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I actually said "noooooooo" when he threw it. It just didn't look like the kind of pass that was going to be successful. Grant Hill turned it from good to all-time great.
Yeah, no wonder Phoenix went inside. It was their only hope. An act of pure desperation. At least we know that will probably never happen again. They just got really lucky.
Iverson's recognition that the defender's action turned the play from special into really special reminds me of this awesome essay by art historian Dave Hickey in his book Air Guitar. The essay is called "The Heresy of Zone Defense" and it begins in the third quarter of game 5 of the 1980 NBA Finals: Lakers vs. Sixers. here's a link to the essay: The Main Event - Competition in Contemporary Art » The Heresy of Zone Defense and here's a link to a video that at about the 25 second mark shows the play in question the heresy of zone defense - Google Video
Yeah, that's pretty sweet prof. Rip does his baseline layups kinda like that. He swings the ball off the backboard with the edge of the backboard almost bisecting his body. He's halfway behind the back board as he attacks.
It's true, i know what you're talking about. What I like about the Dr. J. play, or maybe about the way that Hickey talks about it, is how the beauty and joy of the play come from the combination of offensive prowess and defensive challenge, like a kind of unintended artistic collaboration. anyways...
It is truly amazing how many points the Suns are scoring in the paint. Even though they lost to Philly tonight, look at this distribution by the Suns... In the paint: 31-59 for 62 points. 16-20 from the free throw line. So up to 82 points from paint activity. From the field: 5-26 with 3 threes. 13 points.
Zeke, Magic and Stockton are rolling in their graves!! But one of the best LIVE viewing passes I ever saw was Kobe's alleyoop To Shaq vs the Blazers in Game 7 when LA came back from like 18 pts in the 4th quarter. Hopefully I can find it! yay! try this or more: YouTube - Lakers come back against Portland Rasheeda is still ducking his head!!! LOL
My [sarcasm]favorite[/sarcasm] part of this game was at about the 1:50 mark of the 4th quarter with the Pistons down 8 points. - Chuck walks the ball up court and passes to Tay on the right side. - Tay holds the ball, dribbles left, then right (back and forth) for about 7 seconds. - Tay passes it back to Chuck at the top of the 3-point arc. - Chuck puts on a crossover display, rocking the dribble between his legs back and forth for another 7 seconds. - Chuck passes it to Rip on the left side of the court. - Rip puts on his own dribbling exhibition, seemingly trying to out-do Tay and Chuck's dope-ass moves for about 5 more seconds. - Rip comes to the realization that the shot clock is now winding down and attempts to take his man off the bounce. - Rip throws up an off-ballanced prayer that clangs off rim and backboard for an easy PHX rebound. - BDL picks up Dennis, (his miniture Dachshund, sleeping at his feet) and hurls him at his 60" plasma screen. - Dennis yelps in horror. ...OK, you have a buck-fifty left in the game, YOU HAVE TO SCORE AT LEAST NINE MORE POINTS than the opponent to squeek out a "W". ...Why the heck are you guys slowing it down!!!???


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I've been watching every episode of The Great British Bake Off, and it has really inspired me to bake (even more). I tried Paul Hollywood's (one of the judges in the program) recipe for scones, and they were really nice. But … Continue reading
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I've been in the mood to make (eat) langos (Hungarian street food) for a while now. Even though I'm going to Budapest next week I couldn't wait any longer. 🙂 I quite like it with some 'Swedish' toppings like caviar, but grated … Continue reading
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Pink meringues
After watching an episode of Rachel Allen: Bake where she baked meringues, I was inspired to use up the egg whites I had left in my fridge. Her recipe was really good, they turned out crispy on the outside and chewy … Continue reading
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I was incredibly proud of myself on Sunday! I made poussins for the first time and they were (if I may say so myself) delicious! The meat was tender and very moist and the flavours from the seasoning really came … Continue reading
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Pasta with sardines
Inspired by Chris' cookbook Bringing Italy home by Ursula Ferrigno, I made pasta with sardines the other day. A great low-budget dinner that was really tasty! Pasta with sardines, serves 2 Spaghetti Sauce: 1 onion 1/2 fennel 1 can chopped … Continue reading
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119 | XPages - Native support for RDB accessJohn Mackey656 - 06 2009 / (28) XPages should have native access to RDB data. This will allow the use of external SQL data in views and forms in conjunction with Notes data. Moving Domino Designer to Eclipse was a big step forward in opening up the propertairy technology of the Lotus Notes development platform. The next ... |
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36 | Calendar View for XpagesPeter Presnell26654 - 15 2010 / (4) I would like to see the ability to display data in a view (or document collection) in Xpages using a calendar style view similar to the one supported in the Notes client. |
36 | Implement code folding in script librariesWhen coding in "vanilla" Eclipse you get code folding for methods, constructors, etc. It would be really useful to have such a thing in server-side Javascript script libraries—in fact, across the board for all script libs and agents. |
33 | XPages read-write data in Oracle - SQL Server- My SQL - DB2Renato Casati395 - 17 2011 / (5) If we want a killer application ... |
32 | XPages: @DBLookupBig & @DbColumnBigErik Brooks795 - 11 2009 / (3) XPages are here, they're big and bad and scalable. They integrate with @Formulas, which is extremely powerful. For things like repeat controls, type-ahead, etc. there are times when you use @DbLookup or @DbColumn. But these functions are limited in returning 64K, like the days of old. Two new ... |
32 | Make the Domino Blog template available in XPagesPatrick Kwinten22013 - 10 2011 / (0) Now we are getting more and more applications on XPages using the same theme, we can somehow group these applications together into an 'application suite'. However the domino blog template is still based on traditional Domino design principles, so this will make it time consuming for customers to modify ... |
31 | User .jar files must be considered a design elementWim Stevens645 - 10 2010 / (0) When creating an XPage we need to write business logic. In order to have reusable business logic (that may be called from an agent, a Notes Form or an XPage) the business logic must be written in Java. The Java code is best placed in a .jar file. The jar ... |
31 | Add @DialogBox, @PickList and @Prompt for x-pagesGernot Hummer610 - 06 2009 / (0) I know that it's obviously something different to have the formula functionality in Lotus Notes and on the web browser, however, there has to be a way without getting crunk on Dojo to implement this functionality. At least @DialogBox with another xPage to open (maybe with a view control to ... |
30 | Outline/Navigator for xPagesAlexey Katyushyn3048 - 28 2009 / (3) Creating navigator using links or javascript libraries is a boring task. It will be more usable and supportable if developer could create navigator using visual tools such as outline for Notes clients. |
30 | Wizard for creating structure of xPage applicationAlexey Katyushyn3048 - 28 2009 / (0) Most of web applications have the same structure: banner, navigator, header, footer, main area, etc. For almost all traditional notes developers it will be more easier to begin development with xPages with such wizard. With wizards MS received users' harts:) |
30 | Double Click On Included XPagePeter Presnell26654 - 24 2009 / (1) For Designer client, when I have an XPage which includes other xPages, it would be nice if when I double click on the included XPage control Designer then opens up that XPage in a new window. This would mirror the functionality of double clicking on a subform inside a form. |
28 | Type ahead for XPages markup tagsAlexey Zimarev1187 - 05 2011 / (1) In Visual Studio we have type ahead for asp tags and basically for all other markup tags like XML in config files. This allows typing in the markup code without looking to the designer or help to check what atributes each tag has. Also depending on the currently opened tag ... |
27 | Enable XPages to use all built-in DECS/DCR Data SourcesRoland Reddekop4308 - 28 2009 / (1) Xpages will have arrived once that can talk to more than just just Domino data. At minimum being able to talk to all the external RDB systems that DECS/DCR and LCLSX can speak to would be great. Then Xpages will be a viable alternative for developing Internet/Intranet web apps vs ... |


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Early-commitment scholarships -- in which a donor offers to pay the way for a class of students to attend college, for example -- have been an occasional hallmark of philanthropy. A new study examines making a similar effort with the Pell Grant: telling low-income students as early as the eighth grade that they will receive federal help to attend college, in the hopes that it would encourage them to prepare for and pursue a postsecondary education.
The study [1], by Robert Kelchen and Sara Goldrick-Rab of the University of Wisconsin at Madison, found that guaranteeing a Pell Grant to students who qualify for free school lunch in the eighth grade could increase retention rates in college. Similar programs have been suggested by other researchers and commissions studying financial aid and making recommendations, including the federal Advisory Committee on Student Financial Assistance, on the theory that earlier notification will make students more likely to prepare for college because they know that they will have financial help to attend.
Students whose families make below a certain income threshold are automatically eligible to receive a Pell Grant, and those students make up almost half of all Pell Grant recipients nationwide. The majority of students who receive free lunch are eventually eligible for Pell Grants, although about 29 percent are not eligible for the full grant and automatic estimated family contribution of $0.
While some towns, schools and communities have "promise" programs, which guarantee some amount of college money to students who meet certain prerequisites, there was little research available for the study's results. So the researchers used a Monte Carlo situation -- a computer simulation based on random sampling -- to estimate both the costs and the benefits of such a program.
Guaranteeing Pell Grants to all students receiving a free school lunch in eighth grade would increase program costs slightly, by about 4 percent or $1.5 billion -- a potential obstacle because some have argued that the Pell Grant Program is already too big. It also means that larger grants would be awarded to some students than they would have otherwise qualified before, because those students' families incomes would rise between eighth grade and the end of high school.
But the researchers argued that the economic benefits of more college graduates would outweigh the costs. The researchers estimated that college retention and completion rates would increase by 3 percent for students already enrolled and receiving additional aid, and that enrollment rates would increase by 4 percent. Based on increased tax receipts for higher earners who have completed college, the researchers estimated that the benefits would outweigh the costs. (Note: This paragraph has been updated to correct an error. The researchers did not find that high school completion rates would increase by 10 percent.)


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Monday, April 28, 2008
While we're talking coffee...
I spent many years hanging around in coffee shops- living the starving artist, beatnick poet life- before I began working in them. I worked in one of San Diego's first gourmet independent cafes. It was a coffee shop and art gallery and was my home for several years. After that, I helped another friend open her own coffee shop and helped to set up the espresso machine and select her coffees and menu. Opening night of the cafe, I sweated solo behind the espresso bar after I finished my shift at the other coffee shop. Years later I worked at Starbucks- after years of bemoaning them I finally went "inside" and developed a huge amount of respect for the company and the products. Then, after that stint, I was offered a job running another boutique independent, but had to turn it down... and it hurt to do so.
Why all this background on my caffeinated life? To set the stage that I know a thing or two about what makes a good coffee and that's because I have to say that I have seriously fallen in love with the coffees made by my friend and fellow cyclist Mark Ritz of Kinetic Koffee. Mark sent me a care package of coffees that I have been sharing with the office and also drinking at home. I have been happily sipping Morning Mayhem, Breakfast Buzz, French Konnexion and Espresso Kinetico. I can honestly say that these beans all get a rousing Masiguy endorsement- two very happy (and caffeinated) thumbs up!
Out of all of them, so far I love the Morning Mayhem for my regular coffee and the Espresso Kinetico is delicious for my homebrewed espresso drinks- as pictured the other day. If you like organic coffees and would like to get coffee lovingly roasted by a fellow cyclist, then you really must give the Kinetic Koffees a try.
And, just so you know... I am giving some consideration (serious consideration) to working with Mark to develop a custom blend or two for Masi-branded coffees. So if you are already a Kinetic Koffee fan, you might just get a new roast or two to try soon.
Now I can't wait for morning so I can grind up some fresh beans!
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- Gilby said...
oooooh, masi coffee...i like the sound of that.
sounds like a match made in heaven and a perfect extension of the brand. i happen to love the morning mayhem and other roasts from kinetic koffee. they have some super cool labels and packaging and the guys who run the company are just great.
- ensenadajim said...
When you get to the point where you roast your own, then you will truly be on the dark side.
j. - 4:01 PM
I had a chance to sample some of Marks brew at the Otter, working in a tent close to his. He had come into our tent and asked about our new MY '09 product. I did a regular "feature/benefit" run through, but didn't really think the guy was a "consumer", more of an industry person. It turns out he did a stint at the Hill, so he has a strong tie to our little niche in this world of commerce.
When I went over to his tent, I got to watch a very well done product demo of the single shot brewing device, which I've decided to order. He showed how to brew a single shot of expresso, in less then 3 minutes, I was timing it. it was clear accurate, and answered all the questions a person could have, if they were interested. Thank you for mentioning a great brew, and a genuinely nice person. I look forward to your attending our little soire in July, see you there.
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- jeff said...
our tim took a little tumble at the velodrome last night. it happenned during the long motorpace burnout that warms up al categories of rider before the usual mix of races begins. we'll have to wait to hear from the guy before we know the details. sorry i can only get this in a comment... - 7:16 AM
I hope you recover quickly. That was an ugly crash last night and it left many of us shaken.
Get well soon.
Michael Gardiner - 11:01 AM
- blue squirrel said...
i don't know how many of tim's loyal listeners will see this comment, but tim was involved in a crash at the SD velodrome last night and hit the boards hard enough to knock him out cold. he was in the ICU over night and will be in surgery today to fix his thumb. he sustained broken ribs and few fractured neck bones. i will update you here as soon as i know more and also at racer blue squirrel tim is currently at mercy hospital in san diego.
- joelprice.com said...
Tim - I hope your ok, got word (from the fredcast twitter feed) that you had a accident last night and it was pretty bad. Please keep us posted. I wish the best for you.
- Ed W said...
Fritz posted information about your crash over on Cyclelicious, Tim. Heal up fast. And let us know how you're doing.
BTW...hospital coffee is truly the pits. You'd think that with the rates they charge for the room you could at least get a good cuppa.
Ed - 2:54 PM
- Super Rookie said...
Get well soon MasiGuy!
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- Godfather said...
Off the coffee subject. Tim had a pretty bad crash at the track last Tuesday. I spent most of the warm up chatting with him about racing and safety. I don't know what happened but when I came around for the sprint, there he was laying on the track. I believe he is still in the hospital and will be for a few more days My thoughts go out to him and his family. . Get well soon Tim!
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- (dis)pencer said...
i'll buy 5 pounds if you promise a speedy recovery. :(
- Sean Howard said...
Dude! I just heard about the accident. ALL my best wishes and I pray you are up and well VERY SOON!!
Hey, man!
Heard about your crash...That's sucks!
But you're going to get well and being able to get back to the boards and roads soon, I'm sure!
Best wishes from Brazil - 1:13 AM
- Chris said...
Tim- I just heard what happend, Hope you are doing well and hope you have a speedy recovery.
- Nick said...
Hi Tim, Hope you are ok and on the mend after your awful crash...I saw it mentioned on Bikebiz from Carlton...fingers crossed for your recovery...Nick G ( Perth Australia )
Learned fro SAra Best's blog that you were injured. I hope it was not horribly serious. You look hurt but not critically so in the picture, but the Aspen collar is concerning since it likely means cervical fractures(???). Hope you are back in the saddle again soon! Take care and heal up soon.
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- canoelover said...
Mark is a class act. I traded him an old Rossin frame that didn't fit me for a couple of Kinetic jerseys. Its hard to say who got the better deal. Thanks for promoting a long-time industry buddy!
- ss_luna said...
tim, heard about the track wreck. get well!
- Dave Moulton said...
Everything in this life happens for a reason, especially when bad things happen to good people there is a definite reason.
Out of what seems to be extreme misfortune something good will reveal itself eventually. Keep reminding yourself of this, and when in pain don't look for relief but look for answers.
Ask why, ask for reasons why, and above all ask for the answers to be revealed to you. The answers will come to you just as surely as you will recover from this.
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1. aayupanday (Posts: 580; Member since: 28 Jun 2012)
Yay ! Thinner Bezel ...
4. MeoCao (unregistered)
This is tablet so thick bezel is necessary for handling.
2. KingKurogiii (Posts: 5712; Member since: 23 Oct 2011)
it better come with Jelly Bean because the Fire never got one Android Update and remained on Gingerbread until it was succeeded.
3. MeoCao (unregistered)
It's interesting what OS KF2 will use. I guess Amazon will fork ICS as it's too late for them to use JB. W/o JB it's tough for KF2 to compete with N7 and even with JB KF2 still lacks such essential features as Google Now.
KF2 can compete on price and then there's not much room for Amazon.
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"Amazon Kindle Fire surface"
so i guess it's running Windows 8:)
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It took me a moment to understand the joke!
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Uh..oh.. Apple's gonna sue this thing.. Rectangular slab with rounded corners.
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not bad kindle.....not bad
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kindle will use android OS but no android and google services...
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Way back in January, over the objections of just about everyone affected, the Dallas ISD Board of Trustees tacked a mandatory 45 minutes onto every teacher's workday. How the teachers used the time would be up to principals.
Not surprisingly, the decision sparked considerable resentment among teachers who felt the move, made without their input, was an assault on their professionalism and a waste of their time.
Their grievances were pretty well summed up by Hobie Hukill, a librarian at Samuell High School, who told the board, to loud applause from fellow teachers, that the policy had led to "a sorry cascade of unintended consequences that we've experienced over the last four months: Less contact with parents and students, more wasted time in meetings, childcare hardships, increased absenteeism, dismal morale, and an unprecedented number of job vacancies."
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Shachtman and His Legacy
— David Finkel
Max Shachtman and His Left:
A Socialist's Odyssey Through the "American Century"
by Peter Drucker
New Jersey: Humanities Press International, 1994,
346 pages, paperback, $18.95.
LIKE ALMOST ANY work of serious Marxist scholarship, Peter Drucker's Max Shachtman and His Left cannot be separated from issues of present-day politics and commitment. We should be grateful that it found a ready publisher in the Humanities Press "Revolutionary Studies" series edited by Paul Le Blanc.
Far from producing a purely academic study of an historical figure, Drucker chose his subject as part of a conscious effort toward reconstructing a working class, internationalist revolutionary left.
"Paradoxically," Drucker writes, "In some respects the pre-Cold War Shachtman of the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s now seems startlingly contemporary...the more clearly we conjure up the picture of that pre-Cold War world, the more unsettlingly familiar it looks." (2)
What Drucker has in mind, obviously, is not a literal repetition of the 1930s but rather broad features of the global and U.S. scene: a protracted crisis with wrenching effects on the lives and the consciousness of working people; a U.S. working class in the process of being recomposed as a multinational reality, in which traditions of struggle of immigrant workers (today, especially from Mexico, the Caribbean and Central America) must play a growing role; a scramble among capitalist imperialist powers for advantages in trade and manufacture; the centrality of struggles against racism.
Most of all, the collapse of Stalinism and the end of the Cold War system removes, in Drucker's view, one of the crippling obstacles to the development of socialist working class politics in both East and West. Indeed, the crisis in socialist thought resulting from Stalin's destruction of the Russian Revolution and the post-1945 bipolar division between Pax Americana and the Soviet bloc is central to any investigation of "Shachtmanism."
Shachtman's greatness as a thinker lay in his ability to understand and confront the impact of these events on socialist expectations -- particularly, his understanding that any confusion between bureaucratic tyranny and socialism was fatal. Yet the contradictions of the Cold War world contributed greatly to the ultimate degeneration of Max Shachtman, and most of "his Left," into either reactionary, pro-imperialist right-wing Social Democratic politics or a critical but decidedly pro-West liberalism.
Drucker chronicles the evolution of Shachtman's views of the Communist menace (both real and imagined) in order to understand its errors and the lessons to be drawn. A point must be stressed here, however<197>one which Drucker certainly understands, but to which many on the left who consider themselves adept critics of "Shachtmanism" are quite oblivious: Shachtman's supposed obsession with Communism was only one factor, an important but not necessarily the most crucial one, in his rightward trajectory.(1)
Who Was Max Shachtman?
The first problem that arises in writing, or reviewing, a political biography of Max Shachtman has to do with the audience that Drucker obviously wants to reach. It includes many activists who have no idea who Shachtman was; some who are familiar with intricate details of the half-century of mass struggles and factional battles in which he was engaged; and others of us who have studied parts of the relevant literature but who cannot claim deep historical expertise.(2)
It must be said that Drucker succeeds strikingly in writing for a diverse potential readership. He is also concerned to attempt to recover Shachtman's personal qualities -- his warmth and capacity for friendship as well as his abrasive and quarrelsome traits -- a difficult task for an author generations removed from his subject.
Those who are uninitiated will find here a basic "tendency history" covering the early years of the Communist party, the origins of the Trotskyist movement and its struggles against the isolation produced by the Stalinist counterrevolution and the ascendancy of fascism.
This was followed by the militant revolutionary activism of the 1940s Workers Party and the 1950s left-socialist Independent Socialist League. Finally came the 1960s, when what remained of Max Shachtman's movement irrevocably splintered, and when Shachtman himself adopted a contemptuous and sectarian attitude toward the New Left, particularly the anti-war movement, until his death in 1972.
So who was Max Shachtman anyway? An astonishing and contradictory figure by any reckoning, he was among the political and intellectual founders of American Communism, Trotskyism -- and neoconservatism. In the 1940s he led a small but vigorous revolutionary party that led early struggles to desegregate auto plants; in the 1960s, after his career as a revolutionary had ended, he was a major (though unpublicized) strategic thinker behind the 1963 Civil Rights March on Washington, yet also a mentor of United Federation of Teachers president Albert Shanker, leader of the 1968 racist New York teachers' strike against community control.
He was born in 1904 in Warsaw but a lifelong New Yorker from infancy, recruited to socialist politics through his studies and the Jewish working-class milieu he lived in. He was a founding member of the American Communist party, among its most energetic organizers and journalists, and a youthful leader of its "Americanizing" wing during the party factional wars of the 1920s.
An early expression of Shachtman's internationalism was his powerful statement of solidarity with the Nicaraguan anti-imperialist war of Augusto Sandino (45-46), expressing a view of the importance of national liberation movements that Shachtman would maintain until the disintegration of his own revolutionary perspective. Throughout his career, Shachtman would be perhaps the outstanding publicist for socialist politics that the movement has produced in the United States.
Along with co-factionalists James P. Cannon and Martin Abern, Shachtman was a founder of the U.S. Trotskyist movement and an early fighter for the Fourth International. He and Cannon participated actively in the Trotskyists' leadership of the 1934 Minneapolis Teamsters strike; Shachtman also wrote some of the most important exposures of the Stalinist show trials, and edited the Trotskyist theoretical organ New International, the best revolutionary Marxist journal ever published in the English language.
The Third Camp
Trotskyism split, inevitably, over the "Russian Question" in the context of the second World War. Wrenching controversies arose from the destruction of the remnants of Lenin's Bolshevik party and the virtual enslavement of Soviet workers, as well as the Stalin-Hitler pact, Soviet occupations of Finland and Poland and the USSR's trajectory into, out of and back into alliance with Western imperialist powers.
These catastrophic events irrevocably broke apart Trotskyists' unity around "defense of the Soviet Union" as a workers' state (however degenerated it had become, Trotskyists had argued, under Stalin's totalitarian bureaucratic dictatorship).
Again, readers new to the history of this split, which was consummated organizationally shortly before Trotsky's assassination in 1940, and its legacy of polemics will find in Drucker's book as good a basic account as will be found anywhere.
The author (like this reviewer) is unabashedly sympathetic to the "Shachtmanite" as opposed to the "Cannonite" and Trotsky's side of the argument. Drucker is careful, however, to trace the stages and internal contradictions through which Shachtman's position evolved from 1939 to the articulation of an essentially complete theory of a new Stalinist ruling class system -- bureaucratic collectivism -- in 1940-43.
The formation produced by the minority in the split, the Workers Party led by Shachtman, organized around the slogan of a "Third Camp" -- conceived as a struggle of workers and oppressed people everywhere as an alternative to both imperialist war camps. In the postwar world of the Cold War, the concept of the Third Camp took on a new and more lasting meaning, as the vision of an independent democratic and revolutionary alternative to both capitalist imperialism and its bureaucratic collectivist rival.
It is as leader of the Workers Party (1940-48) and its successor organization the Independent Socialist League (1949-58) that Shachtman emerges as a magnificent, if ultimately tragic figure. Although a highly competent Marxist thinker, he was not a profoundly original theorist but rather a synthesist of major importance.
The conception of the consolidated Soviet bureaucracy as a new ruling class, opposed in its own way to capitalism but even more bitterly hostile to socialism and any form of independent working class politics, was not Shachtman's own original insight, but he was able to provide its finished formulation and, most importantly, to explain its relevance for the monumental effort to reconstruct a socialist movement from the wreckage of Stalinism, fascism and postwar U.S. imperialist supremacy.
"His most enduring legacy," Drucker rightly says, "was his appreciation of the inseparability of socialism and democracy." (318)
Similarly, Shachtman did not originate the theory of the Permanent War Economy as an important new vehicle for the economic stabilization of postwar capitalism. But he grasped its importance for understanding why there would not be an inevitable rapid recurrence
of the 1930s-style Great Depression, the expectation of which distorted the perspectives of many Marxists. (218)
A Winding Road to Reformism
Shachtman's politics and activities through World War II make up Part I of Drucker's work. Part II, subtitled "The American Working Class as It Really Is" -- one of the later Shachtman's favorite phrases and his dominant political preoccupation -- begins with the profound rethinking of Trotskyist expectations.
Between 1946-48 it began to become clear that U.S. workers would share in the postwar prosperity of U.S. capitalism. "(W)orkers were not about to support revolutionary projects while their lives were tangibly improving. Shachtman recognized these postwar realities faster and more thoroughly than almost any other Marxist. He was still determined to fight against ascendant U.S. power and build a working class opposition in the belly of the beast." (189)
This meant, among other things, looking for any possible opening toward independent mass working class politics. Contrary to a certain sectarian mythology that sees Shachtman after 1940 as hopelessly blinded by "Stalinophobia," Shachtman initially placed some real hope in Henry Wallace's third-party movement despite its considerable Communist support.(201)(3)
Shortly, however, Shachtman tilted toward a notion that was to prove sterile and crippling to every socialist current that has pursued it ever since, often with much less realistic justification than Shachtman originally had. This was the perspective that a labor party in the United States would most likely arise through the initiative of the Reuther or Dubinsky wing of the labor bureaucracy.
This was not only a significant strategic miscalculation at a time when the labor bureaucracy, particularly its liberal wing, was incorporating itself into the Cold War system on the side of its own imperialist ruling class -- at home through the anti-Communist purges, abroad through very dirty operations on behalf of U.S. policy inside the labor movements of western and southern Europe and Latin America.
It was also a particularly dangerous orientation for a small political tendency -- one that had sunk impressive roots during wartime in rank and file militancy against the no-strike pledge, but which now saw that militancy dissolving and an increasing number of its own cadres either leaving industry or finding posts inside the union officialdom.
To be sure, it is much easier retrospectively to identify the Shachtman tendency's mistakes than to identify any viable alternative course. Yet the orientation toward progressive labor bureaucrats to launch independent politics, substituting for a vibrant working class insurgency that was dissolving, led Shachtman by an almost infinite sequence of incremental adaptations toward the Democratic Party (where, as not only Shachtman but his disciple Michael Harrington lectured us until his death, is where "the American working class as it really is" politically lives).
Today, the attempt to forge an independent working class political alternative -- coming together around the formation Labor Party Advocates -- is starting virtually from scratch, partly because the socialist left of previous generations has produced such a sad legacy of dependence on the Democrats.
Obviously, these adaptations were also profoundly linked to Shachtman's deepening skepticism that any radical opposition movement in the world -- in particular, national liberation struggles in which he had invested enormous hope -- could forge a really independent, let alone revolutionary, force in a world divided into the imperialist
camps of rival social systems.
In short, Shachtman's winding road to reformism entailed the step-by-step abandonment of the Third Camp conception to which he had devoted so much passion and energy.
Aligning with Imperialism
A crucial moment was the dissolution in 1958 of the Independent Socialist League and its members' entry into the long-moribund Socialist Party. As Alan Wald has written:
"As long as the Independent Socialist League continued, those who aspired to shift their allegiance in the direction of supporting the 'democratic' imperialist foreign policy of the United States had to break from the organization. Once the organized political tendency ceased to exist, the speed with which Shachtman moved to the far right wing of social democracy appalled not only many of his associates but even those who had previously left his group." (The New York Intellectuals, 192)
By 1961, Shachtman refused to condemn the Bay of Pigs invasion; by 1965, he publicly supported the U.S. war in Vietnam. Those inspired by the politics of the last decade of his life inhabit such environs as the Social Democrats USA, National Endowment for Democracy and American Institute for Free Labor Development, where as intellectual advisors to the right wing of the AFL-CIO bureaucracy and the Reagan administration they contributed significantly to keeping Central America safe for torturers, dictators and death squads.
Always searching for "the American working class as it really is," Shachtman made his final commitment to the worst of reactionary institutions and leaderships dedicated to preventing that working class from changing and emancipating itself.
Grappling with a Legacy
Coming to terms with the legacy of a political leader both so inspiring and appalling is Peter Drucker's fundamental purpose in writing this book. His own orientation as an activist shaped by the fresh upsurges of the 1960s and `70s (which Shachtman generally despised, except for the early Civil Rights movement), as a revolutionary socialist and gay activist, as a Fourth Internationalist who regards himself as a "Shachtmanite," naturally strongly influences Drucker's interpretive effort.
Briefly stated, Drucker's hope is that recuperating the revolutionary Shachtman for today's working-class struggle, combined with the best qualities of a non-dogmatic Fourth International and fused with the anti-racist, feminist and pro-gay commitments demanded by new movements, can help prepare a revival of authentic socialist politics in a crisis-ridden, post-Cold War world.
It's a powerful vision, and since I generally share it I certainly recommend to all comrades and activists a careful study of Peter's sympathetic but sharp criticisms of key phases of Shachtman's complex evolution. In a review of this scope I can't possibly address many details, but I want to focus on one problem that Peter seems to slide around.
For that generation whose radical education came through the struggle to stop U.S. imperialism's dirty war in Vietnam and its attempts to recolonize Cuba, it's hard to accept the degree to which Shachtman, even in the 1950s, continued to be right about Stalinism -- even as he developed fatal delusions about capitalist democracy.
Peter believes that from that the late 1940s onward, Shachtman should have had a more positive, though highly critical, orientation toward Titoism and Maoism.
"As Shachtman predicted, the Yugoslav and Chinese revolutions did not create socialist democracy in either country.... But unlike Shachtman's account of Stalin's triumph in the Soviet Union, which looked carefully at each stage of the long, drawn out process of bureaucratization, his account of the Yugoslav and Chinese revolutions obscured some of their contradictory features." (238)
"Contradictory features," of course, can cover an awful lot. In the case of China, Peter contends:
"In China the repression and military predominance in which the Cultural Revolution culminated and the repression of the 1989 movement for democracy proved that the bureaucracy could rely on the state to crush working people's resistance...But bureaucratic triumph was not the only possible outcome...The same economic policies that fostered a bureaucratic elite greatly expanded the working class...At the height of Mao's Cultural Revolution, Communists in Shanghai took his references to the Paris Commune of 1871 more literally than he meant them to and clashed with Mao and the army in an attempt to create true workers' democracy. (229)
The fact is, however, that we know plenty about Mao's Communist party, from long before it took power,(4) through the "anti-rightist" purges of the 1950s, the brutal annexation of Tibet, through the mass starvation that followed the "Great Leap Forward" and other wonders of "socialist construction."
The lesson of China wasn't "the repression and military predominance in which the Cultural Revolution culminated;" it was the repression and bureaucratic-military predominance which culminated in the Cultural Revolution, the eruption of unlimited factional gang warfare devoid of any political principles. This national catastrophe, which probably discredited the idea of socialism among the Chinese masses for at least a generation, was rooted in the character of that regime from its inception.
Following a further fifteen years of repression of the "Democracy Wall" movement and its successors through the Tiananmen massacre, the Chinese Communist Party is now, finally, carrying through more or less the historic economic program of Chiang Kai-shek's Kuomintang -- only with a more efficient (though of course not permanent) totalitarian control over working-class institutions than the KMT could likely have sustained.
Peter, it seems to me, would like to achieve a fusion of the Shachtman theory of bureaucratic collectivism with the Fourth Internationalist view of the Chinese, Yugoslav and Vietnamese Communist parties as embodying a certain vindication of Trotsky's theory of Permanent Revolution.(5) Here I am afraid is where his argument is forced to gloss over much of the actual historical experience.
If the course of events following the collapse of the USSR and the satellite states of Eastern Europe teaches us anything, it would appear to be that the crippling legacy of the bureaucratic system has made it more difficult for the working class to regain its own independent organization and movement than revolutionary Marxists of all stripes had predicted.
My own view is that the Shachtman tendency would not have improved its own chances for political survival by straining to find something positive in Yugoslav, Chinese or Vietnamese Communism; but it would have weakened the legacy it has passed on to those of us who are prepared to confront its strengths, its contradictions and its errors. Max Shachtman and His Left is a crucial and seminal text for that important work of critical assimilation.
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On Monday, advocates rallied at North High School in favor of the DREAM Act, which would have provided a path to citizenship for undocumented graduates from U.S. high schools. (See a recap and photos here.) But yesterday, Senate Republicans stalled the measure, likely killing it for now. Colorado Immigrant Rights Coalition's Julie Gonzales warns that Republicans will pay for this move at the polls. See her statement in the release below:
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Denver, CO -- Today the US Senate failed to reach the 60 votes needed to push forward the DREAM Act. The vote, along party lines, was on the 2010 Defense Authorization Bill which included the DREAM Act as an amendment because it would allow thousands of potential new recruits to join the military.
"The question we have for the Republican opposition is: ' What are you thinking when you deny youth a chance to follow their dreams?'" said Julie Gonzales, Political Director of the Colorado Immigrant Rights Coalition, "The Republicans have shown us that they do not care about the Latino vote or the youth vote; all they care about is their failed strategy of 'no'. It will come back to haunt them."
Latino voters nationwide are paying close attention to this vote, seen as a bellwether on further immigration reform legislation. Senators Udall and Bennet of Colorado are both cosponsors of the DREAM Act, and their support has been deeply appreciated by the Colorado immigrant and Latino communities.
"This year, the Colorado Immigrant Rights Coalition and partner groups will be talking to tens of thousands of Colorado voters about the various issues that will affect them, and immigration reform is a top issue, especially for Latino voters," continued Gonzales, "Those that oppose it should be prepared to answer questions from their constituents about this disgusting strategy to alienate the fastest-growing bloc of voters in America."
Young Latino voters statewide echoed Julie's comments.
"I am voting for the first time this year, and I will be voting for every one of my friends who is waiting in the shadows for the DREAM act to pass," said Flor Marquez, an 18 year old Latina voter, "I watched this vote closely, and what I saw was an organized effort by one party to deny my friends and family the American dream. By refusing to allow youth the chance to be fully American, the Senate Republicans have failed in their responsibility of ensuring a better future for all of us. I will remember this and so will all my friends, especially when we walk into a voting booth."
The DREAM Act would provide conditional permanent residency status to undocumented youth who are of good moral character, came here before they were 16 years old, and have lived here for over 5 years. In addition, it would require the youth to complete 2 years of college or military service in order to be eligible. The DREAM Act is a part of the comprehensive immigration reform proposal supported by President Obama.
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So the BCS machine surprised no one last night by choosing 10-2 Ohio State over the Broncos for the final at-large spot in a BCS bowl. I suppose watching the Buckeyes get run over by the Longhorns will be much more enjoyable than watching the Broncos get run over by the Longhorns and maybe there is a silver lining. The Broncos overachieved this year by most accounts with the stellar performance of Kellen Moore and dominating defense, but youth precluded them from really putting perfect games together outside of a few...maybe they just weren't ready for a BCS bowl. The team will almost certainly be ranked in the preseason polls next year and be better set up for a serious BCS run in 2009 and beyond. The first step towards that end would be to take down the pesky TCU Horned Frogs in San Diego on the 23rd of this month. The bowl represents what may be one of the top 5 matchups of the postseason, #9 and undefeated Boise State vs. #11 and 10-2 TCU. The Horned Frogs have a smothering defense and impressive team speed...the Broncos have a smothering defense and a dynamic offense. Something has got to give. Early analysis says that the Horned Frogs and Broncos may be close to a "push" on defense and the edge had to go to the Broncos on offense...setting up an exciting game in sunny San Diego in a few weeks. I will be posting lots of info as it comes out about the matchup and you better believe that there will be a bowl version of "Know Your Enemy" so take heart Bronco fans. The BCS wasn't in the cards this year, but we'll get there again...sooner than you think.
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Minimoog Voyager | |
Manufacturer | Moog Music |
Dates | 2002 – 2015[1] |
Price | US$2995 – US$4995 |
Technical specifications | |
Polyphony | Monophonic |
Timbrality | Monotimbral |
Oscillator | 3 VCOs |
LFO | independent LFO |
Synthesis type | Analog Subtractive |
Filter | dual lowpass or highpass/lowpass with cutoff, resonance, spacing ADSR envelope generator, keyboard tracking |
Attenuator | ADSR envelope generator |
Aftertouch expression | yes |
Velocity expression | yes |
Storage memory | 128 presets expandable to 896 |
Effects | 2 modulation busses |
Input/output | |
Keyboard | 44-note with velocity and aftertouch sensitivity |
Left-hand control | pitch bend and mod wheels |
External control | MIDI, 14 CV/Gate inputs |
The Minimoog Voyager or Voyager is a monophonic analog synthesizer, designed by Robert Moog and released in 2002 by Moog Music. The Voyager was modeled after the classic Minimoog synthesizer that was popular in the 1970s, and is meant to be a successor to that instrument.
Like the original Minimoog, the Voyager has six sound sources. Five of these (three voltage-controlled oscillators with switchable waveforms, a noise generator, and an external line input) pass to a mixer with independent level controls. The mixed output of the sources is then passed through the voltage-controlled filter and a voltage-controlled amplifier, each of which has its own ADSR (Attack-Decay-Sustain-Release) envelope generator. The voltage-controlled filter can itself be made to oscillate, thus comprising the Voyager's sixth sound source.
In addition to features from the original Minimoog, the Voyager was designed to have a memory bank capable of storing 128 presets, a touch pad modulation control, dedicated low-frequency oscillator (LFO), two modulation busses (one controllable via the modulation wheel and the other with a foot pedal), two ADSR envelopes for filter and amplifier control, a pressure-sensitive keyboard, 14 voltage-control inputs, and MIDI input/output.
Unlike the original Minimoog, the Voyager's modulation busses can be set to affect almost any parameter of the sound, not just the filters. Although the synthesizer features MIDI control and advanced patch storage, all audio paths in the Voyager are analog. The three oscillators are designed for high tuning stability, as the original Minimoog oscillators tended to slightly shift out of tune while playing.
With the Voyager, certain parameters that were fixed on the original Minimoog can be programmed to suit the player's preference. This includes selection between low-note, high-note or last-note priority. Also, the envelope generators can be set to re-trigger with each pressed note or they can be set not to re-trigger until all notes are lifted and the next note is played.
In November 2001, Moog Music (then Big Briar) announced that they planned to release an updated version of the Minimoog. The new synthesizer promised to have modern features, yet continue to be authentic to the original sound quality. The company offered a new synthesizer to the customer who could come up with a name for the project. Early in 2002, they announced that the synthesizer would be named the "Minimoog Voyager".
Late in the summer of 2002, Moog Music began shipping the new Voyagers. Occasionally a new system software release is made available, which can be downloaded from Moog Music's website and sent to the Voyager via MIDI. Recent software versions allow complex internal patching of control voltages, a very powerful and convenient feature for the user. Also available is the VX-351 Voyager Expander, an external box that is wired to the Voyager featuring 25 control-voltage outputs for physical CV patching.[2]
Recent versions of the Voyager software expand the original 128-patch memory to 896 patches by implementing seven selectable banks, A to G, with 128 patches each. The current model (2007) has most of the patches pre-programmed in groups corresponding to earlier software releases.
In September 2015, Moog Music announced that after 13 years of production and over 14,000 units sold, sales of the Voyager would be discontinued.[1] However, the XL version of the Voyager remains in production.[3]
The first 600 units could be preordered at the price of US$3495 and featured Bob Moog's autograph. The standard edition continues to sell for US$2995. Apart from the signature and price, the models are identical. Wood finish on the models is offered in walnut, cherry or maple.
For 2004, Moog Music released a limited 50th Anniversary Edition Voyager. The wood cabinet was painted black and the control panel was backlit using electroluminescent technology. 2005 marked the end of production of these units, while Moog Music continues to sell a backlit model called the Electric Blue that features an iridescent blue cabinet finish. Both of these models have the same features of the non-backlit models but sell for US$3295. Since 2006[4] they had offered a customizable version of the Electric Blue[citation needed] named the Select Series, in which the customer can choose between mahogany, electric blue, traditional ash, white wash, maple, black, cherry, and walnut cabinets with red, blue, white, orange, green, or purple backlighting. Their retail price is the same as that of the Electric Blue model.[5]
In 2005, Moog Music released the Voyager Rack Mount Edition (RME), a synthesizer based on the Voyager. The RME was designed to occupy 5 spaces in a 19-inch rack. The model has all of the features of other Voyagers except the touch panel control and keyboard. The RME is designed to be controlled via MIDI. Up to 16 RME Voyagers can be combined to achieve polyphony.
In 2008, Moog Music released the Minimoog Voyager Old School (Voyager OS). The Voyager OS has enhanced modulation busses with more sources on the panel to compensate for the lack of software and an operating system. The Voyager OS also does not have a touch pad or MIDI inputs and outputs. Unlike other Voyagers, it features a keyboard pitch CV out and keyboard gate CV out, without the aid of the VX-351. The Voyager OS's pitch bender is set to +/- 7 semitones, and can be modified by an internal jumper. The OS is sold with one wood panelling option, "traditional ash". However, a few limited edition models were housed in white wash cabinets. The Voyager Old School was discontinued in 2009.[6]
In 2010, for the 40th anniversary of the Minimoog Model D, Moog Music released the Minimoog Voyager XL model. It is an expanded Voyager that includes, in addition to the original Voyager features, a larger 61-note keyboard, a ribbon controller, an additional LFO/modulation bus, and most notably, a patch bay on the far left of the instrument—providing a similar modular functionality to the VX-series products.[7]
- ^ a b "END OF A VOYAGE - FINAL PRODUCTION OF ICONIC SYNTHESIZER". Moog Music. Retrieved 1 October 2015.
- ^ "Voyager by Bob Moog – Analogue Performance Monosynth". Sound On Sound (June 2003).
- ^ http://www.synthtopia.com/content/2015/09/30/moog-announces-end-of-production-of-the-minimoog-voyager/
- ^ "Voyager Timeline". Moog Music. Retrieved 3 October 2015.
- ^ "Voyager by Bob Moog – Version 2 OS Updates • Anniversary Edition • VX351 • CP251". Sound On Sound (November 2004).
- ^ "Moog Voyager Old School". Sound On Sound (December 2008).
- ^ "Minimoog Voyager XL announced – Moog give you a semi". Sound On Sound. 2010-09-28.


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This update retains the essential features of the original Conners' Kiddie Continuous Performance Test (Conners' K-CPT; Conners, 2001) and introduces several important refinements.
With the choice of a pay-per-use or unlimited software program, the Conners K– CPT 2 is a time- and cost-effective screening device and adjunct to the process of assessing attention problems. Results from the 7.5-minute measure can be used for clinical assessment, early identification, and educational classification. The assessment can be administered before treatment and at intervals to monitor progress.
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That balance may include limiting the amount of time spent in the sun and avoiding the 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. window of peak sun intensity.
"It's a negotiation," said Fox, a practicing dermatologist and a spokesman for the American Academy of Dermatology. "I don't think you stop living life."
Colleagues agree with Fox, and note that sun-safe behaviors are vital to protect people from concerns that range from melanoma to premature aging.
"Our position at this time is being outdoors is part of a healthy lifestyle," said J. Leonard Lichtenfeld, deputy chief medical officer for the American Cancer Society. "[Using] sunscreen is part of that."
Lichtenfeld said that each year more than 2 million Americans are diagnosed with skin cancers, the great majority of which are classified as basal or squamous cell skin cancers. His organization estimates that in 2012, 76,250 Americans will be diagnosed with the most deadly form of skin cancer, invasive melanoma, which is more likely to spread than other skin cancers if not detected early. They estimate that in the U.S., 9,180 deaths due to skin cancer will occur this year, most from melanoma.
Litchfield added that sunscreen is not the primary protection people should rely on, and it is often applied improperly or depended on too heavily. He recommends using sunscreen with a sun protection factor, or SPF, of 30 and applying it repeatedly, along with other important barriers such as sun-protective clothing, hats and sunglasses.
Those measures can lessen the impact of excess sun, but sunburns are not the only indicator of sun damage, noted dermatologist Dina Strachan. She developed freckles on her hand soon after moving to the Los Angeles area, and knew the freckles' significance: sun-induced skin damage.
"It wasn't like I was out there trying to get a tan. I put sunscreen on my face every day," said Strachan.
"There can be benefits to being outdoors in the sun, but you don't want to deliberately tan. Tan skin is a danger signal the skin is being harmed," Lichtenfeld said in an email.
Sun exposure triggers the production of melanin in the skin, but the resulting tan only partially shields the skin against further damage from the sun's ultraviolet rays, Vilma Cokkinides, strategic director of Risk Factor Surveillance at the American Cancer Society, wrote in an email.
Health care providers acknowledge that there are some benefits to sun exposure. One of the most talked-about benefits is vitamin D, which forms when ultraviolet rays penetrate the skin, triggering a chain of events in the body that involves the liver and kidneys. Vitamin D is critical to bones, among other things. But the risks of exposure outweigh the benefits.
Carol Drucker, a dermatologist at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, said that most people need 600 international units of vitamin D a day, and food and supplements are the safest way to add it. A 3-ounce serving of salmon, for instance, provides 447 IUs, and an 8-ounce serving of vitamin D-fortified milk provides 120 IUs, she said.
"We know that the sun is a carcinogen. There's no sense to let sun protection go by the wayside in quest of vitamin D," Drucker said.
While skin often is the focus when it comes to the sun's impact on the body, eyes also may be a concern.
Richard Bensinger, an ophthalmologist at Swedish Medical Center in Seattle, said that sunlight is critical to the development and function of eyesight and not normally a threat to eye health. While it is possible to sunburn an eye, it is rare. Sunlight can affect cataract development and macular degeneration, but in day-to-day life the sun is not generally a high risk factor for eye damage.
"Ordinary sunglasses are perfectly fine," Bensinger said. "The best thing you can do for any kind of health in bright sun is wear adequate sunscreen and wear sunglasses."
Charles Crutchfield III, a dermatologist based in St. Paul and professor at the University of Minnesota Medical School, favors a pragmatic approach to sun exposure.
"I'm a realist, and I have to have credibility with my patients," said Crutchfield, who believes telling them to avoid midday sun while on vacation is unrealistic.
"There are many benefits to sun, but you just need to enjoy it responsibly," added Crutchfield, who noted that the sun may play a role in alleviating Seasonal Affective Disorder and may have other unidentified benefits. He suggested that if individuals are "sun smart," use protection and avoid tanning and burning it's acceptable to "go out and have lots of fun in the sun."
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ram Man is the last on my list of really wanted good guys. Not saying there aren't more to be done but he was one of the all times. I just hope the horde gets their buggy eye popping fellow this year. And still need some Horde Trooper action in the world. As long as the delay makes for a non messed up Rammy I am good
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I'm having a little trouble here . . . a part of me wants to believe you like vintage and want that more than anything, that the rest doesn't matter, and that you must post this train of thought repeatedly, thread after thread.
But surely I'm wrong about that. I must be.
My seller/trader/buyer feedback:
MOTUC Most Wanted: 1) Stridor 2) Road Ripper 3) Dragon Walker 4) Land Shark
CRAP. I take a 2 week vacation and stay of the 'net the WHOLE time and come home to THIS? How? How can Ram Man be delayed... I mean prices have been raised and accessories have been cut over the years to avoid late shipments and QC issues. So he cant be delayed, it makes NO sense. Oh wait its Mattel we are talking about here...
Sorry Im just a tad ticked off here. No worries really, just hope it wont happen with Jitsu. Im a huge fan and will sub up EVERY year, i just get sick of hearing the excuses like everyone else.
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Delayed? Who cares, he's still coming out! If they said CANCELED, then I'd understand the backlash, but only four weeks delay?! For a toyline that only exists as a labor of love, y'all's sure ams vicious.
Then PM me because I haven't shipped them out yet and I'll just refund the other dude his money back.
However, I highly doubt you would have paid $1600 for that lot when it did not have really the A listers.
Anyway, before this gets tossed as a Marketplace discussion, next month will at least be great for Ram-Man and maybe I'll warm up to Jitsu.
Can someone PM me the US number for Matty? I want to talk to someone who might has a clue of what is going on.
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Yikes....I wasn't trying to stir up anything. I am also looking forward to Octavia. She looks absolutely incredible. And you know what? I apologize if you misunderstood me. I wasn't in the slightest sense trying to say Netossa is boring. She's fine. I like POP too but would rather see other core POP characters get done before this line goes away.I love everything MOTU except NA....sorry I don't. Karatti looks like he should be a villain in the TMNT line. I don't care for the other mythos to get all tangled up & confused into one lump. That's for another debate. It's Vintage all the way for me...don't get me wrong. I love 200x & POP. But there are plenty of Vintage characters that have yet to see a second upgrade as a figure. i.e. Rio Blast,Extendar,Dragstor,Mantenna,Horde Troopers,Sssqueeze,Glimmer,Queen Angella.....the list goes on....
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Well if he wasn't before he is now if you're going in on TG's all encompassing bio mythos. You haven't heard? Snake Mountain belongs to Jitsu now. His credentials just sky rocketed. At least according to Mattel/Skeletor. He will rule with a Golden Fist,chop hand whatever you want to call it.
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My kids do the same. I have vintage,200x & some Classics toys for them to play with. They always wind up playing with my old vintage toys/playsets(CG). It's great to see their expressions when they see the vintage figures get Classicized. That's why I'm so excited about Ram Man. He's going to be huge in their eyes.
Where are the rest of my New Adventures Classics figures?!?!?
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MOTUC NEEDS more TROLLANS !!!
What? CG isnt planned to ship until 1st Q 2014. I guess everyone cant know about everything. I am just glad we are getting Netossa a month early, Ram Man will be on time, oh and Jitsu is coming a month early as well. I am the kinda guy that puts my alarm clock 45 minutes fast, so it feels like I get more sleep. I just set my calendar 1 month fast so it feels all my Matty items arrive early..or right on time.
Why were Snout Spout and Flipshot dropped from the January sale? They were announced and now they aren't part of it. Ram Man's delay shouldn't have affected the other offerings.
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I live in the UK but checked my bank account this morning and approx £30 has been taken which i presume is for Ram man has anyone else had money taken yet with out an email. Just want to check before complaing.
When I bought my subscribtion I thought i paid for my intial figure and membership fee my intial figure was Netossa so therefore already paid for. This is my first ever subscribtion with Matty so I feel a bit confused.
I would like to apologize as well. I probably should have waited longer to post my reply, in order to give myself some cool-down time. As I stated in my initial post, I was frustrated by a number of posts that I saw, and yours merely provided a springboard off of which I could jump. Again, my apologies for undeservedly taking out that frustration on you.
For the sake of explanation, I don't care per se who prefers which era over which, or dismisses this character or that, but it infuriates me to no end when I see posters--and I don't mean you here, though I lumped you into this category yesterday--boldly declaring that characters they don't care for are somehow undeserving of existence. It happens all the time on this board with regards to the POP and NA characters, and I find it disrespectful to those members of this community who are interested in said characters. Personally speaking, I loathe the Rio-Blast character beyond imagining, but I know there are members of this community who enjoy his character, and I would never begrudge them the chance to add him to their collection. I find that a lot of He-Man.org members who are interested in the non-He-Man factions likewise extend that courtesy to others, whereas, all too often, certain vocal collectors who focus exclusively on the vintage MOTU line within the MOTUC whole go out of their way to be discourteous to the rest. This has led more and more longstanding, positive, and embracing He-Man.org community members to leave these forums--and many of those, like me, were here from the very beginning--resulting in my decreased ability to ignore what I perceive as hostility to non-vintage He-Man collectables and fans.
To be fair, that's a matter of perspective. I'm excited for Netossa for multiple reasons: (1) her vintage counterpart was relatively rare, so a lot of collectors of the vintage POP line wanted her but could never find her in stories; (2) again, in terms of the vintage line her character represented a taste of diversity to an otherwise all-white lineup, and today she brings that same element to the MOTUC Great Rebellion line-up; (3) the sculpt of her face is beyond gorgeous--in fact, I think it's one of the most striking faces they've done to date; (4) the color palette of her costume--the blues, the whites, and the silver, set against a lovely dark brown skin--is simply hypnotic. No, Netossa may not be the be-all-end-all of the line, but she's certainly got enough going for her to warrant some excitement, and she's anything but garbage.
I sincerely hope that this was merely an attempt at humor, and that I'm reading into it a tone that's not actually intended. 'Cause, if you did mean it the way it sounds, I'd just like to point out that, in addition to being a wonderful person and a good friend, the poster you were responding to has been a member of this community since its inception, like myself. As such--and again, this applies only if you meant for that quote to sound as combative as I'm reading it--it would technically be you who is the lucky one that your opinion is being "tolerated." That being said, hopefully a mixture of having the flu and hostility elsewhere in this thread has simply made me overly sensitive, and you didn't mean it that way.
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I have to laugh when Scot says in the Snake Face update 2013 is going to be a great year. Really Scott? Because it already starts bad with the delay of Ram-Man and the many quality issues of Granamyr. I'm not even over the Frosta disaster, my Dekker had a lot of issues and now my Granamyr is broken? I really hope not. But it will never end will it? No wait it will, when the line ends. It's that I love all these characters so much, but very disappointing Mattel, again.
first time I'm disappointed with a delay. Really want Ram on display with the rest of the masters.
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