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Tim Wise, prominent anti-racist writer and educator, will speak in Macky Auditorium on Tuesday, Oct. 2. Wise has been called, "One of the most brilliant, articulate and courageous critics of white privilege in the nation," and was named one of "25 Visionaries who are Changing Your World," by Utne Reader in 2010.
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Wise is the author of six books, including the highly acclaimed memoir, White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son. He also has produced an academic volume on affirmative action, Affirmative Action: Racial Preference in Black and White and an essay collection, Speaking Treason Fluently: Anti-Racist Reflections From an Angry White Male. He received the 2001 British Diversity Award for best feature essay on race issues, and his writings have appeared in dozens of popular, professional and scholarly journals.
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1. Physical sports and games of any kind.
2. The sport of competing in track and field events.
Synonyms: sport
Give it a try, then revisit your claim that cyclists are not great athletes
I think being really good to great at only one facet of being an athlete doesn't really make you a great athlete.
If the bar for being a great athlete were based on being able to do things that I can't, anyone that can hit a curveball, catch a football, or make a 3-pointer would be considered a great athlete.
Hincapie just released a statement admitting to doping during his career.
I would link it, but I think his website is crashing due to traffic.
eta: Did George ever test positive during his time on the US Postal team?
Then you're missing the point. There are maybe 100 people in the world that are able to compete regularly in competitive cycling.
Just because it doesn't involve a ball doesn't make them non-athletes.
Doping and EPO were established in the peloton in the 1980s and 1990s, says Johan Museeuw, who has called on his former colleagues to confess their doping. The Belgian has in the past acknowledged his own doping use during his successful career.
"I am the first to admit it openly, and perhaps many people will blame me that I break the silence, but it must be: virtually everyone took doping at that time," he told the Gazet van Antwerpen.
"We must break with the hypocrisy. The only way to come out of that murderous spiral is to break the silence, the silence that continues to haunt us."
Everyone must confess to their part, he said. "If we do not then the borrowing into the past will continue. Only a collective mea culpa is the way to the future."
Doping was a fact of life at that period, he said. "In the 80s and 90s everyone knew what each other was doing but never said a word about doping. Using doping was something everyone did. Eventually it became a part of your lifestyle."
But the peloton is cleaner now, he said. "Because it 'is' better, now. Never before has racing been so clean, I'm sure. But that data is completely snowed under" since many of those involved refused to tell the truth about "the things that went wrong in the past. The omerta of the past prevents cycling from now starting again with a clean slate."
Him being able to do more than one thing at a really high level, and being singularly great at one of them would make him a great athlete.
If it's just for bicycling, then I will not consider him a great athlete.
I think being really good to great at only one facet of being an athlete doesn't really make you a great athlete
you're changing the definition of athlete to fit your views
Which is fricking retarded.
I'm talking about what constitutes a great athlete. You obviously still haven't picked up on what I'm saying.
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I think you are just upset because of those wins, the 2 game division lead, and the 2 SBs yet some say you might have problems wiht us. It comes with the territory of us having a guy who people are saying is the most exciting player in the league. When you have that and you just blow away the most popular team in the Cowboys on the road on Thanksgiving then alot of people are going to hype this game and see how the kid does against you, espically after our 1st matchup and us beating you twice last year.
It just is what it is. I literally wouldnt be shocked about anything this game. It could go anyway and I wouldnt be shocked but you guys definitely deserved to be the favorite to win the game. Im not talking about Vegas but just in general. If it was a normal game then maybe it would be less hype. But everyone thought we were dead 2 weeks ago and since then weve played our best 2 games of the season while getting Garcon back and RG3 coming off back to back 4td games. Bad teams weve played or not, its natural to want to see how that does going up against you guys. Its must see to me
He didnt mean that as a diss to Cam and he didnt single out Rodges like everyone says. I think he was even speaking for Cam in just saying that they want to win and be SB champs like Rodgers but he also said other guys like him which would include Eli
I disagree with the Snyder thing though. I hear alot of NY, Philly, & Dallas fans saying that and rifghtfully so but he's not the same guy. He has turned everything over to them. Allen is the GM now but moreso just a numbers guy. Shanny is calling all the shots pretty much. He's picking all the guys. I guess you could still blame Snyder if it fails but its really Shanny's toy now. Thats why people wanted to fire him a few weeks ago. We were losing and he runs everything. He also changed our D from a 4-3 to a 3-4 and weve sucked ever since. Him & Haslet blame it on injuries and the Jackson suspension which is true but we still should be better
Skins fan here. Griffin doesn't like being compared to anyone, especially being boxed into comparisons with other black quarterbacks. He simply wants to be the best. If asked about who he wants to be compared to, the answer is usually a hybrid answer. He wants Peyton's command of the offense and football IQ, he wants the elusiveness of Montana, Tarkenton or Elway and Marino's arm. Nothing smug about that. That's where his mind is and where his goals are. He is also humble enough to admit that all of these accolades bestowed on him are appreciated, but a little premature. It's a breath of fresh air seeing this young man in DC.


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Last Friday night, I finally saw Kick-Ass. Why was I a week late to the party? I wanted to make sure to read the source material first: Mark Millar's series of graphic novels, which are also called Kick-Ass.
I gave Alan Moore's V for Vendetta the same treatment (I went out of my way to read the graphic novel before going to the movie).
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The highlight here was most definitely the snorkelling. We gave up on scuba diving here as we were taken to their best dive site, and the reef just off the resort knocked spots off it.
After a day or two the weather became cloudy and also got windy. With the sea all around us, it didn't stop us doing much. The snorkelling was still great, and we also kayaked over the channel to a nearby island. We shared the beach there with a multitude of hermit crabs and a solitary dog, who seemed very pleased to have company and howled when it was time for us to leave. We were also lucky enough to snorkel with the manta rays. The rays are migratory and sometimes stop in a channel near Nanuya Balavu, but hadn't been sighted for a few weeks before we arrived. Luckily, the rays decided to time their return with our arrival on the island. When the rays were sighted, we were alerted by lots of shouting and banging on a hollow log. I grabbed a camera and snorkelling gear and we bundled into a boat, which took us to where the rays were feeding. We saw one surface, and jumped into the water to follow it.
The experience was so breathtaking I decided to repeat it when we heard the drum the next day. There were more of us swimming this time. The rays were slower, spending more time in one place feeding. They didn't seem at all bothered by us. There were five altogether, gliding and circling, diving deep down then rising up in a loop with their mouths wide open to funnel in plankton. They would come up almost underneath me, so close I could almost touch them. Their mouths were cavernous, and I could see their ribs inside them. At the top of the loop the fish would be upside down, showing its belly and gills, then it would swoop downwards to flap away or bank and repeat the process. The manta rays were such graceful creatures, it was like watching an underwater ballet unfolding beneath me and beside me. Each time I spent 45 minutes in the water with the rays; it was a definite highlight of the trip!
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Stanley Kubrick 1928–
American director and screenwriter.
Kubrick's are among the most ambitious and original films of the past three decades. A controversial director of outlandish subjects and eccentric cinematic styles, Kubrick derives an artistic identity from his natural bent for novelty and inventiveness. As a youth he took a keen interest in photography. While in high school he sold some of his photographs to Look; and after graduation became a staff photographer for that magazine. His first film short, Day of the Fight, was originally a picture story in Look, and his increasing preoccupation with cinema led to a second short documentary entitled Flying Padre. Kubrick sold these films to RKO at a slight profit and, after borrowing additional funds, made his first feature, Fear and Desire.
Stylishly imaginative camerawork and a somewhat erratic structure are the identifying traits of Fear and Desire. It received critical approval but not commercial success. Killer's Kiss is also characterized by an interesting visual style and structure supporting a conventional storyline. Less conventional is The Killing, a crime caper distinctive for relating its story with impersonal and efficient objectivity. Of the early films the most highly regarded is Paths of Glory, its favorable critical reception promoting Kubrick to the stature of an important American director. After directing Spartacus, a project on which he considered himself only hired talent, Kubrick chose to make a film from Vladimir Nabokov's controversial novel Lolita. Though criticized for its various divergences from the novel, Kubrick's film nonetheless proves artistically adventuresome in its own right, containing at times a surreal quality foretold by certain scenes in his early films and pursued further in his later ones.
The sometimes grotesque farce in Lolita is amplified in Kubrick's next film, Dr. Strangelove; or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb. This work, like all its successors in the Kubrick filmography, received dramatically varied critical estimates and interpretations. 2001: A Space Odyssey is probably the most outstanding example of this mixed reception, being alternately viewed as a work of cosmic prophecy and an attempt at gratuitous mystification.
A Clockwork Orange, based on the novel by Anthony Burgess, is the third Kubrick film concerned with a hypothetical reality. Some critics see this story of ultra-violence in a decaying society as further evidence of the pessimistic undercurrents present in all of this director's films. After his three scenarios of the future, Kubrick recreated William Thackeray's novel of romance and adventure in the eighteenth century, Barry Lyndon. Despite the apparent departure from the previous themes and subjects of Kubrick's work, critics have observed in this film the same emphasis on stylization and strictly formal elements, along with a skeptical perspective on societal pretenses.
Kubrick is an idiosyncratic artist whose work nevertheless has wide appeal. Perhaps his greatest strength as a filmmaker lies in his ability to make films that are readily accessible to the viewer while providing abundant matter for critical speculation. (See also Contemporary Authors, Vols. 81-84.)
Gavin Lambert
The difference between [Fear and Desire] and [Killer's Kiss] is striking; although Killer's Kiss is a melodrama too full of familiar and not always skilful contrivances, it has a simplicity of outline, an atmospheric power, a directness in its characterisation, that suggests a maturing and distinctive personality…. [The] melodrama is the least successful, most derivative aspect of the film; its real originality lies in its approach to characterisation and atmosphere….
By contrast the action sequences seem not only derivative but dramatically less strong. The attack on Davy's manager in the deserted yard at night reminds one too directly of The Set-Up, and the rooftop...
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Arlene Croce
Stanley Kubrick's [The Killing] is an estimable entry into that small field of well-made crime films that expose the modus operandi of the colossal caper. Like Rififi and The Asphalt Jungle (after which it is principally patterned) its action is thickly and informatively plotted, possessed of that classic fatality that insures retribution, and dependent for its thrills upon a network of smooth calculation severed by fey circumstance and mislaid trusts….
His film lacks the pervasive knowledge and control of John Huston's masterwork, and although his material has absorbed him utterly, he has been wise to remain detached from it. His camera is relentlessly objective, cool,...
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Gavin Lambert
There is much in [Paths of Glory] that powerfully illustrates the physical horrors of war, but even more impressive and frightening is the study of its social structure. The world seems cruelly divided into the leaders and the led. The officers conduct their foxy intrigues in the elegant rooms of a great chateau, and the setting somehow emphasizes their indifference to human life. The men go to the trenches and into battle as in peace-time they went to offices or factories. The sequence of the attack itself, done mainly in a series of vivid, inexorable, lateral tracking shots, is a fearful reminder that war, simply, kills a lot of people; and the film finds an eloquent visual contrast between the grim carnage...
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Jonathan Baumbach
In an age characterized on the one hand by a cult of happy mediocrity and on the other by the growing power, prestige, and necessity of the military, Paths of Glory is a specter from our unsophisticated past….
Directed with obvious sincerity and restraint, Paths of Glory is an explosion upon our consciousness. The locale is France and the time is 1916 but the film has an insistent immediacy that is at once stunning and upsetting. Though unfashionable it is timely and also timeless, the especial qualities of art. The military, committed to the game of wholesale destruction for personal glory, is, by definition, petty and corrupt. But that is an irreverent thing to say about our fatted...
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Norman N. Holland
It used to be idle—or scholarly—to compare films to the novels from which they were taken; now, one can scarcely avoid it. The index to the change is the difference between Stanley Kubrick's The Killing (1956) or Paths of Glory (1957) and his Lolita (1962). The earlier films were real films; Lolita is in the current style of the un-film.
The only truly cinematic effect I noticed was a cut from somebody's face to a face in a horror movie at a drive-in, a cut so drastic I cannot even remember what face Kubrick cut from. In the absence of cinema, such details as Charlie at the girls' camp or Dolly's husband's hearing-aid are dutifully lugged over from the novel; they make...
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Pauline Kael
The surprise of Lolita is how enjoyable it is: it's the first new American comedy since those great days in the forties when Preston Sturges recreated comedy with verbal slapstick. Lolita is black slapstick and at times it's so far out that you gasp as you laugh. (p. 205)
Perhaps the reviewers have been finding so many faults with Lolita because this is such an easy way to show off some fake kind of erudition: even newspaper reviewers can demonstrate that they're read a book by complaining about how different the movie is from the novel. The movie is different but not that different, and if you can get over the reviewers' preoccupation with the sacredness of...
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Robert Brustein
Dr. Strangelove possesses a great many distinctions as a work of the imagination, but I should like to cite it, first and foremost, for valor: I think it may well be the most courageous movie ever made. It is certainly one of the funniest…. [There] is something extraordinarily liberating in the nature of the movie itself. It is the kind of total theater that Antonin Artaud would have admired, with its dark humor, its physical and anarchic dissociation. Dr. Strangelove is a plague experienced in the nerves and the funny bone—a delirium, a conflagration, a social disaster.
What Stanley Kubrick has done is to break completely with all existing traditions of moviemaking, both foreign and...
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Tom Milne
Some directors possess an instantly recognisable signature; others, merely a consistency of style and treatment; but the worrying thing about Stanley Kubrick was the way he once made excellent films which seemed to reveal so little of their director's personality that they might almost have come out of a vacuum. While admiring The Killing and, even more, Paths of Glory, one couldn't help wondering whether Kubrick might not turn out after all as simply a brilliant packager of artistically viable merchandise, giving the turn of the screw of his clever talent to the production of something several shades more incisive, but no more personal, than the gangster films or anti-war films which were in the...
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Jackson Burgess
Kubrick films are very bloody and cruel. For savage assault upon the viewer's nerves and hopes, there is little in modern film to match the protracted death-march in Paths of Glory, and the Kubrick canon includes also Lolita, with its murder shown lovingly and lengthily not once but twice; the explosive massacre in The Killing; the Spartacus bloodbath; and the unforgettable "thump" of the dying general's nose hitting the floor in Fear and Desire. This virtually sadistic treatment of the audience must be accounted for, along with the numerous ambiguities of Strangelove, if Kubrick's particular brand of anti-militarism, and its effect on his work, is to be understood. One must...
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Andrew Sarris
The great merit of Dr. Strangelove is its bad taste. It is silly to argue that we have the right to say anything we want but that to exercise this right is the height of irresponsibility. Responsible art is dead art, and a sane (no pun intended) film on the bomb would have been a deadly bore.
Given the basic premise of nuclear annihilation, the zany conception of Stanley Kubrick, Terry Southern, and Peter George has much to commend it. Where my critical fallout with most of my colleagues occurs is in the realm of execution. Aided by the tightest scenario since Rashomon, and the most deceptive as far as directorial exercises go, Kubrick has been hailed in many quarters as the greatest...
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F. Anthony Macklin
In all of the varied critical opinion, much has been said about the purposes of Dr. Strangelove, but a dominant theme that pervades the film from beginning to end has been ignored…. Dr. Strangelove is a sex allegory: from foreplay to explosion in the mechanized world….
Like Jonathan Swift, who employed Master Bates in Gulliver's Travels, the creators of Dr. Strangelove … gave special significance to names that represent various aspects of sex. General Jack D. Ripper …, commander of Burpelson Air Force Base, initiates the attack on the Soviet Union. General Ripper, a sex fiend in his own way, is obsessed by the idea of "bodily fluids" and what is happening to them;...
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Stanley Kauffmann
Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey took five years and $10 million to make, and it's easy to see where the time and the money have gone. It's less easy to understand how, for five years, Kubrick managed to concentrate on his ingenuity and ignore his talent. In the first 30 seconds, this film gets off on the wrong foot and, although there are plenty of clever effects and some amusing spots, it never recovers. Because this is a major effort by an important director, it is a major disappointment….
2001 tells us, perhaps, what space travel will be like, but it does so with almost none of the wit of Dr. Strangelove or Lolita and with little of the visual acuity of...
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TIM HUNTER, with STEPHEN KAPLAN and PETER JASZI
As a film about progress—physical, social, and technological—Stanley Kubrick's huge and provocative 2001: A Space Odyssey remains essentially linear until its extraordinary ending. In the final transfiguration, director Kubrick and co-author Arthur Clarke … suggest that evolutionary progress may in fact be cyclical, perhaps in the shape of a helix formation. Man progresses to a certain point in evolution, then begins again from scratch on a higher level. Much of 2001's conceptual originality derives from its being both anti-Christian and anti-evolutionary in its theme of man's progress controlled by an ambiguous extra-terrestrial force, possibly both capricious and destructive…....
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Elie Flatto
Essentially, the space-odyssey described in 2001 represents, I believe, Man's eternal quest for spiritual meaning and self-renewal. Man, as such, seems to have come to the end of a long journey begun with his inception as a species on earth. Having maximized his control over nature, he has reached a deadend in the evolutionary process, and in a circuitous manner, he has returned to his primordial conditions. Man may continue to invent, create, discover—yet he is no longer capable of fulfilling and renewing himself. In short, Man is ready for a new step in the evolutionary process in order to re-experience the excitement and adventure of a meaningful life.
Going back in time, the film...
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Stanley Kauffmann
In one way Stanley Kubrick's [A Clockwork Orange] is cheering. This time, as in all his work before 2001, he sticks to a narrative, depicts character, opts for "literary humanism"—does all the things that some critics claimed he had deliberately abandoned, in the space picture, for a new esthetics. Perhaps the new esthetics was only a wobble? Revised editions of various pronunciamentos may now be in order.
But there isn't a great deal more to celebrate in A Clockwork Orange. Certainly there are some striking images; certainly there is some impudent wit, some adroitness. But the worst flaw in the film is its air of cool intelligence and ruthless moral inquiry, because...
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Paul D. Zimmerman
[At] its most profound level, "A Clockwork Orange" is an odyssey of the human personality, a statement on what it is to be fully human. Alex's adventures are, in one sense, the adventures of the id itself. Alex embodies all of man's anarchic impulses. Shorn of his individuality in the penitentiary and of his fantasy life in the conditioning program, he ceases to be a human being in any real sense. His resurrection at the end, as he regains his ability to act out his lusts and aggressions, represents an ironic triumph of the human psyche over the forces that seek to control or diminish it.
Control has been a continuing theme in Kubrick's movies: control of time and the environment by the gangsters who...
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Charles Thomas Samuels
From the beginning, most American filmmakers have been idiot-savants: technically brilliant but unintelligent about life. (p. 439)
Although Stanley Kubrick began his career within [this] artistic tradition …, he soon displayed signs of rejection. After two obviously apprentice films …, Kubrick made a tightly plotted action movie that nevertheless subverts some of the genre's basic assumptions. So far from showing a meticulously planned heist as the expression of human adroitness, The Killing reveals how poignant an error it is to neglect needs and feelings in one's dependence on technique. Without departing from the crime-does-not-pay formula, The Killing humanizes its...
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Norman Kagan
Fear and Desire is a fascinating effort containing a host of ideas, images, and themes which continue to appear in Kubrick's later films. (p. 18)
The first theme in Fear and Desire, stated in the poem at the opening, is that the story is made up of "imaginary worlds": each man's "war," "enemies," and "conflict" are his mind's way of dealing with the enigmatic events and inconsistent behavior that surround him. This is objectified throughout the film: in the powerful shocking images of animal-like passion, in the dreamlike retreats, chaotic killings, idle and absurd "philosophical" conversations. The images of the dead men are grotesque, eerily backlighted—they are no longer real men,...
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DANIEL De VRIES
One might often disagree with Kubrick's ideas, at times even find them a bit silly, but none of that detracts from the fact that Kubrick puts together picture shows which are entertaining, aesthetically pleasing, and provoking, all at the same time.
Kubrick is, among other things, a true screen poet. He knows how to use visual images to communicate. Movies should probably never communicate anything with words that could be communicated with a picture, and Kubrick's rarely do. Kubrick characterizes a gangster by the way he handles a gun in The Killing, a strange family triangle with a peck on the cheek in Lolita, a mad general by the way he chomps his cigar in Dr. Strangelove....
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HARRIET DEER and IRVING DEER
Stanley Kubrick's major films reveal his search for an unrestricted form through which he can communicate with his audience without coercing them into mistaking his particular structures for reality. Increasingly, he has come to use the popular arts as his central means for expressing that search. He does this by showing us the contradictory meanings and implications of the popular arts, their escapist as well as their life-asserting implications, the ways in which they reveal the contemporary tendencies to run away from the complex, concrete uniqueness of life, and the ways in which they reveal the desperation of our search for the complex, concrete, uniqueness of life, our search for being itself. Kubrick recognizes...
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John Russell Taylor
Kubrick's is a unified, coherent oeuvre, in the best auteur tradition. And yet, for myself I find there is always something in Kubrick's films, brilliant though most of them are, that seems to stop short of the total creative involvement of the true auteur. Is it perhaps that he is keeping back something vital of himself, that the films seem in a way like so many masks assumed by their maker rather than various aspects of his own face?…
Technically [Fear and Desire] leaves little to be desired: Kubrick's own camera work has considerable polish and a good professional finish spiced here and there with touches which suggest that his hours at the Museum of Modern Art were...
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John Simon
Barry Lyndon is a curious choice for Kubrick, who has become more and more estranged from the taste and smell of human experience….
[Watching] the movie is like looking at illustrations for a work that—partly through Thackeray's, but more through Kubrick's, negligence—has not been supplied. Striking as some of these illustrations, often in long or extreme long shot, are, they do not encourage our getting involved with the characters in the story. This has something to do with the episodic nature of the film, but mostly with the fact that the director seems more concerned with landscapes, architecture, period interiors, costumes, etc., than with what happens to the people in them. (p....
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Stanley Kauffmann
Barry Lyndon very nearly accommodates Zeno's paradox of motion: it seems to remain—at least for long periods—in one place while actually it is moving ahead. Kubrick has produced three hours and four minutes of pictures….
Why was Kubrick interested in [Thackeray's] book? I infer, not by remote psychoanalysis but from what we are shown on screen, that the warping of innocence by experience was not the concern of his screenplay. We are told by the narrator …, whose voice is important in the proceedings, that Barry became skillful in chicanery and guile. We see nothing of this process, any more than we see him become skillful in the swordsmanship he later displays. All through the...
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Harold Rosenberg
The movies could make their maximum contribution to culture by following the lead of Stanley Kubrick's unread literature. (p. 1)
But Kubrick's "Barry" is a lot more than a substitute for an all-but-forgotten tale. The movie also translates the printed page into art for the eye and the ear by coordinatings, music and landscaping of the period. The adventures of Barry, by this time commonplace and threadbare, are delivered in a faultless esthetic package…. The laggard unfolding of the plot permits one to lose oneself in countrysides that imitate paintings, in classically composed and toned interiors, in the placement and lighting of the figures. Kubrick's salvage job turns out to be a vessel filled...
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Hans Feldmann
In Barry Lyndon, Kubrick is making a significant statement about his age. In fact, along with 2001 and A Clockwork Orange, Barry Lyndon completes a trilogy on the moral and psychological nature of Western man and on the destiny of his civilization. 2001 itself is perhaps an emotionally and psychologically necessary response on Kubrick's part to the nihilism of Dr. Strangelove. The basic argument of the "Space Odyssey" is that mankind will survive the impending collapse of Western civilization. The film ends with an affirmation of life, an affirmation of the adventurous human spirit. Kubrick's affirmation, it is true, takes place outside of his cultural tradition, and the basic...
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Gene Youngblood
I think Barry Lyndon is the most intelligent, most amazing, most radical movie Stanley Kubrick has made—which is to say it's among the great achievements of contemporary cinema. I think the "failure" of this film is a failure of the collective imagination and I'm ashamed at the incomprehension and hostility with which our illustrious critics and noble citizens have dismissed it. Ashamed but not surprised. For at the heart of Barry Lyndon there's a silence that challenges the strength of the imagination, and imaginative courage is these days in exile….
I can think of few films of such intrinsic existential power, sans ideology and melodrama. This is pure cinema at full force,...
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Alan Spiegel
The events in Barry Lyndon, while dramatic in themselves, are not presented in the form of a drama, but rather in the form of a spectacle for the senses. A beguilement of eye and ear precedes the customary seizure of the emotions. As in so much of Kubrick's best work—indeed, it is perhaps his defining quality—the images that you see exist not simply as vehicles for a story, but as vibrant indicators of a film-maker's commitment to his medium….
While all of this is true to some degree of each one of this director's films, it is true to the greatest degree of his present film: Barry Lyndon is Kubrick's most extravagantly beautiful creation. Opulent and solemn, jewel-like and lucid,...
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Pauline Kael
[In Kubrick's "The Shining," though] we may admire the effects, we're never drawn in by them, mesmerized. When we see a flash of bloody cadavers or observe a torrent of blood pouring from an elevator, we're not frightened, because Kubrick's absorption in film technology distances us. Each shot seems rigorously calculated, meticulous, and he keeps the scenes going for so long that any suspense dissipates. Kubrick's involvement in film technology led to the awesomely impressive effects of "2001," and to the tableau style of "Barry Lyndon," which some people found hypnotic, but it works against him here. (p. 130)
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Led by Diego Planeta, president of Settesoli, in the early '90s, with single-minded focus, Planeta made an all-out commitment to the creation of top quality wines. He began by planting the best international and local grape varieties and invested extensively in innovative winemaking technology and state-of-the-art equipment. In addition, he formed a distinguished team of winemakers, led by internationally-renowned oenologist Carlo Corino.
The making of these wines began by mapping every parcel of vineyard for aspect, gradient and altitude, so that the ideal terroir for each varietal could be selected for planting. The wines resulting from these intensive efforts were proudly introduced under the MandraRossa name.
The intense Sicilian sun, offset by cooling sea breezes, permits reliable and extended ripening of the grapes. MandraRossa wines are hand-picked, and every harvested parcel is crushed and fermented separately to retain the grapes' characteristics. Wines from individual parcels are carefully blended for nuanced complexity, yielding delicate scents and harmonious, fresh flavors. View all MandraRossa Wines
About Sicily(SIH-sih-lee) Nero d'Avola, this hot and hilly region is diverse. Sicily was at one time more quantity focused than quality, and while it's still producing a great deal of wine, the quality coming out is much better. With poor soil (great for grapes), warm sunshine, little rainfall and good mountain terrains, this little island is perfect for making the good stuff.
Notable FactsThere are still delicious sweet wines coming from Sicily, including Marsala, Moscato di Pantelleria & Malvasia delle Lipari. But the reds are the wines making people stand up and notice. Nero d'Avola is demonstrating its potential for making deep reds with the ability to age. Some winemakers are taking a chance with international varieties, like Merlot and Cabernet Sauvignon. These grapes are sometimes blended with the Nero d'Avola or other native Italian varietals – adding a bit of international sophistication to regional charm.
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A little ditty about Italy...This country has about as many wines as its had governments. With 20 different regions, hundreds of DOCs and even more indigenous varieties, the amount of wine made in Italy is mind-boggling. Most of the juice, however, remains in the country for thirsty Italians. Wine is food in Italy and its rare that a meal is consumed without a glass of vino. That said, it's not common to find many folks drinking wine without food either. In turn, it's a match, and a mighty good one at that. In fact, it's safe to say that Italian wine is a foodie wine – one that goes on the table for a myraid of meals.
For regions, the most popular are Tuscany (home of Chianti), Piedmont and the Tre-Venezie, which includes Veneto, Trentino Alto-Adige and Friuli. Other communes of note are in Southern Italy, and a few good wines are made elsewhere in the country. The islands of Sardinia and Sicily are members of the Italian winemaking community as well.


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Legal Marijuana Trade Ushers in New Security Prospects
The medical marijuana business is fast becoming mainstream across the United States and with it is an increasing need to provide security systems and services to cultivation facilities and dispensaries.
By Rodney Bosch · August 19, 2014
DENVER — The medical marijuana business is fast becoming mainstream across the United States and with it is an increasing need to provide security systems and services to cultivation facilities and dispensaries.
Twenty-three states and the District of Columbia have approved the use and production of marijuana for medicinal use, including two states, Colorado and Washington, that also allow recreational use. Legalization has spawned a cottage industry of professional growers, with upward of an estimated 4,000 businesses now producing marijuana, according to Medical Marijuana Business Daily, an industry publication. Another dozen states are expected to legalize marijuana in some form in the coming years.
Security is a crucial piece to the legal marijuana industry, according to Dan Williams, president of Denver-based Canna Security America (CSA), which was launched in 2009. Williams helped state officials in Colorado and Washington write regulations for the industry, which strictly mandates marijuana facilities be equipped with security systems.
"The regulations are extremely detail oriented. They specify exactly where to have cameras, what types of cameras, settings on DVRs, hard drive capacity and more," says Williams, who previously worked for Envysion, a firm that provided security systems for restaurant chains such as Chipotle Mexican Grill.
Williams compared providing security for dispensaries to a small retail client such as a jewelry store where there are countertops and registers, and expensive products. A typical video surveillance installation includes eight to 10 cameras to view multiple angles and all transactions. Systems increase to much larger for cultivation facilities, which generally range from 10,000-25,000 square feet and require 30 to 80 cameras. Intrusion alarms and door access systems are also considered necessities.
"What we are seeing in our larger facilities now is door access really comes in handy for employee traffic control. These are proximity card systems, biometrics, mostly fingerprints. We just had our first request for a retina scanner. It is all over the map," Williams says. "When we started a 5,000-square-foot warehouse would have been large for us; now we are installing up to 100,000-squarefoot facilities."
CSA — which is expanding its offerings to include armored transport for cannabis wholesalers — charges about $30 per month for basic alarm monitoring, plus $15 extra if the client selects a cellular antenna. Additional services can include supervised monitoring, and offsite video monitoring is around $20 a camera per month. "We are very conscientious about people's budgets right now. We try to keep those costs down in order to get our market share," says Williams.
New York-based DirectView Security, a subsidiary of DirectView Holdings, is a recent entrant to the legal marijuana industry. The company provides a full portfolio of security services to meet various local and state government mandates. It too is offering additional recurring revenue-generating services beyond traditional alarms.
"Temperature and light monitoring is particularly beneficial to the legal marijuana industry," says DirectView CEO Roger Ralston. "These features alert an owner immediately if there is a disturbance in the plants' environment. This helps protect the company's assets by preventing valuable inventory from becoming damaged."
Combined sales of legal recreational and medical marijuana in the U.S. is projected to reach more than $8 billion in 2018, according to Marijuana Business Daily. Mandates regulating industry facilities are also projected to rise as legalization efforts continue.
"This total is conservative. The reality of retail sales could be larger," Chris Walsh, managing editor of CannaBusiness Media, the publisher of Marijuana Business Daily, says. "Nor does it include wholesale cannabis sales, or the billions of dollars in ancillary cannabusiness revenues such as growing equipment, real estate, legal fees, testing labs, paraphernalia, etc."
Despite the lucrative market, Williams has a word of caution for installing security contractors who are intrigued at the thought of providing services to the cannabis industry. Marijuana entrepreneurs routinely are turned down for bank loans or deposit accounts. Hence, it is mostly a cash business.
"A lot of other alarm companies that are considering going into this business think that it is easy money," he says. "People in this industry right now are not allowed to have bank accounts, which makes collection for any kind of payment much harder to do. It's especially difficult when it comes to RMR. Getting paid for the small bills is extremely difficult."


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Psychological Dynamics of Sport and Exercise, Third Edition,
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A text for upper-undergraduate and graduate courses in sport and exercise psychology as well as those studying in kinesiology-related fields. A reference for professionals and researchers in these fields.
Diane L. Gill, PhD, is a professor in the department of exercise and sport science at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG). She held faculty positions at the University of Waterloo and the University of Iowa before moving to UNCG. At UNCG, she has served as associate dean of the School of Health and Human Performance, head of the department of exercise and sport science, and founding director of the Center for Women's Health and Wellness. She has more than 30 years of experience as a faculty member in sport and exercise psychology.
Dr. Gill has been engaged in research and scholarly activity in sport and exercise psychology throughout her career. With over 100 scholarly publications on sport and exercise psychology topics, she has made many presentations at major national and international conferences. She serves on several editorial boards and is the former editor of the Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology. She is a fellow of several professional organizations, a former president of Division 47 (Exercise and Sport Psychology) of the American Psychological Association, the North American Society for the Psychology of Sport and Physical Activity, and the Research Consortium of AAHPERD. She received both her MS and PhD degrees from the University of Illinois and her undergraduate degree from the State University of New York at Cortland.
Lavon Williams, PhD, is a professor in the department of sport studies at Guilford College. She held faculty positions at Western Illinois University, Northern Illinois University, and Purdue University before taking a position at Guilford College, where she is department chair and coordinator of the physical education teacher education program.
Dr. Williams has been actively involved in sport and exercise psychology research throughout her career. She has written over 20 scholarly publications and has given more than 30 national and international presentations. Dr. Williams is a member of the Association for Applied Sport Psychology, the National Society for the Psychology of Sport and Physical Activity, and the American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance and is a fellow of the Research Consortium. She served on the board of the National Association of Girls and Women in Sport and the AAHPERD Research Consortium. She is currently on the editorial board for Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport (RQES) and Measurement in Physical Education and Exercise Science. She served as an associate editor of the AASP Newsletter, a psychology section editor for RQES, an editorial board member for both The Sport Psychologist and Women in Sport and Physical Activity Journal, and a reviewer for the Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology, Journal of Applied Sport Psychology, and Psychology of Sport and Exercise. She received her MS from the University of Oregon, her PhD from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, and her bachelor's degree from Texas Christian University.
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"Back to my marine/awning shop and they made them with hems on the long sides with grommets every 12 inches. Bungie cords hooked through the grommets kept the canvas tight and made a great working surface."
Now that's a great idea. I've constantly been trying to find a way to secure my canvases to the tables. I thought about using C-clamps, but those would be in the way. The bungie idea is great, though the canvases I have, don't have grommets. I supposed I could add some???
A simple method is to use picnic table clamps.
Even better. Thank you Sir!
For future reference, some put screws or bolts, or even nails close into the sides of the table to hook the grommets onto. Canvas is then easy on and off.


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Pulmonary hypertension (PH) is a condition where the blood pressure inside the arteries of the lungs is too high. This high blood pressure makes it more difficult for the heart to pump blood into the lungs.
At Children's Hospital of Wisconsin, recent treatment advances have greatly increased our success in helping kids manage PH symptoms. Learn about our nationally accredited Pulmonary Hypertension Program.
Pulmonary hypertension can happen to children at any age, and sometimes the reasons they develop pulmonary hypertension aren't always clear. Certain conditions can make a child more likely to develop pulmonary hypertension, including lung disease of prematurity (also known as bronchopulmonary dysplasia), diaphragmatic hernia, chronic lung disease, certain types of unrepaired congenital heart disease and heart failure. Pulmonary hypertension also can be unrelated to any other disease, and this is known as "idiopathic pulmonary hypertension."
Pulmonary hypertension in children older than newborn infants is considered rare. In many patients, it can get worse over time, leading to heart failure. However, in the last 10 years, there have been great advances in the understanding of pulmonary hypertension and success in new ways to treat and manage it. At Children's Hospital of Wisconsin, we've focused our resources so we can use the latest treatments and an individual approach to treat this disease.
Many of our patients are referred to us by their primary care doctor. Patients can have many nonspecific symptoms such as:
Evaluating a patient who may have pulmonary hypertension has many steps. We develop an individual treatment plan for each patient, learning his or her medical history and doing a physical exam. Special tests, including echocardiography and blood tests, are regularly done. A cardiac catheterization procedure also may be needed. When all tests are complete, we discuss the treatment plan with the family.
Treating pulmonary hypertension is different for each patient. Our goal is to find a correctable cause, such as a heart problem or lung disease. We partner with heart surgeons and pulmonologists (lung doctors) to develop a care plan. Our experts also have experience working with all medications used to treat pulmonary hypertension. Treatment involves educating each family about the disease so they can be part of the care team. We follow each patient closely to adjust treatment if needed.


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Hi, guys! I normally post on WG, but I'd like to start working over here with you guys also.
I've just purchased one of the KGKT kits that APEX is selling, and I'm wondering what I've got myself into!
I haven't seen anything about these kits yet. It is supposed to be a modified Gory, so I am hoping that I can use some of the Gory information to build it. Any information is appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
I've cross-posted this on WG.
I just pulled the trigger on this deal. I sent a MO out for one of these KGKT kits yesterday.
I was told that "The Cocking handel is on the side and the rec. is a bit longer. Other than this, Use the Gory info." So I put my $$ down on this.
I'll post pictures when the the kit arrives.
Please post a pic or two, I'm sure people on here would like to see them.
I don't know anything about these, other then whats posted on the net, which isn't much.
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Not meaning to hijack a thread but Advantech has been mentioned here a couple times and on other threads. I live in central Wisconsin and have never seen this stuff. What is it, and where can you get it? Thanks.
Not meaning to hijack a thread but Advantech has been mentioned here a couple times and on other threads. I live in central Wisconsin and have never seen this stuff. What is it, and where can you get it? Thanks.
i asked about it in home depot depot yesterday "i think i might of heard of something similar to this" was the closest i could get to an answer... evidently their sale on free dumb looks is still in progress.
I do think that plywood would be ok if you made sure the edges were sealed good either by coating them with good exterior glue or caulking, then painting them with quality paint. I plan to use my nucs year round, so they would really need to hold up to moisture especially in winter. I'm leaning towards solid pine, but I may put together a few plywood ones too just to see how they hold up if I seal and paint them up good. John
Advantech is an engineered wood product similar to OSB, which it looks like.
It is similar in cost to exterior plywood, but easier (in my opinion) to work with, and is not only put together with waterproof glue, but the wood chips it is made of are impregnated with a waxy substance to protect them from moisture.
If left unprotected outdoors, it lasts longer than plywood.
After a year laying on the ground bare, rained and snowed on, going through norther freeze/thaw cycles, it looks the same as when it was put there, except for a little sun bleaching.
Exterior plywood treated like that here would be delaminating.
Painted, untinned top covers haven't warped after a year.
This is the product at Lowes: link
It doesn't come up on a search of Home Depot; this appears to be similar, but I have no experience with the Home Depot product: link
I prefer it to plywood.
There are no voids or knots.
It's heavy, like plywood but not unreasonably so.
Hope this is helpful to you.
I make some tops and bottoms out of plywood, but with eyes open that it is a short term ( 5 yrs or less) solution. Don't mean to be a grinch, but do think it is not right to lead folks to thinking a plywood box will remain serviceable. If it were so, then the bee supply houses would be selling them and the larger beeks here would be using them to save many thousands in boxes.
Just an FYI, Advantech states their product is not suitable for outdoor use.
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Don, no this is entirely speculation, I have never built any bee equipment out of plywood, I just threw this question out there to see the pro's and con's of it. I certainly don't want high maintenance equipment, even with nucs. I do plan to use them all year round so I need to take that into consideration. I would feel a whole lot better using pine, just need to find a cheaper source for the wood to get my unit price down at least another third from the lumber yard price, I will keep a lookout for the pallet wood. John
I have about 20 5 frame DCOATES nucs that I built out of 1/2" plywood. They are in there 3rd
year of use. I glue(tite bond) and staple all joints. I then give them a couple of coats of exterior grade paint. I would not say 3 years of use is many years, however I am surprised of how good they are holding up. Some of them still look like the day I made them. You definetly need to make sure you seal up the edges good though. I would like to build them out of solid pine but the price is just ridiculous. Especially when you can make 4 nucs out of plywood for around $15!
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With both well painted plywood and Advantech, the biggest disadvantage isn't life span, but weight.
A big commercial outfit wouldn't be able to carry as many hives on a truck to pollination if they were made of these materials.
Boxes made of them aren't pretty and their manufacture is stone simple, which is a big market-shrinker for them, and part of why they aren't sold by the big bee supply outfits.
Properly constructed and finished, they will last quite a long time, whether some believe it or not.
I'd ask,
"Don, just curious if you have tried this or if it is speculation?"
One material serves on purpose, one another.
Good, painted exterior ply might not last as long as similarly finished pine.. but then again, it might.
Longevity isn't it's attraction, but rather value.
You can make more, cheaper.
And if one did that math on "dollar-years" one gets out of them when properly made, I think they're certainly worth the money.
Plywood is an excellent material for seasonally used nucs, and not a bad material for boxes used year round.
Like pine, used improperly it won't last two years, though.
I used 3/4 advantec on a trailor. Warranty for 40 years, did not expect did not get. I used it laying flat unpainted, in the weather, buried in snow and melting snow ,etc. Corners are beginning to get pucky but it still hauls lawn mower around, crushed rock, etc. water sitting between metal frames and sheet is where it started to go. Been over ten years. Myself, rough scrap or 1/2 plywood for nuc.
There is a zip code finder if you poke around googling advantech, Huber Industries.
I'm looking to build eight D.Coates NUCs and was thinking of using 1/2 inch "whole piece birch" plywood from Home Depot. Does anyone have any thoughts if a hardwood-based plywood ($11/nuc) would be more durable than the cheaper "pine-based" sanded plywood ($7/nuc). I don't mind paying $4 more per NUC if they are going to last longer. Here's examples of the two I'm considering:
Hardwood-based: http://www.homedepot.com/p/t/1000202...0m&R=100020218
Sanded pine-based: http://www.homedepot.com/p/t/1000127...0d&R=100012720
As folks have mentioned above, I plan to paint the edges with Titebond II and put two quality coats of paint on them as well. The pours in the hardwood plywood are tighter which leads me to believe it would be the better choice of the two. But if it's not that big of an issue, I'll go with the cheaper pine-based plywood.
Started beekeeping in 2013 and having a blast with my 12 small cell hives!!
> was thinking of using 1/2 inch "whole piece birch" plywood from Home Depot.
If the pine plywood is rated as Exterior, it should have a grade stamp on it saying so. Similar to the one on the far right:
Note that "Exposure 1" is not as good as "Exterior". More here:
I would not expect a grade stamp on the birch plywood, but without a grade stamp its exterior performance is unknown. Even HD does not say anything about exterior in its description of the product. The only clue is the description of the glue, which leads to the manufacturer:
They say the glue is water resistant, but that does not necessarily mean the finished plywood is exterior grade.
I scrounge plywood, and use anything I get for free. But if I was buying plywood, I'd buy Exterior rated plywood.
USDA Zone 7A Elevation 1400 ft
The sanded pine BC ply is put together with waterproof glue; the birch isn't.
I used some scrap birch ply for a tele cover, intending to tin it, but it was put to use without the metal and delaminated pretty quickly when exposed to weather, even though painted.
Here is a photo of one of the 5 frame nucs, made with Advantec. As Beregondo said, they aren't pretty, but, they work. And the wood was free. If you know someone in the housing construction business, you may be able to get lots of small pieces of Advantec they use as sub flooring.
Advantec 5 Frame Nuc.jpg
Advantec Nuc Front.jpg
And here is a photo of the migratory tops with feeder holes. You might note they are not painted.
Thru top feeders.jpg
Thanks Graham, Beregondo and Cleo. My son is a builder, so I think I'll hold off until he starts a new house and maybe I'll find some good Advantec or exterior plywood pieces to build my NUCs. I have to admit, you can't beat free!
Started beekeeping in 2013 and having a blast with my 12 small cell hives!!
Free is my favorite price. It is always "on sale"
Are you guys using tongue-and-grooved Advantech flooring or is there a different product? All I found locally has tongue-and-grooves, but that's easily ripped off with the table saw.


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The little sticker that is causing a world of trouble for Microsoft and Intel.
(Source: DailyTech)
Microsoft executive -- "We set ourselves up"
One of the most iconic images of Microsoft's Windows Vista launch in January 2007 was the small "Windows Vista Capable" stickers on computers months before, reassuring customers that when the new operating system came out, their computers could be updated to the latest and greatest. Unfortunately for the consumer it appears that the capabilities that these stickers promised were intentionally exaggerated to benefit Microsoft and chipmaker Intel.
A class action suit filed against Microsoft in April 2007
accused Microsoft of intentionally misleading
consumers with the stickers, claiming the "Vista Capable" logos on computers that were anything but. The suit centered around several key points, among which was that the computers sold could not run Windows Vista's more impressive features such as the Aero user interface, and were left with only a bare-bones skeleton of Vista. The suit
forced Microsoft to redefine
its definition of what exactly "Vista Capable" meant, which included Microsoft's addition of a disclaimer that some of the PCs bearing the sticker could not run significant Vista features such as Aero.
Meanwhile, the legal case proceeded forward. Armed with internal emails obtained from Microsoft, the plaintiffs,
represented by high-power attorney Jeffrey Tilden of Gordon Tilden Thomas & Cordell,
took their case before a U.S. District Judge in order to gain class action status
. In a significant victory for the plaintiffs
U.S. District Judge Marsha Pechman
granted the case class action status
, with the primary focus being to determine whether Microsoft intentionally deceived consumers to sell PCs. The judge also opened the door for the suit to also encompass gripes about the lack of Aero if the plaintiffs found another named plaintiff who bough Vista but was unable to run Aero.
Now in the aftermath of the ruling, the Judge Pechman
unsealed 158 pages of Microsoft corporate emails
(PDF) that paint a picture Microsoft would rather not have the public see.
Some of these emails featured Microsoft employees candidly describing the program with, "
Even a piece of junk will qualify" for "Vista Capable" designation. The now famous email from
Mike Nash, currently a corporate vice president for Windows product management, states, "
I PERSONALLY got burnt ... Are we seeing this from a lot of customers? ... I now have a $2,100 e-mail machine."
Less dramatic, but equally damaging was the email from
Jim Allchin, then the co-president of Microsoft's Platforms and Services Division, stating grimly, "
We really botched this ... You guys have to do a better job with our customers."
The most interesting emails though, turn out to be the new ones. While a number of key portions of several emails were redacted, the parts that remain paint a picture of intentional deception that Microsoft virtually admitted to in the internal emails.
In the emails Microsoft executives discuss how the
Intel 915 Chipset
was to initially be deemed incompatible Windows Vista. The policy was abruptly reversed. Says one of the executives in charge of the decision, "
In the end, we lowered the requirements to help Intel make their quarterly earnings so they could continue to sell motherboards with the 915 graphics embedded. We are caving to Intel. We worked the last 18 months to drive the [user interface] experience and we are giving this up."
This admission is extremely significant as it precisely describes what was alleged by the class action suit. Microsoft will have to fight an uphill battle to prove that its employees' email correspondence was inaccurate and misleading.
Other emails make it clear that retailers had voiced frustrations with Microsoft, and were met with stubborn resistance from Microsoft executives due to the policy, which aimed to underhandedly pump up Intel's chipset sales. Says one Microsoft executive, guiltily, "
I was in Best Buy listening to people and can tell you this did not come clear to customers. We set ourselves up."
"Nowadays, security guys break the Mac every single day. Every single day, they come out with a total exploit, your machine can be taken over totally. I dare anybody to do that once a month on the Windows machine." -- Bill Gates
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I mean you no ill will. I think you should figure out how to remedy the situation. How would you suggest we live differently?
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I mean you no ill will. I think you should figure out how to remedy the situation. How would you suggest we live differently?
How many acres in total are under your control?
Do you have any first hand experience that makes you eligible to comment on these two subjects?[/QUOTE]
actually i do. my girl friends dad is a excavator. he works for a lot of farmers in my area. they are his childhood friends. he was a farmer. he quit right before it turned around. still has the land, rents it. his buddies are all rich farmers now. they hire him to do dumb ass jobs like ian says, level it, fill it in and make it drain. they get govnt money to harm this great state of MN. they are changing it by making spiecies go extinct. and polluting the ground water slowly and many other things. actually i do think we need population control and i am practicing it. im sure i will have one child but not 3 4 or more. why would i want to bring more people into a over crowded earth. the worst part is our goverment is set up so that the stupid people are breeding the most. they get money the more stupid kids they have the more money they get. maybe i am negative or just a mean person but its the way it all seems to me. i do not know how to see it any other way. i may not be that smart, but im not that ignorant.
So bottom line you don't have any first hand experience. Tell us about how the farmers are paid too much.
"This week, House Republicans passed a rather unusual farm bill. There was no money for food stamps for the poor, a program that typically makes up the bulk of these bills. But the House did manage to pass billions in subsidies for farmers and agribusinesses."
I do not know how much from this comes in the farmer's pocket. Any idea?
I checked out the subsidies website. Interesting. I see some of the folks in my area cashed in on "crop insurance" due to natural disasters. Not sure how that falls into federal subsidizing considering they actually have to pay for the crop insurance.
Just by living we impact the environment. Most of which can be seen as in a negative way. Walk across a field a field and you harm the grass. Drive a car and you add to the air pollution. Buy the beef that comes from Ian cattle and you will have to pay for a lot of shipping from way up North. Transportation costs mean, roads, pavement, trucks, fuel, etc, which are all unnatural. That's what I mean.
This probably trivializes Ian's point in his "rant". I admire him and his family for being so conscientious in how they handle their 5,000 acres. I have 103 acres of land of which a minor amount is cultivated. 15 acres is cut for hay. What was at one time pastured my Wife is slowly planting in pine trees at a rate of 100 each year, something she started w/ the kids years ago. So I don't do what Ian does exactly (we only have one sheep left), but we produced one child and adopted two. That's my contribution to zero pop. growth, sorta.
Insurance is insurance correct, so your property is damaged covered by insurance then you put in a claim and get paid by insurance company? Besides farmers that actually borrow money from the FSA division of FDA for their farm growth are required by FDA to retain crop insurance.
Alot of the folks in our area that put in claims for insurance have been due to crops freezing out in spring or the re-occurence of flash floods we have had in the last 3 years.
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My ESL interpretation was that you accuse Ian that he damage environment by peeing in nature :) hilarious!
As for impact to the environment - your position make sense from one point. From another point, we are part of environment and should concentrate on positive effects from our activity. I told this story many times, how 2 million toilets saved Mono Lake. Los Angeles purchased all water rights around Mono Lake, so we have a water. All small creeks were diverted to aquaduck and it drains the Mono Lake. The group of enthusiasts decided to save Mono Lake by installing low-water toilets in LA. So they did - they installed 2 million low water toilets and it saved the lake - lake's level has been increased by 10 feet and continuing. This is very positive story to me - what simple people can do! We have a program for LA kids (who grew on concrete) to learn this story of Mono Lake - for 5 days they live in very rough conditions in the Nature cleaning the creeks and kayaking the Mono Lake. City kids learned how to live in Nature (it is OK to pee in the forest!). These kids, I am sure, would fight for changes beneficial to Nature.
Not that long ago there was an article in the Wall Street Journal (or was it the NY Times?) about the millions of Federal dollars paid to one beekeeper. So, it does happen Sergey.
I'm kind of surprised you didn't suggest that the whole Thread be moved to Tailgater. The subject of the Thread certainly isn't what Commercial Beekeeping/Pollination is all about.
I didn't mention the Governments role in population control. Someone else did that by bringing up China.


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ITI, day two
It's interesting to me because the three leaders are turning in checkpoint times very similar to my first three check-ins in 2008 (which, again, point to the significantly increased level of difficulty on the trail this year compared to two years ago.) But the leaders were into Yentna Station at mile 60 around 10 p.m. Sunday, into Swentna at mile 90 around 3 a.m. Monday, and into Fingerlake, mile 130, at 4 p.m. Monday — my 2008 pace up to that point almost verbatim.
This fact is fun for me because I can mine my memory to conjure up images of approximately where they are right now, and it helps me feel like I am there again. I imagine climbing into the foothills of the Alaska Range just as dusk begins to cast its long, cold shadow over the open swamps. The trail is narrow and steep, wending tightly through the woods and sometimes dropping off veritable cliffs into the Happy River Gorge. Headlamps cast a warm, yellow light on the trail, revealing a stream of snowmobile tread, Endomorph tire tracks and the occasional, unique imprints of fellow racers' boots. As the miles plod onward, these tracks begin to tell elaborate stories of movement and struggle, triumph and pain. They become as interesting as movies, maybe because there's nothing else to watch, and the headlamp beam flickers like a film projector, a soft reflection of humanity against a bewildering expanse of darkness.
But this is just what I think about, when I think about 10 p.m. Monday night in the Happy River Gorge. The reality of the race leaders is they are probably thinking about sleep, and about warm food, and constantly looking over their shoulders, watching for the soft, warm headlamp glow that signals the approach of their closest competitor. Anxious competitiveness, rather than peaceful loneliness, is probably what drives those leading the race right now.
The good thing — perhaps the only good thing — about my current position in a cubical 700 miles away in Juneau, where driving rain and wind pounds the window, and where I am perched next to a space heater with a lukewarm water bottle and a fresh orange, is that I can imagine myself wherever I'd like to be.
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Love the color commentary of the ITI. Any thoughts on what's ahead for the racers with the weather conditions using your knowledge of the course. Kind of a boots on the ground view.ReplyDelete
That photo has to be the most surreal (land,water,sky) that I have seen. The manmade object floating in the space gives me a disoriented sense of just where it "we" belong. Very cool!
With the pace the leaders are keeping, I can only imagine how slowly I would be plodding over the frozen wilderness. I'm with you - enjoying my heated office, my cup of instant oatmeal and my purely imagined position in the race!ReplyDelete
Mmmmm. Cozy. I'm imagining.ReplyDelete
The entry is great, the writing is fantastic, but the photograph...ReplyDelete
did you take it? It's one the most beautiful and confusing that I've ever seen.


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Personally. I am interested because I used the drench method commercially at least ten or maybe twenty years ago, before it was respectable, and I know the guy who started it, AFAIK. The optimal concentration has been a big question mark as long as it has been in use. There are currently a number of studies going on and several conflicting recommendations out there. Moreover this could technically be construed as an off-label usage.
I haven't seen Keith's numbers, beyond what he posted below, or any documentation, so I would be glad to be pointed to them.
Maybe I'm wrong, but given the price of fumigillan, I should think most commercial beekeepers would be interested to know if they need to boost or lower the dose.
Anyhow, here is some correspondance with Steve Pernal, (Beaverlodge Research Station) which he says I can share. Some of you might want to contact him if you have information.
> I should have some data on the drench technique this spring as we used that as a treatment in fall trials (i.e. fall 2008). I have concerns about using a low volume syrup treatment in the fall as it may have less "staying power" in the hive over the winter.
> Based on our spring 2008 experiment using packages, where we evaluated 0.5, 1 and 2 x label doses, we saw no evidence of increased efficacy with increased dose. We applied fumagillin as icing sugar dustings, in pollen patties and in syrup. Basically all worked, perhaps with the exception of some delayed effciacy on some of the patty treatments.
> For N. ceranae, the Spanish recommend 4 applications of fumagillin, each application in 250 mL of syrup in a bag placed on the top bars. Each application contains 30 mg of active ingredient for a total of 120 mg of active ingredient applied per colony. They sugges this confers control for ceranae for six months.
> I don't have the answers yet, but I would predict we may have to get into a paradigm by which we may have to control in the spring and fall. The spring treatments will have the additional concern of not contaminating honey, which is why we have been looking at different application methods.
> I anticipate running fall and spring efficacy experiments for nosema for at least 2 to three more years. I would be very interested in knowing if there appears to be a treatment that is being informally adopted by beekeepers, so that I can include it as a comparative treatment in experiments.
> Randy Oliver will be at Medhat's IPM symposium in Feb. He may have some insight from the U.S. as well.
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