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Well, I'm still gonna see it, but now I'm not looking as forward to it as I once was. Here's hoping I enjoy the movie a little more than this review says I will, but I enjoyed the review nonetheless. I'm really loving this series!
oh by the way, I was curious about what Neil Blomkamp would have done had they made a halo movie and he claimed that the film wouldn't really be about Master Chief. The focus of the film would be around the people surrounding wondering about him. It's an interesting approach, but is this the "ripping its [email protected]#king guts out" that you were looking for?
I think you miss understood me movie bob what i actually ment was i am a tool fan I own all of their albums and Have seen The video of where danny carey plays lateralus Over A gazillion times
I know I'm late to this thread by A LOT, but I can't but agree. If there is one things that gets old fast, it's internet backlash rage; especially directed at something that is worthwhile, simply because it got popular. I could get into this more if someone really wants to start another flame war over Halo, but I respect MovieBob's opinion most of the time, and it's really disheartening to hear him make unfounded, idiotic attacks against something with out qualifying statements
This is the video that has completely reversed my opinion on this guy as any sort of serious movie critic or even anyone who has any right to a published opinion on anything related to art or cinema.
I could see claiming that it was boring or slow or even that the subject matter was uninteresting for him but to claim that this is a movie where nothing happens is so blatantly and provably wrong that it's embarrassing that I once considered his opinion as one that at least understood the medium that he is so opinionated about.
Also the shoehorned nerd references are soo fucking irritating. Not to mention they aren't obscure, aren't clever, and half the time aren't even relevant.
Based on the footage in the review I thought it looked really cool.
I thought this film was very well made it was a great film with two very good actors this film shows very well the desperation of the situation this film has very good camera work also the film is very close to the book and both are very good
Erm... around here we like to call the "right to a published opinion on anything related to art or cinema" "free speech". We also like to think everybody has that, even if they don't know what they're talking about (which is not really the case).
I buy Bob as just your average nerdy critic who, let's face it, thinks he's cool because he's watched Bergman movies, but your trollish rant is completely out of place. It would be out of place even if the review made no sense and not only does it make sense, but it seems to be in line with the critical consensus on the movie.
I have to say I actually enjoyed the movie for what it was. Of course knowing what the hell happened would be nice.
It wasn't an action packed movie, but it had its moments of action and at the same time is thrilling
Thats just my opinion though.
First time disagreeing with Bob, my Lord and Saviour.
The Road was near-flawless art. And that was it. It made few sacrifices to the audience when portraying the mood of The Ruination.
The kid was annoying. But he was a Messiah symbol that was supposed to ask the naive questions, always, or else he's just another sharp, gritty piece of the world. You know the ones "who consciously decide to destroy another human being". Imagine him like his desperate father...
I read a few pages of the book and it made me go cold. I watched the movie and my heart was racing at a few points, I nearly shouted a warning to warn them once.
The movie was a character study, it strips off the mask, looks at the face and does not blink. Then it tells it's son. "THIS is what I look like too. We all look like monsters."
Also, roads are a symbol of civilization, and you have to stay away from them to survive. FUCKING SUPERB WRITING.
And I cannot get the image of the quiet deaths out of my head.
I recommend you watch it again. Tragic, haunting, beautiful deaths.
Yes, and that movie would be great. As shown with The 300, if you were a Spartan at home concerned with how well your King was doing to preserve your freedom/reputation. The politics behind the scenes are more dangerous than the frontlines. Ask Julius Caesar/Napoleon/Pontius Pilot/insert historical figure.
And Bob said Halo fans would hate it, and they would. It's all shoot, no think in the mainstream markets.
Everyone's criticism I guess... I loved The Road while MovieBob loves bullshit movies like Kill Bill. I know nobody cares, I'm just saying.
I don't give a fuck what Moviebob says. This movie was great. Seriously, he doesn't know what he's talking about - hope you returned your arthouse movie card champ.
Something caught my attention. When Bob says "Road to Perdition is the only rip-off of Lone Wolf&Cub and get the point." Does he?
First off while yes it can be considered to be inspired by LW&C it doesnt come close to the point at all.
Did he read more than a few comics?
You know there is a Halo movie being made independently? Pete Cooper is making it based around a Marine operation and the only time he's thinking of throwing in a SPARTAN-II (Master Chief guy) is at THE END.
But seriously, why is it every review column on this site seems to hate Halo? I'm a Halo fan and I think a Halo movie would be bad, but as a game it works (except for 3, that wasn't very good). I mean, it revitalized the FPS genre from committing genocide (see Doom) to something smarter with being able to have only two weapons, having said weapons specialized for certain roles, lowering the amount of healthkits from plentiful to non-existent, then throwing you into situations you're totally unprepared for. Even the books were good because it is a rich universe with a lot of room to expand in, and yet, ever since the third game came out people seem to be ripping the series apart and I just don't get it.
i could never really get over the fact that you actually made a read or die reference in the video XD
I'm sorry for quoting an old post. I'm just stating my agreement.
This basically made my opinon of MovieBOB do a 180 aswell.
This movie was utter superb, and I think the "Why the fuck would you review a movie that was clearly not meant to entertain you based on how entertaining it was?"(From above post) sums up my main gripe to the T.
Horrible review. You just removed yourself of my may-watch-on-the-escapist list.
THANK YOU! My husband rented this movie last night and he was so disappointed that I didn't like it. I tried to explain that it was two hours of nothing and he would reply "You don't need events to make a good movie"
Your review was spot on with how I thought about this movie.
Now to go rub it in my husbands face.
"Why the fuck would you review a movie that was clearly not meant to entertain you based on how entertaining it was?"(
Why would I watch a movie that was not meant to entertain me?
I made an account just to second this post.
Movies are a form of entertainment. The book itself was a form of entertainment. "The road" was not real; it did not have any big hitting political points behind it. And even movies that do, like "Green Zone" still try and include entertaining plot devices. It was the work of fiction and it was FUN to read. The movie should be, therefore FUN to watch. It should entertain the viewer.
We need to define what "entertain" means.
You don't judge a comedy based of how good a horror-movie it is, just like you don't judge a movie like The Road, which is meant to make you think(Which I think does quite amiably), on how many explosions or how many gunshots are in there. It's simply stupid.
In essence, it's a deep, emotional movie where the last few pieces of the puzzle depends on whether or not the viewer is drawn to such a movie. This means it will remain bland and dull to some people, case in point: you, and others will find it to be an amazing stroke of genius and work of art.
You're clearly not the target audience, and as such your opinion doesn't matter at all. Even less than movieBobs. Of course you shouldn't see it. Just like I cannot make an unbiased statement on any Chick-flick, ever, doesn't make all of them bad movies - it just means I'm not the target audience and am unable to compare them to others of their genre and then see how they hold up.
Thank you! I saw it as an unbelievably beautiful, uplifting and hopeful film. Any story that involves a grown man protecting a child is NOT A DIRECT ADAPTATION of Lone Wolf and Cub. Is he really trying to tell me that a father trying to keep his son alive in a chaotic world is a unique concept that was penned by someone?
And I didn't think the kid was annoying at all. Do people really think that a child in that situation is going to be a monotone, milquetoast bot? Probably not. He's going to scream, he's going to cry, he's going to put you in many dangerous situations. But then again, Bob probably isn't a father, so he can't appreciate the movie from that perspective. Robert Duvall almost had me in tears, and Viggo was fantastic in this movie. IMO, he should've at least been nominated for an Oscar, but I agree Christoph Waltz deserved it. Lastly, the score by Nick Cave and Warren Ellis was amazing, the track "The Beach" especially moves me every time I hear it. Emotionally powerful in its simplicity.
I understand taste is subjective, but just because this film doesn't have a Criterion release doesn't mean it's shit.
Well, if that's true, then why does anyone create documentaries any more? Yes, there are some funny ones, and some have funny parts, but for the most part they are not what most people would call, "Entertaining"
In my opinion, The Road is not a typical movie, but rather an, "Art Movie" or, "Painting Movie" The movie was made (From a book that was made for the same reason) to make a point, and to make viewers (Or readers) think.
So of course, most people who watch movies just for fun/entertainment may not find it interesting, but people who watch movies for more than just having a bit of fun, the ones who watch movies as art to make a point/make them think would like it.
I have to confess i didn't even like the book, I read it with a book club on another forum and I think I was about the only one who didn't like it. The trouble was it just didn't have any credibility, fist the unknown apocalypse... WTF? ok so its a dramatic tool but you've got to at least try to explain this if you're going to pin so much bull crap on it. What "apocalypse" could possibly leave thousands of humans alive but with all other living creatures and plants permanently extinct!?
I liked the film, scared me a lot more than most of the horror films out at the moment. Particularly that Paranormal Film, THAT was a film about nothing. And what else is there? Some terrible Saw movie? The Road was pretty good, but maybe I'm fooling myself, perhaps I just like watching Viggo, same as Liam Neeson, just watchable actors whatever film they're in
I do wish I had seen this before the movie, bad
I LOVED this movie. One of my favorite post-apocalyptic movies ever. Love it.
This is one of those instances where everyone should definitely ignore Bob.
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This time, I wrote about fat heroines in contemporary fiction at Powell's. A taste:
[I]t's absolutely true that, for many people, the perception of what 200 or 300 pounds "looks like" (to the extent that there's uniformity among people who happen to share a weight) bears only the most tenuous relationship to reality. (For the record, here's 200-pound me and 300-pound Marianne.) And for many readers, a female character any fatter than Bridget Jones will come off as highly unsympathetic. (Unless, of course, the narrative builds toward her miraculous weight loss — i.e., redemption.) Truly fat women in books and movies are most often villains, mammies, overbearing mothers-in-law, or unlikable tertiary characters (think the irritable secretary with a box of donuts in her desk drawer). The chick lit boom brought us a handful of chubby to moderately fat heroines — the aforementioned Jones, Jemima J., Cannie Shapiro, Heather Wells — but you almost never see a non-thin female character in a mainstream novel whose weight is not a major issue for her. Jemima and Cannie struggle with their weight and eventually lose a lot of it. Bridget yo-yos within about a 10-pound, not-really-fat range, and only considers liking her slightly plumper self when a man comes along and says he does. Two of Meg Cabot's three novels featuring "average-sized amateur investigator" Heather insist that she is "not fat" right in the title. You hear? Not fat! Don't even think such an awful thing! Also, why the hell are a bunch of mysteries titled with references to the protagonist's weight in the first place? (The third is Big Boned.) I know bodies are often central to detective novels, but come on! (See what I did there? I'll be here all week, folks! No, really, I will.)
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Mid-December, as I was getting ready to shower, I felt marble sized lump inside my left breast that moved around a little. I started to panic but I waited until the next day to see if it were still there (duh, of course it still was), and decided to call my doctor's office. I was freaking out. What if it were nothing and I was fussing over it like a hypochondriac? What if it were cancer? They scheduled an appointment for me the next day to see a nurse practitioner.
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I went to see the breast surgeon, who groped me and said she was about 90% sure that it was a fibroadenoma. But she couldn't be sure, so she scheduled an ultrasound.
So I went in for the ultrasound. They took a look, told me that it definitely wasn't a cyst. I was kind of bummed, because this seemed like the least terrible of three current possibilities (cyst, fibroadenoma or cancer). They said it was probably fibroadenoma, because of the shape and my age. But they were only about 90% sure.
I was getting pretty sick of this 90% number. Yeah, 90% is a good grade on a test. But thinking that 1 out of 10 lumpy boobs would be cancerous didn't make me feel better. Neither did my friends who said they'd had a lump and it turned out to be nothing serious. Didn't that just make my odds seem worse?
At the end of the ultrasound, they said I had three choices. Complete removal, a biopsy, or ultrasounds every 6 months for the next two years. I decided on the biopsy. Just get it over once and for all. And it will probably be nothing. PROBABLY. But I'm not a gambling kind of gal, and I wanted to have a definite answer, not a probable answer.
So early Monday morning, I went in to get a biopsy. I had been told at one of my prior appointments that they'd just numb up the area and take a bit of the lump out. Nope! I had deep sedation, and then surgery. The surgeon said that it looked like a fibroadenoma. Fortunately, I was fine after surgery. Afterwards, I didn't have to take much vicodin, and the incision seems to be healing normally. My breast looks a little worse for wear (yeah, that huge bruise is really hot), but I'm glad this whole ordeal is over.
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Hey there...Noticed that when you are fighting a bomb and some other enemy (like the big snake I don't remember the name when you are approaching the blue light to get bahamut), the textures from the bomb appear on the other enemies.I'll try to take a screenshot next time.
Wee bit late to the party but I've noticed the same glitch in the Deep Sea Research Center. When the Anacoundaur and Bomb spawn in the same pack the Bomb is merged for lack of another word with the Anacoundaur texture. However the snake only keeps a few of the Bomb textures but loses all of his. Sorry about the status effects in the Bomb close up pic, forgot to remove the junctions before I took the screen shot. Aside from that, I'm really digging all the great graphics mods for FF8, keep up the great work! E: I'm taking another look at the Bomb in game and I think maybe its not the snake its being merged with but the Buel (tri-winged thinger) textures or both. It''s weird all the same lol.
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EDMONTON - The province is fast-tracking three projects on Highway 63, including the construction of two new passing lanes.
Transportation Minister Ric McIver announced Tuesday that three tenders have gone out ahead of schedule in an effort to speed the twinning of the road to Fort McMurray.
"Our government promised quick action on Highway 63 and we're delivering on this promise," McIver said in a statement. "These new projects demonstrate our commitment to safe highways and will increase passing lane opportunities on Highway 63."
There have been at least 149 fatalities on the highway since 1990.
The province plans to build two new passing lanes between House River and the junction with Highway 881, bringing the total number to six.
The government will also start grading for 27 kilometres of twinning near Wandering River, and will start clearing trees from House River to Mariana Lake.
All three projects are expected to begin this summer and finish by the end of 2013, weather permitting. The estimated cost of the projects won't be released while the tenders are out.
Transportation spokesman Trent Bancarz said funding will come from the province's $1.38-billion construction budget for highways. Specifically, the province has budgeted $442 million to pay for construction of "key strategic economic and trade corridors," including Highway 63.
The highway to Fort MC-Murray has been under scrutiny for years as traffic to the heart of the oilsands industry increases. An April 27 crash that killed seven people when two pickup trucks collided 50 kilometres north of Wandering River sparked a wave of community protest and prompted a pledge from Premier Alison Redford to do more to improve the highway's safety.
Tuesday's announcement comes two weeks after Fort McMurray-Wood Buffalo MLA Mike Allen tabled 22 recommendations for improving safety on the highway to Fort McMurray. In part, Allen recommended faster twinning and more passing lanes.
Wood Buffalo Mayor Melissa Blake said she is glad to see the projects going to tender, though she would still like to see work accelerated.
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Blake has a sign that reads "Twin Highway 63" displayed just inside her office door.
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I find it almost ridiculous to even write a description on these characters from the online game Minecraft. I remember my brother playing this game almost all the time and when he did I used to say, "what kind of stupid game is that?". I didn't know that there was more and more kids like my brother that played such a simple looking digital game. The worst part is the characters and setting of Minecraft is so primitive. The blocks, people, animals, and everything else that goes with it is so darn early eighties. Today I will be showing you guys "how to draw a Minecraft Creeper", step by step. Someone asked me to make this character into a tutorial so here it is. These Creepers are another popular hostile mob species that ambushes the player as well as explode while in the presence of the player. These monsters don't catch fire in the sunlight like Zombies and Skeletons do. Anyways, this is a pretty simple lesson that anyone can tackle so I know all you Minecraft fans out there will have a blast with drawing a Creeper. I will be back a little later with more drawing fun so stay tuned in to see what I have up my sleeve next. Peace out people!
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It's getting hot in Sacramento, which means short tempers and long debates on the state budget.
It's a ritual of the annual budget fight, as was Tuesday's outbreak of civil disobedience. The CHP arrested 10 protesters, one in a wheelchair, after the group clogged the main hallway outside Gov. Jerry Brown's office and linked arms.
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The protest, organized by Service Employees International Union, was staged to draw attention to proposed cuts in state spending on in-home care for the elderly and disabled. Union workers would find their jobs at risk if the cuts go through.
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That kind of jabbing is also part of the ritual -- what former-Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger liked to call the "kabuki dance" of the budget.
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Cofounder of Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd., Dr Jon Harrop, did his PhD at the University of Cambridge on the "Structural properties of Amorphous Materials" in the department of chemistry. A large part of this work was on the application of time-frequency analysis to the study of the diffraction data of amorphous materials. The complete PhD thesis is now freely available for download as a PDF here.
In the process, Dr Harrop developed a new approach to time-frequency analysis that is based upon the continuous wavelet transform (CWT). This method of analysis is applicable to a wide variety of signals that arise in many different areas of study including biology, physics, finance, engineering, and bioinformatics.
Chapter 2 introduces the method of time-frequency analysis and discusses various different approaches that have been invented over the years. In particular, the beneficial charactistics of the continuous wavelet transform are described in detail, along with the mathematics behind Delprat's time-frequency interpretation of the CWT.
Chapter 3 describes the evolution of a new approach to time-frequency analysis that avoids the problems of the existing methods. The new framework consists of an objective and quantitative measure of the suitability of a wavelet and the derivation of a wavelet that improves upon all others in the general case. The properties of the wavelet are then determined such that a more accurate time-frequency interpretation can be constructed, allowing the continuous wavelet transform with the new wavelet to be used as an accurate quantitative method of time-frequency analysis.
Creating a computational implementation that is fast, accurate and reliable requires considerable attention to detail. The software developed by Dr Harrop for the analysis of diffraction data has since been developed into a commercial Mathematica add-on package for general-purpose signal analysis.


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On the east and west coasts of Schleswig-Holstein, farmers, citizen groups and individuals embraced the concept of wind energy with enthusiasm. Politicians noticed wind could bring jobs to localities. Meantime, communities could benefit from local taxation on wind plants' profits. Leaders also saw that wind development could help stem a population exodus from the area, once reliant on farming and shipbuilding.
Community wind in the form of burgerwindparks - people's wind stations - is now widespread in parts of Schleswig-Holstein. In rural Nordfriesland, it accounts for 95% of the district's 600MW of wind capacity. "It is simply understood and accepted in Nordfriesland that only people living in a particular parish can build wind stations in that parish," says wind developer Henning Holst, who lives in Husum, Nordfriesland. The plant thus remains under the control of the local community. While this is not the case in all Schleswig-Holstein districts, Holst believes the concept is spreading and that community wind principles are part of the government's state planning.
Municipalities throughout Schleswig-Holstein are prioritising new development by only recommending areas on the understanding that they will be used as burgerwindparks. Almost all of those in Nordfriesland will be for the exclusive use of burgerwindparks, Holst estimates. In districts where developers have acquired rights to build plants for possible sale to institutional investors, parishes are appealing to landowners to insist that ownership remains local. Areas earmarked for wind are expected to become virtually immune to potential legal challenges.
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In Germany, community wind has become something of a cultural icon. The word burgerwindpark itself is widely associated with the concepts of social responsibility and civic activism. "One should only use this term if people from all walks of life are given a realistic opportunity to participate financially and actively in these sort of projects," says Werner Frohwitter of Energiequelle, one of Germany's largest wind and renewable energy developers. The term should not be applied to financing packages with only minimal investment by local individuals, he says.
But the meaning of burgerwindpark has changed over time, says Ulf Gerder, a spokesman for federal wind energy association Bundeseverband Windenergie. In the 1990s, wind power investment funds allowed individual ownership partners. Individual investors often lived in the same area as the wind farms. But a 1995 change in law abolished the tax incentives. New finance structures changed the nature of investments, making them more complex and less attractive to individuals. Either way, Gerder reckons that of Germany's roughly 25GW of wind capacity, around 75% of the finance has been arranged by medium-sized wind developers, turbine manufacturers and others - often with many individual investors. Only around 10% comes from Germany's four major energy companies - RWE, Vattenfall, EnBW and E.on - and regional company EWE. Institutional investors have raised another 10% and municipally owned utilities are the source of about 5%.
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Local acceptance of wind power is critical to its expansion, say proponents of German community wind. Energiequelle agrees and has changed its approach accordingly. When municipalities earmark new areas for wind developments, Energiequelle aims to immediately sign up rent contracts with all landowners in areas prioritised for wind. Not all of these will end up with turbines installed, but all will receive annual payments proportional to wind power related activity on their property. Payments are small when no activity occurs but rise with, say, the construction of roads or cable routes to the sites and go higher yet to reward erection of turbines themselves. The company hopes this approach will stimulate local adoption of wind power by giving landowners shared economic objectives. "It is vital that parishes are not split over the issue of wind energy," says Frohwitter.
Even citizens outside priority wind zones benefit indirectly from local wind stations, via trade taxes flowing into municipality coffers. The tax is levied on business profits by local authorities, charged at varying rates depending on municipal policy. Countrywide, it averages around 14%.
In recent years, awareness of climate issues has sparked a new form of community wind in which municipal energy utilities, often entirely owned by the local town, buy up wind stations to reduce their carbon footprints. European Union CO2 emissions-trading rules require energy companies to buy all their CO2 certificate allocation at auction from 2013. This prospect is helping drive Germany's 500 municipal electricity utilities to invest in wind.
But in this kind of citizen-owned wind, communities are often far away from the generation capacity they own. In one much-watched deal in December, wind developer WPD sold nine wind stations in the eastern German state of Brandenburg, combined capacity of 163MW, to three municipal utilities in western Germany. Utility Stadtwerke Munchen, which took a 75% share, had earlier in the year bought five wind stations totalling 50MW from WPD. Despite weak ties to the community hosting the wind, the deals were key components of a strategy of increasing use of renewable energy while gaining independence from "the current oligopoly of energy producers", says HEAG Sudhessische Energie, a municipal utility in the western industrial town of Darmstadt that took a minority stake. It was referring to utility giants E.on, RWE, EnBW and Vattenfall Europe, which account for around 80% of electricity generation in Germany.
Community wind power has made forays into offshore, but with varying success. Project developer Butendiek Burgerwindpark in 2001 invited individuals to invest in a 388MW offshore wind station west of the island of Sylt. Nearly 8500 individuals bought up a total of 20,000 stakes, raising EUR5 million. A construction permit was granted in 2002. But project implementation was too big and complex, and the enterprise was sold in 2007 to Airtricity, which was later acquired by Scottish and Southern Energy.
The size and risk of offshore wind investments appear to make municipal utility involvement the only viable form of community involvement. Stadtwerke Munchen and HSE Darmstadt have each taken 24.9% stakes in the Global Tech 1 offshore project, and German energy company Trianel has acquired the 400MW Borkum West 2 offshore project. But while Stadtwerke and HSE are both owned by cities, Trianel may not meet the definition of community wind so easily. The company is owned by 44 municipal utilities and would hardly generate a community feeling with the average German citizen. Even so, it is evident that people continue to explore new ways to get involved in wind.


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Update: AT&T Slams Google Voice; Could Open Can of Worms
When AT&T complained last week to federal regulators that Google was breaking telecom laws, the phone giant may have opened a bigger debate about the Federal Communications Commission's traditional approach to the industry, analysts and legal experts say.
In a nutshell, AT&T argued in a letter to the FCC last week that Google Voice--a service that, among other things, connects regular old phone calls--was blocking some of those calls to rural areas. That practice, which Google admits to, violates call-blocking laws for traditional phone service operators, known in telecom-speak as "common carriers."
Google argued that its service isn't a telecommunications service but an Internet application that isn't subject to the call-blocking telephone rules. That's where things get messy and interesting.
As regulators shift their focus from telephone regulation to policies for the Web (net neutrality, a national broadband plan), there may be a move to rethink the buckets of technology definitions used during the pre-Internet age.
"The reason why it has become increasingly difficult for the FCC to avoid these questions is because of the broad uptake of broadband services," said Rick Joyce, the chairman of the telecommunications practice of law firm Venable. "We've always said that technology in this sector outstrips the ability for regulators to regulate it. But when 60 to 80 percent of the country has wireless and high-speed broadband access and carries a device that receives or sends all these different kinds of services, then you have reached the proverbial tipping point."
For at least three years, regulators have debated--without clear conclusion--where voice services over the Web fit in. Such Web services, which can include Skype, maybe Google Voice, and Comcast Digital Voice, are for now viewed as information services and not subject to the more heavily regulated world of telephone service operators. But what about text messaging, or SMS services? They aren't currently clearly defined as telecommunications or IP services. And video services like AT&T's U-Verse isn't clearly a cable service, which would strap the service with cable industry regulations.
What is clear, legal experts say, is that from phone giant AT&T's perspective, telephone service providers are living in a world bound by many more regulatory restrictions than the less regulated world in which their Internet counterparts operate. If you are AT&T, you want your competitors to swim in the same pool as you do, said Rebecca Arbogast, head of tech policy research at Stifel Nicholaus.
"If the point of the letter was to stir things up and it is a rhetorical point, that is one thing," Arbogast said. "But if this is a serious position, which is to say that things have changed so profoundly and we need to look at if Google's applications and Apple's decisions and incumbents provision of services all together, then that is major undertaking without certainty where it will end out."
The communications landscape has become all the more complex as firms offer overlapping services. Internet companies like Vonage and Skype offer phone service, phone companies like AT&T and Verizon Communications offer Internet access over their equipment. Cable and phone companies offer video services over data networks.
"Much as the FCC wishes there was still a clear distinction between 'the Internet' and 'the telephone network,' technology has obliterated that difference," Larry Downes, a non-resident fellow at the Stanford Law School Center of Internet and Society, wrote in his blog Tuesday.
He proposed the FCC wipe the slate clean: "Hold everyone to the same rules regardless of what information they are transporting-whether voice, video, television, data. Because regardless of who's doing what, these days it's all bits."
The FCC hasn't commented on AT&T's letter, saying only that it has been received and is under reviewing.
(Update with AT&T response):
When asked if the letter could raise questions at the agency about rewriting regulatory definitions for VOIP services such as Comcast Digital and Web applications like Skype, AT&T spokesman Michael Balmoris said:
"Google admits to blocking these calls (we haven't heard that other providers such as Skype or Comcast are doing same), and in our letter, we highlight FCC precedent that would appear to subject Google Voice to the same call blocking prohibition as other providers," Balmoris said in an e-mail. "So, we are urging the Commission to level the playing field and order Google to play by the same rules as its competitors."
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I wonder why Google is blocking rural calls?
Maybe the FCC should look at classifying the services by layer and determining regulation that way.
I would think the people at the physical layer would need slightly different rules than those at the application layer... since the big boys are rarely pure plays on one layer, though, it would likely effectively even the playing field while allowing niche players to exploit certain advantages.
Posted by: AJohn1 | September 30, 2009 11:56 AM
What in the Sam Phatness is AT&T so scared of? They are REALLY going at Google hard aren't they?
And what's all this hub bub about a level playing field? They should have considered that before they signed the deal with Apple in trying to monopolize the iPhone business that people are realizing is a farce now and Google is finding a way around lockdowns to provide service to whomever should want it through internet provision.
This is really funny to me...greedy corporate execs are reaping their fruits due to dirty business and now they are looking for the FCC to bail them out.
Don't look for the FCC to help out AT&T if Google plans on sweeping the industry by storm. One corporate giants realize the old gig is up, move on...let Google do business and re-write legislation based on the wave of the future.
this IS the future.
Go home AT&T.
Posted by: cbmuzik | September 30, 2009 11:59 AM
Google is funding pretty much all of the lobbying in DC for "network neutrality." AT&T is right to point out Google's hypocrisy when its lobbyists falsely claim that ISPs woud block legal content (they never have) while Google blocks legitimate telephone calls itself.
Posted by: squirma | September 30, 2009 12:42 PM
Google blocks the calls because incoming calls to many rural areas are charged more by the local carriers. Much as I hate to admit it, ATT is right on this. If the playing field is going to be level, it needs to be level for everyone all the time. GOOGLE doesn't want to call it a phone service, but it is. As such it needs to abide by the same rules as ATT does when placing a phone call over the copper. And ATT can not block, throttle, or delay phone calls made by GOOGLE over ATT internet lines. Its called being fair and not taking advantage of a monopoly.
Posted by: mdembski1 | September 30, 2009 3:33 PM
squirma, ISP's have indeed blocked legal content.
Comcast blocked Vuze and that World of Warcraft game when they blocked BitTorrent. Just to point out - Vuze is in fact in competition with Comcast. Vuze was one of the groups that complained to the FCC.
Madison River blocked Vonage in 2005 - another application that the ISP was in competition with.
The Canadian site contained threats in blog comments. No one I've seen, other than you, claims they were death threats - not even Telus's press release on the subject, which I tend to doubt would leave out such a justification. Further, they did not block "a site" with issues - they blocked only one site - of the union they were wrangling with, that the union was using to discuss strategy during a strike.
AT&T, acting as a content provider, deleted words from a WebCast of Pearl Jam in 2007 (comments about Bush.)
Verizon Wireless refused to allow a political group to send text messages on a sensitive subject on its wireless mobile network.
Source - Feb 09, Communications of the Association for Computing Machinery, Barbara van Schewick's comments on net neutrality
Posted by: VirginiaGal2 | September 30, 2009 7:41 PM
VirginiaGal2: Of course lawyer Barbara van Shewick failed to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth; her salary at Stanford is paid by a large endowment from Google, and she has been paying Google back by advocating for its corporate agenda.
The fact is that the Canadian site that was blocked contained death threats against workers who crossed picket lines. What's more, the site was NOT the official site the a labor union, but rather the personal site of a union member named David DiMaria. Among other things, the site contained pictures of non-union employees who were crossing the picket lines, together with their home addresses, their phone numbers, and threats directed at them. It further advocated that union members go to the addresses listed and physically harm these "scabs." (The site also instructed visitors to jam Telus' customer support lines, and was thus inciting another illegal activity, though this obviously is much less serious than threats to life and limb.)
What did Telus do? Seeing that its employees could well be harmed, it did what it could to protect their physical safety. It blocked the Web site immediately. And since it couldn't block the site completely (it could only keep its own customers from going to it), Telus then went to court asking for an injunction requiring the threats to be taken down.
Ultimately, the case was settled out of court. A copy of the settlement between Telus and the owner of the Web site is available on Flikr at
(This is a very large GIF file -- not the ideal format for such a document. But if you zoom in, it is readable and tells the story.)
A letter from his lawyer (the first two pages) advises Mr. DiMaria that there was indeed threatening material on the site that would have justified an injunction. (The lawyer describes his own client's Web site content as "thoroughly reprehensible.") The letter doesn't enumerate everything that was posted, but mentions two examples. One of the employees who was threatened -- a dark skinned East Indian -- was described as a "terrorist" and his name, address, and phone number were published. Due to the threats, he was compelled to pack up his family and leave town.
And this is, as Paul Harvey would say, "the rest of the story."
The other accusations you make are likewise false. AT&T played a recording of a concert that had ALREADY BEEN EDITED BY THE PRODUCERS; it had no knowledge that political comments had been edited out. And you're also mischaracterizing the text messaging incident, which -- by the way -- had to do with SMS and not the Internet. And not a single message was blocked; rather, the issuance of a "short code" was delayed by about three days.
Unfortunately, this sort of misinformation shows the lengths to which corporate lobbyists will go to get their clients' agendas enacted -- at the expense of the general public.
Posted by: squirma | September 30, 2009 9:02 PM
Google argued that its service isn't a telecommunications service but an Internet application....
any judge that buys googles B.S. is an idiot.
Posted by: kkrimmer | September 30, 2009 9:19 PM
Who care what Ma Bell thinks? I don't. And neither should the FCC.
Posted by: tuzoner | September 30, 2009 9:47 PM
Sorry, Brett, your ad hominem attacks don't work.
Barbara van Shewick is not just a lawyer - she also has a PhD in computer science, and is the co-director of Stanford Law School's Center for Internet and Society. She is also, per Stanford, "an assistant professor of electrical engineering (by Courtesy) at Stanford's Department of Electrical Engineering."
The Center for Internet and Society was founded by Lawrence Lessig, the well-known expert on the Internet. It was not founded by Google.
The Canadian ISP blocked one site, out of the millions on the Internet that had potentially hateful content. You have provided NO source for your claims that that particular site had death threats.
It was definitely threatening and inappropriate and deserved the injunction it got, but sorry, no actual death threats I've seen anywhere. If you have source material that explicitly calls for death, let's see it.
No one claimed it was an official site. No one claims it was a benign site. But was it really the worst site on the entire Internet to block?
MILLIONS of sites on the Internet have content as bad or worse - jihadi content, child porn, death threats, incitement to violence.
Out of those millions, what site did Telus block? A jihadi site? A threatening political figures? A site about making bombs? A site peddling child porn?
Nope. They blocked the site about their labor union.
No rational person would buy the idea that site was the most dangerous on the Internet. They didn't block all equally harmful, threatening, or dangerous sites. Their concern appeared to have been for the one where their ox was gored.
So I'm sorry, your argument simply does not hold water.
As far as your AT&T claim, AT&T apparently admitted that one of their webcast editors censored the broadcast. See http://www.rollingstone.com/rockdaily/index.php/2007/08/09/pearl-jams-anti-bush-ad-libs-missing-from-atts-lollapalooza-webcast/
Posted by: VirginiaGal2 | September 30, 2009 10:13 PM
VirginiaGal2 writes: "You have provided NO source for your claims that that particular site had death threats."
Not true. I've posted the URL. Read the document.
Likewise, information about the AT&T broadcast is available in many places on the Net. The recording was edited before AT&T streamed it.
Why are you do doggedly clinging to every tenuous, false assertion made by Google's lobbyists? It's hard to believe that you do not have a serious vested interest.
Posted by: squirma | September 30, 2009 10:22 PM
... and AT&T seems to be having Apple block the Google Voice app from the iPhone. How is that fair?
Google Voice is a FREE service; AT&T doesn't even know the word "free." I pay them handsomely each month for 4 iPhones; I can't wait til their exclusivity ends so I can bolt. Google's FREE service should NOT be held to the same standard as AT&T's paid business.
Posted by: ghostmoves | September 30, 2009 10:40 PM
squirma, I'm sorry, but I've provided quotes that back up my statements. I am not going to read a huge GIF in my off time when your best example of "death threats" is calling someone a terrorist.
At&T's admission that one of their webcast editors made the changes is at http://gigaom.com/2007/08/08/att-censored-pearl-jam-webcast/ as well as mentioned in the Rolling Stone article I previously referenced.
I do have a serious, vested interest in this - as do we all. I want to live in a free society.
I am not impressed by your endless nattering about Google, any more than I'm impressed by the birthers yelling "birth certificate." At this point, every time you start mentioning Google, I see Jon Stewart's bit about birthers.
The arguments for net neutrality stand on their own. We need it for freedom of speech and the freedom to do business. I care about my society and I know enough about tech to understand how terribly important this is.
Posted by: VirginiaGal2 | September 30, 2009 10:43 PM
VirginiaGal2, if you really wanted to live in a free society, you wouldn't be opting for regulation of the Internet -- which is currently free but would not be if "network neutrality" were forced on it. "Network neutrality" is the Fairness Doctrine for the Internet.
As for your unwillingness to look at the URL I've posted: closing your eyes and yelling, "La-la-la-la-la I can't hear you" doesn't make the evidence go away. Readers of this page who, unlike VirginiaGal2, who want to know the truth about the false assertions of the "network neutrality" lobbyists should read it.
They should also read not only the Rolling Stone article but other creditable sources on the Web, all of which state that the AT&T stream of the Pearl Jam concert in question was censored by a third party contractor, which exercised its own judgment about what to censor in an "all ages" program, and not by AT&T.
Finally, they should ask themselves what kind of Internet they want. A vibrant, changing, innovative environment -- such as the one we've had for the past 26 years -- or an ossified, stagnant one with stringent regulation, where innovators have to ask "Mother, may I?" before introducing new technology.
I, for one, know which one I'd pick.
--Brett Glass, LARIAT
Posted by: squirma | October 1, 2009 12:49 AM
Brett, you are not answering the issues. Your posts are simply full of red herrings.
All you can say, when proven wrong, is "you're saying the same thing that Google says, Google is evil, your argument must be evil."
As a line of reasoning, it isn't the lamest argument I've ever heard in my life, but it's sure on the short list.
I suppose you think the ACLU, the AARP, the Association of Research Librarians, and Consumers Union are all saying the same thing b/c you think Google paid them off?
Net neutrality was the de-facto rule of the Internet until about 2002, when some really bad regulatory and court decisions undermined it.
Net neutrality is what we expect from the Internet, and what has been, until recently, the reality.
Net neutrality is needed for a free society. It is not the "Fairness Doctrine" for the Internet - it is the First Amendment for the Internet.
Because you apparently are not aware, the Fairness Doctrine required that broadcasters actively balance content - pushing stuff at us to try to control the flow of information.
The First Amendment requires that we not meddle in the free flow of thought. Net neutrality insures free flow of thought.
It does not require that you try to "balance" the amount of information presented on anything. It simply requires that your ISP does not block it.
Were you around when the Bill of Rights were written, I have no doubt you would be arguing that these useless regulations were not needed. Most of us know better.
As for the rest, the AT&T cut - dude, a contractor is your employee and you are responsible for their actions. In this day and age, with outsourcing, many businesses are practically run by contractors.
I notice you are no longer claiming it was an independent producer who did it before AT&T even got it.
Re the ISPs abuse of power - I have absolutely no problem with anyone looking up the URL in question - and then look up the reality, which are hundreds of thousands of really, really bad URLs, with jihadi content, with death threats, bomb making information, places where you can hire a hit man - none of them blocked.
The question is not, was the site bad. I don't need to see the site to know it was bad, and I've agreed it was bad - although it is interesting that you are unwilling to post any quotes that back up your claims.
The question is, should an ISP block only a site that they have a financial and business beef with - an ongoing union dispute, while leaving millions of equally bad or worse sites unblocked?
The answer is no, that is an abuse of power. What's scary to me is that you can't see it.
Posted by: VirginiaGal2 | October 1, 2009 7:22 AM
It is very simple are you making a phone call. Yes, then it is AT&T's call to protect their investment. I don't like AT&T. They have some inept employees and bot so honest business practices but they are in the right to protect their phone services. The mode of transportation has nothing to do with intent. Just like when the phone line was adopted for data using a modem. The framework was a dual purpose that wasn't given much thought and customers had a right to be charged only for phone calls not internet access.
There is are many other problems that would be better spent time on. Number one is that consumers are NOT getting even close to advertised broadband speeds. Where is the beef ?
I have no sympathy for another large corporation like Google trying to promote it's product through the investment of another company trying to protect theirs'. Why doesn't Google build out it's own voice/data network. Perhaps that could work with IRidium and get us the next level of real communication. Gee according to the entitlement minded people this should be free of course. Good Luck......
Posted by: harveyg | October 1, 2009 10:16 AM
Ironically, harveyg, Google IS building out its own data network to carry the same Internet traffic which it was previously sending over other carriers' lines. But Google insists that its OWN data network should not be regulated, while at the same time it is lobbying for other carriers' networks to be subjected to heavy regulation, thus giving it an edge. "Do as I say, not as I do," eh?
Also, regulation often makes things worse, not better. For example, the tempest in a teapot mentioned above -- in which AT&T was accused of censorship -- was the direct result of prior heavy handed regulation: the FCC's levying of fines against broadcasters after the infamous Janet Jackson Super Bowl incident. To avoid similar fines, AT&T hired a contractor to put the show on a 2 second delay and censor any language for which it might be fined. The censors, concerned that insults aimed at the Bush Administration might result in fines from the Bush FCC, cut the sound. AT&T had no direct hand in it, but the net result was that the language was removed. As a result of FCC regulation.
More regulation is sure to only make things worse.
Posted by: squirma | October 1, 2009 12:28 PM
Harveyg, actually, AT&T and all phone companies are subject to the equivalent of net neutrality for its phone lines - common carrier.
Common carrier provisions apply to phone service, utilities, transportation, and other licensed providers of services. Common carrier is the only reason we have a choice of phone companies in this country and it is the bedrock of how our phone service works.
What you buy is use of the phone lines and long distance carrier lines. You do not have to pay again if people call you. You cannot be discriminated against or arbitrarily refused service.
The whole principle of phone service is that the caller pays for the service they use, and service is charged for according to level of usage. That's exactly what net neutrality advocates suggest we do with the Internet.
We don't expect businesses to pay AT&T extra if people call them - the callers pay. We can depend on having our calls put through, and not arbitrarily blocked. We expect people called to have paid for their phone line and connection, and the callers pay for the calls.
What ISPs are advocating is equivalent to small business having to pay for every call received, in addition to the caller paying for the call on their end.
The reason we have common carrier for phone service is to prevent the huge problems that unreasonable discrimination by a monopoly or duopoly would cause to the rest of the economy.
Net neutrality is common carrier for the Internet.
squirma, Google Voice is a service that allows you to connect various phone numbers, not a data network on its own - basically smart call forwarding with some cute bells and whistles. Google is not building its own data network to support Google voice.
I don't know enough about it to have an opinion on the whole "rural access" issue for Google Voice and honestly, as it doesn't provide phone service in itself - Google Voice links phone numbers, it doesn't provide phone service - I'm not at all sure the rural access thing would apply.
Also, squirma, your AT&T explanation is off the mark. FCC fines do not apply to internet transmissions. They apply only to broadcast TV. The Internet does not have a "decency" code, as anyone who has hit on the wrong link is likely well aware.
Further, what was censored was not "indecent content", but rather a political jibe at the president.
Posted by: VirginiaGal2 | October 1, 2009 7:22 PM
"Network neutrality" goes much, much farther than "common carrier" restrictions (which are already far too much) for the Internet. It would straitjacket ISPs and kill innovation.
As for the Pearl Jam incident: given the tendency of the FCC to overreach (as it did in the Comcast case and in the Janet Jackson incident), AT&T had very good reason to worry that the FCC would penalize it if Eddie Vedder engaged in profanity (as he often does) during an "all ages" broadcast. I really cannot say that I blame them for doing the same thing that other broadcasters, regardless of medium, began to do after that incident.
And if the FCC does start regulating the Internet, it will surely begin to regulate content. Once the camel's nose is in the tent, it won't stop.
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Picasso & Poetry
Although Picasso enjoyed his excursions into the theater, and in particular his collaborations with the Diaghilev ballet, for the most part he disliked working to order and shunned commissions of all kinds. He did, nevertheless, illustrate some fifty books and was peripherally involved in the production of twice as many again, contributing frontispieces (often in the form of a portrait sketch of the author), dust jackets, vignettes, and so forth. Even in cases where his images figure prominently, most of them bear no relation to the text and were simply selected from existing material that seemed not inappropriate; such was the prestige of his name that authors and publishers were happy to settle for what was offered to them.
In approximately twenty cases, however, the illustrations do relate to, or at least parallel, the texts even if they weren't especially created for the purpose. At least six of these achieve the status of livres d'artiste, works of art or precious objects in their own right. And his Góngora, which came out in 1948, was possibly the one closest to his heart. Braziller has now reissued it in an approximate facsimile (approximate in that although the scale and format of the original are retained, the superb quality of the paper, which was especially manufactured for the original, could not be duplicated for economic reasons and inevitably there is a certain loss of tonal subtlety). Góngora was to affect the future development of Picasso's art in a way that his other literary collaborations did not. In 1905 Apollinaire was already stressing Picasso's heritage from the Spanish seventeenth-century baroque. But it was in old age that it informed his art most fully and poignantly, and the work on Góngora must have helped to set the stage for the extraordinary visual pageant—and much of the late work can only be described in terms of theater—that was still to come.
The question of Picasso's relationship to literature is fascinating and complex. During his formative years as a painter he had been attracted to art that had a literary flavor: to the Pre-Raphaelites, Munch, Lautrec, and the lithographer Steinlen. Impressionism and anything else that smacked of peinture pure he eschewed. Throughout his life he preferred the company of writers, particularly poets, to that of other painters and sculptors. His own literary output was considerable and has never received the attention it deserves.1 From the mid-1930s onward he produced poetry and semi-automatic, stream-of-consciousness texts in both Spanish and French; one of the last and most significant of these, El Entierro del Conde de Orgaz, pays tribute, in its title at least, to Góngora's contemporary and friend El Greco. Picasso also produced two plays and The Dream and Lie of Franco (1937), a unique fusion of words and visual imagery (based on the popular Spanish aleluyas, or strip cartoons) and perhaps the most effective artistic political broadsheet of this century.
And yet several people who knew Picasso well claimed that he read very little. Jaime Sabartés,…
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Fashion celebrity Isaac Mizrahi plans memoir for 2016
NEW YORK – Isaac Mizrahi will tell the whole story.
The fashion celebrity has a deal with Amy Einhorn Books for a memoir that will track his rise from an unhappy childhood in Brooklyn to hanging out at Studio 54 to international fame. Amy Einhorn Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House, announced Thursday that the book is scheduled for release in 2016. It is tentatively titled "I.M."
The 52-year-old Mizrahi previously wrote the fashion advice book "How to Have Style."
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Po'boy exalted in New Orleans
NEW ORLEANS — My po'boy is a hot mess. The spicy smoked sausage, slicked by its own fireball-orange grease, is determined to slide out the sides of the Leidenheimer loaf. The links are further lubricated by two types of mustard (yellow and Creole) and a slather of chili that ramps up the ooze factor. By the time I'm done with my sandwich at Domilise's Po-Boy & Bar, I've gone through at least a dozen napkins.
But I savor my "dressed" flavor bomb because I know that with each indelicate chomp, I'm biting into history — not just the history of this beloved po'boy shop in Uptown, but the very culinary history of New Orleans.
This city has either given birth or laid claim to a powerful collection of iconic food and drink: the Sazerac, blackened fish, jambalaya, gumbo, the Ramos Gin Fizz, muffulettas and beignets. But no dish is as prevalent and adored as the po'boy (or po-boy) sandwich. A humble hero that has been rightly elevated to cult status, the po'boy cleverly sandwiches some of the area's other culinary prizes — oysters, shrimp, softshell crab — between an only-in-New Orleans French bread that sports a thin, shatteringly-crisp exterior and cottony innards.
It's not hard to find po'boys stuffed with all manner of seafood, meats and cheeses in the city, but truly outstanding ones — including those from shops that develop fanatic followings — are exalted and staunchly defended. Families and friends have been known to be divided over allegiances to a particular roast beef po'boy with debris gravy.
So important is the po'boy to the city's cultural landscape, it now has its own festival: the Oak Street Po-Boy Festival (poboyfest.com), on Nov. 18 in the city's Carrollton neighborhood. Last year, it drew about 50,000 people. The festival features music, food booths and a po'boy competition for the city's best traditional and creative sandwiches open to vendors from the most humble mom-and-pop stores to white-tablecloth restaurants.
The po'boy is such a part of New Orleans that its history is written into the permanent exhibit of the Southern Food & Beverage Museum at the New Orleans Riverwalk. Before it earned its moniker, a po'boy was commonly referred to as a "loaf" — a French bread sandwich filled with fried potatoes with gravy, fried seafood or meats. The exhibit says it took the disgruntlement of the city's streetcar drivers to define the po'boy.
On July 1, 1929, the motormen and conductors of Division 194 of the Amalgamated Association of Electric Street Railway Employees went on strike. Bennie and Clovis Martin, brothers who opened Martin Brothers Coffee Stand and Restaurant in the French Quarter in 1922, were former streetcar conductors. Natural supporters of the union, the Martins vowed to provide striking workers with free meals, including sandwiches. According to popular lore, when one of the Martins saw a striker approaching the store, they would say, "Here comes another poor boy." The name stuck.
The Martins also contributed to the evolution of French bread in New Orleans. In the early 20th century, the growing popularity of "loaf" sandwiches led to changes in bread that would strike a balance between a crisp crust and a density that would stand up to gravies and mayonnaise but not compete with the flavor of Gulf seafood. What was needed was bread that a diner could bite into without cutting the roof of his mouth, which could happen with traditional French bread. The Martins, local history says, worked with baker John Gendusa to change the shape of a French loaf to be wider and with flat ends (traditional French bread's narrow ends created waste). A generously-sized sandwich made with re-engineered bread soon became the po'boy norm thanks to the Martins.
Ask any New Orleanian and he will tell you a po'boy starts first with proper po'boy bread, which is available only in New Orleans, said culinary authority Poppy Tooker, host of Louisiana Eats!, a popular radio show program on WWNO in New Orleans. "It's the only place you can create the loaf with the crispy outside and soft, tender inside," she said. "And it's only good for 24 hours and then is turned into bread pudding."
A cookbook author who treasures the foods and food history of New Orleans, Tooker is a happy advocate of the Oak Street Po-Boy Festival, not just because it's fun, but also for its celebration of an iconic foodstuff that she feels is endangered. "There are only three French bread bakers for po'boy bread left in New Orleans," she said, listing Alois J. Binder Bakery, John Gendusa Bakery and Leidenheimer Baking Co., the city's preeminent baker of po'boy bread. At one time there were as many as 200 French bread bakers in the city.
"This is why the po'boy festival is important and why it happens. The po'boy is a vital, iconic piece of New Orleans culinary culture. My motto is 'You've got to eat it to save it.' You have to create a taste for it and a market for it or it will become extinct."
While even the most casual po'boy consumer probably couldn't imagine a day when the sandwich no longer existed, one need only reference a tragedy like Hurricane Katrina, which wiped out city businesses that never recovered or rebuilt.
Today, the city has no better culinary ambassador than the po'boy. In fact, the Leidenheimer trucks are painted with cartoon characters saying "Sink Ya Teeth Into A Piece of New Orleans Cultcha — A Leidenheimer Po-Boy!"
Bring your appetite when you're hunting down a New Orleans po'boy. A full sandwich is about 12 inches long. A half size is sometimes called a "shorty." A po'boy, by the way, is never enunciated as "poor boy." If you take your sandwich "dressed" that means it'll come with mayonnaise, lettuce, tomato and pickles.
Greg Morago is a writer for the Houston Chronicle.


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I promise, I'm really trying to not use Infinite Lives as my own professional pinboard these days, but I do have a column about Cho Aniki: Bakuretsu Rantou Hen at Vice Motherboard:
The game's wackiness and camp are superficial. They're just show. All the while, Bakuretsu's characters and backdrops hint at something darker. To borrow from Baudrillard, there is a gradual "perversion of reality" until, at last, we are looking at a "facsimile" with "no original copy."
Really, I've never had so much fun writing something in my life. Am I really serious? Who can tell!
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Canon Must Have Been Crazy!
First read, this is the latest Canon announcement they have just made today:-
They must have been insane! What? A 202 x 205mm sensor?! That is, 8" x 8"! Is this a 8R photo printout? :-o
Oh well, when the 645D is still having a 44 x 33mm "large" sensor, what camera Canon is going to make to adopt their this new super large sensor? But do note that the 645D is already large and heavy! @_@
Okay, personally I think the recent Canon announced new developments doesn't make any sense at all, frankly, including the last APS-H 120MP CMOS sensor's!


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posted on Tuesday, December 14, 2010 - 5:30 pm
I have path analysis with one of the paths having a binary dependent variable. I use the command "categorical are " to define the binary outcome. Mplus ask me to use the theta parameterization to run the model. I have no idea how to interpret the parameters under theta parameterization. Can you tell me where to find an example output and interpretation? Or briefly tell me the interpretation. Thanks a lot.
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Wednesday, December 15, 2010 - 8:34 am
The Theta parameterization is required when a mediator is categorical. This does not change the interpretation of the model. Probit regressions are still estimated.
gibbon lab
posted on Wednesday, December 15, 2010 - 10:55 am
I see. Will the interpretation of the coefficient of the categorical mediator change? The mediator is coded as 0/1. Usually its coefficient is interpreted as the mean difference of the outcome between the two groups. Will this interpretation change under theta parameterization? Thanks a lot.
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Wednesday, December 15, 2010 - 5:11 pm
For categorical variables, it is the difference in thresholds.
gibbon lab
posted on Thursday, December 16, 2010 - 7:20 am
Suppose here is my regression with a binary categorical predicitor (B) and a continuous dependent variable (A):
A on B.
The estimated coefficient of B is beta. You mean beta is interpreted as the difference in thresholds? Can you be more specific? Thanks a lot.
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Thursday, December 16, 2010 - 9:12 am
The scale of the dependent variable determines the type of regression coefficient that is estimated. The scale of the independent variables is irrelevant because the model is estimated conditioned on these variables. In regression, independent variables can be binary or continuous. In both cases they are treated as continuous.
A linear regression coefficient is estimated for a continuous dependent variable. A probit or logistic regression coefficient is estimated for a categorical dependent variable.
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