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No one among Russia fans claimed that Russia is superior. As I go back over the posts, I don't find a single one alleging that Russia is Number 1. This is a "what have you done for me lately" World, and superiority is in the here and now. Canada has a chance to demonstrate to demonstrate superiority by going undefeated in Ufa, and winning each game by a large margin (6 or 7 goals). Merely winning and superiority are radically different concepts. If Canada wins the Gold Medal game by one goal, they have failed to demonstrate superiority.
Do I think Canada is a better hockey country than Russia, Yes, but not by as wide of a margin as many like to think.
Now that that is out of the way, I wasn't disputing anything about Russia/Canada hockey superiority. It was purely disproving your "facts" You stated that Canada had a core group of players over the entire SSS with a few outliers.
Nor did the CHL field six completely different teams for all 6 games. They had their core players that we see time and again, and then a few outliers who were getting auditions.
And that Russia used different players in all 6 games.
Were you aware that Russia used different players in all 6 games of the SSS?
Which also isn't true. The numbers are pretty clear cut.
Now if we want to get into who is superior... to your last comment, what if Russia wins by 1 goal? Superiority or no?
In my books there is always 1 top dog, and that is the team that wins the most. And over the past 20 years, there has been one country to prove this time and time again on the biggest stages.
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Following his success in Snow White, Sneezy was signed up as a spokesperson for Claritin. The multi-year deal ended up litigation when he was unable to stop sneezing.
He travelled to China, where he hosted a short-lived radio program called Ah-Choo.
In 1940, he collapsed on set during filming of the ill-fated indy production Back To The Mines: Sneezy; The Early Years. He was unable to continue production.
After suffering another near-fatal seizure at a 1941 Christmas party at the Walt Disney Studios, Sneezy was admitted to Johns Hopkins for extensive testing.
He was diagnosed with Huephenism, a rare allergy to coloured pencils and paints.
Limited for health reasons to black and white work, Sneezy turned to daily newspaper comic strips, where he appeared in two Tracy series as the villain Floppy Hat. The character met with little success and was dropped.
In 1944, he made a brief appearance as a newborn sasquatch in the Mark Trail strip.
Destitute, Sneezy retired to his home in White Plains, NY. He published his autobiography, 'If I'd Only Had a Penny For Every Gesundheit' , in 1950.
With his small book earnings, Sneezy sought to change his image. He became a steroid user and had multiple unsuccessful plastic surgeries on his nose, which had become inflamed and grotesquely swollen.
In the late 1970's, he bumped into cartoonist Berkely Breathed at an AA meeting. The chance encounter would save Sneezy's life.
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The Bloomsbury Review, Jeff Metcalf
There is nothing subtle about Robert Van Wagoner's first novel, Dancing Naked, nothing at all. Released in October by Signature Press, a small publishing house known and respected for its promotion of scholarly work critical of Mormon history, the novel has already caused a great deal of local controversy. Van Wagoner, himself a former Mormon missionary and practicing Mormon, was warned by church authorities that, because of the complaints they'd received from church members attending his reading, they would be watching him closely. Van Wagoner, who now resides in Concrete, Washington, with his wife and two children, finds the criticism predictable but bristles at the notion that this work is anti-Mormon. Such attacks on Dancing Naked have only benefited Signature Press' advance sales. It is, in many ways, the best publicity Van Wagoner could hope for, coming from a state that has often lost talented Mormon fiction writers to just such nonsense.
Moving between Salt Lake City, Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Maine and spanning the history of two families, Dancing Naked explores the unraveling of the Walker family as they seek to recover from the suicide of 15-year-old Blake. Layers of guilt, self-doubt, importance, loathing, anger, and familial abuse float to the surface of the novel and threaten to strangle the protagonist, Terry Walker, a mathematics professor at the University of Utah.
After Walker discovers his son's body hanging form a shower curtain rod, head covered by a plastic bag, and pornographic pictures of naked men splayed on the bathroom floor, his normally ordered mathematical world dissolves into chaos. As a self-avowed homophobe, Walker finds Blake's death an almost unbearable cross to carry. Seeking answers in his own dysfunctional landscape, he floats form present to past, trying to make sense, hoping to unlock the mystery of his son's demise. To do so will uproot the protagonist from a world he believes to be balanced and comfortable and plunge him deeply into a self-examination of profound significance. Terry Walker will see things he'd prefer not to, hear whisperings about his son that disgust him, and engage in behavior dangerous to himself and his family. Survival, for him, depends greatly on the ability to forgive and to accept the cards he has been dealt.
Walker's journey through the novel is dark and painful, placing at risk all that is holy and sacred to him. To confront his son's demons, he must revisit the untidy questions of his past. His relationship with his own father, a respected Mormon elder, was brutish, abusive, and condescending. Never able to fully please his father as a child, Terry finally rejected the Mormon faith, the expectation that he would fulfill his parents' dream to go on a Mormon mission, and committed the most unpardonable of all sins, marriage outside the faith. Repugnant as it was to his father, Terry's mother, a revisionist of her own life, accepted her son's choices while trying to justify and dismiss her husband's cold, methodic alienation.
It is in the character of the protagonist's wife, Rayne Walker, that hope and possibility exist. Spunky, humorous, and sarcastic, Rayne, a public high school teacher, is uncompromising in her love for her family and husband. Throughout Dancing Naked, Rayne is a strong character, sympathetic and supporting on all fronts. Early in their relationship, she steadfastly refuses to allow Terry to compromise his dreams. Her strength in dealing with his family confounds and stimulates Terry. In a direct confrontation with Terry's father, Rayne finds the words Terry can't. She does not cower, verbally defending herself while Terry watches from the wings, mute and impotent. Rayne knows who she is, understands her son's journey into his own private hell, and above all remains convinced that her husband will come to a greater understanding of himself through this tragedy. Even so, the complexity of Terry's depression and his spiraling, reckless decline into a psychologically dark abyss push Rayne to the boundaries of her own limitations.
Ultimately, Terry Walker's inability to accept and understand his own shortcomings exacts a heavy price on the family nucleus. Terry, an unsympathetic character, hovers on the brink of self-destruction and insanity, and his own salvation hinges on a single dark act. Coming full-circle, the reader is compelled to roll the dice with Van Wagoner's protagonist, dice shaved and loaded with the weight of guilt.
Van Wagoner is a juggler of sorts—tossing universal themes into the air and managing, with a trained eye, to keep his focus on the central issues of the novel. Not once, in the arc of the novel, does he falter. We may not want to face these issues in our own lives, to acknowledge, as Tolstoy did, that all families are dysfunctional. But we are compelled to follow Walker's nightmarish journey. There is no turning back. Like passing a horrible roadside accident, Dancing Naked forces us to take a look. We do it because we can't help ourselves. We are curious—curious to see if anybody survived. In that moment we are reminded that life is capricious and reckless, that horrible things happen to good people. It isn't fair and it makes no sense. And it is this equation that Terry Walker, brilliant mathematician and loving father, finds unfactorble in his own life. Dancing Naked is an ambitious first novel, one that demands the reader be fully armed and prepared to do battle with unimaginable grief. There is no safety net to help the audience negotiate the tightrope of this well-crafted novel. It is not for the faint of heart. Dancing Naked is dense and loaded with serious issues. At times it cuts to the bone, laying open wounds that are difficult to watch heal. Dangerous and edgy, it is brutally honest in its exploration of the human spirit.
The Salt Lake Tribune, Joan O'Brien
The first drafts of Dancing Naked contained no mention of Mormons, even though the novel is set in Salt Lake City. Then author Robert Hodgson Van Wagoner realized his book needed a "firmer grounding in place." So he added details from the LDS culture to texture the writing.
The result is a book that one reviewer calls "the first great Mormon novel." And Dancing Naked's grounding in place is so firm now that the novel has been named the 1999 Utah Book of the Year, an award recognizing "the book judged to best represent the literary culture of the state." Van Wagoner will receive the award, the first presented by the newly established Utah Center for the Book, at a ceremony tonight.
Van Wagoner is flattered and grateful for the praise his book is attracting, but he hopes readers will see beyond the local color and recognize the universality of the issues—gay rights, prejudice, sexual repression and family dysfunction—that are addressed in Dancing Naked.
"It's not a niche-able novel," Van Wagoner said in a telephone interview from Washington State, where he, his wife and two sons moved last summer from Utah. "I worked hard to make sure that I was dealing with universal issues. . .Many of the issues are not Mormon-specific. It's just that that is the environment I was born and raised in and that is what I know about."
Dancing Naked is the story of University of Utah mathematics professor Terry Walker, a character Van Wagoner describes as often unsympathetic, but basically good. When his 15-year-old son dies, Walker is forced to confront his past, his homophobia and his unwitting role in Blake's death.
Van Wagoner, 35, spent nine years finessing Dancing Naked, revising his manuscript some 50 times. He likens the process to "spending all day threading needles. By the end of it you are about ready to scream and stick one in your temple."
Yet despite the difficulty and tedium, Van Wagoner was and is compelled to write. He is completing a collection of short stories and a novella as well as another novel, this one a dark comedy titled "The Hummerfest Fraternity."
Van Wagoner's careful, controlled writing process has yielded "a brilliant book" in Dancing Naked, says Guy Lebeda, literary coordinator for the Utah Arts Council and one of the founders of the Utah Center for the Book.
"This is a guy who treats a novel as if it were a poem. Every pause, every piece of punctuation, every word choice has been agonized over and not just once," Lebeda says. "He is really dedicated to the craft. I have never known anyone so painstaking."
Van Wagoner is not one of those authors who rhapsodizes about the joys of writing. It is hard work.
"I don't write because I love it, although some of the best moments of my life occurred while I was writing," says Van Wagoner. "I am compelled to write simply by whatever curse of God or nature. It's what I do."
Van Wagoner graduated from Weber State University with degrees in English and Psychology. After graduation, he had no idea what he would do for a living but whatever profession he chose, he was certain it would entail writing. He discussed it with his wife, Cheri, and they decided he should focus on a writing career while she focused on her teaching career. That was 12 years ago.
Not surprisingly, given his approach to the writing craft, Van Wagoner had difficulty letting go of Dancing Naked. After turning it over to the publisher, Salt Lake-based Signature Books, he even suffered something akin to post-partum depression.
Compounding his depression and anxiety was knowing he had written a character-based novel with a main character readers would not like. But he has found that "Terry is resonating with readers."
"There is an authenticity to Terry and to the circumstance that people recognize in their own lives—but don't really want to," Van Wagoner says. "It's kind of an uncovering of the deep, dark secrets. People harbor prejudices that often are not even acceptable to themselves."
Van Wagoner did not set out to write about prejudice against gays. He wanted to explore how a man like Terry Walker could survive in a world saddled with all his fears and anxieties. The homophobia was "an ingredient" in the larger drama.
"Gay rights, the attitudes and activities of groups for and against, represent the next great civil rights struggle, it seem to me," he says. "Homophobia is a powerful metaphor; it triggers issues of family dynamics that I wanted to explore."
Van Wagoner was well into Dancing Naked when Utah took center stage on the gay-rights issue in 1996. While he was at work painting a picture of a teenager struggling with his sexual identity, students at East High School were battling for the right to keep their club, the Gay-Straight Alliance, where young gays could find community and a haven. A more recent controversy is opposition of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to gay marriage.
Van Wagoner was raised LDS in Ogden, served a mission to Norway and married in the temple. He and his wife left the church a few years ago, and left the state a few months ago. But the religion and the culture cannot help but continue to color Van Wagoner's writing. His next novel, "The Hammerfest Fraternity," is about LDS missionaries serving in a Norwegian town in the Arctic Circle.
It hasn't even been published yet, but his comedic novel has already drawn the ire of church officials. After one of his readings from the manuscript, Van Wagoner was summoned to a meeting with a stake president. Although he had not read any of the manuscript, the stake president deemed it offensive and warned Van Wagoner to stop writing such works or face excommunication.
That stake president may be reassured that Van Wagoner is not seeking to write Mormon books. He does not want to write "the first great Mormon novel." He just wants to write serious Mormon literature.
"I wrote Dancing Naked for people who love literature," he says. "I know there's been a debate for a long time about whether there could ever be a great Mormon novel, and if so, what kind of work would it be. . .I've just tried to keep my head down and keep an eye on the artistic goal, which is to write literature, plain and simple."
Publishers Weekly, Judy Quinn
You wouldn't think a novel about gay issues, with the title Dancing Naked, would sell well in Utah, the key state for the conservative Mormon community, which lately has been in the news for opposition to same-sex marriage initiatives.
But that's been the case for the first novel by 35-year-old, Mormon-raised and now Washington State resident Robert Hodgson Van Wagoner. His book tells of a Mormon professor's confrontation of his past and his homophobia, following the "dancing naked" death of his 15-year-old son, who accidentally hangs himself during an autoerotic act.
The book is currently the #1 title in the state on Amazon.com and a strong seller at the state's chain stores as well as indies (it's the #2 seller, just behind Harry Potter books, at Salt Lake City's Sam Weller Books). Van Wagoner won a Utah Arts Council Publication Prize for his book, giving his publisher $5000 toward publication, and late last year Dancing Naked was named the 1999 Utah Book of the Year, the first award presented by the newly established Utah Center for the Book.
Thanks to this award attention and growing sales, Salt Lake-based small press Signature Books, which took the book after larger trade houses passed, just went back to press for 1,000 more copies, doubling the October 1999 release's initial 1,000-copy outlay.
Signature publicist Ron Priddis told PW that sales velocity of Dancing Naked is looking like that of 1990 Signature fiction hit and backlist performer The Backslider, Levi S. Peterson's saga about a sexually frustrated Mormon cowboy, which has sold 20,000 copies to date.
Both books reflect Signature's mission, to provide both fiction and nonfiction that address Mormon cultural issues and life more critically than might meet the approval of the official Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Priddis noted that the Church-affiliated Deseret Book store chain is not carrying Dancing Naked. Contacted by PW, Deseret vice-president of retail Roger Toone confirmed that the chain indeed did not stock the book, although he said it would be special-ordered for any interested customers. "We're not banning the book by any means, but we don't think it has great sales potential," he said.
But apparently there are more than enough liberal Mormons in Utah, as well as non-Mormons interested in their state's dominant religion, to support Signature's books. Online book selling particularly benefits from what might be surreptitious buys.
"Signature does a good job of giving a voice to writers who necessarily wouldn't get one in the peculiar environment we live in," said Barbara Hoagland, co-owner of the Salt Lake City indie bookstore King's English. She's already sold about 100 copies of the book, "quite a lot for a local author. Much of that's because of the wonderful reviews it has received. And, of course, being a bit controversial helps, too."
The Salt Lake Tribune began the buzz by praising the book as "a great Mormon novel" as well as one of the best books of the year. "It explores middle-class American culture through a prism of Mormon sexual misunderstandings," praised the newspaper.
Literary agent Jenny Bent, of Washington, D.C.-based Graybill & English, is now shopping paperback rights to the novel on behalf of Signature. The growing out-of-state reviews of the book confirm the book's potential appeal to all readers, not just those in Utah: "Dangerous and edgy, it is brutally honest in its exploration of the human spirit," praised the Bloomsbury Review.
Bent is also looking for a new home for a collection of short stories by Van Wagoner. And there's another Van Wagoner novel to come that's already making the Mormon church none too happy. The Salt Lake Tribune recently reported that a church official expressed displeasure to Van Wagoner after he heard about a reading of an early draft of "The Hammerfest Fraternity," which centers around Latter-day Saint missionaries serving, as Van Wagoner did, in a Norwegian town in the Arctic Circle. The problem? It seems Van Wagoner has his missionaries "baptize" dead people to meet an annual conversion quota.
It's all part of Van Wagoner's intended comic tone, but may end up creating more of the controversy that is fueling sales of his current book.
The Salt Lake Tribune, Martin Naparsteck
Robert Hodgson Van Wagoner has written the first great Mormon novel, Dancing Naked. The novel, Van Wagoner's first, achieves greatness by exploring universal themes through the specifics of the Mormon experience.
One day Terry Walker, a mathematics professor at the University of Utah, returns home to find his 15-year-old son, Blake, dead, hanging by a belt from the curtain rod of an upstairs bathroom. The death is ruled accidental, because near Blake were pictures of men engaged in homosexual acts, and investigators believe the boy was engaged in a homoerotic act. Blake's death forces Terry to explore his own past, a past of hatred of homosexuals fostered by his father's macho insistence that Terry be manly, with manliness defined by Mormon traditions.
Within this framework, Van Wagoner takes Walker deeper and deeper into his own psyche, using sometimes-lyric language as the vehicle, exposing Walker's fears, hatreds, doubts, and emotional incompetencies so thoroughly that the protagonist, and the reader, is left drained but refreshed. Like all great literature, Dancing Naked reaches heights by dwelling in depths.
Several recurring metaphors enhance the feel. Terry suffers from an inability to move his bowels easily, causing him physical and emotional pain; he is, thus, anal retentive both psychologically and physically, and the physical part is long misdiagnosed by doctors, just as the psychological part is misdiagnosed by the society that nurtured Terry. Terry's father almost lets his son drown during a Boy Scout exercise, and Terry decades later has his son swim in the same lake, emphasizing both the genetic nature of experience and the sense that we cannot keep afloat in life within parental guidance. A young Terry punches his father in the chest, that is, in the heart. And, in the most effective metaphor, the one that explains the title, Terry's wife Rayne dances naked for him, exposing her sexuality in a way Terry himself is incapable of doing, denying his natural yearnings, just as his homophobia forced his son to deny his.
Terry comes to the slow and painful realization that just as his own father did so much psychic harm to him, so too must he be responsible for his son's death. Maybe Blake's death was not accidental, maybe he did intend to kill himself, and maybe his suicide would never have happened had Terry been more accepting.
The novel is filled with lies. Terry's father lies about his experiences in World War II; Terry's best friend, Avory, lies about his sexual nature; Terry's mother lies about Terry's father; and, overarching the whole novel, the culture of Utah lies to everyone who is part of it about our basic natures, our need to accept our sexualities as they are.
No other Mormon writer, with the exception of Levi Peterson, has explored the nature of sexuality within the Mormon culture so effectively, with such a sense of honesty, a sense that the author is willing to confront the most uncomfortable truths. Peterson's best works, including the novel Aspen Marooney, are gentle and accepting critiques of the same culture Van Wagoner pillories. Peterson's novels and stories are the whisperings of a loving father, while Van Wagoner's are the shouts of the angry son. It is the shouting that gives Dancing Naked its power, its drive, that instills in the reader a compulsion to go on. There is not one single character in Dancing Naked to like, none are amiable, but all are human and deserving of our love. It's a literary achievement reminiscent of D.H. Lawrence's Sons and Lovers and Ivan Turgenev's Fathers and Sons. Like Lawrence and Turgenev, Van Wagoner has written a novel of rejection, one that forces the reader, if the reader opens a heart to often unlikable characters, to face some uncomfortable truths: The culture that shaped us is flawed, the values we build upon are made of sliprock, the children we love are not us, the truths we believe in are lies.
If Dancing Naked were merely about a Mormon culture that is sexually repressive, it would be limited. But it is about more than that. It is about how middle class American culture stifles our natural drives. And more than that, it is about how culture, any culture, forces the individual into self-denial. We need to be individuals and we need to be part of something larger than ourselves. Some cultures, including the one in Utah, in Van Wagoner's portrayal, falsely enlarge the second need by stifling the first.
No other Utah writer has painted such an honest, if painful, picture of the state's culture. Honesty and pain, the pillars of great literature. Van Wagoner gives us both.
Irreantum, Christopher K. Bigelow
Outside orthodox Mormon circles, where historical and romantic fiction titles sometimes sell enough copies to make national bestseller lists if such titles were monitored, Robert Van Wagoner's novel titled Dancing Naked is the biggest literary sensation to hit Utah in some time. People are calling Dancing Naked the new Backslider in terms of literary impact, and publisher Signature Books has confirmed that—so far—the novel's sales are on track to match Levi Peterson's 20,000-copy pinnacle of contemporary, serious Mormon literature. For Dancing Naked, Van Wagoner received a $5,000 publication award from the Utah Arts Council and the Utah Book Award from the Utah Center for the Book.
Is the novel worth the attention and praise it has received? After I read the earlier versions of the manuscript's first couple of chapters excerpted in Signature's In Our Lovely Deseret, a recent anthology of Mormon fiction, I predicted the forthcoming novel would be sensationalistic and overwritten. However, after digesting the whole novel I count myself among Van Wagoner's fans. If, as some have argued, a novel's deepest purpose is to seek and portray psychological truth—a relative, humanistic form of truth if there ever was one—then Dancing Naked is a deep novel indeed. Although it contains some Mormon elements, Dancing Naked is not really a Mormon novel—rather, it is a human novel about death, marriage, parenthood, family dynamics, sexuality, and other universal themes. For a young, first-time novelist who worked on his manuscript from approximately ages 25 to 34 (revising it more than 50 times), Van Wagoner is surprisingly convincing in the novel's emotional depth and clarity. I found myself wondering if he had personally experienced death, because the scenes of grief seemed so expertly done. He handles middle-aged marriage, intergenerational conflict, and lifelong friendship equally well.
Written from the point of view of Terry Walker, a mathematics professor in Salt Lake City, the novel traces Terry's struggle to come to terms with his father and son, both deceased and with both of whom he has love-hate relationships and seems tragically mismatched. His father, who we encounter in numerous flashbacks, is a macho Mormon patriarch who emotionally manhandles the confidence-lacking Terry, and Terry goes on to echo that manhandling—with much more tragic results—in raising his own oversensitive son, Blake. After warming up for a few pages, the novel starts with a bang as Terry discovers his son dead of autoerotic asphyxiation in the family bathroom, with homosexual pornography close at hand. Much of the novel's narrative drive comes from Terry's attempts to understand what went wrong with Blake, who, like Terry's father, we come to know through flashbacks of Terry's pained, confused, excruciating interactions with him. Not only does homophobic Terry struggle to come to grips with his son's apparent homosexuality but also with whether Blake's death—which Terry initially assumes is a homicide—was an accident or a suicide.
In the aftermath of Blake's death, as readers agonize with Terry through his vividly detailed remembrances of his father and son, two female characters offer us—and sometimes Terry—psychic relief. Although Terry's widowed mother spent her life enabling his abusive father, Terry is close to her—uncomfortably so as a child—and she becomes a somewhat reliable source of stability. But not as much so as Rayne, Terry's wife, who is the novel's most sympathetic character. In the flashback scenes of their courtship and early marriage, she seems to know how to handle not only Terry's insecurities and neuroses but also his abusive father. However, after Blake's death and especially after Terry realizes that Rayne knew of Blake's homosexuality but didn't tell him, their marriage begins to fall apart.
In a rather obvious but nevertheless effective metaphor, Terry has severe constipation, which doctors are unable to diagnose. In some ways, this novel could be viewed as a colonoscopy of Terry's soul as well as of the family culture that formed him, and it will be about as comfortable for some to read as viewing a video of an internal medical exam. For a novel in which not much—outside of flashbacks—seems to happen between Blake's death and an unexpected climax, the narrative snakes right along, much of it written in present tense, turning potentially discombobulating corners of time and setting quite fluidly, only occasionally pausing to focus on some abstract polyp of Terry's inner state. Much of the novel—both flashback and present action—is grounded in vived scene, description, and dialogue, but occasionally the prose takes on, if not outright purpleness, at least a lavender tone. Although overall it reads fast and clean, the style and occasional rarefied paragraph about Terry's inner state sometimes remind us this is a literary novel.
The novel's powerful climax surprised me and yet seemed inevitable, but the denouncement is perhaps the novel's weakest part, with what felt to me like too much tacked-on healing and resolution. Perhaps Van Wagoner agrees with Barbara Kingsolver, who recently told the New York Times that "no subject is too private for good fiction if it can be made beautiful and enlightening." Dancing Naked adroitly addresses extremely private subject matter, but the last chapter plus the epilogue seem to be Van Wagoner's way of leaving us on an excessively "beautiful and enlightening" note to make up for the overall tone of darkness, confusion, and unhappiness. Comparing the earlier Lovely Deseret excerpt with the novel's final form, I noticed that Van Wagoner—or a Signature editor—considerably toned down the description of the gay pornography found at Blake's death scene. Although the novel retains some explicit elements, I wonder how much was rewritten to avoid alienating more readers than necessary. All things considered, the novel did not make me feel cynical about Van Wagoner's motives until the last pages—and if his motives are to build a literary career and leave readers wanting to come back for more, I don't fault him beyond letting these motives show in the novel's conclusion.
Now, about the novel's Mormon elements. Terry is an inactive Mormon who, as a young adult, makes his break with both his father and the Church by deciding to not go on a mission and to marry the Catholic Rayne outside the temple. In the novel's present time, Terry hasn't attended church in nearly 20 years. His feelings about God seem to be mixed up with his feelings about his father: "God was of little concern to Terry as long as he didn't report what he saw to Father" (239). I have wondered if Van Wagoner intends Father as a metaphor for the Church, an authoritarian patriarch who seeks to impose a skewed, intolerant morality on others through control and intimidation. Or perhaps it is Terry who is in some way a metaphor for the Church, a man who wants things to be right but does not know how to love because of repression and fear of the unknown, in this case mainly homosexuality. But Dancing Naked is not that easy to peg. I am happy to report that the novel does not have to be read as pro-gay or anti-Mormon, although it is possible to do both if a reader is so predisposed. The real concern of the novel is Terry's psychological journey, not how fiction can be used as propaganda.
Van Wagoner, an Ogden native who graduated from Weber State University with degrees in English and psychology, told the Salt Lake Tribune that initially the novel contained no Mormon elements, but he added some to give it a "firmer grounding in place." If those Mormon elements were stripped out, I believe the novel would still stand. Most other organized religions could have been substituted, or even just American culture in general. The novel is more the anatomy of a family than of a larger culture, though of necessity that culture looms behind the family members. For instance, Father's macho abuses are tied to the Mormon mindset, but they don't necessarily have to be—and the tie may not even be fair or justified. "Many of the issues are not Mormon specific," Van Wagoner said. "It's just that that is the environment I was born and raised in, and that is what I know about." In a similar way, Van Wagoner included homophobia issues in the novel not because of some agenda but because "homophobia is a powerful metaphor; it triggers issues of family dynamics that I wanted to explore."
Mormon elements aside, I find myself wondering if Dancing Naked could have been successfully published by a national press. Writing in the now-defunct Salt Lake Observer, critic Paul Swenson gave some intriguing glimpses of the novel's route to publication: "Dancing Naked was originally placed for publication through an agent with an out-of-state university press, but the deal fell through due to several areas of disagreement. 'It went to the boardroom of several publishing houses, but they were scared of the difficult issues it raises,' Mr. Van Wagoner said. 'The younger editors took it to their boards, but the senior editors didn't want to take risks.'" Kudos to Signature for taking on the novel, which—for better or worse—will only further cement that small, regional house's reputation for edgy, dangerous fiction that doesn't get sold in most LDS bookstores or reach many mainstream readers.
Before Dancing Naked, Van Wagoner had already won considerable acclaim and publication for his short fiction. With this successful first novel, which an agent is reportedly trying to place for publication in paperback, he has made himself a writer to watch. Although he has moved away from Utah, he is undoubtedly delving deeper into Mormonism with his next novel, titled The Hammerfest Fraternity, the story of some Mormon missionaries serving in Norway. It will be interesting to see what additional artistic capacity he displays in his sophomore novel. With plot points such as missionaries baptizing dead people to meet conversion quotas, it sounds more in a comic vein, and due to public readings the manuscript has already attracted the negative attention of Church authorities. Unfortunately, even with the achievement of selling about 2,000 copies of Dancing Naked in a difficult, polarized market, Van Wagoner likely won't be able to make a full-time living from his novels unless he can find either a national audience or a wider Mormon audience—or, ideally, both.


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- Fans of Boca Juniors are called Xeneizes.
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|October 25, 1999
|Hip hop, alternative hip hop, rapcore, pop, dance
|Sölvi Blöndal
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Xeneizes is an album by the Icelandic hip hop group Quarashi, released on October 25, 1999 in Iceland (see 1999 in music). Like Quarashi's self-titled debut album, Xeneizes was a hit in Quarashi's homeland, topping the Icelandic album charts. 6,000 copies of Xeneizes were made, and once again, all 6,000 copies were sold, making Xeneizes the second Quarashi album to go gold in Iceland.
Xeneizes is also notable for being the album that caught the attention of American record labels. After turning down all offers from several United Kingdom record labels, Quarashi was contacted by EMI Music Resources to perform at the Iceland Airwaves Music Festival hosted by EMI in conjunction with Flugleiðir in New York City in the fall of 1999. The group performed two shows to rave reviews. Less than a year later, on August 31, 2000, Quarashi announced that they had signed a six-album deal with Columbia Records, and were now finally going to be able to release their music all over the world.
Xeneizes is named after the nickname given to fans of the Argentine football (soccer) team, Boca Juniors. The album has several South American influenced beats, joining the hip-hop, rock, funk, and techno beats from the previous album. This is said to come from Sölvi Blöndal's trip to South America in 1998, where he became obsessed with the culture, particularly the passion South Americans have for soccer. The trip to South America heavily influenced Blöndal during the making of Xeneizes.
Track listing[edit]
- "Stick 'Em Up" (featuring Omar Swarez) – 3:49
- "Tarfur" – 2:43
- "Punk" (featuring Omar Swarez) – 2:59
- "Jivin' About" – 3:50
- "Brasilian Mongo" [Instrumental] – 3:22
- "Model Citizen" – 3:50
- "Tambourine Cut" – 2:44
- "Xeneizes" – 3:08
- "Mayday" (featuring Úlfur Kolka) – 3:35
- "Surreal Rhyme" – 4:17
- "Show Me What You Can" – 3:12
- "Fuck You Puto" – 3:05
- "Dive In" – 4:00
- "Bless" [Instrumental] – 2:24
Bonus Media on CD
15. Fly To The Sky (Bonus Track)
16. Stay Funky [Instrumental] (Bonus Track)
17. Show Me What You Can [Instrumental] (Bonus Track)
18. Mayday [A Capella] (Bonus Track)
- Hössi Olafsson - Rapper, Singer on "Dive In"
- Steini a.k.a. Stoney - Rapper, Singer on "Jivin' About"
- Sölvi Blöndal - Producer, Drummer, Keyboardist, Percussionist
- DJ Dice - DJ
- Omar Swarez - Rapper
- Úlfur Kolka - Rapper
- Hrannar Ingimarsson - Producer, Engineer, Mixing, Keyboardist
- Gaukur Úlfarsson - Bassist
- Smári "Tarfur" Jósepsson - Guitarist
- Vidar Hákon Gislason - Guitarist
- Sölvi Blöndal once said in an interview that he used to joke with the group that "Stick 'Em Up" (which, according to Sölvi, sounded like something Limp Bizkit would do) would get the group noticed in America. It turned out that "Stick 'Em Up" was the song that got EMI Music Resources attention, and would lead to the group signing with Columbia Records.
- DJ Dice is credited on Xeneizes as the fourth member of Quarashi (as the DJ).
- The Xeneizes CD contains a DVD-ROM link that allows people to visit the official Quarashi website (as it looked in 1999), an a cappella version of "Mayday", instrumental versions of "Jivin' About" and "Show Me What You Can", the music video for "Surreal Rhyme", and two unreleased tracks, "Fly To The Sky" (another song in which Hössi sings), and "Stay Funky" (an instrumental track).
- Omar Swarez officially joined Quarashi shortly after the release of Xeneizes, becoming the third rapper and fourth member of the group.
- There were rumours for some time that Sölvi Blöndal had starred in a South American soap opera during his trip to the continent in 1998. This has neither been confirmed nor denied by Blöndal himself.
- "Mayday" was the first song in Quarashi history that only featured one of the rappers, without the other rapper doing background vocals.
- "Surreal Rhyme" is the only music video that was made for a song on Xeneizes. It was directed by Gaukur Úlfarsson, who played bass for Quarashi during their live performances.
- "Stick 'Em Up" was the first single from Xeneizes, and was released in June 1999.
- "Dive In" looping four-chord piano arpeggios are sampled from a recording of "Claire De Lune" from Debussy's Suite Bergamasque.


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Greetings from South Africa, where the 2010 World Cup is in full swing, and where I've spent the past two weeks following the action and adjusting to life in a new land.
The tournament itself has had its ups and downs, with stingy defending, shoddy refereeing and recently some goal-scoring outbursts.
You've ready about plenty of that stuff over the past two weeks. Now I'm going to tell you about my own experiences through the first two weeks.
It certainly hasn't been boring.
There were some adjustments to be made when I arrived here. The first being driving on the opposite side of the ride. If you had told me before this trip that I would do that, I would have laughed. Necessity has a way of forcing you to adjust, and that's what I did. It took a few days to get the hang of it, but after a while I was cruising around the roads and highways of the greater Johannesburg area with relative ease.
Now, driving isn't without its hazards. As you might have heard, crime is an issue in South Africa, and hijackings are so commonplace that there are actually hijacking warning signs on some roads. It has to be seen to be believed (not hojacking signs, you're on your own to avoid the hojacking):
I haven't let these signs deter me. After all, I've grown up in some tough neighborhoods so I don't scare easy.
Even that upbringing didn't make it any fun when I wound up in the awful position of catching a flat tire on a ride home from a match one night. As if blowing a tire isn't bad enough, doing so on a desolate road in a hijack zone at night can make it downright nerve-wracking.
I kept my cool and did what my instincts told me to do. I kept on driving. Yep, I drove and drove and rattled off what had to be about 30 or more kilometers on a flat tire, and eventually the rim. I left a nice streak on the road near the home I've rented, and the streak remains as a reminder of that crazy night.
If you're wondering just how bad it was, here is a priceless picture of the rim (and what was left of the tire):
For those wondering, I was able to get the car replaced (and managed a free upgrade out of it as well). Long story short, if you come here, pay the extra for the insurance. As you can see, it's worth it.
It isn't all scary stories here. The mood has been festive and match days have been great, both in the stadiums and in the streets. South Africans are really enjoying the tournament, though there has certainly been a drop in enthusiasm after South Africa's loss to Uruguay.
The USA matchdays have been extra special, with the scene at the USA-England match an electric one. The Royal Bafokeng Stadium in Rustenberg was rocking on that night and the electricity I felt before that match was one I hadn't felt since 2002 and USA-South Korea, as well as USA-Mexico.
Here's a shot of the Rustenberg Stadium that night:
I haven't taken a ton of pictures, but when there have been things to shoot, and things that look newsworthy, I've pulled the camera out. I will try to do that more as the trip goes on.
I was able to catch this newsworthy image from the Netherlands-Denmark match:
In case you hadn't heard, these ladies in orange got into a bunch of trouble for what FIFA deemed to be "Ambush Marketing". As you can tell in this picture, security at Soccer City didn't seem too concerned with their outfits, which were later deemed illegal for advertising a beer company that wasn't an official World Cup sponsor (See, I had a feeling something was fishy about their outfits, which is why I took the picture. No, really.).
As for away from the stadiums, there is some beautiful countryside, though the practice of burning the tall grass that lines the highways rather than cutting it can give the whole place a Mad Max-like feel. At times I almost feel like I'm back at home in New Jersey between the American music on the radio, the tons of KFCs and McDonald's, and even the toll booths:
As for the people, they are really nice and I've had no real problems since I've been here.
One of the most fun aspects of covering a World Cup (this is my third) is getting to meet and see reporters from all over the world. Whether it's catching up with writers I've made friends with long ago (like Oliver Kay to Guillem Ballague), to making new friends (like the Slovenian and Norwegian reporters I got to meet and befriend), and meeting writers I admire (such as Martin Samuel of the Daily Mail). There's a real brotherhood feel to covering an event like this. That's even more the case among the American media, where I'm getting to spend time with familiar faces like Yahoo's Martin Rogers, Reuters' Simon Evans, SI's Grant Wahl and Steve Davis and ESPN's Jeff Carlisle and Luke Cyphers, to name a few.
Here are some other random thoughts about the trip thus far:
There was a lot of talk about price gouging and how expensive things would be here. I've found most things to be downright cheap. Now renting a car or finding a place to stay will cost you a bunch during the World Cup, but for things like meals and souvenirs, the dollar still goes a long way. One thing to note though is that South Africans DO NOT take American money. They can't move it so they don't take it. This is the first country I can remember that doesn't take it, so keep that in mind if you plan on coming here. Be sure to take out South African money once you arrive.
South Africans love their music, including old school R&B. It's impress
ive how much R&B I hear on the radio here. I've also been thoroughly impressed with the house music here. If you like house music, you might want to do some digging and check out some South African house. It's quality stuff.
USA fans may hate the Mexican national team and Mexican fans, but the hatred doesn't really go both ways. I've met so many Mexico fans who say they are rooting for the United States as their second team. Many of them live in the United States, but even some Mexicans from Mexico go out of their way to root for the USA. Whether it's because more USA success makes the losses by Mexico to the USA more easy to explain, or whether it's respect, I've been impressed. I won't tell USA fans to return the favor because I know the emotions run deep, but it's something to think about.
I get asked about what animals I've seen since being here and the truth is I haven't seen many out of the ordinary animals. I did have a pack of monkeys race across the road once as I was driving by, but I haven't seen any of the big boys (Lions, elephants, giraffes). I do plan on hitting a game reserve to see some of them, but that can wait for later in the tournament.
Internet connectivity is a bit of a hit-or-miss proposition. I've got some wireless access, but you learn to adjust to slower connections (as well as some almost unbearable Skype calls).
That's all for now. I will try to offer shorter diaries throughout my trip, but for now, this is a sampling of what things have been like for me during my first two weeks here. Stay tuned for more in the coming days and weeks.
Bumble Biddle Bobble
Dont be a jingoistic xenophobic jerk. At least for one month every 4 years try to act like you live in a global village that loves the beautiful game.
Second City
"I've met so many Mexico fans who say they are rooting for the United States as their second team. Many of them live in the United States -IVES"
…and therein lies one of the endless reasons my rivalry goes too deep to allow even an inch of positive emotion towards Mexico in any competition.
Many have made points about representing/supporting a fellow CONCACAF nation and while I'll respect your justification, I'll also admit I lack even a single ounce equipped or able to cheer for a bitter, bitter rival under any circumstance, especially in this realm.
I'll respect certain Mexican supporters that choose to cheer for USA as their 2nd team but I imagine I'd do the same when you actually live within that given country.
I just ask you respect the many USA supporters that have equally legitimate reasons to choose the opposite, in this sporting realm.
Don't make it political, it's purely a sporting hatred and that's perfectly healthy given the circumstances.
Mexican fans hate the US when it's Mexico playing the US. In my experience, when it's the US playing another team, Mexicans don't automatically root for the other team. It doesn't surprise me at all that Mexicans attending the WC would be rooting for the US, a fellow CONCACAF member, as their second team.
Hincha Tim
I'm with you. As long as they're not playing the U.S. I'm rooting for Mexico when they play outside of Concacef and I'm a gringo American.
Mike Caramba
I can't speak for any other American fans, but I've always pulled for Mexico when they're not playing the US. I figure any time they succeed, it's good for CONCACAF, so it's good for us. Good to hear many of them feel the same way.
Jose Romero
Great, great stuff Ives.
1. Mexico
Here's why, para todos que quieren saber…
lame. and no, after reading your little article, i still don't understand. it's not too late to see the error of your ways, repent, and join sam's army. you would be welcomed with open arms.
While I respect everyone's opinion, I can't understand why is it so hard to believe that Mexicans keep cheering for Mexico after they've come here. How long after moving to another country do you start rooting for that nation? How long after an American moves to England is he/she suppose to change teams?
Once you become a citizen..and thats the issue.
There are millions of Mexicans illegally living in the States. So they root for Mexico (where they send most of their income) and root for their country.
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I'm a wisco fan too–go there now, and I would root for the Big 10 in bowl games if their style of play was less boring. Which is why I've been supporting Mexico this WC–Gio Dos Santos and Chicharito are too fun to root against.
What about non-citizents legal residents?
not to sound like a cracker, but the Mexico fans rooting for USA in SA are prolly are actually living in the US instead of Mexico. But hey it's all good. most people are good sports, but A-holes always get the attention.
maybe, but we'd speak spanish.
Perhaps I'm being overly sentimental, but I just can't see Howard leaving Everton. I also have a hard time seeing Arsenal paying MLS enough to release LD… and does Bradley really have what Wenger wants? it would be awesome, but I can't see him fitting in with Nasrei and Eduardo's style.
He'd be better off going after Gooch as a pair to Vermaalen… or keep up his streak for the young-uns and give Holden or Torres trial.
oh my god are we really doing this?
Great stuff Ives keep it coming. You're living the dream. What was Wenger like?
Being a Gopher fan, I generally agree with the Big Ten statement. The part where I draw the line is Iowa, they are so arrogant for no reason. Badger/Gopher games are a lot of fun and the fans are lot friendlier to each other.
I went from not liking Mexico to hating them in the rd of 16 game in 2002.
There were some out right dirty plays by Mexico in that game and a real feeling of disgust. It perpetuated a few times in the next few years.
However, I do sorta like the new crop.. examples being chincherito (sp?) and dos santos so I'm a little torn and find myself rooting for those guys against the big euro teams.
Steve B
I'm actually quite SHOCKED that so many USA fans root for Mexico on the side. I think the intense rivalry is what makes our relationship so interesting and attractive. It draws the attention of the rest of the world. It is a combo of mutual respect and bad blood, and I don't think that will/should change. I enjoy watching Mexico BECAUSE I always root against them. (Even if its france, or italy)
I only dislike Mexico when they are in competition with the U.S. There's no team I enjoy beating more, of course, but I don't see how any American soccer fan could dislike this Mexico team. They play a lovely brand of soccer, do not disrespect the game in the way that, say, Spain's Sergio makes routine, and Blanco even came to MLS.
Rooted for Mexico in 06 when they played ARG, and I'd do it again.
Well said, just think how many red sox fans stay loyal after moving to say NYC…!
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I'd have to think if there were tens of millions of people of American descent in Mexico, there may be a feeling similar to that which you've seen with Mexico.


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Susaeta the key to Bilbao fightback
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- 300 Mbps PCI Express Adapter
- Stronger signal with 2T2R MIMO technology
- Detachable Antennas,easy upgrade
- Advanced Security-WPA / WPA2
- Plug & Play for Windows 8
- $16.99 –
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bang for a $20 bill! 03/13/2014
This review is from: TP-LINK TL-WN881ND Wireless N300 PCI Express Adapter, 300 Mbps, w/ WPS Button, IEEE 802.1b/g/n, 64 / 128 bit WEP, WPA / WPA2, Plug & Play in Windows 10(32 bit & 64 bit)
- Biggest pro (probably only for nerds): supports HostAP! ('hostapd' in linux.)
What is that? The chip can make your computer a wifi router/firewall/server if you want. Not perk for everyone and it not easy and only on linux. Research it for a weekend hobby some day. With this card, I hosted a wifi network.
This is awesome for $20.
- Price point. You can't beat it, but see OTs.
- Low profile card (If you wanted to build a small router in a micro-ATX case?) it comes with a second bracket for a tiny case.
- Generic SMA antenna ports. You can purchase external antennas (TP-LINK TL-ANT2405C, SKU: N82E16812997086 for $8) and run them away from your router. I recommend it if you can afford it. Your case filled with components through which electricity flows and potentially (but not necessarily) interfers should be avoided if possible.
If too much you can look at simple SMA extension cables. (3M for $5, SKU:9SIA1NV0UF6248, 6M for $6, SKU:9SIA1NV0NY4981.) These cables extend the antennas off your tower so you can tack them to a wall or move them higher.
- 2T2R MIMO, two transmit, two receive, multiple-in-multiple-out. Basically means the card uses both antennas to communicate as effentiently with the AP (or clients in hostapd ;) as it can.
- No driver setup on Windows 7/8 or even linux. Most atheros stuff was enabled in a generic linux kernel and Windows recognized it already as well. I can't speak for an older OS, however. If it doesn't detect, I cover options below to fix that :)
- It performs as expected for a 802.11n 300 device. No reason to beat a dead horse with that one. The speeds are on par with actual (not theoretical throughput) speeds. My apartment is small so strength is adequate. In linux you have additional power commands and other features (also true in Windows to a lesser extent if you know where to look.) This card is way faster than my USB Edimax EW-7811Un.
- Unless you're using >Windows XP then you may not need the disk. Look into the features of TPL's software to see if it offers anything else you need. Like easier WPS but I highly recommend to *not* use WPS. "Shortcuts are security risks." WPS has proven security risks. Research the Reaver WPS exploit to know the risks!
Sidenote: It is a minidisk. In the [rare] event you have a slot-loading drive it won't work.
Here: http://www.tp-link.com/en/support/download/?model=TL-WN881ND&version=V1 for the software.
Download driver ONLY (~5MB .zip) OS, right click the .inf file ("Type: Setup Information" in Windows explorer), and click "Install." It installs the basic driver detect your card WITHOUT full software! This is also on the disk at X:\\TL-WN881ND\Driver Files\
THE WEBSITE .ZIP FILE INCLUDES WINDOWS 8 32/64bit DRIVERS AS WELL AND THE DISK DOES NOT. DISK ONLY INCLUDES UP TO WINDOWS 7.
- THIS IS NOT A CON AT THIS PRICE POINT, but this card is only 2.4GHz. At $18 you can't beat an internal card with this quality and with these features but if you can afford $10 more then the TP-Link's WDN3800 is dual-band and equally as great of a card.
- No cons to speak of.
Other Thoughts:
To test this card I pulled my TP-Link TL-WDN3800 (NeweggSKU: N82E16833704162) and, naturally, it wasn't as fast. But it was intended for a different user base as well. If you only have a 2.4GHz (non-dual band) network then it's no question that this card will be perfect for your network, assuming you don't want to get a cheap $10 USB adapter. If, however, you plan to use TP-Link for it's hostapd abilities of it's Atheros chip or if you plan to upgrade to a dual-band network in the future then consider spending the extra $10 to $12 on the N600 model.
It's never a bad idea to future-proof your tech whenever it's not too much of a hassle to do so!
This is a great starter card but as technology improves it'll quickly become less than adequate. Overall, this card offers some killer features at a great price point. For a spare $20 (or two with external antennas) you can have a capable connection to your network or even turn your computer tower into a router itself. In my many years in the tech world TP-Link has always had a name for itself as a dependable, quality company with a budget price point. By no means am I a complete TP-Link fanboy, but they have definitely earned my respect over the years for what products I've purchased and reviewed, how they've lasted, and how they've stacked up against competitors. But if you have an extra $10 and a dual-band wifi router then consider the TL-WDN3800!!
This is a 5-egg card for filling a role targeting single band 2.4Ghz requirements. It's bigger brother, the TL-WDN3800, is more of my fancy, personally. But if this card is what you need then TP-Link won't let you down with filling that requirement. And considering their customer service history, well, that speaks for itself as well.
I'll end with what I always like to advise people:
Know your requirements.
Do your homework.
Consider your options.
READ REVIEWS. (Customers speak for a company's actions/competency.)
When you review be humble but honest. Don't be afraid to be critical but being bitter doesn't help anyone researching the product.
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Islamofascism: Still intoxicated by their "Arab Spring" fairy tale, the media don't see a problem with the Muslim Brotherhood's proposed new constitution for Egypt. Apparently they haven't read the fine print.
'A quick glimpse at the articles show ... there's wording that prohibits arbitrary arrest and detention and ensures due process, a sensitive topic in Egypt," CNN reported, approvingly. "Mubarak and his loyalists are blamed for jailing and harshly mistreating innocents" before the uprising.
The New York Times also shrugged, noting the Muslim Brotherhood drafters simply preserved the language of the old constitution. Now as before, it said, the "principles" of Islam remain the source of legislation.
Only, the drafters added a clause stipulating scholars of Al Azhar, the Brotherhood-controlled university and mosque in Cairo, will have the final say in interpreting those principles.
This seemingly minor change threatens not just Egyptian freedoms, but also Mideast peace and the overall war on terrorism.
Al Azhar is where some of the world's most influential Sunni terrorists have studied the Quran. By enshrining Al Azhar in the text of the constitution, the new regime has enshrined a kind of Talibanism only the blind Sheik Omar Abdul Rahman could be proud of.
Indeed, the jailed cleric is among Al Azhar's most cherished alumni. His fatwas inspired both 9/11 and the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. It's no coincidence that its leaders have joined Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi in seeking his release from U.S. prison.
Al Azhar is also the alma mater of Sheik Yusuf Qaradawi, the Brotherhood jurist who issued a fatwa during the Iraq war declaring it a religious duty for Muslims to kill U.S. soldiers. He even decreed American civilians fair game for violent jihad.
Washington, in turn, banned him from entering the U.S. Al Azhar scholars, however, rallied to defend him and his fatwa. They included the dean of the Faculty of Religious Fundamentals and the undersecretary of the Department of Religious Endowments.
Azhar mosque's chief imam, further, has endorsed the murder of Israeli civilians by Hamas suicide bombers.
Al Azhar teaches from a Shariah manual titled, "Reliance of the Traveller — A Classic Manual of Islamic Law." Apologists for the new Brotherhood regime — including the White House — might want to thumb through it. Among other things, it instructs:
"When a person who has reached puberty and is sane voluntarily apostatizes from Islam, he deserves to be killed."
"Jihad means war against non-Muslims."
The penalty for "sodomy and lesbianism" is death.
Alcohol drinkers are "to be scourged 40 stripes."
Women must conceal their figure or alter it "to a form unlikely to draw looks from men or attract them."
The penalty for blaspheming the Muslim prophet Muhammad — treason — is death.
This is what Morsi meant when he promised Egypt's new constitution would deliver "the Shariah, then the Shariah, and finally the Shariah."


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This is part of a review of the Mauao Reserve Management Plan.
Mauao is special to many different people for many different reasons. It is a spiritual home, a historic reserve, a tourist attraction, a treasured recreational playground. While formal ownership rests with the Mauao Trust, a wide range of people in Tauranga and beyond identify closely - and passionately - with the mountain.
The Mauao Trust have owned Mauao since 2008. Tauranga City Council continued to fund and manage the mountain, working with the Mauao Steering Group, which could offer non-binding direction.
In 2013 Tauranga City Council and the Mauao Trust established a joint management board, Nga Poutiriao O Mauao, to share management responsibility for Mauao.
As the legally administering body, Tauranga City Council is required by the Reserves Act 1977 to take responsibility for updating the Mauao Reserve Management Plan.
The review will seek to assess whether the things we are already doing are still the best way forward, as well as looking ahead to see if there is anything that should be done differently.
Initial feedback was sought from the public and key interest groups in 2016. A draft management plan is currently being prepared and will be published for further public feedback.
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BTMUFJ: USD/JPY may consolidate
Analysts at Bank of Tokyo Misubishi UFJ are neutral on USD/JPY. In their view, the pair will be fluctuating in the 99.50/103.50 area.
On the one hand, higher US Treasury yields make USD more attractive. On the other hand, upcoming US economic indicators may be mixed. Better non-farm payroll numbers may support US Treasury selling on QE-end speculation but not necessarily encourage further equity buying given their prior elevation
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I wonder what are the movie available on youtube or online that's suitable for young children?
TV time can sometimes be relaxing for both the parent and child. But educational children programs may not always be our cup of tea and programs we like may not be suitable for our kids, especially the younger ones. Here are some DVDs that are intesting to the adults and educational to the child :
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"To "teach" adversity in young kids, can try "Kiki's Delivery Service". It's a bout a 12yo girl who's a witch and part of her coming-of-age rite is to leave her family and find a town on her own to live in and earn a living using her talent, which she has to yet to discover. She learns to be strong and independent through the obstacles she faces and makes friends along the way." schellen
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Documentaries about nature can be educational and entertaining to both parent and child. For most of them, parents also need not worry about violent scenes or negative inluence to the child.
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Many of Disneys and Pixar's movies are entertaining and explore some moral or values while beiing interesting and fun. A number of them deal with some aspects of the parent and child relationship. Kiasuproduct scout's favourite is Finding Nemo which deal with themes such as family, courage and positive attitude when face with challenges.
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I wonder what are the movie available on youtube or online that's suitable for young children?
We always look for motivational movies.. love these movies. If anyone has other to recommend, it will be great.
– Men of Honour
– Soul Surfer
My kids and i were getting sick of my usual choices ..haha!
I wish they'll make "Finding Nemo" 2, although his Daddy found him already.
I think word world is good. My boy loves to watch. He learned phonics and spelling. Its a good DVD to watch with your kids. It can be bought in Popular bookshop.
… but those 3D tickets are very expensive. Had to pay full adult price for my not-even-4-yo girl… and the glasses kept slipping off her head (too big). Within the first 5 mins, she went "Daddy, I wanna go home…" . I had to sit her on my lap the whole movie. Only my son got to enjoy the movie. Cannot fault the cool 3D effects, although it is clear that the movie was not really made to highlight the 3D effects.
The deepest moral messages I got from the show:
– It's ok to be weird as long as you have friends that are weirder than yourself.
– It's good luck to be hit by a meteorite on the day of your wedding (ie. blessing in disguise)
– Cockroaches have more brains and expressions than 12 storey high caterpillars.
– Never slight an ex-girlfriend, especially if she can hold you in her hand.
– An adventurous monster-killing earth-saving career is more illustrious than a life of an SAHM to a gorgeous and ambitious weather reporter.
– Monsters good. Aliens bad.
Yes. It's that good.
Wuakakakakaah! Funny lah you, Chief!
Just keep swmming, huh…
Kungfu Panda super entertaining for us to watch as a family. We like Finding Nemo too.
Booked "wrong tickets" to watch 3D Monsters and Aliens(not supposed to be 3D)…..hope it is good! *cross my fingers*.
Just keep swimming… just keep swimming… just keep swimming swimming swimming…
Yeah jedamum, Meet The Robinsons is one animation movie we like too! And yes, can never forget the "keep moving forward" phrase… very motivational.
My daughter loves to watch "finding nemo" movie.
It is indeed a great recommendation for the whole family.
My favourite shows of all time that I love to let my kid watch anytime it's on Disney Channel is 'Meet the Robinsons'. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meet_The_Robinsons
Not only does it reminds us adults (to teach the kids too) that failure is meant to be a learning process and a step closer to success, it also reminds us not to cling onto the past and to live for the moment and look towards what is in store for us in the future.
"The film ends with a quotation from Walt Disney:
Around here, however, we don't look backwards for very long. We keep moving forward, opening up new doors and doing new things, because we're curious…and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths."


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For this game, a player makes a sentence/thought/idea based on the letters in the last word of the previous sentence.
(previous word: hot)
Player 1: Hold On Tight
Player 2: Ten Ignorant Gents Hunt Toys
Player 3: Trip Over Your Shoes
(You can use punctuation wherever it helps if you need to)
Since there's no one before me, I'll start with Start:
Smell Taffy After Reading This
Scarred Nighthawks Addictively Instigate Lethal Sabers
Stealthy anteaters berate every runner simultaneously.
oh, that word looks like so much fun~ -_-"
Six iguanas murder unique lady turtles, and Norweigian elephants oust undesireable, slimy leech yogurt.
Oh, that wasn't that hard ^J^
Your ogling gaze unintentionally restores tantalization.
Tough ants now toss a lion into zebras as they ingest orange nectarines :-)
Never, even concerning tarantulas, are radioactive ignoramuses needed, especially silently.
No Elephant Can Take A Rock In Nasty Esther's Symposium.
So, you managed posting over subsequently, interrupting urgent messages.
(By the way, if that was unclear, you got ninja'd :P)
Merlin even sought super attractive green earrings, son.
Spying on neighbors
New exact ingenious houses bought out (and) re sold
Sarah Oswald likes demonstrating
Dying Embers Moon Observant Narwhals, Soon They Rebelliously Attack Tiny Indigestible Newspaper Gratings
Gelatinous Raccoons And Tired Iguanas Never Gesture Simultaneously.
So, I must use last time's acronym; now each of us simply lies, yawning.
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Adolescence is where you find yourself. It's always where you begin to discover that not everything is good. Ashley Austin isn't new to these discovers. Here, in her diary, she writes down everything that she finds important and too personal to share anywhere else. Flip through the pages and get a taste of who Ashley is.
June 8, 2011
Dear Diary,
This is my first entry. I'd just like to introduce myself. I'm Ashley Austin. I live in London, England. My mother is Sylvia, my father is Kent, and my older (extremely protective) brother is Daren. I have a cat named Paw. D. always told me "London. . . it's made for you, it's made from poetry-" While he said this he'd pet my hair (it was always crazed by curls) but my father would always interrupt with "London is for scums nothing but beggars and stray dogs". Also. . . where I live, my house. . . its cold, so cold that its hardens the heart. Though the house itself is beautiful and decorated with. . . dead daffodils. Day in, day out it's flooded with yelling and cries. London doesn't deserve this loveless home. Daren is the only good thing in this pathetic house, well except Paw of course. At my school, I have six best friends. They are Savanna Smith, Abbi Mel, Kenya Mel, Bell Jo, Jake Pram and Derrick Sky, they make everything better. Luckily, there's English Language Arts. . . and Lee Smith. School isn't really my thing though. . . yes, everyone says I'm a genius, but I don't see it. I prefer writing over school, which sounds strange, being that you write at school. Anyways, the bus is coming soon so I better go.
June 9, 2011
Dear Diary,
Its the last day of school. I over heard that there is a new place opening, a place for young writers. I wish I could go but. . . oh well.Today I got pink highlights, they look interesting against my long, black hair. It was my birthday present to myself. My birthday is tomorrow, I'll be turning seventeen. All I can hear right now is the similar sounds of yelling, crying, and smashing coming from my parents. It scares me, but I can't do anything and Daren has already tried. . . the result was a broken arm. Paw has his head buried in my neck, hidden behind my hair. Its gonna be a late night.
June 9, 2011
Dear Diary,
I was up all night. The sounds of mom and father's fighting shook the whole house. Daren came in around two am to check on me. He sat on my bed with me, combing my hair with his fingers. He stayed with me until dawn. He kissed me on the forehead and ran downstairs after whispering happy birthday.