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Tuesday, January 23, 2007
The Drive To North Carolina
After watching the weather this past week with great focus and anticipation, on Saturday we finally decided the risk of rain for our trip was minimal ... so we started packing.
On Sunday morning, we loaded the car and were on our way. We brought along the laptop and speakers so the childrne could watch movies. (BTW - that was one of the best ideas we have ever had for a long road trip !!)
The planned route to Maggie Valley, NC, was going from Tellico Plains, TN to Robbinsville, NC, by way of the Cherohalla Skyway. We were a little concerned about some winter weather, but planned a leisurely scenic (no hurry) drive. Then from Robbinsville, we would travel to Bryson City, NC, and then on to Waynesville, NC, and then finally getting into Maggie Valley, NC. Total trip time calculated including a quick stop was 3 1/2 hours point to point, without hurrying.
The scenery was absolutely breath-taking along the skyway, even in the pouring rain. However, at about 2000 feet above sea-level the wind picked up considerably. So we slowed down a bit. (note the LAST photo above of DadToCherubs at Obidiah's Gap - 4000 feet above sea level - you can "see" the wind in the photo). We stopped a few times to take pictures - never have we seen so much of the "smoke" that the Great Smokey Mountains are so famous for. It was amazing - God is a Master Artist !!
At 3000 feet above sea level the rain turned to a definate wintery mix - and we started seeing progressively bigger icecicles hanging off of the enormous, sheer rock faces that line the road in so many places. And the water in the "run off" gulleys along the roadside were definately slushy, and getting more icy with each mile. At this point, the temperature had dropped to 33 degrees (before the windchill) .... 14 degrees lower than the temperature had been in Tellico Plains at the start of the Skyway. So we slowed down even more ....
At 3500 feet above sea level, the temperature was dropping steadily and the wintery mix had more "winter" in it than "mix", eventually becoming ICE .... and the road was covered in true BLACK ICE. The temperature at the "top" was 32 degrees on the dot before taking into consideration the windchill. Being from New England, we knew what this meant .... 1st gear, NO brakes unless certain death was imminent, and slow slow slow. Turtles move faster than we were (HA !). The trees moaned and bent under the weight of the ice that coated the branches .... and sparkled .... under the eerie "wintery mix" clouds ...
So we continued up and up, being way too far to turn around and go back (more risk by going back - we were almost to the top) .... and at 4500 feet above sea level we were at the top .... literally IN the clouds ... and it was 30 degrees exactly. It would have made an incredible photo, BUT we did not want to stop even for a second if it was not "necessary", and anyway it would have been just a light grey "solid" appearance. And we wanted to get off the ice-covered roads with all speed, although we did not dare "rush".
At this point in the drive, we had seen 2 other cars TOTAL along the entire skyway. And they were pulled over at "scenic overlooks" ... we are guessing they were southerners who were a bit afraid to continue. It was very daunting, but being "trapped" at 4500 feet in a winter storm with 6 children on board was even scarier.
So - now we started down the mountains ... slow and steady ... and the fog lifted ... and eventually the "winter" was less and less in the "mix" .... until it changed back into rain (just below 3500 feet). We eventually rolled into Indian Springs, NC, and then into Robbinsville, NC.
We stopped for lunch at the Brushy Grill. The man said "What in the world are you driving ?" with a look of shock on his face after we told him we had come across the skyway. He said the Emergency Services Dispatch Radio said that from mile marker 13 and up was nothing but ice .... well, we thought it might be a bit further up than that on THIS side, but not much, and that it was worse on the other side. He was amazed .... NO ONE CAN DRIVE IN ICE HERE he said. We told him how we did it - 1st gear, NO brakes, and as slow as you can possibly manage ... he said most people do not "know" how .. they think the brakes will save them, and that 1st gear is for mud. HA !! (Our children decided that "winter driving skills" should be taught to all new drivers regardless of climate. I think they were a bit proud of their Dad at this point, but did not say so.)
So - our trip had been MUCH longer at this point than planned, but now we contniue on our way (much relieved !) .... and finally arrive in Maggie Valley, NC, at our hotel in one piece just after 5pm .... and thankful to be there after a 5 1/2 hour ride that was "supposed" to take 3 - 3 1/2 hours total.
**Above are a few photos taken along the Cherohalla Skyway at 3500 feet and below. Now you can see WHY the Great Smokey Mountains are called as such. Apparently it has something to do with high levels of moisture in the ground. The photos do not do it jsutice, but you can get the idea. If you ever have the opportunity, please come see for yourself !!
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Is it just me? Or is media taking some kind of macabre interest in the festering body of Qaddafi? On the way to the golf course this morning every newscast on every station was doing stories about how this character was finally buried.
Over the last three days we have been submerged in bloody pictures of his corpse. Stories of his body being viewed by the Libyan public in a meat locker. Speculation about why he wasn't under ground yet. Have you ever noticed how the media, left and right, sometimes just get caught in these circular repetitions about things most readers don't even care about? And then there was that whole thing about investigations into why he was murdered by his own people. Of course if NATO (us really) blew him to little teensy pieces with a drone, that would be okay.
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SNUFF Wrap Up
I first settled on working through a series of classic films I'd missed that made the "They Shoot Pictures" website top 100 films, but only managed to see a couple of them. My January/February issue of Film Comment arrived and it included a long and well-documented list of both the best of 2009 and the best of the decade. I watched a few of these that I'd missed, several new releases, no TV, a couple from Uptown Mike Brown and 5 rarities I ordered from the U.S. The complete list is as follows;
The Shout (1978)
Deep End (1971)
Goodbye Dragon Inn (2003)
Syndromes and a Century (2006)
Colossal Youth (2006) (….most of it)
Yi-Yi (2000)
Bangkok Dangerous (2008)
A Bridge Too Far (1977)
Raging Bull (1980)
Rififi (1955)
Chandler (1971)
Rolling Thunder (1977)
Dead Pigeon on Beethoven Street (1973)
A Serious Man (2009)
Who Killed Teddy Bear (1962)
Ong Bak 2 (2009)
Bronson (2009)
Give 'Em Hell Malone (2009)
Two Lovers (2009)
La ciénaga (2001)
The Holy Girl (2004)
Headless Woman (2008) (for a second time)
Ronin (1998) (ditto)
Trapped (1972)
Tropical Malady (2004)
Avatar (2009)
Red Riding 1974 (2009)
Red Riding 1980 (2009)
Looking back over the list, a couple of groupings became obvious. I watched a block of films from the '70s, mostly kooky genre films and curiousities that were, in most cases, both entertaining and rewarding. The best were the two films by Jerzy Skolimowski, The Shout and Deep End. I watched several films that were on the Film Comment "Best of the Decade" list, two from Thailand's Apichatpong Weerasethakul, both of which I thoroughly enjoyed, Edward Yang's Yi Yi (good, just not my cup of tea), Ming-liang Tsai's Goodbye Dragon Inn, which I didn't care for and three from Lucrecia Martel, a trilogy of sorts from a very talented Argentinian director that I can't get out of my head. Acclaimed films from 2009 included the Coen Bros' A Serious Man, two of the films in the Red Riding trilogy (the third one's on deck), Avatar and a film I wouldn't have given a second look had it not made #16 in FC's top 20 films of 2009, Two Lovers.
From this widely divergent and varied bunch of films, I started to notice that there is a particular kind of film that occupies "best of" lists like Film Comment's, the recent Cinematheque decade poll, and others. None of them rate terribly high on viewers polls, but top endless critic's lists, which begs the question: why? I poked around at this issue a few weeks ago but it became clearer as I watched half a dozen of them over the last two weeks. I think the divide between films that achieve critical acclaim and those that gain popular appreciation (and therefore much larger audiences) has grown in lockstep with the mega-marketing campaigns and the huge box office numbers that pop-cinema has racked up over the last few decades.
Film Comment's decade rankings came from 100 filmmakers, critics, reviewers and writers who offered a variety of opinions and commentary about the decade's best/most influential films. A particularly insightful choice came from an English critic, Leslie Felperin who chose The Lord of the Rings trilogy as the "film(s) of the decade";
"....for exemplifying the big-budget, heavy-on-the-visual- effects, safely retro, male-skewed aesthetic..... it's the kind of filmmaking for which the increasingly unadventurous general audience, who like to see known quantities up on the screen, will remember these years for."
I think Felperin might have articulated better than I've heard before the current state of modern film and why the chasm that's opened up between critics and audiences appears to have grown in recent years. I purposefully buried Cameron's monstrosity Avatar in my viewing list because it is the very kind of film that I believe Felperin is talking about. It might seem strange to call the visually spectacular Avatar "unadventurous", but on every other level it is curiously banal and intellectually stillborn. As Nick pointed out in his earlier review, it's as though the script was conceived and penned by the creators of FernGully. I'd add the Lion King meets Go-Bots meets the Smurfs. It's a great movie in the same way a Lamborghini Gallardo Superleggera is a great car. Beautiful to look at, but where do you put the groceries?. Whereas Disney and Universal create theme park attractions based on their movies, Avatar seems to have evolved in the opposite direction. Its depth may be limited to the incredible 3-D visuals, but really, who cares?
I've come to the conclusion that proper film critics have retreated to increasingly obscure and predominantly foreign output in an effort to cobble together a modestly-coherent modern cinematic vision to write about, which leaves them at odds with the Dark Knight/Lord of the Rings/Avatar audience filling the Cineplex's these days. Exceptions exist of course, The Hurt Locker is both modestly popular and one of the more intriguing films to come out of Hollywood's pop-factory this year, but it's an exception. While I didn't particularly like it myself, A Serious Man probably falls into the same category. It's interesting that Up made the cut in the expanded Best Picture category for this year's Oscars whereas Coraline, a superior film in every possible way (according to nearly every critic out there, whose word I'll have to take for that), didn't.
Beyond the films I've already posted about, the two loose trilogies that brought SNUFF to a close fell more into the acclaimed camp than the popular one. Lucrecia Martel's bizarre and unnerving debut La ciénaga from the early part of the decade (followed in 2004 by The Holy Girl and last year's The Headless Woman) and the British mini-series/film trilogy, Red Riding, which I'm currently working my way through, are examples of the kind of films that critics have championed of late. La ciénaga is a difficult film that made several of these top-ten-of-the-decade lists. It's a rambling and oddly unstructured movie about an extended family self-destructing during the financial debacle/decline that's paralyzed Argentina in recent years. A formerly upper-middle-class family of 6 comes apart at the seams as Mom and Dad drink themselves into oblivion as their world metaphorically (and physically) crumbles around them. It's a cautionary tale about what happens to a society when traditional values and the money disappear - and it ain't pretty. Over the course of the film, an image of the Virgin Mary apparently appears on a local water tower, spurring countless visits from various locals searching for a way out, a quick solution to reverse their declining fortunes or some sort of redemption that isn't forthcoming. It was hard not to think about Obama being a real-world variation on this same theme. As the rest of the first world increasingly begins to take on the look of Martel's Argentina from a decade ago, one wonders how prescient La ciénaga might be in future retrospect. From a critical standpoint, this film says more about the human condition in the opening scene than anything James Cameron has ever (and likely will ever) put up on the screen. Martel's more recent The Headless Women, a film that also made a good number of 2009 top-ten-lists makes far more sense having now seen her earlier works.
Red Riding has a bit of a convoluted history. I believe it started as a BBC miniseries, received some high praise/critical acclaim, morphed into a limited theatrical released film trilogy and is now being remade by Ridley Scott and will be set in the American Rustbelt. For a film that wasn't on my radar until 4 days ago, it landed with a thud earlier this week with about 5 inquires about its availability and several critical mentions as one of the cinematic events of 2009. It was released last year on PAL in the U.K. but went quickly out of print. The first two films in the series are excellent, set in Yorkshire in the miserable 1970's during a wave of child abduction/murders. I downloaded all three films to watch while I figure out a way to get a copy from the U.K. (Amazon won't ship it to Canada for some reason).
At the risk of meandering around here without coming to any particular point, the collection of films I watched over the last couple of weeks reiterated for me why cinema remains such a powerful medium. The hugely entertaining, yet weirdly vacant, Avatar represents one end of the current cinematic spectrum - the culmination of a trend toward spectacle overshadowing meaning. Alternative filmmaking, on the other hand, seems to move further and further from mainstream appeal, opening a gap in the middle that becomes more defined with each passing year. Only a handful of films in the recent past have a foot in both camps and I wonder if the lauded "golden ages" of cinema's past are simply times when more films than normal converge on the fine line between exhibitionism and introspection, or more to the point, movies that sit at the intersection of entertainment and contemplation. These days we seem to have to choose one or the other - which I think is the point being raised by critic Leslie Felperin. It's interesting to consider whether it's the mainstream or the arthouse that's shifted in recent years. As my little film festival draws to a close, I'm inclined to say both.
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- the coelacanth said...
sterling write-up, as usual, scott. you've piqued my interest on more than a few of these, and i really enjoyed reading your daily musings on what you had watched. you should do it again. i've still got to watch deep end, but i agree with you that shout was fantastic, and i think i liked goodbye dragon inn a bit more than you did.
some pretty insightful thoughts you've hit upon here, and it certainly makes light of the current state of cinema and where it might be headed.
kind of related: not sure if THIS is a joke or not, but given the jonas bros. poster in the background, i'm inclined to think not...terrifying.
- the coelacanth said...
oh yeah - holy shit, that's a lot of films for two weeks...
- La Sporgenza said...
Shit... Joe, flip to page 46 of the latest Film Comment and under the "Movies that Matter" heading, the first blurb by Kent Jones says in 2 paragraphs what I couldn't quite say in 10. It seems I also stole Abel Ferrara's thought that films are "getting bigger and bigger and smaller and smaller". I seriously thought I had ownership on that one too. Damn!
- Dropkick said...
that video is a joke of sorts, as that girl has other video of her putting on makeup like a Chica and other things and its always subtley funny.
great read from Latin America on this slow Colombian morning in prep for Carnavale tonight,
all i have to say is the final scene of Terminator 2 spoke more to me than all the scenes in Touch of Zen put together.
and if i have to tell you that´s a joke then Game Over Man! Game Over!


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Computational Mechanics '95 pp 2299-2304 | Cite as
Computational Modeling of Damage Extension Ahead of Notch Tip in Fiber-Reinforced Composites
Considerable effort has thus far been made for the computational modeling of the Mode I type progressive fracture of notched composites (for example, Ref. [1–6]). The modeling can be classified broadly into two kinds. One is the modeling based on the stiffness degradation model[1-3] and another the fictitious crack model[4–6]. In the stiffness degradation model, stress and strain distributions inside the composites are firstly calculated by the use of a finite element method (FEM). By the use of the results, failure of the composites is examined on the basis of failure criteria, and reduction of mechanical properties is evaluated. In the fictitious crack model, the damage developed at the notch tip is modeled as a fictitious crack with the cohesive stress acting on the crack surfaces. The relationship between the cohesive stress and crack opening displacement, i.e., the tension-softening relation, is determined theoretically or experimentally.
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We started back to school yesterday and covered Ch. 15 of SOTW about the Phoenicians. The first part of the story talked about how the Phoenicians invented glass blowing. We watched a video of a glass blower at:
I'd also bought a "glass art" kit from Scholastic recently and we played with it. It's more like stained glass then glass blowing. I made a Hello Kitty face and Alexandra made a balloon, a bear, and a bluebird.
I also thought I had some plastic bubbles, but we couldn't find them. With plastic bubbles, you place some of the bubble-material on the end of a small "pipe" and blow a bubble. We weren't able to do it, but she remembered them so it was a great way to explain glass blowing.
Today, we read about Princess Dido (pronounced "Dee Dough") of Tyre and the ox skin. She fled from her brother and went to Carthage. She wanted to purchase some land and the local ruler told her she could purchase as much land as she could enclose with an ox skin. She cut the skin into hundreds of tiny strips and was able to purchase a large piece of land.
For a demonstration, I cut out a "skin" from a piece of paper & we acted out the story. I'm so glad we did as I found out my daughter had misunderstood the story! As I cut out the strips, she laid them side by side instead of end to end. Anyway, we were able to show how one small "skin" could cover a large area! It was a neat, spur-of-the-moment idea!
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Interestingly enough, this is a big threat to Google's incipient enterprise search business. For example, it costs $8,995 to buy Google's Mini product, which searches 300,000 documents.
As for IBM, it can afford to make basic search free. After all, the company has a comprehensive set of applications and services that can be up-sold. "We see search as a starting point for businesses," Marc Andrews, the director of strategy for IBM Search, told me in an interview. "By making it easy to access corporate information, there is then the need to analyze that information. That is an opportunity for our software products, such as the Information Server."
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Bob Kelljan, 1970
Starring: Robert Quarry, Roger Perry, Michael Murphy, Donna Anders
A mysterious coffin is shipped to a foreboding California mansion. Meanwhile, a young woman named Donna holds a séance to attempt to contact her dead mother. The strange Count Yorga, recently arrived in California from Bulgaria, performs the ceremony and later uses hypnosis on Donna when she has a hysterical breakdown. Two of Donna's friends, Erica and Paul, drive the Count home and are forced to sleep in their van after the roads become bad. That night they are attacked by Yorga, but strangely don't remember.
Erica has some odd marks on her neck investigated and goes through some strange personality changes. Her doctor, Hayes, notices inexplicable blood loss and later, she attempt to eat her pet kitten. Paul contact Dr. Hayes out of desperation. Meanwhile, it is revealed that Yorga has a number of vampire brides at his disposal, including Donna's dearly departed mother. Though reluctant at first, the three men -- Hayes, Paul, and Donna's boyfriend -- suspect vampirism and all available clues lead them right to Yorga's mansion, where he is hoping to add some new brides to his collection.
Initially, Robert Quarry's Count Yorga was intended to face off against Vincent Price's character Dr. Phibes. Later, Quarry wound up as a foil to Price in both Dr. Phibes Rises Again and Madhouse, though as new, human characters instead of the aristocratic count. Quarry was actually intended to replace Price as American International Pictures' primary horror star, but unfortunately horror became less popular and Quarry never really rose to stardom. He did return as a second vampire character in The Deathmaster, a film he also produced, which was intended to be a loose vampire version of the Manson family.
In addition to Quarry's delightfully campy performance, there are some average appearances from Roger Perry (The Thing with Two Heads), Michael Murphy (MASH, Manhattan, Batman Returns), and Michael Macready (Terror House, no relation to Kurt Russell's MacReady in The Thing). Donna Anders (Werewolves on Wheels, Dream No Evil) is likable as the lead and there are some lovely ladies throughout.
Speaking of ladies, Count Yorga was initially intended to be a softcore film. Allegedly it was Quarry who convinced AIP to make it a straightforward horror flick, but sexual elements remain and certainly far outweigh any overt gore or violence. As a result, American International Pictures had some trouble acquiring a PG rating to release the film theatrically.
Count Yorga was one of the few British or American vampire films of the '70s to focus on vampires in a modern setting and it is essentially an updated rehashing of Dracula, tracing many of the same plot points. Quarry helps the film to stand out as more than just another Dracula clone, however, and Yorga's snobbery, sarcasm, and wit help the film to feel fresh after all these years. As with Dracula, the works of Jean Rollin, Jess Franco, and Hammer's many vampire films, there is a direct relationship between vampirism and perverse sexuality. In one memorable scene, Yorga hypnotically compels some of his vampire brides to have sex with one another. And as with the later 1979 Dracula and the somewhat unfortunate Bram Stoker's Dracula, Yorga is just as interested in finding a romantic connection as he is a sanguinary one.
Director Bob Kelljan also helmed Return of Count Yorga, and the Blacula sequel, Scream, Blacula, Scream. He does a decent, if average job with Yorga, which should appeal to fans of '60s and '70s vampire films, namely the latter efforts of Hammer and their increasingly ridiculous (though enjoyable) Dracula films with Christopher Lee. While I adore Count Yorga, it is far from perfect and suffers from a distinct lag in plot and lots of dialogue-heavy scenes. The characters accept vampirism a little too readily and the conclusion happens far too quickly. The twist ending may be a little predictable for modern viewers, but it's still enjoyable.
Count Yorga's success insured a sequel, the lesser Return of Count Yorga. These are available on a double feature DVD from MGM's Midnite Movies label, but unfortunately it is out of print and has become relatively expensive. Hopefully someone will rescue Count Yorga and finally release it -- and its sequel -- on Blu-ray with some nice special features.


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That's basically what I have to say, despite the huge rally we saw from the end of the day last Thursday into the opening next day. Here's the chart for today, with a couple of important things to notice:
First thing, MACD is still in sell mode and in negative territory. Although it's a hair line from giving a buy signal, the lines are almost parallel, which doesn't make for a convincing buy signal in case it does so. If you check the same chart on July 15th, you'll see the signal crossing the MACD with a steep angle. Stochastics is positive, but I'd fade it for now. The second thing is that today's close was back below DMA 7×5. So, this is definitely a down trend.
Many probably noticed today's low volume and I'd like to remind you that on Friday there was an important change of a rule: no more short-selling. Which means that a huge part of the volume on Friday was due to a forced short covering and therefore I wouldn't draw many conclusions based on volume.
But I would take a look at VIX, which has something interesting:
This time I added a study to it, MACD, and, as you can clearly see, it's well well positive: VIX is in an uptrend. Notice how DMA 3×3 is holding the trend up and, after Thursday spike, VIX's bottomed exactly on the dotted trendline. My conclusion here is that a pessimistic sentiment is gaining momentum despite the huge government bailout plan. Which, by the way, will cost around 2,000 dollar per each american taxpayer, and the money will go basically to save investment banks, which in turn have little to do with low and middle classes. I'm just mentioning this fact because it seems that the Congress won't pass the plan so easily as many thought before.
Another extremely important thing to notice is today's spike in 10-year Treasury Notes, and yet the market headed lower:
See MACD? That's what I call a steep crossing angle. The Treasury notes are definitely in an uptrend. Read again Paul Krugman's article and you'll have a better idea why this is happening and why this isn't a good sign for the market.
Another bad sign is gold and dollar:
And oil is stepping on the market callus again:
We're definitely in a bearish scenario and I wouldn't bet to the upside in the medium long term. A 700$ billion plan will help the financial system, but for how long will the Fed be able to hold prices at the current levels?
In terms of dates, I have a window beginning next week for a bottom, but I still need to work on it.


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David Sexton attacks a collection of aphorisms about marriage from a fashionable psychoanalyst
JUST RECENTLY, Adam Phillips has become the acceptable face of psychoanalysis for many cultivated liberals - London Review of Books readers and the like. He's a fashionable item, well-worth knowing about. His sophisticated books on teasing topics - On Kissing, Tickling and Being Bored and On Flirtation - bring all the glamorous big theories of Freudianism into play without demanding any commitment to their ultimate value. This is tactful, since everybody knows by now that there is no sign whatsoever that psychoanalysis actually works (Phillips himself has, in the past, delicately alluded to "the radical uncertainty of the clinical enterprise").
On the one hand, he is able to use all the rhetorical devices of psychoanalysis, insisting, for instance, that adult experiences are "always" echoes and repetitions of childish experiences. On the other, he can throw up his hands in a charming way and say that psychoanalysis is no more than "another good way of speaking about certain things like love and loss and memory, as songs can be".
Phillips has made a career out of being hard to pin down, almost invariably ending his pieces on a paradox, never with a single conclusion. Indeed, if Phillips could be said to stand for any one thing, it is for not standing for any one thing (to adopt his own mode).
As a dedicated follower of paradox, he does nothing so simple-minded as to condemn it
He says that "we are living too few of our lives". We should all be out there "extending our repertoire", as he puts it, in his most painfully recurrent phrase. "It is one of the virtues of growing up that we can extend the repertoire of possible relationships", he observes in On Flirtation.
In a discussion of Philip Roth, he has been a little balder. "One lets people down - or 'deceives' them - when one refuses to be only one version of oneself. Consistency is compliance", he remarks, adding that in Roth's novels it seems "as though fidelity, particularly to oneself, constrains the repertoire". It does, rather, doesn't it?
Knowing Phillips's track-record, then, makes it easy enough to predict which way his thoughts tend on the subject of "monogamy". As a dedicated follower of paradox, he does nothing so simple-minded as to condemn it. But he rejoices to put it in question, to complicate the term. The book will be warmly appreciated by spouses who are extending their repertoire by having affairs.
Monogamy is a slim volume, attractively presented, consisting of 121 aphorisms, varying in length from a page to a single sentence, rather than a connected logical argument. In the hands of the masters - Pascal, La Rochefoucauld - the aphorism is one of the most powerful of all methods of inserting ideas into people's heads. However, it is unforgiving to its practitioners, in stantly exposing mediocrity.
"Most people would never have engaged in monogamy if they had never heard monogamy spoken of"
Shorn of all their scaffolding, the sentences cannot be anything less than exactly right, wholly self-sufficient. But Phillips is a woozy, as well as a convoluted, writer. The machinery of paradox-manufacture can too often be heard grinding away. Many of these sayings seem self-consciously clever rather than profoundly intelligent.
That Phillips is aware of his precedents is no help - rather the reverse. To offer as a complete aphorism, worth a page to itself, "Most people would never have engaged in monogamy if they had never heard monogamy spoken of" does not seem, at this stage of the game, a particularly valuable revision of La Rochefoucauld's remark, "Il y a des gens qui n'auraient jamais ÈtÈ amoureux, s'ils n'avaient jamais entendu parler de l'amour", published in 1665.
Similarly such bon mots as "Infidelity makes a life of absolute monogamy essential" and "There's nothing more scandalous than a happy marriage" merely make one wish one was reading Oscar Wilde himself. At other points - "We have affairs when we get our proportions wrong" - he declines into the language of Woman and Home. Once or twice - "Every marriage is a blind date that makes you wonder what the alternatives are to a blind date" - he seems to have been raiding the Christmas crackers.
Phillips argues that our understanding of monogamy always originates in childhood, when we begin by believing that we are in a monogamous relationship with our mothers, only to learn that this is not the case, leaving us forever seeking, forever uncertain. This heavily Freudian view provides the merry quip that "our conception was at least a monogamous moment, even if our first love affair was with someone who was 'married'."
It needs no evolutionary biologist, fresh from the rainforest, to tell us why "monogamy", as Phillips terms marriage, matters most
An equally unpersuasive derivation from psychoanalysis is the proposition, repeatedly made here, that it is not the object of an emotion that is significant but the nature of the emotion itself for the subject. So: "We are always doing monogamy, even though it is not always obvious with whom we are doing it." Again: "We are not entirely unfaithful, we are just faithful to something else . . ." Or even: "We are never unfaithful, we are just sometimes faithful in ways we don't like." The faithless are thus flattered. Their partners may be less happy.
It needs no evolutionary biologist, fresh from the rainforest, to tell us why "monogamy", as Phillips terms marriage, matters most: the raising of children. But Phillips dismisses this with a brutal rhetorical question: "What are children if we stay together because of them? What are we asking them to be?" Our oppressors, should we think? Reducers of our repertoire?
It is a high irony that those who pay most attention to "the child within" can end up paying least to the children without. The only true word for the subject of this book, by the way, is carefully avoided throughout: adultery.


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Providing further evidence of the U.S. economy's slowing momentum, federal officials revised yesterday first-quarter gross domestic product growth upward by a lower-than-expected amount.
The slightly disappointing GDP data, combined with a separate report that showed a continuing decline in existing-home sales, may play a role in the Federal Reserve's pending decision on whether to pause its long series of interest-rate increases. The Fed's rate-setting committee next meets June 28 and 29.
A month ago, the Commerce Department originally reported that the nation's gross domestic product, the measure of all goods and services produced in the U.S., expanded at a vigorous 4.8 percent rate in the first quarter, the strongest quarterly performance in 2 1/2 years.


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Ok, can we talk about what a fucking idiot the guy next to me is? Just for a minute?
I can't stand listening to him talk. Can't he close his door or something? Or just shut up?
There's an idea. Or maybe someone could fire him for being an idiot.
When my coworker started working here, she said she thought he was retarded. Seriously. She came home after her first day and her husband was all "how was your day?" and she said "um, I think this guy I'm working with is retarded ... I guess that's just what it's like in the federal government". Exactly. That is what it's like in the federal government.
The fact that this moron was hired leads me to question the intelligence and judgment of his boss. This is not the only poor hiring decision he has made, but it's the worst. At least my boss was smart enough to realize what a fucking idiot he is and refused to hire him when he applied for a transfer.
He appears to be trying to adopt a kid. I feel so sorry for that kid. An orphanage in China might be preferable to living with someone that fucking stupid.
I find that I am growing more intolerant the older I get. Particularly about stupid -
I just can't handle stupid.
Thank God, he shut up.
Have I also mentioned that he went to fat camp? He's like 45 - he had to take LWOP. And I swear, he only lost like 5 pounds.
I don't think he has any idea how much I can't stand him. Sometimes he even comes in my office to say hi, and I just want to scream.
Instead of a briefcase or backpack, he uses one of those little roll-a-board suitcases,
like a flight attendant. A little, weeble flight attendant.
Monday, August 13, 2007
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Was Bush right in going to Iraq?
By achyuta
United States
November 15, 2006 12:28am CST
With the senate and the house of representatives now well and truly with the democrats President Bush is now on back foot on several issues. Most difficult of all those issues is his Irag policy. Oppononets of Irag invasion will be reinvigorated. This begs the question: Was Bush right in going to Iraq?
12 responses
@kahheng (281)
10 Dec 06
IMHO, Bush went to Iraq for the oil and that is the only reason he sent troops to die there. To lay claim that US went to Iraq to liberate the oppressed people is unfound for. Why cant them Iraqist liberate themselves? Why does America need to do it?.. These questions goes unanswered unless you spell the word 'OIL'!
@phdmoneymaker (2299)
• Singapore
29 Nov 06
i dont know, he must have his reason though
@sudhirchaitanya (106)
• India
29 Nov 06
No it was a wrong decision.
@rajendrababu (1966)
• India
28 Nov 06
• United States
10 Dec 06
I am not sure if such a strong statement is valid. After all Saddam was a dictator and Bush has been democratically elected. We have to justify what we say. My point is more on the leadership qualities of Bush. I feel he has failed. But calling him a dictator is funny according to me. Thanks for your response nevertheless.
@bodugohodaa (333)
• New Zealand
6 Dec 06
Its not right for him to go to Iraq. The reason he said was that Iraq was having weapons of mass destruction. Did he find that in Iraq? No. He just goes there for the oil. There are other countries in the world that needs efficient governments. Why not going to these countries and help them out to build democracy and a stable government.
@basant54321 (856)
• India
6 Dec 06
No he was totally wrong yaar the prices of petrol hiked so much because of him
@amaramar (89)
• India
10 Dec 06
Do watch "Fahrenheit 9/11", an award-winning documentary film by an american filmmaker and political activist Michael Moore. You can see some of the ugliest works of President Bush and his father too. Politics is a dirty business and they have made it dirtier.


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NEW YORK – The legal challenges over religious freedom and the birth control coverage requirement in President Barack Obama's health care overhaul appear to be moving toward the U.S. Supreme Court.
Faith-affiliated charities, hospitals and universities have filed dozens of lawsuits against the mandate, which requires employers to provide insurance that covers contraception for free. However, many for-profit business owners are also suing, claiming a violation of their religious beliefs.
The religious lawsuits have largely stalled, as the Department of Health and Human Services tries to develop an accommodation for faith groups. However, no such offer will be made to individual business owners. And their lawsuits are yielding conflicting rulings in appeals courts around the country.
"The circuits have split. You're getting different, conflicting interpretations of law, so the line of cases will have to go to the Supreme Court, `' said Carl Esbeck, a professor at the University of Missouri Law School who specializes in religious liberty issues.
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Tennessee football podcast: Talking Missouri and Vols' bowl possibilities
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Tennessee's 2016 football season has had many memorable moments, but the book on these Vols is far from complete.
Tennessee (7-3. 3-3 SEC) can keep hopes alive of achieving its first team goal of winning the SEC East Division with a victory over Missouri (3-7, 1-5) at 3:30 p.m. on Saturday at Neyland Stadium.
The Vols need to beat the Tigers, AND have LSU beat Florida on Saturday, AND then Tennessee needs to close with a win at Vanderbilt at 7:30 p.m. on Nov. 26.
SECcountry.com's Mike Griffith and WNML's Josh Ward discuss Tennessee's possible postseason scenarios, both with and without an SEC title game appearance.
Follow Tennessee beat writer Mike Griffith on Twitter for the latest Vols news and analysis.


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I have come to that place where other infertiles go. A place where you feel in limbo. I don't feel like I belong outside the infertile world...but in essence I do, because,
I am pregnant.
For me, its an odd feeling. On the one hand I cannot believe this is happening to me. After 7 years of praying, hoping, wishing, and all the other millions of emotions that have come with infertility, it feels weird to be standing on the other side.
I know this is a bitter pill for some to swallow. I understand some will feel happy for me, but will also feel the sadness and the green monster come out. And that's okay. If you don't follow my blog anymore, that's okay. I understand. Do what is best for you!
So the specifics are, I am due January 10th, 2012. I am almost 11 weeks, and so far the pregnancy has gone seamlessly. Remember the blog from awhile ago where I was freaking out over that cycle, and not getting the IUI's and all that? Well, my body did what it was supposed to. I am SHOCKED still at times when I think that I got pregnant so easily...I also feel very guilty.
I am still terrified after my last pregnancy. I have already passed the time of the last loss. But, I have tasted the bitter...so I know better then to make any concrete plans. But I have a good feeling about this one.
I have had an ultrasound every week, thanks to a understanding doctor, but now won't be going in until 14 weeks which is terrifying.
I have been sick with this pregnancy. I had one day of not being able to keep anything down. But mostly just feel queasy. It still hasn't left yet, its gotten better the closer I have gotten to 12 weeks, but threw up just yesterday!
So, from here on out this blog will move from infertility to pregnant after infertility. I still understand the infertile world. I still feel part of it. I still want to support others going through that valley. But I also want to relish in the fact that I have been blessed to come out of it. And ask for prayers that this baby is healthy and strong.
I so appreciate all the support and love I have gotten on this blog. Its been so overwhelming and wonderful! I pray and hope for those still struggling with infertility/or childlessness that you are able to carry that burden, and that those who are still in the process get their dream.
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Kevin Johansen & the Nada - Sur O No Sur (2003)
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«It's hard to imagine a more disjointed upbringing than Kevin Johansen's: the songwriter grew up in Alaska and Argentina (to an American father and Argentinean mother). As an adult he spent a decade in New York City honing his chops and writing. Since moving to Buenos Aires in 2000, he's become one of Argentina's biggest pop stars thanks to a mildly psychedelic American-style folk song sung in
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It starts off with Dr. Who wanting a PS3. Hu, being as technologically retarded as they come, wonders why on earth Dr. Who would want a PS3 in the first place. 'God of War, Tekken, Medal of Honor, NFS,' Dr. Who replies, rolling his eyes. 'It's to play games on.'
'Sounds like a waste of time and money.'
'EVERYTHING is a waste of time and money. Might as well be happy wasting your time and money.'
'What about taking a deep breath and smelling the roses? It makes you feel good, and it doesn't cost the earth either.'
'But they do cost SOMETHING. Since you're spending money anyways, why not on a PS3?'
'Oh, ho, and what happens when you get tired of your PS3?'
'I'll just buy a brand new PS4. Hey, it's human nature. You want more and when you get that something more, you're happy for a while. Not all of us are out there to achieve Nirvana, kiddo. We don't have the time for that. We make do with what we have money.'
'That's what's wrong with this world. Why do we keep craving things all the time? You don't NEED things to be happy.'
'What, roses are non-existent, are they?'
'You don't have to own a rose to love it. A PS3 you have to own.'
'Yeah, yeah, whatever, roses are things, too. And a PS3 is a thing. Better things cost more money. I'm sure you'd be thrilled to have a nice orchid, but you fool yourself into thinking you're content just staring at it because otherwise it would dent your wallet.'
'Not true! Even if someone gave me a half-wilted orchid I'd still be delighted. It's the thought that counts.'
'Thoughts don't count. Suppose I wanted to buy you a Ferrari. So I bought you a toy one. The thought is still there, but is it the same? No. Both toy and real Ferrari would cost money. But the real one would make you happier. Hence money buys happiness, since I'd be pretty damn happy with a friggin' Ferrari.'
'Which brings me back to my original point what you want isn't really necessary.'
'That's beside the point. The fact that "if I could afford it and buy it, I'd be happy", is the point. We didn't need homes when we were sheltered perfectly well in caves. We didn't need fire when raw meat seemed to taste pretty good. But no! We wanted easy food. We wanted comfort. So we had the homes and farmsteads and towns and so on and so forth. We didn't need them, but we still went out and got them, because we were the only species in the animal kingdom with a cool pair of hands. Face it, the basis of human civilization has been materialism. You can't go against it.'
'Is that so?' Hu demands, her grapes of wrath very heavy for the vintage. 'Ask yourself this: what is money? It's a mode of trade. It's a necessity of society. Money does not buy happiness. Tell me. What joy is there in a nice meal without someone interesting to share it with? What good is a PS3 without friends to play multiplayer with? Money buys friends? No! Money buys bees looking for honey that will sting you the moment you run out of it and don't care what happens to you as long as you're paying the bill at Westin.'
'Well,' Dr. Who scoffs, 'since spontaneous affection is so hard to come by these days, I think I'll settle for some general affection that'll make me happy. Not over the moon perhaps, but happy nonetheless At least, then I'll know what to expect as the outcome.'
'I can't believe you said that.' (Insert explosion of fury). 'That is such a stupid, hedonistic, apathetic thing to say…'
And the war wages on.


text: Thanks for the ideas, George! A few years ago, I actually prototyped a touchscreen version, but Meme said it would be unreliable with racing gloves on. Voice commands would be nice in my quiet car but probably unworkable in your 928 ;-) Anyway, you have so many instruments in your car now, I'm surprised a heart rate monitor isn't already on that dash somewhere. So, no Version 2 at this time, but if there ever was one, it would be based on the iPad, and I'd have to put holes in the finger pads of Meme's gloves.