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Wednesday, December 21, 2011
American Muslim Reality TV Challenges Stereotypes
All-American Muslim follows the daily lives of five Lebanese-American Muslim families in Dearborn, Michigan--the Amens, the Aoudes, the Bazzy-Aliahmads, the Jaafars, and the Zabans. Ms. Rima Fakih, a Lebanese Shia Muslim resident of Dearborn, won the national beauty pageant last year to become the first ever Muslim Miss USA.
The show premiered on TLC with record 1.7 million viewers in November, earning critical acclaim from The New York Times, USA Today NPR, Time Magazine, The Atlantic and many other publications, according to Washington Post. The first episode, "How to Marry a Muslim," helped TLC achieve its highest ever Sunday prime-time ratings in more than a year among women from 18 to 34.
Here are some interesting tidbits from the TV series:
1. The student body at Dearborn's Fordson High School featured in the show is overwhelmingly Muslim--as many as 95% of the students are Muslim. The school football team is coached by Fouad Zaban, a Muslim. Muslim members of the football team fast during Ramadan, even on days they have games. At away games, they are sometimes subjected to epithets like f-ing Arabs, terrorists, camel jockeys, etc.
2. In the first episode of the season called "How to Marry a Muslim", Shadia Amen wants to marry a non-Muslim named Jeff, a Catholic. Her choice is something her father and her brother struggle with. But it doesn't stop her from marrying the man of her choice.
3. Nina Bazzy Aliahmad is a miniskirt-wearing leggy blond Muslim businesswoman who shocks her friends and family by announcing that she plans to open a night club during the first episode. Nina is a strong woman determined to get her way.
4. Samira Amen-Fawaz is struggling with infertility turns to religion and decides to start wearing the hijab again hoping that it will help her overcome her problem. Careful choice of fancy hijabs by her appears to be a fashion statement, and surprising to some that hijab and tight clothing are not considered incompatible.
5. Mike Jaafar is Deputy Chief Sheriff of Wayne County where Dearborn is located.
The reaction from the notorious Islamophobes and xenophobes in America has been predictably strong and negative.
Florida Family Association (FFA), a conservative Christian group, denounced the show as "propaganda clearly designed to counter legitimate and present-day concerns about many Muslims who are advancing Islamic fundamentalism and Sharia law."
Other Muslim bashers in America were quick to add their hateful voices. Pam Geller, notorious anti-Muslim bigot, who has been involved in the anti-Islam protest against "Ground Zero" mosque project chimed in: "Every company is to free to choose where they put their ad dollars. 64 companies have now pulled their ads. And rightly so. It's is not that the show about Muslims. It is that the show was predicated on a lie and the relentless propaganda of Islamic supremacists."
The unfortunate effect of the Islamophobes' rhetoric is that Lowe's Home Improvement stores chain caved in and pulled its commercials from the show. Lowe's move was criticized by hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons, actress Mia Farrow and California state Sen. Ted Lieu, and Simmons offered to buy all remaining spots on the show from TLC. There are fresh reports that the show is now sold out with new advertisers stepping in to fill the holes left by Lowe's and Kayak.com.
In a Washington Post blog, John Esposito lambasted the anti-Muslim bigotry in strong terms. He wrote that "the furor over All-American Muslim underscores yet again the extent to which Islamophobia exists despite the adamant claims of its enablers and practitioners that it does not. The fact that one cannot have a single show on a Muslim family without Muslim bashers insisting that portraying a normal family is somehow insidious because the show does not show the "dark side" of Islam demonstrates the extent to which they engage in the creation of a collective guilt, brush-stroking a religion and a majority of its followers with the actions a fraction of 1 percent of Muslims."
Many conservative Muslims have also criticized the show. In a recent call-in show on NPR Radio, some argued that women without hijabs and those wearing revealing clothes do not represent them, while others complained that the show only represents Lebanese-American Muslims who are a small slice of a large, ethnically and racially diverse Muslim population in America.
Talking about the critics of the show on NPR radio, California-based American-Muslim playwright Wajahat Ali said that "it's almost a thankless role for anyone to depict Muslims in the mainstream right now. You can't please people within the communities themselves who, I think, want an unrealistic portrayal of - what I call the avatar of perfection. Or, they need to see their representation, right? So they say like, listen, if that Muslim-American character does not represent me, it ceases being authentic and valid. And I think the - what we have to do instead is say, listen, that is just one story, or some stories, of people who claim to be American Muslim, and I have to respect that space and let them be."
Let's hope that All-American Muslims first season is a great success which leads into its second and third seasons to portray the great diversity of race, ethnicity and thought among Muslims in America. This national exposure on prime-time tv will help demolish all kinds of negative stereotypes promoted by the Islamophobes as part of their hateful agenda against Muslim-Americans.
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- Riaz Haq said...
Here's an interesting commentary in Boston Globe on "family values":
WHICH RACY reality TV show is the most dangerous to traditional American family values? A) "Teen Moms,'' which follows teenagers as they raise babies out of wedlock or give them up for adoption; B) The "Bad Girl's Club,'' which chronicles self-described "bad girls'' in a Las Vegas mansion; C) "Temptation Island,'' which features couples struggling to remain faithful as attractive strangers proposition them in exotic locales; or D) "All-American Muslim,'' which follows Muslim families in Dearborn, Mich., through the travails of everyday life.
The answer is D, according to the little-known evangelical group called the Florida Family Association which aimed an e-mail invective against the Muslim reality show to force advertisers to pull their ads. The reason? Quite simply, because the show portrays Muslims too positively.
The group's founder is David Caton, a 55-year-old former accountant who has organized protests of Playboy magazine sales and teen television shows that tell kids it's OK to be gay. Caton complains that the Muslim show, which premiered last month on TLC, "is propaganda clearly designed to counter legitimate and present-day concerns about many Muslims who are advancing Islamic fundamentalism and Sharia law.'' He complains that the show fails to mention jihad or honor killings and only profiles "Muslims that appear to be ordinary folks while excluding many Islamic believers whose agenda poses a clear and present danger to liberties and traditional values that the majority of Americans cherish.''
- December 23, 2011 at 5:55 PM
- Riaz Haq said...
Here are some excerpts of a NY Times story "Radical U.S. Muslims Little Threat, Study Says":
A feared wave of homegrown terrorism by radicalized Muslim Americans has not materialized, with plots and arrests dropping sharply over the two years since an unusual peak in 2009, according to a new study by a North Carolina research group.
The study, to be released on Wednesday, found that 20 Muslim Americans were charged in violent plots or attacks in 2011, down from 26 in 2010 and a spike of 47 in 2009.
Charles Kurzman, the author of the report for the Triangle Center on Terrorism and Homeland Security, called terrorism by Muslim Americans "a minuscule threat to public safety." Of about 14,000 murders in the United States last year, not a single one resulted from Islamic extremism, said Mr. Kurzman, a professor of sociology at the University of North Carolina.
The report also found that no single ethnic group predominated among Muslims charged in terrorism cases last year — six were of Arab ancestry, five were white, three were African-American and two were Iranian, Mr. Kurzman said. That pattern of ethnic diversity has held for those arrested since Sept. 11, 2001, he said.
Forty percent of those charged in 2011 were converts to Islam, Mr. Kurzman found, slightly higher than the 35 percent of those charged since the 2001 attacks. His new report is based on the continuation of research he conducted for a book he published last year, "The Missing Martyrs: Why There Are So Few Muslim Terrorists."
The decline in cases since 2009 has come as a relief to law enforcement and counterterrorism officials. In that year, the authorities were surprised by a series of terrorist plots or attacks, including the killing of 13 people at Fort Hood, Tex., by an Army psychiatrist who had embraced radical Islam, Maj. Nidal Hasan.
But the number of cases declined, returning to the rough average of about 20 Muslim Americans accused of extremist violence per year that has prevailed since the 2001 attacks, with 193 people in that category over the decade. By Mr. Kurzman's count, 462 other Muslim Americans have been charged since 2001 for nonviolent crimes in support of terrorism, including financing and making false statements.
The 2011 cases include just one actual series of attacks, which caused no injuries, involving rifle shots fired late at night at military buildings in Northern Virginia. A former Marine Corps reservist, Yonathan Melaku, pleaded guilty in the case last month in an agreement that calls for a 25-year prison sentence.
Other plots unearthed by law enforcement last year and listed in Mr. Kurzman's report included a suspected Iranian plan to assassinate the Saudi ambassador to the United States, a scheme to attack a Shiite mosque in Michigan and another to blow up synagogues, churches and the Empire State Building.
"Fortunately, very few of these people are competent and very few get to the stage of preparing an attack without coming to the attention of the authorities," Mr. Kurzman said.
- February 8, 2012 at 7:44 PM
- Riaz Haq said...
Here's an excerpt of Pankaj Mishra's review of Civilisation: The West and the Rest by Niall Ferguson:
'Civilisation's going to pieces,' Tom Buchanan, the Yale-educated millionaire, abruptly informs Nick Carraway in The Great Gatsby. 'I've gotten to be a terrible pessimist about things. Have you read The Rise of the Colored Empires by this man Goddard? … The idea is if we don't look out the white race will be – will be utterly submerged.' 'Tom's getting very profound,' his wife Daisy remarks. Buchanan carries on: 'This fellow has worked out the whole thing. It's up to us, who are the dominant race, to watch out or these other races will have control of things.' 'We've got to beat them down,' Daisy whispers with a wink at Nick. But there's no stopping Buchanan. 'And we've produced all the things that go to make civilisation – oh, science and art, and all that. Do you see?'-------------
Scott Fitzgerald based Goddard, at least partly, on Theodore Lothrop Stoddard, the author of the bestseller The Rising Tide of Color against White World Supremacy (1920). Stoddard's fame was a sign of his times, of the overheated racial climate of the early 20th century, in which the Yellow Peril seemed real, the Ku Klux Klan had re-emerged, and Theodore Roosevelt worried loudly about 'race-suicide'. In 1917, justifying his reluctance to involve the United States in the European war, Woodrow Wilson told his secretary of state that 'white civilisation and its domination over the world rested largely on our ability to keep this country intact.'
Hysteria about 'white civilisation' gripped America after Europe's self-mutilation in the First World War had encouraged political assertiveness among subjugated peoples from Egypt to China. Unlike other popular racists, who parsed the differences between Nordic and Latin peoples, Stoddard proposed a straightforward division of the world into white and coloured races. He also invested early in Islamophobia, arguing in The New World of Islam (1921) that Muslims posed a sinister threat to a hopelessly fractious and confused West. Like many respectable eugenicists of his time, Stoddard later found much to like about the Nazis, which marked him out for instant superannuation following the exposure of Nazi crimes in 1945.
It is hard, even with Google, to keep up with Ferguson's many claims and counter-claims. But his announcements of the dawning of the 'Chinese Century' and his more recent revised prophecy that India will outpace China, can be found as quickly as the boisterous heralding of the American imperium that he now disavows. As for his views on the innate superiority, indeed indispensability, of Western civilisation, these can be easily ascertained from his published writings and statements. Here is an extract from an interview early this year in the Guardian justifying the conquest of Native Americans:
The Apache and the Navajo had all sorts of admirable traits. In the absence of literacy we don't know what they were because they didn't write them down. We do know they killed a hell of a lot of bison. But had they been left to their own devices, I don't think we'd have anything remotely resembling the civilisation we've had in North America.
It says something about the political culture of our age that Ferguson has got away with this disgraced worldview for as long as he has. Certainly, it now needs to be scrutinised in places other than the letters page of the LRB.
- September 11, 2012 at 10:45 PM
- Riaz Haq said...
Indian Muslims make up 14.6% of India's population, almost 50% higher than the 10% of Indian-American Muslim population. In addition, every Indian minority other than Muslims is over-represented in America.
- April 25, 2013 at 4:55 PM
- Riaz Haq said...
Here's a excerpt of a Aljazeera story on the acceptance of anti-Muslim bigotry in America:
There's an interesting and rather illuminating thought experiment you can perform when listening to media figures and politicians discuss Muslims. Take the recent interview on Fox News of the author Reza Aslan, where the host interrogated him at length about his religious background, at one point accusing him of having "gone on several programmes while never disclosing [he is] a Muslim".
Or take New Atheist ideologue Sam Harris, who has said "We should profile Muslims, or anyone who looks like he or she could conceivably be Muslim", as well as his counterpart Richard Dawkins who has become famous for asking incisive questions like "Who the hell do these Muslims think they are"?
This is all above-board language in today's popular discourse. But as a simple test try replacing the word "Muslim" with "Jew"; or "Muslim" with "Black" in each of these quotes and see how it sounds in your head. Most likely, it sounds significantly less comfortable, normal, and acceptable than it did just a moment ago.
Indeed, it's difficult to imagine how Harris, Dawkins, or the Fox News host who questioned Aslan about his faith could continue as public figures were they to make the same types comments about any minority group other than Muslims. They would've in all likelihood won broad, well-justified, condemnation and even been drummed out of the public sphere for their frank bigotry.
Perhaps they'd have been taken up as martyrs by the fringe-right where such xenophobic language about Jews and Blacks is still commonplace. Instead they've so far been permitted to continue spreading hatred against one of the few minority communities it is still acceptable to negatively generalise, degrade and menace.
Richard Dawkins recently ignited a minor furor by pointing out that "All the world's Muslims have fewer Nobel Prizes than Trinity College, Cambridge". His defenders rushed to point out that his statement was merely a fact and as such there was nothing bigoted about it whatsoever.
Dawkins declaration also happens to be true when you substitute the word "Hindus", "Blacks" or "Chinese" for Muslims here, but his admirers would have had a harder time defending the same statement made about any of these groups without being tarred as xenophobes.
Dan Murphy of the Christian Science Monitor explained the fallacies behind this crude chauvinism:
Dawkins, as an educated man, should be well aware of the legacy of colonialism and of simple poverty…. When the Nobel Prize was founded in 1901, the vast majority of the world's Muslims lived in countries ruled by foreign powers, and for much of the 20th century Muslims did not have much access to great centres of learning like Cambridge. The ranks of Nobel Prize winners have traditionally been dominated by white, Western men - a reflection of both the economic might of the West in the past century, preferential access to education for that class of people as well as a wonderful intellectual tradition .
The same reasons why Muslims are underrepresented in the halls of Western scientific achievement are also applicable to essentially every other group in the world besides white males living in Western countries. If there's nothing bigoted about saying it about Muslims, Dawkins and his defenders should come out and make the same unqualified and context-free statements about other groups in society whom they see as not stacking up. The fact that they refuse to do so signals that this has little to do with courageously speaking the truth and more about picking out which minorities it is still safe to bash. .....
- August 12, 2013 at 8:59 PM
you don't need to be a "conservative muslim" to denounce this show. i understand wajahat ali is generally an optimistic and upbeat person. however, the majority of muslims in the u.s. at least know what their community looks like and the values and aspirations they hold. and that community would typically include a wide range of national origins. it is against all these that this show is a gross misrepresentation of them. what this show actually reflects is the misfortune that the united states is caught up amid two extremist groups of fascist-nationalists(americanists) and extremist "commie" liberalists. while the former thinks it is 'just wrong' to be a muslim (which includes advocating shariah law and having utmost commitment to muslim principles and philosophies) and the latter simply tries to hide undeniable muslim values in favor of practices of a few non-muslims from somewhat muslim backgrounds(or just formerly muslims). this show is anti-islamic and anti-humanity to the core; it corroborates the totalitarian society that the u.s. runs on where one cannot practice their (arguably more superior) traditional customs, including for example wearing non-revealing clothes, and protest u.s. atrocities abroad, while being "ordinary"
- August 29, 2013 at 8:32 AM
- Riaz Haq said...
Those who embrace Islam tend to do so after years of contact with Muslims. (Ms Lewthwaite reportedly had a close relationship with Muslim neighbours during her youth.) Some, mostly women who make up around two-thirds of new believers in Britain, convert because they want to marry a Muslim. Others are fed up with what they see as the bawdiness of British society. Many speak of seeking a sense of community. Prisons have proven fertile ground for conversions for men. Some worry that those who convert in jail are exposed to more radical strains of Islam; others say that Islam's discipline and structure, along with the support they received from other Muslims, helped them to cope with life inside.
...converts who turn to terrorism, as Ms Lewthwaite is suspected of doing, are rare. Indeed, the vast, peaceable majority may help to bridge the gap between Muslims and others. In Western countries the growth in converts is part of Islam's transition from an immigrant religion to a home-grown one.
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Wow Rugby love found in a BJ thread. The message boards never cease to amaze.
I bet you two will make great looking little Rugby players together, best of luck. JK
Fav Fighters: Penn, Wand, Fedor, Genki, Shields, Rashad, Pulver, Diaz bros, Melendez.
I'm really looking forward to the BJ fight even though I will probably be disappointed with the result. If that fight was on the PPV then UFC 175 would be stacked!
BJ Penn hints at retirement even after a win on Sunday night: 'Isn't that the best way to leave?'
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Anyway, BJ I think has a really good chance if he can restrict Edgar's movement. Throw leg kicks, long hooks and head kicks to stop his lateral movement and keep him standing in front of him. Edgar likes to level change a lot so that's a natural fit for BJ's nasty uppercut. I'm interested if BJ can retain his power at the lighter weight class.
Edgar could use leg kicks himself especially if BJ comes out with his narrow stance. Outside low kick to buckle the lead leg all day. Body shots to soften up BJs midsection and test his cardio.
No way rugby fans on here! Ive met a grand total of zero fellow rugby fans outside of the die hards on the rugby team at my undergrad.
I was 100% trolling as League is widely considered to be tougher physically than Union. We had the League World Cup here last year and barely anyone noticed as it is a niche sport at best whereas Union is the 2nd or 3rd most popular sport in the UK. I'm not a big fan of either but will occasionally catch an England Union game.
Who does Edgar fight next? Although this weight class is much better for him I don't want to see him fight for the title again whilst Aldo is champion. I doubt he ever moves back up to LW unless he has to but I find his potential matches there a lot more interesting.
I'm unsure if anyone mentioned this, but I was shocked at seeing the betting odds for this fight. Frankie is a 10 to 1 favorite over Penn! I personally would've thought it would be a 2 (or 2.5) to 1 favorite
Frankie Edgar: -1050
BJ Penn: +550
Wow. That is absurd.
I can totally understand why an Englishman doesnt follow rugby/league i mean us Aussies smash you guys all the time i suppose you no longer follow cricket either since you guys were smashed in the ashes, i guess you'll always be better at soccer but, woops i mean football.
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Many of the dozens of protesters who were arrested this weekend were back in Lower Manhattan on Sunday to demonstrate against what they call big business' influence on government, as the New York City Police Department avoided comment on its alleged use of pepper spray while containing yesterday's crowds.
Large crowds of demonstrators were holding a ninth day of so-called "Occupy Wall Street" protests in Zuccotti Park on Sunday, as police keep a watchful eye nearby.
They vowed to continue speaking out on how the government handles economic issues, including bank bailouts and the mortgage crisis.
"One in five New Yorkers is living in poverty. Ten percent of the American population is unemployed," said protester Amanda Clarke.
Police say about 80 protesters were arrested on Saturday, and most were taken into custody for illegally blocking traffic as they marched up to Union Square.
Authorities said that the marchers did not have a permit.
The arrested demonstrators were also charged with disorderly conduct, resisting arrest, and in one instance, assaulting a police officer.
"If nothing else, we're really getting people's attention," said Clarke. "They're realizing that this isn't just some gratuitous, 'we have extra time' thing. This is something really important."
"They didn't really know what this was about and what our motives were, and they didn't know that we were intending to stay for a long time, but that's really changed," said protester Victoria Sobel.
"I would gladly go through that whole ordeal over and over again for the same result, because now I think we have a lot of more media coverage and a lot more people are paying attention," said protester Milo Gonzalez, who claims his shoulder was dislocated when he was arrested on Saturday.
Video of a police officer spraying demonstrators on Saturday was posted on YouTube, and protestors have complained that police used excessive force.
By Sunday evening, the NYPD had not yet commented on the video, but news of the wave of arrests sparked a debate over free speech.
Queens Councilman Peter Vallone Jr. said the safety of New Yorkers always comes first.
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Vallone went on to say he believes the NYPD acted well within its rights.
He believes videos posted by demonstrators on the Internet only show the worst of the situation.
Zuccotti Park, where the protesters are camped out, is privately owned by Brookfield Global Real Estate. On Sunday, workers passed flyers from the company with a list of rules, including no camping or sleeping bags.
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'Lost' (S3): Dissecting the latest hot theory
In which we ask the executive producers of Lost to give us a tantalizing tidbit about tonight's new episode.
This week, the focus is on Desmond lovelorn Scotsman, disgraced soldier, ex-Dharma sadsack, and now, precognitive super-freak. Your 10-word tease from Damon Lindelof is:
''Riddle me this When is a flashback not a flashback?''
My gut tells me that Desmond's newest opus, entitled ''Flashes Before Your Eyes,'' could be a box of crackerjacks for theory-famished Lostophiles especially those who've detected some similarities between the show and the Alan Moore/Dave Gibbons comic classic Watchmen. Could Desmond = Dr. Manhattan, the omnipotent/impotent superman who experiences past, present, and future all at once? (Actually, maybe Desmond is more akin to Billy Pilgrim, the ''unstuck in time'' hero of Slaughterhouse-Five.) We shall see when ''Flashes...'' flickers across our screens this evening...
However, it's hard to imagine how tonight's episode could ever match ''Not In Portland,'' last week's bag of tricks. Coming back from the show's weirdly scheduled three-month hiatus, it was like the producers said, ''You want theories!? We'll give you theories!'' and then blew us away with a machine gun loaded with clues, connections, and connotations. A battery of wild ideas came firing out of that episode, and in the weeks to come, we're going to discuss many of them, from the name-game significance of Edmund Burke to the dark mysteries of Room 23. (And don't worry: we're also going to be exploring more of YOUR theories, as well as discussing the results of the Lost questionnaire.)
But this week, we must dote on one theory in particular, a theory that has hit Losties right between the eyes and burrowed deep into their brains. Move over, Purgatory. Make way for the theory that's sweeping the nation faster than the flu bug that recently blew through my household:
Simply put, this not-so-simple theory posits that the electromagnetic anomaly beneath The Hatch was a black hole. No, I'm not joking. Check out thetailsection.com, which has been hosting a proverbial symposium on the subject since ''Not In Portland'' aired.
THE CLUE: An Other named Aldo was seen reading Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time. The book was open to the page that discusses black holes.
IF IT WALKS LIKE A BLACK HOLE, AND TALKS LIKE A BLACK HOLE IT MUST BE A BLACK HOLE! From Wikipedia: ''A black hole is defined to be a region of space-time where escape to the outside universe is impossible.... [O]bservers outside the event horizon cannot see any events which may be happening within the event horizon... Within the black hole is a singularity, an anomalous place where matter is compressed to the degree that the known laws of physics no longer apply to it.'' Sounds like The Island, doesn't it?
WHAT THIS EXPLAINS: Among other things, why Desmond was unable to sail away from the island; why the island is seemingly invisible to the outside world; why the island is a twilight zone for physics-defying phenomena; why The Hatch ''imploded'' instead of ''exploded.''
WHAT THIS DOESN'T EXPLAIN: Among other things, why the Others have been able to commute off the island via submarine; and why Locke, Eko, and Desmond weren't sucked into the anomaly along with The Hatch.
POKING HOLES IN BLACK HOLE THEORY: A key contention of this young, still-in-process theory is that The Button inside The Hatch was regulating the awesome energies radiating from this black hole/anomaly. But if pushing that computer key was really so darn important like ''saving the world'' important, according to Kelvin why didn't Dharma devise a more reliable Button-pushing system? Two guys in a hatch (volunteers, really) following instructions from a dubious industrial film that conspicuously fails to spell out the stakes? THAT is Earth's defense against the catastrophic consequences of a throbbing wound in the fabric of reality? Please.
THE ALDO FACTOR: What should we make of the fact that the Hawking/Black Hole clue came attached to a guy named Aldo? Perhaps more proof for the theory. ''Aldo'' means ''elder, older one'' in German interesting, given Aldo the Other looks like he's barely 18. But are looks deceiving? Given the mounting clues suggesting some kind of time-warp phenomenon (''Mittelos'' the Others-backed company that recruited Juliet to the island is an anagram for LOST TIME), maybe the Island-indigenous Others are much older than they look.
SOME ''OTHER'' ADVICE: The literalism with which the Hawking/black-hole clue has been interpreted and applied reminds me of something that Michael Emerson (Ben/Henry Gale) told me when I visited the Lost set in January:
''The little tidbits may not necessarily be revealing of the master plan, but they're usually not empty, either. The whole thing about my original name, Henry Gale. Okay, so it's Dorothy's uncle [from The Wizard of Oz], so you think, where are they going with that? Well, they don't have to go anywhere with it. Just free associate about her trip to Oz, a fantasyland that has certain purgatorial dimensions... I don't think [the executive producers] stay up all night researching this stuff. I think it just falls out of them, and it kind of thickens and enriches the whole.''
APPLYING BEN'S WISDOM TO BLACK HOLE THEORY: Saying ''the island is a black hole'' is as misguided as saying ''the island is Oz.'' In fact, it might be as misguided as saying ''Oz is a black hole.'' After all, couldn't Oz be described as a ''region of space-time'' where ''the laws of physics no longer apply''? Instead, think analogously. The Island isn't a black hole it's just like a black hole.
THEN AGAIN: Isn't Ben a big fat liar?
DOC JENSEN SAYS: Sawyer's Star Wars joke during the Aldo/Hawking/Black Hole scene might actually be the real tell-tale clue we should be examining. ''The Wookie gag'' he's referring to took place on the Death Star. And what are black holes? Why, they are the remnants of... dead stars. Could there be a connection here? Could this mean that The Island is actually... a machine? Powered by electromagnetic energy? Even... mobile?! Maybe that's why Desmond couldn't escape The Island it was actually swimming circles around him, not vice versa!
Remember your first time?
The bullet-train rush of excitement. The fireworks-in-the-night thrill of epiphany. The Oh My God It's Finally Gonna Happen! conviction that tightly held secrets were unfolding before your eyes like unfurling petals on a blooming rose... only to be rudely followed by that suddenly sober-headed realization that either it wasn't as special as you thought it was going to be or even more humiliating, that you were completely wrong?
Yeah. My first time coming up with a Lost theory was just like that, too.
I was reminded of my first time this week thanks to one Todd J. Hostager. On Feb. 7, this dearest obsessive-after-my-own-heart bombarded me with a series of missives clearly written under the influence of Lost love. Or 19 pots of coffee. Maybe both. You might say I was practically taken hostage by this Todd J. Hostager, with his ''Double Bind'' postulations and expansive addendums to my own highly dubious, though not yet completely disproved, Evil Aaron theory. Under siege with reams of riotous, unwieldy, quasi-intellectual thought, I finally got the sense of what it must be like to be my editor.
And then, that night, after watching ''Not In Portland,'' Hostager reloaded and unloaded on me once again, this time his magnum opus, something he calls the Heuristic-Energy-Material Applications (or HEMA) theory. It's actually much more intriguing and entertaining than his ''Made At MIT'' title sounds, and I would tell you more about it, except that Hostager's theory is, like, a million words long, and there's only one loquacious Lost lunatic that's allowed to run one million word-long theories in this space ME.
And so, Hostager has created his own Web page to host his delirious dissertation.
It'll probably only appeal to the hardcore theory freaks among us, but I encourage all Losties to give him at least a hit as a show of affectionate solidarity.
Welcome to the crazyland club, Todd. And let the new season of Lost theorizing begin.


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Ubuntu on Dell Inspiron 5423
The Dell Inspiron 5423 portable with the components described below has been awarded the status of Certified for Ubuntu.
Please note that for pre-installed systems:
- The system is available in some regions with a special image of Ubuntu pre-installed by the manufacturer. It takes advantage of the hardware features for this system and may include additional software. You should check when buying the system whether this is an option.
- Standard images of Ubuntu may not work at all on the system or may not work well, though Canonical and computer manufacturers will try to certify the system with future standard releases of Ubuntu.
Ubuntu 12.04.5 LTS 64-bit
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- Dell: A08 (Legacy)
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- Please do not use "Safely remove" to remove your media card, it will cause your card reader stop working until you restart your computer.
- Slow Resume from Suspend
- This system does not not meet our performance criteria for resuming from suspend, but suspend/resume is functional and other functionality is not affected.
- Hybrid Video
- Some versions of this system come with two different graphics processors: an Intel UMA on-board adapter and an additional GPU from either nVidia or ATI. On this system, only the Intel graphics chip has been tested and certified. The use of the additional GPU is not supported for this release.
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NEW YORK ( TheStreet) -- The bulls have been in control for the majority of 2012 but it's getting increasingly difficult to stay optimistic these days.
Especially after an ugly finish like the one witnessed on Wall Street Tuesday.
And right on time, the latest fund manager survey conducted by Bank of America/Merrill Lynch was a bit of mixed bag itself. The growth outlook jumped (a good thing) but there was also a warning signal to deal with as stocks tend to underperform bonds whenever the smart money embraces equities."While the fiscal cliff is viewed as by far the biggest tail risk, investor sentiment had clearly become more optimistic on growth & risk in recent weeks," B of A said of the poll's findings. "In the November FMS
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How to move
How to move:
- Buy 10,000 Garbage Bags
- Toss stuff out.
- Buy bus ticket.
OK, as tempting as it is to just throw stuff out and buy a bus ticket, it isn't that easy. To begin with you need to have a reason to move. For us the primary reason is to buy a farm, deal with a lawyer, and get out of the city. Price of land dictated that we are moving to Ontario, limits on Legal Aid for a suite we are involved in did also, and mountains combined with health killed any idea of staying in British Columbia. Read more…
With only 26 days left till when we are suppose to be on the road, I am really feeling the crunch. Most people have to deal with canceling their phone service, and often those phones are either canceled to early, or to late regardless of what you tell Ma Bell. For us it's not a problem because we are keeping our 604 phone number, and adding a 416 area code to the VOIP service we use. (I might even add a 800 number for it come spring, we'll see.) The internet DSL we currently have is going to be canceled, but it is provided by the same company as out phone, so it can wait.
We did hook up cable TV for the last month while we we're here, mainly because I am packing up all the satellite equipment and the distraction is worth keeping the younger kids out of my hair while this move drives me into the bat house. So that will have to be killed too, and the cable box returned to the thieves … I mean, cable company.
Speaking of thieves, … I mean utility companies, the gas company is over paid. We send a certain amount of funds to pay the bill every month, they re-accesses the amount of natural gas we are using and 'forgot' to tell us we were over paying. So that will help out with the fuel costs of moving.
Hydro has to be disconnected as well, I don't even know how we are suppose to get the deposit back on that. They want to hold it till we move to the 'new' place, so I spent time arguing with them about being off grid, and out of the province.
We have to forward all our postal mail, which has created a technical problem.
There are two areas we are thinking about with farms we have looked up that we are interested in buying. And there are three lawyers we have to deal with. The first set of farms center around Stratford, Ontario. The Second set of farms are near Madoc, Ontario. (There is also a third area I wouldn't mind checking out in person for buying a farm if we have the time.) The first lawyer is near Cornwall, Ontario, the second and third are near Toronto, Ontario. Plus there are some semi-related legal issues we would like to take care of near Ottawa, Ontario so we can go hunting, and trapping. So where exactly should we forward all our postal mail? Something that I haven't fully covered yet.
So if we manage to deal with all those basics the real work will be actually getting to Ontario. This is where I am making a smart choice. We are simply not heading in a straight line. Since I still haven't bought the truck yet, and it looks like the family wants to go with a motor home anyway, all I have to do is either rent, or buy one. The problem is that it will be untested if we buy, and I would rather buy, so the trip is going to include stop overs at places right here in BC. There are several campgrounds here we have never stayed at with good fishing, and other distractions that we can take advantage of, and lots of sights my wife and kids have not yet seen. So we plan on a test run with the motor home to these places, to make sure the vehicle won't give us any really bad problems before we leave for good. Assuming that everything goes well, we will not be returning to the lower mainland, but just keep on going towards Ontario, if things do go bad, we will be near all our current resources, including a couple of jobs we can pick back up to pay for any repairs or changes that need to be done.
With plan "B" firmly set, I return my thought back to Plan "A" which is to get out of here in 26 days. We are only half way done with everything we need to do. And it has taken longer then 26 days to get to this point.
So I guess I should get off the computer, and get down to the basement with 10,000 garbage bags….
Lesson Learned: Don't be a pack rat.


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Editor's note: Thanks to the release of recent, high-quality tablets, the overall score of the Samsung Galaxy Tab 8.9 has been adjusted down from 7.7 to 7.2.
Just like computers and mobile phones, tablets are not a one-size-fits-all technology. Sure, Apple is selling plenty of iPads, but many people are looking for something a little more compact.
If you want an Android tablet that's a little easier to wrap your hands around, but not so small that it feels like an oversized smartphone, Samsung's Galaxy Tab 8.9 might be the perfect fit. The tablet is available starting October 2, priced at $469 (16GB) and $569 (32GB).
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The Galaxy Tab 8.9 looks just like a Galaxy Tab 10.1 that got left in the dryer too long. Aside from the dimensions being slightly smaller, it's indistinguishable from the Tab 10.1.
But don't be too quick to dismiss the advantages of a smaller size. At 8.9 inches, this tablet still escapes the awkward in-between nature of 7-inch tablets (including the original Tab). It's large enough to make Web pages and documents appear life-size. Most importantly, Google's Android 3.2 Honeycomb software and its more spacious user interface have enough room to live happily.
So why not pay the extra $30 for a Tab 10.1 with a larger screen? Well, that decision comes down to what matters to you. We can say for certain that the Tab 8.9 is slightly lighter, and the dimensions less unwieldy. It's easier to grip with one hand for an extended period, which also means it's a bit easier to type on without sitting down and propping the tablet up on your knee.
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text: The ''Big Brother'' housemates will be stuck in their camera-filled home for an extra week. Variety reports that CBS has ordered two extra episodes of the series. That means that the season finale will on Sept. 24, where it will compete against high-profile season premieres on other networks: ABC's latest edition of ''The Bachelor'' and NBC's now Aaron Sorkin-less ''The West Wing.'' It also means pushing back the premieres of two of CBS' primetime staples. ''The King of Queens,'' which is abandoning its cushy Monday slot for Wednesday, will now debut on Oct. 1 with a one-hour episode, and the ''Becker'' season premiere will be pushed back to Oct. 8. At least now the currently sequestered ''Big Brother'' contestants won't have to miss those shows.


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Recently I wanted to get a list of every topic published on a certain blog. I didn't want to scrap the entire site, just the titles. It turned out to be easy to do with a couple of bash commands.
First create a temporary directory
% mkdir tmp % cd tmp
Go to the blog and scroll to the last page in the index. The URL will be something like http://www.example.com/page/n where n is the number of the page. Take a note of n because you need it.
Now write a quick bash script to grab all of those pages. Remember to replace n with the number you found above
% for ((i=1;i<=n;i++)); do % echo $i % wget -O "$i.html" "http://www.example.com/page/$i" % done
If you check the directory you'll now have a bunch of files from 1.html to n.html. View the source for one of the pages and find something unique that appears in every title line. For example, on this blog all titles lines start with <h1 class="entry-title"> so I could use entry-title. With another quick line of bash I can now grab all of the titles.
% rm -f titles.txt % for ((i=1;i<=50;i++)); do % echo $i % grep "entry-title" $i.html >> titles.txt % done
Remember to replace n with the number of pages you downloaded and entry-title with the thing you are grabbing.
Lastly, you can then convert it to a tab delimited file for importing into Excel.
% cat titles.txt | sed s/.*href=\"// | sed s/\"\>/\\t/ | sed s/\<\\/.*//


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So, to make sure I won't go bankrupt over coffee drinks, I made my own version of the evah-famous Mocha Frap. It's so easy, I promise! :)
What you need:
any 3-in-1 coffee that you love (mine is Maxwell 3-in-1)
Swiss Miss Chocolate Milk (half pack only)
Milk (fresh, full cream, skimmed, low fat, whatever you like)
All-Purpose Cream
Here are the steps --
1. Pour in the 3-in-1 coffee and half pack of swiss miss milk chocolate in a mug
2. Pour in less than 1/4 boiling water to dilute the coffee and chocolate mix
3. Add lots of ice
4. Mix it while pouring in Milk til the mug is filled
5. Optional : Blend it
6. Top with whipped cream or All purpose cream (liquid based) and mix it again.
VOILA!!!! YUMMMMMMMYYYY!!!!! Tell me how it goes if anyone gave it a try :D
Keep smilin'
Stay happy!
Friday, February 1, 2008
Tip for the Day: My Version of Starbucks Mocha Frap!
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Looks good! I'm all for making your own coffee at home. Ever since we got a cappuccino machine, I rarely get coffee out anymore. :)ReplyDelete
Because of the warm weather here in Manila, I'm on for cold coffee :)ReplyDelete
How warm is it in Manila now?ReplyDelete
24-28 deg celsius :)ReplyDelete
Seriously? In February?! That's sooo warm!! :D No wonder you're in need of a frap!ReplyDelete
hahaha Yeah, I KNEW this mocha frap is not gonna work in colder seasons :) But hey..its still YUMMY!!!ReplyDelete
I agree! I would have at one least one of those when I visit my parents in the summer. :PReplyDelete
You can do the decaf version if your parents aren't suppose to take in caffeine :)ReplyDelete
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General IntroductionPart I. Trends in International Migration-A. Migration and Population Trends-B. Immigration and the Labour Market-C. An Overview of Migration PoliciesPart II. Counting Immigrants and Expatriates in OECD Countries: A New Perspective-Introduction-1. A New Database on International Migrants-2. Immigrants and Expatriates in OECD Countries: First Results-3. Expatriates of OECD Member Countries Residing in Another Country-4. Highly Skilled Migration from Non-Member Countries towards OECD Countries: New Evidence on "Brain Drain"-5. Recent Policy Measures in OECD Countries for Facilitating International Recruitment of the Highly Skilled-ConclusionsPart III. Recent Changes in Migration Movements and Policies (Country Notes)-Australia-Austria-Belgium-Bulgaria-Canada-Czech Republic-Denmark-Estonia-Finland-France-Germany-Greece-Hungary-Ireland-Italy-Japan-Korea-Latvia-Lithuania-Luxembourg-Mexico-Netherlands-New Zealand-Norway-Poland-Portugal-Romania-Slovak Republic-Spain-Sweden-Switzerland-Turkey-United Kingdom-United StatesStatistical Annex-Introduction-Inflows and Outflows of Foreign Population-Inflows of Asylum Seekers-Stocks of Foreign and Foreign-Born Population-Acquisition of Nationality-Inflows of Foreign and Seasonal Workers-Stocks of Foreign and Foreign-born LabourList of SOPEMI Correspondents