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The green iguana or common iguana Iguana igauna is a large, arboreal herbivorous species of lizard of the genus Iguana native to Central and South America. The green iguana ranges over a large geographic area, from southern Brazil and Paraguay to as far north as Mexico, the Caribbean Islands; and in the United States as feral populations in South Florida (including the Florida Keys), Hawaii and the Rio Grande Valley of Texas.
A herbivore, it has adapted significantly with regard to locomotion and osmoregulation as a result of its diet. It grows to 1.5 metres (4.9 ft) in length from head to tail, although a few specimens have grown more than 2 metres (6.6 ft) with bodyweights upward of 20 pounds (9.1 kg).
Commonly found in captivity as a pet due to its calm disposition and bright colors, it can be demanding to care for properly. Space requirements and the need for special lighting and heat can prove challenging to an amateur hobbyist.
The native range of the green iguana extends from southern Mexico to central Brazil, Paraguay, and Bolivia and the Caribbean; specifically Grenada, Curaçao, Trinidad and Tobago, St. Lucia, St. Vincent, and Utila. They have been introduced to Grand Cayman, Puerto Rico, Texas, Florida, Hawaii, and the US Virgin Islands.
Green iguanas are diurnal,arboreal and are often found near water. Agile climbers, Iguana iguana can fall up to 50 feet (15 m) and land unhurt (iguanas use their hind leg claws to clasp leaves and branches to break a fall). During cold, wet weather, green iguanas prefer to stay on the ground for greater warmth.6 When swimming, an iguana remains submerged, letting its four legs hang limply against its side. They propel through the water with powerful tail strokes.
Because of the green iguana's popularity in the pet trade and as a food source in Latin America, they are listed on the CITES Appendix II, which means that while they are not an endangered species, "their trade must be controlled so as to not harm the species in the future".
Due to a combination of events, the green iguana is considered an invasive species in South Florida and is found along the gulf coast of Florida from Key West to Pinellas County. The original small populations in the Florida Keys were animals that had arrived there due to hurricanes and storms; others were stowaways on ships carrying fruit from South America. Over the years, other iguanas were introduced into the wild mostly originating through the pet trade. Some were escapees and some were intentionally released by their owners, these iguanas survived and then thrived in their new habitat. They commonly hide in the attics of houses and on beaches. They often destroy gardens and landscaping. They also seem to be fond of eating a native endangered plant, Cordia globosa and feeding on Nicker nut (Caesalpinia) a primary food plant of the endangered Miami Blue Butterfly (Cyclargus thomasi bethunebakeri); additionally on Marco Island, green iguanas have been observed using the burrows of the Florida Burrowing Owl, a species of special concern, all of which can make them more of a serious threat to Florida's ecosystem than originally believed.
In January 2008, large numbers of feral iguanas in Florida dropped from the trees in which they lived, due to uncommonly cold nights causing their metabolisms to go into a "state of suspended animation" in which they lost their grips on the tree branches. Though no specific numbers were provided by local wildlife officials, local media described the phenomenon as a "frozen iguana shower" in which dozens "littered" local bike paths. Upon the return of daytime warmth many (but not all) of the iguanas "woke up" and resumed their normal activities.
The green iguana is established in Maui, Hawaii as a feral species (despite strict legislation)and the Rio Grande Valley of Texas. As most reptiles carry salmonella, this is also a concern and a reason legislation has been sought to regulate the trade in Green iguanas.
In the aftermath of two Caribbean hurricanes in 1995 , a group of fifteen green iguanas was found to be living on Anguilla; an island where that species have never been recorded previously. Biologist Ellen Censky, of the Connecticut State Museum of Natural History, believes that the new iguanas had accidentally gotten caught on the trees and rafted two hundred miles across the ocean from Guadaloupe, where green iguanas are an indigenous species. By examining the weather patterns and ocean currents, Censky has shown that the iguanas had spent three weeks at sea before arriving on the island.This colony began breeding on the new island within two years of its arrival. Wikipedia
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Very beautiful….and his face is full of character!! Love the back ground too!
He's such a cool creature and big! Ophelia could use him for a horse!!! Thanks Ellen :)
Wow, fabulous!! Congratulations on your feature!! hugs :-)
Congratulations on being featured in the Freedom to Shine group!!! Well done!
Thanks so much Mick…Coming from a reptile shooter, that is a great compliment! :)
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The deeply paranoid among us fear there will be copycat spillers. Children all over England will attempt the "Ash Splash" and discover it's not nearly so easy as Chris Ashton makes out. They will fly over the line, arms stretched wide, ball cupped in one hand, face grimaced in glory. And so it will happen. Thud. Mud. Dud.
The recrimination would soon give way to hilarity and the schoolyard notoriety would be so cruel the mortified wing wannabe would walk away from the field forever. England rugby would have lost a future star, a future Ashton perhaps. All because of a daft celebration...
An apocalyptic scenario? The oval-ball equivalent of the Day After Tomorrow? The ramblings of an daydreaming idiot? Maybe. But there will doubtless be kids who, after watching his historic four-try demolition of Italy on Saturday, will attempt to emulate their new hero in more ways than merely making sure they are on the ball-carrier's shoulder. In fact, the example of all those Jonny-clones post 2003 showed that when it comes to imitation the physical trademark is obviously more important than the professional trademark.
So there were all these young lads, pencil legs sticking out of baggy shorts, standing over their kicking tees, hands clasped, bodies half-turned, raising their eyes to peer between the uprights, then lowering them again and tensing for the decisive action. And then they'd hit the corner flag. Blessedly, we can now tell that Toby Flood was one of the very few who copied the work ethic as well as the routine.
Of course, this mass outbreak of "doing the Wilko" essentially hurt nobody but all those poor parents forced to spend their Saturday mornings in the catatonic state of watching teenagers not moving; just standing there, like a chapel meeting at Madame Tussauds, waiting for the little oik to kick it. The "Ash Splash" may have more serious implications.
But the first question is whether a sportsman has any responsibility to set a good example, or even just to desist from setting a bad one. It was a query I asked myself while out watching Tiger Woods playing in Dubai last week. And while standing among the galleries heavily-populated with the under-10s and seeing him spitting after one wild shot and then shouting "fuck, fuck, fuck" after another, I came to the conclusion they probably do. Call it my "Eureka!" moment. To think the organisers paid him $3m for the privilege.
But then, Tiger Woods is Tiger Woods and is representative of very little that exists in reality. Ashton is different. Any over-exuberance on his part is completely understandable. What he should never care about is offending any of the blazers' sensitivities. They like to see their try-scorers touch down with the minimum of fuss, accept the pat on the back from the goal kicker after handing over the ball and then run immediately back to their own half. In their dusty old book, ecstasy should definitely not be the main part of it. But it is, as even the giggles of Martin Johnson signify. Anyone who can bring a smirk to that grisly countenance, let alone anything so euphoric as a laugh, clearly has the ability to spread the joy far and wide.
Yet what Ashton may want to guard himself against are the charges of being a sneerer, of belittling the opposition, of going airborne in the guise of saying "this is so bloody easy I'm even prepared to risk dropping the thing". There is a clear and present danger of that, which may be lost to him in that wave of jingo sweeping through his own country. Goodness knows why, but there are those who regard the English as arrogant and English rugby as yet more arrogant. To these misguided souls, the "Ash Splash" will be another gross manifestation of that particular nation's superiority complex.
Except Ashton does not quite fit that billing. Listening to this northerner, with all that stereotypical down-to-earthness, he seems anything but an egomaniac. And he has every right to insist no offence is either meant or should be taken. After all, the only nose which gets rubbed in mud in his act is Ashton's. Yet he should take note of the Italian reaction. At least one of their number was shown to be unhappy with the showboating and you could hardly claim the remonstration was that purely of a poor loser. If they are used to one thing, Italian rugby players are used to conceding tries. And then losing.
What they would not appreciate is anyone daring to give off the impression, after just two minutes of play, of a "no-contest". It is the same slight Naseem Hamed's opponents used to feel when he would drop his arms and stick out his chin. Eventually someone took the invitation and there were even those in Naseem's own country who danced at the sight of hubris claiming another TKO. Ashton will never have to worry on that score; his popularity is assured.
And that's the point. He doesn't need to take that risk. Let those who rarely receive the spotlight play the clown; the real talent are required only to play their role. One swallow dive does not make a stunner. Six tries in two games certainly does.
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File: Satrina Buff Frames 307-06-09 |
Originally posted by nnkt
Posted By: SimonTheSnake
Originally posted by nnkt
having one problem with 3.1.13. whenever i refresh a short duration buff like glyph of life tap or eye of the brood mother trinket stacks refresh, the entire bar will disappear and reappear with the refreshed duration. it seems like it has something to do with the throtting, setting throttle to 0.05 the di...
File: Capping05-12-09 |
Originally posted by totalpackage...
Posted By: SimonTheSnake
Originally posted by totalpackage
I'm not going to redesign the entire bar setup just for Wintergrasp. If you would like detail info that you mentioned, check out one of the several standalone mods (search "winter"). Wintergrasp timer can be disabled in Capping.
It is not necessary to redesign anyting. ;-)
I will continue to...
File: Capping05-11-09 |
Originally posted by totalpackage...
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Originally posted by totalpackage
Thanks, fixed in the latest version.
This was discussed before. It's difficult to fit a readable time format in that space. I do not want to reserve more pixels for just one Wintergrasp timer when it's above an hour; also, when it's above an hour, do you really need to know the exact time rema...
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I was tired to calculate the Wintergrasp timer if more then one hour remaining.
It shows 1.7h or something like this to me, but what is 0.7h in minutes? ;-)
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At a time when Israel needs firm and resolute advocates more than ever before, the UK's Union of Jewish Students (UJS) has, it seems, been taken over by Yachad/J Street types.It appears to many in the Anglo-Jewish community that while the UJS exists for the commendable purposes of enabling Jewish students to eat kosher, daven, and have fun, its heart is not really in getting involved in Israel advocacy in a committed, strenuous way.
Critics point to what they see as a lamentable track record of the UJS going lily-livered and caving in to pressure ("Islamist-cowed" is how it has been described by one victim http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/douglasmurray/100034452/how-to-lose-friends-and-alienate-people-a-lesson-from-islamist-cowed-jewish-students/), citing as cases in point the UJS's withdrawal of its invitations to well-known public intellectual Douglas Murray, a strong friend of Israel and critic of Islamofascism, to speak at Gateshead and to Benny Morris to speak at Cambridge, and its attempt to prevent prominent pro-Israel activist Jonathan Hoffman from demonstrating in support of Israeli deputy foreign minister Danny Ayalon in a public street outside LSE.
Now comes news that will strike many people as utterly depressing.
'Jewish students arriving at universities in the next fortnight will be asked to pledge their support to "two states for two peoples", hand out Israeli and Palestinian flags, and support "freedom, justice and equality" for all.'That's how the Jewish Chronicle describes a "radical, progressive" campaign, encouraging students to speak up for the rights of both Israelis and Palestinians, to be launched by the Union of Jewish Students (UJS), a campaign that will carefully cherry-pick which issues to fight, not react in "knee-jerk" fashion to criticism of Israel, and which reportedly has the tacit backing of communal organisations. The report continues:
'There is a belief within UJS that standard advocacy efforts "do not cut it any more" because "students are not stupid". Students will be encouraged to back the "liberation" of Israelis from Palestinian terror, and Palestinians through the formation of a new state.
Campaigns director Dan Sheldon said UJS had decided on the new direction because "hasbara is not working". He said:
"We have done our research. Old campaigns regarding Israel have not worked, so we are trying a bold approach.
The report notes thatNot everyone will agree with our bold campaigns this year, but we're hoping to start a conversation, to get our community properly engaging with and discussing Israel. Already, we've sat with everyone from Yachad to StandWithUs to start that dialogue."'
"Efforts to overturn the National Union of Students' anti-Israel policies adopted earlier this year will continue, as will opposition to campus extremism and invitations to hate speakers."http://www.thejc.com/news/uk-news/54741/union-jewish-students-shows-commitment-peace
Some might well consider this ostensibly well-meaning new approach defeatist or naive. Indeed, the contention that hasbara is ineffective because "students are not stupid" would appear to blame the victim, conceding that Israel deserves much of the hostility it incurs. Since demonisation and delegitimisation of Israel needs no excuse these days, especially on British campuses, it seems a singularly ill-advised choice of words.
Let's hope the new policy - which the UJS admits may alienate some of its members and which has reportedly infuriated the Israeli Embassy in London - does not, unwittingly, play into the enemy's hands.
Jonathan Hoffman, for one, is certainly less than impressed. He says:
"Hamas is committed to the genocide of all Jews and the PA refuses to recognise the State of Israel. The vast majority of Israeli Jews and indeed of UK Jews will find the image of UJS pressing Palestinian flags on Jewish students utterly repulsive. Fortunately there are now alternatives on campus to UJS - namely Stand With Us and British Israel Coalition. I would urge Jewish students and indeed their parents to vote with their feet."


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HELP! Maltese behavior change!
Hi everyone! I really need some help.
I have two maltese puppies, male (Brody - 5 mos.) and female (Bree - 1.5yrs). About two weeks ago, Bree popped her knee out of place while she was dancing (stands up on her hind legs and turns around - one of her tricks). We went to the vet and they popped it back in and did a full check on her and said everything else was fine and that she should be back to normal soon. Well, she's not back to normal. Although she doesn't seem to be in pain like she was before, she's still not playing as much as she used to, and she won't respond to her regular commands if she thinks Brody is around. Here's my theory (as crazy as it sounds): I think she thinks Brody hurt her leg because he was pretty close to her when she hurt herself. I am glad she's not in pain anymore, but it just breaks my heart that she is not acting like herself. They used to play and wrestle all the time, but now she will barely go around him unless they happen to be sleeping near each other. Does anybody have any advice on how to get her acting like normal? I would really appreciate it! |
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It sounds like Bree has a luxating patella. You need a referral to an orthopedic vet.
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Maybe she's just afraid of popping it back out again and with time, she'll regain her courage to do her tricks and play with him. The few times my yorkie used to get hurt, he'd be extra cautious for awhile, then go back to being himself. If it continues, you might want to go back to the vet and have them recheck. I'm not sure of all of the anatomy of a dog, but maybe she's got some ligaments or tendons that got stretched and are still sore.
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It sounds like she is in pain. Don't encourage her to use it because it must hurt her Hope she feels better. Think she needs to see a specialist.
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Hoping that she feels better soon. It still must hurt her, or she'd be acting her normal self. My Violet pulled a muscle tendon(it wasn't the knee) I let her rest (no jumping or even running) for a few days and after that she acted like she normally did.
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My vet would recommend her to not do any active play or running and jumping for at least 3-4 weeks, so she is smart to not be pushing herself now. It does sound like LP, and depending on the severity your may need a referral to another vet, but at this point I would not want her stressing it. When they pop it out like that it can be sensitive for a while. Give her time and do not let her engage in rough housing right now.
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Lacie has grade 1 LPs and the last time she popped her knee out, our Vet told us for her to stay very quiet for a week and then very limited exercise for the next 2-3 weeks. She was not to jump (up or down), not to stand on her back legs, not to rough house with Tilly, no steps, etc. And she was very happy to comply with the Vet's orders and didn't try to push it.
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I'm so sorry that I never replied back! I never got any email notifications about this post...need to check on that. Anyways, thank you all so much for your replies! She was very sensitive for about a month, but she finally ended up getting back to normal! Guess she needed a little time to heal
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Thursday, September 6, 2012
The New BLOG
The regular season of the Asian Film Series begins with the comedy hit Golden Chicken. This Thursday (September 6th) at the normal place and time. You can follow the series under its new management at on this BLOG.
Thursday, June 7, 2012
A Touch of Zen (1971)
Tuesday, May 15, 2012
Passing Flickers (1982)
Passing Flickers (1982)
May 17th, 7:00PM in Garland 104 (2441 E. Hartford)
This screening will be my last as head of the Asian Film
Series, but a new individual will be taking over and hopefully it will continue
for many more years. Look to this blog for information regarding where to find
news on future screenings. To celebrate this end I have chosen to screen a film
that is very special to me along with a newsreel, the topic of both being
moviemaking in Hong Kong. The short film is a remembrance of the actress Linda
Lin Dai after her 1964 suicide. With a kind of bizarre glee, the Shaw Brothers
studio put their entire promotional department behind an extravaganza of Lin
Dai as they continued to put out still unreleased films starring the actress.
The feature is a 1982 film also produced by the Shaw Brothers
studio and directed by Li Han Hsiang. Named after his popular newspaper column
which anonymously informed readers of all of the strange goings on in the movie
business, Passing Flickers is an episodic comedy following the behind the
scenes progress of a series of fictional productions ranging from studio to
independent style works. One of Hong Kong's great studio directors, Li had been
working since the 1950's making everything from refined palace dramas to erotic
farces which mixed everything from melodrama, slapstick, horror and complex
historical illusion.
Passing Flickers is packed full of both general and specific
references to three decades of Hong Kong cinema. This includes an extended
reference to the 1962 Shaw Brothers version of Madame White Snake and their
abortive Wong Fei Hung films. This should not discourage those unfamiliar with
such topics from seeing the film, as it works upon many levels. In a way both
feature and short provide an indictment of and exultation Hong Kong film from
an insider's perspective.
Hong Kong, Director Li Han Hsiang, Cast Ku Feng, Helen Poon Bing-Seung,
Lee Din-Hing and Yuen Wah, 90 minutes film, 18 minutes short, feature in Mandarin with English subtitles, short in Mandarin with English and Traditional Chinese subtitles.
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Hong Kong,
Li Han Hsiang,
Spring 2012
Thursday, May 10, 2012
The Taebaek Mountains (1994)
The Taebaek Mountains (1994)
May 10th, 7:00PM in Garland 104 (2441 E. Hartford)
A village finds itself in the impossible situation as both
sides demand their loyalty in the just crusade to defeat the other. Seen
through the perspectives of a wide range of individuals, the front lines have
again shifted north while partisans remain in the mountains to continue the
This 1994 film dealing with domestically sensitive issues
regarding the war performed poorly despite its ambitious scale. Similar tales
have found their audience years later when time has made a public dialog more palatable.
During the war the front lines shifted radically south and north to the degree
that nearly every point of the peninsula experienced this at least once if not
several times. This underscores why the material of this film might bring up
difficult memories for many.
South Korea, Director Im Kwon-taek, Cast Ahn Sung-ki and Bang Eun-jin, 168 minutes, in Korean with English subtitles
Wednesday, May 2, 2012
Milarepa (2006)
May 3rd, 7:00PM in Garland 104 (2441 E. Hartford)
A tagline sometimes used for this film is "Magician, Murderer, Saint"
and that is a deceptively accurate summation of the story of Milarepa.
The figure himself was an eleventh century Yogi who would become one of
the most celebrated Tibetan historical figures for both his
accomplishments and an extremely influential biography written after his
death. This film represents a retelling of that story including
depictions of the supernatural events that intertwined with his life.
As a figure Milarepa represented a yogic tradition distinct
from the monastic Buddhism that most associate with Tibet. This version of the
story was produced and directed by Neten Chokling a Lama from Bhutan and shot
in terrain similar to that found in Tibet. The narrative of Milarepa's story reinforces
classical Buddhist patterns of transcendence of worldly matters after a misspent
youth and an acceptance of one's own mortality.
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Wade Elliott
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Southampton, England
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Right Winger/Central Midfielder
Summer 2005
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Bashley, Bournemouth
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Elliott signed a three year deal at the club when his contract at Dean Court ran out in 2005. He came to Turf Moor along with fellow Bournemouth players Garreth O'Connor and John Spicer.
Wado of course will always be remembered for the goal he scored against Sheffield United in the Wembley Play-Offs final in May 2009. The 1-0 victory ensured he would be our Wembley hero and become a legend! Very fitting after ensuring the club would be promoted to the Premier League for the first time in its history and play in the top flight for the first time in 33 years!
He was ransferred to Birmingham for an undisclosed fee on the last day, indeed last 10 minutes or so of the Summer 2011 transfer window. He agreed a two-year contract with the Blues.


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Julie Burnett 3/19/2012 4:44:39 AM
Gorgeous color, light and dof, Michele!! #1450539Michele Peterson 3/19/2012 3:52:36 PM
Thanks, Julie! #10045239Christopher Budny 3/19/2012 7:11:22 PM
What a beauty! #10045528Michele Peterson 3/20/2012 9:20:56 PM
Thank you Chris! #10047199Dayna Cain 3/21/2012 6:07:14 AM
Bet we see this one again Michele! This is gorgeous! #10047691Michele Peterson 3/27/2012 3:18:12 PM
Thank you Dayna. :-) #10061770Daniella Puente 4/12/2012 10:09:12 AM
Wonderful close up Michele #10087421Michele Peterson 4/12/2012 10:44:48 AM
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great shot, congrats! #10118899Dominick M. Dimacale 5/2/2012 9:40:33 AM
Congratulations Michele!!!!!
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Thank you so much, Usman, Michelle, Naomi, and Dominick! #10119088Mitch Spence 5/2/2012 1:10:55 PM
An excellent close up of this delicate bloom, Michele. Congratulations to you. #10119321Neal D. Hatcher 5/2/2012 5:09:18 PM
CONGRATULATIONS #10119707Donna LaMattino Pagakis 5/2/2012 7:19:50 PM
Congratulations Michele, this looks like a WINNER to me. Best of luck in the next round! #10120015Patrick Rouzes 5/3/2012 8:11:34 AM
Congratulations on this super beautiful Finalist, Michele! #10120868Patti Coblentz 5/3/2012 8:17:24 AM
BEAUTIFUL!!!!!! Congratulations on your finalist!Michele Peterson 5/3/2012 3:05:53 PM
Thanks so much, Mitch, Neal, Donna, Patrick, and Patti.... you have all made my day! :-) #10121401Bob Cournoyer 5/4/2012 8:28:11 PM
Gorgeous Gold, Michele... :-) #10123496Graham Robards 5/4/2012 9:01:00 PM
Wow Michelle, congratulations, stunning! pat #10123552Val Feldman 5/4/2012 10:09:18 PM
I couldn't agree with Patti's above comment more. So very beautiful - light, color, detail, presentation - all top notch. Congratulations on your very superb Gold Win, Michele! #10123616Katarina Mansson 5/4/2012 11:12:46 PM
Congratulations on your beautiful winner Michele! #10123724Patti Coblentz 5/5/2012 7:07:30 AM
Congratulations on your win, Michele...always a favorite...so beautiful in al ways! #10124340Carol Quina 5/5/2012 9:57:08 AM
Congratulations on your very deserving win Michele. It's a beauty! #10124758Michele Peterson 5/5/2012 11:08:56 AM
Thank you SOOO much, everyone, I greatly appreciate your wonderful comments!! :-) #10124883Bojan Bencic 5/5/2012 1:51:19 PM
This is magical, Michele. Congratulations on your win. #10125080Neal D. Hatcher 5/5/2012 6:19:16 PM
Congratulations on your Gold #10125363Michele Peterson 5/5/2012 8:56:08 PM
Thank you, Bojan and Neal!! #10125540Leslie McLain 5/6/2012 5:27:44 AM
Congrats on a beautiful winner, Michele. #10125831Christopher Budny 5/6/2012 8:08:08 AM
Congratulations, Michele! #10126049Mitch Spence 5/6/2012 10:45:34 AM
Beautifully done, Michele. Congratulations. #10126230Usman M. Bajwa 5/6/2012 10:42:52 PM
Huge CONGRATZ on a very well-deserved Gold Win, Michele. I know there are many more to come ;)UB. #10127033
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Thanks so much, Leslie, Chris, Mitch, and Usman!!! #10127631Merna L. Nobile 5/9/2012 9:08:12 PM
Well here we are, through thick and thin. It is a joy to be able to be supportive and to congratulate each other for another month of magnificent photographs during May, 2012. I send all of you my very best, Merna Nobile #10131521Michele Peterson 5/11/2012 3:40:39 PM
Thanks, Merna! :-) #10134160David M. Montero 5/12/2012 3:30:08 PM
Congratulations on scoring gold with this beautiful capture Michele! #10134962Amanda J. Tanner 5/15/2012 3:25:45 AM
Congratulations Michele on this beautiful winner! #10137706Michele Peterson 5/15/2012 6:13:34 PM
Thanks Dave and Amanda!! #10138517Val Feldman 1/29/2013 12:13:30 PM
This came up on the contest page, Michele, and once again, I was struck with the outstanding beauty of this capture. Perfect technicals, beautiful color, light and details - a text book example of how to do it right! Just had to comment and congratulate you again! #10544400Michele Peterson 1/29/2013 6:31:50 PM
Thanks, Val, your comment makes my day! #10544962
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mr. w is one of my baby planners so what that means is that i get to photograph him at 4, 8 and 12 months. i love my baby planners because then i get to watch them grow! i'm always sad at our 1 year session though because i know i'm not going to get to see them as often. boohoo!
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Focuses on math in real-life situations. Uses simulations and games to teach and practice new concepts.
Saxon's Math 3 program is carefully planned and packaged in a homeschool kit to make your teaching experience easier.
Third-graders will use simulations and games to learn and practice new concepts. Social studies and science connections are stressed. Children will skip count by whole numbers; compare and order numbers; identify place value; identify ordinal position to twentieth; identify and complete patterns; solve routine and nonroutine problems; master all basic addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division facts; add and subtract multidigit numbers; multiply a multidigit number by a single-digit number; divide by single-digit divisors; add positive and negative numbers; picture, name, and order fractions; add and subtract fractions with common denominators; measure to the nearest quarter inch, millimeter, foot, and yard; identify volume of standard containers; compare and measure mass; measure perimeter and area; tell time to the minute; determine elapsed time; count money; make change for a dollar; identify angles; identify lines of symmetry; identify function rules; graph ordered pairs on a coordinate graph; tally; and create, read, and write observations from real graphs, pictographs, bar graphs, Venn diagrams, and line graphs.
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Teacher's Manual. The heart of each K-3 program is the teacher's manual, which employs a unique instructional format. It contains daily lessons, each of which includes pre-class preparation instructions, a list of materials, and the entire scripted lesson. Scripted lessons provide the parent with questioning strategies and language designed to help children understand mathematical concepts. Since the teacher's manual is nonconsumable, it can be used in successive years with the purchase of new student workbooks and meeting books.
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Written and Oral Assessments. Each assessment questions children on skills they have practiced for at least five lessons. In Math 3, a written assessment is given every five lessons, an oral assessment every ten lessons.
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"Facebook has no charms for me. It looks inward. Twitter looks outward..."
In fact, Reading Books isn't just one distinctive activity. Ebert writes about books as if book = Victorian novel. But some of us like reading nonfiction, including books that don't require linear reading at all. You can dip back and forth in a book and read snippets in very much the same style as web-surfing. When I'm reading books, I like a stack of books of different kinds. I might read a few pages in one, then switch to another, maybe rotate through the whole pile, very similar to the way I'd open up a set of tabs in my browser and cycle through them. And I like reference books and essay collections — e.g., a collection of movie reviews — that are best read by jumping around.
By the same token, on the internet, there are different ways to read. As Ebert's Facebook/Twitter point shows, reading is deeply interwoven with writing and with the feeling of interacting with other people. Sitting by yourself with a long book is quite unnatural by comparison. I think it could be said that the internet takes our urge to read and reintegrates us with society. It's more like the natural world that we evolved to live in: there should be the constant potential for interruptions and distractions; we should be giving and receiving communication to and from other people who are alive now and able to respond to us. In that light, long books distort our brains, and the internet brings us back to human society.
And being on the internet isn't just one distinctive activity. Some people like Facebook and some like Twitter. Me, I love blogging. I've done the other 2, but blogging suits me best — in part because I have so many commenters who come here and make this feel like the lively coffeehouse or salon I always hoped I could find in real life. Ebert says Facebook looks inward, and he prefers Twitter, but isn't it funny that if Facebook is really inward, it's more like the long novels that Ebert uses as an antidote to the internet experience? Ebert twits like mad — his Twitter feed is excellent — but maybe he's using it, in part, as a change of pace from those Victorian novels.
We can, each of us, design our own mix of experiences — in nature, in face-to-face human encounters, with books, with pen and paper, and using computers to read and write. We balance and offset. We seek pleasure and satisfaction and power and wisdom. We begin where we begin. One individual begins with too few real-life friends and a love of thick novels, another begins with a chattering schoolgirl clique and a Facebook page. Add something to that and then to that. Inward, outward/outward, inward. Make life better, in your own way.
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- Andrea said...
"Sitting by yourself with a long book is quite unnatural by comparison. I think it could be said that the internet takes our urge to read and reintegrates us with society. It's more like the natural world that we evolved to live in: there should be the constant potential for interruptions and distractions; we should be giving and receiving communication to and from other people who are alive now and able to respond to us. In that light, long books distort our brains, and the internet brings us back to human society."
Or as the nightmare of my childhood said it: "Get your nose out of this book and talk to your boring relatives/the stupid, rude, bullying neighbor kids/your crazy sister. Girls aren't supposed to be left alone so they can think and do something useful; they're supposed to be available 24/7 to be distracted by every little dumb thing!" Thank you, but I've had all the "society" I can stand. Give me long books. Or the internet, where I can filter my contact with my fellow humans so all the creeps are blocked out. - 5/30/10, 10:09 AM
- edutcher said...
Very nice set of points. If you do programming and are trying to learn something new, there's a lot of how Ann puts it, "books that don't require linear reading at all. You can dip back and forth in a book and read snippets in very much the same style as web-surfing.".
Her point about the Net leading to community is also intriguing, although, in a lecture not long ago, the speaker said that only about 10% of Netizens actually comment and about 1% write a blog.
So we're still feeling our way along.
Andrea said...
Thank you, but I've had all the "society" I can stand. Give me long books. Or the internet, where I can filter my contact with my fellow humans so all the creeps are blocked out.
Well, most of them. - 5/30/10, 10:18 AM
- Jason (the commenter) said...
Even the fiction books I've been reading lately aren't linear. I'm constantly having to flip to the back and read footnotes. I need two bookmarks to keep track of what I'm reading, plus a map for geographical locations.
- AllenS said...
I love me some internets. I joined Classmates, then Facebook, and I' ve gotten in contact with a lot of people from high school. The best thing is email. You can send someone a question at 3 am and not wake them up. Can you tell that I like to comment on this blog? I don't have a cell phone.
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At first I thought it said boob. - 5/30/10, 10:25 AM
- EDH said...
I'm not a fan or reading long books, especially fiction.
I always found a strong element of bondage and submission in the entire enterprise. Many authors seem to want to execise and maintain control over their readers, way past the point of communicating their central message.
Not unlike the urge that kept that girl locked away in a backyard compound of sheds and tarps for 18 years.
Heck, at the end of it she had a new "favorite author" too. - 5/30/10, 10:31 AM
- Big Mike said...
You mean Roger Ebert has read something besides The Communist Manifesto? I'm stunned.
Oh! Wait! He merely implies that he's read something besides The Communist Manifesto. That explains it, then. - 5/30/10, 10:31 AM
- Ann Althouse said...
"Give me long books. Or the internet, where I can filter my contact with my fellow humans so all the creeps are blocked out."
And eventually, a beautiful husband finds you. It's like Sleeping Beauty.
WV: annitee. Half Althouse, half manatee. - 5/30/10, 10:32 AM
- Ann Althouse said...
"Even the fiction books I've been reading lately aren't linear."
Jason is reading Choose Your Own Adventure books again. - 5/30/10, 10:34 AM
- Ann Althouse said...
"I always found a strong element of bondage and submission in the entire enterprise. Many authors seem to want to execise and maintain control over their readers, way past the point of communicating their central message."
I agree. I resist linear reading for this reason. I fight back for control.
This is why watching movies in the theater is such a problem. You have to submit to the whole 2 hours, with a story unfolding at exactly the pace the film editors decided on. At least with reading, you can speed up or slow down. - 5/30/10, 10:36 AM
- Oligonicella said...
Submit to? Bondage and submission?
So that's your intention when you write those long, linear posts about legal issues. - 5/30/10, 11:12 AM
- Chris said...
Facebook is inward? I don't get that at all. For me, the charm of Facebook is being able to keep up with far-flung friends. Old college friends who've reconnected & I get daily updates about grandkids, births, daily activities, whatever - what's inward about that?
- Jason (the commenter) said...
Jason is reading Choose Your Own Adventure books again.
I have actually come upon footnotes where the translator advises the reader to skip over the rest of the chapter because he considers it tedious. - 5/30/10, 11:18 AM
- Lem said...
I might read a few pages in one, then switch to another, maybe rotate through the whole pile, very similar to the way I'd open up a set of tabs in my browser and cycle through them. And I like reference books and essay collections — e.g., a collection of movie reviews — that are best read by jumping around.
I've never red anybody saying you could do that, I just did it and felt that maybe I'm not a reader.
I stream movies the same way; three at a time, if they all start to bore me I'll just pick'm up later.
Come to think of it isn't our consciousness/thinking non liner?
I think you posted about this recently. Our minds are constantly jumping around like those fish that jump out of the water at the sound of a boat engine.
Its a wonder how people stay "right wing" or "left wing" all the time. Maybe they really don't and people just pretend they do because nobody has said it's ok.. or something.
I was at the 7/11 and came back with a tall dark brazilian cup of coffee. - 5/30/10, 11:25 AM
- Damon said...
Chris - "Facebook is inward?" You are right that it isn't. Facebook is a network maker and nothing inward at all. That was MySpace, and that is why Facebook crushed it.
I was thinking that took away Ebert's credability but I actually can identify with the article a bit. However, he basically likes the feeling of the tweets when someone has tweeted something profound... ok, probably not profound and more like glib. I don't follow tweeters, but I am pretty sure I have better things to do with my day.
Like hanging out in the Althouse cafe. Now that is a good time. And yes, it is like having a conversation in the comments. One of the many things that makes this place special. - 5/30/10, 11:28 AM
- Freder Frederson said...
in part because I have so many commenters who come here and make this feel like the lively coffeehouse or salon I always hoped I could find in real life.
God, Althouse's coffeehouse would be a nightmare. A bunch of rightwing assholes screaming at each other with me sitting in the middle trying to strangle Cedarford with his little Hitler moustache raving about how the Jews were trying to poison his coffee. Not to mention Titus making childish poop jokes. - 5/30/10, 11:28 AM
- Paco Wové said...
"At least with reading, you can speed up or slow down."
Or go back, or skip ahead. Or stop. Or put it down for a few days / weeks / months and think about it. Or throw it across the room. - 5/30/10, 11:32 AM
- Oligonicella said...
Note to those who can't stand reading linearly, don't read the last bit of Anna Karanina until you get enough from skipping around to understand her throwing herself under the train.
Oops. - 5/30/10, 11:32 AM
- c3 said...
Three professor comments in a row...
very linear!
WV: retif. What all Arizonans must do with their lawn each summer. - 5/30/10, 11:33 AM
- Ritmo Brasileiro said...
Great post.
I was going to say that this was a "good post", but then I got to the third graph.
It's a great post. - 5/30/10, 11:34 AM
- Ritmo Brasileiro said...
As far as the inward/outward distinction you note goes (and to be fair, it's not clear whether it's Ebert's characterization of reading novels as an inward activity or yours), the quality of interaction on Facebook seems a lot shallower than what you'd get in a good book. The interaction through Facebook might be more extensive, but obviously not that deep.
Maybe that's a necessary thing to have, but I can certainly understand Ebert's criticism if that's what he's trying to get at. - 5/30/10, 11:38 AM
- Lem said...
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- sunsong said...
I love the subject of communication :-)
But I want to just address twitter in this first post. I think twitter can be whatever you want it to. You can follow a few and simply plug in to get the info you want. Or you can create a niche and find people from all over the world who are interesting in things you are interested in.
I love twitter because it is always moving. It's spirited. You have 140 characters. You have to know what you want to say :-)
And there's really very little argument. You say your piece and another says theirs and then another and that's it. If someone gets weird - you simply unfollow them. There's no need to become nasty or unfriendly.
Something that I've noticed that I find inspiring is that on twitter diverse people can co-exist and support each other. People from the right and left, Christians, New Age follow each other and read each others' ideas without having to fight over them.
In some ways twitter is like a stream of collective consciousness that you can step into and step out. What you miss you miss. And when there is a global event - they are all over it. You can read first hand accounts *before* the media. And, in a way, boundaries blur - you can have personal contact with Iranians as they protest - Russians, Germans, Brasilians, Indians, Pakstanis, Iraquis and on and on - 5/30/10, 11:51 AM
- roesch-voltaire said...
These interesting observations raise several questions for me. Does the natural world, our internal psyche as well as society, change over time. For example as I have grown older and more involved in my profession, I no longer have time to read War and Peace and tend to select short novels like Everyman by Philip Roth. Further there are far more entertaining distractions today than when the novel was popular and huge audiences would have read the most recent Dickens novel- were they in bondage or did they read as I do with an active imagination that contributes to the narrative? And does it make a difference as to what and why we are reading? Is it unnatural to set for hours and read a dense text on Japanese history by Carol Gluck in order to understand the formation of ideology in the late Meji Period. Is it more natural and social while reading to Google up Gluck articles and interviews and Skype a few friends to discuss the book? And when do we begin to notice that all these distractions, while bringing us back into society has also left us a bit fragmented?
- Alex said...
This is why watching movies in the theater is such a problem. You have to submit to the whole 2 hours, with a story unfolding at exactly the pace the film editors decided on. At least with reading, you can speed up or slow down.
This is why the God Almighty Jesus himself invented DVDs. Hallelujah. - 5/30/10, 1:29 PM
- HKatz said...
were they in bondage or did they read as I do with an active imagination that contributes to the narrative?
It's also possible that back in the day there was, in general, a greater capacity for wonder and (either active or passive) captivation, and a greater reliance on one's own imagination for entertainment.
Reading with active imagination is the best way; and feeling like you are in a sense communicating with the author, characters, and ideas, or putting yourself into the book, thinking about it, questioning what it is you're reading or why things are unfolding as they are. I guess it would depend on the person though (and to some extent on what kind of book it is) - whether the reading is active or more a sense of passively getting dragged along or entrapped.
I also feel that, even when I go on to discuss what I've read with other people, I first need time alone with the book and to work things through myself. - 5/30/10, 1:30 PM
- damikesc said...
At the risk of being mean, I don't get why I should care what Ebert thinks on most issues. He may know movies well, but his writings demonstrate his grasp of issues doesn't really go much beyond movies.
In the end, there is no universal experience for anything. Facebook is annoyingly extroverted. if one assumes status updates are the ONLY thing there, then yeah, its really inward.
And let's not pretend a cogent argument that Twitter is far more inward focused than most social sites cannot easily be made. - 5/30/10, 1:55 PM
- SteveR said...
Twiiter looks outward? Seems like one way Facebook.. status update after status update. Perhaps that's how he sees it but the internet and it's various forms is not that easy to characterize.
- George Grady said...
Twitter doesn't look outward. It projects outward. That's not even close to the same thing.
- Justin said...
I don't assign much credibility to what Ebert writes, at least after his recent post stating his belief that video games are not art. I'm not going to go into it here, suffice to say that he gets to that position using nebulous definitions and a view that goes straight down his nose.
- Penny said...
"Twitter doesn't look outward. It projects outward."
Isn't that dependent upon how you use Twitter? If you read other people's tweets more than you tweet yourself, it would be outward looking.
I've never even looked into Twitter, but Ebert changed my mind. I like the thought of following people all over the world.
Don't misunderstand, I love blogs, and as much for reading the comments as the posts themselves. The downside is that it is mostly USA focused, and I'd like to hear what people all over the world are talking about.
This is a GREAT post, Althouse. I would appreciate hearing user's views about Twitter. - 5/30/10, 2:36 PM
- Ash said...
I'm with George on this..."Twitter doesn't look outward. It projects outward."
To me, it's just a lot of noise, noise, noise - with an occasional RT high-five on the brilliance of someone's observation.
Yet, I still find myself wasting time on it.
Damn. - 5/30/10, 3:23 PM
- Paco Wové said...
"The downside is that it is mostly USA focused..."
I'm not sure what "it" is here, but if you're referring to the amorphous thing sometimes called "the blogosphere©™", I don't think that is at all true. - 5/30/10, 3:39 PM
- John Stodder said...
This was an excellent post, Ann, except for the comment about Ebert's Twitter feed being "excellent." I find it pathetic. And by that I mean, sad. It reads like the utterings of a lonely old man who is trying to start conversations, relentlessly, hoping someone will notice him.
For me, Twitter is like having thousands of hidden microphones picking up a wide assortment of comments of various kinds from people who have left their phones off the hook. I seldom contribute to it, but reading it is fascinating. Facebook is like blogging, but focused on the social aspects. I reached a lot more people with my blog, but got into fewer conversations, whereas my Facebook feed is the reverse -- like my blog, but read by people who give a crap what I have to say. - 5/30/10, 3:59 PM
- Paul Zrimsek said...
Further there are far more entertaining distractions today than when the novel was popular and huge audiences would have read the most recent Dickens novel- were they in bondage or did they read as I do with an active imagination that contributes to the narrative?
Don't worry. Historians have proven that no one was as superior as you until 1950 at least. - 5/30/10, 4:10 PM
- traditionalguy said...
I just read the post and comments...Bravo Professor! The beautiful intellect level shared here by our Professor actually does bring out the best in many of commenters.As an aside, finding the number of people anywhere actually reading as much and having as diverse a collection of interests as the commenters on Althouse is as hard as finding four leaf clovers. Thank you for the good that you do Dear Professor. Where else could I ever have met the likes of Trooper, Crack, Ritmo, Palladian, Meade, Edutcher, Alpha Liberal, Theo and so many others? IMO This Blog is a salon in the best tradition of a round-table discussion of many variously talented people.
- roesch-voltaire said...
Paul I don't quite catch your snark. While I agree that reading today, particularly on the internet with its interruptions and distractions seems to mirror our social life, I wonder if there are times when we want to deeply absorb the material that we must spend hours of linear attention. Or another take on this was written by Niall Ferguson who noted about Richard Posner recent book that too much blogging means one isn't reading enough on the subject.
- Joe said...
My wife twitters and so I've read some streams lately. It's totally narcissistic and a complete waste of time.
If a celebrity ever needs to feed their ego, there are few places better than twitter. The great part is that the fans feed their egos at the same time. It's quite nauseating.
(Yes, Facebook can be the same way with this crowd, but twitter makes it that much more focused and strips away any pretense of not being self-obsessed.) - 5/30/10, 5:50 PM
- Kensington said...
This thread makes me want to read choose-your-own-adventures straight through without making any choices or following the branches.
- Andrea said...
"I'm not a fan or reading long books, especially fiction.
I always found a strong element of bondage and submission in the entire enterprise."
You say that like it's a bad thing. (And you know, this being the internet, I have a horrid temptation to link to certain sites. That I've uh, heard about not actually visited myself. Yeah.) - 5/30/10, 6:29 PM
- PatCA said...
Thoughtful post.
In some ways, the internet has led me to read more because the (mostly leftist) gatekeeper lords of information are no more--interesting book snippets from blogs, reviews, etc., tempt me to check them out of the library or, more likely, buy from amazon. I just finished Paul Berman's new book, which I would probably have never heard of were it not for Michael Totten's review.
OTOH, racing to the computer first thing every morning to read the Iraqi bloggers was like reading a Dickens saga, only it was in real time. Both experiences changed me, in different ways.
So yes, we are creating our reading experiences, and that's good. - 5/30/10, 6:38 PM
- Revenant said...
Facebook is communal, not "inward-looking".
- ken in sc said...
This blog is better than a salon or coffee house discussion group because you don't have be in the in-crowd/cool kids to make a comment.
- Wendy Kloiber said...
For the first six months after I found Twitter I went from reading novels daily to being unable to open one. Twitter functioned as a gateway to a cutting edge professional world I can't access in my small town. It took awhile for me to ground the enormity of what I was learning, to connect it to my consulting work.
I think what Ebert is trying to get at is the challenge of integrating the new web-based experience with earlier experience when the two were not continuous. Not a problem for Althouse - blogging met a need she'd already known she had, and drew on things she already did. But I suspect Ebert, like me, was surprised and a bit disturbed to feel the habits of a lifetime swept away so completely. - 5/30/10, 11:01 PM
- Penny said...
Thank you all for your comments about Twitter.
No one answered my question though.
Should I twitter to learn more about people around this world?
If not, why not? - 5/31/10, 12:04 AM
- jr565 said...
How does Twitter look outward, while Facebook looks inward? My guess is Ebert likes Twitter because it only allows you to type 140 characters, and thus tweets are easier to read and he just doens't have much of an attention span.
Plus he probably thinks facebook is too complicated to figure out, and is too overloaded with things to do (and in that he is right. The interface is god awful). PLus,, Twitter's icon is a cute bird that looks like it came right out of a disney movie and Facebooks icon is some non descript abstract faces on an ugly map.
Not to be too dismissive, but who puts much stock in either site? - 5/31/10, 12:10 AM
- Bob_R said...
There are a lot of interesting points in Ebert's post, but he is really off base in generalizing his experience on facebook to the rest of the world. He's a very well known TV personality and writer. Sure, he would spend a lot of time on FB narrowing his social network down to something manageable. But the reason FB is popular is that for most people it expands and energizes their network. Ebert (at least when reviewing movies) does a better job than most at keeping in mind how unusual his perspective is. Misses the boat here.
- Bob_R said...
I have not gotten into Twitter. I've followed Instapundit for a long time and it seems to be similar to his blogging style - a short comment and a link. I can see how someone like Ebert with a gift for aphorism and a good eys for detail would be good at it.
- Wendy Kloiber said...
It's been said that Facebook is about the friends you used to have and Twitter is about the friends you'd like to have.
Twitter is different than FB because of asymmetric following. And it's different from blogging in that it doesn't create a hosted salon - conversations are faster and more open. Everyone has the same ability to "frontpage" and you don't have to follow anyone on a thread who is boring you.
Some Twitter users, like @jayrosen_nyu and @kanter, use Twitter to "mindcast" instead of "lifecast" and that's where the potential for learning gets dramatic. I can't follow 300+ blogs, but can use Twitter as a digest, to see where I need to dig in. - 5/31/10, 9:27 AM
- Tom T. said...
Ebert thinks Facebook is inward because his alternative is a newspaper column and (formerly) a TV show, reaching potentially millions of people. For the rest of us who lack those forums, Facebook is as outward as we can get.
Also, Ebert recommends activities involving long attention spans because it validates his preferences; his job involves watching two-hour movies. - 6/1/10, 7:30 AM


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Developing Countries and Environmental Protection: Contract Design in Perfectly Correlated Environments
I study the problem faced by an asymmetrically informed supranational governmental authority (SNGA) with limited funds that wishes to design an international environmental agreement (IEA) for less developed countries (LDCs). The SNGA cannot contract directly with polluting firms in the various LDCs, but it must deal with such firms through their national governments. I study this tripartite hierarchical interaction for two LDCs. My principal result is that despite the perfect correlation in the private information of the governments and the firms across the two countries, and in contrast with the result contained in Batabyal (1998a), the SNGA cannot implement a first-best IEA. Copyright Kluwer Academic Publishers 1999
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For the past year or so, I've noticed that people are increasingly concerned about how protected their information is – not just from hackers, but from governments and large Internet companies as well. Individual users and organizations are now saying – more than ever before – that privacy and security matters.
Of course, the desire for privacy and security is sometimes trumped by the desire for added convenience and features. However, one thing that will cause changes in how data is protected is government regulation. In some quarters, it is perceived – rightly or wrongly – that private companies cannot be trusted with the data of their users, and that the government must step in with regulations.
The European Union is planning new regulations that will control how organizations that do business in Europe will have to store, manage, and control the data of their users. A company does not have to be located in Europe to be affected, making the scope of these regulations larger than immediately apparent.
Will this be enough to make consumers trust that their data is in safe hands? Not entirely. Some users will not trust companies that protect their data if they just comply with regulations. Companies that hold the personal data of their users need to protect that above and beyond what regulations will call for, to reassure their users that they are doing all they can to protect their users.
The Internet has been an amazingly valuable tool to connect people all over the world with each other. However, recent events have unfortunately shaken the confidence we once had in our online lives. Both individuals and organizations need to take the steps to rebuild the trust and confidence to keep the Internet safe and open for everyone. We are all digital natives now; the Internet is too important in all our lives to be treated any other way.


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Like football matches, careers have their decisive moments. Future commentators may judge that the crucial turning-point for the talented playwright and director David Farr was the arrival of his snappy comedy in the West End on June 10, 1998 - after a UK tour riding on the crest of World Cup hysteria. The sight of Brian Conley's morose Bill standing in front of packed houses with his trousers round his ankles, blindfolded by a club scarf, embracing tarty Julie (played by Gabrielle Glaister, still known to millions as Patricia Farnham from Brookside), will have box-office managers gasping at his sheer commercial prowess. This, they will conclude, was the hour that put the title within Farr's grasp. The title of "the new Brian Rix", that is.
Would they be wrong? To anyone who has seen any of Farr's previous work, Elton John's Glasses comes as something of a shock. The 28-year-old departing artistic director of the Gate Theatre - that tiny, underfunded space above a Notting Hill pub dedicated to dusting down neglected European treasures - would seem to have traded in sophisticated continental gourmet for crowd- pleasing English nosh. The wunderkind, whose visual ingenuity earned him praise from the minute he showed up at the Gate, at the behest of Stephen Daldry after an award-winning Edinburgh Festival showing from his Cambridge University company Talking Tongues in 1991, could be said to have had an attack of the "Nick Hornbys".
The two brothers, whose awkward reunion underpins the play's action, are obsessed respectively with football and rock music. Many of the gags wouldn't sound out of place in Men Behaving Badly ("She's got legs like the A41 - they go all the way to Bushey"). And the audience files out to the flag-waving Elton classic "I'm Still Standing". As they say of a Saturday afternoon: "You wot?".
Fresh from Zagreb, where he has just opened an already acclaimed production of The Winter's Tale at the state-subsidised Drama Theatre, and conspicuously happy to be no longer worrying about where the next Gate paint pot is coming from, Farr darts a glance out of the front window of his flat, grins and scratches his straggly beard. He does this a lot, in the manner of a genial, yet slightly sceptical, student. "It is odd that this is going to get me more exposure than anything else I've done, and that it's my least obviously experimental, most deliberately populist work to date," he admits.
An ardent Manchester United fan, Farr baulks at the suggestion that he has simply penned a stage sitcom for the Loaded generation. "I hate the notion of lad culture. It was never intended simply for a football audience, and it's not really about football," he insists. "It's about depression, obsession, self-deception - all these kinds of states of mind - and I decided to come up with an image that somehow encapsulated them in the most absurd way possible." The image that he arrived at owes as much to good fortune as it does to inspiration. Elton John's Glasses is a rewrite of a much older play that he staged on the fringe in 1991, called Neville Southall's Washbag. "You can't accuse me of hopping on the footie bandwagon, because I got there first," he states baldly.
In that version, Bill was fixated by the goal that Norman Whiteside put past Neville Southall in the 1985 FA Cup, causing the goalie's washbag to explode at the back of the net. Farr was spurred to relocate the scenario to Watford when he was approached by Giles Croft, artistic director of the Palace Theatre, and asked to write something specifically for the people of the town. "It all fell into place. The only problem was that I didn't actually check to see whether Elton John was wearing glasses that day until after I'd finished the play. I was horrified to find that they were terribly, terribly small." He mimes Lennon-specs, laughs a loud laugh and gives his chin another delighted scratch. "We've had no complaints, though. Elton John told the local paper he was chuffed to bits."
Farr is satisfied that the glasses are not just a gimmick. Bill goes beserk when his long lost rock-singer brother Dan turns up with a musician in tow who's wearing similarly outsized pop star peepers - and forces him to stumble blindly around his barely furnished flat. On one level, it's creakingly old-fashioned farce (directed by farceur extraordinaire, Terry Johnson). On another, it's an intriguing metaphor for the myopic and abandoned state of the Middle Englander. Elton John's Glasses turns out to be a tentative union between two very different theatrical tastes: British social realism (Farr's heroes include Ken Loach and Mike Leigh), and the expressionistic mainland European drama which he squeezed into the Gate, from his debut production of Botho Strauss's Seven Doors to the Buchner season with which he concluded his three-year term as artistic director at the end of last year.
"I've got a strange interest in the minutiae of our urban and suburban existences," he explains. "When I first joined the Gate, I thought that European was best. But I've come back to the British tradition. I realised that the eye for detail goes way beyond superficial observation - it can have a metaphysical depth to it. This play is an attempt to write about people who aren't written about, that forgotten mass of people who aren't considered dramatic, who aren't rich enough to get middle-class plays written about them. They're dismissed as normal, but they're not. Life hasn't just passed them by, it's carried them in it wake."
There speaks the voice of the Guildford-born and raised; the son of a surveyor and teacher ("with a genetically important bit of German-Jewish ancestry"); the commuter-belt hick who got lost on his way to his interview at the Gate because he was expecting to see something akin to his local, municipal Yvonne Arnaud.
Apart from his work with Talking Tongues (which ended after university when co-founders Rachel Weisz and Sasha Hails went their separate ways, the former to Hollywood, the latter to drama school), Farr's writing has been characterised by a hunger for oblique experimentation that has sometimes left audiences and critics baffled. His first proper play, Removal, written at Cambridge, was, by his own admission, too esoteric for its own good. Max Klapper - A Life in Pictures, a play incorporating film and live action (and staged at the Electric Cinema in 1996), scattered clues as to the haunted life of a reclusive Forties Hollywood director that "didn't quite add up".
Elton John's Glasses bears closest resemblance to a play Farr wrote for the National Theatre Studio before he joined the Gate: Hove was a surreal account of a quaint English boarding house on the brink of demolition. "I didn't know how to end it," he says. "All the characters went and jumped in the sea."
Elton John's Glasses has a beginning, middle and end - and it could conceivably give Farr the financial remuneration he has long deserved. As a pointer to his future artistic career, however, it's wide open to interpretation. "I could go and write a sit-com, but I also want to go and direct Shakespeare in Poland. Is that so impossible?" Again, he scratches his beard to give himself a bit more time to weigh things up.
`Elton John's Glasses' opens at the Queen's Theatre, London W1 on 10 June Booking: 0171-494 5040
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