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At least Obamacare comes at us head on. The greater legislative threat may be the one that most Americans have never heard of. Economist Scott Powell and Acton friend Jay Richards explain in a new piece in Barron's:
While Obamacare received more attention, the Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, also known as Dodd-Frank after its Senate and House sponsors, … unleashed a new regulatory body, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, to operate with unprecedented power.
Dodd-Frank became law in 2010 and is supposed to avert the next financial crisis. Yet banks are still too big to fail and Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac remain wards of the state, while the CFPB has been given sweeping authority over consumer credit and other financial products and services that played no significant role in the crisis of 2008.
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Howard's always asking for advance screener copies of the latest films, and it really pays off in his interviews with directors and actors when they stop by and he can get pretty in-depth in his conversations with them. Plus, if he likes something, he'll hype it endlessly as a fan...he's a great promoter in that regard.
Apparently, a copy of "Super 8" was given to the show back in June, and it was watermarked with a "HS" for his show for identification/ theft prevention purposes. Well, that's the version that's now making its rounds, so it's pretty clear someone affiliated with the show is involved.
I've heard him complain before when studios don't send advance screeners, so now that one for this movie has been bootlegged, he is going to be mighty pissed. It could really damage his and the show's credibility. If he's actually live Monday morning (he's taken so many vacation days this summer!), I'll be sure to listen right at 6:00 AM, because I imagine he's going to have to address this and try to get to the bottom of it. Maybe he'll actually really fire somebody this time. (Or he'll just figure out a way to make it Baba Booey's fault, like usual.)


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Over the course of my career as a United States diplomat, I've spent many a Christmas holiday in countries across the Middle East. From Beirut to Tunis, Christians, Muslims, Jews, Baha'is, and peoples of all religions, celebrate and acknowledge the importance of faith, a hope for the future, and goodwill toward all. Yet, something I saw a few days ago in Cairo reminded me of another important tenant of the season: tolerance.
I had the privilege of joining our Ambassador Anne Patterson in attending two Christmas services on January 6. First, we went to a moving celebration at the Evangelical Presbyterian Church near Tahrir Square. Then, in the evening, we attended a Coptic Christmas ceremony at Saint Mark's Coptic Orthodox Cathedral.
In both churches, there were celebrations of the joy of the season alongside somber moments of remembrance for those who lost their lives over the past year, including in the tragic and terrible terrorist attack on a Coptic church in Alexandria one year ago, as well as the unrest that followed. In the Presbyterian service, worshippers gave a standing ovation to a young man blinded in the unrest.
As I looked around the two churches, I was struck by Egypt's great religious and political diversity. At a time when the intersection of religion and politics is on the minds of many, it was encouraging to see many Muslims from across the political spectrum attend these services to show their respect for their fellow citizens. Just as Egyptians came together in a spirit of tolerance and unity last January in Tahrir Square, so, too, were the attendees of these Christmas celebrations affirming a respect for the principles of religious freedom that are essential to a democratic system. President Obama, in a statement a few days ago, rightly pointed out that, "freedom of religion, and the protection of people of all faiths, and the ability to worship as you choose are critical to a peaceful, inclusive, and thriving society."
Egypt's mainstream political parties have promised to respect the rights of religious minorities to worship freely. As Egypt's newly-elected lower house of parliament prepares to be seated for the first time this month, these parties will soon be in a position to ensure these promises come to fruition.
In this same spirit of tolerance, I spent my time this Christmas in Cairo speaking to Egyptian leaders and civil society activists about the importance of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) as a pillar of any healthy democracy. NGOs, in Egypt and around the world, play an integral role in ensuring government accountability, providing much-needed services to needy communities, and offering protections for our most fundamental rights.
I was inspired by the commitment to unity, tolerance, and mutual respect evident at the Christmas services I attended. I hope this same spirit will be evident as Egyptians launch their new democratic parliament, write their new constitution, find ways to strengthen and protect equal rights for all citizens, and build a more prosperous nation.
Maria G. in Argentina writes:
My heart aches when I see so many deaths, so many armed conflicts, we are in the XXI century and still can not believe that there are still wars for territorial and border problems, also Muslim-Jewish attacks.
The principle of democracy is freedom of religion and respect for each.
It is essential that you express the principle of Tolerance, and Unity.
Discrimination is not religious, ethnic, and knowing that all the riches that nature provides that belong to God is what has given us all, ask you to convey my prayer, my prayer to God to stop the wars by territorial issues and the black gold. May God continually break the system that keeps countries tied to war, misery, poverty and deaths from malnutrition and war. May God bless the United States of America. We in Argentina have the problem Gergi Islands, and the Argentine Sea Sandwuich that we were "usurped" and we have a range of population indigentee, and poverty, we are usurped the Malvinas Islands, but we are not a warlike country and we are ready to negotiate, because Britain is not the "owner" of Argentine territory, the Falkland Islands are and will Argentinas. We were usurped by the ichthyological wealth and minerals that represent.
Jacob M. writes:
God bless Coptic Christmas
W.W. writes:
Is there a coptic christmas too?
we are always on holydays here...
Ole in New York writes:
this is nice, but meanwhile in Iran the bandits that are 'ruling' that nation, have taken hostage yet another American, albeit ob Iranian descent and unwisely traveling to that country, and threaten to execute him for what clearly is trumped up charges and admission. this all, while they also threaten to cut off oil supplies in the straight of Hormuz, and prepare to set in work a nuke facility. i say ENOUGH HESITATION, BOMB'EM NOW! and don't look back asking for Putin's or Chinese communists' approval, we won't get it nor do we need it
Adel writes:
As a coptic christian myself, It does bring chills listening to your description of the tolerance you seem to have witnessed during your short stay. If anything it is far from being the true refelction of the society at large in Egypt. This snapshot on the Eve of Coptic Christmas does reflect though a very recent surge in Muslims wanting to know more about the christian faith, which for ages they had been denied access to. There is no question though, that the Egypt's Coptic p[olulation desereves our uttmost respect and praise for withstanding ages of persecution and discrimination and to then through these wonderful celebrations in the midst of their pain and agony.If anything it does speak of theri faith and belief in The resurrected Lord.
Martha in New Jersey writes:
Thank you for posting this. All of us Copts pray for tolerance and peace and hope for all minorities, not only Copts, to have the right and security to worship freely in Egypt. I am glad you were able to attend these services and experience the beauty of the Coptic faith.
As you have seen, it is a faith worth fighting for to preserve in its homeland, and we know that God has His plan and will not let all those who died for what is true, unity, tolerance, and mutual respect, die in vain.
Fr. Bishoy in New Jersey writes:
Dear Jeffery,
As a Coptic Priest who read your words and inspired by the spirit behind it. I hope that your words come to truth. We all saw How the Scaf greeted the Christians and they themselves called our youth two months ago in Maspero. Your words should really be heard and implemented deeply. The voices of truth become unheard. We are facing rulers who kill and then come on media saying we did not kill. Twisting truth is the worst thing. We all standing beside those who say the word of truth like you. Thanks so much for your article, may God bless your mission and work.
Coptic Christian Priest
Fr. Bishoy
Phoebe in New Jersey writes:
I agree with your words Mr. Feltman, and note that we are often moved by shows of unity and solidarity during such celebrations. However, Egyptians need more than these shows of unity; justice must actually be served that fully penalizes acts of discrimination and persecution against minorities. Until now, no one has been convicted for the bombing of Al-Qidiseen Church in Alexandria on New Year's Eve 2010. At least 6 churches have been burned since Hosni Mubarak's ouster, and no one has been held accountable for this.
The Egyptian government must be held accountable to the words you wrote at the end of this note. It is not enough to wish for this spirit of "unity and accountability." The US government, as one of Egypt's biggest funders, should pressure Egypt's government to do much more than show up for Christmas services. It should take strong measures to protect minorities and justly punish perpetrators of violence.
Maria in the U.S.A. writes:
Thank you for your blog, and while I appreciate these shows of tolerance, this isn't anything new - Muslims have been attending Coptic Christmas, and the talk of "unity and tolerance" has been around since the 1920s when both faiths worked together to kick the British out of Egypt. However, that talk only runs so deep in the wake of what's happened in the 90 years since. Our issue is that, if we want true tolerance and unity, we need to be able to talk about what that really means for each side.
When people talk of "the right of religious minorities to worship freely," are we speaking of the same thing? For me, that includes freedom of conversion for both religions, family law that doesn't give precedence of one religion over another in cases of conversion, freedom of speech to express belief in the public square, even if that might be perceived as "insulting" to the other religion. There are so many laws that are on the books in Egypt besides the ones related to church buildings that relate to tolerance and equality that no one wants to discuss, and until that happens, such shows of tolerance will only be skin deep.
As a country that has experienced its own share of discrimination and the legacies of it, I hope the United States can facilitate a genuine dialogue of what tolerance means, and that such sentiments can turn into meaningful change both legislatively and in enforcement.
Atef P. in New Jersey writes:
Why our US Embassy in Egypt denies the visitors visas to the Christians, while they allow it Muslims (mostly fanatics)?


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- 12-24-2012, 07:20 PM Thread Author #1
Ditching Cupertino Kool-Aid for some Jelly Beans
Hi All,
Just signed up in anticipation of my next phone...
My story: I camped out for the iPhone 4, sitting outside for about 9 hours until I finally got my iPhone 4 by something like 3am. I had never done anything like that before (probably never will again, haha) but I only had an original iPhone so the iPhone 4 upgrade was a big deal to me. So yeah, you could say that I am an Apple fan!
Fast forward to now and I've been off contract for a while, now looking for a new contract and new phone. I hadn't even bothered to watch the iPhone 5 event video (usually I do watch all Apple event videos), but for some reason the iPhone 5 just didn't take my fancy. I guess I just thought "yeah yeah, more of the same..." A few days ago I was in a shop, about 2 steps away from signing up on a 2 year contract with an iPhone 5. Now that I look back I'm glad they didn't have black 64gb in stock, so I walked away and was going to get a call when they had stock in.
Then I got to thinking about the alternatives, I have a couple of friends who switched from iPhone to Galaxy 3's and they really like it. One thing that really started to get to me lately is how small the iPhone screen is. And for the little extra height they added to the iPhone 5, it's just not worth another 2 year contract for me. Then I found out about the Note 2, and it just happens to have enough of the features I want:
- BIG screen!
- NFC (I have been looking for a way to downsize my wallet)
- Wireless charging (with some light hacking from the looks of things)
- Pressure sensitive stylus (I have a Wacom tablet at home and had been thinking about a pressure sensitive stylus for iPad)
- Customizable and slick interface (Android)
I went back to the shop yesterday and they were out of stock on the Note 2, expecting some on December 26th. I hope they get them, because I'm starting to get a bit keen for it! I will mostly be using it for photo editing (yes, I'm part of the Instagram crowd) and maybe occasional sketching & drawing, but I can easily see the large screen being good for videos etc. To be honest I probably never really pushed the capabilities of my iPhone 4 (I probably didn't bother too much because I knew the screen was too small!) but now I am looking forward to using RDP on the off chance I need to do some work stuff when I'm out of the office, and it will be handy to be able to access my iMac when I'm away on holidays or something. Also going to try out Plex, should be interesting. And of course then there's all the tinkering and customization that can be done, which even though I'm an "Apple user" I am not scared of a bit of tweaking. I have been using OS X since launch and was into theming in those early days, and also had Linux on my 3rd gen iPod way back when, as well as having dual-boot Gentoo install when I had a PowerMac G5. So maybe I'm not a "typical" Apple user after all...
Some other friends have warned me off Android saying that it doesn't have the integration and whole ecosystem like Apple does, and that's true I suppose. But I've done my research and there's nothing really that will stop me from doing exactly what I want on Android. I guess having a big screen and newer technology is more important to me than the Apple ecosystem.
Anyway, that's my story. See ya 'round the forums!
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Hope the wait to get your slice of heaven is short!
I hope you enjoy Android. I'm still not a huge fan on Touchwiz (Samsungs UI), but the Note II is a great device, you'll love it!
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I use all macs in many biz, and the real ecosystem really is tied to Google and not Apple. That's at least for me as we use Google Apps for corporate email.
Like you, that tiny screen is insane. My wife has the iPhone 5, and will never left me push an android on her. Bought her a sprint gs2 as a gift, and she hatred it.
Glad that Samsung has such great choices. I always felt that apple made a huge mistake not doing an htc evo 4g sized phone three years ago. I left apple iphones three years ago and have never looked back.
My wife is happy she has iphone and I have my android gs3. ... so I dont jailbreak her phone and load some of those cydia apps!
Good luck... love the Verizon gs3.. will likely one day do the note 3. Son gets galaxy tab 2 in the morning. Great tablet for a first grader, right!
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- 12-25-2012, 12:52 AM Thread Author #5
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The more I look into it, there sure seems to be a lot of people not satisfied with the iPhone 5 now switching to Android...
The Note 2 does seem to be very popular down here (Australia), I'll be at the shop as soon as they open!
I'll try out Touchwiz for a little bit, but I'm completely open to the idea of a bit of tweaking. Already pretty much decided that I will root for Titanium Backup and Cerberus. Gradually learning all the tips & tricks, ins & outs.
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I jumped on the Nexus 4 bandwagon to be free of contracts etc. But the Note 2 is amazing if you can handle the larger size. If there was any doubt about the power and flexibility of the Note 2 then this video should put any doubt to rest.
Can I say "mind blowing"?
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- 12-26-2012, 01:17 AM Thread Author #8
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Well just picked up the Note 2 this morning... I thought the shop was just out of stock on Monday when I checked, but today (Boxing Day) is actually the official launch for Telstra in Australia. Months after the rest of the world has had it. Go figure!
Anyway, first impressions - wow. It's going to take a bit of getting used to & tweaking it to my liking, but I have no regrets at all. I just went and did a bit of grocery shopping, whipped out the Note to check my shopping list and it felt kinda awkward. Haha But I'm sure it will just take some getting used to the size as well.
Those videos that ColdFustion did were a big part of what helped to sell me on the features of the Note 2. It seems like that's one of the problems for Android phones, most people who aren't in the know (mainly iPhone users I guess) just don't have a clue about Android or the hardware. At least I didn't until I spent the time to learn about it.
- 12-27-2012, 07:45 AM Thread Author #10
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Cheers badbrad17, I got a bit keen and decided to root it this afternoon. Well that ended in a mad flurry of researching and trying to learn as much about Odin as possible, worried that I had stalled it while flashing the Note, but turned out that I was at no risk at all (had tried to start Odin before COM was established!)
Nothing like a baptism of fire. Haha
Maybe I'll just chill for a bit now and play some games on it or something.
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Love the title of the thread.
Glad you're enjoying the Note II, one of android users' greatest dilemmas is what phone to get, there are so many good choices.
I also choose the Note ii and I'm loving it it has tons of great features. I'm kind of over ROMing and rooting my phones, but I like the fact that it's an option it's ever there's a need. ...Also it's pretty cool you've gone and done that on day one of your new android phone.
The one customisation I did make however was to change the launcher,I hate touch wiz and opted for my favorite, ADW.Launcher.
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Just reading for now, Im here as a BlackBerry user looking out for what the competition has to offer. I guess theres no doubt I'll wait an see how the Z10 does before I get my next upgrade. If not a BBZ10, the Note2 is looking good.
Ahem; Not that hard getting the first post off my chest cheers!
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Welcome. Drink it all in. Fruit phones are being taken over by robots. :thumbup:
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ADW Launcher had some features that made it a must for me. For instance launching an app with a gesture. I use the up gesture to launch 'Google Gestures', I know that sounds redundant, but using Gestures to find contacts, apps, and stuff is so much faster than launching the required app.
I also like the fact that i can resize widgets even after they are already on your desktop.
The last point is that ADW Launcher looks nicer.
I own both apps but I don't use Nova
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Considering that BB10 is a new os and a complete overhaul I'd advise you to sit this one out and let them workout the kinks. At this point anybody that buys for a BB10 device is paying to be a beta user, just like I was a for their BB storm.
You mentioned you're interested in the Note that the device I'm currently rocking and I love it. I'd encourage you to make the jump, you might have withdrawal symptoms but you won't regret the choice.
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- 12-29-2012, 04:52 AM Thread Author #19
Re: Ditching Cupertino Kool-Aid for some Jelly Beans
Hahaha fruit phones being taken over...
Although I don't know if we can really comment - using various dessert and candy OSes. Isn't fruit healthier?
I don't know much about BB, but my theory for tech items is that you should always buy the top end models if you can, and you should just buy it and use it, otherwise you just waste time waiting. So depending on when the BBZ10 is coming out, you could buy a Note 2, try it out and see if you like it. See what the BBZ10 looks like when it's released and you can always sell the Note 2 if you want.
On the subject of launchers, I just found out about dock gestures yesterday (for example having the phone icon set to open the Phone app when pressed, but opening contacts if you slide from the Phone icon if I understand correctly) - awesome stuff! Haven't used gestures yet though, dipped my toes in with the Nova Launcher free version. I noticed the gestures & buttons settings available in Nova Prime - not sure if that means you can set custom dock gestures? I just checked out a few others on Play Store, Holo Launcher specifically lists dock gestures (which is what I want rather than any type of pinch of swipe gestures on the home screen main area). Also if I want dock gestures from the lock screen, that will mean I need a 3rd part lock screen as well? Or can the settings from the launcher somehow filter through?
The next question I have is about email apps - I have a few different work emails (POP) and I'm looking for a good app that will let me setup individual signatures and be able to easily switch which email address I'm sending from. It looks like Aqua Mail rates highly? With Tasker integration as well which I'm going to look into for setting up some notification actions similar to iOS.
- 12-29-2012, 06:09 AM Thread Author #21
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Cheers for that. Something made me think there wouldn't be recommendations against Aqua Mail.
I was just trying to find a way to add unified search to the Note 2, but looks like Samsung did have it and removed it because of a possible Apple patent dispute... D'oh!
Anyone know of easy options to get that back? Apps or find the .apk from an older ROM that had it?
Just looking for some way to have a single search bar that will search all local files on the phone with an option for internet search as well. (Basically the same as the search that iPhone has.)
Edit >> Just went to the included Google search bar to look on the web for something I wanted to find on my phone, then it popped up the very item on the phone I was looking for. Problem solved!
Another question about 3rd party launchers & lock screens - they completely replace TouchWiz rather than running on top of it. Is that right?
So many questions because there's so many options on Android! Completely the opposite in that regard coming from iPhone... I made this to send to a couple of my mates who already switched to Android, pretty much sums up my experience so far:
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You have to admire Eastwood's Hoover biopic if for no other reasons than it has a remarkably capable cast, authentic sets and costumes, and numerous well-edited and composed scenes. Eastwood is an intelligent and sensitive director of the old Hollywood school, who has presented us in this work with a thoughtful and strangely touching piece about one of the most powerful, irascible, and difficult men in American politics - although I am sure Hoover thought himself above and apart from the political scene; he was in fact one of the most political animals ever, and that ability is the reason behind his long survival through the governing of eight presidents, although both Truman and Kennedy wanted to fire him, but, fearful of the repercussions, did not act. Hoover primarily created the modern FBI, developed its sophisticated scientific investigation techniques, and promoted the organization to the American public through films, comic books, and other media.
Eastwood steps carefully in revealing the less heroic side of this figure by allowing his Hoover (Leonardo DiCaprio in, perhaps, the best role of career to date) to describe himself, or, to put it another way, to mythologize his concerns and actions through a long series of meetings with writers of a would-be FBI memoir. For anyone who knows about the FBI Director's activities over the years, it is fascinating, but also irritating, to watch and hear the chest-beating braggart strut his stuff. And the creaky plot structure that this device creates fills in a selective history, without moving the story forward.
Of course, by film's end, with Tolson's summary of the lies Hoover has promoted, we recognize that there is a logic to this structure, but with the focus on Hoover's small selection of events, Eastwood and screenwriter Dustin Lance Black are left with a highly inconclusive series of occasions that can hardly convey the scope of Hoover's vast pall over the whole of the American scene.
The film begins with the 1919 and 1920 so called "Palmer Raids," headed by Hoover after mail-bomb attacks on several notable figures. The raids themselves rounded up few anarchists, but the result of these raids, and the fears raised by the FBI and other organizations, led to larger attacks against socialists, communists, and other groups whose principles did not accord with Hoover's and others' version of democracy. As the former head of The Enemy Aliens Registration Section, Hoover manipulated the system to have numerous figures such as Emma Goldman (the example used in the film) deported. Yet Hoover's fury was far more extensive than the one example J. Edgar names, for he later was behind the expulsion of notable figures such as Charlie Chapin and numerous others, as well as influencing the little-discussed Mexican repatriation, ordered by Presidents Hoover in 1929 and Roosevelt in 1939, resulting in the return to Mexico of 35,000 American citizens who were originally born in that country. Indeed, J. Edgar, had Eastwood desired, could have had far greater resonance to the present than it does, had he simply chosen other examples as well. As the film quotes one agent, Stokes, "The crimes we are investigating aren't crimes, they are ideas." And one might argue that throughout his life Hoover's actions were based more upon what he saw as dangerous ideas as opposed to actual threats, truly terrorist acts.
The second series of "selective" memories upon which the film focuses are the infamous FBI attacks upon robbers and gangsters such as John Dillinger, Pretty Boy Floyd, and other criminal figures of the 1930s. By this time Hoover had developed a group of effective agents to serve him, but jealous of the attention his agents, such as Melvin Purvis (who killed Dillinger) received, Hoover lashed out against the brightest of his own men, demoting or firing them. This almost maniacal demand for attention drove Hoover to several of his most ridiculous actions, and is revelatory of his desperation for power and popular approval. Certainly Eastwood's movie hints at this, but the few instances upon which it focuses make such conclusions fuzzy as opposed to a story that might more thoroughly reveal Hoover's contradictions.
Finally, the film gets terribly bogged down in the story of the Bruno Hauptmann kidnapping of the one year old son of American flying hero Charles Lindbergh. Hoover - and the film - detail the investigation quite thoroughly, demonstrating how Hoover's forensic developments led, finally, to Hauptmann's conviction and death. To me this focus on one major event, delimits so much else that the film might have revealed about Hoover and almost exonerates him in his leadership. What the film does not precisely depict is that even the governor of New Jersey doubted Hauptmann's guilt, and years later a large number of FBI files and other material were discovered in the governor's records that suggest some of the evidence was planted by FBI agents, bringing into to question several aspects of Hauptmann's guilt.
In short, by employing the device of Hoover's dictated memories, the film jumps and skips over some of the most egregious issues of Hoover's career. While we do see him developing private files, one containing a letter in which Eleanor Roosevelt addresses a lesbian lover, another containing information on a sexual encounter with a foreign agent by John F Kennedy, and a tape of an illicit sexual encounter with a woman by Martin Luther King, these are sometimes so incidentally mentioned that anyone not immersed in the period may not comprehend their significance. Hoover's wiretapping, his extensive eavesdropping on thousands of American celebrities, and his involvement in the destruction of hundreds of lives of individuals whose only crime was in questioning or disagreeing with his strong moralist and political stances - which included a kind of xenophobic view of the world, an abhorrence of all things sexual (particularly involving homosexuality), and a patriotism that might have made even Thomas Jefferson seem like a "commie." It seems almost comical that, had he not died, Hoover might have finally met his match in the equally righteous, but law-breaking Richard Nixon.
What the film does quite brilliantly reveal is all that is most private and, within the context of the story writing, most fictional. We cannot know precisely what Hoover's relationship was with his mother, but J. Edgar presents us with a claustrophobic home-life wherein it is hard to imagine how Hoover was not smothered to death in love. Judi Dench brilliantly portrays a woman obviously doting on a young man whom she had molded through speaking lessons, moral homilies, and motherly affection. The film carefully tiptoes around the claims of Hoover's cross-dressing tendencies by showing him, upon his mother's death, in a fetishlike mania, donning her beads and dress.
Upon his admission that he cannot bear to dance with women, she repeats the story of a childhood acquaintance who, dressing as a woman, was mocked by neighbor's through his nickname "Daffy" (for daffodil). Her summary comment is one of the most horrific statements of the film: "I would rather have a dead son than a daffodil for a son." After which, she puts her arms around him in an attempt to teach him how to dance.
Many of the critics whom I read seemed to suggest that Eastwood and Black barely touched upon the momentous hypocrisy of Hoover's life, his own, possibly homosexual, relationship with his assistant, Clyde Tolson. Yet I see this as, perhaps, the central focus of this work, or, at least, its most well-developed subject. From the moment he first meets Tolson (played by the immensely talented Armie Hammer [1]), Hoover goes into heat, actually breaking out into a sweat when he interviews Tolson for a possible FBI job. The man is, at least in the terms that Hoover has laid out - total commitment to the organization, complete sobriety, and utter faith in him and the organization - unqualified for the position. Yet not only does Hoover hire him, but within a few months, makes him second in charge. For the next 45 years the two dined with each other for lunch and dinner and traveled together on vacations where the two shared bedrooms or adjoining suites. They worked every day at the office side by side. The film suggests that, at least on a few occasions, they kissed; that Tolson was furious over Hoover's affair with Dorothy Lamour and outraged at Hoover's suggestion that he might marry. Tolson, apparently, chose Hoover's suits and ties and coached him the niceties of societal behavior. Once he met Tolson, although he had outlawed liquor for all FBI employees, Hoover began increasingly to drink. Together the two gambled, went to the theater, and attended late-night clubs. Does that mean that the two were lovers?
Despite the long-time insistence of Washington DC gays and political insiders (I lived in that city for 16 years during his tenure, and regularly was assured of Hoover's homosexuality) and the rumors that he had been seen at gay orgies in full drag with a bevy of blond-haired boys, I would side with the moderate views of this film. I suppose the question is whether a deep male camaraderie without sex might still be described as a homosexual relationship. There are plenty of couples, homosexual or heterosexual, I would argue, who seldom have sex. I certainly cannot imagine a situation such as the one between these two men as not being understood as a kind of marriage, one of the dictionary definitions being "an intimate or close union." Indeed, more than anything else, it is apparent, Hoover craved love, and Tolson daily offered it up.
Hoover's grabs power, which ultimately corrupted him and led him to hypocritical actions that are almost incomprehensible, grew evidently out of that need to be loved. Power, as every backyard bully and world leader comes to comprehend, means the ability to influence and control others, particularly potential enemies. As Hoover himself said, "No one freely shares power in Washington, DC." Year after year, like a king overseeing the election of new presidents, Hoover stood on the balcony of his FBI office, waving at the inaugural presidential parades. He had power, but in the process lost his sense of the very values that he imagined he was so carefully protecting. He, indeed, had become a kind of ruler, not a democrat.
1 One of the ironies of the film is that Armie Hammer's grandfather, Armand, was a long-time target of Hoover, who questioned Hammer's close ties with the Soviet Union. [Back]


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Here's how RW members rated this race in the past (185 votes).
In short: Well organised, nice surface to run on, a shame that the wind was belting down the back straight. If only the organisers could have sorted that out......Date of review: August 18, 2009
Date of review: August 18, 2009
In short: Good race-worth looking out forIn full: Definite PB material but shame about the wind! Great organisation.Date of review: August 18, 2009
In short: Very enjoyable raceIn full: Travelled down from Nottinghamshire for this race and it was worth the 6 hours (total) in the car.I'll be racing again in November.Despite the wind on the back straight,I was 1 second off my PB time (having had a lack of training over the last month). November will see me beat my time, I'm sure of it.Date of review: August 18, 2009
In short: YDate of review: August 18, 2009
In short: Excellent race for my first competitive event in 15 years, thoroughly enjoyed it!!!Date of review: August 18, 2009
In short: Great race- flat course but very open and the wind made it harder than expected.Date of review: August 18, 2009
In short: Excellent event, wil be back for my 5th CC 10k race in NovDate of review: August 18, 2009
In short: Good race, well organised and traffic free. Shame about the wind on the back straight...Date of review: August 17, 2009
In short: This must be one of the best 10k events in the South West.In full: I ran my first ever 10k here at Castle Combe last November on a cold windy day and I was keen to come back and run the course again in what I hoped would be better weather conditions. I have run in a couple of other 10k events since then, so what is it that drew me back to Castle Combe?Firstly, the circuit itself must be unique. Running on a motor racing circuit guarantees a pretty flat and even course and it is also an interesting experience to run laps of anything other than a 400 metre track. In fact, the laps here are a fraction under three kilometres! There are really clear kilometre markers, so monitoring one's pace is an absolute joy (and I even remembered to switch the Garmin to operate in metric units today!) Coming to the venue in the summertime, I was amused to see that the area within the circuit must be let to a local farmer, as there was a crop of wheat growing there. I was also taken aback to be reminded that the far side of the circuit could not be seen from the main grandstand area – this is an indication of how big the track is.Secondly, the venue is – not surprisingly – perfectly set up for competitive events. There is loads of parking right by the track along with the race HQ, plenty of WCs, a café and lots of spectator areas. Thirdly, the organisation of this event is very good – the organisers take a down-to-earth and no nonsense approach to the day and it all runs very smoothly indeed. Many other event organisers could do with a megaphone just like Will's.It was a cloudy day with some wind and, although it was sheltered in the start/finish area, I knew from experience that the back straight would be a bit of a challenge. And indeed it was. The first two kilometres went exactly according to plan, but by the time I finished the third, I had given away over 20 seconds! The wind is the one challenging factor here, because it would be necessary to run down the back straight two more times! Otherwise, the weather was great – cool and largely cloudy.All in all, a most enjoyable outing. I missed the PB by less than a minute, partly because of the wind and partly through lack of preparation, but I have already put in an entry for the November event ...Many thanks to the organisers and marshals and all involved in the staging of this event. Keep up the excellent work!Date of review: August 16, 2009
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According to court records, Aldawsari conducted online research into how to construct an improvised explosive device, or IED, using several chemicals as ingredients. He has also "acquired or taken a substantial step toward acquiring most of the ingredients and equipment" needed for the bomb, documents said.
Authorities said Aldawsari described his desire for violent jihad and martyrdom in blog postings and a personal journal.
Aldawsari conducted research on various targets and e-mailed himself information on these locations and people, the Justice Department said.
On February 6, the affidavit alleges, Aldawsari sent himself an email titled "Tyrant's House," in which he listed the Dallas address for former President George W. Bush, investigators said.
In a personal journal found in Aldawsari's apartment home, Aldawsari wrote the events of September 11, 2001, had produced a "big change" in his thinking and that he had been inspired by the speeches of Osama bin Laden, the affidavit said. He had excelled in high school in order to take advantage of scholarship opportunities offered by Saudi companies to get to the United States, he wrote, and had been planning to commit a terrorist attack in the United States for years, according to the affidavit.
Aldawsari allegedly wrote the scholarship "will help tremendously in providing me with the support I need for Jihad." The entry continued: "And now, after mastering the English language, learning how to build explosives and continuous planning to target the infidel Americans, it is time for Jihad," the affidavit says.
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- The space has four independently-controlled furnaces.
- All four furnaces have the same type of thermostat.
- Please be aware that a significant fraction of your wintertime membership fees are spent on heating.
- Our customary wintertime temperature when working in the space is 60-65 degrees.
Thermostat How-To
- The default temperature setpoint is intended to protect the space and equipment.
- To prevent unattended heating, the thermostat will automatically revert to the default setpoint at certain times.
- To increase the temperature for comfort, nudge the "up" arrow until comfortable.
- When leaving, push the "run" button to return to the default setpoint immediately.
Expert Thermostat How-To
- Please do not push the buttons covered with green tape.
- For further information on the buttons covered with green tape, contact Eric Merrill.
- (For those who feel we shouldn't make Eric get in here every time the batteries get changed to reprogram the thermostats, I've uploaded the user manuals for the different thermostats to their own page, Thermostat Instructions )
When Thermostats Go Wrong
- The thermostats require two AAA batteries to operate. When the batteries are dying the display will show "lo batt" in the upper, right-hand corner. There's a tiny, phillips-head screw on the underside of the thermostat, just the right size to drop and lose forever, that has to be backed out to take the cover off. When the screw's out the cover tilts forward at the bottom and then you can take it off.
- Replace the two batteries ( you can find replacement batteries in the E-lab, opposite the windows, all the way to the left ) and the display should come back to life. Hook the top of the cover on the base and tilt it back into place, replace the screw and you should be ready to warm the place up.
Area-Specific Information
- Office area
- The office has central heating (furnace located on roof? in closet? location of air filters?).
- The thermostat is located in the hallway, between the kitchen door and chem lab door.
- The default temperature setpoint in the office area is 55 degrees.
- South shop area
- There is an overhead furnace near the main entrance.
- This furnace is NOT TURNED ON right now. Please just ignore it.
- The thermostat is on the shop side of north kitchen wall.
- North shop area
- There are two overhead furnaces in the Fab Lab area.
- Each furnace has its own thermostat mounted on the nearest shop wall. (One is behind the sandblaster.)
- The default temperature setpoint in the shop area at 45 degrees.
The shop area has many types of ventilation equipment.
- Shop roof exhaust fans (blocked off in winter)
- Metal shop wall exhaust fans (currently do not work)
- Shop ceiling fans
- Controlled by dimmer switch next to front door
- Recommend half-speed operation in wintertime when space is occupied
- Specialized exhaust systems
- Welding area
- Laser cutter
- Dust collector (under construction)
Air Conditioning
Please be aware that a significant fraction of your summertime membership fees are spent on air conditioning for the office area.
- Office Area
- Central air conditioning (location of air filters?)
- The thermostat is located in the hallway, between the kitchen door and chem lab door.
- Our customary office area temperature when occupied is ?? degrees.
- Please turn off the air conditioning when the office area is unoccupied.
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DECO | Stylish 1 Bed in Galatasaray
Спальные места4
Ванные комнаты1
Площадь45 м²
Этаж №2
- Возможность проживания семьи/детей
- Интернет
- Кухня
- Кондиционер
- Стиральная машина/сушилка
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|Hayriye Cad, 34425 Istanbul, Турция
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Deco apartment is situated on the second floor of a newly renovated building with one big and bright living room/bedroom, a fully stocked kitchen with a dining set-up and a modern, stylish bathroom. The floor has gorgeous wooden floor boards.
The apartment is filled with hand-picked pieces of antique furniture and art, combined with a few modern ones. In here you will find everything needed for a comfortable stay. You have a large room with a double bed (140x200) and a large sofa bed (160x200), fresh clean linens for all guests, 24 Hour Hot Water, Central Heating, Hair Dryer, Satellite TV, AC, Wi-Fi, Microwave, Gas Stove, Kettle, Toaster, Washing Machine, Dishwasher.
Upon your arrival we will meet you at the rental, check-you in, give you the keys and tell you about the neighborhood and the whole area for orientation and tips. We will be also assisting you closely during your stay and in case of any needs or emergency.
The flat is close to all major tourist attractions. Within walking distance you'll find the Galata Tower, Istiklal Avenue, Taksim Square, the Old City, the Spice Bazaar and the Grand Bazaar. You are surrounded by lots of great restaurants, cafés, pubs, bars and night clubs, close enough to walk to, but not close enough to hear any noise.
When you reach Taksim Square by Bus/Shuttle/Metro you need to go to Istiklal street and keep walking (around 600m) till you reach Galatasaray High School. Turn the first left after the school. The street goes a bit down. Turn the first one left (the street makes like a L). Keep walking and you will see a grey building with four floors in front of you.
Правила ПроживанияTransfer from the airport, iron, DVD player, Sony Playstation 3, baby cot and high chair can be ordered for an extra fee.
Please remember our check in/out rules as described in our listing:
Our regular Check-In time is between 13:00 and 19:00
Any Check-Ins outside these hours need prior confirmation and are subject to additional fees.
Our regular Check-Out time is between 8:00 and 11:00
Check-Ins between 19:00 and 23:59 are subject to a fee of EUR20
Check-Ins between 08:00 and 11:59 are subject to a fee of EUR20
Check-Ins between 0:00 and 7:59 are subject to a fee of EUR40
Check-Outs between 11:00 and 14:59 is subject to a fee of EUR20
Check-Outs between 15:00 and 18:00 is subject to a fee of EUR40
A €200 security deposit is required via PayPal ahead of check-in, and is refundable up to one week following successful check-out.
|Цена за неделю (вплоть до 2 гостей)
|25126 руб.
|Цена за месяц (вплоть до 2 гостей)
|90779 руб.
|Цена за 2 гостей
|1005 руб. за одну ночь/ дополнительная ночь
|Максимальная продложительность визита
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Appartement bien équipe et magnifiquement situé tout en étant très calme. À recommander fortement.
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Beautiful Flat! Good Service! And once a week there´s a big market right in front of your house, which is very fun to brouse. You´re also living door to door with very friendly, real Istanbul citizens.
Unfortunatelly we heared gunshots not far away from the flat at one night. But i´m very shure this will not happen this often. All in all it was a wonderfull stay in a really wonderfull and save flat.
Thanks a lot
The apartment in Istanbul was great. It was in a real nice neighbourhood and very near to Taksim square. Lots of nice shops, restaurants and bars close by. The apartment itself had everything you might need for a (short) stay and was very clean and comfortable. It has a small garden were you can park you bicycle (which was very convenient for us!) or dry your washing. In summer it might even be possible to sit outside and have a bbq (which was available as well)! The host and the owner were both very helpful and communicative. When the wifi was not woring the host arranged a solution very quickly. We had a very nice stay in Istanbul and in the aparment, if friend or family will visit we will defenitly advise them to rent this apartment.
Dear sir/miss,
My friends and I stayed in the MARIE - 2Bed with terrace and view -
appartement from 19 - 22 june.
The appartement was very nice! I would recommend it to friends and family
if the following didn't happen:
Unfortunately the host (Anil) didn't respond to my textmessage (that there
was no drinkwater anymore) and also not to my phonecall on sundaymorning
about the cleaninglady who barged in at 10 o'clock, while our check-out
time was 11 o'clock. She wanted to take our towels, but one of my friends
didn't have a shower yet. So we send her away. She left angry and came back
at 11 o'clock (we ran into her when we went down the stairs).
Kind Regards,
We visited Istanbul for 5 days and we stayed in this wonderful located apartment in Beyoglu near Taksim Square. The location of the apartment is perfect. In a calm side street where it is not so noisy but nearby everything you want to visit. The T1 tramway stops nearby and it goes all the way to the district, where the Hagia Sophia, the Blue Mosque and the Grand Bazaar is. Also nearby is the Istiklal Street. The apartment itself was very very clean, comfortable, safe and with great furniture. The bathroom and the kitchen is very clean and modern. There is also a TV but we rarely used it. The communication with Ilker and Anil was perfect. They are very friendly and responded very quickly to Emails. The check in and check out was also flawless. Overall 5 stars. Great location, great apartment, great hosts. Thank you Ilker, Anil and Ayse.
See you next time
Alper & Sarah
Sofia is a great place to stay. In the heart of the city, yet in a safe distance from all the touristic paths. In the totally clean apartment you've got everything you need from a fully equipped kitchen to a washing machine. The hosts are very kind and helpful. Thanks for everything. Best regards from Cologne!
Ein schönes und großzügiges Apartment in toller Lage. Viele Sehenswürdigkeiten können zu Fuß erreicht werden, Anschluss zum ÖPNV in ein paar Minuten.
Der Shuttelservice vom/zum Flughafen war sehr zuverlässig und wir haben trotz verspäteter Ankunft eine sehr freundliche und ausführliche Einweisung zur Wohnung und Umgebung erhalten. Wirklich ein toller Service!
Aufgrund einer extrem langen Bearbeitungszeit einer Stornierung durch die Wimdu-Administration habe ich EUR 80.-- mehr für eine andere Widmu-Buchung bezahlen müssen, weil der Preis inzwischen gestiegen ist.
Die Beschreibung der Wohnung ist nicht ganz exakt: die Klimaanlage ist nur im Schlafzimmer vorhanden, das Wohnzimmer, dass grösser ist, hat keine.
Die Lage ist perfekt, die Wohnung sehr angenehm. Erstellen Sie aber eine Mängelliste beim Beziehen der Wohnung. Flecken auf dem Sofa, auf dem Teppich, lockere Schrauben der Hand- und Badetuch-Halter, etc.
Sonst alles ok.
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Find your place to enjoy one complete renewed hotel, with focus on the families (the Magic Park is perfect for all the little ones), and for the most exclusive guests we offer to enter in the sensationally world of Natural SPA. Unique is as well the comfort and the complete equipment of the rooms, the gastronomy and the entertainment always trying to make your visit as nice as possible.
Customer satisfaction is the priority, so we are backing a superior 4-star service, each worker involved with the process on site, completing the complex structure of tourism excellence. Alexandre Hotels


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Ramsay, Allan
Allan Ramsay 1684(?)–1758
Scottish poet and editor.
Through his own poetry and his editions of works by earlier writers, Ramsay played a major role in reviving the Scots poetic tradition that had languished since the late sixteenth century. Although he wrote both in English and in vernacular Scots, he is most remembered for his verses in Scots, which demonstrated the viability of the Scots language and of traditional Scottish genres and verse forms as vehicles for contemporary literary expression. He is considered an important predecessor of Robert Burns and a precursor of the Romantic movement of the later eighteenth century.
Biographical Information
Ramsay was born in Leadhills in Lanarkshire, Scotland, some fifty miles from Edinburgh, in 1684 or 1685 (some sources say 1686). His father, the manager of a lead mine, died soon after his son's birth, and Ramsay spent most of his youth on a small farm belonging to his stepfather. In about 1700, Ramsay left Lanarkshire for Edinburgh, where by 1710 he was a master wigmaker and a burgess of the city. Two years later he married Christian Ross, daughter of a law clerk; the eldest of their several children, Allan, would become a noted portrait painter and essayist. From 1712 to 1715, Ramsay was a member of the Easy Club, a small group of young Scottish nationalists who wrote poetry and letters to the press and discussed relations between England and Scotland, which had been joined under the Parliamentary Union of 1707. He gradually gave up wigmaking in favor of bookselling, and in 1725 opened the first circulating library in the United Kingdom in his Edinburgh bookshop. He also opened a theater in 1936, but was forced to close it three years later by the opposition of the more conservative members of Edinburgh society and by the passage of the 1737 Licensing Act, which prohibited the production of plays outside of London without the permission of the lord chamberlain. He died in Edinburgh in 1758.
Major Works
Ramsay's first poems were apparently written for the Easy Club, including his first poem in Scots, "Elegy on Maggie Johnston, who died Anno 1711." Over the next several years, his poems in Scots and English circulated in the form of broadsides and small collections. His reputation as a poet spread with his publication in 1721 of a collection of his verse which he issued to nearly five hundred subscribers, including a number of aristocrats and prominent literary figures, merchants, and professionals.
Ramsay's poetry, written in both Scots and English, included work in a wide variety of genres, but he was particularly known for his depictions—sometimes humorous, sometimes sentimental—of Scottish rural and urban "low life." His pastoral drama The Gentle Shepherd appeared in 1725; three years later, he added some twenty songs to his original text, expanding it into a "ballad-opera" which became popular in England and the American colonies as well as in Scotland, where it was produced regularly into the nineteenth century. Ramsay also collected and published older Scots poetry in his anthologies Ever Green (1724) and Tea-Table Miscellany (four volumes, 1723-37), at times—to the dismay of later scholars—with his own unacknowledged additions or amendments.
Critical Reception
While Ramsay has long been credited with revitalizing the Scots poetic tradition, his stature as a poet was eclipsed by the enormous popularity of Burns in the latter years of the eighteenth century. His reputation was particularly tarnished by the comments of two late-eighteenth century editors of Scots poetry, Lord Hailes (1770) and John Pinkerton (1786); both severely criticized Ramsay's free-handed editorial methods, and Pinkerton dismissed Ramsay's own verse as crude in both content and execution. The tendency to view Ramsay as a very minor talent whose primary contribution to literature was—despite his editorial shortcomings—his popularization of earlier Scots verse culminated in the assessment of T. F. Henderson, whose Scottish Vernacular Literature (1898) remained influential well into the twentieth century. The pattern for more positive evaluations of Ramsay was set by a long critical essay by Alexander Fraser Tytler, Lord Woodhouselee, published in the 1800 Chalmers edition of the poet's works. While admitting that many of Ramsay's poems lack polish, Tytler praised the vitality of his best verse and defended him against charges of vulgarity with the argument that his language and style were suited to his true-to-life depictions of rural and city life. In Tytler's essay and in much subsequent nineteenth-century criticism, The Gentle Shepherd was singled out as Ramsay's most important work and was praised for its emotional veracity and its adaptation of the pastoral mode to a native British setting. More recent critics, while continuing to recognize the importance of Ramsay's editorial work and of The Gentle Shepherd, have turned increased attention to his other poetic accomplishments. Allan MacLaine, in particular (1985), argues that Ramsay produced admirable work in a wide variety of genres and in so doing not only won popular and critical acceptance of vernacular Scots verse, but also revived or created the verse forms and genres that would dominate the Scots literary revival throughout his century.
Principal Works
Poems (poetry) 1721
Fables and Tales (fables and short stories) 1722
The Tea-Table Miscellany 4 vols. [editor] (poetry) 1723-37
Ever Green 2 vols. [editor] (poetry) 1724
The Gentle Shepherd (drama) 1725
Poems 2 vols. (poetry) 1728
A Collection of Scots Proverbs [editor] (aphorisms) 1737
The Poems of Allan Ramsay 2 vols. (poetry) 1800
The Works of Allan Ramsay 6 vols. 1945-74
John Pinkerton (essay date 1786)
SOURCE: "John Pinkerton," in The Gentle Shepherd: A Pastoral Comedy, William Gowans, 1852, pp. lxiv-lxvi.
[Pinkerton was a noted late-eighteenth century editor of poetry in the Scots language. In the following excerpt, originally published in his collection Ancient Scotish Poems in 1786, he belittles Ramsay's poetic accomplishments and knowledge of Scots.]
The convivial buffoonery of this writer has acquired him a sort of reputation, which his poetry by no means warrants; being far beneath the middling, and showing no spark of genius. Even his buffoonery is not that of a tavern, but that of an ale-house.
The Gentle Shepherd all now allow the sole foundation of his fame. Let us put it in the furnace a little; for, if it be gold, it will come out the purer. Dr. Beattie, in his Essay on Laughter and Ludicrous Composition, observes, that the effect of the Gentle Shepherd is ludicrous from the contrast between meanness of phrase, and dignity or seriousness of sentiment. This is not owing to its being written in the Scotish dialect, now left to the peasantry, as that ingenious writer thinks; for the first part of Hardy-knute, written in that very dialect, strikes every English reader as sublime and pathetic to the highest degree. In fact this glaring defect proceeds from Allan Ramsay's own character as a buffoon, so evident from all his poems, and which we all know he bore in private life; and from Allan's total ignorance of the Scotish tongue, save that spoken by the mob of Mid Lothian. It is well known that a comic actor of the Shuter or Edwin class, though highly meritorious in his line, yet, were he to appear in any save queer characters, the effect would even be more ludicrous than when he was in his proper parts, from the contrast of the man with his assumed character. This applies also to authors; for Sterne's sermons made us laugh, though there was nothing laughable in them: and, had Rabelais,...
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The Scots Magazine (essay date 1797)
SOURCE: "Letter First on Ramsay's Gentle Shepherd," in The Scots Magazine, Vol. LIX, February, 1797, pp. 76-78.
[In the following excerpt, the anonymous critic, who signs himself "Philo-Scoticus," praises Ramsay's characterization and rendering of Scottish country life in The Gentle Shepherd and defends the poem against charges of vulgarity.]
Before I enter particularly upon the Gentle Shepherd, I beg leave to make a few observations upon the poem in general, as is customary with the greatest ancient as well as modern critics; I shall, in doing this, have an eye upon Aristotle's method of examining epic poetry, poetry, which Addison...
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Alexander Fraser Tytler (essay date 1800)
SOURCE: "Remarks on the Genius and Writings of Allan Ramsay," in The Poems of Allan Ramsay, Vol. I, Alex. Gardner, 1877, pp. xliii-cii.
[Tytler's commentary, which first appeared in the 1800 edition of Ramsay's poems edited by George Chalmers, represents the first extended critical analysis of Ramsay's works. In the following excerpt, Tytler assesses Ramsay's contributions to Scottish literature in the Scots vernacular and in English, as well as his stature as a poet, particularly with regard to the elegies, the satires, and the pastoral poem The Gentle Shepherd.]
As the writings of Allan Ramsay have now stood the test of the public judgment during more than seventy...
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Leigh Hunt (essay date 1848)
SOURCE: "Leigh Hunt," in The Gentle Shepherd: A Pastoral Comedy, William Gowans, 1852, pp. lxviii-lxxii.
[Hunt is recognized for his articulation of the principles of the Romantic movement. In the following excerpt from an essay originally published in A Jar of Honey from Mount Hybla (1848), he praises The Gentle Shepherd for its descriptions of nature and depiction of the emotional lives of its characters.]
Poetical expression in humble life is to be found all over the south. In the instances of Burns, Ramsay, and others, the north also has seen it. Indeed, it is not a little remarkable, that Scotland, which is more northern than England, and possesses...
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J. Logie Robertson (essay date 1886)
SOURCE: "Allan Ramsay," in Macmillan's Magazine, Vol. LV, No. 325, November, 1886, pp. 19-26.
[In the following excerpt, Robertson views Ramsay's poetry as a transitional link between the medieval tradition of Scots poetry and that of later Scots poets, such as Fergusson and Burns.]
Two hundred years ago, in October, 1686, Allan Ramsay was born in the upland village of Leadhills; and one hundred years ago last July, the first edition of Burns's poems made its appearance in the weaving-town of Kilmarnock. For the greater part of the century prior to the latter event Ramsay was universally regarded as the national poet of Scotland, and The Gentle Shepherd was...
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John Veitch (essay date 1887)
SOURCE: "Modern Period: Alan Ramsay (1686-1758)," in The Feeling for Nature in Scottish Poetry, Vol. II, William Blackwood and Sons, 1887, pp. 24-38.
[In the following excerpt, Veitch praises Ramsay's depiction of the natural scenery of the Scottish Lowlands.]
Allan Ramsay (1686-1758) is by far the most interesting and influential literary personage in Scotland in the first half of the eighteenth century. To his example, impulse, and suggestions of new lines of poetry, we owe much of all that is best in Scottish poetry and literature since his time. Fergusson and Burns could not have done what they did, unless as coming after Ramsay, and being thus enabled to start...
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T. F. Henderson (essay date 1910)
SOURCE: "Ramsay to Burns," in Scottish Vernacular Literature: A Succinct History, revised edition, John Grant, 1910, pp. 400-26.
[Henderson's Scottish Vernacular Literature: A Succinct History was the first book-length study of Scots literature. In the following excerpt, Henderson credits Ramsay with reviving interest in the Scots literary tradition, but typifies most of his verse as coarse in content and crude in execution.]
If not the victim of the contradictory poetic models, English and Scots, which he sought combinedly to imitate, Ramsay, except in the case of The Gentle Shepherd, was nothing advantaged, either as Scots or English versifier, by any...
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J. W. Mackail (essay date 1924)
SOURCE: "Allan Ramsay and the Romantic Revival," in Essays and Studies, Vol. X, 1924, pp. 137-44.
[In the following excerpt, Mackail argues that "[Ramsay's] importance in letters is less in respect of his own poetry, vital and even excellent as some of it is, than as having given the first clearly assignable impulse to the romantic movement of the eighteenth century. "]
[Sir John] Steel's statue of Ramsay [in West Princes Street Gardens, Edinburgh] has nothing romantic about it. It is the presentment of the sleek little tradesman of the Luckenbooths, burgess and bon vivant, and the presentment is true to life. But it is incomplete. Here, as often elsewhere, a...
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Burns Martin (essay date 1931)
SOURCE: "The Reputation and the Influence of Ramsay," in Allan Ramsay: A Study of His Life and Works, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1931, pp. 124-35.
[Martin's 1931 biography of Ramsay was considered definitive until it was supplanted by Alexander Kinghorn in 1970 with his The Works of Allan Ramsay. In the following excerpt, Martin discusses Ramsay's reputation among his contemporaries and in the latter half of the eighteenth century.]
There is no reason for thinking that before 1719 Ramsay was known beyond the city of Edinburgh. But in that year we have his correspondence with Hamilton of Gilbertfield, the englishing of "Richy and Sandy" by Josiah...
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David Daiches (essay date 1955)
SOURCE: "Eighteenth-Century Vernacular Poetry," in Scottish Poetry: A Critical Survey, edited by James Kinsley, Cassell and Company Ltd., 1955, pp. 150-84.
[In the following excerpt, Daiches surveys Ramsay's contributions to Scottish literature as a poet and as an editor of Scots verse.]
In 1712 [Ramsay] joined with other young men in Edinburgh in founding the Easy Club, 'in order that by a Mutual improvement in Conversation they may become more adapted for fellowship with the politer part of mankind and Learn also from one another's happy observations'. (Burns was to found the Tarbolton Bachelors' Club with similar ends in view.) The members of this club all had...
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Alexander M. Kinghorn (essay date 1970)
SOURCE: "Biographical and Critical Introduction: The Gentle Shepherd," in The Works of Allan Ramsay, Vol. IV, edited by Alexander M. Kinghorn and Alexander Law, William Blackwood & Sons Ltd., 1970, pp. 90-108.
[Kinghorn's introduction to the fourth volume of Ramsay 's works includes what is widely considered the most accurate and complete biographical information on the poet. In the following excerpt from the critical portion of Kinghorn's introduction, the critic discusses Ramsay's use of the Scots language and the place of The Gentle Shepherd in Scots literary history.']
The work by which Ramsay achieved an immediate reputation among his own...
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Alexander M. Kinghorn (essay date 1970)
SOURCE: "Biographical and Critical Introduction: Ramsay as 'Translator,'" in The Works of Allan Ramsay, Vol. IV, edited by Alexander M. Kinghorn and Alexander Law, William Blackwood & Sons, 1970, pp. 109-127.
[In the following excerpt, Kinghorn discusses Ramsay's imitations of the Latin poet Horace and the French fabulists La Fontaine and La Motte.]
Ramsay's renderings from Horace show how much, and how little, he had in common with the Roman, whose poetic character, with its urbanity and worldly-wise sophistication, held an understandable attraction for the Scot. The MS. Life is one authority for judging the extent of the language barrier separating Ramsay...
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Thomas Crawford (essay date 1979)
SOURCE: "The Gentle Shepherd," in Society and the Lyric: A Study of the Song Culture of Eighteenth-Century Scotland, Scottish Academic Press, 1979, pp. 70-96.
[In the following excerpt, Crawford examines the political and social context and implications of The Gentle Shepherd.]
According to Ramsay's own statement The Gentle Shepherd was written in the years 1724 and 1725. When the first edition came out in 1725 there were only four songs, "Peggy, now the King's come", II, iii; the duet between Patie and Peggy, "By the delicious warmness of thy mouth", II, iv; Bauldy's snatch of song, "Jenny said to Jocky, 'Gin ye winna tell'", IV, i; and the conclusion to the...
(The entire section is 6174 words.)
Carol McGuirk (essay date 1981)
SOURCE: "Augustan Influences on Allan Ramsay," in Studies in Scottish Literature, Vol. XVI, 1981, pp. 97-109.
[In the following excerpt, McGuirk compares Ramsay's selective use of the Scots vernacular "to match the elevation of his chosen genre" with the use of colloquial English dialects by London's neo-classical Augustan poets.]
Allan Ramsay's pastorals, songs, elegies, satires and epistles, in which neoclassical and dialect elements were mixed, had established him by 1720 as Edinburgh's most popular poet. The whole spectrum of Edinburgh's literate and semi-literate population supported Ramsay's work, which was extensively circulated in broadside sheets. By 1719 he...
(The entire section is 4306 words.)
Allan H. MacLaine (essay date 1985)
SOURCE: "Scots Satires," in Allan Ramsay, Twayne Publishers, 1985, pp. 14-41.
[MacLaine's 1985 study of Ramsay was the first book-length critical treatment of Ramsay's work. In the following excerpt, MacLaine analyzes the poet's satiric verses, crediting them with reviving interest in ancient Scottish verse forms and setting the precedent for modern Scots satire.]
At the very beginning of his poetic career Allan Ramsay made the conscious but risky decision of writing in his native Scottish tongue and of attempting to breathe new life into the moribund Scots poetic tradition. That tradition, as we have noted in the previous chapter, had become so impoverished that by...
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Further Reading
Fairchild, Hoxie Neale. "Sentimentalism—Severer Cases." In his Religious Trends in English Poetry, pp. 424-87. New York: Columbia University Press, 1939.
Includes a brief discussion of Ramsay's relation to the Romantic Movement and the political and religious beliefs reflected in his poetry.
Gibson, Andrew. New Light on Allan Ramsay. Edinburgh: William Brown, 1927. 152 p.
The first modern biographical and bibliographical study of Ramsay.
Kinghorn, Alexander Manson. "Watson's Choice, Ramsay's Voice and a Flash of Fergusson." Scottish Literary Journal...
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Ali Shan, TGY, Pouchong
I brewed them the way I brew all those greener oolongs in my 120 ml tea pot using a level tbs which is between 4 and 5 g. Which some teas gives me as many as 9 infusions full of aroma and flavor. The result for these teas was generally disappointing. Weak aroma and flavor barely lasting for 4 infusions. The worst was pouchong. It was the first time ever that I did not finish my tea session.
The leftover unused leaves of pouchong I put then in a glass with water and left it over night in the ref. The next morning I had a tea with acceptable flavor, nothing great so.
Now looking at the infused, opened leaves of those teas I am not really surprised. Ali shan had leaves from the bud to the 4th leaf with stem and some broken leaves. TGY had only unusually large leaves, 4th or higher grade, plus some broken leaves. Never seen that before on TGY and pouchong was only a shamble of broken leaves.
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Colonoscopy is a procedure in which a trained specialist uses a long, flexible, narrow tube with a light and tiny camera on one end, called a colonoscope or scope, to look inside your rectum and colon. Colonoscopy can show irritated and swollen tissue, ulcers, polyps, and cancer.
Virtual colonoscopy and colonoscopy are different in several ways. Virtual colonoscopy is an X ray test, takes less time, and doesn't require a doctor to insert a colonoscope into the entire length of your colon. However, virtual colonoscopy may not be as effective as colonoscopy at detecting certain polyps. Also, doctors cannot treat problems during virtual colonoscopy, while they can treat some problems during colonoscopy. Your health insurance coverage for virtual colonoscopy and colonoscopy may also be different.
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1. Does the guide refer to the development of an integrated multidimensional curriculum and how are the four major components in teaching a L2 addressed?
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Language - (as a means of communication, examples of language functions, language within a context, student control of language learning)
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