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Hello, everybody! We are finally going to see the second part of the Micro-Nikkor 5.5cm f/3.5 teardown post! We were side-tracked a couple of weeks ago when I featured a teardown of the venerable Nikkor 35mm f/2.8 Ai but we are finally going to resume this series.
I can even make a third part but that will be too long and I am sure people will get bored with this so I am going to stay with the original plan of having just 3 parts.
Disassembly (Iris):
I am going to show you how to dismantle the iris assembly properly in this section. Please read part 1 as a refresher before you proceed so you will not get confused as to which part I am working on and how it got that way.
This part is pretty straight forward except for the iris assembly so please pay attention as this is going to show you something that I have never featured on this blog as of this post.
The rear element can simply be removed by your bare hands as it is just screwed to the end the objective's case. Ignore the fact that lens barrel is shown in the picture. I took this pic as I was disassembling the lens barrel earlier.
This part will look different if you have the 2nd version of this lens but it should be similar enough. The pic shows the 1st version with the recessed filter ring while the lens that was disassembled in part 1 is the 2nd version with the raised filter ring.
The front element is simply screwed to the front cup and removing it is pretty effortless.
As you can see from the picture above, the objective itself is tiny compared to the lens. Be careful not to damage any of the glass element when you handle it. You will also get your hand dirty with grease so be very careful not to touch any of the glass elements or else you will contaminate it with dirty decades-old grease which will take some time to remove and the alloy filings in it is course enough to abrade the coatings when you wipe the mess off!
Remove the rotator cup from the objective and you can now access the iris assembly. Look at the picture carefully and you will see that my iris is contaminated with oil! This is not a good thing as you shall see later.
Carefully remove the retention ring to remove the rotation plate from the iris assembly. It is the finely milled part with all the slots in it to guide the pins of each iris blade.
Once the rotation plate is gone, the iris blades are free so be careful not to drop any or you risk damaging it and that is going to be a bigger problem for you and you may end up with a useless macro lens that will not stop-down properly.
The iris blades were so oily that it came off nicely in one piece. This looks interesting and it reminds me of a car transmission's clutch part.
Not only were they oily but they were also rusty as well! Notice that the iris blade's shape is not typical for SLR lenses. These L-shaped iris blades were pretty common in the preset aperture lenses used for rangefinder cameras,etc. Some of Leica's lenses use this kind of iris blade shape like the Summicron if I am not mistaken. This lens was made during a time in Nikon's history where they were transitioning from rangefinder cameras to the mighty SLR system that they will be known for eventually so it is an interesting link to Nikon's rangefinder heritage. I do not know the merits of using this kind of iris type so please tell me anything you know about this and I will happily add that tidbit in this blog.
The iris blades are now clean! As usual with iris assemblies, the last blade that you need to attach is the most problematic one as you need to slip it under the others. This problem is made more complicated with this type of iris blade shape. This is very frustrating and I had to spend plenty of time just to get this thing right.
It does seem that Nikon prefers to use this kind of iris blade shape for the preset lenses on the F-mount line. I am not sure about this so please do not quote me. I just came into this conclusion as another Nikon preset lens that I have opened has iris blades of this type,too.
Oh, thank goodness it's all done. Carefully reinstall the rotation plate and be careful about it's orientation. Check your notes as to how it should be oriented before putting it back as removing the rotation plate may disturb the iris blades and you will have to put the pesky blades back together again. If you are a masochist then you would probably have a grand time with this. I am not, so I am warning you.
When putting it back together, be careful of your tolerances. Always check your pictures or notes and you should be fine. You can record measurements as well if you are into that sort of thing.
Achieving Infinity Focus (Bayonet):
This lens was made in an era where Nikon had just made their first camera with the now legendary F-mount. Similar lenses of this era (late 50's-early 60's) will have the same issue as this lens because the engineers just cannot foresee what the future holds as well as the engineering challenges it brings as new cameras are designed and new concepts are presented. I will only discuss one issue on this post as it is the only thing that affects the use of this lens on modern autofocus Nikon cameras.
One such issue is the collar of the aperture rings from Nikkors of the same era. People had to grind away the obstructing part in order to make the lenses fit the Nikkormat family of budget cameras because the Nikkormat's bayonet mount had a wider outer diameter than the one in the Nikon F (Nikon's 1st SLR). Doing this ruins the aesthetics of the camera as many were improperly modified or done using crude methods and tools.
The illustration above will give you an idea of what I am talking about.
On the above illustration (A), our lens is mounted on a modern Nikon camera. These Nikons have wider outer diameters on their lens mounts and thus, will prevent our 5.5cm Nikkor lens from mounting properly when the lens is focused to infinity. The inner diameter of the focus ring of our lens is just too narrow to accommodate the mount of the camera. You may successfully mount the lens to your modern Nikon camera but you cannot focus past the 1m/3ft mark because it is just impossible. Notice the green gap in the illustration, the 2mm gap is there and we need to bridge the gap if we want this lens to focus all the way to infinity when mounted to a modern Nikon camera.
The illustration to the right (B) shows this lens mounted on older manual Nikon cameras such as the F3/FM3A and earlier cameras (except the Nikkormat). Notice that there are no gaps in between the male and female parts of the bayonet and the lens fits properly. This is how it was designed to be anyway.
This picture clearly shows the problem when you mount this lens on a modern Nikon body without modifications made. Notice that you cannot focus all the way to infinity.
To bridge the 2mm gap, you need to mill a spacer for it. I milled one from acrylic as a test and prototype. This was sufficient and the acrylic spacer is still OK as of this date so I will just leave it there as milling one out of aluminium will take considerable effort.
When milling the spacer, take into account the raised ridge in the bayonet. Check the pic above to see what I am talking about. The stainless bayonet mount has a 0.5mm ridge in the inner diameter. This is probably used to catch stray light from entering the setup.
I drilled the 3 holes using a bigger bit than the original 2mm. This is to give me some room to position spacer. This was only intended to be a prototype/template so I needed freedom to adjust the position of the spacer and tolerances are a bit sloppy for now.
We also need to replace the 3 bayonet screws with longer ones since the whole thing was extended by around 2mm-2.5mm. This was easy for me as I have a box full of spare screws.
And here is the spacer in action. I currently do not have any intent to mill a new one out of aluminium but in the future, I may ask a friend to mill one for me since he has the proper machinery to do this. I would like to add some knurling into the new permanent spacer for a better grip. The guy has a machine shop so this should be an easy task for him.
Achieving Infinity Focus (Objective):
We managed to add a spacer in the previous step, now our focusing ring can now be turned all the way to infinity but the optics does not behave the way that it should because all we did was add a 2mm extension ring. To remedy this, we need to offset the rear elements by moving it around 2mm forward (towards the film plane). It would be ideal if we could just move the whole objective as a unit but this will require a lot of modification on the front cup and on the base where the objective is secured. I do not want to spend so much time and resources into this so I went with the easiest and most economic way that I know.
This picture above shows that we can now rotate the focusing ring all the way to infinity. At this point, we still cannot achieve true infinity focusing since the optics are still off.
Please take the time to study the illustration above.
The illustration to the left shows the original configuration of the rear element. We moved the whole lens forward by around 2mm so we need to get that 2mm back or else our lens will not focus to infinity properly because the optics were not designed to work like this.
The easiest way to do this is to simply loosen the rear element from it's position and move it back by around 2mm give or take. Mount the bayonet back again and test it on a digital Nikon camera to see if the focus indicator dot would light up when you focus on a distant object like a building 2 or more kilometres away. Adjust the rear element's position until you get it right (a solid dot on the focus indicator inside the viewfinder). This is a tedious step and it took me 2-3 tries before I got it right.
Once you got the position right, you can tighten and secure the rear element by using nail polish on the threads or a locking compound like Loctite. Never ever get careless and use super glue (cyanoacrylate) on this part or anything that has to do with optics as this will fog the glass up and your lens will be useless!
If you want to take it to the next level, you can use a brass, aluminium or a teflon washer to secure the rear element firmly in place. Just make sure that you get the correct height and diameter or it will be useless. Start by getting something that is just a hair taller than what you need and then sand or file it down to the correct height. For instances like this, having more material is better then having less. You can even use multiple washers to achieve the desired height. Combining multiple washers may be a better way to achieve this. It's up to you on which route you wish to go.
It is also worth mentioning that the bayonet mount of this lens can be substituted for the one used in the M extension rings. Neat,huh? I got my first Micro-Nikkor 5.5cm f/3.5 with a screw mount instead of the proper F-mount. Somebody went bananas and made this mod. The previous owner probably wanted this lens so much that he adapted it to work with his system (probably Pentax). Nobody wanted the lens because of that and it was waiting there on the shelf for the right person, very much like the legend of King Arthur and the sword on the stone. I know it's corny but a little ego-padding isn't really that bad isn't it?
I hope that you have enjoyed and learned from this post. I tried my best to condense all the information that I have so that I will not have the need to make a 3rd post but we still end up with a long article.
Some may argue that moving the rear element out of position will affect the image quality of this lens. That was also my initial thought so I did some tests on infinity and 1:1. What I got were sharp images and as far as I can see, no drastic change in the image at all. There is going to be some changes as the position was modified, that is for sure but whatever effect it has is negligible enough for me not to notice any degradation in my images. Again, your mileage may vary since I am not a pixel peeper and I am more for the overall usability of a lens. Modify your lens at your own risk, I will not be held responsible for anything.
This post is important to the photography community as it discusses and dissects one of the rarest lenses made by Nikon and those who do own one do not usually go out and open their's up for all to see or modify one to focus to infinity. The post has become a little bit technical so I hope that I did not confuse you. If there is something that is not clear, please feel free to ask me through the comments sections and if you have any useful input, you can share it there as well and I will update this post.
Until next time, please enjoy your Nikkors and we will be discussing another Nikkor in the next couple of weeks. Love, Ric.
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General information
about the region
- Contacts
Rich bio resources
Tourist and cultural potential
Industrial and investment potential
Educational potential
Rich nature and resource potential
Geographical location
AREA: 180,500 km2.
GEOGRAPHY: transit, border region, connects the center with the Russian ice-free northern port of Murmansk through Finland - with European countries. White Sea-Baltic Canal connects the Baltic Sea and the White Sea.
INFRASTRUCTURE: 13 customs posts, 5 of them - directly at the checkpoints. There are 3 international automobile check points, 2 international rail crossing points, 2 points simplified road crossing, international air checkpoint "Petrozavodsk".
POPULATION: 629,900 people.
Economy of the Republic of Karelia is based on processing of local natural resources (wood and minerals), use of tourist and recreational potential and beneficial economical and geographical border location..
The basis of industry in the Republic of Karelia is comprised of wood and mining complexes, machine building and metallurgy, energy production, agricultural complex (including food industry).


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As indicated by specialists, a wide range of natural products can be cooked on a flame broil. Apples, pears and other hard natural products are genuinely simple to cook while papayas, peaches and other delicate organic products require your consideration more. Delicate natural products should be simply warmed on the meshes and not cooked to avert getting to be noticeably soft.
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Set them up the correct way
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Try not to flame broil natural products when the coals are hot – hard ones will dry out fast while delicate one will effortlessly get soft. They will cook splendidly in backhanded warmth so put them on the external edges of the flame broil or when the coals have begun to cease to exist.
Flame broil delicate natural products with skin on
Leaving the skin on while on the meshes will help keep up the shape and type of milder natural products like bananas. Numerous new create additionally have a lot of supplements that are in the skin.
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No one like their sustenance adhering to the racks – your ffod will be demolished in addition to it's a problem to clean. Make a point to brush your organic product with dissolved spread or your decision of oil before they hit the flame broil to avert staying. In the event that this isn't an alternative, shower your meshes with non-stick cooking splash before cooking anything.
Include sugar at last
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When flame broiling new organic products, attempt these simple yet compelling tips and traps and you'll without a doubt have the capacity to appreciate a delectably sweet and sound tidbit!


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About Knapton
(This is the Official Website for the Parish of Knapton)
Page last updated 23.06.2019
Welcome to the Knapton Village website.
The parish of Knapton is situated in rural North Norfolk some 19.4 miles north east of Norwich and 3 miles from the market town of North Walsham. It is bordered by fields crisscrossed with 'quiet', leafy, lanes and footpaths providing many opportunities for walking in idyllic surroundings. Click for directions and map of Knapton Way, the popular village walk. The award winning community woodland, Pigneys Wood, a local nature reserve a mile to the south of the village is accessible at all times by the public and is enjoyed by schoolchildren and the very young, and by older generations either walking their pets or, simply, seeking peace and tranquillity in a busy world.
There are several clubs and groups in Knapton which cater for, and host, events throughout the year including the very popular and traditional Village Fete.
The Anglican church of St Peter and St Paul, famed for it's Hammer Beam Roof featuring 'Angels', is located in the centre of the village and is a popular attraction for visitors. It has recently undergone a programme of extensive renovation.
We are close to the holiday resorts of Mundesley and Cromer a short distance to the north and approximately a mile and a half from the beautiful sandy beaches which are a feature of the North Norfolk coastline. Our nearest railway station is in North Walsham providing regular train services to Cromer, Sheringham and Norwich, via the 'Bittern Line', then onwards to London, the Midlands and the North. There are bus services from the village to North Walsham and then to Norwich from where services are available to all destinations. Click here for details of public transport services.
The market town of North Walsham provides a good range of shops for the discerning shopper and the supermarkets, Waitrose, Sainsbury's and LIDL cater for most needs without the necessity for 'out of town' shopping. Should you feel the need however, there is a Morrison's in Cromer and the renowned shopping centre of Norwich is but a short ride away. There is a 'market day' every Thursday and a farmers market is usually held every 2nd and 5th Saturday of the month. The area has a good selection of hotels, pubs, coffee shops and restaurants and leisure facilities include a swimming pool, (Victory Swim and Fitness Centre), and a cinema and theatre at the recently constructed Atrium in the grounds of North Walsham High School. For those interested in sailing or 'messing about' in boats the Norfolk Broads are on our doorstep and for golfing enthusiasts, the Mundesley Golf Club is just down the road.
The Knapton village sign, pictured in our banner, was made by Mr Herbert Hicks and Henry Wild, and presented to the village on the occasion of the Silver Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II in 1977. Herbert Hicks was a village stalwart, a local farmer and a long serving Parish and District Councillor. He was a devout Methodist, a Lay preacher and Superintendent of the Sunday School and a Governor of the local school. Henry Wild, a carpenter, was the longest serving parish councillor in recent village history, serving for 57 years.
Knapton has a population of 364 (2011 Census) residing in 190 households and covers an area of 5.80 square kilometres. High speed broadband is available.
Quick Links
Click here for the Latest Issue of 'Knapton News'
Click here for 'What's On in Knapton' - (The latest calendar is awaited)
Click here for Neighbourhood Watch Newsletter - December 2018.


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New and Updated Kits
Calendar Islands Yawl under construction
Updated Deer Isle Koster (KDI) kits being cut out West
The CIY hull#1 is being expertly built in Duluth and everything is looks really good. The boat has been set up and planking has started.
The building jig set up was all CNC cut and self-jigging. In a post on the Wooden Boat Forum about the CIY project, the builder says "I have the distinct sense of the boat building itself" as he assembled the building jig and is not planking within 10 days time working on the side.
Here is the boat so far, all photos courtesy of Jim Levang, builder and owner of hull #1.
|The building jig set up. All parts are CNC cut.
|The stem, bulkheads, centerboard trunk, and transom all set up. They were all CNC cut.
|Bottom and garboards attached!
But that's not all! You can also get the updated KDI. This model is not my own design, but drawn originally by Bruce Elfstrom, friend, fellow designer, and small boat guru from Connecticut who plays with boats, particularly Scandinavian type boats on the side. I have done a lot of new design work with the help of three builders of hull #3, 4, and 5. Photos below courtesy of Frank Stauss in New Jersey. He looks to be doing a fabulous job.
|New Jersey KDI.
The Deblois Street Dory is getting a few tweaks to the building jig set up to facilitate building and then two kits will be cut. Finally, the last project will be to finish the Drake 19, a new model. A bit of a line up is forming there for this kit. Everything is on track to be done by the end of May. Then I am going rowing and sailing, dang it!


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I really really really really really intended to be here more often.
And then life just got too full.
I am working very hard to keep afloat. So far, I have been successful, but it means I can't be here very often.
Quick update:
Since you last saw me I have been taking two classes working toward my SBL (School Building Leader) Certificate. That has been keeping me quite busy in and of itself.
I am also keeping up with my School Board duties, and working on a newly born Parent Advocacy Group within my district. This has been more time consuming than I expected it would be, but it has also been quite rewarding.
Zan is still working from home consulting, which adds an air of uncertainty to our lives, but we count our blessings that he is still bringing in a paycheck despite being technically unemployed.
Add to that keeping up with my three kids and their crazy schedules, and Mama doesn't have much time for blogging.
Life is good, we are healthy and busy, and life is full.
I will be back to tell you all about our second trip on the Disney Dream later. 😉


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"Mrs. Austen: JANE!
Lady Gresham: What is she doing?
Mr. Wisley: Writing.
Lady Gresham: Can anything be done about it?
Loved it!
I also loved the brief cameo from Colin Firth (and possibly Jennifer Ehle, I'm not sure...the glimpse was brief!).
Ok, break time over. I have about 5000 words to crank out before I'm caught up on NaNo


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UPDATE! New times now for the OVCC Games Monday night at Mars Hill Academy, Mason Ohio, 4230 Aero Dr, Mason, OH 45040.
OVCC Championship Lineup:
5:30p – Boys JV #1 EDCS vs #2 DPCR
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"He shall have dominion from sea to sea, and from the river to the ends of the earth." — Psalm 72:8
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Who's the U-boat commander? You are, in this ultrarealistic submarine simulation game, as you head out to sea in an assortment of playable U-boats. You'll target Allied convoys, destroyers, and battleships, using stealth to sneak away before things get too hot.
Silent Hunter III features exceptional 3D water modeling with realistic weather effects and day-night cycles. The historically accurate re-creations of ships and aircraft are very well done, and the detailed U-boat interiors might even make you feel a little claustrophobic. To simulate U-boat wolf packs accurately, you can cast off online with up to seven other players. Just watch for those sub chasers, or you'll sink straight to the bottom.


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Matt Lipps
April 30 – June 5, 2010
Opening Reception: April 30, 6 -8 PM
memories become photographs.
Silverman Gallery is pleased to present HOME,
an exhibition of photographs by Matt Lipps on view from April 30 – June 5, 2010.
The artist's first solo exhibition at the gallery uses cut-outs, appropriation and re-presentation to create still-lives and landscapes that negotiate the history of photography. In particular, Home presents photographs of domestic interiors that have been printed on several sheets of colored paper, cut into facets and taped back together so they cohere into the original image. These 8 by 11 inch assemblages serve as makeshift backdrops for abstracted elements cut out from black & white reproductions of Ansel Adam's heroic landscapes. Captured on transparency film with a 4×5 camera, the resulting composite images are made entirely in-camera and printed large-scale to reveal and exaggerate their fabricated flimsiness.
As in previous work, Lipps' complex visual spaces explore the medium's relationship to memory and nostalgia, while speaking to the shifting nature of the photographic. Uncovering subtle but legible cultural and class markers, these works also weave together questions of identity construction, the familial archive, and the legacy of analog technology. Ultimately, Lipps' process yields emotive and enigmatic topographies that mine the seams between aesthetic legacies and personal history.
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Lighting a cigar-the final step before you can enjoy it. Now that you've cut it which method do you use for lighting it.
The following post is Cigar Cigars guide on lighting a cigar. Remember a cigar is not at all like a cigarette, you don't just light it and that's it.
The size of your cigar will determine how long it takes to light properly but even still there is a technique to it.
Lighting A Cigar Step By Step
The process of lighting a cigar can be quite long, enjoy each step as your marvel at the craftsmanship of the cigar.
These steps are very important, you want to light a cigar properly.
If you don't there will most likely be a lot of smoke which is going to ruin your smoking experience.
- Ensure you hold the cigar with your index finger and thumb. You want to have the foot which is the furtherest side from the band, in your hand.
- Hold the cigar at an angle of 80 to 90 degrees to the flame. Ideally, keep roughly 3-4 fingers distance between the foot of the cigar and the flame. You do not want to over toast your cigar by placing it too close to the flame.
- With the foot near the flame, evenly and slowly rotate your cigar until every part begins to burn. It is crucial to get an even burn happening.
- It can take some time to light a cigar, do not rush the lighting process.
- When the foot begins to glow orange you can assume the cigar is burning.
- Take a puff. Feel free to do that twice, this will ensure the inside of the cigar is burning and it will remain lit for a while longer.
- You'll be able to feel the heat on the cigar. Once you have sit back and enjoy your smoking experience.
For any aficionados out there, they will not re-light a cigar if it goes out. We don't follow this rule and re-light it if necessary.
Cigar aficionados will place the blame on a cigar extinguishing to poor quality. We believe that until you have mastered the lighting and smoking process, re-light the cigar as many times as you need.
Cigars also go out from time to time if they are not continually puffed on. The amount of chemicals present are significantly less than those in a cigarette which is another reason why the tend to go out. Again, feel free to re-light it.
Now that your cigar is lit, sit back and enjoy the experience. Take a look at our how to hold a cigar post for what your holding style says about your personality.
Never Light a Cigar Using –
As we've explained in our best cigar lighter post, the best way to light a cigar is with a butane lighter. If you don't have one there is also the option to use cigar matches which are specific for lighting a cigar.
Do not use a candle, a stovetop or the cheap lighters one can purchase at a gas station. This is because the chemicals and fragrances in them will taint the taste of your cigar. Not only this but it will completely change the flavor and aroma of your cigar. For this reason, we only recommend the use of butane gas lighters.
If and when using matches, the key part is that you let to match burn a little before putting it to your cigar. This allows for adequate time for the phosphorous and sulfur product to dissipate after striking the match.
There are also sulfur less matches that one can buy.
Ashes from Cigar
A cigar will ash as it burns, do not be concerned as they will fall on their own. If you smoke cigars of high quality chances are the ash will stay on the cigar for a long period of time.
For cigar aficionados they will debate that the quality of a cigar can be shown by the length of ash.
Bottom Line
Now you are familiar with the correct way to light a cigar, it's time to try it yourself. Follow the 7 steps and enjoy the smoke, flavors and aromas of your cigars.


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Come and enjoy our company. Our meetings are open to everyone.
The CAA–NCR holds monthly meetings September through November and February through June. In December we hold a Winter Social, and in January we take a break from wintry commutes.
We meet at the McNabb Recreation Centre, 180 Percy Street at Gladstone, Ottawa, (see map below) except for the NCWC awards night, which is held in the auditorium of the Main Branch of the Ottawa Public Library.
Each meeting has a different theme with a well-known guest speaker from the industry or from a specialty field relevant to writers. We gather at 7:15 p.m. and begin with a reading and a writing challenge.
Our 2018-19 Program
Tuesday, September 18, 2018
First Page Challenge
CAA- NCR Annual General Meeting
Seven writers submitted first pages from their novels and short stories to be evaluated by expert eyes. Join us to learn how to capture the attention of readers from the first page. Stacey D. Atkinson, editor, and Cyril Dabydeen, author and creative writing instructor, will give their feedback about the work.
BIO: Stacey D. Atkinson has worked as a freelance editor, editing fiction and non-fiction manuscripts, and she has written and self-published two novels. She completed an editing certificate program at Simon Fraser University, and now works full-time as an editor for Global Affairs Canada.
BIO: Cyril Dabydeen teaches creative writing at the University of Ottawa, and is a former Poet Laureate of Ottawa (1984-87). His work has appeared in more than 60 literary magazines and anthologies world-wide. He has done more than 300 readings internationally and was twice adjudicated for the Governor General Award (Poetry) and the USA Neustadt Prize for Literature (UOklahoma) in 2000.
Tuesday, October 9, 2018
Short Story Writing, with Jean Van Loon
In preparation for the National Capital Writing Contest, Jean Van Loon will share the fundamentals of spectacular short story writing. Make your work stand out in the crowd.
BIO: Jean Van Loon has published short prose, poetry, and reviews in Canadian literary magazines across the country. Her first poetry collection, Building on River, was published by Cormorant Books this year. Her stories have appeared in The Dalhousie Review, The New Quarterly, The Queen's Quarterly, Event, Room, Ottawa Magazine and Journey Prize Stories 19. She holds a graduate diploma in creative writing from the Humber School of Writing and an MFA from the University of British Columbia.
Tuesday, November 13, 2018
Marketing 101: Marketing for Writers, with Sarah Sambles
Whether traditionally or self-published, aspiring or established, every writer needs to know how to market themselves. This can seem overwhelming, but it doesn't have to be. In this interactive workshop, Sarah Sambles will demystify the marketing process, explore how to approach marketing as a writer, and introduce key components to an effective marketing plan. You will come away with the right tools to kickstart your own marketing plan.
If you have a question about marketing, send it to email@example.com in advance of the meeting so Sarah can prepare to address your area of interest.
BIO: Sarah Sambles is a local children's fiction writer and communications coach with nearly 20 years' experience as a marketing consultant. Her goal is to help fellow writers overcome their fear of marketing and gain the skills to successfully engage their target audience. Connect with her at www.sarahsambles.com on Twitter or via her Facebook page.
Sunday, December 2, 2018, 1:30 to 4:30 p.m.
Winter Social: A Warm Celebration of the Cold
At the home of Arlene Smith
An afternoon of feasting on the food and words you bring to share. As the afternoon progresses, we'll create a collaborative writing project. What will that be? It will be whatever those in attendance shape it to be. Come and add your presence.
Tuesday, February 12, 2019 – (Snow day!) Rescheduled to the March meeting
Step by Step to Completion, with Jennifer Mulligan
Are you mired in a mound of half-completed manuscripts or stuck in the middle of a novel you can't quite finish? Are your notes scattered and all over the place? Accomplished screenwriter, Jennifer Mulligan, leads us in steps she follows to complete her works—steps that adapt to all kinds of writing. http://jennifermulligan.com/
Tuesday, March 12, 2019
Step by Step to Completion, with Jennifer Mulligan
Are you mired in a mound of half-completed manuscripts or stuck in the middle of a novel you can't quite finish? Are your notes scattered and all over the place? Accomplished screenwriter, Jennifer Mulligan, leads us in steps she follows to complete her works—steps that adapt to all kinds of writing. http://jennifermulligan.com/
(NOTE: Nerys Parry has rescheduled her presentation that was to happen on this night to a later date.)
Tuesday, April 9, 2019
Not Your Parents' Poetry Workshop, with Pearl Pirie
April is Poetry Month. Pearl Pirie will lead us in creative ways to come up with poetic ideas. This feeds all kinds of writing. Together we will celebrate and create poetry.
BIO: Pirie is on the organizing committee for VERSeFest and the board of Friends of Wakefield Library. She was president of regional haiku group KaDo (2015-2018) and now stands as treasurer. She is the former director of the Tree Reading Series (Mar 2016-Mar 2018). he was a host of Literary Landscape on CKCUfm.com from 2013-2018. She ran phafours press (2007-2017) which released over 2 dozen titles.Pearl Pirie's 3rd full collection, the pet radish, shrunken (BookThug, 2015) won the Lampman Award . Her 2nd collection, Thirsts (Snare, 2011) won the Robert Kroetsch Award for Innovative Poetry.
Tuesday, May 14, 2019 at 7:00 p.m.
2019 National Capital Writing Contest Awards Evening
7:00 P.M. We celebrate the finalists in the 2019 National Capital Writing Contest.
Tuesday, June 11, 2019 at 7:00 p.m.
Summer Social
The McNabb Recreation Centre is at 180 Percy Street, Ottawa, ON. Percy Street is one-way going south, so take the Bronson Exit and travel north to Gilmour Street, turn left and then left again on Percy.
There is free parking, but it is a busy lot. You might have to be patient. On-street parking is available.
The McNabb Recreation Centre is an accessible building. Read more about their accessibility features: McNabb Recreation Centre


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Prayers of the Children from March Messy Church
"Thank you God for the beautiful land of Australia"
"Please God, help the people in Tohoku, who lost their families and houses because of the Earthquake and Tsunami four years old."
Thank you God for Mum and Dad and our lovely family.
Pray for people with life threatening diseases.
Thank you God for making me me, loving us and for families.
Please God, be with and help those going through difficult situations"
Please God be with all the people who live where there is conflict and war.
Dear God, Thank you for your kindness. Please help the Bali 9 and Knox Grammar to overcome this difficult time. In your name we pray.
Thank you God for our new baby cousin. Thank you that molly is doing really well at school. Thank you for our lovely, lovely family.
Thank you Daddy is better. Thank you for Nanna and Pa. Thank you for our friends and for food.
We pray for the men in Bali, for John, Grandma and Grandpa and Daddy.
Please God help our neighbours and help my aunty recover from having a baby.
Thank you God for family, for mum and dad. Thank you for my brother's little brother who has cancer, and he wants God to help him get cured.
Thank you for my mum, grandmother and all women on International Women's Day.
Thank you for being alive. Thank you God for making people, mums, dads, sons and daughters. Thank you God for helping Emma.
Please God, help Marc's mother who is sick.
Thank you God for family. Please help Kathryn, Grandma's friend.
Thank you God for Grandad who is visiting and for Aunty Pauline.
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The Lund University Centre of Excellence for Integration of the Social and Natural Dimensions of Sustainability (LUCID) would like to invite you to submit abstracts to our upcoming early career researchers conference on Integrating the Social and Natural Dimensions of Sustainability, being held in Lund, Sweden at the Center for Sustainability Studies, October 8-10, 2014.
The LUCID Young Researchers Conference is an international conference hosted by the Lund University Centre of Excellence for Integration of the Social and Natural Dimensions of Sustainability (LUCID). This interdisciplinary and sustainability science conference invites early career researchers (PhD candidates, recent PhD graduates, Post-docs) across many disciplines to participate in presentations and discussions on the many facets of conducting research on sustainability issues. The conference provides early career researches with a platform to explore various aspects of conducting integrated natural-social sustainability research, share each other's work and perspectives, while also expanding their academic network.
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Volcano 'Tornado' Spotted During Iceland Eruption
Yeah. Apparently this is a thing.
The video above:
A infrared camera from the Nicarnica Aviation's NicAIR II was used to spot the toxic tornado on Sept. 3, 2014. It whirled volcanic gases and ash particles during an ongoing Holuhraun fissure eruption.
Becky Oskin, Senior Writer for LiveScience writes:
The toxic tornadoes were spotted in a poisonous cloud of sulfur dioxide gas spewing from Iceland's Holuhraun lava flow on Sept. 3. One narrow, swirling column stretched 3,300 feet (about 1 kilometer) into the air. A remotely monitored infrared camera caught the dramatic whirlwinds on video.
"We haven't seen anything like this before," said Fred Prata, chief technology officer at Nicarnica Aviation in Kjeller, Norway, the inventor of the infrared camera used for the images. "I was quite surprised to see it."
Nicarnica's infrared camera can track ash clouds from planes, but is now undergoing a ground-based test run in Iceland through the FutureVolc project, an international collaboration to monitor Europe's natural hazards.


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Swipe Telecom has launched Swipe ELITE 2, which they called as India's most affordable 4G smartphone for Rs. 4,666 only. UBER riders are getting a benefit for this latest budgeted smartphone as it will available exclusively for UBER riders for one week. The open sale has started from October 30 to November 7 for UBER users in Bangalore, Delhi, Hyderabad, and Pune. If you are not a UBER rider, you need to wait till November 8 and after that you can buy exclusively via Flipkart.
Swipe ELITE 2 is a dual SIM phone that has a 4.5 inch qHD display with 960 x 540 pixels of resolution. It is powered by a Quad-core MediaTek MT6735M 64-bit processor clocked at 1.3Ghz with Mali-T720. It runs on Android Lollipop 5.1 with Freedom OS. Freedom OS is the company's own UI developed to offer better user experience.
The phone is packed with 1GB RAM and 8GB internal storage which can be expanded via microSD card. Camera wise, it has 8 megapixel rear camera with LED flash and 5 megapixel front camera.
Connectivity wise, it features 4G LTE, 3G, HSPA+, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and GPS. The phone is packed with 1900mAh battery. Swipe Telecom is also offering customers to store 100GB data on free Swipe Box online storage. This is going to be a good deal for all who are looking for budgeted 4G smartphone. Swipe ELITE 2 will cost you for Rs. 4,666 with 4G and 100GB data on free Swipe Box online storage.


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The Reveal – Café Cancan
The Gist
True story: Despite promising his wife he wouldn't open another resto for a year, when the beloved The Harbord Room became available, Chef Victor Barry (Piano Piano, Splendido) couldn't pass it up.
After all, Barry and his wife Nikki Leigh McKean went there for "great food, drinks and a good time" back when they were dating years ago. "It was such a space for the neighbourhood," Barry says.
The stunning French bistro – the fifth restaurant for Barry – is open all day, offering coffee and pastries first thing, plus dinner and drinks.
Grab a Ham 'n' Cheese Baguette ($14) or Paris Mushroom Soup ($14) or choose from more decadent selections of côte de boeuf, caviar or something from the foie gras menu.
Barry wanted the menu "to be old school European," and "keep things classic."
From French Onion Soup ($16) to Duck Confit ($22) and Bavette ($22), dishes run from simple (Petite Dejeuner $18) to sophisticated (Acadian Sturgeon Caviar $90).
Make your experience as casual (glass of wine or beer with a burger for about $30) or full on (champagne and Côte De Boeuf $120 for two!) as you like.
Enjoy throwback dishes from Barry's Splendido resto: Smoked Oyster ($9), Rainbow Trout Sorrel ($48 for two), and Frites ($8) with mayo rémoulade from an old tasting menu. The Escargots ($16) are from Barry's restaurant across the street, Piano Piano.
From early morning coffee to late-night cocktails, or as Barry calls it "Beans to Bordeaux," Café Cancan's got you covered.
After starting out with a few cocktails on the list, Bartender Justin Shiels (Good Fortune, DaiLo, Rush Lane) "took them to another level," says Barry. Cocktails range from $7 to $15, and include aperitif selections (Pêche-et-Fleurs $7, Rinquinquin, Belvoir Farms Elderflower Pressé, for example) and "classique" such as the Fino Colada ($14) made with Tio Pepe Sherry, Havana Club 3 Year, pineapple, coconut, lime, crémant.
"Apero Hour" takes place daily from 3 to 5 pm with glasses of wine or beer or a single cocktail (currently the Batifole!) for just $5. Snacks too, during this time, are also just $5.
Looking for something on the lighter side? Enjoy low-alcohol options ($6-8) that you can sip on all day without having to suffer the consequences.
The extensive wine list features most French varietals, though you'll find a few Niagara and U.S. selections as well (gls range from $10-$20, with btls starting at $42). Want something more elevated? Check out the "Reserve" wine list ($100-$250).
Should you wish to sip on champagne and other bubbles, choose from seven bottles, including a bottle of Chardonnay/Pinot Noir NV Perrier Jouët "Grant Brut" can be yours for a crisp C-note.
Fixtures & Fittings
Ooh la la, Café Cancan is one of the prettiest spots in town.
With a rich palette of pastels and feminine touches of floral wallpaper and soft pink walls (because you're going to want to redo your own as soon as you get home: Cinder Rose by Farrow & Ball), designer Tiffany Pratt and contractor Ernst Wallner have created a space that you'll never want to leave.
From the pale pink water glasses to old-fashioned ceiling fan, the room is a veritable cornucopia of beautifully curated items. Even the washroom's champagne bronze faucet is a stunner.
For further evidence, one need look no further than the birthday sprinkle floor.
Off the Menu
Ceci Et Cela($18) Simple, yet exquisite, ice-cold crudité refresh on a sweltering summer day. From crunchy fennel, snap peas and pickled carrots to crisp asparagus spears, boy choy and radish, it's a veritable picnic on a plate. Boosted with fresh anchovies, shaved smoked ham, Beemster fromage, and a captivating buttermilk dip and chermoula sauce, this lighter style of eating is deeply satisfying.
Foie Gras Parfait ($17) Move over avocado – this might just be the most luxurious "toast" on the block. Creamy and buttery and oh-so-rich, yet never cloying foie gras parfait pairs beautifully with sweet strawberry 'n' rhubarb jam. A light sprinkling of Maldon salt helps cut the richness. And the thick slab of toasted pain au lait from the Piano Piano bakeshop is simply divine, foie or no foie.
Steak Tartare ($18) Minced steak is mixed with classic garnishes of cornichons, chives and capers – heavy on the mustard – under a blanket of shaved raw mushroom slices and golden fingerling potato chips that will feed your chip addiction.
Panisse Frite ($24) This seasonal vegetable fricassee is a celebration of all things summer: tender chickpea fritters, fava beans, dinosaur kale leaves, radishes, peas, with a vibrant chermoula as fresh as a summer's day.
Peanut Butter Éclair ($5) Think Reese Peanut Butter cup – made with milk chocolate and peanut mousse – and insert into a thick pastry. The result? A rich, decadent dessert that could be shared, though no judgment should it disappear before your guests notice.
There's room for 30 guests inside and 30 on the patio out back. Coming soon: a front boulevard café patio.
At the Stove: Chef Victor Barry, Chef de Cuisine Adam Alguire
Head Honchos: Chef Victor Barry, Brendan Piunno, and Nikki Leigh McKean
FOH: Alexander Harber & Jubilee Pridham
Map it: 89 Harbord St.
Visiting Hours:
Café & Lunch (Sat & Sun Café & Brunch) – 10 am to 3 pm
Snack – 3 to 5 pm
Dinner – 5 to 11 pm
Cocktails –11 pm to Late
Phone it in: 647-341-3100
How Cool is This?! The "Flamingo Room" is swathed in pink flamingo wallpaper, has a round booth seating for up to five and a curtain to give you the privacy required on date night, anniversaries and other such occasions.
Check out our Facebook page for more photos.


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Where Can You Study Biology In the UK?
Biology is a fascinating subject to study. If you can't decide which area of the science of living things interests you the most, choosing a broad-based course in Biological Sciences may be your best option. Instead of picking a narrow speciality at the beginning of your college time, try a bit of everything and see what suits you best. The basic course will cover topics like plant science, marine ecology, evolution, biochemistry, human physiology, cell structure, environmental issues, genetics and habitat ecology. Biology studies include such a variety of subjects!
The best universities to study Biological Sciences
If you're ready to pursue a Bachelor in Biology, here are some places you might want to consider. According to rankings, the best university for biology studies is the University of Cambridge. Natural Sciences degree in Cambridge leads in categories like student satisfaction and graduate prospects. For those, who see themselves as researchers, Oxford can be a slightly better choice – its research quality score is particularly high. On the 3rd and 4th positions are two London schools: Imperial College London and University College London. Students graduating from Durham, York or Edinburgh universities also shouldn't complain – the quality of education they've received is pretty high.
Who doesn't risk…
An interesting alternative is The University of Sussex – last year placed on the 32nd position, this year reached the top 10. It's still relatively easy to get in, so it might be a chance for all those who didn't do well on their exams. The real surprise is that The University of Sussex leads in bee studies. The Laboratory of Apiculture and Social Insects (LASI) focuses not only on honey bees but on social insects in general. Students can get involved in Professor Ratnieks' research, take a course in Behavioural Ecology or Social Insects, join Junior Research Associate Bursaries or simply volunteer. All bee-lovers, Sussex awaits you.


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Margaret Carlson, giving Al Gore his due at last, and doing it the only way a paid-up member of the Media Elite can give a Democrat his due, with a backhanded compliment, observes that possibly, just possibly, likeability isn't the only qualification for a President of the United States.
Sure, she admits, George Bush might have been the more likeable guy back in 2000, but:
Maybe Americans prefer to have a beer and burger with the charming frat boy to the student who always does his homework. But is that a wise basis for choosing a president?
As Shakespeare's Sister's father would say, No foolin', Red Ryder?
Carlson goes on to note that George Bush, as charming a frat boy as he is, hasn't done a bang-up job:
With all the needless death from a ill-conceived war, the wasteful corruption of sweetheart contracts in Iraq and New Orleans, debt and deficits as far as the eye can see, gas prices through the roof with no energy policy in sight, and with a president who delegates to incompetents and cronies, I'm ready to give the class nerd his due and raise a glass to a serious man.
You'll note that giving Al Gore his due doesn't require her to admit he'd have been a better President or that he should run again in 2008 or for her to give up referring to him and Bush as if running for President of the United States was the same as running for high school class President.
Al's still the class nerd. And as Bob Somerby keeps pointing out, this caricature of Gore is not going to go away. And if Gore does run and faces off against John McCain, the Media Elite will follow a very similar script in 2008 as they did in 2000, portraying the election as a contest between the robotic class nerd and the authentic, straight-talking, independent (but intellectually average and on the issues wronger than wrong, as wrong as George Bush) man of the people.
The Green Knight dug up something Carlson had to say about Gore and Bush back in 2000:
You can actually disprove some of what Bush is saying if you really get in the weeds and get out your calculator or you look at his record in Texas. But it's really easy, and it's fun, to disprove Gore.
If you can find the difference in tone between what she said then and what she's saying now you have a finer ear than I have. The problem, back then, apparently, was that telling the truth about Bush would have required work, while picking on Al Gore just came naturally. Of course, in order to have done that, they needed to make things up about Gore, but that was ok because he was the class nerd, and nerds have no excuse to live if they aren't there to be picked on.
But I want to deal with the likeability thing a little bit, the idea that Americans want of vote for the candidate they'd enjoying sharing a beer and a burger with.
I don't know when this notion took root. Maybe back in 1800 pundits were pointing out that regular Americans would prefer to quaff an ale with the charming, straight-talking war hero Aaron Burr to the cold, intellectual elitist Thomas Jefferson.
But the first I became aware of it was back when it was Morning in America, and analysts and journalists were trying to explain how it could be that while it was obvious to them that Reagan lied, flip-flopped ever which way on issues, blew off his conservative base when it suited him, ignored the will of Congress when that suited him, broke the law (Iran? Contras? Death Squads? Ah, memories!), praised dead Nazis (Bitburg. Good times, good times.), just plain made stuff up, and basically was wrong about almost everything, he remained wildly popular.
Throwing up their hands collectively, they decided, Heck, it's just that he's so gosh darned likeable.
You can imagine yourself sitting down to have a beer with the guy. There's even a famous picture of Reagan in a pub raising a beer---that he didn't drink.
I don't recall anyone suggesting at the time that Reagan's likeability and apparent sociability excused everything else.
By 2000, their tune had changed. George Bush was likeable, the charming frat boy you'd share a beer and a burger with. Al Gore was the class nerd, the kind of annoying twerp who always did his homework and made sure you knew it (Sigh.). And not only did this explain why Bush was the people's choice, even though he was only half the people's choice, it made Bush the pundits' darling and the Right Man at the Right Time.
Somerby would probably argue that it wasn't so much the case that the Media Elite thought, or even cared, that Bush was likeable. They were just using the likeability script to demonize Gore.
As Kurt Vonnegut likes to say, Whatever.
Here's my point. The beer and the burger thing? It's not necessarily such a dumb way of looking at candidates and why voters vote or don't vote for them.
I have never heard anyone say that they voted for the candidate they thought would make the best drinking buddy, fishing buddy, hunting companion, lunch date, first date, second date, husband, wife, father, mother, best pal, parish priest, or starship captain---at least not until right after some talking head on TV had just suggested that such and such a candidate was the kind of person voters could imagine as a drinking buddy, fishing buddy yadda yadda starship captain.
But I have heard people I know voted for Reagan and then Clinton and then Bush and the next time out will vote for Al Gore or Hillary or John McCain or Russ Feingold or Mike Huckabee and who did not and will not see any inconsistency in their choices.
These are not stupid people. And they aren't necessarily ill-informed. What they aren't is all that sure that any politician, whatever his or her ideology or positions on specific issues, can accomplish anything they set out to accomplish. They see government as a mainly improvisational business. It's catch as catch can. You deal with this problem, then you deal with that problem, as they come up.
What they want in a President, or a governor or a mayor or town selectman or school board member, is someone who knows what the problems are---what their problems are.
They want leaders who understand the people, sympathize with them, like them, and trust them to know what they want and need and to have at least some idea themselves as to how to go about getting what they want and need done.
Those leaders don't have to be the kind of people you'd feel comfortable sitting down to have a beer with. But they have to be the kind of person you'd feel comfortable taking your problem to.
Jeffrey Goldberg has an article in the latest New Yorker (May 29) in which he looks at what the Democrats need to do to win in the 2006 and 2008 elections.
Unfortunately, the article isn't up on the New Yorker's website yet, but there is an interview with Goldberg here.
Boiled down, these are what I think are Goldberg's main points.
1. The Democrats need to win in the South and Midwest.
2. Look out! Bloggers! Run for your lives!
3. Whatever else they do, the Democrats must not, repeat, must not, nominate Hillary.
Nevermind points 2 and 3 for now. Point 1 in Goldberg's article isn't as simplistic as I've stated it. Boiling that one down, it comes out to this:
Whoever the Democrats nominate should be a moderate who doesn't condescend to voters in the Heartland.
Goldberg seems to have done most of his legwork in Missouri, where a self-described "not a liberal" Democrat named Claire McCaskill is running for the Senate.
McCaskill ran for governor in 2004 and lost a close election.
McCaskill doesn't come flat out and say it, but she makes it plain that
she thinks John Kerry cost her the election. Kerry got stomped by Bush in Missouri, and having him at the top of the ticket probably cost McCaskill the relatively few votes she needed to close the gap on her opponent and win.
Actually, the way Goldberg tells the story, it appears that Teresa Heinz Kerry cost McCaskill the governorship.
Kerry was making a campaign stop at a soybean and cattle-farm in Smithville, MO:
Kerry reminisced about clearing fields on a Massachusetts famr and promised to side with small farmers in their struggles against agribusiness. Teresa Heinz Kerry handed her husband a note, and then stood up to speak, recalling a visit to an organic hog famr in Iowa. "It's really inspiring to see the work they did," she said, and encouraged her audience to consider organic famring. "It can be done. It's economical, and there is a huge market in America."
At that point, winston Simpson, a hog farmer from Clarence, Missouri, stood up and interrupted. "I said, 'Mrs. Kerry, you've got to undertand that hog farmers just freak out when they hear people telling them to go organic,'" Simpson recalled recently. "She looked kind of surprised. I was just there helping out, making a crowd [Simpson's a Democrat, even something of a Liberal], but I've got an adrenaline problem, and when someone pisses me off I jump up and tell them."
Simpson is a grower-finisher; four thousand or so hogs come to him at forty pounds and leave their pens for slaughter two hundred and fifty pounds later. "I'd go broke if we switched to organic farming," he said. His public advice was informed by tactical, rather than ideological concerns. "I don't have a problem with people raising food organically. If people want to eat that way, fine, but she shouldn't have been pushing that as a solution to the farm problem A lot of farmers think those organics as some kind of elitist lunatic-fringe thing." For some, Mrs Kerry's performance recaleld other moments of Democratic campaign obliviousness, like Michael Dukakis's endorsement of Belgian endive as alternative crop for Iowa farmers...snip
Referring to the Kerry-Edwards campaign stop, [Claire McCaskill] said, "I'm sure Teresa's motives were fine. But I think it's a tone thing. It's the 'We know better' thing. Some of it is completely unfair, but there's a critical number of Missourians who believe that people from the East Coast or West Coast don't think that people in the heartland are smart."
Leaving aside the whole Teresa thing and the unfairness of judging a candidate by his or her choice of a spouse, and ignoring another example of John Kerry's fitful and embarrassing attempts to pass himself off as a man of the people---like I said, I don't think the people necessarily want a President who is one of them; they want somebody who understands them and sympathizes with them and respects them---it's important to note two things.
One, the farmer Teresa pissed off was a Democrat. Is it really so hard for us to find candidates who don't annoy their own base? And I'm not talking about us netroots types. We aren't the base. We're a pack of weirdos and normally we're pretty proud of that fact.
Two, judging by what McCaskill says about how folks in the Show Me State feel about East and Left Coasters, the only way for the Democrats to win in the Heartland is to nominate someone who comes from there.
I don't buy that. It's true that the only three Democrats who've been elected President in the last 40 years were from the South. (Four if you count Gore, but I've made the case that nobody sees Gore as a true son of the South.) But their two biggest losers were from the Heartland and both of them lost to Californians.
I do buy that neither John Kerry nor Al Gore came across as men you felt you could bring your troubles too---and I felt that before the Media Elites set out to caricature them as pompous, elitist stiffs.
This beer and burger thing, it's another way of describing the common touch.
This being a democracy, having the common touch is in fact a qualification for public office.
Not the qualification, but certainly a qualification.
Some aristocrats have it, and some sons and daughters of the working classes don't.
And whatever it is, it is not a matter of being a charming frat boy, or of not being the kind of A student who always has his homework done.
And whatever it is, should the Democrats find and nominate someone who has it, you can bet the Media Elite will do their best to tell us that that person doesn't really have it or that the Republican candidate has it more authentically.
Or if they find someone who has it and the Media Elite can't deny it, they'll change the rules. Having the common touch will be a sign of the Democrat's bad character. He, or she, will be dismissed as being someone who tries to be "all things to all people."
This has already been done.
You may remember that the Democrats had someone who was at home among the people, who liked crowds, who loved to talk with voters, who wasn't just someone voters felt they could share a beer and a burger with but who wanted to share beers and burgers with them, who was someone people felt they could tell their problems too because he felt their pain.
You probably also remember how the Media Elites felt, and still feel, about that guy.
Cross-posted at Berube's Burger Shack.


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Slayer Unleash Violent Video for 'You Against You'
Slayer just unleashed a brutal new video for "You Against You." Acting as a prequel to the heavily violent "Repentless" video, a familiar character returns for the story to explain how he ended up in prison.
"You Against You" is just as awesome, or possibly even better, than the "Repentless" clip, which was voted Best Metal Video of 2015 by Loudwire readers. The "Repentless" prison riot captured some crazy shankings, beheadings and an epic cameo by Machete legend Danny Trejo. However, it's the protagonist with the eyepatch, Wyatt, (played by Jason Trost) who stars in "You Against You."
Fans will know they're in for a bloody experience from the opening shot of "You Against You," which pans back on a dead body completely skewered with knives. After finding the body, Wyatt is ambushed and is forced to fight for his life, and if he's got to kill about a dozen people in the process, he's open to it.
"It's really cool being part of a video that's not just some crappy music video from the '80s or '90s," Kerry King tells Rolling Stone. "It's from a real Hollywood director (BJ McDonnell) who has a lot of friends in the biz who stepped up and wanted to be in a Slayer video. That's what makes it cool to me."
Frontman Tom Araya adds, "After the 'Repentless' video, BJ delivers with 'You Against You.' F—ing awesome!!!!!"
Check out Slayer's video for "You Against You" above. Slayer is currently winding down on the band's tour with Testament and Carcass. For the remaining tour dates, click here.
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