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A stretch of National Highway 6 near Sher-e-Punjab dhaba in Kolaghat was closed for over two hours on Friday morning after a Kharagpur-bound trailer truck hit the road divider and caught fire.
The drivers assistant, Dilip Ghosh, was burnt alive. The driver has been admitted to SSKM Hospital in a critical condition.
Police said the accident occurred around 4am at a spot around 60km from the city.
The truck driver lost control and the vehicle jumped the median, grazing the fuel tank against the concrete. Sparks from friction with the concrete ignited the diesel leaking from the tank. Within minutes the vehicle turned into a huge ball of fire while black smoke billowed up, an officer said.
The raging truck forced the police to cordon off the area and stop traffic on both flanks of the highway.
Hundreds of travellers, including a bunch of five friends in a car, were caught in the resultant snarl. We had left Calcutta around 3.30am after watching the opening match of the World Cup at a friends place and were hoping to reach Mandarmani by 7am and spend the weekend there. The snarl set us back by over two hours and we finally reached Mandarmani around 10am, said Mithun Ghosh over the phone from the seaside holiday hub.
The police estimated about 700 vehicles were stuck in the jam.
The highway was opened for traffic around 6.20am after firefighters doused the blaze and the police towed the trailer truck away from the median to the roadside.
The fire was extinguished in an hour but removing the trailer with a tow van was not possible. We had to bring a crane to shift the vehicle. The process took time, said a senior officer at Kolaghat police station.
A similar two-hour snarl was witnessed on the Calcutta-Digha state highway on Friday during peak hour when many tourists were on the way to the coastal town for the weekend.
The police said residents of Kalinagar, around 40km off Digha, blocked the road after a car hit 32-year-old cyclist Manik Ghorai and sped away. They dispersed after police promised action against the driver.


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On August 9th, a group of students from Kwansei Gakuin University visited the Permanent Mission of Japan to the United Nations to receive a briefing by Ambassador Kodama, Deputy Permanent Representative of Japan to the United Nations.
First, Ambassador Kodama discussed the series of democratic movements in Asia and Middle East and the responses by the Security Council. The Ambassador also touched upon the term "Responsibility to Protect" and described how UN action regarding conflict situations has been evolving with this concept. In addition, the Ambassador noted the fact that there has been international recognition of a series of Japanese contributions in the past related to overcoming international challenges. The Ambassador then disclosed his views on how Japan should act today so that Japan continues to receive positive recognition from the international community. Finally, he touched upon the importance of Security Council Reform. During the briefing, the students actively participated in his discussion.
Afterwards, Ms. Yajima, First Secretary, gave a brief information session on the application process for United Nations jobs and careers to encourage the students to apply in the future.

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I might have liked it better had I read it before Vampire Academy. I couldn't help but compare the two, and this is definitely the lesser series. Overall, an enjoyable quick read. The protagonist is jokey, and the other tropes those well-read in the genre come to recognize are present and obvious.
Would I recommend it? Yes. To teens who love Vamp Academy, Marked, Blue Bloods, City of.... etc. Did it have anything special? Not so much
OMG. That ending. That plot twist. That love triangle. This is easily one of my favorite series ever. I cannot wait to read book 3. SO GOOD.
Similar to [b:Hex Hall|5287473|Hex Hall (Hex Hall, #1)|Rachel Hawkins|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1368393885s/5287473.jpg|5354884], this book was fun and a light read. I thoroughly enjoyed it. Although I didn't feel like there was any significant character development, there was some growth in the characters, particularly Cal (or maybe it was because he actually talked?!).
I'm thinking I should have had Spellbound ready to go immediately. The end of this book was total "WTFery," in the words of Liz.
Sophie can't seem to stay away from trouble. It finds her everywhere, even on another continent. It's great seeing her dad. They are a lot alike. Some secrets are let out regarding Cal. He's such a sweet guy, but it seems like he's too sweet sometimes. I think Sophie needs to pay attentions to his actions because there may be something between them......
Then we have Archer. I still haven't decided how I feel about him. He's charming and witty, except he works for the friggin' Eye. I guess 1st crushes are hard to get over. Still, you have to wonder what was real and what wasn't. It's hard to trust someone that betrayed you.
Nick and Daisy are freaky little demons, literally. I don't get good vibes off them, and didn't the entire times. I spent half the time wanting to punch Nick for being a total jerk to Sophie.
Jenna and Sophie's friendship is tested a few times. But what good is a BFF without fights every once in a while. They do learn a few things about the other. Things they lie to themselves about.
I will be reading Spellbound soon because I have to know what the crap is going on. Secrets from the Council are spilled, but there are some things I'm still not certain of, and I want to know the answers.
I loved it! Good suspensful ending!
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Land disputes are the most volatile social problem in rural China as forced official property seizures trigger growing unrest, state media reported Thursday, citing a top think tank.
The problem of land seizures has stirred an uproar in recent years as economic stimulus measures and an urban development push have fuelled a property boom and a resulting rash of mass evictions in the rush to cash in.
In its 2011 "Blue Book of China's Society", the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) said that 73 percent of petitions and complaints filed by farmers are related to land, the China Daily reported.
Problems with low compensation and unsatisfactory resettlement are the main point of discontent, the report cited the think tank as saying.
Fights over land accounted for 65 percent of rural "mass conflicts", which the government fears threaten to undermine the country's stability and economic development, the report said.
Some local authorities have apparently been taking advantage of a central government order to set aside 120 million hectares (297 million acres) of arable land to help ensure food security by grabbing land occupied by rural houses, the report said.
Tens of thousands of farmers, whose families have lived in farmhouses for generations, are being relocated to multistorey buildings so that local governments can sell the land to developers for profit, the report said.
Since 1990, authorities have seized more than 6.7 million hectares of land from farmers, the Beijing News quoted CASS researcher Yu Jianrong as saying last month.
The disparity between the combined compensation paid to residents and the land's market value amounted to about two trillion yuan (294 billion dollars), Yu said.
China has moved to quell possible unrest by proposing new rules on seizing land for development -- including getting permission from the vast majority of residents before mass evictions.
In a case that shocked the nation, Tang Fuzhen, 47, set herself on fire in November 2009 in southwestern Sichuan province over the planned demolition of her husband's garment-processing business. She died 16 days later.
Violent resistance has been reported in numerous other cases as ordinary people take matters into their own hands.
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Republican Senator Chuck Grassley said he was "cautiously optimistic" about progress on other fronts, including protecting US intellectual property and opening Chinese government procurement to greater competition.
"But it's disappointing that with beef, all we have is an agreement to start talking again in the new year," said Grassley, the top Republican on the Senate Finance Committee, which has jurisdiction over trade issues.
Top officials from the world's two largest economies met for two days in Washington to try to iron out persistent tensions -- including over the value of China's currency, which the United States says is artificially low.
President Barack Obama's administration, which has been hit hard by economic worries, offered an upbeat take on the talks and highlighted China's willingness to restart talks on resuming US beef imports.
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack pointed to "progress" over US beef, which was banned by China among other countries in 2003 over concerns about mad-cow disease.
"Technical talks will resume as soon as possible with the goal of reopening China's market in early 2011," Vilsack said.
Republican Senator Mike Johanns, who has called on China, Japan, and South Korea to allow US beef freer access to their markets, said it was time for China "to begin living up to its WTO (World Trade Organization) obligations."
"Sending another technical team to China certainly won't hurt, but until Chinese ports actually start accepting shipments of US beef, this agreement will give cattlemen little solace," he said.
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Warwickshire used the tactics that almost took them to the title last season to devastating effect, leaving the defending champions in disarray.
Rikki Clarke plundered his second century off Lancashire in a month as Warwickshire racked up a record score against Lancashire. Seamers Chris Wright and Chris Woakes then extracted life from what had appeared a benign batting pitch to leave the champions facing a fourth defeat in six matches.
Until they were thwarted by stubborn Hampshire resistance on the final day of the season, Warwickshire regularly ground the opposition into submission by batting for most of two days then unleashing their battery of seamers. Their near-miss last September has merely made them determined to use the tactics more ruthlessly rather than to rethink their approach.
"If we can bat big once and back our bowlers, that's the formula we went with last year and we came up just short, so we don't see why it won't be a formula that will work this year," Clarke said.
Lancashire were handicapped by a side injury to Glen Chapple which restricted their captain to just one over yesterday. Left-arm spinners Gary Keedy and Simon Kerrigan performed an admirable holding job by bowling 99 overs between them throughout the innings and denying Warwickshire two batting points.
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There were four sixes, three of them off Keedy, in the 15th century of Clarke's career which dominated a sixth-wicket stand of 147 with Tim Ambrose.
Ambrose missed out on his first century in three years when, on 96, he pulled to short midwicket but Clarke was then joined by Woakes in an attacking seventh-wicket stand that took Warwickshire to their declaration.
Lancashire then buckled after a promising start and lost five wickets for 23 against Woakes, eager to impress following his recovery from an ankle injury, and the pace of Wright.


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One thing that hasn't really been separated out in this discussion is the difference between pyro cone and temperature. It is comparatively simple to reach a temperature in the yellow white range in a propane furnace. That is mostly a function of BTU in and volume. Cone is a function time at temperature or heat work. I know that most readers of this forum make that assumption know this but for the casual or newer member it would be well to be more explicit.
When people say that running cone 6 in a Raku kiln would me unreasonably expensive in terms of fuel I take that as recognizably true. If one assumes a Small Orton cone this gives a temperature of 1255C with a temperature rise rate of 300 C/hr.
Cone 04 on the other hand seems more achievable as a small Orton cone is 1098C @ 300 C/hr. Personal experience tells me that the time an effort to go from and orangish yellow to yellow white heat is a lot.
All this is in aid off is the point that Raku is more Art and Craft and Experience than many other parts of custom made ceramics.
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Taarof or Tarof (Persian: تعارف) is an Iranian form of civility emphasizing both deference and social rank. The term encompasses a range of social behaviors; one example of taarof could be described as posing false invitations and promising future services or deeds to primarily strangers or distant relatives and expecting them not to take the offer and keep declining it. However, the closer two people get in a relationship, the less taarof appears in their behavior towards one another.
The prevalence of taarof often gives rise to different styles of negotiation to those one would see in a non-Iranian culture.[1] For example, a worker negotiating a salary might begin with a eulogy of the employer, followed by a lengthy bargaining session consisting entirely of indirect, polite language – both parties are expected to understand the implied topic of discussion. It is quite common for an Iranian worker (even one employed in an Iranian neighborhood within Europe) to work unpaid for a week or two before the issue of wages is finally broached.[citation needed] Likewise, a shopkeeper may initially refuse to quote a price for an item, suggesting that it is worthless ("ghaabel nadaareh"). T'aarof obliges the customer to insist on paying, possibly several times (three times), before a shopkeeper finally quotes a price and real negotiation can begin.
Taarof also governs the rules of hospitality: a host is obliged to offer anything a guest might want, and a guest is equally obliged to refuse it. This ritual may repeat itself several times (three times) before the host and guest finally determine whether the host's offer and the guest's refusal are real or simply polite. It is possible to ask someone not to t'aarof ("t'aarof nakonid"), but that raises new difficulties, since the request itself might be a devious type of taarof.[2]
At times, taarof can lead to one performing a task that one does not want to perform. For instance, if one friend offers a ride to another friend only because they are being polite, they may become stuck in the situation if the friend agrees to get the ride. Of course if one was going by the rules of taarof, one would refuse the offer many times before accepting.
It is a way of denying one's will to please your counterpart, although sometimes the will is only denied because of the custom and not just to please the counterpart. But there are situations where taarof persist upon a request to make the counterpart genuinely satisfied. Taarof may cause misunderstandings between both parties and can be a source for awkward situations in a social setting.
Some political theorists have argued that during the period of serfdom, at princely courts, taarof regulated diplomatic discourse. It involved a sharp curbing of one's comportment, speech, and action to make people, honour, and prestige calculable as instruments for political advancement.[citation needed]
According to D. M. Rejali, for the feudal elite the ornamentation of speech symbolises prestige. With the advent of capitalism and its scientific paradigm, communication became more precise and the formality of t'aarof a hindrance in the pursuit for rapid capital accumulation.[3]
In the West[edit]
The closest one can come to taarof in the Western culture is the question of "Who's paying the restaurant bill?" This is an awkward situation where everybody in the company is reaching for their wallets and it's usually resolved by social status: the one with the highest income, the most legitimate reason, or most power pays. But still, everyone insists on paying. In Southern Italy a custom similar to taarof exists (fare i complimenti), and is part of table manners.
Common words used in tarof:
- Ghaabeli nadaare (It's not worthy of you) = You can have it.
- Ghadamet ru chesham (May your footsteps fall on my eyes) = You are more than welcome.
- Ghorbaanet beram (I will sacrifice myself for you) = Thank you very much.
- Cheshmet roshan (May your eyes be lightened) = Congratulations (on the birth of your child.)!
- Khaahesh mikonam (I plead to you) = You are humbling me./You are welcome.
- Dastetoon dard nakoneh (May your hand not hurt.) = Thank you./I'm grateful to you./Much appreciated.
For an extensive treatment of tarof vocabulary and language strategies see Beeman. William O., Language, Status and Power in Iran[4]
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'Fake' taarof[edit]
A customer comes to the cashier to pay for groceries. The cashier says "it's okay, you honor me with your presence." When the customer insists on paying, the charade of tarof continues with a customary word exchange which is culturally learned from a young age. The discussion concludes with a minor argument and the cashier is finally paid the full amount of the groceries and the customer leaves. The cashier wants the cash and the customer just wants to pay but this is a cultural and social game. Another common practice of Taarof includes when someone invites another to their house at a bad time (e.g. midnight) after giving them a ride or suddenly asking someone to join them for a meal when they don't actually want their company. This kind of situation is usually dodged by saying "I will trouble you at a better or more proper time." or by making a lie statement such as "I have an urgent business and I'm in a hurry." or by changing the subject immediately like arranging the next time to see each other again.
'Genuine' taarof[edit]
A person will offer guests every comfort available by discomforting him/herself. Sometimes this leads to offering things above one's means. As an example, the host will use the last funds to buy groceries to make an overly pleasant stay for the guest. This may have dire consequences for the host, but this is the generous side of taarof and its only purpose is to satisfy the guest. The host is satisfying the guests and feeling good about being a generous and humble person, independent of its consequences.
'Forced' taarof[edit]
A host insists upon a request for the guest to sleep on the main bed while the host him/herself sleeps on the floor. Or a host piling food on a guest's plate since the host is believing that the guest is taarofing, while the guest is actually full and satisfied with the meal. The guest feels uneasy by putting the host in an uncomfortable situation. The guest might be forced to finish all the food to show respect to the host.
At times, not doing taarof can be considered very rude and almost offensive. For example, if one offers a present that you already have, telling the truth would be very rude. Likewise, if someone offers to take you for dinner, you must refuse at first, professing their great kindness. This will normally be two to three cycles of back and forth taarof, but one must be careful not to do it in excess, and to always end in a yes, so as to avoid offense. It is not expected of young children to taarof, but most Iranian children over the age of ten are aware of, and engage in, the custom.
See also[edit]
- ^ "In the Persian world of 'ta'arof,' they make offers that will be refused". LA Times. 2015-07-06. Retrieved 2015-11-30.
- ^ "The Persian art of declining what you really want and offering what you'll never give could play a role in US-Iran nuclear talks". Public Radio International (PRI). 2014-11-05. Retrieved 2015-11-30.
- ^ D M Rejali, "Torture & Modernity: Self, Society, and the State in Modern Iran". An exception would be the Japanese Tea Ceremony, which seems to have adapted well to modern requirements (see MT issue no 1).
- ^ Beeman, William O. (1986). Language, Status and Power in Iran. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press. ISBN 978-0-253-33139-7.
Further reading[edit]
- D M Rejali, Torture & Modernity
- Umberto Eco, Political Language: The Use and Abuse of Rhetoric
External links[edit]
- The New York Times, Iranian 101: A Lesson for Americans; The Fine Art of Hiding What You Mean to Say, by Michael Slackman
- The Atlantic, Talk Like an Iranian, by Christopher de Bellaigue, 25 August 2012
- This American Life: Oh, You Shouldn't Have - Act Three, 31 March 2011


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On 2/2/2013 11:49 PM, Rolf.Mertig at gmail.com wrote:
> Block[{Plus = "Plus"}, t = ToString[Plus[1, 2]];
> Print[t];]
> will do what you want
No, I think what he wanted was to display a bug in Mathematica.
You just wrote another program.
To illuminate the bug I tried this:
which returns an infinite stream of errors that look like
Join::heads: Heads PacletManager`Package`LDCfindForDocResource and
PacletManager`Package`MCfindForDocResource at positions 1 and 2 are
expected to be the same.
I think the explanation needs some explanation, but setting that aside
I tried these:
Block[{P = Addition}, Print[P[1, 2]]]
prints 3
Block[{P = foo}, Print[P[1, 2]]]
prints foo[1,2]
An explanation may be simply that
Block[{Plus}} ....]
binds the name Plus not to some "undefined object" but to the value of
Plus in the dynamically enclosing scope. Indeed, this works as
Block[{Plus = hello}, Block[{Plus = Plus}, Plus[1, 2]]]
returns hello[1,2]
this explanation is not accurate because
Block[{Plus = hello}, Block[{Plus}, Plus[1, 2]]]
returns 3.
So Block[{Plus}, ...
binds the name Plus, or any other Global symbol? to the Global value.
I think that this is a bug.


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On a cold engine the actuator will work and run all day until the engine is turned off and when restarted with a warm engine, the actuator doesnt work, I get the coil plug light flashing on the dash and the car runs with very low power (but not limp home mode) and the arm that controls the vanes does not move forward.
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The actuator is electronic and bakes itself common problem( they used to be vacuum operated) to work properly the turbo and the actuator have to mated together using quite complex measuring equipment the ones not done correctly normally run a bit iffy.There used to be a supplier on ebay uk called Mick the turbo who used to supply them complete at reasonable prices the normal trade price for both units new is around £675 + vat plus fitting.
Is that strictly true Andy about the actuator being mated using 'quite complex equipment' there are quite a few adverts on the internet advising that the actuator can be repaired for around £200 and are a simple DIY job to remove and refit.
I'm just dubious as my fault doesnt show first thing in the morning, it only shows when trying to start a warm engine.
Also your a bit out with the price of the new turbo, I was quoted £1040 + vat plus fitting from my main Ford dealer yesterday.
The price is what we paid for units don't touch Ford or Jaguar we used to get ours from a supplier in Elland near Huddersfield.They actuator normally acts up in a warm engine because the electronics get to hot .If you are repairing a electronic actuator and putting it back on the same turbo then there is a chance it will work but we used to have ours calibrated together otherwise there was no gaurentee. If you put your finger on the actuator arm and slightly lift upwards you can normally clear the problem if it clears it shows the actuator is on its way out.You need to take the car to an independent injector/turbo specialist for a conclusive diagnosis,Neither ford or jaguar had proper measuring equipment in there workshops and used to send the cars to to place where we bought the replacement units.
Probably if you had taken the inlet manifold and EFR valvbe of and cleaned them you would have had the same effect thats why you need to be certain its the actuator at fault no amount of Millers or any other brand would repair a damaged actuator .
I also Own a 2005 55 plate mondeo.. Its had a brand new engine 20k ago. Had a problem now for a few months with it dying under heavy throttle 4500rpm or higher like when you need to over take.. Dont always do this just now and then. on inspection found the main down rubber hose off the EGR was split so replaced that. The car ran for 2 weeks without a problem then it came back.. Cold start tick over for couple of mins then drive away soon as ya boot it. black smoke out the back then red glow plug light flashes flick off the ignition and back on again it bump starts and all the power is back and works fine then till the following day.
We tried the New EGR valve old one was all sutted up and pipes were taken off and cleaned. Still have the problem No Engine management light on ? on searching for codes it came up with a Glow plug Circuit fault so cleared that and it came back then found no power to the glowplugs so checked the grey relays in the fuse box located under the bonnet next to battery. Replaced those and the power was back. now the circuit is working fine again but still loses power now and then. Does the Actuator playing up leave a fault code on the ecu or not. ???? if it does then my problem could be a vacum or hose somewhere split or damaged. please advise.
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Susana Martinez Makes List of Nation's Most Corrupt Governors
Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) released its list of the Worst Governors in America today. New Mexico's Susana Martinez, fresh off of vetoing a minimum wage increase without explaining why, makes the list.
CREW explains her inclusion:
(1) using state resources for political purposes; (2) investigations into the awarding of a state contract to a large campaign donor; (3) using private e-mail for public business; (4) improperly withholding public records; and (5) improperly interfering with the labor relations board.
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In December 2011, The Downs at Albuquerque won a 25-year state lease worth over a billion dollars. In the previous year and a half, donors connected to the Downs contributed $75,000 to Gov. Martinez's gubernatorial campaign and another $10,000 to Susana PAC. The FBI and other state agencies appear to be investigating.
In 2012, one of Gov. Martinez's campaign advisors and manager of Susana PAC sought a list of non-union teachers and their email addresses so that they could counter union information about the governor's proposed education reforms. The state Attorney General's office is investigating possible violations of state ethics laws.
Gov. Martinez denied to release documents to the Associated Press on many occasions, including records regarding expenses connected to a Louisiana alligator hunting trip (!) taken by the governor's husband. Turns out the trip was taken in a state-owned vehicle.
In 2011, Gov. Martinez waged a highly inappropriate campaign to fire John Boyd, executive director of the state collective bargaining board, which oversees contracts between unions and state agencies. Ultimately, the New Mexico Supreme Court ruled that Boyd had to be reinstated. However, at the next available opportunity, Gov. Martinez replaced Boyd with someone she felt would be more favorable.
And so on.
New Mexico's working families are still waiting for an explanation for why Gov. Martinez vetoed a minimum wage increase passed by both houses of the legislature, or the information about the veto was scrubbed from her official (publicly-funded) website.
"Sadly this comes as no surprise," said Working America Regional Director Chelsey Evans, "but we're glad the rest of the country is clued in to the damage Susana Martinez is doing for working people here in New Mexico."
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Nov 18, 2012 - By Mark ShieldsThe next morning after an Election Day defeat, there is no place I know more empty than the headquarters of the losing candidate.
Long gone are the bunting, balloons, the band, the open bar -- and the hopes -- of the night before. If the phone does ring, chances are it's a creditor looking for her check. Campaign workers, now jobless and speaking softly, almost as though there's been a death in the family, are busy updating, embellishing and printing their resumes.
In a hundred different places, members of the losing candidate's party are doing their own individual postmortems of the defeat. And miraculously, those party folks invariably somehow all reach the same conclusion. The identical reaction is happening again in the wake of Republican challenger Mitt Romney's loss to Democratic incumbent Barack Obama.
Because a political party -- any political party -- is a human institution, and because most of us humans will go to great lengths to avoid rejection, the first stage for explaining the defeat is to look outside of ourselves and to Blame the Losing Candidate.
This time, it was, of course, Mitt Romney's fault. He was, we are told, too stiff, unnatural, emotionally distant and uninspiring. Just like four years ago, it had been John McCain's fault (that risky VP pick, remember?). And before that, John Kerry's Nantucket windsurfing had distanced him from ordinary voters, while Al Gore had earlier been so relentlessly unexciting that his Secret Service code name had been "Al Gore."
After all the personality and character defects of the rejected standard-bearer have been stipulated, those on the losing side move directly to the most dangerous spot on the political compass, which I call Find the Gimmick. This is the search for an external factor to explain the party's defeats.
When Franklin Roosevelt won the White House four times, Republicans conveniently discovered the reason: Roosevelt's magical fireside chats to the nation. If the GOP could just find someone as good on radio as FDR, they would be back on top.
And how did losing Democrats explain Ronald Reagan's back-to-back landslides? "He's terrific on TV" -- as though the answer to the party's problems would have been to put together a ticket of Steve Carell and Judge Judy.
Other gimmicks the winning side has apparently taken advantage of include mastery of the Internet, social networking, data mining and cellphones.
The most dangerous point of all on the political compass is the stage I call Blame the Customer. It wasn't our party's record or platform or hypocrisy the electorate might have objected to. No, the whole problem turns out to be the voters, themselves.
Deliberately overlooked in this rationalization of defeat is the fact that just a short while ago, when our side was winning elections, we celebrated these same voters for being so thoughtful, mature, patriotic and wise.
But now when they prefer the candidate of the other party, we brand them selfish, mean-spirited, easily duped and lazy.
Recently sighted at this stage was Rush Limbaugh, who said after the 2012 election, "In a country of children, where the option is either Santa Claus or work ... it's tough to beat Santa Claus."
The principal drawback to the Blame the Customer theory is that we really only have two political parties in this country. If you're going to accuse a majority of the voters of being either ethical jellyfish or moral pariahs, you're probably not going to win their support on a regular basis.
The final stage is Get Me a Winner! I no longer want to quibble about trivial issues differences. I'm just tired of losing. (This is how the GOP settled on Ike after 20 years in the wilderness and why Democrats are still smitten with Bill Clinton.) Can this candidate win back the White House? Good. Where do I sign up? How should I make out the check?
These, believe me, are the predictable stages following the agony of defeat.
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It is official. I am done the first year of my degree, which makes me, in the clever words of a friend of mine, a half-librarian. It's been such a wild ride that it has forced me to neglect my poor, long suffering blog audience. I am truly sorry for that. My traffic is at an all time low. Oh and of course because I love you all. Of course.
So news about me (because 'what is more interesting than me?', apparently):
1. My grandmother is celebrating a significant birthday this month and I am going to have the opportunity to give her a hug and congratulations in person. This might not seem like such a big deal, but it was unlikely that I was going to be able to travel the 1100 km that seperate us to do so. Through an epic coming together of many factors, such as Hub's work schedule, air flights, school being done and a friend agreeing to be a 'back-up babysitter' in the event of another natural disaster that prevents me from getting back. So thanks to everyone and everything involved in me being able to go because I really want to give Nan a hug in person. Happy Birthday, Nan!
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3. How crazy was that volcano? Did you know it was caused by a lolcat?
4. I've had some comments from some new readers that were very kind. I want to officially say Hi! and Welcome! and Thanks for reading! to them now. Also? You're awesome!
5. Finally, I just want to complain that I now have no excuse for not cleaning the house. My papers are done. The house needs cleaning. So for the one week I have off between now and the first day of my new job, I have a few special projects lined up: I want to clean out the cars, which are full of playground sand; I want to clean the office, which is currently so messy is would not be out of place on one of those shows where people have such large, clutter filled messes that they call in the experts who force them to put all their stuff in three piles out on their back lawns; I want to see a movie or two; I want to clean out the storage room downstairs and deal with the spiderwebs and dust in the basement; I want to scrub out the fridge; I want to go to the art gallery. I think that's it. I probably won't get this all done. Top priority - the office and the cars.
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March 15, 1999
BigStar_Host: Enjoy yourselves!
BigStar_Host: Here we go!
BigStar_Celeb: I was discovered for SNL while I was performing
at Second
BigStar_Celeb: Lorne Michaels and Jim Downey saw me perform and I was
performing in the same cast as Chris Farley and they brought me out for
a meeting in NY and hired me about two months later.
BigStar_Celeb: So, I guess that was my big break.
nice_to_all_the_ladies asks: Do you like being on the SNL cast?
BigStar_Celeb: Yeah, I enjoy it.
BigStar_Celeb: The .. it's a lot of work.
BigStar_Celeb: But, it's fun because I work with a lot of funny people.
So, six days out of the week it's a lot of laughs and very creative.
BigStar_Celeb: And, I still enjoy it .. it's challenging.
Slim_shady_what asks: Will you be working on any upcoming movies?
BigStar_Celeb: We're working on "Ladies Man" .. the movie, now.
BigStar_Celeb: We wrote a script over the summer, and we hope to shoot
it over this summer.
Puppy_LoveNC asks: HOW DO YOU KEEP STRAIGHT FACES DURING THE
BigStar_Celeb: It's pretty .. well, I've heard the jokes all week long,
so I know what to expect.
BigStar_Celeb: But, once in a while, we'll do something different and
that will make me laugh.
BigStar_Celeb: If it's something unexpected, like in this past show,
Horatio Sands grabbed my crotch at the end of a sketch and then I
started squeezing his fake boobs.
BigStar_Celeb: We started laughing cause we knew it was over.
BigStar_Celeb: He just looked hysterical and I wasn't expecting him to
grab me like that!
eastcoastcanuck asks: I love your ladies's man bit. Do you
take the same
approach to dating as your character.
BigStar_Celeb: Not any more.
BigStar_Celeb: Since I got married.
BigStar_Celeb: I"ve been married for a year and a half.
Lana421 asks: If you could meet anyone else who ever lived,
who would it
BigStar_Celeb: I think ... who would I wanna see?
BigStar_Celeb: I think .... wow.
BigStar_Celeb: I'd love to meet someone like Plato or .... somebody
who's just way ahead of his time.
BigStar_Celeb: And, I would love to meet somebody like .. I guess it'd
be kinda cool to meet, you know, like George Washington.
BigStar_Celeb: Lincoln would be pretty cool, too.
BigStar_Celeb: I'd say "Thanks, Lincoln."
JAMES_BONDPA asks: What stars have you met, and who is your
BigStar_Celeb: Who was cool .. well it was cool to actually meet Paul
and Linda McCartney.
BigStar_Celeb: Cause the Beatles were really popular when I was very
young and I'd heard of them all my life.
BigStar_Celeb: The week they were on the show, I used to write promos
for the show and the host and musical guest would perform them.
BigStar_Celeb: I'd written some for Paul McCartney and Alec Baldwin and
Paul started laughing at the ones he was reading and they were all mine!
BigStar_Celeb: I thought, "Paul McCartney's actually laughing at
something I wrote!"
BigStar_Celeb: It was a big moment for me.
Lana421 asks: ok what is the one questiong you never get asked,
but want
to get asked?
BigStar_Celeb: "Can I believe that this is happening to me?"
BigStar_Celeb: That's the question that I find it hard .. no one's ever
asked that.
BigStar_Celeb: I'd answer "No, I can't believe that this is happening to
me .. that I've been able to do the things I've been able to do."
BigStar_Celeb: I was just a poor kid in Detroit, and I never expected
all of this to happen.
Slim_shady_what asks: What was your favourite childhood game
to play?
BigStar_Celeb: I used to love whiffle ball, like baseball but with all
plastic instruments ... plastic ball and bat.
BigStar_Celeb: I hit home runs everytime I went up to bat.
BigStar_Celeb: Then we started playing with real balls and bats and I
wasn't quite as good.
zeb_35 asks: How long do you have to prepare between episodes?
BigStar_Celeb: Well, we actually only have Sundays off.
BigStar_Celeb: We just did the show Saturday and we have another show
this coming Saturday.
BigStar_Celeb: So, we had yesterday off and we're already back today
talking about this week.
Jordan_D_SNLFAN asks: Any word on "Ladies Man" co-stars?
Even if it's
just rumours now, I'd love to hear something.
BigStar_Celeb: It's too early to tell what's going to happen or who
we're going to be able to get.
BigStar_Celeb: We'd love more SNL cast people from the past/present to
be in it.
BigStar_Celeb: There's a lot of roles for women so we hope to get some
very funny actresses to play a part in it.
RubberNeck667 asks: YOU KICK @$$ MAN!! LONG LIVE SNL!!!!!!!!!!!!
BigStar_Celeb: RubberNeck rules!
BigStar_Celeb: :)
pixi37 asks: Tim,which musical guest has been your fave? Tracey
BigStar_Celeb: It was really cool to see Bruce Springsteen.
BigStar_Celeb: Because I had ... I had never really .. I was never
really into him .. I'd heard his music, but never seen him in concert.
BigStar_Celeb: Then once I saw him live doing rehearsals in the studio I
thought, "Oh, this is what it's all about!"
BigStar_Celeb: He's really that good and charismatic .. everytime he
rehearsed a song, he did it at full throttle!
BigStar_Celeb: It was great to see.
BigStar_Celeb: And, also N'Sync.
BigStar_Celeb: I'm joking.
BigStar_Celeb: I've seen a lot of cool people .. it was cool seeing Tina
Turner do "Proud Mary."
BigStar_Celeb: It was great seeing Paul McCartney.
BigStar_Celeb: It was great seeing Snoop Doggy Dog and Tupac.
BigStar_Celeb: Nirvana .. and Pearl Jam.
Senza007 asks: Who would you want to play you in a movie about
BigStar_Celeb: Don Cheadle.
BigStar_Celeb: Or, Sinbad.
quick_sketch asks: Where did the idea for the ladies man come
BigStar_Celeb: I used to do the voice of the crank phone call to radio
shows and TV shows in Chicago.
BigStar_Celeb: And, one day I was telling some of the writers here ..
two of my friends, Andrew and Dennis, and they thought it was really
funny and they wanted to write the sketch.
BigStar_Celeb: They thought the voice was really funny.
BigStar_Celeb: A few hours later they said, "Do you wanna do it in the
BigStar_Celeb: They had the idea for the Ladies Man Talk Show and they
asked me questions and I started riffin, doing that voice, and then we
created this character ... that's how it happened.
bluecheese14_99 asks: Tim in school were u "the ladies
BigStar_Celeb: I um .. I've always been in serious relationships .. but
in between I had periods where I was The Ladies Man.
BigStar_Celeb: But, I think I was always happier when I was in one
xXk8LinXx asks: hey i just wanted to say that i love the ladies
man, and
your character on "jingleheimer junction," also you did a great job on
the recent episode of SNL, where you played the sportscaster
BigStar_Celeb: Oh, thanks!
BigStar_Celeb: I had fun working with Ray Romano in that sports sketch.
BigStar_Celeb: It was fun to get to do that type of thing .. that type
of sketch.
IndustrialStrengthChickMagnet asks: what kind of music does
tim like?
BigStar_Celeb: I like all kinds .. I play the sax and I was in bands and
love music.
BigStar_Celeb: I listen to classical, jazz, a lot of rap, some country
music, very little country ... Lucinda Williams I loved her album this
BigStar_Celeb: I also loved Lauryn Hill's album .. Beastie Boys, R.E.M.
Talking Heads, Dinosaur, Jr.....
BigStar_Celeb: A Tribe Called Quest ...
RayneeFace asks: So, what advice do you give to up and coming
BigStar_Celeb: Well, Raynee Face, I would say no matter what people say,
keep doing what you're doing .. don't let people talk you out of it.
BigStar_Celeb: And, if you're funny, people will know it and they'll
find you.
bjorn917 asks: Mr. Meadows, you are a main element in snl.
no doubt
about that. duluth, mn.
BigStar_Celeb: bjorn, thank you very much.
BigStar_Celeb: I try to do my small share to make the show the funny
thing that it is.
OmieDude asks: This is OmieDude from Manteca/California, What
was it
like to touch Cameron Diaz' bootius-maximus, in the ladies man sketch?
BigStar_Celeb: Well, I was so focused on doing the sketch that I really
didn't have time to pay attention to how it felt.
BigStar_Celeb: But, she was a very good sport about everything that was
going on in that sketch.
BigStar_Celeb: She was very funny .. I love Cameron Diaz.
Slim_shady_what asks: At what age were you interested in comedy?
BigStar_Celeb: No. I mean .. I think I ...
BigStar_Celeb: I've always loved comedy on TV .. always watched comedy
shows .. that was always what I was drawn to.
BigStar_Celeb: But, I didn't know I was gonna do this until I got older.
BigStar_Celeb: I took some improv classes and found that I liked it and
it was something I could do.
BigStar_Celeb: I decided to see how far it could go if I pursued this as
a career.
BigStar_Celeb: And, that was it ....
Otaku_Gamer asks: What do you in your own spare time?
BigStar_Celeb: I play golf.
BigStar_Celeb: I read.
BigStar_Celeb: A lot.
BigStar_Celeb: I just started a biography of George Washington that I
can't wait to start reading in depth next week.
BigStar_Celeb: I just finished reading Al Franken's book which I really
BigStar_Celeb: I like to listen to music, see movies, hang out with my
wife a lot.
RAGE053 asks: TIM WHOS YOUR FAVORITE SNL CAST MEMBER OF ALL
BigStar_Celeb: Of all time ....
BigStar_Celeb: If I had to say one, I'd be making a lot of people mad. I
really can't say one.
BigStar_Celeb: My all time favorite, I'd have to say is Bill Murray.
BigStar_Celeb: And, everybody else is right behind him.
hotandkinky asks: this is becky from ny, i was wondering how
you got
people for you audience during snl?
BigStar_Celeb: The audience .. the majority is general public, people
that write in for tickets.
BigStar_Celeb: Cast, staff, and writers .. we all get tix for the show
to give to people.
BigStar_Celeb: Others are guest .. the host and musical guests.
BigStar_Celeb: But, the majority of people are the ones who write in for
BigStar_Celeb: I'd say write in right now for next season.
BigStar_Celeb: Or, give me a call. I'll see what I can do.
BigStar_Celeb: ;)
BigStar_Celeb: You can just write to NBC and I answer letters and send
MrMusicFanMan asks: What person would you like to do on the
show that
you haven't?
BigStar_Celeb: Let me see .....
BigStar_Celeb: I really ... I don't know ... right now.
BigStar_Celeb: I mean, there's always somebody new that comes in the
news or sports, or the news in general.
BigStar_Celeb: I've been here so long that I've done everybody that I
wanted to do and could do.
BigStar_Celeb: The challenge is finding somebody new.
BigStar_Celeb: Johnnie Cochran dropped in my lap. It was great to have
the opportunity to do that character ....
BigStar_Celeb: I don't know .. I'm rambling now ..
Canadian_1999 asks: (Campbell River BC) Tim, How has stardom
your personnal life?
BigStar_Celeb: I think the only change really is that now when I go out
in public, I can't watch people like I used to cause they watch me.
BigStar_Celeb: So, that's changed.
BigStar_Celeb: But, I don't think I"ve changed much from the person I've
always been.
BigStar_Celeb: I've always been kind of shy .. it takes a little while
to sort of get to know me.
BigStar_Celeb: But, I don't know .. I think I'm the same guy I've always
been. I just ... I got a lot more dough.
BigStar_Celeb: ;)
BarenakedLadiesFan928 asks: DO YOU LIKE SOUTH PARK?
BigStar_Celeb: I can honestly say I saw the bootleg South Park tape when
that was around, but I've never seen the South Park TV show.
BigStar_Celeb: So, I don't have any comment on it ... I don't know if
it's good or bad.
BigStar_Celeb: I don't get to watch much TV and don't have Comedy
Central right now either.
BigStar_Celeb: So, I'm missing out on a lot of stuff.
BigStar_Celeb: I don't have a lot of time, and when I do I like to watch
sports and Biography or something.
charliemalarkey asks: What do find to be the biggest difference
New York and LA?
BigStar_Celeb: I love visiting L.A..
BigStar_Celeb: But, I like living in New York.
BigStar_Celeb: There's no .. the biggest difference is mainly just the
weather and people seem a lot nicer in L.A..
BigStar_Celeb: And, people drive like maniacs in L.A., too.
ed_die_soon asks: who do you think will win the ncaa hoops
BigStar_Celeb: I've got Michigan State .. that's who I'm going for.
BigStar_Celeb: I'm gonna name my final four ... they are: Auburn and
Michigan State for the final two and am picking Michigan State to go all
the way.
BigStar_Celeb: Let me see ... I think maybe Connecticut and St. John.
BigStar_Celeb: I'm going to try to look at my list here, trying to see
who's still in.
BigStar_Celeb: Auburn, St. John, Connecticut, Stanford .. .. yeah.
Slim_shady_what asks: How long have you been in the acting
buisness for?
BigStar_Celeb: About 13 years.
BigStar_Celeb: I was in an improv group called The Detroit Times Theater
Company in Detroit and it was a bunch of friends that all did improv
together a few places in Detroit.
BigStar_Celeb: We never made much money but kept the group together.
BigStar_Celeb: Then I moved to Chicago and did improv there .. The
Improv Olympics and with Second City.
pumba2_29 asks: Tim, I am VERY eager to get on SNL.....where
to I start?
BigStar_Celeb: Producers couch?
BigStar_Celeb: No!
BigStar_Celeb: I don't know!
BigStar_Celeb: I would suggest .. you know .. if you're out there
performing in the comedy community, talent scouts will find you
BigStar_Celeb: That's how it works . they look for people .. .. hear
about who's good and go out and try to find them.
hmblondiee asks: what do you think your biggest achivement
in life is?
BigStar_Celeb: I guess ....
BigStar_Celeb: Geez ...
BigStar_Celeb: Having friends and being a friend to people that I know.
BigStar_Celeb: I think that's an achievement .. maintaining friendships
and relationships with your family.
BigStar_Celeb: I'm proud of that. I'm proud that my family loves me and
my friends like me.
BigStar_Celeb: My relationship with my wife ... and, you know, I think
those are big achievements.
Mr_Riva_Iron_Grip asks: How did you meet your wife?
BigStar_Celeb: We met on an airplane flight between New York and
BigStar_Celeb: And, she sat next to me.
BigStar_Celeb: And, I gave her my phone number, we talked on the flight.
BigStar_Celeb: She never called.
BigStar_Celeb: Then when I was going to Chicago to visit friends, I
called her and said I was coming to town, could I take her to dinner?
BigStar_Celeb: So, she accepted and we met for dinner and that was it.
Legos4ever asks: SNL cracks me up. What tv shows do you find
BigStar_Celeb: I love The Simpsons.
BigStar_Celeb: It's my favorite show on TV .... comedy show.
BigStar_Celeb: I miss Seinfeld.
BigStar_Celeb: And, I miss Larry Sanders.
BigStar_Celeb: I like NewsRadio.
BigStar_Celeb: I like Spin City.
BigStar_Celeb: And, Frasier can be good. And, I think the Conan O'Brien
show is one of the funniest shows on TV.
BigStar_Celeb: His repertory group of guys and writers on that show have
the funniest bits.
Kyle_Anson asks: Do you ever play pranks on each other on SNL?
BigStar_Celeb: Let's see ..... pranks ....
BigStar_Celeb: What's happened around here?
BigStar_Celeb: Well, one time I remember, we went on a retreat .. and I
won't use names, okay?
BigStar_Celeb: But, a writer on the show .. let me start over .. we went
on a retreat, a cast member made fun of one of the writers in front of
everyone, it was a big joke and all in fun ...
BigStar_Celeb: But, the writer didn't care for it.
BigStar_Celeb: But, when we came back a few days later, the actor's
entire office was moved into the hallway on the 17th floor.
BigStar_Celeb: I always thought that was genius .. that the guy came in
a day earlier and moved all of the guys stuff into the hallway .. he
obviously had some help .. cause there was a desk to move.
BigStar_Celeb: It was pretty funny.
souljah328_99 asks: What kind of car do you have
BigStar_Celeb: I have a Nissan Pathfinder and a motorcycle.
bobdiscount asks: do you ever run into any former SNL castmembers
used to work with?
BigStar_Celeb: Yeah, I talk to Sandler, and Chris Rock ...
BigStar_Celeb: And, occasionally, you see other people just out when you
go to L.A. and stuff .. I talk to Mike Myers once in a while ...
BigStar_Celeb: We keep in touch with each other .. and Spade a little.
ebstiles asks: Does Adam Sandler act the way he does in public
when he
is in private? Art, Hampton, IA
BigStar_Celeb: Yeah, I think it is similar.
BigStar_Celeb: He's funnier in private, though .. even funnier, I should
BigStar_Celeb: He's very quick and he's .. .he just makes me laugh.
BigStar_Celeb: I love talking to him on the phone cause he's so funny.
He'll do voices and characters.
BigStar_Celeb: He just kills me.
RayneeFace asks: What do you think about Monica's interview
on 20/20?
BigStar_Celeb: I just can't believe that .. when I was watching it, I
couldn't believe that she ... did she realize that she's talking about
performing oral sex ont he president?
BigStar_Celeb: And, like .. that's what she's known for.
BigStar_Celeb: I thought it was weird and sort of sad.
BigStar_Celeb: I kinda feel sorry for her cause no matter what she does,
she'll always be known as the chick that gave the president a hummer.
PlotTwist asks: super cool , Tim good luck on ladies man
BigStar_Celeb: Oh, thank you!
BigStar_Celeb: :)
SUMMERMOON2 asks: DO YOU BELIVE IN LIFE ON OTHER PLANETS?
BigStar_Celeb: I don't know?
BigStar_Celeb: If there is, you know, I hope they're like more advanced
than us and funnier than us and more creative.
BigStar_Celeb: But, if they're like behind us, we don't have any use for
BigStar_Celeb: And, think about that!
amanda_k6499 asks: Tim, I have great material, but I have major
fright. How do I get up in front of everybody?
BigStar_Celeb: Everybody says you should think of the audience naked,
but I think it's the oppposite.
BigStar_Celeb: I think you should think of yourself as naked.
BigStar_Celeb: Then you'll be concentrating on that so much and feeling
so weird that you'll lose the stage fright.
BigStar_Celeb: I think you have to face the fear and dive in there, once
you get up there and start getting laughs, you'll relax and have the
audience eating out of your hands.
BigStar_Celeb: I've literally had that .. had the audience eating out of
my hands.
skeeterwampas asks: what reasons made you think, "comedy
sounds like a
good proffession"?
BigStar_Celeb: Well, I never thought of it as something I could do for a
living .. just something I could do and do pretty well.
BigStar_Celeb: I never expected to make a living at it .. I was gonna go
back and finish college after I got started.
BigStar_Celeb: I was planning on becoming a program director or
something like that ... not on being on camera.
UPCband asks: TIM, YOU ARE THE BEST THING TO HAPPEN TO SNL
BigStar_Celeb: I agree.
BigStar_Celeb: ;)
BigStar_Celeb: And, thank you!
BigStar_Celeb: Just kidding.
f_flubber asks: What's the thing you like most about SNL and
BigStar_Celeb: What I most like about SNL is the Krispy Kreme donuts we
get every Thursday.
BigStar_Celeb: And, what I like most about being famous is I can go into
Krispy Kreme and get donuts and not have to wait in line.
ahauf asks: WHAT'S THE FUNNIEST THING THAT HAS EVER HAPPENED
BigStar_Celeb: One thing was the "Riding My Donkey" sketch where we were
political analysts and on donkeys and my donkey slipped on some urine
and something and it was live TV.
BigStar_Celeb: I was worried about the donkey and it was okay but we all
started laughing cause the donkeys kept moving and we didn't know what
camera we were one!
BigStar_Celeb: Then when Chris Farley was on the show and did a sketch
where he was this big baby and ripped my arms off ... he was whispering
in my ear and kissing me ... made me laugh.
BigStar_Celeb: And, also watching him do Matt Foley was fun.
Jezter3 asks: Tim, as an actor how much creative imput do you
have into
writing sketches?
BigStar_Celeb: the sketches like "The Ladies Man" I write with two other
people but a lot of the other sketches I do, I either write by myself
with input from other writers on the staff, or they're written for me by
the writers.
BigStar_Celeb: So, I'd say it's 50/50, you write some of your own
sometimes, and then the others are written for you.
BigStar_Celeb: But, you always get input from other people .. you always
want to find a better joke.
supernurse1949 asks: Do you base the char Leon Phelps on anyone
your past? Do you write the dialogue for the char?
BigStar_Celeb: It's not based on anyone from my past.
BigStar_Celeb: But, it is about a certain lifestyle in the 70's which
was a player's lifestyle.
BigStar_Celeb: That really doesn't adapt to the 90's.
BigStar_Celeb: So, the suggestions that you'd get from that character,
they may work for him, but they wouldn't work nowadays.
Malhavoc_4 asks: Who were your major influences growing up?
BigStar_Celeb: Richard Pryor.
BigStar_Celeb: SNL, SCTV ...
BigStar_Celeb: Bill Cosby
BigStar_Celeb: Johnny Carson
BigStar_Celeb: Freddie Prinz.
BigStar_Celeb: David Letterman
BigStar_Celeb: And, shows like Carol Burnett and those kinds of shows.
BigStar_Celeb: I really love variety shows.
kevweiss asks: What do you do during the 3-4 months off in
BigStar_Celeb: I play a lot of golf.
BigStar_Celeb: We try to go and have dinner in the city a lot and see
BigStar_Celeb: We try to do the things we can't do in the regular season
.. try to enjoy being in the city.
SUMMERMOON2 asks: Can u tell us pickuplines THAT WORK?
BigStar_Celeb: "You wanna guess how big it is?"
BigStar_Celeb: That always works for The Ladies Man.
BigStar_Celeb: Is that enough?
BigStar_Celeb: ;)
jayson23_m asks: Has becoming a calebrity changed the way you
yourself or others
BigStar_Celeb: Wow ... not really.
BigStar_Celeb: Because even with the people that I meet coming in to do
this show, the host and musical guest, you realize people are all the
BigStar_Celeb: They're no different from my doorman, my chaffeur or my
bmccuin asks: How do you react to all of your fans, and the
many stupid
remarks I am sure you receive?
BigStar_Celeb: Well, in general people are pretty nice to me ... except
during the OJ trial.
BigStar_Celeb: That's when I got people that had an opinion about us
doing the sketches.
BigStar_Celeb: One time this guy stopped me in Chicago and was really
angry about me doing OJ.
BigStar_Celeb: And, Is aid, "I'm sorry if you don't like it, but it's my
BigStar_Celeb: I satirize the news and whether you agree with my opinion
or not, I find humor in certain things.
BigStar_Celeb: He was really angry, I tried to calm him down .. I
thought we were gonna come to blows over it.
BigStar_Celeb: But, I tried to talk him out of it like I did when I was
a kid.
P4_20 asks: when did in set in that you are famous
BigStar_Celeb: One event that really hit me was ... wow .. that's a good
BigStar_Celeb: I think .... like one time .. and I think it's Bruce
Springsteen again.l
BigStar_Celeb: I talked to him at the show and he had mentioned a sketch
that I had done and that he watched the show every week.
BigStar_Celeb: It sort of dawned on me then that like, you know, people
watch this show!
BigStar_Celeb: I try not to think about that too much.
BigStar_Celeb: And, believe me, there's times when I don't feel famous.
BigStar_Celeb: Like when people are rude or in general ... like at the
airport when you get rude service.
BigStar_Celeb: Or, when you have to stand in line or do anything like
anybody else .. you're not treated too differently.
BigStar_Celeb: ANd, living in New York, people remind you that you're
not famous.
SmackSmackums asks: Hey Tim, my name is Peter Downing. Can
you just say
hi Pete D so i can say i talked with Tim Meadows?
BigStar_Celeb: Hi Pete D! I hope I get to come hang out with you pretty
soon, dude!
Bond3064 asks: Has a tabloid ever gotten on your nerves with
information about yourself.
BigStar_Celeb: No.
BigStar_Celeb: Not that I know of.
BigStar_Celeb: I hope it never happens.
BigStar_Celeb: I don't think I have any deep dark secrets that I
probably haven't talked about already.
BigStar_Celeb: I've hidden them very well.
BigStar_Celeb: I don't feel that I'm famous enough that the tabloids
even care!
BigStar_Celeb: Nobody cares about me!
CathleenIn99 asks: Who's yer favorite celebrity to make fun
BigStar_Celeb: It was pretty fun doing OJ and doing those charactes at
that time, like Johnnie Cochran and I've always loved doing Sammy Davis,
Jr. even though I don't do him anymore.
BigStar_Celeb: But, he was always one of my favorites.
thee_empress asks: Tim--which classic sketches do you wish
you'd been
BigStar_Celeb: I wish I could have been in The Coneheads sketch.
BigStar_Celeb: I would have loved to have been in Bill Murray's The
Lounge Singer sketch.
kitkat787 asks: when people write you do you actually read
BigStar_Celeb: I try to, yeah ...
BigStar_Celeb: I read whatever people send in. Most of the letters are
short .. basically, "I like you. Send me a picture."
BigStar_Celeb: Doesn't take long to read that.
BigStar_Celeb: I'll send pics and sign autographs and send out cards and
BigStar_Celeb: I figure if people can take the time to send a letter, I
can take the time to send something back.
BigStar_Celeb: Even though my time is more valuable ;)
BigStar_Celeb: That's a joke.
NHL_sk8r asks: What is the most intelligent question you have
BigStar_Celeb: I think that the question about life on other planets is
one I've never been asked.
BigStar_Celeb: I thought I answered pretty well .. so scroll backwards
and find that question!
NHL_sk8r asks: What is the most intelligent question you have
BigStar_Celeb: I really have enjoyed the questions and I don't think I
started off good, but I got into the swing of it and had a lot of fun.
BigStar_Celeb: I hope you all keep watching and thank you for providing
me with a career!
BigStar_Celeb: :)
BigStar_Celeb: Thank you! It was fun! Bye!
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Amy Winehouse's Spirit Inspires Future To Stay In The Studio
Future talks to Tim Westwood about his upcoming album Honest, preparing for a baby with Ciara, being a business man, his hustle mentality and more, including why he's been spending all his time in one particular studio located in London.
"When I walked into the studio, I just caught a crazy vibe in the studio to feel like I can just make spectacular music, some more incredible tunes to add onto the catalogue," explained Future. "Then I found out the history […] I recorded like 3 or 4 songs and I was like 'What it is about this studio that I love, why do I keep recording?' I'm recording back to back, I'm knocking songs out within 30 minutes, and I keep recording and recording. Probably 5-10 joints in this room already and I haven't been here nothing but 2 or 3 days. It's like I feel at home. Then they was like 'Amy Winehouse used to record in the same room you recording in.'"
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Re: escape-sequences in strings
Hello Timo,
a) the MathLink Reference manual is a part of the Mathematica Book
page 630 and in the refernce section page 1256. There is also a
PostScript version of the 2.x MathLink kit on MathSource
b) Mathematica works with Unicode. C-Strings are usual char[]'s and
only 8 bit than 16 bit for unicode. Your frontend must deal with the
unicode and. Look to the PutByteString() and
PutUnicodeString() in the reference section. The behaviour in the
Mathematica book describe the escape sequences inside of Mathematica.
What You see in the frontend is quite different from what you have
inside a C-function, \[Beta] is *one* unicode character and inside
frontend a nice greek letter. The character \ is the most special of
and I would like to see what MLNextCharacter() returns.
Hope that helps
Timo Felbinger wrote:
> Hello,
> I am currently working on a front end (in C) for Mathematica, which
> passes user-defined input via mathlink to the Mathematica kernel for
> evaluation.
> BTW, where can I find the "MathLink Reference Manual" which is cited in
> Todd Gayley's mathlink tutorial? The "DeveloperGuide.nb" on my
> Mathematica CD isn't really helpful.
> Timo
> --
> Timo Felbinger <Timo.Felbinger at quantum.physik.uni-potsdam.de> Quantum
> Physics Group
> Institute of Physics
> University of Potsdam, Germany


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The beginning.
I read a lot of Seth Godin, because he's basically like the fairy godmother of answers to my business-y questions. Whatever the problem of the day is that we're facing, he seems to publish the perfect blog post that makes us feel a little less crazy. This is today's, and I feel like it's a pretty meaningful rally cry for all of us who are starting this Challenge this week (whether for the first or tenth time).
Overcoming the impossibility of amazing
If you set your bar at "amazing," it's awfully difficult to start.
Your first paragraph, sketch, formula, sample or concept isn't going to be amazing. Your tenth one might not be either.
Confronted with the gap between your vision of perfect and the reality of what you've created, the easiest path is no path. Shrug. Admit defeat. Hit delete.
One more reason to follow someone else and wait for instructions.
Of course, the only path to amazing runs directly through not-yet-amazing. But not-yet-amazing is a great place to start, because that's where you are. For now.
There's a big difference between not settling and not starting.
One of the promises I'm making to myself is to write more, and not just in the name of passing along information, but to share my thoughts and experiences through the good and the bad. I want to get the point across that none of us have figured it all out yet, that life is just a giant experiment and each time we have the courage to try something new, we get a little bit closer to our best selves.
As you're planning your BCCC, here's a little bit of advice beyond the science. Do not let the perfect be the enemy of the good, but use this time of community support to push yourself to be better. Know that you can come out to a bar with us this month and, if you tell us you're not drinking for thirty days, we will totally have your back when you pass on the house wine or tequila shots. Get together with some CFCC friends and cook something delicious that isn't pasta and celebrate the end of a work week over food that's been prepared with the respect it deserves. Reward your body with good, solid sleep and a delicious dinner after a particularly heavy deadlift day or a long, tough metcon. Prepare your food with love and think about it before you eat it.
So, here goes. I'm offering up a toast (with seltzer!) to each of you as you all embark on your summer BCCC tomorrow. My hope is that we'll emerge from this Challenge in a month as healthier athletes and happier people. That we'll learn a little something about ourselves and that this new knowledge won't paralyze us with fear or overwhelm us, but energize us to expect more from ourselves as members of this crazy society we've been handed.
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In a statement released on Wednesday, Kucinich said national security concerns do not justify unconstitutional measures.
"We must reject the notion that protecting our national security requires revoking the constitutional rights of U.S. citizens. No president can act as judge, jury and executioner, and any attempt to do so is in direct violation of our Constitution, which gives our citizens a right to life and a fair trial," Kucinich said.
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LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - John Goodman is joining Sandra Bullock and Tom Hanks in "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close," a September 11-themed drama to be directed by British filmmaker Stephen Daldry.
The story centers on Oskar, a 10-year old boy (being played by unknown Thomas Horn) who loses his father (Hanks) in the September 11 attacks and goes on a cathartic journey to deal with his loss. He scours New York for information relating to the lock-box key box left behind by his father and meets an assortment of people along the way -- each dealing with their own forms of grief and loss that connect and parallel his own.
Goodman will play a doorman in Oskar's apartment building who goes on a trip to exhume the father's coffin.
The Warner Bros./Paramount co-production is based on the novel by Jonathan Safran Foer. Oscar-winning "Forrest Gump" scribe Eric Roth adapted the script. Daldry ("The Reader") is looking at a winter start with an eye to getting it ready for the 10th anniversary of the attacks on the World Trade Center.
Goodman recently wrapped "Red State," Kevin Smith's latest movie, and appeared in HBO's "Treme."


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compound vs polish
Can any one explain to me what the difference is. I have tried googling the topic and they seem to be pretty much the same. If I am looking to have surface scratches/swirls removed which process should i pursue.
Have you tried CLAYING it first with a non-aggresive clay bar? Depending on your color and how bad the swirls are. Clay normally takes out most swirls and even scratches. It has to be done a certain way though b/c you could mess your paint job up if done improperly.
Compounds and polishes are similar. They usually differ by the amount of abrasives they contain (usually aluminum oxide ) . The larger the particle size and the larger the quantity the more aggressive the solution is. Think of compound as liquid sandpaper. Just like sandpaper, compound comes in a multitude of grits. Some compounds like Menzernas Power Gloss are aggressive at first and then begin to break down in size becoming more and more fine, turning into a polish. Compounds are the most aggressive. polishes are used to removed compounding marks and glazes are used to feed and fill minute blemishes (on some occasions, glazes do contain super fine abrasives).
My personal choice of paint care would be as follows:
Menzerna Power Gloss with a medium cut foam pad
Menzerna Intensive Polish with a light cut foam pad
Menzerna Final Finish with a ultra light foam finishing pad
Seal with FMJ followed by P21S Carnauba Wax
The steps listed above are assuming the paint problems are pretty bad. Always start with the lighter of the steps. For example, I would start with the Final Finish on a panel. First work it in, wipe the panel down and inspect it. If the mperfections are still present move up to the Intensive Polish. If the Intensive Polish is unsuccessful, move to to the Power Gloss.
I hope this help a little. If you have any question, don't hesitate to ask.
Brett @ OCD
Great explanation Brett on the question at hand.
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Waiter, There's A Baby In My Soup
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Waiter, There's A Baby In My SoupWaiter, There's A Baby In My Soup (1991) Season 1 Episode 2B- Rugrats Cartoon Episode Guide
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- Rugrats Cartoon Episode Guide
- Klasky-Csupo Productions
- Distributed by: Viacom International, Inc
- Cartoon Characters: Mr. Mucklehoney, Drew Pickles, Chazz Finster, Chuckie Finster, Didi Pickles, Angelica Pickles, Tommy Pickles, Grandpa Lou Pickles, Stu Pickles, Phil DeVille, Lil DeVille, Howard DeVille.
- Originally Released in 1991.
- Season: 1
- Color
- Running Time: 11 minutes.
Cartoon Summary:
Stu and Didi end up taking Tommy to an important dinner at Chez Ennui with Mr. Mucklehoney (president of Mucklehoney Industries, a toy company), since Tiffany the babysitter (via telephone) and Grandpa have different plans (the babysitter's OTHER goldfish died and Grandpa was going bowling with a friend of his, Louise). Tommy, however, has plans of his own.
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