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Too Busy to Think
"One feels very lonely in this country; this has to do in particular with the fact that everyone is very busy and that for most people the need for leisure simply ceases to exist after a certain amount of time."
- Hannah Arendt to Gershom Scholem, November 4, 1943
Hannah Arendt had lived for a year and a half in the United States when she noted in a letter to her friend Gershom Scholem: "One feels very lonely in this country; this has to do in particular with the fact that everyone is very busy and that for most people the need for leisure simply ceases to exist after a certain amount of time."
This entails, Arendt continues, a certain attitude of "permanent absence (by which I mean 'absent-mindedness'), rendering human contact between people to be very difficult." Scholem, who received Arendt's letter from New York in Jerusalem, was familiar with this phenomenon. "All my friends in the U.S. are muted by this 'public isolation'," hence communicating with them became very difficult, he writes in December 1943, "unfortunately you are not an exception in that regard."
Scholem's response is noteworthy, for he addresses the political implication of Arendt's (self-) observation. In general, being busy and leading a public life is not a contradiction. "One can be occupied by his daily work, and when this period of work in the private realm of a factory or an office space has ended, one can enter the public sphere by being a citizen – or a friend" (Jerome Kohn). Arendt had a political understanding of friendship; for her, friendship consists of the world that appears between friends who are diverse and embody plurality rather than an imagined or imposed 'unity'. In a state of "absent-mindedness" though, one cannot be in public, nor political, nor with friends in a meaningful way.
The problem starts with the absent need for "leisure," Arendt states. In her letter to Scholem she uses a particular (untranslatable) German term for leisure: "Musse," which is the German version of the Latin concept of otium. It denotes the free time I have for contemplation when I'm not busy (opposed to neg-otium, the time when I'm not free for contemplation, i.e. when I'm busy).
The term "Musse" that Arendt uses also appears in the title "Musse und Müssiggang" (Leisure and Idleness) of section no. 329 in Nietzsche's Gay Science. Nietzsche, who is not known for having great interest in the New World, in this very passage talks explicitly about America, and in particular about the Americans' "distinctive vice": "the breathless haste with which they work," so that "one no longer has time or energy […] for otium at all." Arendt read this passage thoroughly: her private (German) copy of Nietzsche's Gay Science has marked up not only this sentence, but shows underlinings and marginalia throughout the entire entry on "Leisure and Idleness."
One would think with a watch in one's hand, Nietzsche continues in his depiction of America's oblivious take on "Musse," and the common principle "Rather do anything rather than nothing," would throttle all culture and good taste. In effect, all forms and "the feeling for form itself, the ear and eye for the melody of movements" were visibly perishing because of the haste of the busy people. Before the takeover of the protestant work ethic, it actually was 'busy action' that suffered from a bad consciousness, Nietzsche recalls, and Arendt underlined the related sentence: "the desire for enjoyment already calls itself 'need of recreation,' and even begins to be ashamed of itself."
Arendt's underlining, with regard to her letter to Scholem, outlines – at a very early stage – her larger political and theoretical project: the modern problem of world-alienation and its threat to the human faculty of judgment.
Thinking needs solitude, according to Arendt, not loneliness or isolation (another distinction inspired by Nietzsche).
World-alienated loneliness or isolation precludes the thinker from the common world; yet, out of the state of solitude he can reenter it once he has ended his act of thinking. Judging relates abstract thoughts back to the world by giving them a concrete form perceivable and disputable in public, in company with others. Absent-mindedness is oblivious of this company. That's why the perished "feeling for form itself," deriving from a common lack of "Musse," may entail a crisis of political judgment: in other words, a disconnection between vita contemplative and the public sphere. Nietzsche, in the passage intensely marked by Arendt, offers a form of counteracting this disconnect: "to take a stroll with thoughts and friends."
-Thomas Wild
Federalism and the Crisis of Politics
Federalism should not be a partisan issue. This has been forgotten as the Federalist Society has turned federalism into a rhetorical sledgehammer to bludgeon liberal policies. But rightly understood, federalism is about freedom.
Federalism promotes freedom for at least two reasons. First, because citizens will only act and speak in public when they believe their actions will be seen and heard.
The smaller the stage, the more likely is action to be meaningful. If freedom and action are the same, as Arendt writes, then we should be wary of the erosion of federalism. Only when local political institutions have meaningful power will they attract citizens to become politically involved. The danger in the loss of federalism today is the increasing sense that individual citizens have little if any power, which leads to cynicism and apathy.
We can see this cynicism and apathy, surprisingly, in Occupy Wall Street. The fact that Occupy Wall Street became a protest movement, and not an alternative locus of power, is at least partly the result of the fact that local power structures have been rendered increasingly impotent by the vampire squid of national power. As people rightly feel ever-more alienated from political institutions that can make a difference, they retreat from politics. Why did Occupy eschew local politics? Why did it seek a megaphone on the national stage instead of working in the pits of village, town, and state politics? Because everyone knows that the power of local institutions has been decimated. The result is a feeling of powerlessness and hopelessness; the present response is to embrace an ethic of permanent protest as the only meaningful way to personal empowerment. But the elevation of protest to the apogee of political action in Occupy Wall Street is, unfortunately, just another example of the vanishing of politics in our time.
The second way federalism promotes freedom is through constitutional structure. The best way to prevent government from attaining totalitarian or tyrannical power is, as Arendt argues, to multiply the sources of political power. Arendt credits the United States Constitution because it created not only the division of powers on the federal level, but also the constitutional federalism of the early Republic. By empowering states, counties, towns, and villages, the United States Constitution ensured that nearly every citizen would have both opportunity and reason to act in public and to engage in politics.
Arendt's thoughts on the freedom found in federalism come to mind as I've been reading—at the urging of my colleague David Kettler—the classic Small Town in Mass Society, by Arthur J. Vidich and Joseph Bensman. Originally published in 1958, Small Town in Mass Society is still an important and now sadly forgotten book. The argument, in short, is that local towns and villages are losing their distinctiveness. Studying class, religion, power, and politics in small town America, Vidich and Bensman argue that local governments are voluntarily abandoning the political powers they constitutionally possess and thus emptying their lives of meaningful political engagement.
What Vidich and Bensman find is a fundamental contradiction between the way that small town culture sees itself and the way it actually exists in mass society. In their self-image, the residents of "Springdale"—the name for the town they study— think of themselves as a community. They distinguish themselves from "urban dwellers" who are anonymous. They imagine that "Here no man counts more than any other." "It is unthinkable for anyone to pass a person on the street without exchanging greetings;"
"Almost all of rural life receives its justification on the basis of the direct and personal and human feelings that guide people's relations with each other." And, above all, the Springdale residents of rural New York see themselves as independent from urban-mass society:
While he realizes that machinery and factory products are essential to his standard of life and that taxation and agricultural policy are important, he feels that he is independent of other features of industrial and urban life, or, better, that he can choose and select only the best parts. The simple physical separation from the city and the open rural atmosphere make it possible to avoid the problems inherent in city life.
Against this feeling of independence, Vidich and Bensman argue that small towns are actually part of and integrated into mass society to an extent that their self-image cannot and will not admit. Against the view that Springdalers can choose those parts of mass society they want and reject the rest, Vidich and Bensman argue that they are more influenced and subjected to mass society.
In almost all aspects of culture, even to speech forms, and including technology, literature, fashions and fads, as well as patterns of consumption, to mention a few, the small town tends to reflect the contemporary mass society. Basically, a historically indigenous local culture does not seem to exist.
For our purposes, one telling section of Small Town in Mass Society is called "The Political Surrender to Mass Society." While Springdale has a local government and possesses the power of taxation and governance, the authors argue that the town seeks at nearly every turn to abdicate self-governance. Examples include:
•"Solutions to the problem of fire protection are found in agreements with regionally organized fire districts."
•The town prefers to have its road signs provided in standard form by state agencies "without cost to the taxpayer[s]" in Springdale.
•Springdale accepts the state's rules and regulations on roads built and maintained by the state. It works with the foreman of the state highway maintenance crew to have his teams clear village roads, thus saving the expense of organizing and paying for this as a town.
• State construction programs "present local political agencies with the alternative of either accepting or rejecting proposed road plans and programs formulated by the state highway department."
•The town at every point adjusts its actions to the regulations and laws defined by state and federal agencies; or they accede to the rule of these outside agencies because the agencies have the power to withhold subsidies.
What Springdale actually does in its own politics is forego self-governance and submit itself to outside control. It repeatedly accepts grants of aid offered by the state and subsidies by the state, even when such aid comes with strings and demands for control. The result is that the "village board in Springdale accepts few of the powers given to it. Instead, it orients its action to the facilities and subsidies controlled and dispensed by other agencies and, by virtue of this, forfeits its own political power." What is more, this economic and political dependence leads to a "habituation to outside control to the point where the town and village governments find it hard to act even where they have the power."
For Vidich and Bensman, the loss of local power leads to a psychologically damaging sense of dependence on outside agencies, bureaucracies, and governments.
"State police, regionally organized fire districts, state welfare agencies, the state highway department, the state youth commission, the state conservation department—these agencies and others are central to the daily functioning of the village." There is a "pattern of dependence," according to which the "important decisions are made for Springdale by outside agencies." On the one hand, Springdalers resent these services provided by outsiders because they negate the local villagers' self image as independent. But the villagers accept these services "because they are free or because acceptance of them carries with it monetary grants-in-aid for the local community."
The conclusion Vidich and Bensman reach is that the Springdale town government does increasingly little. It seeks whenever possible to avoid providing services itself—e.g. snow or garbage removal. Instead, it seeks to have these services provided by the state in order to avoid having to raise taxes. The ultimate result is the "avoidance of innovation and the minimization of decision." The village "tends to limit its function to the conduct of routine "housekeeping" business." "It is a common complaint among all groups in the community that the village board does nothing."
This political irrelevance at the local level is radical change from the American tradition of citizen democracy. When Alexis de Tocqueville visited America in the 19th century, he was impressed by the active participation of citizens in local government. 100 years later, when Hannah Arendt arrived in the United States, she too was amazed by the sense of common citizens that their voice mattered in politics.
Shortly after Arendt's arrival, she traveled to a provincial town in Massachusetts to live with a family as a way of learning everyday English and experiencing something of American mores. While she had little in common with this family whose puritanical ways clashed with her own, she was captivated by them and by what Antonia Grunenberg has called their republican self-consciousness.
Arendt described her host family to Karl Jaspers as "thoroughly average people—what would have been called 'petty bourgeoisie' in Germany." And yet, these average Americans embodied the American love of freedom that so impressed Arendt. As she wrote to Jaspers shortly after they resumed contact in 1946:
There is much I could say about America. There really is such a thing as freedom here and a strong feeling among many people that one cannot live without freedom. The republic is not a vapid illusion, and the fact that there is no national state and no truly national tradition creates an atmosphere of freedom or at least one not pervaded by fanaticism. (Because of the strong need the various immigrant groups feel to maintain their identity, the melting pot is in large part not even an ideal, much less a reality.) Then, too, people here feel themselves responsible for public life to an extent I have never seen in any European country. For example, when all Americans of Japanese descent were locked up willy-nilly in concentration camps at the beginning of the war, a genuine storm of protest that can still be felt today went through the country. I was visiting with an American family in New England at the time. They were thoroughly average people--what would have been called 'petty bourgeoisie' in Germany—and they had, I'm' sure, never laid eyes on a Japanese in their lives. As I later learned, they and many of their friends wrote immediately and spontaneously to their congressmen, insisted on the constitutional rights of all Americans regardless of national background, and declared that if something like that could happen, they no longer felt safe themselves (these people were of Anglo-Saxon background, and their families had been in this country for generations), etc.
The extraordinary embrace of political freedom in America had a flip side, namely social oppression: To allow people local rule and governance means that parochial and racist communities can oppress minorities and impose socially conservative mores. There is a fundamental tradeoff between political freedom and social oppression. But Arendt thought the choice was easy: social oppression is simply a cost of what she came to see as the miracle of America.
For Arendt, America embodied, in Leon Botstein's words, "a federal system of government not based on race or designed to rectify social inequalities, but established to ensure political equality among all citizens, to maintain the freedom of the public realm, social differences notwithstanding."
America, in Arendt's writing and especially in her book On Revolution, is an enduring image of public freedom that so animates her life-long thinking.
Occupy Wall Street failed for many reasons. Above all, however, it failed because even at a time when our democratic and representative institutions are seen as corrupt and broken, OWS offered no meaningful alternative. It failed, therefore, in the basic requirement of any truly revolutionary political movement: to pick up power when it is lying the streets, as Arendt writes in On Violence. And one reason it did so is that we have all lost the basic experience of citizenship and freedom that Arendt so valued when she arrived in America. If we are to resurrect such a practice and habit of citizen-politics, we need to reinvigorate local politics. But we can only do that if we reclaim federalism as a matter of freedom outside of partisan debates.
One first step is to confront honestly and clearly the depth of the loss of political power in America. This has become difficult because federalism and local power have been politicized and polarized. We need to move beyond that. To do so, there are few better books that Small Town in Mass Society. It is your weekend read. And if you cannot get the book, take a look at their article The New Middle Classes: Their Cultures and Life Styles.
For other posts on the connection between Federalism, Power, and Freedom, see "Power, Persuasion, and Organization" and "The Supreme Court as Truthteller."
Say Goodbye to Law Schools: and Credentials More Generally
Law school applications have gone off a cliff. Just look at this statistic from today's NY Times.
As of this month, there were 30,000 applicants to law schools for the fall, a 20 percent decrease from the same time last year and a 38 percent decline from 2010, according to the Law School Admission Council. Of some 200 law schools nationwide, only 4 have seen increases in applications this year. In 2004 there were 100,000 applicants to law schools; this year there are likely to be 54,000.
This radical drop in law school applications is not because people are suddenly reading Shakespeare. The reason is clear. Lawyers aren't getting jobs. For law school grads in 2011, only 55% got full-time jobs working as lawyers. That means 45% did not get jobs they were trained to do. No wonder students and their parents aren't lining up to take out debt to get a legal education.
Just as journalism has been upended by the Internet revolution, so too law is changing. The changes are different. Lawyers are still needed and law firms will exist. But more of the work can be done more cheaply, off-location, and by fewer people. Quite simply, we need fewer lawyers. And those we do need, don't command the salaries they once did.
Finally, law school was for years the refuge of the uncommitted. For liberal arts grad unsure of what to do next, the answer was law school. But now with tuitions skyrocketing, debt ballooning, and job prospects dimming, law schools are out of favor.
What is more, these changes coming to law schools will be coming to other professional and graduate schools as well. All those Ph.D.s in hyper-specialized disciplines ranging from Italian studies to Political Theory are in for a really tragically rude awakening? There are no jobs. And those jobs are not coming back. For academics to keep bringing young scholars into Ph.D. programs now is really deeply wrong.
This retreat from law school is a good thing. My J.D. was hardly an educational experience worth three years of my time. Law schools are caught between being professional schools training practicing lawyers and the desire to be also to be something more. The result, they largely do neither well. They don't produce lawyers ready to practice. Nor do they produce deep legal minds. Little would be lost if law school were reduced to 2 years (or even less), which is why legal academics are pushing an experiment to offer two-year J.D.s.
Education does matter and will continue to distinguish people who pursue it and excel at it. Liberal arts majors who combine a love for the renaissance with an interest in dance will succeed, whether they create new works of art or found a business curating Italian wines, these students learn to pursue their dreams. Education will survive because it raises people from their daily lives to the life of the mind. Education, as opposed to factory schools and large lectures, fosters creativity and daring, leading people to invent lives for themselves in pursuit of their passions.
While education will survive, schools and universities that have become credentialing factories will be increasingly challenged. When what matters is measureable performance, credentials will become ever less important. Law schools—at least many of them that do not offer an elite status—are credentialing institutions. So too are many of the colleges and universities around the country, where students sit in large lectures for four years so that they can get a degree that stamps them employable. Such credentials are ever less valuable in an age of cheap Internet driven education. That is why these institutions are under pressure.
Labor of Love
China has embraced the idea of a Western college education in a big way. As the NY Times reported recently, the country is making a $250 billion-a-year investment designed to give millions of young Chinese citizens a college education. "Just as the United States helped build a white-collar middle class in the late 1940s and early 1950s by using the G.I. Bill to help educate millions of World War II veterans, the Chinese government is using large subsidies to educate tens of millions of young people as they move from farms to cities."
But for most of these newly minted college graduates, jobs are scarce. One reason is that these graduates often have few marketable skills and they refuse to take the jobs that actually exist. What China needs are people to work in factories. But for college graduates, factory work has little or even no allure.
Consider the case of Wang Zengsong.
Wang Zengsong is desperate for a steady job. He has been unemployed for most of the three years since he graduated from a community college here after growing up on a rice farm. Mr. Wang, 25, has worked only several months at a time in low-paying jobs, once as a shopping mall guard, another time as a restaurant waiter and most recently as an office building security guard.
But he will not consider applying for a full-time factory job because Mr. Wang, as a college graduate, thinks that is beneath him. Instead, he searches every day for an office job, which would initially pay as little as a third of factory wages.
"I have never and will never consider a factory job — what's the point of sitting there hour after hour, doing repetitive work?" he asked.
This story is actually not unique to China. In the United States too, we here repeatedly that small businesses are unable to expand because they cannot find qualified workers. The usual reprise is that high school graduates don't have the skills. Rarely asked is why college graduates don't apply? I assume the reason is the same as in China. College graduates see production work as beneath them.
Plenty of college graduates, many with debt, are interning for free or working odd jobs that pay little; yet they do not even consider learning a skill and taking a job that would require them to build something. Just like their comrades in China, these young people identify as knowledge workers, not as fabricators. For them, a job making things is seen as a step down. Something that is beneath them.
Disdain for manual labor combined with respect for cognitive work is the theme of Matthew B. Crawford's book Shop Craft as Soul Craft, based on his article by the same name that appeared in 2006 in The New Atlantis. Crawford's writing is rich and his thinking profound. But boiled down, I took three main points from his book and article.
First, there is a meaningful and thoughtful component to manual labor. To make something is not thoughtless, but requires both skill and intelligence. This is true if you are building a table, where you must think about the shape, functionality, and aesthetics of a table. But even in factory work, there is the challenge of figuring out how to do something better. And in the modern factory, labor demands technical skill, problem solving, and creativity. Whether you are building a house or making a battery, making things requires thought. What is more, it is good for the soul. Here is how Crawford writes about the soul benefits of craft:
Hobbyists will tell you that making one's own furniture is hard to justify economically. And yet they persist. Shared memories attach to the material souvenirs of our lives, and producing them is a kind of communion, with others and with the future. Finding myself at loose ends one summer in Berkeley, I built a mahogany coffee table on which I spared no expense of effort. At that time I had no immediate prospect of becoming a father, yet I imagined a child who would form indelible impressions of this table and know that it was his father's work. I imagined the table fading into the background of a future life, the defects in its execution as well as inevitable stains and scars becoming a surface textured enough that memory and sentiment might cling to it, in unnoticed accretions. More fundamentally, the durable objects of use produced by men "give rise to the familiarity of the world, its customs and habits of intercourse between men and things as well as between men and men," as Hannah Arendt says. "The reality and reliability of the human world rest primarily on the fact that we are surrounded by things more permanent than the activity by which they were produced, and potentially even more permanent than the lives of their authors."
Arendt values those who make things, especially things that last, because lasting objects give permanence to our world. And such workers who make things are above all thinkers in her understanding. Work is the process of transfiguring the idea of something into a real and reliable object.
But even laborers who make consumable goods are, for Arendt, doing deeply human activity. To be human has been, for time immemorial, also to labor, to produce the goods one needs to live. A life without labor is impoverished and "the blessing of labor is that effort and gratification follow each other as closely as producing and consuming the means of subsistence." Granted, in repetitive factory labor these blessings may seem obscure, but then again, Dilbert has taught us much about the supposed blessings of office work as well.
Second, Crawford tells the story of how schools in the U.S. have done away with shop classes, home economics, and auto-repair, all classes I and many others took in junior high and high school. In the pursuit of college preparation, education has ceased to value the blessings of labor and work.
Third, Crawford argues that in a global economy it will be work with out hands and not just work with our brains that pays well. When legal analysis can be outsourced or replaced by robots as easily as phone operators, the one kind of job that will remain necessary for humans is repair work, fixing things, and building things. Such work requires the combination of mental and physical dexterity that machines will unlikely reach for a very long time. Thus, Crawford argues that by emptying our schools of training in handwork, we are not only intellectually impoverishing our students, but also failing to train them for the kinds of jobs that will actually exist in the future.
Many of my students might now agree. I have former students who have written excellent senior theses on Emerson and Heidegger now working on Organic farms or learning the trade of gourmet cheese production. Others are making specialty furniture. One is even making a new custom-built conference table for the Hannah Arendt Center here at Bard. These students love what they do and are making good livings doing it. They are enriching the world with meaningful objects and memories that they are producing, things they can share as gifts and sell with pride.
Many of the best jobs out there now are in the specialty craft areas. These jobs require thought and creativity, but also experience with craftsmanship and labor. Crawford does not argue against training people well in the liberal arts, but he does raise important questions about our valuation of intellectual over manual labor. We here in the U.S. as well as our friends in China should pay attention. Perhaps we need to rethink our intellectual aversion to production. Maybe we should even begin again to teach crafts and skills in school.
Crawford will be speaking at the next Hannah Arendt Center Conference "The Educated Citizen" on Oct. 3-4, at Bard College. We invite you to join us. Until then, I commend to you his book or at least his essay; Shop Craft as Soul Craft is your weekend read.


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What to Watch for: 6/17
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New York Yankees (39-25) vs. Washington Nationals (38-25)
RHP Ivan Nova (8-2, 4.64) vs. RHP Edwin Jackson (3-3, 3.02)
The Nationals and Yankees take the field for the series finale this afternoon at Nationals Park. While both bullpens must recover quickly from yesterday's 14-inning affair, Edwin Jackson is looking to give the Nats the proper start they need to defeat New York. Happy Father's Day!
1. Lombardozzi LF
2. Harper CF
3. Zimmerman 3B
4. LaRoche 1B
5. Morse RF
6. Desmond SS
7. Espinosa 2B
8. Solano C
9. Jackson RHP
The Nationals will try to avoid their first home sweep of 2012 today. To date, the Nationals have been swept twice this season, both of which came on the road (at Los Angeles, at Miami). In fact, the last team to sweep the Nationals in D.C. was the Marlins, who won three times in three days July 26-28, 2011. While the Nats have dropped two straight, they have won six of eight and eight of their last 11 contests.
During a 9-4 June, Steve McCatty's starting rotation has yet to allow more than three runs in a game and has limited opposing teams to two runs or less ten times in 13 contests. In fact, as good as the starting staff has been (3.02 ERA, .218 batting average against) during June, the bullpen has performed better (2.82 ERA, .189 BAA).
With his game-tying home run in the eighth inning yesterday, Ian Desmond matched his career-high with 10 home runs on the season. He also hit 10 in 2010, but did not hit his tenth until September 14th at Atlanta.
What to Watch for: 6/16
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New York Yankees (38-25) vs. Washington Nationals (38-24)
LHP Andy Pettitte (3-2, 2.81) vs. RHP Jordan Zimmermann (3-5, 2.91)
After last night's loss against the Yankees, the Nationals are hoping to even the series and end New York's seven-game winning-streak. Despite Jordan Zimmermann's 2.91 ERA, he has just three wins on the season, as he will look for more run support to prevent the Yankees from taking the first two games of the series.
1. Espinosa 2B
2. Harper CF
3. Zimmerman 3B
4. Morse RF
5. Desmond SS
6. Moore 1B
7. Nady LF
8. Flores C
9. Zimmermann RHP
This afternoon, Zimmermann makes his first career start against the New York Yankees. His opposition in pinstripes, Andy Pettitte, looks for his first career win in Washington, D.C. Pettitte is 2-1 with a 2.63 ERA in three starts against the Nationals (2005-Present), with his two wins coming in Houston as a member of the Astros.
Mired in a 1-for-18 slump that plagued him during the recent road trip, Jesus Flores went 2-for-4 with a double in last night's contest versus the Yankees. Flores has laced doubles in two of his last three games after enduring a stretch of 15 games without a two-bagger.
The Nationals (15-9) are 24 games into a stretch in which they play 32 consecutive contests against clubs from either the NL East (14 total, 8-6) or AL East (18 total, 7-3 to date). Despite Friday's loss, the Nationals have won six of their last seven and their four-game lead in the NL east is tied for the largest divisional lead in MLB.
From the Desk of Mark Lerner: Road Tripping
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Hello Nationals fans. I am blogging today from north of the border, where your Nationals are about to wrap up the most successful road trip since arriving in D.C.
The trip began with a three-game sweep of the Red Sox. When Tyler Clippard posted his third save in as many games on Sunday, Washington became the first NL club to sweep a series at venerable Fenway Park since the Braves did so way back in 2002.
While the memories of the Beantown sweep will remain for a long time, my immediate thoughts reside with Jesus Flores, who has taken undue punishment behind the plate. Whether it be foul tips or the inevitable pitch cross-up, Flo's arms, legs and hands sport bruises representing every color of the rainbow. Yet, he keeps on blocking balls and putting himself in harm's way. Luckily, there are no mental dings for Flores, however, as his game-calling skills have helped unite a hot pitching staff.
Fenway was not immune to the ever-increasing number of Curly "W" hats, shirts and logos that we have seen on the road. I can also tell you that the players have noticed. I have never seen more Nationals gear for a road series. Yet another bit of evidence that our fans are realizing that this is shaping up as a special summer.
And what about our favorite 19 year-old, Bryce Harper? His play is nothing short of stellar. And, from my seat, it is contagious for teammates and fans alike. While his talents are obvious to all, his energy and undying passion for the game is what sets him apart. Oh, … and his prodigious power! That homer of his to center field on Tuesday night at Rogers Centre will not soon be forgotten.
I am looking forward to this weekend's upcoming Yankees series at Nationals Park. The Bronx Bombers are playing very well the last three weeks and find themselves currently atop the AL East standings (they've also been very helpful in winning five straight from the Mets and Braves). It appears we will miss C.C. Sabathia's turn in their rotation, but Phil Hughes, Andy Pettitte and Ivan Nova will undoubtedly provide a stiff weekend test.
I have to think tickets for this weekend are the hottest in D.C. this year.
I also urge all fans to plan your departures and arrivals to Nationals Park 45 minutes earlier than normal if you want to see all the action from first to last pitch. Sellout crowds, rush hour traffic (Friday), road construction and previously-scheduled Metro track maintenance will all be part of weekend equation.
While it is easy to focus on the big Yankees weekend, let's remember that Tampa Bay is set to invade Nationals Park next week. The Rays' ability to compete and often beat the Yanks and Red Sox in that division is equal parts commendable and inspirational.
Lastly, I am hopeful that our increased fan presence on the road can extend to our series at Camden Yards on the weekend of June 22-24. Let's have some fun with this pennant race thing!
I hope to see you all at Nationals Park this next week … Don't forget to Vote Nats!
A Tale Of Two Cities
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Alright, alright, so we admit we're not actually comparing Washington D.C. and Viera to London and Paris, even if Viera does sound vaguely French (it's actually Slovak). Besides, in our scenario, it was the best of times for Nats fans in both cities. At 10:00 this morning, single game tickets went on sale for the most anticipated season in Nationals history, bringing fans out to the ballpark for the first time since last fall. Meanwhile, the Nationals played their best all-around game of the spring to date, shutting out the visiting Houston Astros by a count of 8-0.
First to D.C., where fans expressed their excitement for the beginning of the 2012 season. With the home opener just 34 days away, here's what fans were saying as they waited in line to get their tickets:
"I can't wait to see all the talent come together." – Andrew P.
"This is the most optimistic I've ever been." – Rick P.
"This is the biggest year for D.C. baseball." – Tommy V.
Needless to say, Nationals fans understand what is going on with this team right now. If you haven't had a chance to pick up your tickets yet, make sure you hop online and grab them soon, especially for the big matchups with the Yankees and Phillies.
Now, back to Viera. They may have played together for a couple of seasons, but Livan Hernandez can't be too happy with Ryan Zimmerman after today's game. Not only did the Nationals third baseman take Livo deep in the first inning, he literally knocked him out of the game with a rocket comebacker off the veteran righty's shin in the bottom of the third. After a short discussion with the training staff, Hernandez exited the game in favor of Lucas Harrell.
Zimmerman had a nice game, hitting the ball hard all three times at the plate. He singled home Anthony Rendon in his third and final plate appearance with a solid line drive to right field.
Meanwhile, Edwin Jackson continued to impress in his second start of the spring, allowing just two ground ball singles in four shutout innings, striking out three. He has now tossed six scoreless frames – all against the Astros – allowing just three hits over that span. Ross Detwiler followed up by retiring all nine batters he faced, also striking out three.
The offense came alive as the game wore on, plating two runs in the fifth, three in the sixth and one in the seventh. When the day was done, Washington had piled up its highest run total of the spring, while allowing just three hits in the shutout.
Off to Jupiter (the city, not the planet) tomorrow evening for our first look at the new Miami Marlins. Here are the Nationals results to date:
vs. Georgetown (exhibition) – W, 3-0
@ Houston – L, 3-1
vs. Houston – L, 10-2
@ New York (NL) – W, 3-1
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Today was the first day going back to the flea market after my trip to Michigan and the weather could not be more perfect. It was sunny, not the tiniest bit of wind, warm enough to walk around for hours but not warm enough to break a sweat.
(Sam is sneaky.)
(Aha! The sneaky becomes the sneaked upon.)
I planned on wearing a dress — I even had one picked out — but honestly with all of the kneeling and digging and speed walking that I do, it just wasn't practical. Today I meant serious business. Maybe a little too serious because I pulled a leg muscle!
So, sorry for the boring outfit! It's simple but, you know, I'm a simple gal most days. We took these behind an abandoned property on the way.
Oh, and I can't wait to share the boudoir chair that I snatched up today for 10 bucks! It is a little torn and pretty darn dingy, but what amazing things aren't?
50's eyelet boatneck blouse: flea market
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We took the backroads out of Washington area. Our first stop is at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. We knew of Gettysburg, but only because of the famous Abraham Lincoln speech…the Gettysburg address. We were looking for somewhere to go for a hike, and we saw the signs for the Gettysburg visitors center, so we headed there. Little did we know that today was the grand opening of the visitors center and civil war museum. So it was busy, but we got a parking spot and visited the new museum. It was very well done, and we got a good history lesson. The entire area surrounding the town of Gettysburg is now National Park land, and there are a lot of monuments and other civil war memories scattered around the park. Apparently something like 40,000 men were killed over a 3 day battle back in 1864 or so.
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Gerd Stolpmann writes: > If you wanted to have a fully general substitute of closures in C (or > assembler), you could do it as follows: For every function store a function > pointer and an array of implicit parameters, e.g. I'm not sure we are really connecting here. The fragment I quoted involved a table of functions which share "implicit parameters" (the `file' struct)---i.e., a thinly disguised C++ object, implemented in exactly the way cfront used to do it. (I wish I hadn't mentioned objects at all. The simpler case of a single function pointer associated with a single implicit parameter is common in the APIs to numerical library routines.) > In object-oriented languages there is another way of paraphrasing > closures. As I said, a closure is an object with only one method. > >(Though I'd argue that's because it sticks to > >abstractions that "ornament" the low-level computational model without > >"obscuring" it :-) .) > > I think this is exactly the point where we have different opinions. More like, we are understanding "the low-level model" to mean different things. I am happy to consider a function pointer plus a persistent data record to "really be" a closure---something which one might not realise before one was exposed to FLs, so that they enrich and clarify one's understanding of low-level programming---whereas you perhaps aren't? Give me a little credit and try to understand what I say charitably :-). I don't know what your background is, and I don't know how much patience you have with "impressionistic" ideas. But I did once study formal semantics, domain theory and the deep way different computational models relate to each other in some detail, so I am perfectly well aware of what constitutes a tight argument in this context. My point was simply that nearly every* feature of ocaml, however abstract in appearance, compiles directly, and compositionally, onto an idiom which one might well use in C or even assembler---give or take some amount of sugar. Looking at this fact one way round, I observe that the reason ocaml is so fast is that it mostly* stays within the framework of the traditional computer model; looking at it from the other direction, I note that the constructs which ocaml maps onto the various different C idioms illuminate the "deeper meaning" of the latter in terms of a much more abstract semantics. * apart from GC and the ocaml classes (of which I must admit I am slightly suspicious, because of the significant overhead in a method call---you don't really want to use them in an inner loop) Compare this with lazy languages, with which the whole discussion started: they must necessarily use the traditional CPU in a pretty contorted way to implement a basically foreign computational model. (Graph reduction, or however you like to present it.) Compare it too with SML/NJ, which supports continuations and therefore has to allocate its stack frames on the heap---crazy, because continuations aren't all that useful (corresponding most closely to a non-local JMP), and noone seems to believe their protestations that this implementation carries 0 performance penalty. I contend that on the one hand stepping distinctly outside the traditional model means slowness, and on the other that the traditional model is not a bad one to think in, as long as your understanding of it is enriched by experiencing and preferably using a language like ocaml (and/or C++). Anyway, thanks for the discussion! Cheers, William


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"My favorite part is getting trophies," said Trista McDannald, 7, who won first place in her age group. She also won the Pedal Pulling State Competition last year.
A pedal pull involves a child riding a miniature pedal-powered tractor, like a tricycle. Children pull a weight as far as they can, and the farthest pull wins, just like a tractor pull. "It's really fun," Trista said.
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01/15/2013, 08:32 AM | #1 (permalink) |
She said in an interview that acquisitions were a long bet and companies need to stick by them.
She singled out webOS for an example of a mistake in not sticking by it. The quote was in the latest round of interviews she did where she also talked about knowing HP needs to make a phone as soon as they figure out the best strategy (there are no current plans apparently). I can't remember where I read the quote, sorry, maybe someone else will find it. In looking for the quote again, I read a whole bunch of articles on HP. Apparently their Tech innovation head is also doing interviews--talking about their new cloud and software strategy. Also found a recent article on Forbes that summed up nicely the work of webOS ports, glad someone is still hoping for webOS to come back. |
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In the end, what is such a statement worth nowerdays for webOS? Even if they really will make hardware again the OS will be windows and/or android.
Btw. she could have stuck with it, after overtaking the lead - one year additional heavy development (which would be until today) including desktop-integration and printer-integration and perhaps the world of webOS would be living outside this community. Here is a recent article stating that HP wants to concentrate on connecting Autonomys augmented apps with printing on tablets and smartphones. Well you all had it lying in front of you guys, but screwed it: Bericht: Umbau und Entlassungen in HPs Autonomy-Sparte | heise resale |
01/16/2013, 03:02 AM | #5 (permalink) |
I can't find the quote but I'm guessing it is something she said at this event.
Really what does it matter? There is zero signs that they plan to do anything with WebOS (outside of Gram) - so that ship has sailed. |
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Here is the exact quote: "Todd took the PC business from $20 billion to $40 billion and from a money-loser to the most profitable PC business in the world," Whitman says. "I wasn't here, but yeah, they missed on mobile. Then they bought Palm to actually figure that out. By the time I got here, they had already shut it down. My view is that when you make an acquisition like that, you have to stick with it. You can't just sort of lose heart. Whose fault is that? I don't know. My view is: It is what it is. You can't change the past." I think it does mean something. It means she respects Palm and its innovation. And you can't change the past but they still own webOS and Andreesen who is on their board said web technologies would take 3-5 years and Palm was ahead of its time. I'm just sayin'. thats all. Just got an iPhone and it can't do certain things I like out of the box, like I can't open up multiple windows at once in the browser and go back and read them at my leisure; it hasn't yet shown me a notification on the lock screen even though I've enabled that feature; and getting any files on it other than using some 3rd party server in the sky as a go-between is a pain in the *** |
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Going two for two: Here's the nice Forbes story on webOS
Mobile Sesame - Open webOS Escapes Onto Google Hardware - Forbes webOS--the OS that won't die. If you want immortality, stick with us. |
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I cannot see how anyone could take anything from that quote except we messed up and we are moving on - when HP gets back into mobile it will be with an established OS - otherwise where are the many billions needed to compete from scratch (webos has zero market share so you'd be starting from nothing) in the sector going to come from? HPs finances are a mess.
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Yes, they hope for Windows but still even so, there would be room for them to offer another OS for certain features which is cheaper.
Also Windows is still slow going, I would not be surprised if Blackberry leaps over its market share in the phone world and didn't someone (Samsung?), say they were pulling out of the win8 tablet business for now? And would a windows (anything) be cheap for third world countries given licensing fees? Android a security mess, IOS and Blackberry off limits, webOS is still HP's own and HP wants to make its name in software and cloud services. As for HP's finances being a mess, I haven't kept track yet to see where they are on the road to recovery. But I did notice their pc sales were up 4 Q over last year and Dell's were down; thats pretty good to gain market share when the industry is shrinking. Also there seems to be some innovation in the software and services space, I would wait about 6-9 months and take another look at how software and services and also the rebranded Autonomy (I forget the new name). Last edited by bluenote; 01/16/2013 at 10:43 AM. |
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This gets back into the argument over if there's enough room for all these OS's out there... the Ubuntu phones and the Firefox OS's of the world. If there is -any- interest in developing these platforms, then webOS has a giant head start on each of those. I think there enough jaded iOS and Android users out there that would want to try something different to switch. It would definitely generate some buzz. Heck... people are still talking about Blackberry even, so anything's possible
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01/16/2013, 11:06 AM | #15 (permalink) |
HP needs to be proprietary, they cannot compete on cheapness with China and the Far East, they must be software value add, hardware design quality add, cloud services value add.
Here's that cool Africa article again which says HP is shipping Palm Pre 2s to South Africa. I love the fact that they are Palm Pre 2s and not Pre 3s. Article is dated Jan 14 , 2013 so is this still going on? HP Social Innovation Here is a quote from the new strategy officer that I found while trying to refind that whitman webOS quote: "I would say our software-defined networking, our ElitePad and notebooks and our OfficeJet Pro X. That is a fundamentally revolutionary product. What we have done is taken the ink technology that is super high-end and moved it down. That OfficeJet Pro X is very different. That is true innovation. To be able to run ink at 65 pages per minute and have it come out bright and at 50 percent reduction in cost -- that is huge innovation." Q&A: HP's Top Strategist Says HP Is Mounting An Innovation Offensive The ElitePad is their commercial tablet so I guess it is running Windows as is their notebooks. The software-defined networking, I think that means how the servers or pcs get configured to the networks, this may be tied to their play to be an "amazon" cloud service to enterprises with better security than amazon can provide (according to the article below) |
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That's actually a red herring - the critical question is - has anything significant changed about HP that suggests that they could do *any* OS into a player? The answer from the last six months of HP news is surely *no*. |
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Ps Clinton initiative is involved in that Palm Pre 2 distribution to South Africa. So far now webOS is their third world phone. |
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It's all one log-in one and when you log into mobile nations you see what people are talking about - I pop in if something catches my eye but generally there isn't much to discuss here - which is why the place is a ghost town.
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Not to be confused with Program music.
Not to be confused with algorithmic composition: the use of computer programs to generate sounds of instruments.
Programming is a form of music production and performance using electronic devices, such as sequencers, to generate sounds of musical instruments. Programming is used in nearly all forms of electronic music and in most hip hop music since the 1990s. It is also frequently used in modern pop and rock music from various regions of the world, and sometimes in jazz and contemporary classical music. In the 21st century, programming has been incorporated into various styles of post-hardcore and metalcore music.[1]
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- Equipment: digital audio workstation, drum machine, groovebox, synthesizer
- Technology: MIDI
- Techniques: sampling, sequencing
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RECKLINGHAUSEN'S DISEASE WITH UROGENITAL MANIFESTATION THIAGO F. NUNES, RENATO P. COSTA, FABIO C. NAVARRO Amaral Carvalho Hospital, Jau, São Paulo, Brazil ABSTRACT Neurofibromatosis or Von Recklinghausen's disease is a rare disease that affects the urogenital system in its visceral form. We report on one case where the patient had a recurring mass located in the vesicouterine space that caused irritative urinary symptoms, which was confirmed as uterine cervix neurofibroma following surgery and immunohistochemical study. We stress the importance of a wide resection of such tumors and the need for long-term follow-up due to the high recurrence index and the risk of malignant transformation. Key
words: Von Recklinghausen's disease; urogenital system;
neoplasm recurrence, local; pelvic neoplasms INTRODUCTION Neurofibromatosis or Von Recklinghausen's disease is a pathology that features dominant autosomal transmission caused by a mutation in the NF1 gene, which is located on chromosome 17q11.2. It demonstrates 100% penetration but a highly variable phenotypic expression (1). The incidence of systemic disease is 1 in every 3000 births; however, urogenital involvement is rare, and only about 50 cases with urinary manifestation have been described, in most cases featuring involvement of the bladder (2). It is known that there is a 12 to 29% (3) risk of malignant degeneration and so follow-up with such patients is important, as is resection of the lesion whenever there is a suspicion of malignant transformation. CASE REPORT A
21-year old Caucasian woman previously diagnosed with Von Recklinghausen's
disease type I who had undergone 2 previous operations (exeresis of neurofibroma
in her left forearm and retrovesical neurofibroma with bladder preservation
13 years earlier). She was assymptomatic and had undergone abdominal and
pelvic computerized tomography (CT) every 6 months during the first 2
years and subsequently every 3 years. Since 2001 she had had irritative
urinary symptoms (dysuria, pollakiuria) due to urinary tract infections
(on average every 2 months) confirmed by urine culture. Physical examination
was normal except for the presence of "café au lait"
spots on her entire body. COMMENTS Neurofibromatosis is a hamartomatous disease of the cell components originating from the neural crest. Neurofibromas are tumors of the autonomic peripheral nerves (Schwann cells) and rarely involve organs in the urogenital system. They most commonly affect the bladder due to the presence of a rich autonomic plexus. The pathogenesis is unknown, however it is known that there is a considerable risk of malignant degeneration (from 12 to 29%) which warrants clinical follow-up and serial imaging exams along with tumor exeresis if the mass increases suddenly, since this could suggest malignant transformation. Local recurrence is common, especially in large skin neurofibromas, thus clinical follow-up with CT is required every 6 months during the first 2 years and then annually. REFERENCES
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I'm still obsessed with Minecraft, so here is a song I made to listen to while exploring caves in Minecraft.
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i like it. however, minecraft forest was better it had a different feel. this is way too happy to play when i git blown up by a frinkin creeper
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Alan, I''ve not used the archive search function on this BB but you might give it a whirl since C/C design & function has been discussed here before.
Some folks simply love a C/C design. They like the better view of the bow when docking (altho'' it puts the helmsman distant from ALL the docking lines, not much of a help when short-handed), they like sitting ''up'' (a bit more distant from the wind-blown waves and ''the wet''), they like the perceived privacy that a cockpit well provides down below - at least visually - to the boat''s interior (tho'' distance hasn''t changed an iota and we all host fewer night-time guests than we imagine when selecting a boat), and a C/C deck plan accommodates ketch/yawl rigs better as the strings & wires don''t encroach on the cockpit nor do the spars (altho'' split rigs are considered a bit like the buggy-whip today). Another somewhat bizarre preference to my mind is the desire many of us have for two heads in a 40'' +/- boat, as if we have more space than we need or can use but fewer systems to maintain than we''d like. For those with this inclination, a C/C design provides for a walk-thru on one side of the well while the other can be used for a 2nd ("master") head. I''m sure I''m missing some of the other benefits, subjective or objective, but these are what pop to mind.
For long-term cruising and offshore sailing, here are some ways in which I find the C/C design undesireable (at least, relatively speaking). Of course, there are great cruising boats with a C/C (or derivation thereof) deck plan and I don''t see this as a blanket condemnation...but I think all these points apply in the 35-40'' range:
1. Motion sickness is induced far more by roll than pitch, yet perched up higher and more near the center of the boat, a C/C design invites higher acceleration and more roll motion than further aft and down lower. Moreover, it tires the crew more since they must hang on/brace/work against more motion. And when the crew eventually has to go calling ''Ralph''...?
2. Further forward, the crew struggles more to see under the genoa when maintaining watch, is closer to the bow wave and deck spray - C/C deck plans offer by their nature a wetter cockpit - and therefore require a more elaborate cockpit dodger/enclosure (expense, windage).
3. Along with the taller, likely to be bigger/more extended enclosure, we have the hull/deck profile itself - taller in cross-section in order to provide passageway space past the cockpit well when moving between the cabins. Truth be told, we (long-term cruisers) all tend to overload our boats over time, including lots of stuff on the deck, tied to the lifelines, suspended from arches & poles back aft, attached to the spars, and more. As a result, we incrementally - and usually without noticing it - degrade boat performance under sail, and most especially in lighter winds and when sailing to windward. In truth, most cruisers avoid higher latitude sailing and seek temperate climates, which means more often sailing in variable conditions. Throw in a spate of bad fuel and you can quickly find a poor performing boat means you get to enjoy the benefits of remaining offshore an extra day or two when you''d rather have made it to your destination. But just in general, we all enjoy sailing a boat that''s more responsive and handles less like a pig. A C/C deck plan works against this, especially so as boat size goes below 40''. You''ll notice I haven''t even touched on the behavior of such a burdened boat at anchor (which is where you normally reside when cruising), especially in a frontal blow or when a squall rips thru the anchorage.
4. Where does the "stuff" go? We have 3 huge cockpit lockers on our 424 and they are mostly full when offshore. But then, we carry almost no jugs on deck (small gasoline jugs are the exception, for safety reasons), have no cabin or berth encumbered by gear nor settee/quarterberth cushion loaded up with "stuff", carry multiple emergency rations of water and diesel, and enjoy having storage space for all the extra rodes, anchors, big fenders & dock lines, offshore raft (not baking out on deck, where the crew would least like to go if the vessel is in distress) and ditch bag, folding bikes, awnings and the 101 other things used over time when away. (What was I saying about overloading our boats...?) C/C plans provide little such storage space simply because much of it is consumed by a passageway and 2nd head (or workshop, one of the best reasons FOR a C/C design).
There are other reasons for my view and of course, there are alternative views which are equally strongly held. In the end, it''s what you & your crew find most important for you and your cruising plans that matters, not what someone else (on this BB or at a boat show) *claims* you should believe. Hope this helps, if only a little.
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Well - this is it. Our final day. Not much to say really. We woke up late - used the business center - had probably the best breakfast we have had this entire trip. The Holiday Inn Express actually serves a fantastic breakfast. I had two full bowls of fresh blueberries - yuuummyyyy.
Anyway - we hit the road and chose some non-highway roads to get back to Richmond, and the roads we chose were once again great ones. Hardly any traffic, lots of beautiful scenery, and lots of twisties.
We made it back to Eagle Rider right on time at 3pm. After waiting for our scheduled flights (change of flights in Charlotte, NC) we finally made it home by 1:00 am.
Another great trip, and I could not be happier than having spent it with my brother. Thanks Rus !! When is our next ride?
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