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A weblog about politics, media, and the ethical singularity. Sometimes about feminism with bad words involved. :-/ Sometimes I make very short anti-art videos and take Doctor Who way too seriously.
Wednesday, March 7, 2012
Barack Obama's new speech on gay marriage
The speech will start out by pandering to the gays, the not-gays, the disabled, the not-disabled, the minorities, the not-minorities, the people who I can comfortably label, and the people I can't comfortably label but can comfortably sit down to dinner with. But by the end, you'll all be upset by my carefully considered bland hypocrisy.
This evolution exists thanks to the people sitting at home with a microwaveable dinner and popping in the sort of DVD that can unite Americans from all walks of life by portraying gender stereotypes in a way that makes us all cringe. This is your evolution
To paraphrase a great American, the late Bobby Kennedy: "Some people see things as they are and say why? I dream things that never were and say, why not string you along under the pretense of waiting for a politically opportune moment while your long-term partner dies in a hospital bed you are not allowed to sit by?"
Earlier today I received a most gracious call from my opponent, Mitt Romney, congratulating me on selling out. I have thought long and hardly about this evolution, but Governor Romney has thought about it longer and more seldom than me. "Corporations are people, my friends," he says. Tonight, I am here to prove him right. In addition to forming my own SuperPAC, I am happy to announce a new horizon in American family values: the corporate right to marry. I congratulate Romney on his achievements in service of corporations and in knowing how tall trees are.
But after talking about all this gay stuff, I would like to assure you that your president is uber-straight by telling you about my white bread family and the puppy, too. Those heterosexual norms rock. I got mine. Now, you can got yours, too, as long as you're publicly traded. This is your evolution. It belongs to you.
Never mind an environmental record that's nearly as bad as George Bush's. Never mind those illegal wars I took a lot longer than promised to get America out of... sort of. Never mind that in this economy, a college graduate will be lucky to work bagging groceries. Tonight, this victory is yours.
Never mind that my Attorney General's take on "due process" is a real John Ashcroft-quality move or that I've also evolved from calling Guantanamo unconstitutional to using it as a model for taking away Americans' right to a trial. Tonight, we inaugurate a new spirit of sacrifice – of giving up your daughters for Exxon-Mobile. As a father, using the slut word makes me uncomfortable. Comparing wage slavery to prostitution is so untoward that it might make people notice that I'm not only not a socialist but well far right of the pope. I don't like to hear our daughters put down in such a way. So I'll just say this: "drill, baby, drill!" Who doesn't want their kids to marry up in the world? This is your evolution.
Let's leave behind our history of partisanship and pettiness. Let's heal those divides and promise to get things done, as long as what's getting done is good for the bottom line of a megacorp that doesn't pay taxes in the United States.
Let me tell you a story about an old lady – a lesbian – a story about her heartache and her hope. She has lived through wars and gas shortages, being ostracized by her peers and her family, public health crises and crises of public conscience... also gas shortages. Those must have really hurt. At a time when young boys and girls are taking their own lives in despair and isolation: yes we can! At a time when lesbians' voices were silenced... you know what, I got nothing. Yes we can!
She was there to witness a generation rise to greatness, a generation that didn't give a shit about her. Yes we can! A man touched down on the moon, a wall came down in Berlin, a world was connected by the American telcos. And in the last election, she touched her finger to a screen, and cast her vote, because she believed I would do something about heterosexual privilege. Man, what a sucker. Yes we can!
This is our chance to answer the call to progress. This is our moment. This is our time to end discrimination against corporations and allow them to fulfill their dreams of marriage. Remember: this is your evolution. You deserve it.
Thank you. God bless you. And may God bless the United States of America.
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one of the more convoluted, inarticulate attacks i've seen on the man who has more to offer the causes and values that i think the author supports...ReplyDelete
what? you really think any Republican seeking office... any tea party patriot... is going to advance your ideals?
unfortunately, but as expected, the Reactions options do not allow for negative feedback...
In what way is this convoluted and inarticulate? If it's convoluted, it's because the form borrows heavily from Mr Obama's speech playbook. It's a very direct parody of the election night speech from 2008. Mr Obama has done a few good things, but in many respects he is George Bush's third term, which is precisely what he has promised not to be.ReplyDelete
1) He is a hypocrite on the gay rights front, and this isn't just about being able to call someone your spouse. As I point out, the consequences can by dire, and the times are desperate for gay and lesbian kids. His politically motivated throwing of the LGBT community under the bus is disgraceful.
2) People describing his environmental record as Bush-like are climate change deniers. They think it's a good thing for his environmental record to be abysmal. I don't.
3) Eric Holder's position that "due process is not judicial process" is quite similar to Bush era legal work, in that it is convoluted, dishonest, and ultimately harmful to the constitution. Does it remind you of renaming torture as "enhanced interrogation" or what? We're talking about killing American citizens without trial.
4) The president came into office with strong words about Guantanamo prisoners not receiving trials being unconstitutional, which it is. Now, there's the National Defense Authorization Act, which endorses a similar imprisonment without trial, even for American citizens. This is troubling as well.
5) The president has spoken against Citizens United but is happy enough to have a SuperPAC.
6) Yes, the president is right of the pope.
Finally, the whole basis for the parody is that the republicans are even worse than this and actively prefer corporate rights over gay rights / human rights. No one is advancing my ideals, so I will. I'm glad I'm pissing off the Obama faithful because you deserve it, you smug shits.
Barack Obama being the best we can do at this juncture is not a good thing. It's awful that the best we can do is a planet-abusing, gay-abusing, constitution-abusing prick whose few true words can best be described as pandering. In fact, in Britain and elsewhere, they view us as choosing the main belligerent in World War III (the war in Iran which is now unfortunately viewed as inevitable for some reason) rather than the president.ReplyDelete
Also, I encourage everyone to read about depleted uranium shells in Iraq and Afghanistan. I would describe the use of DU, atomized particles of which find their way into local water supplies and cause cancer, as willful mass murder.
My initial offense was with your attribution of Republican principles to Obama. Yes, your writing style was consistent with an Obama speech, but I think your substance missed the mark. I do not believe that Obama supports the pure principle of corporations as 'people', even though they do have a long history of being distinct legal entities.ReplyDelete
I do think we, as a country, have come a long way in forwarding gay/lesbian rights in the past three years... much further than we would have under a McCain/Palin administration. Yes, I would like to see things moving more quickly. I do think the Obama administration is moving the issue in the right direction as evidenced by the increasing number of states legalizing gay marriage and the removal of Don't Ask/Don't Tell.
Unfortunately, I do think there is a trade off between some environmental issues and some economic issues. In the current economic environment, an aggressive environmental agenda is a practical impossibility. I believe that Obama would like to be more aggressive on this front, and I would like to see him do so... I simply do not think it is possible today, and needs to be kept alive and pursued more fully tomorrow.
Hmmm... your third point... i COMPLETELY agree with you and find the position inconsistent with my basic principles and my perception of those of the United States.
Guantanamo is a multi-faceted, difficult issue. I agree with Obama's early decision to close it... and, am appalled by congressional action to defund the closing. I don't like some areas of the NDAA and can't reconcile them to my own values. On the up side, we have stopped putting new prisoners there, and have far few in custody than when Obama came into office. In general, I'm not happy it exists, but I think we are stuck with cleaning up the mess generated by a prior administration. I'm not willing to blame the clean up crew for creating the problem, even though i really wish they'd make it go away faster.
I absolutely support an Obama Super Pac. When your opponent picks up a weapon that can hurt you, and is preparing to attack you, you better be willing to pick up a comparable weapon... or, be prepared to lose.
I think the Pope would disagree with you regarding Obama's liberalism...
You are correct, the Republicans are further from your positions than Obama... unfortunately, after actually attempting a conversation, your final statement simply illustrates your immaturity... grow up and work on making things work the way you'd like them to instead of simply settling for pissing off anyone who is not completely in lock step with your views and schedule, you smug shit...
Please demonstrate in what way the principles I attributed to Obama are not his own. I enumerated the main points, and they are all his own. The Obama super PAC is, at best, a performative contradiction and more likely to be an implicit endorsement of something he supposedly finds wrong (i.e., he is a hypocrite). He may not like that corporations are legally people, but he acts like it.ReplyDelete
We may have done better under Obama than under McCain, but so what? His "evolution" on the matter is all about political positioning. His weakness on this front is only his own fault. You believe he will take leadership in the future, but there is no guarantee.
Whether it is realistic or not in this economic climate, it is Mr Obama's policy to throw lots of money at alternative energy and other environmental projects, yet he still has a poor record.
Guantanamo may be a complex issue, but giving our prisoners a trial is not. Calling it the problem of a previous administration is simply not good enough. On the economic front, I think that is a fair argument, but in this case, he made it a priority to correct the injustices at Guantanamo. In the first month of his presidency, the question was what kind of trial -- military or civil -- to give these people. Now, it is not a question.
You lack a basic understanding of what left/right means. I'm talking purely about economic issues. Yes, the president is right of the pope.
Guess what: you are smug. You do need to be taken down a notch. You did not attempt a conversation. You just complained about what I had to say. Please, attack me personally by calling me immature and inarticulate when you have these qualities in abundance.
I initially found the quality of your writing to be lacking, and the substance of your content to lack logical coherence... I also challenged your apparent premise that the current administration is an equal threat to the Republican alternative.ReplyDelete
When you gave what I initially saw as the opening of a reasonable exchange of ideas, i welcomed that and participated equally.
When you closed with a statement that clearly illustrated that you only speak to hear the sound of your own voice, i choose to leave that a sound you may share with yourself...
Reiteration is not a demonstration. Look, I've described to you the facts behind my critique and the stylistic basis for my parody. They're real things that you can look up in the mainstream press. If you find being upset about what I have to say to be more logically satisfying than what I have to say, good for you. The current administration is a near equal threat to a republican alternative, even if we can survive the war with Iran you are so keen to have. Nuclear holocaust is no joke.ReplyDelete
Your comment is not "the opening of a reasonable exchange of ideas," it is a personal attack. If you can't take a tiny dash personal attacks (based in fact: the definition of smug is self-satisfied and complacent, and your eagerness to defend the status quo is, in fact, both these things) in with the facts about how you are wrong and have poorly comprehended what I have written, tough. If you want to see that as my own self-satisfaction, fine. But since you are not self-satisfied and you are a man of your word, I will be glad to be left with only the sound of my own voice.
- AnonymousMarch 8, 2012 at 3:55 AM
don't feed the trolls plz.ReplyDelete


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Last entry in this series can be found here
Before I go into more depth in this series about recent space opera books I've read, more on things I like/don't like in them, issues that are important to me and some of the themes that will be touched upon in the series I'm working on, I feel it is important to state my definitions of what is fantasy and what is science fiction.
Now to people who are casual fans of the genre this would seem to be an easy thing to define right, one is set in a made up world with dragons or magic or elves and the other takes place in space or the future. However, having started to follow parts of the science fiction blog community and some of the fan forums out there I've realised how important these definitions are to people and how they shape their views on both genres.
My definitions can be summed up as:
- Fantasy – a genre that uses tales from our past and a world view based on human history and our collective past, or even the present, to tell stories. Remember that Tolkien based his works on old myths and legends, mostly Scandinavian.
- Science fiction – a genre that uses future or skewed present settings to look at humanity and our development from the perspective of how we will progress.
So to me the two serve as a counterpoint, one reaching into our past or our myths and legends to tell tales. The other has its eye firmly on the future looking to tell stories about how progress may or is affecting our species.
I have to reiterate these are my views on how to define both genres, and obviously there will be overlap at the edges. Other people will have different views, this is just mine. You can of course check out the Wikipedia definition, but I personally quite like this long essay by the critic Paul Kincaid
There one big thing to note about the definitions above, technology or the amount of science in a story is not mentioned in the one for science fiction. I know there are a lot of people out for who both of those are vitally important but to me they are less so. I personally dislike stories that focus on the technology or scientific parts of things to the detriment of the plot and characters. To me those are how you show the world that has been built and how it differs and the message it has. Science of course has its role in the genre, it inspires many of the possible changes and futures that stories explore, but to focus on the particulars of the science itself misses the point as far as I'm concerned.
Science fiction to me is all about looking forward, trying to build stories about where we might go. They may project us into the far future or into strange worlds built by technology but they should fundamentally have something to say about who we are as a species. They should craft tales with characters and plots that draw people into believable, they don't have to be realistic, worlds and galaxies. The stories are about us and should be full of people we can relate as they go through whatever crazy or mundane events are happening.
Science fiction is about looking forward or seeing how far a change to our society or technology could take us and then see what that says about us, and that's why I love it.
You might think this doesn't relate to too many of the series I talked about in my last post but it does. Sure some episodes in those were about the big awesome battles or cool effect, but the vast majority of the time they had a message about us as all good stories do. They told us something about compassion, sorrow, happiness, despair, and much more just in a setting that allowed those stories we have heard before be told in a different way. That is why I love this genre.
I hope that my books will be able to tell stories that talk to people about being human, and also about hope and a setting a thousand years in the future that people will be drawn into.
Next time, as I mentioned briefly earlier, I will be talking about some books I have read recently and what I did like as well as what I didn't, and how those will relate to the kind of writing style I am aiming for and the kind of stories I want to tell.

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Finger Lakes Professional Photographers
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The Finger Lakes Professional Photographers is an organization dedicated to the education of those who are, or who aspire to be, professional photographers. It serves the Finger Lakes Region of New York. Members* come from as far north as Lake Ontario and down to the Pennsylvania border on the south.
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Hello everyone,
I recently started reading A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin. Which is certainly quite a book. So good in fact, they made a hit TV series out of it, which I also haven't watched. Now, I am only about halfway through this book, but I've enjoyed it so much thus far that I wanted to share some of my thoughts about it with you. I wanted to look specifically at Tyrion Lannister.
Now, I've seen all the Tyrion memes, and I am well aware of the fact that people have fallen deeply in love with Peter Dinklage as a character. But I specifically wanted to talk about how the book notes him early on as being a brilliant mind. Something not just formidable, but also quick to finding an efficient route to victory. Though he has never seemed ruthless to me, which I hear may be something that changes as I read further. For those of you that don't know (I know, how could anyone not know?), Tyrion is the son of a great lord, and a member of the Lannister house. They are a powerhouse (pun intended) of the storyline. Wife of the king, a member of the Kingsguard with the name "Kingslayer," and so on. Tyrion is often looked down on as the outsider of the house, though house pride keeps him from complete exile. However, his inability to match foes in battle due to dwarfed legs and so on has caused him to focus more keenly on his mental prowess. He notes this early on, saying that he reads constantly to sharpen his mind, like a whetstone sharpens a blade.
That being said, his brilliance is shown in practice when he creates a saddle for a recently crippled child that allows him to ride a horse again—ironically showing a compassionate angle that I would not have expected out of a character in the book. Anyway, this is then juxtaposed when he gets captured by Catelyn Stark, another character, and he is shown as nearly helpless. In fact, his decision to call out Catelyn Stark (which is the reason she had to take him prisoner, lest she be discovered), can be seen as a very rash and somewhat idiotic
So to relate this back to reality, why do we make mistakes? Most of us are brilliant people, capable of seeing plots, and analyzing situations. Certainly, we aren't necessarily all as cunning as Tyrion is, but I think that's the point, and why he's such a great character. In fiction, it's especially easy to fall into archetypes. Tyrion is the brilliant mind that rarely if ever get's outwitted. Except he's not. He gets beaten and then has to find his way out somehow. And in some ways that is even more commendable. It's more realistic. Which is dynamic in a relatable way. Back to mistakes though. People make them, and it's not always intentional. There are so many thousands of factors that go into any day that it's hard to see when our joke will offend even our closest friends, or make them laugh. The same goes for strangers. Maybe that's what makes A Game of Thrones so fantastic. Does that sound like what you'd enjoy in a book? Let me know!


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With the PSAL boys basketball borough playoffs set to begin on Tuesday, the big boys have the weekend off for the most part. But that doesn't mean Saturday will be quiet. In fact, will be very interesting as the PSAL Class A Showcase pits eight of its division's best against one another at Long Island City High School while up at Manhattan College in Riverdale, the 12th annual Coaches vs. Cancer High School Classic, a showcase for private schools, will be held.
PSAL Class A Showcase @ Long Island City
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tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2065164884737080821.post2403650548497757444..comments2019-02-14T21:32:49.283-05:00Comments on Est Quod Est: I'm with Paul RyanPaulihttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-2065164884737080821.post-58287164484354317752016-05-08T00:01:12.753-04:002016-05-08T00:01:12.753-04:00In related news: On Facebook Mark Shea is shilling...In related news: On Facebook Mark Shea is shilling for Hillary, painting her as the put-upon victim of Trump's smears against her stand-by-her-man heroism. Um, what?? I think my head is going to explode from all the cognitive dissonance.

I can see loathing Trump. I can see sitting out the election, voting third party, or writing in Nick Saban. But defending and even extolling Hillary, an evil witch who ruthlessly tried to destroy her husband's rape and harassment victims?? This is surreal.Dianehttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-2065164884737080821.post-88059995414546832342016-05-07T19:21:17.394-04:002016-05-07T19:21:17.394-04:00A no vote for Trump is a vote for the Hildebeast &...A no vote for Trump is a vote for the Hildebeast & a vote for her will have Barack Obunga & Eric Holder as Supreme Court judges. You want that then by all means go email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-2065164884737080821.post-1757753066973910122016-05-06T17:31:04.989-04:002016-05-06T17:31:04.989-04:00My decision isn't between whether to vote for ...My decision isn't between whether to vote for Imelda Marcos or Donald Trump. My decision to make is whether to vote for Trump for President or leave that one blank and only vote down ballot.Paulihttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-2065164884737080821.post-34264168926452076392016-05-06T15:40:02.518-04:002016-05-06T15:40:02.518-04:00To put things in some perspective, let's imagi...To put things in some perspective, let's imagine that in some sort of Man-in-the-High-Castle alternate universe it was Trump versus James Webb, the moderately compassionately conservative trans-Demo-Republican-Democrat, one of Ronald Reagan's sub-level Cabinet guys, as a matter of fact, who faded out of this race long, long ago. An extremely accomplished and honorable public servant, and thus a starkly different decision calculus than Trump v. Hillary.

But it ain't. So, as Donald Rumsfeld didn't say, you go to election with the nominees you have, not the nominees you might want or wish to have. The Republicans have Donald Trump. The Democrats have Imelda Marcos. I have to pick the known unknown over the known known in this one.Keithhttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-2065164884737080821.post-73787257925154260442016-05-06T15:09:25.726-04:002016-05-06T15:09:25.726-04:00Yes, I do. Perhaps I'm simply less moved by wh...Yes, I do. Perhaps I'm simply less moved by what politicians say, any politicians, particularly while campaigning.

Trump is without question a swaggering vulgarian private billionaire with, as a consequence, an extremely negative aesthetic chemtrail trailing him.

Hillary says everything right, but has an actual record of activity in alleged service to the U. S. which has managed to intrigue everyone up to and including forensic congressional committees and a posse of 150+ career FBI agents.

So I'm faced with weighing a privately successful billionaire shit-grinning over a taco bowl against an imminently indictable federal national security felon.

You see how these things see-saw on the decision scales.Keithhttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-2065164884737080821.post-64783481119723604622016-05-06T15:00:05.244-04:002016-05-06T15:00:05.244-04:00The evidence with respect to Trump on foreign poli...The evidence with respect to Trump on foreign policy is a big zero; he has no track record at all.

Hillary was Secretary of State, and her track record extends at least from the ostensible reset with Russia, through the defenestration of Gaddafi, the events at Benghazi, the deaths of four Americans there and the lies she promulgated about it (currently under congressional investigation by Trey Gowdy, in the course of which the existence of her private email server was revealed), her subsequent statements about that, her questionable blending of State Department access with donations to the Clinton Global Initiative, a holding tank of money beloved by Clintons but poorly regarded by those who rate charities on their value a more than private wealth management, an activity closely enough resembling selling her office for profit to warrant its own criminal co-investigation alongside the criminal investigation currently being pursued by the FBI with respect to the email server and the beyond top secret documents which travelled through it; and that's a long enough paragraph.

With Trump, we have no clue as to what sort of foreign policy he'd pursue once he was actually invested in office, as an executive decision maker with the enormous pool of attendees which surround Presidents these days (one can think of American Presidents these days less like Washingtons crossing he Delaware and more like bloated termite queens deep in their mounds, surrounded by armies of President-tweaking Valerie Jarretts, Chiefs of Staff, Security Councils and the like). His only real expertise is as a negotiating, decision-making chief executive - the job he has applied for.

With Hillary, we can reasonably assume that her future public foreign policy behavior would be at least some sort of extension of her past public foreign policy behavior, probably with greater media scrutiny.

I suppose it comes down to what one's definition of "better" is.Keithhttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-2065164884737080821.post-69799344813709470722016-05-06T14:46:46.099-04:002016-05-06T14:46:46.099-04:00Well, Pauli, at this point either Trump or Hillary...Well, Pauli, at this point either Trump or Hillary will be the next President....

So.... Donald Trump needs to convince people that he will be better than Hillary. And what has he done to ensure that?

Nothing, and less than nothing by saying things that make everyone think he is a conspiracist, a racist, actually trying to lose, a bully, a woman-hater....

You see why this is hard for many of us.Paulihttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-2065164884737080821.post-37027885672549415842016-05-06T14:11:42.833-04:002016-05-06T14:11:42.833-04:00At this point, Hillary might be better than Trump ...At this point, Hillary might be better than Trump on foreign policy. Feel free to discuss.Paulihttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-2065164884737080821.post-72909359192764176242016-05-06T12:55:33.163-04:002016-05-06T12:55:33.163-04:00Well, Pauli, at this point either Trump or Hillary...Well, Pauli, at this point either Trump or Hillary will be the next President - unless the current criminal investigation against Hillary serves up an alternate Democrat nominee.

Given that there are no longer even any competing candidates going into the Republican convention, unless the convention committees and delegates end up producing one out of...something...what there no longer is is an alternate to Trump as the Republican nominee.

Events have now rendered feelings irrelevant. Only choices remain.

(By way of whatever calculus, Rick Perry has now formally endorsed Trump.)Keithhttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-2065164884737080821.post-82343123957116777132016-05-06T12:01:32.943-04:002016-05-06T12:01:32.943-04:00Also, with regard to feelings, I'm going to sa...Also, with regard to feelings, I'm going to say right off the bat that "Would you rather have Hillary?" is a good response--as far as it goes. But looking at the bigger picture here one sees a woman who has planned to run for President for at least half here lifetime, has held numerous positions in government and has amassed enormous political power. Some people have decided that a loose cannon real estate & casino mogul who polls the worst against her of all his rivals is the best option simply because he said things that made them feel good. So people should come up with something a little bit better.Paulihttps://email@example.com


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MTV's House of Food premiered last night. It's Top Chef meets The Real World. It's Jersey Shore, with BLTs instead of GTLs. It's the most important Los Angeles food TV show since Eat Drink Love and it will finally put the L.A. culinary scene on the map. The show features seven strangers in their early twenties sharing a mansion in Los Angeles, but instead of getting teens pregnant or drinking on a shore, they're learning how to cook from top L.A. chefs while competing with one another to win an apprenticeship.
When the cast members have all arrived, thrown their suitcases onto plush Miami Vice chairs, and have given an obligatory squeal at the sight of the underground pool, they are ready for their first challenge. Greeted by "culinary coach," Chris Nirschel (former chef for Diddy and founder of Bad Boy Productions catering company), they begin their first self-explanatory challenge: Personality on a Plate.
Challenge: Personality on a Plate
Though judgmental, the judges are instead called "instructors," and they sparkle with the gleam of ten thousand Michelin stars. Chef Brendan Collins of Waterloo & City, chef Brooke Williamson of Hudson House (and runner-up on Top Chef Seattle), and chef Casey Lane of The Tasting Kitchen all sit in front of the cast members ready to taste food they haven't eaten since their six-year-old niece Sophie played "kitchen mish-mash" last July. Cue: The Meat Muffin.
Amanda, the rocker girl from Pittsburgh, makes a meat cupcake which the instructors said showed a "lack of enthusiasm" but I think would do really well on Pinterest. It's basically pre-made biscuit dough smashed in a muffin tin, filled with BBQ meat, topped with cheese and baked in the oven. It's like her because it's odd and she is odd.
Jake the homestyle country boy from Kansas makes a "bend me over burrito," filled with steak, fries, ranch dressing, and salsa, because he's from Kansas and so is steak. "It doesn't taste terrible," they say. No one bent over.
Lorena from Long Beach makes chicken stuffed with spinach, tomato, garlic and onion. But the chicken is raw and she didn't wash the spinach so basically it's just a bunch of potentially sickening and life-threatening bacteria on a plate.
Will from Boston from makes fancy seared salmon over white bean puree. It represents him because he's big on knowing where his ingredients come from, except this time when he has no idea where it came from.
Suki, who is from West Africa and now lives in Portland, makes peanut butter stew and it's like her because they both have "a lot of flavor, personality and attitude."
Brian, from Korea then England then Michigan, makes an Asian-style marinated steak with jasmine rice and pickled cucumbers because it's ambitious, just like him. The dish was unlike him because it didn't wear sunglasses while it cooked.
Gillian the farm girl from Oakley, California, makes a s'mores cupcake that shows her personality because her personality likes s'mores on the beach. Conceptually, the dish is the instructors' favorite thing so far though they can't fathom why she didn't make her own marshmallows since she made the cupcake from scratch and she had enough time. Viewers weren't aware how much time they had to cook (thirty minutes or three hours?) so popping on a pre-made cylindrical confection didn't seem like a huge offense.
First Lesson: Perfect Pasta
After a night of post-challenge gossip, chef Collins comes to the house to give the students their first lesson: Perfect Pasta. It's a slick, quick montage where he beautifully demonstrates how to make tortellini from scratch, corn filling, and a pan sauce - though no one was taking notes.
Where were their iPads? Their Moleskins? Their CVS stenos? Shouldn't these novice chefs with zero professional skills and a huge passion to learn be writing a few things down? Even on their hand? I took notes on How A Bill Becomes a Law in fourth grade for crying out loud. Not to mention, they have to recreate the exact dish for the instructors the next day and the winner gets to be acting executive chef at Waterloo and City and shadow Collins for the night. It's as if they're only here to be on television and not to learn how to cook.
After a little bit of pasta practice everyone heads out to Olvera Street to "find all their Mexican needs." Suki offends Brian with some Asian jokes and no one else cares because L.A. tacos are the best and nothing else is happening in the world when you eat them. Later that night, after delicious al pastor and with the pressure to win mounting, the first "shut the fuck up" happens.
I would imagine this is a record for an MTV reality show. The cast shuns Suki to her master bedroom. Actually, she went on her own because she's pretty and everyone else is ugly and like, whatever. Will joins her because they had a nice bonding gossip session the night before that will for sure happen again after this confrontation.
Test: Prepare White Corn Tortellini
The cast members put on pristine white chef uniforms to cook their pristine white corn tortellini at Waterloo & City. After a whirlwind spree of torn pasta, sweat, broken sauce and too many almonds, they crown the winner.
To the rest of the cast's dismay (except Will) the instructors choose Suki to lead the kitchen that night. She chooses her kitchen crew fairly, with the exception of assigning baker Gillian to be the dishwasher instead of the pastry chef, because once you sass to Princess Suki you're thrown into the dungeon of soap, hot water and garbage bins.
So how did the cast like working in a professional kitchen? They didn't think it would be so hot and fast-paced. Really.
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The final nail-biting ending: Amanda (meat cupcake genius) admits she doesn't really want to be a chef. She simply wants to cook for her family and friends and chef Collins is not about to waste his time on someone who doesn't want this as a career. She has a choice: Will she see her potential and return next week to carry out the rest of the season or will she head back to Pittsburgh, disappointing her father?
Tune in next week to see the dramatic - wait. The previews show some new "hot" guy is there, so maybe Amanda doesn't come back. Tune in next week if you are sick and the channel is stuck on MTV and you can't find your remote.
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I love the fact that a simple item can make such a difference in a room.
Take this tiny corner in my dinning room for instance.
My one and only house plant has been sitting in this corner for quite some time now, just hanging out on a simple stool - - nothing fancy, but I thought nice enough.
Add an actual plant stand and WOW!!,
magically the room looks ten times better.
(and so does the plant, which honestly is looking a little haggard)
The plant stand was a thrift store find that I couldn't pass up for two dollars.
Truth be told, I almost didn't get it thinking to myself the stool I was using worked just fine.
But after a coat of paint and a little distressing, the stand is now something I "NEED"!
Makes this simple corner in the dinning room just a little more pretty so we can enjoy these last few days of summer with a little class - - LOL.
Oh and in case your wondering, the plant itself is an asparagus fern that I started growing last summer and brought in over the winter - - it's been a house plant ever since.
Hope your all having a wonderful week!
Eight day's and counting til all three of my kiddos will be back in school full time...
Mommy is looking forward to it!
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Sassa CEO Thokozani Magwaza has told MPs that he does not know where Social Development Minister Bathabile Dlamini got the suggested R6bn figure for the social grants takeover.
Dlamini told the portfolio committee on social development last week that Sassa needed R6bn and five years to fully take over the scheme, as ordered by the Constitutional Court.
"As Sassa, we have not sat down to discuss what we need, and that's all I'm going to say about it," Magwaza told the standing committee on public accounts on Tuesday.
MPs wanted Magwaza to discuss the differences with the minister further, but committee chairperson Themba Godi shielded him from answering, saying it could make his work conditions untenable if he went against his political principal.
Read: How A Lack Of Accountability From Minister Bathabile Dlamini Created The SASSA Grants Crisis
Dlamini, who ducked out of the meeting after thirty minutes to attend a Tuesday Cabinet meeting, should account for her statements herself, Godi said.
Minister 'ducking responsibility'
MPs took issue with Dlamini for "ducking her responsibility" yet again, leaving Magwaza to account for her statements.
Magwaza said he believed the process could take two to three years.
"The thinking we have as Sassa is to operate on a built operating system," Magwaza told the committee.
"If we go that route, it will help us to take over the full stock of what must happen. It will be between two to three years, and a maximum of five years.
"I think it can happen before, but if there are hiccups, we have set ourselves a period of five years."
Magwaza and project lead Zodwa Mvulane told MPs that Sassa was meeting with the SA Post Office on Wednesday to discuss the areas in which it could assist in taking over the social grants scheme.
The Post Office had a part to play in assisting the takeover, and their workshop this week would discuss how they would come on board.
Magwaza stressed that current service provider Cash Paymaster Services (CPS) would definitely be phased out by the March 2018 deadline.
Talks with Post Office
The Post Office discussions were necessary for the interim period until Sassa was ready for a full takeover.
Beneficiary data would incrementally be migrated to Sassa, and would be done by January, another official said.
Magwaza said they had made an enquiry with the Constitutional Court over the experts that must be appointed to oversee the year-long phasing out of CPS.
Sassa had nominated experts on their side, and were waiting for the court to get back to them.
MPs said they were concerned about the "lack of urgency" in the Post Office talks. Two months had gone by, leaving ten more months to phase out CPS.
The idea of the workshop was not enough, and Scopa needed details about the talks with the Post Office, they said.
Magwaza said he could send the committee a report once the talks were held, and asked for two weeks to reply.


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This is another review of a recording from Druknroll with the music being a progressive and symphonic mixture of death and thrash metal and the ep is called 'Bad Math" and was released by Metal Scrap Records.
News samples start off the ep before going into a very fast and heavy symphonic direction which also uses a decent amount of blast beats along with the synths also mixing in progressive elements while the vocals are aggressive thrash style vocals which also mixes in some death metal growls.
Throughout the recording you can hear a great mixture of slow, mid paced and fast parts and clean guitars are also added into certain sections of the recording while t he solos and leads are done in a very melodic fashion and as the ep progresses melodic vocals are finally added onto the recording.
On this recording Druknroll plays a more aggressive style of death, thrash and heavy metal while still also having its melodic and symphonic moments, the production sounds very professional while t he lyrics cover dark and real life themes.
In my opinion this is another great sounding recording from Druknroll and if you are a fan of progressive and symphonic death/thrash metal, you should check out this ep. RECOMMENDED TRACK "On The Hook". 8 out of 10.


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Monday, June 8, 2009
heart-shaped glasses
i so desperately want a pair of heart shaped glasses to wear on the weekends when i just don't care what the hell i am wearing.
the only thing i keep wondering is........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
am i too damn old for them?
sigh. to be young again.....
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A community in Western Australia's South West is facing an unusual problem as its flagship tourist attraction has become too popular. Gnomesville, a quirky clay village near Dardanup, has grown so quickly it is threatening the privacy of nearby residents. Legend has it Gnomesville began in the 1990s after a local resident placed a single garden gnome in the hollow of a tree. Since then thousands of gnomes have been placed in the area by locals and tourists.
However, many of the gnomes sit on private property bounded by a thin rural fence line that has been largely destroyed.
Local resident Donalie Haynes has created a tongue-in-cheek asylum detention centre for displaced gnomes, but agreed the situation was getting out of hand.
"It's a nice way of saying 'this is private property' and if your gnomes are going to be on this side of the fence they will end up in the detention centre," she said.
"But I can't keep up any more because there are so many people coming to visit Gnomesville with their gnomes."
Ms Haynes said her children had been abused while moving gnomes back on the correct side of the fence.
"It's my place, it's my backyard," she said.
"I want to be able to use it as anyone else would use their backyard and I can't at the moment, we have no privacy.
If my kids move gnomes they get yelled at which is a bit distressing for them.
I want them to feel safe down here and they don't feel safe."
Ms Haynes said millions of footprints had compacted the earth and caused significant environmental damage to a large part of her eight-acre property.
"Because the original fence has been broken there is no boundary that's been set so people can just keep the gnomes going and going and going," she said.
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"Myself and my neighbours want to revegetate to get this area back up to how it should be and it's impossible to do that when there is people walking through constantly.
I have concerns about security but also people injuring themselves and who is liable for that?"
The local council has committed to building a barrier fence, but cannot say when.
Dardanup shire president Mick Bennett said it was a big job that would involve the relocation of thousands of gnomes.
"We need to get a fence up that won't get knocked down, won't get pulled down, won't get damaged or wrecked, and then bring the gnomes from where they are on the private properties back into Gnomesville," he said.
But for the time being, he added, Gnomesville was here to stay.


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Lutheran, Dupont and Rehab Hospitals Receive Excellence Through Insight Awards
FORT WAYNE, Ind. (Feb. 22, 2010) — Lutheran, Dupont and Rehabilitation hospitals were recently recognized by HealthStream Research with Excellence through Insight awards. The hospitals were chosen for their ability to excel in gaining insight into their patients, employees, physicians and the community through research, and for using that information to build excellence within their organizations.
Lutheran Health Network hospitals won the following awards:
Overall Physician Satisfaction
- Dupont Hospital/less than 250 beds (one of four hospitals nationally)
Overall Emergency Department Satisfaction
- Dupont Hospital/less than 250 beds (one of three hospitals nationally)
- Lutheran Hospital/250 beds or more (one of four hospitals nationally)
Unit Specific Awards
Inpatient satisfaction/rehabilitation
- Rehabilitation Hospital of Fort Wayne (one of three hospitals nationally)
Inpatient satisfaction/intensive care
- Lutheran Hospital (one of three hospitals nationally)
On March 12, 2007, HealthStream merged its research division and national database, known as Data Management and Research (DMR), with The Jackson Organization to form HealthStream Research. HealthStream Research now represents more than 1,100 healthcare facilities — 22 percent of the nation's acute-care hospitals.


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I found this: http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-saintandre-xmpp-uri-02.txt but it doesn't mention jabber: Maybe this is a name-change? Ah yes, it seems so: http://www.jabber.org/jeps/jep-0032.html #g -- At 10:52 22/03/04 -0600, Dan Connolly wrote: >Hi, I'm new to the XMPP/jabber specs. I see stuff like > ><?xml version='1.0'?> > <stream:stream > to='example.com' > xmlns='jabber:client' > xmlns:stream='http://etherx.jabber.org/streams' > version='1.0'> > >in http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-xmpp-core-22.txt > >but I can't find jabber: in >http://www.iana.org/assignments/uri-schemes > >nor in that internet draft nor the others I found >from the charter: >http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-xmpp-im-21.txt >http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-xmpp-e2e-07.txt > >I only scanned them briefly. Did I miss them? > >-- >Dan Connolly, W3C http://www.w3.org/People/Connolly/ >see you at the WWW2004 in NY 17-22 May? ------------ Graham Klyne For email: http://www.ninebynine.org/#ContactReceived on Monday, 22 March 2004 18:24:58 UTC
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The Ritz-Carlton on Canal Street in the French Quarter is a steal; rooms are as low as $209 a night through the end of the year. For an even better value, book the Reconnect package (from $194) and get breakfast for two and a $25 credit that can be used at the 25,000-square-foot spa.
If the Ritz is booked, try the Iberville Suites, located in the same former department store. Though the two hotels share many facilities—like the spa, gym, restaurant, bar, and lounge—the Iberville Suites is cheaper. Rooms in November start at $149 a night.
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PA Homeschoolers FALL TESTING registration now open!
We are once again hosting a series of Fall Testing Sites all across Pennsylvania, using the TerraNova achievement test. Please see full info by clicking here, or on the link above that says 'Testing Service'. The cost is still just $30 per student with pre-registration either online till October 21st, or by check mailed in post-marked October 18, 2013. Note: there is a $3.95 service/handling charge on all online orders. If you prefer to just come to a test site that day and do 'walk-in' registration, the fee is $35 at the door (this $35 fee also applies to online registration after October 21st).
All testing days start promptly at 9:30am (so plan to arrive by 9:10am!), and we're so grateful to the churches and synagogues that have opened their doors to allow us to offer this service, where homeschoolers can be tested in a comfortable group setting with other homeschoolers.
The testing fee covers all expenses of the testing date, and includes the service of mailing your child's test results to your home directly, within usually 10 days of testing. Students should bring pencils for the testing day -- all other supplies (simple rulers, scratch paper, etc) are provided by us... and if you forget pencils, we'll have extras, too! Students in 5th grade and up can also bring calculators, which can be used for the math word problem section only (this is optional-- calculators are not required).
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Creating a comment section for your blog posts.
Once you install your blog module and can have created your first blog post content types, you may notice that there is no ability for visitors to leave comments. This is a normal feature for blogs and likely expected for your website visitors. They like to leave comments on blog posts so they can interact with your site, creating more of a community feel. As the Comment field has been adjusted in Drupal 8 to its own field type, there are a few steps needed to set them up for your blog post content types.
Create the comment field
The first step is to create the comment field for the blog post entry type. The article liked here will guide you on how to do just that.How to create a comment field
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Apple caused rejoin among avid fans a few days ago, as they officially unveiled their wearable smart-device, the Apple Watch. Naturally, many people expected the manufacturer to name their new wearable the "iWatch", and who could blame them? Taking a surprising turn, Apple decided to use their apple logo, simply followed by the word "Watch", in place of their trademark naming style.
Naturally, the Apple Watch is not designed with pure functionality in mind. As with all of the company's devices, looks and style are at least as much of a consideration as practicality. However, that is certainly not to say that the device will be nonfunctional.
The Apple Watch will be sold in 38mm (1.5 inches) and 42mm sizes (1.7 inches), and there will be six different choices of case material, as well as six interchangeable types of bands. Apple seems to want to ensure that users can wear the Apple Watch in any situation, and with a range of different fashion styles. Contradicting their usual "one size fits all" style of marketing, Apple has worked to ensure that their new smartwatch will appeal to a variety of different tastes.
How much is the new Apple Watch going to cost? When it is released, in early 2015, the prices will begin at $349. iPhones and iPhone parts typically cost above average in the market, so this is not surprise.
What about the watch's screen? Depending what model you choose, your Apple Watch will have either a flexible sapphire display, or an ion-strengthened display. As many of us expected, the watches will all include HD Retina screens, giving high resolution, although resolution should not be an issue on such a small screen size. Breaking with the tradition of their smartphones, Apple is including an NFC chip on the wearables, and this will work with the company's new mobile payment system.
How about the actual interface? Apple has put a lot of thought into the end-user experience, and created an interface they believe is simple to use, and easy to learn. In keeping with unique iPhone parts, the system revolves around the "Digital Crown", on the right of the watch's body. This can be turned to conveniently access elements, as well as to zoom and scroll. This is a bold choice, considering that most smart watches have chosen to stick with button-based interfaces. Time will only tell how well this is adapted by users. However, there is little doubt that the upcoming Apple Watch is going to make a big splash in the market, whether it is good, or bad.
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Dana Beaversposted on Monday, 22 September 2014 6:09:08 AM Australia/Sydney
I guess I will wait and see when it does come out and I have a friend that has one, I will go and touch and feel and see how it works in person. Then I can determine if I can live or live without one :)
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Last weekend, I've dug out an old turntable to see how well the gyroscope of the Move can be calibrated with the USB-based calibration blob. The turntable has the advantage that it has a known rotation speed (two modes: 33 RPM and 45 RPM), so this can be used to see if the values we get back from one of the gyro axes somehow relates to real-world values.
Before I tried the turntable method, I just played around with the raw Gyro values to see what I can get out of them. I wrote a very simple QGraphicsView-based GUI to see the output visually, and this is what came out of that example:
As you see, that was not really anything to write home about, so next up was the turntable experiment. With that, I could scale the raw gyro readings so that "1.0" (in my case) corresponds to e.g. 45 RPM. Coupling that with an audio player using Qt MultimediaKit, one can translate the turntable movements into playback rate values and control the media player just as if it were a vinyl record:
In this week, I've been working on perfecting the calibration algorithm, cleaning up the API for the calibration part of the library and hooking everything up to Sebastian Madgwick's AHRS algorithm and visualizing the result with Qt3D.


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We here at Inhabitat have reported on some mind-bending concepts in the past, but Dodeca Architects may just take the prize with their Cocoon Hotel. A "soft" hotel designed to shelter guests from a "hard" industrial environment, the new hotel not only provide accommodations but an expanse of new green spaces for the public to enjoy. The new hotel also connects to its sister hotel - a recycled silo - and features rooms on the perimeter called "skins," some of which double as galleries overlooking a state-of-the-art amphitheater, creating a new cultural pole complete with vertical gardens, a passive cooling system and more.
The outer skin rooms are wrapped in a tensile fabric that allow the entire building to breathe. Each guest can operate their own "skin" electronically, opening and closing it according to their needs. Completely private, this outrules the necessity of either curtains or blinds. This "living" skin also reduces heat gain during hot African summers and wards off cold air in winter, while acting as a "greenhouse" for each room's vertical garden. Situated in the timber-decked terraces, the gardens are designed to provide oxygen, passive cooling, and humidification for the entire structure.
Green spaces located between adjoining rooms gives guests the sense that they are in a corner room with two glass sides, and cylindrical showers jutting out into the garden provide a private outdoor shower experience. These rooms are also aerated through the adjacent, perforated floors.
The cube rooms comprise an entirely different environment better suited to high-tech artists, designers and other tech-savvy professionals. Here three 3x3x3 meter cubes are chained together to create a bedroom, full bathroom and an office. When the guest inserts their card, the room lights up. When they exit, the entire room – like a giant computer – shuts down, thereby reducing energy consumption. These rooms are also soundproof.
Although not every guest is required to participate with what is happening in the ampitheatre, booking one of the 20 box rooms that teeter over its edge is certainly an option.


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Thandii's sound is bold and playful, and in her words "an attempt to put a female stamp on an otherwise male-dominated sound."
Beginning with "Another One",(rel 9.2.18) Thandii is taking a great leap forward. From the rippling harp, through the beats which cross jazz into disco, right into Thandii's gorgeously echoing vocal and a wah-wah heavy guitar solo that's right out of 1970s there's music which matches where it was created. Not quite pastoral, but a natural feel which bends to the inevitable modern surroundings.
Thandii explains the new songs were all "created here (in Margate) and Graham and I were trying to bring in this element of easy-breezy, '70s dreamy kind of thing….all the 'e' words haha! But still kind of being experimental with the vocal placement or the drum sound…. there's definitely more of a '70s psychedelic element to them."
Under dramatic skies that inspired JMW Turner's Romantic landscape paintings, Thandii's alternative psych tunes were created. Produced, written and recorded in the seaside town – the girl behind Thandii moved from London to Margate after a late night bet. "It was one of those nights where you're out until 6am and you end up assessing what you're actually doing with your life. Somewhere like California was probably the dream choice to relocate, but failing that… Margate has been incredible, a kind of west coast on the east coast…but colder!"
2017 saw the debut EP release – "Forgetful." Support came in the shape of Huw Stephens (BBCR1), Abbie McCarthy (BBC Introducing In Kent), Tom Robinson (BBC 6 Music), Clash, LOBF, Independent and Wonderland.
Live shows included support slots with Theme Park and Jalen N'Gonda, as well as sets at Huw Stephens Presents and LeeFest.
2018 starts with Thandii being chosen as one of Abbie McCarthy's BBC Introducing Picks of 2018.
March 29th – Abbie McCarthy's Good Karma Club – Sebright Arms, London.


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Tuesday, January 18, 2011
My review of Responsibility and the Moral Sentiments
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A philosopher's stone or lapis philosophorum is a legendary substance capable of turning lead into gold. It is my hope that this blog will polish some of my (and possible yours as well) rough and confused philosophical musings into nuggets of things more valuable.


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If German national team one day finds itself lacking players, it has a precious superresource in Brazil, where many local players have German surnames:
Kretzer (Flavio)
Spellmeier (Felipe)
Hahn (Jerri)
Mestiner (Mauro)
Boeck (Marcelo)
Richartz (Eder)
Muller (Luiz Muller)
Hering (Hering)
Stival (Cleyber)
Scherpel (Eduardo)
Vergner (Danilo)
Buttenberder (Fernando)
Schwenk (Schwenk)
Weisheimer (Guilherme)
Mutt (Jorge Mutt)
Hinterholz (Danrlei)
Back (Marciel)
Hubner (Ramon)
Baier (Paulo Baier)
Lammel (Anderson Lammel)
Doring (Andre)
Horn (Neto)
Diniz (Fernando Diniz)
Diniz (Wagner Diniz)
Hahn (Marcio Hahn)
Schmitz (Rafael Schmitz)
Schmidt (Edu)
Hallmann (Geufer)
While the half of them for some reason are keepers, the efforts of Herr Ramon, Herr Danilo and Herr Paulo Baier, jointly with Edu from Betis and Rafael Schmitz from Birmingham, as well as Wagner Diniz, who has gained wonderful form, will be definitely enough to win the World Cup. In other words, the German team could be easily compiled of Brazilian Germans alone.
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Friday, March 25, 2016
Ghost of Maryland Reviewed
I always try to grab titles that cover weirdness in the state, and recently, I had the pleasure of reading Mike Ricksecker's book on the topic, aptly titled "Ghosts of Maryland."
Ricksecker doesn't cover every haunted spot in Maryland, that would of course take volumes. He does however, do an excellent job of hitting a lot of the highlights. He weaves in just enough history of the individual sites to bring anyone unfamiliar with the area up to speed, and he ably blends in the accounts of ghostly manifestations.
I was particularly interested in the author's experience while at the Samuel Mudd house. For those not familiar with the name, Mudd was the physician who treated Lincoln assassin John Wilkes Booth during his flight across the Maryland countryside. There have long been reports of the Mudd home being haunted, and Ricksecker stopped in to have a look for himself.
Mike covers other interesting sites such as the Mount Airy Plantation, Surratt House and Tavern and Lilburn Castle.
The back half of the book is devoted to a handy "Haunted Atlas of Maryland" that's broken down by county proving that there is indeed something weird in every corner of the state.
Pick this one up if you're interested in Maryland specifically or ghost in general. It's certainly earned a spot on my shelf. The atlas alone makes it a great reference book, but you'll enjoy the read too.
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One person has been killed and several injured in an attack on a factory near Grenoble in southeast France.
According to local reports, an Islamist flag has been found at the site. According to regional daily Le Dauphiné Libéré, the attacker entered the factory, owned by company Air Products in the town of Saint-Quentin-Fallavier, claiming he belonged to the Islamic State (IS) group.
According to the report, the man opened gas bottles and set off an explosion. The newspaper also states that one victim was decapitated and several others injured.Source
In the French television reports, they are also saying an inscription was found written in Arabic. It also says the perpetrators have been arrested and were known to the security services. Apparently, they did a "rodeo", that is they drove around crazily and ostentatiously in the factory grounds, revving their engines, after the attack.
It seems the incriptions in Arabic were written on to the severed head, which was attached to a wire fence! UPDATE: Here's a good factual summary of what is known so far:
France has launched a terrorism investigation after police found a decapitated body and a flag with Islamist inscriptions after two men attacked a factory near Lyon.
One of the suspected attackers was arrested and named as 35-year-old Yassine Sali. He was known to the security forces over suspected links to to a Salifist group, but has no criminal record.
The other attacker was killed by a firefighter in the incident, according to France's interior minister.
A decapitated body found at the scene had a message written on it. The victim has not been named.
Two other people were injured. Islamic flags were also found at the scene. The factory belonged to Air Products, a US company based in Pennsylvania, which supplies gases, chemicals and associated equipment.
It said all of its employees were accounted for. France's president, François Hollande condemned what he called "a terror attack".
He is due to hold an emergency meeting in Paris after exiting early from an EU summit in Brussels.


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Mr. Herman E. Calloway-Calloway is the band leader. Bud believes he is his father. Calloway does not trust Bud and thinks he is trying to pull a scam. He is also sad because he lost his daughter.
Angela Janet Caldwell-Angela is Bud's mother. She dies before the story even begins but Bud thinks of her often. The lessons she taught him help him to survive.
Deza Malone-Deza is the girl who teaches Bud how to survive in the shantytown. She teaches him the rules. She also gives him his first kiss.
Lefty Lewis-Lefty is the a man who picks Bud up when he is trying to find his father. He takes him to his daughter's home to fed him and give him new clothes. He takes him to his father.
Miss Grace Thomas-Grace is the "vocal stylist" in Calloway's band. She takes care of Bud and tries to get Calloway to accept him.
Theme: Desire to escape, Fate and free will, Inner versus outer strength, Injustice
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Sunday, April 13, 2014
Only now does it occur to me... WISE GUYS
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This looks like a lot of fun, and with some of the names among names! And, sorry to get off-topic, but the other day I saw a headline for a "Days of Thunder" review pop-up in my RSS feed, but then it disappeared before I could get around to reading it. Does this mean there is some Cruise in our future? Will it come back? Enquiring minds want to know!
- April 14, 2014 at 12:15 AM
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Heh– indeed a DAYS OF THUNDER post is in the works, but I accidentally published it before I finished writing it, but in a day or two, you should be able to read about various Nascar hijinks, etc.!
- April 14, 2014 at 10:39 AM
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This is one of the few, if not only, DePalma movies that has elduded me.
Are there a lot of other "DePalmisms" in the movie? Long crane shots, wild murals in the background, etc?
- April 16, 2014 at 9:39 AM
- Sean Gill said...
I, too, had waded through De Palma's entire oeuvre (save for GET TO KNOW YOUR RABBIT, HOME MOVIES, and some of the really early shorts) until I finally ticked this one off the list. Aside from a few bits of stylistic flourish (the aforementioned De Palma shots, some exciting camera angles, etc.) I never would have guessed this was a De Palma film. Maybe it was for money or he was trying to showcase his versatility to the studio? (Look– I don't JUST to wildly artistic psychosexual thrillers, I can do a straightforward comedy!), but the sum is less than its parts and it's really nothing too special (though it does have a nice morbid payoff at the end).
It is worth noting, however, that this film has a fiercely devoted cult following who actually find it to be something approaching a classic, so there's that.
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organic io wrote:[Artist] - Chotoro
[Title] - 9-axis
[Chip Format] - C64
[Tracker used] - GoatTracker/Linux
[mp3 link] - http://www.chotoro.fi/musik/chotoro-9axis.mp3
[Source file link] - http://www.chotoro.fi/musik/9-axis.sng
[Chip file link] - http://www.chotoro.fi/musik/chotoro-9-axis.sid
Are you sure you haven't done this sort of thing before, or am I mixing you up with someone else? It is very difficult to make a jazzy sounding chord without using arps to fake more than three tones, but when it's done right, it's prettier when they can just ring.
Afterward, though, I wished I could hear some arps develop in the rhythm, since that is one of the main properties of "vintage" C64 sound, the other being drum tones embedded into the attack transient of the bass, which I might add, is something only the SID can do well. I think you wanted to try to put more percussive qualities in your tune, so I hope you stick with it enough to learn how.
The composition was your usual good quality which led me to the immediate thought, "This is Chotoro on a C64," [edited from: "This is NT on a C64," sorry I've been very sick this week, difficult to concentrate sometimes] which implies that the limits of the chip did not intimidate.
Nice use of the filter, just beware that if you find you like this stuff enough to try to put your tunes on real hardware, the nature of the SID filter is that no two are alike, so you can't be certain what to expect when you do lowpass "dampen" tricks unless you compose for one particular piece of hardware. (Modifications to the capacitor that drives SID's filter are not unheard of.)
organic io wrote:[Artist] - organic io
[Title] - never had a c64
[Chip Format] - C64
[Tracker used] - cybertracker in CCS64DOS emulator
[mp3 link] - http://www.loopproject.com/filebase/sdcompo/organic_io/organic_io_-_never_had_a_c64.mp3
[Source file link] - http://www.loopproject.com/filebase/sdcompo/organic_io/cc3ct.rar (exported to .P00, I'm not really sure how to get this back into the tracker, but I'm sure it's possible... sorry)
.P00 is a disk file, it can be mounted in the emulator and loaded while the tracker is running. (If my transfer cable still works, I could write a disk from it and actually load it on my commodore stuff.)
It sounds like you got the hang of working with the tracker rather quickly, getting the hang of what you can and can't compose on a chip will come with time. I agree with the sentiment that vibrato-free sawtooth waves sound like an autotuned choir of mosquitoes, remember that you have many waveforms to choose from in the SID and that you can change them dynamically.
Some more broad comments about all three pieces (counting my own,) I'm a bit disappointed that I didn't have more time to give mine polish since the way I prefer to work on chip is to put the basic form of the piece down, then look for "spaces" in the columns to place echoes, double-up choruses and twinkly effects. That also means that if you want to have an echo lead or a fat, chorused lead, you have to leave a column empty for it, and that is the challenge of composing for chip.
When you have the hang of it, you can even do it in Renoise: erase all the tracks except three and have all the instruments bouncing about, the music will almost mix itself, which for me is secretly the finest property and why I'll compose for chip from time to time: there's no engineering at all. It's all handled by your arrangement.
I chose to play with the Namco expansion because it's something I've wanted to do for a while now, Namco's arcade sound in the early to mid 80's is quite unique and very fat for what was available in that part of the decade, so I used this to try to compose on it. That, and I didn't have time to dig up the commodore gear...
The "Japanese" sound is really an effect of the inspiration, Japanese VGM composers were fond of jazzy ragtime chords. Japanese fans of the sound do not like the sound of arps; most VGM composers did not use arps so it is not a familiar sound for them. Because of that, competing in Famicompo trained me away from using them.
I wish that I could've done a little more with that lead, and sorry about the funny brown note- I probably meant to change it but forgot.
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George Lucas and Jeffrey Katzenberg Host 'Hidden Figures' Screening for Star Janelle Monae
Jeffrey Katzenberg reunited with DreamWorks Animation chairwoman Mellody Hobson on Tuesday night in West Hollywood along with her husband, Katzenberg's longtime friend George Lucas, to host a special screening of Fox's Hidden Figures.
But this wasn't a screening without a cause. The trio put their names on the invite and showed up to The London to support Janelle Monae's performance in the Theodore Melfi-directed pic. Hobson handled the Q&A duties in front of a theater full of friends from the film, including producer-composer Pharrell Williams, screenwriter Allison Schroeder (who co-wrote the script with Melfi based on the book by Margot Lee Shetterly), executive producers Mimi Valdes and Ivana Lombardi, 20th Century Fox chairman and CEO Stacey Snider, Fox 2000 president Elizabeth Gabler and Fox 2000 vp production Marisa Paiva.
The event continues Monae's turn in the spotlight, propelled by her work in Hidden Figures, which also stars Taraji P. Henson and Octavia Spencer in the story of an elite team of black female mathematicians at NASA who helped win the all-out space race against America's rivals in the Soviet Union.
Earlier this week, the cast turned up at the Palm Springs International Film Festival, where they picked up an ensemble cast prize for the entire team (Henson, Spencer, Kevin Costner, Jim Parsons, Kirsten Dunst, Mahershala Ali and Glen Powell).
Singer-turned-actress Monae also received a Critics' Choice Award nomination and a SAG ensemble nomination for her performance in Hidden Figures. But it's not her only standout film this season, as she and Ali also star in Barry Jenkins' awards contender Moonlight.
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