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Corey and Maya were experiencing a great deal of tension and frequently fighting about issues both small and large. Their real problem wasn't about the issues that kept cropping up. The root of their problem was that Corey was not really committed in their marriage. Sure, he tried to keep the promises and vows that he and Maya agreed would define their relationship, but that was more a matter of honoring the word than understanding the spirit of their agreements. For Corey, most of the time, it felt more like going through the motions than really embracing the essence of the covenant, and you can be sure that Maya felt that lack of his being fully present in their partnership.
Exploring resistance, envy, self-pity and resentment
Corey hadn't yet surrendered his resistance, which manifested itself in second-guessing his decision to marry, envying other men who weren't tied down, and feeling resentful for having missed out on more time to sow his wild oats. These thoughts often left him feeling sorry for himself. In those stressful days, he often found himself criticizing Maya and picking arguments to blow off his self-created dissatisfaction.
Thanks to a combination of perseverance, good help, supportive friends, understanding from Maya, and the maturity that comes from staying with something long enough, Corey eventually grew beyond his feelings of being trapped. He began to appreciate the many blessings and benefits of sharing a relationship with a loving, supportive partner.
Corey came to value the security that comes from sharing a life with someone who knows you at your best and worst and who will not withdraw her support when you're having a bad day. He came to trust that he could not do anything to jeopardize Maya's love. This freed up vast amounts of energy that had formerly been locked into patterns of approval seeking that showed up not only in my primary relationship, but with others as well.
When we grow in understanding, we feel compelled to share it
Corey came to understand the nature of commitment. And once he really got it, he attempted to share it with his single friend Howard. He enthusiastically announced to his friend, "commitment isn't a prison; it's a means to greater freedom". When he shared this observation with his friend, Howard looked at Corey as though he had taken permanent leave of his senses. Corey didn't blame Howard for his reaction. It hadn't been that long before when Corey had the same association with the dreaded "C word." It wasn't until after Maya and Corey had been together for several years, and Corey had matured and done a lot of deep exploration about what he really wanted in life, that he stopped feeling like he was stuck in a trap and began to experience the liberating nature of true commitment.
Just as Corey came to understand, we too can come to realize that as our capacity to love each other grows, we become increasingly able to rest in the knowledge that we are loved for who we are, not what we do. Over time, we come to develop a previously unknown well of self-love. Feeling loved and really letting that in provides a fantastic freedom: freedom from fear of loss and freedom to be fully ourselves.
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Abstract: There is only one way to discover the intoxicating freedom that can come not from being able to do what we want to do, but from being free to be who we are. When Corey attempts to explain that commitment isn't a prison, it's a means to greater freedom to his single friend, Howard does not yet have the receptors to assimilate the information. Corey has learned this important life lesson because he was finally ready.


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Okay, let's see if we can get through this.
So, the Oscars happened last night, and it was every bit as exciting and nonsensical as you'd expect from the world's most pretentious awards ceremony.
In a shock twist, while La La Land did win a huge collection of tiny golden men (enough for a soccer team with one to spare), the movie didn't get best picture – despite being announced as the winner.
Way to undermine Moonlight, awards body. Apparently #OscarsSoWhite that even when a movie about a black man wins, they still give the trophy to the movie starring the translucent Emma Stone.
But that's not what we're here to debate today.
Oh no. While the Best Picture controversy is certainly grabbing the headlines, there's one big travesty that's going to be ignored by most commenters.
That movie won an Academy Award. It's an Oscar-winning movie. It's incredible.
Now, it didn't get Best Picture, or Best Adapted Screenplay or Best Director or anything – although seeing David Ayer and the guys from Trailer Park squabble over a Best Director Oscar would be the funniest thing in the history of cinema.
But even though its award was more technical, you have to wonder – were the awards body all high when they cast votes for Suicide Squad to win Best Hair and Makeup? Or was this a Brexit situation, where most people thought they were voting for an elaborate joke.
Just so that we're clear, this character design won an Oscar:
The "Damaged" tattoo that was mocked so mercilessly when it was first revealed eventually went on to nab an Oscar.
Sure, the movie's only real competition was Star Trek Beyond (there were literally only three movies nominated in the category, and the other one was foreign so nobody saw it), but come on! At least Star Trek had cool alien makeup stuff!
Besides, if anyone deserves to win an award for hair in a movie, it's whoever holds the straight edge while they're trimming Zachary Quinto's bowl cut!
Now, I've not exactly been shy in my condemnation of Suicide Squad in the past. I've labelled it as the clickbait of blockbuster movies – all flashy, controversial spectacle, but no actual substance.
I've also compared it to the Trump election campaign, and again, I feel the similarities here are uncanny – it turns out that the trick to getting the attention of any group of voters is simply to be so loud, obnoxious, and disgusting, that you ingrain yourself on the brains of people who are holding ballot papers.
Because, let's face it – makeup is like editing. It's only noticed if you do a really bad job, and as such, the truly stellar makeup jobs in movies will always go unrewarded.
Someone, for example, had to de-wrinkle George Clooney in Hail Caeser.
Someone had to make sure Michael Keaton didn't look nauseous while filming near McDonald's burgers in The Founder, even though, let's face it, he was probably a sickly shade of green for the entire shoot.
And, of course, someone had to make Ryan Reynolds' face reflect his soul by turning him into a craggy ballsack man.
But no, the Oscar goes to a "damaged" Jared Leto face. Because, as with everything else about this movie, it's so obnoxious that you can't stop thinking about it.

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Cobb & Stevens (2017). These Unequal States: Corporate Organization and Income Inequality in the United States
J. Adam Cobb – University of Pennsylvania
Flannery G. Stevens – University of Utah
Lindsey Cameron – University of Michigan Ross School of Business
Shauna Dyer – University of Michigan Department of Sociology
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Leahey, Beckman, & Stanko (2016). Prominent but Less Productive: The Impact of Interdisciplinarity on Scientists' Research
Erin Leahey – University of Arizona
Christine M. Beckman – University of Maryland
Taryn L. Stanko – California Polytechnic State University
Insiya Hussain – University of Maryland
Tianyu He – INSEAD
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Vuori & Huy (2016). Distributed Attention and Shared Emotions in the Innovation Process: How Nokia Lost the Smartphone Battle
Timo O. Vuori – Aalto University
Quy N. Huy – INSEAD, Singapore
Elizabeth Luckman – Washington University in St. Louis
Lyndon Garrett – University of Michigan
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Kang, DeCelles, Tilcsik, & Jun (2016). Whitened Résumés: Race and Self-Presentation in the Labor Market
Sonia K. Kang – University of Toronto
Katherine A. DeCelles – University of Toronto
András Tilcsik – University of Toronto
Sora Jun – Stanford University
Winnie (Yun) Jiang – Yale School of Management
Tianna Barnes – University of Minnesota Carlson School of Management
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Justin M. Berg – Stanford Graduate School of Business
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Belly up, neck first. Cut the neck skin just a little, then on the right side carefully peel the crop from the skin. Assuming the birds didn't eat the day before it should be pretty empty, if not be extra careful because it can make a big mess. Turn the bird butt up towards you. Cut off the tail. Flip the bird and make a careful cut to open the abdominal cavity and cut around the butt hole. Again being extra careful to not cut anything beyond skin deep. Pull out the guts being sure to pull the throat and wind pipe out as well. Scrape out the lungs. Put the heart,liver and gizzard into separate buckets (if you want to save them).
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Who knew that it would take over 10 hours to stitch up 144 strips of fabric??? LOL Before I started though I made another change to the location of a few fabrics. I'm sure that doesn't shock anyone as I've not been able to settle on a final layout for colours. The instructions said to do values from dark to light – but now looking at what I've got I'm thinking I should have done colour family then values inside of families. Not that I'm saying I'm not happy – I think it's looking great!! It's just an aside observation is all. I kept agonizing over the placement of the red and also of the blue print – I finally accepted that they would just be 'wild cards' and let the pieces fall where they may.
I got this far on Friday – I couldn't believe that I had been sewing for almost 6 hours. Now granted I moved the tv around upstairs and had to move a few boxes around to do it .. upstairs so I could actually 'watch' it while sewing,, and I had the kid dig into the basement to get me a floor lamp because it just seemed so dark at the cutting mat and the ironing board. It's amazing what a floor lamp with a fluorescent bulb in can do for a cave – It's so much easier to see what I'm doing and I'm not quadruple check each bloody cut line that I'm about to do. I love my fiskar' ruler but on the mat and as old as it is, it's not easily seen under 'light' so more artificial light is needed
I was really hoping that I would've gotten further. Reward came on Saturday with having all the strips done up and then joined into units I was getting really excited – almost like unburying a treasure with each piece that I stitched together. Now comes the part of absolute and total commitment – the cutting. I must have reread the instructions 10 times – I printed out the two charts but am ignoring the one with colour on it as I'm not following the colours chosen for the pattern.
Then I began cutting, putting strips up on the 'design wall' (I really need to head to the Dollar Store and grab 2 white fleece blankets for this – the red is 'distracting') I know know if it's cause I've been watching Once Upon a Time, but I keep seeing feary and pixie dust in the lighter sections in the dark – I also see a forest – maybe on a mountain range .. The unveiling is really exciting to me – I've not named it yet, but if I keep seeing pixie dust I may applique faeries to this and go with a fantasy theme .. the idea is still percolating. The one thing I'm really wishing I had is spray starch – I can see where I'm going to have to do some serious blocking on this with just a few strips sewn up. Or I could starch it the old fashioned way . Homemade spray starch I honestly did NOT know that the commercial version has formaldehyde in it Wonderful
Here's the bits and pieces that I'm not using from the strips. These pieces as well as the strips that I got carried away during cutting – or any left over will be used in the border .. somehow – not sure yet – but the idea will come to me. So far I'm thinking of a narrow darker strip to separate it out and then maybe baby bargellos through the border – of course a wider border. Back up I go to get more done and see what shows – I just can't picture this one in my mind even with the strips 1/3 put together. Something always jumps up to me and even if it doesn't sound right – it always works out and amazingly looks awesome LOL
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The first one is pretty subtle; the second is rather less so; and the third is about as subtle as global nuclear war.
Archive for the 'math' Category
Scott Sumner makes three points
All linky, no thinky
Here's Mike Boyle getting contemplative about the mechanics of deadlifting vs. squatting:
- Deadlift or squat: What's the diff? (T-Nation)
"It's obvious", right? Go read.
And here's Warren over at Coyote Blog, pointing out some rather shocking innumeracy from (who else?) Kevin Drum:
Warren spotlights this claim from Drum:
These two things together reminded me about an energy factoid that's always struck me as slightly odd: virtually every form of energy seems to be almost as efficient as burning oil, but not quite.
For example, on either a power/weight basis or a cost basis, batteries are maybe 2x or 3x bigger and less efficient than an internal combustion engine. Not 50x or 100x. Just barely less efficient. And you see the same thing in electricity generation. Depending on how you do the accounting, nuclear power is maybe about as efficient as an oil-fired plant, or maybe 2x or 3x less efficient. Ditto for solar. And for wind. And geothermal. And tidal power.
I'm just noodling vaguely here. Maybe there's an obvious thermodynamic explanation that I'm missing. It's just that I wouldn't be surprised if there were lots of ways of generating energy that were all over the map efficiency-wise. But why are there lots of ways of generating energy that are all surprisingly similar efficiency-wise? In the great scheme of things, a difference of 2x or 3x is practically invisible.
(Emphasis added.)
I… I just… wow. Really, Kevin? Suppose we were to reduce your salary by 50%. Is that difference of 2x "practically invisible"? How about we triple your taxes. "Practically invisible" yet? Give this one a try: Tonight, go out for a long, leisurely dinner at a nice brewpub, and have four pints of beer. Tomorrow night, do the same, but have twelve pints. Tell me if the difference is practically invisible.
While we're on the subject of Arts majors being idiots, here's a bit of the usual from the Daily Fail (h/t Jalopnik):
At $150,000, the Ford Mustang certainly doesn't come in cheap.
The car in question:
That's a Ford GT, you dumbfucks! I thought journalism degrees were supposed to teach research skills and the importance of getting a few basic details right. Quoth Jalopnik:
It's not just that the DM confused a Ford GT with a Ford Mustang GT500, which is a mistake perhaps a blind person could make if told they're writing about a fast Ford with racing stripes. It's that they're constantly wrong about anything to do with cars.
At least the comments over at the Daily Fail are amusing.
Next, Derek Lowe spotlights an interesting paper on resveratrol:
- Resveratrol explained, a little bit (In The Pipeline)
Yeah, it's a mouse model paper, but kind of a nifty one. The researchers in question showed some SIRT1-dependent effects, and some independent effects.
Sinclair's quoted in this Nature News piece as saying that this reflects the nature of resveratrol as a compound. "Resveratrol is a dirty, dirty molecule, very non-specific", he says. I think that's a very fair characterization, which is one of the reasons why I wouldn't take it myself.
And this being a resveratrol piece, the comments go from zero to stupid in the very first post.
In fact, resveratrol seems to be superior to targeted Sirt1 activators as it improves blood sugar levels and liver health.
Leave it to 'modern science' to attempt to disparage a wonderful, multifaceted, Natural molecule.
Capital-N Natural. Yep. Just like strychnine.
Finally, Ilya Somin makes a lot of sense on property rights absolutism:
- Libertarianism and absolute property rights (The Volokh Conspiracy)
Briefly: In the real world, absolutist moral intuitions are messy. Click through and RTWT.
I missed something
You know that post where I was grateful for a bunch of things? I just realized that I left off something really, really important:
- I'm grateful for the fact that I'm not a law professor.
(Hat tip: Orin Kerr.)
Well, back to saving the world with linear algebra*.
* I am dead serious: my job is saving the world with linear algebra**. It is awesome. Wish it paid more, and had benefits, but meh: still awesome.
** Also a bit of concrete mathematics.
*** Bonus unreferenced footnote: All of you Andrew Sullivans out there who're dead set on insisting that science is destroying your sense of wonder: What the fuck do you make of Formula One? Seriously: incompressible fluid dynamics**** is easily explained by dirt-simple physics, and yet aero systems in ground effect are fucking magic. Just ask any Formula One aerodynamicist who isn't Adrian Newey. The fact that HRT is multiple seconds off the pace at Interlagos vitiates your point (as does the fact that Hermann Tilke can't capture the magic of Interlagos or Suzuka or Spa-Francorchamps without a fortuitous arrangement of elevation changes… but now I'm starting to sound like Scott Aaronson.)
**** Air is effectively incompressible at F1 speeds
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So this image has been floating around the big truck:
"If you choose an answer to this question at random, what is the chance you will be correct?
a) 25%
b) 50%
c) 60%
d) 25%"
It's meant to be a gotcha, based on the reader's (presumed) assumption that choosing an answer at random means each of the four answers is equally likely to be chosen. That gives a 1 in 4 chance of getting the "right" answer — but both a) and d) correspond to that probability, which means that there's a 2 in 4 chance of getting an answer of 25%… which corresponds to the answer in b), but there's only a 1 in 4 chance that you'll select b). There's no steady-state solution to this iterative process, so most people will mull it over and conclude "brain go splodey", while a few math and comp-sci nerds will recognize a self-referential system and jump immediately to Russell and Gödel.
There is, of course, a satisfyingly smart-assed approach, which relies upon the fact that random numbers are chosen from some sort of distribution. This remains unspecified in the question. If we stipulate that random answers are distributed such that either b) is chosen 50% of the time or c) is chosen 60% of the time, we can make either one of those the correct answer.
Stupid math tricks: always fun on the internet.
A wild statistical distribution appears!
So here's another dreary example of a style of argument that sets me off:
- Why shouldn't women serve in combat? Ctd. (Andrew Sullivan)
One of Andrew's readers pontificates about averages:
Despite the amazing progress that women have made in many fronts on equality, they are still physically smaller, slower, and weaker than men. At the very least, one can look at the world records for just about any athletic event, and see how much faster men are. While this does not matter for pilots, or intelligence analysts, or ships captains, it matters very strongly to certain combat arms, such as the infantry. Carrying an 80-pound pack for miles is something where strength does matter. […] This, I think, is the fundamental stumbling block of putting women in the Infantry, or some of the other combat arms.
Oh, okay! Let's look at the world records for an athletic event. I'm going to pick… Olympic weightlifting. The world record clean and jerk in the 69kg weight class — for men — is 195kg, set by Bulgaria's Galabin Boevski at Sydney in 2000. The world record C&J for 69kg women is 158kg, set by the PRC's Liu Chunhong at Beijing in 2008. From this we can conclude two things: First, like Andrew's reader, we can deduce that men are (surprise, surprise) capable of greater strength and power development then women.
Second, holy fuck there are women out there who can pick up over twice their bodyweight and put it overhead!
You see what's going on here? Our innumerate friend has taken a true statement ("At the mean, women tend to be smaller, slower, and weaker than men"), stated it obtusely ("Women are physically smaller, slower, and weaker than men"), and used a different interpretation of the obtuse restatement to derive a false conclusion ("There are no women big, strong, and fast enough to serve in the Infantry"). But s/h/its own source of justification — "world records for just about any athletic event" — indicates that there are a bunch of big/strong/fast enough women out there… though perhaps not as many of them as there are men.
While we're on the subject: there are a lot of men out there who are not physically qualified to serve as light infantrymen — perhaps even a majority. This doesn't seem to bother anyone.
(And as with DADT, no-one seems to have bothered to check on what the Israelis are doing. I don't think those rifles are for show.)
Impress your friends with Richard's paradox*
…and by "impress" I mean "insult":
- An idiotic paradox (Richard Elwes)
This is why no-one invites me to parties when I'm reading Douglas Hofstadter.
* What? Here.
Applying mathematics without a licence is discouraged in NC
Craig Scarborough had better stay out of North Carolina. "Scarbs", if you're not familiar with the gentleman and his work, is a freelance journalist who covers the technical aspects of Formula One with fantastic rigour, clarity, and depth. His analyses of the ongoing 2011 launch season are invaluable to those of us who're trying to figure out just how F1's top designers mean to do what they're apparently doing. Case in point: speculating about blown outer diffuser sections days before Red Bull launched the RB7, which does precisely that.
For most of us
glib dilettantes interested observers, that's the sort of intellectual trick to which we aspire: picking out the holes in the FIA's technical regs by creative application of brain power. In North Carolina, that could be seen as practicing engineering without a license:
- Looks to me like you've been doing some unlicensed figurin' (The Agitator)
A citizen in Raleigh, North Carolina presented the city a proposal to install traffic lights near his home. One city official responded by calling for the citizen to be investigated for what basically amounts to doing math without a license.
So. The city decides not to install traffic lights near David Cox's house. Cox goes into the historical data, does some analysis, and presents a rather sophisticated report to the city arguing that those traffic lights would in fact be a pretty good idea. One of the neat things about math is that it doesn't care about your credentials: if applied properly, it gives the same results to a computer, a fourth-grader, a civil engineer, a member of a homeowners' association, or the Queen of fucking England. (Applying the math properly is of course the key component of the process.) So if you can walk into a city council meeting with a piece of analysis and walk them through the process to verify that it's been properly constructed, you have a convincing argument no matter who you are.
Kevin Lacy, chief traffic engineer for the North Carolina DOT, seems to have been convinced. This is a problem for Lacy, because he evidently doesn't want to install the traffic lights regardless of whether they're a good idea. So Lacy falls back on his good friend the argumentum ad verecundiam — a logical fallacy so old it has three Latin names — and decides that he's the only one in the council chambers professional enough to calculate traffic loads.
Instead, Lacy called on a state licensing agency, the N.C. Board of Examiners for Engineers and Surveyors, to investigate Cox[…]"When you start applying the principles for trip generation and route assignment, applying judgments from engineering documents and national standards, and making recommendations," that's technical work a licensed engineer would do, Lacy said.
Yeah, you know what? Those principles are in place because they work regardless of who uses them — if of course they're used properly. Those national standards are in place (we presume) because they make sense regardless of who references them — if of course they're interpreted properly. If Cox's report committed technical errors, they should be easy for a licensed traffic engineer like Lacy to pick out those errors and show that they invalidate the analysis. The fact that he hasn't speaks volumes about both Cox and Lacy.
Lacy said his complaint "was not an accusation" against Cox.
"I'm not trying to hush him up," Lacy said.
I've got some more Latin for you, Lacy: factis non verbis.


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We've got a new Think Again column called "The Boys in the Bubble," and it's here. I'll be on a panel at Royce Hall at the LA Times Book Festival at 2:30 (on the UCLA campus) with Arianna Huffington, David Frum, and Dan Schnur, and I'll be signing books at the Nation's booth before the panel at 12:30.
When it comes to "free trade," Times "liberal" pundit Nicholas Kristof is an unapologetic ideologue. For the millionth time (or so), he equates the Democrats adhering to the country's majority position on trade with the Bush administration's incompetence, ideological obsession, corruption, etc. He even calls it "doing the same thing on trade," as if the fact that their supporters, and a majority of Americans, are not entitled to any voice whatever in economic policy, and that theories to which Kristof happens to adhere are somehow as powerful as the powerful reaction in reality that Bush's catastrophic policies have produced. With a degree of ideological obsession that would be hard to believe were we not seeing it also in Bush and Cheney, this ideologue writes: "But a test of intellectual honesty is your willingness to hold your own side to the same standard and to point out pandering in those politicians you normally admire." He then compares it to Kyoto. The idea that anyone is actually allowed to disagree with Kristof's ideological assumptions -- even if they happen to have Ph.D.s in the relevant subject -- is written off as ridiculous. (And remember, once again, the guy using the other side's arguments to attack his own side is the "liberal Nicholas Kristof." ) In any case, a friend notices that in this morning's column Kristof admits that Colombian flowers already come in to the U.S. duty-free. Twenty-eight planeloads a day of them. But then, we are told by Kristof that businesses are "reluctant to invest in flower farms" unless the Colombia free-trade agreement passes. What do they want besides duty-free delivery? Should we send them flowers too? When you add Maureen Dowd and William Kristol, I find myself wishing that the Times would re-institute Times Select to prevent the influence of the kind of nonsense in which it specializes from spreading any more than is unavoidable.
I've written before about the Potemkin aspects of The New York Sun -- on most days the doorpeople of my building do not even bother to put most of them out for their alleged "subscribers" to pick them up because so few people pick them up. I do, though, because its arts and culture section is often interesting and because its lack of quality control with regard to its neocon-biased writing and reporting is often revealing in unintentional ways.
Yesterday, for instance, I noticed an op-ed by Larry Kudlow, which was a pretty lazy, frothy attack on Obama and defense of George Stephanopoulos and Charles Gibson. (That makes David Brooks, Dorothy Rabinowitz, Larry Kudlow and John Fund in their corner, though to be fair, they also deserve Liz Smith and the folks at Page Six.)
Take a look at how incompetently Kudlow defends Gibson's crocodile tears about taxes for people making over $200K a year: "In fact, in America's largest cities, a firefighter married to a schoolteacher can earn close to $200,000 filing jointly. So not only will each spouse separately pay more for Social Security and health care under Mr. Obama's plan, together they'll also be slammed by Mr. Obama's cap-gains tax increase." In the first place, if they earn "close to," that means "less than." So the whole thing is, by its own admission, irrelevant. In the second place, well, where is the evidence? I happened to pick up my Sun this morning and read on the letters page from Henry Kurtz of Riverdale, who stated that "today the average annual salary for a full professor of history is only $70,000." Well, which is it, Mr. Sun Editor? No one at ABC has come forward to defend Gibson's nutty assertion in a previous debate that two professors at a college in New Hampshire are likely to earn $200,000. (And what percentage of academics are actually full professors, anyway?) Really, this line of argument is so shoddy as to be insulting to those of us who bother to think it through.
Speaking of the overall awfulness of ABC's (and almost everyone else in the MSM's) coverage of almost everything that's actually important, take a look at this new study:
Abstract: Criticism of the news media's performance in the months before the Iraq war has been profuse. Scholars, commentators, and journalists themselves have argued the media aided the Bush administration in its march to war by failing to air a wide-ranging debate that offered analysis and commentary from diverse perspectives. As a result, critics say, the public was denied the opportunity to weigh the claims of those arguing both for and against military action in Iraq. In this paper, we report the results of a systematic analysis of ABC and CBS nightly news coverage in the eight months before the invasion (Aug. 1, 2002 through March 19, 2003). We find news coverage conformed in some ways to the conventional wisdom: Bush administration officials were the most frequently quoted sources, the voices of anti-war groups and opposition Democrats were barely audible, and the overall thrust of coverage favored a pro-war perspective. But while domestic dissent on the war was minimal, opposition from abroad -- in particular, from Iraq and officials from countries such as France, who argued for a diplomatic solution to the standoff -- was commonly reported on the networks.
Eric Boehlert adds: First came Jamil Hussein. And now Bilal Hussein. Two colossal, Iraq-based media embarrassments in just over one year. Michelle Malkin, you're en fuego! What will warbloggers do next in their never-ending quest to reveal the AP's terrorist ties? Read more here.
Hey, look at Rosanne's New York Times blog and listen to the song she wrote with Joe Henry.
Think of it as gilding the pain. In a week when Citibank released news of quarterly losses of $5.1 billion and sweeping job cuts, food riots dotted the planet, oil hit $117 a barrel, and regular gas prices averaged $3.47 a gallon at the pump, it was revealed that hedge fund manager John Paulson of Paulson & Co. had hauled in a nifty $3.7 billion all by himself last year "by shorting, or betting against, subprime mortgage securities and collateralized debt obligations." In other words, by betting on the pure misery of others.
What a moment, as our Gilded Age begins to peel and flake, as the myth of the "ownership society" confronts a rising "foreclosure society," for Steve Fraser, an expert in the history of America's love/hate relationship with Wall Street, to consider this Gilded Age in the context of the original one at the end of the nineteenth century.
Fraser begins: "Google 'second Gilded Age' and you will get ferried to 7,000 possible sites where you can learn more about what you already instinctively know. That we are living through a gilded age has become a journalistic commonplace. The unmistakable drift of all the talk about it is a Yogi Berra-ism: it's a matter of déjà vu all over again. But is it? Is turn-of-the-century America a replica of the world Mark Twain first christened 'gilded' in his debut bestseller back in the 1870s?"
The question this remarkable exploratory essay focuses on is the difference between that raucous nineteenth century moment of Great Fears and Great Hopes, when faux American aristocrats paraded in their finery while the streets were filled with angry but hopeful crowds, when so many were seeking an active way out -- and what Fraser calls "the Great Silence" of our era. Think of it as a movement from a moment when evangelical preachers pronounced anathema on capitalist greed to one where televangelists deify it.
Of our moment in what he calls a "dis-accumulation" economy, he concludes:
The current break-down of the financial system is portentous. It threatens a general economic implosion more serious than anyone has witnessed for many decades. Depression, if that is what it turns out to be, together with the agonies of a misbegotten and lost war no one believes in any longer, could undermine whatever is left of the threadbare credibility of our Gilded Age elite. Legitimacy is a precious possession; once lost it's not easily retrieved. Today, the myth of the 'ownership society' confronts the reality of the "foreclosure society." The great silence of the second Gilded Age may give way to the great noise of the first.
Bill Moyers interviews the Reverend Jeremiah Wright in his first broadcast interview with a journalist since he became embroiled in a controversy for his remarks and his relationship with Barack Obama. Wright, who retired in early 2008, as pastor of Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago, where Senator Obama is a member, has been at the center of controversy for comments he made during sermons, which surfaced in the press in March.
Name: Ed
Hometown: Arlington, TX
How soon until the Colonel retires from the military and runs for president? I'll be counting the days ...
Name: Ian
Hometown: Los Angeles
Because most of us know that Iraq will go down as one of the greatest cackups [sic] in history, we desperately want someone to stand against it and so we hope that the people who are actually doing the fighting will join us in opposition. But I have to agree with LTC Bateman and repeat what I've said before: As soon as you let the military verbally oppose the decisions of their civilian commanders, it is one short step for them to actionably oppose those commanders and seize power for reasons that write themselves (the good of the country; to prevent the destruction of their beloved service; in the name of humanity). How much louder a message the military commanders might have delivered if they have resigned en masse. That would be push back. And should LTC Bateman or any other military man respond by saying, They should give up their careers for this? I say, Yes, they should give up their careers if what they are ordered to do crosses whatever line they set for themselves.
Name: Chuck
Hometown: Kansas City
I find Col. Bob's comparison of Adm. Fallon to Gen. MacArthur disingenuous at best. He argues they both were insubordinate to the civilian leadership, so both needed to go.
Gen. MacArthur provoked the Chinese, and they became involved in the Korean War. Adm. Fallon wanted a troop reduction in Iraq, and no provocation with Iran, and looked quite correct when the NIE on Iran proved the civilian leadership's insistence on Iran's imminent nuclear weapons program was basically a fabrication.
One man escalates a war, the other tries to end one, and possibly head off another. One man sees himself as an Emperor, another is tuned out by his civilian superiors in favor of his subordinate, who is now tabbed to replace him.
But they're both insubordinate so they're both wrong and need to go. At least we're in good hands with the non-political totally subordinate Gen. Petraeus now. And the great civilian leadership in the White House and Defense Dept., men of integrity like President Bush and former SecDef Rumsfeld. Heaven help us, and our troops.
Name: Simon
Hometown: Toronto, Ontario
As usual, an excellent article by LTC Bateman. While I don't question his ultimate conclusion that the military must be subordinate to the elected executive, it seems to me that there are times when an Officer in the Military should, and must, speak out despite orders and regulations which might prevent him from doing so.
For instance, what about a "hypothetical" situation in which a President claims that the military has told him that it will only take 150,000 troops to pacify a country, or that significant progress is being made on the ground. Does an officer who knows otherwise, and has told the President so, not owe the public the truth?
Or what about a situation where the President has blamed the use of torture on a few low-level rogue people in the army, when a general knows for a fact that the orders in fact came from the politicians, and maybe even the President?
I know, these "hypotheticals" do seem awfully unlikely, don't they?
LTC Bateman, I have a great deal of respect for you, and have been a fan of your writings on this website for a long time now.
But are there not times when one is justified in disobeying an order, especially one meant to silence dissent?
Is it not a healthier democracy when the process, and the debate in particular, is transparent?
Thanks again for the excellent column LTC Bateman, and the informative blog as always Eric.
Name: Jim Garry
Hometown: Delmar, NY
Lt. Col. Bateman wrote,
"But when you talk to a reporter and your position is so divergent, you are effectively speaking to the world and setting your own policy for the United States. Our democratic republic was designed to prevent exactly that situation. In 225 years that original logic has not lost its force. "
In "normal times" with relative sanity being displayed by an administration, I'd agree with that statement. But I would hope that if a civilian leadership issued orders that were a threat to the well being of the country and humanity, our military leadership would not blindly follow the leader.
There is a difference between all former U.S. civilian leadership and the current one which has so clearly demonstrated that it has no respect for facts, treaties, or humanity, and fabricates information to a degree never before imagined of a U.S. administration. It has continually attempted to run roughshod over our Constitution and the rest of the world.
Lt Colonel, if the Bush administration ordered a nuclear attack on Iran tomorrow, would you feel obligated to keep your mouth shut and follow orders?
Name: Nicholas Pisano
Hometown: Albuquerque, NM
Hello Eric,
Old Navy guy here to take exception to LTC Bateman's assessment of Admiral Fallon's conduct. From the sidelines -- and, yes, I had my own Pentagon tour -- the article in question sounded quite a bit like old fashioned inter-service rivalry. Given that the LTC sees and hears things around him where did he get the idea that a Commander-in-Chief of an operational theatre must only spout the party line or that flag (no parentheses needed) or general officers, with the exception of MacArthur and perhaps Fallon, have expressed political opinions?
Military officers have the same prejudices and variety of views as the general populace. The drawn-out and somewhat labored summary of MacArthur's career proved the opposite point the LTC was hoping to make. For most of his 50+ years of service MacArthur expressed political views and aligned himself with certain political factions without reprisal. Only when his public utterances came close to provoking a third world war was his recalled by the president. Up until that time he frequently spoke to the press and expressed both personal and public views on a variety of military topics. There are other more recent examples: Admiral Hyman Rickover, General Curtis LeMay and General Colin Powell among others.
LTC Bateman asserts that Admiral Fallon's "relief of command was good for the nation." He goes on to assert that the Admiral conducted his own foreign policy, though his public utterances with very few exceptions mirrored the same utterances by his superior, the Secretary of Defense, Robert Gates. How odd. How many senior officers at the general and flag level realized no repercussions for more serious offenses such as the conduct under their command at the Navy's Tailhook Convention, the Air Force Academy, My Lai, Guantanamo or Abu Ghraib prison? Oh wait, these were offenses, though illegal and unethical, that were supported by the political elites in power at the time.
History has a funny way of coming around to bite you when you only know a little of it so here is the definition of conducting foreign policy illegally: selling missiles to a terrorist state and using the proceeds to establish an illegal privy purse for the president to hire death squads to kill third-world people. Oliver North conducted foreign policy illegally. Admiral Poindexter conducted foreign policy illegally. Admiral Fallon did the job of a warfighting CINC under Goldwater-Nichols but was impolitic in expressing his view that war with Iran was not imminent. Given that such a statement could be easily glossed over if it was viewed as being premature, the fact that it is given importance points to the probable attempt of a lawless lame-duck Administration and their military enablers, like the sycophantic General Petraeus, to be planning to provoke a war with Iran.
Admiral Fallon did the honorable thing: he took responsibility for what he said and resigned without great fanfare. He didn't threaten to use nuclear weapons on another people or to unilaterally invade another country in contravention of the order of the civilian authority as did MacArthur. Nor I would guess, given a more recent and apropos example, does he think that the American people only have their say every four years and that the unitary executive under the Commander-in-Chief powers has unlimited executive power to use a standing army for whatever purpose that executive may see fit.
Name: K. Castro
Hometown: Los Angeles, CA
I greatly appreciate that LTC Bateman writes in a very balanced and nonpartisan manner, so I'm sure it was in the interest of brevity (even a cursory post on Douglas MacArthur usually requires many pages), that he omitted a malicious element of the good General's past: his role in eliminating the Bonus Army in 1932, a protesting group of roughly 10,000 WWI vets (my grandfather among them), who marched on Washington DC to voice their opposition to the withholding of needed funding in the middle of the Depression, which was to be allocated to them through the Patman Bill. The story is probably well enough known for Altercation readers, so I won't recap it in depth here; but the image of MacArthur riding roughshod over those WWI vets, utilizing tanks, mounted saber-wielding cavalry, and infantry with fixed bayonets, in the streets of Washington DC, illustrated a vivid picture of, as the good LTC cites, "a whole duffle bag of ego."
Incidentally, the WWI vets got their funding, and all was well, presumably; however, that's not the main point of my rambling. I'm not a psychologist, but in my amateur opinion, MacArthur certainly had his issues with his father, who was a decorated Civil War general - decorated enough to have been presented the Congressional Medal of Honor. The rebellious son, with his runaway ego and temper, his continuous contempt of his civilian superiors...how troubling must it have been to have grown up with a legendary Civil War soldier and hero as a father?
Fast forward 60 years or so. Virtually unreported, blithely dismissed, or viewed as quirky personality traits by the MSM is the current Republican candidate's past and present proclivity towards butting heads against anything remotely resembling collaboration and cooperation. His temper and foul language is recently receiving only the tiniest of media coverage. His standing at the Naval Academy was somewhat less than stellar, but reading the MSM press releases, you'd think he graduated at the top of his class (...not the case. Look it up). The party-boy reputation before his POW incarceration, his later adultery, the Keating Five issue, all point to someone with a seeming innate inability to play well in the sandbox with the other tots. The son is still rebelling against his father (in this case, it might include a grandfather, also an admiral!).
And this is who this country might be saddled with as a President in January? In MacArthur's case, Truman was right to have sacked him. His psychological baggage was apparently getting the better of him. Our current President....well, let's not go there; not enough time. But the Republican nominee is still chafing under the wing of his father, long dead, and we may be the recipient of this unresolved conflict. If the MSM media had any reverence or understanding of history, they would see that these relationships continuously reappear and manifest themselves time and time again. It remains to be seen if the Democratic nominee, whoever that will be, will damage the party to such a degree in the ongoing slugfest with their common opponent, that this trainwreck who calls himself McCain slips through in November.
Name: D.R. Marvel (fmr S/Sgt USMC)
Truman met MacArthur on Wake Island, not Guam...
Which is only a small detail, but the LtCol's other fabulist ideas about Korea are at least as mistaken ... (Inchon was, in fact, one of the biggest mistakes of the war in Korea).
Name: Rich Gallagher
Hometown: Fishkill, NY
Dear Eric,
An Associated Press story about the Pennsylvania primary which appears today makes the following claim: "Moreover, party leaders are growing impatient with the drawn-out struggle and have watched nervously as McCain, his nomination race long settled, has climbed in opinion polls."
The story cites no evidence that McCain has been climbing in opinion polls, so I took a look for myself.
A USA Today/Gallup Poll released on March 18 showed Obama leading McCain by 2 points and Clinton leading McCain by 5 points.
A USA Today/Gallup Poll released on April 22 showed Obama leading McCain by 3 points and Clinton leading McCain by 6 points.
So McCain's "climb" in the polls has actually shown him to be losing ground.
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Hometown: Memphis, TN
Professor Alterman:
As a grieving E Street fan, I appreciate your posting the information about the Danny Federici Melanoma Fund. I sent in a pitifully small but heartfelt donation as a tiny gesture of appreciation for the immeasurable joy Bruce, Danny, and the rest of the band have brought to my life for decades. Imagine the amount of research funds that could be raised if every longtime Springsteen fan sent in just a few dollars. I can think of no better tribute to Phantom Dan than to overwhelm the good doctors at Sloan-Kettering with MILLIONS of dollars donated in his name.
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I haven't lived very much I admit it, I haven't experienced shock and awe. What if I asked to have a leave I would actually hate to leave? What if i focused on creating a life I would actually fight not to leave.
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Flint, Mich., Superintendent Explores Underground Move
The superintendent in Flint, Mich., is taking the proposition "If you build it, they will come" to new heights—or perhaps depths—with a radical idea for underground schools.
Felix H. Chow has suggested that the city's 21,000-student district eventually replace its 54 aging school buildings with three large facilities built mostly underground. He believes such a plan might not only provide new and energy- efficient buildings, but also bring national recognition to the ailing district, which sees no end to recent enrollment declines.
He envisions the schools as a sort of underground city, built with classrooms around the perimeter of an octagonal, circular, or rectangular building. Each facility would have one story above ground and three stories underground, and could serve up to 5,000 students.
The classrooms would be open to a courtyard-style area that would be lighted by a massive skylight in the roof.
Mr. Chow said he was influenced by underground convention centers and European buildings with courtyards.
The proposal is in the very early stages and is part of a much broader, long-term agenda that includes curriculum and other matters. Mr. Chow, who admits he's not even sure if the notion is feasible, has been floating it to bemused school board and community members in recent weeks.
"At this point, it is a very conceptual idea—it could not go anywhere at all," Mr. Chow said in an interview. "My main point to the board and public is that we have to design a system that works for the next 100 years."
The Flint district has closed several schools because of the declining enrollment, he added, and underground facilities could allow administrators to shut off bottom levels when the space was not needed. He also believes such schools could be much cheaper to operate.
Barbara C. Worth, an assistant director of the Council of Educational Facility Planners International, based in Scottsdale, Ariz., said some schools use berms of earth on one or two sides to save on energy costs. But she said she knew of no existing schools that remotely resemble Mr. Chow's vision.
'Quite a Hole'
Ms. Worth and other outside experts who were queried for this story appeared intrigued by the concept but were skeptical about its practicality, considering Michigan's wet climate and harsh winters, and such a plan's affordability.
"I don't know how they'd make it water-tight, and I think the mold problems and air quality would be terrible," Ms. Worth said.
Ronald H. Fanning, the chairman of the board of Fanning/Howey Associates Inc., a school architecture firm based in Celina, Ohio, is an advocate of energy-saving schools and has built several schools in Indiana that are partially enclosed by earth. He said a design such as Mr. Chow's was worth pursuing for its attention to conservation, and it could be much cheaper to heat and cool, as underground climates retain a steady 55- degree temperature.
But he cautioned that it still could be an expensive plan.
"It probably has some merit, but there are a lot of other issues you have to deal with though," Mr. Fanning said. In addition to mold and moisture, getting enough natural light to classrooms and accessibility to outdoor areas could be daunting and expensive challenges to overcome, he said.
"All these problems are solvable," he said, "but have a price tag attached."
Flint's Mr. Chow said that he would abandon the plan if it were to prove structurally too daunting.
The Clark County, Nev., school district, which includes Las Vegas, built two one-story schools in the 1990s that are partially underground, with playgrounds on the roofs. The schools require little maintenance and have cut energy costs in the area's desert climate, said Dale Scheideman, the 220,000-student district's director of new schools and facility planning.
But Michigan's climate would be vastly different, he said, adding that four- story structures are also not appropriate for elementary schools and young children.
Furthermore, he added, "that's quite a hole in the ground."
Assistant Managing Editor Scott W. Wright contributed to this story.
Vol. 22, Issue 3, Page 11Published in Print: September 18, 2002, as Flint, Mich., Superintendent Explores Underground Move
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What Is It Wednesday #60
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This is the shot it was cropped from:
Dew was the first of MANY to get this right: "Easy this time! A McDonald's fries box in the grass." By the way, there will be a blog entry about this soon…it's really quite amazing how McDonald's is so recognizable!
Shirley and Mel had answers that made me laugh:
Shirley: "well, I was going to say the same as Dew, but for the sake of fun and variety, I'll say " the front of a brightly painted pirate ship as viewed through tall tropical reeds"."
my cousin, Mel: Anyone can easily see that it is a witch's slipper left in the grass as her broom lifted her off the ground and into the air. I understand that finding these slippers is very rare because they vanish in the moonlight. Good find Jan!
As always, thanks for playing! By the way, all photos used in What Is It Wednesday are marked as "private" in my flickr account…that's so no one can view the picture at a bigger size to get a better look!
Let me rephrase: What is it in the picture of the lovely garden that might be unusual?
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Simply titled "Marple," the crime drama comes from scribe David Wolstencroft who will serve as an exec producer with Hilary Strong of Agatha Christie Ltd., and Christie's grandson Matthew Prichard. The latter duo are attached as non-writing EPs.
The series features a new spin on the classic, showcasing a much younger version of the title crime-solver. "Marple" revolves around a young lady who, after inheriting her grandmother's bookstore and realizes that things in her small California town aren't what they seem, begins working as a private investigator to get to the bottom of the town's mysteries.
CBS isn't the first network to adapt Miss Marple for television. The BBC had a murder mystery series titled "Miss Marple," which starred Joan Hickson and aired from 1984-1992. "Agatha Christie's Marple" was another British series, this time from ITV, which debuted in 2004 and ran until 2013. From the first through third season, Geraldine McEwan played the title character, followed by Julia McKenzie who took over in the fourth season.
First introduced in a 1927 short story, the fictional Miss Marple character appeared in 20 short stories total and 12 of Christie's crime novels.
CBS Television Studios will produce.


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1. Define the picture plane
2. Parse out the space, measuring carefully, drawing very lightly (taking notes rather than drawing objects)
3. Draw without commitment, at this early stage you are feeling things out: learning about the things you are drawing.
4. Develop the entire picture plane - move around and do not focus on a single area.
5. GRADUALLY bring the entire thing up in value until you have an accurate skeleton upon which you can hang your value map.
6. Map out your drawing in terms now of the shapes of values you see when you squint - you should limit your values to about three or five shades of grey.
7. Once the values shapes are noted in on your drawing, then and only then should you begin rendering in any detail.
8. The drawing should take shape before your eyes rather like a photograph coming to being in a tray of developer.
Here is a video that shows this process in time lapse: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBVZwWqXmmk
The photos below show what your process should look like up to the point where you are ready to start mapping value shapes upon your skeleton. They are from the Curtis book. Enjoy! and I'll see you next week. You can always email me with thoughts and questions at email@example.com


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Forever Lazy Reviews
Hi there and welcome to my Forever Lazy reviews article. When gathering information for our Forever Lazy Reviews, we investigated the comfort level of these one-piece blanket pajamas, which are supposedly designed to keep you warm from head to toe. Our Forever Lazy reviews also looked at the quality of construction, and the available sizes… Read More »


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Summer of Soccer 2019
With three major international tournaments going on right now, soccer fans and...
BY Patrick Freeman
Special to BASN
BUFFALO, NY: The Sundance Film festival, whose mission as a non-profit organization is to actively promote independent story tellers in film and theater, were brought their feet in applause by the film "Birth of a Nation."
So many have already acclaimed that this film could be a masterpiece of a generation because of the nature of such a compelling true story. It's because of this that those that are dedicated to protecting white supremacy and the narrative that has been attached to it began attacking the deficiency of its creators Nathaniel Parker, and Jean Celestin.
These two college roommates made the mistake of their lives at Penn State University in 1999 when they were both charged with rape, and sexual assault. The victim's name will not be mentioned but both of the accused were eventually cleared of any wrong doing. Though cleared the decision of this act indeed not determined to be criminal is one of the worse problems on college campuses today. This culture of the disrespect women, and sexual perversion is cultivated even more in this generation, which has led to large numbers of reported and unreported incidents.
The effort nationwide to stop date rape and sexual assaults on college campuses has now become a nationwide priority of this problem and increase the reporting of all cases. There is no doubt in the evidence of this case that Nathaniel Parker and Jean Celestin made the wrong decision 17 years ago. But why are the sharks attacking them with such veracity on such a sensitive subject? This is why the sharks are prosecuting the creators of this film on this subject which is a nationwide problem but their goal is not to address the problem of the abuse of women, but to discredit the creators of this generational film Birth of a Nation.
You see this film rebukes the traditional slave narrative of the docile enslaved African, and embraces the truth of constant rebellion against the crimes of white America against an innocent people. That it was a Christian preacher who was supposed to use European Christianity as the modus operandi to harness the spirit of the enslaved was the leader of this revolt will resonate in a Christian culture dominated by the prosperity version Christianity that puts everything on our creator without putting in the work here on this Earth. This story is a threat to a narrative that has enabled the black preacher to emerge as a pulpit pimps rather than leaders of revolution.
Those that protect white privilege immediately said we must discredit the messenger so this impactful film so it will not resonate to the truth of about the inhumanity of enslavement, and the debt owed to its survivors. Unfortunately for the sharks this film will serve two purposes now as it will increase awareness to college sexual assaults, and will further open the door to the reality of the true story of an enslaved African preacher that received a vision to rise up and fight tyranny at every level no matter the cost. That the truth about enslavement in this country was a never ending rebellion that saw those enslaved never accept the aggression of those who proclaimed liberty, and freedom for some, and inhumanity to Africans that were your victims. We must go see this film Birth of a Nation: The true story of Nat Turner!!!
Editor's Note: Patrick Freeman, aka "The Mighty O'Ba" is the radio host of "The #1 Sports show in the Nation" heard Saturdays 3:30 – 5:00 every Saturday on WUFO 1080 AM "The Mix" out of Buffalo, New York. Mr. Freeman is also a contributor to BASN and the Internet Radio shows "The Gray Leopard Cove" and "Soul Tree Radio – in the Raw!!


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Tuesday, February 20, 2018
Twofer Card Challenge#2--Hearts
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Love those sparkly die cuts. Thanks for playing along with the AAA Cards current challenge.ReplyDelete
I love how vibrant the sparkly pink tones are over your lovely watercolored blue background Marie. Thanks for joining us at Just Add Ink this week.ReplyDelete
You had me with the glitter heart! Then I read the card's sentiment - what a wonderful and encouraging sentiment it is! Very pretty card. And your valentine is so sweet with a trio of red hearts, and I do like that silvery glittery trim. Thank you so much for joining us at the Twofer Challenge. BevReplyDelete
You can never go wrong with sparkle! Thanks for joining AAA Cards! Hugs ÅsaReplyDelete
Two fantastic heart designs, Marie! You rocked that sketch with your beautiful blue and fuchsia encouragement card and your triple heart Valentine sends the love message loud and clear! The schparkle on both is fantastic! Thank you so much for playing along in Twofer Card Challenge #2!! Hugs, DarnellReplyDelete
Really pretty card - love the sparkle! Thanks for joining us at Use Your Stuff.ReplyDelete
Lovely card. Thank you for joining in the Crafting From the Heart challenge.ReplyDelete
Really pretty and sparkly too :) Thanks for joining us at Use Your Stuff.ReplyDelete
Your bold hearts cards are so eye-catching! Beautiful, Marie. Thank you so much for sharing your card with us at AAA Cards Challenge. - Sweet KobylkinReplyDelete
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Very cute cards. Thank you for joining us at the Make My Monday challenge. Hope to see you again soon. Nandini, DTReplyDelete
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Call of Duty: Ghosts the "biggest overhaul" of multiplayer since MW1
Infinity Ward on the troublesome issue of innovation.
After I ask Infinity Ward executive producer Mark Rubin what it is about Call of Duty: Ghosts, exactly, that is innovative, he makes a "hmm" sound and thinks for a while.
I can tell he's toiling over his answer - not that he can't think of anything that's innovative about Ghosts, the next game in Activision's gargantuan first-person shooter series, but because he finds the term somewhat problematic.
"That's always a tough one," Rubin tells me, bleary-eyed and exhausted after hours of back-to-back interviews at yesterday's Call of Duty: Ghosts multiplayer reveal event in LA, "because we have to innovate within our realm. Other games innovate within their realm. Other games have added stuff that we've had in our game for years. And we'll do the same. So innovation becomes a weird word when you say it that way.
"I was toiling with the idea of what some gamers might think about it, which is, show me something I've never seen before. Anywhere."
The reaction to Ghosts' multiplayer reveal, from what I've seen, has been mixed. The impressed point to the new Squads system and its associated game modes with pleasant surprise, and nod in excitement at the prospect of dynamic maps with their traps and destruction. The unconvinced suggest Squads mode is nothing more than a noob-friendly experience and, therefore, not worthy of further investigation, and believe the dynamic maps idea is too little too late, particularly now Battlefield 4's "Levolution" appears to be doing mid-match mayhem on a much grander scale.
Whatever your reaction, most agree that Call of Duty: Ghosts' multiplayer looks a lot like the multiplayer in past Call of Duty games, even with the addition of mid-match map-destroying orbital strikes and collapsing gas stations. Having played Ghosts extensively yesterday, I can say it feels a lot like the multiplayer in past Call of Duty games, too.
But is there more to Ghosts than meets the eye? Rubin casts his mind back before continuing. "If you remember, when Modern Warfare came out, one of the big, innovative changes, if you want to call it innovative, to Call of Duty was adding a progression level and adding perks. The word perks, which is used in a bunch of games now, came from Modern Warfare.
"We look at Modern Warfare as one of the biggest changes to Call of Duty ever. And what we've done with this game is go back and tear apart every system and rebuild it in a way we feel compliments our philosophy for this game."
"We look at Modern Warfare as one of the biggest changes to Call of Duty ever. What we've done with Ghosts is go back and tear apart every system and rebuild it in a way we feel compliments our philosophy for this game."Infinity Ward executive producer Mark Rubin
Highlighting his point, Rubin points to Ghosts' new customisation system, or, as he puts it, "the idea of customising your character to not just who you want to be but how you want to be". There are over 20,000 possible combinations. You can change your soldier's head, body type, head gear and even - shock horror - sex. That's right, kids: for the first time ever in a Call of Duty game, you can also play as a female soldier in multiplayer.
As for perks, Ghosts features a new system inspired by Treyarch's Pick 10, used for Black Ops 2. You're allocated a budget of eight points to spend on perks. Every perk has a set point value from one to five. So, you can choose four perks, each valued at two points a piece, or eight perks, each valued at one. You can choose to get rid of your secondary weapon and equipment, and in so doing increase your budget to 11.
"I would say that's innovative," Rubin says. "The problem is fans will be somewhat cynical and say, 'You've been able to create characters since EverQuest 1!' Well, yes, but not within Call of Duty. So, is that innovation? It's a new feature within Call of Duty. Maybe that is innovation."
Is it unreasonable, I wonder, for people to expect the developers at Infinity Ward and Treyarch to provide something they've never seen before not just in Call of Duty, but in any game? Given the rigorous annual release schedule set down by Activision for the series, is it impossible?
"I don't think so," Rubin counters. "We're always looking for the best thing for the game. We don't grade things on whether we think they're innovative or not, necessarily. We just say, 'Is this a cool feature we think is fun to play?' And, 'Is it making the game better?' If it does, let's do it.
"We don't say, 'Well, so and so did something like this once before. That's not innovative or whatever.'
"It's a tough one..."
Ghosts' dynamic maps include player set traps, destruction and map-changing events. The Odin Strike, for example, reduces the Strikezone map to rubble.
Rubin has another think about the innovation question. Eventually, he mentions Squads.
In Ghosts, you can spend Squad Points to create a squad of up to 10 soldiers, each with its own unlocks, loadouts, appearance and Prestige. As you play each of these soldiers you earn XP. Once you earn enough, that soldier Prestiges, but unlike in past COD games, this time you get to keep everything you've unlocked. So, 10 soldiers and one level of Presige per soldier equals 10 levels of prestige.
The Squads game mode can be played solo, co-op or competitively, and is based around the idea of taking the squad you've created in multiplayer and using it to compete against the AI or other players. Importantly, your progress in Squads counts towards multiplayer, so you earn XP and rank up by playing the mode.
The AI that controls your squad mates and enemy squad soldiers is, Rubin says, more lifelike than ever before. They'll even corner camp and jump shot. And here's where it gets interesting: your loadout choices govern how your soldiers behave, so, for example, if you equip one of your squadmates with a sniper rifle, he or she will act like a sniper.
Although Squads weren't playable at the multiplayer reveal event, I like the sound of the gameplay modes that support them. There's the typical four-player wave-based mode called Safe Guard, inspired by Survival from Modern Warfare 3, but Squad versus Squad and Squad Assault feel fresh. With the latter, you, or you and your mates, join forces against an offline player's squad. The game matchmakes you against squads made by players around the world, or you can choose one of your friends' squads to assault. You can challenge these offline squads with five other players or go in solo with five of your squad members. There's a hint of Call of Duty Manager to the whole thing.
"Some of the stuff we're doing with Squads is actually really innovative," Rubin says. "You're going to create a squad, you're going to choose the loadouts that squad is going to use, you're then going to choose the map and the mode your squad is going to defend, and then other people in the world are going to matchmake up against your squad, or your friends are just going to pull you out of their friends list and take it on. And, have it be an offline experience.
"In other words, I'm now actually gaining XP and being notified when someone's attacking my squad, and interacting with a game that's in play while I'm offline.
"That could be considered brand new. I'm not sure anyone's ever done that before."
"Some of the stuff we're doing with Squads is actually really innovative... That could be considered brand new. I'm not sure anyone's ever done that before."
Rubin, as you'd expect, whispers words of hyperbole when talking about Squads, but within the confines of Call of Duty it's revelatory. Not only does it provide an opportunity for less skilled players to climb the progression ladder without venturing out into the intimidating world of competitive online, it adds a new layer of strategy that is not determined only by the typical reflexes-based, fast and frenetic COD gameplay - the magic gameplay formula that has propelled the series to the top of the charts.
For Rubin and Infinity Ward, innovation is the collection of features. It is a combination, not this or that. It is Squads, customisation, dynamic maps and, of course, Riley the dog, who in multiplayer is a Kill Streak. The developers will hope all this together will be enough to satisfy those who long for Call of Duty's next Modern Warfare moment.
For publisher Activision, there's more to consider. Boss Eric Hirshberg took to the stage during the MP reveal event to insist COD is more popular than ever, with 10 million unique players daily. To me his proclamation felt like it was a reassuring follow-up to his recent admission that pre-orders for Ghosts were way below those for Black Ops 2 at the same point last year. Hirshberg blamed the lack of pre-orders on the upcoming transition to next-gen consoles, a point based on the belief that customers are yet to decide which platform they will play the game on, but I wonder if that tells the whole story. Is Ghosts doing enough to excite the existing COD fanbase, let alone lapsed fans?
"We've done Spec Ops and we could have gone that route of just doing that again, but we wanted to find something new for the player to do, something different that they hadn't seen before."
During his on-stage speech Rubin proclaimed Ghosts "the biggest overhaul of multiplayer we've done since the original Modern Warfare", and he reiterates this at the end of our interview.
"If you define Modern Warfare as a sub-brand and Black Ops as a sub-brand, then this would be another sub-brand," he says.
"That's one of the things that led us to changing so much this time around. This multiplayer, obviously we're not going to change that magic formula, but we have changed so many of the systems.
"And not just like, oh, we have new weapons or new kill streaks, but in how you move through the world. All the new ways the animations work and the sound, the whole new audio engine...
"It's a really new, new new new new Call of Duty that still has that magic formula."
This article is based on a press trip to Los Angeles. Activision paid for travel and accommodation.


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Written by Josh Ballard on 8th April 2015
Category: City guides
Canary Wharf, located on the docklands on the eastern edge of the City, is the second largest business district in the UK. Here are some interesting facts you may or may not have known about Canary Wharf:
- The first building to be built on the new development was the Canary Wharf tower now known as One Canada Square. It was the tallest building in Europe at the time, but now it has to accept second place to the towering Shard.
- There are 14 million square feet of retail and office space in Canary Wharf.
- 90,000 people are employed in Canary Wharf.
- Canary Wharf is often referred to as the Isle of Dogs. The Isle of Dogs was first mentioned in Henry III's papers and it is thought that Edward III kept greyhounds here.
- Canary Wharf was declared an Enterprise zone 1983.
- Canary Wharf takes its name from the No.32 berth of the West Wood Quay of the Import Dock. This was built in 1936 for Fruit Lines Ltd for the Mediterranean and Canary Island fruit trade. At their request, the quay and warehouse were given the name Canary Wharf.
- 1,000 ships a month still pass through the docks.
- Canary Wharf isn't just a business destination it's actually a shopper's paradise too! With three shopping arcades, Canada, Cabot and Jubilee Place, you can shop til you drop.
- In the summer the Canary Wharf Summer Screens are erected and you can sit back, relax and enjoy your lunch al fresco whilst watching the tennis, world cup or other big event!
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While this access is more limited than is often widely believed (as many things, such as 'accessories' like fracture braces or crutches, are not actually covered by the public plans), and while we desperately need to expand public health insurance to include universal eye-care, dental care and pharmacare, we all can sleep easy at night knowing that if we awake sick or injured we will not face a financial burden or bankruptcy from seeking medical treatment.
There was, however, a time when this was not the case. Universal health care had to be fought for. In the 1950's, despite many years of promises by successive Liberal governments, a national plan had not been brought in.
The leaflet we are looking at today, which was published by the Committee for the Rights of Canadian Children -- public health care advocacy group -- in the mid-50s is a vivid reminder of what health care in Canada was like before the Canada Health Act and the emergence of full provincial plans nationwide.
It contains many disturbing facts -- such as the reality that over three times as many infants died from illnesses in Canada during WWII as did Canadians on the battlefield -- as well as the awful rationales for not bringing in national health insurance as when the first Paul Martin baldly stated that it could not be done due to military spending commitments in the Cold War!
The leaflet is important not just as a piece of Canadian history, but as a reminder as to why we must be vigilant and fight to preserve what unions, socialists and activists achieved -- however flawed it still may be -- in the face of constant attempts by governments and the right to chip away at and undermine the public system.
(Click on images to enlarge)
See also: When it comes to 'universal' health care, it is a lot less universal than Canadians like to think


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Since the news broke last night about how the funders of the Regnerus anti-gay parenting study had more influence on its findings than originally claimed, the reaction from lgbt community has been interesting.
While some have been justifiably angry, there is that annoying set of folks who have acted either jaded or blase about these new discoveries.
Several have made comments like "The right-wing manipulates another study? Nothing to see here folks" or "So, just how does that prove the study is flawed."
First to answer that last question, the fact that the study is flawed was determined a long time ago. And it was accentuated by the recent brief to the Supreme Court by the American Sociological Association.
This new information proves just why the study was flawed and it brings up further questions. Why wasn't Regenrus truthful about how much influence the study's right-wing funders had on its results? Why did they expected the study to be a negative against the lgbt community before it was even put to paper?
And while some have made a good point by pointing out that in the long run, this study's claim (regarding same-sex households being inferior than heterosexual households when it comes to the raising of children) may not matter in the DOMA and Prop 8 cases before the Supreme Court, the reality is that the shady facts behind the study yet again points out how the religious right manipulates and cherry-picks science for its own purposes.
And that's an issue which needs more attention instead of folks yawning and turning their backs.
I've said before that an asset to the religious right is the jaded "we have seen it all so you really have to reach to get our attention" attitude of some members of the lgbt community. What's sad is that some of these same individuals get angry when they see FRC's Tony Perkins or some other religious right spokesperson touted as "experts" on news programs or when they see flawed work such as the Regnerus study being pushed as legitimate.
My friends, if you demonstrate that you really don't care about phony religious experts and the flawed work they tout (such as the Regnerus study) then why expect anyone else to care?
So my advice? Pull your heads out of your asses, stop acting like a snobby patron in a high-price restaurant, and pay attention to the big picture and the long game for a change.


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Bills fans and shame go hand-in-hand.
I'm not judging. I'm actually jealous. I'd love not to care about my reputation at all.
The latest in their catalog of outrageous game day antics comes in the form of this glorious photo.
It shows a fan with his mitts stuffed down his girlfriend's pants (at least, we hope that's his GF, otherwise they really have stooped to a whole new level) at the Bills vs Browns game.
Obviously, it's mighty cold at the Ralph Wilson Stadium in Buffalo, and every Bills fan knows the inside of their GF's pants is, on average, 10 times warmer than the outside world.
So, just as he once roasted marshmallows on an open campfire, he warmed his hands over the warm glow of her rear.
Now that's some Bear Grylls thinking. Next he's going to weave an eskimo jacket from her pubes in anticipation of the polar vortex. COME AT ME, WINTER.
The bizarre scene was captured by a fan on Sunday.
We have another fan to thank for last week's video of a Buffalo Bill breaking his leg in a drunken fall from a car onto a table. You missed it? Brah, it was savage.
The footage shows a guy in a Mexican wrestling mask getting egged on by a crowd eager to see some weird, drunk action.
He lines himself up for one mega send.
And launches with so much enthusiasm.
Maybe too much enthusiasm.
He comes crashing through the table with one leg.
And then grabs his leg in so much pain when it buckles the opposite way. Ouch.
Then there was the time a Buffalo Bills fan butt chugged from a woman's behind.
It took tailgating to a scary new level I believe no one is ready for. Bills fans, you never disappoint.
Citations: BroBible


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BÉZNĂ Theatre's Illegalised, on UK Tour
We join forces with a series of British partners to support the UK Tour of 'Illegalised', a new play by British-Romanian collective BÉZNĂ Theatre that will be presented, in world premiere, throughout the month of May.
ILLEGALISED is the first in BÉZNĂ Theatre's cycle of multi-lingual plays, a direct response to 'My Name is Other', a fully-funded research project in London, Bedford, Daventry and Sheffield that investigates othering, structural racism in the UK, and Britain's colonial past. The text is a response to the material gathered while interviewing 34 migrants, refugees and those seeking asylum as well as activists and academics in the field of racism, state violence and colonialism. The participants came from 4 continents, 29 countries and all economic backgrounds, most having fled poverty or political unrest.
BÉZNĂ Theatre is a British-Romanian interventionist political theatre collective formed in 2013. BÉZNĂ make political theatre that investigates societal inequalities and confronts institutional and normalised violences. BÉZNĂ is committed to interventionist activism through theatre in artistic and educational environments throughout Romania and the UK.
The Illegalised
Written and directed by: Sînziana Koenig & Nico Vaccari
With: Lizzie Clarke, Angel Carrousel, Theo Green and Oana Pușcatu
Associate Artists: Refugee artists A and U
Sound Designer: Dan Balfour
Set and costume design: Jacob Lucy
Lighting Designer: Stacey Sandford
Producer: Claire Gilbert
Image credit: Sabina Tudor
The tour is supported by the Northern Stage, Theatre Deli, Camden People's Theatre, Bookmarks, LMRN, AFRIL, Applecart Arts Theatre, Work Rights Centre and the Romanian Cultural Institute.
UK tour dates:
Tuesday 30 April - Thursday 2 May: Camden People's Theatre, London
Sunday 5 May: Slung Low, Leeds
Thursday 9 - Saturday 11 May: Royal Exchange, Manchester
Monday 20 May: The Place, Bedford
Thursday 16 - Saturday 18 May: Applecart Arts, London
Thursday 23 & Friday 24 May: Northern Stage, Newcastle