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We hope you all had a great summer! Salem State has definitely missed you all this summer, however we've had quite a few facelifts over the summer and are eager to show you how awesome we look how. Check out Viking Hall and most importantly the Starbucks if you can!
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FACT: Technology is commoditizing everything.
Back in 2001, I was involved in the product launch for Proctor & Gambles' all-new Swiffer WetJet. Creating a new "Quick Wet Mop" category for cleaning products, it was supposed to be a game changer. The launch was a tremendous success, but its uniqueness was short-lived. 3M quickly introduced a similar product under its Scotch-Brite brand. Today there are multiple players.
We all face the same dilemma P&G faced thirteen years ago and today. We create a great new product, or design a big improvement on something that already exists, and what happens? Our competition immediately copies us! Why? Because it's EASY. We are victims of easy commoditization. We start seeing the battle as "doing more of the same, but better." And when this happens, it becomes difficult for the customer to see meaningful differences between suppliers. Ultimately, the fight becomes based on price.
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In your bag #240 – Loren Tayerle
In your bag /
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In your bag number 240, Loren Tayerle
A Leica heavy bag for you today, and Loren just so happens to have one of the coolest jobs ever. Come and read about Loren's awesome bag.
Hi my name is Loren Tayerle from San Francisco, California. I lead a double life as a professional musician and a winemaker. I'm sending this to you from Carmel, CA where I am performing at The Bach Festival for the 27th year. All the fabulous photographers past and present here have inspired my photography. I shoot things from my daily life but also enjoy still life and figure photography. I have an embarrassing number of cameras but do use most of them. I started shooting film again about 4 years ago and am obsessed but I love my beat up M8 too. This is my bag I carry with me every day, everywhere.
Versatile Tenba messenger bag
User Leica M8 and M4-P
f2 40mm Summicron –C and a Voigtlander 21mm f4 Skopar – both fine lens for the money.
Sometimes I throw my Fuji GA645Zi medium format point and shoot in instead of the M4
7" Galaxy Tab and Ipod Touch
Pencil case
Datebook and Moleskin notebook
Sekonic L-308S meter
Gitzo monopod
Big knife
Surefire E2D flashlight great for light painting
Blackberry is usually in my back pocket – I can almost rule the world with the Blackberry and Galaxy Tab!
Thanks for sharing your bag with us Loren. I love the bag and the job. Sounds like you enjoy what you do very much. Happy shooting.
Check out Loren's links and make sure you come and comment.
Keep them coming folks, we need more submissions, so get your bag on Japancamerahunter.com. Send me a hi resolution image of the bag (please make sure it is horizontal) and its contents, with some details about yourself and what you shoot. Oh and don't forget your contact details (twitter, flickr, tumbler et al). Send the bag shots here.
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I'm following you on tumblr. I love your photos; you have a talent for seeing.
We have a lot in common. I used to be a knifemaker and collector and was big into flashlights. My wife is a commercial recording artist, so I shoot a lot of bands. I mostly use the M-system and shoot B&W, though Tri-X is my preferred flavour.
Thank you. I probably use to many film types. I need to settle on a few and really learn them. I'm just now trying the Fuji Arcos but usually it's HP5 or Tri-X.
Hi Loren, nice to see the photographs from a winemaker, how is your vineyards and wines?
So far a very good year if the weather holds. I'm releasing some new wines this week and am very happy with them – I hope they sell well. Bottling 2010 wines Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday then I start spending more time in the vineyards and get ready for harvest. My site is tayerlewine.com


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Samsung is working on an experimental headphone project that could one day bring the "feel" of movement to virtual-reality gaming and programming through algorithms and electrical signals via a wearer's ears.
The Entrim 4D VR headphones project, an experimental effort in Samsung's C-Lab research unit, was unveiled at the South by Southwest (SXSW) event in Austin and announced by the company on March 14, along with two other experimental projects. The projects, which are all in the development stage, are being showcased to assess their market potential and to gather feedback from attendees at the annual technology and music festival.
The Entrim 4D headphones work in unison with a virtual-reality headset to give users an even more realistic VR experience by letting them "feel" what they are seeing on their VR headset, according to Samsung. By adding the sensation of feeling the action, the user can be immersed even more into the VR world on their screen.
The headphones work by "tricking" the part of the ear that regulates a person's balance and feelings of motion, according to Samsung.
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Entrim 4D uses a combination of algorithms and Galvanic Vestibular Stimulation (GVS), which is "a safe and simple technique that sends specific electric messages to a nerve in the ear," the company said. The headphones then synchronize the wearer's body with the changing movements in the video content they are watching.
"Electrical signals—like the ones used to help restore balance in stroke patients—are delivered via headphones equipped with electrodes that correspond with movement data input by engineers," the company said.
Through the electrical signals, users feel as if they are a part of the on-screen action and are also able to sense direction and the speed of the movements they are immersed in at that moment.
The feeling is magnified even more when the headphones are paired with the research team's Drone FPV, which gathers data from the drone's motion sensors to give headphone and VR headset users the feeling that they are flying, according to Samsung.
"Virtual reality shouldn't be experienced only with the eyes," Steve Jung, creative leader of the project, said in a statement. "With Entrim 4D, we hope that people can experience VR the way it was meant to be—with their whole bodies."
The Entrim 4D team members, made up of hardware professionals, software engineers and biomedical engineering experts, have been conducting experiments on more than 1,500 people and developed 30 different movement patterns as part of the development of the headphones, the company said. The team is also at work to add more electrodes that would create a sense of rotational motion.
Headphones like the Entrim 4D device are also being eyed by the research team as a fix for one of the most reported and challenging problems of VR experiences—motion sickness. The simulated feeling of riding on a roller coaster or zooming around a race track can leave users nauseous, dizzy and prone to headaches, according to Samsung. Though the Entrim 4D headphones are still in development, researchers hope that they may offer a practical solution to the problem.
The other research projects Samsung unveiled at SXSW included Hum On, an app that transcribes hummed melodies into musical scores, and Waffle, a social media platform that enables collaborative content creation.
Hum On is essentially a musical translator that can be used by anyone to score, arrange and share hummed melodies in minutes. The songs can then be shared through social media or used as background music in videos or other projects. The app "utilizes analysis software to detect the pitch and duration of a user's voice, and machine learning to create a suitable accompaniment in the same way a musician considers melody and chords," according to Samsung.
Waffle, meanwhile, is a new content-sharing application that uses a waffle-inspired user interface to give users the ability to create their own feeds of content that can then be expanded by friends and others, according to Samsung.
"Waffle enables users to add their own perspective to someone else's content, and vice versa," Joseph Kim, creative leader of the project, said in a statement. "These doodles, images and messages converge into entirely new content."
Samsung's $100 Gear VR headset, which went on sale last fall, allows users to view video games, movies and more in immersive new ways, according to an earlier eWEEK story. The Samsung Gear VR is a consumer version of virtual-reality headsets made by Oculus. The Gear VR works with Samsung's most recent smartphone models, including the Galaxy Note 5, Galaxy S6 Edge+, S6 and S6 Edge—with their Super AMOLED displays giving users a richer virtual-reality experience. It will also work with the latest Samsung Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge smartphones.


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Friday, September 22, 2006
Sage Words of Advice on the Price of Consoles, or Grow Up
Are you still unhappy that Nintendo is selling its Wii console for $250? Angry that Nintendo, Microsoft, and Sony's new game machines aren't cheaper for you? Well, guess what, kids? If you don't like it, you don't have to buy it. Really.
There's this sense of entitlement, a notion that these companies exist solely to alleviate your precious boredom. That's not the case. These are corporations, and they're in the business of making money. If you cannot do that, you go out of business. If your company is large enough - Microsoft, Sony - you can afford to lose a lot of money in the short term, in hopes of gaining those long-term profits. It still hasn't happened for Microsoft, and this is why you're not going to see any price drops for the 360. They're losing $120 on every console sold, and have already bled a billion dollars. They cannot afford to cut the price anytime soon.
And Sony? Their monstrosity costs $900 to build for each unit. The company as a whole is bleeding money, and if Blu-Ray (Sony's real gamble) tanks, they'll be in a mountain of trouble. From now on, it's a game of chicken between the executives and the stockholders. First one to blink loses, but don't drive over the cliff.
Besides, kids, don't you already have 50,000 other video game machines lying about? Who said that you have to throw everything away every five years and start from scratch? Where was that written in stone? You've been suckered by consumerism, kids. Suckered by hype. Suckered into believing your self-worth is determined by the consumer products you consume, and the amount of debt you accumulate.
This is a generation that doesn't know the value of money. This is a generation that feels a sense of entitlement, that everything should be theirs for the taking, free of charge. This is where the whole Napster controversy came from, and the battle over online piracy. You just think that you deserve all the toys in the world, no strings attached. Well, I'm sorry, kids, but it doesn't work out like that in the real world. Don't like it? Tough.
So if you're complaining about the prices of the new consoles, that's fine. Just don't buy them. Just don't consume. Pick up a book, pick up a guitar, pick up the pretty girl sitting next to you.
Oh, by the way, any chances you'd read advice like this in any of the prozines? Hah. Fat chance.
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For this challenge I decided that I would have a bit of fun playing on the work of Picasso, no less!
The Three Musicians is a painting which delights me in a number of ways including it's wonderful balance of warm and cool colours. In this quilt I attempted to proportion warm and cool in the same manner.
The quilt was made in a very free-form style. I had a wonderful time putting it together all the while learning much about the painting that it is based on.
quilted by Heidi Wulfraat
Friday, January 31, 2014
The Three Musicians Unbalanced
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Heidi, what an interesting idea, and quite different from your previous works. The colours are perfect representations of those in the painting, and the balance of shapes is well done.ReplyDelete
What a great idea, Heidi! I think you did a great job reinterpreting Picasso's painting and making your piece dynamic in its own right.ReplyDelete
I love this quilt. You did a wonderful job of disassembling the image but maintaining its spirit.ReplyDelete
My goodness - this is fabulous! Love the interpretation.ReplyDelete
So interesting, I am amazed that you matched your colours so well. Clever ideaReplyDelete
What a good idea to interpret a work of a painter you admire, in this very abstract way. Perhaps a coming theme for our group.ReplyDelete
A lovely quilt!
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"Perception of present reality is a disappointment, and only the imagination can provide lasting enjoyment, in its quest for what is absent" - Marcel Proust.
Marcel, the narrator of Proust's "A La Récherche Du Temps Perdu", is disappointed every time he visits a place or meets a person he has imagined, dreamed about and yearned for. The name of a place or person and the connotations of that name enchant Marcel; real life invariably disenchants. The dream is always more beautiful than the thing dreamed of could in reality be, and dreaming aggravates the disenchantment that is in store for Marcel when he sets out upon his travels.
And so it was for me, listening to US Black Metal band L'Acéphale's album "Mord und Totsclag" (sic), which was released earlier this year.
"Acephale" was the name of a secret society created by Georges Bataille in the late 1930's. Acephale can be interpreted as a desperate, last-ditch attempt to use the means of fascism (conspiracies, mythologizing, violence, fanaticism) against fascism - in fact, Bataille coined the term 'surfascisme' as an ideology which would relate to fascism as 'surrealism' relates to 'realism'. In order to achieve his goals, Bataille applied contemporary ethnological theory (specifically, Marcel Mauss's theory of sacrifice) to the then-current political scene, hoping to employ human sacrifice (!) to reinvigorate society and thereby lead it away from the lure of militaristic dictatorship.
As regular readers of Documents will know, the title and much of the contents of this blog were inspired by the work of Bataille, so a Black Metal band using Bataille's thought would be of immediate interest to me. Furthermore, the album was released by the excellent Avant Metal record label Aurora Borealis, a label whose releases are always thought-provoking. Thus, these names created a mental image (or should I say: a mental sound) which magnified the idea that I had formed of Black Metal, making me imagine a music so blackened, buzzing, dramatic, damaged, droning and formless, so special, it could never be real. "Mord Und Totsclag" was bound to disappoint.
I unpacked the beautiful, deluxe dvd-packaging, and put the cd in the cd-player, and waited with baited breath for the music to begin. Beginning with the sound of WWII bomber planes, "Mord Und Totsclag" ("Murder And Manslaughter") turned out to be Black Metal melded to industrialized martial neo-folk - a genre I have never had much affinity with. Listening to the music, the sense of disappointment became all the more acute. I found that the sensibility of "Mord Und Totsclag" was very different from that of Bataille's thought. Far from being formless, far from being "...akin to a spider or a gob of spit...", the martial neo-folk influences made the music rigid, regimenting all that was buzzing and droning, putting it all into a uniform. Where Bataille's sense for violence is tragic, that is: internal, for L'Acéphale death and destruction would seem to be merely external, brutal pleasures. Even if the had aimed at 'surfascisme', they arrived at it's realist counterpart.
And had they aimed at 'surfascisme'? Reading their manifesto, they strive for "Volkisch metal" and celebrate Odinistic folkways and beliefs. Only people completely un- or misinformed about Bataille's oeuvre could call their art Volkisch and still believe themselves to operate in the spirit of transgressive thought. Perhaps the many spelling errors in their manifesto - even the album's title contains a mistake! - provide a clue to the question whether L'Acéphale is uninformed or misinformed. The kindest thing I can say about their ideological underpinnings is that it is a hodge-podge.
I've waited a few months before writing this review, in the hope that Time would kindly allow me to discover new landscapes within the music - but alas, I only found the dreariness of parade grounds.
"After having scaled the inaccessible heights of the name Guermantes, on descending the inner slope of the life of the Duchess, I felt on finding there the names, familiar elsewhere, of Victor Hugo, Frans Hals and, I regret to say, Vibert, the same astonishment that an explorer, after having taken into account, in order to visualize the singularity of the native customs in some wild valley of Central America or Northern Africa, its geographical remoteness, the strangeness of its place-names, of its flora, feels on discovering, once he has made his way through a screen of giant aloes or machineels, inhabitants who are engaged in reading Voltaire's Merope or Alzire" - Marcel Proust.
Saturday, September 22, 2007
L'Acephale - Mord Und Totsclag
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The Man in the White Coat?
A photographer was around last Friday, working on the center's annual report. She wanted me to don the traditional white lab coat for the usual "in lab shot." I declined, partly to avoid looking like a demented ice-cream salesman but more because I always chuckle whenever I see any of my colleagues on television or in the newspaper, resplendent in the "scientist's uniform." In the real world, these guys and gals last saw the working end of a pipette years ago. The only time they wear a white coat nowadays is when the building's heating is on the blink again, or when they've been caught in the rain and need something to hide their red silk thong underwear. And I'm no different (except for the thong, of course). All I do on a daily basis is talk, read, and type. My principal occupational health hazard is wearing the ends of two fingers to a stub sending out e-mails. Why is this?
Well, being a scientist is a bit like being in the military. As one rises up the food chain, other people do one's dirty work. There aren't many generals who get strung out on the barbed wire in front of a machine-gun nest, are there? Rankwise, I am now somewhere around a colonel, judging from the uniforms my friends in the Army's AIDS program sometimes wear (I always give them a vigorous salute, the nature of which is conditional upon the contents of their last research paper). Of course, a military man is only as good as his troops, and I am extremely fortunate to have been blessed with a splendid set of privates. These gallant folks enable me to hold my own among the other colonels and generals, and I am thankful for it.
I wander from my office to the lab outside, principally to gossip, partly for the relatively vigorous exercise, musing on the different ways of running a group. A few researchers climb up the greasy pole by trampling on the piled-up corpses of post-docs, students, and technicians, who are mere instruments of the supreme will. Others set lab members into internal competition, with the winner taking the spoils, the loser the shame. Fortunately, these styles are not the norm, and I don't adopt them. My principle is simple: Recruit smart people, point them in the right direction, facilitate their activities, encourage them to work together, and let them get on with it. They do well, I do well; everybody's happy. My thoughts are interrupted by hysterical peals of laughter from the adjacent office, where Tanya the Serb and Alexandra the Austrian, two ballsy and talented senior post-docs, are giggling like pre-pubescent schoolgirls over an e-mail. The hysteria spreads to the others in the lab, and I go to find out what it's all about. Turns out that I'd sent a message over the center's network this morning asking others to join our lab trip to see There's Something About Mary but wrote "Marty" by mistake. Marty Markowitz, our balding clinical director, had replied saying he appreciated the thought but never needs to use hair gel. Everyone's a target for piss-taking, and this time it's my turn.
Our lab resembles the United Nations; at one time, we could have re-fought World War I (we even had an American who joined in projects late and tried to walk off with the credit). The different nationalities all interact well, although as we sit together over lunch and plan the lab Thanksgiving party, I get a little concerned. General Tso's Chicken is to mingle with lamb rogan josh, toad-in-the-hole, and whatever the hell that awful goulash is they eat in central Europe; seems a tad idiosyncratic from a culinary perspective. Fortunately, Cindy the Southern Belle knows a turkey when she sees one, so there may be some hope for an element of traditionalism. I order in extra Pepto-Bismol, just in case.
So, like many of my peer group, I am just an overpaid two-fingered typist, with no white coat but with acid-holed sweat shirts.


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Bariatric surgery
Well, went to my Orthopedic md and he wants me to have the weight surgery, my pain specialist does, and I think my family md also mentioned back a ways…so this one is putting in a request for it. I had staples back 99, it was preformed different, now its MUCH better…I had lost but gained it ALL back. I dunno for sure my ol' md will do it again, or do I? I mean with all my medical problems exercise is becoming almost impossible, I am told NOT to do anything, stay off my knee totally and let Ty take care of me, and always use my cane (he ordered). Any thoughts, idea, etc.?
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Bariatric Surgery is known also as Weight Lose Surgery. There are many types of bariatric surgeries. I have experience of LAP-BAND surgery. Till now I do not have any problem related to that surgery. I lose my weight also. And got many benefits after weight lose.
For more details visit: http://www.ebariatricsurgery.com/
I know whereof you speak; I am 5' tall and at my highest I weighed 260 #. I have become really interested in the new procedure for the gastric sleeve. They say that now after they staple off a 6 to 8 oz pouch, they remove the excess tissue instead of leaving it there. Their reasoning is that that tissue continues to release hormones-including grehlin, the hunger hormone. If they remove the tissue the theory is that the patient won't suffer constant hunger pangs. I'm going tohave a long talk with my md. I have so many health problems I think I could benefit greatly.
Thank you for your thoughts, yeah nothing is in writting yet, just getting my thoughts togetherm getting prepared, etc. Sheila
Sheila I am probably going to have it done myself. I have been doing research on it for a long time. there is a newer procedure not gastric bypass or lap band it is called gasrtic sleeve. There is so much I can tell you but its hard on here. If u would like to get me privatley that would be fine I could explain more to u. My /drs. have the highest rating in the US so that makes me feel better about it also. I also have very limited mobility due to bad car accident so my weight is awful the drs feel the risk of surgery is better then the way my health is now. And it is NOT the easy way out I know many people think that way. And their is no magic bullet with any of the surgeries weight can be gained back if u dont follow the rules. Feel free to get in touch with me.
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What a delema, I understand your pain in the issue. My MD qite a whle back, instead of telling me to diet and exercise suggested a surgery. I wanted a quick fix, something that would not take the determination that diet and exercise did (mostly because I was just lazy)
Anyway, because my insurance would not cover it (I had insurance back then) I could not persue it.
I recently posted a discussion called "Gastric bypass reversal" here and if you look that up, you will find the story of a dear friend of mine who had a battle for her life going on because of a complication from her successful sugrgery 6 years earlier.
It is tricky, and it worked for my friend very well, but now she has been weak and recovering since October of last year. I don't say it to scare you, as you have had an experience with it before. Just to caution you that you need to make sure if you do it, that your insurance will cover ANY complications no matter how long AFTER the surgery.
Also, make sure that you are comfortable with the doctor who does the surgery. My friend had moved to a different state, and her new doctor was nothing short of a jerk. She ended up flying back to her old doctor and he took care of her immediately. So look into that as well.
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Ronald Reagan Lecture Series
By Greg L | 4 March 2010 | Loudoun County | 23 Comments
One of the projects that kept me so busy this week (and posting less than usual) was this promotional video for the Ronald Reagan Lecture Series that the Loudoun County Republican Committee puts on each month. These seem like fascinating events, and I'll do my best to keep readers informed about when and where they're happening in the future.
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Patty said on 4 Mar 2010 at 9:12 pm:
Ronald Reagan was a great president. He understood the dangers of socialism/communism. He truly believed in individual freedoms and individual responsibility. Government was to be limited and to serve the people and not an out of control monster that people serve, i.e. socialism.
Wake up people. Our country is headed toward socialism/communism by leaps and bounds. GO TEA PARTY!
I wish we had the Reagan lecture series in Prince William County.
Great video Greg!
J. Tyler Ballance said on 4 Mar 2010 at 11:53 pm:
The Navy does have a tradition of naming Cruisers after the states, but as with the Carriers there is much flexibility with regard to names.
With our shrinking fleet (we now have more Admirals than we have warships!) there are plenty of hallowed names from the Fleet's past that could be recycled (including those venerable names you already have suggested).
One politician who deserves a ship named for him is Senator John Warner. His career spans our Navy and Marine Corps, SECNAV and as a very long term and successful Senator. I hope that our Navy can find a future ship that will honor John Warner's exemplary service to our nation.
Otherwise, there are plenty of heroic old names that are due for recycling. As a Virginian, I would like to see ships that bear the name of J.E.B. Stuart, Robert E. Lee, Mathew Fontaine Maury and Stonewall Jackson, along with a return of USS Virginia to the cruiser class of ships.
Just an aside, the USS Constitution is still on the roles of our Navy ships, even though it is a Boston tourist attraction.
Greg L said on 5 Mar 2010 at 12:07 am:
What a way to drag the discussion of a lecture series off topic.
Mentioning John Warner in a thread about Ronald Reagan should be against the law.
legal2 said on 5 Mar 2010 at 8:17 am:
Ronald Reagan would be proud of his fellow thesbian, SNL's Victoria Jackson - maybe she can reach some of the heads full-of-mush, indoctrinated, crowd — http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=126910
Dan said on 5 Mar 2010 at 9:08 am:
Well, as long as the comments have veered off topic, I would throw Chesty Puller's name out there as worthy of having a ship named after him. He is certainly a Virginian who deserves such an honor. His combat record on Guadalcanal, Peleliu, Korea among other places and his five Navy Crosses ought to earn him consideration.
There was a guided missile frigate named for Puller, but it was decommissioned in 1998.
NoVA Scout said on 5 Mar 2010 at 9:32 am:
I really dislike the policy of naming carriers after politicians, even if some of them are Presidents. The old protocol was to name carriers after battles or distinguished warships - hence MIDWAY, CORAL SEA, WASP, LEXINGTON, ENTERPRISE. That sure is a lot better than JOHN STENNIS of CARL VINSON. Cruisers were named after states, submarines after fish or sea animals, destroyers after naval heroes, etc. Presidents Reagan and Bush (I) certainly deserve being honored, but I hate to see the old naming conventions lost.
Dan said on 5 Mar 2010 at 9:50 am:
NoVA Scout, I think George H. W. Bush qualifies because, in addition to being president, he flew combat missions off of a carrier deck. A unique combination of qualifications, I think, for such an honor.
Dan said on 5 Mar 2010 at 9:52 am:
legal2, I assume you meant his fellow "thespian" not "thesbian". Unless you meant "lesbian". But I'm pretty sure that neither Victoria Jackson nor Ronald Reagan were ever lesbians. But please feel free to correct me If I'm wrong.
More importantly, do you really think that claiming the president is a communist is an effective electoral strategy? The last time Republicans were spouting this type of nonsense in such a full throated fashion was probably the election of 1936. Let's review the results.
The Senate in January 1937 had 96 members at that time. 76 Democrats, 17 Republicans, 2 from the Farmer-Labor Party and 1 Progressive.
The House had 334 Democrats, 88 Republicans, 8 Progressives and 5 from the Farmer-Labor Party.
In the presidential election Roosevelt won 523 electoral votes. The Republican candidate only garnered 36.5% of the popular vote.
A reasonable person might have concluded that if Roosevelt was in reality a communist that the hammer and sickle would have been flying over the White House for the past three quarters of a century. But the bulk of reasonable voters concluded instead that all the blathering on about communism was the ranting of crackpots. The bulk of reasonable American voters were right.
There are intelligent men with integrity like Congressman Paul Ryan who attempt to make an honest case for a conservative political philosophy. Ryan also seems to have the good nature and sense of humor that were among Ronald Reagan's fine qualities. And I don't hear Ryan saying any of this idiotic nonsense about Obama being a communist.
One can hope we hear more from people like Paul Ryan as we progress toward the November elections. And less from the lunatics.
The lunatics seem to think that adding volume somehow adds validity to their views, so I fear we will hear more from them. And that will not help Republicans at the polls.
J. Tyler Ballance said on 5 Mar 2010 at 11:55 am:
Chesty Puller! What a great suggestion for a ship name. I used to go to sea with the former USS Puller (FFG 23) and she had a fine rep. The Puller was always well turned-out and had a fine record of sea service. It was unfortunate that the ship was decommissioned from our Navy, but the Puller was transferred to the Egyptian Navy where she now lives under another name.
It was unfortunate that many sailors who sailed along with the Puller knew the ship as the Lewis B. Puller, so many never realized that the ship was named in honor of the toughest Marine that ever lived, Lewis B. "Chesty" Puller.
We definitely need to bring Chesty's name back into the fleet. Hopefully the next ship named for him will be an amphibious ship, so as to be more in line with Chesty's career as a Marine.
John Millhiser said on 5 Mar 2010 at 12:12 pm:
Back to the thread. Greg, GREAT Production. As a long time member of the LCRC I am very proud that our group provides this series to the public for all to see what being a Republican is all about. Through the contemporary speakers, the ideas of RR are laid out not only to reflect on his superb visions, but to provoke thought about today's issues and what RR may have done. I would urge as many people as possible who want to take part in the discussions or just be inspired, as this video does, to come to these events. Go to www.loudoungop.com to get information about upcoming events. Once again thanks Greg and also Patricia for her outstanding effort with the series.
Patty said on 5 Mar 2010 at 2:09 pm:
Hey Dan,
Listen to Ronald Reagan in his own words:
He said that socialized medicine would lead to socialism/communism. He was a two term president.
Ronald Reagan was right. All you conservatives better get on the phone and contact your senators and congressman in reference to the socialistic Obama health care plan.
Seems the democrats are trying to hijack this thread. They don't like to hear the truth.
Dan said on 5 Mar 2010 at 9:33 pm:
If you think all the screaming about socialism and calling the president a communist is the way to go, be my guest. I don't think that will resonate well beyond the lunatic fringe. Most voters are not ideological. They want a government that is run efficiently and they want problems solved. Most folks outside of the hard right don't think the president is a communist. The American people aren't stupid.
The memory of how abysmally Republicans ran the government is still very fresh in the minds of voters. It is imperative for Republicans to give voters an affirmative reason why they should vote for them. Absent that, it is hard to see this being a banner year for Republicans. Pick up seats? Yes. Pick up many more than a typical midterm during a president's first term? Probably not.
I have listened to that Reagan talk about socialized medicine before. I believe he was a paid spokesman for the AMA which opposed Medicare at the time. The AMA supports the current efforts at health care reform. Go figure.
You mention that Reagan was a two term president. He was also a very skillful politician. Even at the height of his powers he never tried to eliminate Medicare. He was smart enough to know that Medicare had wide public support in the 1980s. Just as it does today. And he would have gotten nowhere if he had tried to kill Medicare.
In addition to opposing the enactment of Medicare, Reagan had advocated making Social Security voluntary which would have effectively killed it. Interestingly, when confronted with his previous positions on these programs during the 1980 campaign he denied them. And he got away with it. He was no dummy. And as president he signed legislation to strengthen Social Security to ensure its continued viability.
Again, if you think advocating the repeal of Medicare and Social Security and calling the president a communist constitutes an effective electoral strategy you are welcome to your opinion. I think it is just plain nuts. It might get you elected president of the John Birch Society or some other nut group. But it won't get you the votes of a majority of the American people.
One thing Reagan showed during his presidency was that he believed hope trumped fear. And he tried to appeal to people's better instincts rather than exploit their fears and anxieties. It's a pity more modern day Republicans who profess to admire Reagan don't follow his example in that regard.
NoVA Scout said on 5 Mar 2010 at 9:45 pm:
Dan - I think a "thesbian" is a lesbian thespian. It's one of those compound words, like Labradoodle.
NoVA Scout said on 5 Mar 2010 at 9:49 pm:
PS: You're right about George H.W. Bush. His war record was probably the most impressive of the 20th century presidents. And he does have unique ties to Naval Aviation. But, you know, getting command of a carrier is the pinnacle of a select few Naval Officers' careers. I'd really feel a bit let down if I had to tell folks I was the CO of the JOHN STENNIS or the CARL VINSON, as opposed to the ENTERPRISE or the YORKTOWN.
Tom Seeman said on 5 Mar 2010 at 10:12 pm:
J. Tyler Ballance - actually, battleships were named after states, cruisers cities, destroyers famous sailors, submarines types of fish, and ammo ships volcanos. You are right that there was more flexibility for carrier names.
However, recently it's become a big political thing with each party taking turns in naming a carrier after one of it's presidents. They should stop, and get back to traditional names like Wasp, Hornet, Constellation, Yorktown, etc.
NoVA Scout said on 6 Mar 2010 at 7:45 am:
Tom - I think the cruisers/battleships error was my slip, not JTB's. Thanks for correcting that. Not sure why I said that. Probably a senior moment (or, as Kevin surmises, a very very junior moment). The naming conventions really fell apart when we stopped producing battleships. Ballistic Missile submarines (SSBNs) then started being named after states, and I guess that makes a kind of sense, given their offensive power. Then they named a cruiser class VIRGINIA, to confuse things further. But the carrier thing really went off the deep end, especially when they got down to committee chairmen in Congress. I guess if they just said they are going to be named after Presidents, I could live with that. But can you imagine a nuclear carrier called the BARBARA BOXER?
Anonymous said on 6 Mar 2010 at 8:57 am:
About the only thing I can imagine being named the BARBARA BOXER: A line of port-a-potties.
Although, come to think of it, portable toilets are infinitely more desirable. They actually serve a useful purpose.
Patty said on 6 Mar 2010 at 10:46 am:
You've got to be kidding me. You obviously were not old enough to remember Reagan's administration and the fact he had to deal with a Democrat controlled congress. He was all about limited government. That is a fact. Obama won because people were angry with Bush. I was angry with Bush because his policies on some issues were too liberal.
Here is Reagan in his own words:
This is why Reagan gained popular support.
American citizens are fed up with Obama's expansion of government and his desire for goverment to control everything from health care to industry i.e. cap and trade.
If that is not a socialistic agenda in your eyes then you must be a liberal and I will have to agree with the moderator of this blog that liberalism is a mental disorder.
Go tell AP and EB that their strategy is not working. The American people are starting to see through the smoke and mirrors of the Obama campaign.
Dan, go over to the Anti-Christian blog. They'll love you over there. Have a nice day.
Groveton said on 6 Mar 2010 at 10:54 am:
George H W Bush was a patriot of the highest order. His incredible story is one of the narratives in Flyboys: A True Story of Courage.
Born into wealth and privlege, George H W Bush left Yale at age 18 to volunteer in WWII. Eschewing less dangerous postings Bush became a US Navy carrier pilot. He was sent on a suicide mission against the heavily defended island of Chichi Jima during the American invasion of nearby Iwo Jima. All planes on the mission were shot down. Nine airmen survived. Lt Bush was rescued by a US Navy submarine. The other 8 were taken prisoner by the Japanese, tortured, killed and ultimately eaten by their captors.
It's a great book…
NoVA Scout said on 6 Mar 2010 at 11:28 pm:
thanks for that reminder, Groveton. You are, of course, spot on about Bush the Elder.
Anonymous said on 7 Mar 2010 at 7:18 am:
Bush the Elder, good choice. Reagan, Clinton, Obama - not so much. They were politicians and what made/will make them great is whether you voted for them or not.
Bulletproof Monk said on 8 Mar 2010 at 10:37 pm:
Ballance, let me take this opportunity to agree whole-heartedly with you.
Chesty Puller was indeed the most hard-cored, nail-bitin' SOB who ever drew breath.
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It's been a long time. Four years to be exact. Why did I stop writing? Well, having a full time exhausting job cut into my writing time. Then there was the birth of multiple grandchildren (5, 6 or 7 I forget). There were job reversals and money woes. Also keeping up with the obama administration's scandal propelled tenure was frankly disheartening and depressing. The awfulness of the last election also provided a reason NOT to post as well as the thought-policing of the internet (hello, 1984).
Mostly though I just didn't feel the need to write. I never really thought anyone except a few friends and folks from a certain political satire site ever read what I wrote. I wasn't doing it for that reason anyway. I wrote because I felt inspired to wash the blood from my hands before I shuffled off this mortal coil. I felt that if I was the lone voice in the wilderness, saying the things that many think but never say, it would be enough. Eventually the distressing situation many of us find ourselves in became more than I could deal with. If people wanted to go to hell in a hand basket that was up to them. Since they didn't care to hear the truth (which I alway tried to publish) I wasn't about to make them do so. Freedom is one of our most important God given gifts and everyone is entitled to throw it away because choice is also one of those given gifts. And to be honest my children are all on Facebook and so there is more than enough "articles" there to be commented on.
So then given all of this, why am I here? Why bother returning? Mostly because I missed the writing. I missed being able to express myself without having to truncate my thoughts to something I hoped people would not ignore because it takes to long to actually read a post. I'm tired of not being able to express a logical thought to it's conclusion and I missed the opportunity to be creative in my posts, to make people laugh or cry or infuriate them.
So I'm going to try to do a better job at posting. Maybe one time a week to see how it goes. If I enjoy it, if it keeps from having to put my hair out (cause sometimes my hair just catches on fire from the sheer unadulterated nonsense that people do to each other) I'll keep it up. If it becomes tedious, frustrating and counter productive I'll stop most likely for good and all. To some that might be a wonderful thing but we shall see. We shall see.


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This game came about due to Miss Four's request for a gluing game. It is suitable for younger, as well as older children and proved to be a hit with my three cherubs. This game challenges older children to use a combination of shapes in different ways to create a picture. Younger children can also have a go at this, or use the shapes to create an abstract artwork. It is all about working out innovative and creative ways to create with the shapes.
Materials required for the game:
Coloured shapes (you could use coloured shaped stickers too). We used hole punches to create some sets of shapes.
Collection of collage materials – for some of the shapes we prepared different sized pieces (the large hearts are post it notes) and it came in very handy to have the different sized shapes. We also included triangle shaped stickers as well as straws (Miss Four likes to cut straws so I had a super eager helper cutting straws for this).
A legend and dice.
To play the game:
Each player has a turn at rolling the die. The number rolled corresponds to the legend, so if a 4 is rolled all players have the choice to use 4 heart shapes in their collage or one (all players create their own collage). Our rule was that you could use either one, or the number rolled, for each shape. We went around the group (4 players including me) between two and five times. We would make a decision about the number of rounds based on each creation – we would give notice and say two rounds to go, one to go etc. At the end of each round we had a minute to use a Sharpie pen to add any details if desired.
Some of the creations:
Miss Seven announced at the end of a round that she had created "clowns with puffy pants". I thought it was very creative to turn the hearts upside down to create "puffy pants".
Miss Seven also created these characters:
Master Six created a man
Miss Four enjoyed counting out the shapes and creating her art.
Some of my creations (with some help from Master Six as he became my team mate part way through the game)


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Friday, December 2, 2011
Comic 985: That's a looooot of alt-text.
title: Percentage Points;alt text: Grayton also proposed making college scholarships available exclusively to sexually active teens, amnesty for illegal immigrants who create room for themselves by killing a citizen, and a graduated income tax based on penis size. He has been endorsed by Tracy Morgan, John Wilkes Booth's ghost, and the Time Cube guy.
You know what I occasionally enjoy doing? Pretending I'm Robin (the Burt Ward one) from the old campy Batman series. And by saying that, I mean I enjoy imitating his overused "Holy [something fancy], Batman!" catchphrase. That said, don't look at me strangely when I say this:
Holy four lines of alt-text, Batman!
I did something weird a few days ago: I reread the early archives of Xkcd. Okay, so there's not too much to say about it. It was way back before Randall had a huge fanbase to pander to and otherwise appear nerdy at. I've alluded to reading a lot of webcomics before, so what I saw was nothing unexpected for a fledgling artist--a little less consistent art, less of a feel for what the comic is about, that kind of thing. But you know what struck me most? Brevity. The first comic's alt-text is three words long. Tiny. It added a little something meaningful to the comic, but didn't distract the reader from what they had just read.Compare that to today's. Ew. 985 shows up as a whopping 4-line, 50 word, 317 character (268 excluding spaces) monster.
The joke isn't one I find funny, but humor's subjective so I'll let that one slide (in this case). Even if I found this joke humorous, I still wouldn't laugh. Why? Because I had no clue where the comic was going. My eyes followed, in order, the title, text in panel, the caption under it, and finally the monstrous tooltip.
Here's a brief view of what's going on in my head at that point:
Title: "Percentage points" Okay, so it's all about--
Panel: um--drunk drivers? Drone strikes on Christmas? I what is going on--
Caption: Wait polls now?
Tooltip: What is going on??!?!?!
Afterwards: Okay, I need to reread this. Dammit.
The Alt-text is busy. So is the panel. In fact, it's so busy that I forgot about the title (which foreshadowed the allegedly funny caption) on the way down. It's not that I have ADD or something--I just couldn't see how it was funny through the thicket of other jokes. When the focus of the comic--"Percentage points" as the now-forgotten title had told me about--hit, I was just confused because it seemed like the joke hadn't been set up everywhere.
One thing I sincerely hope Randall will learn is that you can't always fit more than one joke into a comic. Of course it's possible: see this Brawl in the Family (and commentary!) for an example of a secondary joke in the background that doesn't detract from the what the author's been building up the whole strip. But in this Xkcd? The extras distract from the joke that the title indicates he wants to make fun of or complain about or something. As a result, the actual joke feels underdeveloped or, in my case, not there at all.
Here's a "Sucks (not that much) Less" from me:
title: Percentage Points;alt text: Don't we all.
Okay, Still not funny. But it's clear on what joke it's trying to get through. That's at least a step in the right direction.
tl;dr: the alleged joke is buried inside a mountain of other jokes. The two parts are bad for each other.
Addendum: The sharper-eyed members of the audience will notice that I reused the til-now solitary "list comic" tag. Well, to be fair, the list isn't exclusively on the comic. It extends through the tooltip as well.
And another thing: The tooltip! I just realized I started talking about the tooltip and didn't really go back to it. Uhm, that's totally intentional. See what happens when you start with one thing, distract the audience with something else, then go back where you started? They're confused as hell! This was totally a self-demonstrating article! Right, guys?
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I think he was trying (with the extra terrible jokes in the beginning) to make it clear that this is a candidate who's support has fallen drastically but that newsman commenting on it makes it ambiguous if this has causes the candidates numbers to drop by 19% of their current level (so down to about 19%) or by 19 percentage points (do down to 1%).ReplyDelete
You are totally right that he missed his own point... which wasn't funny in the first place... I just thing the "extra" jokes were MEANT to have a purpose...
The alt-text is just "stuff I couldn't fit into the panel" though... if he had stretch the comic out to three panels he probably could have fit all that stuff into the panel and then the alt-text could have been the "I hate the ambiguity ..." part.
Anyway... Dude is going to lose with 20% 19% or 1% of the vote so the joke is was lost from the start. If the candidate had 60% of the vote and lost "%17" and the ambiguity was between him now having "50% of the vote" or "43 percentage points" then it would at least make sense and he could make a joke based on that, but... I just don't see any way to redeem it... there's nothing to work with.
Also, why do doctors use odds ratios instead of straight percentages or likelihoods? And what's up with positive predictive value vs. negative predictive value? Can't we all just adopt a signal detection theory approach and talk in terms of d-primes and Cohen's d effect sizes? I feel a giant infographic about foibles in the communication of fractions and changes in fractions over time. Also error bars: ever heard of them?ReplyDelete
xkcd is the new Andy Rooney. Leaner and meaner and faceless.
So I totally asked the Xkcd forumites if they'd be willing to make a graph of alt-text length vs comic number. Apparently they were, and more than one person responded. The most timely full one:ReplyDelete
It's a bit more varied than I expected, but you can easily see the length creep up over time. Oh, and I spent a minute in MS paint trying to add in a rough trendline. I estimate that the trendline would predict a tootlip of 30 characters at comic 0, and something like 160 characters for the present day.
[In the highly unlikely event that the trend continues linearly, in 10 years comics like 862 would be normal in terms of character count.]
- AnonymousDecember 2, 2011 at 1:13 PM
Looks like a heart attack.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 3, 2011 at 2:46 AM
Interesting graph. I wonder if it would be possible to calculate the number of words in the comics themselves. Without doing it by hand, that is!ReplyDelete
Then again that task could be "crowdsourced"? Are there enough readers in this blog to facilitate that task, or would the forumites be interested to do it?
- AnonymousDecember 3, 2011 at 4:31 AM
I expect the comics have been transcribed to facilitate a search function (most popular webcomics have fans working on such a project), so most of the legwork for making such a calculation has probably already been done.ReplyDelete
View the page source of an XKCD comic... there is a div element with id="transcript" and style="display: none;" that contains the transcript of the comic if it is available.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 3, 2011 at 11:14 AM
Thanks SinbadEV. There indeed is a transcription.ReplyDelete
I leeched all the html to my drive. I'll see if I can parse the visible text in some meaningful way and make some graphs. No doubt someone has done all this before, but it does not matter... it'll be "fun".
-anon 2:46
- AnonymousDecember 4, 2011 at 10:02 AM
Godspeed, anonReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 6, 2011 at 9:47 AM
Disagree with the review.ReplyDelete
I felt like Randall's main point was so uninteresting (ie nerdish pedantry) that the extra jokes added something (ie an element of humour)!
Personally I don't mind more than one joke per comic, as xkcd jokes have such a low chance of being funny that having more than one increases the chance that the comic will be worth looking at...
- AnonymousDecember 9, 2011 at 11:25 AM
So basically you're whining for 7 paragraphs that you had to read one too many sentences.ReplyDelete


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By Sarita Rajiv
June's been a month of action, of change for me. Of endings and new beginnings. And as with most endings and new beginnings, I'm feeling a bit emotional right now. On one hand, I am thrilled to be done with my Danish language classes and clear my Danish certification exams (with a decent grade to boot!). Two years of hard work and persistence paid off. On the other, today was the last day for my daughter at her kindergarten. A day of saying goodbye to beautiful friends and awesome teachers from different parts of the world. A day of saying farewell to a safe, beautiful happy place that was her kindergarten in Copenhagen.
She will start school in August and will be 6 years in a few months! I feel like she's suddenly growing up too quickly and I'm trying to catch those last few days of a carefree and innocent childhood. Why do good things have to end, why do things have to change? But then again, there's definitely a few things I want to change in my life right now. And a life without change would be pretty darned monotonous and boring. So my mantra for July is 'why not?' A 'why not?' to every unknown, exciting, scary but fulfilling experience that lies ahead. So here's to new adventures, new discoveries and new journeys. Here's to all the good stuff that lies ahead for you and me.
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Inspiration and Struggle
Friday I went to see the member's preview of the Matisse/Diebenkorn exhibition at SFMOMA. Wow! Two of my favorite artists side by side, I was in heaven. The show is about the enormous influence Henri Matisse had on Richard Diebenkorn. Diebenkorn was deeply inspired by the works of Matisse both from works he had seen in exhibitions as well as amassing a personal library of books. He freely acknowledged Matisse's influence, and while I was aware of the connection, I really had no idea of the depth of it, seen in all three of Diebenkorn's distinct phases.
Seeing so many amazing paintings in person was very inspiring. It was also really motivating to see how an artist can be completely influenced by a painter they love, yet can take that inspiration and make their work very much their own.
Since I had just visited SFMOMA a couple of weeks ago when my dad was visiting from Australia, I was solely focused on this exhibition, and so afterwards headed home and right into the studio. While I find inspiration for ideas in many things, there is nothing quite like a fabulous painting exhibition to get inspiration soaring. I'll definitely see the show again!
The first thing I did was put up a larger canvas on my easel. While I typically worked bigger in the past, my new work has been smaller with some gradual size increases. After seeing this exhibition I was immediately inspired to work larger. The canvas is only 40 x 40 inches, but since the last painting I finished was 16 x 20 inches, it feels big. I was excited about the painting's beginnings when I went to bed Friday night. Saturday was another full day of set painting (working even larger, I might add). The production we are currently working on is The Lion King. When I finally got into the studio Sunday late afternoon after a glorious spring run, watching my daughter's soccer game, and losing that hour to daylight savings time (who's complaining –I love daylight savings, but the day did go by faster!), the inspiration turned into major struggle. I often really like certain areas of paintings, and then when I next return to it, I want more than it is giving me. Consequently, lots of things get painted over. It's just the usual artist struggle as you await the inspiration that will come rushing back when you make a mark that you really like again, even though you might change your mind about it later.
I am coming to the realization that the only way I am going to create the new paintings I want to create is by this constant push and pull of moments of inspiration followed by a lot of struggle and leaving some of this process visible. I don't think I can make these paintings any other way. This is definitely a different way of working than the way my earlier paintings were created. My struggles were different, and I did my best to hide them. Now as I work through ideas, the process and the structure and the history is very much a part of the finished painting. This is one of the things I like so much in Diebenkorn's work as well as Per Kirkeby's paintings that I talk about here.
Since I'm definitely not ready to share this painting anytime soon, I thought the above image I shot on the trails evoked the title of this post.


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Joan Juliet Buck says "Au Revoir" (No, not really — wait for her book!) Also, — Tony Danza, Paris Jackson, and the World Domination Chair — our readers decide where it should go.
"MAXIM's,' Pierre Berge said when I told him. 'At lunch?'
"Maxim's,' Helene Rochas said, 'That's a little vulgar in the daytime.'"
Ms. Buck has been everywhere, done everything — from editor-in-chief of Vogue, novelist, actress, all-around dazzling ornament to any event, city, continent.
The New York piece is an excerpt from her coming memoir "The Price of Illusion." These are probably the most delicious magazine pages I've read in months. If her book is only half as entertaining as this snippet, it is sure to ravish the best-seller lists.
Just a few bits: "What about fashion," he asked. "French women know how to dress for an assignation," I said. "They want to know what to wear when they're not having sex."
"Yves Saint Laurent's friend Charlotte gave a luncheon for me. Yves had become bloated and vast. He was 58; his face hadn't aged, but his hair had turned to wood and rose from his forehead in hard ridges ... he looked like a carved Austrian bottle-stopper."
"Karl Lagerfeld ... was as cerebral as he was gossipy. He'd adore then loathe the same person in less than a week. He was critical of the living, enchanted by the dead, and thought his hands were ugly."
|"I gave the first big party during couture. Isabelle Adjani peered in through the door, fled and called me from the street to say, 'I can't go in. Too many models.'"
|And nothing better describes the tense, weird atmosphere of a fashion show, as Joan does, recalling a Bryant Park affair in 1994. Vogue's creative director Grace Coddington reprimanded Joan for attempting to powder her nose: "Don't ever do that!" Ms. Buck then noticed, not only was Coddington's mouth set in an expression of "incipient disgust ... I looked at the other faces, front row faces, second row faces, PR-girl faces, photographer faces, famous-guest faces. Everyone looked miserable."
I can't wait for "The Price of Illusion." And if Elton John and Paul Rudnick need some help on their coming "The Devil Wears Prada" musical, give Joan Juliet Buck a call. She has the experience, the wit and the wisdom.
"Don't See it Alone!" That's how The Frog and Peach Theatre Company is promoting its current production of Shakespeare's "Macbeth." Frog and Peach does The Bard just a bit differently — and inexpensively. Their interpretations are said to be "cinematic" in quality. Directed by Lynnea Benson, and starring Erik Gonzalez and Kate T. Billingsley as Mr. and Mrs. Macbeth, the show closes on the 12th. Call the Sheen Center Black Box Theater (18 Bleecker Street) for tix. 212-925-2812.
|... IF anybody had told me back in the 1970s or '80s, watching Tony Danza strut around in those painted-on jeans in "Taxi" or as Judith Light's sexy housekeeper in "Who's The Boss?" that he'd evolve into one of Manhattan's top cabaret attractions, I'd have rejected this out-of-hand. But he did, and he's been knocking audiences out with his songs and patter for years, now. He is so appealing, smooth and comfortable in this persona, one can almost forget those "Taxi" jeans. Almost. Tony will be back at Feinstein's/54Below, six performances only, from February 24 to April 1st. Call 646-476-3551 or visit 54below.com
|OUR FRIEND, press rep deluxe Dick Guttman, author of "Starflacker" called here laughing after he read our history of the emperor Caligula in film. He recalled that years ago, he, the late gossip columnist Shirley Eder, and one of Dick's young daughters, Danielle, visited the set of Bob Guccione's "Caligula." Dick and Shirley were under the impression it was just a typical sex-and-sandals epic. Like "Quo Vadis?" or "Spartacus." Maybe a bit of cleavage; a scanty tunic or two.
Dick said: "When we got to the set, there were giant wheels, and naked people hanging from them, and everybody was doing rather, uh, intimate things. Shirley was appalled, but she didn't want to leave a good story, so she clapped her hands over my daughter's eyes, and took notes, mentally. This went on for about ten minutes!"
To be honest, Stephen Rodrick's "The Radical Crusade of Mike Pence" should have been the cover. (Required reading, folks, especially for those of you who hope that the sitting Chief Executive will be impeached. The Pence alternative is perhaps an even stickier proposition.)
As to why I was hesitant to agree with Ms. Williams — well, she can sometimes be a bit too gleefully "frank." (Isn't speculation about the biological relationship between Michael and his children — which Wendy dived right into — o late 1990s? If Paris wants to identify as African American, that's her business.)
But, take-no-prisoners sassiness is what has made Wendy wealthy and extremely popular. And you've got to hand it to a woman who goes out of her way to look like she wasn't born a woman. She revels in her artificiality, and that is kind of appealing.
|MAIL: A while back we ran an item on a horrendously vulgar piece of furniture, the "world domination chair" from a Parisian designer — all purple velvet and 24 carat gold-plate and shaped like a giant skull. We innocently wondered who on earth would covet such a thing? Dozens upon dozens of emails later, the verdict is in. Lots of people think it would be a perfect addition to the décor of the current White House. One reader mused: "It will show up at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. for sure. I thought a pair at first, but the president would surely want the only one!"
|Oh, I don't know about that. I can see a pair. One for the president and one for his top lieutenant, Steve Bannon.
Speaking of Mr. Bannon, I was amused to watch MSNBC's Joe Scarborough vehemently deny that Bannon — Time magazine's current cover person — is the power behind the throne, or the soon-due Skull Chair.
| It's all the president, says Joe. It's hard to make out whether Mr. Scarborough thinks this is a bad or good thing. But we did have to hear, yet again about his glory days as a congressman.
Even his co-host, Mika Brzezinski, who actually likes him, looks blanker than usual when Joe mines his undistinguished past.
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We visited five or six years ago this Indian restaurant that ended up not leaving any memorable impressions on us, if not that it was managed by what seemed to be people from the sub-continent. Without knowing that the restaurant's name and owners had changed in the meantime, I since kept on passing by the sign "Spice Kitchen Moona" thinking how bizarre such an average restaurant could stay alive in the fierce competition that face all the businesses in Shimokitazawa.
Looking on the internet for a place to have lunch the other day, how surprised was I to find out that not only the south-Indian cuisine restaurant "Spice Kitchen Moona" was getting rather glowing reviews, but that it was now managed by a Japanese family.
Loving Indian food, we quickly headed for the joint that is located on the top fifth floor of a multi-tenant building, the fourth floor being occupied by the famous musician Keiichi Sokabe's cafe-restaurant-record store "City Country City". The elevator stopping at the fourth floor, we got out and climbed the few remaining stairs to reach the colorful entrance.
Once in, we were first quite amazed at the view from the windows. It is no world heritage landscape for sure, but you don't often get to see the center of Shimokitazawa from such heights. The surrounding is crammed and rather ugly to be honest but it's got that metropolis "Enter The Void" feel to it that I like about busy Tokyo neighborhoods.
The second surprise came from that funny "Ghostbusters" rip-off notice on the table (with a Nan replacing the ghost) which says they don't serve "Nan" (Indian bread) but would rather have you eat their curries with Kaori-Mai (Jasmine rice or Thai fragrant rice). Typical of south-India cuisine where rice is staple food. They serve flat Indian bread "Roti" from 16:00 though.
There is only two lunch menus at noon, a one-curry set (¥980 if I remember well) and a three-curries set (¥1,100). We opted for the little expensive latter to sample a little bit of everything. Each set comes with a large plate of rice topped with what I think was Daikon (Japanese radish) and eggplant pickles and a little bit of non-sweetened home-made yoghurt (not in the picture)
I started by attacking the fish curry first. The fish seems to change time to time and the one we got on that day was one of my favorite "Sawara" (with the amusing English name "Japanese Spanish Mackerel"). Wow, it was cooked to perfection! Sawara can be the most tender fish if nicely prepared and boy they knew how to stew it! The curry was sweet tasting though quite chili hot, with an obvious coconut flavor, almost like a Thai curry. South Indian cuisine uses a lot of coconuts in its recipe, and "Spice Kitchen Moon" does the same. It definitely does wonders with that "Sawara" curry as it prevents the sauce from being too fishy. Good good stuff.
I then plunged my spoon in the pale-colored vegetable chowder "Sambar", a traditional and typical south Indian dish. I know it is usually based on Toor Dal (pigeon pea), but I have NO idea whatsoever if they used it in their recipe, so feel free to ask if you visit this place.
I have to say I was not blown away by that dish. Not that it was bad, but just that it was rather dull. This may be due to the fact that I ate the hot fish curry first, so I would strongly recommend that you start with the Sambar first to really be able to taste it fully.
As crumbled as the vegetables were, I still managed to recognize some onions, green beans and probably potatoes in the broth. The fresh coriander leaves you see on the picture are a leitmotiv in this restaurant, so tell them beforehand if you don't like these, as you'll probably spot them on every single curries.
The curry I kept for last was the good "Chicken Curry" which tasted pretty much like the fish curry. Coconut flavored, spicy, hot and more soupy than pasty (Please remember to check out the Sag Mutton Curry at "Spicia" if you're into pasty curries). Just like the fish which was very nicely stewed, the chicken detached itself from the bone with no particular teeth effort, but still managed to offer some resistance and flavor when chewed to.
I can not end this post without a little comment on the delicately flavored long grain rice. I am unfortunately not gourmet enough to tell you whether there is a chance it might actually be an Indian Basmati rice (though they would probably mention it somewhere if it was), but the presumed to be Jasmine rice was just dry enough to go along very well with the overall quite soupy curries. And the Nan freak that I am did not long for the bread so I guess it says it all.
I am definitely going back to this place. The family running it seemed very friendly, the little expensive lunch was still way worth it and they have few inexpensive items in the menu that definitely got me VERY curious: "Chinese pepper seasoned tomato salad", "Mushroom and fig salad", "Rice-Duck pate with Roti", "Deep fried mutton Keema pie and cheese, stewed in tomato sauce", "Cold shrimp marinated in seven spices"...
Spice Kitchen Moona is closed on Mondays
11:45am to 15:00pm and 17:00pm to 23:00pm (L.O. 22:30pm) from Tuesday to Friday
Noon to 23:00pm (L.O. 22:30pm) on weekends and National Holidays
Setagaya-ku, Kitazawa 2-12-13 5F
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at 10:00 AM
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2/13/14 ASHLAND, Ohio - The Ashland University College of Arts and Sciences' Symposium Against Indifference: Engaging Latin America and the Caribbean hosts Ohio State University's Distinguished Humanities Professor Abril Trigo to lead a discussion about the effect of globalization on Latin America.
Dr. Trigo will present his recent findings at a public discussion on Wednesday, Feb. 19, at 7 p.m. in the Hawkins-Conard Student Center Auditorium. The event is free and open to the public.
In his latest work, Trigo analyzes the operation of globalization and the place of Latin America within this economic regime while asking: What do we mean when we talk about globalization today? What is the meaning of globalization in Latin America and for Latin Americans? In his presentation he will discuss some of the economic, political and cultural effects of globalization on Latin American everyday life, such as the impact of global pop culture, the informal economy, narco-trafficking, transnational migrancy, the new ethnic and social movements, and the ongoing struggle for the nation-state.
Trigo's areas of specialization include Latin American Cultural Studies, literary and cultural theory, theater, film and popular culture. He has published extensively on Latin American cultural studies, with particular emphasis on the historical formation of national imaginaries and their articulation to popular culture (rock, graffiti, candombe, soccer, etc.). Currently, he is working on "A Critique of the Political-Libidinal Economy," a theoretical inquiry on the formation of value and subjectivity.
For more information about the Symposium Against Indifference and information about upcoming events, visit cas-symposium.blogspot.com or contact Dr. Christopher Swanson, professor of mathematics, at firstname.lastname@example.com or419.289.5264.
Ashland University, which has been ranked in the top 200 colleges and universities in U.S. News and World Report's National Universities category, is a mid-sized, private university conveniently located a short distance from Akron, Cleveland and Columbus, Ohio. Ashland University (www.ashland.edu) values the individual student and offers a unique educational experience that combines the challenge of strong, applied academic programs with a faculty and staff who build nurturing relationships with their students. ###


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This week's guest post is from my cousin's TW and Sean Mendis.
The story will unfold in three parts- here is the third, and last, part.
On the summit we tucked into an eclectic meal of barbecued chicken, sandwiches, falafel, hot coffee and delicious vine leaves.
We returned down two different paths; Sean and I came down the Watkins to get the cars and meet the others who were making their way down the Penny Pass.
Eastward Ho
At the hotel, we met back up with Mira who had returned from Carnarvon and also visited Gelert's grave. I had told her of the story earlier. How Prince Llewelyn had left his trusted hound Gelert in charge of his baby whilst he went on a hunting trip and that on his return he found the baby missing and Gelerts muzzle covered in blood. In a fit of rage he had slain the dog only to find his baby safe in his cradle a little way off, next to a huge wolf with several mortal wounds – the result of a fight to the death with Gelert. Llewelyn returned to his faithful hound who licked his hand and expired on cue. Unfortunately I burst her bubble by telling her that it was really an apocryphal story, although dog lovers would know doubt be delighted to hear this. Someone described Beddgelert as "a few dozen hard grey houses … huddled together in some majestic mountain scenery" and possibly traders made up the story to lure visitors to the mountain village.
Laila had wisely bought a packet of Radox muscle relaxant which did the rounds like a well rolled reefer, as we desperately tried to get some relief form the aching limbs. Somewhat refreshed by this elixir, we decided to meet up in the village at seven thirty. We met at The Tanronnen Inn, as much for a change as to get away from the Fawlty Towers that was The Saracen. It was Pirate's Night in the pubs of Bedgelert and I fancied a beautiful bird on my shoulder. Instead I had to settle for Laila, a well scrubbed brunette with all the sex appeal of a second-hand jeep, who was now walking like John Wayne. We were tired and hungry but plans at this point became a little blurred and we were in danger of splintering. Laila and Felicia considered a pizza but for starters whetted their appetite at one of the best ice cream parlours this side of London; at the Glaslyn Ices and Glandwr Cafe. Michaela and Karen wanted to wait it out at the Tanronnen, in case a table became ready. In the end it was left to Sue to sort out the disparate elements and rein everyone back into a group. We ended up back at Fawlty Towers. I was relieved, as I had a long awaited date with a Frenchman by the name of Monsieur Stella Artois.
The meal was more relaxing this time, as we knew what to expect. We settled into good humoured chit chat. Sean told us that the waitress at breakfast kept brushing her ample bosoms against his cheek every time she served him. "You mean you were knockered" asked Felicia in broad New York tones. "Yes" stated Sean, "but I told her to do it with feeling the next time round".
Karen by this time had set upon our young waiter with gusto and decided he needed mothering. She wanted to guide him in waitering, finesse his social skills, make sure he passed his GCSE's and practice tantric sex with him into the small hours of the morning. Or so I imagined in my cynical mind. Poor boy he had a lot to contend with. However, as with the previous night, we tipped him well for the inconvenience.
After the meal we headed back to the hotel, stopping off for a well deserved night cap suggested by Sue. "Let me give you a fine brandy to take that nasty taste away from your mouth and warm the cockles of your heart" Felicia said enthusiastically. The warm encouraging liquid flowed smoothly down, creating a warming fire in my belly. Before too long I had drained the glass and wanted another. A few brandies later and we were ever more relaxed. Sean thought Kevin resembled the actor Robbie Coltrane – probably not the wisest thing to say to a six foot Geordie after a few pints of lager. He took it in good humour thankfully.
We made our way back to the hotel by what was now a well worn path under a billion stars. The whole Milky Way was now suddenly above us, or so it seemed twinkling and beckoning: Ursa Major, The Plough, Orion's Belt, and anything else we imagined. We even saw the odd satellite, traversing the inky sky at break-neck speed. It was a helluva thing, a truly awe-ful sight. We then discovered that Felicia had picked up a straggler and a Spurs supporter to boot! She tried to shake him off, but he was sticking to her like the proverbial to a wet blanket. When we got back I found that the events of the day had taken there toll on me and I immediately settled into a deep and unshakable sleep as my head hit the pillow at Bryn Eglewys.
We met again the next morning for our final breakfast, with a combination of relief and mixed feelings, I felt. The long trip back to London was only a few slices of marmalade and toast away now, and the holiday was nearly over. Felicia had a plane to make. At least we weren't getting up to a marathon, I thought, like some of the other poor suckers in London; subjecting your body to a grueling regime, only to risk shitting yourself at the end, as Felicia so aptly put it.
The journey back was measurably quicker. We took the M1 home, stopping briefly for a coffee and a leg stretch at the services. "Of all the gin joints in all the bars in all the world you had to walk into mine". Coincidentally we met Kevin and Sue who had stopped for the same refreshment, having been scared witless by a nasty lorry experience.
I pulled into the driveway at Ennerdale at precisely two thirty pm……and so ended a memorable short break.
Related posts: Snowdon- an adventure, Part 1, Snowdon- an adventure, Part 2


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Top- TopshopTrousers- Topshop Sale
Shoes- Topshop
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I managed to pick these beautiful trousers up in the Topshop sale yesterday after work, regardless of promising myself I wouldn't buy anymore clothes for a while (oops)! I like to think I can justify them though as they are such a nice cut. This evening I've been at my boyfriend's house for a BBQ and so it gave me a chance to relax and appreciate this weather while I can! I hope you're enjoying it as much as I am.