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One of the most arresting lectures I have ever heard at a historians' convention was delivered four years ago by Drew Gilpin Faust at the annual meeting of the American Historical Association. Taking as her starting point Robert E. Lee's possibly apocryphal remark, "It is well that war is so terrible--lest we should grow too fond of it," Faust blamed historians for succumbing to war's seductive power. By ascribing moral purposes and profound causes to what is really pointless slaughter, she insisted, historians obscure war's horror. Exhibit A was the American Civil War. More than 60,000 books dealing in one way or another with that conflict have been published since it ended, she observed. That's an average of more than one per day. If historians need war to add drama to their grand narratives, Faust suggested, then war, if it is to be more than pointless slaughter, very much needs historians.
Faust, of course, is best known today as the first woman president of Harvard University in its 371-year history. (She was inaugurated in October.) But before reaching this milestone, she established a reputation as a leading scholar of nineteenth-century Southern history. Indeed, one of her more recent books, Mothers of Invention (1996), accomplished something nearly impossible--coming up with a genuinely new explanation for Confederate defeat. Faust attributed it to the withdrawal of support by women on the Southern home front, who abandoned the fight because of the damage the war was inflicting on their families and on traditional gender relations. Now, with This Republic of Suffering, a work by turns fascinating, innovative and obsessively morbid, Faust returns to the task of stripping from war any lingering romanticism, nobility or social purpose.
Faust begins by reminding us of the Civil War's appalling harvest of death. In a nation of 31 million people, 620,000 died as members of the Union or Confederate armed forces, a total nearly equal to the deaths in all other American wars combined, and the equivalent of 6 million in terms of today's population. This figure does not include the thousands of civilians who became collateral victims of battles or who perished in disease-ridden camps for runaway slaves or in internecine conflict between Unionist and Confederate families that raged in parts of the South. The slaughter of the young could not be assimilated into the cultural ideal that Faust calls the Good Death--the passing at home of a man or woman of advanced age, surrounded by family members and imparting last words of religious and social wisdom.
Of course, untimely death was hardly unknown in mid-nineteenth-century America, given the primitive state of medicine. During the course of his life, for example, Abraham Lincoln lost a baby brother and two sons to disease and saw his sister die in childbirth. But the scale of loss in the Civil War dwarfed anything in the American experience. And unlike today, when the government carefully shields images of the war dead from public view, the new art of photography, in the words of one newspaper, "brought the bodies and laid them in our dooryards." Drawing on a wide range of sources, including sermons, memoirs, newspapers, poetry and soldiers' letters, Faust probes how Americans tried to cope with mass death and how the experience affected everything from business practices to religious attitudes, literary culture and the organization of the state.
In some ways, Faust points out, death was good for business. Transportation companies, North and South, made tidy profits bringing the remains of soldiers home for burial. Embalmers operated near the battlefields, preserving bodies and then demanding payment from grieving families. Entrepreneurs promised, for a fee, to locate information about missing loved ones. A burgeoning market developed in mourning attire made from various fabrics with names unrecognizable today: bareges, challies, balzerines. There were elaborate rules, for the upper classes at least, about how to remain part of fashionable society while in mourning. Faust even takes note of the extensive sales of the "planchette," a kind of Ouija board that supposedly enabled the living to communicate with the dead.
War, Randolph Bourne would write during World War I, "is the health of the state." One of the most profound changes wrought by the Civil War was the creation of a powerful national government, evidenced by the mobilization of economic resources, conscription, the issuance of the first national currency and the emancipation, by presidential decree, Congressional action and constitutional amendment, of more than 4 million slaves. Coping with death, Faust shows, also required unprecedented state action, from notifying next of kin to accounting for the dead and missing. The Union and Confederacy established elaborate systems for gathering statistics and maintaining records of dead and wounded soldiers, efforts supplemented by private philanthropic organizations.
After the war ended, Washington embarked on what Faust calls "the most elaborate federal program undertaken in nearly a century of American nationhood": the location and reburial of hundreds of thousands of Union soldiers in national military cemeteries. The scale of death in engagements like Shiloh, Antietam, Gettysburg and many others was so vast that many bodies lay untended for days, eventually buried in unidentified shallow graves near the battlefield. Between 1865 and 1871, the federal government reinterred more than 300,000 Union (but not Confederate) soldiers, including black ones, buried, as they had fought, in segregated sections of military cemeteries. Faust points out that officials seeking to locate the remains of deceased Union soldiers often found that they had been buried, and their graves cared for, by local African-Americans in the South.
If the mass death of the Civil War "demanded an explanation," Americans increasingly found one in religion. The pre-Socratic philosopher Xenophanes first pointed out that man creates God in his own image. The same is true of heaven. Of course, equating death with eternal life was a central tenet of Christianity. But mass death, Faust argues, led to a "transformation of heaven," as Americans imagined celestial family reunions that seemed more and more like decorous gatherings in Victorian living rooms. "I don't like Paradise," the poet Emily Dickinson jested, in response to this domestication of heaven, "Because it's Sunday--all the time." Some Americans could not wait until their own death to see the departed. Spiritualism--belief in the ability to communicate with the dead--proliferated. Mary Todd Lincoln held séances in the White House to experience again the presence of her young son Willie, who succumbed to disease in 1862.
But religion also gave a larger meaning to wartime sacrifice. What Faust calls "the United States's new and elevated sense of destiny" emerged from the war, a belief that God had willed the conflict to purge the nation of the sin of slavery, and that America's manifest destiny to serve as a worldwide embodiment of freedom had been hallowed by all the blood that had been shed. Lincoln, in his magnificent second inaugural address, invoked biblical language to explain the war but warned that ultimately God's will cannot be known by man: "The Almighty has His own purposes." The North's Protestant clergy had no such doubts. To them, God's purposes were clear, and the soldiers' deaths merged with the Union's triumph in what Faust calls a "consoling narrative of divine purpose and sacrifice." The dead had not died in vain.

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I was astounded when Juliette Michael told me she was 83 years old and still dancing. She looks like she's not a day over 70 and moves at an even younger pace. I'm told the oldest member of the Stompers is a woman from Menifee who is 94. At that news, Michael smiled and said that dancer could easily pass for 87.
And Andy Abeles, co-president of the Canyon Lake Twirlers, a club that's been around seven years longer than the Grape Stompers, pointed out there is a good social benefit to the square dancing, too.
"My wife and I have been dancing pretty much since we've been together," said Abeles, who's been married more than 20 years. "We still have a fabulous relationship and while it certainly isn't the only reason we've stayed together, square dancing is something we can do that doesn't involve drinking and can keep us going until we're well into our 90s."
For more on the Grape Stompers, visit www.grapestompers.net and for more on the Canyon Lake Twirlers, visit www.canyonlaketwirlerssquaredance.webs.com.
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The world of Shakespeare has fascinated Bollywood filmmakers over the ages and has even inspired them to adapt his works for the desi audience. Through the ages Bard's works have come alive on the big screen in different avatars, whether it's an adaptation of Othello to Omkara, a rustic tale of crime and passion or a laugh riot as evident in Angoor, a classic based on Shakespeare's Comedy Of Errors or an intense and tragic story Macbeth retold as Maqbool. Shakepeare's works have a universal draw and there in probably lies its appeal, resulting in different interpretations and adaptation of his works.
A rose by any other name would smell as sweet
This popular dialogue from Bard's Romeo and Juliet probably best describes the attempts to make different flicks in various languages inspired by this romantic and tragic love story. Here's a look at Bollywood flicks inspired by Bards works, to mark his 450th birth anniversary.
Romeo And Juliet
Most recently, Sanjay Leela Bhansali's twist to Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet got him a box-office success. Bhansali like many others before him has turned to Bard's tragic love story for inspiration and found success. Ram Leela joins a list of hitmakers that went on to win accolades and raked in big money at the box office.
Most memorable Romeo and Juliet adaptations in Bollywood
1) Bobby (1973)
Directed by Raj Kapoor
Star-crossed lovers played by Rishi Kapoor and Dimple Kapadia
Created history because It introduced audiences to one of India's most beloved screen pairs, Rishi Kapoor and Dimple Kapadia. It redefined the way people understood romance and turned the notion that love can happen only when you are older and mature upside down to introduce a new idea that even adolescents can fall in head over heels in love. The film went on to become a huge hit.
2) Love Story (1981)
Directed by Rahul Rawail
Star-crossed lovers played by Kumar Gaurav and Vijeta Pandit
Created history because The film became a blockbuster making Kumar Gaurav a star overnight.
3) Ek Duuje ke Liye (1981)
Directed by K Balachander
Star-crossed lovers played by Kamal Haasan and Rati Agnihotri
Created history because when the film released, many couples faced with parental opposition committed suicide, just like the couple did in the film. It also marked the debut of two stars from South India in Hindi films - the leading lady Rati and playback singer SP Balasubrahmanya
4) Sanam Teri Kasam (1982)
Directed by Narender Bedi
Star-crossed lovers played by Kamal Haasan and Reena Roy
Created history because of its music that proved to be an instant hit.
5) Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak (1988)
Directed by Mansoor Khan
Star-crossed lovers played by Aamir Khan, and Juhi Chawla
Created history because it gave Bollywood another much loved romantic pair, launching the careers of Aamir and Juhi who went on to do many other romantic flicks together.
6) Saudagar (1991)
Directed by Subhash Ghai
Star-crossed lovers played by Vivek Mushran and Manisha Koirala
Created history because It brought Dilip Kumar and Raaj Kumar, two Bollywood legends together in the same film, and also introduced Manisha.
While the above list of movies includes flicks that went on to become big hits, there are others who failed to strike gold despite creating a lot of buzz. Ishaqzaade (2012), directed by Habib Faisal got the lead pair Arjun Kapoor, and Parineeti Chopra into the limelight, but failed to work at the box office, while Issaq (2013), a film directed by Manish Tiwary just fizzled out.
Shakespearean plays that made it as Bollywood flicks
Zalim Saudagar (1941): JJ Madan had adapted Shakespeare's The Merchant Of Venice for his film starring Jahan Ara.
Angoor (1982): Gulzar's classic was based on Shakespeare's Comedy Of Errors.
Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak (1988): The film was believed to be inspired by the hit play, Romeo And Juliet.
Bhardwaj's fascination for Bard
Bhardwaj probably has the most number of films which have been adapted from Shakepeare's works.
The list includes his yet to be released flick Haider starring Shahid Kapoor which is an adaptation of Shakespeare's Hamlet, Maqbool (2004) Irrfan-Tabu starrer hit, which is Bhardwaj's take on Mcbeth and Omkara (2006) which is an adaptation of Othello starring with Ajay Devgn, Saif Ali Khan and Kareena Kapoor..
As evident above, while Shakespeare may have literally and figuratively exited the world stage, he continues to live on through his works.
Most popular Hollywood adaptations of R & J
Romeo and Juliet (1936) was one of the earliest film adaptations and is considered to be the most faithful to the play!
Romeo and Juliet (1968) was the most financially successful film of a Shakespeare play during its time! Director Franco Zeffirelli's adaptation was not only known for its actors, but also the music by Henry Hancini!
Romeo + Juliet (1996) In director Baz Luhrmann's contemporary take on William Shakespeare's famous play Shakespearean language is used even as the play is set in contemporary times.
West Side Story (1961), 10 time Academy Award winner, remains the most iconic Shakespeare adaptations to visit the big screen!
And while Shakespeare may have literally left the stage, he continues to live through his works.


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Critical Essay by Robert O. Evans
SOURCE: "Nadsat: The Argot and Its Implications in Anthony Burgess' A Clockwork Orange," in Journal of Modern Literature, Vol. 1, No. 3, March, 1971, pp. 406-10.
Evans is an American critic and educator. In the following essay, he discusses the use of the "nadsat" slang in A Clockwork Orange, and its effect upon the novel as a dystopian vision.
The dustjacket of the Heinemann edition of Anthony Burgess's A Clockwork Orange (1962) promises that "it will take the reader no more than fifteen pages to master and revel in the expressive language of Nadsat." Perhaps that is what it will take to guess most of the meanings from context, but to master the argot of the teenage set with which the novel deals may be somewhat more difficult. It is indeed something like learning Russian vocabulary without the grammar. There are about a dozen words on every page of the novel that are non-English, and these words are almost entirely substantives. At a rough estimate about three per cent of the text is foreign or borrowed. That is a rather large amount of invasion, considering the nature of the non-English words. Were these words entirely symbolic, or imaginative, the novel might be as unintelligible as if it had been written in Esperanto. But in fact the roots are mostly Slavic. What the author has done is to inject a heavy element of Russian vocabulary into the speech of his characters.
There is one clear clue in the novel to the nature of this vocabulary. Somewhere beyond the middle of the book the protagonist, Alex, uses Nadsat words in conversation with two psychiatrists who are treating him. His language, Dr. Brodsky says, is "quaint." Then, he asks his partner, Dr. Branom, if he knows anything about its provenance. "Odd bits of rhyming slang," Dr. Branom answers, with "a bit of gipsy talk, too. But most of the roots are Slav. Propaganda. Subliminal penetration." All of these remarks quite exact, except perhaps the reference to gypsy talk. While there is plenty of slang, an odd German word or two, I can discover no gypsy words. Russian words are, however, ubiquitous.
Examine the first fifteen pages, that the dustjacket says will provide sufficient clue to meaning to enjoy the rest of the novel. We begin in the company of Alex and his three friends. They are called droogs, the Russian word for friend slightly Anglicized. They are making up their rassodocks (Russian minds) what to do that evening. The times are skorry (sorry). There is no law yet against some of the new vesches (things) they put into moloko (milk) to give one a horrorshow (good) feeling. Their pockets are full of deng (money). They decide to tolchock (push, pound) and old veck (man) in an alley. They viddy (see) him swim in his own blood. They consider doing violence to some starry (old) ptitsas (birds, feminine; women). They go away smecking (laughing) with the contents of a till.
Not all of the Russian words have to be guessed from context, for the author does not wish the novel to be totally unintelligible. Pete had a "rooker (hand, that is)" on the front of his tights. Georgie had a "clown's litso (face, that is)" in the same place. They wore built up shoulders "pletchoes we called them," as indeed every Russian calls them.
They met some devotchkas (girls)—the number of words for girls is remarkable—who wore little silver medals bearing the names of boys they had gone with (euphemism?) before they were fourteen on the groody (bosomy) part of their dresses. They considered spending the evening with a bit of pol (sex) but decided against it. There were only four devotchkas, which would mean kuppeting (buying) one of the unwholesome four enough to drink to keep him busy while the others enjoyed themselves.
The chelloveck (man) sitting next to them was already far gone on the drug. His glazzies (eyes) were glazed—a rather apparent pun. His slovos (words) were slurred. All this time in the background you can hear the goloss (voice) of the singer, crooning a real starry (old) oldie, You Blister My Paint, a more sophisticated play on words here. If we hadn't already guessed, the author would show us by such repetitions that here at least he was pulling our legs.
They go out into the winter nochy (night), searching for a malenky (small, petty) jest. They meet an old man, or at least an adult, coming from the Public Library. Pete holds his rookers (arms), while Dim yanks out his false zoobies (teeth). He makes chumbling (dirty) shooms (noises), so that George stops holding his goobers (lips) apart—exactly what he was doing is not especially clear even after translation. They pull off his platties (trousers) and read his private letters, which they consider to be filled with chepooka (nonsense). Their violence is punctuated with disgusting gestures. After a sentimental passage in a letter one of the four pretends to wipe his yahma (hole) with it.
They decide on a bit of shop-crasting (stealing), set up an alibi with three or four old baboochkas (women) in a bar, where the waiter has on a grazzy (dirty) apron, and spend all the money in their carmans (pockets). Dim is quiet for fear of being considered gloopy (stupid). They take pains to avoid the millicents (policemen) and rozz patrols. I take rozz to be a clipped reference to the Russian for criminal investigation department. Many of the English words in the novel, especially slang words, are clipped forms, and there is reason to believe the author employs the same practice with Russian words. For example, Pete keeps chasso (sentry—clipped) while they rob a smoke shop.
Before they get down to violence in the robbery, they are momentarily attracted by an advertisement for cancers (English coinage for cigarettes) in the form of a pretty girl showing off her groodies (breasts). The old woman in the shop is "all nuking" (smelling) of scent. After the robbery and violence they go back to the bar and ring the collocoll (bell) for the waiter. The rozzes (let us say, cops) come in wearing their shlemmies (helmets). But the cops have nothing on the young criminals. "Everything [was] as easy as kiss-my-sharries" (balls).
In the beginning of the next chapter they run into a "burbling old pyahnitsa" (drunk) whose words interest Alex. He likes to slooshy (hear) what some of these old decreps (clipped, decrepit ones, one supposes) have to say. An odd blurp rises from his keeshkas (perhaps Russian clipped for intestines, guts). Then they run across Billyboy and his five droogs (friends). Now there will be gang war. This is not the mean violence they commit on shopkeepers, drunks, and little girls but rather serious business with the nozh (knife), the oozy (this one escapes me), and the britva (razor). So the story progresses, but that takes us through the first fifteen pages which the dustjacket behooves us to master. The Russian vocabulary continues, but the introduction of new words is cut down—and many of those we subsequently meet are reasonably familiar, such as chai (tea) or gavoreet (speak). There is then some truth to the promise that if we master the first fifteen pages we can read the rest of the novel with little difficulty.
The fifty odd Russian borrowings we have been examining constitute a fair sampling of the vocabulary of the first fifteen pages of the novel, but they by no means exhaust the subject. There are a few borrowings from other languages; for example, tashtook for handkerchief (German) and kartoffel for potato. There are English coinages, some of them purely imaginative, as vellocet, synthemesc, drencom for LSD-type additives to the evil milk the boys drink, which puts knives in your stomach. Money can be polly or cutter as well as deng, and potatoes are also spuds. Heads are gullivers, and women are sometimes sharps or lighters, as well as ptitsas, cheenas, baboochkas, and devotchkas. Smokes are cancers, and a drink of whisky is a Large Scotchman. On the whole the language is as unusual and versatile as anyone might wish.
The novel is not, however, filled with linguistic pyrotechnics in the same way that Joyce's Finnegans Wake is. Joyce is attempting, however successfully, to delve beneath the conscious levels of speech; Burgess is playing with ordinary speech conventions. It is as if he were testing our ability to read. As we know, to read Shakespeare, say, requires coming to terms with the vocabulary, some of which is slang, some of which is simply out-of-date. To read A Clockwork Orange is to go through the same process artificially. Indeed it is even more difficult, for there is no apparatus with footnotes, and most readers will have too little Russian to provide the necessary clues.
It is fair to ask what is the purpose of this linguistic innovation? That is, what has the author accomplished with his unusual vocabulary? To do so is not quite the same as inquiring what the author intended by all this verbiage—clearly there are times when the words ran away with him and his intention, so far as one can ascertain, was simply to amuse the reader in the way that puns or nonsense verse amuse us. But A Clockwork Orange is not nonsense, nor is it simply "horror comedy," or sick humor, as the writer for Heinemann implies on the dustjacket. And it is certainly not "a fable of good and evil" demonstrating "the importance of human choice," the alternative suggested by the publisher.
It is, to begin with, a distopia related to the genre of Eugene Zamiatin's We, Huxley's Brave New World, Orwell's 1984, Golding's Lord of the Flies, or even Edmund Wilson's unsuccessful play, A Little Blue Light. Like We and Brave New World and 1984 it presents a vision of society as it has developed at some future time, a vision that is not only unpleasant but is almost entirely unbearable. Unlike Zamiatin, Huxley, and Orwell (and there are of course others in the same category), Burgess holds no shred of hope for society. There are no important characters in A Clockwork Orange capable of seeing through the foibles and evils of the society created. There is no sign of hope for the future.
Like the characters in Golding's Lord of the Flies, those in A Clockwork Orange are all children—indeed the book is entirely the autobiography of Alex. The others hardly matter except as participants in events that illustrate Alex's total lack of moral values. But unlike Golding's novel this one is not about youngsters in order to clarify its moral purpose. Golding is discussing original sin; in order to do so without clouding the issues with sexual matters he makes all of his characters children below the age of puberty. Burgess's characters—or character—are not below the age of sexual experience. Indeed vicious rape is one of the attendant pleasures they enjoy as early as the second chapter of the novel.
That is not to say that the author is totally unconcerned with moral values. No doubt he deplores the actions of Alex as much as we do. What he is doing is creating a hopeless vision of a society taken over by youth. The youth do not share the values of their elders, nor do they admit any sort of normal associations with them. Parents are not to be obeyed, nor do they set examples. The best that can be hoped for in the world of Burgess is that the young will eventually grow up into copies of their parents. Physical and mental attrition will set in—it does for some of the gang. Dim and Billyboy, for example, end up as millicents (policemen).
But what has this to do with the special argot of youth, which incidentally—like the uniforms they wear—will inevitably change as new youths replace those who have passed into the ossifying adult world? Why should three per cent, or so, of the words be Anglicized Russian words instead of, say, Arabic or French? If most readers have to arrive at meaning from contextual repetition, Arabic would do for them quite as well. If the writer is merely trying to amuse with sounds and still wishes to communicate a large percentage of what his words say at once, surely French would better serve English and American readers. It is interesting to speculate on what such a story might sound like written in Franglais. But in fact neither French nor Arabic would do. There is a real sense in the novel in which, to borrow Marshall McLuhan's terminology, the medium becomes the message. For the Anglo-American reader the Slavic words connote communist dictatorship, the society of Darkness at Noon, without moral value and without hope. How the young people in the novel learn the argot is never explained. It seems to come to them through the air somehow. Their parents, the police, the psychiatrists know about it, but they cannot speak it.
The writer is of course describing a common enough linguistic phenomenon. Those of us in our forties may understand "Cool it, man," but we cannot speak Beat. Where our children learned the argot, we do not know, nor do they. But Burgess is exaggerating beyond all reasonable bounds this sort of linguistic process. And he makes the argot Russian, as if to warn his readers of what society may become if it communizes itself along Soviet lines. The medium becomes the message in A Clockwork Orange with a vengeance, and the message is similar to that in other distopias that deal in visions of society in the future after it has become static, completely controlled, amoral, and heartless. The difference between A Clockwork Orange and, say, We or Brave New World lies in the fact that complete submission and total control in the latter novels, products of an earlier generation, lead to inaction or submission most of the time; whereas in Burgess the same destruction of moral values leads to absolute anarchy. The message is the same, but the specific warning of events to come is quite different.
Much of the appeal of works like We, Brave New World, Lord of the Flies, Darkness at Noon rests on what we consider to be the authenticity of the vision. It is on that count that Edmund Wilson's play, A Little Blue Light, particularly fails. Wilson was unable to convince us that his vision was clear, in the sense that Huxley's or Golding's is supposed to be. The test, after all, will come only with time. The problem, artistically speaking, is how the author goes about creating authenticity—in short the problem with works of this genre is the old one of verisimilitude.
On this score, I believe, A Clockwork Orange fails. Alex, the protagonist, is a totally amoral person—a thief, an arsonist, a rapist, though there are one or two qualities that tend to detract from Burgess's total version of a teenage fiend incarnate. For one thing, Alex likes serious music, though he uses it to encourage his nefarious escapades. When he is finally captured and incarcerated, he is given a chance to receive pardon and his freedom by submitting to a psychiatric experiment. Doubtless the author has his tongue in his cheek about psychiatrists while he describes this process. Alex is drugged, tied down, and subjected to very heavy doses of violence on film. It is suggested that by this method of vicarious participation in an extraordinary amount of violence, the violent part of his mind can be changed—or, more simply, the subject can be conditioned so that even the thought of violence can make him physically ill. It is as if he underwent a psychic frontal lobotomy, which altered his entire personality—not forever in the novel, however.
What Burgess suggests is that the spectacle of brutality can be used as a deterrent. Authors are not the only ones to think up such things. As Marshall McLuhan points out, the Santa Monica police offered (in 1962) a five dollar reduction in traffic fines to persons willing to watch the Ohio State Police movie Signal 30. But he also argues that the spectacle of brutality can itself brutalize. "Numbness," he says, "is the result of prolonged terror … The price of eternal vigilance is indifference." Whether a hot film, as McLuhan calls it, would cool off hot behavior is a psychologically moot point. Whether we accept media distinctions such as McLuhan makes does not really matter in attempting to weigh the success in terms of verisimilitude of the events depicted in a novel like A Clockwork Orange. We know, rationally and intuitively, if not from experience, that a hot book will not cool sexual ardor—or there would be no market for pornography. In short there is enough in question about the events of Burgess's novel to make its solution seem improbable rather than probable. If I am correct in that impression, the novel then is less than successful despite the attention it has attracted—that is, it is less than successful artistically. It breaks on the crux of verisimilitude. It fails to convince us because we do not believe in, as Mr. Branom called it, this kind of subliminal penetration. If that is so, it is certainly no moral fable of the importance of good and evil and human choice. It is a nightmare rather than a social satire.
There is admittedly always the possibility that the author intended to create a nightmare. Whether he wished to or not does not really matter, for we are left with what he gave us. The use of Nadsat as a device makes of the novel a sort of tour-de-force, and tour-de-force rates high with the English reading public these days. Witness Evelyn Waugh's The Loved One or Muriel Spark's Memento Mori. In that sense we have a literary work worthy of our attention. Beyond that, beyond the fire of the words, as a humanistic document and a vision of the future to make us sit back and think how we can mend ourselves to prevent its coming true—A Clockwork Orange is a failure, on artistic grounds probably and surely on moral grounds.
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|@Deckard1 - yeah, thanks
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I can't believe that there are NO electronic word games in the UK yet the septics have many. How the fuck does that happen?
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jellyhead wrote:Dragons Den, Pronto!
|Who will turn around and say 'why would I buy one of these for 20 quid when I get get a million word games on my phone/tablet for 70p?'
|I'm out!
nickthegun wrote:Completely agree and hell i could write the game myself!
... but i'm not keen on passing a �400 smartphone/tablet between drunken mates when playing. I'd rather risk a �20 plastic gadget tbh but you may have more money than me
I've even thought about getting a simple LCD strip and running something off a Raspberry Pi but that's even more awkward to pass about.
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jellyhead wrote:Dragons Den, Pronto!
|So has prawnking been choked to death by his domninatrix yet or what?
Came across this while looking at the work of a professional cartoonist. 919 US citizens killed by guns in the month since the school massacre. Thats fucking horrific.
|This Rich Stanton bloke, who what recently started reviewing games here on EG: I find myself disliking almost everything he writes -even when I agree with him. It's probably so pronounced because all the other reviewers seem to resonate with me most of the time. There's something about his style that annoys me and I have no idea why.
|@smoothpete No still alive. Got back together with my Ex, so no more visits to the dominatrix sadly.
|Was it a like for like replacement?
Metalfish wrote:You're just being grumpy. Get someone to tickle you while you read them.
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This corner of the health-care market could be poised to fall further than others.
Bond - fund investors need to focus on duration, credit quality, and relative yields to better understand how much risk they're taking on, says Morningstar's Eric Jacobson .
Muni- bond funds continue to experience high investor demand, and Morningstar's Miriam Sjoblom offers picks for core and noncore holdings.
January asset flows revealed heavy buying activity of open - end equity funds for the first time in several years, but it's too soon to call it a trend, says Morningstar's Michael Rawson.
Investors should dig into their bond portfolios to understand all the places their managers are hunting for yield, says Morningstar's Eric Jacobson .
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Financial planner Mark Balasa and Morningstar's Christine Benz and David Blanchett tackled viewers' most pressing retirement questions, from determining savings rates and income needs to planning for Social Security and maximizing retirement accounts.
Passive equity funds, noncore bonds , alternatives, and many of the fund shops that sell them fared well last year, while core bonds , commodities, and gold suffered.
Recent Morningstar research shows that while some buys exist across the equity fund universe, many areas, such as dividend-paying stocks, are close to fully valued.
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Budget difficulties won't imperil a $2.48 million state contribution for a building addition on the U.S. Navy base in Groton, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy said Thursday.
Budget difficulties won't imperil a $2.48 million state contribution for a building addition on the U.S. Navy base in Groton, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy said Thursday.
"It's previous money that's been allocated," Malloy said in response to a question following a groundbreaking ceremony at the submarine base. "We'll continue to support the base."
Malloy joined base commanders for the event honoring an addition to Nimitz Hall that will house a $4 million bridge simulator to train submarine sailors in navigation.
"This is a proud moment for the Navy and a proud moment for Connecticut," the governor said. "At its very heart this (project) will make our submariners safer."
Capt. Marc Denno, the base's commanding officer, praised the "unique" relationship between Connecticut's state government and the Navy.
"We appreciate the support from our neighbors and friends in the community," he said.
Connecticut's government has given $12 million since 2005 for various projects at the base. One reason has been to lessen the likelihood the U.S. Department of Defense would seek to close the facility as it has done twice previously.
"The key is to increase its military value," said John Markowicz, executive director of the Southeastern Connecticut Enterprise Region Corp., a New London-based economic development agency. "BRAC (base closings) are not on anybody's agenda. There's no legislation for it. But it's being talked about in the national newspapers."
The Chamber of Commerce of Eastern Connecticut sees the base as critical to the local economy even though tax money is taken from residents of Connecticut and other states to pay for the military.
"This involves not just national security but economic development," chamber Communications Director Bruce Mac Donald said of the bridge simulator project. "It's a great addition to our economy that increases the value of the base."
Electric Boat Corp., which makes submarines at its Groton shipyard, has long been associated with the base. It is among the partners contributing technology and logistics to the simulator project and building addition, slated for completion by the end of this year.
"We're always pleased when we can help the sub base achieve its goals," EB President John Casey said.
Capt. Paul McHale, commanding officer of the base's submarine school, returned the gratitude.
"You make it possible for our submariners to take on a myriad of missions," he said.
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Financial and family dispute led a 51-year-old man to attack his wife and father-in-law in full public view. The father-in-law died on the spot while his wife is undergoing treatment at a hospital. The incident was reported near Sunkadakatte bus stop on Magadi Road on Sunday morning. The angry mob, who caught the accused, bashed him up before he was handed over to the police.
The deceased has been identified as Murthyappa, 71, a native of Mysore, while his daughter Kalpana, 45, is the injured. The accused has been identified as Kailasamurthy, also a native of Mysore. He was married to Kalpana about 25 years ago and the couple have three children.
According to the police, Kailasamurthy had sold his land for around Rs 40 lakh and had given the money to his wife some years ago. She had kept the money as fixed deposit in a bank and she had allegedly started neglecting Kailasamurthy after that. A few years ago she had left him and started living in her father's house. She had also reportedly stopped answering her husband's phone calls.
"Kailasamurhty was upset over this. He knew that his wife would often visit thier daughter Asha, a software engineer, in the city. He learnt that Kalpana along with her father had come to the city to collect the interest amount of the FD. He came to the city on Saturday night and was searching for them. He got to know that Kalpana and her father were staying in a lodge in Sunkadakatte. He went there on Sunday morning and as the duo came out from the lodge, he attacked them with a machete. Murthyappa died on the spot while Kalpana was rushed to a hospital. Though, the accused tried to flee, the locals nabbed him and thrashed him. He was later arrested," the Kamakshipalya police, who have registered a case, said.


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VIJAYAWADA: Former Deputy Chief Minister Koneru Ranga Rao urged the State government to declare July 8, the birthday of Chief Minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy, as 'Welfare Day'.
Addressing a press conference here on Thursday, Mr. Ranga Rao said the welfare schemes developed and implemented by Dr. Reddy had earned for him national and international recognition.
He was today seen as a model chief minister in the country and even leaders of developed countries lauded the new welfare schemes created by him.
A person no less than US President Barack Obama reportedly lauded the Arogyasri scheme.
Celebrating his birthday as 'Welfare Day' would be a fitting way to honour him, Mr. Ranga Rao said.
Though Dr. Reddy came up with the maximum number of welfare schemes, including housing and pensions for all eligible persons, 'paavala vaddi' scheme, waiver of power bills and agricultural loans to farmers and free power to farm sector, the Opposition parties in the State formed a Grand Alliance with the single-point programme of defeating him, Mr. Ranga Rao recalled.
He requested the Andhra Pradesh Congress Committee and leaders of all parties to take this concept to the people and celebrate Dr. Reddy's birthday as 'Welfare Day'.


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Inside Government - September 17th, 2010
Thursday - 9/16/2010, 4:20pm EDT
Former Rep. Harold Ford Jr. (D-Tenn.)
Author of "More Davids Than Goliaths: A Political Education"
- His election to the House of Representatives at the age of 26
- Advice from President Clinton after an unsuccessful Senate bid in 2006
- Stories from his visit with American troops during trips to Afghanistan and Iraq
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Turkey, ham and all the fixings
Several places plan dinners for residents down on their luck
There will be ample opportunity to get a free meal on Thanksgiving as several local businesses and charities say they expect to serve more than a thousand people at various locations.
At the annual Joe Salem Thanksgiving dinner, which began in 1939, volunteers will dish out about 700 plates to hungry patrons.
The dinner was established by Joe Salem, a local jeweler who served in the Texas Legislature for eight years. Salem died in 2001 but his family continues the tradition by funding the event, held at the Boys & Girls Club of Corpus Christi on Greenwood Drive.
Organizers said about 50 to 75 volunteers still are needed to cook and serve the meal on Thursday.
Across town more than 300 people will be served at Corpus Christi Metro Ministries' Loaves and Fishes on Leopard Street, said Sean-Michael Hazuda, the organization's director.
"We don't need any more volunteers but we could use donations of hams and turkeys for our holiday food drive," Hazuda said. "All of the volunteer slots are filled already."
Joe Salem Thanksgiving Dinner
When: Noon Thursday
Where: Boys & Girls Club of Corpus Christi, 3902 Greenwood Drive
Cost: Free
Info: 853-2505
*About 50 to 75 volunteers are needed to help serve about 700 meals. Anyone interested should come by the Boys & Girls Club at 10 a.m. Thursday and bring their own apron. For those interested in providing entertainment, call Sylvia Dancer at 765-9575.
Thanksgiving dinner
When: 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Thursday
Where: Leopard Street at the corner of Leopard and Coke streets, across from Loaves and Fishes
Cost: Free
Info: 857-2291
- Several local businesses sponsor this annual event. Organizers will dish out about 100 plates during the two-hour event.
Thanksgiving feast
When: 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Thursday
Where: The Salvation Army, 501 Josephine St.
Cost: Free
Info: 888-6174
Thanksgiving dinner
When: 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Thursday
Where: Corpus Christi Metro Ministries' Loaves and Fishes, 1906 Leopard St.
Cost: Free
Info: 888-7239
- More than 300 people will be fed at the annual event. The organization also is accepting donations of hams and turkeys for a holiday food drive, which lasts until Christmas Day. Food donations can be dropped off at Loaves and Fishes.
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To consider granting NAAC re-accreditation
KOLLAM: A peer team from the National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC) comprising experts from various disciplines will visit Fatima Mata National College here from Monday to Wednesday.
The visit was part of an exercise to consider granting NAAC re-accreditation to the institution, college Principal Soosamma Kavumpurath said.
The college had been given four-star accreditation by the NAAC in 2001. The University Grants Commission has established the NAAC as an autonomous institution to assure the quality of higher education institutions.
The assessment outcome and accreditation is valid for a period of five years. After that, institutions can volunteer for re-accreditation.
During the visit to Fatima college, the peer team will acquaint itself with the strengths and weaknesses of the college and analyse the mechanisms for quality improvement.
Dr. Kavumpurath said the college, established in 1951, was owned by the diocese of Kollam. With a student strength of 2,373, it offered 21 programmes of study in four research centres and nine postgraduate departments. It had 97 staff members.
The college provided women specific support measures. Accordingly, there was a woman vice-principal, a women's cell, and free computer training for girls.


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Matsya Drushti is equipped with state-of-the-art gadgetry
CHENNAI: A Fisheries Survey of India (FSI) vessel to identify the concentration of Yellow fin Tuna, an export variety of fish, in the Bay of Bengal, is now berthed at Fishing Harbour, Kasimedu, near Royapuram.
Acquired recently by the FSI, the vessel `Matsya Drushti' is known as `Tuna Monofilament Longliner,' which is used for surveying the marine fishery resources available in the Indian Exclusive Economic Zone (IEEZ), according to FSI's zonal director P. Sivaraj.
Tuna fish are known to be high-speed swimmers and so very difficult to locate. The vessel equipped with state of the art gadgets including INMARSAT communication capability, radar and deep-sea equipment can identify the movement of the tuna shoals, Mr Sivaraj said.
Apart from identifying the fishery resources, the vessel also has facilities to take up research work. The collected data would be disseminated to the local fishing community. Tunas are known as `sea chickens' and in great demand in Japan and Korea. A kilo of tuna could fetch about $16.
As part of the programme, the Matsya Drushti would also take up survey of tuna and tuna like resources available in the oceanic waters of Bay of Bengal, Mr Sivaraj said.
The survey would be helpful for both traditional fishermen and those having trawlers, he said and added that the traditional fishermen needed to take a mother boat along with them to bring the catch to the shore.
The vessel built in China in 2004, was commissioned last year, Mr Sivaraj said. It would be stationed here and carry out a fisheries survey from Point Calimere in Nagapattinam to Kolkata on the east coast. The entire 1500-km coastline would be divided into three sectors and the vessel would spend 20 days on survey in each sector. In all the survey was expected to take three months to cover the entire coastline including the period of maintenance, Mr Sivaraj said.
Members of the public can visit the vessel berthed at the Royapuram fishing harbour between 10 a.m and 5 p.m on Wednesday.


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Dammit, that hurt...
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I agree with everything said about the weight. Gone from a 44 to a 40 in pants size. What I am learning now is about how to ear right, when to take a break when riding, ect. Would like to get down below the max frame weight load of the manufacture of my bike.
Also, thank for the links Mgorman.
Have you ever farted so loud at night, that your wife wakes up and answers the phone?
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I would have been riding as an extra for that film, if I had not been contracted to BMW to ride the motorcycle for the Coors Classic.
But, we got to help host the premier in Denver.
Bits of trivia:
The cycling shorts Costner wore had to be taken in his legs were so skinny.
He fell on the monument and broke his collar bone.
The extras made him ride "The Wall" many, many times after he was overheard bad-mouthing cyclists.
After the descent off the monument he had a new opinion of tough.
Part of the climb they did where the "Russian" is pushing Costner's character is actually downhill on the pass from Bergen park to Mount Evans.
When the helicopter takes off above the race from the Coors brewery the BMW motorcycle crew is a very tiny red blob in the lower left corner of the screen, or was. I was kneeling beside a motorcycle re-tightening a clamp on a leaking fuel line. We were riding pre-production 1984 K-model BMW's. All of the K-bikes overheated on the mountain passes, except mine. No idea why.
The bike race had a fuel contract with 7-Eleven who sold gas with alcohol in it. This stuff ate all of the rubber in the fuel systems, leading to gummed up works in every bike.
Most of the stores would not accept the fuel cards we had so I stopped going there.
My daughter, (the lawyer), and the bike I rode for the 1984 Coors Classic, where the movie was filmed. They also spent a lot of time filming before and after the race lots and lots up on the Morgul-Bismark course.
13 miles of near perfect training grounds.
"You don't go to Mongolia for the food." - Sebastian & Kim
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I use the notches in my belt to remind me that I need to pedal more, eat less! which remionds me, I'm up a notch over the winter
Now that is a dream job, riding motorcycles for a living, at a bicycle race no less! I ride moto at our clubs race up here in Orrville and have at a couple other races just for the ride. This past summer we had an official moto-ref who was such an asshole to our registration girls, I felt we had no choice to write a letter of reprimand to USAC. When the insignificant disfunctionary was ready to leave he asked the best road home. I gave him my opinion and he replied with "I ain't riding no F*ing gravel roads". So I told him to point his KLR south until he hit the Ohio River and don't ever come back. In all my years of racing moto or pedal, I have never met a bigger imperonator of the male member. Hopefully he's been nutered and can't reproduce! (sorry about that rant)
Just got an invite this afternoon to another pedaling movie playing downtown here in Massillon..
Breaking Away (1979)
"A small-town teen obsessed with the Italian cycling team vies for the affections of a college girl."
- The Greatest Bicycling Movie of All Time.
- Hilarious, Heartwarming, Inspiring
April 8-10
The Lions Lincoln Theater
156 Lincoln Way East, Massillon, OH
Friday & Saturday, April 8 & 9 at 7:00pm
Sunday, April 10 at 6:00pm
Sponsored by Ernie's Bicycle Shop
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"If you are looking for the typical ride to a restaurant, eat tacos, hold the middle finger over the food, stop and take a picture of a gravel road type ride, you probably won't be interested." - dlrides
"A guy I know was the lead researcher for the University of Utah federally funded study of cellphone and texting use while driving. He found that your twice as dangerous as a drunk while using your cell phone and I think it was up to six times worse if the driver was texting."-dakardad
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Im getting the itch to get back out there.
"Try turning that burn into torque. Then we're getting somewhere. Riding the potato to work seems quite impractical." - anotherguy
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No living involved. Working as a ref/marshal cost me about my a good bit every year.
The writer of both films lived in Denver, may still We would run into each other every once in a great while out riding. when we rode along together he would stop once in a while and fire up a cigarette.
Gave me a chance to talk bikes instead of just pounding out miles with my voices in my head as company.
"Breaking Away" is the story of the little 500 race at Indiana University.
Little 500
I quit riding motorcycles as an USCF official after several races and officials got sued over incidents. Usually some spectator walking out into the peleton. There is a load of exposure financially when working these things. I decided I didn't need that much adventure. And besides my daughters were up to an age where I was spending all my time with them and their activities, something of mine had to go.Bicycle racing got the call. That left work and family.
While I was in college, (late bloomer/third career), I used motorcycles from our shop and added some lettering for advertising. It worked I got the front page of the sports section a few times.
We usually found the biggest jerks drove Saab 9000's for some reason, though one golfer in a 3-series BMW did attempt to vie for the lead. While not able to push some tough contenders from the lead, I think the Sheriff, gave him an award for his effort.
A few bikes we used,
We also had an R100 RTPD, an R80/GS, K100, K100LT, K100RS, K75, an R80 with an S fairing, and my old silver R100S.
The best gigs by far were as a photographer's platform. Much better viewing of the actual racing and these gigs paid well. I worked Triathlons, marathons, 5 and 10K's as well as bicycle races. These are loads of fun compared to the pre-dawn to past dusk work of a marshal or official. As a marshal you are so far away from the race to do a good job, you never should see the race. And we rarely did. One one occasion we were hastily drafted to be the lead into town since the car was not going to make the several 90 degree corners. We had two leading police bikes, (Harley Davidsons), they stuck to the posted speed limit of 35 mph while ourselves and the peleton sprinted past at about 50 up main into Estes Park.
The cops wanted to ticket us for blaring our horns, and there was a lot of yelling.
Later the state patrol got caught in a patrol car by the peleton coming off a pass at about 55 or better. The commander in the car was really pissed the bicycles were passing him. They were under the mistaken impression a bicycle race was similar to a parade. A stately and orderly procession. I guess the word "race" only meant one thing to them.
Oh, there are hazards to riding with photographers... They sometimes lose track of reality and do some dumb things.
I had a big TV cameraman sitting backwards on the RTPD, and as we rounded a downhill corner during filming a circuit race he wanted a different angle so hooked his massive arm around my neck and leaned way off the bike, nearly tearing my head off and choking me to tunnel vision before I could get stopped at a pullout and explain how choke-holding the driver of the motorcycle was bad for both of us.
During the Coors Classic in 1981, a Video guy jumped off a Goldwing, (Beta-Cam) with his tape deck strapped to the top of the top box, he hops off on the left and runs around to the right side and then decided to run down the slope for a shot of the peleton rising out of the pavement between the mountain Spring flowers. Well, remember that tapedeck tied to the top box?
He didn't. he gets to the end of the tether, and is jerked off is feet, onto his back, (camera is at his shoulder), and these Beta-Cam guys all looked like NFL-sized people. The poor motorcycle pilot is a not too tall semi-round retired guy wearing shorts and a beanie-type hat. The bike is jerked by the tethered camera and deck much more than his short and bare little legs can handle. Motorcycle, rider, cameraman and camera all tumble down the rocky slope to the edge of the river. I seem to recall the networks spent a good sum buying the pilot a new bike and is bodily repair bill. The camera exploded into something over $50,000 of trash. We had a great view of this action, but no pictures since our job was to keep cars out of the bike race not take pictures. That and a few other small incidents kept me away from camera work for a good bit. I got into it as a platform for a few small female photographers who seemed to understand that motorcycles could be both a great vantage point to shoot from and dangerous. They would tell me what they were going to do before doing it and we would discuss what was not a good idea before firing up bike and camera.
The sidecar worked really well for the big Beta-Cam guys. Gave them a nice stable platform with plenty of handholds so they didn't have to crawl all over me.
"You don't go to Mongolia for the food." - Sebastian & Kim
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Problem is... my thighs. They're bigger than the next waist size down's legs. So I live with the bunching, etc.
I'm a cyclist that rides motos, not a moto rider that rides bicycles.
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At present I do not have this problem. Once upon a time that was the case. Now, I have been gaining weight as I have trained and change my eating habits.
I'm hoping this trip home begins a real reduction. Smaller meals of lighter and lighter foods, and seriously work at not eating chips and cheese. Nuke TV, and get back to my three R's, (reading riding and running).
Probably be forced to cut way down on the wine and song too. OK, maybe just the wine.
"You don't go to Mongolia for the food." - Sebastian & Kim
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Once you go Triple...
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I have decided to treat myself to a new bike. I bought a 500 buck Motobecane from bikesdirect about 3 years ago - very basic (Sora groupset etc.) but it really has done me well and I have done 1,000's of miles on it but I really fancy a new bike if for no other reason than I can leave my current bike on the trainer/rollers and not have to keep swapping over.
I have decided I'd like a steel bike mainly because I'm a fat git and I want the strength of steel and I don't need to shave grams, I'll just skip breakfast if needs be. I'd also like the best groupset I can reasonably afford and that, to my understanding and budget, means Ultegra.
I have also decided to give bikesdirect another go - it seems you can't beat their prices and I could give a crap about the actual name on a bike, just that's it's a decent bike.
So....with that in mind I have boiled it down to 2 choices:
Motobecane Gran Premio PRO Road Bike
Mercier Serpens
I prefer the Motobecanse, and they are close in price but I have a couple questions:
1. Why no CF forks on the Motobecane ?
2. I have CF forks on my current bike, if I get the Motobecane can I transfer the forks to the new bike and if so how hard is that to do ?
3. Should I be concerned the Motobecane has only 20 gears - again, if I get this bike and I decide to change it, how easy would it be ?
4. I upgraded the rear wheel on my current bike, can I fit that to either of these bikes with no modification ?
5. What color should I get
Any and all opinion welcomed.
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The Motobecane is lugged, the steel fork will be fine. Carbon forks from a discount company put under stress would freak me out. The Motobecane also has what I believe are welded Mavic rims, if I remember correctly, the Ritcheys are pinned and glued.
And last but not least, the Motobecane would look sweet with KTM stickers!!
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See if you can't hunt down something steel with SRAM on it. Mo bettah.
AFA the # of gears: I like compact doubles better than triples. Coupla reasons: 1. easier to set up and keep that way 2. lighter 3. you get roughly the same gear ratios with the advantages of 1 & 2
AFA the 2 specific bikes you've listed: go with the Mercier and find someone that wants to trade triple for double. The frame's nicer. 853 is the shiznit. I've got a Gunnar made outta the stuff.
I'm a cyclist that rides motos, not a moto rider that rides bicycles.
Dammit, that hurt...
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Before I brought my current bike, I really took a hard look at the Scott Speedster S10. I know you like steel, but if you can find a dealer near you, you might want to take one out for a ride first.
In your price range there are a lot of really good bikes out there.
Have you ever farted so loud at night, that your wife wakes up and answers the phone?
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This dork was the moto ref! Saabs eh? In our neck of the woods it used to be the bike doubled or tripled the value of the car it was mounted to, now, I feel like a welfare redneck client pulling up in my truck and parking between a whole line of $40k to $60k cars and suv's.
Sounds like you had some very interesting "incidents" happening around you. I have had to ward off would be passers in cars, usually those heading to church that aren't very Christian about us hogging up their roads. One old man attempted to run me down. I warned the pack there was a rogue car trying to get through. Then he threatened to call the police and was too stupid to realize there was a State Highway Patrol at the head of the pack! I told him the was a Patrol in front of the riders so go ahead and call He cooled down a little then took a side road.
Tried to ride this evening but just wasn't feeling it, only lasted 10 miles before the toe were froze
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The resignation of Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has led critics of President Barack Obama's foreign policy to insist that there is no longer any reason to withhold military assistance from Baghdad in its struggle against the jihadist group Islamic State. This blast from an editorial in this morning's Wall Street Journal is typical: "With Mr. Maliki gone, so too goes Mr. Obama's alibi for unseriousness."
But this argument rests on the claim that the obstacle to successful multi-ethnic government in Iraq was Maliki himself -- not either the State of Law party he led, or the larger problem of ethnic separatism in a country invented by the U.K. between the wars. It's useful to remember that the Kingdom of Iraq, as the British styled it, was torn by ethnic strife from its formation. The British put the Sunnis on the throne in 1933, and one of their first acts was to put down revolts by restless Shiites (and Yazidis).
A recent blog post at Foreign Affairs by Norwegian human rights activist Reidar Visser, although a bit overblown (he implies that Obama's decision to intervene militarily is intended to bail out U.S. oil companies with interests there) contains several useful reminders about the views of Western observers toward Baghdad. In particular, Visser criticizes the U.S. for its "uncritical embrace of just about any force willing to challenge Maliki in the name of Sunnism."
Forcing a more diverse government on Iraq, he argues, is no panacea for the nation's ethnic strife. Pressure in this direction, he contends, often leads to worse results: "U.S. policymakers failed to see how their rush to accommodate ethno-sectarian demands actually deepened sectarianism and created the space for radical groups to thrive." And he is openly skeptical that a more "inclusive" government will end the country's ethnic divisions: "The United States and Iraq have tried throwing lots of factions together before, without much luck."
Visser's conclusion is stinging:
Obama declares that he does not want to be dragged into another Iraq war. But it is not like this war came from nowhere. It is, in fact, the same one that he tried to finish in 2010–11 by papering over glaring holes in the Iraqi government and then abruptly leaving. Iraq wasn't fixed then, and probably won't be until the United States fundamentally rethinks its policies, particularly how to balance perceived sectarian interests with broader national agendas in Iraq.
Sharp words, yes. And the piece is certainly worth a read. But there are holes in the argument. In particular, although Visser is quite good at setting out reasons that the creation of a more ethnically diverse government is unlikely to solve Iraq's problems, he never gets around to telling us what to do instead. That's the answer we need. Until we find it, the U.S. has little choice but to build with what exists.
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