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Alan Wake's American Nightmare ReviewBy Jake Gaskill - Posted Feb 22, 2012
Alan Wake's American Nightmare is about as close to a retail-caliber release as the downloadable space has seen yet. It's super polished, the combat is slick and exciting, and the presentation is top notch.
The Pros
- Slick, satisfying combat
- Terrific tone, atmosphere, and presentation
- Pulse pounding and "just one more" survival mode
The Cons
- Story falls flat
- Fights are mostly one-note throughout
Alan Wake's American Nightmare Review:
Before we get started, there are a few things we need to get straight. First off, Alan Wake's American Nightmare is not a true sequel to Remedy's 2010 somewhat polarizing survival horror title Alan Wake. It's more of a narrative one off that picks up following the events of the first game. And secondly, American Nightmare is a standalone downloadable Xbox Live Arcade title so you don't need AW to play it. Now that the formalities are growing smaller in our rear view (sorry, Wake's style is rubbing off on me), we can proceed with the discussion.
Help I'm Stepping Into The Twilight Zone
American Nightmare takes place after the previous game, with haunted and believed-to-be-dead writer Alan Wake once again (and inexplicably) trapped in a nightmare of his own creation. Only this time, he finds himself a prisoner in an old episode of Night Springs, the game's version of the Twilight Zone. Wake wrote the episode many years before he had become a rich and acclaimed novelist, a fact that plays heavily into the theme of the episode, as Wake battles against a murderous, Mr. Blonde-ish version of himself known as Mr. Scratch.
In order for Wake to escape the insanity that surrounds him, he must break the demonic cycle that Mr. Scratch has imprisoned him in. To do this, Wake--or as is referred to in the episode, the "Champion of Light"-- must piece together scattered manuscript pages to recreate yet rewrite the events of the episode and dispose of hordes of Taken foes with his trusty flashlight and high-powered weapons.
It's a familiar premise for anyone who played AW, but there isn't much depth to the story this time around, so a lot of the campiness that worked in the first game comes off as a bit forced because it doesn't have room to breathe. Mr. Scratch's live-action performances have a David Lynch-ian stiffness to them, which definitely adds to their creepiness, but the conclusion feels so abrupt and lacks any real punch that all that potential terror just sort of fizzles out in the end.
Location, Location, Location
Remedy has mentioned in multiple interviews over the past few months that while the vision for AW was Lost meets Stephen King, AN is much more Rod Serling meets classic Americana meets Quentin Tarantino and From Dusk 'Til Dawn. As such, the damp gloom of the Pacific Northwest has been replaced by the deep red and orange hues of Arizona, and rather than scrambling through dense pine forests, Wake now traverses such varied desert locales as a dusty motel, an observatory, and a dilapidated drive-in movie theater. This change of scenery not only perfectly sets the tone for the overall experience, it also gives American Nightmare an identity all its own, something that is absolutely essential when it comes to sequels or franchise additions.
The actual structure of the game is rather clever as well, but seeing as it's high spoiler territory, I won't give it away. What I will say is that the story mode takes around four or five hours to complete (depending on how thorough you are), there are three locations to explore, and the narrative isn't entirely linear. Mysterious enough for you?
Let's Fight
Presentation elements aside, the biggest improvement in American Nightmare over Alan Wake is the combat. This totally makes sense when you consider the folks at Remedy set out to make AN a much more action-focused affair than the predominantly story-driven AW, and boy did they. In addition to the handful of new enemies, each more dastardly than the last, Wake also has access to some hot new weapons with which to disintegrate these abominable creations. Whether it's the new nail gun, Uzi, or hunting rifle, you have plenty of options when it comes to laying waste to the possessed hordes, and they each sound and feel superb, especially the shotgun. Kaboom!
What makes the combat so impressive is the handling. Wake's duck maneuver returns, but when combined with the tighter aiming and smoother character animation, the gunplay takes on an almost balletic quality. Watching in slo-mo as a giant sickle passes inches above your head and then turning on a dime when the camera speed kicks back up and riddling that sickle lover with your Uzi is about as joyous a gaming morsel as you could ask for. It also happens to be heart-pounding as hell. Remember: flashbangs and flare guns are your friends.
To be fair though, the structure of the combat never really evolves beyond the "flashlight to remove evil, shoot, repeat" structure established in the first game, even with the addition of the new brutish type enemies and the improvements made to the controls. It's more satisfying for sure, but chances are it won't win over anyone who didn't care for it the first time around. But if you were a fan of the previous game but just wished the combat were snappier, you are going to eat up American Nightmare; and for $15, it's a must buy.
In addition to the story mode, the game also features a horde-inspired mode called Fight Til Dawn, in which you must survive for 10-minute rounds against increasingly nightmarish waves of enemies. The mode includes five maps that range from a creepy ass oil field to a creepy ass ghost town to a creepy ass (and somehow more depressing) trailer park. Stringing kills together nets you multipliers, so if you want to snag a top spot on the leaderboards, you better get over your instinct to flee and face down your fears because simply surviving won't cut it here.
Fight Til Dawn is an interesting take on traditional horde and survival modes in that it pushes you to defeat as many enemies as you can so you can earn more points but also curbing your enthusiasm by requiring you to survive the allotted time to win. Thanks to the smoothness of the combat, these increasingly intense showdowns bring with them a consistently frightening, spontaneous, and empowering experience that is even more impressive when you consider how methodically paced and structured AW was.
Wake Up
Alan Wake's American Nightmare is about as close to a retail-caliber release as the downloadable space has seen yet. It's super polished, the combat is slick and exciting, and the presentation is top notch. The story is clearly riding shotgun, which highlights some of the rigidness of Alan Wake's stylistic mélange, and the combat is on the one-note side, but the smoking nail gun in Wake's hand and the flickering neon motel sign set against the desert horizon at dusk make American Nightmare hard to resist.
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CHICAGO (AP) - Derian Hatcher scored from just inside the blue line with 5:43 left in regulation, lifting the Dallas Stars to a 2-2 tie with the Chicago Blackhawks on Monday night.
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Volume 16, Issue 2, July 1972
Nearly Viscometric Flow in the Disk and Cylinder System. I: Theoretical16(1972); http://dx.doi.org/10.1122/1.549278View Description Hide Description
For the steady flow of viscoelastic liquids a perturbation theory is developed for a weak secondary flow superimposed on an arbitrary primary flow. The dynamic and kinematic equations are used in a simplified form appropriate to slow flow, but the constitutive equations are not so approximated, being allowed to retain general nonlinear viscoelastic effects. The equations are used to study flow driven by a disk rotating atop a cylindrical tank. The governing equations are solved using Fourier‐Bessel series. Comparison with experimental data is given in part II.
Nearly Viscometric Flow of Viscoelastic Fluids in the Disk and Cylinder System. II: Experimental16(1972); http://dx.doi.org/10.1122/1.549241View Description Hide Description
Radial and tangential velocity distributions are measured for laminar flow of two Newtonian and one viscoelastic fluids in the disk and cylinder system. Velocities are determined from time lapse photographs of small particles suspended in the fluid which is illuminated in thin sections by a collimated beam of light. Measurements are made at Reynolds numbers of 0.0616, 24.4, and 97.6 for the Newtonian fluids and at 0.0371 for the viscoelastic fluid. The distributions are compared with the analyses of Kramer and Johnson in Part I. A toroidal secondary flow is observed which circulates in opposite directions for Newtonian and viscoelastic fluids, and a study of the dependence of the secondary flow direction on fluid properties and disk speed is reported. Complex flow patterns which appear in the region in which the direction of secondary flow changes are described. For Newtonian fluids tangential velocity computations agree to ±5% with the experimental measurements up to a Reynolds number of 24.4, and predicted radial velocities agree with experimental data within 20% at the Reynolds number of 24.4. At a Reynolds number of 97.6 predicted tangential velocities differ from experimental measurements by as much as ±50% while radial velocities differ from experimental values by a factor of two to three. The second order fluid predicts tangential velocities which are twice as large as experimental values and radial velocities which are in error by as much as a factor of six. The WJFLMB model predicts tangential and radial velocities which agree with experiment to within ±20% and ±40%, respectively. A Weissenberg Rheogoniometer is used to measure non‐Newtonian viscosity, complex viscosity, and primary normal stress differences of the viscoelastic fluids, and to measureviscosities of the Newtonian fluids.
Flow of a Nonlinear Heat‐Conducting Viscoelastic Fluid16(1972); http://dx.doi.org/10.1122/1.549242View Description Hide Description
The Koh‐Eringen formulation of nonlinear thermoviscoelasticity is used to study the behavior of a heat‐conducting Rivlin‐Ericksen fluid characterized by a set of constitutive equations involving the coupled dependence of stress and heat flux on temperature gradient and the first two Rivlin‐Ericksen tensors. Slow steady‐state flow of the fluid under a small temperature gradient is considered. With the use of a perturbation technique, the basic equations and boundary conditions are derived for each increasing order of approximation. The first order equations are precisely those of a Newtonian fluid. Succeeding higher order corrections involve linear equations also although the results of preceding lower order approximations are used. The given boundary conditions are satisfied in the first order analysis. Homogeneous boundary conditions are then applicable for higher order corrections. Two specific problems are considered: (1) pressure flow of the fluid between two parallel plates in relative motion and at different constant temperatures; and (2) Couette‐helical flow in the annular region between two coaxial circular cylinders in relative translational velocity parallel to the axis and at two different constant temperatures. Numerical results are plotted for several Eckert numbers and other thermomechanical parameters.
Prediction of the Bagley End Correction Factor and Die Swell for Capillary Flow of an Oldroyd Rate Type Fluid16(1972); http://dx.doi.org/10.1122/1.549243View Description Hide Description
The significance of the Bagley capillary end correction factor and capillary die swell are analytically investigated for a fluid obeying the quasilinear Oldroyd rate type constitutive equation which incorporates the Jaumann differential operator. The Goddard and Miller integration technique is used, under the assumption that the fluid enters the capillary with a fully developed velocity profile, to invert the constitutive equation and to produce an explicit relation for the pressure drop in the capillary. The inlet stress field decay in the capillary is shown to produce both nonlinear die swell behavior and nonlinear pressure drop behavior with increasing The theory is substantiated, in part, with experimental results.
Linear Stability of Plane Poiseuille Flow of Viscoelastic Liquids16(1972); http://dx.doi.org/10.1122/1.549279View Description Hide Description
The stability of plane Poiseuille flow to infinitesimal perturbations was studied for the second order and Maxwell fluid rheological models. When the Deborah number based disturbance propagation is small the second order fluid is a consistent constitutive equation and the two models give identical results. This occurs for elasticity number (E) less than At higher values of E the second order fluid cannot be used. The critical Reynolds number is a slowly decreasing function of E up to and a rapidly decreasing function subsequently in the region where fluid relaxation effects become important. For a sufficiently elastic fluid the flow transition is governed by a new mode of the Orr‐Sommerfeld equation and differs qualitatively from that for a Newtonian liquid. The results suggest the likelihood of low Reynolds numberinstability in highly elastic liquids.
Nonlinear Stability of Plane Poiseuille Flow of Viscoelastic Liquids16(1972); http://dx.doi.org/10.1122/1.549244View Description Hide Description
The stability of plane Poiseuille flow to finite disturbances was studied for the second order fluid using the cascade (Stuart‐Watson‐Reynolds‐Potter) method. The analysis was carried out for elasticity numbers up to In this range the Deborah number based upon disturbance propagation is small and the second order fluid is a consistent constitutive approximation. In contrast to linear theory in this region, elasticity has a stabilizing effect on finite disturbances relative to the Newtonian liquid and the difference between stability behavior of Newtonian and slightly elastic liquids tends to disappear.
The Free Energy Constitutive Equation for Polymer Solutions from the Dumbbell Model16(1972); http://dx.doi.org/10.1122/1.549245View Description Hide Description
The simplest model of flexible macromolecules in a dilute solution is the elastic dumbbell (or bead‐spring) model. This has been widely used for purely mechanical theories of the stress. In this work the model is used to determine the constitutive equation for the free energy and for the stress under nonisothermal conditions. The results are shown to be consistent with the general thermodynamic theory of simple fluids with fading memory.
End Corrections in Capillary Flow of Polymer Melts with Nonzero Exit Pressures16(1972); http://dx.doi.org/10.1122/1.549246View Description Hide Description
Capillary flow data for a polypropylene melt exhibiting a positive exit pressure are analyzed using the normal Bagley correction procedure. The results obtained by this method are shown to be the same as those derived by the Hagenbach‐Couette procedure. The agreement is exact because the Bagley procedure implicitly involves a linear extrapolation to zero exit pressure. Thus it is not necessary to subtract the exit pressure from total pressure drop as suggested by other workers. The Bagley procedure correctly adjusts data obtained for polymer melts in capillary flow experiments even if a positive exit pressure exists.
Microstructure of Melt Blended Polymer Systems16(1972); http://dx.doi.org/10.1122/1.549247View Description Hide Description
Two thermodynamically incompatible polymers were melt blended. The resulting microstructure and, consequently, the physical properties were dependent on the blending conditions and the rheological properties of the components. In this study the blending conditions were held constant while the rheological properties were varied and correlated with dispersioncharacteristics of the phases and the physical properties of the composite. A series of five atactic polystyrenes (weight average molecular weight from 75,000 to 400,000) and five linear polyethylenes (weight average molecular weight from 43,000 to 347,000) were used. The blending was done over a range of composition ratios in a normal stress extruder. Viscosity and normal stress of each pure component were measured in torsional flow. The mixed extrudates were examined by light interference microscopy,scanning electron microscopy, and solvent leaching. The nature and the fineness of the microstructure were interpreted in terms of the composition ratios, mixing history, and the melt rheological properties of the components. It was concluded that the fineness of the minor phase in a shear mixing process is a function of the difference between both the viscous and elastic behavior of the components.
Velocity Profiles in Tube Flow16(1972); http://dx.doi.org/10.1122/1.549248View Description Hide Description
It is proposed to show that a paper presented by Gerrard, which asserts that the velocity profile of a fluid flowing through a tube can be uniquely determined by measuring the thrust and the corresponding flow rate, is incorrectly formulated. An example is discussed that demonstrates the nonuniqueness of the velocity profile at a fixed ratio of thrust to flow rate.
Note: Predictions of the Spriggs Viscoelastic Model for the Biaxial Extensional Viscosity16(1972); http://dx.doi.org/10.1122/1.549280View Description Hide Description


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Albert Almora's Season is Over
A bone bruise in his groin has been the problem, and Almora will sit out the final two weeks of the season.
A bone bruise in his groin has been the problem, and Almora will sit out the final two weeks of the season.
The Iowa Cubs are playing at home for the last time this year.
I almost made a huge mistake today.
Stephen Strasburg is easy to knock around, right?
Choo would certainly address some of the Cubs' offensive woes, but he's going to be expensive.
After a 4-4 night with two homers, Baez's numbers are insane. Wait. They already were.
Jake Arrieta had a "down" last night, but the upside is so clear that it's worth riding it out for a little while.
Javier Baez had another ridiculous game at Tennessee, but another couple guys stole the show. Kind of.
Social Media Night was a great success, even if the outcome of the game wasn't.
Starlin Castro swings to the other end of the lineup, and Anthony Rizzo is right behind him. Why not?
An all-around solid player and teammate, David DeJesus was an enjoyable part of some bad teams.
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City council moves projects forward
MARTINSBURG – Martinsburg City Council members voted to move three projects along during their meeting Thursday, but on split votes.
On a 5-1 vote, council members approved the plan for improvements to the East Burke Street parking lot. The plan was prepared by Lisa Dall'Olio of the Martinsburg architectural firm Grove and Dall'Olio, who presented several options to council members at earlier meetings.
The plan preferred by council members would remove the tree island in the middle of the lot; would angle parking spaces; would reduce traffic to one way; and would add more green space to reduce stormwater runoff.
Also, the Spring Street entrance and exit to and from the lot would be closed, which would create space for after-hours outdoor activities.
There would be 40 metered spaces, 44 spaces reserved for cars with city parking permits and 39 private spaces for a total of 123 spaces, which would be a net loss of 12 spaces, under this plan.
The estimated cost of this plan would be $326,520.
Council members voted 5-1 to authorize Grove and Dall'Olio to prepare the engineering and design work for the approved parking lot improvements and to prepare the bidding documents at a cost of $10,400.
Council members will decide whether to go ahead with the project after the bids come back.
Councilmen Dennis Etherington, Kevin Knowles, Max Parkinson, Roger Lewis and Jason Baker voted for both motions. Councilman Donald Anderson voted no on both motions.
Councilman Gregg Wachtel did not vote. He chaired the meeting in the absence of Mayor George Karos.
In other action, council members approved repairs to the North Queen Street underpass that had been recommended by the Martinsburg engineering firm of Alpha Associates, which had presented the results of a structural engineering study of the underpass to council members at earlier meetings.
The estimated cost of the repairs is $417,740.
Council members voted to have Alpha Associates do the design and engineering for the improvements and prepare the bidding documents at a cost of $33,425, as well as coordinate meetings among the city, CSX and the West Virginia Division of Highways at a cost of $4,750 maximum.
Council members will decide whether to go ahead with the repairs after the bids for the project come back.
Council members also authorized Alpha Associates to complete a stormwater study of Liberty Street and North Queen Street at the underpass and evaluate the sanitary sewer at that location for a cost of $9,025.
Additionally, council members voted to have Alpha Associates prepare a streetscape plan that would include landscaping, lighting and cosmetic improvements to the underpass at a cost of $24,665.
The votes on all those motions was 5-1, with Anderson voting no.
Finally, council members voted 5-1, with Anderson voting no, to apply for a $250,000 Chesapeake Bay Green Streets-Green Jobs-Green Towns grant to help pay for a stormwater management project at the South Church Street and West King Street intersection.
And council members voted unanimously to request that the state DOH participate in the South Church Street and West King Street stormwater management project because West King Street is a state highway, carrying U.S. 11, W.Va. 9 and W.Va. 45 through Martinsburg.
Prepared by Alpha Associates, the two-phase project would cost a grand total of about $2.5 million.
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Exactly. People are talking as if having such a low salary cap has actually helped clubs to stay afloat when actually the size of the salary cap does not appear to have any impact at all upon the ability of a club to stay afloat. Whether or not clubs stay in business appears to depend on the management of those clubs. As we have heard more back story to Wakefield, Bradford and Salford, all appear to have had terrible management structures and practices and it was these things which caused the clubs to go under, regardless of the salary cap. And now comments have been made about Castleford and the attitude towards management matters there suggesting that their difficulties again have foundations in the way the club is run rather than the salary cap limit.
Yeah, cos clubs don't go bust with a salary cap do they?
Personally I don't think there should be a free for all but I think the time is overdue for a rise in the cap. Taking the socialist approach is not working, in fact it could be said that it is holding the better managed clubs back.
A very good example of a club run on a shoestring budget that is doing incredibly well is Sheffield. There is a business model that perhaps some Superleague clubs could follow.
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Robert J. Prenevost, 90, died Jan. 10, 2013, at The Pines at Rutland.
He was born May 13, 1922, in West Rutland, the son of Alfred and Beatrice (Viezna) Prenevost.
He was a graduate of West Rutland High School.
He was employed by Rutland Railroad Co, Howe Scale Inc. and Ronays Famous Shoes.
He was a member of Immaculate Heart of Mary Church, Rutland Elks Lodge, Rutland Moose Lodge and Eagles Club.
He was a fan of the N.Y. Giants and N.Y. Yankees.
Surviving are a son, Robert W. Prenevost and his wife, Nancy of Bomoseen; two grandchildren, Jason Prenevost of Bomoseen, and Kristen Ramey of Hampton, N.Y.; and two great-grandsons, Aubrey and Sawyer Ramey.
He was predeceased by his wife, Lucille (Sharp) Prenevost in 2004.
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The nosegear... well, it's just flimsy. It's pretty thin wire, and unless you land it perfectly, it bends pretty easy. There's a pretty tight V-bend in it to allow for the nosewheel steering arm to hold onto, and you can only straighten it out a few times before it breaks. It's stuck up into the plane and held on with a piece of rubber (kinda like a small diameter fuel tube) that slips over the strut and holds it in place. I made a new strut out of thicker wire and used a metal wheel collar with set screw to hold it in place.
It would be a good plane to run without landing gear... easy fuselage to hold onto for hand launches, and the motors won't be eating up a bunch of debris on landing. The hardest part about hand launching it will be not hitting yourself in the head with the wingtip...
Thanks...Yeah I was looking at that A-10...Looks like it could be a good airframe for these guts.
I would definitely hand toss it though...My flying field is not EDF-friendly with gear.
A lot of cool kits out there sold out!
I would love this one but it's 70MM twin and looks a little too big and heavy for hand tossing...But killer scale looks...
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As far as I recall I set them to soft cutoff. I set all my twins to soft cutoff but the issue you can still get is that even on soft cutoff there is no guarantee both ESCs will hit cutoff simultaneously. Even when set to the same setting one may react .1 volt different than the other. I had an issue like this actually on my GWS F15. After about 20 second of full throttle one motor would throttle down and the other kept running just fine. I had to set the cutoff voltage lower than I normally would and then it worked just fine. I have always since then flown twins by noting the mah put back into the battery and flying on a timer to 80% lipo capacity to ensure I never get close to a LVC situation. Of course this all assumes that is what happened.
You're on final and you've misjudged the time by 12 seconds...power goes off at the worst time. Funny how we save our $35 lipo and potentially sacrifice the $400 plane with LVC settings...my batts will cook before they cut out...hasn't happened yet, timer and wrist watch alerts LV, but my batts will go before the plane does.
LVC is sort of like an unstart on the real one.
You can say that again. LOL
Regarding cockpit deflection during flight, did you simply glue your nose onto the main body as per the instructions or did you add any structural braces inside before glueing it together? I cut out 2 plywood braces and epoxied them into the sides of the main body to make a joiner... the nose then slipped over them when I epoxied it on. Mine feels very rigid as a result I cannot bend the cockpit part of the plane in relation to the main body by hand.
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I will definitely perform an extensive bench test on my electronics before I put them in the next airframe, whether it's another SR-71 or a different plane. I really think it was my battery. I won't be buying any more Nanotechs.
I did not add any structural braces in this airframe. I've done that in the past but I figured I would be repairing this one like all the ones before and since it tends to clean break at the glue line, I wanted it to be easy to clean out and repair.
You know those addicting games where you keep crashing or burning or losing in the end? It's so frustrating yet so addicting, you can't seem to help yourself so you start the game over and over and over, hoping you will finally master it.
That's precisely how I feel about this plane.
All I want for my birthday and Christmas this year is a manufacturer to come out with a SR-71 Blackbird as smooth and easy to fly and enjoy as the Real Flight 6 Expansion 7 pack version...
It feels and sounds like a turbine. Much larger and heavier than these little 64MM's we try to skip around our fields. That's one reason why it flies much more stable. Overall flight dynamics is similar but there is a wider envelope for error on the sim obviously that you can never ask for in real life. However, I KNOW this bird could be manufactured much, much better than these LX and Maxjets.
It would require a much larger air frame, a higher power system...It would probably defeat the purpose of inexpensive RC flying. Something I am thinking of would probably retail for $1,000.00 at the very least.
But I would pay the higher figure if a much larger stable platform was behind the price tag. I know the air frame would never be considered "easy to fly", the nature of the design itself would ensure that. But something closer to what you see in my video above should not be out of the realm of possibility nor our pocket books.
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Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 Popular Culture and the Comic Book
Chapter 3 Cutting up Comics: Re-drawing and Re-reading
Chapter 4 Reading Performances as Social Participation
Chapter 5 Expert Comic Book Readers: More than a Subculture
Chapter 6 Conclusion
Chapter 1: Introduction.
Comic book reading is an act of social participation. I will refer to what I call the "expert reader" as an exemplary and representative figure. I assume in this regard that reading comics seriously is not qualitatively different from casual reading. Through their omnipresence and availability alone, comic books possess the ability to remind us of the fundamentally social nature of culture. But there is something about their structure as objects, the relationship between image, text, and layout, that defies the ordinary notion of reading as an isolated act in which the reader gives herself exclusively to an autonomous content through the text. Reading a comic book extends the act and the reader into popular culture in a way that I conceive of as collective and performative, and it is this that Fantastic Reading is intended to make explicit. The book strategically places the comic book at the center of contemporary debates about culture. It begins with the assumption that comic books are instances or tokens of popular culture and, as such, they are both unbounded and multi-dimensional. In order to clarify this, I discuss five basic ideas that reflect recent changes in the theory and method of cultural studies: (1) culture is generative rather than a sedimentation of the past; (2) participation in popular culture involves an active engagement with its objects (which are in principle open and shareable); (3) active engagement with cultural objects of this sort is continuous with being cultural as well as social; (4) the comic book form has properties that are intrinsically motivating; (5) expert readers are representative of how comic books are typically read but they are also exemplary of the norm implicit in the reading of comic books.
Most would now agree that the cultural significance of comic books has been underestimated and misunderstood by traditional criticism that assumes an independent and rational standard of evaluation demonstrated largely through institutional and financial support and by the consensus among traditional critics. Fantastic Reading considers the comic book as an example of the generative and creative properties of culture which are features that are only intelligible if reading is performative and if the object is capable of being an object of performativity. Reframing the idea of culture in this way and in this regard allows us to examine the structural features of intrinsically performative objects such as comic books. This begins with an identification of the qualities of comic books that give them their special social and cultural significance, through a detailed description and analysis of examples. Writings of and inter-views with comic book artists and accounts of instances of reading by expert readers are supplemented by several thought experiments having to do with modifying structure and exploring the implications of various modifications for reading.
Analysis of the comic book as a destabilizing object that embodies and elicits the social allows me to show how reading can be an act of participation in the culturally generative process of confirming the social aspect of life. Fantastic Reading focuses on the transformations that have taken place in our concepts of culture and the popular and on how the cultural object must be thought of according to the idea that culture is both generative and popularly engaging in a social way. Reading comic books is, in a sense, object-driven and essentially dialogical. Readers regularly reference other texts, figures, events, and the like from past, present, and future, and they apparently do this while reading and not only when reporting on reading. That is one way in which the reading of comic books can be understood as socially participatory. Another, and perhaps more important, way involves analyzing the structure of the comic book in order to show what about it inevitably constitutes a participatory aspect of the activity of reading. I illustrate this through close readings of comic books, experiments involving redrawing and rereading portions of them, and interviews with readers in the midst of reading. The idea that reading comic books is essentially dialogical challenges the claim that one can distinguish between high and low culture on the grounds that each requires a different degree of seriousness or that the value of one is superior to the value of the other. Popular culture, which is now thought of in cultural studies as neither high nor low, is socially reflexive and, as I hope to show, is "one of the sites where this struggle for and against the struggle for and against a culture of the powerful is engaged…. It is partly where hegemony arises, and where it is secured" (Stuart Hall). I qualify this by arguing that the most significant mean-ing of "a culture of the powerful" is a strictly individualistic culture in which performativity has no place.
Chapter 2: Popular Culture and the Comic Book.
Comic books are popular texts which facilitate participation in the generative aspect of culture and constitute an experience of sociality at the level of the individual. Chapter one provides the reader with an overview of the conceptual frameworks utilized in Fantastic Reading and introduces the following theoretical concepts: popular culture, culture, the popular, and the social. It presents a short history of the debates around the use of these concepts, leading to a discussion of culture as a generative course of activity. Among the theorists addressed are Thompson, Bakhtin, Butler, Burke, Hall, Samuel, and Shiach. Their writings differ from the earlier model of culture as the fixed sedimentation of tradition (Parsons, Bell). Structural-functionalists such as Talcott Parsons present culture as a relatively stable institution based on shared values and meanings. Culture viewed within this framework is a conservative force based on tradition (Parsons, Bell). The framework is, however, overly general and fails to account for the fluidity and the disruptive qualities of culture which allow for a more positive view of popular culture in the constitution of society. Logically, it follows that a theory of culture that does not seriously address the role of the popular in society will not leave room for a serious discussion of popular mobilizations and social movements.
Conversely, if one no longer conceives of culture as a totality of relatively fixed shared values and meanings and as essentially inert, then the types of activities deemed appropriate as objects of cultural studies must be intrinsically more ambiguous than had been thought, and the types of ambiguity they manifest must be the sort which sustains activity, which promotes difference and engages forms of participation and pleasure. Fantastic Reading begins from the premise that the activity of culture is one that places the ideas of participation and identity at the center, viewing the reading of comic books as an instance of participation. This said, if reading comic books is participation in the social, then the comic book itself must have properties that facilitate participation and I explore these properties in a way that allows me to rethink the nature of cultural artifacts. The comic book looks very different when framed according to a generative view of culture. Following the lead of comic book artists, this analysis moves away from the high art/low art debate and instead focuses on the unique features of comic books and the ways in which those features come together to create the comic book (McCloud, Eisner, Carrier).
Earlier conceptions of comic books have focused on the hybrid qualities of the comic book, drawing comparisons to film, literature, and paintings. However, more recent explorations by comic book writers, artists, and critics argue for a medium unto its own, positing that comic books and graphic novels inhabit their own space within the world of literature and visual representations. Fantastic Reading explores in some detail the properties of comic books that suggest that this is true, focusing on both literary and visual properties. Furthermore, these features facilitate a certain type of reading in people who truly engage the object.
Chapter 3: Cutting up Comics: Re-drawing and Re-reading.
As a form of popular culture, the comic book compels expert comic book readers to partake in the social, to constitute sociality. Moving from artifact of the comic book to the process of reading comic books, this chapter analyzes reading through an experimental 'cut and paste' method to highlight the unique elements of the comic book and the ways in which these elements impact the process of reading and ultimately, of participation.
Fantastic Reading highlights the fact that reading comic books needs to be understood in terms of the history and qualities of comic books and the nature of reading something with that history and those qualities. As I show in this chapter, the combination of text and image engenders a reading process that has momentum yet is constantly disrupting itself. This disruption is facilitated by technical aspects of the medium which include elements specific to comic books – such as panel-to-panel transitions, placement of text, style of lettering, etc. In addition to these aspects, the distinctive combination of the visual, textual and narrative in comic books allows for a different type of reading, a reading which provides for an increased recognition of process and of the hand of the artist (Eisner, McCloud, Harvey).
In this chapter, I redraw pages from comic books to allow the reader to join me in "stopping time" to look at the process of reading comic books. When people read comics, they engage the space between the materiality of images and the thought-provoking linearity of text and connect with the tension intrinsic to this space. A manipulation of panel-to-panel changes and the accompanying analyses bring about a heightened awareness of the steps involved in reading comic books and consequently, facilitate the exploration of a conception of culture as creative, active, and fluid. As comic book artists have known for years, the reader has little choice but to create and recreate the narrative from panel to panel (McCloud).
The special characteristics of the comic, the contradictory elements that motivate read-ing, allow one to say that it is a process of continual re-ordering. The reader becomes increasingly involved in dealing with the ambiguities and other such tensions which are inherent in the object, drawing upon their own personal histories to make sense of their readings. Specifically, the comic book reader is implicated in a kind of dialectic in which visual associations and linear narration interact, producing thought processes realized only at the point at which what is read joins what is practiced beyond mere reading, in the social reflexivity of popular culture.
Chapter 4: Reading Performances as Social Participation.
Expert comic book readers approach comic book reading as an active form of social participation. In Fantastic Reading, expert comic book readers are defined as readers with a sustained history of comic book reading, reading at least a book a week for the past two years. This chapter focuses on the uncontainable and multi-directional process of participation in popular culture, through an analysis of the 'reading performances' of several experts. As part of a longer, in-depth inter-view, expert comic book readers were asked to read aloud, to perform a reading of selected texts. Their performances allow us to reexamine the process of reading, and ultimately, the process of participation, through the framework of the comic book.
An exploration of what happens when people read comic books must also ask why we should stop to look at this process. There is something aesthetically pleasing and intensely social involved in reading comic books which occurs in the connection between a subject (the expert comic book reader) and a seemingly fixed object (the comic book). Fantastic Reading posits that three major areas account for the pleasure and semblance of sociality: the everyday social accessibility of comic books; the freedom they have as a conventionally degraded art form; and the creative reading that the medium requires of its readers. The activity that occurs when people engage artifacts of popular culture such as the comic book is not oriented merely by consumption but also by a desire for participation. The reader's engagement takes the form of an interaction which is responsive not just to a fixed form and content but, takes the form of an attraction to the destabilizing features and intrinsic ambiguities of the object. This tension is explored through an analysis of reading performances by expert comic book readers.
Subsequent to the performances, the readers interviewed were asked to reflect upon their own readings and the different types of readings they produced. This is illustrated through an analysis of the kinds of comments readers made about the process of reading a comic book in the midst of reading it and upon reflection. Expert comic book readers discuss their own readings in ways that highlight their awareness of the social nature of comic book reading, making connections to other texts, new forms of social media, people, peer groups, and social gatherings. In providing details of their own reading histories and reading processes, the expert comic book readers in Fantastic Reading illustrate the multi-directional nature of this social and cultural activity.
Chapter 5: Expert Comic Book Readers: More than a Subculture.
Expert comic book readers are active cultural participants in society, exhibiting complex and varied interests and social connections. This chapter shows that participants in popular culture -such as comic book readers – have been depicted in numerous ways. The polar ends of these depictions come from radically different schools of thought. At one extreme is the image of the comic book reader as a passive recipient of mass culture (Rosenberg and White). The opposite extreme provides a more positive and active depiction of the relationship between popular culture and politics, based on the notions of subculture and resistance (Hebdige, Hall et al (eds.)). In Fantastic Reading, comic book readers are depicted as multi-dimensional, moving beyond the mass society literature while avoiding reducing participation in popular culture to politics and the romanticization inherent in sub cultural depictions.
In general, I found the comic book readers I interviewed to be highly intelligent and articulate and to have diverse interests. They made aesthetic connections between what is typically viewed as high culture (Monet, Handel, and Miles Davis) and what is viewed as low culture (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Star Trek, and Batman). Above all, it was evident that these were readers in all senses of the word and that much of their time is spent sharing that experience, discussing and making sense of what they have been reading. They read in anticipation of discussion with book clubs, work colleagues, classmates, fellow comic book readers, and other active members of society.
Chapter 6: Conclusion.
Fantastic Reading concludes with findings that are substantially different from what others have said about the contents of comic books and their effects. This book connects the artifact of the comic book to a process-oriented idea of culture, provides an original descriptive analysis of comics that focuses on highlighting those aspects which complicate the process of reading; and provides an analysis which sheds light on reading as a social act, as an act of participation.
From the outset, the comic book was framed as a cultural artifact that facilitates social participation. Comic book reading represents a location where the process of culture is evident, where activity is driven by both its object(s) and its subject(s). Focused attention on interactions with such objects allows one to see culture as a generative activity involving an ongoing reconciliation of a multiplicity of orientations.
The conception of culture identified with cultural studies requires an analysis of cultural objects which reveals their essentially dialogical character and Fantastic Reading shows that reading comic books can be said to be intrinsically social even during its ostensibly solitary moments. Through the analysis of comic books, comic book reading, and comic book readers, I further the conversation on definitions of culture, the popular, and ultimately, the social. The act of reading comic books is effectively an act of participation in a greater cultural process; an act of maintaining the social contract (Saussure).


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"The 47th Annual CMA Awards" 8 p.m., ABC "Country music's biggest night" – as the show bills itself – hopes to get that title back tonight; the ratings for the ACM Awards in April topped the 2012 CMAs in the battle of the anagrammatic rivals.
Both shows have morphed over the decades into popular TV events by mimicking the Grammys, where the awards play second fiddle to the musical performances. But where the Grammys book guests from Alicia Keys to ZZ Top, the CMAs stretch all the way from Underwood (Carrie) to Urban (Keith).
Still, next to the vanilla-pudding ACMs, the CMAs seem downright radical. Sure, Taylor Swift and the aforementioned "American Idol"-approved pair will be present tonight, along with the inescapable Rascal Flatts and Blake Shelton and Miranda Lambert, but so will a few guests from the other side of the country music line, including Dave Grohl, Jason Mraz and Darius Rucker.
For those who can suffer the self-congratulatory nature of an awards show, the CMAs offer country music fans a good deal of enjoyment in a three-hour package. Even better: Record it and fast forward to the performances.
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"Survivor: Blood vs. Water" 8 p.m. If you've been thinking about jumping into this season of "Survivor," tonight's episode would be a good place to start. Jeff Probst will be handing out new buffs as the tribes merge, and one of the three people imprisoned on Redemption Island will return to the main game. The merger will be particularly interesting this time, as we see how family bonds will warp game-forged alliances.
"The X Factor" 8 p.m., Fox You can spend three hours watching the biggest stars in country music, or you can spend two watching overproduced karaoke performances by singers of modest talent. "The X Factor" crowds in 12 performances tonight as the fans get their first chance to vote. Can we pick "none of the above"?
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The thrilling screech of eagles and hawks in Hollywood films sends a recognizable tone for a human audience. For animals in the wild, however, that sound means only one thing: the Red-Tailed Hawk is near.
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With a wingspan near four feet, the Red-Tailed Hawk soars above open fields looking for prey. These large birds only weigh in at 3 pounds max where as a dog the same size would weigh ten times as much. Females are larger than males and have a similar appearance to eagles from a distance with their broad, rounded wings.
Their wings flap in a heavy, slow motion using the wind to soar in wide circles over a field. The Red-Tailed Hawk will outstretch his or her legs and descend in a slow dive when ready to attack their prey. Voles, mice, wood rats, rabbits, and ground squirrels often fall victim to the Red-Tailed Hawks grasp.
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Look for these birds high in the sky during your next drive up Northern Indiana or possibly perched on a telephone pole. These birds tend to nest on the tops of tall trees or even in high cliffs. Mating pairs typically last for life and the birds' are very protective of their young.
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Central's Reegan Carter makes a leaping catch against Peacock Saturday. Times-Herald photo by Matthew Gourlie
In a game befitting their long rivalry, the Central Cyclones and Peacock Tornadoes traded big plays Saturday.
In the end the Cyclones made more of them as they scored three second half touchdowns to beat Peacock 22-13 in the Moose Jaw High School Football League semifinal. The win ended the Tornadoes' three year reign as city champions.
The Cyclones will meet the Vanier Vikings in the city final next Saturday.
"It feels so good," said Central senior Chris Brennan who lost to Peacock in the playoffs two of the past three years. "It was intense every single play. It was just hard-hitting, intense, all game."
Though the first half finished scoreless, there was no shortage of drama or desire on the field as both sides made a number of big plays.
"These boys really rose to the occasion," said Central head coach Colin Belsher. "It was 0-0 at the half and it was a test of their character. A lot of these Grade 12s took it personally and stepped up and carried the team in the second half."
Early in the third quarter Central receiver Daniel Bjorge scored on a 62 yard pass and run from Bren Forbes to break the deadlock.
Later in the third quarter Jacques Van Heerden scored on a five-yard run to put the Cyclones ahead 13-0.
Peacock conceded a safety rather than kick into the stuff wind and were down 15-0. The Peacock defence responded when Clay Ludwar's 30-yard interception return gave the Tornadoes the ball deep in Central territory. They finished the drive when Sawyer Buettner found Kyle Dalgarno for an eight-yard touchdown catch with 6:19 left.
The Cyclones responded with a big drive that was capped by a 27-yard Van Heerden touchdown run to extend the lead to 22-7. Van Heerden finished with 157 yards rushing.
Just when it looked like the Tornadoes might be down they fought back again. On their first play after the touchdown, tailback Nathan Fall threw the ball to Dalgarno and he out-ran the Cyclones defence for an 81-yard touchdown. The Tornadoes missed the convert making their challenge even bigger, but didn't quit.
Brennan intercepted his second pass of the game to seal the win in the dying seconds.
Central senior linebacker Braydon Mackey made a pair of huge plays — recovered a Peacock fumble at his own 32 yard line and later intercepting a pass on his own 20.
Bjorge caught five passes for 83 yards and Reegan Carter added four catches for 57 yards. Forbes finished with 151 yards passing.
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Tragic : Robin Williams Dead At 63
The Marin county Sheriff's office has confirmed that Robin Williams was found dead today at his home in Tiburon, CA. An anonymous call was phoned in just before noon today of an unconscious male in his home. Emergency teams arrived within minutes, and Williams was pronounced dead at 12:02. An investigation into the death is underway, but the coroner expects the results to be labeled suicide by asphyxiation.
Williams was a beloved family funnyman, known for everything from Patch Adams, to Aladdin, to Man of the Year and Mrs. Doubtfire. Two generations of families grew up and grew old watching and laughing at his movies. His passing is an utter tragedy, and lifelong fans and friends have already take to Twitter to mourn his passing.
No!!! Robin Williams!?! Hoax? Please say so. :( :(
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RIP Robin Williams. Brilliant actor and comedian. Such sad news.
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We all have different Robin Williams stories. It felt like there were so many of him and yet there will never be another one like him. #RIP
— Mike Drucker (@MikeDrucker) August 11, 2014
RIP Robin Williams. Truly a tragedy
— Jessi Smiles (@jessismiles__) August 11, 2014
His death came as a shock to all, and fans by the millions are feeling a bitter sting remembering all their favorite family movies with Robin. Others fondly remember laughing at his uproarious stand-up routines. Robin Williams will be sorely missed - that is certain.
In the words of the much mourned actor "You're only given one little spark of madness. You mustn't loose it."
Williams was 63. Rest in Peace.
UPDATE: An official statement has been made by Robin's wife, Susan Schneider. It reads:
This morning, I lost my husband and my best friend, while the world lost one of its most beloved artists and beautiful human beings. I am utterly heartbroken. On behalf of Robin's family, we are asking for privacy during our time of profound grief. As he is remembered, it is our hope the focus will not be on Robin's death, but on the countless moments of joy and laughter he gave to millions.
We here at Starpulse truly hope both Susan and Robin's family find solidarity, hope and peace in the wake of their tragic loss.


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The elegant Dollys Cottage, in Mickleton
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Fantastic rural views from the front door, looking into the local paddock
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The UK's political consensus on pensions is alive and well
Rachel Reeves, the shadow work and pensions minister, set out some interesting ideas for what a Labour government would do with pensions policy yesterday. But the striking thing is just how little they would really change.
The proposal that made headlines yesterday was Reeves' pledge to automatically enrol an additional 1.5 million low-paid workers into company pension plans, in addition to the 10 million already either signed up or due to join in the next four years.
Cue protestations from the Confederation of British Industry about extra costs being loaded on business - but this is reasonable reform. It just isn't that radical.
In proposing it, Labour are going back to the original ideas of the Pensions Commission chaired in 2003-4 by Adair Turner -- now Lord Turner -- the former Financial Services Authority chairman.
In practical terms, it's do-able. Many of these 1.5 million people will likely be employed by large companies, who have already built HR, admin and payroll systems to cope with 10 million new pension savers. They can take in a few extra.
But by the same token, the reform isn't one to set the pensions industry's hearts a-flutter either. The total new money set to flow into funds from these 1.5 million low earners is just £14 million a year, according to government figures, quoted by Labour. That is very small beer compared to the annual £1.4 billion extra that auto-enrolment is already set to bring in to pension funds.
Thinking about the same figures from the individual's perspective, for the lowest paid this means annual pension contributions of just a few pounds. Sure, they get tax relief on that, despite paying very little tax in the first place, and sure, their boss pays in - but when the amounts are so small will anyone thank Labour for this?
Ros Altmann, the independent pensions expert, says extending auto-enrolment in this way "could fulfill an important social need", but she also points out that allowing these people to use their pension savings to pay off debts first might be more productive.
In her speech yesterday, Reeves also attacked her political opponents in the Coalition for "unpicking" the political consensus that has existed in pensions policy in the UK over the past few years.
This is something of a red herring. As we approach the 10th anniversary of the Turner Commission's report in October 2004, it's remarkable how much of it still underpins what government is doing.
The differences between the parties on pensions policy are ones of degree and emphasis, rather than philosophy. Labour might cut a little more from tax relief, or screw the fee-cap lid down from 0.75% of pension assets to 0.5%, as Reeves threatened yesterday. Then again, neither of these are firm pledges as yet.
The reforms announced by George Osborne in his Budget in March, overhauling the tax code so that savers are no longer incentivised to buy annuities, were truly radical, and unexpected. But amid much cautious language yesterday, Reeves did not say she planned to undo any of that.
Her choice of David Blake, professor of pensions economics at Cass Business School, to lead a taskforce looking at policy options for the post-retirement market will be well-received. Especially as she's also made clear this review group will have CBI representation.
A by-now familiar call to lift commercial restrictions on Nest, the government's not-for-profit pensions provider, is something the industry has been preparing itself for. And Reeves' advocacy of collective defined-contribution pensions (where individuals join a collective fund), as practised in the Netherlands, may yet be gazumped by proposals on the related defined-ambition agenda from Coalition pensions minister Steve Webb next month.
Business-people in other sectors, such as energy, may feel that Labour leader Ed Miliband deserves his 'Red Ed' tabloid tag. But the pensions industry won't be overly worried by anything Reeves had to say yesterday.


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History of PCH: A Port Washington Office Building Turned Community Center
A few weeks ago I posted a blog story titled, "The History of PCH Told in Buenos Aires". In that post I shared a brief history of PCH and promised to continue posting pictures and stories that I uncovered in my research of the Publishers Clearing House story. The History Channel, per a blog reader's suggestion, has yet to approach us for a TV series on the history of PCH, but that hasn't stopped us from telling the story here on the PCH blog!
I figure there's no better place to start than with Harold and LuEsther Mertz, the founders of Publishers Clearing House. As mentioned in my previous posts, it was their vision back in the early 1950s that sparked a revolution in the way magazine subscriptions were sold. While the Mertz family is known for their success in business, they are better known for their generous donations and other philanthropic efforts. One beneficiary is Port Washington, NY, which is where PCH is headquartered today, almost 60 years after being founded in the Mertz family basement not too far away.
One classic example of the Mertz's generosity can be found only 10 minutes from our current office building in the form of a Community Center. Pictured above, the Harold Mertz Community Center, was the original Publishers Clearing House headquarters. In the late 60's the Mertz family already realized that the growth of Publishers Clearing House would require additional space, so they decided to build a bigger building down the street and around the corner. Instead of simply selling the old building, they donated it to Port Washington to be used as the town Community Center … as it continues to be used today. Their generosity didn't stop there, but we'll save the rest of the story for another blog post.
I hope you enjoy these snippets of the history of PCH. Please respond with any questions or comments below.
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I think that would be a cool thing to do they very much so should have a history story about Harold mertz and his story on how he changed other peoples live with his amazing hard work
An amazing story and togetherness thanks PCH
This is so amgazing and humbling (Smiles) I would love to win a major PCH Prize!
The big history moment PCH this sene has being here for some time well it's good to know the back ground check thank to you Lu Esther Mertz's I'm play this game now so I can for life good job nice picture blog .
He sounds like a great man with good intentions I wish I can do things like that but my life was taken away from me at an early age and I'm just in serious pain now. I feel like giving up on life but I try very hard not to because I have a son that I need to come for! I don't want to die a loser and that's how I feel right now…just wish I had a little luck and my life would change!
Helping my family has been my dream since I was 9 years old. When I pick out a pch entry out of the garbage my mother threw away and mailed myself without anyone's knowledge. Our family was so poor. I wanted to help so bad. My dream is to help my own family now…….
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IDining: The Highs and Lows of Tablets on the Tableby
Walking into a hip restaurant is sometimes, I'd gather, not entirely unlike taking a dive into the Mariana Trench at the bottom of the Pacific. IPhones and Androids float like phosphorescent plankton in dark culinary abodes, illuminating the expressionless faces of users in a ghastly shade of computer blue. Occasionally, food is consumed.
Perhaps this is why New York eateries are so dark inside: Light has become the new BYO as chefs expect guests to bring their own digital luminescence. How else could anyone read all those menus? Or Instagram all those tacos?
That's how New York Times food critic Pete Wells feels. Part of me, likewise, fears a Google Glass future in which gastropubs fill with bespectacled guests video-chatting with people who aren't physically present, like a convention of delusional Star Trekkies with unusually refined palates.
Until then, I'll argue that while the iPhone helps me do my food critic job—yes, the beef was overcooked Mr. Chef, I have a photo—it's also made dining out slightly, sometimes infinitely, less enjoyable.
This is all the more true, strikingly, when dining alone. Tiny computers become our artificial conversation partners, crutches against loneliness. We can eat in a different and wholly unique restaurant every night of the week, yet the second the bartender clears the lamb saddle with ramp pesto, our attention goes back to the same Twitter feed (or ESPN Gamecast) that we can monitor anywhere in the world. The smartphone or tablet can reduce the very social experience of dining out to a physiological, gastrointestinal act. It's like going on safari and watching The Godfather on your iPad whenever the lions retreat into the bush.
That's not to say these devices can't improve restaurant life. Smartphones, at their best, are courage pills that let the shy dine out by themselves, that let business travelers chat with loved ones while dining far from home.
They give us instant access to price comparisons at rival restaurants. Maybe $165 is a bit much for that bottle of Veuve Clicquot at Gaonnuri in Koreatown? As certain all-day venues such as Balthazar and Lafayette become virtual community centers—extensions of our living rooms in our era of high rents and small apartments—I'll admit I often look forward to reading Vanity Fair on the iPad while dining out. If anything, it's less intrusive to put a 10-inch tablet on the bar than a 10-pound cookbook.
Just be sure to keep the screen's brightness in check and keep the iPad offline. It's a heck of a lot easier to put down a New Yorker feature than it is to end a Facebook chat with an ex. "I'm sorry, who are you dining with, Ryan?"
Of course, certain tasting-menu restaurants such as Blanca, at $195 per person, or Brooklyn Fare, at $255, prohibit cellphone use and photography altogether. It's a policy that makes enough sense if you believe that food is a fully encompassing performance art at the same level as theater or cinema. After all, you wouldn't take out your Samsung Galaxy and start texting in the middle of Captain Phillips, would you? You surely wouldn't take photos or video of the film and post it all on YouTube.
Then again, you'll be able to buy a copy of the Tom Hanks flick on iTunes in a few months, whereas reliving a Blanca experience can require $700 or more for two.
That's why part of me wishes these restaurants permitted mobile phone photography. How else can we share these experiences with our friends, especially when the chefs forgo written menus or website photo galleries?
It's all the more true in our Klout score-driven social media era, where the value of a meal is sadly, for some, directly proportional to the quality of the Instagram shots they derive from it. And it's all the more important at menu-less venues where food photography ends up being an important element of transparency; it's nice to be able to search Flickr and find out what you're getting for $1,000.
They key is to kill the flash and snap away before your food gets cold. Remember, you're at the restaurant, after all, to eat. Everything else in moderation.


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The Fiction Twins – Toshio Watanabe
The popularity of bluegrass music in Japan is a subject well known and widely discussed among US and European grassers. Since the postwar occupation of the island nation in the late 1940s, the Japanese have warmed to many aspects of American culture, with baseball and bluegrass being two visible examples.
Toshio Watanabe has been prominent in the bluegrass scene since 1970 when the music of The Bluegrass 45 first came to the attention of US fans. But he's been playing and studying the music of Bill Monroe since first hearing the Monroe Brothers on the radio as a boy in Japan.
Despite a life dedicated to bluegrass, and participation in numerous recordings over the past 40 years, Toshio has just now released his debut solo project, The Fiction Twins. And it really is a solo project. Toshio plays and sings all the music in this set of Monroe Brothers-style duets, and he created the CD artwork and packaging as well.
The titles will be familiar to anyone who cherishes this sort of pre-bluegrass music: My Long Journey Home, Maple On The Hill, Little Annie, Will The Roses Bloom, Weeping Willow Tree among them.
Here's a taste of a couple tracks…
The Fiction Twins is available from Red Clay Records in Japan, and in the US from County Sales.
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In November, 2003, the first report of abuse was received. The report was referred to the Racine district attorney. In January, 2004, the archdiocese was notified that the DA declined to prosecute based on the Statute of Limitations.
In January, 2004, Benham was confronted with the allegation and admitted that it was true. He resigned immediately as pastor. He refused to file for voluntary laicization.
In April, 2004, his case was submitted to the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith with the request for ex officio dismissal from the clerical state. Between 2004 and 2008 the case was resubmitted several times until November, 2008, when the decree of dismissal ex officio was received.
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This fall, students in Professor Harrison "Chuck" Straley's "History of Mathematics" course were required to write, produce and perform 20-minute, math-oriented plays in costume. Watch this eleventh installment of Wheaton In Focus to see the drama (and humor) unfold.
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This was a nice 1-room-apartment, with enough space to move around and feel quite at home. It had everything I needed, with a lot of kitchen utensils. Subway station and a big supermarket were quite near. I also liked the relatively quiet street with rows of brownstone houses, and I did not at all feel unsafe in this neighbourhood.
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Last week was National Pollinator Week and we had fun posting lots of links and information all over our Facebook page. As much as we love butterflies and bees, even we were surprised at just how important pollinators are to the natural growth cycle. We were also surprised by some of the critters that serve as pollinators. Pollinator Week may be past, but supporting our pollinators should be a year-round prospect.
Why are pollinators so important? Pollinators ensure better crops and harvests, and healthier plants everywhere. That means healthier food supply, as well as fiber crops, and healthier plants in areas sensitive to erosion. Between 75% and 95% of all flowering plants rely on pollinators to survive; many of those are plants we use for food, beverages, fibers, spices, and medicines. Our lives and our world would be very different without these guys.
Say "pollinators" and most people automatically think of bees, and they are the biggest group of pollinators, but there are also butterflies, and the list is much longer than that. There are about 200,000 invertebrates (like bees, butterflies, and other insects) and over 1,000 vertebrates (like hummingbirds, bats and other birds, mammals and reptiles). Yes, we said bats.
So, what can we do to encourage pollinators?
- Start by going green in your garden – eliminate pesticides and other chemicals that will be harmful to beneficial species.
- Find out what native plants to grow in your area to attract pollinators. You'll find lots of guides, and even an app, at Pollinator.Org. Plant different varieties to have blooms spring through fall.
- Provide a water supply for wildlife. It could be as simple as a small container of water, or a drip feature installed on a faucet. Take steps to avoid mosquitos by keeping the water moving, or fresh.
- Provide pollinator habitats like shrubs, tall grasses and low growing plants as well as patches of fallen branches.
- Hang hummingbird feeders to attract hummingbirds to your yard.
Want to have some fun with it all? Try hosting a pollinator party with a menu full of locally-grown foods that all require pollinators. Still in doubt? If you drink coffee or eat chocolate, you shouldn't be. Both require active pollinators to thrive. Take a look at this list of foods pollinated by bees (and other pollinators), and imagine what your grocery store or farmer's market shelves would look like without them.
Whole Foods Market recently partnered with the Xerces Society to illustrate what grocery shelves would look like without bees. The result? Over 52 percent of the produce department disappeared, from apples to zucchini, they all relied on bees.
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AUSTIN, Texas — A federal district judge has blocked enforcement of a Texas law passed in May requiring women seeking abortions to undergo a sonogram at least 24 hours prior to the procedure and to hear the baby's heartbeat and a description from the abortion provider of the baby's physical features.
U.S. District Judge Sam Sparks of Austin, in an Aug. 30 injunction, said the law, which was to go into effect Sept. 1, "compels physicians to advance an ideological agenda with which they may not agree, regardless of any medical necessity, and irrespective of whether the pregnant women wish to listen."
Elaborating on his ruling, Sparks wrote that the law's requirements expand beyond medically necessary information and "are unconstitutional violations of the First Amendment right to be free from compelled speech." Specifically Sparks argued that the First Amendment rights of doctors and patients are violated in the law's requirements that doctors show the patient an ultrasound of the baby, make the heartbeat audible and give a verbal description of the child.
Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott filed a notice of appeal in the case shortly after the decision was announced.
Under the Texas law, a woman must be aware of the option to see her unborn baby via sonogram. It requires the person performing the sonogram — a physician or certified sonographer — to describe the dimensions of the baby and the existence of the baby's arms, legs and internal organs, including a heartbeat.
Women living in Texas counties of fewer than 60,000 people or beyond 100 miles of an abortion facility and those in a life-threatening medical emergency are exempted from the 24-hour waiting period. Rural women would instead have to wait only two hours. Also, in cases of rape, incest or fetal abnormality, women could refuse hearing the verbal description from the sonogram.
In January, Gov. Perry placed the bill on emergency status at the start of the legislative session, which gave it priority consideration over other bills.


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Hello everyone, sorry for the hiatus last week but, as one of my old mechanic buddies used to say when he wanted to dodge some work, 'I was covered up.'
As many of you may have noticed, over the past year I have made a concerted effort to turn this newsletter into an evidence-based report, while moving away from what I would call 'ranting.'
Today, however, I feel it is time for a rant; one inspired by two recently developing situations.
The first situation is a personal one. As I have gotten a little older, recently moving past the 38th year of life, I have noticed some changes in my body, particularly the inability to tolerate/recover from large volumes of moderate or high intensity exercise.
Rather than push through, I have adopted a more mild approach, one that a former mentor of mine used to discuss when I was a younger student; a time when I honestly questioned his commitment and didn't understand why he did not exercise with more intensity (now I get it!)
The second situation is more observational, as I have interacted with several people lately who are injured or feeling beat up after engaging in large volumes of moderate intensity activity.
So the rant is this: it is my belief that the body is not built for extreme large volumes of moderate to high intensity exercise. Rather, it is built for small amounts of high intensity activity (2-4 hours a week) and large amounts of low intensity physical activity.
Two to four hours per week of resistance training and interval training in some combination, and as much walking as you can possibly do! My former mentor used to discuss his participation in trail hiking, and I used to think 'Ha! You call that exercise!?'
Now, twelve years later, I have adopted that as my primary form of physical activity. With age comes wisdom.
In order to provide you with some evidence for my BELIEF, next week we will look at the recently released studies touting the benefits of running for 5 minutes instead of 20+ and the benefits of interval walking for blood sugar management.