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I just got done thinning my apples a few days ago. What I have left are some fairly nice looking apples, not perfect, a few curculio scars. The last few years I have been bagging my apples, generally at an earlier stage than they are right now. Is there more pest pressure ahead, or are we pretty much in the clear at this point? I know some here advocate a couple of early sprays, then no more, getting pretty decent usable fruit. At this point should I bother to bag my apples? Should I spray more? I live in South East Pennsylvania. My apples are getting close to quarter size. Thanks, Ted |
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- Posted by scottfsmith 6B-7A-MD (My Page) on Wed, May 23, 12 at 6:57
Ted, the second generation of codling moth is going to hatch in a few weeks. PC is pretty much done for the year other than the occasional feeding scar. I usually have a big problem with 2nd generation CM if I don't do anything, but I am not using heavy-duty poisons, so that may have something to do with it. Scott |
The spring drop is on the ground this morning. Gotta get it picked up this week. In my area, apple maggot is the next unwanted visitor, due next week. |
Here is a link that might be useful: WVU apple pests
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Court petition details $15-million "secret" land swap in Vancouver
The City of Vancouver agreed to swap a $15-million downtown property for a developer's lot across the street worth $8.4 million.
The trade was provided for in a contract entered into by city hall and Brenhill Developments Limited, according to a court submission filed Thursday (July 3) by the Community Association of New Yaletown.
The document is an amended version of the association's May 6 petition for a judicial review of actions taken the city in connection with the deal.
The claims made in the petition have not been proven in court.
The swap involved the city-owned lot at 508 Helmcken Street. Brenhill wants to build a 36-storey mixed-used building with 454 residential units on the property.
In return, Brenhill will transfer ownership of its smaller lot across the street at 1099 Richards Street.
As part of the deal, the developer will replace the 87 units of social housing in the three-storey Jubilee House located on the city's Helmcken property. It will construct 162 public-housing units in a new 13-storey building on the Richards property.
The land exchange contract provides that to complete the transaction, the city must rezone the Helmcken property so Brenhill can realize its development plan.
Council eventually approved the rezoning of 508 Helmcken Street, increasing its allowed density by almost six times.
The amended petition recalls that based on a city staff report, Brenhill approached the city with the land exchange proposal in 2011.
The same report also stated that the city will "contribute" $6.6 million "from the proceeds of sale of 508 Helmcken towards the construction of the new social housing project at 1099 Richards".
According to the revised petition, the land exchange contract dated January 28, 2013, is "of no force and effect" because it goes beyond the powers of the city under the Vancouver Charter.
The document points out that the statute mandates that council "may only dispose of property valued at more than $400,000 by affirmative vote of two-thirds of all members of Council".
The association's lawyer, Nathalie Baker, told the Georgia Straight in a phone interview that there are no records indicating that council cast such a vote authorizing the land deal.
The amended petition also argues that the contract "constitutes an unlawful fettering" of council's discretion because of its provision for the rezoning of 508 Helmcken Street.
It notes that the city is "in effect selling density", which municipalities can't do "in the absence of provincial legislation implementing a different public policy".
"They cannot agree to change zoning in return for particular consideration, and they cannot agree to keep zoning unchanged in return for particular consideration," the revised petition states.
The contract is one of six documents released by the city after the association filed its May 6 petition for a judicial review by the B.C. Supreme Court.
The documents were not made public by the city before it held a public hearing on July 16, 2013, regarding the developer's rezoning proposal for 508 Helmcken Street.
"They were critical to understanding the rezoning application," the petition states. "However, none of these were disclosed until after the filing of the within Petition."
Over the phone, Baker said that the land contract "goes to the very heart of the rezoning".
"We're alleging that the city basically sold density to the developer through a very complex, sort of secret land swap deal, and that the public had a right to know about this contract and other agreements prior to the public hearing," Baker said.
"And we say that the failure to disclose those documents, which were sort of central to the rezoning application," Baker continued, "effectively denied the public the right to make meaningful submissions to council."
According to Baker, the case is scheduled for a three-day trial starting on August 18.
Jonathan Baker never saw a city hall conspiracy he didn't like. Grassy knoll on standby.
There is nothing too startling about the developers owning/controlling Vancouver City Council. The voters don't seem to mind.
It does seem it's gone on forever, but I'm not sure the voters have much choice.
Either they vote for the "in the pocket of developers" party, or the "developers themselves" party.
COPE hasn't had an effective vote for a while now it seems.
What might help fix this problem is having wards in the city. I guess we can thank Sam Sullivan for not getting those.
Try to imagine the country, or even the province, with elections that are not based upon candidates' geographic locations; a ward-less (or riding-less) election...
Ridiculous thought, isn't it?
Instead of enlarging the park for the benefit of 10,000 residents of Yaletown, the City voted to create a 35-storey tower with a 10-level underground parkade that will accommodate over 400 cars. I realize that the community benefit was the creation of new social housing - but that building could have been located somewhere else. With the City's decision, the larger park is now gone forever.
How can the City promote Vancouver as the "Greenest City in the World" when they choose concrete and cars over new park space.
Whatever the outcome of the lawsuit, this was a bed decision by our elected officials.
buddy-system: this can only infer provincial gov friendlie's 'grab' - we're in the face of losing granville island to the port - all the port do is trumpet their 'stadium' with blinding electronic billboards for the pattison group, while taxpayers pay for their new roof; and the port be on such a law to themselves, gulping down the cons taxpayer footed - 'put canada to work' joke- such a low balls tight group of millionaires here in the westcoastals: why not 'fight it'
we do have the rights, laid out in laws.. why not
Thanks Ayinedollah!
It's just a vicious cycle of stupidity---you can either increase taxes every year on a steady-state of ratepayers, or you can manufacture new ratepayers, which necessitates the production of more services, and then you can either tax that new set of ratepayers, or you can sucker another group into buying in, so that you can pay off those bonds you sold/loans you took out to pay for the previous iteration. It's a scam. It's not quite a ponzi scheme, but that's a close enough approximation of how it works.
A big tragedy is that Vancouver's former mayor, Gerry McGeere, understood all of this and went to Ottawa as an MP to raise a little hell re: our insane monetary policy. Perhaps while those memories were alive, the people of Vancouver were not too pigfuckingly stupid to play along with an insane economic system. I sure am glad the bad old days are over!
- Secret sweetheart deal with the developer, revealed only as the result of a request by a plaintiff in the course of litigation against the city. How many times has this happened?
- Terms of deal blatantly favour the developer. And - on top of the cost to taxpayers of the land transfer, the city commits millions to fund the developer's side of the deal, the requirement to build social housing. What part of this makes sense?
- An opportunity to expand a park in a crowded neighbourhood that badly needs more green space is lost. Where was the Parks Board when this deal went down? Constance Barnes, did you care at all that the park named for your Dad will now sit in the shadow of a 35-storey tower? Apparently not.
- Not only was the public ignored, but the law may have been violated, too.
- All we hear from Vision and its supporters are the same old partisan sneers and excuses about the NPA and the NIMBYs. Forget about what citizens actually want.
I'm a little bit confused here...that is re; all the posts to various electronic media regarding Vision being in bed with ''developers''.
Please tell me - specifically - how Vision benefits from allegedly being in bed with the developers.
I'll be a bit more specific:
''Secret sweetheart deal with the developer...." What is Vision to gain from the deal?
"Terms of deal blatantly favour the developer. And - on top of the cost to taxpayers of the land transfer, the city commits millions to fund the developer's side of the deal, the requirement to build social housing. What part of this makes sense?"
Ah, the requirement to build social housing, perhaps?
Why would Vision want to squander lotsa' taxpayers money for apparently no, or little, return? Just because they can?
On the face of it, your question seems to imply an assumption that all at city hall have a cake for a brain.
Regarding losing part of a park in a highly populated area does seem counter intuitive to what Vision is about. I would probably be a bit bummed out, too. But, I don't claim to know the whole story.
Be well, Master of D. Zaster!!!
Wow. That sounds like an even better deal for the City! Thanks for the info.
More of a mixed community.
If you want to live in a small town with all the advantages and disadvantages that entails, there are plenty available.


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- 1 1/2 cups olive oil
- 9 tablespoons soy sauce
- 6 garlic cloves, minced
- 6 tablespoons minced peeled fresh ginger
- 6 2-pound live lobsters
- 6 tablespoons chopped green onions
Cook first 4 ingredients in medium saucepan over low heat until garlic and ginger begin to brown, about 8 minutes. Set aside. (Sauce can be made 1 day ahead. Cover; chill. Rewarm before using.)
Prepare barbecue (medium-high heat). Drop 1 lobster headfirst into large pot of boiling water. Cover; cook 3 minutes (lobster will not be fully cooked). Using tongs, transfer lobster to baking sheet. Return water to boil. Repeat with remaining lobsters.
Transfer 1 lobster, shell side down, to work surface. Place tip of large knife in center of lobster. Cut lobster lengthwise in half from center to end of head (knife might not cut through shell), then cut in half from center to end of tail. Use poultry shears to cut through shell if necessary. Repeat with remaining lobsters.
Place lobster halves, meat side up, on barbecue. Brush meat with some basting sauce; sprinkle with salt and pepper. Cover barbecue; grill lobsters until just opaque in thickest portion of tail, about 9 minutes. Remove from barbecue; arrange lobsters on platter. Brush with more sauce and sprinkle with green onions. Serve, passing remaining sauce separately.
my notes
- Calories1,200
- Carbohydrates4 g (1%)
- Fat61 g (94%)
- Protein152 g (304%)
- Saturated Fat9 g (46%)
- Sodium5,194 mg (216%)
- Polyunsaturated Fat8 g
- Fiber1 g (2%)
- Monounsaturated Fat41 g
- Cholesterol1,152 mg (384%)
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whovianofawesome (03/18/2013) [-] Well I have to go class tomorrow. Good thing Spring break is coming up. It will give me the chance to get used to the idea that they're filming. I should be on twitter more. I'm sure there will be updates. If not, Tumblr is sure to know a lot about what's going on.
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whovianofawesome (03/18/2013) [-] Very cool. I will have to look into that. I'm pretty sure I liked them on facebook. And I'm following a lot of in-the-know people on Tumblr. I should get most updates.
Too bad I live in the US. Very doubtful they'll come anywhere near me.
Too bad I live in the US. Very doubtful they'll come anywhere near me.
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It's finally here. With the Olympics getting under way and the hockey starting soon, it's time to roll out our preview of each team between now and puck drop. May the best team win.
The basics
The Russian men's national hockey team is currently ranked 3rd overall by the IIHF. They're carrying 14 NHLers on their roster, they're coached by Zinetula Bilyaletdinov, and finished 6th in 2010 at the Vancouver Winter Olympics.
Member Since | April 1, 1952 |
Total Players | 66,551 |
Male Players | 2,833 |
Junior Players | 63,156 |
Female Players | 562 |
Total Referees | 13 |
Indoor Rinks | 386 |
Outdoor Rinks | 2,064 |
Nation Population | 142,500,482 |
President | Vladislav Tretiak |
Men's World Ranking | 3 |
Women's World Ranking | 4 |
A, with Slovakia, Slovenia, and the U-S of A.
Goaltenders | NHL Team |
Sergei Bobrovsky | Columbus Blue Jackets |
Semyon Varlamov | Colorado Avalanche |
Alexander Eremenko | |
Defensemen | |
Anton Belov | Edmonton Oilers |
Alexei Emelin | Montreal Canadiens |
Andrei Markov | Montreal Canadiens |
Nikita Nikitin | Columbus Blue Jackets |
Fedor Tyutin | Columbus Blue Jackets |
Slava Voynov | Los Angeles Kings |
Yevgeny Medvedev | |
Ilya Nikulin | |
Forwards | |
Artem Anisimov | Columbus Blue Jackets |
Pavel Datsyuk | Detroit Red Wings |
Nikolai Kulemin | Toronto Maple Leafs |
Evgeni Malkin | Pittsburgh Penguins |
Valeri Nichushkin | Dallas Stars |
Alex Ovechkin | Washington Capitals |
Vladimir Tarasenko | St. Louis Blues |
Ilya Kovalchuk | |
Alexander Radulov | |
Viktor Tikhonov | |
Alexander Svitov (replacement) | |
Denis Kokarev (scratched, injury) | |
Alexander Popov | |
Sergei Soin (scratched, injury) | |
Alexander Semin (replacement) | Carolina Hurricanes |
Alexei Tereshchenko |
Biggest names
Alex Ovechkin, Ilya Kovalchuk, Pavel Datsyuk, Evgeni Malkin.
Any team that can afford to leave guys like Sergei Gonchar, Nail Yakupov, Sergei Mozyakin and Anton Volchenkov (as well as Alex Semin, which has since been rectified) off their national team is pretty deep. They're laughing in net with last year's Vezina winner in Sergei Bobrovsky and Colorado Avalanche starter Semyon Varlamov. Their d-corps has six NHLers on it, and looks like a group that can move the puck. And if that's the case, that'll provide plenty of opportunities for guys like those in the "Biggest names" section to do their damage. While Russia's depth falls off before teams like Canada, Sweden and the US, the KHL players they brought aren't exactly jokes.
Firepower, dog. Straight firepower. If you love hockey, you have to be kind of excited to watch Pavel Datsyuk play with Ilya Kovalchuk. Ovechkin is the best goal-scorer in hockey and Malkin is one of the game's biggest threats. Young guns like Tarasenko and Nichuskin can explode for a beauty at any minute, Alexander Radulov is a constant threat, and heaven forbid Alex Semin gets a puck in the slot. Their powerplay should be terrifying, but they'll be a whole hell of a lot to handle 5-on-5 as well, especially on the big ice. Oh, and their goaltending should go in this category too.
Oh, Russia. It's always the same thing here: two-way play. The Russian stereotype didn't come *poof* out of the blue – many of their best players seem solely focused on scoring, which as you may know, is pretty darn fun. It's not that they don't have any two-way players (hell, Ilya Kovalchuk is great both ways, Datsyuk is a Selke winner), it's just that you wouldn't say the majority of their players make defense a focus. That puts a lot of pressure on the D-men to break up rushes and get the puck up the ice, and while that group of players is just fine, I don't think your best bet is too lean to heavily on guys like Anton Belov, Nikita Nikitin, Yevgeny Medvedev, Alexei Emelin and Ilya Nikulin against hockey's best offensive players. That means scoring chances against, and so, here we are: two-way play (general defense) is their weakness.
Route to the Olympics
Ranked third by the IIHF, top nine get in.
I've got Russia finishing in the worst possible spot for them this year, fourth. Anything can happen in a one-game elimination tourney such as this – they could just as easily win it all as not medal – but I really, really think the Americans are going to be tough to play, which means there's not enough room in my top three for Russia.
Times are GMT+4, (MSK – Moscow Standard Time)
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A quick and easy dinner that is also low in fat, this chicken casserole is perfect for busy nights. Submitted by LYZ219 Carbs: 15.8g | Fat: 7.3g | Fiber: 3.1g | Protein: 36.8g | Calories: 284.2
Submitted by POLLYHIDALGO Carbs: 17g | Fat: 10.7g | Fiber: 2.3g | Protein: 25.8g | Calories: 268.7
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Easy to make casserole that's healthy! Submitted by JULIAKELLY Carbs: 24.1g | Fat: 5g | Fiber: 2.7g | Protein: 13.5g | Calories: 195.4
You'll never believe that this creamy, rich dish doesn't have any potatoes! It's also high in protein for a side with 10 grams per serving! Submitted by NADALIA Carbs: 2.9g | Fat: 11.7g | Fiber: 1.3g | Protein: 10.8g | Calories: 164.6
Cheesy, rich, delicious--just what you expect in macaroni and cheese. What you won't expect? 2/3 the fat and half the calories of the original! Submitted by CHEF_MEG Carbs: 39.5g | Fat: 7.9g | Fiber: 4.1g | Protein: 12.6g | Calories: 259.6
Try this inexpensive and fresh version of a chicken casserole--no need for processed soups or sauces! Submitted by CHEF_MEG Carbs: 36.1g | Fat: 8.9g | Fiber: 8.8g | Protein: 27.9g | Calories: 320.6
This is a family favorite! Submitted by DANITHOM25 Carbs: 19.3g | Fat: 5.1g | Fiber: 3.8g | Protein: 34.4g | Calories: 269.9
A sure family favorite! Make it the night before and pop into the oven when you wake up. Carbs: 21.2g | Fat: 12.4g | Fiber: 2g | Protein: 27.7g | Calories: 308.3
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A wonderful way to use up the vegetables in your crisper. Submitted by BLUEMURRAY Carbs: 23.9g | Fat: 12.1g | Fiber: 4.3g | Protein: 6.2g | Calories: 221.2
This easy to make and kid friendly casserole is only 3 Weight Watchers points per serving. Each serving counts as 1 serving of vegetables, 1 serving of milk, 1/2 serving of healthy oil, and almost a full day's supply of Vitamin C. With only a 162 calories each, go ahead and have two servings! Submitted by ELMNOP Carbs: 19.9g | Fat: 6g | Fiber: 3.3g | Protein: 10g | Calories: 162.1
Yellow squash, eggplant, zucchini, onions, tomatoes all baked with a cheesy crust. Great vegetarian and low carb side dish. Submitted by MEGRENEE2 Carbs: 6.6g | Fat: 4.1g | Fiber: 1.9g | Protein: 7g | Calories: 89.7
Technically this is a crustless quiche, but the addition of flour makes for a delicious crusty bottom and sides. Submitted by JENNLOVE Carbs: 13.7g | Fat: 4.6g | Fiber: 2.2g | Protein: 10.3g | Calories: 134.1
A great dish for Sunday brunch. Submitted by STACISHU Carbs: 9.3g | Fat: 7.3g | Fiber: 2.9g | Protein: 17g | Calories: 166
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Make this quiche in the blender. No crust needed - makes its own crust while it bakes Submitted by HPERCY Carbs: 12.4g | Fat: 14.7g | Fiber: 1.8g | Protein: 12.3g | Calories: 227.5


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Tim Huelskamp (FarRightR-Brownbackistan01) has been in the news lately for standing up to John Boehner (NotQuiteSoFarRightR). Last month, Boehner kicked Huelskamp off the House Agriculture committee, leaving Kansas without a member of that committee for the first time in 150 years. Note, please, that Huelskamp prides himself on being a farmer first, and Huelskamp's most favorite map (his vast congressional district) is packed with farms, so this hurts him not just in his ego, but in his ability to deliver for his constituents.
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Index | Editorial Staff | Submissions | Resources | Archives |
Introduction | Cultural Studies | Friends One | Friends Two | Will and Grace | Conclusion | Works Cited |
For an example of composition's lack of representation, I want to return to the beginnings of cultural studies in composition. Specifically, I want to examine John Trimbur's "Cultural Studies and Teaching Writing." Certainly, much has changed in thesixfteen years since this article was published in terms of composition's exploration of sexual identity, but this article is significant because the kinds of silences it contains still occur in composition studies, the media, and popular culture. In discussions of sexual identity in our classrooms, students will benefit much from an examination of what is not said about sexuality in our culture. Trimbur tells us that cultural studies grew "out of a particular historical and political moment in the life of the British left," and that the "question cultural studies leads us to ask is not just how writers write but how literacy has been, and can be, produced and used to increase democratic participation in public life, to give voice to the needs and experiences of those who have been silenced and marginalized" (8, 13). Leaving aside for the moment the questionable call to "democratic participation" and what it implies about the relationship between cultural studies and liberatory learning that Trimbur develops in this and other articles, I want to focus here on the giving of voice to the silenced and marginalized. Those who need to be given voice, in Trimbur's view, include "the working class, women, Blacks, the young and the old, the powerless who have not yet learned to speak for themselves" as well as "Blacks, Hispanics, returning women, Asian Americans, Native Americans, working class students, and so on" (10, 14). The three major areas of cultural studiesrace, class, and gendermaintain their dominant positions in Trimbur's lists, while at the same time he tries to expand the lists to make them as inclusive as possible. Curiously, however, Trimbur makes no mention of lesbian or gay people. Such a reading of Trimbur's list is even more suggestive when it is placed in its historical context. At the end of 1988, the year in which Trimbur's article was published, 106,994 cases of AIDS had been reported in the US; 62,101 people were dead. While it is true that by 1988 people of color accounted "for more than two thirds of total new cases" and women were "one of the fastest growing groups in the epidemic," it is equally true that gay men and lesbians were responsible for the discursive as well as physical resistance to how persons with AIDS were treated (Museum). The Museum of the City of New York's exhibition of the twenty-year history of the Gay Men's Health Crisis provides additional historical context for Trimbur's article. In 1984, Michel Foucault died of AIDS. In 1985, a few months before his death, Rock Hudson announced that he had AIDS, and Ryan White was barred from school because he had AIDS. In 1986, William F. Buckley, Jr., called for persons with AIDS to be tattooed on the forearm and buttocks, while the Reagan administration urged the public not to panic since AIDS was confined to gay men and intravenous drug users. In 1987, the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP), resisting the power/knowledge nexus in a manner described precisely by Foucault in The History of Sexuality, staged their first non-violent direct action on Wall Street. Even in this historical context, however, while the working class, people of color, and women make both of Trimbur's expanded lists, gay men and the lesbians who joined them in a struggle for survival do not appear in his conception of those who have been silenced or marginalized. In Trimbur's essay, heterosexuality as a category of identity and experience is so transparent as to warrant no mention at all. His heteronormative practices are not atypical; neither do these practices represent some virulently antilesbian or antigay sentiment. Rather, this example merely illustrates common heteronormative silences. When representations of lesbian and gay subjectivity do occur in composition, those representations occur primarily in multicultural anthologies. These readers either explicitly or implicitly measure lesbian and gay sexuality against what they always unproblematically assume to be a normal heterosexuality. Readers know that heterosexuality is normal because of its unmarked status; heterosexuality is not generally discussed in terms of the problems associated with it, such as child abuse, domestic violence, and over-population. This unmarked heterosexuality is the vantage point from which students are encouraged by multicultural readers to accept the sexually non-normative. Being accepted on those termsthat is, in terms of a binary of a normal heterosexuality and an abnormal homosexualitydoes little to improve the material conditions of sexually non-normative people, who always run the risk of having that acceptance suddenly, irrevocably, or brutally rescinded. Furthermore, multicultural anthologies apparently assume an entirely heterosexual, white, young, middle-class audience, an assumption that positions some of the students in our classesthose who are not heterosexual, not white, not young, and not middle-classas inferior or defective. These students are in no position to accept anyone, but instead are positioned as in need of an acceptance that will very likely never occur. Thus, composition classes that take multicultural approaches to the study of lesbian and gay subjectsthe main approach currently availableoften reinforce the very marginality that they are attempting to eliminate. To their credit, multicultural approaches at least address the subject of non-normative sexuality. Inclusionhowever bland and ill-conceivedis better than the complete invisibility that often exists in composition's other specialty areas, which sometimes fail to mention the sexually non-normative at all. The absence of sexuality as a category of difference is very weighty indeed in parts of the emerging area of masculinity studies in composition. This area of study, as described by the late Robert Connors, claims to focus on "male-to-male questions," but does not appear to know that gay, bisexual, queer or transgendered men exist (184). In his introduction to Constructing Masculinities, a special issue of Pre/Text, Connors does not once mention sexuality. This absence suggests that sexuality is not significant enough to warrant examination, and the fact that Connors means "heterosexual" men when he uses the word "men" is apparent in what he fails to notice about those men. What is missing from multicultural inquiriesand from inquiries that completely overlook the subject of sexualityis exactly what Keith Gilyard claims is missing from composition's conversations about race: "Insufficiently acknowledged," he writes, "is that race is at least partly a social and rhetorical construction" (47). In his critique, Gilyard points out that race itself is unproblematized in multicultural approaches to that subject. Racial conflict is characterized as a problem of acceptance and inclusivity, while race itself is assumed to be a natural category. Gilyard writes that casting "race analysis in conventional terms leads students to pedestrian interpretations and constructions inside a bankrupt race-relations model, thus leading to a sort of King to King solution, students dreaming and all getting alongrhetorically" (48). A failure to deconstruct race, Gilyard claims, "in the contexts in which we work, is to confirm the prevailing discourse and to be implicated in the maintenance of an exploitative social order" (49). Similarly, non-normative sexuality is posed largely as a question of acceptability and tolerance, a question that replaces an examination of both heteronormativity and the discursive production of sexuality. Following Gilyard, I argue that a failure to examine the discursive production of sexuality is to reproduce the marginalization that multiculturalism, at least, claims to address. And to fail to address the subject at all, as masculinity studies does, is to implicitly condone existing systems of exploitation and discrimination. The study of the heteronormative discursive production of sexuality might help students to reconceive of all sexualitylgbtq sexuality in particularas at least in part a discursive construction rather than as a stable category. At best, such a reconceptualization of sexuality would expand the possibilities for the production of new, less oppressive discourses of lesbian and gay sexuality in the same way that feminists' recognition that women are in part discursively produced, for example, has produced counterhegemonic discourses. Because heteronormativity frequently manifests itself as erasure of the sexually non-normative, however, the study of lesbian and gay subjectivity in the age of AIDS is imperative. The most dangerous heteronormative signifying practice is the utter silence on the subject of non-normative sexuality, a silence that puts everyone at risk by insisting that lesbians, gay men, bisexuals, and the transgendered do not exist. Because lesbian and gay life has historically been, in Lord Alfred Douglas' famous if somewhat tired phrase, the love that dare not speak its name, often existing in public life only implicitly, contemporary discursive representations of lesbians and gay men, while more or less consistently heteronormative, are seldom explicitly negative. Blatantly negative discourses of lesbians and gay men in the form of text and image certainly exist, but in comparison, for example, to the discourses about women distributed to enforce the standards of beautydiscourses that pressure women of every race, class, and sexual orientation to look and behave in particular waysfew negative discourses circulate concerning lesbians and gay men. On the contrary, in the realm of popular culture, discourses that are perceived as positive far out-weigh those that are perceived as negative. Negative discourses concerning lesbian and gay people are either relegated to the level of connotation, where the reader can't be sure if a particular character is lesbian or gay, or, more commonly, the lesbian or gay character is irredeemably evil, strictly laughable, or asexual. And even while these representations are heteronormative, they are not considered to be necessarily negative or destructive by people who enjoy, for example, representations of the homosexual-as-sissy. Symbolic annihilation, however, is a much more persistent and insidious heteronormative signifying practice. A New York Times article, for example, describes an ad paid for by the Bronx Lesbian and Gay Health Resource Consortium that was displayed for one day at about twelve bus stops in the Bronx. The ad "showed two men, one with his arm around the other, above a caption that read, 'I'm not gay, but I sometimes have sex with other guys'" (Kennedy). The Bronx consortium, no doubt aware that almost half of the population in the Bronx is of Hispanic or Latino origin (48.4%), designed ads to reflect the cultural views in many Latino cultures concerning sex between two men (Bronx). Since in many Latino communities men who have sex with men do not consider themselves gay or bisexual, the consortium developed new discourses to reach those men. Obviously, AIDS prevention discourses must be developed to target men who have never thought of themselves as anything but straight but who nevertheless have sex with other men as well as with womentheir wives or girlfriendswho, in turn, are very likely unaware of their partner's sex practices. The ads, however, were removed after one day. Even though these ads had cost the consortium $19,000, had been approved by the advertising company (Infinity Outdoor), and were scheduled to run for four weeks, an undisclosed number of complaints from unnamed persons prompted the advertising company to remove the ads from the bus stops (but not, inconsistently, from the inside of the buses). Such is the power of contemporary discursive structures to insist that lesbians and gay men (or in this case men who have sex with other men) not exist. Simultaneous to the erasure of the subject of men who have sex with men from the public eye (at least at the bus stops) is the erasure of AIDS prevention information for those men, information that is potentially life-saving not only to men who have sex with men but also to their partners, their wives, and their children. Discursive elimination of gay men has been common at the United Nations as well. In what seems perversely to be a celebration of its twentieth birthday, AIDS received in 2000 a good deal of press. Some of the press attention to AIDS is a result of the illegal manufacture of AIDS antiviral drugs in countries too poor to pay the murderously steep retail prices set by Pfizer and other pharmaceutical giants. Consequently, to no one's surprise, the pharmaceuticalsand the U.S. Governmenthave instigated several patent infringement lawsuits against those countries. Of more direct concern to this study, however, is a special session at the United Nationstwenty years after the onset of the epidemicconvened from June 26 through June 28, 2001. The purpose of this session, according to New York Times reporter Jennifer Steinhauer, is to determine "how a $9 billion pot of new money to fight AIDS globally will be distributed" ("U.N. United"). On June 27, 2001, Steinhauer reported that at "the outset, the special assembly was sidetracked with a lengthy and acrimonious debate over whether a representative from a gay group should be permitted to participate in the roundtable discussion." Then, "officials could not agree on which groups they should even proclaim at risk. Because of objections by Islamic delegates, debate continued over whether to mention gays and prostitutesgroups long acknowledged to have been hit hardest by the diseasein the official declaration" ("U.N. United"). One cultural myth that might be provoked from that passage is that of Islamic fundamentalism, a cultural myth that might insist that, had the Islamic representatives been excluded (thereby setting up a false Islamic/gay binary, as if there were no gay Muslims), the other, fairer minded delegates would certainly have carried the day and embraced the sexually non-normative. Such reassuring mythologies might, however, be undermined by Steinhauer's report in the New York Times the next day: "Language about high-risk groups was eventually deleted from the declaration" ("U.N. Redefines"). This turn of events suggests to me not that Islamic fundamentalists carried the day (even though Islamics apparently instigated the fight), but rather that the U.N. enacted on an international level the heteronormativity that is already commonplace both in the United States and in composition studiesthe systematic erasure of lesbian and gay life. In other words, the fact that in this instance Islamic delegates demanded the exclusion of gay men and prostitutes from the list of groups at high-risk of AIDS infection masks the fact that such an objection would very likely have come from some other quarter had the Islamic delegates not been the first to insist. The Reagan administration, for example, did virtually nothing to contain the epidemic when it would have been more easily contained because of the populations affected by itthe queer, the addicted, the poor. The tragic result of exclusions such as these is that gay men, who were first affected by the disease, first brought the world's attention to it, first demanded that funds be directed to search for a cure, developed and implemented direct-action activism, developed and disseminated educational materials that dramatically reduced the spread of infection, developed networks of care, provided food, housing, clothing and health services to those who could no longer provide these things for themselves, and, finally, watched a generation die, apparently have nothing of value to offer to the world on the subject of AIDS prevention and treatment. Such is the power of contemporary discursive structures to insist that gay men not exist. My claim that gay men's experience with AIDS is a valuable resource for current AIDS prevention planning is not to suggest, however, that the education and prevention measures developed by Gay Men's Health Crisis were equally effective across divisions of race and class among gay men. While infection rates among gay, white, middle- and upper-class men dropped dramatically, infection rates among gay men of color continued to rise or dropped less dramatically. A recent study of AIDS infection rates for gay men in the U.S., for example, mirrors earlier studies in its findings that "race, education, and socioeconomic status played a big part in AIDS awareness and access to treatment" ("Study"). Nor is my argument meant to suggest that the suffering of gay men, since they are after all men, sometimes white, and sometimes middle-class, be elevated to the top of the ranks of the suffering. My purpose, rather, is to demonstrate how particular forms of discursively produced subjectivity actively work to annihilate individuals who are identified as having specific characteristics or exhibiting specific behaviors. In a move to counter the discursive and cultural practices that have made heterosexual women the largest at-risk group for AIDS infection, for example, some of the best language in the U.N.'s Statement on AIDS suggests that women be empowered "to have control over and decide freely and responsibly on matters related to their sexuality to increase their ability to protect themselves from H.I.V. infection" ("Excerpts"). Such language speaks specifically to the conditions for women in South Africa, where AIDS infection rates are soaring. According to South African AIDS activist Judi Fortuin, in an interview with New York Times reporter Bob Herbert, "one in four women's first sexual encounter is a coerced encounter. And that is by men that they know, and men that they don't know." Thus, the discursive and cultural practices through which heterosexual men learn that forcing women to have sex is appropriate can literally destroy women. Similarly, the heteronormative discursive productions of gay men that attempt to prevent us from being visible at all, as in the United Nations Statement on AIDS, can destroy not only gay men, men who sleep with men, and women and children. Explorations of the discursive production of heteronormative sexuality provide an alternative to complete silence on the issue, as in some masculinity studies, as well as an alternative to the continued production of othering discourse that we see in multiculturalism. Conceptualizing sexuality as a discursive production benefits all students. The failure to interrogate heteronormativity in composition studies is similar to Gilyard's critique that in composition we have largely failed to identify "white" as a racial construct. Gilyard writes that James Berlin, for example, never gets around "to explaining the controlling, hegemonic discourse that 'race' is." Taking this failure into account, Gilyard asks how, from the "subject position of a white teacher . . . could [Berlin] teach students to 'resist' and 'negotiate' the controlling discourse that 'whiteness' is?" (48). Likewise, if heterosexuality remains an uncontested site of normalcy, any discussion of non-normative sexualities "simply inscribes another othering discourse," an othering discourse, in this case, that annihilates the sexually non-normative (48). Troubling Heterosexuality: An Antiheteronormative Pedagogy In this pedagogical approach, my aim is to contest the normalcy of heterosexuality by providing a close reading of the television shows Friends and Will and Grace. I examine, among other things, the way that heterosexuality is in these programs haunted by the homoerotic. My aim is to trouble students' understanding of hegemonic heterosexuality. In addition, I want to examine the way that representations generally assumed to be positive actually result in symbolic annihilation or denigration of lesbians and gay men. Specifically, I argue that the implicitly antiheteronormative television situation comedies Friends and Will and Grace do little to interrupt mainstream, hegemonic constructions of lesbian and gay subjectivity and in fact actively reinforce negative stereotypes of lesbians and gay men. My antiheteronormative reading of these two television shows as well as some of the commercials aired by sponsors of the program is intended to provide a different set of grounds from which to examine these television shows in the context of a composition classroom. While popular culture offers us negative representations of lesbians and gay men, it also offers those of us in the field of composition the opportunity to resist those representations. One brief history of gay people on television begins in 1972, when ABC aired the made for TV movie That Certain Summer. During the seventies, eighties, and nineties, lesbian and gay characters appear regularly if not frequently on a number of television shows. It is not until 1997, however, that the character on the show Ellen reveals that she is a lesbian, and becomes the first feature television character to do so. Simultaneously, of course, the show's star, Ellen DeGeneres, also revealed that she was a lesbian. At the end of the 1997-98 season, Ellen was cancelled. The opening of the 1998 season, however, saw the introduction of a new television sitcom with a gay lead character, Will and Grace. Eric McCormack, the actor who plays Will, is an out heterosexual, while Sean Hayes, the actor who plays Jack (the other gay character) won't say one way or the other. While lesbian and gay characters are quite common, the themes that define our roles remain more or less unchanged. Specifically, lesbian and gay people are used almost universally in order to signify negativity and unhappiness. |
Of course, there are exceptions. In the summer of 2001, for example, Miller Lite aired an explicitly gay-themed advertisement. In the ad, two women are sitting in a bar, eyeing a man who is sitting across the room, speculating as to his sexual availability. Then, another man joins the man whom they have been eyeing. The women think they're just about to get lucky. The man who has just arrived, however, places his hand on top of the hand of the man who had been alone, and gives the women an "I'm sorry, he's taken" look. The women console themselves by remarking that at least the man isn't married. |
This advertisement is refreshingly neutral in its representation of gay men, though it can hardly be said to be in any way progressive. The two men, after all, are young, white, attractive, and apparently middle class, and therefore reinforce the dominant culture's belief that all gay men follow this same pattern. The men, however, are enjoying themselves in the same bar that two heterosexual women have chosen as a location in which to pick up men. Thus, the gay couple appears to be out in some sort of mainstream night spot, enjoying the evening without fear of harassment from the heterosexual people who are also apparently everywhere. Such a scenario might actually exist in urban centers. In most of the United States, however, this scenario can only be construed as a fantasy space. |


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Where there's a hit, there's a sequel. Deadline reports that Hammer Films is planning a follow-up to "The Woman in Black," the horror film starring Daniel Radcliffe that became Britain's highest grossing horror film in twenty years.
"The Woman in Black" was based on a novel by Susan Hill, and also has been a long-running play in London (considering the film's success, there probably are a lot of English producers wondering, "How did we miss on this?). The new film, "The Woman in Black: Angels of Death" will be based on an original story by Hill that she has been working on for the past few years. The original focused on a young lawyer sent to work on the estate of a dead client who discovers a vengeful ghost in the client's house. The new film will take place forty years later, with a new couple who make the mistake of moving into the house.
Jon Croker or Crocker (ComingSoon has one spelling, Deadline has another) will write the screenplay. No word yet on a director. At risk of a spoiler, it is self-evident why Daniel Radcliffe will not be back.


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I know some people who are, instead of giving something up this Lent, taking something up. Patty Kirk, author of A Field Guide to God: A Seeker's Manual, for example, offered five things to do instead of sacrificing chocolate, wine, sweets, soda.
I, however, stuck with my previous Lenten sacrifice of TV. It was a matter of taking on a difficult challenge while hoping that I would be able to refocus my life a bit.
Let me tell you, it's been really, really hard. Ash Wednesday was the worst, because that's the night I am glued to the tube at 8 p.m. to watch a British comedy, Doc Martin. I savor settling in to watch a socially challenged London heart surgeon who has developed a terrible case of hemophobia (fear of blood) treat and interact with the eccentric characters who live in the small fishing community of Port Wenn, in Cornwall.
Come 9 o'clock, it's time for BBC America and reruns of the Showtime series The Tudors.
Throughout the week, there are many visual bonbons that I so enjoy indulging in, and which, I'm sad to say, I've become addicted to. I know this because in the last week, I've felt a physical pull to press the remote's on button. And I knew it was beyond mere habituation when I caught myself debating whether watching programs on Hulu would be counter to the spirit of my sacrifice. Duh!!
In the end I resisted the temptation, and that's where the personal growth part kicked in: I feel a real sense of accomplishment. Furthermore, I find myself spending more quality time with the cats, reading, even writing to friends — on paper. I rediscovered the joy of choosing note cards that I think my friends would appreciate and sending off short missives! How quaint, yet satisfying.
So despite the occasional temptation, I've found that sacrificing a pleasure surprisingly brings another.
And who knows? Maybe next year, I'll not only give up TV again but also devote my evenings to one of the items on Patty Kirk's list of five things to do in Lent.
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Last month, the Bureau of Justice Statistics reported that the total population of incarcerated persons in the United States had decreased for the fourth consecutive year. The decline, however, came entirely at the state level. The federal system continued to gain prisoners, and in fact, from 2010 to 2011, the number of prisoners increased by about 7,800. The Federal Bureau of Prisons would be wise to take a look at the amazing success of the states — and to emulate the strategies that reduce incarceration while still protecting public safety.
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Soundcheck at the funeral! We need raw acoustics, not those raggedy auto-tune vocals! Your favorite cousin that you never allow into your living quarters (because we all know her and her mama like to steal) decided that she would pay homage to a fallen friend.
And what better song to sing at a funeral than — you've guessed it — "Seven Days" by Mary J. Blige from the from 'Share My World: The Post Crack Years' album. Well, at least she didn't sing "No More Drama," "911″, or "Take Me As I Am."
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Ghostcrawler discusses warriors and rage in Mists of Pandaria
This cycle is by now so familiar to us old-timers that we have debates as to when exactly in the expansion the nerfs will come. (For the record, since we saw nerfs in pretty much every patch this expansion -- we all won the pool -- but it was an extremely hollow victory.) I've talked a lot about rage in the upcoming expansion and how I expect to see the same cycle we always have. If anything, making us so dependent on white hits and enrage procs will just exacerbate the problem.
Well, it appears that the devs are aware of the problem as well. How could they not be aware of it, really, since it's the same problem we've had for eight years now? Ghostcrawler recently commented on a thread on the Mists beta forums about warrior issues, and I want to share his comments and discuss them here.
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I had such a great day yesterday. 5yr old
Lots of eggs
Little fingers grating the nutmeg
We like to use peanut oil for our pancakes
A sprinkle of cinnamon sugar, a dot of butter &
a squeeze of lemon juice
When brownieboy got home from work we decided to go for a nice walk and watch the sunset. We ended up at Longbeach at Kommetjie. I took a couple of nice photos, and I am sure I saw Jasmine's pawprints all over that beach :o) It was a bit windy, the sunset was not too spectacular as there was quite a lot of cloud cover but the walk was invigorating and refreshing….in other words, chilly :o)
Granny's beach & a cloudy sunset
On our return I made a delicious healthy chicken stir fry which we had for our supper and then for dessert for brownieboy I made a pancake which I served with rum flambéed bananas and a scoop of ice cream. And no, browniegirl did not partake of that particular delight. It is rather difficult having a very slim husband who is forever looking for a bit of weight to put on while you are trying to lose some. It never seems to find the right target in this household…..Remember that product called Weight-On from the 70's & 80's??? I cannot tell you how much of that stuff the man was fed but he is still looking for that elusive weight! We all know why he can never find it….yep, because I have already found every ounce of it!!
Anyway for those who would like to try the pancake with rum flambéed bananas….here is how
Melt a knob of butter in a frying pan, add one banana cut into rounds. Sprinkle with some treacle sugar and add a squeeze of lemon juice, just the bottled variety works well. Sauté gently until banana is lightly browned and the sugar has caramelized. You can add this to your pancake just as is, if preferred otherwise pour over a glug of rum, stand back a bit and ignite…….jiggle the pan around on the heat until the flames have disappeared.
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Did you see this one coming, Smilers? A Michigan college has been forced to remove a giant round pendulumsimilar to the one in Wrecking Ballbecause students wouldnt stop riding it, a la Miley.
Grand Valley State University in Allendale, Michigan has had the 42-inch steel ball on campus for years (it even has its own Twitter account!), and Total Frat Move reports that riding it has been a rite of passage for studentsespecially freshmanlong before the video was released last week.
But since the video premiered, the riding has gotten out of controlstudents have been lining up to recreate Mileys epic scene. In fact, things have gotten so crazy that the school actually had to remove the campus landmark (which students now affectionately refer to as the GV Wrecking Ball).
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3 distinctively different interior functions called for the design of the recently completed CBS building to be programmatically arranged: Work, Rest and Play. The 'work' area needed office space and seminar rooms. 'Rest' would need a pod for use between seminars, to relax after work and occasional overnight stays. 'Play' would be catered for in a workshop and gallery.
The site is located in Shinbashi, a Tokyo transport hub. Roads are narrow and buildings small and tightly packed. The building perimeter was pulled away from the street creating a sense of open space, more associated with European urban fabric and unique in this area. Since the seminar business has frequent visitors arriving and leaving the building it allowed for a transition space. Furthermore, it avoided the feeling of competing with cars for the entrance, so common within back streets of Tokyo.
Increased setback reduced the footprint of the building, but permitted four comfortable height floors. This followed a concept of 3 floating cubes, stacked in the order of programmatic hierarchy.
The cubes are clad in cut steel panels, which created a structural skin assisting with lateral seismic forces. The strip windows separating cubes created a diffused up light effect suitable for a gallery and seminar space. Pod, on the other hand, is all orientated upwards. The ceiling is extruded acting as a chimney drawing warmer air from the lower floors and releasing them outside. The top glass roof is louvred to minimize heat intake while allowing in plenty of light. The steel elevation panels are heavily insulated protecting the building from direct heat, plus the office areas benefit from the extra insulation of the Shina-gohan cladding.
Shortly after completion the client suffered a ski injury severely restricting mobility. The work, rest and play design concept was proved by his ability to safely carry on his business and lifestyle while rarely leaving the building.
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Dernbach predicts positive response
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Jade Dernbach believes England's players will emerge stronger after their chastening experiences in India last month. "I think everyone will have taken something away from there," he explained.
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Kevin Pietersen has vowed England will learn from the limited-overs tour of India in time for their return in little over a year, citing "issues we can look at with our batting and certainly with our bowling."
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England ended their rollercoaster 2011 back on an upward curve and remain rightly proud of what has been mostly a year of outstanding achievement. Tim Bresnan were there at the beginning and end.
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Samit Patel revealed he tried to ignore England's number-one Twenty20 status during victory over India at Kolkata's iconic Eden Gardens ground.
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Kevin Pietersen has been officially reprimanded for a level one breach of the ICC code of conduct during England's six-wicket victory over India in Saturday's Twenty20 international at Kolkata.
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Graeme Swann was relieved that England put some "abjectly horrible cricket" behind them in the T20 international against India, but did not get carried away by the tour's only competitive win.
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A much-improved England brought the curtain down on their chastening tour of India with victory in the Twenty20 international. They overhauled a modest target of 121 with eight balls to spare.
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A much-improved England brought the curtain down on their chastening tour of India with victory in the Twenty20 international. They overhauled a modest target of 121 with eight balls to spare.
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England were confirmed as the world's best Twenty20 team only on Monday, but they must beat India in the one-off T20 international to retain that status. Graeme Swann will lead the tourists.
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Video: Ex-Gay Guru Richard Cohen Brings Out The Magnets
It's a non-sequential? The video above is from the upcoming movie Chasing the Devil: Inside the Ex-Gay Movement by Bill Hussung and Mishara Canino-Hussing. Ex-Gay guru and all around bizarre guy Richard Cohen seems only too happy to participate, bringing back memories of pillows and tennis rackets. Listen carefully, there are some interesting comments. One that I didn't quite get is in the beginning, he's says he has been married for "2300 23,000 years"? Is that just a joke or is it a Moonie thing? (I honestly don't know)
Dr. Jack Drescher brings us a brief period of sanity, perhaps laced with bemusement at what he is seeing — yet again. Meanwhile,Cohen has a new web site and is training "coaches" or whatever, having apparently mended fences with Exodus International. One has to wonder, when will someone on that side of the aisle deal with Cohen in a public way? Or is this Prop 8 where the ends justify the means and keeping ex-gay pseudo-science going — even this most bizarre of chapters — is justifiable?
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Khronos Starts Intitiative for 3-D Graphics on the Web
The Khronos consortium seized an offer from Mozilla and would like to create an accelerated, royalty-free standard for 3D graphics on the Web.
A working group, entitled "Accelerated 3D on Web," has been established and is chaired by Mozilla. The goal is to have the first results of this effort ready within 12 months.
All interested parties are invited to take part. The working group will test a diverse array of applications for an API that the accelerated 3D graphics will make useable. OpenGL and OpenGL ES 2.0 along with JavaScript are among the prospects.
OpenGL and its applications are available on almost every desktop system. In the future, JavaScript is to become more and more efficient. Mozilla has recommended the use of the OpenGL ES 2.0 API in connection with a JavaScript container, along with the standardized version of the ECMAScript. Khronos member Google wants to bring its experience with graphics and web development to the fold.
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Help! My account has been hacked! {WoW}
Jan 22nd 2010 9:38AM A guildmate of mine was hacked despite having an Authenticator on his account. They got his password somehow -- keylogger, phishing, I don't know. Then they immediately called Blizzard customer support, posing as him, claiming to have lost the Authenticator and asking for it to be removed from the account. Blizzard did so. Either the procedure for this does not include enough verification, or the hacker knew enough to pass verification. Be warned.
Breakfast Topic: If you could add game mechanic to WoW what would it be {WoW}
Apr 28th 2009 1:42PM Whif's original suggestion above would essentially be like a player-generated quest system, allowing richer, higher-level players to trade cash for the time and effort of poorer, lower-level players. "Paying 5g for one stack of Rough Leather" is, after all, a quest at heart -- it's just that throwing it out there as a WTB in Trade chat as Cav sarcastically suggests doesn't really provide the concept with much support.
Imagine that you could post this request at some sort of in-game employment agency, along with a time limit of so many hours or days. The gold you promised would be held in escrow, like an auction bid is. Another player could take the job, and bring the items requested to the agency. If he did so on time, he'd get the money and you'd receive the items. If he failed, the job would go back on the board.
I guess there's potential for griefing -- someone could take the job off the board and just sit on it. You could prevent the same player from taking the same job more than once, but you couldn't prevent that first griefing instance. Maybe the job seeker puts up some percentage of the job's reward as a good-faith guarantee, and he loses it to the job's poster if he doesn't complete the job. The employment agency could also take a fee, as a gold sink. It needs some design refinement, for sure, but it's an interesting concept.
WoW Rookie: Communication Part 1 {WoW}
Mar 31st 2008 2:47PM 8. On a PvE server, nobody in General or Trade cares that there's a level 47 Tauren Druid in Darkshore (probably unflagged, even, but whatever). /3 is what you're looking for -- please limit to that channel your breathless updates as to the every move of players of the opposing faction, your death(s) at their hands, or the vengeful triumph of your friend's level 70 Warrior over them.
Raid Rx: Unkicking butt (a Grid story) {WoW}
Jan 23rd 2008 10:57AM Regardless of how one feels about Grid specifically, this is a great idea for an article: an in-depth look at an add-on that is ubiquitous and useful, yet complex. I'd like to see more of these, perhaps as a regular feature.
List of 2.3 known issues and bugs {WoW}
Nov 21st 2007 11:13AM On the Llane realm, there are Monstrous Kalliri stuck inside of trees in Skettis, flying in endless circles in the spiral interior of the tree.
Skettis is also a good place to see the pet pathing issues. Often, when I send my pet to attack one of the Skettis Windcallers who stands under one of the little lean-tos, I hear the sound effect, but my pet does not leave my side. I have to pull the mob out from under the lean-to before I can get the pet to attack it.
(Found the latter farming Light Feathers for the new quiver.)
Encrypted Text: Enchanting your gear, part 1 {WoW}
Nov 16th 2007 1:34PM To pick a minor nit -- you say Kingsblood when you mean Wildvine.
Auctioneer ready for 2.3 {WoW}
Nov 16th 2007 11:14AM I hadn't noticed problems with Auctioneer, but I'd very much like to see Gatherer updated. It's profoundly useful, essential, really, and 2.3.0 really hosed it.


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