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Rafa's Reign, San Antonio's Solidarity: The Week's Best Pop-Culture Writing
The most intriguing articles about entertainment we've come across in the past seven days
The most intriguing articles about entertainment we've come across in the past seven days
Two hundred fifty years of slavery. Ninety years of Jim Crow. Sixty years of separate but equal. Thirty-five years of racist housing policy. Until we reckon with our compounding moral debts, America will never be whole.
And if thy brother, a Hebrew man, or a Hebrew woman, be sold unto thee, and serve thee six years; then in the seventh year thou shalt let him go free from thee. And when thou sendest him out free from thee, thou shalt not let him go away empty: thou shalt furnish him liberally out of thy flock, and out of thy floor, and out of thy winepress: of that wherewith the LORD thy God hath blessed thee thou shalt give unto him. And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in the land of Egypt, and the LORD thy God redeemed thee: therefore I command thee this thing today.
— Deuteronomy 15: 12–15
Besides the crime which consists in violating the law, and varying from the right rule of reason, whereby a man so far becomes degenerate, and declares himself to quit the principles of human nature, and to be a noxious creature, there is commonly injury done to some person or other, and some other man receives damage by his transgression: in which case he who hath received any damage, has, besides the right of punishment common to him with other men, a particular right to seek reparation.
Writing used to be a solitary profession. How did it become so interminably social?
Whether we're behind the podium or awaiting our turn, numbing our bottoms on the chill of metal foldout chairs or trying to work some life into our terror-stricken tongues, we introverts feel the pain of the public performance. This is because there are requirements to being a writer. Other than being a writer, I mean. Firstly, there's the need to become part of the writing "community", which compels every writer who craves self respect and success to attend community events, help to organize them, buzz over them, and—despite blitzed nerves and staggering bowels—present and perform at them. We get through it. We bully ourselves into it. We dose ourselves with beta blockers. We drink. We become our own worst enemies for a night of validation and participation.
Forget credit hours—in a quest to cut costs, universities are simply asking students to prove their mastery of a subject.
MANCHESTER, Mich.—Had Daniella Kippnick followed in the footsteps of the hundreds of millions of students who have earned university degrees in the past millennium, she might be slumping in a lecture hall somewhere while a professor droned. But Kippnick has no course lectures. She has no courses to attend at all. No classroom, no college quad, no grades. Her university has no deadlines or tenure-track professors.
Instead, Kippnick makes her way through different subject matters on the way to a bachelor's in accounting. When she feels she's mastered a certain subject, she takes a test at home, where a proctor watches her from afar by monitoring her computer and watching her over a video feed. If she proves she's competent—by getting the equivalent of a B—she passes and moves on to the next subject.
Bernie Sanders and Jeb Bush look abroad for inspiration, heralding the end of American exceptionalism.
This election cycle, two candidates have dared to touch a third rail in American politics.
Not Social Security reform. Not Medicare. Not ethanol subsidies. The shibboleth that politicians are suddenly willing to discuss is the idea that America might have something to learn from other countries.
The most notable example is Bernie Sanders, who renewed his praise for Western Europe in a recent interview with Ezra Klein. "Where is the UK? Where is France? Germany is the economic powerhouse in Europe," Sanders said. "They provide health care to all of their people, they provide free college education to their kids."
On ABC's This Week in May, George Stephanopoulos asked Sanders about this sort of rhetoric. "I can hear the Republican attack ad right now: 'He wants American to look more like Scandinavia,'" the host said. Sanders didn't flinch:
Even when a dentist kills an adored lion, and everyone is furious, there's loftier righteousness to be had.
Now is the point in the story of Cecil the lion—amid non-stop news coverage and passionate social-media advocacy—when people get tired of hearing about Cecil the lion. Even if they hesitate to say it.
But Cecil fatigue is only going to get worse. On Friday morning, Zimbabwe's environment minister, Oppah Muchinguri, called for the extradition of the man who killed him, the Minnesota dentist Walter Palmer. Muchinguri would like Palmer to be "held accountable for his illegal action"—paying a reported $50,000 to kill Cecil with an arrow after luring him away from protected land. And she's far from alone in demanding accountability. This week, the Internet has served as a bastion of judgment and vigilante justice—just like usual, except that this was a perfect storm directed at a single person. It might be called an outrage singularity.
During the multi-country press tour for Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation, not even Jon Stewart has dared ask Tom Cruise about Scientology.
During the media blitz for Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation over the past two weeks, Tom Cruise has seemingly been everywhere. In London, he participated in a live interview at the British Film Institute with the presenter Alex Zane, the movie's director, Christopher McQuarrie, and a handful of his fellow cast members. In New York, he faced off with Jimmy Fallon in a lip-sync battle on The Tonight Show and attended the Monday night premiere in Times Square. And, on Tuesday afternoon, the actor recorded an appearance on The Daily Show With Jon Stewart, where he discussed his exercise regimen, the importance of a healthy diet, and how he still has all his own hair at 53.
Stewart, who during his career has won two Peabody Awards for public service and the Orwell Award for "distinguished contribution to honesty and clarity in public language," represented the most challenging interviewer Cruise has faced on the tour, during a challenging year for the actor. In April, HBO broadcast Alex Gibney's documentary Going Clear, a film based on the book of the same title by Lawrence Wright exploring the Church of Scientology, of which Cruise is a high-profile member. The movie alleges, among other things, that the actor personally profited from slave labor (church members who were paid 40 cents an hour to outfit the star's airplane hangar and motorcycle), and that his former girlfriend, the actress Nazanin Boniadi, was punished by the Church by being forced to do menial work after telling a friend about her relationship troubles with Cruise. For Cruise "not to address the allegations of abuse," Gibney said in January, "seems to me palpably irresponsible." But in The Daily Show interview, as with all of Cruise's other appearances, Scientology wasn't mentioned.
The Wall Street Journal's eyebrow-raising story of how the presidential candidate and her husband accepted cash from UBS without any regard for the appearance of impropriety that it created.
The Swiss bank UBS is one of the biggest, most powerful financial institutions in the world. As secretary of state, Hillary Clinton intervened to help it out with the IRS. And after that, the Swiss bank paid Bill Clinton $1.5 million for speaking gigs. The Wall Street Journal reported all that and more Thursday in an article that highlights huge conflicts of interest that the Clintons have created in the recent past.
The piece begins by detailing how Clinton helped the global bank.
"A few weeks after Hillary Clinton was sworn in as secretary of state in early 2009, she was summoned to Geneva by her Swiss counterpart to discuss an urgent matter. The Internal Revenue Service was suing UBS AG to get the identities of Americans with secret accounts," the newspaper reports. "If the case proceeded, Switzerland's largest bank would face an impossible choice: Violate Swiss secrecy laws by handing over the names, or refuse and face criminal charges in U.S. federal court. Within months, Mrs. Clinton announced a tentative legal settlement—an unusual intervention by the top U.S. diplomat. UBS ultimately turned over information on 4,450 accounts, a fraction of the 52,000 sought by the IRS."
Some say the so-called sharing economy has gotten away from its central premise—sharing.
This past March, in an up-and-coming neighborhood of Portland, Maine, a group of residents rented a warehouse and opened a tool-lending library. The idea was to give locals access to everyday but expensive garage, kitchen, and landscaping tools—such as chainsaws, lawnmowers, wheelbarrows, a giant cider press, and soap molds—to save unnecessary expense as well as clutter in closets and tool sheds.
The residents had been inspired by similar tool-lending libraries across the country—in Columbus, Ohio; in Seattle, Washington; in Portland, Oregon. The ethos made sense to the Mainers. "We all have day jobs working to make a more sustainable world," says Hazel Onsrud, one of the Maine Tool Library's founders, who works in renewable energy. "I do not want to buy all of that stuff."
Every time you shrug, you don't need to Google, then copy, then paste.
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All hail ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.
In its 11 strokes, the symbol encapsulates what it's like to be an individual on the Internet. With raised arms and a half-turned smile, it exudes the melancholia, the malaise, the acceptance, and (finally) the embrace of knowing that something's wrong on the Internet and you can't do anything about it.
As Kyle Chayka writes in a new history of the symbol at The Awl, the meaning of the "the shruggie" is always two, if not three- or four-, fold. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ represents nihilism, "bemused resignation," and "a Zen-like tool to accept the chaos of universe." It is Sisyphus in unicode. I use it at least 10 times a day.
For a long time, however, I used it with some difficulty. Unlike better-known emoticons like :) or ;), ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ borrows characters from the Japanese syllabary called katakana. That makes it a kaomoji, a Japanese emoticon; it also makes it, on Western alphabetical keyboards at least, very hard to type. But then I found a solution, and it saves me having to google "smiley sideways shrug" every time I want to quickly rail at the world's inherent lack of meaning.
This Bay Area company says its website can treat the debilitating mental illness—and clinical psychology doesn't disagree.
Brett Redding felt like he was out of options.
"It started with little things—having trouble making eye contact," he told me.
Soon it got worse. Redding, a 28-year-old salesman in Seattle, found himself freaking out during normal, everyday conversations. He worried any time his boss wanted to talk. He would dread his regular sales calls, and the city's booming housing market—he works in construction—seemed to make his ever-increasing meetings all the more crushing. He was suffering social anxiety, a common but debilitating mental illness.
"I was afraid of losing my job because I couldn't do it," he says. His meetings with a therapist weren't working, and he didn't "want to mess with antidepressants."
In a StoryCorps animation, Alex Landau recalls his harrowing experience being pulled over by Denver police.
A rock monster tries to save a village from destruction.
"If you think I'm a dirtbag, then you don't understand the lifestyle."


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Random thoughts that most people may not care about, but may provoke thoughts with older gamers.
I was around when the first MMO's came out, but I didn't play them. I use to watch some of my buddies play UO, and I stuck with my text based MUDS. However, when they all switched over to DAOC, I jumped on board with them...and there began my love of MMO's. I played endlessly, grinding away, then discovered raids, then PVP, and I was hooked.
Along came WoW, ShadowBane, EQ2, Vanguard,Rift, DDO, etc and so on, and not necesarily in that order.
I spent a lot of time in MMO's over the years, playing, pking, being a pve carebear, running guilds, writing reviews, beta testing, alpha testing, and so on.
At varying periods of time, I was hardcore, I was casual, I jumped on new-game bandwagons, I trashtalked games I didn't like, I played neutral and looked for the good/bad in every game coming out. I became aware of the inside joke apparent to all of us, that when devs say "releasing in 2013" for the first time, you know it is more likely 2015 that the game will get released, if the company doesn't fold in the mean time.
I look at games coming out now, and even though I hear and see a lot of things I like, my overall reaction is "meh" at best.
Why is that? Do games suck now? Did WoW kill everything? Is it Sand Box Vs. Theme park?
Actually, it is none of the above. It is me. I am no longer interested in spending 10 hours every day grinding in one fashion or the other. Don't get me wrong, I'll still pull a 12 hour gaming session here and there, but nothing like I use to. I stare at a computer screen all day at work. I go home and stare at a computer screen doing homework, or working on my side job doing graphic design and photography...and I just don't want to sit in front of a shiny screen as much as I use to.
These days, all I manage to play is DDO, and that is only because it is an easy game to play for an hour or two at a time, I have a small group of friends I can group up with pretty much any time I want and run a few quests.
Am I saying DDO is better than anything out there? Hardly. I am sure it is much worse than a lot of games currently out. However, I have come to realize that I have changed, and therefore the things I like have changed.
Did I think DAOC was an amazing game? Hell yeah! I loved it! (disclaimer: not including trials of atlantis or the "New Frontier") Would I play it if it came out today? Probably..very casually for a month or so..and then I'd realize I can't devote the time to it to really enjoy it.
There really is no point to this, just the musing thoughts of an "old school" gamer. Anyone have similar experiences or epiphanies?
**note: The irony of the internet: I just realized that I hated New Frontiers because of the fast travel and cheapening of the PvP game..but I also wrote a review for it at one point in time..for this site...where I gave it gushing reviews.** That rear view mirror can be thought provoking..and quite embarrassing at times...
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Originally posted by daelnor
I'm confused, which games ever required a 10 hour a day grinding session to play? Even if some old games did who is advocating that for new games. Either this is a strawman or you are saying some people spent 10 hrs a day grinding and you felt compelled to compete with them which is totally different than saying the game required you to.A good game is probably fun whether you play it for 30 minutes or 12 hours at a time. Even an extremely time-intensive game like EVE certainly doesn't require anything close to 10 hour a day grinding sessions unless you are just obsessed with being the most hardcore of hardcore.
if you really used to spend 10 hours a day grinding in MMOs it's good you've mellowed out a bit. I don't think that's very healthy for anyone.
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I think for me that there's too much formula going on. Too much of the same core of game play when it really comes down to it. I am looking for a sandbox and a virtual world. If it never happens I just never will spend money on a MMORPG again.
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Originally posted by Vermillion_Raventhal
Given so many F2P MMORPGs, i just never will spend money on a MMORPG again, whether they are catering to my taste.
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Originally posted by iridescence
Ah, this isn't a complaint about current games, it's more of an introspection into how I've changed over the years. I'm sure others have had similar experiences. A lot of people complain now about how games are too shallow, there is no depth, you're given things too easy. A reflection of the fact that many of the games I loved years ago, I would not play now. I was big into PvP at one point, but that required a lot of dedication to be good enough to not just get PK'd every time you wandered into a PvP area. Crafting took a ton of time and dedication, leveling often consisted of grinding a mob spawn for hours on end.
Raids use to require at least 50-60 people in the older games, and usually took hours to complete. A PvP raid could last for hours on end in itself. DAOC, EQ etc. were very time consuming to make any real progress. Not complaining about it, nor talking down on newer games. Like I said, more of a self reflective post, and wondering who has noticed the same experiences over the course of their gaming life, more about changes to themselves and how it has effected their view of gaming in general.
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Its not 'Just' you. A large contributor to this is that dev's making the games first off are unwilling to 'risk' anything, so follow the same basic ideas(Wow hit big, so if we pretty much copy them, at least we will get SOME wow players) and devs have also discovered its better profit, overall, to sell 'instant access' in form of power, money, better items, etc, even if selling said 'access' reduces your games lifespan. And players are buying/paying for it.
Games of yesteryear were also 'less' risk in that there were fewer (in comparison to now) developers, artists, coders, graphic designers and animators, to the ratio of players. (In the very beginning there were few enough at both and cost to produce was low enough as to make it unrisky, and with so 'few' choices, until wow Anyways, a game had a fair chance to get noticed and played enough to pay for its costs.
Now the opposite is true, just look at the list here(And this isn't even hardly 1/4 all the games out there) and many people (Woe generation are a big chunk) of people just doing as you said, now they got other, more important things to do, than 'work' at playing a game. With the current selection of games being so overly saturated, so many will simply fall on the wayside and get forgotten simply because there are just so many to pick from.
I get that way too, used to play (Even if just 'hanging out' in a game) a good 8ish hrs a night 5 days a week, and I had the time (And energy) to do so while still going to school, working, etc. Now I like to play a bit, maybe, but for the most part Sometimes I just want to kick up and watch some tv, then 'relax' and not stress over a game. (As much,lol I still play more hardcore than most of my RL friends LOL)
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"If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses."- Henry Ford
I was 10-12 hours grinder myself, so were all my friends (even the rl ones who were mostly on consoles were hard into it). Now I am...simply burnt out on that kind of work. I got other stuff to do, and when I don't, I still have other stuff I want to be doing. And, games that have a grind are off-putting now. It's usually either to short of a grind to bother with because I know if I want to I can bang it out in no time and it feels pointless. Or it's such a long grind I think "I just don't have time for this". When I was younger I didn't think about the grind. I just played.
Also, on the irony of the internet, there was this thing I heard once (can't remember who said it): "The great thing about the internet is that any one can be self published; The terrible thing about the internet is that any one can be self published."
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I play sinds AC1 launched and had similar experience as you.
But some things never changed for me i stayed HARDCORE also when i got family and work and i could not play as much as i wanted.
Early years i played 7 days a week easy 10-15hours a day.
Now most of time i can play maybe 4 hours day.
But i dont want games to be easy i still want as i use to they be hardcore if its timesink so be it then it will take longer.
But becouse ive changed don't mean i suddenly want games also be more easy so i can do whatever i want in time alouded.
Thats difference between most of you and me.
You have similar expereince and same situtation but you guys want the games adjust to you and make is simpler and easy becouse your SORRY EXCUSES is family and work there for want ezmode.
I can say the same but i don't i will not play games that are easy becouse i have less time then i will rather quit then play these sorry excuse for games made these days.
Yes WoW is MAINLY responsible for the state most mmo's are in right now.
Im still amazed how easy most of you guys give in to these spoonfed ezmode mmo's is beyond me still after 15years don't want that im prolly one of few left feel the same way ssadly.
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Its not just a matter of some of us changing our lifestyle so it is harder to be hardcore. There are only easymode MMOs now, there is no choice. You can play older games but even most of them have changed, either becoming somewhat easymode, P2W or both.
But how much time did we need to spend online? I was not playing all week at top level to stay at top level. We did two nights of raids to do that. The rest of the time I was there just enjoying the game, or the guild or some roleplaying.

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Man love all the cool new fteaures.. i like how there are 2 cameras front ..for the first time i have consider switching to a iphone!! putting the overrated ness behind me and grabbing one.. to bad tmobile doesnt carry it
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"We are in the process of determining whether a revision to our annual earnings outlook is necessary, taking into account various factors that could affect our group earnings," the electronics and entertainment conglomerate said on its Web site.
Considering they are still in the recall process, and the replacement program has barely begun, it seems likely that they will slip much more than the 43% they already have. Will the PS3 be their saving grace? Somehow, I doubt it.


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Away cleanly in her second start, Stopshoppingmaria extended her advantage at every call under John Velazquez to break her maiden by 9 ¾ lengths on Sunday at Saratoga Race Course.
The final time for six furlongs was 1:09.87, good for a Beyer Speed Figure of 101, tying New York Watch member J C's Pride for the highest figure achieved by a 2-year-old in 2011.
The victory impressed trainer Todd Pletcher so much that he was second guessing the decision to enter Stopshoppingmaria in the maiden race instead of the Grade 2 Adirondack later on the card.
"We contemplated going in the stake today, but ultimately we decided not to," said Pletcher, who conditions the dark bay or brown filly for Mike Repole. "It might have been a mistake."
In her previous start, Stopshoppingmaria stumbled badly at the break and raced evenly to finish third, beaten three lengths. The winner of that maiden race, My Miss Aurelia, returned to win the Adirondack by a neck.
"We expected [this kind of performance] in [Stopshoppingmaria's] first start, but she stumbled and it took her out of her element," said Pletcher.
If Stopshoppingmaria quickly bounces back from her maiden victory, Pletcher will consider running the daughter of More Than Ready in the Grade 1 Spinaway at Saratoga on September 4.
"She obviously put herself in a position to look at the Spinaway," said Pletcher. "She's in good shape. We'll look at all our options."
The Spinaway could serve as a rematch of the July 22 maiden race, with My Miss Aurelia also under consideration for the seven-furlong event.
Pinhooked for $50,000 as a yearling, Stopshoppingmaria was resold at the OBS March Selected Sale of Two-Year-Olds in Training, where she was acquired by Pletcher on behalf of Repole for $100,000.
Bred in Kentucky by Mueller Farms, Stopshoppingmaria is out of Skybox, who as a juvenile finished second in a minor stakes at the Meadowlands. She has produced three horses with black type, including Sand Ridge, who won five stakes at Prairie Meadows and placed in a pair of Grade 3 events, and Dootsie, a stakes winner at Monmouth Park. Stopshoppingmaria's second dam, stakes winner A Status Symbol, produced Ball Chairman, the dam of Canadian Champion Grass Horse Perfect Soul.
Stopshoppingmaria is the third filly Repole has named after his wife's shopping habits, following in the footsteps of No Shopping Maria and Stopspendingmaria.
Horses previously featured in the New York Watch series include 2010 Champion Two-Year-Old Colt Uncle Mo; Boys At Tosconova, victorious in the Grade 1 Three Chimneys Hopeful; More Than Real, who annexed the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf; Breeders' Futurity hero J. B.'s Thunder; To Honor and Serve, who swept the Nashua and Remsen; and multiple graded-stakes winner Winter Memories. Other graded stakes winners on the New York Watch list are Eightyfiveinafifty, Position Limit, Royal Delta, Overdriven, and My Miss Aurelia.
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Technology has advanced and the time has come to put up a successor to the Hubble Space Telescope. NASA is well on the way to a next generation space telescope but to my horror, they've chosen to call it the James Webb Space Telescope!
"Who the hell is James Webb?" you might ask. Well, he was a lawyer and a bureaucrat. He happened to be the top administrator of NASA through the glory years of Gemini and Apollo, but he was not a scientist.
Is anyone else offended by having a piece of advanced technology named after a bureaucrat? I'm fine with putting his name on a government building, but I think the next generation space telescope should be named after a scientist - perhaps Carl Sagan.
Should we protest?
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Thanks to everyone for replying. I'm not stuck on it being the Sagan Scope -> but I really really want it named after a scientist. I just feel that if science has any 'sex appeal' to the young generation, it's in making that big discovery, turning your name into a household word, getting formulas, technological marvels, and stars named after you. I just feel very strongly that something that will be as high profile as the next generation space telescope should be named after an interesting scientist in order maximize scientific inspiration.
I think Sagan is the perfect choice. If you'd like to start a petition, I could possibly help with that.
The Orgasmatron, Blaine?
Wasn't that the device used in the early Jane Fonda movie, "Barbarella"? As I recall, she burned out its circuits --
Especially Lee Marvin and his horse!
Ahhh, the comforting sound of whispering bones creaking with antiquity fills my imagination as you venerable historical giants reminisce...
Yo Mama wears Army boots --
Yes, Arch - let's start a petition, however that is done.
I completely agree with designating it the Sagan Space Telescope.
It does not seem that we are at the stage of a signature collection, but I would be willing sign the petition, when it appears. Actually I would be willing to consider a petition to fund a Mars habitat project, or asteroid mining. I would rather listen to a space, heavy breathing scandal any day.


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Does America Need a Foreign Policy? by Henry Kissinger
Does America Need a Foreign Policy? Toward a Diplomacy for the 21st Century
by Henry Kissinger
Simon & Schuster. 318 pp. $30.00
America bestrides the world like a colossus. In Europe, the Middle East, and Asia, American garrisons and fleets betoken a power far more absolute than that of the Romans or the British in their time. Such power has consequences. With varying degrees of enthusiasm, other peoples with other traditions are adopting America's free-market economy, its language, and its popular culture. As once people took on the religion of those stronger than themselves, now, in homage, many claim to be democratic, flimsy as the grounds of the claim may be.
One hundred years from now, Does America Need a Foreign Policy? is likely to be read as a summation of where America stood at this moment when its power appeared unchallenged and its future brilliant. The question posed by the title is rhetorical; it ought really to be, Haw Are We To Use Our Power? The author, Henry Kissinger, is a lifelong student of the nature of power and the consequent purposes and practices of statecraft, and as Secretary of State under Presidents Nixon and Ford he was able to test his ideas in the real world of politics. In many ways this is a masterful work, displaying a grasp of the entire world's geopolitics and written with admirable clarity. But it also has its peculiarities.
Throughout history, power has proved an empty shell in the absence of the will to exercise it. Previous empires have had their Caesars and Disraelis to extol and extend power, in their view bringing civilization, peace, and law by means of legionaries and redcoats. But there have also been plenty of critics to warn that there are inbuilt limits to what power can achieve, and that power over others carries with it the inherent risks of backlash and revolt. "The Captains and the Kings depart," in Kipling's melancholy words.
Kissinger is such a critic. By the 19th century, he instructs us, the world order had laid out the foundation of a stability that lasted more or less successfully until 1914. According to its precepts, each nation had its legitimate interests, and the best mechanism for mediating among those interests, and thus for keeping the peace, was a balance of forces; any single power with pretensions to supremacy would be confronted by a defensive coalition of other powers. Successive British prime ministers operated this mechanism, along with the Metternichs and Bismarcks and some of the Russian czars. They were statesmen—the highest term of praise in Kissinger's vocabulary—earning his approval as wise, cautious, restrained.
Some American Presidents have also understood this time-honored mechanism of power politics, and have acted accordingly—Theodore Roosevelt, for one. And after all, Kissinger reminds us, it was a coalition of allies that defeated Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union and restored the world balance of power. But all along there was also an alternative American tradition, one rooted in the New World idealism of the founding fathers. This alternative found its modern embodiment in Woodrow Wilson, who after World War I declared that America was under a moral imperative to encourage self-determination and democracy for all peoples.
In Kissinger's vocabulary, Wilsonianism is the highest term of disapprobation, and his unqualified disdain for this doctrine resonates in the adjectives he applies to it: "messianic," "missionary," even "optimistic." Wilsonian idealism might be valid if American values were universal, but to Kissinger, universal values are themselves a chimera. In practice, American values, democracy included, have proved irrelevant in many countries that have a history and culture of their own, and trying to impose them in order to cure ancient ills generally introduces far more destructive contemporary ills.
Worse, moral imperatives inject a self-righteous humbug into international relations. In Wilsonian logic, enemies are not simply people defending their own national interest; they are immoral, and therefore fit to be destroyed unconditionally. What begins as morality can thus end in warmongering and imperialism by another name.
Kissinger's many adversaries on the Left have accused him of adventurism and even of criminal conduct in office. What his prolific writings, and in particular this book, actually disclose is a deep temperamental fear that the possession of power leads inexorably to the use of force, and the no less deep conviction that the true purpose of power is to anticipate and head off crises that might otherwise end in violence. Like a pedestrian at a particularly complex and dangerous intersection, he is on the look-out for accidents from every direction.
The most serious of the several possible "accidents" Kissinger now foresees has to do with the emergence of a unified Europe, which he rightly calls "one of the most revolutionary events of our time." For years, the United States has advocated this very end, in the belief that a unified Europe will naturally share American values and interests. But in reality the European system of nation states is giving way to an institutionalized structure that, though nominally democratic, has been shaped in opposition to the U.S. The creation of a European defense force, the erosion of NATO and the Atlantic alliance, irrational resistance to the American proposal to build a nuclear missile shield, head-on disputes over trade and environmental issues—all these provide evidence that the bloc of Western democratic states is not coming together but splintering, much as did the former Communist bloc.
In Russia, a former KGB officer now rules who understands the national interest and the balance of forces all too well. After the collapse of Communism, American policy concentrated on domestic reform in Moscow, identifying reform mainly with the person of Boris Yeltsin. This in Kissinger's view was dangerous sentimentality. America is in no position to introduce genuine democratic reforms in Russia—not in the government, not in the economy, and not in the legal system. Vladimir Putin's Russia already shows signs of wanting to reproduce cold-war tensions, and one of Kissinger's preoccupations is that it will be attracted into an alliance or coalition with the new German-led Europe.
The shape of the 21st century will also critically depend, he thinks, on a resolution of the tensions in the Sino-American relationship. If China tries to impose its will on Taiwan, or if it seeks to dominate Asia, it may have to be resisted by force. So terrible a calamity would this be that Kissinger recommends a policy of patience as China evolves; that way, in the event of conflict, America will at least be free of blame. "What is the point," he asks, "of a confrontational strategy conducted for its own sake?"
Other nations with interests likely to prove challenging are Japan, India, and Brazil. As for the Middle East, turmoil there is a certainty. In some twenty pages Kissinger gives a marvelously cogent account of the Oslo peace process and the mistaken assumptions on all sides that led to its failure. Nationhood and the state, he writes, still count less than religion in the eyes of most Muslims. Israelis are rejected by their neighbors because they are Jews, and there is nothing they can do about it but arm themselves. Elsewhere in the Middle East, a balanced approach to either Iraq or Iran is, for the moment, not feasible.
Finally, Kissinger tackles globalization, a bag into which all sorts of Wilsonian scraps have been crammed, weakening nation states for no good purpose and muddling every balance of power. Consensus is required if there is to be world order, but Kissinger sees an unbridgeable divide between haves and have-nots, between Internetters and techno-zeros. Putting his trust in statesmen rather than jurists, he is deeply suspicious of one-size-fits-all policies like "human-rights" campaigns and of bodies like the International Criminal Court. In general, missionary or messianic efforts are the butt here of his sometimes quite deadly humor, as when he writes that unilateral gestures to ease Iranian hostility represent "the application of 'politically correct' psychiatric theory to politics," or that the bombing of Kosovo, conducted out of range of Serbian anti-aircraft batteries, suggested that "Western democracies confined their risk-taking on behalf of morality to specific altitudes."
Touring the world and its troubles as if following a manual, Kissinger generates a profusion of specific ideas and policies. To deal with Russia, there should be consultative mechanisms within the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe. An international conference, including Russia, must be convened to settle Bosnia and Kosovo. To strengthen the Atlantic alliance, a Trans-Atlantic Free Trade Area (TAFTA) is needed. A program of cooperative control should be set up to deal with drugs. As for globalization, "An international sense of social responsibility must be fostered" and the United States must help "identify the problems and design forums to deal with them." Progress must be made with respect to Iran's acquisition of missiles and nuclear weapons, with "a trusted representative" undertaking secret explorations in Tehran of reciprocal measures to improve relations. Africa needs a global program for AIDS. Eight principles must be borne in mind in formulating policy toward Asia. Nine principles guide a possible new approach to resolving the Arab-Israeli dispute. If humanitarian intervention in other peoples' quarrels is to become a priority, four conditions must be met.
Time and again, at the end of these passages of analysis and prescription, each with its emphatic sprinkling of "musts" and "shoulds" and "needs," Kissinger calls for vision and leadership. But vision for what, and leadership toward which ends and in what forms, remains very unclear. There is nothing to indicate what positive achievements Kissinger envisages for America, or what shape he would hope the world might be in a century hence. Vision and leadership in this view seem prophylactic, code words for accommodating the demands of other people.
But even on the assumption that convincing others to adopt democracy, or opposing totalitarianism in the name of human rights, is so much Wilsonian absurdity, is it enough just to seek a modus vivendi with those whose values are opposed to America's? The future envisaged here will belong to bureaucrats and diplomats traveling in phalanxes from one conference to the next. This in itself supposes a world in which rationality takes primacy over ambition and there is a disposition on everybody's part to reach agreement, plus plenty of time in which to do so. It speaks well for Kissinger's humaneness that this is his remedy for danger, but the realization of his proliferating "musts" and "shoulds" and "needs" will depend on more than fine speeches alone.
To be blunt, are those overseas garrisons and fleets merely decorative? If not, is their ultimate role to strike a balance of forces, or to pursue the national interest regardless? Peculiarly, Kissinger omits any discussion of crises in which the preemptive use of force may be the last remaining option. Such appeared to be the case in Bosnia, and perhaps in Kosovo, too. And what if the Saudi royal family should be overthrown? What is to be done in the event that Iran and Iraq, or India and Pakistan, are seen to be preparing a nuclear strike? What if Russia moves against the Baltic states or Ukraine? Or if a rogue state or terrorist group is known to be targeting the United States?
A hundred years from now, readers may well be astonished that at the height of America's power, one of its most distinguished and hard-headed statesmen was recommending a posture whose inadvertent effect would be to undermine the will to use force when the national interest demanded it, and thus hasten another set of captains and kings on their path to oblivion.


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Research firms have reacted to a Wall Street Journal report, published last night, that Chinese chip maker Tsinghua had offered to acquire Micron (MU) for $23B, or $21 per share. Summit Research said that Tsinghua would probably raise its bid, while JMP Securities wrote that the deal would be logical from Tsinghua's perspective. However, Piper Jaffray contended that the reported buyout offer is illogical and Cowen agreed, saying that the deal makes no sense for shareholders. ANALYST REACTION: Tsinghua may have indicated that it was making the "low ball" offer in order to gauge the reaction of Micron's management and shareholders to it, Summit Research analyst Srini Sundarararjan contended in a note to investors. Tsinghua will probably increase its bid, the analyst predicted, adding that he expects Micron's stock to reach $21 soon. Sundarararjan kept a $34 price target and Buy rating on Micron. JMP Securities analyst Alex Gauna wrote that the deal would be logical for Tsinghua, as it would allow the Chinese company to access leading edge process technology, enable it to deliver more complete system solutions, and give it access to 3D NAND technology. The analyst, who believes that other Chinese companies may make competing bids for Micron, finds it difficult to believe that Micron would accept an offer more than 5%-10% below its 52-week high of $36.50. Piper Jaffray analyst Ruben Roy countered that the deal makes sense for Tsinghua and China, but not for Micron. If a takeover of Micron was based on the average valuation that companies in Micron's sector have received in takeover deals over the last 18 months, it would fetch a takeover price of $43 per share, Roy estimated. Micron and Tsinghua are more likely to reach an intellectual property sharing deal than complete a takeover transaction, according to Roy, who kept an Overweight rating on Micron. Similarly, Cowen analyst Timothy Arcuri wrote that the $21 per share price wouldn't make sense for Micron's shareholders, since it's barely above the estimated replacement cost of the company's capacity. The analyst indicated that he does not believe that Tsinghua would actually make the deal and he thinks that the U.S. Department of Justice would not approve the deal if it does get offered. WHAT'S NOTABLE: In a separate note, Summit's Sundarararjan, noting that Intel (INTC) has a 20% stake in Tsinghua. contended that the U.S. chip giant probably "midwifed" Tsinghua's offer for Micron. The analyst says that Intel "carries a lot of weight" with the U.S. Department of Justice and he believes that the DOJ could approve the deal. PRICE ACTION: In morning trading, Micron jumped 11% to $19.60. Several other semi chip related stocks were also rising, with SanDisk (SNDK) gaining 4%, Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) advancing 3% and Atmel (ATML) adding 2%.
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I can't complain, fishing has been good for me and my fishing buddies this winter. When Jamie invited me to fish with him and Dennis this afternoon aboard his beautiful 23′ Parker SE, I was ecstatic. We launched out of Taylors Island Campground and fished the mid-bay area from about noon until dark. We had overcast skies and roughly 40 degree water temperatures, the perfect combination for winter fishing.
When we arrived at the fishing grounds there were 5 boats on scene. Slowly, boats would leave and as each boat left the fishing got better and better. 1.5 oz jig heads with 10" BKD's out fished anything else. I must admit, Jamie and Dennis know how to put on a fishing clinic and made me look bad for the first few hours. I managed to save face and found my groove towards the end of the day. Jamie and Dennis fish HARD and show no mercy to those who can't keep up! We ended the day with many fish over 40 inches and several over 45. It was a great day on the bay. It looks like I'll be getting out again this weekend so look for another report early next week.


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Cats vs Dogs – Indoor Cats Became Outdoor Cats
The Dutch Man left the door open and Cosmo and I saw our chance to finally be outdoor cats. Mother insists that it's not safe, but it was gorgeous outside and there were fields of green grass begging for my paws to sink in. First I went out, then Cosmo followed. "God Speed, My Friend," I said and then I turned and went on my way. It was heaven. Mother didn't even notice that we had made our escape. Of course The Dutch Man didn't notice. I bet he'd notice poop in his shoe.
But I digress.
I had a lovely time smelling the smells, sinking in to the ground, reveling in being a outdoor cat when I got a little hungry. And thirsty. Fortunately I heard Mother's voice and crawled out from beneath the bush to greet her. The shock on her face was classic. "Jaffrey," she said, as if the neighborhood is teaming with black and white tuxedo cats. I was about to say this when I noticed that she wasn't alone. Those damn heathens were with her.
They about gave me a heart attack, forcing me, an indoor cat with a bit of junk in the trunk, to run for dear life for fear of being licked to death. They were rounded up and removed and The Dutch Man politely helped me from the bush I was in. How humiliating. When I realized that the dogs weren't around, I decided that I may as well take a moment to get one in. I made the mistake of vocalizing my glee at the idea of sinking a claw into The Dutch Man and he reacted quickly, releasing me. I darted beneath the house to sit guard with Cosmo, who never came out.
Several hours later, Mother had convinced me to come out. Cosmo, the traitor, came out willingly after being coaxed by treats. He was inside relaxing when I came in, covered in cobwebs and pissed off.
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Worries over drastic fall in young people giving blood across Notts
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THE number of young people registering to become blood donors in Notts has dropped by more than a third in the last two years.
New figures show only 2,786 people aged 17 to 24 have become blood donors in the city and county this year – a drop of more than 37 per cent from 4,440 young people donating in 2010.
The NHS says the decline needs to be addressed now, to avoid a shortage of supplies of life-saving blood in the years to come.
Holly Mason, from NHS Blood and Transplant, said: "We need young people to come forward now to become the next generation of blood donors.
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More young people getting tattoos and piercings is thought to have contributed to the dip, as anyone who has a tattoo cannot give blood for at least four months afterwards.
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She said: "I don't know what has caused the fall in young donors. I wish there were more."
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Hi Everybody ,
Hope you had a nice week and you're ready for the coming week-end. I am still preparing my post on the Jojo anime series and it should be online pretty soon. Before that, let's browse through some cool news…
First of all, and as discussed earlier, the store is up and available at this page. I will keep adding things progressively, so you're welcome to come back from time to time. Moreover, I put some comments on the page, be sure to read them before making any purchase.
That being said, let's see what we have for this week
Banpresto – Master Stars Piece Sakata Gintoki
Wow, I was so excited when I saw this one. I am so glad Banpresto is releasing so much Gintama figures. So as the title said, the sweets lover will be available around end March 2013. Height is around 26cm tall. A picture below, more info on Banpresto website.
Really love him. I think it will be a good alternative to the GEM version, for poor collectors like me . Could it be that Kintoki will be the next on the MSP list? Is that really true Banpresto-san?
Anyway, I will update the online store links later. Pretty sure stores like BiginJapan will offer.
Oh, and before I forget, Elizabeth & Pandemonium will be available at the end of the month, in case you're interested.
Max Factory – Figma Gon Freecss
I know… I am not really into figmas and it is really rare for me to talk about this series of action figures. But well, I saw the news and I thought maybe they could be of interest for another H x H fan.
Indeed, Max Factory has announced the release of Figma Gon. Figure is around 13cm tall and will be available somewhere in June. Accessories include backpack, fishing rod, different hands and face expressions. Some pictures below, more on Goodsmile website.
Looks quite good to me. But as I already said, I don't have much interests in Figmas. If you like them, you can pre-order yours on Hobby Search or Amiami.
Medicos – SAS Rohan Kishibe Re-run
Our beloved mangaka is back will be back in March. Check related post here.
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This is where I will pick up posting my newer creations in ink. Formerly, my posts were on "Imagine Your Horse Here!" But the thread got too long.
Let me start here with my newest creation;
A montage. I have three images completed, but may add more and then plan to "collage" them together on one piece of white paper and use some colored paper and possibley some verbage. We'll see.
Here's what I have so far:
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wow that's awesome ! I really like that style of drawing I can only pencil draw and its always in black and white I wish I knew how to draw in different ways
Isn't this just awesome? This beautiful piece of art will "live" forever much like the memories that this man has instilled in many students and friends. Love, love, love it!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I showed my daughter who is his student and she too was awestruck and loved it :D It'll be a very special gift, that's for sure.
Bless your heart. I am hugging you in my heart! One day it would be fun to meet him.
Wow! Is all I have to say.
That's amazing!
Wow! So many artists can only paint horses, it's awesome when you're talented in art all-around!
tiny that is fantastic!!!
WOW, your horse paintings are amazing, but your human portrait is
exquisite! I am in complete awe of this piece!
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Celebrity Rehab With Dr. Drew is back for a fifth season, and we're lucky enough to have the opportunity to talk about the show with Dr. Drew and some of the other staff at the Pasadena Recovery Center to get an inside look at the rehabilitation process. This week, we spoke with Jenn Gimenez and Dr. John Sharp about this episode that follows up on the rest of this season's cast a few months after they left the recovery center.
First, I spoke to Jennifer Gimenez, who provided this great cast shot taken during filming. (Thank you, Jenn!)
It felt like Bob Forrest was the perfect person to connect with Steven Adler during this follow-up, they have so much in common and know so many of the same people with the same struggles.
Yeah, I really connected with Bob and his emotions with Steven. When Bob talked about Jani Lane, you know, I was in treatment with Jani Lane and we kept in touch and I knew him, and watching another person that we know die from this disease is so sad, and yet addicts thinks "I knew it was going to happen to them," or "I saw that coming," but yet, they're in denial of their own disease and they think they're invincible. I've seen Steven, I didn't see him as bad as he was when they shot this, but when I saw him, he wasn't nearly this bad, so it goes to show you the progression of this disease. I don't want to see Steven die from this, he is such a talented guy, it's so scary. He's really not present. It's devastating. It was really hard to watch Steven for me.
He was so vocal earlier in the season and was such a champion of treatment, so to see him go down this path, does it make you think he wasn't taking treatment seriously?
No, I don't think it's that, I think it's that the loneliness and the void — really what we're suffering from is a spiritual malady and he didn't give himself enough time to get a foundation and learn how to cope with life. If he would have given himself time, it would have been a lot different for him.
Enough time meaning between treatment and touring?
Yes, we want so bad to go back to "our lives" and really our lives weren't working before we got sober. So many of us say "I want my life back," and I don't want my old life back, I want the life I have today. Giving yourself time to get a foundation to go back to life, you learn to handle things so differently. I know the pressures of work and money and family, but if he doesn't save himself first, he's not going to have a job or a family.
Jessica started off like she was going to give herself that time to build a foundation by not doing the USO tour and choosing to stay home, but that also seems like it didn't work since she's still using.
Her way of denying and not wanting to go into sober living, that's just so textbook. The "I have it under control" thing, watching her on this episode was hard because her mannerisms and movements, it was very textbook. She may not have been drunk or high at the moment but you could see the effects of drugs and alcohol on her, the way she was moving and talking, it wasn't the Jessica I knew when she was sober. It may be different now because she is in sober living but it was hard to watch.
It definitely seems like Jessica needs to realize what you were just talking about, that your life can't really be the life you had before, but it can still be fun.
I remember her saying "I just want to be normal, to be like everyone else," and we, those of us who are in recovery or suffer from these addictions, we do not think like normal people. We do not have the same thing that normal people do, those of us with the "isms," the alcoholism and the addictions. Knowing that I will never be like a normal person is okay, and knowing that gives me power. I hear that in every group I do at the recovery center "I just want to be normal" and hearing her say that, it's so textbook. We all have the same story in the end.
How did you feel watching Sean's story this week?
Sean's story is really sad, there are two people who absolutely love each other and yet they're trying to recover together, and you really need to save your own life first, and then you can work out everything else in your life. And I think the blame game, I mean, I used to blame everybody and everything myself, but really, what's the common denominator here? It's me. So with Sean, it was so sad because she wants sobriety and I know that, and until Sean takes care of Sean, will she be able to stop blaming her husband? She can only save herself.
What do you think of the fact that her first impulse as soon as she got out of graduation was to get a drink?
It's very common. Maybe it got too real for her and too overwhelming. It happens a lot. And it was sad that she was laughing about it because it's not funny, but we cope with laughter. But she is really doing the best she can now and I give her a lot of credit for that, she really wants this and she puts the work in.
This episode was the most emotional for me, I thought it was the most profound and compelling, the realness and the truth of what really happens in recovery was there. Watching Doc Gooden, I was like, oh, thank God! Because I got to see someone I absolutely love and still talk to — I mean, I still talk to most of the cast members — and to see Doc doing well, he looked great and the humbleness in him, it's like Bob saying, let's hope he gets to a year and see what happens then and give yourself that opportunity. They tole me "Get to a year. And if you don't like this life, we'll gladly refund your misery." Give yourself a year and things will change.
What's your impression of the season overall and how everyone was portrayed?
I really do believe this show was very true and raw and real and it was very compelling. I don't think there was anything edited to misconstrue their lives and I really am very proud and honored to have worked with these people and to have been a part of this. To watch their truth come out was very beautiful and very healing. These people were so brave to show their truths, and I do believe it was very true to what we all saw.
Next we spoke to Dr. Sharp, who appeared in the episode working with Sean Young and her husband.
When you heard that Sean had a drink on her first day out of treatment, is that disappointing, or to be expected?
Even in people who you expect to be fully adherent to treatment and their commitment to sobriety, a certain percentage will be drawn back at the first moment. Whether they go out to dinner or end up hanging out with somebody they drank with before, in Sean's case I think the whole treatment team felt that the likelihood of that happening with her was pretty high. Her problem with alcohol was so closely linked to her marriage and her husband's problem with alcohol, and he didn't know how sure he felt about his own need for sobriety. But even though she drank, she definitely seemed more together than I had feared, and she was able to look after her needs and interests in a healthy way. I was positively moved by her when I met with her, and her slip up was not by any means a catastrophe.
With Jessica, I felt like Dr. Drew and Bob almost had to drag it out of her that she's not 100% sober, she had this "Why am I here?" thing going on.
Yeah, that's what you see when somebody is either not taking responsibility for doing what they need to, or is defensive about not getting where she wanted to be. I think she was probably acting like that because she was not really comfortable with how things were going. She also has a sense that it could be worse, she has some pride in being a survivor, she's been relying on herself for a long time and I think she felt on the show like more was expected of her, she knows that she's doing a lot for herself but she also knows it's not fully working.
She talks about how it feels like she's on a diet, that she's watching what she drinks and smokes as if it's a diet, is that an appropriate analogy?
It's appropriate for someone who's a non-addict. People who have that gene and are addicts can't control their diet, but non-addicts can, and that's an important distinction.
Doc Gooden seems like the one person without an awful lot of struggle this week, his treatment is still on course.
Yeah. I think he was ready for that. He came in to treatment with a real sense of purpose and wanting to put this behind him. The work he did with his son was important to that end and having a really good program to go to that he committed to is what it took.
Steven seemed to have no inhibitions and didn't really even try to conceal from Bob that he was drinking and smoking, he did all that right in front of him.
It's striking that he would make that choice. I think that would normally be interpreted as a cry for help, but Steven's not normal. A lot of times his behavior seems less mature than we'd like to see, so he probably had no second thought about just saying what he wants to say and doing what he wants to do.
And he's spending time on the road with people who are covering for him and basically disregarding his recovery.
And people who disregard recovery are enablers. Passive enablers who just look the other way, but that's an example of people you don't want to hang around with. Normally you think, I don;t want to hang around with users, but another bunch of people you maybe don't want to hang around with are the people who enable you. It's your responsibility in recovery not to use, but if you're around people who don't mind, it makes it pretty easy to get away with something.
What did you take away from this season? We discussed your concerns in doing the show before, so now that it's done, what's your impression of it?
I was really, really glad that everything I was led to believe about the show was true, that it's completely unscripted, that it's completely not manipulative or forced. I wish there was a different genre of TV that it could occupy other than "reality" TV because it's so different from the other kinds of typical reality TV. Never once did anybody, a producer or anyone else, remark on what we should be doing with the patients, the patients' day, their experience there was typical of a really enriched treatment center. I think the show's combination of twelve-step program and counseling, psychology and life-coaching which was present but you didn't see as much of on the show, was really powerful.


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Grab a cup of coffee with a cop
OXFORD — Getting together to sip coffee is a popular pastime. People congregate to have coffee with their friends. They enjoy coffee breaks at work.
On Thursday, members of the Oxford Police Department met at Bojangles' on Lewis Street to use that kind of relaxed atmosphere to be available to anyone who wanted to talk with them.
It was the second installment of the department's iteration of the national Coffee with a Cop program.
"It's a way of bringing the community together with the police," said Detective Rodrick Fields, a 20-year veteran of the force. "They can tell us their concerns about the neighborhood they live in or concerns they have. They can get answers."
The endeavor allows residents to chat with officers in an informal setting.
"People talk to us all the time," Officer Mark West said. "I can't think of a day that goes by that someone doesn't talk to me. This is going the extra mile."
Those stopping in for breakfast or just a cup of coffee liked of the premise of Coffee with a Cop.
"It's a good idea," said Danny Bowling, a Granville County resident. "If anybody has a question, they can get an answer without going to the police department. It creates good relations with the police."
Others appreciated the ability to connect with officers.
"You can ask questions," said Loretta Hunt, who was there with her husband, Connell. "It gives you a chance to voice your concerns."
A group called Citizens in Action sat around a table. Corene Norman, who is retired from Murdoch Center, said Coffee with a Cop is consistent with the goals of her organization.
"We watch our neighborhoods and report things like illegal activity," she said. "Officers attend our meetings."
She said the group meets monthly on fourth Tuesdays.
Coffee with a Cop is a national program designed to increase communication between officers and the public. Residents can voice their concerns without making an official report, which often is a deterrent to open communication.
The first session in Oxford was held at McDonald's in February, and the department plans to hold more sessions in the future.
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Domitila Roca: Domitila's ponchos pay for her daughter's physio
Client: Domitila Roca
Business: Knitwear
Location: Peru
Gender: Woman
A mother of two disabled children is knitting her family a brighter future – thanks to two loans from ECLOF Peru.
Domitila Roca and her husband Felix have started building a new house from the proceeds of their knitwear business. The Rocas, from Northern Lima, Peru, have restarted physiotherapy for their daughter who has lost the use of her legs. In the past six years the Rocas have sold about 2000 sweaters, ponchos, bonnets, scarves and the like – mainly to the Italian market.
Their first loan was to buy Alpaca wool. And the second loan was for PEN 1300 (USD 450) – to supply working capital to increase production. The business sells about 30 sweaters per month, and in busy months Domitila contracts two women to knit for her. "The years of suffering are over," says Domitila, now that the business supports their three grown-up children who all live at home.
Their eldest daughter, Nelly, 29, has a learning disability similar to Downs Syndrome. The younger daughter, Lucy, 27, can no longer walk since she got untreated meningitis at 15. Lucy checks the knitwear for defects before it goes on sale. The Rocas' son, Jesus, is 20.
The idea for the business came in 2004. Felix was working in Italy when he complained to Domitila about the cold. So she knitted him a sweater and sent it out to him. Felix's colleagues liked his sweater so much they wanted them too.
The Rocas sell most of their knitwear in Italy where they can earn five times what they would if they sold only in Peru. Domitila posts the knitwear or sends it abroad through her network of friends who take it with them on their travels. Besides Italy, her clothes have sold in the USA, Egypt and Australia.


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Posted at: 12/18/2012 9:21 AM
Updated at: 12/18/2012 10:33 AM
An 89-year-old Palmyra man was killed in a car crash Monday evening on Route 31 in Palmyra.
State Police tell News10NBC Harold Fisher was driving his pickup truck westbound in the eastbound lane when it hit an oncoming car driven by 47-year-old Peter Ganze of Lyons.
Fisher was taken to Newark Wayne Hospital where he was pronounced dead. His wife, 86-year-old Dorothy Fisher, was transported to Strong Memorial Hospital where she is listed in critical condition.
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A look at Fire Pokemon Gen I
by, 13th November 2010 at 04:44 PM (789 Views)
Okay... I seen Rusty Shakleford do one of these on Fighting Pokemon... and I decided to try one with Fire types... (Hopefully I won't get into trouble...)
SO Let's see some Fire Type Pokemon shall we?
5/5 Flames
SO We start with the Charmander line... These guys are among the most iconic Pokemon of all time...
I have always loved these guys Being my favorite Starter line (Hey I'm a sucker for Fire Types) And they're cool design. While admittably uncreative still looks bad-ass and not copy-paste like other Gen I evo's (I'm looking at you Muk/Magneton/Dotrio)
They are extremly poweful with a high BST 534. of however... Charizard is crippled by a 4x's weakness to rock being the first Pokemon in Nat-Dex order have one
They're basis are kinda obvious Charizard expesully... Charmander and Charmeleon are based on the mythical Salamander. While Charizard is based on the stereotypical European Dragon.
Charizard is also notted for being the first version Mascot (Red and it's Remake Fire-Red)
4/5 Flames
SO We're done with Dragons... Now we are at one of the two canind Fire Familes... The Vulpix Line!
Vulpix and her Evo are unique in several ways. Most notible is the fact that They are the only Fire Type to have a Gender Ratio that make Males rarer then Females (75% Female) And are famous for being able to live to 1000 years. and she is the First Pokemon in Nat-Dex Order to Evolve Via Fire-Stone
A funny note that this is referenced in the Anime in EP 232 A Ninetales Thought Brock was her long lost Master who had died many years ago...
They are pretty good Pokemon with a BST of 510... Ninetales is somewhat of a defensive Pokemon as her highest stat are Speed and S-Defense which are 100... But her other stats are well rounded making her a stable Pokemon. She also gets the extremly powerful drought.
Like the Carmander Family the Orgins of this family are obvious with those who are familier to Japanese folklore (Or have seen Inuyasha as one of the Major Characters is a fox Demon) They are based on the Kitsune... A Powerful fox demon that can live up to a 1000 years.
The most powerful is the Kyuubi-no-Kitsune (The 9 Tailed Fox) Legend has it that for every century a fox lives they gain a tail and grow more powerful. They are also known to create illusions and can desgise themselves as human (Which the Ninetales in 232 was doing)
5/5 Flames
SO here we are... The Growlith line. These Guys are my favorite Pokemon so I'm a bit biased...
Like Ninetales Arcanine Evolves with a Fire stone. They can be considered Gender Counterparts due to having the same Evo method and having the same Gender Ratio (75%) However THey have different BST (Arcanine's being 45 points higher) Different DM Abilities (Ninetales gets drought while Arcanine get's Righteous Heart (which is a rip-off he should'vr gotten Drought as well)
Arcanine are considered to be 'Legendary' though they aren't counted as Legendary Pokemon. The Pokedex makes numrous refernces to his Speed (R/B/Ru/S/E/FR/LG) His Magnifcent nature (G/S/HG/SS) And his Proud and Regal Nature (D/P/Pt/B/W)
He was until Gen V The most powerful Pokemon that evolves once (A spot that was taken from him by Archeos who has a BST of 567) But is still the Strongest non Legendary Fire Type in the Game...
Like the First two they're orgins are easy to identify Growith is based on a puppy. While Arcanine is based on a Ryukyuan Shisa (AKA the Lion-Dog
3/5 Flames
Now that we are done with the Canind FIre Types we move on to the Ponyta line. These guys are pretty bice though not my favorite Fire Type...
They are very Fast as Rapidash's Highest stat is Speed (105) and also have a high Attack (100) Her S-ATK and S-Defense are good (80) But her Hp (65) and Defense (70) are somewhat lackluster
Rapidash in notible for being the Kanto Pokemon Fan Club President's favorite Pokemon and will continue for awhile (And is kind enoug to give you a Bike Voucher in retern
Like all the other's the have easy orgins being based on horses. However they like Charizard have a European orgin (Greek to be exact) as they can be seen as being based on the Fiery Steeds that pulled the Sun God Helios's Sun Chariot
3/5 Flames
Yes.. I'm aware that Magby and Magmortar are not Gen I pokemon BUT for the sake of convience They are in this article.
These guys are intersting. Though I don't know much about them as I never really used them they are good Pokemon Ugly yes... but cool. Magmortar has a BST of 540 which is excellent. His Highest Stat being S-ATK (125) and his lowest is Defense (67)
Magmar is one of two (The Other being Hitomoshi who'll be covered later) non-starter Fire Types to be part of a 3 Stage line. Magby is hatched from an Egg and evolves to Magmar at Lv:30 (Something he shares with Jynx and Electabuzz) and evolves further into Magmortar Via trade with Magmarizer
Unlike the previous Fire Pokemon his orgin is tricky... but not uber hard. He can be seen to be based on a duck and a Salamander...
Now we are to another Canid Pokemon... Flareon! One of the Orginal Eveelutions (A Fan-Name so popular it was eventually adobted by GF itself.)
He is an interesting Pokmon... His Attack is amazingly high however he doesn't get many STAB Physical Moves (Only having Fire-Fang) And for some reason he doesn't get Flare-Blitz...
Like I stated earlier his Attack is really High (130) And his S-ATK is also high (110). Like all Eevelutions his BST is 525.
He is notible for being owned by Both a Eevee Brother (Pyro) and a Kimono Girl(Miki (games) and Koume (Anime)) And is Currently the Only Fire Type not to evolve from another Fire Type Evoliving from the Normal Typed Eevee
He is based on a Fox like Ninetales but with Pomeranian touches... He like Arcanine and Ninetales evolves via Fire-Stone)
SO here we are... The Last Fire Type in Gen I Moltres the Phoenix... He and Charizard are the only Dual-typed Fire Pokemon in Gen I (Interestingly they are both Fire/Flying) He is a member of the Bird Trio ruled by Lugia (Or at least in the Anime) and has a BST of 580 the highest of all Fire Types in Gen I (Matched by Entei and surpassed by Ho-oh)
He is based on the Legenary Phoenix and posibly Suzaku the Legendary Guardian of the South or the Slavic Fire-Bird...
That's it for now I was going to do Gen II as well but I couldn't fit all the Pictures... Hope you Guys Like it
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