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5 Things You Can Learn about India from Their Action Movies
Enthiran thinks "context" is some sort of intraprison messaging service. Whereas Bollywood movies will often segue into relevant musical numbers, Enthiran will slam on the brakes to make you watch random music videos at the drop of a Haatim (that's the mustachioed fellow who just got booted through the cinder block wall behind you). For example, what happened after our heroes escaped the attempted rape by Indian Lennie Small back there? I mean right after -- what was the very next frame that followed that scene? Why, this right here, of course:
"Wait ... no, we were on a rural Indian back road and you -- this isn't even fucking Africa! WHAT HATH SCIENCE WROUGHT?!"
The movie cuts away, mid-manic-PTSD laughter, to a musical number about the highest mountain in Africa and how it's crazy that this chick is totally the same thing as fruit. Because Enthiran has absolutely no borders. It's not even firmly situated in any one genre, but rather rapidly oscillates from Short Circuit to Fist of the North Star to the video from Hall and Oates' Maneater.
I literally could not tell you which is which. I think I may be white-blazer-blind.
Early on in the film, the affable robot, Chitti, embarks on a wacky, cartoonish task to capture a mosquito, which he accomplishes -- obviously -- by speaking Mosquito to it:
Now here he is starring in a cutesy music video about innocent love with a cast of dancing Cylons.
Now here he is popping a man's head like a blood pimple.
Roughly 90 percent of this movie is written and performed solely for young children who love sci-fi/fantasy, and the other 10 percent is random sex crimes and gruesome murder. It's like if Labyrinth played out exactly the same for the first 70 minutes, but then when Jennifer Connelly reaches the Goblin City, David Bowie hangs Hoggle with his own intestines while the puppets take turns sodomizing Ludo.
If I'm to conclude something about Indian society from the contextual void that is Enthiran, it is that one thing does not follow another in any semblance of logical order there, and that life in Tamil is something between an Alzheimer's ward and an old Doctor Who episode. But, you know, with bitchin' little mustaches drawn over everything.
#1. There Are No Rules
Yes, he is surfing that man down the highway. Why ever do you ask?
The madness of Enthiran is a slowly building thing: Sure, it starts off a little strange and inexplicable, but there are parts -- particularly the fight scenes -- where you really start to see the advantage of chucking the entire rulebook out the window and embracing the ridiculous. Particularly this scene on the train:
That was just straight up bad in the general ass area. By shunning such archaic constraints as "reality" and "coherence," the fight choreographers were free to reenact whatever bizarre impulse popped into their heads, and the end result is fantastic: It's like the collaborative work of Bruce Lee, Stan Lee and a 5-year-old with a mismatched set of action figures. Chitti first engages in a painstakingly arranged kung fu battle, then he gets flung from the car, so he sprouts Rollerblades out of nowhere, activates his magnetic boots and sprints sideways along the entire length of a passenger train all the while hurdling other, oncoming trains, then resumes the battle suspended from the commuter handholds like a tubby Indian Spider-Man.
It's storytelling brilliant enough to provoke Shakespeare into shame-suicide, clearly. But this scene isn't the climax of the film; it's barely the start. It occurs roughly 45 minutes in. Jesus Christ, when you've set the bar that high, where do you go from there?
And the answer, of course, is "totally insane."
Apropos of nothing, Chitti turns evil halfway through the movie and starts reproducing himself. And every fight scene from that point forward features a clone army of slightly overweight Indian dudes. Picture the infamous "thousand Agent Smiths" scene from The Matrix, only mentally replace all of the Smiths with a set of tinker toys shaped like Bizarro Neil Diamonds.
Hey, don't take my word for it. Here's a bloated, middle-aged clone battle sphere:
Here they are in deadly tube form:
Here's a gargantuan cobra -- its very cell structure comprised of leather-clad fat guys -- eating a helicopter:
Now here are the Chitti clones bolting together, Voltron-style -- each limb a thousand jiggly Indian dudes; each joint lubricated by butter and hair wax -- into a giant recreation of my own fever nightmares after dosing up on cough syrup and falling asleep to a city council meeting on public access. In case the following picture is unclear, this is a giant robot made out of 200 tubby Indian men giving a thumbs-up with his thumb, which is also a tubby Indian man who himself is giving a thumbs-up.
You have now seen everything. Die in peace.
In short, this movie is the best thing that I, or anybody else, has or indeed ever will see in the aggregate of human history. And if this masterwork is at all reflective of the society that produced it, then I am forced to conclude that India is a terrifying, time-skipping, physics-defying amoral chaos dimension.
Which ... sounds pretty much right, actually.
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Privacy advocates are outraged as the
scanners show basically a nude image of the passenger -- with
genitals and breasts blurred by software (though the raw image is
fully nude). However, there may be a far greater problem with
the scanners. According to British government officials -- they
don't work.
The British Department for Transport (DfT) and
the Home Office tested the new 3D scanners thoroughly and found that
while they were relatively accurate in catching high-density
materials that pat-downs missed (such as knives, box-cutters, or
other problem items), they failed to detect most low-density items,
including bags of liquid.
The Christmas Day bomber used a 3
oz. package of the chemical powder PETN (pentaerythritol
tetranitrate), disguised in his crotch. Hard to detect in a pat
down, British politicians familiar with the country's internal
research say that "millimeter-wave" scanners would also
likely fail to spot the bag of low-density chemical
According to Ben Wallace, the UK Conservative MP,
tests showed that the new scanners failed to detect a variety of
low-density materials, including, plastic, chemicals and liquids.
The waves pass through these materials, hitting the body and then
bouncing back, revealing only the underlying skin.
Like the
U.S., the UK is now considering adopting the scanners on a broad
basis. However, emerging evidence from government studies on
the scanners indicates that the rollout may be nothing more than a
pricey game of "security theater" designed to make people
feel safe, while doing little in reality. This is significant,
considering the investment may amount to hundreds of millions, if not
billions of dollars, an expense that will surely be passed on to
Mr. Wallace comments, "[UK Prime Minister]
Gordon Brown is grasping at headlines if he thinks buying a couple of
scanners will make us safer. It is too little, too late. Under his
leadership, he starved the defence research budget that could have
funded a comprehensive solution while at the same time he has
weakened our border security. Scanners cannot provide a
comprehensive solution on their own. We must now start to ask if
national security demands the use of profiling."
Wallace is among the politicians in the U.S., UK, and abroad that's
suggesting some sort of profiling system as an alternative to more
effectively increase security. Such a system might involve
additional searches of foreign nationals, particularly from volatile
regions like the Middle East and Africa, while potentially lightening
the searches on certain groups, like the elderly.
quote: First off, assuming you find nice white European women willing to BLOW THEMSELVES UP for a cause that's not even their own
quote: Ok fine. Whatever guys lol. Good luck finding all those non Muslim terrorists just itching to be suicide bombers
quote: All they want is self determination and for others to leave their lands. I'm sorry but I don't see what is so hard about that.
quote: One commits suicide to gain self determination? I have trouble accepting that as a profitable endeavor.
quote: Especially when those who are trying to being kept out of "their lands" isn't there to begin with.
quote: In reality the MIC(Military Industrial Complex) is just using Islamic Extremist and Al Qaeda as their new Fear mongering campaign, similar to Communism, which was the big fear mongering tool they used for the last Century to get us involved in pointless wars costing billions of dollars and millions of lives.
quote: I was wondering when the cookoo conspiracy theory would come out of your mouth. I'm surprised you didn't throw in the "war for oil" while you were at it.
quote: Last year I read overseas news(the media that has not be controlled by Jewish/US/UK/whatever western of course), there were over 600K civilians killed in Iraq ALONE.
quote: The problem here is not catching the terrorists it's really determining why they keep attacking us.
quote: All these terrorists that are created want the same thing for Western and European powers to leave them alone. Whether your and IRA, Al Qaeda, or Hamas. All they want is self determination and for others to leave their lands. I'm sorry but I don't see what is so hard about that.
quote: You mean like Timothy James McVeigh
quote: You don't think people have tried to reason with them ? They are freaking savages, end of story. There is no point in trying to determine why they do what they do.
quote: That is absurd. They want a world wide Muslim state, convert or die. You might want to actually pay attention to what they believe and you might understand their motivations.
quote: One guy, and he isn't even a suicide bomber. Nice try, you failed.
quote: The simple fact that you devalue almost an entire continent of people as savages just amazes me.
quote: Muslims and all middle eastern people are NOT suicide bombers, extreemist, or anything of the like.
quote: If it wasn't for the US and it's allies, all the Jews in the middle east would be dead or displaced.
quote: He's trying to establish a rational and logical cause!=effect pattern of behavior to people who blow themselves and innocent people up. Insanity.
quote: lol, and they say I'm racists on here...
quote: They've had their country to run on their own, but they then also attacked other countries that then came to us for help.
quote: Fact is these extremists don't want to play nice with our allies.
quote: How many Israeli planes have had passengers on a flying plane attempt terrorism lately?
quote: The problem with that is we know why but our governments wont stop causing it. All these terrorists that are created want the same thing for Western and European powers to leave them alone. Whether your and IRA, Al Qaeda, or Hamas. All they want is self determination and for others to leave their lands. I'm sorry but I don't see what is so hard about that.

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Research & Development
Faster, thinner, more powerful – tailored solutions for customers are the basis for our long-term success. In order to remain successful and continue to grow in the progress- and innovation-driven semiconductor market and related markets, we expanded our research and development activities in the past fiscal year. All product lines benefited from our increased development activities and intensive cooperation with leading research facilities and universities.
Eight new products were introduced in the Lithography division to expand the manual tools product portfolio.
With SELECT, SUSS MicroTec has introduced an innovative emerging technology which expands the application spectrum of the MA8/BA8 Gen3 Mask Aligner. SELECT plasma treatment enables the targeted, selective modification of micrometer-sized areas of a material's surface. This opens up completely new possibilities for the design and manufacture of components, particularly for MEMS applications such as microfluidic channels, biochip production, and solar technology.
In nanoimprint lithography with SCIL (substrate conformal imprint lithography), the imprint of a full-surface stamp is created on the wafer using a patented process. The new 200mm SCIL option enables the full-surface manufacture of nanostructures smaller than 50nm on wafers of up to 200mm in diameter.
The new generation of the high-precision DSM200 Gen2 alignment metrology tool represents a trend-setting device concept. Its expanded possibilities for infrared metrology and the improved ergonomics and ease of use are particularly attractive to customers in the area of 3D integration.
A completely new manual Coater for 200mm wafers, the RCD8, integrates resist coating and development in a single device for the first time, thus creating significant cost advantages for our institutional customers. Using a uniform technology platform with automated 200mm systems in the future, a customer can easily transition developed process windows to subsequent serial fabrication.
The new Altaspray12 is the big brother of the successful 200mm Delta AltaSpray Spraycoater. For the first time, a 300mm manual version is now available for spray coating. This version is particularly applicable to substrates with significant topography, for example numerous MEMS technologies and in the advanced packaging area, especially for the packaging of CMOS image sensors.
Additional refinements of the SUSS MicroTec lithography product range, two 200mm hotplates and a matching primer module, will in future provide our customers with process optimization and efficiency improvements.
Following the successful market launches in the manual Lithography area, current development activities and the most important future projects are focused on automatic production systems.
Substrate Bonder
Two important product launches in the past fiscal year are creating the foundation for the future growth of the Bonder division.
SUSS MicroTec introduced a new universal device platform to the market with its new XBS300 Temporary Bonder. For the first time, all 300mm Bonder and Coater are based on uniform technologies. Consistent robotics, handling, control and management hardware, cabling, and standardized software create the basis for the rapid market readiness of future product generations, while simultaneously maintaining high quality and suitability for production. This is an important milestone for the new Company-wide development organization.
In terms of technology, SUSS MicroTec relies entirely on cutting-edge room temperature debonding processes for the temporary bonding and debonding systems used in 3D high-volume manufacturing applications. Through early development cooperation with leading customers and materials suppliers, SUSS MicroTec offers customers tailor-made solutions, particularly the freedom to choose among different processes and materials. This currently includes processes developed by the companies Thin Materials (TMAT) and Brewer Science, specifically the so-called ZoneBond® process. The first tools have been ordered and successfully delivered. In close cooperation with our customers, they have been optimized for high-volume manufacturing under industrial conditions.
Photomask Equipment
Innovations in front-end mask cleaning are driven both by the requirements of the semiconductor industry's International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors (ITRS) as well as the specific requirements of major electrical circuit and memory chip manufacturers.
Ever smaller patterns and ever increasing integration density create persistent demand for new lithography technologies and in turn the adaptation of the related process techniques, such as photomask cleaning, one of SUSS MicroTec's core competencies.
The expandability and flexibility of these process and equipment technologies are thus key requirements. Among other things, they must cover several technology nodes of 193i optical lithography and be applicable for extreme UV lithography (EUVL).
With respect to EUVL, both the cleaning as such and the handling of the extreme ultraviolet (EUV) photomask play a very critical role, since it is not protected from contamination or damage like conventional photomasks by a so-called pellicle, a type of protective film. Instead, it is transported using the "dual pod system." This system is designed to prevent the contamination of both the front and back sides. The dual pod system places high demands on automation, however, which in turn led to the development of MaskTrack® Pro InSync and its introduction in 2011. This automation equipment creates an interface between the established MaskTrack® Pro photomask cleaner and the EUVL infrastructure, in particular the exposure equipment within the wafer fabs.
With the additional integration of an inspection device for the backside in MaskTrack® Pro InSync at the end of 2011, MaskTrack® Pro InSync gained another essential function. This addresses the problem of backside contamination of EUV masks by using defect detection to verify the success of the cleaning process carried out prior on the backside of the photomask.
With these and other developments, SUSS MicroTec is taking appropriate steps to maintain and expand its market leadership and to offer complete solutions for EUVL and 193i technology.


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Amidst the Stetson lacrosse team's first season in program history, many individuals have had standout campaigns while the Hatters still seek out their first victory. Freshman Maylis Broderick is one among them, leading Stetson with nine goals and two assists through 11 games.
Broderick, who is used to the new program's unavoidable lack of early positive results, has scored in seven of Stetson's last eight games, and has found the back of the net five times over the course of the Hatters' last three outings.
Her high school career began similarly, as Gibbons High in Ft. Lauderdale didn't have a lacrosse program until the year before Broderick's freshman season. "In the beginning we struggled, but in my sophomore year we started making districts, and we made districts ever since," Broderick said of her memories of high school lax.
"I've been part of a new program, so I know it's not going to be all success the first year right away," Broderick continued. "You have to work hard at it. We're just keeping positive, and we know the results are going to get there. We'll get there."
Broderick shined in Stetson's last home contest, as the midfielder scored three goals in a loss against Marist back on March 21. "What I've been trying to do is not get too much into my head about our record, and everything we're trying to do as a program," she said. "I'm just trying to take it one game at a time, and apply what I'm doing in practice into the games."
Stetson head coach Nicole Moore couldn't be happier with the play of Broderick thus far. "Her lacrosse IQ is really starting to grow, she's extremely coachable, and with that I've seen her confidence grow," the first year head coach said. "She's taking what she needs to from us in order to become a better player. She's able to do that because she's open to the coaching points, or listening to her teammates. Her work ethic is 110 percent all the time."
That's exactly what Broderick feels the Hatters need to do as the Atlantic Sun Conference season begins. "If you take it one game at a time, and live in the moment, and go 110 percent, and play like you have nothing to lose, that's when the results will come," she said.
Like nearly all of the players on this first year team, Broderick is just a freshman. With the guidance of Coach Moore and assistant coach Brittany Dipper, and the growth of Broderick and her teammates, the Hatters are confident that the results will come. "She also has a level of potential that she hasn't hit yet," Moore said of Broderick. "I'm excited to see where she can go during her time here at Stetson."
For now, the Hatters' concentration is on the task at hand, the beginning of conference play. Stetson opens its four-game league schedule with a trip to A-Sun leading Jacksonville on Saturday. The Hatters and the Dolphins are scheduled to begin at 3:00 p.m. Stetson will then host Detroit and Kennesaw State before ending the regular season on the road at Howard.
This Saturday's game at Jacksonville can be watched on ASun.TV. Live Stats will also be available at JUDolphins.com.


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The 7 Most Baffling Things About Women's Clothes
There are a lot of annoying things about being a woman, like periods, childbirth and not being able to play basketball in a way that keeps spectators awake. But near the top of the list has got to be buying clothes.
I know one way to fix it is just to be ballsy and wear men's clothes, and that's a bold choice. But you take a social hit for wearing "masculine" clothes, and most women don't want to take that hit. So they go to buy clothes made specifically "for women," and generally find a set of the most impractical, low-quality, high-maintenance crap that a sweatshop can make.
Here are a few of the many, many awful things about the clothes that manufacturers want women to wear:
#7. The Material Is Too Thin
Go through any women's clothes section and put your hand inside all the shirts and dresses and see if you can see it. (If you are a man, try to make sure no one is looking first.) About 50 percent of the time, you are going to get a pretty good view of your hand. And you don't have to go to a fancy boutique; this holds true for my neighborhood Target.
Wet Seal
I assume the men and lesbians among our readers would prefer I had this photo from the opposite side.
That means if a girl wears just that shirt, you are going to see her bra, or even boobs, which I'm sure sounds exciting and positive to many men, but violates workplace and school dress codes, as well as many public decency laws. Also, these are clothes for all women of all ages, not just young, attractive women.
This isn't a mistake. The solution is supposed to be layering, which has really caught on in recent years. All of these stores also sell plenty of tank tops, camisoles and plain form-fitting T-shirts, sometimes dedicating entire sections to clothes specifically designed for use in layering. Catalog photos will often show girls wearing three or more layers.
JC Penney
Count 'em. One, two, three. Or as JC Penney sees it, $, $$, $$$!
I can't prove they do this deliberately to make women buy more pieces of clothing, but once you found you could sell this concept to people, why wouldn't you? Someone who used to buy one shirt is now going to buy three from you. And you get to use less material.
On top of that, super-thin cloth isn't very durable, and its evil cousin, the lacy sweater with huge holes, easily catches and tears in a washing machine. So you get to spend even more money replacing them more often or dry cleaning them.
#6. Fake Pockets or No Pockets
One thing I think a lot of men take for granted is pockets. It seems like men always have pockets. They're a requirement in men's pants, men's coats always have functional pockets and I guess even men's prison jumpsuits must have them, since I hear about people smuggling goods into prison all the time.
Women's clothing manufacturers, on the other hand, seem to believe women can't be trusted with pockets. Something like 99 percent of dresses have no pockets at all, and the more formal you get, the more likely a women's coat or pants pocket is going to be a fake, decorative pocket.
It looks like it has pockets, but it does not.
I know the arguments -- "But women's clothes are so carefully cut and tailored. If you put anything in a pocket, it would bulge and look bad!" That's bullshit. I just went to the store with my bridesmaids and picked out some bridesmaids' dresses with pockets.
David's Bridal
It doesn't look like it has pockets, but it does.
Sure, there will be unsightly bulges if they put too much in their pockets, but the solution isn't to take them away -- the solution is to trust women to have the common sense to not put a bag of rocks in their pocket. These pockets are just fine for carrying a key or some cash or credit cards, and it's stupid to not give anyone that option because some idiot might try to put, I don't know, night-vision goggles or a piece of cake in their pocket.
But it's OK, because instead of functional pockets, we get a ton of decorative pockets, as well as numerous other nonfunctional decorations, like extra buttons, and buckles, and flaps. Look at these ridiculous boots.
Sure has a lot of buckles and stitching and all that, I bet these must be complex to put on. Oh wait.
It's just one zipper up the inside.
The only possible conclusion is that Rob "Pouches" Liefeld moonlights as a women's clothing designer in his spare time.
#5. Too Cold
Another problem is that women's clothes are too damn cold. Part of it is the thinness of much of the material, as mentioned before, but no matter how thick the material, many, many styles involve increasing exposure, like dipped necklines, three-quarter sleeves or skirts and dresses.
It can be easy to chalk this up just to women who dress "provocatively," but the truth is that a fairly normal, unprovocative women's style exposes a lot more skin than men's clothes. A below-knee skirt still exposes your shins. A three-quarter sleeve isn't terribly provocative unless you have a thing for forearms. And necklines don't need to go anywhere near the boobs to still be a lot wider than the average men's neckline.
Uniforme Vogue
Not a lot of men could get away with wearing that collar.
The obvious question, which might come up on a bunch of these points, is why we don't just avoid these styles. It's harder than it sounds, because they're everywhere. It can be hard to find a shirt with a neckline between "look at my bust" and turtleneck, and when you do, it turns out to be a three-quarter sleeve. If you find a dress with full sleeves, they've pulled the hem up to your ass.
American Apparel
Amish up top, streetwalker below.
What makes this all worse is that this is almost inevitably the case with all "professional" styles that are OK to wear at the office, and women being cold at the office is an enormous, widespread workplace issue, as I've covered before.
I don't think colder clothing is the cause, as bundled-up women complain of the cold just as much. I think it's just adding insult to injury that they're already feeling cold, and that there is no "professional"-looking outfit that will let them bundle up properly without looking like they are in a Christmas special.
Hard to get people to take you seriously in meetings like this.
#4. Arbitrary Clothing Sizes
Men's pants sizes are logical and come in measurements of at least waist size, and often inseam, too. Women's pants sizes, and clothing sizes in general, are meaningless, arbitrary numbers that come, as far as I can tell, from having kittens bat around a 20-sided die.
Can't make an analogy like that and not make a picture of it.
This isn't just a recent trend. Women's clothing manufacturers have been making up sizes as far back as sizes have existed. According to one fashion historian, a 32-inch bust would have come out to a size 14 in a 1937 Sears catalog, while being labeled a size 8 in 1967, and coming down to a size 0 in today's terms.
Even today, you apparently inflate and deflate like a balloon when you go from brand to brand, according to their sizes. A woman who is size 6 at American Eagle might be a 0 at Ann Taylor, as mentioned in the above article.
If we're being logical, shouldn't a size 0 look like this?
Obviously they're pandering here, trying to flatter women by making them sound thinner with a skinny-sounding number, because when you make people feel good, they buy things. As long as the market keeps rewarding for it, they'll keep doing it, so I guess there's no hope for making women's sizes any easier to buy.
On the other hand, if we can't make things easier for women, apparently they are making things harder for men these days by doing the same thing with their pants. According to Esquire, various brands of men's pants labeled as having a "36-inch waist" actually had waistlines ranging from 36 to 41 inches (Old Navy was the fattest liar). In an era where action heroes can no longer sport beer bellies (John Wayne, young Captain Kirk), I guess men need flattery about their waistlines, too.
Nobody used to mind a bit of a tummy on a leading man.
In attempting equality, I would have preferred making pants-buying easier and more consistent for everybody instead of making it suck for everybody but I guess that's the way they decided to go.


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Top Definition
Also Known As Dirty Dancing. When a girl is rubbing her ass all over a guys dick until it comes to the point where he gets a woody
i was grinding with this girl with the biggest booty
av ___ 18 oktober 2003
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Can you define these popular missing words?
Dirty Dancing. When a girl moves her ass on a guys dick to turn him on. Or when the girl and guy face eachother and the girl rubs her pussy with the guys dick or humps his leg. It's any sexy or suggestive dancing.
I grinded with my boyfriend at prom untill he got hard as a rock.
av progrinder 2 juli 2005
when a girl is in front of a guy, and they're dancing; her butt to his crotch. he places his hands on her hipbones and pulls her closer. the girl shakes her stuff and the guy enjoys it.
When Katie was bootydancing with me, I wanted it to last forever.
av horny4u 25 september 2004
The act of dancing where you rub your penis on a girl's ass in a dancing fashion It feels really good and it never seems to last long enough. Sometimes it can get really graphic and god does it feel good.
Dude, I loved grinding that blond babe with the huge ass!
av jonathanhigh5 15 juli 2006
where a girl rubs her ass in a guys crotch until he gets a boner.
i end up grinding at every dance. the teachers hate it.
av Elvis McCann 20 september 2006
is a form of dirty dancing. where a female rubs her booty on a guys dic till he gets hard
we wre gridin all night long
av Hannah Richardson 5 maj 2005
dirty dancing- the girl rubbing her ass on the guys crotch
yo they were grinding all night long out on the dance floor
av lacy 7 maj 2003


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Why coders and all of us need to take it offline now and then
We all need to take it offline now and then
We're at a particularly interesting time in technology, the Internet, the open source movements, and what accessibility means. We get the ability to be a lot of different people that were not possible before: web designer, cloud architect, open source project manager, open source developer, and more. Working from home is viable with an Internet connection in a way that wasn't available in the early 1990s. And, when was the last time you looked at the Yellow Pages? (I was on vacation in the Bahamas and was curious. That was it for me.)
Also available now, with the Internet in our pocket at all times, are different ways to express ourselves and communicate. The way my grandparents use text messaging is different from the way that my teenage cousin uses her phone, but if you put their two messages side by side, can you tell who sent which message? I've recieved a text message from an older relative that had the same indecipherable text speak as a text message from my 14 year old cousin—and it wasn't because of autocorrect. I can justify this to myself by reasoning that it's about learning a technology—that this new technology has no attachment to proper English and that perhaps these two just have the same personal communication style. But, this theory has a lot of holes in it, which I dislike.
It's true, the ways in which we communicate have become different; I myself have trouble motivating myself to write things that are longer than a haiku in one sitting, and I know I'm not the only one. The valuable thing now is not about being ON all the time, it's about protecting our ability to focus. You can have all of the productivity tools in the world but your writing will be scattered and your communications won't be as clear if you're constantly distracted by the world around you. This is one of the biggest challenges of any generation using these new technologies.
We figured out how to overstimulate ourselves very effectively, and in the end we call it multi-tasking and work. We praise and give raises to the people who can pull it off better than the people who work slowly and methodically on single tasks.
I don't think this is going to be our undoing as a culture, and I certainly don't think we need to get all Pygmalion on everyone about how learning to code is going to fix all of our problems. Learning to code gives you an ability to think through problems, but it certainly doesn't give you focus. The practice of coding as a profession gives you practice in solving puzzles, and it's very satisfying at the end of the day to be able to point to the 'things you solved'. Coding as a job also opens other doors, but it's one piece of a larger puzzle.
And if you're working on an open source project, you are gaining more experience by working with many different kinds of people in different environments, which is even more valuable when you realize that the community is self-selected and most people are volunteers. They're not being paid by lines of code written for a project, they're doing it because they value the project and their ability to contribute to the community. There are other reasons too, and I don't mean to proscribe everyone's reasons in the same way, but at the end of the day, you're working with people you like on something you believe in. That part isn't going to change.
What will change is that the people who are able to focus and fight being able to do a million things at once will find it easier to keep going. We talk a lot about burnout in our communities and how to work against it—by finding other things in our lives that keep us stable and happy that aren't tied to our work. We ask each other and ourselves things like: How can I be on-call for years at a time? When can I stop saying yes to everything that comes my way?
Do you remember waiting by the phone for someone to call, or even public telephones at all? Changing times and technologies is not about who we're being at work, it's about who we're being in a world that can teach us how to best draw the lines between or blur the lines between our work and home, the casual and formal, and our professional and personal lives. For me, I've made a decision to get back into scuba diving for a different experience of the world. It's also pretty difficult to be online at 50 feet underwater. I come back refreshed and with a greater, broader perspective than before, beyond a particular moment at work or on the Internet.
I'd love to hear what you think. What are the other big issues that we need to confront on the lines of the personal and professional? On the lines of real life and online life?
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Thanks for the great article.
I fully agree with your argument and its motivation, but struggle with it with when it comes to practice.
One way to get there is this idea of "No email Thursdays",
to take one day of the week in which we don't look at email (in this case, we should extend it to twitter, facebook, instagram...), and focus on "getting things done", or "reading that chapter that we have been postponing", or "truly meeting with people".
An official day of e-disconnection (that could be different for different people), makes easier to temper our urge for checking our electronic messages.
I tend to agree with Amye Scavarda - It is about priorities. Setting them requires quiet, personal reflection and a degree of wisdom that is hard to muster in a jumbled fast moving environment.
I think (and it is open for discussion) that opensource in particular and IT in general should be viewed as a tool to achieve important goals, not an end unto itself.
For any human being, the first priority is acquiring the basic necessities for life itself. To use the old fashioned phrase, everyone has to "make a living". In affluent Western societies, we may take food, clothing and shelter as a given. It isn't. So, perhaps the first question for reflection might be, "How can I use technology to create more than I consume"?
The act of creating more than I consume (being productive) brings with it a treasure trove of intangible benefits - self-esteem, respect, dignity, security, freedom, inner peace, independence and a host of other personal assets that cannot be assigned a monetary value. To enjoy these benefits, I need for those around me to create more than they consume so they have no reason to resent me and try to take what I have.
For purely selfish reasons, the second question might be, "How can I use technology to help others create more than they consume"?
These are just ideas for discussion. I don't have the answers but I keep seeking.
Your title was about taking it off line and you made a point about scuba diving. Here's another, try skydiving.
I may be the only one that considers this a stress reliever but if you want to understand focus there's little like stepping out the door at 14,000 feet to clear your head.


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The 36th annual Cooper River Bridge Run will be held Saturday morning.
With more than 40,000 participants, it's easy to get lost among the figures and size of the event.
So, let's break it down.
It's a 10k race starting on Coleman Boulevard near Moultrie Middle School in Mount Pleasant.
It concludes after a dash – or walk – over the Ravenel Bridge toward Marion Square in downtown Charleston.
Starts are staggered with wheelchair participants going first, then runners and walkers. The wheelchair race begins at 7:25 a.m. and the rest go at 8 a.m.
There is a Finish Festival and Awards Ceremony in Marion Square at 8:30 with live entertainment and vendors. It concludes at noon.
Solomon Deksisa, of Ethiopia, won last year's overall event with a time of 29:37, earning a check for $10,000 in the process.
The last time an American male won was 1991. 1995 was the most recent time that an American female had the best women's time.
It is the only race in the state sanctioned by USA Track and Field and is considered as an elite event.
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KINGS BEACH, Calif. - Plans are nearing the next phase in the proposed creation of an approximately two-mile shared-use path as part of a larger effort to better connect the North Shore's trail system, officials said.The proposed 2.2-mile Dollar Hill Regional Bike Trail - located between the intersection of Dollar Hill Drive and Highway 28, near the 7-Eleven and the end of Fulton Crescent Drive just east of Tahoe City - would cross land owned by the North Tahoe Public Utility District and California Tahoe Conservancy. The project is all part of a long-term effort to fill the eight-mile trail gap between Kings Beach and Tahoe City."Like any project in the basin, there's a lot of planning that goes along with it to get a project on the ground, and we're definitely not there yet," said Peter Kraatz, deputy director of Placer County's Department of Public Works, who gave an update on the trail to the NTPUD board of directors Tuesday in Kings Beach.The project is still in the environmental analysis phase, he said, which looks at the trail's potential impacts, as well as land use compatibility. The environmental document, amendments to plan area statements and the issuing of a conditional use permit need to be formally approved by both the Placer County Board of Supervisors and Tahoe Regional Planning Agency before the project can move forward.The project will go before Placer County supervisors for a vote on Oct. 23 in Auburn, Kraatz said, while TRPA will likely not see the project until early next year."The purpose (of the trail) is to connect to the existing trail network that's out there and really encourage people to travel and transport themselves in a healthy, non-motorized way," Kraatz said after the meeting.The trail would allow the public to travel to Tahoe City, north to Squaw Valley and south to Homewood on the existing trail network.If approved, the design phase begins, Kraatz said. Part of the design could include a 6-foot-wide decomposed granite (DG) pathway for the first few hundred feet at the Fulton Crescent Drive trailhead, instead of a 10-foot-wide paved pathway, based on Cedar Flat community feedback."For a road biker, you're going to make them go across DG?" asked board Director Tim Ferrell."We're trying to be sensitive to what we're hearing from the neighborhood," Kraatz responded. "It's not set in stone that we would do that."As for funding, that's "the elephant in the room," Kraatz said. He suggested applying for grant funding to construct the trail, and for the district to take over responsibility of operations and maintenance if it gets built, based on the facilities the district currently maintains."Generally, in the world of Tahoe, it's about a $1 million a mile for a trail, depending on the land and the topography," Kraatz told the board. "(Operation and maintenance) is really coming from (the district), and it tends to be $10,000 per mile for a year."To learn more about the project, visit the following link: http://www.placer.ca.gov/Departments/Works/Projects/DollarCreekBikeTrail.aspx
Also at Tuesday's meeting, six employees within the North Tahoe Public Utility District were recognized by the board for their years of service and detection. Those recognized were: five-year employees Janine Dougan and Mary Moreno; 10-year employee Jason Dicey; 15-year employees Paul Sandhofner and Kathy Giebel; and 20-year employee Marianne Potts.


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A word used to describe frustration, shock, or questioning. Can be uttered in many tones. Can be synonymous with "What the heck?" or "Huh?"
Gina: A pickled stuffed matress. Kewl.
Sonia: Whay? Sleeping in a hammock mouthing the words to Eye of the Tiger?
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Sonia: Whay? Sleeping in a hammock mouthing the words to Eye of the Tiger?
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Whay - Used when something funny or misfortunate for someone has happened. Commonly used in schools.
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Modification of "why?" used to indicate a particular tone of voice when communicating online. This is associated with blondes and can be best visualized with a cocked head and hair twirled around a pinky finger.
"so this guy walks into a bar--"
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the word "well hey" combined into two words. Formerly used by 2pac in his song "Changes."
"whay, that's the way it is."
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Sequential Brands Group, the proposed new owner for Carrollton-based Heelys, has inked a new global licensing deal for the wheeled-shoe maker.
The licensing partnership with BBC International was announced this morning. BBC International, which has offices in Boca Raton, Fla., and Randolph, Mass., focuses on children's and skate footwear and has deals with Polo Ralph Lauren, Guess and Sam Edelman.
Earlier this month, Heelys said it plans to sell itself to Sequential for $2.25 per share, or $63.2 million.
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You'll like them if you like: Bat for Lashes, zombiefied Florence + the Machine, Ouija boards, Warpaint, Zola Jesus, those stupid ghost hunting tv shows.
Must listen to: "Lucia, at the Precipice," "About This Peninsula,"
Esben & the Witch are descending upon North America and are on a warpath, ready to take on anything and everyone with the release of their debut full-length, Violet Cries (via Matador). But you can stream the entire album below before its Feb. 8 US/Canada release date! The Brighton three-piece first popped up on the radar when they offered their self-released EP 33 for free download. Their dark, brooding, and ominous creations embedded with the dragged out vocals of Rachel Davies caught the attention of The xx, who they later toured with; they've also toured with Foals.
[LISTEN]: Esben & the Witch – "About This Peninsula" (from 33)
"About This Peninsula" was the first track of theirs that I heard, and to me, its instrumentation (specifically the guitar work) sounded very reminiscent of Warpaint's Exquisite Corpse EP (which I adore). Plus they have English accents and used the word "folly," "peninsula," and mentioned "Icarus"! Ding ding ding–hooked!
You can download "Warpath" the second single off Violet Cries below (or watch the new video). Also check out the video for the first single, "Marching Song" here.
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They'll be playing Toronto's Wrongbar for Canadian Music Week on March 11 (on the same bill a Guelph's Memoryhouse), so it should be an amazingly atmospheric (and creepy) show. You can check out their full tour dates below!
Just a tip–if you're afraid of the dark, ghosts, or are just easily scared in general, do no listen to this album before you go to sleep. ("Battlecry/Mimicry" is especially unsettling.) Don't say I didn't warn you.
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Antarktikos (World Premiere)By Andrea Stolowitz, directed by Sheila McKenna. Antarktikos is a mind-bending play about heroism, saying goodbye, and moving forward. Somewhere between Oregon and Antarctica lie several points on a continuum: Susan, a writer at an artists residency at the South Pole; Captain Robert Falcon Scott, leader of the British Antarctic expedition of 1912; and Hilary, Susan's 21-year-old daughter. When an insomniac EMT named Alex becomes the hapless link among them, time collapses, geographies blend, and destinies emerge.03/21/2013 - 04/07/2013Pittsburgh Playhouse, 222 Craft Avenue Pittsburgh, PAwebsite | map
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In this installment of geekSpeak, Reza Madani shows you many useful tips for extending Microsoft SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) with scripts. Highlights include learning the proper way to pass parameters to scripts, how to log effectively, and more. In addition to the numerous demos, Reza manages to answer quite a few questions from the audience. This show was hosted by Lynn Langit and Mithun Dhar
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With a job like the one I'm fortunate enough to have, sometimes it's easy to forget what it's like being a fan. There is definitely a different perspective watching a game as a media member than as a fan.
Friday night I got to see how the other half lives.
After covering the Upper Sandusky volleyball team in the state tournament Friday, and my hotel not letting me change my reservation, I was stuck in the Dayton area for the night.
Side note, I apologize to all the Upper Sandusky fans, as me booking a hotel for Friday night was probably what jinxed the Rams.
But what better way to spend a Friday night in a strange city then to find the nearest playoff football game? The nearest one to me was a Division III matchup between unbeaten No. 1 seed Tipp City Tippecanoe and No. 8 Springfield Kenton Ridge.
I've heard about Tippecanoe from reading message boards and it could be an eventual opponent for Columbian perhaps in the state semifinals if both teams should reach that far, so why not see what they bring to the table.
As a media member, I realize we have a lot of advantages over normal fans. I first noticed this as I walked to the gate and by-passed the media sign-in sheet, to hand over $9 for a ticket, and another $2 for a program so I knew who I was watching.
Secondly, I'll never take a press box view for granted again. With the home stands already packed when I arrived, and the visitors' stands close to full, I grabbed a spot standing along a fence atop a small hill near one of the end zones.
The spot was great when the action was coming way, but when the teams were going toward the opposite end of the field, I was relying on which crowd roared to figure out which team had a good play.
One advantage though for the fans' perspective was the concession stand. Don't get me wrong, press box food nice and I appreciate those that supply us media members with sustenance.
I do enjoy seeing what different communities features in its concession stands, but all too often I pass it up for the free pizza.
With no free pizza available to me, I went to see what the concession stand had to offer. The answer: amazing chili.
Another side note, best concession stand ever belongs to Lowellville High School, a small Italian-heavy community just outside of Youngstown. Home of the Rockets, and the "Hard Rocket Cafe." Cavatelli. Chicken parm. Wedding Soup. Enough said.
But maybe it was the low 40s temperature, but Tippecanoe's chili hit the spot. Perfect thing to enjoy while settling in for kickoff.
Time to see what kind of football these southwest Ohio boys have to offer.
While covering a game, I spend a lot of time looking for angles, things that would make good topics to write about. It's not often I can take a step back and just watch and enjoy a game.
Some would point out that I have a chance to watch and enjoy football with the NFL every Sunday, but I'm a Jacksonville Jaguar fan. My Sundays are usually spent pounding my head into the counter at Steamer's.
The game turned out to be not as competitive as I would've hoped, but I was able to enjoy the clinic Tippecanoe put on. The Red Devils won the game 42-7. But being able to simply watch the game helped me appreciate their athletes and the plays they were making instead of thinking "How am I going to write this up?"
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A sign posted in the driveway of St. Mary of the Angels Convent in Williamsville declares: "We have a saint!"
It isn't a reference to Father Nelson H. Baker, who still has significant hurdles to leap before the Vatican recognizes him as a saint.
Instead, the sign alludes to Marianne Cope, a 19th century nun who built hospitals in Central New York and tended to leprosy patients in Hawaii.
Cope was credited with facilitating two separate miracle cures from heaven, leading to her canonization in October.
She's also the inspiration for a robust new cottage industry of all things St. Marianne – conceived and fueled by some of the Franciscan sisters from Williamsville.
Statues, icons, medals, coffee mugs, posters and even children's books – they're all part of a new nationwide marketing and merchandising effort aimed at capitalizing on the country's most recently canonized saint.
The sisters say they're responding to market demand at a time when interest in Cope is surging. They also hope to raise greater awareness of her and her accomplishments.
"Making her known was an important part of all of this because her story is wonderful, but people don't know a lot about her," said Sister Patricia Burkard, who served as general minister of the Sisters of St. Francis of the Neumann Communities.
Proceeds from the sales will help pay for ministries of the sisters, a new museum in Syracuse dedicated to St. Marianne and their own health care.
Cope is a household name in the Syracuse area – in much the same way that Baker is recognized here.
Since St. Marianne did most of her good works in Hawaii and Syracuse before dying in 1918, she was not especially well known in Western New York or other parts of the country.
The Franciscan nuns in Williamsville like to tell the story of Cope's brief stop in Buffalo. She was on a train trip to Chicago with other sisters, headed to Hawaii where they would care for leprosy patients living in isolation.
But Cope realized some time into the trip that she did not have her purse with her. She got off the train at Buffalo, went back to Syracuse for the purse and then caught another train, meeting up with the group in Chicago.
Even the Williamsville sisters are relatively new to the Cope story.
In 2005, the Williamsville congregation – in an effort to confront its dwindling membership and bolster resources – merged with Franciscan orders in Hastings-on-Hudson and Syracuse. Another group of sisters from Millvale, Pa., joined the group in 2007.
Many of the Williamsville sisters have since learned as much as they could about Cope and are eager to spread the word.
Pope Benedict XVI's announcement last December that a second miracle had been attributed to Cope gave the sisters nine months to prepare for the canonization.
Sister Fran Gangloff went to work on a booklet of prayer poems celebrating the legacy of the nun, as well as two books on her life and works.
Sister Marcia Klawon, of Williamsville, came out of retirement to paint an acrylic-on-wood icon of St. Marianne.
Burkard and Sister Marian Rose Mansius, who also served in a leadership post, helped craft guidelines for the marketing and merchandising of dozens of original items, which are available in the gift shop of the St. Mary of the Angels Convent on Reist Street in Williamsville and online through a website that went live in September.
Sales have been "tremendous" so far, said Gregory J. Griffin, director of mission advancement, who was hired by the sisters more than two years ago, in part to help prepare for fundraising opportunities that might accompany the canonization.
The Franciscan sisters spent 37 years promoting Cope's cause in Rome – a tedious, sometimes mysterious and often costly process. They were responsible for paying for such things as canon lawyers, travel expenses, translators, printing of prayer cards and other materials, as well as the costs the canonization ceremony itself.
And while the sisters did not provide a tally, those expenses have been estimated to run into the hundreds of thousands of dollars for other canonization efforts.
Anticipating demand for items bearing St. Marianne's image, the sisters also spent heavily to produce a variety of memorabilia, including museum-quality posters, photographs and calendars.
"People like to feel connected to her somehow," said Gangloff.
The sisters carefully considered exactly what they would – and wouldn't – sell. They asked themselves: Would St. Marianne approve?
Potential items ran the gamut, including a scented soap bar and a computer mouse pad – both featuring St. Marianne's image. But lacking the kind of keepsake quality the sisters sought, the soap and mouse pad were quickly ruled out, Griffin said.
Ultimately, the sisters relied on the creative talents within their community for many of the items, including Klawon's icons and Gangloff's writings and photographs.
"We're very proud of that," Burkard said.
A prolific writer and researcher, Gangloff jumped at the opportunity to write about an American saint so close to Western New York.
"There's only 12 saints from all of United States history, and two of them were just added," Gangloff. The other is St. Kateri Tekakwitha.
The sisters also protected their investment through legal means.
"This is a business venture, so we copyrighted and trademarked several of the images of St. Marianne," said Griffin.
The sisters hope to recoup their merchandise costs within a year or so.
"There's no doubt there is a risk involved with this proposition," Griffin said.
But there's also been plenty of interest from around the country to suggest the risk will pay off. Online orders have come from as far away as Texas, Minnesota, Alabama and Florida.
The sisters already have been in contact with Buffalo-based Hadley Exhibits, which installed professional museum layouts and displays for the revamped Father Nelson H. Baker Museum in Our Lady of Victory Basilica, to help with the planned museum in Syracuse.
Buffalo, of course, is still waiting for the requisite Vatican-approved miracles Father Baker will need for canonization.
But with the Oct. 21 elevation of St. Marianne and St. Kateri Tekakwitha, who was born in the Mohawk Valley and became the first Native American to be canonized, already there is talk of a potential New York State "saint trail" along the Thruway.
American Catholics no longer have to look abroad for spiritual role models, Burkard said.
"Our own country now is old enough to have raised up its own saints," she said.
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