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When I first started writing heavy metal reviews, back in the days of AOL 4.0, it was for one goal only: to someday write a list of six songs related to a Detroit rap outfit that dresses like clowns and sprays people with soda. I tried and I tried, but I never seemed to be able to convince my editors that such a list would ignite the internet into a powerful frenzy, forever immortalizing their publication. That is, until now.
In celebration of RFT Music editor Daniel Hill and I possibly being stabbed to death by swiss army knives or maybe drowned in a river of Faygo and bongwater at the Gathering of the Juggalos (which we will be attending/covering for the next five days), I am finally able to live out that dream.
6. The Gories - "Trick Bag"
Who are the Gories and why are they first on this list? Because I'm trying to set a tone to keep you reading, you pinhead. The Gories were a garage rock band that started in the '80s and featured Mick Collins, who later went on to form another excellent band, the Dirtbombs. For those of you who are hip but still clueless, maybe you will know the Dirtbombs from a three-way split with the Terrible Twos and Dan Sartain. And for those few of you who are still reading this paragraph, the record that "Trick Bag" appears on was produced by Mike E. Clark. Clark is also known for his groundbreaking work with Insane Clown Posse, Twiztid, Axe Murder Boys and a ton of other Psychopathic Records artists.
5. Twiztid - "Bagz"
Twiztid, otherwise known as Jamie Madrox and Monoxide Child, are Insane Clown Posse acolytes. All I know about Twiztid is that back when I used to hang out with this dude named Jesse in high school, he would play this song all the time while smoking pot. I once watched him eat a bunch of magic mushrooms on a McDonalds cheeseburger and we had to sit in his car for a long time before he was okay to drive again. Anyway, I've always had a soft spot for Twiztid as a result. Not to mention the lyric, "your parents hate us cuz we smell like cannabis and remind them of the incubus," is pretty sick.
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Wright no longer just sees it, hits it
Sussex 319 for 6 (Wright 111*) vs Northamptonshire
It would be a fair assumption to suggest that Luke Wright's career highlights reel will exclusively consist of his exploits against the white ball. Indeed, his proficiency in the shortest-format has rendered his services marketable around the world and a cursory search online immediately presents an array of swashbuckling cameos in unfamiliar colours.
Yet, at home, he remains a somewhat undervalued player and a mediocre record in English apparel is largely responsible.
But, as he reaches, what should be the peak of his career, Wright continues to demonstrate that he has more attributes than those that can just be displayed in Twenty20. There can be no questioning his worth to Sussex. A second Championship hundred of the season glued together an innings that could have, in the circumstances, easily shattered.
Through injury - or, in the case of Chris Jordan and Matt Prior, international duty - Sussex are without as many as seven players, but thanks to Wright's unbeaten 111 that scarcely showed on a day that saw them cause yet more damage to the visitors' hopes of staying afloat. Northants had reason to be impressed: they are also all too aware of the pernicious effects a long injury list can have.
The pitch was lively and at times treacherous to bat on - Chris Nash and Ed Joyce both suffered nasty blows - but the bowlers fell into the trap of trying to force the issue when nothing more than consistent, put-it-on-a-good-length was required to succeed.
Even the military medium of Andrew Hall generated sharp, steep bounce from the Sea End but Northants were left to rue an opportunity that got away. Wright arrived at the crease with his side in danger of folding at 116 for 3, which quickly became for four when the plucky resistance of Steffan Piolet, promoted up the order such is the injury crisis, ended. But he foiled Northants' advances.
Typecast as a venturesome top-order gun-for-hire, Wright is becoming increasingly composed at the crease, showing signs of reining in his previously haphazard instincts. Throughout a knock that spanned 172 balls, there was rarely a glimpse of the unmethodical style that has undermined his time in the international set-up.
From the outset, he was compact in defence and pugnacious in attack as anything full enough to lean forward and drive was suitably punished. In putting on 136 with Ben Brown for the sixth wicket, the pair took the sting out of Northants.
"We had to work hard out there today because the pitch has cracks on it but apart from the odd delivery, it's coming on really nicely," Wright said. "My game has definitely matured and that's largely down to the fact I've played more Championship cricket. When I was going away with England, naturally that was my focus and you can get swept away with that.
"When you're practicing so heavily for an upcoming series you can lose your focus and I've just gone back to the nets and found a new strategy which so far has worked. In the past, I would go in and hope for the best with a see ball, hit ball mentality which was why I was probably so inconsistent."
Not only did he manage to negate the conditions but also nullify a Northants attack that scented blood - quite literally - from the moment he walked to the middle at 116 for 3 shortly after lunch.
Nash had barely recovered from being clocked on the helmet by David Willey before tamely chipping the left-armer to midwicket and then Luke Wells's admirable, if fortunate, resistance was ended by Hall's relentlessness; the South African got one to nip back and clip the top of off.
Yet, Northants could not persist. Joyce was as nonchalant as ever in accumulating runs all around the wicket but Willey returned to trap him on front and Ashar Zaidi played a rash shot that was wholly uncalled for in the circumstances, offering point a simple catch off James Middlebrook's off-spin.
That was as good as it got for the visitors, however. As the bowlers flagged and the ball wore old, Wright unveiled the shots that will doubtlessly garnish his career best bits as he raced from fifty to three figures in 62 deliveries. Two thumping drives off Steven Crook followed by a lusty six into the pavilion was a fitting way to complete his hundred.


text: Hi, Gregoire Favre schrieb: > my country now as an HD channel : > HD suisse;SRG SSR idee suisse:12399:hC34:S13.0E:27500:10180+180:0;131=deu,132=fra,133=ita,134=eng:0:0:990:318:8500:0 > > It's 720p with AC3 for the four audio. I have a quiete strong CPU but > it's barely enough to decode this as vdr/xine seems to only take one > core of it, even if I have set 2/4 for the processing.ffmpeg thread count. > > (By the way, should I better set it to 2 as I have only two cores or to > ??? ) Don't think that there will be much gain by setting it any higher than 2. > Anyone know how to use both cores for this channel (like it's done for > BBC HD;BSkyB:10847:vC56:S28.2E:22000:12318+2318:2320=NAR;2319=eng:2321:0:6940:0:0:0 > ? The problem is that HD suisse codes each frame with only a single slice but FFmpegs multithreaded decoding needs multiple slices per picture. There are thoughts to add picture based multithreading in addition to the currently existing slice based multithreading. Bye. -- Dipl.-Inform. (FH) Reinhard Nissl mailto:rnissl at gmx.de


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DYI: Barbie Halloween Make Up!
Halloween is right around the corner and i wanted to do at least one DIY costume! (I planned for more but due to restrictions on time could only film and photograph one -insert sad face here-)
Halloween is probably one of my favorite holidays (and yes its a holiday)! I really love that this year everyone has gotten so creative with their looks and people have opted to do DIY looks, rather than go out and buy expensive costumes.
I always prefer to throw on something together from my closet and most of the time even go shopping for the look I'm going for! That way you spend a lot less money and you get to wear what you buy again!
As summer flew away, I didn't get to style this cupcake body suit but I thought it would be perfect for Barbie! I have done Barbie looks in the past but this is probably the most wearable and easiest to do!
Below I'm going to show you in simple steps how to transform yourself into Barbie!
I also have a video tutorial, if you're a video person, you can watch that instead!
1. Start out with your normal foundation routine, but I would suggest using a shade lighter than your skin tone!
2. Prime your eyelids, then apply a purple shadow to your entire lid.
3. You then want to work in a hot pink into the crease and make it somewhat dramatic.
4. Apple some cat eyeliner!
5. Apply some false lashes and then apply mascara
6. Apply a teal or blue sparkly eyeliner on your lower waterline. This is optional but I think it seals the eye look!
7. Apple a hot pink or purple shade of lipstick!
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On Thu, 19 Nov 1998, Charles McCathieNevile wrote: > On Wed, 18 Nov 1998, Alan J. Flavell wrote: > > > HTML only has one document character set: Unicode. > > CMcCN:: > Well, maybe. But most documents have a variety of character sets - > ISO-8859-1, or Shift-JIS, or Windows-1252, or ISO-8859-5, or EUC-2022-KR > or whatever. I'm sorry, the point I was trying to make is that these are encodings, in the language of HTML4.0. I'm sorry if this appears to be unreasonably pedantic, but there seems to me to be much confusion about this area of i18n, and I think it's worthwhile to strive for clarity when discussing it. 5.2 in the HTML4.0 spec has some useful remarks: http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/charset.html#h-5.2 Please excuse me if this is thought excessive, but I think it may be useful to quote a paragraph from 5.2.1, as follows --quote begins-- Authoring tools (e.g., text editors) may encode HTML documents in the character encoding of their choice, and the choice largely depends on the conventions used by the system software. These tools may employ any convenient encoding that covers most of the characters contained in the document, provided the encoding is correctly labeled. Occasional characters that fall outside this encoding may still be represented by character references. These always refer to the document character set, not the character encoding. --quote ends-- In simple cases it may be that the document doesn't utilise any characters that are outside of the repertoire of the encoding ("charset") that it uses: but it's perfectly valid for the document to contain some &entity; or &#bignumber; representations that lie outside of the repertoire that's defined by the document's encoding. To take a simple example, a document that's in a Cyrillic encoding, let's say koi8-r, can still validly include French or German employing é ü and so forth, while a document that's in iso-8859-1 can validly contain &#bignumber; references that represent Cyrillic characters. Which of the two representations to choose for, say, a bi-lingual document would be dictated by practical convenience: either is a valid document according to RFC2070 or HTML4.0. Provided that the reader is using a client agent that supports RFC2070 to this extent, the document will be displayed correctly. > AJF:: > > Anyway, a solution for a site which has been constructed without > > explicit content language specifications would seem straightforward: > > simply arrange for the server to send out an HTTP content-language > > header. It needs no editing of the web pages themselves > CMcCN:: > My big complaint is that most authors do not have the ability to > set up how their server deals with language negotiation, but they do have > the ability through a combination of META HTTP-EQUIV elements (I have > written on this topic here a couple of months ago) and LANG="xx" > statements, to make it explicit in their pages. I'm sorry for not making my reasoning clear. I was referring implicitly to an argument elsewhere on this thread, that were some large site had already been created without language attributes in its markup, then it might be impractical to correct that. Well, processing a whole collection of files to do nothing more than change <HTML> into <HTML LANG="value"> for some fixed "value" is hardly rocket science, but I was suggesting an alternative solution that could be applied without editing the files, if that were preferred. > It is important that it > be explicit, and either we try changing the way ISPs work (which seems > unlikely and not the most efficient place to deal with it anyway - I find this very sad: the HTTP protocol has many valuable features, it's a tragedy that it's being crippled in this way. And the most popular server, Apache, has no difficulty putting these matters into the hands of the document owners via their .htaccess files. But you could well be right that it's impractical to expect this part of the WWW to work as designed. > authors know better what language they write) Yes, that much is true enough, I have no dispute with that. I'm sorry, I'm rather conscious that this has addressed issues that are relevant to i18n in general, and not particularly specific to accessibility. However, they are issues that can have much more critical consequences in an accessibility context, so I thought it was worth trying to clarify the issues. all the bestReceived on Wednesday, 18 November 1998 14:07:00 UTC
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For some reason, the download page has been put to rest. It's now fixed and Grand Rogue Auto 0.6.9 is now available for everybody. Like i said earlier, don't expect me to continue much further on this project. The engine behind it is now solid enough and GRA has always been a tech demo. I can now make a good game out of it while GRA was, let's say 'dumb fun'. It's still highly moddable, even if the process can be relatively hard to grasp. And people can right now add a ton of content through the "dungeon" system. I don't think that modding the engine myself would help very much.
I do know there's a few broken promises from the roadmap. So let me explain myself. I basically have ten unfinished artificial life related projects That's what i do, AL. I have a relatively accurate zombie outbreak simulator (yeah accurate and I stand by this word), I have a totally abstract 3D opengl darwinian life simulator, and so on. I'm interested in this kind of stuff, GRA has reached its limit. Well, not really, but being restricted to the GTA-RL genre is kinda a problem in itself.
So, the next game, based on the same engine, called Necro-Watch, will be relatively unique despite being based on the good old zombie apocalypse scenario. It will have a XCOM vibe, it will be moddable, procedurally generated, and difficult. This project will be, as usual, a freeware. But, as I obviously need to make a living, it will also be a "donate-ware". In other words, you'll be able to download the full game free of charge, and if you think it deserve some credit, you can donate a few cents/dollars/euros/whatever to keep me going. No copy protection in any shape or form. But of course, let's be honest, if I gain money building this simulator, I will continue doing so, otherwise, well, I'll get a boring job.
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Sounds like a promising future indeed between the likes of this and X@COM RL gaining momentum on dev and mod/TC support fronts this past while. Keep at that fine work!ReplyDelete
Is there any rough timeline in your head as to when we will start to see any in-dev roadmap articles or even so far as an initial release for Necro-Watch? From the sound of things, somewhere in the first half of 2013 strikes me as good odds on account of being able to harvest the various applicable parts of GRA?
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is this still a thing? do you still put out development stuff? do you plan to add items? if so, count me in as a follower to this!ReplyDelete
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Anti-Trump NFL Player Comes Unglued – Is Ejected From Game For PUSHING Ref (VIDEO)
As the NFL struggles to contain the fallout from players kneeling during the National Anthem, a new controversy has emerged.
In a move rarely seen in any sports league, outspoken Oakland Raiders running back, Marshawn Lynch pushed a referee during Thursday night's game against the Kansas City Chiefs. Lynch was not only ejected from the game, but was ordered to exit the stadium. This is an extremely serious offense.
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Marshawn Lynch was ejected from the Oakland Raiders' 31-30 win against the Kansas City Chiefs midway through the second quarter Thursday night for making contact with an official.
Lynch ran off the sideline and into a scrum after Chiefs cornerback Marcus Peters hit Raiders quarterback Derek Carr late, drawing a flag for a personal foul. Several Raiders offensive linemen went after Peters, an Oakland native and close friend of Lynch.[…]
"I was disappointed he ran out because I knew we had a 15-yard penalty and we'd be in good shape," Raiders coach Jack Del Rio said. "I told him you can't leave the bench like that. That was about it. Next thing I knew, he was being tossed. The referee told me he had actually put his hands on him."
Physical contact with an official carries a fine of $30,387. If the NFL suspends Lynch for coming off the bench to join the altercation, it would cost him a game check of $79,411.
At the start of October, Lynch wore an "Everybody versus Trump" T-shirt into the locker room before the game.
Such a bold statement.
Marshawn's behind was hanging out.
That was an even bolder statement.
Nice job, NFL.
Picking up where Colin Kaepernick left off, "unretired" has-been Oakland Raiders running back Marshawn Lynch kept it real in August by making some sort of statement about racism or Charlottesville or something by failing to stand when the National Anthem was played during his team's preseason NFL game against the Arizona Cardinals last night in Glendale, Arizona. Instead, Lynch sat on a cooler and ate a banana.
It is not known at this point whether Lynch was purposely using racial imagery in his decision to eat a banana (as opposed to any other food except for maybe watermelon or fried chicken) while making his anti-National Anthem statement. American University has recently pronounced bananas publicly hanging from string a racist threat. And in 2013, as was covered very extensively by ESPN, Baltimore Orioles outfielder Adam Jones had a banana thrown on the field in his general vicinity by a frustrated San Francisco Giants fan.
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We produce some of the finest bullies in America and are able to show this with the pictures that we take. With the current website, it's a much better platform to display the pictures
Waterloo, IA (PRWEB) November 29, 2012
Joyful Acres Bulldogs, a family who have been raising and breeding bulldogs for over 10 years, has three new litters of bulldog puppies for sale now up on their newly designed website, Joyfulacresbulldogs.com. These bully pups are available just in time for Christmas.
Joyful Acres breeders Shawn and Bethany Bram are proud to not only show off their new bulldog puppies for sale, but also the new multi-page site, which is brighter, easier to navigate, and loaded with tons of information. For people looking for a new puppy for the holiday, the Puppies' page has what's available, with tons of high-resolution photos of some of the cutest bulldog puppies in America.
Joyful Acres is excited about the site's responsive design, so prospective bulldog owners can view the new puppies on any device.
"It's compatible with all the mobile devices, which was one of the objectives," Shawn said. "This works on Apple platforms, Androids, notebook, the Kindle Fire and more. What we noticed with our old website was that a good majority of people that were calling were using a mobile device to look at the dogs, and they couldn't view them correctly. I used to get calls about that all the time."
Bram said visual aesthetics of the site will be even more beneficial, because it's what usually makes clients want to purchase their English bulldog puppies in the first place.
"Our pups sell because of the quality of our dogs and our ability to accurately showcase this with our pictures," Bram said. "We produce some of the finest bullies in America and are able to show this with the pictures that we take. With the current website, it's a much better platform to display the pictures. If I can get people to the website, and they can look at the pictures of the parents and the pups, I know they are going to want one."
All of the Joyful Acres puppies, including its new litters, are registered with the world's premier Olde English Bulldogge registry, The International Olde English Bulldogge Association. The Bram family has been involved with showing their bulldogges and Shawn is a certified IOEBA Senior Judge. The Bulldogges are a hobby that the whole Bram family enjoys.
Joyful Acres Bulldogs offers reasonable shipping to anywhere in the United States and each puppy comes with a limited warranty.
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Operation Wild Mayhem – Games To Collapse Empire
From Barbarically
A piece by Julian Langer, whose blog can be found at https://ecorevoltblog.wordpress.com
"Three minutes. This is it – ground zero. Would you like to say a few words to mark the occasion?" Tyler Durden
As Tyler stood overlooking the heart of civilization he knew he saw a failing empire on the brink of destruction. So Tyler abandons the consumer nesting instinct, in favour of neo-luddite primal anarchy.
Whether or not time and this magical land called the future exists is something for another discussion – I'll just say that I'm not convinced. But for the purposes of this discussion it seems fair to say that we are three minutes from ground zero. The important thing to remember though is that we are not awaiting the arrival of a nuclear bomb, though Trump, Putin and North Korea appear to be directing us towards that situation. No, we are the embodiment of a thermonuclear cataclysm, a world-ruining piece of machinery, three minutes away from ground zero. So I'll say a few words to mark the occasion.
Tyler was wrong when he said that our fathers were our models for God; our fathers were merely meant to teach us how to navigate the body of God – the body of the metropolis, the state, the market, civilisation, the Leviathan. But Tyler was correct when he said that God hates us.
After all, what has God, civilisation, the state, the Leviathan, the stranglehold of capitalism brought us? The planet is in ecological ruins. We are plagued by droughts, hurricanes, wildfires intensified by arid conditions and desertification, brought on by agriculture and the deforestation it requires, oil spills, dehabitation, specicde, air unfit to breath and mass extinction. Television feeds us the daily horror of militarism, bombs and politics, along side (m)advertising, supposed reality shows and force-fed comedy spooned down our throats, as we sink deeper into the psychosis of this hyper-real Spectacle – the word of God, the great domesticator.
But in the words of Tyler Durden, "fuck damnation, man, fuck redemption! If we are God's unwanted children, then so be it!"
If this culture wants us to live lives of death, I propose we rebel, by seeking (near-)Life experiences; that we lose every-Thing to be free to do anything.
How do we do this?
Well if this culture is hell bent on trying to domesticate us all, bringing some wildness to this culture seems the best routeless direction to go down.
With all their attempts to make living in this culture better, most activist projects have served only to make the planetary work machine more bearable for those closest to "radicals". The revolutionary project is now largely a t-shirt or film. Social anarchists fill potholes and keep this culture going – acts of service to God.
On the other hand, subversive art-focused and psychology-focused milieus, such as Situationists, Discordians, guerrilla ontologists and others which can generally be considered applicable to a post-anarchist practice, have succeeded in creating spaces to release the repressed flow of the wild, within the body of civilisation. This type of practice is that which Hakim Bey (Peter Lamborn Wilson) calls poetic terrorism, and appears to be a means of eco-radicals waging primal war against this world-ruining culture.
Situationists are focused on challenging the psycho-geography of this culture's everyday normal life, through mediums such as the situationist-prank, which involved turning aspects of capitalism's everyday-narratives against itself. Discordians and guerrilla ontologists, inspired by the philosophy of Robert Anton Wilson, have often embraced the campaign of Operation Mindfuck, which has focused on art based approaches like performance and guerrilla art, as well as vandalism, practical jokes, reality hacking and hoaxes.
Drawing from these both, in mapping out a loose route for our poetic terrorism, a campaign seems available to us, as agents against this culture, as a means of wild-attack.
What does this look like?
Here are some games –
Modelling glue in the locks of shops, banks and vehicles of world-ruiners. Going into computer shops with fishtank cleaner magnets and destroying the hard drives. Standing on streets with a free hugs sign and giving each person who hugs you a home-made pamphlet on the ecological crisis. Gluing folded up pieces of paper into the coin slots of parking machines and into the card slots of ATMs. Searching for unlocked cars and turning on their lights to drain the battery. Mixing whipped cream, corn flakes, grapes, maple syrup, dish washer fluid and warm water in large quantities in black bags and pouring home-made vomit along streets, in high-traffic pedestrian areas. Standing on the edge and peeing into swimming pools. Leaving kitchen knives in public places covered in fake blood. Graffiti apocalypse poems or surrealist slogans, like "I don't want to be a wall anymore" on walls, in chalk in public spaces, in sight of on-lookers. Putting itching powder on the toilet paper in public toilets and rolling it back up. Gluing public toilet seats down and putting glue on them. Wearing sandwich boards emblazoned with "the end was yesterday". Filling wet paper towels with flour, wrapping it up, tying up with a rubber band and throwing flour bombs. Reviving the Existential Negation Campaign. Destroying badger traps or committing other acts of ecotage/monkey-wrenching and turning them into works of art.
These are some of the directions for this project of wild mayhem. With every work of creative-destruction performed a communiqué should be left, as words to mark the occasion.
With this, eco-radical practice escapes the revolutionary model, which is tied to History (the narrative of this culture and its "progress"), without falling into renunciation and becomes an iconoclastic endeavour, full of wild potential. Eco-radicals can challenge believers in this culture's faith in its ability to maintain everyday normality in ways that are direct and signify a defiant rebellion, without appealing to ideologies and systems, which end up being incorporated and part of that which we hate.
As this operation is intentionally outside of History, there is no start or end date to it. This can be picked up by anyone and dropped as soon as they decide to stop. It has no governing body or even decentralised organisation behind it. It is a wild endeavour, anarchic, free.
So this is it – ground zero. Our operation will be one of wild mayhem. What is to come we cannot know for sure, but the present course only leads to ruin. Disrupting that course, disrupting its ruin of the world and encouraging God's ruin, through wild poetic terrorism as primal war, seems like a pathway to go down with potential. If you want a future, I will turn again to Mr Durden – "In the world I see – you are stalking elk through the damp canyon forests around the ruins of Rockefeller Center. You'll wear leather clothes that will last you the rest of your life. You'll climb the wrist-thick kudzu vines that wrap the Sears Tower. And when you look down, you'll see tiny figures pounding corn, laying strips of venison on the empty car pool lane of some abandoned superhighway."
Anonymous (not verified)
Mon, 12/11/2017 - 11:12
Ouch... this is cringey. And
Ouch... this is cringey. And further reinforces my view that Fight Club is the Atlas Shrugged of primitivism.
Anonymous (not verified)
Mon, 12/11/2017 - 11:41
Half these "games" are just
Half these "games" are just fuckin dick moves.
Willliam Gillis (not verified)
Mon, 12/11/2017 - 12:22
Damn anti-intellectual
Damn anti-intellectual primmie bros! We will kick your collapse in the guts and paint the sidewalk with its face!
AssHat (not verified)
Mon, 12/11/2017 - 12:30
Cue the Anarchist butthurt.
Cue the Anarchist butthurt. Ya'll wanna overthrow the state but afraid to be 'dicks.' Softer than 4 ply toilet paper.
Anonymous (not verified)
Mon, 12/11/2017 - 13:38
Butthurt is indiscriminate
Butthurt is indiscriminate attack with itching powder on random peoples anus.
Julian Langer (not verified)
Mon, 12/11/2017 - 12:55
Response to William
What does that even mean William? Because to me it appears to be just anarcho-bro hard talk, which translates to nothing in the real world?
Anonymous (not verified)
Mon, 12/11/2017 - 12:59
That's WilliamGillisTroll
That's WilliamGillisTroll Julian and you're being trolled in the comments of your troll article … oh, you wrote this seriously? Oh ...
Willliam Gillis (not verified)
Mon, 12/11/2017 - 13:09
It's trivial that there are
It's trivial that there are examples of dynamics that pretty accurately fit the primmie narrative, but a lot do not. Literally nothing that I've said here in critique of the whole democidal power/revenge fantasy garbage would have been alien back decades ago when I was a primmie and then an ancom. Such critiques are 100% the baseline politics of anarchism. We're opposed to mass murder. Back in the day, back when I was a primmie, the position was more scientific/rational. Everybody knows this.
Anonymous (not verified)
Mon, 12/11/2017 - 13:23
It is known!
It is known!
Anonymous (not verified)
Mon, 12/11/2017 - 14:21
"Searching for unlocked cars
"Searching for unlocked cars and turning on their lights to drain the battery"
Thats not anarchy. Thats called risking arrest to be a dick to people who probably need to take their kid to grandmas before working at the hair salon in the morning.
Anonymous (not verified)
Mon, 12/11/2017 - 14:33
I did a lot of this kind of
I did a lot of this kind of crap in the 90s, before the ecological apocalypse seemed to loom. These days, a few pranks to "freak out the squares" seems woefully inadequate, although my younger friends still get drunk and do stupid shit like this, it comes across as try-hard if you make a big deal out of each little thing.
On the other hand, news headlines that sound like "for months, petty vandals have terrorized the city …" you know, it's less pathetic?
Anonymous (not verified)
Mon, 12/11/2017 - 17:38
Why do we need more
Why do we need more abstraction? I have no problem with people choosing to engage in the activities mentioned, but there are already multiple concepts grouping these activities together - some are even mentioned - and at the end of a hypothetical day of action, it was
just people sabotaging and detourning shit. The mythological wild mayhem was never achieved.
Anonymous (not verified)
Mon, 12/11/2017 - 17:50
We don't. But Julian really
We don't. But Julian really needed to rehash the old take on fight club I guess?
Unfortunately there's a lot better analysis kicking around these days, to do with authoritarian cult indoctrination that happens to be anti-establishment. I still love that movie but you can't help noticing how Tyler Durden's methods end up seeming a lot more alt-right than anarchist, especially the way he treats his friends and co-conspirators.
Anonymous (not verified)
Mon, 12/11/2017 - 21:37
We never managed to get a big
We never managed to get a big and resolved-enough gang of platformist boneheads all dressed in black who do whatever Tyler tells them. Oh wait... that was just insurrecto fascism. Forgot.
Anonymous (not verified)
Tue, 12/12/2017 - 20:03
When was that exactly?
When was that exactly?
Zek1312 (not verified)
Mon, 12/11/2017 - 20:44
This article is lame AF
Langer, I dont crosspost every entry on MY blog to anews, stop clogging up the tubes\
Mon, 12/11/2017 - 22:40
Fight Club doesn't "end up
Fight Club doesn't "end up seeming a lot more alt-right than anarchist" -- it is *totally* alt-right/neo-fascist. here's something i wrote on a different forum six years ago:
Fight Club contains a truncated critique of capitalism centered on credit schemes. Tyler's big plan is to destroy the buildings and the computers that house people's credit scores - presumably so everyone can start over fresh. That's not a critique of capitalism, not by a long shot. FC fits into a particular strain of fascism: vitalism (feeling alive through action for action's sake, coupled with an elitist clandestinity, and a paramilitary ethos), sublimated homoeroticism (fighting is definitely homoerotic), a fear of and disrespect toward women (including the nifty dogwhistle of rich -- read "jewish" -- women's fat being turned into soap), and unquestioned obedience to a leader (first rule of Fight Club...). It is a despicable little book, which has done quite a bit to derail revolutionary critiques of alienation and capitalism. I have had this argument with many of my comrades when the film first came out, and it pops up every so often in different places again and again. It has nothing in it about class society and the reason radicals and revolutionaries want to abolish it. Without a class analysis of the inherent contradictions and unfulfillable hopes of workers and poor people, what you get is populism; and in the US context, populism mostly lines up on the Right...
Anonymous (not verified)
Mon, 12/11/2017 - 23:40
Plus, Tyler Durden being the
Plus, Tyler Durden being the ideal, impossible self-made man.
Plus the rejection of women, as well as the whole masculinist "gimme back my penis" stuff that simply couldn't pass today in a theater.
Aaaah... The '90s, you were wuch a boogie wonderland for Nazis.
Gunter (not verified)
Tue, 12/12/2017 - 10:25
Class is not an ideological
Class is not an ideological construct, its an organic relational social metamorphosis akin to what the saying 'birds of the feather flock together' refers to, i.e. it is about outward appearance and similarity in skills which form clubs and collectives.
Anonymous (not verified)
Tue, 12/12/2017 - 14:36
Hi boles. *eyeroll* Fighting
Hi boles. *eyeroll* Fighting is homoerotic, kind of? In a very abstracted, fetishistic way and also not really at all, in practice.
Not sure why this is even considered insightful except by people completely alienated from violence and/or liberals. Yes, there are weird, liminal connections between sexual dominance and other forms of violence. No, this is not "homoerotic" except perhaps on the basis of repressed sexuality but that would be a cultural context thing, rather than a direct connection to our ancient lizard brain urges, which know nothing of sexual repression, homo or otherwise. The lizard brain winning out against cultural norms could lead to any number of fallacies by an observer, including an intrinsic link between violence and homoeroticism.
The jewish fat/soap is a stretch … you're really reaching there. Anyway, perhaps the reason why you "had this argument" with your comrades is because you mistook someone who was basically agreeing with you for an argument, so props to them for putting up with you.
Anonymous (not verified)
Tue, 12/12/2017 - 15:58
Leftist radicals will always
Leftist radicals will always assume that authority forces people into classes, or into poverty of the mind, when it really comes down to individual choice and the power of the will (Tough intelligent balls). There are not many available places left to live entirely free of society's rule, which is as a hermit, since partnership requires its own set of rules of conduct and the loss of freedoms. What is freedom really, a state of mind? It can be achieved in a prison cell , so the whole revolutionary quest is really an illusion concerning the fetishism of property and intellectual occupation. It resembles a reptilian reflexive response to an imagined threat, a politically inspired paranoia managed by an elite group of dominant preditory flim-flam players.
Anonymous (not verified)
Tue, 12/12/2017 - 16:19
This is ridiculous hippy
This is ridiculous hippy metaphysics and I'm doing you a favour by challenging you if you sincerely believe this woo-woo garbage. Finish this quote - "None more hopelessly enslaved than …"
You even touch on the weakness of your own argument when you mention "there are not many available places left"; as in, something is expanding, something "real", something that destroys solipsistic fallacies when they can't hide from it.
The "revolutionary quest" is perhaps a poor understanding, or reductionist rhetoric for propaganda purposes but it has plenty of basis in the reality of tyranny.
Anonymous (not verified)
Tue, 12/12/2017 - 17:31
"not many places left" for
"not many places left" for those who believe freedom requires solitary isolation, i.e. hermitage, though if someone is willing to live in an remote canyon in the Alaskan mountains and hunt their own food, they have attained their own anti-social 'freedom from relationship's emotional burden'.
No need to use absract debating terminology when disputing opinion which has no political intention, but rather attempts to define semantic ambiguities regarding the metaphysical and psychological processes which precede the reification and latter materialist consequences.
As for the reality of tyranny, that was my intention in linking the revolutionary coup to its founding malcontented provocateurs .
Anonymous (not verified)
Tue, 12/12/2017 - 17:41
Much as some who hang around
Much as some who hang around here would pull every political discussion in to a swamp of hippy philosophy and semantic hairsplitting, I'm here to do the opposite ;)
If you need to go in the woods and work through some personal shit, fill your boots!
Gunter (not verified)
Wed, 12/13/2017 - 00:13
Concerning class in the
Concerning class in the Marxist context, it is obsolete as a concept of socio-economic privileges. I recall a few months ago I said the new 21stt Century primary privilege benchmark was credit rating regardless of income and asset value. The panipticonic data bases and debt collecting cross-referencing has created a greater than 50% voting for expendable income demographic who are controlled economically to sustain either of democracy's 2 majority choices.
Anonymous (not verified)
Wed, 12/13/2017 - 06:11
rule #945664 of the Internet:
rule #945664 of the Internet: Never trust anyone that uses the phrase 'dog-whistle'
Anonymous (not verified)
Tue, 12/12/2017 - 01:38
Langer, do you just write stuff
or do you actually get your own hands dirty? You sound like you're some spotty adolescent who just got into punk
Anonymous (not verified)
Tue, 12/12/2017 - 03:45
Is it not obvious this is
Is it not obvious this is written specifically to piss off the left anarchist crowd? I mean come on it's an obvious troll piece shot directly at them.
I find the critiques of fight club tiring, the one above makes about 10 points of which the "tyler is the unquestioning leader" is the only relevant one. Claiming the soap is an anti jewish screed is straight up bizarre. It's like they just threw that in there to make middle class white tumblr identity politicians feel better about their class privilege that their identitarian ideology already absolves them.
The simplistic response above regarding being afraid of hurting feelings AND being a revolutionary is probably the only response the left anarchy set needs.
Anonymous (not verified)
Tue, 12/12/2017 - 08:44
Here's your dog whistle
Here's your dog whistle dickhead:
Even if it was only a rumor, the fact is that anti-Semitism in general and this this association in particular are firmly embedded within alt-right and neo-fascist discourse.
Anonymous (not verified)
Tue, 12/12/2017 - 09:47
You do realize there are
You do realize there are evils in the world other than fascism, right? You can criticize things in ways other than crying "FASCIST!" about everything you don't like...
I thought the post above brought up some interesting critiques of FC including the problems of vitalism and machismo, but calling that fascist is a far, brittle stretch, and then to insinuate the soap story was malicously anti-semetic is just laughable.
Call me up when Palahniuk (or Langer, for that matter) starts openly advocating for genocide or race separatism or anything, you know, actually fascist. Until then, please, the fascism hysteria is so old and boring. Come up with something else.
Anonymous (not verified)
Tue, 12/12/2017 - 12:15
Holy shit. You really believe
Holy shit. You really believe this don't you? Everyone knows the Nazis did this or were claimed to have as with lampshades etc. You actually make the leap that this connection advocates fascism. Hey dickhead, a dog whistle would mean that JEWS were blamed in the past for doing such things. You are a flaming pile of retarded.
Anonymous (not verified)
Tue, 12/12/2017 - 10:19
Tyler Durden...
didn't say anything. It was a script...a fictitious character...mediated just for the impressionable Langers of the world... what next, a line or two from New Girl?
Anonymous (not verified)
Tue, 12/12/2017 - 10:54
i like fight Club
haven't got into Pahliunik but -and this is obvious, right?- wasn't it meant as to expose such reactionary impulsive tendencies ?
the way i interpreted it our man, edward norton's character was consumed by the demand to BE Tyler Durden, to get those reports and get along nicely at work. He must have been somehow frustrated to live as alone, insomniac in a meaningless house, playing the victim and schizophrenic. so enslaved in the condition of his culturing, his mind acts out subconsciously; he beats himself up, creating alter-egos to project the multiplicity of his personae as he lashes-out at work and develops into a terrorist. like , some of Julian's suggested games for the wild-attack sound fun but we have come up with something better to do with the corn flakes and maple syrup, and peeing in the pool is definitely not cool you guys. The narrator never really seemed very stoked to be playing along with Tyler's game, especially at the ending (wasn't it?) when the Credit gets adjusted back to zero or whatever, that didn't feel like fun. Maybe Tyler was raised by racist-asshole capitalistsic narcissist fucks , i -for one- and perhaps other disillusioning young prodigal conscriptsments did too, interpret that the moral of the story was definitely not to do what he says and beat the hell out of each-other and continuing the miserable drudgery of history .
Anonymous (not verified)
Tue, 12/12/2017 - 16:00
Fight Club was more like
Fight Club was more like anarchy accordingly to the paper-thin, grotesque notion of it from some liberal writer who just didn't read much about insurgencies or anarchist tendencies. Kinda like Rancid's anarchism...
It DID turn out to be fascistic and machist, but I think the writers we're very self conscious about it. T'was also the '90s... people were confused about all sorts of stuff back then. Capitalism was still cool to some extent, and for a time neoliberal globalisation was a very brilliant idea designed by mentally-gifted people.
Anonymous (not verified)
Tue, 12/12/2017 - 16:02
"weren't self-conscious".
"weren't self-conscious". Christ that soft keyboard...
Anonymous (not verified)
Wed, 12/13/2017 - 01:25
i am still in awe that
i am still in awe that someone actually thinks the soap scene in fight club is in fact a wink and a nod to the fascists love of turning people into soap. As if millions of fascists decided that this part of their history is what they should celebrate. And that if anything the scene isn't a critique but *advocacy*
It's sad that the whole left "everything is fascism" looks more and more true but jesus fucking christ if this isn't one of those moments.


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"Taking Refuge in Evil Buddhas?"
What you say?
In my last post, I discussed this odd practice based on a talk that Jiryu gave a Green Gulch last month. Talking about refuge in evil Buddhas online and here at Wild Fox, sounds like one of the catches is about "refuge" – what is it?
Very nice question, worthy of sitting calmly and contemplating so I won't get all preachy here. This is just a little post with a bit about the meaning of the word "refuge," a place of safety.
The phrase in Japanese that is translated "refuge" is "namu kie."
According to my unreliable memory, Katagiri Roshi used to say that "kie" was more active than "refuge" – more like throwing ourself into Buddha's house.
But I wanted to check that memory so I Googled and came up with a piece by "An Appropriate Response: Coaching and Consultation" (how about that!?). Here's what they have:
In Japanese, "I take refuge in Buddha," is "Namu kie butsu". "Namu" means honoring and acknowledging what and who inspire us, and expressing our dedication and appreciation to that. "Kie" means to wholeheartedly throw oneself into and to depend on. So "Namu kie butsu" is sometimes translated as "I wholeheartedly throw myself into the house of Buddha." That's the heart of taking refuge: returning to and throwing ourselves into now and now and now.
I think the [An Appropriate Response] article covers "kie" fairly well. A quick search shows that by itself, it usually refers to religious conversion, which is interesting (also "devotion"). It's always danger to dissect compounds, but the "ki" means "coming home," and the "e" means something like "depend on," so together, that actually covers a lot of ground. "Namu," by the way, doesn't mean much of anything–it's a transliteration of Sanskrit (?), so the characters themselves only represent sound, not meaning (literally they mean "south nothing"). The dictionary lists praise, amen, hail, etc., but combined with "kie butsu," that makes for some awkward translation, no matter how you do it.
I think it's probably a very modern notion, but I, too, have always liked the "refugee" version of taking refuge. Very Zen-y to take refuge in such a way that you have no safe place to stand. I'm not sure that the idea of "throw yourself into," as a translation, has legs, but as an interpretation, I'd say it's right on.
Amen to coming home to, and relying on, Buddha!
Buddha immersion! Amen!
I hope that doesn't help explain "refuge" but adds some grist for the practice mill.


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Statue of Liberty National Monument
The Statue of Liberty National Monument encompasses both the statue as well as the historic Immigration Station located on Liberty Island and Ellis Island in New York Harbor. The statue was completed on October 28, 1886. The statue depicts Lady Liberty holding a torch high above her head while a broken chain lies at her feet. She represents Libertas, the Roman goddess of freedom. In 1965, the Ellis Island immigration station was absorbed into the Statue of Liberty National Monument. Between the years of 1892 and 1954 this was the largest gateway for immigrants into the US. As such, it was the largest inspection station during this period. The structure seen today was built in 1900; it was done so in a style known as Renaissance Revival. The entire national monument is the ideal place to visit for anyone interested in American immigration history. These iconic symbols of America's past together receive approximately three and half million guests annually.
Statue of Liberty, New York
The History and Architecture of the Statue of Liberty
The Statue of Liberty, standing at 305 feet from ground to torch was shipped piecemeal in crates from France. It was designed to be placed on its base that was already constructed. However, a series of funding difficulties caused many delays to erecting the statue. During this time many of the statue's various pieces were put on display. For example, the arm holding the torch was shown at the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia in 1876. Later, this portion of the statue was displayed in New York's Madison Square Park from 1876-82. The French government ceased shipment of the statue's many crates until they were assured that enough funding existed on the American side to erect the monument. During this time, the United States was only 20 years separated from its Civil War. As such, the country's economy was suffering. Private donation efforts led by the famous publisher Joseph Pulitzer attracted more than 120,000 contributors. Once the statue was erected, the city of New York celebrated its completion by holding its first ever ticker-tape parade. From its completion until 1901, the Statue of Liberty fell under the jurisdiction of the United States Lighthouse Board (no longer in existence). From that year until 1933 the statue was administered by the US Department of War (also no longer in existence). Since 1933, the statue has been maintained and administered by the National Park Service. Frederic Bartholdi, the statue's designer created the monument with the idea of best expressing the concept of American liberty.
Libertas, or Lady Liberty was not choosing immediately. Bartholdi initially considered one other commonly used female figure of American history, Columbia. All of Bartholdi's earliest designs depicted a woman wearing loose robes. However, the idea of the torch was not thought of until a previous version showing Lady Liberty holding a broken chain was scrapped. It was determined that the broken chain would come to symbolize the division created by the then recently concluded American Civil war. Although Bartholdi never publicly admitted to it, many believe the statue was modeled after his mother, Charlotte. The two women do indeed look similar. The height of the statue has never changed from its original size of 151 feet (not counting the pedestal it sits atop). Moreover, renovation efforts done during 1938 and 1984-1986 were performed while keeping with the statue's original construction. For example, the copper sheeting that makes up Libertas' skin has always been of the same thickness, about one inch. The only notable change the statue has been subjected to is its torch area. While the torch has been replaced with parts of matching specifications, the balcony around the torch has been off limits to the public since 1916 for safety reasons following a series of near fatal accidents.
Statue of Liberty & Ellis Island
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The History and Architecture of the Ellis Island Immigration Inspection Station Museum
Ellis Island is approximately 1 5/8 miles from Liberty Island. Here is where one will find the historic immigration station. During the 35 years prior to the creation of the station, a total of eight million immigrants arrived to the area. This in turn created the need for such a processing station. This structure, completed on January 1, 1892 was a wooden structure built atop manmade land. This artificial land was constructed primarily of landfill extracted during the making of New York's vast subway system. This enormous structure built from pine wood shipped in from Georgia stood three stories in height. During its first year of operation, the station processed roughly 450,000 immigrants; 700 of these people were processed during the station's first day of existence. On June 15, 1897 the immigration station was burned completely to the ground by a fire of unknown origin. Thankfully, no loss of life was reported. However, a large portion of irreplaceable immigration records dating back to 1855 were lost or destroyed. Throughout the original station's five years of operation, about 1.5 million immigrants were processed. Plans for constructing a new facility were quickly put into action and the new facility, containing all the modern amenities that were considered necessary at the time was opened on December 17, 1900. The structure was outfitted with a modern kitchen, laundry room, powerhouse, and hospital. It should be noted that while the new station was equipped nicely, it was too small to handle the massive influx of people. It was said to have been easily capable of handling 5,000 immigrants daily. The designers' prediction of 5,000 immigrants was indeed accurate. However, the station was just barely able to process them all. Many people were relegated to sleeping on benches or on the floor of the main station. From its opening in 1900 until its closing in 1954, the Ellis Island immigration station was constantly expanded upon which helped ease the confusion associated with handling so many people. By the time the processing center closed its doors in 1954, it admitted approximately 12 million immigrants into the US.
The Ellis Island Immigration Museum
Statue of Liberty National Monument
A Brief Look at the Immigration Screening Process
Contrary to popular belief, some immigrants were not permitted into the country. They were asked a series of 29 questions which asked about name, occupation, literacy, and the amount of money they were carrying. The government wanted immigrants to each possess somewhere between 18 and 25 dollars. Those who were too poor, sick, or elderly were held in the island's hospital, often for long periods of time before being processed and sent back to their home countries. However, the lion's share of immigrants was granted admission and citizenship; only two percent of all potential immigrants were denied and sent back to their respective homelands. Reasons for being sent back varied from having a contagious illness, a criminal background, or by being deemed insane. Today much of the structure has fallen into disrepair and is not open to the public during reconstruction efforts being performed by the Save Ellis Island campaign. Guests prior to visiting should check which portions of the historical site are available for viewing.
Ellis Island
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Things to Know Before Visiting the Statue of Liberty National Monument and Ellis Island
Both Liberty Island and Ellis Island are open every day with the only exception being Christmas. Tickets can be purchased on location. However, it is recommended to order them ahead of time either via phone or the internet as they tend to sell out quickly. Tickets for children under the age of four are free of charge. Children ranging in age 4-12 are charged $5. Adults (13+) pay $13. Seniors over the age of 61 are required to pay a $10 fee. These ticket prices include the ferry ride needed to reach the islands. There is no charge for actually entering the Statue of Liberty or the Ellis Island Immigration Station. The ferry is the only way to gain access to the sites as private boats are outlawed from docking at the location. The ferry service is provided by a company known as Statue Cruises. The ferries run from the mainland every half hour starting at 8:30am and ending at 3:30pm. At this time, Ellis Island closes for the day. Liberty Island, the home to the Statue of Liberty closes at 4:45pm; the last ferry departs from Liberty Island at 5pm. Those visiting the islands should be made aware that from April 16th until May 25th, the first ferry will not depart from the mainland until 9am. Guests should also note that wait times for the ferry can be up to 90 minutes in duration. Moreover, there is a brief screening process for the purpose of security.
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This one is shows us organizing the 100 paddlers and boarding the kayak:
This one shows us paddling the thing:
And here LL Beans official video of the event:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SeMFlN40JiE
This must be the worlds longest kayak. Certified by a notar at 407'7'' /124m L.L.Bean will submit it to Guinness World Records for consideration. The unique kayak being used for the attempt, the Point 65 Tequila!, is able to be joined together in sections thus making the record possible.
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Hosts Royal Corinthian YC took victory by the narrowest of margins as seven teams, representing five clubs, battled it out in Qualifier Two of the British Keelboat League in the Crouch estuary to earn a place in this years' BKL Final.
In its third year, the British Keelboat League is an opportunity for clubs to compete against each other on a level playing field to fight for bragging rights as the most competitive club in the UK.
The racing provides a platform sailors of all experience levels, from teenagers to racers in their 60s, and is designed to make exciting, high speed sailing and minimise the spread in the fleet.
At the end of Day One, the top three teams were West Mersea YC, Royal Corinthian YC and the RCYC Squib Team, with just a five point spread following 10-12 races each.
With another 12 races held on the Sunday, it would come down to the very last race to decide who would earn top spot and a place at the British Keelboat League final in Cowes in September.
Ultimately RCYC took the win, tied on points with West Mersea YC, the tie break going in their favour due to more race wins, just one point ahead of the RCYC Squib Team.
"We are delighted to have won," said Jamie Mears, who along with Nick Tolhurst, Alex Porteous and James Hutton-Penman made up the winning RCYC crew.
Further qualifying rounds of the BKL are scheduled to take place at Royal Torbay YC on June 23/24 and the Royal Yacht Squadron the August 18/19.
More details can be found at http://www.rya.org.uk/racing/keelboat-racing/Pages/british-keelboat-league.aspx
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I thoroughly enjoyed this book. It's very well presented and contains fascinating information about the art, the artists, history, geography and much more. The book does a great job in explaining the pieces and the history either of the area or the piece itself. It's very easy to read and simply written with no pretence that can be sometimes associated with the art world.
The art is divided into many sections outlining why the piece is hidden. The various reasons include: chance, place, choice, hate, convention, art, conceptual art, collecting, conservation, and time. Some of the reasons were understandable; some were surprising. All of it was interesting.
For each piece, there's an accompanying article. The content varies, but it might explain the piece itself, the artist, how it was made or the history of the piece/location. Some of the articles touch on many subjects. Also, included are things like a large photo, the medium, date and location.
I found it extremely interesting that many of the artists were unknown, as in no one knows who created this work of art. It's sad that a name didn't survive along with the piece. There were also a few familiar names and pieces in the book. Most notable names: Audubon, Rockwell and da Vinci. Both Audubon and Rockwell were underappreciated, while da Vinci made the cut because the Mona Lisa has been hidden by so many layers of old varnish, not to mention that now it's behind a barrier and a glass screen. It's impossible to see the painting as da Vinci intended.
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If a work of art doesn't speak to you, there's a strong chance that it actually has nothing to say. (from the Introduction page vi)The table of contents not only has the section headings (and page numbers), but also a list of the art objects within each section. The index appears to be fairly functional. The works of art that are described in the book are in bold, making them stand out. I found everything I was looking for. Having said that, there is one omission, which I mention below.
The "How to find them" section near the back of the book offers further directions to either the location for the piece of art itself or the website where it's best viewed. This information could have easily been added to the page specifically designated for that piece of art. No need for a separate section. The index appears to overlook this whole section, so perhaps it was added as an afterthought. For instance, when I look up Chauvet Cave, the index says it's on page 3. However, the cave is also mentioned on page 254 in this "How to find them" section.
Highly recommended for art lovers and history buffs.
For more information about this book, please visit DK's website.
I'd like to thank those nice people at DK Canada for this review copy.
The Best Art You've Never Seen by Julian Spalding, Rough Guides, ©2010. ISBN 9781848362710(Soft cover), 276p.


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All business success rests on something labeled a sale, which at least momentarily weds company and customer.Tom Peters
For most business start-ups, finding initial customers is often the initial challenge. Many businesses are successful due to the outstanding sales skills of its founder. In the world of sales, these are the hunters. I admire hunters. They prospect with wild abandon...make quick pitches designed to get them a longer hearing and don't worry about rejection. Hunters are great at executing customer acquisition strategies.
Great sales skills usually drive of business growth. The great hunters thrive on the challenges of bringing new customers on board. The weakness of the hunter is they are often a bit ADHD...they get bored once they have closed that sale. That is why we have farmers. Farmers are great at executing customer retention strategies.
Farmers (I have also heard the term shepherds) thrive on 'customer care.' They keep the customers engaged and often look for opportunities to meet customers' needs in an entirely different way. They are essential for sustaining a business.
When a company develops a growth strategy, it comes from one of two sources. You can either find new products/services, or you can find new customers. You can of course use a combination of the two. This is obvious - but sometimes the simple and the obvious are amazing starting points.
New Customers
Existing Customers
New Products
Product Growth
Hybrid Growth
Existing Products
Marketing Growth
To add products, you must determine if you must add additional capability. Capability represents the things you can currently make or do. For example, an accountant may want to offer business planning services to his customers. If this individual has the ability to do the plans, then there is no need to add capabilities. If the accountant lacks skills in marketing, or market research, he must develop or otherwise find these skills to add business planning to the product offering mix.
Your choice is important, as you will dedicate both time and resources to the direction you choose. Product growth is great for companies with a breadth of competencies. Large consulting firms can offer many different services to their existing customer base, and are never short of new ways to generate income! Companies whose 'marketing customer' is very 'farmer oriented' are often great at finding new customer needs and then developing strategies to meet those needs.
Some companies are great at finding new customers for their existing product mix. They thrive on the Hunter style of marketing. They are adept at re-creating their success formulae in other markets. Franchises and chains are good examples. Many offer a limited product mix, but can duplicate this in many different markets. (I am amazed how many sandwiches Subway can generate from such a small area.) These companies grow by saturating markets and finding new customers for their products or services.
No company can use a single strategy forever. Eventually, you must find new customers and expand or revise your product offerings. Making such changes requires many of the same needs identification skills that made your company great in the beginning.
I have seen too many companies grow their market by going from one opportunity to the other with no strategy what so ever. Opportunism is great (and a hallmark of many great entrepreneurs) however strategic growth requires evaluating the direction that best suits your corporate strengths, culture and abilities. It is important to understand the role of hunters (customer acquisition) and farmers (customer retention) as a part of your overall growth strategy.


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For generations, the Tomb of Horrors has held an inescapable allure. It draws adventurers to it like a beacon and then devours them utterly like some monstrous predator. Within its sepulchral, trap-ridden halls and chambers lay great secrets and treasures untold, and even greater evil to be undone. Now a new generation of heroes stands ready to delve into the tomb's deadly madness-or to be destroyed like those who came before them.


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Falling Oil Prices Threaten Houston Building Boom
One-Sixth of U.S. Office Space Under Construction Is Here, but Need Is Waning
HOUSTON—The jagged skyline of this oil-rich city is poised to be the latest victim of falling crude prices.
As the energy sector boomed in recent years, developers flocked to Houston, so much so that one-sixth of all the office space under construction in the entire U.S. is in the metropolitan area of the Texas city.
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CBN: When You Support Abortion And Gay Rights, No Wonder Democrats Take God Out Of Platform
Conservative heads are exploding because the word "God" is not in the Democratic platform. Apparently, this means liberals are godless heathens hell bent on killing babies and converting straights into gays.
The Brody File has calls into DNC to explain why God's name has been dropped from the platform. Some critics will suggest that when you have planks in your platform that support abortion rights and gay marriage then it's no wonder that God's name would be dropped as well.
Strong language about faith is, somehow, not good enough:
"Faith has always been a central part of the American story, and it has been a driving force of progress and justice throughout our history. We know that our nation, our communities, and our lives are made vastly stronger and richer by faith and the countless acts of justice and mercy it inspires. Faith- based organizations will always be critical allies in meeting the challenges that face our nation and our world – from domestic and global poverty, to climate change and human trafficking. People of faith and religious organizations do amazing work in communities across this country and the world, and we believe in lifting up and valuing that good work, and finding ways to support it where possible. We believe in constitutionally sound, evidence-based partnerships with faith-based and other non-profit organizations to serve those in need and advance our shared interests. There is no conflict between supporting faith-based institutions and respecting our Constitution, and a full commitment to both principles is essential for the continued flourishing of both faith and country."Click here for reuse options!
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I finished my first course CompTIA Network+ and CompTIA A+ training and I passed both with excellent marks
I finished my first course CompTIA Network+ and CompTIA A+ training and I passed both with excellent marks. I want to thank my trainer what he taught me, because he not only trained me for the exam but he also trained me to be a good technician and have plenty of knowledge. He is a very good person and helped me in all around the course, and repeating the parts that I was weak on without any problem.First we started with CompTIA A+ but my trainer decided to change the strategy and do first Network+ as my knowledge about network was zero, and I passed my Network+ exam perfectly and then I did CompTIA A+, as one of the parts of the exam includes network, it was easy for me because I passed Network+ before.I really appreciate that my trainer decides what is better for me, my career and my knowledge.I am completely happy with my achievements and with all the staff from Koenig Solutions who helped me in all occasions.Now I am going to start tomorrow my qualification for MCTS: Windows SBS Server 2008 certification and I am sure that I would like to come again and do MCITP: Enterprise Administrator in Windows Server 2008 course.All that we did was the first step to achieve my goal and the first steps are the most important as if you want to run, then first you have to learn how to walk. Likewise with my trainer, I learned how to start my career.Thank you very much David Garcia


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Teen hairstyles have always been an important form of self-expression for youth culture. Stylish teen hairstyles are an important way for teens to gain peer approval, and a bad haircut can ruin a teen's reputation. The best teen hair styles are fairly low maintenance so you can pursue and active lifestyle; but of course, for special occasions like prom, you'll want to spend a little more time on your do!Celebrities that teenage girls are currently watching to find the trendiest looks including Vanessa Hudgens(Vanessa Hudgens prom hairdo), Rihanna, Hilary Duff, Ashley Tisdale,Brenda Song,Selena Gomez and Miley Cyrus.
The best teen hairstyles are for those styles that can be changed often. Most a teenager will want to wear her hair sedu straight one day like Jennifer Annis-ton, and sport curly locks the next. Therefore, it is a good idea to incorporate teen haircut ideas into a teen lifestyle which is active and often in flux.


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Larsen and Toubro traded on the NSE is showing weak trend strength on its stock charts and is likely to dip further in the coming sessions.
EMA crossovers have been bearish since the 24th of May 2013 and so are the Wolfe Wave and Camarilla patterns. Some support is expected on the charts at the 2 - 4 line as shown below, but once penetrated, the stock price could dip to 1331 levels which is the L3 support for June 2013. Further downward targets are 1261 and 1146 respectively, which are however unlikely.
Hence traders may short LT futures once the 2 - 4 line is crossed for targets as mentioned above.
Open Interest and Price analysis of LT futures also depict something similar. As we can see from the images, the open interest has been rising sharply from the last week of May 2013 and the price has been declining since then.
This indicates a build up of short positions on the futures which is a clear signal for further downtrend.


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Petra is consistently rolling from her back to tummy, but she's just on the verge of going the other way. She's now unswaddled in her crib for all naps and nighttime!
Nights are going well-- she's only up about once a night, and last night STTN!! 7:30-5:00! She probably would have even slept longer, but when I went to check on her at 5, she was on her tummy. Same thing happened yesterday. I flipped her over, and of course she woke up.
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You've enlisted the help of a wedding planner to execute your vision for your big day – great decision! But now you want to know how to make the most of that investment. Jessica and Michael Masi of Masi Events are here to help. They've pulled together the 10 things your wedding planner wishes you knew so the days leading up to your wedding go as smoothly and stress free as possible.
1. Take a Moment
Take time for your own planning during the process. Even though your wedding planner will save you time and money, make sure to be timely in your responses when they send you information or present you with vendors. For example, if they send you band recommendations and you don't respond until a month later, those bands might not still be available. But the most important moment to take is on the wedding day itself. Pause and be present. The day will go by quickly.
2. Trust in Us
Trust the wedding professionals you hire and their process. Make sure to give them the flexibility they need to do their jobs. For example, when it comes to photography, definitely do a photo shot list with groupings of your family and friends. However, don't give them the exact angles and poses you want. Trust the creativity of your photographer and let them decide where the lighting is best that day and what arrangement will work the best. By giving your planner and other vendors flexibility and trusting their expertise, you will get the best results.
3. Organize Your Ideas
Your planner gets invited to a lot of Pinterest boards titled "Wedding" or "Wedding Ideas" etc. Title your board with initials or your last names for easier reference for your planner. Also make sure to include comments on what you like about the photo you pinned. If it's a photo of a close up of a bride and her bouquet, the planner might think you love the bouquet, but in reality, it was the wedding dress that you were drawn to.
4. Don't Be a Copy Cat
There are a lot of ideas circulating online, on social media, and in magazines. While it's okay to draw inspiration from these photos, don't try to replicate them. Trust your planner and give them details about you as a couple so they can create a wedding that is unique to you. There is nothing more crushing to a creative soul than telling them to make an exact copy of a centerpiece or idea.
5. Communication Is Everything
Read through the timeline your planner provides carefully. If you have something in mind and it is not on there, then they probably don't know about your desire for a special dance or incorporating a tradition. If it is not on the timeline, then it won't happen because your planners are not aware and will not be able to coordinate it with the other vendors.
6. Find a Personality Match
A wedding planner is a personal decision. They have to be a good personality fit since you are working with them sometimes a year or more out before the wedding day. It is important to not just request packages, but to take the time to meet with them in person or schedule a call to make sure it is mutually a good fit. This is also a great way to start cultivating a relationship with them and a wonderful partnership.
7. Schedule Vendor Meetings in Advance
When scheduling meetings or planning a trip to plan for a destination wedding, work with your wedding planner to check in with all the vendors you'd like to meet with prior to booking flights to make sure they are available. For example, you don't want to assume that you will be able to schedule a tasting if the chef is out that week. Also allow for 2-3 business days for your planner to confirm your appointments. Wedding vendors work weddings over the weekend and typically are not available for client meetings during that time.
8. Bad Weather Happens to Good People
Make sure to be realistic about weather calls and be happy with your Plan B scenario in the case of inclement weather when selecting a venue. A while back, at one of the most beautiful weddings we planned, it rained during ceremony. We had umbrellas for all of the guests while the clients embraced the rain and did not allow the weather to damper their special day.
Often times, clients only think about how the weather might affect the wedding itself. However, it is important to consider the impact that inclement weather will also have during the setup, which may call for going with Plan B.
9. We're Not Out to Crush Your Dreams
Sometimes your wedding planner will suggest not doing something or replacing one idea for another. There is always a good reason behind the suggestion. Our recommendations are based on past experiences, logistics, and expertise – every suggestion is with our clients' best interest in mind.
An example of this was when we received a request prior to the wedding day to carry and move a 6 tier wedding cake over to the dance floor during the reception for cake cutting. Analyzing this scenario logistically, there were too many variables for this to become an epic fail, and we advised the couple to cut the wedding cake from the existing location.
10. Don't Over Analyze Your Decisions
The planning process should be fun and enjoyable! It's important when planning a wedding to review the information presented to you and be able to make decisions so you can move on to the next part of the planning process. If you don't absolutely love something from the start, then you most likely won't like it later, so don't overwhelm yourself with overanalyzing something.
Planning a wedding takes time, and the goal of your wedding planner is to make this experience stress free as we scratch things off the to do list. While your planner is there to guide you, ultimately the final decision is yours.


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This is such a perfect time for me to talk about distressing not just as a technique in creating apparel accessory but a way to cope with the hectic schedule the mid semester is giving to all college students out there.
Distressing generally means to cause strain which may result to physical deterioration, which is true to whether we talk about a pair of denim jeans or a physical human flesh.
But this blog will not be about my frets and rants because I had so much stress for the past weekend but how I overcome the stress by distressing my shirts. I am very fond of cutting the sleeves off my shirts, in fact I'm wearing one right now but I am not a practicing selfie so I won't be posting any of my selfie pictures in this blog.
Ripped shirts are great and common examples of the application distressing technique. A tiny cut, strip or distress can tell a lot about your personality because whether you believe it or not, people will judge according to the clothes you wear. Once you start ripping those sleeves and ribbing off your shirts, make sure you're ready to be labeled as rebel or slutty by people who don't even understand what those tribes mean. Just be yourself and remember that their judgments are none of your business.
Distressed jeans are very popular to the female race. It is a rugged and subtle approach to looking sexy without showing much legs to peering eyes of the male race.
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Each wand is individually hand turned, carved, and finished by hand from a single piece of reclaimed wood using a manual wood lathe and carving knives.
This listing is for a hand turned mahogany wood magic wand with straight shaft. The wand measures 14 1/4 inches in over all length with a 9 5/8 inch shaft, 4 5/8 inch handle, with an approximate 3/4 inch diameter at the widest point, finished with natural black pigment and wood turners luster coat, and the wand includes a velvet cloth storage bag.
The wand was turned and finished in April of 2018.
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Black: Protection, power, privacy.
Please Note: All of my wood magic wands are hand turned, carved, and finished. Each wand is carefully crafted to enhance the appeal of the natural wood grain and to maintain the balance of the wands energy.This listing is for a single hand turned, carved, and finished wand, and each wand has it's own unique appearance. This listing includes a single wand, a velvet cloth storage bag to protect the wand from dust, dirt, and any unwanted energies, a scroll with your wands properties, and the shipping tube can be used for durable long term storage. Stands, display and storage boxes, and leather holsters are sold separately.Buy with confidence, you receive free shipping on all domestic shipping addresses and a 30 day return/exchange period with free return shipping if you are not completely satisfied with your purchase.


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Online drinking game worries
A local Thurles councillor has recently spoke about the new social media craze, criticising its effects on the young generation and binge drinking in Ireland.
The online game in question originated in Australia and is called NekNominations, it consists of the individual downing a pint of alcohol in one go, the person then nominates two others to participate. More and more people have taken part in the game and as a result and have highlighted binge drinking amongst the younger generation in Ireland.
Local Cllr. Gerard Fogarty (FF) has pleaded to the younger generation who are participating in the game to consider donating a pint of blood instead of downing a pint of alcohol, he hopes for the individual to try and save a life rather then damage their own.
Cllr Fogarty stated "it has become clear that this game has spiralled out of control. More and more young people are risking their own safety to out do each other with increasingly outrageous drinking scenarios. This game only serves to normalise binge drinking and reinforce the dangerous message that young people need to get drunk to have a good time."
Johnny Byrne (19) from Carlow and DJ Ross Cummins (22) have died as a result of playing the drinking game. The deaths of the young men have highlighted the power social media holds in influencing young adults. Fogarty believes that facebook needs to turn this problem into something more positive, it will need to outline the negatives effects of binge drinking and instil positivity into drink awareness.
His speech has encouraged us to be aware of the effects of alcohol consumption, to know your limits and to drink responsibly.
Alternatives can be taken to binge drinking, Cllr, Fogarty has asked people to consider donating blood to a save a life "We are calling on people to drink responsibly and to consider spending time to donate a pint of blood , rather then risk their own safety by downing a pint of alcohol simply to impress others.
The game is still being played and is responsible for deaths in other countries.