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- Number of Players
- 3
- Genre
- Puzzle
- Release Date
- 7th Sep 2009, 700 points
- 24th Jul 2009, 700 points
- 16th Nov 2010
- Official Site
- colorz-thegame.com
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It's a colourful world we live in.
ColorZ is a game whose trailer captured the attentions of many with its vibrant colours against light backgrounds and novel colour fusion mechanic. The sight of gently drifting UFOs floating through groups of stationary enemies accompanied by an ambient/trance techno soundtrack and no shooting in sight created...
About The Game
ColorZ is an original action/puzzle that brings a totally new experience of Gameplay thanks to Wii capacities.
The game takes place in an alternative world full of round and colorful elements but a terrible event disturbed all the citizen; a new virus polluted the universe and created thousands of microbes. You must drive your UFO friends in order to clean all the different planets.
The core concept is based on common light color addition and yet to be seen multiple entities management.
At the beginning of the game only Red, Green and Blue UFO are present and the player will be given control of one of them. The main rule is that one UFO can only pass through or absorb a microbe if it is made of the same color. If not, your UFO dies.
Players will thus have to avoid colliding with microbes of different color, sometimes changing the color of their own thanks to basic items. The continuous multi directional scrolling movements of the camera will guide and force the player to advance forward in all levels.
What makes ColorZ truly addictive is that players will gradually be given control of two to three different UFO at once and the ability to fusion them in one. The fusion of two or more UFO will give a specific color based on the following common light addition rule:
Red + Blue = Magenta
Red + Green = Yellow
Blue + Green = Cyan
Red + Blue + Green = White
Controlling the different UFO will be done using the Wii Remote pointer, the Nunchuk and the Wii Remote +Control Pad, with a very progressive learning curve so that players get accustomed to it.
The combination of multiple UFO and color management will add thrilling puzzle solving phases to the game. It will challenge player's reflexes to avoid colliding with microbes as well as their intuition and smartness to fusion the right UFO and obtain the appropriate color when required. Thanks to this unique feeling, ColorZ will also improve player's limbs coordination and greatly foster their reactivity.
Multiplayer also has great potential and will be an important aspect of the game. In fact, up to three persons will be able to play in cooperation mode, each player being given control of one UFO. They will thus need to constantly talk to each other and make up strategies on the fly in order to solve all the color based puzzles and stay alive. Conviviality and fun is guaranteed here!
This multiplayer mode will also attract a great amount of dormant, leisure and casual players to the title. Just imagine a father and son cooperative play full of exchanges: it will progressively rally the family all together around the Wii for great amount of fun!
With its twenty colorful and non violent levels, its pleasant atmosphere full of original puzzles, its fast pace action phases and convivial multiplayer mode, ColorZ will attract a wide audience and will sure bring a great dose of fun on WiiWare!


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Recent Posts
The list: to do by November 28, 2017
1. Make salsa with tomatoes that I have grown myself DONE!
2. Visit 30 new units of the National Park Service (26/30)
3. Purchase a new car DONE!
4. Read 18 of the greatest 100 novels of all time (2/18)
5. Visit the seven counties in Michigan that I still have not set foot in (0/7)
6. Learn how to make great guacamole DONE!
7. Master one video game to completion
8. Hike Half Dome [all the way to the top]
9. Write, shoot and edit "The Island of Dr. Fangboner"
10. Incorporate my business as an LLC
11. Launch an illegal firework on the 4th of July DONE!
12. Write an iPhone/iPad app DONE!
13. Learn how to make five new cocktails (4/5)
14. Watch the sunrise and the sunset in the same day
15. Ride 12 new-to-me roller coasters DONE!
16. See the Northern Lights
17. Attend the taping of two Public Radio programs (1/2)
18. Ride my bike for a minimum of 100 miles a week for a month
19. See nine foreign-language films (3/9)
20. Eat completely vegetarian for one week
21. Learn how to replace hoses and tubes in my car
22. See six sporting events in venues that I've never been to before DONE!
23. Attend a D23 event DONE!
24. See five plays or musicals, at least one on Broadway (1/5)
25. Rewatch all episodes of the first four seasons of The West Wing (73/90)
26. Take a wine-appreciation class
27. Come up with two fantastic cake ideas for the FCRT Christmas Party DONE!
28. Attend a midnight premiere of the final Harry Potter movie and three other movies DONE!
29. Get a 2nd generation iPad DONE
30. Ride a burro to the bottom of the Grand Canyon
31. Learn a 3D drawing program
32. Host a dinner party outside my home
33. Take an advanced Motion course
34. Be able to do 25 (well, maybe 15) consecutive pull-ups
35. Increase my fiber intake by 20% without using Metamucil
36. Ride in a helicopter
37. Make children laugh hysterically DONE
38. Do more to support the Democratic Party in Oakland County DONE!
39. Play 4 new board games (2/4)
40. Buy a new bike DONE!
41. Visit 15 new restaurants/bars in Michigan DONE!
42. Maximize my IRA contribution annually (0/2)
43. Go barefoot for an entire day
44. Make quarterly visits to the Zoo (5/11)
45. Throw a pot on a wheel DONE
46. Bike on 14 rail-trails that I've never been on (10/14)
47. Get six professional massages (1/6)
48. Tour the New Belgium Brewery in Ft. Collins, Colorado
49. Visit ten new museums (5/10)
50. Take a cooking class
51. Get a T-shirt design accepted on Threadless
52. Drive 100 mph
53. Surprise a server with a 100% tip
54. Visit the Royal Oak Farmer's Market at least 2x/month in season
55. Attend a NYC taping of a late-night talk show
56. Update this blog at least once a month (16/33)
57. Ride six metric centuries (0/6)
58. Read five presidential biographies (0/5)
59. Go to ComicCon
60. Vacation with friends in another state DONE!
61. Fire a gun
62. Visit a Canadian province other than Ontario DONE!
63. Ride a horse
64. Backup items for my Safe Deposit Box semi-annually (0/5)
65. Dine alongside a lake, river or ocean eleven times DONE!
66. Drive historic Route 66 (at least a couple hundred miles of it) DONE!
67. Visit five of the eight states that I haven't been to yet (1/5)
68. Buy an item at a live auction
69. Volunteer at the Royal Oak Animal Shelter
70. Ride on a sailboat
71. Visit a Disney Park outside the USA
72. Create a plan to purchase a home
73. Learn how to make a really great Lemon Cake
74. Acquire three new pieces of art (1/3)
75. Mail a wooden postcard
76. Volunteer at a local food bank
77. Visit the Dentist at least once a year DONE!
78. Attend a religious/philosophical debate DONE!
79. Learn to identify 10 new constellations (0/10)
80. Paint a picture using oil paints on canvas
81. Walk on a beach at night
82. Visit three cousins DONE!
83. Develop a great chicken marinade DONE!
84. Jump off a dock or jetty
85. Attend a film festival
86. Visit Solar Decathlon 2015 or 17
87. See Patton Oswalt perform
88. Seek out 16 new bands/recording artists (8/16)
89. Have an original video get at least 2,000 hits on YouTube DONE!
90. Make three kinds of pie that I've never made before (0/3)
91. Ride a Segway
92. See a drive-in movie
93. Eat only food items with less than five ingredients for a week
94. Visit three Presidential libraries and/or museums DONE!
95. Complete a wind-power technology/information blog
96. Watch a minor-league baseball game
97. Learn how to shoot HD video with a DSLR IN PROGRESS!
98. Top H$1 billion in my HSX portfolio DONE!
99. Tour ten LEED-Certified buildings (0/10)
100. Look for four new philanthropic or charity organizations and contribute to them (1/4)
101. Get inside the "Bond Villain" house along the waterway in Garden City, SC
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Short answer: No.
1) The Kindle has two components: the Kindle as device and Kindle as eBook file format.
2) People have made an investment in Kindle books. Those who decide to switch from a Kindle device will use the Kindle app on the iPad. This really doesn't wipe out the Kindle as such. It makes it a parasite inside the iPad. And those Kindle users will continue to buy Kindle books because what reason is there to split their library into Kindle and ePub (ePub equalling iBooks, Nook, or Kobo)? As I discovered for myself, Amazon offers more books that anyone else and it's likely to stay that way. Amazon will also push books more than Apple will.
3) There is still a place for eInk until something comes along to make LCD/LEDs in bright sunlight possible. Pixel Qi's status is still questionable. No one other than Notion Ink (which is still vaporware) has publicly stated it will use that screen — and even then, they curiously offer a model with a conventional LCD screen. Plus, Apple loves its IPS LED screen because it makes colors pop.
4) A smaller iPad would still weigh more than a Kindle. An iPad would most likely be the same size and weight as the Pandigital Novel, which also has a seven-inch screen:
Pandigital Novel: 7.5" x 5.5" x 0.5" – 16 oz
Barnes & Noble Nook: 7.7" x 4.9" x 0.5" – 12.1 oz
Amazon Kindle 3: 7.5" x 4.8" x 0.335" – 8.5-8.7oz
Sony Reader Touch: 6.9" x 4.8" x 0.4" – 10.1 oz
Kobo Reader: 7.24" x 4.72" x 0.393" – 7.795 oz
5) A smaller iPad will still cost more than a Kindle. This makes toting it around more of a financial risk.
6) A smaller iPad will be the New New Thing to steal. Theft anxiety is not conducive to relaxed reading in some public places.
7) A smaller iPad is likely to impact iPod Touch sales more than Kindle sales.
8) Amazon can always put the squeeze on its suppliers and further crush the price down from $139 for the WiFi version.
All that being said, everyday people are very fickle. They once paid $399 for a Kindle. If a seven-inch iPad came in at $299, people could make do with the limitations of an LED screen in bright sunlight (by sitting in the shade) and all the rest of the reasons I set out above. Especially that bit about theft risk — a $399 Kindle was a lot of money to wave around!
Plus, even if it didn't wind up killing the Kindle device, it'd still outsell it at least twenty-to-one.


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Events archive
Professor Noam Chomsky (MIT)
2 June 2016 - 5:00pm
Auditorium, Investcorp Building
The Middle East Centre invites you to view a live feed of this year's Lecture in the Auditorium, Investcorp Building. Professor Chomsky will be speaking in the Nissan Lecture Theatre, St Antony's... Read more
Rebecca Bryant (London School of Economics)
2 June 2016 - 5:00pm
Seminar Room, European Studies Centre, 70 Woodstock Road, Oxford OX2 6HR
Transitional justice, or measures that come to terms with legacies of mass violence, have become important means for societies to heal the scars left by conflict or state repression, and to mend... Read more
African Studies Seminar
Miles Larmer (University of Oxford), Ramon Sarro (University of Oxford), Violette Pouillard (Université Libre Brussels), Eva Schalbroek (University of Cambridge), Nicole Eggers (Loyola University)
2 June 2016 - 5:00pm to 7:00pm
Pavilion Room, St Antony's College
How and in what ways did colonies compare? This roundtable event brings together four researchers - Nicole Eggers (Loyola), Miles Larmer (Oxford), Violette Pouillard (ULB) and Eva Schalbroek (... Read more
Latin American History Seminar
Marcela Echeverri, University of Yale, Jason McGraw, Indiana University Bloomington
2 June 2016 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
LAC Seminar Room, 1 Church Walk, Oxford
Marcela Echeverri is assistant professor of Latin American history and MacMillan Research Fellow at Yale University. She is the author of "'Enraged to the Limit of Despair': Infanticide and Slave... Read more


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Observations of a Jailed Journalist
On Sept. 24, while working on a story about citizen journalism for my employer, I found myself arrested, along with many other people. My arrest gave me a unique vantage point on the risks and rewards of citizen journalists, those non-professionals who capture stories (usually without pay) using videos and images via portable technology like a cell phone camera. Anyone, even a passerby or a police officer can be a citizen journalist. That's its power.
Here's what happened.
My colleague Sam Lewis and I had previously covered Occupy Wall Street, an ongoing demonstration against economic inequality, on the first day it began, Sept.17.
Throughout that day we noticed many protesters using their mobile devices to document their own experience, sometimes for themselves or their own blogs, sometimes to share with bona fide media organizations. So, midday this past Saturday, Sept. 24, we headed to Union Square, where the Occupy Wall Street protesters had marched that morning from Lower Manhattan.
When we first arrived on the scene, protesters were marching along the sidewalk in unison, chanting. There was no sense of chaos. Many held video and audio recording devices, including camera phones.
In a sudden burst of urban chaos, how can the police distinguish between passersby and protesters who may be committing civil disobedience or any other type of punishable offense? Or between citizen journalists and professional journalists?
However, the stream of protesters did disrupt traffic. Pedestrians wove in and out of the mass of protesters, some on their way to do Saturday errands, others who joined in for a block or two, chanting with the masses.
Sam and I were on the sidewalk observing the action. She was taking photographs, while I was juggling my reporter's notebook and the audio recorder we'd brought along to interview protesters about how they were using media throughout the day.
As more people spilled into the street, police started to demand that protesters stay on the sidewalk. But as people seemed to be retreating from harm's way, police began pushing the protesters. I saw police use large nets to corral people en masse. I watched as police pepper sprayed several young women in the face. (An NYPD spokesperson confirmed the use of pepper spray to MetroFocus.) I saw senior citizens and teenagers get arrested. I saw about 20 or 30 police officers tackle people and prod them roughly with police batons.
Video of the young female protesters against whom MetroFocus reporter John Farley saw the police use pepper spray. The headlines for this video was chosen by YouTube. Youtube/TheOther99Percent.
With nearly every arrest, the demonstrators called out for "cameras, cameras" — urging others to document the events — and chanted in unison "The whole world is watching! The whole world is watching!"
When I saw the young women get pepper sprayed, I ran over to interview them. While holding a microphone and wearing a badge identifying myself as an employee of "WNET – New York Public Media," I found myself suddenly roped into one of the large nets. I was thrown against a wall and handcuffed with hard plastic zip-tie restraints. I sat on the sidewalk with about 50 others. I yelled over and over "I'm press! I'm with WNET MetroFocus! Please do not arrest me."
I did not possess the press credentials that NYPD allocates to journalists. (As MetroFocus is less than three months old, neither I nor my journalist colleagues have yet met the NYPD's qualifications.) So even though I work as a professional journalist, the NYPD lumped me in with everybody else.
Lumped me in indeed. I was in police custody for nine hours, eight of which I spent in a jail cell at the 1st Precinct.
An NYPD spokesperson told MetroFocus on Monday that 87 people have been arrested in total since the Occupy Wall Street protests began last weekend; however, the Daily News reported that at least 80 people were arrested on Sept. 24 alone, mostly on charges of disorderly conduct and obstructing traffic. The NYPD would not comment further on my arrest.
Before we were all jailed, they took away everybody's possessions, including our notebooks, pens, cameras, recording devices and mobile phones. We were separated by gender.
My cellmates were about 35 other men. Most of them were protesters, with at least two bystanders who were snatched up while snapping souvenir photos in the afternoon mayhem. Most had spent quite a bit of time documenting the events of the day, including their arrests, with whatever media tools they had at their disposal.
My cellmate JRL, who preferred to be identified only by his initials, is a 23-year-old Brooklynite. He identified himself as a citizen journalist who streams live footage through Twitter. "We like the terminology 'grassroots media,' where people in the march were literally marching with laptops and webcams so that they could live broadcast. I think it's an immediate, never before possible edge," said JRL. He was arrested while carrying his Canon 7D camera.
Multiple videos from Sept. 24 show police arresting people holding cameras and audio equipment. An NYPD spokesperson told ABC News that the police were not targeting camera operators.
I don't know precisely why I was arrested, though I have been charged with disorderly conduct. But what I realized is that in a sudden burst of urban chaos, how can the police distinguish between passersby and protesters who may be committing civil disobedience or any other type of punishable offense? Or between citizen journalists and professional journalists?
The arrest of my cell mate, Sam Queary, 24, adds another dimension to the issue: that of the inadvertent, spontaneous citizen journalist. Queary happened to be at work at Grey Dog Cafe near Union Square when the protesters marched by.
"I heard a commotion and went outside to find cops macing women and arresting people and hitting people with nightsticks, so I started taking pictures," said Queary. "I followed a young, black male as he was being accosted by five cops. As I tried to take a picture I was pushed away. I asked why I was pushed away and then the next thing you know I was being judo flipped."
Someone with a video camera documented John Farley's cell-mate Sam Queary being "judo-flipped" by NYPD and arrested as he was photographing others being arrested. The video, shot by an unknown citizen journalist, has been widely broadcast and linked to by media outlets around the world. The headline for this video was chosen by YouTube. Youtube/LibertyPlazaRev.
I also met Rosa A., 33, in the police van while we were being transported to the 1st Precinct for processing. She had been shopping at the Barnes and Noble on Union Square when she saw the protesters outside. As many New Yorkers do when they see something unusual, she snapped a picture. And she was arrested.
"I've never been arrested," said Rosa A., in visible pain from the plastic handcuffs. "I was just there looking at magazines." She laughed, lightening the mood in the police van. Even our arresting officer, in the van with us, chuckled.
Between when the Occupy Wall Street protests began on Sept. 17 and this weekend's wave of media coverage stemming from the arrests, the protesters have complained about being largely ignored by traditional media, including the major national and even metropolitan newspapers, the cable TV news channels and the local network news stations. Meanwhile, argue the protesters, similarly sized Tea Party demonstrations in recent years have received considerable coverage. The general consensus among the Occupy Wall Street protesters was that it was important to document constantly what is happening, and to present their own story when other media hasn't.
The protesters have also claimed that the media coverage they did receive painted them in an unflattering light and hasn't accurately represented them. Saturday's New York Times article characterized the protesters as uninformed, mostly white hippies and trust-funded anti-capitalists. As a result, the protesters I spoke with were quite media savvy and conscious of their need to represent themselves in an attempt to legitimize their cause, which they've been doing on their website, on Twitter and on Youtube. In fact, they have an entire media team assembled at Zuccotti Park in Lower Manhattan, where about a dozen laptops are being powered by a portable generator, and citizen journalists are constantly uploading new footage.
The Occupy Wall Street demonstrators have been criticized, including in the aforementioned New York Times piece, as unorganized and lacking in any concrete goals, other than to raise awareness about economic corruption.
But as we all sat in a jail, I noticed an interesting thing happen.
People began to talk very seriously about organizing in a more cohesive way than they have been. Jailhouse rookies, who had never been arrested or involved in radical political activities, listened attentively as experienced activists spoke about the need to set clear demands in order to rally broader public support for specific outcomes.
I don't know what's going to happen to Occupy Wall Street as a movement. Maybe it will fizzle out, maybe it will grow. I do know that whatever happens will be documented. And I know that there's a history of activist movements being bolstered when leaders and followers alike are jailed together.
My cellmate Daniel Gross, a protester who volunteers as an organizer with the Industrial Workers of the World Union, helped create the first union for Starbucks employees.
"I think the NYPD is really going to try to spin what happened today," Gross told the group, as he handed out his contact information. "I think that we should organize our own press conference."
Around 10:30 p.m. the police began letting us leave our cell in groups of two. Before leaving, many traded contact information through smuggled business cards and contraband pens.
The still-jailed cheered the newly free.


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Bengals thump Giants to halt four-game skid
Cincinnati, OH – Andy Dalton threw four touchdown passes to four different receivers, as the Cincinnati Bengals hammered the New York Giants, 31-13, at Paul Brown Stadium.
The Bengals (4-5) had their way with the reigning Super Bowl champions right from the opening possession, which saw Dalton fire a 56-yard pass to A.J. Green for a quick touchdown.
Dalton played mistake-free for the first time this season, hitting 21-of-30 passes for 199 yards to help Cincinnati snap a four-game skid.
"It was a big win for us. We knew it was going to take our best effort to win and that's what happened," Dalton said.
Eli Manning threw two interceptions and lost a fumble for the NFC East-leading Giants (6-4), who head into their bye week on a two-game losing streak.
Manning finished with just 215 yards on 29-of-46 attempts and did not throw a touchdown pass for a third straight game -- his longest drought since his 2004 rookie season.
"I have to start playing better," Manning said. "We can fix it."
Cincinnati was in front 17-6 at halftime and came away with three turnovers in the third quarter to pad its lead.
With the Giants knocking on the door on their second possession, Adam Jones stripped Ahmad Bradshaw near the sideline and Carlos Dunlap jumped on the ball at the Bengals' 14-yard line.
Geno Atkins pressured Manning into interceptions the next two times New York touched the ball. First, the defensive tackle had the quarterback in his grasp, and Michael Johnson got a hand on Manning's ill-advised pass. Pat Sims, playing his first game of the season, came away with the diving pick at the Giants' 12, and Jermaine Gresham made a leaping catch in the end zone three plays later for a 10-yard score with 6:37 left in the third.
Three snaps later, Nate Clements stepped in front of another rushed Manning pass and returned it 21 yards to the New York 16. This time Dalton turned the turnover into a 10-yard TD pass to Mohamed Sanu on a play nearly identical to Gresham's grab.
Manning lost a fumble early in the fourth quarter, and the Giants' Andre Brown capped the scoring with a late 2-yard TD run.
"I don't have anything I can say I was pleased with," Giants head coach Tom Coughlin said. "We need to play better."
Green was quoted earlier in the week saying there were "a lot of holes" in the Giants' defense. The second-year star found one on the fifth snap of the game as he got behind the secondary, hauled in Dalton's bomb and walked in for a 56-yard touchdown.
Jones' punt return set up Cincinnati's second TD just 4:07 into the game. The 68-yard pickup came after a Giants penalty negated Steve Weatherford's would- be 61-yard punt. After two incompletions, Dalton hit Andrew Hawkins on a quick out, and the receiver did the rest en route to an 11-yard TD.
Brandon Tate returned the next Giants punt and coughed it up at the Cincinnati 27-yard line, and the turnover resulted in Lawrence Tynes kicking a 23-yard field goal with 5 1/2 minutes remaining in the opening quarter.
The Bengals twice kept their offense on the field on fourth down in the second quarter. They were stopped the first time, but converted the next via Sanu's 15-yard catch on 4th-and-2 at the Giants' 37-yard line.
The extended drive ended with Mike Nugent's 28-yard field goal, and Tynes added a 31-yarder of his own just before halftime.
Game Notes
Green, who led the Bengals with seven catches for 85 yards, has caught a TD pass in eight straight games ... Sims was activated from the physically unable to perform list this week. He missed the first eight games due to a hamstring injury ... Hakeem Nicks paced New York with nine catches for 75 yards ... Manning fell to 13-19 as a starter during November ... New York converted 5- of-14 third-down tries.


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Growing up, I was always told I would be a preacher or politician. I am a gay Agnostic, so that pretty much eliminates both of those possibilities. But I have realized that I do have my little blog here to preach MY message. Few read, but I can feel I am trying to be a part of the civil discourse. Now, The Black Eyed Peas have a position of influence… and they are using that by releasing an updated 2016 version of their 2003 hit "Where's the Love?" Celebrities appearances mixed with heart wrenching images makes me ask where is empathy, sympathy, and concern for others and our society. In 2003, I am ashamed to admit I remember more dancing to the song than listening to it.
Part of being Agnostic for me is I am ok with saying I don't know. People confuse being Agnostic with being Atheist, but I feel Atheist have the same certainty there is NO God as Religious people do that there IS a God. Being Agnostic, I can say not only I don't know, I can say – I don't care. I don't have to BE right… even though I do think I am right! (lol) Why do we have to have an absolute RIGHT side of EVERY issue? Living in the middle I get FRUSTRATED when Christians try to legislate how I as a gay man can live, and justify their "right" to not make gay wedding cakes because of THEIR beliefs. I am ANGERED by Islamic extremist that use terror as a means to associate that message with ALL Muslims to attempt to control lives of others. I am AGGRAVATED that we as a society look at issues only from our point of view and how it impacts us.
The photo of 5 year-old Omran Daqneesh sitting in the back of an ambulance in shock, wounded by a bomb that struck the building where his family lived is HAUNTING! I actually heard someone on tv say why had his family not fled, why did they stay in a war torn town. If I had been able to talk through the tv, I would have suggested the father may have seen the 2015 image of the lifeless toddler Aylan Kurdi on the beach of the Turkish resort of Bodrum, whose family had attempted to flee the Syrian war.
These images are events that happened about a year apart and in that year, US Presidential candidate Donald Trump was ranting about the threat of accepting Syrian refugees (and I like to remind people that this is also an asshole that feels it is acceptable to mock disabled people). He worries about the possibility of "terrorist" being able to use this as a way into the United States. I say the terrorists are here… they are the people cheering Trump's hateful rhetoric. Britain is so frightened that they voted to leave the European Union based MOSTLY on fear of immigrants. How can ANY American look and these images and not be more terrified of the idea of doing NOTHING, not HELPING? When our society has become so cold, callused, and afraid of doing what is right, what is the danger of a Trump Presidency? We are accepting our fates to be isolationist that care ONLY about ourselves! I will FIGHT for what's right and that, for me, means fighting Donald Trump's candidacy. Even as much as I may not like Hillary Clinton… she does understand the basics of what's right.
It's not even like we have to look internationally to see issues that are no brainer issues that have become divisive. Why are so many white people so offended by the "Black Lives Matter" movement? It is as if they are so afraid of black people that they have to embolden the idea that there are NO bad cops and that "Black Lives Matter" hates cops. When the African-American population is disproportionately impacted by violence, poverty and incarceration, it is a sad refection on all people to act as if that issue does not exist. Americans HAVE such a need to react to "Black Lives Matter" with "Blue Lives Matter" or "All Lives Matter" because it is easier to be divisive and not listen, ignore or even blame the messenger. Or are they so color blinded that they think the idea of "BLACK Lives Matter" is to the exclusion of other races? Why are we as a society so afraid to agree that "Black Lives Matter" without having to dilute the message before listening or attempting to look or work on the issue?
I am a white guy and what makes me a little different is that I can acknowledge I have benefits because of white privilege. I know when I am pulled over by a cop, I am uncomfortable, but not afraid. I KNOW there are great cops! But that does not blind me to the evidence that there are some BAD cops and that some of those "bad cops" have gotten away with murder or at least manslaughter. A crooked justice system that gives bad cops a pass only endangers the good, honorable, and admirable cops. I wonder if Americans were to answer honestly if they would admit that cops over use their authority to a point of intimidation? Innocent black men have died just in the process of being arrested for minor violations. But a lot of white America cannot even acknowledge this injustice or acts as if it doesn't exist.
Two BIG white boy cases that OFFEND me to my core are Ethan Couch and Brock Turner. Ethan Couch killed 4 people driving drunk. He was drinking under age, had stolen the beer from WalMart, his blood alcohol was over 3 times the legal limit for adult drivers, speeding with 7 passengers in his father's pickup (one of the passengers was paralyzed in the accident also), and tested positive for marijuana and Valium. Ethan's lawyer argued that poor Ethan suffered from "Affluenza". Affluenza has nothing to do with the flu… but basically is a condition brought on by
too much affluence, he grew up rich and did not understand his actions had consequences. He ended up sentenced to probation and therapy. Look Ethan Couch up on Wikipedia for even more details of his white privilege granted via the US justice system. While the 2nd guy Brock Turner needs less discussion, he was convicted of raping an unconscious girl and was only sentenced to 6 months in jail and only had to serve 3 of those months.
These 2 assholes were convicted and paid no real penalty. In 2015 alone, over 100 unarmed African-Americans were killed by cops… key word "UNARMED". Only 10 of these incidents resulted in charges and only 2 led to convictions.* In the same year (2015) there were 36 non-accidental firearm fatalities for US law enforcement.** We all know ALL lives matter, but we should see that this issue unjustifiably impacts one community more than the other! But for some reason, people do not listen and find ways to justify status quo.
Status quo is not acceptable anymore! We have to find the love! I wanted a Hollywood ending for this post… I tried. I searched for more recent photos of Omran. I wanted to see a photo of him well, happy, running and playing. But there is no "updated" happy ending for these issues I am struggling to understand. But to keep me motivated to find the love… I need the haunting image of Omran. At times, that photo comes to mind and I think… Omran is someone's child, brother, nephew, cousin, buddy… he is more than that photo. I keep thinking of that photo and as I play with my blonde-haired, blue eyed, great-nephews that also have Arab last names. I have to do something so that their world is better! I hope to influence them with good, principled ideas, and there are NO more cases of "Affluenza" (or asshole lawyers that even consider ignorance a defense)! I hope that they will know a better, welcoming, loving America and be a part of a society that WANTS to help and protect ALL lives – especially the ones that don't have the same privileges as others regardless of color, nationality or socioeconomic status. I hope they will not understand why TWICE The Black Eyed Peas felt the need to sing, "Where's the Love?"
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PANAMA CITY, Fla. — Tiger Woods and his wife officially divorced Monday, nine months after his middle-of-the-night car crash outside his home set off shocking revelations that golf's biggest star had been cheating on his wife.
The divorce was filed in Bay County Circuit Court in the Florida Panhandle. The couple had married in October 2004 in Barbados and have two children, 3 and 1.
"We are sad that our marriage is over and we wish each other the very best for the future," they said in a statement released by attorneys. "While we are no longer married, we are the parents of two wonderful children and their happiness has been, and will always be, of paramount importance to both of us."
Terms of the divorce were not released, except that they will "share parenting" of their 3-year-old daughter, Sam, and 19-month-old son, Charlie.
Woods is to play this week at The Barclays in northern New Jersey.
The sex scandal cost him millions of dollars in corporate endorsements and forced him to take five months away from the game, including two months in therapy in a Mississippi clinic, when he was trying to save his marriage.


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"There is a field out beyond right doing and wrong doing,
I'll meet you there."
There's been a lot of debating, especially on Facebook, but then twenty-seven or forty-eight or ninety-two heated comments later, someone trips over the fact that we essentially agree.
I've seen it happen again and again–minds so tattered from the brutal slaying of innocents allowing HEARTS to speak louder.
First we are insulted or offended or threatened. Then we are furious or obnoxious or despairing. But with each reminder of the devastating loss in Connecticut, we re-evaluate… we attend our child's holiday concert, we wrap her presents, we tuck him into bed–and with our joy comes the bitter sting of "their" devastating loss.
One Facebook friend stormed against the focus on guns in favor of prayer and the banning of video games, and then suggested this: Let's see where we agree. I definitely think guns should be regulated and that assault weapons should be illegal and not even manufactured.
Another friend vigorously defended the need for guns as a means of protection, but eventually said: I'm confident that Vice President Biden will do what needs to be done. I would be thrilled if this administration banned all automatic assault style rifles. I also support ammunition limits. I think in the end we'll all move forward with changes everyone can agree on.
Even a young man, claiming the need for arms against a potential dictatorship, relinquished his absolutism in the face of the Sandy Hook massacre, with: I whole heartily agree with some of the anti-gun arguments.
His friend, a Marine, did his own bit of surrender: I have learned a lot in the last 24 hours on Facebook. It certainly was not my intention to take our conversation this far, and I honestly had no idea so many people would be involved. I do appreciate that everyone respected each other and their opinions and had a civil conversation. Although my feelings remain the same, I am beginning to see others' views. In the end we all want the SAME thing for ourselves, our families and our children who have their whole lives ahead of them.
I think the mystic poet Rumi had it right when he suggested that we meet out beyond the field of right doing and wrong doing. It's the children of Newtown who have led us there.
Kelly Salasin, December 2012
See also: The Courage to Change–a child's response to the Sandy Hook massacre
And here is some of the best writing I've found this week in response to Newtown:
Going Home (author returns to Newtown for Christmas)
In Gun Debate, a Misguided Focus on Mental Illness
The Newtown Shooting and Why We Must Redefine Masculinity
No More Newtowns: What Will It Take?
Do We Have the Courage to Stop This?
The solution to gun violence is clear
Tools of an ugly trade (a S.W.A.T. officers addresses assault weapons)
Six things I don't want to hear after the Sandy Hook massacre
God can't be kept out (a woman of faith takes on religious extremists)
a majority of cowards (a sobering, thought-provoking read)
Envisioning a Healed World (the world is an echo of wounds)
Why America Lets the Killings Continue
Our Dissociative Relationship With Gun Violence
One Million Moms for Gun Control
"Sometimes I would like to ask God why He allows poverty, suffering, and injustice
when He could do something about it.
But I'm afraid He would ask me the same question."
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Warning: If you're epileptic, you might want to pass on this video.
Everybody knows that GoPros are tough little suckers, but this one also seems to have had a little luck on its side. After falling 12,500 feet it not only survived completely unscathed, but also managed to capture its clumsy, skydiving owner's landing.
The Boogeyman's Sophie Thatcher Reveals What Draws Her to Dark Characters | io9 Interview
The footage it caught on the way down might not be what you'd call watchable in the traditional sense, but it's impressive. It's definitely one of the better things to result from something accidentally falling from an altitude of thousands of feet. [Boing Boing]


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In an interview with the Wall Street Journal last week, Google Chairman Eric Schmidt called the patent battle between Google and Apple the "defining fight" of the mobile industry. If you want to know more about the implications of this fight, you're in luck.
Tomorrow afternoon, the Congressional Internet Caucus will host a panel on the topic of whether patents will stifle innovation in the mobile and tablet device markets. Panelists include USA Today's Rob Pegoraro, George Mason University law professor Adam Mossoff, American University law professor Jorge Contreras, and Marvin Ammori. The event will be moderated by the Caucus Advisory Committee's Eric Hinkes.
The panel kicks off at noon in the Rayburn House Office building, Room 2226. You can RSVP here.
And here is more information about the event:
You have seen the headlines: Patent litigation continues to roil the exploding smartphone and tablet marketplace with consumers literally caught in the crossfire. Recent high profile smartphone court cases have consumers and policymakers deeply troubled that courts will strangle the incredible pace of mobile innovation and competition. Recent litigation between leading smartphone manufacturers has also caught the attention of Congressional members. The number of smartphone patent lawsuits in multiple countries and jurisdictions around the globe is dizzying and could threaten to keep the best new mobile phones off the market. How will the public be affected by these lawsuits as new mobile devices continue to rollout? Will a competitor force your favorite mobile device off the market?
A diverse set of panelists will tackle important questions including: 1) Can mobile device companies simply innovate around these intellectual property disputes?; 2) Are these constant lawsuits just the natural byproduct of rapid innovation?; 3) Must Congress step in with legislation? The panel will also debate the impact of the recently passed America Invents Act on the smartphone litigation inferno and share their thoughts on what patent issues lie on the horizon in the competitive mobile device space.
At the 2012 State of the Net Conference in January, the Congressional Internet Caucus Advisory Committee facilitated a dynamic discussion on this emerging issue between stakeholders by hosting a focused panel discussion("Patent Warfare: Will Your Next Smartphone Get Caught in The Crossfire?") on the then-recently enacted America Invents Act, which sought to reform the nation's patent laws for the first time in nearly 60 years. Since this panel was convened, the potential effect on innovation has only become more critical, as companies continue spending billions of dollars to acquire massive portfolios of patents through mergers and acquisitions.


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No one knows what to do with newspapers these days. They kill trees, get your fingers smeary and, in the event their stories are actually true, lag behind the Internet. Anyone who works at a daily (or even—gulp!—a weekly) frets constantly about impending obsolescence. So imagine what a joy it is to see the dear old things so gainfully employed in Disney's barnstorming, four-alarm delight Newsies. The "papes," as they're called by the show's scrappy New Yawk street hawkers, are indispensable props. They're stuffed greedily into sacks, hurled as missiles during fights, even spread on the floor for an impromptu dance surface. But it's not just the clever recycling of tabloid sheets that endears you to this bright, invigorating extravaganza: Not since Wicked has there been a big-tent, family-friendly Broadway musical that gets so much so right.
Set during the city's newsboy strike in the summer of 1899, Newsies takes the diverting Disney film and adds extra tunes and many more high-jumping dances for the spunky male ensemble. The Alan Menken–Jack Feldman score pleasingly blends music-hall orchestral swing and power pop, and Feldman's lyrics are more graceful than you'd expect from a show aimed primarily at tweens. Harvey Fierstein's book brims with sass and big-hearted sympathy for the underdog. And director Jeff Calhoun's designers balance a gray-brown palette with splashes of color (mostly from costumes), creating grit to rub up against the material's built-in melodrama and sentimentality.
Jeremy Jordan is a charismatic wonder in the lead role of Jack Kelly, the kindhearted teen who dreams of escaping to Santa Fe but accepts the mantle of hero, unionizing the newsies and standing up to antilabor magnate Joseph Pulitzer (John Dossett, squeezing notes of subtlety from a villain role). Old-fashioned book musicals with pluck, brains and heart are so rare these days; when you see one as blissfully fun as Newsies, it belongs on the front page in 72-point type.—David Cote
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Amy Fisher, who has been called many things in her life, is about to add another title – porn magnate.
The woman perhaps best known as the "Long Island Lolita" has launched an adult film production company—and will produce and star in adult films for Dreamzone Entertainment starting later this year. The company, Amy Fisher Productions, initially plans four films to be released before the end of 2011.
"Our society loves sex," said Fisher in a statement. "Sex is beautiful, powerful, and simply put, no one has the right to tell me what I can or can not do with my own private parts."
Fisher, now the mother of three, has been a long-time presence in tabloids. She earned the "Long Island Lolita" nickname in 1992, when at the age of 17 she shot and severely wounded Mary Jo Buttafuoco, the wife of her lover. After spending seven years in prison following a guilty plea to first-degree aggravated assault, she took a job as a columnist for the Long Island Press.
Her introduction to the porn world was, initially, a seemingly involuntary one. After she married in 2003, her husband sold a sex video of the couple to a porn company two years ago. Fisher sued the distributor, claiming copyright infringement and other damages, but eventually settled the case.
Curiosity drove sales, with the video eventually selling over 200,000 copies, according to Fisher's publicist. That seemed to spur Fisher's curiosity in the adult industry. She has since moved into a career as a nude dancer and made a pay-per-view adult film of her own.
The adult entertainment industry has been struggling in recent years, besieged by Internet piracy and the recession. While it used to be virtually recession-proof, free porn has become so readily available online that people who would have bought an adult DVD five years ago are now spending that money on other things (like sex toys).
There are two areas in the adult film industry that have managed to thrive, though: Parody and celebrity. Porn parodies are red-hot, with Vivid's "Batman XXX" (a spoof of the 60s TV show) having the right combination of camp and kink to catch the eye of buyers. The film's two trailers garnered over 1 million views on YouTube and the DVD has topped sales charts for nearly two months.
America's celebrity and tabloid obsession, though, has kept the sex acts of the rich and famous as hot sellers. Porn giant Vivid Entertainment is the reigning king of this subgenre, releasing sex films starring "Girls Next Door" star Kendra Wilkinson, country singer Mindy McCready and alleged Tiger Woods mistress Joslyn James over the past year.
Fisher's role as both producer and star is somewhat rare in the porn industry, which is largely male dominated. Generally, women who run their own companies are industry veterans, who have established a loyal following of fans and have a little leverage with porn houses.
Dreamzone Entertainment is a small player in the adult industry, however. Its biggest title to date was a parody of the ABC sitcom "Roseanne". By signing with a smaller company, Fisher was likely better able to sign on her own terms – likely getting a bigger royalty on sales as well.


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Access to nuclear knowhow is the right of the Iranian nation and such technology is in the minds and hands of Iran's youth, Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Thursday.
Addressing residents in the provincial city of Ardakan in Yazd province, the president said: "Enemies are using the UN Security Council as a tool to prevent the Iranian nation from achieving development and progress." He said they will fail as "no one can ever prevent Iranians from achieving progress."
Referring to the mounting threats of additional sanctions on Iran, Ahmadinejad reminded the enemies that sanctions have long been imposed on the country but still it had managed to achieve success in the nuclear field. "You can again impose sanctions on us and see for yourselves what effect they will have."
Turning to the subject of another anti-Iran resolution which reportedly could be passed next week by the UN Security Council, the president said, according to IRNA, "orders and decisions of the kind have no importance to the Iranian nation."
The president, moreover, implied that Western countries' influence in the international community was diminishing and advised them "not to isolate themselves even more."
He once again gave assurances of the peaceful nature of Iran's nuclear activities, saying they were "completely legal and monitored by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)."


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Hey friends!
My fiance and I decided that we wanted to write a book…on meal prepping! For those of you who follow me on Instagram or Snapchat, you have probably seen our cooking videos. We meal prep every Sunday afternoon for 5 days worth of food. This is our special time to crack open a good bottle of wine, rock out to some music, and enjoy each other. We now look forward to Sunday's (I used to dread them), love to grocery shop, and prepare the food. I mean, anytime I can make a 'chore' more enjoyable…I am alllllllll in. #lifehack
So how does meal prepping build relationships you ask?
Here are our notable effects when we meal prep:
We both feel a sense of relaxation during the day, knowing that we don't have to worry about meals. The thought of having to run to the grocery store after work, or whip something up upon arriving home is an extra stressor which is completely eliminated by meal prepping. Coming home to great meals and being properly nourished during the day, results in mental composure. It is much easier to take on life with a full belly! At the end of the day, we are able to focus on each other, rather than a sink full of dirty dishes or an upset stomach from delivery pizza.
Here is a look at what happens when we do not meal prep:
Basically…"if you have no plan, you are planning to fail"…
HANGER. It's real. It sucks. It wares on relationships. When we don't meal prep we feel chaotic, and every night seems to be a scramble. Before we began planning meals, we would ravenously get home…barely even greeting one other. Blinded by hunger while bickering at each other, one would angrily order takeout and end the night feeling bloated, annoyed, and not ready to take on the next day. This was a draining cycle and as our pants got tighter, and wallets and patience ran thin, we realized a change was needed.
As an avid pinterester, I began to watch meal prepping videos online and even purchased a few books of my own. Starting slow, we began to prep meals together on Sunday afternoons. This quickly became much more than just cooking. It became our special time that we spend together every Sunday, which slingshots us into a great week. In life, there are not many things we can control. However, food is one of them. So, by choosing to control this small aspect of our life, it makes other tasks seem a bit easier.
Soooooo why is it a vegetarian/vegan challenge?
Although there are numerous reasons to go veg, ours is simple: we feel physically and mentally nourished completely through this way of eating. We have tried many different diets together. Ketogenic, paleo, vegan, vegetarian, pescetarian, SAD (standard American diet) to name a few. Doing this gave us a real perspective on which type of eating makes us feel best. Most of us shop around before making a big life decision, right? We did the same…except, we 'shopped' around for a way of eating! This may sound silly, but we honestly wanted to try all different 'diets' before deciding to stick to one. On a vegetarian/vegan diet, we feel full without the bloat, alert, and mentally clear. One thing we noticed right away, was our ability to wake up in the morning and head to work without that 'ugh I am so tired' feeling. We also noticed our moods and outlook on life, in general, improved. We dare you to try it too!
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Steve Taylor/Squint
7 Ball Magazine
July/August 1998
© 1998 VoxCorp, Inc.
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There's a sense of panic coursing through the hallway alcove of offices Squint Entertainment occupies in the Word Records building in Nashville. It seems Squint is about to lose the lease on their Los Angeles office due to a paperwork snafu and the whole staff is on full alert, making frenzied conference calls and sending rushed faxes to the coast to try and prevent their L.A. colleagues from becoming homeless.
In rushes Squint founder Steve Taylor--decorated artist, record producer, video director and now entertainment mogul. He's running late. In the end, the L.A. staff gets to keep all their stuff in the same place. But, Taylor admits, this hassle was not something he expected when he decided to start a record label.
He didn't really know what to expect; starting a record company was never a "life-long passion or dream, by any means," he says. He just wanted to build a home for Christian artists who don't feel they have to be on a general market label for quality and wide exposure. Taylor's background--which included a short stint with general market rock band Chagall Guevara--gave him perspective about both sides of the marketing fence.
Many think moving into the mainstream means more artistic freedom, but Taylor found out differently. "The alternative scene is as restrictive as the Gospel scene," he says. "What's strange isn't just the musical constraints--because the whole idea of alternative music was supposed to be that there aren't any, but of course there were--but there was a political agenda you were supposed to buy into as well, which was absurd."
Taylor was advised by his A&R person at MCA to not mention his pro-life beliefs in interviews with the press. "Then the blinders came off," he says. "I thought Oh I get it, I've traded in one set of constrictions for a whole other set."
The highest satisfaction for an artist who is a Christian, Taylor says, should be when their artistic pursuits and their pursuit of God come together. So he set Squint out with the ideal that artists shouldn't ahve to pick between being a Christian artist or a mainstream artist. "If it's good, you can bring those things along."
He believe it important to have employees intimately familiar with the workings of both the Christian and the mainstream, "not someone that you pass the record off to at Atlantic or Virgin or wherever and hope they like it," he says. "You find out really quickly that other than getting records out to a few other stores, it really doesn't do much of anything. Our question was, How do we do something so the buck stops with us?"
So far, Squint has made an impression. Sixpence's first single aimed at the mainstream, "Kiss Me," has gotten routine play at college stations, adult alternative and modern rock radio. Their song "Easy to Ignore" was featured on an episode of the Steven Bochco cop drama Brooklyn South. Sixpence None the Richer was recently invited to take part in the Lilith Fair tour.
Sixpence None the Richer recently returned from Paris, France where they filmed the new concept video for "Kiss Me." The video, directed by Taylor, was inspired by the classic French film, Jules and Jim.
Records and music videos, however, are not the sole purpose of Squint. Just as essential are plans to venture into feature films. "I wouldn't be here if film weren't part of the agenda," Taylor says.
Of course, films take serious money. Therefore, Taylor partnered with Word Entertainment, who also felt the need for getting into film art. As one Word executive put it to him, "How can we as Christians say we want to affect culture and not be involved in film? It's an essential medium."
Squint's first film is St. Gimp, directed by Taylor and co-written by Taylor and long-time video collaborator Ben Pearson. Taylor won't comment on the film except to say it's a drama. "I don't know I've ever seen a short paragraph description of a movie that made me want to go see it," he explains. "Probably the biggest reason I'm uncomfortable talking about it is I haven't done one yet. I'm happy to talk about music; I'm a lot more confident about that. But if I was reading this, I'd be thinking, Yeah, what does he know?"
A position where Taylor displays a good deal more confidence is in the producer's chair, where he has guided projects for the Newsboys, Guardian and, most recently, Sixpence None the Richer. For Sixpence's Squint debut, he took a step back, content to guide the creative process without contributing as much to it. "With Sixpence the package was complete. It's interesting because it was a different dynamic in the studio. Especially with the idea that I was not going to be working on any of the lyrics at all. The only thing I was going to do was be really hard on [guitarist and chief writer] Matt [Slocum] and just keep pushing it further. What was cool was that he was never bummed out about that. He was always keen on making it better."
For their part, Sixpence None the Richer deeply admires Taylor for the work he did producing their record. "He was really respectful of what we wanted and didn't want," singer Leigh Nash says. "He stretched everybody. What was really cool is we knew we really loved what we'd done before. It was a nice feeling that he had faith we were going to come up with something good."
The second Squint release was the ska praise & worship album, The Insyderz Present Skalleluia. Taylor saw the Detroit band in concert and they told him about their idea of doing ska upgrades of praise & worship choruses. "They had been doign it in concert for a while; people really liked it. I went out to California and heard them in the studio. They started playing me the tracks and I lit up from ear to ear. I took the tape home and it's like it just brought me joy every time I put it on. I thought it would be great if we got to spread this to other people."
Because of legal obligations to their previous label, The Insyderz could only sign for the one record; they have since signed with KMG. But the band members are excited to have worked with Taylor. Skalleluia was always an important project to The Insyderz, trombonist Mike Rowland says. "Even if no label wanted to do it, we would put it out independently. But Squint shared the same vision of ministry we had for this album."
Squint's third act, acoustic art-rockers Burlap to Cashmere, is actually signed to A&M in the general market, but available in the Christian market through Squint. "We saw them in New York at a place called the Bottom Line. Burlap does their set and it's very overt, lyrically. Surprisingly overt. They finish their set and I heard from the next table, What were those lyrics about? There was some sort of spiritual Christian thing going on. And the other person says, How can anyone sing about this Jesus stuff with a straight face? I realized why this band needs to be on A&M and why they need to be in New York City. I feel privileged that we get to be a part of it."
For many of Taylor's fans, the formation of Squint means the probability of a new Steve Taylor record. He has started work, but he's in no rush; he has a company to run, a movie to shoot and records to produce. "In 10 years, if there's not a lot of bitter ex-Squint artists running around, I'll be a happy man."


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The adze (/ˈædz/; alternative spelling: adz) is a cutting tool shaped somewhat like an axe that dates back to the stone age. It can be any tool with a sharp cutting edge.[1] Adzes are used for smoothing or carving wood in hand woodworking, similar to an axe but with the cutting edge perpendicular to the handle. Two basic forms of an adze are the hand adze, a short handled tool swung with one hand, and a foot adze, a long handled tool capable of powerful swings using both hands, the cutting edge usually striking at foot or shin level. The blade of an adze is set at right angles to the tool's shaft (like a hoe or plane), in contrast to an axe's blade, which is in plane with the shaft. A similar, but blunt, tool used for digging in hard ground is called a mattock.
The adze is depicted in ancient Egypt art from the Old Kingdom onward.[2] Originally the adze blades were made of stone, but already in the Predynastic Period copper adzes had all but replaced those made of flint.[3] While stone blades were fastened to the wooden handle by tying, metal blades had sockets into which the handle was fitted. Examples of Egyptian adzes can be found in museums and on the Petrie Museum website.
A depiction of an adze was also used as a hieroglyph, representing the consonants stp, "chosen", and used as: ...Pharaoh XX, chosen of God/Goddess YY...
The ahnetjer (Manuel de Codage transliteration: aH-nTr) depicted as an adze-like instrument,[4] was used in the Opening of the Mouth ceremony, intended to convey power over their senses to statues and mummies. It was apparently the foreleg of a freshly sacrificed bull or cow with which the mouth was touched.[5][6]
As iron-age technology moved south into Africa with migrating ancient Egyptians, they carried their technology with them, including adzes. To this day, iron adzes are used all over rural Africa for various purposes - from digging pit latrines, and chopping firewood, to tilling crop fields - whether they are of maize (corn), coffee, tea, pyrethrum, beans, millett, yams or a plethora of other cash and subsistence crops.
New Zealand
Prehistoric Māori adzes from New Zealand, used for wood carving, were made from nephrite, also known as jade. At the same time on Henderson Island, a small coral island in eastern Polynesia lacking any rock other than limestone, natives may have fashioned giant clamshells into adzes.[7]
Northwest Coast America
American Northwest coast native peoples traditionally used adzes for both functional construction (from bowls to canoes) and art (from masks to totem poles). Northwest coast adzes take two forms: hafted and D-handle. The hafted form is similar in form to a European adze with the haft constructed from a natural crooked branch which approximately forms a 60% angle. The thin end is used as the handle and the thick end is flattened and notched such that an adze iron can be lashed to it. Modern hafts are sometimes constructed from a sawed blank with a dowel added for strength at the crook. The second form is the D-handle adze which is basically an adze iron with a directly-attached handle. The D-handle therefore provides no mechanical leverage. Northwest coast adzes are often classified by size and iron shape vs. role. As with European adzes, iron shapes include straight, gutter and lipped. Where larger Northwest adzes are similar in size to their European counterparts, the smaller sizes are typically much lighter such that they can be used for the detailed smoothing, shaping and surface texturing required for figure carving. Final surfacing is sometimes performed with a crooked knife.
New Guinea and Melanesia
Ground stone adzes are still in use by a variety of people in Irian Jaya (Indonesia), Papua New Guinea and some of the smaller Islands of Melanesia and Micronesia. The hardstone is ground on a riverine rock with the help of water until it has got the desired shape. It is then fixed to a natural grown angled wood with resin and plant fibers. The shape and manufacture of these adzes is similar to those found from the Neolithic stone age in Europe. A variety of minerals are used. Their everyday use is on a steady decline, as it is much more convenient to cut fire wood using imported steel axes or machetes. However, certain ceremonial crafts such as making canoes, ceremonial shields, masks, drums, containers or communal houses etc. may require the use of traditional-made stone adzes.
Modern adzes
Modern adzes are made from steel with wooden handles, and enjoy limited use: occasionally in semi-industrial areas, but particularly by 'revivalists' such as those at the Colonial Williamsburg cultural center in Virginia, USA. However, the traditional adze has largely been replaced by the sawmill and the powered-plane, at least in industrialised cultures. It remains in use for some specialist crafts, for example by coopers. Adzes are also in current use by artists such as Northwest Coast American and Canadian Indian sculptors doing pole work, masks and bowls.
Foot adze
"Adzes are used for removing heavy waste, leveling, shaping, or trimming the surfaces of timber..."[8] and boards. Generally, the user stands astride a board or log and swings the adze downwards between his feet, chipping off pieces of wood, moving backwards as they go and leaving a relatively smooth surface behind.
Foot adzes are most commonly known as shipbuilder's or carpenter's adzes. They range in size from 00 to 5 being 3 1/4 to 4 3/4 pounds with the cutting edge 3 inches to 4 1/2 inches wide.[9] On the modern, steel adze the cutting edge may be flat for smoothing work to very rounded for hollowing work such as bowls, gutters and canoes. The shoulders or sides of an adze may be curved called a lipped adze, used for notching. The end away from the cutting edge is called the pole and be of different shapes, generally flat or a pin pole.
- Carpenter's adze - A heavy adze, often with very steep curves, and a very heavy, blunt pole. The weight of this adze makes it unsuitable for sustained overhead adzing.
- Railroad adze - A carpenter's adze which had its bit extended in an effort to limit the breaking of handles when shaping railroad ties (railway sleepers). Early examples in New England began showing up approximately in the 1940s - 1950s. The initial prototypes clearly showed a weld where the extension was attached.
- Shipwright's adze - A lighter, and more versatile adze than the carpenter's adze. This was designed to be used in a variety of positions, including overhead, as well as in front on waist and chest level.
- Lipped shipwright's adze - A variation of the shipwright's adze. It features a wider than normal bit, whose outside edges are sharply turned up, so that when gazing directly down the adze, from bit to eye, the cutting edge resembles an extremely wide and often very flat U. This adze was mainly used for shaping cross grain, such as for joining planks.
- Another group of adzes can be differentiated by the handles; the D-handled adzes have a handle where the hand can be wrapped around the D, close to the bit. These adzes closely follow traditional forms in that the bit or tooth is not wrapped around the handle as a head.
- The head of an ice axe typically possesses an adze for chopping rough steps in ice.
- A firefighter tool called the Halligan bar has a dull adze on one end of the bar. This bar is a multipurpose tool for forcible entry of a structure and demolition with a forked pry-bar on one end and an adze and spike on the other, called the adze-end.
- Demolition adze - A demolition adze has a dull edge and is used for separating materials in the demolition or salvage of old buildings.
Hand adze
- There are also a number of specialist, short-handled adzes used by coopers, wainwrights, chair makers, and bowl and trough making. Many of these have shorter handles for control and more curve in the head to allow better clearance for shorter cuts.
See also
|Wikimedia Commons has media related to Adzes.
|Look up adze in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
- Mauna Kea Adz Quarry, used by prehistoric Hawaiians to obtain basalt stone for adzes and other tools
- Adze-on-block (hieroglyph)
Footnotes and references
- ↑ Oxford English Dictionary: Edge-tool, edged-tool.
- ↑ Rice M (1999). Who's who in ancient Egypt. New York: Routledge. p. 25. ISBN 0-415-15448-0.
A statue of the third dynasty boat builder Ankhwah is showing him holding an adze
- ↑ Shubert SB, Bard KA (1999). Encyclopedia of the archaeology of ancient Egypt. New York: Routledge. p. 458. ISBN 0-415-18589-0.
- ↑ Erman A, Grapow H (1926). Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache [Dictionary of the Egyptian language]. 1. Leipzig: JC Hinrichs. p. 214.24.
- ↑ Schwabe CW, Gordon A (2004). The quick and the dead: biomedical theory in ancient Egypt. Leiden: Brill. p. 76. ISBN 90-04-12391-1.
- ↑ Eyre C (2002). The cannibal hymn: a cultural and literary study. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press. p. 54. ISBN 0-85323-706-9.
- ↑ Diamond, Jared (1997). Guns, Germs, and Steel. New York, N.Y.: Norton. p. 67. ISBN 0-393-31755-2.
- ↑ Salaman, R. A.. Dictionary of tools used in the woodworking and allied trades, c. 1700-1970. USA edition, New York: Scribner, 1975. 23. Print.
- ↑ Salaman, 23
- The section about types of adzes is based on a Quicksilver Wiki article at A Glossary of Terms For Traditional Timber Framing (Timberbee) under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, last accessible 25 July 2006.
- Leo Verhart, Contact in stone: adzes, Keile and Spitzhauen in the Lower Rhine Basin. Neolithic stone tools and the transition from Mesolithic to Neolithic in Belgium and the Netherlands, 5300-4000 cal BC. Journal of Archaeology in the Low Countries 4-1 (October 2012)


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