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Three Poems
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Vol. 24 No. 12 · 27 June 2002 » Michael Longley » Three Poems
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I want to celebrate the storied history of pro wrestling by painting a portrait of every heavyweight champion. Read more
I want to celebrate the storied history of pro wrestling by painting a portrait of every heavyweight champion.
About this project
Harley Race has agreed to sign the painting I did of him (it's the one in the video, and you can see it below), and everyone who contributes to this project at any level is eligible to win it, providing it fully funds! There's only a few days left to participate and to get the word out, so please contribute if you have not yet, and put out the word if you have! I'm beyond excited!
"Heeeellllllloooooooooooooooooo wrestling fans!"
This, or a greeting like it, would welcome viewers of professional wrestling every week. It's also welcoming you to my project, which is to paint a portrait of every world heavyweight champion. I'm going to start with the NWA, AWA, ECW, WCW, WCWA/USWA, TNA, ROH and WWWF/WWF/WWE. Ideally I would like to continue with other promotions like New Japan and CMLL.
WWE Champion CM Punk
Why would you want to paint heavyweight wrestling champions?
First and foremost, why wouldn't I? But seriously, it's because these men mean so much to so many people around the world. The world championship is the pinnacle of any sport, even a pre-determined one like professional wrestling. The man who holds that title has to be believable as a champion and also has to draw crowds to see him defend his title, both of which are very real responsibilities. In the old days, the champion would often have to legitimately defend the title against opponents who were looking to bring the title to their territory. I also want to do this for the fans who fill the auditoriums and arenas every week, who make all of the magic happen.
Ric Flair. You'll get one of these at the $25 and $50 levels! Woooo!
Who are you to take on a project like this and why would I support you?
I'm a serious painter who takes his work seriously and makes serious art. Not so seriously? I'm a fan just like you. I think these guys are the coolest, and I love the stories around them. I'm not an art world insider, I'm a common guy from the Kansas City suburbs who wants to do something special. I'm Stone Cold Steve Austin going against the Corporation. I'm Dusty Rhodes, a common man of common origins. I'm Harley Race, a man who found what he was good at and used it to entertain the world. I'm just like you: I'm someone with a dream and the ambition and skills to make it come true. But like every wrestler I need you, my audience, to make it all real.
What is the money going towards, you ask? Twenty grand's a lot of money. I want to get real studio space that can also serve as a gallery. I think it would be great for people to be able to come see the paintings in person. Paying for all of these supplies to make the art is costly to boot. For reals, I'm going to need to buy wood and supplies for around 250 paintings!
Kansas City wrestling legend Harley Race
Why would a guy from Kansas City be the one to do this?
Kansas City has a very rich wrestling history. The National Wrestling Alliance was formed here. Harley Race, a five-time world champion, grew up in the Kansas City area and won his first world title in Kansas City. Ric Flair won his first world title here as well. Hulk Hogan won his last WWE championship in our great town. And 'Texas' Bob Geigel has made his home here for decades and ran the NWA as its president from Kansas City. But also, it's because of the deep love that our city has for its local wrestlers and how their histories intertwine that create these personal bonds.
Frank Gotch, the second-ever World Heavyweight Champion
What types of paintings are you going to do?
My style is a mix of influences like street art, comic books, and mid-century illustration, which I feel creates a vibrant and energetic approach to this subject. The art created around professional wrestling has always seemed to lack something. Either it's too real, or it's too cartoonish. It's too polished or too amateurish. I want to be honest to the wrestlers while also bringing that kinetic energy they deliver to their fans. I'm going to do this with a mix of mediums, mostly consisting of acrylics, oils, and spray paint. I'm an experimenter, though, and I'm sure to try new approaches and media as I go.
The legendary Bruiser Brody
What are you going to do with these paintings once you've made them?
Ideally I'm going to sell them to people who share our passion for pro wrestling. I want these to find their way to loving homes, to folks who will look at them and remember why they love this kooky and awesome sport. I've already got interest from wrestlers and promoters. I think some of you will like them, as well!
Shipping internationally is expensive, my friends. Here's the thing: I need the money I'm raising to go towards the project, and not to shipping fees. However, I've received a much higher level of interest from fans abroad than I had anticipated. So: If you're willing to handle the shipping fees separately through PayPal (after I'm funded, of course), then you can be included on any of the levels. We'll just work it out after funding has completed.
If you're going to put in your hard-earned money, I'm going to make sure you get what you want. The only level where there isn't the choice is the $25 pledge, where you'll get a print of the Nature Boy Ric Flair! WOOOOOOOOOO!
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The $5 package plus a hand-drawn marker sketchcard of a world heavyweight champion. US and Canadian residents only.
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Are you a professional wrestler? I'll create an illustration for you that you can use for your own promotional needs. Perfect for t-shirts and prints!
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The next person who makes a 1000 dollar contribution will not only get the 24" x 48" mixed media painting on wood, but also this XVT championship belt. There are only two of them in the world, the other one owned by the champion. Even without that signifigance this is a belt which would cost nearly 1100 dollars...but when this belt is gone, no more will be made. If you've been holding out on making a big contribution, this is the time to make the move!
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You're not supposed to be happy at the end of a 2-8 road trip. But then, you're not supposed to beat Dan Haren and Brandon Webb, on their own turf no less, on back-to-back nights. Because the Dodgers did the latter, they are entitled to do the former. They are right back in this thing, folks, and if they have a good showing against the Snakes at home this coming weekend, it'll be time to buckle your seatbelts — and maybe even to head down to BevMo to see how much champagne costs. Dodgers go to 67-70 and now trail the Snakes by 2 1/2. But the one thing the boys simply can't afford is to get tripped up by the Pods. Three-game series starts tomorrow night (5:10 p.m.) at Chavez Ravine. See you there.
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Complete list of September additions, and some other stuff
The guys coming off the DL are Andruw Jones, Delwyn Young and Scott Proctor. The guys being recalled are Jason Repko, Chin-lung Hu, James McDonald and, of course, Clayton Kershaw, who will pitch on Tuesday night against the Pods as if he had never left. The guy getting his contract purchased is A.J. Ellis, and there already is an open 40-man spot waiting for him to fill it. That's all, folks. Rafael Furcal and Takashi Saito might be added later, but for now, the Dodgers will start September with 33 guys. Xavier Paul is NOT getting a callup despite having a good year at Vegas and despite being on the 40-man. Outfield is too crowded already, and there wouldn't be any playing time for him. I realize that raises the question of why Repko is coming up, but I honestly don't have an answer for that at this point. … Nomar out again tonight, and Torre hinted that Angel Berroa's recent performance — he is 7 for 18 over the past six games in which he has registered an at-bat — could warrant more playing time. However, Joe seemed to indicate that Nomar is still his primary shortstop because of his ability to hit in the clutch. … Jeff Kent's MRI is happening today, but we won't know the results until tomorrow.
Don't you know we're riding … on the Marrakesh Express
Below is a press release the Dodgers sent out last week about the quick success of the Dodgers Trolley, which beginning tomorrow night and through the weeklong homestand will feature certain former Dodgers riding the bus with fans. They're all listed below. I still don't really get the connection between the Dodgers Trolley and Marrakesh Express, a song by Crosby, Stills and Nash that the Dodgers play every night when they're advertising the Trolley on the leftfield video board — and a song that someone just informed me isn't really about a train trip at all but instead is about another kind of trip that was popular in the 1960s. But after looking it up on that inter-web thingy that all the kids are using these days, what I learned was that the Marrakesh Express WAS actually a popular train ride that many hippies took back in the day. What they did when they got to Marrakesh, well, we can only imagine.
But I digress. Here's the release:
The Dodgers Trolley has accommodated more than 30,000 boardings in its first month of operation and will now feature Dodgers legends on some of the rides. Created by the City of Los Angeles as a first step to meeting the demand for public transportation to the stadium, the free service, launched on July 25, has shuttled fans each of the last two homestands between Union Station and Dodger Stadium. The buses ride 90 minutes before every home game and conclude one hour after the game ends.
During the Dodgers' upcoming homestand Hall of Fame Manager Tommy Lasorda and other former Dodgers will ride with fans. Among those scheduled are Rudy Law (Tuesday, Sept. 2), Kenny Landreaux (Wednesday, Sept. 3), Bobby Castillo (Friday, Sept. 5) and Lasorda (Sunday, Sept. 7).
Union Station is the central transit hub for Southern California, with rail lines extending to Long Beach, Santa Clarita, Pasadena, Simi Valley, the San Fernando Valley, the South Bay and the San Gabriel Valley, as well as other areas.
Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa led the first Dodgers Trolley on July 25 and reiterated his commitment to creating convenient, fast, and affordable options for fans traveling to Dodger Stadium.
"We're really excited that at this time of high gas prices that the Dodgers and the City of Los Angeles have provided an opportunity to get people on the trolley, give them an opportunity to beat the traffic, beat the high gas prices, and get to a Dodger game and eat a Dodger Dog," said Villaraigosa.
Mayor Villaraigosa was joined on the first shuttle by City Councilmember Ed P. Reyes and Councilwoman Wendy Greuel, who serves as the Chair of the City's Transportation Committee.
The Dodgers Trolley is the leading topic among fans providing feedback to the club through email@example.com.
"I really enjoy taking the Dodger Trolley service from Union Station," said Dodger fan Vicki Addley of West Hills. "I save money on gas and parking. The best bonus is that I do not have to drive in traffic before the game. It has really added to my Dodger game experience."
"I thought that it was on time, comfortable, quick, not too crowded, and very convenient," said Trisha Addicks, who took the shuttle during a visit from Atlanta, GA. "If the Dodgers had beaten the Rockies, it would have been a perfect evening. Even with the loss, it was a great experience."
"We are pleased that Dodger fans have left their vehicles at home, traveled on the region's public transit system, and taken advantage of the service," said Senior Vice President Howard Sunkin. "Clearly this pilot program demonstrates an overwhelming need for a comprehensive public transit plan for Dodger Stadium."
The shuttle route, which is less than two miles, connects with regional MTA bus and rail services, including the MTA Red, Purple, and Gold Lines. Metrolink and Amtrak services are available on day games. The trolley makes two stops as it travels along Sunset Blvd. on its way to Dodger Stadium. At Figueroa St., the shuttle connects with MTA Lines 2, 4, 55, 60; Metro Limited Lines 302, 304 and 355; as well as Metro Rapid Line 704. This stop allows passengers on LADOT's DASH Lincoln Heights/Chinatown service to easily connect to the stadium. The second stop at Marion Ave. connects the shuttle service with MTA Lines 2 and 4 arriving from the west. The return trip includes all of the same stops.
Fans interested in mapping routes to Union Station from their homes and taking advantage of the free Dodgers Trolley can visit the official Dodgers website at www.dodgers.com/trolley.
Dodgers 6, Diamondbacks 2
The eight-game losing streak, the longest by a Joe Torre-managed team since the 1982 Atlanta Braves, is over, Don't overlook tonight's contribution from Hong-Chih Kuo, who was dazzling. He struck out five of the seven batters he faced after entering with a man on second, a run in and nobody out in relief of Chad Billingsley in the eighth. That saved the Dodgers from having to use any other relievers. … By the way, Billingsley won't start again until next Saturday against the Snakes because Derek Lowe, who pitches tonight, will go Friday night on normal rest because of the off-day Thursday. … Manny Ramirez reached base in nine consecutive plate appearances before grounding out in the ninth inning. Remarkably, this is the first time in his 16-year career that he has had back-to-back, four-hit games. … Dodgers go to 66-70 and pull within 3 1/2 of the Snakes.
Some other, non-Kent-related stuff
Joe Torre said before the game that although Jason Schmidt is going to make another rehab appearance in the Las Vegas season finale on Monday, he isn't going to pitch for the Dodgers this year. He will rejoin the club after Monday and maybe do some simulated games, or he may pitch some games in the Arizona Instructional League this fall. His velocity was mostly in the high 80s last night against Colorado Springs, when he pitched one inning. … Andruw Jones is back in Los Angeles seeing Dr. ElAttrache because his leg is still bothering him, but he is expected to rejoin the Dodgers and be activated in time for the homestand opener on Monday against the Pods. … The list of players the Dodgers plan to activate or call up from the minors on Monday just keeps getting longer. It now includes Jones, Scott Proctor, Chin-lung Hu, A.J. Ellis, Delwyn Young, James McDonald, Eric Stults and Clayton Kershaw. There could be others. … I talked with DeJon Watson before the game about Greg Miller, and he says the organization is still firmly committed to him. "Yes, we are still committed to Greg Miller," he said. "We will exhause all our energy to get him back on track and to where he needs to be, with a repeatable delivery that he can sustain."
Jeff Kent's career might be over
This isn't necessarily a career-ending injury, but given that he probably was going to retire anyway, given that he has been playing with this degenerative tear in the cartilage of his left knee for about a month knowing all the while it could tear more severely at any time (and probably would, eventually, and that appears to be exactly what happened), and given that this is a wear-and-tear injury that is fairly normal for a 40-year-old guy trying to play baseball on an everyday basis for six months, it seems unlikely that he'll return.
"Knowing him, I can't say that for sure," Dodgers manager Joe Torre said.
Indeed, Kent is known for his durability, his scrappiness and his willingness to play hurt. But he was said to be in excruciating pain when he came out of the game last night. He is back in Los Angeles now awaiting an MRI that will hopefully be done either tonight or tomorrow — club officials are trying to find a hospital where it can be done on a holiday weekend. It wouldn't be a huge surprise if Kent tries to play again. But from what I am told, if he does, the same thing is very likely to happen again, only more severely.
There also is a chance the MRI will show nothing other than, again, wear and tear, and Kent can be back out there in a few days. But the fact the pain was severe enough to get him to take a seat has to mean something. Kent generally doesn't take a seat for anything other than the manager giving him a day off.
Unfortunately, it probably means the end of a Hall of Fame career. Torre said Blake DeWitt will get the first crack at the everyday 2B job for the rest of the season. It also is very possible Kent could be placed on the 60-day DL next week to clear a 40-man roster spot for the September roster expansion, because the Dodgers appear to need spots.
Just to clarify, Kent has never said this will be his last season. But it was generally assumed by just about everybody, including Torre.
"I think he was just trying to help us win a pennant," Torre said. "All the hinting seemed to say that this probably was going to be it for him. I really respect what he has done here, and I have been very comfortable with our relationship. He is a pro. I guess that is the only way you can categorize it."
Schmidt, Proctor updates
Jason Schmidt started and threw a scoreless, hitless inning for Las Vegas tonight against Colorado Springs, walking one batter. He'll pitch again on Monday, and I suppose it's possible he'll be activated as a reliever after that, but when I asked Torre before the game, he was non-committal. Scott Proctor followed him and pitched two innings, allowing one hit while striking out four. Proctor is expected to be activated on Monday, the day you can expand rosters. Andruw Jones also is going to be activated that day, and possibly Delwyn Young. … By the way, when perusing the box score for the pitching lines of Schmidt and Proctor, I couldn't help but notice that Greg Miller had another rough outing. He walked three, gave up three earned runs and allowed only one hit in ZERO innings. A tough stretch for a really good guy. Hope he can find a way to right himself, but this has been going on for a long, long time.
Tonight's lineup: Martin leads off
First time this year or last year. Not sure about 2006, but I can't remember any such occasions off the top of my head. Torre clearly desperate to jump start this offense.
C Martin
RF Ethier
LF Ramirez
2B Kent
CF Kemp
1B Loney
SS Garciaparra
3B Blake
RH Kuroda
More mindnumbing numbers from a slumbering lineup
The only reason these numbers are starting to sound redundant is that they only get more and more ridiculous with each passing day — and, of course, each passing loss. The Dodgers went 0 for 5 last night with runners in scoring position. In their seven-game losing streak, they now are batting .098 with RISP, and this isn't the first time in the five years that this team has gone into such a monumental swoon hitting with RISP. Far from it, in fact. It doesn't mattter who the personnel is. Going all the way back to 2004, this team has a tendency to periodically go into these unthinkable dry spells when it comes to clutch hitting. They're now 3 for 45 over the past four games, and only one of those three hits actually drove in a run. By the way, the Dodgers now have to go 16-12 the rest of the way just to finish .500. They do not, however, necessarily have to go 16-12 to win the N.L. West. What a world.
Kershaw optioned … for now
In case you missed it, Clayton Kershaw was the roster move for Scott Elbert, but that's only a roster technicality. Because the roster expansion begins on Monday — but mostly Tuesday, because Las Vegas has another game on Monday — the Dodgers can option Kershaw now and still bring him back in time to make his next scheduled start on Tuesday night against San Diego. The 10-day rule — all players optioned to the minors must stay a minimum of 10 days unless a major-league player is placed on the DL, and that exception is limited to a pitcher replacing a pitcher or a position player replacing a position player — isn't in effect because the PCL season ends Monday and Las Vegas isn't going to the playoffs.


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EXCITING BUT NOT EASY. After less than a year as an aid worker, Loftus, 32, who grew up in Montana, has had typhoid once, malaria twice, and a slew of mysterious boils. She's waded through swamps befouled with human waste and disease and endured the sort of bureaucratic nullity in which the UN specializes—like the time a bush plane dropped her off without the trunk of food that was supposed to keep her alive. (It arrived nine days later.) For his part, John Miskell, 53, a native of upstate New York, is a petri dish of tropical ills—he's had dengue fever several times, bacterial and amebic dysentery, giardia, blood poisoning, and most recently cholera, which almost killed him. He's been shot at and cursed. And yet neither he nor Loftus (whom he has never met) would do anything else.
Thanks to the end of the Cold War, aid work has undergone a geometric leap in visibility, controversy, and danger. Aid workers are the first to arrive and the last to leave the world's most chaotic and violent war zones—"complex emergencies," in relief jargon—places routinely filled with hunger and disease and, instead of government soldiers who follow (more or less) the Geneva Conventions on war, gunmen (and gunboys) who don't think twice about kidnapping or killing a Western aid worker. In 1998, for the first time, more UN aid workers were killed than UN peacekeepers, although tinder boxes like Sierra Leone can blow up in peacekeepers' faces at any time. When I was in Sudan with Loftus, ten aid workers were killed. First, two CARE employees were killed outside Khartoum; the government blamed the rebels. A week later, eight aid workers affiliated with African churches were gunned down near the Ugandan border by Ugandan guerrillas from the Lord's Resistance Army. The gunmen simply opened fire on their vehicle. But the victims were Africans, and the tragedy of their execution was compounded by a sad irony: While local aid workers compose the bulk of the aid world's ranks and, at least in Africa, are often at greater risk than white expatriates, the violent deaths of almost a dozen of them didn't (and don't) make the evening news in Europe or America.
Still, First World or Third World, black or white, aid workers often laugh when you ask why they do what they do. It's an ambiguous chuckle, knowing and nervous, that means the answer is either obvious or a mystery, even to them. They'll repeat the line about their profession being composed of missionaries, mercenaries, or maniacs, but that doesn't get you very far, nor them: Missionaries would be crestfallen by the corruption, mercenaries could find easier ways to get their hands on a few pieces of silver, and maniacs could not cope with the discipline the job demands.
So why do they do it? For aid workers from the Third World, the jobs pay quite well, and if they are working in their native countries, they are helping their own people. For First Worlders, there is the thrill of exotic altruism. None of them rejoices in the mines or the kidnappings or the cholera or the misery of starving villagers, but these things catapult them out of the drudgery of nine-to-five life in their tamperproof homelands. They have a front-row seat to history in motion, which is big and terrifying and amazing, like the thrashings of a wounded elephant. Aid workers are bearers of good will and targets for warlords. They are vultures and angels.
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Howdy folks! Just returned from a sojurn in the woods of the Great White North, where I laboured like the noble Canadian beaver on The Book. You're doubtless sick of my hinting that there will be comics soon, so, I will remain as silent as the tundra under a blanket of fresh snow on a windless February… oh, patient ones! Believe how keenly I feel the lack of posts! Like an elk unsuccessful at the autumn rut without a single cow! Up where I was staying we have a truly horrendous collection of early-to-mid 20th century Canadian adventure stories for young people, can you tell?
I do have a couple of announcements however!
Ada Lovelace Day 2012, the institution to which we owe our genesis, falls upon OCTOBER 16 this year (it is a moveable feast)! I'll be giving a little talk at the star-studded Ada Lovelace Day Live! where I'll be sharing some of my favorite primary docs; it'll be live-streamed and I'll give a link closer to the day. So sharpen your keyboards and blog or tweet or merely reflect fondly on your favorite women in tech and sci! I'm also working up a poster of the above image for the Ada Lovelace Day fundraiser.
Speaking of, uh, speaking, I'll be dropping into the Thinking Comics evening at Gosh on November 14th, where they'll be discussing Lovelace and Babbage and Logicomix. Should be fun and I see they repair afterwards on occasion to the very appropriate John Snow pub.
That's about it for the moment.. keep the RSS feed and go about your lives, citizens! One bright day a low rumble and the dam will burst! Or, um, be constructed. Mixed dam-building metaphors. Anyways! And don't forget, when in Canada, keep your bear-spray inside your coat lest it freeze and be rendered useless against the wolves! Not making that up!


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How the Left sees the Life of Vaclav Havel, and why they Do Not Mourn his Passing
Clark comes up with statistics meant to prove how life became horrible in the Czech Republic after privatization. He cites a study that one million died due to health problems which resulted. We see no statistics about how many died during Communist rule, both in political prisons or from the polluted lakes and rivers and air from uncontrolled industrial pollution, which under Communism was a concern no government addressed. And horror of horrors, there is now "income inequality" in the Czech Republic. Certainly, Communism took care of that problem. All were equal, and shared the scarce resources available, making everyone poor except the Party rulers.
Even worse, Havel had the temerity to support "the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia in 1999," and then "sided with the rightwing Republican hawks on Iraq." As we look at both cases, it is clear that Havel had it right both times. NATO intervened to destroy massacres carried out by the Serbs under the leadership of the last brutal ruler of post-Tito Yugoslavia, and under the Bush doctrine, the Iraqi people were freed from Saddam Hussein's tyranny. Clark ends by saying we should "look at the bigger picture," and realize how Havel supported the killing of innocent men, women and children" conducted by "western military adventures he supported."
Writing at The Daily Beast, Geoffrey Robertson also is displeased with Havel, but even more displeased with the fact, as he sees it, that "the American right has claimed him as their own," while in fact, he believes Havel wanted only to "balance socialism and freedom." Havel, he argues, wanted most of all "to lift the Stalinist miasma that had wearily settled over Czechoslovakia," so that in its place there could be created "the democratic socialism in which he believed."
Unlike Clark, who thinks Stalinism was good for the Czech people, Robertson knows it was bad, but claims that Havel was himself a socialist. Robertson at least knows how bad life was under Communism, and how repressive the government was. A supporter of Czech dissidents at the time and of their Charter 77, he tells us how "its leading members were sacked from their jobs" and later "arrested on charges of 'unlicensed trading.'"
Certainly, Havel talked about "socialist legality," a mechanism for showing how the regime ignored its own vaunted standards, which never meant much. But Robertson writes that "Havel's presidency was plagued by…the difficulties of keeping any socialist faith at all in a free-market free-for-all." And Robertson shows his own, but not Havel's, disappointment that the Czechs wanted "guidance in contract law and in the conveyancing of private property." In other words, having ended communism, they failed to move on to the kind of socialism favored by Robertson.
Robertson, unlike Clark, honors Havel for things like support of the NATO intervention against Yugoslavia, which he writes "was an influential contribution to the evolving principle of humanitarian intervention," and he honors him for standing "with Sakharov at the head of the pantheon of people prepared to sacrifice their own liberty so others could enjoy theirs." But he faults him for being unable to "reconcile his beliefs in both socialism and freedom."
In 2002, the writer Joshua Muravchik wrote a book about socialism's failure called Heaven on Earth:The Rise and Fall of Socialism. On the book's back is a blurb from none other than Vaclav Havel, who wrote: "I have always been suspicious of people who claim to have the key to heaven on earth. This book shows why." Muravchik's book is the story of the failure of any form of socialism, not just its Soviet style variant. Would Havel have endorsed its central conclusion if he still was a socialist?
In both the case of Neil Clark, who believes Havel was bad for destroying communism, and Geoffrey Robertson, who is sad that he didn't bring democratic socialism in Communism's place, you have the two poles of Leftist criticism of Havel. They amount to sadness that the socialist alternative to democratic capitalism ended with the destruction of the Soviet client states. That tells us more about the writers of these pieces than it does about Vaclav Havel.
55 Comments, 27 Threads
1. Deadman
Here, I submit, is a relevant example of sloppy thinking, poor grasp of logic, and willful ignorance, from an old friend's posting on facebook:
Socialist is defined by some as, "one who strives for social reform."
Reform is "change for the better." So, why's socialism so bad?December 24, 2011 - 1:16 pm Link to this Comment | Reply-
John J
The problem is: who's the "some" people, and why are they saying "it"? The one usually answers the other. If you ask a thief what he is doing, it will never be, "stealing something from someone else". You may very well hear tales of "liberation", "social justice", "compassionate rescue", or some such drivel. In fact drivel abounds in the world of thieves, thugs, and liberals.
Unless I know who "some people" are, and what their game is, I really don't give a single fig for their opinions. My mother taught me, "Always consider the source". As with so many self-evident truths, liberals tie themselves in knots to avoid it, because the lie becomes evident immediately.
The Communists left death and misery behind, while during the same era Democracy brought forth plenty never even imagined previously, yet these idiots will argue that the railroads were on time, and unemployment was low. Let's leave off the fact that if I could pay employees the way the USSR paid its employees, we could have full employment tomorrow. "We pretend to work, they pretend to pay us" was not just a joke. Just eliminate minimum wage and things like overtime and vacation pay, and , by the way, don't actually keep accurate records, because who's counting? That's Communism. And that's what Socialism eventually must become…or die.December 26, 2011 - 2:48 pm Link to this Comment | Reply-
"We pretend to work, and they pretend to pay us."
In fact, told to me by an old, now departed, friend who was born and died in the Czech Republic. He also went on to tell me he had all his assets taken by the Communists three different times. Assets he had worked hard for and saved taken away every time he felt a little comfortable. He praised all who had a part in getting rid of Communism in the Czech Republic. Unfortunately, he was already an old man by that time and so lived and died with very little.
December 27, 2011 - 1:02 pm Link to this Comment | Reply
All valuable criticisms of the never have "bins" and the never will "bees" of this world, may you pass bye us all having achieved nothing.
December 24, 2011 - 1:56 pm Link to this Comment | Reply -
Communism is the logical endpoint of left-liberal assumptions. Therefore, the criticism of Communism on objective grounds cannot be allowed to go unopposed — even while the Left insists, deceitfully but at the top of its collective lungs, that it has no affection for socialism or any of its offshoots.
Vaclav Havel opposed Communism on objective grounds. Therefore, the Left must "take him down a peg." Any praise bestowed on him must be adulterated to an extent that makes it morally possible for left-liberals to refrain from mourning him.
It really is that simple.
December 24, 2011 - 2:07 pm Link to this Comment | Reply-
"…to an extent that makes it morally possible for left-liberals to refrain from mourning him."
This assumes Lefties have morals, a thing I have increasingly come to believe is the heart and soul of Liberalism: No morals, no ethics, nothing. Nothing but ego and arrogance and intolerence and greed.
December 25, 2011 - 8:29 am Link to this Comment | Reply -
It is wrong simply to conflate liberal anticommunists with full-fledged Leninists. But it is an understandable error since both are anticapitalist. And left-liberals are rarely aware how weak their anticommunism was. See http://clarespark.com/2011/04/09/jean-francois-revel-and-father-mapple/. So in a way, I can see why Mr. Porretto believes as he does.
December 27, 2011 - 1:44 pm Link to this Comment | Reply
4. Civility
"Havel helped destroy the great ideal of Communism as a worthy goal…"
Not really. That had been done by Viktor Kravchenko many decades ago. Just check your history.
Neither did Havel defeat totalitarian Communism (had there ever been any other?). At best, he pin-pricked it. The laurels go to Reagan. Mr Ledeen might want to check his history.
Robertson makes some good observations, and is worth a read. I believe you twist his remarks on the legal issues. Law remains a sore point in Havel's country, just as in other post-Soviet territories.December 24, 2011 - 2:23 pm Link to this Comment | Reply-
John J
I think the point is that Mr. Vaclav Havel fought Communism from within the gulag-like system. Ronald Reagan, and, indeed, Pope John Paul are greatly respected by the people they helped free, but to fight tyranny from a strong, safe position, far away, is a far cry from taking a stab from the very belly of the beast. That takes a real man. And to do it with style and grace, without resorting to violence and destruction, propells one towards Sainthood.
They cannot be equivalent things.December 26, 2011 - 2:57 pm Link to this Comment | Reply
5. ricpic
Lefties hate freedom lovers. Ron Radosh, a half-lefty, is ambivalent about freedom, because there are some truths that must not be spoken, donchyaknow.
December 24, 2011 - 2:25 pm Link to this Comment | Reply -
6. AzA
I posed this question in the comments to Clark's article in the guardian: "Why, exactly, was it necessary for Vaclav Havel to have this 'bravery' of which you speak? Answer carefully…"
December 24, 2011 - 2:42 pm Link to this Comment | Reply -
7. pat
The left is ready for another blood bath. They wish to do the killing.
December 24, 2011 - 3:43 pm Link to this Comment | Reply -
8. glenn
The lefties commenting on SFGate didn't wait a week. They were going to town the first day. They know an enemy when they see one.
December 24, 2011 - 3:48 pm Link to this Comment | Reply -
9. EscapeVelocity
Something always to remember…
Social Democrats and Communists agree on the ends, only disagree on the means.
December 24, 2011 - 3:56 pm Link to this Comment | Reply -
10. Norman
It is sad that Professor Radosh continues to throw red meat to the hungry knownothings: Read a genuine "left post" on "Remember Havel, and Don't Forget Hungary" by Jo-Ann Mort.
Last week, the world lost the great dissident and leader Václav Havel. Havel fought for human rights, and the Czech Republic that he founded remains politically liberal. Not so its neighboring Hungary, which experienced its own revolution in 1990. After years of socialist rule, the right wing has taken charge there and directly attacked the very freedoms won by the generation of Central and Eastern European left-liberal visionaries that includes Havel and his ilk.
At the beginning of 2011, Havel joined with other stars from the revolutions of 1989 to appeal to the European Union regarding Hungary's crackdown on liberty. The Budapest Appeal, organized and signed by Havel, Miklos Haraszti, Adam Michnik, and others, asks the EU to consider the fragile state of democracy in the region.
We the undersigned are members and supporters of the democratic movements that fought against the Communist regimes in Central and Eastern Europe—fought for our nations to join the community of European democracies. We can never forget the risk of losing basic rights to power-hungry governments.
This time, the destruction of democracy's guarantees is unfolding right before the eyes of the European Union, the very alliance founded to ensure that respect for our common values remains indivisible…Just twenty years after communism collapsed, Hungary's government, though elected democratically, is misusing its legislative majority to methodically dismantle democracy's checks and balances, to remove constitutional constraints, and to subordinate to the will of the ruling party all branches of power, independent institutions, and the media…Our hard-won freedoms need to be made accountable! There exist no common European democratic values if they are not served by a common European law.
Havel's legacy is secure in the Czech Republic, but not so in Central Europe overall, or in Hungary especially. The region's intellectuals came together with trade unionists and others a generation ago to fight for freedom. Perhaps a new generation will take on the struggle to reaffirm that censorship and attacks on liberties must disappear for good, not reemerge after communism under new labels and under the European umbrella.
December 24, 2011 - 4:10 pm Link to this Comment | Reply-
Norman of course you socialist/communists are upset about Hungary the audacity of passing a flat rate income tax just goes against the Marxist grain. Cutting the size of parliament from approx. 1 member for every 25000 people to 1 for every 50000 totally outrageous. The only time lefties worry about the will of the people is when they loose the election, then the people just didn't know what they were doing and need to be reeducated.
December 24, 2011 - 5:22 pm Link to this Comment | Reply -
"It is sad that Professor Radosh continues to throw red meat to the hungry knownothings: Read a genuine "left post" on "Remember Havel, and Don't Forget Hungary" by Jo-Ann Mort."
So the Daily Beast and the very widely circulated Guardian piece were written by agent provocateurs commissioned by Karl Rove. Or is it the Koch brothers now?
December 24, 2011 - 5:45 pm Link to this Comment | Reply -
Insufficiently Sensitive
Looks like Norman is doing its best to throw red meat to the hungry knownothings of the left.
'Read a GENUINE left post'? You mean, one claiming that any weakening of the Communist front guarantees a resurgent fascist wave? The One True Progressive Way must prevail or we'll all be coerced out of our freedoms?
Stalin tried, millions died.
December 24, 2011 - 5:59 pm Link to this Comment | Reply -
At The Rubicon
I see that someone from Obama's Office of The Director of Progressive Media and Online Response has joined us.
December 25, 2011 - 5:34 am Link to this Comment | Reply
11. Alex Bensky
He cites a study that showed a million Czechs died after the regime was ousted? A million? Where does he get that? Thirty seconds of Google would show him that this can't possibly be right.
But someone who feels a tinge of sympathy for Stalinism isn't likely to be deterred by facts.
December 24, 2011 - 4:11 pm Link to this Comment | Reply-
And of those who died, how many were due to the pollution caused by the communist regime?
December 24, 2011 - 5:20 pm Link to this Comment | Reply -
The million that died every X years under communism's "free" pour-some-vodka-on-it medical care are considered natural and unavoidable to European leftists. They don't count.
December 24, 2011 - 5:48 pm Link to this Comment | Reply -
Where does he get that?
Plucked from the thin air, that is where.December 25, 2011 - 10:07 am Link to this Comment | Reply
12. Steve
I think the idea that communism eliminated income inequality by making everyone equally poor is incorrect. The 99% were equally poor perhaps but the 1% communist leadership lived a life of privilege. It is the worst sort of hypocrisy and corruption.
December 24, 2011 - 5:06 pm Link to this Comment | Reply-
Well, yes, but I grant the liberals their point in general for the sake of moving the argument where it belongs. Collectivism certainly does increase equality and decrease income disparity. That's why liberals want to define "poverty" as "inequality" – the solution for poverty is more people making more money, while the solution for inequality is definitionally more socialism.
Woe to the envious. A public that reaches its avaricious hand to take from its neighbor by force deserves what it gets, even if no one but God is left to see the irony.
December 24, 2011 - 5:54 pm Link to this Comment | Reply
13. snork
And the Nazis put Germany back to work…
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14. snork
What this illustrates is the undeadness of Communism. Fascism is dead. Communism is undead.
December 24, 2011 - 5:22 pm Link to this Comment | Reply-
Insufficiently Sensitive
Neither Fascism nor Communism are dead.
But only Communism owns an immense reservoir of organized indoctrinating power and wealth, lodged in NGOs and Western University systems, and entrenched against any intrusion of diverse beliefs such as wealth-creating capitalism.
December 24, 2011 - 6:05 pm Link to this Comment | Reply
15. SteveP
It's the same reason the left engaged in such a vicious character assassination of Augusto Pinochet. He was one of the few men who ever overthrew and reversed a Communist takeover and rescued his country from the Communists.
December 24, 2011 - 6:01 pm Link to this Comment | Reply-
Jazzy J
STeve do you know who Pinochet really was? That's a rhetorical question; you obviously don't. Pinochet was scum through and through, whether he represented the left, right or center.
December 24, 2011 - 8:41 pm Link to this Comment | Reply-
Pinochet saved his country from the communist thugs.
And he relinquished power when the time came.
How many commie regimes can you say that about?
December 25, 2011 - 4:46 am Link to this Comment | Reply-
Jazzy J
Lol! At what price? You should read more. It's no secret that he killed and tortured thousands. Is that ok with you?!
December 25, 2011 - 10:56 am Link to this Comment | Reply -
Jazzy J
Who cares how many commie regimes you can say that about? Pinochet was still scum. I guess you could say that about russia until Yeltsin came to power– but then he is probably a hero of yours too since he did everything Washington bureaucrats told him like a good boy.
December 26, 2011 - 12:04 am Link to this Comment | Reply
To gauge you better, how would you describe Allende? Salvador, not Isabel, that is.
December 25, 2011 - 10:02 am Link to this Comment | Reply-
Jazzy J
All I can tell you is that allende was elected and supported by a majority of the people in chile, then, he was overthrown and killed in an illegal coup.
December 29, 2011 - 12:51 am Link to this Comment | Reply-
Bill Dalasio
36% of the vote is not a majority, Jazzy. The vote opposing him was split by the two center and right parties. Pinochet, as much a bastard as he was, was responding to a majority resolution from Chile's legislature to remove Allende.
January 1, 2012 - 11:54 am Link to this Comment
16. Maddawg
The U.S.S.R. died 20 yeare ago today. What an amazing shift in world events… and I have not seen one word about it in any medial. Go figure!
December 24, 2011 - 7:32 pm Link to this Comment | Reply -
17. Victor
How can you put these two in the same category?
Vaclav Havel was a hero who paid a price for his quest for freedom
Hitchens was an alcoholic, bi sexual hack who was a whore for whoever gave him booze and money.
He was a close friend of holocaust denier David Irving and a rabid anti-Christian –good riddance to bad rubbish
December 24, 2011 - 8:08 pm Link to this Comment | Reply-
Gary Rosen
"He was a close friend of holocaust denier"
That's rich coming from a Turk who denies the Armenian holocaust that murdered millions of Christians and who goes out of his way to pimp antisemitic islamofascist savages like Erdogan.
December 25, 2011 - 1:15 am Link to this Comment | Reply
18. Biden
At least Clark is being honest. He is one of many so-called neo-marxists who still hold on to the belief that communism would work splendidly with just a few iddy biddy tweaks. They are too far gone to even discuss basic issues because in the end they refuse to look at the empirical evidence – for them the slaughter of millions was simply a necessary evil to be endured for a better world. Poverty and brutality, lack of basic freedoms? Who cares as long as the prophets (false) dream is perpetrated on the masses.
Like Keynesian daydreamers, history and existing societies are to be discounted because those few enlightened tweaks that they have cooked up have not yet been imposed on the lucky masses.
December 24, 2011 - 9:56 pm Link to this Comment | Reply-
Larry J
I long for the day when apologists for communism will be viewed with the same contempt we feel for apologists for nazism.
It's amusing in a way how the apologists for communism still believe in it as something that could possibly work if only the "right people were in charge" (meaning themselves, of course). They read Marx as theory and compare it to the messy reality of actual governments, ignoring the ugly reality of every country that tried communism. They either deny or overlook the secret police agencies, the arrests and mass murders, the corruption of the ruling elite and the misery of the people. No, they still think a communism utopia (literal meaning: "no where") is possible. They either fools or insane enough to believe they can keep trying the same thing and get a different outcome.
December 25, 2011 - 8:22 am Link to this Comment | Reply
19. vb
Clark's article about Havel claims that his reforms increased general population mortality. He supported his claim by referring to 2009 paper in Lancet. The referenced publication explicitly states (p.6) that there is no significant correlation between post-communist reforms and mortality in Czech Republic.
Mr. Clark, like most of communist propagandists, is a liar.
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20. Mr. X
Any man, any candidate can be defeated. A movement based on an idea whose time has come however, is invincible. Merry Christmas PJMers. You're about to be in the same position as those East German border guards who stood mouths agape as tens of thousands of Berliners from both sides (West and East) came up to them chanting, "Open the gate!" in 1989. Bankster corporatism (aka Too Big to Fail) is the new Communism, and it will crumble.
December 24, 2011 - 11:05 pm Link to this Comment | Reply-
Try occupying common sense, X. #clueless
December 25, 2011 - 2:16 pm Link to this Comment | Reply
21. spinoneone
As Churchill noted, democracy is a terrible form of government, but it is the best we have yet discovered. I would say, ditto for democratic capitalism. There is much less personal freedom in all of the nations of Europe, both with respect to say and think as you wish and to make personal economic progress.
Socialism always foments the creation of a politico-economic elite who tell the masses how to do "things." Eventually they "invent" reasons to become ever more authoritarian/totalitarian in order to remain in power. Havel knew this very well. I lived in the Czech Republic during a brief part of his time as President. Then and now, the Czech people are working on their democracy. They need to establish a better legal and court system; too much of it is a hold over from both the First Republic and the communist era.
December 24, 2011 - 11:06 pm Link to this Comment | Reply -
Think of it this way: the margin of error in estimating the number of innocent men, women and children murdered by communism is larger than the entire number killed by that other leftist mass murder, the Holocaust.
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23. Glenn
I recently read Whittaker Chembers for the first time and was struck by his definition of communism being the world's second oldest religion. The version of communism we have experienced since the Russian Revolution in 1917 is merely the updated version of feudalism. This will always be with us because there will always be a criminal sub-culture taking the Robin Hood angle.
December 25, 2011 - 8:47 am Link to this Comment | Reply-
As I seem to recall Robin Hood stole from the government and gave to the people. I don't remember it being "From each according to his means, to each according to his needs".
December 25, 2011 - 1:35 pm Link to this Comment | Reply
24. Carax
"what they really think: Havel helped destroy the great ideal of Communism as a worthy goal, and for that, he cannot be forgiven."
Ron Radosh has no idea of "what they think"; as if the entire, even majority of the collective Left think this way. Just because an idiot like Neil Clark makes a ridiculous statement Radosh thinks he has a right to broad-brush the entire Left. Sloppy and stupid. A piece expressly written to create dissension instead of enlightenment.
December 25, 2011 - 10:30 am Link to this Comment | Reply-
Doug Loss
Please. You lefties are about a doctrinaire and unforgiving of straying from the party line (indeed, "party line" is a standard leftist trope) as it's possible to me. Claiming otherwise us just a flat-out lie.
December 27, 2011 - 10:49 am Link to this Comment | Reply
25. John Q
While giving Mr. Havel his due, let us also remember who helped him and other anti-communist leaders in their push for a freer society: George Soros.
As Mr. Havel wrote in November 2009:
"I recall vividly—and it's something we should commemorate and give thanks for—that among those who tirelessly supported civil society in Central and Eastern European countries was George Soros and his network of foundations and institutes. Without the contributions from him and his network, the fundamental political changes would not have taken root so quickly in the civic consciousness of people throughout Central and Eastern Europe."
December 25, 2011 - 3:14 pm Link to this Comment | Reply-
If you are hinting that Soros is some kind of a hero in Czech Republic, maybe so. But his plans to replace the dollar with SDRs and his support of pot initiatives, gay marriage, stacking the coutrts with left-leaning judges, paying for select new writers at NPR, suggesting a 23% revenue that would dramatically increase taxes, vilifying any news organization that opposes his goals, well – to me he is simply a power hungry leftist with a hidden agenda.
A little good now and then can mask a lot of bad.
December 26, 2011 - 12:55 am Link to this Comment | Reply
26. Ari Tai
The Black Book of Communism has citations by its French authors documenting over 100 million early and often horrible deaths at the hands of this inhumane ideology. And that the absence of price signals and foolish dicta of central planning often meant that the output of their factories was worth less than the inputs – so billions of lives of effort in these systems have gone absolutely wasted in terms of improving the lives of humankind – save for the efforts of a few exceptional artists and scientists – and the occasional weapon system that advanced the state of the art over the best the West could do.
Even George Kennan had early doubts of the wisdom of containment given these costs (vice serial destruction of the dictatorships until the regions' peoples could voice a free choice – which the West could have accomplished at the cost of a few million lives up until the early 70s in response to what were yearly provocations). This is perhaps free mankind's greatest sin of omission ever, standing by while entire cultures were raped, plundered and enslaved in full view of at least our political leaders, if not all – given the self-censorship and the (delusional) beliefs of our elites and their press (that mankind could be perfected, and heaven forbid – that free exchange by a free-people and their enterprise (w/ governance used to maximize freedom rather than limit with law and regulation) be discovered and promoted as the best and most moral system for advancing humankind).
It seems to take about 50 years after a cataclysm for cold and factual history to emerge, written well after the passions have faded, principals have died and their papers published. We're only 20 years from 1990 and the fall of the wall. I suspect it'll take even longer for International Socialism to be condemned with the ferocity of its less destructive sibling, National Socialism.
December 25, 2011 - 8:46 pm Link to this Comment | Reply-
Most articles, like this one about Havel, set, or upset best after reading the comments that follow. I mentally compile reading lists as I go, then don't bother to enter the fray. The Black Book of Communism is often at the top of that list. Thanks, Ari Tai.
December 27, 2011 - 12:39 pm Link to this Comment | Reply
27. Craig Goodrich
"NATO intervened to destroy massacres carried out by the Serbs under the leadership of the last brutal ruler of post-Tito Yugoslavia …"
Sorry, this is propaganda. There were no massacres being carried out by the Serbs; there was a nasty little guerrilla war between the Albanian KLA and the Yugoslavs, with both Albanian and Serb drug-running mobs participating and taking advantage of the chaos — to which NATO bombing contributed.
My respect for Havel is second to none, but in this case I believe his opinion is more due to the traditional Croat/Slovenian/Czech "racial" (actually cultural, due to Habsburg influence) contempt for the Serbs than from any enlightened humanitarian views.
December 27, 2011 - 1:51 pm Link to this Comment | Reply
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Vienna: UAE Minister of Energy Mohammad Bin Dha'en Al Hamili has called for developing joint strategies and common approaches to ensure that universal energy access becomes a reality for a growing number of people.
UAE calls for international joint strategies to provide energy to developing world
UAE Minister of Energy Mohammad Bin Dha'en Al Hamili has called for developing joint strategies and common approaches to ensure that universal energy access becomes a reality for a growing number of people
- Published: 00:31 June 22, 2011
Addressing the three-day Vienna Energy Forum, Al Hamili said: "Access to energy, something most of us take for granted, is not yet a reality for billions of people throughout the world''.
Held under the theme ''Paving the Way for Universal Energy Access'', the meeting is organised by the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), the Austrian Federal Ministry for European and International Affairs and the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA).
''We know from our own experience that economic and social development depend on access to affordable energy. I stress the word affordable because there is no point in having a socket, if you cannot afford to Dav the electricity bill.
International aid
The OECD, he explained, has ranked the UAE higher than some of the world's most prominent donor countries primarily because the UAE gives a higher percentage of its GDP than most developed countries.
''Over the years, as our nation increased in wealth, we have allocated a growing proportion of our revenue to international aid projects, particularly in water and energy sectors.
"Overall, during the last three-and-a-half decades, the UAE has contributed more than US$70 billion in loans, grants and assistance for development projects in nearly 100 countries around the world."
Hydroelectric power stations
According to him, the $70 billion given in aid is above and beyond the UAE nfrastructure in developing countries. For example, over the last few decades, Pakistan has built four hydroelectric power stations with support from the emirate of Abu Dhabi.
Water and energy arethe two major prerequisites for development and many of ourprojects involve both.
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The international community won't accept deception.
France demands that the regime uphold its commitments and put an end to the massacres.
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I was pretty flaky last year about sticking with my stated 2013 goals. It is actually embarrassing to look back at my training/racing and diet goals and acknowledge that I flaked on every one of them.
I suppose there is a delicate balance between consistency and adaptation to different circumstances/changing interests. For me you could summarize 2013 as a year of training consistency (in terms of frequency) with a lack of training focus wrapped in an excuse of changing interests. Or something like that. Regardless of the training side, the diet stuff was pathetic.
No sense bemoaning the past, on to 2014! Using the last few months as experimentation with crossfit, Olympic lifting, powerlifting, etc, I've had an opportunity to try out a lot of stuff and figure out what interests me most at this point. So the goal for 2014 will be twofold:
1. Achieve a 1000 pound total in the three power lifts (back squat, bench press, deadlift) while maintaining a bodyweight below 182 pounds (the 83kg weight class).
2. Make meaningful habit changes in diet.
My current total for the three power lifts is about 800 (275ish back squat, 325 deadlift and around 200ish bench press). Bodyweight this morning was 181 pounds.
The power lifting goal has a number of catalysts. It fits in my time schedule, it requires a consistent level of training focus for a number of months (I need this), I have all of the equipment I need in my garage, the workouts fit into what has been fun for me lately, I can add it to my list of life fitness achievements, etc. If I could achieve this goal by October 2014, then I would have run a 50 mile ultramarathon and lifted a 1000 pound power lift total within two years of each other, all over the age of 40. That would be kind of cool. I still hope to get out on some runs and do a variety of "active" things in 2014, but the training focus will be the power lifts.
The diet stuff is self explanatory. At this point it is more about integrity (doing what you say you are going to do) as opposed to a significant health/body composition issue. I have never smoked, but I feel like my "addiction" to sugary foods is probably akin to a smoking habit. I just need to break the habit and move on. The diet approach isn't complicated, just lay off sugars, processed foods, etc.
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The name "Pioneer" was applied to several different space missions and spacecraft designs. The first U.S. moon probes, launched by the Air Force in 1958-59, bore the name, as did a series of interplanetary "weather satellites" and the first spacecraft to brave the Asteroid Belt and fly past Jupiter and Saturn. The last Pioneers were Venus explorers, but if Hughes, makers of the Pioneer Venus spacecraft, had had their way, another pioneer would have explored Mars with six hard-landing penetrator probes.


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LOS ANGELES – "Breaking Bad," the brutal saga of an everyman's ambition turned evil, captured its first best drama Emmy Award on Sunday, while "Modern Family" won its fourth consecutive trophy for top comedy series.
Jeff Daniels won the Emmy for best drama series actor for his portrayal of an idealistic TV anchorman in "The Newsroom," with Claire Danes capturing top actress honors for her troubled CIA agent in "Homeland."
Daniels noted that he'd also received an age 50-plus acting honor from AARP, which represents the interests of older Americans.
"With all due respect to the AARP, this is even better," Daniels said.
Julia Louis-Dreyfus claimed her second-consecutive best comedy actress award for her role as an ambitious political second banana in "Veep," with Jim Parsons again claiming the top comedy acting trophy for "The Big Bang Theory."
Merritt Wever of "Nurse Jackie" won the night's first award, for best supporting actress in a comedy series, kicking off the ceremony on a surprising note and with a remarkably brief acceptance speech.
"Thank you so much. Thank you so much. Um, I got to go, bye," Wever told the audience.
"Merritt Wever, best speech ever," host Neil Patrick Harris cracked.
Tony Hale of "Veep" claimed the trophy for best supporting actor in a comedy, a category that has been the property in recent years of the men of "Modern Family."
Laura Linney was named best actress in a miniseries or movie for "The Big C: Hereafter." "The Voice" won best reality-competition program, and Tina Fey won for writing "30 Rock."
Michael Douglas was honored as best actor for his portrayal of Liberace in "Behind the Candelabra." The film also captured a top trophy as best movie or miniseries.
Bobby Cannavale, from "Boardwalk Empire," won as best supporting actor in a drama, and Anna Gunn from "Breaking Bad" won the best actress award in the same category.
Derek Hough of "Dancing with the Stars" won the trophy for best choreography.
In the variety show category, "The Colbert Report" broke a 10-year winning streak held by "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart." It also won for best writing for a variety show.
The ceremony's first hour was relatively somber, with memorial tributes and a doleful song by Elton John in honor of the late musical star Liberace.
Robin Williams offered another tribute. "Jonathan Winters was my mentor," Williams said of the actor-comedian. "I told him that, and he said, 'Please, I prefer 'idol.' "
Also honored was Cory Monteith, the "Glee" star who died at age 31 in July.
Diahann Carroll, the first African-American Emmy nominee in 1963 for "Naked City," created one of the night's most heartfelt moments when she took the stage with Kerry Washington and noted the importance of diversity in the industry and Emmys.
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Here's a look at what's "out there" for today - Monday, December 16 - about your Seattle Seahawks after yesterday's 23-0 road shutout of the New York Giants.
Terry Blount of ESPN.com has his rapid reaction from Sunday's shutout, reviews four hot issues for the Seahawks in Week 15, and says the Seahawks defense could lead a return trip to MetLife Stadium come February.
ESPN.com has updated playoff scenarios for Week 16, noting the Seahawks can clinch the NFC West and home-field advantage with a win or a San Francisco 49ers loss.
Darren Rovell of ESPN.com has an interesting story on a local car dealership that's on the hook for a lot of cash after running a promotion that if the Seahawks shut out the Giants, 12 people would split $420,000 equally.
Sunday's games marked the highest scoring day in NFL history, as the 763 total points scored topped the previous record of 759 set on January 1, 2012.
Will Brinson of CBSSports.com gives the Seahawks an A- grade for their dominant road win at MetLife Stadium.
Pat Kirwan of CBSSports.com wonders if any team has an answer for the playoff-bound Seahawks.
Jarrett Bell of USA Today notes the Seahawks remain business-like after yesterday's win.
Jerry Brewer of the Seattle Times acknowledges the dominant defensive performance turned in by the Seahawks.
Bob Condotta of the Seattle Times recaps Sunday's shutout with postgame reaction from free safety
Jayson Jenks of the Seattle Times looks at how backup cornerback
Todd Dybas of the Tacoma News Tribune recaps Sunday's action.
Danny O'Neil of 710Sports.com reviews yesterday's victory and says Sunday's win inspires some Super dreams.
Brady Henderson of 710Sports.com notes quarterback
Art Thiel of SportsPressNW.com has his recap of Sunday's shutout, noting the Seahawks secured a franchise-record sixth road win.
Steve Rudman of SportsPressNW.com says it didn't matter the Seahawks were not playing at their best offensively yesterday.
For a look around the rest of the League, Peter King of TheMMQB.com has his "Monday Morning Quarterback" column.
Here at Seahawks.com, team photographer Rod Mar has several snaps from Sunday's action.
And Digital Media Reporter Clare Farnsworth sums up Sunday's shutout and dubs the entire Seahawks defense deserving of player(s) of the game honors in his game at a glance column.
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Since the work is conducted in projects, with every case being unique, your role will be very varying, such as responsibility for activities related to converter design, which includes everything from base design to final delivery. During projects, you ensure that the technical solutions meet customer specific requirements and each country's legislation. Occasionally, you will visit plants to provide on-site evaluation and technical support.
In the Propulsion and Control Division at Bombardier, the three major converter types are line converters, motor converters and auxiliary converters. You will continuously learn new technology in these areas and apply it in practical developments.
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ACCELERATING INNOVATION SUMMIT, SAN JOSE, Calif., November 14, 2012 - LSI Corporation (NYSE: LSI) today introduced the Syncro MX-B Rack Boot Appliance. The Syncro MX-B Rack Boot Appliance is the first system of its kind to serve as a standalone, pre-configured, 1U form factor rack boot device for as many as 48 servers. By eliminating boot drives and associated failures, the appliance can significantly increase reliability while reducing overall system and maintenance costs for the largest cloud and mega-datacenter environments.
The high failure rate of traditional boot drives used in today's datacenters, along with the maintenance required to repair and replace them, are expensive problems. The LSI® Syncro MX-B Rack Boot Appliance is a solution that can increase reliability by up to 100x by replacing the individual server boot drives in datacenters. The Syncro MX-B Rack Boot Appliance is transparent to the host system and provides a unique boot image for each attached server, making system management simple while increasing reliability and power savings up to 60 percent.
"The LSI Syncro MX-B Rack Boot Appliance is an innovative and easy-to-deploy solution that dramatically reduces a common failure point in rack-based servers," said Mike Yang, general manager and vice president of Quanta QCT. "By providing increased reliability, accessibility and serviceability (RAS), as well as a power-saving alternative to traditional SATA boot drives, the Syncro MX-B will deliver high value and peace of mind for datacenter customers."
Available in 24-port and 48-port configurations, the Syncro MX Rack Boot Appliance offers easy scaling and configuration flexibility. The new appliance delivers boot images on RAID volumes with hot-swappable internal hard drives. Additional RAS is achieved through the use of both redundant fans and power supplies. This can result in dramatically lower server failure rates and a reduced total cost of ownership.
"This exciting first product in our Syncro family was created to address customer needs for delivering higher reliability as well as lowering power consumption, issues that have grown more acute in massive cloud and mega-datacenters," said Bill Wuertz, senior vice president and general manager, RAID Storage Division, LSI. "With our full line of acceleration and performance solutions and by resolving these critical datacenter issues, we are enabling our customers to scale and build a better cloud."
The Syncro MX-B Rack Boot Appliance is based on the new LSI Syncro architecture that serves as the foundation for new products that solve challenges in many applications and verticals. Syncro is a shared-DAS architecture that delivers multi-server solutions. The LSI Syncro MX-B Rack Boot Appliance is available and currently shipping to manufacturers.


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Title: Limits and implications of thermal tolerance in the
limpet, Lottia digitalis
Student Author(s): Aiello, Linnea
Faculty Advisor(s): Denny, Mark
Pages: 26
Location: Final papers biology 175H
Date: June 2004
Abstract: Of all organisms on Earth, invertebrates of the
rocky intertidal zones experience some of the most extreme and varied
environments, from near freezing seawater to hot, dry sunlight.
Thus, these organisms experience an unusually large range of
potentially lethal body temperatures. Lottia digitalis, a
high intertidal limpet of the Pacific North American coast, is one
such creature. What is the thermal tolerance of Lottia digitalis, and
how often do they see these body temperatures?
The lethal temperature limits of L. digitalis were found, in
air, to vary depending on length of exposure time. At ten minutes of
heat exposure, limpet survivorship (tested 24 hours after exposure)
declined from 100% to 0% as temperature increased from 41 to 45°
Celsius. At three hours and forty minutes of exposure, a similarly
steep decline was noted, but at a lower range of temperatures: from
37 to 40° C.
A heat-budget model was constructed to find how near L.
digitalis live to their thermal maxima, and how often these
maxima are exceeded. A heat budget is a mathematical model that
predicts the body temperature of an organism, based on records of
past environmental conditions plus physical characteristics of the
organism. A comparison between the heat extremes predicted by the
heat-budget model and the thermal limits showed that L.
digitalis approaches within 5° C of its thermal limit once
every 12 years (on average). L. digitalis do not live as
close to their thermal limit as other intertidal organisms, but their
preference for living on exposed rock surfaces may make them
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For a class of distributed recursive algorithms, it is shown that a stochastic approximation-like tapering stepsize routine suppresses the effects of interprocessor delays.
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