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First club meeting Wednesday, 10/17 in Room 203 during LUNCH. There will be LOTS of food.
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At the league meetings in California last month, Andy Reid was asked if he might be interested in trading for a top-flight wide receiver if one was available.
``I'll always look at something if there is a great player out there, and it doesn't matter what position,'' the Eagles coach said. ``I'm always looking to better our football team.''
Well, he's going to get a chance to prove that, because the Arizona Cardinals announced Wednesday that they are willing to listen to trade offers for unhappy wide receiver Anquan Boldin.
Cardinals coach Ken Whisenhunt acknowledged that a few teams already have inquired about Boldin. And while he said it still is the franchise's hope to sign Boldin to a new deal, he said they are willing to listen to trade offers.
``I think it would be foolish from our standpoint not to listen to those opportunities and see what actually exists,'' Whistenhunt told reporters. ``Our position on Anquan has been consistent and our goal hasn't changed.
``Reaching an agreement on a new contract has been, and continues to be, the preferred result. But there are other options. Those do include fielding offers about a trade.''
Both Whisenhunt and Cardinals general manager Rod Graves declined to mention which teams already have called about Boldin.
``I think the fact that we're coming out and acknowledging we're willing to listen (to trade offers) does not mean we haven't listened in the past,'' Graves told Kent Somers of the Arizona Republic. ``In my opinion, it's not a change in position. We're just acknowledging publicly that we are evaluating those interests.''
When asked Tuesday whether the Eagles had had any conversations with teams regarding a trade for a veteran wide receiver or an offensive tackle, general manager Tom Heckert said, ``No, not really. You hear all these rumors. But nobody's called and said they wanted to trade this guy or that guy.''
Boldin still has two years left on his current contract, but wants a new deal. He is due to make $2.75 million this year and $3 million next year. Any team that trades for Boldin would almost certainly have to give him the new deal he wants. His asking price is believed to be in the $10 million-a-year neighborhood.

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Judicial Watch and Allied Educational Foundation File Supreme Court Amici Brief against Race-Based Admissions Policies at UT-Austin
(Washington, DC) – Judicial Watch announced today it joined with the Allied Educational Foundation (AEF) to file an amici curiae brief with the U.S. Supreme Court that argues that raced-based admissions policies are irrational, destructive and are based on illegitimate racial theories that have no basis in biology. The Judicial…
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How's this for a jaw-dropping revelation? One week ago today, Department of Justice (DOJ) attorneys for the IRS finally admitted in a phone conversation to Judicial Watch that Lois Lerner's emails weren't "missing" after all! No, they were backed up alright. But the government is now saying it's just too much trouble to go looking for them.
Judicial Watch Files Amicus Curiae Brief with U.S. Supreme Court in Opposition to Race-Based Admission Policies at the University of Texas at Austin
University Admission Policies Result in 'Racial and Ethnic Stereotyping' and Violate the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution (Washington, DC) – Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, announced today that it has filed an amicus curiae brief with the…


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He has eagerly taken on the most complex legal questions of the 21st-century American military — the future of Guantanamo Bay, the fate of Private Chelsea Manning, the role of commanders in prosecuting sexual assault.
And now he's Bowe Bergdahl's lawyer.
Eugene R. Fidell, a former judge advocate in the Coast Guard who teaches military justice at Yale Law School, will represent the sergeant and former Taliban captive as the Army completes an investigation into whether he deserted in 2009.
Fidell, in an interview Wednesday with NBC News, would not discuss strategy. But he said that Bergdahl has been "entirely cooperative with the government" since he was returned to the United States in May in exchange for five Guantanamo detainees.
"He's very grateful to President Obama for having saved his life," Fidell said.
He told TODAY on Thursday that Bergdahl, who is back on active duty in a desk job at a Texas base, is "ready for the next chapter" of his life.
Bowe Bergdahl lawyer: Bowe's proud to serve U.S.July 17, 201402:53
Fidell, 69, is called on frequently by the press for analysis of thorny questions of military justice. That has included the case of Bergdahl, who disappeared from his outpost in Afghanistan five years ago and was captured by the Taliban.
Fellow soldiers have accused Bergdahl of desertion. Fidell told NBC News in June that Bergdahl could get five years in prison, but he said that Bergdahl's five years in captivity could be a mitigating factor.
"You typically don't throw the book at people" who have been prisoners, he said at the time.
Fidell, who will work pro bono, said Wednesday that he was flattered to have been approached to represent Bergdahl, though he would not give details. People who know Fidell said it was no surprise that he accepted such a prominent and bitterly disputed case.
Last year, he was sharply critical of the military for shrouding in secrecy the pretrial hearings for Chelsea Manning, who was later convicted of espionage for passing military secrets to WikiLeaks.
And 10 years ago, he defended Capt. James Yee, a Muslim Army chaplain who spent 76 days in custody after the military linked him to a possible espionage ring at Guantanamo.
The Army later dismissed criminal charges, and Yee got a reprimand. Fidell told reporters that Yee was suspected because of his faith and was the victim of a "drive-by act of legal violence."
The Bergdahl case, which touches on the brotherhood of soldiers, the military pledge to leave no soldier behind and the end of the long war in Afghanistan, is a matter of even higher profile.
Perfect for Fidell, said Matthew Freedus, a partner at the Washington law firm that bears Fidell's name.
"This is right up his alley," said Freedus, who regards Fidell as a mentor. "It's military law, and it's a case that is under the public spotlight. Not very many attorneys in any field are comfortable handling both spheres."
Fidell and Freedus won a 2009 Supreme Court case on behalf of a Navy enlistee who argued to have a military conviction voided. The enlistee said he got bad advice about the consequences of a guilty plea from a severely alcoholic lawyer.
Freedus described Fidell as an exceptional writer with a strong spirit of the public interest who has devoted a career of scholarship to military justice, not just in the United States but around the world.
"He's the best in his field," Freedus said. "He's the whole package."
On Guantanamo detainees, Fidell has written that President Barack Obama should send federal judges there to resolve the remaining cases there under civilian rules, thereby encouraging Congress to "take a fresh look at the other obstacles to closing the prison."
He wrote elsewhere that the detainees "in the eyes of the world have become symbols of a failed system."
And he has argued that lawyers outside the military chain of command should decide who should be prosecuted for crimes, including sexual assault. Commanders, Fidell wrote last year, should only handle minor disciplinary matters.
That position set him apart from the other 14 people appointed to serve on a special advisory panel created by Defense Secretary Leon Panetta in August 2012 to review military justice, recalled Walter Huffman, a co-chair.
Huffman, a former Army judge advocate general and dean emeritus of the law school at Texas Tech, emphasized his strong difference with Fidell on commanders' role in prosecution.
He described Fidell's position as "way out of the mainstream." He also said Fidell could be at a disadvantage in the Bergdahl case because he is something of an outsider in the actual administration of military trials.
Still, he said, "Gene Fidell serves a purpose. The purpose is that he questions the status quo."
"Instead of bouncing along thinking this is the way it's always been, he makes you go back and think," Huffman said in an interview. "That's a valuable function, I think."


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IVRCL shares up 2% on Rs 746 crore orders
(My Original Blog Post: http://www.onlineequitycalls.com/2008/12/ivrcl-shares-up-2-on-rs-746-crore-orders/)
MUMBAI: Shares of IVRCL Infrastrcuture & Projects gathered momentum Tuesday after it announced that the buildings and industrial division of the company bagged orders worth Rs 746.26 crore.
The orders were for works across the country. The realty firm will undertake a turnkey housing project for AP Cine Workers Co-operative Housing Society at Hyderabad for Rs 550.28 crore.
The second order worth Rs 114.35 crore was for the construction of a CIDCO Exhibition Centre at Vashi. It will also provide EPC services on turnkey basis for new habitation for tsunami affected victims at Puduchery worth Rs 70.62 crore and also the construction of an IT park at Durgapur for Rs 11.01 crore.
At 1 pm, IVRCL shares were up 2.35 per cent at Rs 168 after touching a high of Rs 172.40.
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Still an Excellent game!
Way way back I already had this game once in my possession, when I still played on a regular pc. Then I made the transition to a Mac, so obviously from that point on I couldn't play the game any longer (Yes, I admit, I am an Apple freak). Until I saw the game became available for the Mac after a long, long, very long time. And without hesitation I knew I had to have it once more. Because, YES, this game is THAT good! It was an award winning game around the beginning of the new millennium AND IT STILL kicks ass on a GRAND SCALE! I still have to come across that can compete with this game when it comes to a 3D-space RTS game!!


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Youth Programs May Be Cut
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One county is facing severe budget cuts. These cuts could impact young people. Funding may be eliminated for youth centers in the county. This would leave young people with no place to go after school.
Many youth centers are expected to be closed by the end of the summer. People who operate the centers are worried. They say that the programs combined serve more than one thousand kids. County supervisors have to cut a large amount of money from the county's recreation budget. A plan was presented that would give more money to the teen centers. Voters did not pass it. Police and firefighter budgets were also cut.
Teenagers at one facility are disappointed. They complain that they will have no place to go. These centers are important to them. They can get help with their homework, play games, and get to know other kids. These activities are supervised by an adult. One student said he got F's in school before he started going to the center. Now he has raised his grades up to C's.
Parents feel that reducing these teen programs will hurt their children. One parent says that he sees kids get into trouble if they have nothing to do. Hey says that they write graffiti on the walls. They vandalize the schools. Closing the teen centers will give them more time to do these things.
The centers are safe places for kids to hang out. Kids can also learn a lot at the centers, too. Programs about healthy eating and staying fit are offered. Also, kids learn about ways to prevent teen pregnancy. Both parents and teenagers are upset about the closings.


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Surveyed, as in, if it wasn't shut off, the NYPD skimmed or "surveyed" most of your information, really your identity and all that goes along with it, straight off your phone.
A leading privacy blogger and working member of the American Civil Liberties Union, Kade Ellis, recently took note of an obscure lecture posted to YouTube more than a month ago. At less than 900 hits (at the time this was written), this video passed well beneath the public radar.
The lecture was titled "Privacy is dead," and private investigative expert Steven Rambam had this to say:
"I can tell you that everybody that attended an Occupy Wall Street protest, and didn't turn their cell phone off, or put it -- and sometimes even if they did -- the identity of that cell phone has been logged, and everybody who was at that demonstration, whether they were arrested, not arrested, whether their photos were ID'd, whether an informant pointed them out, it's known they were there anyway. This is routine."
He referred to the practice as "routine." Ellis notes that maybe that's what the NYPD used these TARU Surveillance Systems for during the first OWS protests last year.
Rambam's were, consequently, in response to talk about Police drones outfitted with technology that could easily "survey" phones in a given area. A "survey" would effectively give users comprehensive, real-time data on individuals, ranging from who those individuals consort with most, to where they might like to eat on any given Tuesday.
"But cell phones are now the little snitch in your pocket," said Rambam, "Cell phones tell me where you are, what you do, who you talk to, everybody you associate with."
Which is where Rambam gets even spookier.
The government (the NYPD, NSA, etc.) is "amateur" compared to big business, according to Rambam.
"Your privacy today isn't being invaded by big brother -- it's being invaded by big marketer," said Rambam.
Drone use by those other than defense firms seems to be peaking at the same time arms sales look to double in the next year. Even the FAA can't clear airspace fast enough, and though as of yet most of the clearance requirements are for police, journalists, farmers, photographers, and surely the Applers, Googlers and WalMarters of the world will want to get in on the biz too.
Maybe Rambam is right, though Ellis and the ACLU always disagree, maybe privacy is dead.


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Something struck us as awfully sad today when we learned that Toni Kukoc is retiring from the NBA. It always makes sports fans feel old when someone who they remember coming in as a rookie ends up retiring, but somehow Kukoc hanging them up felt different, probably because he was the last guy left from those Bulls teams of the '90s. (Barring a Dickey Simpkins comeback, that is.) It feels strange to have that book finally closed entirely.
Thankfully, some of your top NBA bloggers have their eyes on history this mildly upsetting September afternoon:
• The Association: "Given that most European players tend to fade or disappear in the clutch, Kukoc was willing to step in. Along with Dirk Nowitzki I'd say that Kukoc's one of the best European players in the clutch to ever play in the NBA."
• NBA Obsessed: "His combination of size and the ability to play all positions on the court made him a versatile player and his deadly shot from downtown only made him harder to guard. To me, that young clean looking Croatian in a Bulls jersey is his lasting image."
Honestly? Any guy who was that successful in pissing off Scottie Pippen on a regular basis is OK in our book. Godspeed, Toni: May you find a place that encourages the full growth of non-Ulrich-esque facial hair.
Kukoc Set To Retire From NBA [Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel]


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Here are 3 clips from Paramount Pictures' upcoming film "G.I. JOE: RETALIATION ". The film is directed by Jon M. Chu, starring D.J. Cotrona, Byung-hun Lee, Ray Park, Adrianne Palicki, Jonathan Pryce, RZA, Ray Stevenson, Channing Tatum with Bruce Willis and Dwayne Johnson.
G.I. JOE: RETALIATION will be in theaters March 28, 2013.
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Giacomo Brunelli (b. Perugia, Italy, 1977) graduated with a degree in International Communications in 2002. His series have been exhibited at The Photographers'Gallery, London (Uk), Galerie Camera Obscura, Paris (France), Delhi PhotoFestival (India), Format Festival, Derby (Uk), Robert Morat Galerie, Hamburg (Germany), Noorderlicht Photofestival (The Netherlands), Athens Photo Festival (Greece), Daegu PhotoBiennal (South Korea), Angkor PhotoFestival (Cambodia), BlueSky Gallery, Portland (Usa), The New Art Gallery Walsall (Uk), Griffin Museum ,Boston (Usa), StreetLevel Glasgow (Uk), Photofusion, London (Uk), Arden & Anstruther Petworth (Uk), Galleria Belvedere Milan (Italy), Fotofestiwal Lodz (Poland) and Boutographies, Montepellier (France).
The work has won the Sony World Photography Award, the Gran Prix Lodz, Poland and the Magenta Foundation "Flash Forward 2009". It has also been featured widely in the art and photography press including The Guardian (Uk), Harper's Magazine (Usa), Eyemazing (Holland), European Photography (Germany), B&W Magazine (Usa), Creative Review (Uk), Foto&Video (Russia), Images Magazine (France) Photographie (Germany), Katalog (Denmark), AdBusters (Canada), FOTO (Sweden) and FOTOGRAFI (Norway).
His work is in the collection of Museum of Fine Arts Houston, The New Art Gallery Walsall, Uk Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts and Portland Art Museum, Usa.
"The Animals" (2008) and "Eternal London (2014) were published by Dewi Lewis Publishing.
In 2012, he was commissioned by The Photographers'Gallery to do the "Eternal London" series.
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|South Africa
Curriculum Mandate for Homeschoolers
Publication: Daily Dispatch
Govt plan angers home schoolers
By: Gavin de Villiers
EAST LONDON - Parents who home school their children here are outraged at the government's plan to transform education by imposing a one-size-fits-all state curriculum on all learners - including home schoolers.
The parents allege that the curriculum plan for 2005 enforced by the Gauteng Education Department (GED) last year is illegal and unconstitutional. They further allege that the state curriculum denies parents the right to raise and educate their children according to their values and beliefs.
"It is only a matter of time before government tries to impose its one-size-fits-all state curriculum plan here in the Eastern Cape. We are angry because it is apparent that socio engineering and not education is at the top of of their agenda," said Eastern Cape Home Schooling Association (ECHSA) chairperson Ad'le Breedt.
Bouwe van de Eems, chairperson of the Gauteng Association for Home Schooling (AHS), said: "It is the right of parents to transfer their values to their children, (and not the government's values). This right is recognised in the constitution, the SA Schools Act and international law. The actions of the government are therefore illegal."
Members of the AHS in Johannesburg expressed their anger at the government's plan and said: "Their plan has now caused member families to join forces by starting a coalition of concerned parents which they are calling 'Fathers for the rule of law'.
The coalition aims to challenge the Education Department on its intended plan and to stop the government from what the home schooling parents are calling "illegal government interference".
The parents say that according to the Constitution (Article 28.1b), it places a duty on parents to choose an education that is in their child's best interest. The parents claim that the government's plan for a state curriculum threatens their freedom of choice.
Clive Roos, former CEO of the Schools Governing Body Foundation and now a consultant in education matters, said: "South Africa now has an education system which lacks accountability, promotes quantity at the cost of quality and produces pupils untrained in basic skills, such as reading and writing, and ill equipped for the modern world."
According to Breedt the results of learner achievement tests demonstrate that the state curriculum is failing. In contrast, a recent thesis on home education shows that home-educated children are achieving way above their institutionalised peers.
Many home school parents here, when asked by the Daily Dispatch what they thought about the GDE's curriculum, said that the government's plan was unconstitutional.
"It cannot be imposed, here or in Gauteng. It will be against the law and government is not above the law," said one irate home schooler.
The acting director-general for Education, Duncan Hindle, dismissed the parents' allegations, saying: "They are misguided. The national nurriculum for home schooling has been in place since 1998.
"What the parents could be upset about is the fact that they have to meet the minimum requirements set by government and we are going to be stricter in monitoring this."
Pestalozzi Trust manager and curriculum specialist Leendert van Oostrum rejected Hindle's statement and said: "The curriculum was promulgated only on 31 May, 2002, and not in 1998 as the director-general claims.
"The home schoolers in the Eastern Cape have a genuine concern. If they (the GDE) get it right in Gauteng, it will inevitably be implemented in all regions, including the EC."
Leendert noted that there was a public outcry when the Department of Education first issued a draft version of home schooling policies in July 2001.
"They (the national Education Department) had to rework this version after a public protest."
There are currently an estimated 100000 home-educating families in South Africa.
"The numbers have been steadily escalating each year since it was provided for in the South African Schools Act in 1996," said Van Oostrum.


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The Cleveland County Sheriff's Office will combat prescription drug abuse with the help of a grant from the North Carolina Governor's Crime Commission.
The Cleveland County Sheriff's Office will combat prescription drug abuse with the help of a grant from the North Carolina Governor's Crime Commission.
Sheriff Alan Norman recently announced that the Sheriff�s Office was awarded a Criminal Justice Improvement Grant to enhance the agency�s prescription drug diversion investigation program.
The grant, which was awarded through the North Carolina Governor�s Crime Commission, is for $44,105.43, with a local match of $14,701.81. The funds will provide one full-time and one part-time investigator and equipment.
Norman said the grant is good for one year.
If county commissioners give the green light, he said, the Sheriff's Office will re-apply for the grant when the year is up.
According to the Sheriff's Office, drug diversion occurs when a prescribed medication is used as a recreational drugs.
Drug diversion can happen in three ways.
One way is "doctor shopping," going to one doctor after another and getting prescriptions for medications. The person then sells what they don't use. According to the Sheriff's Office, these medications are often sold alongside illicit drugs, such as crack cocaine and methamphetamines.
Another way drug diversion is committed is when someone steals medication from a family member, either abusing the pills or selling them to others.
Prescription medication is also commonly stolen during home burglaries.
"They're very addictive and it can result from anything from addiction to overdose and death," said Norman. "It touches all ethnic groups and all genders...it's like any other substance abuse, it doesn't descriminate."
The Sheriff�s Office said the goal of the drug diversion investigation program is to target the problem on several different levels: education, partnership, enforcement and deterrence.
Investigators will provide presentations to educate interested groups, including senior citizen groups and schools, as these are the most at-risk groups for abuse and/or victimization.
The sheriff�s office has partnered with several local groups who have also recognized the dangers of drug diversion. Using a variety of methods, the sheriff�s office will also conduct criminal investigations into those involved with the diversion of prescription medication.
"It is a persitent and continuing problem in Cleveland County," Norman said. "Now we're going to be able to address the prescription drug trade with the grant we have received and that investigator will be assigned solely to these types of investigations."
Reach reporter Rebecca Clark at 704-669-3344.
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Driving while impaired arrests: 39
Larceny of medication: 81
Arrests: 31 on a total of 96 felony prescription drug related charges.
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"My daughter has been acting strange the past few months," wrote a parent on Yahoo Answers recently. "She's always on this website called Tumbler. ... Sometimes she says strange things like "my feels" or "my cries." ... Yesterday she was crying because of shipping. Is shipping some kind of drug term or a cult? I don't want my daughter involved in negative things like this."
Don't worry, was the general consensus of respondents to the worried father. Your daughter's not in a cult — she's just in fandom.
Fandom has always evolved its own language to talk about the things it loves. With Tumblr, that language has spawned an enormous culture built around intense emotion expressed in specific ways.
But do "feels," "all my cries," and "omg your face I can't even" all have a larger background context outside of ships, One True Pairings, and reblogs?
One high school English teacher seems to think so.
A few weeks ago, a student in Elise Marks's AP English class at Piedmont High School in Piedmont, Calif., made a Tumblr post about a comment Marks had made in one of her classes. Marks — Dr. Marks, to her students — had compared the language of Tumblr to the language of classic love poetry.
Marks's discussion centered around Petrarch, the 14th-century Italian creator of, yes, the Petrarchan sonnet form. Petrarch famously fell in love with a mysterious, married woman known only as "Laura." For all intents and purposes, Laura was to Petrarch as celebrities and fictional characters are to members of fandom: unavailable, unattainable, perfect, and revered.
"The links to Tumblr are definitely striking," Marks told the Dot in an email:
The poems are oxymoronic: love is simultaneously an ecstasy and an agony. Laura's perfect beauty brings him joy, but the fact that he can never have her feels like "a wound," "a grief," a "constant death."
A couple examples I saw on Tumblr just from yesterday: "What hurts the most? Knowing I will never be anything more than just a crazed fan to them when they're my world," and, "He broke my heart … and he doesn't even know it."
Marks sees a direct connection between the conflicting, even assaulting language Petrarch uses in speaking of Laura and the similarly hyperbolic, paradoxical language of Tumblr:
Whether it's Benedict Cumberbatch, Tom Hiddleston, Harry Styles, or Kili the Ridiculously Hot Dwarf, the beloved celebrity is "perfect," "beautiful," "addictive," "overwhelming," "everything to me." But because he's unattainable, he causes deep suffering: "you Life Ruiner!"; "You bastard, why are you doing this to me?!"; "I can't even deal … I'm so done!"; "Crying!"; "Boom … my ovaries!"; or just simply, "Dead!"
Writer Isabel Cole echoes this sentiment. In a review of One Direction for One Week One Band, she declares, "I am very angry at every member of One Direction, all the time," and then wends her way through the complicated love/hate relationship of fans to their idols. Referencing Ani DiFranco's song "Untouchable Face," she asks:
Has anyone so artfully conveyed what it is to hate someone with every cell in your body for the crime of not loving you the way you could love them, given the chance? Is there a better summation of that brutal internal battle than "f you for existing in the first place"? That's a perfect line.
Marks agrees. The exclamation "Your face!" sums it all up: a celebration of ideal beauty, an accusation of (unintentional) cruelty, a cry of pain."
Marks tells the Dot that the collectively shared bliss of agony is all a part of the poetic experience, and, crucially, an expression of linguistic power:
The suffering itself becomes a sort of pleasure—when it's shared. The same thing happened with Petrarch's sonnets. Laura may have ignored them, but other poets adored them. They became so popular across Europe, Petrarchanism became the dominant poetic style for nearly 300 years, with almost every poet (including Shakespeare) emoting about the "sweet suffering" of unrequited love.
On her own Tumblr, Cole speaks for all Directioners — and articulates the zeitgeist of Tumblr — when she reblogs a gifset of 1D member Zayn Malik, and asks, "i literally, like, isn't this illegal? isn't this against a code of something, isn't there a law against it? why isn't there a change.org petition to STOP ZAYN MALIK'S HORRIBLE FACE?" The post Cole is reblogging has over 10,000 notes full of Tumblr's rapturous despair.
"On Tumblr, instead of suffering alone, people get to commiserate. And feel connected," Marks explains. "[E]ven if the adored celebrity is callously ... 'ignoring' them, other Tumblr fans will listen to their pain, and appreciate the passionate, wonderful, often hilarious wit they use to express it."
Cole calls this paradox of idolatry "too real and the perfect fantasy."
[T]hose contradictions reinforcing each other, colliding at the precise unbearable intersection of love and self-hate, where it's all too much and never enough, and I'm so mad about it, and it's become so important to me.
The paradox of idolatry has likewise become "so important" to millions of fans on Tumblr that they've evolved their own language — one might even say their own new form of poetry, complete with keymashing and invented words.
Whether they realize it or not, Cole, Marks's students, and innumerable fans on Tumblr are collectively evolving a 700-year-old tradition.
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Thursday, September 17, 2009
Exit Interview from the World of Poker
13 comments:
- Spaceman said...
Nobody tells the truth like a guy on his way out the door. It was always a pleasure working alongside you, from that first stop in Indiana to countless hours on the floor at the WSOP. I'll be looking forward to both mentions of poker in the next book, as well as whatever else surrounds them.
- Thu Sep 17, 05:01:00 PM PDT
- Dr. Pauly said...
Farewell, sir.
- Thu Sep 17, 05:07:00 PM PDT
- Otis said...
Well, that was way too kind of you. Also, very thoughtful. Safe travels, Shrink.
- Thu Sep 17, 05:11:00 PM PDT
- change100 said...
Godspeed, Shrink. Can't wait to see how the next chapter will unfold for you.
- Thu Sep 17, 07:31:00 PM PDT
- KenP said...
Good bye to the subject matter.
Good luck to a fine gentleman.
- Fri Sep 18, 08:25:00 AM PDT
If this is truly the soliloquy of a veteran actor on the way off the stage, then it was an excellent exit.
Much luck, Shrink, and perhaps we will bump into each other in the Midwest at some point or another.
- Fri Sep 18, 09:24:00 AM PDT
- dan michalski said...
Nice. More beef jerky for us!
You will be missed, but I have a feeling at least a few of us will see you at various points along the road ...
- Mon Sep 21, 08:40:00 AM PDT
- Falstaff said...
Be well, my friend.
- Mon Sep 21, 09:53:00 AM PDT
you so often made me laugh.
i'll miss that.
travel well and safe.
- Mon Sep 21, 04:08:00 PM PDT
- michele lewis said...
Conflicting emotions... sad for the loss... excited for your future... disappointed I owe you a run good bad beat... amused about Grisle. Boy, doesn't he pack a punch?
- Thu Sep 24, 11:41:00 PM PDT
- Short-Stacked Shamus said...
Thanks for the good (and useful) thoughts, as always. And look forward to reading more of them, pokery or not.
- Mon Sep 28, 03:53:00 AM PDT
- Drizztdj said...
Good luck on your travels sir.
If you know which event you're playing at Canterbury (especially if its O8) I might join you there :)
- Tue Sep 29, 07:18:00 AM PDT
- Jimmy Sommerfeld said...
Thanks Tim....
Of all of the bloggers, writers, etc. You are one of the only ones that has ever given me credit for anything in Poker. I appreciate your Hard work. I was not aware that you had hung up your reporting of poker. A sad day for me. I am Jealous of you, While I am making a good living directing poker tournaments, there are many things that I dislike. You have mentioned many. Sometimes I think going back to sacking Ms. Jones groceries would be a Great Idea... Good Luck and stay in touch.
- Tue Jul 05, 10:44:00 PM PDT


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A Geocentric theory is an astronomical theory which describes the universe as a Geocentric system, i.e., a system which puts the Earth in the center of the universe, and describes other objects from the point of view of the Earth. The Greek philosophers Aristotle and Plato described such a theory wherein all celestial bodies move on spheres around the earth, the moon on the innermost one and the fixed stars on the outermost one.
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Ptolemy invented the most elaborated geocentric system, allowing the planets not only to move on circles around the earth, but using epicycles. By adding further ideas, he was able to predict the motion of the planets quite well. Ptolemy's model was extremely popular from ancient times until the 1600s, as it had better agreement with observation than any alternative. His model was particularly effective at cosmological predictions.
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Since the advent of relativity theory in the early 1900s, the laws of physics have been written in covariant equations, meaning that they are equally valid in any frame. Heliocentric and geocentric plotting systems are both used today, depending on which allows more convenient calculations.
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Galileo never proved that Earth orbits the sun, and modern science acknowledges this.[1] While most are aware that Galileo was forced to recant Heliocentrism by the Inquisition, a lesser-known fact is that he wrote a voluntarily recantation of his own accord, several years later.[2]
Geocentrism and Newton's laws are not necessarily at odds with one another. Even granting that the barycenter of the Solar System is near the sun, it is theoretically possible, assuming a finite universe, for the barycenter of the universe to be centered on Earth. In this way, the entire universe can revolve around Earth, in accord with Newton's laws.
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A few Bible quotes use geocentric terms. While secularists and evolutionists attempt to use these quotes to discredit the Bible's hold on science, others dispute this usage, claiming that the usage of the terms is similar to the way people today use terms like "sunrise" and "sunset". In this account, the terminology is not wrong, but merely reflects the observer's view.[3]
- "He has fixed the earth firm, immovable." (1 Chronicles 16:30)
- "Thou hast fixed the earth immovable and firm ..." (Psalm 93:1)
- "Thou didst fix the earth on its foundation so that it never can be shaken." (Psalm 104:5)
- "...who made the earth and fashioned it, and himself fixed it fast..." (Isaiah 45:18)
- "The sun also ariseth, and the sun goeth down, and hasteth to his place where he arose." (Ecclesiastes 1:5)
- "Then spake Joshua to the LORD in the day when the LORD delivered up the Amorites before the children of Israel, and he said in the sight of Israel, Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon; and thou, Moon, in the valley of Ajalon. And the sun stood still, and the moon stayed, until the people had avenged themselves upon their enemies. Is not this written in the book of Jasher? So the sun stood still in the midst of heaven, and hasted not to go down about a whole day." (Joshua 10, 12-13)
- ↑ The Accuracy of Galileo's Observations and the Search for Stellar Parallax.
- ↑ Le Opere Di Galileo Galilei.
- ↑ Faulkner, Danny R. (August 1, 2001). Geocentrism and Creation. Answers in Genesis. Retrieved November 22, 2016.


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