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2013-06-27 / Cultural Events
Through My Eyes Draws Rave Reviews at Studio Around the Corner
Willians Mendez' one man show is drawing rave reviews at the Studio around the Corner in Brewster. The 34-year-old Guatemalan, who immigrated to the U.S. in 2000, has created a portfolio of original paintings tabbed "Through My Eyes" that will be on display this weekend.
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Joel Garreau on the future of cities
He began by saying that he's interested in culture and values, and isn't a "gear-head" about the emerging technologies that he's written about ("GRIN" technologies--genetics, robotics, information systems, and nanotechnology).
He currently studies cities--how they are shaped by technology, and how cities shape us.
He started with a slide of an old Spanish map of the New World, which was mostly accurate, except for an oversized Florida and drawing California as an island. Why was California shown as an island? Because explorers in the Seattle area saw a body of water that went very far to the south, and explorers in the Baja California area saw a body of water that went very far to the north, and they just connected the dots. That error took 100 years to correct. Spanish explorers would land in Monterey Bay and carry boats inland, expecting to hit water, and they always commented that the Indians in the area seemed to be friendly. Garreau suggested that they were actually laughing at them for pointlessly carrying boats inland. When the explorers would fail to hit another body of water, they would report back that the map was wrong, only to be told that they must not have been where they thought they were. It finally took a decree from the King of Spain to change the map.
His next slide was of the Los Angeles area, pointing out what he called "edge cities," which he called "the biggest change in 150 years of how we build cities." "Edge cities" are major and new urban centers around old big cities. They have a large amount of office and retail space, lots of jobs, and didn't exist 30-40 years ago. They are popping up everywhere there is major growth. The area around John Wayne Airport in Orange County, California, is an edge city--it has 5 million square feet of office space (more than Memphis), 600,000 square feet of retail space. It's not a suburb, or sub-anything. It's not a bedroom community. It has the features of office parks and all traditional city functions. The edge cities in New Jersey in the greater New York area have more jobs than Manhattan.
Phoenix was one of the earliest places to recognize that it was going to have more than one city center--we have major centers downtown, uptown/Central Avenure, Camelback/Biltmore, South Mountain, and Tempe (among others), and these were recognized as centers that would exist by city planners a couple of decades ago.
Paris has La Defense as an edge city, as well as Marne-la-Vallee, where EuroDisney is. When superior locations for growth are first found, the rich people move in first, and tend to go uphill, upwind, and upriver, byt Marne-la-Vallee was a poor area that was planned to be an edge city by selecting it as the location for EuroDisney, and it succeeded.
Boston edge cities include the Burlington Mall area, MIT area, downtown, Quincy/Braintree, and Framingham area.
One major factor that has changed cities are the available modes of transportation. Chicago was formed as a rail town, based around inter- and intra-urban rail. Detroit was formed as an automobile town.
The last industrial age downtown built in North America was Calgary, Alberta, Canada in 1914. In 1915, the one millionth Model T Ford came off the assembly line, and ended the old downtowns. The old industrial downtowns were from the 1840s to 1914, and existed because of the necessity of collecting raw materials in one place and having thousands of people there to work on those materials.
Prior to those downtowns, cities were places like Jefferson's Charlottesville, Washington's Alexandria, and Lincoln's Philadelphia. Most people earned a living from the land, and lived outside of cities.
The automobile suddenly made places outside the old industrial cities far more valuable, like Long Island.
Until 1955, the southwestern-most Major League Baseball team was in St. Louis, because movement by train placed constraints on scheduling. The Cardinals were thus the team rooted for by everyone further south and west. Once airplanes came into the picture, baseball could spread, and other cities could become major cities--Los Angeles, Dallas, Phoenix, Seattle, Houston.
Garreau asked, if Chicago were leveled, what would you rebuild first--O'Hare, or downtown. O'Hare is more critical today.
But the changes caused by automobiles and airplanes is nothing compared to the networked computer, which is making changes more significant and more rapidly than the automobile.
He showed a photograph of a Kresge's in the Capitol Hill area of D.C., explaining that it was a discount 5 & dime store, the K in K-Mart. He said Kresge's is dead, and K-Mart is dying, but do you think the building is still there, and if so, what is it? The first guess--Starbuck's--was almost correct. It is a coffee shop. He argued that Kresge's and K-Mart has been killed by Wal-Mart, which is really an IT company that happens to sell sneakers. He claimed that when you buy a pair of sneakers at Wal-Mart, a process kicks off at check out that starts to make a replacement pair in Malaysia within 24 hours.
So why are coffee shops popular, and why do people pay $4 for coffee? Is it the free wireless? He argued that it is a social thing, only marginally about the coffee and the wifi. The main factor around the physical environment is that the rare stuff we can't digitize, like face-to-face contact, has much higher relative value than it did before.
Bill Mitchell of the MIT Media Lab, and former head of the architecture department, has catalogued 87 forms of real estate in cities, all being transformed by information technology. One form is super markets. Garreau asked, if you could get hamburger and toilet paper delivered to your home for free, why would you get in your car to go get groceries? To buy produce or meat, was the answer suggested by the audience. He then showed a photo of a Freshfields, a modern farmer's market, and showed a photo of booths with tables inside it--it's also a place to sit and socialize.
Another type of building is a prison. He suggested that we don't need as many prisons if we use GPS anklets or bracelets for nonviolent offenses.
He then argued that Moore's Law will continue to hold for the forseeable future, and we've already seen 32 doublings in processors since 1959. The only thing comparable is railroad capacity doubling, which saw 14.5 doublings before leveling out due to requirements of coal, steel, and land, and being superseded by the automobile. The IT limits are the laws of physics, the marketplace, human ingenuity, and our culture and values, and he argued that only our culture and values set real limits for the forseeable future. (In a class yesterday, one of my professors said that a physics professor speaking at ASU last year said that we've reached the physical limits for silicon chips, and won't see any more doublings, but a subsequent new development has already refuted him with a four-times improvement due to nanotechnology--presumably this.)
Sequencing the human genome was thought nuts, impossible, and/or would cost a fortune, but was done in 2000 at a fraction of the expected cost, far sooner than anyone expected, thanks to Moore's Law.
Garreau suggested that ten years from now, anything you can put in a lab for $1 million will be something you can put in your home for $1,000; anything you can get now for $1,000 will be "pocket lint." He used USB memory fobs as an example of today's "pocket lint."
He showed a photo of students at CMU in a computer lab, and asked, "Is there a future for physical university campuses?" He gave a yes, on the grounds that this is where you "meet your first spouse and friends for a lifetime"--the social aspects. Distance learning has been around for a very long time (Benjamin Franklin did learning-by-mail), but it's always a second choice.
Shopping malls, he said, are turning into entertainment spaces. He cited his friend Jaron Lanier (a virtual reality pioneer), who suggests that the first thing to disappear will be escalators, replaced by rides--so when you go up by ferris wheel and come down by water slide, think of Lanier. He observed that if you go to a mall at 10 a.m., you'll see the senior mall walkers, and if you go in the afternoon, you'll see "drug dealing rugrats." (He didn't note, but I thought of how Arizona Mills Mall in Tempe has turned one space into an indoor miniature golf course.)
Office space--is there any future to it? Again, he argued for the social aspect, and maintained that the accidental casual face-to-face contact is impossible to digitize, yet he finds the random conversation at the printer jam (the modern equivalent of the water cooler) to be his most productive time of day. To this, Prof. Brad Allenby objected that there is casual contact in World of Warcraft and Second Life, and we shouldn't assume that such things can't be digitizable.
Another audience member suggested that because human beings need touch, we need real physical contact. (But that assumes the impossibility of tactile telepresence.) Yet another pointed out that movie theater attendance is up, even though you can watch online or at home cheaper.
Garreau said, supposed you decide face-to-face matters, but only need it two days a week--how would that affect where you live? If you only needed it 3 days a month, then where might you live?
He said some cities will live, if they are good for face-to-face contact. Others will die, if they aren't. We're headed to a profound shift of what is urban/urbane, and cities like Santa Fe are the future. It has 63,000 people, opera, restaurants, second-hand boot stores.
The top fastest-growing metro areas are smaller cities that are like villages with face-to-face spaces and are somewhat dispersed. The top ones are Wenatchee, WA, Provo-Orem, UT, Grand Junction, CO, Gulfport-Biloxi, MS, and Myrtle Beach, SC. The top states for real estate price appreciation are Utah, Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming. Other example cities in this model include the Adams-Morgan area of D.C., Tempe, AZ, and Marrakesh.
He then briefly turned to other technologies. He said that Craig Venter says that by the end of this year he will have an organism that "eats CO2 and poops gasoline." (And his company has just received $600 million in funding from ExxonMobil.) Nanotech may build membranes that purify water. These things will impact where cities become feasible. "Is Darfur the next garden spot?"
He then referred to a book by Leo Marx of MIT, titled The Machine in the Garden. He argued that in the industrial age, we suffered a split--we had to come into the cities and leave nature behind. Now we're trying to put what we like about cities into a garden.
In the final Q&A, he said he has a hidden assumption that we will continue moving forward and not go back to pre-industrial society; he said "no petroleum engineers think we're running out of oil, only cheap oil."
He said that we're seeing a new explosion of religious fervor, and included environmentalism in that, saying that it has its own saints and heretics. He thinks human beings are "hardwired to have faith--even Russia made Marxism into faith," but said that he's "a hardcore rationalist" even though "rationalism doesn't seem to be emotionally satisfying." He said, following Popper, that "science can't tell you what is true, only what is false, but it can changes minds without killing people." (I disagree with his statement that science can't tell you what is true--theories that keep passing tests do at least approximate truth.)
An audience member commented that virtual environments can convey mental and physical aspects, but not emotional and spiritual. Garreau agreed, but I think both (and a few other questioners) were making an unwarranted assumption that virtual environments will not be able to reach a point of being indistinguishable (or very nearly so) from real environments, and thus allowing effective conveyance of body language, subtle gestures, and so forth, perfectly adequate for transmitting emotional information. (As for spiritual properties, I think they're in need of demonstration before we worry about them--and given claims that have been made about them, it's surprising that the questioner thought physical proximity was a limitation.) In a conversation with Prof. Allenby afterward, he also pointed out that we may be better able to make judgments of trust in a virtual environment because we are more alert to the possibility of a partial presentation of a personality and to intentional distortions. There are also some types of cues that are more accurately picked up audibly, while visual information can overwhelm those cues.
Prof. Allenby also noted that major technological changes may turn what we now think of as fundamental truths into contingencies, and that may include some aspects of what we call human nature.
Garreau ended by observing that past predictions of what the future will be like have usually been wrong, becasue things are more complex and more expensive then we think--and then we get blindsided by innovations like the iPhone.


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Olympics, Ice Cream, Bunnies & More
Kids know how to party! Check out these festive celebrations from the Apartment Therapy Family channel, which posts kids' parties every day. We'll be bringing you a roundup of these inspiring parties every week.
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Sun, 09 March 2014 at 6:50 pm
Rihanna & Drake Go Out on Another Dinner Date in Europe!
Rihanna and Drake step out for another dinner date on Sunday evening (March 9) in London, England.
The 26-year-old singer has been touring around Europe with Drake and they've been spotted together several times around some of the continent's hottest cities.
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PITTSBURGH (AP) The Pittsburgh Penguins appear to be getting healthy at just the right time.
James Neal scored three goals in his first game back from a concussion and the Penguins snapped a two-game skid with an 8-3 victory over Jordan Staal and the Carolina Hurricanes on Saturday night.
``It was nice to get out there and get a game in before the playoffs,'' Neal said. ``I wasn't rushing anything. If I felt good then I'd play, and I felt ready.''
Evgeni Malkin looked ready too. Malkin had a goal and two assists for the Penguins, who scored three third-period goals in 5:24 to turn a tie game into a rout.
Malkin and Neal quickly displayed the chemistry they showed last year that transformed Neal into an All-Star and 40-goal scorer and helped Malkin win the scoring title and Hart Trophy as league MVP.
``It's always fun,'' Neal said. ``It shows how good he is. He made some great passes tonight.''
Former Hurricane Jussi Jokinen scored twice, while Brenden Morrow and Matt Cooke also found the back of the net. Marc-Andre Fleury stopped 26 shots for his 23rd win. He also had an assist for the second straight game.
``It always feels better getting a win going into the playoffs,'' Neal said. ``The team's definitely excited an anxious and ready to go.''
Pittsburgh improved to 23-4 in its last 27 games and enters the playoffs as the No. 1 seed and overwhelming favorite in the Eastern Conference. A scheduling conflict at Consol Energy Center means the Penguins likely won't open the playoffs until Wednesday against the Ottawa Senators or New York Islanders.
But that doesn't appear to matter to a team which won 36 of 48 games during a lockout-shortened regular season.
``The team has done an amazing job of winning hockey games, winning through stretches, winning in different ways with different people in the lineup,'' Penguins coach Dan Bylsma said. ``This has put us in a situation where we want to be going into the playoffs.''
The Penguins nabbed the top seed in the East as newcomers Morrow, Jokinen and Jarome Iginla - all acquired at the trade deadline - helped Pittsburgh win eight of 12 games played without Sidney Crosby, who has been out since March 30 with a broken jaw.
Crosby is waiting to be cleared for game action by doctors, but the captain recently participated in his first practice in nearly a month, taking part in non-contact drills, while adjusting to a new shield to protect his injured jaw.
Crosby's status for the playoff opener remains unclear, but barring a setback, he is almost certain to play in the opening round.
``You're talking about the best player in the world,'' Morrow said. ``It's exciting times. We're all feeling pretty good right now.''
The Penguins, coming off back-to-back losses against Buffalo and New Jersey, are relatively healthy too, other than Crosby and defenseman Brooks Orpik, who missed the game with a lower body injury.
Malkin played in his second game after missing four with an upper body injury. Neal missed eight games with a concussion, while defenseman Paul Martin also played in his first game after being sidelined with a broken bone in his left hand.
``I think it's going to be tough for the coaches to decide who they're going to play,'' said Martin, who recorded his 200th career assist. ``It's a good problem to have because we have guys that can step in. Hopefully, we can stay healthy.''
Pittsburgh led 3-1 in the second, but Carolina rallied into a tie in a span of 37 seconds. Jamie McBain thought he had the go-ahead goal 45 seconds into the third, but it was waived off and Jared Staal was whistled for interference with Fleury.
Neal scored his second power-play goal on the ensuing man advantage and capped his third career hat trick with his 21st just 2:38 later, both on feeds from Malkin.
``You play some games without the guy and without the shot and he steps right in and you realize how dangerous he is,'' Bylsma said. ``We saw him get opportunities that maybe only James Neal can bury.
``I'm not sure it could've been a better outing for him.''
Morrow added his 12th a little more than a minute later on a one-timer from Brandon Sutter, the key piece for Pittsburgh in the deal for Jordan Staal.
Staal, who spent six seasons with the Penguins, had an assist and just missed on a partial breakaway in his first game in Pittsburgh since he was traded to Carolina in June.
Kevin Westgarth recorded his first two goals of the season, and Tuomo Ruutu also scored for the Hurricanes, who will miss the playoffs for the fourth straight time.
Justin Peters allowed five goals in the third period after surrendering three in the first two.
``It's been an emotional ride,'' Hurricanes coach Kirk Muller said. ``We showed great signs of playing good hockey and got good results in the first half of the season.
``We know we're going to be a good hockey club when we get all our guys back and we get healthy again.''
Jordan Staal, who played a crucial role in the Penguins' 2009 Stanley Cup run, turned down a contract extension from Pittsburgh, and instead inked a similar deal with Carolina following a stunning blockbuster trade on draft night that sent the No. 2 overall pick in 2006 to the Hurricanes.
The Penguins recognized Staal with a first-period video tribute, and he responded, drawing a standing ovation from the 18,658 in attendance.
``It was nice,'' Staal said. ``Obviously, I have a lot of good memories in this building and this city and I appreciate it from the fans.''
NOTES: The Penguins, with 261 goals, led the league in scoring in back-to-back years for the first time since 1995-96 and `96-97. ... The Penguins have won five straight regular-season finales. ... Pittsburgh is 8-3 in its last 11 games against Carolina, winning five straight at home ... Hurricanes F Alexander Semin missed the game with a concussion. ... Pittsburgh is 24-2-1 over its last 27 home games against Southeast Division teams, including a current 18-game unbeaten stretch.


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Student wants LGBT students
to feel safe at OSU
On the morning news broke that a Rutgers University student killed himself after he was filmed having sex with another man, Oregon State University student Craig Bidiman was awakened by a phone call.
On the other end of the line was Michael Henthorne, director of the Memorial Union. He asked Bidiman, the current president of the Memorial Union, how soon he could get to the MU. Within an hour, Bidiman and Henthorne were discussing how OSU students could respond to the tragedy.
"I have an idea, but you're going to have to be the one to run with it," Henthorne told him.
What Henthorne suggested was something that had been weighing on Bidiman's mind for some time. Oregon State often makes claims about being a welcoming university to people of all backgrounds. This was the perfect time to prove it.
Bidiman began talking to mentors on campus, including Larry Roper, Vice Provost for Student Affairs, and Mamta Accapadi, Dean of Student Life. Accapadi suggested that Bidiman take a look at OSU's statement of shared student values, which Bidiman had never seen before. Two phrases from the document struck him – Be inclusive and be courageous.
"Students shouldn't have to fear coming out here," Bidiman said.
Focused on that goal, Bidiman created the "Campaign for Understanding." It's an effort to get OSU students and others to sign a pledge (on Facebook or in person) to never discriminate against someone due to their identity. Bidiman hopes to get 5,000 signatures by Oct. 11, which is National Coming Out Day.
"We hope to create a campus in which anyone and everyone feels welcome and free of fear of being discriminated for who they are," he said.
Bidiman's own recent experiences coming out as a bisexual man have made him especially aware of the bias faced by young people as they begin to discover and then discuss their sexual preferences. Bidiman is a Christian, and his family had a difficult time after he decided to come out.
He holds out the tattoo on his right arm to demonstrate his feelings about his faith and his sexual identity. The words "God is Love" are printed on his bicep.
He doesn't regret coming out, even though his parents are still struggling with the concept. "I needed to come to terms with who I was," he said.
Bidiman appreciates that in general, his friends have been incredibly supportive of his orientation, and he wants to make sure that other young people on campus who are in the midst of their own struggles find support.
"I want to hold our campus accountable," Bidiman said. Even though hate crimes and attacks on queer students haven't made headlines locally, Bidiman said there's plenty of hidden prejudice, and some students make derogatory comments without even intending to do so.
"I hear people say 'That's so gay.' You're making that term a put-down," he said. "You're turning someone's sexual identity into something negative."
Bidiman is working with a number of student-led organizations including the MUPC, ASOSU, the Pride Center, SLI, ISOSU, Team Liberation and many others. So far 630 people have signed the pledge on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/#!/event.php?eid=159178554110136) and plenty more are signing pledges on campus. Bidiman plans to visit classrooms, set up a table in the MU Quad and do everything else he can to spread the word about the Campaign for Understanding.
"My goal is to prove that our campus is a beautiful, welcoming place," he said, and he hopes that the Campaign for Understanding compels people like Clementi's roommate, who are conflicted or confused about different sexual orientations, to not react in fear, but educate themselves.
"No one should fear who they are."
~ Theresa Hogue


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Just Another Jihadi JaneTabish Khair
published 2017 5 1/4" x 8" • 240 pagesISBN 9781566560672 • paperback • $15.00 •
Two British Muslim girls run away to Syria to join ISIS but find something far beyond disillusionment.This superb novel is a cousin to Mohsin Hamid's The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2007) in both theme and structure. Here again a murky, reviled aspect of Muslim experience is brilliantly revealed; here again the form of the story is a single confidence shared with a silent listener. Jamilla and her friend Ameena are childhood friends from a town in the north of England. At home they speak Urdu; elsewhere, English with the local accentA think A told yer to bugger off. Jamilla's family is conservative; she is a passionate student and believer. She never goes out without her niqab, for which she is endlessly harassed, but she also feels at odds with the Islam of her parents, who reduce God to a little bookkeeping clerk. Ameena's mum and dad are divorced, materialistic, and Westernized; Ameena herself smokes cigarettes and is mad for a soccer player at school who looks like David Beckham. The girls on-again, off-again friendship takes a fateful turn when Ameena is humiliated by her crush, then meets on Facebook a strikingly beautiful woman with an adorable cat. Hejjiye is a recruiter for Daesh, the Arabic acronym for ISIS. Just pack your bags and leave, she tells them. The plan is for them to become brides of jihadists, but while the more boy-crazy Ameena, who travels with a pack of made-in-China artificial hymens, is quickly married off, Jamilla schemes to remain at the so-called orphanage run by Hejjiye. Both girls quickly get to know their new associates. The careerists win everywhere, believe me! exclaims Jamilla. Hassan's fanaticism was a career to him. Killing was his corporate job. Apocalypse was how he planned to corner the market. By the way, this is Ameena's husband she is talking about. And there is no cat.Was this intense, enlightening novel really written not by a British Muslim girl but a male Indian novelist who lives in Denmark? It seems impossible. Required reading for anyone interested in trying to understand our mad, bloody world. Kirkus Reviews, starred review When you're tired of reading the umpteenth news report on the ISIS, you may want to pick up this work of fiction, to allow yourself to confront everything that hard news may not be able to tell you.... Jamilla's plain speaking voice hides deeper, complex truthssome spoken and others left to our imaginationmaking us question our prejudices and fears all along. The Huffington Post India
A novel about friendship, faith, and alienation, Just Another Jihadi Jane tells the tale of Islamist radicalization from the inside. Two children of Muslim immigrants in England's industrial north—thoughtful Jamilla and rebellious Ameena—become best friends, and find in religion and social media a community as welcoming and encouraging as their public education is estranging. After Jamilla's father dies and her brother marries, the two girls leave England and join the Islamist cause in Syria. The intellectual and emotional poverty as well as the violence they find there creates a story as gripping as it is heart-wrenching. As did All Quiet on the Western Front, Tabish Khair's novel reminds a new generation that heroism and sacrifice are not limited to one side in a conflict, and that the first victims of a murderous regime are those who live within it.
Tabish Khair was born in 1966 and educated mostly in Bihar, India. He is the author of several critically acclaimed novels and poetry collections. Winner of the All India Poetry Prize as well as fellowships at Delhi, Cambridge, and Hong Kong, his novels—The Bus Stopped (2004), Filming: A Love Story (2007), The Thing About Thugs (2010), and How to Fight Islamist Terror from the Missionary Position (2014)—have been translated into several languages and shortlisted for major literary prizes including the Encore Award (UK), the Crossword Prize, the Hindu Best Fiction Prize, the DSC Prize for South Asia (India), and the Man Asian Literary Prize (Hong Kong). He lives in Arhus, Denmark.
Praise for Just Another Jihadi Jane
"This powerful, compelling, urgent novel succeeds in being compassionate towards its principal characters without flinching from the full horror of their choices."—Amitav Ghosh, author of Sea of Poppies, shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize
"In his wise, nuanced evocation of a young British woman's soul-devouring love affair with Islamic State, Tabish Khair powerfully exposes the religious hypocrisy and bloodlust of one of this era's most magnetic and ruthless movements. This novel's triumphand the world's tragedyis that Jamilla's haunting, searing experience does not read like a work of fiction. This is not just a writer's nightmare: it is ours."—Liz Jensen, author of The Ninth Life of Louis Drax
"[Khair] gets behind the flat headlines to the three-dimensional human story and takes its pulse with unflinching honesty. This is a gripping, compassionate and truthful novel, written in prose of unobtrusive beauty."—Neel Mukherjee, author of The Lives of Others, shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize
"Khair ventures into the space [between rabid Islamophobia and fundamentalist Islamism] with rare courage and truthfulness, in the process also forcing the reader to look both inwards and outwards more carefully and question where we are headed. It is not just a piece of excellent fiction; it is a very necessary and urgent reminder for all of us to examine our own views and prejudices."—The Hindu "When you're tired of reading the umpteenth news report on ISIS, you may want to pick up this work of 'fiction,' to allow yourself to confront everything that hard news may not be able to tell you.... Jamilla's plain speaking voice hides deeper, complex truths—some spoken and others left to our imagination—making us question our prejudices and fears all along." —The Huffington Post, India
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Just Another Jihadi Jane: This confession by a British Muslim girl who runs away with her best friend to join Daesh (the Arabic name for ISIS) is a novel, but it feels electrifyingly real. Jamilla and Ameena have grown up together in industrial Northern England, navigating between the precepts of Islam and the temptations of soccer players and cigarettes. Through Facebook and Twitter, they follow various preachers and Islamists; they meet young women around the world who share their religious interests. One of their contacts gradually persuades them to run away from home, join her in Syria and become jihadi brides. Every bit of illusion they have about the movement will be burned away as the disaster of this choice becomes clear.Newsday (Great Books that Deserved More Buzz in 2016)
Khair has always been a sensitive storyteller, even when dealing with dark subjects.... "Jihadi Jane" takes us straight into the heart of darkness with two young women who are barely prepared for what is to comeOpen Magazine
A page-turner..... Khair skilfully cuts to the heart of the question of why young Muslim boys and girls who have so much going for them become enamoured of groups like Daesh.Scroll.in
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Removable hands?
Is it relevant to mention that Murray has removable hands? At least I assume there isn't a ton of fur shoved into the rubber gloves at the end of this video. -- Zanimum 01:38, November 18, 2011 (UTC)
- He's wearing the gloves over his fur. If they were removable hands, I don't think it's notable to point out the obvious that puppet parts come apart. —Scott (message me) 02:14, November 18, 2011 (UTC)
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Anyone know who this is, performing Murray's other hand? -- Zanimum 13:34, 9 May 2007 (UTC)
- That looks to me like Joey M., performing the mouth and left hand. -- Danny (talk) 13:36, 9 May 2007 (UTC)
- Oh. I thought Joey was the one in the black coat in this slightly later photo. -- Zanimum 14:26, 9 May 2007 (UTC)
- Muppeteer one versus Muppeteer two. -- Zanimum 14:29, 9 May 2007 (UTC)
Should FilFil be merged into this new name/article? Fuzzy Face and Grover share an article, and they're different colours of fur, even. Same puppeteer, presumably exact same puppet, likely same personality, should there then be just one article? -- Zanimum 18:58, 8 May 2007 (UTC)
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I found these pictures on Flickr; they're recent pictures of Murray being filmed in NY. I don't know who the pupeeteer is -- can anyone identify him? -- Danny (talk) 15:05, 5 May 2007 (UTC)
- Can't see the face in these photos, but the press has said it's Joey M. —Scott (talk) 17:31, 5 May 2007 (UTC)
- When has the press said it was Joey? Other than the Brooklin article, I can't find any reference to him, via Google News at least. -- Zanimum 18:58, 8 May 2007 (UTC)


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Posted: November 14 2013 at 02:46
3RDEGREE re-release their seminal 1996 CD HUMAN INTEREST STORY as a re-mastered digital download exclusively available immediately through 10T Records online store. HUMAN INTEREST STORY will be available through all major mainstream online download outlets (iTunes, Amazon, etc.) on December 10, 2013. This is the very first time the album has been available digitally anywhere except the bands own website.
Before American progressive rock band 3RDegree came to the consciousness of the worldwide prog rock press with the 2008 album NARROW-CASTER and its follow-up release, 2012s THE LONG DIVISION, the band knocked around the New York City area from 1990 to 1997 with little notice. They put out 2 albums during this timeframe, the second of which, 1996s HUMAN INTEREST STORY, was a particular milestone.
Having just added lead vocalist George Dobbs the summer before, the albums April release was the culmination of 3 solid years of writing and recording to which Dobbs added his golden pipes in the 11th hour, taking over the spot from bassist/keyboardist Robert James Pashman. I was more than happy to relinquish the lead vocals in exchange for a better band and a less busy me! says Pashman.
For listeners familiar with the bands more recent albums, HUMAN INTEREST STORY does not sound a decade away from its follow-up. Patrick Kliesch explains, Since Narrow-Caster consisted of many songs or ideas started in 95-97 but not finished, theres a connection between the albums despite the 8 year break-up in the band.
Perhaps because of the bands now more masked 90s influences of Soundgarden, Jellyfish, and Kings X, Human is more guitar heavy, with keyboards in the background as more of a garnish than a main course adds Dobbs.
Never mind a second chance, HUMAN INTEREST STORY never got a first chance really. Marketing an album such as this in the mid-90s was beyond frustrating! notes now occasional drummer Rob Durham. Many songs from this 1996 collection have appeared in recent 3RDegree set lists. Theres a bunch of songs that sit very nicely next to our newer material and are very much a part of us, so we keep playing them says Pashman.
Songs like the title track with its memorable melody sailing on top of the start-stop rhythm section and its Jerry Springer-inspired subject matter (sister song to The Long Divisions Televised about reality shows), the heart-on-sleeve delivery of the vocal on the Todd Rundgren-inspired Ladder, and the snarky tone by Dobbs on the intense Top Secret (the NSA flavored ditty written the year Snowden was entering kindergarten). This song, from the point of view of a spy laughing at the little people, shows Dobbs doing something he would reprise on THE LONG DIVISIONs Incoherent Ramblings, delivered in the voice of a TV political strategist.
Additionally, anyone who purchases the new collection via digital download directly from 10TRecords.com will be emailed a code for an exclusive download of a new song from the band called What It Means To Be Human (no relation!). This is 3RDegrees first new music since the summer of 2012.
While a new album is forthcoming in 2014, 10T Records president Steve Carroll says, Anyone thirsty for new 3RDegree who hasnt delved into material from their 90s incarnation is really missing something special. This material from the 20-something version of 3RDegree is no less interesting or polished!
All tracks from HUMAN INTEREST STORY are now available to preview in their entirety on the 3RDegree artist page at 10T Records. Downloads are immediately available in MP3, M4A (Apple Lossless) and Hi Def 16-bit WAV formats.
After December 10th, HUMAN INTEREST STORY will be available through all major mainstream digital download outlets.
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I have to agree I only buy vinyl
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Vinyl?! Heck, we're not even putting this out on CD! ;) Once we're out of the original CDs which could be relatively soon, we will make it available but for now, it's only download and keep in mind at 10T, you can get 16-bit WAV and that is CD quality and easily thrown into Toast or whatever burning software to make a CDR for oneself.
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Touch Battle Tanks SP is a weird game to play in 2013. It's all about the tank-on-tank action. There's no in-app purchases to speak of, no upgrades, just tanks fighting it out. It feels weird.
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In a recent domain name dispute over the domain www.SCRAM.com a single member panel denied a request to transfer. See Alcohol Monitoring Systems, Inc.v. Peter Stranney (Nat. Arb. Forum FA 1488482, April 11, 2013). Complainant, offering continuous alcohol monitoring systems and operates a domain located at www.alcoholmonitoring.com. Complainant is the owner of the trademark SCRAM with rights dating back to at least 2003. Complainant alleges that the disputed domain is not functioning site is a sample word press site which is not active and is not used as a commercial website only as a placeholder. Complainant also noted that the respondent offered to sell the domain for approximately $40,000 pursuant to an invitation to sell the domain name. The Respondent provided a defense and response to the allegations noting that the disputed domain name incorporates a generic term and therefore is not exclusive to the trademark holder. The Panel found that the respondent is the sole owner of a business located in the UK. The Respondent also has experience in web development and online marketing and acquired the domain in January 2007 for approximately $6000. The Panel found that Respondent indicated an intention to focus the disputed domain on development for a traveling business to be launched in approximately August or September 2013
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Regarding the second element rights or legitimate interests, the panel found the complainant made a prima facie case the respondent lack rights religion interest in the domain name. If you've the evidence however the Panel found that respondent met the shifted burden and demonstrated that he did have rights or legitimate interests in the domain name under the policy section 4(a)(ii) and 4(c). The Panel noted that prior to any notification of the dispute that the Respondent made preparations to use the domain name in connection with a bona fide offering of goods or services. Respondent's materials revealed that he developed a business plan for the opportunity to advertise goods and services for people wishing to travel to particular destinations within the UK. The business plan provided details regarding Respondent's preparation of the domain with that purpose. For those reasons the Panel found the Complainants second prong allegations failed.
Despite the fact that Complainant failed to meet the second prong the Panel still chose to review the third prong of elements regarding registration in use in bad faith. The Panel noted that "scram" is a generic term and that transferring such a generic term for value is not bad faith unless the registration was undertaken with the intent of selling it to a Complainant or its competitor. The Panel noted that generic domain names possess intrinsic value that for all intents and purposes exceed the cost of registration. For those reasons the Panel noted that scram as a generic term has intrinsic value that can go beyond on the cost of registration. Accordingly the Panel found the Complainant failed to satisfy the sprung as well.
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Ireland's decision to reopen its embassy to the Vatican has been met with almost universal acclaim. The presenter of the popular evening current-affairs program "Drivetime" summed up the mood when she announced that she couldn't remember a time when the newsroom received so many statements from politicians and others welcoming a government decision.
The broad welcome stems in part from Ireland's historic relationship with Catholicism, and the Holy See in particular. It is also clear that when the government decided to close the Irish Embassy to the Vatican just over two years ago, it substantially underestimated the level of annoyance and public anger that would greet the move.
Government spokespersons have been at pains to point out that the swift reopening is not a political U-turn. It's hard to see it in any other light. When closure was announced, Minister for Foreign Affairs Eamon Gilmore claimed that Ireland could no longer afford an embassy to the Vatican. So what has changed? Has the economic crisis that has gripped Ireland since 2008 abated? Hardly. The government is still in the midst of a punishing policy of austerity.
Further weight has been added to the belief that the re-opening is a U-turn by the confusion of government spokespersons. Gilmore, despite a long-held insistence that the embassy was closed merely for economic reasons, said it was being reopened now to engage with the leadership of Pope Francis on human rights and the eradication of poverty. Apparently unaware of the Holy See's long-standing leadership in trying to make the world a fairer place, Gilmore stood in stark contrast with his government colleague Paschal Donohoe, who insisted the reopening was because government finances have improved.
Few people took the 2011 announcement of the embassy's closure at face value. It came just months after Prime Minister Enda Kenny, in a blistering attack, accused the Vatican of trying to thwart investigations into the handling of clerical abuse allegations in Ireland. Kenny's speech, despite playing loose with the facts and misquoting Pope Benedict XVI out of context at the time, won widespread praise among many Irish Catholics bruised by a series of revelations of the hierarchy's failures to protect children. Kenny touched a nerve. Fast-forward a few months and Gilmore, evidently, calculated that there would be little public anger at a decision to close the Vatican Embassy.
It was a spectacular miscalculation. What ensued was a political storm as more than half of the members in the Oireachtas, or Irish parliament — including many government legislators — attended a meeting called to voice criticism of the move. Few media commentators bought the economic line and some even accused Gilmore of overt anti-Catholicism.
A new lay initiative — known as Ireland Stand Up — emerged, and a letter-writing and political-lobbying campaign ensured that the minister would find it hard to shake the controversy. Opposition politicians didn't allow the matter to drop either; hardly a week went by in parliament without a question being tabled for Gilmore urging the reversal of the decision. The leader of the opposition, Micheál Martin, a former foreign minister, accused the government of acting in a shortsighted fashion.
The Holy See was one of the first states that Ireland established full diplomatic relations with in 1929, just seven years after winning independence from Britain. However, the diplomatic links go back much farther. When the first ambassador Joseph Walshe was presenting his credentials to Pope Pius XI in 1929, he spoke of "re-establishing" the relationship. He was referring to Cardinal Giovanni Battista Rinuccini, first papal nuncio to Ireland, sent by Pope Innocent X in 1645 to help the Irish Confederate Catholics in their war against English Protestant rule.
Senior officials in the Department of Foreign Affairs, speaking on condition of anonymity, concede that the government — including Prime Minister Kenny — was surprised by the international reaction to the closure, particularly from many European Union governments. While Ireland sought to portray the Vatican as less-and-less important on the international stage, other countries like Russia and Britain were increasing their diplomatic presence at the Holy See. Gilmore's contention that a lack of a trading relationship led to the closure also looked foolish given that no country trades with the Vatican.
A recently published memoir by Tim Fischer, who was Australia's Vatican ambassador at the time the closure was announced, gives an insight into the international reaction.
"Suddenly they [the Holy See] were confronted with the most Catholic of countries, which owed much to the support of the Holy See over the decades, severely downgrading its diplomatic links and effectively pulling out of the Vatican," he wrote. "How could this crisis have been reached?"
Fischer singled out the Church's "significant role" in generating support for the Northern Ireland peace process, especially in Irish-American circles.
"While it will never be officially acknowledged, part of the success of this conduit lay with the Irish Embassy to the Holy See," he wrote. "At a time when absolute peace in Northern Ireland is still to be achieved, is it a wise step to limit the channel of extra contact that adds to the peace glue?"
"Is it wise to underestimate the influence the Vatican exerts in difficult political situations such as this?" Fischer added.
The election of Pope Francis last March proved to be the opportunity the government needed to begin the process of reopening. The media warmth to the Argentine pontiff allows the government to link the change in policy to the "Francis effect."
It's no coincidence that the government said the reopened embassy will "enable Ireland to engage directly with the leadership of Pope Francis on the issues of poverty eradication, hunger and human rights." Nor was it by accident that Irish President Michael D. Higgins used a speech a day earlier to single out the pope for his leadership in the international arena.
Irish diplomats have always sought to punch above their weight when it comes to overseas development and diplomatic influence. The central role played by the Vatican in seeking a peaceful solution to the crisis in Syria and other troubled parts of the world further highlighted the exclusion caused by the diplomatic downgrade.
Vladimir Putin was in Rome in recent weeks to confer with the pope, while the White House recently announced that President Barack Obama would pay a visit to the Vatican in March. Some people will be disappointed that the reopened embassy will be "scaled back" — according to the statement by the Irish Department of Foreign Affairs — and details have yet to emerge about what exactly this will mean, but Church leaders are seeing it as the beginning of a fresh engagement that can be built upon.
Michael Kelly writes from Ireland.
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Olympus 770 SW
Posted 08 June 2007 - 04:37 AM
Took it out side and took some pics, seems it has pixel problems so off it goes same day back again to the shop, 800km away
The shop told us that it could be the memory card or computer monitor or somethig on the lens....
I suppose they know as they are the professionals .... lets see what they come back with.
We just want our money back.
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Posted 08 June 2007 - 04:59 PM
I'm also interested to see photos from this camera. Do you have another UW photos?
Equipment: Nikon D70, Subal ND70, Nik 10.5mm, Nik 105mm, Nik 60mm, Tok 10-17, Subtronic Alpha Pro, Sea&Sea YS-110
Posted 10 June 2007 - 12:43 PM
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Nikon D800, Aquatica AD800, Ikelite strobes.
Posted 11 June 2007 - 11:25 PM
I have taken it snorkelling and dived down to about 5 meters. It worked fine. Of course, the onboard flash highlights back-scatter so its best without the flash turned on.
Lovely little camera. Great for swimming, photos in the rain, on the beach etc. I took some lovely photos in the pool as I was teaching my 4yo daughter how to snorkel.
Posted 12 June 2007 - 01:18 PM
Equipment: Nikon D70, Subal ND70, Nik 10.5mm, Nik 105mm, Nik 60mm, Tok 10-17, Subtronic Alpha Pro, Sea&Sea YS-110
Posted 14 June 2007 - 01:40 PM
FYI - shots have been color corrected and two of them are crops, but no major editing. Also, there was a lot of krill in the water.
Posted 29 June 2007 - 04:40 PM
Posted 29 June 2007 - 07:00 PM
Just returned from a trip to Galapagos. My wife did a shallow dive to a maximum of 28 feet with the 770 - it leaked into the battery / card compartment and stopped working during the dive. Very disappointed.
Oh No! Sorry to hear that. Thanks for sharing too, I don't think I've taken mine past 20 feet or so. Good to know
Posted 06 July 2007 - 09:18 AM
Luiz Rocha - www.luizrocha.com
Nikon D800, Aquatica AD800, Ikelite strobes.
Posted 06 July 2007 - 09:41 AM
As I said, I wouldn't take it diving, or even snorkeling past 10 feet or so. Also, remember that they suggest a maximum time of water exposure, 30 minutes, I read this in the manual somewhere. I think that this camera really shines for top-side boat use and very casual snorkeling (5 - 10 minutes). If you want to take it diving, Olympus makes a housing for it.


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|2011-12-22, 16:55
|Link #3821
'Sup Ballers
Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: North Carolina, USA
Age: 29
NFL Draft shake-up: Matt Barkley coming back to USC for senior season in hopes of a National Championship.
|2011-12-22, 19:43
|Link #3822
Zettai Ryouiki Lover
Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: The Bay Area
That special time of week is here again, so you know what that means:
Houston at Indianapolis, Winner: Houston. Justification: Well, none. The Texans have a team that they can't possibly fuck up against.
Denver at Buffalo, Winner: Denver. Justification: This week, Tebow Time will be the whole fucking game.
Arizona at Cincinnati, Winner: Arizona. Justification: One of my Contrarian picks of the week.
Jacksonville at Tennessee, Winner: Jacksonville. Justification: My second contrarian pick of the week.
Oakland at Kansas City, Winner: Oakland. Justification: Palmer gets mad, Jackson gets desperate, and Janikowski kicks a record setting field goal in the victory for The Raiders.
Miami at New England, Winner: Miami. Justification: One hell of an upset for The Patriots.
New York (Giants) at New York (Jets), Winner: New York (Giants). Justification: Eli shows that there's still some "Elite" left in him.
St. Louis at Pittsburgh, Winner: Pittsburgh. Justification: A pyrrhic victory for The Steelers.
Los Angeles at Washington, Winner: Washington. Justification: Just another step in The Dons path to playing in The City of Angels.
Tampa Bay at Carolina, Winner: Carolina. Justification: Tampa Bay can't do anything right, The Panthers are going to be dangerous next year.
Cleveland at Baltimore, Winner: Baltimore. Justification: The Ravens, in usual form, will nearly grasp defeat from the jaw of victory.
San Diego at Detroit, Winner: Detroit. Justification: The Baltimore game aside, there's just no hope of The Chargers winning this one.
Philadelphia at Dallas, Winner: Philadelphia. Justification: Hope spot for The Eagles.
San Francisco at Seattle, Winner: San Francisco. Justification: The Niners suffocating defense shuts down The Seahawks.
Chicago at Green Bay, Winner: Chicago. Justification: Another one of my contrarian picks for this week.
Atlanta at New Orleans, Winner: Atlanta. Justification: Because.
|2011-12-22, 19:54
|Link #3823
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: East Boston, Massachusetts
Age: 29
|2011-12-22, 19:56
|Link #3824
Senior Member
Join Date: Sep 2008
Age: 32
|2011-12-22, 20:38
|Link #3825
Zettai Ryouiki Lover
Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: The Bay Area
|2011-12-22, 23:37
|Link #3826
Don't Call Me Bro
I loved that finish. Houston gave up some many penalties all game and turned it over too much. They gave Indianapolis chance after chance and eventually it happened. Sayonara to your first round bye, Texans! So good to see Reggie Wayne in full flight once more.
Also the first time ever that a team with one win or less has ever beaten a team with 10 or more wins in NFL history.
For the heck of it, my thoughts for the remaining games
Denver at Buffalo, Winner: Denver. Because Denver defense. Stuff Tebow.
Arizona at Cincinnati, Winner: Cincinatti. Defense > Skelton and Fitzgerald.
Jacksonville at Tennessee, Winner: Tennessee. They play Locker from the start and don't blow this one.
Oakland at Kansas City, Winner: Kansas City. The defensive scrap continues and Palmer gets picked big time.
Miami at New England, Winner: New England. Brady sets the ground for the pursuit of Marino's record.
New York (Giants) at New York (Jets), Winner: New York (Jets). Giants receivers are butterfingers and whingers. Eli will keep them in it but they will lose it.
St. Louis at Pittsburgh, Winner: Pittsburgh. Big Ben tolls once more.
Minnesota at Washington, Winner: Minnesota. Peterson gets some speed back, Ponder throws accurately, Grossman blows it.
Tampa Bay at Carolina, Winner: Carolina. Tampa Bay are hopeless on offense right now. Carolina take Cam Newton on the way to break Peyton Manning's rookie year passing yards record.
Cleveland at Baltimore, Winner: Baltimore. Ray Rice goes berserk and Flacco sits back.
San Diego at Detroit, Winner: Detroit. Megatron goes on a massacre and Suh taunts Rivers.
Philadelphia at Dallas, Winner: Dallas. They're playing much better than they were in early rounds. Plus even I can't justify the Giants getting to the playoffs anymore.
San Francisco at Seattle, Winner: San Francisco. Seattle will stay in touch but Harbaugh will grind Carroll's optimism into the ground.
Chicago at Green Bay, Winner: Green Bay. Chicago have no offense left. Believe it.
Atlanta at New Orleans, Winner: New Orleans. Brees takes his last step to breaking Dan Marino's record and schools the pretenders and wannabe Matt Ryan in how to play, plus Dunta Robinson acts like a thug again and increases Falcon hatred.
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|2011-12-23, 01:50
|Link #3828
World's Greatest
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: San Francisco
Age: 31
|2011-12-23, 12:52
|Link #3833
Senior Member
Join Date: Sep 2008
Age: 32
|2011-12-23, 13:41
|Link #3834
Don't Call Me Bro
One wonders why Orlovksy had been benched so long while Painter floundered.
No, we don't - Luck.
I doubt they'll win their final game, so I doubt Minnesota would end up in the race for Luck. It's not like Ponder is a hack either - there's potential to build a team around him.
All that said, I loved watching that game. Finally got to see that Houston defence in action and I get why they're rated so highly. Reed, Cushings and Watt - yikes. So many batted balls and pass rushes. Defense only faltered in the final drive with sloppy penalties. The Houston offense was what let them down. Arian Foster just failed to protect the ball - plus they had some lucky bounces/near-interceptions as well. Foster is great at punching holes but ball security - not convinced. I'd still take Ray Rice over Arian Foster.
|2011-12-23, 15:01
|Link #3835
'Sup Ballers
Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: North Carolina, USA
Age: 29
I imagine that if St. Louis or Minny gets the no. 1 pick, they'll dangle it for trade bait and go for a coup for draft picks. Someone like the Redskins would definitely do it.
Both Ponder and Bradford have shown that they can succeed when they get the proper tools around them, over Luck who is still unproven and mostly hype. Bradford hasn't played well this season compared to his rookie season, but that's just because he has been playing hurt all season. Plus, both those guys have current love affairs with their front offices. If anything, they are in a battle for OT Matt Kalil.
You can't just quit on a young QB after you committed to him in the first round. It's just not economical or sensible.
As for my Panthers, currently they are projected to pick in the 6th-8th range. Hopefully, we can win out and push that back a bit. A DT is the primary need, but the problem is there is a pretty weak DL class this year, so the Panthers may have to go best player available.
Hello, Morris Claiborne, Rick Reiff or Alshon Jeffery!
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|2011-12-23, 15:06
|Link #3836
World's Greatest
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: San Francisco
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|2011-12-23, 15:21
|Link #3837
'Sup Ballers
Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: North Carolina, USA
Age: 29
These guys are playing for their jobs right now, I doubt that they really care about sandbagging it for a no. 1 pick at this point.
|2011-12-24, 16:40
|Link #3840
'Sup Ballers
Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: North Carolina, USA
Age: 29
With NYG beating NYJ today, the NFC East will come down to Cowboys-Giants next week. The Eagles have been eliminated. Romo has been knocked out the game vs the Eagles on the first drive.
Carolina rolls and Cammy Cam breaks the rookie passing record set by Peyton Manning. The team will be dangerous in the coming years.
Vikings are eliminated from the 1st overall pick competition. It's now down to St. Louis or Indy.
Edit: Something epic from Jerome Simpson in the Bengals-Cardinals game.
Damn. . .
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Doug Flutie is right. And it should stand as a warning to the NFL.
"The game in Canada was more exciting, more explosive, more wide open," Flutie wrote in Peter King's Monday Morning QB. "It was what the NFL is now becoming. We were going no huddle, over the ball, from the time I got up there. No-back sets, six wide receivers, throwing the ball all over the field. There is a 20-second clock between plays rather than 40. It just creates a pace that the NFL is now realizing to be more exciting-and actually more effective. The NFL is turning into a no-huddle, up-tempo, fast-paced, throw-the-football type of game now. The CFL has been that for the past 30 years."
The NFL should consider itself warned. Do we want our football to be like the CFL? Please, in the name of all that is good and righteous, tell me NFL fans do not believe Canada does football better than we do football.
The CFL is one-dimensional, a ballistic hodgepodge of artillery fire without explosives. Where's the metaphorical blood? They throw the ball with impunity and the balance of the game is debased, derailed and otherwise deposed. The hollow barrage becomes boring, predictable and assumed. Throwing the ball is taken for granted, just another play in the same chain as the last play.
What's interesting is that Flutie meant this to be a compliment to the NFL, a compliment to the league for imitating Canada's version of football.
I dry heave all over this notion.
I am a confessed traditionalist when it comes to the game of football but there's a reason why: balance breeds contrast, complexity, strategy and a sense of rightness in the Realm of Mother Gridiron. Balance brings the third dimension of football into the equation, where teams run, throw and use play-action to move the ball, acquire territory and bring their enemy low by pushing the pig into their kingdom.
Playing smashmouth football does NOT have to be boring. Just ask the fans of the San Francisco 49ers and the reigning Super Bowl champion Seattle Seahawks. Ask them if their style of play is boring.
I want to thank Doug Flutie. He may have done more to warn progressives like Roger Goodell of the evils of unbalanced football than all the traditionalists like me put together.
Mr. Goodell, the NFL is becoming the CFL! And there's an easy fix: allow DBs to put their hands on receivers again. Do away with illegal contact penalties and enforce pass interference. This will create balance once again. Stop making rules that encourage offensive coordinators to do nothing but throw the ball.
Flutie penned a masterpiece while filling in for Peter King. And Roger Goodell should heed the warnings of Flutie's ill-played compliment. There's a Raven perched above his chamber door…and it's not John Harbaugh or Joe Flacco.
Quoth the Boston College Eagle, "Nevermore."


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<—The Refuge for Friendless Girls Marie —>
Olga's Diary (Continued)
Dear Diary
I never knew places like this existed. Matron said I was lucky to be here because this is a Catholic refuge and other girls in my state end up in the workhouse, which, she says, are very unpleasant places and the treatment of the women in them is often cruel and harsh.
"Here", she said, "they will treat you well and take care of you until you have your baby".
My room is cold and bare, with an iron bed, a table, a chest of drawers, a large white enamel jug and bowl. On the wall is a big crucifix of Jesus on the cross. I like the cross being there. It makes me feel I'm not so alone.
There are eight other women here, all waiting to have their babies. I spend my days cleaning the refuge or peeling vegetables in the kitchen. When I'm not working I stay in my room and say my rosary. We are forbidden to speak to each other during the day but can talk for one hour in the evening after prayers. But I don't want to talk to anyone. I feel ashamed. I keep myself to myself.
Why do I dream of the things I can't have.
Last night it was Cissie's wedding. I saw everything so clearly.
Father Baker performed her wedding ceremony at the Holy Trinity Cathedral and there were flowers everywhere. Cissie walked down the aisle on Sydney's arm to the music of the wedding hymn, looking beautiful in a simple white silk dress with a long tulle veil and a spray of orange blossom in her hair. The tots and I were the bridesmaids and we wore pale blue dresses with broad hats trimmed with blue lace and chiffon. Over sixty people attended the service, as well as Dyke's family and friends and including three of Cissie and Dyke's children.
After the ceremony everyone went back to Mission House. In the back garden Mammie had arranged for a large booth made of bamboo and coconut leaves to be built and decorated with lignum vitae and pink bougainvillea. This was where all the wedding presents were put before they were unwrapped. There was a table in the garden covered with a white linen table cloth and on it stood the wedding cake with a net over it and pinned in several places.
After the bride, the wedding cake was the centre of interest and the guests had to bid money to uncover the cake. They would try and outbid each other and by the time the cake was uncovered Cissie and Dyke would have several pounds, as well as lots of lovely presents. It was such a happy, noisy day with so much laughter.
I thought about Michael Sales and the pretty earrings he gave me at my leaving party in Kingston and how he said he'd wait for me to return so I could be his girlfriend. But not now… not me Michael. I hope you find someone nice.
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As of today Gearbox is still hiring for all of its projects, with the company's main page still listing Colonial Marines as "in development." Also still in development are Borderlands and three other, unannounced projects.
The look on his face? That's fear of cancellation. Don't make the space marine cry.
Gearbox has laid off employees recently, and Sega neglected to even mention the project when it announced a new Alien vs. Predator game. This led to speculation that the game would be cancelled, as the Obsidian-developed Aliens RPG was cancelled shortly after also failing to be mentioned.
Anthony says: I really hope this game comes out, but I wouldn't be surprised if it got cancelled. Not only have I heard fairly convincing statements that it won't be published by Sega at all, but I don't see how Gearbox can be developing so many projects simultaneously. If nothing else, I think the development of so many games at once could hurt the overall quality of any finished products, as made evident in the developer's most recent release: Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway.