was with CPU utilization. Using peakamp~ is definitely a great idea to keep things dynamic.
another approach i adopted to making this project a bit more efficient was downsampling any lfo's. I'm just still a little vague on how low you could actually downsample for these types of signals..
Somebody else on the forums suggested peakamp~ to me — that worked really well. I also use it to turn on VSTs that do effect processing and so are triggered by audio input rather than MIDI events.
However, I have recently realized that although CPU utilization was impacting performance, my real problem is probably a clipping issue. I just posted about this on a new thread.
downsampled processing as well as turning things off usually starts to make sense when you are using 3-4 objects.
you will _not save any cycles when you put a [slide~] or a [line~] into a poly~- like i did in my project described above.
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One of my all time favorite runway moments of Tiffany was when she wore the Club Nautico bikini with the HUGE hair bow and sunglasses. The Song Bad Girls was playing and she totally brought the Nicolita Cute & Sassy 'Bad Girl" image to life… Loved it!
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What is your favorite song to sing in the shower?
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Not getting my jacket off at your last show!
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Up for sell is this LCD-2 Rev.1.
I realize that lots of folks who "upgraded" to the Rev.2 have decided to sell their original LCD-2.
However, I still really like the Rev.1, and it has taken me a while to decide to sell it.
In case there are competing offers on the forum (and I'm sure there are), I have a few goodies to throw in to enhance the sale:
6 foot Moon Audio Silver Dragon (new version) cable. With 1/4" Furutech plug.
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The headphone is in great condition. But has a few of the "quirks" that are typical of early Audez'e builds -- slightly uneven ear pads, and the headphone cable jacks both face the same direction.
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'That," says the little girl, "looks like a hamster wheel." Right, except that it's 12 feet in diameter, and spins two feet off the floor. Soon the girl, her sister, and their grandparentsvisitors to the Streb Lab for Action Mechanics (SLAM), the Williamsburg home of STREB Extreme Actionare watching moves beyond the wildest dreams of all hamsters and most dancers. The family's here because after out-of-town performances choreographer Elizabeth Streb invites spectators to watch rehearsals if they're in New York. The company's new show, "Streb vs. Gravity," plays tonight, Friday, and Saturday at the La Guardia Drama Theater, opening Lincoln Center Festival 2006's three-week wealth of dance events. Today, Streb's "action engineers" are rehearsing Revolution.
Gloved and sneakered, Terry Dean Bartlettthe group's associate artistic directorwalks inside the wheel to set it turning, grabs a strut, swings out, rides the outer rim down, drops off, and swings back on running. Soon seven others are vaulting on and off, riding underneath, and performing moves with names like "Hercules," "stack-up," and "maple syrup." Suddenly, those inside the wheel walk facing one way, while on top of it, Bartlett strides facing the other way. Revolution is hair-raising entertainment. It makes centripetal force visible and highlights theories of gravity more complex than Newton's up-down one.
The huge open space, formerly a mustard company warehouse, is a lab for experimenting with human bodies and ingeniously engineered devices. Mats of all sizes and thicknesses are stacked around. Company members use remotes to raise and lower trusses that hold the equipment. Two bolted-down pillars anchor a taut, three-inch-wide horizontal truck strap for Streb's Ripple. When the dancers aren't leaping onto that strap, balancing atop a rocking half-wheel in Tip, or falling like logs facedown onto the mats, they're fastening bolts, checking cables, or cleaning the blue chroma-key surface for Moon. Where's Bartlett? About 12 feet overhead: "I'm just dusting the truss."
Laura Flanderslecturer, author of Bushwomen: Tales of a Cynical Species, host of RadioNation on Air America, and Streb's partner of 15 yearssays, "If politicians cultivated their communities, their constituencies, like Elizabeth cultivates her communitymeaning the people with whom she lives and works as well as the people that come to her showsthis would be a much better place."
The new show's program credits Flanders as librettist; she also developed text for the 1999 Action Heroes. (To Streb, an action hero is someone like Annie Edson Taylor: A hundred years ago the retired high school teacher was the first person to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel and survive.) This time, projected textsbrief quotations (from physicists, mathematicians, and others), formulas, and statisticsfunction as what Flanders calls "brain prodders" to let the audience in on ideas that motivate Streb. That Flanders is doing this points up the ways in which Streb's choreography (dubbed POPaction) has developed in scale and complexity since 1981 when she first slung poles around or clambered up an inclined plane and slid down.
Revolution: The War on Gravity, Choreographed by Elizabeth Streb photo: Tom Caravaglia |
Sitting near the open door of SLAM, with the hubbub of two simultaneous kids' classes in the background, Streb talks about her earlier process as going through "a kind of Newtonian set of questions." Later pieces like
Up(1995) and
Drop(1999) introduced the element of "turbulence"; the not always predictable responses of trampolines and bungee cords offered new challenges (and required dancers trained in tumbling and gymnastics). The newest pieces of equipment, like the wheel, develop a momentum that affects what the dancers can accomplish. The questions that excite Streb have zoomed beyond Newton into quantum physics. (She's currently studying math, physics, and philosophy as the "Dean's Special Scholar" in NYU's graduate Draper Program.) Her idea of beauty, for instance, is two dancers, harnessed and roped to a pole, skillfully spiraling, unwinding, and connecting in orbits that change in speed and dimension. She's moved by thoughts like this from Brian Greene, author of
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: "When you walk, you ripple space."
That concept animates Ripple, a ropewalking act on the waist-high yellow truck strap; like many of Streb's works, it's a witty and imaginative blend of dance, circus, and extreme sports. The strap appears to barely move as the performers maneuver on and off it, but at each human impact, video cameras set up near its terminals project on the backdrop a yellow frenzy of vibration. The visual effect embodies one of the choreographer's aims: to "present action as viscerally as it's actually occurring experientially in the dancers' bodies." (The "oof"s audible as the dancers slam into the strap all at once and hit the floor beneath it convey impact pretty expressively too.)
The only accompaniment for Streb's early dances was the clanking, banging, squeaking sounds made by bodies contacting amplified equipment (plus the performers' shouted signals). As Bartlett points out, much of the newer equipment doesn't make much noise, so he and Recon (Tom Lawson and Clark Russell) are creating sound scores. The new show also involves video. Live feed of moving dancers lying down on the blue floor, when projected vertically on the back wall, creates gravitational confusion. Videos showing close-ups of joints illuminate the body's grammar, its syntax for exploding motion. None of these theatrical elements, however, detract from Streb's commitment to unadorned action, to powerful, direct moves that happen at the speed necessary to accomplish a given task.
Flanders says that in their respective fields she and Streb "share an interest in the good question," one that may spark "useful thinking." She speaks of their common interest in human potential. "When I go to her work, I'm moved. I feel the world is going to hell in a handbasket, politicians can't agree, and then I watch people flying."
If flying were easy, what Streb does wouldn't be so affecting. We see the dancers' bravery in the face of risk, the split-second timing they have to master to avoid disaster, their intelligence, their endurance. They're not lab rats; they're colleagues and they behave that way. Ease isn't an option. "The quality of that turbulence" in her works is, Streb says, "as extreme as I can make it without bringing a small tornado in or having an earthquake occur." (Insurance costs her over $35,000 a year.)
She believes that if you really want to do something, you'll find a way to make it happen. Her company has had four touring engagements since mid March, and a three-week run of SLAMSHOW 7 in the Lab (one of two she stages annually). And in practical matters, she'll limit the risks. She wants to have a crew of technicians completely break down the wheel and put it together again before the tons of equipment get loaded into a 48-foot tractor trailer and carted up to La Guardia. She's rented the theater a week in advance.
As she sits by the door in her usual biker's leather, offering warm goodbyes and come-agains to the parents and kids leaving classes, I realize that the challenges she sets herself only seem quixotic. "I take the invisible," she says, "and implement it . . . take completely unique forces and throw a cloud of dust on them so they take shape. You can see the effect of action, but the ghost that is action has already left the room."
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I have a recipe for delicious flatbread crackers that are naturally gluten-free. I got the idea from growing up watching my mom make Indian parathas, and then from making communion bread with my teammate Kara in East Africa, where matzoh crackers were decidedly not available.
So I still make them for when we have house church because I can't eat gluten, and matzohs are still out. Everyone loves them so much, the remaining crackers disappear within minutes after the service is over. It tastes even better than if it were made with wheat. That's how good it is.
I put a half-cup chickpea flour and a half-cup chestnut flour. This is naturally sweet so it makes the crackers taste good without adding any sugar. I put a teaspoon of large grain sea salt. It's important that it's large grain. And I put three tablespoons of olive oil.
The oil provides some moisture, and to get enough to form the dough into a ball, I usually hold the bowl next to the sink, and flick handfuls of water into the floury mixture until it looks right. But to be more precise, take a 1/4 cup of water and add it bit by bit until the dough is moist. You may not need it all.
I sprinkle the board with a regular GF flour mix, which is made of corn, rice, potato and xanthum gum.
And then I divide the dough in two and roll it out.
This is how thin it should be – thinness is important.
I heat some olive oil in a skillet until it's almost smoking. (Iron skillet is best if you have one). And then I put the first flatbread in and turn the heat down to medium.
Flip it over when it's done and make sure both sides are brown, and the cracker is fairly dry. It tastes better crunchy, rather than chewy.
And voila!
It's good! Something about that sweet chestnut flour with the bits of sea salt you get in each bite.
Perfect for munching, and perfect for a gluten-free communion bread (with our alcohol-free red wine).
Communion bread should be salty, don't you think?
After all – are we not the salt of the earth? 😉
- ½ cup chickpea flour
- ½ cup chestnut flour
- 1 teaspoon sea salt
- 3 tablespoons olive oil
- up to ¼ cup water
- Mix the ingredients and knead the dough.
- Heat the skillet with some olive oil until hot.
- Roll the dough out thinly.
- Cook the dough until it's lightly browned on both sides and dry. It tastes better when it's not moist.


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Well, if i'm fixxing to go anywhere that features the chance to confront a POed Black Bear or Cougar, I'm personally not going to count on a handgun. We've all heard the many stories of how soft skinned, weak muscled humans don't calm down even after taking multiple hits from serious handgun loads. Nope, take a long gun or stay home. BUT...this is your thread so I reckon if I can't take a really big bore revolver, i can fantasize by saying I'd latch on to an 10" bbl. MRI Desert Eagle, find a gunsmith who could work it to run like a sewing machine and stoke it up with the nastiest .44 mag. I could find. Get some powerful ear protection, find an outdoor range and see if you can shoot this 4 pound beast! And if that ain't enuff, try some .50AE, 325 grains, 1300 fps. and 1200 ft.-lbs. at the muzzle should do the trick if you hit anything with it! I would even take the .44 mag. in the Eagle over the .10 or .45. By the way, if you get one, please post a vid on YouTube, this I gotta see!
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The New York Times used a more restrained tone, check here. Still, I'm sure that in many people's mind the damage is done.
Is it fair to Dylan? Is he really a great singer and a lousy painter?
Here's the way I see it and you can judge for yourself.
First consider how close his paintings are to photographs. The one reported by the New York Times that is most striking is this one (even the details in the background are the same):
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Does this mean that Vermeer and Canaletto are not amazing artists?
I don't think so. Of course we don't have the originals, we can't judge exactly how they "tweaked" what they saw, how they transcended reality. But transcend, they did!
The same process is at work with photographs, and it can be such a radical process that the photograph is one thing and the painting quite another. Just to illustrate my point if I may be allowed to use examples drawn from my own work (don't worry, I'm not going to push my paintings on you - I'm well aware I'm not in the Vermeer/Canaletto class!).
Here's a photo of an olive tree I took in Sicily:
And here's a first painting:
And here's another, one step further into abstraction (both are oil on wood panel):
See how far the painting is from the original?
The same can be said for the photos and paintings of people. One day I roamed the Paris tube taking photos, and used them to make what I called a "counterlight" series of paintings (always oil on wood). For example, one photo of a perplexed looking man:
Resulted in this painting:
Compared to the original photograph, the painting is an exercise in creative freedom! I'm not saying it's good or bad and you don't need to like them. I just wanted to show the leeway an artist has with the reality a photo gives him. You start at a well known point, say point A, and then you the artist, with your sensibilities, you move to any other point in the alphabet! That's what makes Art so fascinating! The endless possibility of twisting reality...I'm not pretending that my work is in any way remarkable, just that it offers one interpretation on reality. I could have gone in all sorts of different directions: acquarelle, line drawing, cubist painting, abstract, anything. Actually I'd love to turn my olive trees into sculptures (but no time for that: I'm busy writing the third book of my Fear of the Past trilogy!)
There is really no difference between working directly from reality or from the image of reality given by a camera. Indeed many artists don't work from either: they use what they remember seeing - that's what Picasso often did, and he gave himself absolute freedom when he deconstructed his memories in the various styles he chose (from cubism to neo-classicism).
Now take a close look at Bob Dylan's painting reproduced here. Forget the similarities with the photograph. Focus on what is different. See how far he diverges from the Cartier-Bresson photo: he has applied to it a subtle palette of earthy colors, that highlight the earthiness of the dealers. What we can't see here (because we are looking at a photograph of a painting) is the texture of the painting: is it rough and scraggly? Shiny and smooth? Texture matters in a painting, it's half the pleasure! To know how Dylan's paintings are like you need to go look at them in the Gagosian gallery...
The fact that Bob Dylan has chosen to work from a given reality (that of Cartier-Bresson and other photographers) doesn't make him, in my humble opinion, less of an artist. He has reworked what he sees with his own emotions and visual sensibilities.
What do you think? Is Bob Dylan an artist or a plagiarist? I believe he's the former....


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Lemon-Poppy Polenta Cookie and Huckleberry Sorbet Sandwiches
Because Mary Ellen Carroll and Donna Wingate happened to find plump huckleberries right before the ICA dinner, they decided to make sorbet and turn their lemon-poppy polenta cookies into whimsical sandwiches. Any tart store-bought sorbet (like raspberry, blood orange or lemon) would be delicious with these cookies as well.
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- 1 cup instant polenta
- 3/4 cup all-purpose flour, plus more for dusting
- 2/3 cup confectioners' sugar
- 1/8 teaspoon baking powder
- Pinch of salt
- 5 tablespoons unsalted butter, at room temperature
- 3 tablespoons solid vegetable shortening, at room temperature
- Finely grated zest of 1 lemon
- 1 egg, at room temperature
- 1 tablespoon poppy seeds
- About 2 pints tart sorbet, such as raspberry, lemon or boysenberry, softened slightly
How to make this recipe
In a food processor, combine the polenta, 3/4 cup of flour, confectioners' sugar, baking powder and salt and pulse to blend. Add the butter, shortening and lemon zest and pulse until the mixture resembles coarse sand. Add the egg and poppy seeds and pulse just until the dough forms a ball. Pat the dough into a disk and wrap in plastic; refrigerate for at least 1 hour, or until firm.
Preheat the oven to 350°. Generously flour a work surface and rolling pin. Roll out the dough 1/8 inch thick. Using a floured 2 1/4-inch round biscuit cutter, stamp out 28 cookies as close together as possible. Gather the dough scraps together and gently reroll the dough, then stamp out 4 more cookies. Carefully transfer the cookies to 2 ungreased baking sheets.
Bake the cookies on the upper and lower racks of the oven for 18 minutes, or until golden; shift the pans from top to bottom and front to back halfway through baking to ensure even browning. Let the cookies cool on the baking sheets.
To form the sandwiches, scoop about 1/4 cup of the softened sorbet onto each of 16 cookies. Top the sorbet with the remaining cookies, pressing lightly to help evenly spread the sorbet. Set the sandwiches on a baking sheet and freeze for about 1 hour, or until the sorbet is firm.
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Cycle bags: carry your kit or repent at leisure, usually by the side of the road waiting for someone to pick you up
May 4, 2011 | Posted by Andrew Gray under Road Bike |
I'm not a mummy's boy. Nope, not me. And it is very rare these days that my mum even dares tell me what to do. Bless her!
But there is one thing that recently she has nagged me about as if I were still in short trousers, and I have to admit that I still haven't done anything about, and I think I'm on borrowed time. Punctures threaten and I need to sort out my cycle bag. Leaving the repair kit in my plastic bike shed just ain't gonna work, chuck! It needs to be out on the road.
Ok, so I think I should get just that little bit broader here, I mean the kit that goes into cycle bags of whatever form they take, and what shape that bag will be. So that's what I'm going to cover here. Let's start with the shape.
Storage on the bike
When you're a MAMIL there isn't much space to hide anything. That's why some bright spark years back put a whopping great pocket on the back of cycling jerseys – apart from on mine of course because yours truly forgot to look when he was buying his top and got a half size zip up. What a muppet.
That left me somewhat at a loose end when it came to needing to carry more with me than a tube of glucose tablets and jelly babies and my mobile phone. So at Christmas I got myself the smallest of the Camelbak range. I was looking for something that would be small enough to take with me when I went running with the dog (for poops…which I put in a small sandwich box. No sandwiches were harmed…you really wanted to know that didn't you?). And I also wanted something into which I could stow an extra jumper, satnav and map, and an inner tube. Camelbak 2litre was ideal.
Of course, I still haven't sorted out the inner tube, but the rest of it on my recent exploits has been great. The camelbak doesn't shift around on the shoulders at all when riding, so I will be keeping this even when I move to a proper road bike.
For my tools I actually use an old compact camera case! It's waterproof and I can fit a bike spanner, pliers, multi tool and multi-headed screwdriver tool without any problems. But of course, no space for the inner tube.
Cycle bags
Cycle bags are really kind of a bit generic. By that I mean that a cycle bag could be a pair of panniers, a saddle bag, or fit elsewhere – I personally like the ones that fit between cross bar and downtube in the V. So lets break it down into those areas.
Cycle Panniers
I used to have these when I was a teenager pounding between college and home everyday, the bags both stuffed with files and college books. I think that between them I was carrying 5-10Kg a day! The off putting thing was that as I rocked the bike up the hills the panniers would knock on the wheels! Bare in mind that if you want panniers then you'll also have to buy a frame, and you will also want a full cycle mudguard as well to keep the bags dry. Depending on make, I also suggest a plastic bag inside to keep everything securely dry – not everything is as waterproof as claimed! The screws that hold the rack to the eyelets, often the same eyelets as the mudguards are fixed to, can also come loose, so it's worth a regular check.
If you are carting a lot of kit around, then panniers are the way to go.
Saddle bag
Obviously they attach to the saddle (duh!) but the way they attach is variable. The simplest and lightest just hang under the saddle, perhaps a strap around the post for stability usually using velcro. One or two models have mounting clips, which are quite novel but I don't think that it either adds or detracts from the basic velcro fastenings.
You'll be hard pushed to find a leather saddle bag like we used to love styled as a miniature satchel attaching flat to the saddle rear. Mine was white I recall back in the 70's, (don't be fooled asos leather saddle bags are not assos!). Check out on ebay, or be prepared to pay through the nose. If you are going for a leather bag then you need the double eyelets that used to be on the back of all saddles, so again, check the more traditional bike models.
Unless you are a traditionalist then stick with modern fabrics. The range at wiggle won't be a bad choice at all, but I personally think that you should go into a bike shop and have a look at what size you want.
The alternative is the frame mounted bike bag. I love the idea, but to be honest I'm not sure it would work for me because I've noticed of late that as my thigh muscles develop the natural fall of my feet and knees tends inwards. Occasionally I brush the cross bar with my thighs, so anything else that could get in the way might be a problem, but I might still give it a try. Halfords stocks the kind of bag I'm talking about here: small and neat for around £10. Not the one's at Psyche which in my opinion are a little too big and could end up with some serious inner thigh rubbing issues.
Gather together the kit you need (see below) and take a note of the volume it takes up. Or alternatively ask the shop before you go if you can bring your stuff with you! Then it's simply a matter of seeing what size fits. Do be kind though, buy from your local store if you are going to try out their sizing.
So what goes into a cycle bag?
- Micro-pump or CO2 pump
- Spare inner tube in a sock
- Repair kit (in case the spare has a problem!)
- Multi-tool
- Bike spanner
It's probably also worth saying here what doesn't go into a saddle bag, and that would be chewy bars, maps, phone, and perhaps you could get away with a smaller bag and put the inner tube and pump in your jersey pocket, or get a camelbak.
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Hasbro.com has posted pics of these three new 12" figs for ROTS.
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Hasbro.com has posted pics of these three new 12" figs for ROTS.
I like the packaging on these. They look like sturdy window boxes so you can see the entire figure.
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Thanks for correcting me sir...
The Clone Trooper looks great! I'll wait to see the other 2 figures up close before buying them.
I'll end up getting the Clonetrooper (I'm big on Clone and Stormtroopers).
I'm also getting to be more of a Palpatine fan after seeing this last trailer -so I'm sure I'll get him too!
Palpatine and the Clone Trooper are a must. Grievous will depend on how cool he looks in person, or on how he is in the movie. I'm really glad that the Clone Trooper is based after a similiar costume design that was used on the recent OTC Storm Trooper rather than the older Storm/Clone Trooper 12"ers.
I really like the new 12" packaging after having seen it in person. It's pretty snazzy, almost a shame to open it up. Basically a rectangular box with a curved front edge that displays the character artwork. It's reminiscent of the bubble used on the animated Clone Wars line.
I only bought Grievous today. I haven't opened him yet but my only complaint so far is that he's too "clean." The arrow-ridges above his eyes need to be painted black. Plus I think he needs to be wiped down with black paint to fill in those battle-damage nicks and scrapes I see on the surface of his armor.
Anyone buy the Clone and Palpatine? Any first impressions?
I was only spending X amount of dollars on figures today and I skipped on 12" Clone Trooper and Palpatine. BUT I'm definatly gonna get them cause they are both very cool -I was impressed with them all. Yes Grevious could be a little more beat up.
Ugh. I got all of them, and I haven't opened Anakin yet.
I have to say Sidious looks horrible. His outfit is nice, but he's only got a third of his shirt so his belly shows while his cloak is on, and he can't hold his lightsaber very well. Also his hood is nice and big, but doesn't sit right on his head. I think I'm returning him.
Grievous looks great, but his forearms are always falling off, and his hands are made out of soft plastic, so he can't hold his lightsabers at all.
Clone Trooper is much better than the other two. Very nice figure, just like the OTC Stormtrooper.


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The SEC filed a civil fraud complaint against
According to the SEC, Goldman did not disclose the role Paulson & Co., one of the world's largest hedge funds, played in the portfolio selection process, and the fact that it had taken a short position against the security, a CDO known as ABACUS 2007-AC1. Specifically, Goldmans marketing materials for the CDO all represented that its portfolio was selected by ACA Management, a third party with expertise in analyzing credit risk in residential mortgage-backed securities.
Goldman did not immediately reply to a request for comment.
The SEC singled out Tourre, a Goldman Sachs vice president, as principally responsible for the alleged fraud. Tourre structured the transaction, prepared the marketing materials, and communicated directly with investors, the SEC said in its release. He also "allegedly knew of Paulson & Co.s undisclosed short interest and role in collateral selection process.
Furthermore, the SEC said he misled ACA into believing that Paulson & Co. invested approximately $200 million, indicating its interests were closely in line with ACAs.In reality, however, their interests were sharply conflicting, the SEC said.
The SEC was tightlipped during its conference call, saying little beyond what it already disclosed in the release and offering no information on whether similar investigations are taking place at any other firms.
Though it may not affect its business, the charge will only strengthen the broad public cynicism directed at Goldman, and comes as significant financial reform is working its way through Congress.
The SECs announcement pulled the rug out from under Goldmans stock value Friday, pulling shares down 14.7%, or $27.11, to $157.16. The rest of the market followed suit, as the Dow Jones Industrial Average sunk 1.1%, or 117.14 points, to 11,027.43 after nursing far slimmer losses earlier Friday. Meanwhile the S&P 500 index fell 1.6%, or 19.53 points, to 1,192.14.
The news also sent a shockwave through the financial sector, creating a climate of uncertainty as Wall Street anxiously wonders if any other firms may be subject to federal inquiry. By midday the