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Next Microsoft's CEO: My 2c
My favorite Robert Scoble's suggestion for the Next Microsoft CEO:
"Get someone who loves the future. A CEO shouldn't just need to be a builder (like you said, someone who architects, runs software teams, etc) but also needs to stand up in front of the world and get everyone to believe. Ballmer NEVER did that for me. ScottGu? Yeah. David Sacks? Yeah. But needs to be someone who understands contextual systems (mobile, local, social, sensors, wearables). At least for the consumer side of the fence."
From my perspective of someone who is a CEO of an innovative company and loves the future, it is not enough to do that.
You need to firmly believe in the future you envision. You should live
in that future inside your mind, and bring it to today's world as if it already existed.
You should be a builder who could make that future happen on his own. Describe the vision. Design it. Write code. Ship it.
Then, with such a team as Microsoft, you can scale your ability to make that future happen.
What kind of future I see for Microsoft?
John F. Kennedy said once:
"We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too."
The first time I have read Bill Gates books, he was writing about intelligent software that becomes the digital neuron system for the enterprise. Software that becomes a digital assistant for everyone. Bill Gates wanted Microsoft to bring the power of computers to every desk and to every home. Many companies are now crazy about consumers, and Microsoft did a lot to transition half of it into the consumer company. But Microsoft started as the company for hackers, for creators who built their first computers from scratch (remember BASIC for Altair). A lot changed since that time, with single OS across all devices and services, with S+S productivity suite, first-class development platform and tools, etc. But that passion to create software for those who create has always been at Microsoft's heart. And I believe that Microsoft should be a company for those whose job is to create new things.
Some people believe that going after somebody else's business success is a good business practice, but I believe that Microsoft had a very strong team of visionaries who had enough data, and passion, and energy to envision a different future, with the roots in the strengths of Microsoft, and its focus on creators.
I have participated in several internal events focused on innovation called ThinkTanks. I organized a unique Microsoft Context-aware Computing workshop together with Microsoft Research in Redmond, WA, in 2010, and seen many talented engineers and researchers, who built so many innovative prototypes and designs, who wanted to help the company to make a breakthrough into the new, contextual world, where hardware has sensors, and software is intelligent, and becomes our digital assistant. But nobody wanted to listen to them.
I believe that the New Microsoft should never allow closure of such innovative projects as Courier. It should never allow such talented people as those behind the Office Envisioning Team to leave the company. It should never allow those in charge of existing businesses like Windows to eliminate their underpowered challengers inside the company.
I believe that the new Microsoft's CEO should bring the culture of creators into the company. He should bring the power to creators, and make everything possible to help them to unleash their creativity, to reimagine Microsoft products, to reshape the IT world, to make the future vision a reality.
New Microsoft's CEO should make it the company of creators, the company for those who create the future.
Zet Universe, Developer of Visual Collaboration and Sharing App Zet Universe, closes pre-seed round with 3 VC firms, led by Moscow State University (MSU) Business Incubator.
BOSTON, Aug. 14, 2013 /PRNewswire-iReach/ — Today at the Demo Showcase for Autodesk Executives, Zet Universe announced closing of pre-seed round of financing from 3 VC firms: MSU Business Incubator, LETA Capital and Altair.VC. The investment would help the company to complete its first visual collaborative and sharing app for Intel-powered ultrabooks and tablets running Windows 8.
Being the finalist of MassChallenge 2013, Zet Universe currently works on its first version of the product by tailoring the research prototype into the market-acceptable application. With experience from the leading high-technology companies, the team came together to create Zet Universe. Aspiration of the team is to change the way people use Intel-powered ultrabooks and Windows 8 touch devices (primarily slates).
The app will provide a new dimension for productivity on the touch devices. Zet Universe introduces a natural, touch-first, visual way to organize and share documents for the mobile information workers.
"A year ago, we came together as a group of creators from Microsoft, Google and Microsoft Research, and beyond because we needed better tools for visual information organization and sharing. Today we welcome MSU Business Incubator, LETA Capital, and Altair.VC teams to help us build an innovative suite of mobile productivity software", said Daniel Kornev, CEO at Zet Universe, Inc.
Investors are optimistic about Zet Universe. "Zet Universe may open a new era of user interaction with the information contributing to the general trend of radical changes in human-computer interface. And there is no doubt that a skilled team of founders will be able to create a truly innovative product, so we are excited to support Zet Universe", noted Sergey Toporov, Principal at Leta Capital.
"Zet Universe is like visual Dropbox and brings innovation into productivity software. We believe in the concept and are excited to support the team", said Kirill Klokov, Partner at MSU Business Incubator.
"Altair.VC has been supporting and consulting Zet Universe during their participation in MSU Business Incubator program. They have made solid progress and have become one of the 4 Russian companies represented in the final of MassChallenge 2013. This proves the potential of the product and the team, so our decision to support Zet Universe came naturally", emphasized Igor Ryabenkiy, CEO of Altair.VC.
A closed group of professionals from leading U.S. and Russian IT companies has already tried out the private alpha version of the product, and provided valuable input back to the product team. Following the initial test deployments, the company will invest the funds raised into accelerating the development of the next release to better address the business needs of the first customers.
About Zet Universe:
Founded in 2012, Zet Universe, Inc. (www.zetuniverse.com) focuses on visual file organization and sharing of information on mobile devices. Zet Universe offers new experience in processing of information designed to increase productivity of knowledge workers, primarily product managers and product designers.
About MSU Business Incubator:
Moscow State University (MSU) Business Incubator was founded in 2010 as part of university program to support innovative entrepreneurship. It is a subsidiary of Moscow State University named after M.V. Lomonosov and serves as business-accelerator for thoroughly selected startups (15 residents were selected from 323 applications). Alumni of MSU business Incubator have attracted over $3M of venture capital and created 129 jobs.
About LETA Capital:
LETA Capital – a corporate boutique venture fund founded by LETA Group, a Russian IT-holding Company with over $100 million dollars in revenue. Annually, LETA Capital makes investments ranging from $5 million to $7 million dollars. The deal size ranges from $400k to $2 million dollars. The fund is aimed at supporting innovative IT startup companies at their seed or early growth stage.
About Altair.VC:
Altair.VC is a seed fund investing to very early/seed stage startups, primarily in the areas of Internet and Mobile. The fund has extensive operational and investment experience in Russia, Europe, China, and the USA. Altair.VC takes a leading investor role, mentor startups and provide operational support when necessary, but is also comfortable with making investments as part of a syndicate.
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+7 9636107185
Media Contact: Pavel Kuzmenko, Zet Universe, +79636107185, email@example.com
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The Interface Language of Zet Universe. Part II: Space Navigation, Selecting & Moving Things
We are continuing the series of posts describing Zet Universe Interface Language. In this post we will cover the basics of things movement and navigation inside Zet Universe space.
Space Navigation
Space: The final frontier. These are the voyages of the Starship Enterprise. Its five-year mission: To explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no man has gone before.
Star Trek: The Original Series
Today we will cover the basics of navigation in Zet Universe space.
As it was noted in the previous post, it is a two-dimensional zoomable infinite space that plays the fundamental role in user interface interactions. In the analogue with the real world's Universe, this space contains everything in it. In Zet Universe language we use "thing" to describe any living concept from the real world; a thing is located the space.
Zet Universe is being designed to be used using different input methods, including mouse, pen and multitouch (in the beginning). There's a dilemma on how to design these interactions for multiple input methods; we can either try to optimize interactions for each method, or use the same interaction gestures across all methods. Both approaches have their own advantages and disadvantages; in order to better understand them, there is a need to clearly distinguish them from each other. Hal Berenson, ex-Microsoftie, who until recently was Distinguished Engineer in the company, wrote an excellent article covering this topic, stating that there are three main attributes that are defining applicability of input method to the given task:
These three attributes, density (how much information can be conveyed in a small space), precision (how unambiguous is the information conveyed), and how natural (to the way humans think and work) can be used to evaluate any style of computer interaction. The ideal would be for interactions to be very dense, very precise, and very natural. The reality is that these three attributes work against one another and so all interaction styles are a compromise.
The way navigation in two-dimensional zoomable infinite space is employed heavily depends on the distance required for user to cover to get from the beginning point to the destination's one. Zet Universe enables user with a simple dragging metaphor that is the same across all three input methods (currently supported) in order to finish the navigation process to reach the final position. Unfortunately, also it is a simple and effective way when navigation is needed to be done within one-two, maybe three screens from the current position; it becomes complicated to make a long-distance "jump" as user needs to drag through many screens to get the final point. This problem is solved by providing the so-called "Big Picture" view that enables user to see the higher-level map where only names of things clusters are shown:
|Infinite space at normal scale; all things are visible; we call this normal mode an "Infinite Space"
|Infinite space at semantic zoom scale; only group headings are shown; we call this mode a "Big Picture"
Thus, user is able to navigate using mouse, pen or touch by directly clicking (pressing stylus down, tapping) on the part of the space (free of things), moving and unpressing the mouse button (or unpressing stylus, or finishing touch gesture) to finish the navigation in the space. This is working in an absolutely same manner in both modes – "Infinite Space" (a normal one) and "Big Picture". Zooming gesture (mouse wheel for mouse, pinch-and-zoom for touch) ensures seamless change of the view from big picture to details view and vice versa. It is important to note that we do not provide any simple way to zoom in/out for pen input method.
Selecting Things
One Thing
In the old world of desktop environments the typical approach to choose a thing on the desktop was to point-and-click. In the modern NUI world it is simply tap. We support both approaches to make the interface natural in both interaction modes:
Many Things
But how can you choose several things simultaneously? In the old world you'd just click in the free area and make a rectangular selection using your mouse. What about NUI world? Your fingers are good enough to move things around, but drawing a thick line to draw a free-form selection by fingers is a hard job. This is the task that requires precision. Thankfully, in Windows slates you are empowered with a pen (or stylus), and that's the way we provide users with this functionality.
To choose more than one thing, use the "Selection Things" button in the Actions Menu:
Once clicked, it becomes green and you are now in the "lasso selection mode":
Selecting Things: Drawer
Once thing(s) are selected, the drawer part of the interface appears:
The drawer is playing the role of the visual clipboard, helping user to know what's selected right now. This part of the system is heavily influenced by the approach common among realtime strategy games where selected units are shown on the "drawer" for exactly the same purpose.
Moving Things
Navigation in both modes is the same; the process of moving things on the short and long distances is not. Why?
The process of moving things on the short distance is pretty similar to the one used for space navigation. Point-and-click (tap, stylus down), drag, release mouse (pen, touch). Done. However, when the space has sufficiently large amount of things in it the need to find a better metaphor to move things on the long-distance becomes more important. To find one we started research in several directions:
- We wanted to find the easy way to transfer things that is already known to the audience,
- We wanted to make the metaphor itself easy,
- We wanted to make sure it will fit into the NUI vision of Zet Universe and modern NUI trends (interaction is done directly with content).
One of the easiest ways to transfer things across a long distance is the one used in Real-time Strategy (RTS) Games.
It is known that RTS games initially used some ideas of desktop environments, namely the technique of "clicking and dragging" to move units around. However, the task of moving things around has different meaning in these games, and the idea of "click on unit, move on map, right-click to point unit to get to the new location" quickly became the standard in these games.
However, in Natural User Interfaces paradigm user expects that all content is directly interactive; specifically, user can drag content with her fingers. At the same time as it was noted above, it is annoying to drag the same thing over a long-distance, thus we needed to find the compromise.
Below is described the approach we've taken based on these ideas and considerations.
Short Distance – "Tap-and-Move"
When one thing to be selected:
- tap on it,
- directly drag it within the boundaries of the screen being as precise as the input method permits that,
- leave it at the desired place
Done, this thing is moved to the new location.
When many things to be selected:
- click on "lasso selection" button,
- draw a free-form line around these things as described above,
- make either a right-click or a long tap.
Done, the group of selected things will be "teleported" to the new destination, and their relative positions will be kept. We care about positions very carefully, because they represent the meaning for our user.
Long Distance – "Teleportation"
The same approach is used for both one and many items in case of long distance transfer:
- User should select one or more things,
- get to the new destination using a series of pan-and-zoom operations,
- and make a right click or a long tap in the destination point to get all selected things "teleported" to the new destination.
So, today we discussed the way user can navigate in her Zet Universe of information, select one or many things and move them within the short distance (within the screen boundaries) or within the long distance.
Now, If only we could teleport to a new geographical position in the Earth with the same simplicity in the almost zero-time as you can move information in your Zet Universe!
The Interface Language of Zet Universe. Part I: Space, Things & Actions
Zet Universe is designed to be a transparent, ubiquitous environment within which user is left with content and actions she can apply to it, removing the complexity of the underlying technologies.
In these series of blog posts we will be describing the interface language of Zet Universe.
Main Metaphors
User interface uses a language as the medium to translate the desire of the user into actions that are recognizable by the underlying system.
Zet Universe provides such a language by using the following metaphors:
- Space
- Things
- Actions
"Space" is the basic element of the interface as everything else is happening inside it. It is a two-dimensional (2D) zoomable space; we call it "infinite space". Also it is impossible to see absolutely everything at the same time because nobody can embrace the unembraceable, as it was said by Kozma Prutkov; it gives a working metaphor of infinite space with no practical limitations of number of elements user can have on the space (the only limit is the disk space). Space is designed to be friendly for navigation done using both mouse and touch.
Second basic element is a "thing". We live surrounded with things. These things can be physical ones coming from our environment, or they can be products of our imagination, or, finally, be digital objects created as elements of virtual world built by computer applications, websites and games. Things we deal with, starting from documents and other files in our folders, to users in Facebook and emails in our inbox, seem to be natural to us. We constantly make different interactions with these things, switching from physical world to a virtual one back-n-force, referencing to them in our endless collaboration with friends and work colleagues. The patterns of interacting with digital objects were brought from the physical world by Internet and computer pioneers, and now these patterns are highly interconnected as we constantly transfer our experiences between our real and digital lives.
Instead of computer strict understanding of classes and instances, things in Zet Universe are more familiar to the user; as in the Metro Design Language, things are content.
In the current alpha development milestone there are several kinds of things user is able to add to her space in Zet Universe *:
- Topics,
- Files,
- Web Pages.
(*We plan to add more kinds into the system as we move forward with Zet Universe development)
Topic is a central element in Zet Universe kinds map, as it helps to define a part of the area, giving it specific meaning as per user's need. It is conceptually similar to a name of the area on the geographic map:
|An example of topics, or labels, on the Bing Maps
|An example of topic on the Zet Universe infinite space
File is second foundational element in Zet Universe kinds map, providing interoperability with existing information stored in the various information silos across user's computer devices, as well as enabling compatibility with existing applications that are using individual files as information containers.
File is represented with a thumbnail and its display name. Any Windows application that is using standard Win32 APIs to work with files is able to work with files stored in Zet Universe by design, including creation, editing and deletion of files. This means that if user added an image, or document, or PDF file into Zet Universe, she can safely open it from there, edit and save; its contents will be kept inside the system.
Web Page
Web page is third foundational element in Zet Universe kinds map; it is a text-only replica of the existing web page, acting as the next step of favorites in web browsers. When user pins a web page to her infinite space, she is then able to recall the web page as she would do that with a link to a web page stored in her browser's favorites/bookmarks.
Actions are the third metaphor of Zet Universe Language. In the language philosophy, actions performed on kinds are called "speech acts". Speech acts are the way in which language is used to accomplish things: asking questions, making requests, taking positions, committing one, and so on. In Zet Universe, they are implemented in the forms of gestures and other modes of direct manipulation. Actions, therefore, are the binding between speech act, kind and gesture. Each action is recorded by Zet Universe with its specific meaning ("remember", "pin", "create", "link", "open", "forget", etc.).
Actions & Gestures
Space Menu
This is the foundational gesture used to add various content types to Zet Universe. To activate this gesture user should perform either a double click using mouse or touchpad, or a double tap using finger or pen on any part of the space that is free from existing content.
Create, Remember, Pin, Select, Capture
These actions are available from the Space Menu enabling user to add new content to Zet Universe or make operations on it. We decided to use different words to these actions based on the corresponding kinds to focus user attention on different meaning that these actions have; for instance, create topic means that a new topic is created on the surface of the infinite space while remember file(s) enables user to choose one or several existing files from her computer to let Zet Universe remember them, pin web page enables user to naturally pin an existing web page to her infinite space, capture photo enables users to make a quick capture of a photo in the context of the current activity, finally, select things helps users to make a lasso-like selection of things (read the second part of this blog series for selection of things).
Link is a property describing explicit relationship between any two things, helping user to define her own ontologies. To create a new link between two things user should perform one of the gestures described below depending on the distance between these things.
In case of a small distance user can simply drag and drop one thing over another.
In case of a large distance user should use a two-step approach that is similar to one used in the real-time strategy games:
- The first step is to select one thing on the surface by either making a click using mouse left button, or making a touch tap on the object. Once a first step is done, a "drawer" area will be populated with short information about the selected thing:
- Second step is to make a right-click or perform a hold touch gesture on the second thing. A dialog will appear asking if user wants to link selected things together.
To Be Continued.
Check Out Zet Universe Latest Product Screenshots!
We updated screenshots for our core product features. We also uploaded first screenshot of our "Visual Search" feature that highlights search results in user information space as she types the search query.
Take a look and give us your feedback!
Of particular love is our visual search J
Also we usually do not reblog posts, this is a special case.
Samsung Slate 7 Series is a first slate that truly deserves the right to be a base context-aware device with the range of sensors, including light sensor, accelerometer, GPS & compass (accelerometer and GPS are accessible via Windows Sensor and Location Platform), with ubiquitous internet connectivity including WiFi and 3G, normal desktop-like Intel Core i5 CPU (Sandy Bridge), 8 touches multitouch screen and active digitizer. This device is capable to run full Zet Universe product (once it ships). More details on available configurations are available in the original blog post.
Originally posted on Kurt Shintaku's Blog:
I keep hearing people refer to the the Samsung Series 7 Tablet PC as being the same hardware as the device that was handed out at our developer event "BUILD".
This is not true. The Series 7 Slates are technically different devices in comparison to the devices handed out at BUILD. Here's a chart that goes over what the different technical specifications between each:
(Taken from http://www.samsung.com/global/windowspreview/)


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Mini Keyboard with Integrated Touchpad. It combines the control on an integrated touchpad with the features of a standard mini keyboard which provides a small yet powerful input device. The touchpad includes a scrolling area that scrolls up and down for faster browsing. Ideal for slim line PCs, notebooks, POS, kiosks and wherever there is little space.

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Mass Effect 2 "Arrival" DLC Review
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With the third and final chapter in Commander Shepard's trilogy coming this fall, BioWare has been working on ways to get us excited for Mass Effect 3. One of these ways is in delivering a new, and likely final, chapter in Mass Effect 2's DLC-based adventures. That last one hit the internet yesterday. The "Arrival" DLC puts Shepard on a solo mission to rescue an engineer that has made a big, vital discovery about the coming Reaper invasion.
I imagine that BioWare is sending Shepard solo on this because they didn't want to budget out the cost of rounding up the rest of your squad's voice actors to make their usual commentary in mid-mission or during conversations, but right off the bat this felt like a misstep. ME2's combat is at its best when you're combining special powers, setting up flanking maneuvers, and hitting the enemy from all sides, and with Shepard going it alone, you'll have none of that. This is an almost entirely linear mission with only a couple of chances to do anything but kill or be killed, and while the mission itself is interesting, you'll find that Shepard has very little actual choice in what goes on.
It's tough to make this a fully fleshed-out review without going into the plot, so I'm going to get a little spoiler-y and get about half way into the DLC's plot just to explain a couple of things. Admiral Hackett (voiced by Lance Henriksen, best known as the android Bishop in the Alien films, also reprising a smaller role in the first Mass Effect) has an old friend, a researcher, who has found a strange artifact that heralds the coming invasion of the Reaper menace. She's in a system way out on the outer rim of the galaxy, and she's created a project to slow down the invasion by ramming an asteroid into this system's mass relay. That way, the Reapers will have to hit the next-closest mass relay, which could buy the galaxy a couple months - maybe even a couple years. Unfortunately, the mass relay's detonation will probably destroy a Batarian colony down planetside.
The challenge here is that the Batarians have arrested her, and your mission is to get her out of prison. Of course, Shepard's rather interested in this Reaper artifact and the coming invasion, too, so breaking her out isn't the end of things. As you can expect, things are not as they seem with this whole Reaper Artifact situation. Unfortunately, this DLC episode's plot has more than one big hole in it, and the usual galaxy-changing choices that Shepard's allowed to make are yanked away during the big reveal. In its place, you get a mostly linear corridor-based shooter against an army of boring prison guard and soldiers, with only the odd engineer thrown in once in a while. You won't have even one biotic enemy to go up against, and the boss fight is something you've already fought a dozen times in ME2.
Sure, the new music is great and hearing Meer and Hale's voices (as male and female Shepard) is always a welcome thing. Henriksen as Admiral Hackett is wonderful as always and you'll get some dark and foreboding words about the future, but that's where it ends. The firefights and overall combat in Mass Effect 2 have taken some flak for being a little flat or dull once in a while, but I think that's mostly because people play on Normal difficulty and aren't ever challenged to find the best use for their squad's tactics and powers. In this DLC's case, though, all the complaints about ME2's combat wind up being absolutely true; without your squad and their abilities, it was hardly exciting at all. (For the record, I played through "Arrival" on PC, on Insanity difficulty with a level 30 Infiltrator, and the combat was much easier than that of "Lair of the Shadow Broker".)
As a way to get us excited for Mass Effect 3, there are some moments in "Arrival" that really work, but for the most part, the hour-plus that you'll get out of this will be decent at best. Simply put, it won't be nearly at the standard set by the original game or even the "Overlord" or the fantastic "Lair of the Shadow Broker" DLC addons. Unless you're going for a serious completionist run for your Shepard leading into the third game, I can't recommend you drop the ten bucks for this add-on. I don't think that this DLC's partial failure is necessarily a bad sign for the third game, but it seems clear that all the new ideas and original content are going into ME3 rather than something like "Arrival".


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The print edition of The Montgomery Apartment Guide is distributed to over 400 locations and lists over 70 of the best apartment communities in the area, including sections for affordable housing, tax credit and senior living. With over 55,000 copies printed per a year and its vast online presence, the guide is offering its advertisers more exposure than ever, and apartment hunters in the Montgomery Metro area are getting the information they need without interupting their fast-paced, mobile lifestyle. The mobile site for MontgomeryApartmentGuide.com is a simplified version that offers the most-used features of the full web site and is compatible with most popular mobile phones and devices.
"Planning out your search for a new apartment home and driving around town with a map is a thing of the past. With today's mobile devices people have all the information they need at their fingertips, and we make sure our clients have access to that as well," said Kim Mulkey, Managing Editor for The Montgomery Apartment Guide.
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Chile - Thai
This fiery shrimp appetizer recipe by Mike Stines appeared in the Burn! Blog here. Serve the shrimp with Baja Gazpacho for an unforgettable shrimp cocktail or just enjoy them straight off the grill.
This dish is somewhat elaborate but definitely worth the effort. Creamy, rich and spicy at the same time, it's no wonder that it is among the most popular dishes served at Sanamluang. The only unusual ingredient is galangal, which is a kind of Thai ginger with a pine-like flavor.
The idea of shitake mushrooms and piñons may sound a little strange, but it's amazing what wonderful things you can come up with when you are willing to work with what's in the cupboard! However, it does have a bit of a kick, so don't serve it to friends who are faint of heart!
The area of Madras has one of the hottest cuisines in India, which is known for spicy food. In fact it is one of the biggest exporters of Indian spices. This very simple dish is a favorite there in the south where the use of coconut milk in curries is popular. The sweetness of the milk compliments the pungency of their curries. Egg curry is served at any time and is a great spicy addition to brunch or for a light supper. Serve Mottai Kolambu with white rice and an Indian relish or salad.
I like the way the cooks at Ruen Pair prepare their Khii Mao or "drunkard's noodles." It is less elaborate than some, but I prefer its simplicity. This is a typical bar food dish in Thailand, intended to be washed down with buckets of Singha beer. Don't be afraid to make it as spicy as you can stand—it will certainly be true to the original. Stir-frying noodles isn't hard, but it does require a lot of oil. To minimize the amount of oil used, add a little at a time as you cook the noodles.
The marinade in this recipe also doubles as the dressing for the salad. We like to serve this salad with the shrimp hot off the grill, but it can be prepared ahead and served chilled. This is a meal in itself, but why not treat yourself to a chilled gazpacho and a dry white wine?
We like to serve this salad with the shrimp hot off the grill, but it can be prepared ahead and served chilled.
This curry dish is adapted from a recipe by "The King of Curry" in his recommended book, Pat Chapman's Noodle Book. In it he says that "green curry is probably Thailand's most popular dish, both inside and outside the country. Cooked correctly it is a delicate bland of fragrance and flavor, of subtle color laced together with creamy coconut milk. In fact the sauce is not and should not be green; it, and the chicken, is a buff-white color. It is the accompanying herbs -- basil and cilantro-- and, traditionally, pea aubergines, and huge numbers of tiny green Thai chiles that give the dish its greenness." Since pea aubergines (tiny eggplants) are somewhat bitter and difficult to find, they have been eliminated in this recipe.
Chickens grilled in this manner are very popular throughout Thailand, where they're sold in bus depots in villages, portable food stations, at the beach—everywhere. The Thais would use bamboo skewers, but metal ones work fine. The skewers keep the chicken flat as it cooks on the grill. You will notice that the chicken is doubly spiced, like American barbecue, but much hotter. Those Thais like their food very pungent! The chiles traditionally used are prik chee fa, with medium-hot, cayenne-like, bright red pods. Serve with sticky rice with mangoes and Thai iced tea.
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All those in favor? Keeping Town Meeting Day alive
By Shay Totten | Vermont Guardian
Posted February 2, 2007
Editor's Note: This is the first in a series of articles examining some of the hot topics facing voters this coming Town Meeting Day.
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With the arrival of Town Meeting Day comes the perennial call from the floor: Is town meeting dying out?
Before the question is called, there are plenty of folks willing to debate this point, and plenty of opinions on how to improve town meetings.
Last year, educator Susan Clark and University of Vermont political science professor, and town meeting guru, Frank Bryan published All Those In Favor: Rediscovering the Secrets of Town Meeting and Community, a primer on the current state of town meetings in Vermont, some practical suggestions for how to increase voter turnout and participation, and an open admonition for the secret voting process known as the Australian ballot.
Since then, a few towns have taken them up on their suggestions, and several others have fought to keep their town meetings alive — namely in Cabot, Wolcott, and possibly Tinmouth. All three took up the issues in November. Cabot and Wolcott voted by nearly two-to-one margins to keep their traditional town meetings alive. In Tinmouth the community voted — by a margin of one vote — to go to secret balloting. Townspeople will spend this coming town meeting debating whether that one-vote margin was enough to change more than 100 years of deciding budgets and town policy.
Town officials in the sprawling town of Hartford, which encompasses the villages of Hartford, Queeche, White River Junction, West Hartford, and Wilder, are also looking at ways to inject new life into town meeting.
Hartford has empaneled an 11-member commission to reexamine its entire charter, and determine if it should model its town meeting after the representative form used in Brattleboro and parts of Western Massachusetts. In this form, rather than anyone in town voting at town meeting, a select group of people are elected by their neighbors to attend, debate, and cast ballots.
Michael Lyford, a member of the commission, said the town has more than 7,000 voters, but only about 250 attend town meeting.
Changing how they self-govern is just one of a suite of options the committee is examining. The group is charged with devising a proposal by January 2008.
Clark is hopeful that Hartford could set a trend in Vermont.
"I would like to see that be an increasing trend among the larger towns," said Clark of representative town meeting. In large towns turnout can be as low as 5 percent, while small towns can see turnout of 35 percent or more.
"By making these decisions to stick with town meeting, these communities are recognizing that issues matter," said Clark. "The more that federal and state governments take over some of the big questions — and that is a disturbing trend — the value of the local remains, and that democratic tradition has an intrinsic value."
Both Clark and Bryan believe in towns with more than 5,000 people this form of town meeting can be more effective for large towns than the classic model.
In fact, in their book Hartford was one community it selected as a likely candidate for such an approach. The others include Bennington, Colchester, Barre, Newport, St. Albans, Montpelier, Winooski, Rutland, and South Burlington.
In addition to these local stances to stave off the death of local town meetings, legislative changes under discussion could make town meetings more meaningful.
'We have been talking with the legislature about a package of proposals that strengthen town meeting and one of the proposals is to have Town Meeting Day, which is already a state holiday, treated the way we treat jury duty," said Deb Markowitz, secretary of state. This means that employers could not punish someone, or fire them, for taking time off to attend a town meeting or go vote.
She also hopes to make it easier for towns to move from an open town meeting to a representative town meeting. Under current state law, for a town to make such a change, they must amend their charter. However to go from a town meeting to Australian balloting to make decisions they only need to take a vote.
"This would simply add to the choices the state is providing towns as they decide to self-govern and this could be a way to not lose the deliberative benefit that you have on a floor vote," said Markowitz. "With Australian ballots, the quantity of democracy is greater because it's a quicker exercise to just cast a vote, but you don't have the same quality of democracy and the deliberation that happens in a town meeting is what strengthens a community. That kind of local democracy is a way to end up with decisions people can live with better."
Good & bad
What keeps Town Meeting Day — usually the first Tuesday in March — such a bastion of rural politics is that every local resident who chooses to attend becomes, in effect, a legislator, free to express their views and empowered to make binding decisions.
Town meetings have been hotbeds of issues in Vermont and around the nation — from challenging slavery and McCarthyism in the past to leading the national debate on a nuclear freeze and the impeachment of Pres. George W. Bush.
In a day and age when Vermonters opinions of its own Legislature hover below 50 percent and the nation's opinion of Congress is around 30 percent, perhaps it's the town meeting process that could revive democracy.
At least that's what Bryan argues in his new book Real Democracy, a book that has taken him nearly 30 years to compile and write — the tome of tomes when it comes to analyzing and understanding town meetings.
"The heart of the American republic, it seems to me, has beat to the rhythm of only two philosophies that matter: liberalism by which we live, and communitarianism by which we dream," he writes.
Clark said despite the doom and gloom, there are positive signs.
"The good news is that with town meeting we fret and worry, but the numbers are very good in terms of people being involved in local government," said Clark.
The bad news is that towns are moving to the Australian ballot as a way to boost voter turnout, and doing away with the town meeting.
This trend may be helped by the number of schools that have switched to an Australian ballot system for approving budgets, a trend, in turn, caused by the expansion of union school districts. By state law, union school districts must use secret ballots.
Clark said the turnout never reaches the percentage people hope for — such as the 60-70 percent voter turnout during presidential elections.
And, the informational meetings held before the secret ballots are cast, "don't have the vivaciousness of the town meeting, and Vermonters don't turn out unless there is something really happening," Clark said.
Some towns, she notes, are bringing new people into the meeting. For starters, some are reinstituting the community meal, and others are offering child care.
"We went around to a number of different towns and people were really picking up on some of the suggestions we had in our book, and these were simple things like reinstating a meal at town meeting or even just a potluck dessert," said Clark. "People thought that having food was making it more inefficient and they wanted to cut down on the time that the meeting took, but they were cutting out the fun part."
Other towns, like Greensboro, hand out community awards each year, and others have dabbled with using cable access television.
Bryan believes no matter how many scholars, journalists, and layman bemoan the loss of the democratic town meeting, somehow they will endure.
"They have been doing this for two hundred years," he writes. "It matters not what others may call it. It resides deep in our dearest dreams does this passion for place and the politics of peace. It is like the springtime. It is a longing. What kind of place is it, this cradle of democracy, this Vermont?"
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It has been a really long time since I've done one of these. I basically wanted to update some of the photo department people at my office along with friends and various other colleagues with what I've been up the last few years..
The only problem is that I'm a huge asshole because all I have is a lame ass flickr set- oh well! One of these days I will get around to setting up a proper website. Anyways, be sure to follow these instructions:
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I have a few others from back in the old Leica lovin' film days if you're interested in seeing more. They're ordered from most recent to oldest:
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I was having a debate with my friend the other day and the topic of who (or whom) the most evil man in modern history may be. Every one of my friends simultaneously said Hitler ( i do not joke that all pretty much said it at the same time). i laughed and said that i believed the most evil man in modern history ( modern history for me starts at 1900 and is still going on to the present date) was Joseph Stalin. i said i believed this because he killed more people than Hitler, staved his own people for money ( the so called "great Famine"), adopted a brutal wartime no retreat policy and condemned Russian POW to death on return to Soviet Russia, oh and was planning world war 3 with nukes ( lucky he died when he did). at this point the discussion with my friends ceased to be relevant to the topic, but it did raise a very good question. just who (or whom) was the most evil man/woman in modern history, was it Stalin, Hitler or Someone else entirely. what are your thoughts.


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Dieter Stark was a cruel and rather stupid member of the Hunters party to Site B. Here he harassed the local dino's with his shock prod. He later got lost, lost his weapon and was attacked by the same things he taunted.
Dieter stands at about 5 inches tall and looks nothing like his movie counterpart. In the movie he looks more like an gruff outdoorsmen, this guy looks like some kid in hunting gear. Dieter comes with three things, a net launcher, a pistol and a compy. One thing you may ne able to notice is that the compy has a magnet in its mouth. There is a reason for this. In Dieters chest they placed another magnet so when the compy's mouth is placed by Dieters chest, they stick together to make it look lik he's getting attacked. The pistol and net launcher are also cool. Both aren't over done and fit nicely into Dieter's hands.
The paintjob is kinda loopy for this guy. First off is his shirt, its out of place, These guys are in the jungle and he's wearing a bright orange shirt with red spots, gee is someone asking to get eaten? Before someone says it was personal safety from getting shot, no one was using any real guns until they lost all their vehicles and no one went into the jungle by themselves, they all stayed in the fields or in the camp. Other then that he's pretty good with camo pants and black combat boots. Over his shirt he also wears tactical gear painted black. He also has an InGen tattoo across one arm. His hair is painted brown and is sculpted into a buzz cut. Both of his weapons are black. The compy is painted first with a yellowish green then with a darker green down its back.
Articulation is still the same with a new series with only the head, arms and legs having any movement. The compy, like all hatchlings, has no movement.
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That said, what is your core reason for wanting a Mustang? If it's investment-motivated, buy real estate. But if your core reason is the rush of owning and enjoying a Mustang, get in the groove by purchasing a Mustang fun car. Classic Mustangs have long been the industry standard. However, '79-'98 Mustangs are becoming classics right before our eyes. If you want top-down wind through your hair, consider an '87-'98 Mustang GT convertible. These rate among the best Mustang values because Ford built so many of them. There are thousands of potential parts cars out there with four-cylinder and V-6 engines. Buy one cheap to get the parts you need, sell the parts you don't need, and call a salvage yard for the rest because steel has become a precious commodity.
If you think the '79-'93 Mustang isn't a good investment, consider this: You can pick up a '94 Mustang GT convertible for well under $5,000. John DaLuz recently picked up a pristine '94 Mustang GT coupe with 85,000 miles for $2,500. He gutted the car and sold all the parts, including engine and driveline, for more than $2,500. He then built himself a race car for the American Iron Series. Basically, John got the car free.
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'Since 1985, less than 7 per cent of AIDS cases in New York and San Francisco have been tested for HIV.' The source on which Adams bases this allegation is a circular published in 1987 by the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta. It said that, of the forms reporting new cases of AIDS to the CDC, 'less than 7 per cent (in New York City and San Francisco) have been reported with HIV-antibody test results, compared with greater than 60 per cent in other areas'.
Adams first quotes this passage accurately, then distorts it to read that 'less than 7 per cent of AIDS cases in New York and San Francisco have been tested for HIV'. This is not true. Last week, three ...
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ART & SOUL: Enjoy live jazz, rock, gospel and R&B music, and kid-friendly rides and entertainment (one of those attractions from a previous year is pictured above!) at Oakland's 10th annual Art & Soul Festival from noon to 6 p.m. Aug. 21 and 22 at Frank H. Ogawa Plaza. Kids 12 and under are free, teens are $5 and grown-ups $10. Phone: 510-444-CITY; www.artandsouloakland.com.
SPACE PARTY: Got teens? Head over to Oakland's Chabot Space and Science Center at 7 p.m. Aug. 20 for "10000: A Skyline Party," with music, "celestial beverages," science flicks and more. Tickets $15-$20; 510-336-7373.
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Wichita Falls city officials say our conservation efforts are working so well, they want to educate others in Texoma about how they can do their part.
As lake levels drop, now sitting at 21.1%, so does business at the city's water park.
In an effort to make every drop count many Texomans are turning to well water.
Wichita Falls car washes can continue to use city water until the end of January, no matter how low the lakes get.
It's unknown how much the recent rain will help the water shed, but it will take a lot more to help the 7 lakes that have been declared dead.
Sharon and Mike Laughon have taken xeriscaping, as well as their backyard, to a higher level that is helping make every drop count.
Olney can no longer get water out of their main water source, Lake Cooper, so now the city is relying on Lake Kickapoo.
An additional water well will open in Vernon within the next three weeks.
The combined levels of lakes Kickapoo and Arrowhead are now down to 21.5%.
Another water reuse project is almost up and running.
If the drought does not improve, Wichita Falls city officials want to be ready to bring more water into the drinking supply.
Fall not only means cooler temperatures but also another chance for some much needed rain.
It's been three months since Wichita Falls water users started drinking recycled water and the city has three more months to run the reuse project.
City officials are almost done testing a new water conservation method.
Duncan residents need to know about some issues with water quality.
It's been almost three months since recycled water has been in the Wichita Falls drinking supply.
On the heels of that 53- percent water rate increase in Wichita Falls, wholesale water customers could see a slight decrease in their rate.
It has been a little over a month since that water rate increase went into effect.
As the 29th annual WateRuse Symposium continues in Dallas, Wichita Falls leaders once again took center stage.
The end of this month will mark three months since Wichita Falls water users started using recycled water.


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The man who told off Jeremy and Richard in the Focus RS v Megane R26.R film is Phil Churchward, our series director. Otherwise known as Mr Vicki Butler-Henderson. Although probably best if you don't call him that to his face.
Jeremy had several more burning Lamborghini photos for the news, but it went on so long they had to be cut out. Which, if you fancy a Gallardo, is a worry.
As ever with a Top Gear race, the extra shots of the car going by were picked up the next day once the battle with the Royal Mail – which was, as ever, run in real time – had finished.
Usain Bolt really is that cool. Yes, fast, athletic and rippling with laidback confidence. You'd hate him if he wasn't so charming.
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An asterisk? Surprisingly, hitting the button didn't trigger a string of fine print warning the Audi A7 cannot be used after three years or 36,000 miles, whichever comes first, or without the expressed written consent of Major League Baseball.
The asterisk button is next to the right thumbwheel on the A7's steering wheel. We had to dig into the owner's manual to find out it's a programmable button for controlling functions of the navigation and audio systems. It's pretty much a blank Scrabble square, but instead of 26 options, Audi gives drivers a choice of four:
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- Lighting geeks, this one's for you. PocketWizard has a new model of their popular radio trigger out, called the Plus III. Here's David "the Strobist" Hobby's take, and here's Joe McNally on the new radio triggers.
- The ACLU has an amusing video out on the rights of photographers. Worth a look, in case you weren't up to speed on photography and the law.
- Well, we knew that photographers used Photoshop, but this? How can I ever believe that BodyBuildBlasterMaxPro 3000 actually works now?
- PopPhoto has released their test results of the new G1x compact from Canon.
- Ever wonder what goes into picking the cover of a magazine? Newsweek shows you nine options for their most recent issue's cover that didn't make it, and the one that did.
- Looks like it's photo theft season. Almost £1M worth of photo gear was stolen from the CVP (a British retailer). Then, in Dublin, Ireland, thieves pulled off a van heist, stealing roughly £100,000 worth of Nikon gear.
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The delegation representing the government includes Interior Minister Ali Larayedh, Agriculture Minister Mohamed Ben Salem, Social Affairs Minister Khalil Zaouia, Public Health Minister Abdellatif Mekki as well as Advisers to the Prime Minister in charge of Political and Social Affairs Lotfi Zitoun and Habib Kchaou respectively.
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AT DELAWAREFourth-year member of the team as a junior • two-year letterwinner and a third-year starter on the Blue Hen offensive front • joins guard JD Dzurko as lone returning starters from a unit that lost All-Colonial Athletic Association selections Brandon Heath at center and Bobby Kennedy at guard and Oakland Raider signee Erle Ladson at tackle • has appeared in 20 career games with 17 starts and 17 consecutive starts - all No. 2 among active UD linemen behind Dzurko • has shown continued improvement throughout his career.
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On July 2, 1670 a new book of Milton's was licensed for publication and then registered with the Stationers in September. It contained two remarkable poems, Paradise Regained and Samson Agonistes. Thomas Ellwood, a young Quaker friend of Milton, had already seen a draft of Paradise Regained in 1666; indeed he claimed that he was himself the inspiration for the poem. Milton had given him to read the manuscript of Paradise Lost at Chalfont St Giles in 1665. When he returned it, he commented that "Thou hast said much here of Paradise lost, but what hast thou to say of Paradise found? He made me no Answer, but sate some time in a Muse; then brake off that discourse, and fell upon another …
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The Routledge International Handbook of Creative Learning
Edited by Julian Sefton-Green, Pat Thomson, Ken Jones, Liora Bresler
Routledge – 2011 – 480 pages
Routledge – 2011 – 480 pages
The concept of creative learning extends far beyond Arts-based learning or the development of individual creativity. It covers a range of processes and initiatives throughout the world that share common values, systems and practices aimed at making learning more creative. This applies at individual, classroom, or whole school level, always with the aim of fully realising young people's potential.
Until now there has been no single text bringing together the significant literature that explores the dimensions of creative learning, despite the work of artists in schools and the development of a cadre of creative teaching and learning specialists. Containing a mixture of newly commissioned chapters, reprints and updated versions of previous publications, this book brings together major theorists and current research.
Comprising of key readings in creative education, it will stand as a uniquely authoritative text that will appeal to those involved in initial and continuing teacher education, as well as research academics and policy specialists.
Sections include:
1. The International Handbook of Creative Learning: Introduction 2. Section A. Theories and Histories: Creative Learning and its Contexts3. Capitalism, Creativity and Learning: Some Chapters in a Relationship4. The 'Transformative Power' of the Arts: History of an Idea5. Mapping the Rhetorics of Creativity6. Creativity of Formulaic Learning: Pedagogy of Imitation And Repetition7. Creativity and the Arts in Chinese Societies8. Psychological Research on Creativity9. The Cult of Creativity: Opposition, Incorporation, Transformation10. Democratic Creativity11. Creativity, Creative Class, Smart Power, Social Reproduction and Symbolic Violence12. Creativity, The Arts And The Renewal Of Culture13. 'Creativity' and its Others: The Ongoing Project of Definition, Debate and Demonstration14. Section B: Creativity, The Arts and Schools15. Arts in Schools as a Change Model: Education for the Arts and Aesthetic Experience16. Approaches to Creativity in Education in the United Kingdom17. Constructing Assessment for Creative Learning18. Approaches to Promoting Creativity in Chinese, Japanese, and US Preschools19. Contemporary Aesthetic Theory and Models Of Creativity in Visual Arts Education in The United States20. Drama as Creative Learning 21. Learning In and Through The Arts22. Section C: Creative Curiculum and Pedagogy23. Curriculum Integration and The Disciplines of Knowledge24. Ways of Knowing and Teaching: How Teachers Create Valuable Learning Opportunities (Pedagogical Capital) By Making Knowledge the Means and not just the Ends in Classrooms25. English for an Era of Instability: Aesthetics, Ethics, Creativity And Design26. Room 13 and The Contemporary Practice of Artist-Learners27. The Relationship between Creativity and Studio Thinking28. The Gallery as a Site for Creative Learning29. Creative Digital Cultures: Informal Learning beyond the School30. Redesigning School Spaces: Creating Possibilities for Learning31. Creative Pedagogies and the Contemporary School Classroom32. 'Real Audience Pedagogy' - Creative Learning and Digital Space33. Reconciliation Pedagogy, Identity and Community Funds of Knowledge: Borderwork In South African Classrooms34. Miners, Diggers, Ferals and Show-Men: Creative School-Community Projects35. Alternatives in Student Assessment: The Cultural Competency Record (Ccr)36. Judgement, Authority and Legitimacy: Evaluating Creative Learning37. Creative Learning38. Section D Creative School And System Change39. 21st Century Skills are on Mercury: Learning, Life and School Reform40. Capacity Building: Introduction41. Outsider | Insiders: Becoming a Creative Partner with Schools42. The Grit in the Oyster: Creative Partners as Catalysts for School Reform in the UK and the US43.The Cultural Rucksack in Norway. Does the National Model entail a Programme for Educational Change?44. From Network Learning to Classroom Teaching45. Public Policy Partnerships for Creative Learning46. Professional Learning for Creative Teaching and Learning47. Whole School Change: Introduction48. Creativity in School Design49. What the Arts can Teach School Reform50. Creativity in Scottish School Curriculum and Pedagogy51. The Challenges of Developing System Wide Indicators of Creativity Reform: The Case of Creative Partnerships, UK52. Conclusion: The Importance of Pedagogically Focused Leadership
Dr. Julian Sefton-Green is an independent consultant and researcher working in Education and the Cultural and Creative Industries. He is a special Professor of Education at The University of Nottingham, UK, and an Adjunct Associate Research Professor at the University of South Australia.
Dr Pat Thomson is Professor of Education at The University of Nottingham. She was commissioned by Creative Partnerships to produce a literature review on whole school change (available on the CP website) and is directing the largest CP national research project on how schools have taken up the offer made by CP.
Dr. Liora Bresler is a Professor at the College of Education, and at the School of Art and Design, and a Fellow at the Academy of Entrepreneurial Leadership at the University of Illinois at Champaign.
Dr Ken Jones is Professor of Education at Keele University. He has taught English in London comprehensive schools, and been a teacher educator in London.
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Description: Edited by Julian Sefton-Green, Pat Thomson, Ken Jones, Liora Bresler. The concept of creative learning extends far beyond Arts-based learning or the development of individual creativity. It covers a range of processes and initiatives throughout the world that share common values, systems and practices aimed at making...
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Jean-Luc Godard, the controversial French-Swiss film director, will not come to Los Angeles to accept an honorary Oscar, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced Monday (Oct. 25).
The news elicited little surprise in Hollywood and came exactly two months after the Academy's invitation to Godard kicked off a lively discussion about the New Wave auteur's alleged anti-Semitism and acknowledged anti-Israel record.
The charges were first examined by The Journal in an Oct. 8 cover story, and then by the Forward. The Zionist Organization of America and other critics demanded that the award be withdrawn.
Godard was to have been honored at the Academy's Governors Awards dinner on Nov. 13, but he let the Academy hanging for two months whether he would attend. Though an early admirer of Hollywood films, in recent decades Godard has freely expressed his contempt for the movie capital and has harshly attacked director Steven Spielberg.
The Academy's statement announcing Godard's non-attendance, tried to make the best of an embarrassing situation.
"Following a two-month cordial exchange of correspondence with Academy president Tom Sherak, Jean-Luc Godard has regretfully notified Sherak that he will not be able to attend the [award dinner]," the statement opened and continued:
"'He reiterated his thanks for the award,' reported Sherak, 'and also sent his good wishes to the other individuals being honored the same night – Kevin Brownlow, Francis Ford Coppola and Eli Wallach – who he refers to as the three other musketeers.'
"The Nov. 13 ceremony will pay tribute to Godard through film clips and commentary by his admirers. The award will be accepted on Godard's behalf by the Academy and, following the event, the Academy will arrange for the Oscar statuette to be delivered to him in Switzerland."
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Well to cut the long story short after all the trouble, the separation the quarrels and the tears and begging for forgiveness, we decided to give it another shot.
We moved on with our lives , until last week when I tried to use his phone and found a suspicious received call. Then I discovered he was still in contact with her. now this lady has moved on, she's married now and has a child and is fearful for her own marriage cos I did threaten her about telling her husband what she was up to, so I'd doubt she will try.
So I asked him, dude what is all this about? From our discussion I realized that their relationship wasn't just intimate that he loved her and now he has a hard time letting go of her.
It is tough for me you know. I told her if he loves her, he can go to her and I'll be fine. He says he doesn't but I know he's lying, I know he loves her cos I cld tell he was pained when he realized she was getting married.
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dardevil would win
Dare Devil would have the advantage. Hecould corral him into a precarious position. But with the recent upgrade of Spidy his powers are slightly different or more of them even.
complete darkness nullify's night vision which amplifies small illumination.
Daredevil would win
With the speed and sense he would have confidence that could get him tangled,momentarily in some web DD has made. I don't know if DD could win it though.
How is Spidy ever hit then? I've seen him in numerous battles with damage taken. How did Kraven ever hurt Spidy because he was no match for him physically. Plus a 'web' isn't actively dangerous. it is not an attack it is passive and affords an opportunity for delayed attack.
well whos to say spidey wouldn't have some gadget ready for that kind of situation?
buuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuut I am gonna go on the idea that he does not and give it to Dare Devil Even with his spider sense dare devil can sense spidey just as quickly in that setting if not faster
So how does Spidy get hurt by Kraven, whose physical abilities are sub-Spidy?
writer. Compared to most super beings Spider-man is not that overpowering. But he is to some and the only way to make the comic book sell is to allow things that could not happen happen. On paper he should crush Kraven every time. no sweat. But that fight would be so boring if kraven didn't hit spider-man or even move at a pace that would be a threat for him. You know their abilities. Tell me why else would a guy like kraven be able to hit spider-man if not for the writer.
alright DD wins
its a totally different battle in complete darkness cause spiderman cant dodge what he cant see.. thats why i wrote this thread
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Blue Nighty says:
"its a totally different battle in complete darkness cause spiderman cant dodge what he cant see.. thats why i wrote this thread"
he has his spider sense and night vision
you cant see in complete darkness its impossible because we only see things when light reflect off things and enters our eyes and dardevil sees sound and the sound converts to light thats why he would win
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"its a totally different battle in complete darkness cause spiderman cant dodge what he cant see.. thats why i wrote this thread"
Go back and read spider-man's abilities and pay close attention to what it says about spider sense and complete darkness. And then tell me why he couldn't dodge DD in the dark.
SPiderman is superhumanly fast and can dodge bullets DD has great human reflexes, not superhuman. His spidersense would warn him and allow him to dodge DD's punches, but he would probably let DD hit him and before DD could "get away" spiderman could grab his arm and rip it off! The speed, strength, agility are so far in Spidey's favor This one really isn't even close
DareDevil would pull off maybe one flurry of punches before spider-man realizes where he is and lays him out. Spidey would shoot some webs in the general direction of where DD got knocked to, pull him back and kick his head off. DD might be able to mount a good offense, but couldn't do enough damage fast enough to take out spidey.
Also I don't think spidey would just stand around in the dark. He'd probably jump around, using his spider sense to warn him of danger.
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spidersense=radar sense
well not really but it allows Spiderman to 'see' so he wins
Spiderman wins


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