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I have to make this a paraphrase of an article about NRA but it applies to us/you so I will hope it stays: the intent is to be helpful. I believe it was from a nationally syndicated columnist but I can't find it again.
That article gave a wise view of response by gunners to the tragedy and political talk: I think you are as well, by the very vociferous attacks on those who favor regulation, throwing the baby out with the bathwater. Right now the country is in shared grief, indeed the world is responding in a similar vein. I am not talking about Far-To-The-Left people, just the average Joe and Mary American who is overwhelmed by this event and rightly, we all are. They are likely those who believe in the Right to own guns but also have believed in the right to have regulation safeguarding their health and safety - in that they are not much different than the Supreme Court in the Heller Decision a few years back. Anyway, seems the average view. If it sounds - and to me it does - that THEY are being strongly attacked you've caught them at a time when they will not look kindly on gunners for that reason. You don't want that.
So my suggestion and the article I refer to: is draw back, show the grief behind that great energy you have and distinguish - if you need to attack the enemy now - the right enemy. Even better, skip the enemy, you don't need that sliver and won't get them; sometime the best way to win the game is not to play it, be above them. Make 'em not worth the energy, who needs 'em. Make those who do want to ban guns the extremists. Not you.
Who you need are those vast Joes and Marys - and nothing will help that more than generous expressions to the families of the lost loved-ones and lowering the attack-level to one who points out misunderstandings. Explanations of those points may be helpful too. Lots of people know nothing about guns.
Anyway, a friendly suggestion meant to increase popularity in this very difficult time for all.


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Attacked at the dog park - defense methods?
My dog was attacked at the dog park on tuesday by what looked to be a pit mix. We got to the park at the same time, and even walking to the door the other dog was being very agressive.
When we got in, the two went in different directions, but later, when my pup was playing with another dog, the agressive one came out of no where and violently clamped onto his ear.
I was genuinely afraid for a few moments that it was going to tear my dogs ear off, or at the very least rip it up. When it was all over, though, he just had a pretty small scratch on his ear. Though it oozed blood for a bit, it's scabbed up now and seems to be healing nicely and free of infection.
To his credit, the other owner was on top of the dogfight almost as quickly as I was, and he apologized for his dog being agressive. He also suffered a pretty significant cut to his hand and calf which were both bleeding pretty well as he left.
My point, though, is that the dog fight was a bit scary, and even with two people trying to break it up, I don't feel as if we really had much impact on stopping the fight. I'm not exactly what stopped it and got the other dog to release, honestly.
I'm interested in a more active form of protection and ways to break up dog fights.
Kicking the agressor dog is an option, but I've read that the pain from doing so may simply spur the dog to fight harder. Plus, then you have to worry about getting into a fight with the owner afterwards.
I read about a method to grab the dog's back legs, or wrap a leash around them, and to use that to disable the dog, but I am skeptical of it, as it doesn't release the dogs jaws. I haven't used this method, so perhaps the dog will want to turn around once he sees he's being pulled away by his rear legs.
I saw some dog deterrent devices that emit loud or high-frequency noises that's supposed to ward off dogs from joggers/ bikers, etc, and while it is small and pretty cheap, I suspect it will be insufficient to break up a dog fight.
There's mace, which I'm sure will break it up in short order, but the problem is that my dog is in there too. It may be a last resort, and I'd prefer to mace them both than for my dog to lose an ear, or worse, but I would be very worried about hitting my pup. Perhaps mace comes out in more of a stream, instead of spray, so it's easier to direct than I'm thinking.
Gun is pretty much out of the question. I own several, and have had a concealed carry permit in the past, but it is a public park. Apart from the legal issues with shooting a dog in the middle of a public park, I would be even more worried about hitting my own dog.
I take my dog to the park every day, because he needs the excersise and socilization, and because he deserves his playtime after a long boring day of me being gone. Not going to the park ever again isn't reasonable for fair to him.
Anyone had any experiences with any of the above methods with dog fights before? Or anything you'd recommend?
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I'm happy to see that he has done he right thing here and is enjpying himself insteed of throwing a fit.
Wrong-number Santa cheerfully fields kids' calls
A California man has been inundated with hundreds of calls from children who are trying to reach Santa Claus but dialed the wrong number, the Associated Press reports from Goleta, Calif.
"I just sit down by the fireplace and play Santa Claus," John Dickinson said. "I'll probably be playing Santa every year."
Dickinson runs the santabarbara.com website and fields calls from people who dial 1-800-SANTABARBARA (1-800-726-8222). That number differs by one digit from 1-800-SANTACLAUS (1-800-726-8225).
About 100 children a day dial the wrong number.
"I've spent the last two weeks listening to what children want for Christmas. It's been fun," Dickinson said.
"The kids are real serious, and very specific," he said. "They get right to the point. They say, 'I want this, I want this, I want this.' I always make sure they've been nice."
I'm happy to see that he has done he right thing here and is enjpying himself insteed of throwing a fit.


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Just bought a Sony Z5, even though the NX5 has just come out. For me, the need to record to tape is still important for my work. Anyway, my question is to anybody who knows, is the NX5 anything more than a slightly modified Z5?
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NX5 and Z5 are based of the same core. NX5 records 1920x1080 though while the Z5 only records in 1440x1080 due to the miniDV restrictions. I use 2 Z5s for my business. I LOVE them. And honestly when I play my blu-rays I create from my files on my 50 inch plasma, you wouldn't even know it was lower resolution unless I told you. Also the NX5 has GPS tagging - which I have no clue how to use. I have downloaded supposed raw files from a NX5 with GPS tagging, but yet no editor I can find utilizes it. Not even Vegas which is also Sony. I suppose I could be missing it somewhere but being I don't actually own the camera, I haven't tried very hard.
Now... I do not record to tapes, I use the CF unit. Why I didn't go with the NX5s last year instead of the Z5s I guess I will never know. On the plus side my 1394B port can download my CF footage at about 70 mb/second (even off my 60MB/s cards). Using the NX5 would require a SDHC/MS reader and I do not believe I have found a firewire variety of those yet and would be limited to about 20mb/s with USB 2.0. This could change with USB 3.0 I suppose but those days aren't qute common yet.
Good info, Double, thanks for sharing.
I cant comment on the Z5 but I have recently purchased a NX5 to shoot weddings. I was using (and still do) a HDR-FX7. The biggest issue with the FX7 was the lack of XLR inputs. The NX5 addresses this. I was a bit skeptical about moving from tapes to solid state but I am loving it (especially after having a few glitches with tapes). I use 2x32GB SD cards which gets me 6 hours. For me, a typical wedding is ~ 3 hours of footage as I use just over one card as opposed to 4-5 tapes (tapes are never full as I always change prior to ceremony/speeches etc). I use the 128GB FMU-128 flash drive as a backup which holds ~ 11 hours (or 3 weddings!!).
I downloaded 3 hours of clips in one hour via USB w/ the NX5 as opposed to real time with the FX7. The only problem so far is that I have had to upgrade to Vegas Pro 10 as the preview window in MS10HD was lagging. That is the problem with AVCHD. The other minor issue is that with the FX7 you could operate in what I call semi-manual mode. You could set the white balance and adjust the iris independently of the shutter speed etc when necessary. The NX5 requires you to fully manage gain, shutter, iris and WB which is fine...BUT...for a wedding is probably a bit of overkill. But hey...it's a so-called 'pro camera'.
On the Z5 you can set some of the settings to auto while others are manual, not sure why the NX5 would be any different. In any case I do run full manual now (with the exception of audio) and if you said I would be able to manage all that simultaneously a year ago I would have called you insane. The more you practice the easier it gets and it is all second nature to me now. That deosn't mean I have completely mastered it all yet though...
I have the Z7U, and I really would like to do all tapeless recording. I have non-Sony CF cards (apparently, Sony no longer manufactures them!?), and I loaded it into the MCR1 to "format" the card. I can't seem to get the camera to START!! Any suggestions?
For one, I would stick with Sandisk. I have been using 5 of their 32GB CF cards without issues for over 2 years. When I first got my camera, I tried Kingstona dn one other brand and both failed horribly within an hour of shooting. Failed to the point they no longer were readable from the camera or PC. Had to send both back.
DH...Many thanks! Sandisk "developed" the cards, so I am not surprised they should be on/near the top of list of what to use. Besides the CF, do you use any other digital backup devices--if so, which have been successful for you.
I use only the CF cards. My first shoot I used tapes and CF cards, but found it too much of a hassle as the ceremony I shot was over an hour long and it interrupted the shoot, and I do not believe there is a setting that keeps the CF card shooting if you use tape. There is an option I believe that switches to CF card when the tape runs out so you can change tape, but you don't get everything on the card. I have not had to change the setting to record only to CF cards since my second shoot so I don't even remember all the options in the menu off hand, you would have to read up on it.
I could be branded for saying I only use one source but I have never had an issue with the SanDisk cards - not saying it couldn't happen, but I have my faith in them. 32GB gets you 2.5 hrs of straight recording time. And now the cards are a fraction of the price they were a year and a half ago.
The best part is the "odometer" on the camera shows as the tape drum only used for an hour on one camera, and the other camera reads 0. Great for resale when the mechanical parts show little use!
That option might be that it records to tape when the CF runs out now that I think of it, but I have not had an issue as 2.5 hours is plenty of time for solid shooting. I
I am contemplating shooting in the same manner--no tape. Some others have suggested using a couple of devices which record on internal hard disk (again, as a back up). The devices have "slow" drives, so I'm sure if they'd be worth it. Using just the CF, though, sounds like a much easier way to shoot--no other devices to worry about carrying and attaching, etc. At the same time, I think of computing and the rule to "backup, backup, backup, ...."
Good to hear you have had no problems shooting CF-only and with no problems.
Thanks for your input!
I am not telling you not to use backup, I do so at my own risk and I
realize this. My cards are the 60MB/s variety, and when paired with a
1394b card you will get download speeds of the stated 60Mb/s. You MUST
purchase one for use with a PC and a 1394b reader (mine is also SanDisk)
to get the blazing speed for download as virtually all PC firewire
ports are 1394a which will still work but at about half the speed. This is great for sending the files to your PC!
Oh, when I send them to PC I do send them to 2 separate physical drives at least until the project is completed to make sure I have backup there.
I'm getting closer! I have the camera, working on the cards, and now shopping for a "matching" reader--still waiting for a suitable computer and editing software. "One of these first years" I might be able to answer rather than ask questions!!
Many thanks for your help!
Any CF reader will work, I was just listing what you would need to maximize the actual speed of transferring.
I've used the Sony Z7U, Z5U and NX5U and when I moved to the Sony NEX-FS100 I was blown away at the quality difference. @doublehamm pointed out that the NX5U records at 1920x1080 AVCHD and the Z5 (and Z7) at 1440x1080 HDV.
So you would think that this gives a big advantage but the truth is that the sensors don't have 1920x1080 worth of photosites on the sensor and interpolates the signal to arrive at 1920x1080. I'd probably say the AVCHD camera (NZ5U) has a slight advantage but if you want to get better quality video on a small sensor camera you will require either an external HDMI or HD-SDI video recorder (Atomos Ninja is a good one) or switch to a large sensor camera (Sony VG10/20 or Sony NEXFS100).
The reason for the external recorder is that the small sensors are very noisy and the codec can't do a good job of compressing both the noise and the detail so the whole thing is soft.
An external recorder has 100-240Mbps intraframe codecs (every frame and not an interframe codec like ABCHD or HDV) and can at least preserve the detail.
Here is a blog post I did on large sensor acquisition that talks about the NX5U and the FS100.


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• After the so-called "Ground Zero mosque" controversy, is there a mosque inside the Pentagon? Well, not a mosque as such but an imam drops by every Friday, according to wtop.com:
Prior to last Sunday there hadn't been much attention paid to the Muslim services being held inside Room 1E438. They have been going on for the past 8 years. But all that changed last Sunday when Rep Jerrold Nadler, D-NY, who represents the Ground Zero neighborhood, told CNN during a debate over the proposed New York City mosque, that there is a mosque inside the Pentagon.
• Commentator Fareed Zakaria takes his leave of Newsweek:
The departure of Mr Zakaria, a well-known columnist and television presence, is another blow to Newsweek, which was sold to Sidney Harman, an audio equipment mogul, at the beginning of the month.
• The company behind the recall of 380m eggs due to possible salmonella infection has a long record of battles with regulators, reports the Iowa Independent:
Owners of the Iowa egg production company that has voluntarily recalled millions of eggs linked to Salmonella outbreaks were significant donors in opposition to a 2008 California ballot measure that restricted cage confinement of poultry.
(Bonus for Ayn Rand fans: a company in a place named Galt having problems with the government? Fancy that.)
• Jobless claims edge higher, against expectations, provoking another round of fear that the economy's recovery is stalling, a worrying sign says the FT:
In the past month, claims for unemployment insurance have been creeping higher and the less volatile four-week average rose 8,000 to 482,500. That was the highest level since December 2009.
• Is Sarah Palin's star waning? It appears so, at least in Florida, according to the Florida Times-Union, based on disappointing ticket sales:
Slow ticket sales have bumped Sarah Palin's appearance next week in Jacksonville to a smaller venue.... "An Evening of Hope with Sarah Palin" was moved from the 2,936-seat Moran Theatre to the 609-seat Terry Theatre.


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WASHINGTON – Motorists could go hands-free, leaving their cars' computer brains fully in charge, as early as 2020, when Nissan says it plans to have a self-driving vehicle ready for the market.
The automaker said Tuesday that its "revolutionary" self-drive technology could be ready by then, and that it is already building a synthetic cityscape of real roads and buildings to test the vehicles.
"I am committing to be ready to introduce a new groundbreaking technology, Autonomous Drive, by 2020, and we are on track to realize it," Chief Executive Carlos Ghosn said Tuesday.
Nissan, which broke ground in 2010 with the introduction of its fully electric Leaf, said it is aiming to build a self-driving car that can be sold at "realistic prices."
"The goal is availability across the model range within two vehicle generations," the company said in a statement.
The company showed off self-driving Leaf models at a former U.S. military base in Irvine, California, on Tuesday, with the robotic cars ferrying passengers in simulated urban driving conditions.
Nissan said it is already testing how to extend its Safety Shield technology, which uses a 360-degree system of cameras and sensors to help drivers park and avoid collisions.
Autonomous Drive would enhance safety and accident avoidance, and allow drivers who spend hundreds of hours commuting every year to make more productive use of their time, the company said.
It would also give the elderly and disabled much more freedom and mobility, it added.
"The technology to create self-driving cars is already here," said Karl Brauer, senior industry analyst for Kelley Blue Book. "As sci-fi as it sounds, self-driving cars that don't ever crash, reduce traffic congestion and make valet attendants obsolete are coming."
Next year, Nissan will complete the construction of a proving ground for self-driving cars in Japan.
"Featuring real townscapes — masonry, not mock-ups — it will be used to push vehicle testing beyond the limits possible on public roads to ensure the technology is safe," the company said.


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The Cloud Is Here To Stay – Summary From Forrester's Vendor Strategy TweetJam On Cloud Computing
Posted by Holger Kisker on September 17, 2010
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On September 15th between 11am-12pm EDT Forrester held an interactive TweetJam on the future of cloud computing including Forrester analysts Jennifer Belissent, Mike Cansfield, Pascal Matzke, Stefan Ried, Peter O'Neill , myself and many other experts and interested participants. Using the hashtag #cloudjam (use this tag to search for the results in Twitter), we asked a variety of questions.
We had a great turnout, with more than 400 tweets (at last count) from over 40 unique Tweeter's. A high level overview of the key words and topics that were mentioned during the TweetJam is visualized in the attached graphic using the ManyEyes data visualization tool.
Below you will find a short summary of some key takeaways and quotes from the TweetJam:
1. What really is cloud computing? Let's get rid of 'cloud washing!'
The cloud definition by NIST was mentioned several times, but in its current version 15, it is still some pages long and certainly doesn't fit into a Tweet. Our TweetJam participants didn't pick a winner among different definitions of cloud computing. There was a consensus however that cloud is NOT just virtualization and hosting. Some of the characteristics mentioned: managed, metering, automated, pay-by-use/on demand. Some interesting Tweet quotes shared by participants:
- @ashish_bhagwat First, cloud is not just virtualization and hosting. Most still confuse with them...
- @larrycincy - something that is managed, metering, automated and on-demand
- @pascalmatzke Vendors need a clear cloud definition to focus their portfolios around the right aspects; some strong bets need to be made
- @hkisker Forrester's cloud definition: "Standardized IT capability delivered via Internet in a pay-by-use, self-service way." Fits in a tweet
2. What are the benefits and opportunities of cloud computing?
Flexibility was the main focus of the benefits, not only in making costs more manageable and transparent, but also operationally through automation and scalability. A very interesting point raised was not only can existing legacy software be replaced by cheaper cloud solutions, but the added flexibility will potentially allow for the reconstruction of overall business processes using the cloud and using multiple sources. Some interesting Tweet quotes shared by participants:
- @pascalmatzke Key benefits are operational flexibility, financial liquidity and cost transparency, time-to-market
- @ColtandtheCloud Benefits include industrialization/automation of IT and to deploy scalable applications from inception to production
- @ashish_bhagwat Advantages of Leasing v/s Ownership of assets. Simple.
- @tkounadis costs certainly. But Cloud allows one to re-imagine business processes and source priv, pub and hybrid solutions to best address
3. What are the challenges, risks & inhibitors of cloud comp?
Participants of our TweetJam identified a number of challenges. The traditional concerns - security and privacy - were mentioned. Following on from flexibility, one of the main inhibitors of cloud is for companies to completely understand what is possible for their own unique situations and leverage the technology effectively. Many IT organizations are not ready, and CIOs still don't understand the opportunity cloud computing provides to them and see it as a threat. Some interesting Tweet quotes shared by participants:
- @jenbelissent Security/privacy still the top inhibitors, along with uncertainty over TCO and integration with existing hardware and software.
- @Jhodge88 Security obviously the #1 concern
- @ashish_bhagwat Inhibitors: Sense of Loss of Direct Control, Data Security, Data Sensitivity concerns, Compliance, Loss of visibility/Reporting
- @StefanRied Cloud does not work for everything; most large enterprises will complement on-premise with cloud. Understanding this is challenge!
- @larrycincy RT @hkisker: What are the challenges... Biggest challenge is confusion on how to leverage the technology
- @StefanRied: the business model is the most disruptive change in cloud computing - not the technology!
- @hkisker Many CIOs see cloud as a threat and don't understand yet the opportunity it provides to be part of a flexible sourcing strategy
- @tkounadis Challenge - Meaning of Jargon; Business value beyond costs; Comfort with Model; Understndng of applying potential to bsinss
- @larrycincy RT @hkisker: What are the challenges... Another challenge is fear mongering about #cloud security issues by some vendors
- @pascalmatzke Another challenge is for procurement organizations to buy into the idea of flexibility rather than TCO
4. Will cloud computing cannibalize the traditional IT markets?
Feedback from our tweeters indicated that through lock-in's and legacy systems, traditional IT markets are fairly stable in the short term with the trend moving steadily towards the cloud in the long term. What is interesting is the non-traditional markets, i.e. start-ups, will be more likely to adopt the cloud model due to cost and flexibility advantages, therefore IT companies looking to grow ahead of the curve will have to start paying attention. Some interesting Tweet quotes shared by participants:
- @larrycincy RT @hkisker: Will cloud computing cannibalize the traditional IT markets? Not all of IT in the near term - for large organizations
- @pascalmatzke Our recent report http://bit.ly/cXFdZdon IT services market shows approx. 50% of all IT services in 2020 will be cloud based.
- @tkounadis IMO - Not in short term. Smart Business's embrace intelligent sourcing strategy and pick IT and Cloud and Hybrid case by case
- @ColtandtheCloud @hkisker No - IT demand will always outstrips supply. Emphasis on service providers over IT tools providers will happen
- @jenbelissent 43% of IT decision-makers have a strategy of demand software delivery over on-premise deployments. Can't hide from it.
- @hkisker There will be new cloud markets e.g. at very small companies or new innovative services but most will be cannibalization
- @addepalli RT @ashish_bhagwat: Cloud may actually become the "default" model for start-ups. IT Departments may come in upon maturity
5. What are new emerging business models in the cloud market?
Somewhat reflecting the maturity of the cloud market, the response from our tweeters did not provide a completely cohesive idea on emerging business models. As indicated from the tweets, opportunities of collaboration, cloud broker marketplaces and new, innovative services are all present, but the problem of definitive ROI is apparent. Without this, new business models from cloud are still stuttering to find traction from business leaders, and therefore no cohesion from business models has emerged. Some interesting Tweet quotes shared by participants:
- @larrycincy RT @hkisker: What are new emerging business models in the cloud market? cloud services enabling start-ups is a new model
- ashish_bhagwat Current business models very defensive due to unclear ROI mechanism. TOC is clear, ROI isn't!
- @ColtandtheCloud : Not sure about the broker model. Some interesting conversations going on about cloud-interconnect though
- @manidoraisamy RT @hkisker: Cloud is an opportunity for service providers to package IP into new (e.g. SaaS) services > absolutely
- @larrycincy disconnected use of cloud applications is a new business model and game changer;
6. Will the cloud bubble burst or entirely change the IT market?
All participants shared some concern that expectations about cloud computing might be over exaggerated potentially leading to a cloud disillusion. However, there was broad consensus that cloud is here to stay and will find its strong place as a viable deployment methodology for ICT resources. Some interesting Tweet quotes shared by participants:
- @larrycincy Will the cloud bubble burst or entirely change the IT market? Will not burst but will gracefully mature; Hype is the only problem
- @ashish_bhagwat Cloud is an overarching disruptive trend. It has multiple bubbles some of which would bust, some will be game-changers.
- @Jhodge88 Definitely change... make that revolutionize
- @jenbelissent Hopefully the cloud bubble will burst AND entirely change IT: we need to shed the hype but the changes will stay.
- @tkounadis @hkisker Change IT... Evolve from 1 size fits all - Software... to Openess, Flexibility and Choice
- @StefanRied RT @hkisker: Will the cloud bubble burst < cloud brings industrialization and an ongoing price pressure leading to commoditization
- @ashish_bhagwat RT @hkisker: Today cloud computing is about cost reduction by resource sharing. Tomorrow it will be about business innovation via collaboration
- @Jhodge88 definitely RT @tkounadis: @hkisker Change IT... Evolve from 1 size fits all - Software... to Openess, Flexibility and Choice.
- @sureshsambandam @hkisker @StefanRied The kind of adoption we are seeing definitely tells us Cloud is here to stay!
- @hkisker Today cloud computing is about cost reduction by resource sharing. Tomorrow it will be about business innovation via collaboration
- @Jhodge88 cloud hype and buzz will subside, but the technology and adoption is here to stay
- @IBM_IMS It is changing the IT market in that it's leveling the playing field greatly.
Thanks again to all participants. It was an interesting TweetJam and fun time to twitter with you!
Be on the lookout for additional TweetJam events from Forrester Research across a wide variety of technology topics. We are interested to hear from you what other topics you would like to see being discussed in our next TweetJam.
Please leave a comment or contact me directly.
Kind regards,
Holger Kisker
Thanks for posting this
Comment from Jeremy Hodge (not verified) on Fri, 09/17/2010 - 09:50
Thanks for posting this Holger! I had a great time interacting with you and all of the other participants. Do you happen to have a link to the visualization? The image in the post is a bit hard to read.
Hi Jeremy, thanks for your
Comment from Yahor Darashkevich on Fri, 09/17/2010 - 10:01
Hi Jeremy,
thanks for your interest! You can find a larger picture of visualization here - http://manyeyes.alphaworks.ibm.com/manyeyes/files/thumbnails/fa06ffbc-c1...
Let me know if you have problems accessing it.
These days Cloud means...
Comment from Asher Bond on Wed, 10/06/2010 - 13:05
something-as-a-service.... cloud means something service-oriented. It comes from the old telecommunications concept diagrams where people didn't concern themselves with the technology and infrastructures within the nebulous haze... but rather, just named the cloud something like "the internet" when referring to services.
These days cloud just means service-orientation. It's inevitable... you apply technology for a client... they are concerned with inputs and outputs... service-orientation occurs every time. This is what a cloud really is. On the market it means:
Here are some examples of Service-oriented architecture:
1. Infrastructure-as-a-service (ex: cloud computing / cloud storage)
2. Platform(s)-as-a-service (ex: frameworks for application development)
3. Software-as-a-service (generally referring to a user-centered application)
4. other-architecture-as-a-service
CloudJam Visualization
Comment from Heidi Schall (not verified) on Tue, 10/12/2010 - 05:47
Unfortunately I couldn't follow CloudJam live and appreciate the summary. I think it's a really great example of how Social Media can transform the way tech buyers arrive at their purchase decisions. I would love to use the visualization graph as an example for an article I am writing (published in the upcoming book of the German Analyst Relations Association (DARA)) Would that be possible? Thanks very much!
CloudJam Visualization
Comment from Holger Kisker on Sun, 10/17/2010 - 04:17
Dear Heidi,
thank you very much for your interest in our CloudJam results. Please feel free to use this blog or its graph for your article. Just make sure that you follow our citation policy (http://www.forrester.com/CitationPolicy). If you have further questions you can contact also our citations team: email@example.com.
Kind regards, Holger
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Translating Iraq: Journalism as Hermeneutic Enterprise
Kyle Conway
In Al-Jazeera: The Story of the Network That Is Rattling Governments and Redefining Modern Journalism, Mohammed el-Nawawy and Adel Iskandar take the Arabic-language news channel to task for employing a politically charged—and therefore problematic—vocabulary that risks compromising the organization's claim to journalistic objectivity. For example, they criticize Al-Jazeera because "its correspondents call Palestinian suicide-bombers shuhada (martyrs), not terrorists". They explain, but do not excuse, the word choice by putting it in the context of the cultural expectations of much of Al-Jazeera's audience: "To put it mildly, many Arabs view the Israeli occupation of Palestine as unfair, even illegal. Palestinians who are killed while fighting for freedom from occupation are subsequently portrayed as martyrs. Al-Jazeera reports this because it reflects the attitude and beliefs of its Arab audience". In Al-Jazeera's defense, they note that US networks such as CNN employ a vocabulary carrying an equal political charge, avoiding the term assassination, for instance, in favor of targeted killing when speaking of Israeli actions against leaders of groups like Hamas.
While they are certainly correct in pointing out the influence that the culture of reception has on how news stories are framed, el-Nawawy and Iskandar do not entirely escape their own critique. Just as Al-Jazeera frames its stories for a predominantly Arab audience, el-Nawawy and Iskandar frame their analysis for an English-speaking, predominantly American readership. One consequence is that they must provide a gloss for Arabic words such as shuhada, translated in the quote above as martyrs. However, although the term
The inadequacy of the translation of martyrs for shuhada is symptomatic of something larger, however. It points to a crucial paradox shaping journalism as a hermeneutic enterprise—that is, as an enterprise wherein journalists endeavor to make the world as seen from a foreign perspective meaningful to their readers, viewers, or listeners. In linguistic terms, the paradox is that journalists must work within the language they share with their readers in order to expose the inadequacies of their language. That is, they can use no words other than those provided by their language to express ideas for which their language might not necessarily have words—even an imported foreign word is meaningless without a gloss. Only with great difficulty can they escape the framework imposed by language because they work against the very framework that affords them the means to communicate.
This paradox is a function of more than just language, of course. Journalists face something analogous each time they write a story about a foreign interpretation of an event, such as how Iraqis understand the US invasion. If such an interpretation depends for its meaning on an Iraqi context that is not directly accessible to most American readers or viewers, to what degree can a journalist make it into a story meaningful to an American audience?
To examine these news-writing processes, I consider in this essay the discussions about how journalists have covered the Iraq war that the Columbia Journalism Review has been publishing since prior to the US invasion. I ask: how do journalists deal with translators and translations as they gather news about Iraq? What impact do the material conditions involved in reporting in a war zone have on how journalists go about their job, and how do these affect how they "translate" the perspectives of the people they write about? Finally, how do questions such as these lead us beyond a consideration of the process of news-writing to the articulation of an ethics of news-reading?
Translation and Translators
Translation in the most literal sense plays a large role in coverage of the war in Iraq. For instance, the Washington, DC-based Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI), reasoning that there is "nothing like primary sources to give the true picture of any country," posts translations of Arabic- and Farsi-language editorials and news stories to its website www.memri.org.
Beyond this, journalists reporting from Iraq who don't speak Arabic must rely on translators, who do more than just facilitate interviews. As Russell Working writes, "an interpreter embodies the adventure of reporting abroad. He becomes your voice and ears, your cultural advisor in a foreign land, smoothing over your faux pas [and] offering [cultural] tips". (CJR, Jan.-Feb. 2004) Translators provide a crucial link and must be trustworthy because "a reporter in an alien land is no better than his interpreter, and when your conduit to a culture is unreliable, no amount of enterprise can make up for it". Problems arise when a translator doesn't like or trust the person being interviewed and, as a result, translates that person unfavorably. Problems also arise when the translator is provided by a government hostile to the journalist's presence, as happened in Iraq before Saddam Hussein's overthrow:
Before the war, in Saddam Hussein's Iraq, one of the many things that made reporting there so difficult were the escorts—minders, in the language of journalists; guides, in the language of the government. They were dispatched by the information ministry to accompany any foreign reporter working in Iraq.
Their job description left little room for subtlety: rigorous surveillance. For reporters who didn't speak Arabic, they made sure a lot was lost in translation. By virtue of reports they filed to their superiors at the ministry, some journalists found themselves on blacklists. (CJR, May-June 2003)
In virtually every case, according to Anthony Shadid, the minders delivered a healthy dose of menace. On the other hand, good translators might be able to make contacts for the journalist, arranging interviews with people who, by virtue of their trust in the translator, would also trust the reporter.
Translating the US Military Experience
The material conditions in which journalists in Iraq must work also exert a great deal of influence over the stories they produce. To get their stories, they must face "land mines, suicide bombs, and accidents on the battlefield," by the account of CJR contributing editor Michael Massing (CJR, May-June 2003). Journalists who have been "embedded" by the US military are granted at least a degree of protection, in contrast to those who are not embedded, the so-called "unilateral" reporters. Embedded reporters, however, don't have easy access to Iraqi citizens and often end up reporting a military perspective, translating the military experience for a domestic US audience, which isn't to say that their job is easy. Quite the contrary, according to
...journalistically, there was no better place to be. But covering the spear point wasn't always easy.
Marine grunts are often an insular, standoffish bunch even among other marines; they pride themselves on being leaner, harder, somehow more marine-like. Rear-echelon types are dismissed as "pogues"—rhymes with "rogues"—a term said to stand for "Persons Other than Grunts." And to the marines, no one occupies a lower, more miserable place in the pogue world than reporters. (CJR, May-June 2003)
While gaining the trust of the "pogues" was in the end easier than he expected, Dillow writes that there was still a limit to what he could report, with casualty figures being taboo and "the astonishing crudity of young men in wartime" being inappropriate for a large circulation daily. More important, from the perspective of this examination of journalism as a hermeneutic enterprise, is Dillow's mea culpa: "I found myself," he writes, "doing what journalists are warned from J-school not to do: I found myself falling in love with my subject. I fell in love with 'my' marines". After spending so much time in isolation with his unit, he began to see the world from their perspective. The effect this had on his stories, according to him, was tangible; while he would not choose not to report an event that might reflect poorly on "his" soldiers, he would go out of his way to contextualize the event in a way that was at least sympathetic: "The point wasn't that I wasn't reporting the truth; the point was that I was reporting the marine grunt truth—which had also become my truth".
Translating Iraq
If embedded reporters like Gordon Dillow were reporting "marine grunt truth," were others reporting some version of Iraqi truth? What would "Iraqi truth" be, if that were the case? For whose benefit would "Iraqi truth" be reported, and how would the perspective adopted shape the story produced? These are complicated questions, especially when we take into account the following point, raised by Gal Beckerman: "The American discussion about Iraq is, after all, more than just about Iraq and Iraqis. It is about ideas, about competing prescriptions for what America's role in the world should be" (CJR, Mar.-Apr. 2004). In other words, stories about the Iraq war cannot be read outside of the ideologically charged context in which they appear, nor can reporters avoid participating in the ideological struggle taking place around the war's "meaning" per se. "[I]deologically driven writers tend to choose evidence that fits their point of view," Beckerman warns. "But reporters cannot merely build a case. Their job is to search through the gray zones, to try to grasp the ambiguities. [...] Reporters must find a way to learn what Iraqis really think".
To that end, Beckerman profiles four journalists she believes to be successful in negotiating the hazards associated with reporting in Iraq and uncovering what Iraqis "really think." George Packer is one such reporter. Writing for the New Yorker, Packer has had the luxury of time and column space, according to Beckerman, which he has used to get to know his interviewees well and, in articles up to 20,000 words long, to portray them as "complex and, in many ways, conflicted". Packer describes the role of the Western journalist in Iraq as that of an empathetic psychologist:
...the Iraqi psychology, shaped by more than thirty years of totalitarian Ba'athist rule, made reporting on Iraqis feel more like a job for Freud than for a magazine writer. Perhaps "what was truer of Iraqis than most people was how much talking they needed to do in order to express the fullness of their thinking," says Packer. "It was a bit like therapy. You are peeling back layers and layers of dogma and rumor."
What reporters needed, then, in order to overcome the gap separating them from the people they were writing about, was to "make the little imaginative effort to get into the skin of Iraqis," in Packer's words.
Hassan Fattah, founder of the Baghdad-based English-language daily Iraq Today, picks up where Packer leaves off. He is careful to distinguish between the "sense of empathy, which is the real power of journalism," and sympathy, or the tendency of certain Western journalists to feel sorry for Iraqis. But Western reporters, he emphasizes, cannot truly know Iraq because "[y]ou haven't been in Iraq until you have lived in a house, not a hotel, where the generator breaks down, the electricity goes out, and there is nothing you can do about it". As a result, Fattah is training Iraqi journalists in the "ethics and professionalism" of Western journalism.
Freelancer Vivienne Walt takes a position similar to Fattah's, except that she is a Western journalist attempting to overcome the gap Fattah identifies. She describes her reliance on translators and "fixers," the people who know the community and can point out story leads. This reliance can effectively be a hindrance: because they "are just as much the product of Saddam's culture of silence and fear as the subjects they help journalists interview," fixers "lack the freethinking journalistic skills" to generate story ideas and find leads. For that reason, Walt explains that she has been "comparing notes [with other foreign correspondents] about how we are trying to train our Iraqi fixers to be journalists".
The fourth journalist Beckerman profiles is Anthony Shadid of the Washington Post, an Arabic-speaking American of Lebanese descent. Shadid, much like George Packer, recognizes the complexity of the situation in Iraq, not to mention Iraqi reactions to it. To understand Iraqis, Beckerman explains:
...he doesn't force an answer. "Anybody who says they know how Iraqis feel is talking bullshit," says Shadid. "You are going to find somebody who is going to express contradictory sentiments in the same conversation, at the same moment." Shadid believes the best way to [capture the complexity of Iraqi sentiment] [...] is to lay it all out.
The implications of Shadid's approach are many, and one question it raises is that of making apparently contradictory Iraqi sentiments meaningful for the Americans who read Shadid's reports. This returns us to the question posed at the outset: is it possible for Americans to understand how Iraqis interpret the events occurring in their country when the context they draw upon to make sense of those events is outside the ken of most Americans?
Toward an Ethics of News-reading
The descriptions cited above reveal a great deal about not only the limitations of journalism as a hermeneutic enterprise, but also the possibilities that journalism opens up for advancing understanding across cultural lines. The paradox described in the opening paragraphs above is one that, ultimately, cannot be overcome, first because of the limitations imposed by the need to rely on translators and by the dangers inherent in reporting in a war zone, and second, because of the effects of the inescapable cultural lens through which reporters necessarily see the world. While this paradox might be insurmountable in absolute terms, however, it seems to be one journalists are well aware of and deal with in relative terms. In other words, some succeed in communicating foreign interpretations of an event better than others. At one end of the spectrum, we find stories from before the invasion about how Iraqis would welcome US soldiers as liberators, often based on specious, politically motivated descriptions of something like the "Iraqi psyche" under Saddam Hussein's dictatorship. At the other end, we find long-form stories such as those written by George Packer in the New Yorker or Anthony Shadid in the Washington Post. These stories might not succeed in causing readers to leave behind their cultural lens altogether, but they do hold the potential to cause readers to become aware of that lens and to begin to imagine how life might appear if that lens were different.
In this respect, Packer's new book, The Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq appears exemplary. According to David Glenn's review, Packer "hopes to extend a certain tradition of long-form journalism" closer in style to the personal essay than the typical news story (CJR, Sept.-Oct. 2005). This allows Packer to make his own assumptions reflexively explicit. It also allows him to describe how the dangers faced by reporters in a war zone affect the stories they tell; he explains, for instance, how his decision to move from a vulnerable hotel to one that was better protected, but filled with journalists rather than Iraqis, influenced his interactions with the people he was writing about, and, consequently, the stories he wrote.
If journalism as a hermeneutic enterprise is characterized by its empathetic approach, as George Packer and Hassan Fattah suggest, then it is this reflexivity that lends journalistic empathy an ethical dimension. Empathy is a double-edged sword: on the one hand, our effort as Americans to understand events from an Iraqi point of view can help us to begin to understand the motivations for their actions, or at least to see their actions as something other than alien or incomprehensible. On the other hand, however, a facile form of empathy deriving from the belief that we can know Iraqis in such a way that they become transparent to us is likely to lead us to substitute our image of Iraqis for living, breathing people. The relationship that results would not be between Americans and Iraqis acting as subjects but between Americans acting as subjects and symbolically dominated Iraqis reduced to the status of object. Such symbolic domination would lead—indeed, has led—to a situation where the United States attempts to reshape Iraq and the Middle East in its own image.
This is where journalists' reflexivity brings an ethical dimension to the empathy that informs their writing. As they foreground the ways in which their very presence affects the news they are reporting, they also reveal how their knowledge is necessarily incomplete. In this way, journalists' reflexivity has larger implications for readers (and listeners and viewers) of the news, too. As American readers we should be equally reflexive. Admittedly, to recognize that our knowledge is incomplete is to complicate our decision-making process by introducing ambiguity and undecidability: how do we reconcile the benefits of the overthrow of a dictator with the means employed to that end? How do we decide when US troops should be withdrawn, given the precarious Iraqi situation? How does an incomplete understanding of these issues from an Iraqi point of view—which, for most Americans, can be apprehended only indirectly, through the news—influence the decisions we make as we vote or communicate with our elected officials?
Ambiguity makes complete answers impossible, which makes many people uncomfortable. But it does something else as well: it allows us to enter into a tenuous, fragile relationship, one that requires constant care and effort, with Iraqis as people rather than images of our own making. As Iraq comes to define itself post-Saddam Hussein, it will be on terms of its own defining.
Kyle Conway is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Communication Arts at University of Wisconsin-Madison. He thanks Ziad Sudan for his help with the discussion of the word shuhada.


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James Hinchcliffe finally had a reason to smile at the Honda Indy Toronto.
The 26-year-old from Oakville, Ont., survived contact on the second-last restart to finish a career-best eighth in his hometown race Saturday at Exhibition Place.
"I think we get honourable mention today," Hinchcliffe said. "Maybe it's a moral podium because it was hard fighting out there.
"This place is so tough, this series so competitive and everybody out there, it's cutthroat, man."
Alex Tagliani of Lachenaie, Que., finished 17th in the first of two 85-lap races over the 11-turn, 1.75-mile street course. The veteran driver had a promising top-10 run going before contacting ninth-place finisher Simon Pagenaud with three laps remaining.
With two races this weekend, the expectation was drivers would be cautious on the track. But predictably, Hinchcliffe said when he and his brethren get behind the wheel, they have one mindset — to win.
"When you're out there racing, whether you've got one race or two, you never make a move assuming it's going to end in disaster," he said. "You're going to drive just as hard as you would if this was Sunday and I think we saw that.
"It's more fun for us and I think it's a better show for the fans."
And during the pre-race driver's parade, it was clear many in attendance had come to see Hinchcliffe, who received the loudest ovation from fans.
"The parade lap was pretty special, for sure," he said. "Every single grandstand was chanting and cheering.
"The biggest thing is you want to put on a good show for them. Everyone was still waving and clapping at the end so I guess they weren't too disappointed with a top-10."
Scott Dixon won Saturday's race to claim his second straight victory.
It's been a roller-coaster season for Hinchcliffe, who has a series-leading three wins but is sixth in the driver's standings, 88 points behind leader Helio Castroneves, who has won once. Hinchcliffe has also had his problems here, finishing 14th in 2011 before being forced out of last year's event with engine problems.
But after starting 13th on Saturday, Hinchcliffe stood seventh when the race restarted on the 69th lap. With a glut of cars heading into the first turn, though, Hinchcliffe's vehicle was clipped, causing a cloud of blue smoke.
"At first the team was calling me in," Hinchcliffe said. "But I said, 'Until that tire blows up I'm not coming in, I'm sorry. Tell me that it's going flat and I'll come in but until then, I can deal with it smoking a bit.'
"Luckily we stayed out. It made the car pretty loose ... but we were lucky to hold on to a top-10 so I'm proud of the boys and we'll take what we learned (Saturday) and apply it (Sunday)."
Two-time champion Paul Tracy remains the last Canadian to capture this event, winning in 2003. On Sunday, Tagliani will start from the No. 9 spot, three ahead of Hinchcliffe. But Hinchcliffe said he and his teams learned some valuable lessons Saturday.
"We know a lot more about the tires now," he said. "When you only have one practice and go straight into qualifying you never really run a set of tires past 20 laps and we're doing 30-something lap stints here.
"So it's a lot of knowledge, a lot of learning done this race and you apply that to. That's what these guys get paid for. We'll go look over everything and be here late (Saturday) trying to sort it out and come back even stronger."
Tagliani, 39, felt he was capable of a top-10 finish before the incident with Pagenaud in the first turn.
"I didn't want to go on the outside but he turned and brought me all the way to the inside wall," Tagliani said. "I didn't want to tap the wall, but he just hit my front tire and got me into a spin.
"I'm kind of disappointed by a pretty aggressive move but it's a race incident and we've got to turn the page and move on and go to race two. We had a pace to be in the top-10 ... it was just a question of finishing the race and trying to maintain the position we had. Unfortunately, this race is renowned for creating altercations on the track and we were a victim in one of them."
Tagliani was second here to American Michael Andretti in 2001 and third in 2005. But his best effort this year was 10th at the Grand Prix of St. Petersburg, another street circuit.
Tagliani is hopeful he and his team will benefit from the lessons learned Saturday.
"Hopefully with our (No. 9) starting spot we'll be working a lot less to try and make position and get there," he said. "Hopefully we'll be able to get there and if we can stay there all race long and try to stay out of those situations and make some tweaks to the car ... if we can find four tenths it will be a lot easier to stay there."Report Typo/Error


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Here's hoping Santa delivered on the goods for everyone. Happy to report that despite these troubled times all around we had a wonderful family day on Christmas.
I found this forum while researching a new IWB holster (finally settled on a Active Pro Gear model that looks to be highly tuckable...see photos below). I'll let you know how it works out once it's delivered. Don't hold your breath, though, as I work 3 wks on/off on a drillship in the Gulf of Mexico and I'll be there when it comes in the mail.
Hope you all have a blessed and bodacious new year!
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As announced on this blog post, we met, thanks to Lord Ahmed, in the House of Lords on Tuesday, March 9th to have an audience with our Chairman Austin Mitchell MP.
The clear outcome was Austin's recommendation: stage your own public inquiry! That is an empowering and challenging suggestion: Grand Juries were very effective and recognized in the Magna Carta in 1215. But they were dispensed with in 1933 in the UK, when the poor were particularly hard up.
Here are a 4-page and a 2-page article on Grand Juries that serve as a collaborative working document. You are invited to provide your feedback!
Another important publication is The Forensics of Legal Fraud.
A recent story in Private Eye about John McFall MP, Chairman of the Treasury Select Committee, entertaining the British Bankers Association in the House of Commons, makes clear that we will NEVER be heard by the Treasury Select Committee. We were advised by a human rights lawyer to "go for Parliamentary scrutiny" via that Committee…
But Parliament is not behind us, as the few MPs who signed the Early Day Motion of the Robin Hood Tax campaign also indicate. Austin's EDM on Confidence in Parliament and Parliamentarians tells that kind of story in another way.
Learning more and more to help ourselves, we recorded introductions on video at our meetings on April 23, 2009 and on June 09, 2009.
Here are recordings of "victims turned starfighters" introducing themselves on March 09, 2010:
Lewis Nicholson, victim of judicial and lawyers' fraud
Brian Hudson, Family Court
Peter Oakes
Paul Talbot-Jenkins, Fame '97 – Friends Against Monetary Exploitation
Patrick Cullinane
David Fabb
Eva Adshead
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A note of congratulations should go to the Denver Center Theatre Company for its daring in premiering Lisa Loomer's Two Things You Don't Talk About at Dinner, which received a reading at last year's New Play Summit, even if the organization has downplayed the gutsiest element: the presence of a Palestinian -- a quiet, polite, but nonetheless emotionally torn Palestinian -- at a conventional Jewish seder. Publicity for the production doesn't mention the Palestinian, but it does quote a rabbi: "Much of it is done through great humor. You'll leave this play talking about ideas with a big smile on your face."
To be fair, the tone is generally humorous, and the Israel-Palestine conflict isn't the only issue at this dinner, which also features a moody Buddhist, a middle-aged drunk, and an evangelical Christian who believes her hostess is going to hell. The immigrant maid has her own issues, too. And Loomer, who based both the hostess and the Palestinian on people she knew, certainly intended her work to be healing. The seder symbolizes freedom from oppression, she points out, and many of her friends are getting more and more politically polarized: "If we can't even talk to each other, what's the hope for the world?"
But leaving with a big smile? More likely a lot of unanswerable questions. Two Things You Don't Talk About at Dinner premieres tonight at 7:30 p.m. and runs through February 19 at the Space Theatre in the Denver Performing Arts Complex. For showtimes and tickets, call 303-893-4100 or go to www.denvercenter.org.
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Just to clarify, I'll keep this post up as long as the car is for sale. However, I just started classes again, so I'll have less time to respond and meet with people.
Really depends on how much you are offering, and if I have the time. This post has been up for a while, and I just started classes again for grad school so I have less time now.
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I didn't realize the whp was that low. Interesting. That would definitely explain the feeling of the car.
All at once, eh? Only if it's unmarked $20's in a nice Samsonite (something with quality, but not too flashy). I'll have a case with the title, keys and maintenance records. We'll make the swap at...
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I'll be sad to see it go, but I have other priorities now that I'm married and carpooling people for work. Time for a grown up car :(
Sorry can't go that low. Already have offers > $7,500k
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See how tired I was? I was lost for a whole summer there. Here's the latest. I have now been in Los Angeles for a year, and some good things have happened, and some nothing has happened. There's a lot to see and do in the city, I've met Chuck Palahniuk twice, Neil Gaiman once, Christopher Moore once, seen celebrities, discovered the fun of skating in Santa Monica by the beach, wiped out hard skating on the beach, etc. etc. etc. I'm still trying to sell the first book even as I finish the second, as well as working fitfully on my screenplay.
On a side note, we're about one week away from the big recall here. Things don't look so good. I think Arnold Schwarzenegger is going to win. His impact on the economy is still unclear, but I don't think it will do much for the state's reputation.
I'm kickboxing now. I have taken about a month's worth of classes, and I throw a mean right hook. I might even compete by the end of the year. It depends.
I want to win the lottery, and I want to sell my book.
I also want to blog more regularly, and I'd like to write cohesive pieces... which rhymes, and may be a good title for a short story collection.
Again, hmm.
I'm full of stories, and have no time to write them all down. Keep your fingers crossed.
read these books:
I am Legend by Richard Matheson.
Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them by Al Franken
Battle Royale by Koushun Takami
Chemical Pink by Katie Arnoldi
absolutely anything written by Amy Hempel
Maybe I could start doing a book review thing. Or movie reviews.
I watch a lot of movies. This year has been a disappointment. But there have been a few good studio movies, a few good independents.
Until next time...
(Hey, give me a break, I haven't done this in months, I don't want to strain a muscle)


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The topic of is there any relation between one's political behavior and one's moral behavior. In other words, if a politician is caught with a prostitute should that be sufficient grounds to send that person into exile? A recent poll of Danes reveal while 33% are upset if a politician cheats on his wife, 59% are furious if he is caught with a prostitute. Most Danes will not vote for any politician who cheats on taxes or presents false documents. It is apparent that many in society who might cheat sexually on their spouse become furious if a politician does the same thing. Frankly, I am more interested in how political leaders vote, the ideas they propose to deal with societal issues rather than the direction of their pecker. Sex with a prostitute is an issue that concerns a spouse, not the nation as a whole. Former Governor Eliot Spitzer of New York ended his career in disgrace because he spent time with prostitutes, with call girls who never seemed to cease calling on him, and lying about these matters. I could live with this behavior, but my anger was the incompetent political policies of the former governor.
I am all for sex with whomever you desire if you achieve our desires for jobs and for a vibrant economy. If getting it up with a prostitute enables you to get it up with financial stability, be my guest and get it as high as you can.


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