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Gurkha veterans renewed their battle with the Ministry of Defence today, challenging the Government's decision to pay them lower pensions than other UK soldiers.
A test case which would have affected about 25,000 veterans who retired before July 1, 1997 was lost at the High Court earlier this year.
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The article for lyre has already been reviewed by User:Siddhartha-Wolf, but he suggests that I get an alternative viewpoint from a second reviewer before submitting this article for Featured status. Whoever wants it, get it now! While the reviewing process is still fresh.PericlesofAthens 00:22, 12 August 2009 (UTC)
- I should just say that I think this article is very good and only suggested sending it for another Pee Review due to my persistent neuroses. --El Sid, the lazy one • parlez-vous franglais? 01:02, 12 August 2009 (UTC)
- I'm Sid's usual alternative viewpoint, self appointed by the way, I've got this one. 24 hours. --ChiefjusticeDS 18:46, 12 August 2009 (UTC)
- Cool, can't wait to see the review!--PericlesofAthens 22:04, 12 August 2009 (UTC)
- I'm Sid's usual alternative viewpoint, self appointed by the way, I've got this one. 24 hours. --ChiefjusticeDS 18:46, 12 August 2009 (UTC)
Just dropping by to say that my review will be closer to the end of 24 hours due to some unexpected difficulties.--ChiefjusticeDS 05:59, 13 August 2009 (UTC)
|OK, the humour is generally pretty good and the jokes are pretty well considered. I have a few problems with the article as it currently stands. The first is that while you do a good job of blurring the line between Lyre the instrument, and liar the personality trait I feel it does go too far at times. You need to focus on what you are trying to put across to the reader and you need to make sure that while the difference between being a liar and being someone who plays the lyre becomes unclear that it doesn't disappear, since this is a good joke in the article. Without the distinction between the two the joke doesn't work as well as it should, and some of the later sections feel like disappointing falls from a promising start. My other complaint is that in explaining some of your points you go off in a totally different direction. what you do is just like this: "Darth Vader is a sith lord who likes shiny surfaces, who did this, and this as well, and that is how he came to like shiny surfaces". Essentially it is not too much to ask that the reader take some things on faith, it would be better to say "Darth Vader likes shiny surfaces, which is why all the storm troopers regularly mop the floor of the death star." This focuses on the application of the affection rather than the reason for it. You need to take this back to your history section where most of these problems occur. My final piece of advice would be to use your initiative (HTBFANJS is also a great help here) and take a look at the final sections and reconsider some of the jokes, as your pleasing style of humour loses it's potency there somewhat, especially in the final paragraph, which really could use some attention.
|You have a superb concept and the idea behind the article is intelligent and well executed for the most part. My complaint in this regard is that you lose the excellent encyclopaedic tone a couple of times. The subtlety of your humour is complimented very well by this tone, and the places where you slip out of it feel like a bad departure from an article that had me thoroughly absorbed in it's subject matter. To get rid of these difficulties you should carefully go back through the article and remove the following should you find them: Opinions, prose where you address or ask something of the reader and profanity. These do not all apply to you but may be helpful as a check in any future articles. As evidenced by your score for this section your difficulties here are not undue and should be pretty easy to sort out.
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|OK, you do pretty well here, though there are a couple of items that require a second look. The first is your spelling and grammar, your article is reasonably long and some problems are to be expected in this regard. However, now that your article is nearing completion a final proofread should be part of this finishing proofread. Spelling and grammar are not looked upon as vote winners on VFH (unless the user is in UN:PS), but can be important in deciding enjoyment of the article. Your problem is mostly in careless typos, words left in from old versions of sections and a few difficulties with sentence division. This is very easy to sort out yourself and your article demonstrates that you definitely have the ability to do so yourself. Otherwise your formatting is pretty impressive, though some of your images could do with being a bit bigger for the sake of clarity.
|Your images are good for the most part, however you lose marks here because of a formatting issue and because the final image (the one of Jack Bauer) needs to be reconsidered as it currently compliments a pretty incoherent joke and has one of the less intelligent captions. I suppose the only reason this is worth a point on it's own is because it is such a disappointment to see it, especially after the rest of the article has been superb.
|My overall grade of the article.
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|Your overall score demonstrates the real impact of your article, I enjoyed it and I think others will too. The writing is intelligent and the humour is genuinely funny in all but a couple of places. You are definitely closing in on full completion of this one. Sid's comments are all valid and you should make sure that you take them into account as he has clearly spent a good deal of time on them. If you have any comments, queries, complaints or anything else you can think of then feel free to contact me on my talk page. Good luck on the final improvements, and well done.
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Oh Britney... we don't always understand you, but we always love you.
In another one of her lovably random Instagram moments on Monday, pop star Britney Spears shared three videos of herself dancing while seated in a bikini, with Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats' "S.O.B." playing in the background.
MORE: 27 Things We Learned About Britney Spears From Her Wonderfully Bizarre Instagram
Why did Britney share this delightfully weird video? It's doubtful that Nathaniel Rateliff and the Night Sweats have comissioned a video ("S.O.B." already has one), it might be a hint at something upcoming in the pop star's Vegas "Piece of Me" residency series, but the 34-year-old pop legend did not leave any other clues as to what the videos might be for.
Britney's follow-up post was regarding the color of sneakers. (Spoiler: They're definitely gold.)
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The beauty of Britney's Instagram is that oftentimes there is no "why." There is only a deep appreciation that it exists.
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A detailed comparison of DNA and RNA in human cells has uncovered a surprising number of cases where the corresponding sequences are not, as has long been assumed, identical. The RNA-DNA differences generate proteins that do not precisely match the genes that encode them.
The finding, published May 19, 2011, in Science Express, suggests that unknown cellular processes are acting on RNA to generate a sequence that is not an exact replica of the DNA from which it is copied. Vivian Cheung, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator who led the study, says the RNA-DNA differences, which were found in the 27 individuals whose genetic sequences were analyzed, are a previously unrecognized source of genetic diversity that should be taken into account in future studies.
Genes have long been considered the genetic blueprints for all of the proteins in a cell. To produce a protein, a gene's DNA sequence is copied, or transcribed, into RNA. That RNA copy specifies which amino acids will be strung together to build the corresponding protein.
"The idea that RNA and protein sequences are nearly identical to the corresponding DNA sequences is strongly held and has not been questioned in the past," says Cheung, whose lab is at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.
With recent advances in sequencing technology, however, it has become possible to perform the kind of analysis necessary to test that assumption. In their study, Cheung and her colleagues compared the sequences of DNA and RNA in B cells (a type of white blood cell) from 27 individuals.
The DNA sequences they analyzed came from large, ongoing genomics projects, the International HapMap Project and the 1000 Genomes Project. They used high-throughput sequencing technology to sequence the RNA of B cells from the same individuals.
Within the sequences' protein-coding segments, they found 10,210 sites where RNA sequences were not the same as the corresponding DNA. They call these sites RNA-DNA differences, or RDDs. They found at least one RDD site in about 40 percent of genes, and many of these RDDs cause the cell to produce different protein sequences than would be expected based on the DNA.
In the cells they studied, the sequences of thousands of proteins may be different from their corresponding DNA, the scientists say. "It is important to note that since these RDDs were found with just 27 individuals, they are common," Cheung points out.
To test whether the phenomenon was specific to B cells, the team also searched for RDDs in DNA and RNA sequences in human skin and brain cells. They found that most of the RDD sites occurred in at least some samples of all three cell types and were present in cells from both infants and adults, indicating that the RNA-DNA differences are not due to aging or specific to certain developmental stages.
Cheung says the particular RNA-DNA discrepancies they found appear systematic. There are four bases, or letters, that make up the DNA code: A, T, G, and C. The RNA equivalents are A, U, G, and C. In individuals who had RNA-DNA differences at a specific site in the genome, the mismatched bases were always the same.
In other words, if the team found a C in the RNA sequence where they expected an A, all individuals who had an RDD at this point also had a C in their RNA sequence-never a G or a U. "Such uniformity makes us believe that there is a 'code' or 'guide' that mediates the RDDs and they are not random events," Cheung explains.
In the 1980s, scientists found the first examples of RNA sequences that did not match the corresponding DNA. Today, many genes in humans and other organisms are now known to be targets of RNA editing. The known examples of such editing are mediated by enzymes called deaminases, which chemically modify specific As and Cs in the RNA sequence, converting the As to Gs and the Cs to Us.
Cheung says abnormal RNA editing of glutamate and serotonin receptors has been associated with psychiatric disorders and resistance to certain drugs-evidence that traditional RNA editing is critical for maintaining normal cellular function.
Nearly half of the RDDs uncovered in the new study cannot be explained by the activity of deaminase enzymes, however, indicating that unknown processes must be modifying the RNA sequence, either during or after transcription. Cheung says there are several possibilities.
For example, the DNA might be chemically or structurally modified so that certain bases look different to the enzyme that copies DNA to RNA, causing it to insert a mismatched RNA base during transcription. Alternatively, newly synthesized RNAs might be folded in such a way to signal enzymes to convert certain bases to other ones.
The biological significance of these modifications remains to be determined, but since they are widespread among individuals and cell types, Cheung and her colleagues expect they have some function.
Although all of the individuals analyzed in the study had a large number of RDDs, there was a great deal of variability in the specific RDDs found in each person's genetic material. This variability likely contributes to differences in disease susceptibility, Cheung says.
Scientists have generally searched for DNA sequence differences to explain why some people are more prone to certain diseases, whereas studies of RNA and proteins have considered levels of expression, but not sequences. But major genetic contributors for many diseases remain unknown, and Cheung says it will be valuable to begin to include RNA sequences in disease-association studies.
Cheung notes that her team's analysis would not have been possible without the large-scale genomics projects, which until now have focused on DNA. "Without these large-scale genome projects, we would not have the volume of DNA sequences for comparisons and would not have the technologies that enabled us to sequence our RNA samples," she says.
"Our study provides support for why large-scale data are important. Previously the focus was on DNA, now our results suggest that RNA sequences also need to be examined. Exploration of these data, when founded on fundamental biology, will lead to fruitful scientific discoveries."
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Today's health care decision really brought the idiot boys to the yard — and they're mad. So mad, in fact, that they've got half a mind to pack it all up and move somewhere that they'll be free of the tyranny of socialized medicine. Like Canada. Which has had socialized medicine since the late 1970's.
After news of the Affordable Care Act ruling set the internet ablaze with Important Opinions, Buzzfeed's Twitter masochists rounded up one of their signature collections of people being dumb on Twitter. This batch of dummies were incensed over the Supreme Court's ruling and were just about ready to move out of the country. Since Canada's both nearby and English-speaking, what better place for people who hate socialism to emigrate?
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Jean Genet's The Balcony, now playing at the Access Theatre, has always been a play with a lot to say. The 1957 satire is part polemic and part love letter to all our pet perversions and the masks we put on. It spins an enchanting web of illusion while stripping down the fallacies of political posturing, celebrity, and the puppets and props of state and romantic revolutions. Like much of Genet's work, The Balcony is a play about pretense and the nature of theatrics and role-playing—it's worth noting that many of his plays were cast untraditionally (The Maids for example, was first performed with a pool of male prisoner-actors presenting women in one of the author's many stays in the clink). The Horizon Theatre Rep's production has a decidedly more narrow and unambiguous focus than is the fashion for the piece, touching less on the broader themes of affect and being-other and more on the anxiety of a real-world Europe on the brink of economic and political collapse. This context is markedly different from Genet's time where the threats to Europe and his native France were largely non-domestic but the concept holds water, even when the execution doesn't.
Welcome back to Irma's brothel, reimagined here as a swanky hotel room (satin sheets and oaken tables furnished by scenic designer Joseph Kremer) in the contemporary financially-pressed Eurozone. The atmosphere is complete with preshow and intermission clips of some modern, real-life riots on a TV upstage center. Our madam's house of illusions features all her regulars: poor unfortunates who, in her own words, are "props of a display that they have to drag through the commonplace." They all go to Irma's to assume the togs and manner of the powers that be. On the docket are a "Judge," a "Bishop" and a "General" each with a corresponding fantasy and girl (the Judge is into S and M, the Bishop the penitent, the General his horse and his funeral procession). Traditionally Genet's play literally elevates these patrons to be "larger than life" having them wear the platform shoes of old tragedians and garish, clown-like makeup; in this run these fripperies are nowhere to be seen.
Irma keeps up the smoke and mirrors so long as her patrons are paying and so long as the revolution roiling in the streets outside doesn't catch her business in the crosshairs. It doesn't help matters that one of her regular visitors, the Chief of Police, George, has taken a special interest in Irma's work, and that a former employee (Ines Lucas's Chantal) has absconded with a plumber named Roger (Matt Gottlieb) to become the face of the rebellion.
Under the direction of Rafael De Mussa, who also plays the Chief of Police, the ensemble bring some of the more disturbing strokes of Genet's work to the surface. By downplaying the absurdity and slapstick in the scenes where the brothel patrons live out their fantasies the play-acting seems to have a bit more teeth. In the scene with the General, for example, played taciturnly by Jon Obayashi, he does not "mount" his barbed steed of a prostitute (Alison Paula Campbell) and so we are made to focus on his lyrically macabre account of his funerary motorcade as underscored by military tattoo. This moment doesn't elicit laughter, though sound designer Jon Brenner's needle scratches in the middle seem to want to prompt them. Almost none of the established trappings of the stock roles of the clergy, military and justice system, short of Amanda Shafran's capable costume design, are present here.
The few affectations (mostly accents—De Mussa's Spanish and Zoe Watkins practiced cockney as the Judge) in the playing of these parts seem arbitrary and inconsistent with the world already established. Often this delivery results in skipping over some comedic beats which does have a tendency to make some of the more tender or complicated scenes with Irma and her assistant, Kimmie Solomon's artless Carmen, short of sticking the landing. Maria Wolf is an appropriately arch Irma and Carlo Giuliano as the Envoy give the piece a much needed lift post-intermission when the deviant pretenders are put in place to form a puppet regime to quell the resistance.
While not my favorite production of The Balcony, and not one I would recommend for someone's first encounter with this masterpiece of meta-theatricality (if you can, read it or see the 1963 film; Genet has a very clear aesthetic that really paints a picture) Horizon Theatre Rep's production has a point-of-view and something to say about the world today. I just wish a bit more of the humor on the page made the jump to performance.


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Recipe by Ms Delicious Dish
This is a recipe I received from my husbands college aged niece Sarah. She made it for a desert after Easter dinner. It's like a huge "Ring Shaped" Chocolate Eclair. We loved it so much, we had to ask for the recipe!
Ingredients Nutrition
- 1 cup water
- 1⁄2 cup butter
- 1 cup flour
- 1⁄4 teaspoon salt
- 4 eggs
- 2 (3 1/2 ounce) packages French vanilla instant pudding
- 2 1⁄2 cups milk
- 1 cup Cool Whip
- 1⁄2 teaspoon almond extract
- 1 (7 1/2 ounce) package chocolate fudge frosting mix
Directions See How It's Made
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
- On a cookie sheet grease and flour a circle
- approx 7 inches.
- In a sauce pan, over high heat mix Water and Butter until boiling. Turn burner to Low and add Flour and Salt. Mix fast with a wooden spoon until dough leaves the sides of the pan.
- Transfer dough to a large bowl and mix with an electric beaters at Medium speed. Add eggs, one at a time. Beat until dough is smooth and slimy.
- Drop tablespoons of dough onto the cookie sheet to form a circle with an open center. Bake for 45 minutes. After 45 minutes turn oven off and leave in the oven for an additional 20 minutes.
- Put on a wire rack to cool. Once cool carefully cut in half (like a cream puff).
- For the Filling, mix BOTH packages Instant French Vanilla pudding with the 2 1/2 cups milk. Mix with an electric beater on Low for 1 - 2 minutes. Once pudding has set up, add Cool Whip and Almond Extract and fold in slowly until incorporated.
- Take the top of the "ring" off and set to the side. Spread the filling evenly on the bottom "ring". Once you have distributed all the filling evenly across the bottom "ring" replace the top of the "ring".
- For the frosting, make the Chocolate Fudge Frosting Mix as directed on the package and spread on the top of the ring. Let Frosting set up until ready to serve.


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Amr Zaky had given Egypt the lead in the second minute, but a one-goal win would have given the Algerians the group title on goal difference.
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by John Power, Japan Correspondent for the E-Journal
Ichiriki wins 7th O-kage Cup: The final section (last four rounds) of the 7th O-kage (Gratitude) Cup, a tournament for players aged 30 and under, was held on the bank of the Isuzu River and at the Alley Ki-in in Ise City in Mie Prefecture on May 14 and 15. The sponsors are a group of tourist-trade shops (many of them recreations of Edo Period buildings) in Gratitude Alley, the street leading up to the Ise Shrine (later in the month, this area was the site of the G7 summit).
The players who made the final, Ichiriki Ryo 7P and Anzai Nobuaki 7P, are fellow disciples of So Kofuku 9P. Anzai is the older, 30 to Ichiriki's 18, and won the 2nd and 3rd terms of this tournament, but Ichiriki has recently developed into one of the top players of the post-Iyama generation. Taking black, Iyama beat Anzai by resignation after 183 moves and won this title for the thirdtime in a row. First prize is three million yen.
The level of competition was quite high, as the 16 players in the final section included two former holders of top-seven titles, Murakawa Daisuke, who wonthe Oza title, and Ida Atsushi, the previous Judan, the second-place-getter in
the Honinbo League, Motoki Katsuya 7P, and women's triple crown-holder Xie Yimin. As it happened, all these players were eliminated in the first round.
Iyama close to defending Honinbo title: The challenger Takao Shinji 9P made a good start in his challenge for the 71st Honinbo title, winning the opening game, but nothing has gone well for him since.
The second game was played at the Honkoji Temple in Amagasaki City, Hyogo Prefecture on May 23 and 24. Iyama turned the tables from the first game. Playing white, he attacked severely and seized the initiative, then fended off Takao
's attempts to get back into the game. Early in the game there was a spectacular trade that gave Takao a large area but also gave Iyama a lot of ko threats. Iyama made good use of them to secure a large territory of his own. Still fighting continued, with Iyama making an unexpected but severe invasion. Takao was ahead in territory, but Iyama's constant attacking paid off. An unusual feature of this game was that Iyama twice made a tortoise-shell capture; it's rare for one to appear in a pro game, let alone two. It's proverbially worth 60 points, twice as much as a ponnuki. Late in the middle game, Takao made a last-chance attack on a white group, but Iyama found a clever move to settle it and nursed his lead to the end. Takao resigned after 230 moves. Incidentally, the 24th was Iyama's birthday (he's now 27); he gave himself a good birthday present.
The third game was played the Old Ryotei Kaneyu in Noshiro City in Akita Prefecture on June 2 and 3. ("Ryotei" is a term for a traditional Japanese inn; here "Old Ryotei" has been incorporated as part of the name. This inn is a palatial building made completely of wood; it has been registered with the government as a "tangible cultural property.") In contrast to the second game, the players made a solid and steady start. Inevitably a fierce fight started in the middle game, with a ko attached. Iyama played strongly and forced Takao to resign after 207 moves.
The fourth game was played in the Olive Bay Hotel in Saikai City in Nagasaki Prefecture on June 13 and 14. This was the most fierce game of the series so far, with fighting starting early in the opening. Playing white, Iyama cut a large group into two and killed both parts of it. Takao resigned after move 128. The game finished at 2:44 pm on the second day, Takao had two hours 33 minutes of his time left and Iyama had one hour 48 minutes left.
The fifth game will be played on June 29 and 30.
Murakawa becomes Gosei challenger: The play-off to decide the challenger for the 41st Gosei title was held on May 18. Murakawa Daisuke 8P (W, right) beat Yamashita Keigo 9P by 4.5 points, becoming the Gosei challenger for the first time. This gave Murakawa revenge for losing the play-off to decide the Kisei challenger to Yamashita three years in a row. He will be the second player to try to put a dent in Iyama's septuple crown. The title match will start on June 25.
The 2016 Pair Go World Cup will be held on July 9 & 10 in Tokyo. Sixteen of the world's best male-female pairs have been invited to compete for the top prize of 10M JPY. The star-studded field includes Ke Jie – Yu Zhiying (China); Iyama Yuta – Hsieh Yimin (Japan); Park Junghwan – Choi Jeong (Korea) and Chen Shih-Iuan – Hei Jiajia (Taiwan). Notable pairs from the West include Eric Lui – Sarah Yu (North America); Fernando Aguilar – Rosario Papeschi (Latin America) and Ilya Shikshin – Natalia Kovaleva (Europe). All games will be broadcast on Pendant. Click here for details.
The Syracuse Go Club had its largest turnout ever for a weekly meeting on Monday, June 13, when 14-year-old Zhangbokan "Tony" Tang 7d played a simul against all comers. Tang, recent winner of the Maryland Open, faced 17 opponents, giving handicaps ranging from 4 stones (for 1 dan players) to 13 (for 20 kyus) — seven other players chose to watch. Only three of his opponents emerged victorious, but a good time was had by all. Tang, who is staying with a host family in Syracuse for three more years until he finishes high school, is about to return to China to visit his family for a few weeks, but he will be returning in time for the US Go Congress, accompanied by his teacher Weijei Jiang 9P.
- report/photo by Richard Moseson
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Go magazine & books: Go Review Jan 1972 to Spring 1977; Go World 1-78; The American Go Journal vol. 9 no. 1 (Jan 1974) to Fall/Winter 2002/2003, plus a couple of mimeographed predecessors; about 30 Ishi Press books (numbers on request); the Ranka 1976 yearbook; a small stack of Japanese and Korean publications, including two copies of Ahop Jul Baduk, a booklet about 9-line go; and some non-Ishi books like Lasker, Korscheldt, the Treasure Chest Enigma, and a couple of go proverb books. email firstname.lastname@example.com
Redmond Responds: "Andrew Feenberg (Rational Play? The Master of Go vs. AlphaGo) clearly knows his stuff," writes Michael Redmond 9P, "but I think it's confusing that he leaves the challenger's name as Otake. I was told that Kawabata just happened to choose that name, and it probably has nothing to do with Otake Hideo, who was a young player at the time. The challenger was Kitani Minoru, of course." Redmond adds that he disagrees with Feenberg's comment that "in the case of the actual match the inferior player wins through manipulating the new meta-rules and upsetting his adversary rather than through superior play." Redmond says that "I would not call Kitani or AlphaGo the inferior player," and adds that "I think most pros would agree with me when I say it was Honinbo Shusai who tended to manipulate the old traditions to take more advantage than any of his predecessors did. The new rules were in part an attempt to keep the match fair."
Feenberg Strikes a Chord: "Andrew Feenberg's article, Rational Play? The Master of Go vs. AlphaGo, struck a chord in me," writes Joel Sanet. "I can remember decades ago feeling great admiration for Otake Hideo when he said that he would rather lose the game than play an ugly move. Today I am learning how useful the empty triangle can be."
China's Baoxiang Bai (right) defeated Chinese Taipei's Chia-Cheng Hsu to win his second world amateur championship with a perfect 8-0 record. Korea's Kibaek Kim was second, and Chinese Taipei's Chia Cheng Hsu was third. Benjamin Lockhart of the US was 13th, Manuel Velasco of Canada was 28th and Emil Garcia of Mexico was 36th. The tournament took place June 5-8 in Wuxi, a city of six million located slightly northwest of Shanghai. Full results here. Click here for more WAGC reports on Ranka.
"In the 1949 movie 'Stray Dog' Toshiro Mifune plays a homicide detective looking a criminal," writes David Matson. "Ten minutes before the end he scans a room for suspects. The two men who best fit the description are both in their late 20′s, wearing white linen suits and white hats with wide black bands. Both men are reading newspapers. One man has an open-collared white dress shirt with no tie, sunglasses and a watch on his left wrist. The other has a crew-neck sweater with horizontal stripes. I watched this on Hulu, viewed on a small laptop, but I think both newspapers showed go game diagrams (different games)."
Where's the 2015 Yearbook? "Last year you published the 2014 Member's Edition Collection of Games, including a zip file of all files," writes Joe Maia. "I didn't find a similar page for the 2015 Game Collection. Are here any plans for a game collection (with zip file) for the 2015 Game Collection?"
The online 2015 Yearbook — the Member's Edition Collection of Games, Commentaries & More — is in production now; members should keep an eye out for a notice about publication soon. If you want to get the Yearbook and the weekly Member's Edition, click here to join the AGA now.
Seeking Go Players in CA: "Trying to find Igo players (any strength) in Marin County, California," writes Myoun Korin, "Cities like San Rafael, Corte Madera, Mill Valley, Fairfax,etc."
Click here for Where to Play Go across the US, including clubs in California.
by Dai Junfu, France's representative at the 2016 World Amateur Go Championships (WAGC).
It is a strange and very bitter feeling. I finished in 9th place at the 37th WAGC, a very disappointing result. Before the tournament, many people close to me said that I had the level to take 3rd place, and with luck, that I could finish even higher on the podium. Even myself, I had the same illusion, because Satoshi Hiraoka, the representative of Japan and twice winner of the WAGC, had been defeated by players from Europe, but I had never lost against a European. In the end, my sense of pride and lack of practice cost me dearly.
I had quite a difficult draw, because at the end I had the third highest SOS despite my three defeats. Starting from the third round, my opponents where all higher than 6-dan, excepting the final round. After having beaten the USA's Benjamin Lockhart (7-dan), I was drawn against the winner of the tournament, China's Bai Baoxiang, in the 4th round. He is considered to be one of four titans of amateur go in China, and his level is at least 4 or 5 professional dan. He turned down many chances to become a professional because he makes a good living from the many amateur tournament in China which have high prize pools. I tried with everything, but he had a solid victory without leaving me the slightest chance. It was the first time in 10 years that I had the feeling of losing a game without creating any problems for my opponent. Very sad. For the 5th round, my opponent was the player from Hong Kong (6-dan). He took a lot of territory but was unable to resist my attacks. With 4 wins from 5, I regained my confidence and was on track for a podium finish.
The turning point came in the 6th round. After losing to Taiwan, Japan's Satoshi was without any significant victory. I was convinced that I was bound to defeat him, and that he would undoubtably make some blunder and I would have an easy win. In the game, my play was completely unbalanced. I could not recognise myself. I started to wake up when he had almost enclosed his gigantic moyo. Despite my tesuji in his centre, contrary to my illusions, he responded well and I was lost. Later, Mr Satoshi lost by not more that 2.5 points against Bai Baoxing because of bad yose. Actually, he is very strong. If I had appreciated his level, then I would have played differently against him in my game! After this defeat, I had said goodbye to the podium.
Round 7, is the game against my old friend Cristian Pop (7-dan) from Romania. Cristian made his usual moyo but I brought the game under my control. Then, at the crucial junction, I played the losing move, an instinctive play without a second of reflexion. Cristian took advantage of a ko and a good threat to take back control of the game. The last round was against a Belgian player and I won easily. Thanks to my high SOS, I took the 9th place but it was really a mediocre result and I felt a little ashamed. After the championship, I had the impression that the level of amateur players had progressed globally. The European players also had very good results. Notably the Ukrainian Andrii Kravets took 4th place ahead of Japan.
Even if it was a disappointing tournament for me, I met many new friends from all around the world. Notably I established a good relationship with the administration of the IGF. I hope that I can contribute more to the development of Go in the world because of my ability with languages (Chinese, French, English and a little Japanese). I hope that I can train a little more so as not to drop down in level, and I hope to make a better result if I am able to represent France again.
Based on the original report in Revue Francaise de Go, which includes game records and pictures.
More AlphaGo effect: "My uncle teaches math at Colorado Mesa University and asked me to give a presentation about go and AlphaGo," writes Sirocco Fury Hamada. "Dr. Edward Bonan-Hamada's mathematical modeling class at Colorado Mesa University in Grand Junction, CO is interested in mathematically modeling human reasoning. He asked me to teach his students about go so they could understand it and think about the math behind AlphaGo. It was a small class, just seven students, but they asked great questions and are very interested in go now. A lot of them expressed interest in wanting to learn more about it and playing it online or with each other. AlphaGo is creating interest in go in unusual (or not) places!"Go classifieds work: "The classified ad you ran for me (books, semiprecious stones, and kaya bowls for sale) was an unqualified success," writes Donald Garratt. "All the items have been sold! Thank you. I will contact you in the future when I am ready to sell some more go equipment." Go Classified ads are free; email us at firstname.lastname@example.com
by Andrew Feenberg
This is the story of two go matches. In March, Google's artificial intelligence computer AlphaGo defeated world champion Lee Sedol 9P 4-1. This is considered a great triumph for artificial intelligence. Does it mean that AI is almost human? Or that humans have simply become machine-like? Another historic match in 1938 provides some useful perspective.
Games are ambiguous phenomena. On the one hand they are models of rationality. There are unambiguous rules, actions, and measures of success and failure. On the other hand games are social events, collaborative performances governed by meta-rules such as sportsmanship that contextualize the play. The players need each other in order to perform. They produce an object together through their combined efforts. The effect of this activity is to contribute to their own personal development as human beings. And we often qualify the product of their activity in aesthetic terms: a beautiful play in football for example.
Rationality as found in games is also a general attribute of the culture of modern societies. Modern societies contain many game like systems. Individuals act as players in these systems in order to get a raise, get a job, learn new skills, take a plane, avoid paying taxes, and so on. Thus games can appear as models of modernity and what happens with games can tell us something about what happens in modern societies in general.
This is why the Nobel prize-winning Japanese author Kawabata chose the game of go for one of his most famous novels. "The Master of Go" is based on a real match that Kawabata witnessed as a newspaperman in 1938. This was the last match of the old master Shusai and his challenger, called Otake in the novel. Each player represents an era. The old master represents traditional play, while his challenger represents modernized play, influenced by Western ideas. Traditional play is all about the human side of the game, deference, the notion of way or vocation as practiced in Japanese martial arts for example, and beauty, the beauty of the moves and the board as the game evolves. Modernity is about winning. Just that.
The novel recounts the game's play as it reveals the characters and the historical background. The whole intrigue centers on a single move in the game, move 121. The reason this move is so important has to do with Western innovations introduced by the challenger and favored by the newspapers. In the old days the master would have regulated the flow of play, deciding when to start and end each day's session. But the 1938 match was organized around time limits and sealed moves at the end of the day as in Western chess. Of course players are equal in the game play, but the traditional way of playing recognized the differences between the players in the world outside the game. Now the equalization internal to the game was being extended outward into the world of play. One can see how this might appeal to the challenger and to the newspapers, both of whom would prefer not to be subject to the whims of the old master. To the old master it seemed a lack of due deference.
As it happened, the challenger began to run out of time toward the middle of the game. To gain time to reflect on a difficult position in the center of the board he sealed a final move off in a corner. This trivial move required the master to respond away from the central struggle. The manipulation implied in this use of the time limits and sealed moves upset the master. He was offended and said that the beauty of the game was lost. As a result he made several mistakes and the challenger won. Modernity triumphs over tradition. But we are left with the clear impression that the old master was the better player of the two.
Kawabata wrote after World War II that he would only write elegies, elegies for the lost beauty of the old Japan. The novel is obviously a critique of modernization. But note that it is not about the contrast between rational modernity and the irrational tradition. There is nothing strategically irrational or inferior about the old master's play. So the contrast of modernization and tradition is not about strategic rationality vs. irrational sentimentality. It is about the place of strategic rationality in the real world. Tradition is a set of meta-rules that contextualize and organize the rationalized sectors of social life such as games. Modernity extends the rationality of games into the real world. This has counterintuitive consequences. For example, in the case of the actual match the inferior player wins through manipulating the new meta-rules and upsetting his adversary rather than through superior play.
Here is the how Kawabata described his elegy for traditional go: "It may be said that the master was plagued in his last match by modern rationalism, to which fussy rules were everything, from which all the grace and elegance of go as art had disappeared, which quite dispensed with respect for elders and attached no importance to mutual respect as human beings. From the way of go the beauty of Japan and the Orient had fled."
The losers of the two matches were Shusai and Lee Sedol. The winners were Otaké and AlphaGo. What do they have in common? If we understand games in all their ambiguity as both strategic exercises, rational systems, and also ways of self development and aesthetic achievement, then I would suggest that their reduction to mere winning is a disaster. The matches reveal the limits of modernity as a way of understanding and organizing human life. In reorganizing the social world around strategic rationality, modernity prepares the triumph of the machine.
This essay is based on a talk presented at the McLuhan Centre at the University of Toronto in early March. It has been condensed and updated. Feenberg has written extensively about Kawabata's novel previously in his book Alternative Modernity.
"I just listened to one of my favorite podcasts called Freakonomics Radio with Steven Dubner," writes Aaron Murg. The title of this episode is called "How to Win Games and Beat People," and it is all about board games. In it, they interview a board game historian who mentions go within the first 5 minutes! The podcast would be very interesting to any board game player and informational as to the economics of board games.
There's just a week left to register for Padanet's 13×13 Internet Go Tournament. Registration is free but you must sign up by June 19. "This year we are holding an open tournament in which all games are played on even and a handicap tournament based on Pandanet ratings," Pandanet's Keiko Sota tells the E-Journal. The open tournament is for players 3-dan and higher; the winner will earn the right to challenge Yuki Satoshi 9-dan in a 13×13 game and the second place winner will earn the right to challenge Sakai Hideyuki 8-dan, also in a 13×13 game. The handicap tournament is divided into A class (2-dan~2-kyu) and B Class (3-kyu and under); there are no handicap stones; the handicaps will be in komi. Click here for details and applications; if you are not already a member of Pandanet, register and get an ID here first.
Slate & Shell has just re-issued Yilun Yang's "Whole Board Thinking in Joseki Volume 2." Long out of print, this is a continuation of Mr. Yang's exploration of joseki, written in collaboration with former AGA president Phil Straus. "The title of this book is a bit misleading," notes Slate & Shell. "It does not aim to teach you josekis. It aims to teach you how to decide which joseki to use in a particular situation (assuming you know the relevant josekis). So what it is really about is judging how to play in the early opening. To narrow down this enormous topic and provide a very thorough treatment of it, Yang focuses on situations in which a few opening moves have been made, including in all four corners, and your opponent has approached your 3-4 stone in one corner. The issue is how should you respond: by settling the corner, trying to get out (in the proper direction), or attacking from the outside. It depends on the rest of the board, of course, and this book shows you how to determine the correct response in terms of the whole board situation. This is very useful knowledge even if your understanding of how to achieve the correct goal in that situation is somewhat limited. At least you will know what you should try to do instead of just guessing the proper continuation." 181 pages, $26
Automatic game recording app "JustGo" will be demonstrated at this year's US Go Congress. Lei Chen 7d and Yi Tang 2p from WanTong technology will be on hand at the Congress with their newest technology. Click here to see a demo; the app will be available both in iOS and Android.
Save the dates of October 22-23 on your calendar for the 2016 Cotsen Open. The popular tournament returns to the Korean Cultural Center Los Angeles this year, thanks to the support of the Korean Consulate and KCCLA. The 2016 tournament will feature all of the things that previous participants have come to expect and look forward to from the Cotsen Open, including roving masseuses, free lunches, gorgeous trophies, a game between Yilun Yang 7p and another top pro, and thousands of dollars in prizes. "This is a tournament you won't want to miss!" say local organizers. Registration will open soon; stay tuned for more details and get updates on the Cotsen Open Faceboo page. photo: Mark Lee gets a massage at the 2015 Cotsen Open; photo by Chris Garlock
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This is a very clever young person's book. A dog named Frankie determines that, while his human family is away on vacation, that he can build his dream doghouse. The dog manages to fax a request for architectural help from Margarter Marjorie Main. Frankie is assisted by a mouse, Walter, in this endeavor (Walter Gropius?). Walter's wife is Alma, and their four children are Mies, Van, Der, and Rohe. Frankie then secures help from a Scottish terrier, Ada Louise (Huxtable?) in having detailed drawings prepared. The house gets built by Poochini Buiders, and then is featured in Architecture and Garden magazine. This was a fun read, and hopefully young people might catch on to all the references along the way.
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Missing in action since, if I recall correctly, a Criterion Laserdisc back in the paleolithic era, Luis Bunuel's 1970 masterpiece "Tristana" has reappeared on Blu-ray, in a solid new transfer from the Cohen Film Collection. Apart from a brief dream sequence, it's a film devoid of any overtly "surrealist" touches, yet every frame achieves a subtly insinuating strangeness — an almost too-perfect clarity that results from Bunuel's classically balanced compositions, restrained color palate, and impassively even pacing. It may be my favorite of Bunuel's films, but why choose when there is so much to admire in his magnificent late period, including his final film, the 1977 "That Obscure Object of Desire," which has also resurfaced in a new disc from Studio Canal/Lionsgate.
I didn't have space to get into this question in my New York Times review, but this "Tristana" comes with an ending slightly different from the one I recall — although that ending is included as well, as an extra sourced from what looks like an older video master. The movie still ends with a little flurry of flashbacks recapitulating the story, but instead of continuing all the way back to the first sequence of the film, it now ends with a quick fade out as Don Lope (Fernando Rey) leads his young ward (Catherine Deneuve) to bed for the first time. Is there a Bunuel scholar in the house who can account for this alteration? I think I prefer the more symmetrical ending I remember from the 70s, but I'd be most curious to know the history here.


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Oracle customers on a range of significant releases have a choice to make this year: Upgrade, or potentially pay more for support.
While Oracle provides five years of Premier Support after a product's general availability, after that period comes extended and sustaining support, which cost more and provide fewer benefits.
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Extended Support will end later this year for PeopleSoft FMS/ESA 8.8, as well as for ELS 8.81 and HRMS 8.8, according to a document (PDF) on Oracle's website.
JD Edwards EnterpriseOne 8.12 and JD Edwards CRM Mobile Sales 8.12 go into Extended Support next month. E-Business Suite 12 and Siebel CRM 8.0.x enter Extended Support in January 2012.
Oracle has made concessions to users regarding support windows, citing the global economic downturn. In 2009, it announced that first-year extended support fees on some releases would be waived.
Oracle has no plans to provide any general extensions to those waivers, according to a spokeswoman. However, it has since announced a number of platform-specific Extended Support fee waivers for Database 10gR2, as well as a first-year waiver of Extended Support fees for PeopleSoft Enterprise 9, she said.
A number of PeopleSoft Enterprise 9 modules are set to enter Extended Support this year, according to Oracle's site.
Under Extended Support, which lasts for three years, customers get the benefits of Premier Support, save for the fact that certifications may not be available for new versions of third-party applications.
Sustaining Support comes next and is available indefinitely, but omits key services such as new tax and regulatory updates; new critical patches; and new certifications with both Oracle and third-party products.
Support deadlines have been a hot topic among members of the Oracle Applications Users Group (OAUG), and will surely also be at the group's Collaborate 11 conference in April, said John Schmitz, who serves on the organization's Customer Support Council.
Users have "a lot of concern" about the cost and complexity of upgrades, said Schmitz, who is also an E-Business Suite project leader at the University of Wisconsin-Madison's IT department. "I think they'd welcome all the help they can get."
Oracle recently made a "big step forward" in this direction with the release of a number of detailed guides that walk customers through specific upgrade processes, Schmitz said.
UW-Madison is going through an E-Business Suite upgrade, and is finding a related document to be a great help. "We're using it as a single source for shopping for information regarding the project," he said. However, the team is still evaluating whether it wants to closely follow the entire methodology laid out in the guide, he said.
Meanwhile, expiring Oracle support windows have third-party support companies like Rimini Street eager to offer another choice.
"We present an alternative to having to go through an upgrade," said David Rowe, senior vice president of global marketing and alliances.
Rimini Street's service provides ongoing technical support as well as tax and regulatory upgrades; the company says customers will save at least 50 percent on their existing support bills.
But Rimini Street and the third-party software market in general have been clouded somewhat by litigation. Oracle sued a former SAP subsidiary, TomorrowNow, which also sold third-party support services, claiming intellectual property theft. SAP admitted liability for TomorrowNow's actions and a jury awarded Oracle $1.3 billion last year.
Oracle subsequently sued Rimini Street, which is led by TomorrowNow co-founder Seth Ravin, lodging similar charges. Rimini Street has vigorously denied any wrongdoing.
Schmitz hasn't heard much buzz among OAUG members regarding third-party support, but imagines that sentiment "runs the whole range" from embarking on upgrades to considering a break with Oracle support, he said.
While Oracle executives have been responsive to OAUG, the group is hoping to work more closely with other user organizations such as IOUG (Independent Oracle Users Group) and Quest, to present a broader front on support issues, according to Schmitz.
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Ladies and gentlemen, spring has finally sprung here in London! Well, until next week when the rain decides to return after tempting us with clear blue skies. The sunny weather here has brought out some of the loveliest styles among Londoners I have seen thus far during my time abroad and I can't wait to share it with you.
I spotted this Fashionista during one of the first days at London Fashion Week and I couldn't help but dash over and ask her for her photograph. The specific item of hers that I fell head over heels in love with was her blush-toned coat. Pink coats have been seen all over the runways recently from the infamous pink Carven coat to similar blush colored coats from Topshop, J.Crew and Simone Rocha. Her oversized coat looks darling in the photograph but up close and in person, it was even better. The soft wool and airy texture of it offset her black leather leggings and dark minimalistic accessories.
By swapping in a bright colored item into your wardrobe and then pairing it with more muted colors is an ideal way to beat the winter blues and liven up your closet. Of course we all see beautiful brightly colored items when we browse our favorite stores and sometimes wonder how to pull that perfect piece off. By drawing all the attention to that one specific brightly colored piece and pairing it with other items that accent it, you can easily pull off a successfully fashionable look.
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I usually layout my sites with divs for title, menu, content (all in a wrapper div) so I can have site-wide structure, css menus, style, graphics etc.
Standard css stuff basically.
I'm just re-jigging things and something occurred to me, and this may be obvious to some of you but I'd never thought about it before.
Why not use JavaScript to render the div tags as well?
That way the only thing that's in the html are declarations to scripts and the actual content text and image tags. I realise this is one step away from scripting the whole thing including content (but I don't want to have content brought in from a database just yet) and I was wondering how widespread this practice is.
A number of reasons not to are:
In all of those cases, you end up finding that scripted content might as well not exist.
So, err, what is the point of JavaScript then? AJAX?
Ajax is built on top of JavaScript, so the same issues apply.
The most effective way to use JavaScript, it to use it to enhance the user's experience.
When you get to a point where what you're doing just won't work without JavaScript, you then find that your potential audience decreases due to the factors listed above.
Like air con. You need to make a car first, air con is an added extra, but some people like it.


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Cautionary Tale for Organizations Doing Lobbying and Political Work
- Friday, 14 December 2012 14:28
It is always a difficult decision to make for an organization -- do we spend money on legal fees for something we don't know/think will be an issue, or do we put those much needed funds towards our activities and take the risk that it might come back to bite us later? For organizations that lobby and/or undertake activities in the political arena on controversial issues, the risk is even greater. While the IRS may not be as responsive to complaints as some of us would like*, the Minnesota Campaign Finance Board reviews and takes seriously the complaints coming through the door. If you think you may have political enemies out there – watch out! Just this week, the Minnesota Campaign Finance Board released findings with regard to a complaint they received from an opponent of Catholics for Marriage Equality. Below is a summary of those findings (facts I cite come solely from there).
Catholics for Marriage Equality (C4ME) is a program of the Catholic Pastoral Committee on Sexual Minorities (CPCSM). CPCSM is a 501(c)(3) organization that has been around for about 32 years "and has worked to create environments of respect, acceptance, and safety within both Church and society wherein the experiences, insights, and integrity of LGBT persons and their families are recognized, affirmed and celebrated." Good work to be doing, in my humble opinion. According to CPCSM, the purpose of C4ME "is not to defeat the marriage amendment, but to educate Catholics about what marriage equality means (i.e. the granting of civil marriage rights, benefits and responsibilities to same-sex couples), why marriage is important to LGBT people, and why Catholics can in good conscience support marriage equality for all, regardless of sexual orientation."
The kinds of activities that they conducted:
- Produced buttons, bumper stickers, and lawn signs displaying the message "Another Catholic Voting No"
- A self-produced series of short videos with local LGBT Catholics expressing their ideas on family and marriage; these were premiered at Riverview Theater, and featured on the C4ME website
- Presence at Minnesotans United for All Families (the campaign leading the fight against the amendment) events
- Their executive director spoke at various Catholic gatherings focused on the marriage amendment
C4ME is not a "political committee" that must register in Minnesota. According to Minnesota campaign finance law (Chapter 10A), a Political Committee is "an association whose major purpose is to…promote or defeat a ballot question, other than a principal campaign committee or a political party unit." C4ME is a part of CPCSM, an organization with a long history of work in Minnesota. CPCSM existed long before this amendment was even a thought, and thus does not exist with a major purpose of defeating the marriage amendment.
They should have registered as a political fund.
A political fund is merely an accounting mechanism used to segregate money used for political purposes. It is not a separate entity. Many of the activities of C4ME fell under the definition of "expenditure" – which is a "purchase or payment of money or anything of value, or an advance of credit, made or incurred for the purpose of…promoting or defeating a ballot question." An expenditure does not have to involve an explicit statement to vote for or against a ballot measure. In Board guidance issued on the topic – the Board said that an expenditure also includes those items/communications that are "susceptible of no reasonable interpretation other than as an appeal to vote for or against a ballot question measure." The Board found (and I agree) that the lawn signs, bumper stickers, buttons, C4ME website, blog, the video series, and many of the public presentations and forums hosted by C4ME were all expenditures for the purpose of defeating a ballot question. Due to its failure to file, C4ME is now facing late filing penalties on the numerous filings it failed to make.
Moral of the story? Particularly taking into consideration both the money and time that was likely spent dealing with this issue – it pays to seek advice from a qualified attorney and deal with these issues prospectively, versus playing clean-up after the fact.
*This is a massive understatement. From what those of us in this sector can tell, the IRS is doing little to no investigation into complaints of organizations crossing the line in the lobbying/political arena. Also, I do not wish this kind result on anyone (full disclosure – I support wholeheartedly Catholics for Marriage Equality's mission), BUT the system doesn't work if only some people play by the rules. While I definitely don't like seeing organizations I support in trouble…. I would want the same standards upheld for organizations on the other side.


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Comey Confirmed: Sen. Rand Paul released his hold on President Obama's nomination of James Comey to head the FBI, paving the way for his confirmation Monday. The Kentucky Republican had placed the hold on Comey's nomination to protest the FBI's use of drones on U.S. soil, but decided to release it after receiving a response—even though it was one he disagreed with—from the agency. The vote was 93-1, with Paul casting the lone dissent. However, two senators voted present, while four others did not vote at all. Comey, a former Justice Department official under President George W. Bush, will replace outgoing FBI Director Robert Mueller. (Read more)
He's No. 4: Anthony Weiner is probably rethinking his decision to run for New York City mayor right about now. After his latest sexting scandal was uncovered last week, Weiner has dropped down to fourth place in the mayor's race, according to a Quinnipiac University poll that was released Monday. That's quite a change from the survey five days ago that showed Weiner in the lead. What's more, a majority of likely Democratic primary voters say they want the former congressman—who resigned two summers ago after his last go-around of sending illicit messages to women he'd met online—to drop out of the race. The new leader in the Democratic primary, according to the poll, is City Council Speaker Christine Quinn. (Read more)
Deny, Deny, Deny: It seems Mitt Romney is trying to rewrite history. In an interview with reporter Dan Balz, the failed Republican presidential contender was forced to confront the infamous "47 percent" remark that helped sink his campaign. And how did he do it? By essentially denying what he said, which is especially difficult when that thing you said was recorded on video and widely distributed on the Internet. First, Romney blamed his initial response to the "47 percent" comment on having only been told—not actually seeing—what was on the video. Then, he claimed the comment was taken out of context. Explained Romney: "The president said he's writing off 47 percent of Americans and so forth. And that wasn't at all what was intended. That wasn't what was meant by it. That is the way it was perceived." But Mother Jones' David Corn, who broke the story about the secret recorded tape, wasn't about to let those explanations slide. Corn wrote: "The fellow who wanted to lead the United States cannot look at reality squarely and own what he said. Months after being rejected by American voters—winning the support of, uh, only 47 percent—Romney still cannot take responsibility himself." (Read more)
Radio Shake-Up: Rather than renew their contracts, Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity—two of conservative talk radio's highest rated personalities—will be dropped by Cumulus Media from its stations at the end of the year, Politico's Dylan Byers reports. Citing an industry source, Byers wrote that the decision was made after contract talks between Cumulus and Clear Channel, which distributes both of the influential conservative pundits' programs through its Premiere Networks division, broke down over the cost of distribution rights. Although the two companies have had difficult negotiations before, Byers' source says it's unlikely they will be able to strike a deal this time around. (Read more)
Video of the Day: Eliot Spitzer, the former New York governor who resigned from office amid a prostitution scandal five years ago, made his first major remarks regarding New York City mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner's inappropriate online behavior with women during an interview with MSNBC's Chris Matthews. When asked by Matthews whether he would fire government officials who "used their office equipment to engage in the kind of pastime that Anthony Wiener's been involved in," the current New York City comptroller candidate responded, "I think the answer is yes." Spitzer later added that he would not be voting for Weiner. As Mediate noted: "The irony around Spitzer's criticism of Weiner could not have been lost on most people tuning in on MSNBC."


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