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Personal Pre-Amble
Gonna start with a personal observation from my life experience pool before anything else on this topic.
One time I attended a sporting event where a fan ran onto the field in a leopard skin speedo and started to steal the bases on the baseball field at Olympic Stadium. I was laughing and it only lasted about a minute or so.
When I got home I was expecting to see it talked about and shown in the post game reports or on ESPN or TSN or whatever...but interestingly NO ONE even mentioned it.
Because bodies like the NFL and MLB have a strict no broadcast rule for people running onto fields. They don't put the cameras on them during live broadcasts and do not talk about them in news reports on the event afterwards. That's official written-in-stone policy for most if not all sporting bodies.
The reasoning is simple. If people at home see this behavior talked about or promoted on TV...they will see it as a way to gain fame and notoriety for themselves and copy the behavior. Thus, these fans who engage in shenanigans on the playing field ARE NEVER RECORDED ON VIDEO OR MENTIONED EVER AGAIN.
It works too. It's increasingly rare to see anyone do this behavior anymore. There's no more Kissing Bandits or leopard skin speedo jabronies running on fields like in the 80s and 90s. In the 80s they promoted the behavior of the "Kissing Bandit" and it became a method of becoming famous. Streakers were huge in the 90s.....we don't see many streakers anymore either. Mainly because they aren't given attention if they streak these days.
The ban on giving attention to fans who rush the field has 100% worked. It is very rare to see this behavior now a days.
Attention Directed at Stupid Fucking Loser Nobodies who Murder Innocent People
Why did they do it? Who were they? What did their friends and family have to say about why they did it? Blah blah blah blah blah. They talk about these losers for MONTHS at a time.
Why stop at talking about them? Why not make a stupid fucking movie about them too? Make them some mis-understood protagonist or some fucking bullshit in a made-for-tv-movie about their dumb and stupid lives. On and on and on...
....we'll actually probably never stop hearing about these stupid fucking nobodies. We're gonna here about this Oregon loser now for the next two years. It's friggin' ridiculous.
There should be a federal ban on this type of reporting. If you make these people into famous mis-understood heroes and give them the fame and notoriety they are seeking...then you're creating a climate where this behavior is being promoted to other isolated maniacs.
If next school shooting the report went like this:
"A Coward and loser, who will remain unnamed due to publication ban, killed innocent people and himself today. You can donate money to victims families at this following address. Our thoughts are with the deceased." -(hypothetical news report)
No photo of the loser, no name, no nothing. No fame, no glory, no anything. Doesn't that make more sense? No made-for-TV-movie, no in-depth report on his motives or whatever was going through his stupid head. No notoriety of any kind attached to that person....AT ALL.
Now in the case that the assailant is not deceased after the attack this ban obviously could not be applied. The public has to know if there are maniacs on the loose...and in the case where they are put behind bars...the public has a right to know the crimes committed by an individual if they are ever released back into the public. This hypothetical ban would only apply to assailants who were deceased after the incident.
If a man-hunt is on for a un-apprehended criminal then this hypothetical ban would obviously not be in-place. Wanna make it clear it would only be if the assailant died in the incident.
If a loser murders innocent people....and also dies in the incident...the name of that person and photographs of him (or her....chicks can be serial killers too) will not be allowed in the press in order to not attribute fame to an individual for dubious reasons.
Makes sense? No?


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Easy Ovaltine Sugar Cookies
A twist on the traditional sugar cookies, these no-fuss Ovaltine Sugar Cookies offer a taste of your favorite childhood drink plus easy prep that both kids and adults alike will enjoy. You won't need much beyond flour, sugar, butter and eggs. Plus, there's no chilling. No rolling out the dough. No cutting into shapes. Simply form the dough into balls, swirl in sparkling sugar and bake.
- Bright white sparkling sugar (optional)
- 1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
- 3/4 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 3/4 cup granulated sugar
- 1/2 cup OVALTINE Rich Chocolate or Chocolate Malt Mix
- 1/2 cup unsalted butter, at room temperature
- 1 large egg
Directions, Reviews, Nutrition
COMBINE flour, baking soda and salt in medium bowl.
BEAT granulated sugar, Ovaltine and butter in large mixer bowl until combined. Beat in egg. Gradually beat in flour mixture.
SCOOP by rounded teaspoon and roll into balls. Drop a few balls at a time into sparkling sugar and swirl bowl to coat. Place balls 2 inches apart on ungreased baking sheets and flatten slightly.
BAKE for 8 to 10 minutes or until firm around edges. Cool on baking sheets for 2 minutes; remove to wire racks to cool completely.
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Serving Size: 1/40 of Recipe
Servings Per Recipe: 40
- Amount Per Serving
- Calories: 60
- Calories from Fat: 20
- Total Fat: 2.5g (4% of DV)
- Saturated Fat: 1.5g (7% of DV)
- Cholesterol: 10mg (4% of DV)
- Sodium: 45mg (2% of DV)
- Carbohydrates: 9g (3% of DV)
- Dietary Fiber: 0g (0% of DV)
- Sugars: 5g
- Protein: 1g
- Vitamin A: 2% of DV
- Vitamin C: 0% of DV
- Calcium: 0% of DV
- Iron: 2% of DV
*Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet.

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Student Loan Records 2nd Release Event
Join Student Loan Records Friday, April 13th at the Astoria Pub for the release of their second record. The night will include complimentary Jason Voorhees masks to celebrate "Friday the 13th," as well as special live performances by Babysitter, Apollo Ghosts, and Korean Gut.
Apollo Ghosts – For What They Do, They Do
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Sooo I just want to start off by saying this past Saturday was off the chain. Austra + Humans + Resorts = mind blowing good time! This week we got a couple more grrreat shows 4 u. Starting off with this wednesdaze, HUMP at Lick (455 Abbott), we have half of humans, Autacoid as a special guest! + djs wobangs & hunk the drunk.
Then on thurrrsday we have an awesome lineup @ Goody with Weed, Foonyap and The Roar, Babysitter and Beach Deamon.
FOONYAP and the Roar – Exurbia
Finally friday is Supercassette's 1irst CD release ever! With Oh No! Yoko, Raccoons & Dj Hunk the Drunk + friends at teh Cobalt!!!


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We were wondering who in President Obama's campaign would raise "the dog issue" against Mitt Romney.
Turned out to be Obama himself, last week in Iowa.
Noting that Romney criticized the usefulness of wind energy because "you can't drive a car with a windmill on it," Obama referenced the 1983 incident in which Romney ferried the family dog Seamus in a kennel mounted atop his car.
"I know he's had other things on his car," Obama joked about Romney, a line he repeated two other times in Iowa.
All of which prompted this question from ABC's Jake Tapper to Obama deputy campaign manager Stephanie Cutter: "Is this one of the big policy debates that the Obama campaign wants to have, whether or not it was appropriate for Governor Romney to put his dog on the top of a car in 1983?"
Cutter called it "a light-hearted remark," and that Obama spent his time in Iowa discussing the need for clean energy programs, and for Congress to pass legislation to counter the Midwestern drought.
"The president is out there every single day talking about where he wants to take this country," Cutter said.
White House spokesman Jay Carney said last week it was simply a joke -- "just like I think the Romney campaign and others have joked about the fact that in the President's memoir he talked about as a boy eating dog meat in Indonesia, because that is something that's done there."
When Obama made the dog comment last week, Romney spokesman Ryan Williams said: "After sanctimoniously complaining about making a 'big election about small things' President Obama continues to embarrass himself and diminish his office with his unpresidential behavior."
Earlier this year, Romney's wife Ann told ABC News that the family pet Seamus "loved" the trip back in 1983.
"He would see that crate and, you know, he would, like, go crazy because he was going with us on vacation," Mrs. Romney said. "It was to me a kinder thing to bring him along than to leave him in the kennel for two weeks."
David's journalism career spans three decades, including coverage of five presidential elections, the Oklahoma City bombing, the 2000 Florida presidential recount and the 9/11 terrorist attacks. He has covered the White House for USA TODAY since 2005. His interests include history, politics, books, movies and college football -- not necessarily in that order. More about David
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Don't expect too many answers to swimming's most burning question of who is the better, despite the world's two best swimmers competing in the same pools in Australia this summer.
While Ian Thorpe and his heir apparent, American Michael Phelps, will both contest the Qantas Skins in Sydney on November 26, and the three-day World Cup in Melbourne two days later, Thorpe revealed yesterday that the only race where they are likely to meet is in his unaccustomed 50-metre butterfly in Melbourne.
"At the skins I'll be swimming in the 50m freestyle, then I'll head down to Melbourne and probably do the 50m freestyle, the 100m freestyle and maybe a 50m butterfly.
"I don't know what Michael is swimming when he's out here, but I presume he'll swim the 50m fly at the World Cup . . . so I'll probably race against him in that."
The reason for Thorpe's limited schedule of swims is that after flying out of Sydney last night, he will return to Australia only on the morning of the skins, having spent a month in Flagstaff, Arizona, doing altitude training with the NSW squad.
"I'm looking forward to coming home from Arizona, because, while it will be very hard work over there at altitude, when I get back to sea level I'll be feeling good and feeling fit.
"I think I've received some good benefits from altitude training in the past. You feel fitter and if you feel fitter you can do things you wouldn't be able to do otherwise. There's a lot of arguments that it's good, that it's bad, it's what you feel personally that is most important."
Thorpe admitted that his preparation for the Olympic trials in March has been progressing very well. He has worked through his aerobic stage of his build-up and intends doing "quality endurance work" in Arizona.
While it will be his achievements in the pool that attract the interest next year at the Athens Olympics, yesterday his work out of the water drew a big crowd at a city department store.
Thorpe unveiled his new underwear line, and later emphasised that working on the collection created the distraction from his swimming.
"The concept and idea came about three years ago and we've been working on it for the past nine months," he said.
"There was a lot of work, but I've really enjoyed it and it is a good end result which is most important.
"You have to have things outside swimming, you have to have distractions. When you look at the swimmers who are just swimming. . . it becomes [their] entire world and when something falls down in that world, the rest of your life collapses.
"You have to have other things in your life so that you balance things out. You have to be satisfied in each area of your life. If you're just satisfied within your swimming career, you're not going to be happy with everything else that is going on."
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November 27, 2012
Yallop-Coach of the Year; Johnson-Comeback Player
NEW YORK – San Jose Earthquakes head coach Frank Yallop has been named Major League Soccer's Coach of the Year and the Seattle Sounders Eddie Johnson has been voted Comeback Player of the Year.
This season Yallop led the San Jose Earthquakes to its second Supporters' Shield in club history, a drastic turnaround from the club's 14th place finish in 2011. Yallop and the Earthquakes fell just two points shy of the MLS single-season points record, set by LA Galaxy in 1998 (68 points).
With 114 regular season wins, Yallop is tied for fourth overall in MLS history with current Houston Dynamo coach Dominic Kinnear. As a coach, Yallop has made five trips to the MLS Cup Playoffs and claimed two MLS Cup titles (2001, 2003) during his ten year career.
The award was voted on by media, MLS players and MLS club management based on regular season performance. The other two finalists were D.C United's Ben Olsen and Sporting Kansas City's Peter Vermes.
After struggling to find consistency for three years playing in Europe, Eddie Johnson returned to Major League Soccer to join Seattle Sounders FC ahead of the 2012 season. The move resurrected Johnson's career for both club and country.
Johnson regained his form this season, scoring 14 goals and recording three assists in 28 games played to help the Sounders FC reach the MLS Cup playoffs for the fourth consecutive year. In October, Johnson received his first United States national team call up since May 2010. He scored two decisive goals against Antigua and Barbuda, which propelled the U.S. into the hexagonal round of World Cup Qualifying.
This is Johnson's second Comeback Player of the Year award. He previously received the honor in 2007 when he scored 15 goals for the Kansas City Wizards after only scoring twice in the season prior.
The award was voted on by media, MLS players and MLS club management based on regular season performance. The other two finalists were D.C United midfielder Chris Pontius and San Jose Earthquakes forward Alan Gordon.
MLS Coach of the Year Winners:
2012: Frank Yallop – San Jose Earthquakes
2011: Bruce Arena – LA Galaxy
2010: Schellas Hyndman – FC Dallas
2009: Bruce Arena – Los Angeles Galaxy
2008: Sigi Schmid – Columbus Crew
2007: Preki – Chivas USA
2006: Bob Bradley – Chivas USA
2005: Dominic Kinnear – San Jose Earthquakes
2004: Greg Andrulis – Columbus Crew
2003: Dave Sarachan – Chicago Fire
2002: Steve Nicol – New England Revolution
2001: Frank Yallop – San Jose Earthquakes
2000: Bob Gansler – Kansas City Wizards
1999: Sigi Schmid – Los Angeles Galaxy
1998: Bob Bradley – Chicago Fire
1997: Bruce Arena – D.C. United
1996: Thomas Rongen – Tampa Bay Mutiny
MLS Comeback Player of the Year Winners:
2012: Eddie Johnson – Seattle Sounders FC
2011: David Beckham – Los Angeles Galaxy
2010: Bobby Convey – San Jose Earthquakes
2009: Zach Thornton – Chivas USA
2008: Kenny Cooper – FC Dallas
2007: Eddie Johnson – Kansas City Wizards
2006: Richard Mulrooney – FC Dallas
2005: Chris Klein – Kansas City Wizards
2004: Brian Ching – San Jose Earthquakes
2003: Chris Armas – Chicago Fire
2002: Chris Klein – Kansas City Wizards
2001: Troy Dayak – San Jose Earthquakes
2000: Tony Meola – Kansas City Wizards


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It was a journey from Macau to Columbo and next it would be Toronto. Indian Cinema and its wings are spreading all over the world. The International Indian Film Academy (IIFA) is carrying Indian Cinema's around the world. Well that may be one of the reasons for the drastic increase in Bollywood fan following.
Looking back at the past 11 years, IIFA Awards has become one of its kind in the field of cinema. This time IIFA was held in Columbo, Sri Lanka. Between all the special events, Bollywood celebrities had a ball in Sri Lanka. The final event saw almost all the Bollywood celebrities except for brand ambassador of IIFA actor Amitabh Bachchan and his family.
Well, Aamir Khan is never seen around IIFA down the years, but it was surprising to see that the baadshah of Bollywood Shahrukh Khan was missing from the big day. Well his absence on the eve was most felt when he was not seen on the stage, ragging all other Bollywood stars. But, Riteish Deshmukh and Boman Irani with actress Lara Dutta hosted the show in the best way they could. It was the third time in a row that the pair (Boman and Riteish) were seen on the stage as the most hilarious host ever.
The audience at the event comprised of all the big shots of Sri Lanka with our Hindi film fraternity. The show was opened by Bollywood Actress Jacqueline Fernandez who was Miss Sri Lanka 2003. The audiences were entertained by special sizzling performance by our Bollywood Stars, like Hrithik Roshan, Kareena Kapoor, Saif Ali Khan, Vivek Oberoi, Bipasha Basu.
With all the celebrations and performances, it was hard time for all the actors, actresses, director, as this was the day when they would be awarded for their one years hard work. Though Amitabh Bachchan was not seen around he won the IIFA best actor male 2010 award for his brilliant performance in the movie Paa. The best actress award was grabbed by actress Kareena Kapoor for her movie 3 Idiots and Vidya Balan for the movie Paa. The award for the best movie, best lyrics and direction was won by the Bollywood Blockbuster of last year film 3 Idiots.
Best comic role award was bagged by Sanjay Dutt for the movie All The Best. Best Music Director of the year is Pritam for his outstanding music in the film Love Aaj Kal. Best play back singer male was awarded to Shaan for his voice in the film 3 idiots. Best play back singer female was bagged by Kavita Seth for the beautiful song in the film Wake Up Sid. Promising male debutant of the year was titled to actor Omi Vaidya for 3 Idiots and Jackie Bhagnani for film Kal Kisne Dekha. The promising female debutant was presented to Jacqueline Fernandes from Sri Lanka for her acting in the movie Alladin and Mahie Gill for her role in the film Dev D.
There were other big awards of the night. Out standing achievement by an Indian Internationale was awarded to actor Anil Kapoor. The years, Habitat for Humanity Ambassadorship was given to actor Salman Khan. Veteran actress Zeenat Aman was honoured by IIFA outstanding contribution to Hindi Cinema female and actor J.Omprakash was honoured by the IIFA outstanding contribution to Hindi Cinema male.
The next trip is to Toronto, till then hope we have a couple of good movies this year too.


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Who's Pumped About Season 7 of Dexter? [Video]
I love this show. It's one of my favorite television shows EVER. And it's precisely why I subscribe to Showtime for three months of the year. Season 7 of Dexter premieres Sunday night and I will be right in front of the TV cheering on the tube's most loveable serial killer. If you haven't seen the official teaser trailer for the new season, we've got it right here!
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Now, I will admit it's a little bizarre to like a serial killer and root for him on a weekly basis, but Dexter is truly a genius creation. He's a killer who "takes out the trash" and rights the wrongs of evil-doers by committing evil himself. The show poses quite a moral dilemma for its audience and makes us wonder if Dexter's actions are ultimately justifiable and noble. I love the dilemma. I love its perplexity. And I love the show. And I cannot wait until Sunday night!!
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Why Is Ani DiFranco Hosting A "Righteous Feminist Songwriting Retreat" At A Former Slave Plantation?
Ani DiFranco is perhaps one of the best known "feminist" singer-songwriters of the last twenty years. Her music, which I'm not personally a big listener of, has been long been anti-sexist and anti-racist. So, at first, it was cool to hear that DiFranco was hosting what she calls a "feminist songwriting retreat" from June 25-29, 2014. Oh but there's one problem — the "Righteous Retreat in the Big Easy" will be held at the Nottoway Plantation in White Castle, Louisiana, a former slave plantation. Say WHAT?!
Like many former slave plantations, Nottoway Plantation been turned into museum and educational venue that offers tours to visitors interested in experiencing what life was like for racist whites back before slavery was abolished. As Kat Endgame at PQ Monthly notes, "the information about the lives of the men and women enslaved [at Nottoway] focuses on how nice their master and mistress were to them." In other words, Ani DiFranco's "righteous" songwriting retreat is being held at a venue that makes a profit off of asserting that life wasn't so bad for their slaves. "As in many such historical sites the immense suffering and brutal, history of slavery has been sanitized to be as inoffensive as possible to the wealthy white people who get married or vacation there," writes Endgame.
Nottoway Platation is owned and operated privately by Nottoway Plantation Inc. and makes an annual revenue of $2.5 million to $5 million. Nottoway Plantation Inc. is owned by the Paul Ramsey Group, which has donated a lot of money to Australia's highly conservative, anti-abortion and anti-gay Liberal party. Not so righteous, huh?
Obviously, most venues, if you follow the money, are going to have some problematic ties, but holding a feminist songwriting retreat at a former slave plantation owned by a private group that donates to causes that are in direct opposition to the work DiFranco and her guests claim to want to do at their retreat? Deeply hypocritical. Given how involved DiFranco is known for being in each and every career decision, it's hard to imagine how this could have slipped by her. The event's Facebook page has been inundated with complaints, so if she wasn't aware before, she definitely is now.
Toshi Reagon, a Black lesbian folk/blues musician who agreed to be part of the retreat and is listed as a participant, posted a statement on her Facebook page, indicating that she was just learning herself where the event would be held and that she is also uncomfortable with its location. She says that she's been in touch with DiFranco and that Ani would be releasing her own statement about the event. That statement is still forthcoming. A Change.org petition has been started demanding that the event be canceled.
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If the Jazz's most fervent Christmas wish is for Andrei Kirilenko to swoop in and rescue them from their losing-streak doldrums, it's going to be a bleak holiday season in Utah.
Kirilenko, who injured a ligament in his right knee on Nov. 27, won't even begin to rehabilitate the sprained MCL until the Jazz return from their upcoming eastern road trip at Christmas, the Jazz's medical staff has determined. While nobody can predict how long a rehab will be necessary, don't expect to see the Jazz's all-star in uniform for another month.
"He understands this is a slow process," said Jazz trainer Gary Briggs. "We're still in the healing process now. [After Christmas], we'll get to the rehab phase."
Kirilenko will stay home this weekend while the Jazz go to Portland, and he also will skip the team's annual holiday trip, that this year takes the Jazz to Phoenix, Boston, New York, Philadelphia and Toronto. Instead, the Russian forward will meet daily with Jazz physical therapist Marlin Forsyth to conduct workouts targeting his upper body and healthy left leg.
"By the time we get back from that trip, we can adjust [Kirilenko's workout] to start doing lower-body stuff," Briggs said. What happens then "will be determined by the amount of pain and swelling."
The knee, which buckled awkwardly when Spurs guard Beno Udrih fell into him in San Antonio last month, producing a Grade 2 sprain, is no longer swollen, Briggs said, but the ligament itself still is tender. Kirilenko has been ordered to wear a brace during all waking hours, to stabilize the knee.
"The doctors have explained to him, if his little boy runs into him, if he slips on the stairs, if he steps on a stone walking across the street and tweaks the ligament again, we're back to day one," Briggs said.
Kirilenko has missed most of the Jazz's practices lately in order to spend several hours a day in a hyperbaric chamber, which increases air pressure in order to force extra oxygen into the bloodstream and speed tissue healing. Those treatments, and his medication, ended Thursday, and the team is moving on to underwater exercises, electric-current sessions and other low-impact treatments, Briggs said.
While Kirilenko's recovery will take some time, Briggs said, there should be no lingering effects once Kirilenko returns.
Borchardt still on mend
Curtis Borchardt reaches the five-game minimum stint on the injured list tonight, but he still has some pain in his surgically-rebuilt right foot and is not ready to return to practice yet, Briggs said. "As long as he has soreness, we're going to hold him [back]," the trainer said, in hopes of preventing a recurrence.
Meanwhile, Raja Bell missed Thursday's practice because of sore feet. The team believes the problem may be with Bell's shoes, Briggs said, but held him out as a precaution.
The Jazz's six-game losing streak matches the longest of coach Jerry Sloan's Jazz career, though the Bulls lost seven straight three times while Sloan coached Chicago in the early 1980s. . . . Sloan said his back-to-basics approach to defense hasn't shown the results he had hoped for yet. "In a couple of things, I didn't see much progress," he said. . . . Beginning tonight, 50 children will attend Jazz home games using tickets purchased by Carlos Boozer. Boys and Girls Clubs of America are coordinating the "Boozer's Buddies" program for underprivileged kids.


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Juliet Torome
Juliet Torome, a writer and documentary filmmaker, was awarded Cinesource Magazine's first annual Flaherty documentary award.
Juliet Torome, a writer and documentary filmmaker, was awarded Cinesource Magazine's first annual Flaherty documentary award.
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Less than three months before Kenya's next general election, many fear a recurrence of the bloodshed that followed the 2007 presidential vote. Indeed, the root causes of the violence – poverty, ethnic… read more
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At long last, Kenya is getting a constitution, something that had eluded the country for decades. But Kenya's problems - including lax enforcement of existing laws and appalling levels of corruption -… read more
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8. Come around to Lollie kicks
( kick 1, step 2, tap 3, step 4 )
Getting into lollie kicks from the come around, the first 4 counts are the same as in the come around. The remainder of the pattern is as follows:
Gent takes giant left
step around the lady
on count 3
(to here it's the same
as the come around figure...
...crosses behind on 4 - 5
(one step, two counts)...
...steps forward right
on 6...
...the first "lollie" begins
as both kick on 7
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sequence is the step after
the kick on 8)...
...touch step (always with
outside foot in lollies)...
...kick step (always with
inside foot in lollies).
The kick-step-touch-step is
repeated until the gent
leads the lady into the...
...basic close position
For the leader: On 5, he steps with his right foot turning clockwise. On 6, he steps with his left foot and begins to turn the follower outward. On 7, the leader kicks with his right foot and turns the follower so that she is standing shoulder to shoulder next to the leader. On 8, he steps with his right foot. The leader should be able to open with the follower by using the centrifugal energy created by the clockwise stepping motion.
For the follower: On 5, she steps with her left foot turning clockwise. On 6, she steps with her left foot and begins to turn outward shoulder to shoulder with the leader. On 7 she kicks with her right foot and turns so that she is standing shoulder to shoulder next to the leader. On 8, she steps with her left foot. The follower will feel the connection with her back and the leader's right hand opening her up from the leader.
Lollie kicks: The kick on kick 7 was the first "Lollie." Lollies are four count steps that go kick 1, step 2, tap 3, step 4.
For the leader, he kicks with his right on 1, steps with his right on two, taps with his left on 3, and steps with his left on 4.
For the follower, she kicks with her left on 1, steps with her left on two, taps with her right on 3, and steps with her left on 4.
Going from Lollies to closed position: Lollies can be repeated indefinitely until the leader decides to do another pattern. To get back into the basic, after kick step 1,2 of the Lollies, the leader faces the follower and holds with his left foot on 3, pulls the follower into closed position, and steps with his left foot on 4.
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"Plaintiffs in the lawsuit against BP over damages from the Gulf of Mexico oil spill won't be allowed to bring up the oil giant's spotty past safety record, including a major accident in Texas City, Texas, nor will they be allowed to use the contents of a series of reports on the causes of the Deepwater Horizon disaster, U.S. District Judge Carl Barbier ruled Thursday.
Plaintiffs' attorneys will go first and get 75 minutes to speak.
BP PLC, owner of the blown-out well, gets 90 minutes. Rig owner Transocean Ltd. and cement contractor Halliburton each get an hour.
Barbier gave the federal government 45 minutes and allocated 20 minutes for state governments.
The remaining 50 minutes will be split by other companies sued over the 2010 disaster."
INSTITUTE INDEX - Time of trials for BP?
The civil trial for the 2010 Gulf oil disaster is scheduled to get underway this month in New Orleans -- unless BP reaches a settlement with the federal government, which some think is likely.
Date on which the Gulf oil spill trial is scheduled to begin in New Orleans unless a settlement is reached: 2/27/2012
Percent chance that BP will settle with the federal government before then, according to the former head of the U.S. Justice Department's Environmental Crimes Section: 70 to 80
Anticipated settlement: $20 billion to $25 billion
Rank of the BP case among the biggest private litigations in U.S. history: 1
Number of individual lawsuits that have been consolidated into the suit: 535
Number of witnesses expected to take the stand in the trial, which will determine how to apportion blame among BP and the other companies involved in the disaster: 303
Pages of documents that have been produced by parties to the litigation: 72 million
Settlement already paid to BP by Texas-based Anadarko Petroleum, one of the partners in the ill-fated Macondo well, for its role in the disaster: $4 billion
BP's settlement with Macondo partner MOEX, a Houston-based subsidiary of Japanese oil and gas exploration firm Mitsui & Co: $1.065 billion
With Cameron International, Houston-based manufacturer of the failed blowout preventer: $250 million
With Weatherford International, Houston-based manufacturer of a key piece of equipment used in cementing the failed well: $75 million
BP's estimate of total damages from the Gulf disaster: $43 billion
Amount BP has set aside to pay for damages from the spill: $20 billion
Portion paid out to date: $7.8 billion
Net earnings BP reported in 2011: $23.9 billion
Rank of BP among best-performing Big Oil stocks: 1
Percent by which BP raised stockholders' dividend this week, the first upgrade since the Gulf disaster: 14
Number of oil rigs BP expects to be operating in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico by the end of this year: 8


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One of the many misconceptions of "Page Rank†is that it refers to a website. In fact it refers to a single page. It is entirely possible for an inner page to rank for a big term, but it was much harder to get decent back-link data for an internal URL until the birth of the Link Intelligence industry. Now those barriers to understanding are starting to fall. This post is about analyzing back links of inner pages.
How do you find out what PAGES are pulling rank on competitor's website?
If you know what phrase you are chasing in the search engines, then it is easy to see who you are trying to beat. But how do you find out what nuggets your competitor has found, that you did not even know existed? Typically, these golden long tail terms are sending traffic to an inner page.
Any analysis of the home page will miss out on this understanding. I thought I would use my first Blogstorm article to show you just how easy it is to see what pages are getting to the top of Google and under search conditions. Let's take Blogstorm.co.uk itself. Of course, the strongest link text will be it's brand. But when we use Majesticseo's Link Intelligence Tool to look at the top anchors for the whole domain, I see some interesting anchor text from referring domains:
(Above: Blogstorm's strongest External Link Anchor text. Source: majesticseo)
Here from the MajesticSEO summary panel I can see that Patrick once wrote an article on how to launch a website. A quick check on Google confirms that Blogstorm is number 1 on Google for the phrase "launching a websiteâ€.
What's more – the link is to an inner page which is highly targeted. Of course, being written by Patrick Altoft, it links to his web design and development company.
So – before I started this article, I knew very little about Blogstorm. Now I know that they are number 1 on Google for a term that is highly targeted to their business.
The article was strong enough to get external backlinks with good anchor text. If I wanted more data, I could go through several thousand anchors, building up a good picture as to how and where Blogstorm was scoring on organic traffic.


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No ad, however, rivals the most bizarre commercial to use the song: A 2007 spot for Yaz birth control.
Like Gates, Zuckerberg has infinite wealth, and he seems monomaniacal in his desire to see Facebook beat back any and all rivals.
One place Apple is expected to outdo its rivals is in music storage.
Recruiting agents from amidst our rivals is the "the Alpha and Beta of espionage," says Weiner.
In keeping with the newly aggressive turn his campaign has taken, he also took the opportunity to criticize his rivals.
And yet we have not clearly distinguished the political shepherd from his rivals.
The Guinea-pigs were not exactly the enemies of the Tadpoles, but the rivals.
For while in treasonable loyalty he had a thousand rivals, on the road he was the first exponent of the grand manner.
Both started together, and both manifesting the spirit of rivals.
Aluminum and copper are rivals as carriers of electrical power, with the advantage at present somewhat in favor of copper.
1570s, from Latin rivalis "a rival, adversary in love; neighbor," originally, "of the same brook," from rivus "brook" (see rivulet). "One who is in pursuit of the same object as another." The sense evolution seems to be based on the competitiveness of neighbors: "one who uses the same stream," or "one on the opposite side of the stream" A secondary sense in Latin and sometimes in English was "associate, companion in duty," from the notion of "one having a common right or privilege with another." As an adjective 1580s from the noun.
c.1600, from rival (n.). Related: Rivaled; rivaling.
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29 Mar Forcing subfolder blogs
Yes, I put this under Hacks, even though technically you're not changing core files.
In certain circumstances - the main one being your blog has been active for more than 30 days - when you try and create a network, you'll receive a message stating that your blog is too old, and you will not get a choice of format. You'll be forced to use subdomains. this is because the subfolder format stuffs a /blog/ in the permalinks on the main site only, to prevent URL collisions with subfolder sites that may be named the same as some pages.
What if this doesn't fit your plans? What if wildcard subdomains are unavailable at your webhost or you're off in a folder?
You can actually change the format. You just need to do it after you create the network. Follow the usual steps as listed in the Create a Network codex page. Once the setup is complete, open up wp-config.php one more time. Find this line:
define( 'SUBDOMAIN_INSTALL', true );
See where it says true? Change it to false. Now you have subfolders. The only other thing to do is go back to the network setup page and grab the new subfolder-specific rewrite rules.
You will still have /blog/ in your permalinks. I'll go over how to remove it (and the hazards) in another post.
I also covered this in my free ebook on how to set up multisite.
Please note that if you have an exisiting network with working, usable subdomain sites, you cannot use this method to convert them to subfolders.


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Shoreditch, London, has long been renowned for it's creative community and it's this innovative culture that has nurtured tech start ups in the capital.
The Shoreditch Tech Scene is vibrant with app and cloud based innovations, and includes the UK Government, Silicon Valley and Google among it's supporters.
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Sep 6, 2013 at 11:27 am
Greater grand forks residents came up a little short of setting a new world record for the largest single serving of French fries last night. Participants gobbled down four-thouand-860 pounds of fries. The all-time high was set two years ago at five-thousand-10 pounds. Scott lund of j-r Simplot says the weather cooperated but the crowd appeared to be somewhat smaller than the one that set the record. The event is held each year as part of the potato bowl festivities.
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A Telecommuting Solution
Wednesday - March 22, 2006
These smiling CTA employees are (from left): Jeff
Burbank, Bert Lee, Dan Marvin, Harriet Bloom and
Mike Meyer
As a business executive with a company based on Oahu, I'm not immune to the traffic travails that our employees cope with on a daily basis. In this instance, we really do feel their pain.
As we enter into the latest round of arguments about mass transit in Hawaii, I have to say I'm getting tired of the same old battles. Having watched this cycle of complaint, accusations, counter-claims and the eternal quest for federal dollars for the last 35 years, I can guarantee that even a trillion-dollar system won't speed up our commute.
A study released by Randal O'Toole of the Cato Foundation shows that total inflation-adjusted subsidies to transit - buses and trains - have more than doubled since 1990, yet total ridership has increased by less than 10 percent. By comparison, urban driving nationally has increased by 42 percent.
This is reflected in Hawaii, too. The whole concept of Kapolei was to create an alternative site to distribute population and work in order to help daily traffic into downtown Honolulu. Now one of the worst traffic areas on the island is (you guessed it) Kapolei. We need to rethink this whole thing before we struggle to squander several hundred million in tax money on another round of failed rail solutions. I believe we have the mass transit solution in hand yet fail to recognize it.
One of the most significant social revolutions that could be spawned by the Internet was recognized in the early 1990s as telecommuting. If most of your work is done on a desktop computer, why not do it from home with high speed Internet connections? Why struggle to get downtown to sit at the same type of computer that you have at home?
The model for this has transformed education in the University of Hawaii system. Almost all UH community college courses are now available online. As a part time faculty member at Leeward Community College, I have been teaching exclusively online since 1998. I don't go to the campus unless there's a special reason.
Neither do my students. Many of them are working mothers with no time to drive to campus for classes. Over the last five years it has become obvious that campus communities are turning virtual and that, maybe, we don't need to drive to class and listen to a canned lecture just so we can drive home again.
Telecommuting isn't a new idea for Hawaii. In 1989 the state funded a 12-month telecommuting demonstration project that showed how it works. Of course the clincher for our community is less roadway congestion, reduced auto emissions and greater economic competitiveness. Telecommuting is already working in Arizona where about 3,400 workers telecommute.
Hawaii has over 70,000 state and county workers making significant impacts on our commuting patterns. If state, county and private employers allowed people to work at home for a few hours each morning it would reduce traffic on H-1 drastically.
For colleges, universities, corporate education and grade schools, the physical classroom is being augmented by virtual classrooms that are more efficient. The same techniques must be applied to private businesses, nonprofit organizations and government.
Interestingly, one of the last disadvantages to working from home is disappearing. Employers used to argue that employees needed to be at the place of business to answer the phone. As more companies install Voice Over IP phone systems the office phone can go home with you.
The answer to our traffic woes does not lie in billion-dollar, make-work subsidies or spiffy new monorail systems. The answer is leveraging the high speed Internet connections that already link our homes and offices to the outside world.
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Sunday, September 9, 2012
Wanna buy some deathsticks?
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I love the design of this place, and I can't wait for more updates! =DReplyDelete
Sounds like a great new blog. I can't wait to see what you have in store :)ReplyDelete
I'm going to be glad to interact with you :) You seem like my type of person- A star wars fan who likes photoshop (yes, there are plenty of artworks in my blog) and loves reading (I have read well over a hundred too :D) Nice to meet you, can't wait to see what you have in store!ReplyDelete
Your blog looks great dude. And you have many of the same interests as I do like Star Wars, LEGO, superheroes, and movies.ReplyDelete
I really like the name of your blog and post. The "Wanna buy some deathsticks?" scene in Ep. II has always been my favorite scene from Attack of the Clones. Looking forward to more posts, definitely going to checking back here.
Thanks for following my blog, guys!ReplyDelete
The whole Zam Wessel chase sequence into the Outlander Club is my favorite scene in the entire prequel trilogy. Hence, I chose it as my blog title.
Mesa loves Star Wars, too!! Thanks for making another awesome blog about Star Wars!ReplyDelete
My favorite scene in the prequels was probably the fight scene between Jango and Obi-Wan, or the epic battle between Vader and Obi-Wan on Mustafar.ReplyDelete
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With less than two weeks to go until the NFL playoff field is finalized, only four of the 12 contenders had punched their postseason ticket.
Twenty teams will still be alive for the playoff mix next week when the NFL enters its penultimate regular-season weekend. In are the 12-2 New England Patriots, the 12-2 Atlanta Falcons, 10-4 Chicago Bears and the 10-4 Pittsburgh Steelers, who clinched on Sunday via obscure tiebreakers despite losing to the New York Jets.
The number of clinched teams trails the six teams that had qualified for the playoffs at the same point last season.
Only three teams were eliminated on Sunday. The Bears' win on Monday marked the first division title that was awarded, and only two other division leaders had a lead of more than one game.
NFL STANDINGS: See how the teams stack up
Helping to keep so many teams in contention has been the lack of runaway teams in several divisions:
-- AFC South: The Indianapolis Colts' record streak of seven straight years with at least 12 wins was broken this season. But Colts QB Peyton Manning staved off elimination from the division race on Sunday when he led a 34-24 win against Jacksonville. The Colts and Jaguars -- who could have clinched the AFC South title with a win -- are now tied at 8-6, with the 6-8 Tennessee Titans still alive.
-- AFC West: The Kansas City Chiefs maintained a one-game edge in the division with a 27-13 win in St. Louis on Sunday. But the San Diego Chargers (who have rallied to 8-6 from a 2-5 start) and the Oakland Raiders (at 7-7) remain in the hunt.
-- NFC West: Unquestionably the NFL's worst division, the St. Louis Rams and Seattle Seahawks share first place at 6-8. The San Francisco 49ers are just a game back at 5-9, and would win the division on a tiebreaker if first place goes to a 7-9 team. It wasn't until Sunday that the 4-10 Arizona Cardinals were eliminated from a race that could produce the NFL's first-ever division winner with a sub-.500 record.
Whatever the record, Rams coach Steve Spagnuolo said he knows his team has a chance to get to the Super Bowl.
"Until they tell us that we're not in, we're still fighting to get in there," Spagnuolo said. "And if we happen to get in there, to me it won't matter what the record is.
"It doesn't matter how you get in. It doesn't matter if you're a wild card or if you're a divisional winner, if you're in, you've got a chance to win it all."
The lack of clarity to the playoff field has heightened the importance of the NFL's final two weeks -- when 20 of the 32 games will be intra-division matchups.
Several teams will have win-and-clinch scenarios next week, including the 10-4 Baltimore Ravens, the 10-4 New York Jets, the 10-4 New Orleans Saints and the New York Giants (9-5).
The Giants missed a chance to move ahead when they squandered a 21-point, fourth-quarter comeback on Sunday in a 38-31 loss to the Philadelphia Eagles (10-4). But S Antrel Rolle defiantly said it would not stop the Giants from clinching a playoff berth.
"I don't think. I know it," Rolle said of earning a playoff berth that could come as early as Sunday with a win against the Packers. "Because that's what going to happen."
-- Sean Leahy
Nate Davis is a reporter, blogger and editor who's been at USA TODAY since 2000. He has covered the NFL since 2005. No, he did not play quarterback for Ball State. Davis' succession of our esteemed colleague Sean Leahy at The Huddle is considered a Brady-for-Bledsoe swap by most "insiders."More about Nate


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Highlights of Commissioners' Meeting of July 12, 2004
Peggy M Reeves
Board Highlights
Approved minutes of the June 21, 2004, meeting.
Recognized Mrs. Ruth Holleman, retiring chairperson of the Wake County Library Commission, for her service as an advocate for libraries in Wake County.
Received the 2004 Charles L. Edson Tax Credit Excellence Award for the Lennox Chase apartment complex. The Affordable Housing Tax Credit Coalition is a national nonprofit corporation whose membership includes developers, syndicators, lenders, nonprofit groups, public agencies and others concerned with the low-income housing tax credit. Each year, the Coalition selects only one special-needs housing development in the nation for this award.
Approved by consent all agenda items as follows:
Award of a construction contract in the amount of $606,830.00 to Centurion Construction Company, Inc., of Raleigh, NC, for renovations to the 11th floor of the courthouse. On June 3, 2004, bids for construction were received from contractors for the project in accordance with N.C. General Statutes. Sufficient funds are included in the Board-approved Capital Improvement Program (CIP).
Authorization for the County Manager to transfer the capital budget for certain Emergency Medical Services (EMS) projects (totaling $795,756) from the Fire/EMS element of the County Capital Projects Fund to the County Buildings element of the same fund. A transfer of funds is necessary to align prior projects with the manner in which they are budgeted in the FY 2005-2011 CIP.
A resolution closing three capital projects and reallocating funds to a remaining project for Wake Technical Community College Capital Projects.
The exchange of approximately 8.352 acres owned by Wake County for approximately 20.498 acres owned by Betty Penny and payment in the amount of $75,581 as additional compensation to facilitate an equitable exchange. Authorized the County Manager to execute a contract on behalf of Wake County for the exchange of this property. The exchange was at the site of the proposed Little River Reservoir Project.
The exchange of approximately 1.0 acre owned by Wake County for approximately 1.0 acre owned by Leslie A. Pearce. The exchange was portion of the Hartsfield-Price-Perry Farm needed for the Wake County Open Space Preservation Program.
Tax Committee recommendations for value adjustments, late-filed applications, collections refunds and tax collections report.
Acted on these items under the regular agenda:
Approved a $25,000 grant request from the Town of Garner's Centennial Celebration Committee to support events planned over the next ten months to the Town's 100th birthday on April 6, 2005.
Held a public hearing and approved the requested Extra-Territorial Jurisdiction (ETJ) area submitted by the Town of Rolesville for the area to the south and west of its planning jurisdiction, an area that totals 2,444 acres. All of Rolesville's requested ETJ area is situated in its short-range and long-range urban services areas; it remains outside of the Little River Water Supply Watershed area that is under the County's jurisdiction.
Held a public hearing and adopted a resolution amending the General Classifications Map of the Wake County Land Use Plan. The approval included the following five changes to the Wake County Land Use Plan:
Move the boundary between Cary's Long-Range Urban Services Area and Short-Range Urban Services Area in order to follow property lines or rights-of-way in the vicinity of White Oak Church Road south of Green Level Church Road and north of Green Level West Road.
Change the area shown as unresolved urban services area on the current Wake County Land Use Plan General Classifications Map between Holly Springs and Cary and designate it as Holly Springs Short-Range Urban Services Area.
Designate as Fuquay-Varina's Short-Range Urban Services Area the area identified as Planned Growth Areas on the Fuquay-Varina portion of the Fuquay-Varina/Garner Area Land Use Plan.
Designate as Zebulon's Short-Range Urban Services Area the area to the north of Proctor Road, east of NC 96, south of Pippin and Debnam roads, and west of the Wake County line.
Classify the area bounded by Poole Road, Martin Pond Road, the existing Wendell Short-Range Urban Services Area and Richardson Road as Wendell's Short-Range Urban Services Area.
Approved an interlocal agreement for land acquisition for West Regional Wastewater Facilities. The interlocal agreement will include the following municipal partners: The towns of Apex, Cary, Holly Springs and Morrisville. This agreement works toward the goal established in 1998 by the Board-appointed Water and Sewer Task Force to "develop a single water and sewer utility system in Wake County by the year 2015."
Awarded a construction contract for Phase II of the American Tobacco Trail to Central Builders, Inc., of Rocky Mount in the amount of $477,477. The proposed American Tobacco Trail is the conversion of an abandoned railroad corridor into a multi-use trail that will accommodate hikers, cyclists and equestrians. The construction contract for Phase II includes 1.75 miles of trail from Wimberly Road to White Oak Church Road and a trailhead at White Oak Church Road, and also includes the construction of two restrooms.
Adopted the Wake County Juvenile Crime Prevention Council (JCPC) Annual Plan. The annual plan is prepared by the local JCPC and includes results from its community needs assessment, resource assessment, priority strategies/outcomes and funding recommendations. For FY 2004-05, Wake County will receive $1,197,115 in state funds from the NC Department of Justice Juvenile Delinquency Program. The local match requirement (30%) has been identified by each program as well as by the Human Services Department. Both the match money and state revenues have already been included in the County fiscal year 2005 budget. No new County positions will be created by these funds.
Approved the HOME Consortium Agreement and authorized the Board Chairman to sign the agreement contingent upon approval by the Cary Town Council. On July 1, 2004, the Town of Cary became a Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) entitlement community. Because Cary's population is no longer included in the base for Wake County's entitlement grants, the County's HOME grant was reduced by $185,000. HOME regulations allow Wake County to recapture this money by entering into a Consortium agreement with the Town of Cary. The Cary Town Council will be considering this item on July 15. This agreement must also be approved by the NC Housing Finance Agency
Approved the receipt of funds from the State Board of Elections in the amount of $103,197 toward the cost of improvements necessary in the public facilities used as polling places. The Board also approved the appropriate budget revision. Acceptance of the grant does not require the County to provide matching funds.
Approved resolutions approving the advertising and filing of an application with the Local Government Commission for up to $26,000,000 Open Space Bonds and $40,000,000 Wake Technical Community College Bonds. This process will require approval of two additional resolutions at the August 2nd and August 16th meetings. The August 2nd meeting will request approval of a resolution to introduce the bond order and set the public hearing date. The August 16th meeting will request adoption of the bond order and approve a resolution calling for a bond referendum.
Appointed Commissioner Betty Lou Ward as the representative to vote for Wake County at the NACo Annual Conference July 16-20. Also appointed Commissioner Phil Jeffreys as the representative to vote for Wake County at the NC Association of County Commissioners Annual Conference August 19-22.
Made appointments to various boards, commissions and committees.
Approved and authorized staff to proceed with the following acquisition to support the development of the South East Wake County Park: approximately 31.03 acres owned by Arthur L. and Betty P. Medlin at a purchase price of $162,000. As a part of the consideration for the purchase of this property, the County agrees to lease the property back to the Seller for farming and agricultural purposes at no cost for a period of five years.
Approved and authorized staff to proceed with the following acquisition as a part of the Wake County Open Space Preservation Program: an agreement in an amount not-to-exceed $1,512,500 with the NC Division of Forest Resources for the purchase of approximately 253 acres from Jerrod J. Watson for purposes of expanding Clemmons Educational State Forest.
Authorized staff to proceed with the following acquisitions to support the development of the Little River Reservoir Project: 8.982 acres owned by Bridges Span, Inc., at a purchase price of $70,000.
Authorized the County Manager to execute contracts on behalf of Wake County for the purchase of the above property.


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trajectory/a pattern language
A copy of 'A Pattern Language', folded acrylic, folded mirror acrylic,
a stack of Irish interior design magazines which were published in the same month as the show.
This piece was installed in artist David Beattie's house as part of the group exhibition
, which was in turn part of the
House Projects
series of shows.
Two pieces of folded acrylic were held in place on a shelf by a stack of Irish interior design magazines, all of which were published in the same month as the show. The upper clear piece supported a copy of the book
A Pattern Language
, open at a page which discusses shelving. The lower reflective piece allowed the viewer to see the cover of the book and themselves as they read it.
trajectory/a pattern language
was made at the height of The Celtic Tiger, Ireland's economic boom. David's apartment was part of an older Georgian building which had been divided up to house multiple tenants, the standard approach to creating flats/apartments in Dublin, in the pre-boom period. The kitchen/living-room shelving had been constructed from scratch using timber, which had then been hand painted, standing in stark contrast to the slick hotel-like spaces being promoted in the magazines, but strangely coincident with the approach described in Christopher Alexander's text.
was curated by David Beattie and took place in September 2007.
Image courtesy
Ros Kavanagh Photographer


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Chris Matthews just can't make up his mind about Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tx.).
After telling MSNBC's Morning Joe crew last week that the Texas Tea Partier is "a problem for our republic," Matthews on Tuesday said, "I think Ted Cruz is brilliant. I think the President's met his match in this guy" (video follows with transcript and commentary):
CHRIS MATTHEWS: I think Ted Cruz is brilliant. I think the President's met his match in this guy. He set this thing up months ago with no budget agreement, therefore no appropriations, therefore the government would be completely exposed this morning at midnight last night to go to, to completely shut down. So he knows what he's doing. And it's about the baby, Obama's baby. And you can't cut the baby in half. We learned that in Solomon. And they keep saying, "Please negotiate your baby. Please help us take it apart."
So which is he - a problem for our republic or a brilliant guy that's Obama's match?
I guess with Matthews it depends on what direction the wind's blowing.


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The new series of the enduring hit sci-fi TV series Star Trek, Enterprise, has begun in the UK.Disclaimer: The BBC will put up as many of your comments as possible but we cannot guarantee that all e-mails will be published. The BBC reserves the right to edit comments that are published.
The BBC's Peter Bowes says: "It is debatable whether it was a bold move for the Star Trek franchise to jump on the prequel bandwagon.
"Certainly there are many questions to be answered about the decades that preceded the adventures of Kirk, Spock and company.
"However, some fans may be disappointed by the emphasis on fast action rather than intellectual depth."
But what do you think? Is the Star Trek prequel series a bold and refreshing step from its makers? Or should they have stuck to the original winning formula?
A good solid performance for the first time out, particularly enjoyable was the way the crew were discovering how their new "toys" worked in the field. "Neptune and back in six minutes" and "stun works" highligted this. It has an appalling theme song though. What happened to the enjoyable and superb orchestral pieces we've had before?
I think the new series is pretty cool, but still focuses more on "do the right thing" and peace before death, rather than the good old sci-fi shoot 'em up we all want and need.
On the whole I thought it was a good start to the series. It was always going to be very difficult to make as we know what actually happens later on in the Star Trek universe which is something the other series didn't have to do.
I was particularly impressed with the way they made the interior of the Enterprise look modern but still look as though it pre-dates the first Star Trek series.
In response to Peter Bowes's comments: "First episodes of the various Star Trek incarnations are rarely the best of the series", I feel intellectual depth plays second fiddle to trying to introduce the new faces; after all, the popularity of the crew is as vital to the show's success as the storylines.
I thought episode one struck a nice balance between the story and the references to keep the die-hard Trekkies happy: Klingons, Vulcans, Cochrane etc. But the last line was as corny as hell: "We mustn't be afraid of the wind." That's the kind of cheese that puts off people who were put off Star Trek in the 60s by William Shatner's ridiculous posturing.
Clive, Dorset, UK
Do you remember the Next Generation pilot, terrible wasn't it? Compare this to Enterprise pilot, wow, great start.
Star Trek is the only series I can be bothered to watch on the rare occasions I am in front of the TV. Star Trek was deep, dealing with many cross-cultural issues and even historically relevant. Star Trek's last series was free from nudity and sexual innuendo, which made it refreshing and intellectually stimulating. The new series needs some getting used to. I also don't like the constant sexual undertone. I guess I just miss the old crew too much.
I've been watching the show for a couple of months now and have been loving every minute of it. I love how it ties in with the original series.
Quite impressed with the first episode, but I think they need to work on the theme tune - bit cheesy!
Good start, let's hope it gets better and better.
Gary Stevenson, England
I thought it was great, it showed the human feelings of outsiders very well, and that we can learn to take advice from others, if only grudgingly.
It's the best Star Trek pilot I have seen, but I agree with Jon that the music just isn't right.
A very good start - Bakula brings a little of Sam Beckett from Quantum Leap to the role of Capt Archer, which is a good thing.
I like the new crew, but the ship looks a little too modern.
Dodgy theme tune but great graphics on the opening sequence.
Can't wait for next episode though.
A solid start.
I believe that the first episode of Enterprise showed a lot of promise. The crew are inexperienced in space travel and it was refreshing to see them squabble and look lost. There is a lot of room for character/friendship development and the look of the show is more utilitarian. I think many Sky viewers will be tuning in to this each week, even my wife enjoyed it! One more reason to turn over from BBC!
I felt the decontamination scene where two scantily clad members of the crew rubbed gel into each other, was somewhat gratuitous, and completely unneccessary as far as the plot was concerned. I'm all for the series dealing with mature issues, but this was just Baywatch in space, I half expected Pamela Anderson to come jogging past in her bathing suit.
I was prejudiced against TNG, Voyager and DS9 before watching them as I thought they were leeching off a legend. After watching them I rated them as highly as the original. No prejudice this time and I was riveted from the start to the finish of Enterprise. Given the rich characters and themes already created from the earlier versions, it would be difficult to make a hash of it.
David, UK
A great start though having a theme song rather than a theme tune will take a hell of a lot of getting used to.
There is a good balance between humour, action and storylines. Of all the series this is probably the best pilot episode. Let's hope the rest of the season lives up to the start.
The opening titles seem to represent humanity's first steps into space but I didn't see a single reference to Russian achievements. This is strange considering they were first in space.
That scene in the decontamination chamber seemed to copy from cheap soft-porn films.
This is exactly the progression I've been waiting for with Star Trek. It's good to see some of the "holier than thou" aspect toned down.
Perhaps my main criticism is that the crew appeared to take remarkably well to a series of events which must have been far beyond their personal experience.
It was distinctly average except for the theme tune, which was awfully amusing, won't last until the next season I'm sure, I hope. I also think it is interesting how nearly all women in Star Trek seem to be large bosomed, even shape shifting aliens, doubtless there is a pseudo scientific reason for it. Oh, and that scene with the decontaminating gel was pathetic, the most blatant flesh revealing piece of television I have ever seen, a cheap porn flick would have been embarrassed. How I laughed.
Viv, UK
Things looked promising at the start.....and then the title music started! Here we have a group of intrepid explorers who are about to explore uncharted regions of space and tackle the various dangers that may beset them and they're doing it to the theme from Howard's Way. Well, not quite but you know what I mean. Motorhead may have been more appropriate Paramount. Other than that it wasn't half bad for a pilot. Nice to see the guy from Desmond's in the new series. A cameo by Porkpie would be nice. "Yah..."
Disappointing Star Trek spinoff, which hardly brought anything new to the genre, and failed to capitalise on the historical aspects that could have brought so much depth to the series. It's a real shame considering that the last ten years have brought so much in the way of innovation and ingenuity to TV sci-fi. We all got together and sat down to watch a landmark that turned out to be a huge turkey.
I've been watching this for quite a few episodes now, and personally feel its the best in the series. The crew feel real, the ships interior seems plausible and the storylines are great. And Scott Bakula is a great first captain.
A great start but please change the theme song and get rid of the sex (it's not necessary) and we'll be there!
Very poor. The pioneering spirit is what they are after in this series, morons in space is what they have achieved. Picard is the ultimate example of how a Captain looks and acts, this new crew and its officers have the look and feel of first year sailors on shore leave. The basic idea is excellent, the effects are good, even the basic plots work, but please stop making the humans look like morons.
Doug Futers, UK
Following such all time favourites as Star Trek and Next Generation, it was always going to be very difficult to live up to everyone's expectations but I think the producers did very well. I agree that the intellectual side need to continue to be explored but using the pilot as a history lesson might have killed the show off at the outset. However the mixture of action and tantalising glimpses of the recent past (i.e. our near future) was just right. A very good start.
It took a moment to overcome the urge to throw up after hearing the theme song, but it was worth it. The best of Star Trek pilots so far and very promising. I am looking forward to the next episodes!
Maybe I was expecting to much from this. It was terrible!
The acting was wooden, the vulcan wasn't logical - more snide.
The theme song? The less said the better and finally how come all the technology looked more modern than the stuff in the original Star Trek? This was set before it yet it looked like they had better stuff.
Overall, a waste of two hours.
Just saw the first two episodes - wow! Finally a Star Trek with pizzaz; still has all the ingredients of the original, but done with flair.
Greg Bengtson, UK
It certainly looked as though there could be some promising storylines in the future, especially if they concentrate on relations between the species and the various possible conspiracies. Hopefully it won't become a succession of boring punch ups and trite "love" scenes.
My favourite piece of last night's new Star Trek Enterprise series (and I bet missed by the majority of fans) was the minature half llama/half robo-clone played by none other than William Shatner! Fleeting glance towards the camera (proton-blink and your pattern buffer will keel over and whimper like a Remmington fuzz away zap gun). Enjoyable all the same - roll on episdoe 2 - and who's to say we actually need girlfriends?!
I have seen the first 5 episodes and I think it is the best start to a Star Trek series so far! The theme music takes a lot of getting used to though.
It is just great. Has lots of stories and slowly releases the past. But I do feel that casting could have been better.
As a huge fan of the orginal series which was fast paced with action I believe the new episodes will recapure audiences lost when the modern series writers became too interested in intellectual depth and less in action.
Mark, UK
Enjoyable and left me wanting more. Yes, the theme tune is a bit naff but the end piece made up for it.
If you work in a submarine, boat etc., then you are going to get scenes of a"sexual nature", come on guys, it happens in real life!
How can you make a series look older than the 30-year old original?
My only problem is that it clashes with Monday night football (argh!)
Being an avid hater of all things Star Trek, life has never been easy for me living with a girlfriend whose life revolves around some bland spaceship and cardboard acting, boring plots and pathetic story lines, but, and this even my girlfriend can't believe, I actually really enjoyed the first programme of the new series. I may even sit and watch some more episodes!
Not bad at all!
I'm an avid fan, but see no point in going back to before Kirk etc. It's the future we're interested in.
TNG and Voyager by far the best, but Voyager should go on for years, it's fantastic and the crew are the best by far, although Picard and crew are also missed.
Yummy. Scott Bakula back on the telly. What more could a girl ask for? Then there's the added bonus of a good show with a lot of potential to entertain. Maybe the theme is a little cheesy, but there's no reason why what follows it shouldn't be good. I can see there being a few good storylines and some excellent character development as well. And all this from a girl who hates Star Trek, what is the world coming to?
Really disappointed.
What utter cheesy cornball dialect. The characters are so predictable and shallow, in all the other series there has never been a captain like this. He looks more at home in something like Cheers.
Must do better.
Leeann, Canada
I thought this was one of the best Star Trek pilots I have seen. I particularly enjoyed Scott Bakula's performance. He has the right balance of authority and understanding. Can't wait for next week!
I was quite wary to begin with; I tend to think spin-offs are a bit tepid when compared to the originals. However, I was quite impressed by last night's pilot episode, the overall feel was cleverly nostalgic - I enjoyed the very basic bridge on the Enterprise, and the simplistic weapons. A couple of problems though - I thought the Enterprise itself looked too modern on the outside, and seemed to resemble the ship used in the Voyager series more than it did the one featured in the original series. The other problem is that I fancy the Vulcan Subcommander T'Pol to the point of distraction, which puts me off the plot.
Very definitely a slow start... I've been looking forward to this for months, but I was a little disappointed. The cast seemed too small. A lot of it was not that believable - the idea that the very first phasor happened to be invented just in time for the first (unexpected) mission, and that the captain should have never seen one until he needed to use one. Too much of what someone already called the "do the right thing" attitude that's patronising and cringeworthy - it might appeal to the wholesome all-American audience but here it's painful to watch. And the sex? OK, I know the original series was nothing but sex and violence, but surely we can enjoy a sci-fi programme without being subjected to tight blue underpants at every turn!
But there was one good plus point, in the character development. The tension between the vulcan and the humans was very well done, but it was rather sad to see it almost evaporate in a single episode. It seems unlikely that they can successfully resurrect that important dimension now that they're all best of mates.
I'll be watching some more - I'm sure they'll get better - but for now I'll feel that it was a wasted two hours of opportunity to really get things going!
Reasonable plot, plenty of cheesy lines and a leading lady to rival seven of nine! Far superior to the Next Gen pilot, but what on earth were they thinking of with the theme tune? Sounded more like Dukes of Hazard than the atmospheric classical pieces we've become accustomed to, tut tut.
I had been looking forward to this new series for quite some time and it hasn't failed to impress. Highlights from the first episode include the captain saying he won't use the transporter to rescue the Klingon because he "doesn't want to return him to his home inside out." Lots of subtle humour, a tight script and excellent effects made for a good first time out.
I just wish they would get rid of that absolutely awful theme song!
I thought this was a superb pilot, and I did enjoy Diane Warren's theme tune. Is there anything she doesn't write? I look forward to more starefleet development and understanding how Kirk and Picard went where no-one went before.
A tired script, no tension, apart from the cheap and simplistic effort to bring sex to the fore with the rubbing of the gel on the body scene. One sulky sexy Vulcan does not make a series. But I suppose it does appeal to the pubescent teenage boys who are the majority viewers of this kind of TV.
Excellent start to the much hyped series. I think it struck a good blend of action and technical information, with something for the men and the ladies to enjoy! I thought the producers have made a fantastic job of making the programme more up to date with a more relaxed attitude but still in keeping with the prequel concept.
The crew is portrayed as a bunch of buffoons. I've quit watching it, although I've been a Trek fan ever since the original series appeared on TV. STNG was the best of the lot.
Having watched the pilot last night, it wasn't bad compared to previous pilots. The real test will be in how long it takes to get going. Previous Startreks have gone to the fourth series before reaching their best quality, with weak early series.
My biggest gripe has to be with the teen-soap style theme music, and the whole new style titles. Change the title, start with a high quality series and good storylines and they probably have another winner.
I have been following the show since it was released here in the USA. It took several weeks and some repeats but it has grown on me and I think it is an excellent series. The designers have managed to integrate pre-Kirk/Original Series Star Trek Technologies with our modern expectations of future technology without straying too far from the original design. For example, communicators have the familiar call sound, the bridge sensor arrays have vision ports without creating a dated 'Rocketeer' type of look.
I like Enterprise and eagerly await each new episode and watch the Saturday night re-runs.
It wasn't the greatest trek episode by far, but I think that there is a lot of promise there. If they can keep the Klingons in the story line then this could be a lot better than the disappointing Voyager.
Thoroughly enjoyed the first episode and it was a well-worked change from the usual Star Trek stuff. Scott Bakula doesn't quite have the character down yet but there's plenty of potential there. The only downside is the crew seemed a bit uninteresting and that could possibly do with tweaking a bit. Hated the new theme tune though!
The show is exactly where it should be. It's not trying to be an exact replica of the other shows that fuzz together like deep space, blah, blah. This new series has more humour, better graphics, and Scott Bakula who is great in the role. I'm very glad they didn't try to be another Deep Space 9 or Voyager.
I've been a Star Trek fan for about 27 years, (not the sad kind who dresses up in costumes and attend conventions) and I enjoyed the first episode of the new series, it shows potential. However what where they thinking about with that new theme tune, it is like a really bad Rod Stewrt record! They should have stuck with an instrumental theme like all the series before it.
Utter rubbish, acting was wooden and the cheesy fist fights are back. Not only that but the aliens cannot shoot straight as usual .....
I am very impressed with how enjoyable all the new episodes I have seen so far (three), and am delighted that it has been diverted from the Voyager format. There is also some really great humour in it also. A great step forward for Star Trek, well done. I am a committed Enterprise fan now.
I'm ambivalent about the new series. So far, it does lack depth and the action is pretty predictable. The acting is good, as are the production values; it's just the writing that's suffering. It's as if the producers don't want to take any chances with the series despite it's enormous potential in terms of creating an interesting history for the Star Trek story.
I have learned to enjoy this new Star Trek series. Of course I have been able to watch this new show for some weeks now in the USA. I have been pleased with the plots and do think there is intellectual content in the series. It is refreshing to have a series were the heroes are learning how to be heroes and not born to the job. In some ways the crew of this Star Trek future is closer to modern humans in the sense of wonder and excitement of new discovery.
A lot of comments seem to have a go at the show because it looks more modern than the original. Get real folks, my PC looks more modern than the original, it would simply be impossible to produce a show that was even remotely plausible whilst looking older than the original.
After reading much negative publicity I wasn't expecting much. In the event I thought it was great. It is difficult to give historical background and get a story going at the same time but I thought they did well for the first show. I'm looking forward to the next. But that theme tune!?
I agree with everybody about the theme tune, but otherwise I thoroughly enjoyed the show. I do hope we see some more crew members though as it might be hard to scour the heavens with only seven people piloting such a large craft.
You cannot improve on the original. Keep it as it is.
Like many viewers I eagerly awaited the new series. And in many respects I have not been disapppointed. Although the prequel concept can be limiting, there is already the suggestion that temporal issues might resolve some of these limitations. However, some of the writing has been terrible, some episodes seem to have existed purely for character development, with their plotlines suffering. Assuming they can resist this urge to "make" the characters meaningful to us, and instead allow the characters to grow naturally, then the series will live up to its promise.
I thought the new series was great, after the months of agonising waiting it was finally here, and it lived up to my very high expectations of it. I think looking at the foundation of the federation and starfleet and how they formed will be an intersting ride. I cant wait for the next episode!
I liked the first installment of Enterprise, a bit of humour never goes amiss and as a first episode, it was quite good. I thought the balance between making the ship and equipment look pre-original and yet new was well done but that song - yikes.
Having looked forward to the new Enterprise series for some time now I feel that my anticipation was completely unjustified. I switched off three-quarters of the way through as I was left completely numb. I�m sure it will still prove popular with Trek enthusiasts who can�t get enough of the type of mind numbing drivel. It�s sad to see such an accomplished actor as Scot Baluka in this type of role.
His performances in Quantum Leap prove that he is capable of better things than this.
Why are there new races? Are we to believe they were wiped out before Kirk et al and then never mentioned? It seemed to me that the crew were all a bit dim, especially the guy who amusingly crashes every ship he flies. All in all it could have been a lot better but it was pretty good if you suspend your disbelief, I just wish I could do the same with the theme tune.
Well, I guess Voyager's status as the best Trek series so far hasn't been challenged yet.
Taken as a whole, though, this wasn't a bad start. Some of the scripting was terrible, and Rick Berman's prediliction for schmaltzy American cheese was too much in evidence, but the acting's okay, and the "temporal cold war" could prove interesting.
The sexual dimension was overplayed and gratuitous, but at least it was balanced: the men and the women were equally exploited.
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