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Mentor Graphics Corporation announced that the Nucleus® Operating System (OS) Multimedia Framework (MMF) has passed OpenMAX™ IL conformance testing on the Atmel AT91SAM9261 platform, making it the first commercial OS to achieve such platform conformance validation awarded by the Khronos™ Group.
Mentor Graphics Corporation announced that the Nucleus® Operating System (OS) Multimedia Framework (MMF) has passed OpenMAX™ IL conformance testing on the Atmel AT91SAM9261 platform, making it the first commercial OS to achieve such platform conformance validation awarded by the Khronos™ Group. Reaching this industry milestone promotes easier porting of multimedia components to the Nucleus OS, speeding up design and delivery of multimedia applications.
"We are honored to become the first ever recipients of Khronos Groups OpenMAX conformance validation," said Neil Henderson, general manager for the Embedded Systems Division of Mentor Graphics. "For Nucleus customers, this industry-validated multimedia API solves portability issues and dramatically improves interoperability when working with multimedia components from different sources."
The Nucleus OS incorporates a powerful user interface engine that enables the creation and customization of visually compelling, easy to use interfaces for consumer electronic devices such as mobile phones, personal media players and set-top boxes. Completely new designs can be realized without modification to the devices software stack.
The Nucleus Multimedia Framework extends this capability, enabling rich audio and video content to be incorporated easily throughout a devices user interface. Having certified OpenMAX IL interfaces further improves interoperability when porting and optimizing new multimedia components on this platform.
"This announcement marks the beginning of an era, where certified OpenMAX-based platforms enable the rapid and flexible deployment of streaming media acceleration on a wide range of silicon platforms and operating systems," commented Neil Trevett, president of the Khronos Group. "The certified Nucleus OS MMF implementation offers developers a trusted and industry-certified environment, where they can take advantage of the full power of OpenMAX capabilities."
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Mentor Graphics Corporation (NASDAQ: MENT) is a world leader in electronic hardware and software design solutions, providing products, consulting services and award-winning support for the worlds most successful electronics and semiconductor companies. Established in 1981, the company reported revenues over the last 12 months of over $850 million and employs approximately 4,200 people worldwide. Corporate headquarters are located at 8005 S.W. Boeckman Road, Wilsonville, Oregon 97070-7777. World Wide Web site: www.mentor.com/.


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SAN JOSE — A veteran San Jose firefighter was arraigned Tuesday on charges of drug dealing after he allegedly sold meth to an undercover officer but no charges have been filed on allegations that he gave drugs to and had sex with an underage teen.
Mario Enrique Cuestas, 53, of San Lorenzo, did not enter a plea during the brief hearing where he answered to three felony counts involving the sale and possession of methamphetamine. Judge Deborah A. Ryan set his bail at $75,000, and he was taken back to protective custody at the Santa Clara County Jail.
Cuestas was arrested Thursday at the headquarters for the San Jose Fire Department, where he was recently named its director of public outreach, making him the agency's primary liaison with schools and community and church groups. He has worked with SJFD for 20 years, most of them as a fire engineer and driver and partly as a fire investigator.
"This is an individual who occupies a position of trust and authority, and he violated that," said Deputy District Attorney Patrick Vanier, supervising attorney for the narcotics division at the District Attorney's Office. "It underscores the seriousness of this case."
Vanier said an investigation into an alleged sexual relationship between Cuestas and a 17-year-old boy is ongoing and is being reviewed by another set of prosecutors.
Cuestas appeared stoic and morose during the court hearing, where several supporters sat in the gallery. He made a brief appreciative gesture to the group before he was led away. The supporters walked out of the courthouse without acknowledging questions from reporters.
Charging documents filed Tuesday revealed more details about the sting that led to Cuestas' arrest, which capped a swift two-month investigation sparked by a tip to agents with the Santa Clara County Specialized Enforcement Team, a squad of local police officers funded and overseen by the California Department of Justice.
The tip led to agents contacting Cuestas and arranging a lunchtime meth buy. An undercover officer met with Cuestas on Jan. 17 at an undisclosed restaurant in San Jose where the suspect allegedly sold an eighth of an ounce of meth for $150. That was followed by Cuestas allegedly making another offer a week later.
Vanier said it was clear during the officer's interaction with Cuestas that he was a firefighter. He was observed wearing a San Jose Fire Department lanyard attached to his work badge, and the undercover agent asked about it.
"The officer made note of it, but Mr. Cuestas did not acknowledge it, and changed the subject," Vanier said.
At the time of his arrest, authorities searched his car and found a small amount of meth, which investigators believe Cuestas used recreationally. Where he got the drugs was not immediately clear, and there is no record of previous drug arrests or convictions associated with Cuestas in Santa Clara County.
State Department of Justice spokeswoman Michelle Gregory said last week that the investigation also yielded information that he allegedly had a sexual relationship with a 17-year-old boy to whom he gave drugs. Gregory said the boy has been cooperative with authorities.
The drug counts carry a maximum sentence of four years and eight months in state prison.
Cuestas' arrest shocked the fire department and greater San Jose community, where he was a well-regarded and vocal figure who often took leadership roles within the rank-and-file. He has since been placed on unpaid administrative leave.
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The Met Office has issued an updated yellow 'Be aware' weather warning for snow and ice for the north east.
Issued just after 11.30am today (Saturday), the warning is in force from 9pm tonight until 7am tomorrow morning (Sunday, January 15).
The warning states: "Outbreaks of rain, sleet and snow will extend east across Scotland and northern England later Saturday evening and through Sunday morning. This will lead to a risk of icy stretches on untreated surfaces as well as some temporary accumulations of snow. Any sleet and snow will turn to rain from the northwest after midnight.
"There is a chance of difficult driving conditions on untreated roads and slippery conditions on pavements and cycle paths are possible."
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The Lamborghini Miura is an icon, and not just because it's pretty. It's an icon because of the revolution that is ignited. It can be argued that the Miura is the first showroom-ready supercar, with its engine in the middle. And it looks fantastic in blue.
I can remember the first time I saw a Lamborghini Miura in person. It was on the highway. I was in the middle lane, the Miura in the slow lane. The driver probably didn't want to risk damaging it. But even as it sat there on its haunches, moving just about 60 miles per hour, you could still tell what it was used for. Despite the lack of actual velocity, every time the driver lifted off the throttle, the engine would pop and snort and a spit of flame would shoot out the back. And the whole thing smelled like heaven.
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Egypt presents 'paradoxical situation'
- Democracy enshrined in U.S. core values
- But U.S. interests might be better served with Egyptian President Morsi gone
- Obama calls for return of a democratically elected government
WASHINGTON — The fireworks pictured on the front pages of some American newspapers on July 4 were lighting the skies above Tahrir Square in Cairo.
The Egyptian military's overthrow of President Mohammed Morsi, albeit after a popular uprising, put President Obama in the awkward position of reacting with less than outrage over the ouster of Egypt's first democratically elected government. Instead, the White House found itself caught between America's core values as it celebrates its birthday at home — a defining belief in democracy — and U.S. interests abroad.
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Those geopolitical interests might well be better served with Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood, the once-banned Islamist movement, out of power in the world's largest Arab country, and with a more stable Egyptian government in charge.
"It's a very paradoxical situation," says Daniel Serwer, a former U.S. diplomat who teaches at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. "The realities are that we're probably better off in the immediate impact of this thing, because the (Egyptian-Israeli) peace treaty and relations with the (Egyptian) army are likely better without the Muslim Brotherhood. But in the longer term, they're going to want to see a return to democracy, and it can't be very long."
The administration must walk a "fine line" between its support for democracy and its need for a stable Egypt, given its importance in the region, says David Rothkopf of Foreign Policy magazine. "It plays a vitally important role with regard to its neighbors, including Israel."
Obama met Thursday with his national security advisers in the White House situation room to discuss developments in Egypt.
His only public words came in a cautious written statement issued Wednesday evening. "We are committed to the democratic process and the rule of law," he said, saying the United States was "deeply concerned" about Morsi's overthrow. "I now call on the Egyptian military to move quickly and responsibly to return full authority back to a democratically elected civilian government as soon as possible through an inclusive and transparent process and to avoid any arbitrary arrests of President Morsi and his supporters."
In two important choices of words, Obama called for the return to "a" democratically elected civilian government — that is, not "the" civilian government that already had been democratically elected.
And he never used the four-letter word "coup." That's significant because U.S. law automatically cuts off aid to any country in which the "duly elected head of government is deposed by military coup d'etat or decree." The United States sends about $1.5 billion a year in aid to Egypt, almost all of it to the military that overthrew Morsi.
Obama, in his statement, referred instead to "the current unrest in Egypt," "this uncertain period" and "the decision of the Egyptian armed forces to remove President Morsi and suspend the Egyptian constitution." That said, he also directed "the relevant departments and agencies to review the implications under U.S. law for our assistance to the government of Egypt."
"If this were to be seen as a coup, then it would limit our ability to have the kind of relationship we think we need with the Egyptian armed forces," Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said in an interview with CNN that aired Wednesday but was recorded before the overthrow.
Obama had called Morsi on Monday, urging him to follow more inclusive policies in the wake of widening street protests. Wednesday and Thursday, administration officials were on the phone with their Egyptian counterparts and others in the region. According to the White House, Secretary of State John Kerry called his Egyptian counterpart as well as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the foreign ministers of Qatar, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates and Norway. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel called his counterparts in Egypt and Israel. National security adviser Susan Rice and her deputy, Antony Blinken, also made calls.
Their message: the need to return to a democratically elected civilian government as soon as possible, a transparent political process that includes all parties and groups, the responsibility of all groups to avoid violence, and the need to avoid arbitrary arrests of Morsi and his supporters.
The Egyptians have offered assurances that a civilian government would be put in place quickly and promised quick elections. The military also pledged to take steps to ensure the safety of Americans in Egypt, including those at the embassy in Cairo and the consulate in Alexandria. The State Department has ordered the families of embassy personnel and non-essential U.S. diplomats to leave Egypt.
The crisis in Egypt poses an early test for Obama's national security team, revamped in his second term. Rice, the former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, began her new job as White House national security adviser this week. Kerry and Hagel were sworn in this year. They have been largely focused on other fronts in the region, including U.S. military aid to the Syrian rebels and Kerry's efforts to revive the moribund Israeli-Palestinian peace talks.
"Clearly, everybody in the administration is trying to talk to the contacts they have in Egypt to convey their concerns," says Jon Alterman, a State Department veteran now at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. "There's no question Egypt resonates. What happens will send ripples around the region for years to come."
Those repercussions already were apparent. In civil war-torn Syria, embattled President Bashar Assad Thursday praised the demonstrations in Cairo against the Muslim Brotherhood, which has supported the armed conflict against his rule. In an interview with a state-run newspaper, he said Morsi's overthrow signaled the end of "political Islam."
U.S. officials are watching how rapidly the Egyptian military moves to set elections and whether the Muslim Brotherhood will continue to engage in elective politics rather than violent protest, says Isobel Coleman, director of the Civil Society, Markets and Democracy Initiative at the Council on Foreign Relations. "At stake, of course, is the credibility of democracy in that part of the world," she says, "and the United States has been a big backer of democracy."
In a reassuring move, a justice from the Egyptian Supreme Constitutional Court, Adly Mansour, was sworn in Thursday as interim president. However, in a disquieting development, Gehad el-Haddad, a Muslim Brotherhood spokesman, said Morsi and a dozen of his aides had been placed under house arrest.
Morsi denounced his ouster as a "full coup," and a top foreign relations aide in effect mocked Obama's careful choice of words. "For the sake of Egypt and for historical accuracy, let's call what is happening by its real name: Military coup," Essam Haddad, assistant to the president of Egypt on foreign relations, said on his official Facebook page.
Backers of the protesters also joined the debate over rhetoric. The Arabic-language newspaper Al-Tarir put an English-language headline in red capital letters across the top of its front page Thursday: "IT'S A REVOLUTION ... NOT A COUP, MR. OBAMA!"
"Egypt is a critical ally and remains a critical ally, but it is now a foreign policy headache for the United States," says Gayle Tzemach Lemmon of the Council on Foreign Relations. "This is an administration that wanted to focus on nation-building at home, but the foreign policy questions just keep rising, and we don't see any end to it."


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Albert Tulk made a fortune just before the First World War. So he decided to hire B.C.'s top architects to design a Vancouver house befitting his stature.
Samuel Maclure was known for his large mansions — he was the architect behind the Rogers mansion in the West End and Hatley Castle in Victoria. For the Tulk commission he joined with Cecil Croker Fox to build one of Shaughnessy's landmark mansions, Rosemary.
Named after Tulk's daughter, the Tudor revival home was built on two lots at 3689 Selkirk that took up almost two acres of land. Construction began in 1912, but the building was so large it took several years to complete.
In fact, there are two structures: a 2,200 sq. ft "carriage house" at the north end and a 14,200 sq. ft main house to the south. They're joined by a second-storey bridge over the porte-cochere that leads into the home's lush back yard. The porte-cochere resembles the entrance to a castle.
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Tulk moved into the carriage house in 1912 and the main house in 1915, but work apparently went on for several more years — his 1922 obituary said Rosemary "has only been completed recently."
After Tulk's death, B.C.'s 14th Lieutenant-Governor, John William Fordham Johnson, bought the house for $75,000, which was probably a bit less than it cost to build.
Johnson sold it to industrialist/horseman Austin Taylor in 1931, and in 1947 it was purchased by the Order of the Convent of Our Lady of the Cenacle, which operated it as a retreat.
In 1994, the Sisters of the Cenacle decided to sell, and in 1996, the lot was subdivided in three, so new homes could be built on either side. In return, Rosemary was "designated" a heritage structure, which means it can't be torn down.
The mansion was sold in April for $11 million to "international investor" Mingfei Zhao.
There has been a lot of controversy recently about offshore investors tearing down heritage buildings in Vancouver. But Zhao apparently loves the house, and has commissioned architect Ken Wong and FairTradeWorks construction to restore it. Zhao even let the news media in to have a look at the house, pre-restoration. And it doesn't disappoint.
"It's a 16,000 square foot Heritage A home, almost in its original state. Very little has changed over the last 100 years," said Jim Perkins of FairTradeWorks.
"It's really quite wonderful," said Don Luxton, the heritage consultant on the project. "Extraordinary wood work and plaster work that just goes on forever, all through the house."
The wow factor begins when you enter the home and are greeted by a two-storey-high grand foyer with a "minstrel gallery" on the second-storey landing where musicians could set up to entertain guests.
The foyer boasts its own fireplace, one of 12 in the home. There is also oak panelling most everywhere you look.
The biggest space is the drawing room, which is 27 feet wide and 36 feet long. It features two banks of leaded glass bay windows, parquet oak floors, and an elaborate ceiling medallion.
The room was originally even grander, but was walled off by the Sisters when they used it as a chapel.
"It originally looked over the back garden," said Connor Doyle of FairTradeWorks. "That's going to be restored. It'll be opened up and looking over the back garden again."
The dining room is another glorious space, with mahogany panel walls and a stunning coffered ceiling. Across the hall is another showpiece, a library with wall-to-wall built-in leaded-glass bookcases.
An even bigger library is on the second floor. The 26-foot long, 22-foot wide room is very 1915 — the walls and ceiling are covered in oak panelling, which gives it a dark Edwardian look.
It was originally the billiards room, where Tulk and his friends probably cut business deals over cigars, whiskey and pool.
"It's quite extraordinary. You don't usually see houses like this that have survived in this kind of condition," said Luxton.
"The surprising thing in the interior is that almost nothing has been changed. It's still very intact. (But) the mechanicals are shot, the electrical, plumbing, the usual things that you would expect wouldn't be in particularly good shape with a building that age."
The mechanicals will be upgraded in the restoration. So will the kitchen, which is quite modest, because back in the day the cooking would have been done by servants.
Still, the house will largely be retained as is, with original touches like the lath-and-plaster walls. And there are no plans to insulate them.
"We're not going to drywall and make it all brand new," said Perkins.
"You'd be surprised. There's actually no insulation on the exterior walls," said Perkins, "which in this modern time you'd think was absolutely ludicrous. But we've been in here in the winter, and it's surprisingly draft free, and keeps fairly warm."
The brass radiator system will also be retained, but there will be a new boiler.
"One of our first jobs was to remove the boiler in the basement, which was riddled with asbestos and glowing green," said Perkins.
"We had to chop it up, contain it and get it out of there. Now we've gone from a boiler that's the size of this room down to a modern, fuel-efficient, energy-efficient boiler, which is tied in to the existing heating system. Which is on one zone, if you can imagine — it's radiators and one thermostat in the lobby, and really efficiently and nicely heats the house."
Everything about the house is grand. The first floor has 12-foot high ceilings. The master bedroom is bigger than most condos. The giant Sequoia tree in front is about 80 feet tall. You could have a football field in the back yard.
There are 31 rooms on the first and second floors, and 16 bedrooms overall (five on the second floor of the main house, five in the carriage house, and six on the third floor, where the servants would have lived.
As luxurious as the house is, it was originally supposed to be even more high-end.
"It was originally going to be all brick," said Luxton.
"They built the first section in 1912, and by 1914 the economy was crashing (because of the First World War). So they didn't finish it in brick and stone, as was originally planned.
"We don't know exactly what it cost, but it was probably in the $75,000 range," said Luxton. "It would have been the most expensive house in Shaughnessy."
Which begs the question, just who was Albert Edward Tulk?
Well, he was the son of a prominent merchant in Hamilton, Ont. In 1898, 18-year-old Albert came west for the Klondike Gold Rush, and wound up settling in Vancouver.
Some accounts say he was a whisky baron, because he owned the Gold Seal Liquor Company. But his great-granddaughter Misha Galt Martin said that's "the family joke."
"He was a venture capitalist," said Galt Martin, who lives in Seattle.
"He would invest in businesses, then sell his interest in six or seven months. That's pretty much how he made his money."
Tulk was also a lawyer, and an avid sportsman who developed Vancouver's first baseball park on the Powell Street Grounds (today's Oppenheimer Park). He also co-owned a pro baseball team that played at Recreation Park at Nelson and Homer.
He made enough money to retire in his mid-30s, but had some health problems — his obituary said he was ill for several years. He died of tuberculosis on Dec. 10, 1922, just shy of his 43rd birthday. His daughter Rosemary sounds like she was a bit of a handful. In the 1930s she scandalized Vancouver society by eloping to Bellingham with a younger man, William Galt Martin.
"He was a Galt," said Misha Galt Martin, who is Rosemary and William's granddaughter.
"His mom was the granddaughter of Sir Alexander Galt, one of the Fathers of Confederation. They eloped to Bellingham, and the Galts and the Martins had a heart attack, that this 24-year-old ran off with an 18-year-old boy."
She didn't stay married to William, though.
"She married seven times," said Galt Martin.
"I think she was a rather difficult woman. She was a bit of a spoiled girl. She tended to marry British ex-military guys — they were all colonels and that kind of nonsense. But she lived all over the world, the Canary Islands, South Africa."
Her last husband was a Welsh Colonel named Bill Weston, who she lived with in Richmond. When Weston died, Rosemary moved to a nursing home in White Rock. On February 22, 2014, Rosemary Tulk Martin Morrison Hales Bingham Weston died at the age of 100.
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Steven Sinofsky has taken to the 'net to insist that he didn't try to take over the Windows Phone division in his last months at Microsoft.
In the days since it was announced that Microsoft was losing one of its big Stevens 'with immediate effect', tech gossip has been running at overtime.
Commenting on a blog post written by ex-Microsoft engineer Hal Berenson, Sinofsky defends himself, saying that "I never initiated any discussions to bring together the organisations/products you describe."
He's referring to Berenson's insinuation that Sinofsky was trying to take control of both the Windows Phone and Developer divisions, as well as the Windows division he already oversaw.
Sinofsky was the president of the Windows Division at Microsoft, and, as Mary Branscombe suggests, he may have clashed with Microsoft founder Bill Gates over how the various divisions should be organised and run.
However, Sinofsky is staying clear on one point at least: "No one [outside the Windows division] ever approached me to manage them as part of Windows 7 or 8."


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Once again winter has arrived, and I'm starting to feel the usual depression coming on. I'm an HIV-positive woman who is on the far side of 50 and more than a little overweight. Throughout the winter, I find that I gain even more weight, sleep longer than usual, and end up drinking beer nightly in bed with the T.V. going nonstop. I'm lonely and tend to become very bitter at the thought of other people enjoying the most out of life.
In fact, life seems to have given me the short end of the stick. I've attempted to go out to nightclubs but end up sitting alone at the bar downing drinks until I'm plastered. When I try to think of ways to build new relationships, I can't get past how bad my past relationships have been with my hateful family, an abusive ex-boyfriend, and a few drunken, fair-weather friends. My true friends are candies, cookies, cakes, ice cream, television, and booze -- these at least make me feel warm inside when the weather outside is cold.
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When faced with HIV, people are at some point in their life are going to be confronted with depression. The reasons are simple: HIV can wear out anyone's emotional stability and depression can be a common result of this debilitating disease. Placing all other emotional issues aside and battling this disease in any way possible is the first step, but at some point one must also attempt to gain emotional balance.
Hopefully anyone with HIV is taking their medication consistently, staying connected with their medical advisers, and conducting themselves in a mature and educated manner on all new developments. This should include how medication and HIV can produce depressive effects. Having this information should provide the additional insights and educational strengths that people with HIV need to help keep themselves emotionally balanced. It is always encouraged for anyone with HIV or taking HIV medication to seek out psychological intervention when faced with depression.
HIV and depression are often coupled together, and you should see a mental health professional or social support groups if you see the signs of serious depression early on. Early signs include feeling sad, hopeless, or discouraged and having changes in appetite, weight, sleep or physical activity. If your outlook doesn't improve within two weeks, you should seek help from a mental health professional. More serious symptoms include greatly decreased levels of energy; feelings of worthlessness, hopelessness or guilt; great difficulty thinking; weight or sleep changes; and recurrent thoughts of death or suicide. If you have these more serious symptoms, you should seek out professional help immediately, such as by calling a hotline or consulting your primary care physician.
The period during and after the annual holiday season can be a difficult time for many people since it usually reactivates memories of one's past life and promotes self-evaluation for the future. Thanksgiving may bring up emotional issues when people ask themselves the question "What do I really have to be thankful for?" Christmas, Hanukkah and Kwanzaa are communal events that would naturally bring up concerns about family and friends, not just for the current season but also over the past year. New Year's Day raises issues about past regrets and future resolutions that probably won't be kept.
The darkened skies and cold weather could also naturally figure into your state of depression (a condition called Seasonal Affective Disorder or SAD). However, you have mentioned several other factors that are strong indicators for depression in general, regardless of the season. I would doubt that the issues you have mentioned would not be present in the summer. These include:
Your HIV.
Your age.
Your statements on being overweight.
Your association with alcohol as your "friend."
Your placement of sugary foods as a substitute for love and a sense of belonging.
These statements bring up so many concerns within your self image and your daily structure that I could not justify attributing all your emotional problems just on the season. Having a positive outlook coupled with a strong daily structure might maintain your behavior somewhat in spite of the gloom you feel.
Still, Seasonal Affective Disorder may be contributing to your worsened state of mind during the winter months. This condition is characterized by recurrent episodes of depression in certain months of the year and alternation with periods of normal mood during the rest of the year. Usually those affected by SAD become depressed in the fall and winter and feel better during the spring and summer. The usual characteristics of recurrent winter depression include oversleeping, carbohydrate craving, and weight gain. Other symptoms include the usual features of depression, especially decreased sexual appetite, lethargy, hopelessness, suicidal thoughts, lack of interest in normal activities, and social withdrawal. Bright, fluorescent (not ordinary) light has been shown to reverse the winter depressive symptoms of SAD. Scientists believe that light therapy works by altering the levels of certain brain chemicals. Research has also shown that antidepressants such as Zoloft and Prozac may be helpful in treating SAD, and other antidepressants may also be of value.
Listed below are some steps you can take to improve your mood throughout the year.
Controlling your food intake: Substituting food for human love is a no-win situation. You need to recognize that equating sugary foods (like candies, cookies and cakes) with love is ultimately detrimental to your emotional and physical health. Supportive group therapy focusing on weight loss, in addition to advice from a medical doctor or nutritionist, would be helpful for planning and starting a consistent diet. Eating sensible foods would be a reasonable starting point that could lead to a major improvement in your life. If you only abuse your body with sugary foods during the winter months, then state this to your medical doctor for further evaluation.
Controlling your alcohol intake: Self-medicating with alcohol due to loneliness and low self worth is again another no-win situation. Considering alcohol a "friend" clearly speaks of your limited social supports and distorted judgment. I would ask you to consider Alcoholics Anonymous, other support groups, and the direct intervention of a mental health professional in the area of substance abuse. You need to become conscious of the damage to your physical health happening every day due to your uncontrolled alcohol intake. In addition to the abuse your body takes from your carbohydrate craving and lack of exercise, you should re-educate yourself on basic steps to improve your physical and emotional health, considering your HIV status.
Staying away from people who are damaging to your mental health: Loneliness is a key fact in explaining why we sometimes interact with people who are poor social companions. Now is the time to regain your focus on friends who provide you with support and to reject those who contribute to your poor self-image. Negative people must be avoided! They pull you down and affect your ability to pull yourself up. Negativity is infectious and the best medicine is to remove yourself from these individuals who are real dowers. You need to be around a supportive and empathetic circle of friends -- not the ones you described, who sound monstrous! Like any other relationship, this group of friends will take time to develop, but you can start the process now! The first step is to clean up your act and display the same personal characteristics that you would like to see, hear and feel in others. Positive-thinking people attract other positive-thinking people. Individuals steeped in negativity will be "turned off" by your uplifting thoughts and conversation; they will bring up negative conversation and attempt to pull you in. Follow the old rule: misery loves company, so don't join in! Don't become a passive audience to anyone's negative thinking -- move on.
Providing yourself with a solid daily structure: Your problems raise the question of why there is so little structure, direction, and goal-setting in your life. Since you didn't mention unemployment, I am assuming that you have a job which would account for at least 8 hours of your day. The other 8 hours before you sleep is the area that most concerns me. Drinking alcohol, eating nonstop sweets, and watching television in bed sound like a road map to the state of depression you are in. The first step for you is to structure in exercise in which you worked out with weights, do cardiovascular exercise, and possibly swim in a pool. This would provide you with a healthy choice to feel better about yourself, lose some weight, and possibly socially interact with others.
Certainly it sounds as if you would do well with any redirection from your bed. In addition eating out at health-food restaurants could help you start the process of making healthier choices in your diet. After work, consider a movie, a play, a dance performance or a sports game to help redirect you away from the isolation of your bedroom. Seek out activity groups that will help to motivate you to apply yourself consistently.
Seeking out HIV support: Participating in an HIV support group with people with whom you feel a connection could help you with facing life's HIV challenges. This is one group that should be a part of your weekly structure. In addition, an HIV support group may be able to assist you in developing more of the social network that you clearly need in your life. Health concerns and social issues can be discussed in this group, as well as past issues of shame and resentment. The holidays would naturally bring up these issues in your group and they could then be addressed and finally dealt with. Your current structure is limited, as you can have little human interaction while you remain isolated in bed plying yourself with alcohol and sugary foods.
Doing volunteer work: Finally always consider volunteering, especially but not only around holidays. There are many people who could benefit from your attention. Homeless shelters and food kitchens are always looking for volunteers to assist in servicing the needs of this forgotten population. This sense of "giving back," as well as working with others who care, may offer you the structure and direction you need to pull you through this troubling time. At this point I would suggest volunteering several nights a week rather than remaining in bed with the TV going nonstop and you stuffing yourself with candies, cookies, cakes all washed down by alcohol. This is a slow suicide!
In conclusion, please consider taking the steps to seek out medical and psychological intervention. You must remember it has taken some time for you to get to this point. Now with this insight, begin to take the small steps to change your life and open up new possibilities. In time I am sure you will greatly benefit and begin to interact with the world around you. Good luck!
|J. Buzz von Ornsteiner, Ph.D. is a psychologist and behavioral consultant in New York City and writes the "Psychologically Speaking" column. He is also the host of "Ask Dr. Buzz," a Body Positive-sponsored weekly call-in radio show about HIV/AIDS issues on WWRL 1600 AM at 2:30 pm on Wednesdays.


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Does anybody else get really cold after eating?
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This seems to have gotten worse the last year or so. By the way I am a C for quad, nine years post injury. I don't really understand it, but especially after a lunch,, I get so cold! I usually have to put on an electric blanket and drink hot water to stop shivering. Quite annoying.


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What would happen if Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny and the Tooth Fairy joined forces like a storybook troop of Avengers action heroes?
According to Rise of the Guardians, their coming together would be visually arresting but frenetic. Mashing up all these mythical heroes into one overstuffed tale offers some moments of enchantment. But the overall 3-D computer-animated spectacle, with its roller-coaster pace and large cast of characters, seems as overloaded as a bulging Christmas stocking.
The good vs. evil story is centered on Jack Frost (charmingly voiced by Chris Pine), who feels left out of the pantheon of beloved legendary figures. Even the mutely endearing Sandman is part of the in crowd, but silver-haired Jack is inexplicably the odd man out.
But when a sinister bogeyman known as Pitch (Jude Law) threatens to turn all dreams into nightmares and obscure the good being done by North (Alec Baldwin), a Santa variant, the lanky E. Aster Bunny (Hugh Jackman) and the flitting fairy named Tooth (Isla Fisher), Jack is called in to help fight the good fight. The evil Pitchs goal is to stomp out belief in these storied icons. The happiness of imaginative children is at stake, so all must join forces to preserve their illusions.
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The Santa Claus character is humorously voiced by Baldwin, but its not entirely clear why he has a thick Russian accent and arms lined with tattoos. (Though having the words Naughty and Nice inked among the tats is a cute touch.)
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Jack Frost whooshes and flies with an appealing abandon. But hes a troubled loner. In a flashback, audiences learn the reasons for his icy, solitary existence and why he wants so badly to be seen by human kids as they frolic in the snow. His pale boyish character vaguely reminiscent of Japanese animé drawings is the most intriguing of the heroes, particularly as he uncovers his mysterious origins.
Though it could have left more magic to the imagination and left out a few treacly clichés, the concept is elegantly simple: Storybook figures look out for children who, for their part, keep their holiday-centered legends alive. With its fanciful razzle-dazzle, Rise of the Guardians is appealing, if slightly hectic, family fare.


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STRANGE BUT TRUE- Drive-by: Don't reach out and touch someone
Q. When might the simple act of reaching out and handing a package of gum to another person get both of you killed fast? Don't try this! –E. Ford
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speed, says Jearl Walker in The Flying Circus of Physics. The friend in the passenger side reached out to hand a package of gum to the professor. But when the two hands got within an inch or two of touching, a terrific discharge occurred between them that was momentarily disabling. "Luckily, the professor did not veer into the second car before he could regain his senses and the control of his car," Walker writes.
The spark occurred because the motion of the cars electrically charged the professor and the friend by different amounts, possibly even with one charge being positive and the other negative. "When the two hands were close enough, electrons from one jumped across the air gap to the other, reducing the charge difference"– and zap!
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A. Surprisingly, A. Figure that there are 150 billion cubic feet in a cubic mile (5,280 x 5,280 x 5,280), which when divided by 6.4 billion = 23 cubic feet per person– "enough for all of us to squeeze in," with ample breathing room left over, say Edward Burger and Michael Starbird in Coincidences, Chaos, and All That Math Jazz.
Q. Wow, a Roman numerals equation, but it's not correct: No way that 11 + 1 = 10. Without using a pencil, how might you fix it? You'll flip at how easy this is. XI + I = X –J. Brinkley
A. At least three fixes here: (1) Rotate the page through 180 degrees (2) View the page right side up but reflected in a mirror (3) If the page is at least partly translucent, turn it over and view the equation through the rear side. (From A Beginner's Guide to Immortality by Clifford Pickover)
Q. Why the powerful appeal of "monkey see, monkey do" for us humans? –D. Fossey
A. Credit "mirror neurons" that fire every time you make a move, like opening a can of soda, says Ingfei Chen in Discover. Remarkably, these same frontal lobe neurons fire if you just see or hear another person open the can or munch potato chips! That's what makes empathy such a fundamental human capacity– because it's at the neurological level, says Christian Keysers.
In fact, the stronger people's neurons flash in response to sound cues, the higher they score on questionnaires testing their ability to put themselves in another person's shoes. Thus "monkey see, monkey do" becomes "see the monkey, feel for the monkey." And in a rather startling study, PET scans revealed a similar mirror-neuron hookup in literal monkeys as well, says psychologist David G. Myers.
These mirror neurons also tie in with the hot topic of "memes," those self-replicating cultural mutations ranging from fashions to cell phones to ideas. Learning by imitation is the social glue here, which is what our monkeying-about species is all about.
Q. I'm 53 and don't understand why I can't remember where I put my keys 15 minutes ago but I can remember every word of the theme from Gilligan's Island. Any ideas? –P. Cantor
A. The problem's not all that mysterious, says Princeton University psychologist Ken Norman. Basic principles of memory will explain it: We all have good recall of the Gilligan's Island song because we were exposed to it repeatedly, paid attention to it (at least some of the time), and because the song is highly meaningful (it tells a coherent story) and structured (melody, repeating chorus, etc).
On the other hand, we all forget where we put our keys because placing them is a single event, we hardly pay attention, today's placement gets easily confused with yesterday's, and in any case has no real meaning to us. Great keys-memory would follow if we placed them the same every day, paid attention as we did so, and made up a little song ("I'm putting my keys on the dresser, da dum dah...") as mnemonic assist.
"But who has the mental energy or inclination to do this?" Norman asks. "And so we lose our keys."
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Just briefly… I hope the Yankees volunteered to fly the Twins in on a private jet for Game One tonight. Detroit would have upset New York, but Ryan Rayburn made absolutely the worst defensive play I've ever seen in such a vital game (anybody ever mention anything about keeping the ball in front of you — or if you decide to risk it, about putting the glove down rather than just sliding purposelessly?) and so it is Minnesota. The storybook Twins have been utterly stumped by the Yankees for six years and should remain so.
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Go Rockies! Or go Cardinals/Dodgers! Should the Phillies beat the Rockies, that is. Have I mentioned that I'm not fond of the Phillies? Oh, yeah…ad nauseum. "Sorry about that, Chief!" (spoken in Maxwell Smart voice)
As always, best wishes to your dad, you, and your family. Good to hear that your dad is so forgiving! LOL! 😀
Am looking forward to the Special Comment (supersized edition) tonight. Come out swinging! Thanks for doing this for all of us whose voices aren't being heard.
I love ya, Keith but you are wrong about the Phils.
Can't wait for your show tonight…I'll be watching it when I get home from the Phillies game today. Go Phils!
Go Phils!
I am still a huge hold out for a Sox & Rockies world series! (stranger things have happened!)
I, too, will be glued to the show tonight. Go get 'em, Keith!
Glad to know your dad is pulling through with thoughts of baseball!!!! Praying for you and your family, still…
Pass along our best wishes for your dad. Hope you both get out of there, soonest. Baseball takes second chair to that.
>>The Dodgers won a bad division badly…
Hmmmm… While it used to be the NL Worst, I don't think that's true any more. The West had 2 teams with over 90 wins. The only other division with that distinction was the AL East.
SF finished in third place with 88 wins. That bests every other division's second place finisher, with the exception, again, of the AL East and the Red Sox' 95 win Mild Card entry.
Both the AL East and NL West fourth place teams had 75-87 records, and the NLW last place team (AZ) had 6 more wins than the ALE last place team (BAL).
Oh, yeah… The NL West also produced the best second place team in the league, the Rockies.
So, maybe not so bad after all.
Keith, thank you for an absolutely fantastic show tonight. I know this is a baseball blog, but… I just had to say it.
Your Special Comment on the health care system tonight was one of the best things I have ever seen on television. Seriously.
Best wishes to you and your father, and I hope he gets to move closer to you very soon.
Thank you Keith for all that you do! You and your dad are in my thoughts. Despite the darkness that is out there right now, at least there is post-season baseball. For some folks there are many reasons to cheer… and for us Mets fans there will always be next year… Ha! 🙂
second comment…just finished watching your show! Bravo! thank you for being a for those who don't have one!
Best to your father and to your family, as always! keep hanging in there!


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Sabrina Lutz (Germany) and Mario Rodwald (Germany) are the 2013 European Freestyle Champions in kiteboarding.
The European Championship titles in Freestyle Kiteboarding and the course racing tour winners have been awarded during the last tour stop of the MINI Kitesurf Tour Europe in Castelldefels (Spain) from October 10th - October 13th.
The German front-runners Mario Rodwald (22) and compatriot Sabrina Lutz (24) went into a thrilling competition in Castelldeldefels. The weather gods gave their support to the 78 riders from ten nations and so the kiteboarders took off to run the single elimination on the stormy mediterranean waters of Castelldefels. In the athletic freestyle competition the kiteboarders compete aganist each other in a knock out system. Judges award points for the most complex tricks and jumps. Everything went well for the two german front runners until some upset was caused in the semi-finals.
Austria's Stefan Spiessberger (24) who was close on Rodwald's heels in the overall ranking, kept his nerve and won over the German in the semi finals in a very tight match. Rodwald finished third but Spiessberger continued his winning strike and sent spanish superstar Alex Pastor to the second place. The Austrian's win wasn't enough however to prevent Rodwald from defending his 2012 European Championship title.
In the women's division, Sabrina Lutz faced a similar fate and she too lost and won at the same time. She lost in the semi finals against her nemesis, the reigning european champion Annelou Lammerts (20) and she also managed to finish in third position, but despite her loss against Lammerts the woman from germany won the title. She had simply gathered enough points to secure the 2013 title. Danish talent Therese Taabbel (17) secured a second place in Castelldefels.
The winds soon calmed down and the racers were sent out to battle out their tour winner on a course staked out with buoys. Again it was a german who managed to get in front. Florian Gruber won over Julien Kerneur from France and Russia's Ivan Doronin. Then the wind decided that it was time for siesta and returned only on the very last day, when two more races could be run. Florian Gruber won race two and got a second place in the last race, which secured him the event win. However he couldn't get the overall titel due to two missing points that made Maxime Nocher from France a happy Tour winner while securing the 2nd place in Castelldefels.
In the women's division Astrid Bertz from Switzerland was more consistent than her opponent Katja Roose from the Netherlands which made her the event winner. But it was Katja Roose who got the event title. She competed in all of the four tour stops while Bertz competed only in the Netherlands and in Spain.
Freestyle - European Champions 2013
Men's divison
1. Mario Rodwald (Germany)
2. Stefan Spiessberger (Austria)
3. Jerrie van de Kop (Netherlands)
Women's divison:
1. Sabrina Lutz (Germany)
2. Annelous Lammerts (Netherlands)
3. Nanette Lammerts (Netherlands)
Freestyle - Results for Tour stop Castelldefels
Men's divison
1. Stefan Spiessberger (Austria)
2. Alex Pastor (Spain)
3. Mario Rodwald (Germany)
Women's divison
1. Annelous Lammerts (Netherlands)
2. Therese Taabbel (Denmark)
3. Sabrina Lutz (Germany)
Course Racing - 2013 Tour winners
Men's divison
1. Maxime Nocher (France)
2. Florian Gruber (Germany)
3. Blazej Ozog (Poland)
Women's divison:
1. Katja Roose (Netherlands)
2. Aga Grzymska (Poland)
3. Anastasia Akopova (Russia)
Course Racing - Results for Tour stop Castelldefels
Men's divison
1. Florian Gruber (Germany)
2. Maxime Nocher (France)
3. Julien Kerneur (France)
Women's divison
1. Astrid Berz (Switzerland)
2. Katja Roose (Netherlands)
3. Anastasia Akopova (Russia)
Course Racing Men overall
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Re: theme music. No, I don't think I'll ever get used to it. In my mind the musical accompaniment is something like the theme tune to Shaun of the Dead ('The Blue Wrath' by I, Monster if you're curious) and other jaunty weirdness of that sort. Like others, I am a little surprised The Escapist hasn't turned 'make an intro for Zeropunctuation' into a contest yet. Seems like the sort of thing this place'd jump all over.
Anyway, the review: I haven't seen a reviewer admit to just refusing to play for a long time (since OMM I think, fittingly). It's always gladdening to see it since it probably happens a lot more than people like to admit. It should be an element in a rating more important than the review score. Instead of 8/10 at the end of an article they say "played it to the end" "played it twice" or whatever.
The music is too loud relative to the volume of your voice. This is not a TV commercial. You don't need to blow our eardrums to make us pay attention. You have our attention, that's why we clicked to watch you. Turn down the volume please.
I don't have too much of a problem with the intro, but I liked the snippets of ripped-off music better.
Althought I disagree with you on the most part - I've never had any problems with the game except the occasional murderous section - this was still as funny as shit, and still made me giggle like a school girl :( :P
One of the best parts about your reviews is that even though you might have to suffer through a crappy game, chances are that you provide more fun to your audience by ripping on them for four minutes than the crappy games themselves could ever deliver...collectively!
The music is god awful.
So I don't get it: Is Yahtzee gay or not?
I hate the new intro
I hate the adverts at the end that make the video look longer than it is
Go back to the old format
Best review I've seen in a long time. Lots of good points, well made, and with enough humor to keep me laughing. I was excited about Alone in the Dark, but it doesn't surprise me that a game who's main feature was a McGuyver-style inventory system would cock up everything else about the game. Glad I saw this review, Yahtzee.
I agree 100%. It's starting to become more commonly known that many "professional" reviewers don't even play the whole game, and yet they give the damn thing an 8/10. I understand that reviewers have a lot of games to play and little time to play them, which makes them a lot like me, the consumer. That's why I'm all the more interested to see which games the reviewer actually takes the time to play. If it's a good enough game for the reviewer to spend his time on, then it just might be good enough for me to spend my time on. And if the reviewer can't even bring himself to play the game through to the end, then he better not be giving it any more than a 5/10 because obviously the other half was shit.
Best review in a long time, I think. Very funny and damn spot on. There were a bunch of memorable moments with Terry'n'Gonad, the dog for dinner, CockUp Peninsula, etc. I really enjoyed this one.
RE:Intro music
EDIT: When I said intro I meant the music. The spinny graphics and all are pretty decent. I can't help but fell that with some of the "fair use" music would have been better than the RAWKIN GEE-TAR though.
The music is growing on me but can you not make it quite so loud?
EDIT: I also think the opening sequence is pretentious. No problem with the music but don't like the intro.
This one was actually funny, though maybe a bit too easy because all the faults are glaringly obvious. Still, finding creative ways to insult said faults is pretty entertaining. Personally, I lost my taste for the game right near the beginning, with everything becoming shaky when I took a faceful of falling debris without even batting an eyelash. The killer moment that broke the game down into a massive joke though was when you're first forced to fight that girl after she'd been turned into a monster. Being knocked into the kitchen area, after some minor amount of running around, what do I find? A katana.
A katana.
Sitting in rubble, next to a fire, in an apparent kitchen in a building in New York.
I don't see how he can say 'i'm going to join other reviewers in saying this game is crap' then say 'actually its ok, made better if it was polished'
Get a grip. Did someone replace the captain of the Yahtzee brainship for a week?
no afrophysics. HE HAS ALWAYS BEEN GOOD! NO RETURN TO FORM! and he voice is the same you dimlow!!! good review sir yahtzee, STILL!!! on form.
On the mark as always. Good show, although I'm pained to see that Alone in the Dark isn't as good as it looked. Oh well, still going to buy it anyway, but you can say "I told you so" when shit hit's the fan.
Wait a second...so he goes to other reviews and then tries hard to write the opposite?
Well if that's the case Alone in the Dark must have been HORRIBLE.
Nice, very funny! Yahtzee is like my bread and butter. He has convinced me that I should figure out some way to play Alone in the Dark just to see the fire physics.
I don't know...even if it's copyrighted, does just using like 5-10 seconds of it really count as infringement? I would think it falls under Fair Use...
No, rent it, you'll regret paying for that.
EXCELLENT!! Keep it up. I love watching your reviews :)
Indeed, if anything its a free advertisement for the band.
That's actually the weirdest thing about the game, it's easy to see where it could have been really good but it's all just really really bad.
As awesome as the new music is, I'm not completely convinced it suits the style.
This is definitely one of the funniest reviews, and I can only hope Terry and Gonad make a return in the future.
Physics joke inside of the video seems AWFULLY similar to this comic.
I think there's a portion you can quote without owing anything, but probably shorter than what Yahtzee uses. And "Fair Use" would probably only apply if he were reviewing or discussing the music.
Good ideas and crappy execution still equals crappy game. Yes, new ideas should be encouraged instead of just having the EA model (same game with another box) but the fact Atari threatened game magazines here for their not-so-pleasant reviews kind off kicks the last bit of good will out of the windows.[/quote]
They actually threatened this site?
Wow... Atari scares me...aw well I still love you Konami and Koei!
Excellent review mate, yes, excellent. The past two or three reviews I didn't find to humorous or worth my time, honestly. This review, was fan-fucking-tastic. I played through alone in the dark, for the PC for that matter, and can agree on mostly everything you said.
I really liked the bit about the two developers cocking things up with the damage system. I literally laughed my pants off, great work.
as an adult and someone that really enjoys it usually, i gotta say the music used to be one of the highlights. the new music is shit. seriously shit. it just makes the whole thing see like it takes itself way too seriously. bring back the old music for the love of [whatever you believe in].
Great review.
I really enjoyed the solid criticism.
I really don't understand how people could seriously have any disapointments with this game
Based on GameRankings:
The Alone in the Dark series have always been mediocre.
Oh and also the new music rocks. :)
From all sources this game has been rated crap, over-hyped crap...yhatzee confirms these reviews.
My only regret is the minutes I wasted watching those dev. vids.
Very well done. I would agree that the tried to make the game with to many different styles of game play. The whole point of games is to play the game, not skip parts of it.
Just made an account to highlight how stunningly awesome and subtle the TF2 joke was in the start of this video. (The TF2 sniper pisses into jars when he is camping in the "meet the sniper video", and is Australian).
YES! I wish that was fixed, would stop me panicking and muting the headphones before i'm aurally raped by the music.
How is 90% "mediocre"? I think considering 70% to be mediocre is already stressing the definition, let alone 90%.
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My gut reaction last night was as follows:
The thing is, for once I had absolutely no read on whether all this was just how I and others like me had reacted--people with both my policy preferences and my rhetorical style preferences, that is--or whether people with different biases might feel the same. But then I read this. And I figured if my own impressions had that much in common with those of the most conservative Canadian blogger I read, there must be something to them.
The final word on the format: keep it. It's not perfect, but with so many people in the debate, nothing's going to be, and this was the first Canadian debate I've seen that actually looked like they were talking to each other. (Remember 2004? With the "let's pair people off and make them each debate each other completely randomly for thirty seconds before switching them up?" Yeah, ugh.)
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Rex Murphy's idea sounded like to keep this format only if there were more debates of another format with more time to monologue. Not surprising he's a fan of talking solo.
- Idealistic Pragmatist said...
Oh, god, no. Don't we get enough chances to listen to each of these people pontificate solo every day?
My reactions to the debate are pretty similar to yours, but then so are my general political preferences. I was really favourably impressed with May, who seemed to be the best at interjecting short but telling bits of substantive content (like when she pointed out that yes, we've seen a net increase in jobs, but the manufacturing jobs we've lost were better jobs than the service-sector ones we've gained)--all four of the others seemed more inclined to fall back on canned sound bites. (Layton's "real economy" catchphrase began to grate on me a bit, and I thought his allusions to Harper's sweater were rather cheap shots.) I think I still prefer the NDP's actual policies to the Greens', but I'm very glad May was included in the debates, and I wish we had proportional representation so that her party's support would actually translate into seats; she made it clear that the Green Party has a real contribution to make in Parliament.
I agree that Dion was both better than expected and kind of uninspiring. Duceppe, of course, spoke with the ease of someone who had nothing much to lose in the English debate, and, predictably, I liked him when he was going after Harper from the left, and disliked him when he was arguing that the federal government should just leave various things up to the provinces. Harper's relative calm came across to me as smugness and complacency--and now that I'm talking about affect, I should probably mention that I listened to the debate on the radio, so I have no idea how any of the candidates looked. But Harper's performance really seemed to reinforce the idea that he deserved every bit of the criticism that the four opposition leaders were throwing at him.
- Idealistic Pragmatist said...
Harper spent the whole time smirking! I can't imagine that's appealing to anyone.
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I don't want to pile on personalities and appearances, because I think policy is king, but Harper's smile did noticeably unnerve me in this: the only time he ever really, really smiled, and smiled a lot, to my eye, was when talking about Afghanistan.
Who smiles when talking about Afghanistan? Regardless of what your policy preferences for our involvement there are, it's not a happy topic.
That was just creepy for me.
I liked the debate format. I say we keep it.
I liked both Layton and May's performances. I think Layton could borrow some of May's fact-based style and for the better. His zingers are great, so is some of his rhetoric, but he really hit home when he zinged somebody over facts (such as the Liberal 43%). The criticisms against Layton tend to be the based on his rhetorical style (the car salesman comments) - I think throwing in more facts and statistics would help alleviate that. And name dropping and campaign themes are fine, but I wouldn't use any of them more than once in a campaign debate.
May totally held her own and brought up proportional representation which definitely earns her some kudos right there. I think she was an excellent addition to the debate.
Dion had some good moments - he did a good job of proving that he wasn't the wimp Harper has been making him out to be (although Layton's comment still stands). Unfortunately, I think many people did struggle with his accent though.
Duceppe, in previous English debates I have been interested in him because he showed a more social progressive face. This time I found him irrelevant - none of the issues he raised were important to me, and the "more power to Quebec/the provinces" schtick raises my ire.
Harper, well, I guess his supporters will like his performance, but I just find him creepy. He said very little of substance and evaded and misdirected as much as possible.


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Mr. Kendrick's brief analysis of Paul Morrissey's Flesh for Frankenstein (1973) is rather unconvincing and problematic: this film is labeled "reactionary" because it offers "a sharp critique of excess in any form, particularly meaningless sexual excess" (p. 87). So it would seem, according to Mr. Kendrick, that "meaningless sexual excess" should, actually, be presented as progressive? Morrissey's film is called "conservative" because of its ironic stance towards the sexual revolution of its time. This is reminiscent of Robin Wood's famous misunderstanding of Cronenberg's early horror films, criticized for being against the "liberal" party line according to which meaningless sexual excess was progressive and deserved all the praise. This is surprisingly narrow-minded in an otherwise quite decent overview of the role of violence in horror film and various theoretical approaches attendant to it.
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