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Levinas in Japan: the ethics of alterity and the philosophy of no-self
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Does the Buddhist doctrine of no-self imply, simply put, no-other? Does this doctrine necessarily come into conflict with an ethics premised on the alterity of the other? This article explores these questions by situating Emmanuel Levinas's ethics in the context of contemporary Japanese philosophy. The work of twentieth-century Japanese philosopher Watsuji Tetsurō provides a starting point from which to consider the ethics of the self-other relation in light of the Buddhist notion of emptiness. The philosophy of thirteenth-century Zen Master Dōgen casts doubt on Watsuji's commitment to reciprocal self-other relationality, showing that the idea of self-emptiness disrupts any conventional understanding of reciprocity and promotes instead other-oriented compassion. Despite interesting similarities between the ethics of alterity and Buddhist compassion, a Buddhist-influenced understanding of alterity differs from Levinas on important points, by making possible the claim that all others—human, animal, plant, and mineral—are ethical others.
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- Levinas in Japan: the ethics of alterity and the philosophy of no-self
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Continental Philosophy Review
Volume 43, Issue 2 , pp 193-206
- Cover Date
- 2010-05
- 10.1007/s11007-010-9143-8
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The Oklahoma State Cowboys and the Pittsburgh Panthers have scheduled a home-and-home football series for 2016 and 2017, OSU announced Wednesday evening.
.@CowboyFB and @GoPittFootball announce home-and-home series. At Boone Pickens Stadium in 2016, at Heinz Field in 2017. #okstate #Pitt
— Cowboy Football (@CowboyFB) November 6, 2013
Oklahoma State will host the first game of the series at Boone Pickens Stadium in Stillwater on Sept. 17, 2016. In the second and final game, the Cowboys will travel to face the Panthers at Heinz Field in Pittsburgh on Sept. 16, 2017.
The 2016 game will be the first ever meeting between the two schools unless they meet in a bowl or playoff game beforehand.
Oklahoma State already had a full non-conference schedule in 2016, so obviously one of their previously contracted games has been postponed or canceled. They were set to play at South Alabama and host Rice and Tulsa.
In 2017, Oklahoma State hosts Central Michigan and McNeese State.
The addition of Oklahoma State gives the Pitt Panthers three non-conference games in 2016 and two in 2017. Pitt also hosts Penn State and Villanova in 2016 and plays at Penn State in 2017.
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I love that they're willing to travel to CMU in a 2-for-1 series as opposed to just doing a 1-off, I've got respect for these Cowboys. Not the pro ones.
I also appreciate that OSU is willing to play a home-and-home. As I write this, they are in the Big XII Championship Game, and Pitt is 6-6, hoping for a bowl. OSU is a quality program willing to make the trip. So my following rant is in no way intended to disrespect OSU:
I thought that Pitt and West Virginia were "Close" (http://www.fbschedules.com/2013/07/west-virginia-pittsburgh-close-to-reviving-backyard-brawl/) on getting the Backyard Brawl scheduled. That was July. Now, it is December, and still no Backyard Brawl in sight, and future slots filling up quickly.
Pitt Athletic Director Steve Pederson is incompetent, and desperately needs fired. Just ask any of the Nebraska Cornhusker faithful. They knew to get rid of him, while Pitt hires him and now gives him a contract extension.

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Phoenix, Arizona, "punkgrass" outfit The Haymarket Squares—all of whose members are vegan or vegetarian—whipped up a toe-tappin' ditty for the animals and performed it at Kentucky Fried Cruelty.
The song was written by bassist Marc Oxborrow. "He is a big animal lover and he wanted to express his disgust with factory farming practices and peoples' connection to those practices when they choose to work around, buy, and eat meat," says guitarist John Norris. "Our song about/against factory farming seemed like a great fit for a fast food restaurant."
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A quick poll for all you members out there. A while ago this group was created on the NING network:
I see many members on the above mentioned here on the official IXDA site. I believe Christian Sosa-Lanz is managing the NING group. So my question is, why the duplicity? Does the NING site serve a unique purpose? Or, like the westside story, are the two fighting for turf (and members?).
Ii guess im just trying to get to the real IXDA source for LA (events, get togethers, etc). Your thoughts.
Hi Henry,
There's no turf war :-)
We started the ning site back when there wasn't functionality on IxDA.org to manage local group events and discussion, but when the new IxDA.org platform rolled out in February with the group management capability we needed, we moved the the group over to the "mothership".
So, to answer your question, the official home of IxDA Los Angeles is here at http://www.ixda.org/local/ixda-los-angeles
By the way, we've sent several messages to everyone on the Ning site letting them know about the move but it must have gotten stuck in your spam filter :-)
Kind regards,
Angel Anderson
I didn't know there was a Ning group---cool
I just tried to join
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In seeking an explanation of the action of fresh air on the human body we find the claim that fresh, cold air raises materially the blood pressure. This claim,
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If you're British and of a certain age then Doctor Who was most likely your first introduction to the sounds of electronic music. Apart from its famous theme tune, Doctor Who used an electronic soundtrack composed by Tristram Cary to underscore the arrival of the Daleks onto TV screens in 1963. At the time, most people considered electronic music as weird, alienating noise. Using it in a primetime TV series like Doctor Who was—as one commentator explains in the fascinating documentary What the Future Sounded Like—a rather subversive act.
Tristram Cary struck upon the potential of tape and electronic music while serving in the Royal Navy during the Second World War. The son of the Irish novelist Joyce Cary (The Horse's Mouth), Tristram was one of the earliest pioneers of electronic music during the 1950s. A classically-trained composer, he had scored such movies as The Ladykillers and Town on Trial but found traditional music inhibiting. Reasoning that music was just the organization of sound, Cary began to experiment with electronic sounds, tape recordings and musique concrète, in a bid to create "music without frontiers."
At the same, two other electronic music pioneers, the aristocratic Peter Zinovieff and engineer David Cockerell were separately testing out their own ideas. The three eventually came together to form the Electronic Music Studios in 1969. Their intention was to produce a versatile monophonic synthesiser, which could be cheaply produced for public use. While this proved tricky, Cockerell did manage to design one of the first British portable commercially available synthesizer—or Voltage Controlled Studio—the EMS VCS3. This once futuristic-looking "suitcase synth" is what Brian Eno was seen using during his tenure in Roxy Music.
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Use this great recipe for roasted garlic paste when making Mario Batali's delicious Focaccina with Roasted Garlic, Scallions and Provolone.
- Yield: Makes 1/2 cup
Source: The Martha Stewart Show, April Spring 2008
- 2 large heads garlic
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
Slice 1/3 inch from the top of the heads of garlic, exposing the cloves. Wrap each head in foil and transfer to oven. Roast until cloves are very soft, about 1 hour.
Remove from oven and let garlic cool in foil. Unwrap and squeeze garlic cloves from skins into a medium bowl. Mash using a fork.
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Question from a reader -
You have maintained your commitment to being prolific which is made even more exceptional by the fact you are travelling around the world at the same time.
I realise your article on being prolific is about this, but accepting that I'm going to release a lot of crap before I realise something good is a tough wall to knock down. My biggest issue writing anything seems to be that it feel insufficent. Naturally no post I write has the length of Steve Yegge, the persuasiveness of Paul Graham, the content of Unqualified Reservations etc. etc. and while I can consciously accept this, there seems to be some mental block. How do you go "that's sufficient" and release it into the wild?
There's two basic approaches to being successful as a writer. The first, we could call the "Paul Graham / Derek Sivers" approach. This is where you explore a lot of ideas privately, go forward with the best ideas you have, and edit and polish the hell out of everything before you release it into the world. If you do this, and you've got talent as a writer, and you've got important ideas - then you're going to consistently only release masterpieces.
The second way is to just write a hell of a lot and know that a number of the things you write will turn out quite well, but your average quality level will be much lower. We could call this the "write every day no matter what" approach.
The first way is great for people who can do it. The biggest problem is, you've already got to have immense writing talent and thinking talent to do it, which most people don't have. (I don't have it.) On the other hand, writing every day trains you up pretty quickly in better writing. You can see something in a book you read, and say, "Hey, I could try writing something along those lines." You can experiment. You get lots of feedback instantly. You become a better writer and thinker by writing regularly and releasing everything of passable quality.
The second problem with the Graham/Sivers/ultra-high-quality approach is that it's pretty inconsistent. Paul and Derek have both noted that half or more of the writing pieces they start working on get thrown out because they aren't good enough. If you look at Graham's essays or Sivers's blog, you'll see wildly varying amounts of writing. There's months of hit after hit, followed by months of silence at times.
It's pretty hard to control when you have max quality output. But you can pretty consistently get your median quality output by just writing a lot. Even in a funk, with some flailing around and forcing yourself to write something, you'll hit your median quality pretty quickly.
So the question is, is your median quality of writing good enough to release into the world?
Answer: You're not qualified to judge that.
In business, it's a truism that the customer crowns the winners. It doesn't matter how much a company likes its own product if customers don't buy.
The same thought is not always accepted in the creative fields. But if you want to write or do something creative, as soon as you send it out into the world, you no longer fully determine the work's success and impact.
That... seems an obvious thing in a way, but it's actually a tough pill to swallow for many would-be writers or other creators. The external world determines the external success of a piece of work.
So, how do you know if a work is good enough?
You don't.
You follow the best practices, you work to the best of your ability, but then... you just let it go and see what happens. You observe the feedback and iterate accordingly.
How do you know if it's good enough? Well, you could develop a finely tuned sense of good writing and good content, and given enough study and practice at it, maybe you could achieve that level where everything you write is good and polished.
Actually, that's exactly the Graham/Sivers way.
Alternatively, if you're not that skilled, you could set hard rules and never break them. I think the latter path is infinitely easier to walk.
The easiest way? Write every day, publish something every day. You'll inevitability write a lot of trash, but you'll write some gems too. Most importantly, your median quality of writing will rise quickly. Writing every day has a certain magical quality to it in that you can take multiple cracks at a new style or format or something. If you didn't get it quite right on Monday, take a shot again on Wednesday. And again on Saturday. You're writing every day, and releasing writing every day, so you've got lots of writing to do.
You don't have to do daily. But you do need a schedule, else you're very likely to abandon things.
Well, unless you're already a world class writer and thinker. Then the first path is open to you. But if not, then write a lot and release your writing regularly. The sad truth is that much of your writing won't be good enough, by your standards or by the external world's. But if you keep going, you'll improve.
As you improve, you'll get some wins and you'll find the intersection between what you like writing and what people like reading. People will spend more time reading your writing, knowing that while many of your pieces are "just okay," they've got a chance of finding a real gem or masterpiece if they read regularly... and I'll tell ya, real gems are worth incredibly a lot. If your median quality is okay and you've got an occasional gem, then you're doing a great thing for the world.
How do you write regularly?
You set a schedule.
You stick with it religiously.
Much of your work isn't very good.
But you improve rapidly.
And sometimes, you write a real gem.
And feel free to go "masterpieces only" once your skill in writing and thinking is there.
The second way sounds very similar to what Merlin Mann advocates. He has some great things to say on writing, time and attention (although he's writing a book at the moment so his online publishing has been quite sparse recently)
Joseph, I'm guessing you're asking me.
I find the results are much better than a journal. I suppose I'm a born performer because knowing I have an audience makes me finish my thoughts, tidy them up, process and examine them and draw conclusions from them, none of which I'm motivated to do during a journal entry.
And to me, the purpose of feedback is not affirmation; it's perspective, the chance to cross-pollinate ideas.
I believe there is another approach too, which is to write everyday, but not necessarily publish. This way you get to improve your writing skills daily, but only release what you feel, on a personal level is worth releasing. (Of course the reaction to which is still out of your hands).
I've found that releasing everyday does not provide me the joy to edit my writing to the extent I would like. It's that whole "writing is rewriting" thing.
In the end, I've found people have different approaches, and whatever works best for one person may not work for another.
I was about to ask you the same question about your method.
I know it's considered lewd in most of the blogging world to give anything but gems to your readers, but I really do consider my blog to be a journal of sorts. I can trace my thought processes through each and every post and it's almost all stuff that I've been working through in my own head. (Ocassionally it's been stuff that clients were working through, and I though, yeah, that's pretty universal, and wrote a post about it.)
I only have one rule: it has to be thought-provoking. I dont care if there's a take-away, I don't care if it's entertaining or "shareable," I just want to make somebody think about something a little differently.
But I'd still blog even if nobody read, and as good as I consider my ideas, and (some days) my writing to be, I'm not going to be like Sivers and hold back until I can knock it out of the park. I'd rather be like Godin and incrementally change the way people think.
One thought on Paul Graham's essays: he has a ridiculous number of editors. Under each article there is a note 'Thanks to V, W, X, Y, Z' for reading drafts of this article.'
What a lot of people don't realise is that writing and editing require a different state of mind, and usually, a different set of skills. I've been helping a few people to edit their texts - they have brilliant ideas, they are good with words, but just sometimes lose focus. The thing is, there is a huge difference between 'creating' and 'editing'. Creating is all about putting your thoughts onto paper - trying to say meaningful things. But then, you shouldn't be hard on yourself for not being brilliant. It's the editor's job to polish your text and help it crystalise from 'that's a cool idea' to 'that's a brilliant text!'.
Have a good idea? Can't find the right words? Write any words and then give it to a good editor. Words are just an instrument - the tool / medium for communicating your ideas; which makes editing more or less technical work. It's still your writing. You're just reaching out for help in an area where you may not feel confident or comfortable enough. Same with everything - focus on what you're good at and outsource other tasks to people that are good in them.
So I'd say, by any means, write, create, put thoughts to paper, explore your writing. But find a trusted editor who can give your text that little bit of extra help that makes it brilliant.
You know, there is a general rule that applies to being successful at anything. It is, "Make things look easy."
It's been remarked upon many times, by many great and talented people through history.
Probably the best explanation of sprezzatura I've seen comes from Derek Sivers -
"Sprezzatura" is an Italian word that means "to hide conscious effort and appear to accomplish difficult actions with casual nonchalance."
Today I got selected as one of the first Amtrak residents. The original pool was narrowed down from sixteen thousand to just over one hundred, and then again to twenty four. This event makes it increasingly difficult to push away the idea that I might actually be a good writer.
I was flattered, but not all that surprised, to find that I was one of the semifinalists. It was easy to believe that most applicants weren't even writers, and that the hook of me being a Time Magazine top blogger was enough to make it to the next round.
Looking at some of the others in the pool, though, I couldn't help but be proud of the company I was in. Besides little old self-published me were highly distributed published authors and columnists for major magazines. Even a lot of the people disappointed they weren't chosen were really impressive.
Time Magazine chose me as one of the best bloggers. Amtrak chose me as one of the best writers. Derek Sivers, whose book list I look to for inspiration, emailed me to tell me that he loved my book and was going to publish a good review of it on his list.


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White Knight Chronicles II and Origins releasing on June 10 in UK
Sony has announced dates for both White Knight Chronicles II on PS3 and White Knight Chronicles: Origins on PSP. Turns out, both will be releasing on the same day.
Here's the release schedule:
- UK and Ireland- June 10
- Australia and New Zealand – June 9
- Rest of PAL – June 8
The firm also posted some preview trailers for both, which can be watched below.
White Knight Chronicles II was originally slated for a May 20 launch in Europe and a an August release in the US.
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Banks push FTSE lower; US debt deal remains elusive
Lloyds (LLOY.L), Barclays (BARC.L) and RBS (RBS.L) led the FTSE 100 below 5,900 as world markets fell amid political gridlock over a US debt deal and weak economic data.
Weakness in a key gauge of the US manufacturing industry further tested investors' already frayed nerves on Wednesday afternoon as global markets were pulled lower by the continued political gridlock over a deal on US debt.
The FTSE closed 1.23%, or 73 points, lower to 5,856, led down by the banks. In the US, the S&P 500 fell 1.19% to 1,316, the Dow 0.87% lower at 12393; and in Europe French and German equity markets slid 1.53% and 1.48% respectively.
US Republican leaders were last night forced to delay a vote scheduled on their plan to raise the nation's borrowing limit, as Congressional budget officials said the plan did not deliver the promised savings. The New York Times reported that Congressional leaders 'alternately voiced optimism, determination and a haggard frustration' as a plan to raise the debt ceiling before the 2 August, and avert a default, didn't appear forthcoming.
Reuters earlier reported that 30 of 53 economists it surveyed this week reckon the US will lose its top AAA credit rating from one of the three big ratings agencies.
Meanwhile, in another blow to the eurozone, Moody's ratings agency slashed the bond ratings on Cyprus's sovereign bond ratings from A2 to Baa1.
Gold, a safe haven amid the European and US debt crises, remained near all-time highs, trading at $1,617 an ounce, having reached $1,628 earlier in the day. 'The world's main safe havens, what should be perhaps named the "risk-off basket", Gold, Swiss Franc and the Yen, are all having another bumper afternoon', commented Will Hedden of IG Index.
In a further sign of the extent of concern in world markets, insurance on US government debt got more expensive with one-year US credit default swaps reaching a record high 85 basis points, according to data company Markit. This is higher than the peak hit during the 2008 global financial crisis.
The US durable goods report added to fears about the prospects for the US economy. Mike Englund of Action Economics said: 'The US durable goods report undershot expectations across the board… we have trimmed our Q2 GDP [gross domestic product] forecast to 1.5% (was 1.7%) in response to today's data.'
There was also downbeat data in the UK, with the CBI's July Quarterly Industrial Trends Survey showing that optimism among UK manufacturers regarding the general business situation has fallen for the first time in two years. Manufacturers are 'reappraising their business plans' the survey revealed.
Banks were again taking the brunt of investors' debt fears. Lloyds Banking Group (LLOY.L) fell 4.28% to 43.3p and Barclays (BARC.L) fell 3.38% to 222.7p. Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS.L), which was ordered by the US Federal Reserve to improve oversight of its US operations and tighten its risk-management practices, dropped 3.2% to 35p.
Scottish and Southern Energy (SSE.L) was the biggest loser on the blue chip index, dropping 5.28% to £13.29 after going ex-dividend. The energy sector was also subject of tough words from regulator Ofgem, which fined Centrica's British Gas £2.5 million for customer complaint handling failures.
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So the Ofgem Regulator has at last produced "tough words" for the energy sector ! How they must quake in their boots, hiding behind their HUGE, and rising profits ( more cake anyone ? Oh, and don't forget to pick up your bonuses at the door).
And in the Regulator's Office of fat sinecures they must be looking forward to happy and comfortable retirement on copper-bottomed pensions, with a fair chance of a place on the board of the power companies, if they don't rock the boat......'Twas ever thus...report this
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wow, i just love your style! thanks for the inspiration!
this first painting looks cool, but somehow i like the original from george pratt better.
scheint nicht gerade das größte format zu sein.. -aber sieht sehr gut aus. seit ihr damit dieses jahr in erlangen?
this first one is really cool.
-but the best thing i've read in a while is the "corben and me"-article on your site, fantastic!
i recently drew some comicstuff for fun and want to share it and suffer for crits...
first one was done for inkplosion and can be read here (in german only, sorry): link!
the two...
i don´t like the colores so much, but the drawings are great!
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i wanted to draw the whole andrew loomis figure-drawing book over the christmas-days, but only made it through a few pages.... -no time!
but was a good practise, drawn on small paper...
good shading and colors. you could give a little more love to her hair (in the butt-pic)
love these old vw-busses, good job on this one. only thing i don´t like so much is the shading on the windows. would probably look better if it was just plane black like on the mustang.
the mustang...
very cool dynamic! all digital?
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very interesting effect with all those little highlights! is there some wip we can see? would be awsome! i´m definitely a fan!
#262 first i thought it´s just a sweet painting, then i realised all the animals! great!!
hey thanks, ewschott.
i think this depends on the gallery. but yeah, that´s the reason i stopped trying to get in a gallery years ago. i wasn´t even successful in selling watercolor-paintings. the...
ouch! probably the most stupid picture-theme i´ve seen here (not your fault, i know).
your painting is great! -even if i always found davids art way too clean and static
wow, you realy have some dynamic lines.
do you have any printed comicwork? i like your cartoon-style!
phantomfrog: looks not bad, butt is a little big.
mine are mostly from work and always rough:
immer wieder schön hier reinzuschaun!
wow, sweeet avatar! and very nice drawings.
guess i have to bookmark this thread. love those environments!
great john lee hooker portrait! also like those cowboy-sketches, have some traditional feeling!
for me you have some of the most inspiring art on this site. i´m a real fanboy, looking at your work!
you paint probably the best robots i´ve seen so far!
but your human figures (gestures) are also a little robot-like somehow.
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A Time of Reckoning (Star Wars)
Ill try a different one. Since the clone war one is to RPGish I will try a different one. It is set 100 years before KOTOR
Chapter One:
As I woke up from the same dream I had been having for a couple of weeks I noticed it was the middle of the night here on Dantooine. I got out of bed and walked into the council chamber.
In the council chamber there was another jedi sitting down on the rug infront of the councillers seats. The jedi councillers since it was the middle of the night were in their own beds. I went down to the jedi meditating. I put my hand on the jedis shoulder and startled her. It was a woman jedi meditating. "Oh hello Master Zala" I said as I saw her face. Master Zala was my master. "Hello my padawan" said Zala.
"What are you doing here?" I said as I sat down next to her. "I am meditating" she said. "How long have you been here?"
"About an hour" she said. "Ok master."
"Why are you here?" Zala said. "I had a dream. A strange dream. I dreamt that I was facing 5 sith on my own. I killed them all like I was a sith. When I unmasked them they all had my face on them."
"That is a strange dream. But remember dreams can betray you" she said. "I dont know. I have been having it for a week. And it seems to be getting clearer and clearer."
The next morning I was out in the Dantooine fields with Zala. We were both training on the wild beasts that lived in the fields. 'Kath Hounds' people called them. As we reached the field two kath hounds ran at me. I ignited my saber to reveal a clear blue blade. My master ignited her blade to reveal a green blade.
I swung at one of the kath hounds which sliced it's head. It fell to the ground dead. My master was busy fighting a horned-kath hound. I killed the other hound with a throw of my saber. My master at the moment killed the horned kath hound. We went to another part of the fields to find a few chiss mercenaries. As they saw as they fired at as. I ignited my saber and blocked the bolt coming at me. Zala was up at one of the chiss. I jumped at one of the chiss. They chiss pulled out a vibro-blade. I swung at the blade and it suprisingly it did not break in half.
I looked at the blade and saw that it had a small device attached to the hilt. The hilt glowed green. I pushed the chiss away then knocked him out with stun. I turned around and ran to Zala. "I think we should tell the jedi council about the mercenaries and their new technology" I said. "Yes we should" replied Zala. Zala and I ran back to the jedi temple and into the councillers chamber.
Chapter 2 Preview- "I want you and Zala to go to the Chiss homeworld."
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As we entered the councillors chamber they were startled at our speed of entering. "What brings you here at such great speed?" said the eldest member Master Denmar. "The...Chiss..are here" I said panting. "Really?" said Denmar. "Yes. And they have a new technology. A technology that makes our lightsabers usless against there melee weapons" said Zala. "Ah I see. We have seen this for a long time. But we did not know when it you come. I want you and Zala to go to the Chiss homeworld" said Denmar once again.
Zala and I walked out of the chamber and headed for the hangar. I went to docking bay Z-21 while Zala went to docking bay Z-25. As I entered the bay I found my ship. A sith fighter which had crashed on Dantooine when I was very young. I repaired it myself. I got into the fighter and took off. I saw Zala's ship on my radar. She was right behind me. We entered hyperspace as soon as we left Dantooine's atmosphere.
After 5 minutes of travelling through hyperspace we reached the Chiss homeworld. Our plan was too land at two seperate places and infiltrate the estimated main manufacturor of the technology. As I headed down I noticed the place where we were supposed to get inside. It was a huge complex. I landed my fighter in a clearing in a forest.
(Sorry about the shortness of this chapter but I am really tired. It's around 1 in the morning.)
Chapter 3:"What are the sith doing here?"
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I got out of my fighter and walked into the forest. A few native wildlife got in my way trying to get to the complex. As I reached the outer wall I saw two security cameras hanging near the rim of the wall. I thought of what to do. I could either destroy both of them or use force speed. I decided to use force speed. I used it and ran straight at the wall and put my back on it once I reached it.
Zala meanwhile was already in the complex in the rendevous spot. She had seen a few Chiss walk past. She looked around tyring to locate a door. She then saw a sith patrolling group walk past. "What are the sith doing here?" said Zala quietly.
I jumped up on top of the wall and jumped down behind a crate. I ignited my saber and cut the box open. Out fell blaster rifles. I grabbed one and strapped it around on my back. I looked around for the place Zala and I were supposed to meet. I saw her hiding behind a stack of crates. He sent a force message to her, telling her he was to the left of her.
Zala heard the message and looked around and saw her apprentice. She signalled him to look for a door. Zala kept looking around and saw a gap open in the silver main building. A group of Chiss walked out and the door started to close again. She used force speed and ran through the door. She looked to the right of her and saw her apprentice.
"Hello Master" I said. "Hello. Know we must find were the construction place is" said Zala. Zala and I kept walking and saw some two dark jedi carrying crates. "Why are we subjected to manual labor for" said one of the dark jedi. The other replied"Because our master wants us to help the Chiss defeat the jedi by making lightsaber resistant chips that get put into there blades and weapons. I looked at Zala then looked back the the dark jedi. I pulled my blaster out and fired two shots. One at each dark jedi. They were unaware and both got hit in the head. Zala rushed out and lifted the two crates and the dark jedi's bodies over to me.
Chapter 4- "This is all we need to do lets go and report to the jedi council."
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I guess they don't care that they might lose half or more) of their users.
messages posted here, on the old format, don't appear in "conversation". We have entered the Twilight Zone.
Pink slip boys have their revenge before they exit? I hope this message board will returns to the original format, but I'm not holding my breath.
Marissa's parting gift to Yahoo as she exits--ruin Yahoo Finance? Hell hath no fury like a woman kicked out.
Uhh....aren't most of the sales to representatives or their friends and family? By "sales" I do believe the FTC means to outside buyers, not representatives. Correct me if I'm wrong.
Might be time to take some profits in real estate too--looking bubbly in many places.
Sold my NUGT & GDX calls, but still holding the metal.
I hold my gold & silver on this pullback, but the gold stocks are grossly overbought. I see a 25-40% correction.
Bad bad--gold goes down, NUGT goes down more. Gold goes up, COMEX raises margin, and NUGT goes down. I don't see a good chance to buy NUGT here. Risky.
Bonds could be hammered too if report is strong.
They've done it before.
CNBC Fastmoney.
Fiat has no intrinsic value, only relative value, and the currency traders have no loyalties to any currency.Dollar bullisness is over 90%, meaning most everyone that has wanted to buy has done so.
That could cause some selling.
Maybe, I still have my gold & silver, but gold stocks have gotten way ahead as they do in early stage. 25% corrections shouldn't stun anyone after a 120% rally.
No, all it takes is enough traders locking in profits.
Well, Wells says the music is about to stop on this run.
Just a correction, but a brutal one. If this happens, DUST could easily hit $12.
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Pitchers Clay Buchholz, Jon Lester and Daniel Bard came up under Farrell, and while he was Boston's pitching coach between 2007 and 2010, the trio put up an ERA of 3.34 over 1,172.2 innings.
In the two years since he left, that group has combined for a 4.26 ERA in 801 innings.
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The middle of October at most schools in the South means it's time to get even more serious about college football. At Duke, it usually means begging for the first basketball game. But on Saturday, before a sold-out Wallace Wade Stadium, Duke scored a last-second touchdown to beat North Carolina and become bowl-eligible for the first time since 1994, when some students who rushed the field were in diapers. The Blue Devils celebrated by spray-painting the Victory Bell, the prize at stake in the Duke-UNC football rivalry, and drenching coach David Cutcliffe with Gatorade.
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This futuristic apartment design in Taipei, Taiwan comes with many interesting elements, including a life-sized iron man, unique book shelf wallpaper, life-sized man floor lamp, industrial photography lamp, a time-capsule elevator and many other small details. According to the designer, the house is designed with the industrial elements as its base while combining a hint of retro. The colorful designer furniture are used to accentuate the owner's exceptional taste. The time-capsule elevator brings the two levels of the house together and adds a sense of futurism. Everything in the house was imagined around the owner's passion for sci-fi concepts and original living needs. This might not be other's dream house. But everyone has his own comfort zone, as long as it fits the owner's need, it is a great design.
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One of the easiest things you can do to update your interiors is by changing the colors of your room. This can be as simple as painting walls or changing your furniture upholstery Pick any of the 2015 color trends that will go well with the style and theme of your home. Some of the hottest colors include blue, pastel, neutral gray, and olive green. This doesn't mean that you have to splash your home with these colors, you can work with accent pieces that have these colors.
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Are you tired of the interior design of your home? Do you need a change of environment? You don't have to do major renovations for an overhaul. All you need are good interior design tips that will make your space look better. You can buy a new bed from Divan Beds Centre or purchase a few trinkets from a vintage store. Whatever you decide to do, make sure that you get tips from the experts. Here are some useful tips for an interior design overhaul.
One of the things that you can do to change the design aesthetics of your home without changing the furniture is painting. You might be surprised at how the colour of a room can change your mood. Pick a colour that will match your furniture. For bedrooms and places of relaxation, stick to neutral and fresh colours that will liven up your space.
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Appellate Judge Tom Becker and his sister are Twins of Petty Larceny.
The Charge
Which is the virgin? Which is the vampire?
Opening Statement
"The devil has sent me…twins of evil!"
Facts of the Case
After the deaths of their parents, voluptuous identical twins Maria and Frieda (Mary and Madeleine Collinson, co-Playmates of the Month in Playboy, October 1970) go to live with their uncle and aunt. Uncle Gustav (Peter Cushinmg, Horror Express) is a witch hunter; he and his merry band of black-cloaked puritan co-horts ("The Brotherhood") target (exclusively) beautiful young women, accuse them of witchcraft, and burn them up in makeshift bonfires. Aunt Katy (Kathleen Byron, Black Narcissus), on the other hand, is a simple housewife.
Also in the village is the decadent Count Karnstein (Damien Thomas, Nobel House). Karnstein is a debauched young noble who enjoys the protection of the emperor, otherwise Gustav and company would smite him.
Karnstein isn't just a lusty rake; he's a full-on, blaspheming pervert who enjoys torturing the local lovelies and longs to meet Satan. One night, after casually sacrificing a young village girl, Karnstein almost gets his wish, as his victim's blood reanimates the long-dead-and-abiding-in-hell Countess Mircalla. The Countess gives him a gift: Immortality! In the form of…Vampirism!
And now, the 17th Century Count decides that what he wants is not unlike what a 20th Century "Swinger" might want: those comely twins with the ample bosoms. And, as luck would have it, Frieda, the "naughty one," has exactly the same idea.
The Evidence
Twins of Evil is the third part of a loose trilogy from Hammer Films involving the vampiric Countess Mircalla Karnstein; the first two films were The Vampire Lovers (with Ingrid Pitt as Mircalla) and Lust for a Vampire (with Yutte Stensgaard). The character Mircalla was based on the book Carmilla, a 19th Century story that popularized the connection between female vampires and lesbians.
In Twins of Evil, the lesbian aspect is pretty nonexistent, and the Mircalla/Carmilla character only makes a brief appearance, vampiring her grand-descendent, and then, of course, having sex with him. It's not necessary to have seen the previous films to enjoy this one. Twins of Evil stands on its own as a twisted little sex and gore gothic chiller and a fine example of '70s era Hammer Horror.
The film opens with Gustav and the Brotherhood dragging a woman out of a cottage, accusing her of witchcraft, and burning her alive. The woman screams, her bosoms heave—evidently, heaving bosoms were a prerequisite for being burned alive, as all the witches have them—and Gustav prays. He's clearly a pious bastard, but is he a charlatan, another in the long line of witch hunters like the ones we'd seen and hissed in Witchfinder General and Mark of the Devil?
It's on one of these witch-hunt excursions that we meet the Count, who's preparing to commingle with a suspected sorceress when the Brotherhood bursts in. Obviously, he's decadent—black, poufy hair, penetrating stare, perpetual sneer, and casual sexiness would affirm that—but he stands up to the Brotherhood and calls them on their hypocrisy. OK, he's our horned-up, aristocratic anti-hero.
But then, he tosses the wench to the Brotherhood, offering them the chance to have at her; he might be a libertine, but he's no gentleman. Later, when we see Karnstein dabbling in the black arts and eagerly joining up with the undead, we realize that Gustav was right all along—there is evil here, it's not just a product of his fevered-zealot imagination.
So after setting us up to expect another witch-hunt film, director John Hough (The Incubus) and writer Tudor Gates (who scripted the previous Karnstein films, as well as Barbarella and Danger: Diabolik) pull the rug out, and Twins of Evil develops into a lush, sexualized supernatural number, with the willfully malevolent Count vs. the cluelessly malevolent Gustav. The duality of the different natures of evil is a nice fit with the theme of twins—in fact, while the Twins of Evil of the title obviously refers to Maria and Frieda, it could almost be referencing Gustav and the Count.
There's a healthy dose of cynicism powering the film, along with a healthier dose of sadism. Both Karnstein and Gustav celebrate tormenting women, only Karnstein does it for pleasure, while Gustav does it in the name of all that's holy. Tormented women, of course, were a staple of Hammer horror, and by the time Twins of Evil rolled out, many of those torments came while the women were in the buff; the sexuality in these later entries was much more explicit than in the earlier Dracula films. While there's quite a bit of sex in Twins of Evil, there's surprisingly little nudity, but the lurid, lascivious goings-on unquestionably make this an erotic, adult-oriented thriller.
Cushing is excellent here, offering a nuanced, complex performance of an increasingly conflicted man. Thomas is appropriately skeevy as evil Count. While the Collinson twins weren't particularly good actresses—they were born in Malta, and their heavy accents resulted in their performances being dubbed—they look great, and are effective in their respective roles.
Hough deftly navigates Gates' twisty script and creates a strong, if occasionally slow, entry, heavy with atmosphere, and benefiting mightily from the presence of Cushing. The costumes and sets are well done, up to the standards that fans expect from Hammer; they add to the period feel, as well as to the film's edginess. There's also a good amount of grue (a vampire's got to eat, right?) and a better-than-average level of suspense. It's an all-around high-quality effort, and a real treat for Hammer fans.
Synapse offers an outstanding release of Twins of Evil (Blu-ray). The 1.66:1/1080p high-def picture looks great, with solid detail, colors that are vivid and true, and a fine, film-like grain. The DTS-HD 2.0 Master Audio track is crisp and clear.
The Blu-ray comes fully loaded with supplemental material, with the 85-minute documentary "The Flesh and the Fury: X-Posing Twins of Evil" the crown jewel of the set. This is a great documentary that offers up some history on Hammer Studios, with the emphasis on the Karnstein films, including background on Carmilla. "The Flesh and the Fury" is an outstanding supplement and makes this disc a must-own; Synapse could have released this documentary as a stand-alone, it's that good.
"The Props that Hammer Built" is an excellent 24-minute piece focusing on Hammer memorabilia collector Wayne Kinsey. Kinsey shows off some of the prizes in his collection, each accompanied by the story of how the prop fit into a particular film, as well as personal observations. It's a winning little mini-doc. Other supplements include an extensive and handsomely produced stills gallery, an isolated track featuring Harry Robertson's score, a deleted scene, and trailers and TV spots. There's also a DVD copy of the film with "The Flesh and the Fury" documentary included.
Closing Statement
When the folks at Synapse go all out, they really go all out; this one tops the superlative work they did on last year's Hammer release, Vampire Circus. A great release, a model of how to do a "special edition," and an unqualified recommend.
The Verdict
Twins of Evil is quintessential Hammer, and Twins of Evil (Blu-ray) is an essential disc.
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Here are a bunch of pics of Jon Hamm in a bathing suit while filming Mad Men in Hawaii yesterday except this stupid chick in a bikini won't get out of the way. Yes, your body is super hot, lady, but could you move? Jon Hamm's penis might be outlined in his shorts. What's that?
"Maybe if you weren't such a little lesbian, that shark wouldn't be eating you!"
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Towards A Sustainable Investor Class For Film Culture And Business
By Ted Hope
In my 38 Ways The Film Industry Is Failing Today post, I cited at #2 "The film industry has never tried to build a sustainable investor class". That was over two years ago. What progress has been made?
The need for greater transparency, access, education, and community in film investment circles is only now being generally recognized in the film industry. For over a century, the powerful kept close hold on the financial side of things, limiting access between creators and supporters. This required always paying a visit to the representative, regardless of whether you were looking for projects or hunting for money. When the access to funders and creators is an open flow, the power will have changed, and with it, the work that gets financed (as well as the artists who generate it) will begin to look considerably different than what we have today.
In case you are wondering… yes, that is a very good thing.
It is very difficult to innovate when the powerful seek to repeat, consciously or not, what has worked before, hiring those that replicate them, incentivized to maintain the status quo. You end up with a creative culture that just regurgitates what has been served before. Business structures influence the art that gets produced, particularly when it is capital intensive. But there is a wave building, and it's power to change is phenomenal.
Let's look at the seeds and see if we can project what the forest will be.
We have crowd funding and that has certainly enabled many artists to launch new projects and aggregate audiences in the process — but for the most part, the scale of things on crowd funding platforms does not allow for established film professionals to rely on it as a primary source of funding for feature length projects (although it certainly can be relied on to foster engagement — provided you deliver the rewards that is). We have also been witnessing the first dip of the celebrity culture toe into the crowd funding waters, and with it a ripple and wake of effects ranging from new users of the platform to fear of diminished or ill-placed resources.
I look at crowdfunding in general and Kickstarter in particular as an audience aggregation platform for those whole love independent culture. The folks gathered here are not generally people with significant means, but people who do believe a share of their earnings should go back into the system that drives the things they love and appreciate. It is the first indication of a wonderful transformation: from fans being supporters to actual patrons. And it has been a game changer — and with it, it points to the potential of an even greater change.
What would happen if a large group of diverse funders entered the independent culture generation sector? You know what I mean? What would happen if we had new money in indie film (or any other cultural strand) that wasn't stupid money, money that worked together to further the culture and the business prospects? Money that was equally committed to making sure that the creators and their supporters (i.e. them!) were the direct financial beneficiaries of their work? Money that was sustainable and did not get out after a film or two, win or lose, but had a long term portfolio approach?
We have already seen this happen, right? We are living in the greatest generation gap the world has ever seen. The difference between digital natives and the old fogies like most of you and me is beyond a giant chasm. We will never understand. I personally find that wonderful, and I thank VC culture, primarily the aka Silicon Valley. Smart money, through it's investment in technology, has brought about tremendous societal change.
Film would be a better investment if we changes both the whom and the how the capital was utilized. A greater more diversified community of artists would be getting their work made is a mover diverse group of investors entered film culture. More people would see films. The audiences' experience with film — their engagement — would improve if we could change who our investors are, what they demand, and how they think about what film actually is. The world would be a better place.
Now, what would it take for that to occur? Well, that brings us back to the beginning of this post and what could happen if we had greater transparency, access, education, and community in the investment side of the film biz.
That's part of my mission. Stay tuned.
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Once Again, Trying Housing as a Cure for Homelessness; Mothers With Children Are Getting Preference in City Assignments for Subsidized Apartments
By NINA BERNSTEIN
Published: June 23, 2002
At the heart of the Bloomberg administration's ambitious new policy to deal with homeless people in New York is an old idea with a whole new life: subsidize more housing and the number of homeless will drop. If the plan succeeds -- still a big if -- it will move 9,250 homeless families from city shelters to subsidized housing over the next year, nearly triple the number placed this year and well above the 1990 peak.
Much of the increase will come from giving more of the scarce subsidized apartments to homeless mothers and children and fewer to other needy people. That change is a significant marker of shifting attitudes in the history of the city's homeless policy.
Two decades ago, the notion that homeless people needed housing seemed reasonable, if unaffordable, to many city officials. In the late 1970's, after years in which urban renewal, landlord abandonment and arson-for-hire had swept away swathes of the city's cheapest housing, more ''street people'' and beggars appeared on New York's sidewalks. Homelessness became far more visible nationwide in 1981, in the worst recession since the Great Depression, but instead of disappearing when unemployment dropped again, as most Americans expected, it kept growing.
In the 1980's, advocates presented the problem as a failure of government to do right by the most vulnerable: people who were just more unlucky than others, not different or less deserving. Families sheltered in squalid Midtown welfare hotels during a city real estate boom became the focus of campaigns for public sympathy and subsidized housing.
In one sense, it worked. The Koch administration adopted a 10-year housing plan that eventually produced 150,000 apartments, 10 percent of them for homeless families. Prodded by court rulings and David N. Dinkins's primary campaign in 1989, Mayor Edward I. Koch vowed to close the welfare hotels by moving homeless families into homes, including an annual allotment of 1,800 apartments in public housing.
In another sense, the strategy backfired badly. As crack, street crime, and anger at welfare mothers increasingly framed public debate about poverty, advocates acknowledged belatedly that drug addiction and mental illness, not just a lack of housing, afflicted many homeless people.
The defining shift came in the first year of the Dinkins administration. Mr. Dinkins had come into office insisting that ''a shelter is not a home,'' and he assigned Nancy Wackstein, a longtime advocate for poor children, as director of his Office on Homelessness. Working 12-hour days, she succeeded in a few months in reducing the number of families in welfare hotels to 150 from 1,200.
But the hotels filled up again, faster, it seemed, than they had been emptied. By 1992, more than 1,000 of the 5,200 homeless families in the city lived in welfare hotels.
''I thought that if you just provided 8,000 units of permanent housing for a couple of years, you'd address the problem,'' Ms. Wackstein said in an interview that year. ''I failed to understand that the universe of potential homeless families is very large.''
In retrospect, some analysts point out, the rise in shelter applications coincided with the start of a new recession, but politically, the idea that subsidized housing could cure homelessness was dead.
Now the idea is back, with fresh vigor, not only in New York City but nationwide. More sophisticated research, the expensive growth of an improved, service-rich shelter system, and the galloping rise in family homelessness in the welfare-to-work era have made it inescapable, say veterans of homeless policy debates.
In the last year of his mayoralty, even Rudolph W. Giuliani, who had strongly rejected subsidized housing as an answer to homelessness, found himself scrambling with little success to add rent subsidies, federal vouchers and more public housing apartments to the dwindling pool of low-income housing the city could offer the surging number of homeless families.
It was like a U-turn. Joan Malin, Mr. Giuliani's first homeless services commissioner, recalled that in 1995 the mayor had been determined to shrink the soaring shelter population the way Richard J. Schwartz, his senior policy adviser, was shrinking the welfare rolls: tighten eligibility rules, deter applicants at the front door, and eject those who failed to meet new work requirements.
''I have vivid memories of very painful conversations at City Hall,'' Ms. Malin, now chief executive officer of Planned Parenthood of New York City, said recently. She recalled asking permission to offer day care, a restaurant allowance or social services to mothers and children denied shelter beds under new eligibility rules before sending them to try to crowd back in with angry relatives.
''The mayor looked at me and basically said, 'No. What Richard's done in the welfare system is what you need to be doing.' '' said Ms. Malin, who resigned in 1996. ''It became his mantra.''
The courts eventually ruled against Mr. Giuliani's bid to deny shelter to homeless mothers who did not meet strict new welfare requirements and to put their children in foster care. With additional hurdles to clear, half the families who were ultimately found eligible for shelter had to apply five times. While their eligibility was under review, many bounced between 10-day temporary shelters and the Emergency Assistance Unit in the Bronx, where children and their parents routinely slept on the floor through the night.


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- 1St Joseph Hospital South
2901 Squalicum Pkwy
Bellingham, Washington 98225
(360) 734-540
- 2St Joseph Medical Center
2901 Squalicum Pkwy
Bellingham, Washington 98225
(360) 734-540
- 3Island Hospital
1211 24th St
Bellingham, Washington 98221
(360) 299-130
- 4United General Hospital
2000 Hospital Dr
Bellingham, Washington 98284
(360) 856-602
- 5Skagit Valley Hospital
1415 E Kincaid St
Bellingham, Washington 98274
(360) 424-411
- 6Naval Hospital
3475 N Saratoga St
Bellingham, Washington 98278
(360) 257-997
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