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Now let me be clear here, based on Gene Smith's player evaluation record, I think it is highly unlikely that Moss will land with the Jaguars. However, I can't help but think that Moss would be at the very least an intriguing part of a wide receivers corp that's going to go through a complete face lift. Read the ESPN report here. For more analysis pertaining to the Jags, hit the jump.
Randy could be a tone-setter for the Jags in terms of commitment and a veteran voice in the locker room, providing guidance to the younger players, more specifically to receivers taken in the draft. Especially if expectations are true and several new free agents are added to the team like last year, signing a player who would have a calming, veteran presence and play for no guaranteed money unless he produces can't be labeled as too risky even for Smith, who we all know doesn't exactly like to rock the boat with signings of talented but immature or petulant players. Yes, Moss will get interest from many other teams as well because of the low financial risk associated with the adding of a sure-fire HOF'er to the roster. Let's also not forget that IF he makes the 53 man roster, then he will receive a payday of around $4 million, but to get to that point in the season he would have to show that he can still play at a high level. I believe that he could be a great addition to our team, and if he cannot prove himself during the OTA's and training camp, then the Jags are no worse for the wear financially, but if he can thrive and Smith doesn't take a chance on him, then how many articles will we read in the papers about Moss' break out year, and think that he could have been working his magic in sunny old Jax.


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How The Guardian And The 3 Little Pigs Hope To Keep The Wolf From The Door
2nd March 12
Author: Jason Gonsalves, Head of Strategy, BBH London
Our first ad for The Guardian broke on Wednesday night. It's basically a product demo taken to epic proportions, re-telling and shedding new light on the classic story of the 3 Little Pigs. If you haven't seen it already check it out and see what you think. Then below I've shared the thinking behind the work for anyone interested in hearing a little more.
Readers of this blog need little convincing of the merits of citizen journalism, crowd-sourcing and open platform collaboration. Nowadays eye witness accounts are shared instantly with the world through Twitter, whilst Google Alerts or new destinations like Gawker and Huffpo offer an alternative to traditional news brands. What's more, we all know the broader Newspaper industry is struggling. Print circulations and revenues keep falling, and for most the business model simply isn't working. Add to that mass criminality and corruption, and the long-term diagnosis looks terminal.
All this starts to beg the question, where does that leave a newspaper like The Guardian? It has to continue to be far more than simply an aggregator of opinion and comment. It's an innovation business almost two centuries old, one looking to lead the global news agenda and set an example for how modern brands should behave.
Our brief was to help cut through preconceptions, engage new readers by bringing to life The Guardian's remarkable transformation over the last 10 years from a left-wing, British newspaper to a global digital news hub.
This change has been driven by Alan Rusbridger, The Guardian's editor and is built on a belief that in the modern world no single organisation can possibly claim to be sole arbiter of truth, with experts journalists working in isolation to pass down the day's news to the masses. Instead, for The Guardian, modern news is a dynamic, participative and open dialogue in which the public and other news sources enrich and expand stories, inviting response and opinion. It's open and mutual rather than closed and didactic. It's iterative and alive rather than final and definitive. It's multi-platform and digital first.
- Whilst most newspapers jealously guard the stories they are planning to cover, The Guardian now publish their news lists online daily, encouraging both public and experts to get in touch with their journalists if they feel the have something to contribute, advise on or just to have their say.
- When the MPs Expenses Scandal exploded, The Guardian swiftly built an app that enabled the public to get involved, sift through receipts and flag anything they decided was worthy of investigation.
- During Arab Spring, in addition to providing content from its journalists in the field, The Guardian invited Arab commentators to share their views and blog, in Arabic, on the Guardian's platform.
- The Guardian's open platform enables anyone to access data collected by the Guardian as well as providing a search tool so that users can search for government information from around the world. It also encourages readers to upload their own data visualisations or share their favourites.
Whilst The Guardian represents open news, it remains a brand with a point of view, with a role and purpose that is more, not less, important in today's world. Rather than benefiting shareholders or a proprietor, the Guardian is owned by the Scott Trust which ensures that profits are reinvested to sustain journalism that is free from commercial or political interference. The trust, which was formed in 1936, and is named after CP Scott (Editor between 1872 and 1929) protects the Guardian's commitment to a set of values that can be summarised as honesty, cleanness (today interpreted as integrity) courage, fairness and a sense of duty to reader and the community. Scott's famous words "Comment is free, but facts are sacred" remind us of the importance of accuracy and truth in a world where information and opinion is ubiquitous. Relentless inquiry is the responsibility of organisations that want to set the news agenda, they must stop at nothing to get the bottom of the stories that matter. Nick Davies did just this – he was the Guardian journalist who spent 5 years finding and checking evidence and withstanding threats to uncover the truth behind the 'phone hacking at the News of the World.
If you couldn't tell already, I'll admit personally to being a huge fan. But I believe as digital innovators, creative pioneers, and champions of civil liberty and reform The Guardian is a rare and precious thing that deserves support. The story of the newspaper industry as we know is unlikely to conclude with a fairy-tale ending, but the Guardian is definitely painting an exciting vision of things to come.
Client Credits – The Guardian
David Pemsel, Marketing Consultant
Richard Furness, Head of Sales and Marketing, The Guardian
Anna Hayman, Marketing Manager, The Guardian
Media Buying Agency – PHD
Toby Nettle, Media Planner
Creative Agency – BBH
TV Credits
BBH Creative Director: David Kolbusz
BBH Creative Team: Matt Fitch & Mark Lewis
BBH Producer: Davud Karbassioun
BBH Production Assistant: Genevieve Sheppard
BBH Head of Strategy: Jason Gonsalves
BBH Team Director: Ngaio Pardon
BBH Team Manager: Alex Monger
BBH Team Assistant: Katie Burkes
Print credits
BBH Creative Team (Print): Carl Broadhurst and Peter Reid
BBH Head of Art: Mark Reddy
BBH Designer: James Townsend
BBH Print Producer: Sally Green
BBH Creative Director: David Kolbusz
BBH Head of Strategy: Jason Gonsalves
BBH Team Director: Ngaio Pardon
BBH Team Manager: Alex Monger
BBH Team Assistant: Katie Burkes
Production credits
Production Company – Rattling Stick
Director: Ringan Ledwidge
Producer: Chris Harrison
DoP: Franz Lustig
Editor/Editing House: Richard Orrick (Work post)
Post Production (Graphics + CGI effects): The Mill London
Sound Design: Will Cohen & Sam Brock
Music: Phil Kay (Woodwork Music)
Internet Trends – Mary Meeker's 2011 report
21st October 11
Author: Adam Powers, Head of UX, BBH London
This week ex-Morgan Stanley research analyst, now at KPCB, Mary Meeker delivered her latest Internet Trends presentation. As always, Mary's distillation of trends is always good value and genuine insights are peppered throughout.
For the time starved amongst you, here are some highlights:
World view:
• Though still with some ground to make up, it's striking the number of Chinese and Russian internet companies popping into the global top 25.
• What's more, between 2007 and 2010 China accumulated 246million new internet users – that is more than exist within the USA.
Mobilising the people:
• Mary notes that even in recessionary times breakthrough technology and services can breakout. One need only look at the extraordinary first weekend sales of Apple's iPhone 4S to confirm this.
• 2010 QTR 4 saw more mobile devices (which includes Tablets) sold than PCs and signs that Smartphone sales outstripping feature phone sales in US/EU
• That said. still enormous unconverted user base with 835 million Smartphone users against 5.6 billion mobile device subscribers.
• Apple getting plenty of headlines right now, but it's Android mobile devices with the remarkable quarter on quarter ramp up – jumping from 20million to 150million units shipped in between quarters 7 and 11 post-launch.
• Global mobile success story continues with app/ad revenue up by a factor of 17 between 2008 and 2011 to a figure of $12billion.
Touchy, feely:
• Meeker calls out the latest trend in the evolution of human computer interaction being from text command lines to graphical user interfaces (GUI) to natural user interfaces. Yes, Steve gets a name check too.
Cash is no longer king?:
• E-commerce story continues to be one of growth through tough economic times but plenty of room to grow.
• Again the big story is growth in mobile commerce with ebay and PayPal doubling or more their gross mobile sales/payments since 2010.
• The uplift in mobile e-commerce activity has been of particularly benefit to local commerce through the plethora of location aware discount offer aggregators.
Power to the people:
• Meeker identifies overarching mega-trend as the empowerment of people via connected devices.
• She references the Twitter traffic patterns post Japanese earthquake, the fact that 200million Indian farmers currently receive government subsidy payments via mobile devices and 85% of global population are now covered by commercial wireless signals versus 80% being on electricity grid.
The State of the Web 2010
17th November 10
Every year Mary Meeker from Morgan Stanley amazes us with her State of the Web presentation, and this year is no exception. The presentation is immensely valuable to our profession because it highlights shifts in internet culture and identifies opportunities for businesses and marketers alike.
The most provoking part of the presentation is the Disruptive Innovation slide. PSFK had a great blurb on describing the importance of this theory:
Disruptive Innovation is what's to blame for the success of smaller, nimbler but sometimes cheaper products or services that manage to disrupt the success or complacency of larger, traditional brand players. Think of Amazon's continued growth and eventual 'breaking' of Barnes & Noble, or Netflix's killing of Blockbuster. Meeker's presentation lays out two ways in which this disruptive innovation can happen
The two ways that Disruptive Innovation can happen. The first is a Low-End Segment Strategy by offering a product or service at a very low cost and then move up market. The second is called a Non-Consumption Strategy which basically means true innovation where consumption didn't exist prior to the product being available.
We have the presentation embedded here for your enjoyment. Please tell us what you found interesting? What worries you about this data? What excites you about this data?10 Questions Internet ExecutivesView more presentations from Perfect Market.
"The advent of broadband ripped our squawking heads from the sand"
22nd May 09
Posted in interactive, transformational change
Within about 5 minutes of arriving at the Telegraph Media Group offices last week, those unvarnished words – first uttered back in 2007 by TMG's now editor-in-chief, Will Lewis – had been recounted to us, setting the tone for the rest of the afternoon. A bit of a surprise. This after all was the home of the Daily Telegraph, the UK's biggest broadsheet, famously the 'paper of the shires' and historically the bastion of the Conservative party, right? Well yes and no. Invited in by Nancy Cruickshank, TMG's recently appointed Executive Director of Digital Development, a group of us from BBH and BBH Labs were about to hear how the paper had undergone a complete operational and cultural transformation over the past few years: moving from a print production-led organisation to one intent upon embracing an integrated, multi-format, audience-focused future.
Before we go much further, it's worth saying what this isn't about: it's not another essay on the accelerating declines in the newspaper industry's circulation figures and ad revenues, as much as these may form the backdrop, even the driving need behind the changes at TMG. Instead, the starting point here is the premise that adland still needs media and media needs adland, no question. And, equally importantly, all of us need to find forward-looking ways to accelerate our own response to the change going on around us. Listening to what they had to say, the relevance for any commercial creative business hit home hard. Here then is an unapologetically positive attempt to capture the implications of what we heard: what can we learn from one media brand's story?

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Re: Image Gallery Extension: Testers Needed
1 May 2009 at 2:58am
Merci bien! Je me demandais si je devrais le traduire a francais moi meme, mais comme on peut voir, mon francais n'est pas le meilleur. J'ajouterai le tien aussi-tot que possible!
Tu viens de Quebec? Je ne suis pas loin de toi. Je suis un peu sud, dans le paysage nord de Vermont.
Merci encore, Xeal!
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Re: Image Gallery Extension: Testers Needed
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Ah Bon! Je ne savais que tu etait francais toi aussi Bah en faite que tu parle le Francais. Je sais pas il pourrais avoir peut-etre des petite erreur. J'ai fais mon mieux pour me reviser mais parfois ca m'arrive de faire des erreur d'inattention.
Oui je vien de Quebec =) Ah ben! T'es pas trop loin de moi. Le monde est petit en ;)
De rien je vais surement traduire les autre module aussi donc quand c'est fais je vas te les donner!
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Re: Image Gallery Extension: Testers Needed
1 May 2009 at 6:52am
Nice work, your dutch translation, made life a lot easier for me As far as I can see 'to' in the translation is used only(?) in the 'Add images to somegallery' button. So I guess it could be translated 'aan' as in 'Afbeeldingen toevoegen aan'. Kleinigheidje: 'berkijk' en 'Maxinmaal'
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Re: Image Gallery Extension: Testers Needed
3 May 2009 at 9:05pm
Hiya Uncle,
Thanks a lot for your dataobject_manager module. I'm using it in a couple of projects and it really adds a lot of user friendly goodness for the clients. :-D
I'm having trouble with image gallery though. I can upload files to an album directly from my computer, no problem. BUT if I try to import existing files from 'File & Images' I get the following:
[Notice] Undefined index: controllerFieldName
POST /blackcandy/admin/EditForm/field/GalleryItems/ImportForm?ctf[GalleryItems][per_page]=10&ctf[GalleryItems][showall]=0&ctf[GalleryItems][sort]=SortOrder&ctf[GalleryItems][sort_dir]=DESC&ctf[GalleryItems][search]=&ctf[GalleryItems][filter]=AlbumID_1&ctf[GalleryItems][view]=grid&ctf[GalleryItems][imagesize]=100
Line 84 in /Library/WebServer/Documents/blackcandy/image_gallery/code/ImageGalleryManager.php
I added Debug::show($data); to the top of function saveImportForm($data, $form) in ImageGalleryManager.php. This is what I get:
* url =
* ctf =
o GalleryItems =
+ per_page =
+ showall =
+ sort =
+ sort_dir =
+ search =
+ filter =
+ view =
+ imagesize =
* dataObjectClassName =
* fileFieldName =
* parentIDName =
* controllerID =
* AlbumID =
* folder_id =
* imported_files =
o 0 =
* SecurityID =
* action_saveImportForm =
I'm using out of the box SS2.3.1 and up to date svn versions of dataobject_manager(r137) and image_gallery(r137). Any help much appreciated!
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4 May 2009 at 2:10am
Howdy UncleCheese. I can't thank you enough for all the work you've done - it has made my life infinitely easier!
I added a simple image search feature to your Image Gallery for a client, and it works well - it uses an additional Tags field on the ImageGalleryItem object to pull matching images from all albums, displaying them in a new album generated on the fly. Now I'd like to create a module for this feature that can be added easily to any Image Gallery, so I started separating my additions into DataObjectDecorators. Unfortunately, I can't get my extensions to work without removing the SortableDataObject extension (or adding my extension at the top of the ImageGallery_config.php file so that it loads first)... any idea how I could get around this? I'd really like to make this module usable without needing to modify your code directly...
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Re: Image Gallery Extension: Testers Needed
4 May 2009 at 8:52pm
I'll correct the spelling mistakes later on when I get the chance, thanks for heads up.
I noticed you named the file nlNL4.php (or something alike, I don't access to my files at the moment) on the SVN, is there any particular reason you did this? Oh and expect an update some time soon ;)
Speaking of which, what is the best way to submit patches on 3rd party modules like this one?
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Re: Image Gallery Extension: Testers Needed
5 May 2009 at 4:34am
Hey, everyone. Just got back from a weekend in NYC. Lots of catching up to do in the forums. I've got some responses for you.
@Mad_Clog - Not sure why the file got named nlNL4. I think it came in that way. I've changed it to nlNL.php in the newest version.
@jhirm - Decorators are pretty tricky, and it seems every time I try to implement them I hit some sort of roadblock. Is there a specific reason you want to use a decorator instead of just subclassing the ImageGalleryItem object?
@keeny - Fixed in the latest version. Thanks for flushing that out.
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5 May 2009 at 11:20pm
Yeah, the decorators have been giving me grief. I didn't think it would work to extend the ImageGalleryItem directly since the ImageGalleryPage class includes the ImageGalleryItem in its has_many array, which would mean editing the ImageGalleryPage class, defeating the purpose of separating my additions into a separate module. However, after thinking about it a bit, your suggestion may actually work, since I CAN decorate the ImageGalleryPage successfully... I'll try it this afternoon.
On an entirely unrelated note, I'm also working on a module that organizes various SilverStripe features into a package for user-management. In working on this, I noticed that the die() statement used to render a single album gallery breaks the built-in SS security model. For example, if you create a Page with Access set to a specific user-group, then make a Image Gallery Page as a child of the secured page, it is still possible to access the gallery via its URL if there is only one album because the die() statement stops further PHP execution. My quick fix was to change the die() to a redirect like this:
if($this->SingleAlbumView()) {
//FIX: changed die() to redirect to only album in order to solve security issue...
$gallery_ID = $this->data()->getField("ID");
$gallery_URLSegment = $this->data()->getField("URLSegment");
$album = ImageGalleryAlbum::get_one("ImageGalleryAlbum", "ImageGalleryPageID = ".$gallery_ID);
$album_URL = $gallery_URLSegment.'/album/'.$album->Folder()->Name;
The URL isn't as pretty, but it fixes the security issue... any thoughts on a better way to do this?
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The 2012 drought has not been kind to trees. According to the City of Sioux Falls, trees in our area have been subjected to weather-related stress since last winter.
First, we had a mild winter that coaxed some tree species into breaking dormancy, only to be knocked back by freezing temperatures. With a dry spring followed by a dry and hot summer, our trees are severely stressed.
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Jack DeJohnette is celebrating his 70th birthday all year long and in some major ways.
The jazz drummer, one of the best ever to touch a kit, is finishing up a tour of the West Coast with pianist Chick Corea and bassist Stanley Clarke. Later in the year he's playing with both Keith Jarrett's trio and the resurrected Gateway trio with guitarist John Abercrombie and bassist Dave Holland. In between he's taking a variety of groups to summer jazz festivals, including the one in Ottawa, where he's headlining.


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Greetings Panthers fans from the Phinsider! Jaxon kindly put up one of these posts over on our blog and asked if one of us could do the same over here, so I decided to oblige him.
So we'll be here to answer any of your Miami Dolphins questions that you may have. To start with, Ronnie Brown is going to be out for this game, while Coach Sparano has said that Joey Porter will play. So fire away with any questions and we'll answer them as best as we can. Here's hoping for a good and injury free game!


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U.S. Files Consent Decree in Animal Drug Residue Case
FDA Veterinarian Newsletter May/June 2005 Volume XX, No III
U.S. officials filed a Consent Decree of Permanent Injunction in July against a California dairy producer for delivering animals for slaughter that had illegal levels of animal drug residues.
Under the terms of the Consent Decree, the defendant, Carl M. Sousa, an individual doing business as White River Dairy, Stratford, CA, must implement systems to avoid illegal residues in the cattle sent to slaughter for human food. U.S. authorities believe the defendant's poor management of his operation led to the problems of drug residues.
The defendant is required to segregate, quarantine, and identify treated animals; identify each animal purchased or transported; maintain medication and treatment records; develop a system for drug inventory and accountability; and follow label directions for use of drugs, including their withdrawal times.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service, which tests animals for drug residues at slaughter, found nine illegal tissue residues in animals from the defendant's dairy during the period February 1999 to December 2003. The illegal residues included antibiotics such as penicillin, gentamicin, tylosin, and sulfadimethoxine.
The inspectors reported the findings to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). FDA's San Francisco District Office conducted the investigation that led to the Decree. The Center for Veterinary Medicine's Division of Compliance, FDA's Office of the Chief Counsel, the U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Consumer Litigation, and the U.S. Attorney's Office in the Eastern District of California were responsible for processing and filing the case.
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Yahoo! Blames 'Subversive' 'Star Wars' Prequel Trilogy on 'Dangerously Simplistic Moral Absolutism' of Bush
In the previous decade, liberals loved making parallels between Bush administration policies and the power-seeking villains in the "Star Wars" prequel trilogy.
With the 3D release of the first episode "The Phantom Menace," Yahoo! contributor Timothy Sexton took to his keyboard Friday to tell his readers, "[T]he original trilogy appealed directly to the simplistic moral perspective of an America above reproach and always on the side of right in global geopolitics, whereas the much more subversive prequel trilogy stands in defiant counterpoint to the much more dangerously simplistic moral absolutism of the Age of Bush":
The original trilogy holds a special place in the bosom of American moviegoers precisely because we view ourselves comfortably in place of the Rebels. Americans revel in their historical construct as rebellious underdogs constantly at war against an easily identified and unquestionably evil empire. Hence, the reason most Americans love the original trilogy has much to do with placement of ourselves in the role of the inheritors of the mantle of the Jedi.
The problem is that the post-9/11 world meant Americans also were forced to identify themselves with the Jedi in the prequel trilogy as well, and we don't like the face we see in the mirror. Let's face it, the Jedi don't exactly come off too swell in the prequel. This time around they are the guys in charge, and it is painful to watch them screw it up, especially when the way they hand over the keys to the Empire is so eerily familiar to a historical era defined by words like "signing statements" and "Patriot Act."
Just in case you didn't notice in your rush to castigate Jar-Jar Binks and complain about the wooden dialogue of the prequel, the peaceful Galactic Republic in place at the beginning of "The Phantom Menace" doesn't turn into the dark empire in place at the beginning of "A New Hope" due to an invasion by a foreign element. The Republic falls as a result of due democratic process, albeit due democratic process that is manipulated through lies and deception. Again, sound familiar?
Watching the "Stars Wars" prequel trilogy is like the most entertaining lesson in civics ever given -- specifically the way it reveals how even a republic peopled by representative leaders with the best of intentions can make decisions that result in disastrous policies, accompanied by devastation and the crumbling of great ideas. Yoda's observations about anger, hate, fear, and suffering are not said lightly; they may be the most prescient words spoken by a movie character in recent memory.
Not much less important is another quote associated with "The Phantom Menace," a quote that hasn't proved anywhere near as memorable as Yoda's but nonetheless plays a huge part in the events that will follow. Chances are you don't even remember these words of Darth Maul: "Fear is my ally." One can well imagine that slogan scrawled across the office walls of men like Scooter Libby and tattooed across the back of Dick Cheney.
What's the obvious flaw in this thinking? Two of the prequel stories were written before 9/11.
According to "The Secret History of Star Wars," George Lucas began writing the screenplays for "The Phantom Menace" and "Attack of the Clones" in 1994. He started writing "Revenge of the Sith" before "Attack of the Clones" was released in May 2002.
Conceivably most important, the transformation of pivotal character Anakin Skywalker to Darth Vader had nothing to do with politics.
As the "Star Wars: Episode III Revenge of the Sith" documentary "Within a Minute" revealed in 2005, Lucas in 2003 completely restructured the plot line so that Skywalker turned to the dark side almost exclusively to save Padmé's life. In the previous iteration, it was largely because he believed the Jedi were evil and plotting to take over the Republic.
As such, the Age of Bush turned this trilogy more into a love story than a dark political thriller.
On the other hand, if Sexton wanted to be honest, he could have told readers that "Revenge of the Sith" marvelously presaged the rise of Barack Obama.
As Padmé says as Palpatine announces he's basically made himself Emperor, "So This Is How Liberty Dies...With Thunderous Applause."
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Just more projectionism
Submitted by jon_torlin on Sun, 02/12/2012 - 10:55am.
This was just more projectionism on the part of the liberals of themselves and their twisted view of Star Wars proves that.
Lucas may have written up Revenge of the Sith by 2002 but he had outlines long before Bush was a known commodity of American politics, but the libs will never acknowledge that.
It's just one more example of how screwed up in the heads libs are.
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I don't get the photo
Submitted by iFight on Sun, 02/12/2012 - 11:00am.
Why would Dick Cheney, er, Darth Vader have Mr Bush in cuffs?
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While the plot of the
Submitted by JSchuler on Sun, 02/12/2012 - 11:04am.
While the plot of the prequels were pretty much set, the dialog in Revenge of the Sith was influenced by Lucas's leftism and disdain for Bush. That's why we had Anakin telling Kenobi "If you're not with me, you're my enemy," followed by the nonsensical rejoinder "Only a Sith talks in absolutes."
Sexton is correct in that regard. However, he's pretending that this is some hidden message when it was pretty much widely noticed (and mocked) in the conservative blogosphere at the time.
If he wants to claim the horrible Star Wars prequels as leftist tracts, let him. They were terrible and self-refuting anyway.
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I know. That whole
Submitted by Darks Shadow Show on Sun, 02/12/2012 - 4:32pm.
I know. That whole conversation was nonsense.
Anakin: If you're not with me, you're my enemy.
Obi-Wan: Only a Sith deals in absolutes.
A: Uh, Master Kenobi, what you just said was an absolute. You said 'Only a Sith.'
O: Oh, dear. I've become a Sith! Let's jump into the lava together and save the galaxy from our evil!
A: Oh, you can if you want, but I've got my new Empire to help run.
O: Your new Empire?
A: Don't make me kill you!
O: That was quite the non-sequitur, Ani.
A: My goodness! You're right! And don't call me 'Ani!'
O: Oh, sorry.
A: Since we're both incredibly stupid, and stupidity is worse than being evil, I've decided to jump in with you! C'mon, Master Kenobi! Let's save the galaxy!
[Exeunt into lava.]
20+ years later... TATOOINE. Luke Skywalker is sitting outside his uncle and aunt's home in the evening.
Luke: My life in unbelievably boring. I wish something interesting would happen. [Looks expectantly around the desert.] Sigh.
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The endless parade of
Submitted by rbosque on Sun, 02/12/2012 - 11:05am.
The endless parade of liberals who cast Republicans as "evil" is getting tiresome. The left needs to come to terms with reality and actually DEBATE issues rather than resort to childish name-calling. But of course we all know why they fear debate, for the simple reason their arguments easily fall apart in the light of facts.
But they feel this is how they'll stay in power, running on their dismal record is not getting them re-elected in a sane world.
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I read the article...
Submitted by mawendt on Sun, 02/12/2012 - 11:11am.
I read the article, and for the first time in years I thought:
I'm a pretty smart guy, and if I didn't get it...
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Librals seem stuck in fantasy worlds, don't they...
Submitted by teg on Sun, 02/12/2012 - 11:34am.
Mr. Sehpard,
I know the temptation to engage them on their level. I think the fact that the left are trying to square the world with the fantasy land they live in belies that they are ALL delusional!
I have said this to my children about how to understand why librels think the way they do; the left have lost their ability to separate fact from fantasy so now Hollywood forms their opinions for them.
Librels are the classic schizophrenic and we need to recognize that and approach dealing with them in that manor. They need help! They need to be institutionalized and cared for with massive doses of Thorazine. Once we conservatives get our priorities straight and start helping these people out we will be better off. Trying to reason with delusional people means we are delusional!
What's the saying, "don't argue with idiots because they will drag you down to their level and beat you experience? "
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I tried to "get it," I really did.
Submitted by motherbelt on Sun, 02/12/2012 - 11:50am.
<head explodes>
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I was waiting for this!
Submitted by NJRightWinger12 on Sun, 02/12/2012 - 1:02pm.
The libs like to play the Star Wars Darth theme whenever Cheney is shown, or mentioned, like on SNL-ha ha, real funny crap, kids!
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How do people get this?
Submitted by Russian55 on Sun, 02/12/2012 - 1:33pm.
The original "Star Wars" films (and some of the stories for the prequel) were developed before REAGAN was President. How could they be a commentary on something that hadn't even happened?
Those who beat their swords into plowshares will end up plowing for those who kept their swords in the first place!
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Additionally, Russian55
Submitted by Timothy H on Sun, 02/12/2012 - 2:03pm.
The entire saga was written as seven stories (one didn't get made and is the reason there feels like there's a gap between Empire Strikes Back and Return Of The Jedi) before Reagan was president. They started with episode four because they didn't have the technical means to make the first part of the series believable so Lucas moved on to the second part.
So you're point is even more outstanding. So funny.....
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I never saw the Bush <--> Empire connection
Submitted by neutron on Sun, 02/12/2012 - 1:42pm.
I always saw it as Lucas replaying Hitler's engineered take-down of the German Republic, and manipulating it to be made the head of the government, and then dissolving the Republic, leaving Adolph as Der Fuehrer.
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Thanks for being fair
Submitted by greenfairie on Sun, 02/12/2012 - 2:17pm.
As a conservative who loves all of the Star Wars films, thanks for being fair, Noel. I read this piece yesterday and thought that the author's "facts" didn't back up the assertions he was making and he reduces all of the Star Wars films into whatever fit into his ideological box. It's just as easy for conservatives to see what's happening today and take note of Obama seizing more executive power, circumventing democratic processes, and giving favors to business allies (Trade Federation = crony capitalism). A recent "Star Wars" novel "Darth Plagueis" stars a George Soros-like Sith Lord who ultimately trains Palpatine/Darth Sidious with the goal of putting him in charge of the galaxy.
That said, the Star Wars films are not political treatises at their core but a family's story that begins with Anakin meeting Padmé in some dusty shop on Tatooine and ends with Darth Vader sacrificing his life to destroy the Sith and save the child he had with Padmé, redeeming himself and saving the galaxy.
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Submitted by Mark81150 on Sun, 02/12/2012 - 2:59pm.
The commenters on Yahoo are being brutal,... alot aren't even political, just ripping him for
1. Being a dolt
2. Making a mountain out of a molehill
3. Blaming Bush,.. for Star Wars?
4. Being a dolt.
They ain't happy,.. a beautiful thing, when movie fans rip a critic for being a fool...
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I love that picture. Bush as
Submitted by Darks Shadow Show on Sun, 02/12/2012 - 4:53pm.
I love that picture. Bush as Luke Skywalker. XD
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Padme's comment
Submitted by panzerakc on Sun, 02/12/2012 - 10:39pm.
"So this is how liberty dies . . .with thunderous applause" made the hair stand up on the back of my neck the first time I heard it, and still does.
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Sexton curiously omitted the most obvious 'Star Wars' analogy...
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'We're becoming quite intolerant of letting each other think complicated things.'
Excerpts from Frontline's "Digital Nation" interview with Sherry Turkle
MIT professor Sherry Turkle finds the prevalence of PowerPoint in grade school classrooms "distressing," yet PowerPoint is ubiquitous. It has gained adherents in the federal Office of the Joint Chiefs of Staff who use it to brief military commanders.
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founder and director of the MIT Initiative on Technology and Self. Since 1995, Turkle has studied adolescents and adults in the culture of connectivity. In her forthcoming book, "Alone Together: Sociable Robots, Digitized Friends, and the Reinvention of Intimacy and Solitude," to be published in January by Basic Books, she explores how humans have come to expect more in terms of relationships from machines and less from each other. Among her key questions are these: What are the limits of "relationship" with a machine? What is intimacy without privacy? What is democracy without privacy? How do the always-on/always-on-you demands of digital life interfere with people's need for solitude, the kind that refreshes and restores?
In these edited excerpts from Turkle's interview with Frontline's TV/Web report "Digital Nation," she speaks about young people's relationships with digital technology and how this affects their lives and learning.
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"Generational Divide: Digital Technology's Paradoxical Message"
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Sherry Turkle:
What I'm seeing is a generation that says consistently, "I would rather text than make a telephone call." Why? It's less risky. I can just get the information out there. I don't have to get all involved; it's more efficient. I would rather text than see somebody face to face.
There's this sense that you can have the illusion of companionship without the demands of friendship. The real demands of friendship, of intimacy, are complicated. They're hard. They involve a lot of negotiation. They're all the things that are difficult about adolescence. And adolescence is the time when people are using technology to skip and to cut corners and to not have to do some of these very hard things. One of the things I've found with continual connectivity is there's an anxiety of disconnection; that these teens have a kind of panic. They say things like, "I lost my iPhone; it felt like somebody died, as though I'd lost my mind." The technology is already part of them.
And with the constant possibility of connectivity, one of the things that I see is a very subtle movement from "I have a feeling. I want to make a call" to "I want to have a feeling. I need to make a call"—in other words, people almost feeling as if they can't feel their feeling unless they're connected. I'm hearing this all over now so it stops being pathological if it becomes a generational style.
Some would say most of the [university] lectures, most of the classes, most of the books are unnecessarily long and boring, and the stuff that's great you could fit in a couple of hands, and that's the stuff they should really commit to and memorize and study. The rest of it is better short and quick and to the point. Look at haiku. It's much harder to do something quickly than it is to do something for hours. And who's to say that it's better to take your time and not be distracted?
The ability to trace complicated themes through a literary work, through a poem, through a play—these pleasures will be lost to us because they become pleasures through acquired skills. You need to learn how to listen to a poem, read a [Fyodor] Dostoevsky novel, read a Jane Austen novel. These are pleasures of reading that demand attention to things that are long and woven and complicated. And this is something that human beings have cherished and that have brought tremendous riches. And to just say, "Well, we're of a generation that now likes it short and sweet and haiku. Why? Just because the technology makes it easy for us to have things that are short and sweet and haiku." In other words, it's an argument about sensibility and aesthetics that's driven by what technology wants.
I don't really care what technology wants. It's up to people to develop technologies, see what affordances the technology has. Very often these affordances tap into our vulnerabilities. I would feel bereft if, because technology wants us to read short, simple stories, we bequeath to our children a world of short, simple stories. What technology makes easy is not always what nurtures the human spirit.
I've been an MIT professor for 30 years; I've seen the losses. There's no one who's been teaching for 25 years and doesn't think that our students aren't different now than they were then. They need to be stimulated in ways that they didn't need to be stimulated before. No, that's not good. You want them to think about hard things. You want them to think about complicated things. When you have the ability to easily do showy, fabulous things, you want to believe they're valuable because that would be great. I think that we always have to ask ourselves, when technology makes something easy, when its affordances allow us to do certain things, is this valuable? What are the human purposes being served? And in the classroom, what are the educational purposes being served?
One of the most distressing things to me in looking at K-12 is the use of PowerPoint in the schools. I believe that PowerPoint is one of the most frequently used pieces of software in classrooms. Students are taught how to make an argument—to make it in bullets, to add great photos, to draw from the popular culture, and show snippets of movies and snippets of things that [he or she] can grab from the Web, and funny cartoons and to kind of make a mélange, a pastiche of cropped cultural images and animations and to make a beautiful PowerPoint. And that's their presentation.
PowerPoints are about simple, communicable ideas illustrated by powerful images, and there's a place for that. But that isn't the same as critical thinking. Great books are not fancied-up PowerPoint presentations. Great books take you through an argument, show how the argument is weak, meet objections, and show a different point of view. By the time you're through with all that, you're way beyond the simplicities of PowerPoint.
Computers are seductive; computers are appealing. There's no harm in using the seductive and appealing to draw people in, to get them in their seats, and to begin a conversation. The question is, what happens after that?
What about multitasking?
Because technology makes it easy, we've all wanted to think it is good for us, a new kind of thinking, an expansion of our ability to reason and cycle through complicated things—do more and be more efficient. Unfortunately, the new research is coming in that says when you multitask, everything gets done a little worse; there's a degradation of all functions. Did we need to really go through 10 years of drinking the Kool-Aid on the educational wonders of multitasking and forgetting about everything we knew about what it takes to really accomplish something hard?
At MIT, I teach the most brilliant students in the world. But they have done themselves a disservice by drinking the Kool-Aid and believing that a multitasking learning environment will serve their best purposes because they need to be taught how to make a sustained, complicated argument on a hard, cultural, historical, psychological point. Many of them were trained that a good presentation is a PowerPoint presentation—you know, bam-bam-bam—it's very hard for them to have a kind of quietness, a stillness in their thinking where one thing can actually lead to another and build and build and build and build. There are just some things that are not amenable to being thought about in conjunction with 15 other things. And there are some kinds of arguments you cannot make unless you're willing to take something from beginning to end.
We're becoming quite intolerant of letting each other think complicated things. I don't think this serves our human needs because the problems we're facing are quite complicated. To hear someone else out, you need to be able to be still for a while and pay attention to something other than your immediate needs. So if we're living in a moment when you can be in seven different places at once, and you can have seven different conversations at once on a back channel here, on a phone here, on a laptop, how do we save stillness? How threatened is it? How do we regain it?
Erik Erikson is a psychologist who wrote a great deal about adolescence and identity, and he talks about the need for stillness in order to fully develop and to discover your identity and become who you need to become and think what you need to think. And I think stillness is one of the great things in jeopardy.
[Henry David] Thoreau, in writing about Walden Pond, lists the three things that he feels the experience is teaching him to develop fully as the man he wants to become. He wants to live deliberately; he wants to live in his life; and he wants to live with no sense of resignation. But on all of those dimensions, I feel that we're taking away from ourselves the things that Thoreau thought were so essential to discovering an identity.
We're not deliberate; we're bombarded. We have no stillness; we have resignation.
Kids say: "Well, it has to be this way; we have no other way to live. We're not living fully in our lives. We're living a little in our lives and a little bit in our Facebook lives." You know, you put up a different life, you put up a different person. So it's not to be romantic about Thoreau, but I think he did write, as Erikson wrote, about the need for stillness; to be deliberate; to live in your life and to never feel that you're just resigned to how things need to be.
When we're texting, on the phone, doing e-mail, getting information, the experience is of being filled up. That feels good. And we assume that it is nourishing in the sense of taking us to a place we want to go. And I think that we are going to start to learn that in our enthusiasms and in our fascinations, we can also be flattened and depleted by what perhaps was once nourishing us but which can't be a steady diet. If all I do is my e-mail, my calendar, and my searches, I feel great; I feel like a master of the universe. And then it's the end of the day, I've been busy all day, and I haven't thought about anything hard, and I have been consumed by the technologies that were there and that had the power to nourish me.
The point is we're really at the very beginning of learning how to use this technology in the ways that are the most nourishing and sustaining. We're going to slowly find our balance, but I think it's going to take time. So I think the first discipline is to think of us as being in the early days so that we're not so quick to yes, no, on, off, good, good, and to just kind of take it slowly and not feel that we need to throw out the virtues of deliberateness, living in life, stillness, solitude.
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There is a wonderful Freudian formulation, which is that loneliness is failed solitude. In many ways we are forgetting the intellectual and emotional value of solitude. You're not lonely in solitude. You're only lonely if you forget how to use solitude to replenish yourself and to learn. And you don't want a generation that experiences solitude as loneliness. And that is something to be concerned about, because if kids feel that they need to be connected in order to be themselves, that's quite unhealthy. They'll always feel lonely, because the connections that they're forming are not going to give them what they seek.
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Martha Rast says:
October 26, 2012 at 5:53pm
Dear Dr. Turkle,
I am thrilled to read this interview as it pertains so poignantly to the main issues I'm struggling with in relation to raising my children in this Digital Age.
They attend a religious school that has decided to try and keep up with the Jonses of our time: A one-to-one laptop program was launched this year for use by the 5th through 8th grade students. Most everything I have to say about it , you have eloquently said. I'd like to add a few other thoughts to it:
How about the motor skill development of handwriting? Will a thumbprint really satisfy our soul? When I asked the headmaster about this topic, he said that Handwriting will be unnecessary, and by the way Spelling will be obsolete. I shouldn't worry.
I thought about the intensity of the power of that handwritten love note, passed secretly between sweaty palms in the hallway, or found slipped between the cracks of a locker door. Equally true the bully note.
What about the time to look back at our personal notes on a textbook page? I thought of my copy of T.S. Eliot's "The Wasteland."
Thank you, thank you!!
Sui Fai John Mak says:
July 6, 2010 at 10:51am
Thanks for your deep insights. Sorry for the typo. I have corrected them as shown below.
I resonate with your views that we are forgetting the intellectual and emotional value of solitude. As Benjamin Franklin once said:"Joy is not in things; joy is in us" We will lose our balance and our perspective with too much connectivity, and might even become slave to technology, if we rely too much on its affordance. I also found it worthwhile to meditate and pray, as a
Catholic, in order to maintain my spiritual growth and faith. So, moments of solitude could help me to concentrate without too much distractions. I think our own inner dialogue is also an important key to success, when we could think critically and reflect thoroughly before we take any action or make any important decision.
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Alias also starred Michael Vartan, Ron Rifkin, Victor Garber, and Bradley Cooper.
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Garner explained, "A lot of episodes maybe I saw but I was so busy at the time, I don't think I even saw them all. Someday I want to go back and watch them. I felt like I was watching a different person. I didn't know what I was talking about, I kind of remembered the outfit but I started speaking another language that I didn't remember learning and then I did a fight I didn't remember. It was crazy."
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Dougherty County -- Cooper Tire workers in Albany vote no to a unionization. The vote was not as close as many thought it would be.
Twelve-hundred-twenty workers voted Tuesday and Wednesday in the secret ballot at the plant; 755 voted not to join the United Steelworkers of America, while 465 voted for unionization.
Most of the workers we talked with at the plant Thursday afternoon were happy the union failed.
Union organizers say the company's fear tactics won out. United Steelworkers of America Organizer Lugertha Sharpley said "The Company's propaganda about unions. And fear of closing of their plant."
Cooper Employee Mark Ellis said "I don't think we ever had any worry about closing the plant, but I think these folks around here really understand what was fixing to go on."
Cooper Tire and Rubber management said in a press release they are pleased with the no union vote. "Cooper has a great relationship with Albany employees and we expect that to grow stronger as we go forward making the best tires we can for our customers."
Cooper employees will have to wait one year before they can petition for another union vote.
Two decades ago, Firestone workers voted to unionize, and friction between ownership and employees escalated. The plant shut down shortly thereafter.
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Once-thriving Detroit becoming a wasteland
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How does a great city such as old Detroit come to a point of near extinction? It is a complete tragedy as it stands or crawls today. This is the city that kicked off the Industrial Revolution. At its best it was four million people strong and birthing talents like Joe Louis, Sugar Ray Robinson, Aretha Franklin, Jackie Wilson, Wilson "Wicked" Pickett and the singing moguls Barry Gordy and William "Smokey" Robinson simultaneously. If you loved making money, Detroit was the best place to be.
My personal memories of Detroit are sweet but also full of crazy adventure. I lived there in the 1970's. There was a major drug war going on and the manufacturing bubble had burst. However, it was fun. I remember going down to My Fair Lady's nightclub on Jefferson Avenue and assessing the vast amount of pretty girls in the club looking to get "chosen." You could make three or four future dates within an hour. A professional brother was in demand and I took total advantage of it. It was such fun! My ego was salacious.
Crime and poverty started to grow at an exponential rate. The luster was coming off. Every family you knew had some kind of criminal tragedy. I had a few close calls myself. I remember getting into a slight oral spat with a female at a nightclub one Saturday night. I left and jumped into my car. As I was pulling out, the lady jumped in front of my car and fired her .357 Magnum. The bullet pierced my windshield and embedded into my dashboard. A fragment of the bullet scarred one of my knuckles and another rested into my afro. It was just another night in the city of Detroit.
Burglaries, robberies, car thefts were common. Sometimes it would get far worse and despicable. One female friend of mine became a victim, not to thugs but savages. While she was picnicking with her daughters at Belle Isle Park, a "crew" approached the family. They drew weapons, snatched her infant from her arms and threw the baby to another daughter and dragged her off into their car and they sped off. Her children were horrified. Five o'clock the next morning, a police cruiser found her beaten and nude along a curb at the corner of 7 Mile and Meyers Avenue. She had been brutally raped and beaten by these five savages. I don't know if she ever mentally recovered as she left Detroit and moved to her homestead in North Carolina. Those of us who lived or still live in Detroit have similar horrors to lament.
The biggest problem with Detroit is that it is just about totally unionized. This limits entrepreneurship as the moving out by Motown and the auto industry over the last decades illustrates. Jobs are few and are becoming less and less. The demise of Michigan results in the boon for the "right to work" states. The tax base for the city government has shrunk to being ineffective. Imagine this — my nephew has been blessed with musical talent. When he decided to go for it, he realized he had to leave Detroit. Shortly after he moved to Los Angeles he got his chance. He is now with the band Bruno Mars. A musician has to leave Detroit to get discovered now. Who would have thought the great Motown would come to this?
Local politics in Detroit is as corrupt as a Third World nation. The infamous tenure of former Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick is just an example of what goes on at the local offices. The FBI is as busy in Detroit as anywhere else in the nation. It would be laughable if it didn't mean school kids, families and opportunities are being denied in infinite proportions.
We have been trying to get a chapter of the National Black Chamber of Commerce going there for 20 years. The traction just doesn't take form. Next time, we are going to try a different approach. Instead of trying to find people capable of organizing and implementing such a task, we will first write a strategic plan with firm milestones. Then we will search for competent people, true at heart and devoted, to run a "phoenix" type operation.
Right now, Detroit is like the movie "I am Legend" starring Will Smith. The infrastructure of the city is built for four million people. Today, there are less than 700,000 residents of Detroit. Thus, you have numerous "Dead Zones" replete with decay, bush and strange animals. Coyotes roam these Dead Zones and eat off the rodents and deer. What will happen when the rodents and deer are over hunted? Will they turn on school children? Probably so. If we can save Detroit we had better do it now. Man! It is like a science fiction movie.


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When the panel discussion on this morning's ABC's 'This Week' turned to the 'War on Christmas,' Sam Donaldson had this to say [close approximation]:
"With his talk of a war on Christmas, Bill O'Reilly stirs up his yahoos."
Donaldson then paused and added "in his audience."
However you slice it, Donaldson managed to slur both O'Reilly and a good chunk of his viewership.
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For the opening 20 minutes of the second half Manchested City had grabbed a bit more of the match and threatened a couple times, but didn't do enough to make it so Sir Alex Ferguson had no option but to make a change. Anderson, who has been whatever is worse than dreadful, was an obvious candidate to come off, but a 65th minute goal by City has forced United's hand. Playing at Old Trafford, the Red Devils are going after three points and they've made a change in search of it by bring Dimitar Berbatov on for Anderson.
When United got going forward, Anderson would often bring it to a halt. His runs were taking him away from dangerous spaces and his first touche ruined several attacking moves. Now, he is off and Berbatov will give the Red Devils an out and out striker to play next to an increasingly roaming Wayne Rooney. If nothing else, Berbatov's sublime skill can always pull a goal from nowhere.
Along the back, United will have to shore up the left side of their defense. Three of City's four best attacking moves of the second half came at the left side of United's defense and the goal came from a left-sided cross. Edin Dzeko's introduction for City has brightening the Citizens' play and United need a counter to it. Berbatov may be it.


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Ground control to Major Ted! Pupils at Toynbee School in Eastleigh teamed up with the Institute of Physics and the University of Southampton to send a teddy bear 34km into space.
Derek the bear's mission was to measure data in the stratosphere. He was equipped with a specially-designed space suit, made to withstand extremem temperatures and keep his data sensors safe for his day above Earth.
He took two stills cameras and a video camera with him to record his epic journey.
The project was the idea of Year 7 to 9 science pupils at Toynbee School as part of a physics experiment. Helped by the Institute of Physics and University of Southampton they launched Derek from near Ocknell Caravan park in Stoney Cross in the New Forest.
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We've been running a series of after school clubs to teach the kids about space and some of the physics behind the launch, so this was the culmination of all their efforts. It has helped to generate excitement and interest in physics and shows that you can do some really cool stuff through science."
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What annoyed me the most about it was how long it took for the van to hit the water. I mean, as soon as you thought it would be close to hitting it, it's suddenly raised to increase the time. Now, I know this is used in movies where if a timer is going, or something is about to hit something (in the beginning of
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I mean, there is one way you can look at it, maybe the van is going the same speed and the camera is making flashbacks at it to see how fast it will hit the water and what things are going on at the same time, but not if the characters were making progress, which they were. As each character makes progress in the movie, the van would have to keep dropping. It shouldn't just be taken higher from the water if the progress is being made. Blah, that was just a little too obvious. But yeah.
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From MLBTR: TheoJed apparently think we have no talent in the minors
Before the start of last season, were we a team that had a ton of potential MLBer in the farm, but not any (or a lot) of potential all stars. I wish the report on this was more clear, but I wouldn't say we have a "lack of talent". Here is the quote from MLBTR: "•Cubs execs Theo Epstein and Jed Hoyer are alarmed by the lack of minor league talent in their own system, so trading Garza might appeal to them. The Yankees, one possible suitor for the right-hander, have had concerns about Garza's ability to handle New York in the past, Rosenthal reports."


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How to Get Rid of Razor Burn Overnight & Fast on Legs, Pubic, Prevent, Stop, Avoid, Best Cure, Remedies
How to get rid of razor burn fast using the methods explained here will work for you. Stop razor burn overnight on legs, prevent razor burn on pubic area and avoid razor burn using the best cures, best remedies and solutions below.
It is very frustrating when you groom with a close shave only to end up with razor burn. For most of us, we shave first then run to Google how to get rid of razor burn. Some products are recommended as effective for preventing and curing rash and burn. However, you can avoid getting the problem just before it develops.
Unless it is the first time you are shaving your bikini line, beard, armpits or legs, it is important to know that how to get rid of razor burn starts just before you shave. In this article, we are going to discuss a number of things concerning how to get rid of razor burn. These include how to avoid razor burn, how to stop razor burn once it develops, and how to cure razor burn or razor rash. All these will give you a head start in getting rid of razor burn from any entry point. But first things first – what is razor burn?
Best Products for Treating Razor Burn & Bumps
Here's a quick list of top rated products, including creams, balms and lotions that get rid of burn after shaving, be it with a razor or electric machine, or even after waxing. If the burn is irritating, apply any of these to soothe it. Your skin will be calm, and bumps will not form. From reviews, these products give you "fast relief from razor burn, irritation, and redness."
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What is Razor Burn?
A razor burn is an irritation of the skin that may appear after shaving mostly using a blunt razor blade or not using the proper technique of shaving. Razor burn normally appears just a few minutes after shaving and is characteristically red rashes. Some people call razor burn razor rash. Razor burn will disappear after a few hours of shaving, but that will depend on the severity of the rash. For some people, the burn will last for days. In the severest cases of razor burn, razor bumps develop. There is a clear difference between razor burn and razor bumps. Find out more on razor bumps and how to prevent them.
How to Prevent Razor Burn – Can You Avoid Razor Burn?
It doesn't matter if you wax, shave, use fancy gels, depilatory or an electric shaver with adjustable blades, for some reason, razor burn is likely to develop on your skin. It is even worse when razor burn occurs on your face and neck as a result of poor shaving techniques. What does that mean? Well, the very first step on how to get rid of razor burn is to learn how to prevent them. At this stage, we will discuss various ways on how to prevent razor burn.
Shave Less: Yes, the very first step on how to prevent razor burn is to reduce or stop shaving. Don't shave today, then tomorrow, and then the day after tomorrow. You will not be able to get rid of razor burn and razor bumps that way. Too much shaving does not allow the skin to heal and calm. So, to prevent razor burn, allow your skin time to heal so that the next time it faces that razor again, it is able to resist. Shaving after 2 to 3 days is a good step in the direction toward how to get rid of razor burn.
Electric Shavers are Better: Instead of using that razor up close your skin, try using an electric shaver. Shaving too close to the skin will not help prevent razor burn and bumps. Using electric shavers with adjustable blades will help you from bruising the skin, something that regular razors do leaving you with the burn and bumps. The road to getting rid of razor burns starts with appropriate shaving techniques. We will discuss the right shaving techniques to get rid of razor burn and prevent razor bumps.
Best Razors: To prevent razor burn, ensure that you choose the best razors. Don't get me wrong, the best razors are not those with 3, 4 or 5 blades. Yes, they are a hype in today's markets, but those are the ones that will leave you with razor burn. In order to avoid razor burn, ensure that you use a razor with a single blade.
Clean Sharp Razors: Avoid razor burn by using clean razors to shave. Shave bumps and razor rash might be a result of dirty razors that have bacteria. Your skin already has bacteria and adding more from your razor will not help you prevent razor burn. In order to get rid of razor burn, you need to use clean blades.
Use Cleanser: One of the best ways on how to avoid razor burn is to use a gentle cleanser on your skin before shaving. Well, this will get rid of the bacteria that might contribute to the formation of razor burn.
Facial Scrub: To avoid razor burn, gently scrub your face with facial scrub lotion or loofah to remove dead skin and uncover ingrown hairs that will eventually cause razor burn rashes. Also, in order to get rid of razor burn by preventing them, follow simple tips such as waiting about 20 minutes after getting up before shaving as this will allow fluids to disperse from your face. Another preliminary tip on how to get rid of razor burn is to ensure that you wash the skin in warm water just before shaving. It is sometimes recommended that you steam up the skin to soften the hair and open up pores before shaving.
Shave! Don't Stretch: Avoid stretching your skin as you shave. You can still make clean strokes if you use new, sharp razors. Pulling your skin will only work to break your skin and cause small injuries to it, which will lead to the formation of razor burn. Dull blades will not make clean shaves and might force you to stretch your skin as you shave. Avoid razor burn by using new blades every time you shave.
Leather Your Skin: Another way to avoid razor burn is to wet the skin and leather it thoroughly with high quality gel or shaving cream. This will go a long way to help you with how to get rid of razor burn. Let the gel or cream sit on your skin for a few minutes before shaving to increase the softness of the hair. This way, you will avoid razor burn because there will be no pulling of hair by the blade. One stroke will sweep clean the hair.
Don't Use Ordinary Bar Soap: Avoid using ordinary bar soap. It will cause irritation. Also, if you have an oily skin, your method on how to get rid of razor burn with prevention should not involve using moisturizing cream as an alternative to lathering soap. Sometimes, shaving oil works for some people and is good because you can see the area you are shaving.
Fewer Shaving Strokes: Avoid making many strokes with your blade just to achieve the closest shave. With good preparation to avoid razor burn, you will be able to achieve a close shave with a single stroke. Rinse the blade after every stroke you make. When you leave the blade with hairs after every stroke, you are increasing the chances of not only getting razor burn but also razor bumps. Therefore, to avoid razor burn and in the process get rid of shave bumps, rinse the blade of the cream and cut hair after every stroke.
Use Cold Water after Shaving: You can also avoid razor burn by washing your skin with cold water just after shaving. This will close the pores to avoid entry of bacteria and small pieces of hair through the pores to cause irritation. This practice is also a good way on how to get rid of razor burn.
Lastly, you can prevent razor burn by using the correct shaving technique – again.
How to Stop Razor Burn Fast
Now, if you did not follow most of the tips above on how to avoid razor burn, you might have ended up with it already. So, what do you do at this stage? The second stage on how to get rid of razor burn is to stop it from growing into razor bumps. There many solutions for this, but one important thing to stop razor burn fast is to pay close attention to your kind of skin and shaving practices. The following tips on how to stop razor burn will help you get rid of it fast.
- Follow the natural pattern of hair growth and don't shave against it. This is a very important technique for people who shave daily and would like to stop razor burn fast. Continual shaving against the direction of hair growth will aggravate the problem, making it difficult to get rid of razor burn.
- Use cold compresses to soothe the burn. Remember the more your skin gets irritated, the more you will see razor burn forming.
- Avoid tight clothes on the areas with razor burn. The best way on how to get rid of razor burn fast is to ensure that you allow the skin to breathe. Too much heat will cause the razor rash to worsen and even develop into infected ingrown hairs.
- It is also suggested that dabbing apple cider vinegar on your skin will help stop razor burn fast. A clean cloth or cotton ball will be useful for this procedure.
- After gently cleaning the skin or applying cold compresses to get rid of razor burn, ensure that you pat dry. Do not rub the skin as this will injure your skin and increase the burns.
- Soften the skin with moisturizer all the time. You can also apply petroleum jelly to get rid of razor burn.
How to Get Rid of Razor Burn Fast
When you don't know that you can prevent razor burn, and now you already have it, the next thing to do is to find a way to get rid of razor burn fast. Razor burn cures will help you to get rid of razor burn fast. Some home remedies on how to get rid of razor burn have been suggested by people who have tried them. We will as well discuss them below.
Razor Burn Cures
- Products with glycolic acid are known to be some of the best razor burn cures. Some commercial beauty creams have also been touted to cure razor burn fast. Examples of a cream that is used to cure razor burn are E45 Cream, Razor Burn Freedom and Dove Body Lotion for Women from Swedish Skin Care.
- Salicylic Acid is also used to get rid of razor burn by most women. This is commonly used to shrink pimples, but now it is used as a cure for razor burn. It removes dead skin that prevents air from reaching the hair follicles and kills bacteria thus aiding in reducing the redness of the razor burn. Be careful if you are going to use this remedy for razor burn around the bikini area. You will end up screaming!
- Most people also recommend Aspirin paste as a cure for razor burn. You can crush aspirin and make a paste. Cover the area with razor burn using the paste. It will soothe the burn and work as an antiseptic, hence get rid of razor burn fast.
- 1% Hydrocortisone Anti-Itch Cream is also used to get rid of razor burn fast. It softens and soothes the inflamed skin. Hydrocortisone cure for razor burn also works as a moisturizer and will reduce itching. Use it on the razor burn twice a day for a start. However, do not use it for long, otherwise your skin will develop a dependency and end up with even worse rashes.
- Ointments and creams such as polysporin can also help get rid of razor burn and prevent razor bumps from developing.
Home Remedies for Razor Burn
Aloe vera is a common ingredient used in most cures and creams for razor burn. It is present in cortisone cream, one of the common aftershaves used to soothe the skin and get rid of razor burn. You can use aloe vera gel at home too as a remedy for razor burn. A simple method to prevent the occurrence of razor rashes is to trim the hairs first to avoid the razor from ripping out along the hair strands. This is a good technique for shaving the bikini area.
Tea tree oil is a good home remedy for razor burn and bumps worth trying. Some razor burn creams are based on tea tree oil. Cucumber and milk mask are also used as home remedies for razor burn. Mix half a pureed cucumber and a quarter a cup of milk. Put in the refrigerator to cool and then apply to the razor burn and bumps for about 10 to 20 minutes before rinsing it off. It will help get rid of razor burn fast. I have also seen some people putting corn starch on the razor burn and bumps for about 20 minutes and then rinsing it off. I don't know how this home remedy for razor burn works. If you have tried it, plus any other treatments and remedies used to get rid of razor burn, share with us in the comments section.
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