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Last month, thousands of Jewish Israelis celebrated Yom Yerushalayim, or Jerusalem Day. It was the 45th anniversary of what many Israelis consider the "reunification" of Jerusalem, an occasion for right-wing revelers to sing nationalistic songs, chant anti-Muslim slogans, and cheer for the mass murdering Jewish extremist Baruch Goldstein while marching triumphantly through the Muslim Quarter of the Old City. Today, Palestinians will observe Naksa Day, marking "the Setback" of 1967. It is the 45th anniversary of Israel's ongoing military occupation, an ignominious date that inspires angry demonstrations across the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, the Palestinian refugee camps, and in cities around the world.
As the occupation grinds on, propelling rapid Israeli settlement expansion and the consolidation of apartheid rule, the concept of a sovereign Palestinian state seems like just that — a fantastical idea that belies the oppressive reality on the ground. The Palestinian Authority that was created to administer the future state today serves little purpose besides doling out paychecks to a long roll of dependents while providing Israel with a convenient occupation subcontractor that routinely arrests non-compliant Palestinians and internal critics of its authoritarian rule. Having been fragmented through generations of dispossession and colonization, then physically separated from one another by the separation wall and the siege of Gaza, Palestinians face an increasingly limited array of options for resisting Israel's settler-colonial predations. With hopes for a viable, independent state all but dashed, questions about short term tactics and long term goals are being debated with renewed intensity.
While Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza prepared to commemorate Naksa Day, I met in a cafe in Washington DC with an author and former PLO legal advisor named Ziyad Clot. In January 2008, Clot was recruited to advise the Negotiations Support Unit of the PLO, which was tasked with overseeing the Palestinian refugee file. Until he resigned in dismay 11 months later, Clot said he witnessed "a cruel enterprise" that "deepened Israeli segregationist policies" and "excluded for the most part the vast majority of the Palestinian people." In 2010, with images of Israel's grisly assault on the Gaza Strip still singed in his memory, Clot published a provocatively titled polemic in his home country of France that has not yet been translated into English: "Il n'y aura pas d'Etat Palestinian," or, "There will not be a Palestinian state."
Soon after the book's release, Clot leaked hundreds of documents relating to the so-called peace process to Al Jazeera, leading to the release of the Palestine Papers. Greeted with fury by PA officials, met with eerie silence by the Israeli government and quickly overshadowed by the Egyptian revolution, the Palestine Papers confirmed the peace process as a cruel farce that pitted an unrelenting occupier against an unrepresentative Palestinian entity beholden to antagonistic outside forces.
In our discussion, Clot went beyond his critique of the peace process, offering prescriptions for moving the Palestinian struggle past the drive for statehood and the failed experiment of the PA. According to Clot, the first priority of the struggle should be to ensure the full representation of the more than 10 million Palestinians living around the world by the PLO, a goal that can be achieved by allowing them to vote in Palestinian National Council elections. Once Palestinian exiles and refugees become convinced that they have a stake in the future of Palestine, Clot claimed their financial and cultural contributions would enable the PA to wean itself off of its onerous Western benefactors. Considering that only 8 percent of the Palestinians driven from the homes by the fighting in 1967 were allowed to return to Palestine, bringing them back into the political fray seems like an appropriate way to redress the crisis of the Naksa.
My interview with Ziyad Clot follows:
MB: Explain the title of your book. What caused you to conclude that there will never be a sovereign Palestinian state?
ZC: The big question today is whether after 45 years of occupation why there has been no sovereign state. The only advice I'd give to someone interested in this is to look at a map and ignore what will be the hypothetical borders of a future Palestinian state and recognize the fact that the two populations are intermingled in Israel and West Bank. Because of the colonization and the fact that no one has been able to stop it since 1967 we now reach a situation where in the West Bank there is not a single hill without a settlement or an outpost. How do you create a viable Palestinian state in that situation, and where this is not enough land or water to create that state? You can't. Therefore all the attributes of the state aren't there anymore. Jerusalem has become a de facto unified capital of Israel and what really struck me when I was there was the extraordinary gap between the facts on the ground and what is still being negotiated in this parallel world which has totally lost touch with reality.
MB: The Palestine Papers provide a portrait of a Palestinian Authority that is out of touch to say the least. Not only were they willing to negotiate away most of East Jerusalem, they seemed psychologically disjointed from the entire refugee situation. How can you account for the disconnect?
ZC: They [PA officials] live and negotiate under a situation of occupation. It's easy for us to say they're giving up and are ready for any compromise and that all the red lines have been crossed — and this is my personal belief — but they have to cope with so many constraints and obstacles that along the years that they lost touch with the exiles, then the refugees, then Gaza, and now East Jerusalem because of the wall, so they are left in this small enclave that they try to administer without full sovereignty. So along the years they have internalized these constraints and became accustomed to the discourse that is acceptable to the West. Because of the PA's structure and how it is financed they are more accountable to the international donors than the Palestinian people. So this explains why the bridges between Palestinians don't exist anymore. If there is one area where Palestinians should focus it's on the issue of representation. Because the peace process has become irrelevant the question of who represents the Palestinians and how they are represented is most important at this point.
MB: Recently the Israeli politician and peace process fixture Yossi Beilin urged Mahmoud Abbas to shut down the Palestinian Authority. He even used the same language as you, calling the peace process a "farce." Do you agree that the PA should be disbanded and if so, what comes next?
ZC: Dismantling the PA is a tough call because there are so many interests involved. If you dismantle it tomorrow a large proportion of the West Bank will be left without income. So it's an extraordinary political decision to make. You also have to consider that the Israeli occupation is more brutal than what the Palestinians are facing with the PA so do we really want to face the occupation directly? If the long term goal is the achievement of Palestinian rights and self-determination, then it's preferable. In the short term, this will probably mean a lot of suffering. Are the Palestinians prepared for that? I don't think so. So to put it simply: These critical issues have to be decided by the Palestinians. It's up to them to decide whether this state is achievable. If not, the different options should be submitted to them. Unfortunately, because of this lack of representation, this is impossible. That's why I think the first priority should be to restructure the PLO. In the near term, the second priority should be to preserve the humanity of Palestinians who are experiencing massive suffering — especially the people in Gaza — because a political solution might be a long way off.
MB: What specific measures can be employed to offer the whole Palestinian people representation?
ZC: All Palestinians should be allowed to vote in the Palestinian National Council elections — all 10 million Palestinians should be involved and each voice should be heard. This is a very strong asset for the Palestinians. There are strong communities of Palestinians outside the territories. If you want to use them as an asset, either financially, politically, or culturally, you have to give them representation. The problem with the PA is not a lack of financial resources — there are a lot of wealthy Palestinians out there. So then we have to ask why the West is writing the checks without holding the Israelis accountable for anything. Wealthy Palestinians would be more than happy to contribute but unfortunately they don't recognize themselves as actors who have representation in Palestine. Despite all the internal differences, we have to establish a structure to allow all these voices to be heard.
This piece originally appeared at Al Akhbar English.


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Flickr Finds: Fil's Flat
Fil's Melbourne flat packs a lot into a small space. Filled with a combination of vintage Danish furniture, iconic mid-century pieces and smatterings of 1970's plastic-ware, this is clearly the home of a collector. Whilst it's easy for collections to spiral out of control, it's the clear preference for specific colours, timber finishes and forms that draw us to this apartment's assemblage.
Whether you're a mid-century modern enthusiast or not, it's the little details in Fil's apartment that we're taken with; the complete lack or electrical cords around the television, the repetition of yellow and orange against an otherwise minimal colour palette and even the Kay Bojesen hanging monkey. We are also impressed with Fil's complete collection of Wallpaper magazines, the first issue would not have been an easy find at any time in Australia!
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BIRMINGHAM, ALA. - The best shooting game of the season wasn't enough as Tennessee State women's basketball lost to Alabama-Birmingham 68-60 at the Samford Thanksgiving Classic Friday afternoon.
Jasmin Shuler led TSU with 20 points and three steals, while Kesi Hess went 4-for-6 from beyond the arc for 12 points.
The Blazers (5-1) started the game on an 8-0 run in the first two minutes, including a pair of steals off of full court pressure.
TSU (1-3) never led in the game, but kept UAB in check for much of the rest of the half by never letting the Blazers get a double-digit advantage and even cutting the lead down to one possession on two occasions.
A Shuler layup off of a steal pulled TSU to within three with just under three minutes remaining in the half, but UAB finished the half with a 6-0 spirt in the final minute to take a 32-23 edge heading into the locker room. UAB also scored the first four points of the second half turning a three point lead into 13 in just three minutes of game action.
Destiney Gaston provided a spark off of the bench in the first half as all eight of her points and four of her five boards came in the first 20 minutes.
UAB was a perfect 14-of-14 from the free throw line in the first half, while the Lady Tigers didn't reach the charity stripe once.
A 23-6 Blazers run between the two halves gave them their largest lead of the contest at 49-29 with just under 10 minutes remaining.
The second half of the second half saw the TSU offense come alive as they hit four treys, including three from Hess in the final 5:16, cutting the UAB lead down to seven with 1:03 left.
TSU shot a season best 46 percent from the field and 6-of-10 from three. The Lady Tigers were 5-of-6 from three in the second half.
Forwards Avery Jones and Simone Hopes were in foul trouble for much of the second half as neither played more than 23 minutes. The seniors combined for 14 points and nine rebounds.
Karisma Chapman of UAB led all scorers with 21 points, 3-of-6 from the field and 15-of-15 on free throws.
The Blazers were 29-of-31 on free throws compared to 8-of-13 for TSU.
The Lady Tigers return to the court Saturday at 3 p.m. when they take on the host of the Classic, Samford. You can listen live to the game here.
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Are you still nursing him during the day on the weekends? Are you still nursing him in the mornings? I have a super High energy Boy Kim. And DJ at one point when he was 2 he actually head butted me and gave me a black eye. He is also a child that DOES crave the type of contact that Joe's Mom speaks of. He likes to be burrito Wrapped, and Bear hugged. And I don't ever try to change his personality, BUT I do try to continually teach him appropriate boundaries, respecting other people's space and bodies. Am I doing a perfect job of that? NO. It's an ongoing battle. My child still wants to climb on top of me every time I come home. He is six. He still tries physically to keep me from going to work pretty much EVERY Sat and Sun. Meaning what starts as a happy snuggle time generally ends with me having to wrestle him off of me to get up. And A LOT of time it ends with yelling and me getting really angry because he doesn't know when to stop. Trying to continually teach him where the lines are Is NOT about trying to change his personality. I run that child like a dog, I am at the mat in terms of his education and in terms of protecting him and constantly working to make sure he has enough physical activity.
But I didn't tolerate getting bit, and I began setting limits with him after the year point and by two, was VERY VERY clear that we would only nurse IF it could be enjoyable for both of us. That meant no twiddling. It also meant being willing to stop without a struggle when I was DONE. And somewhere after potty training it meant NOT touching his penis while he was nursing. Because it's a RELATIONSHIP. So if I, one very important person in the relationship wasn't happy, then I could not be expected to continue. It's a growing changing relationship. So you can either make excuses and remain ambivilent or you can do the work so that you may continue to enjoy nursing. The longer you do it, the more ambivilence you may have. But WHILE you are in it, I don't think it's unreasonable OR impossible for you to be heard and respected. In terms of a two year old Kim it can be VERY VERY black and white. You either do this (don't hurt me, pull me pinch me or Grab me) Or you don't get this. Period. Even my kid with no language understood that in the grand scheme of things he could not MAKE me nurse if I didn't want to do it. So at that point he began to learn a bunch of very very important lessons. About human interactions. About HAVING to respect another person if you want to engage them and make them do what YOU want to do. Teaching about boundaries and limits is hard and an ongoing practice that we all must engage in as parents. And frankly I am not great at it. Since I have always had so few my whole life. I don't always know where other peoples are. So I can't always teach those to my kid. But I knew how to identify my own and so do you. And they are always changing in terms of nursing because we are always creeping/working towards weaning after the year point. And that is allowed. The 1st year of their life they control it all. And we let them. Year two that begins to change as solids enter the picture and they begin to comprehend language and are distracted with walking and other children. Every year from then on, YOU are running the show. Every year after the 1st you need to find your lines in the sand to be able to keep coming to the dance. So you are about to enter your 3rd year. You have said that you aren't ready to stop. But what if this is your last year? What if somewhere between now and three it ends? You want to spend you last 6,9 or 12 months hating it? Feeling violated and used? I don't want that for you. And I know you have the strength to do better. All you have to do if firmly set those lines. It may mean getting up abruptly. It may mean time in the crib. It may mean some tears. But he WILL GET IT. Of THAT I am sure. He will understand that he has to play ball the way you want for you to play ball at all. You can do it Kim. I know you can.


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Tarragon-Mustard Deviled Eggs
Last year I tried French Tarragon for the first time, and became completely addicted to the flavor of this somewhat assertive herb. The idea for using tarragon with mustard to make tarragon-flavored deviled eggs was something that popped into my head recently after I wrote a piece about cooking with tarragon for BlogHer.com. It was a complete experiment, which I'm happy to report turned out well. In fact, the first time I made this I didn't especially like the photos, so I just gobbled up those eggs and made another batch a few days later to photograph again!
Tarragon-Mustard Deviled Eggs
(Makes 12 egg halves, recipe created by Kalyn)
6-8 eggs (I like the eggs generously filled, so I usually boil one or two extra for extra yolks)
1 tsp. finely chopped fresh tarragon, plus a bit more for garnish
1 tsp. white wine vinegar
3 T mayo (can use low-fat mayo)
2 tsp. Dijon mustard
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Best of Burque's worst band
Music writer Geoffrey Plant delved into the world of Brokencyde in Parody or Pabulum. Presumably, Plant took on this task because he's a braver man than I am. I remember the first time I stumbled onto the horror that is Brokencyde. Slack-jawed, I watched the act's music video for "Freaxx," which is included below—along with a couple other wastes of YouTube bandwith—for your viewing displeasure.


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The revelation that British intelligence documents suggested that current Sinn Fein member of the Irish parliament Dessie Ellis was responsible for 50 murders during the IRA campaign has led to a major stand-off between Sinn Fein and Fine Gael, the main party in government.
Ellis has hit back hard at a statement made by Fine Gael's party chairman Charlie Flanagan, that if an Independent Truth Commission were to be set up, Ellis should be the first person called.
Flanagan stated "These matters can no longer be treated by Sinn Féin in a routine way. We cannot simply forget the past and sweep the issues which strike at the very heart of the democratic process under the carpet to suit Sinn Féin"
Ellis hit back saying "It is interesting that Fine Gael's Charlie Flanagan places such importance on the unsubstantiated claims of British intelligence – the same shadowy forces who murdered so many Irish citizens over the years.
"I'm sure that it hasn't escaped Deputy Flanagan's attention that I was cleared by a British court of these trumped up allegations which begs the question as to where he is coming from.
"Mr Flanagan mentions without any hint of irony the need for an Independent Truth & Reconciliation Commission despite the fact that it is Sinn Féin who have led such calls and despite the fact that Mr Flanagan's government has done nothing at all to support the establishment of such a process.
"I enthusiastically support the establishment of an Independent International Truth and Reconciliation Commission to deal with the legacy of conflict in Ireland. I hope Charlie Flanagan will follow up his new found support for such a process with positive action to pressurize his colleagues in government to act on this.
"Finally, let me say that I am very proud of my involvement in the republican struggle over the years and of the leadership role republicans have played in the peace process, despite the best efforts of nay-sayers such as Charlie Flanagan and his ilk."


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This new eBook provides some interesting insight into the effects of lowering interest and raising the value of money. I have always had a strong curiosity towards the "what-ifs" and this book looks at one of the interesting prospects of lowering the rate. Enjoy!
Considerations & Consequences of Low Interest
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Today is the feast of St. Francis de Sales, patron of writers/authors. My prayer today is that every word I commit to print may glorify God. Since I know that many of you, my readers, are also writers I pray the same for you. And when we encounter others who weaponize their words, may God give us the grace to forgive.
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The Bisons overall record falls to 3-6.
The men played good doubles matches but were not able to pull out the doubles point.
Daniel Hangstefer and James Murrell lost a close match at No. 1, falling to Jackson Moore and Trenton Spinks 8-6.
Chad Pierron and Tanner Brown dropped the No. 2 match to Georgia State's Victor Valente and Henri Mangino 8-2.
The Bisons picked up their lone win of the day at No. 3 doubles. Colby Shaw and Mario Hernandez defeated JP Gutierrez and Tomaz 8-3.
As singles began, the Bisons were already at a 1-0 disadvantage.
Pierron was defeated by Moore at No. 1 6-3, 6-2 while Hangstefer fell at No. 2 after a close first set to Valente 7-5, 6-2.
At the No. 3 spot, Murrell lost to Spinks 6-4, 6-1.
Georgia State clinched the match with a 4-0 lead over the Bisons.
Hernandez played a solid match at No. 4 but unfortunately could not pull out the win, losing to Mangino 6-4, 6-4.
Shaw was defeated at No. 5 6-3, 6-3 by Georgia State's Gutierrez.
Freshman Tanner Brown had a tight three set match at No. 6 but barely fell short in the third set tiebreaker, losing to Lucas Santana 6-3, 0-6, 10-7.
"Tough end to the weekend," coach Andrew Harris said. "Georgia State has a lot of good players. We are looking forward to getting back home and getting ready for FGCU."
The Bisons return home to face Florida Gulf Coast in another Atlantic Sun conference match. The match will be played at the Lipscomb Tennis Center on Friday, March 19 at 2 p.m.
1. Moore/Spinks (GSU) def. Hangstefer/Murrell (LU) 8-6
2. Valente/Mangino (GSU) def. Brown/Pierron (LU) 8-2
3. Shaw/Hernandez (LU) def. Gutierrez/Thomaz (GSU) 8-3
1. Jackson Moore (GSU) def. Chad Pierron (LU) 6-3, 6-2
2. Victor Valente (GSU) def. Daniel Hangstefer (LU) 7-5, 6-2
3. Trenton Spinks (GSU) def. James Murrell (LU) 6-4, 6-1
4. Henri Mangino (GSU) def. Mario Hernandez (LU) 6-4, 6-4
5. JP Gutierrez (GSU) def. Colby Shaw (LU) 6-3, 6-3
6. Lucas Santana (GSU) def. Tanner Brown (LU) 6-3, 0-6 10-7
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When Lipscomb center Adnan Hodzic took his turn to cut down the nets at Allen Arena he came away with the biggest chunk.
That was appropriate since Hodzic's performances in the last two games of the season are the reasons the Bisons have earned a share of the Atlantic Sun Conference regular season championship and the No. 1 seed in the conference tournament in Macon, Ga.
"I decided I was going to take something that I can hang on the mirror of my car so people can see it," Hodzic said.
The Bisons started off slow, but came back strong in the second half to beat Mercer 85-73 to close out the regular season. More than 2,200 fans were on hand for the game which was part of homecoming activities.
"We came out playing like we were worried about something," Lipscomb coach Scott Sanderson said. "We didn't come out with a lot of pop in the first half. The last 10 minutes of the first half we guarded better.
"Mercer can score a lot of points in a hurry. They had something like 20 points in the first eight minutes. For awhile I thought the score was going to be 200-200."
The Bisons went into the game knowing that ETSU had beaten Jacksonville 64-62 earlier in the day. The Bisons, 14-6 in the conference, tied with Jacksonville, Campbell and Belmont for the regular season title. Lipscomb and Jacksonville were the preseason favorites to tie for the regular season championship based on a poll of the conference coaches.
"We didn't say one word before the game about Jacksonville losing," Sanderson said. "The players already knew about it, but we didn't say anything."
The win completed a sweep of Mercer. The Bisons beat them 98-89 to open the A-Sun portion of the season on Dec. 3.
The Bisons had all of the tie breakers in their favor because they beat Belmont twice this season. They will play Kennesaw State, the No. 8 seed, at 1:30 p.m. in Macon, Ga., in the first round of the conference tournament.
"We have to get rested up and get some guys healed up," Sanderson said. "Our whole thing is how well do we defend and how well do we rebound. If we do those two things well our chances of winning elevate in a hurry."
This is the second time the Bisons have won the regular season Atlantic Sun Championship. The first was in 2006.
Hodzic led all scorers with a career-high 37 points, the most for a Bison in over eight years. It is the 56th straight game that Hodzic has scored in double figures. Hodzic also grabbed 17 rebounds, the 10th time this season and the second game in a row that he has recorded a double-double.
"I had been playing tentative," Hodzic said. "I was trying not to foul. People think I've had a great year, but there are a lot of games where I was upset with myself. I should have been getting double figures in rebounds in every game."
In Thursday's 74-66 win over Kennesaw State Hodzic, 6-foot-9, 255 pounds; scored 24 points and grabbed 20 rebounds, also a new school record.
"His size and his strength are definitely God-given," guard Josh Slater said. "He also puts the hours in the gym in the offseason, in practice and after practice. He is definitely a product of hard work."
Also in double figures for the Bisons were forward Jordan Burgason with 17, Slater with 12 and forward Brandon Brown with 11.
The Bisons were down at four at the half, 36-32. It was hard luck first 20 minutes as few things went in the Bisons favor.
They persevered, taking a five-point lead early in the second half at 40-36 with 18:45 left in the game on a 3-point shot by Burgason.
The game was a dogfight for much of the second half. The Bisons took the lead at 37-36 in the second half with 19:18 on the clock as Hodzic connected on a jumper in the lane.
With 11:41 to play Hodzic scored on a layup to give the Bisons a 53-47 lead. That six-point advantage was the biggest for any team in the second half to that point.
In the final 9:30 minutes the Bisons led by double figures with the exception of the 5:54 mark when Brandon Moore hit a free throw for Mercer to trim the lead to 66-57.
Mercer placed four players in double figures with guard Jeff Smith leading with 17. Guard James Florence added 13 followed by guard E.J. Kusnyer with 12. Forward Brandon Moore, a former Bisons player, finished with a double-double with 14 rebounds and 14 points.
Mercer played without star forward Daniel Emerson who averages 15.4 points and 12 rebounds per game.
"They have a very good team," Sanderson said. "It was a quality win. It is unfortunate that Emerson was hurt. Hopefully, he will get back."
The Bisons are 17-12, 14-6 in the A-Sun. Mercer is 14-16, 10-10 in the A-Sun.
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1: The obvious, setting a bad example for kids as it is a busy lake (in a national park.
2: The guy who made the video, Steve, "runs" a "school" there; that is, he markets himself and gets paid for lessons. I really don't like the way he represents the sport to the masses there.
3: I'm worried about the repercussions for everyone who uses the water there if they do have a serious accident.
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Point Value: 1
Side Attributes:
Can belong to the following sides: Monster.
Actions and Action Points (ACP):
Receives basic allotment of 4 new ACP per turn.
Movement, Movement Points (MP), and Speeds (MP/ACP Ratios):
Uses a minimum of 1 ACP per move.
Needs MP to enter terrain: 1 into swamp, desert, plains, forest, 99 into sea, shallows, 0 into river, road, 3 into ice, 2 into mountains.
Needs MP to traverse terrain: -1 by default, 1 across road.
Hit Points (HP): 20. Recovers by 1 HP each turn.
Vanishes if in: false by default, true for sea, shallows.
Construction points (CP): 5.
Can attack (ACP 1 by default, 0 vs lair, village, town, castle, city).
Hit chances are 50% by default, 0% vs lair, village, town, castle, city.
Damage is 1 by default, 0 vs lair, village, town, castle, city.
0% chance to be seen at outset of game.
0% chance to be seen at outset of game if independent.
Not always seen even if terrain has been seen.
Occupants not seen even if unit has been seen.
Material Handling:
food, 1 basic production, 1 storage (1 at start of game), 1 basic consumption
water, 4 basic production, 4 storage (4 at start of game), 1 basic consumption
gold (none)
Productivity adjustment for terrain is *1.00 by default, *0.00 in desert.
Fate if side loses: 100% chance to vanish.
AI Attributes:
Requires >= 30 accessible, liquid cells to build naval units.
Requests a total wartime garrison of 1 units.
Range within which enemies will cause an alert is 6.
Basic tactical computation range is 12.
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Expanding on what Ann wrote: Ann W. Harrison wrote: > Expanding on what Kevin Lewis wrote: > >> >> Bar wrote; >>>> Sorry, I'm not strong with Falcon internals, >>>> so I don't know why you need to trim trailing minSortChar. >>>> This makes MySQLCollation::compare() work differently from >>>> how collation really works. >>>> >>>> Can you please give some insight for this? >> >> > Lars-Erik Bjørk wrote: >>> I think I will pass that one on to somebody else:) Maybe you could >>> explain this briefly, Kevin? >> >> The Falcon internal encoded record does not store trailing white >> space. Jim Starkey has declared many times that he is on a mission to >> replace the use of char[anything], varchar[anything], etc with just >> 'string'. Falcon does that internally. I also see no reason to store >> what does not matter. > > To clarify slightly, Falcon removes trailing spaces from strings, it > does not remove trailing tab characters which are often called "white > space". > > One problem with removing trailing spaces is that some values that > can appear in strings sort lower than the space character, and the SQL > standard says that in a string comparison the shorter string is to be > padded with spaces to the length of the longer string. As long > as all strings are space padded to their full length, that doesn't > matter - the comparisons work naturally. > > However, when comparing strings of different lengths, the right > answer is less obvious. Logically it would seem that a two character > string sorts lower than any three character string that starts with > the same two characters. Logic, SQL, and mother of all character > sets, ASCII, aren't a good combination. > > The correct order of these strings (in most collations) is... > > ab<0x0> > ab<tab> > ab > aba > > For a long time, Falcon got that wrong in indexes and considered > 'ab' to be less than 'ab<0x0>'. Recently, Kevin had a brilliant > idea. When handling a string key value, both for storage and for > comparison, add an imaginary space to it. There's no reason to > store the space as long as everyone behaves as if it were stored. > > So now the values above are treated as if they were: > > ab<0x0><0x20> > ab<tab><0x20> > ab<0x20> > aba<0x20> > > which, however ugly, is at least clear. Well this is not quite yet implemented. The bug is being worked on by Lars-Erik and does not have a BETA tag. I think it is; Bug #23692 Falcon: searches fail if data is 0x00


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Flaming Star limited edition Blu-ray release in November
Source: www.elvis.com.au
July 20, 2014
Blu-ray, Elvis News
Also in August Warner Bros. Home Entertainment will release for the first time on blu-ray, 'Elvis: That's The Way It Is : Two Disc Special Edition', and also in a deluxe format, 'Viva Las Vegas' 50th Anniversary on August 12 - both as Premium Blu-ray™ Digibooks. 'Elvis: That's The Way It Is' which was re-edited and remixed for its acclaimed release in 2000, will now debut on Blu-ray™ as a Premium Digibook, newly remastered, and with DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 soundtrack. These Premium Digibooks include rare behind-the-scene photos.
'Elvis: That's The Way It Is' includes a DVD containing the 1970 Original Theatrical Version.
'Elvis: That's the Way It Is' : Two Disc Special Edition Premium Digibook
With thousands of feet of materials including sequences added to capture with greater intimacy Elvis' performances and his creative process behind-the-scenes, the previously released Elvis: That's The Way It Is - Special Edition is now being made available as a Blu-ray™ two disc Special Edition Premium Digibook. Denis Sanders (Shock Treatment) directed this 'rockumentary'. Academy Award® nominated Lucien Ballard (The Wild Bunch) was the cinematographer, following the show's development from rehearsal to stage.Disc 1 2001 Special Edition and Special Features: (DVD)
- 2001 Special Edition
- Patch It Up: The Restoration of Elvis: That's The Way It Is
- 12 Outtakes - song/nonmusical sequences
- 1970 Original Theatrical Version
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Buy Follow That Dream limited Edition Blu-ray disc
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In his highest grossing movie, Elvis shares the screen with Ann-Margret, easily creating the most electrifying teaming Elvis had on screen. He plays Lucky Jackson, a Grand Prix race driver working at a casino to raise cash for a new engine; she's a hotel swimming instructor - and the romantic action revs up from their first meeting. George Sidney, who also directed Ann-Margret in Bye Bye Birdie, combines the hormonal heat wave with
fascinating sights of '60s Las Vegas. David Winters (West Side Story) choreographed the 10 musical song-and-dance scenes which also featured his dancers. Songs include the high-roller title track, the stars' duet on 'The Lady Loves Me,' her sultry 'Appreciation' and The King's version of Ray Charles' 'What'd I Say'. The soundtrack is presented in Dolby Digital 5.1 stereo.
Special Features:
- Commentary by Steve Pond, rock journalist and author of 'Elvis in Hollywood'
- Featurette Kingdom: Elvis in Vegas
- Theatrical trailer
Elvis Week Premiere
As part of the 'Elvis Week' festivities, the historic Orpheum Theatre in downtown Memphis will host the world premiere screening of Warner Bros'. newly-remastered 'Elvis: That's The Way It Is'. Fans in town for Elvis Week will also be treated not only to the newly-remastered film, but will also get to experience an outtake performance or sequence never-before-seen on the big screen, along with some special on-stage surprises still to be announced.
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Tupelo's Own Elvis Presley DVD
Tupelo's Own Elvis Presley DVD Video with Sound.
Never before have we seen an Elvis Presley concert from the 1950's with sound. Until Now! The DVD Contains recently discovered unreleased film of Elvis performing 6 songs, including Heartbreak Hotel and Don't Be Cruel, live in Tupelo Mississippi 1956. Included we see a live performance of the elusive Long Tall Sally seen here for the first time ever. + Plus Bonus DVD Audio.
This is an excellent release no fan should be without it.
The 'parade' footage is good to see as it puts you in the right context with color and b&w footage. The interviews of Elvis' Parents are well worth hearing too. The afternoon show footage is wonderful and electrifying : Here is Elvis in his prime rocking and rolling in front of 11.000 people. Highly recommended.


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Rabbi Abe Finkelstein outwits Gentile Pastor James Wickstrom
PRIR associates
The case stems from a dispute about compensation for an interview between Wickstrom and Finkelstein. Pastor Wickstrom asserted that Finkelstein promised to pay for half of the expenses involved in arranging the bellicose interview, the rights to which were to be mutually shared by both parties. However, Rabbi Finkelstein averred that this promise was legally unenforceable for three reasons: (1) The promise was oral rather than written; (2) Alternately, the promise was written but had been orally revoked prior to Wickstrom's acceptance; or (3) That Finkelstein lacked the requisite intent to enter into a contract, either verbal or written, due to an antecedent repudiation of any intent to make a promise.
An impartial arbitrator in this case, Jacob Katz, ruled in Finkelstein's favor. "Prior to entering into the contract with Wickstrom," Katz told PRIR correspondents, "Abe had taken his Kol Nidre oath, which nullifies any subsequent written contract with Wickstrom."
When asked about the arbitrator's decision, an angry Wickstrom told reporters, "This is absolutely ridiculous! I have the contract right here in my hands, signed by him! Somehow this contract is no good just because that Jew crossed his fingers behind his back!"
But Rabbi Finkelstein was jubilant. "Oy Vey," said Finkelstein. "I feel so relieved now that justice has been done in this case. Katz is a very wise...very impartial arbitrator."
The Jewish Kol Nidre oath, which Finkelstein purports to have taken prior to entering into a contract with Wickstrom, holds in pertinent part:
All vows...oaths...or equivalent terms that we may vow, swear, consecrate, or prohibit upon ourselves...we regret them henceforth. They will be...abandoned, cancelled, null and void, without power and without standing. Our vows shall not be valid vows; our prohibitions shall not be valid prohibitions; and our oaths shall not be valid oaths.
Readers of the CohenReport may download and listen to the full interview (an mp.3 file) between Pastor James Wickstrom and Rabbi Abe Finkelstein HERE.
The arbitrator's decision in this case was a small victory for jews in the global fight against anti-semitism, terrorism and intolerance. Moshe!
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – The nationally-ranked No. 10 MIT men's volleyball team extended its winning streak to six following a 30-9, 30-21, 30-23 decision over non-conference foe Johnson & Wales University on Thursday. The Engineers improved to 25-7 on the year while the Wildcats saw their ledger dip to 8-15.
MIT raced out to a 13-3 lead in the opening set, but Johnson & Wales posted three out of the next four points. Sean Livesy converted a point off a block by the Engineers while Robert Slough added a pair of kills. The Cardinal and Gray countered with a 15-2 run as back-to-back aces from Matt Hohenberger resulted in set point. Tim Haley's hit off MIT's block extended the frame, however the Engineers immediately picked up the ensuing point.
The early stages of the second stanza saw four ties and one lead change before MIT recorded a 6-1 spurt to go up, 11-6. The Wildcats quickly narrowed their deficit to three (12-9), but the Engineers recorded a 7-2 spurt which featured back-to-back kills from Benson George and an ace by Robin Demyttenaere. Johnson & Wales continued to attack, closing within five on a pair of occasions, the last at 23-18. MIT denied any hopes of generating a late rally as it won seven of the final 10 points of the set.
In the final frame, the Engineers slowly established a 10-4 lead but the Wildcats trimmed the margin to three, the second time at 11-8. MIT mounted a 15-6 run, capped with an ace from Caine Jette, to gain some breathing room. Johnson & Wales responded with a 9-3 spurt of its own as back-to-back aces from Haley held the Engineers at match point. A miscue by the Wildcats thwarted any chance of extending the contest.
MIT featured a balanced attack and a team hitting percentage of .367. Alex Becherer led the way with 11 kills to go along with four digs and three aces. Troy Tamas notched seven kills and six digs as David Thomas connected on six of his nine hitting attempts. Matt Hohenberger went 5-of-6 on attack while tallying three aces in the opening set. Patrick Vatterott posted five kills and two blocks as Robin Demyttenaere totaled four kills and two aces. George picked up three kills and two blocks while Mike Demyttenaere chipped in two kills in the first frame. Jeremy Velazquez contributed four digs and two kills as Garrett Winther added two blocks and a kill. Jette compiled 24 assists, one ace and a kill while Tim Lee recorded 13 assists and four digs. Eric Reuland powered the defense with 16 digs.
Slough paced the Wildcats with six kills and two blocks as Mark Garlock finished with 14 assists and two aces. Haley earned a pair of aces while Chris Gauch collected 12 digs.
Both squads continue play on Saturday, March 20. MIT will travel to Elms College for a tri-match with Mount Ida College while Johnson & Wales will host No. 9 Endicott College.


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|System: Wii, PS3, Xbox 360
|Dev: Junction Point
|Pub: Disney Interactive Studios
|Release: TBA
|Players: 1-2
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Actually, Oswald is probably the most important new addition to Epic Mickey 2. Those of you who had a chance to play the previous title will remember that Oswald served as the story's MacGuffin. Well, this time Oswald has been promoted from MacGuffin to the centerpiece of Epic Mickey 2's unique gameplay. In fact, Disney was handing out customized Oswald ear-hats at E3 this year, and if an ear-hat doesn't prove you're important, I'm not sure anything can.
Also, remember all of that stuff I said about Epic Mickey being darker than previous Disney franchises? Well just forget about that for a second, because Epic Mickey 2 also a musical. At times players will be compelled to burst into song in order to advance the plot, which probably means that I'm not going to play it around any of the people I've played Rock Band with. They'll just put a ceiling on my excellence.
All in all, Epic Mickey 2 is a fairly solid step forward in the Epic Mickey franchise. Even if you don't get caught up in the Disney-centric historical component, it's a rock-solid title that you can play when your parents force you to babysit your step-brother. Plus, Epic Mickey 2 contains at least one interesting historical moment; Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, whose voice has never been heard, speaks for the first time since he was created in 1927. This by itself might actually be enough to convince me to pick up Epic Mickey 2: The Power Of Two when it hits shelves this fall.
Josh Engen
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Date: July 2, 2012
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WQ: I never equated the term mass-production with a lack of quality; quite the opposite--I kept repeating how amazing it is that mass produced engines WERE so good; also, you may have missed that I specifically said that Cadillac taught Mercedes how to make mass-produced quality cars. I actually said that, a couple times. I also said how precision engines that are "narrowly engineered" can be a great deal fussier than simple cast iron powerplants that are "tolerance-tolerant". I also said that a Cadillac V8 was more reliable than a Rolls Royce.
Your junkyard post also agrees with what I've been saying---99% of all 4-door sedans will be in the wreckers, no matter who makes them. Very few people restore 4-doors, not worth it.
Read the posts, then complain, okay?
ndance: I think what we are seeing is another version of the Great American Dream---that luxury can be enjoyed by the middle class, not just the well-to-do. Of course, this isn't really true, but there are these relatively simple-to-produce/provide "trappings" of luxury and refinement going into middle-range and even entry levels cars, as a new marketing tool.
The old saying is "You can't sell anything to a happy person". So first you have to make a car owner despise his roll up windows, lack of a/c, cloth interior, etc., and then get him to pay a bit more for something "better".
You can see how well this has worked if you read around the Town Hall boards. Cars that are without these "amenities" are often thought to be "low-rent" or "low-tech".
You yourself by espousing a return to practicality and functionality in cars (even if you put performance at the top of your list) run the risk of being branded a fearful technophobe without an E-ticket to the future.
It's all pretty amusing to watch.0
wq59b Posts: 61No, the reason for excessive factory run-in durations was to 'seat' components of less-than-precision tolerances. Long periods of running-in only waste manpower & elevate operating costs- nothing else. They are not an indication of quality thinking (nor is such a practice required prepatory for high-RPM use) UNLESS the very real possibility of initial deficiency is present. Rings, valves, seals, bearings, etc need to set & mate and be established as reliable & leak-free before the engine leaves the factory, otherwise there's a unkown risk of engine breakdown & warranty costs once in the consumer's hands- not to mention (once again) the accompanying undesired publicity. Precision-manufactured engines --regardless if they are built from a "simple", less-glamorous iron or not, or include 'old-tech' components such as pushrods or not-- do not need these excessive run-in intervals and they do not further require break-in periods under private ownership. Cadillac engines are not "GM engines"- they were designed & engineered autonomously from the other divisions by Cadillac engineers and they were not used in other division's products. Cadillac set the standard for precision manufacture in the first half of the automobile industry, and their manufacturing practices in the '60s merely continued this SOP.
Cadillac engines WERE designed to run at redline for many hours- they were tested at WOT for long durations during R&D and their tolerances and precision allow this as well. There is no design flaw or cost-cutting or deficiency, no- not even a 'snap-ring', that would disallow this. Cadillac blocks have a 20% nickel content and tensile strengths up to 70,000 PSI. No other GM-division's engines were so spec'ed.
>>"I also said that a Cadillac V8 was more reliable than a Rolls Royce."<<
And I replied that is absolutely NO compliment. #1: Rolls' are not built in relative quantity as, driven nearly hard or far as, or maintained as poorly as just about any other make. Their reliability is therefore for comparison's purposes: unproven. I'd rather stake my reliability dollars on a (insert any other low-priced car here). #2: Rolls' design & engineering keystone is 'obsolescence'. Roll's has never been the engineering target of an other manufacturer with the exception of NVH levels. Their powertrains specifically have remained unchanged for decades at a time, and are usually years behind the average vehicle's technology level.0
wq-- I'm not sure what you are trying to say here.
If your premise is that a 60s Cadillac engine has better metallurgy or is more carefully assembled than a 60s Chevy or Pontiac engine, I wouldn't contest that as I have no knowledge of it being otherwise, and the proposition seems like a reasonable one at any rate. Sure, why not?
If however you are saying that a 60s Cadillac engine is built more precisely and assembled more carefully than a 60s Benz engine, or runs at closer tolerances, then the evidence gets very dicey.
For one thing, having taken quite a few engines apart, I can tell you with no doubts in my mind that a Cadillac V-8 looks externally and internally like a Vermont Wood Stove next to a Benz engine, and this alone puts me in a state of skepticism regarding the presentation of a Cadillac engine as a precision unit of equal sophistication.
It's like handing me a Timex and a Rolex and telling me they are essentially the same because they both say the same time.
In the life of an average 60s car, all this may not even matter, but craftsmanship still shows regardless.0
grbeck Posts: 2,361I always thought combining Cadillac-style amenities with the ride, handling and braking of a Mercedes (or other European sedan) was a good idea. I like a responsive vehicle - and a vehicle with power windows/door locks/sun roof, CD player, air conditioning and ABS.
Plus, most of those power assists are pretty reliable today - at least on the Hondas that I have owned.0
That's basically what the S class Benzes of the 80s came to...big, big V8 luxury cars that can handle, brake and accelerate in remarkable fashion for their size. Ditto Lexus, although it wasn't quite the handler.
Cadillac finally got the idea with the STS, but it still wasn't good enough to compete with the Benz 300 & 500 series, and the LS400.
Last STS I drove extensively was a '93, and back then I thought it was at least 5 years behind Benz and Lexus in development.
So Cadillac might be closer in 2003. Haven't driven a new one.0
lemmer Posts: 2,699read through this discussion again. Does anyone think Cadillac and MB have changed places or at least narrowed the gap between the two in the past couple of years?0
Interesting thread...I jkust glanced at it too. I dunno about comparing a W114 (?) MB 250 to a Caddy, but that's old news. A SE model would have been more appropriate, not a lowline car.
Anyway, I think the gap has narrowed from a couple years ago...CTS and STS can be seen by many as C and E class competitors. However, there's no other real matches.0
martian Posts: 220The two companies had completely different design philosophies. American V-8s were designed to be driven in stop and go conditions, with RPMs below 3000 at 65 MPH. In Europe, engine displacements were limited by displacement, so higher compression rations and OHCs were used. What really puzzles me was why American mfgs. delayed inroduction of disc brakes-my dad's big FORD had drums all around, and you could experiece brake fade very frequently-that is scarey. Discs worked better and were mechanically simply-yet Americans endured lousy brakes into the 1980s. German cars have excellent brakes-and they use nice large diameter discs.0
that disc brakes were delayed for so long is that they pretty much demand a power assist. With drum brakes, even a big battlecruiser driven by a little old lady could get slowed down without a power assist. I had a '67 Newport with a 383-2bbl, and a weight of an easy 4000 pounds. Drum brakes all around, and no power assist. It belonged to a little old lady before me, and if she was able to handle something like that for roughly 30 years, anybody should be able to!
With disc brakes though, even smaller cars really need a power assist in order to safely stop. Unless you're a body-builder with very strong leg muscles!
Now to be fair, most larger cars back then were equipped with power brakes. But IIRC, disc brakes were a $25-30 option, while the power boost was around $100. If they made all that stuff standard, they'd have had to raise their advertised prices and, well, we all know how cheap Detroit can be. :blush:
FWIW, the fact that disc brakes were optional, but seldom ordered, speaks volumes to the fact that by and large, the American buying public just didn't care. They cared about how big it was, how cushy it was, and how fast it could accelerate, but not how fast it could stop.
Here's something that puzzles me with the newer cars, though. On some trim styles of the same model line they offer 4-wheel discs, but on some they still have drums in the rear. For example, the Taurus/Sable wagons have disc brakes in back, but the sedans have drums. And with the Stratus/Sebring sedans, the V-6 models have 4-wheel discs, while the 4-cyl have drums in back.
Wouldn't it be cheaper in the long run to just make them 4-wheel disc, across the board? I can't imagine that they're really saving much in manufacturing costs by offering it two different ways. And I really don't see how a disc brake setup should be any more expensive than a drum brake. If anything, it actually seems LESS complicated to me! It's much easier to change the pads on a disc-brake car, there are fewer springs and little BS-parts in the assembly, and just by design, disc brakes are self-adjusting, so you eliminate those annoying little adjusters that the drum brakes had which didn't work half the time.
About the only thing I can think of, in the argument for simplicity these days, is that rear drums are inherently designed to function well as an emergency brake. Just pull the handle or push the footbrake, and a cable pulls the leading shoe against the drum. It's not easy (or maybe not even possible) to make something mechanical like that to cause a caliper to push out and and press the pads against the rotor, so they have to design a miniature drum setup in the rear wheels, which acts as an emergency brake. And supposedly, if you rarely use your emergency/parking brake and the system gets muffed up, it's alot more expensive to fix than the old fashioned drum setup, where at the most the only thing screwed up is a couple of cables.0
The American Crosley offered disc brakes way back in the early 1950s, but they unfortunately corroded rapidly for some reason, and were discontinued.0
Being the current owner of a '70 DeVille and having driven 2 '68 M.B Limos - I can say this (keep in mind I have ALWAYS loved the 450SL) I turned down an opportunity to get a '73 450SL convertible in MUCH better shape than my Caddy convertible. They wanted my Cadillac and $3,000.00 for the SL ....
.... of course I would hate missing out on flying Caddy hub caps when hitting an on ramp too fast with almost 20 foot of DeVille sailing around a tight curve!! :P0
You shouldn't have to give any money with your Caddy to get a 450SL, especially an early one. They are worth about the same--they might actually owe you $3,000, no kidding.
Besides, all you'd be getting is a smaller car that eats just as much gas as your Caddy and is 3X more expensive to repair.
I think Benz performed the $100 bill test on all 450SLs, to see how well they stuck to the upholstery :P0
RE: a smaller car that eats just as much gas
Since the tune up and carb rebuild I get 13.8 MPG
(before that it was under 9 MPG)
my '06 Escape Limited (V6) only gets 17.4 MPG
For a little more than 3 1/2 MPG it's not worth parking the yacht unless the top has to be up - it has too many blind spots.
As for the Caddy's worth - it was rough compared to the SL.
That offer was before almost a grand in electrical, new exhaust, water pump, a complete tune up, carb rebuild, a bunch of body work & paint, as well as new tires and a LOT of detailing :sick: .
It was almost tempting!0
.... of course I would hate missing out on flying Caddy hub caps when hitting an on ramp too fast with almost 20 foot of DeVille sailing around a tight curve!!
My '67 Catalina has a habit of ditching its right front hubcap. I finally got fed up enough that nowadays I put it on at car shows, but then pop it back off and put it in the trunk when it's time to drive it home!0
But consider that your Cadillac's engine is not going to cost $15,000 to rebuild. Once that 450SL pops a piston or a rod, that's it for the car, it's junk.0
If you want a 107, get a 560SL. The last is often the best, surely the case with that platform.0
That's right! The 560SL handles well and gets decent gas mileage and is pretty quick, too. Three attributes that the 450SL does not possess.0
They are also by far the most expensive variant...but they are that much better than the rest, and their values seem relatively stable now. That car was a real retro car...a 1972 model being made in 1989.0
You can get a nice one for maybe $18,000.
They were good cars, the 560SLs....0
one of my coworkers bought a 1973-74 450SL. I think he paid something ridiculous like $15,600 for it. It had close to 200,000 miles on it, but it did look great in the pictures and the video they sent him before he bought it! And even in person, it did look good, although there was a bit of rust in the door sill area as I recall.
In the end, I think he sunk a couple grand into it during the few years he had it, and finally sold it to someone he knew for about half of what he paid for it. The tranny went out soon after that.
How much is a tranny rebuild on one of those things?0
with labor, probably $2,800.0
People must see that three pointed star and get all emotional. 15K for a 450SL? Maybe for a perfect ultra low mileage example in 100 point condition, and no 75-76-77 models from what I hear.
I still almost regret not buying that mint 560SL that was a perfect match for my W126. But of course, that third car would have been a silly move, and I wouldn't have bought the C43 if I had three cars already/0
People must see that three pointed star and get all emotional. 15K for a 450SL?
I'm guessing that to some people who aren't knowledgeable, they might also look at a price like that and think that they're still getting a luxury car at a cheap price, especially when they see how much a new one is!
I know that's one way my buddy justified paying the $16K or whatever he did for his '78 Mark V. His rationale was that car was about $20,000 brand-new, which equates to $60,000 today. So in his mind he thinks he's getting a $60K car on the cheap!
I wonder if that type of rationale is common? I think one trap I fall into sometimes is when I start thinking that it would be cheaper to go out and buy a nicer version of a car I have rather than fix mine up. However, that still doesn't justify over-paying for the nicer version! :shades:0
Maybe he underestimated repair costs. I think with some of those cars, they are also bought by people who remember them when new. From what I can tell, having something like a 450SL when they were new meant having quite a prestigious and even chic car. Probably even moreso than they are today, due to being a little rarer. Maybe that Mark V can be explained the same way. If you get a no-miles as-new one for well under original MSRP, someone could see that as a deal, esp if they are fond of the car to begin with. It might not be safe logic, but it is logic.
At the same time, some people think vintage = worth a fortune. If a new SL is 90K, a nice vintage one must be worth a bit, right? Some people assume that about my fintail...if a loaded new E-class is 60K and a S-class is 90K, a shiny old MB with fins and chrome must be worth 30K anyway, right? People have actually told me that.
Funny thing too...according to my 1976 NADA and KBB guides, a 74 450SL had a MSRP of $15450, and a 73 at $13340 - so that guy paid more than original MSRP!0
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The learned scribes of the Terrebonne Parish School Board have rendered their underwhelming decision: "Satisfactory."
The learned scribes of the Terrebonne Parish School Board have rendered their underwhelming decision: "Satisfactory."
The members of a body responsible for the education of thousands of youngsters at any given time might be expected to come up with a more complete and descriptive evaluation of their only employee.
Indeed, a caring and involved populace might demand a more-comprehensive measure of how well the superintendent of schools is doing his job.
Philip Martin's performance of his duties, though, has been judged "satisfactory."
That is good enough for the board, so it should be good enough for you and me.
In fairness, I should point out that this group thought a two-page wish list of vague promises was an adequate "plan" for what it was wanted to do with hundreds of millions more in tax money over the next 10 to 20 years.
So in their world, I suppose, "satisfactory" might be a perfectly acceptable evaluation.
Most of us, of course, would like something a little more concrete — you know, measurable goals, clear measures and an unambiguous path to improvement for the superintendent and his thousands of charges.
If you do want such a thing, though, you are sorely disappointed.
The School Board has a three-level assessment for the superintendent, and it has issued its yearly grade.
Unlike the hundreds of teachers who work for the superintendent, folks whose performance is measured and reported back to them in the hopes that they will improve and earn increasing rewards, the superintendent must be satisfied with "satisfactory."
That is not to say that all the members of the board think Martin's performance is satisfactory. No, "satisfactory" is the compilation of the grades the members awarded him in secret votes.
The board met behind closed doors with Martin, the public is left to assume, to let him know the strengths and weaknesses of his leadership of the school system.
The rest of us must simply wonder how well Martin is doing his job.
That's because there are no public measures built into his job description. Other than each board member voting "satisfactory," "needs improvement" or "unsatisfactory," the superintendent doesn't get much feedback about what he's doing and what's expected.
More importantly, though, the public that foots the bill for the superintendent and the system he leads has no indication of how well or how poorly he is doing what he's supposed to be doing.
For that matter, the public doesn't have much of an official idea of what it is he is supposed to be doing.
Why is that? What kind of organization doesn't want clearly defined standards and specific feedback.
Simply put, the Terrebonne Parish School Board is such an organization. The members, apparently, are content with a three-grade scale, essentially allowing them to vote by whim on whether they like the superintendent.
And why would the board members want specificity?
Could it be that they don't want people to know how well the schools are working? I don't know, and neither does anyone else.
The Terrebonne school system is shrouded in secrecy, and the insiders must like it that way — or they would change it.
The superintendent and board members won't even tell the people what they really plan to do with your tax money. Do you think they want you to know how well they are doing?
Fortunately, while the board might tightly control the amount and kind of information that drips out to the public, it is the public that ultimately controls the purse strings.
The public that doesn't have any idea beyond "satisfactory" of what Martin does or is supposed to do decided in May that the board has enough of its money — for now, anyway.
That control must seem odd to the people who don't trust you with vital information about this huge public school system.
And that might be the main reason they didn't get the go-ahead for their tax "plan."
I have this suggestion for the board and the public: If the only thing a board member will tell you about its employee is "satisfactory," the board member's grade should be much lower than that.
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Infinity's new Beta speaker line is priced squarely in home theater's upper-middle-class. The suite we put together included the larger of two bookshelf models, the Beta 20, for the front left/right positions, the Beta C250 center speaker, a pair of Beta ES250 surround speakers, and the unusually powerful and compact CSW-10 subwoofer.PDF: Fast Facts
For this report, I placed the Beta 20s on stands, the C250 atop my 30-inch widescreen HDTV, and the ES250s on my usual high, side-wall shelves - the same positions normally occupied by my reference speakers. I put the CSW-10 in my tried-and-true subwoofer spot, a bit to the left and behind the left front speaker.
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Members of Community Board 5's Special Committee on Homelessness clashed with a Queens representative from the Department of Homeless Services (DHS) last Wednesday in a meeting to discuss Mayor Bill de Blasio's plan to tackle the issue.
In February, de Blasio unveiled his new strategy, which includes getting out of 360 cluster sites hotel and commercial hotels by 2021 and 2023, respectively. Instead, the city will build or expand 90 traditional shelters across the city.
The goal, according to the plan, is to reduce the homeless shelter population by 2,500 people over five years. City officials said they will inform a community 30 days prior to opening a new shelter and create a community advisory board to help manage the site.
Amanda Nasner, Queens borough manager for DHS, explained to the committee the reasons behind rising homelessness, the breakdown of the population, and some of the city's prevention services to keep people in their homes.
According to Nasner, in addition to rising rents, domestic violence and other causes of homelessness, another reason why the population skyrocketed at the end of 2011 was because of a lack of funding for a rental subsidy program.
"That left 14,000 people on the streets, that's why the number skyrocketed," she said. "They didn't have these rent subsidies to pay the landlord."
To keep people from becoming homeless, the city launched Homebase, which Nasner called the "first point of entry" for New Yorkers at risk of homelessness, in 2005. With 23 locations, including Far Rockaway and Jamaica, it offers services such as obtaining public benefits, emergency rental assistance, and education and job placement.
Nasner said Homebase has reduced shelter applicants by 49 percent in 2016 alone.
She then explained the goal of the mayor's new plan, which is detailed in a 114-page document called "Turning the Tide on Homelessness." The new borough-based approach is designed to keep homeless people near their schools, workplaces, houses of worship and other community supports.
Members of the committee didn't buy the plan. Robert Holden, president of the Juniper Park Civic Association and member of Community Board 5, questioned why the city wants to abandon most of its cluster apartment units, which are mostly in the Bronx.
Nasner said they don't provide social services like a traditional shelter, and many others are not safe. Holden responded that the Department of Buildings can force landlords to fix the units.
"All clusters are bad? I just find that ridiculous," he said. "What percentage of clusters are unlivable? We never get that. They just say, 'close the clusters.'"
Holden later called the mayor's plan "arbitrary." He was especially shocked that the plan would only reduce the homeless population by 2,500 in five years.
"You don't know what the numbers will be. Can we believe them?" he said. "How could you predict the homeless population?"
"You would think the mayor has more of a delineated plan," added board member Kathy Masi. "I don't see how you do this by 2023."
The committee also took issue with street homelessness. According to Nasner, there are 2,800 people who live on the streets daily. Masi questioned the accuracy of that number.
"Nobody wants to be on a street, obviously. If these people do, they definitely have mental health problems," Holden said. "They really need to be taken off the streets, they need help."
Holden got into a back-and-forth with Nasner about the creation of the community advisory board when new shelters are sited. He accused the mayor of "placating to the population in an election year."
"We're not buying the B.S. the mayor is selling. This is what the mayor does, he's changing his tune now," Holden said. "If the mayor's going to come up with a plan, he needs to come up with a real plan, not just this."
"This really is a trust issue. After what happened at Pan Am, there really is no trust," Masi added. "The first thing you'll have to do is rebuild some sort of relationship with communities. No one in the mayor's office seems to want to take that step."
Nasner responded that's why DHS created her position.
"That's why I'm here," she said. "If we can better our relations, that's my goal."
Holden asked Nasner to look up the homeless population by neighborhood, rather than by community boards. According to Nasner, there are 287 homeless people within Community Board 5, which includes Maspeth, Middle Village, Glendale and Ridgewood.
Dmytro Fedkowskyj, who chairs CB5's Homelessness Committee, asked if it was possible to have a third party, such as the comptroller's office, verify the data that ties a person to a community.
"We're not going to believe the mayor's office. When someone throws a number at us, it's just a number to us," Fedkowskyj said. "We need to get to a point where the community can believe the information. Until that happens, a lot of this is going to be a flop."
Holden insisted that the mayor has not been transparent with the community and that he never reached out to Maspeth when he proposed a homeless shelter in the neighborhood.
"I know de Blasio, he's mismanaged everything he's touched, why should we trust him?" Holden said. "We're so skeptical it's ridiculous."
Nasner concluded that she wants to build a better relationship with Queens communities, including in Community Board 5.
"I know that's challenging," she said. "I care, and I want you guys to see that."


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Author Notes: This is the best solution for your stale hard bread. A couple of weeks ago Amreen posted her lazy (wo)mans bread pudding. I was just searching for a recipe to use up my stale hard old bread and this looked like the perfect idea for it. It is also a nice example how food52 is a great source of inspiration and a place where cooks learn from each other. I also posted my version of this bread pudding on my blog and there I called it Amreen and Janne's bread pudding to give some credit to the cook and the recipe that where my source of inspiration. I will call it something different here to avoid confusion. —Janneke Verheij
Serves: 2
stale hard old bread
cup whole milk
heaping tablespoons apricot jam
teaspoon cinnamon
pinches ginger powder
pinches salt
handfuls mixed white and dark raisins
- Preheat the oven to 180C / 360f. Well the raisins in warm water for 10 minutes. Peel the pear and cut it into small pieces, a little smaller than the bread. If you have a very ripe and soft pear you don't have to bake it but if it is a little hard you might want to bake it in some butter before you add it to the oven dish; and if you like the taste of baked pear you can do this anyway.
- Cut the bread in pieces and put it in a small oven dish with the pear and the raisins.
- Mix the egg, milk, jam and the spices together (don't forget to add a pinch of salt) Pour the mixture over the bread in the oven dish and slide it in the oven. If the bread is really hard you might want to let it soak for a couple of minutes before you slide it in the oven.
- (You will be jumping up and down in front of the oven soon, impatient for it to be ready; the smell just drives you crazy.) Bake for about 30 minutes or until a knife comes out clean.
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GusGusGus... how is it that you happen to know ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING on the planet? XD I want to steal your brain use it to pass math this year.
First off, I don't know everything.
Pfft, denial. Between you and Diana, AFC could easily take over the world.
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Another HHGG reference!
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A Houma native looked to local customs when seeking inspiration for his latest art exhibit.
A Houma native looked to local customs when seeking inspiration for his latest art exhibit.
Brook Frederick, 35, has created a collection of paintings that make up the exhibit called "King Cake Babies." It is on display through Feb. 2 at Barrister's Gallery, 2331 Saint Claude Ave., in New Orleans.
"I walk a line between serious and humorous," he said of his works. I'll have a humorous situation of a baby floating in the sky and then I'll have a serious situation of a king cake baby drowning in tar, like from the BP Oil spill."
The use of the baby, he said, helps diffuse tension-filled topics that might otherwise make people feel uncomfortable.
"The fact that it's a toy makes a subject that once felt heavy or unapproachable, feel accessible," Frederick said.
It took Frederick four years, on and off, to complete the 18 pieces that make up the collection.
Jonathan Foret, executive director of the planned Wetlands Discovery Center, said his friend Frederick turned an empty room of Foret's home into a studio.
"It was really great. We even held an informal showing in that room" and a "ton of people showed up," he said.
Foret says Frederick's work could become "the next Blue Dog," an iconic image seen in multiple images painted by New Iberia artist George Rodrigue.
Frederick's work is "a conversation. It tells a story of something. It is a very cool idea," Foret said.
Frederick, a graduate of Vandebilt Catholic High, left Houma after high school for Lake Charles, where he earned a bachelor of fine arts degree from McNeese State University. From there he moved to Brooklyn, N.Y., to study at the New York Academy of Art.
Though he left south Louisiana behind, his work remains rooted here. The people, lifestyle and landscape all have an influence in his art.
For example, he collected tar balls that washed ashore after the BP oil spill and used those to create his Environmental Series.
One painting depicts a shrimper, which is among the occupations deeply affected by the spill and the dispersants used to clean the coast.
"To have the shrimper painted in oil is a statement in its own," Foret said.
The Environmental Series also includes portraits of Houma residents and a BP CEO, Frederick said.
"The oil industry is such a large part of Houma" and the spill affected countless people, the artist said. "If this is something that we are going to live with then, it's something we need to have open discussions about."
Frederick traces his interest in art back to age 2 when his teacher and artist mother "put paint in my hands."
Frederick, who lives in Brooklyn, said he loves to come back to Houma because of the community support.
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Laura, that's who!
Now I'm going to do several dances around the room and do some cartwheels and totally ignore the weird silliness about the Vampire McBain and the totally nonchalant way Dante told the police commissioner that one of the PCPD had just been killed on the job. ("Bummer, Anna. Bad news. I forgot the beer." That was about the gist of it.)
Also, is Luke now pronouncing "Robin" with an English accent? What is that about? Is that part of his attempt to woo Anna? (Which he incidentally pronounces Ah-na. Ugh.)
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