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As I talked about back in June, in this post, we purchased four restaurant.com gift cards ahead of time. Unlike Lawrence, Chicago has hundreds of restaurants listed on restaurant.com. We pick out four we wanted to try, spending a total of $11 on the gift cards worth $100!!
Yesterday, I talked about our visit to Crepe Bistro. Today, I wanted to share the rest of our dining experiences in Chicago.
Edwardo's Natural Pizza Matt LOVED this stuffed crust pizza!
Edwardo's looked like your normal sit down pizza place, but their stuffed crust pizzas were awesome!! Shortly after we sat down, when we showed them our restaurat.com gift card, they told us we were at the wrong Edward's to use it. They were gracious enough to accept it though!!
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Rather than reporting on everything at once, we're going to have a mini-series on the leaked document.
Look, Microsoft's next-gen console is coming next year and with it a new versions of Kinect and a ten-year cycle
For a little while it looked like the leaked next-gen Xbox dossier was a fake, with some fans questioning the hand drawn art style. When it was taken down by Microsoft and confirmed to be line with other documents from the company it seemed legit, and so we thought it would be a good idea to break down the most interesting parts into a mini-series.
The first piece of information is the estimated ten-year cycle for the next Xbox. Currently, the Xbox 360 is on its sixth year. That's a long cycle, and we've already seen trilogies ending (Uncharted) and new ones beginning (Halo 4, the beginning of the Reclaimer trilogy). That's partly because developers are struggling to create new IPs, but partly because the technology is limiting what developers can do. We're not going to get games looking like Watch_Dogs or Star Wars 1313. It's impossible, so the talk of a ten-year cycle seems too optimistic.
Though could it happen? Yes, quite easily: the hardware from Microsoft and Sony will see a significant bump (Sony's head flat-out denied claims the Wii U would outperform the Orbis). More powerful hardware means games like Star Wars 1313 are just the beginning, though some industry veterans such as John Carmack have said that the next-gen hardware really isn't that exciting. And I agree, because a better level of graphics isn't what I want in the long-term. It's different games, not the next Call of Duty.
Kinect 2.0: Can Microsoft Make It Work?
Then there's Kinect, and version 2.0 of the motion sensing peripheral. It'd been a mixed bag for Microsoft: 10 million – and probably more – units have been sold, but the software is lacking. Star Wars Kinect was a critical failure, and that was meant to be one of the platform's biggest titles. Steel Battalion: Heavy Armor, which released this week, simply didn't work. Are consumers really going to buy into a product when it's software isn't performing as advertised? Kinect 2.0 needs to address these issues next time round.
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American Eagle Sales Results Disappoint
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American Eagle Outfitters (AEO) reported "disappointing" fourth-quarter results to end a difficult year, the retailer's CEO said Wednesday, as revenue came up short of expectations.
The Pittsburgh-based apparel shop reported fourth-quarter net income of $32.7 million, or 16 cents a share, falling from $140.5 million, or 66 cents a share, in the year-ago period. Excluding one-time items, American Eagle would have notched a profit of 19 cents a share.
American Eagle said that revenue fell 9% from a year ago to $905.7 million. On average, analysts were looking for a profit of 19 cents a share on revenue of $911.7 million, according to Thomson Reuters."The fourth quarter proved to be a disappointing conclusion to an extremely challenging year," said CEO Jim O'Donnell. "In response to sharply lower demand in the fourth quarter, we increased unplanned promotions, enabling us to successfully clear through inventory. While our earnings were clearly not up to our standards or our potential, our business remains profitable and financially healthy." Based on its current view of sales trends, American Eagle said it anticipates first-quarter earnings to be in a range of 4 cents to 7 cents a share, compared with a profit of 21 cents a share in the same quarter last year. This guidance excludes the possibility of additional losses related to investment securities, the company said. Wall Street is looking for a profit of 6 cents a share. "Looking ahead, we cannot accept this kind of performance, recession or not," O'Donnell added. "As such, we are vigorously pursuing major improvements within all of our brands, while maintaining a conservative approach toward inventory investments, capital spending and operating expense." After losing ground early in the session, shares of American Eagle finished with a gain of 1.3% at $9.69. Among its competitors, Abercrombie & Fitch (ANF) was higher by 4.2%, and Gap (GPS) shares added 2.6%.
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- Jan 9, 2008
Ford Fiesta gets Mountuned in the UK
While most enthusiasts look to the Focus RS as the definitive forbidden fruit from Ford, the Fiesta stands as another product in the compact arena that will do wonders for Ford in the U.S. when it arrives here, possibly as the Verve, in the near future. Ford is upping the ante abroad, however, with help from Roush, owners of the Mountune Racing brand over there, by offering staged performance packages for the Fiesta ST that boost output while carrying a warranty of up to three years or 36,000 miles.
The Stage 1 setup is comprised of a whole new breathing and expelling system that includes an air intake, tubular exhaust manifold, high-flow cat and cat-back exhaust, and retails for £1,435 (not including installation). All those mods bring output up to 165 PS (163 hp), but if you choose to go for the Stage 2 system, you'll get new camshafts, valve springs and over 180 hp, all for £1,838.
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* Performance upgrades available on new and used Fiesta ST models
* 2.0-litre Duratec ST engine can now be tuned to 165PS or 185PS
* New association with motorsport specialist Mountune
* Prices from £1,435 plus fitting at specialist Ford dealers
Ford is offering Fiesta ST customers in the UK a unique opportunity to buy performance upgrades for their cars through a choice of two special dealer-fit options.
The Mountune Performance Stage 1 package will retail at £1,435 (plus fitting) and consists of a high-flow air induction system, a high performance exhaust system including high flow catalyst and tubular manifold, and re-calibration of Ford's potent 2.0-litre Duratec ST engine to produce 165PS.
The more powerful Mountune Performance Stage 2 package will cost £1,838 (plus fitting) and adds new camshafts and valve springs to the basic package to deliver 185PS.
Developed by Ford Team RS in a new association with Roush Technologies Ltd, which owns the Mountune Racing motorsport brand, these packages will only be available at specialist Ford dealers. The upgrades have a minimum of 12 months/12,000 miles dealer warranty up to a maximum of three years/36,000miles.
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Kevin Coval Presents Shtick: these are the poems, people. A Poetry Reading by Kevin Coval with special guests to celebrate the release of his new book Schtick: these are the poems, people. Kevin Coval is the author of numerous poetry collections and chapbooks, including the American Library Association Book-of-the-Year finalist Slingshots: A Hip-Hop Poetica and most recently, L-vis Lives! Racemusic Poems, described as a "stunning, and very personal, piece of literary work that should be required reading in every high school in America" by Impose magazine.
In his early twenties, Coval founded "Louder Than a Bomb: The Chicago Youth Poetry Festival," now one of the largest youth gatherings on the planet, recently the subject of an award-winning documentary of the same name. Coval currently serves as Artistic Director of Young Chicago Authors, the non-profit home of Louder Than a Bomb, and numerous other youth writing and hip hop programs.
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Washington Ballet's production puts a D.C. spin on the classic, which takes place in 1882 Georgetown and stars George Washington as The Nutcracker
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"Who really knows?
Who will here proclaim it?
Whence was it produced? Whence is this creation?
The gods came afterwards, with the creation of this universe.
Who then knows whence it has arisen?"
The Nasadiya Sukta (after the incipit ná ásat "not the non-existent") also known as the Hymn of Creation is the 129th hymn of the 10th Mandala of the Rigveda (10:129). It is concerned with cosmology and the origin of the universe.[4]
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The hymn has attracted a large body of literature of commentaries both in Indian theology and in Western philology.[5]
It begins by paradoxically stating "not the non-existent existed, nor did the existent exist then" (ná ásat āsīt ná u sát āsīt tadânīm), paralleled in verse 2 by "then not death existed, nor the immortal" (ná mṛtyúḥ āsīt amŕtam ná tárhi). But already in verse 2 mention is made that there was "breathing without breath, of its own nature, that one" ânīt avātám svadháyā tát ékam). In verse 3, being unfolds, "from heat (tapas) was born that one" (tápasaḥ tát mahinâ ajāyata ékam). Verse 4 mentions desire (kāma) as the primal seed, and the first poet-seers (kavayas) who "found the bond of being within non-being with their heart's thought".
Brereton (1999) argues that the reference to the sages searching for being in their spirit is central, and that the hymn's gradual procession from non-being to being in fact re-enacts creation within the listener (see sphoṭa), equating poetic utterance and creation (see śabda).
The hymn is undoubtedly late within the Rigveda, and expresses thought more typical of later Indian philosophy.[6]
The hymn has been interpreted as one of the earliest accounts of skeptical inquiry and agnosticism.[7] Astronomer Carl Sagan quoted it in discussing India's "tradition of skeptical questioning and unselfconscious humility before the great cosmic mysteries."[8]
नासदासींनॊसदासीत्तदानीं नासीद्रजॊ नॊ व्यॊमापरॊ यत् ।
किमावरीव: कुहकस्यशर्मन्नभ: किमासीद्गहनं गभीरम् ॥१॥
Then even nothingness was not, nor existence,
There was no air then, nor the heavens beyond it.
What covered it? Where was it? In whose keeping
Was there then cosmic water, in depths unfathomed?
न मृत्युरासीदमृतं न तर्हि न रात्र्या।आन्ह।आसीत् प्रकॆत: ।
आनीदवातं स्वधया तदॆकं तस्माद्धान्यन्नपर: किंचनास ॥२॥
Then there was neither death nor immortality
nor was there then the torch of night and day.
The One breathed windlessly and self-sustaining.
There was that One then, and there was no other.
तम।आअसीत्तमसा गूह्ळमग्रॆ प्रकॆतं सलिलं सर्वमा।इदम् ।
तुच्छॆनाभ्वपिहितं यदासीत्तपसस्तन्महिना जायतैकम् ॥३॥
At first there was only darkness wrapped in darkness.
All this was only unillumined water.
That One which came to be, enclosed in nothing,
arose at last, born of the power of heat.
कामस्तदग्रॆ समवर्तताधि मनसॊ रॆत: प्रथमं यदासीत् ।
सतॊबन्धुमसति निरविन्दन्हृदि प्रतीष्या कवयॊ मनीषा ॥४॥
In the beginning desire descended on it -
that was the primal seed, born of the mind.
The sages who have searched their hearts with wisdom
know that which is is kin to that which is not.
तिरश्चीनॊ विततॊ रश्मीरॆषामध: स्विदासी ३ दुपरिस्विदासीत् ।
रॆतॊधा।आसन्महिमान् ।आसन्त्स्वधा ।आवस्तात् प्रयति: परस्तात् ॥५॥
And they have stretched their cord across the void,
and know what was above, and what below.
Seminal powers made fertile mighty forces.
Below was strength, and over it was impulse.
कॊ ।आद्धा वॆद क।इह प्रवॊचत् कुत ।आअजाता कुत ।इयं विसृष्टि: ।
अर्वाग्दॆवा ।आस्य विसर्जनॆनाथाकॊ वॆद यत ।आबभूव ॥६॥
But, after all, who knows, and who can say
Whence it all came, and how creation happened?
the gods themselves are later than creation,
so who knows truly whence it has arisen?
इयं विसृष्टिर्यत ।आबभूव यदि वा दधॆ यदि वा न ।
यॊ ।आस्याध्यक्ष: परमॆ व्यॊमन्त्सॊ आंग वॆद यदि वा न वॆद ॥७॥
Whence all creation had its origin,
he, whether he fashioned it or whether he did not,
he, who surveys it all from highest heaven,
he knows - or maybe even he does not know.[9]
The hymn that immediately follows (10.130) deals with the origin of sacrifice and refers to puṃs "a Man", identified with Prajāpati by Sāyana.[10] The hymn contemplates that the first sacrifice was performed by humans who by that act were elevated to rishis, alluding to the mythical first sacrifice performed by the gods described in the Purusha Sukta (RV 10.90) verse 6 (trans. Griffith):
- So by this knowledge men were raised to rishis, when ancient sacrifice sprang up, our fathers.
- With the mind's eye I think that I behold them who first performed this sacrificial worship.
The questions in verse 3, "What were the rule, the order and the model? What were the wooden fender and the butter?" refer back to the questions in 10.129 (5b "what was above it then, and what below it?" etc.)
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Grand Theft Auto IV finally wraps up its Liberty City stories this week with the release of The Ballad of Gay Tony (read our review) and the Episodes from Liberty City box, which includes both 'Tony and Lost and Damned.
To coincide with the release, Rockstar North associate producer, Imran Sarwar has offered us his insights on working on the "impossible trinity", as well as the links between GTA IV, the Lost and Damned, and Episodes From Liberty City.
Grand Theft Auto IV's episodes were announced long before the game's release, back at E3 in 2006. Did you always know that you were going to do further stories in Liberty City?
Sarwar: They were a part of the plan from the beginning. When we first began discussing Grand Theft Auto IV, we always said that Niko's story was designed to make him feel like a small part of a much larger world. Even at the end of his story, he's not the king of the town by any means. The idea was to use the episodes to reveal the rest of that world, to show some of the characters and events that were invisible to Niko and yet still had a bearing on events in his life.
Anyone who's played The Lost and Damned, for example, can tell you that the interactions Niko has with Johnny significantly change your understanding of Niko's role in Liberty City. He's never as safe or in control as he thought he was. We wanted to provide that sense that there is always something happening on a deeper level than what's revealed to the player.
Why not cram all this into one game?
Sarwar: I think if we had it would have been impossible to focus on each separate aspect of gameplay properly, the stories and the gameplay are inextricably linked.. We've always maintained that Liberty City is the real star of these games, and what makes it truly amazing is that it's so full of potential as an environment.
In creating the saga of Grand Theft Auto IV, through The Lost and Damned and The Ballad of Gay Tony, we're able to show different sides to the city - through gameplay, through characters, even lighting and colour - constantly making it alive, fresh and diverse, just like real cities. Each of the three stories is separate and original from the other, and yet they intersect at key points
How hard was this to achieve?
Sarwar: It wasn't easy to keep track of all the separate characters and interactions. Initially, lots of post-it notes were involved, and later some computer software. But the intention was there from the beginning of GTA IV to create interweaving plot threads, with many of those plot threads never fully resolving themselves until one of the later episodes.
An example would be the diamond exchange in the museum involving Niko and Johnny that we alluded to with the 'Impossible Trinity' achievement. We wanted to leave clues for the fans that there may be more to this story without being obvious about it. But by the same token, you don't need to play GTA IV or The Lost and Damned to enjoy The Ballad of Gay Tony. They're fully self-contained games in their own right.
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In the traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) 5-element system, spring corresponds to the Wood element. If you think of Wood as bamboo, and not an oak tree, it's a bit easier to see how wood's correspondences make sense: the wood element exhibits characteristics of upward movement and flexibility, birth and new growth and it's color is bright green. Those […]
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Passover has ended and now I'm liberated from eating matzoh! Welcome back whole grains, breads, legumes and flour, where have you been all my life?! It just so happens that today's back-to-regular-diet-after-passover-day coincides with an exciting initiative launched by the Whole Grain Council, a not-for-profit consumer advocacy group that works to increase consumption of whole […]
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I am the only person I know who didn't get sick this winter. Sure I wash my hands frequently, and try to stay hydrated and well-rested, and sure I don't work around kids, but you know what I think the actual reason is? Garlic. Garlic is a potent therapeutic agent according to both ancient wisdom and […]
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At least 73 people were killed and 1,000 injured in a riot at a soccer match in the Egyptian city of Port Said on Wednesday, the worst disaster in the country's soccer history, government officials said.
Here is a look at some of the major disasters in soccer stadiums in the last 30 years:
October 1982 – RUSSIA – Fans were crushed as they left a UEFA Cup tie between Moscow Spartak and Dutch side HFC Haarlem at the Luzhniki stadium in Moscow. Officials from the former Soviet Union did not disclose the tragedy for years. When they did, the authorities gave an official death toll of 66 although the number who died in a crush at one exit could have been as high as 340.
May 1985 – BRITAIN – At least 56 people were killed and more than 200 injured when fire broke out in the stands at Bradford.
May 1985 – BELGIUM – Thirty-nine fans, mostly Italians, died in rioting before the European Cup Final between Italy's Juventus and English club Liverpool at the Heysel Stadium in Brussels.
March 1988 – NEPAL – A stampede towards locked exits in a hailstorm at Nepal's national soccer stadium in Kathmandu killed more than 90 fans.
April 1989 – BRITAIN – Ninety-six people were killed and at least 200 injured in Britain's worst sports disaster after a crowd surge crushed packed fans against barriers at the English F.A. Cup semifinal match between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest at the Hillsborough stadium in Sheffield.
January 1991 – SOUTH AFRICA – Forty-two people died in a stampede during a pre-season game in the mining town of Orkney between the Kaizer Chiefs and the Orlando Pirates. A Pirates fan had attacked Chiefs supporters in the crowd with a knife.
May 1992 – FRANCE – Before the kickoff of a French Cup game between Bastia and Olympique Marseille in Corsica, a stand of the Furiani stadium collapsed, killing 18 people and injuring about 2,400.
October 1996 – GUATEMALA – Up to 82 people died and at least 147 were injured when an avalanche of fans tumbled down seats and a flight of stairs at a World Cup qualifying match between Guatemala and Costa Rica in Guatemala City.
April 2001 – SOUTH AFRICA – At least 43 people were crushed to death when soccer fans tried to force their way into Johannesburg's huge Ellis Park stadium midway through a top South African league match.
May 2001 – GHANA – Around 126 people were killed in a stampede at Accra's main soccer stadium when police fired teargas at rioting fans in one of Africa's worst soccer disasters.
March 2009 – IVORY COAST – At least 19 people were killed during a stampede at Abidjan's Felix Houphouet-Boigny stadium before a World Cup soccer qualifying match against Malawi.
February 2012 – EGYPT – Fans rioted at the end of a match in the city of Port Said when the local team al-Masry beat Al Ahli, one of Egypt's most successful clubs, 3-1. At least 73 people were killed and more than 1,000 people injured.
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So, you're in North Dakota now?
I guess so. I never know.
How long have you been out?
This tour, the Danzig tour's been about two weeks, so far.
Have you been going non-stop since opening for Nine Inch Nails?
How long has it been?
About a year, I think. I think we started in May, so it will be a year.
After this is over are you going to take some time off?
We're taking a couple weeks to a month to work on our new album, and work on some songs that we're doing for soundtracks and things like that. Then, we're going back out on tour again. We're either doing a club tour or opening for someone else.
Much diff being headliner/opening act?
The big difference is that you can't do what you want when you're the opening act. And, you're also playing for someone else's crowd a lot of times. It worked out really well with the Nine Inch Nails tour. This tour's a little different.
How does the Danzig crowd take to your music?
It's kind of split. It's about half Marilyn Manson, half Danzig, so it's not quite so much Danzig, but it's different in different cities. I think the real Danzig fans aren't really into it. But it's a special kind of crowd, testosterone-filled teenage guys who want to fuck me, but that makes them uncomfortable so they want to beat my ass instead.
What kind of place was Canton, Ohio? Was that a small town?
It was a real small town, and I went to a private Christian school, so it was a real small class that I was in, you know 20 people or something like that. And of those 20 people, I didn't really have anyone that I could have called a best friend. I was basically alienated by all of them, because I didn't fit in with the majority in that my parents didn't go to church. I really didn't give in to the whole born again mentality. And there were a couple kids in the class that were the rebels who listened to KISS and things like that. Those kids who smoked cigarettes and vandalized everything, and I didn't really fall into that category either. So, I ended up just spending a lot of time on my own and developing a chip on my shoulder which I've taken out later in life.
We're all reaping the benefits of that now.
I guess.
Is that where the genesis of Lunchbox began?
I was definitely thinking about that period in my life when I wrote that song.
NINE INCH NAILS/Philly gig… prank.
It started when they brought some guy in the dressing room who they thought would, I guess, intimidate me or make me back down. The guy came in the dressing room and he said that, you know I've made comments about fist-fucking people and stuff, and he challenged me to do that, and I didn't back down. I did that, and everyone in NINE INCH NAILS was astonished and entertained. So, I figured that was the big prank that they were going to pull at the end of the tour because they always do that. Then when we were going to go on-stage, we got pelted with a bunch of flour and salsa and other garbage. So, when we went on-stage, we were covered in a bunch of shit, and about halfway through the show they sent five Chippendale dancers on-stage, which I was concerned that the crowd was going to think was part of something that I had put together, and that was the last thing in the world that I would want them to think, that I had something to do with that. And it ended up making sense. We walked offstage, and by the end of the show I had pretty much gotten down to nothing, just a pair of shorts and I was soaking wet and I walked offstage, and everyone in the band got handcuffed behind their backs, thrown in the back of a pickup truck and then we were driven to the middle of Philadelphia somewhere and dropped off there and left to freeze in the cold and find our own way home. But, being the survivalists that we are, we did find our way back. And then we were going to get NINE INCH NAILS back, but they were heavily guarded and they ended up so drunk that they fucked up their own show, so we didn't really have to take revenge on them. At the time, I was pissed off because I thought, wow, this is a pretty severe, pretty harsh prank to pull, but then I grew to respect it, because I don't even think I would have done something so cruel to someone else, but in that sense, I liked it, just for its sheer heartlessness.
For the uninitiated, who are probably most of the people who will be reading this: How would you describe Marilyn Manson?
Marilyn Manson is everything that parents could hate and everything that their kids would love. Everything that heavy metal was intended to be, dark and misanthropic and anti-social. It's everything that punk rock was ever intended to be, the great rock and roll swindle and a big Fuck You to anyone who would question what you're doing. MM is also taking extreme positive and extreme negative and putting them together, much in the way that a philosopher like Hegel had created his thesis of juxtaposition of diametrically opposed archetypes. He would take things like the extreme Zionists and the extreme Nazis and put them together to create this thing that would contradict itself, but was stronger than the two that originated, and that's what MM is. Obviously taking the Marilyn and the Manson and putting it together and creating something that's neither of the two, but it's stronger. At the same time that I respect strong feminine archetypes and strong male archetypes, I like androgyny as well. And I like putting morality into that equation, extreme conservativeness, extreme chaos. I like a little bit of both, and it's also about responsibility to the responsible. It's about being an individual if you're responsible enough to handle that burden. A lot of people want the freedom to do and say what they want, but they are not willing to accept the consequences. That's something that I try to make part of my credo.
Do you think people take a positive message away from your music?
I think my message is positive if you're interpreting it the way I'm intending it to be. I say things in a negative way, and I say things in a shocking way and there's a lot of shock value. That's the vehicle through which I try and relate the semi-positive message, and that would be: individuality. But a lot of people are going to take that in a negative message because a lot of people don't want that. A lot of people don't want America thinking for itself. That's going to tear down the very structure of what it stands for. They send out these confused messages: Capitalism – if you work hard enough, you can be better than your neighbor. But at the same time they're telling you that everybody's created equal, and you should feel responsible for somebody not as fortunate as you. And the strong are always being made to feel guilty, and always having to clean up after weak people. I don't think that should be the case. I think a little bit of social Darwinism wouldn't hurt everyone. I think a little bit of survival of the fittest. There's too many people in the world, and I don't think it should be anybody's responsibility to constantly be cleaning up after the weak. If they're not strong enough to survive, then that should be the case. The same thing goes with anything else. Parents are always going to try and blame movies or books or heavy metal music for their kids growing up fucked up or for teen suicide. I think if the kid is stupid enough, or was raised to be stupid enough to kill himself over a rock album, that's exactly what he should do because that person's not intelligent enough to contribute anything to society if they're thinking like that. I don't want people to be like me, I want people to be like themselves.
Do you think the current social and political landscape in the country created the need for a MM?
Absolutely. I think people's desire for something as terrible as MM. People's fear of a thing like MM has created it. People's fear of the end of the world has also created that. People's fear of an anti-Christ has also created that. And these are the roles that now I've fallen into. And over the course of the next couple years, we'll really grow and become stronger, because of people's need for it.
What's your connection with Willie Wonka?
I think Willie Wonka, besides being one of my favorite movies since I was a kid. WW represented the character that I've always been able to relate to, the archetypal Satan persona. The ultimate rebel doing things the way they;re not supposed to be done. He was the eccentric candy maker who did things differently then all the other candy makers in luring the children to do things that they weren't supposed to be doing. He even had a bit or morality because the kids who didn't listen to what he was saying were punished for it, and they didn't win in the end. I've always related to him on that level. I think that's what a lot of people misunderstand about the archetypal rebel and Satan persona is that there is a morality there. The mainstream would think it's immoral, but it's just a different morality, because good and evil is what you like and what you don't like. Everybody has different tastes, and you can't expect everyone to have the same morality.
Prelude/Wonka song on Portrait
It's just a really strong part of the movie. When I thought about how it would relate to the album and the rest of the lyrics, I thought it was really appropriate because it's a Doomsayer prophecy and he's basically, to me, speaking about the demise of mankind in general by its own hands, and I thought that was really appropriate. I think it's very similar to the things I'm saying in the middle of My Monkey and a lot of the other songs, in that it was related to a children's story or what is to be believed to be a children's story made it make all the more sense because a lot of my lyrics are from a childish point of view.
Lyrics autobiographical?
I only write about what I know. I never fictionalize. Sometimes I'll try to see things through other people's eyes and look at things from a different perspective, but I only write about things I know and things I've experienced and people I've met. So, in that sense, it would all be autobiographical.
Trying to shock people or make them think? Does it even have to be one or the other?
The point isn't just to shock people, anyone can do that. The point is to make them question why they're being shocked. Being able to be shocked, for me, is almost a weakness. I don't like to know that there are things out there that could shock me. I don't like to be desensitized at the same time, but I like to find out what I'm afraid of, and I do it, and then I'm not afraid of it anymore. That's why I often get myself into trouble because I'm willing to do anything that I'm afraid of just to get over it. If more people got over some of their fears, I think people would get a lot a little bit better. It's always fear and things that are taboo that separate a lot of people. Not that I'm looking to promote love and harmony, but I think people are going about it all the wrong way. I think TV will want to try and sell you solutions for peace and cures for cancer and everything else, and it's all just a game they're playing because they don't really want to solve any of these problems because without any of these problems, everyone will be out of business. Without disaster and crime, the news will have nothing to talk about. So, I wouldn't be surprised if they were creating their own crimes at some point just to gave something exciting to catch people's attention. There's always going to be animal rights groups looking for someone like me to complain about because I had a chicken on-stage, or women's' rights groups calling me sexist. I speak openly about how I feel, and people call me a Nazi and racist because I say things like strong people shouldn't have to clean up after weak. I never said anything about race, gender or anything like that. But peoples' mindset is that I'm speaking about that, because that's the way they're thinking. So, they're going to automatically assume that that's what I'm talking about. Which goes to prove my point, anything I say or do is only as sick as you make it. If I show you a picture of me as a boy, six years old, nude, it's an innocent picture unless you want to make it child pornography. If someone sees that and they see it as sick, then it's in their mind. That's what I'm trying to say to people more than anything. I haven't said these things, that's the way you're interpreting them. If it's in your mind, and you've been able to interpret it that way then it's your sickness.
Most of my friends who I had listen to the album got to about Lunchbox, some got past but not many, and they were just like it's a little too spooky or something. Is MM too over the top to get the message to the people who need to hear it?
(pauses) It could be, but I think society is steadily going to pass me out as far as being over the top. I think maybe, if anything, what I said on Portrait of an American Family was a few weeks or months ahead of its time and that was about it. All of the ugliness is just catching up with it. I may have said it just a little sooner than someone may have wanted to hear it. But I think in a year from now f they hear it, it's not going to phase them any more than a Madonna song.
What do your parents think about you being in the band?
They understand it. They contributed to it in a positive way, so I think they understand.
Violent on-stage against fans?
People got to understand, if someone's going to hit me or pull at me, then I'm just going to do that back. I don't change my feelings as a human being just because I'm on-stage performing. If someone's going to act violently toward me, I'm probably going to react back the same way. I don;t ever intend to harm fans or come across like I don't like my fans, but people can only expect me to be human because that's what I am. If I tell people don't come up on-stage because you;re going to get hurt, and they do, then they can't blame me for it. Especially when I've warned them. When I was on Donahue, people were asking about stage-diving, and I said if you;'re stupid enough to jump off a stage and you expect not to hurt yourself, what do you want me to do about it? When I jump off the stage every now and then, I know there's a chance that I'm going to break my neck. That's part of the thrill. I'm sure that's why people do it, and I think everyone likes that sense of danger.
Any diff between the person I see on-stage and the person I'm talking to now?
There's definitely more than one side to my personality, which sort of comes into the Marilyn and the Manson. It's not as easy as on-stage and offstage. Sometimes offstage, I tend to be more violent or open up more, or I tend to perform more, or whatever the case might be. I haven't been able to analyze myself enough to know where the differences lie.
Line-up change.
Our previous drummer wasn't really growing in the same direction as the band, and we decided to split ways. We needed someone who was going to be able to play the new material that we're writing, because our old drummer wasn't able to do the things we want to do on our next record.
Material written yet for next album?
A lot of it, yeah.
On Marilyn Manson Internet List, there's stuff — have you ever checked that stuff out?
I'm not into the Internet at all. It seems to be more aggravation than it can be worth. To me it comes off as a group of ten teenagers who don't have anything else to do who just exchange gossip. And there's no real guidelines as to what you can say. And if you've got someone stupid enough to believe anything they read, there's tons of rumors that aren't true.
The new rumor is there's a New EP coming out that's going to have Dune Buggy and covers of Justify My Love, Sweet Dreams and Helter Skelter.
(Laughs) Shit, that's not far from the truth. We're doing a single for Dope Hat, which is going to have another version of Dope Hat that's a Lounge version, and it's going to have our version of Sweet Dreams, a remix of Dope Hat, and a remix of Cake and Sodomy. As far as Dune Buggy, that's probably going to be on our next album but the title has reverted back to Chocolate Cow.
I don't really know what the Internet is trying to accomplish. A lot of it is chaotic. It could do a lot of positive things, but no matter how much I like chaos there has to be some order to balance it out. There's no guidelines for slander or libel. There should be some sort of rules.
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I think it's cool that fans can correspond or find out more information, but I'm sure they're finding out a lot of inaccurate information. It takes away from a lot of the things I'm trying to do, which is to tell people the truth and expose people to reality. The gossip like what girl I used to date, or the color of my pubic hair are the kinds of things I've seen on there.
Anyone that's seen the band live should know the color of your pubic hair.
You would think so, wouldn't you?
Back to Lucas being out of the band—You basically kick these people out?
Yeah, that's a nice way of saying it. The bottom line is we've got a plan and we want the people in the band to be a part of it, and if they're not part of it, I don't think they should be in the band. We don't remain involved with someone who's not a part of what we're doing. I think that's just being true to yourself and true to that person. It's both how they think, as well as how they play. And this was more of basic problem with performance, it didn't have anything to do with him as a person.
Rev. Manson? Mr. Manson? Does it matter which?
Usually when I meet people I'll introduce myself as how I'd like to be referred to. Other than that people usually call me whatever they feel comfortable calling me. I'm sure at this point everyone knows my real name, and I don;t mind that, but I've chosen not to go by that. Usually when people call me by my real name, it's more… I wouldn't say it's an insult, but I feel it's a disrespect to what I'm trying to say, because it's something that I've made a point of not going by.
In a life where I find so many things that I hate, I like to surround myself with the very few things that I like. So, when I'm in my little circle of things that I like, and someone enters, I only expect the respect of abiding by the way that I like to do things. Otherwise, then you don't have to be involved in my little circle.
Former journalist?
I'd always written, but I didn't know how I wanted to get my ideas across. So, I tried journalism and initially just music journalism since that's the easiest. And then I went on to write about people, but I wanted to get to the point where I could have an opinionated column or something where I could say what was on my mind. Because I had been writing all these things which eventually turned into lyrics, but I realized music is the only place you can say what you're thinking and make it last forever. That's how you become immortal. If you do it with an impact and you do it right, and that's all I can ever hope to do. I obviously don't think I've gotten to that point now where if MM were to disappear, we'd live on forever. There's a lot more hard work to do.
MTV? Problem they don't play your stuff?
No. We've already sold over 100,000 records without MTV. That's just by touring, and if MTV did, you could only imagine where we would be. But the danger is that we would just be like Offspring and Rancid, which is not necessarily the way that I want to build things up. I want to be that big in a year down the road, or two years down the road, but what's the point of having that all now? It's like cheating and going to the end of the book and then reading it. Plus it's like cheating your audience, because if you;re on top of the world, the minute you come up, you don;t have any time to build up your fans and make them understand what you;re about. And they don't have a chance because they're thrown in the middle of them and every kid in the mall liking them, which will eventually happen.
You think you just don't fit in with the MTV scene now?
I don't know. I could worry and think "Is the music good enough?" I'm happy with our music, so I'm not worried about that. I think they're just not really into dealing with the lyrical content of the songs we've released as singles so far.
Dope Hat shouldn't be a problem for them.
Dope Hat shouldn't be a problem, unless they … who knows, who knows what they'll find wrong with it.
Video for Dope Hat?
We're getting ready to make one, and it's going to be something that our fans will appreciate, particularly you after this conversation, but I won't tell you what's going to be in it.
Hmm, I'd like to see a remake of Willie Wonka with you in the candy set.
Well, sometimes people get what they want.
Slugworth registry at hotel?
There's probably people who found out what name I stayed under on the last tour and are girls trying to track me down with paternity suits. I'm kidding of course. Just for the sake of doing it, actually… maybe if you print it, someone will come hang out with me.
Well, I'd like to hang out with you, but you're way over my head with this philosopher stuff. You mentioned someone earlier, and I was like, umm, OK, I'll have to look that up.
Oh, the Hegel reference. H-e-g-e-l. I'm not a big philosophy fan, I just know that he has the theory that corresponds to my theory, which I didn't even know that he had, until someone said "Oh, you know, you're MM is Hegel-ian dialect." And I said, "Oh."
MM is 26, and is cool with doing an OUT interview.
New music, how written.
The new songs are split about 1/2 music written by Daisy, 1/2 by Twiggy and if I can provide an unbalanced fraction 1/4 by me. I've written 2-3 new songs, Twiggy 5-6, Daisy about 4. All written a couple together. Everyone really writes their own parts, but on the new record a lot of the songs we've written in the back of the bus on an acoustic guitar. They're just more like rock and roll songs that can be translated into other formats. Then we just put them into the MM shredder and turn them into whatever they're going to be.
The new record is going to have a lot dynamics as far as not all the songs being extremely heavy. There's going to be something extremely mellow, but the stuff that's heavy is even going to be more intense, more violent. It's a lot more punk, in that the lyrics are a lot more inflammatory than the first record.
That's saying a lot.
I know. It's not something I thought that I could outdo. And I'm not trying to outdo it by any means, it's just, I guess, as we've become more extreme, my ideas have, and it's a record that's going to piss off a lot of people, but there's an important chorus on the album: "everyone's someone else's nigger. I know you are, so am I." That's a line that's going to piss people off because the word nigger's in it. But the statement is self-debasing and it's really politically correct if you think about it. I'm just doing it in a real negative way.
What's the name of that song?
Irresponsible Hate Anthem, because I figured that's what people would call it, so that's what I called it. It's a real concept record, and I don't want the say the title, because I'm trying to protect it. I'm afraid someone's going to steal it from me. It's going to crack open the world and either destroy it, or it'll fail miserably.
Video compilation?
We definitely are going to do a home video. It's on the back burner.
(talk about other projects, nothing confirmed, so don't print, he said)
Do you ever have a really up day when you wear all white bright clothes and are just happy?
I am happy. I enjoy doing this. That's what really makes me and Trent different. We're both hateful, but he's miserable and he just hates his entire existence and his music is the only way he deals with it. I enjoy hating. It makes me happy. I'm not miserable.
I save whatever energy I might have that day, whether its sexual or hateful, and I put that forth on-stage. That's why people will think, you're not as exciting in person. Well, that's not my focus at all. In the end it's all you, because who else is doing it. You're not a puppet or something.
That's why I always get pissed off when people say "Is this really you?" Well, if it's is an act, at some point in my life it has consumed and it's no longer an act, because it's all that I know."
The problem is there have been so many false role models who decided somewhere along the line that this is how it's supposed to be. It's supposed to be a show. People over the years like Alice Cooper and Ozzy Osbourne who have said, "No, this is only a show."
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Cisco CCDE Written Exam will validate that professionals have the expertise to gather and clarify network functional requirements, develop network designs to meet functional specifications, develop an implementation plan, convey design decisions and their rationale, and possess expert-level network infrastructure knowledge.
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26% 1.0 Layer 2 Control Plane
- 1.1 Describe fast convergence techniques and mechanisms
- 1.1a Down detection
- 1.1b Interface dampening
- 1.2 Describe loop detection and mitigation protocols
- 1.2a Spanning tree types
- 1.2b Spanning tree tuning techniques
- 1.3 Describe mechanisms that are available for creating loop-free
- 1.3a REP
- 1.3b Multipath
- 1.3c Switch clustering
- 1.3d Flex links
- 1.3e Loop detection and mitigation
- 1.4 Describe the effect of transport mechanisms and their interaction
with routing protocols over different types of links
- 1.5 Describe multicast routing concepts
- 1.6 Describe the effect of fault isolation and resiliency on network design
- 1.6a Fault isolation
- 1.6b Fate sharing
- 1.6c Redundancy
- 1.6d Virtualization
- 1.6e Segmentation
37% 2.0 Layer 3 Control Plane
- 2.1 Describe route aggregation concepts and techniques
- 2.1a Purpose of route aggregation
- 2.1b When to leak routes / avoid suboptimal routing
- 2.1c Determine aggregation location and techniques
- 2.2 Describe the theory and application of network topology layering
- 2.2a Layers and their purposes in various environments
- 2.3 Describe the theory and application of network topology abstraction
- 2.3a Purpose of link state topology summarization
- 2.3b Use of link state topology summarization
- 2.4 Describe the effect of fault isolation and resiliency on network design
or network reliability
- 2.4a Fault isolation
- 2.4b Fate sharing
- 2.4c Redundancy
- 2.5 Describe metric-based traffic flow and modification
- 2.5a Metrics to modify traffic flow
- 2.5b Third-party next hop
- 2.6 Describe fast convergence techniques and mechanisms
- 2.6a Protocol timers
- 2.6b Loop-free alternates
- 2.7 Describe factors affecting convergence
- 2.7a Recursion
- 2.7b Microloops
- 2.7c Transport
- 2.8 Describe unicast routing protocol operation (OSPF, EIGRP, ISIS,
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- 2.8a Neighbor relationships
- 2.8b Loop-free paths
- 2.8c Flooding domains and stubs
- 2.8d iBGP scalability
- 2.9 Analyze operational costs and complexity
- 2.9a Routing policy
- 2.9b Redistribution methods
- 2.10 Describe the interaction between routing protocols and topologies
- 2.11 Describe generic routing and addressing concepts
- 2.11a Policy-based routing
- 2.11b NAT
- 2.11c Subnetting
- 2.11d RIB-FIB relationships
- 2.12 Describe multicast routing concepts
- 2.12a General multicast concepts
- 2.12b Source specific
- 2.12c MSDP / anycast
- 2.12d PIM
- 2.12e mVPN
- 2.13 Describe IPv6 concepts and operation
- 2.13a General IPv6 concepts
- 2.13b IPv6 security
- 2.13c IPv6 transition techniques
17% 3.0 Network Virtualization
- 3.1 Describe Layer 2 and Layer 3 tunnelling technologies
- 3.1a Tunnelling for security
- 3.1b Tunnelling for network extension
- 3.1c Tunnelling for resiliency
- 3.1d Tunnelling for protocol integration
- 3.1e Tunnelling for traffic optimization
- 3.2 Analyze the implementation of tunnelling
- 3.2a Tunnelling technology selection
- 3.2b Tunnelling endpoint selection
- 3.2c Tunnelling parameter optimization of end-user applications
- 3.2d Effects of tunnelling on routing
- 3.2e Routing protocol selection and tuning for tunnels
20% 4.0 Design Considerations
- 4.1 Analyze various QoS performance metrics
- 4.1a Application requirements
- 4.1b Performance metrics
- 4.2 Describe types of QoS techniques
- 4.2a Classification and marking
- 4.2b Shaping
- 4.2c Policing
- 4.2d Queuing
- 4.3 Identify QoS strategies based on customer requirements
- 4.3a DiffServ
- 4.3b IntServ
- 4.4 Identify network management requirements
- 4.5 Identify network application reporting requirements
- 4.6 Describe technologies, tools, and protocols that are used for network
- 4.7 Describe the reference models and processes that are used in
network management, such as FCAPS, ITIL®), and TOGAF
- 4.8 Describe best practices for protecting network infrastructure
- 4.8a Secure administrative access
- 4.8b Control plane protection
- 4.9 Describe best practices for protecting network services
- 4.9a Deep packet inspection
- 4.9b Data plane protection
- 4.10 Describe tools and technologies for identity management
- 4.11 Describe tools and technologies for IEEE 802.11 wireless
- 4.12 Describe tools and technologies for optical deployment
- 4.13 Describe tools and technologies for SAN fabric deployment
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Late last week, I briefly participated in a Twitter chat about techincal communications blogging. While I was involved, I was told by Julie Norris that she enjoys this blog because Larry and I make her think.
I thanked her for the compliment and stated that I hoped I could always inspire some thought with what I write. I then went back to work on course development. (I've already written about that so no more details in this post.)
Over the weekend I started thinking about Juie's comment. I started to question why I blog. I took a quick look at the articles I've written over the past few years and here's what I saw.
Originally, I wrote just to state facts. My earliest posts go back to what I saw and experienced at conferences. That was basically reporting with commentary and I suppose it might be interesting to some but I found that I'm not a great reporter. (This is probably because I hate carrying around a pad and pen and am even more loathe to be typing at a laptop during a presentation. You might also notice that I don't tweet much during a conference presentation, though I might afterwards.)
As things progressed, I started sharing my thoughts about various aspects of technical communications. I still write that sort of article, but I find that I am more in a mode of providing observations about technical communications that come from life experiences. I guess I'm in some sort of allegorical mode right now. However, the consistent thing about my current writing is that I do try to spur either discussion or thought. This might be to fill the inate need I have to be a creative writing. I haven't written much fiction over the past year or so, but I've been doing more blogging and other writing. I guess I'm using the blogging as my creative outlet.
What's the purpose of creative writing? To make the reader sympathize with a character or characters and to make them think about the problems and situations the characters encounter. So it's no surprise that my current blogging tends to instigate thought about technical writing. So if I get you thinking, I know I'm successful.
If I don't engender thought, what's the use of writing?
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How long does it realistically take? I'm not saying like Jay Culter body I'm saying like those in Men's health even, yeah lets lower our expectation!
I'm an ecto or a hardgainer I don't know how to call myself these days but I remember on one of gyms that I entered they have this fancy equipment called the Inbody bio-impedance. According to the result it would take me 3 months to gain a pound of lean muscle! So I don't how to call my situation other than a person who might not get muscle!
I ask one guy in this website he said it took him 10 years to get the body that he wanted. And I was like 10 years! I mean I'm already 27 so that would mean it would take me 37 to get there? By that time I'd really old and no one would care about how good my body looked like. And yes aging can hamper your growth each your with your testosterone dwindling!
Sometime I just feel disappointed at times especially having to measure my progress at least a month because I know I personally took the time to get to the gym, I had to do double rides (3rd world concept) in jeep to get to the gym. My work is 6 1/2 day a week which starts from 8am-6pm, which very little FOR ANYTHING even for social life. And only to see that you've NOT again anything in sometimes I gain more weight and got a little fatter than usual!
And when I get to the gym I see some dudes who barely lift! Seriously barely does weight lifting at all! And yet he really look super huge although he lack development in his legs, to which I believe he doesn't care about it! But just the fact that everytime I get to see him he barely does anything! Carries a weight here and there barely drop bead of sweat on his head for sure! Oh yeah chats it up all the time! Although he is way younger than me but I doubt be in that body even I was younger!
And yes I often wonder how alot these new Superhero movies like Capn America, I mean Chris Evan claims he's an ecto, which I doubt!
There a youtube video out there which this website seem to refuse to attached with but it says he did it in four weeks!
Four weeks is that possible? I'm not sure this was his workout regiment on Capn America though I hear that it was much tougher than this was I think.
And he says that he eat chicken breast non stop!
Chris Hemsworth:
He says it was his first time to weight training! Although I have to admit he's athletic looking even before!
Yeah there's also Henry Cavill!
He looked like this on Tudors:
Then looked like this immortal:
Then finally looked super massive on Superman:
I mean seriously I'm like looking at myself and like HOW THE HELL!!! Especially w/ Henri Cavill SERIOUSLY!
Don't get me wrong I see major benefits doing weight training.
Although on a positive note someone in gym did compliment me looking bigger,which in my head my I was thinking on he could assume that since he barely has seen me lol.
I gained weight when I started posting in this website I think I started around 140 and Now I'm like 157 its hard to again any weight and I feel like majority of that again is fat as well!
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