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14 June 2012
Emperors Palace has joined forces with Casino De Monte-Carlo in Monaco to bring gaming enthusiasts the most exciting and glamorous promotion yet. Winners of the promotion will enjoy a lavish once in-a-lifetime trip to Monaco – the home of opulence and luxury.
To celebrate the launch of the promotion, aptly named, A Touch of Class, VVIP's and special guests, including the family of Princess Charlene of Monaco and the Consul de France, attended a glittering banquet at Emperors Palace on 22 June 2012 to announce the special partnership.
The five lucky winners of the promotion will be drawn in September from the top 100 slots and tables players. Winners will be transported to a weeklong extravaganza in the casino-capital, Monaco, the prize also features an exclusive Johnny Clegg concert at the Royal Opera House, the opportunity to rub shoulders with the rich and famous in the dazzling Casino De Monte-Carlo, as well as the sights and sounds of the European principality and its neighboring countries. Plans are even in place to treat the winners to breakfast in Italy, lunch in France and dinner in Monaco!
Over the next two months Casino De Monte-Carlo in Monaco and Emperors Palace will also partake in a unique exchange programme that will see the swapping of hotel chefs for a week. Emperors Palace staff will be able to enjoy a week of working life at the Casino De Monte-Carlo and staff in Monaco vice versa.
A Touch of Class will run from 1 July to 31 August with the winners being drawn on 9 September. Don't miss this unforgettable opportunity. Watch the press for further details.


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Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (Анто́н Па́влович Че́хов) (29 January O.S. 17 January] 1860 – 15 July O.S. 2 July] 1904) was a physician, major Russian short story writer and playwright. Many of his short stories are considered the apotheosis of the form while his playwriting career, though brief, has had a great impact on dramatic literature and performance.
Chekhov is better known in modern-day Russia for his several hundred short stories, many of which are considered masterpieces of the form. Yet his plays are also major influences on twentieth-century drama. From Chekhov, many contemporary playwrights have learned how to use mood, apparent trivialities and inaction to highlight the internal psychology of characters. Chekhov's four major plays—The Seagull, Uncle Vanya, Three Sisters, and The Cherry Orchard—are frequently revived in modern productions.
Early life
Anton Chekhov was born in Taganrog, a small provincial port on the Sea of Azov, in southern Russia on January 29, 1860. A son of a grocer (his father had the official rank of Trader of the Third Guild - купeц 3й гильдии) and grandson to a serf who had bought his own freedom, Anton Chekhov was the third of six children.
Anton attended a school for Greek boys in Taganrog (1866-1868), and at the age of eight he was sent to the Taganrog Gymnasium for boys (Chekhov Gymnasium), where he proved an average pupil. Rather reserved and undemonstrative, he nevertheless gained a reputation for satirical comments, for pranks, and for making up humorous nicknames for his teachers. He enjoyed playing in amateur theatricals and often attended performances at the provincial theater. As an adolescent he tried his hand at writing short "anecdotes", farcical or facetious stories, although he is also known to have written a serious long play at this time, "Fatherless", which he later destroyed.
Anton Chekhov was in love with theater and literature from his childhood. The first performance that he attended was Jacques Offenbach's operetta La Belle Hélène onstage Taganrog City Theater on October 4, 1873. Anton was a thirteen years old Gymnasium student, and from that moment on, he became a great theater lover and spent there virtually all his savings. His favorite seat in the theater was at the back gallery for it was cheap (40 silver kopeeks), and because Gymnasium students needed a special authorisation to go to the theater. The permission was given not often and mostly for the weekends. Sometimes, Chekhov and other fellow students disguised themselves and even wore some makeup, spectacles or a fake beard, trying to fool the regular school staff who checked for unauthorized presence of students.
The writer's mother, Yevgeniya, was an excellent storyteller, and Chekhov is supposed to have acquired his own gift for narrative and to have learned to read and write from her. His father, Pavel Yegorovich Chekhov, a strict disciplinarian and a religious zealot, demanded from all dedication to the Eastern Orthodox Church and the family business. In 1875, facing bankruptcy, he was forced to escape from creditors to Moscow, where his two eldest sons were attending the university, and for the next several years the family lived in poverty.
Anton stayed behind in Taganrog for three more years to finish school. He made ends meet by giving private tutoring, selling off household goods, and later, working in a clothing warehouse. In 1879, Chekhov completed schooling at the gymnasium and joined his family in Moscow, having gained admission to the medical school at Moscow State University.
Early writings
In a bid to support his family, Chekhov started writing short, humorous sketches and vignettes of contemporary Russian life, many under pseudonyms such as Antosha Chekhonte (Антоша Чехонте), Man without the spleen (Человек без селезенки), and others. His first published piece appeared in the St Petersburg weekly Strekoza (Стрекоза, "Dragonfly") in March, 1880. It is not known how many stories Chekhov wrote during this period, but his output was prodigious, and he rapidly earned a reputation as a satirical chronicler of Russian street life.
Nicolas Leykin, one of the leading publishers of the time and the owner of Oskolki (Осколки, "Fragments"), to which Chekhov began submitting some of his finer works, recognized the writer's talent but restricted the length of Chekhov's prose, limiting him only to sketches of a page and a half in length. Some believe that it was this limitation that developed Chekhov's trademark concise style.
Chekhov qualified as a physician in 1884, but continued writing for weekly periodicals and in 1885 began submitting to the Peterburgskaya Gazeta ("The Petersburg Gazette") longer works of a more somber nature; these were rejected by Leykin. By December 1885 he was invited to write for one of the most respected papers of St Petersburg, Novoye vremya (Новое Время, "New Times"), owned and edited by the millionaire magnate Alexey Suvorin. By 1886 Chekhov was becoming a well-known writer, but he still considered his writing a hobby.
Dmitrii Grigorovich, one of the many writers who were attracted to Chekhov's stories, persuaded him to take his talents seriously. In an immensely fruitful year Chekhov wrote over a hundred stories and published his first collection "Motley Tales" {Pestrye rasskazy) with support from Suvorin, and in the following year the short story collection "At Dusk" (V sumerkakh) won Chekhov the coveted Pushkin Prize. This would mark the beginnings of a highly productive career for the writer.
Mature years
In the late 1880s, Chekhov contracted tuberculosis from a patient. In 1887, forced by overwork and ill health, Chekhov undertook a trip to eastern Ukraine. Upon his return, he started writing the long short story The Steppe (Step), which was eventually published in a serious literary journal Severny vestnik ("Northern Herald"). This short story marked a new height for the writer, having the prestige to be published in a leading periodical of the time and showing the maturity that distinguished his later fiction.
The first production of "The Seagull," which premiered October 17, 1896, in St. Petersburg, was disastrous for Chekhov. The opening night audience was expecting a comedy and the company had had only nine days to rehearse. Jeers and boos greeted Nina's monologue at the end of Act I. So distraught was Chekhov that he wrote "I shall never forget last evening...I shall not have that play produced in Moscow, ever. Never again shall I write play or have them staged." (As luck would have it, audiences from the 2nd and 3rd nights were more appreciative; however, Chekhov ignored them.)
After the second production of The Seagull (and first successful one) by the Moscow Art Theatre, in 1898, he wrote three more plays for the same company: Uncle Vanya, The Three Sisters and The Cherry Orchard. In 1901 he married Olga Leonardovna Knipper (1870-1959), an actress who performed in his plays.
The movement toward naturalism in theatre that was sweeping Europe reached its highest artistic peak in Russia in 1898 with the formation of the Moscow Art Theatre (later, until recently, called МХАТ, the Moscow Academy Art Theatre). Its name became synonymous with that of Chekhov, whose plays about the day-to-day life of the landed gentry achieved a delicate poetic realism that was years ahead of its time. Konstantin Stanislavsky, its director, became the 20th century's most influential theorist on acting.
Accompanied by Suvorin, Chekhov visited western Europe. Their long and close friendship negatively reflected on Chekhov's popularity, as Suvorin's Novoye vremya was considered politically reactionary in the increasingly liberal times. Eventually, Chekhov broke with Suvorin over the attitude taken by the paper toward the notorious Dreyfus Affair in France, with Chekhov championing the cause of Alfred Dreyfus.
His illness forced Chekhov to spend long periods of time in Nice, France and later in Yalta, Crimea. Chekhov died of complications of tuberculosis in Badenweiler, Germany where he had been visiting a special clinic for treatment. He was buried in Novodevichy Cemetery.
It can be safely said that Chekhov revolutionized the genre of short story; his subject matter and technique influenced many future short-story writers. It is often said that little action occurs in Chekhov's stories and plays, but he compensates for lack of outward excitement by his original techniques for developing internal drama. The point of a typical Chekhov story is most often what happens within a given character, and that is conveyed indirectly, by suggestion or by significant detail. Chekhov eschews the traditional build-up of chronological detail, instead emphasizing moments of epiphanies and illumination over a significantly shorter period of time. As such, his best stories have a psychological realism and concision seldom matched by other writers. Tolstoy likened Chekhov's technique to that of the French Impressionists, who daubed canvases with paint apparently without reason, but achieved an overall effect of vivid, unchallengeable artistry.
One critic says of Chekhov that he is no moralist — he simply says "you live badly, ladies and gentlemen," but his smile has the indulgence of a very wise man.
As samples of the Russian epistolary art, Chekhov's letters have been rated second only to Aleksandr Pushkin's by the literary historian D.S. Mirsky.
Equally innovative in his dramatic works, Chekhov sought to convey the texture of everyday life and move away from traditional ideas of plot and conventions of dramatic speech. Dialogue in his plays is not smooth or continuous: characters interrupt each other, several different conversations take place at the same time, and lengthy pauses occur when no one speaks at all. A recurring theme is the pointlessness of radical, human or mechanical change, versus the powerful inertia of slow organic cycles.
Perhaps one of his best known contributions is Chekhov's dictum (also known as Chekhov's Gun): If you say in the first chapter that there is a rifle hanging on the wall, in the second or third chapter it absolutely must go off. If it's not going to be fired, it shouldn't be hanging there.
Although contemporary Russian literary critics celebrated Chekhov, international fame came only after World War I with Constance Garnett's English translations.
Chekhov's plays were immensely popular in England in the 1920s and have become classics of the British stage. In the United States his fame came somewhat later, through the influence of Stanislavski's technique for achieving realistic acting. American playwrights such as Tennessee Williams, Arthur Miller, and Clifford Odets have used Chekhovian techniques, and few important writers of plays in the 20th century can have escaped Chekhov's influence entirely: for example, the work by British playwright Michael Frayn is often compared to that of Chekhov for its focus on humorous family situations and its insights into society.
Many writers of prose, particularly of short stories, have also been influenced by Chekhov, such as Katherine Mansfield. John Cheever has been called "the Chekhov of the suburbs" for his ability to capture the drama and sadness of the lives of his characters by revealing the undercurrents of apparently insignificant events. American writer Raymond Carver was also frequently compared to Chekhov, because of his minimalistic prose style, and tendency to meditate upon the humor and tragedy in the everyday lives of working class people. Carver like Chekhov presented his characters with compassion and didn't place judgement on them or their actions. Master of the short story, the British author Victor Sawdon Pritchett's short stories are prized for their craftsmanship and comic irony similar to that of Chekhov.
The continuously growing list of films and theater productions based on Chekhov's stories and plays includes Emil Loteanu's My Tender and Affectionate Beast (1978, see Мой ласковый и нежный зверь at the Internet Movie Database ), Nikita Mikhalkov and Marcello Mastroianni's Dark Eyes (1987), Louis Malle's Vanya on 42nd Street (1994), Anthony Hopkins's August (1996), Lanford Wilson's The Three Sisters (1997), among many others.
Short stories
Many of the earlier stories were written under the pseudonym "Antosha Chekhonte".

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Learn to curl with the Lone Star Curling Club. We have some spots available for our December 27 event. Sign-up now!
Four week sunday morning league starts January 11. League is great for regulars as well as beginners!
Help the Lone Star Curling Club grow and become a member!
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We have been busy this past year. This past May, Chaparral Ice took down the ice and we were able to install new curling rings. We now have 5 sets of curling rings which should be great. We should no longer struggle in seeing the rings and hopefully the ice is better than ever. We also have new hacks! Thanks all who took part in sponsor-a-hack! And finally we created new scoreboards. Gone are the whiteboards and felt markers. Thanks again to Buck and Joe!
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The Winter Olympics have helped increase membership. We had over four hundred learn-to-curlers come and take a class. Forty or so of those learn-to-curlers curled in our first ever evening league in the month of April!
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During the 2010 Winter Olympics, television viewers watched more curling than any other sport. Why is curling so popular? Because it's fun, competitive, challenging and anyone can do it. The Lone Star Curling Club invites you to come visit us on anytime we are curling.
The Lone Star Curling Club was founded in 2006, in Austin, Texas and is an affiliate of the United States Curling Association. We welcome anyone who wants to learn more about curling and encourage you to contact our club to find out more about this great sport. Regardless of age, whether you're 16 or 86, curling is for everyone and previous curling experience is not required in order to participate.
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garf112 wrote:If he was at HIS average for gb/ld/fb? or at the league average? I was under the assumption that a hitter DOES have control over those percentages and tends to hit roughly the same amount each year, with some peaks and valleys added in.
League average. The number isn't meant to represent what we expect from the hitter as far as batting average goes. It's meant to express what batting average you would expect from a player with a .300 BABIP that put up those same k/hr/ab numbers.
The reason it's designed that way is so we can see how well the batter's plays determined at home plate support a good batting average. By expressing it versus the league average you do two things - you standardize the number and you make it easier to determine as well since you don't have to determine the expected BABIP for each hitter. It's not intended to use in projecting batting average...it's more to give a second view of the batting average variability. The (k + hr) / ab% gives us the range of values while the batting average using the league average gb/fb/ld percentages lets us know how good the hitter is at keeping his outs in the field and his hits out of the park.
The one thing I'd consider too for the k + hr / ab% is trying to find different weights for the k's and hr's too...a k is much less important than a hr and needs to be represented as such.


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December 15, 2014
Here we go again. This week brings us more of what we're already become accustomed to. As winter approaches, it's feeling more like March than December. Mid-week rain will cause trouble for local resorts trying to make snow, and the high of 48 on Wednesday won't help either.
Snow continues to pile up in Vermont. Wednesday and Thursday will bring significant snowfall to many resorts. Jay Peak is expecting almost 9", while Bolton, Smugglers' Notch, and Stowe are all expecting 7". Many other resorts will be receiving new snow in the upcoming days, as well.
You can still catch some big savings at many of your favorite resorts. Jay Peak is offering nearly 30% off for December 26-27. You can find the websites for Jay Peak and the rest of the Northeastern Mountains using our links on the right.
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|Large ancient tombs of kings and noblemen of the Silla Kingdom can be seen around Gyeongju at the Daereungwon Tomb Complex (Cheonmachong Tomb). There are twenty-three large tombs located here; the most famous being Cheonmachong and Hwangnamdaechong. In an excavation of the area in the 1970's, Cheonmachong was discovered with a painting of mounted horse. This painting is the only discovered painting from the Silla Era. You can also view the inside of Cheonmachong. There are 11,526 remains and crowns of the king inside the tomb demonstrating the lavish lifestyle of the king. Another tourist attraction is Hwangnamdaechong, which is the largest ancient tomb. It houses the bodies of both the king and queen and has over 30 thousand relics and gold accessories. The unique thing about Hwangnamdaechong is that the queen's tomb has more luxurious accessories. From that researchers have concluded that even the queen can have a high social position before marriage. You can feel the ancient culture of Korea 1,500 years ago when visiting these tombs.
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Whatever the 100 or so extras were frantically running away from during "Transformers 4" filming Sunday at Cloud Gate (better known as The Bean) in Millennium Park, Kelsey Grammer, who plays a villain in the film, was nonchalantly walking toward it. Grammer was on the phone in the scene paying no attention to the scared civilians running past him.
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2013 Fall Guide: Which Broadway shows will kill?
John Grisham has written novels, short stories, books for children and nonfiction works, and in all of the above, he has done very nicely for himself. The first printings of his signature thrillers have typically sold in the millions (7 million people bought "The Firm"), and more than 250 million of his books are in print all over the world. Those are the kind of numbers that make a Broadway producer salivate (well, the ones that are human). And that explains the intense interest in the fortunes of "A Time to Kill" on Broadway this fall.
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Welcome to the leading Vermont vacation destination.
While the explosion of Vermont's red, yellow and orange foliage in the fall, green mountains in the summer, blue lakes in the spring and pristine white powder in the winter are truly something to see at Stowe, nature's backdrop is only one reason to visit this world-class Vermont vacation destination. Whether you're running, strolling, shopping, rowing, climbing, skiing, golfing, or simply sitting, the area that surrounds Stowe Mountain Lodge has a cosmopolitan allure that will beckon you back to Vermont again and again.
Join the many events on the mountain or take advantage of the many fun and cultural vacation activities throughout the local Stowe, Vermont area over the next few months:
Events for August 2013
Music on the Porch Series
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Art on Park
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Farmers Market
When: From 07/05/2013 to 08/30/2013Share
Exposed Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition Begins
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Stowe Theatre Guild presents The Drowsy Chaperone
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Cliff House Summit Series Dinner - The Artisan Cheese and Wine Dinner
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4-star inn with a restaurant in Grange-over-Sands (Lake District)
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This inn is located in Grange-over-Sands (Lake District), close to Lakeside Windermere Ferry Landing. Area attractions also include Windermere Golf Club and World of Beatrix Potter.
Property Features
In addition to a restaurant, The Hare & Hounds features a bar/lounge. Other amenities include complimentary wireless Internet access and free self parking.
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The inn offers a restaurant. A bar/lounge is on site where guests can unwind with a drink. Public areas are equipped with complimentary high-speed wireless Internet access. This Grange-over-Sands inn also offers tour/ticket assistance, a garden, and a fireplace in the lobby. Complimentary self parking is available on site.
- Total number of rooms - 3
- Number of floors - 2
- Bar/lounge
- Fireplace in lobby
- Tours/ticket assistance
- Free Wi-Fi
- Garden
- Restaurant
- Free self parking
- Number of buildings/towers - 1
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Available in all rooms: Free Wi-Fi
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Free self parking
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- Coffee/tea maker
- Private bathroom
- Complimentary toiletries
- Shower only
- Rollaway/extra beds available
- Flat-panel TV
- Free Wi-Fi
- Individually decorated
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Onsite venue - This restaurant specializes in local cuisine and serves lunch and dinner. Guests can enjoy drinks at the bar. Reservations are required.
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Check-in time starts at 3 PM
Check-in time ends at 9 PM
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Check-out time is 11 AM
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- Crib (infant bed) fee: GBP 15 per night
- Rollaway bed fee: GBP 25 per night
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Military briefs, Friday, Sept. 30, 2011
If your group will be holding an event for local military personnel, please email the information two weeks in advance to firstname.lastname@example.com.
Classes offered for military families
CAMP PENDLETON ---- The Marine Corps Family Team Building program is offering these classes in Building 13150:
-- Readiness and deployment support, "Kids and Reunion," 5:30 to 7 p.m. Oct. 3.
-- Family readiness officer refresher training, 2 to 4 p.m. Oct. 4.
-- "Who Moved My Cheese?" LifeSkills class, 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Oct. 4.
-- L.I.N.K.S. for Spouses, 8 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Oct. 5-6.
-- Family readiness officer training, 8 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Oct. 7.
-- Marriage enrichment retreat with CREDO at Forest Home, Oct. 7-9. Register at 760-725-4954.
Register at 760-725-9052, unless otherwise noted. Visit mccsCP.com .
Center to hold 'haunted' festival
CAMP PENDLETON ---- The Abby Reinke Community Center will hold a Haunted Harvest Festival from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Bldg. 201019. The event will feature spooky story telling, a costume parade, food, entertainment, activities and fun for the whole family. Visit mccsCP.com or call 760-763-0649.
Flu vaccine available
CAMP PENDLETON ---- Naval Hospital Camp Pendleton is offering the seasonal flu vaccine to all TRICARE beneficiaries from 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. through Oct. 1 at the pharmacy entrance of the hospital at Bldg. H100. High risk individuals include pregnant women, children younger than 5 (especially those between 6 months and 2 years), ages 50 and older, those with certain chronic medical conditions and those who live in nursing homes and other long-term care facilities. Health-care workers should also get vaccinated. A military ID card is required. Visit cdc.gov/flu or cpen.med.navy.mil .
Learn about aid, attendance program
ENCINITAS ---- VA-accredited attorney Merwyn J. Miller of Encinitas is offering an informative workshop on previously unknown financial benefits through the Aid and Attendance Program for veterans and their spouses at 6 p.m. Oct. 12 at Atria Encinitas South, 504 S. El Camino Real. The workshop will explore and provide financial solutions for senior veterans and their spouses who need assisted living or assistance at home. The tax-free A&A pension can provide up to $23,396 a year. Reserve at 760-436-9990. Visit atriaencinitas.com .
Miramar air show to be held
MIRAMAR ---- The 2011 MCAS Miramar Air Show will hold performances from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sept. 30 and Oct. 1-2, and a twilight show from 5:30 to 9 p.m. Oct. 1. Celebrating 100 years of naval aviation, "A Salute to San Diego: Birthplace of Naval Aviation" will feature earthshaking explosions, thundering fly-bys, dynamic and thrilling aerobatics, the Blue Angels, USMC AV-8B Harrier and "the best pilots on the planet." Gates open at 8 a.m. daily. Parking, admission and blanket seating are free for all shows. Preferred seating is available and can be purchased at miramarairshow.com or by calling 1-877-772-5425.
Local chapter to meet Oct. 8
OCEANSIDE ---- The 3rd Marine Division Association Southern California Chapter will meet at 10 a.m. Oct. 8 at the Jolly Roger Restaurant, 1900 N. Harbor Drive. Social hour is from 10 to 11 a.m. followed by breakfast and the meeting. Email firstname.lastname@example.com or call 760-722-1937.


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Sec. 27. Though the Earth, and all inferior Creatures be common to all Men, yet every Man has a Property in his own Person. This no Body had any Right to but himself. The Labour of his Body, and the Work of his Hands, we may say, are properly his. Whatsoever then he removes out of the State that Nature hath provided, and left it in, he hath mixed his Labour with, and joyned to it something that is his own, and thereby makes it his Property. It being by him removed from the common state Nature placed it in, it hath by this labour something annexed to it, that excludes the common right of other Men. For this Labour being the unquestionable Property of the Labourer, no Man but he can have a right to what that is once joyned to, at least where there is enough, and as good left in common for others.
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Sec. 39. And thus, without supposing any private Dominion, and property in Adam, over all the World, exclusive of other Men, which can no way be proved, nor any ones Property be made out [i.e., traced in lines of inheritance and descent] from it [Locke spent all of the First Treatise refuting such a claim made by Sir Robert Filmer's Patriarcha]; but supposing the World given as it was to the Children of Men in common, we see how labour could make Men distinct titles to several parcels of it, for their private uses; wherein there could be no doubt of Right, no room for quarrel.
Sec. 40. Nor is it so strange, as perhaps before consideration it may appear, that the Property of labour should be able to over-ballance the Community of Land. For 'tis Labour indeed that puts the difference of value on every thing . . . .
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Sec. 43. . . . . 'Tis Labour then which puts the greatest part of Value upon Land, without which it would scarcely be worth any thing . . . . For 'tis not barely the Plough-man's Pains, the Reaper's and Thresher's Toil, and the Bakers [sic.] Sweat, is to be counted into the Bread we eat; the Labour of those who broke the Oxen, who digged and wrought the Iron and Stones, who felled and framed the Timber imployed about the Plough, Mill, or Oven, or any other Utensils, which are a vast Number, requisite to this Corn, from its being seed to be sown to its being made Bread, must all be charged on the account of Labour, and received as an effect of that: Nature and the Earth furnished only the almost worthless Materials, as in themselves. . . .
Sec. 44. From all which it is evident, that though the things of Nature are given in common, yet Man (by being Master of himself, and Proprietor of his own Person, and the Actions or Labour of it) had still in himself the great Foundation of Property; and that which made up the great part of what he applyed [sic.] to the Support or Comfort of his being, when Invention and Arts had improved the conveniencies of Life, was perfectly his own, and did not belong in common to others.
Sec. 45. Thus Labour, in the Beginning, gave a Right of Property, where-ever any one was pleased to imploy it, upon what was common, which remained, a long while, the far greater part, and is yet more than Mankind makes use of. Men, at first, for the most part, contented themselves with what un-assisted Nature offered to their Necessities: and though afterwards, in some parts of the World, (where the Increase of People and Stock, with the Use of Money) had made Land scarce, and so of some Value, the several Communities settled the Bounds of their distinct Territories, and by Laws within themselves, regulated the Properties of the private Men of their Society, and so, by Compact and Agreement, settled the Property which Labour and Industry began; and the Leagues that have been made between several States and Kingdoms, either expressly or tacitly disowning all Claim and Right to the Land in the others [sic.] Possession, have, by common Consent, given up their Pretences to their natural common Right, which originally they had to those Countries, and so have, by postive agreement, settled a Property amongst themselves, in distinct Parts and parcels of the Earth: yet there are still great Tracts of Ground to be found, which (the Inhabitants thereof not having joyned with the rest of Mankind, in the consent of the Use of their common Money) lie waste, and are more than the People, who dwell on it, do, or can make use of, and so still lie in common. Tho' this can scarce happen amongst that part of Mankind, that have consented to the use of Money.
Sec. 46. The greatest part of things really useful to the Life of Man, and such as the necessity of subsisting made the first Commoners of the World look after, as it doth the Americans now, are generally things of short duration; such as, if they are not consumed by use, will decay and perish of themselves . . . . Now . . . every one . . . had a Property in all that he could affect with his Labour . . . . He was only to look that he used them before they spoiled . . . . And indeed it was a foolish thing, as well as dishonest, to hoard up more than he could make use of. If . . . . he bartered away Plumbs that would have rotted in a Week, for Nuts that would last good for his eating a whole Year, he did no injury; he wasted not the common Stock . . . . Again, if he would give his Nuts for a piece of Metal . . . or a Diamond, . . . he invaded not the Right of others; he might heap up as much of these durable things as he pleased; the exceeding of the bounds of his just Property not lying int he largeness of his Possession, but the perishing of any thing uselessly in it.
Sec. 47. And thus came in the use of Money, some lasting thing that Men might keep without spoiling, and that by Mutual concsent Men would take in exchange for the truly useful, but perishable Supports of Life.
Sec. 48. . . . . For supposing an Island, separate from all possible Commerce with the rest of the World . . . : What reason could any one have there to enlarge his Possessions beyond the use of his Family, and a plentiful supply to its Consumption . . . ? For I ask, What would a Man value Ten Thousand, or an Hundred Thousand Acres of excellent Land, ready cultivated, and well stocked too with Cattle, in the middle of the in-land Parts of America, where he had no hopes of Commerce with other Parts of the World, to draw him Money by the Sale of the Product? It would not be worth the inclosing, and we should see him give up again to the wild Common of Nature, whatever was more than would supply the Conveniences of Life . . . .
Sec. 49. Thus in the beginning all the World was America, and more so than that is now; for no such thing as Money was any where known. Find out something that hath the Use and Value of Money amongst his Neighbours, you shall see the same Man will begin presently to enlarge his Possessions.


text: Structure of RapA, a Swi2/Snf2 protein that recycles RNA polymerase during transcription (Shaw, Gan, Zhou, Zhi, Subburaman, Zhang, Joachimiak, Jin and Ji. Structure 2008; 16:1417-1427. Full Text). On the top, the domain organization of the protein is shown with boundaries. In the middle, the domain arrangement of the protein is shown schematically by two views related to each other by a 180-degree rotation around the vertical axis. On the left,right and bottom, the folds of individual domains and a cluster of four domains (1A, 1B, 2A and 2B, which form the ATPase core of the enzyme) are illustrated.


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Ice River Run Shortcut
Finding this shortcut is extremely easy. It is located where the first drop-off is found. The drop-off is at the point where there are a lot of strawberries and you have to drop down to get them. Then, go right.
Do not lose wedge
If you do a butt-bounce when you are falling from a high place, you will not lose a wedge. REMEMBER: Make sure that you do not fall off a cliff or platform.
How to beat Blinky's Frog
Butt-bounce three times on the frog's tongue when it is wooden. When frog's tongue turns to steel, jump on top of tongue and rev-roll into the frog's mouth three times to kill it.
Blade Mountain Lives and tokens
There are a total of eleven extra lives and 8 tokens in the level. The lives are usually located in the flying boxes above the ramps. Do a Flip-Kick to reach them. Some contain tokens and others have lives.
Blade Mountain Unlimited lives
When you get to the checkpoint of the tunnel with the gorilla face, continue down the tunnel. Pick up the two extra lives then dive into the first frozen water hole. Repeat this process as many times as desired to get one extra life each time; or go on down the tunnel pick up the third one to get two each time (just takes a little longer).
Blade Mountain Galaxian
Find one of every fruit. If you do, one activates the treasure chest at the right at the end of the level. Inside is a Galaxian.


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The region's leading veterinary event concluded its 2014 edition with high praises from exhibitors and visitors alike.
The exhibition was inaugurated by H.E. Dr. Rashid Ahmed Bin Fahad, Minister of Environment & Water, along with several other ministry officials and dignitaries.
The exhibition was buzzing with thousands of visitors sourcing the latest products and services from leading companies.
"The show is the ideal platform to meet customers from Saudi, KSA and Iraq, India and provides a chance to discuss new possibilities. We are happy with the visitor turnout and are planning to return next year"
Libor Bittner, Chairman of the Board of Directors, Bioveta.
The highly popular Veterinary Outlook Forum was an astounding success, attended by more than 150 delegates. Some of the speakers included senior executives from the Russian Equine Veterinary Association, Al Arabia Equine Clinic, Al Rawabi, Al Ain Zoo, The British Veterinary Centre and several others.
Exhibitors were absolutely delighted with the visitor turnout, with several contracts and deals being signed during the event itself – over 98% of exhibitors intend to exhibit again next year!
If you would like to book your stand at a prime location for VetME 2015, please send an email to firstname.lastname@example.com or call +971 4 336 5161 today!
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Oluwo Fagbamila (Philip John Neimark) Founder of the Ifa Foundation of North America, Inc. Author of the best selling The Way of the Orisa- HarperCollins Publishers, co-author The Sacred Ifa Oracle- HarperCollins Publishers.
Iyanifa Olufadeke (Vassa) Co-Founder of the Ifa Foundation of North America, Inc. Priest of Ogun and Ifa. Artist & Healer. Advocate for Women's role in Ifa.
Iyanla Vanzant - (pronounced EE-yan-lah) is a Yoruba Ifa priestess initiated at the Ifa Foundation. Iyanla overcame enormous personal difficulties to become a lawyer, talk show host, best-selling author, and national advocate for literacy. In the late 1990s and through the early 2000s, and recently in 2011, she was a regular, or featured, speaker on The Oprah Winfrey Show. In 2001 she hosted her own talk show for ABC. Ebony magazine recognized Vanzant as one of the 100 Most Influential African American's Vibe magazine called her one of "100 Leaders of the New Millennium, "and Newsweek featured her as one of the "Women of the New Century. "Her empowering books have been listed on the New York Time's Best Seller list.
Oluwo Ifaraba (Hermes Torres) - is a Babalawo. In 1998 he was initiated into the priesthood of Obatala in Elizabeth, New Jersey. In the year 2001 by recommendation of his guardian Orisa Obatala he traveled to Ile-Ife, Nigeria to receive Itefa by his elders Yeye Araba Agaye Dr. D'Haifa Odufora Ifatoogun and the Araba Agbaye Aworeni Awoyemi Adesa. In 2006 as part of his personal commitment to Ifa he returned to Nigeria and receives initiation into Egungun, Egbe and Iya Mis. Along with his work and continued study of the Ifa/Orisa Tradition Ifaraba has conducted workshops on Ancestral Communication, the Ifa/Orisa Tradition, Ori, and Ifa Meditation. Ifaraba brings to his Ifa work a diverse knowledge of healing and spiritual philosophies and modalities.
Iyanifa Jookotifa (Janina Walters) – Initiated a Sango/Chango and Ifa Priest through the Ifa Foundation of North & Latin America, Janina brings great insights into the challenge of helping modify the Latin diasporic view of Orisa/Orisha worship. Janina lives in Panama and is the Foundations' Director of Latin America operations.
Oluwo Ifalade brings extensive experience in individual and group counseling to his work as an Ifa Priest. A theologically and clinically trained counselor/ supervisor his full-time commitment has been to counsel patients, exploring and working through the spiritual dimensions of human suffering in hospitals with the mentally ill, oncology patients, burn patients, gunshot and accident victims, and dying patients. Ifalade has also worked with incarcerated persons.
He was intitiated at the Ifa Foundation both as Priest of Ogun and as an Ifa Priest, receiving Igba Iwa and Ela this past year during a moving ceremony with Oluwos and Babalawos from around the world. Oluwo Ifalade has also traveled to West Africa for various initiations.
A former journalist, Ifalade also lectures on Afro-Caribbean Spirituality, the role of spirituality during traumatic events, and on cultural issues at the end of life.
Oluwo Ifafore (David Graham) Priest of Oya and Ifa, initiated bloodlessly. Businessman, conservationist, surfer and art enthusiast. With over 15 years experience in various spiritual paradigms, Ifafore is one of the pioineers of "bloodless" Ifa, an active teacher/mentor and an active environmentalist.
Oluwo Fagunwa Apesin Ayedun Ola (Robert Lavtar, PhD) is the founder of Center of Alternative Altorion in Slovenia (Europe) and runs it together with his wife Petra Lavtar Slapar (Iyanifa Ifamukomi Ayoola Elewa), he has primarily searched for, and found The Truth for himself. During his study of spiritual practices, Robert put to the test and mastered numerous practical philosophies and techniques from achievements of contemporary authors to ancient tradition of consecrated successors. All his knowledge is based on personal experience. All the methods were used first on himself, family members and then with hundreds of clients. From his point of view, his Center Altorion contains the best and the most efficient methods on this planet. The goal is a free, happy, fulfilled, fearless and powerful human being.
Oluwo Ifatokun (Glenn Lewis) Born in Surinam and lived in Curacao until the age of 15, Glenn has resided in the Netherlands for the past 35 years. Following 25 years in the financial industry, Glenn chose to follow his passion for healing others.
Babalawo Ifayori (Paul Alfalla, D.C.) Initiated priest of Oko and Ifa through the Ifa Foundation of North America. New York born and raised , and is now currently living in Peru , South America. Dr. Paul is a professional Chiropractor , Certified Energy Healing Practitioner, Shaman Apprentice , and Initiated (Willakoq) Inka Priest. Through the use and application of universal wisdom and knowledge, He inspires , motivates , and helps others to realize their full potential. Living life with joy and passion, loving openly, and making a difference.
Fagbenle (aGregorio AdyMcDonald). Lecturer and workshop leader in indigenous Yoruba wisdom. Initiated into Ifa at the Ifa Foundation of North America. Member of the Yoruba Kabbalah Centre, Ile-Ife, Nigeria."
Fajuitan (Javier Lujan) is a long time Ifa scholar and supporter of the Ifa Foundation. He was first initiated as an Osun priest in 1996 and subsequently became the first openly Gay Babalawo 4 years later.
Javier started on this spiritual quest as a young man but it wasn't until he came across the Ifa Foundation that he finally felt at ease to learn more about IFA and continue to grow spiritually. "The Ifa Foundation was the right fit for me because it did not only valued diversity but it was also devoid of fears and superstitions". "The teachings are true to IFA as it has been handed down from generation after the next, yet remain pragmatic and contemporary to make it applicable to our current world view".


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Bloomberg: Wal-Mart Execs See Slow Start in February
by Lance Turner
Posted 2/15/2013 03:07 pm
Updated 2 years ago
Bloomberg's gotten ahold of some internal Wal-Mart emails that show executives unhappy by a slow sales start in February. How slow? Well ...
"In case you haven't seen a sales report these days, February MTD sales are a total disaster," Jerry Murray, Wal-Mart's vice president of finance and logistics, said in a Feb. 12 e-mail to other executives, referring to month-to-date sales. "The worst start to a month I have seen in my ~7 years with the company."
Ew. The slow economy and the end of the payroll tax holiday are hitting hard. Bloomberg has more on the stiff headwinds here.


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LEXINGTON, Ky. (WKRC) -- After reviewing all of the available data/information and the most educated predictions, the KHSAA is making schedule adjustments for the rest of the weekend, and changes to a few of the event instructions to help with this weekends weather situation. Though there are dozens of factors that went into the schedule revisions, the first and foremost concerns have been competitor safety, and the travel needs of the entire school communities, especially the evenings when ice is highly anticipated. All 12 schools through their senior administration, have been involved in the lengthy discussions about options and individual situations considered, ranging from those three miles from the facility, to many hours away. In the end, the teams have committed at this time to being able to accommodate the schedule changes. Each person desiring to attend the games must make the most prudent decision for their own circumstances as far as coming to the games, all of which will be streamed live on www.khsaa.org through the khsaa.tv channel.
The revised schedule will be as follows (all times Eastern):
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Reasons for Separation
Separation is a perennially tricky topic in the Christian church. After all, the Bible has much to say about loving neighbors and enemies, teaching that seems to stand at odds with the notion of separating from someone. Furthermore, at the …Read More
Guidelines for Separation
I stood at the graveside of a dear, gentle, gracious, and generous saint and looked around at the mourners. I was puzzled by the presence of a group of people who had been absent from the earlier church service. Then …Read More
Degrees of Separation
One of the most difficult challenges to address in the Christian life is our relationships with other Christians. It's like walking a tightrope with heavy weights on each end of our pole. On the one side is the biblical …Read More


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"Challenging Islamophobia" at Center for American Progress Forum
On Monday, Haris Tarin (Director of the MPAC-DC Office) participated in a forum which tackled the issue of "Challenging Islamophobia," sponsored by the Center for American Progress (CAP). Watch video of the event below, which had a standing room only audience of more than 150 people, including government officials, academics, policy makers and citizens, to discuss the most pressing issues on the topic of Islamophobia today.
Panelists addressed the various components of this dangerous phenomenon, which not only affects the Muslim American community but has become an issue facing our society at large.
During the discussion the panelists addressed the following main issues:
- What forces are behind the spike in anti-Muslim hate speech and what is their goal?
- What are civic and faith communities doing to combat this dangerous trend?
- What are the global consequences of Islamophobia?
- How do we change the narrative?
"It is imperative that we have an ongoing conversation on Islamophobia as part of our public discourse," said Tarin. "Islamophobia is not only a Muslim issue, it has become a challenge to our values as Americans, and we must have the will to address it head on. CAP's forum on Islamophobia is an example of the type if discourse that is needed nationally."
The panel was moderated by Faiz Shakir, vice president and editor of one of CAP's blogs, Think Progress, and it also included:
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As I do my homework for school and work toward my Master's I find myself wondering what the point is? I dont need a masters to open a soup kitchen; I need gumption, motivation and drive. I wish I could find some courage and get my act together. I always feel like I need a back up plan but the back up plan is occupying more of my time than the actual plan… 3 years ago


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Daniel (Ralph Macchio) and his mother (Randee Heller) move from Newark, New Jersey, to southern California, where the whole world seems blond and brutal to this hapless ethnic kid. Daniel is immediately set upon by bullies, led by a Hitler Youth-type, Johnny (William Zabka). Daniel's new life
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Last week, we posted the video for "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face," the Erykah Badu collaboration from the Flaming Lips' collaborative album The Flaming Lips And Heavy Fwends. The video, which was truly weird and pretty uncomfortable to watch, has since been taken down, but it featured Erykah's sister Nayrok — who looks a whole lot like Erykah — rolling around very naked in glitter and blood and white goo. As it turns out, Erykah and Nayrok aren't too happy with the way this video came out. And you don't have to be a genius to know that it's probably a bad idea to piss off Erykah Badu.
After the video went out into the world, the Lips issued a statement apologizing for letting an "unedited and unapproved" version of the video leak out. This apology was not enough for Erykah, who directed a long and pointed Twitlonger post at Lips leader Wayne Coyne. Here's what it says:
then… perhaps, next time u get an occasion to work with an artist who respects your mind/art, you should send at least a ROUGh version of the video u PLAN to release b4 u manipulate or compromise the artist's brand by desperately releasing a poor excuse for shock and nudity that sends a convoluted message that passes as art( to some).
Even with Window Seat there was a method and thought process involved. I have not one need for publicity . I just love artistic dialogue . And just because an image is shocking does not make it art.
You obviously have a misconception of who I am artistically. I don't mind that but…
By the way you are an ass.
Yu did everything wrong from the on set .
You showed me a concept of beautiful tasteful imagery( by way of vid text messages) .
I trusted that. I was mistaken.
Then u release an unedited, unapproved version within the next few days.
That all spells 1 thing ,
Self Serving .
When asked what the concept
meant after u explained it , u replied ,"it doesn't mean anything , I just want to make a great video that everyone is going to watch. "
I understood , because as an artist we all desire that. But we don't all do it at another artist's expense .
I attempted to resolve this respectfully by having conversations with u after the release but that too proved to be a poor excuse for art.
From jump,
You begged me to sit in a tub of that other shit and I said naw. I refused to sit in any liquid that was not water. But Out of RESPECT for you and the artist you 'appear' to be, I Didn't wanna kill your concept , wanted u to at least get it out of your head . After all, u spent your dough on studio , trip to Dallas etc.. Sooo, I invited Nayrok , my lil sis and artist, who is much more liberal ,to be subject of those other disturbing (to me ) scenes . I told u from jump that I believed your concept to be disturbing. But would give your edit a chance.
You then said u would take my shots ( in clear water/ fully covered parts -seemed harmless enough) and Nayrok's part ( which I was not present for but saw the photos and a sample scene of cornstarch dripping ) and edit them together along with cosmic, green screen images ( which no one saw) then would show me the edit. .
Instead, U disrespected me by releasing pics and rough vid on the internet without my approval. (Contract breech )
That is equivalent to putting out a security camera's images of me changing in the fitting room.
I never would have approved that tasteless, meaningless, shock motivated video .
Our art is a reflection of who we are . I have no connection to those images shot in their raw version. I was interested in seeing an amazing edit that would perhaps change or alter my thoughts . Never happened .
You also did the same thing with the song itself which displays crappy "rough "vocals by me . I let it go , perhaps iiiii was missing something, I thought.
I Should have followed my first mind back in studio when recording the vocals "your way".
( Red flag.) It was uncomfortable.
For that I am at fault .
Consequently, brother, As a human I am disgusted with your what appears to be desperation and poor execution. And disregard for others . As a director I am unimpressed . As a sociologist I understand your type. As your fellow artist I am uninspired. As a woman I feel violated and underestimated.
Hope it works out for ya ,Wayne.
Really i could give a shit less.
Still love your live show tho.
And , you're welcomed.
Lesson learned .
By the way I have guested in very few videos. But I have always been given the opportunity to see the edit and contribute to it when my roll is substantial. Not this time .
I guess u feel it better to apologize than ask for permission and be refused . Hey, Love u man, but your ways are not very nice .
O, And on behalf of all the artists u have manipulated or plan to manipulate, find another way .
These things have been said out of necessity.
And if you don't like it
you can KiSS MY Glittery ASS .
O and Nayrok told me to tell u to kiss her ass too .
Almost forgot.
Ms. Badu
Honestly, the video seemed pretty gross and exploitative even before learning that the Badu sisters hadn't approved it. Knowing that, it's pretty easy to see why Erykah might be furious. Wayne Coyne's response, however, was not exactly contrite. Here's what he Tweeted: "Hey @fatbellybella I kissed it!!!! Thanks!!!!!!" That came with this photo, of Coyne looking smug, with glitter on his lips.
Further Coyne responses: "Yessss!!! Nice ass!!!!," "Dang!!!!! @fatbellybella you really know how to do it!!!! You hatin on me has gotten the video 100,000 more views !!!LOVE LOVE LOVE," "You were right on! @fatbellybella you said we gonna make a video that is controversial and gets everybody talkin!You the master!! Love you." He also retweeted a whole bunch of people supporting him in the argument and calling him a genius. Pretty gross, Wayne Coyne!
Badu also responded a bit further: "again, you're welcomed. You Enjoy it. People need to see the greed up close. AAAAnd you DO NOT have the ass of 26 year old." And: "Enjoy your fruits. You'll surely need them later, brother. Im just a man u met in the restroom." (I have no idea what that second one means.) Badu also Tweeted this to Coyne's wife: "hi was wondering when u were gonna sober up and say somethin.your husbands an ass and u know it-tell the truth.Do not lie."
This isn't Stereogum's official opinion or anything, but based on all that, I'm firmly Team Badu on all this.
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Longest tweet ever!
I guess I can cross off a Jay Electronica-Flaming Lips collaboration any time soon.
I don't know. He seemed pretty happy and together on the recent WTF interview. Then again, I've kind of lost track of the Flaming Lips ever since they veered a little too far into the weird-rather-than-good territory for my taste.
"He does have a history of showing some dickish tendencies though"
Please elaborate
And what drugs are you referring to. Do you have proof, are you just dissing him based on vague impressions to sound cool?
Exactly the kind of response you'd expect from a 51 year old man that accessorizes.
I like Flaming Lips a LOT, but the only time I'd call Wayne Coyne a genius would be to say, "hey genius, pass me a beer."
Sad to see their professional and personal relationship deteriorate. Is Wayne known for being such a douchebag? Badu, although pissed, tried to remain somewhat professional about it. His juvenile responses are telling.
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I thought the video was neat. Yeah, it was disturbing, but that was the intention. So Wayne succeeded at that. Good for him.
As for this whole "controversy". Well… artists don't ask for permission, they just do it. Whatever that 'it' may be.
You understand artists so well, Mickey. It's a good thing we have you around to teach us what artists do and don't do.
Also, eat a tub of scolding hot dung for us. Thanks!
wait a second! wayne coyne being a dick to someone? you don't say! you mean that phony, bashful facade displayed in the fearless freaks was not the mark of a truly genuine person?
Long live the FEARLESS "Glittery" FREAKS!!!
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Thought the video was beautiful, and I'm a feminist. Coyne's dickishness is hilarious, but Badu had some very good points… oh well. What's done is done.
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Because there's much more to being a feminist than making every dispute about gender and getting outraged at everything.
Anyway, the video was beautiful. All of the other crap does not affect that one simple fact.
Nevermind that initial disclaimer, it posted below anyway…
I'm really glad your women's studies class agrees. I don't know if I could've formed my own opinion without their approval.
I hope Yoshimi P-We takes this opportunity to speak out against Wayne Coyne's editing of Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots Parts 1 and 2, and clarifies that she is neither crazy nor addicted to vitamins.
Flaming Lips aside, Wayne has always seemed like an insufferable prick.
Complaining about his "greed" after writing a diatribe about how he damaged her "brand" is hilarious. Also, if you read her twitter posts since the video was "released", she spent plenty of time gushing about and defending the "art" in the video before some of her more conservative fans' backlash caused her to consider her "brand" and backpedal. She's also obviously no stranger to nudity for publicity rather than for art: http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1635124/erykah-badu-wanted-get-arrested-over-window-seat-director.jhtml
He probably just confused Erykah Badu with Ke$ha, because Wayne Coyne is not racist!
And the video's still up on Perez Hilton's website. I doubt that he'll take it down anytime soon. XD
Was it proper for Coyne to release naked footage of somebody without full consent? No. But was it a stellar song and music video? Heck yes.
She's got his phone number, why doesn't she just call him and talk it out instead of tweeting? Gawd I fucking hate twitter. It makes your argument a lot more ridiculous when you have to spell you as "yu"
it's a shame she can't just let the freak flag fly. now she comes off like a uptight victim rather than than an adventerous artist.
I can respect him for continuing to make great music and for being a devoted showman. You don't have to necessarily want to be friends with a person to respect him/her in some way or another.
Agreed. If musicians were judged by their personalities, Lou Reed would have zero fans.
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I don't listen to people I think are jerks. There's too many talented people who are actually nice, so why support scum?
So you don't own any John Lennon albums? You're missing out.
Nice summation, good sir.
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Blood and Semen in a bathtub with a vulnerable woman in it doth not make for a tasteful artistic premise. Maybe I'm completely out of touch on this one, but, ya know…(..rolls eyes)
"I want to see the final edit of the video of my sister spanking her ass in a tub full of glitter, blood and semen-substitutes JUST IN CASE IT LOOKS WEIRD!"
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Wayne is far far far from being a PRICK, he is a Gentleman. I love how people call someone awful names and throw out insults about someone they do not know. That shows me you are the actual pricks. Second, a video was released early by mistake, a poorly edited one. Get over it. mistakes happen. You people make me sick.
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um…do you realize said concept sans video? weird, creepy and sexist from the beginning bro.
"I love how people call someone awful names and throw out insults about someone they do not know."
I thought this was the reason the internet was invented.
"you people make me sick"
hahaha. that's a very normal response to a relatively trivial dispute between two people that really don't mean much to any of us beyond their music that we may/may not enjoy! Good job!
Nobody knows what really went down except for Wayne and Erykah… and they can't agree either..
That said, the above post is heavily weighed towards Badu's side of the story.
The full context of the feud, plus the video (as well as a naked photo of Wayne) is posted at http://www.facebook.com/TheFutureHeart
For the record, both The Flaming Lips and Wayne earnestly apologized and took full responsibilty for the video prior Badu's rant yesterday. He only made a joke of it when she told him to kiss "KiSS MY Glittery ASS"
It's misleading for Badu to pretend she didn't know what she was getting into (or to leave out that she disrespected him from the get go by apparently showing up to the shoot 6 hours late, on Wayne's dime.
The imagery in this video is basically in line with every other the Lips have made since 2009 (or for that matter, Wayne's tweets). It's hard to fathom how this new video could take Badu by surprise if she had seen them. The nude-overload music video for "Watching the Planets" for instance shows a crowd of people attack Wayne, rip off his clothes until he is fully naked (with all his body parts clearly showing) and carry him away as his penis wiggles to and fro – all while he sings the last two-plus verses of the song. They then shove him in the vaginalistic hole of a giant furry ball.
Wayne also gave an explicit preview of this video to Badu – and all his followers – when he tweeted before the shoot, "Makin some fake semen for Erykah Badu @fatbellybella video shoot Sunday!!" on May 24th.
….As the old saying goes, "there's only so many ways you can make fake semen look classy…"
Additionally, last week – after the video shoot but before the the video upload (and thus backlash against Badu) – the singer praised the video on twitter:
"it looks beautiful. Nayrok ( lil sis) looks amazing . U are a Tru visionary .. My fav is the glitter ."
"Those nude photos posted by Wayne (flaming lips) are of the beautiful Nayrok my lil sister and bestee…Video looks cosmic."
She also happily anticipated playing Houston's Free Press with them, tweeting "Badu and flaming lips in Houston sat. :-)"
It's unclear how Badu acted around the Lips at that show (by which time the video had gone viral, including a very visible posting at http://perezhilton.com/2012-06-02-flaming-lips-erykah-badu-the-first-time-i-ever-saw-your-face). Rumor has it Wayne watched her from the side of the stage and handed her a bouquet of flowers afterwards. Lips recording partner Matt Duckworth claims Badu, "was jumpin around on stage with [Wayne] in Htown. guess it made her seem cool then…"
Curiously, Badu's tirade and insults at Wayne were preceded by her essentially polling her twitter followers. First she tweeted:
"Official Flaming Lips Vid discussion. How does it make u feel? Ascetically, What does it make u fear? Anger? Joy? Freedom? Disgust? Discuss" Then she asked, "What if the video has no meaning at all ? Now how do u feel? Re: flaming lips/ badu"
The reason she waited to see how her fans reacted before ranting and insulting Wayne is unclear. The video was uploaded last Friday and not until yesterday did she give any public sign of objecting to the video or how Wayne handled the shoot.
It's understandable why she would be annoyed if it was released without her approving the finished video, though unclear when her opinion of the work changed (if it did in fact change – in which case those earlier tweets were masking her true feelings with public praise for the project) and what motivated her to react with personal insults at both Wayne (i.e. he is an "an ass," "old," "self-serving") and his wife, Michelle.
Could it be to serve her own image as a spiritually-aware, artistic-integrity, feminist? Note she uses the word "art' (or variants like "artist") 14 times in her 3:33 twitlonger statement (included the crux of her argument – that this video "compromise[d her artist] brand"), and climaxes on the line "as a woman I feel violated and underestimated." Whether it was intentional or not on Badu's behalf, some of the media coverage of the feud, as well tweets reacting to her (including some by Janelle Monáe) overlooks she wasn't asked to do anything Wayne wouldn't do himself to portray her as a hero standing up for women and artists with loftier intentions.
The irony (or clever marketing) is that insulting Wayne is getting Erykah more attention than any of her "art" has since Malaysia banned her use of Allah body art this past February
Who's using who, what should we do, well you can't be a pimp and a prostitute too…
Maybe she was mislead. Maybe Wayne did go about it all wrong. Maybe he is an ass. Maybe she's the self-serving one, spinning her fans outrage to reclaim the repute she lost in some people's eyes after "Window Seat" at Wayne's expense. Or maybe it's that she just really didn't get what she was getting into – after all, as the song goes, "Wayne, I don't understand" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-2ZeTIPkMY
Go ahead and add Wayne to the list of people that cant use her phone.
drgonzo, you just summed up this entire goat show in few sentences….story over.
That's a good team.
I don't get the "Erykah should have called him" response. This is hardly a private controversy, so a public response doesn't seem out of place; and personally I found it heartening.
It's a public controversy now that's for sure. But, the solution should have been private, and that ball WAS in Erykah's court until she decided to involve twitter.
I am also on Team Badu here, but I will admit to being amused by her second-person pronouns. In order: u, you, u, u, you, you, yu, you, u, u, u, u, you, you, you, u, u, u, you, u, u, you, ya, u, u, you, you, u. Such diversity! Such flexibility!
Wayne and Action Bronson should make a video
Team Haven't Watched the Video and Never Will
no arguing with Erykahs reasoning, but I don't think a man who takes bath on his front lawn is all that hung up on reason
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anyone who reply me is a dog shit :D
wayne coynt. Am i right guys? i am right.
Holy shit Wayne Coyne is an asshole.
You guys called this video uncomfortable? I think seen even worse on the Video of the week column.
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Erykah Badu ain't nothing to fuck with
I'm in favor of them bringing back Celebrity Deathmatch so these two can solve this feud the only way it should be settled.
This makes it official: there is no way to sound intelligent in tweet form.
All might have been forgiven had that album been even remotely good.
If you could show Erykah Badu naked without getting her permission, would you do it?
Yeah yeah yeah yeah, yeah yeah yeah yeah, Yeah yeah yeah yeah, yeah yeah yeah yeah.
Her grammer and spelling is more offensive that that video.
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