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- Title: Love and Hate
- Premiered: 2004-05-15
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Love and Hate was actually done last year, but up until now, I've never really liked it much and it's sat in my computer taking up space. It was a throw-off video, something I did when I was learning and trying things, and one of the first I made with DVD footage.
Well, lately, a couple people that I sent a bunch of my videos to cited this as one of their favorites for various reasons. So i went back, took a look and found that a few minor things aside, I actually kinda liked it too. Not my favorite, but not a bad video, the way I'd thought when I first finished it.
This is a bit of a dark look at Fuma and Kamui's relationship. It came about after an argument I had with someone about how sexual their relationship was, or how much so each of them saw it. My position was they weren't interested in each other that way, but Fuma acts as though he is interested in Kamui in that way because he knows it makes him uncomfortable. The video was actually made to try to support the other POV though.
There are some spoilers in here, so be warned. I hope you enjoy.
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Adapting to Acidic Oceans
New studies needed to predict how marine organisms may adapt to the future's acidic oceans
The world's oceans are becoming more acidic, changing in a way that hasn't happened for millions of years. But will marine organisms from tiny coccolithophores to king crabs change along with the waters?
SF State Associate Professor of Biology Jonathon Stillman has joined with an international team of scientists in calling for more studies of how these plants and animals might adapt to ocean acidification. Beyond a short-term adjustment to acidic waters, adaptation involves heritable changes in a species brought about by natural selection.
Their article in the journal Trends in Ecology & Evolution offers "a way to move forward from people studying how organisms react to changes in the environment to being able to understand how they may evolve as the ocean changes," Stillman said.
If plants and animals adapt over time to acidification, they may respond to acidic waters in a much different way than they do in the current oceans, the scientists suggest.
"We really don't need more studies that tell us how an organism is going to respond instantaneously," to acidification, he added. "We need to know how they will really respond in the future and that depends on their capacity for adaptation."
As the Earth's atmosphere becomes increasingly polluted by carbon dioxide emissions from the burning of fossil fuels, some of this carbon dioxide interacts with seawater to make it more acidic. Prominent studies within the past two years, including one linking the collapse of Pacific Northwest oyster hatcheries to acid waters, have turned acidification into a commercial and political issue as well as a scientific one.
Many labs are interested in knowing how organisms react to acidic, lower pH water conditions, including Stillman's at the Romberg Tiburon Center, which studies organisms such as coccolithophores and porcelain crabs. Researchers have uncovered a great deal of variety in these reactions, which can depend on the organism's life stages and where it lives within the ocean during those life stages.
But Stillman and colleagues say those kinds of studies showing how species react in the short term are not enough to predict what our oceans will look like in the future. Marine scientists need new tools –including genetic surveys and experimental evolution studies — to discover how organisms might adapt in the long run to acidification.
Surveying the variety in genes related to how organisms respond to acidification could reveal the pathways through which adaptation might occur. Experimental evolution studies, where a group of organisms is bred under controlled acidic conditions, mimic the natural selection process that would occur in nature over tens or hundreds of years.
The ideal experiment would be to follow "organisms over many generations, and to be able to look at what the genetic contribution is to how they respond to changes in their environment," Stillman said. "It would be similar to breeding studies that the biomedical community has been doing for a long time in animals like mice, but it's something that we don't typically do that often or that well with marine organisms."
The hotspots for studying adaptation to acidity, Stillman said, are places where there is a strong variability in acidity already, such as the California coast. Upwelling of deeper, more acidic water along the coast has already produced a range of responses to acidity in creatures such as sea urchins, he noted.
These pulses of very acidic water along the California coast could increase as runoff pollutants, such as fertilizer nutrients, contribute to a rise in carbon dioxide that acidifies upwelled water. As temperatures rise inland as a result of global climate change, Stillman said, "We're going to see more of those intense winds that cause the upwelling of that acidified water."
All of these factors make it crucial for researchers to "retool" and pursue studies that get at the heart of long-term adaptation to acidification, Stillman said.
"We could go on forever just doing studies of our favorite organisms and whatever we can do in our lab in the short term," he noted, "but if we can't put it together in terms of being able to say something specific about their evolutionary capacity, then all we really know is how they'll respond if the ocean changed instantaneously to the ocean of 100 years from now."
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Sometimes life is dull, so to jazz things up, you use your imagination and fabricate. Such is the case in this news segment, wherein reporters and a psychologist label some dude with a bunch of computers an e-hoarder. The horror.
Floridian Larry Fischer has six computers A laptop, a desktop, and a server. A couple are just lying around, unplugged, fallow. He doesn't like to delete email. His desktop is messy. He doesn't throw away the old computers, because he doesn't want to get rid of the files on them. "He's what you might call," the horribly concerned voiceover guys laments, "an e-hoarder." Yes, you might. You might call him Captain Banana Cakes, or Sith Lord Pumpkin Pie. You might call just call him Larry. You might call him whatever you want, news show!
Except really, is Larry that different from us? Sure, he's got some dusty old computers lying around. And he accumulates crap on them. He has 3,552 emails in his Gmail account! MY GOD. Except, I have 13,835. Am I also mentally ill? Nope! We both just use an email service with huge amounts of free storage—and computers built in the last half decade—which don't give you any incentive to delete things. I have homework study sheets from 10th grade, history reports from 5th grade, countless stupid GIFs, a giant folder on my desktop of bookmarked articles I haven't gotten a chance to read yet—do I deserve to have a psychologist question my ability to make decisions, like Larry? No. I rarely empty my trash either—because who cares?
Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy
Some people are computer neat freaks. Anal desktop groomers. Meticulous folder hierarchy barons. And that's fine!
But some of us just don't give a shit, and pile our stuff into a hodgepodge of folders and subfolders, ad infinitum, because our hard drives are made so damn big that there's no reason not to. The difference between having 605 "e" things in my trash because I still have over 60 gigs of hard drive space left, and having an overflowing trashcan in my apartment, are immense. This isn't hoarding. It's just tech letting us be careless with ourselves.
Larry might be a slob. He might be lazy. But putting him on the same plane as those who have TIME magazine issues dating back to the Johnson administration and a garage full of hissing, urine-drenched cats is silly. There are probably people out there with seriously obsessive compulsive problems that manifest themselves digitally. But at worst, Larry's a desktop slob. As am I, and probably some of you. So let's cut Larry some slack. [via The Awl]


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Has anyone seen where to get some replacement tips for these guys? I'm wanting to cut the last flange on the smaller tri-flange tips, but want to have a backup just in case.
For me, there was absolutely NO COMPARISON between the the smaller triflange and after I cut it to a biflange. Much better fit and complete upgrade in sound signature...the sound waves have less rubber tubing to travel through.
If you don't get a good seal (less likely to happen seeing the elaborate fit kit monster provides), they won't sound good or right (your ears will tell you that). When they sit in properly, everything will click into place and you'll JUST know.
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Hello list.
Yesterday i posted a question about how to play a movie from one given
"frame" to an other one.
Finaly, i found this framedump message which does what i need.
The thing is, when you send the message "framedump [frame-start (int)]
[frame-end (int)] 0"
It works but it has a lot of latency !!!
Do you know a way to reduce this latency time ???
Thanks for your help and suggestions.
Do widzenia.
Well, framedump is going to put out every frame you ask it to as fast
as it can. If you tell it to put out a lot of frames, it's obviously
going to take some time. If you tell it to put out 10 frames, it will
be quite fast. This is no magic bullet. It has to access all of the
memory you tell it to and will be correspondingly slow. If you need
something that happens more gradually so that it doesn't block the
program, you can roll your own with the frame message.
yes, silly question.
That's what i did and i got what i wanted… just using a simple counter
Silly me.
Sorry about that.
Sorry, I seem to have missed this message.
framedump has to count the frames up to the frame-start. If you have
a long movie, and a frame-start which starts later into the movie,
this can take a moment. Once it gets going, it should be nice and
fast, though, depending on compression settings, etc..
Sorry, your patch + your email have me confused. Are you saying it
works when you send "framedump frame_start number", but not when you
just send "framedump frame_start"?
Also, that 2nd number is not "frame_end". It's "number of frames to
dump". By default, it's the total number of frames minus frame_start.
Am 23.06.2006 um 09:12 schrieb email@example.com:
> I simply want to play it back you know.
> Here is the patch that i use to do this…
> You just have to send a list of two values : frame_start(int)
> frame_end(int)
First of all, you need to calm down.
Second of all, you need to collect your thoughts into a concise,
logical form that allows me to understand what vague terms like
"cannot do", "doesn't work" and similar mean.
1. what is the message you are sending: I don't care about your
counter or anything else. What is the message you are sending to
2. what are you expecting to see?
3. what are you seeing instead? is Max crashing? is Max hanging? is
Max ignoring your message? is Max sending an error message to the Max
4. (bonus questions) what values do you get reported when you send
the "getframecount" message, the "getfps" message, and do you see the
correct image when you send a "frame_true (my desired frame #)" message?
Any additional info would be helpful. But please, keep it calm and
keep it clear. Otherwise, your time disappears faster.
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Walking on the edge, Josh and Noisetrade are near the end of a two-week free download including all five of his albums -- his entire life's work -- with all tips going to World Relief's peacemaking effort in the DR Congo.
I felt that helpless feeling wash over me. I felt the weight of an ocean and miles of separation. Before I looked at a screen, I did something I haven't done for a while. I slipped out of my bed and got down on my knees.
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If we continue to stand now for peace in South Sudan, then their first chapter as a nation could read of new schools and children living past their 5th birthdays, instead of burned marketplaces and displaced refugees.
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In a case prosecutors called "stranger than fiction," a former New York businessman pleaded guilty on Monday to defrauding the producers of Broadway production "Rebecca - The Musical" by creating an elaborate scheme involving fake overseas investors.
Mark Hotton, 46, pleaded guilty to two counts of wire fraud and agreed to forfeit $500,000 and to pay an additional $500,000 to the victims of his schemes.
The guilty plea included a second scheme in which he sought to defraud a Connecticut-based real estate company.
Hotton faces 20 years in prison for each count of wire fraud and is scheduled to be sentenced on Nov. 1 by U.S. District Judge John Koeltl in Manhattan.
Hotton's attorney, Ira London, was not immediately available for comment.
"Though his lies and deceits were the stuff of fiction, they caused real harm to his victims," Preet Bharara, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, said in a statement.
Hotton was indicted in November.
A dark, gothic thriller based on a 1938 Daphne du Maurier novel, "Rebecca" had been slated to make its Broadway debut in the fall of 2012 but was postponed because of a shortfall in financing and scandal.
The proposed budget for the show was between $12 million and $14 million.
When the producers found themselves $4 million short, they entered into an agreement in February 2012 with a company controlled by Hotton.
He was to raise money in return for a $7,500 fee and an 8 percent return on any funds raised over $250,000.
Hotton told the producers he had secured $4.5 million from overseas investors, court records said, but the men, with names like "Julian Spencer" and "Walter Timmons," were all made up.
Hotton had even demanded an advance payment from the producers in April 2012 to cover the cost of a safari he had supposedly taken with one of the fictional investors.
In January, lead producer Ben Sprecher told the Broadway publication Playbill.com that he hoped to launch the show by the end of 2013.


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Storm-damaged Isle of Man ferry to be repaired in June
- 5 April 2014
- From the section Isle Of Man / Ellan Vannin
A Manx ferry damaged during "prolonged use" in January's stormy weather will be repaired in June, the Isle of Man Steam Packet Company has confirmed.
The IOMSPC said one of the Ben-my-Chree's two stabilising fins was damaged, but that had not affected what it called its "stabilising efficiency".
A spokesman said the fin was being repaired and would be refitted between 19-21 June.
Any passengers affected will be contacted directly.


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The FBI has spoken with a man earlier considered a person of interest in the Sikh temple shootings near Milwaukee and ruled him out as being connected with the rampage that left six worshippers dead.
The FBI asked for the public's help Monday in finding a man who was at the scene of the Sunday shooting. They showed his picture of at a news conference.
Hours later, FBI spokesman Leonard Peace said the person had been identified, interviewed and ruled out as being connected to the shooting. Peace did not have any other details.
The shooter has been identified as Wade Michael Page. He was shot and killed by an Oak Creek police officer.
The FBI has said Page acted alone. Police have not commented on a possible motive.
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Interleauge Play Not Treating the Phillies Well
Posted on 13 Jun 2012 by Tom Bopp.
Interleague play has not been kind to the Fightin Phil's thus far. After losing 6 in a row, 2 to the Marlins and 4 in a row to the Dodgers, they then took a short bus ride down I-95 to Baltimore to play the upstart Orioles who were occupying first place in the A.L. East for what seems like the first time since about 1996. Since then they have dropped to third place with the Yankees surging an...
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Papelbon Rips Ump as Phillies Succom to Dodger Rally
Posted on 5 Jun 2012 by Tom Bopp.
The Phillies had an opportunity to keep their heads above the .500 mark for the season but a late game rally by the Dodgers at the hands of the 50 million dollar reliever Jonathon Papelbon dashed those hopes. Vance Worley made his return from the DL and was shaky in the early going, walking two and surrendering two hits in the first which lead to two runs, one of them driven in by former Philli...
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Chase Utley Set to Start Rehab Assignment in Clearwater
Posted on 4 Jun 2012 by Tom Bopp.
Chase Utley is scheduled to begin his rehab assignment Monday in Clearwater, Florida. He has spent the past months trying to strengthen his chronically sore knees which have limited the star second basemen's productivity and ability to stay on the field over the past two and a half seasons. As a result of losing Utley and 1st basemen Ryan Howard the Phillies usually potent offense has become ...
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Phillies Pull Record Up To .500 With Win at Wrigley
Posted on 17 May 2012 by Tom Bopp.
The Phillies pulled their record to .500 with a 9-2 win over the Cubs in Wrigley. They got the win behind Kyle Kendrick who last week played the goat in an embarrassing game three loss to the Mets as they swept the Phillies in South Philly. Kendrick turned things around when getting his first start in 2 weeks, going 6 innings giving up 1 earned run and allowing three hits. He even helped his ow...
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Phillies Bounce Back After Dismal Mets Sweep
Posted on 16 May 2012 by Tom Bopp.
Philly fans are noted for their venom towards rivals and they have plenty across the spectrum of the four major sports played in the City of Brotherly Love. The Cowboys and Giants are the enemies on the gridiron and foils that have historically prevented the beloved birds from winning a Super Bowl. The Sixers have the Celtics and to a lesser degree the Knicks, while the Flyers have the Penguins...
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Phillies Salvage Split with Cubs
Posted on 1 May 2012 by Tom Bopp.
The Phillies rough spring continues as they manage to split their series with the Cubs at Citizens Bank Park. Vance Worley led the way with another solid performance and Placido Polanco dazzled with his glove and came through with the bat as the Phillies continue to be mediocre against poor competition. Polanco delivered a tie breaking two run double in eighth after totaling just two RBI in his...
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Phillies Contine To Struggle Scoring Runs
Posted on 24 Apr 2012 by Tom Bopp.
The Phillies find themselves in a curious position, an identity crisis of sorts. That may be a stretch given their stout starting pitching which could be very easily labeled their identity. However there is no denying that throughout their recent run of dominance they have also had a powerful and intimidating offense to go along with their pitching, something that made them the popular pick in ...
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The Doc Operates in San Fran, Pulls The Phillies to .500
Posted on 17 Apr 2012 by Tom Bopp.
One of the most oft repeated phrases in Major League clubhouse's each April is "it's still early", its frequently said because it's true. The small sample size isn't yet large enough to draw any definitive conclusions about any player or team, but as teams finish up their first 10 games the expiration date on "it's still early" is fast approaching. The Phillies rocky start is ...


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The international competition for the New Keelung Harbor Service Project, won by NMDA in September 2012, presented an opportunity to expand on many issues that the office has been working on over the last few years, including our explorations into mass, shaped windows, and clean yet complex developable surface geometry.
The Port of Keelung serves, at times, 10,000 cruise ship passengers a day, making it Taiwan's largest port of entry into the country. Keelung lies on the Northern Coast of Taiwan, 23 kilometers Northeast of Taipei on the often cloud covered slopes of the Keelung Mountains. Known as the rainy port, Keelung with its wet climate, has a lush green collar surrounding its 350,000 inhabitants. For NMDA, the specifics of the site both locally and regionally have impacted the design in its massing and materials and colors.
Site phasing has dictated that the terminal, which will enter construction in 2013, will be located within a first phase construction zone that is 55 meters deep. This precipitated a linear organization to the terminal, a complex set of port programs layered across three main floors. The main entry and boarding corridor are located at +7:00m, while the shopping mezzanine and boardwalk are at +13.00m. Shaped by these parameters as well as the functional circuitry of the various pathways and hardware of movement, the terminal extracts formal properties from programmatic limits. ETFE skylights hover over voids lined with stainless steel mesh, a diaphanous surface intended to refract light into the terminal spaces.
The Northern end of the terminal turns vertical as it supports a cantilevered scenic restaurant, which itself becomes a bridge to the second phase office complex. Below the Gateway Tower is a boardwalk called "the Shoelace" that forms a connective loop / roundabout to other directions on the boardwalk level.
Across the main drop off road, the main office building which will house the Harbor authority, police station, a large post office transfer facilities, a weather station, and a vast array of harbor support offices, is a 53,000 square meter, 70 meter tall structure. Based on a courtyard type, the building is a distorted and punctured form whose specific cantilevers and surface orientations are based on prevailing views and breezes. Punched windows move across two floors and in various directions, two attributes that change the perception of the size of the building.
The main mass opens up at the lower floors on the street/access side of the site, exposing chartreuse and sea foam green circulation cores, creating an in-between reading of a hollowed out solid and a building on columns.
An expansive public plaza occupies the roof of the service base of the site. The plaza is connected to pathways that move in and around the office building and the terminal that connect with the seaside boardwalk.
Status: Competition Entry
Location: Keelung, TW
My Role: Design Architect
Additional Credits: Design Architects: Neil M. Denari Architects, Inc.
Executive Architects: Fei & Cheng Associates, Taipei
Structural: Thornton Tomasetti, Los Angeles & Supertek, Taiwan
Facade: Thornton Tomasetti, Los Angeles & Meinhardt, Hong Kong
Logistics and M&E: ARUP, Hong Kong
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Motorola Mobility, owned by Google, has announced that it is ending that software, which had been embedded in several smartphones, including the Droid RAZR, Droid 4, Droid Bionic and Photon 4G, but which never got very far with buyers. When a Webtop-enabled smartphone was connected to a Lapdock, it could act like a full-blown PC, to which peripherals could be added.
Not 'Strong Enough'
Motorola's demonstration of the Atrix 4G smartphone with Webtop software and the accompanying Lapdock at the 2011 Consumer Electronic Show attracted a great deal of media attention, and more than a few industry observers had suggested at the time that this was the future of smartphones and of laptops.
Motorola said in a recent statement that, "while consumers around the world have adopted Webtop and their concept spurred a lot of innovation in the industry, the adoption has not been strong enough to justify continued resources being allocated to developing Webtop on future devices."
One of the obstacles to acceptance was the price. With its Lapdock, the Atrix 2 was sold by AT&T for $500. Other reported problems included error-laden, bulky hardware implementations of the dock, and the decision to bury the smartphone behind the Lapdock -- meaning that the screen could not be viewed or accessed when it was used in laptop mode.
According to Web-based reports, it was Motorola Mobility's new owner, Google, that decided to end the Webtop concept. The theory is that Google is not completely ready to launch Android as an operating system for laptops, as it would need to do if Webtop got traction as a build-your-own laptop system.
'Too Early'
Google reportedly does not see its Net-oriented, thin-client Chrome OS as its serious laptop operating system entry, and the technology giant, according to this thinking, knows that it will likely only have one shot for a laptop OS -- and it doesn't want to jump the gun with Webtop. Meanwhile, Android is beginning to add various desktop-like features.
Webtop was actually taken through release 3.0, which was a major revision of previous versions. The newest release took advantage of several features in Android 4.0, including the ability to dynamically change apps' resolution and to allow apps to run full-screen when in PC mode.
The Webtop concept originated with Motorola engineers in mid-2009, and the intention was to give a docked smartphone the full Firefox browser experience, as well as full Adobe Flash and multi-window multitasking.
Laura DiDio, an analyst with industry research firm Information Technology Intelligence Consulting, said that one of Webtop's key problems was that it was "too early to market." She compared it to Novell's embedded NetWare back in 1995, or Apple's early handheld Newton, both of which later re-emerged as mainstream product concepts.
DiDio also noted that, when Google bought Motorola Mobility, it "got the technology and the patents, but not the people," and that it was the engineers who had championed Webtop.


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Fairly or not, African-Americans have become the public face of resistance to same-sex marriage, owed to their religious beliefs and the outspoken opposition of many black pastors.
Yet the presence of gays and lesbians in black churches is common. And the fact that they often hold leadership positions in their congregations is the worst kept secret in black America.
While many black pastors condemn homosexuality from the pulpit, the choir lofts behind them often are filled with gay singers and musicians. Some pastors themselves have been entangled in scandals involving alleged homosexual affairs.
"Persons who are in the closet serve on the deacon boards, serve in the ministry, serve in every capacity in the church," the Rev. Dennis W. Wiley, pastor of Covenant Baptist United Church of Christ in Maryland, says of black churches. Wiley is a prominent advocate of gay marriage. "I do believe a certain hypocrisy is there."
President Obama's recent announcement that he supports same-sex marriage turned the spotlight on reservations many blacks harbor about gay rights. Most polls show African-Americans evenly divided about gay marriage, but the vocal opposition, led by preachers, has gained more attention.
"This particular decision I find appalling, and I could not disagree with the president more on it," the Rev. Patrick Wooden, senior pastor of the Upper Room Church of God in Christ, in North Carolina, told NPR's All Things Considered. Wooden helped lead the recent campaign that outlawed gay marriage in his state.
Last week, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People passed a resolution endorsing same-sex marriage as a civil right to be protected by the U.S. Constitution.
Churches Reap Benefits
Some say pastors' hostility cuts hard against the history of how countless black churches have flourished. The virtuosity of gay singers, musicians and composers has been the driving force in developing popular gospel choirs — even chart-topping, Grammy-winning acts — that make money for a church, help expand congregations and raise the profiles of pastors.
It all happens under an unspoken "don't ask, don't tell" custom that allows gay people to be active in the church, though closeted, and churches to reap the benefits of their membership.
Some say the arrangement is not only hypocritical, but exploitative.
"On the one hand, you're nurtured in the choir but you also have to sit through some of those fire and brimstone sermons about homosexuality being an abomination," says E. Patrick Johnson, an openly gay gospel singer and author of Sweet Tea: An Oral History of Black Gay Men of the South.
"But a lot of these choirs or choir directors, or ministers of music, will not be open about their sexuality for fear of repercussion from their pastors and church members, but they allow the church to exploit their talent," says Johnson, also a Northwestern University professor who specializes in black studies and sexuality.
Johnson and others believe that modern gospel music itself is largely defined by the artistry of black gay men, in particular.
Bishop Yvette Flunder of Oakland, Calif., is openly gay and the founder of The Fellowship, an organization of black pastors and churches openly welcoming of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender members. Flunder once said during a 2010 interview that gospel choirs "always" have been havens for LGBT people: "In our indigenous expression, that wasn't a problem. It was Christianity that demonized gay people."
Among black churches that sing gospel music and feature charismatic and theatrical worship services, particularly in the Pentecostal denomination, Johnson estimates 90 percent of the men in choirs are gay. Flunder has said the same.
"You can't throw a shoe back through history without hitting gay and lesbian women and even transgender singers," Johnson says.
Johnson describes church choirs as a welcoming community within a community "where you meet other gay people, so it becomes a form of socializing."
Gay rights activist Keith Boykin, who is black, calls it a paradox: "The church might be the most homophobic and most homotolerant of any institution in the black community."
Consequences, Whether Closeted Or Out
A small but growing number of churches, such as the Rev. Wiley's and Flunder's City of Refuge United Church of Christ, publicly welcome LGBT members, and their ranks are swelling with people leaving intolerant churches.
But many others say they are torn between their allegiance to their churches, which form the cultural and institutional backbone of black communities, and their desire to live free of homophobia. They often chose the former, convinced that their sexuality is a sin.
"They would rather suppress their identity than denounce their church," says Sharon J. Lettman-Hicks, executive director of the National Black Justice Coalition, an LGBT advocacy group. "I've seen people refuse to divorce themselves from their church in spite of the ignorance that spews from the pulpit. … It's their way of repenting. They victimize themselves through self-oppression."
Gospel music superstar and megachurch pastor Donnie McClurkin shocked the non-gospel world years ago by revealing in a 2001 book that God "delivered" him from a homosexual "lifestyle" that he said was a result of being sexually abused as a boy.
McClurkin, who has said homosexuality is a choice, was criticized by the gay community for setting back the LGBT goal of gaining acceptance.
When gospel music star Tonex (Anthony Charles Williams II) came out in 2009, the gospel music world turned on him and his record sales plummeted. He left his family church, where he'd been a pastor, and reinvented himself as B. Slade, now a favorite in the LGBT music scene.
Rise Of Black Homophobia: Morality Turns Political
Since the National Black Justice Coalition's first Black Church Summit in 2006, at which the Rev. Al Sharpton was among those who publicly denounced homophobia, progress in softening ministers' stance on gays has been "definitely slow in coming," Lettman-Hicks says.
For decades, black ministers only occasionally addressed homosexuality in their sermons. This was true even as HIV/AIDS began claiming the lives of numerous African-American men in black churches, especially gospel singers in the early 1990s.
By 2004, a number of high-profile black ministers emerged as outspoken opponents of same-sex marriage as part of their alignment with the conservative Christian movement, which helped re-elect President George W. Bush that year. Black ministers and black lawmakers helped pass gay marriage bans in several states. In exchange, ministers received federal funds for their community programs through Bush's faith-based initiative.
"The right wing has had an intentional, deliberate strategy to build a wedge between the black community and the gay community," Lettman-Hicks says.
Pastors No Strangers To Gay Sex Scandals
The sexual behavior of some male pastors, many of them also gospel singers, also has stoked rumors or led to scandal.
Bishop Eddie Long, the leader of one of the nation's largest black churches, in suburban Atlanta, was sued in 2010 by three young men who claimed Long coerced them into sexual relationships. Long denied the accusations and the cases were settled out of court.
The controversy was all the more notable because Long was a prominent supporter of Georgia's gay marriage ban, passed in 2004, and a proposed U.S. constitutional ban. He rankled many civil rights veterans when he and the Rev. Bernice King, a daughter of Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King (who supported gay marriage), led a march to protest same-sex marriage that started at the King family crypt.
"Some of my colleagues protest too greatly," Wiley says.
Prior to the accusations against Long, most controversies rarely escaped mention inside black communities and gospel music circles.
The Bay Area in the 1970s had arguably the most visible presence of LGBT members in black churches, just as the broader gay rights movement had gained momentum in the region. The Love Center Church in Oakland, Calif., founded by the late Bishop Walter Hawkins, one of gospel music's biggest stars in the 1970s and 1980s, made waves for welcoming black gays and lesbians.
Following the 1991 death of the Rev. James Cleveland, the gospel music legend still regarded as the "king" of the genre, a male member of Cleveland's choir sued his estate claiming that he contracted HIV due to his five-year sexual relationship with the singing icon. The lawsuit was settled out of court.


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If you have a mixed-breed, don't glue or tape the ears. Let them do what they'll do, because they will anyway. When I was a kid, I had a GSD whose ears wouldn't go up, so I tried to glue foam curlers in there as supports.... all I did, I think, is make them fall down more! As it turned out, my dog wasn't a purebred GSD after all, but a mix with Labrador, so those ears probably wouldn't have stood no matter what I did. Enjoy your dog, no matter what kind of ears she has! At 4.5 months, it could go either way, they may stand on their own after teething is done. Make sure her diet is good with plenty of animal protein and nutrient value. Giving her raw, meaty bones to chew on will help. |
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GSD Mix ears help Hey guys, sorry if it's the wrong forum, my pups ear were fully down when he was about two months, now that hes about 4 and a half months, his ears went up by quite a bit. i was wondering if they could go up, my friend has a gsd and her gsd ears went up when he was at 7 months, she told me that she used glue and that my pups ears were normal and actually quite good for a mixed german shepherd. i currently dont have pictures since they are all on my camera and phone, but his ears are just a litle bit less higher than him : Ive talked about my parents of glueing, but they told me that it could damage his skin and fur and it was cruel somehow, they live in the appartment next to me and i wouldnt like to deceive them. We had a german shepherd in algeria and they told me that my pups ears should go up but not fully up. Thoughts ? Thanks alot guys. |
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When you think back to the first run of solo records from the members of Wu-Tang Clan, you've got a pretty solid list of classics. There's Method Man's Tical, Raekwon's Only Built 4 Cuban Linx, and GZA's Liquid Swords. Over time, we've ranked these three above the likes of Ol' Dirty Bastard's Return to the 36 Chambers: The Dirty Version and Ghostface Killah's Ironman. That's not to say that these albums get undersold, but Ironman in particular seems like a lynchpin record for the Wu-Tang dynasty.
And when it came out in 1996, it was treated as such. It debuted at no. 2, it went gold in 1997, and it was generally considered a brilliant first step for Ghostface. Of course, it was released in the aftermath of Tical and Cuban Linx and Liquid Swords, and over time it has been shrouded just a bit in the shadow of those records. It's a good start for Ghostface, maybe, but not on the same level as those other records -- even though Ghostface is integral to the success of Cuban Linx, but I digress.
The thing to notice about Ironman, when listening in retrospect, is how daring it sounds. RZA is at the helm here, but this is a shift away from the dark mood pieces of Liquid Swords or the grimy street drive of Cuban Linx or the smooth growl of Tical. The beats sound light here, downright playful, and the sampling shifts from films like Shogun Assassin to blaxploitation films from the '70s. It's a fitting atmosphere for Ghostface Killah, far and away the most cut-loose emcee in Wu-Tang. So while we open "Iron Maiden" with Raekwon's cold-blooded flow, it also sets up the perfect juxtaposition for Ghostface's strident raps that feel propulsive and playful even when he's not rapping about him and his girl running "like Luke and Laura."
The whole album has a risky, if subtle, shift away from what we expected from Wu-Tang at the time. It may seem safe at points -- "All That I Got Is You" is a duet with Mary J. Blige, and Method Man had already found success with that formula on "All I Need" -- but there's a quiet defiance to Ghostface's approach. Method Man's own lovelorn track was a risk on an otherwise fiery record, but Ghostface's tribute to his mother is far more revealing. In fact, the best thing about Ironman is the vulnerability it reveals behind gangster braggadocio. "All That I Got Is You" is in stark contrast to the dangerous mysogyny of "Wildflower," which recounts a series of revenge trysts to get back at a woman who apparently cheated on Ghost. There's a troubling violence to the song that starts with the fiery spit with which Ghostface confesses,"Yo bitch, I fucked your friend, yeah you stank ho." You can feel him on the verge of doing something horrible, but as the songs goes on we see this hyper-masculinity truly masking a very real heartbreak. It's less an attack by Ghost and more a persona piece about how we react to betrayal. It's a dangerous move in a genre with its share of gender issues, but Ghostface calls this idea out by laying it there with gruesome energy.
For all the battling and warring that goes on on this record, from "Assassination Day" to "Poisonous Darts" and so on, it's that vulnerability from Ghostface that makes Ironman so striking. His raps are a perfect foil for the street philosophy of GZA or the untouchable sneering power of Raekwon. They reveal the tension and anxiety that makes the ground under the throne so tenuous. On "Assassination Day," Raekwon is all about luxury, talking about "spread[ing] it out like Grey Poupon" and, fascinatingly enough, Ghostface never appears on the track. Instead, he comes back with "Poisonous Darts", contrasting the smooth, distanced cool of the previous song with "rap fragments that come together like magnets." That idea, of shards coming together, of the cracks between them threatening to break and rebreak, that captures Ghost's approach perfectly.
Sure, Ironman may seem uneven -- it's tempo and tone don't really change over an hour of playing time -- which may keep it from that Cuban Linx classic status, it may be more important to the Wu legacy in the end. It lead Ghostface to the nearly perfect sophomore record Supreme Clientele and, later (ignoring curios like Bulletproof Wallets) other great albums like The Pretty Toney Album and Fishscale. Meanwhile, we got Wu-Tang Forever from the entire Clan in 1997, but after that first run of albums, the solo work got watered down. It was Ghostface's work that kept the ship afloat as Raekwon struggled through Immobilarity and RZA tried out the ill-fated Bobby Digital persona.
There's a reason Enter the 36 Chambers opens with a verse from Ghostface. His is the heart that beats most furiously, his voice the fire that warms the group's chilly philosophies. Ironman reminded us that Wu-Tang Clan could do more than we thought, that their sound had plenty of permutations. It solidified the breadth of their talent, but it also introduced us to the emcee in the group that would end up being the most consistent, that would keep us talking about Wu-Tang even when the group's output got more sporadic and the solo albums mediocre. There's never been doubt about Ghostface's heart, and Ironman is clear evidence of that. But it's also more than that. Looking back, it's now the start of a solo career that's a big part of the backbone of the group, a foundation for Wu-Tang Clan to rest its reputation on. And Method Man has come back with some solid records, and Raekwon made another classic with Cuban Linx II, but (excusing that Ghostdini record) Ghostface never left and just got better. A man made of iron indeed. Solid all the way through.
Ghostface's new album, Twelve Reasons to Die, is out Nov. 20.


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Yesterday we told you here about what "The Association" will let us know about the Brooklyn Nets. Out West there's a team with just as much intrigue and as many new parts: the Dallas Mavericks. Last year's storyline was about how Dirk Nowitzki had some of his lowest averages of his career last season thanks to a bum knee and being in pretty bad shape after the lockout. That's all behind him, he promises. He's vowing to make sure he's ready despite an offseason wedding and a honeymoon where he's much more likely to be sitting on an island's beach rather than putting up shots at its rec center. What he said was essentially, don't worry about me guys. We, like Dirk, think his start to last year was a fluke, too. So if that's huge news for Mavericks fans reading the tea leaves of training camp, consider his comments about last season that he snuck in at the end, comments that seem to show last year's team was a strange brew. He said that he expects teammates this year to be more professional about contracts expiring (there are a lot of those this year in Big D), which can only lead us to guess some of last year's guards, for example, weren't quiet about wanting to leave the team. So for reasons why last year's Mavs team played so poorly out of the gate you can pinpoint Dirk's knee and conditioning, some disharmony and of course, Lamar Odom couldn't have helped. … Unsurprisingly Dirk called Chris Kaman likely the best big man he's ever played with. Not too hard a title to earn considering Brendan Haywood looked like David Robinson compared with Erick Dampier. One wrinkle we're interested to see Rick Carlisle work in this season is Kaman's spacing in the post. Remember he can step back to the charity stripe consistently. In that case, do you pull everyone away from the hoop to free throw line extended and let O.J. Mayo have the green light to create to the rim? … Trying to know what to make of this team's expectations is a bigger question than how "Homeland" ran roughshod on the Emmys Sunday, but we bet with all the new parts — even considering Dirk's promise to be better — this year's start mirrors last year's until the gelling kicks in. … Rumors have come out that Rasheed Wallace has been working out at the Knicks' facility. We bet NBA 2K13 programmers are at the office making a patch just in case he has to be added to a roster. Player rating for the 38-year-old Wallace? We'd guess a 70. … Hit the jump to hear about another player on the Knicks' radar. …
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"Who Does She Think She Is?" is playing at the MFA January 7 - 18. The specific dates and times are listed below.
- Jan 7, 6pm
- Jan 9, 8:15pm
- Jan 10, 1:15pm
- Jan 11, 11am
- Jan 17, 11am
- Jan 18, 11am
'Cuz seriously, who does she think she is?
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This week brings an Oscar winner, an Emmy nominee, a revolutionary action flick, and a movie based on a canceled television series. That is only a taste of the digital joy that is to be had among this week's releases. The biggest problem with all of these DVDs each week is trying to keep up with them. They are sure to put a dent in your wallet. Fortunately there is always Netflix, and even better, the local library.
The pick of the week is Serenity. Yes, it is true that it arrived on DVD nearly two years ago, but it is receiving a new release with a second disk of extras. I am not sure if the image or sound has been upgraded, but it doesn't matter. Any additional material will be welcomed by this guy!
Serenity is a film based on the short-lived television show Firefly, created by Joss Whedon (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel). Don't let that fact scare you off, you do not need to be familiar with the series in order to enjoy the movie. Just don't be surprised if you get an itch to see the series after taking in the film. The film has it all — it is a fusion of comedy, drama, action, science fiction, suspense, and even a touch of romance.
The film chronicles the story of the Serenity crew as they play guardian to a young woman who could bring about the undoing of the totalitarian regime ruling the galaxy. That doesn't even bring in the cannibalistic Reavers who will attack just about anything that moves.
I remember when I first saw this on the big screen I was floored. This was a movie that will never compete for the greatest film of all time, but it delivered on all levels. It made me even more mad at how FOX mistreated it during its short run. We should still be enjoying the ongoing adventures of the Serenity crew.
The set carries over all of the extras from the original release, packages it in a spiffy new case and includes the following new extras: Extended Scenes (6:45), Take A Walk on Serenity (4:00) Cast and Crew take us on a special tour of the Serenity space ship, A Filmmaker's Journey (19:49), Take A Journey with Joss Whedon from script to the big screen, The Green Clan (3:03) An expose on Cinematographer Jack Green and his team, Sci-Fi Inside: Serenity (21:41) Hosted by Adam Baldwin, an in-depth look at the film that was resurrected from a canceled television show, as well as its supportive culture, Session 416 (7:52) These Internet pieces document a portion of River's participation in a psychological study and her interactions with her therapist, Feature Commentary with Director Joss Whedon and Cast Members Nathan Fillion, Adam Baldwin, Summer Glau, and Ron Glass.
Also out this week:
- House: Season Three. One of the most consistently entertaining series of recent years. They are even better to watch on DVD, as the ongoing threads pop a little more than watching week to week.
- The Lives of Others. Oscar winner for Best Foreign Language Film, this German film arrives on DVD. I missed it theatrically, now will be my chance to catch up.
- Dexter: The First Season. A show I have heard good things about. A serial killer who helps the cops catch serial killers. Sounds like a killer concept.
- The Ultimate Gift. From Fox Faith, this feature is about a trust fund baby sent on a journey of self discovery.
- Ugly Betty: The Complete First Season. Emmy nominated series that I couldn't get into.
- Perfect Stranger. This is here as a warning. This is just an awful thriller. If you must, please rent only.
- RoboCop: 20th Anniversary Collector's Edition. This landmark action film gets another release. Hopefully the tech specs got an overhaul to warrant the release.
- Redline. Eddie Griffin's The Fast and the Furious rip off. It was DOA when it hit theaters earlier this year.
- The Ex. A movie I wanted to love so badly, but I could only muster a mere like for it. Still, if you like Jason Bateman or Zach Braff, it is definitely worth a peek.
- Toho Triple Feature: Mysterians, Varan, Matango. Some old school science fiction and monster flicks from the studio that brought us Godzilla.
- Rob Zombie 3 Disk Collector Set. This includes House of 1000 Corpses and the two disk version of The Devil's Rejects. Just in time for the release of Zombie's reimagining of Halloween.


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Residue number system
A residue numeral system (RNS) represents a large integer using a set of smaller integers, so that computation may be performed more efficiently. It relies on the Chinese remainder theorem of modular arithmetic for its operation, a mathematical idea from Sunzi Suanjing (Master Sun's Arithmetic Manual) in the 4th century AD.
Practical applications[edit]
RNS have applications in the field of digital computer arithmetic. By decomposing in this a large integer into a set of smaller integers, a large calculation can be performed as a series of smaller calculations that can be performed independently and in parallel.
Defining a residue numeral system[edit]
A residue numeral system is defined by a set of N integer constants,
- {m1, m2, m3, ... , mN },
referred to as the moduli. Let M be the least common multiple of all the mi.
Any arbitrary integer X smaller than M can be represented in the defined residue numeral system as a set of N smaller integers
- {x1, x2, x3, ... , xN}
- xi = X modulo mi
representing the residue class of X to that modulus.
For representational efficiency the moduli should be pairwise coprime; that is, no modulus should have a common factor with any other. M is then the product of all the mi.
For example, RNS(4|2) has non-coprime moduli, with an LCM of 4, and a product of 8, resulting in the same representation for different values smaller than the product.[1]
(3)decimal = (3|1)RNS(4|2) (7)decimal = (3|1)RNS(4|2)
Operations on RNS numbers[edit]
Once represented in RNS, many arithmetic operations can be efficiently performed on the encoded integer. For the following operations, consider two integers, A and B, represented by ai and bi in an RNS system defined by mi (for i from 0 ≤ i ≤ N).
Addition and subtraction[edit]
Addition (or subtraction) can be accomplished by simply adding (or subtracting) the small integer values, modulo their specific moduli. That is,
can be calculated in RNS as
One does not have to check for overflow in these operations.
Multiplication can be accomplished in a manner similar to addition and subtraction. To calculate
we can calculate:
Again overflows are not possible.
Division in residue numeral systems is problematic. A paper describing one possible algorithm is available at [1]. On the other hand, if B is coprime with M (that is ) then
can be easily calculated by
where is multiplicative inverse of B modulo M, and is multiplicative inverse of modulo .
Integer factorization[edit]
The RNS can improve efficiency of trial division, essentially a form of wheel sieving. The RNS using n primes represents a number coprime to their product if and only if it has no 0s. For example, using the primes 2, 3, and 5, the RNS can automatically eliminate all numbers but
- 1,7,11,13,17,19,23,29 mod 30
or 73% of numbers. Using the prime numbers below 100, the RNS eliminates about 88% of numbers. One can see from the above formula the diminishing returns from the larger sets of moduli.
Associated mixed radix system[edit]
A numeral given by in the RNS can be naturally represented in the associated mixed radix system (AMRS)
- for and
Note that after conversion from the RNS to AMRS, the comparison of numbers becomes straightforward.
See also[edit]
- ^ Parhami, Computer Arithmetic, Algorithms and Hardware Design
- Efficient RNS bases for Cryptography // IMACS'05: World Congress: Scientific ComputationApplied Mathematics and Simulation. 2005.


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NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — A horse collapsed while pulling a carriage at the intersection of 60th Street and Broadway on Friday, right in the middle of the evening commute.
According to the ASPCA, the horse was suspended pending a veterinary exam and won't return to work until the exam is completed.
It was the second horse to collapse in the street in two weeks. Last week a spooked horse crashed outside Central Park. Animal advocates say enough is enough.
"Yet again it's another illustration of why these horses do not belong on the streets of New York City," said Carly Knudson of New Yorkers for Clean and Livable Safe Streets.
However, a spokesperson for the Horse and Carriage Association of New York e-mailed CBS 2 early Saturday morning disputing the claim that the horse had collapsed, saying: "This horse did not 'collapse.' All horses were suspended from working most of this week due to storm damage in Central Park. The combination of the long period with no work and the cold snap led to this horse exhibiting normal, frisky horse behavior by bucking. A hind leg tangled with the shaft of the carriage, the horse fell, and stayed down calmly while people unhooked him from the carriage. He was walked back to his stable under his own power, without further incident."
Last month, 15-year-old draft horse "Charlie" dropped dead as he pulled a carriage to work at Central Park. A necropsy revealed he had several ailments, including a fractured tooth and a chronic stomach ulcer.
"Some of these horses have underlying health conditions that are not being noticed or picked up in the mandatory Department of Health fact checks," Knudson said.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg is a long-time supporter of the horse and carriage trade, what he called a major source of tourism revenue. He's not wavered from his position to keep the horses on the street.
"Most of them probably wouldn't be alive if they didn't have a job," Bloomberg said recently.
State Sen. Tony Avella, however, has sponsored legislation to ban the horse and buggy rides.
"I challenge the Mayor and Speaker Quinn now to end this practice because shame on them if they continue to allow this to go on," he said.
Infuriated by the latest incident, Avella asked how many more accidents need to happen before the practice is stopped.
"How long are we going to continue to have the cruelty to the animals, horses dropping dead in Midtown traffic? Plus the danger to pedestrians and motorists?" Avella said.
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Verizon 4G LTE LiveStream Broadcaster box – CES 2013
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For those of us who want to stream events rather than record and upload later, Verizon has come out with some great news at CES this year. Earlier in 2012 Livestream debuted the LiveStream Broadcaster – a box that will let you stream from your video camera straight to LiveStream's broadcasting studio.
Verizon has partnered with LiveStream to announce the first box using Verizon's 4G LTE network. With this addition you will not have to find an internet source to stream your video.
The Livestream Broadcaster LTE will have a built-in battery pack and run off the 5.4 GHz WiFi range. No pricing details yet as the box comes out in Q2.
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Hold on to your hats, Alouettes Nation…..we are tied for first place!!
This past Friday, no one can say they didn't get their money's worth at Percival Molson Stadium. Not only did the game all the field require all 60 minutes but with the penalty flag flying all night, it felt like Friday Night Football was going to finally end on Saturday morning!
In spite of all that the Montreal Alouettes fought hard and executed their plan, but ultimately lost 34-33 to the Winnipeg Blue Bombers. This was a game that they more or less dominated but ultimately couldn't close. So now the Alouettes will head out to BC Place this weekend and will face a Lions team that they easily handled two weeks ago, but that always beats Montreal at home.
Anyone blaming Troy Smith for this past Friday's loss needs to re-evaluate. He threw for three touchdowns, completed over 50% of his passes for over 300 yards. Yes, he did throw a pick six and his one fumble led to a touchdown for Winnipeg. Much like they did for Anthony Calvillo back in the day, the O-Line has to give Smith the protection needed to complete passes. But overall, Smith has come a long way since the debacle in Calgary and he will only get better as the season progresses.
At the end of the day, Montreal's defense needed to shut down Winnipeg on third down on a number of occasions and simply couldn't. A one point loss isn't as bad as a blowout, but a loss still shows in the record books. Give a quarterback like Drew Willy any sort of chance to shut the door on you and he ultimately will. He did it to Ottawa the week previous and last Friday he did it to Montreal.
Troy Smith will now be the answer to the trivia question, "Who did Chad Johnson catch his first CFL touchdown from?" as the two connected for the first of three Alouette TDs. Also joining Chad in the end zone was S.J. Green and Kenny Stafford, the cousin of Duron Carter. Stafford was quite versatile last Friday, making plays and gaining yards both rushing and receiving. With Carter out due to an ankle injury, Stafford looks to pick up the slack and along with Brandon London, has been quite the pleasant surprise.
Everyone expects S.J. to make the highlight reel catch when it matters the most and also expect Ocho Cinco to light up the scoreboard. But London and Stafford can also give opposing defenses several headaches as well. There's no way to effectively cover all of these players AND contend with Brandon Whitaker's foot speed as well.
Smith will still need to work on his accuracy and Noel Thorpe's defensive charges will have to keep this last game in mind the next time they are facing a 3rd down. You can't give your opponents any sort of life in this Canadian game.
So how did the White-out promotion go, you ask? On the TV side of things, it didn't look too bad. I still think the team needed to really promote the heck out of this. Having white t-shirts for sale was good and I was told that they sold like hotcakes, but having one given to each fan as they walked in would have looked a lot better aesthetically on TV.
But Rome wasn't built in a day, since some major sponsor would have had to pony up to achieve what I just outlined. But maybe that becomes a tradition every year, designating one game to be a "white-out" or a "red-out" game for the fans to get behind. For example, I'd really like to see the upcoming Thanksgiving game go either all-red or all-black with the team wearing its much lauded black alternate uniforms.
Imagine Rider Nation invading Percival Molson Stadium on October 13th with their usual green and then encountering a "sea of red" or even a "black hole"! But for this to be 100% effective, you have to get the word out early and often. And to everyone, not just on social media. A grassroots effort like this takes time and an effective strategy. But properly executed, it can be pretty awesome.
Suffice to say that I'm all for any sort of event or happening that gets the fans involved in the match itself.
So now the Alouettes will shake off Friday's heartbreak and focus on going out west and getting a crucial win versus the BC Lions, who managed to pull out a win versus the Saskatchewan RoughRiders. The Lions are not a team to take lightly, even despite the convincing win at home two weeks ago.
I've talked in the past about how difficult it has been for Montreal to win in BC Place but the excuses and worrying about the past have to stop. Winning is key here and these victories against Western opponents are so important this season. The East division is very winnable and Montreal is far too talented to just merely get by.
I'll be back later this week with a preview of Saturday's game. If you are in Montreal's East End and wanting to catch our boys at practice, here's all the info you need.
And a special shoutout to Jamaan Webb of the Alouettes, who broke his arm last Friday. I've been very critical of his play in the pre-season, but he's been focused as of late. This will be just a minor setback for him.
About the Author
Written by Clifford Pine
Montreal born & bred, lover of sports. Passionate about the Montreal Alouettes. Also a great cook & not too bad a dancer.


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S&P 500 sets record high on relief over US fiscal deal
The S&P 500's intraday record of 1732.92 broke the all-time high set September 19. Over 80 percent of stocks traded on the New York Stock Exchange rose. Technology was the only S&P sector to show a loss as IBM led the decline.
The S&P 500 closed at a record high on Thursday as investor confidence grew following a last-minute deal to avoid a US default, but weaker-than-expected results from heavyweights IBM and Goldman Sachs pressured the Dow.
The S&P 500's intraday record of 1732.92 broke the all-time high set September 19. Over 80 percent of stocks traded on the New York Stock Exchange rose. Technology was the only S&P sector to show a loss as IBM led the decline.
IBM shares hit a two-year low a day after reporting weaker-than-expected revenue and subtracted 76 points from the Dow industrial average. IBM also was the biggest decliner on the S&P 500, ending down 6.4 percent at USD 174.78.
Earnings released after the market's close by Google boosted shares of the world's No. 1 Web search engine 6.9 percent to USD 950.94 in extended-hours trading. Google said consolidated revenue increased 12 percent to USD 14.89 billion even as losses deepened at its Motorola mobile phone business.
Congress approved an 11th-hour deal on Wednesday to end a partial government shutdown and increase US borrowing authority, pulling the United States back from a possible default on its debt.
The political wrangling has led some investors to believe the US Federal Reserve will have no choice but to leave its fiscal stimulus measures in place for several more months. That could keep stocks rising through the rest of the year.
"The scare that was created by the lengthy delay in resolving the (fiscal) issue has created a situation that has taken Fed tapering off the table for a considerable period here," said Stephen Massocca, managing director at Wedbush Equity Management in San Francisco.
"That is why we saw buying over the last week and that is why we will see continued buying for a few more days."
The CBOE Volatility Index, a measure of investor anxiety, fell to 13.43, the lowest since September 20, the week before the government shutdown began.
Investors had worried that an extended shutdown would weigh on economic growth and corporate outlooks. A Reuters survey showed economists have grown less optimistic about prospects for the economy as the fight over fiscal policy took its toll.
The Dow Jones industrial average was down 2.18 points, or 0.03 percent, at 15,371.65. The Standard & Poor's 500 Index rose 11.61 points, or 0.66 percent, at 1,733.15. The Nasdaq Composite Index was up 23.72 points, or 0.62 percent, at 3,863.15.
Trading volume was relatively light at 5.3 billion total shares.
Goldman Sachs shares fell 2.4 percent to USD 158.32 after the fifth-largest US bank by assets said third-quarter revenue plunged 20 percent, hurt by weak mortgage and bond-trading results.
So far, 54.4 percent of companies in the S&P 500 have beaten Wall Street revenue estimates, down from the 61 percent average since 2002 but above the 49 percent average for the past four quarters.
EBay Inc dropped 3.9 percent to USD 51.38 and was the biggest drag on the Nasdaq 100 index after the company gave a disappointing holiday forecast a day earlier, saying the US economy had deteriorated partly because of the government shutdown.
Among gainers, shares of Verizon Communications Inc, the largest US mobile operator, rose 3.5 percent to USD 48.90 after the company posted stronger-than-expected third-quarter earnings and revenue.
Chipotle Mexican Grill reported a 15 percent jump in quarterly profit after the closing bell. Chipotle shares were up 7.1 percent to USD 470.00 in extended-hours trading.
The number of Americans filing new claims for unemployment benefits dropped from a six-month high last week but remained elevated as California continued to deal with a backlog related to computer problems.
The pace of manufacturing growth in the US mid-Atlantic region slowed slightly in October, but firms' optimism about the future hit a 10-year high, the Philadelphia Federal Reserve Bank said.


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Ignorance is Bliss
I'm really enjoying not understanding my paladin anymore. My bars needing retuning to fit with the new way to use attacks. It's taking some mental rewiring to imagine that divine storm isn't the core of my rotation, but instead an AoE finishing move. Now exorcism is a major ability, seeming to take the place of DS as my random damage proc. CS spam reminds me a little too much of a rogue with sinister strike, but the rest of it seems different enough, or at least fun.
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5 comments:
- Cassandri said...
Hey I saw your fancy new Holy Power bar. At least it's pretty?
- October 13, 2010 at 11:31 PM
- Issy said...
Lights.. shiny shiny lights.. must press.. shiny
- October 14, 2010 at 4:24 AM
- SlikRX said...
You're the second Ret I've run into that seems to like it. Most others (myself included) are not that happy.
I know that if I wanted to play a rogue (combo points) I would have rolled one.
*shrug* - October 14, 2010 at 3:53 PM
- Tam said...
I'm exactly the same way with my priest - flailing around, pressing all the shiny buttons. It's a good feeling :)
- October 14, 2010 at 4:47 PM
- Crusader Sev said...
thankfully my Holy specs weren't as different as relearning Ret was. Now I just need to figure out how to bear tank again.
the new Holy Power use reminded me of playing a Rogue too, I actually feel like I am constantly pressing buttons, rather than waiting for abilities to come off of cooldonwn. - October 14, 2010 at 11:43 PM
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What: MMMMMBoulder
When: 5:30 p.m., Saturday, April 27
Where: The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder
Tickets: $20
Info: thedairy.org/frontgate
In the short film "Good Dog," a dog does good. In fact, the dog is a lifesaver.
The uplifting nature of the film, which was made by Longmont resident Don Sniffin, is the kind of vibe to be found throughout MMMMMBoulder, a pan-arts event that celebrates the positive power of creativity.
"I think we all need that right now," event organizer Lisa Bell said.
MMMMMBoulder -- say it as if Boulder were the name of a tasty dish -- includes five different kinds of art, and they all can be identified with "M" words: music, movies, modern art, movement and monologue.
"It's really an interesting thing to do, to bring so many different artists together," Bell said.
Visitors seem to agree.
The show, now in its third year, sold out the first two times, Bell said. This year, it's planned for Saturday at The Dairy Center for the Arts in Boulder, and ticket sales indicate it could sell out again.
Bell herself is a musician, and she'll perform at the event. Other musical artists include Janis Kelly and Jeff Brinkman. Dancers from Frequent Flyers will fulfill the movement portion of the show while spoken art will come from The Catamounts. Work by five visual artists will be displayed, and five films, including "Good Dog," will be screened. All of the artists are local.
"I wanted to have a show that highlighted the best of art in Boulder County," Bell said.
Paying the artists was also important to her. Filmmakers, especially, find receiving a check from MMMMMBoulder a thrillingly unusual experience.
"They never get paid," Bell said.
It's one of the aspects of the show that makes it special, she believes. In fact, she doesn't know of another event like it -- at least not in Colorado, she said.
Boulder-based Ryan Van Duzer plans to screen his film "Live.Love.Bike." during the event. Van Duzer, a freelance producer of outdoor videos and former producer of the "Out There Guy" video series published by the Daily Camera, said this is his first involvement with MMMMMBoulder.
"For me it's a total honor to have a film in there," he said. "It's exciting to be a part of this group of creative people."
The film follows Duzer and his friend, Nick Albini, as they bicycle across the country talking with people they meet along the way. They ask people what they love most about life.
"It's not about riding a bike," Duzer said. "It's about the people we met."
The film jibes with Bell's vision for the event.
"Audiences can expect to be filled with joy," Duzer said of his film.
Artists such as Sniffin, who has screened a previous film of his at MMMMMBoulder, are happy to be a part of it. He said Bell has put together a high-quality, entertaining event.
"It really surprised me how big it's grown, how quickly it's grown," he said, adding, "It's a great date night."
"Good Dog" was filmed in Longmont and Niwot, and one of its stars is the funny Ellen Ranson, whom local audiences know as one-half of the acting duo The Silver Circuit. It also stars Sniffin's son, Zane, and their dog, Sundance.
Explaining the genesis of the film, Sniffin said, "I had a surreal event with the family dog, and it made me question why the dog was behaving oddly, and it came to me that the dog had a reason."
The film suggests that dogs might even possess supernatural powers of foresight.
The MMMMMBoulder art and theater program begins at 5:30 p.m. Other shows begin at 7 p.m.
Quentin Young can be reached at 303-684-5319 or firstname.lastname@example.com.