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Another A/F datalog question
I hooked my AEM A/F wideband up to my SCT3 with a modified firewire cable (per several FF write-ups). When I start the datalog monitor directly on the SCT3, I get accurate real-time A/F readings. But if I datalog on LiveLink, the A/F (analog 1) doesn't show any input or values. Somehow the SCT3 isn't communicating with my PC. (Yes, I've assigned a formula to the channel and the box has been checked.)
Any ideas?
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does the computer datalog everything else or is there no communication at all? First thing that popped into my head was a driver issue. Maybe trying reinstalling the driver and/or livelink.
are you using XP or vista?
LiveLink is able to monitor everything else except the analog input (A/F) so I think the drivers are up-to-date and working. That's what makes it so strange.
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That makes it a bit more complex.
...hopefully someone else can chime in and help out.
What version of livelink are you using?
Version 5.1 Build 0
What is the firmware revision on your device?
Fw 1.2.118
I don't get any errors w/r/t analog signals. I just tried checking all 4 inputs and still got nothing.
I'm wondering if it's somehow related to my settings on the SCT device itself. As I said, I can read the A/F from the handheld when I "start monitor" so I know it's getting signal. It's apparently problematic somewhere between the handheld and the laptop.
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Fifth Third Becomes Official Bank of UC Bearcats Football
Sept. 2, 2010
CINCINNATI – The University of Cincinnati Department of Athletics, IMG College and Fifth Third announced today that the Bank has become an official sponsor of the University of Cincinnati Bearcats Football, in addition to its support of the Jefferson Avenue Sports Complex. The Bank will have a comprehensive presence at Nippert Stadium, including ATM service.
"As two of Cincinnati's most recognized institutions, Fifth Third Bank and the University of Cincinnati have enjoyed a longstanding relationship, including the sponsorship of Fifth Third Arena, executive mentoring, board memberships, scholarship support, not to mention the thousands of UC alumni working for the Bank today," said Fifth Third Bank, Greater Cincinnati, President and CEO, Bob Sullivan. "This alliance provides us an effective way to reach customers and prospects, and also allows us to further support the University, the community and our headquarters city of Cincinnati."
Fifth Third Bank will reach consumers via signage on the interior and exterior of Nippert Stadium, TV/radio/print advertising, online media through GoBEARCATS.com and more.
The partnership, which was negotiated through Bearcat Sports Marketing, the multimedia rights partner for the University of Cincinnati Athletics and an IMG College property, will begin with the 2010 season.
"Support from the corporate community is one of the key components pushing UC Athletics to championship levels across the board," says UC Director of Athletics Mike Thomas. "Fifth Third Bank has been a great supporter of our University, and specifically Bearcats Athletics, for many years. Their naming of Fifth Third Arena, the support of the Women's Crosstown Shootout, and many other projects has made them a compelled benefactor committed to helping build UC champions. We look forward to a great future with Fifth Third being a major part of our winning team."
Fifth Third Bank (Greater Cincinnati), an affiliate of Fifth Third Bancorp, has been serving local customers since 1858. With 189 full-service locations, including 48 open seven days a week, Fifth Third Bank offers unparalleled service and convenience throughout its footprint, including Greater Cincinnati, Northern Kentucky, Greater Dayton, Hamilton, Middletown, Springfield, Piqua, Troy, and Lima.
Fifth Third Bancorp is a diversified financial services company headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio. The Company has $112 billion in assets, operates 16 affiliates with 1,309 full-service Banking Centers, including 102 Bank Mart® locations open seven days a week inside select grocery stores and 2,362 ATMs in Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana, Michigan, Illinois, Florida, Tennessee, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Missouri, Georgia and North Carolina. Fifth Third operates four main businesses: Commercial Banking, Branch Banking, Consumer Lending, and Investment Advisors. Fifth Third also has a 49% interest in Fifth Third Processing Solutions, LLC. Fifth Third is among the largest money managers in the Midwest and, as of June 30, 2010, had $178 billion in assets under care, of which it managed $24 billion for individuals, corporations and not-for-profit organizations. Investor information and press releases can be viewed at www.53.com. Fifth Third's common stock is traded on the NASDAQ(R) National Global Select Market under the symbol "FITB."
University of Cincinnati offers 18 sports programs which compete in BIG EAST Conference. Since joining the league in 2005-06, the Bearcats have captured four league titles, including the back-to-back BIG EAST football titles in 2008 and 2009. The football championships earned the program consecutive appearances in the Bowl Championship Series, including a spot in the 2010 Allstate Sugar Bowl. Over the course of the program's history, 233 student-athletes have garnered all-America or academic all-America honors, including the likes of college basketball's Player of the Century Oscar Robertson, 2008 Olympic gold medalist Mary Wineberg (one of four in school history), 2007 World Series Champion Kevin Youkilis of the Boston Red Sox, and New Orleans Saints linebacker and Super Bowl XLIV Champion Troy Evans.
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National's Hunua MP Paul Hutchison has been dobbed in for reading while driving on the Auckland motorway and his attitude is it's a "fair cop".
Janice Barr from Ohaupo says she drew parallel with Dr Hutchison on the morning of September 11 and was surprised to see he had a full sheet of paper spread across the steering wheel "reading and what looked to me like practising a speech".
The four-wheel-drive vehicle had his name and party colours on it.
Dr Hutchison said it was him yesterday and thanked the reader for reporting him.
"Anyone who dobs someone in for driving unwisely is doing their public duty and that's fair enough. Caught red-handed - or blue-handed," he said.
He had been "frantically" going from one meeting to another on the Auckland governance issue.
"If I was driving unwisely I shouldn't have been and I will endeavour to correct my ways," he said.
Driving while reading is not a specific offence but Superintendent John Kelly, road policing manager for the Waitemata police district, said it was "incredibly stupid".
If he saw anybody reading while driving he would charge them with careless driving.
He also referred to the case of former MP Richard Prebble.
Claims in 1986 by a Radio Windy commentator that Mr Prebble, then Minister of Transport, had been reading while driving led to questions in Parliament.
The answers were the subject of a privileges committee hearing, as was further commentary on the parliamentary answers.
A witness - the mother of the radio commentator - said she saw Mr Prebble with newspapers on his steering wheel and had appeared to comment while at traffic lights on something he had seen in the paper.
Mr Prebble said he had put the newspaper on his lap but had not been reading them.
The privileges committee found in favour of Mr Prebble.
* Distractions on the road
Last year's statistics on road crashes show 40 people died as a result of diverted attention. Reading is not listed. Reasons for distraction:
Cigarette, radio, glove box etc - 223 non-fatal accidents, 6 fatal.
Cellphone or communication device: 116 non-fatal, 1 fatal.
Driver dazzled: 205 non-fatal accidents, 5 fatal.
Advertising sign: 4 non-fatal accidents, 0 fatal.
Emotionally upset - 92 non-fatal accidents, 7 fatal.
Animal or insect in car - 24 non-fatal accidents, 0 fatal.
Passengers - 146 non-fatal accidents, 8 fatal.
Scenery or people outside vehicle - 145 non-fatal, 1 fatal.
Trying to find house or intersection - 42 non-fatal, 0 fatal.
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Hey man, The areas we always fish are too far of a paddle from the dam. You have nothing to worry about
Hey man, The areas we always fish are too far of a paddle from the dam. You have nothing to worry about
haha, what kind of ruler do you have one off hook1?
Jackson Cuda "Black Widow"
Yea, hook1 is a good place to get one. I recommend a Hawg Trough. By the way, I got an email from Chad Hoover at Hook1 today and he is giving away (4) $25 gift certificates at each of our tournaments. We are thinking of giving those away to 4th-7th place finishers. So 1st thru 7th would get something at each event, which would be nice.
By the way, if you get one of those Hawg Troughs, it helps alot to go over the lines and numbers with a black sharpie. It makes it alot easier to read on camera. Actually I think they are making the numbers black now, so I think you just need to go over the lines.
ok.... i didnt see anything about prefishing on the rules, so prefishing the day before is fine right?
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Yep, that's fine. Just don't hook a big one or you'll jinx yourself.
o i know how that goes thats why i dont even like prefishing sometimes.... may just explore that area and try to see how far and how long it takes to get to places from that ramp.... whats the deal with the sound emitting devices and light?
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We don't typically go around checking for those things but they are required under NCWRC regulations so you should have them. Put a whistle in one of your pfd pockets and you've got 2 of the 3 covered. I use a headlamp as my white light and keep it in my tackle bag.
cool, i was thinkin that... just checkin
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After reading this link though, you may want more adequate signaling devices....
like a flare gun to shoot at the boat! thats scary right there! yeah when we fished that club tourney a couple weeks ago before we blasted off there was a yaker going across towards the power plant, i was thinking he is brave! thats one of hte busiest places rigth there and it was early morning and cloudy so it was pretty dark...
Jackson Cuda "Black Widow"
Looks like I will get to make this one, see you guys there!
12' Nucanoe "Frontier", Hunter Brown. Nucanoe Team member
Good deal, see you soon!
ordered a couple rulers last night "hawg troughs" didnt even pay attention to the shipping and did it on the ipad... hope everything went through right.. any idea how long it usually takes? ordered off kayakfishinggear.com
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I have to get my check in for this tourney... Im making a note now to get this done TONIGHT
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What a great first trip on RCCL!: Freedom of the Seas Cruise Review by Katwhack
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What a great first trip on RCCL!
Destination: Eastern Caribbean
Embarkation: Port Canaveral (Orlando)
We came in a day early and stayed at the Radisson Resort at the Port, which was great. You can see the cruise ships right out your window in the morning.
We took a shuttle over around 11am and were on the ship by Noon. I thought the embarkation process was pretty good, although, I felt like I didn't have to wait so long with Disney.
We went right up and ate and by the time we were done eating, our staterooms were ready. We had 2 rooms on Deck 7, one inside room and 1 balcony. The inside room was pretty darn small, although, we were expecting that. I really missed the double bathroom on Disney and the tub shower. The shower we had was kind of like those old school bank deposit tubes, pretty funny to try and use, but it was fine. The beds were actually pretty More comfortable. They had memory foam mattress toppers.
The balcony room was great, nice balcony and both rooms were in a nice quiet area very close to the Mid Ship elevators.
We had Second seating dining and our crew was very nice and attentive. A little different from Disney, as we had nice budding relationships with our wait staff on the Disney Magic at the end and found it hard to leave. But, absolutely no complaints with them or the food. I thought the food was very good!
The shows were pretty good. I particularly enjoyed Mo5iac, which I had never heard of before this cruise! Very talented! The stage shows were alright, but, sorry, Disney wins hands down on their stage shows. The other entertainment shows that the Cruise Director and cruise staff MCed were hilarious. I have to say that our Cruise Director Richard Spacey is unlike any other Cruise Director I have ever seen. He was so funny and entertaining! We made it a point to go to everything he hosted just to see what he would do. Make sure you go to the show where he does the Evolution of Dance before the main show. You'll be sorry if you miss it! I also highly recommend going to the the Marriage Show and the Quest for sure!
My sister and I also pretty much spent every night in the nightclub The Crypt, which I liked, as we could always find an seat. We would have a drink or two watch others and dance a little too.
The islands we went to were Coco Cay, St. Thomas and St. Maarten. We loved them all! Coco Cay was small and not quite as awesome as Disney's Island, Castaway Cay, but it was still a great beach day. Make sure you get off the boat early so you don't have to wait in line for a tender and you can get prime beach chairs on the beach.
St. Thomas was awesome! I have been there before, but this time we did an all day excursion on a pirate ship that goes to Turtle Cove and Honeymoon Beach. I highly recommend this excursion, despite that it is the entire day. The crew was really nice and made it a point to talk to everyone, remember our names and make sure we had a good time. Turtle Cove was great and Honeymoon Beach was the best! Pretty much it was only our boat there.
St. Maarten was nice, although it was pouring rain when we got there and our excursion was cancelled. So, we spent the day shopping.
The last thing to say getting off the ship was super easy! We took the first slot at 7:15am :( because we were going to Disney World for the day. They called our group right at 7:15 and we were through customs with our bags at 7:30 or 7:45.
So, all in all, a great time and we are already planning on when to go again! Less
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Forms Stretched to Their Limits
In this intensified comic atmosphere, it should be no surprise that bodies – whether that of live comic performers or cartoon characters – were reduced to, in a phrase associated with Jack Coles, "forms stretched to their limits." Vaudeville's performer centered mode of production and its emphasis on constant novelty and heterogeniety pushed its stars to develop a range of performance skills and to exploit as many of them in any given performance as possible. This push towards intensification resulting in such specialties as the protean or quick change artist who might transform his identity dozens of times in the course of a performance, trying to play all of the parts in the enactment of a Shakespearean drama or an adaptation of War and Peace. It also resulted in the tradition of the eccentric dancer, whose performance would include back-flipping acrobatics and rubber legged dance moves, which often defy our normal assumptions about human anatomy. One can see remarkable examples of this tradition in the preserved segments from Spike Jone's TV work.
In "I Like to Sock Myself in the Face," Peter James, a regular member of Jone's stock company, sings a rapid patter song which proclaims the masochistic pleasures of self-directed violence. The clown, dressed in an over-sized checkered suit which defies every advice ever given about what to wear on early black and white television, races onto the stage, hurls himself up the curtains, bobs up and down in rhythm to the music, before proceeding to slap and kick himself in the face, run circles around the bandleader, winding up his legs and kicking in all directions, and turning back flips. He flings himself on all fours, bouncing up and down on the floor. All of the above is performed live by the breathlessly enthusiastic entertainer and unveiled for us in a series of long takes which make it clear that there is no trickery involved.
Such a performance might well be called "cartoonish" and that's precisely the point – it offers us the illusion that a live performer's body may be as elastic and protean as that of a cartoon or comic book character. There is little separating Peter James's proclaimed joy in socking himself in the face and the prolonged sequences of Wolfie's equally intense gyrations and contortions in response to Red Hot Riding Hood in Avery's cartoons. Wolfy gets shown going stiff as a board, stretching his arm across the auditorium to pull his beloved off the stage, banging himself in the face with hammers, whistling and pounding on the table, popping his eyes out of his head, and shooting himself in his desperate and uncontrollable expressions of erotic desire. These hyberbolic reactions became the primary source of comedy for extended sequences in the film and such displays are often what people remember most vividly about Avery's cartoons.
Art Spiegelman finds a similar fascination with hyperbolic extensions of the human body in Jack Cole and his most famous creation, Plastic Man:
"Plastic Man had all the crackling intensity of the life force transferred to paper….Plas literally embodied the comic book form: its exuberant energy, its flexibility, its boyishness, and its only partially sublimated sexuality."
The pleasure of reading a Cole comic was watching his protagonist stretch and pull in all directions, changing shape and identity at will, often anchored only by our recognition of the red, black, and yellow coloring of his costume. In yet another analogy to modernist art, Spiegelman argues that the character "personified George Bataille's notion of the body on the brink of dissolving its borders," suggesting a sexual charge to images of Plas's bulbous head at the end of his extending, flaccid or erect neck, or at the suggestion that any body part might take any shape at a moment's notice.
The same might be said of the characters depicted by Basil Wolverton, whom art critic Doug Harvey has linked to a much larger tradition of grotesque caricature, again drawing on references to surrealism, expressionism, and dada:
"Wolverton's obsessively detailed images of impossibly distended organs, alarming proliferations of extra limbs, seething oceans of twisted, sagging,and diseased integument, and traumatic and impractical fusions of man and machine in which man inevitably got the painful end of the stick…. His work has a singularity of focus and vertiginous sense of exhilaration that verges on nausea, and it has continued to be vital and grown increasingly relevant, from the days of vaudeville through to the post-McLuhan mediascape. And if it makes your sister puke, it's done its job."
Spigelman has emphasized the kinetic qualities of Cole's artwork, tracing the ways that Plas moves from left to right, top to bottom, from panel to panel, forcing the reader to scan his eyes rapidly from place to place within the frame: "
Plastic Man's S-curved body …loops around one pedestrian in the distance and extends between two lovers about to kiss – lipstick traces are on his elongated neck as he passes them – to swoop up between an old man's legs like an enormous penis wearing sunglasses and stare into his startled face."
Wolverton achieves a similarly kinetic quality within single images as mouths, eyelids, hair, wrinkles, all seem on the verge of drooping and sagging, like so much meat ready to fall off the bone or where a man might tied his neck into a knot to avoid the temptations of drink or another might attach a fan to his nose to disperse the stinch of his buddy's garlicky breath. One character may be all mouth, another all nose, another might have four or five chins, each so butt ugly that we stare at the page like rubber neckers at a car accident, unable to take our eyes away even as we feel mounting disgust.
This gagging sensation is suggested by the moment at the end of the above quote where Harvey breaks from the sanctifying language of the art critic to acknowledge a much more adolescent and masculine pleasure in watching his sister's retching. For the most part, the 'vulgar modernists' were misbehaving schoolboys, running amuck, seeking to shock their teachers, mothers, and sisters with their willingness to transgress norms of taste and decorum.
There was an inherent tension between all of this frantic activity and any sense of spatial orientation. Jack Cole's Plas zigzags across the page. Wolverton's Powerhouse Pepper makes expressive use of speed lines which seem to swoop upon us from all sides. Peter James races, leaps and tumbles around every corner of the stage. Olsen and Johnson walk through a series of movie sets with each match on action revealing them wearing a different period costume. A chase scene in Tex Avery's Who Killed Who shows multiple versions of the same characters racing around different parts of the space at the same instant. Another gag shows the detective falling down a trap door in the bottom of the frame and then falling into the same shot from above. Don't expect spatial relations to make sense, don't expect the world to cohere, just sit back and watch as they rip the screen apart and put it back together again.
We can celebrate their formal inventiveness , the giddy excitement created by such unfettered movements, their expressive graphics, yet we also have to acknowledge how much of this humor was directed at women — literally in the case of Avery's representations of the wolf's pyrotechnic desire or figuratively, in the ways that the works associate all of that ballet, opera, and classical piano music we've described with a feminized realm of high culture. In a world where men display phallic energy through their ability to extend their bodies in all directions, women are often depicted as fixed and static – witness the use of rotoscoping to give Red a much more realistic appearance than Wolfy in the Avery cartoons. There are exceptions, such as Martha Raye's character in Hellzapoppin who shows an ability to freeze frame and reverse the action at one in one particular musical number. Yet, for the most part, male characters enjoy much greater freedom of movement and fluidity of identity. One could argue that such male-centered pleasures are consistent with the analogies to modernism, given how often, say, critics have pointed to the masculine assumptions which shaped artists as diverse as Pablo Picasso and Jackson Pollack.
Indeed, high and popular artists may be complicit in reinforcing this particular set of gendered relations. Consider the case of Lena the Heyena, Wolverton's most famous work. The drawing was produced in response to a contest hosted by Al Capp's Little Abner and judged by a panel that included Frank Sinatra, Boris Karloff, and Salvador Dali. The image won out over those produced by such comic book rivals as Jack Cole and Carl Banks, first appearing in Abner and later recycled for a famous early cover for Mad Magazine. Here, high meets low on equal terms, with Dali recognizing and rewarding the "surrealistic" elements in Wolverton's decisively more lowbrow work.
From Mad to 'Sick'
We should not be surprised, then, that alongside Dali or Hoberman, the most famous patron of the "vulgar modernists" was Hugh Heffner who sought to recruit many of those discussed here, including Jack Cole, Harvey Kurtzman, and Will Elder, to work for Playboy. While the temptation is to talk about the "no holds barred" nature of their postwar work, we can see the kinds on invisible constraints that shaped their work if we look at the much more sexually explicit but formally similar work Elder and Kurtzman did on "Little Annie Fannie" for Playboy a decade or so later. Biographers describe the cartoonists' discomfort with the more explicit imagery and subject matter Hef expected them to produce for his men's magazine, even as he provided them more creative freedom to fill panels with "chicken fat" gags, to introduce intertextual elements, or to shatter the frame borders. (The recent reprinting of Little Annie Fannie includes an extensive set of annotations in the back trying to explain the numerous topical references that ran through the series. ) In the end, we don't know whether the sexuality was sublimated in their postwar works or whether the sexual explicitness of their later work was forced in their efforts to remain relevant to the sensibilities of a different generation.
Basil Wolverton's grotesques informed later underground comicbook artists like R. Crumb. A famous portrait of Crumb, his legs twisted and tangled, bears unmistakable similarities to a Wolverton drawing showing a similar contorted male figure. Crumb would give the grotesque elements of Wolverton's work a political charge: Crumb used images of contorted human figures to push back against what he and others in the counterculture saw as the state's repressive control over their bodies, offering up much more aggressive representations of racial difference as a challenge to a sexist and racist society (in effect, taking the 'innocent' ethnic types found in the earlier work and shoving it back into the shocked faces of a generation which had been too complacent about racial inequalities). Reading the "vulgar modernists" alongside Crumb, one seems just how good natured and complacent they were, how much they observed limits and respected norms, even as they sought to enact their disruption and transgression.
While the comedy rests on our acceptance that they hold nothing sacred, there is, in fact, much that remains sacred and protected within the humor of the 1940s and 1950s. While Kurtzman and Gaines faced rebuke before the Kefauver committee for their role in creating E.C. horror comics, Mad was seen as a safer alternative to which they retreated in the aftermath. If it was not exactly exhaulted, it never faced government scrutiny. None of these clowns or comic artists were blacklisted during the McCarthy era; their formal transgressiveness and sublimated eroticism would have felt much more comfortable in the context of their times while overt ideological critique would have been much less acceptable.
Hoberman was drawn to these artist at a time when politically engaged filmmakers and cultural critics saw reflexivity as a way out of the illusionism of classical Hollywood cinema, seeing shattering textual codes and conventions as the beginning of a different kind of relationship to spectators. When they looked at the films of Tex Avery, say, they could find many examples of this kind of formal transgression. Avery's films sent characters flying outside the frame or showed them straddling a line separating black and white and technocolor. One character in Batty Baseball (1944) stops the picture and demands that they go back and show the lion roar and provide opening credits, while the dog begs for the picture to end after being beaten mercilessly by Screwball Squirrel.
The character at the start of Who Killed Who is reading a book "based on the cartoon of the same title," turns to the audience, and explains that if the cartoon is anything like the book, he's about to be murdered. Screwball Squirrel lifts up the bottom of the frame and takes a peak into the next scene to see what he's supposed to do next. And we could go on and on.
As Dana Polan notes in an essay principally focused on another "vulgar modernist" text, Chuck Jones' Duck Amuck (1953), there is a difference between reflexivity as a formal practice designed to defamiliarize various textual codes and conventions and reflexivity as a political practice designed to critique real world institutions and practices. One takes pleasure in pulling the rug out from Hollywood conventions, while the other teaches us a new way to see the world or offers us new perspectives on the realm beyond the movie house.
Reading Mad magazine taught the coming generation to be skeptical of political authorities or the influence of Madison Avenue, but they would have to push its humor up several notches before they could find a mode of comedy well suited to the politics of the counterculture. These artists paved the way for everything that came yet they might have been the last generation of American humorists who could transgress wildly and yet still hold a place within the consensus culture. They were, in short, marginal but not outside the frame of mainstream culture.
From a critical perspective, then, the question is whether we should allow ideological criteria to always trump aesthetic ones. Modernism, in the high art sense, was certainly divided between artists, or even works within the body of the same artist's careers, which were more focused on formal innovation and ideological critique, and we have found a way to accommodate both strands in the cannon of western art. Cannons often get defined in terms of the lasting impressions and continued influence of an artist's body of work and by that criteria, these artists continue to exert a strong influence on our culture down to the present day. As Doug Harvey writes in regard to Wolverton,
"generations of comic creators, from Will Elder, Gahan Wilson, R. Crumb and Gary Panter to Peter Bagge, Drew Friedman, and Charles Burns, have been influences by his meticulous technique and pictorial audacity. Artists from the world of 'fine' or 'high' art, such as Mike Kelley, Jim Shaw, Kenny Scharf, Peter Saul, Jim Nutt, and many others turned Wolverton's pop-culture monstrosities into museum-worthy artifacts."
Similarly, Tex Avery's influence is explicitly acknowledge through Jim Carrey's performance in The Mask, through the opening sequences of Who Frame Roger Rabbit?, or throughout Tiny Tunes, Ren and Stimpy, and Animaniacs while it is hard to conceive of the world depicted in The Simpsons or South Park in the absence of Will Elder and Harvey Kurtzman. Hoberman's essay ends with the suggestion that "what was once oppositional in vulgar modernism has largely been co-opted by the culture industry" (pointing to the then contemporary examples of Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman or Saturday Night Live.) I have argued the opposite here– that their containment within commercial culture worked to mute any overt political statements they might have made and that subsequent generations, following their example, have often pushed their transgressiveness much further. Perhaps these later works are consistent with Hoberman's closing call for a "vulgar postmodernism" though I will leave to someone else the always thankless task of policing the borders between modernism and postmodernism. That these works are a living presence in our culture makes the project of revisiting Hoberman's essay and reassessing this body of work that much more urgent.
We have been able to only start the project of a comparative or cross-media analysis of "vulgar modernism" and its place in American culture. Hoberman's intuitive grouping of these artists proves rewarding whether we address the question in terms of biographical details or close textual analysis. These artists were fellow travelers in an artistic project none of them sought to articulate but all of them sought to demonstrate. It was a project whose roots could be traced back to vaudeville but which has been read in relation to a range of modern art movements, caught eternally in a struggle between competing claims of low-brow audacity and high art respectability. Calling them vulgar may oversell their transgressiveness, calling them modernist may overstate their avant garde impulses, yet the reality lies somewhere in the tension between the two. Whatever we want to say about them, they were artists who experimented with the basic building blocks of their respective media and taught a generation a new way to look at the world around them. When Powerhouse Pepper nonchalantly tells us in the final panel of a rather freakish comic story that certain specified pages were a dream sequence, when Startchie explains to a friend that the hearts flying around his paramour's head might mean simply platonic friendship in "cartoon language," they depict a world whose characters (and through extension, their readers) understand themselves as being constructed through recognized artistic conventions. When, in Symphony in Slang, Avery constructs a whole film around literalized metaphors, then we can see him inviting us to reflect on the role of language in shaping how we see the world.
And, yes, they could make your sister puke, your mother blush, and your teacher sputter. Not bad for a day's work.


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NJ Room's Version of the NBC Hit, "WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE?"
NJ Room's Version of the NBC TV Hit, "Who Do You Think You Are?"
a BIG Hit with 30 Intensely Interested Attendees
On May 22, 2012 the NJ Room offered a workshop entitled, "Who Do You Think You Are?" building upon the wildly successful NBC television show which was partially filmed here in November 2010 for the Rosie O'Donnell segment that aired in February 2011, and for which the department is currently working with the BBC on an English celebrity – still a mystery to us since the ancestors lived here over 100 years ago.
Danny Klein, a brand new professional Librarian who just received his degree from Rutgers University on May 13, began with an overlook of the task of beginning one's genealogical search – something that can be overwhelming to newcomers, leaving them frozen and unable to start. Many people put off the task – sometimes too long – and key relatives are no longer around to fill in information. He began with the basics to this audience of 30 and emphasized an extremely important point which the majority of budding genealogists do not consider, and that is, citing sources. As with any research – historic, scientific, anything – it is necessary to record the source of information. Invariably, at some point, someone will counter the veracity of a piece of information and citations make it possible to get an indisputable answer to a question. Danny, a former president of the Hudson County Genealogical & Historical Society and current Board member, has been working on his own genealogy for years and writes a regular popular column in the Jersey Journal on many different approaches to handling genealogical mysteries.
Cynthia Harris offered an extensive look as the resources available specifically in the NJ Room from yearbooks dating back to 1909 (the public schools issued their first yearbook in 1911 while St. Dominic Academy began theirs in 1908). The department has many databases which help patrons learn when marriages took place, dating back to the 19th Century; where and when babies were born, beginning in the 1920s; the highly popular obituary index; when and where ancestors went to school (which often includes photos and addresses), dating to the early 1870s; and so much more.
A trip to the NJ Room, located on the Third Floor of the Main Library, is well-worth the effort for anyone who has roots anywhere in Hudson County. The NJ Room Staff welcome them and will do all that we can to make their trip here both pleasurable and enlightening.


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Mami confessions: I don't know if my son's dad is my ex or my husband!
Today's Confession is a really tricky one. This mom says thinking about it actually keeps her up at night--and I can totally see why! The desperate mom says she doesn't know who the real father of her 18-month-old son is ... But the situation is a little more complicated than it seems.
The mom wrote into our popular Confesiones forum asking for some advice on her predicament. So, ladies, let's see if we can help out this mamá with some solid advice!
According to the post she left in our Confesiones forum, the mom was dating a married man and dad of three kids, but she knew that the relationship couldn't be. However, the relationship was at times abusive and her married lover wouldn't let her go, and she even confesses that she almost got a restraining order against him, but hesitated because he was undocumented.
Read more in ¿Qué más?: Mami confessions: I'm in love with my brother-in-law
In the midst of all this drama, she met her current husband. Even though he brought peace to her life and helped her get away from the married and abusive dad, she says:
"The problem is that I was with both of them at the same time [in the beginning], that's why I really don't know who the father of my son is. My ex has continued to hound me, but I don't answer the phone or his messages. He knows that he's possibly the father of my baby, so he wants me to do a DNA test. I don't know what to do, my husband has no idea that I was still with this other man when we first started and I'm not sure what's going to happen if he finds out about this. I'm scared and I don't know what to do!"
I have to say that although I can totally see why this mom feels terrible, not knowing, and possibly having carried the child of her married, abusive ex-boyfriend, she should come out and tell her husband the whole truth. It is worse to have this other man calling her and messaging her--and it could be even WORSE if her husband finds out through him or another way. Besides, the baby could totally be her husband's. Wouldn't she like the peace of mind?
What do you think our desperate mamá should do, ladies? Be sure to answer her at our Confesiones forum! And don't forget to check in to Confesions often, where you can read, respond, and even ask some questions yourself (anonymously, of course!).
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What do you think this mom should do? Tell or stay quiet?
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What do you think this mom should do? Tell or stay quiet?
i think she should get a "sample" of her actual dh and get a DNA test behind his back .
theres no need to tell him unless she uis sure the child isnt his . just the fact that she has kept her situation behind his back for such a long time is reason enough for it to ruin her marriage
and abotu the pos ex ? well , she can always change her phone # and "dissapear "
I think she should tell without telling. Admit her abusive ex is still hounding her. Admit that the ex thinks their baby could be his (and really, he sounds loco; she could just be confused because that domineering ex makes her believe things she knows can't come true or be true!). Re-establish that the beginnings of her current relationship were complicated by this overbearing ex. I'm sure the terrible feeling comes also from not having been able to let the ex go when clearly someone better for her came along, but the reality is she didn't, and now she's letting it eat at her spirit. She should find strength in her relationship with her husband and let her ex know she is married and raising her own child. He needs to concentrate on his own family and leave hers alone. My two centavos.


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Kites to be re-formatted for Hollywood
While the domestic version has been completed, the international version is still being formatted. The two versions were reportedly shot simultaneously in Hindi and English in Las Vegas (Nevada), New Mexico, and Los Angeles (California) in USA. Acclaimed Indo-American statesman Rajan Zed, in a statement in Nevada (USA) today, welcomed Hollywood and Bollywood coming together, sharing resources on various creative and technical aspects of filmmaking.
Since these world"s biggest moviemaking centres controlled the psyche of a large populace of the world, this might result in world coming closer, said Zed. Directed by Filmfare winner Anurag Basu, produced by Rakesh Roshan, with music by Rajesh Roshan, the bi-lingual Salsa dance based 'Kites" is said to be a love story that defies boundaries-cultures-rules-barriers-language.
Proposed to be released next summer worldwide, it stars Filmfare winner Hrithik Roshan, Uruguay born Mexican actress-model MTV winner Barbara Mori, Kangana Ranaut, Nicholas Brown, Kabir Bedi, etc.


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Lusting For Him— She craves his affection.
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|"Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved
the church and gave Himself for her, that He might sanctify and
cleanse her with the washing of water by the word, that He
might present to Himself a glorious church, not having spot or
wrinkle or any such thing, but that she should be holy and
without blemish..."
Ephesians 5:25-27
The washing by the word is a gentle, loving cleansing of the mind by the power
of Jesus through holy scripture.
The phrase "of water", in this instance, means "of baptism".
I would like to show you how physical baptism and the baptism of our minds
are similar in principle- they both bring transformation to the believer's life.
The bible states that we were "buried with Him through baptism into death",
Romans 6:4. Physical baptism through immersion in water is more than a
public gesture symbolizing our commitment to Jesus, it is a spiritual washing
that frees us from the dominion of our sin nature through death that we should
no longer be slaves of sin. After we have been buried through baptism into
death with Jesus, crucifying our old man, we are then resurrected with Him;
that is, when we are raised up from the waters of baptism, we are resurrected
into a new life that we are to live to God and to righteousness. Romans 6:5,6
The baptism of our minds through immersion in the water of the word is
meant to free us from spiritual defilement, worldly corruption, and our old, carnal
ways of thinking. This is not a one-time baptism as is the physical baptism, but
rather a process of continual internal cleansing and purifying that renews and
washes our souls whenever we take in the word.
Both types of baptism are works of liberation performed by God.
These baptisms are meant to free us from specific hindrances that encumber us
when we enter the kingdom of God as believers. If we could not have freedom
from the enslaving power of sin and from the restrictions of a carnal mind, we
would not be able to successfully walk in our new life with
Jesus Christ.
"And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by
the renewing of your mind..." Romans 12:2
The renewing of the mind is a process of mental reconstruction accomplished
by the power of the word as we study it. God's word changes us into a new
kind of life in Christ Jesus as we are progressively healed from our former
corrupt state. This renewal gives place to a transformation that literally
causes our mind and life to come into complete agreement with the mind
and life of Christ.
As we are divinely transformed by the word, we are promoted into a greater
capacity for spiritual truth and an ever-increasing ability to perceive divine
things. Our understanding, feelings, and judgement are brought into the
likeness of Jesus, and as the likeness of Jesus is formed within us, people
will be visually impacted by the manifestation of His life through ours.
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Ice is one of the many beverage components to be reconsidered lately (see: hand-cut blocks at the nation's top bars and restaurants). This summer, though, we'll make our cubes with Vietnamese-style coffee and cream (condensed milk, to be exact). Simply brew dark roast overnight, whisk in condensed milk, and chill. Sweet, frozen caffeine squares? That's what we call nice ice.
Vietnamese Iced Coffee and Iced Coffee CubesRecipe from the Tasting Table Test Kitchen
Yield: 4 iced coffees
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lovely it must have taken you ages.
Welcome to the Quilting Board!
lovely it must have taken you ages.
Very nice!
You did a great job and I would never think this was your first, it looks like a pro did it....love the colors.
Love Love Love Log Cabins thank you for sharing
Your colors look great together. Lovely quilt!
You clearly have a wonderful eye for colour. All your quilts are really beautiful.
You did a great job Mary! That is a beautiful quilt and I just love the soft colors.
I really like that one, too. And your bed is beautiful!


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Advancing health through science, education and medicine
Elyot, Thomas, The Castel of Helthe, New York : Scholars' Facsimiles & Reprints, 1937.
Evacuation of excrements & good habit of the body — hardness of the members, body be more strong to labour, augmentation of heat, more attraction of things to be digested, more quick alteration and better nourishing, all and singular parts of the body be somewhat humected, things hard be mollified, moist things are extenuated and the pores of the body are more opened, by violence of breath, the pores are cleansed and the filth in the body naturally expelled.
Elyot, Thomas, The Boke Named the Governour, London: J.M. Dent & Co., 1907.
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Hi all ~ This is an old pic of Desi that I thought would work well on this layout. It's a lift from Gabi (gabriellep), and let me tell you....it's really hard to lift her layouts! So many intricate details, that honestly, it took me a week to finish it! Definitely a challenge for me ~ but FUN, of course!!!
This is for the February "Scrap Your Faves" Challenge, and I used my January Kit from My Creative Scrapbook. The Butterfly and Roses were created by Angelica - and purchased from her beautiful Etsy Store: http://www.etsy.com/shop/angelicafranssen
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The kicker could decide whether I go to the championships or not. Currently I have Feely (vs Bills). I'm considering Kasay vs Denver. Other kickers available are:
joe nedney @ mia
kris brown vs ten
rian lindell @ nyj
robbie gould vs no
prater @ car
folk @ nyg
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THE NEW ZEALAND WAR. (Timaru Herald, 16 December 1868)
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Check yourself before you wreck yourself
Ever ego surf? The term stems from an ego-centric viewpoint of searching for yourself online (literally). In today's digital and virtual world the need to do it is above and beyond ego. You definitely want to be aware of somebody publishing something about you online, especially if can be harmful to yourself, your family, your company, etc. You also want to be aware of anything that you may have put out there that you didn't think everybody could see.
Go ahead. Google yourself. Anything surprising in the search results?
Publishing on the internet transcends space and time. Just about anyone, from any where, can write something about you at any time. It is next to impossible to keep on top of it all.
Along comes Google Alerts! http://alerts.google.com
All you need is a gmail account. You can setup automated searches that search for your name and it emails the links to you. So, within a couple hours of my posting this blog entry, Google will find my name and send an email to me with a link to this posting.
Beyond ego surfing, I find Alerts useful for searching for many things I am particularly interested in. I setup alerts for:
- every person in my family
- the most common variants of mispelling my name
- case studies on specific technology topics I am interested in
- anything that mentions company names that I am interested in (particularly my own)
Today I read about the Whitewater Technology Park grant. I just setup an alert with those exact words so that I can passively follow any other news about it.
So, if you don't ego surf now, you may want to do it every few months. If you want to do it more frequently (and in a more passive manner), try Google Alerts!
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The school board has opted not to outsource some instructional paraprofessionals, lunchroom aides and substitute teachers, but left open the possibility of using outside staffers as district jobs become available.
An initial $91.9 million budget introduced earlier this month called for outsourcing 46 lunch aides, 27 instructional aides and substitute teachers in a move to save $800,000. The $92.7 million budget approved Wednesday night saved the district positions after school board members heard widespread opposition from employees and parents, many of children in the special education program.
Most members wanted to avoid outsourcing, but were faced with a tough financial reality, said Board of Education President Ardie Walser. The school board was working to be transparent throughout the process, he added.
"It's a necessary evil when we look at what's going on in these economic times," Walser said of possible outsourcing.
The district may still use outsourced staff to fill positions of instructional paraprofessionals and lunchroom aides who leave their district jobs, and for new positions, Business Administrator Robert Finger said. The school board would have to first approve a contract before outsourcing the jobs.
Cutting per diem payments to substitute teachers by $10 a day would save about $45,000, according to Finger. The district would also go from four to two unarmed security guards at Teaneck High School to save $36,000.
A Teaneck police detective is assigned the school and the building had an extensive security system, Finger noted.
THS Principal Dennis Heck was consulted on the reduction and said his staff along with the police department's school resource officer would be adequate, Finger said. More guards, who are not district employees, could be added if needed.
A reduction in administrative positions would save $50,000 while the district planned to save another $30,000 by opting not to replace a technology department van, he said.
Courtesy busing would also be cut, with the mileage requirement increased from .9 miles to 1.3 miles at a savings of $100,000, Finger said. Another $95,000 would be saved by using fewer buses to transport non-public school students.
Other changes to the budget included $260,000 to purchase computers required for students to take online tests starting in the 2014-2015 school year. A math enrichment program, called GoMath!, will also be expanded, along with new textbooks and professional development.
Under the budget, the school tax would increase $91.42 on the average assessed township home. Teaneck's revised budget reflects a 1.5 percent increase.
Board of Education member Sebastian Rodriguez pointed to new programs in the budget that would benefit district students.
"I said before this budget is not only about cutbacks, or reductions or outsourcing," Rodriguez said. "It's also about adding much needed educational initiatives that we have been postponing for three or four years."


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Big news this week in the footy world, with Travis Tuck having an incident and in so receiving his 3rd strike under the AFL Drugs Policy. It is also revealed that he is suffering from depression and this is the root of his drug issues. As someone with personal experience in the area of depression/mental health, I discuss my feelings on the issues. Including:
- What happened from a news prospective with this issue coming to the surface
- Little info about depression
- AFL and the drug policy. I appluad that it is a Health policy and not a punishment policy
- Look at the issues raised by the Hawks and Mick Malthouse in regards to the clubs wanting to know earlier
- a personal message to Care for the Carers!
If you or a love one suffers from depression or you feel you might or that they might, please seek help.
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He apparently didnt meet the "reasonable man" expectation of the jury that tried him and it cost him 40 years of his life for being stupid.
Oh well.
This is a discussion on Careful about your language and running your mouth within the Carry & Defensive Scenarios forums, part of the Defensive Carry Discussions category; On 20/20 or some such show there was a guy who, after calling the police to no avail, decided to confront neighbors when their karaoke/birthday ...
On 20/20 or some such show there was a guy who, after calling the police to no avail, decided to confront neighbors when their karaoke/birthday party went too late. He regularly carried a gun and spare mag and did so when he walked down the street. When he got there he had the police on the line and video rolling, and confronted the neighbors as planned. It was a party so there were a quite a few adults there. As he confronted the homeowner, other adults came forward as well (but were spread out) - at one point there were about 15 adult partiers in the vid. The complainant repeatedly stated "Get back, I am in fear for my life. I can stand my ground". One idiot actually started towards him and was shot. Two more tried to subdue the shooter and were also shot. The shooter claimed that he mistook a flashlight in the homeowner's belt for a weapon.
I think the guy that initially was shot was an idiot for going toward the shooter. I think the shooter was mistakenly thinking that the mere presence of other people amounted to disparity of force.
The prosecutors jumped all over the specific verbiage he used "I'm in fear for my life" and "I can stand my ground" - saying it was contrived to exactly fit with TX law. They brought in witnesses that testified about him giving advice to others about claiming such giving a person justification for lethal force and also shooting a neighborhood dog that got into his yard - apparently the neighbors didn't think he was right in the head.
He's now serving 40 yrs. I agree with the verdict, from what was presented.
Be careful of advice you give and the steps you take/when you take them if you ever find yourself in a defensive encounter.
He apparently didnt meet the "reasonable man" expectation of the jury that tried him and it cost him 40 years of his life for being stupid.
Oh well.
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Yes, it has been discussed before. I agree with the verdict. He thought the stand your ground law was a license to play cop and confront the partiers (on THEIR property, not his). His verbiage right before he took his first shot was damning evidence, I'm sure.
Aside from the mistakes the guy made, I'm going to guess it was a booze-fueled birthday party?
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The man is an idiot. Stand your ground laws are a great thing, however they don't give you the right to initiate a confrontation, especially one where you leave your property and go to another to start it.
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Yeah...this story has been discussed to death already....the man Di not meet the criteria for stand your ground law.
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This man is going to prison for a long time.
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Going to another's property specifically to confront folks, then claiming SYG. Hm, that's a novel defense. Worse, witnessed by a dozen people not in agreement with his take on things. Bad juju, all the way around.
Unknown what was specifically said, by whom, with what timing in the sequence leading directly up to his feeling a deadly threat (if it was in fact a deadly one). But it gets awfully hard to claim lily-white intentions when all that's stacked up against a person.
Good example of what not to do.
Perhaps next time he'll call the neighbor on the phone. Doesn't have the phone number? Perhaps next time he'll first take the time to get to know his neighbor. That might well have helped quite a bit, here.
Ah, well. What a world. Full of all sorts of good examples and interesting situations.
Your best weapon is your brain. Don't leave home without it.
Thoughts: Justifiable self defense (A.O.J.).
Explain: How does disarming victims reduce the number of victims?
Reason over Force: Why the Gun is Civilization (Marko Kloos).
The guy got exactly what he was looking for, at least short term. Now, he has the long term to contemplate the consequences of his actions.
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I've always felt the suggested, "Officer, I was in fear for my life" was simply too contrived. If I have to shoot, my response will be along the line of, "That @#!**#@ tried to kill me!" I think a cop on the scene could identify with that more quickly.
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Yes we have heard of the initial incident, where the man shot and killed was a FF of some sort I believe, but this is the first I heard of the outcome.
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In all the day to day media coverage of City Hall and municipal government, everyone is aware that current NYC Comptroller John Liu will be running for Mayor in the 2013 Democratic Party primary. When it comes to discussing who might succeed current NYC Comptroller John Liu, there are a number of Democrats whose names come up. They include, but are not limited to, current NYC Council Finance Committee Chairperson Dominick Reccia, former Brooklyn NYC Councilmember David Yassky, former Queens NYC Councilmembers David Weprin and Melinda Katz (the latter three losing the September 2011 Democratic Party Primary to John Lui) along with a number of State Assembly and State Senate members who could toss their respective hats in the ring. Members of the New York State legislature stand for election on even numbered years. Even if running and losing, they still get to continue holding their current public office. You never read or hear about any potential Republican candidates interested in running. I wonder why? The last effective GOP challenger for NYC Comptroller was businessperson Richard Bernstein, who ran with former Mayor Ed Koch in 1981. This also applies to former Brooklyn Democratic Assemblymember Jules Polenetsky who ran for Public Advocate with former Mayor Rudy Giuliani in 1997. The last Republican NYC Council President Sanford Garelick won in 1969. The last Republican NYC Comptroller was Joseph D. McGoldrick who served from 1938 to 1945.
NYC Council Finance Committee Chairperson Dominick Reccia, based upon recent history, has a difficult task ahead should he desire to run for NYC Comptroller. Past NYC Council Finance Committee Chairperson Herb Berman from Brooklyn lost to Bill Thompson (1993) and David Weprin from Queens lost to John Liu (2001) in their respective Democratic Party primaries.
Democrats are going to support one of their own to end the GOP's 20-year control of City Hall. The result will be one party control of all three citywide offices along with the City Council. This is a recipe for a return to municipal corruption.
Those who assisted Bloomberg in 2009 by actually endorsing fellow Democrat Bill Thompson for mayor and then sitting on their hands and going through the motions by nominally campaigning for him will not do the same in 2013. Yesterday's old friends of Bloomberg have become strangers, having no incentive to help him groom a successor.
Democrats will all rally around their own party's nominee for mayor in 2013. They want a friend in City Hall when running for re-election in 2014.
Bloomberg abandoned the Republican Party whose ballot line he "rented" for convenience in winning a third term. He has continued his past track record of doing little to help finance and run serious Republican challengers against incumbent Democrats.
Bloomberg's 2009 reelection strategy was deliberate in not spending any significant time campaigning or fundraising for GOP challengers. He didn't want to increase turnout of registered Democrats or offend incumbent Democrat Party public officials. As a result, he has virtually no GOP allies or minor league bench in City Hall to develop candidates for Mayor, City Comptroller or Public Advocate in 2013.


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A microtuner or microtonal tuner is an electronic device or software program designed to modify and test the tuning of musical instruments (in particular synthesizers) with microtonal precision, allowing for the design and construction of microtonal scales and just intonation scales, and for tuning intervals that may differ from those of common Western equal temperament. The term also indicates a high-precision mechanical tuning device found on some vintage Conn brand brass and reed instruments (mostly cornets and alto saxophones). These were first introduced with their 1918 catalog and manufactured until about 1954. Such devices were also offered with some vintage saxophones manufactured in Europe by Beaugnier, Dolnet, Hüller, Keilwerth and other famous makers in the same period.
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- Microtonal music
- MIDI Tuning Standard
- Musical tuning
- Scala (program)
- Tune Smithy
- Tuner (disambiguation)
- Tuning (disambiguation)
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Software microtuners and other microtonal music software[edit]
- Relayer (Windows, Mac)
- alt-tuner midi plug-in (Windows, Mac, Linux)
- The World Music Menu by Stephen Nachmanovitch
- Echelles et Modes, an educational IRCAM software (Mac & PC)
- L'il Miss' Scale Oven (Mac)
- microtuner Max/MSP object
- Scala (Windows, Linux, Mac)
- Tobybear MicroTuner VST plugin (Windows)
- Tonescape MIDI-based microtonal latticing and composition software (Windows)
- Tune Smithy (Windows)
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So I just got done rewiring a 76 corvette, and everything has gone smoothly until I went to start it. Now mind you; the car ran fine when I parked it at the beginning of summer and the only reason it was being rewired is because I had rewired it before when I was still learning and had a lot of poor craftsmanship. I used a generic painless universal harness. When I turn the key the engine cranks just fine, but i don't appear to have any spark. I checked the voltage on the +coil wire and it reads 12 V. I have the ground on the HEI going to the choke's ground on the carburetor (though I did also try a different ground when I was troubleshooting). From what I can see, everything is working the way it should but I can't see a spark either with the plug or with a socket shoved in the wire boot. So far I have swapped out the ignition module, cap, and coil but nothing has got it to fire. I've now become more certain that it must be my wiring, but I have
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where to look next. An HEI only has 3 wires going to it correct? (tach, coil, ground?) I even checked the +coil wire's voltage as I turned the key to "start" to see if the voltage was cutting out of something, but no dice. Someone please help!
I'm not following you on the choke ground wire. The choke heater is grounded through the choke housing to the carb body, intake, cylinder head, etc. on through to the battery, no ground wire needed. The only wire required at the choke itself is a 12 v current carrying wire.
The ground on the distributor is connected to the coil on one end and the body of the distributor on the other. The rest of the ground pathway is through the dist. body through the clamp and bolt into the engine block, etc. on to the battery eventually.
As for the power supply wire having a splice in it (if that's the case), I would caution you against using the coil power wire to run anything else. The HEI needs full battery current to work at its best.
Be sure there is a male terminal in the center position in the coil cover that mates w/the female 3-wire connecter/pigtail that's attached to the distributor. That's the ground for the coil. The way the ground is made, it can be accidentally left off. It will be either a wire or solid metal conductor running to one of the coil holddown screws. If it's left off, the coil will not be grounded.
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I have had the pleasure of seeing Blair grow up from a sporty high school girl into this incredible woman who has finally met her match. Mike is perfect for her in every way, and you can just tell by the way they look at each other and laugh together that this is true love and that it was meant to be. They share the same interests and it was
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Michelle and Mike's wedding celebration was overflowing with love and laughter. The bride was stunning, the weather was perfect, and the lovely Outing Lodge was a great backdrop for their wedding day. When Mike walked down the aisle to await his bride, the guests broke out in happy applause, and the love was felt by all! Michelle's smile is beautiful and contagious, and the friendships and bonds these two have with each
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Is The Force With Chicago?
Mayor Rahm Emmanuel is making a strong push to have a state-of-the-art George Lucas interactive museum open in Chicago.
The $1 billion dollar philanthropic venture was originally slated to debut in San Francisco but after three dismissed proposals, Chicago has emerged as a potential frontrunner. Previous proposals for the Lucas museum were turned away because the designs were "inappropriate" and "too big."
Lucas is excited that Chicago understands the educational and philanthropic gift that this museum represents. According to Mayor Emmanuel, "it's an incredible science, technology and educational institution. And, as part of our effort to elevate Chicago on the national and international level, it will be a tremendous draw for tourists and other visitors."
The final decision will be up to Lucas himself as the museum will be "completely self-funded" by Lucas.
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Cuomo Looks Upstate for Running Mate
Governor Andrew Cuomo has picked a former congresswoman from western New York to be his lieutenant governor. The announcement of Kathy Hochul comes as a new poll shows Cuomo continues to face a threat from the left wing of his party.
In a video message to delegates at the Democratic State Party convention on Long Island, Cuomo called Hochul a person "who knows the needs of Upstate New York" and "the particular needs of Western New York."
Hochul, also on the video, then talked up Buffalo and credited Cuomo.
"In my home town of Buffalo, we have seen an economic recovery that many politicians promised, but only Governor Cuomo was able to deliver," Hochul said.
Cuomo lost the Buffalo region in 2010. The choice of Hochul is expected to help him there and appeal to women statewide.
A Quinnipiac University poll finds the incumbent governor continues to face challenges pleasing the more progressive wing of his party. The poll shows while Cuomo is still nearly 30 points ahead of his Republican opponent Rob Astorino, a candidate running to the left of the incumbent governor would get 22 percent of the vote, if the election were held today.
New York's Republican Party held its convention last week, nominating Astorino and Chemung County Sheriff Christopher Moss as his running mate.
Governor Cuomo will be officially nominated on Thursday. New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio is scheduled to deliver the nominating speech.


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July 19: We stayed at the Hotel Weston (i.e., Bob's house), pleasant as always. Slow getting out of town, picking up some gear. Picking up some sandwiches. Watching the endless rain coming down and feeling sorry for everyone who is at Pitchfork today. What can we do -- we're playing in Detroit tonight.
Well, there's one thing you can say about Michigan -- it's one helluva lot flatter than Massachusetts. AND I was able to pick up a few 6-packs of Michigan's fabled Bell's brewery: one of the best in the U.S.
The Bohemian National Home. Detroit DIY.Woh. Classic Detroit "alternate" venue, this Bohemian National Home. In an area no one would ever imagine a club would be. Detroit's fall in the '60's left alot of empty buildings. This one has been taken over by very intelligent and astute art-types -- Detroit DIY is another thing altogether. Really interesting. I grew up in Ann Arbor, Michigan, which some people associate with Detroit. However, Ann Arbor is a midwest college town: Detroit is a city that basically burnt itself out -- there is virtually no similarity. However, I've come to love Detroit's tenacity and their much more rugged DIY. Stairway from Dressing Room (door on right) to Ballroom/stage upstairs.Show was quite good, and saw a lot of friends from my earlier days in Ann Arbor. But it was really really hot, no AC in this building, only one fan on my side. By the end I realized I was gettin' that "heat stroke" vibe. Excessive heat fucks me up. Maybe my ancestors were all from above the arctic circle, I don't know. But all in all, a really fun time. Always glad to make it to Detroit, where people really appreciate it. They went out of their way to see we were happy.July 20: Now we're in the Detroit airport ready to fly to Chicago then to Boston. I got through the "strip zone" without taking my sandals off at Logan, but they nailed me here. (Probably the velcro on them could be used to attach itself to the pilot's pants and drag him off his captain's bench). Coupla nice nights of rock, overall. Can't wait for a coupla nights of nice sleep.


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In a recent report for FOX Sports, Ken Rosenthal said the Padres are interested in trading both SS Jason Bartlett and 2B Orlando Hudson this winter, and Dan Hayes of the North County Times says the Padres think they'll have an easier time dealing Bartlett due to his contract. Bartlett, 32, signed a two year, $11 million contract extension with a $5.5 million club option for 2013 last January. He hit .245 with a .308 on-base percentage with two home runs and 40 RBI. He's a career .274 hitter over eight big league seasons with the Twins, Rays, and Padres. Hudson, who will be 34 in December, signed a two year, $11.5 million contract with the Padres last December. The Padres hold an $8 million club option on Hudson with a $2 million buyout. He hit .246 with a .329 on-base percentage with seven home runs and 43 RBI in 119 games. Michael Baron: Bartlett could be viewed as a possibility if Reyes doesn't return this winter, but when evaluating the value and performance of either of these ...
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AIG: Was It Right About Maiden Lane?
Somewhere, Robert Benmosche is probably saying "I told you so."
The Fed's dump this week of subprime-mortgage bonds formerly belonging to AIG , of which Mr. Benmosche is the CEO, has led to a selloff in risky credit products, Serena Ng and Matt Wirz reported this morning (Bloomberg had its own story on it).
AIG, you might recall, earlier this year offered the Fed $15.7 billion to buy back these old bonds. AIG got a little peeved when the Fed rejected that offer in favor of selling them on the open market.
Now there are doubts about how well the Fed has timed its sales and whether it will be able to get as much for the bonds as AIG was offering. According to Serena:
One senior mortgage trader notes that if AIG bought the whole Maiden Lane II portfolio today, it would pay 25% less than what the insurer originally offered, because market prices have fallen so much.
There were also other banks that were once willing to buy the entire portfolio in one fell swoop, maybe paying more than AIG.
And longstanding worries that the Fed's sales would disrupt the market have come true in spades, with the turmoil spilling over into junk bonds and other credit corners.
Thing is, though, the Fed really didn't have a choice. Had it just sold the bonds back to AIG without a competitive bidding process, there would have been howls of outrage that the government was kowtowing to a company at the center of the financial crisis. (Here's the New York Fed's explanation.)
Still, it's another example of how stuff you do to rescue the economy one day can come back to bite you in unforeseen ways down the road.


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TTaana Baana New Spring/Summer Dresses For Women-2013– vol -2 was revealed just now. Like Taana Baana summer collection 2013 and its other collections, this collection also has embroidered clothes for women. Mostly the shirts are embroidered and are accompanied by matching dupattas and trousers. However, one or two clothes in Taana Baana summer collection 2013 have embroidered dupatta also.Women in Pakistan were struggling too much in past few decades and majority was unable to get their desires fulfil. But now fortunately things have been changed quite a well. though not everywhere in the country but improvements have been made in past few years and now the ladies are confident to make their wish true especially regarding the clothing and beauty stuff.
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The Purple speaker: an $18, 8" fullrange!
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I'm excited to introduce a brand new, one time offering from Wild Burro Audio, The Purple Speaker. These are brand new speakers from my normal US factory, made to the same standards as the Betsy and BetsyK. They have a paper cone, foam surround, steel basket and a 10oz magnet. The Qts is high enough to work on an OB, but due to the different suspension, the compliance is low enough that boxes can be reasonably sized! These specs are about as close as you can get to an all-around fullranger.
In addition, I thought I'd add another interesting wrinkle. As they are, no whizzer or dustcap is installed. I have noticed that folks often like to mess with the whizzer and/or bottom of the cone, be it the 99 cent tweak or the fancy stuff that Rethm does to Lowthers. So, with each speaker you get three different whizzers! The smallest is the same one used on the Betsy. The other two might look familiar to followers of other US made fullrangers. It only takes a minute to glue them on, but having them uninstalled makes it very easy to modify them prior to installation. The large whizzer begs to be cut to a more interesting profile. Think of the possibilities for ENaBLing! Of course, you can also cut one down to make only a dustcap and have a widebander.
Of course, the best news is the price! I got 'em cheap, so you do too. The intro price is $18 each, $36 for a pair. I've already spent quite a few hours listening to them in my open baffle test mules, and I think you'll be as pleased as I am!
I've got one batch of these, and I'm hoping to keep quite a few pairs for myself. So, don't delay! Give me a holler and I'll get a pair on your doorstep ASAP.
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The curve shows the speaker as it comes: no whizzer installed. The other pic is the smallest whizzer, the one that is standard on the Betsy/BetsyK. Obviously, this is the one I'm listening to now!
As they are hard to read, here are the T/S specs in print:
Re 6.6 Ohm, Fs 68.5 Hz, Sd 211.2, Md 10.5g
Bl 5.08, Qms, 4.80, Qes .770, Qts .664, Spl 95db
Vas 48.744L, Mms 7.02g
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I see no curves, but at $36, I'll try a pair. How big would a phase plug be for these?
PM sent.
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I am terrible about forgetting attachments. jrenkin, I'll get back to your PM later. I just wanted to correct the omission quickly! I am pretty sure I have some planet10 phase plugs that will fit. If I do, I'd be happy to toss in a pair for you.
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I'm interested in a pair as well. pm sent.
Ok, maybe not the BIB....
If these are 8'' size, i am interested too.
Much interest here! I'll get back to some emails soon, but here is the gist. $13 should cover FedEx to the US. So, for all you US folks, the total is $49 for one pair shipped. You can paypal me at: paul at wild burro audio dot com. I am still waiting for the giant whizzers that appear in the middle of the first bunch of pics. I have the one from the first pic, as well as the one pictured in the baffle. So, if you don't want the big one, I can ship now. Otherwise, it might be a week. Either way, a paypal in my "orders" folder makes you very easy to keep track of!
I'll start getting back to PM's and emails.
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Paul any idea what will be the postage to Greece?
Hey Paul, now this is in my price range.
I'm assuming when you glue the whizzer the change is permanent, so I would like to know what I can expect from each kind. Can you explain the differences?
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The Instagram API In Action: Examples and Tips
Instagram's ever-growing popularity and use, you might be wondering how you can work with this quirky photo app and its API for your brand. Many developers, individuals, and businesses are currently exploring how to take advantage of the possibilities of using Instagram's API. A good way to figure out your own plan is to see how others have found success. Then you can work with a developer to help you implement your ideas – API implementation isn't exactly a DIY project!


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