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The Columbus Dispatch - April 16, 2013 05:03 PM
After the Crew drew Philadelphia 1-1 at home April 6, head coach Robert Warzycha was refreshingly candid in his post-match remarks. In addition to taking his team to task for its slow start, Warzycha publicly wondered if some players had started taking their starting spots for granted.
"In the first half I think some guys maybe got too comfortable (after) playing the first four games and they're thinking they're going to be on the field all the time," he said. "That's not the case."
I was a little surprised, then, when the same starting lineup took the field eight days later to face Eastern Conference leader Montreal in a surprisingly high-profile early-season showdown. It made me wonder if Warzycha had seen something in training leading up to the match that showed him things would be different in this one.
Today, Warzycha said he simply had faith in his guys.
"I think I had to give the guys a chance to prove that that was a fluke," he said. "I didn't mean that I was going to take five guys off the field for the next game. Through preseason and months of hard work they showed me that they deserved to be on the field, and that's why I put in the same lineup: because I trust them and I thought they were not going to disappoint anybody."
At halftime against the Union, Warzycha replaced defensive midfielder Agustin Viana with forward Jairo Arrieta. Last week, Warzycha said that was a tactical change and not one born out of a lack of effort on Viana's part.
After the Philadelphia game, goalkeeper Andy Gruenebaum downplayed Warzycha's comments about the starting lineup and said no such sentiment had been addressed to the club. Later that week, Viana said he had not heard Warzycha's comments about the starting lineup.
It sounds like Warzycha is growing more and more confident with his starting lineup. The Crew has used the same starters for three straight games, which is more consistency than the team saw at any point last season. In all, Warzycha has made two changes to the starting lineup through six games compared to 10 changes at the same point last season.
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Warzycha did make a surprise substitution against Montreal. Late in the game, he subbed in Kevan George as a defensive midfielder. It marked George's first action of the season, and the second-year player fulfilled a role that had been going to Matias Sanchez in previous games this year.
"I think we have a few central midfielders who are all doing right," Warzycha said. "Wil Trapp and Konrad (Warzycha) and Kevan and Matias Sanchez is on the bench. They're doing well. I have to make a decision and in Montreal it was obvious to me that Kevan should be on the field instead of Matias Sanchez because we needed a taller guy who may win some balls or be in on corner kicks. We needed his height. That's why he was on the field.
"They're all playing well, but unfortunately we can only play 11."
Today's training
Midfielder Danny O'Rourke was not active when reporters were allowed into today's training.
"He's well," Warzycha said. "He went through the warm-up and said he's a little bit tight so he needs to get a massage."
Warzycha said O'Rourke's legs were tight.
Otherwise, all players were present and accounted for as the Crew trained at Obetz aside from forward Aaron Horton, who is out after undergoing knee surgery.
Lucky Mkosana, who had been trying out for a roster spot, is no longer with the Crew.
After training was complete, Agustin Viana and Sanchez remained outside for at least 15 minutes putting in some extra work. Federico Higuain and Gláuber sat in the grass watching, and the four remained on the field for a while until the training staff summoned them inside for the weekly Tuesday weightlifting session.
Also of note: Bernardo Anor was playing what amounted to left back in some short-sided scrimmaging.


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Well, I hope I'm not too late for this, but I'm glad I was too busy to do this write-up till now… this stuff really happened last week! Hope you enjoy. Click here and here for Factory-esque videos of me and my Tucson friends in action.
8am: Wake up because my body is absolutely incapable of sleeping an entire 8 hours. I seem to be both a morning person and a night owl. I check my emails to find that an project of mine has been featured on the Italian VOGUE website. Abraham, my ever-present male muse and dearest friend, brings me coffee on his way to work and we celebrate on my porch.
10:16am: After answering weekend emails from bed for 2 hours, I'm ready to stop looking like I just escaped from a loony bin, and I hop in the shower. My hair used to consistently look like a tumbleweed until I became good friends with the owner and the creative director of 2 different international hair product companies. Now I get $300 cuts and color and $200 heat stylers for free. Yes, please!
11:56am: After agonizing over an outfit choice, I leave the house in a pair of high-waisted 70s embroidered denim hot shorts, a buttoned up peter-pan collar blouse, a pair of tremendous earrings (handmade for me by a jewelry designer friend out of scarab wings and semi-precious stones) and 4.5 inch platform sandals. I hop on my fast vintage roadbike, tentative at first, but next week I graduate to riding in my 5.5 inch wedges. I've yet to have a bike accident (knock on wood).
12:15pm: A meeting at a local designer boutique regarding upcoming shoot. The owner offers to give me the swimsuit that I borrowed part of for a lingerie shoot at the No-Tel Motel last month: a bright blue handmade, high-waisted bikini with bandeau top, rubber trim and suspenders. Yes, please!
1:19pm: I swing by the famous Hotel Congress to meet with my friend Laura, and return $3,000 in jewelry she lent me for my fashion show last Friday. We grab a beer.
4:03pm: I meet my friend Nico for a late lunch. He's dressed like a charming lesbian pre-school teacher again, except instead of eyebrows he has two tiny tigers tattooed on his brow bone. He's had his hair cut since the last time I saw him, a shoulder-grazing bob in bright yellow ombre. I down a corned beef rueben while he begs me to join him the next morning at 5am for a quick jaunt (14 hour roundtrip) to his parent's beach house near San Diego for 2 days. I am still frazzled from Friday's fashion show and feeling a little overstimulated. Yes please!
5:30pm: I hit up my friend Giovanni. He is leaving for the World Facial Hair Competition in Norway tomorrow and I promised I'd help style him. We go for a Great-Gatsby-esque tennis player look. He ends up winning the gold medal for Best Imperial Moustache In the World.
9:01pm: I stop back in at Hotel Congress, where Abraham is just getting off work at the front desk to meet me for a show on 4th Avenue.
9:05pm: Abraham gestures excitedly toward the bar, where I spot the lead singer of the band for tonight, who makes serious eye contact with me as I walk through the room. I swoon and then wonder if maybe he recognizes me from when I saw his show in Reykjavik and was so excited that I climbed up on stage and watched the whole show from atop the speaker stacks. I call some girlfriends and brag about how So and So just made eye love with me.
10:29pm: My gay boyfriend/styling assistant/bestie forever Bradley (tall, handsome, redheaded, with the eyes of a baby giraffe) shows up.
10:40pm: We ride to the venue for the night. We're delighted to find it's very intimate and pretty empty because Fleet Foxes are sold out a few blocks away and nobody seems to have heard of this man's latest and greatest incarnation. The show starts and we bliss out. It's the best show any of us have seen in a loooooong time.
1:30am: Suddenly I am making out with said famous musician in the back lounge of his tour bus!! He tells me he also has a PhD in Microbiology. Yes, please!
2:30am: I meet up with the real world again. High fives all round.
5:37am: Nico picks me up. 7 hours, 3 border patrol checkpoints and couple wildlife mishaps later (namely; a huge swarm of ex-bees thoroughly obscuring our windshield for several miles before we could pull over, and accidentally putting my hand in a bird family's nest unfortunately installed over our house key's hiding place), we arrive on the beach in Encinitas.
2:39pm: Nico insists I take the master bedroom with a view because there is a huge family portrait hanging above the bed and it weirds him out. I oblige. We promptly abandon all electronic devices and go straight to the beach.
8:54pm: We return with takeout, tanned and sun-stoned to the house. I find voice messages from my best friend in Vancouver, Canada and my best friend in Berlin. They are both coming to visit me for my birthday next week! SURPRISE.
9:47pm: I'm profoundly pooped so I fall asleep watching Blues Brothers before finishing my bowl of thai seafood stew and bottle of pinot noir. I did, however, finish an entire bar of dark chocolate.
More of the same.
10:17am: We clean the house and drive 7 hours home.
9:27pm: I get gussied with my fashion designer friend, Jamaica and walk a block to my friend's going-away party.
11:26pm: We drink and dance in an outdoor garden until 2am and then on to the after party.
8:58am: Wake up, dammit. I walk to the closest thrift store, hoping against hope that I'll find anything made of chiffon for our shoot tomorrow. I unearth a black chiffon maxi skirt and a pair of pleated chiffon harem trousers for $3 total. ARE YOU KIDDING ME? Yes Please!
Noon: I walk to Bradley's and we drive to American Apparel. They have loads of chiffon. We borrow $1600 in merchandise from my friend Matt. We take it home to style our wardrobe for tomorrow (in other words, drink a beer, listen to Thee Oh Sees and play dress-up.
7:30pm: I have an article deadline tonight for a local glossy. I'm trying to figure out how to incorporate this gloomy, avant garde editorial my friends and I are shooting this weekend into a summer trend story. It works.
9:22pm: My friend from Canada arrives and we walk to the Ethiopian restaurant nearby.
11:01am: Wake up and get dressed to pick up a keg and some sharpies for a yard sale / block party I'm throwing at my house. The reasons? Two good friends are moving away, I have several out-of-town friends visiting and my birthday is on Monday. Plus I'm moving out of my house next week so I have to get rid of most of my stuff. June-October I will be traveling from California to Toronto to Hawaii attending weddings, shooting editorials, and visiting friends and family. Also…? Why not?
1:08pm: Bradley and Abraham arrive and we have coffee on my porch.
2:26pm: Friends start arriving, bringing their own stuff to sell, playing dress-up, taking photos, watching the sunset from our porch and rooftop, dancing, singing and playing guitar. The party lasts about 12 hours. It's summertime. Yes please!
11:02am: I go downtown to watch my friend's vintage store, Preen. Thank god it's slow. I spend my time putting wacky outfits on the mannequins and altering a pair of vintage Moschino jeans I got in London last year.
As much as I will miss my endearingly weird friends in Tucson, I'm excited to spend the summer with my friends and family in various locales and events all over California, and then meet my future boss in Toronto. Come early fall, I'll be spending a month or two with Bradley in Hawaii, where we will attempt to reinvent the Honolulu fashion scene! Yep yep!


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Met Opera Building Workers Rally at Lincoln Center
Friday, July 25, 2014
The rally by the union representing the Metropolitan Opera's janitors, ushers and security guards came a day after the company's management warned of a potential lockout.
Met Opera Warns Unions of a Lockout
Wednesday, July 23, 2014
The Met's union negotiations will enter a tension-filled new phase on Friday when lawyers for management and orchestra musicians return to the bargaining table for the first time since early May.
'Asian Blackface' in The Mikado Stirs Controversy in Seattle
Monday, July 21, 2014
A Seattle theater troupe is defending Gilbert and Sullivan's The Mikado over charges that the operetta perpetuates racial caricatures.
Planet Opera: Japan
Wednesday, July 16, 2014
Operavore blogger Fred Plotkin explores the world of Kabuki and modern Japanese operas.
Anna Netrebko is Engaged
Friday, July 11, 2014
The singers began dating in March of this year when they appeared together in a production of Puccini's Manon Lescaut at the Rome Opera House.
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Friday, July 11, 2014
Mieczyslaw Weinberg's 1968 opera The Passenger is not the great, cathartic Holocaust opera that we've been waiting for, writes David Patrick Stearns.
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Friday, July 11, 2014
It's not unusual for an opera singer to start out by dabbling in rock music or show tunes. But for the young soprano Cecilia Violetta López, the entrée to singing was Mexican mariachi music.
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Blogger Fred Plotkin offers part two of his guide to opera in New York City, for listeners who are into great voices, rarities and edgy work.
Holocaust Opera The Passenger to Make Its NY Debut at Park Avenue Armory
Thursday, July 10, 2014
WQXR's Elliott Forrest spoke with Patrick Summers of the Houston Grand Opera, who is conducting this production, about the work's belated New York premiere.
New York City Opera Creditor Seeks to Revive Company
Tuesday, July 08, 2014
Nine months after New York City Opera filed for bankruptcy and canceled its season, the company's board says that it has received five proposals to restart the shuttered organization.
What to Hear in Opera and Vocal Music in NYC: A Guide for All Interests
Monday, July 07, 2014
Operavore's Fred Plotkin considers the many categories of potential opera ticket buyers and suggests performances this coming season in New York that might pique their interest.
All-American African-American Divas
Thursday, July 03, 2014
The almost untranslatable Italian word estro means a sudden inspiration, touched with genius, to create something extraordinary where it was unimaginable before. Here's where it applies to musicians.
Leonardo da Vinci's Unsung Forays into Music
Monday, June 30, 2014
Leonardo da Vinci had many musical interests, as a theorist and a designer of instruments, writes Fred Plotkin. The Renaissance man is now the subject of an exhibition at the Ambrosian Library in Milan.
Video: Verdi Flashmob Surprises Airplane Passengers
Monday, June 30, 2014
What's perhaps most impressive is that Alfredo and Violetta's "Brindisi" unfolds in a small regional jet.
Sense and Sustainability in the Opera House
Friday, June 27, 2014
"The questions of sustainability, which is the central organizing concept of the way we must live now if we are to survive, should be examined in the context of the opera houses," writes Fred Plotkin.
Julius Rudel, New York City Opera Impresario, Dies at 93
Thursday, June 26, 2014
The conductor Julius Rudel, who ran New York City Opera during its golden age, from 1957 to 1979, died on Thursday in Manhattan. He was 93.
Metropolitan Opera House Vandalized
Wednesday, June 25, 2014
A vandal attacked the Metropolitan Opera early Wednesday morning, leaving a trail of spray-painted vulgarities inside the house and near the bandshell.
Soprano Fired From Opera Australia Over Anti-Gay Slurs
Monday, June 23, 2014
The Georgian soprano Tamar Iveri has been released from her contract with Opera Australia after an anti-gay rant on her Facebook page provoked an angry backlash.
Not Just Jungle: Opera in Brazil's Amazon Cup City
Friday, June 20, 2014
With Manaus playing host to four World Cup matches, the Belle Epoque gem is a must-see for the foreigners who flooded in for the tournament.
Things Are Looking Up for Opera in Northern Italy
Friday, June 20, 2014
"Opera companies the world over face challenges nowadays and there are those in Italy (Florence, Genoa and elsewhere) that are troubled. But there is good news too," writes Fred Plotkin.


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Market Analysis 2003
Graphics Wars in 2003: The Big Picture
Talking about the year 2003, I could venture a few suppositions about the results of the year as well as the directions the industry is going to move along:
- The graphics card market taken at large is shrinking as Intel's integrated chipsets are quite successful at competing with "lowest-end" standalone solutions ("just show me anything on the screen"). On the other end of the price scale, we see top-end devices gaining in popularity as the more clients consider expensive graphics cards as an option. The tendency may become dangerous for the companies that have a surplus of cheap GPUs. The processor may stick in the storehouse longer than its lifecycle of 6-12 months.
- Both leaders in the field are walking the same track as neither NVIDIA nor ATI Technologies could create anything principally new in the last year. While it is all clear with NVIDIA – the company was late with its GeForce FX by half a year and cannot now physically offer anything new – ATI Technologies is another question. The R300 was first unveiled in the summer of 2002 and since then the company has created only three graphics chips (R300, R350 and RV350) to power all the range of its graphics solutions. NVIDIA was somewhat more flexible launching 5 new chips since November 2002, but never leaving the framework of the NV3x architecture of course.
- Although the market itself is growing, both companies are most aggressive in marketing, emphasizing the problems of the competitor's products. Considering the delays with new GPU architectures, the reason for the squabble is simple: they both don't have enough money and resources to keep up the development rate.
- NVIDIA's attempting to cheat and refusing to explain its position did more harm to the company than the humble performance results of the graphics processors. Many users just don't believe NVIDIA anymore, the inertness of the company's PR department even worsening the situation. On the other hand, we've seen the same with ATI Technologies when the company's spokesmen couldn't definitely answer the questions concerning some rendering errors, which were suspected to be cheating attempts.
The battle of the two graphics giants can be viewed from several points of view, not only with respect to technological superiority/inferiority. Let's consider things tangible – the market shares.
If take the computer graphics industry at large, we'll find Intel domineering with its integrated chipsets. So, we'll only focus on the manufacturers of discrete solutions – ATI Technologies and NVIDIA Corporation as well as a handful of smaller players.
At the beginning of the year, the biggest share of the standalone graphics chip market belonged to NVIDIA (57%). That's quite logical considering the company had a solid ground underfoot then. Its reputation was only beginning to be questioned. The Canadian ATI Technologies, a most dangerous rival, came second with 35%. Other players have from 1% to 3% of the total.
Talking about graphics processors for desktop systems, NVIDIA's share was 64% in the first quarter, while ATI had 25% of the market. It seemed like ATI had nothing to be much optimistic about, but we can view the situation from another point of view. For example, comparing the market distribution of sixth-generation GPUs (DirectX 8-compatibles), NVIDIA has 44% of the market, while ATI – 40%. Very close, as you see.
As for portable graphics chips, ATI was even n the lead with 62% of the market. NVIDIA had 28%.
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Lateef's autobiography The Gentle Giant, co-written with Herb Boyd, is due for release within the year and he is excited about his upcoming gig in Manhattan: "I feel honored by being asked to participate. They also engaged me to write some music for the concert, which I've done already. I'm looking forward to it and to playing with Curtis Fuller and Charles McPherson. I saw Charles last week in San Diego, but I haven't seen Curtis Fuller in years. It should be a thrill to play with him again and to play with the [Lincoln Center Jazz] orchestra, a very erudite orchestra."
A product of Detroit's fertile musical environment, Lateef attended Miller High School, where he hung out and jammed with Art Mardigan and Lucky Thompson. "I was there at the same time Milt Jackson was and Kenny Burrell followed after I graduated. There were two teachers, Mr. Goldenberg and John Cebera, and in fact I was there the day that Mr. Cebera suggested that Milt Jackson play the vibraphone. He suggested that I play the oboe, but I didn't take him up on it until years later. They were very serious and that was an influence on us to be serious about the music. Teachers are very important in fashioning their students, what they become. I've never forgotten them. Mr. Cebera's father, who was still in Spain at that time, was a musician and a composer and he used to send us compositions that we played with the high school band. That was one reason that we became very popular and played for many other high schools' affairs. At that time, in the '40s, to be playing this Spanish musicit was unprecedented." Another Detroit high school, Cass Technical, produced the likes of Geri Allen, Ron Carter, Donald Byrd, Regina Carter, Paul Chambers, Wardell Gray, Sir Roland Hanna, Doug Watkins and Gerald Wilson.
A long-time educator himself, Lateef has now retired from teaching African-American music and composition at the colleges of Hampshire, Amherst, Smith and the University of Massachusetts. "What I try to do with students is to help them find what they're looking for; once I find that out, then I try to start moving them in that direction. I recommend practice, education, performance, teaching and composing. And of course it's important to study other scientists, because they seem to overlap, in my thinking; like for example philosophy, when you look at the pre-Socratics, who taught that numbers are things. The Schillinger Method of Musical Composition did the very identical thing. So I encourage my students to have options or alternatives."
Similar to Duke Ellington, who disliked being pigeonholed as a 'jazz' musician and who referred to the music and musicians that inspired him as "beyond category", Lateef is careful with language. "I don't refer to my music as 'jazz', because of the ambiguity of the term; so I coined my own term for my music: it's autophysiopsychic music. The word is self-explanatory, if you look at it; it means music from the physical, the mental and spiritual self. That's the meaning I have for what I do. I taught a class at the Manhattan School of Music after I graduated [from] there; I was in the theory department and I had to write what my class was about and I coined the term at that time." Lateef is also wary of the word improvisation. "Improvised? That term is kind of strange also, because when you look up the definition it says, 'to do something without previous preparation.' Now, in essence, if that were true, you wouldn't have to practice; you wouldn't need preparation. You could take a carpenter and give him the saxophone and let him go play."
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Skip to comments.The War Against The Young
Posted on 05/06/2012 4:15:30 PM PDT by OddLane
An analysis of recent jobs figures at Investor.com reveals a disturbing development: the biggest beneficiaries from the economic recovery are Boomers, while everyone else is getting the shaft.
Since the Obama administration took office, there has been an epochal shift. Young workers have continued to lose jobs and incomes, while older workers have actually gained ground.
In fact, the Obama administration has seen a boom in the prospects of the 55+ crowd; their (I should say our) employment stands at a 42 year high. Net, there are 3.9 new jobs for people over 55 since the recession began in December 2007, but there are 8.1 million fewer jobs for the young folks since that time.
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WHAT recovery!?
That's because the best way to get a job is to already have a job, and the boomers aren't giving up their jobs to retire because they know that the pension fund dominoes are going to fall any time now.
Well duh. Who are you going to lay off? The seasoned vets or the temps. Who are you going to hire, people with a resume or people just entering the workforce? Yeah, I'm a boomer and doing well in the last two years. Working long hours and carrying twenty somethings along the way to do it. If I were unemployed right now, my age would be a minus in being hired to a good job. I suppose someone got paid government money to come to this concccclusionc
Well duh. Who are you going to lay off? The seasoned vets or the temps. Who are you going to hire, people with a resume or people just entering the workforce? Yeah, I'm a boomer and doing well in the last two years. Working long hours and carrying twenty somethings along the way to do it. If I were unemployed right now, my age would be a minus in being hired to a good job. I suppose someone got paid government money to come to this conclusion
For one thing, older workers know how to work. They do not spend the day on cellphones, call out sick once or twice a week, or steal from the register.
That's not quite all of it. The younger they are the more imbecilic on average they are as a result of the influence of government schools and the media. The average 20 year-old lacks the education and character to work at a car wash.
There are, of course, exceptions, and your mileage may vary.
Plus, they have been conditioned to believe that delayed gratification (only buying things that you have the cash to pay for) is something that only a mentally ill person would do.
Interesting because Pew Research just published a report showing the boomers where the hardest hit group in the long term unemployed category.
OK, is this trend by design or an unintended consequence?
Is this just another Zero ploy to stir up unrest in the young and to further class jealousy?
Nah, Zero can't pull that one off, I figure it is just another case of Obummer doing his thing trying to stall the economy while not bringing down the whole enchilada until after the election.
I think all the guys who say Romney is the same as Obama are gonna get some learning in the school of hard knocks if Obama manages to get re-elected. They may be similar in many respects, but unlike Zero, I think Romney has some respect for this country.
Labor Force Disappears in Obamas Depression
/snip - The big news in Fridays employment report was not the miserable 115,000 jobs the economy added in April, but the disappearance of 340,000 workers from the labor force. We havent seen unemployment on this scale since the Great Depression. Indeed, since Obama took office, the labor force participation rate has fallen from 66% to 63% as almost 5 million American adults stopped looking for work. About a fifth of working-age Americans arent working and a fifth of all personal income is transfer payments.
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I received an email that has ratcheted up my concern.
Maybe, just maybe, Obama isn't concerned about reelection, as he never intends for the election to occur. Please do not hesitate to criticize here, but keep in mind the economic situation is very shakey right now, so an economic collapse used as an excuse to take over the nation in a dicitatorship isn't unreasonable.
Funny. That first graph sure doesn't look like employment for those 55 and older is at a 45 year high.
I certainly would not be surprised at anything Obama tried. The stopper for that scenario, IMO, is that he couldn't count on US troops to fire on civilians.
Now if he has an SS hiding somewhere - eek.
There are all sorts of games that can be played with segmentation as well as statistics. Note the missing word: rate. The 55+ age cohort has been rapidly increasing in total numbers as well as perxentage of population, so the segment has as well. That means that total employment can be at a 45 year high while unemployment can be at another high. Rate of employment or unemployment is one thing, total employment or unemployment is another. The same statement could be made, that unemployment is at a 45 year high, too, and be just as accurate. It's actually likely that unemployment is at an all time high for 55+, since the rate is up there as is the total number within the segment, when compared to any past period, even the Great Depression. There were far fewer 55+ individuals overall then.
I can't agree more. By and large, older workers bring a work ethic with them. I expect that many younger workers think that they are entitled to a large pay check but, do they show up on time, and work their entire shift? In the industry I am in now, we have a huge problem with the work ethic of younger workers. Many of them don't seem to be focused on work and can't wait to leave, even if the work isn't done. But that won't get factored into any research studies on employment.
"The younger they are the more imbecilic on average they are as a result of the influence of government schools and the media. The average 20 year-old lacks the education and character to work at a car wash."
That's why they made a strong voter base for Maobama.
"For one thing, older workers know how to work."
This seemingly statement is nonetheless profound. The few 20-somethings I have dealt with have been 90% worthless. The incredible thing is that I have found them amazingly uncreative, narrow-minded when they think (rare), unfocused when they don't, and lethargic. As far as their vaunted "computer literacy" is concerned - to put it in computing terms, their multitasking executive has so much overhead that there isn't much left to do actual work with.
And THESE are the ones WITH jobs!
Take out three ''c's'', move an 'i'' and I think he's invented a new word, ''conclucsionic''. "conclucsionic'', that is something already assumed and concluded to be true. "Obamas defeat in 2012 is conclucsionic by all assumptions''.
Yur findings are ver accurate. Obama's test bed was Kenya in 2007, when the "Senator from Illinois" illegally campaigned for his cousin ,in Kenya, Jaramongi Oginga Odinga,in contravention of the US . The platform of Odinga's Orange party called for the Islamification of the Northeastern sectors of Kenya.
When Odinga lost that election,Obama and his leftist adisors had the Orage party take t the streets in protest.The result was the deaths of thousands, not just one thousand as has been rummored, but around 7 thousand deaths all tolled.
In any state where Obama is NOT leading in the polls in the run up to the Nov. 6th election, we will see rioting and violence, stoked by the 13% unemployment in the US black community, created bitterness over Trayvon Martin/George Zimmerman, the warnings to te Supreme Court not to strike the Obama Helathcare bill, the Occupy Moement, etc. If you look at any given area of the nation, you will see a corresonding radical group prepared to do violence , with the DHS positioned to act against "right wing extremists' who fight back, which position was established in 2009 in working papers submitted and accepted by DHS and Janet Naplitano.Include in this base of the violence are Mexican drug cartels now set up and armed in the wilds of Arizona and New Mexico, some on federal lands where US citizens are prohibited from entering.Also included in the mix are radical Muslims who have been training over the years in places like Islamburg in upstate New York, and they are now distributed across the nation, and well armed.
Much of the organization bears the common trait of the Obama movement of organizing and communicating via the internet.
So you are correct becuse the Alinsky plan has been followed by the Obama movement, which has been working for 4 years organizing community radicals into a violence prone base.Part of that is Holders refusal to act against the New Black Party for poll offences in 2008.This article describes the Obama plan accurately:
If Obama wins the election it will be plan A and more of the horrible policies designed to socialize America completely.
Plan B is to wreck the election process and postpone it indefinitely via martial law, all the tools are in place for Obama to do so, from being able to shut down the internet,prohibit air travel via security measures and high fuel prices to prevent freedom of movement, and a vistual censorship ability by a co-operative/commpliant socialist MSM.
The only way that the Obama Movement can be beaten is to define them to the public head on, expose them and ridicule then so that Obama can be defeated.I am not so sure that Romney has the hutzpah do do that, but we will have to see.
>I have found them amazingly uncreative, narrow-minded when they think (rare),
I would posit that to be a result of a) public-school (where group-based thinking must rule) and/or b) summary dismissal of ideas which are not generated via group-based thought. {That is to say, when you get ignored for voicing your thoughts there is a great temptation to stop voicing them.}
>unfocused when they dont,
I would posit that this is a result of being "disconnected" from their "co-processors."
>and lethargic.
Ok, that one I can empathize with. Previously the subject of delayed gratification came up, and well when that gratification is so delayed that you despair of achieving it, sometimes in conjunction with an almost ridicule for it, there is little left to hope for.
A good example might be a guy choosing to save his virginity for marriage, getting ribbed about it from fellow guys, and then realizing just how stacked against him the social* [and legal**] decks are (because he's male), throw in the "modern woman***" as a kicker and why in hell would he want to tie himself to her?
* Society, I find, does its best to ridicule "manly" traits: honor, virtue, logical-thinking (oddly, but look at law and it's current feeling-based bent)
** Legal, is all to ready to behave in unjust manner to men; take restraining orders (which don't require a trial) and how that automatically puts a man on the "prohibited persons" list regarding firearms.
*** Chesterton said that feminism is mode of thought that hates everything feminine; given that society has swallowed feminism, is it any wonder that they hate everyone and everything? (Even at the subconscious levels.)
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ELIZABETH – Wirt County remained in striking distance for more than a half here Tuesday night, but visiting St. Marys was too much as the Blue Devils rolled past the Tigers, 68-33, in the Little Kanawha Conference and regular season girls opener for both programs.
St. Marys head coach Howard Meeks' squad, ranked No. 2 in the Class A preseason poll, received a game-high 15 points from Mikaela Britton. Pivot Kendra Walker tossed in 14 points and led all rebounders with 16.
The Blue Devils forced 39 orange and black turnovers. The Pleasants County program rolled up 23 bench points, led by Jordan Fox's nine, Alyssa Fetty's half dozen and Sara Fetty's five tallies.
Miriam Smith's 3-pointer from a Megan Burns dish late in the opening stanza followed by an Allie Bailey free throw kept the Tigers close after one, trailing only 10-8.
Turnovers continued to hurt the hosts in the first half. Head coach Jeff Smith's team had 13 giveaways in the first quarter and followed that with 10 in the second as St. Marys was able to forge ahead 27-14 at intermission. However, the Blue Devils had 16 turnovers, but attempted 15 more field goals in the opening 16 minutes. St. Marys, which heads Thursday to Tyler Consolidated to begin LKC North Division play, never trailed. Tari Ashworth's 3-pointer for part of her eight markers was the first basket of the season and came 1:39 into the affair. The Tigers only trailed by a baker's dozen at the break because Gwynn Smith's 19-footer banked in at the buzzer.
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Genre trends come and go in the movies, as I've written about before, and I try not to be that critic who goes "they don't make 'em like they used to" and "where are all the movies for grown-ups?" However, I will admit to being a little sad that courtroom dramas have gone by the wayside; a courtroom and a trial is a natural place to set a story with immediate, compelling stakes and built-in conflict. Plus there have been lots of great movies in which a trial is central to the plot or figures highly into it, from "To Kill a Mockingbird" and "A Few Good Men" to "The Insider" and "The Social Network" (the movie centers on depositions for two lawsuits against Mark Zuckerberg). But these all came later; first, there was "12 Angry Men," today's Weekend Streamer. Here are five reasons to watch "12 Angry Men" this weekend.
1- Sidney Lumet: Some directors just have no luck. Sidney Lumet, who just died three years ago at the age of 86, is one of the all-time great directors, but he had the terrible luck to make his best movies in years with really stiff competition, and so he finished his life with only a "Lifetime Achievement Oscar" to his credit. Oscars aren't everything; Orson Welles didn't get one for "Citizen Kane," the consensus pick for the greatest movie ever made, but because he made "Kane" he'll be in the director pantheon forever. So it is with Lumet; he was nominated for Best Director four times in three different decades, and he produced multiple Best Picture nominees, including "12 Angry Men", "Network", "The Verdict" and "Dog Day Afternoon." That's a resume to rival any director there's ever been, and Lumet shows plenty of skill in "12 Angry Men," which was his feature debut. Working within the confines of essentially two sets (a claustrophobic jury room and its adjacent bathroom), Lumet nevertheless find the perfect angle for every shot and never appears to use the same shot twice. It's a master class in maximizing minimal resources and working within a closed space; as the tension in the jury room grows, Lumet gradually brings the camera in tighter on the jurors and lower to the ground to emphasize the growing pressure they're under. I'm all for movies with large sets and epic set pieces, but "12 Angry Men" shows the good results you can get from a master craftsman behind the camera on even the smallest of budgets.
2- Henry Fonda: Like Lumet, Henry Fonda is a genuine Hollywood legend, except he was already famous by the time he made this movie. Even more than Jimmy Stewart, Fonda is the consummate movie good guy; before "12 Angry Men" he was Abraham Lincoln in "Young Mr. Lincoln," Tom Joad in "The Grapes of Wrath" and Wyatt Earp in "My Darling Clementine" (this is why when he finally went bad in Sergio Leone's Spaghetti Western "Once Upon a Time in the West," it was a big deal). But his role as Juror No. 8 (none of the jurors have names) in "12 Angry Men" is probably his defining role. It's not a showy role by any means; he gets a few choice lines, but mostly what he has to do is be the embodiment of basic human decency. As Fonda lays out the case for why the man whose life is in the jury's hands may not be guilty, he starts off with a disarming, almost shy disposition, but he just keeps pushing and pushing, relentlessly poking holes into the evidence and the prosecution's logic until we see why he's one of the 12 angry men: he's angry that nobody else in the jury room takes their duty as seriously as he does, at least not at first. If you ever go to trial, you want Fonda's Juror No. 8 in your jury room.
3- Everyone else in the cast: "12 Angry Men" is chock full of actors who either were or would become some of the era's best, most renowned stars. Fonda's chief opponent is Lee J. Cobb, who three years earlier had starred opposite Marlon Brandon in "On the Waterfront." Jack Klugman, another one of the jurors, went on to fame and fortune in the TV version of "The Odd Couple." John Fiedler had a varied career as a character actor and voice actor; among other roles, he was the voice of Piglet in the many, many Winnie the Pooh adaptations until his death in 2005. Chances are if you watch this movie, you'll see someone you recognize (aside from Fonda, who you should recognize already).
4- The script: In the course of an hour and a half, "12 Angry Men" sketches out 12 distinct characters while also guiding us through a meticulous review by the jury of the evidence in such a way that we, like Fonda's Juror No. 8, may not be convinced the defendant is innocent, but certainly have reasonable doubt. A lot of that is due to the actors, who all dive deeply into their parts and perform with aplomb, but in most movies an actor is only as good as the material they have to work with, so credit must be given to writer Reginald Rose as well. It's a no-frills script, with almost every line revealing something into the mindset of the character who delivers it while also furthering the competing intellectual arguments. Balancing that characters while also telling a tidy story is no easy feat; aspiring writers could learn as much from Rose as directors can from Lumet.
5- The movie's central message is as powerful as ever: Ultimately "12 Angry Men" is not about the defendant's guilt or innocence; it's about the process. We get only one look at the defendant, and he never says a word. But the movie makes a powerful case that the presumption of innocence is one of the important legal protections we have in the United States, and that serving on a jury is one of the most important, solemn duties we have. The most damning sin of the 11 jurors who initially vote to convict isn't prejudice (though there's some of that) or stupidity (a bit of that, too) — it's boredom, a desire to get the trial over with so they can all go back to their lives because the defendant is "obviously guilty." This is what makes Juror No. 8 so mad; you can see it slip through his calm facade during the movie's most heated exchanges. Juries should not be made up of people too stupid or lazy to get out of jury duty; that is the ultimate message of "12 Angry Men."
"12 Angry Men" is available for streaming through Netflix and for rent and purchase on Amazon Instant Video.