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|Perfect 10
|9 out of 10 : Excellent
|8 out of 10 : Very Good
|7 out of 10 : Good
|6 out of 10 : Average
|5 out of 10 : Below Average
|4 out of 10 : Poor
|3 out of 10 : Bad
|2 out of 10 : Very Bad
|1 out of 10 : Painful
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|2007-09-12, 16:36
|Link #101
I'll keep walking.
Hah, as expected!d A comprehensive and much interesting response
And personally, I very much understand their fear of opening the doors to their culture to people of other countries, not knowing what their responses will be. That's a normal thing to do, and the Otaku/Otaku culture won't be the first or the last to try to shield themselves from foreign influence. However, I don't think that most of us would >ever< like to see a Hollywood-based adaptation of anime, or even the gross and perverted anime-wannabes that are popping up like mushrooms in old socks. Hell, we even tend to marginalize Anime series that are too 'americanized', what would happen if they came up with "Superfriends in Tokyo"?
In my case, I've always been amazed by japanese entertainment. And I do mean always, because I know for a fact that from the moment I could walk, I was already swinging a stick around and saying I was a samurai. It's something that was always there - tokusatsu, couple of anime series here and there. It wasn't something that happened very often, though, since the amount of material wasn't enough to reach out to a lot of kids my age, and so I always felt a little out-of-place. Of course nowadays you can get Anime almost everywhere, and it's not uncommon to see kids yelling "Kamehameha" at eachother. But as I grew up, so did my interest for Japanese culture. In fact, if I hadn't met my nemesis ( the computer ), I would probably be speaking Japanese and have a vast knowledge of History and culture. But oh well, at least now I have people to ask this stuff.
And personally, I didn't know Light Novels weren't all that popular among the grown-ups. I remember seeing a couple of articles on how a large number of housewifes were going to a certain district of Akiba ( I think it was Akiba, but correct me if I'm wrong. ) to buy Yaoi/shounen-ai novels, doujins and stuff of the sort, so that might have given me a wrong impression .
And I do feel sorry for the country girl from Takeshima. I probably have a worse taste for art, music and the ancients than her dog does. But at least I can use crayons effectively. - Insert Kona-chan's "ok" here. - But from personal experience, Japanese girls aren't the only ones who fantasize about other places. A lot of the otaku girls back in my country did, too, and the lack of information, news and cultural knowledge of Japan eventually got some of them into thinking it was this Magical place where you were bound to encounter samurai fighting on the streets and people carrying Katanas into Kendo training, among other things. And really, you tend to deviate a lot from reality if you don't pay a lot of attention to where you're standing.
|2007-09-12, 20:55
|Link #104
Bemused Scholar
Join Date: Jan 2007
Age: 31
|2007-09-12, 21:16
|Link #105
Join Date: Feb 2007
BTW the Japanese press just reported that the stock of all major manga publishing houses jumped after Abe's resignation. Rule of the Otaku is upon us! Soon Hina-Ichigo will be on the Thousand Yen Bill.
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|2007-09-12, 22:05
|Link #106
I'll keep walking.
I'm dying for one of those
And we're really going off-topic in here, aren't we?
|2007-09-12, 22:22
|Link #108
Taking in Life's hits
Join Date: Jul 2007
Spoiler for saving space:
I'm not sure about the international camaraderie of otakus, but I've got to say that I love seeing the otaku trio together. Their interaction is quite a contrast to the "normals." They really should have been introduced earlier.
|2007-09-12, 23:06
|Link #109
Join Date: Feb 2007
Donbei Fun
To commemorate the bitter failure of Izumi Soujirou's attempt at a wonderful midnight snacking of Kitsune Donbei, I went out today and got meself a cart load of Nissin Donbei - the regular Kansai version Kitsune, Super-sized Kitsune, Tempura Udon, and Tempura soba versions. I'm going to ease Soujirou's pain by making a successfully bowl of Kitsune Donbei in his name. First I make sure my trusty Zojirushi hot water dispenser is filled with filtered water, because I will NOT suffer his pain, being fooled by a man's own appliance. After 5 minutes of agonizing wait, success! The thick, white udon noodles, although not exactly the real thing, is easily one of the best instant noodle ever made. The soft, sweet, chewy Kitsune, very close to the real thing! Can't believe I make all this in 5 minutes. This is easily the best midnight snack a man can get, except when the man's wife ate half of it. But Soujirou! Your suffering isn't for vain! I have avenged you!
For those who never knew the joy of the Kitsune Donbei, a Japanese favorite since the 70's, here a photo of it. Go buy it for Soujirou!
If you've never made an instant noodle, here's a youtube video showing you exactly how to prepare and enjoy a Kansai Kitsune Donbei. Learn and repeat!
Spoiler for Unhide to view Donbei Video:
Oh the things I do for Lucky Star... weekly purchase of Choco Cronet and Pocky, and now Donbei. Damn you KyoAni!
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|2007-09-12, 23:47
|Link #110
I'll keep walking.
Hahaha, know what? I actually do feel like going out to get myself some real Ramen after this excited post. Perhaps I'll look for a Japanese market around here, although there aren't probably very many. But oh, come on. You guys do live the good life, don't you? I never had the chance of eating pocky... Kagamisama and Suiseiseki-chan eat it all the time... Why do I must endure this suffering?
Spoiler for For 4chan random yet funny crap:
And oh jebus... That Ramen actually does look pretty good. Sucks it's that time of the night when I can't even breathe without waking up half of the household... otherwise I'd go cook some Western/tasteless brick ramen just to pay tribute to Soujirou-san.
<- Okay, we're all starting to sound really creepy. Perhaps a little break is needed...
|2007-09-12, 23:55
|Link #111
Taking in Life's hits
Join Date: Jul 2007
Ahh, I miss those. Just seeing that video makes me want a bowl of Kitsune udon. I think I'll get some the next time I'm at the Asian store. Hopefully they'll have a Nissin Donbei since they don't always have it. But even other brands beats a Maruchan instant noodle anyday. Those just taste terrible.
|2007-09-13, 01:28
|Link #112
Obey the Darkly Cute ...
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: On the whole, I'd rather be in Kyoto ...
Age: 61
They sell hot water dispensers here in the States but the most common ones are sold to be installed in sinks as permament features.
We bought a two liter insta-heater dispenser that I installed in our kitchen sink. It is the absolute hit of the household and unlike those tabletop units, it is connected to the water supply and never "runs out".
|2007-09-13, 02:45
|Link #113
Gone for Good
Join Date: Apr 2004
|2007-09-13, 04:14
|Link #114
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Join Date: Jul 2007
Ah sorry for my comments..i completely forgotten that Minami Iwasaki and Yuki Nagato shared the same seiyuu -_-
Well i rather hope they putting Kagami on the thousand yen bill instead of RM dolls..
|2007-09-13, 08:48
|Link #115
Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: New York, NY
Hah, I had no idea Taro Aso was a manga fan, that's pretty funny. However I wouldn't get too excited. In most Parliamentary systems, when a PM is replaced without a general election for the electing body (in Japan's case the lower house) his ability to govern and maintain power is fairly weak. They usually end up dissolving the government and calling for new elections (kind of like Putin did this week!). Kind of off topic, but hey LS was talking about elections a couple of episodes ago and its affects on the interruption of anime!
|2007-09-13, 09:23
|Link #116
Yesterday afternoon, I just purchased bought some Nissin noodle cups: kitsune udon, shoyu ramen, tempura soba, yakisoba, and salt ramen. Remember, folks: When buying Japanese noodles, buy the Japanese manufactured ones! Just because another country's product has the same brand name, it doesn't mean it's the same noodle! ZS, you can also find Pocky there, as well as a ton of other things (I also bought some sweet bread, as well as sweet rice flour and azuki beans for making daifuku and taiyaki--ok, not really taiyaki, since I don't have a sea-breem shaped pan.) It'll take four business days to get to me, though. Oh, what a tragic wait!
I'll have to boil water the old fashioned way, though. What a trial! At least the tap at work has a built-in heater (well, it would be good if the water here was potable). I miss my old dorm, where the hot water straight from the tap was near boiling.
|2007-09-13, 09:27
|Link #117
Gone for Good
Join Date: Apr 2004
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|2007-09-13, 10:28
|Link #118
I'll keep walking.
My eyes are wet and I have a smile that beats the limits of my face. Really, really thank you for this early birthday present! I'll make myself a lifetime order of Pocky and experience the same joy Kagamisama does all the time! Cookies your way.
And although I'm not really versed with Japanese politics, if I remember corectly, didn't Taro Aso say something along the lines of "Japan will conquer the world through Anime", or am I fantasizing? Maybe not in those words... but oh well, bring it on, Taro-san. So that's the reason Manga/Anime studio stocks went higher, huh? The world is pretty interesting, after all.
|2007-09-13, 12:02
|Link #119
Evil Little Pixie
Sorry I'm a bit late and invading the thread again, but when I want to make some ramen and I'm on the go, I plug in the never-has-made-coffee-before coffee maker. The water comes out pipin' hot and I just pour it in the bowl of noodles and cover them up. In a few minutes they're cooked. It's cheaper than buying a water heater and it works just as well.
That said, there are two coffee makers in my home; one for making coffee, and one for making noodles.
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SHANE A. "ANDY" SMITH and
White v. Allied Mutual Ins. Co., 29 Kan. App. 2d 797, 31 P.3d 328 (2001), is analyzed and applied.
Appeal from Jefferson District Court; GARY L. NAFZIGER; judge. Opinion filed February 28, 2003. Affirmed.
Paul D. Post, of Topeka, for the appellant.
William A. Larson, of Gehrt & Roberts, Chartered, of Topeka, for the appellees.
Before MARQUARDT, P.J., LEWIS and PIERRON, JJ.
PIERRON, J.: Jason F. Ferguson filed this interlocutory appeal from the district court's decision granting summary judgment to State Farm Automobile Insurance Company (State Farm) on his breach of contract claim. We affirm.
Ferguson, Curtis Brading, and Shane Smith were involved in a single car accident in a vehicle owned by Smith's parents. State Farm was the liability carrier on the Smith car. Fifteen-year-old Ferguson, who claimed to have no memory of the accident, sustained injuries as a result of it. Smith and Brading informed police that Smith had been driving the vehicle. Smith also told State Farm claims specialist Ted Ash that he was the driver.
State Farm agreed to settle Ferguson's claim for $75,000, subject to approval of the court in a "friendly" hearing. However, prior to any action being filed, State Farm learned from Smith's father that Ferguson, not Smith, had been driving the car when the accident occurred. Smith and Brading had originally told police that Smith was the driver because they did not want Ferguson to get in trouble for driving without a license. Subsequently, State Farm withdrew its offer to settle the claim based on the fact that it was Ferguson's own negligence which caused the accident.
Thereafter, Ferguson filed a combined tort/breach of contract claim against State Farm and Smith, alleging (1) negligence against Smith, (2) breach of contract against State Farm, and (3) negligent entrustment against Smith. In his deposition testimony, Ferguson admitted to driving the car when the accident occurred and has since withdrawn the first claim.
Ferguson filed a motion for summary judgment as to his claim against State Farm. State Farm also filed for summary judgment. The district court granted summary judgment in favor of State Farm, finding that Ferguson and his mother
"did not have authority to compromise and settle the minor plaintiff's personal injury claim without the approval of the court. An attempted compromise settlement does not become effective by the consent of the parent and next friend, but by the judgment of the court acting upon the facts judicially ascertained."
The court also ruled that counsel for Ferguson and State Farm were both mistaken as to the identity of the driver, and concluded that "either the lack of authority to create a binding settlement contract or the mutual mistake of fact are grounds upon which to grant the summary judgment of State Farm and deny the motion of the plaintiffs."
Following the district court's ruling, this court entered its decision in White v. Allied Mutual Ins. Co., 29 Kan. App. 2d 797, 31 P.3d 328 (2001). Based on that opinion, Ferguson filed a second motion for summary judgment and a motion for reconsideration. The district court denied both motions but entered findings pursuant to K.S.A. 60-2102(b), which provided Ferguson an immediate appeal to this court.
Ferguson timely appeals. He has also filed a motion for attorney fees with this court.
Ferguson argues the district court erred in denying his motion for summary judgment and granting summary judgment in favor of State Farm. He contends State Farm was bound by the settlement agreement and that there was no mistake of fact which voided the agreement.
"'Summary judgment is appropriate when the pleadings, depositions, answers to interrogatories, and admissions on file, together with the affidavits, show that there is no genuine issue as to any material fact and that the moving party is entitled to judgment as a matter of law. The trial court is required to resolve all facts and inferences which may reasonably be drawn from the evidence in favor of the party against whom the ruling is sought. When opposing a motion for summary judgment, an adverse party must come forward with evidence to establish a dispute as to a material fact. In order to preclude summary judgment, the facts subject to the dispute must be material to the conclusive issues in the case. On appeal, we apply the same rules and where we find reasonable minds could differ as to the conclusions drawn from the evidence, summary judgment must be denied. [Citation omitted.]'" Mitchell v. City of Wichita, 270 Kan. 56, 59, 12 P.3d 402 (2000) (quoting Bergstrom v. Noah, 266 Kan. 847, 871-72, 974 P.2d 531 [1999]).
The district court granted summary judgment to State Farm for two reasons. First, it found that Ferguson had no authority to enter into a binding settlement agreement because the friendly hearing had not occurred as of the time that State Farm found out that Smith had not been driving the car and rescinded the agreement. Second, the court found that there was a mutual mistake of fact as to who was driving the car.
A settlement agreement is a type of contract and, therefore, is governed by contract law. See Marquis v. State Farm Fire & Cas. Co., 265 Kan. 317, 324, 961 P.2d 1213 (1998). A minor is not bound by a settlement agreement until court approval has been obtained. Childs v. Williams, 243 Kan. 441, 441, 757 P.2d 302 (1988). The question presented in this case is whether the insurance company has the same right.
The Court of Appeals recently addressed the issue of whether an insurer is bound by a settlement agreement between the period of the acceptance of the offer and the court's review of the settlement in White, 29 Kan. App. 2d 797. Fifteen-year-old Elizabeth White was a passenger in a car owned by her father, Steven, and driven by her boyfriend when the car was involved in a single car accident. Allied Mutual Insurance Company (Allied), the liability carrier on the car, agreed with Steven to settle Elizabeth's claim for $45,000 subject to approval of the district court in a "'friendly'" hearing. Following initial contact with Allied's counsel, Steven heard nothing until he phoned Allied several months later and was informed that Allied had decided not to settle after becoming aware of legal authority supporting a defense to Elizabeth's claim.
Steven filed suit against Allied, seeking specific enforcement of the settlement agreement. The district court granted summary judgment in favor of Allied, ruling that Steven "'had no legal authority to enter into a binding settlement contract on behalf of his minor daughter and, therefore, Allied lawfully withdrew its offer to settle. Without the existence of a settlement contract the plaintiff's breach of contract lawsuit must be dismissed.'" 29 Kan. App. 2d at 798.
On appeal, this court stated that the public policy behind the requirement of court approval is protection of the minor's interests, not those of the minor's opponent, and held that Allied was bound by an executory accord not to revoke or attempt to withdraw its offer prior to the friendly hearing. 29 Kan. App. 2d at 800, 802.
Here, State Farm withdrew its settlement offer after Ferguson accepted it and before the friendly hearing was scheduled. State Farm concedes that White controls the first part of this issue. We find that State Farm was bound by executory accord not to revoke the offer. However, the question remains whether there was a mutual mistake of fact which precluded enforcement of the settlement agreement.
Ferguson alleges there was no mutual mistake of fact. If there was a mutual mistake of fact, Ferguson contends this finding should be regarded as a genuine issue to be presented to the jury.
While the law favors the compromise and settlement of disputes, a compromise may be set aside where both parties are mistaken as to the facts which form the basis of the compromise. International Motor Rebuilding Co. v. United Motor Exchange, Inc., 193 Kan. 497, 500-01, 393 P.2d 992 (1964). Before a compromise settlement will be set aside for mutual mistake, it must be established that the mistake was of such nature that the parties were caused to do something they did not intend to do. 193 Kan. at 504.
It is undisputed that both parties were mistaken as to who was driving the vehicle. State Farm was not aware that Ferguson was driving the Smith vehicle at the time of the settlement negotiations. Ferguson's counsel was also unaware Ferguson had been the driver and, by his own admission, did not learn the truth until he heard Ferguson's deposition testimony.
Clearly, the identity of the driver of the accident vehicle was an important piece of information that would form the basis of the settlement negotiations. It defies logic to think that Ferguson's counsel would have brought a claim against State Farm, or that State Farm would have agreed to settle with Ferguson, had both parties known the true driver of the vehicle.
Ferguson argues there was no mutual mistake of fact because he knew he was the driver. Ferguson further alleges that if there was a mistake, State Farm "assumed the risk" due to its poor adjusting of the claim.
Whether a party assumes the risk of mistake has been discussed by our Supreme Court:
"'Since the parties assume the risk of mistake as to matters intended to be resolved by the compromise, a compromise and settlement is not defective merely because the parties were ignorant or mistaken as to the full extent of their rights. In order for a mistake to have legal significance and to constitute a basis for invalidating a compromise, it must be based upon the parties' unconscious ignorance; it must not relate to one of the uncertainties of which the parties were conscious and which it was the purpose of the compromise to resolve and put at rest. A person who enters into a compromise, consciously ignorant of a fact but meaning to waive all inquiry into it, is not mistaken, in the legal sense; in such a situation it is the intention of the parties to accept the consequences of uncertainty.'" In re Estate of Thompson, 226 Kan. 437, 441, 601 P.2d 1105 (1979) (quoting 15A Am. Jur. 2d, Compromise and Settlement § 33, p. 806 [1976]).
The purpose of settlement in the present case was not to discover who was driving the vehicle. During settlement negotiations, State Farm had no reason to question who was driving the car. Smith told Ash he was the driver, which the police report corroborated. Ferguson claimed to have no memory of the accident and stated he did not know who had been driving. Ferguson's own attorney represented in a letter to State Farm that Ferguson was a passenger in the car. It was only after State Farm received word from Smith's father that Ferguson was the driver that State Farm had reason to become suspicious. State Farm did not assume the risk of mistake.
There is substantial evidence to support the district court's finding that there was a mutual mistake of fact as to who was driving the accident vehicle.
In addition, we note a compromise and settlement may be repudiated in the presence of fraud or bad faith. Thompson, 226 Kan. at 440. The district court found that both parties were mistaken as to the identity of the driver, but noted that "[i]f Jason Ferguson had knowledge to the contrary and did not provide it to his attorney such silence would be grounds upon which to set aside the tentative compromise settlement." If Ferguson did know that he had been driving but failed to disclose this information, it should be considered fraud or bad faith and the settlement agreement should be set aside.
The mistake as to the identity of the driver was sufficient to void the settlement agreement, and the district court properly granted summary judgment in favor of State Farm. Additionally, because the accident was likely caused by Ferguson's own negligence, enforcement of the settlement agreement would result in unjust enrichment.
Ferguson filed a motion with this court seeking attorney fees. He requests attorney fees under K.S.A. 40-256, which allows for assessment of such fees against an insurance company if the company has refused without just cause or excuse to pay the full amount of the underlying loss.
As a preliminary matter, it does not appear that Ferguson's affidavit filed by his attorney sufficiently complied with the requirements set forth in Supreme Court Rule 7.07(b) (2002 Kan. Ct. R. Annot. 52). Pursuant to this rule, an affidavit must be attached to the motion for attorney fees specifying: "(1) the nature and extent of the services rendered; (2) the time expended on the appeal; and (3) the factors considered in determining the reasonableness of the fee. (See KRPC 1.5 Fees.)" KRPC Rule 1.5(a) (2002 Kan. Ct. R. Annot. 352) provides that the following factors are to be used in assessing the reasonableness of a fee:
"(1) the time and labor required, the novelty and difficulty of the questions involved, and the skill requisite to perform the legal service properly;
"(2) the likelihood, if apparent to the client, that the acceptance of the particular employment will preclude other employment by the lawyer;
"(3) the fee customarily charged in the locality for similar legal services;
"(4) the amount involved and the results obtained:
"(5) the time limitations imposed by the client or by the circumstances;
"(6) the nature and length of the professional relationship with the client;
"(7) the experience, reputation, and ability of the lawyer or lawyers performing the services; and
"(8) whether the fee is fixed or contingent."
Although the affidavit accompanying Ferguson's motion for attorney fees lists the services rendered and the time spent on the appeal, the affidavit does not explain how the attorney arrived at the hourly fee of $175. Rather, the motion merely states that counsel believes this amount to be "a fair and reasonable fee request in this matter."
Ferguson has not prevailed on the issue in controversy and for that reason is also not entitled to attorney fees.

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There was a moment during my week with the Foton Tunland 4×4 where I realised, that if I'd driven down the road with a blind fold on, I could momentarily be forgiven for believing I was behind the wheel of a current generation Toyota Hilux, because the noise of the engine, the power delivery, the feel of the transmission shift, and the steering feel and ride quality were very similar if not damned near identical - Wheeltalk.co.nzClick to read more reviews.
Push the Tunland along and the vehicle's handling is impressive. Utes can appear to bounce their way down the road, especially when empty, but this vehicle feels very balanced and its high stance is never apparent - Stuff.co.nz, MotoringClick to read more reviews.
I've had my Tunland for 3 years and haven't had one problem with it. It has been in some pretty extreme places...I have even used my Tunland to pull an 8 wheeler stock truck! - Ahitoro HoughClick to read more reviews.
It's a great looking ute. It is big and solid – I definitely wasn't expecting this, I was expecting something small and clunky and that it would not quite stack up to the competition, I was wrong - Ido DrentClick to read more reviews.
You cannot complain about the power or the credentials of its Cummins power plant which has strong pulling power throughout the rev range with very little turbo lag - Drive.com.auClick to read more reviews.
The cabin features decent levels of fit and finish, with tight and consistent panel and plastic gaps that are better than some of the dearer utes we've driven. Occupant space is impressive too with enough room for a six-foot-tall driver and rear passenger. Back seat head-space is excellent, and while the bench seat means those in the rear will have their knees up, there's enough room to do so - Caradvice.com.auClick to read more reviews.
This latest-gen Tunland is a well built and well priced dual-cab ute with a bloody good Cummins turbo-diesel engine and a stack of other top-quality components thrown in for good measure - Carsguide.com.auClick to read more reviews.
We lent New Zealand actor Ido Drent a Foton Tunland to help with his new house build, here's his honest opinion about how it worked out on the job.Read more


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Steam starts selling non-game software, Microsoft is going to launch stores across the country, a Microsoft-made Windows phone may be on the way, and Facebook's help center gets a little more helpful.
Now Available - Software on Steam, 10% off! Steam, the popular online video game store, started selling other software today. It only has few apps at the moment—including 3DMark Vantage, CameraBag 2, GameMaker: Studio, Source Filmmaker, and others—but Steam says more programs are on the way. In celebration, all apps are currently 10% off. [Steam News]
- Microsoft to open its holiday pop-up retail stores on October 26 Microsoft is opening over 30 retail stores this holiday season, and new information on the Microsoft Store page now confirms that they'll be opening on October 26. So, if you're in the market for a new Windows PC, Windows Phone, or some peripherals, you'll be able to grab them (along with support) at one of Microsoft's many new locations nationwide. [ZDNet]
- With Windows Phone still failing to gain traction, Microsoft plans to launch its own smartphone Both Boy Genius Report and WPCentral are reporting that Microsoft is supposedly working on their own model of Windows phone, much like Google's Nexus line of phones. It hasn't been confirmed by Microsoft yet, but if you're looking to get a Windows phone, it may be worth waiting for the Microsoft model. [Boy Genius Report]
- Improved Tools to Support Your Facebook Experience Facebook's Help Center went through a big overhaul today, making it easier to browse and search for answers to your questions. You can see the top six topics as well as topics that lots of people have searched for recently, perfect for when Facebook introduces another confusing feature. [Facebook Safety]


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by Tom Chillemi
This Sunday, February 9, at 8 p.m. marks the moment 50 years ago when The Beatles performed live on The Ed Sullivan Show. In a country of 190 million, an estimated 73 million people witnessed the electrifying event.
Things would never be the same.
The Beatles music and harmonies set up a vibration that excited everyone who was a fan and made them "happy inside." In less than three minutes a Beatles song would have you humming the tune or singing the chorus for hours.
The Beatles' fresh unique sound, and those "mop-top" haircuts, energized a young generation, sparked "Beatlemania," and helped set the 1960s on a new course.
Their music was a voice for a new generation that would grow up in the 1960s, a time of change. The Beatles inspired people to reach higher.
The Ed Sullivan Show was only the beginning. It would be years before we realized the full meaning of what we had just seen. No one could have imagined where this musical revolution would lead.
Their songs left you wanting more. And there was much more to come.
I was eight years old when The Beatles arrived in the United States in February 1964, and I remember it like it was last week. My good friend Lynda Gann and I were so excited to watch The Ed Sullivan Show, but I knew if I screamed like the girls in the audience, my dad would make me turn off the television, which was the only one in the house and black-and-white of course.
Lynda and I bought their records, "I Want to Hold Your Hand," "She Loves You," and "Please, Please Me," and we played them over and over on her record player.
I never got to see The Beatles live, but I've seen Paul McCartney live twice; the first time with my brother, and the second time, I took my daughter Rebecca with me. That was a special thrill. My children have grown up listening to Beatles music, and both love it too.
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Drawing Through the Found: Collage Techniques & Concepts
Lisha Bai
Materials fee: $15*
This covers the cost of shared materials pre-purchased by your instructor. Please bring cash or check payable to the instructor to your FIRST CLASS SESSION.
*This fee does not cover the cost of materials listed below.
Required materials for the FIRST class:
x-acto knife and extra blades
cutting mat 12 x 18 inches
metal ruler (at least 24" in length)
pencils and erasers
Golden Fluid Matte Medium (8oz)
brushes (inexpensive): 1 larger brush around 1-1/2 inch and 1 smaller brush around 1/2 inch to apply matte medium
Letraset Studiotac Dry Mount Repositionable Adhesive (1 pack)
Strathmore 300 Series Bristol Board Pad (smooth) 11" x 14" or other heavier weight bristol pad (at least 2 ply)
Found Papers (e.g. newspaper, magazines, labels, packaging, bags, cardboard, etc.)
Materials for subsequent classes:
*You may need the following materials. We'll discuss these after the first class session:
additional collage papers and materials (e.g. rice paper, colored paper, fabric and found materials)
gel medium
paintbrushes of various sizes
oil pastels
colored pencils
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Blick Art Materials— 1-5 Bond Street between Broadway and Lafayette
New York Central Art Supply—3rd Ave. between 10th and 11th Streets
Utrecht—111 East 4th Ave. between 11th and 12th Streets
Pearl Paint—308 Canal Street
Some of these stores will give you a student discount if you present your Cooper Union Continuing Education registration receipt.


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This sponsorship not only helps our brand because kids then associate our name with fun, but it gives us a continuous means of outreach and wellness education.
Lake Grove, N.Y. (PRWEB) January 21, 2013
Cohen Children's Medical Center of New York recently sponsored a soft play area at a nearby shopping center to help share wellness tips and to build its brand awareness in the community.
Executive Director Kevin McGeachy explained the sponsorship by saying, "Being a hospital, we have to figure out where we stand on wellness and prevention. It would be nice if we could close the hospital because we're so great at preventing illness. This sponsorship not only helps our brand because kids then associate our name with fun, but it gives us a continuous means of outreach and wellness education."
The new indoor playground is located at Smith Haven Mall, which is in Lake Grove, NY.
"The play area has received more positive feedback than any other amenity that we've introduced at Smith Haven Mall," says Ashley Jacobsen, Smith Haven's Director of Marketing and Business Development.
McGeachy says he first read a magazine article about a hospital-sponsored play area in West Virginia and he promptly called his marketing team.
"I see this as a great way for us to leverage our brand and to achieve our community outreach goals," says McGeachy. "If it was just a play area with no opportunity for us to do education and prevention, I'm not sure I would have been interested. This play area gives us high, high visibility."
Cohen Children's Medical Center regularly hosts events at the play area, such as its recent Medical Build-A-Bear workshop. The hospital also hosts car seat safety workshops and other health/safety events.
The new soft playground was designed, manufactured and installed by PLAYTIME, LLC. PLAYTIME is the global provider of unique, interactive healthy play areas and playground equipment for indoor, outdoor and water play. The company's themed soft play areas drive traffic and enhance customers' brands. Thousands of families experience PLAYTIME every day at shopping centers, restaurants, airports, stadiums, childcare, healthcare centers, fitness centers, churches, resorts, recreation centers, water parks and museums – any place that kids play.


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Monday, February 25, 2008
Why Americans Need To Pay More Attention To Politics
Ms. Simpson testified, under oath, to Congress about Karl Rove's involvement in politicizing the DOJ. What you may not know, however, is that her house mysteriously caught fire and she was run off the road in the weeks leading up to her testimony.
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Tutorials are the fastest way of finding out what KDE will do for you, and how to do it. Here is a list of currently available tutorials for KDE2 development.
|If you are working with a newer version of KDE, such as KDE3 or KDE4, these tutorials are probably of limited use to you. For tutorials covering more current KDE development topics, visit the main tutorials page


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ST. LOUIS — After a two-year hiatus, a historic plane once owned by Charles Lindbergh has returned to Lambert-St. Louis International Airport (STL) to hang once again over the C Concourse Checkpoint in Terminal 1.
The Missouri History Museum recently completed a nine-hour installation of the 1934 D-127 Monocoupe aircraft.
Wings and other equipment were attached onsite prior to raising the plane into position. The museum is sharing the experience of the complicated installation through a time lapse video.
The Missouri History Museum has also installed a new interactive history kiosk which is in line-of-sight of the aircraft from the upper level of Terminal 1 overlooking the checkpoint atrium. The kiosk displays the history of Lambert and Charles Lindbergh and also chronicles the efforts by the museum to save and exhibit this historic aircraft over the years, including its most recent restoration.
The plane was removed in March 2011 to make way for terminal renovations. During that time, the museum conducted a historic conservation of the aircraft, which included preserving the aircraft's original fabric skin.
The Monocoupe was originally installed at Lambert in 1979. The accumulation of dust and other airborne pollutants over 30 years made it necessary for the plane to undergo a complete conservation to ensure the continued preservation of the aircraft. Stress fractures along several seams in the plane's fabric covering and the tears caused by general wear required professional attention.
Lindbergh's Monocoupe plane was built by Lambert Aircraft Corp. in August 1934. It was just one of three planes built completely in St. Louis by the company. He donated it to the Missouri History Museum in 1940.
Conservator Linda Landry managed the conservation effort. She consulted with professional aircraft conservators and performed chemical test analysis on the plane's paint and fabric to confirm they were working with original materials.
This is exceedingly rare for an aircraft to have maintained its original covering for so long, museum officials noted.
Once the age of the fabric and covering was established, all effort was made to retain the historic integrity of the plane.
The Monocoupe was constructed using fabric and dope, a process still used today. In this type of construction, fabric is fitted over the frame and then covered with several layers of airplane dope, a lacquer that is used to protect, waterproof, and make taut the cloth surfaces of airplanes. As the dope dries it shrinks, causing the material to stretch tightly over the frame, creating a smooth surface. Unfortunately, the dope never stops shrinking, so over the years the ever-tightening fabric can put pressure on the framework until the fabric either tears to relieve the stress or weaker parts of the interior structure snap, museum officials explain.
The Missouri History Museum conservation team repaired seams and tears with precision patches and paint compounds. A full inch by inch cleaning of the interior and exterior of the plane was undertaken to remove nearly 34 years of accumulated contaminants.


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One of the finest vocal performances ever--and greatest Good Friday song--featuring Sam Cooke with the Soul Stirrers, mid-1950s.
Greg Mitchell on media, politics, film, music, TV, comedy and more. "Not here, not here the darkness, in this twittering world." -- T.S. Eliot
Friday, April 14, 2017
When Good Friday Comes
Posted by Greg Mitchell at 8:34:00 AM
is author of a dozen books (click on covers at right), including the new "THE TUNNELS: Escapes Under the Berlin Wall and the Historic Films the JFK White House Tried to Kill." He was the longtime editor of Editor & Publisher. Email: email@example.com. Twitter: @GregMitch
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- Gene said...
watta song. great day to post it greg. hard to praise w/out conflict but if there's a place to do it, this is that place. This is more my style but we've all seen that, haven't we? That's a new Sam Cooke performance for me and I would imagine for most. Happy Easter and onward.
- Friday, March 29, 2013
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spiral here from the pavement. we are about to embark on our very ambitious world tour in a couple days. march 1 is the first date and it's in a place very special to our hearts… new zealand. we've got the great 3d's opening so it's gonna be a legendary night. we then travel across the tasman sea to my future country of residence, australia (i'm actually writing this to you from brisbane where i'm spending a few days torturing my fiance and her family practicing the songs before the tour starts). speaking of practice, we recently had two good weeks of practice in portland. it was the first time some of us had been in the same room together for close to 10 years. i think we all were a little nervous. it started off pretty rough, except for our drummer who probably practiced the most. but… by the time we had finished, most of the 40 plus songs we had rehearsed were sounding pretty good. we're really looking forward to the year ahead and seeing all the fans out there digging the music makes it all worthwhile. so thank you for buying tickets. we've also got the cool 'qtp' best of comp coming out march 9. it was compiled by the band and includes all our faves from the catalog.
also… thanks to all for buying the spiral stairs record. i'm planning some shows in the new year in between the pavement maelstrom. we're set to play all tomorrow's parties in the uk and maybe some others around those festival dates. as for north america, look for shows in june or july in the midwest and east coast.
in the meantime, enjoy these photos from portland…
http://www.crookedrain.com http://www.spiralstairsmusic.com


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MONROE — The highway has been his livelihood and his nemesis.
It has taken four close friends he admired — his former administrative aide and her husband, a nurse married for nearly 50 years, a father of four who adopted and fostered 13 other children.
Fred Walser said he talked to each of those people just hours before they died in crashes on U.S. 2.
Their memories help explain why fixing the highway is so personal to the retired Washington State Patrol collision investigator.
In more than 28 years as a trooper, Walser examined unspeakable carnage along the ribbon of unforgiving roadway. In fog and rain, the glare of sun and the black of night, the highway sometimes brought him to strangers' doorsteps to deliver tragic news.
For the past 16 years, Walser and a band of volunteers known as the U.S. 2 Traffic Safety Coalition have given their time, hoping to tame a 63-mile stretch of the highway winding east from Everett's edge through scenic farmland and forest to the Stevens Pass summit.
During that time, the coalition has met monthly, often with state Department of Transportation engineers at the table. It has been a predictable presence in Olympia where state lawmakers on the House and Senate transportation committees have come to address Walser by his first name. And it has worked tirelessly to provide a voice for small communities straddling the largely two-lane highway.
Since 1999, there have been 68 deaths along U.S. 2 between Everett and the summit, according to state statistics. That includes 60 fatal accidents with at least 34 caused by drivers crossing the centerline.
During that time, there have been nearly 900 collisions that resulted in roughly 1,600 injuries.
Safer than it once was
What can be lost in the big numbers is that U.S. 2 has become safer than it once was. Fewer people are dying and getting hurt there these days.
The state has spent more than $90 million on the stretch since 2007.
That total includes $67 million for safety and capacity improvements and repairs in the lowlands and $23 million at the summit. Those expenses were separate from annual maintenance costs.
In 2008, the state installed rumble strips along the centerline and shoulders between Monroe and Sultan. Rumble strips also were placed on the centerline between Sultan and Stevens Pass. The centerline rumble strips are designed to warn drivers who start to drift toward oncoming traffic. The number of fatal crashes along the more than 40 miles with rumble strips has dropped from 11 during the five years before they were installed to six in the five years since. The number of injury collisions in that area declined from 102 to 59 during that time.
"There has been a pretty significant reduction any way you slice it," state Department of Transportation regional traffic engineer Mark Leth said.
Two electronic reader boards installed along the highway in 2009 keep running tallies of days between serious accidents that once seemed so commonplace. The longest stretch reached 196 days, ending in February 2011.
Earlier this year, construction crews finished a new over crossing from Bickford Avenue to westbound U.S. 2 in Snohomish to reduce the risk of serious collisions. The project, which included culvert replacements, cost more than $22 million.
The U.S. 2-Bickford Avenue intersection was the site of more than two dozen collisions between 2006 and September 2013. More than 20 involved drivers turning left from Bickford Avenue onto U.S. 2. One man's pickup truck was hit broadside by a dump truck in 2006. Greg Solberg, 52, lingered for more than 13 months before he died of complications from the traumatic brain injury he suffered in the crash.
The new route now takes traffic over U.S. 2 rather than across it.
All the work in recent years has been part of a coordinated strategy, Leth said.
"Our approach is the rumble strips for starters and taking on the highest-needs locations when money is available," he said.
Another example of a high-need fix is a $4.9 million roundabout at Sultan's Rice Road. That's where there had been 20 collisions in a five-year period. In February 2010, Bruce Ramsey, a popular lieutenant at the Monroe Correctional Complex, was driving his motorcycle west on U.S. 2 when it collided with a car that pulled onto the highway from Rice Road. A state study later showed many people were making high-risk turns through and near the intersection.
Victims of bad drivers
The totality of projects along U.S. 2 should be cause for celebration and to some degree it is, Walser said.
"There has been close to $100 million in safety improvements since we started on a highway that once got very little attention," he said.
At the same time, people continue to die. There were two fatal crossover collisions in October, one killing a suspected drunken driver who was trying to escape arrest; the other, a mile east of Index, a Federal Way man died trying to pass another vehicle.
In both cases, others were hurt. The crash involving the suspected drunken driver sent an Edmonds man, 86, to the hospital. Two Snohomish County sheriff's deputies also needed medical attention. In the other collision, the driver's pregnant passenger, 22, was injured.
On a rural highway, some road projects are needed to protect the good drivers from the bad, Walser said.
"It's not just the bad driver who gets killed or hurt," he said. "It's the innocent person who is doing what is right. We have an obligation to them."
It's why he and others, some who have lost loved ones, won't let up.
"You have to keep pressing," Walser said. "I'm never going to quit. You have got to ask, 'What's it going to take?'"
John Seehuus, who recently was elected to the Sultan City Council, has been a member of the coalition from the start.
"It's a passion," he said. "After driving the highway for so long and seeing these accidents so frequently, it just keeps you going."
State Rep. Marko Liias, vice chairman of the House Transportation Committee, said the U.S. 2 Traffic Safety Coalition has gained credibility in Olympia over the years. While some proposals gain more traction than others, the voice of the valley is being heard.
"Fred is determined," Liias said.
A top priority is to find money for a bypass around Monroe, where traffic congestion has contributed to some of the highest concentrations of serious accidents over the years. The project, which would be built in three phases, could cost well over $200 million.
A 'seat belt' for U.S. 2
Lately, Walser also has been advocating for cable barriers and LED lights along the U.S. 2 median to separate drivers and better light the way. He drove on such a highway in Motala, Sweden.
Cable barriers could serve as "a seat belt" for U.S. 2, keeping drunken and aggressive drivers from crossing centerlines, he said.
It could also prevent accidents caused by drivers suffering medical emergencies.
The latter happened to Genevieve Jelinek in May 2007 when her car crossed the line and collided with a flatbed truck. The longtime Sultan resident was a nurse who often tended to people injured along U.S. 2.
Just hours before she died, she'd been talking with Walser about wanting to join efforts to make the highway safer, he said.
"It's just like it stole my heart," said her husband Clyde Jelinek. "Why? Because they couldn't afford to put barriers on the highway."
The death of Jelinek, who was well known for her volunteer work in Sultan, reignited a flame in Seehuus to press for safety improvements along U.S. 2. He tries to take a long view.
"Rome wasn't built in a day," he said. "We just keep chipping away. There is a long way to go."
The state Department of Transportation isn't supportive of adding cable or concrete barriers, or LED lights, under existing conditions.
"You need more width, whether that is cable barrier or concrete barrier," Leth said. "It's a footprint we don't have out there."
Cable barriers also can be the wrong tool for the job. The state learned that lesson about a decade ago along I-5 north of Marysville, where cable barriers, including portions that were improperly installed, failed to stop a string of tragic crashes.
Preliminary Department of Transportation estimates for cable or concrete barriers between Snohomish and Sultan are as high as $650 million.
Walser believes the work can be done for much cheaper than the state is now estimating.
He is more hopeful that the state someday will install solar-powered lights in the highway pavement to illuminate the way along dark stretches. He recently asked the Senate Transportation Committee to kick in $5 million for the lights.
Leth said the state will study the possibility of barriers and lights along a stretch of I-90's Snoqualmie Pass. It has tested the lights before and is so far skeptical about their ability to survive the harsh winter conditions in the Pacific Northwest.
Sometimes Walser pushes politicians and business leaders to think outside of the box when considering U.S. 2.
Lately, he has been pitching what he calls a "mega" proposal to build a four-lane freight mobility corridor, complete with rail, between Everett's Boeing plant and Spokane.
The project, paid for by tolls, "would answer a lot of the safety problems" on U.S. 2, he said.
Two weeks ago, he asked the state Senate Transportation Committee to include $50 million for start-up work.
It might have seemed a quixotic plea, but he wasn't alone in urging lawmakers to think big.
Former state Rep. Mike Armstrong, R-Wenatchee, also lobbied for the funding. He argued the state keeps paying for one safety improvement at a time and needs to make the whole road safe.
"Highway 2 is nickel and diming the state of Washington and has been for a long time, and it's time to do it right," Armstrong told the senate committee.
Jerry Cornfield contributed to this story.
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Skydive in Queenstown
Seeing the world from above with NZONE doing a tandemjump.
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Having travelled to the adranlin capital of the world, a skydive was on my bucketlist. Booking was swift and easy with NZONE. After booking a short briefing at the office/shop followed and allready I felt ready to throw myself out of a plane with a complete stranger attached to my back.
At the jumpsite the atmosphere was full of good times, fun and adranlin. My skydiver greated me and took me through everything again step by step so by the time we were heading for the airplane I felt a great mix of anticipation and excitement and no fear at all.
The 1 min free fall is the most amazing thing I have ever experienced in my life. The rush was like nothing else. And afterwards just hoovering over beautiful Queenstown in a parachute was spectacular. I was even allowed to try and steer it just a little bit. Amazing.
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Originally Posted by dennis thompson
Went to Home Depot on Saturday to buy the Ridgid R4512 saw. Worked with two different associates, both of whom were completely useless, I wanted to make sure the saw was made in 2016, after the trunnion issue was fixed. Left the store completely annoyed with them. I really wanted the saw so I went back early Sunday morning and asked for the manager. It was like I was in a different store, the manager and his assistant were great. They got a fork lift to get the saws down from a high rack, allowed me to open the box and examine the saw, then loaded it into my suv with the fork lift. I tried to use a Harbor Freight 20% coupon but they said no go but I had a 10% HD coupon which I used. I put the saw mostly together yesterday and will finish it today. It does have the three caster configuration, I didn't want that but so far it works great.I think for someone who wants a new saw and only to spend $500 (that's me) this is a great buy. So the lesson I learned was: if you're buying an expensive item at Home Depot ask for the manager, this is actually the second time I've done this at HD and it's worked well both times.
PS I watched a great you tube video ahead of time on how to put the saw together, really made the build much,much easier, you tube is absolutely am amazing source of information.
Agree on you tube being an amazing source of information. $500 will also buy a lot of used saw if you are patient....


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It's Presidents' Day, and I suddenly find myself obsessed with John Tyler, the nation's 10th president, who served from 1841 to 1845.
Did you know that Tyler had more children than any other president? He had 15, helped by the fact that after his first wife, Letitia, died, he married Julia Gardiner, 24, who was 30 years his junior.
So, John Tyler: a player.
And also: a traitor.
Tyler was from Virginia, and when the Civil War broke out he was elected to the Confederate Congress, an act of treason against the country he had once served.
Those factoids, and a lot more, are in "The Smithsonian Book of Presidential Trivia." I'm sure the Obamas keep a copy in the White House bathroom.
But really, trivia? Isn't the presidency the most hallowed office in the land? Should we be trivializing it, literally?
"It's just an access point that people can get into to learn more about American history, to spark their interest and larger curiosity," said Harry Rubenstein, a curator of political history at the National Museum of American History. He's among contributors to the book, which was written by Amy Pastan.
Harry said he's useless at remembering trivia — the first, the fattest, the tallest — but many people love that sort of thing.
"Those little bits just take these mythic figures and make them a little less mythic, hopefully a little more human," Harry said.
Florence Harding was accused of poisoning her husband! Teddy Roosevelt endorsed a brand of traveler's checks! Gerald Ford was a fashion model!
Then there's my fave — John Tyler, who with his first lady pops up in the book in the weirdest ways. Before she became fertile young wife No. 2, Julia Gardiner scandalized New York society by posing for an advertisement. Of course, they didn't have cameras back then, and she wasn't even shilling for something unmentionable like corsets or opium. She was depicted in an engraving on the arm of a young man while on her handbag was written an ad for a department store: "I'll purchase at Bogert and Mecamly's, No. 86 Ninth Avenue. Their Goods are Beautiful and Astonishingly Cheap."
Eventually, Julia married President Tyler and ended up loving the White House so much that even after the couple left it she occasionally signed her letters, "Mrs. Ex-President Tyler."
I think it kind of went to her head.
Now it's your turn to test your presidential knowledge, with some trivia taken from "The Smithsonian Book of Presidential Trivia." How well do you know your presidential nicknames? (Answers below.)
1. William Howard Taft's great girth earned him what nickname?
a. Wide Load
b. Fatt Taft, the 332-Pound Anagram
c. Big Lub
d. The Ohio Cannonball
2. What did some of Grover Cleveland's detractors call him?
a. Clover Greveland
b. The Scum of Erie
c. The Great Constipator
d. The Buffalo Hangman
3. An early job inspired what Andrew Johnson nickname?
a. The Tennessee Tanner
b. The Tennessee Tailor
c. The Tennessee Trombonist
d. The Tennessee Taxidermist
4. Andrew Jackson's tough discipline inspired what nickname?
a. The $2 Steak
b. Old Hardtack
c. Old Hickory
d. The Diamond Drillbit
5. What did some in the press call Rutherford B. Hayes?
a. His Fraudulency
b. His Wreckselency
c. His Terectomy
d. His Pompousness
6. With what nickname was the stiff and awkward Benjamin Harrison mocked?
a. The Ingrown Toenail
b. The Great Mumbler
c. The Human Iceberg
d. The $2 Haircut
7. Martin Van Buren's slyness earned him what nickname?
a. The Little Magician
b. The Invisible Van
c. Mysterious Martin
d. Close-to-the-Vest Van Buren
Answers: 1. c (At 332 pounds, Taft was the fattest president, though he slimmed down to 250 pounds after leaving office,) 2. d (As sheriff of Erie County, N.Y., Cleveland oversaw the public executions of two convicted murderers.) 3. b (Johnson worked as a tailor's apprentice before opening his own tailor shop.) 4. c (Jackson used the image of a hickory tree in his campaign materials.) 5. a (Detractors said Hayes stole the 1876 election after thousands of ballots were disputed.) 6. c (Harrison had no charisma or warmth, though he was honest, intelligent and possessed of high integrity.) 7. a (Van Buren was known for keeping his opinions to himself, an odd quality in a president.)
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Texas is looking to keep the good vibes going tonight as they travel to Iowa State, where many teams have left unhappy on a Thursday night before. The Longhorns will have wide receiver Mike Davis available to play tonight, according to Chuck Carlton of the Dallas Morning News via Twitter, although he will not start for the Longhorns.
Davis injured his ankle in that abysmal loss at BYU a few weeks back. Without Davis on the field the Texas offense lost a clear play-maker. Even after missing some playing time, Davis still leads Texas with four touchdown receptions and is second on the team with 223 yards entering Thursday night's Big 12 contest in Ames, Iowa. Texas is still playing it safe with one of their top receivers as he gets back in to the offense.


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Hadith types
The book touches briefly on how the Hadiths are collected and the rules for classifying hadiths, the different sciences of hadiths, types of hadith tellers (rowah), how to categorize a hadith, types of hadiths, levels of some types of hadiths (marateb alhadith), rules of working by the different types of hadiths, identifying faults with hadiths, and some other stuff that I don't understand. Actually there's alot that I don't understand, including some words that require me to consult a mo3gam to get its meaning. This book is taught to students with no religious studies background, so I wish those students the best of luck.
I'm trying to go through the book to figure out how many types of hadiths there are. From the table of contents, I've been able to count 32 types (categories and subcategories) of hadiths. I don't know how to do this and how to translate this, but I want to list some sample categories of hadiths as a teaser.
One main categorization of hadiths is, Saheeh, Hassan, and Da'eef. That would be Correct, OK, and Weak (did i really translate Hassan to mean OK!).
Saheeh, is a hadith that has continuous "good" references from the first reference to the last, and is not "weird" or "faulty". This is really terrible translation. The guy spends 32 pages describing different aspects of the hadith saheeh, so there is no way I can summarize or translate here. But there are elaborations as to the means used back then to identify a good reference, a group of references versus a single reference, and the definition of "faulty" and "weird", as well as how to handle doubt in a hadith for example. The two main agreed upon (by the scholars) collection of hadiths are the Bokhary and Moslem collection of hadiths. AlBokhary has 1,600 hadith Saheeh in his collection, and Moslem has 4,000 in his.
There are also another classification of hadiths, classifying them into motawater and a7ad. Motawater is continuous by groups of references, with the impossibility of such groups to be lying or to have agreed to lie. There is a syntactic motawater hadith and a semantic motawater hadith. The a7ad hadith does not have as many solid references, as well as some other factors.
Here are some nice sounding Hadith types, mo3an3an, mo'annan, makloub, mottareb, marfou3, mawkouf, maktou3, matrou7, modallas, shaz.
I probably did more ill than good by writing this post. I myself would like to get more details about those two main types of hadiths I mention saheeh and motawater. I attended a lecture once focusing on what a motawater hadith is. Was pretty interesting, but unfortunately don't remember much of it. In any case, I'm not going to answer any questions about Hadiths here, because I have no clue how to.
TIC raises some good points in the comments below making me want to distinguish between who should learn what in Islam. I made an analogy here before between Islamic scholars and physicists, comparing the similarities between how a physicist deciphers nature and how a scholar deciphers the word of God. The analogy is worth mentioning in this context as well.
An Islamic scholar interprets the word of God to facilitate a faith for the users (Muslims faithfuls) of that religion. Let's think of a modern day familiar scientific researcher, say wireless communication researcher. Such a scientist would research the best way to use the air interface (God's medium) to facilitate wireless communication between mobile phone users. Now, mobile users may use that technology in a proper way or can misuse it. It doesn't make the technology bad, and it doesn't mean that the scientist that facilitated such technology was wrong or at fault either. Now, everyone wants to learn how to use their mobile phone, and make use of all the cool gadgets and features that come with it (that would be similar to non-scholastic Muslims learning about their religion). Some people even read their phone manual and think they know everything about mobile technologies. But for me to use my mobile phone and benefit from the wireless communication technology I don't have to understand how my voice and data travels over the air, which was thankfully achieved by that scientist and his colleagues.
Another interesting analogy is the modern Islamic preachers. I can think of them like those companies advertising SMS services. There are companies that encourage people to make good use of the technologies at hand, and others that push for misuse of the technology.
I know that all the spiritual muslims will hate me for this analogy. But this is how I think of it.


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While exploding, supernovas not spherical
X-rays reveal uneven allotment of element made by blowup
JPL-Caltech, CXC/SAO and NASA
Giant stars are slightly off-kilter as they go kablooey, research in the Feb. 20 Nature suggests.
When massive stars run out of elements to fuse in their core, they collapse under their own gravity; the imploding material then bounces off the core and explodes in a bright display known as a core-collapse supernova. But computer simulations indicate that if material collapses symmetrically, as scientists long assumed, a star would not explode.
To address this conundrum, a team including Caltech astrophysicist Brian Grefenstette pointed NASA's recently launched Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array at Cassiopeia A, the remnant of a nearby core-collapse supernova whose light first reached Earth about 350 years ago. The researchers plotted the spatial distribution of high-energy X-rays emitted during the decay of the radioactive element titanium-44, which is forged in the depths of supernova explosions.
The X-rays revealed that the titanium is


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Is there anybody aboard who knows how to fly a plane?
Commentary by Adam-Troy Castro
Zero Hour! (1957). Directed by Hall Bartlett. Written by Arthur Hailey. Starring Dana Andrews, Linda Darnell, Sterling Hayden, Elroy "Crazy Legs" Hirsch. 81 minutes. **
Airplane! (1980). Written and Directed by Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, and Jerry Zucker (with substantial lifts from 1957 screenplay). Starring Robert Hays, Julie Hagerty, Lloyd Bridges, Peter Graves, Leslie Nielsen, Robert Stack. 87 minutes. ***
Other Known Versions: Flight Into Danger (Canadian TV-movie, 1956), Flug in Gefahr (German, 1964), Terror In the Sky (TV-movie, 1971).
Not much in the way of analysis this time. Not much to analyze.
See, this one's a key reason why we started this blog. The truism "Remakes Always Suck" is not only demonstrably untrue, but also ignorant of the many, many times where the remakes are, by far, better known than the original films that inspired them. In this particular case, the movie that everybody remembers, that hit the pop culture zeitgeist like a lightning bolt, that established some careers and brilliantly revived others, and that continues to be imitated today – for the most part really, really badly – is not just a remake, but the fifth incarnation of a story filmed and pretty much forgotten four times before. Taking most of its inspiration from the second incarnation, which was written by one of the founding lights of the disaster-movie genre, it may mock that film relentlessly, but also uses its structure and much of its dialogue, verbatim; and before you ask, yes, the makers did pay the copyright holders for the use of the material, though they did their best in the publicity materials to ignore its very existence. So, yes, damn it, it is a remake.
We're talking about Airplane!, the perverse Abrahams/Zucker Brothers take on disaster movies, which was written with exacting, intimate knowledge of a prior melodrama meant to be taken entirely seriously. The fidelity to Zero Hour! is so exact that there are some jokes in Airplane! you won't completely get until you see moments of unintentional silliness from the earlier film. Light will dawn, and you will mutter, "Oh. So that's where that came from." For instance, there is one gag in Airplane! driven entirely by the recognition that a minor supporting actress from the original film, playing the worried wife of a pilot felled by food poisoning, overacts her silent reactions to off-screen events in a scene where she's supposed to be a wordless, barely noticed presence beside the expert trying to talk down the passenger who has taken the controls of her husband's plane. In the original, she remains unnoticed, because the man beside her is a powerful presence played by Sterling Hayden, and what he's saying happens to be important. But if you actually trouble yourself to look at her you will see her hyperventilating like a horse who just completed a five mile run, in a desperate and failed attempt to steal some of the scene's attention for herself. In Zero Hour! she gives up after a few seconds, closes her damn mouth, and lets Hayden do his job. In Airplane!, where she's standing beside Robert Stack, she erupts into full-scale sexual arousal and – without quite realizing what she's doing — begins to run her passionate hands over Stack's chest, until Stack turns toward her in confusion, and she backs off, chastened back into her intended role as the silent worried wife.
Then there's Johnny, a character from the original who exists only so that the more important players can repeatedly ask him to go get coffee. Abrahams and the Zucker brothers no doubt felt deep sympathy for this put-upon soul when they created their own version of Johnny, a manic zany who leaps in and out of scenes infecting everything around him with his personal brand of insanity.
For someone who had seen Zero Hour! and even read the Arthur Hailey novelization Runway Zero Eight when Airplane! was released in 1980, the parody film played at a higher level; the stunned recognition of the once seriously-intended story, and the lines of dialogue that remain unchanged (but now became wildly funny) when placed in a context of nonstop zaniness, represented one of the movie's unalloyed pleasures. For someone completely unaware of the prior film who saw Airplane! enough times to know it by heart, and who only belatedly discovered the film that presented it with most of its source material, the pleasure of discovery is reversed, as a parade of laugh lines are revealed as dialogue lines once seriously-intended. It is a primal case of artistic feedback; each film now enhances the other.
Both films introduce us to one Ted Stryker, a hotshot fighter pilot during the war who made the command decision not to abort a raid when the ground conditions were obscured by heavy fog, and got six members of his squadron killed. Now it's years later, and the post-traumatic stress of that fateful day have left him a shattered man, drifting from job to job, unable to handle any lasting responsibility. In both cases he has returned home early to find a note from the woman he loves, to the effect that she's leaving him; in both cases he exhibits prime stalkerish behavior by buying a ticket on the same flight, in the hopes of talking her into returning. (In Zero Hour! she's his wife, and has taken his son as well; in Airplane! she's just a long-suffering and scatterbrained girlfriend.) In both cases the airline offers passengers a choice of dinners; in both cases a serious case of food contamination awaits passengers unlucky enough to choose fish for dinner. In both cases, a doctor is in board to treat the afflicted (though he somehow never thinks to induce vomiting). In both cases the flight crew is felled and in both cases Stryker must take his place in the cockpit, fighting his own inexperience at this kind of aircraft while the woman intent on leaving him sits in the co-pilot's chair, operating the radio and thus getting to see him rise to the occasion. In both cases the chief voice from the ground is an unfriendly acquaintance from his military days and in both cases it is Stryker who decides to try for an immediate landing in open defiance of his old enemy's advice that he continue circling for another couple of hours. Each film features a hysterical woman passenger, an old crone self-righteously offended by a seatmate who offers her a drink, and a young boy whose trip to the cockpit brings him into close contact with a pilot whose intentions toward him seem more pedophiliac than paternal.
A look at the dialogue from Zero Hour! reveals how extensively it was quoted (in some of these cases just closely paraphrased) in the later parody. This is by no means a complete list, but it includes many of the moments that viewers of Airplane! took as just part of the silliness.
Little Joey gets to see the cockpit
CAPTAIN [takes out a toy DC-4] Joey, here's something we give our special visitors. Would you like to have it?
JOEY: Thank you! Thanks a lot?
CAPTAIN: You ever been in a cockpit before?
JOEY: No, sir! I've never been up in a plane before!
Stryker's Domestic Woes
STRYKER: I know things haven't been right for a long time, Ellen. But it'll be different. Like it was in the beginning, remember?
ELLEN: I remember everything. It's all I've ever had to go on. Mostly, I remember … the nights when we were together. I remember how you used to hold me. Then afterwards, how we'd … watch until the sun finally came up. When it did, it was almost like … like each new day was created … only for us.
STRYKER: Don't you feel anything for me at all anymore?
ELLEN: It takes so many things to make love last. Most of all, it takes respect. I can't live with a man I don't respect.
The First Signs of Trouble
JANET: Captain, one of the woman passengers is very sick.
CAPTAIN: Airsick?
JANET: I think so, but I've never seen it so acute.
CAPTAIN: Find out if there's a doctor on board, as quietly as you can.
The Introduction of the Doctor
WOMAN: I think the man next to me is a doctor.
JANET: Oh, thank you. Sir? Excuse me, sir. I'm sorry to have to wake you. Are you a doctor?
DR. BAIRD:That's right.
JANET: We have a passenger who's very sick, could you come take a look at her?
DR. BAIRD: Yes, yes, of course.
The Diagnosis
PASSENGER: Oh, stewardess, my wife is very sick, can you do something please?
JANET: Oh, well, the doctor will be with you in just a moment. One thing … do you know what she had for dinner?
PASSENGER: Oh, yes, of course, we both had fish. Why?
JANET: Oh, it's nothing to be alarmed about. We'll get back to you very quickly.
DR. BAIRD: Well, Janet, you're a member of this crew. Can you face some unpleasant facts?
JANET: I think so.
DR. BAIRD: All right. Unless I can get all these people to a hospital quickly, I can't even be sure of saving their lives. {…} I think you ought to know what our chances are. The life of everybody aboard depends on just one thing: Finding someone back there who not only can fly this plane, but who didn't have fish for dinner.
Stryker has Greatness Thrust Upon Him
STRYKER: Both pilots?!
DR. BAIRD: Can you fly this airplane and land it?
STRYKER: No. Not a chance.
JANET: Doctor, I've asked everyone. Mister Stryker's the only one.
DR. BAIRD: What flying experience have you had?
STRYKER: Well, I was a fighter pilot in the war, but I flew little combat planes with only one engine. This has four. There's no comparison. The flying characteristics are completely different. It's a different kind of flying, altogether. Besides, I haven't touched any kind of a plane in ten years.
DR. BAIRD: Mister Stryker, I know nothing about flying. All I know is this. You're the only person on this plane who can possibly fly it. You're the only chance we've got.
An Editorial Comment from Air Traffic Control
This guy doing the flying's had no airline experience at all. He'll be a menace to himself and everything else in the air.
Taking Stryker's Measure
TRELEAVEN: All right, Harry, let's face a few facts. As you know, I flew with this man Stryker during the war. What you don't know is, that doesn't make my job any easier here tonight. Frankly, I think you'd be a lot better off if you got somebody else who doesn't know him at all.
BURDICK: I don't think that has anything to do with it.
TRELEAVEN: It has everything to do with it. In the first place, I think it's a mistake if he knows that I'm the man who's talkin' 'im in. He'll have a million things on his mind without being reminded of those days when … well, when things weren't so good.
BURDICK: Right now, things aren't so good. And while we're talking, there are 38 lives waiting on us for a decision.
TRELEAVEN: Let me tell you something. Ted Stryker was a crack flight leader up to a point, but he was one of those men who … well, let's just say he felt too much inside. Maybe you know the kind. {…} Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit smokin'. [lights up]
How's It Flyin'?
STRYKER: Sluggish, like a wet sponge.
ELLEN [on radio]: Sluggish, like a wet sponge.
Stryker Grows Back His Balls, Gets The Girl Back
VANCOUVER RADAR CONTROLLER: Captain, he's below seven hundred now, and he's still going down!
TRELEAVEN: Stryker, you can't come straight in, you've got enough fuel left for two hours' flying. You've got to stay up there 'til we get a break in the weather!
STRYKER: I'll take it, Ellen. [to radio] Listen, Treleaven, I'm coming in, do you hear me? I'm coming in right now. We have people up here including my own son who'll die in less than one hour, never mind two. I may bend your precious airplane, but I'll bring it down. Now get on with the landing check! I'm putting the gear down now.
ELLEN: Ted?
STRYKER: Yes?
ELLEN: I just wanted you to know, now, I'm very proud.
STRYKER: Tell them the gear is down, and we're ready to land.
ELLEN [to radio]: The gear is now down, and we're ready to land.
After the Landing
TRELEAVEN: Ted, Ted, that was probably the lousiest landing in the history of this airport. But there's some of us here, particularly me, who'd like to buy you a drink and shake your hand.
Oddly, given the willingness of the makers of Airplane! to pick up on and amplify the uncomfortable intimations of pederasty that went along with the little boy's visit to the cockpit, the remake completely ignores the incident that looks creepiest to our modern eyes, which is to say the nightclub performer who entertains Ted's little boy with a sock puppet. A modern father would dropkick that guy away from his kid at first sight, and it's almost unthinkable that the Zucker/Abrahams trio would let this particular opportunity go. (Maybe it would have been too much of a sick thing). Another element that Airplane! fails to mock sufficiently is the original's inconsistent model work: the make of airplane seen in the exterior shots is not always the same, and indeed the plane even changes its number of engines.
Instead, Airplane! fills out the rest of its running time with bits quoting from Jaws, From Here to Eternity, and Saturday Night Fever, among others. I used to know the name of the World War II melodrama extensively quoted in the scene where a young soldier says goodbye to his girlfriend – again, the dialogue here is almost exact – but that has faded into the mists of memory. (Maybe a reader will provide it.)
In recent years the Airplane! template has led to a mini-industry of films that ape its attitude and techniques without one-tenth of its wit: Epic Movie, Date Movie, Disaster Movie, Superhero Movie, etc. About all that can be said of these is that they don't comment on the narrative, as Airplane! did, but limit themselves to the idiot movie references and scatological jokes that it only used as a spice. They have become their own formula, and unlike Airplane!, are more dirges than comedies. The guy who comes up with the response to the response, i.e., Half-Assed Bad Parody Movie, achieves comedy gold.
The Flight Log
Zero Hour!, a well-meaning melodrama that now seems about as sluggish as a wet sponge. Airplane!, a still-funny laugh machine, the twin that keeps this particular pair of conjoined siblings breathing.
And now, the wife readies for takeoff…
Commentary by Judi B. Castro
Zero Hour! (1957). Directed by Hall Bartlett. Written by Arthur Hailey. Starring Dana Andrews, Linda Darnell, Sterling Hayden, Elroy "Crazy Legs" Hirsch. 81 minutes. *
Airplane! (1980). Written and Directed by Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, and Jerry Zucker (with substantial lifts from 1957 screenplay). Starring Robert Hays, Julie Hagerty, Lloyd Bridges, Peter Graves, Leslie Nielsen, Robert Stack. 87 minutes. ***1/2
Other Known Versions: Flight Into Danger (Canadian TV-movie, 1956), Flug in Gefahr (German, 1964), Terror In the Sky (TV-movie, 1971).
When Adam suggested Airplane! for this blog I asked when it had been remade. Instead of going into a detailed explanation (as is his wont), he quickly told me that it was based on a film called Zero Hour and we could get it from Netflix. I agreed and put it into the upcoming work queue of my mind.
Three weeks later, we are back from a short weekend away, the film has arrived and I agree to give Zero Hour! the time it needs to permeate frontal lobe. I couldn't figure out why Adam kept one eye on the screen and the other watching me. Then the film began.
OMG!!!!! I'm watching a film I know by heart, but it's not the film I love. This is the bad older sibling of the comedic young clone. I had to physically stop the disc more times than I can count to catch my breath. I sat watching the film in stunned disbelief. How can so mediocre a movie have become such a comedic masterpiece of my teen years? Scene by scene, the quotes are there. Airplane!, which I hadn't seen in at least 10 years (but could still quote verbatim), was being viewed by me in black and white without the cast I loved and none of the intentional/unintentional humor, and yet there it was in Zero Hour!. I sat with disc controller in hand and liberally used the pause and rewind buttons . It took us nearly 2 1/2 hours to get through the old girl because of me.
Is Zero Hour! a great film? Hell no! It's barely an O.K. one, unless you are a true fan of the remake that began a genre of its own.
Oh, hey, in a little aside, if you are ever in a casino, ask if they have the Airplane slot machine. Its fun and has some great audio clips from the film.


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Yesterday, 22-year-old Marion Marechal-Le Pen earned herself a seat in the French parliament — a landmark result as she is not only the youngest French MP, but also because she has helped the far right National Front (FN) end their 15 year exile from French legislative politics, France 24 notes.
Marion's name (and her blonde hair) may be familiar to you — the former law student is the granddaughter of FN founder Jean Marie Le Pen and the niece of former presidential candidate Marine Le Pen.
It's been a great year for the FN — they haven't had a seat in parliament since 1998, but gained two this year, and seem to be enjoying a surge of support after April's election in which they won 18 percent in the first round. Marine Le Pen herself failed to win a seat in parliament, though there is word she may demand a recount.
Overall, the election was a victory for the left. President Francois Hollande's Socialist Party earned a powerful mandate for their left wing policies by winning an absolute majority in the lower house of parliament, the BBC reports.
The center right was trounced. Sarkozy's party, UMP, and their allies the Popular Right performed especially badly. In what now seems to be a crucial move, the center-right allies had refused to campaign with the FN — perhaps they regret that decision this morning.


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Peach Bran Muffins Recipe
Breakfast snacks for those who get peckish first thing in the morning.
These bran muffins use buttermilk and applesauce to achieve a moist crumb. Bran and whole wheat flours make a nutty flavor base for diced peaches.
adapted from The Healthy Oven Baking Book
Read more: Wake and Bake: Peach Bran Muffins
- Yield:makes 16 muffins
- Active time: 15 minutes
- Total time:40 minutes
- Rated:
- 1 cup wheat bran bud cereal such as All Bran Buds
- 1 1/4 cups buttermilk
- 2/3 cup whole wheat flour
- 2/3 cup flour
- 1 1/4 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 3/4 cup sugar
- 1 egg
- 1/4 cup unsweetened apple sauce
- 2 teaspoons canola oil
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 cup diced peaches, from about 1 large peach
Adjust oven rack to middle position and preheat oven to 350°F. Line 16 muffin cups with paper liners. In a small bowl, combine bran buds and buttermilk; let stand 5 minutes.
In a medium bowl, whisk together wheat flour, flour, baking soda, and salt; set aside. In a large bowl, whisk together sugar and egg until frothy. Add apple sauce, canola oil, and vanilla, and whisk until combined. Whisk in buttermilk mixture.
Add dry ingredients to bowl and stir to combine. Stir in peaches. Fill each muffin cup 3/4 full with batter. Bake until a cake tester inserted into the middle of a muffin comes out clean, about 20 minutes. Let cool for 10 minutes in pan then remove to a wire rack to finish cooling.
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