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I lay on top of him and wrapped my breasts around his cock which was still very hard.
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Raphael laid there and said that I was the sexiest woman he had ever been with. What a compliment. "You certainly know how to make a guy cum", he said and I replied that I took great pleasure in seeing a man in ecstasy and squirting loads of cum all over the place. It was role reversal of a woman being in control of the moment when a guy is in heaven and squirting a load from his cock. I just love to please a man in the same way that he pleases me.
We lay there and kissed and embraced until I was getting turned on again as Raphael ran his hand between my legs and fingered my lovely pussy. I moaned as he put his fingers inside me and rubbed gently in and out. I was getting very wet as he his finger ran up and down over my clitoris. I lay there and let him run his lovely hands all over my body whilst kissing passionately. His tongue probing my mouth and then licking and sucking my breasts before going down to my pussy where he licked and licked. It was fantastic and my whole body was in heaven and I moaned with pleasure.
Raphael rose above me and his cock was so hard. I took it in my hand and felt the whole length of it before guiding it into my pussy. I said "Fuck me slow, I want to feel the whole of you right inside me". He duly obliged and said that he would fuck me any way I wanted.
My hands ran up and down his back and I just loved feeling his buttocks as he worked inside me. The strength of his muscles whilst pumping slowly was a joy to feel. Raphael looked into my eyes and told me that I felt so good and with that he started to fuck me a little faster. I lifted my legs up and wrapped them around his back. I could feel that lovely cock deep inside me.
I was being seriously fucked when Raphael withdrew and turned me on my front to screw me doggy style. I was on my knees and his big cock drove relentlessly into me while he grabbed my hair and pulled my head back. "You like this Lucy", he said and I screamed "fuck me, fuck me with your big black cock, I love it, oh shit, fuck me".
Raphael was full of energy now and having rammed that dick into me lay on his back and ordered me to sit on his cock facing away from him. I duly obliged and I was able to ride up and down feeling his massive length. I just rode and rode. Oh boy this is great. "Please fuck me good", I cried and Raphael duly obliged with me riding up and down and him pumping.
We continued like this for what seemed an eternity and I started to rub my clit as well. Raphael held my buttocks and pushed me up and down until I finally needed to cum. "Give it to me babe", I said and he pushed that lovely cock right inside me as I came. My whole body shook with pleasure and delight. I loved having his big black cock inside me and I turned and collapsed beside him. "You ok babe", he said. "Sure, I feel so good, I love your cock in me and now I want you to cum. "So how are you going to do that", Raphael asked."That is my surprise", I said.
I lay on top of him and wrapped my breasts around his cock which was still very hard. I stroked and stroked and then licked the tip with my tongue. I ran my tongue the whole way down his cock and then up spitting on the way to make it more lubricant. My hand rubbed slowly up and down and I spat on the top of his cock again. Raphael gave a big sigh and gripped the side of the bed. I could tell he was near to a climax and I wanted to see this lovely cum. I stroked his cock gently with my hand and played with his balls with the other.
My technique was working. I worked slowly and just loved the look that Raphael had on his face. It was one of total satisfaction. He had given it to me and now I wanted to do the same for him.
This monster black cock in my hand was ready to cum and oh boy what a load suddenly shot out. I captured most in my mouth and showed it to Raphael. He smiled and said "Lick it all up and swallow". I did as ordered. It tasted great.
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The MMA Offshore Dampier Supply Base (DSB) is the primary mainland supply base on the North West Shelf for the Gorgon construction project. Operations on the base commenced in late 2009 with a team of 25 MMA employees providing stevedoring & supply base services to the project.
MMA's stevedores, logistics and marine support personnel conduct material control, freight movement and loadout operations at the DSB. Barge loading & RORO operations are performed at our purpose built landbacked Barge Berth where MMA personnel load up to 3 LCT Barges per day.
MMA also conducts final quarantine preparation, including; remediation, washdown and consolidation of freight to Gorgon quarantine specifications.
MMA commenced supporting the Gorgon project with a full marine spread in January 2010. The initial scope included berthing and unberthing 300ft cargo barges at the MMA Offshore DSB Barge Berth. Soon after this scope commenced, MMA began towing 250ft cargo barges between the DSB and Barrow Island.
September 2010 saw the mobilisation of two 250ft water carrying barges and a support tug to tow the barges. MMA has now mobilised a total of 17 vessels into the project to carry out various functions, including; supply, fuel transfer, cyclone contingency, accommodation and desalination services.
|Project Name
|Gorgon LNG Project
|Project Operator
|Chevron Australia
|North West Shelf, Australia
|MMA's Involvement
|December 2009 to present
|Scope of Work
|Dampier stevedoring & supply base services; Vessel services
|Equipment at DSB
|Vessels in field
|2 x Maffi Tow Trucks
|1 x cargo tug
|2 x anchor handlers
|2 x Volvo L 150 Loaders
|2 x cargo barges
|2 x cyclone contingency tugs
|32 Ton Forklift
|2 x water tugs
|1 x accommodation barge
|16 Ton Forklift
|2 x water barges
|1 x Multicat desalination
|6 Ton Forklift
|1 x fuel barge vessel
|2 x pusher tugs
|2.5 Ton Forklift
|1 x LTC
MMA is privileged to contribute to the enormously significant Gorgon project from both a supply base and marine services perspective.
The MMA Offshore DSB is a hub of activity and the tonnage of freight processed through the facility and shipped to Barrow Island has steadily increased since 2009.
MMA personnel have also showed particular resourcefulness in adopting and executing Chevron's stringent Environmental and Quarantine procedures including taking the lead on remediation, washdown and final inspections.
At the height of construction activity, the MMA fleet dedicated to Gorgon has numbered 17 vessels.
On a number of occasions MMA has conducted difficult international mobilisations and complex vessel modifications to solve specific challenges faced by the project. For example, MMA project managed the modification of the Toll Sandfly such that it met the particular project requirements for a fuel LTC. MMA also sourced and installed a desalination plant on the back of the Mermaid Vision, effectively mobilising a water-making and transporting vessel into the project.


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That was a fun one. Although you all didn't make my job any easier with picking a winner. First I had to go figure out what the 'cubbies' caption referenced and then Tom Mix sent me scrambling trying to understand 'Arnold-speak' but all and all it was another good showing.
Fittingly we have a previous winner 'bbaaack' for another win. My2sense2 came in just under the wire with "Reason #23 why I would never want to be a politician." I can't say that kissing a goat would only be #23 on my particular list, but it got a laugh out of me, so there you go. Congratulations My2sense2 -- don't spend all the bragging-rights in one California barnyard.
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Norman MacCaig (1910-1996), that most elegant and sophisticated of modern Scottish poets, can't really have seen himself as an untransformed frog.
But he did have an enthusiasm for amphibians that encompassed toads as well. The magisterial volume of his poems, edited by his son Ewen, is published by Polygon at £19.95.
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People have said to me, You seem to like frogs.
They keep jumping into your poems.
I do. I love the way they sit
compact as a cat and as indifferent
to everything but style, like a lady remembering
to keep her knees together. And I love
the elegant way they jump and
the inelegant way they land.
So human.
I feel so close to them
I must be froggish myself.
I look in the mirror expecting to see
a fairy-tale Prince.
But no. It's just sprawling me,
croaking away
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Abortion Industry's "Mission Is to Pressure Women"
Former Workers Describe How Abortion Businesses Hide Information, Coerce Women to Abort
"Planned Parenthood's mission is to pressure as many women into having an abortion as it can," a former abortion facility worker has revealed. From Catherine Anthony Adair's op-ed piece in The Washington Examiner:
The Ideas Behind the Abortion Industry's Deceptive Counseling Practices
Like most other commercial businesses, the abortion industry has a specialized sales force and a carefully defined marketing strategy. The sale force is composed of abortion counselors who "help" women decide about abortion. Their marketing strategy is to tell their clients as little as possible ‑‑ and never anything negative ‑‑ about their product.
[As far back as the 1970s,] the sales and marketing divisions of the abortion industry were described in lurid detail in [a] Chicago Sun‑Times abortion expose. In that series, undercover reporters charged that at "Michigan Ave. abortion mills, women who are hired to counsel don't ‑‑ they're paid to sell." And the selling of abortion, they observed, included "sophisticated pitches and deceptive promises."1
Women Who've Been There Describe "Counseling"
Many people assume that if a woman or girl goes to an abortion facility, she wants an abortion. But many women and girls who have been there say that they were looking for information and help — often help to continue a pregnancy or stop someone seeking to pressure or force them to abort — rather than abortion.
Sadly, this is not what they usually get. A survey of women who had abortions found that 79 percent of American respondents said that they were not given information on alternatives to abortion, 84 percent said they did not receive adequate counseling and 67 percent said they received no counseling before abortion.
As women's rights advocate Melinda Tankard Reist pointed out in Giving Sorrow Words,
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SACRAMENTO – The state's election watchdog Tuesday eased the rules for how political campaigns report donations received via electronic installment payments.
The new rules, effective in two months, allow campaigns to report the individual gifts – often made via credit cards – as they come in. A strict reading of the previous rules had required campaigns to report the total amount promised when the first payment was received.
The vote by the five-member California Fair Political Practices Commission was unanimous.
The commission also said it would make a final decision in December on what to do about the controversial fundraising practice known as pledging.
In August, The Orange County Register exposed how politicians can delay publicly disclosing who contributes to them by accepting promises of money, or pledges, instead of cash. Politicians don't have to report contributions until the money arrives. Pledging, therefore, makes it impossible to gauge the impact of a fundraiser on a politician's votes.
Chairwoman Liane Randolph suggested Tuesday the commission could request that staff write a report on pledging, outlining the history of the practice and the statutes related to it.


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How to Be Braver In Your Everyday Life
We all wish we could be a little braver, but fear can still permeate into our day to day activities. It keeps us from taking action, progressing at work, and even causes us to procrastinate. Here are a few ways to boost your bravery and take every day on with courage.


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Awww, that Tim Mcgraw: The country star, hubby to Faith Hill and father of three is getting charitable on the road to help raise awareness and funds for U.S. servicemen and women.
Outback Steakhouse just announced that they are partnering with McGraw and donating one million bucks to Operation Homefront, which provides financial and emotional support for the troops serving overseas plus veterans and their families.
Check out these exclusive pics of Mcgraw meeting troops and their families backstage for the initiative and click here to check out a new PSA.
For Tim's Southern Voice tour dates, visit his Web site.
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PETA has sharpened its claws in a new ad mocking Tiger Woods.
The animal-rights organization plans to erect a billboard near Woods' Windermere, Fla. home, ExtraTV reports.
The giant ad reads: "Too much sex can be a bad thing...for little tigers too. Help keep our cats (and dogs) out of trouble: Always spay or neuter!"
Following last week's public apology, Woods, 34, reportedly flew to Arizona to continue treatment in a sex rehab.
One person in Woods' corner: also-controversial singer Chris Brown, whose reputation has been tarnished since last year's incident in which he beat then-girlfriend Rihanna.
"Whatever his personal life is -- and I think this goes for me and him -- his personal life is his personal life," the singer said on radio show Mojo in the Morning. "People make mistakes...So my hat is off to him. I support him, I hope he gets back on the field and does his thing."


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YOUNGSTERS at Temple Guiting primary school have proved they are a brainy bunch when it comes to exam results.
The school was singled out in a letter from Education Minister David Laws, who praised its Key Stage Two results and position in the recently released national league tables.
One hundred per cent of pupils achieved level 4B or above in reading and maths and level 4 or above in writing in last May's exams. Those results rank the school 159th out of 14,000 primary schools in England in the 2013 primary school performance tables.
Its average points score in reading, writing and maths also rank it 114th in the national league tables, below just three other Gloucestershire schools.
Headteacher David Ogden said: "Each year you hope you're going to do well and we're really pleased about it, particularly for the children.
They did work very hard.
"It just goes to show if you get to know the children like you do in a smaller school, you can really get the best out of them."
He was surprised and delighted when the letter from the minister popped through the school's letterbox.
"The letter from David Laws came out of the blue really. We knew the children had done well but we to actually get it in print from a minister was quite a pleasant surprise," he said.


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La Jolla lifeguard tower rife with cost overruns
Baby bird, seal-pupping, and bad waste pump blamed for budget surprises
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By phone in late July, Richard Brady's Peter Lloyd tells me that finishing work on the pump station is like moving into a new office. "You've got what you need," he says, "but some rearranging needs to be done before you feel like everything's right." Lloyd adds that transferring the power source to the station's generator is not dependent on an automatic system. It can be done manually. I ask him whether he would consider the station to be up and running. "You'll have to ask the district that," he says.
But even the softstart problems were not over. On July 6, Neal Electric's Passanisi tried to get the subcontractor Square D's and the project manager's attention. "What is the status of the service tech to the jobsite?... Please help out! THIS IS HOT. What does it take to get a service rep to the job? Also, we need to get training done. When could this happen?"
On a "project look-ahead schedule" printed on July 12, the water district instructed Spiess Construction to "continue to perform punch list items." A new schedule on July 25 repeated the same instruction and indicated further the need for Square D to conduct training with the district's operations division. When the training took place during the week of July 24 to 28, one pump was not up at all, another pump's softstart did not work, and none of the pumps had functional transfer switching schemes.
A member of the EastLake community familiar with the 980-2 pump station project tells me that the district may still have to spend more of its own money to get everything completed. He wishes to remain anonymous out of fear that his identity might lead to recriminations against district employees he knows. The potential additional expenditures are likely to involve the automatic transfer scheme, which has elaborate software controlling it. Electrical circuit diagrams reveal, according to my source, that what is required to get the scheme running is not merely a warranty repair. "They're still in the engineering design phase," he says. "Those diagrams show them still struggling to design an automatic transfer scheme that will work."
On July 27, employees received an e-mail from Otay Water District general manager Mark Watton announcing a consolidation of "Development Services and Engineering into one department.... I appreciate [chief of engineering Mehdi Arbabian's] professional orientation and wish him the best in all his future endeavors." In an attached e-mail, Arbabian wrote, "We have reached a mutual agreement so I can now seek other opportunities."
Consolidating Arbabian's responsibilities into his own is chief of development services Rod Posada. He's the one who on February 1 assured Otay district board president Bonilla that the 980-2 pump station project, though a little behind schedule, was going swimmingly.
On August 2, according to spokesman Buelna, the district released retention fees to contractors who worked on the pump station project. But according to my source, "More training is still needed, two pumps and an electronic softstart do not work, and the transfer switch is still in the design phase. These are all contract obligations, not warranty issues."


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Mount an Encrypted DMG in Ubuntu or Linux in General
Hi Guys,
I wanted to mount an encrypted AES 128-bit dmg file on my Linux machine. I know how to successfully mount unencrypted dmgs, all I have to do is download DMG Automounter for Linux: http://linux.softpedia.com/get/Deskt...er-39815.shtml
However, is there a way to mount an encrypted dmg (possibly using the linux kernel's loopback module) or even decompress it to an img file?
Any help is greatly appreciated,
Please help me!! Any ideas (whatsoever) are greatly appreciated. Please, please, please help!
Maybe to mount encrypted dmgs I will need to port the hdiutil utility from Mac to Linux.
Any ideas on how to do that?
dmg2iso, DMGExtractor, and more
Looks like you can use a number of utilities for encrypted .dmg files, like dmg2iso and DMGExtractor: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_D...#Non-Macintosh
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Senior citizens laced up their walking shoes and got fit this fall thanks to a local partnership.
The senior fitness walking program launched through the Armed Services YMCA and the Copperas Cove Senior Center in September ended last week to break for the winter season.
The ASYMCA was approached in August about helping put together an activity program for the seniors when YMCA fitness coordinator, Kira Bishop, suggested the idea of taking walks at South Park.
While the program generated camaraderie and a sense of accomplishment, it took a hit from a number of extenuating circumstances said Becky Johnson, community outreach specialist.
"Weather has been inclement. Plus, it seems like all of our holidays are falling on Mondays which is when the walking was," she said. "But, anything that gets us moving is good for me and people were enjoying it."
The program, held Mondays at 9 a.m., brought in 8-10 seniors every week. The YMCA transported the seniors by bus from the center to a walking trail at South Park where they walked at least a mile each day.
Senior Cathy Stockman joined the group on several occasions hoping to inspire others to get involved.
"I think it's good for the seniors to get out and walk. It keeps you active and encourages you to get out and mingle and to not be at home by yourself," she said.
Bishop said walking has a long list of health benefits, such as reducing the risk of a heart attack and lowering blood pressure.
"The seniors got those benefits while adding to their quality of life."
Organizers hope to resume the program in the spring.
"It kept them mobile and allowed (the seniors) to do something that isn't necessarily that easy, but they persevered and came through," Johnson said.
For more information on additional programs offered at the Copperas Cove Senior Center call (254) 547-6049.


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CCSU students protest proposed tuition hikePosted: Updated:
Students at Central Connecticut State University in New Britain rallied against a proposal to increase tuition at Connecticut's four regional universities and its community colleges.
The state's Board of Regents is considering the hike because of a dip in state funding along with growing bills.
The students were protesting a proposed tuition hike at Connecticut's four state universities and 12 community colleges.
The hike will lead to each in-state student paying $781 more per year and every out-of-state student paying $1,251.
"The tuition hike is not necessary and would do more harm than good," said John Feldman.
While the Board of Regents proposed the fee increase last month, they still have not voted on it yet.
They are scheduled to discuss the increase again Thursday.
The rally was held at the Student Center Circle on the CCSU campus Wednesday afternoon. Students attended the rally with homemade posters.
"If someone's gunna stand up to the governor it's gunna be us," protesters chanted.
History professor Dr. Briann Greenfield told Eyewitness News that she polled her students and says they're already tens of thousands of dollars in debt trying to pay for their education.
"I care about my students and I also see my students can't study because they're working 40 hours a week or more," Greenfield said. "When they get out there's no opportunity for things like internships to explore, careers. They've gotta take any job they can get and stick it out till they pay back the loans."
A spokeswoman for the Board of Regents told Eyewitness News they're mindful any increase is difficult for students.
"There are no easy choices, and the regents continue to look for smart cost savings wherever possible," Board of Regents said in a statement.
The board will consider the increase on March 21 and if passed could go into effect at the beginning of the fiscal year.
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LOS ANGELES — A daily glucosamine drink supplement failed to prevent deterioration of knee cartilage, reduce bone bruises or ease knee pain, according to a recent short-term study of the popular, if controversial, dietary product.
In a paper published Tuesday in the journal Arthritis & Rheumatology, authors studied the effects of glucosamine hydrochloride on a group of 201 adults for six months.
"Our study found no evidence that drinking glucosamine supplement reduced knee cartilage damage, relieved pain or improved function in individuals with chronic knee pain," said the study's lead author, Dr. C. Kent Kwoh, professor of medicine and medical imaging at the University of Arizona College of Medicine.
"We looked at multiple different ways that glucosamine might help," said Kwoh, who also directs the University of Arizona Arthritis Center. "None of them showed any benefit."
Glucosamine occurs naturally in humans and other animals, and helps to build cartilage, the tissue that cushions bones.
Supplemental glucosamine is commonly made from the shells of sea creatures, and marketers claim that it promotes joint health and supports the formation of cartilage. Roughly 10 percent of the U.S. population uses the supplement, study authors said.
Yet despite its popularity, glucosamine's effectiveness remains a topic of debate.
In European studies, where glucosamine requires a physician's prescription, manufacturer-funded studies have argued that the substance is beneficial.
In the United States, however — where the product can be purchased without a prescription — some studies have failed to find it effective in slowing the progression of knee osteoarthritis.
Glucosamine is commonly sold in two forms: Glucosamine hydrochloride and glucosamine sulfate. Kwoh said pharmacological studies have found no difference between the two.
The study was funded by Coca-Cola Co.'s Beverage Institute for Health & Wellness.
The soft-drink company temporarily marketed orange juice containing glucosamine — under its Minute Maid brand — but no longer does.
"I'm not sure they're going to market it again, because of this and other studies," Kwoh said.
Study authors said theirs was the first to use MRIs to evaluate glucosamine's effects on cartilage and bone marrow lesions.
Previous studies have used X-rays, which show bones, but not cartilage. Doctors therefore judge how healthy the invisible cartilage is by measuring how far apart the bones of the knee are. Larger distances suggest more cartilage.
With MRI technology, Kwoh said he and his colleagues were able to examine the cartilage more directly.


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Blogs Liberty and Power Ron Paul and Immigration, a ResponseDec 31, 2007 8:43 pm
Ron Paul and Immigration, a Response
However, I am glad that Dr. Paul takes in his mind the principled position that he does because that fact greatly enhances the prospect of him being elected. Sadly, people who look at the immigration question the way that Sheldon Richman and I do are a decided minority in this country. During my years as County Fair Coordinator for the Montgomery County Libertarian Party my booths used to prominently feature the Nolan quiz and I compiled statistics on how people answered. The question on open borders received by far the most negative responses, outstripping even the drug legalization query. In fact, this latest version has eliminated the question altogether. If I must disagree with Ron Paul on an issue I am happy it is this one because for too many people adopting my position on immigration would be a deal breaker.
Also, we need to consider the practical effect of Ron Paul's ascent into office on the so called illegal immigrants. It would be of enormous benefit to them. Dealing with the inflation tax and a renewed respect for civil liberties would most definitely improve their lives. And, if Smith, Von Mises, and Friedman are right, a strong move in the direction of free market economics, one of Paul's top priorities, would lead to an obvious need for more immigration not less. The irony is that Sheldon Richman and Ron Paul both want to get to the same place, open borders, Richman through repeal of law and Paul through economic necessity. Lastly, it is neither feasible nor desirable to remove the undocumented workers that are here now and a truly closed border is a fantasy. So, the most likely result on the immigration issue of electing anyone other than Ron Paul is the status quo.
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Jeff Riggenbach - 1/1/2008
Justin thinks foreign policy is *the* most important issue in any federal election. He thinks foreign policy trumps immigration policy. He supported Buchanan because he believed Buchanan was the only candidate with a sane foreign policy.
Less Antman - 12/31/2007
> I think Paul is right when he says it is not an immigration problem it is an economic one.
So do I, and the Paul I respect should have hated this ad, and wondered why the topic was selected instead of all the life and death issues that built his campaign and earned him our enthusiastic support.
Keith Halderman - 12/31/2007
I think your analysis is correct and the best way for America to respond is to have such a strong economy that immigrants are seen not as they are now as competition but as necessary. Ron Paul is the only candidate who I see as having a chance of bringing about such a situation.
Keith Halderman - 12/31/2007
I said the execution of the film was flawed but I ask you are seriously suggesting that more 10 million workers can just leave the economy without tremendous economic disruption. Also Penn and Teller made a point of saying that their fence was based on the design of the proposed government fence.
Keith Halderman - 12/31/2007
The phrase I used, "in his mind the principled position that he does" was meant to denote that he is not pandering that he believes his views on immigration are consistent with his other views. I do not necessarily agree with him on this. However I also do not believe my disagreement with Paul on this is anywheres near as important as changing our foreign policy and economic policies. I also believe that this difference will have little practical effect. I think Paul is right when he says it is not an immigration problem it is an economic one.
Sudha Shenoy - 12/30/2007
1. Populations in the DCs are generally very much older than populations in the LDCs -- ie, the latter are very young.
2. There is far, far, far more capital in the DCs -- ie, jobs are far more productive than they could be in the LDCs.
3. (1+2): contd flow of people from the LDCs to the DCs, whatever legislation --NOT the common law -- may or may not say.
It is immensely more difficult to get into Western Europe than from Latin America into the US. Yet millions continue to do so -- crossing to the Canaries in leaky boats; crossing to the Italian border likewise; being smuggled in by foot & packed into lorries..
The US cannot remain immune to facts (1+2). The real question is just how Americans will respond.
Sudha Shenoy - 12/30/2007
1. Populations in the DCs are generally very much older than populations in the LDCs -- ie, the latter are very young.
2. There is far, far, far more capital in the DCs -- ie, jobs are far more productive than they could be in the LDCs.
3. (1+2): contd flow of people from the LDCs to the DCs, whatever legislation --NOT the common law -- may or may not say.
It is immensely more difficult to get into Western Europe than from Latin America into the US. Yet millions continue to do so -- crossing to the Canaries in leaky boats; crossing to the Italian border likewise; being smuggled in by foot & packed into lorries..
The US cannot remain immune to facts (1+2). The real question is just how Americans will respond.
Sheldon Richman - 12/30/2007
Good stuff. He almost sounds like Don Boudreaux and me.
Otto M. Kerner - 12/30/2007
Whether it would be feasible or not is definitely a separate question from whether it would be desirable. But I've heard various commentators say that it is not feasible -- and I'm suggesting they should skip that and go straight to the argument about whether it is desirable.
Mark Brady - 12/30/2007
Judging by the posts and exchanges here at Liberty & Power and Antiwar.com (where Justin Raimondo's post has generated a huge number of comments), Ron Paul's new ad on immigration does sound pretty awful. (I'm unable to view it today.)
A decidedly left-wing website that I check on a regular basis is Lenin's Tomb. As you might expect, its analysis of U.S. folly in the Middle East is rather better than its coverage of Hugo Chavez or labor disputes. Today, prompted by Justin's post, Lenin (the alias of the well-read Richard Seymour) has written No one is illegal. I suggest it has some merit--whatever you may think of Justin's exchange with Lenin that follows in the Comments.
David T. Beito - 12/30/2007
Given the fact that Raimondo went all out for the anti-immigrant Buchanan (and shunned the open borders libertarian) back in 2000, his stand here strikes me as strange.
Kevin B. O'Reilly - 12/30/2007
I addressed my comment to Mr. Horwitz by mistake. Obviously, it was Mr. Halderman's post I was replying to. My apologies.
Kevin B. O'Reilly - 12/30/2007
Of course, it would be possible to build an impenetrable wall between the U.S. and Mexico. But we could also shoot every redhead on sight. That doesn't make it a wise or just policy.
Sheldon Richman - 12/30/2007
Keith, the point is that Ron thinks there is a conflict, whether you or I do or not. And a worker-recruitment policy is not free immigration.
Anthony Gregory - 12/30/2007
AWC has two critiques:
Otto M. Kerner - 12/30/2007
I don't know how comparable INS's proposed design would be, but I have heard it said that the Israeli security wall around the West Bank has been reasonably effective at stopping terrorist attacks -- some say it has been dramatically effective. And this is a wall to has to stand up against violent and well-armed guerrillas, not just average persons motivated by economic concerncs. So, I am far from convinced that it would be impossible for the U.S. to build an effective barrier on its border with Mexico. I can hardly accept something Penn & Teller as a meaningful experiment.
As for "Day without Mexicans", from everything I've heard about this movie, it is a blatantly offensive and economically illiterate piece of propaganda, so I'm surprised you would even bring it up. There are (as I'm sure you're aware, but the makers of that film maybe are not) places in the U.S. -- to say nothing of the rest of the world -- that have gone not only a day but whole centuries without any significant number of Mexicans, and they are doing just fine, thanks.
David T. Beito - 12/30/2007
As I said, I was bothered by the ad and have complained to the campaign....but Paul has never tried to fool anybody. He even sponsored a bill on the visa issue. This guy is light years ahead of the opposition on a wide range of issues and is no worse on immigration than most of them.
We will have to brace ourselves, however, because the attacks on him are bound to grow more vicious.
Kevin B. O'Reilly - 12/30/2007
Steven, your post seems a bit inconsistent. On the one hand, you're saying that it's OK that Paul takes the wrong view on immigration because many potential GOP viewers share that view. That might be true, but then you strain to describe Paul's view as principled.
As I understand it, he reasons that the welfare state attracts people to come here illegally. First, that's untrue as illegals are ineligible for AFDC, Social Security, etc. They are here working, not sitting on the dole -- that's why it makes sense for them to come here. Both schooling and health care are *more* socialized in countries of origin than they are here, so that's hardly a draw. Last, it's precisely those people who have the wherewithal to invest in crossing illegally and a social network to sustain them once they arrive who are most likely to cross. These are the ones least likely to rely on welfare -- even if they could somehow fraudulently obtain it.
But let's assume Paul's view were correct. Why not favor open borders for people who pass muster on fair criteria for infectious disease, criminal past and terrorist ties, but then ban them from collecting any welfare benefits?
That should seem to address his concerns. Or, he could run on abolishing welfare for everyone and then allowing immigrants. But neither of those is his position. Paul's position may be principled, but the principle is nationalism, not liberty.
There is already a tremendous demand for immigrant workers -- that hundreds of thousands cross illegally each year, risking their lives, proves that much. If Paul doesn't recognize that now, why would he recognize it under a more liberated economic system?
Bill Woolsey - 12/30/2007
I think worrying about what would happen under a Paul Presidency is a waste of time.
Promoting an anti-libertarian immigration policy for Paul to get elected is a waste of time.
Promoting an anti-libertarian immigration policy to get more votes (while losing, anyway) is counterproductive.
For the most part, Paul is arguing for restricting immigration in ways consistent with libertarian values.
I believe that he is a good influence on anti-immigration Americans.
On this issue, he is a bad influence on libertarian Americans.
I still think he is a force for good.
Still, if he downplays the one issue where his view is unpopular among Republicans (the war) and instead emphasized positions where his views fit in the majority (abortion and immigration) and tries to claim he is more pro-life than the others and more anti-immigrant than the others..
This isn't so good.
One threat to libertarian politicians is the fantasy that we can win this thing... if only.
Keith Halderman - 12/30/2007
Sheldon sorry about the name thing I just drove through Richmond yesterday and it must have been on my mind. I do not think that there is a conflict between national sovereignty and unrestricted immigration. I have actually heard Paul say that he wants to return to a situation like the late 1800s where we actually went overseas to recruit workers.
Sheldon Richman - 12/30/2007
First, it's RICHMAN.
Second, Ron Paul does not want to move toward open borders. That would clash with his cherished national sovereignty.
Keith Halderman - 12/30/2007
First off there is no evidence what so ever that Ron Paul's position on immigration is in any way pandering and your attempt to read such an accusation into my post says more about your animosity towards Dr. Paul then anything I have written. Secondly, my post is clearly arguing that Ron Paul is the only candidate that will make a positive difference for illegal immigrants because he is the only candidate that will bring economic prosperity which in turn will greatly lessen the present hostility towards them. If you think anti-immigrant rhetoric in popular now wait until the dollar is worth of third of its present value.
Steven Horwitz - 12/30/2007
If your last line is true, that President Paul won't matter so much to immigration, what your argument boils down to is that RP is playing to those who would scapegoat immigrants (legal or illegal) for all sorts of problems just so he can be more electable, at which point he won't change much of anything.
I don't find that principled, I find it troublesome. I understand the arguments that, over time, a Paul presidency might be better for immigrants (and I agree with it at one level). What I cannot abide is getting there by playing to the insular fears of the populace and by a policy proposal that would require, even given that he couldn't actually enact it, more state surveillance of innocent people.
Harkening back to my earlier posts on Paul, the libertarianism I grew up with was one that was about treating people, ALL PEOPLE regardless of nationality, as sovereign human beings. If you're right, then a position of Paul's (even if it's pandering for votes) violates both the universal humanism libertarianism should aspire to and threatens to violate the rights of specific individuals.
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Adamson Sr. RB: In 2011, Bryant had 59 carries as one of three backs in a running-based spread offense. This season, Adamson (3-0) has switched to the Delaware Wing T with great results, leading 4A area teams in rushing. Bryant (5-10, 200) has been the key beneficiary, heading into Thursday's game against Seagoville with 701 rushing yards and nine touchdowns on just 43 carries.
"A lot of kids that become seniors, they realize this is their last chance and they grab it," Adamson coach Josh Ragsdale said. "And that's what he's done. He's trying to get the most out of this offense."
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Funny mom Tina Fey is hoping to debunk some myths about working mothers in her new book, Bossypants, which will be released this April. One person she'd like to get an advanced copy? Her 5-year-old daughter, Alice.
"My daughter brought home a book called My Working Mom," Fey told OK! at the 20th annual Bunny Hop. "It had a witch on the cover, and I was like, 'This hurts my feelings.' She was like, 'Mom, I can't read. I thought it was a Halloween book.'"
Tina admits that becoming a parent had a huge impact on her work life; especially when it came to being aware of the needs of other moms.
The biggest thing you realize when you have a kid is how many other people in your workplace are dealing with that," said Fey. "When you're single, you're like, 'Let's work 'til 10.' You don't care. Once you have a kid, you're like, 'Oh yeah, if I'm exhausted because my kid was up all night with a cold, so are 10 other people.' It makes you more of a sympathetic human being."
As for whether or not she's offered any parenting advice to her 30 Rock co-star, Jane Krakowski, who's expecting her first child this year, Tina says that she likes to keep her words of wisdom to a minimum.
"I always try to hook them up with something like 'a good baby nurse,' or little things, but I only weigh in if someone asks my opinion. That's the best way to offer it."


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Some growers of organic cherries marketed from the Northwest may be pulling back acreage slightly after a tough marketing year and shrinking premiums.
Organic cherry volume typically accounts for less than 5% of the total crop, according to B.J. Thurlby, president of the Wenatchee, Wash.-based Northwest Cherry Growers.
Lynn Long, extension horticulturist with Oregon State University, The Dalles, said the largest organic cherry grower in Oregon took organic acreage out and is transitioning the acreage back to conventional.
The issue, Long said, is that organic cherries recently have delivered the necessary premium above conventional fruit.
"Some years growers of organic cherries don't get any premium at all, and expenses are higher," Long said.
Bob Mast, vice president of marketing for Wenatchee, Wash.-based Columbia Marketing International Corp., said the marketer has a small percentage of organic fruit.
"Last year the retail on conventional cherries was down so much it was tough to have the gap between organic and conventional fruit on the shelf," he said.
Organic cherry shipments of Washington cherries in 2009 were rated by the U.S. Department of Agriculture at 630,000 20-pound boxes out of a total crop that exceeded 20 million boxes.
This year, Roger Pepperl, marketing director for Wenatchee, Wash.-based Stemilt Growers Inc., said the state of Washington could feature about 700,000 boxes of organic cherries. Pepperl said Stemilt will have a substantial volume of organic cherries.
The f.o.b. prices for organic cherries commanded a premium over conventional cherries in 2009, but the overall market last season was not as strong as in previous years, said Cheryl Stewart, owner of Columbia Gorge Organic Fruit Co., Hood River, Ore.
Stewart said reduced prices for fresh fruit last season caused some smaller cherries to be diverted to the firm's organic fruit processing facility. Better sizing may benefit returns this year.
San Francisco wholesale prices for 11-row size Washington cherries were reported at $25 per 15-pound carton on July 6 last year, about double the wholesale price for conventional cherries at the time, but still well below the $34 per carton recorded at the market for California organic cherries in early June.
Wholesale prices for Washington organic cherries in 15-pound cartons dropped as low as $12 in July 2009 at a time when wholesale prices of 11-row conventional fruit dropped as low as $8-10 at the San Francisco market.


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As reported by AOL Music, a totally awesome kid who goes by the name "TON" is the shining, Snuggie-swaddled star of an amazing new viral video. The Beyonce super fan uploaded a home-video recreation of Bey's "Countdown" video, and he completely kills it! Aside from his great at-home editing job and spot-on choreography and facial expressions, TON's ode to Beyonce is all the more amazing because he's wearing a giant blue Snuggie through almost the entire thing!
Queen B should really give this kid a gold star, or something. Watch TON work in the "Countdown (Snuggie Version)" video below!
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09-14-2008 #1Takavach Guest
Here's why Blu-ray will be Dead by 2012
Planning to buy a Blu-ray player? Hold on. It's already battling public indifference, technical problems, laughable features and downloadable movies. Is it any wonder Blu-ray is doomed to fail? Here are five reasons why it's heading for the grave...
1. HD movie downloads
OK so the picture quality's not quite there yet, but Bill Gates, Steve Jobs and others have already seen the future of movie viewing at home - and it doesn't come on shiny 12cm discs.
Instead services like iTunes, Xbox Live and Vudu already offer HD movies over the internet, enabling you to see the movies you want without having to hack down to the video store in the pouring rain.
With fibre-to-home broadband slowly being rolled out in the UK, who knows what the next few years will bring.
2. BD-Live
Have you seen the demos? BD-Live is a joke. It's a second-rate attempt to offer interactive features that HD DVD did first and much, much better.
It won't work on old Blu-ray players (they don't have the persistent storage) and may not work on new ones: it's not mandatory for Blu-ray player makers to include it in the hardware they sell.
Result? Large doses of confusion and frustration for anyone (un)lucky enough to buy a Blu-ray disc with BD-Live features on it.
3. Samsung thinks Blu-ray is finished
You know, the world's number one consumer electronics maker, Blu-ray stalwart.
Andy Griffiths, director of consumer electronics at Samsung UK, told Pocket Lint that Blu-ray would be dead in five years, and that it certainly wouldn't last 10.
He believes the format will be replaced by either a new kind of physical media - most likely flash memory cards if Toshiba's IFA 2008 keynote is anything to go by - or downloads. Go figure.
4. Sony thinks Blu-ray is finished
Blu-ray is not only finished in terms of spec, but it's also finished as a format. Optical disc technology has gone as far as it can go.
Or so says Take Miyama, Sony product manager for home video marketing in Europe believes. He told Electric Pig that "in the future, if [our emphasis] we have a physical media format, it will change physically. It won't look like an optical disc."
Talk of a 500GB Blu-ray prototype will only prolong the agony.
Sony has already hinted at its future direction with the launch of Bravia TVs in the US that can directly receive movies streamed over the internet. Blu-ray player not required.
5. DVD is good enough
Despite the fact that Blu-ray movies are expected to hit to 12 million sales in Europe this year, they still account for just two per cent of video sales in countries like the UK.
Even by 2012 DVD will still have the edge - and that's according to the Blu-ray Disc Association's own over-enthusiastic predictions [PDF link].
The plain fact is few of us are ever likely to swap extensive DVD collection for their Blu-ray equivalents, especially when prices for Blu-ray movies and players are still so high.
Given that many cheap DVD players now have some kind of upscaling capability, DVD will prove 'good enough' in terms of picture quality for many years to come. More PlayStation 3 News...
09-15-2008 #2jhfit Guest
sounds like an xbox fanboy to me
09-15-2008 #3lanhikari Guest
Idk.. its kinda hard to believe look at where DVD is and how it will still be around.
09-15-2008 #4Airwalker Guest
#1 Reason is Price
"The plain fact is few of us are ever likely to swap extensive DVD collection for their Blu-ray equivalents, especially when prices for Blu-ray movies and players are still so high."
Most, not all, but most buy based on price.
09-15-2008 #5xxLindenxx Guest
true, price is a good reason but like every thing in this world. price's go down and so will blue-ray, then blue-ray will really replace dvd.
09-16-2008 #6novirtue Guest
So speaking of hd-dvd
for all the Xbox Fanboys out there, trying to pathetically make excuses when they wasted 100+ dollars on a hd-dvd player for their xbox 360 which format is ALREADY dead?
...That's what I thought. fail.
we've had downloads for years of music, movies etc.
but people will always want a hard copy of something at least me personally, I don't want my movie just on my computer etc. because if something happens to it then it's toast. regardless if memory sticks will replace optical discs eventually this is something that will take a long time to catch on just like cd's and dvd's did, way more than 4 years. Hell, to this day I'd still rather listen to vinyl than a cd. the sound quality is superior in everyway maybe I'm just a stickler for dependable things, I don't know.
09-16-2008 #7jon5555 GuestGiven that many cheap DVD players now have some kind of upscaling capability, DVD will prove 'good enough' in terms of picture quality for many years to come.
If its a action packed blockbuster I simply must watch it on blu ray. DVD picture quality sadly just doesn't cut it for me anymore.
09-16-2008 #8ricdee Guest
I've been watching high definition movies ever since ps3 launch and i cant go back now. whenever i watch dvds now they look awful and thats even when their upscaled. Blu-ray WILL catch on in a big way someday, prices will drop and blu-ray discs will be the norm.
Saying downloads is the way to go is a bit stupid in that you have to have the internet and a HD ready device and given that the ps3 is probably the most affordable Blu-ray player at the moment most people will buy that and demand for blu-ray movies will go up and they wont need a download service.
09-22-2008 #9Treacles Guest
Didnt HD and DVD take ages to become well known and pretty cheap? Just because something starts with no sales and pretty expensive, doesnt mean in the future it wont be the best way to watch movies... When we have things like 2000 P/I (Obviously just rough guess) you think DVD or HD would be able to handle that without 2 discs?
09-22-2008 #10Warrorar Guest
i like it to read those threads Blue Ray is a child of the DVD. and like the 20years before. every child of the CD is the future.
Microsoft lost millions of dollars 10years ago. when the whole world started to use CD's, and microsoft said "no zip is the future".
then blue ray gets released some years later and microsoft trys his own way with HD DVD. and now? febuary the news was released that hd dvd is cancled. the project is dead. microsoft lost again a fight.
and this will happens all the time again. nobody can win against the cd and his childs (dvd/blueray). and the future is also leaded by this line of technology.
for so long its clear that internet download movies gets more popular. but where to put this datas? blueray will be the save medium of the future. a double layer dvd with 8gb is allready to small to hold some films. because they have so much informations and datas that only a blue ray can hold the informations.
blue ray will never day. and i think in 10 years they will release a new children with will also win the fight against what ever microsoft and the rest will release.


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In an excerpt from a forthcoming print feature, Barney and Noé discuss The River of Fundament, Barney's latest largescale project.
On the eve of Matthew Barney's and Jonathan Bepler's "River of Fundament" world premiere at BAM, Barney spoke over the phone with Paris filmmaker and long-time friend Gaspar Noé. This is an excerpt from a longer conversation, which will appear in BOMB's next print issue as well as on this site.
Gaspar Noé Have you ever tried 3D?
Matthew Barney I haven't. I remember the last time you and I hung out, you were taking some pictures on the Bowery with a 3D camera. My interest in filmmaking is probably less connected to technology than yours is.
GN Actually, I don't like technology but it allows me to work with people who are really good. Have you seen Gravity?
MB No, I haven't.
GN The first two takes are twenty minutes each, but you've never seen such a visual roller coaster inside a movie theater. Those two opening takes are incredible, also because the background is all black and you really have a sense that you're in space. The camera is spinning around the astronauts, and it's all computer-generated imagery. The result is incredibly mind-fucking. Everything is fake but it looks so real. I'm sure you'd be amazed by that movie.
MB This sounds like the type of film that I could never imagine making, because my addiction has to do with performance, with creating a very real situation and then dealing with all the physical problems surrounding it. I spend much energy trying to realize situations and occurrences physically before I give in to digital effects. In that way, digital effects for me always feel like a compromise but not unrelated to the kind of compromise that one faces as a sculptor. You know, on the classical level, a figure often needs a third leg to stand. Or the material problem you set up for yourself fails and needs an additive or an adhesive to make the material survive on its own, or to stand on its own. Compromise is so much part of the process of making film, or the process of making sculpture for that matter.
GN I would say being an artist or a performer or a director is also being a magician or a wizard because you use every trick you have in your pocket.
MB Have you ever worked in theater or with live performance?
GN No. Actually somebody just called me because they want film directors to direct operas. They proposed it to me but I have never done anything like that. You've done opera yourself.
MB What I've been working on recently is a combination of cinema and live performance, and these live scenes have all of the ingredients of opera. I can't say it's an opera, but it certainly relates. So it's definitely something that's been on my mind, and, in a way, this hybrid approach has resurrected my interest in filmmaking which I had lost for a while after working in Japan, where I made a film that dealt with many of the same problems I had worked with in the Cremaster cycle. I felt like I hadn't found a new problem to solve. So when I began working on River of Fundament, I started by setting up these live scenes and filming them. The final film is a combination of documentary photography and cinematic photography. That's quite different from things I have done in the past, but it has definitely clarified what interests me in live performance and what doesn't. Early on in the project, I presented a preliminary sketch onstage and learned that stage doesn't interest me. A kind of site-specific situational theater is a more natural fit for me.
GN You've never played the same play onstage twice?
MB That sketch I made was part of a festival in Manchester and was part of the writing process for this piece. I found the stage problematic. You know, as a moving-image maker, I felt the loss of the close-up and the loss of the macro-view of textural changes and material behavior. I felt like I couldn't exercise that quality or use that tool from my toolbox. I felt crippled. The fixed perspective of somebody sitting in the theater also seemed very limiting to me. Stage performance is such a different discipline. It's interesting to me that there are so many people out there who move back and forth between film and theater when they are so utterly different.
GN But River of Fundament is a film?
MB Yes it is. It's five and a half hours long. It's being presented in opera houses and proscenium theaters with a couple of intermissions—like an opera. The majority of the work I've been doing over the last seven years was for the live performances in the production. The cinematic work has been done over the last two years. And what I've ended up with is a hybrid between the two. The aspect of filmmaking that I'm most interested in has to do with creating a live condition, where something is actually happening in real time, and then filming in response to that. To a certain extent I've always done that—the Cremaster films were full of situations like that. It's not a very economical way of making a film—to set something up and to shoot it in real time and then edit it down.
GN How many cameras did you use for this project?
MB For some of the live scenes there were ten or twelve cameras rolling—from hotheads in different positions that were controlled remotely. Trying to make the camera position invisible to the live audience is a very difficult way to make a film. You often feel that the camera is not in the position you want it to be in, and you can't adjust and move the camera the way that you would do on set. A good example is the scene where the audience group was positioned on a barge pushed by a tugboat out on an industrial river in Detroit, and, while under way, they came upon a crime scene. The barge went into a hover in the current, while the investigators called in a crane barge to pull a submerged car out of the river and land it onto the larger barge in front of the audience. The investigators were ferried from the shore to the barge on a smaller boat, and the investigation continued. From a filming perspective, there were several, stacked layers of action which needed to stay in line for the cameras, and the tugboat was struggling with the current and the wind.
GN What about the music?
MB It's nearly through-composed with live music, and the singing is often carrying the text to the story. Like I said, it certainly has a lot of the elements of opera but I'm hesitant to call it an opera because its convention is not something I'm committed to.
GN Did you compose the music yourself?
MB No, I collaborated with Jonathan Bepler, who did a lot of the Cremaster music. So we worked on it together from the start and did a lot of the writing together. It's a long project in collaboration with somebody, which is both completely rewarding and challenging at the same time.
GN Have you ever thought of directing a fiction film, based on a novel or a personal story?
MB Well, River of Fundament is based on a Norman Mailer novel called Ancient Evenings. So in that way, having the novel as a text to work from, toward a script or a libretto, is completely new to me. And I've enjoyed that very much. You know, I would not say that it's a traditional narrative film by any means, but it has aspects of filmmaking that I haven't worked with in the past. There are scenes with dialogue carried by professional actors, and I worked with an editor who comes from a commercial filmmaking tradition. While it's a step in the direction of traditional narrative film, I still don't know if I could actually do one. Technically I could, but my interest in storytelling relies so much on experimentation with structure—and this is one of the reasons why I like your films so much.
GN I think there's something very square about how scripts, and movies in general, are written now. You see one or two and you've seen them all; you can close the thought inside your head, like, "Oh, I understood that, it goes from point A to point B and from point B to point C." There are not many movies that stay in your mind, like the way nightmares stay in your mind. When people ask me what my favorite movie is, I say the two I can watch the most are Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey and Buñuel's An Andalusian Dog. I can watch them over and over and don't get bored by them. 2001 is narrative but at a certain point it reaches a level that toys with a part of your mind that doesn't read events but reads symbols. What are your favorite movies?
MB For sure The Shining is up there. I like films that are trapped in one location—Das Boot or Jaws or the '70s "cabin in the woods" horror genre films—where the location often becomes the main character. I also loved early Cronenberg. The Brood, in particular.
GN If you haven't seen it, you should check this film called Wake In Fright . It's an Australian movie from the '70s. It's very sick.
MB A lot of my favorite films are actually commercial films. I mean, I love the spirit of experimental films, but I've been influenced much more by commercial films. It has something to do with the fact that my development as a filmmaker has come from a performance background. It started by performing an action by myself and having one person hold the camera and simply document the action. That slowly evolved into storytelling, and into something that resembles a filmmaking practice, but my interest was never in cinema from the start. I was a bit of a tourist with cinema, but I had an interest in horror from an early age.
GN Are you a fan of Lon Chaney?
MB Definitely.
GN I think he's the best actor ever. "The man with a thousand faces" and in each movie he plays another cripple—his face is burned, his legs and arms are missing. For his time, he was the master of transformation.
MB When I first started working with performers other than myself, I was thinking about something along the lines of Lon Chaney, like how can you, as a director, put a performer into a situation that can overcome their tendency to act? In other words, how do you restrain somebody from acting in a mannered way? It was the kind of thing I was doing to myself as a young artist—I was putting myself into situations where my body was restrained, as an attempt to change my behavior, the behavior of my art-making gestures. So once I began working with other people, I started restraining the actors. And it led to very interesting situations for sure, experimenting with prosthetics and costuming in the development of a character, and for sure Lon Chaney was always a model for that.
GN Do you always work with the same makeup artists?
MB I've done a lot of work with Gabe Bartalos in California, the makeup artist who did all of the Cremaster work. And with Keith Edmier, who is a sculptor based in New York, who worked in the makeup FX Industry when he was younger. I just did this last project with him after not working together for almost twenty years, which was really fun. For obvious reasons I'm very interested in prosthetic makeup artists because their process is so similar to mine as a sculptor—the casting and the mold-making and the experimentation with material behavior. The alchemy in that interests me very much.
Matthew Barney and Jonathan Bepler's River of Fundament opens on February 12 at BAM in New York.


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There is a long red tubular string hanging inside my drainage bulb and going all through the tube into the incision sight. I have had it for 1 week now but am a bit afraid to call the doc. I had to push a lot for the first bm after surgery. Is this something serious?
Is It Possible to Have a Hernia in my Drain Tube from my Tummy Tuck?
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Blood Clot String - NOTHING to worry About
First, you should NEVER be afraid of calling your Plastic surgeon. Like most of my colleagues, I take pride in my work and want my patients to be comfortable with their healing and their results. CALL HIM!
Secondly, the red string you are referring to is NOTHING TO WORRY ABOUT. It is a blood clot that is making its way into the drain. This is completely normal just like the gradual change of the drainage fluid from bloody, to blood tinged, to apple juice like to light Mexican beer color. You are doing well.
When you see your surgeon, ask him to "milk" the drains and the string will be sucked out. Enjoy the weekend.
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