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I totally think I can see a face!!!
Yea! butter bean pics!
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How awesome, very cute
Angi mommy to vickie, tyler, hannah, owen, aryn, emily
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Wow 9 weeks already! That beautiful bean will be here before you know it. I have a feeling its a girl by the way.
I hope you are feeling well.
Rylie 3-24-00 & Lea 6-30-07
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Beautiful and healthy. That's what I see. Congratulations!!
One and done - proud mama to an amazingly beautiful, funny and smart little girl since '07.
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Cutest butterbean ever!
Desirée Y Zoèlie 7/07 & Gryphon 10/10
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An insider described a room made mysterious by piles of paperwork containing all personal secrets of passengers aboard the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370.
Malaysia's top detectives were reportedly working in a room full of personal secrets. The room is given the code name "the bunker" which is only used among the detectives.
Inside "the bunker", documents detailing passengers' private lives are to be found. Detectives were able to amass information about the passengers' families, friends, ex-lovers and even mistresses. Detectives had looked into the passengers' personal computers, phone records, bank records and browsing histories on Google.
The insider said that detectives were separated into three teams. The first team was tasked to investigate records on the plane's maintenance, structures and systems. The second team was tasked to investigate on the plane's operations related to flight recorders and meteorology.
The third team was called the "medical and human factors group."
"Only those working in that team are allowed access to the room because it is basically a room full of personal secrets," the insider said.
The insider said that the third team's mission was to get the profile of all passengers of MH370, determine the reason why anyone aboard would want to stop MH370 from reaching Beijing and why the plane's two communication systems were shut off.
The detectives working inside "the bunker" are still left clueless as to the identity of the person whom pilot Fariq Abdul Hamid was calling no more than two hours before the flight take off. The purpose of the call made from the cockpit was still yet to be determined.
Meanwhile, Prime Minister Tony Abbott said that the new underwater search - 60,000 square kilometres of the ocean floor, off the coast of Western Australia - for the remains of MH370 has a reasonable chance of finding the plane.
"If the plane is down there - and the best expert advice is that it did go into the water somewhere in this arc off the coast of Western Australia - if the plane is down there, there is a reasonable chance that we'll find it because we are using the best possible technology," Mr Abbott told ABC.
Mr Abbott, however, added that the new deep water search to be conducted by the Dutch firm Fugro Survey will start in the next month or so and would take up to one year.


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Review: ThinkPad X1 Carbon, best one ever
The ThinkPad line of laptops has long been the standard for business. The latest model is the best of the lot, by far.
The ThinkPad line of laptops has long been the standard for business. The latest model is the best of the lot, by far.
The ThinkPad X240 uses Lenovo's Power Bridge technology to provide hot swappable batteries to keep you running for up to 17 hours.
The No. 1 PC company's ThinkPad strategy plays well with its enterprise base and tries to capitalize on what analysts call a mini corporate PC refresh cycle.
Panasonic hopes that its two new tablets -- one running Windows 8 and the other Android -- will help it grab 50 percent of the ruggedized tablet space by 2015.
One of the Defence Materiel Organisation's (DMO) websites has been compromised by hackers, while Panasonic Australia has taken its website down after one of its subdomains was also hacked and then defaced.
Panasonic announces a pair of waterproof point-and-shoot cameras--one on the high end with features like GPS, compass, altimeter, and barometer, and one aggressively priced entry-level model.
Lenovo made its tablet move with two Android devices, including one that's aimed at the enterprise and its core ThinkPad customers.
AMD's first Fusion processors--chips that combine both a CPU and graphics--have been finding their way into everything from netbooks to 15-inch budget notebooks. Over the past few weeks, I've been testing out a number of these Fusion laptops including the Acer Aspire One 522, HP Pavilion dm1z and Lenovo ThinkPad X120e.
Panasonic made quite a few high-end camcorder introductions at the 2011 National Association of Broadcasters Show in Las Vegas today, including one model that is headed for the final frontier.
I have a lot of laptops come through Mobile News Manor, my home office, and rarely does one hit on all cylinders like the newly announced ThinkPad X220 from Lenovo. Here's a tour of the X220.
Panasonic announces two follow-ups to the HX-TA1 pocket camcorder, including one waterproof model.
As promised earlier this summer, Panasonic is now introducing a trio of new interchangeable lenses for the Lumix G camera series, including one in 3D.
It's hard to get excited about a thin-and-light notebook PC when you've been carrying them around for more than a decade. However, when Toshiba unveiled the R700, it impressed even a cynical old Portégé and IBM ThinkPad user like me, so I borrowed one.
DirecTV and Panasonic made their collaboration live yesterday with the launch of three new 3D channels, one of which offers 24-hour programming in three-dimensional form.
One of the most in-your-face costs of 3D HDTV thus far has been the pricing of the active-shutter 3D glasses that the first available sets from Samsung and Panasonic have required: over $100 per pair. That means picking up enough of them to let everyone in your family see whatever 3D content you can find adds a few hundred more dollars to the large amount you've spent on a 3D set and Blu-ray player.
Panasonic has announced a new pair of all-in-one personal television displays. The DMP-HV100 and the DMP-BV200 are capable of receiving content over the airwaves and via Wi-Fi.
To go along with that 3D Blu-ray player, Panasonic insists you'll need one of their Full HD 3D VIERA Plasma HDTVs to get the ultimate 3D HD home entertainment experience.
Like offerings from its plasma rival Samsung, Panasonic has announced that its 3D sets will be plasma-based. The company is planning five different models due in the spring that are ready for 3D viewing and each include one pair of active-shutter 3D glasses.
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One very unfortunate tendency of this is that each side has a tendency to impugn the other's motives, rather than his view of reality. Neoconservatives just want Iraq's oil, or they are just White Man's Burden 2.0. Noninterventionists think the US should cut Israel loose because seeing Jews massacred would tickle their jollies. I think noninterventionists are somewhere in the vicinity of insane (that means not insane), but I don't doubt that people like Daniel Larison wish as ardently as I do for a free and prosperous world—we just disagree on how to get there. I can't say that I follow my own dictate with perfect precision, but I self-consciously try not to impugn the motives of those who disagree with me on policy, especially in this particular area.
Another very annoying feature of public debate in general is psychologization: "You support X because you really feel Y." Which of course is both unknowable and irrelevant.
We don't have to play this game.
Which brings me to TAS Alum (and friend!) Noah Millman, who has responded to my column envisaging a US-led invasion of North Korea.
Millman takes seriously my humanitarian concern over North Korea, and self-consciously tries to look at it from the same perspective as I do. He feels that the most practical, envisageable outcome would be a "Finlandization" of the Korean Peninsula, denuclearized, neutralized and without nuclear weapons, in order to obtain Chinese collaboration in removing the North Korean regime.
The reason I don't envisage this outcome, Noah writes, is essentially because I am deluded and corrupt. My solution is "unconscionable". What's more, I don't want to envisage a denuclearized and neutralized Peninsula, because of a psychological motive: that way, the US wouldn't get to play the savior and "Maybe […] the actual humanitarian outcome is less important than playing the part of the savior." So in other words I advance under false pretenses. My ostensible humanitarian motive is really straw, and is the mask for American imperialism and onanistic delusions of grandeur.
What is the problem with Noah's thesis?
Well, there are many, but I know just the place to start. How about the fact that the outcome he envisages, that he claims my not envisaging so reveals my moral corruption, is the one I explicitly endorse in the column?
I mean, it's right there:
If the U.S. offers the demilitarization and neutralization of the Korean Peninsula to China in exchange for helping rebuild North Korea, China would actually come out ahead by removing U.S. troops from the Peninsula.
I think that China wouldn't come to see things this way unless it was presented with a fait accompli of a North Korean regime collapse, because status quo bias is so powerful in international affairs. Maybe I'm wrong. But my endgame is a neutral and demilitarized Korean Peninsula.
Michael Brendan Dougherty responded to my column by saying that my heart was in the right place but my plan is impossible. That's fine. I acknowledge that it is far-fetched. Paradoxically, I think noninterventionists should have more sympathy for my wishful thinking, since the number of people who think the world would be improved by an American retreat from its historic role as global security guarantor is about the same as the number of people who think my plan is practical. Both sides see the Washington consensus as hopelessly deluded, and see things as plausible that the consensus most definitely doesn't. If I had a tendency for psychologizing, I might say that perhaps we so detest each other because we are so alike in this way. But whatever.
(P.S. Another very annoying feature of public debate is when people pretend not to be aware of the constraints of the column format when it suits them. I can't tell you how many times I was described as "blithe" or some such for brushing off objections to my plan. But in any column you need to gloss over complex side-issues of your main point. Of course, everyone knows this. But making an effort to presume that I am of good faith and not a complete idiot and consider that I might have considered obvious objections but might not have given them a full treatment because of length constraints would involve engaging oneself in a disinterested effort to look for truth, which starts with looking for the best arguments on the other side, rather than in a Kulturkampf where all one does is look for weaknesses on the other side to be exploited. I hope I wasn't psychologizing just then.)
]]>The emerging left-wing position has two aspects. The more overt aspect is that some people can't afford $20 for pills. This is one of those arguments too stupid to put forward credibly, but God bless them, they make the effort. The real aspect to this is that they conceive of contraception as health care and so it is symbolically important that it be covered by insurance as this helps frame it as health care (which is covered by insurance) versus a consumer good (which is out-of-pocket). Economic sociologists call this kind of framing "relational work" (a concept associated w Viviana Zelizer).
However the real left-wing position that is not just #waronwomen "throw the damn incense at the emperor you atavistic theocrat" symbolism, but actually practical is also an issue of hassle. Increasingly health care runs up against limits not of what physicians can do, but "patient compliance" or how diligent patients are at sticking to their treatment. This is most obvious with things like substance abuse or diabetes, which theoretically don't require medical treatment at all but only lifestyle changes (stop using, go on a diet, etc). However it's almost impossible to get people to do this, which is why the preferred treatment for morbid obesity is no longer jogging and ricecakes but cutting out most of your stomach and the most promising therapy for opiate/alcohol addiction is Naltrexone.
Similarly, with birth control there is a huge gap between typical use and perfect use. Most forms of birth control, including withdrawal and rhythm, are fairly effective with perfect use, but surprisingly ineffective with typical use because most people are, ahem, boundedly rational. This includes oral contraception, which requires women to take daily pills and which they apparently neglect to do fairly often. Hence the push is to go away from oral contraception and towards more long-term birth control (IUD, NuvaRing, D-P, and sterilization) none of which require people to be especially diligent either during the sex act (like withdrawal or condoms) or on a daily basis (like oral contraception or rhythm). The way you see this in the public debates over Hobby Lobby etc, is distinguishing that they didn't cover "the most effective forms of birth control" (read: IUD) and which actually are out of reach for out of pocket expense.
So basically, both right and left recognize that the obstacle to effective birth control is hassle. The right's version is that making it OTC would eliminate the hassle of having to visit the gynecologist to get a scrip. The left's version is that encouraging a switch from oral contraception to IUD would eliminate the hassle of having to take a pill every morning. There is a philosophical microcosm in that both sides are right about hassle being an obstacle to effective usage, but they emphasize those hassles they find illegitimate. For the right there is a negative liberty issue to the state throwing up the roadblock of a doctor's visit to getting the pills. To the left your own nature is an obstacle to be solved with technocratically-administrated nudges that obviate the need for individual responsibility on a daily basis and to which you have a positive liberty entitlement.
]]>For instance, if I am morally opposed to clear-cutting an old growth forest and so I spike the trees, but it gets logged anyway and some lumberjack get injured or killed, who is at fault: Me or the loggers?
Well, as in so many things, I think who you blame ultimately comes down to confirmation bias and we can see this play out in a few recent incidents.
Over the last months there has been a great deal of outrage over botched executions in Oklahoma, Ohio, and Arizona in which the executions did not go as planned and in at least one of the three cases the condemned suffered prolonged excruciating pain. Many stories about these executions explained that states had been experimenting with new formulas because anti-death penalty activists and governments had systematically cut off their supplies of sodium thiopental — the old and much more reliable lethal injection chemical. However this was all in terms of the historical chain of events and I saw basically nobody saying that the anti-death-penalty activists were morally at fault for preventing a well-established and relatively effective means of execution or that the Lockett, McGuire, and Wood executions demonstrate the need to restore access to sodium thiopental. Rather the ubiquitous assumption was that once sodium thiopental was cut off that the states of Oklahoma, Ohio, and Arizona should have said "wow, looks like you got us into a checkmate, guess we'll just commute every sentence on death row even though our electorates favor capital punishment."
Conversely one of the issues with state-level marijuana decriminalization is that it's a cash-only business which creates problems like armed robbery. The reason is that while many state governments have decriminalized marijuana, the federal government still opposes marijuana decriminalization and pressures banks not to service marijuana businesses. This means that marijuana businesses are easily identifiable as having large amounts of cash and/or frequent deliveries of cash to safe deposit boxes, all of which makes them inviting targets to armed robbers. The marijuana industry recognizes this, but you won't be surprised to hear that their interpretation is not that they should stop selling cannabis until they are allowed to process credit cards. Rather Mike Elliot of the Marijuana Industry Group told Vox "If somebody gets killed because of this issue, we're going to be pointing our finger at Congress saying, 'This is your fault. You should have acted.'"
Probably the most severe current example is the current Gaza war, where Hamas appears to be deliberately placing military targets within or in close proximity to especially sensitive civilian areas. Despite fairly heroic efforts to minimize civilian casualties, Israel is thus in the position of either forgoing its offensive to destroy rockets and tunnels or destroying schools, hospitals, and many noncombatant human beings. Predictably those who see Israel as responding as any state would to an intransigent terrorism campaign see this as Hamas's fault whereas those who were always inclined to see Israel as a colonialist apartheid regime see it as disproportionate.
I'm not trying to make a substantive argument that the obstinate actor A or the heighten-the-contradictions actor B is morally at fault when A continues to act under the circumstances made more dangerous by B. What I am saying is that whether you blame A or B largely depends on whether you sympathized with or opposed A's action ex ante. Nobody who opposes the death penalty is going to say that the people who prevented state prisons from getting access to sodium thiopental are at fault when states wing it and botch executions badly. Likewise nobody who favors marijuana decriminalization is going to say that shops should cease selling marijuana if the federal government doesn't let them bank. And nobody who already thinks Israel is a colonialist apartheid regime is going to say that it is justified in attacking military targets commingled with civilians. However, logically these conclusions have a lot in common, even though most people would agree to some but not all of them. And I'm just gonna lay out a marker here that any arguments I get on this will be to the effect that one issue is substantively different from the others, and I don't necessarily disagree, but it really does prove my broader point that it's all about whether you sympathized with the person engaging in the action or the person opposing the action in the first place and not about whether we should generally hold responsible actors who heighten the contradictions of an action as part of their attempts to abolish it.
]]>I found this interesting not only because it's a much discussed case but also because it's a close fit with my article published a few months ago in Sociological Theory. (Here's an ungated version that lacks the benefit of some really good copy-editing). In the article I talk about situations where a moral objection gets in the way of a transaction but the transaction nonetheless occurs through the expedient of obfuscating that a transaction is occurring at all. I describe three mechanisms for accomplishing this and the nonprofit exemption which now also applies to Hobby Lobby is characterized by two of them, brokerage and bundling. That is, the employer does not buy the IUD for the employee but rather pays a broker (the insurance processor) who in turn provides the IUD. Moreover, the IUD is bundled together with other health coverage. The third model which is not at issue in Hobby Lobby but which I describe in the paper is gift exchange, where explicit quid pro quo is replaced with tacit reciprocity.
Of course for an exchange to be morally objectionable or for it to be koshered is entirely subjective. Most obviously in Hobby Lobby there is a range of opinions about the moral acceptability of birth control and abortifacients and where to draw the line between the two. More interesting to me is that opinions vary on what counts as "buying" the contested commodity and whether to seize on obfuscation and denounce it. On this issue the irony is that while the Obama administration itself came up with this obfuscation for nonprofits it opposed extending it to for-profit firms. At a general level, obfuscation doesn't objectively exist but rather it creates a permission structure that actors can choose to consent to.
This becomes clear when we contrast Hobby Lobby to Little Sisters of the Poor. Whereas the owners of Hobby Lobby sued to avail themselves of the obfuscatory accomodation, the Little Sisters of the Poor who (as a nonprofit) already have this obfuscation available to them but are suing to denounce it as mere obfuscation and completely remove themselves from even obfuscated provision of all birth control. Specifically, the Little Sisters are refusing to fill out EBSA Form 700 stating their objection to providing contraceptive coverage since to do so would trigger provision through their insurer and they see this as involving themselves in something morally objectionable. That is, while Hobby Lobby would be delighted to wink and nod (and the Obama administration was reluctant to allow them to do so) the Little Sisters are adamantly opposed to a fig leaf (and the Obama administration would be delighted were they to play along with the face-saving obfuscation).
]]>I found this ironic since in other contexts (most notably, poverty) the right tends to emphasize cultural explanations and cultural solutions which the left meets with structural explanations and structural solutions. For instance, in explaining why there are such disordered family lives among the poor, the right tends to emphasize a declining interest in marriage (or in more subtle and accurate versions of the argument, the shift towards a cornerstone conception) whereas the left meets this with structural arguments about the shortage of marriageable men in low-income communities. And it is worth noting that while the right is probably correct that marriage is causally important and not just an issue of selection, the evidence seems to be on the left's side that marriage promotion doesn't work.
The general tendency seems to be that if I say culture, you say agency, and vice versa. As in so many other things, I see this switcheroo as not entirely motivated by a cold-eyed analysis and saying, eureka, it looks like the schwerpunkt of rape is culture whereas poverty is better solved by concentrating on structure (or vice versa). Rather the heuristic seems to be avoiding actions we find intrinsically objectionable and a related one of assigning responsibility for reform to the parties we find morally culpable and avoiding placing demands upon sympathetic people. We see the first heuristic operating in the many responses I saw to Ross that were much more enthusiastic about lowering the drinking age than his other two proposals. This is predictable given that all three of Ross's proposals load on Haidt's moral foundation of "liberty/oppression," but one goes one way and the other two the other way. Even if it is in fact the case that increasing liberty in some respects and restricting it in others is the best way to reduce a horrific crime, fewer people think in terms of "does this work" than "is it moral." The other heuristic is a sort of who/whom logic that (understandably) wants to punish the guilty while holding harmless the victim. This most obviously manifests in the common (morally sympathetic but not terribly prudent) criticism of anything that tacitly "blames the victim" through offering advice on how to avoid victimization. In the reaction to Ross's piece we see it in the largely sympathetic reaction to his proposal to wage total war on fraternity row compared to his mostly reviled (and frequently distorted) proposal to bring curfew lite to the dorms. The former punishes the aggressors and so is intrinsically worthwhile, but the latter restricts the autonomy of the victims and so is unacceptable. Whether either of them would be effective at reducing the rate of a felony second only to murder is at best a post hoc consideration.
]]>This glib remark strikes me as highly dubious but also typical of libertarians, which I understand to be Ms. Weeks' political perspective. Just as when liberals say something (say, health care not directly related to communicable diseases) is a "public good" they don't really mean that it is non-rivalrous and non-excludbale, but only that they think the state ought to pay for it. Likewise when libertarians say something (and in particular a vice) is demand inelastic they don't actually mean that quantity demanded doesn't respond to changes in price, but only that they don't want the state to regulate it. (Conversely, libertarians tend to play up elasticity with regards to taxes that they don't like).
But let's unpack what it would mean for porn demand to be inelastic. First, we can consider short-run elasticity. Elasticity is largely a function of substitutability and purchasing porn has good substitutes (starting with rewatching previously purchased porn) and so should be elastic. Moreover, demand for vices tends to follow a zero-inflated count distribution which means much of the total demand is concentrated among the heaviest users and which in turn means that you have to worry about income effects imposing a hard constraint as heavy users simply run out of money and therefore their demand is relatively elastic in terms of purchasing power even if their desire is unsatiated.
Moreover, we can take a long-run view. In the long-run as people shift to new margins very few things are inelastic. For instance gasoline is famously inelastic in the short run but this isn't really true in the long run as we saw when the price of gasoline rose in 2006 and 2007 it led to a decrease in demand for exurban housing and SUVs and so the price of gasoline was less inelastic in the long-run than in the short-run. For vices we have the rational addiction model that suggests that even if demand is inelastic in the short-run (ie, addicts gotta get their fix) it is elastic in the long-run as price hikes motivate current users to quit and/or potential new users to refrain from starting. That is, if porn becomes expensive we should expect to see some current consumers learn to rely on their imaginations and new potential users fail to have sufficient exposure to be captured and conversely if porn becomes cheap we should expect to see more people develop the habit of frequently consuming it.
And putting aside theory, it's something of an empirical question since first VHS and then the internet radically reduced the price of pornography (especially if one includes "transport" costs of hassle, shame, etc). I am highly skeptical that this decrease in the total price has led to no more consumption, as we would expect if demand were perfectly inelastic. That is, if demand for porn were perfectly inelastic this would imply no greater consumption today than in 1995 or 1985 or 1975 and this strains credulity.
The reason this matters is that if demand for vices is in fact elastic, or even just imperfectly inelastic (like gasoline), then it matters what the total price (including transport) is. This in turn means that decriminalizing vices is not a free lunch of just giving up enforcement costs (and evasion of enforcement) but you've also got to face the facts of increased demand.
]]>Nietzsche, of course, put his own indelible stamp on this account, calling the impulse at play between the master and slave classes the "will-to-power." This term has several treatments in his work, but in Beyond Good and Evil he gives it a gloss that has chilling resonance for us today. It's tempting to think of something called a "will-to-power," and described as fundamental, as some primal appetite, a deep cause, but here Nietzsche calls it, instead, an "effect." In this it's related to another great Nietzschean phrase, "the pathos of distance." In short, a strong guy, looking around and seeing relative weakness in those around him, feeling the elevation that separates him from them as he looks down, wants to realize this merely latent power difference in action. The will-to-power follows something like hydrologic principles. A subject comprehending his own superiority feels the possibility of domination flowing out of him, via this awareness of downward distance, and from this the desire to realize this possibility formulates itself. The will-to-power, as an urge or motive, is thus effect of what the self can actually do. The larger the zone of envisioned latitude, the greater momentum the subject can see itself building up unopposed, the larger the will's appetite to expand and realize itself will be. The specter of relative weakness is an invitation, a goad
Now, as Hegel described, before Nietzsche applied his dramatic names to the dynamic, even the hungriest subject, embedded in the pressing social and material conditions of work and communal life, will see only small possibilities for its expansion, small margins of self-assertion and recognition to offer as food to its will-to-power. Common life is paltry ground for cultivating existential ambition – and so discontent. For most people throughout historical space and time, the vistas of self were short and narrow. The self, as a projection of the imagination the will-to-power might strive to realize in action, and whose disappointments tend to form in proportion to these ambitions, was small. Its ambitions were small. Its disappointments were small. The phenomenological conditions of self-assertion made delusions of grandeur not just absurd in their content but hard to formulate at all. With the demise of feudalism and the rise of liberal democracy, in the Hegelian story, abstract subjectivity was doled out in modest portions determined by both law and nature (as understood by science), and, in theory, possessed in equal measure by everyone.
The internet both apotheosizes this process, of liberally redistributing aristocratic selfhood throughout the demos, and returns it to its first moment, in which an abstract and unbounded and perhaps empty and brittle subjectivity floats free of material life. It's brought back Aristotle's model of subjectivity at its most elevated and abstract, the materially free Greek citizen engaged in an ungrounded textual politics of self-assertion, and it's globalized its setting. Instead of those standing in earshot of a citizen's voice, the subject of the internet has a theoretical audience of all of humanity. The ambitions he tends for his own recognition can have that as their measure. And the resentments and disappointments he can husband when reality mocks those ambitions can grow to global size as well.
On this reading of the history of subjectivity, Elliot Rodger's expression of his existential and sexual ambitions and the attendant disappointments and the much-discussed meanings he assigned to them, via YouTube videos posted on an easily accessed "web" described as "worldwide," are not incidental but inherent to their formulation, to the construction of a self from which they flowered into an aristocrat's grand entitlement, and then into disappointment and killing.
]]>"Star Trek: Into Darkness": wow. What a dumb, dumb movie.
"Star Trek" has a big place in my life, and I don't care who knows. I learned English by watching Star Trek. Star Trek, to me, will always be one of our greatest pop cultural sensations, because it is, as best as I can tell, the only space adventure show for a popular audience that takes ideas seriously; and, starting with TNG, characters.
The first Star Trek reboot movie made it clear that this was all going down the hatch. It was just a fun action-adventure romp, and very consciously and publicly made no effort at grasping what makes Star Trek great.
But boy, is Into Darkness dumb. The plot makes no sense. Whatsoever. The plot holes are big enough to fly the Enterprise through, and I use a cliché phrase like this to honor a movie made up of clichés a bunch of stitched-together clichés. The Klingons are just dumb-ass space thugs. The scrawny, charisma-free British guy they cast as Khan has zero credibility as a genetically-enhanced superwarrior. Starfleet us utterly clueless and ineffective as an organization.
And there is that supremely odd anesthetic quality to big-budget Hollywood action scenes where there is so much CG pyrotechnics that it all adds up to something distinctly underwhelming, and you find yourself unable to care because you know that you're one hour into the movie and so the main characters are in zero danger.
I have to write this now because I know tomorrow I'll have forgotten everything about the movie.
]]>When the storm comes the insufficient aggregate demand of all their austerity will foam up about their waists and all the oligarchs and politicians will look up and shout "save us!" and I'll look down and whisper "stimulus."
They had a choice, all of them. They could have followed good men like my advisor, or President Roosevelt. Decent men who believed in counter-cyclical spending. Instead they followed the droppings of racists and goldbugs.
Krugman's Journal. May 2, 2014.
Slept all day. Awoken at 4:37. Undergrad complaining about a B-. I am sure she cheated on the SAT. Beneath me, the township screams like an eating club full of intoxicated undergrads.
New York. Last month I got hired for a figurehead no show job in New York. Somebody knows why. The dusk reeks of foundation money and bad consciences.
Krugman's Journal. May 3, 2014.
Meeting with Summers left bad taste in mouth. Possibly Koch-funded? Must remember to investigate further.
Why are so few of us left active, healthy, and without confirmation bias?
Why does it matter where Ronald Reagan gave a speech 35 years ago? Because there is good and there is dog-whistling, and dog-whistling must be punished. Even in the face of austerity I shall not compromise in this. But there are so many deserving of vituperation … and there are only 800 words Mondays and Fridays.
Krugman's Journal. May 4, 2014.
Thought about Bartlett's story on way to cemetery. Could all be lies. Could all be part of a revenge scheme. But if true, then what?
Heard joke once. Man goes into doctor. Says he's confused. Says policy seems full of trade-offs. Doctor says "Treatment is simple. Nobel Laureate economist is in town tonight. Go and see him lecture. That should clear things up." Man bursts into tears. Says "But Doctor … I am a Nobel Laureate economist." Good joke, Everybody laughs.
Krugman's Journal. May 4, 2014.
He knows nothing about any attempt to discredit Medicaid. He has simply been used. By whom? Kochs seem obvious choice. But the Oregon study was conducted by faculty at Harvard Public Health and MIT econ. Doesn't fit. Can't concentrate.
Krugman's Journal. May 5, 2014.
On way out of Princeton met Woody Woo dean. Usual complaints Re: coughing "bullshit" at faculty meetings. There were micro-econ publications on her cv. Fresh ones. Out on Prospect inspected Madison Institute. Man and woman, possibly discussing God. Didn't like it. Makes campus look haunted.
Krugman's Journal. May 6, 2014.
Someone tried to kill the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Proves dog whistle theory. Austerity is closing in. Checked comment thread. Thousands of Times readers praising me. Connected, perhaps?
Is everyone but me going mad? This relentless recession: there is only one sane response to it.
Approached policy debate. An attempted discussion of Piketty. The wingnut turned and there was something rewarding in his derp. Sometimes the blogs are generous to me.
Krugman's Journal. May 7, 2014.
Final entry? Left Princeton just before Midnight. Mayer, convinced Koch's behind everything, is serious about visiting Manhattan. New Jersey Transit capable, apparently, but are we? Kochs. Cannot imagine more dangerous opponent. Prosperity seems unlikely. This last entry. Will shortly push to op-ed page CMS, only people can trust. For my own part, regret nothing. Have lived life, free from compromise…and step into the shadow now without complaint.
[Inspired by a conversation with James and Alan.]
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In his house at R'lyeh, dead Cthulhu waits dreaming.
In his house at R'lyeh, dead Cthulhu waits dreaming.
In his house at R'lyeh, dead Cthulhu waits dreaming.
What is the relationship between the Old Ones and the shoggoth?
A 1931 study by the scientific faculty at Miskatonic University found that the shoggoth were the creations of Old Ones. The shoggoth served the Old Ones and built their cities but catastrophe befell them.
What effect does Cthulhu have on mental health?
A 1926 study from the Department of Semitic Languages at Brown University documented multiple cases of men driven beyond insanity by encountering fetishes or dreams of Cthulhu. The study suggests that attempting to grasp the inconceivable power of the Old Ones and their complete indifference to human welfare suggests the utter meaninglessness of existence that shatters the psyche.
Does Obamacare affect Cthulhu?
A 2011 report by the Congressional Budget Office attempted to answer this question. It found that the entirety of human existence is just a transient incident that cannot be leavened by bland optimism about bending cost curves. Following the study, fourteen health economists were committed to the Walter Reed Army Medical Center where they remain catatonic in horror at the realization that the universe is incomprehensible and our own place within it of infinitessimal inconsequentiality.
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Iraq crisis: Islamist militants attack Tikrit and near Baghdad after 500,000 are forced to flee Mosul
Extremists capture another major city as government forces disintegrate
Wednesday 11 June 2014
Sunni insurgents advancing on Baghdad after taking Mosul have captured the city of Tikrit, the home town of Saddam Hussein, as government forces disintegrate and fail to offer resistance. Iraqi soldiers and police are reported to have discarded their uniforms, changed into civilian clothes and fled after firing only a few shots.
The offensive led by the fundamentalist Islamist group Isis appears to be turning into a general uprising by Iraq's Sunni Arab community that lost power when Iraq was invaded by the US and its allies in 2003. Militants from Isis have taken the refinery town of Baiji on the Tigris, which is also the site of a power station supplying Baghdad. Some 250 guards protecting the refinery withdrew after militant fighters asked local sheikhs by mobile phone to tell them to pull out or face a fight to the death.
In Mosul, Isis has been seeking to reassure the local population by knocking on doors to tell people they would not be harmed and asking government employees to return to work. Many of those who fled towards Kurdistan when the city fell have returned as the Kurds would not allow them to enter Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) territory.
A woman, who did not want to give her name, said she had started to flee with her family when they realised it was useless to go on and had returned home "rather than asking the Kurds for mercy we know they won't give. We know them from regular visits to Kurdistan". Though Isis, hitherto known for its ferocity and religious bigotry, is not seeking to alienate people, it is reported to have seized the Turkish consulate in Mosul, taking captive the consul general and 47 Turks. If they continue to be held hostage, this raises the possibility that Turkey may intervene in the escalating crisis. The Turkish Prime Minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, held an emergency meeting with senior officials to discuss the deteriorating situation in Iraq. The UN Security Council deplored the attacks "in the strongest terms", and demanded the immediate return of all hostages abducted from the consulate. The UN envoy in Iraq is scheduled to brief the council at a closed meeting on Thursday.
It is possible that Peshmerga forces of the KRG may intervene on the side of the beleaguered government to stop the Isis-led advance. Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari, himself a senior Kurdish leader, said that the fall of Mosul was a "serious, mortal threat" to Iraq. He added: "We can push back on the terrorists… and there would be closer co-operation between Baghdad and the Kurdistan Regional Government to work together and try to flush out these foreign fighters."
Iraqi officials have told The Independent they do have "an anti-terrorism force capable of resisting Isis and recapturing Mosul, but they are few in number." The speed of the collapse of the regular security forces, about 900,000, will also make it difficult to stage a counter-attack before more cities are lost.
Though critics of the army have long accused it of being a corrupt patronage machine providing jobs for government supporters, its failure to fight this week has been astonishing, even though it far outnumbers its opponents. In Baiji, for instance, a resident, Jasim al-Qaisi, told a news agency the militants warned police and soldiers not to resist them.
He said: "Gunmen contacted the most prominent tribal sheikhs in Baiji via cell phone and told them, 'We are coming to die or control Baiji, so we advise you to ask your sons in the police and army to lay down weapons and withdraw before [Tuesday] evening'."
Isis is a well-organised and well-led organisation which meticulously prepares attacks and supplements them with suicide bombings carried out by foreign volunteers. It may also be that Saddam Hussein's old officer corps and specialists from his Mukhabarat security service and special forces are responsible for Isis's expertise. Mosul was the traditional home of many military families. One unnamed Iraqi political scientist said: "What happened in Mosul was a victory of Saddam's old army over the new army created since his fall."
It is evident Isis has been able to exploit the growing sense of persecution by the Sunni in Iraq. Peaceful protests that started at the end of 2012 had produced no significant concessions from the government. A peace camp at Hawaijah, captured by militants today, was stormed by the Iraqi army in May 2013 and over 50 protesters were killed. Non-violent protests transmuted into armed opposition. In the parliamentary election this April, the Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki presented himself as the leader of the Shia who would quell a Sunni counter-revolution centred in Anbar. His political campaign succeeded at the polls, but he will be held responsible for the current disaster in which small bands of militants have been able to defeat the gargantuan Iraqi security forces.
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Mr Maliki said Mosul had fallen because of a "conspiracy" and soldiers who fled should be punished. He said: "We are making preparations and we are regrouping the armed forces that are in charge of clearing Nineveh from those terrorists."
He is pressing parliament to declare a state of emergency but there are fears he would use these powers to increase his own authority without being able to hold the insurgency in check. Up to this week, it seemed likely he would serve a third term as PM but after the loss of Mosul, Tikrit and Baiji his future as Iraqi leader, and the future of the Iraqi state, must be in doubt.
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A fresh influx of radicalised British Muslims may be drawn to the Middle East, counter-terrorism experts warned.
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Charlie Cooper, a researcher with the anti-extremist Quilliam Foundation, said: "Foreign fighters are attracted to Isis because of its utopian offering of fighting for a promised Islamic state."
Robin Simcox, at the Henry Jackson Society, another think-tank, said: "There are not many precedents for this situation but Afghanistan is one. What is concerning is that the ability of Britain or the US to influence this situation is negligible."
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I believe it is /usr/local/lib/codecs - you will have to make the codecs directory.
im having some trouble playing a dvd with mplayer this is the error i getCode:MPlayer 1.0pre7-3.3.4 (C) 2000-2005 MPlayer Team
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Detected cache-line size is 64 bytes
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You may not be able to play that DVD if you don't have libdvdcss installed. To play DVD's you will need libdvdcss but I am pretty sure libdvdcss is illegal in the USA. You will want to check the legality of that for yourself.
you can actually set it in the player... the default is
I was wrong, that is where xine by default sees them. bryan is correct :oops:
I've never been able to get mplayer to work properly. Doesn't play DVDs, and plays but a few WMV files. I've pretty much gone strictly to gxine.
i got mplayer to open the dvd but now the video is messed up its like broken up into lines hard to explain. i also tried another video like mpeg same thing i have the essential codecs installed into /usr/local/lib/codecs/ is this the write place?? or is there a way i can make mplayer look for the codecs in that dir??
I'm pretty sure it's in /usr/local/lib/win32. I put mine in quite a few places, just to be sure.
If you add packman.iu-bremen.de to your yast sources, you can get a functional mplayer.I am pretty sure that is the source (I have a couple).Code:Server: packman.iu-bremen.de
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Tebow has ways to go to win respect as QB from fellow players
It should be noted, by the way, that Tebow's most recent falter against the Bills, which included four interceptions, occurred after the Pro Bowl vote. Tebow's season was instead judged on his seven wins and two losses (to playoff teams Detroit and New England).
While he might forever muster a respectable portion of the fan vote (which accounts for one-third of the overall selection process), attaining the vote of the players and coaches (which each also account for one-third) will be a different story.
Romeo Crennel to use Chiefs' starters
Few people outside Oakland would begrudge the Chiefs for taking it easy against Denver. Crennel doesn't expect that to be the case, though. He plans to put his best team on the field rather than get some young players in for the experience, guys like rookie quarterback Ricky Stanzi who have spent the majority of the season on the practice squad or the sideline.
"Every game that you play, the guy has to look in the mirror and know he's giving his best effort to try to win the game," Crennel said. "I think that's the case Sunday with Denver, every guy on the team, the coaches included. Like I said, it's never one guy."
It's wishful thinking to suggest that Romeo Crennel approach Week 17 against the Broncos as if it doesn't matter.
It's also comical. Hey Romeo, um, listen, would you mind playing your practice squad quarterback this game, you know, for experience? We know you want to coach again in this league and want to win bad, but let's pull back on that fire a bit and let Ricky Stanzi play this thing out. He could be the real deal.
Tracking Tebow, Week 16: Defenses are catching on
A week after New England worked to contain Tebow in the pocket and forced him to win the game with his arm, Buffalo perfected the game plan. The Bills usually rushed four, dropped seven into coverage, made sure Tebow didn't break the pocket for long runs, and made him squeeze throws into tight windows, often with disastrous results.
But don't mistake the Bills' game plan for Tebow reverting to the form that had him embarrassed by the Lions back in October. He continues to improve, even if incrementally. The problem: as defenses become more comfortable recognizing and attacking the Broncos' option scheme, Denver will need to find ways to adapt. And that will mean using Tebow in more conventional ways. Can they (he) do it?
Miller's production has slipped after injury
Miller, the No. 2 overall draft pick, needs three sacks Sunday at Kansas City to tie Jevon Kearse's rookie record of 14.5 sacks, set in 1998. San Francisco's Aldon Smith, the No. 7 overall draft pick, has 14 sacks. He has 6.5 sacks since Miller's injury. It will be interesting to see who wins the NFL defensive rookie of the year award. Miller has been on the field more than Smith and has he had a bigger impact throughout the year, but Smith's sacks numbers may be difficult to deny even though Miller has 29 more tackles than Smith.
Williamson raises a fair point that wouldn't have been even remotely possible three weeks ago. As we know, and as John Elway confirmed this morning, Miller's hand injury has affected his sack totals. But do sack numbers mean more than overall production? Let's just quickly throw down the lines of both players"
Name | Team | Snaps | QB Sacks | QB Hits | QB Pressures | Tackles | Assists | Stops |
Aldon Smith | SF | 446 | 14 | 12 | 30 | 12 | 2 | 22 |
Von Miller | DEN | 873 | 11.5 | 19 | 28 | 41 | 8 | 41 |
I could have easily turned all of these into rate stats (sacks/snap, etc.), but they would essentially show the same thing: Aldon Smith has been more productive as a pass rusher, while Miller has been more productive overall. We're clearly biased here at IAOFM. We think Miller is the next Derrick Thomas, but with the chops to also play the running game. Does that mean he's Defensive Rookie of the Year? In our minds, it certainly does.
Bill Maher Slams Tim Tebow on Twitter
On Saturday, Tim Tebow and the Denver Broncos had a very bad day as they lost to the Buffalo Bills 40 - 14. That led so-called comedian Bill Maher to tweet: "Wow, Jesus just f****d #TimTebow bad! And on Xmas Eve! Somewhere in hell Satan is tebowing, saying to Hitler 'Hey, Buffalo's killing them.'
Fox News' Eric Bolling responded: "Bill Maher is disgusting vile trash. I can't even repeat what he just tweeted about Tebow..on Christmas Eve. #straighttohellBill"
Eventually I'll learn not to dip my toe into these things, but until then, here we go. I get satire; I get hyperbole; in fact, I engage in a fair amount of it myself. Sometimes, I'll even get a reader who emails me upset until I remind them that they shouldn't read every headline I write literally until reading the story.
When you're a young and impressionable man, they send you--cleanly shaven, of course--to Satire School. On the first day, before they assign you lockers, they write on the chalkboard the fundamental rule: No Hitler jokes.
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"...turnovers kind of got to us again…we were in the football game, and the next thing we knew, we were kind of out of the football game…execution hasn't been as good in the last couple weeks, but we haven't done anything to help ourselves with turnovers."
Elway said little of significance (as you'd expect) in this interview. He's probably just glad it's his last of the year with Vic and Gary. Here are a few of the nuggets:
The biggest revelation to me from this interview is that the Broncos don't give Tim Tebow a lot of audibles. Elway also confirmed something we've suspected all along--Von Miller really doesn't like playing with a cast on his hand.
Although we poke a little fun at Vic and Gary from time to time, props to them for putting Elway on the spot. The Broncos said they wanted to be more transparent this year. Vic and Gary made them live up to that promise.
Saints Tight End Jimmy Graham Grants Christmas Wish After Hearing Teen's Catchy Tune
New Orleans Saints tight end Jimmy Graham has won many fans this season. But perhaps none greater than 16-year-old Alex Newman. The New Orleans native learned about football from her dad when she was only 8, and she was instantly hooked on her home team. Dad also taught her the guitar, and this Christmas, Alex decided to put those skills to use crafting a tribute to her favorite Saint. On Saturday morning, Stella woke her big sister to tell her some big news. The video made its way to Graham, who made sure the girls got tickets to Monday night's game against the Falcons.
I'm totally jealous of this 16-year old girl. This never worked on Lita Ford or Dokken when I tried it on them back in the day.
After leg amputation, QB's spirit inspires even Tebow
"The doctors told me a couple times that I wasn't going to get amputated, so I was feeling pretty good until Friday," Rainey, who has received a signed, personalized Alabama jersey from Nick Saban, among other gifts, told the AP. "I don't remember a lot, but I just remember them telling me it was going to get amputated and I was just like, `All right, well, that sucks."'
This story has been out there a few days thanks to Tim Tebow. Props to Tebow for taking an interest.
You've got to love the kid's reaction to his situation. I've seen worse reactions (me included) to a Broncos loss.
Not only does this story keep sports in the proper perspective, it gives me a new mantra after the Broncos fall in a close game: "All right, well, that sucks."
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Best flip since Gerald Willhite:
Monte Poole: Oakland Raiders find a way to 'win it in the end'
It was enough for Jackson to invoke the late Al Davis, the man who 11 months ago promoted Hue from offensive coordinator to head coach. "The man told me, 'Hue, we will win it in the end' and I believe that," Jackson said. "I don't know how it's going to happen. But I know this much: I truly believe in the guy who was my leader, who told me that before he passed."
Not only do the Broncos have to contend with a pissed-off Kyle Orton, they've got Al Davis bringing his supernatural powers from beyond the grave. Since we're well versed in Davis' powers of prediction when he was alive (Jason Campbell and JaMarcus Russell immediately come to mind), it looks like a Broncos victory is in the cards.


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She also planned on meeting with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during her first trip to the Jewish state to discuss key issues facing the U.S. ally.
Palin, a 2008 vice presidential candidate, is a potential White House contender in 2012 and a leading light in the fiscally conservative Tea Party movement.
Together with the rabbi who oversees the Jewish holy site in Jerusalem's old city, Palin toured the tunnels beneath the Western Wall, which are remains of a Roman-era Temple.
"As the world confronts sweeping changes and new realities, I look forward to meeting with Prime Minister Netanyahu to discuss the key issues facing his country, our ally Israel," Palin, who flew in from India, said in a statement on her website.
Israeli media described her trip as a bid to show support for Israel, whose standing is strong among U.S. voters, and gain more experience in international affairs ahead of a possible presidential run.
Palin, who is keeping her supporters guessing on whether she will run for the presidency, made no comment to reporters on arrival at Tel Aviv's Ben-Gurion airport for the two-day visit.
The former Alaska governor has used lucrative television, book and speaker deals to emerge as one of her party's biggest stars since running as the 2008 Republican vice presidential nominee. During that campaign she was criticised for a lack of foreign policy expertise.
Palin was scheduled to have dinner with Netanyahu and his wife on Monday.
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Favorite thing:
- no, is not a mature only place, I would say the contrary
- yes, is a hardcore party place, many pubs, discos and bars, open until late night
- for sure is not a too quiet place
- weather will be great, no rains in september
- beach is great for swiming, kyte surf or just walking on the seashore
Palma city center is near, 10m on public bus. Use bus 15 to go to Palma, spend some hours walking on the historic center, visit the cathedral "La Seu", La Almudaina palace, walk on the "paseo maritimo" side by side the sea shore, enjoy sun on the beach and if you can visit Valldemosa, Deia and Soller in the mountains... good luck!
Favorite thing:
Soller is a chill-out place, close your eyes, eat some ice cream , talk to some old people, relax again!
Fondest memory:
I am happy I came here in May since it still was very calm and it really keeps the real charm of the place.
Favorite thing: This street is just behind the arabian baths if my memory serves me well.. Just a fun and nice stroll around this area will probably bring you here. Or like one is supposed to do, getting lost in the city will lead you to the best places
Favorite thing: This street is somewhere in the area behind the cathedral. There you can find lots of tiny streets, little shops and of course the arabian baths. As always when you have enough tim eto explore everything and all for months one doesn't pay attention. So when i took this picture i didn't give it a thought. And ever since then i can't remember exactly where it is. Though i'd probably have no difficulty walking straight to this street if i was in Palma
Favorite thing: Made this picture somewhere in the city centre.. i think just in one of the streets behind the cathedral. But that is as best an indication of its location as i can give you. But i like it very much and wanted to share it with you. If you find it on any of your own explorations of Palma, drop me a note will you
Favorite thing:
The weather here is perfect every day. Its about 80 degrees all the time. Even when it rained somehow the sun managed to emerge and make it a good day to drink and party ;).
Fondest memory:
Everyday there was great all I did was drink and party for 7 days straight. I'm talking about every day 24/7
Favorite thing:
You will have understood it with the passing of my journeys, I am attracted by the old city alleys that I visit. It is often there that one recovers the history of these cities, and also the inhabitants and the realities of life.
Fondest memory:
In the center city, a lot of streets, in stairs, are reserved to the pedestrians, and very storekeepers. If one moves away a little, one finds other charms in these alleys.
Favorite thing:
A view of the harbor of Palma of Majorca, since the gardens that border the battlements of the old city.
Fondest memory:
All around of the battlements has been arranged a walk, with gardens to the site of the moats. It is one places cool, quiet and relaxing.
Favorite thing: Palma is the province capital of the island of Mallorca. It is the main commercial area with more than 300,000 people living. In Palma you should visit the Cathedral, a majestic gothic-barroque building, a great example of both styles. But if Mallorca is famous for a thing, it is for the beaches, coral blue water with white sand beaches, reminds you a lot to the caribbean.
Favorite thing: Palma is picturesquely situated along the bay and into the surrounding hills, and is one of Europe's most renowned resorts. The many craft industries supplement tourism.
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Palma is the capital of the Island of Majorca and of the Baleares Province of Spain, and is situated on the Bay of Palma. It is the chief port and commerical centre of the Balearic Islands.
Favorite thing:
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this page is just the basics ov Palma nightlife as i have visited Palma over 2 times and the nightlife there is great not only that but the food and the ATMOSPHERE is brilliant to!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Favorite thing:
Mallorca actually is really German what a lot of people don't like!
It's affortable to get there and the weather is great!
Some people call this island 'little Germany' because you don't really see Spanish people there. Everywhere German tourist, German food and Music....
Anyways, it's a really nice island and has a lot of attractions (besides the German 'Ballermann-parties':-) ).You can relax on the beach or at the pool, but also do advanture stuff like all kinds of sport-activities, walking in the mountains, visiting Palma or the non-tourist areas in the middle of the island....
Fondest memory:
Had a good time there with my family, also met some friends!
Favorite thing:
You are going to visit Palma, ok!!! you select a wonderfull city and island to take your holidays.
Now you have to go to the one of the many wonderfull beaches that we have in Mallorca. after you can visit the old city, with the gothic Cathedral, Almudaina Palas or the crazy shopping center with a lot of tourist.
If you are tired and you have hungry you can go to a tapas bar to taste the typical spanish food and at night, you can go out to Passeo Maritimo, Tito´s,La Lonja, or Pacha, all of them are interesting places to enjoy yourself.
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In Palma, you absolutely have to visit the Cathedral wich is based just in front of the port.Go there when it's not so warm, around 6pm.Then, go to eat in a tipical restaurant in the old Palma, near Palma's fantastic market place, and then drink a 'hierbas' at the bingo wich is situated on this place,you will drink and play in an old theater refected ultra modern.After that, go to El Arenal for night time.You will first go for a walk in the beach street where you'll choose the bar you want before going to party all night long.
Go to the blue lighted IBIZA PUB, to the TCHA-TCHA, then the clubs you have to go are JOY PALACE, ZORBA'S, RIU PALACE,and the TCHA-TCHA is an after too.Thoses are my favorites places.No matter the streets, the taxi driver knows each of it and you can make quite everything walking.
For a drink : 6 $
For a restaurant : 13 $
For a club : 17 $ for a boy, 12 $ for a girl OPEN BAR for everybody ( beer, cocktails, champain,short drinks +3 long drinks )
See you there !
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What I miss is the sea and the beach, when it's warm at night and when you can go with your friends after dancing, relaxing in the water!
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