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Key West is a pretty interesting place to be single in your 30's. I mean, our unofficial island motto is "Key West: Where The Weird Go Pro", so you can imagine what it's like filtering through the potential suitors. Much like a bowl of granola, lots of nuts and flakes. The thing about dating in your 30's is that you've already been through all the bullshit so you've got a pretty good idea of what you're looking for and at least for me personally I'm no longer willing to lower my expectations to meet other people's standards. Step up to the plate or step outta the way.
My girlfriend Alex recently recommended this book Modern Romance by Aziz Ansari. If you're navigating the dating world in 2015 this book is a must read and I guarantee you will find it laugh out loud funny. And if you aren't personally navigating the world of dating right now but are wondering why your amazingly awesome BFF, daughter, son, cousin, (you get the picture)… still is, this book is for you too!
Another thing about dating in your 30's is that by now hopefully you've learned to appreciate the little things. As Aziz so eloquently says in Modern Romance, "When I've really been in love with someone, it's not because they looked a certain way or liked a certain TV show or certain cuisine. It's more because when I watched a certain TV show or ate a certain cuisine with them, it was the most fun thing ever." At this stage in the game it's all about having fun; after all, if it's not fun while you're dating imagine how much things will suck if you get married and throw kids into the mix.
10 Quotes That Will Make You Want To Read Modern Romance
- "Later I check Instagram, and this clown Tanya is posting a photo of some deer Too busy to write me back, but she has time to post a photo of some deer she saw on a hike?"
- "If you were a woman, you had far less time to find a man. True Love? This guy has a job and a decent mustache. Lock it down girl."
- "That said, can you imagine how insane that must have been to get the first text of all time? When no one knew what a text was? It would have been like "WHY ARE THERE WORD ON MY PHONE??? PHONES ARE FOR NUMBERS!!"
- "So based on [this] data, the answers are clear: If you are a woman, take a high-angle selfie, with cleavage, while you're underwater near some buried treasure."
- "Nobody joins Tinder because they're looking for something," Rad told Time. They join because they want to have fun." And because his name is Sean Rad, he probably said that quote to Time and then tossed on a pair of cool shades, hopped on a skateboard, and blazed on outta there."
- "Quick die note: In numerous interviews Mateen is identified as someone with a background in party planning, which is a ridiculous resume item. "Are you fit for the position?" "Yes, I have a strong background in party planning, I promise you, I can get this party started""
- "A few decades ago, if I wanted to research vanilla ice cream, what would I have even done? Cold-approach chubby guys and then slowly steer the convo toward ice cream to get their take? No, thanks. Nowadays the Internet is my chubby friend. It's the whole world's chubby friend."
- "Now, I understand that there is a certain kind of "car guy" out there who would find my choice of gasoline as horrifying as I find the choice of suboptimal tacos. To that I say: Stop caring so much about gasoline, you ding-dong! Spend that money on good tacos like a nice, normal person."
- "Most strange to me is that, whereas "Mrs. Pouterson" is a horrible nickname for a vagina, "Warren G. Harding" is actually a great nickname for a penis."
- "This is my favorite. I just love the idea of the guy opening up his phone, seeing the boobs, and thinking, "Ahhhh. Okay, you got this Phil! Let's nail this PowerPoint presentation.""
Times have changed. Never before have single people had so many options literally in their back pocket. Technology has changed the dating game; specifically smart phones and the internet. Aziz said it best, "the world is available to us, but that may be the problem." For me technology, reduces three-dimensional people to two-dimensional displays of information. I don't want to converse via text message or swipe right, I want to enjoy conversation and show off my sick dance moves. Cheers!


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Imo, it is when the films simply haven't been seen to already say they can win just like that. Things can very well surprise you, or they may not even be in the running for Best Picture as well.
So true. In complete opposition to my predictions before the film came out, I don't think TDKR deserves any major Oscars and I think proves your point about people assuming way too much about Django Unchained and The Hobbit before having seen those movies. Six months ago, based on the trailers for TDKR, I thought Nolan had done it again and surpassed himself. I thought the film was a shoe-in for major nominations now that the field for Best Picture has been opened up to make room for critically acclaimed blockbusters. But TDKR wasn't what I expected it to be. It ended up being a major disappointment for me and it appears many other people. The same thing could happen with Django Unchained and The Hobbit. Django could end up being another Kill Bill or Death Proof. Tarrantino's record is not spotless and neither is Jackson's.
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9th Company: Collector's Edition (US - BD RA)
Gabe Powers experiences the Russian side of that war seen in Rambo Part III...
Modern Russian cinema really doesn't get much registry on the international radar, even for those of us excited about the next big thing from Korea, Japan, Sweden or France. The only Russian stuff that gets any kind of release on this side of the, or rather, either pond is of the action variety, including Timur Bekmambetov's Night Watch and Day Watch, or Sergey Bodrov's Mongol. There are a few exceptions (Aleksandr Sokurov's Russian Ark saw decent US theatrical release), but for the most part it's (relatively speaking) big budget, genre work that works its way out of Russia. Surprisingly enough, it's taken five years for the largest grossing film in the country's history to sail its way onto American shores, and it's in the form of a low fanfare DVD/Blu-ray release. Well, surprising until you actually watch the movie, and understand that it's actually almost unbelievably mediocre.
9th Company is exactly what audiences have come to expect from war films, especially in the years following Steven Spielberg's and Ridley Scott's technical masterpieces (with arguable narrative and depth issues) Saving Private Ryan and Black Hawk Down. Director Fyodor Bondarchuk utilizes the same high contrast look, and embraces the story's similarly graphic violence. The film builds up to a giant shoot-out based on real-life battle that took place at Hill 3234 in early 1988, during the last large-scale Soviet military operation Magistral, so it's sort of a reverse Saving Private Ryan or Enemy at the Gates (which, sadly, despite obvious flaws is a much more exotically Russian-specific war film). Unfortunately Bondarchuk isn't quite that good a filmmaker, and he's working from a script that doesn't feature a single novelty outside of location. Also, I'm far from a modern military history expert, and even further from a guy that knows the first thing about Soviet Russia's time in Afghanistan, but the physical set up for the final battle seems entirely unrealistic, which seems to defeat the point of the film altogether.
The characters don't really help matters. Bondarchuk, screenwriter Yuri Korotkov, and the actors try to capture the everyday life and hardships of an average era soldier, but these efforts usually amount more to two-dimensional mimicry of American flicks like Full Metal Jacket, instead of something specific to the turbulent era. I was able to mostly tell the characters apart, which is something of an achievement for an ensemble flick, but couldn't muster much interest in any of their personalities. More precisely I couldn't muster any interest in rooting for any of them when the time comes. Ridley Scott's Black Hawk Down characters are thinly drawn as well, and their development over the two and a half film is not exactly impressionable, but they're likeable, which is the minimum requirement for an action ensemble. 9th Company wants us to understand these soldiers just as much as it wants us to understand this war, and in this the film flops. These guys are brats all the way through training, which might have meant something, had they not also reacted to the difficulties surrounding them in entirely stereotypical ways (realistic perhaps, but even if this is true, why waste so much film time on it?).
The early scenes of the hardships of training mostly act as obvious place-holders on the lead up to a more spectacular climax anyway. These are made up of the usual mix of montage showcasing development, dramatic revelations, and wacky antics. The wacky antics are the worst—entirely unfunny wastes of valuable screen time. There's a brief sequence where our protagonists, coming to the end of their training, are given a chance to quit, and not go to war if they simply step forward, which likely played very well on the script page. On film even this rings as a hallow acknowledgement of the usual simplistic Patriotic tropes that follow these movies, even the ones that ask a few hard questions. The one scene that stands out is the one in which the boys are taking turns having sex with the only girl on site (dubbed 'Snow White'). This scene, which leads into the trip to Afghanistan, is oddly touching, though perhaps only because we'd never see a similar scene in a mainstream American war film. Perhaps this brief bought with novelty is only quenching a desperate thirst for anything out of the ordinary.
Even without reading any of the plot descriptions or history surrounding the film, the first hour is clearly building to something, and like clockwork things turn to shit when the protagonists land in Afghanistan. There's a huge aircraft blow-up tossed at the audience like a dog treat—a promise of more to come after just a little more stereotypical melodrama. Still, here we finally learn the rules of this particular war, and can develop a bit of an opinion on its futility. There's a brief piece of getting to know the other side just before all hell breaks loose and Bordarchuk is allowed to flex his shoot 'em up muscles, and use the strange Afghani terrain to the advantage of his visuals. From here the film is certainly more entertaining, if not predictable (never turn your back on a kid in these movies, duh), but never reaches the visceral heights of Private Ryan or Black Hawk Down, or the nail biting suspense of The Hurt Locker (the box art also compares it to Apocalypse Now and The Big Red One, and I don't see much of it in either).
Much like Well Go USA's Ip Man release, this 1080p Blu-ray transfer, framed at an ultra-wide 2.45:1, has its ups and down. Unlike the Ip Man disc, the good far outweighs the bad. Director Fyodor Bondarchuk uses a lot of high contrast, blown out photography, and solid colour schemes. Most of the film takes place in the outdoors, in sun-baked warmth, which leads to a bright, somewhat monochromatic look. These shots are highlighted by orange and red explosions, and the occasional blue stripes of a soldier's tank top. The night scenes have a beautiful purple tint, while interior colours are often about contrasting foreground and background elements, such as warm skin tones, and cooler set dressing. Black levels are solid and deep, and despite a few softer edges I didn't notice any bleeding. Details are very sharp overall, and are most impressive during extreme close-ups (you can almost smell the sweat). Wide shots of natural vistas, and rocky mountains are the dirtiest shots, and exhibit the most compression effects, but characters outside of extreme close-up still feature some minor edge-enhancement haloes throughout. Grain is very small, almost non-existent regardless of lighting, and there aren't any noticeable signs of excessive DNR work. On screen text is often a bit of a pixelated mess, but there aren't too many obvious edge jaggies over the rest of the transfer.
Ouch. This was a mistake. First the sort of bad news—this 5.1 track is of the compressed Dolby Digital variety, which means all these wonderfully huge battle scenes are broken down a bit. For most of the movie we're given relative silence in the stereo and surround channels aside from some minor ambience, but there's a nice, loud POV shot as a tank rolls overhead. Eventually we get into the hard battle mode, and all channels are rife with huge explosions. This brings us to the really bad news—the 5.1 track is English dubbed, and badly. I don't usually like dubs in modern film anyway, but this one is particularly bad. The performances are weak, the voices don't match the characters, the vocals are all at the same volume, that volume is too loud, and it does not change with the surrounding elements. The original Russian is reserved to a 2.0 Dolby Surround track. The Surround track seems to be louder than the 5.1 track, clean, and features a really thick LFE response, but the missing discreet surround and centre channel certainly hurt, especially in the big battle scenes.
The first disc, the Blu-ray, features only a Russian promo trailer, and the US release trailer, both in HD. The rest of the extras for this 'Collector's Edition' are relegated to a second disc, which is a standard definition DVD. These start with a making-of featurette (38:50). The featurette begins with a historical set up, complete with news reel footage from the era, and interviews with a member of the real 9th Company. From here things move on to a more typical mix of behind-the-scenes footage, cast and crew interviews, and choice shots from the film. The tone is very EPK (pressing the film's cost, the scope, its 'importance', the director's heritage, the cast and crew's pedigree), but it's all very fast paced, and reasonably informative. Apparently it was made for television because Bondarchuk is often bleeped while speaking on set. Next up is '20 Years Later' (29:50), a further discussion concerning the film's historical base. This section mixes archive footage of the era with new interviews with surviving members of the war and battle. It's not quite a full-bodied documentary on the subject, but this is the best of the extras, and offers the intriguing historical point of view I was looking for while watching the film. Things are closed out with footage from the Russian premier (05:50).
Fun project for film students! Take 9th Company, and edit it together with Rambo III and Charlie Wilson's War. Let's see all sides of the conflict in one big seven hour epic. Perhaps mixing it up will deplete some of the mediocrity found in all three films. 9th Company is a disappointment overall, especially after years of hype following its original Russian release, but viewers aware that they aren't getting anything more than a typical 'war is hell' flick should enjoy the gory action that is the final act. Well Go USA's Blu-ray looks pretty great, more consistent than their previous Ip Man disc, but they've dropped the audio ball by only including the English dubbed track in 5.1 sound. The extras are of the promotional variety, but are pretty informative overall.
*Note: The images on this page are not representative of the Blu-ray release.
Review by Gabriel Powers
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Disc Details
Release Date: 31st August 2010
Discs: 2
Disc Type: Blu-ray Disc
RCE: No
Video: 1080p
Aspect: 2.45:1
Anamorphic: No
Colour: Yes
Audio: Dolby Digital 5.1 English, Dolby Surround 2.0 Russian
Subtitles: English
Extras: Making the Movie, 20 Years Later, The Premiere, Trailers
Easter Egg: No
Feature Details
Director: Fyodor Bondarchuk
Cast: Alexei Chadov, Artur Smolyaninov, Konstantin Kryukov
Genre: War
Length: 140 minutes
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UCI-FRAM Group Announces J. Brett McBrayer as President of Airtex and ASC Businesses
UCI-FRAM Group announced today the appointment of J. Brett McBrayer as President of its Airtex fuel delivery business and its ASC cooling systems business.
Brett has more than 20 years of business and manufacturing experience, both in the U.S. and internationally. He comes to UCI-FRAM Group from Rio Tinto Alcan, where he was Vice President and General Manager of the Alcan Cable business. Prior to joining Rio Tinto Alcan, he was Vice President and General Manager of the Special Metals Division of Precision Castparts Corp., and before that spent 20 years in roles of increasing responsibility with Alcoa Inc.
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We occasionally get questions about how oil analysis works. You send your oil to us and you get a report back, but what happens in the meantime? Is it magic? Some sort of voodoo? What happens to the oil that allows us to determine what's in it?
At the heart of most oil analysis businesses is a spectrometer. It is the machine that allows us to quantify wear metals, additives, and contaminants in oils, making oil analysis a useful service in predicting potential problems in machines of all types (though it's most useful for internal combustion engines).
The Plasma in the Process
Different types of plasma have been used over the last several decades that oil analysis has been commercially available. Early on, plasma was electrically generated as an arc. The drawback of an electric arc is that as it is generated, it can vary in intensity because the electrical part generating the arc erodes. The erosion causes changes in system resistance, resulting in variable plasma intensity. When using plasma to read the intensity of light from elements, it's best if the plasma's light is constant. Otherwise, errors can be introduced into the process.
Inductive coupled plasma, known in the trade as ICP, works by converting argon gas into plasma. So long as the argon pressures and flow rates don't change, and the power causing the plasma's generation is steady, the intensity of the plasma stays the same. This gives ICP spectrometry the industry gold star for incredible accuracy.
The Rainbow Connection
A spectrometer uses this same principle. A prism inside the machine takes the "light" that's generated by injecting the oil through the plasma and separating it into the different light frequencies of the elements. Each beam of light is then directed to a tiny slit on what is called an aperture plate. The aperture plate is a thick metal device, about 10 inches wide by 18 inches long, and the slits engraved in it are finer than a human hair. The aperture plate allows us to measure the intensity of each beam, using a device known as a photomultiplier tube.
A photomultiplier tube senses light and reacts to its intensity by vibrating faster as the light intensifies. Voila! By placing a photomultiplier tube at one of the slits on the aperture plate, we can get a digital readout of the intensity of light for any particular element in an oil sample. However, as amazing as this process is, the spectrometer is just as dumb as your home computer if the operator doesn't install a program that will let the computer strut its stuff.
Let's recap what we've learned so far. We know that argon is turned into extremely hot plasma, which burns the oil completely, turning it into light waves. The spectrometer refracts this light with a prism and then optically directs the distinct light frequencies of each of the elements to a slit in an aperture plate. A photomultiplier tube travels to each of the light slits and "reads" the amount of light there by vibrating. This marvelous arrangement still can't tell us what we want to know without further instructions.
Setting the Standard
Each standard has a certain amount of a particular element in it. If we want to know, for example, how much iron is in an oil sample, we need to give the spectrometer something to measure against. This allows it to know how many vibrations to count to determine how much iron is present. The first standard we use is a blank — that is, a zero standard — that has no iron in it. At the iron slit in the aperture plate, the photomultiplier tube vibrates at a certain rate per second. Then it remembers that rate as zero. Then, for example, a 100 ppm iron standard is fed into the machine, and again the photomultiplier tube vibrates, but this time at a faster rate. The machine remembers this rate is equal to 100 ppm. Setting the standards in the spectrometer is a process is known as calibration, and it's something we do two to three times each day. It allows the spectrometer to know what standards it should be measuring against.
The spectrometer records each element's information into a chart and uses the chart to determine how much of each element is an in actual oil sample. This process, where the photomultiplier tube travels to each slit and vibrates, repeats for each element we want to measure in an oil sample. The vibrations are translated to ppm (parts per million) readouts using the charts that were set up by the standards. Suddenly the spectrometer looks like a genius! It burns the oil and tells us how much of each element is in the oil.
There are 72 elements on the periodic chart that make enough light, when injected into the plasma, to be read on a spectrometer. Some elements make lots of light and are easy to analyze accurately. Others, like tin, make very little light and are more difficult to accurately gauge. This, along with differences in standards, calibration, and the set-up of different spectrometers, is the reason that you may find differences in the results coming from different laboratories.
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Meet Lucas and Octavia, the Navy's latest prototype damage control autonomous robots, who are designed to one day work side by side with naval personnel and Marines to combat fires within the tight confines of a ship. At present Lucas and Octavia may not move quite fast enough to assist in a legitimate emergency — their lower halves are concocted of modified Segways — but their ability to understand, interpret and respond to human speech and gestures is thoroughly remarkable (though also a bit creepy).
The robots have been developed by the Navy's new DARPA-funded Laboratory for Autonomous Systems Research (LASR). In addition to the development of fire-fighting robots, the researchers hope to work on technology which will, broadly speaking, "provide future sailors and Marines with better tools to do their jobs," in a new 50,000 sq ft, $17.7 million facility which houses "all the environments our sailors and Marines could face," as Rear Adm. Matthew Klunder, chief of Naval Research explained to reporters from AOL. AOL speculates that LASR's research also fits "nicely with the new national strategic directive that focuses the U.S. military's efforts on the Asia-Pacific region and the "anti-access, area-denial threat."
As for Lucas and Octavia, the autonomous robots appear to be equipped with the most basic means to put out a fire. But it's their capacity to critically understand human gestures and speech which makes LASR's technology remarkable. The robots are "meant to process the incomplete, contradictory or incorrect information that we humans spew every day" according to Wired. When presented with such contradictory information, the robots possess the ability to, through their rather eerily infantile faces, express confusion, and then relief when such contradictory instructions are either corrected by humans, or deduce the correct solution to a problem on their own — ie., locate the fire themselves with the use of infrared cameras.
Navy Research Labs appear to have been at work on a separate firefighting robot for some time now. SAFFiR, the Shipboard Autonomous Firefighting Robot, reportedly developed in collaboration with Virginia Tech, solves some of the physical challenges which the expressive and responsive Lucas and Octavia lack. Equipped to hold its balance on board a ship, SAFFiR is "a humanoid robot [that] should be able to maneuver well in the narrow passages and ladderways that are unique to a ship and challenging for most older, simpler robots to navigate," according to the NRL in addition to similar goals of "being designed to move autonomously throughout the ship, interact with people, and fight fires, handling many of the dangerous firefighting tasks that are normally performed by humans."
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Kelly Osbourne opens up about her father's most recent bout with addiction, as well as her own sobriety, in the newest issue of Cosmopolitan.
Osbourne says she's proud of her father for admitting he'd fallen off the wagon, and for seeking help.
"I love and respect that he's honest enough to say, 'Yes, I did this. It was my fault,'" she tells the magazine. "He's a real man. Most people would hide, and he doesn't. It doesn't make me love him any less. It took a long time to get to that place, but I understand it now. And my mother does too."
Several tabloids speculated back in April that Ozzy and wife Sharon were getting a divorce. In response, Ozzy admitted that the couple was, in deed, having some problems because of Ozzy's relapse, but that they were working things out.
In the magazine, Kelly talks about the struggles she and her father have faced as addicts:
"He's an addict; I'm an addict. It's going to be one of those things we battle for the rest of our lives. I take the necessary precautions. If you're not happy and healthy, it's not worth any of it. Everyone says sex, drugs, and rock and roll are fun. It ain't fun. It is not something to glorify."
In the magazine, Osbourne also talks about her rumored fiancé Matthew Mosshart, wanting children and her plans for the future: "Happiness and a Golden Globe. What? I'm fabulous. I need a Golden Globe. What is life if you're not going to live it to the fullest? People think this is my 15 minutes. F**k you. I've got an hour."


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There is a wave of racist and anti-semitic hate sweeping America. As Christians, we worship a God who created all people of all races, loves all people, and died for the salvation and reconciliation of all. Bigotry and hatred are not Christian–in fact, they are anti-Christian, in that they work directly against the reconciling and loving work of God in Christ.
For those of you who haven't been aware of the sharp rise in bigotry and hate crimes, I encourage you to take a look at the Southern Poverty Law Center. They are dedicated to documenting and combating racism, anti–semitism, and every sort of bigotry and intolerance, and so they have information both on general trends and specific incidents.
I'd like to point out the case of Tanya Gersh, a Jewish woman who has been targeted by American neo-Nazis and faces huge amounts of unbelievable harassment. The SPLC is suing the man who started and directed the harassment. They have sent threats by every possible method. Some of the milder examples include the following:
"Day of the rope soon for you and your entire family." Pictures of Tanya being gassed (just as Jewish people were gassed during the Holocaust). Images of ovens with threatening messages sent to her twelve-year-old son. (Remember how the bodies of millions of Jewish people were cremated in the ovens of Auschwitz and the other concentration camps.) Christmas cards with threatening messages. "Thanks for demonstrating why your race needs to be collectively ovened." "You have no idea what you are doing, six million are only the beginning." "We are going to keep track of you for the rest of your life." Hundreds of letters, texts, emails, phone calls, all designed to terrify and hurt Tanya and her family. These are the milder ones. Most were much worse.
Why was Tanya targeted? She's a real estate agent in Whitefish, Montana, home to the mother of Richard Spencer, one of the country's most prominent white nationalists, and until recently Richard Spencer's own home base. After Trump was elected, Spencer spoke to a crowd of white nationalists calling them to "Hail Trump! Hail our people! Hail victory!" to which the crowd responded with Nazi salutes. A video of this went viral, and many good citizens of Whitefish were shocked and disturbed to hear that their home town was associated with neo-nazis. Not wanting their town to be used to support Spencer's work, they wanted Spencer's mother to sell the commercial property she owned in the town. Tanya was the real estate agent working to broker a peaceful and fair solution.
Enter Andrew Anglin, founder and owner of the largest white supremacist website in the country. It's called the Daily Stormer, named after a 1930s Nazi tabloid. Anglin, who calls Trump "Our Glorious Leader," wrote article after article urging his followers to harass Tanya, her family, and other Jewish people in Whitefish. He published pictures of them and contact information and encouraged people to go to Whitefish to attack them in person. And the flood of hatred and evil began.
This is not Anglin and The Daily Stormers' only effect in the last seven months. They were emboldened by Trump's election, which they call "the ascension of our Glorious Leader." Anglin regularly encourages his followers to intimidate Muslims and "any foreigners you see" so that they will "be afraid." He's organized 31 chapters in the US and more in Canada, energizing and radicalizing people so that they commit acts of intimidation, terror, and violence.
Dylann Roof, who massacred nine African Americans at Emmanuel church in Charleston was a regular user of The Daily Storm. So are several others who have killed or attempted to kill black men and women in recent months. One even killed a member of the British Parliament.
The SPLC lawsuit, if it is successful, will take a bite out of his organization. It won't restore Tanya's peace of mind, but it will pay for treatment for the trauma she and her family have endured, and the loss of income from clients driven away. And, hopefully, it will discourage people from doing this kind of vicious evil.
I hope you are as horrified by the neo-Nazis, the so-called "alt-Right", as I am. And I hope you will join me in speaking up whenever you see racism, anti-Semitism, or any other form of bigotry. If you are a Republican, this is especially important given how the white supremacists have attached themselves to the GOP's coattails.
This kind of vileness is not okay. It is anti-Christian and makes a mockery of both our faith and our nation's ideals.
For further reading:
The man behind the neo-Nazi Daily Stormer website is being sued by one of his troll storm targets.–(warning, this Washington Post article includes some of the more explicit and horrifying harassment.)
Suing the Trolls: A woman's lawsuit against a neo-Nazi's "troll storm" could change how to fight back against online harassment.


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10 Therefore we did pour out our souls in prayer to God, that he would strengthen us and deliver us out of the hands of our enemies, yea, and also give us strength that we might retain our cities, and our lands, and our possessions, for the support of our people.
11 Yea, and it came to pass that the Lord our God did visit us with assurances that he would deliver us; yea, insomuch that he did speak peace to our souls, and did grant unto us great faith, and did cause us that we should hope for our deliverance in him.
I don't know if this is deliberate or not, but it seems to me that Helaman's response to the lack of provisions differs drastically from that of Moroni. When Moroni does not get provision he writes a bitter and caustic letter which accuses the chief judge of treason. Helaman in contrast responds by turning to the Lord in prayer. And rather than get angry, he is blessed with peace from God. I think we can learn to emulate Helaman rather than Mormon in how we respond to adversity. We can respond prayerfully rather than angrily. We can choose to respond with love and compassion. We can choose the better path.


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Annuities sold at a brisk pace in the second quarter, setting the stage for a record year of sales, according to the Insured Retirement Institute.
Nationwide, second-quarter sales rose 10%, to $60.4 billion, compared to the second quarter of 2010, the Washington, D.C.-based industry group reported. Second-quarter sales were also up 4% from the first quarter.
The result reflects a growing interest in insured retirement products as well as "the long-term confidence that investors are increasingly placing in these products," IRI president and chief executive Cathy Weatherford said in a statement.
Fixed annuity sales rose more sharply than variable annuity sales between the first and second quarters of this year.
Fixed products posted $20.4 billion of sales, an increase of 7.9%. Yet year-to-year sales of fixed annuities were flat. That result, however, occurred against a backdrop of falling interest rates, noted Jeremy Alexander, president and CEO of Beacon Research, in Evanston, Ill. Beacon tracks fixed and variable annuity sales.
Indeed, despite a continuing decline in rates, a flight to safety may result in a strong third quarter for fixed annuities, Alexander suggested.
Meanwhile, variable annuity sales rose 2% to $40 billion in the second quarter, according to IRI. That was a 15% increase over the second quarter of 2010.
The variable annuity trend brought sales levels to their highest level since the second quarter of 2008, noted Frank O'Connor, Morningstar Inc.'s director of insurance solutions. Heightened market volatility and continued concern about the direction of the economy "appear not to have dampened investor enthusiasm for guarantees," he said.
Morningstar provides data on variable annuities for IRI's reports, and Beacon provides data on fixed annuities for the reports.
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European Leaders Talk Growth After Elections
By Laurence Norman and Andrea Thomas
BRUSSELS — European leaders urged fresh efforts to revive the region's economy after the victory of Socialist candidate François Hollande in Sunday's French presidential election, but officials face a more immediate challenge: a Greek election result that could reopen concerns about the currency bloc's future.
In results that seemed to represent a repudiation of austerity policies pushed by Brussels, Mr. Hollande beat out French President Nicolas Sarkozy by 51.6% to 48.4%, while Greece's two main parties collected less than a third of the vote between them as far-left and far-right parties surged.
"The results of the elections in France and Greece impose a reflection on European policies," Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti said in a statement Sunday evening, after talking to other European leaders, including European Council President Herman Van Rompuy and U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron.
"Responsible public finances remain a necessary condition but certainly not sufficient for the key objective: sustainable growth which creates jobs and is oriented towards social equity," Mr. Monti said.
European Commission President José Manuel Barroso said he shared a "common objective" with Mr. Hollande — finding new ways to boost regional-wide investment projects that can inject fresh momentum into the economy even as governments continue containing deficits and reducing their debt burdens.
"We clearly have a common objective in reviving the European economy to generate lasting growth which rests on solid basis and is a source of new jobs. We now need to transform these aspirations into concrete action," he said in a statement late Sunday.
The Commission is pushing for a €10 billion capital boost for the European Investment Bank, which it says could lead to massive additional investments in the coming three years. Over the weekend, economics Commissioner Olli Rehn has also talked of using some EU budget funds to guarantee small business loans and signaled he will be flexible in applying budget rules.
Yet any efforts to shift the policy focus away from austerity face a major obstacle: persuading Berlin that it will not lead to the tearing up of new regional fiscal rules and will not involve significant new financial contributions for the German taxpayer. Chancellor Angela Merkel called Mr. Hollande on Sunday to congratulate him on his election victory, and invited him to Berlin for talks soon after his inauguration.
"Both are in agreement on how important are close Franco-German relations, and have assured each other that they will strive for good, trusting cooperation," the Chancellery said in a statement.
Meanwhile German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle said his government was ready to work on a growth pact late Sunday but that Berlin opposes a stimulus program. "We will move toward each other, there is no doubt about it," Mr. Westerwelle said on German ZDF television Sunday evening. But he cautioned "it's not about spending more money in Europe, it's about spending the money in a better way."
Yet even as European officials debated ways to lift the economic gloom, events in Greece once again forced themselves to the top of the agenda.
With Greece's National Democracy and Pasok parties lacking enough votes to form a coalition, the austerity and reform pledges Greek leaders gave to win a second €130 billion bailout package looked to be in danger. Without that assistance, Greece's ability to avoid a debt default and keep its currency in the euro zone appear threatened.
Swedish Finance Minister Anders Borg Monday said that the weekend's election result in Greece had added an "element of uncertainty" to the outlook for Europe and the region's recovery from the sovereign debt crisis. "Hopefully we will see a majority government in Greece which will honor the commitments it has made," Mr. Borg said.
Germany on Monday called on Greece to stick to the austerity and reform policy it has committed to under its bailout programs because they are the best path to overcome the country's debt problem. "The agreements must be respected, this is the best way forward," Ms. Merkel's spokesman Steffen Seibert told reporters at a regular news conference. "Our view is that the jointly agreed positions are the right ones."
A European Union official told Dow Jones Newswires Sunday night that Greece had little room for maneuver. "The program is the only way forward for Greece," an EU official told Dow Jones Newswires, and added that any renegotiation of the tough targets would be "within strict boundaries, very, very limited."
The risk of a nasty fallout from Greece sent some European assets lower Monday, although the euro had recovered from its initial overnight slide. Most European stock markets were lower Monday, with bank shares especially hard hit. Credit Agricole's stock hit an all-time low while the Euro Stoxx 50 index was down 1.4% at 2216.76, while Spanish and Italian bond yields rose.
– William Boston in Berlin, Costas Paris and Matina Stevis in Athens, Martin Essex in London, Christopher Emsden in Rome and Charles Duxbury in Stockholm contributed to this article.
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- Medline is the key indexing service for the journal literature of Medicine. You may have seen or used PubMed (Public Medline) which is exactly the same database but open access. Medline should be the preferred choice as it offers a higher level of sophistication in the search and there are additional links to full-text articles only available through Birmingham City University subscriptions. Use Medline when you need Medically focussed information, particularly related to interventions. (Best viewed using Chrome).
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- Springer Connect comprises of approximately 2200 journals covering medicine and life sciences research.
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These addictive Chinese dumplings have a savoury garlic and ginger pork stuffing and are served with a sesame and soy dipping sauce.
These addictive Chinese dumplings have a savoury garlic and ginger pork stuffing and are served with a sesame and soy dipping sauce.
1 lb(s) regular ground pork
1 lb(s) green cabbage, finely chopped
2 Tbsp garlic, minced
2 Tbsp ginger, minced
¼ cup soy sauce
1 Tbsp sugar
2 pkg round Won Ton skins, 60 pcBasic Dipping Sauce for Gyoza
2 Tbsp soy sauce
1 Tbsp rice wine vinegar
¼ tsp sesame oilTo cook
1 tsp vegetable oil
12 gyoza
hot water
basic dipping sauce for gyoza
1. Blend together pork, cabbage, garlic, ginger, soy sauce and sugar. Fry a small patty in a pan to test for seasoning, then adjust to taste.
2. Brush the outside ½ of one side of a won ton skin with water and place a teaspoon full of the meat mixture in the centre. Fold over the won ton skin to make a half circle shaped dumpling and press the edges to make a sealed seam.
3. Place the dumpling seam-up on a parchment paper-lined tray and lightly press down to make the bottom surface flat. Keep both the won ton skins and the finished dumplings covered to prevent them from drying while you work.
4. Once the tray is full, cover with plastic wrap and freeze for several hours. When the dumplings are frozen remove from the tray and store in freezer bags until ready to use. These will last 3 months in the freezer.
5. Once you are comfortable with filling and folding, try to make several decorative "pleats" on the seam by pinching the won ton skin with your thumbs.Basic Dipping Sauce for Gyoza
1. Pour ingredients into a shallow dish and present with the finished dumplings.To cook
1. Heat oil in a non-stick sauté pan and place frozen gyoza flat side down to brown slightly.
2. Add hot water to almost cover the dumplings, cover and cook until water evaporates.
3. Remove the lid now and then and gently shake the pan. Cooking time will be around 7 minutes. Once the water is nearly evaporated, allow the gyoza to fry in the remaining oil for a minute just to crisp them on the flat side and leave a golden brown colour.
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In the recent debate over the legacy of Marxist-Feminism, Eve and Tyler presented a critique of Nat Winn's use of the infamous 'base and superstructure' meme. Despite its wide usage, this particular set of categories has lead to deterministic theorizing, often gutting the subjectivity of the working class and oppressed from communist praxis. Underlying this political consequence has been the method of isolating the objects of investigation — in this case the forms of activity of the class. As Eve and Tyler explained, the 'base and superstructure' meme establishes a duality between subject and object, rather than theoretically explaining their dialectical unity. Simply put, the working class, no longer the creators of the social world — in this case capital — become helplessly determined by it, and communists thus abandon the concept of "coincidence of the changing of circumstances and of human activity or self-changing" as central to any revolutionary process.
In an effort to deepen and expand this conversation, we offer Raymond Williams' essay, "Base and Superstructure in Marxist Cultural Theory" (pdf). In this essay (later expanded into a whole book) Williams takes up the common ways in which the categories of base and superstructure are used, and challenges his readers to, instead of considering isolated objects — in this case objects of art since Williams was a cultural critic — investigate the objective parameters and social relations of the activity behind the production of those objects. Part of this challenge requires us to consider the interrelation of all social practices (their "totality") as opposed to considering one set, whether deemed "political" or "economic", a part from another, and even more, to do so would require us to understand each of these particular sets as different forms of an active (or "moving") social process.
This contribution to the discussion shares important features with Marx's explanation of the fetish, which he begins in chapter one of the first volume of Capital. There, Marx demonstrates that modes of thought which treat objects in isolation of their historical development are a product of the organization of capitalist society. In this way, capitalist society understands itself to be timeless — a natural condition of the human race. One of the important contributions of Marx, then, is that he provided a critical theory that pierced through capital's veneer of being natural, allowing us to understand the ways in which our activities and those of the rest of the working class can be equally critical, destroying capital in practice as well as in theory. As a new generation of communists, we must continue to wrestle with the difficult tasks of theory and method in order to play our part in creating a better world.
Base and Superstructure in Marxist Cultural Theory
by Raymond Williams
Any modern approach to a Marxist theory of culture must begin by considering the proposition of a determining base and a determined superstructure. From a strictly theoretical point of view this is not, in fact, where we might choose to begin.[1] It would be in many ways preferable if we could begin from a proposition which originally was equally central, equally authentic: namely the proposition that social being determines consciousness. It is not that the two propositions necessarily deny each other or are in contradiction. But the proposition of base and superstructure, with its figurative element, with its suggestion of a definite and fixed spatial relationship, constitutes, at least in certain hands, a very specialized and at times unacceptable version of the other proposition. Yet in the transition from Marx to Marxism, and in the development of mainstream Marxism itself, the proposition of the determining base and the determined superstructure has been commonly held to be the key to Marxist cultural analysis.
Now it is important, as we try to analyse this proposition, to be aware that the term of relationship which is involved, that is to say 'determines', is of great linguistic and real complexity. The language of determination and even more of determinism was inherited from idealist and especially theological accounts of the world and man. It is significant that it is in one of his familiar inversions, his contradictions of received propositions, that Marx uses the word 'determines'. He is opposing an ideology that had been insistent on the power of certain forces outside man, or, in its secular version, on an abstract determining consciousness. Marx's own proposition explicitly denies this, and puts the origin of determination in men's own activities. Nevertheless, the particular history and continuity of the term serves to remind us that there are, within ordinary use—–and this is true of most of the major European languages—–quite different possible meanings and implications of the word 'determine'. There is, on the one hand, from its theological inheritance, the notion of an external cause which totally predicts or prefigures, indeed totally controls a subsequent activity. But there is also, from the experience of social practice, a notion of determination as setting limits, exerting pressures.
Now there is clearly a difference between a process of setting limits and exerting pressures, whether by some external force or by the internal laws of a particular development, and that other process in which a subsequent content is essentially prefigured, predicted and controlled by a pre-existing external force. Yet it is fair to say, looking at many applications of Marxist cultural analysis, that it is the second sense, the notion of prefiguration, prediction or control, which has often explicitly or implicitly been used.


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WITH a scar running down his left cheek, you would've thought that Theebaan Govindasamy got it from his mixed martial arts (MMA) career. After all, he is the current Malaysian Invasion Mixed Martial Arts (MIMMA) welterweight champion.
The truth, nonetheless, is less glamorous; for he acquired the 32stitch scar from a bicycle accident when he was two years old.
"Whenever people ask me about it, I usually say I got it from a fight because it's a good fighting credential," he said before laughing it off.
Similar to this anecdote, Theebaan explained that there is more than meets the eye when it comes to MMA.
"For many, violence is their first impression of MMA, but it's actually just like any other sport – there are rules to follow as well as a referee to mediate, control and judge the match."
A full-contact combat sport, MMA is a "mixture of any kind of martial arts, so long as you know what you're doing and you execute it properly". And it is this sport that the 27-year-old found refuge in after leaving his oldtime passion, karate.
"My parents started me on karate when I was five because they wanted me to learn how to defend myself. I then went on to join the national karate team for seven years before calling it quits in 2013. From thereon, I have been a professional MMA fighter."
Tell us about your MMA record.
It currently stands at seven wins and three losses. To be frank, I lost my first ever fight. That was soon after I quit karate and before I did proper MMA training, so I didn't know what to expect. I only wanted to try it out to see how it goes.
Considering it was your maiden fight, was it discouraging to lose?
I wasn't demotivated because I've experienced losses in karate before. However, since I was new in the sport back then, I panicked when my opponent choked me and instantly surrendered. Nevertheless, it was thrilling and made me yearn for more.
Is there any limitations to what you can and cannot do ?
As I have mentioned, MMA has its own set of rules that a fighter needs to follow. For example, during the sparring, you cannot hit the opponent's groin or the back of his head.
Since MMA is a full-contact sport, what are the chances for injuries?
You'll definitely get some form of injuries – be it a bruised eye or an aching finger – but the severity depends. The worst that I have gotten from MMA is post-traumatic arthritis. Meanwhile, although karate is not as violent, I've had ACL reconstructive surgery on my right knee and a complete reconstructive surgery on the left. This shows that injuries are common in any sport.
What is your biggest takeaway from MMA?
A lot of people think that MMA is all about the fighting, but this is not necessarily the case. Ultimately, MMA is about learning martial arts and martial art is about discipline – controlling your feelings and actions. In fact, MMA has given me peace of mind by shaping my judgment on when to fight, and that is always within the ring. Unless you are already under attack and need to defend yourself, there's no excuse for not walking away.


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By Michael S. Goldberger, film critic
Death, the great unknown, haunts at every instance in director Joe Carnahan's "The Grey," a tale of survival as exhausting as it is unsettling. This is brutal, in-your-face stuff, a big, icy metaphor set in Alaska that won't relent in its harsh fatalism. Yet, just because it has some highfalutin philosophy doesn't earn it the right to pawn off a copout ending.
Starring Liam Neeson in a sharp turn as Ottway, the oil company-employed hunter who takes charge when a group of plane crash survivors are left stranded in the wolf-invested freeze, the saga certainly has its moments. Adapted by Ian McKenzie Jeffers and director Carnahan from Mr. Jeffers's short story, "Ghost Walker," it's actually quite literate.
Channeling shades of bargain basement Coleridge and Jack London, tightly knit into a series of fairly well directed causes of high-tension anxiety, it follows the usual pattern of its genre. It's up to us to guess who, if any, will survive the seemingly impossible odds. They have no weapons, little food, and it sure looks like the wolves have their number.
And so, good-natured, caring soul that you are, not knowing that a terribly disappointing, poor excuse of a finale awaits, you invest in their plight. While only Neeson's character, the alpha male anguished by life's misgivings and regrets, earns our full interest, an albeit familiar but engaging chemistry is established among the group. Some are just goners.
Distinguished from the ragtag motleys, fringe sorts who perceive life in the outreaches as their answer to the French Foreign Legion, Dallas Roberts's Hendrick seems a regular enough guy…you know, family man. The same goes for Talget, played by Dermot Mulroney. But Ben Bray's Hernandez proves there's always at least one troublemaker.
A couple of others are cause for consternation, but are a mere rehearsal for the big, lupine confrontation. They're out there. Just peering from the dark, only their eyes visible, we sense their size, ferocity and pitiless resolve. An expert in their ways, Ottway outlines what measures must be taken if they are to outwit their inbred survival instinct.
The chase is on pell-mell, a decidedly non-stop affair through the frozen wilds that rarely decelerates long enough to let you gather your thoughts. The slightest comedy relief, usually in the form of gallows humor, is treasured. We are out of breath, the wolves at our heels. Then comes our first butchering. Reality looms. Oh, Mommy, help!
Threading through the horrors of sheer survival, the subject of a greater power enters the dialogue. Half believe, half don't, and in their disparity lies a chance to bond and learn tolerance, no matter how short-lived. In Gunga Din's India, we'd have our ears perked for bagpipes. For now, no bagpipes, and no helicopters…only the angry snarl of wolves.
If it is the director's aim to impress what a slim line exists between life and death, he is unbearably successful. But in accord with Woody Allen, who said "I'm not afraid of death; I just don't want to be there when it happens," I found "The Grey" more wearing than profound. Two hours in the shadow of Damocles's sword is hardly entertaining.
Call me crazy. I'm just a film critic. But if Mr. Carnahan wanted to tell us something really reflective about survival, the cruel balance of nature and where we Homo sapiens fit into Darwin's deductions, he might have also told the wolves' side of the story, taken us into their lair, given us a look at their sociology. Whoa…I'm not saying take their side.
But as it stands, through some OK special effects that make the wolves seem as big as the toothy dude who dined on Red Riding Hood's dear old granny, this is a monster movie, and not the fully dimensional treatise on survival of the fittest it might have been. Still, despite its disconsolate madness, like a nightmare it leaves a lasting impression.
It pushes buttons. And because its often gratuitous nature is nonetheless interspersed with some rather soulful and even intellectual insights about human strength and frailty, it can sweep you up in its doom and gloom. Further ameliorating the film's unremitting, take-no-prisoners attitude, a mystery concerning Ottway's own demons has its curiosity.
Pun shamefully intended, whether or not to see this biting thriller is truly a matter of taste. So unless you really need a feature length reminder not to survive a plane crash where carnivorous species reside, or are simply willing to accept it for the flesh-ripping fright fest it is, surely you can find something less grisly to gnaw on than "The Grey."
"The Grey," rated R, is an Open Road Films release directed by Joe Carnahan and stars Liam Neeson, Ben Bray and Dallas Roberts. Running time: 117 minutes
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