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Surfing through the channels yesterday, Jonathan and I just happened to catch NBC's coverage of the men's halfpipe competition. Don't get me wrong—there's something for everybody at Torino this year—but watching Amped come to life on the big screen is pretty cool. What I am at a loss for is why there hasn't been a decent Olympics video game since ... well, the original Track and Field. So why is it that despite today's technological advances we're still saddled with bargain-bin junk like Athens 2004 and the newly released Torino 2006, a game so boring it bears no resemblance to the real-life events it hopes to emulate?
The big, glaring flaw in Torino 2006 is that every single one of these events has been dumbed down to the point of banality. To do the luge or the bobsleigh events, you simply press a button at the right time to set the power of your launch, and from there, you just kind of tap the left analog stick or the directional buttons on your keyboard to steer and keep from hitting the boards. The big difference between the two? In the bobsleigh event, you can also lean left and right. Fun. Alpine skiing is similarly dull in all its forms. You'd think trying to keep a handle on your skier as he or she shoots down a hill, ducking through various gates should be exciting, but it's completely flat and dull here.
The original Track and Field was released in 1987, with its worthy sequel coming out just a year later. It's been almost twenty years since then, and I'm still waiting on something worthy to pass the torch to. (Track and Field International doesn't count; no way, no how. It's like the Alien: Resurrection of this series.) But I have faith. I'm holding out for Beijing 2008.


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Justin Timberlake Responds If He'll Collab With Britney
Photo: Britney Spears and singer Justin Timberlake, January 9, 2002. Getty Images
They were the hottest music couple of their time and possibly, ever! So when Britney Spears recently said she'd love to collab with her ex, everyone got excited!
Apparently, Justin Timberlake had no idea about it though, until a recent red carpet interview with E! News.
When questioned, "Britney recently said she wants to collaborate with you, would you ever do it?" Timberlake promptly replied, "She did? Sure! Absolutely, absolutely!"
"I'm accessible, give us a call!" @jtimberlake wants a @britneyspears collab. Please let this happen!!! pic.twitter.com/GkeYhrAdzN— #AT (@andytelasai) September 14, 2016
We hope this is for real coz we definitely CAN'T WAIT for this to happen!!
If only they would bring back the '90s/naughties hairdo's and fashion as well..
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JPMorgan Large Cap Growth Fund may be in one of the market's sweetest spots, but it is buying enough sour stocks to make it "dangerous," according to David Trainer, president of New Constructs Inc., a Nashville-based research firm.
Appearing on the "Danger Zone" segment of MoneyLife with Chuck Jaffe, Trainer said that 46% of the stocks held by large-cap growth ETFs and mutual funds get an "attractive" or "very attractive" rating in his firm's system, and only 17% of the stocks in the category get a rating of "dangerous" or worse.
"It's hard for a fund in this space — when you have so many good stocks — to get a dangerous rating," Trainer said. "They've got to really go out of their way to invest in the bad stocks, and that is the irony of the situation, in that JPMorgan Large Cap Growth has a lot of great stocks in the large-cap growth space that the fund could be allocating to, and they simply aren't."
In fact, Trainer noted that only 4% of all large-cap growth funds get a dangerous rating, and just 1% of all assets in large-cap funds are in funds with a dangerous rating, with the vast bulk of that money being the $2.15 billion in the JPMorgan fund, and the $8.7 billion spread across all of the fund's share classes.
Trainer compared the JPMorgan fund to its benchmark, the iShares Russell 1000 ETF , which has roughly 50% of its assets in attractive or very attractive stock "where you are lucky to get 30% of the assets in the JPMorgan Large Cap Growth fund in attractive or better stocks."
Trainer said that the JPMorgan fund does have a solid long-term track record compared to peers that it can use as a selling point – although it has badly lagged the peer group year-to-date, according to Lipper Inc. — and it seems to be more interested in selling than in buying quality stocks.
"I can tell you that many mutual fund portfolio managers I have met with have little to no concern about whether or not they are in the smart stocks," Trainer said. "They care about assets under management more than anything else."
You can listen to the interview at www.moneylifeshow.com.
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Teacher resources and professional development across the curriculum
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Unit 6.6 The Energy of Food
The chemical composition of food influences the amount of
energy that the body can extract from it. Students perform
calorimetry lab experiments to measure the energy in foods.
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The chemistry of wine
"Sweetness is a flavor that we perceive,
and even though theres no real sugar left in the wine,
there is the element of sweetness that
is given by
the chain of molecules, which are basically carbohydrates
left from the fruit. Also, the "Baberra" wine
has a naturally high acidity but it has what the white wine
and the cherry didnt have: tan. There is another kind
of acid, tannic acid, or tartaric acid, I should say, which
is the reason red wine goes so well with meat: the tannin
actually attracts proteins. And when you are having meat,
you are having proteins. People say, "let me include
in my bowl a piece of bread." When we are tasting a lot
of wine, what is actually better is a piece of Melrose beef,
because the protein in the meat electrically bonds with
the molecules of the tannin, which come from the skin of
the grape. All red grapes make white wine, which becomes
red when the juice is left with the skin, which has the
pigment and the tannin."
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Felix Muhiga explores the influence of the food content
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The Swiss artist Rodolphe Töpffer (1799-1846) was a pioneer of the sequential image format that we think of today as the cartoon or comic strip. His first cartoon sequence Histoire de Mr. Vieux Bois was drawn in 1827 and very quickly followed with others, to the delight of his friends. Goethe had a particular fondness for Töpffer's drawings and there is an article on his work in the last issue of Ueber Kunst und Alterthum (no. 6, 1832), the journal Goethe edited, entitled "On the Pen-Drawings of Rodolphe Töpfer [sic]." Rare Books (Ex) 3445.392
Töpffer's first published book Histoire de Mr. Jabot appeared in 1833 followed by Histoire de Mr. Crépin and Les Amours de Mr. Vieux Bois (or Histoire de Mr. Vieux Bois) in 1837.
Bootlegs and redrawn fakes were numerous because of the popularity of his work, in particular by the Paris publisher Aubert. The first English language edition came in 1841, entitled The Adventures of Mr. Obadiah Oldbuck produced at Woone's Gypsography, copied from Aubert's unauthorized French edition. Robert Cruikshank did the English language title page. In 1842, this edition was reprinted in the United States as a supplement to the magazine Brother Jonathan.
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Lawmakers of the opposition LMP party protest wearing gas masks outside the parliament against high levels of air pollution in the capital Budapest. The city council issued a smog alert and blocked high-emission cars off central Budapest due to high levels of dust in the air after a lack of wind over the past days.
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WASHINGTON, DC - The international Mouse Genome Sequencing Consortium today announced the publication of a high-quality draft sequence of the mouse genome - the genetic blueprint of a mouse - together with a comparative analysis of the mouse and human genomes describing insights gleaned from the two sequences. The paper appears in the Dec. 5 issue of the journal Nature.
The achievement represents a landmark advance for the Human Genome Project. It is the first time that scientists have compared and contrasted the contents of the human genome with that of another mammal. This milestone is all the more significant given that the laboratory mouse is the most important animal model and is widely used in the study of human diseases.
"Publishing the sequence in 2001 of the first mammalian genome - our own - was a remarkable and historical achievement. To sequence another mammalian genome in less than two years and to discover the treasure trove of information one can derive from a comparison of the two is beyond nearly anyone's dreams. It constitutes a tremendously exciting and defining moment for biomedical research," said Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D., director of the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI).
The mouse sequence provides scientists a powerful research tool to extract meaning from the human genome sequence, the "Book of Life" published in draft form last year. It allows them to recognize functionally important regions in the human genome by virtue of the fact that they are conserved through the 75 million years of evolution separating humans and mice. (See: Background on Comparative Genomic Analysis)
"This is an extraordinary milestone. For the first time we have an opportunity to see ourselves in an evolutionary mirror," says Eric Lander, Ph.D., director of the Whitehead/MIT Center for Genome Research. "The mouse genome represents a very important chapter in evolution's lab notebook. Being able to read this notebook and compare genomic information across species allows us to glean important information about ourselves."
Because the mouse carries virtually the same set of genes as the human but can be used in laboratory research, this information will allow scientists to experimentally test and learn more about the function of human genes, leading to better understanding of human disease and improved treatments and cures. (See: Background on Mouse as a Model Organism)
"The mouse genome sequence will change the way research is done in this important experimental animal, just as genome sequences have opened new avenues of study for yeast, worms, and flies" says Robert Waterston, M.D., Ph.D., director of the Genome Sequencing Center at Washington University School of Medicine. "The genome sequence allows us to study genes and proteins in context and will spur the development of methods to study many genes in parallel. This more detailed molecular understanding of mouse biology will in turn produce new opportunities for understanding human disease and for devising effective therapies."
The draft sequence was assembled by the Mouse Genome Sequencing Consortium, an international team of scientists at the Whitehead Institute in Cambridge, Mass., Washington University in St. Louis, and the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and the European Bioinformatics Institute, in Hinxton, England. The project was funded in part by NHGRI of the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Wellcome Trust in the U.K. The sequencing centers were joined in the analysis effort by scientists from 27 institutions in six countries. These include computational biologists at University of California Santa Cruz in Santa Cruz, Calif., Pennsylvania State University in University Park, Penn., University of Oxford in Oxford, England, The Institute for Systems Biology in Seattle, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, the University of Geneva in Switzerland and the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, Spain, among others. (See: Nature paper for a complete listing of authors and institutions
"This is another stunning success for a publicly funded international consortium that is already acting to stimulate biomedical research," says Jane Rogers, Ph.D., head of Sequencing at The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute. "Its value is predicated upon the quality of both the sequence and the tools to interpret it, all of which are freely available through Ensembl and similar browsers. Last week, as many people used the mouse sequence in Ensembl as used the human."
The sequence shows the order of the DNA chemical bases A, T, C, and G along the 20 chromosomes of a female mouse of the "Black 6" strain - the most commonly used mouse in biomedical research. It includes more than 96 percent of the mouse genome with long, continuous stretches of DNA sequence and represents a seven-fold coverage of the genome. This means that the location of every base, or DNA letter, in the mouse genome was determined an average of seven times, a frequency that ensures a high degree of accuracy.
Earlier this year, the mouse consortium announced that it had assembled the draft sequence of the mouse and deposited it into public databases. The consortium's paper this week reports the initial description and analysis of this text and the first global look at the similarities and the differences in the genomic landscapes of the human and mouse. The analysis was led by the Mouse Genome Analysis Group. Below are some of the highlights.
The sequence information from the mouse consortium has been immediately and freely released to the world, without restrictions on its use or redistribution. The information is scanned daily by scientists in academia and industry, as well as by commercial database companies, providing key information services to biotechnologists.
The work reported in this paper will serve as a basis for research and discovery in the coming decades. Such research will have profound long-term consequences for medicine. It will help elucidate the underlying molecular mechanisms of disease. This in turn will allow researchers to design better drugs and therapies for many illnesses.
"The mouse genome is a great resource for basic and applied medical research, meaning that much of what was done in a lab can now be done through the Web. Researchers can access this information through www.ensembl.org, where all the information is provided with no restriction," says Ewan Birney, Ph.D., Ensembl coordinator at the European Bioinformatics Institute.
The mouse sequence reported in today's journal is a high-quality draft sequence. The consortium plans to produce a "finished" version with the remaining gaps filled in and errors resolved. This phase will proceed using clone-based, or hierarchical, sequencing using the publicly available mouse genome clone map. The quality of the working draft sequence far exceeds the consortium's original expectations for this stage and was completed much sooner than initially expected, reflecting the tremendous efficiencies gained in sequencing and computational technologies in the past few years. Methods for efficient sequencing of large genomes continue to advance dramatically, and it is now becoming possible to sequence genomes much more rapidly.
The mouse sequencing strategy combines the features of the clone-based-hierarchical-shotgun and whole-genome-shotgun strategies. In the hierarchical-shotgun approach, individual large DNA fragments of known position are subjected to shotgun sequencing (shredded into small fragments that are sequenced and then reassembled in the basis of sequence overlaps). In the whole-genome-shotgun approach, the entire genome is shredded into small fragments that are sequenced and put back together on the basis of sequence overlaps. The scientists used data from more than 33 million individual sequencing experiments. Using two different computer systems, called genome assemblers, the team reconstructed the 33 million individual fragments into a draft sequence. These whole-genome assemblers, called ARACHNE and PHUSION were developed at the Whitehead Institute and at the Sanger Institute, respectively.
These long stretches of sequence, called contigs, were then linked into larger fragments called supercontigs of a typical length of 16.9 million base pairs. These supercontigs were then anchored to the mouse genetic and BAC clone maps. Finally, adjacent supercontigs were joined into even larger ultracontigs on the basis of other linking information. In the end, nearly the entire chromosomal sequence is contained in a mere 88 ultracontigs with a typical size of 50 megabases each.
Once assembled, the Ensembl database team, based at the EBI and Sanger Institute and funded primarily by the Wellcome Trust, coordinated the annotation of the assembled genome with interesting features, including genes. Ensembl automatically estimates where the genes are, primarily by finding similarities with known genes - both in mouse and in other organisms, such as human.
The work was then taken up by the mouse genome analysis group, comprised of genome analysis experts from 27 institutions in six countries. This "virtual genome analysis center" convened over the Internet and by regular conference calls to interpret and analyze the mouse-human comparison.
"It's been very exciting to see how much we can learn from comparing the mouse genome to the human genome and yet we see how much more there is to study," says Kerstin Lindblad-toh, Ph.D., lead author of the Nature paper and Senior Program Manager Mouse Genome at Whitehead Institute.
The consortium's ultimate goal is to produce a completely "finished" mouse sequence - with no gaps and 99.99 percent accuracy. Researchers expect this will take two or three years. Although the near-finished version is adequate for most biomedical research, the Human Genome Project (HGP) has made a commitment to filling all gaps and resolving all ambiguities, as it did with the human sequence. The human sequence is expected to be finished by April 2003.
The HGP also plans to sequence the genomes of many other species, because comparing genomes across species will provide researchers additional tools for understanding the essential elements that evolution has designated as important to survival. This information will in turn translate into practical knowledge toward developing better therapies in the future.
Next in line for sequencing are the chimpanzee, the chicken, the cow, the dog, several species of fungi, a sea urchin, the honey bee and two simple organisms commonly used in laboratory studies (Oxytricha trifallax and Tetrahymena thermophila). Each organism will shed unique insights into human health and disease.
Comparative genomics will also offer scientists insights into important regions in the sequence that perform regulatory functions, such as switching on or off a gene or controlling its expression.
Finally, the sequence will serve as a foundation for a broad range of functional genomic tools to help biologists to probe the function of the genes in a more systematic manner. Development of such genomic tools will be one of the major thrusts for biologists in the next decade, according to the scientists.
All of the results from this analysis can be found at several Web sites, including at the European Bioinformatics Institute [mouse.ensembl.org], at the National Center for Biotechnology Information at the National Library of Medicine, and at the University of California, Santa Cruz [genome.ucsc.edu].
The $130 million effort has been funded by government agencies and public charities in the various countries, including the NIH's NHGRI, the National Cancer Institute, the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Disease, the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, and the National Institute of Mental Health; the U.S. Department of Energy; The Wellcome Trust and the Medical Research Council in England; and agencies in Canada, Japan, Germany, Switzerland and Spain. In addition, funding for the draft sequence was also provided by GlaxoSmithKline, The Merck Genome Research Institute and Affymetrix, Inc.
NHGRI is one of the 27 institutes and centers at the NIH, which is an agency of the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS). The NHGRI Division of Extramural Research supports grants for research and for training and career development at sites nationwide. Additional information about NHGRI can be found at its Web site, www.genome.gov.
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text: Sijun Forums :: View topic - Why is it that we are afraid? Log in to check your private messages Sijun Forums Forum Index >> Random Musings View previous topic :: View next topic Author Topic : "Why is it that we are afraid?" cecilmemberMember #Joined: 16 Nov 1999Posts: 151 Posted: Wed Jan 19, 2000 10:17 am I accidentally stumbled upon a site which showed gruesome crime scene photos. Bloody murders, torn apart bodies and severed limbs/heads. It wasn't particularly pleasing. I don't understand how a person can inflict these kinds of things upon other human beings. They say there is a reason for everything. These killers were once five year old children, what causes a person to be born as a small baby, then later in their life they become monsters who tear apart the flesh of other people!? They don't just shoot their victims in the head, they do all sorts of ritualistic deep cuttings in the body. A picture I saw was of a person in a bathtub, half filled with water (the water was red). The legs were missing from halfway down the thighs. The body was covered in very deep cuts, exposing a few unrecognisable internal organs. It was awful. What makes me afraid of it? Why does my heart beat fast and my blood run cold? My stomache flutters. How can people do this, and why am I so concerned? What makes me different to the killers? Why do they have the desire to mutilate human bodies and I do not? Back to top AffectedmemberMember #Joined: 22 Oct 1999Posts: 1854Location: Helsinki, Finland Posted: Wed Jan 19, 2000 1:11 pm I don't think that stuff causes violence. Lack of self-control, maybe, and certainly mental issues. And the way violence is idealized these days... ------------------ Affected http://affected.cjb.net Back to top MuzmanmemberMember #Joined: 12 Jan 2000Posts: 675Location: Western Australia Posted: Wed Jan 19, 2000 3:19 pm ahh violence has always been idealised (well, for a long time anyway) And we used to gather people around to watch it for real; they jeered and clapped. Little has changed, except we do it pretend more than for real these days (in the western world anyway) Back to top jasonNmemberMember #Joined: 12 Jan 2000Posts: 842Location: Sydney Australia Posted: Wed Jan 19, 2000 4:52 pm There are many reasons why these people do these things. There is a belief I once heard of. I'm not sure what it is exactly. But someone believed that all children are born equal. All born the same. As they grow up, there surroundings, influences, environment all shape the individual that is created in the end. So perhaps these ppl had a bad childhood, if they didn't, perhaps they have a serious mental condition. I would think that we're all afraid of it because we all feel so safe living in our own little world. So when we are exposed to something so brutal, so inhuman and so REAL, it shocks us. It bursts that ever so delicate safety bubble that we have created and it opens our eyes. Sure, the news and things like that show us the real world, but we are so used to it that it is easily dissmissed. Something as digusting and BLATANT as this is just too horifying to dissmiss. And, well, if someone can just ignore it (doesn't affect you at all), I'm afraid that person has been de sensitised to such a point that they just don't care when a body has been sliced up. That's when psychos are born. Well, not straight away, but if they continue like that and thrive on violence, one day someone will push them over the line and BAM! A few dead bodies here and there. I hate the reality of this world, and that's only the beginning of it. I can't even imagine being able to relate to all the suffering in this world because once again, here I am in my own little safety bubble and one day something will come along and burst it... ------------------ -Jason :) JasonArt ICQ: 24680551 Back to top Giant HamstermemberMember #Joined: 22 Oct 1999Posts: 1782 Posted: Wed Jan 19, 2000 5:21 pm you want an answer? i have the answer. you want to know why i have an answer? its cause i am a sick sadistic bastard that would kill someone on the turn of a dime...the only reason i dont is i have self-control. why people kill: its intresting. it may not be entirely pleasing, but it is interesting. a known fact is that if someone says something to themselves enough times, its the truth to them. so you tell yourself whats right and its now your new religion. games/tv/violence doesnt make poeple get violent themselves. its their lack of self control. you are the only person that can make you do something. no one can ever force you to do something. they can only suggest. video games dont make people kill, people just have their heads stuck so far up their asses that they cant take responsibility or blame for their own said actions. everyone is born a killer? yes, you say your not, but it is true. no im not blaming all of you as being psychopathic assmunches. what im saying is, its natural to do everything even if its "wrong". its just how we are. the way you are raised is what changes you to make your decisions in life. your actual life has no effect on you and neither does your childhood and pass. it can only give you the suggestions of a cruel world and make you say to yourself "life is hard. i must kill to calm and thrive" or something to that effect and take a askewed path. its all self control. you just take it as the, "just dont, cause its stupid, and its not all that great" thing. im just gonna bring up one other little thing...our current society sucks. they take whats perfectly ok and call it wrong. like: beer- there is nothing wrong with drinking, even "underaged". its all in the hands of the drinker to make actions. so why only not let teens drink, but let adults drink? adults have cars. nudity- the only reason we have this is 1.) men dont care if there is a naked woman, as long as its not their wife or daughter. 2.)women...i cant truly answer why, because i dont want to offend anyone more than i might be doing already. language- its just dumb that they censor it. its cause they are all deaf...if they weren't deaf, i wouldnt have to speak. ------------------ -JameZ the Giant Hamster- the Hamster Alliance www.mp3.com/jamezthegh ICQ: 43691064 Musician,2d/3d artist, programmer,overall guru :) Back to top DuKEZmemberMember #Joined: 03 Nov 1999Posts: 317Location: BayArea Posted: Wed Jan 19, 2000 7:32 pm had this similar topic in my english class one time in 11th grade.. think about this on 2 levels.. 1. are we born evil and taught good 2. or born good (innocent) and taught evil? how many of you seen or read "Lord of the Flies"? ya know wit those kids stuck on the island.. without no discpline they all started killing each other and became savages.. on the other hand.. the quote.. monkey see monkey do.. if u see nuttin but evil.. you'd probably do evil.. what do u have to say about this..? Back to top imdakingmemberMember #Joined: 22 Oct 1999Posts: 321Location: USA Posted: Wed Jan 19, 2000 9:02 pm everything and everyone and nothing makes people do dumb things. Okay... To ppl who can't drink and stuff (ie: teens) Would you go out and get drunk and puke all over yourself if you could go out to a bar and drink? Would you go out and smoke weed and get drunk if you were able too? Im 16, I dunno how old the rest of you are but, I know ppl that go out, every weekend and get stoned, and then have some "Jello Shots" or something like that and they come home, DRIVE home, and then they put in some tobacco or chew or something and accidently swallow it and then puke on everything in there room? WHAT IN FUCKS SAKE WOULD MAKE YOU WANNA DO THIS?? Hello, I'm a retard... I almost killed myself driving home drunk as a mother fucker... Then I went about insuring that I won't be able to get a job unless I have someone else take my piss test, or bleach my hair and shave my head... and then great now I have puke all over my room? Okay yea, Hell yes I am the coolest guy in the world!! Okay and then, people going out and murder each other? Why you ask, most likely because they weren't paid enough attention too, they were hit and yelled at and abused as children, they have a bunch of frustration built up inside that makes them want to hurt someone? It is a personal thing. I would think rather than video games harming and making a person want to annhilate someone...... I rather think it helps me... What would you prefer? Me taking a shotgun to school? Or me discing some poor shmuck and yelling COME GET SOME! Over the internet ? You decide. Back to top jasonNmemberMember #Joined: 12 Jan 2000Posts: 842Location: Sydney Australia Posted: Wed Jan 19, 2000 9:35 pm Yeah, a lot of people are really stupid and submit to the pressures of society easily. Today there is so much media hype, trends and fads going around that unfortunately, manage to suck a lot of people in. Opinions and image are promoted so much that it becomes the most important thing to people. So much so that they don't even realise they are doing something to be 'popular' or to fit in. I agree with Imdaking and I hate those ppl that get pissed all the time and BRAG about it. Just shut up, I don't give a damn. Back to top BmemberMember #Joined: 12 Jan 2000Posts: 322Location: Houston, Tx, USA Posted: Thu Jan 20, 2000 12:21 am you know when they get your order wrong after driving through a drive thru,, and not noticing untill you get home,.. what about those people that cut you off so you can't change lanes to get off/on the freeway,...or someone else calls in sick, so you have to stay a few hours later at work, when you were planning a relaxing evening, only to find out the person wasn't sick, they just didn't want to go to work,..how about when you work so hard, just to find out others cheated their way to et ahead of you at something,. or or or when you've struggled all your life to make the grade to get the A+, to get through college,.. only to know that others paid their way and partied every night of their life,... and they beat you for the position you want, and you're forced to work a deadbeat job for this scum who you realize was the guy that cut you off on the way to this job.... things like this is what cause people to do things like that,.. at least this is what i believe. Back to top DrBofmemberMember #Joined: 14 Dec 1999Posts: 187Location: nottingham (england) Posted: Thu Jan 20, 2000 2:02 am the original latin for teach was to help someone in the realisation of what they already know...to draw the information and knolage out of somone...they belived that every one already knew everything.... i belive that u r born w/ now perseption of right or wrong of good or bad...u draw your own lines acording to what YOU think is just or injust from your experiance and what goes on around u (sociaty (political indoctrnation [sore point])) if u don't BEILIVE that sommin is wrong then no one can tell u it is bad...this is one way to explane why in one culture they might think sommin is ok and in a nother people will have a really big problem w/ it fortunatly being British we get to decide who is right and wrong *shudder* but we r never as right as the americans *grimice* Phill 'i have no opinion...i was never here' Tew Back to top AffectedmemberMember #Joined: 22 Oct 1999Posts: 1854Location: Helsinki, Finland Posted: Thu Jan 20, 2000 6:12 am I agree with Phil. Look at little children. They are taught moral, it's not something that's 'in the human anture' as such. I think all life is primarily selfish ain one way or another. The instinct to try to survive is dominant, and has to be, if a species is to live on. ------------------ Affected http://affected.cjb.net Back to top ChrismemberMember #Joined: 22 Oct 1999Posts: 746Location: Iowa Posted: Thu Jan 20, 2000 6:41 am why are we born anything (good or evil). Gifts that ppl have are a mixture of chemical (im)balance. take intelligence for example. (reminded by "Good Will Hunting"), he wasn't like everyone else. His brain wasn't chemically like others. I mean every person will be made differently. Some ppl are born without toes or fingers, why? No one really knows why it happens, but it is physical so everyone knows it has to do with the balance of development. Mental balance has a part to....it is just not noticable until we are able to express it Back to top Count ZeromemberMember #Joined: 12 Nov 1999Posts: 586Location: Helsinki, Finland Posted: Thu Jan 20, 2000 7:58 am What's most interesting about this is everybodys fascination with death and murder. You say it doesn't exist? Well someone has to be interested in it to have a website dedicated to it. There are other examples as well; my friend has a thing for planes, and he's read two books made up of nothing but transcripts of "the black box" of airplanes that crashed. Sick and quite morbib, but he's perfectly normal. Death is the great unknown to man, and always will be, this causes grim fascination with it. IMHO. As for why a person kills another person? Greed, revenge, anger, jealousy etc. etc. It's in our DNA, to even dream of a society without violence, conflict or crime is absurd. There's a potential killer in all of us, the pressure point is just different for other people. Some person might kill another just for looking at them funny, another only to protect their family... Now a cool quote. "Death is the only reality, and I'm a realist." ------------------ COUNT ZERO INTERRUPT- On receiving an interrupt, decrement the counter to zero. Back to top cecilmemberMember #Joined: 16 Nov 1999Posts: 151 Posted: Thu Jan 20, 2000 4:35 pm I must admit, the webpage was interesting. The following quote comes to my mind: quote Quote: I fear to look, yet I cannot turn away. [This message has been edited by cecil (edited January 20, 2000).] Back to top FunfetusmemberMember #Joined: 26 Oct 1999Posts: 343Location: West Covina, CA Posted: Fri Jan 21, 2000 1:36 am sorry, i just couldn't let this go. You got a problem with that? :P ------------------------ Then I went about insuring that I won't be able to get a job unless I have someone else take my piss test, or BLEACH MY HAIR AND SHAVE MY HEAD... and then great now I have puke all over my room? 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Preparing for his World title defence in Montreal at the Bell Centre on Friday, Daniel Bryan took the time to talk about his World title reign, his days in Ring of Honor, his relationship with mentor William Regal and what he thinks about facing Sheamus at Wrestlemania for a second straight year.
Looking back at the start of his reign, on December 18, 2011, Bryan confessed that he wasn't aware he was going to win the World title even on the day of the show. In fact, he believed he would be the first one to not cash his Money in the Bank title shot successfully.
"I had some experience with NXT as they were not always telling us what was happening to set up a legitimate reaction," told Bryan to the RDS Website. "As you know, I wasn't booked on the Survivor Series pay-per-view, and the only reason I was in Baltimore [for the TLC PPV] was for an autograph signing."
Instead, he became the 10th Money in the Bank winner to cash in, by defeating The Big Show, who had only just defeated Mark Henry himself.
"Right before it happened, they told me to stay dressed and when it was time, to come," he recalled.
Before being World Heavyweight champion and signing with WWE, Bryan wrestled for many independent promotions, including Ring of Honor, where he made a name for himself wrestling in the very first main-event of the company's first show. He was ROH World champion in 2005 and 2006.
"ROH was so important for me. I felt like I was the main guy ever since I won the title. They gave me the opportunity to prove that I could draw. Me and Takeshi Morishima drew 2,500 people in New York City," he reminisced.
In ROH, he used his real name of Bryan Danielson.
Was there any discussion of using that name with WWE?
"WWE never gave me this option. They gave me a list of ten names and it's William Regal who came up with that one," said Bryan.
Regal not only helped pick Bryan's new name but has also been a great influence on his career.
"I learned the basics with Shawn Michaels but after I started wrestling, Regal became a big part of my training," said Bryan. "Shawn was so instrumental though. What I learned with him, I could've not learned with Regal and what I learned with William, I wasn't ready to learn it with Shawn."
Bryan still talks to The Heartbreak Kid every now and then.
"We're going to chat, but not about wrestling," explained Bryan. "Sometimes, he gives me a suggestion on something but not to the level of Regal who constantly gives me his advice because he's on the road with us all the time."
Two weeks after the show in Montreal, Bryan will defend his World title against Sheamus in his first "real" Wrestlemania match.
Bryan was scheduled to be on the show last year -- against Sheamus -- but because of a last-minute decision, his match was rescheduled to the pre-show.
It is ironic that a year later, he will face the same opponent as 12 months ago.
Was it a way for WWE to make it up to them?
"I don't think so. These things just happen. I'm just happy to have this opportunity," he said. "I'm in a much better position than last year and I'm excited to be part of what could be the greatest Wrestlemania of all-time."
Daniel Bryan and CM Punk, two ROH alumni, will enter Wrestlemania on top of the mountain, holding the World title and WWE title respectively.
"Many thought we'd never make it," admitted Bryan.
On April 1st, whether you know him as Daniel Bryan or Bryan Danielson, the World Heavyweight champion will be part of a historic event in Miami and will surely come down the aisle with his new catchphrase: "Yes, Yes, Yes!"
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The new home for space shuttle Atlantis was topped out Wednesday with its highest beam in a milestone ceremony marking the continuing construction of a 90,000-square-foot exhibit hall at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex.
"Topping out of a building is always a special occasion," said Bob Cabana, director of NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida and a former shuttle commander. "I remember when Joe Tanner was doing a spacewalk and he topped off the International Space Station, the highest point on it, and he had brought a facsimile of a tree on it."
The 38-foot-long, one-ton steel beam was lifted 116 feet off the ground where workers locked it into place. A small tree and American flag were fitted onto the beam, which was signed by hundreds of contractor and NASA employees.
Roy Tharpe added his signature at the last moment, continuing a tradition he began in the early 1960s when he signed the top beam of the Vehicle Assembly Building.
"I just thought it was important that I show my respect for the space program and the accomplishments we've made," Tharpe said. "I'm getting old, but this work never gets old."
Construction is far from complete on the structure. Now mostly a framework of steel beams, workers will enclose the space in the next couple of months careful to leave one wall open so Atlantis can be rolled in and the building finished around it. It will take some 1,400 tons of steel to complete the structure.
The exhibit is being built by Delaware North, which manages and operates the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex for NASA. Tim Macy, director of Project Development for the visitor complex, said the exhibit is scheduled to open during the July Fourth weekend in 2013.
Atlantis will be the last shuttle to move out of the operational area at Kennedy. The move will take place Nov. 2, with the shuttle attached to the orbiter transport vehicle, or OTV, that carried the shuttles for years from their processing hangars to the Vehicle Assembly Building.
The OTV will take Atlantis on a 9.8-mile journey from the VAB to the headquarters building at Kennedy, then across to the developing Exploration Park for a 3-hour stop before finishing the trip to the visitor complex's exhibit structure. With the retired orbiter inside, workers will be able to complete the building around the shuttle.
The shuttle will be lifted onto a stand and tilted at 43.21 degrees – that number is intentional – with its payload bay doors open. The shuttle will look as it did in space.
Sixty-two exhibits will be erected around it, including a full-scale mockup of the Hubble Space Telescope and a full-scale model of a portion of the International Space Station.
"The orbiters are special to us, they're family but really this facility is going to tell the story of an amazing 30-year program and this venue is going to be absolutely outstanding," Cabana said. "This is the place to come see our history and this is the place to come see our future."
The exhibits will tell the shuttle program's history with interactive displays and other features that allow visitors to learn as much as they want about the spacecraft that carried astronauts into space for 30 years.
"Every time you come out of those story zones, you look at Atlantis with different eyes to appreciate what we've accomplished," said Louis Berrios, design specialist for Kennedy. "This has been a project that is just on such an amazing pace you sometimes don't get to take a breather and admire what's been done. It wasn't very long ago this was bare concrete with nothing here."
The work to get the shuttles to their new homes is close to wrapping up. Discovery, the most-flown of the shuttle fleet, has been on display at the Smithsonian's Air and Space Museum for a few months.
Endeavour, the youngest of the shuttles, has been outfitted for its Sept. 17 flight atop a modified 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft to Los Angeles where it will be put on display at the California Science Center.
Enterprise, the prototype shuttle that flew glide tests and was used to test all manner of fixtures and techniques before the first shuttle launch, stands on the flight deck of the Intrepid in New York City as a prominent exhibit at the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum.
Eventually, each shuttle will show a unique configuration. Endeavour will be displayed vertically as it was for launch. Atlantis will reveal to visitors a shuttle as it appeared in orbit. Discovery looks like it just landed.


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So you think classical music is purely a rarefied pursuit, where what matter are creativity, spirit and soul? The musician's body does not agree.
Not midway through a high-powered symphony. Not sitting near the crashing cymbals in Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture. Not during the long haul of Wagner's "Ring" cycle.
Take violinist David Harrington. He was in rehearsals with his adventurous Kronos Quartet, preparing to play the epic String Quartet No. 2 by Morton Feldman — it notoriously spans six hours without intermission. Just continuous playing through what seems like a universe of time.
"We'd already done eight performances of the piece, and this 1996 concert at Lincoln Center was to be our last outing with it," he said by phone from San Francisco.
But pains started shooting up and down his arm 40 minutes into rehearsal. They grew more and more alarming.
"Finally, after several hours of rehearsal, the pain was excruciating," he said. "We ended up canceling this last and most famous venue for the work."
As with so many other musicians, Harrington found himself afflicted with a literally show-stopping physical handicap. Luckily for him, the condition was temporary. He could go back to his calling: playing music that demands the utmost precision, fluency, coordination and endurance — and doing so with an Olympian level of artistry.
Not everyone is so fortunate. A trumpeter in Los Angeles once ended up with lockjaw and had to withdraw from the Philharmonic. A number of pianists have developed carpal tunnel syndrome that has severely interrupted their careers.
Harrington spoke about his experience with the Quartet No. 2 and what pain the Kronos players' bodies have endured with it over the years.
"My back, John Sherba's little finger. Joan Jeanrenaud's leg that went to sleep. Beyond that, how we trained ourselves to stay in the character of the music," he said.
"But there comes a point when that pain is almost unbearable. In Hour 3, I would get so angry at Morton [Feldman]. Then you forget about it because the music is so incredibly beautiful, the audience is ecstatic, in another space. The experience is unlike anything else."
That's how listeners on the other side of the footlights see it, with no idea of the risk of physical injury in the pursuit of aesthetic goals.
Reports of torn rotator cuffs, repetitive stress injury, inguinal hernias, exploded neck vertebrae and lower spine problems tell the story. The ailments sound like a disabled list for a professional sports team.
"Elite athletes of the small muscles" is how cellist Janet Horvath refers to her fellow musicians. Unlike athletes who are likely to work 10 to 15 years, musicians boast long careers, so their bodies must toil for decades, with a regimen of practice, rehearsals and performances, often for more than 10 hours a day. As with cars, human parts wear out. And repetitive motion with tensed muscles and held positions takes a huge toll on the body.
Even a young pro such as L.A. Phil music director Gustavo Dudamel is not immune, sustaining, in a wildly exuberant flourish, a neck/shoulder injury a few years ago. Famous pianists such as Leon Fleisher and Gary Graffman have grabbed headlines with their agonizing hand disabilities, their attempted surgical repairs and eventual recoveries.
In fact, orchestra ranks are filled with casualties, especially among string players.
Laura Hamilton, principal associate concertmaster in the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and in her 27th year there, said: "I played violin so many years that certain intrinsic hand muscles got weakened, resulting in painful tendinitis, on top of repetitive stress injury with moving my bow arm back and forth." It took six months for her to recover after chasing around to find a correct diagnosis and proper treatment. Finally, with laser therapy, cortisone and strengthening exercises, Hamilton was able to get back in action.
"And I'm grateful for management's rotation policy," she said, which calculates a reasonable number of work hours for musicians with a vulnerability factor. Not many orchestras make such allowances.
The Met, she noted, has "a huge load of repertory — in a week there could be four different performances of three different operas, plus rehearsals. But no orchestra musician sits for everything. The schedules are carefully mapped out so that there is adequate time off.
"Even so, we don't mind the high volume. How could we? The music we play, the great singers on stage -- it's all just fantastic."
Similar sentiments come from violist Jerry Epstein, retired after 40-plus years with the L.A. Phil. But he's had three rotator-cuff surgeries and cannot lift his shoulder even for ordinary tasks, forget about playing his instrument again. He does teach now, but he cannot demonstrate for a student, only verbalize, which, he says, falls short of the mark.
"We've had more injuries than professional football players, and inside our lockers it looks like a hospital supply room," he said.
"Still, when you're on stage doing a great Mahler symphony, you play through the pain, because it's compelling music. For the fast pages, it's like skipping rope, but the slow stuff kills. Thirty-five minutes of slow bows and no rest. I remember hyperventilating, saying to myself, 'You'll get there, you'll get there. Hang in.' "
Principal players at the L.A. Phil get special privileges such as time off from a grinding play-every-concert schedule. Epstein said being an orchestra member without a title such as assistant or associate principal or principal is "a no-man's land, the worst place to be, because your contract does not let you out of children's or pops or Bowl concerts, except on a rare occasion."
But at least he played in the front row, which kept him away from the brass and percussion, where there's the possibility of ear damage. Janet Horvath, a former associate principal cellist with the Minnesota Orchestra, now retired after 30 years, suffers a condition called hyperacusis.
"It's worse than hearing loss," she said. "It's life-changing pain. It can make one become a hermit, suicidal, just in the need to stay away from sound. The world, especially this high-decibel world we live in, is toxically noisy.
"There's a logarithm for it, according to OSHA, there's a certain number of hours spent in hearing range of sound levels unfit for human ears that causes damage."
And, as she explains, it was just that high-decibel environment on stage with the orchestra playing additional, amped-up pops concerts for extra income that caused her condition, "especially on occasions when I sat next to singers belting into speakers."
Her departure from the Minnesota Orchestra came in 2010, after many doctor visits and trial remedies. "I realized I was done — too much pain — when we toured London and played Beethoven's Ninth and a Bruckner symphony in the 5,000-seat Albert Hall."
But along her path of dysfunction she wrote a book, "Playing (Less) Hurt," as an injury prevention guide for musicians — and has seen the burgeoning of performing arts medicine, in conjunction with sports medicine. (Her advice includes repositioning legs and feet, keeping head and neck in alignment, walking around during breaks, flexing/extending hands/fingers/wrists.)
"Still, many musicians would rather be known as lepers than injured and questionable," she said, "because managers are not all as forgiving as the Met Opera, for the usual budgetary reasons.
"And as devastating as leaving the orchestra was for me, I'm now getting a master's in creative writing and involved in peace and justice activities and am able to play a little chamber music. But I feel horrible about the Minnesota Orchestra, which is wiped out financially. They have nothing but their music."
David Langlitz, though, still has his. Thirty-seven years as principal trombonist at the Met orchestra, his outcome is something to cheer: After surgical repair of a triple hernia (caused by strong blowing) and the most carefully paced, slow recovery that took him out for a full season, he's back at his first chair.
"A hernia for a brass player is like a runner having an operation on the soles of his feet. Breathing is the main vehicle of playing. Without it, there's nothing.
"So when I finally returned, it was like a performance for my colleagues. We were playing 'Turandot,' and I got a foot shuffle from them. Their support and the highly sympathetic management account for my good luck."


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Eusebio a true sportsman - Charlton
Sir Bobby Charlton hailed Eusebio as a "true sportsman" and one of the finest players he ever played against following the former Portugal forward's death at the age of 71 on Sunday.
Nicknamed the Black Panther, Eusebio was regarded as one of the best players of all time and helped Portugal to third place at the 1966 World Cup, finishing as top scorer in the tournament with nine goals.
The Mozambique-born striker made his name at club level with Benfica, winning 11 league titles during a 15-year spell there and two Golden Boot awards as Europe's leading goalscorer.
He also notched 41 goals in 64 appearances for Portugal.
Manchester United and England great Charlton faced Eusebio in two of the greatest days of his own career, the 1966 World Cup semi-final, when England defeated Portugal at Wembley, and the 1968 European Cup final when United overcame Benfica in extra-time at the same venue.
The latter game is remembered for Eusebio applauding United goalkeeper Alex Stepney after a brilliant save that ensured the game went into the additional period, where United eventually won 4-1.
As ambassadors for their respective clubs, the pair crossed paths regularly.
"Without doubt, Eusebio was one of the finest players I ever had the privilege to play against," said Charlton.
"Not only that, he was a true sportsman, as he proved in applauding Alex Stepney for his save in the European Cup final.
"His goals record, for Benfica and overall, is incredible and stands the test of time.
"I met him on numerous occasions after our playing careers had finished and he always represented both his club and his country in exemplary fashion.
"I feel proud to have been both an opponent and friend and am saddened to hear of his passing."
Benfica were unable to confirm details of Eusebio's death, but reports in Portugal say he died of a cardiac arrest in the early hours of Sunday morning. He had been in poor health for some time and was hospitalised during Euro 2012 after suffering a heart scare in Poland.
Fans flocked to the Estadio da Luz and draped scarves on his statue at the ground in tribute.
Chelsea boss Jose Mourinho said: "Eusebio is one of the greatest footballers in the history of football. He's at this level - Eusebio, Charlton, Pele.
"For Portugal he means more than that. No colour, no clubs, no political sides. For Portuguese people Eusebio is Eusebio and for sure you will get some images over the next couple of days and I think you will understand what Eusebio means for our country.
"I knew him since (I was) a kid. He played against my father. He played with my father in the national team. I met him when I was a kid. Our birthdays were separated by one day, his January 25, I'm January 26.
"He enjoyed his life, on the pitch, outside the pitch and I'm not so sad as I was in the morning because I think guys like him they never die. History is there and history doesn't let them die.
"I knew him well. He enjoyed his life. He leaves a great legacy. So rest in peace."


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Rain-swollen Mohawk river overflows again; body found
FORT PLAIN, N.Y. (AP) -- Montgomery County officials say the body of 87-year-old Ethel Healey has been recovered from the Mohawk River several miles from the village where her mobile home was swept away in floodwaters last week.
Healey's body was found Monday evening in storm debris at Canajoharie about three miles south of the village of Fort Plain where the rain-swollen Otsquago Creek caused flash flooding on Friday.
The National Weather Service had flood warnings in effect Tuesday morning along the Mohawk River at Utica and Little Falls and along Wappingers Creek in Dutchess County, where minor flooding was occurring. Flood warnings also were posted for the Susquehanna and Chenango rivers in Broome and Chenango counties.
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SPRINGFIELD, Ga. - Pro golfer Jose Maria Olazabal was stopped for speeding in Effingham County on Tuesday, Effingham County Sheriff's Office spokesman David Ehsanipoor said.
Ehsanipoor said the two-time Masters champ was going 97 mph on Ga. 21 in a 65 mph zone when he was stopped by a deputy.
Olazabal apologized and told the deputy he was leaving the Masters in Augusta and was traveling to another tournament, Ehsanipoor said.
Olazabal is scheduled to compete in the RBC Heritage this week. He was allowed to follow the deputy to the sheriff's office, where he posted a cash bond of $621 and was released.
Olazabal is from Spain and turned pro in 1985. He has six PGA Tour wins in his career and has finished 85 times in the top 25, according to the PGA. Olazabal won the Masters in 1994 and 1995.


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Thing 3: With a first-time big-league manager, it will be imperative for the Miami Marlins to put a trusted resource by Mike Redmond's side as his bench coach.
Ideally, that bench coach should be fluent in Spanish to help handle that increasingly important clubhouse dynamic.
A source told me ex-Yankee first baseman Tino Martinez is under consideration for Redmond's staff, but more likely as hitting coach.
John Boles, now 64 and a senior advisor in the Royals front office, would be a perfect choice if he were to willing to go back to the daily grind in the dugout.
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Friday, March 23, 2007
Weekend Dog Blogging
My name is Percy and I'm a Cavalier King Charles Spaniel. I'm excited that I can participate in this round of Weekend Dog Blogging (WDB). See my tail wagging?
I spent some time with Mary before heading north to my forever home. I wasn't sure if I would like this pet bed but it was quite comfortable!
Make sure to visit Eli and Cate at Sweetnicks for the WDB roundup (usually posted on Sunday).
16 comments:
- Anuhea said...
Awww, that dog is soo cute! Especially in the little bed. By the way, I love your individualized cheesecake idea, keeps people from eating too much. And I've never tried a mocha roca before, sounds good, and the textures of your cake look amazing. Read my blog and tell me what you think, would it be wierd if I joined in on the next HHDD?
- 3/23/2007
- Rosa's Yummy Yums said...
A sweet little dog! I'd love to cuddle him...
- 3/23/2007
- Peabody said...
OMG, I love CKC spaniels...that is the next kind of dog we are going to get! So cute!
- 3/23/2007
- Alanna said...
Um. Um. My forever home? Meaning you raise dogs? foster dogs? I missed this detail!
- 3/23/2007
- Ellie said...
What an adorable little sweetheart!
- 3/23/2007
- Cheryl said...
A CKCS, my favorite breed of all time.
Is that your dog?
- 3/23/2007
- Chris said...
Percy, You are a cutie! Do you have a twin that would like to chill out in Atlanta? :)
- 3/23/2007
- MyKitchenInHalfCups said...
Yea, what's the deal with the forever home? He is a real sweetie.
- 3/23/2007
- Mary said...
So here's the story with the "forever home". We adopted him from rescue but it turned out I have a medical condition that I wasn't aware of until the dog came to live with us. It was a heart breaking decision and I cried a lot, but in the best interest of the dog, we brought him back to the rescue people so they could place him quickly. Luckily there was another family eager to adopt him. I still miss him.
- 3/23/2007
- Peabody said...
I wish I would have known that..I would have driven down to get him(really). I prefer rescue dogs but CKC spaniels are almost impossible to find up where I am in a rescue situation.
- 3/23/2007
- Mary said...
Peabody-I read somewhere that there were less than 50 CKCS rescues in the U.S. in 2006. We were so lucky.
- 3/23/2007
- Madam Chow said...
Mary, sorry to hear you had to give him up - we have two of them (pics on my blog) and they're wonderful, wonderful dogs!
- 3/24/2007
- Anali said...
He's so cute! He looks like Charlotte's dog "Elizabeth Taylor" from "Sex and the City."
- 3/24/2007
- Cate said...
So cute!
- 3/25/2007
- Willa said...
He looks so comfortable in his bed! My current dog is a rescue dog, who also had been returned to the shelter because of a medical condition in her first family. I'm sorry for thier loss, but if she had stayed with them, I wouldn't get to have her now!
- 3/26/2007
- Heather said...
I have a CKCS, his name is Willie. Drop by to see pictures anytime.
Sorry you had to give yours up. I know that had to be hard.
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York Early Music Festival 2013 (Friday 5 – Saturday 13 July) The Eternal City
The 2013 York Early Music Festival (5 - 13 July) focuses on the unrivalled musical heritage of Rome - The Eternal City - from the time of the medieval Popes, through the Renaissance polyphony of Palestrina, to the exuberant baroque of Handel. Central to this theme is the 300th anniversary of the iconic Italian composer and violinist Arcangelo Corelli who devoted his entire career to Rome and became a pivotal figure in the development of classical music. Guest artists in the 2013 Festival include three ensembles led by some of Italy's present day superstars - Riccardo Minasi (Musica Antiqua Roma); Fabio Bonizzoni (La Risonanza) and Patrizia Bovi (Ensemble Medusa).
Another anniversary to be celebrated in 2013 is the 450th anniversary of the birth of the English composer John Dowland. York offers a celebrity series of events involving countertenor Iestyn Davies; lutenists Thomas Dunford, Jakob Lindberg and Elizabeth Kenny; the Rose Consort of Viols and American virtuoso lutenist Paul O'Dette (Sat 6 - Sun 7 July).
Delma Tomlin, Administrative Director, says: "In the year which will now see the appointment of a new Pope in Rome, the Festival's celebration of the music of the Eternal City seems all the more pertinent. We are delighted that a host of today's finest international performers on lutes, viols and voices will join us in York to perform some of the most glorious works in the repertory from Palestrina to Handel. International guests include the acclaimed viol player Wieland Kuijken; The Sixteen directed by Harry Christophers and Stevie Wishart's Sinfoyne presenting a contemporary reflection on the music of Hildegard of Bingen - unveiled at the Vatican earlier in the season. Not to mention a unique collaboration, or rather 'staged battle', between members of the Theatre of the Ayre and the Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain as they explore the music of two composers both named Robert Johnson - one a Shakespearean lute player, the second a 20th-century blues singer-guitarist!
"This year's Festival culminates with the 2013 International Young Artists Competition. We are thrilled to welcome such a wealth of international talent to York as young musicians from 16 different countries join us for what promises to be an extremely exciting three days.
"The 29 events which make up the Festival include concerts, illustrated lectures and workshops from the earliest chant, found in medieval libraries across Europe, to Handel's sublime music for Vespers from his triumphant stay in Rome in 1707. Our events are presented in some of the City's most beautiful historic venues, and we hope this year's Festival will provide a treasure trove of musical offerings to our audiences and visitors to York."
▪ Yorkshire Bach Choir and Yorkshire Bach Soloists directed by Peter Seymour perform the Festival opening concert with extracts from music Handel provided for a Carmelite Vespers service for the feast of the Madonna del Carmine in July 1707 including the famous Dixit Dominus, along with another of the latest fashions of the time - a Corelli concerto grosso - and spectacular motets both large and small, with sopranos Mhairi Lawson and Bethany Seymour (who is supported by the BBC Performing Arts Fund).
(Friday 5 July, 7.30pm, York Minster)
▪ Celebrating Dowland
A series of events marking the 450th anniversary of the birth of one of England's greatest lutenists and song-composers featuring:
' Behold a wonder here ' Lutenist Elizabeth Kenny chairs a discussion with Roger Savage, John Bryan, Michael Gale and Christopher Goodwin of the UK Lute Society, exploring Dowland's role at the centre of European music in the late renaissance, his significance then and now, and what his music has to offer to the 21st-century.
(Saturday 6 July, 10.00am - c.11.00am NCEM, St Margaret's Church)
Jakob Lindberg lute: 'Whose heavenly touch upon the lute doth ravish human sense'
The distinguished Swedish lutenist, Jakob Lindberg, presents an anthology of this extraordinarily varied repertoire, playing it on a rare surviving lute from Dowland's lifetime crafted by Sixtus Rauwolf, in Augsburg around 1590.
(Saturday 6 July, 1.00pm - c.2.00pm NCEM, St Margaret's Church)
Iestyn Davies countertenor and Thomas Dunford lute: The Art of Melancholy
A recital which places Dowlands songs amongst those of his contemporaries including Robert Johnston, Thomas Campion and John Danyel, and which throws open a window on the famous quotation from Robert Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), that melancholy is 'known to few, unknown to fewer'.
(Saturday 6 July, 3.30pm - c.4.30pm St Olave's Church, Marygate)
Rose Consort of Viols: 'Teares of Sorrowe and Gladnesse'
The concert features some of Dowland's greatest ayres and lute solos, together with devotional songs, solo songs with viols, and his incomparable dance music. Along with vocal and instrumental pieces by Mogens Pederson and Melchior Borchgrevinck, and music by
Marenzio and Lassus who inspired him.
(Saturday 6 July, 7.30pm - c.9.30pm Sir Jack Lyons Concert Hall, University of York)
Paul O'Dette lute: Dowland's Grand Tour
Celebrated USA lutenist, Paul O'Dette's programme traces Dowland's travels through Europe, presenting the music he might have heard on his trip including works by John Johnson, Jacques Polonais, Gregory Huwet, Melchior Neusidler, Simone Molinaro and alongside works by Dowland himself.
(Sunday 7 July 10.00pm - c.11.00pm NCEM, St Margaret's Church)
▪ Musica Antiqua Roma directed by Riccardo Minasi: Approaching Corelli
The brilliant Riccardo Minasi and his outstanding ensemble make their YEMF debut with a programme which explores the vibrant setting which formed the background to Corelli's achievements, performing works by some of his brilliant but less well-known Roman predecessors and contemporaries.
(Sunday 7 July, 7.00pm - c.9.00pm Sir Jack Lyons Concert Hall, University of York)
▪ La Risonanza directed by Fabio Bonizzoni: Voicing Corelli
Fabio Bonizzoni's award-winning ensemble presents a unique programme of vocal duets on sacred texts ingeniously adapted from Corelli's trio sonatas by his contemporary admirer Antonio Tonelli, interspersing them with examples of the real thing and a secular duet by Handel, written in London but recalling his own youthful days in Rome, with Yetzabel Arias Fernandez soprano and Elena Biscuola alto.
(Monday 8 July 7.00pm - c.9.00pm Sir Jack Lyons Concert Hall, University of York)
▪ Ensemble Medusa directed by Patrizia Bovi: Lucrezia .... the daughter of the Pope
The dazzling Ensemble Medusa directed by the charismatic Patrizia Bovi, brings together music which reflects the life and passions of Lucrezia Borgia from the time of the papal court in Rome to Naples and finally to the Este court in Ferrara, where she was a grand patron of composers such as Bartolomeo Tromboncino.
(Monday 8 July, 10.00pm - c.11.00pm NCEM, St Margaret's Church)
▪ Lutes 'n' Ukes - Theatre of the Ayre vs The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain
The Devil at the Crossroads: Robert Johnson(s)
The vogue for 'twangling instruments' in the masquing halls of 17th-century England and the ukulele boom at whose apex sits The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain were just waiting to be connected...Let battle commence on a journey through the music of Robert Johnson(s) of 19th century blues singer-guitarist fame and the earlier, Shakespearean lute player, Johnson.
(Tuesday 9 July 7.30pm Sir Jack Lyons Concert Hall, University of York)
▪ Mark Tucker tenor Paula Chateauneuf chitarrone: Songs of Religious and Erotic Passion from Rome
A concert exploring the mingling of the spiritual and the sensual in Roman music of the
17th century, featuring works by Frescobaldi, Mazzocchi, Carissimi, Luigi Rossi's pop-style tune for a brooding lover, and the recently discovered Ancidetemi pur for chitarrone by Kapsberger.
(Wednesday 10 July, 1.00pm - c.2.00pm St Olave's Church, Marygate)
▪ Sinfonye with University of York Chamber Choir: Vespers for St Hildegard composed and directed by Stevie Wishart
A creative re-imagining of a choral evensong, devised in honour of Hildegard of Bingen - the 12th-century composer, nun and visionary who was made a Saint and Doctor of the Catholic Church in 2012. Performed in St Peter's Rome in the presence of Pope Benedict XVI in October, the piece receives its first concert performance in St Peter's York. The music, for voices, harp, organ and bells, is based on the Benedictine service of Vespers and consists of psalms, antiphons and canticles, interweaving plainchant, polyphony and some of Hildegard's own melodies.
(Wednesday 10 July, 7.30pm - c.8.45pm The Quire of York Minster)
▪ York Early Music International Young Artists Competition
This prestigious biennial competition, which this year welcomes talented ensembles from the UK, across Europe, and musicians from as far afield as Israel and Japan, includes a non-competitive showcase performance at the National Centre for Early Music across two fascinating days of concerts and informal workshops in the company of the distinguished singer, coach and language specialist Richard Jackson.
(Thursday 11 - Saturday 13 July, at 10.15am & 2.15pm NCEM, St Margaret's Church)
▪ Wieland Kuijken : Virtuoso Viol
One of the world's greatest players explores some of the highlights of French virtuoso viol repertoire including music by Corelli and Couperin with Asako Morikawa viols and Terence Charlston harpsichord.
(Thursday 11 July, 7.30pm - c.9.30pm Sir Jack Lyons Concert Hall, University of York)
▪ The Sixteen with Harry Christophers director: The Queen of Heaven
The Sixteen's programme focusses on Palestrina's Missa Regina Caeli, seen by many in his own time and since as a paragon of flawless and elegant Renaissance polyphony, alongside other exquisite works by Palestrina are the famous Allegri Miserere and three motets by the leading contemporary Scottish composer James MacMillan.
(Friday 12 July, 7.30pm - c.9.15pm York Minster)
▪ The Choir of York Minster with Robert Sharpe director: Rome in York Minster
A glorious musical journey from Rome to York, featuring the works of Palestrina and Victoria and bringing to life one of the treasures of York Minster's historic collection, placing the mass
movements from Palestrina's famous Missa Papae Marcelli alongside Victoria motets and plainsong from the York Missal, manuscripts of which are held in the Minster Library. The programme has been designed to celebrate the opening of new ground-breaking interactive displays in the Undercroft, 'Revealing York Minster: A heroic, human and historic journey', transporting visitors on a 2000-year journey from York Minster's Roman foundations to the modern day.
(Saturday 13 July, 7.30pm York Minster)
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Crispy Gamer Calls Out Resident Evil 5's Racism
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Does this make the movie Zulu racist too?
What about Blood Diamond?
A stereotype is just that.... everything about human interaction is based on stereotype. I bet this person is still upset about being related to primates (evolution, fyi).
I don't think Sparta itself is fascist, either. But 300 (standing on a long tradition of reinterpreting Sparta and pointlessly idolizing it) definitely turns its myths into nationalistic ones. And I look at that and go "Why the hell did you choose to do that, 300?" and I've never heard a satisfying answer back.
-- Alex
Maybe I misunderstand your post but from what I can glean you feel that because RE5 portrays black Africans in a "negative" and stereotypical light (i.e. spears and spiked shields, gaunt, undernourished living in poverty) that it is racist and thus negatively represents video games as a lesser form of art. I think it is racist, based on the dictionary.com definition of racism, to ignore accurate depictions of rural life in Africa when basing a game in Africa. You recreate the atmosphere, even if it is un-pc to depict real world conditions. I am someone (not to sound too pretentious here but I might. Apologies in advance) who reads about Africa in the news every day and looks at many pictures of urban and suburban African life. That is kinda what a rural, North African village would be like. The inhabitants are mostly impoverished black people. Does not make them bad people. Makes them who they are. It is racist to coddle them BASED on their skin color. I also do not think the RE zombie virus cares about the race of who they infect.
To sum up my point: to denounce the fact that the rural, North African zombies are black and being killed by a white guy is racist in of itself by suggesting that one should base their policies based on the color of one's skin.
I hate to repost but:
From dictionary.com:
Thank you. If a game (or any other form of entertainment) offends sombody because of it's sensitive content (Africa being the case of RE5) it doesn't mean it's racist. Here in america at least you can say there are three types of white men: the racist, the non-racist (or he who doesn't give a fuck) and the white man who feels he needs to atone for his ancestors sins. The latter are the kind that usually blow these kinds of things out of proportion. I have a feeling that the person who wrote that review belongs to that group.
I didn't mean to imply you called it fascist. You always strike me as writing well thought out posts. I was just drawing the picture a bit sharper.
Anyway, I agree that both the movie and comic are needlessly... is macho the word I'm groping for? Over the top romantic? Insane? Well, I'm convinced you know precisely what I mean and I hope you'll excuse my lack of vocabulary.
All this, I think, is just me trying to say that I agree with you on the potential problems of depicting history like that, but that sometimes we don't do a comic (or movie) justice if we interpret it through, in this case, fascistic ideals and myths. Sometimes it's just the work of a kid who watched a movie and got fascinated. I don't know if this goes some way to answer your question as to why the comic did what it did. I hope so.
And I would also like to end by saying that almost every story and motif have been abused at this point. The story of the battle of Leonidas and his 300 royal guardsmen are indeed the stuff of legend. And as such it will be abused.
And now I'll try to stop derailing the topic.
But I'm not saying that RE5 is racist. I never have for this entire debate. I'm saying it's in bad taste, just like how RE4, Uncharted, Fat Princess, or any other debatably "racist" game could be. But I have never said that RE5 is racist. Read the rest of my posts in this entire debate and you'll see how I'm saying that RE5 is as "racist" as any other game could be considered. But that does not mean that it should be let off the hook of whatever hook it's on.
Granted, I'll give you that this situation may be blown a bit out of proportion, but that doesn't make it any less of an issue to debate
I have never said in this entire debate that RE5 is racist because it portrays Africans in a negative fashion. What I have said is that RE5 shows Africans in bad taste and coming off as ignorant of what currently goes on in Africa.
Let me reiterate, RE5 is not racist, but it's no saint either. The way it shows off Africans as complete demons is in bad taste, but I'm not saying it's racist.
Everyone is missing the point entirely of what I'm trying to say, how hard is it to understand that it's not racist but it is in bad taste? Swap RE5 for RE4, Uncharted, Fat Princess, yadayadayada, and you can get the same situation.
NO NO NO!! I completely agree with you. A lot of people confuse something being of bad taste with something being racist; that is why my first post was in the form of a question. It's almost the same with the gay guy debate. The other day a good friend of mine made a gay joke (it wasn't even of bad taste, it was just a joke about a gay guy mind you). Well two of the guys in the group where pretty offended (yeah, gys... go figure) and they started calling my friend a bigot, but when they found out that they where the only two of a group of like 13 people who took it badly they just had to suck it up (after a little scene of course). Or when the beloved Rev. Al Sharpton ran into an issue of Memín (a mexican comic strip about a poor black kid selling newspapers on the streets) and started demanding the mexican press to stop printing those, even though millons of mexicans have enjoyed them for years.
Oh thank god, I thought I was going to end up in another debate here. Phewph, glad we're on the same page.
Several things:
1. Your categories suck.
It's really easy to "not give a fuck" while you keep on being tacitly perpetuating racism. When a person who knows something about racism and cultural myth-making and all that jazz says "Yeah, I'm not concerned about it," I can respect that. All these guys crawling out of the woodwork spouting really basic ideas and being really proud of the fact that they don't give a fuck and being very obviously angry at anyone who does? They're not that guy. They've never thought about it and don't even want to think about it. These folks are not some kind of ideal of non-racist behavior. They're just a bunch of white mostly-teenagers uncomfortable questioning their own (mild) privilege or beliefs.
Very few white Americans actually think in terms of "atoning for their ancestor's sins". The guy writing the article certainly isn't. He's talking about how it makes him feel based on his own experience and his ideas about social justice in the here-and-now. If he's obsessing about the past, it's because of the way it still affects us today.
2. "Out of proportion".
I do think the discourse is out of proportion. I still think there's something to talk about here. And it's pretty spurious to blame it on the one guy writing the article when you've also got a bunch of monkeys hollerin' "SHUT UP! SHUT UP! IT'S JUST A GAME! LEAVE ME TO MY IGNORANT MAN-CHILD WAYS!"
-- Alex
Ironically, if you actually read the files you unlock and stumble upon in the game (files which borderline on way too long. 41 pages of backstory in ONE file? >.<) The key reason they're in Africa is to make use of an old umbrella lab, where the whole virus deal is meant to have started. And what does it say about how and what started it? An ancient tribal race, who had an amazing underground city, and were pretty much super human in their abilities (the very first gene mutations). And what does it say about those savage warriors? That they're peaceful builders, who possesed amazing architectural skills, which are used (in the game world) to help restore other ancient civiliation ruins, and only became violent in self defense.
Damn those savages and their savage building.
So essentially it says they were awesome noble people until the virus went and woke them up on the cranky mutated worms dropping out of your skin and devouring your insides side of bed one morning?
Also, if you think any of the above is a spoiler. Well, you suck. Since 90% of it is optional background reading attatched to the game.
What a bunch of shit.
Zombies are 'subhuman' no matter what fucking colour they are. lol
There were 'good' characters in the game that were 'properly' black, not milky coffee like Sheva. And all of the truly evil characters were white.
Is Resident evil 5 racist? Yes, it's racists against fucking zombies and so am I.
/thread, IMO.
It reminds me of a point made by Dr. Foreman on the show "House"; something about people who don't know the difference between someone being screwed for merely perceived race issues and everyone getting screwed regardless.
If anything, the guy who wrote this RE5 review shot himself in the foot. The fact that he can't see past the perceived race issue of the game and is quick to blame it on the Japanese being xenophobic is just setting up a Straw Man. That developer he spoke with never said anything about there being a race issue involved; instead, the reviewer distorted the developer's position and spun it to sound like the Japanese are ignorant.
When one stops to consider it, the Japanese have little reason for being jerks to Africans since they've historically had prejudice only for the Chinese and Koreans; one might consider that they are blind to the notion of racism against cultures they've had little contact with (being half a world away) and they will accept that the setting they chose will look a certain way and the people there will be a certain way (just with biological mutations and such).
Of course, this is just an assumption - just some food for thought. The reviewer should have left out any topical rants and stuck to the game itself rather than expressing his irrational discomfort and making baseless accusations to pad his own conscience.
Quick query for you all. When you think of the term, "Mexican Culture", do Tacos, Sombreros, or Speedy Gonzales come to mind, at least for a brief instance?
If you think of culture in the Northeastern USA, do the Pilgrims or square dancing come to mind?
What comes to your mind when I say, "Potato's, Corned Beef, and Alcohol?
How about schoolgirls, creepy fetishes, and downright weird consumer products?
If you thought what I think you just thought, I am not saying your racist. I'm saying that you are susceptible to iconic images, a possible, but not necessarily, nor inherently wrong, precursor. When the human mind try's to encode a concept into its brain, it tends to latch onto certain mental shortcuts called Heuristics. Its easier to have a representative icon for some major concept. This is just a quirk of the human brain, and I don't think its fair to call foul on it until you turn this mental shortcut into a rule for actual people in real life situations.
Resident Evil has been shown already to use these Heuristics in its storytelling. Europeans get feudal weaponry, pitchforks, castles, and the like. There just going for storytelling that's easy to latch on to. We associate Africa with spear throwing warriors, and indeed this image is not completely absent from the continent. Its not the most bold storytelling tactic, but I don't think its racist.
On that note, because of the prevalence of racism in America, I think its completely understandable that RE5 will turn a few heads and rattle a few cages as people try to figure out the cultural ramifications of the game. Then, they will realize that the subhuman portrayal is representative of the undead, and not black people, and they will move on. All is going according to plan.
Lastly, Occams razor. The nameless NPCs in the game are portrayed as a sexual threat, and shown as bloodthirsty savages. Is it simpler to assume that this is A) An attempt at exploiting racist tropes to present racist political commentary, furthering some Anti-Black agenda that originates from a Japanese group or B) Because there what Zombies have always done.
This would only be Racist if it makes the implication of these behaviors in non-zombie NPCs. Gold star to you for being self-critical and trying to maintain social justice, now pick up the controller and explode some zombie heads.
What I meant by not giving a fuck is simply people to whom racism is simply not even in their subconscious, I'm aware of the fact that it's impossible to actually know what a person really thinks or feels, but believe me, a lot of people who have played the game and simply blast by it without even noticing a hint of racism, maybe others would not have noticed either if this wouldn't of have gone so far, why is this? I don't know, maybe it's a good thing or maybe it's one of the bad things about equality.
About very few Americans feeling they should atone to their past sins; I agree, but, there are some issues like racism that a lot of white Americans feel uncomfortable talking about or let's just say "handling" it when it is presented in a compromising or disturbing way. Whatever the individual reasons for this.
Another thing: as mediocre as RE5's story is, it does explain a lot of things, causes and effects, so a lot of the blame goes to people just not paying attention, or not being interested in the narrative.
Oh and "Your categories suck." Totally uncalled for man.
Too true.
Plus I just unlocked Sheva's tribal costume and it is totally HOT! Hooray for Capcom's bi gender gratuitous eroticising of it's lead characters!
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