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| ninjacat5 chapter 3 . 1/2/2010
that was a really great story!
| Kerrison chapter 3 . 1/2/2010
The saddest part of this entire story was when I looked up at the header and saw "Complete."
Say it ain't so!
| eat.sleep.write99 chapter 1 . 1/2/2010
I really enjoyed this... It was very well written
Its on my favorite list :)
| C-Rokkk chapter 3 . 1/2/2010
Wish there was more!
(Hey, that rhymed!)
This story was awesome. Great job!
Now I sit and wait for your next piece of brilliance. :)
| Harleyzgirl chapter 3 . 1/2/2010
Well done. That was a perfect ending/beginning for them.
| zats chapter 3 . 1/2/2010
Love the chapter...the basic hebrew showed her that he cared about her. She may have made the first move, but he caught on fast. More soon please.
| Ryalin chapter 3 . 1/2/2010
Wonderfully sweet and steamy, all at the same time. Thanks for another great chapter.
| KindleLyn chapter 3 . 1/2/2010
Once again, you are brilliant! The dialogue was perfect, and the kiss was even better. You rock!
| polarpi chapter 3 . 1/2/2010
Found this when you first posted, but wasn't able to finish until this morning - absolutely loved it! Great job :)
| Viktorija chapter 3 . 1/2/2010
Loved it:)Great job!
| cinematus chapter 3 . 1/2/2010
I'm usually not really a fan of this type of stories but this is one is fantastic.
I like the way the story develops and how Tony and Ziva think about their actions and what they actually mean. The hopes and desires that come along with the gestures is very well written and described. I really admire how you described the different side if the characters without making them being unrealistic or out of character. I really like that.
The scene where Tony and Ziva talk about the different cultures and when Tony suddenly talks to her in Hebrew and she tells him that she wants him right now, is just priceless and really made me laugh. I like those moments in a story.
Well done. Really great and enjoyable storyline.
| mia58 chapter 3 . 1/2/2010
Per usual, wonderful story telling. You've captured their essence and their potential so well. Thank you for an enjoyable holiday present. Hope to hear from you again very soon.
| crimeshowsaremygame chapter 3 . 1/2/2010
I love this story, it's so sweet. It really made me smile, especially chapter one, and it's well written too, which I always appreciate.
happy holidays
| M E Wofford chapter 3 . 1/2/2010
Oh, oh...lovely chapter.
JUST absolutely lovely.
It made me smile at the sweet intensity.
| kokobun chapter 2 . 1/1/2010
Nice writing-I like the story and look forward to more!


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As Italian President Giorgio Napolitano moves to form a new government on Tuesday following his re-election, a report by a group of experts he convened is set to serve as the new reform agenda.
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1. Benefits: An emergency boost for the state unemployment benefits fund of 1.0 billion euros ($1.3 billion) to ensure it does not run out within months, as record numbers of laid-off workers are currently seeking payments.
2. Helping business: Boosting state support for small and medium-sized companies -- the backbone of the Italian economy -- as well as increasing the role of public-private partnerships, which are under-developed in Italy.
3. Lower taxes: The group recognised that the fiscal burden for individuals and companies had become too elevated -- it is currently among the highest in Europe -- especially as a result of the recent succession of austerity budgets.
4. Allowance: A more in-depth study on the proposal -- pushed by the anti-establishment Five Star Movement -- of having new job seekers receive allowances in Italy, which currently gives benefits only to people who have held jobs.
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2. Cutting MPs: Leading parties have talked for years about the possibility of cutting bureaucratic costs by halving the number of lawmakers in parliament, which currently has a total of 945 deputies and senators.
3. Party Subsidies: A sharp reduction in public subsidies given to political parties every year -- blamed for a lot of the sleaze in public life -- while keeping some payments to avoid private donors becoming too influential.
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I. Call to order and announcements
II. Roll call
Present: Michael Andrews, Ray Bard, Father Beauchamp, Russ Butkus, Rich Christen, Mike Eom, Tom Greene, Kyle Hamm, Drew Harrington, Brian Els, Susan Hinken, Aziz Inan, Larry Larson, Nick McCree, Tamar More, Dan Pierce, Alex Santana, Susan Stillwell, Karen Ward, Matthew Warshawsky, John Watzke
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IV. Approval of minutes from February 19, 2013: Minutes approved.
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Presentation by Alan Timmins, Vice President for Financial Affairs
Presentation is focused on the finance and budget update for this academic year of 2012-2013.
The state of the university is good.
2. Revenue analysis: Tuition and fees, 66%; room and board, 18%; gifts and contributions, 6%; grants and contracts, 5%; off-campus programs, 5%.
3. Spending analysis: 75% academic and student life, 52% of which is in instruction; 32% resident life and athletics; 11% on student services; 5% on off- campus programs. Enrollment trend is up, a bit down for 2014, about 2%, at record level for applications. Tuition has gone up and so has aid per student. Financial aid breakdown: government aid has decreased; annual scholarships have decreased; endowed scholarships have increased slightly from last year; unfunded aid has maintained. Tuition changes: 4 and a half percent increase in tuition this year. Endowment Trends: back on the upswing this year. Notre Dame manages the universities endowments.
4.. Budgets: this year the university has additional resources of $800,000 and budget requests of 3.4 million.
5. The university received two large gifts; three million dollars from the Fields estate and one million from Liz James.
VI. Standing Committee Reports
a. Executive Committee, Larry Larsen
The Executive Committee met March 5. Thank you to the Senate Members whose terms are up.
b. Committee on Committees, Susan Hinken
No work to report.
c. Committee on Rank and Tenure, Mark Utlaut (absent)
Rank and tenure is continuing to do their business.
d. Committee on Teaching and Scholarship, Aziz Inan
1. Committee met three times. One meeting was about other means of evaluating teaching.
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3. The committee discussed selecting faculty awardees; applicants are submitting their materials by the end of this week, and then the committee will meet to discuss faculty materials. A decision will be made during the second week of April.
4. The committee discussed Faculty Development Day. An announcement was placed in UpBeat for proposals; the committee is working on the days schedule.
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2. Committee asked for faculty input about statement of inclusion and a policy on it. Committee received a lot of feedback. Laura Trout met with Paul Myer who is chair of the Ad Hoc committee.
f. Committee on Curriculum and Academic Regulations, Russ Butkus
Committee met to discuss the proposal for the new physics track (see New Business below).
VII. Presidential Advisory Committees
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Not present
b. Committee on Athletics, Alex Santana
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d. Committee on Information Technology, Gary Mitchell
Moving forward and working on a proposal.
e. Committee on Sustainability, Rich Christen
No report
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a. Father Beauchamp
Fr. Bill reported on the changing ways in which courses are now being taught, e.g., the use of books, on-line instruction, etc. A task force is being assigned to look at the use of technology and courses. The goal is to have a plan by December 2013.
b. Dean's Meetings, Dr. Greene
1. The University Core Curriculum Committee (UCCC) met and is working on managing the core; things are progressing. One issue is assessment and this will be addressed before the semester is out. The writing assessment is especially important.
2. The Deans have been narrowing the valedictorian awards, the awards for each academic unit, and the faculty leadership award.
3. The Deans are working on the resources requested by departments with the budget in forefront.
4. The Deans are looking at the strategic plan and accountability, specifically the academic divisions. The Deans have responded to ASUP resolutions concerning the final drop date and 100% refund. Also concerned about internships and transitions, and co-curricular, post-grad opportunities. Another resolution is focused on how do students manage their debts, retirement; they want transition classes to help them manage their own affairs. Business school is offering courses to help with financial prudency.
c. ASUP
1. Tonight is speech night. Faculty should encourage students to come. It's at 7:30 in the Commons.
2. Elections will be next Tuesday and Wednesday March 26 and 27 and faculty are encouraged to remind students that April 2nd and 3rd will be run-off elections and that's right after we come back from Easter. The more enthusiastic the students are, the better the voting will be.
IX. New Business
a. Proposal from Executive Committee regarding changes to the Senate by-laws.
Proposal suggests changes be made to the current sections of the By Laws to allow for the Committee chairs of Teaching and Scholarship and Curriculum and Academic Regulations to be non-elected senators.
1. The proposal to amend the Senate By-Laws was accepted and will now be submitted to the Board of Regents for approval.
b. Proposal from Committee on Curriculum & Academic Regulations regarding a new Physics track.
Proposal is for a BS in physics with a specific concentration for students who are interested in an education career teaching high school science or physics.
1. This would be a single major rather than the current options of double majors with a minor or a major with two.
2. Proposal has more specific requirements for courses.
3. Students would automatically be eligible for a math minor.
4. A small correction; restrict the statistics option to only statistics rather than switch subjects or probability.
5. The proposal was passed.
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Next meeting April 16th with Senator elections and new members. The Executive Committee will meet April 2 at 4:00.
XI. Adjournment at 5:09.
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Why Art Sucks: 57 Cultures and Nothing On
I HATE ART, I've taken to saying to friends lately, and only half jokingly. I'm not talking about pretentious beret-wearers, or obtuse theory masquerading as art, or even just bad art. I'm talking about art that's had vitality and surprise and play and pleasure sucked out of it, art that's only concerned with its rightness and virtue, art that urgently--desperately, one might say--foists its Message on the audience. I'm talking about a particular, not insignificant share of the art that enjoys recognition by major funders these days, and has found a measure of prominence in local galleries, museums, and performance spaces.
I don't need, for instance, to be told by performers that the message of Diva X, a recent and otherwise quite funny show at Patrick's Cabaret, is "self-love for all that you are... without apology, without qualification." Nor do I want to hear that "Women are strong, spiritual, powerful, and beautiful," as a recent film screened at Walker Art Center's Women in the Director's Chair series proclaimed. Simply reading that a dance piece is about the state of U.S. arts funding is enough to make me stay away, and I can only pity the theater critic for this publication, who, along with the audience, was asked to perform a breast self-exam as the finale of For Our Daughters, a play currently running at Illusion Theater. I read the notes for an installation commissioned by Intermedia Arts and the Jerome Foundation, one that purports to criticize images that are "sexist and stereotypical, portraying white male sexism and racism," and--well, it's beyond commentary.
With creative endeavors such as these coming to the fore over the last few years, I've grown to miss the kind of art that buries secrets or struggles, that gives something up without insisting on what the something is. Yet it seems that works without a blunt agenda--those that are more concerned with narrative or aesthetics--have become an elitist indulgence. In the art world as elsewhere, the multiculturalism that appeared so revolutionary 10 years ago has curdled into a fractious politics of identity, resulting in a new and, for the most part, incredibly banal didacticism: work that "explores" this personal issue or "documents" that social problem, that "provokes" the viewer regarding the artist's identity, or "confronts" the artist's traumas (usually of childhood origins). Art has become burdened with the duties of affirming, establishing, or asserting "identity," with healing or otherwise helping a certain "community," or imparting platitudinal messages of social or political import. It's become a therapeutic forum in which everyone insists on having her say before an audience of witnesses, believers, potential converts, or even penitents.
As art gets parsed into a multitude of niches based on Identity, it follows that the standards for judging such work are lowered, eliminated, or qualified into irrelevance. This is because the foundation of identity art isn't aesthetics, but rather its maker's existence: I am, therefore I make art about it. For example, what is artful about a series of enlarged snapshots of a baby boy? Or, for that matter, home videos that show this kid doted on by his parents, squirming through his first haircut, being taken on what is probably his first Hawaiian vacation? Considering that these pieces were shown in Heterogeneous, a recent exhibit "by Gay/Lesbian/Bisexual/Transgender Artists," you can probably guess: He has two mommies, as the well-known children's book puts it, a fact that apparently makes him an artistic subject unto himself. The same question applies to art that vigorously and overtly espouses an Issue, like the For Our Daughters "play," whose larger share consists of women talking about their experience with breast cancer--on videotape.
When art is so literally about this artist or that political agenda, how can anyone pass critical judgment on it? Some proponents of identity art go so far as to say that traditional conceptions of good and bad art no longer apply; so-called "cross-cultural criticism" is debated, questioning whether a critic has anything useful or valid to say about an artwork unless critic and artist are of the same tribe. I've played variations on this argument in my own head, too. I once felt guilty if I didn't pay my respects to every item at a museum or gallery; after all, didn't each artist deserve attention? I likewise used to wonder how I could admire the work of Pablo Picasso, when I pretty much take historians' word on it that he was a cheerful misogynist. Eventually, juicy biographies notwithstanding, I came to see that it was his art and not his person that mattered.
Now, however, it seems as if the artist's identity is not merely a bit of context, part of art's backdrop; the work demands to be read in terms of its maker. In "What Are Masterpieces," Gertrude Stein argued that great art is mostly "about identity and all it does and in being so it must not have any." In other words, of course an artwork can only be utterly specific--of its time and place, of its maker--but it must also transcend those specifics.
If sexuality, for instance, were as big an issue in Rome in the early 1500s as it is in our culture, the Catholic Church wouldn't have dreamed of commissioning a homosexual to paint the Sistine Chapel; for his part, it's likely that Michelangelo--limited either by his culture or by himself to making "queer" art--wouldn't have been able to conceive of such a project. Similarly, if Toulouse-Lautrec were applying for grants in today's artistic climate, he probably wouldn't win one for his bawdy scenes in Parisian cabarets, but he'd stand a good chance if he claimed to be exploring his oppression as a dwarf. Ditto Lord Byron and his clubfoot. And perhaps Flannery O'Connor would have crafted a series of memoirs about the trials and triumphs of being disabled, instead of sublimating her difference--as a crippled woman, as a devout Catholic in a small Georgia town--into exquisitely hard pieces of fiction. She would have been mindful, and could have reminded her readers in turn, that women are strong, spiritual, powerful, and beautiful.
In a sense, identity-based works do fulfill one role of art: They reflect the larger culture, or more specifically, the larger culture's obsession with the idea that everyone has a story to tell. And in its feel-good democratic approach, identity art refuses to recognize that some stories aren't all that compelling, or that some storytellers are more gifted than others. Thus the proliferation of work in the "personal journey" or "personal documentary" vein--call it My Story About Me--the kind of art that, not incidentally, is easy to do, but hard to do well. A related genre has other people talking about what kind of people they are: At the Women in the Director's Chair series last January, for instance, films were screened in which old women talked about being old women, teenage girls talked about being teenage girls, and lesbians talked about "the formation of their sexual identities." It's the art-world version of reality TV and endless screens of personal Web pages.
Identity art also points to the fact that, even though the Me Decade has long since passed, a certain brand of therapeutic self-absorption never did go out of fashion; instead, it found its way into the studio. One strain of such art is preoccupied with identifying and exploring personal problems--laying blame, making accusations, confronting issues: therapy lingo that translates into art about the fallout from child abuse, from being an adopted Korean, from being a black male. There's art that documents one's oppression (therapeutic buzzword: "silence") or sexuality (therapeutic buzzword: "desire"); art concerned with naming, owning, claiming, and reclaiming one's self; art burbling with I'm Okay/You're Okay affirmations. A dancer "noted for helping artists create a safe environment for groups or individuals to explore issues of import to them" came to town recently to conduct workshops; were these artistic forums, or group therapy happenings? At a confab earlier this month to announce the McKnight Foundation's increase in support for the arts, the numerous "culturally specific" arts organizations that have arisen in the last five to 10 years were described as "safe places" for folks to begin their explorations as artists.
I'd like to think that artists in need of such safety would instead retreat to the privacy of a therapist's office, but it's dismaying how popular their brand of art has become with the funding organizations on whom so many fledgling artists rely. Moreover, what's with this galling kid-glove approach, this presumption that creative people are toddlers in need of coddling, with arts organizations as some kind of daycare center? In my experience, "safety" as regards art is usually a shortcut to self-satisfaction, nothing more than a synonym for mediocrity. Art that flows forth from that kind of place is bound to be as captivating as yellow smiley faces and daily affirmations.
To the contrary, good art is more often a by-product of risk and instability. How else can hard, sometimes ugly questions be asked, truly radical ideas formed, striking visions made manifest? If an artist is feeling strung-out and vulnerable, then more power to her--perhaps she's onto something. Judy Chicago, for instance, in a talk at Walker Art Center a couple weeks ago, made reference to a particular summer as one of the most difficult times of her life. Yet she didn't retreat to some arts organization in search of healing (and maybe a handout); she was too busy embarking on another of her monumental projects.
A steadfast belief in the moral/therapeutic benefits of art is hardly new, but has been around throughout this country's entire history (it was the only way pleasure-hating Puritans and pleasure-suspicious Protestants could justify art). But when that belief intersected with the popularization of therapy in larger society over the past couple of decades, it was perhaps the single worst thing that could have happened to art. I doubt the artists I've known would find the creative process "healing" in any simple sense, but at some point two seriously mistaken notions took root: that personal problems make for good art, and that art can somehow heal those problems. Such ideas are an insult to artists, and to audiences asked to sit in on these dramatized or visualized therapy sessions.
I'd always believed that the best art was all about pushing past boundaries--scrambling them and challenging them, but certainly not celebrating them. Art is, after all, a means of communication, something which often seems to go forgotten in a world preoccupied with "self-expression," and it follows that one mark of great art is its power to remain resonant for all kinds of people, to keep giving up secrets long after its creation.
Yet as people, artists or otherwise, retreat to their niches, ostensibly for comfort and support, it becomes easier to envision a society of boxed-up beings disinclined to communicate with anyone outside. This is why identity art is ultimately such a dead-ended, hermetic genre. Not only do its artists have little to say to those of unlike tribe, but beyond expressing solidarity or affirming common beliefs, how much can identity art say even to those who identify? Take the photographs of transsexuals by Loren Cameron, featured in town at two successive art exhibits earlier this year. These mediocre portraits do assert the existence of transsexuals in the most obvious way--they "put the images out there," as it's often said--though, even with the help of some written testimony from their subjects, they accomplish little if anything more in evoking the incredibly complex experience of a sex change.
In this sense, most identity art is unbearably shallow. It's a badge, really, static and schematic, usually reliant on an exclusive batch of symbols and referents. It's limited in what it communicates, and therefore very easy to read. (Which may be why, as a critic looking at such art, I often feel myself in the position of a child being taught a lesson.) It confirms membership in a club, and because clubs have a stake in maintaining their ranks, it precludes the removal of the badge in order to dig through whatever it is that lies beneath--the stuff that makes up the person, that is, not the "identity."
According to identity-politics dogma, defining and expressing oneself in terms of gender, ethnicity, race, or sexuality is a radical gesture: no more closets, no more shame. But "celebrating difference" sometimes means a short trip to another kind of bondage. As James Baldwin put it in a 1984 interview: "Speaking out of black America, when I had to try to answer that stigma, that species of social curse, it seemed a great mistake to answer in the language of the oppressor. As long as I react as a 'nigger,' as long as I protest my case on evidence or assumptions held by others, I'm simply reinforcing those assumptions. As long as I complain about being oppressed, the oppressor is in consolation of knowing that I know my place, so to speak."
So it's easy enough for artists to remain safe in their ghettos, making work about their oppression or the intricacies of their identities (my mom is a WASP, my dad is a Japanese American, and I myself am involved with a Latina, having come out as a lesbian after confronting some feminist/shame/oppression issues that surfaced when I was working as a stripper...). One will notice that plenty of artists with marginalized backgrounds have achieved success in the larger culture precisely because they have something to say to that culture; identity art, to the extent that it purports to do anything outside its own ghettos, is preoccupied with creating "awareness," to use another genre buzzword. It's an ultimately stultifying goal: Those of like tribe may identify, those of unlike tribe are supposed to sympathize or feel guilty. Viewing a recent local installation titled "i am more than just a postcard," for example, spectators were offered a way to correct their consciousness--which up until then, presumably, didn't include an awareness of contemporary Native women--by purchasing postcards with pictures of these women on them. Beyond getting viewers to nod their heads in agreement or hang them in guilt, what does such art really do--and what of interest does the artist have to say?
Well, art and exhibits based on identity may make reasonably well-educated or open-minded art patrons feel better about themselves. On this level, they constitute a kind of medicine cabinet full of pseudo-therapeutic tonics (women's dance, black male performance art, transgender photography, queer film, Native painting) that salve the conscience of those more progressive members of the "dominant culture." They certainly won't change any mind that's not already open, however: Art may help us to see things in different ways, but if it were capable of creating world peace, it would have done so by now.
If the arts could be said, ideally, to offer a panoramic view of the world and the infinite range of human experience it contains, then the practitioners and proponents of identity art are running in the opposite direction, willfully putting on blinders that limit them to a range of trite and true issues. And those who stray from the path may be accused of betraying their "community," as happened to filmmaker Todd Haynes, who is gay, and who made one of the most devastating and complex movies of 1995, Safe, about a wealthy suburban heterosexual woman. In following its tragically clueless protagonist, the film makes a subtle yet caustic critique of mainstream society and the price one pays for living in it passively. It's a statement that no doubt had its seeds in Haynes's consciousness as a gay man (he calls Jean Genet a major influence), but it was all the more forceful for its adaptation to broader issues and audiences.
Taken to its extreme, this tendency to make art only about what one knows, or who one is, is a denial of imagination itself. Women make art about menstruation, motherhood, rape, or their oppression by men; Native Americans about historic injustice, contemporary prejudice, or spirituality; blacks about race and rage; gays about their sexuality. How could these kinds of limitations fail to encourage the promulgation of clichés, whether they're righteously preached or bathed in feel-good treacle, whether they're "embracing various communities" or "celebrating difference"? Here are some of the eye-opening, mind-bending things I've learned from art in the past few years: Child abuse is horrible; there's funny gender stuff that goes on between men and women; straights get nervous when queers come on to them; Natives are still getting screwed over by the U.S. government; you have to fill out a lot of forms to get an arts grant; the situation in Bosnia is atrocious; conservative, anti-NEA politicians say the darnedest things; guns are phallic symbols; there were gays among ancient China's nobility; censorship is bad; Asian women and Caucasian women have different standards of beauty.
Get it? Got it? Good. Because with most art of this type there's little point in trying for engagement, seeking to find where you stand in relation to it. Usually the artist or the institution has done it for you, with lengthy and prominently placed artist statements, with ever-larger and aptly named didactic labels that hang alongside the art--or sometimes with the text-laden art itself, an artifact that seems to be merely an excuse to append its Message. Some exhibits, moreover, are so aggressively informative they're more like bookmobiles parked inside the art space, such as the Genders that Be show last month at Intermedia Arts, which featured (in addition to a modest amount of art) a whole roomful of books, periodicals, pamphlets, and videos on gender issues.
Whereas much identity-based art addresses the idea of "communities under siege by the dominant culture," I've grown frustrated with an art world under siege by therapists and healers, social workers, community activists, evangelistic educators, political provocateurs, dysfunctional victims, and of course, identity artists. Some of these people call themselves, without irony, "cultural workers" or "cultural activists." They promote gatherings like a recent one that promised to "strip away the mystery and mystique" of art. To me, more surely than any funding cuts, these are signs of a crisis in the arts. Since when must art be stripped of its mystery? Why must art events be illuminated with officially sanctioned discussions, forums, and such--many of them freighted with the air of either a moribund college course ("The PC Dilemma") or a cathartic group hug ("A Discussion About Asian American Sexual Identity")?
Indeed, like outcome-based education, the whole enterprise surrounding this realm of art has a distinctly utilitarian edge to it. As novelist Jonathan Franzen remarked in writing about the state of fiction in this month's Harper's, "It does seem strange that with all the Marxists on college campuses, more is not made of the resemblance that multiculturalism and the new politics of identity bear to corporate specialty-marketing--to the national sales apparatus that can target your tastes by your zip code and supply you with products appropriate to your demographics." From this vantage point, there's a certain late-capitalist logic to the contemporary arts scene, with benevolent bureaucracy overshadowing the product itself as a plethora of niche nonprofits spoonfeed expertly programmed and endlessly explicated artistic endeavors to various "communities." Those Marxists might also reflect on the political economy of arts funding itself: There are decided advantages for the bourgeoisie in "giving voice to" and "empowering" the more marginalized groups with arts grants that promote separatism (and solipsism) in the name of "celebrating difference."
Then again, one could view the arts' obsession with moral uplift as a result of the siege mentality that's taken hold amid chronic NEA battles: If the arts are under attack from the outside world, perhaps they can be "saved" by brandishing some kind of social or educational imperative like a white flag.
Partly this is a sad and ill-fated attempt to make up for a longtime lack of arts education. In fact, the local art scene has come to resemble a giant school: one that serves a largely snow-white realm, and is known for its veneer of therapeutic niceness as well as its ample funding. (In terms of arts grants, the dollars-to-artists ratio here is greater than that of either New York or California.) Arts funders take roll call at the front of one of the classrooms, while a multicultural passel of artists sit at their desks writing out grant proposals. They're the eager students, shooting their hands in the air--"creating awareness," as it were--seeking and accepting acknowledgement from the Dominant Culture, from the Other. Some of these artists receive recognition and rewards for work that would be given an unceremonious "F" in a more competitive atmosphere; here, it seems, most anyone can get an "A" for effort. But no matter. As always, the artists of real interest are those who've left the classroom altogether--those who, to paraphrase critic Dave Hickey, are probably outside smoking behind the bleachers.
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Thompson: Library group demeaned
Published: Sunday, January 26, 2014 at 1:00 a.m.
Last Modified: Friday, January 24, 2014 at 6:55 p.m.
The Herald-Tribune's executive editor, Bill Church, took some very unfair pot shots at the Ringling College Library Association in his Jan. 19 column. Although RCLA is a separate entity from Ringling College of Art and Design, as president of Ringling College I feel compelled to defend this organization and its outstanding leadership because of what it has done for this community and Ringling College over its 35-year history.
Here are some facts: During the past 33 years, RCLA has presented the Town Hall Series which has brought 157 speakers to Sarasota -- two Nobel Prize winners, 11 Pulitzer Prize winners, multiple Rhodes Scholars, MacArthur Genius Fellows, heads of state (including two former presidents), royalty and numerous other world-renowned thought leaders. This distinguished, diverse group of speakers reached over 300,000 audience members.
Most impressive, RCLA has raised over $8 million donated to support the Verman Kimbrough Library on the campus of Ringling College and hundreds of thousands of dollars in student scholarships.
Bringing these distinguished speakers to Sarasota is a very difficult and sometimes delicate task. Each speaker has his or her own requirements and appetite for media coverage.
Most welcome the press and, thus, RCLA organizes press conferences and provides complimentary lecture seats for reporters so that the substance of the talk can be disseminated to the community at large.
Others, like former President George W. Bush, place more severe restrictions and request limited media exposure. What is important is that the speakers come to Sarasota and provide insight to the Town Hall Series audience.
For Mr. Church to refer to the RCLA members who volunteer hours and hours of their time to organize and execute this speaker series by calling them "Library Ringlets" is demeaning and does a disservice to this outstanding organization that contributes so much to the cultural and intellectual fabric of our community. It is disrespectful and, since most of the board and membership are female, that label could be interpreted as a bit sexist.
Certainly it is not something I would expect of the executive editor of a newspaper that has a reputation for integrity, fair-mindedness and the values of civility.
Larry R. Thompson is president of the Ringling College of Art and Design in Sarasota.
This story appeared in print on page A21
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Squeezing through a small crack in the wooden fence, you limped onto another's backyard. The grass was cool and damp underneath your paws with the morning's dew and the sun had yet to raise completely over the forestry.
Glancing around the person's backyard, you hoped to find no signs of dogs or abusive persons living in this house. As you continued your short trek, you found yourself climbing up wooden stairs on a deck, laying down as the fresh rays of the sun hitting your mangy (h/c) fur.
Hopefully, you had found a good spot to not be seen, just somewhere where you could lay down and sleep in the hopes of keeping safe. Usually the bigger animals couldn't get to the backs of person's homes.
Only now did your stomach knot in unbearable hunger and your body simply welcoming the sleep you so desperately needed. You hadn't gotten sleep for a couple of days, worried about bigger animals killing you.
The back door of the person's home opened up, fear clenching your worn body as you stood back up. What if it was a dog? Shooting from your hiding spot, you tried to get out of wherever you were quickly, only to stumble into a body of water.
Surely that was it for you. You tried to stay afloat, crying out in need for help as you began to go under. In your mind, you thought you heard someone else coming in nearby. The last thing you remember before blacking out was something grabbing the scruff of your neck.
You felt the water from your lungs come up, causing you to cough it out and sputter. Right now, you were laying on warm concrete, your head against the ground and four bigger figures over you, two cats and two kittens.
The smaller cat, a presumable tom came up closer to you, nudging your limp form,"Hey...are you alright there love...?" You lifted your head off the ground, only to have it fall to the ground again, your body too weakened. "Francecat, we need to take her in..."
The other tom, a long-haired cat with fur of white and blue eyes stepped towards you. "I really hope our persons don't mind...come 'ere mon petite." His teeth bit into the scruff of your neck, lifting you up off the ground and carrying your small, shaken form. Every now and then, you'd let out a little cough.
As you were carried, the two older kittens looked towards you with confused eyes. They looked rather similar to one another except the scruff of one's puffy neck was darker than the other.
You turned your head towards the other tom, his green eyes filled with worry. As soon as you were brought back to the door, the tom began scratching at it until a person appeared.
The person had stunning blue eyes and longish blond hair on his head. His expression was awfully tired until you were lifted into view whereas it changed to shock.
He reached down, taking you from the tom's mouth and holding you very close to him. This person carried you inside, going through the house and grabbing a piece of cloth which he wrapped you up in.
You were laid down on the person's couch with the cloth around you as he ran off once more, calling for someone else. The two toms approached you, jumping beside you on the couch. Only now did you notice the green-eyed tom's fur was drenched like yours.
He laid down beside you, licking your fur dry as the other came up in front of you and copying. He was the first one to start interrogating you,"Mon petite...what were you doing all by yourself...? You could 'ave died..."
When he said this, you felt the weight of exhaustion, hunger, pain...everything, just collapse on you. Before you knew it, your head was lowered and you were crying into his fur. He licked your back, coaxing some of the leftover water in your lungs out. "Look at what you did you git...the poor thing..."
You curled up beside the multicolored tom, allowing yourself to rest a bit as you tried to calm down. "It's okay love...whenever you want to speak...just tell us..."
"F-Food..." You meowed painfully. "I-I need food..."
The tom curled around took the scruff of your neck, carrying to a bowl filled with food. He had to keep close to you, your body falling to the side in exhaustion as you ate. The person came back, another blond person in tow, only with messy, short hair and emerald eyes. Both persons watched you carefully finishing your food before the tom carried you back to the cloth.
The emerald-eyed person walked off as the blue-eyed one dried you off under the toms' watchful eyes. When the other person returned, he copied the blue-eyed one's actions. "So can you tell us what happened love...?"
"I-I ran away...m-my brothers and sisters...t-they all got sold and m-my momma..." Again, you felt your heart well up in sadness,"My momma left a-a'kuz she hated our persons..."
The white tom nuzzled your cheek softly,"It's okay mon petite...we'll take care of you..." Again, he began cleaning off your fur while his assumed person did so. You rested your head, shutting your (e/c) eyes, feeling safe for the first time since you left that home.
After what felt like a minute, you were being awoken by the green-eyed tom again,"We're just going to move you to the other room with us...don't worry love."
You felt your body lift off the soft surface once more as you were carried away. A few moments passed before you were laid down once more, curled up beside another larger form while two others snuggled beside you. "Are you comfy...?"
Opening your (e/c) eyes lazily, you saw the two kittens looking towards you, the violet-eyed one piping up again,"I-If you want...w-we can move..."
"I-I'm okay..." You squeaked, still intimidated by the bigger cats surrounding you. Resting your head, you quickly fell into a comforting sleep, food finally in your stomach and your eyes able to safely shut.
By the time you awoke hours later, the sun was high in the sky and the fluffy white tom was awake beside you. "'ow did you sleep my little petite?"
You nestled closer to him, relaxing once more,"I wanna sleep..."
He purred in delight before you were jostled up from your seat. "You can sleep in a bit...how about we all introduce ourselves ___________...?"
"_-___________?" You squeaked out in confusion.
The tom licked your ear softly and helped you to your own two feet only for you to fall under the weight of them. They felt as if they were being tied down with cinder blocks. "Zat's ze name you were given. Do you not like it...?"
You laid your head down again,"I-I like it..."
"Did you wake her up you git?" Looking up, you saw the other tom padding in, the two other kittens running in from behind. "She needs to rest...she's still very weak right now. ___________, just go back to sleep..."
You watched as the two toms argued back and forth over who was to watch you. "Well my fur is ze most comfortable...stubby-haired Brit!"
"At least I'll let the poor kit sleep! You were thinking of dragging her out of bed you git! She's hurt and weak!"
"But wis you, she 'as to worry about being charmed by your person!"
You relaxed yourself as they argued on by themselves, falling asleep once again. Right as you were falling asleep, you felt a rough lick on your cheek,"Just a few minutes...then you can sleep dudette." The blue-eyed kit mustered.
Both kittens sat in front of you,"I'm Amerikit and this is my bro, Canadakit." He continued before pointing at the two cats who were still quarreling,"The fluffy white one is Francecat and the stupid British one is Iggycat."
"Amerikit..." Canadakit silently complained,"That wasn't really nice...Iggycat took us in as his own..."
Both brothers noticed your confusion and quickly jumped on the chance to explain. "Well you see, me and Canadakit were abandoned by our mother when we were really little...like a little littler than you are now. Both of 'em found us and took us in."
"So...does that mean I get to stay too...?"
"O-Of course..." Canadakit interjected. "I-I do think our p-persons could kick you out...they seem to like you already...
Letting out a yawn, you lay down once more as the two kittens snuggled up beside you. "They'll stop fighting in a little bit. They always do this...but for now, you need to rest up. The hero'll watch over you."
Both kittens laid their fluffy tails over your form as you fell back into sleep willingly, knowing that you'd have a nice home to wake up to and a new family to care for you.
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©2012-2016 mikmik121
This fic + Christina Perri 'A Thousand Years' = tears of adorableness.
These cats shall surrender to Fluffy! (just kidding its a joke between a few friends)
So fluffy! (Pun...Not intended?
WWARNING! Carry on reading! Or you will die, even if you only looked at the word warning! Once there was a little girl called Clarissa, she was ten-years-old and she lived in a mental hospital, because she killed her mom and her dad. She got so bad she went to kill all the staff in the hospital so the More-government decided that best idea was to get rid of her so they set up a special room to kill her, as humane as possible but it went wrong the machine they were using went wrong. And she sat there in agony for hours until she died. Now every week on the day of her death she returns to the person that reads this letter, on a Monday night at 12:00 a.m. She creeps into your room and kills you slowly, by cutting you and watching you bleed to death. Now send this to ten other pictures on this one site, and she will haunt someone else who doesn't. This isn't fake. apparently, if you copy and paste this to ten comments in the next ten minutes you will have the best day of your life tomorrow.You will either get kis
AAAWWWWWWWWW~♡ This is soo kawaii
This was so cute!! please do more!!!!
And also knowing more french i am sorry but i am deeply confused by what was said
Mon petite is My Small............
how? *dies of confusion*
Mon petite is My Small............
how? *dies of confusion*
*dies from kawaiiness*
takes out a defibulator and rubs the paddles together "CLEAR!!" shocks you until your heart restarts
Make a series....its so darn Kawaii! I also named my cat after my Oc named Mercedes A.K.A Antartica
KAWAIIII!!!! SO CUTE YOU SHOULD DEFINITELY MAKE SERIES!please!
Wait A Sec "-helped you to your own two feet" Cats Have 4 Feet Not 2 ._. But Either Way... GREAT JOB!
Aww! Cute!
OMFG HOLY! THAT HAS MADE MY DAY! XD LOOK AT Finland and Canada! What da Tutziroll they doing?!~Cx
Sweden's HAS to be my favorite XDDDDD
Day Norway do
Those are soooo weird and creep
Its really cute dont give up plzzz do it for the kittens
I love how they call people, 'persons'
Overload of cuteness!!!!! If that was really me i would have been like,"Pssh, I am not sick! Fear my fluffy cuteness!"
Daaaaw so cute
Oh my Holy Roman Empire! Dat was cute please tell me there's more, I need more.


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Apple selling 8GB memory upgrade kits for 15" MacBook Pros [u]It will cost you an arm and a leg, but Apple is now offering an official 8GB memory upgrade kit for the mid- and high-end models of its current 15-inch unbibody MacBook Pro family, AppleInsider has discovered.
The kit containing a pair of 4GB 1066MHz DDR3 SO-DIMMs is available immediately for a whopping $1200, or nearly the price of the company's entry-level 13-inch unibody MacBook.
According to a page on the company's online store, the upgrades are available only for the 2.66GHz 15-inch MacBook Pro (link) and 2.93GHz 15-inch MacBook Pro (link), but not the 2.4GHz model.
It's unclear whether the memory modules are compatible with the 2.53GHz 15-inch MacBook Pro, which was introduced in October and replaced this month by the 2.66GHz model.
The upgrade kit doubles the maximum amount of memory supported by the 15-inch MacBook Pro, bringing it up to spec with its 17-inch cousin.
Its addition to the Apple online store appears to be fairly recently, as the technical specifications printed on the product page for the 15-inch MacBook Pro still indicate that the 2.66GHz MacBook Pro "supports up to 4GB" of DDR3 SDRAM.
Update: AppleInsider reader Stu just spoke with an Apple store support representative online who claims the 8GB upgrade kit is indeed compatible with the 2.53GHz 15-inch MacBook Pro. A copy of the chat transcript follows:
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- Rumor: Apple to adopt USB Type-C in another upcoming MacBook, whether it's Pro or Air
- Apple pulls legacy non-Retina MacBook Pro from retail store displays
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text: XVII An Adventure in Heavy Offense (And Rev) Introduction: This team started out with a very simple premise. Much of the CAP metagame these days is marked by balanced teams, setting up entry hazards and preparing for an eventual sweep by something big, like LOSoil, Metagross, or others. Furthermore, CAP Stall exists and is in full swing, especially with secondary-stopping support in the form of Rebound Colossoil. I wanted to take all of this out of the equation and try something I've never done before - make a team that's all about kicking the shit out of everything and anything as soon as it pops up. For this reason, you'll notice this team is marked by its Life Orbs, its type-coverage, its raw power, and its ability to be very, very hard to switch into. The team has been incredibly successful in my time using it, getting an alt to #1 on the leaderboard and hitting a CRE of 1763. Anyways, without further ado, welcome to XVII. CAP Ladder (Move your mouse to reveal the content) CAP Ladder (open) CAP Ladder (close) At a Glance: As an offensive team, the most important thing is entry hazards at the get-go. I've been playing a lot and noticing just how important things like Spikes are in this metagame to make switches that much harder for the opponent. Because of this, I made a very hard decision in skipping Stealth Rock entirely and focusing on Spikes as my primary mode of entry hazards. This originally made me think that I'd be left open to endless switch-ins by Pokemon like Salamence, but with Stratagem, Kitsunoh, and even Gyarados, they just can't keep coming in forever. About the only truly safe switch-in for Salamence is Revenankh, and if he's got a Bulk Up or two under his belt he can safely wall Mence to kingdom come. (Assuming no crits) One other advantage to this offensive team is the presence of two Ghost-types that can function as midgame spinblockers as needed. A spin is generally very predictable, and at least one of my ghosts can take on any of the spinners in the metagame. At worst, I have to pivot around my spinblockers to something that can threaten the spinner immediately. Between Colossoil and Kitsunoh, virtually no spinner escapes alive. Individually: I (Syclant) (F) @ Focus Sash Ability: Compoundeyes EVs: 252 Atk / 4 Def / 252 Spe Jolly nature (+Spe, -SAtk) Spikes Taunt Ice Shard Megahorn Syclant starts the game off with the speed and momentum the team needs. He can perform a myriad of tasks, all resulting in the enemy's lead falling short of its goals - hopefully. Generally speaking, he gets down 2 layers of spikes without a problem and, if I'm particularly good at predicting my opponent, possibly kill something. His Spikes make the sweeps from later Pokemon in my team possible and discourage the opponent from switching out of my sweepers once they're in. This is a list of the most common CAP leads and my response to each. Aerodactyl: Usually leads with Taunt, so I will Ice Shard for the 2HKO. Either it gets up SR or it prevents me from getting up Spikes. In the rare chance it attacks, I survive with Sash and 2HKO no problem. Azelf: Megahorn followed by Ice Shard kills it. Generally, as its slower, I will Taunt to keep it from doing the same to me. If I mispredict, however, it can 2HKO me when I Taunt it. TrickScarf variants are annoying, but if I Megahorn I OHKO them on the spot as they give me their Scarf. If they U-turn, I might be in trouble depending on the switch-in. Empoleon: Empoleon is a worse Metagross against this Syclant. I will Spikes until I die, which might even let me get 3 layers if Hydro Pump misses. If he goes for the Stealth Rock, I get at least 2 layers. <N/A> Fidgit: Taunt it, hoping to block SR or something like that. If it attacks with Earth Power, you resist and can still set up a few layers before it takes you down. Jirachi: Switch out immediately to Gyarados or Kitsunoh, expecting the Iron Head. Kitsunoh has the advantage of also beating Thunder Wave lead variants, but it doesn't like those that lead with Fire Punch. <N/A> Kitsunoh: If it's a lead, it's using a Scarf. Spikes in its face and get up a few layers before getting taken down (depending on if it U-turns out or just attacks). If it attacks, after getting a single layer, I might switch out and try to get another layer later on. Metagross: An extremely dangerous lead that Syclant has lots of trouble with. If I Taunt first turn and he attacks, I get no layers up because of Bullet Punch. If I set up a layer, though, and he SRs on the first turn, then I get lots of layers but he also gets his up. He's probably going to go for the attack, though, so I set up a layer on the spot and then Taunt in case he tries to SR. Pyroak: Megahorn 2HKOs some variants, but fails against ones with heavy defensive investment like the standard LeadOak. If it hits you with Sleep Powder it's going to force you out. Stratagem obliterates it, though. Gyarados can also set up on it once Syclant takes the sleep. Generally its best to Taunt turn 1 and then set up a single layer of spikes as it kills you. That way it fails at SR, Sleeping a team member, and Strata can OHKO it with AncientPower. Skarmory: Taunt and set up on it. If it's Scarf'd, it gets up one layer before I can Taunt it. That's the best can be done. Hopefully it won't try to Brave Bird me on the spot, though, since that generally prevents me from getting any layers up if I Taunt and it's Scarf'd. Fortunately, lots of stuff can set up on it in my team either way. Starmie: Megahorn OHKOs all variants and you outspeed it unless it's got a Scarf. TrickScarf can be annoying if it sends its Scarf to you as you Megahorn it, although it makes you obscenely fast for setting up Spikes later on. <N/A> Stratagem: Megahorn immediately and then Ice Shard to finish it off. It only beats you if it's carrying Vacuum Wave in the lead slot, which is incredibly rare. This usually leaves Syclant too weak to really set much up besides a single layer of Spikes if it attacked, but if it used SR I can get more. Swampert: Syclant can't 2HKO it, but he can Taunt it and get up 2 layers of Spikes before going down. Resisting both Ice Beam and Earthquake make this an easy set up by suiciding Syclant. Syclant: Taunt it on the speed tie and hope to win. If you lose the speed tie, switch to Stratagem and AncientPower + Vacuum Wave it to end it. Gyarados can also set up on it no problem. II (Gyarados) (M) @ Life Orb Ability: Intimidate EVs: 252 Atk / 4 Def / 252 Spe Jolly nature (+Spe, -SAtk) Dragon Dance Earthquake / Bounce Waterfall Stone Edge Gyarados' role on the team is very straight-forward. It checks a few threats and then goes on a rampage to kill as much as it can before getting taken down. It will generally take a few key threats down before being brought down itself, paving the way for Stratagem, Colossoil, or Revenankh to clean up. It is perhaps the most important reason for me to try to keep SR off the field with Syclant, as once it's down it limits Gyarados' usability tremendously. Bounce is used to beat those pesky Arghonaut. Waterfall is obvious STAB, and DD is there to set up and maul unprepared teams with the switches Gyarados can force. Stone Edge is specifically chosen over Earthquake to OHKO opposing Salamence and Gyarados who might cause massive trouble to my team otherwise. I like having as much insurance against those big guys as possible, since they're so common. Stone Edge also scares off Pyroak. Bounce used to be the primary option over Earthquake, but with the rise in SubPunch Arghonaut and SubSeed Pyroak, Bounce on Gyarados becomes setup bait. For this reason, Earthquake is chosen to hit a bunch of things, like Kitsunoh, extremely hard. Gyarados' rampage is usually early in the game, as he both handles the leads that Syclant has trouble with and keeps up with the pace of killing things as fast as possible. III (Stratagem) @ Life Orb Ability: Technician EVs: 4 HP / 252 Spe / 252 SAtk Timid nature (+Spe, -Atk) Ancientpower Giga Drain Vacuum Wave Flamethrower This is perhaps the most forgotten and underrated set Stratagem can run. The analysis suggests to run Calm Mind for when it forces a switch, but to hell with that; the goal here is to kill everything. The 4th slot being open paves the way for Stratagem to use its excellent, Technician-boosted priority move, Vacuum Wave. Because Stratagem is coming in after something dies usually and almost never switches in, Technician is the ability of choice and Ancientpower, Giga Drain, and Vacuum Wave are chosen to go with it. Technician Vacuum Wave will also surprise Colossoil who think they can catch you with Sucker Punch. Giga Drain OHKOs 100% Swampert 100% of the time, Flamethrower is chosen to destroy things like Skarmory, Bronzong, Jirachi, and Metagross. You'll notice that I lack Earth Power on this set, which leaves Ancientpower as my best option against Heatran. This is okay, though, since with Spikes support it still OHKOs. Also, God help the enemy's team if their Revenankh/Blissey is dead and you pick up an Ancientpower boost. This Stratagem typically functions as my cleanup crew and midgame sweeper. Little can stop him outside of my mispredicting against something, Blissey, and Revenankh, and I've got the tools to crack those two wide open with my last few Pokemon. IV (Colossoil) (M) @ Life Orb Ability: Guts EVs: 252 Atk / 4 Def / 252 Spe Adamant nature (+Atk, -SAtk) Earthquake Sucker Punch Pursuit Selfdestruct Standard LOColossoil. It's standard because it's monstrous, netting at least two kills a game when played right. The combination of Sucker Punch and Pursuit break down things like Starmie and Latias if it can get in. It also provides an excellent pivot for Gyarados if something threatens an Electric-type attack. They're basically toast if they're choiced on that Electric-attack and have to switch out in the face of STAB Pursuit. Earthquake is excellent here to deal with Heatran and a myriad of other things, as well as solidly 2HKOing every Blissey out there. Speaking of Blissey, you've really got to scout for CounterBliss first before going for the kill with EQ. Selfdestruct gives you the edge if you have to explode on Blissey and it is trying to catch you with Counter. It's definitely worth it losing Colossoil to take down Blissey. Furthermore, if Guts boosted, Selfdestruct even OHKOs some Skarmory if it comes to that. He tends to rip the midgame wide open, as almost nothing can switch in safely against it. Since Salamence loves to switch in and try to set up on Colossoil, it's excellent to note that even a -1 Selfdestruct will end offensive Salamence - even without SR on the field. (God I love you, Colossoil) V (Revenankh) (F) @ Leftovers Ability: Shed Skin EVs: 252 HP / 4 Def / 252 SDef Careful nature (+SDef, -SAtk) Bulk Up Shadow Sneak Hammer Arm Rest Fine, so I have one mostly defensive Pokemon on my team! Revenankh is the only defensive pivot on the entire team. He is a monster of a special wall and is EV'd to maximize that potential no matter what. Because Bulk Up will pump his defense anyways and he gets lots of opportunities to set it up, only 4 EVs are placed in defense. Shadow Sneak and Hammer Arm are chosen for a mix of priority and high damage after a few Bulk Ups. Revenankh serves an important purpose on my team, giving me a 100% reliable switch-in to opposing special attacking monsters and immediately scaring them away to give me free switch-ins. Double switching with Revenankh is a popular strategy for me, especially against those nasty Rapid Spinners that try to get rid of my Spikes. Revenankh also doubles as a destructive war machine in the later stages of the match if it can pick up 3-6 Bulk Ups, as then basically nothing can kill it without a critical hit or a STAB super effective special attack. Revenankh also plays an important role in beating some members of stall that survive Gyarados, Stratagem, and Colossoil rampages. Blissey will not want to stay in against this Revenankh at all. As you might have noticed, Stall in general is a pain to much of my team. With proper switching and some entry hazards of their own, they can whittle me down rapidly and force me to die a miserable death. Arghonaut, Blissey, and Skarmory in particular are nasty Pokemon to have to deal with. All of this ties into the last member of my team, who singlehandedly gives every single one of them something to worry about. VI (Kitsunoh) (M) @ Leftovers Ability: Limber EVs: 12 HP / 244 Atk / 252 Spe Jolly nature (+Spe, -SAtk) ShadowStrike Taunt Will-O-Wisp Superpower The Stallbreaker Kitsunoh in all of its glory returns to put stall in its place once more. A fast Taunt combined with burn support and an excellent defense-reducing STAB make this thing devastating to all forms of stall. Superpower is chosen over Earthquake for this set to actually hit Skarmory hard and to be able to murder Colossoil that are at just under 75% life. It also gives Kitsunoh an excellent option to bring down Blissey in one hit when the chance presents itself. Basically, stall has no chance at accomplishing its goals until this thing dies, so keeping it alive is incredibly important. With my spikes down, there's little even Colossoil and Fidgit spinners can do to beat me if they have to switch in a few times. With Revenankh in the wings, I have a defensive pivot I can use against Colossoil that carry Rapid Spin, since Hammer Arm will put it in its place. Kitsunoh finally functions as my primary mode of beating Bulk Up Revenankh, who can threaten any unprepared team with its immense power and resilience. Final Glance: I had one main thing I wanted to test about the metagame when I started the process of building and playing this team. Is heavy offense effective in a metagame riddled with balanced teams and where CAP stall is doing great? As can likely be seen from the success of this team, I learned the answer to that question handily. Heavy offense is obscenely effective, especially with the monster that is Colossoil running amok. Backed by perhaps the best stallbreaker to have ever graced the OU tier in Kitsunoh and Stratagem to take advantage of the holes made, not a lot can stand in the way of a good player making good predictions with a team like this - especially not CAP stall. 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Prep 20 mins
Cook 40 mins
This is a very old recipe. I've read that butter rolls may have originally come about as a way for Southern cooks to use up biscuit dough scraps. Whatever the history behind this old-timey treat, it's one of my favorite comfort foods. Try adding finely chopped apple to the filling.
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- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1⁄2 teaspoon salt
- 1 cup shortening
- 1⁄2 cup water
- 1⁄2 cup butter, softened (can use less)
- 1⁄4 cup sugar
- 1⁄2 teaspoon nutmeg
- 2 cups milk
- 2⁄3 cup sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- Preheat oven to 350. Grease a large baking dish; set aside.
- In a large bowl, combine flour and salt. Cut shortening in until mixture looks like course crumbs. Add water, and stir just until combined. Use your hands to press dough together until it forms a ball.
- Turn out onto a floured surface, and roll dough out into a large rectangle. The dough should be rolled fairly thinly, like you would dough for cinnamon rolls. Spread butter evenly over the top, then sprinkle with 1/4 cup sugar and nutmeg. Roll up tightly, and pinch ends to seal. Cut into 12 equal slices. Place cut side down in baking dish.
- In a saucepan, heat 2/3 cup sugar, milk, and vanilla until bubbles form. Remove from heat, and pour over top of rolls. Bake 30-40 minutes.
- *Note: These rolls can also be made without the milk sauce if you'd like, with a little milk or cream being poured over individual servings instead.
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this is a kid pleaser. I barely got becauses DD and her friends wouldnt stay out of it. I considered this dish a "healthy" cinnimon roll. Yum. Made for PAC Fall 2009. Thanks for sharing cat Berner.
I originally researched butter rolls to make for my fiance who loves butter rolls and since his grandmother had passed four years ago, he didn't have no one to make them for him. I tried the recipe with all butter, then made my own recipe and finally tried your recipe today and this is the best yet. My fiance said that they taste just like his grandmother's and even closed his eyes to enjoy the rolls. Thank you for sharing your recipe


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