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In the midst of chewing out his team for a lackluster first-half effort, Seattle Sounders coach Sigi Schmid made certain his players knew to take chances on shots in the final 45 minutes trying for the needed three goals to advance.
"You can't be brilliant if you don't try it," Schmid said.
DeAndre Yedlin, Djimi Traore and Eddie Johnson were clearly listening, with three stunning goals that pushed Seattle into the semifinal round of the CONCACAF Champions League.
Johnson scored from a shallow angle along the end line in the 75th minute to cap Seattle's remarkable second-half comeback to beat Mexican power Tigres 3-2 on aggregate and advance to the semifinals for the first time in franchise history.
Seattle won the second-leg of the quarterfinal series 3-1 and became the first MLS club to oust a Mexican side in a home-and-home series since the format for the tournament was altered five years ago. Seattle will face either Houston or Santos Laguna in the semifinals.
"That's the point, a historic night. Houston can beat Santos tomorrow, but we are the first, and that's a good thing," Seattle goalkeeper Michael Gspurning said.
They did it against a Tigres side that traveled with just 16 players and left many of its starters in Mexico. Tigres played the entire second half with just 10-men after Manuel Viniegra was given a second yellow card in the 45th minute.
Elias Hernandez scored a crucial away goal in the 23rd minute on a defensive breakdown by Seattle that gave Tigres a 2-0 lead in the aggregate. But Seattle took full use of having the man advantage and put pressure on the Tigres goal the entire second half.
"The red card helped us go into a more offensive set … and obviously you can't say nothing but outstanding things about all three goals," Schmid said.
The most impressive of the three goals belonged to Traore, whose strike in the 60th minute gave Seattle a 2-1 lead in the match. Traore's shot from 30 yards out on a line skimmed the underside of the crossbar out of the reach of Tigres' goalkeeper Jorge de Leon.
"If you don't try, you can't score that kind of goal, so that's what I did," Traore said.
While Traore's was most impressive, Yedlin's was the most important. Seattle had gone 233 minutes over three matches without scoring until Yedlin took a chance and volleyed in a shot from 30 yards out in the 53rd minute to get Seattle on the board.
"When you score two goals like that, the way Yedlin scored and Traore scored, you feed off that energy and we had the momentum," Johnson said.
Following Traore's goal, Steve Zakuani and Sammy Ochoa both missed chances in the penalty box. Johnson finally gave Seattle the third goal it needed. He took a pass down the wing from Zakuani and cut hard toward the goal from a difficult angle. Instead of crossing to the middle of the box, Johnson slid his shot past Diaz de Leon on the near post.
"In the first half I got in the same position and I tried to shoot it across to the back post," Johnson said. "I looked at the replay and saw he leans and cheats a little bit. I was able to sneak it in near post."
Tigres had a chance to pull out a late victory, but Alan Pulido's shot off a corner kick in stoppage time went just wide of the net. Pulido was one of just three Tigres players to appear in the first leg in Mexico and make the trip to Seattle. Tigres, the current leader of Mexico's top division, had a league match last weekend, while Seattle had a bye in MLS play.
Tigres coach Ricardo Ferretti gave credit to Seattle for the win, but was critical of referee Elmer Bonilla.
"I don't want to take away anything from Seattle's victory. They didn't need this type of help," Ferretti said through an interpreter. "But playing against 12 is a little bit harder."


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Texas actor John R. Morales has been sentenced to 16 years in prison for possession of drugs, weapons, and generally not taking a bite out of crime.
The former crime dog was arrested in 2011 after he was pulled over for speeding (McGruff!) and police found blueprints for two marijuana-growing facilities on his front seat and marijuana seeds just chilling in the trunk of his car, which CBS Houston is quick to point out is an Infiniti. (At least McGruff drove a car with an excellent safety rating? That's a good car, right?)
During a search of Morales' home, officers found "1,000 marijuana plants, 27 weapons – including a grenade launcher, and 9,000 rounds of ammunition" which the actor was probably using for research purposes. You can't really teach kids about crimes if you haven't committed them, right? I don't know, because McGruff never came to my school; instead we got a group of people who taught us the gritty details of what each drug was like and in which unpleasant way each could kill you. They had certainly had experience (mainly in frightening adolescents).
Morales was sentenced last Monday and while he protested that he was non-violent, District Judge Vanessa Gilmore stated: "Everything I read about you makes you seem like a scary person."
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A major push from the Irish American community for comprehensive immigration reform was announced at the New York Athletic club on Thursday night when $200,000 was raised for the fight for reform.
Honored on the night were Brendan Murray with the Pat Donaghy Award and Mike Brewster with the Irish Spirit Award. Over 200 Irish American leaders were in attendance.
Irish Lobby for Immigration Reform President Ciaran Staunton stated that the best opportunity since 1965 now existed to change immigration law forever and that the Irish were not going to be left behind.
He stated that the E3 Schumer visas in the bill which would allow 10,500 Irish citizens to emigrate legally every year would be covered by the bill and that 50,000 Irish undocumented would also be covered. "This is our best chance in a generation," he said.
He stated that Senator Charles Schumer had delivered in a powerful way and the the Schumer E3 visas would change the face of the Irish community forever.
Martin Brennan Chief of Staff for Senator Schumer stated that 99 percent of activism on major bills was when the going was toughest and uphill. He said ILIR had stayed focused and at the center of the fight despite setbacks and tough years.
Now he stated the Irish lobby had reached the crest of the hill and one more push and the bill could get passed.
"We are in a better place than we have been in a very long time," he said.
He dated Senator Schumer's involvement with ILIR and his promise to deliver to his attendance at a mass rally in The Bronx for immigration reform soon after ILIR was founded in 2005.
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Packaging in broad terms means the technology of enclosing a product for storage, distribution, sale, and use. Metal can packaging is one of the types of packaging. A metal can is a container for the storage and distribution of goods, and is composed of thin metal, usually steel or aluminum. These metal cans hold a wide range of products such as food, beverages, oils, and chemicals. Due to the many benefits associated with metal cans such as long shelf life, recyclability, biodegradability, UV ray and bacterial protection, excellent printability, and its ability to retain the flavor and aroma of the contents, they are highly preferred by consumers over other traditional packaging materials such as glass and plastic. In addition, the high recycling and recovery rate is a major factor driving the growing demand for metal cans.
Analysts forecast the Global Food and Beverage Metal Can market will grow at a CAGR of 3.01 percent and 3.22 percent with respect to revenue and volume, respectively, over the period 2013-2018.
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The Global Food and Beverage Metal Can market can be divided into two segments: Food Cans and Beverage Cans
Global Food and Beverage Metal Can Market 2014-2018, has been prepared based on an in-depth market analysis with inputs from industry experts. The report covers Europe, North America, the APAC region, and the ROW; it also covers the Global Food and Beverage Metal Can market landscape and its growth prospects in the coming years. The report also includes a discussion of the key vendors operating in this market.
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NVIDIA Joins the Bundle Game: Up to $150 in credit on Free-to-Play games for all GTX buyers
Subject: Graphics Cards | February 11, 2013 - 12:33 PM | Ryan Shrout
Tagged: world of tanks, planetside 2, nvidia, Hawken, gtx, geforce, bundle
AMD has definitely been winning the "game" of game bundles and bonus content with graphics cards purchases, as is evident from the recent Never Settle Reloaded campaign that includes titles like Crysis 3, Bioshock Infinite and Tomb Raider. I made comments that NVIDIA was falling behind and may even start to look like they have moved away from a focus on PC gamers since they hadn't made any reply over the last year...
After losing a bidding war with AMD over Crysis 3, today NVIDIA is unveiling a bundle campaign that attack at a different angle; rather than including in bundled games NVIDIA is working free-to-play titles. How do you give gamers bonuses by including free to play games? Credits! Cold hard cash!
Starting today if you pick up any GeForce GTX graphics card you'll be eligible to get free in-game credit to use in one of the three free-to-play titles partnering with NVIDIA. A GTX 650 or GTX 650 Ti will net you $25 in each for a total bonus of $75 while buying a GTX 660 or higher, all the way up to the GTX 690 results in $50 per game for a total of $150.
Also, after asking NVIDIA about it, this is a PER CARD bundle so if you get an SLI pair of anything, you'll get double the credit. A pair of GeForce GTX 660s for an SLI rig results in $100 per game, $300 total!
This is a very interesting approach that NVIDIA has decided to take and I am eager to get feedback from our readers on the differences between AMD's and NVIDIA's bundles. I have played quite a bit of Planetside 2 and definitely enjoyed it; it is a graphics showcase as well with huge and expansive levels and hundreds of people per server. World of Tanks and Hawken I am less familiar with but they also are extremely popular.
Leave us your comments below! Do you think NVIDIA's new GeForce GTX gaming bundle for free-to-play game credits can be successful!
If you are looking for a new GeForce GTX card today and this bundle convinced you to buy, feel free to use the links below.
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Users Will Be Able to Play Hawken On Gaikai Before Release
Subject: General Tech | June 3, 2012 - 03:20 AM | Tim Verry
Tagged: streaming, Hawken, gaming, gaikai
Mech Shooter Hawken will launch on December 12th, 2012 but streaming gaming service Gaikai has made a deal with Meteor Entertainment to allow gamers to play the game before launch to demonstrate its playability through its streaming service using NVIDIA's GRID cloud gaming technology.
According to gaming website Joystiq, Gaikai has signed a deal with publisher Meteor Entertainment to allow gamers to test out the mech shooter PC game running on Gaikai's streaming service ahead of the game's official release on 12/12/12. First demonstrated at GTC 2012, the free-to-play game uses NVIDIA's GRID technology to reduce latency on the server and client sides.
A video of the NVIDIA demonstration.
Mark Long, CEO of Meteor Entertainment stated that "HAWKEN wants to be free and it wants to be everywhere - and with Gaikai, it will be." The game has proved quite popular and has hundreds of thousands of gamers signing up for the closed beta. The free-to-play game is returning to a PC gaming classic with mech fighting and if Gaikai is able to deliver it will be a game that will be accessible to all kinds of devices from tablets to high powered gaming PCs.
That last bit is the real question though, and one that many gamers have on their minds. Gaikai is offering up the game pre-release to prove itself as a viable platform, and that is going to be a make it or break it situation. Here's hoping that the NVIDIA GRID technology delivers and results in a playable game with real world performance benefits. While they have not set an exact date for when it will go live, gamers will be able to access it via the playhawken.com website. Will you be checking out Hawken streaming for yourself?
Battle of the Mechses: Hawken vs. Mechwarrior Online?
Subject: Editorial, General Tech | March 2, 2012 - 02:26 AM | Scott Michaud
Tagged: Mechwarrior, Hawken, free to play
The mech combat genre has been mostly forgotten if you exclude the arcade-style and completely not-the-same-niche Mechassault or Gundam titles. While the occasional title does exist, the itch has not been scratched for fans of Mechwarrior. You could check out Mechwarrior: Living Legends because the PC platform is awesome -- but there is also a commercial war a brewing out of the blue between Hawken and Mechwarrior Online.
Hawken is an Unreal Engine 3-powered Free-to-Play mech combat title. From its promotional material it appears to be paced slightly quicker than a Mechwarrior game. The universe is not based on a preexisting franchise. Closed beta signups are occurring now and the full game should be released on December 12th.
Mechwarrior Online is another Free-to-Play mech combat title based on CryEngine 3. When the game is launched sometime this year, the universe will launch as that date in 3049. The game calendar will then be synchronized to our calendar for its lifespan. Speculation claims that the voice-over artist for the mech startup sequence is Carole Ruggier known for voice of Athena in the God of War franchise -- oh and she played the voice of the mech startup sequence in Mechwarrior 2 back in 1995. I have not been able to confirm these rumors but if they are true: they certainly nod to the fans.
Which are you most excited for? Hawken? Mechwarrior Online? Or are you going to stick with the perpetually free Mechwarrior Living Legends? Discuss away.
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Title 30 TAC 116.310 - 314, December 10, 1998
Subchapter D Permit Renewals
§ 116.310 Notification of Permit Holder
§ 116.311 Permit Renewal Application
§ 116.312 Public Notification and Comment Procedures
§ 116.313 Renewal Application Fees
§ 116.314 Review Schedule
116.310 Notification of Permit Holder
The executive director shall provide written notice to the permit holder that the permit is scheduled for review. Such notice must be provided by certified or registered United States mail no less than 180 days prior to the expiration of the permit. The notice must specify the procedure for filing an application for review and the information to be included in the application. Under Texas Civil Statutes, Article 9027, the commission shall exempt a permit holder from any increased fee or other penalty for failure to renew the permit if the individual establishes, to the satisfaction of the commission, that the failure to renew in a timely manner occurred because the individual was on active duty in the United States Armed Forces serving outside the State of Texas.
116.311 Permit Renewal Application
(a) In order to be granted a permit renewal, the permit holder shall submit information in support of the application which demonstrates that:
(1) the facility is being operated in accordance with all requirements and conditions of the existing permit, including representations in the application for permit to construct and subsequent amendments, and any previously granted renewal, unless otherwise authorized for a qualified facility;
(2) the facility meets the requirements of any applicable New Source Performance Standards as listed under Title 40 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) Part 60, promulgated by the EPA under the authority of the FCAA, § 111, as amended;
(3) the facility meets the requirements of any applicable emission standard for hazardous air pollutants as listed under Title 40 CFR Part 61, promulgated by EPA under the authority of the FCAA, § 112, as amended; and
(4) the facility meets the requirements of any applicable maximum achievable control technology standard as listed under 40 CFR Part 63, promulgated by the EPA under FCAA, § 112 or as listed under Chapter 113, Subchapter C of this title (relating to National Emissions Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants for Source Categories (FCAA § 112, 40 CFR 63))
(5) the facility meets the requirements of Subchapter C of this chapter (relating to Hazardous Air Pollutants: Regulations Governing Constructed or Reconstructed Major Sources (FCAA, § 112(g), 40 CFR Part 63)).
(b) In addition to the requirements in subsection (a) of this section, if the commission determines it necessary to avoid a condition of air pollution or to ensure compliance with otherwise applicable federal or state air quality control requirements, then:
(1) the applicant may be required to submit additional information regarding the emissions from the facility and their impacts on the surrounding area; and
(2) the commission shall impose as a condition for renewal only those requirements the executive director determines to be economically reasonable and technically practicable considering the age of the facility and the impact of its emissions on the surrounding area.
(c) A compliance history review must be conducted in accordance with § § 116.121-116.126 of this title (relating to Compliance History). The renewal application must demonstrate that the facility is or has been in substantial compliance with the provisions of the TCAA and the terms of the existing permit. Failure to demonstrate substantial compliance shall result in the renewal not being granted. If it is found that violations in the compliance history constitute a recurring pattern of egregious conduct which demonstrates a consistent disregard for the regulatory process, including failure to make a timely and substantial attempt to correct the violations, the renewal shall be denied. If a contested case hearing has not been called, the executive director must notify the applicant of the intent to recommend denial and state the basis of the findings. The applicant will be given an opportunity to respond to the notice. If the findings reflect a pattern of disregard for applicable regulations which do not warrant denial, additional conditions may be placed in the permit.
(d) An application for renewal must be submitted within 90 days prior to expiration of the permit or the permit will expire. The executive director may extend the time period for submitting an application.
(e) Any permit issued:
(1) before December 1, 1991, is subject for review 15 years after the date of issuance;
(2) on or after December 1, 1991, is subject for review every ten years after the date of issuance.
(3) at nonfederal sources on or after December 1, 1991, may, for cause, contain a provision requiring renewal between five and ten years.
116.312 Public Notification and Comment Procedures
(a) The executive director shall mail a written notice to the permit holder within 30 days after receipt of a complete application. The notice will confirm receipt of the application and shall require the applicant to provide public notice of the application for permit renewal in accordance with Subchapter B of this chapter (relating to New Source Review Permits).
(b) The sign heading required under § 116.133(a)(2) of this title (relating to Sign Posting Requirements) shall read "PROPOSED RENEWAL OF AIR QUALITY PERMIT."
116.313 Renewal Application Fees
(a) The fee for renewal is based on the total annual allowable emissions from the permitted facility to be renewed, according to the following table.
|X = Total Allowable (Tons/Year)
|Base Fee
|Incremental Fee
Maximum fee: $10,000
* To calculate the fee, multiply the number of tons in excess of the lower limit of the appropriate category by the incremental fee, then add this amount to the base fee. For example, if total emissions of all air contaminants are 50 tons per year, the total fee would be $1,615 (base fee of $965, plus incremental fee of $25 x 26 tons or $650).
(b) Fees are due and payable at the time the renewal application is filed. No fee will be accepted before the permit holder has been notified by the commission that the permit is scheduled for review. All permit review fees shall be remitted by check or money order payable to the Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission (TNRCC) and mailed to the TNRCC, P.O. Box 13088, MC 214, Austin, Texas 78711-3088. Required fees must be received before the agency will consider an application to be complete.
(a) Renewal of permit. The executive director shall renew a permit and notify the permit holder in writing if it is determined that the facility meets the requirements of this subchapter.
(b) Denial of renewal. Prior to denial, the executive director shall provide notice to the permit holder with a report which describes the basis for denial.
(1) If denial is based on failure to meet the requirements of § 116.311(a) or (b) of this title (relating to Permit Renewal Application), the report shall establish a schedule for compliance with the renewal requirements.
(A) The report shall be forwarded to the permit holder no later than 180 days after the commission receives a completed application.
(B) The permit shall be renewed if the requirements are met according to the schedule specified in the report. The executive director shall notify the permit holder in writing of the permit renewal.
(2) If denial is based on failure to maintain substantial compliance with the TCAA or the terms of the existing permit under § 116.311(c) of this title, the renewal denial shall be final. The executive director shall notify the permit holder in writing of the denial.
(c) Contested case hearing. After failure to satisfy the commission requirements for corrective action by the deadline specified in the executive director's report, the applicant shall show cause in a contested case proceeding why the permit should not expire. The proceeding will be conducted under the APA and Chapters 1, 55, and 80 of this title (relating to Purpose of Rules, General Provisions; Request for Contested Case Hearings; Public Comment; and Contested Case Hearings).
(d) Effective date of existing permit. An existing permit shall remain effective:
(1) until it is renewed;
(2) until the deadline specified in the executive director's report to the permit holder;
(3) during the course of a contested case hearing if the hearing extends beyond the expiration date; or
(4) until a date specified in any commission order entered following a contested case hearing.
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An overnight shooting in Independence has become a homicide.
Independence Police say Erik S. Schwartz, 33, of Raytown was found lying in the street with gunshot wounds in the 400 block of North Grand Avenue in the early morning hours Wednesday. He was taken to a hospital, where he died hours later.
Independence Police say a reward of up to $1,000 is offered through the TIPS Hotline for information leading to an arrest in the case. Call 816-474-8477 if you have information, or you can call IPD at 816-325-7852 or Investigations at 816-325-7330.


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Improvements (perhaps a WPA project) to the airport at Patterson, Louisiana, ca. 1941. Following the deaths of Jimmie Wedell (1935) and Harry Williams (1936) the former home of the Wedell-Williams Air Service began a transformation into what is now the Harry P. Williams Airport.
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Spain's role in the Eurozone economic crisis is unique, even though discussion of the problem tends not to differentiate Spain's issues from those of Greece, Ireland, and Portugal, argues Sebastián Royo, associate dean of the College of Arts and Sciences and director of the Madrid campus, in an article published in the journal Governance.
In 2007, before the crisis, Spain had one of the lowest rates of public debt in the western world at 36.3 per cent of GDP, Royo told a writer for the Governance blog.
"So the notion that the country was irresponsible and that public debt had got out of control is simply not true," said Royo.
Royo analyzes the impact of the global crisis on the Spanish financial system between 2008 and 2010. and the performance of the largest Spanish financial institutions in the article "How Did the Spanish Financial System Survive the First Stage of the Global Crisis?"
Governance: An International Journal of Policy, Administration and Institutions, published in association with the International Political Science Association's Research Committee on the Structure & Organization of Government, provides a forum for the theoretical and practical discussion of executive politics, public policy, administration, and the organization of the state.
Its co-editors are Alasdair Roberts, the Jerome L. Rappaport Professor of Law and Public Policy at Suffolk University Law School, and Robert H. Cox .


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MOSCOW -- A meteor streaked over the city of Chelyabinsk in Russia's Ural Mountains on Friday morning, producing a blast that injured hundreds, caused minor damage to buildings and temporarily disrupted Internet communication, officials said.
Yelena Smirnykh, deputy information chief of the Emergency Situations Ministry said 474 people sought medical assistance after the explosion. "Five of them were hospitalized, most of the injuries being cuts by shattered window glass," she said.
[Updated, 7:41 a.m. Feb. 15: Later in the day, Emergency Situations Minister Vladimir Puchkov reported to President Vladimir Putin in televised remarks that more than 500 people were injured, with 112 of them -- including 80 children -- requiring hospital care.
Puchkov said 297 residential houses, 12 schools, several social facilities and industrial buildings were damaged.
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"It was recommended that work be halted at some enterprises [during the day] so that citizens could go back to their homes and assess the damage," Puchkov said in his report.
An unidentified Interior Ministry spokesman told the Interfax news agency that about 1,000 people were injured, including over 200 children.
Interfax also reported that the largest parts of the meteor fell in three areas near Chelyabinsk, including Chebarkul Lake.]


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Sprucing Up An Outdoor Dining Area
Now that spring is finally making an appearance in the Pacific Northwest, it is time to start dining outside. Last year, we started to build a little nook in the yard where we could entertain but this year it's all about the furnishings and accessories. Here is a collection of items that might inspire you to revamp your al fresco dining space.
Shown above, top row, left to right:
1. Some inspiration found via Haute Design.
2. Biergarten Table and Folding Bench Set $499.99
3. Heath Ceramics, Seasonal Collection $58 - $175
4. Not Neutral Small Metal Lantern $50
5. 1939 Dining Chair by Sundance $245
Bottom row, left to right:
6. Pottery Barn Cafe String Lights $39
7. Anthropologie Prism Table Runner $78
8. CB2 Sparky Firepit $249
9. Dutch by Design Hanging Candles $24
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Installing GoDaddy SSL Certificates on a Cisco IOS Router using CLI
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I have found the process of getting a GoDaddy certificate installed on an IOS router had, like many Cisco projects, become a research project. The process is poorly documented and much of the documented commands are outdated due to the changes in IOS. I hope this helps save some time and energy on your part.
This design assumes a recent 12.4.x version of IOS and being familar with the GoDaddy certificate process.
Make sure your routers time is correct before starting. I suggest you setup NTP to keep the routers time correct. If the routers time is not correct, it will affect the certificate's functionality.
Steps involve:
- Create a 2048 bit RSA key.
- Create the trustpoint.
- Create the certificate request.
- Submit the request to GoDaddy and retreive the certificates.
- Install the intermedate certificate bundle.
- Install the certificate.
- Verify.
Full GoDaddy SSL Certificate configuration Example
Related show Commands
show crypto pki certificates show crypto pki trustpoints
Certain show commands are supported by the Output Interpreter Tool (registered customers only), which allows you to view an analysis of show command output.


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(CNN) -- The U.S. will come face to face with the man who helped inspire the "Miracle of Medinah" once more when it faces Europe at the 2014 Ryder Cup at Gleneagles.
Ian Poulter, the man known as "Mr Ryder Cup" will be part of the European side after securing a wildcard pick from captain Paul McGinley.
Poulter is joined by Scotsman Stephen Gallacher and England's Lee Westwood -- but there is no room for former World No.1 Luke Donald.
Poulter, 38, won all four of his matches two years ago as Europe came back from the brink to record an astonishing 14½ - 13½ victory.
Westwood, who made his Ryder Cup debut in 1997, has won 21 points in 37 matches and has appeared in eight editions of the competition.
Gallacher, who will be playing in front of his home crowd, finished third at the Italian Open and only just missed out on automatic qualification.
McGinley, the European captain, told a news conference that omitting Donald, who boasts an impressive Ryder Cup record, was one of his most difficult tasks.
"It was a very difficult conversation with him for a number of reasons," McGinley told reporters ahead of the match getting under way on September 26.
"My relationship with Luke is very close. He has played in every Ryder Cup I've been involved in apart from 2008 which we both missed.
"I've partnered Luke twice in 2004 and 2006 and vice-captained him in 2010 and 12. I forged a very strong relationship with him.
"His Ryder Cup record is outstanding and he will no doubt go on to make many more appearances in the Ryder Cup.
"It was a difficult call but one I had to do in the interests of the European team."
Europe will be led by Rory McIlroy, the World No.1, while it also boasts four of the top players on the planet.
Sweden's Henrik Stenson is joined by Spain's Sergio Garcia and England's Justin Rose, while there are also places for Thomas Bjorn, Martin Kaymer and Graeme McDowell.
McGinley's team will also have two men making their debuts at the competition with Victor Dubuisson of France and Welshman Jamie Donaldson both having qualified.
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Big Studios Willing To Let Fan Fiction Fly?
from the one-hopes... dept
"Browncoats: Redemption was made by the fans for the fans," director Michael Dougherty explained to Wired.com by e-mail. "But we view this as an independent film; we had Firefly fans travel from all over the U.S. to volunteer their time as extras and other supportive roles in its production. Without them, this film would not exist, and it will only be successful with their continued help and support."Unfortunately, the article at Wired totally leaves out the question of whether or not the copyright holders know about this particular fan film, and if they're okay with it. Plenty of movie makers -- such as George Lucas -- are perfectly happy with fan flicks, even to the point of encouraging them. But, in this case, it's not clear if this is, in any way, sanctioned. While the filmmakers say they're doing this for charity, that still suggests they're hoping to make some money from the film to give to charity -- which often is the trigger that sets off Hollywood lawyers.
Whedon, for his part, has always been good about cultivating super-loyal fans, and at the same time, of experimenting with smart business models. But, not everyone associated with Firefly/Serentiy have always been so sharp. Back when Universal Studios tried to market Serenity via its biggest fans, the lawyers at Universal (apparently kept separate from the marketers) tried to demand licensing fees from the fans that the marketing department was urging to promote the film.
Looking over the site of the movie itself, it does suggest that they were able to secure permission from everyone necessary -- including both Universal and Fox (who ran the TV show) along with Whedon himself:
So here's how it is, we've reached out to FOX, Universal Studios, Joss' agent at CAA, and even Mary Parent who is now at MGM. Everyone we've dealt with has been extremely helpful and completely blown away the stereotype of what the Hollywood experience is like. And much to our surprise, we even have the blessing of Joss Whedon himself. We've reached out to both Fox and Universal to get a greater understanding of the legal permissions we needed to make this a reality and we set out to complete it. And thanks to mighty fine Browncoats like yourself...we have.That's slightly cryptic, but it sounds like all the legal permissions were granted, and perhaps this fan film will go ahead with all the official blessings. While it's silly that such a permission-based culture is necessary, just to make a film celebrating something that people love, at the very least, it's nice to see some Hollywood folks recognizing that fan fiction and fan films aren't inherently bad things.


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Monsters University
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"Monsters, Inc." always has been one of the most underrated of Pixar's animated features, not getting enough credit for its zippy pace, cute beasties, clever visual gags and unexpectedly heartwarming ending. The prequel "Monsters University" made a ton of money this past summer, but the relatively mild response from critics suggests that it's on its way to being underrated too. The story of how the hulking James P. Sullivan (voiced by John Goodman) and the diminutive, one-eyed Mike Wazowski (Billy Crystal) met in college and became unlikely...


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Anis from Chinchón
Miguel Ángel Muñoz Romero. Turismo de Chinchón
Which area of Spain is it typical?
- Autonomous region: Madrid Region
The tradition of anis production in Chinchón dates back to the 17th century, when vast crops of aniseed were first cultivated.
The aniseed, known as 'matalahúva', oval shaped and green in colour, comes from the umbelífera Pimpinell anissum L plant.. The liquor known as anis is obtained through the maceration of the green aniseed in agricultural alcohol. It is then distilled in a copper still. The result is a clear liquid with an alcoholic content that varies by type: between 70-74% for the Chinchón Special Dry, 40-45% for the Chinchón Dry and 35-40% for Chinchón Sweet. Anis may or may not be sweetened. It is consumed either as a liquor or as an ingredient in a wide variety of cakes or tarts, thanks to its sweetness and characteristic aroma.
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Product information
- Type of product: Others
- Season: Year-round.
- Origin: The area of production of anis from Chinchón comprises the town limits of the town of Chinchón, located to the south-west of Madrid.
- Varieties: The varieties include sweet, semisweet, dry and extra dry.
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- Energy: High
- Cholesterol: 0
- Comments: Rich in carbohydrates and energy.


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Right now I am spending every free moment working on the new Bella Luna Toys website, about which I'm all aflutter. I can't wait for you to see it! As a result, I've had very little time to write blog posts.
So here today, inspired by SouleMama, I am sharing Amanda's Friday ritual. A single photo, no words, capturing a moment. (And, in this case, a sneak peek into what I've been working on!)
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Ireland's rugby team is set to face off against the American rugby team The Eagles this June in Houston, TX. This will be the third time the two teams have met.
The USA Rugby Organization writes that The Eagles, the U.S. Men's National Rugby Team, will host Ireland at BBVA Compass Stadium in Houston on Saturday, June 8, 2013, as one of the only international matches being held in the US this year.
Nigel Melville, CEO for USA Rugby, said "We have established a great foundation for rugby in Houston with our previous match between the USA and Italy last year, welcoming a record-setting crowd of 18,000 people. With the success of that game, we are pleased to return to Houston with another highly-anticipated international match, this time welcoming Ireland and their fans."
BBVA Compass Stadium general manager Doug Hall said "It is our goal to provide rugby fans, as well as the teams, with a unique and memorable experience including a pre-game fanfest for this game. Houston has proven that it's fast becoming a rugby town and we are thrilled to be a part of that growth and development."
Ireland, which is currently ranked 6th in the world, will face off against The Eagles who are ranked 16th. The teams have previously faced off in both 2009 and 2011 at the Rugby World Cup in New Zealand; Ireland won both matches.
Tickets are available online at www.axs.com or www.bbvacompassstadium.com or by calling 888-929-7849. Tickets are also available at the Ticket Office, open Monday-Friday from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Prices start at $20. Group tickets will be available beginning Monday, January 28 to groups of 10 or more by calling 713-547-3055.


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All 5 MARVAC Shows Post Record Attendance
March 28, 2013 by RVBusiness · Comments Off on All 5 MARVAC Shows Post Record Attendance
The 2012-2013 Michigan Association of Recreational Vehicles & Campgrounds (MARVAC) show season wrapped up this past weekend with all five shows posting the highest consumer attendance in years.
According to a press release, the show season began on a strong note with the Fall Detroit Camper & RV Show up 30% in visitors, and RV dealers optimistic for the upcoming year. This was followed in February by the Detroit Camper & RV Show which was up 13%, the highest in over 12 years.
MARVAC said that shows in Battle Creek, Flint and Traverse City continued the positive energy with excellent attendance and sales.
"Michigan residents continue to look at the recreation vehicle lifestyle as an increasingly popular way to travel and vacation with their family in a safe and efficient way," said Bill Sheffer, MARVAC director. "This year's show reflected an increase in attendance from both new RV enthusiasts and veteran RV owners looking to upgrade their recreation vehicle in 2013."
Last year began this upward trend with motorhome sales rising 7.3% nationally from 2011, according to Statistical Surveys Inc. RV shipments are projected to grow 7.5% in 2013 to 307,300 units, according to economist Richard Curtin, director, Surveys of Consumers at the University of Michigan.
Continued industry growth in 2013 is evident by MARVAC's shows, but many factors will contribute to this growth and interest in the RV industry in 2013. Economic growth, more expendable household income and greater availability for financing is expected to have a positive impact on consumers and sales well into the camping season.
The Michigan Association of Recreation Vehicles and Campgrounds (MARVAC) is a statewide, non-profit organization dedicated to encouraging growth in the recreation vehicle and private campground industries while contributing to the quality of Michigan tourism. For more information, visit www.marvac.org.


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You're never too young to show your patriotism by donning an Instakilt. Suitable for children from around 4 years to 10, it's based on the original red kilt towel tartan design but with a traditional leather sporran design that's unique to the children's sized towel.
The kids Instakilt is made from the same high quality towelling as our adult kilt towels which means it washes well and dries even better, and we hear the kids kilt towel has become hugely popular at bath times in homes around Scotland.
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She is a cute, small, skinny girl who tells herself shes fat and ugly. No she is not. She is one of the most beautiful girls in the world. She's so hilarious and laughs at her own jokes which then, you will just crack up. Her name is unique and funny , though sometimes she gets annoyed and pissed , but not in a serious way. She's fun and outgoing but sometimes she is quite shy. She has this magnet force that attracts guys so many at once, you won't believe it but, it's not her fault she's gorgeous. She is Virra, one of the greatest people you will ever meet. You should really go find a Virra and be her bestfriend, cause there's not many , and I already have mine.
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by Dewey Ganzel
A talk given to the Friends of the Oberlin College Library
24 May 1997
What do you read, my lord? Polonius asks Hamlet.
And Hamlet replies :Word, words, words.
Pol. What is the matter, my lord?
Ham. Between who?
Pol. I mean the matter that you read, my lord.
And Hamlet replies: Slanders, sir. (II, ii, 193-8)
Life sometimes imitates Art, and something like this scene from Hamlet was reenacted when Ray asked me to talk (not lecture, surely!) today to the Friends of the Oberlin College Library. When he asked for my title, (what are you reading my lord) he was (perhaps understandably) puzzled by my reply (words, words, words) and in a voice betraying just the slightest bit of concern &endash; but too nice to admit outright that he was on the verge of realizing he may have been stuck with a bad choice, he probed, ever so gently, to determine what the title meant &endash; what was the matter was &endash; and I said I felt fine &endash; and he, kindly, left it there.
Now, I imagine it is your question to me. What are you reading, my lord, I hear you asking, and my answer is &endash; still &endash; "words, words, words." What better subject for the Friends of the Oberlin College Library, which is to say, going back to root word, Friends of the Book-place, &endash; the vaults where they keep the words. We are all friends of the Word here.
In cross-examining Hamlet, Polonius, you may remember, was looking for evidence that Hamlet was mad. (I hope your motivation for being here is different, but if not, remember what Hamlet does to Polonius only a little later in the play.) In his reply, Hamlet parried Polonius' question by announcing the obvious: what else does one read but words? Obvious.
But actually, when one thinks about it, it is not obvious at all. We read words &endash; and the fact that there are words and that we can, that we do, and that we must read them is among the more recondite facts of existence, and not a comfortable one.
We read words but what does that mean? If you think the answer to that question is easy, you are probably still under the spell cast by Gutenberg and those Chinese wizards who invented movable type &endash; and with it the printed page &endash; hundreds of years ago. They have a lot to answer for.
In the next thirty minutes I will try to suggest why I think the word and our dedication to it is not an unqualified miracle.
I don't pretend to be disinterested. As a teacher of literature, I have an inside view of the subject. I started with &endash; and kept &endash; a thirst for words which goes well beyond the epistemological possibilities. Like many teachers of literature I get drunk &endash; easily &endash; on words.
Take that word Epistemological &endash; forget its meaning &endash; listen to the sound of it &endash; that rush which has nothing to do with the nature of knowledge and everything to do with what is happening in your mouth when you say it &endash; listen to it &endash; e -PIST-- temo-logi - cal. Its like a roller coaster in the last three seconds before the first drop, that moment when the mechanical power pulling you away from gravity gives up and you are caught in a breathless equilibrium seemingly weightless before you are dropped, relentlessly, inevitably, back into the weighted world. (Epistemological!)
To be a drunk with words is at the very least embarrassing. One can make a fool of oneself &endash; even if one is a poet, and I am not nor was meant to be. (The true poet is a verbal inebriate, soaked to the gills with words who can nevertheless keep them in line and never lose his balance.) No, I am not a poet, I am a teacher of literature (or have been), a discussant, a purveyor of words about words about word. It is, surely, one of the strangest of occupations. (Was any great poem written to be taught in a classroom?!) My appetite for the word has had to be chastened, harnessed, reined in
(except, perhaps, at moments like this? No, particularly at moments like this!)
My professional life has been "cabined, cribbed and confined" by words &endash;and I might interject that by stating that fact in such a deriviative way &endash; (with yet another obeisance to Shakespeare as the cognoscenti among you have recognized) &endash; I have shown one of the classic symptoms of the disease &endash; an addiction to quoting other peoples' words.
Teachers of literature are singularly burdened by the fact that their "medium" and their "message" are one. The subject of their interest (words) is identical to the means they must employ to explore it. This might seem like an advantage, but it's not. To explain the thing itself (the word) by the thing itself is unlike the task of mathematicians or chemists or sociologists or artists or musicians or even historians (none of whom would be the least sympathetic to the problem). All these estimable savants have a subject discretely removed from its method of examination, a body of knowledge which is physically discrete and demonstrable, data which can be quantified, historical event which can be verified.
The teacher of literature, on the other hand, is a creature of words, words to explain other words which explain still more words and so ad infinitum. As a result, I think we are more vulnerable than most to seduction by the word, its sound, the complexity of its meaning and &endash; here is the point &endash; its characteristic way of breaking away from the idea which it was, presumably, formed to express. The teacher of the word is more likely than others to slip into the teleological traps which the word, by its very nature sets.
If you need an example, I have just given you one &endash; teleological traps &endash; you know the meaning of the words (teleological: to see a cause, design or purpose in (this case) language &endash; a pithy idea here coupled with trap &endash; (teleological trap!) how trippingly the alliteration rolls from the tongue, "the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth" (this passage was stolen from Nabokov's Lolita)-- how pleasurably the sound scours the possibilities of meaning &endash; or, rather, evokes a fresh context to make a new meaning, possibly the wrong one. The idea has been subordinated to the word, sound has usurped sense. The phrase has a certain elegance, it is fun to play with (I left it in, didn't I?) but it is still a trap. The idea has been subordinated however slightly to the word, sound has usurped sense. The more or less unvarnished idea that I am trying to express has been gussied up, and, I suspect, its idea displaced in the process.
The love of words &endash; is as blind as any other.
The foregoing confession was intended to soften you up for my thesis which is:
that the word and the idea, contrary to our workaday assumption, are never identical and are, in fact, in unremitting conflict,
that word and idea by which I mean (to use Wallace Stevens' phrase) the cast of imagination, the self-reflexive, individual and unique thought, cannot be fully reconciled and that
-- here's the point &endash;
literature is the result of this war. At its worst literature is a cry of frustration, at its best a kind of truce, an attempt to make the best of the (now) inevitable conflict between imagination and the word. Whatever the result of this truce &endash; whatever its apparent glories &endash; the plays of Shakespeare, the poems of Yeats, the novels of Henry James &endash; it is always, at least in part, a cry of distress and of qualified failure.
(Is that outrageous enough for you?)
Some of you are thinking that this is merely the crotchet of a teacher of literature playing word games to keep himself or a drowsy class awake. Shakespeare in Distress? Yeats a qualified Failure? Well, they thought so. Remember Shakespeare's plaintive cry for a muse of fire! (Henry V) or Yeats bewailing the desertion of his "circus animals":
Those masterful images because complete
Grew in pure mind, but out of what began?
A mound of refuse or the sweepings of a street,
Old kettles, old bottles, and a broken can,
Old iron, old bones, old rags, that raving slut
Who keeps the till. Now that my ladder's gone,
I must lie down where all the ladders start,
In the foul rag-and-bone shop of the heart."
Or Marianne Moore condemning and praising the need for poetry:
"I, too, dislike it: there are things that are more important beyond/
all this fiddle. / Reading it, however, with a perfect contempt for it, one
/ discovers in/ it after all, a place for the genuine.""Poetry," Collected Poems
Which is, of course, the point of enduring the anguish.
I am no poet and therefore have not felt the angst of invention in a chaotic world of words, but even foot soldiers see battle now and then. I have had more hand-to-hand combat with the word than most of you, and I have the latest news from the front.
I have read over a million words every year for the past thiry-nine years and that's only counting student papers. Such necessity gives new meaning to the idea of the tyranny of the word. One wants to tame it, or release it, or to force it into irregular patterns. I think my fascination with crossword puzzles derives from the way they force language into an arbitrary symmetrical visual pattern which has nothing to do with meaning but merely pretends to have control over words by reducing them to letters, to play with their meaning and to break them down by pun and anagram in a pretense of control.
(However, back to my thesis.)
I would like to suggest how this warfare came about and its implication for literature.
For those of you who may be keeping score, that was the Introduction to my topic. I now move to the body of my argument which starts, more or less, with first causes (which are a little dull) and then to attempted leaps to generalizations about mind and word, illustrated at the close with some qualifying examples.
"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God and the Word was God." There's a first cause for you.
Some earnest scholars seeking evidence of man as God's special creation, think they have found it in the astonishing evolutionary confluence which created the possibility of speech &endash; the development of the larynx (which has no other apparent purpose but to make breath into noise), the tongue, the nose, teeth, lips, the soft palate &endash; each of which apparently evolved independently but ultimately conjoined to create the power to "say", to "speak." And as if this were not fortuitous enough, another series of apparently unrelated features &endash; the ear &endash; the organ without which speech could not have been heard or words created &endash; evolved on its own.
This is not merely hyperbole (hyperbole!). It actually happened. There was an actual moment in past history when the first hominid (or whatever) made sounds that made sense &endash; sounds that another heard and eventually understood. The nature of that sound is apparently beyond our archeological capacity to discover.
Scholars disagree: was it an onomatopoetic (onomatopoetic!) imitation? &endash; or a self-igniting expression of desire for food? fire? sex? or an expression of anguish, awe, or exaltation? We'll never know. But it did happen. And for hundreds of thousands of years word &endash; or what passed for it &endash; was identical to the self-reflexive idea which was its justification and its source. Feeling (or whatever) was one with the expression of it; the mind thinking directed the mouth to speak, the ear to hear.
Now, the point about speech is that it is evanescent &endash; it lives only during those brief moments before the sound waves dissipate into thin air. It leaves no trail, only recollection. It cannot be recalled &endash; only reiterated. That, in large part, is the source of its magic, the perfection of its expression: it exists only in the moment of its creation.
That was the case with the spoken word; for many millennia it was the unique form of expression of the heart and mind. Then something happened.
"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God and the Word was God."
Although this, the first line of the Gospel according to John, was written, it is clear that the Word it speaks of refers not to vocabulary but to idea. It harkens back to the pre-literate world of speech I was just describing when the Word (capital letter) and the word (lower case) were indistinguishable and could not be differentiated, when word was the perfect creation of a self-conscious imagination, the union of an expression and its source.
As my analogy suggests we think the word and the capacity to use it to be a great gift from God, or, as it is our wont these days, "an almost unbelievably fortuitous confluence of evolutions" (fortuitous confluence of evolutions!).
But that gift was confounded when the word detached itself from the mind which produced it (the Word), when (there must have been a "first time" an actual event) some prehistoric hominid wrote or drew, or carved, or shaped the first symbolic pattern. &endash; a word. &endash; the first representation of an idea separable from the mind that made it, an object which could evoke "meaning" on its own.
It was the death of total expression and the birth of literature.
With that event, deep in the body of civilization, literature began to grow; with the elaboration of writing and reading it flourished, and with the invention of moveable type it became universal. Now the skirmish that always must have existed between speech (the word) and the ear had a third belligerent &endash; the eye &endash; and a new scene of battle &endash; the image. Now the "meaning" of the word was evoked not only by the way it sounded but how it looked on a stone, on a wall, on a page. And with it the separation of mind (the Word) and word was complete.
It led inevitably to "standards" for how it ought to look, ought to be, ought to "say." The separation of mind and word inevitably led to grammar, syntax, and accurate spelling.
What were the consequences?
It is hard not to see the regulation of word as a good thing which provided a useful disciplining of the mind. (Isn't correction a primary function of teachers of literature and language?) One cannot deny the value of precision and clarity or the virtues of uniform symbols, in social intercourse however arbitrarily determined they may be. Indeed, I have spent most of my professional life ministering to the battered bodies of student essays, applying corrective poultices to the margins, supplying diagnosis and prescriptions for improvement. I admit my irritation when I read writing which uses words without respect or care. I do not renounce the materia medica of English composition.
But one must admit that with the arrival of the written word something valuable was lost and that the ideal union between the word and the Word is gone. "Meaning," the limitation of idea, was now imposed by words. There was to be no freedom without constraint. Communication was now the equal of expression as the function of mind. Idea and feeling were caged by language and the Gospel was rebutted:
This is the loss &endash; the separation of word and Word &endash; that T.S. Eliot descries (with religious implications) in "Ash Wednesday."
If the lost word is lost, if the spent word is spent
If the unheard, unspoken
Word is unspoken, unheard;
Still is the unspoken word, the Word unheard.
The Word without a word, the Word within
The world and for the world.
Now for the leap to conclusions: Does it matter? Surely for the reader of words, the receiver of the message, the advent of literature was a good thing? Of course. The point is, something was lost &endash; the unopposed mind (a fanciful idea, but, I think a real one) &endash; and the range of imagination was limited. I think this is one of the ideas Wallace Stevens explores in a great poem ("Description Without Place"), the need to imagine &endash; what he calls "the seeming" of the world. It ends:
Thus the theory of description matters most.
It is the theory of the word for those
For whom the word is the making of the world,
The buzzing world and lisping firmament.
It is the world of words to the end of it,
In which nothing solid is its solid self.
As, men make themselves their speech: the hard hidalgo
Lives in the mountainous character of his speech;
And in that mountainous mirror Spain acquires
The knowledge of Spain and of the hidalgo's hat --
A seeming of the Spaniard, a style of life,
The invention of a nation in a phrase,
In a description hollowed out of hollow-bright,
The artificer of subjects still half night.
It matters, because everything we say
Of the past is description without place, a cast
Of the imagination, made in sound;
And because what we say of the future must portend,
Be alive with its own seemings, seeming to be
Like rubies reddened by rubies reddening.from "Description Without Place" (Transport to Summer )
I read this as a paean to an imagination unrestricted by the word &endash; which the advent of written language has made an impossibility, except in the artifice of poetry.
Poetry is the language of revenge against the usurpation of the imagination by word.
I have suggested that the creation of literature is a kind of warfare between the individual mind and the self-perpetuating unattached word, and that its greatest works can be read as cries of distress at the conflict. But not as monuments to failure.
Perhaps an illustration or two by way of conclusion:
The greatest achievements are by authors who take us to the limits of the word and who reveal most vividly what those limits are, who make the impossibility into an opportunity and &endash; for a time at least &endash; make us believe they have battled with the word and won. It is the artifice of art, and in waging this war every great writer develops his own strategy for attacking the word and subjugating it to his imagination.
One thinks of Henry James, who seems to take on language at its most complex, pressing language to its breaking point, thereby gaining a kind of dominance over the word &endash; at least that is the opinion of those who love him.
Hemingway uses another "strategy." In The Sun Also Rises a character announces the rule which Hemingway obeyed in many of his works: "don't talk about it or you'll lose it" &endash; perhaps the clearest statement of the strategy he follows in his best work. Hemingway does not attempt to overwhelm the word in James's fashion but to reduce it to the barest minimum. "Hills Like White Elephants," one of his best short stories, is an ideal example of his strategy: It is a story almost devoid of description, shaped by oblique dialogue, a couple discussing abortion, in which the word is never uttered. The word is subverted by evoking feelings and ideas without description. It is an attack by omission:
"It's really an awfully simple operation, Jig," the man said. "It's not really an operation at all."
The girl looked at the ground the table legs rested on.
"I know you wouldn't mind it, Jig. It's really not anything. It's just to let the air in."
The girl did not say anything. "I'll go with you and I'll stay with you all the time. They just let the air in and then it's all perfectly natural."
"Then what will we do afterward?"
"We'll be fine afterward. Just like we were before."
"What makes you think so?"
"That's the only thing that bothers us. It's the only thing that's made us unhappy."
The girl looked at the bead curtain, put her hand out and took hold of two of the strings of beads.
"And you think then we'll be all right and be happy."
"I know we will. You don't have to be afraid. I've known lots of people that have done it."
"So have I," said the girl. "And afterward they were all so happy."
"Well," the man said, "if you don't want to you don't have to. I wouldn't have you do it if you didn't want to. But I know it's perfectly simple."
"And you really want to?"
"I think it's the best thing to do. But I don't want you to do it if you don't really want to."
"And if I do it you'll be happy and things will be like they were and you'll love me?"
"I love you now. You know I love you."
"I know. But if I do it, then it will be nice again if I say things are like white elephants, and you'll like it?"
"I'll love it. I love it now but I just can't think about it. You know how I get when I worry."
"If I do it you won't ever worry?"
"I won't worry about that because it's perfectly simple."
"Then I'll do it. Because I don't care about me."
"What do you mean?"
"I don't care about me."
"Well, I care about you."
"Oh, yes. But I don't care about me. And I'll do it and then everything will be fine."
"I don't want you to do it if you feel that way."
The girl stood up and walked to the end of the station. Across, on the other side, were fields of grain and trees along the banks of the Ebro. Far away, beyond the river, were mountains. The shadow of a cloud moved across the field of grain and she saw the river through the trees.
"And we could have all this," she said. "And we could have everything and every day we make it more impossible."
"What did you say?"
"I said we could have everything."
"We can have everything."
"No, we can't."
"We can have the whole world."
"No, we can't."
"We can go everywhere."
"No, we can't. It isn't ours any more."
"It's ours."
"No, it isn't. And once they take it away, you never get it back."
"But they haven't taken it away."
"We'll wait and see."
"Come on back in the shade," he said. "You mustn't feel that way."
"I don't feel any way," the girl said. "I just know things."
"I don't want you to do anything that you don't want to do&endash;&endash;"
"Nor that isn't good for me," she said. "I know. Could we have another beer?"
"All right. But you've got to realize &endash;"
"I realize," the girl said. "Can't we maybe stop talking?"
They sat down at the table and the girl looked across at the hills on the dry side of the valley and the man looked at her and at the table.
"You've got to realize," he said, "that I don't want you to do it if you don't want to. I'm perfectly willing to go through with it if it means anything to you."
"Doesn't it mean anything to you? We could get along."
"Of course it does. But I don't want anybody but you. I don't want any one else. And I know it's perfectly simple."
"Yes, you know it's perfectly simple."
"It's all right for you to say that, but I do know it."
"Would you do something for me now?"
"I'd do anything for you."
"Would you please please please please please please please stop talking?"
He did not say anything but looked at the bags against the wall of the station. There were labels on them from all the hotels where they had spent nights.
"But I don't want you to`" he said, "I don't care anything about it."
"I'll scream," the girl said.
You may have noticed that speech is the medium of narration in this passage, and that when it is read aloud, as I have just done, the text is significantly qualified, "released" from the page by pausing and the pitch and pattern of the human voice. The minimalist effects (the limited diction, the elided syntax, the absence of adjectives, adverbs, and descriptive detail) are qualified by the mind and feeling of the reader and projected in voice. Thus word becomes Word.
William Faulkner has the reverse strategy for making word into Word: his is an attack by excess. It is an act of defiance: he knows the rules well and defiantly breaks them. Among his weapons of attack are visual effects &endash; breaks in the printed line, fused words, seemingly arbitrary shifts in type font and others &endash; which are intended to break the rules of composition (word) to evoke otherwise ineffable meaning (Word). (Faulkner's attack on words may seem less powerful when it is heard rather than seen on the page. There are effects which cannot be conveyed by voice alone but are disruptive of the visual expectations of word.)
To illustrate my point, I want to read a passage from As I Lay Dying. It is not, perhaps, the best illustration of Faulkner's strategy of excess (although some of you might think I am excessive in reading so much of it) but it addresses directly the issue of the war of the word which I have been discussing this afternoon. The novel is the story of the death of Addie Bundren (the "I" of the title) and the aftermath of that death as it is realized by her husband, her children, her friends, and her lover expressed in a series of monologues which constitute the book. At the center of the novel (figuratively and actually) is Addie's own monologue in which she describes her marriage to Anse, the birth of her sons Cash and Darl, and her discovery, in the terms I have been discussing, of the conflict between word and Word.
So I took Anse. And when I knew that I had Cash, I knew that living was terrible and that this was the answer to it. That was when I learned that words are no good; that words don't ever fit even what they are trying to say at. When he was born I knew that motherhood was invented by someone who had to have a word for it because the ones that had the children didn't care whether there was a word for it or not. I knew that fear was invented by someone that had never had the fear; pride, who never had the pride. . . . I knew that it had been, not that my aloneness had to be violated over and over each day, but that it had never been violated until Cash came. Nor even by Anse in the nights.
He had a word, too. Love, he called it. But I had been used to words for a long time. I knew that that word was like the others: just a shape to fill a lack; that when the right time came, you wouldn't need a word for that any more than for pride or fear. Cash did not need to say it to me nor I to him, and I would say, Let Anse use it, if he wants to. So that it was Anse or love; love or Anse: it didn't matter.
. . . Then I found that I had Darl. At first I would not believe it. Then I believed that I would kill Anse. It was as though he had tricked me, hidden within a word like within a paper screen and struck me in the back through it. But then I realized that I had been tricked by words older than Anse or love, and that the same word had tricked Anse too, and that my revenge would be that he would never know I was taking revenge.
. . . and I would think: Anse, Why Anse. Why are you Anse. I would think about his name until after a while I could see the word as a shape, a vessel, and I would watch him liquefy and flow into it like cold molasses flowing out of the darkness into the vessel, until the jar stood full and motionless: a significant shape profoundly without life like an empty door frame; . . . and I couldn't think Anse , couldn't remember Anse. It was not that I could think of myself as no longer unvirgin, because I was three now. And when I would think Cash and Darl that way until their names would die and solidify into a shape and then fade away, I would say, All right. It doesn't matter. I doesn't matter what they call them.
And so when Cora Tull would tell me I was not a true mother, I would think how words go straight up in a thin line, quick and harmless, and how terribly doing goes along the earth, clinging to it, so that after a while the two lines are too far apart for the same person to straddle from one to the other; and that sin and love and fear are just sounds that people who never sinned nor loved nor feared have for what they never had and cannot have until they forget the words. Like Cora, who could never even cook.
Which takes us back to where we started, more or less &endash; to the special conflict which word has with Word and the way the voice reveals it.
"Words, words, words!" Polonius concluded that Hamlet was mad but that there was some method in what he said. I hope my remarks have fared at least as well with you.


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Obama Tells NSA To Reveal, Not Exploit, Flaws... Except All The Times It Wants To Do The Opposite
from the a-bias? dept
However, the NY Times had a story this weekend about how this move has forced the administration to clarify its position on zero day exploits. It's already known that the NSA buys lots of zero day exploits and makes the internet weaker as a result of it. Though, in the past, the NSA has indicated that it only makes use of the kinds of exploits that only it can use (i.e., exploits that need such immense computing power that anyone outside of the NSA is unlikely to be able to do anything). However, the NY Times article notes that, following the White House's intelligence review task force recommendation that the NSA stop weakening encryption and other technologies, President Obama put in place an official rule that the NSA should have a "bias" towards revealing the flaws and helping to fix them, but leaves open a massive loophole:
But Mr. Obama carved a broad exception for "a clear national security or law enforcement need," the officials said, a loophole that is likely to allow the N.S.A. to continue to exploit security flaws both to crack encryption on the Internet and to design cyberweapons.Amusingly, the NY Times initially had a title on its story saying that President Obama had decided that the NSA should "reveal, not exploit, internet security flaws," but the title then changed to the much more accurate: "Obama Lets N.S.A. Exploit Some Internet Flaws, Officials Say."
Of course, the cold war analogy used by people in the article seems... wrong:
"We don't eliminate nuclear weapons until the Russians do," one senior intelligence official said recently. "You are not going to see the Chinese give up on 'zero days' just because we do."Except, it's meaningless that no one expects the Chinese (or the Russians or anyone else) to give up zero days. The simple fact is that if the NSA were helping to stop zero days that would better protect everyone against anyone else using those zero days. In fact, closing zero days is just like disarming both sides, because it takes the vulnerability out of service. It's not about us giving up our "weapons," it's about building a better defense for the world. And yet the NSA isn't willing to do that. Because they're not about protecting anyone -- other than themselves.