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Discussion in 'Other Sports' started by Garden Kitty, May 7, 2009.
Leipheimer fired for doping history.
Have you heard anything about whether Lance's 7 titles will go to the runner up? That's been the precedent but passing a couple of titles to Jan Ullrich, for example, is going to look really silly. So they seem to be a bit stuck.
There are only a couple of runner ups who haven't been implicated at some point, right?
I think they said the titles for those years would be vacated, with no winners listed instead of Armstrong. Considering the tour was hardly doping-free in those years, I suppose it only makes sense.
A good article on this topic from Velonews.
And today's not-really-Lance-related-news, Cav fans can rejoice! He's officially signed with Omega Pharma Quickstep. All signs point to Omega Pharma building a dedicated sprinter's team for the upcoming season. Glad to see them get the deal done. Sky and Cav both knew that, once Wiggo and Froome began dominating the GC at the TDF this year, the split interests idea wasn't going to work. So I'm thrilled to see Cav go to a team that can prioritize him winning stages. It would be a shame to see him waste part of his best racing years on the wrong kind of team.
And, of course, despite the fact that Cav has been planning to leave for months and this deal has been in the works for months, the fact that Sky just announced their doping contract has allowed a bunch of internet trolls to insist that Cav is leaving because he won't sign it. Because apparently Cav is psychic and anticipated this contract months ago? Whatever.
Lance Armstrong was doping?!!? Wow, I never saw that one coming.
They should either leave the winner empty for those years or give the Tour de France titles to Victor Conte, or whoever is the doping guru for elite cyclists.
It is said in the article I posted further up that they will leave those years blank.
Glad they took them away, glad no other winner is named. They all doped, he's just the biggest fish caught. Maybe they should just let everyone dope on the same thing and then see who the best is.
Good decision to strip Lance the doper, and leave all those years blank. The most disgraceful years in the history of cyling, no winner is deserved. Hopefully all cyclists are scared by that and the ones who are still doping think twice about it. Lance was always the most overrated cyclist in history. Even had he been clean (lol) he was a 1 trick pony who focused all his efforts on one event, and who needed his ass carried by probably the strongest team in cycling history (as it turned out a team of fellow dopers) to victory. The past greats like Indurian, Merckx, Hinault, Anquetil, and others dominated the cycling circuit year round, doing and succeeding in all major tours, and ones less team oriented as well.
I've never followed the sport but was curious to know more given all the recent news, and remember how often doping in cycling has come up in the past. Turns out that Lance and his team are far from the first to dope in the Tour de France - according to Wiki, it goes back to the race's origins 100 years ago - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doping_at_the_Tour_de_France
And this list is - detailing doping across all cycling events in history - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_doping_cases_in_cycling
Thanks for that. I have no doubt cycling has always been a sport involving a fair amount of juicing, but it built for years until hitting its all time peak in the late 90s/early 2000s. Now with Lance and his doping brigade brothers busted, and more agressive focus on catching dopers in cycling, hopefully there will be a bit less than there was.
According to the news reports in Germany, the decision will be made Friday by the UCI president. It's not final yet. But giving them to anyone would be ridiculous.
They will also decide whether Armstrong will have to pay back his prize money. The tricky thing is that the statute of limitation is eight years, so it has run out on most of his titles and it might not be smart to push it. It might make a legal case Armstrong could win and he seems to be sue-happy.
According to German news, the UCI is also rumored to have told Armstrong in one of the earlier years, forgot which one, that he tested positive but that they'd not do anything about that. In return, Armstrong donated money. Another factor they need to consider when deciding about the prize money.
I don't want to defend him but given the fact how many athletes doped and dope and how cycling has such a long history of doping and how scientists keep saying that the Tour de France is impossible to succeed in unless one is doped, I not only think no one is clean but I also think that Armstrong seems to be a pawn in the scheme of a much bigger game, simply to save face.
Why the big deal over Lance losing his Tour de France titles? It's not like he lost his left nut.
I am finding it pretty amazing considering all the evidence that Armstrong is still denying that he ever doped. So many have now admitted they were part of systematic doping, including two officials in Australia who have now stood down from their high positions in the sport. Armstrong probably thinks that if he keeps denying it then he must be telling the truth.
One interesting article I read is the cancer played a very large role in why people didn't go after Armstrong even with all the doping accusations. How dare they pick on someone after what he has been through was the underlying message. Probably a contributing factor in why he got away with it for so long.
I'm wondering if his experience with cancer is what might have got him into doping, and made him convince others to do the same. He survived cancer and in some ways conquered his own body - with the help of medicine. So maybe he thought he could keep going along those lines - make his body more powerful etc and achieve things no one thought possible. When someone is that driven, it's hard to understand how their mind works, and when others around him are too, I can see where they could get caught up in the idea of win at any cost.
As for not admitting it, either he really is innocent and this is all a giant conspiracy (but realistically, the chances of that are tinier and tinier as this continues), or that same mindset has him either stubbornly thinking what he did wasn't wrong and other people just don't get what it takes to be an athlete at that level/cancer survivor, or he's painted himself far enough into a corner that he doesn't see a way out.
That, and because America finally had an interesting champion cyclist, unlike Greg La-Bland.
Part of the evidence presented was he had being doing doping long before the cancer. If you check the testimony of Frankie and Betsy Andreu, they were in the room with him when the doctor asked him if he had taken performance enhancing drugs. According to their affidavits, Armstrong was quite casual in his response that he had taken a variety of drugs.
Route for the 100th edition of the Tour de France announced today. This route includes a "dusk" finish on the Champs and fewer chronos which should please Andy Schleck.
Wiggins looks thrilled
All cyclists (especially Wiggins) should call Contador before big events to see how to dress
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L'Alpe d'Huez and Mount Ventoux? Yes PLEASE! Let's climb some mountains.
Much as I love the idea of Cav wearing yellow, I sort of hate starting the race with everyone tied for the same time. It's oddly irritating to look at the rankings and see everyone with the same time. (Plus Cav usually botches the first sprint stage of a Grand Tour so it'll probably be Greipel in Yellow and that doesn't amuse me at all ).
Only 65 km of Individual Time Trials and one team is good news for the less skilled time trialists out there. Of course, Contador has been able to win no matter what the course is like and I suspect he'll come in as the favorite as long as he isn't trying to win the Giro as well. It'll be interesting to see if Andy can be back to his 2010/2011 form by then. And what his team actually looks like. Because last year, I don't think he had a team built to attempt to win him a TDF in 2012 even if he'd been healthy.
It's a little far out to really speculate on the contenders but I'm excited! It'll be interesting to see if Hesjedal focuses on the tour and how much Garmin will ride in support of him versus Tyler, what goes on with Andy, who will be the lead riders for BMC and Sky, etc.
Froome has already publicly suggested that Wiggo take the team lead at the Giro and he take the team lead in the Tour. It begins already!
According to the BBC, Wiggins has suggested that too:
Yeah, I saw that. In the article I read yesterday he said he'd focus on the Giro and see what happens in the tour which is a little less emphatic. It's logical because this is not a great route for Wiggo but I imagine it'll be difficult for the guy with #1 on his back to ride in support.
Meanwhile Contador is supporting Lance and US Postal? I know he road for Bruyneel for two of his tour titles but, if I were him, I'd be distancing myself like crazy rather than clinging to that sinking ship.
Bobby Julich makes his confession and is released from coaching on Team Sky
Reports that Vino paid off Kolobnev for his Liege win. Oh for the good old days of doping stories.
Bradley Wiggins now being reported as having suffered several cracked ribs after being knocked off his bike near his home.
Mark Cavendish and Peta Todd get engaged
And who knew that Mark used to be a ballroom dancer?
Okay, I definitely did not know that and that is hilarious. He'd be awfully short for a ballroom dancer now!
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A group of trees recently TPO'd are nevertheless in danger from development on the corner of Amhurst Park and Bethune Road. Can anyone suggest ways to protect them?
'Crabtrees' a local campaign have succeeded in getting some dozen trees in our back gardens and locally TPO'd, after an 8 year long campaign. Hurray! But this means nothing if the TPO's can be flouted -as seems to be happening.
I'm not sure how the TPO system works, but I should think the council's tree officers would be the first point of call. I met one of them recently and I think they have a quasi-legal powers to protect trees.
what is the nature of the threat?
The repsonse depends on the threat. 1 is an enforcement issue, 2 is an arboriculture issue and 3 and 4 planning issues.
Thanks Russell, I think 1 - 3 are involved. I just worry that enforcement will not be applied vigorously enough/in time to save the trees. Are there any 'higher bodies' one can appeal to/inform?

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Last night we locked outself out of our house. I tried to get in through the garage window, and bent the bottom sill up. I am unable to get it to go back down, so I am wondering if I can just replace the sill, or do I have to replace the whole window frame now. The sill is aluminum, and the house has brick going up the house, then vinyl up the rest of the house. I see on the window sill that it just has a lip on the underside of it, and its supppose to slide right back inbetween the walls. Any help would be truly appreciated.
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I explain you my problem, in my work i have to make a network audit.
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My sniffer has for ip 10.32.31.X (Vlan1) / my first target (user's computer) 10.32.31.X (Vlan1) / the server 10.40.0.X (Vlan2)
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I'm considering putting one in my '57 210 wagon to replace a tired out 235. While I need to determine yet that the overall installed height of the engine will allow it (the carb cover nuts on the 235's Offy intake just barely contact the hood) I've got some basic questions about the engine that maybe you folks can help me with so here's the scenario:
As I understand it, the mid 60's engines (pre smog) were rated at ~ 170 hp from the factory. If my research is correct, that block casting # would have been 328880 or 1970? The 1970 looks a little weird to me but I pulled it off of a website for recycled engines...
I understand it's reasonable to expect that a restored (to factory specs) 292 engine with a properly sized set of 3 one barrel carbs, headers and duals could get you around 200 rear wheel hp (and that's my target by the way). Is there merit to going with oversized valves, different (aftermarket) cam, etc or is the factory build (with the carb/header bolt ons) going to get me there?
Since the car is going to be on the street (not a daily driver though) could one expect ~ 18 to 20 mpg with the factory engine/bolt on mod setup?
While I'm looking, I could be made to change my mind from retaining the 3 speed column setup I currently have to a 5 speed on the floor. If you look at my pics link, I'm getting ready to replace my floor pans and now's the time to cut whatever holes I'd need. Sure do like that 3 speed though...<LOL>
I've got the links to inliners, stovebolt, etc in my favorites and haven't gotten the answers to the above short of posting the questions there. Clifford's got nice piece parts but short of calling them with questions (and I dont't know enough yet to do that) thought I'd try here first.
What I haven't run into yet is a list of the vehicle years/models where this engine (the higher hp version) was deployed. That would help me out a lot while I'm looking for a recycled engine to rebuild.
Just some basic parameters: I don't want to go with a v-6 or an 8. I don't want to go with a blower. I do know there are motor mount differences but no big deal.
And here's a link to my pics.
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Thanks in advance folks.
The tall deck 292 was a truck only motor. In stock trim, they are about the same height as a 235 and are 19% lighter. The deck height on a 230/250 is 1.75" less than the 292. The 230/250 is also 24% lighter than a 235.
To make any serious attempt at getting power or mileage from a 292, "Lump Ports" are needed. The 3.875" X 4.125" 292 was built for one thing, Torque. To get 200HP at the wheel means you will need about 1HP per inch at the crank. Big valves, port work, higher compression, and more cam, along with your intake and headers is going to be needed. Dan
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Between dissolving At the Drive-In and reforming as the superior Mars Volta, Omar A. Rodriguez-Lopez (guitarist and co-songwriter for both bands) began work on a series of adventurous studio sessions to accompany the film-in-progress A Manual Dexterity. Rodriguez-Lopez has bypassed the film's indefinite delay by releasing the first half of the mostly instrumental soundtrack, appropriately titled A Manual Dexterity—Soundtrack Volume 1, on his own Gold Standard Laboratories label. The film's music (performed by what the press release calls a "comparable" lineup of the players on the Mars Volta's De-loused in the Comatorium) represents a definite stop-gap between Rodriguez-Lopez's two bands, a palette-cleanser of sorts amidst his transition from histrionic punker to labyrinthian progger. It's a project that seems to neglect all invocations of the mainstream, opting to beat its own atypical drum loudly.
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Hugh inherits a musty old mansion, along with the entire book collection contained within, from his grandfather - a bibliomaniac who once traded half his lands in exchange for a copy of a rare book. The only condition was that he also inherit the "Archives of Dantalian."
Having arrived at the mansion to put his grandfather's possessions in order, Hugh meets a girl of 12 or 13 quietly reading amongst the tall piles of books in the basement.
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Several years ago, I was in Chicago visiting a ministry that has helped to promote home education. The director of the curriculum department pulled me aside into a conference room and said, "We want to know how have raised a son like Richard. Home schooling families are doing a good job of raising godly daughters. But it seems like they are failing in raising godly sons." At the time, my son Richard was 15. I really couldn't think of much to tell them other than the fact that the grace of God had made up for a lot of my failures as a Dad. As a homeschooling family we have not been the best at maintaining a regular schedule, always having regular devotionals, or anything else that model familes are supposed to be doing. Yet in spite of all that, my children all know Christ. All are serving Him in the local church. My son Richard is now 23, married to a wonderful young lady, and has a beautiful daughter. He finished college in 22 months at the age of 20. He has been in the work force since graduating high school and now has job as a database expert with a respectable salary and benefits. Additionally, he is teaching the Family Integrated Bible Study at our church. If you listen to his series on the Divided Kingdom or his current series on the Warrior Poet, you will realize that this young man has keen insights into God's Word -- far beyond what the average seminary graduate seems to have. Our pastor and I plan to ordain Richard later this year as he is not a novice -- and has successfully given proof of the fact that he is God-called into the ministry. My eldest daughter is a wonderful wife and mother and married a loyal and godly man. My other children give evidence of a heart for serving Christ. As a Dad, my children are such a blessing, encouragement, and challenge to me. But I have wondered for a long time how they could turn out so well without a more disiciplined or rigorous schedule.
That question continued to nag me until this last week. Six years after I was first asked this question, I believe I have the answer to the question.
There is a 3-legged stool on which effective parenting rests. Knock out any one of the legs and you have a disaster.
As I look back on the last quarter century of parenting, I can tell you that I wasn't always consistent in family devotionals. I've never been great at enforcing a family schedule. We tend to be incredibly FLEXIBLE but not at all organized. I still want to improve in those areas.
But my children have told me that my wife and I have done a good job at teaching them the fear of the Lord. I showed them the consequences of not obeying God. I've shared my own failures and how those caused me to forfeit blessings. We have also given God credit for all the good in our lives. We stressed to them to honor God, honor His church, dress appropriately for worship. We taught them that the Bible is the most important book in the world and that it should rule every aspect of their lives.
Thanks to the suggestion of my wise and beautiful wife Judy, I have made an INTENTIONAL effort to spend one-on-one time with each of my children. These weekly "dates" with my kids have become the highlight of my life. I have plenty of opportunity to be a good pastor or a worthwhile employee. But I have only one shot at being a good father to each of my children. Keeping their hearts is challenging in today's world. And when daughters get closer to the age of getting married, it is even more difficult. But for the moment I have their hearts. And by God's grace I will keep them.
I go shopping with my daughters. (I almost wish purgatory were real because I'm sure I'd get time off from purgatory every time I went shopping at a non-hardware store just for the purpoes of fellowship. But I still have a payback in what it means to them. I'm not big on shopping, but I love spending time with my daughters.) My youngest son and I work out together with a personal trainer. It is just the 2 of us with our trainer in a small gym. That protects his eyes from the defraudingly dressed women in a regular gym. And it gives him "man-time" with his Dad.
I don't get to spend as much time with my married children. They have lives of their own. But I still cherish seeing my eldest daughter every Tuesday when she comes to our house. And I enjoy going to the gun range or racquetball court with my eldest son. And every Sunday I have the unique privilege of seeing all 10 of my children (the 8 the Lord initially gave us + 2 He has added to our family through marriage) and my 3 grandchildren in church together. It fills my soul with joy on a weekly basis.
Rick Wertz, founder of Faithful Fathering, spoke at our church on the same day as I preached this sermon. Rick's presentation is available as MP3 on (www.sermonaudio.com/rrohlin), passed out a quiz. The quiz gave you an opportunity to rate your fathering heritage. It asked 5 simple questions where you rated your father on a scale of 1 to 5. The questions addressed three characteristics of what Rick says constitutes an effective father:
Isn't in amazing how he addresses the same three areas as my 3-legged stool?
Let me be the first to acknowledge that the greatest secret of parenting success is that I married the woman God chose for my wife. Without her, my entire life would be a tragic waste. She has enabled me to serve God and others. And she is the world's most amazing Mom. That is no doubt why other mothers call her on a near-daily basis for counsel and advice. Judy is known for her simple advice like this classic on how to deal with hurt feelings: "Love, forgive, go on."
I think it is possible to be a successful parent without fully understanding how to parent. The Holy Spirit of God can lead you to do the right things without being able to articulate it. However, I believe the most effective parents are the ones who are INTENTIONAL in their parenting. When they discover the keys to parenting success they make an intentional effort to build those things into their lives. May God bless you to be an intentional parent.
Begin by teaching your children the fear of God. Then spend time with them. Ask them questions about what is going on in their hearts. Determine if they are facing any of the 5 battles for the soul. Then hug them. Love on them. Dispel anger from your home and your character. Love your spouse and let your kids see that. Quit being snappy and irritable. Demonstrate the patient love of Christ first to your own family.
I can't guarantee that will bring success. Children still have their own will and can still make bad decisions. But I can guarantee that if you don't put the 3-legged stool into action, you are much more likely to fail. God wants your children to not only bless others. He wants you to enjoy your children. He wants you to be blessed by them.
To my children, thank you for being my blessings. You are God's gift to me and your mother. Honor Him all the days of your life. Thank you for letting me be your Dad.
I believe that if we lived in the presence of Christ, the reproofs given in 6 of those 7 letters would not be needed. I also think it is significant that the first imperative verb in Revelation directed at the readers is "Behold" -- meaning to look upon or gaze upon. Similarly in Hebrews, the first imperative verb directed at the readers specifically is to "Hearken" or "Hear and obey." Our focus should be less on arguing the fine points of theology and instead to gaze upon Christ, to worship Him, to hear His Word, and obey it and the promptings of the Holy Spirit.
I still intend to get to the letters to the 7 churches. But I truly believe that we must first just pause and gaze upon Jesus.
The most startling bit of news was that she tried to donate her kidney to her husband because they had the same blood type. But the transplant center would not even test her to see if she was a good match because her body-to-mass index (BMI) was too high. So out of lover for her husband, she lost 70 lbs. in 9 months. She then qualified for testing and they discovered that she was a match in every way but that her kidneys were too small for her husband. If they transplanted her kidney in to her husband, it would have lasted only 2-3 years. Fortunately, God sent a friend who offered his kidney and was a match and her husband is now doing fine.
But 70 lbs. in 9 months? That is fantastic. And I could tell by looking at this woman that she kept the weight off for good. How was she able to do this? Diet and exercise were both big factors, but neither would have worked without the motivation she had of wanting to save her husband's life.
My own weight has gone back up since a car accident forced me to go for 4 surgical procedures to my spine. (A young girl texting ran into the back of my vehicle at about 30 mph because she couldn't be bothered to look up and see me at the stop light.) So I need now to get back down to my ideal weight and need to hit the gym 5 days / week to do it. But finding the movtivation can be difficult -- especially when you're still hurting.
Motivation is the key. It is certainly the key for holy living. Peter gives us 3 motivations to live a holy life. The first of these is most special to me -- it is the love of our heavenly Father. My own kids are precious to me. Two of my 8 children have expressed in written notes that their greatest fear in life was of doing something that displeased me. Why? Because they have always had my love and approbation and they didn't want to lose it.
More than anything else, I want to have that same spirit toward my heavenly Father -- so that I would never want to do anything to displease Him. He has given me every good thing in my life. My wonderful wife of more than 35 years, my 8 wonderful children, a nice home, a good job, a wonderful ministry. And a thousand other blessings....
Father, I do love you and I don't want to displease you today. May you remain in my thoughts and may I ever be aware of your presence watching what I do and hearing what I think. As my Father, may you be pleased with the way I live today. Amen.


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Joined by co-star Dakota Fanning, The "Twilight" hottie looked very '70s rocker chic as she shot scenes for the period piece, sporting a black leather jacket with a mustard yellow t-shirt, belted black leather trousers, and black Converse All-Stars.
In related news, rumor has it that Kristen and her "New Moon" costar Robert Pattinson enjoyed some intimate alone time while they were in San Diego promoting their upcoming flick.
An inside source revealed that the said-to-be-lovers were "together" the night before Comic-C0n kicked off, and they even had a secret entrance to their hotel so that no one would see them.
Rob and Kristen both stayed on the 11th floor of the Hard Rock Hotel, with a hotel source saying, "Who knows their specific sleeping arrangements, but [Rob and Kristen] were on the same hotel floor." Additionally, Pattinson was scheduled to stay in San Diego on Thursday night, but instead went to LA to be with Stewart.
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The military situation in Afghanistan is sinking into complete collapse and there is need for new directions in combating Taliban forces. General Petraeus is leaning toward drawing upon tactics used in Iraq when he reached out to Sunni militants and formed the Awakening Council movement to combat al-Qaeda. He noted Afghanistan has over 150 tribal groups although most belong to the Pashtun ethnic group. "So it is essential that, again, the various tribes, of the local communities, indeed oppose the extremism, oppose the insurgents and enable the effort of the afghan government and the coalition." He wants the Afghan government and coalition forces to involve tribal entities in order to have an effective fighting force against the Taliban.
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Re: Conventional way of doing "struct"-like things?
I encountered this kind of thing many years ago for a
particular kind of table format that happens to occur in my work.
With the help of a student, I developed a package to work with them
(including the ability to interface to CSV tables). I and other
colleagues are still using them. The basic idea was that of "self-
describing" data sets. For the case of CSV format, this means that
the first row of data is a set of strings labelling the columns (your
ZIPCODE, etc.). Actually our tables include other non-column items
before this header line, which also describe themselves, e.g.,
Then the idea was to write functions to manipulate such table objects
in all the ways you might want, e.g.,
This returns an object with head mfs. To find out what is contained in
would return
To extract a list of rows containing data from just two columns:
The point is just that you never needed to think about indexing the
order of the columns because the data describes itself. XML is a
later, much more general, approach, of course.
There are many other functions, the mfs data objects remember which
file they came from, etc, etc.
If you are interested in the package, let me know.
John Jowett
On Nov 2, 12:03 am, Erik Max Francis <m... at alcyone.com> wrote:
> I find myself (as I'm sure everyone does) dealing with lists of
> structured data, e.g., a list of lists, each of which contains n
> elements with each entry representing a unique field. What is the most
> conventional way to identify each of these elements when iterating over
> the whole list? Obviously I can use [[...]]/Part, but I'm wondering if
> there's something considered more elegant.
> Take a concrete example where I have a CSV containing ZIP code data,
> with seven fields: the zip code, latitude, longitude, city, state,
> county, and class. What's the usual way of addressing this? I can
> think of two obvious ones; just define symbolic names for the indices:
> data = Import[..., "CSV"];
> {ZIPCODE, LATITUDE, LONGITUDE, CITY, STATE, COUNTY, CLASS} = Range[7];
> ListPlot[{#[[LONGITUDE]], #[[LATITUDE]]} & /@ data,
> PlotStyle -> PointSize[0.001]]
> or define functions (with or without the symbolic index names):
> latitude[x_] := x[[2]];
> longitude[x_] := x[[3]];
> ListPlot[{longitude[#], latitude[#]} & /@ data,
> PlotStyle -> PointSize[0.001]]
> What's consider more in Mathematica's style, or is there something else
> more commonly used I'm not thinking of?
> On that general subject, are there generally-respected Mathematical
> style guides floating around somewhere? I'm not necessarily looking fo=
> rigid codified rules, just for "accepted" (more or less) conventional
> ways of getting things done. I'm relatively new to Mathematica but by
> no means new to programming and am fluent in many other languages (C,
> C++, Python, etc.), so I'm just looking for ideas about "the way things
> are done" that go well with Mathematica's functional nature but are
> still self-documenting as much as possible.
> Thanks.
> --
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> The chicken was the egg's idea of getting more eggs.
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The flu is becoming a 4-letter word for a lot of us. This season has been among the worst on record. Hospitals coast to coast reporting long waits because of the flu. Deanna Hoey from the Cayuga County Health Department says they've already blown right past last season's 30 cases.
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This is probably the least surprising news I know: Desmond Tutu has won the Templeton Prize (worth $1.7 million). Tutu may well be the most honored person in the world, next to his fellow South African Nelson Mandela. Mandela is definitely No. 1. The anti-apartheid cause is one that everyone can get behind. If you do something like oppose the Cuban dictatorship — not so much . . .
A couple of years ago, I undertook a little study of Tutu, because I was writing a history of the Nobel Peace Prize, which he won (in 1984). There are some things to admire about Tutu: In opposing apartheid, he favored a nonviolent course. (At the same time, he semi-excused those who took up the gun and the bomb.) He performed well in the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. He is willing to speak out against the Chinese government. He is willing to speak out against the Zimbabwean government — something few African leaders do.
Unfortunately, Tutu is a defamer of the United States and a defamer of Israel. In these things, he resembles many of his fellow Nobel laureates. (In speaking out against the Chinese and Zimbabwean governments, he does not.) Let me quote from the aforementioned book:
. . . he is a persistent, harsh critic of Israel. You are not likely to find him criticizing other Middle Eastern governments or groups. Tutu has promoted divestment from Israel, and has accused this country of being an apartheid state — no light accusation from a South African such as Tutu. . . .
In 2010, the Cape Town Opera was planning to include Israel on an international tour of Porgy and Bess. The company had changed the setting of this American opera to apartheid-era
Soweto. . . . Tutu demanded that the company boycott Israel. He wanted the Jewish state to have the same stigma as apartheid South Africa. The company told the archbishop no. It went ahead to Israel.
I don't believe Tutu has ever betrayed any understanding of American actions in the War on Terror (as we used to call it).
No avoider of the limelight, he even participated in an off-Broadway play dedicated to portraying Guantánamo Bay as a house of horrors — the "Gulag of our times" that Amnesty International's Irene Khan claimed it was. He of course opposed the Iraq War, seeing no good in it whatsoever. He said that it was not only "illegal" but "immoral." And he said, "God is weeping. God is weeping. God is weeping because — one of the incredible things, I mean, is that Saddam Hussein, bin Laden, George Bush are all God's children. And as God says, 'What ever got into Me to create that lot?'" Some of us think that Tutu's moral sense can go badly off the rails; his grouping of George W. Bush with Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein is the type of thing that prevents a number of people from taking Tutu seriously as a moral thinker or leader.
I'll leave the final word (for now) to Ronald Reagan: "Tutu? So-so."
I greatly admire a man named Wang Quanzhang, whom I learned about from HRIC (Human Rights in China). Writes HRIC,
On April 4, 2013, a judge at the Jingjiang City People's Court, Jiangsu Province, put a Beijing rights defense lawyer, Wang Quanzhang, under a 10-day judicial detention for "serious violations of court procedure."
What did he do?
Sources told Human Rights in China that on April 3, the court — where Wang was representing a Falun Gong practitioner, Zhu Yanian, in a hearing — confiscated Wang's mobile phone when he attempted to use it to photocopy a set of original documents that he was submitting to the court. The presiding judge, Wang Pin, ordered court security officers to take Wang into custody at the end of the hearing.
Being in custody in the PRC is not the same as being in custody in, let's say, Topeka, Kansas. They do horrendous things to people in custody. Wang Quanzhang is amazingly brave. He is
known for his willingness to take on sensitive cases and represent vulnerable groups. He was involved in the defense of Shandong reporter Qi Chonghuai, who is currently serving a 12-year prison sentence. In 2012, [Wang] was physically dragged out of a court in Northeastern China when he defended another Falun Gong practitioner.
Why do people stick their necks out in this way? Wang does not have to be spending his life as he's spending it. He just wants to, I guess. Feels compelled to.
I saw a headline last week: "US missile defense shield to counter NKorea threat." (Story here.) I was all confused. Isn't "Star Wars" just a stupid Reagan fantasy? Isn't that what we were told for years and years?
Here's another headline: "Audit says Katrina aid may have been misspent." The story begins, "Federal investigators said Wednesday that as much as $700 million in federal aid intended to help some 24,000 Louisiana families elevate their homes after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita in 2005 may have been misspent."
No. No!
This story is kind of rich: The Wisconsin government has spent about $850,000 defending itself against lawsuits. Unions are suing the state over Governor Walker's moves in 2011. And now Democrats are complaining about the expense of the lawsuits — the expense to the taxpayers.
That is really something: We get to sue you, but you can't spend money to defend yourselves! Ha!
You'll love something the Associated Press did — just love it. Listen: "Senate opponents of a treaty regulating the multibillion-dollar global arms trade said Wednesday they have the votes to block ratification of the pact, which is also opposed by the outlaw regimes of North Korea, Syria and Iran."
Reminds me of what the "MSM" used to do back in the Cold War: When pro-lifers peeped up, the media would mention that Ceausescu's Romania banned abortion.
Nice, nice . . .
I thought you might like to see a story out of Britain:
If you punch a punk in Manchester, it could be a hate crime.
Police in the English city announced Wednesday that they will begin recording offenses against members of alternative subcultures in the same way they do attacks based on race, religion, disability, sexual orientation or transgender identity.
The Greater Manchester force — the first in Britain to take the step — says "Goths, emos, punks and metallers" and members of other alternative groups often endure abuse.
I will say what I have said for years now — maybe decades, I'm not sure: I don't see why a crime isn't a crime. Assault is illegal, right? Murder is illegal, right? And so on. Isn't that, like, like . . . enough?
The headline said, "Mexico to investigate column insulting maids." Here's the deal: "Mexico's National Council to Prevent Discrimination says it will launch an investigation of an online magazine column accusing maids of being 'ungrateful, whining, abusive thieves.'"
Alternatively, Mexico could drop the investigation and permit freedom of speech — which can be less exhausting . . .
Care for some music? For my "New York Chronicle," published in the April New Criterion, go here. Care for some more music? Couple of weeks ago, Mona Charen and I did a podcast. This was a survey of music, from Elizabethan times to just yesterday. Knock yourself out.
And have a good one.
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Vintage Shabby Red Polka Dot Enamelware Tea Kettle
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This auction is for a vintage Red and White Polka Dot Enamelware Tea Kettle. This is in great shape with white dots that are about the size of a dime with a chain that holds the lid on. It is 5 1/2",s in diameter on the bottom and holds 6 cups. The enamel is in wonderful condition with a little loss of enamel on the top and a couple on the sides of the lid and some wear on the bottom which can be seen in the last picture. The handle will not stand up on it's own , maybe it's supposed to be that way or maybe it might need to be tightened. I am going to leave it to the new owner who can decide. I sell vintage used items so please look at the pictures and ask questions before bidding as all items are sold as is. Actual shipping will be calculated at auctions end. Payment must be received within 7 days of auctions end. Please know that I only leave a feedback after 1 has been left for me. Thanks for looking!


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Published: March 27, 2014 - 05:45 PM
General Motors Co. said calls to a customer call center in Warren, Mich., have more than doubled during peak hours since the automaker recalled 1.6 million small cars with faulty ignition switches linked to a dozen deaths.
The so-called Customer Engagement Center, which opened last year as part of a broader effort by GM to boost customer retention and improve service, faces its first big test as the Detroit-based automaker helps customers deal with the recall.
Chief Executive Officer Mary Barra will go before U.S. House and Senate committees next week to face questions about why it took so long to recall the troubled vehicles.
The initial recall on Feb. 13 covered 778,562 Chevrolet Cobalts and Pontiac G5s and was widened less than two weeks later by more than 800,000 additional vehicles.
Barra appeared on GM's website this week, telling customers the vehicles remain safe to drive with only the single key on a ring in the ignition.
Alicia Boler-Davis, senior vice president for global quality and customer experience, on Thursday posted a new message about GM's efforts to assist customers with its call center.
"Since GM announced the ignition switch recall, the center has seen more than double the amount of calls during peak times from typical daily call volumes," Boler-Davis wrote in a message.
Separately, a Texas federal judge will hold a hearing April 4 in a proposed group lawsuit against GM on whether the carmaker should issue a so-called "park it now" alert to drivers of the defective vehicles.
In a letter sent Thursday to Barra, Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) urged the company to immediately "issue a stronger warning to drivers," including a notice not to operate recalled cars.


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The Tone Colors of Henry Cowell
In this 1952 Music for the Connoisseur, host David Randolph intersperses archival audio of Henry Cowell's speeches on musical techniques, plays pieces based on the composer's theories, and ties the program together with his own insights into the composer's pioneering ideas.
David Randolph begins his program by soothing the fears of circa-1950's audiences that the music of Henry Cowell shouldn't scare them away. But Cowell's deliberate explanations of extended techniques allay any concern that his artistic aims were subversive or simply puckish.
We follow this with interviews of David Del Tredici by host John Schaefer on WNYC Live from 1998 and Soundcheck from 2005. David Del Tredici discusses the long process of writing a piece of vocal music and the niche genre of concert bands.
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Baseness of the highest order pious torment mystickal magickal tragickal beyond evil love opiate piety pain beauty joy death & hell follows. Unfinished suicide notes to the Beloved & the Ideal. Preperfection Incompletion & Hope distilled crushed glamorized bloodlettings romanticized winepressings inspired by the rib that is Woman & Womb are not safe anymore. G-d is beauty love & glory. There is no global standard for cute pretty or beautiful. Imperfection for now alas someday we will see Jesus & be like Jesus. My body is broken my spirit my soul it hurts. Humans Family Friends Fail only He is good.
Seeking to surprise hide & illuminate. Speaking of conversions not only the un & dechurched. Childhood Choirs bedtime. The time of Rhyming epic battles slaying dragons & damsels guarded empowered Eden strong has come. In Olden songs & lore. Superheroes are Antichrists nothing more. One must see. Of mustard seed of Zion of the pit the hole the Hells the caves the mire. Come run your tarantulas up & down the spine of these destroyed refrains. Unwoven fingers from heavenly tresses. Rest assured.
The good the rich the pretty & the venerated He did not come to save. The sick the sinner the wretched the poor the wounded the weak the orphan the widower & the impure. I AM THAT I AM he SAVES whom he will SAVE according to His goodness & grace. The Remnant. Why so serious? Word plays & juxtapositionings just an exorcise in demons trating a gift a curse an art. an art form really? Once upon a time the 5 main Fine Arts were Painting Sculpture Architecture Music & Poetry.
Let your fingertips intimate names now blots connect the dots on this wedding feast wilderness banquet your pupils dilate the butterflies you ate are slugs & snails are stars & saints. The mad crazy sin things love makes one do; lie cheat steal & kill. Against only You have we sinned!?! Bastards & dogs.
Women & children first they say. Here be monsters they say. The Great Satan America no Cult of Individualism yes. Vulture of nothing new under the sun. Whore of Babylon & Virgin Bride seeking the bridegroom. Where have i gone when am i going. Fear not! Only bad poetry & a papercut ya. Enter if you dare; the Non Plus Ultra. For your joy &/or horror.
Vox Anon
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***I Am Your Song by Vox Anon
I Am Your Song
i am your song
my own worst enemy
my only friend
the flesh
the devil & our enemies
coming of age atrocities
futurephiliacs phobicities
cruel is the new kind
the age of consequence
the age of consent why
to glut your hunger
to slake your thirst
old wine skin songs
like dew forms jewels
uncrowned tears
uncrying zion longs for us
orphaned widowed & poor
fresh on threshing floor
myrrful dirges perfume
air thick black tendrils
pouring souls over
skins strings fissures schisms
secret sins expose those who
thought the sun was god who
thought the universe revolved
around her ringfinger
dollhouses of old
dead as wood stone clay & gold
playthings we are
kingdom come not pawns
scent of your gift
bittersweet lavender
safflower & cinnamon
oil of lebanon
milk white sky
captive we crawl
sick whip burns
distillers of strong
proud flesh now shy
prostrate we fall
mirthful mockery
unclean mirror wisdom she
calls to us yet we heed
beds made of
scarlet crimson ruby
harlot darkness & shadows
by the rivers of babylon
bathed in blasphemy
break the fangs & teeth
broke the jaws & keys
now cured
the cursed & criminal
sovereign love
makes holy the impure
malcontent 6 senses void
incomplete joy
peace weep no more
food for worms
marrow warmth
comfort & mourn
good news for all roars
through & to all who will hear
nation tribe tongue
arise transcendent
phoenixes priests
the line of melchizedek
the lion of judah
opens hearts & skulls
rampant guardant
like tender scrolls
triumphant passant
royal blood
root of david
the few the narrow
the hated & the hatred
people of the risen king
not people of the cross
cowards killers boast
saints martyrs return home
they show us our faith yet
we fear not the 1st or 2nd death
we worship not persons pulpit or
church architecture
made by the hands of man
we hang our hearts & harps
contrite we bring gifts
broken we bring obedience
unbearable unmitigated joy is ours
rehearsing eternity
not in word but in song
in our weakness He is strong
bought ingrafted & kin
inheritors of new heaven new earth
we are preperfect instruments
below angels above insects
suffer well creatures
children of their creator
the flesh
the devil & our enemies
they think of us a toy
but the Lord has set us
above His highest joy
vox anon 2015
psalm 137: 1-6
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***Your Dying Star" Vox Anon
Your Dying Star
i was born
your dying star
forever falling
angel to animal
atomic to adamic
shy as shy
mortified pride all
binary & sick pretty
blinks flinches squints
shadows long laughing
fanged & clawed
star crossed we pray
tangled hunter prey
one fine day you
will not recognize
what i have become
what i always was
your pet is a beast uncute
your imagination uncut
teeth everywhere
unstoppable & sublime
banquet feast of famine
black on the inside
scribbled histories
sanctified heresies
tragedian librarian
i like your candy
i like your meat
awoken & beauteous
her hair wilderness
flora fauna find us
starry eyes blind us
snowflakes to sparks
pinkest to darkest
drink me eat me
yummy you grin
kissing fire mouthing fur
constellations void not chaos
take comfort lovers sisters mothers
if you never know love know this
if you ever hate love know this
i was born you say
your dying star
ascending 33 vertebrae
plucking pulsating 24 ribs
where it starts
i do not want to stop
do not fight it
music meathooks
hesitation marks
your hand in mine
unchained unbreakable
our heart of hearts
skyline floods from
embryonic glance
save the next dance
first time like
never before like
insects extractions
indulgences fulcrums
beholders blinded
speed of light like
blurring metronome
blood melting clock
flutter shiver shock
pale shoulders wings
weaponless sprout
between book ends
that smile of yours
eclipsing pregnancies
i was dead
before reborn
peacocks phoenixes
ravens doves skinned
alive love notes
unfinished discontinuing
doll eyes slit spider egg sacs s
black holes crying wild
heaven hides blushing
down my face no redder wine
pours ever so
spectral & celestial
devouring spirals
life can not live here
death drive urges me on
come closer safe inside
a thousand angels
dancing on head of a pin
know why i am death
your dying star
two hearts
raw pristinity
shared naivete
what you see
in my eyes in the skies
is already dead i
was too young now
older than the color blue
outlive & dare
jump how high
jump how high
invite supernovae
induces nightmares
invokes wonder gone all
at twilight we know all
at twilight we love
more than acts
of G-d or war no
no one loves me no
one fine day you
will not recognize
what i had became
who i always was
Vox Anon 2014
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***Nebuchadnezzar Wine
Nebuchadnezzar Wine
sundays are mine not mine
trade insanity for pride forgo
reborn chosen unchosen
ungrateful no now
bathed in black milk
the not so petite death
washes & cleanses
dirts, sins, & candleskins
lockpicks plucked chastity belts
V shaped softer doves coo
iron clad hearts melts through
beats of blood heartless strung
drums hushed animal hides
tanned in shit piety
troubadours untravelling
no one is dancing tonight
strippers of unreal
worshipers corporeal
holiness lauded in
wild silence
love's mercenaries
siege machines
fashioned & fastened chasten me
my charnel house burned to ground
turns all my lovers against me inside me
teeth, moleculars, & neurons
roots gnarled soil
virgin of the rocks
plainsong & sublime
make from my tears your wine
your window to my soul
break my heart change my tune
of flesh fruit to mercy truth defies
high minded faith inactioned
ears of ignorance peals of laughter
forest or cathedral squared
haloed hallowed accidental
dark penitential prided potential
hung & disemboweled
judas miscarried us out
unawakens to mortality
my elite machismo
worlds floating
weightlifter of
3 pounds of pink
matter fecal fetal femme fatale
be likesome the one no one is like
be softer supple to his will
the self you should kill & let win never
insects indigestible swarms
locusts wave without words
a murder of birds down
into the firmament i
make war paciferous wrists
kisses pass the lips
cuts the flower throats
cured & healing snake
invasive intoxicating
a pair of wings no
apocalyptical yes
four fresh horses fly
the thrush of praises spark
fears on pain's frontiers
pleasure to suffer like
the earth fallen
a comedy of errors
faultlines & fractures
steeped in stupefaction
brilliance centering
disciplined grieving
mourn for zion trumpetless
undress in the white
blinding those naked
improving the nudity
drinked down mouths of babes
mastectomies concaves
those circles once fixated on
spiralling down
transcendent prolonging of
my stanzalessness
verticalled & bottled up sold
warmth medicinal gold
heat surgical precision sing
not the foreign songs
woon not the strange woman
no wine is better than the fruit
cry with those drinking the very
inheritance gasping for hair
ageless & dieing on the vine
you must age before youth
the womb will not return to you
the same the grave the name
once & forever wet
on your lips on fire
slippery whet glossy finishes
open flowers wedding everything
to the best blood ever shed
the only tears ever bled
white to wine eyes
bedrooming sigh
zion unsmalling
volcanic uncupped
phoenix onyx peacock black
bubbles for ashes undrunk but
dancing for the first time
angels on the head of a pin no
children in the summer no
sacred again the never changing
find me in the reaping
how many souls deep
cull me in the harvest
too many skulls heap
at the foot of the cross
neath this poem is a prayer i
fail i fell i blush she
white hot snow wakes me
from her here i
obsidian fingernailings
subterra subtited
painted film aches
a thousand william blakes
say there is nothing left
nothing left to understand
asking me to pour myself
undergroundings liturgal
convexing me to you
detoxing me to she i
am paralyzed today
sundays are yours
suffering mine
grateful spine
serpenting no
temptation reborn
DNA encoded
denial ended
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Chris Pine & Keira Knightley Premiere "Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit" in London
Their flick premiered with strong numbers over the weekend, and the cast of "Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit" brought the project over the pond on Monday (January 20).
The film's star Chris Pine posed with his lovely counterpart Keira Knightley and director Kenneth Branagh at the Vue Leicester Square in London, England.
In related news, Pine recently chatted with XFM about his action role and claimed that Jack Ryan is tougher than Batman.
"Jack Ryan originally was born in the 50s and was very much like a Cold War hero, and just to contemporise the character we wanted to see what it was like to have an American spy in a post 9/11 world," Chris explains.
"So he's dealing with a certain amount of trauma and PTSD. And to have a real human character as a hero, is a lot more interesting and a different terrain to explore than something like Batman or Jason Bourne or Ethan Hunt, guys that just seem like they know exactly what they're doing at all times who are super smooth and cool."


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"We could not have asked for a better event to kick off the New Year than Philippines in View," said Christopher Slaughter, CEO, CASBAA. "The potential for growth in the multichannel TV industry is substantial but there is a real need for more detailed information and knowledge in order to take advantage of the opportunities in the country."
Bringing a wealth of experience to Manila, this year's line-up of speakers included high-level executives Rodrigo Montinola (COO, SKY Cable), Guido Zaballero (VP, Marketing Head, Cignal TV), Timothy Bautista (SVP & COO, Cable BOSS), Allan Dungao (Chairman, PCTA), Christine Fellowes (MD, Asia Pacific, Universal Networks International)
During the Philippine Market Overview panel, Christine Fellowes highlighted:
Speaking on the future of multichannel TV in the Philippines, Allan Dungao held a positive view: "The market for cable in the provinces (and even in Metro Manila) will grow….partly thanks to the new signal theft law. Illegal subscribers were used to watching cable, and when they cannot get it for free, they will subscribe later on. This is because of the high penalties in the law (50,000 peso fines plus 1 year to 6 months of imprisonment)
Rahul Johri, SVP & GM – South Asia, Head of Revenue – Southeast Asia & Pan Regional Advertising Sales, Discovery Networks Asia Pacific explained the popularity of cable TV for marketers by stating that: "The basic design of cable is to provide you entertainment that you want, at the time you want. In an environment where there is an overdose of content, one of the main jobs programmers do is to act as adept curators so we can get a more engaged audience. What does an advertiser want? An advertiser wants more value. And how does that value get delivered to the advertiser? …By having their message exposed to a more engaged audience."
But it wasn't all business during Philippines in View. In addition to providing an essential overview of the Philippines market, 15% of proceeds from the event were also donated to Habitat for Humanity to aid in the rebuilding effort following the devastation wrought by typhoon Haiyan last November.
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An enterprising Wilmington attorney read how the Attorney General of New Jersey won a settlement from Sears for overcharging customers for wheel alignments and promptly brought his own class action lawsuit against Sears (The News and Observer, 7-23-07). And Sears promptly settled. The lawyer received $950,000 in fees. And Sears consumers received $2,402. (Not each, in all.)
When North Carolina Judge Ben Tennille read the settlement he was outraged. It "cannot help but to tarnish the public perception of the legal profession," he said. "Doing the math in this case is easy… for each class member who received a $10 check or $4 coupon, plaintiffs' counsel received just shy of $3,000."
Undaunted, the enterprising lawyer, Gary Shipman, shot back, "Do you think Judge Tenille's word is the Gospel?"
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In a world of shoe-gazing rock bands, Scissor Sisters are cutting edge, writes Craig McLean.
It's very late on Friday night in the byzantine Fabric club in London's Smithfield Market. Navigate the former East London meat storage facility's staircases and you find yourself in any number of packed rooms, having your head "banged" in a variety of interesting ways.
It's all very loud, very busy and very buzzy. The cause of the excitement might be Goldie, helping out in the drum-and-bass room. More likely, though, the crowds are here for an unadvertised club gig by the hottest band of the moment.
At about 1am, a troupe of circus freaks bowl on to a low stage. There is a petite, pretty man in a leopard-print silk dressing gown, which flaps open to reveal a baby-smooth chest. A voluptuous redhead wears a clingy black cocktail dress. A man in a furry flat cap, with the face of a boxer and the gait of a drag queen, parks himself behind the drums. The guitarist wears trousers chopped off at the knee. The bearded bass player looks like one of the Bee Gees.
Scissor Sisters proceed to tear the roof off. Their single, Comfortably Numb, is an instant hit with its robo-disco sizzle and shivery falsetto; only the sharp-eared would spot its former life as a Pink Floyd tune about downer drugs.
Then this New York band ratchet the volume up to nausea-inducing levels for a climactic electric guitar blow-out. If Elton John (in full 1970s outrageousness), Roxy Music (in sparkly lame jackets and fruity voices) and David Bowie (as Ziggy Stardust) had waltzed on for the encore, few would have been surprised.
I now understood what the drummer had meant when, pre-show, he had boldly declared: "We're in the entertainment business. The music I like is larger than life. It's the transportation of the people from walking in feeling ho-hum and suddenly - boom, Technicolor! This whole forest of weirdness grows on stage."
The previous afternoon, Scissor Sisters had been ensconced in a gay bar in Soho, drinking coffee and talking over each other ceaselessly, energy and enthusiasm spilling out and bouncing off the walls. When their boyish frontman's boggly eyes bulged with hypnotic fervour, it was easy to imagine that he was quite the hit in his former occupation: stripper in a gay bar.
Scissor Sisters are singer Jake Shears, 25 (real name Jason Sellards), singer Ana Matronic, 29 (Ana Lynch), bass player and technical guru Babydaddy, 27 (Scot Hofman), guitarist Del Marquis, 26 (Derek Gruen), and drummer Paddy Boom, 35 (Patrick Seacor).
This elaborately nicknamed, extravagantly attired, flamboyantly camp (three of them are gay) bunch are preparing for a tour and the release of their debut album. It's a terrific, and terrifically diverse creation, featuring melodramatic torch songs, dance-anthems-in-the-making, homages to the clubby counter-culture that spawned them and, in the closing Return to Oz, a weepy lament for a gay community plagued by crystal meth.
Little wonder that, in America, they are largely unheralded and without a record deal. The genre-stratified US record industry, Babydaddy says, just wouldn't know what to do with them. Britain, it seems, was much more welcoming to the their kaleidoscopic sound and image.
On one level, they could be a performance-art freakshow who've escaped from New York's underground with an iPod full of edgy club tunes; on another, they're writers of classic MOR songs in the tradition of Hall & Oates and Billy Joel. Scissor Sisters, it transpires, are happy to be seen as both.
Jake Shears: "We wrote this record with everybody in mind, including mums."
Ana Matronic: "Housewives with the dancing bug."
Shears: "We're fans of good songs. And I think songs have kinda been gone for a while."
Matronic: "You can't play [Beyonce's] Crazy in Love 'round a campfire."
Shears: "For years we've talked about the campfire song. How a sign of a really good song is one you can take your acoustic guitar and play around a campfire."
All five Sisters are to some extent outsiders. Marquis and Boom grew up beyond the New York city limits. Shears and Matronic are from the distant Pacific North West. Babydaddy is from Lexington, Kentucky.
Shears went to college in Los Angeles with an old school friend of Babydaddy; when he went to visit her in Lexington, he met Babydaddy. They hit it off immediately and a year later both moved to New York.
For a while, they were fixtures on the New York gay and electroclash scene. This was in the weeks after September 11 when, Shears recalls with a gleam, the city's night people seemed to need to party hard. "They were in this wicked, weird state of mind that was just really like..." "Abandon," nods Matronic.
Occasionally, they would perform as a duo in a bar called The Cock, Babydaddy on his laptop, Shears half-standing on the bar top, singing. Through his own stints in "edgy" cabaret (that is, shocking cabaret too graphic to discuss in these pages) Shears ran into performance artist Matronic. She had cut her teeth on the San Francisco drag scene. Marquis and Boom completed the line-up. Scissor Sisters, the club-based rock band, were born.
Their first single, Electrobix, was Shears's response to a DJ/artist friend's request for an "electro yoga theme song". The B-side was Comfortably Numb, which was on the verge of being released by UK dance label City Rockers in 2002 when Ministry of Sound pulled their funding of the label.
The band used the time to write more songs. A deal with Polydor in the UK came relatively easily. They recorded quickly and cheaply in Babydaddy's shared Brooklyn home-studio, which is surprising, given the diversity and lush production of the album's songs.
Comfortably Numb has a memorable, pulsing intro. It sounds like the riff from Survivor's Eye of the Tiger, or from Stevie Nicks's classic Edge of Seventeen.
"It's actually a reference to Another Brick in the Wall Part 1," says Shears, a Floyd freak who has nonetheless received the most "ignorant" letters from Pink Floyd fans, outraged at his disco overhaul of Comfortably Numb. They won't be pleased at Scissor Sisters playing fast and loose with Another Brick either.
As if that wasn't sacrilege enough, the resulting song is performed by a zoo of extroverts who love dressing up.
"Rock bands lately have been so dour," Matronic says. "Like, 'This is us, and watch us play our music, and let's look at our shoes.' What we do is just project outwards."
Good-naturedly pooh-poohing the idea that Scissor Sisters are unusually theatrical for a band, Shears says: "When I think of spectacle, I think of giant vaginas dropping to the stage, and us stepping out of them.
One day we'll have that. It'll be very Showgirls."
Or very Spinal Tap. Either way, it'll be very entertaining.
Scissor Sisters is out now.
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Are there any risks with painting the inside of my pantry door with chalkboard paint so my fiance will find it easier to make a grocery list? Will the paint fumes or chalk dust harm the food in any way?
i included a pic but i dont know if you can see it, the brown paneling in the back of the pic is the door, closed
No risk but why not just hang a black board, cheaper and faster.
The chalk won't hurt in any way.
If you are concerned with the paint fumes infiltrating your food, just leave the door open for a few days.
it would be hanging on the door, so if we just hung a premade chalkboard there, it would be swinging back and forth every time we opened the pantry door and it would get in the way and just be a pain, whereas if we painted it on there, it would stay put
It has to be installed securly in all four corners,
so that it doesn't flop about.
If done correctly it looks attractive, and functional,
as it displays the message without openening
and closing the door.
Of course if it looks ugly to your eye, do it your way then.
Chalkboard paint really doesn't hold up that well.
If you are worried about chalk dust? Mount a white board.
thanks everyone
Yeah, I would just hang up a white board. Less stress involved!
its on a door, a whiteboard would swing all over creation when the door was opened or closed. whatever i use needs to be painted on the door itself. I can use whiteboard paint, though, or chalkboard paint.
you can do something like this.
You seem to want affirmation that painting is the way to go. Anything you paint on and use at all for the purpose you mention is going to need constant recoating. But paint it if you must.
Actually i was wanting reviews from people that have this, if they had had problems i figured they would tell me about them.
Don't use chalk board paint or dry erase paint. Sd knows of which he speaks. Don't use chalk board in kitchen, rough texture collects grease in air, least bit of oil ruins chalk holding ability of board. Chalk paint good for kids rooms, paint entire wall as far up as they can reach. By time paint wears out, they not so interested in writing on walls. Makes for dusty bed room floors, lil colored foot prints thru house though.
HD, Lowe's Wally sell dry erase boards of various sizes, also various bulletin boards which could be combined. HD & L sell 4X8 sheets which they can cut to size. Screw to door at corners and edges, cover screws with frame made from paneling trim, which will already have lip to cover board. Small screws very close to edge so frame covers, pilot holes needed in hard board. Use very little or no glue, these Masonite type "dry erase" boards will eventually show ghosts and you may want to replace. Elmer's white glue is water soluable even when dry, so if glue is needed use it or similar.
Dry erase markers work on plexi-glass, got any shelf liners left?
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well duuuuuh
I want to hear the Android people's take on this. "Uh speed isn't everything.. We're still better"
iPad 2 is a year old and KING of the market. And the only thing that will dethrone the KING is the arrival of the iPad 3/HD.
Maybe by the release of the iPad 4, Android can compete with the iPad 2!
if you're a fan of apple products it doesn't make you a fanboy. a fanboy is someone that only loves apple products(or their product of choice), and thinks everything else sucks because it's not an apple product. I keep trying android phones in hopes they fixed the lag, the smoothness and the glitchyness but I haven't found one that has. In my opinion they're not as smooth and consistent ie. sometimes the screen bounces and sometimes it doesn't. iOS 5 has been horrible for me so far. even before I jailbroke, my phone would do glitchy things. I didn't like the size of the 4.5" Android screens because the phone felt clumsy and I couldn't text with one hand. Android Sucks but Apple is catching up. That could all change with the next iPhone or the next iOS. P.S Sprint is sooooo slow.
as far as andiod sucks but apple is catching up. Personally i think its android trying to catch up lol.. Apple simply doesn't just put every feature known to man that everyone wants just because. They listen and implement when its perfected, that way it runs smooth. Thats at least how i feel about it.
What everyone forgets is that this is a 25 year old excuse for fanboys of apple.
Apple makes good products, i will agree, but they are not given to us by g-d so stop idolizing.
Since dawn of apple every fanboy screamed how apple os is better than windows, yet never wanted to admit that apple only develops for one hardware profile wich they control. Windows and now android has to run on a multitude of devices. it can not be a valid
argument when using one phone that is running android with crappy performance to say android sux. If you take in account how well android does across multiple hardware... Well I'd say that's better performance.
Actually Apple stop releasing new iOS for older gen iPhones after about 2 years after its introduction, basically when contracts up get a new phone. And every year the iOS has more and more glitches. My iPhone 4 have problem with proximity sensor issue after I upgraded to 5.0.1, my apps crashes more often with 5.0.1 than when it was 4.3.3...
You do not need to get 4~6 new Android phones every year, nobody gets a new phone every 2~3 months.