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Must we fully engage the thinking mind in order to perceive words on a page?
Eckhart Tolle challenges us to "watch the thinker" even as we read.
Life is full of contradictions. I prefer to refer to them as "divine dichotomies." A divine dichotomy is when two apparently contradictory truths exist simultaneously in the same space. For instance, the idea that stillness speaks.
Everyone who has done any kind of contemplative work in her or his life is aware of this dichotomy. From stillness can come the loudest voice, the grandest message, the greatest wisdom.
Now comes a book that is not a book, to express and demonstrate this dichotomy fully and wonderfully. Its title is (aha!) Stillness Speaks, and its author, Eckhart Tolle, is the person who gave us The Power of Now. I call this "a book that is not a book" because this is not a tome that takes us from one place and drops us off in another. It is not a story with a beginning and an end, nor is it a treatise with an outline and a pathway of logic that takes us from here to there.
Stillness Speaks (New World Library, $17.) is nothing more — and nothing less — than a series of thoughts. These are ideas that have occurred to Tolle. I suspect these ideas have occurred to many people. For most of us, however, these wonderful wisdoms passed through our minds and kept on going. Tolle remained still enough to notice them. He recorded them in his moments of clarity. And he has placed them in print.
But a word here, please. Do not expect this book to track with any kind of logic. Its purpose, as I alluded to before, is not to take you to any place, to convince you of any idea, or to show you anything in particular. Its purpose is simply to allow you to be with the wisdom and the insight, and then to allow you to see for yourself where — if anywhere — that takes you.
"In other words, if you are looking for food for thought, you won't find it, and you will miss the very essence of the teaching, the essence of this book, which is not in the words but within yourself," Tolle writes in his introduction. "The words are no more than signposts. That to which they point is not to be found within the realm of thought, but a dimension within yourself that is deeper and infinitely vaster than thought."
And so, Stillness Speaks is a gentle journey, one that could take you to a spectacular and very special place of new awareness and deeper understanding. Yet one that leads nowhere in particular.
Tolle is very much aware that it is in the nowhere that the everywhere exists, that it is in the nothing that everything is found. This is not an easy concept for most people to grasp. It becomes easier through visiting these entries, placed under headings such as "Beyond the Thinking Mind," "Who You Truly Are," "Acceptance and Surrender," "Relationships," "Suffering and the End of Suffering."
The trick with Tolle's work is to not think about it. Most people, the author says, are lost in thought. The idea is to be out of your mind and into your experience of exactly what is happening, right here, right now.
This is what we are invited to do with the material in Stillness Speaks. If we think about it, if we begin to analyze it, if we start to argue with it or try to "figure it out," we'll become lost in thought. No one gets anywhere trying to figure out a sunrise. A sunrise is something you just be with. And you get from it whatever you get from it. If you try to analyze a sunrise, the experience the sunrise has for you will go away.
Stillness Speaks feels to me like a sunrise of the soul. Thinking about it, analyzing it, will make it go away. Even writing this review of it has been difficult for me, because the more I say about it, the less I say about it. So I'm going to stop trying to talk about what's in it, and talk just a bit more about what experience it produced in me.
Excitement, again, about Life.
Sureness, and a sense of having something confirmed that I felt I knew, deep within me.
Oneness, unity.
And, not the least of my feelings, gratitude. Tolle has given me a peek into his mind, and thus into my own. His words reminded me about the sacred place that exists between us, where we mix our being and share our common essence and produce our collective experience. His "book that isn't" allowed me to venture forth more solidly, more confidently, and more joyously to play my individuated role in our co-created reality. Stillness Speaks has enriched my life.
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|Mr. and Mrs. John W. Wilkinson
Just Married! 29 August 1958
My parents were married on 29 August 1958 in Hamilton, Massachusetts at Christ Church, the Episcopal chapel. Today would have been their 54th Anniversary. My mother often tells me that she wanted a candle light wedding ceremony, but the church didn't allow it. Hurricane Daisy hit New England just before their wedding, and she almost had her wish, but the power was back on in time for the wedding, and there was minimal damage to the coast. They held the wedding reception at the United Shoe Machinery Corporation employee golf club in Beverly, since both the father of the bride and the father of the groom worked for "The Shoe".
My parents wedding photos have faded a lot over the years. About ten years ago I removed all the photos from her plastic wedding album and we put them into an acid free archival scrapbook. But the photos still continued to fade. Last year I scanned them all and wondered aloud on Facebook how to restore the images electronically. Genealogist Sharon Gillis, one of my "Facebook Friends", saw my comment and offered to play with one of the images since she had just finished a PhotoShop class. My parents' wedding photo was one of her first projects, and she did a great job! Thanks, Sharon! I'd love to "fix" the rest of the images someday.
Mom and I had a lot of fun looking over her photos. It is especially fun since my daughter is in the middle of planning her wedding, so we've been comparing photos, dresses, and the customs between a wedding in the 1950s, my 1983 wedding, and the upcoming wedding in 2013. And it is fun to look at the photos and remember my father, who passed ten years ago this month. Don't Mom and Dad look so young and beautiful in these photos?
The photo above has been restored. The following photos are in their original condition:
|This photo of Mom and her parents
is in the worst condition
|My parents and their wedding party (left to right)
back row- Buddy Allen, Dick McKenney, Barbara Allen Thacher, Mom, Dad,
Bob Wilkinson and Ed Thacher
front row- Janet Allen, Sandra Thacher and Barbara Allen
|My mother's family- The Allens
Left to Right- Stanley Allen Jr., Bob Allen, Buddy Allen, Barbara Allen Thacher,
Stanley Allen, Gertrude Allen, Mom, Dick Allen, and Don Allen
|Mom's neice, Sandra, caught the bouquet
and nephew, Mickey (Stanley Allen III)
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The verdict was issued on Saturday in response to a lawsuit filed in September by lawyer Mohamed Hamed Salem, as Egypt and the Muslim world were rocked by deadly protests against the film. It orders the Egyptian government, through the National Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (NTRA), to ban YouTube and other websites carrying the controversial video and other anti-Islamic content for one month, during which time all such content should be removed.
"It makes no sense to ban all of YouTube because of one film; the film is just a pretext. They are testing Egyptian society's reaction to such verdicts, using religion as a pretext to facilitate imposing such restrictions," says Salma Said, member of the whistle-blowing citizen-journalist collective Mosireen, whose main film depository is a YouTube channel.
Said maintains that the decision is an attempt by the state to restrict access to politically sensitive information provided by sites like YouTube in recent years.
The harshness of the verdict has been the subject of confused speculation and unreserved condemnation from all sides.
Mohamed Al-Ansari, legal researcher at the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies, condemns the verdict as being in violation of Article 19 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, of which Egypt is a signatory, which guarantees freedom of expression and information.
Al-Ansari adds that the decision to shut down YouTube in its entirety is such a disproportional response to the unrest caused by the video, six months after the events, that it can only be seen as an attack on free expression.
Google, which owns YouTube, temporarily blocked access to the video at the height of the backlash to the 'Innocence of Muslims' trailer in September, and subsequently flagged the video as "potentially offensive or inappropriate."
The internet giant refused to comply with a White House request to take down the video from YouTube, as the film, however offensive, did not violate its terms of service regarding hate speech.
Sherif Taher, political veteran and head of Frontline IT Consulting, considers the decree a "political stunt to make an example out of Google," for failing to completely remove the video.
Others dismiss the political dimension of the verdict. "The judge is probably unaware of the implications of his decision or the difficulties of enforcing it, especially in a case concerning the internet," says Salah Soliman, lawyer and founder of Al-Nakib Centre for Training and Democracy Support.
In Soliman's view, the decree represents nothing more than the Egyptian judiciary's awkwardness in dealing with the internet.
Indeed, the feasibility of enforcing the ban is itself still uncertain. For its part, the NTRA has vowed to enforce the ruling as soon as it is served with the court order.
Mohamed Al-Karamany, an IT consultant at Aramicon, affirms that it is technically possible and relatively inexpensive to block YouTube in Egypt by 80 per cent, though 100 per cent effectiveness would be significantly more costly.
Mosireen is undeterred by the technical aspects of the ban. Said is confident that these can easily be circumvented, via the use of proxies and other video sharing sites, adding, "They cannot stop information sharing anymore, except by completely shutting down the internet, like they did during the revolution."
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Album Rating: 3.5I love this album, and I find it to be one of the 'Kills best. I currently have all of their albums (all bought too), and I'd rank this in about a 5th position. I really like Shred, Hello From the Gutter, and Brainfade. The only song I wouldn't recommend off of this album would be Mad Gone World...
Well done on the review too
Album Rating: 4.0Many thanks man! I thought that this album was pretty cool. Hope you will write some Overkill reviews in a near future when you claim that you have all of them.
good album, but I prefer Feel The Fire and The Years of Decay to this.
Album Rating: 4.0My third favorite 'Kill album. I like The years of Decay and Horrorscope a bit more, but this one is killer as well
Album Rating: 3.0Good review like always.
My Recommended Tracks;
--Never Say Never
--Mad Gone World
--End Of The Line
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Album Rating: 4.0This album is a great thrash album; definately one of the all time classics.
Album Rating: 3.5Never Say Never is pretty damn awesome. Great album.
Album Rating: 4.0 | Sound OffProbably not their best record but Hello from the Gutter is definitely their best song.
Thrash classic!
Digging: Unfathomable Ruination - Enraged & Unbound
Album Rating: 4.0 | Sound OffHELLO
Hello from the gutter rules
man this band rules
agreed. i've been digging feel the fire so hard lately.
haven't heard this one yet
Digging: Origami Angel - Somewhere City
this rules too, honestly I prob like this as much as FTF
damn. well with my luck can't find stream for it. They have a lot of albums it would be cool to rank them eventually.
Album Rating: 4.0Hello From The Gutter is their best song.
No way lol. rotten to the core, horrorscope are 2 of my favs
Album Rating: 4.0No. Hello From The Gutter is their best.
If u say so ;)
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VANCOUVER – British Columbia could see an increase in debris washing ashore from the Japanese tsunami as winter storms begin to batter the coast, and the province's environment minister says there will be a plan in place by the end of October to deal with collection and disposal.
But there remains great uncertainty about how much and where the disaster refuse might wash ashore, Terry Lake said Tuesday.
"Right now, the volume is relatively low, but we do expect that will increase," Lake told reporters in Victoria.
Officials believe there is about one and a half million tonnes of debris floating toward North America from the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami.
"We do only expect a very small percentage of that to wash up on British Columbia beaches and while we have seen some wind-blown tsunami debris arrive on our coastlines already, there certainly is potential for an increase in that material this winter," Lake said.
"Of course, we want to be prepared."
Differentiating between debris related to the tsunami and regular debris is difficult or even impossible in some cases, he said.
B.C. has signed an agreement with Washington state, Oregon and California to collaborate on debris management.
The first phase of a management plan was completed this summer, outlining protocols and risk assessment. Despite concerns of toxicity from the nuclear crisis that followed the earthquake in Japan, none of the debris tested so far has been toxic, officials said.
The second phase of the plan to be complete by the end of next month will outline collection and disposal of debris.
Robin Brown of Fisheries and Oceans Canada said the ocean acts like a conveyor belt for the refuse, some of which ends up part of a great North Pacific garbage patch that swirls in the middle of the ocean.
Monitoring by satellite of the rest has proven difficult, he said.
"This has not been successful to date. The debris is too dispersed to be seen from satellite," he said, although it concentrates more as it gets closer to the shoreline.
Aside from a few high-profile items — including a Harley Davidson motorcycle that showed up on a B.C. beach in April and a ghost ship that surfaced off the Alaska coast — the bulk of the debris remains in the middle of the ocean.
Lake said the provincial and federal governments have put about $100,000 so far into tsunami debris management and planning. Because it's not known what level of response will be needed, it's difficult to say how much it will cost.
"It's something that has been offered and has not officially been put in place," Lake said. "Those discussions with Canada and Japan are ongoing and we look forward to seeing the results of those."


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- Relax your muscles. To do this, begin by contracting them for a few seconds and then release them one after the other: the hand, arm, calves, toes, thighs and face.
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FAIRFAX, Va. -- The Santa Clara Broncos used a big second half and claimed their second postseason tournament title in three seasons winning the College Basketball Invitational presented by Buick in a decisive third game, 80-77 over George Mason on Friday night in Fairfax, Va. Kevin Foster was named the CBI MVP - breaking the CBI scoring record - as he finishes his career at Santa Clara with 431 threes, tying him for No. 4 all-time in NCAA history. He also finishes with 2,423 career points, second-all-time in the West Coast Conference and No. 1 in the Bay Area.
GMU's Patrick Holloway missed a three-point attempt at the buzzer and Santa Clara broke a nine-game winning streak by the home team in the Championship series to become the third team in CBI history to win the title on the road.
Santa Clara finishes at 26-12 and 9-7 in the WCC. George Mason finishes at 22-16 and 10-8 CAA. The Broncos have traveled 8,427 miles during the CBI. The 26 wins are just one short of the school record 27 wins from 1968-69 (27-2).
"I am really proud of our guys," said Bronco head coach Kerry Keating. "With Marc and Kevin as fifth-year seniors we are trying to establish being competitive in tournaments like this in the post-season. It's a process and we are working to build on winning the CIT two years ago and now the CBI this year. We have to stay focused moving forward. I am really excited about our three signees coming in and certainly Nate Kratch, who we redshirted this year and will take Marc's place next year. Our five seniors are leaving behind quite a legacy and have set a high standard. I couldn't be happier or prouder of our guys."
"I am so glad I could end my five years with a win," said Foster, who graduated from Santa Clara last week. "We played hard tonight. We didn't play well the other night. We gave up too many rebounds. We have worked very hard since April 2, 2012 to get here. We worked hard and wanted it all year long."
Santa Clara shot 50 percent from the field (29 of 58), including 30 percent from beyond the arc (6 of 20). The Broncos shot 72.7 percent from the free throw line (16 of 22). They collected 30 rebounds, 15 assists, eight steals, two blocks and had 11 turnovers.
Santa Clara was led by tournament MVP Kevin Foster, who scored 24 points and set a new CBI record with 158. Marc Trasolini added 20, scoring 16 in the second half making his first seven field goals, and Evan Roquemore had 19 hitting four free throws in the final 20 seconds.
George Mason shot 41.8 percent from the field (28 of 67), including 24 percent from beyond the arc (6 of 25). The Patriots shot 68.2 percent from the free throw line (15 of 22). They collected 46 rebounds, 11 assists, four steals, one block and had 16 turnovers.
George Mason was led by Sherrod Wright, who collected his second straight double-double with 24 points and 10 rebounds, Jonathon Arledge added 16 points and Erik Copes grabbed 11 boards.
The Patriots started the game on a 8-0 run - all inside baskets by four different players. Allen scored quickly at 19:51 and Wright added one at 18:37. Copes tipped it in at 17:37 and Arledge dumped it inside at 17:06.
After the Broncos whistled for a 30, they then started their own 8-0 run. Cowels III scored on a miss at 16:52. Roquemore pumped faked it in for a bucket and the and one at 16:39. Foster crushed a three to tie it up at 16:35.
Allen answered with his own three at 16:01. Cowels IIII scored at 15:43.
GMU started another run, this one 12-1. Allen scored from 10 feet out at 15:33, 13-10 GMU. Trasolini was smacked on the arm by Arledge, his second foul early, and after the media timeout Trasolini sank one. Gujanicic scored a couple of free throws at 14:07 and Copes dumped in a miss three by Gujanicic at 13:39. Holloway scored a floater at 12:25 and Allen followed at 11:49, 19-11 GMU. Allen jumped over on top B. Clark, who was whistled for a foul, and he made both free throws at 11:50.
Harrison's thundering dunk on a pass by J. Clarke ended the run at 11:00 with the Broncos trailing 21-13. B. Clark was fouled attacking the basket and he sank both at 10:11. Wright drove under the basket for two at 9:17.
Wright hit a three at 6:07 to stop the Broncos' 7-0 run. Foster hit his third three at 5:39. Gujanicic fouled Trasolini going to the hoop and he sank the second to tie it up 26-26 at 5:20.
GMU then went on a 9-2 run to take a 35-28 lead. Vaughns hit a jumper at 4:55 and scored a free throw at 4:18. Roquemore scored on a tough floater off the glass at 3:43. Edwards scored his first basket, a three from the top of the key at 3:12. Wright added the and one at 2:37.
Cowels III hit a three on a dandy pass by Foster at 2:20 to stop the run. Bennett scored a put-back and Trasolini danced under the basket for two with 42 seconds left, 37-33 GMU - the score at halftime.
In the first half Santa Clara shot 37.9 percent from the field (11 of 29), including 33.3 percent from beyond the arc (4 of 12). The Broncos shot 58.3 percent from the free throw line (7 of 12). They collected 13 rebounds, five assists, four steals, one block and had six turnovers. Santa Clara was led by Foster's 11 points. Five Broncos had two rebounds each and Roquemore had three steals.
George Mason shot 42.4 percent from the field (14 of 33), including 23.1 percent from beyond the arc (3 of 13). The Patriots shot 75 percent from the free throw line (6 of 8). They collected 27 rebounds, 11 offensive, four assists, two steals, one block and had 10 turnovers. George Mason was led by Sherrod Wright with 10 points and 7 boards and Erik Copes had 8 rebounds. Four different GMU players picked up 2 personal fouls.
Foster scored off the glass at 19:35 to start the second half. After a Wright three, Trasolini scored inside at 18:58. The Patriots scored a couple baskets before Trasolini answered inside at 18:10, 44-39 GMU. Foster scored inside on an assist by Roquemore at 17:27.
Trasolini dunked it and was crushed on the no call to pull SCU within one, 44-43. Arledge added two at the free throw line at 16:16. Trasolini scored from four feet out at 15:37. He passed former Bronco Steve Nash, a two-time NBA MVP, with that bucket to move to No. 5 all-time on the scoring list.
Roquemore stole the ball and passed it to Cowels III who pushed it to a wide-open Trasolini under the basket for two and the Broncos led for the first time, 47-46, at 15:27. Foster added one from 10 feet out at 14:41. Wright stopped the Broncos 6-0 run with a basket at 13:57. Roquemore scored at 13:06, 51-48 Broncos. Wright added a pair of free throws at 12:52.
Roquemore drove the close-to-empty lane for two at 12:10 and the Broncos went up 55-50. After the Patriots 14th turnover, the Broncos Trasolini scored again at 11:34, 57-50 Broncos.
Cowels III stole the ball from Allen at 9:03. Roquemore tipped in his own miss to stop the run at 8:23. Vaughns tied it up 59-59 at 8:06.
Foster's fourth three of the game made it 62-59.
Copes added a free throw at 7:28. Copes picked up his fourth foul on Trasolini at 7:14 and he sank both to make it 64-60. Arledge drove inside to score at 6:56. J. Clarke was stripped of the ball and Wright dunked on him at 6:30. McArthur quieted the crowd with a four-footer 10 seconds later.
Arledge gave Mason a brief lead at 5:28. McArthur's jumper tied it back up at 5:01. Roquemore hit a pair from the charity stripe and then Wright dumped in a Arledge miss at 4:11 to tie it up 70-70.
Arledge scored a free throw at 3:19 and Roquemore answered with two at 2:24, 72-71 Broncos. Arledge's jump hook was good at 1:35.
Foster's three, his fifth of the game to move to a tie at No. 4 all-time in NCAA history, was good to put SCU up 75-73 at 1:09. He is tied with former Tennessee All-American Chris Lofton (431, 2005-08).
Vaughns made one, but missed the second free throw and Cowels III grabbed the rebound and quickly passed it to Roquemore. He was fouled by Vaughns with 19 seconds left. Roquemore sank both to put SCU up 77-74.
After the Patriots took the ball down the court, they whistled for time with 16.7 seconds left. Allen scored under the basket with 11.3 seconds left and the Patriots whistled for their last timeout, with the Broncos leading 77-76.
Roquemore was mauled with 8.3 seconds left. He stepped to the line and sank both to go up 79-76. Keating whistled for time, the Broncos final timeout.
Roquemore fouled Wright with 4.6 seconds left coming across the half-court line. He missed the first one and sank the second, 79-77 Broncos.
Foster was fouled as soon as he grabbed the inbounds pass. He stepped to the line and sank one. Broncos 80-77. Patrick Holloway had an open look for a potential game-tying three at the buzzer, but the shot bounced off the front of the rim.
Game Notes
Evan Roquemore broke the school record for single-season assists. He finished the year with 196 assists, topping John Woolery (1993-94, 190).
Kevin Foster made 431 career threes and finishes his career tied at No. 4 all-time in NCAA history with former Tennessee All-American Chris Lofton (430, 2005-08). Foster passed the Golden State Warriors' guard Stephen Curry (414, Davidson, 2006-09) to take over the No. 5 spot at Wright State. Foster has scored 19+ in 64 of his 133 career games. He has 15+ in 89 career games.
Kevin Foster started his 125th career game after setting the school record vs. LMU on Feb. 28. Foster played in his 133rd game and will finish No. 3 all-time behind teammates Marc Trasolini and Raymond Cowels III.
Marc Trasolini and Raymond Cowels III played in their 137th career game and already own the school record. Cowels III also started his 68th straight game for the Broncos. Trasolini started his 109th career game. Playing in his 128th career game,Niyi Harrison is tied for No. 4 all-time (Ben Dowdell, 2008-11).
Kevin Foster is No. 5 on the WCC single season with 89 steals, including two at GMU on April 3. Foster set the school record for single season steals at Wright State on March 27. He is No. 6 on the WCC career list and tied with Terrell Lowery (231, 1988-92).
Trasolini's bucket from four feet out at 15:37 in the second half pushed him past Steve Nash for No. 5 on the all-time scorers list.
It is the second time in three years and just the third time in 17 years that Santa Clara has played in the post-season. It is the 17th post-season appearance in school history (23-18: 11-13 NCAA; 2-4 NIT, 5-0 CIT, 5-1 CBI).


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"The reality that America is a military dictatorship is being eased into the public psyche by government authorities and their collaborators in the media. The media beast is using its advanced powers of thought manipulation to psychologically prepare Americans for martial law under the illegal authority of an Emergency State."
Media Beast To America: Bow Down To Military Police, Your New Lord And Savior
America is a military dictatorship.
by Saman Mohammadi
The plan to implement martial law in the United States is slowly falling into place. The sighting of tanks on the streets of St. Louis is another sign that America is entering a new and dangerous era of overt military rule.
Kurt Nimmo writes why this shocking development represents the greatest threat to American liberty in his article, "Media Dismisses Warning About Tyranny and Troops on the Street as Kooky Conspiracy Theory":
"The "training" conducted in St. Louis is yet another example of the state conditioning us to the presence of a standing army in our midst. It has little to do with al-Qaeda or phantom terrorists. It is, as Madison noted, an instrument of tyranny designed to enslave the people."
The military is "the most respected institution in America," said President Barack Obama. But expect the military's reputation to change for the worse now that it is officially occupying America and guarding the international banksters who have looted the country and deprived the American people of economic security.
In the past, one could argue that the U.S. military protected America from foreign despots, although the ghost of General Smedley Butler would strongly disagree. Today, however, it is clear that it is nothing more than a guard dog that is infected with a bad case of rabies. This sick dog must be put down, but instead it is being unleashed on the American people as the country unravels and devolves into a third world cesspool.
"For the most part," says former presidential candidate Chuck Baldwin, "the sentiments of our founders ring hollow to modern Americans who, ever since World War II, have glorified, idolized, and practically even worshipped the standing US military."
The fighting men of the U.S. military should be honored and glorified. But no respect should be shown to the cowardly and disgraceful traitors who lead this evil institution. They have betrayed their people, their country, and their forefathers, all the while pretending to be Americans in spirit. Their patriotism is skin-deep.
There is nothing to be proud about in being a soldier in uniform, especially in an imperial army. The German poet Heinrich von Kleist said that the military is, "a living monument to tyranny." He left the military because of a "moral obligation."
Soldiers who have a moral sense and a patriotic bone in their body are tortured souls. Some turn to drugs to heal the pain. But there are far too many souls within the U.S. military who are so brainwashed that they don't know they're working for cold-blooded mass murderers and psychopathic liars. And they take orders very well. When the Commander-in-Chief gives the order to enforce martial law, or to confiscate the guns of the American people, they'll answer like well-trained slaves: "Sir, yes sir!" Those three simple words are the cause of so much evil, tyranny, and misery in the world.
Ron Paul's revolution is built on the power of one word: No. "Evil is not all-powerful, but we have to learn to say no," said Alex Jones.
The power of No can defeat authoritarianism and militarism. The military is not powerful enough to twist the arms of the American people and lay the chains of tyranny on them. A military dictatorship must be rationalized, justified, and legitimized with propaganda, a point that is frequently made by Alex Jones.
Tyranny has to be sold to the people under an agreeable banner, and championed as sacred. At least at first. But once the fear of death is driven into the mind of every individual even more than at present, the military will be able to hold onto power just by their presence alone. Plus, in a state of economic collapse and managed chaos, as cities are overrun by riots, a lot of people will be thankful for the restoration of order by the military and police.
Also, the media's cooperation with the Pentagon and CIA is absolutely crucial in getting the American people to accept marital law and internalize the insane logic of a military/banking dictatorship.
The reality that America is a military dictatorship is being eased into the public psyche by government authorities and their collaborators in the media. The media beast is using its advanced powers of thought manipulation to psychologically prepare Americans for martial law under the illegal authority of an Emergency State.
When martial law is declared, the media beast will tell America:
"Bow down to your new lord and savior. All will be well in this financially broken, politically bankrupt, post-industrial, military dictatorship. Crime will go down. The imaginary Jihadists, militia patriots, and conservative Christians will dare not use terror against innocent civilians to spread their violent and outdated ideologies. The military is here to help and protect us. They are our brothers, friends, family members, and neighbours. As patriotic and proud citizens of this beautiful country, we must support them in their mission to keep the peace and restore law and order to our streets."
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Lotusphere 2012: Lotus Notes/Domino Social Edition
January 17 2012
Yesterday at Lotusphere 2012, IBM announced Lotus Notes and Domino Social Edition, the next feature release of Notes & Domino. This new release will enter beta this quarter and is expected to ship in 2012.
Today's announcement features elements that have been publicly discussed for some time -- such as embedded experiences in Notes and iNotes -- and new components, e.g. the product name and some of the new capabilities. Some of the loudest applause during the Lotusphere opening general session came when a key component of this release -- the Notes Application Player Plug-in -- was demonstrated.
Though we've occasionally hinted and once demonstrated the plug-in before, today is the first time we've formally announced it and done a public demo. The plug-in runs in Windows browsers -- Firefox and we'll probably do one other -- and allows Notes applications to run unmodified in the browser. The plug-in is a one-time download, much like the Adobe Acrobat model, where once installed, the browser can access Notes applications directly.
Our intent in building the plug-in is to provide an approach to a common strategic direction we hear from customers today -- the desire to utilize a browser for all custom business applications. While the installed Notes client will always provide the richest, most-integrated mail and applications experience for Domino, increasingly we are asked for help in getting away from desktop deployments. Desktop clients are, for any software -- Notes, Microsoft Office, SAP -- one of the more expensive cost-of-ownership components for IT organizations today.
The vision for Notes/Domino Social Edition is to establish web and mobile as first-class experiences, not secondary efforts done after we've perfected a Notes client capability. For example, the Notes Traveler client for Android will be substantially improved on tablet devices, with better calendar views and presence awareness. The Application Player plug-in completes the picture for browser-based Domino users, making their application experience as rich as possible.
Now, some applications need more than the plug-in. It isn't going to do anything for appearance and usability -- the applications will look and act the same as they do in the Notes client today. Many companies will continue to explore application modernization to XPages, through in-house or partner work, or tools such as the GBS Transformer. For the basic, typical Notes application, though, the plug-in will run your Notes application - it is, after all, just Notes.
Notes/Domino Social Edition has several additional enhancements and components. The big one in Notes and iNotes is embedded experiences, sort of a modern approach to "store form in document" Notes applications. Embedded experiences are applications designed using the Open Social 2.0 standard and the Apache Shindig container. They will provide a more seamless user experience by keeping the end-user in context of where they are already working. Surveys, YouTube videos, workflow approvals can all be acted upon without having to open up a new window/container/browser. In the Notes client, there will also be incremental feature updates, especially in mail and calendar, designed to improve usability. iNotes will have an updated implementation of calendar, faster and more dynamic. The Domino Server will have new features such as SAML support. In the coming weeks, I'll get more specific in blog entries about the new features of Notes/Domino Social Edition.
What version number is Notes/Domino Social Edition? Answer: It isn't. It's a feature version, but it is built atop the simultaneously-forthcoming planned Notes/Domino 8.5.4 release. Our belief from countless customer feedback sessions was that the more we could deliver new features atop the 8.5.x codestream, the easier it would be for our customers and partners to adopt the new features. Movement to a version "9" requires so many IT organizations to consider a "rollout plan" differently than an 8.5.x kind of upgrade. If you want, you can just deploy 8.5.4 with no new features, or you can add the Social Edition upgrade atop 8.5.4 and expose these new capabilities.
I anticipate a zillion questions about the Notes Application Player Plug-in. A few FAQs I can get out of the way now: It will run on Windows only, doesn't support the use of email through the plug-in, is less than 100 MB to download and install, and will run apps that are built to be self-contained typical NSFs. It won't support composite applications or other componentry built to take advantage of the full Notes 8 / Eclipse framework. We haven't decided which browser besides Firefox to build for; Chrome would be more approachable. If you have others, help us assemble the FAQ now.


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The Texas Success Initiative (TSI) requires students to be assessed in reading, writing and math skills prior to enrolling in college, and to be advised based on the results of that assessment, but now each institution determines how best to help students who don't pass one or more parts of the test. In addition, each student who does not pass must have an individualized education plan, and those students who score below a deviation standard are required to retest.
The University of Texas at Dallas requires incoming students who are not TSI exempt to take the Texas Higher Education Assessment (THEA), formerly the TASP test, offered by National Evaluation Systems. The required passing standards on the THEA are: Reading and Math a score of 230 and Writing a score of 220. The specific application of the Texas Success Initiative as outlined in this statement applies to U.T. Dallas students only. U.T. Dallas students must take the THEA or Quick THEA test to satisfy the test requirement. No other types of tests can substitute for the THEA test requirement.
The THEA is given statewide. It is possible to satisfy the THEA requirements on the UTD campus by registering to take the Quick THEA with Learning Resources, (972)883-6707. Learning Resources is located in the McDermott Library.
THEA test registration bulletins are available at most Texas high schools and colleges. Additional information may be retrieved from the National Evaluation System, P.O. Box 140374, Austin, TX 78714-0347.
The following students are TSI exempt, but are required to take the THEA as a placement test and meet the standards listed above prior to enrolling in any additional courses in the areas of reading, writing, and mathematics.*
*Students who are transferring to UTD from a private or out-of-state, regionally accredited, college or university may meet sections of the Texas Success Initiative and the THEA placement test based on a grade of B or better in courses that are equivalent to the following courses at U.T. Dallas:
Students who have achieved the following standards are TSI exempt and are not required to take the THEA as a placement test prior to registration for courses at UTD.
The Learning Resources Unit of Undergraduate Education provides Developmental Education for The University of Texas at Dallas campus. When undergraduate students first register at U.T. Dallas, they are immediately TSI liable. If they are not previously either TSI exempt or TSI waived, undergraduate students must take the Quick THEA, THEA, or the Computer THEA examination prior to the beginning of their first semester at U.T. Dallas. UTD does not accept alternative tests for TSI/THEA purposes unless a student accumulates collegiate-level course work during the same semester at the same public institution where the student took an alternative test.
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Leagoo Elite 4 hard reset
Entering Recovery menu on Leagoo Elite 4 using the hardware keys to remove password, PIN or reset the unlock pattern / gesture lock when you are unable to access the phone.
Please note, that all data will be lost! Backup all of your important data before doing the hard reset operation and it is always a good idea to regularly save your important files, images on a different media, keep it in a safe place.
Entering recovery mode
- Turn off the phone completely.
- Press the Volume UP and POWER key together for a few 2-3 seconds.
- Release the keys and "select boot mode" selection screen will show up.
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- Recovery mode
- Fastboot mode
- Normal mode
- USE the Volume UP key to navigate the arrow next to Recovery mode (it is the default) and press the VOLUME DOWN key. Wait for the next screen with a logo or with an android robot and the NO COMMAND text, it could be in other language
- Press VOLUME UP + POWER together to display the LEAGOO Android RECOVERY menu
- Navigate to Wipe data / Factory reset using the Volume down key and press power.
Note: you can safely choose also the wipe cache partition option to delete any temporarily downloaded data, log files or other recovered file in this cache folder.
- Navigate to Yes -- delete all user data press POWER.
- Once its done the reboot system now option will be highlighted.
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- Music
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Go to Settings > Backup and reset > Factory data reset: Reset settings to the factory default values and delete all data.
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Adding beauty and color to the shade garden can be a daunting challenge to many gardeners. Of course, there are plenty of annuals and perennials that do well, but when it comes to shrubs, or more precisely, flowering shrubs, the choices seem to dwindle. I'm going to profile 15 shrubs that do well in shade that you may want to try in your garden.
For best success, plant shrubs in the spring or early fall. Avoid planting in the heat of the summer or just before the first frost date in your region.
Sweetshrub (Calycanthus floridus)
Facts: Zones 4 to 9; 4 to 6 feet tall; suckering; dry to damp soil; sun to moderate shade
This old-time favorite shrub has grown in popularity due to its versatility. It will grow from almost full sun to full shade in dry to wet soil. The maroon flowers appear from spring to summer and can be highly fragrant, although fragrance varies widely. The leaves have a coarse texture and the plant is deer-resistant.
Endless Summer® Hydrangea (Hydrangea macrophylla 'Bailmer')
Facts: Zones (4) 5 to 9; 3 to 5 feet tall and wide; moist but well-drained soil; partial shade
This is the first truly cold-tolerant bigleaf hydrangea. The plant blooms on both old and new growth giving it the ability to withstand late frosts and pruning. Like all other bigleaf hydrangea, the flowers will be blue in acidic soil and pink in alkaline and bloom from late spring to fall.
Oakleaf Hydrangea (Hydrangea quercifolia)
Facts: Zones (5) 6 to 9; 6 to 10 feet tall and wide; moist but well-drained soil; partial to moderate shade
This is one of the largest hydrangeas available. Shrubs produce spikes of white flowers up to 16 inches long in June that fade to pink by fall. Huge, oak-shaped leaves turn crimson in cold weather often lingering on the shrub into winter. Oakleaf hydrangeas seem to be very tolerant of shade as long as they have rich, well-drained soil. Their fall foliage is usually orange-red and lingers well into winter.
Needle Palm (Rhapidophyllum hystrix)
Facts: Zones 6 to 10; 6 to 8 feet tall and wide; evergreen; moist but well-drained soil; light to medium shade
Perhaps the most cold-hardy palm in the world, needle palm has been reported to withstand temperatures of -10 F. Its shrub form makes it perfect for smaller gardens. It comes by its name honestly with sharp, 6- to 8-inch needles that grow from the crown in the center of the plant.
Rhododendron (Rhododendron spp.)
Facts: Zones 5 to 8; 6 to 10 feet tall and wide; evergreen; moist but very well-drained soil; partial shade
Different species and cultivars abound, all of which are very beautiful. Despite their large evergreen leaves and huge trusses of flowers in mid-spring, they do quite well in cold weather. They perform best when they receive some morning sun.
Piedmont Azalea (Rhododendron canescens)
Facts: Zones 6 to 9; 6 to 15 feet tall and wide; moist but well-drained soil; fragrant; partial shade
The Piedmont azalea looks nothing like the evergreen azaleas from Asia. Its growth habit is more upright and tree-like. Large trusses of pink and white, honeysuckle-like flowers appear in early spring. The aroma is also similar to honeysuckle and can be enjoyed from some distance. They also appreciate a bit of morning sun.
Camellia (Camellia spp.)
Facts: Zones 6 to 9; 8 to 15 feet tall and wide; evergreen; moist but well-drained soil; partial to medium shade
Along with azaleas, camellias epitomize the Southern garden. Coupled with their lustrous green leaves, they bloom in the fall and winter with showy flowers in a range of colors. They lend a cheerful look to the sometimes bleak winter garden.
Andromeda Shrub (Pieris japonica)
Facts: Zones 5 to 8; 5 to 8 feet tall and wide; evergreen; moist but well-drained acidic soil; partial to medium shade
A relative of the blueberry, Andromeda shrub sports profuse clusters of small, bell-shaped, white flowers in the early spring. Even after the flowers fade, the seed pods retain a white to creamy color, making it appear as though the shrub is still in bloom.
Doghobble (Leucothoe spp.)
Facts: Zones (5) 6 to 9; 3 to 6 feet tall; suckering; evergreen; moist but well-drained, acidic soil; partial to medium shade
This arching evergreen shrub is often found along the banks of streams and creeks. Although it likes ample moisture, it grows best in a loamy/sandy soil that drains quickly. White, bell-shaped flowers are produced in spring but are hidden by the leaves.
Bottlebrush Buckeye (Aesculus parviflora)
Facts: Zones 4 to 8; 8 to 12 feet tall; suckering; moist but well-drained soil; partial to medium shade
This large shrub has several factors in its favor; it blooms during the dog days of summer (August) with huge spires of white flowers similar to those of an oakleaf hydrangea, attracts butterflies, has good fall color and, unlike hydrangeas, is deer-resistant.
Virginia Sweetspire (Itea virginica)
Facts: Zones 5 to 9; 3 to 7 feet tall; suckering/arching; dry to wet soil; full sun to medium shade
I've yet to find a spot where Virginia sweetspire doesn't do well. It will grow in dry soil in the sun and wet soil in the shade. White blooms appear in the mid-spring. Fall color rivals that of any burning bush.
Kerria (Kerria japonica)
Facts: Zones 4 to 9; 6 to 10 feet tall and wide; arching; average well-drained soil; partial to medium shade
The lovely yellow flowers on this plant remind me of forsythia, and it works well as a substitute for forsythia in shade. The foliage has an attractive, "corrugated" appearance that provides good texture after the blooms have faded.
Witch Hazel (Hamamelis spp.)
Facts: Zones 4 to 8; 4 to 12 feet tall; fragrant; moist but well-drained soil; full sun to medium shade
A must-have for the winter garden. Witch hazel, depending upon species, will bloom in the fall or winter. Most have yellow (but some have red) fringe-like flowers, followed by coarse foliage with average fall color.
Summersweet (Clethra alnifolia)
Facts: Zones 3 to 8; 3 to 8 feet tall; moist to wet soil; full sun to partial shade
Clethra is another shrub that blooms from summer to fall with fragrant, white or pink bottlebrush flowers that attract butterflies and hummingbirds. It performs best in soil that is damp to wet and tolerates flooding.
Mountain Laurel (Kalmia latifolia)
Facts: Zones 4 to 8; 7 to 15 feet tall; evergreen; moist but well-drained soil; partial to medium shade
Often described as one of the most outstanding flowering native shrubs, this mid-spring bloomer is hard to miss when it's in bloom. Flowers range from red to pink to white. Older plants have a twisted habit and cinnamon-colored bark with vertical lines.
From State-by-State Gardening June 2007.
Oakleaf Hydrangea photo by David Liebman. All other photos by Theresa Schrum.


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Will the Korean Pop Culture Boom Have Legs?
A month ago, on a riotously lovely morning in Orange County, California, I stumbled into perhaps the most convincing display I've yet encountered of the potency of hallyu – a Korean term that literally translates as "The Korean Wave."
I'd been invited to be a panelist at KCON '12, which billed itself as "the first-ever large scale convention dedicated to the hottest entertainment coming out of Korea." The event was conceived of and organized by the cable channel MNET America, the U.S. branch of the hugely popular Korean music network that might be called the "MTV of Korea" (except that MTV is in Korea and MNET is way bigger).
I'll admit that my initial response was skeptical. Even as I accepted the invitation to speak, I suppressed a nagging fear that MNET was forcing into existence something that wasn't there, trying to engineer a need among K-Pop fans to gather as a collective from the top down, rather than letting it spring up from the grassroots.
It's a concern that worried the executive who spearheaded the event, too. "We knew that the fandom was out there. We'd seen these fan gatherings spontaneously manifest at other events we'd sponsored," says Ted Kim, EVP and U.S. chief of MNET America's parent company, CJ Entertainment America. "But we were struggling, because it's very hard to get good data when it comes to phenomena like this. You're just not able to quantify things. And at some point, you just need to make a leap of faith."
That leap entailed booking the Verizon Amphitheatre in Irvine, California, for an event that combined workshops about organizing fan clubs and breaking into K-Pop, karaoke showdowns and dance-offs, autograph sessions, food trucks and merchandise booths and a grand-finale concert featuring some very attractive young people and a Technicolor SFX lightshow that could probably be seen from space.
"We kept on debating about how many people we should expect," says Kim. The number they finally hit upon was 10,000. "We thought to ourselves, if we can get that many people to come out for this, well, that's wildly successful. That's fabulous validation that the fandom does exist and that they do want to gather together. But I'm going to say right now that there was tremendous nervousness. Behind the scenes, we were secretly whispering, 'What if throw the biggest party in the world and no one shows up?'"
They needn't have worried, and nor should I. Walking from the parking lot toward the Amphitheatre's fairgrounds, I soon found myself in a delighted mob of fans, many of whom had been lined up since 8:30 am. Some had handmade signs: I LIKE LUHAN MORE THAN FREE WIFI, said one. They were well behaved, queuing quietly without complaint, despite most events and kiosks being crowded beyond belief or comprehension. The exception? The beer stand, whose two disgruntled-looking vendors said had sold exactly two brews all day. That's because the vast majority of attendees were too young to drink, and looked even younger. The mostly teenaged crowd was also mostly non-Korean, and probably half non-Asian. Kim's hoped-for headcount had likely been reached by midmorning, with more attendees (and their parents) arriving throughout the day.
"It wasn't just the numbers, it was the energy," says Kim. "On a scale of one to 10, I don't think it dropped below eight all day. The fans…I had this one woman come over – 19 years old, a white woman from Oklahoma – she told me she drove 27 straight hours to got to KCON. And then she lifted up her sleeve, and showed me a Band-Aid and a bruise on her arm. She said she'd sold her blood in order to afford the trip. I was kind of horrified. But…that's the kind of dedication you're talking about."
Now, don't get me wrong: I never questioned the size of K-Pop's audience. I've been covering its emergence for years, and am fully aware that K-Pop's audience is huge and insistent both here in the U.S. and globally, and that Korea is now unequivocally the wellspring of Asia's most popular and influential pop cultural phenomena – supplanting Japan as the primary source of Asian cool, as my friend Euny Hong, lifestyle editor of The Atlantic's new online business mag Quartz, asserted in a provocative essay this past Friday.
K-Pop is here. K-Pop is now. And, riding the consumer dollars of its burgeoning tween-teen fanbase, K-Pop will thrive for the foreseeable future. There are real and educational reasons for its rise, some of which I've written about in the past, and some of which Hong details in her story, "Why it was so easy for Korea to overtake Japan in the pop culture wars."
But I'm just not as convinced as Hong that K-Pop in its current incarnation can sustain itself as a long-term global phenomenon. Japan's pop culture primacy spanned two decades, and while it is has fallen off its peak, it has hardly vanished completely. On the contrary, in fact: J-Pop has simply become so mainstream, so infused into the DNA of global pop culture that it has become immanent, and thus invisible. The aesthetics of J-Pop, its conceits and conventions, have become so much a part of the fundamental language of contemporary design, technology, entertainment and fashion that they're no longer easily distinguishable as Japanese in origin, as opposed to in influence.
That's also why I feel compelled to question some of the assertions Hong makes in her "king is dead, long live the king" piece detailing Korea's dethroning of Japan from the top of the pop pyramid.
First there are the metrics that she cites as defining K-Pop's ascent. PSY Oppa's 770 million YouTube views. Google Trends showing that searches for "K-Pop" skyrocketed past searches for "J-Pop" beginning in 2010. Japan's flagging recorded music industry revenues, which (like the rest of the world) have fallen every year from 2009 on, while Korea's have grown. And then, the slump in revenues for Sanrio, parent company of Hello Kitty, among others.
Statistics obviously can be found to support just about any position, and more of them don't necessarily translate into a stronger case. And these in particular are a bit questionable. PSY's viral YouTube success is arguably not only exceptional, it's actually a counterexample to K-Pop's rise: Oppa is, quite consciously, the antithesis of the standard Korean pop poster boy, with a look, musical style, career history and attitude that make him an anomaly among the sleek, pretty, possibly bioengineered lads of the K-Pop Machine. His success is both welcome and puzzling to Koreans, and even to PSY himself: "I am not sure how I became so popular in the U.S., because [in Korea] I am a B-rated star," he said at a press conference in September. PSY has drawn attention to K-Pop, but he's a unique quantity, and still has to prove that he's even able to duplicate his success himself. (I, personally, have faith.)
Regarding Google searches for K-Pop versus J-Pop: The trendline shows that searches for J-Pop were never very high, even at the peak of Japanese pop culture glory…because most fans of Japanese pop culture don't use the term "J-Pop" for anything other than Japanese pop music, which has probably the smallest footprint out of the Rising Sun's various fan-favorite emanations. Here's an alternative Google search plot that's a more relevant comparison.
Searches for anime and manga absolutely crush those for K-Pop. On the one hand, this could simply reflect the fact that Google searches are a pretty poor metric for determining the relative popularity of broad-spanning phenomena. On the other, it could be an indicator that anime and manga, here in the United States, are no longer imported culture – they're part of the landscape. Go to any library or bookstore (there are still physical bookstores, right?) and you'll see that manga has an enormous dedicated section all to its own, larger than many of the other genre sections, and generally surrounded with clusters of absorbed youth lounging like they own the place. It's not a teen fad, it's a teen consumption category: Snacks, fashion, manga.
Hong goes on to list a half-dozen reasons why Japan has fallen off in the pop culture game relative to Korea. The first is that Japan has become increasingly idiosyncratic in its cultural output – that "Japan makes stuff only for Japan." She cites comparisons of Japan to the Galapagos Islands, where Darwin first noticed the unique divergent evolution of finch populations on separated atolls. For what it's worth this isn't a very apt metaphor for Japan, given that it would imply the presence of a great diversity of ideas and products within the Japanese archipelago; a more relevant one might be Australia, a place whose species were isolated from other continents for so long that they evolved in drastically different and weird ways, e.g. koalas, kangaroos and platypuses.
But it's not clear that this is a liability in global pop-culture competitiveness. In fact, this eccentricity is Japan's strongest remaining asset. The more blandly similar a nation's output is to your own, the less likely it is to tempt you to seek it out – it's the sense of novelty, of fresh stimulus, of strange and fabulous dissimilarity, that leads us to explore alternative pop-culture horizons, after all. Which explains the popularity of PSY: Gangnam Style is weird. It's weird in Korea, and it's weirder in the U.S. And totally awesome.
Hong also states that Korean pop culture has the advantage of being "puritanical," a reflection of Korea's clean-cut and sexually restrictive society. This is a hard argument to make to anyone who's watched a video by any Korean girl group. Yes, there's no overt or even implied sexual behavior. But there are also legs that extend from the ground to the sky, propped under miniskirts that could probably do double duty as wristbands, and the dance routines invariably include plenty of pelvic thrusting and catlike stretching (and ugh, I feel like a perv just having written that). The primary difference between sexuality in Korean pop and Japanese pop is that the former is focused on willowy teens on the proper side of pubescence, while the latter – well, let's just say that middle-school uniforms seem unaccountably popular in Japan. But intimations of sex are there in both cases, all the more suggestive because of the repressive mores of both cultures. And you'll never convince me that the secret to global pop dominance in this day and age is virginal purity. Hips don't lie, people!
Another reason that Hong gives is that Americans are seen as heroes of the Korean War, and as a result, Korea has been more "closely influenced" by U.S. pop culture than Japan – noting that even today, there are still 30,000 American soldiers (actually, around 28,000) permanently based in Korea. Yes, but there are also over 35,000 American soldiers permanently based in Japan, plus another 5500 military-employed American civilians and 10,000 American military spouses and dependents.
Did Korea embrace American pop culture more readily than Japan because the U.S. was seen as heroic? That's not clearly the case. Despite, or more properly because of its defeat, Japan after World War II actively sought to immerse itself in the culture (especially the popular culture) of its triumphant occupiers, leading to a rapid "Americanization" period in which the media fantasies and material goods of the U.S. vision of the "good life" were prized above all. As Rikyo University law and political science professor Akio Igarashi notes, "In the immediate postwar period, what a majority of Japanese hoped for was the realization of a rational and affluent society… The spacious rooms and the big white refrigerator in the comic strip, Blondie, helped people to imagine the affluence of the American lifestyle….For Japanese at the time, America's prosperous culture of consumption, symbolized by chewing gum, chocolate, and women's fashion, represented 'the American Dream.'"
Korea embraced American ideas, media, fashion and consumer aspirations after the Korean War too, but in the ensuing decades, a sharp and growing sense of ambivalence has emerged toward the U.S. Panmi, or anti-American sensibility, has generally strengthened since the Eighties, peaking in 2002 following controversy over short-track speed skater Apolo Anton Ohno's Olympic gold medal over South Korean rival Kim Dong-Sung, and the accidental deaths of two Korean middle-schoolers under the wheels of a U.S. military vehicle. (This was the year in which a RAND survey found that over 60 percent of South Koreans felt "unfavorable" attitudes toward the U.S.; meanwhile Japanese favorability toward the U.S. has remained over 50 percent for decades and is the second-highest in the world right now, after only the U.S.'s opinion of itself. 2002 was also the year singer Yoon Min-Suk released his cult-hit song "F*ckin' USA," to massive media attention.)
And it's not even obvious that embracing American ideas is necessarily the path to pop-culture export success for Asian countries anyway. In the U.S., Asian performers and products that have attempted to ape American sensibilities for the sake of global crossover have universally failed. Dozens of Japanese performers, from Seiko to Utada, Hong Kong's Coco Lee and Korea's BoA, Se7en, Wonder Girls and Girls Generation have all made runs at breakthrough success by singing English-language songs and engaging in massive media and PR campaigns, all without much to show for their hard work. The exception to this rule, PSY, was a pop-culture land mine who blew by accident, refusing to be anything but himself and performing a song with Korean lyrics that are incomprehensible to non-Koreans even in translation.
In fact, the most successful Korean pop exports that Hong cites, from its idols to its films and dramas to Samsung's effervescent avalanche of consumer electronics and VOOZ's winsome licensing franchise Pucca, all represent evolutionary improvements on Japanese templates — not American ones. Korea has effectively dominated the pop culture cosmos by out-Japanning Japan, and, as Hong points out, doing so even in Japan itself, which is still in the throes of a Korean-pop obsession.
The question remains, however, whether Korea's impressive winning run can continue indefinitely, or even long-term. I'm not yet convinced that's the case.
Japanese pop culture has come to the American landscape in the form of visual media — primarily anime and manga. (Games too, but up until very recently, Japanese video games came to the U.S. with most of their unique cultural context flensed away so as not to freak out American parents.) Because those media forms were naturally produced and presented in Japanese, J-Pop fandom erupted organically and grew epidemically out of a kind of language-hacking Underground Railroad of pirate BBS's that offered downloadable English script translations and VHS-tape-trading marketplaces.
In short, fandom flourished because the only way to enjoy authentic J-Pop in that early era was through connections to the fan community. (In fact, the hardest-core fans eventually became the U.S. anime and manga industry, launching the first legit English-language distribution houses, and thus laying the foundation for a subsequent generation's total immersion in Japanese cultural products.)
K-Pop fandom is centered around music. (Yes, Korean live-action dramas and movies are popular as well, but they appeal to different demographic segments, and don't tend to generate the fannish intensity that Korean pop idols do…unless they happen to star Korean pop idols). K-Pop fans don't need translations of their music to enjoy it; as Ted Kim notes, when Mnet asked their viewers if they wanted their music videos to carry subtitles, the response was horrified: "No way, they told us, we want to see them the way they're shown in Korea."
And because music is auditory, not visual, it's a medium that lends itself to addictive consumption and maniacal appreciation, but not the kinds of collaborative phenomena that are the pillars of most pop-culture activity and community — things like cosplay (dressing up as favored characters) and fan fiction (extending or re-envisioning beloved works through original fanmade stories and art).
All of these factors point to the reality that K-Pop in its current modes isn't a very blendable medium. Its fans want to consume it in as pure and unadulterated form as possible — with incomprehensible language, odd visual idioms and untranslatable nuances entirely intact. The visual media of J-Pop have been culture-hacked and hybridized from the very beginning, often in ways that have caused hard-core fans to grit their teeth — but this flexibility has also allowed it to readily mainstream into U.S. culture, even to the point where even American-made homages (like virtually every cartoon now airing on kiddie TV) are as popular as the Japanese originals. By contrast, I don't think it's obvious that an American artist emulating K-Pop tropes can succeed either in the U.S. or abroad (though it's not for want of a few earnest artists trying).
This would seem to sharply limit the market upside of K-Pop, and its ultimate long-term influence. It's ironic: K-Pop's recent success is in no small part because it has played on its own terms. But its long-term future depends on its ability to cling to the things that make it unique while relaxing its purist Koreanness. For it to become a truly global phenomenon, it needs ambassadors who are idiosyncratic but have universal appeal, who can speak English fluently but wear their cultural pride on their sleeve. It needs artists who can collaborate with foreign performers and who inspire mash-up creativity among overseas audiences.
There's only one star in K-Pop's constellation who could possibly fit that bill, and he's the unlikeliest one of all. PSY Oppa: Please report to headquarters. Your mission, should you choose to accept it….


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Tap into excellent East Texas quail hunts at the 3-S Ranch
Buddy Smith had a pair of his favorite quail hunting dogs on the ground and Jimmie Buffett, his go-to pointer, was locked up on a covey in a brush pile next to a huge oak tree. Smith motioned for his yellow lab, Wes, to move in and flush the birds.
Mike Ramsey, his son Michael and I were on point when five bobwhite quail flushed. The birds were surprisingly fast, considering they were pen raised. But only two hit the ground.
"Ya'll are supposed to shoot those birds," laughed Smith, who has been putting quail hunters on birds for the better part of five decades. "These birds fly pretty fast, don't they?"
We had to agree. But within about two hours we had put just over 30 on the ground, along with several chuckers. What was so great about this hunt is that it was only a couple of hours from Beaumont. The three of us, along with Curtis Thorpe and Mark Larson, made the trip over to the 3-S Ranch about 18 miles west of Huntsville. The 3-S is a high-fenced game ranch and lodge that's set up for hunting a variety of big game from exotics to whitetails in the 200 B&C class. They also offer some very cushy quail hunts.
The quail hunts take place at Buddy Smith's Possum Walk Ranch a few miles down the road from 3-S. He's set up to handle hunts for upland birds, as well as sporting clays, skeet and trap shooting. To put it short, this is a bird hunter's quick-hit paradise.
All of us on this trip have hunted both wild and pen raised quail across Texas. And we all agreed that they were the fastest flying pen-raised bobs we had ever hunted."I've got a guy out of Navasota that does a good job raising the quail we hunt here," said Smith. "I don't keep my quail in the pens more than two weeks. Any longer and they tend to lose their ability to bust out of cover like a wild bird."
So why even bother hunting pen-raised quail? The drought has taken a toll on all Texas wildlife resources, but among the hardest hit are wild bobwhite quail. This iconic game bird already faces mounting obstacles to recovery, and the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department says the drought is making the problem much worse.
"We've been on point monitoring quail declines well before this current drought," said Clayton Wolf, wildlife director for TPWD. "We've been taking steps to address the problem, but the drought is raising the sense of urgency."
Texas' bobwhite harvest has declined by 80 percent during the past three decades. Although this decline is not as steep as seen in southeastern states, it is still cause for concern.
Many reasons are cited for these declines, but evidence points to changes in the quantity and quality of habitat as the leading cause.
Potential changes in season length and bag limits for the 2012-13 hunting season will be discussed. Over the next few months, TPWD will review the season length, bag limits and the possibility of regional differences for quail season to determine if modifications to the 2012-13 seasons are warranted.
Even in areas of the state where quail numbers have dropped considerably this year, there are still pockets with huntable numbers of bobwhites. Biologists say every bobwhite that survives the winter will be critical to next year's production.
According to the National Bobwhite Conservation Initiative, a coalition of wildlife professionals across 25 states, bobwhite quail populations have plummeted nationwide by as much as 80 percent over the past half century, by some estimates. In addition, entire suites of unhunted songbirds that depend on the same habitat of native grasslands and shrublands have recorded similar declines.
"History has shown bobwhites can bounce back when the weather cooperates and suitable habitat is available," said Wolf. "Ideal quail production occurs in years that remain wet and cool during the spring and early summer months because it extends the window of opportunity for reproduction. Hens typically would make as many nesting attempts as conditions allow until they pull off a successful clutch."
Meanwhile we've got the option of hunting pen-raised birds at places like the 3-S Ranch. Smith runs his hunts on about 1,000 acres of varying habitat. It's slow rolling hills, with lots of brush mixed in with towering pines and hardwoods. They are relaxing hunts and easy to walk. Smith has a swarm of pointers that he rotates out about every 45 minutes. That way he's always got a fresh dog on the ground.
The hunts we made this past weekend were excellent, as was the lodge and the pile of fried quail we had for dinner Saturday evening. This is a quick hit for Southeast Texas bird hunters. We made two hunts with overnight lodging, and quite a bit of lying around a huge fireplace. Cost is about $425 per gun. That included lunch upon our arrival Saturday at noon, an afternoon hunt, dinner, breakfast, a morning hunt, and lunch back at the lodge before heading out. That's a pretty good deal. They will be running quail hunts through the end of February.
For more information, contact outfitter Bill Fondren at (409) 381-1397.


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