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TRENTON, N.J. - Free air conditioners are still available to qualified senior citizens and people with disabilities through the Medi-Cool Program, Mercer County Executive Brian M. Hughes announced today.
Hughes said seniors and those with disabilities should inquire right away to find out if they qualify for this popular program.
"Medi-Cool allows us to provide eligible older adults and those living with disabilities in our community with an air conditioner so they can live comfortably," Hughes said.
The Medi-Cool program is facilitated by Catholic Charities, Diocese of Trenton, and partner Rise Inc., of Hightstown, via the use of County funding provided by the Office on Aging. Seniors age 60 and older with a documented health condition and who meet income eligibility requirements can receive a voucher that entitles them to a free air conditioner. Residents 18 years or older who have a disability may also qualify. All applicants must provide: proof of residency, proof of income, prescriptions and proof of assets.
Catholic Charities, Trenton, and Rise Inc. will screen applicants for eligibility, provide a voucher for an air conditioner, and arrange for clients to pick up the unit at a storage facility at 1125 George St., Building R, Trenton. The air conditioner units will be distributed only every Wednesday from July 3 to Aug. 7, from 8:30 to 10:30 a.m.
The air conditioners will be distributed only to individuals meeting the eligibility criteria. Individuals who qualify must bring someone with them who can help them carry the air conditioner home. Individuals who have received an air conditioner in the last three years are ineligible. The supply is limited, so please apply soon.
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Hello --
I did a GOOGLE search for "tobacco tea" and found someone here who was wondering if anyone ever made tea from tobacco. This is what I did several years ago. Having been a pot smoker for a long time I was curious about the possibility of making tea from maarijuana. I never tried it. But I did use tobacco once and the results were dramatic. What I did was squeeze out the equivalent of ONE cigarette's worth of tobacco into a Celestial Seasonings teabag of Lemon Zinger blend and steeped it in very hot water. After the first swallow I could feel the difference. My head and body became kind of fuzzy all over. I had a nicotine rush from the tea that lasted about three hours. When I told my sister, a master herbologist, she nearly wrote me off saying that tobacco in tea form could be toxic. Heck, I was just thinking that it could be an effective way of getting nicotine into the bloodstream and therefore NOT burning it because that's where we get TAR from. I have made tea out of ordinary sage brush (White Sage) and the effects in my body and mind were very interesting. I could focus better! I also smoked some of the sage and got the same reaction only more acute as far as being more focused, for doing certain things such as watching TV. I look forward to any comments!
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justmebd wrote:Improving Book 4 & 5 will not be difficult just by the virtue of adaptation necessitating the cutting extraneous material.
Ditto Brienne's Book 4 storyline being done in an episode, two max.
I think Book 6 will be out next year, but we'll be lucky if Book 7 EVER comes out.
I think the Brienne/Pod adventure can be summed up in one episode in a nice montage to the sound of "Roam" by the B-52's. Or perhaps "Been around the world and I I I, I can't find my Sansa."


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Opportunity for students to gain experience related to the geography curriculum. Work as an intern in one of the agencies cooperating in this program. These governmental and private agencies are involved in planning and environmental concerns. Content of the course varies with the interest of the student and the nature and needs of the cooperating agency.Students must have a GPA of 2.75 or higher to take this course.
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (Apr. 19, 2012) – The 2012 schedule for the Jose Cuervo Pro Beach Volleyball Series, which will be produced by IMG and sanctioned by USA Volleyball, has been released.
The tour will include seven events in 2012.
The Series kicks off on Memorial Day weekend on the beaches of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., and will tour the United States throughout the summer culminating with the Jose Cuervo Pro Beach Volleyball Series National Championships in Huntington Beach, Calif. in September.
Each tournament of the Jose Cuervo Series will be sanctioned by USA Volleyball (USAV), the governing body of the sport, and will be broadcast nationally on NBC Sports Network. The cities, dates and prize purses of the 2012 Jose Cuervo Pro Beach Volleyball Series include:
Florida Open, Fort Lauderdale, Fla. – May 25-27 – $75,000
Belmar Open, Belmar, N.J. – June 22-24 – $75,000
Chicago Open, Chicago, Ill. – July 13-15– $100,000
Hermosa Beach Open, Calif. – July 20-22 – $100,000
Milwaukee Shootout, Bradford Beach, Wis. – Aug. 4-5 – $60,000
Manhattan Beach Open, Manhattan Beach, Cal. – Aug. 24-26 – $100,000
Jose Cuervo National Championships – Huntington Beach, Calif. – Sept. 21-22 – $150,000*
*The 2012 Jose Cuervo Pro Beach Volleyball Series schedule and prize purse is subject to change
"Fans and players can expect the 2012 Cuervo Series to be just as good, and in some cases even better, than last year's inaugural tour, featuring world-class competition and offering more tour dates, total prize money and overall entertainment than any tour in the U.S.," said Brian Radics, Diageo Brand Director, Jose Cuervo. "When we returned to professional beach volleyball last year, we made sure to deliver a top domestic tour and come back in a huge way."
"IMG is pleased to be back in the beach volleyball business," says James Leitz, SVP of IMG Action Sports, owner and operator of the Jose Cuervo Pro Beach Volleyball Series. "Together with Diageo, Jose Cuervo and USA Volleyball, we delivered in 2011 on the promise to bring back the elite, professional game to the United States. In 2012, with more stops, energetic markets, world-class athletes and a great partner in Jose Cuervo, we are poised for an amazing summer on the beach."
"The Jose Cuervo Pro Beach Volleyball Series delivers intense competition between some of the best players in the world and an energetic atmosphere where fans are up close to the action," said Sean Scott, professional beach volleyball player and winner of the 2011 Jose Cuervo Pro Beach Volleyball Series Manhattan Beach Open. "From the opening serve to match point, the experience Jose Cuervo and IMG provide is that of a world-class tournament. My partner, John Hyden, and I are excited to get back competing on the Cuervo Series' stadium court again."
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The Internet Is Abundance No Law Can Change
My subject was scarcity. The U.S. industry had been regulated for almost a century to spread capital thin, like butter over too much bread. In exchange for "universal service," telephony was a government-controlled monopoly.
The model was a great deal for tinpot dictators the world over. The "West" regulated telephony, they taxed it and police could tap into any line. So dictators did the same. It could cost several dollars per minute to call people in some parts of Africa. Few did.
When the old AT&T (T) or MCI, now part of Verizon (VZ) , brought fiber lines across the ocean they negotiated deals with the local monopolies, controlled by the local dictators, assuring that the scarce resource would go first to the dictator's friends, and that tons of money would flow his friends' way, too. Control of the resource meant control of the economy and control of the people.
The Internet is based on abundance. Google (GOOG) is just one example. Without any government subsidy, without regulation, it now has more Internet capacity -- compute capacity, transmission capacity, storage capacity -- than either of its well-regulated rivals. We have run the experiment. We know what works.
The International Telecommunication Union, or ITU, was created in the era of scarcity and was bypassed by the Internet, which won a waiver from its regulations in 1988 on the promise of economic growth. That growth has been delivered, but control has been lost, so the dictators of the world are meeting in Dubai this week to negotiate a new treaty aimed at bringing that control back.
The Hill and Politico are treating this as a pissing match between the U.S. and Russia, but Techdirtsays China's support for Russia's proposals is much more dangerous. The real issue, Reuters notes, is taxation.
As CIO Magazine writes, there is no risk the European Union and U.S. will agree to accept ITU control. The world's dictators are waving the flag of national sovereignty, seeking cover to tax international data flows and permission to enforce local laws over the global Internet.
But there is a price to be paid. Try to firewall your Internet and people will either use proxies against the blocks or not go online. Try to tax links and files can't be found. The Internet is a goose, it lays golden eggs, and mistreating it just gets you fewer eggs.
The ultimate expression of this stupidity can be seen in Tajikistan, where the country's communications minister recently turned off access to Facebook, accusing it of "filth and slander," and then demanded that CEO Mark Zuckerberg appear at his office before he would consider turning it back on, as Global Voices reported. He will be waiting a long time.


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Even though some analysts predicted availability of Blu-ray disc (BD) players for $49 on Black Friday, at present there are just a few offerings below $99 and the vast majority of BD players are still offered for $149.
Walmart plans to sell Magnavox NB500MG1F brand new Blu-ray disc player for $78 on Black Friday, according to the web-site of the store chain. Even though the player does not support loseless audio, it still sports BD profile 1.1, BonusView and so on. OnSale will offer refurbished Magnavox NB500MG9 for $99, which features BD profile 1.1 in addition to loseless audio support.
Rather surprisingly, Newegg.com, which is known for bargains on the PC market, does not plan to offer discounted Blu-ray players on Black Friday; nevertheless, the company has Lite-on BD-ROM for $68 in-stock.
Not all stores have issued their Black Friday advertisements yet and some companies may still offer extremely cheap BD players.
According to Consumer Electronics Association, Blu-ray disc playback devices sold 3.3 million units through the first three quarters of 2009, an increase of 13% over same period last year. Through the first three quarters of 2009, Blu-ray Disc set-top player sales grew 112% over same period last year. Blu-ray playback device households are nearly 11.7 million and include PlayStation 3 consoles. Approximately 80% of Blu-ray devices are BD-Live capable.


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Wrapping a Bowed Tendon for Exercise
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Q: We have a 4-year-old Thoroughbred with a bowed tendon. He has been laid up for about a year and is now in training and doing well. My question: When we race him, should we wrap his leg to support the bow or leave it open? I say that we should wrap it to support the bow, and my husband says that this will only bow the leg worse. Rose
A: Most bandages are put on horses to keep them from running down (when the back of the fetlock is abraded by the racing surface, often seen in a horse whose fetlocks drop lower than normal). There is very little, if any, benefit to putting front wraps on a horse with an old bowed tendon beyond covering up an unsightly condition. Even though a bowed tendon is "bowed" horizontally, the stresses on the tendon are vertical. There is no bandage that is light enough for racing that has any significant resistance to those vertical forces while running.
With that said, there is absolutely no harm in racing a horse in bandages, and properly applied bandages will not make a bow worse. The most important consideration is the individual horse and the surface where he is racing. The concern is whether or not the horse has a tendency to run down rather than whether he has an old bow. Running down is more common in horses with long, sloping pasterns and on tracks with deep footing, such as the sandier ones in the eastern United States.
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Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton traveled to Dakar, Senegal on August 1, 2012. The Secretary met with President Macky Sall and other national leaders, as well as delivered a speech applauding the resilience of Senegal's democratic institutions and highlighting America's approach to partnership.
During her remarks, Secretary Clinton said, "...Throughout my trip across Africa this week, I will be talking about... a model of sustainable partnership that adds value rather than extracts it. That's America's commitment to Africa. The Obama Administration's comprehensive strategy on Sub-Saharan Africa is based on four pillars: first, to promote opportunity and development; second, to spur economic growth, trade, and investment; third, to advance peace and security; and fourth, to strengthen democratic institutions."
Secretary Clinton continued, "We want to advance your aspirations and our shared values. We want to help more people in more places live up to their own God-given potentials. We want this to be our mutual mission. That is the work we are called to do in the 21st century. It is a race, a race between hope and fear, a race between potential realized and despair imbued in every pore of one's body. It is a race that we are in between those who believe as you and we believe, that there is an unlimited future for those who are willing to work together.
"So thank you, Senegal. Thank you for what you have done in your own country. Thank you for being a model in this region, a champion of democracy, a force for peace, prosperity, and progress. And thank you for being a partner and a friend to the United States of America."
Secretary Clinton is on travel to Senegal, South Sudan, Uganda, Kenya, Malawi, and South Africa. You can follow her trip to Africa on www.state.gov.
You can read more about the U.S. strategy towards sub-Saharan Africa here.
Liseth in Peru writes:
I think the best way to get things is working together and people have to understand that the world needs governments that have this in mind.
Timothy H. in Tennessee writes:
Madam Secretary, you are a remarkable woman. Your accomplishments will be formally recognized because they are indeed: worthy. historic, and truly remarkable.


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Skip to comments.Health-nut Mayor Bloomberg wants NYers to take the stairs instead of the elevator
Posted on 07/18/2013 4:22:25 AM PDT by fruser1
...The bill, which City Council Speaker Christine Quinn quickly endorsed, would require that newly constructed stairways be equipped with glass doors to make them more appealing...
..."If you sit for seven hours in front of a computer, you need to get up and walk. Its good for you," said Marina Pyatetski, a 40-year-old city worker at the Municipal Building in lower Manhattan...
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
If you go read the entire article you would swear it's from The Onion or something similar. We are doomed.
Sure glad I work on the second floor.
It's kinda funny. ALL of the stuff that Bloomberg wants to make the law are actually things a reasonable person might choose to do. But only the central planners and nanny state make it a law.
This applies to seat belts and helmets, btw.
Not a bad idea actually as long as it's just presented as an option and doesn't entail shutting down elevators and stopping escalators.
"Not a bad idea actually as long as its just presented as an option and doesnt entail shutting down elevators and stopping escalators."
Employers will sell this as an "employee safety issue" under the guise of prudent use of ObamaCare dollars
The big and obvious difference is that the cost of stupidity is incorporated into the insurance rates that all motorists/motorcyclists pay and as a result, smart drivers who would wear seatbelts/helmets without a mandate pay for the increased injuries and deaths of those people who are too stupid to help themselves.
If you are not wearing your seat belt, insurance only fixes half your face. Problem solved.
If you are not wearing a helmet, head injuries not covered. - Problem solved.
Individual freedom is not possible without individual responsibility!
so you are for the gov mandating seat belts as they do?
I used to belong to the cascade bicycle club and I had this argument with the president of the club. He made the argument you made. I told him that although helmets did reduce risk somewhat, that the reality was that taking bikes off the roads would DRASTICALLY reduce the risk to all the rate payers, and plenty of drivers would love to get us off the road.
i.e. I completely reject the "it lowers everybody's rates" arguments. It is Socialist in spirit.
BTW, Bloomberg can use that same argument regarding his health laws.
Did the good mayor & city council stop to calculate the increased cost of Fire-Proof GLASS doors?
Probably cheaper to install a Stair-Master in the hallway on each floor of the building. Or replace the tables & booths in the company cafeteria with treadmills/stair masters, equipped with cup holders & trays and a "Calories Consumed minus Calories Burned" meter.
I wish Bloomberg would take the cliff—and take O'Bummer with him.
Make the elevators lined with mirrors.
Replace the Muzak with recordings of "You are really getting FAT!" and "Hi, Tubby! How's your day going?"
Hang Rosanne Barr posters next to the elevator, labelled "I'm going for the Rosanne look!"
When presented the option, I always take the stairs (if it's not in a high rise), but they are often dirty and dimly lit.
My Dad's advise on keeping fit was never sit when you can stand, never walk when you can run, and never take an elevator when you can take the stairs.
My Mom's advice was a bit more practical. Never pass up a bathroom or a water fountain.
I would prefer to deregulate the insurance industry so that insurers can charge a higher automobile insurance premium to the pool of drivers who are too stupid to wear seat-belts on their own without a law.
I would take stairs more often if I didn't think they were scary and dark and good places for bad guys
Walking downstairs is fine. People with dicky hearts, obesity and other health problems, should not be walking upstairs. It is very hard on the heart. And, yet again, Bloomberg needs to get out of town. Forever.
When I worked (70s & 80s) at Rock Center (GE Bldg) on 32nd floor, at an ad agency, that was quite a hike up to 32, especially in a 3-piece suit, Burberry trenchcoat and w/ briefcase. I did it a few times just for grins at 6-7am. Mostly, we waited at the street level bank of elevators for a ride up. I'd also walk north from Penn Station to Rock Ctr, daily, all year long, regardless of weather. Great little food shops along the way.
but old bloomie does not practice what he preaches. there for has no creditability in the public's eye, except for the ubber health nut cakes.
There are many people who could not walk up 15+ flights of stairs. You have heart patients, wheel chair bound, MS, MD, ALS any number of auto immune patients, and bad backs to contend with. Apparently mr nanny is in perfect health.
Nudge, nudge, nudge and if you don't listen then it will be force.
I'd like to give a special shout out to those FReepers that celebrated the smoking bans on private property. That foundation will be put to good use by the nanny staters.
Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their consciences. C. S. Lewis
Yep, when folks forget that insurance is a voluntary risk transfer, then they quickly transition to the socialist approach. We see this quite often with supposed "conservative" thinkers......
I made the decision to wear a seatbelt on my own before there was a law....and that's the way it should be.
I make the decision. NO LAW.
In a sane world, this man would be in a straitjacket someplace, getting the very best in professional help.
I made the decision to wear a seatbelt on my own before there was a law....and thats the way it should be.
I make the decision. NO LAW.
But when they passed the bicycle helmet law, I kept wearing one. I've been up to 58 mph on my bike. A helmet is prudent, not that it would do much good at that speed.
If he mandates shutting down the elevators he could be sued out of existence under the ADA.
I think this is the best idea Bloombutt has had yet. Turn off the elevators. Y'all do what daddy nanny says. Next will come the calls to exercise, like the Muslim call to prayer. Drop and do gorilla hops.
Umm, who PAYS for this new mandate?
Who the F* let this douche onto the (R) ticket?
I wonder if Doomberg is planning to visit the observation deck of the Empire State Building?
Which reminds me, have they finished the building that replaced the twin towers yet?
it is when people get old that the health care costs skyrocket. people in their 80's , 70's etc are always in the hospital . you and your "We shold do something" , "we" collectivism would leave the free maerket alone "your" insuracnce would be lower because the "idiots" as you named them would not wear seat belts and then they would die young and not cost "You" nor "we" any money as only when allowed to live to 70 will they cost anything.
I destroyed a liberal in a debate with this simmilar argument as it argued against me for collectivist/socilalst obamacare
you leave the free market alone .who are you to tell us or me that I must wear a seat belt or get obamacare or anything? socialism doesn't work.
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The Paleo Diet, colloquially referred to as the Caveman Diet was first popularized by gastroenterologist and author of The Stone Age Diet, Walter L. Voegtlin, in the 1970s. Later Dr. Cordain posited our bodies are best adapted to the diet of Paleolithic ancestors' over 10,000 years ago. This translates into a meal plan of organic fruits, vegetables, animal protein and nuts and berries. Foods newer than 10,000 years, such as legumes, dairy, grains and refined sugars, are off the menu.
"While they aren't toxic in the short term, humans won't flourish over a lifetime on a diet comprised primarily of these foods," explains Friel. Of his own Paleo ventures, Friel says, "I was getting more vitamins, minerals and protein in my diet, which enhanced my recovery."
Dr. Cordain has written many scientific papers on the downfalls of the Western diet. "Friel's and my dietary recommendations come from an evolutionary perspective and are consistent with the most recent analyses of the human genome," he says.
Regardless of the genetic and digestive details, some runners say they just feel better on a Paleo diet. When 52-year-old runner Dave Reid, of Toronto, Ontario, failed in numerous weight-loss attempts, he subscribed to the Paleo plan. Reid dropped 20 pounds in two months, and another 15 in the following two years. He says, "I'm now putting in better training than I ever did before."
John Durant, also a runner and the mind behind Hunter-Gatherer.com, a website chronicling the life of a Paleo dieter, says he too feels healthier since starting this ancient diet. "My body just seems to work now," he says.
Friel says the Paleo Diet allows an increase in training load. He credits these adaptations to the boost in micronutrients and protein that the diet offers. In particular, Dr. Cordain points to the high intake of omega-3 fats in the Paleo Diet, which has been shown to have strong cardiovascular benefits.
"Higher protein intake reduces cardiovascular disease risk, promotes bone health and reduces mortality from all causes combined," says Dr. Cordain. "Whereas high-glycemic-index carbs promote metabolic syndrome [a group of metabolic risk factors like abdominal obesity or elevated blood pressure], epithelial [skin] cell cancers, inflammation and numerous other common Western diseases."
Dr. Cordain claims Paleo eating forces the body to transition from burning glycogen to burning fat, which is more efficient because our bodies have limited glycogen stores and days or months worth of fat stores. Says Friel, "There is a limit to how much carbohydrate a runner can process during a race, so if a runner relies to heavily on glucose, they will be forced to slow down in the later stages." However, Glycogen aids high-intensity exercise. "The runner with the most glycogen remaining at the end of a race can run at a greater intensity," says Cordain. For example, when your body relies mainly on fat stores during most of a 20-mile trail race, you will be able to tap into glycogen stores for a solid finishing kick.


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Birthplace: Los Angeles, Calif.
High School: Lynwood H.S. (Lynwood, Calif.)
Year of Graduation: 2014
Coach: Gergely Salim
Dojang: Salim's TKD Center
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WTF World Rankings as of 9/1/12: T-52nd (-49kg); T-128th (-53kg)
Hobbies: playing piano, shopping, listening to music, spending time with family, baking and watching the L.A. Lakers play
Family: brother, Nelson Morales Jr., won a gold medal in the USAT National Qualifier and a silver medal at the USAT Junior Olympics...younger sister, Chelsea Morales, was a blue belt gold medalist at the California State Championships.
Favorite Foods: Honduras and Italian food
Pre-Competition Meal: pasta, pizza, salad, ice cream and as much as she can eat
Favorite Athlete: Kobe Bryant
Favorite Movies: "Grease", "Forrest Gump" and "Troy"
Favorite Music: rap, pop, hip hop and anything else
Did You Know?: Deireanne has been playing piano since the age of 9...she used to do mixed martial arts (muay thai and kickboxing)...she takes G.A.T.E. (Gifted and Talented Education) classes in school...started taekwondo at the age of 5.
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2012 USAT National Championships (Sr. Bantam): SILVER
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2012 U.S. Open (Jr. Welter): GOLD
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2012 Junior World Championships Team Member (Jr. Welter)
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2011 USAT Junior Olympics (Jr. Light): GOLD
2011 World Taekwondo Championships (Fly): Round of 32
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2011 U.S. National Team Trials (Sr. Fly): 1st
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2010 Pan Am Games Team Trials (Fin/Flyweight): 1st
2010 USAT National Championships (Sr. Fly): GOLD
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Vallès, Jules
Jules Vallès 1832–1885
(Born Louis-Jules Vallez; also wrote under the pseudonyms Asvell, Jean Max, Jean La Rue, and Jacques Vingtras) French novelist and journalist.
The premiere historian of the Paris Commune uprising of 1871, Vallès was assured a controversial place in history when the Commune's experiment with anarchy became a model and inspiration for such theorists and revolutionaries as Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, and Vladimir Lenin. Vallès drew upon his development as a militant journalist and insurrectionist, his difficult childhood, and his reluctantly pursued classical education to write his most widely read work, the largely autobiographic trilogy Jacques Vingtras (1879-1886). Important as an historical document, Jacques Vingtras also remains relevant as a critique of educational practices and of the isolating effects of capitalism and modern bourgeois institutions. Although linguistic playfulness and spontaneity distinguishes Vallès's writing from that of his contemporaries and successors, including Emile Zola, Victor Hugo, and Charles Baudelaire, the militant populism of his works exposed him to persecution, which eventually forced him into literary obscurity. It was not until the mid-twentieth century that scholars began to look past Vallès's political radicalism and to appreciate his qualities as a literary historian and prose stylist.
Biographical Information
Vallès was born Louis-Jules Vallez in the village of Puy-en-Velay, Auvergne, France, on June 11, 1832. Vallès's last name was spelled incorrectly on his birth certificate, but he maintained the error in his adult life to distance himself from his schoolteacher father, Jean-Louis Vallez. Vallès's father descended from and married into a farming family, and pursued a career as a teacher in order to obtain social status. Although Vallès's father remained on the lowest rung of the social ladder in the teaching profession, this occupation afforded Vallès the chance to obtain a classical education, and he excelled in Greek, Latin, and rhetoric. Vallès also became increasingly interested in socialist and revolutionary politics, especially in the wake of the 1848 uprising of students, artisans, and unemployed workers in Paris. He increasingly rejected the values and wishes of his father, particularly his father's insistence that he pass the baccalauréate examinations and enter into an academic career of his own. As Vallès became more politically active, reportedly organizing resistance to Napoleon III's coup d'état in 1851, his father responded by putting him in an asylum in December 1851. Vallès, mobilizing his political contacts, was released from the asylum in March 1852; he then passed the baccalauréate and left for Paris, where he found his degree useless and his financial prospects dim. Vallès participated in the bohemian life of the Left Bank in Paris, attempting law school, tutoring at a boardinghouse, and performing secretarial work for Gustave Planche. During this period, Vallès wrote jingles, dictionary entries, pamphlets, tour guides, and newspaper articles. After his father's death in 1857, Vallès earned his living by contributing to or managing various liberal daily newspapers. That same year, Vallès anonymously published the novel L'Argent. This work represents the author as a man of letters turned stockbroker but deals with this transformation with such irony and sarcasm that Vallès's true opinions about the world of finance are readily apparent.
The death of Henri Murger in 1861 was a critical point in Vallès's life. Murger had written Scènes de la vie de bohèmie—a work sympathetic to the plight of the bohemians—but Vallès considered Murger's work unsuccessful in representing the hardships and pain of bohemian life. After Murger's death, Vallès made it his goal to provide a true picture of the life of the bohemians and his own generation. The first publication of this program was an article entitled "Les Réfractaires," published in Figaro in 1861. This article and various others written between 1857 and 1865 were collected in a fictional work entitled Les Réfractaires (1865). Almost contemporaneous with this work was the Romantic novella Jean Delbenne (1865). Reactionary articles written in 1865 and 1866 appeared in the fictional work entitled La Rue (1866), which described the urban battleground of Paris where the poor and marginal mixed with the more fortunate. Vallès increased his reactionary literary output in the following years by establishing seven short-lived newspapers: La Rue in 1867, Journal de Sainte-Pélagie in 1869 (January), Peuple (February), Réfractaire in 1869 (May), Corsaire (November), Cri du Peuple in 1871 (February), and Drapeau (March).
When Prussia invaded France in 1870, Vallès was a leader of a revolutionary republican party that was defeated in the elections for a new government to negogiate peace. The new, monarchistic government took steps to remove the reactionaries from Paris, and the revolutionary movement fought back, forced the leaders of the official government to flee, and established the Paris Commune. Vallès served on the Commune's education commission and presided over its last meeting on May 21, 1871, when the official French government finally defeated the Communards. Vallès fled to London in exile in October 1871. There he wrote a play entitled La Commune de Paris (1872) and began the trilogy that would relate the social circumstances of his generation leading up to the Paris Commune. The first volume of this trilogy was entitled Jacques Vintras I (later called Jacques Vingtras: L'Enfant). Published through intermediaries, it appeared first in serial form in a Parisian paper in 1878 and then in book form in 1879, with each version being published under a different pen name. After amnesty for the Communards was proclaimed in 1880, Vallès returned to Paris and released additional works that had been written in exile but had not been published: Jacques Vingtras: Le Bachelier (1881) and a collection of portraits of London life entitled La Rue à Londres (1884). During this period, Vallès began his close relationship with Caroline Rémy, known as Sèverine, who served not only as his nurse and secretary in his years of ill health but also as editor, assuring that his works were finished, polished, and published. Vallès died in Paris on February 14, 1885. Sèverine collected, edited, and published the serialized version of Vallès's third and last Jacques Vingtras novel, Jacques Vingtras: L'Insurgé: 1871 (1886).
Major Works
Vallès most significant literary achievement is his semiautobiographical trilogy Jacques Vingtras: L'Enfant, Jacques Vingtras: Le Bachelier, and Jacques Vingtras: L'Insurgé: 1871. Tracing the development of an insurrectionist, the three novels chronicle the life of their eponymous protagonist from childhood (in L'Enfant) through institutional education and young adulthood (Le Bachelier) to his eventual realization as an insurrectionist in the Paris Commune (L'Insurgé). The books faithfully report the conditions of students, workers, and others who would join the movement of the Communards. The first two novels in particular offer powerful condemnations of bourgeois practices of child-rearing and education. Closely mirroring Vallès's own life, the last novel depicts the rise of Vingtras's career as a journalist, his involvement with the Paris Commune, and his hope for the future after escaping the fall of the Commune. More autobiographical writing appears in Vallès's documentation of his experiences in La Rue à Londres, written in London after the fall of the Commune. This work reveals Vallès's great love and appreciation for his native Paris (although his comparisons between Paris and London are sometimes misinformed), and is also marked by the same attention to sensory detail that distinguishes the Jacques Vingtras trilogy.
Critical Reception
Vallsè's radical politics overshadowed his literary talents until well into the twentieth century. Upon Vallès's death, influential critic Ferdinand Brunetière began Vallès's obituary reluctantly, remarking, "I shall speak of a disagreeable man." Recent critics, however, have worked toward a "recuperation of Vallesian poetics." Robin Orr Bodkin (1992), for example, argues that lifting Vallès from his undeserved obscurity will demonstrate "how his contribution points directly to the textual innovations of Nathalie Sarraute, Céline, Raymond Queneau, and Samuel Becket among others, if not to postmodern textual presentation in general." Nonetheless, most critics have considered his most important contribution to be his documentation of events surrounding the Paris Commune. Gerhard Fischer (1981) calls Vallès's mostly unknown drama La Commune de Paris "an outstanding documentary work [which] directly describes the struggles and sufferings of the people of Paris." Moreover, to some critics, Vallès's depiction of the hopes and disappointments of the working classes offers a model for modern power relations. Charles Stivale (1992) suggests that Vallès's careful narration of the forces at play during a critical political moment reveals a foundation for hope, and "forcefully introduces the possibility of resistance and the necessity of history."
Principal Works
Le Cri du Peuple [editor] (journalism) 1848-1871
L'Argent [published anonymously] (novel) 1857
Jean Delbenne [published anonymously] (novella) 1865
Les Réfractaires (novel) 1865
La Rue (novel) 1866
La Commune de Paris (play) 1872
Jacques Vingtras [under the name Jean La Rue] (novel) 1879; published as Jacques Vingtras: L'Enfant, 1881
Jacques Vingtras: Le Bachelier (novel) 1881
La Rue à Londres (essays) 1884
Jacques Vingtras: L'Insurgé: 1871 (novel) 1886
Victor Brombert (essay date 1961)
SOURCE: "Vallès and the Pathos of Rebellion," in his The Intellectual Hero: Studies in the French Novel, 1880-1955, J. B. Lippincott Co., 1961, pp. 43-51.
[In the following excerpt, Brombert contends that despite Vallès's often misunderstood humor, his works viscerally communicate the tragic circumstances of Leftist intellectuals who were not accepted by existing institutions or by the revolutionary workers they wished to support.]
Jules Vallès' disheveled exuberance was not confined to literature. Son of a provincial schoolteacher who sent him to Paris to prepare for the Ecole Normale, he despised diplomas, preferred the more hot-blooded bohemian life, launched...
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Barbara P. Edmonds (essay date 1967)
SOURCE: "In Search of Jules Vallès," in The French Review: Journal of the American Association of Teachers of French, Vol. 40, 1967, pp. 636-42.
[In the following essay, Edmonds considers the autobiographical aspects of Vallès's Jacques Vingtras trilogy and emphasizes Vallès's contribution to the development of French political literature written to support the working class.]
Jules Vallès's colorful life (1832-1885) was marked by a bohemian existence, militant politics including participation in the Commune, imprisonment, and exile. In spite of destitution and failing health, he founded two leading newspapers of the day: La Rue, in 1867, with the...
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W. D. Redfern (essay date 1976)
SOURCE: "Vallés and the Existential Pun," in Mosaic, Vol. IX, No. 3, Spring, 1976, pp. 27-39.
[In the following essay, Redfern examines Vallès's use of wordplay, proposing that for Vallès the pun demonstrates both the power and the inadequacy of words. Moreover, Redfern suggests, Vallès's linguistic playfulness lends a sense of freedom and vitality to his work.]
Adām (man) was created out of adamāh (earth); and we know about Peter. In the beginning was the pun, in this case a simply divine pun. Cultural historians tell us that play with words (insult-competitions, lying tournaments, joutes de jactance) is one of the most beloved practices of...
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I. H. Birchall (essay date 1981)
SOURCE: "Jules Vallès: Education and the Novel," in Gedenkschrift for Victor Poznanski, edited by C. A. M. Noble, Peter Lang, 1981, pp. 129-46.
[In the following essay, Birchall considers Vallès's trilogy Jacques Vingtras in relation to the German literary tradition of the bildungsroman, or educational novel. Birchall suggests that Vallès reworks the traditional bildungsroman by yoking together individual growth and social tranformation.]
Novels, wrote Dr. Johnson, 'are written chiefly for the young, the ignorant, and the idle, to whom they serve as lectures of conduct and introductions into life.'1 The connection between education...
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Gerhard Fischer (essay date 1981)
SOURCE: "Jules Vallès, La Commune de Paris (1872)," in his The Paris Commune on the Stage: Vallès, Grieg, Brecht, Adamov, European University Studies, Series 1: German Language and Literature, Vol. 422, Peter Lang, 1981, pp. 36-52.
[In the following excerpt, Fischer demonstrates the value of Vallès's play La Commune de Paris as a detailed and personal history of the Paris Commune of 1871, arguing that although the plot and characterizations are unrealistic, the drama vividly portrays the social and political conflicts surrounding the event.]
La Commune de Paris, subtitled by its author a "grand drame historique,"1 is an...
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Caryl Lloyd (essay date 1985)
SOURCE: "The Politics of Privacy in the Works of Jules Vallès," in The French Review: Journal of the American Association of Teachers of French, Vol. 58, No. 6, May, 1985, pp. 835-42.
[In the following essay, Lloyd focuses on the depiction of space in the Jacques Vingtras trilogy, arguing that Vallès's negative portrayal of private spaces underscores the loneliness and isolation of bourgeois life. Vallès's contrasting views of public and private spaces, Lloyd contends, reveal a sophisticated understanding of the evolution of modern institutions.]
The nineteenth century was an age of humanitarian reform of those institutions designed to house the alienated. It...
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Caryl Lloyd (essay date 1987)
SOURCE: "The Politics of Irony and Alienation: A Study of Jules Vallés' Le Bachelier," in Romance Quarterly, Vol. 34, No. 1, February, 1987, pp. 27-33.
[In the following essay, Lloyd applies Karl Marx's notion of alienation to illuminate the character Jacques Vingtras 's troubled relationship to both work and workers, emphasizing Vallès's use of irony as a textual representation of alienation.]
As in all previous history, whoever emerges as victor still participates in that triumph in which today's rulers march over the prostrate bodies of their victims. As is customary, the spoils are born aloft in that triumphal parade. These are generally...
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Gretchen van Slyke (essay date 1987)
SOURCE: "Militancy in the Making: The Example of Le Bachelier," in Stanford French Review, Vol. XI, No. 3, Fall, 1987, pp. 331-44.
[In the following essay, van Slyke discusses Le Bachelier as an example of militant autobiography, using such an approach to demonstrate how the novel brings both author and reader into the text.] In proposing to study Vallès's Le bachelier as an example of what I call militant autobiography, my aim is not to dispute the justly deserved reputation of this work. I do, however, wish to examine the paradoxical means by which Le bachelier has achieved that recognition. Why I say "paradoxical" will, I hope, become clear in the course of these...
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Walter Redfern (essay date 1992)
SOURCE: "L'Enfant," in his Feet First: Jules Vallès, University of Glasgow French and German Publications, 1992, pp. 89-116.
[In the following excerpt, Redfern examines the first book of Vallès's Vingtras trilogy, L'Enfant, focusing on Vallès's use of sensory detail and his keen perception of the joys and injustices of childhood and education.]
In Foucault's Pendulum, Umberto Eco writes: 'The literature of memory: he knew himself that it was the last refuge of scoundrels'. Sometimes, no doubt, but for Vallès the past was the true homeland. The only convincing fiction he could write (and he applied the same criterion to other writers) was...
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They fuck you up, your mum and dad.
They may not mean to, but they do.
They fill you with the faults they had
And add some extra, just for you.(PHILIP LARKIN: 'This Be the Verse')
Vous ne réssirez pas à me dénaturer(DIDEROT: Supplément au Voyage de Bougainville)
As Sartre, and common experience, tell us, society is first mediated, transfused, to us via our families. It was inevitable that Vallès should begin at the beginning, where we are all made, unmade, or make ourselves. Just as Nizan wanted to smash the iconic view of youth as the best years of our lives, so Vallès worked to...
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Walter Redfern (essay date 1992)
SOURCE: "Exile and Return: La Rue à Londres," in his Feet First: Jules Vallès, University of Glasgow French and German Publications, 1992, pp. 145-72.
[In the following excerpt, Redfern discusses Vallès's exile in London, from about 1872 to 1880, focusing on Vallès's contrasting views of Paris and London and the background for Vallès's book La Rue a Londres. Redfern also describes Vallès's efforts to work in Paris following his return from London and the defeat of the Paris Commune, particularly his work on the newspaper Le Cri du peuple.]
Long before he was forced into it, Vallès hankered for a chosen exile,...
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Charles J. Stivale (essay date 1992)
SOURCE: "Le Plissement and La fêlure: The Paris Commune in Vallès's L'Insurgé and Zola's La Débâcle," in Modernity and Revolution in Late Nineteenth-Century France, edited by Barbara T. Cooper and Mary Donaldson-Evans, University of Delaware Press, 1992, pp. 143-54.
[In the following excerpt, Stivale contrasts Vallès's and Emile Zola's representation of the Paris Commune of 1871, arguing that Vallès's emphasis on identifying and naming historical agents in his narration of class conflict makes possible the recognition and resistance of seemingly natural sources of power.]
In his provocative analysis of Zola's La Bâte humaine...
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Further Reading
Bodkin, Robin Orr. "The Creative Askesis of Jules Vallès." In Repression and Expression: Literary and Social Coding in Nineteenth-Century France, edited by Carrol F. Coates, pp. 111-34. New York: Peter Lang, 1996.
Connects Vallès to French poets Charles Baudelaire and Arthur Rimbaud in the early development of modernist poetics, specifically a poetics of resistance.
Bruce, Donald. "Discourse Analysis in Cultural Theory: 'Une Discipline Transversale."' Canadian Review of Comparative Literature 22, No. 1 (March 1995): 63-92.
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A dominating feature of the city (for good reason, it's stunning) the Prague Castle is the largest ancient castle in the world and the seat and official residence of Czech power. Originally, a wooden fortress constructed in the 9th century by Prince Bořivoj, subsequent rulers have left their marks transforming the castle into the impressive sight it is today. Also within the castle walls is the breathtaking St. Vitus Cathedral.
Known as The steel framework tower in Prague is a 63.5 meter high, and strongly resembles the Eiffel Tower. The top is actually at a higher altitude than that of the Eiffel Tower. The Petřínská rozhledna was built in 1891 and was used as an observation tower as well as a transmission tower. Today it is a tourist attraction. If you go up the hard way, the hill is roughly a half-hour walk up paths that get quite slippery when it snows, and the tower is a shorter but fairly tiring climb; however, the hill is served by a frequent funicular and the tower has an elevator for disabled persons. There is a gift shop and a small cafeteria on the main level. On the lowest level is a small museum of Jára Cimrman.
The Vltava River is home to many bridges in Prague, but the most celebrated is the Charles Bridge. Named after King Charles IV, who started construction in the 14th century, it is today one of Prague's finest attractions connecting Old Town (Staré Město) with the Lesser Quarter (Malá Strana). By day, Charles Bridge is bustling with artists, local vendors and tourists from around the world. Catch its more quiet and peaceful moments at night or sunrise.
On the Old Town side of Charles Bridge, this Gothic tower built in 1373 is flanked by sculptures of St. Vitus and Charles IV. Open to the public, it offers excellent views of the Old Town and the Vltava River to visitors who climb the narrow staircase. The tower once displayed the heads of twelve Protestant leaders executed in 1621, and was also the site of the final conflict of the Thirty Years War (1618-1648).
Find gritty and colorful history amidst the romance of Malá Strana. The Lennon Wall's expressive origins date back to the 1970s when it was known as the Wailing Wall and covered with the chalk-scribbled poetry of Czech people. Following Lennon's assassination in 1980, the wall's chalk was replaced by Lennon-inspired graffiti of lyrics and rallies for peace, love and freedom. Today, the wall remains a haven of creative expression with its messages and colors ever-changing like water in the Vltava.
All you need is love
Walking to or from the Lennon Wall, find the love locks cluttered on the gate over the small canal. The keys had been cast away into the canal's waters by those pronouncing everlasting love.
From U Prince's rooftop, sit in the heart of Old Town Square (literally). Enjoy a cool cocktail, mulled wine, or splurge on traditional or international fare while taking in the incredible panoramic views and sounds from the bustling square below.
With medieval charm, rich history, and fascinating mix of Romanesque, Baroque and Gothic architecture, stepping into Old Town Square feels like an enchanted fairytale. Once Prague's main marketplace in the 12th century, Old Town Square today remains the heart of the city bustling with tourists, restaurants and shops, decorated with such wonders as the Astronomical Clock, Týn Church and Jan Hus' statue in the center of the square.
Dating from 1475, the Powder Tower was built as one of 13 gates to the city of Prague. The Powder Tower remained important to the Bohemian kings - until 1836, the Bohemian monarchs would pass through the Powder Tower on their way to St. Vitus Cathedral for their coronation.
The Powder Tower was designed by master builder Matěj Rejsek based on plans by Peter Parler for the Old Town Bridge Tower at the foot of Charles Bridge. It is now one of the few remnants of the fortifications that once surrounded the city.
The Jewish Quarter, dating back to the 13th century, is one of the most well-preserved Jewish historical monuments in Europe. Once home to as many as 18,000 inhabitants, what remains of the Ghetto today is its impressive six synagogues, the Jewish Town Hall and the Old Jewish Cemetery. Most of the quarter's sights are accessible with Jewish Museum entrance ticket with the Old-New Synagogue requiring a separate ticket.
Experience unlimited views of the city, enjoy a drink, observe 10 crawling babies, and interact uniquely with the city from above. For a rich sensory experience beyond the incredible views, visitors can relax in "bubbles" and listen to "echoes" of the city such as the flowing Vltava River or chimes of the Astronomical Clock, plus learn about the country's history, architecture and art-all in a very cool environment.
Municipal House is one of Prague's most famous and beautiful concert halls decorated in fascinating Art Nouveau style. Visit the grandiose café and relish in the extravagant and rich décor with its impressive windows overlooking the Republic Square. Discover more Art Nouveau and famous Czech-born artist, Alfons Mucha's work at the Art Nouveau Museum of Jewelry and Paintings inside the Municipal House or visit the Mucha Museum in Old Town Square or the National Gallery in Holešovice.
A gathering place for Czech demonstrations, celebrations and remembrances, the square has been eyewitness to the country's most important historical events including The Prague Spring of 1968, The Velvet Revolution, and recently, Václav Havel's memorial. The dominant feature is the statue of St. Wenceslas sitting atop his horse, accompanied by Czech patrons, Saint Ludmila, Saint Anežka, Saint Prokop and Saint Vojtěch. Behind the statue lies the magnificent National Museum. Lining both sides of the strip are shops, clubs, cafes and restaurants.
Well known by Czechs and tourists alike by its glimmering golden rooftop, The National Theatre embodies the will of the Czech people, their national identity and fight for independence. Just before the opening in 1881, a fire broke out destroying much of the theatre. The fire was deemed a national catastrophe and great determination to collect new funds and rebuild followed. Within 6 weeks' time, enough money was raised and two years later in 1883, it opened with a performance of Libuše by Bedřich Smetana. Today, the theatre remains a wonderful place to see ballet, concerts and Czech drama.
Just five minutes from MOSAIC HOUSE, find Fred sweeping Ginger off her feet at The Dancing House. More contemporary building than house, the "new baroque" structure was designed by Vlado Milunić and Frank Gehry, constructed in 1996. Best view of this one-of-a-kind architecture and Fred and Ginger's timeless romance is from across the street along the Vltava River.
With 360 views of the golden city, the Vltava River and its surrounding valleys, Vyšehrad is a fascinating place to visit (and also ideal for finding your bearings). Once inside the stone-walled castle complex, there's much to explore including the Capitular Church of Saint Peter and Paul, the Vyšehrad cemetery where many famous Czechs were laid to rest (Antonín Dvořák, Bedřich Smetana, Karel Čapek, and Alphonse Mucha to name a few), green parks, restaurants and cafes and the outdoor beer garden (a local's hangout).


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Will this year see a new album from Paul?? Come on Paul, give us some new music
Will we eventually see Let It Be the film being released?? Would love to have this
What about Beatles Live at Hollywod Bowl remastered or Shea Stadium?? Come on we need one or two live albums from The Beatles
As far as I know there still some unreleased songs of Georges, maybe a new album?
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Hello from London Ontario, my name is Armin and I've been drinking tea for little over 20 years. I started with probably Lipton... with lots of sugar and lemon
For the last 5 years I've been into organic green tea but I don't really have a great source for my tea and until now I didn't have the time to look up for honest, high quality reliable sources.
Right now I am looking to learn more about tea, how to buy, where and whom to trust also what kind of questions to ask myself before buying a tea and also the seller.
My last order was placed last week at TeaSpring.com and it was for Long Jing 50g (the regular one). I choose that website because I am a total beginner and had no idea about other sources. I thought a website that shows customers reviews must be a good one... We'll see.
Right now I am enjoying a high quality organic Sencha that I got as a gift.
If anyone can point me into the right direction where to buy high quality long jing organic tea, oolong and pu-erh I would be very grateful.
Also I saw David's (Hoffman) movie and I was fascinated by his passion and dedication, and a bit scared on how hard it is to obtain a good quality tea that is not loaded with chemicals and chemical fertilizers....
I would love to try one of those pu-erh they drink in Tibet, yes something that will wake me up in the morning.
I am pretty open to new tastes and willing to try a wide variety of tea.
Next on my list was to take a look intoThePhenixCollection.com and order from there but I'm not sure if that is really David's website and he is taking care of the business?
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So I said I know ...I know... in the title because I know it is another GSP thread and we've had them before. But I'm really having an issue with this...more of a quandary then an issue. I originally had this in the UFC 158 thread but making it here:
I stopped watching in the middle of the 3rd round of GSP vs Diaz and just went to bed. I really wasn't interested in it at all. After 7 fights all being decisions I knew it was going to be yet another decision. GSP said that he was going to show all these new things. I didn't see them. Of course that could just be hype which is fine, I know they have to sell fights but.... I do not find his fights interesting to watch at all. I guess there are a lot of fans out there that are technical fans that love watching his technical fights. It surprises me that he continues to be such a PPV draw. I figured there would be less technical fans then that. Maybe I am analyzing that wrong though and that's not why he's a PPV draw. Any opinions?
I feel odd because he is such a PPV draw and yet I do not like to watch him fight. I feel that since he is billed as such an amazing athlete that I SHOULD like to watch his fights. But the knowledge of him not finishing anyone in over 5 years is always at the front of my brain. Perhaps I should remember he is billed as an amazing athlete where as Anderson Silva is billed as an amazing fighter. Athlete vs Fighter. GSP has great cardio and staying power where people struggle to finish him and Anderson has great striking, etc.
Here are my main questions...
1. I realize that a fighters job is to win and not entertain. So my being bored of GSP doesn't really matter. He gets the job done and retains his title. The flip side of him not being able to finish anyone also means nobody is able to finish him, which says a lot. My main question is, are there really tons of technical fans out there that love watching his PPV fights? If he is such a PPV draw, this would tell me yes. But I struggle to believe this.
2. Do you think he will start to lose fans given his fights aren't unpredictable any more?
3. Am I analyzing it right when they say he's an amazing athlete as opposed to an amazing fighter?
I'd love to hear opinions here...I just can't wrap my brain around people wanting to watch fights like that and him continuing to be a draw. I recognize that people like to watch different kinds of fights but really that many want to watch him?
I agree with you on many levels. I do think that he has done a little better in the last two fights, but I think I have to give credit to Diaz and Condit for their scrambles to get to better positions and not just let GSP hang out in closed guard.
IMO, GSP is a huge draw because he is so dominant. He controls and wins round after round without taking any damage. But you are absolutely right, he is an athlete, not a fighter.
I've given up on the idea of watching GSP's fights live. I guess the technical people like to watch the technique, but I'm not a technical person, so I got bored of GSP's style and stopped watching his fights years ago.
Of course, now cue the GSP fans and their predictable arguments of "you don't know anything about MMA if you don't enjoy GSP's fights." Well, maybe I don't, but I do know what's entertaining and GSP is not that.
I remember an old interview from Matt where he said that he saw himself as an entertainer more than an athlete and I think that's why his fights ended up being so much more dynamic and exciting.
I think that GSP has officially broken Matt's record of consecutive title defenses, but if you had a choice, would you rather sit down and watch all of Matt's title fights all the way through, or all of GSP's title fights all the way through? I think I would choose to watch Matt's because then at least I'd be entertained, even though I've watched them all multiple times. I could imagine watching all of GSP's title fights would be about as exciting as a watching a 5-hour MMA instructional video, and I've never even seen half of them.
Oh yeah, we'll also get the other argument of "you're just bitter because GSP beat Matt twice." That's not the case at all. BJ Penn beat Matt twice as well, but I don't have a problem rooting for BJ now. I just think GSP is too hesitant to actually put anything on the line during these title fights and that's why he plays it safe and they all end up going to a decision. I don't want to call him scared, because I could never do what he does, but I just don't think that he wants to take any risks out there.
Someone's going to say, "He's the champ, he shouldn't have to take risks," and that might be true, but he's not going to win himself any new fans that way.
Irish Pride, I think you're comments are spot on. I've had the same ?s regarding GSP's draw and popularity especially given the last several years with fight after fight going to decision. And I agree with Kevin regarding Condit in his fight with GSP; I'm giving Diaz a little less credit in the fight last night.
I think Dana and a lot of other people think Fitch's fights are boring, so why don't they find GSP's fights boring?
One thing about last night's fight I found peculiar, why was GSP so gushing about Nick Diaz after the fight, I don't get that. Right after the fight, he was following Diaz around the ring trying to raise Diaz's hand...it just seemed strange to me, and Diaz just kept walking away. I understand showing respect, and being gracious in winning, but that was weird given Diaz's lack of respect towards GSP. Just wondering if anyone else found that strange too.
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I think the difference between fighters like Matt and those like GSP is their idea of winning. Matt didn't go out of his way to look exciting, he just was. His reign of dominance was exciting and he was always looking to finish the fight. GSP doesn't seem to want to even consider leaving what is comfortable to him to try and finish a fight. I am not asking or expecting him to be reckless, but try something that may open a chance of a finish.
GSP used to be a fighter, he knows how....just wish he would go back to being that guy. Everyone knew the fight last night was going to be a decision win for GSP. If the fight was actually finished, it was likely Diaz winning. It has become predictable....kind like the joke with Tim Sylvia as he always guaranteed a KO, but it was always a decision win.
i'll have to admit .. gsp is fighting just to win the fight ... he may say he is going to go for the finish, but he is not looking at sacrificing the win for trying to finish ... last nite in the first three minutes he nailed nick with some leg kicks and elbows that coulda really busted up diaz .. but he stopped doing it ...
he is still highly effective, and I still find his fighting style exciting, but he isn't going to win over many new fans as some have pointed out on here
I was hoping that fighting Nick would force an exciting fight. I was pumped when it started. After the first two rounds, I didnt even care to watch it any more. The prelims, and facebook fights were more exciting.
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i would like a high temp home pizza oven where i can control the top and bottom temperatures individually. I cranked my home electric up past 800 ala varasano, and got some amazing results, but it scared the crap out of me, so i put the oven back to normal. But i guess not too surprisingly I have not been able to get anywhere near that great flavor now that i am cooking at 550.
Bakepartner has a home oven that goes up to 932F, the PM 451ED-1 with the high temp option:
and bakerspride has this one that goes up to 800F:
I dont know if there any other high temperature home electric pizza ovens, or if these are the only two. I think i will define high temp as over 700 degrees.
I have seen a post by scott123 warning against getting the bakepartner, i think because of the lame electric element. I will find out if the high temp version has a better element. If it does have a good electric element, then which is the better choice. The bakepartner only has a .8 inch stone. The bakerspride has 1".
The bake partner has 5.42 kw, and the bakerspride has
I am also considering the bakepartner PM721, which is more comparable to the bakerspride 3836 in price and abilities (both about 6 to 7 thousand dollars, whereas the 451ED-1 is $3240 + $780 for the stand):
But the PM721 is not a countertop model and so they said it is not UL certified for home use. The countertop versions like the 451ED-1 are only now finishing home UL certification. All the information is according to christer at bakepartner.
I am guessing if i got with the bakers pride that i will not miss the extra 132 degrees, but who knows, maybe there is some better taste to be found at those temps.. it would nice to have the ability to experiment up there.. and of course it would be more neapolitan-ish perhaps.
I also would be interested in any bbq grill based solutions where i can cook at 700 degrees or more, and control the bottom and top temperatures individually, at least to some extent.
thanks for any tips - mark
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Mark, I don't know anything about the ones you linked to, but as Scott said in another post, brands are not as important as other factors - such as heating elements. As for as bbq, I am not aware of any retail products that gives accurate control over top and bottom heat. If you check the threads here in the last few days, there are a number of products offered to put on a grill and some methods to "somewhat" impact the top heat, often by using a less conductive bottom stone, or vent at the top. I did some experimenting with a Weber Summit, and didn't play with it too long, but the stock IR burner put out way too much heat the few times I tried it, and I wasn't interested in spinning the pie every few seconds to keep the back from burning. .
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Mark, I have to admit, my previous condemnation of the 451 was a knee jerk reaction to a trend for oven manufacturers to cut corners with countertops, combined with some quick math. I took the 451ED-1's 5.42 kW, divided it by it's 3 elements, came up with 1.8 kW per element and wrote it off in comparison to the 4 kW (8 kW/2) per element in the Baker's Pride.
The math wasn't wrong, I just didn't do enough of it. I put some more time in crunching the numbers and, per square inch, the 451ED-1 is 5.5 watts and the EP-1-8-3836 is 2.9 watts. Another big plus on the PM side, is the 3.4 deck height- not a huge amount of space to launch into, but a fantastic way of maximizing the IR raining down from the top burner(s).
I'm not fully endorsing the 451ED-1, but, at the same time, I'm not condemning it. On paper, this oven might have a chance.
In order for it to begin to be viable, though, you will need to confirm two features. First, that each of the three elements has separate temperature control. If it's anything other than 3 separate controls, forget it. Second, each element has to be the same- no major disparity in wattages between them.
Bear in mind, my thoughts about this oven are entirely in a 3+ minute NY style context. This oven may go to 932, but I really don't think it has a chance to do Neapolitan bake times, nor do I think it can do the almost Neapolitan bakes that Jeff Varasano is doing now in his pizzeria. 932 is about 150 deg. too much for Neapolitan undercrust browning on cordierite, but I really don't see these 1.8 kW elements pumping out enough IR to do sub 3 minute top browning.
Mark, even if the 451 does look like it might work, if you have a typical 550 deg. electric oven, with the right hearth, you can avoid any risk, save yourself $4K and use your home oven for 3+ minute bakes- without putting the oven in jeopardy.
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Mark, Scott knows a ton more about this topic than I , but I still think that a countertop oven has some advantages. I have a prior version of the Bakers Pride P18S, though only the 110 volt model. I also have a Viking dual fuel range, with electric oven, powered by 220 - I think 25 amps - while that is much more current than the BP, the BP has a much smaller oven, and a much higher temp. The upside of the countertop is that it can get much hotter than my stove - 650 is easily achievable, though that is hotter than I like the stone to be, and loading and unloading a pie is much easier. The two main reasons are a short door - maybe 8 inches, compared to an oven door that sticks out about 20 inches when open, and a convenient height - with my oven, I have to bend over pretty far to load and unload pies. The downside for the BP is that it does take forever to heat up , and while I haven't timed it, it takes a while to recover between pies. I replaced the stones with 1 inch corderiete, and allow a few hours to heat up, it probably heats up a little quicker than that, but not much. I set it so the temp is 600 or so, then once I am ready, I turn the thermostat up, to try to get some top heat. Tonight's NY style, 100 % wheat baked in about 4 minutes - with a nice brown on the bottom, and good color for the cheese, though if I set the temp a little higher to warm up, I have to use a screen for the last minute to keep from burning the bottom. Since it has 2 stones, you can easily make 2 pies, but by the time you load the 3rd, the stone temp will have dropped a bunch. Since I usually only make 2, it works fine for me.
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