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Fever Pitch
Since the last time I played Worldwide Soccer Manager 2007 (Football Manager to those of you in the rest of the world), my knowledge has increased considerably. While I can't make heads or tails of the offside rule yet, I know a lot more about the sport than I did previously, and I felt comfortable upgrading to the full version of Sega/SI's soccer management sim, whereupon I promptly left it to sit for some time, because games should be aged like fine wine.
My downfall did not come in the form of man or beast. Like in The Stand, I fell to a microscopic bug. During a recent bout with the flu, I was stuck in a philosophical dilemma. Namely, what does one sick, half-delusional idiot trapped indoors on a cold, rainy day do when Bob Barker has finished the Showcase Showdowns and daytime TV has turned to soap operas and Wilford Brimley warning senior citizens about the horrors of "diabeetus"? Under the influence of the Red Nyquil, I studied my PC's desktop and contemplated my problem. Starting an incredibly complicated game based entirely around a sport I just barely understood was not just a good idea, no, it was quite possibly the greatest idea in the history of ideas, according to the cough medicine.
A quick update later, I was ready to go, molding my in-game persona to the sports manager I am in my head (namely, Ian from This Is Spinal Tap, down to the cricket bat, shouting and corruption) and setting up the game itself. Worldwide Soccer Manager contains most of the major, many of the minor and several completely obscure leagues from around the globe. It's possible to build an entire managerial career out of, say, the lower leagues of Scotland, where men are men, and they play for $100 a week. It's an almost overwhelming level of detail, so I trimmed it down to the major European leagues with teams I'd at least vaguely heard of, though that still left me about 12 countries with four to six leagues, each containing anywhere from 8-25 teams, to consider. It's a big soccer world.
With the game in motion, I began the most irritating part of any working professional's life: looking for a job. While WSM will allow you to pick any particular team and take the reins, it also allows for the far more interesting option of hitting the bricks, submitting your resume and hoping to catch on with a desperate team. Who would take the chance on an American manager whose only real soccer experience was a single year on a team as an 8-year-old? Would it be EPL leaders Manchester United? Spain's famous Real Madrid? Some crazy Italian team with fans who'd shoot me for losing a game? I did what any hot prospect would do: Told the computer to apply for jobs for me, to not wake me up until I got a job offer, and promptly took off on holiday for several minutes.
Finally, the infernal machine stirred with word of a position open, and they'd made me an offer. What championship team lacked only me to complete their roster? Why the Crawley Town Football Club, perched soundly in 24th place (out of 24), in the English Conference National - according to Wikipedia, this means they were in last place somewhere in the tremendous complicated middle of the English soccer league system. Imagine if your company softball team could, through years of hard work, make it into Major League Baseball, and you'll begin to get an idea of the sheer size of both English soccer leagues and Worldwide Soccer Manager itself.
Getting the job offer was flattering, of course, but I couldn't even say, "Well, there's nowhere to go but up," because if my employers continued their trend of mediocrity, they would get relegated to an even lower league should they (and now, me) continue screwing things up. For our American readers, imagine if a league's terrible teams (here I'm thinking of the Royals) got relegated down to a lower league (AAA), while a promising team from the lower league (Durham's own Bulls!) was promoted into the majors. This was the ignominy I faced, though in the case of the Conference National, I was looking at getting demoted from a league where our team played in front of 1,000 people to a league where our team played in front of 200, per the stats I could glean from WSM's interface. This was far from the fame I was looking for.
I had to weigh the pros and cons. "They're offering me $825 per week, with no transfer budget and a miniscule payroll," I said, to nobody in particular. "It's the last-place club in the league, and we may get relegated. Also, nobody on the team is in match shape, and we're pretty much doomed. However, Wikipedia says The Cure was formed in Crawley, and that's pretty cool." I looked over at the copy of Disintegration on my desk, and the choice was only too clear. Crawley Town would have their new manager, and I would have my team.
They Call Me Coach
I dug into my club, rummaging through our ankle-deep talent pool and hitting the Transfer wires for cheap prospects. While I'd played WSM before, I'd never played for an obscure team and soon discovered it was very hard to sign good players when all I had to offer was a fistful of dollars and a shot at obscurity on a team perched solidly in the relegation zone. It's one thing to recruit for a Premiership team, quite another to recruit for a team nobody wants to play for. I turned to my roster, hoping for some signs of life in my current squad, and I found that one of my starting strikers was a 16-year-old kid. Suddenly, the previous season's low finish began to make sense.
Regardless, I did what I could and readied us for our first game, a friendly with Bristol Rovers, and I was quite nervous. What would happen? Would we be laughed off the field? Miraculously, my band of has-beens and never-weres pulled together and took the lead in the first half, though they later gave up a goal and the game finished 1-1, as they wore down. I was indescribably pleased, especially with my three yellow-carded players. They're rough, they're profane and they're unwanted. These are men I could work with. Or so I thought...
After a few more friendlies, the team started to come together, though my board was forcing me to cut players, as we were oozing money from every orifice. Our once-promising youth program was cut down to five prospects, our reserves were slashed away, and my hunting for good transfer prospects was just barely plugging the holes I created when I slashed away players for a bigger budget. After all, this wasn't just about my over-inflated ego or my underachieving players. This was about the financial solvency of the club itself.
One thing that was modeled exquisitely was the difficulty of being a coach on a poor/failing/desperate team. While I've played many a Manager Mode-type game before, I've never quite stared at the card of a 42-year-old player who still has a little, teeny bit of talent, but could also fill in as my assistant coach, and wondered what to do. I'm used to superstar budgets, not dealing with the delicate art of compromise because a good defenseman wants $1,000 a week and I can offer him $100.
A Season On The Brink
Finally, the games that counted were upon us. I'd signed a handful of players who wouldn't be out of place in a plucky montage, I'd set my starting roster, and I was hoping for the best. We'd done reasonably well in the friendly games, and the team seemed to be just about to gel as the season kicked off.
We promptly lost our opener to Weymouth 1-4, followed by a 0-3 loss to Tamworth. Hope blossomed in a 0-0 draw with Burton, but we promptly crushed that delicate bud with a 0-3 loss to Woking that saw my best striker red-carded and replaced with the 40-year-old Assistant Coach/Emergency Striker.
I felt a brief surge of pride as the lads pushed their way into a 2-0 lead against Northwich, and then promptly gave up 4 goals in the last 10 minutes to lose 4-2. This game was highlighted by four yellow cards for Northwich and three yellow and two red cards for my own team, plus several suspensions. What is this, the Bad News Bears?
The drought ended against Kidderminster, even though my attacking pair was a soccer senior citizen and a reserve defenseman, but I must admit to dancing in delight when the final score lit up: Crawley 2, Kidderminster 1. We promptly lost 2-1 versus Morecambe on a game that saw my last striker injured when he broke his hip (or something), and I am now completely out of forwards of any sort after several more cards. If any of the Bears come off suspension, I might just win another game.
Finally, my best striker, Jake Edwards (who I called John and insisted on picturing as presidential candidate John Edwards, largely because I'd love to see John Edwards try a nasty slide tackle in the debates) returned from injury and suspension for our game against Southport. We scored at 1:41, they scored at 4:40, and I poured myself a drink. It was one of those games, especially when Southport went ahead 3-1 on an own goal. We lost, of course. We continued our Jack Sparrow-style staggering in a 1-0 loss to Stafford, a 4-0 loss in a game against Stevenage and a 5-0 loss against Dag and Red.
We were granted mercy, as a rabble-roused Crawley pounced on a stunned Oxford, crushing them 2-1. Sadly, it was the last time we'd win all season, as Rushden won 1-0, and a 6-0 drubbing by Grays clobbered the last hope of life from the team.
The Long Season
What followed was more of the same. The team would occasionally manage to pull together and, say, draw, then promptly fall apart over the course of several more games. The team was busy falling into bankruptcy, and I was trying to keep my assistant coach from strangling my continually red-carded striker/presidential candidate while shopping around my none-too-distinguished resume to other teams before the wheels finally came off, all the while trying to keep the team alive while being a huge, snarky jerk, like a TV doctor.
In the meantime, my players were dying in droves. Well, they weren't actually dead, but about half the roster was injured, playing hurt, suspended or just about to be suspended at any time. My pep talks (I always chose the conversation option equivalent of "I'm going to hit you with a cricket bat if you don't win some %@# games!") didn't seem to be inspiring hope in my rowdy players, and the Board was busily reporting that we were going under. We eventually did, right around when we were doomed for relegation into an even-lower league.
It was about this point that Italy called, and there was a team in Serie B that wanted to talk. I hurried out of Crawley Town as fast as my fleeing car could carry me, undoubtedly pursued by a band of hooligans (or maybe just a few, considering our decimated fan base). I'm sorry, Robert Smith, but I've failed you.
A Fan's Notes
You'd think a game in which I managed to collapse a team completely would somehow make me feel bad, or at least angry about it. You would be quite wrong. Worldwide Soccer Manager 2007 was a game that delivered exactly what it promised. I was the manager of a soccer team, a cog in a huge worldwide soccer machine, dealing with far more than what button to press. I got to experience the frustration and anger, the "thrill of victory and the agony of defeat," to quote the old Wide World of Sports intro with the guy pinwheeling off that ski-jump. I got to be that guy, in a metaphorical, soccer manager sense. It was a unique experience, one I don't think any other game could've given me.
If there's one thing I will applaud WSM for, it's for feeling like a truly modern game. Rather than sinking its claws into my system and demanding my completely undivided attention, it works fine in windowed mode and uses a desktop browser-style interface that feels familiar, even when you've never messed with it before. Player databases are searchable and filterable, things can be reorganized to suit your whims; it's even skinnable if you don't like anything they've done. This is one of the few games I played that wasn't hard to learn. Difficult to master, certainly, but figuring out how things worked took no time at all, because they worked precisely like everything else does on my PC. Updates arrived via a faux e-mail box that saved all my old messages, so I could go back and rummage around. Going back to a previous screen usually involves clicking the back button. The game is usually content to sit in the background while it processes something, and you, most importantly, do something else. It's one of the few games I've played that didn't adamantly try to take over my computer, changing resolutions and using arcane control schemes. It lets you play, rather than trying to control how you play, perhaps because the game is quite deep and complicated in its own right.
Given my management experience, I don't know if I'm qualified to tell you if this is an accurate simulation of the managerial life. After all, I hurried out of town in the dead of night - though managers have done that before - rather than face the wrath of my team. I can say if you're a geek that lives in manager mode and have more fun debating the merits of a player's statistics than trying to play him on the field, Worldwide Soccer Manager 2007 is the game you pine for, deep in your heart of hearts.


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Historically, the odd years in EA Sports' ice hockey series have proven to be major letdowns. In particular, the Genesis version released in 1995 and the PlayStation editions of the game released in 1997 and 1999 all proved to be inferior products to the games that were released the year prior to them. And of those, NHL '99 was probably the most disappointing because it had the worst framerate of any game released by the company for Sony's celebrated 32-bit system.
Well, it appears that despite what we thought of the preview build of the game that EA Sports has not been able to shake the jinx. Even though the product seemed well on its way to becoming one of the best that the series has ever seen, something must've happened towards the completion of the game's development that turned things around -- in the wrong direction. Maybe it's just like the curse of the Bambino that Boston Red Sox don't seem to be able to break and there's really nothing that can be done about it. Regardless of the reason, it appears that the odd-year jinx has struck again.
If you're wondering wherein lies the problems with NHL 2001 on PlayStation 2? You shan't look further than the game's playability, which is significantly hampered by an excessive amount of slowdown that can negatively affect the gameplay and flat out hurts the general pacing of the game. This slowdown, believe it or not, was actually not present to this extent in earlier builds of the game. So, in adding stuff to the game somewhere down the line, the game's developers appear to have tried to make the game do too much, with the cost being a very inconsistent framerate.
While the game's occasional choppiness can almost be forgiven because it doesn't happen non-stop throughout the contests, NHL 2001's other noteworthy problem, its AI, simply cannot be overlooked. The Beginner and Rookie difficulty levels are pretty much laughable for veterans to the series and will likely even be a walk in the park for people that will be playing hockey on a videogame console for the very first time. And to make things worse, when the difficulty is set to either Pro and All Star, the computer still won't offer much more of a fight with the only really noticeable different with the settings being that it appears that your goalie gets worse and worse as you increase the difficulty levels. This isn't a good way to increase the challenge of the game and the fact that the game offers an insignificant amount of challenge even on its most difficult settings really takes away a great deal of its single player appeal.
This is really a sad thing because there are plenty of good things about the game that make it a worthwhile hockey videogame. The game is packed to the gills with all of the features, play modes, statistical tracking and customizable options that any hockey fan could hope for. The player management is fairly robust and complete stats are tracked and saved for every NHL player for both a full season and the playoffs. The only thing that's really missing is a franchise mode that has become of staple of EA Sports' John Madden football series.
Also on the positive side, we have the game's tight and responsive control that is as good as we've ever witnessed in a hockey videogame. The players respond quickly and fluidly to your movements, while using either the digital pad or the analog stick, and all of the basic and more advanced moves that you'd want to be performed by a hockey player can be done here with a simple press of the button. Furthermore, the game is actually quite a bit of fun to play and it has a very addictive arcade-style appeal to it. It's just that there's too much slowdown and the AI just isn't good enough for me to warrant giving the game a high score in the gameplay department or overall.
Without taking into consideration the game's shortcomings in the framerate department, NHL 2001 would probably be considered one of the most visually stunning games available for PlayStation 2. The player models in the game are even more detailed and realistically modeled than what we got in EA Sports' gorgeous football game. The players are so detailed that you can see facial hair, realistic mouth movements, much less scary eyes, and a level of texture detail in the uniforms that will just blow you away.
The sensational level of detail just doesn't end with the players, either, as the ice, the logos, the 3D arena and just about every other single 3D object that you'll encounter in the game has the appearance that it's completely real and not something that's part of a videogame. The ice rink for instance has a convincing reflection that allows you to see the players skating over them, as well as the lights that are shining down on the ice. The problem with all of it is that it appears that all of this detail has come at the cost of a smooth and consistent framerate. And given the importance of a game's framerate, especially one based on the fast-paced sport of hockey, the developers appeared to have put their eggs in the wrong basket.
Ever since the near perfect NHL '98, EA Sport has had the audio down in its hockey series on PlayStation. The sound effects are all of the utmost quality, the music played in the background is exactly what you'd hear in a hockey game, and the announcing is mostly right on with what's happening during the game. The only complaint that there is to be made with this year's version is that the color commentary gets repetitious fairly early on in a season and this isn't a good thing for those who typically play multiple seasons over the course of a single month.
The Verdict
It might seem that I'm ripping on NHL 2001 a bit and don't like the game at all, but that's the farthest thing from the truth. The reality of the situation is that I think that the game is a very solid hockey videogame and it is without a doubt a game that I'll put more time into playing this year than everything else on PS2 with the exception of possibly Madden NFL 2001 and SSX.
However, I would be lying to myself, and thus lying to you, if I were to overlook the fact that this game has some serious flaws that might make it completely unplayable for some players. The AI just isn't up to snuff in terms of the challenge it puts forth and there's simply too much slowdown in the game too be totally ignored.
In spite of all of this, NHL 2001 would be one of the top five launch games that I would buy for PlayStation 2 and the fact remains that for now, it's the only hockey game in town.

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Instead of using the Windows XP CD, use the CD that you burned earlier.
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Otherwise, download the .iso file in the 1st link to your Mac OS. Then burn it to a disc: http://www.psychocat...t/ubuntu/maciso
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Nov. 17, 2008
KANSAS CITY, Mo. – The 11th and final installment of the 2008 NAIA National Football Players of the Week were announced today (Nov. 17): Drew Dallas of Kansas Wesleyan University was named NAIA Offensive Player of the Week, Travis Eason of McPherson (Kan.) College was named NAIA Special Teams Player of the Week and Adarrious Ross of Lindenwood (Mo.) University was named NAIA Defensive Player of the Week, for the week of Nov. 10-16. These winners were chosen out of a pool of conference player of the week performers among 10 conferences and independents.
Dallas, a 6-3, 215 lbs., senior quarterback from Salina, Kan., accounted for seven touchdowns in the Kansas Wesleyan 63-34 road win at Tabor (Kan.). He went 13-for-23 passing for 213 yards and six touchdowns. On the ground, Drew finished with 78 yards on nine attempts (8.7 ypc) and one score. He spread the ball around through the air hitting six different wide receivers. On the year, Drew finished with nearly 1,900 yards of total offense and posted 24 touchdowns (18 passing, 6 rushing).
Eason, a 5-10, 155 lbs., sophomore kicker from Tulsa, Okla., was the difference maker in the 28-23 win over Bethel (Kan.) in McPherson's season finale. He connected on a career-best three field goals, hitting from distances of 41, 27 and 41 yards. Normally just the placekicker, Travis was pressed into punting duties as the regular punter got injured. Of his three punts, he averaged 35.7 with a long of 41 and pinned one of his punts at the BC's one-yard line. His three field goals marks the second-most made in MC single-game history. Also, the two 40-plus yard field goals in one game are reported to be a first in school history.
Ross, a 5-11, 173 lbs., junior cornerback from Inglewood, Calif., was a stand-out in the defensive secondary in Lindenwood's 21-18 victory over visiting and No. 12 Missouri Valley. Adarrious had two interceptions, both when MVC was driving in Lindenwood territory. He also had a pair of pass break-ups and two tackles. One of his stops came during the Vikings game-ending drive when they were trying to either tie or take the lead. He made a game-saving tackle of MVC running back Robert Holmes during that drive. He helped the LU defense limit a MVC team ranked second in the conference in total offense to just 256 yards.
For a complete listing of all the national statistical leaders, click here.
Offensive Nominees:
Danny Lowery, Langston (Okla.); Michael Hayward, St. Ambrose (Iowa); Kyle Callahan, Union (Ky.); Ethan Haller, Ottawa (Kan.); Stinson Dean, MidAmerica Nazarene (Kan.); Brandon Bishop-Parise, Dickinson State (N.D.); Bubba Slaba, Dakota Wesleyan (S.D.)
Defensive Nominees:
Ken Mitchell, Kansas Wesleyan; Cunningham Anson, Pikeville (Ky.); Colin Green, St. Ambrose (Iowa); Evan Twedt, Jamestown (N.D.); Mark Drobac, St. Francis (Ind.); Brandon Sam, Texas College; Adam Maher, Missouri Valley
Special Teams Nominees:
Ropheyel Howell, Bacone (Okla.); Scott Mckeon, Kansas Wesleyan; Kyle Chilton, Pikeville (Ky.); C.J. Gradoville, Morningside (Iowa); Nate Nygaard, Jamestown (N.D.); Adrian Trevino, Missouri Valley
2008 Composite Award Winners (Schedule):
Offense: Josh Kittell (Jamestown College) – SR, QB
Defense: Willie Williams (Union College) – SR, LB
Special Teams: Kevin Kinsall (McKendree University) – JR, K
Offense: Randy Hippeard (Virginia-Wise) – SR, QB
Defense: Jarrod Makovicka (Briar Cliff University) – JR, LB
Special Teams: C.J. Gradoville (Morningside College) – SO, K
Offense: Jeremy Zientek (St. Xavier (Ill.) University) – SR, QB
Defense: Jordan Highley (Friends University) – JR, DE
Special Teams: Daniel Carter (University of Saint Francis (Ind.)) – JR, TB
Offense: Chris Ware (Eastern Oregon University) – FR, QB
Defense: Derrick Sullivan (Sterling (Kan.) College) – SR, LB
Special Teams: Ryan Nanney (Lambuth (Tenn.) University) – JR, K
Offense: Erik Walden (Bacone (Okla.) College) – JR, QB
Defense: Carl Thomas (University of Saint Francis (Ind.)) – JR, ILB
Special Teams: Chris Rodgers (Saint. Xavier (Ill.) University) – SR, DB
Offense: Ian Gilworth (Morningside (Iowa) College) – SR, QB
Defense: Eric Adolph (Dakota Wesleyan (S.D.) University) – SR, CB
Special Teams: Braden Dragomir (Bethel (Kan.) College) – SR, K
Offense: A.J. Cooley (Shorter (Ga.) College) – JR, FB
Defense: Rob Foley (Olivet Nazarene (Ill.) University) – SO, FS
Special Teams: Corey O'Neill (Southern Oregon University) – SR, K
Week 8:
Offense: James McClain (Cumberland (Tenn.) University) – FR, RB
Defense: Michael Wright (Ohio Dominican University) – SR, DB
Special Teams: Kyle Chilton (Pikeville (Ky.) College) – JR, K/P
Week 9:
Offense: Mike Brinkley (Union (Ky.) College) – FR, QB
Defense: Dennis Thornton (Malone (Ohio) University) – SR, DB
Special Teams: Jacob Appleby (Union (Ky.) College) – FR, K/P
Week 10:
Offense: Cris Reisert (Ohio Dominican University) – SR, QB
Defense: Kurtis Lane (Dakota Wesleyan (S.D.) University) – SR, DL
Special Teams: Cody Capps (University of St. Francis (Ind.)) – SR, LB
Week 11:
Offense: Drew Dallas (Kansas Wesleyan University) – SR, QB
Defense: Adarrious Ross (Lindenwood (Mo.) University) – JR, CB
Special Teams: Travis Eason (McPherson (Kan.) College) – SO, K


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Academic journal article Shofar
Modern Hebrew Literature Made into Films, by Lev Hakak
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Lanham: University Press of America, 2001. $52.00.
The considerably praiseworthy nature and scholarly meritorious character of this book stems from a phenomenon that will be hereby briefly addressed.
The principal unique character of this book derives from its innovative scholarly agenda and mission: to study modern Hebrew literature, while the latter is "metamorphasized" from the verbal genre to the visual genre of film. This metamorphosis, which amalgamates two different artistic genres that meet and interact in one aesthetic intersection, is achieved by producing two unexpectedly insightful perspectives. Accordingly, once a work of literature is extricated from its verbal genre and launches the artistic voyage that eventually leads to the visual genre of film, two new aesthetic perspectives are conceived: the verbal, literary genre is reintroduced from the perspective of the visual genre of film and the visual genre of film is observed via the perspective of the literary, verbal genre.
This way the book produces, both prudently and dexterously, a prolifically reciprocal dialogue between two different genres. The fact that the mutual interaction between the two different aesthetic genres consists of one work of art (a novel) enables the estimable operation of observing and studying the very same work of art from two different, and equally complementary points of view. In addition, observing the very same work of art from both perspectives, and also from a perspective that is alien to it by nature, casts a new, insightful light on the specific work of art.
The book addresses modern Hebrew literature and modern Israeli cinema, as well as the point at which they cross. …


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STOCKHOLM (AP) — The Swedish foreign minister has urged the European Union to engage in a broad dialogue with Iran during a visit to that country.
Carl Bildt tweeted from Tehran on Wednesday that while he has "a strong sense of a society searching for a new and more open future," there are also forces resisting change.
He said the EU should "engage in a new and broad dialogue with Iran. Build new trust over the gulfs of mistrust of the past."
Bildt met with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani and Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif on Tuesday.
He criticized Iran for blocking citizens from tweeting while decision makers, including Zarif, use the service. Bildt got hold of a virtual private network to bypass the restrictions and wrote "that's what people do."


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On Mele: The Heart of Hula
Completed poetic texts are the raw material for choreographic interpretation by kumu hula. While some kumu hula are also poets, and some poets are also kumu hula, poetic composition and choreographic interpretation are separate sets of skills and knowledge.
The term haku mele describes the process of poetic composition as weaving -- haku -- a poetic text. Poets are experts with deep knowledge of the Hawaiian language and its penchant for metaphor. A skillful poet is one who deftly weaves together metaphors of places and allusions to people, using images of nature. A mele, then, is a poetic text rich with kaona -- multiple layers of meanings. Common techniques in love songs include referring to a person as a flower, and invoking water images -- waterfalls, waves, streams, etc. -- to describe lovemaking.
In hula, choreography is a very personal matter of individual kumu hula rendering personal interpretations of a poetic text visually. Individual dances depict a kumu hula's reflections on the poetry and perhaps the poet's intent -- when this can be known.
Take a closer look at some examples of mele, deconstructed by kumu hula Patrick Makuakane and Hawaiian scholar Amy Ku'uleialoha Stillman. They explore the kaona or multiple meanings of the poetic texts.
Patrick Makuakane on "Kaulilua"
"Kaulilua" is a traditional mele that is included in the repertoire of many halau. It has always been a special and favorite part of our halau's repertoire. "Kaulilua" is part of the hula pahu tradition of dances accompanied by a pahu or a drum. Dances adhering to the pahu tradition usually follow strict traditional tenets and are performed within a narrow parameter of movement vocabulary. Today, many practioners of hula use the pahu to accompany a wide variety of dances. However, traditionally speaking, the pahu accompanied only a select number of mele that were considered of special significance and highly regarded.
The pahu, used in the context of the heiau or temples by kahuna (priests), were an important part of sacred ceremonies and rituals. It was believed that the sound of the pahu would alert the gods, while executing the ritualized movements would keep their attention. Sounding the pahu also conveyed messages to the general populace as to the birth of a high-born chief or other notable and significant events. In general, the pahu assumed a sacred and reverential role due to its close association with the gods and important religious services. Although the pahu used for hula is not the same as the one used for temple services, it still assumes and maintains a venerated and ceremonial nature.
Presently, I think it's safe to say that I am still interpreting the mele and will probably spend the rest of my life interpreting "Kaulilua." Its text is so rich in kaona and complexity, much of which I'm afraid is lost to antiquity. However, there is much to be said about the common interpretation, comparing Mt. Wai'ale'ale to a woman. The kaona (hidden meanings) inherent in the poem display a strong theme of injustice and redemption relayed throughout the text. The bruising of a flower, the cleansing and healing properties of rain and wind assume allegorical properties in relation to a woman who is never mentioned but alluded to. "Maui e ka pua, uwe 'eha i ke anu." "Bruised is the blossom, crying, moaning in the cold." There is a tug of emotions, expressing hurt, yet forgiveness.
"Kaulilua" has always been imbued with a sort of enigmatic mysticism. Even after all these years of chanting and dancing "Kaulilua," it still retains an esoteric nature. You could say that in terms of understanding its poetic complexities, it is at times cold and distant and at other times warm and embracing. There is a strong sense that "Kaulilua" is so much more than we really understand. The timeless beauty of the arcane poetry, coupled with the mystical sound of the pahu offer a glimpse into a time when man freely communicated with the gods in an environment supremely dedicated to the sacred and profound.
The pahu or drum accompaniment sets it apart from most dances, immediately setting the stage for something sacred to take place. It conjures a plethora of images of Mt. Wai'ale'ale and its surrounding natural elements, which are pervasively strewn throughout the poetry. It instills in me a deep sense of wonder, humility, pride, respect, reverence, gratitude and awe. I feel it is hula at its most profound incarnation.
Patrick Makuakane on "Everytime"
The repertoire in my halau covers an entire spectrum of hula, from the most traditional to some very contemporary renderings barely reminiscent of anything hula! Yet, even my most modern attempts in choreography in some way or another always pay homage to our traditions. This may be difficult for some people to see or agree with, but for my students and myself we understand this implicitly. In a way, it is our kaona.
"Everytime" is a song that came out of London on an import CD single, from a group called "Lustral" in 1997. It achieved a kind of cult status in underground dance clubs and I have always loved it. This is a savvy dance song that is brilliantly produced and executed. We performed it as a finale for one of our home seasons in San Francisco a few years ago.
"Everytime" has no kaona or hidden meanings in its text, and it is precisely for its straight-forwardness and simplicity that I so love and appreciate it all the more. The entire song is composed of three very short verses with a chorus in between. However, its simplicity should not belie its effectiveness in conveying such wonderfully articulated emotions. This is a rare commodity in the world of dance music vocals.
Although there is no kaona derived from the poetry itself, the complex layering of music and words offer a special, unique quality not found in traditional chant and drumming. "Everytime" allows my dancers and I the opportunity to tap into emotions and feelings from a very modern, yet equally viable and relevant source. And we can express these emotions through hula. One of the most valuable characteristics of the hula is its adaptability and flexibility as it struggles to retains its relevance through time.
"When I'm lonely, your voice is in my head, and my memory feeds my soul, with all the things you've said. Every time I close my eyes, I see your face."
There is an interesting duality in this song, represented by the hard, syncopated break beats and lush vocals that serenely float over them, incorporating varying musical elements while expressing a very haunting, yet excruciatingly sweet quality. This kind of style is especially represented by the progressive sound that came out of the UK in the mid to late '90s of which I am a big fan.
Non-mainstream dance music today in many cases is produced, engineered and mixed in a highly sophisticated manner that blurs musical genres and identities. I would say that all of the "club songs" used for our contemporary hula pieces employ this kind of progressive edge or sound.
Every time I hear "Everytime" an unmistakable grand sense of joy and happiness permeates my entire being and I am on an oh-so-satisfying groove! To watch this "groove" manipulated into a hula movement vocabulary seems quite astonishing, yet somehow very natural. As in traditional hula, the movement embellishes the poetry without overwhelming it.
It instills in me a deep sense of wonder and awe because of its absolute beauty.
Next: The writer's perspective. Hawaiian scholar Amy Ku'uleialoha Stillman shares a mele she composed. »


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Samsung has shipped 150,000 units of the LTE-Advanced version of the Galaxy S4 smartphone in a mere two weeks. This is a massive figure, given that such smartphone is only available in a single market: Samsung's home country, South Korea.
Apart from supporting the blazing-fast LTE-Advanced connectivity, the South Korean model of the Samsung Galaxy S4 also runs on a Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 System-on-a-Chip. Meanwhile, the international model of the Samsung Galaxy S4 packs the less-speedy Qualcomm Snapdragon 600.
Everything else, however, is the same. The LTE-Advanced variant likewise features a 5-inch Super AMOLED display with a resolution of 1920 x 1080 pixels, 32 GB of storage capacity, a microSD card slot for storage expansion, and 2 GB of RAM. Also on board is an IR port, a 13 MP rear-facing camera, a 2,600 mAh battery, and support for Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 4.0 LE, and Near Field Communication.
This is definitely good news for the South Korean electronics giant, which reportedly did not reach the amount of success it aimed for with the international version of the Samsung Galaxy S4. Notwithstanding the fact that the company was able to sell 20 million units of the Samsung Galaxy S4 in only two months, making it the fastest-selling Android device ever in the world, the figures still fell short of the company's forecast for the second quarter of the year. Speculations that the company had already reached the peak of its smartphone success even started circulating.
At the very least, however, Samsung appears to be well-received in its home country, especially since no other smartphone at present, whether in South Korea or elsewhere, comes with support for the fast network speeds of LTE-Advanced via the SK Telecom wireless carrier.
To date, it is still unknown when Samsung could begin selling the Samsung Galaxy S4 LTE-Advanced in other countries. However, wireless companies seem to be getting interested with offering the features of LTE-Advanced soon.
via geeky-gadgets


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A Theory of Root Cause and Solution
"Slavery chain done broke at last,
Broke at last, broke at last...
A view shared by many modern activists is that capitalism, free enterprise, multi-national corporations and globalization are the primary cause of the current global Human Rights problem and that by striving to change or eliminate these, the root problem of what ills the modern world is being addressed. This is a rather unfortunate and historically myopic view, reminiscent of early "class struggle" Marxists who soon resorted to violence as a means to achieve rather questionable ends. And like these often brutal early Marxists, modern anarchists who resort to violence to solve the problem are walking upside down and backwards, adding to rather than correcting, both the immediate and long-term Human Rights problem. Violent revolution, including our own American revolution, becomes a breeding ground for poverty, disease, starvation and often mass oppression leading to future violence.
Large, publicly traded corporations are created by individuals or groups of individuals, operated by individuals and made up of individual and/or group investors. These business enterprises are deliberately structured to be empowered by individual (or group) investor greed. For example, a theorized 'need' for offering salaries much higher than is necessary to secure competent leadership (often resulting in corrupt and entirely incompetent leadership), lowering wages more than is fair and equitable and scaling back of often hard fought for benefits, is sold to stockholders as being in the best interest of the bottom-line market value and thus, in the best economic interests of individual investors. Likewise, major political and corporate exploitation of third-world nations is rooted in the individual and joint greed of corporate investors and others who stand to profit from such exploitation. More than just investor greed, corporations are driven by the greed of all those involved, including individuals outside the enterprise itself who profit indirectly from it.
If one examines "the course of human events" closely, it can correctly be surmised that the "root" cause of humanity's problems comes from individual human greed and similar negative individual motivation. The Marx/Engles view of history being a "class" struggle ¹ does not address the root problem and is thus fundamentally flawed from a true historical perspective (see
Gallo Brothers
for more details). So-called "classes" of people, unions, corporations and political groups are made up of individuals who support the particular group or organizational position based on their own individual needs, greed and desires and thus, an apparent "class struggle" in reality, is an extension of individual motivation. Likewise, nations engage in wars of aggression, not because capitalism or classes of society are at root cause, but because individual members of a society are individually convinced that it is in their own economic survival best interest. War, poverty, starvation and lack of Human and Civil Rights have existed on our planet since long before the rise of modern capitalism, free enterprise and multi-national corporation avarice, thus the root problem obviously goes deeper than this.
Junior Bush and the neo-conservative genocidal maniacs of modern-day America could not have recently effectively gone to war against Iraq without the individual support of individual troops and a certain percentage of individual citizens within the U.S. population, each lending support for their own personal motives, whatever they individually may have been. While it is true that corrupt leaders often provoke war, using all manner of religious, social and political means to justify, often as not, entirely ludicrous ends, very rare indeed is a battle only engaged in by these same unscrupulous miscreants of power. And though a few iniquitous elitist powerbrokers may initiate nefarious policies of global genocidal oppression, it takes a very great many individuals operating from individual personal motivations of survival, desire and greed to develop these policies into a multi-national exploitive reality.
No economic or political organization and no political or social cause exists unto itself but rather, individual members power a collective agenda. A workers' strike has no hope of succeeding if individual workers do not perceive a personal benefit. And similarly, a corporation will not exploit workers if doing so is not believed to be in the economic best interest of those who run the corporation and who in turn, must answer (at least theoretically) to individuals who collectively through purchase or other allotment of shares, own the corporation. Companies have often been known to appear benevolent, offering both higher wages and improved benefits, if doing so is perceived to be in the overall economic best interest of the immediate company and/or larger corporate entity. Non-unionized business enterprises frequently offer 'carrots' of appeasement to workers in order to discourage them from organizing and historically in the United States, concessions such as the forty-hour workweek, minimum wage, workers compensation and proscribed holidays have been grudgingly capitulated to by greedy capitalist masters as necessary concessions to avoid profit-crippling strikes and outright revolution.
It is important to understand that so-called workers 'rights' and benefits were not volunteered by American capitalists or their political stooges (including several U.S. presidents) without extreme and often violent worker coercive persuasion over a great many years of prolonged strikes and similar worker revolts. Modern supply-side Adam Smith inspired economic pipe dreams of unencumbered markets freely moving toward the common good are clearly and fundamentally, based on outright lies and not very well-masked, deliberate capitalist deception (again, see
Gallo Brothers
for more information. Those who proclaim the twisted gospel of modern supply-side economic theory are generally those who have a lot to gain from its acceptance, both economically and politically.
Large political and other problems are historically created gradually stemming from negative individual leading to negative group motivation, in turn leading to negative individual and group action. The correct root solution to humanity's problems becomes, by historical default, changing individual negative motivation towards positive motivation. This is not at all a new theory, as it was first stated over two thousand years ago by Jesus, historically the founder of Human and Civil Rights and not at all, the founder of Christianity or of any other religious movement; virtually everything Jesus said and did goes directly to human motivation, is community oriented, has little to do with modern conceptions of religion and is the antithesis of modern Christianity (see
for more information). Contrary to many current views painted of him, Jesus was extremely political, the correct political (and other) solution from true perspective being to center on and change individual motivation. That is, if we wish to constructively change the extensive political and social problem plaguing our planet today, the root cause of negative individual human motivation leading to negative action must be addressed at the fundamental individual level.
This correct political theory is seen as successfully initiated by early followers of Jesus, who practiced extreme communism, having no law "but to love one another", sharing all things in common, allotting to each according to their need and giving the excess to the poor (which since they were mostly very poor, was a true sacrifice). ² This was a way of life foreign to their culture, was viewed as a severe threat to the established religious and political order and thus, they were thrown to the lions accordingly. The arising extended movement, called "The Way" by those who joined (it was not called "Christianity" by them, nor did these early followers view themselves as founders of a religion ), ³ represents extreme far-left radicalism even by modern liberal activist cooperative standards. It has thus been historically demonstrated that if people practice the Human Rights foundation axiom set down by Jesus to treat other people as we ourselves wish to be treated, established ways of living will change, including non-violent elimination of the entire idea of capitalist oppression based on individual gain and private property ownership. In practicing The Way, economic oppression is dealt with from the root cause up and thus, is overcome with love and peaceful unselfish collective co-existence. It is important to note that claiming to be a follower of Jesus and actually practicing "The Way" are today usually two entirely different realities; the modern 21st Century world has plenty of examples of the former and virtually no examples of the latter.
Lenin and the Communist party overthrew a very oppressive capitalist Czarist system. It did not take long for one corrupt system to be replaced by another, where even without capitalism and free enterprise to aggravate the Human Rights problem, people of power within the Communist political structure began, similar to their counterparts of capitalistic excess in Europe and America, exploiting the mass population for their own individual benefit, comfort and excess. Thus the root problem is exposed as going deeper than simply changing an oppressive capitalist or other system. Quite obviously, changing a corrupt system does not by itself, change the corrupt people who invented and supported it, neither does it change negative individual motivation leading to group oppression based on irrational disparagement of others regarding sex, color, intelligence or other perceived difference and neither does it prevent waste, laziness, murder, theft and rape by individuals within a perceived economic "class".
In attacking the root cause of the problem the following diverse modern individuals are perhaps, good examples of practicing the same root solution: Mohandas Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Jr., Mother Teresa, Albert Schweitzer, Nelson Mandela, Helen Keller, John Steinbeck, Jimmy Carter, Pete Seeger, Jacques Cousteau, Jonas Salk, Buffy Saint-Marie, Eleanor Roosevelt, Joan Baez and Cesar Chavez. It is a serious error to criticize one type of outreach that these names represent while supporting the other, as they all have their valid place. As Mother Teresa said, "you can do some things and I can do some things", borrowing from Paul in the New Testament who taught that within an effective body of activism, the hand cannot say it has no need of the foot.
Modern activists who promote otherwise, claiming those who actually help other people are not correct because they are not attacking oppressive systems (which they naively assume to be the root cause of the problem), are blindly stepping on their own foot, are fundamentally wrong from true historical perspective and are anti-Human Rights and anti-Civil Rights.
As discussed in
Notes on the Great War
, helping other people greatly inspires others to do likewise. Thus, coming to the aid of the less fortunate not only directly aids the people who are actually helped but also, helping others works to change individual negative motivation, the root cause of the problem, encouraging others by example to practice Human Rights; that is, to treat people as we also, wish to be treated. This is the foundation of Human and Civil Rights and the fundamental theory of The Way, the true root solution to the many grievous problems that plague our fragile planetary home. Believing in and claiming to stand for the great and just cause of Human and Civil Rights without practicing treating others as we ourselves wish to be treated in the reality of our daily lives is no better than a sham conservative religion supposedly based on the founder of Human Rights, for as wise James of old clearly outlined and defined, faith without works, is most assuredly dead
(see also
Key of History
). *
...Slavery chain done broke at last,
Goin' to praise God till I die."
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A Partial Celebrity Charity Listing
Thomas Edison
, a rather remarkable individual who, though himself being
severely hearing disabled
, spent a lifetime attempting to help the hearing impaired and in the process, became perhaps human (and certainly American) history's greatest inventor; when Edison died, the New York Times devoted four pages to his obituary, more space than for most presidents, popes and other personages of world renown. Also dedicated to actors
Sidney Poitier
, man of integrity and far reaching influence and
Michael J. Fox
, in honor of the very many fine celebrities who devote time and effort to a great many worthwhile causes. As only a few modern activists seem to fully understand, people from all walks of life, the wealthy, the working class and the poor, must needs work together if we expect to achieve any semblance of peace and social justice in the modern world reality; for united we stand and most assuredly, divided We The People of Planet Earth will fall.
1. Frederick Engles (German; Friedrich), sometimes considered the 'brains' behind Karl Marx, was on the right track regarding his insistence of human history being an economic struggle, but his thesis of class struggle is fundamentally flawed, as it does not expose the root causation of individual negative motivation. And the insinuation by Marx of violence being necessary to gain political and social progress clearly has no historical validity. Historically, violence invariably begets more violence, as seen in our own brief American history of war after war after war, including the American Civil War emerging as a direct reciprocation of the Revolutionary War victors failings to abolish what soon became governmentally sanctioned human economic and literal bondage (including both literal slaves and the severely overworked, poorly fed and under paid working masses). It is no more fair or accurate to blame Marxism and Frederick Engles (or Marx) for the rise of the grossly imperfect Soviet Union than it is to blame democracy and Benjamin Franklin, probably a genuinely fair-minded individual, for the rise of modern neo-conservative supply-side crass class capitalism.
Acts 2:44-46
-- The idea of sharing all things in common is not historically unique to the early followers of Jesus. Some North American Indian tribes practiced extreme communism as well, a few isolated tribes actually having no word or concept of the idea of "mine" in their language. However what may be unique to early adherents of The Way is the fact that within a single generation, they did an about-face from one way of life to another, obviously influenced to the extreme by the persuasive personal presence and foundational Human Rights teaching of Jesus. If all of this sounds rather foreign to modern day individuals familiar with Western Christianity, suffice it to say that there can be little historical doubt that if Jesus were walking the streets of London and New York today teaching the same radical ideas that he did in 1st Century Palestine, modern conservative Christians would be loudly calling for his crucifixion.
3. Paul and the early followers of Jesus referred to themselves as followers of "The Way"; the early movement is referred to as "the way" at least five times in the book of
alone. The word "Christian" is found three times in the New Testament, each time apparently referring to what people outside the movement of The Way called those inside. Christian appears to have been a derogatory term similar to modern words of degradation such as "nigger", "kike" "coolie", "redskin" and "squaw" (and even "hippie") and was not in reference to an established religion but rather, referenced what must have appeared to outsiders living in that historical timeframe to be a very strange group of people who actually believed in forsaking violence and abandoning the idea of personal property ownership. As noted in
The Greatest American; FootNote
, the word church itself apparently derives from an original term referring to a gathering of the common people for political or social cause and was adopted by members of The Way to define both individual groupings within each individual community, each community itself and all of the early communities as a singular whole. This adoption of "church" clearly indicates that the original followers of The Way viewed themselves as a socio-political movement. Original adherents of The Way eventually practiced extreme freedom from societal and religious rules and traditions (though many members were slow to give up certain ingrained practices) and apparently viewed themselves as establishing a new way of life, free from traditional laws, rules and regulations and grounded in the basic Human Rights axiom of loving one another. In this view, most civil laws are obeyed out of a desire to live in peace and out of respect for the rights of others, but religious laws, rules and customs, self-help and similar rudimentary philosophies and traditions and other concepts that get in the way of personal freedom are counted "as dung" (i.e., perceived as so much bullshit).
Though the terms Human Rights and Civil Rights are of relative recent invention, the fundamental idea of loving one another as being the defining sum of what matters traces directly to Jesus, who is the only known historical person of note to place such an all-important emphasis on treating others as we ourselves wish to be treated. Similar ideas (but not all-encompassing emphasis) abound throughout the historical record of civilization, both before and after Jesus, indicating that the basic concept of Human Rights is fundamental to the conscience of the human species, helping to define what is "good" (positive for our species) as opposed to what is "evil" (negative for our species and everything else on our planet, extending to our planet itself as a whole). (See also
for more information.) Modern theory of evolution by Natural Selection has no valid explanation for the existence of this decidedly human concept of Human Rights, for the existence of conscience itself or for the existence of concepts such as good and evil, nor does it satisfy any rational explanation for why our species needs to be taught the necessity of Human Rights as opposed to naturally practicing such from birth, that is, if indeed the idea of Human Rights is positive for our species. If the concept of Human Rights is not positive for our species, then modern scientific theory has no valid explanation for why the concept exists at all (sort of like being caught between a sedimentary rock and a primordial hard place---see
Of God and Monkey Business
for more information).
After the death of the original followers of Jesus, the "church" and the sharing-all-things-in-common mandate of The Way appears to have gradually deformed into what in the modern 21st Century is truly a putrid historical perversion of original intention if there ever was one. As Jesus clearly taught, the defining root of Human and Civil Rights corruption traces directly to individual human greed and similar negative motivation, clearly defined today in warmongering, Bible-thumping, capitalism and free enterprise espousing Christian conservative fundamentalism, a precise mirror-opposite of the extremely liberal forgiving and entirely communistic Jesus. To which all the "sinners and common people" of modern-day America say "amen" before vomiting profusely, accordingly. (See also
House of Ill-Repute
for more information).
I Corinthians 12:12-26
5. If a brother or sister is naked and destitute of daily food and one of you says to them, "Depart in peace, be warmed and filled," but you do not give them the things which are needed for the body, what does it profit? Thus also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead. --
James 2: 15-17
*FootNote: There is no intention to imply here that peaceful changes of negative governmental and economic structure are not important, as this book frequently validates the non-violent efforts of Gandhi, King, Chavez and others. Rather, if one wishes to truly change our world toward the positive good, then it is logically first necessary to correctly understand the fundamental problem. And as both Jesus and Gandhi insisted, unless we first address our own personal negative motivations, we cannot have much hope of improving on the extended collective problem of our immediate, national or world community, for where our "heart is, there will [our] treasure be also"). It is ludicrous for those attempting to help other people to criticize those who are trying to peacefully change negative systems; i.e., as exemplified by
Mohandas K. Gandhi
Martin Luther King, Jr.
and it is considerably more absurd for those protesting against oppressive systems to claim that 'hands-on' helping of other people is not the correct and viable solution; i.e., as literally practiced by
Mother Teresa
Albert Schweitzer
---Schweitzer also worked considerably to advance positive political and social theory). (Related information can be found in
Key of History
Notes on the Great War
Solomon's Song
---for more information on economic oppression, struggle and theory, see
Gallo Brothers
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World Cup ticket prices cut
Organizers offer more discounted seats to local football fans
Organizers of Africa's first World Cup are more than doubling the number of tickets priced for working class South Africans, amid indications wealthy foreigners aren't snapping up seats.
Originally, 11 per cent of all tickets sold were set aside for citizens of the host country at about $20 US — a quarter or less than the price of other tickets. Danny Jordaan, chief executive of the South African organizing committee, told reporters on Thursday that had been increased to 29 per cent.
"You have to take into account that football fans in South Africa are working class people of low income," Jordaan said, adding labour unions and the media had been pressing him to make more low-cost tickets available for South Africans.
Half of South Africans live in poverty, and at least a quarter of the nation's work force was unemployed.
Other steps taken to make football's premier event accessible to those hosting it include distributing 120,000 free tickets through sponsors like Coca-Cola and giving more free tickets to the men and women who built the stadiums.
"We have made this commitment that the tournament will be affordable," Jordaan said.
The CEO added he would not be able to determine until all the tickets had been sold what effect the larger percentage of cheap tickets would have on his bottom line.
"We are comfortable we have enough money, more than enough, to deliver," he added.
FIFA acknowledged this month that only half of the VIP tickets — for spots in luxury booths — had been sold. Organizers blamed the global recession.
FIFA secretary-general Jerome Valcke, who joined Jordaan at Thursday's news conference following an organizing committee board meeting, said 2.24 million of 2.9 million tickets had been sold so far.
Officials said other matters discussed at the board meeting included concerns about the state of some pitches.
Irvin Khoza, chairman of the organizing committee, said drainage problems had been found at the stadium in Nelspruit, in eastern South Africa, and that a special committee had been formed to monitor the state of the grass at all 10 stadiums.
Valcke said that while work remained to be done outside the main Johannesburg stadium, where parking lots and access roads are not yet complete, its pitch was impressive.
"There could be a game tomorrow morning," Valcke said of Johannesburg's Soccer City, which will host the opening match and final. "From the inside, this stadium looks beautiful."
South Africa has faced persistent questions about whether a developing country can pull off a World Cup, and officials have just as persistently insisted they would be ready for the June 11 opener.
On Friday, Jordaan, Valcke and others will lead reporters on a tour of the nine cities and 10 stadiums that will host the World Cup.
"The work goes on," Jordaan said, "and the next two weeks are quite critical."


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On Friday, Sweden's top prosecutor said she would drop the investigation into a rape claim made against Julian Assange almost seven years ago.
The WikiLeaks founder has been hiding out in Ecuador's Embassy in London since 2012 to avoid extradition to Sweden where he would be forced to answer questions about rape allegations made by two women.
But the 45-year-old programmer isn't totally free of charges just yet.
While the pardon officially excuses Assange from the investigation in Sweden, British authorities said the fugutive was still wanted in the U.K. for skipping bail in 2012.
This means he could STILL face arrest if he bounces from the Ecuadorean Embassy.
The Australian has always denied the accusation that he had sex with a sleeping woman without a condom, despite her protests against having unprotected sex.
A lawyer for one of Assange's accusers said her client was shocked by the recent development, saying in a statement:
"It is a scandal that a suspected rapist can avoid the judicial system and thus avoid a trial in court… a decision to drop the case won't make her change [her assertion] that Assange exposed her to rape."
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My little friend, Lillie, was not aware of the camera behind her in this shot. I entered this photo in an art show and it was awarded Best in Show! Very exciting.
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WASHINGTON — The Obama administration brought in a private consulting team to independently assess how the federal online health care enrollment system was developing, according to a newly disclosed document, and in late March received a clear warning that its Oct. 1 launch was fraught with risks.
The analysis by McKinsey & Co. foreshadowed many of the problems that have dogged healthcare.gov since its rollout, including the fact that the call-in centers would not work properly if the online system was malfunctioning and that insufficient testing would make it difficult to fix problems after the launch.
The report was provided to the Washington Post by the House Energy and Commerce Committee.
This risk assessment, which was encapsulated in a 14-slide presentation, was delivered to senior White House and Department of Health and Human Services officials in four briefings between March 28 and April 8, the committee said.
HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius; Marilyn Tavenner, then acting administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS); and White House Chief Technology Officer Todd Park attended a session about the report on April 4 at HHS headquarters. Obama health policy adviser Jeanne Lambrew and then-White House Deputy Chief of Staff Mark Childress received a briefing April 8 at the White House.
Rep. Tim Murphy, R-Pa., who chairs the panel's subcommittee on oversight and investigations, said the presentation suggests that, in the run-up to its fall debut, the enrollment system was more troubled than administration officials have let on.
"Despite assurances from Secretary Sebelius, Marilyn Tavenner and (CMS official) Gary Cohen that all was well and on track with the launch of the Affordable Care Act, we now have documents dating back to April that call into question the assertions made to this committee," Murphy said.
CMS said in a statement that the McKinsey assessment was "part of a standard process to identify potential risks and develop mitigating strategies." It added that "the review was completed six months before the beginning of open enrollment, was in line with industry best practices and was followed by concrete action to address potential risks — as was intended."
The document did not predict whether the project's problematic design stage would hamper its rollout, but instead made it clear that programs of this scale are ideally pursued in a more orderly process, with "significant testing and revision" before they are set to launch.
Some of the concerns raised did not come to pass. For example, the report cited the "data hub" — the massive network that connects federal, state and insurer databases — as a vulnerability. Officials say the data hub has been working well since the launch.
In addition, the report warned of possible long call-center wait times. A few days after the launch, wait times were down to two minutes and are now just seconds.
But with many of the project's shortcomings now glaringly obvious, the report appears prescient in various respects.
One slide notes that the policy and requirements of a program are best defined at the outset, leaving sufficient time for testing and revision. By contrast, McKinsey noted, the federal marketplace's design was marked by "evolving requirements" that shifted throughout the design phase, leaving scant time to test the system before its launch.
It also warned that the federal government largely depended on contractors to construct the marketplace, and that it lacked an overall "end-to-end operational view" of the system to ensure its different parts worked well together.


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Based on the Marvel comics character, THE PUNISHER is genuinely comic book-like, rather than cartoonish. The decor is stylized, the villains vile and broadly drawn, the protagonist--like many newer crime fighters--haunted and nearly psychotic.
Former police officer Frank Castle (Dolph Lundgren), whose wife and children fell victim to a car bomb planted by sleek Mafia capo Gianni Franco (Jeroen Krabbe), has been officially dead for five years. But those who knew him best, including his former partner Jake Berkowitz (Louis Gossett, Jr.), suspect the truth is far worse. A mysterious figure calling himself the Punisher has been "whacking off wiseguys like he's got a hunting licence," 125 by last count. Berkowitz is right. Unhinged by the murder of his family, Castle has taken up residence in the sewers and made himself over into a
tormented killing machine who talks to God and lives by the motto "The guilty will be punished."
Franco returns to town to fill the void left by the Punisher's depredations. His plan: to unite all the warring Mafia families and tackle the Yakuza (Japanese Mafia), whose leader, Lady Tanaka (Kim Miyori), is a china doll with a fetishist's wardrobe and hoards of martial-arts-trained minions at her command. Tanaka retaliates by kidnapping mafia sons and daughters, including Franco's son Tommy (Brian Rooney). Haunted by the thought that his vendetta against the Mafia has, however indirectly, led to the plight of these innocent children, the Punisher invades the Yakuza stronghold and rescues them. Tommy is accidentally left behind, and the operation leads to the Punisher's capture.
Desperate for the return of his son, Franco breaks the Punisher out of custody and persuades him to go back for the boy. Together Franco and the Punisher slaughter dozens of Lady Tanaka's minions. The Punisher kills her, and Franco turns on him; in the ensuing struggle, Franco is killed. Tommy grabs his father's gun and threatens to shoot the Punisher, but is unable to pull the trigger. "You're a good boy, Tommy," intones the Punisher. "Grow up to be a good man. Because if not, I'll be waiting." He escapes, disappearing back into the sewers.
The Punisher is a troubled and troubling character, judge, jury and executioner with a puritanical streak as wide as his shoulders. When he shoots up an after-hours club, the liquor bottles and slot machines take as many bullets as the pimps and murderers. Even the new, scary Batman is the alter-ego of millionaire Bruce Wayne, who manages to maintain a semblance of normal life when he hangs up his costume. But the Punisher is a monster created out of the ashes of Frank Castle--he's pure vengeance made flesh. The legacy of film noir is evident in such comics as The Dark Knight, in
which Frank Miller reimagined the caped crusader as a tortured sociopath, and filters back to THE PUNISHER with effective results.
Lundgren, an inexpressive actor, is perfect as a graphic cipher: his face was made to be drawn in ink and filled in with broad washes of color. Carefully tended facial stubble trimmed to give him a skull-like appearance, Lundgren is truly impressive as a character defined by emotional emptiness.
Even his voice sounds hollow. Many Punisher fans were apparently put off by the fact that Lundgren rejected the character's trademark skull tee-shirt in favor of all-black drag, but he's nothing if not faithful to the character.
Made in 1987, THE PUNISHER was never released theatrically in the United States and was a hot bootleg video commodity before being released on commercial video cassette in 1991. (Excessive violence, profanity.)
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Wednesday, April 30, 2008
Veruca meets the Yarn Harlot
Stephanie Pearl-McPhee was in Portland last week, and Veruca paid a visit! Veruca was very glad to meet her, but did bemoan the lack of a pony for rides while she was waiting in line.
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- Andrea in Blue said...
I'm so impressed that Veruca was able to hobnob with the knitterati!
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The City of Bentonville is currently operating under the 2007 General Plan.
The General Plan is a constitution that guides the future of the city by providing direction to city leaders as they make decisions. It states the city's vision for its future, outlines the goals and policies needed to achieve the vision, and describes how growth should occur.
The General Plan is an important mechanism for the preservation of the city's urban form, the timely provision of public facilities and services, and the adoption of equitable funding mechanisms to pay for the public costs that new growth brings.
View the past implementation reports.
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St. Anselm finance officer abruptly leaves schoolBy TRAVIS R. MORIN
Union Leader Correspondent
July 19. 2018 7:48PM
Exactly 11 months after he was brought on as the Chief Financial Officer and Vice President of Finance of St. Anselm College, Eric Norman is no longer employed by the college.
In a brief email that was sent out to staff and faculty Wednesday morning, College President Steven R. DiSalvo announced Norman's abrupt departure.
"I write to inform you that Eric Norman, who served in the position of Chief Financial Officer and Vice President for Finance, no longer works at Saint Anselm College," wrote DiSalvo. "Effective immediately, Associate Vice President Bill Furlong will serve as interim CFO."
Michelle Adams O'Regan, Executive Director for College Communications and Marketing, confirmed Norman's separation but declined to release any further details due to an institutional policy regarding the privacy of personnel matters.
Hired in September of 2017 after Dr. Harry Dumay, who had been CFO for five years, accepted the position as president of Elms College in Chicopee, Mass., Norman's short tenure at St. Anselm was marked by revelation of a $1.5 million budget forecasting error that led to the layoff of 13 staff members on May 24.
In the minutes of a closed-door Faculty Senate meeting from Jan. 26, Norman held a finance presentation for faculty in which he identified the institution's rising tuition discount rate and the $1.5 million error as hazards to the institution's financial future.
Additionally, minutes from a March 20 meeting describe Norman as working with the school's vice presidents to identify "areas for efficiencies and cuts."
In an interview about the layoffs with the Union Leader on June 12, DiSalvo said Norman played a crucial role in helping to select the policies, programs, and employees who would be cut.
"Each VP sat down with myself and the CFO to talk about recommendations on how we could achieve the budgeting goal for their division," said DiSalvo of Norman's role in the process.
DiSalvo went on to say that Norman "was involved in every subsequent meeting that I had as we looked at the overall budget."
Prior to his time at St. Anselm, Norman served in executive level finance roles with the University of New Hampshire School of Law, the Boston Conservatory, and Curry College in Milton, Mass.


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Layla Curtis
Layla Curtis [born in 1975, lives in London] studied at Edinburgh College of Art and Chelsea College of Art. After graduating, Layla lived in Japan for one year. While there she took part in a residency programme at Akiyoshidai International Arts Village where she developed her hybrid maps series and held her first solo show.
She was selected for New Contemporaries '99 and had solo exhibitions at Milton Keynes Gallery in 2000; States of Mind, Rhodes Mann, London in 2004 and the Newcastle/Gateshead Tourist Information Leaflet in 2005 commissioned by Locus .
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So what to do with a yard that looks more like a vacant lot than a place where we can relax, play games or entertain family and friends? Well, as I mentioned the idea of building a nice patio comes to mind. I have some ideas but other than planting a few plants and getting rid of the weeds, we really need some professional help.
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Letting go does not mean abandoning one thing in order to seek something else. It means giving up every comparison, seeing that there is nothing to be removed and nothing to be added and that the boundary between ourselves and others is not real. We need not give up our human condition in order to become a Buddha.


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