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Sometimes dismissed as a lesser form of comedy, slapstick is actually one of the hardest comic mediums to nail, requiring great timing, physical prowess and a good connection with your co-stars to get even the tiniest chortle from the audience. The Farrelly Brothers' Three Stooges reboot might not give the genre the kickstart it deserves, but it did get us thinking about the high points in slapstick history. Watch and marvel at the sheer insanity of some of these hijinks – and start petitioning your nearest studio to bring them back.
Performer: Buster Keaton
As seen in: Steamboat Bill Jr. (1928)
Watch the full movie here
No stuntmen. No special effects. This is the real Buster Keaton being blown along in a hospital bed, narrowing avoiding death-by-falling-house-front and leaning Michael Jackson-style into the wind. The king of physical comedy, Keaton was an unparalleled original and truly one of the greatest actor/director/writers in the history of cinema. Orson Welles even called his 1936 masterpiece, The General, "the greatest comedy ever made, the greatest Civil War film ever made, and perhaps the greatest film ever made" – something you can safely say is the exact opposite of faint praise.
Performers: Laurel and Hardy
As seen in: You're Darn Tootin' (1928)
Watch the full short here
One of the finest messes Laurel and Hardy ever got themselves into, the infamous pants removal scene at the end of You're Darn Tootin' is an early highlight from the pair's long and illustrious career. Perfectly typifying their miraculous ability to pull everyone around them into their vortex of anarchy, it contains all of the key Laurel and Hardy beats: their dreams crumbling around them, the inventive involvement of innocent bystanders and a sense of indignity tempered by their love/hate for each other. That, and people hitting each other in the name of comedy – but that goes without saying.
Performer: Charlie Chaplin
As seen in: City Lights (1931)
Watch the full film here
Undoubtedly one of Chaplin's best feature films, City Lights came at the changeover period between silent cinema and the unstoppable onslaught of the talkies familiar to film fans from Singin' In The Rain and The Artist. But despite the opportunity to festoon his latest tale of The Tramp with speech, Chaplin stuck with silence, delivering a beautiful swansong for the end of an era as well as bucketloads of gags, an exceptionally heartfelt ending and the funniest boxing scene of all time. That's right, Scary Movie 4, you heard; Chaplin's got you beat.
Performers: Edgar Kennedy, Chico Marx, Harpo Marx
As seen in: Duck Soup (1930)
The most famous scene from Duck Soup is the mirror gag between Harpo and Groucho, but the best bit of slapstick is the fight between Marco, Chico and the lemonade vendor that sees an innocent man bullied within the inch of his life. Hats are swapped, lemonade is squirted, hats are swapped again, legs are kicked and hats are set on fire. In other words, it's not a good day to be either a hat or a lemonade vendor in this particular corner of Freedonia. As for that mirror gag, well, that had been done many times before, most notably by Charlie Chaplin in The Floorwalker (1916) and Max Linder in Seven Years Bad Luck (1921). It still worked for you well enough though, Groucho ol' chap, don't you worry.
Performers: The Three Stooges
As seen in: You Naszty Spy (1940)
Larry, Curly and Moe weren't all double-fingered eye-pokes, hammers to the noggin and lobsters down the trousers: the definitive slapstick threesome also snuck in some satire from time to time. Case in point is 1940's 18 minute Hitler-spoofing short, You Nazsty Spy!, which shoved two fingers at Mr Hitler's eyeballs a whole nine months before Charlie Chaplin wowed the world with his globe ballet in The Great Dictator. Still, Chaplin didn't fit in so many forced puns and people falling over, so credit where it's due.
Performer: Jerry Lewis
As seen in: Who's Minding The Store? (1963)
Though not technically slapstick, Jerry Lewis' pantomime act of playing the typewriter in 1963's Who's Minding The Store? to the tune of Leroy Anderson's The Typewriter – which Radio 4 fans may recognise as the theme to The News Quiz – is the finest of its kind. It follows a similar routine in TV's Martin And Lewis, as well as 1961's The Errand Boy, which sees Lewis' eponymous character pretending to be the big boss to the tune of Blues In Hoss Flat by the Count Basie Orchestra. Family Guy even paid homage to this skit in a 2010 episode, and despite being a cartoon, it somehow still stands up.
Performers: The cast of Blazing Saddles
As seen in: Blazing Saddles (1974)
The end of Mel Brooks' horse-punching Western sees the entire cast of the film break through the fourth wall and into the Warner Bros. lot, fighting other movies' actors before making their way to the studio's canteen. There, a somehow inevitable slapstick pie fight commences, with cream on everyone's faces almost instantly. The bad guy of the piece, the despicable State Attorney General Hedley Lamarr, is so afraid of any foam-to-fizzog action he applies it himself within the comfortable confines of a restroom. So remember, comedy writers, if you don't know how to end your movie, look to pie (see also: Bugsy Malone). You can't go wrong.
Performer: Peter Sellers
As seen in: The Pink Panther Strikes Again (1976)
This much-loved interrogation scene from the penultimate Sellers-starring Pink Panther movie features some of the finest physical comedy Clouseau ever committed to celluloid. Calling himself "the Pavlova of the parallels", the bumbling French detective begins the scene by leaping down a flight of stairs before karate chopping a suit of armour, clubbing a beekeeper and wrecking a priceless Steinway piano. This symphony of slapstick was achieved despite director Blake Edwards and his star actively loathing each other – Edwards once described Sellers as "physically unfit" and "certifiable" – and the fact that script was based on a hastily written TV episode.
Performers: Jackie Chan, James Tien
As seen in: The Fearless Hyena (1979)
Though he's best known for his stunts, martial arts and willingness to dress up as Chun-Li from Street Fighter II, Jackie Chan is also one of the finest physical comedians the world has ever known and a huge fan of silent comedy slapstick (see his Keaton- and Gene Kelly-riffing routine in Shanghai Knights for details). Most of his comedy gets wrapped up in his stunt work or fight scenes, but occasionally he gets the chance to be straight-out funny. This Kung Fu Panda-inspiring chopstick squabble from The Fearless Hyena is a good example, combining jaw-dropping dexterity with some of the worst trolling in existence. Seriously, don't get any ideas, internet – it's not worth it.
Performer: Bruce Campbell
As seen in: Evil Dead II (1987)
As well as reminding us never to judge a book of DEATH by its cover, Evil Dead II is a useful refresher in why one should always keep a chainsaw in the kitchen. As well as helping with exceptionally tough turkeys, it's also handy – no pun intended – for lopping off any possessed prehensile extremities that might be trying to beat / stab you to death with the other contents of the room. Bruce Campbell earned himself an eternal place among the comedy gods here by the simple expedient of beating himself up, throwing himself around the room and finally taking a power tool to his own limb. Kids, do NOT try this at home.
Performers: Macaulay Culkin, Joe Pesci, Daniel Stern
As seen in: Home Alone (1990)
Like a live-action Itchy & Scratchy, Home Alone doesn't mess around with the cartoon violence. Hands might not be severed, but heads are set on fire, nails are driven through feet and hot irons are dropped from a great height onto upturned faces. In other words, The Gold Rush it ain't. Despite its morbid obsession with pain – or, rather, because of it – Macaulay Culkin's breakout movie was a phenomenon in the early '90s, spawning three sequels and proving once again that kids love seeing adults in extreme agony. So much so, in fact, that the sequel was a carbon copy of the original, except by then Culkin's Kevin McAllister had form, and what's worse, daddy's credit card. Gulp.
Performer: Kelsey Grammer
As seen in: Cape Feare (1993)
Though not a feature film, the second episode of The Simpsons' fifth season, the monumentally good Cape Feare, is worth a mention here for its sterling use of that slapstick staple, standing-on-a-rake. After spoofing Cape Fear (and its 1991 remake), as well as numerous other thrillers, the producers of the 21-minute episode found they needed to fill some time. So they played what became a character-defining gag on Sideshow Bob, who is shown standing on a rake and groaning nine times in a row. Voice actor Kelsey Grammar only recorded one take, which is why each groan is identical – but somehow that just makes it funnier. Does the psychotic clown never look down?
Performers: Bob Barker, Adam Sandler
As seen in: Happy Gilmore (1996)
Though his name has now become a byword for lazy-but-bizarrely-successful comedy disasters (see Jack & Jill – or, preferably, don't), in 1995 the young Adam Sandler had been freshly fired from Saturday Night Live and had a few points to prove. One these points was that he was willing to tussle with much-loved TV presenter in his 70s – The Price Is Right's Bob Barker – and the results proved very amusing indeed. With both stars channeling their inner slapstick and throwing themselves fully into the ridiculous situation, the resulting scuffle treads a very fine line between seriously weird and seriously funny, giving both Sandler and Barker kiss-off lines that live long in the memory… bitch.
Performer: Jim Carrey
As seen in: Liar Liar (1997)
Liar Liar is a one-joke movie. Fortunately, it's a good joke: a sliver-tongued liar lawyer can only speak the truth – and nothing but the truth – for 24 hours. The resulting anarchy sees Carrey insult every single one of his colleagues in a tirade of expletives, describe a blue pen as "R…r…r…r…r…r…r…rrrROYAL BLUE" (he can't quite call it red) and eventually, in an extreme act of desperation, beat himself up in a courtroom toilet. There, as he angrily thumps a loo seat into his head for the seventh time, the audience finally forgives him for Mr Popper's Penguins. We're not sure why the sight of someone beating themselves up makes for such satisfying slapstick, but there you go.
Performer: Rowan Atkinson
As seen in: Bean (1997)
Though its ignominious 2007 follow-up, Mr. Bean's Holiday, is a one star disaster area, the original Bean feature film defied expectations to deliver a surprisingly entertaining, frequently ludicrous family comedy. Its highlight, aside from a rerun of the turkey-on-the-head gag from the original TV show and a two-way police mirror skit, is this scene wherein Mr. Atkinson gently air humps a hand dryer in a public lavatory. This is why gentlemen should always carry a handkerchief, and why they should not wash their hands like they're two live salmon trying to mate.
Performer: Kevin Klee
As seen in: Idiocracy (2006)
It turns out that Terry Crews' finest comic hour, Idiocracy, is also the highlight of one Mr. Kevin Klee's comic career too. Who's Kevin Klee, you wonder? Why, he's the 'Ow! My Balls! Guy' from Mike Judge's 2006 intellectual apocalypse movie, the man seen getting kicked in the nuts (and off a fifth floor balcony) before landing on a fence, then getting bitten by a dog (in the balls) and, and, and… you get the idea. A both-barrels indictment of America's Funniest Home videos shows, it's also somehow hilarious in its own right, making it a rare example of comedy having its own cake and eating it… before throwing the leftovers at someone's nuts.


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Premiere Pro Keyboard Shortcuts Tutorial
I could be accused of a 'me too' approach on this, but after seeing Michael Coleman's excellent tutorials from his blog Keyframes: After Effects and Flash Tutorial I had to give the recording style he did a try. So, now we have this tutorial/test on Premiere Pro keyboard shortcuts.
Okay, assuming this works, you'll ask the question, "why should I care about keyboard shortcuts?" My answer is simple: it's fast and if you get started using them, you'll want to learn more on EVERY application you use right down to things like
This is only about 7 minutes long, so it's pretty manageable.
Keyboard shortcuts for Premiere Pro CS3
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The propagation of both surface and flexural acoustic plate modes along
The electroacoustic devices based on the surface and bulk acoustic waves (SAW and BAW) propagation, such as resonators or delay lines, are known for their wide range of applications in chemical, biological and physical sensing fields. When these devices are required to operate in a liquid environment, they must involve the propagation of specific types of acoustic waves that do not radiate energy into the liquid. The types of acoustic waves that are suitable as the sensing elements in liquid environments include Love waves and surface transverse waves (STW), travelling along the surface of a semi-infinite piezoelectric medium, and shear horizontal acoustic plate modes (SHAPM), travelling along a piezoelectric finite thickness plate. The shear horizontal polarization of these modes ensures no coupling between the liquid and the elastic propagating medium [
New viable modes,
The present paper investigate the acoustic waves propagation along
The SAW propagating along the
The bulk acoustic wave (BAW) and generalized surface acoustic wave (GSAW) angular dispersion curves, and the GSAW
The FPWs propagating along a thin plate consist in two sets of infinite modes: the symmetric waves, whose particle displacements are symmetric about the central plane of the plate, and the antisymmetric waves, whose displacements have odd symmetry about the central plane of the plate. For sufficiently thin plate, only the first symmetric and antisymmetric modes, S0 and A0, propagate:
Dispersion curves of the fundamental and higher order modes propagating along (0° 90° 0°) GaPO4 plate.
The A0 mode is clearly identified by its reducing velocity as the plate thickness approaches zero. On the contrary, the dispersion curve of the S0 mode is characterized by a low dispersion region, where itsvelocity is almost constant and
S0 velocity dispersion curves for different rotating angles.
For very small thicknesses,
In the present paper, the S0 and A0 modes propagation along GaPO4 plates is studied for two different coupling structures as depicted in
The Substrate/Transducer (ST) and Metal/Substrate/Transducer (MST) coupling configurations.
The S0 mode
The angular dispersion curves of the maximum
The highest coupling efficiency of the S0 mode is around 1.2%, and it is reached by the ST configuration at
As an example,
The field profile of the shear horizontal (SH) wave travelling along (0° 75° 0°)
The A0 mode is far more efficient than the S0 and its most efficient of the two configurations is the MST for all the θ values from 0° to 180°. The
The angular dispersion of the
The A0 mode, while being elliptically polarized, can travel along thin membranes that are in contact with a liquid as a consequence of its dispersive phase velocity that can be designed to be lower than the liquid medium compressional velocity, at the proper plate thickness. The phase velocity corresponding to the
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The field profile of the Anisimkin Jr. mode (AM) propagating at velocity
As can be seen, the ST configuration is the most favorable as it ensures the highest
The AMs plate thickness range, 0–
The temperature coefficient of velocity (
The first and second order coefficients, A1 and A2, of the temperature coefficient of velocity (TCV) quadratic fit.
In the 60° to 90° range, the two coefficients A1 and A2 reach very small values, hence zero or very low TCD structures based on the AMs propagation can be fabricated.
The PFA is related to the incremental slope of the inverse velocity surface. The PFA of the AMs propagating along the
In the present paper, a mode is attributed to the QL-family if
The field profile of the quasi longitudinal mode (QLM) propagating along the (0° 0° 0°)
As compared with the AMs, the coefficients A1 and A2 of the QLMs are a little bit more temperature sensitive than those of the AMs.
As for the AMs, the PFA of the QLMs propagating along the
The first and second order coefficients of the quadratic fit of the TCV of the QLMs propagating along the (0° θ 0°) GaPO4 plate.
The phase velocity and the coupling coefficient of surface and flexural acoustic plate modes propagating along
Cinzia Caliendo conceived the research and conducted all the theoretical calculations, analyzed and processed the data, and wrote the manuscript. She is the Primary Investigator. Fabio Lo Castro assisted the data analysis for graphical outputs.
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CROWDS of police are hunting for three men in Bridgwater in connection with a burglary in Devon this morning.
The Mercury arrived at the scene near Bridgwater Train Station this afternoon to find at least ten police cars had surrounded the area.
A spokesman for Avon and Somerset police said: "Police are seeking two men who took off when the car they were in crashed into railing at Bridgwater station at around 11.45am.
"The incident is linked to an offence which occurred in Crediton, Devon, earlier today. They were spotted by officers in Bridgwater and failed to stop, going through a red light. They went into the railing within two minutes after that.
"There were no other vehicles involved and police are removing the vehicle, a silver Renault Megane."
Dave Whillis, owner of Dave's Diner, witnessed the scene unfold. He told the Mercury: "Three men aged between 18 to early 20's got out of the car very quickly and ran off in different directions.
"One ran to the Station Cottages area, one to Wellington Road and the other to the Railway station. The one who went to the station later came back and ran to the back of St John Street."
Sergeant Bob Muckett told the Mercury at the scene: "We're making enquiries and we've managed to contain the area.
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Hundreds of coalminers may be out of pocket after superannuation fund cheques totalling $1.6 million were stolen from a post office near Newcastle.
Auscoal Superannuation, a fund for the coalmining industry, said yesterday the superannuation rollover cheques were stolen from a post office at Warners Bay earlier this month.
Auscoal's chief executive, John Hickey, said the fraudsters registered a business through the Australian Securities and Investments Commission with a name similar to one of Auscoal's former NSW trading names, Coalsuper.
After the cheques were stolen, a bank account was set up and the cheques were honoured, he said.
Mr Hickey said the account was traced and $640,000 frozen as investigations by the commission and police continue.
"We're talking approximately $1.6 million, close to 100 cheques, so in terms of the scale of the overall fund it's not big but in terms of individual members it's very important and crucial, so our focus is on working very hard with the rollover authorities, the bank to make sure that money is traced." Mr Hickey said the theft had not come from within Auscoal.
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Chino XL - Return of the
Poison Pen
10/12/08 - LatinRapper.com exclusive interview by Dante
Love him or hate him,
few will deny the lyrical prowess of the Afro-Latin MC
known as Chino XL. From the projects of
Jersey, to world tours with the biggest names in Hip Hop,
the heavily respected lyricist prepares for the Fall
release of what he considers his best album ever, "The
After earning his stripes in Jersey talent shows, Chino's
demos eventually caught the ear of Def Jam founder Rick
Rubin, who immediately signed Chino to Def American
His debut album "Here To Save You All" had an instant impact
on the Hip Hop charts, and solidified his image as an MC who
gave no second thought to speaking his mind. We speak
with the legendary Latin rapper on his new album, Latinos in
Hip Hop and much more in this exclusive interview.
LatinRapper.com: The Secret drops this Fall, what can you
tell me about it?
It's for sure, is musically, sonically and texture and
hook-wise, my best piece of work for sure.
So who did the production?
It's predominantly focused on DJ Khalil
Who are some of your guest features?
Man, I could start naming the people that I worked with on
this album, but as time winds down, you don't know what's
going to clear and what's not going to clear. I'll just tell
you that I worked with Akon, Snoop, Pitbull, Chamillionaire.
Obviously I worked with Bun B, Immortal Technique, Psycho
Realm, MC Magic from Arizona.
MC Magic from NB Ridaz.
Yeah yeah, he did a hook on this song that's amazing. With the
talkbox, Roger Troutman s**t. I feel like I might be leaving
something out, and if I am, I apologize to whoever. But pretty
much those are the songs that I have to choose from, I'm
really excited about it. It's different than a lot of my other
releases also because I'm running while it comes out.
You know
me, me and you got a personal relationship, no homo, we've
known each other for years, you know I've had all these
periods of inactivity or whatever. So this release was kind of
like my 100% focus, it's a big focus of mine, but I'm moving
and doing guest appearances and shows. It's like a different
thing for me, I'm really really excited about this happening,
but looking forward to the next one coming out after it also.
You mentioned the inactivity. Here To Save You All dropped
in 1996, I Told You So in 2001, Poison Pen in 2006. You had a
five year hiatus between those first three albums, what was
the story behind that?
Essentially it was me being disenfranchised with a lot of
things that were going on lyrically, politics in the game, me
raising my little girls. It had a lot to do with a lot of
different stuff. I started in the game as a child. To quote
KRS-One, one time I was having a conversation with him, and he
said "Chino, you thought you just had to be the best MC and
that's all it took, right?" And I said, "Yup", and he said "Me
Too." And once that illusion is dead, it takes a while to
really come to grips with that, you know.
You say that this will be your best album, so how is it
different from Here to Save You All and Told you So?
Some of it is from a different frame of mind. It's postmodern
in a different way. Where my other albums were postmodern in
using references, it's postmodern in a sense that you can tell
that I was making it during the time period that it was
released in.
It's really made to come out pretty much right
now with where I am, I'm telling the part of my history that's
relevant to who I am now. And opening and closing a lot of
doors that mattered to my career now. Explaining a lot of
things that I've discovered about my career that I may have
not known.
Machete Music is the juggernaut of the reggaeton industry,
but they've been picking up artists like you and Malverde -
Oh yeah, Mal's on my album too. Sinful's on my album as well.
Sinful from the Mexikanz. The label also has artists like
Mala Rodriguez, so what connected you to Machete in the first
Gus [Lopez] and Jehovah that was working for the label at the
time, the heavy promo guy on the West coast, they used to come
to my rehearsals, and they're really cool with my close dudes
and my entourage. They would come to my shows and hang out,
and Gus would always be like, "Man, I wish I could get you
over to the label, but it doesn't make sense." There was a lot
of stuff going on with my career at the time.
I was around
Gus, we started to notice that as far as Latino media goes,
which I'm sure you know your stuff, it's a different age where
there's a cross section that are Latin Americans that are
Latino, but they don't want their media in Spanish. They want
their media in English, you know, so it creates that hybrid
channels like Mun2, and MTV Tr3s, and what you do, it's a
whole 'nother level of what I do. It was really the timing,
you have a Latino station here in L.A. that plays reggaeton,
then 50 Cent.
So it's kind of like, where's the artist that
transcends most of the things that we're talking about. It was
a show of strength for the label, it was a good thing for them
to pick me up.
You've also been working with Viper Records and Immortal
Yeah yeah. One of my homegirls in Chicago calls Immortal
Technique my evil twin brother, and she says sometimes when
she talks to him, she calls me his evil twin brother. We
really have this strange symbiance where what we do meets.
We're very alike personally, we got a lot of the same views as
far as hip hop goes, historically and as far as lyricism goes.
Just kind of my dude, he holds me down and I hold him down.
It's a good thing, that's my dude, we make records together,
it shocks people, a hell of a lot of testosterone over a beat.
Speaking of lyricism, ask hip hop fans to name the top
lyricists, and your name often comes up. Only that shine isn't
reflected in the media, why do you think that is?
I just did this One Nation on Mun2 and Frankie Needles was
asking me that. He's like, "Man I was talking to Nas, and Nas
was talking about Latin MCs and he mentioned you. How were you
so amiss as far as the mainstream goes?" The only thing I can
say is when I meet people and how I've affected people is
magnanimous, I wouldn't change it for the world.
I have no
sour grapes about my career, because I still pick up a pen
after all these years and can cause damage with the best of
them, if not the most damage. If I was to have been
overexposed any other time before now and in the next four
years, I think some of the people who they bracket me with, no
disrespect, I would have to be coming from a place of trying
to make a different kind of comeback, or trying to convince
people in a different way. So in a weird way, I still have
such a humongous feeling, even though I have a weird legendary
status to a certain ilk, I'm not coming out of a certain era,
do you know what I mean?
I still have an ability to make new fans. I'll do shows, and
they'll be 18 year old Zune, gothic, hip hop slash generation
dudes that are like, "Yo that Poison Pen thing is the most
phenomenal thing I ever heard." I was in Arizona, I had a show
in Phoenix the other day, and this dude was like, "Yo son, I
been following you for the last four years, yo, and I got
crazy respect for you son." He thinks that I came out when
Back to Basics Came out.
Now, you know for somebody like you
or some other people that I walked with, they may be like,
"Are you crazy, this kid been around forever," But look at the
amazing blessing that is, for him to not think that I'm some
old grandfather coming out of an old folks home, trying to
give my view of how Hip Hop is. To him, I still am relevant, I
still have a fresh new voice. Instead of paying attention to
the negative thing of why haven't I achieved certain things
that people would have assumed I would have achieved. I look
at it like in God's plan, I'm supposed to have a certain
longevity that transcends more than one generation in Hip Hop,
and I'm thankful for that.
If given the choice between a Platinum plaque or flawless
reviews for an album in the Source and XXL, which would you
Can I modify the multiple choice a little bit? I would rather
be able to look somebody like yourself in the eye, I'd like to
be able to be in Queens and look at G-Rap in the eye, and go
back to my hometown in Jersey and see the old heads that have
been rooting from me from the sideline and be able to look
them in the eye. And do shows with Immortal Technique at Rock
the Bells and the real hip hoppers and the revolutionaries and
the Latinos are like, "Yeah, that's Chino XL, he never bowed
I created this thing for myself, kind of like how I can
do a lot of things. If I want to act, okay, as long as I keep
the lyrics real. If I want to try a little bit of a radio
record, people will still let me do that too, as long as I
give them a couple of lines or whatever.
So essentially, I
wouldn't change my position with the true Hip Hop audience for
all the money in the world as long as my children are eating.
If I was a Russian gang member, I would be able to tattoo
those stars on my knees, because I have never bowed down.
'Cause reviews, I learned from Rick Rubin, a review sometimes
is one man's opinion.
Rick Rubin brought you over to Def America, back when you
were 16 or so?
Between 2002 and 2004 you were doing all the TV and movie
appearances, it seems like the music took a backseat. Do you
still have aspirations as an actor?
I'm very picky and choosy about that. I had this thing where I
wanted to build a resume that didn't lean on music. I'd
audition like regular, I wanted to hit the whole gamut. You
have a romantic comedy, soap operas, underground movies,
you've got regular TV, you've got a movie in Sundance,
independent films.
I acquired in a short time, through
blessings, a really tight resume of work. Certain things I
want to do, and don't want to do. But I think while I have
this whole God has blown this life into my lungs to really
take my rightful place in history, I'm gonna keep focusing on
that until that's achieved.
Let's get off the music for a minute. Tell me something
that most of your fans wouldn't know about you.
Hmmm. Wow, that's a good one. I don't know. That I go see
every new children's movie that comes out, that I go see with
my daughter. For the most part, I'm probably not always that
serious as they may think, you know, that's the conversation
that me and Immortal have a lot.
I have a sense of humor, you
might find me laughing about something, I'm not always that
heavy and serious as probably my music and even the TV that I
do for the most part. I like to laugh and joke like the next
person, crack on ni**as, know what I mean.
Who are some of the artists you bump in your ride?
For sure the Third Word, Immortal Technique. Bun B's album,
Trill 2. He's like, are you going to name anything you're not
on? We're going to try to do that. I've been listening to a
lot of Radiohead, and She Wants Revenge. Sometimes when I'm
creating, I really want to listen to any new Hip Hop. As far
as Hip Hop goes, I've been listening to a lot of Old OC.
starting to get a new phylum, where it's like, Smooth Tha
Hustla - Broken Language, OC - Times Up, Chino XL - No
Complex. Like Wow, you can see the waves that was coming out
of how people felt.
Broken Language was a song that woke people up.
Let me tell you something, people ask me about Lil Wayne, like
"What do you think about Lil Wayne being the greatest rapper,
and saying that he's the greatest rapper that ever lived. They
expect for me to have that, what would Chino think , Well
Chino would say this about Lil Wayne, which is not true at
all. He's one of the few MCs that I'm not sure what they're
gonna say. From studying the game and being in the game for
quite while myself and being heavy in the lyrics.
Most of the
time, I know what a person is gonna say or do from the title
of the song, or the cadence that they have, you know Lil Wayne
will say something to throw you a curveball. Like wow, that's
some other s**t, his thought process is from a different
Since we're talking about Broken Language That was one of the
first records that I had heard before then or since, that I
was really like F**K, why didn't I think of that (laughs). I
was listening to it today, I forget what that part of speech
is called, what they did, but that is an amazing record, yo.
And Times Up, too, he meant that. With every part in his body,
he meant that. I had to do a radio drop for one of the
stations out here, and they gave me all of this modern music
that they wanted me to rock over. And I did it to OC's Time's
Up, and everyone was like, "What was that? Wow" (laughs).
With Broken Language, you've got production by DR Period,
one of the more underrated producers. He only surfaces once in
a while, but if he drops something, it's hot. I'm surprised we
never heard Chino over a DR Period beat.
You know what, I tried, when I was making I told You So, we
reached out to him. We reached out to him around the same
time, executive producer at the time, Dan Charnas, big ups to
him, when we were fielding for music, we reached out to him,
simultaneously when I reached out to Jay Dee. We were making
the album in Jersey and in L.A. at the time, we were either
gonna go to New York to work with him, or to Detroit to work
with Jay Dee, and We ended up working with J Dilla. He didn't
really respond. Maybe he wasn't really interested in working
with Chino XL, it's all good. 'Cause I was impressed with the
Artifacts album he did.
He's also done some things for Dip Set, one of those
producers to look out for.
Yeah, him and Bucwild can be gone for a long time, or you
don't hear from them, and come back just as current and dope,
an updated version of what we all love.
You being Puerto Rican, how does being Latino fit into your
It's so funny how it's an involuntary thing in your music,
like you don't even know. Communication is what it is now,
with the internet and whatever, I've been talking to everyone
from my hometown. This resurgence of my graduating class. When
people see the pictures all the way from fourth grade, they're
like "Yo dude, you was like the only Latino in the whole
Except for there was one other family, but in my
school, yo, there was only like me and two broads that were
Latin. Still and all, you know, I am half black, but still and
all, the first line that the world really heard from me was
"You know the term Chino's Latin but I got Black soul". Always
was in the music, I always mentioned it. It's almost like they
say about God, you take one step towards it, and it takes two
steps towards you. Once I really started to explore that side
of my heritage, they were like, "Dog, when you were doing
freestyles on Where My Latinos At, rocking with Sondoobiest
and B-Real and all that, yo you've been repping for us for a
really really long time."
And I've really just looked at
myself as an MC, and being Latin was just a bonus to be able
to rep for a people that weren't as represented. But now, I
swing the banner on a whole 'nother level. The only chance I
get, I'm the only Latin dude on Bun B's album. Since I have
that moment, I'm gonna say that this is Latin history in the
making. I'm gonna make sure I mention Pun in that verse.
any time that I'm heard by some seven or eight year old Latino
that only gets to hear a certain kind of rap from a certain
type individual and doesn't get to hear himself represented in
the purest form, they always get to hear me and be like, "Yo,
that's my dude right there." And big ups to people on the
other side, Sinful, a lot of dudes that are dope.
Sinful is very underrated as far as Latin MCs go.
I tell you man, anywhere we are, we do Latinos Stand Up, it's
ridiculous. We did it at Unity and I brought Immortal to do
the last verse, July 4th me Jack [Sick Jacken] and Sinful did
it, it's like, an anthem, and I will do it anywhere. When I
was in France, there was not no other Latino in there, matter
fact OC was on that bill, and I still did that song and people
Speaking of Technique, he's Peruvian but with a Black
grandfather, so you and him may have a lot more in common as
far as the evil twin thing goes.
Anything you want to mention to readers?
The only thing that I've been harping on a little bit, a lot
of people have a lot of artists that are their favorite
artists. We have a Zune, iPod, downloading, filesharing
generation which, I cannot complain about, 'cause I don't know
where I would be without them.
During my periods of
inactivity, they were internet driven my calling to come back.
Warner Brothers couldn't put a press release out about a movie
without all the posters being like, what's up with Chino's new
record. I met you through that media, we've been friends going
on maybe six or seven years now. I don't want to knock it.
What I am saying is that when an artist comes out, and you
really really feel them, whether it be Psycho Realm, whether
it be Sinful, whether it be Chino XL, whether it be Cuban Link
has a new project, you really have to try to do your best to
support it on the first day in the first week. And even if you
download it, still go out and buy it.
Some people aren't
always as fortunate as myself and others that will kind of
have a career because of the time we started and the niche we
have. People say I don't want to hear this kind of music and
that kind of music, y'all guys are real. I don't want to sound
like a broken record, having 100,000 friends on Myspace is
When people are looking at that and it doesn't
translate over to sales, it makes artists look like they're
not as relevant as they really truly are. You walk around in
the street, you go all over the world, you have a different
kind of fan, your face on their arm, when they got married
they used your lines. Real true cult following fans. But you gotta go out and support that music, man, I'm not saying it
from a greedy standpoint, like oh we need to get our pockets
Artists like us that really care about the music, let me
tell you something. When you have an album that's over 12
songs, usually the artist is over the cap and may never
recoup. Unless they go and sell a whole lot of records. That
just goes to show you that the creativity is most times more
important to the true artist than the commerce is. But go
ahead and support those artists, yo, so it can keep going.
Know what I mean? It can keep going.
Any last thoughts for your fans?
I don't want to sound like a broken record, but I want to
really really thank my fans. They're riders, they, they have
people to argue with, they have other people that want to ride
for other artists. They are soldiers, I have Chino XL soldiers
that you just cannot tell them that their dude, myself, is not
dope. I appreciate that magnanimously, once I came out of my
hiatus I promised them that I would be even more diligent than
in the beginning, I give them more ammunition to root for
their dude.
As you can see that I am doing it. I've had more
releases in the last three years that I've had in the 10 years
before that. The more energy they give me, the more energy
I'll give them right back. They gonna throw that basketball in
the air, I'm gonna slam dunk it on the speaker, so let's go.
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An intervention protesting unfair labor conditions at the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi's construction site erupted at the NYC museum on Saturday
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On Saturday evening during the Guggenheim's pay-what-you-wish hours, a group of some 40 demonstrators instigated a protest in the middle of the museum's rotunda, right in the newly opened historical survey of Italian Futurism. Their intervention, as they called it, was straight out of the Futurist playbook, with bugle blasts, banners unfurled over the rotunda's ramparts and leaflets showered on the museumgoers below. And their demand? Better working conditions for the laborers building the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi, the museum's Frank Gehry–designed annex on Saadiyat Island in the United Arab Emirates.
The UAE is notorious for condoning near-slave-labor conditions on major building projects such as the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, currently the world's tallest skyscraper. The way it goes is like this: Guest workers are brought in from places like Bangladesh and other parts of Asia. Their passports are seized by authorities and held for the duration of their stay, so that they can't leave the country on their own. They are put to work in 130-degree heat, and isolated in squalid tent encampments in the desert, with their freedom of movement restricted, basically, to being bused to and from the construction site. Many of them don't get paid, and if they protest, they are unceremoniously deported.
The group on Saturday night, a coalition of artists, academics and activists—which calls itself G.U.L.F., a.k.a. Gulf Ultra Luxury Faction—says its aim is to keep pressure on the Gugg to ensure fair working conditions on the Saadiyat Island project, which will also include branches of the Louvre and NYU, as well as five-star hotels. Although Guggenheim officials have assured the public that it is doing just that, The Guardian reported in December that the Emirates' Tourism Development and Investment Company (TDIC), which oversees work on Saadiyat, has failed to enforce its own employment policies.
This episode is another instance of what may be a growing problem in the cultural sphere: Museums, under pressure to constantly expand in order to attract more money, engage in activities unbecoming to nonprofit institutions dedicated to the care and cultivation of art—and to the Enlightenment values that should dictate their actions. MoMA's decision to tear down the American Folk Art Museum is a recent case, though the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi is a potentially more egregious example. While it's true that the Guggenheim is not directly overseeing construction, and that there is only so much it can do to mitigate abuses in an illiberal country where agencies are weak and subject to corruption, its name will appear on the building once it is finished, and parts of its collection will be housed therein. For that reason, it cannot escape ultimately responsibility for what goes on under its aegis. If the Gugg won't accept that responsibility, it deserves all of the negative attention it gets.
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Annual UPMC McKeesport Invitational set for August
Plans are in full swing for the 37th annual UPMC McKeesport Invitational.
Festivities are Aug. 2 for the tennis event at The Club in Monroeville, Aug. 3 for the fashion show at Youghiogheny Country Club, and Aug. 4 for golf and dinner at YCC.
During the Corporate Sponsor Luncheon on Wednesday, McKeesport Hospital Foundation executive director Michele Matuch said there were only five sponsors the first year — National City (now PNC), Ed Phillips, Vista Metal, Kings Family Restaurants and Elizabeth Carbide Die Inc.
"Elizabeth Carbide was the first one to make a commitment to the Foundation," she said, noting the business continues to be an Invitational sponsor.
Other sponsors include AEC Group Inc., E.R. Crawford Estate, Family Home Health Services and Three Rivers Family Hospice, Herbein + Co., IMAGE Associates Inc., Kane Regional Center, KU Resources Inc., Lions Clubs of Allegheny and Westmoreland counties, Lovorn Engineering, McKeesport Hospital Foundation, McKamish, Bill Merletti Brace Company Inc. and Bob Massie Toyota and Scion.
Also Mon Yough Area Chamber of Commerce, Guy Norelli Graphics, National Rehab, PNC Institutional Investments, Paradigm Medical Management, Professional Healthcare Development, Riverside Care Center, Ruthrauff Inc., Rycon Construction, Select Specialty Hospital of McKeesport, Senior Care Plaza, Soluble Systems, Sturman & Larkin Ford, Sunray Electric Supply Company, The Dr Pepper Snapple Group, Tom Clark Chevrolet, TransCare Ambulance, The Daily News/Trib Total Media, UPMC, UPMC Mercy, UPMC Health Plan, UPMC McKeesport, UPMC McKeesport medical staff, Volpatt Construction Corp. and YCC Associates Corp.
Chronicling the event's history, Matuch said it began with a vision in 1977.
"Dr. Frank Bondi had a great vision for community hospitals like McKeesport. He was a visionary because he knew that for a community hospital like McKeesport to have other things to offer, you had to raise money. Dr. Frank Bondi was always coming up with some way to raise money for extra programs," she said.
The fundraiser started as just a golf outing in 1977 — the first golf outing event in Western Pennsylvania, she said.
This year marks 24 years that the tennis and fashion show components have been part of the festivities.
Corporate sponsors were introduced in 1991, the first year proceeds were earmarked for a specific project at the hospital.
"Proceeds were earmarked for cardiac catheterization services that first year," Matuch said, noting it was Invitational funding that initiated that program.
Through the years, programs and services have reaped the benefit of $2.7 million in support from the Invitational. Proceeds from the three-day event will benefit enhancements in magnetic resonance imaging and wound-healing services at UPMC McKeesport.
Other programs that have been the beneficiary of funding include the Lions Diabetes Center, state-of-the-art CT scanner and radiology, the geriatric transportation program, graduate medical and community health education, community outreach health care initiatives, nuclear cardiology and minimal invasive surgery, state-of-the-art digital mammography and neighborhood cancer care initiatives, highlighting technological advancements in health care delivery at the hospital.
Those in charge of the event are Irving J. Latterman, Rebecca Shaw McHolme, D. James Heatherington, Cynthia M. Dorundo, Dr. Donald Beck, Dr. Richard P. Bondi, Dr. Mehboob Chaudhry, tennis co-chairs Dr. Andemeskel Tesfamariam and Dr. Mohammad Idrees, golf chair Dr. R. Curtis Waligura, fashion show co-chairs Cheryl Como and Judy Haliko, McKeesport Hospital Foundation staff, Carl Kovski, Matuch and Meg Pero.
During the luncheon, special projects director at the hospital Jim Spindler said one way that available services are made known to the community is through special events like Head to Toe Health and Beauty Showcase, which will debut May 30. The event at Youghiogheny Country Club is from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. and will feature a variety of presentations that focus on women's health and numerous vendors. Cost is $35 and includes hors d'oeuvres and desserts.
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Updates were given by radiology chairman Dr. Srinivas Iyer of the advancements in imaging services available at UPMC McKeesport and by vice president of operations Amy L. Bush of the new Aging Institute Resource Center that recently opened at the facility.
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Date: Sun, 9 Apr 2006 09:26:16 EDT
I wanted everyone to know you can see the wills, deeds ect. on line at the
For those who haven't been there, type in NC Archives, it will take you to
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Our faculty's diverse background in both psychological research and clinical practice have led to our ability to offer unique courses, research experiences, and internship courses that are not seen in traditional undergraduate Psychology Departments. Many of our courses, such as Family Counseling and Theories of Counseling, focus on helping students understand how to apply their knowledge and skills in psychology to careers in health and human services.
Other unique courses such as Women and Aging and Psychology of Laughter, Mirth, and Humor provide an excellent background on research within the field. Our students love the opportunity to add these courses to a traditional set of psychology course requirements, as well.
Our internships and field experience courses go beyond shadowing professionals, but actually allow students to experience real world application of psychology at community agencies and sites. Students receive supervision on-site as well as by a psychologist faculty member.
Students can also gain hands-on research experience and work on faculty-led research projects in the SAU Summer Research Institute. Our students benefit from strong mentor relationships with faculty beginning in their first year on campus and continuing through planning for employment and/or graduate school searches in their senior year.
Our Psychology major not only prepares students for traditional paths, but is coordinated with Health Science programs, such as Occupational Therapy at St. Ambrose.
Our Forensic Psychology major differentiates itself from a traditional Criminal Justice major by focusing on applying the scientific knowledge of psychology in clinical, developmental, social, and cognitive areas to legal situations.
St. Ambrose University is uniquely positioned as one of approximately 10 colleges/universities nationally to offer an undergraduate major in Forensic Psychology. All Psychology Department majors benefit from the opportunity to participate in these additional popular course options, such as Psychology of Criminal Behavior and Psychology and Treatment of the Victim.
At SAU, the Behavioral Neuroscience major draws from diverse subjects such as psychology, biology, and chemistry to allow students to study the organization and function of the nervous system and its relationship to behavior, cognition, and disorders.
St. Ambrose University is uniquely positioned as one of approximately 10 colleges/universities in the country to offer the B.A. or B.S. degree in Forensic Psychology.
As a small Midwestern university, our Forensic Psychology majors benefit from strong mentor relationships with faculty. While St. Ambrose boasts a comprehensive focus, it is rooted in the liberal arts tradition which allows our majors exposure to coursework in a variety of disciplines.
The Forensic Psychology major at St. Ambrose has a rich history of strong relationships with community partners, such as our internship sites, that play a key role in preparing students for careers after graduation. The Forensic Psychology major embodies the St. Ambrose mission by promoting intellectual development and ethical decision-making. These skills are developed through coursework and applying psychological principles to direct work with those in the criminal justice system.
In line with the vision of St. Ambrose University, students in the Forensic Psychology program demonstrate a commitment to social justice and service through their work with those who struggle with mental illness and are involved in the legal system as an offender or victim.


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Lebanese Tourism Minister visits UAE
Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, UAE Minister of Information and Culture, received Saturday night, Dr. Karam Karam, the Lebanese Tourism Minister.
Dr. Karam conveyed through Sheikh Abdullah a verbal message to Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan from Lebanese President Emil Lahoud, focusing on Lebanon's request to the UAE to support Dr. Karam's nomination as Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO).
Sheikh Abdullah restated that the United Arab Emirates supports the decision of the Council of Arab Ministers of Health to nominate Dr. Karam for the post of WHO Director-General, according to WAM news agency.
"We support the nomination of Dr. Karam who is highly qualified for the post," Sheikh Abdullah said in a statement, adding that the UAE would do everything possible to solicit support from countries for Dr. Karam's nomination.
Dr. Karam Karam served as Minister of Health in the previous Lebanese government, the news agency added. (Albawaba.com)
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Disaster Preparedness
When the City experiences an emergency situation, an Emergency Operations Center (EOC) may be opened. The City's EOC is located at Fire Station #35 on Hollis Street. The EOC is staffed by City personnel who will have the responsibility to plan and coordinate all response and recovery operations utilizing the Incident Command System (ICS).
The City has an Emergency Operations Plan for such emergencies. Do you? In the event of a large scale disaster, city services will be overwhelmed. You and your family may have to wait 72 hours or more for assistance to arrive. Brochures on how you can prepare yourself and your family for when a disaster strikes can be found in the lobby and Business License desk area of City Hall. Additional information can also be found on the Alameda County's Website for Disaster Preparedness.
Local Hazards Community SurveyThe City of Emeryville is in the process of updating its Local Hazard Mitigation Plan (LHMP). The purpose of the update and the LHMP is to 1) be compliant with FEMA requirements and 2) to identify the City's natural, environmental and man-made hazards and develop a risk assessment and mitigation plan for those hazards. This plan will result in better emergency management during an event as well as identify projects that could potentially reduce risks in the community. With a plan in place, we can prioritize projects and the City will continue to be eligible to obtain FEMA Hazard Mitigation Grant Funds if a disaster is declared.
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A copy of the City's 2009 Local Hazard Plan can be found here.


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Best Of :: Arts & Entertainment
While flashier and hipper bars have come and gone in downtown Houston, rock-steady Warren's Inn remains a bar for people who go to bars to drink, not to mingle or self-advertise. The decor is dark and wooden, with a mishmash of tables and a single turret-style elevated booth (the best place to sit). The joint's packed on weekend nights, the service is fast, and the drinks are pretty cheap. Warren's die-hard regulars mix well with the hoppers, and a genuinely friendly vibe fills the air. Bonus: Warren's has an excellent jukebox, with an eclectic mix of classic country, rock, zydeco, oldies and more. The bar's Market Square location puts it in spitting distance of several other watering holes, but it's Warren's classic pink neon sign that truly anchors the area.
Readers' choice: Absinthe Brasserie
Bar hoppers and pub crawlers alike still reminisce about the talent the Ale House's kitchen had for sating the drunken munchies. We find the Stag's Head does more than come close to matching the old classic's mad skillz. It tops them. No need for a late-night Taco Cabana run when the Stag's Head makes stuffed jalapenos, fajita nachos, burgers and Jamaican jerk chicken tenders. Not only that, the pub serves up fresh pizza from a wood-burning oven. And if you still feel something Britter is better, there's also fish 'n' chips, cottage pie, and bangers and mash with Heinz baked beans on the side. We dare you to get Britter than that.
Readers' choice: Rudyard's
Friday nights at Zake are the place to be for raw fish consumption. That's when Elaina "Lushus" Brown, a staple in the local sushi nightlife scene -- yes, there is such a thing -- hits the restaurant's DJ booth to provide musical accompaniment to your evening of Japanese cuisine. We're not giving Brown a shout-out just because she's a gorgeous dame who makes the atmosphere of this swank Montrose sushi spot that much more beautiful. We also think that listening to sweet house grooves while chomping down on uncooked fish is the most exotic way to spend a Friday night.
It's been said that the family that shoots stick together stays together. Of course, Ted Nugent said the same thing about hunting elk, but that's neither here nor there. We suggest visiting Slick Willie's "Family" Pool Hall during the waking hours, before the downtowners get too knackered and the place gets all smoky. The joint has tons of games, both on the table and off: 14 eight-foot pool tables (with one on the outside balcony for nonsmokers), tons of video games (from the classic Galaga to Golden Tee), air hockey and darts. There are even a few TVs for those who prefer to remain spectators. This is no dingy dive full of sharks and hawkers, but it does have a certain authenticity. Patrons down cold buckets of beer, stiff bar drinks and your typical bar fare -- pizza, fried cheese, popcorn, etc. Mosey on over for a few games, but remember: Watch out for the hustlers.
Readers' choice: Slick Willie's Family Pool Hall
Every summer dozens of graff kids hit the streets, wielding cans with skills so lame their scribbles wouldn't look out of place knifed on a park bench. Someone even tagged the Art League Houston's Inversion house, messing up a highly original work. Whoever that hack is, he should take a lesson from YAR!, who's been plastering the Montrose with dope shit all year long. It's YAR! who's been painting all those pictographic faces on walls and Dumpsters, and it's YAR! who's been putting up those bad-ass black-and-white posters on fences and metal boxes. While other graffers seem resigned to crappy scribbles -- hell, even the GRAVEYARD crew is guilty of that, especially around West Gray -- YAR! has taken it to the next level.
"Hip-hop" club Coco Loco's main audience has always been a progressive, young Latin crowd whose collective ear stays planted firmly to the street. From the beginning, the club has featured Latin nights mixed in with more urban fare, but in recent months, Coco Loco has begun to lean more toward the new sounds coming from across Latin America, mainly reggaeton, the salsafied version of reggae that started breaking stateside during the past couple of years. The club's sound system is top-notch, built to rattle your ears and make your chest palpitate. There's plenty of space for VIPs above the main dance floor, not to mention a special second room for getting freaky. (Or so they say.) The whole place is filled with good folks getting down to the latest Latin sounds mixed with hip-hop, much of which comes from our own barrios. This ain't your grandma's cantina -- this is one of Houston's hottest places to party.
Reader's choice: Elvia's


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|From: Eli Barzilay (eli at barzilay.org)
Date: Tue May 24 00:25:44 EDT 2011
About a minute ago, Robby Findler wrote: > It is hard to read that lots, tho. What I typically do in those > situations is: > > scribble --latex --dest junk file.scrbl ; cd junk ; pdflatex file > > and then pdflatex will stop in the middle somewhere in a relevant > place so you can see what is going on. You mean that you see an output from the above that is different from the --pdf output? If so, then sounds like there might be some interaction problem with the subprocess. -- ((lambda (x) (x x)) (lambda (x) (x x))) Eli Barzilay: http://barzilay.org/ Maze is Life!
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About Tarotpedia / Tarotpædia
The decision to establish this Online Encyclopedia of Tarot followed reflections subsequent to the 2005 International Tarot Conference organised by the Association for Tarot Studies. At its AGM in January 2006, Jean-Michel David suggested the idea, and the ATS decided to proceed, having already discussed possibilities and seeking support from the owners of both Aeclectic Tarot and TarotHistory.com. TarotHistory.com's owner was instrumental in registering, on behalf of the Association through J-M. David, and in setting up and designing the layout for Tarotpedia.
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The motivating visual, from xkcd:
(Sidenote: xkcd is a great nerdy comic…often of the computer variety, but you usually don't need a lot of specific knowledge to get them. This one is easily my favorite, and not really nerd-related at all.)
So what's the deal here? In the economics world, it's hard to swing a dead cat (yes, I swear that is an actual phrase) without hitting the phrase "correlation does not imply causation." What does that mean, really? It means that just because two things happen together doesn't necessarily mean that one of them causes the other. Let's go over some examples:
- I tend to carry an umbrella when it rains, so umbrella and rain are correlated. However, it would be unreasonable to say that my carrying the umbrella caused it to rain. It is probably reasonable instead that the rain caused me to carry the umbrella.
- Students who do better in my class (pre extra credit) do more extra credit. But I cannot conclude that doing the extra credit makes them do better, nor can I conclude that getting better scores makes them do more extra credit. It is in fact likely that an outside factor such as intrisic motivation is responsible for both the good scores and the extra credit participation.
So, to generalize, if we see that A and B happen together, we don't know whether A caused B, B caused A, or some C caused both A and B. Why is this problematic? One of the main challenges to economists is that of the policy evaluation problem. In other words, economists want to understand the causal impact of changes in policy, environment, etc. Given what we just went over, it should be clear that just saying "Well, policy X was enacted and then change Y occured" isn't enough. We would instead have to show that nothing else that could affect outcome Y changed. In a perfect world, we would run a controlled experiment using the scientific method and have a control and an experimental group, basically like a middle school science project. (Everything I need to know about life I learned in middle school.) This is not usually realistic- it's not like economists can convince policymakers to raise taxes for a randomly selected subset of the population so that they can estimate the causal impact, for example. So what do they do?
It turns out that economists are a pretty resourceful bunch, and they look for what are known as instrumental variables and natural experiments. (Warning: don't click on those links if you are scared of technical jargon, since the actual terms aren't that important.) Let me illustrate via a very famous example…famous in the economics world at least.
Josh Angrist, a professor of economics at MIT (you want to click the link because the guy totally reminds me of Ben Stein), wanted to understand the causal impact of enlisting in the military on one's lifetime earnings. Normally, this is a difficult problem, since even if you could control for everything that you could see (age, gender, race, SAT scores, favorite color, whatever), you can't get around the fact that even if you had two otherwise identical people to compare, there was something that made them different, since it is this difference that caused one to enlist in the military and the other choose not to. Maybe the person who enlisted knew that he wouldn't make a very good civilian worker, maybe he knew that he needed discipline, who knows. The point is that there is some difference that the researcher can't see, and the decision of whether to enlist is what is known as a choice variable (an endogenous variable in technical terms, but you don't need to know that). Because of this, the researcher can't just compare lifetime earnings for those who went into the military versus those who didn't (even when controlling for all of those observable characteristics), since it isn't clear whether any difference was due to the military itself or due to the innate differences that influenced the choice of whether to go into the military.
So what is an economist to do? Enter the Vietnam draft lottery as a natural experiment. Draft dodging aside (let's assume there wasn't enough of this going on to materially affect the outome), the draft lottery provides a handy control and experimental group, since you now do have people that are identical save for the fact that one got lucky and one didnt. Luckily (pun intended), being lucky in the draft lottery in and of itself probably doesn't contribute to lifetime earnings, so the researcher can compare draft winners to draft losers to see the effect on earnings.
What did Angrist find? His paper "Lifetime Earnings and the Vietnam Era Draft Lottery: Evidence From Social Security Administrative Records" shows that, at least for white males, there was a persistent negative impact of military service of about 15% of earnings. (Click here for a version of the paper)
Now, for the moral of the story…why did I tell you all of this? I told you this so that you could be a skeptical citizen. So, next time someone tries to give you a "A and B happen together, therefore A causes B" type argument, at least you know the right questions to ask. And, like GI Joe says (again, reference intended), knowing is half the battle.


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Bangalore, Jul 5: The Wall of Indian cricket, Rahul Dravid shares his experience from sitting in a chai shop reading books to playing cricket, as he has passion for sports in general.
Dravid, who was present at a book launch in Mumbai said he had a liking towards sports since his childhood days.
Asked about his interest in cricket and sports, Dravid said he is one of the sports junkies.
"I love sports. I am one of the sports junkies. Some of my best readings have been on sports outside of cricket. It has helped me to understand how other sports or how other teams and players have functioned.
Dravid also added that he can play any game, not only cricket.
"I was in the hockey team in school and played a bit of badminton at club. I follow tennis and golf. I am not a big fan of motor racing, but other than that I follow sports. I don't think I was good enough to play any," he said.
While he prefers to read books than anything else, Dravid admitted that sports came first, while reading was given the second preference.
"Reading was a way to escape because I thought about cricket a lot. And in books I found my release. I hated at the end of the day to talk about cricket with someone else, because I was talking about it with myself all the time. It took a lot of pressure off me," he said. The former India captain said he enjoyed reading Hardy Boys and Archie comics in school.
He also shared his experience being in college and how Dravid used to enjoy his college days.
"(In college) I wasn't attending too many classes. We used to sit at chai shop or cycle stand and my friends used to discuss about books. So they suggested some books to me. So, I sort of picked that up in college. I found that it was a great way to switch off and relax. With books I found that you could escape from cricket.


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Voter photo ID trial
The week-long trial before a three-judge federal panel begins today in South Carolina versus United States, a case involving South Carolina's photo identification law. The trial begins at 9 this morning at the U-S District Court in Washington. In the lawsuit, South Carolina is asking a federal court to allow it to implement its photo I-D law in time for the November election. According to the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, South Carolina's law, which only allows for the use of a limited number of photo IDs when voting in-person at the polls, was previously rejected by the Department of Justice.


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Meanwhile, Woolridge said he would have loved to play for Kent. And Kent said he would have loved to coach him. But there are things that take precedence over basketball.
"I've been pondering it for a while as my grandmother's health has gotten worse and worse and it's at a point where I feel I need to be home and with her," said Woolridge. "...It would mean a lot to her if I could play my last year at home and closer to her.
"It had nothing to do with anything here or Coach Kent or anything like that. Coach Kent has actually helped me a lot with the process of making my decision, he's really been there for me. I really appreciate all he's done."
"I greatly enjoyed my visits with James and Royce and respect their reasons for moving on," Kent said in WSU's release. "We wish them the best and consider them both to be great young men."
Woolridge will leave Pullman next month after finishing up classes and do an internship in the Phoenix area over the summer, the last box to check off before receiving his college diploma from Washington State.
"Coach Kent was extremely understanding and told me to do what I felt was best for my family, he even talked to my mother," said Woolridge. "I commend him for how much he's helped me and I appreciate all he's done even though I won't be able to play for him. I will definitely keep in touch with him. He's shown me just these short couple of weeks what a great person he is and how much he really cares."
Woolridge said that as much as he would like to be part of the turnaround at WSU on the hardcourt, any success wouldn't have meant much had it come at the expense of spending time with his grandmother.
"I know they're going to be successful with Coach Kent coming in here," said Woolridge. "I truly believe they're going to bring some excitement back here and really take it to the next level... But I'd rather be at home and be excited for the players I played with... than being here and having to deal with the loss of a family member - that would have been devastating.
"I'm going to miss the atmosphere, the college town, everyone is so close here...I'm definitely going to miss it."
Woolridge is unsure where he'll play next season as a fifth-year senior. He'll be granted his official release shortly but until that happens, other schools can't talk to him. One possibility could be Grand Canyon University in Phoenix to play under Dan Majerle. They made the jump to NCAA Division I and joined the WAC this past July. Because Woolridge will have graduated from WSU, he won't need to sit out a season.
Woolridge started the past two years at WSU despite battling injuries. He averaged 9.2 points and 2.7 assists per outing -- 11.0 points his first season in 2012-13 after transferring from Kansas. Woolridge is on pace to graduate from WSU with his degree within the 2013-14 academic year.
Meanwhile, Hunter is leaving in search of playing time after appearing in nine games last season and averaging 1.9 minutes, 0.4 ppg and 0.3 rpg. Hunter, said Kent, is headed home to Australia where he plans on eventually playing professionally.
"James Hunter made a very intelligent decision for himself," Kent said. "This is best for him and his future and I wish him well."
Morgan, who signed with WSU in the early period, has some family health issues to attend to. Kent released him from his Letter of Intent so he could stay closer to home and family in Chicago.
"Jermaine Morgan feels he needs to stay closer to home as a member of his family deals with medical issues," Kent said. "I granted him the opportunity to do that by releasing him from his scholarship. We wish him well."