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"A good movie can take you out of your dull funk and the hopelessness that so often goes with slipping into a theatre; a good movie can make you feel alive again, in contact, not just lost in another city. Good movies make you care, make you believe in possibilities again. If somewhere in the Hollywood-entertainment world someone has managed to break through with something that speaks to you, then it isn't all corruption. The movie doesn't have to be great; it can be stupid and empty and you can still have the joy of a good performance, or the joy in just a good line. An actor's scowl, a small subversive gesture, a dirty remark that someone tosses off with a mock-innocent face, and the world makes a little bit of sense. Sitting there alone or painfully alone because those with you do not react as you do, you know there must be others perhaps in this very theatre or in this city, surely in other theatres in other cities, now, in the past or future, who react as you do. And because movies are the most total and encompassing art form we have, these reactions can seem the most personal and, maybe the most important, imaginable. The romance of movies is not just in those stories and those people on the screen but in the adolescent dream of meeting others who feel as you do about what you've seen. You do meet them, of course, and you know each other at once because you talk less about good movies than about what you love in bad movies."
- from "Trash, Art, and the Movies" by Pauline Kael
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The softer side of H.P. Lovecraft
"Old Providence! It was this place and the mysterious force of its long, continuous history which had brought him into being, and which had drawn him back toward marvels and secrets whose boundaries no prophets might fix. Here lay the arcana, wondrous or dreadful as the case might be, for which all his years of travel and application had been preparing him. A taxicab whirled him through Post Office Square with its glimpse of the river, the old Market House, and the head of the bay, and up the steep curved slope of Waterman Street to Prospect, where the vast gleaming dome and sunset-flushed Ionic columns of the Christian Science Church beckoned northward. Then eight squares past the fine old estates his childish eyes had known, and the quaint brick sidewalks so often trodden by his youthful feet. And at last the little white overtaken farmhouse on the right, on the left the classic Adam porch and stately bayed facade of the great brick house where he was born. It was twilight, and Charles Dexter Ward had come home."
- H.P. Lovecraft, "The Case of Charles Dexter Ward", collected in The Thing On The Doorstep and Other Weird Stories
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On Turning 30
"I was thirty. Before me stretched the portentous, menacing road of a new decade.
"It was seven o'clock when we got into the coupé with him and started for Long Island. Tom talked incessantly, exulting and laughing, but his voice was as remote from Jordan and me as the foreign clamor on the sidewalk or the tumult of the elevated overhead. Human sympathy has its limits, and we were content to let all their tragic arguments fade with the city lights behind. Thirty - the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair. But there was Jordan beside me, who, unlike Daisy, was too wise to ever carry well-forgotten dreams from age-to-age. As we passed over the dark bridge her wan face fell lazily against my coat's shoulder and the formidable stroke of thirty died away with the reassuring pressure of her hand."
- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
On the virtues of home cooking
"Oh something'll happen. If not tonight, then some other night. Because if it don't happen, he'll lose interest, and quit coming around, and you wouldn't like that. And when it happens, it's Sin. It's Sin, because you're a grass widow, and fast. And he's all paid up, because he bought your dinner, and that makes it square. ...
"But — if you cook his dinner, and cooked it for him the way only you can cook, and you just happened to look cute in that little apron, and something just happened to happen, then it's Nature. Old Mother Nature, baby, and we all know she's no bum."
- James M. Cain, Mildred Pierce (1941)
Vast flaming puddings
"If I've bet my life's work on a suspicion that we live at least as much in our wishes and dreams, our constructions and projections, as we do in any real waking life the existence of which we can demonstrate by rapping it with our knuckles, perhaps my non-utilization of the live nude models helped me place the bet. How could I ever be astonished to see how we human animals slid into the vicarious at the faintest invitation, leaving vast flaming puddings of the Real uneaten? I did."
- Jonathan Lethem, "Live Nude Models," in The Ecstasy of Influence, 2011
We're here
"Until this moment, she would have had to slip a skin over her perceptions to point to the Andromeda galaxy in the sky. But now it seemed like the most important thing in the world that, two and a half million years away, somebody had shouted across the void before they died.
"'We're here,' Ferron said to the ancient light that spilled across the sky and did not pierce the shadow into which she descended. As her colleagues turned and stared, she repeated the words like a mantra. 'We're here too! And we heard you.'"
- Elizabeth Bear, "In the House of Aryaman, a Lonely Signal Burns," from Asimov's Science Fiction, January 2012
"Time has not softened my opinions on this matter. It is my belief that, as a rule, creatures of Happy's ilk — I am thinking here of canines and men both — more often run free than live caged, and it is in fact a world of mud and feces they desire, a world with no Art in it, or anyone like him, a place where there is no talk of books or God or the worlds beyond this world, a place where the only communication is the hysterical barking of starving and hate-filled dogs."
- Joe Hill, "Pop Art," collected in American Fantastic Tales, volume 2
Life in the machine
"'It's a knowledge guild,' he said soberly. 'The bosses, the big'uns, they can take all manner of things away from us. With their bloody laws and factories and courts and banks. ... They can make the world to their pleasure, they can take away your home and kin and even the work you do. ..." Mick shrugged angrily, his lean shoulders denting the heavy of fabric of the greatcoat. 'And even a rob a hero's daughter of her virtue, if I'm not too bold in speaking of it.' He pressed her hand against his sleeve, a hard, trapping grip. 'But they can't ever take what you know, now can they Sybil? They can't ever take that."
- William Gibson and Bruce Sterling, The Difference Engine
Ah, love
"'Oh I don't know about,' he replied, implying that he had had several successful affairs to enhance her opinion of him. Similarly Rosanette did not confess to all her lovers, so that he would think more highly of her. For in the midst of the most intimate confidences, false shame, delicacy, or pity always impose a certain reticence. We come across precipices or morasses, in ourselves or in the other person, which bring us to a halt; in any case, we feel that we would not be understood; it is difficult to express anything exactly; perfect unions, for that reason are rare.
"The poor Marshall had never known anything better than this."
- Gustave Flaubert, Sentimental Education, translated by Robert Baldick and Geoffrey Wall
The machinery at hand
"A lot of people now—even people much younger than James Wolcott—dream of a lost moment when the opportunities were truly 'hidden like Easter eggs,' when the paths were not yet mapped and overrun. How can we be expected to create properly, the thinking goes, without the tools of past success? How can we write without the old serious publications, make movies without risk-taking Hollywood producers, live without cheap urban housing, discover art without the underground, make a career without the circulation-desk jobs?
"Kael's great achievement was to fight this way of thinking, to persuade her readers that work is always done with the machinery at hand."
- from "What She Said: The Doings and Undoings of Pauline Kael" by Nathan Heller, The New Yorker, Oct 24, 2011
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Saddle Upby SecraTerri
Last week, a friend of mine -- a friend who shall remain anonymous here, in order to protect her privacy [although she might be a fellow Internet journaler ... and her initials might be BEV] -- wrote to ask me for some advice. She has recently taken up bike-riding, for fun and for fitness, and she had a question about a rather *sensitive* issue:
" ... Since you're now the expert," she wrote, "I have a question for you. I have just been out for my first 20 minutes of bike riding. There are parts of your body that you use a lot more than I do. Uh--how do you make such parts...uh...'comfortable' on a ride longer than 20 minutes??? I have a feeling I'm going to be walking like a cowboy at the end of a long cattle drive by the time I get around the lake tomorrow."
I wrote her back immediately ... all about how everybody is sore for the first few days. "The only thing that really helps is time and practice," I told her, with all the smug superiority of the one-year *veteran* counseling the cycling newbie. Plus, I said, once you're broken in -- so to speak -- a decent pair of Spandex riding pants are a girl's best friend. As I was writing to her, I remember thinking Thank god I don't have to worry about stuff like that anymore. I assumed that all of that beginner's discomfort was *behind* me forever.
And then I went out and rode my new bike.
It's amazing how the smallest changes can wreak the most havoc. It's sort of like new shoes. Say you've been wearing the same *Shoes R Us* one-and-a-half-inch platform-heeled open-toed sandals for a couple of years. They're cheap, they're comfortable, they've become your favorite all-purpose schlep-around-the-office shoes ... when they wear out, you just throw them away and go back to the mall to buy another pair ... what could be simpler? Except that one day you go to the shoe store, only to discover that they've tragically discontinued the line. The closest thing they've got is a two-inch stack heel. They're not nearly as nice as your old favorites, but you buy them anyway ... figuring How bad can they be?
Two days later you're hobbling around the office like The Agony of Defeat Guy ... feeling pain in leg muscles you didn't even know you had.
That's how it's been, switching from the Schwinn to the Trek. Minor changes in things like posture and position have HUGE physical repercussions. I am sore in places I assumed would never be sore again -- now that I'm this fabulously accomplished, experienced cyclist and everything, I mean -- plus I'm sore in a few other places I'd never even considered vulnerable to riding-related pain. My upper arms, for instance. Now that I'm forced to lean forward more -- now that I'm gripping an entirely different kind of handlebar -- it stretches my arm muscles in entirely different ways. My arms were never sore after riding the Schwinn, not even in the beginning ... but after a couple of hours on the new bike, merely lifting the Aquafina bottle to my lips was agonizing.
This new riding posture also puts more pressure on my right wrist, exacerbating the carpal tunnel stuff. I have to consciously force myself to adjust my grip every few minutes -- move it to the left, move it to the right, let go altogether and shake it all about. Otherwise my hand goes completely numb after five minutes. I can't even feel myself gripping the hand brake ... which is downright scary when you're attempting to navigate a skittish new 27-speed on a rain-soaked bike trail.
My right foot is going numb occasionally, too, although for different reasons. I've got a lumpy knot of bone growth on the instep side of my right foot, just below the big toe ... the result, no doubt, of years of dropping phones and pallets and six-packs of rootbeer on my foot. I first noticed the lump when I was living in Oregon a few years ago, and since then it's been quietly acquiring mass and density and [I believe] a will of its own. [Lumpy Knot of Bone Growth: "Tell her to quit shopping at *SHOES R US,* forcryingoutloud."] Now that I'm on the groovy new bike, the combination of tight athletic shoes/stoopid goddamn TOE CLIP is putting pressure directly on the bone growth. When that happens, it compresses the nerves in my foot, and after a few minutes I'm dead from the ankle down. I'm sure it's nothing that a little surgery -- and a pair of bazillion-dollar cycling shoes -- can't fix.
However, the portion of my anatomy most profoundly affected by the new bike is ... uhh ... my 'saddle.'
Or -- more accurately -- the portion of my anatomy that SITS on one.
When we were buying the new bike, two weekends ago, the salesgrrl at the groovy bike store in Berkeley talked us into swapping out the factory-issued plain vanilla bike seat for an ultra-trendy Avocet 02 Genuine Leather Saddle. "This is the very best women's bike saddle on the market," she said earnestly and sincerely ... tacking another $87.50 onto the credit card bill. Privately I wasn't convinced. How was my ample [albeit fit and attractively-proportioned] rear end going to fit on this hard, bumpy, teeny-tiny bike seat? And how comfortable could it possibly be?
All I can tell you is this: it's been forty-eight hours since our last ride ... and I STILL can't sit down.
Don't get me wrong. The benefits of having a groovy new bike vastly outweigh any temporary negatives. I love its responsiveness and maneuverability. I love its streamlined good looks. I love how light it is: I can lift it in and out of the trunk of the Subaru all by myself. I love being able to not only keep up with David on the trail ... but to pass him occasionally. Plus I'm sure that most of this discomfort is temporary. Eventually my arm muscles will get used to the reach. Eventually I'll take out that bank loan and buy a decent pair of bike shoes. Eventually I'll learn how to grip the handlebars correctly.
Eventually my rear end will grow accustomed to riding on something that feels like an $87.50 SHOEHORN.
Still, maybe I won't be quite so quick to act smug and superior, next time someone writes to ask me for advice ... especially advice about bike-riding. Smug isn't a good look for me, and superior almost always comes back to bite me in the butt.
And frankly ... that's an added discomfort my poor aching butt can't take right now.
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With thanks to the students of Pembrokeshire College, the new Queens Hall logo has been decided and is now into finalising. The trustees felt the new logo needed to represent something modern but not be fixated around the music genre as the hall is used by many more groups and increasingly, being used for business functions and training space.
The Queens Hall have hit Social Media finally, in 2014 with accounts on Twitter, Foursquare and Google+. We also have an RSS Feed for both the website and the events so you can get news direct to your PC when you want it.
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September 30th, 2013 – New York, NY – ComiXology – the revolutionary cloud-based digital comics platform – announced today that the comic book series based on Troy Duffy's cult-hit The Boondock Saints and published by 12-Gauge Comics is now available across comiXology's entire platform via iPhone, iPad, Android, Kindle Fire, Windows 8 and the Web. The digital comic debut coincides with the nationwide Blu-Ray release of The Boondock Saints II: Director's Cut on October 1st.
The franchise continues to thrive worldwide in popularity each year with an ever-growing fan base, so extending the brand into the world of graphic novels was the next logical step. Fully intertwined with the film series and written by The Boondock Saints creator/writer/director Troy Duffy and comic scribe J.B. Love, the comics follow the further adventures of the MacManus Brothers and their mysterious father and "Original Saint," Il Duce.
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1998 f150 4.6 to 460
Let me start by saying that this website has been a great resource for my project as this is one of the few forums with a search feature that actually works. That means that most of my questions have been answered. I am however left with two questions that I am unsure of.
My Truck - 1998 xlt F150 2wd 4.6 -
I am going to use this truck to pull a 5,00lb camper so I am not looking to build it up. Currently I have pulled the old engine and am finishing the bodywork and paint. I have a 1992 460cid efi with an e40d 4speed tranny.
My 2 question so far
1. I bought the rebuilt engine from someone who put in a Melling MTF-3.
Dur.@ .050 204/214 Valve lift .490/.516 Lobe centers 107/117 separation 112.@ .050 204/214 Valve lift .490/.516 Lobe centers 107/117 separation 112
I have done some research and found that it is listed as "not computer compatible"
My question is: I am planning running efi on a stock ecu. Does "not computer compatible" mean that it does not work on efi engines (I can't imagine that), or does it mean that there is not chip available for it.
2. The torque converter in my e40d needs replaced and I am looking to replace it with another stock unit as this not a performance oriented tuck. They offer 600,900 and 1200 rpm stall speed in stock converters. I am leaning toward the 600 as it is the safest bet due to my lack of testing and experience in this application. Does anyone else have any thoughts. I believe that in my application, the 600 and 900 stall speeds would be fine for me and would likely not notice the difference.
Thanks this is my second of, I am sure many other posts. I will post pics as I get a chance to get them.
It can be made to work I have seen people install potentiometers inline on the MAP sensors to trick the computers with larger cam, if it is a MAF computer then you should have no issues.
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Well I have finally got some time to post some of my progress on my build, I have taken a few pics along the way as this is my first real "build" of this kind. I am learning a lot hope to get this thing done before Febuary. I am going to spend the next couple of days loading in my pics and explaining what I have done. Please feel free to offer suggestions.
Here are some pics of the truck and the bodywork that needed done first.
Small Garage but it will work
I didn't take a pickof it but as with most Ford f150s of this era, both rocker panels were shot
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Before I got into the bodywork, I wanted to get the engine out to see what I was working with and take some measurements.
The old wire harness takes up a lot of room but I decided to work around it until I start in on the electrical ( a long time from now) and install the 460 ecu as I want to do that together. I know I am going to need to keep some of that harness and ecu to run a few things. I do not what to get ahead of myself with the wiring
The following pics are of my bodywork and new paint. I wanted to spend more time on it but it was the end of September in Ohio and I knew I was running out of good Ohio weather. I can not wait until spring because my wife and I are going to have our second child at the end of Febuary so this has to be done! The only source of heat in my garage is a nice woodburner but woodburners and a sprayed paint do not mix! As with most things on this build, I have done some bodywork and some painting before, but this is the first whole car for me. I am glad I get to practice on an old truck.
This is pre paint - I took the car out and cleaned it a final time. I rebuilt the rockers and cab corner with fiberglass. It was cheaper than replacement steel and will not rust again!
Not a good pic but this is the best I got after the seal, color and clear was applied. Notice the striping on the hood, it wierdly is not as visable in person but you can tell that I am an beginner painter. I overlaped 50% like you are supposed to but research I have done indicated that I didnt have the correct airpressure. The rest of the truck does not have this so when I do this again on another car, I am going to take the hood off and paint it vertically.
It only cost about 25$ to turn my garage into a booth. I simply puchased 1 mill plastic and stapled it up, then I purchased a furnace filter that I placed on one end of the garage and placed a fan on the other end facing the open mandoor. I did learn one important lesson from this. Cleacoat does not play well with fans. I was in the middle of painting; I blinked and noticed my eyelashes kind of stuck together! I then noticed that I could not see my workbench. I realized my fan locked up. Long story short, I owe my daughter a new fan as I had to steal hers!
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This post will bring me up to date.
I am now in the process of mock-up
This is a rough cut hole I had to make in the firewall. My e40d did not sit far enough back. I only needed about an inch and the BFH wasn't enough. As soon as the measurements taken for my motor mounts and trans brace I am going to clean that up and make a plate for it.
Not the best pic. I have to get it placed exactly where I want it yet before taking measurements.
I was suprised that the motormounts came this close! This is a pick of the dr side stand off. I took the standoffs out but now I think I might be able to use them with some modification. I am thinking maybe a flat peace of steal on the motor holding a piece of sqaure bar (reinfoced on the sides by plate steel) with tude steal holding a polyurethaine bushing that bolts into the standoff. If I do this, I might need to reinforce the standoff. Any thoughts?
I'd turn the standoff around so you could put the bolt in from the front.
Sat the motor down on a block of wood in the truck. That gave me the oportunity to clearence the throttle body. WOW, I didnt realize how tall that thing was. I needed 10 1/4" and only had 9" under the wiper box.
Well the good news is that is fits now! The bad news is I can't drive in the rain! Actually I can fit some spacers in and raise the wiper assembly enough to make it work. Checked that before I did any cutting. I am going to need to do a little more cutting to make this all work but it at least sits in there.
Last edited by c-152; 11-04-2011 at 07:48 PM.
It has been a while since I have updated this forum because not much has been accomplished on my truck since November. My original plan was to have the truck completed before the end of February as my wife was due to give birth. Our new daughter however, had her own plans and arrived WAY to early. She is doing well now. Obviously the last several months have meant the truck has been an afterthought. I have, however been able to complete a few things with my fathers help. We used/modified the existing standoffs and made an adapter for the stock bbf motor mounts. They are not complete however the are undergoing the finishing touches and I will post pics of them whenever time allows.
I have most of the parts I need to complete the project, I have a 10.25 ls 3.55 rear end, new Biltstiens hd shocks, new radiator, etc. Most of this stuff will be bolt in and go on with only minor modification.
I have yet to order an ecu for the truck as I am still researching possibilities. My motor has a Melling mf3 mild torque cam that is "non computer compatible" so I have to deal with that but I believe that since it is a 95, I can get a chip burned for a stock ecu. I could also go the megasquirt route which would make it more tunable however since I am running an e4od trans I need to control that. I could do that with a gpio board but that might be over my pay grade (my father is a computer programmer so he might be able to help me with that). I have also contacted Bauman about their trans controller but that might bust my budget.
I was hoping someone on this sight might be able to help provide some information to see if I am missing any possible angle for running the efi and trans. I was thinking some of the drag race guys on here might have a different angle or approach.
And "scrap the e40d for a c6 and run a Carb is not the route I want to go" - I have heard that before. For this build, I want efi and the e4od.
For now my priorities are elsewhere but as things settle down around my house, I plan to get back into this truck to get it finished. I need to get it done but want to get it done correctly and am still wanting to put the time into it to make it a solid, reliable and unique truck that can haul a 5,000 - 6,000lb camper @ 75mph anywhere.
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I have a '97 F-150XLT flareside std. cab V-6/5-speed and after 354,000 miles the engine has played out and it's time to do something different.
I've been thinking about either a 351/5.8 swap or a 460 swap but I wasn't sure if a 460/E4OD would fit and now I see that it will.
I can get a rebuildable 460 for $100.00 and a usable E4OD for under $150.00 at the local Pick-N-Pull so all I need to do now is to get dirty.
I'm going to build more of a muscle truck since I have a 2010 Dodge Ram QC Big Horn Edition w/ a Hemi and HD tow package for towing and truck stuff.
Thanks for the info and keep posting updates.
I hope the new baby is doing fine too.
Factory Five Racing Spyder GT 4859GT 414W, Tremec TKO 5spd. IRS w/3.55 and Torsen diff. 13" dual-piston front & 12" rear disc brakes. 03 Cobra wheels, 275/40 & 315/35 tires. Possibly the only person in the world that is currently building a FFR Spyder GT.
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That sounds like a fun truck build. It does take some cutting and work with a bfh to get it in there but it fits! The e4od requires moving the trans brace back a little which may require some fab work. If it wasn't for the fact that I was using this as a puller that I will be sharing driving responsibilities with my wife, I would have looked into a c6 or zf trans. Those are not options for my application and what I want out of the truck. Once. The motor mounts are complete I will post pics and then move to finishing the trans brace. For now, I get to it when time and priorities allow.
Thanks and good luck on your build.
Baby is doing well we are hopefully going to take her home soon.That sounds like a fun truck build. It does take some cutting and work with a bfh to get it in there but it fits! The e4od requires moving the trans brace back a little which may require some fab work. If it wasn't for the fact that I was using this as a puller that I will be sharing driving responsibilities with my wife, I would have looked into a c6 or zf trans. Those are not options for my application and what I want out of the truck. Once. The motor mounts are complete I will post pics and then move to finishing the trans brace. For now, I get to it when time and priorities allow.
Thanks and good luck on your build.
Baby is doing well we are hopefully going to take her home soon.
Howdy C-152,
The cutting, fabing, and BFH is no problem.
I'm currently build a Factory Five Racing Spyder GT with a highly modified frame that required a lot of cutting and welding. I'm in the process of making all the aluminum panels from .0708" flat sheets. Here's a link to my build thread........
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A whopping 9 out of 10 Americans disapprove of Congress right now. But if they were in the driver's seat, would they act any differently? A new video game gives them that chance.
"For The People: Fantasy Politics" allows players to become the 436th member of the House of Representatives in a game played on Facebook and mobile devices. The game is meant to replicate the actual experience of being a member of Congress: Players must juggle their reelection campaign, meetings with lobbyists, committee meetings and votes simultaneously, gaining clout and funds along the way.
But those looking for the Congress of their dreams might not find it in this virtual world: The game tends to reward and encourage some of the behaviors that have helped make Congress so dysfunctional and unpopular.
On Capitol Hill on Thursday, game industry executive Shel Man unveiled the game, which he developed with input from former senators Norm Coleman and Evan Bayh. He believes there will be an appetite for the game in the broader public, particularly among the "30 million hard-core political junkies" he estimates live in the United States.
"There's huge interest for people to know more," says Scott Gluck, head of Capitol Hill outreach for the game, which is in a beta test phase on Facebook. "People want to be smart."
The game dutifully replicates some of the ways that the Hill actually works, down to committee votes and avatars modeled after real legislators. It's not clear, however, whether players will actually want to do what it takes to succeed in this virtual Congress.
As a virtual legislator, the only people who lined up to meet with me in my office were lobbyists and advocates for special interest groups. They urged me to do everything from "fund the space telescope," "protect online privacy" and "kill the Volker [sic] rule."
Should I accept or reject their positions? There wasn't really any basis on which I could make that decision outside of what they told me. The Volcker Rule lobbyist told me that it "is unnecessary overregulation and will hurt banks, which will then pass the costs on to consumers." But that was all the information I had to go by. I could chose to "negotiate" with them, but that consisted of pressing buttons to improve their mood or remind them of my sterling reputation, so their avatars' little red frowns would turn into yellow smiley faces.
It was a low-information discussion that could only move toward legislative action if I either agreed with the lobbyists or else curried favor with them by making them feel better, or making them feel better about me. (You could reject the lobbyist's position, but then it wasn't possible to move an amendment toward a committee vote, as far as I could tell.)
The committee process was much the same: In proposing an amendment, I had to convince my fellow members to come over to my side. The last three years of congressional voting records have been incorporated to calibrate how likely it would be for my legislation to pass. Some of my fellow committee members were invariably concerned about a proposal's cost, constitutionality and so forth. But the way to persuade them wasn't by making arguments or counterarguments in response to their criticisms. It was by playing cards that pushed them by virtue of my abstract level of "clout," influence and so forth. What would my legislative fix actually cost, and was it actually constitutional? I had no idea. But cynics would say that's a pretty good representation of how Congress actually works.
There is a downside to siding with lobbyists to push through legislation — among your constituents, at least. "You lose standing in the district," Gluck tells me. That could make it harder to get reelected.
But there's a fix for that, too: You can also chose to debate your opponent back home, where the political opinions are calibrated based on the actual leanings of the state you chose to represent from the get-go. And you're more likely to prevail if you tell voters what they want to hear.
Mann says that it's still possible to take "any position and win" the game. It just will take a lot longer.


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In a small rural village in Chechnya, eight-year-old Havaa watches from the woods as Russian soldiers abduct her father in the middle of the night and then set fire to her home. When their lifelong neighbor Akhmed finds Havaa hiding in the forest with a strange blue suitcase, he makes a decision that will forever change their lives. He will seek refuge at the abandoned hospital where the sole remaining doctor, Sonja Rabina, treats the wounded.
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"A powerful tale....The moment Akhmed walks into the hospital with Havaa…rivals anything Michael Ondaatje has written in its emotional force....There are many reasons to read A Constellation of Vital Phenomena...to marvel at the lack of fear in a writer so young. To read a book that can bring tears to your eyes and force laughter from your lungs....But the one I kept returning to, the best reason to read this novel, is that this story reminds us how senseless killing often wrenches kindness through extreme circumstances."John Freeman, Boston Globe
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Sit back and relax in your comfortable, booth-style seating as your expert wait staff serves dinner. Enjoy a gourmet four-course meal right at your seat (see Itinerary for sample menu), and indulge in alcoholic drinks of your choice if you wish (own expense). Most of the tables seat up to four people, though tables for two can be requested in advance if you'd like a more private experience for you and your loved one.
During your meal, enjoy interactive entertainment as a wacky cast of characters move from car to car acting out a murder mystery plot. Be ready to join in the fun as clues to the killer are revealed one by one. Try to figure out the culprit before your last bite of dessert!
On some nights, you may also enjoy a live blues band performance during your 4-hour train ride, which returns to Hood River Station.
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Acuña said the information boards named as "Barangay DTI Corner" will be installed in at least 10 villages -- five in the east coast and five in the west coast.
These areas include: Sta. Maria, San Jose Gusu, Recodo, Ayala and Labuan in the west coast; and Curuan, Guiwan, Divisoria, Sangali, and Vitali in the east coast.
Acuña said the project will be implemented in coordination with the officials of the 10 villages and the organized consumer groups.
Acuña said the objective of the project is to serve as an avenue for the consumers to learn about the different programs of the DTI with regard consumerism as well as other functions and updates of the office, thereby making them well informed, educated and vigilant consumers.
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Homecoming games mean different things to different people. For some, it is a chance to get the community together, but for the Good family, it was a chance — and probably the last one — to see two of its members play against each other.
When Pine-Richland and Shaler met two weeks ago, Titans quarterback Brad Good, a senior, played against his cousin Jake Good, a sophomore defensive lineman from Pine-Richland, for the first and last time as varsity starters.
Pine-Richland needed a win to stay in the playoff chase, while Shaler needed its first win. But, stakes aside, the cousins looked forward to sharing the field.
"It was pretty neat looking across the line each play and seeing Jake looking back at me," Brad said. "I knew I had to avoid him."
Brad never wants to get sacked, but no Pine-Richland player could remind him of a sack on a regular basis the way Jake can.
"We are together at a lot of family parties, and it is kind of a bragging right (thing)," Brad said. "He definitely did not sack me. My line did a pretty good job keeping him away."
Brad said it was great having the whole family at one game, as usually they divide to watch one or the other.
"It was awesome to play against Brad," Jake said. "My cousin and I have been close as long as I can remember. I remember him coming to my birthday parties when I was really young, so this was a cool experience."
Jake said there was a little trash talk between himself and Brad's center before a few snaps, and the sophomore had no problem admitting that his cousin is quick and can be hard to catch.
Jake had moment of conflict when his cousin and one of his teammates got into an argument, but he said, on the field, it's team first. But that moment aside, it's always family first.
Unfortunately, Brad injured his ankle during the game, so the cousins didn't have a chance to meet and shake hands afterward, something that bothered them both.
Although the ending wasn't what they had hoped, neither will forget the one varsity game they got to play in as opponents.
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Why have 4K at 17", though? Or even 18"? I have a 28" 4K desktop monitor and it's gorgeous, but I can't even make out the pixels when I'm at a reasonable using distance. What benefit is 4K over 1440 on a laptop, other than requiring beefier gaming components?
But this isn't a bank vault. This was someone hiding the cash in a box under the bushes and claiming it was safe.
That's an assumption that'll get you killed.
Lots of cops playing army without as much danger of being actually shot at. Lots of forces operating as for-profit gangs that do whatever they want. They'll shout "stop resisting" as they de-escalate the situation with violence.
I'm not saying that there aren't any, or not even that most cops aren't good. But it doesn't take very many to poison a whole department, only a few in the higher ranks to run out the good cops.
Pretty much every bit of Walker's trumpeting about his "success" in Wisconsin is a lie. I'd scratch him off post-haste if I were you.
You can do your own doctoring, just like you can drive on your own roads.
If you want to participate in the benefits of society, such as healthcare and maintained, safe roads and such, you pay your part. The biggest problem is the super rich and the corporations that have bought their way out of paying their part.
If making sense actually changed opinions, there wouldn't be any Republicans left in this country. Pissing into the wind, my friend.
I know, right? We should have high schoolers working those 24 hour drive throughs while they're supposed to be in school or late at night, earning a below-living wage. Real adults just wouldn't stand for that, and don't deserve any better if they do.
You can keep your plan if it's a legitimate insurance plan. Lots of shitty plans stopped being offered.
It isn't a tax, as in it's not a line-item on your tax bill. By your logic, Wal-Mart is a tax, because they get corporate subsidies for their welfare-requiring employees.
You can keep your doctor, if your insurance allows you to. Before the ACA there were those problems, too.
It does cost less, overall. The rate of healthcare cost increases is the lowest it's been in decades. It's not about you personally, it's the overall trend. Not to mention more people now qualify for insurance.
Overall? Most people have better coverage, and more people have coverage, period. If you lost coverage, it was only because you were profiting from the people who were paying for plans that didn't really offer any protection.
Oh, and don't forget that the Baby Boomers are aging, and are creating a huge load on the system... that's driving costs up for everyone. But I'm sure that's Obama's fault, too.
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If you're going to gripe about someone's grammar, you really should ensure that yours is impeccable.
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Cars have substantial other uses. A gun-carrying drone has only a single reason to be carrying the gun, and that's to cause harm to something.
Why would everyone use the Pro version? If you know what a driver is, you can probably consider using the Pro version. If you don't, like my parents, then having everything automatically update seems perfectly sane, and safer than not having updates done until someone looks at the machine.
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One of the most difficult investment challenges is figuring out when it is time to dump an adviser who is lagging behind the market.
Don't react emotionally. Even advisers with the best long-term returns suffer through short-term periods of subpar performance. In most cases, it therefore pays to stick with them even when their returns begin to flag.
For example, the Prudent Speculator, an investment newsletter edited by John Buckingham, has beaten the Wilshire 5000 index by an average of 4.3 percentage points annually since mid-1980, the best performance among 200 advisers tracked by the Hulbert Financial Digest. Still, the newsletter has trailed the market in more than 40% of the intervening five-year periods.
With the stock market near record highs, you may think that your adviser is brilliant at the moment.
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But markets sour and sometimes advisers lag behind rising markets. Brandes Investment Partners, a San Diego-based money-management firm with $27 billion in assets under management, has found that trailing the market over the short-term is as inevitable as death and taxes, even for the best advisers.
This insight is nevertheless lost on many investors, some of whom quickly get rid of their advisers after trailing the market for even one or two quarters, researchers say. Their frequent switching typically costs them further, if they sell their investments at a low point to pursue a strategy that is topping the charts.
Consider what happens if you always look for the hot hand. If you switched your money every year into the prior year's best-performing portfolio tracked by the Hulbert Financial Digest, you would have lost money in eight of the past 10 years and produced an average loss of 16% annually, even though the S&P 500 returned an average of 8% annually, including dividends.
Ignoring your emotions may be difficult. But it also isn't easy to let statistical analysis be your guide, for two reasons.
The first is that the statistical test you should apply — known as the Monte Carlo Permutation Test — is "too complex for the average investor," according to David Aronson, a former finance professor at Baruch College who is helping to develop a web-based software platform —Trading Systems Synthesis and Boosting — that would, among other things, make this test available.
The second reason: It generally takes more than just a year or two of market-trailing performance to conclude that an adviser with a stellar long-term record really has lost his touch. That is because occasional short-term underperformance is to be expected.
You therefore should keep two rules of thumb in mind if your adviser begins to turn in disappointing performance.
The first is to make sure you picked him for sound statistical reasons in the first place. Beating the market for just a year or two isn't good enough, for example. It can take more than 10 years to separate advisers with genuine ability from those whose shorter-term strong records were due to luck alone.
The second rule of thumb: Watch for any warning signs that something has changed with your adviser that suggests his past track record is no longer relevant.
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MaryAnn Fahey, co-founder of Umbrella Arts, curates contemporary art exhibitions and educational projects. Her exhibits and projects cover a broad range of topics and mediums.
MaryAnn has staged more than 150 exhibitions featuring the works of over 500 artists. Ground-breaking highlights include Plastic Fantastic, Dia De Los Muertos, and Indwelling: Living in a Female Body. She has coordinated the East Village Gallery & Garden Walk for the Festival of Ideas for the New City presented by the New Museum in 2011 and 2013.
MaryAnn has facilitated community outreach and fundraising exhibitions in partnership with The Lower East Side Girls Club, Community Access, International Center of Photography, En Foco and A.I.R.
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The Daily Illustrator: Children's Art and Literacy Program offered children the opportunity to attend weekly workshops taught by professional children's illustrators. The project culminated with an exhibition integrating a selection of the children's works with published illustrations created by workshop instructors.
The Sponsored Artist Program provided artists with the opportunity to develop new photographic work within the traditional printmaking medium. This program provided each artist with complimentary use of a darkroom and materials along with professional mentorship by MaryAnn Fahey. Participants attended a weekly artists' consortium for the exchange of ideas, and held an artists' lecture series at which photographers interacted with the public. The project culminated in a six-week exhibition of new work.
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