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ASPEN, Colo. (AP) — A wedding so elaborate it has raised eyebrows in tony and environmentally-conscious Aspen has sparked complaints from residents about the building of a dance floor, 27,000-square foot tent and a temporary chapel on a rural meadow.
The Saturday ceremony will be held on private property in the Little Annie Basin near Aspen Mountain outside town. Neighbors have complained about the traffic and the carbon footprint impact and potential damage to the meadow, now zoned as "rural/remote."
Trucks have been making trip after trip to bring supplies to the site for the wedding of Alex Steel, daughter of Aspen Institute chairman Robert Steel.
The Aspen Times reported that scaffolding flooring, service tents and other temporary structures are being built on the meadow. At least one appears to have metal beams.
Robert Steel declined to comment through a spokeswoman at the institute, which sponsors an annual summer ideas conference with world and national leaders.
The property's owner, family friend John Miller, who is also serving as wedding planner, acknowledged in a letter to the editor that the wedding has turned out to be a bigger project than he originally thought it would be. He said it was temporary though and urged his neighbors to show patience toward a family that has contributed much to the community.
"Can we just live and let live, sit back and enjoy where we are privileged to live?" he wrote.
The wedding will be accessed by a county road because there is still too much snow on another access road. Pitkin County officials at first considered requiring a temporary commercial permit for the ceremony, which is adjacent to U.S. Forest Service land. But because guests won't be charged, officials concluded that they could not charge for a permit.
Commissioner George Newman said the event shows you can be an "ugly American" in your own country.
"It's unfortunate people come to our county because of the beauty and bring their values with them while not caring or not understanding our values," he told the Aspen Times.
County commissioners will meet June 17 to discuss zoning and permitting changes to handle future big events in the resort area.


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[Bm]The precious blood of Je[G]sus Christ redeems,
[D]forgiven im al[A]ive, restored set free.
[Bm]your majesty res[G]ides inside of me,
[D]forever i beli[A]eve. forever i believe.
[Bm]arrested by your tru[G]th and righteousness
[D]your grace has overwh[A]elmed my brokenness
[Bm]convicted by your spi[G]rit, led by your wo[D]rd
your love will never fa[A]il
your love will never fa[G]il
[D]Cause i know you ga[A]ve, the wo[Bm]rld your only so[G]n for us to
[D]know your na[A]me, to l[Bm]ive within the sa[G]viours love
and he to[D]ok my pl[A]ace, kn[Bm]owing hed be cr[G]ucified
and you lo[D]ved.. you l[A]oved, a pe[Bm]ople unde[G]serving!
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This Is Memorial Device
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This Is Memorial Device, the debut novel by David Keenan, is a love letter to the small towns of Lanarkshire in the west of Scotland in the late 1970s and…
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I Dared Him To Lick It But He Drew The Line At That: Peter Solly went to Israel with Sam Shreds where he stuck an ancient artefact down his pants.
I was thinking the other day about people with odd names and just in case you think I am making this all up I was thinking of a guy named Michael Rocks who is real and who lives in Glasgow and who is probably on Facebook so look him up. But then I remembered Sam Shreds.
Sam was Jewish and his real name was something like Samuel Shredowitz but the point is everybody called him Sam Shreds. And you know how when like you start living up to your name.
Sam had a Fender Telecaster and a Gibson Les Paul. He stole his mother's vibrator from her wardrobe and he lay his Les Paul down on the bed plugged in and he played it with the vibrator. What a sound. I dared him to lick it (the vibrator) but he drew the line at that.
His family lived in a big huge house in Drumbathie Road in Airdrie which had no central heating and an abandoned loft where we used to pile all the chairs up in a huddle in the middle of the room and then masturbate together.
At first we thought it was the word that gave you an erection and not the thought or the imagination. So we would look at our wands – Sam called them wands, that's what he said they were called – and we would repeat the word 'fanny fanny fanny' and watch as our wands rose up as if by magic. Sometimes he would dress up as a girl and him and Katy, my sister, would go down the town together and shop for make-up.
Either that or we would take walks and find old ornaments and bird skulls and combine them in sculptures in the abandoned attic.
Sam always wanted to go to Israel. He had never been. But he had been to Auschwitz. He carried around a ticket stub from Auschwitz in his wallet. When you asked him why he did that he would say, I did it to keep my hatred sharp. I thought it was an amazing thing to say. But years later I realised he was quoting the terrorist Andreas Baader from the Red Army Faction who had trained with the PLO and the PFLP and I felt even more confused.
We took a boat to The Holy Land. Sam's mother insisted it was the only way to go home. This is us as we passed through the Strait of Gibraltar, where the statues of Hercules used to be.
We swam in The Dead Sea and we explored the caves where the Dead Sea Scrolls had been discovered. We found a stone with Hebrew letters on it but Sam grabbed it before I could look at it properly and he stuck it down his pants. It's not for the profane, he said. I said to him then perhaps it shouldn't be in such close proximity to your so-called wand. The Jews have a long tradition of sacred sex rites, he said to me. To you it's just a penis. Then he walked away with this big bulge in his pants. I thought about the power of words. That holiday was an education.
Years later he became kind of ordinary and he got a normal job. We fell out but when I would see him I would point him out and say, that guy's name is Sam Shreds he's a legend but no one would ever believe me.
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Ther is this girl that i met in class.I thought she was cute so i started talking to her.After a while I started to fall for her.the only problem is I was Kind of a geek and she was a goth.So I changed my appearance and aditude.She started getting closer to me so I told her how i felt for her and she said she felt the same way but she didn't want to date me cause we'd never se each other after school.So she tells me everyday on the phone she loves me and when we see each other we hold hands but thats it we have never went on a date or kissed.So what should i do.
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Four-Vehicle Injury Collision on Pennyrile Parkway 39 Mile marker
Date of News Release: 03/22/2014
Earlington, KY (Hopkins County) - The Kentucky State Police investigated a four-vehicle, injury collision that occurred on the Pennyrile Parkway at the 39 mile marker, on Saturday, March 22, 2014, at 12:53 p.m.
The preliminary investigation revealed that Mr. Lonnie Todd, 90 of Madisonville, KY, was operating a 1990 Ford Ranger pickup truck while traveling northbound on the Pennyrile Parkway, at the forty mile marker in the right lane of travel. Mr. Thomas Drake Jr., 40 of White Plains, KY, was operating a 1991 Ford F-250 pickup, behind Mr. Todd's vehicle. Mr. Bill Pailin Jr., 44 of Covington, TN, was operating a 2006 Ford Freestyle station wagon behind Mr. Drake. Ms. Paula Berry, 46 of Mortons Gap, KY, was operating a 2005 Toyota Corolla behind Mr. Pailin. For an unknown reason, Mr. Todd stopped in the right northbound lane of travel, just south of exit 40. The front bumper of Mr. Drake's vehicle then collided with the rear bumper of Mr. Todd's vehicle. The impact caused both vehicles to cross into the emergency strip, striking a guardrail. The impact of the collision caused Mr. Todd's vehicle to come to final rest on top of the guardrail at the northbound KY 2171 overpass, facing north. Mr. Drake's vehicle came to final rest in the northbound emergency strip facing north. Following the collision with Mr. Todd's vehicle, Mr. Pailin attempted to slow and avoid a second collision but was struck in the rear by Ms. Berry's vehicle. Mr. Pailin's vehicle came to final rest partially in the median facing north. Ms. Berry's vehicle came to final rest in the right lane of travel facing northeast.
Mr. Lonnie Todd was transported by ambulance to Baptist Regional Medical Center for injuries sustained as a result of the collision. Mr. Pailin's passengers, Robert Shelton, 70 of Madisonville, Ky, Tonia Pailin, 36 and Jaeda Pailin, 7 both of Covington, TN, Beatrice Davie, 90 of Lafayette, KY and Lakarra Delauette, 20 of Memphis, TN were not injured. All vehicle occupants were wearing seatbelts.
Trooper Ben Sawyer investigated the collision. Trooper John Komar, Hopkins County Sheriff's Department, Med-Center Ambulance Center and Grapevine Volunteer Fire Department assisted at the scene.


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My front trim ring around my lens has been lost? can this piece be ordered. love my camera
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I believe you're refering to the bayonet cap: http://uscamera.com/cm1-2841.htm
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Assassin's Creed III: Liberation is a Playstation Vita game developed and published by Ubisoft. This is the first female Assassin (Aveline de Grandpré who is part African and part French) in the Assassin's Creed series and it set between 1765 and 1777 around the end of the French and Indian War in 18th century New Orleans.
The story is very difficult to get into. For a start, any new comers to the series will be instantly lost. Unlike previous instalments in the series, the game doesn't really explain what the setting is. The game starts with an unknown user buying an animus style box from Abstergo. This box is like a game machine that is being used as propaganda for the Templars to show them in a positive light. Apart from that the rest is left up to prior knowledge. Desynchronisation and animus glitches must be confusing for gamers who have never played an Assassin's Creed game before as these are not explained. Things do not get any better as the game progresses. The story is really hard to follow because of a mixture of poor dialogue and poor character explanation. I often found myself just going from objective to objective without really knowing what was going on. Aveline has some interesting backstory (with her mother going missing and being brought in by another family) but it was never really explored in any detail. Also the other characters are instantly forgettable. It just wasn't very well thought-out.
Saying this, the actual ending is the most interesting I have seen in the series since Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood. I say actual because there are technically two endings (one is edited by The Templars). A hacker makes himself known to you early on in the game. By finding his missions you unlock the unedited ending (quick note I randomly came across these missions when I played I do not know if they are hard to find). Anyway the unedited version is thought provoking on how the next major release with unfold. It gives a bit of back story as well as hinting at the next Assassin.
Gameplay quality, in this game, is all over the place. Both touch screens are used but sometimes they are used in the wrong situation. For instance using the back touch screen to move forward in a canoe is especially difficult while trying to steer. The touch screen does get better with a letter opening feature and a combo kill feature (that I will get onto in a bit). Puzzles return in this game which utilises much of the Playstation Vita's functionality however these puzzles are few in number which is a big shame as they were a big highlight of the game.
A big feature in this game is costumes. There are three costumes to choose from (Slave, Assassin and Lady) which all have advantages and disadvantages. This is a fantastic feature which works well except when you need to change for a mission and the nearest changing room is miles away or you end up doing a mission that is really more suitable for another costume.
Everything else seems quite badly designed. Firstly, unlike its bigger, console, brother this game actually encourages free running. New Orleans is nicely laid out which makes traversing the city a doddle. However, free running can be a bit hit and miss at some points. Like its brother free running has be confined to one button. This causes similar problems Assassin's Creed III has with you randomly mounting objects you didn't want to mount while running after someone. Also for some reasons getting the right direction is difficult while free running. This is most apparent in the cave sections but you will often find yourself completely missing the platform which becomes irritating after a while. Luckily there seems to be low fall damage in this game. You can fall from some impressive heights and walk away with a minor scratch. Assassin's Creed games have always had this issue but it is not as obvious as it is in this game. Enemy AI is fairly thick. One instance I was shooting (with a rifle) these enemies from a platform above them and they had no clue where I was and just kept investigating their dead comrades. Also this wasn't an isolated incident. Enemies in general had no depth perception and can't really see you from a reasonable distance.
Combat, like its bigger brother, is a mess. You can do some cool two people take down which is great to look at but combat in general is not fluid at all. Too many enemy classes block and stop you stringing moves together. This would be fine if the combat was still fluid but these blocks just breaks up the combat which is a shame. As I mentioned earlier you can do a massive takedown. It is pretty useful tool to use. You use the touch screen to choose how many men to kill (a meter is needed to be built up to use it) and you watch Aveline do her stuff. Changing weapons is interesting as you use the touch screen which opens up two columns of weapons. It is an intuitive way instead of using a button to just press on the weapon you want. Sadly there is a fundamental flaw in regards to weapons. I have noticed after cut scenes that your shooting weapon keeps changing to the default weapon slot. What this means is if you want a wipe (great weapon by the way) as that weapon you need to select it after every cut scene because it changes to either a gun or (if the gun is not present) to nothing. As you can imagine this is incredible infuriating.
Assassin's Creed III: Liberation does also bring in a management system similar to the one seen in Assassin's Creed III but this one is fairly gimped. You can buy ships and send out produce but you can't make anything new nor can you do any sea missions. It is worth noting that the amount of stuff to buy in the game is limited. There are a fair few costumes but weapons and useful equipment is limited so this management feature becomes a little bit pointless.
I feel disappointed that I have to put this next section in but you need to know this if you are going to buy this game. There is an impressive amount of bugs/glitches/issues in this game (some more important than others). One of the biggest issues is poor loading. Enemies and people can just pop out of nowhere as they finally load. One (of many) incident had me going through a gate and then suddenly (as I was about to go through the gate) some armed guards were blocking the way. Another is frame rate. Frame rate drops quite a lot during this game. It doesn't become unplayable but it loses that fluidity you expect from a big game. I will quickly mention some of many glitches I encountered during my play. Hood bug (which says my hood was equipped but it wasn't. To fix this I had to go to my home, deselect the hood, leave, go back and then equip the hood again. Massive nightmare for something so simple), Dead guy comes back to life issue and also a moment where I couldn't kill anyone and wouldn't attack some bad guys who were attacking me. These issues are really unacceptable.
Graphically this game is pretty good. Animations look good and move in a fluid way (except for faces which are very wooden looking) and the environments (from the hustle and bustle of New Orleans to eerie swaps) are beautiful. A cheap trick has been used to make thin vegetation used as a barrier for some parts of the wilderness but overall the environments are well designed. The voice acting suffers really from the poor dialogue. You can tell they have tried to bring emotion into very empty words.
There is an online multiplayer mode in this game but it isn't the free roam style you might expect. Essentially I would describe it as a big strategy game where you work with others online to take over certain nodes. Now there was little instruction on how to play and I also found nearly everyone had chosen to join the Assassin clan (other of curse being The Templars). It isn't bad it just needs balancing (because the Assassins have taken over the world) and a better tutorial. A little neat feature for people who own Assassin's Creed III is you can unlock exclusive content. It isn't a game changer but it is nice nonetheless.
Overall this game has many flaws (story and design) but it never stopped me playing. For some reasons I could see its flaws but it was still incredibly fun to play. It has a badly told story and gameplay design issues but I really do like this game (i.e. it is a good game). Now going onto score there is a reason why it is a 6.8. I feel the bugs/glitches/issues in this game can never warrant me giving this game anything more. If you can look past these issues then you will have fun with this game and I do recommend it. Just do not expect a huge amount of quality.
Well written review, as always. I'm glad to know I'm not missing out on much, despite my insatiable urge to play as a female assassin for once.
Why put ending spoilers in a review? FYI: reviews are read before the buyer generally purchases the game. In addition, you rarely use commas and "waffle" too much. That is just a little bit of friendly advice for next time, keep up your efforts in writing these reviews.
I really want to get this i just dont want to pay that much for it.


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Reel-to-reel tape and AIFF digital transfer copies on CDs of an address by Major Mayer (spelled incorrectly as Meyer) of the U.S. Army on "brainwashing of POWs by Chinese communists" to Eastman Kodak officers and supervisors. The original tape came from the collection of anthropologist Dr. Vincenzo Petrullo at the University of Pennsylvania.
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Beautiful new apartment with Sea Views for sale in Elviria, Marbella. Beautiful new apartment with Sea Views for sale in Elviria, Marbella. Located in the sought after area of La Mairena and surrounded by amenities, restaurants and International Schools, this complex is conveniently bounded by a protected green belt that has been declared a natural biosphere reserve by the UNESCO hence development in the area is restricted. The complex offers breathtaking panoramic views over the sea, surrounding valley and towards the beautiful surrounding coast. A small development of luxuriously appointed apartments within a gated community with 24 hours security which comprise 1 , 2 and 3 bedroom units, built, fitted and equipped to the highest specifications. Onsite there is a large communal Infinity pool and appealing sunbathing area where residents can relax while enjoying the panoramic sea & coastal views.
Elviria is a popular residential community located in the eastern part of Marbella, about 15 minutes drive to Marbella city centre and 25 minutes drive to the international airport of Malaga. Some of the best international schools are situated in Elviria such as the English International College, the Deutsche Schule and Colegio Ecos. The area is well equipped with services, restaurants, supermarkets and entertainment facilities. Also conveniently located are the Santa María and Santa Clara Golf courses with their respective clubs and two more golf courses, Golf Club Marbella and Golf Rio Real, are only a short drive away. Elviria offers beautiful sandy beaches with charming beach restaurants and the famous beach club Nikki Beach is situated just next to the five star luxury Hotel Don Carlos.
Availability upon agreement.
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Re: My Strader Linage
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There is a book about Straders: "The Strader Family History 1737-1976" Compiled by Hartzel G. Strader. I believe his address is 818 Althea Dr. Miamisburg, OH 45342 Good Luck Always searching, Karen
Amazon: The Strader family history, 1737-1976 [Unknown Binding]
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Let me know if you need further information. According to my notes:
1.2Johann Heinrich (Henry) Strader [S2, S3, S4, S6]
b.ca 1828/Germany
d.1812/Caswell Co., NC [S4]
m.Anna Margaret Stauffer [S4]
A Casper Streader arrived in Philadelphia aboard the Ship Ranier from Rotterdam, Holland on 26 Sept. 1749; his name (with X, his mark) appears on the ship captain's list. Also appearing on the list was the name Johann Heinrich Stroder. A John Henry Strader took the oath of allegiance to the Colonies. Also signing the Ship Ranier captain's list was Johannes Stroder, junge or junior. Casper Strader mentions a son Henry in his 1788 Berks Co., PA will. [S4]
>>From a letter from *Hartzel G. Strader*, author of The Strader Family History 1737-1976: "I do not have definite proof of Conrad (Jr.) ancestry, but piecing data together, it appears his father was a Henry Strader and most likely his mother was Anna Margaret Stauffer. As can be noted in Conrad (Jr.) Will written in 1812 that he had inheritance coming from his father's estate. Henry died in 1812 in Caswell Co., NC, and the estate probably was not settled by the time Conrad (Jr.) wrote his Will in October 1812. Conrad (Jr.) was not likely a son of Conrad (Sr.) who died in 1809 as he names his children in his Will and also other supporting data does not show it. So far I [have found no] estate settlement of Henry. . . . Henry and Conrad (Sr.) were sons of Caspar Strader (d. 1788), Berks Co., PA. Henry and Conrad (Sr.) came by ship from PA to NC about 1759. The ship was wrecked on the North Carolina coast where they lost most of their farm tools." [S4]
+1.2.1Henry Strader (b. ca 1750)
+1.2.2Jacob Strader (b. ca 1752)
1.2.3Anna Margaret Strader (b. ca 1854)
1.2.4George Strader (b. ca 1756)
+1.2.5John Strader (b. ca 1758
1.2.6Catherine Strader (b. ca 1760)
+1.2.7Conrad Strader (b. ca 1762) (see below)
1.2.1Henry Strader
b.ca 1750/Orange County, NC
d.bef. 1820
m.31 May 1773/Granville Co., NC/Catherine Holstein
126.96.36.199Henry Strader
b.ca 1774/Orange County, NC
188.8.131.52Adam Strader
b.ca 12 April 1775/Orange County, NC
d.13 April 1854/Guilford County, NC
m.13 Dec. 1799/Granville Co., NC/Mary Strader
b.ca 1779
d.1850/Guilford County, NC
b.4 April 1819
d. 2 Nov. 1858/Guilford County, NC
220.127.116.11Daniel Strader
b.7 April 1777/Orange County, NC
m.13 April 1798/Elizabeth Waynick (b. 1778)
126.96.36.199Katy Strader
m.23 Oct. 1804/John Hall (b. 1784)
220.127.116.11Unknown Female Strader (b. after 1784)
126.96.36.199Unknown Male Strader (Jacob?) (b. after 1784)
22.214.171.124Unknown Female Strader (b. after 1790)
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Under 50% of Young Black Men Graduate from High School
Black students are stranded on the wrong side of graduation. In 2007-08 only 47% of all black male high school students graduated compared with 78% of white male students. A recent study has new information.
The study was based on information gathered at the federal, school district and state levels and mirrors closely the finding of the previous year's findings. In 2006-07 46.7% of black males graduated compared to 73.7% of white males.
Rates Vary From State to State
States with some of the smallest black populations posted some of the best graduation rates. Vermont and North Dakota have graduation rates that even exceed the national average rate of graduation of white males.
New Jersey posted the highest graduation rates for blacks at 65% and New York had the lowest at just 25%. New Jersey credits its graduation rates with the fact that they leveled the funding playing field 20 years ago, so city school districts are funded at the same rate as suburban counterparts. New Jersey also grants higher funding rates to schools that have large at-risk populations.
Reasons Behind the Numbers
The reasons for the low graduation rates are varied. My last two years teaching high school were spent in a drop-out prevention program that was disproportionately male, but while most were either black or English-Language-Learners (ELL), they all shared poor classroom experiences over the course of their school years.
The students I taught had difficulty in highly structured classrooms and with teachers who were overtly authoritative. They also had difficulty grasping the long-term benefits of a good education because their role models were basically under-educated through circumstances beyond their controls or by choice.
In one-on-one settings and with a lot of patience, as well as an abitity to not take things personally, I was often able to turn students on to the idea that they controlled their destiny and could be successes, but in schools where personnel and resources are short, this type of approach is difficult to replicate.
The Schott Foundation
The Schott Foundation for Public Education, which conducted the studies, believes that a lack of political will is ultimately at fault. Funds and the desire to provide them are lacking. Money for access to early education, effective teachers and college preparatory programs is essential. The foundation also believes that some of the disparity problems are the result of inequitable distribution of existing funding.
How long can we continue to throw away our young people? All children deserve the best start at a productive adult life that can be provided.
One child lost is too many.
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Let's start with some slightly, okay, more than slightly depressing numbers: Since the devastating explosion on BP's Deepwater Horizon rig almost three weeks ago, more than 1.7 million gallons of oil have spilled into the Gulf of Mexico and more than 250,000 gallons of chemical dispersant have been sprayed onto that spill in an effort to contain the damage.
Everyone agrees that it's the enormous slick of oil that we should really worry. But in the last week, questions have also been raised about the cleaning chemicals flooding into the Gulf. Although the amount pales, as they say, compared to the spill itself, a quarter of a million gallons of industrial chemicals is at least worth pondering.
Certainly both The New York Times and The Washington Post recently came to that decision. The Post provided a nice description of the way dispersants work, noting that "On a basic level these dispersants work the same way dishwashing liquid works on grease: They break up the oil into tiny droplets by attaching to the oil so it's diluted in the water column." But the article concluded that the environmental effects remained a troubling unknown. The Times came to a similar conclusion, adding that it's difficult to assess impact when the full chemistry of the dispersant is concealed as proprietary information.
But the chemistry isn't entirely as mysterious as such news stories might lead you to think. Nalco, the company producing the dispersant used, has posted material data safety sheets on the industry website Clean Caribbean & Americas. And these do provide some insights what's being added to the beleaguered waters of the Gulf.
I'm going to address only three Nalco listed potential hazards materials here. One is a a solvent, with the rather daunting chemical name of 2-Butoxyethanol, which really needs a more memorable label since we use it so frequently. It's in home cleaning products, from liquid soaps to glass cleaners, in whiteboard erasing compounds, in bowling alley operations as a pin and lane degreaser.
In other words, we wash this one down our drains and into our water systems every day, oil spill or no. Tests have shown that it decomposes rapidly, so that's to the good. But 2-Butoxyethanol is on the hazard list for a reason. It's been linked to anemias and autoimmune diseases and Nalco's product safety data notes that repeated exposure can result in kidney damage.
A second listed is propylene glycol, which incidentally we also use – and even swallow – daily in myriad ways. It functions as a solvent in liquid medications, in food coloring, in bitters used to make cocktails, and in less palatable concoctions, from hand sanitizers to anti-freeze formulas. It's far less acutely poisonous than 2-Butoxyethanol, but it's a more troubling compound when added into places like the Gulf of Mexico because as it breaks down it pulls oxygen out of the water, making it a potential threat to aquatic life.
And finally, the manufacturer lists an "organic sulfonic acid salt" as proprietary, meaning that the precise chemical formula is not available. But, again, that doesn't mean we're entirely clueless. Sulfonic acids are gentled-down derivatives of the famously corrosive sulfuric acid.
As with the others I've mentioned, they also routinely inhabit our lives. In some formulations, they're found in laundry detergents and in fabric brightening agents. In others, in pesticides and fungicides. Toxicity varies according to each preparation which means that we do indeed need more public information to better assess what's going on in the Gulf.
But even without such added facts, there's an obvious conclusion here. Every day we wash our hands, our clothes, our machinery, our bowling alleys using variations on the compounds now spraying into oil-tainted waters. Every day, these materials flush through our water systems, into our rivers, and eventually even our bays, gulfs, seas. So, while we may worry about BP's dishwashing venture in the Gulf, the bigger experiment is our own.


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For the city of Clive, it's all about that vision thing, if that means looking to the past to imagine the future.
Right now, that vision is for a new town center, with an estimated $18 million government center anchoring the private development of apartment buildings, a health and wellness center, all linked to the city's system of nature trails.
Mayor Scott Cirksena said city leaders are focused on nurturing the mind, body and spirit, and for good reason.
It was an ambitious plan that is awaiting a buy-in from private businesses to make improvements to further enhance that area.
But with the city gradually closing in on the time when it will exhaust available development ground and the capping of its population, Clive officials have spent a little more than a year contemplating what they can do next.
What's up next is the Clive Town Center, with the concept on display during an open house from 5 to 7 p.m. Wednesday at the Clive Aquatics Center Special Events Building, 1801 N.W. 114th St.
The idea is to fill out roughly 10 acres of city-owned property stretching along the east side of 114th from University Avenue north to Hickman Road.
The city's aquatics center plays a key role in that development, as does the Mercy Medical Center complex at the south end of the property.
Practical needs also drive the plan, including the need for more space at City Hall. The proposed town center development is located across 114th from the current City Hall and library. It is a cramped space. The library needs room for expansion, which it will get once a new government center and police headquarters is built at the town center.
But city officials envision more than a new seat of government. The project would provide space for multistory apartment buildings. The city has identified a need for about 550 multifamily units, and up to 300 are planned for the first phase of the town center development. The plan also includes some commercial build-out. Over time, the city will begin a process to winnow out a preferred private developer for the residential and commercial components.
This visioning thing begins with the realization that over the next 15 years, the city will max out its population at about 23,500 from the current 16,200. The city is essentially landlocked, with about 800 acres left for development, primarily in annexed land near Alice's Road.
"You can see what the end of the rainbow looks like," said Assistant City Manager Matthew McQuillen.
None of the development will happen overnight. The 86th Street improvements could take another 20 years to complete, by City Manager Dennis Henderson's reckoning.
Expect the town center project to take at least that long. At present, the city concepts for the town center are being assisted by Dennis Reynolds of Reynolds Urban Design and Shive-Hattery Inc.


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I didn't go with a movie title but more along the actual cine film itself route!
Thank you cards for men are always rather difficult so I thought I would try and make one as the theme at CAS-ual Friday's is thanks with the addition of twine and Time Out's is masculine with the option of mixed media.
The film strip stamp is from Kaisercraft and I stamped it a couple of times at a jaunty angle across my die cut panel. The thanks I was going to use was a little too large for the frame so this stamp is from a Marianne banner dies set and the 'You're a Star' was a freebie from a mag, which I cut up to fit the space. It looked a tad stark even for a masculine card so I added some red twine and a few black adhesive beads. The panel was then popped up over a white base card.Done and dusted. For more movie related inspiration please check out the rest of the DT and why not join in.
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Good News Ministries - A Hand Up for the Hopeless
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In France, there was once a coca cola bottle with Gene Simmons' face on it.
A magician called "Amaze-O" taught Gene Simmons how to breathe fire.
In March of 2007, Gene Simmons, along with his longtime girlfriend, Shannon Tweed, got his and hers facelifts.
Gene Simmons can shoot fire out of his mouth 15 feet high. The world record is 20 feet, which makes him one of the top five people who can breathe fire in the world.
Gene once lost his voice onstage in Osaka, Japan on January 22, 1997.
Gene accidentally caught his hair on fire on December 31, 1973 in New York.
In August, 2006 Gene sent a video recording to an Israeli soldier severely wounded in combat in Lebanon, praising him as his hero.
Gene's nicknames are Gene the Nazarene and Genie.
Gene's parents are named Feri Witz and Florence Klein.
Gene was offered the role of Nick Hurley in the film, Flashdance, but turned the role down because of scheduling conflicts with KISS. Michael Nouri ended up getting the part.
Gene is of Hungarian and Jewish descent.
Gene graduated from Sullivan County Community College with a Bachelor's degree in Education.
Gene's famous tongue has been measured at over 7 inches in length.
Gene's trade marks are his tongue, his axe-shaped bass guitar and the Demon makeup he wore during his days in KISS.
Gene was inducted into the Long Island Music Hall of Fame on Oct 15, 2006 along with fellow Kiss members Paul Stanley and Ace Frehley.
Gene has a cartoon show based on his family life on Nickelodeon, titled My Dad The Rock Star.
Gene and his family are the subject of a new reality show on the A&E Network, titled Family Jewels.
Gene is a former member of the Mickey Mouse Club.
Gene created and published his own line of fanzines as a teen. Some of his titles include: Cosmos, Faun, and Lamaba Gamma. His magazines were based on fantasy, science fiction, and basic creative imagination comics.
Gene shared a live-in relationship with Cher for awhile, before meeting longtime love Shannon Tweed.
Gene worked at Glamour magazine, then at Vogue as assistant to the editor, Kate Lloyd.
Gene was executive Producer on the movie Detroit Rock City.
Gene worked with kids & rock music on the VH-1 reality hit Rock School.
Gene is publisher of his magazine Gene Simmon's Tongue.
Gene's first job was delivering the Long Island Star Journal in Queens, he made $37.50 a week, then added a second route for an additional $28.00 a week.
Gene Simmons and a former girlfriend, Georgann Walsh Ward, have settled a defamation lawsuit in which he made her sound like a "sex-addicted nymphomaniac" during a TV documentary. Walsh was Gene's girlfriend in the '70s and received no financial payment for appearing in the film When KISS Ruled the World. Her lawsuit also alleges the film defamed her by juxtaposing Gene's commentary with photographs that included her.
Gene has his own 39 cent postage stamp now. A portion of the proceeds benefit the Humane Society.
Gene has the same birthday as Rob Halford, the vocalist for Judas Priest .
Even though, Gene is the co-founder of the band, Paul Stanley is actually the one who suggested the name KISS.
Gene founded Simmons Publishing, which publishes books and magazines.
Gene played in a band called Cathedral several years before forming KISS.
Gene has never used alcohol, drugs, or tobacco.
Gene claims to have slept with over 4,600 women.
Gene gave Cher's son, Elijah Blue, his first guitar at age 11.
Gene launched his Gene Simmons - Dragonfly fashion label in August, 2002.
Gene has been publishing the magazine entitled Tongue since late 2001. He is currently working on a KISS brand of condoms, among other things. Most of his post-KISS career will be spent producing feature films and creating new KISS merchandise.
Gene discovered Van Halen in 1977 and produced the demo that got them signed to Warner Brothers Records.
Gene produced many entertainment acts in the 1980's, including Keel, Wendy O' Williams, EZO,Liza Minelli, and Black & Blue.
Gene designed the axe shaped bass guitar.
Before deciding on a career in the music industry, Gene considered becoming a rabbi.
Gene was once in a band called Bullfrog Beer. Other pre-KISS bands he was a member of include Coffee, The Long Island Sounds, and Wicked Lester (with Paul Stanley).
Gene speaks five languages. He can speak English, German, Hungarian, Japanese and Hebrew.
Eddie Van Halen once begged Gene and Paul Stanley to let him join KISS, during a time when his band, Van Halen, was having problems. He was rejected because Gene and Paul were still trying to convince Ace Frehley to stay, though their efforts were unsuccessful as Frehley left the band in 1983. He was replaced by Vinnie Vincent, then Mark St. John, and finally Bruce Kulick.
Gene has a son, Nicholas, who was born in 1989 and a daughter, Sophie, who was born in 1992. Shannon Tweed is the mother of both children.
Gene has lived with model/actress Shannon Tweed since 1983, but they've never married. He calls marriage an "institution", and says he doesn't believe in institutions.
Gene dated Norwegian actress, Liv Ullmann.
Gene was involved in a live in relationship with Diana Ross.
Prior to forming KISS, Gene Simmons was a 6th grade teacher in Spanish Harlem.
Gene was the co-founder of the hard rock band, KISS. The band is famous for outrageous antics and kabuki style make-up.
Gene is 6' 2" tall.
Gene has written two books. He wrote Sex, Money, KISS and KISS and Make-up.
Gene Simmons: As an Israeli, I want you to look at me first. I want you to search my anal cavity and look at my tax records. I want you to look at me first, and then at every guy named Muhammad.
Gene Simmons: It is embarrassing what's happening to America nowadays. I'm embarrassed. The same thing happened in Vietnam, and I lived through that era. It was unbelievable. The answer seems to be, from some political experts, just get up and leave and the bad guys will decide, "Hey let's disarm and everything's going to be okay." I'm so sick and tired of such idiotic behavior.
Gene Simmons: I refuse to lead a Jekyll-and-Hyde life. There are Djs who get caught with prostitutes, and M.P.s with stockings on their head. It's waste of time. Just say, 'This is who I am. Take it or leave it.' Then you sleep well.
Gene Simmons: My hero is me. Why? Because I was a poor little kid who was told, "Hey stupid, can't you speak English?" Now all those people work for me.
Gene: It's a dirty job, but somebody's got to do it.
Gene: I'm perhaps the persona of a really simple message: You should all be blessed because you're standing on hallowed ground. This is Indy, baby...These are the fastest cars on four wheels. We have rock stars and rockets. These cars will drive on the ceiling.
Gene: KISS isn't one of the top 100 bands in history, but it is one of the best known.
Gene: The sleeping giant is not China. It's Indy. It's exploding like a cluster bomb...Indy is about life or death, literally.
Gene: Perception is everything. You could be just another horse in a race, but if it's done right, you become the Kentucky Derby, baby!
Gene: Walk amongst the natives by day, but in your heart be Superman .
Gene: The only thing wrong with marriage is that one of the persons involved is a man.
Gene: I recorded Disney's When You Wish Upon A Star , one of my favorite songs of all time. It ended with a falsetto high note. I didn't think about it at first, but after I heard my vocal on 1,000 Dreams , I noticed the end had an eerie connection to Wish Upon A Star .
Gene: I've always admired Frank Zappa . He invited me over to his house right before he unfortunately passed away. We had a real heart to heart . He said some very kind things to me and showed me his library of tapes, things that had never been released.
Gene: Secretly, the most extreme alternative person is gonna put on an ABBA record when nobody is looking. Everybody has eclectic taste, it's just that sometimes people are afraid to admit it.
Gene: My taste is eclectic and all over the place. I love all kinds of artists, from Patsy Cline to The Beatles ,Motown to Hoobastank.
Gene: The people who come to see us are families, it's parents bringing their kids. They dress up like KISS and all come together.
Gene: I'm all about money and beautiful women. That's what life's all about.
Gene: Like when my boy went to kindergarten, and they asked the kids to bring in photos, and things to talk about what their parents do. One boy brought scissors, because his dad was a barber, another kid brought a hammer, because his dad built houses. My son walked in with a poster of me spitting fire and drooling blood.
Gene: I'm an only child, and I'm not from America, so I like attention.
Gene: I've always felt like an outsider, I still do, but America has given me everything I've ever dreamed of, and there are no limitations.
Gene: I've never taken a vacation in my life. You have a lot of time to have a long vacation when you're underground.
Gene: This is me, this is who I am, you don't have to like it, but this is me, period.
Gene: Last time I checked, the only one who owns me is the mother who gave me birth. In return for life, she is allowed to torture me. No other woman is allowed to do that, they have not earned that right!


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nonsyllabic, unsyllabic(adj)
not forming a syllable or the nucleus of a syllable; consisting of a consonant sound accompanied in the same syllable by a vowel sound or consisting of a vowel sound dominated by other vowel sounds in a syllable (as the second vowel in a falling diphthong)
"the nonsyllabic `n' in `botany' when it is pronounced `botny'"; "the nonsyllabic `i' in `oi'"
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The numerical value of unsyllabic in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1
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New Zealand Winegrowers launched a Mandarin-language website to support ongoing marketing activities in China.
Featuring information about New Zealand's winegrowing regions and key grape varietals the website, www.nz-wine.cn, has content mirroring the flagship English-language site www.nzwine.com.
The site also includes details of upcoming events in Mainland China, links to popular Chinese social media platforms Weibo and WeChat, and offers insight to the New Zealand wine industry's widespread commitment to sustainability.
"Creating a Chinese website has been a key part of our communications plan in the Mainland, as it extends core information about New Zealand wine to the widest possible audience" said Chris Yorke, New Zealand Winegrower's global marketing director. "We are particularly happy to now have detailed Chinese-language content about sustainability as it illustrates product integrity, which is central to Chinese consumers' confidence in the quality and reliability of New Zealand wine."
Nearly half of the Mainland population, that is over 600 million, are internet users said Natalie Potts, Asia Marketing Manager for New Zealand Winegrowers. "Having an online presence in Mandarin is crucial as the internet is a key information channel for Chinese people. With approximately half of all internet users becoming involved in social media, fans of New Zealand wine can keep track of our activities via the two main social media channels in China – Weibo and WeChat – which are both built in to the website."
The website was created as part of the joint programme between New Zealand Winegrowers and New Zealand Trade & Enterprise, who are working together to promote NZ wine through a variety of activities across China. Since the signing of the New Zealand-China Free Trade Agreement (FTA) in 2008, New Zealand's wine exports to China have increased dramatically — from NZ $2.1m in 2007 to NZ $24.8m in 2014.


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(Shakespearean Criticism)
The Gastric Epic: Troilus and Cressida
David Hillman, Tavistock Centre, London
Ignorance in physiologicis—that damned 'idealism.'
Friedrich Nietzsche, Ecce Homo1
(Shakespearean Criticism)
The Gastric Epic: Troilus and Cressida
David Hillman, Tavistock Centre, London
Ignorance in physiologicis—that damned 'idealism.'
Friedrich Nietzsche, Ecce Homo1
(Shakespearean Criticism)
Why did Shakespeare write Troilus and Cressida? Why, that is, did he turn his attention to a story that was so overdetermined as to have become, by the end of the sixteenth century, little more than a compilation of clichés? The Trojan story was enormously popular during the decades preceding composition of the play, and the most obvious motive suggested by this popularity is the play's commercial potential (written by an already-famous playwright, reworking material that was all the rage in contemporary London). While this motive is called into question by the Epistle attached to the play's Quarto in the second state,3 the pervasiveness and mass appeal of the matter of Troy was, I believe, nevertheless a decisive factor in Shakespeare's choice of this subject. For in placing these endlessly reiterated, rhetoricized, and textualized heroes onstage, he could not help but embody them;4 and the limning of these "unbodied figure[s]" (1.3.16) in flesh and blood presented a perfect opportunity to wrestle with the issue that, I will argue, lies at the very heart of the play: the relation between language and the body out of which it emanates. Both within the play and in the cultural milieu that produced it, Troilus and Cressida enacts a restoration of words, and of the ideals created out of them, to their sources inside the body.
The play thrusts both its protagonists and the audience back into the body, recorporealizing the epic of the Trojan War. The story's unparalleled canonicity created heroes of a deeply textual nature, protagonists who by Shakespeare's time had become little more than, in Rosalie Colie's words, "rhetorical and proverbial figure[s]."5 The play's "dependence on a prodigious literary and rhetorical legacy" entangles it (as most critics of the play agree) with issues of citationality and originality.6 When Shakespeare turns to the legend, he places the relationship between origins and citations at the core of his play. He does this by reintroducing, as it were, the substance or "matter" of the body to the "Matter of Troy." Indeed, the very word matter, often associated in Shakespeare with the interior of the body, recurs no fewer than twenty-four times in the play.7 The missing "matter" that Shakespeare reintroduces into the story is that of the truth of the body, which has been displaced over countless reiterations by something like pure citationality. "[T]ir'd with iteration" (3.2.174), the heroes' identities have become ever further removed from their material sources: the pun on tir'd (attired/tired) implies the increasing distance from the body, as if each retelling adds a layer of covering—a cover story—to the protagonists' flesh, with the overdetermined citationality that constitutes the "starv'd . . . subject" (1.1.93) of Troy rendering it disembodied, "pale and bloodless" (1.3.134). ("Troy" apostrophizes Spenser's Paridell, "[thou] art now nought, but an idle name."8). By the time Shakespeare comes to write the play, these post-Homeric heroes have all become "Words, words, mere words, no matter from the heart" (5.3.108).
Troilus and Cressida has often been described as being "consciously philosophical," as coming "closer than any other of the plays to being a philosophical debate."9 There is little physical action in the play; mostly there are rhetorical arguments about degree, about honor, about time and value. Yet the play is compulsively body-bound; from start to finish, its language is replete with imagery of the body's interior, the ebb and flow of its humors looking out at every joint and motive of the text. There is, I think, a powerful connection between the play's intellectuality and its unyielding corporeality, a link that can perhaps be best elucidated by glancing briefly at what Friedrich Nietzsche says about the relations between philosophy and physiology. Entrails, for Nietzsche, are inherently anti-idealizing, undercutting metaphysics and transcendent aspirations of any kind: going into the body lies at the opposite pole from going beyond it. As Eric Blondel writes, "it is in order to contrast an abominable truth to the surface of the ideal that Nietzsche speaks of entrails."10 Idealization usually involves a turning away from or repression of the messy truth of the body—toward what Agamemnon calls, in Troilus and Cressida, "that unbodied figure of the thought" (1.3.16)—or, alternatively, a conception of the body as a perfect, finished surface.11 But while the exterior of the body is easy enough to idealize, its interior has a rather more offensive, unsavory reality, as Nietzsche repeatedly points out: "What offends aesthetic meaning in inner man—beneath the skin:...
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The ending of the Trojan legend, we might here recall, is inseparably linked to the idea of full intestines—to the Trojan horse, that is, with its bellyful of silent Greek warriors—a proverbial symbol of guile throughout the English Renaissance.24 Writers of the period persistently figured the potential for deceit as a potential gap between words and the bodies out of which they emerge. A story particularly popular in early modern England was Lucian's version of the tale of Momus and Hephaestus. In Hermotimus, or Concerning the Sects—a satire of all manner of philosophical schools and pretensions—Lucian relates the story of how Momus, mocker of the gods, judged a competition among Athena, Poseidon, and Hephaestus. To settle a quarrel among the three gods over which of them was the best artist, Momus is appointed to judge their creations; Athena designs a house, Poseidon a bull, Hephaestus a man. "What faults he found in the other two," writes Lucian, "we need not say, but his criticism of the man and his reproof of the craftsman, Hephaestus, was this: he had not made windows in his chest which could be opened to let everyone see his desires and thoughts, and if he were lying or telling the truth."25
Lucian—"the Merry Greek," as he was known to sixteenth-century Englishmen26—was a philosopher whose caustic, disillusioned perspectivism may well have influenced Troilus and Cressida directly (the epithet "merry Greek" is used twice in the play27; Shakespeare's comic satire shares with him a disenchantment with ideals, a deeply relativist attitude to questions of value, and a level of scoffing unparalleled elsewhere in the canon. But my interest here lies less in Lucian's influence on Shakespeare than in the way Momus's tale succinctly highlights a tendency that is central to satire in general and to Troilus and Cressida in particular. Momus's criticism of Hephaestus's man exemplifies a desire shared, in one form or another, by many skeptics and satirists: the desire to puncture pretense by revealing the body's innards. This skeptical impulse often takes the form of a desire to see into, or to open up, the body of the other. Troilus and Cressida partakes of this satirical tradition of figuring the puncturing of deceit and delusion as a puncturing of the body. The skepticism evinced by the play is itself described within the play in just such terms: "[D]oubt," says Hector, "is call'd / The beacon of the wise, the tent that searches / To th'bottom of the worst" (2.2.15-17).28
Such a penetrative impulse stems from an imagination of the interior of the body as capable of concealing an ulterior truth, a fantasy of the possibility of absolute knowledge of the other.29 In "The Inside and the Outside," Jean Starobinski discusses the origins of such a corporeal schema in its archetypal form. Turning back to Homer's Iliad—"one of the first poetic documents in which the censure of duplicity is given full and emphatic voice"—Starobinski quotes Achilles's rebuke to Agamemnon ("For hateful in my eyes, even as the gates of Hades, is that man that hideth one thing in his heart and sayeth another") and comments: "the doubling, the splitting which causes one thing to be hidden and another said . . . takes on spatial dimensions: what goes unsaid is actively hidden in the heart, the space of the inside—the interior of the body is that place in which the cunning man dissimulates what he doesn't say."30 The Iliad is, to be sure, a particularly effective place to look for such corporeal dimensions, as the exegeses of Bruno Snell and R. B. Onians have made abundantly clear: "emotional thoughts, 'cares', were living creatures troubling the organs in one's chest," writes Onians in elucidating the inseparability of body, mind, and soul in Homer.31 But the bodily schema Starobinski points to has been too tenacious over the centuries to be dismissed either as a manifestation of primitive or archaic thought or as merely a convenient metaphor.32
The explicitly somaticized nature of the urge to puncture deceit and delusion was never more evident than during the English satire-vogue of the final decade of the sixteenth century, a vogue to which Troilus and Cressida was Shakespeare's main contribution.33 "The Satyre should be like the Porcupine, / That shoots sharp quils out in each angry line, / And wounds the blushing cheeke," wrote Joseph Hall; and John Marston described the "firking satirist" as "draw[ing] the core forth of imposthum'd sin."34 The strong corporealization of the satiric impulse owes much to the materialistic habits of early modern thought (and to the centrality of the practice of anatomy in particular); throughout this period, whether the trope is one of injury, anatomical dissection, or medical purgation, both the penetrative drive and the target of this drive—the bodily interior of the satirized object—are practically explicit.35
"The Gods had their Momus, Homer his Zoilus, Achilles his Thirsites" writes the melancholy anatomist Robert Burton in his discussion of satirists and calumniators, adding that the "bitter jest . . . pierceth deeper then any losse, danger, bodily paine, or injury whatsoever."36Troilus and Cressida's chief satirist, "rank Thersites," pierces each and every one of the play's protagonists with his "mastic jaws" (1.3.73). As this last phrase indicates, the penetrative drive of satire can appear at the same time as an impulse to devour the object under attack—it often manifests itself in a specifically oral form of aggression; as Mary Claire Randolph writes, "Renaissance satirists frequently picture themselves as . . . sinking their pointed teeth deep in some sinner's vitals."37 This idea of oral sadism is a recurrent theme of satirists; it is often figured as a compulsion to bite. Marston, for example, writes that "Unless the Destin's adamantine band / Should tie my teeth, I cannot choose, but bite"; and Burton, quoting Castiglione, says of satirists that "they cannot speake, but they must bite."38 To say that the aggressive impulse of "byting" satire is predominantly oral is to approach redundancy (as Milton points out in dismissing Joseph Hall's "toothlesse Satyres": it is "as much as if he had said toothlesse teeth.")39 But there is in satire, over and above this oral aggression, an urge to devour—an urge, moreover, specifically directed at the human body. The satirist typically fantasizes not only penetrating the other's body but devouring it, as if entering this body is a concomitant of being inhabited by it. The derivation of the word satire—from the Latin satura, meaning "full, satiated"—points to this cannibalistic drive; as Walter Benjamin writes, in his essay on Karl Kraus: "The satirist is the figure in whom the cannibal was received into civilization." And, he adds, "the proposal to eat people has become an essential constituent of his [the satirist's] inspiration."40 The projective mechanism of satire, in this view, makes it both embody and thematize a cannibalistic urge, an urge epitomized by the delicious ending of one of the earliest Menippean satires, Petronius's Satyricon, where the rich Eumolpus bequeaths his wealth to his friends "on one condition, that they cut my body in pieces and eat it up in sight of the crowd."41
The misanthropic cannibalism of satire is glimpsed in Troilus and Cressida's relentless use of imagery related to food, eating, and digestion.42 And while this alimentary obsession has often been noticed, a distinct pattern emerges when we examine its figurative trajectory through the course of the play.43 The outline is one of more or less linear progression, from the early talk of culinary preliminaries ("[T]he grinding . . . the bolting . . . the leavening . . . the kneading, the making of the cake, the heating of the oven, and the baking" [1.1.18-24]; "the spice and salt that season a man . . . a minced man; and then to be baked with no date in the pie" [1.2.259-62]; the "bast[ing]" in one's "own seam" or grease [2.3.186]) and of "tarry[ing]," "starv'd" (1.1.15, 93), before the meal; followed by the promises of "tast[ing]" on the "fin'st palate" (1.3.337-38, 389), the readiness of the "stomach" (2.1.127), the "raging appetites" (2.2.182), and the preparation of "my cheese, my digestion" (2.3.44); then the "imaginary relish" (3.2.17) leading up to the meal itself, associated as it is with sexual consummation ("Love's thricerepurèd nectar" [3.2.20]); and thence to the "full[ness]" (4.4.3; 4.5.271; 5.1.9) and "belching" (5.5.23) of engorgement, of having "o'er-eaten" (5.2.159)—and the ensuing nausea, associated with the "spoils" (4.5.62), the rancid leftovers, the "lees and dregs" (4.1.63), the "orts [i.e., refuse] . . . / The fragments, scraps, the bits, and greasy relics" (5.2.157-58). In view of this, it would not be going too far to call Troilus and Cressida a bulimic play, one that evokes in its audience (as has often been noted in a general way) a reaction akin to the figurative nausea of the imagistic trajectory delineated...
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Let him who has something to say come
forward and be silent!
Karl Kraus, "In these Great times"65
For all its grand rhetoric—or perhaps, more accurately, as a necessary concomitant to this rhetoric—Troilus and Cressida reveals an extreme distrust of (not to say disgust with) language. If the play leaves one with a sensation of satiety with words, it is likely that this sensation was one that Shakespeare, in coming to write the play, was himself unable to avoid. Many writers of the period comment on this dilemma, several of them using a specifically oral metaphor: George Whetstone declares that "the inconstancie of...
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What about Mel Gibson?
An interesting one this. If you only read The Irish Times and only watch RTE and the BBC you might look at the above headline and reply: "What indeed? He is the star of the excellent Mad Max films. He …
An interesting one this. If you only read The Irish Times and only watch RTE and the BBC you might look at the above headline and reply: "What indeed? He is the star of the excellent Mad Max films. He is some sort of bible thumper. He directed the fantastic Apocalypto. But what's he done lately to interest me? Excuse me, I have to go away and watch Cash in the Attic now."
Yes! A disguise. That's the answer.
Well, it is possible – just about possible — that he has done nothing outrageous. But (as you well know) there is a recording circling the internet that features a Mel-like voice shouting racist abuse at one Oksana Grigorieva. The extravagantly named Russian pianist, Mel's former squeeze, has confirmed that she is the one mopping up the n-words, but Gibson's people have yet to comment on the veracity of the tape.
With that in mind, it is not altogether surprising that The Irish Times, the BBC and other toffee-nosed media outlets have been somewhat cautious in reporting the matter. Added to the potential legal problems, there is a certain unease about how the recording was gathered. If you listen to it, you will note the queasy way Ms G allows The Other Voice as much rope as possible. Yes? Yes? What else?
None of this makes the abusive language any more acceptable, but it does make it harder to identify the goody in this story (something we all yearn to do with news).
Anyway, the real question is whether Gibson is now finally finished. We all recall the unfortunate business a few years back when he was pulled over by the police and delivered a truly staggering anti-Semitic outburst. "F**king Jews…the Jews are responsible for all the wars in the world," he ranted. He's really only been on probation since then. Edge of Darkness, his first post-rant film as star, was not an enormous success. Apocalypto, made before the bust-up, but released in the aftermath, went down brilliantly with a great deal of critics, but too many seemed wary of praising a film by a man with this dubious recent history.
Now, Mel has been dropped by his agency and the vultures seem to be circling. Well, we know the man believes in resurrections. He may, indeed, require divine help to roll aside this particular stone.


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Within the confines of our blissful domicile, an ongoing controversy has all but come to an end. I like it when things are solved and I happen to be right. This time I was right. After all, if it is on TV it must be right!
Controversies are not really that bad unless somebody is a sore loser. Nobody likes a whiner or a sore loser. Of course, I have come close many times to be a sore loser. Fortunately, I have chosen to be just a loser. It makes for quietness in the home, if you know what I mean.
For as long as the Gracious Mistress of the Parsonage and Yours Truly have been married the one reoccurring controversy is in the state of chocolate in our home. According to one side, chocolate is bad and shall not be brought into this house.
The other side, and I am not stating exactly which side I am on, says the chocolate is delightful and wonderful and should be a regular consumption item in the house.
No matter how eloquently I presented my case, the house rules were simply this; no chocolate in our mansion.
This has caused me a great deal of pain in trying to smuggle in the delicacy without getting caught. Apparently, someone in our house can smell chocolate 13 blocks down the street.
I tried some experimental strategy in this area. On my wife�s birthday, I would always get her a chocolate cake with chocolate icing and then have 13 candles on it. For several years, all she could focus on were the 13 candles. I love it when a plan comes together.
Finally, she caught on and that plan had to be trashed.
One of the busiest times around the parsonage is Thanksgiving. All of the family in the area comes in for a delicious dinner as well as several friends who have nowhere else to go. On these occasions, I go out of my way and order a large chocolate cake with chocolate icing with a miniature turkey on the top. Everybody is focused on that miniature turkey.
After a few years someone in the house caught on to my plan, kept the turkey, but threw out everything underneath that turkey. As she was doing so, she looked at me with one of those looks.
Back to the drawing board again.
I did have some reprieve when the grandchildren were visiting. Everybody knows grandchildren love chocolate and need chocolate to boost their energy level. For some reason, Grandma knew exactly when the children had consumed chocolate of any amount.
�You do not have chocolate,� grandma would scowl at the grandchildren, �do you?�
As all good grandchildren do, they looked at grandma with chocolate all over their phase and said as cute as possible, �Oh, no grandma.� It took a lot of practice for me to get them to that point of thespian excellence. I usually awarded them with another piece of chocolate, of course behind grandma�s back.
I cannot tell all of the pain and agony I have gone through in this area of chocolate. Then, some medical research geek solved all of my problems in this area of chocolate.
According to some medical research, there is something in dark chocolate that is beneficial to our health. I do not know the details, but that is all I needed to know to bring my case to our home.
I knew I had to present this in a manner that would be irresistible to my wife. She is big on healthy eating. Every time we eat there is so much green on my plate that I am not sure if I am eating grass or what! She calls them vegetables; I have other names for them, which cannot be published.
I knew I had to make the initial presentation a great presentation. Chocolate just would not do and I needed to come up with some kind of medical name. Then it suddenly struck me. I knew exactly how I could present it.
I purchased some special chocolate, dark chocolate that is, to bring home and make the presentation. As soon as I got into the house, the question reverberated throughout the halls.
�You do not have chocolate, do you?�
It was the question I was waiting for. I have heard this question for as long as we have been married. I never knew quite how to deal with that question, until now.
�No, my dear,� I said parsing my words very carefully, �this is Medical Chocolate.� I presented it to her with the biggest smile I could slap on my face.
Before she could respond to that presentation, I began explaining to her all of the medical and health benefits to chocolate. I quoted the doctor who claimed chocolate had some mysterious and wonderful medicinal properties unnoticed before now.
It is hard to argue with a doctor even one on TV. Before she could respond, I presented her with a piece of this ravishingly delicious dark chocolate.
I was rather proud of myself and I was reminded of what old King Solomon said in the Old Testament. �Where the word of a king is, there is power: and who may say unto him, What doest thou?� (Ecclesiastes 8:4).
Not every word is good and trustworthy; but every word of God can be trusted and has the power to lift me up into the heavens and delightful worship and praise.
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On Tue, 2002-12-17 at 07:25, Jeremy Carroll wrote: > Dan > > I would value your consideration on one motivation for the original text: > > canonical XML documents *are* UTF-8 encoded. Hmm... the c14n spec is no more clear than the XML spec on this point: "The canonical form of an XML document is physical representation of the document produced by the method described in this specification. The changes are summarized in the following list: * The document is encoded in UTF-8" -- http://www.w3.org/TR/xml-c14n I consider utf-8 to be a function from character sequences to byte sequences. (cf http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/WD-charmod-20020430/#sec-Digital) Now while characters aren't directly specified to be distinct from bytes, we know that there are more characters than there are bytes, so we can't identify character sequences with byte sequences. So in general (i.e. for at least one value of chars) utf-8(chars) <> chars. So either an XML document is a sequence of characters or a sequence of bytes (or perhaps something else) but not both. One could say that XML documents are character sequences, but the canonical form of an XML document is a byte sequence. But the c14n spec seems to say that canonical forms are a subset of XML documents. One rational way out is to view an XML document as a pair (charseq, encoding); together these determine a byte sequence: encoding(charset). Then we could constrain canonical XML documents so that the encoding is always utf-8. > This was what originally motivated the constraint in some other text for > which it was relevant and which got copy pasted into the current context > where it is not so relevant. > > I agree with your analysis that the UTF-8 encoding is probably wrong in the > current text; however it does mean that the lexical space consists of > strings, the mapping goes via strings considered as documents, and then the > value space is documents considered as byte streams. > Hmm... "considered as"... that's the sort of phrase that gets us into trouble. The string "abc" is what it is, regardless of what it's considered as. It would be coherent to say the value space is byte streams that result from encoding strings But as I say above, I think the only rational approach is to look at XML documents as pairs (charseq, encoding) which determine a byte sequence. > Hmmm, > > (Not trying to change anything back - simply sharing some thoughts) > > Jeremy -- Dan Connolly, W3C http://www.w3.org/People/Connolly/Received on Tuesday, 17 December 2002 09:42:43 UTC
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