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Rahm Emanuel will bring discipline to the White House. And lots of profanity.
Rahm Emanuel's first task upon becoming Barack Obama's chief of staff will be to track down and fire whoever the fuck leaked word that he was offered the job. Even if that means he has to fire himself.
It wasn't a promising start for the president-elect's transition team. Job offers are supposed to happen behind the scenes. But Obama's courtship of Emanuel was made public nearly a week before Election Day. It's unclear who leaked the news, but Emanuel, not known for his reticence, had been talking to reporters even before the latest wave of speculation. Luckily for Obama, Emanuel accepted—but only after days of what looked like dallying. (Emanuel told a TV station he needed to consider his family, which would have to move from Chicago to D.C.; he would also have to shelve ambitions to become speaker of the House.) Maybe he just didn't want to jinx Obama's victory. Regardless, the impression was that Emanuel wasn't sure he wanted the job.
Whatever his reservations, Emanuel fits the mold of the ruthlessly efficient underlings Obama tends to hire. (Without David Plouffe's intensity, Obama would never be able to remain so stoic.) He's also opinionated. In interviews and debates and even in his books, Obama comes off as the Vishnu of decision-making—on the one hand, on the other hand, on the other hand, etc. Emanuel is unlikely to take "maybe" for an answer. And while the cantankerous former ballet dancer is known best for engineering the Democratic takeover of Congress in 2006, he knows more than fundraising. He's also a shameless wonk who co-authored a blueprint for future Democratic administrations. And in the three years before his congressional run, Emanuel made $16 million on Wall Street (something the RNC will be delighted to tell you more about).
Also, as a veteran of the Clinton administration, Emanuel knows what not to do. During his tense first 100 days, President Bill Clinton was poorly served by his well-intentioned but ineffective chief of staff, Mack McLarty, whose nickname was "Mack the Nice" and who often tried to smile his way to compromise. Emanuel's nickname is "Rahmbo," and he is known for mowing down his opponents. Coming out of Chicago, both he and Obama know the value of muscle.
Of course, steamrolling doesn't win you friends. But making friends isn't Emanuel's job. The chief of staff is tasked with making sure the trains run on time. Taskmaster is Emanuel's middle name. (Imagine Ari Gold—the Entourage character based on Rahm's brother—with an even fouler mouth and a weakness for polls.) He must also frame policy questions in a way that helps the president make decisions. Emanuel knows policy: During the Clinton years, he helped lead (successful) efforts to pass NAFTA and the administration's (less successful) efforts on universal health care. Plus, it's the most demanding job around, and Emanuel is known for sleepless nights and dervishlike energy.
Emanuel's appointment is good for the press, too. (Like you care. But you should!) While Obama got glowing press coverage during the campaign, he also ticked off journalists by limiting access. Emanuel knows the value of press access and is skilled at working the refs. In an Obama administration, with which the media will quickly fall out of love, public relations will be key.
Most important, though, Emanuel knows Congress. McCain spent his final days warning about the perils of undivided government. But undivided government is powerless if it can't bridge divides within its own party. (Just ask Clinton, whose stance on gays in the military faced stiff opposition among Democrats.) Emanuel will serve as an unofficial liaison between Obama and Congress. After all, he got several of them their jobs. Campaign promises like renegotiating NAFTA and taxing windfall profits will likely require serious diplomacy. Handling the results of the bailout—which many congressional Democrats opposed—will be its own mess.
For these sorts of things, Emanuel is well-equipped. It helps, too, that he's no liberal weenie. Emanuel is a classic DLC New Democrat centrist: for fiscal restraint, against punishing businesses. For those who still think Obama is the most liberal member of the Senate (a crock), Emanuel's presence may provide comfort.
Does that mean he's perfectly suited? No. The Republican Party already released an oppo dump on Emanuel, describing him as "hyperpartisan" hack with a penchant for "bare-knuckle tactics" who also happens to be in the pocket of Wall Street. It helpfully points reporters to several anecdotes about his famous temper, which makes John McCain's look mild. (Emanuel once sent a dead fish to an unlucky pollster. Another time, he mimed stabbing his political enemies with a steak knife.)
At the same time, expect some tensions in the West Wing. Emanuel withheld his endorsement of Obama for months—he was hiding under the table, in his words—until Obama's victory was clear. Meanwhile, Emanuel makes no secret of his distaste for Howard Dean and his "50 State Strategy"—an approach that dovetailed perfectly with Obama's wide-net campaign. And Emanuel's partisanship—after winning back the House in 2006, he recommended that Republicans "go fuck themselves"—could undercut Obama's promises to reach across the aisle.
But whatever else it says about the Obama administration, Emanuel's appointment suggests that it will be just as tightly run as the Obama campaign. Discipline is the quality that carried Obama to victory over sloppier opponents, and it's a quality sorely missed in many past Democratic administrations. With expectations for Obama as high as they are, he could do worse than having a human cudgel at his side.


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In a recent article entitled "Are You a Man or a Dog?" Susan Breslin puts forth a plan for understanding the other people at work. Her idea? Pretend they are all dogs. Actually, she gives a three-step plan: 1) Identify their breed, 2) Identify your breed, 3) Find your pack.
I have previously written that it helps me understand my sons when I think of one as a Greyhound and the other as a Viszla/Irish Setter cross, so it's clear that I have no objection to this basic strategy. And yet, this article disappointed me because of its breed stereotyping and lack of understanding of basic dog behavior and training. As someone whose job involves educating people about dogs and dog behavior, this article demonstrates that considerable work remains to be done.
While there is value in noting the traits that people share with typical representatives of a breed of dogs, it has to be done with some accuracy to be useful. So, when Breslin describes German Shepherds as aggressive and implies that Poodles are hard to work with, especially in large numbers, I think she would benefit from better information. Most objectionable is her assertion that Cocker Spaniels thrive on positive reinforcement, implying that not all breeds do. This sort of thinking—that positive reinforcement is limited to certain species, breeds or individuals—is worrisome for those of us who advocate widespread use of humane, positive training methods.
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CONCORD, MA--(Marketwire - Aug 29, 2011) - SpaceClaim, the market leader in direct modeling software that enables all engineers to work in 3D, and Noesis Solutions, renowned for the Optimus process integration and design optimization software, today announced that SpaceClaim Engineer has been integrated within Optimus. The integration component automatically extracts the model parameters from any product design made in SpaceClaim Engineer software. In Optimus, SpaceClaim users can then easily define and execute CAE processes that automatically drive any commercial and in-house simulation packages of choice. In addition to Optimus' design optimization capabilities, they benefit from Taguchi techniques and other powerful design robustness and reliability optimization methods.
"We welcome the opportunity to work with the leader in 3D Direct Modeling," said Hans Wynendaele, Noesis Solutions COO. "SpaceClaim is easy to learn and use for CAE model preparation, and it reinforces our efforts to provide the best environment for parametric simulation to help solve complex engineering challenges. The Optimus process integration and design optimization software platform delivers the best product in the shortest time possible while saving tremendously on engineering resources."
Noesis Solutions and SpaceClaim both have very strong ties with Cybernet Systems. This leading CAE group owns Noesis Solutions' flagship product Optimus and successfully resells SpaceClaim software in Japan.
This announcement comes on the heels of SpaceClaim releasing the eighth version of its software, SpaceClaim Engineer 2011+, which further reinforces the strength of the company's 3D Direct Modeling software within manufacturing organizations, including pre-production concept design and model prep for analysis and manufacturing to full production manufacturing environments. You can see a list of all CAE packages that SpaceClaim integrates with on the SpaceClaim Interoperability webpage.
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In Review :: YES! Film Picks
The YES! Men Fix the World
Directed by Andy Bichlbaum and Mike Bonanno, 2009, 87 min.
"Iraq War Ends," declared The New York Times. "Nationalized Oil to Fund Climate Change Efforts," proclaimed another headline.
The edition reached thousands on the streets of Manhattan last year. Caught on film were shocked commuters.
"Is this real?" one woman asked the camera.
As the security guards outside the Times building made clear, the answer was no. The paper was the work of the Yes Men, filming the climactic scene in their latest movie.
A follow-up to The Yes Men (2003), The Yes Men Fix the World stars Andy Bichlbaum and Mike Bonanno as they land TV interviews and speaking gigs by impersonating executives from a parade of corporate baddies like Dow Chemical, Exxon, and Halliburton. Bichlbaum and Bonanno engage in entertaining corporate sabotage by weaseling onto the world stage with fake websites, creative hairstyles, and a deep faith in the First Amendment.
The challenge, of course, is how the Yes Men plan to make their dream world come true, and here the movie is disappointingly superficial. Through interviews with "free marketeers," the Yes Men emphasize the evils of corporate greed. But in a segment about post-Katrina New Orleans, it becomes evident that government—even a government led by Barack Obama rather than George W. Bush—doesn't work so great, either.
Although the Yes Men don't show it, there is a middle ground. We can't tackle climate change, for example, by nationalizing the oil industry—the phony Times headline is amusing, but does anybody really want the government drilling for oil?—but we can use market-based instruments like carbon taxes or cap-and-trade systems.
Hopefully this message will be part of the mobilization campaign that the Yes Men are working on for the Copenhagen climate conference next month. With this film, they manage to amuse us, and perhaps even motivate us along the way.
—Yoram Bauman is an environmental economist and stand-up comedian in Seattle. His forthcoming book is The Cartoon Introduction to Economics.
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The evocative images of American family farms and candid interviews with the people who run them emphasize the mantra for Fresh: "Eat local." Most viewers probably know that already, but the cinematography and feel-good message will make you want to run out and start a garden today. Look for Will Allen of Growing Power, featured in the spring 2009 issue of YES! Magazine.
Bullfrog Films, 2008, 88 min.
What would you do if you knew how many toxins were in your body? In her documentary Homo Toxicus, Canadian filmmaker Carole Poliquin learns that her blood contains 110 toxins. So she sets out to visit communities exposed to pollution across Canada, from Montreal to Nunavut, and realizes she is one of the lucky ones.


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Pinkerton gymnasts eye another title; Hollis/Brookline tries to defend bowling title
NHIAA Roundup: Gilmore leads the way as Derryfield boys win
Pinkerton Academy of Derry looks for its fourth straight title and third consecutive perfect season at the NHIAA Gymnastics Championships at Salem High School on Saturday. The first-ranked Astros, led by junior Kaylee Pacunas and sophomore Brittany Capozzi, compete in the afternoon session at 2 p.m. against second-ranked Salem and its freshman star Nina Whittaker, as well as Londonderry, Bishop Guertin of Nashua, Goffstown and Keene.
The morning session begins at 10 a.m. and includes gymnasts from Pelham, Dover, Exeter, Nashua North, Souhegan of Amherst and Spaulding of Rochester. Athletes from non-competing schools are featured during both sessions. Admission is $5 for students and seniors and $7 for adults.
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Hollis/Brookline looks to defend bowling crown
Hollis/Brookline will have another uphill battle in its title defense at the NHIAA Team Bowling State Championship on Saturday at 11:30 a.m. at Spare Time in Manchester.
Last year, the underdog Cavaliers captured the championship as the sixth seed. This year they rank eighth and face ninth-ranked Laconia in the first round. The winner of that matchup bowls against top-ranked Pinkerton Academy of Derry in the quarterfinals.
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'"It's like playing for a Stanley Cup," stated Sabres Scout Kevin Devine. "It's a very hard championship to win. (The Memorial Cup) is the type of thing that if you win, you will wear that ring knowing you're the Canadian champion."'
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Octavia Spencer almost passed on one of the most acclaimed movies of the year so far — "Fruitvale Station."
Octavia Spencer almost passed on one of the most acclaimed movies of the year so far — "Fruitvale Station."
Video of the shooting of Oscar Grant circulated widely on social networks, and a snippet of it shows in "Fruitvale's" opening minutes. It's that footage that made Spencer initially decline the pivotal role as Grant's mother.
"In seeing the video, I said the only thing that I could offer this role is anger. And I think this situation requires much more than that because it already has a potential to be explosive," said Spencer.
But she read the script — which chronicles Grant's last day — and was moved.
"It restored Oscar's humanity in a way that the trial, and all of the recriminations around it, had basically taken from him," Spencer said in an interview at this year's Cannes Film Festival. "So I wanted to be a part of it for my nephews ... all the young men of color whose lives sometimes feel more expendable in a way. ... There are so many reasons."
"Fruitvale Station," which stars Michael B. Jordan as Grant and was helmed by first-time director Ryan Coogler, won the Grand Prize and the Audience Award at the Sundance Film Festival, as well as "Prize of the Future" at Cannes. It has drawn critical praise and prompted comparisons to the racially charged death of another young black male, Trayvon Martin.
"Fruitvale" is also generating early Oscar buzz.
It was Spencer's first high-profile role since her Academy Award-winning turn as a feisty maid in the racial dramedy "The Help." The actress, who was virtually unknown before starring in that blockbuster, admits that the success of that performance changed the way she considers future roles.
"Before, you just take what you need to do to survive. I now want to take roles that challenge me and stretch me as an actor. So this was a beautiful story," said Spencer.
But Spencer was more than just a hired actor on "Fruitvale;" she was also one of its producers, along with Oscar-winning actor Forest Whitaker. Coogler said in some ways, she was like the film's fairy godmother.
"While we were shooting, some money fell out, and we were in a lot of trouble," he said. "She really rolled up her sleeves, and went around to all her friends as a producer to help make sure the movie continued to get made."
One of the people she reached out to was Ahna O'Reilly, one of her closest friends and a co-star in "The Help." O'Reilly plays one of the people who touched Grant's life on his last day alive.
"She called me and was like, 'I'm doing this movie in Oakland, we need you to play this role, can you please come do it?' I was like, 'I would do anything for you. Of course,'?" recalled O'Reilly. "And then I read the script, and I was like, 'I'm coming to do it. Don't let anyone do this because the script is so moving.'?"
One of the film's more heartbreaking scenes is when Grant's mother visits her son in prison during a flashback scene. Spencer said she felt a special duty during the film to Grant's mother, whom she met with before she filmed the movie.
"I told her I wasn't going to try and mimic her, I just wanted to represent her as a real woman, as a mom, who has basically suffered this tremendous loss, and she was amazing. She was guarded at first, but she should be," Spencer said.
"There were all these recriminations and her son was vilified in a way that people didn't get to see him or know him," Spencer continued. "That's what was so beautiful about Ryan's story. ... It just presented (Grant) warts and all to the public and that's a big responsibility."
Spencer said she's gratified by the positive response to "Fruitvale," and by having another strong role in which to shine — a longstanding problem for African-American actors. Spencer acknowledges it can be a "challenge," but one she's up for.
"If you wait around for other people to bring you interesting things, you won't discover the riches of the world. So I like it," she said. "I like being able to go out there and find things. And having jewels like 'Fruitvale Station' find me."


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12 Clever Ways to Celebrate National Candy Corn Day
Obviously not by accident, National Candy Corn Day is the day before Halloween. And if your office is anything like mine, you've been sneaking handfuls of the sickeningly sweet treats on a daily basis the last couple of weeks. The only way to celebrate such an important food holiday, of course, is by gobbling 'em all up.
Some of these treats actually have candy corn in them, while a lot of them honor the candy with sugar and food dye (which is basically the same thing, right?). I'm especially intrigued by this Candy Corn Vodka Tonic which infuses vodka with candy corn - bottoms up!
1. Candy Corn Bark - Jelly Toast
2. Candy Corn PUdding Pops - No. 2 Pencil
3. Candy Corn Vodka Tonic - Miss Make
4. Candy Corn Magic Bars - Crazy for Crust
5. Candy Corn Piñata Cookies - Becca Bakes
6. Candy Corn Mini Layer Cakes - Formal Fringe
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Note: I am no multi gladiator, rank one or even considered to be one of the top shadow priests but I can give you an idea of how the class works and how I play it.
I took Vanguard's enhance guide as an example and used his formula for my guide. I saw a post on the forum here the other day about helping the community out, so I wanted to make this guide for new SPs and old ones returning. This might not be the best guide and you might not even agree with some of the things I say but I tried my best.
For shadow priests there are really no set of talents that gives you the best possible choice. It all depends on who you're facing and who you're playing with. I like to experiment a lot when it comes to talents but I will try go give you a simple guide on how to choose yours.
Level 15:
Recommended: Psyfiend
This is the standard cookie cutter level 15 talent. The talent itself is poorly designed and can in some cases be extremely useful, and in other cases extremely wasted. I like to take it vs. most comps unless we face some melee cleaves like TSG and Kitty Cleave.
Recommended: Void Tendrils
This is recommended to take vs a lot of melee cleaves. It's a good and reliable ability to have vs. melee cleaves training your team. (Note that it DRs with other roots)
Level 30:
Recommended: Phantasm
In 5.1 this was a must have talent. But since the nerf in 5.2 priests have a more open choice when it comes to the level 30 talent. I personally go with Phantasm because the 5 seconds freedom can help land fears and etc.
Recommended: Angelic Feather
This is a useful talent when playing with a holy paladin. When he gives you freedom and you use this ability you gain a 60% speed increase for the duration. Extremely useful in some cases.
Level 45:
Recommended: Solace and Insanity
Commonly referred to as "Insanity" this new priest talent have proven itself to be extremely powerful vs. many teams. The raw damage output, often combined with Power Infusion, is enough to sometimes solo a healer in a blanket silence. Note that taking this requires you to be able to free cast for the duration. Maybe not the best choice vs. melee teams.
Recommended: From Darkness, Comes Light
You can't go wrong with this. Basically it gives you 40k+ Mind Spikes if you're lucky enough to have your Vampiric Touch providing you with a proc. Stacking up two procs, 3 orbs with dots on healer in a Deep Freeze or Silence is enough damage to force defensives from most healers if you're able to set it up right.
Alternative: Mindbender
Can be useful vs some comps like melee teams training you. Provides you with sufficient mana regeneration, and gives a nice burst when getting trained. I like to use this vs. KFC training me because I don't have much time free casting and using Mindbender when going for the kill is a good option.
Level 60:
Highly recommended: Spectral Guise
Spectral Guise makes you invisible for 6 seconds or until you're mirror image is hit three times. Can be extremely useful vs. casters and for landing fears on healers. (Note that putting a shield on yourself before using this can help you stay stealthed longer when having dots on you)
Recommended: Angelic Bulwark
Getting trained by melee cleaves is always tough. Maybe extra tough for SPs as they don't have an ability like blink or teleport. Angelic Bulwark is useful vs. melee cleaves in my opinion. Being trained hard makes Spectral Guise almost useless and they hit your mirror image so fast you instantly get out of stealth. Angelic Bulwark may help you survive in some cases.
Level 75:
Highly recommended: Divine Insight
You get a chance whenever your Shadow Word: Pain deals damage to get a free, instant Mind Blast. In for example 3v3 where you put up three Shadow Word: Pain the procs won't be rare.
Recommended: Power Infusion
Provides an extreme burst combined with Insanity. Requires you to be able to free cast and is not recommended to take without the Insanity talent.
Level 90:
Recommended: Divine Star
Provides a nice heal but don't take it in your DPS rotation, you're better off dispelling something.
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Can be extremely good in many cases. Setting up burst on a healer or healing a team mate inside a Smoke Bomb this ability can either save a life or take one. Standing at the max range (30 yards) with Trinket and CDs up it can heal for 200k and hit for 100k. Also good for killing Psyfiends etc.
As with the talents it all depends on what you're meeting.
Prime Glyphs:
Must have:
Dark Binding - Extremely useful and saves you a lot of global CDs.
Fade - Nice vs. teams training you.
Inner Fire - Good vs. melee teams training you.
Mass Dispel - Really good for getting your healer out of CC and removing bubble and Ice Blocks. (Note this is changing is 5.3)
Prayer of Mending - Gives your PoM a nice buff.
Shadow Word: Death - Nice vs. mages to avoid getting Polymorphed.
Dispersion - Can be useful.
Major Glyphs:
The choice is yours!
Gems - Enchants - Stats
Priorities for Stats:
6% Hit>Resil>PvP Power>Intellect>Haste>Crit>Mastery>Other
The big question, Mastery vs. Crit?
This ultimately goes down to if you want to top the leaderboards on damage or actually kill your target. Top SPs go for crit. Some might still go for mastery but crit can help you kill targets. I am going to quote Talbadar (arguably the best SP) on this one:
"Crit provides more burst damage when going for kills than Mastery does. I heard Mastery doesn't give extra proc benefits and possibly no mana (still unsure about this). All I care about is the kill, not just extra damage."
I agree with Talbadar on this one, but after some testing on dummy I found out that the extra dot ticks gives you extra mana. But in the end mana isn't how you win a game.
Recommened Gems:
Meta - 216 Intellect and +3% Crit Damage
Red - 80 Intellect and 160 PvP Resilience
Yellow - 320 PvP Resilience
Blue - 160 PvP Power and 160 PvP resilience
Recommended Reforging:
Get 6% Hit for the cap (note spirit gives hit)
Reforge for off-stat. I personally recommend Haste>Crit>Mastery
Recommended Enchants:
Shoulders - 200 Intellect and 100 Crit
Back - 180 Intellect
Chest - 200 Resilience
Bracer - 180 Intellect
Gloves - 170 Haste
Legs - 285 Intellect and either 165 Crit or Spirit depending if you need hit or not.
Feet - Movement Speed and 140 Mastery
Main Hand - Jade Spirit
Off-hand - 165 Intellect
Main Hand / Off-hand vs. staff:
Staff gives you more crit/spirit but Main Hand / Off-hand provides more Intellect so I recommend getting that.
Blacksmithing is currently the best PvP profession, and teamed up with either Jewelcrafting or Enchanting they provide some nice buffs to your stats.
What is your PvP rotation?
I personally get my dots up rolling first. Then I try to get of Mind Blasts as soon as they're ready for these good Shadow Orbs and if I have nothing to do I spam dispel kill target and healer.
When I'm going for the kill I usually have 3 orbs before I dot up the target, (Halo), Mind Blast, three orb Devouring Plague and if I have Insanity I Mind Flay.
Macros and Keybindings
These are personal macros and keybindings as you may copy and use if you want to. Note you do not need these macros or keybindings to perform well, althought I can't play without them! I recommend having your own keybindings.
For party macros I hate using Party1 and Party2 and they always seem to change.
Party targeting:
I target my healer with CTRL-Mousewheeldown and DPS with CTRL-Mousewheelup
S - Power Word: Shield team mates
/cast [nomod, target=teammate1] Power Word: Shield
/cast [mod:shift, target=teammate2] Power Word: Shield
Shift-V and Ctrl-V - Lifegrip team mates
/cast [target=teammate1 or 2] Leap of Faith
Arena targeting:
I target arena1,2,3 with scroll up, middlemouse and scroll down.
Focus Silence
/cast [target=focus] Silence
Focus Psychic Horror
/cast [target=focus] Psychic Horror
Spam-able Mass Dispel
/cast !Mass Dispel
Spam-able Shadow Form
/cast !Shadowform
Spam-able Mind Flay
/cast [nochanneling] Mind Flay
Power Infusion Burst Macro
/cast Power Infusion
/use 13 (or 14 depending on where you got your dps trinket)
Focus Dispel
/cast [target=focus] Dispel Magic
What PvP Gear Should I Get?
You can of course perform well with any gear but I recommend following a top SP and see how he gears up his character.
Some armories of Top SPs.
Talbadar: http://us.battle.net...lbadar/advanced
Khryl: http://us.battle.net.../Khryl/advanced
Chromix: http://eu.battle.net...hromix/advanced
Evleh: http://eu.battle.net...Evlehj/advanced
And for reference, mine: http://eu.battle.net...eyzlol/advanced
Shadow PvP Streams
There aren't many Top SPs streaming. Some do, but only occasionally.
http://twitch.tv/talbadar - Overlord Talbadar's stream.
http://twitch.tv/chromix - Chromix's stream.
http://twitch.tv/khryl - Khryl's stream.
Thanks for reading through the post. I hope this helped you out if you needed help. If you have any other questions feel free to post in the comments and I will try to give a good answer. I'm sure other SPs will also contribute to providing answers.
If you feel I have failed miserably on this guide please give me a constructive reply and how I can change it to make it better.
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recently i've downloaded drastic ds emulator 2.6.1. it worked for some days greatly but the next day it began to frame screen at the bottom left corner of my device... i tried to figure it out but nothing seems to be intresting. i also tried to reinstall the app but i didn't worked far then too.... plz show me the way
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It's not a legitimate copy purchased from Google Play, which could also be why it doesn't work. Either way, you won't get support unless you buy it.
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will you please tell me the path of the website from where do i get it. and i want to add this up that my device dosen't support google play store so i cannot use it.
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February 12, 2003
Dr. Greenblatt from University of California-San Francisco presented highlights from the Women's Interagency HIV Study (WIHS). This cohort has yielded the largest database on women with HIV in the United States. This ongoing study enrolled over 2,600 HIV-positive and HIV-negative women in 1993-1994 as well as an additional group of women in 2000-2001. There are six participating clinics in urban areas across the country mirroring the racial diversity of HIV-infected women in this country. Women are evaluated in detail every six months. Included are a gynecological exam, physical and dental exam, neurologic and psychiatric testing, and body composition testing. The study has been modified over the years to address emerging concerns in the care of HIV-infected individuals such as lipodystrophy and osteoporosis. Most of the information discussed by Dr. Greenblatt has been published previously.
Women in the WIHS cohort commonly have a history of domestic violence, with two-thirds experiencing it at some point in their lifetime and 20 percent experiencing it recently. Thirty percent had a history of childhood sexual abuse, and these women were more likely to have problems with drug abuse and psychiatric problems. This data identifies intimate partner violence as an ongoing problem among HIV-positive women for which clinicians should screen on a routine basis. These issues are important to address in order to help HIV-infected women maximally participate in their health care.
As we all know by now, women have been underrepresented in HIV clinical trials. It was thought that women's unique social responsibilities make it difficult for them to participate in trials. However, Dr. Greenblatt found that the criteria used to determine if a person is eligible for a clinical trial might also exclude large numbers of women. Using the exclusion criteria from a recent large study from the AIDS Clinical Trial Group, over 80 percent of women in the WIHS cohort would have been ineligible mainly due to other illnesses, concomitant medications, and psychiatric conditions. She suggested that as a result of these exclusion criteria, these clinical trials are not representative of women with HIV today. A full report of this analysis will be enormously helpful for people planning clinical trials and will hopefully prompt a re-evaluation of participant selection so that the results are relevant to all HIV-infected individuals.
Dr. Greenblatt went on to highlight the importance of biologic sex in medical experiments even when studying cells in a test tube. For example, a cell's CCR5 receptor density (a marker for its susceptibility to HIV infection) is influenced by progesterone (a female hormone). She identified how biologic sex affects many steps inside cells in the body -- especially cells of the immune system.
Looking at women in the WIHS cohort over time has shown how much they have benefited from highly active antiretroviral therapy, as is evidenced by the dramatic fall in women's death rate from AIDS. The WIHS cohort is continuing to provide new information on issues such as lipodystrophy, hepatitis C, human papillomavirus infection, and pre-cancers of the cervix, helping to improve the medical care of HIV-infected women everywhere.
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Hey Ord, I am a long time lurker and newer TSM user who has been spending WoD really trying to understand all of the different modules and tools. I have seen many good replies from you on the forums regarding formula ideas to use for undercutting/pricing etc. Most of the videos and guides are very helpful except in the respect towards actual formulas to use because at the time of them being created they didnt have the TSM desktop app or TUJ was used primarily when the video was recorded.
Could you help guide me on a good formula to use for Market Value, Shopping searches, and Auctioning pricing? I would really appreciate any guidance. Thank you in advance.
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Pre-Gamin': Cardinals v. Cubs (7:05 CT) – Lineups, Broadcast Info, etc.
First off, if you want to do some actual pre-gamin', a group of us will be hanging at The Sports Corner before tonight's game. I'll be there at 5pm, so come check it out. And then I'm heading to the right field bleachers (lower right corner as you look from home plate, if possible – that view, over there to the right), so come say hi there as well. Assuming the weather cooperates, I'll be wearing my blue BN shirt (that shirt, down there to the right) with a long-sleeve light blue shirt underneath, and a traditional Cubs hat on. And my super flashy yellow/blue shoes. It makes my month when people say hello, so, like, make my month.
Jeff Samardzija gets another crack at the Cardinals tonight, and the Cubs get another crack at Adam Wainwright. Here's hoping this one goes like the last time those two squared off, though I'd settle for a repeat of last night.
Tony Campana gets the start tonight, and he slots into the two-hole.
Game Info
St. Louis Cardinals (11-6) at Chicago Cubs (5-12), 7:05pm CT on CSN.
Game Thread and Series Preview
The Game Thread lives here. You should participate in the madness. And, of course, for those who aren't into message board-style game threads, please feel free to use the comments on this post for your in-game commentary/outbursts.
The Series Preview for this series lives here.
Starting Pitchers
Adam Wainwright (0-3, 9.88 ERA, 3.3 HR/9)
Jeff Samardzija (2-1, 5.71 ERA, 11.4 H/9)
St. Louis Cardinals Lineup
1. Rafael Furcal, SS
2. Skip Schumaker, 2B
3. Matt Holliday, LF
4. Carlos Beltran, RF
5. David Freese, 3B
6. Yadier Molina, C
7. Matt Carpenter, 1B
8. Shane Robinson, CF
9. Adam Wainwright, P
Chicago Cubs Lineup
1. David DeJesus, RF
2. Tony Campana, CF
3. Starlin Castro, SS
4. Bryan LaHair, 1B
5. Alfonso Soriano, LF
6. Ian Stewart, 3B
7. Darwin Barney, 2B
8. Geovany Soto,C
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Question: I was supposed to go on a trip with some friends that, not by design but by fate, just worked out to be a couples' trip consisting of four pairs sharing a house. Then I broke up with my boyfriend, unexpectedly, this month.
A trip with friends is probably just what I need, but (perhaps I'm being a baby) I'm nervous about how I will feel being surrounded by all those happy couples, watching everyone go off to bed together at the end of the night while I sleep alone. What do you think - go, or bail? If I bail, I'll still pay my share.
Answer: Part of this is about your friends, who have it in their power not to treat you as "other." Presumably you know at least some of them well enough to project how (un)fazed they'll be about this.
The bigger part is about you. Being the single around a bunch of couples can be liberating, if you let it. They go off together at the end of the night while you get to leave your reading light on, fall asleep watching stupid TV, eat loud snacks or do whatever else you enjoy but would be a sensory nuisance to the person on the other side of the bed.
Also, if these couples are generally happy together, their company can create a relatively tension-free environment, where you don't have to worry about a whole lot of distracting social undercurrents.
If you're still feeling too raw to enjoy yourself, sure, opt out - but that's more about how you feel than who else is going.
Q: We are a group of women who have supported and celebrated each other for 10-plus years. One member is clearly suffering from increasingly frequent symptoms of mental illness, unable to hold a job and complaining a lot about insomnia and sometimes a desire to kill herself - though she insists she won't do it. She has been in therapy but always has a problem with the therapist and changes frequently.
Lately, she's been saying it isn't worth the cost and she will just rely on our group. This expectation feels beyond what we can do for her.
I am avoiding the group lately because of her overwhelming issues - and really miss it. I want to talk to the others about the situation, but am afraid she will find out and feel ganged up on. The last thing I want to do is create any kind of a divide. Any ideas?
A: You do need to speak up, specifically about not being available to this member as a replacement for therapy. That message needs to be clear and your resolve to stick to it solid.
You can do this without ganging up by responding publicly to what "she's been saying" - and I mean to the whole group, including her: "I am not a mental-health professional, and I am not qualified to replace your therapist. Out of love for you, I will not be the place you bring things that are rightly brought to someone qualified to help you."
If you're not sure about this or want to feed your resolve with more specific guidance, call the NAMI help line of the National Alliance on Mental Illness, 1-800-950-6264. (www.nami.org)
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"You don't want to wake up, do you?"
That's what you hear Scarlett Johansson whisper at the start of a new trailer for "Under the Skin," the provocative alien-on-Earth drama from director Jonathan Glazer ("Birth," "Sexy Beast") that premiered at last weekend's Telluride Film Festival before heading to the Venice Film Festival.
As the preview makes clear, "Under the Skin" is a visually arresting movie filled with stunning images, including Johansson wearing very few clothes. (In the film itself, the actress is frequently fully naked.)
INTERACTIVE: From Toronto to the Oscars? Well ...
The actress plays Laura, an alien from an unidentified place who uses sex -- or, at least, the promise of it -- to lure men off the streets and to their deaths.
In the trailer, Johansson has stripped from her clothes down to her underwear, part of a sequence in which she ultimately leaves the rest of her clothes on the floor as her unsuspecting victims follow behind.
When you see someone submerging into a thick black liquid in the preview, know that it's not some new mud treatment at a Scottish spa.
The movie was shot largely undercover in Glasgow, Scotland, as Johansson would climb into a van equipped with an array of hidden video cameras, each about the size of a pack of cigarettes. The actress would cruise the streets of Glasgow looking for men, and if they agreed to get into her van they subsequently would be told by Glazer that they had walked into a movie.
The film, which is looking for a theatrical distributor, has scarcely any dialogue and there's no explanation of why Laura does what she does.
It was one of the more divisive films in Telluride, but director Alfonso Cuaron ("Gravity") said it was the best film he'd seen at the festival.
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Jeffrey Debban, 48 - February 13, 2013Jeffrey "Jeff" S. Debban, 48, of Eustis passed away Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2013, at the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha.
Services took place on Monday, Feb. 25, 2013 at the United Methodist Church in Eustis with the Rev. Neil Kloppenborg officiating. A private family inurnment will be conducted at a later date.
Debban was born Jan. 28, 1965, at Lexington to William and Lola (Hansen) Debban. He graduated from Elwood High School and attended Mid-Plains Community College in North Platte.
Following his education in North Platte, he began his career with John Deere in Colorado, then Yuba City, CA, and Missoula, MT. In 2000, he returned to Eustis where he was employed with Nebraska Truck and Equipment.
In 2004, he met Celeste Darnall in Eustis and eventually married in 2010. Around the time of their nuptials, his father had a heart attack and was confined to Bryan LGH Medical Center in Lincoln. They held an intimate wedding on July 22 at the hospital so that his father could be a part of their union, then held a ceremony in Eustis just a few days later.
Debban eventually went on to work for the LandMark Implement where he served as the service manager.
While his life was cut too short, he lived it with passion and knew how to have fun, according to family members. He was a tremendous Husker football fan and could always be counted on by family and friends to know everything and everyone involved with the team. He was also an avid Harley Davidson fan and rode his bike with pride every chance he got. He was even a proud member of the Patriot Guard Motorcycle Club.
Debban was loving and generous, he cherished his time with his family which included four special dogs, and his many nieces and nephews, the family said. He loved people and his personality and sense of humor always shined when he was around them. He had a special gift for making others laugh, and he never lost it, even when his declining health had him confined to a hospital bed.
He loved to hunt and fly fish as well as loved camping and spending time at the family cabin at Plum Creek, usually accompanied by his loyal companion, "Husker." He also enjoyed participating in youth hunts and was a supporter of Quails Unlimited.
Debban was preceded in death by: his father; an infant sister, Debra Ann Debban; his grandparents; two uncles—Ralph and Alan Debban; two aunts—Ardis Jenkins and Eunice Stoll.
Survivors include: his wife, Celeste of Eustis; his mother, Lola Debban of Elwood; three sisters—Valorie (Rob) Wallace of Fayetteville, GA, Lisa Koch of Kearney and Jan Raine of Curtis; a brother, Keith (Lisa) Debban of San Diego, CA; an aunt, Dorothy (Dode) Getty of Grand Island; father- and mother-in-law, Bryan and Deb Darnall of Eustis; sister-in-law, Nicky (Ross) Collins of Eustis; four beloved dogs—Husker, Ollie, Reece and Krinkles of Eustis; two guardian brothers—Youl (Calie) Brown of Colorado and Paul (Tommy) Brown of Omaha; close friends, Mike Koch of Eustis and Dana Hunzker of Lincoln; numerous nieces, nephews and other relatives.
A memorial has been established.
Berryman Funeral Home of Cozad is in charge of arrangements.
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14 January 2013
Finding Cousins -- DNA testing now more sophisticated and affordable than ever
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When the Wall Street Journal does an article about DNA testing in the context of genealogy and family history research, Finding a Few Hundred Cousins, by Anne Tergesen, it feels like our hobby/profession has really hit a milestone!
In recent decades, DNA tests were mainly used to prove paternity. But since 2000, a handful of companies have commercialized tests that connect a wider array of relatives, sometimes going back centuries to find common ancestors.
As recently as 2007, such tests cost as much as $1,000. Today, they generally run between $100 and $300 and offer users more information ....
Do read the full article.
I will fess up that I have NOT done DNA testing. The main reason is that I'm too busy doing research for others. Another reason is that many years ago, I chose to focus more on the details of each "found" ancestor's life than on identifying who I didn't know anything about and pursuing those individuals. As always with researching ancestors, we each determine what goals work best for us.
Given the decrease in price and the expanded results one can expect, have you or someone in your family recently undergone DNA testing? Did you get the answer you hoped for? Or, did you end up with more questions than ever?
For those new to DNA testing, what one bit of advice would you give them?
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Scenes as Red Sox celebrateBy DAVE D'ONOFRIO
Special to the Union Leader
October 31. 2013 9:54PM
BOSTON — A bit after 5:30 p.m. on Wednesday, the streets around Fenway Park already were abuzz. There were people everywhere, dressed in all manners of red and blue, wearing beards both real and fake, and ready for baseball. There were still 2½ hours until first pitch, and the gates had barely opened to fans, but they were ready.
Ready for baseball ... and for a party 95 years in the making.
The positivity was palpable, as if the 38,447 who crammed into Updike's lyric little bandbox never considered the possibility that they might not see the history promised as the Red Sox tried to win the World Series by beating the Cardinals. Some of them had paid upwards of $2,000 based on that promise. And, judging by the level of enthusiasm, most of them did so without a second thought.
The energy carried through the pre-game ceremonies, through the national anthem and through the first couple of innings. There was one section of Cardinals fans seated in Section 16 of the pavilion level in left field, and they feverishly wave their white towels when something favored St. Louis, but otherwise the entire place was a nuclear reactor building toward an explosion.
It came in the bottom of the third.
The rally itself began modestly. Single. Groundout. Intentional walk. Strikeout. Hit by pitch to load the bases.
But the slow build only amped up the anticipation, so when Shane Victorino watched consecutive pitches miss the plate, the roar was remarkable. It might have been the loudest reaction a 2-and-0 count in a third inning has ever received.
Mind you, Victorino had to this point been 0-for-10 in the series, 2-for-27 dating back to Game 3 of the American League Championship Series, and he'd missed the previous two games because of an ailing back. But, again, on this night there never seemed to be a doubt that he or his team would deliver.
And two pitches into the at-bat, he did. Crushing a 93-mph fastball off the left-field wall, he emptied the bases with a double and pounded his chest after taking third on the throw. It was 3-0 Red Sox, and after three weeks of nip-and-tuck pitchers duels, that felt like enough.
Three more runs in the fourth — on a home run by Stephen Drew, of all people, and RBI singles by Mike Napoli and Victorino — made a celebration inevitable.
But for a brief moment in the seventh when Sox starter John Lackey talked manager John Farrell into leaving him in the game with two on and one run in, the final five innings basically were a pre-party. After Lackey's admirable outing ended with a walk to Matt Holliday and a tip of his cap to the now-adoring Fenway crowd, the bullpen did its job, and soon enough there was Budweiser and bubbly being flung all over the clubhouse.
Jacoby Ellsbury seemed particularly intent on making sure nobody stayed dry. Yale product Ryan Lavarnway proved that Ivy Leaguers know how to party. And, this time, Mike Napoli's shirt stayed on as he and his teammates repeatedly soaked each other in suds before inevitably getting to the bottom of the bottle and sharing a bear hug.
When briefly pausing the party to talk with reporters, they praised their teammates and their town. Lackey labeled Jon Lester a "big-time ace." David Ross described Boston as so feverish a baseball city that even he, "as a backup catcher," gets recognized on the street. Jake Peavy talked about the way he felt welcomed after coming over from Chicago in late July. And to a man they insisted they believed this was possible from the early days of this season.
It took the fans a while longer to arrive at that belief, but by Wednesday evening the buzz around the ballpark suggested the Nation had bought in. And by late Wednesday night, with a 6-1 lead and the lights-out Koji Uehara coming in, all doubt was erased.
At that point, I headed from my place in the auxiliary press area to the bleachers, where my parents were standing in Section 41. Undeterred by beer, chicken or shades of Bobby Valentine, they had become season-ticket holders for the first time this year, and I wanted to be with them for this moment.
After all, it had been five years short of a full century since a mother, father and son could stand together at Fenway Park and witness the Red Sox winning the World Series. So I stood between them, and as Matt Carpenter missed Uehara's ultimate splitter, my mom turned and gave me a kiss. Then my dad turned and gave me a hug, squeezing harder and holding me longer than I can ever remember him doing.
It was a moment I'll remember forever — a moment that reaffirmed that the joy, happiness, and satisfaction that sports can bring to people is as real as the rings the Red Sox will be wearing come April. It was a moment that reminded me of what baseball has meant within our relationship since I was kid. It was a moment to which many a father and son could probably relate.
And it was a moment most of those with us at Fenway on Wednesday night were ready to experience from the minute they arrived.


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Every now and then you come across an absolute gem of a book – in this case in relation to my 'sacred economy' project. The delight is always more exquisite when that gem is buried beneath a title like Animal Husbandry in Ancient Israel: A Zooarchaeological Perspective on Livestock Exploitation, Herd Management and Economic Strategies (Equinox, 2011). Written by Aharon Sasson, it has that tinder-dry, wooden style that threatens to flare up into a major bushfire at any moment.
What does he argue? Basically, you are what you eat. He means this not in terms of some faddish diet-conscious modernity, desperately struggling against flab. No, what you eat provides a window into economic practice and class differentiation. Sasson's method – a relatively new one – is to analyse the remains of animal bones across all available archaeological sites. Laced in with comparative, spatial, sagittal and ethnographic approaches, is a battery of sophisticated chemical, physical and computer analysis.
The results:
1. Throughout bronze and iron age Levant, no one was engaged in producing basic goods for profit-driven 'market' exchange. Nomads did not 'trade' with sedentary agriculturalists; rural areas did not 'trade' their wares with the towns. This flies in the face of some half a century of assumptions by historians and archaeologists, who based their arguments on pure speculation, no evidence and not a little desire to make these ancient Palestinians and Mesopotamians nascent capitalists.
2. The basic economic strategy was subsistence survival. This requires a very different approach to economic life.
a. Optimal rather than maximal preservation of resources. Optimal means below carrying capacity in terms of water, arable and pasture lands, livestock and population size.
b. Small surpluses were kept as insurance against bad years rather than generated for sale and profit.
c. Every part of the animal was used rather than a particular product (meat, wool or milk) for trading.
d. The preferred mode of life was pastoral-nomadism, since this is the best way to survive in marginal ecological situations.
e. The key, however, is flock composition. The bone records show that the herds were primarily goats and sheep (caprines). Why? The flock composition of caprines averages out at no more than 67% sheep and 33% goats. Why? The aim was herd security and survival. Goats are very flexible in terms of feed, water and climate, while sheep are less so. However, sheep provide significant food and the vital element of wool. Both species breed quickly and well, so recovery from herd calamity (disease etc.) is easier. The mixed herds also mean that disease in one breed does not necessarily affect the other.
What about bovines? Very few turn up and the ones that do are mature animals. The reason is that they were used for ploughing. But you need only a few for that; any more and you threaten the subsistence survival requirements, since bovines use a shitload of water and fodder.
And the pigs? Very few pig bones turn up, which has of course led a good number to argue that the religious taboo (cultural-ideological factor) was already in force. Sasson simply points out that pigs are a poor option when subsistence survival is the key: they need to be watered daily, cannot manage temperature variations and do not move well. Eventually, this practical economic issue gave rise to the religious taboo.
All of which is extremely satisfying, since I have always had a hunch that 'trade' for profit was a not a consistent feature of the ancient Near East. What minimal exchange there was turns out to involve the acquisition of a few preciosities rather any form of bulk agricultural produce. To give but one example: I am sure that the pastoral nomads of the Levant would have looked forward to sampling Solomon's latest shipment of ivory, apes, and peacocks (1 Kings 10:22). Just like all those medieval European peasants hanging out for the latest silk fashions coming along the Silk Road.


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Title rivals Barcelona and Atletico Madrid stayed locked together at the top of La Liga after they played out an intense 0-0 draw with few genuine chances at the Calderon on Saturday.
Not even the introduction of Barca's fit-again World Player of the Year Lionel Messi at halftime or Brazil forward Neymar with just over 20 minutes left could break the deadlock and both teams have 50 points at the halfway stage of the campaign.
"They are a very, very compact side, one of the best teams in Europe and physically very strong," Barcelona captain Xavi said in an interview with Spanish TV broadcaster Canal Plus.
"We had our chances but it was an extremely intense match and in the end a draw," added the Spain playmaker.
"Normally in the final 15, 20 minutes against them is when we finish stronger and have chances to score but it was a finely-balanced game and Atletico are a great team.
"They have a different style to us but defensively they are excellent and they allow you very little space."
The result was good news for third-placed Real Madrid, who can close to within three points of the joint leaders - Barca are top on goal difference - with a win at Espanyol, the only team to beat Atletico this season, on Sunday (1800 GMT).
Real lost 1-0 at home to Atletico at the end of September and went down 2-1 at Barca in October's "Clasico" but have not been beaten since then and are likely to be challenging for the title when the league reaches its climax in May.
Saturday's closely-fought encounter was similar to the home and away clashes between Barcelona and Atletico in the season-opening Spanish Super Cup, when they drew 1-1 at the Calderon in the first leg before the return at the Nou Camp ended 0-0.
Atletico, who had won all nine of their home league matches this season before the visit of the champions, started stronger and their Turkey midfielder Arda Turan and Spain forward Diego Costa created some early danger for the visiting defence.
However, Barca gradually began to exert their customary control, with Xavi and Sergio Busquets pulling the strings in the middle, and threatened the home goal in the 33rd minute when Pedro headed Andres Iniesta's cross over the bar.
Iniesta took a knock to the knee in the first half and was taken off as a precaution at the break.
The Spain playmaker made way for Messi, who on Wednesday played for the first time in almost two months since recovering from a thigh strain and scored twice in a 4-0 King's Cup last 16, first leg win at home to Getafe.
The Argentina international drew a fine save from Atletico goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois with a fizzing low shot in the 81st minute but otherwise made little impact against a typically resolute home defence.
The vociferous Atletico fans, whose team have not won the league since 1996, seemed satisfied with the draw against their vastly wealthier rivals after the whistle, chanting "Atleti! Atleti" as the players swapped shirts and trooped off the pitch.
"We were expecting an intense game against one of the best teams in the league and we are pleased with the result," Atletico captain Gabi told Canal Plus.
"We will continue to take each game at a time and I think the team has performed extraordinarily well in the first half of the season," he added.
"It will be tough to repeat that in the second half but hopefully we can manage it."
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Will Turkey Find Its Way to Europe?
In its progress report presented last November 8, the commission clearly issued stern words of warning to Turkey. In addition, on account of Ankara's continued refusal to allow Cyprus access to Turkish ports and landing facilities, let alone recognize this EU member state, the commission soon afterwards recommended a partial freeze on accession negotiations.
The recommendations, since accepted by EU member states, called for a stop to those negotiation chapters affected by Turkey's non-compliance with the additional protocol of the Ankara Agreement.
Although the commission strived to be fair and objective, this latest crisis has succeeded in further polarizing not only supporters and opponents of Turkish membership and also the EU and Turkey. The growing polarization, as well as the emotional reaction that this issue provokes, once again shows that meeting membership criteria is not only a matter of fulfilling technical and legal conditions, but also deals with matters of culture and values.
In the final analysis, all candidates for EU membership must face these double demands. If one is to believe recent surveys, Turkey's blocked entry to the EU is not only based on its current technical and legal difficulties, but also due to differences on the level of culture and values. This raises the question of what Ankara can or even must do in order to achieve membership in the EU.
Cyprus - bone of contention
Turkey's relationship to the EU member Cyprus has been the dominant theme over the past weeks and months. Regardless of how one assesses the events of 2004, namely the support of the Annan plan by Turkish Cypriots and its rejection by Greek Cypriots, the current state of affairs must be accepted as fact.
Correspondingly, the EU has adopted the supposedly simple position that Turkey has to recognize Cyprus in one form or another, although this will not necessarily lead to a solution of the actual problem. The offered "compromise" refrains from demanding an immediate recognition under international law, but does insist on Cypriot access to Turkish ports and airports.
After its presidential and parliamentary elections this year, Turkey will gradually have to move in the direction laid down by the EU or else see the accession negotiations bogged down in a state of permanent crisis.
Exceptions will receive severe attention
This goes hand in hand with the main component of the "negotiations," namely the acceptance and implementation of the acquis communautaire.
According to the commission report, Turkey has already shown progress in this area, even though many changes still need to be made. On the whole, it can improve its European prospects by exhibiting a greater pace of reform in less problematic or contentious areas, thereby emphatically signaling its readiness for reform.
It will be essential that Ankara ensures the implementation and enforcement of European standards in every part of the country, as any exception will receive severe attention.
Special efforts will be required for subsequent reforms in the areas of civilian and military relations as well as in better delineating between the secular and religious spheres. A reform of the military in terms of its political power and influence will directly question Turkey's sense of national identity or at least that held by the country's influential elite.
Reticence in religious matters
It would be conceivable, considering Turkey's location on the edge of the EU, for its army to be better integrated in the European Security and Defence Policy (ESDP). On the secular-religious front, a clearer division of religion and state must be established, whereby the Turkish state stops meddling in religious affairs.
This by no means conflicts with the demand that religious communities accept the secular state and its values and norms.
Reciprocity in religious affairs must be guaranteed. The prevention of non-Muslim religious communities in Turkey from practicing their faiths merely plays into the hands of opponents of Turkish membership. On the other hand, the visit by the Pope last year could provide a new impetus towards a more balanced position.
In particular, issues dealing with culture and values and how these issues are dealt with publicly make clear how differently discussion is being conducted in the EU and in Turkey. As such, the Turkish leadership would be well advised not only to observe and partake in national and, occasionally, nationalist discussions at home, but also to increasingly pay attention to what is being said in Europe.
This implies that Turkey and the EU both show a greater respect for each other's sensitivities.
No "entitlement" to membership
In order to assure a successful continuation of accession negotiations, it will be necessary for both partners not to fall hostage to any individual issue – and this also includes the Cyprus problem.
The EU remains firm in its demand for Turkey to unilaterally recognize Cyprus, while Turkey's resolute policy of non-recognition not only puts accession negotiations at risk, but also, indirectly at least, continues the isolation of northern Cyprus.
After all, it could be expected that following recognition of Cyprus, at least in practice, the isolation of northern Cyprus would cease within a foreseeable time frame, even if the EU currently disputes this assertion.
Instead of emotionally overburdening individual issues, the reasons for wanting accession must be made clearer. The most frequently cited argument that Turkey has been "entitled" to membership since 1963 is insufficient in the long run both for Turkey and the EU.
Only when Turkey succeeds in producing good reasons – both for itself and for Europe – to support Turkish membership in the EU will the chances for the realization of its dreams improve. Current public opinion overwhelmingly views Turkey's prospects as negative.
Step-by-step integration
Turkey, on its part, has not engaged in any real attempt to change this. There is the need to recognize that the domestic as well as European public play an important role in this process. In addition, the Turkish communities living within the EU should be included in the membership strategy, as they characterize the image of Turkey in the eyes of most Europeans and thereby contribute to Turkey's membership chances.
With many issues still unresolved and numerous question marks hanging over Ankara's European prospects, it might be worthwhile to consider whether the present dilemma can be overcome through the concept of a step-by-step integration process, which is increasingly finding its way into the public and, thereby, the political debate.
Although the prospects for membership remain in danger, a step-by-step integration process could lessen tensions as opposed to the alternatives presented by the current negotiation framework – either full membership or maintaining the status quo.
Despite current problems in bilateral relations, the EU nonetheless has a fundamental interest in close or even closer relations with Turkey, especially in terms of strategic and energy concerns.
Finally, the question of the EU's definitive form is currently a matter of contention between various political groups. This is also something to keep a careful watch on in order to avoid any further polarization.
Andreas Marchetti
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Andreas Marchetti is Junior Fellow at the Center for European Integration Studies (ZEI), Germany.
Translated from the German by John Bergeron
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No Trust in Europe
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Surprised at Europe's Forgetfulness
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Since the lower house of the French parliament passed a bill making the denial of Turkish genocide against the Armenians into a punishable crime, it's not just Turkish nationalists and right-wing politicians who have been protesting against the law. There have been critical voices from the EU, as well as from Turkish intellectuals, as Ömer Erzeren reports


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Paper Love: Inside the Holocaust Archives
At the time I met him, Pomerance had already been to the archives in Bad Arolsen once, but on a very focused tour with no opportunity to explore on his own.
"Up until now, it has served the purpose of what its title is—the International Tracing Service—in other words, finding out fates," Pomerance says, by way of introduction. He is very thin and never lost his Canadian "yeahs" and "abouts." He is balding; the hair left may once have been a vibrant red, but it has faded into a very, very slight shade of strawberry. He is nearly paler than white, and he is wearing a pale blue shirt, as though he is attempting to blend into the fading bits of paper he works with. "Descendents were left without really knowing exactly how or where their relatives died. People need a sense of finality, and that's what the ITS has been offering people—family members—for decades." And yet he cautions me about how I should present what some historians believed was a crisis of bureaucracy that kept the ITS collections closed to public scrutiny. "This is not a German institution. I think it's important you underline that," he says, referring to the 11 countries that controlled the keys."This is a shared responsibility."
Pomerance mentions that he was shown a book in Arolsen that I might see there, too; it documents the number of lice on the heads of individual prisoners. "When you see those documents," he says, "You think, 'My goodness, there are people counting the number of lice on inmates' heads. It's part of the whole, greater picture. It kind of adds to the incomprehensibility of it all.' " Even such a small mention in this type of file was enough to secure for a former prisoner the postwar indemnity payments he or she was eligible for after the war. Or it might simply be the only evidence that a person lived at all.
"It is incredible what still can, all of a sudden, be discovered," he remarks, musing on the discovery, eight years ago, by the Jewish community of Vienna, of a trove of files documenting the wartime history of the community and the wealth of information that has become available to researchers on the Internet. (On the Web site of the Documentation Center of Austrian Resistance, for example, I found the Gestapo mug shots for my cousin Chaja Wildmann and her husband.)
But nearly 70 years on, many believe that there are few "new" Holocaust discoveries to be found at Arolsen. Revelations, if they can be called that, are more likely to be of the kind I have made in my parents' basement, in the words of the victims preserved for seven decades, the pleas for help. There is great interest in the large body of letters, relatively intact, written by Jews trapped in Europe to those outside. Though Valy's letters were all opened by official "readers," there are ways to parse the lines to hear what she's really experiencing. They are not dissimilar to the pleas of Otto Frank, Anne's father, discovered at the YIVO Institute in Manhattan two years ago, begging for immigration aid from relatives abroad throughout 1941.
The night before I interview Pomerance, I meet with Dr. Andrea Löw from the Institute of Contemporary History at a trendy little waffle shop in the Prenzlauer Berg quarter of what was formerly East Berlin. She is 34, and she is the first person I tell that I am pregnant. I blurt it out, perhaps because we are surrounded, crushed in, by baby carriages; perhaps because she is only a year older than me; and perhaps because, as always when I start on a Holocaust project, I feel very conscious of my own Jewishness. I tell her I am growing a little Jew. I'm not sure she finds this amusing.
For Andrea's work, Valy's letters are just as important as any lists or new information she might come across at ITS. She thinks she might be able to include a few in a multivolume collection of wartime documents she is helping to compile—her hope is to use the voices of victims to humanize the stiff bureaucratic decrees that bloodlessly lay out, day after day, the orders to persecute and separate Jews from German society. She reads a few of my photocopies as we eat our waffles. They are fairly typical, she says, looking for visas, affidavits, for exit doors. But she also wonders how my grandfather handled the demands of dozens of cousins and friends, desperate and angry that he got out and they didn't? We talk about the moral ambiguities of the period: What did my grandfather owe these cousins and friends? Why didn't he take Valy with him? In the box of letters, I found receipts that showed my grandfather was in the process of paying down loans from national refugee committees in amounts so low he couldn't possibly have had any extra cash to send abroad. He was quite poor in Vienna to begin with—and, like many refugees, he arrived with barely enough to start his own life.
It's June in Berlin, and the city is blooming, warm and inviting and hip and cool. I'm eager to get going. I want to ask people about who Valy might have been and what she might have experienced. But I also want to know what the popular—and academic—expectations are for the Bad Arolsen ITS archives. I want to know, so to speak, whether there is anything in that bag for me.
Before I get to Arolsen, I have two stops to make. The first is to Wolfgang Benz, director of the Center for Research on Anti-Semitism, deep in former West Berlin. He was born in 1941, and when he is asked why he is a Holocaust historian, he parries with "Why do you use a pencil?" He is a pessimist, at best, about the public potential for ITS. He believes it is much ballyhoo about nothing—stirred up largely by misinformed Americans. "This was the campaign," he says, running his hands through wildly unkempt white hair. "The greatest archives of the Holocaust!" He makes his voice deep and mean, "And the Germans! The Germans! They will not show us! Terrible! Terrible! You must! It's garbage." He slumps back in his chair. The archives are just "lists," he tells me. Names and camps. It's good primarily—if not entirely—for archivists or historians. And for restitution cases. The only "scandal" of Arolsen, he says, is when the "82-year-old Ukrainian man" asks for compensation for being a forced laborer, and the archive staff is not fast enough with information to ensure he receives payment in his lifetime. Benz warns me that there was no way Valy survived her deportation. "January 1943?" He shudders. It was a terrible month—and year—to be deported. Still, "these archives are not of interest. Archives are dusty rooms for historians," he sighs. "What is the importance of an archive?"
The next morning, I board a slick Intercity-Express train for Weimar and then take a bus down what was once nicknamed the "Blood Road," to Buchenwald, the concentration camp 20 minutes outside the city of Goethe. I am visiting Volkhard Knigge, director of the camp memorial. We'd spoken by phone some years before, and I was curious whether the opening of the doors at the International Tracing Service had changed the permanent exhibition or the future direction of the sprawling memorial. A number of Holocaust scholars believe that ITS's great purpose will be to help create sites of memory, geographic locations that mark and explain where the Holocaust took place, especially now that the eyewitnesses are dying. There are hundreds of small former camp sites and sub-Kommandos (divisions of larger concentration camps) scattered across Germany and Poland. The material on the victims who passed through—and died—in these almost-forgotten locations is probably most complete at the archives in Bad Arolsen.
Knigge is dressed like an art-gallery owner—black jacket, black button-down shirt, black jeans, white hair. He teaches cultural studies and the history of memory in Jena. His wife, he tells me later as he drives me back to the train station, is an Israeli artist. Knigge rejects the idea that there is nothing at ITS. "There is material from all the camps," he says, as well as DP camp material and all the postwar trial materials. Before this year, he says, "more than 90 percent of the Buchenwald records were in Bad Arolsen. We could see meters and meters and meters [of documents], but we didn't have the right to look in. As historians, we had to find our ways to do research without Arolsen. … Most of the documents collected were personal documents. But we now have much more precise information about camp inmates, about transports."
One way around the ITS stonewalling was to go to Yad Vashem, the Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem. All Buchenwald's Jewish files were there as well, copies of the Bad Arolsen holdings taken as mimeographs in the early 1950s, before the ITS archives were closed. And yet Buchenwald's history is hardly just a Jewish one—the majority of prisoners were not Jewish.
Yet now that he's had a look inside, Knigge cautions that opening ITS doesn't mean rewriting the history of the Holocaust. Rather, "it is a bit like completing a mosaic: You had some stones before; now you have many more, and the picture becomes much more clear." He thinks there is more there for laypeople than Benz believes. "For survivor families, we can reconstruct much more precisely, with much more detail, the biographies of prisoners. And we know much more [about] how the concentration camps worked together; we know much more about transports."
He also has an answer to Benz's rhetorical question about the importance of archives. "I think archives are kind of … living monuments. They are more important than monuments. A monument is just a monument, a symbol. But an archive is an original authentic expression of what happened in history. It is, in a way, living history." He is very earnest, despite his generally dry demeanor. "It is something like a bridge to the past." He sees Arolsen as an important pedagogical tool—giving students new and tangible materials to understand people who existed and were extinguished.
I am eager to get there. At my request, the ITS has already pulled Valy's files as well as the files of a few cousins. I will find them on arrival.