text: It's unlike John Le Carré, the current master of the Graham Greene-esque world-weary spy novel, to bang out a quickie. Although his last book, The Constant Gardener, appeared in late 2000, he clearly hasn't been working on Absolute Friends ever since: It takes place in 2003, after the invasion of Iraq, and its entire reason for existing is Le Carré's obvious outrage at American imperialism. Perhaps the elaborate and engrossing backstory of hero Ted Mundy, told in flashback in the book's first half, was already lying on his desk in March 2003, ready to be reset into an opportunistic polemic, and the rest of the novel was composed in a furious burst. Mundy is a child of colonialism, born in Pakistan just after the Partition, raised on his disgraced soldier father's lyrical odes to his absent mother. Turned on to German literature by a British teacher, Mundy heads to Berlin for study in the turbulent '60s and meets Sasha, his lifelong friend and alter ego, a charismatic, crippled radical intent on raising the consciousness of the German populace and bringing about the socialist revolution. When Mundy is deported after a demonstration-turned-riot, he settles down in London with a wife and a respectable job helping artists arrange cultural exchanges on the Continent. But on a fateful swing through Eastern Europe with a drama troupe, he encounters Sasha, now a double agent embedded in the East German Stasi, and he's recruited as a double agent himself. The two pursue the espionage game until the Berlin Wall falls, at which point there's suddenly no point to Cold War spycraft. Now, in 2003, Mundy has lost his British wife and child, thanks to the duplicity that was thrust upon him, and he's starting over as a Heidelberg tour guide with a Muslim common-law wife and son. When Sasha suddenly resurfaces with a plan to oppose the American-British foreign policy of pre-emptive strikes and unilateral regime change, Mundy is once again caught up in the futile madness of a pawn's life. No one can fault Le Carré's attention to detail: His characters' words and settings are as carefully drawn as ever. The book's rushed, passionate feeling stems as much from the whirlwind in which Mundy constantly finds himself–he's always being called to the barricades for some ideal or ideology which, for him, never runs any deeper than his desire for human contact–as from Le Carré's own haste. While Absolute Friends makes for a compelling read, it leaves a bit of a sour taste in the mouth, as the inevitable sacrifice and ignominity that is the fate of all pawns catches up to Mundy, and as Le Carré abandons his characters in favor of his larger jeremiad against all things Bush and Blair. But even at his most strident, Le Carré's frustration and despair are refreshingly robust, poking up jaggedly right on the surface. As was the case around the world on Sept. 11, sharing that emotion can feel more real and more unifying, at least in the moment, than analyzing, planning, or even dissenting. And with Le Carré's undeniable gift for a story, the passion of the moment is worth the bitter dregs that follow.


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This article was published 11/1/2013 (1680 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
Jets offer compensation
Re: Jets' website posting doesn't cut it with fans (Jan. 8). The season-ticket holder in your story is mistaken when he states that no monetary compensation was offered to season ticket holders to make amends for missed games.
In fact, two different options where advanced by management. Those ticket holders who kept their balance with True North were offered a three per cent annual rate (simple interest) on the total account value from the date of the first cancelled pre-season game.
Fans who chose to have their money refunded on a game-by-game basis received one per cent (again, simple interest) on the total remaining account balance from the date of the first cancellation.
A quick scan of current government and corporate bond yields shows that the True North offers are smack in line with returns offered by the market.
Of course, this return is in addition to the application of the value of missed games to next year's ticket costs and the savings on concessions and parking resulting from those missed games.
Why do Chris Shinnimin and others feel entitled to "an apology" or "monetary remuneration" from True North for the "frustration" caused by the lockout?
NHL hockey is a commodity like all others. If your preferred entertainment product is not available, spend your time and money on some other form of diversion.
Now that hockey is back, I plan on cheering the Jets from my seat whether or not True North gives me anything at all, and I won't resent them for it.
I can't for the life of me understand why Jets management should apologize for the NHL lockout or somehow provide compensation to negate the bitterness of some fans.
This is a sterling management that puts character and community contribution up there with winning, and don't forget it's also the management that retained all regular staff during the dispute.
And whom did the NHL call on when it wanted an owner of integrity to negotiate with the players? Owner Mark Chipman. And who apologized publicly (something he didn't have to do) when he and a few like-minded others failed? Same guy.
Maybe fans who need to get rid of their bile should find another way. What about two eight-by-10s of Don Fehr and Gary Bettman and a dartboard?
Thank you, Gary Lawless and Troy Westwood, for providing the minority voices of sanity during the lockout.
This was simply a business negotiation. There is no partnership between owners and players. Billionaires versus millionaires may be true, but it is totally irrelevant -- unless you are naive enough to believe that a wealthy owner will keep pouring that wealth down a bottomless hole of hockey-team losses.
With a low cap and a higher revenue share for owners, teams like the Jets can compete on a more equal footing for higher-calibre players. We can now hope for a highly competitive team rather than one with virtually no chance to challenge for the Stanley Cup.
The last version of the Jets left because of the uncontrolled player-salary situation that existed at the time. No matter how much money potential owners could have come up with, it could never overcome projections of continuing losses driven by rampantly escalating player compensation. Hopefully that time is past. In the real world, the best deal for owners was always going to be the best deal for fans.
I'm slightly bewildered at the flurry of letters filling these pages wherein some fans of NHL hockey complain endlessly about the nasty owners and players and how retribution is in order. The reality is that neither of these two groups owe you anything. They organize and package entertainment product, and people pay money to watch.
If you feel the need to boycott or refrain from cheering, there are plenty of others who'll fill your seat or break the silence. The fact that dedicated fans stood by waiting for any glimmer of hope is testimony to the quality of the product and the size of the media machine used to promote the sport.
St. Adolphe
A necessary pursuit
Re: Two laws, but one resource to hunt (Jan. 7). For the most part, treaty Indians harvest animals and fish for subsistence or to supplement their diet. In most remote First Nations reserves, supermarket chains don't exist, and so reliance on ancient pursuits are essential for daily caloric requirements.
The idea of killing animals for sport is repulsive to many indigenous peoples throughout the world. Sport hunting is symptomatic of western man's world view of the Earth as a "resource" for exploitation.
Paul Turenne is right to encourage the conservation of Manitoba's animal and fish population for future use. In my opinion, the real threats to sustainable animal population numbers are the mountain pine beetle and the algae blooms in Manitoba waters due to modern industry. Another potential threat are invasive species such as the Asian carp and zebra mussel in Manitoba waters.
If we don't tackle these real threats to the ecosystem instead of scoring cheap political points by using outmoded ideas such as "race" and "blood," then the question of harvesting rights will be moot.
Sagkeeng First Nation
The value of a life
Your Jan. 5 article Right-to-die ruling dated, plaintiffs say points out that the Harper government takes the position that "any form of suicide would demean the value of life."
Would an individual who is forced to live in excruciating physical and psychological agony place a high value or a low value on such a life? I would guess that the "value" of such an existence would depend on the level of torture as well as the individual's ability to tolerate such torture on a 24/7 basis. And there are times when the level of such torture may reach a breaking point, a point when that person's valuation of his or her life approaches zero.
An individual's choice to end such a life does not in any way demean the high value that person placed on his or her life prior to the life of torture. Rather, it elevates that portion of that individual's life that had true meaning, and acknowledges that it no longer exists.
It would seem that the Harper government has it backwards; that is, a law allowing the right to die would elevate the value of life and place the value of death where it belongs, at zero. It's the torture that demeans life, not the ending of it.
Closure length shocking
Re: Sanitary issues shut eateries (Jan. 9). Even more shocking than the incidence of mice or rodent infestation and the absence of sanitary conditions -- described by provincial inspectors as filthy -- is the brevity of the closures that presumably were ordered to remedy and largely eliminate the public health hazard.
Can a restaurant really solve the problem of a rodent or mouse infestation, or address the issue of preparing and serving food to unsuspecting customers, in one to three days? Would the inspectors risk a meal there for themselves and their loved ones after this brief period?


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WASPS hope to have Tom Varndell back in time to face Gloucester in The Stinger on Saturday, April 19.
Varndell has been sidelined with a bicep injury which required a second operation but he is training again now and the club say another fortnight should get him ready.
Dai Young said: "Tom Varndell is back in training but he's probably got two weeks of contact work so I don't think he'll be far off The Stinger. That's the aim."
Meanwhile, Elliot Daly is should be fit for Sunday after coming off last weekend with a shoulder injury.
Young said: "Elliot took a bang just before half time and said he could carry on but we don't want him out for any period so we got him off."
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Attention firm administrators, HR professionals, marketing directors/coordinators, IT managers and especially managing partners – it's time to look inward at your firm.
The accounting, auditing and tax professionals along with most of the administrative team are going to be focused on serving the clients for the next few months. As a firm, you have prepared for this, probably during the fall and now it's time to provide the type of client service that differentiates your firm from the firm down the street. Of course, all accountants must continue to market and cross-sell. Tax season is the time when CPAs are the heroes! People will actually be surprised to see them at the business breakfast or non-profit mixer. Never – I repeat – never position yourself as too busy.
While all of this is going on, it is time for the firm management team, the managing partner and the internal, support professionals (the people mentioned in the opening paragraph) to look inward at the firm and plan improvements and develop action plans based on new ideas. It is time to get ready for what needs to happen beginning in May.
- Wondering about your recruiting process?
- Does everyone seem bored with your performance evaluation process, maybe even dreading them?
- Does your firm's brand seem relevant?
To help explore any troublesome areas, have the area leader do a SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats) on the specific area. For example, when considering your recruiting process:
- How are the firm's relations with the college professors?
- How does your recruiting collateral material look?
- Is the career section of your website awesome?
- What is your competition doing?
Do you, as an internally focused professional, wonder about your own performance? Do a personal SWOT, share it with a couple of other people and ask for their feedback.
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Tide of 3.7 ft (1.12 m). High water denuded sand beach leaving hard clay base in this area.
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April 1, 1946 Unimak Island USA earthquake and tsunami
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This is an archived article that was published on sltrib.com in 2013, and information in the article may be outdated. It is provided only for personal research purposes and may not be reprinted.
Rod Jensen's "Trib too liberal" (Forum, April 18) is a proper example of why name-calling is never an appropriate substitute for logic. Any newspaper that endorses Gary Herbert for governor and Orrin Hatch for senator cannot be "a left-wing liberal newspaper."
Utah is fortunate to have two excellent newspapers with educated and dedicated employees who understand and support the right of the press to be free. While the truth does make most of us free, others are often enslaved by it, as Jensen's letter clearly demonstrates.
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The city of St. Bonifacius will go back to the drawing board in an attempt to come up with a feasible plan for the community center remodeling project, which involves converting the former public works garage adjacent to city hall to a community center.
At the Aug. 21 council meeting, a four-member building committee, comprised of city council and planning commission members, was appointed to oversee the development project and to bring a lower-cost recommendation back to the city council.
Earlier this month, the city council unanimously rejected all three bids that had been submitted, saying the cost of the project had gone well outside of the budget. The low bid was $239,800.
The city's planning commission, which has been working on the details of the renovation, subsequently voted to encourage the council to move forward with the development and to vacate the current community center building (old city hall) due to safety issues.
"We put an initial plan together at a cost of $105,000," said Planning Commission Chair Fred Keller. He said that discussions with the city inspector, in addition to added on projects like new carpeting and flooring in city hall, along with patching and repairs of the front of city hall to match the new construction and an outdoor water fountain, led to the increase in the cost of the project. According to Keller, the planning commission was given a budget of $140,000 to work with.
The planning commission went one step further by requesting the city to vacate the current community center building due to safety issues. The back stairway of the old city hall is of particular concern, said Keller.
"I am still on board for developing the new space," said Mayor Rick Weible. But with reservations on the books through the end of the year at the current facility, he didn't feel the building could be vacated at this time. "The people who use the facility are aware of the condition of the building," he added.
As far as the new development, Weible said the project should be scaled back to a baseline shell with the city responsible for the flooring, water, sewer, bathrooms and possibly air conditioning.
"We don't need a vestibule or some of the other amenities that are included in this plan," said Weible.
As far as painting, cabinet work, countertops and other finishing touches, Weible felt that civic groups and other community volunteers should take on some of those responsibilities.
"This will allow community members to have some ownership of the center and get recognition for their contribution," said Weible. In addition, Weible encouraged citizens to make a donation to a local non-profit group earmarked for the community center project.
To get the project moving, the council directed staff to accept bids for a new floor in the center. The bid will be two-fold – first to remove the existing floor and do cuts to accommodate plumbing needs, and second to fill the concrete floor.
Bob Smestad and Rick Weible volunteered to represent the council on the building committee, with Fred Keller and Mary Bishop offering to represent the planning commission.
In another matter, the council appointed Dan Whitman of Whitman Assessing to serve as the city's assessor. The contract will take effect Sept. 1 and be pro-rated for the first year.
Earlier this year, the council accepted the resignation of City Assessors Michael Schachterle and Michael Sheplee effective June 1. The move came after Hennepin County denied some St. Boni city assessments due to errors involving single-family detached homes which have pulled building permits since 2007. Schachterle and Sheplee said age, health and available time to conform to the county's upcoming systems conversion and implementation drove their decision to resign.
The State Board of Equalization had originally recommended a 100 percent revaluation of the city's properties for the 2014 assessment, instead of the usual 20 percent. The council thought that was extreme and asked the board to relax its recommendation.
In an e-mail to the city earlier this month, Hennepin County Assessor James Atchison said, "it depends." He went on to propose that the city contract with the county for assessment services like more than half of the other county municipalities do.
"I will not vote to have Hennepin County be our city assessor," said Councilmember Joe Arwood. "I am completely opposed to entering an agreement with the county. I'll take my chances on an outside assessor."
As an outside assessor, Whitman has experience in many communities across the state and is also an instructor, said Weible. "As a small community, we seem to do better with someone with experience in other cities as well," said Weible, noting the expertise of other city contractors, like the city engineer and city attorney.
Weible said he didn't think the 100 percent revaluation was necessary. "It was a recommendation, not a requirement," he said. The city would see pretty quickly how far the assessments were off by evaluating 20 percent of the properties each year, he added.


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TRUST: A Second Act in Young Lives [FILM SCREENING]
Thursday, February 28 , 7PM | RECITAL HALL, SIMONS CENTER FOR THE ARTS, 54 ST. PHILIP STREET
Documentary, 78 minutes
Amazing things unfold as the young members of Chicago's Albany Park Theater Project transform the traumatic story of 18-year-old Honduran immigrant Marlin into a daring, original play. TRUST: Second Acts in Young Lives is about creativity and the unexpected resources inside youths, who may be discounted because of their youth, race or ethnicity, or because they come from under-resourced neighborhoods without access to arts programs. TRUST received the Jury Award from the Sebastopol Documentary Film Festival, the Youth Vision Award from the United Nations Association Film Festival and the Best Documentary Award from the Reel Rasquache Art & Film Festival.
Filmmaker Bio:
Veteran independent filmmaker Nancy Kelly made an award-winning documentary trilogy about the transformative power of art: TRUST: Second Acts in Young Lives, about a Honduran teen whose traumatic life story is unveiled in a daring original play; Smitten (PBS Prime Time Special), about art collector Rene di Rosa; and Downside Up (PBS Independent Lens series), about how America's largest museum of contemporary art, MASS MoCA, revived Kelly's dying home town. She also made the narrative feature Thousand Pieces of Gold (PBS American Playhouse series) starring Rosalind Chao and Chris Cooper. She has been a fellow at the Sundance Institute and a Bay Area Video Coalition Mediamaker. Her next documentary, Rebels with a Cause, premieres fall 2012.
Q & A following with filmaker Nancy Kelly
Recital Hall, Simons Center for the Arts, 54 St. Philip Street
The College of Charleston's Alternative Spring Break program is collecting art supplies for their upcoming service trip to Honduras. They are seeking donations of sketch books, color pencil, water based paint, brushes, sharpener and erasers in order to get a new art program for The Alonzo Movement off the ground. The Alonzo Movement is a youth development program located in Flor del Campo in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. This program is part of the Charleston-based non-profit LAMB.
LAMB works with the community of Flor del Campo to empower the youth and create a safer environment for everyone. Honduras is flooded with gangs and gang violence, and Alonzo Movement serves youth in the area as a positive alternative to gang life. The Alonzo Movement works with the youth, promoting and encouraging their interests in further education, sports and now art.
Bring your donations to the film screening and meet the students that will be traveling to Honduras!


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Friday - August 05, 2005
RETIRED Indiana Pacers No. 31 Reggie Miller and Hawaii born actress Stacy Kamano stopped by Maharaja Ultra Lounge a couple weeks ago to visit owner Peter Maharaj. The celebrity hot spot also hosted 850 "industry workers" for its "SIN" Under the Moon Event (service industry night). Bartenders and servers partied till 4 a.m. … RAPPER/actor Snoop Dog was also in town staying at the Waikiki Sheraton. He was here for the big "Salute the Troops" fundraiser … MISS HAWAII 2004 Olena Rubin has passed down her crown and finally has time to have fun. She danced and partied the night away at Smart Magazine's celebration and fashion show at SKYLINE (Hanohano Room). Sergio Mora (NBC's The Contender winner) was promoter Flash Hansen's personal guest. He mingled with models (two-time Miss Waikiki) Jenn Abreu and former Miss Hawaii USA Juliet Lighter after the show … Cult legend Richard Cheese & Lounge Against the Machine hit the stage for a mini-concert following SKYLINE, perfect for the lounge vibe. But it gets better — the men of Playgirl's male revue headed to the Sheraton Waikiki after their sold-out show at the Wave Waikiki. Between the male strippers and grooves of DJ KSM and G-Dog, the place was smokin'. Skateboarding legend Christian Hosoi was also spotted in the crowd …
MidWeek columnist Katie Young plans to have her b-day bash at SKYLINE this weekend. We'll have all the juicy details next week … MARY-KATE Olson was on Maui in July for a romantic getaway with new billionaire boyfriend Stavros Niarchos III. The couple was spotted getting breakfast at a local coffee shop. Niarchos is a Greek shipping heir whose family owns several homes on the isle … ONTO sports: Before heading back to Punahou for her junior year, Michelle Wie took a swing at her first Women's British Open and tied for third. Wie and 18-yearold Paula Creamer stole the show from 34-year-old Annika Sorenstam, who was going for her third "Major" win this year. They were still no match for winner Jeong Jang. Wie has turned down more than $650,000 this year to maintain her amateur status. But she's got plenty of time to make it up. Laura Davies (British Cup winner 1986) told the AP she's glad to see the young talent emerging. "At the U.S. Open, there was an 18-year-old, a 17-year-old and a 15-year-old … and it had triple the (TV) ratings of the men's tournament that week" … Meanwhile former Yokozuna Akebono (Chad Rowen) took a beating at last week's K-1 — his seventh loss in eight fights … BJ Penn kicked some butt, though, against yet another Gracie family fighter the same night at the Aloha Stadium. He's no joke … UH Warrior Chad Owens will be joining Chris Fuamatu Maafala and Vince Manuwai of the Jacksonville Jaguars. Owens signed a three-year contract for more than $1 million! … CHRIS Uno (Waldorf School) was back on the isle visiting his dad. The 32-year-old self-proclaimed "computer geek" owns his own networking firm in Atlanta and says a three-bedroom home in Atlanta's suburbs costs about $130,000. That, he said, is what keeps him from moving home … HONOLULU Mayor Mufi Hannemann agreed to back a series of free business seminars at Kapolei Hale. Last week's first seminar was booked with bankers and financiers. The next two are scheduled for Aug. 17 and Sept. 4. Small Business Association business specialist Jane Sawyer says she hopes they will eventually become monthly seminars — teaching people about contracts, employee benefit packages and how to get rid of debt. For more information, call 541-2990 …
Expo prez Brad Buckles, radio jock Maleko
and Chocolate Fountain Hawaii's Tony Holt
at the 18th Annual Wedding Expo
MORE THAN 1,500 bridesto- be hit the Blaisdell Exhibition Hall for Hawaii's 18th Annual Wedding Expo. Talk about sensory overload! Florists, DJs, photographers, favor makers, coordinators —more than 200 vendors filled the hall. It is one of the biggest wedding expos in the country. Ariel Krape (soonto- be Ariel "Hylton") brought her mom and her matron of honor Miranda Scott. Expo president Brad Buckles says that's the norm. Only 20 percent of the future brides who attended had their fiancés with them. I guess it's a "girl thing." I bribed my fiancé with chocolate-covered coconut macaroons and the chocolate fountain by Chocolate Fountain Hawaii. Owners Tony and Coco Holt say you choose your dipping weapons: marshmallows, fruit, wafers — like an overflowing volcano of fondue! Junior Kekuewa Jr. was there with the Hot 93.9 FM crew. Check out his music samples on www.jurkjur.com. … I couldn't believe photographer David Murphy was already booked for next July 1. By far one of the most talented photographers on the island, his rates are worth it — if you can get him. He only does 40-50 weddings a year. Modeling agency ADR provided the models for the bridal fashion shows with the island's top designers like Anne Namba and top bridal salons … Ruth Mahelona and Nichole Shin make unique and elegant invitations, programs and save-the-date cards. These two young women started custom designing stationery two years ago. Their invitations are absolutely gorgeous — but be prepared to spend about $6 per invite … The Wedding Ring Shop on the ground floor of Ala Moana Center shut its doors for the last time on Thursday. Owner Michael Han and Kahu Sherman Thompson performed a blessing over the location in honor of 18 years of good service. Han thanked employee Helen Lau for 14 years of exceptional service. The Wedding Ring Shop will reopen in August at 1221 Kapiolani Blvd., fourth floor until its grand opening at 1181 Kapiolani in March '06 … GOODBYE and mahalo to Bart Bascone, who died July 22. The songwriter and composer wrote Don Ho's song Who was the Lolo that Stole my Pakalolo? His good friend, comedian Mel Cabang, wrote, "I am eternally grateful for knowing such a super giving, wonderfully caring, extremely talented person as Bart Bascone … He referred to me affectionately as his bolo-head brother-in-law. I love you, Bart." Friends and fans will take his ashes out to sea midmonth … JOIN Braddah Sam at Volcano Joe's Island Bistro and Coffee House Saturday, Aug. 13 for live music by Dallen Santos, Zaysha (from Simple Soul), and Vaihi. Massage therapists will give complimentary massages. Local mouth-brush artist Matthew Kaopio will perform a blessing and chants. Owners Les Iczkovitz and Becca Bowen say they support local artists. Volcanoe Joe's, 1810 University Ave. 11 a.m.-9 p.m. …
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Not the one in Rome ... this thread is to discuss the Archinect user interface and ways to improve the experience of those who use this site.
To start, I offer the problem of the near total domination of the forum over the past week by a single topic where some posters have been putting up 30 posts a day or more on a single issue.
To address this situation, which I suspect many others also find annoying, I suggest changing the "topic and category" view so that individuals can choose exactly which forums they want to see. This was previously done with Academia (for exactly the same reason), which as far as I am concerned is a big improvement.
Another improvement that has been suggested is to allow forum voting. Posts could be voted up or down, and a certain number of down votes would result in a user ban. I suspect the flagging feature works the same way except that the mods are left to make a determination. Voting would give them a very clear indication of member sentiment, and the ban could even be automatic based on a threshold. Collection of votes would also become a badge displayed on members info or tags, which may encourage people to think more about what they write.
I will repeat the suggestion that new members be required to make 10 posts before being able to start a topic. This will encourage them to use the search feature or at least read through the first page of forum topics, which often includes multiple threads on which school, should I be an architect, etc. Honestly, if you don't have the three neurons required to even scan the first page of the forum, do you really think you have what it takes to be an architect, or that we should spend our time changing your diaper?
Every other forum I've been on has stickies, and most have a 'welcome to ...' sticky as a guide to new members. There are a few specific topics that immediately come to mind, such as so you want to be an architect, that would also be good for the clueless.
Finally I'll broach the idea of making posting here an activity that requires dues (reading would remain free). Even a token charge of $1 would probably be enough to make people think twice about how serious their level of participation is going to be as well as encouraging them to explore and read a bit before tossing up yet another "Need your advice" thread. I doubt that IsraeliSupporter would have written here if he had to pay to join first. And it would almost certainly eliminate the occasional spamming of contract masonry services in New Zealand and such, usually evidenced by some ancient thread that magically reappears at the very top of the forum.
I second Miles' points.
Perhaps if a up/down vote function was available and once a particular comment receives sufficient negative votes, it becomes "ghosted" where one has to actively open the comment to read it. Similar to who spoilers are dealt with on many TV and movie discussion sites.
But more to the point, the monopolizing of a tangential (at best) topic is the main reason I left most online forums years ago... and now only post anonymously. It's only a matter of time until someone takes exception to some comments and starts personally attacking members outside of the forum via their personal emails or worse...
The recent threads about the Middle East certainly don't belong on an architecture forum, and the "should I" posts are definitely monotonous.
I worry about the popularity voting idea, though. Is there a possibility that dissent could be stifled through a system like that? What if a perfectly polite and respectful poster simply had an opinion that was disagreed with by an aggressive majority? Could that person be banned for their opinion?
I think a 10 "approved" posts (requiring admin/moderator approval in this initial level) before they can be elevated to posting threads and posting without requiring moderator approval.
Instead of a ban, I propose if someone gets down voted (charma strikes) - (I think it should be done only by moderators being that a downvote by moderator being a subliminal warning) and after so many of them, the account gets dropped down to suspended mode (no posting messages, replies, PMs, etc. whatsoever) for 1 week (7 days) and then go into the moderated probationary level where they must make 10 approved posts since entering the probationary level. There should be a time/date stamp of entering the level. Basically, they would have to earn their way back to posting threads.
The charma status should only be viewable by the moderators and the members in question but invisible to other members so only members can see their own 'charma' status.
Oh, yes, the moderator doesn't have to immediately approve the post and can have the options to approve, deny, ignore for 24 hours. and have up to 30 days to approve or deny or the message is discarded as not approved. Therefore, it would make sense to behave and make friends with the admin and moderators otherwise you can wait a long while. Moderators and admin are not obligated to approve and disapprove messages within any given period of time. Therefore, the incentive would be to not cause a lot of trouble.
The moderators and admin should be level headed and rational and not be unduly abusive of power as that would be harmful to forum discussions.
Some rules and guidelines should be available. The moderators should be required to follow some rules to not abuse priviledges. Admin should follow the rules/guidelines as a role model.Even though, he/she defines the rules and guidelines. The benefit of the forum's long-term interest matters. Admin/Moderation has ethical obligations to adhere.
I think the up vote/down vote feature should be available to moderators/admin if we hook it to level demotion such as suspension of posting privileges and so forth. However, a "Flag as innappropriate" feature should be available to flag a post so a moderator/admin may look at the post and decide whether to edit, delete or accept the post as is.
This would prevent people being banned just because they post an unpopular post but not necessarily a violation of rules or guidelines.
This is an idea that can work with most forum software... however, archinect does not appear to be a typical webforum software. So I am not sure what all the features are and how it would work with the existing software. It would be possible with most common forum software like PHPBB but this one... I am not sure.
I hate change but love change orders. Who should I send the bill to for re-learning the interface?
I love the idea of upvotes and downvotes. It works.
I'm reluctant to support measures that ban discussions (and members) that may be boring, or narrowly focused, or not PC, but which otherwise don't violate the current forum rules.
I think it more desirable that we lobby for a more structured user interface that -- on the home page of the forum -- displays the various available categories of discussion. Then, if you don't want to be inundated by political discourse or educational threads, you don't have to open those categories. You can choose to open only those discussion categories that you find interesting or useful.
Several other fora that I visit (and where I spend considerably more time than I do here) are structured in the manner I describe above. All of those sites employ an underlying platform that is described on their home page as: vBulletin - it works very well, and offers many of the features asked for by members above.
Just food for thought.
god, I hated when, in architecture school, we had those class meetings to discuss the state of things and what we thought should be changed. always turned into a stupid gripey bitchfest of blathering idiocy.
t a m m u z 's thread is better than having to read another standard small thought pile of anti-Gehry bullshit. And no one makes you open it and read it. Who cares if its at the top of the list? Start a nice thread about whether this is the correct place for it. Its obviously here because a member of the community thinks this is an important place for what they consider an important conversation. And frankly he, or she, has done an excellent job, from what I've seen, of keeping the thread from going off the rails.
as to upvotes, pay to play, and Miles' rule 34: fuck off. ban me. you can have your gated echo-chamber.
Freedom of speech in a forum is without format that controls content presentation or information dissemination. As long as it isn't computer generated spam which is usually blocked by software I don't see any need to ban humans......................... The new format actually gives you the opportunity to read Archinect controlled content like features, news, blogs, etc........................I just walked by 4 blocks of pro Palestinian crowds in NYC on my way to the bus, all neatly corralled and under relaxed and casual observation by the police. Across the street a spray paint artist was doing art for nyc tourists and a homeless guy was waving a "repent now to jesus" sign. The forum is pretty much the same right? Most the threads are contained neatly, the moderators casually observe, and occasionally a troll roams into all the threads while the architect tourist watches someone create art.
really? you're going to drag that shit into this thread too? not enough of it for you yet? got to throw insults into every thread now?
well played. it's like you're ironically proving we need community moderation measures. what we really need is less clever hipsters.
it's Friday - have a beer!
As someone who created one of the snarky threads (the 4th with "boycott" in the title, I think?, let me assure you that I wouldn't want to prohibit anyone from creating a political thread - I simply wanted to point out the ridiculousness of getting into a heated argument with anonymous strangers on an internet site devoted to architecture. In the amount of time that those folks spent spitting bile, they could have taken an afternoon off to attend a vigil/protest/something/anything. What they are engaged in is the political equivalent of masturbation, and that deserves to be mocked.
anonitect, and who says that I haven't and still do and will do attend vigils and protests?
Well, good. But why waste your time arguing anonymously with strangers about politics on a site devoted to architecture? It can't be fun, and it certainly won't change anyone's mind.
I'm really pretty excited about the thread that was started today on materials that wear well. That's the kind of thing that I come to this site for- I don't know if it will get interesting, but there's a chance. If I want to talk about politics, I'll get a beer or cup of coffee with people I can look in the eye. That's when you actually have to consider the opinions and concerns of people who might not agree with you. Squabbling on the internet just seems unhealthy.
If you don't like my thread, don't click on it, quite simple really. You only have yourself to blame if you find yourself simultaneously attracted to my thread and irritated by your attraction to it. Just ignore it then; I'm not flooding the forum with same-content threads, I opened one specific thread dedicated to the subject of boycott - don;t like, don't click.
And this goes for everyone. Don't treat yourself like a child and expect others to be the adults putting down restrictions on you.
I am respecting the boundary of the thread (this is not to say I will not at one point open up another thread that borders the subject but is not exactly that subject) and I am at liberty of posting a kazillion relevant posts if I so choose . Why is that such a worm up your rectum?
The only, the ONLY, restrictions that should be set in place by the moderators are those that wean out unreasonable attacks based on sexism, racism, sexual orientation, personal defamation, that sort of stuff...and not this ridiculous notion of preference (thumbs up and thumbs down).
Actually, Tammuz, I apologize. I went back and read some of your posts more thoroughly. Although you were defending an opinion which was unpopular and got a lot of flak for it, you didn't let your comments devolve into profane name calling - what usually happens when people argue on archinect. I don't come here for politics - I just skimmed the posts, and assumed that the incivility was going in both directions.
I started my joke thread based on the proliferation of "boycotts" in the title lines I was reading, which seemed to be getting out of hand. While I do think that it is ineffective to engage in political debates on an anonymous internet forum, I shouldn't have mocked you - I didn't realize that what I was seeing was basically one person trying to make a serious point - I leapt to the conclusion that the threads were a sprawling version of the usual dopey free-for-all that debates turn into around here. I shouldn't have stuck my nose in based on assumptions. Sorry.
Damn. Tammuz, I was hoping that I could get that reply in before you responded. I wasn't attracted by your thread - I thought that the proliferation of threads with similar titles was goofy. And- unless there is a language or cultural barrier, you should have recognized that my thread was a joking attempt to get some other conversation going, and understood that it wasn't a place to continue the debate that you were having on three other threads.
Firstly, I only started contributing to your thread when someone else brought the argument into the that thread and started their typical misinformation. Until that point, I had neither the interest nor the reason to post there.
Secondly, it is really none of your business whether I do or do not contribute to "your" thread. There are hoards of individuals who have contributed, calculatedly, petty nothings in the thread concerning the boycott and still its none of my business to tell them that its their place or not to contribute.
Thirdly, there is obviously no cultural or linguistic barrier - I'm not sure whether you meant this comment in a genuine manner (which I doubt, but if so, it wouldn;t be coming from a very observant source) or you meant it in a snarky way. If the latter, well its quite funny that you would want to "respect your thread" when you lack the ability to respect people. That is..if it was meant snarkily. Otherwise, please ignore this last part.
Fuck this. I'm not going to wast anymore time on this bullshit. Goodbye, Archinect.
So Miles --- how's this thread you started working out for you ?
It was a last ditch effort to avoid being driven off the forum. But since I'm not an advertiser Archinect could probably care less.
I look at the recent political shit here the same way I look at people waving posters of dead fetuses in front of the post office. I just want to pick up my mail.
Is there bad shit in the world? Yes. Will rubbing everyone's nose in it on a predominantly anonymous architectural forum change anything? Nope. Probably the reverse as positions are fortified to protect the ever so fragile egos.
I used to look forward to visits here.
it will calm down again with time. before you know it, archinect forums will be filled with 'what school should i go to' and 'did you get your admission letter yet' type threads.
sorry for my role in feeding the frenzy.
That sounds like a pretty hard core post office.
On Arch-related business: Decent read on Rem below ( iHope the link works).
I thought that the Boycott/boycott - BOYCOTT! Threads were a good way to handle that particular non-relevant political intrusion. Funny and sarcastic. I didn't read the crazy arguments in any of the threads really.
People should stop killing people. And people should stop TRYING to kill people. But then people have always killed other people. Always. People are jerks. It's like no one's mother taught them anything and everybody, once they're grown and they have a little bit of authority (be it from the possession of political power, or possession of firepower), they revert to being children who go around breaking shit and scrawling things on the walls with their feces.
That's one of those things that make architecture so difficult. Generally people who become architects want to build, and better the world. But we're stuck in a morass of animals that are hell bent on going around kicking over people's sandcastles just because if they kick it, it will disintegrate.
People are jerks.
I hear ya, Miles -- and concur. Archinect has become a very frustrating place of late.
I accept totally that we are guests of the owner(s) of Archinect and we have no right to expect or demand anything. Nevertheless, when any locale - be it physical or virtual - becomes less than hospitable, people tend to vote with their feet. I know that I don't spend nearly as much time here as once was the case.
I came to Archinect because I found it a fascinating place to learn about, explore and discuss my passion in life - Architecture. It seems that more and more this place is dominated by trolls or individuals who focus very narrowly on topics that have little to do with the profession. And, there seems to be very little moderation by the administrators - except in the most extreme of cases - to keep threads reasonably focused and.civil.
I don't think the forum should restructure so topics like politics and religion are not allowed. But I do appreciate the comments made above by quizzical, who suggested that the interface be redesigned.
Visitors need not be inundated by threads that hold no interest for them. We should be given the chance to easily choose which discussion categories we wish to view. We should not be forced to wade through innumerable threads that have turned into running gun battles by a few passionate members focused on a very narrow topic unrelated to the main theme of Archinect -- namely, Architecture.
My two cents.
I completely disagree with quizzical. The current format encourages people to explore several topics that they would not have been aware of or would not have been aware of possibly being interested in. Secondly, where do you put limits around categories and how do you control, within one thread, the direction of that thread not to steer towards other categories: there's going to be a lot of interpretation going on about when a post within a thread, or thread itself, belongs to one category or to the other. Thirdly, why are you creating a problem when there is no problem - not interested => don't click. You're supposed to be clear thinking architects, no?
Donna, unfortunately, this is not just a political matter. This is about an ongoing massacre of people at the hand of a racist colonial entity that also happens to be subsidized - economically, militarily, morally and legally (within the UN and elsewhere)- by the US and other governments.
IF I had a choice, I would have categorized the Boycott Israel thread as a humanitarian, not merely political. The fact that you compare this to elections trivializes the gravity of the situation in Palestine as kids are being killed in the hundreds. This is just the latest chapter in a slow genocide being committed against the Palestinians.
Furthermore, I have gone to some length to present some information in regards to the background and the current run-of-events in the Boycott Israel thread in order to encourage Archinect to boycott Israel. As a consequence, I've had around 4 or 5 people, decidedly pro-Zionists, attack me with an array of methods, some going the length of imagining my corpse being run over by a tank and one other, LITS4Formz, telling me to strap on a suicide belt and off myself, playing on Islamophobic tropes.
For my part, I have countered with information and rational arguments take it or leave it. I have not personally defamed anyone, never relied on personal characterization -racial, gender, etc- in order to launch cheap attacks against anyone. I'm not even mentioning irrational arguments based on deep-seated islamophobia and ignorance.
Your concern - I'm addressing people generally here- should not be with "both parties" in that other thread because you're too lazy to read the posts in that thread. Either take the time to read and judge properly or kindly keep your uninformed opinion to yourself. this goes for you Donna, for you quizzical, etc. Kindly either take the time to properly evaluate or ignore the topic and continue with your ice cream lives here.
boy in well, i'm kinda thinking of opening up another thread, a bit different...but a bit similar ...
by the way, have you all noticed how those four or five zionist characters aren't contributing to the Boycott Israel thread anymore around the same time? Good, keep it that way.
Here's an idea - let tammuz turn this topic into another thread on his personal crusade.
and isn't witless cynicism your endless personal crusade on here?
i'm criticizing points raised in this thread by others. and this thread was raised in connection to the other thread - which is your doing, Miles, to drag a "personal crusade" here. You have yourself to blame.
so far, i don't like any of the ideas presented above for the revamping. the interesting thing about the forum is how it presents a multitude of threads which have allowed people to form a more enmeshed experience of their being on Archinect, as a virtual place. to background the posts within categories that form the "menu", yuk, its like a supermarket. no entanglement, no overlap, cross fertilization, interesting items will be ignored by some because they happen to think they;re interested in another category.
another qualm is over the way the News, Blogs, Currently Hiring and Features and their interface with the forum. Personally, I just go to the Forum..I don't bother to go to the other items under the Editorial & News (or Academia or News) - they're just too intimidatingly presented, a long array of identical squares that makes it quite an unpleasant experience if you're looking for a a particular news item that you missed....or got superceded by a sudden post-weekend rush of news items that completely kills an interesting ongoing discussion within that news item page...which I also don't like. That is so rude. Yes I know there's a horizontal scroll bar but its so inconspicuous you forget its there.
The Forum presents the sum total of the latest News, Blogs and so on plus of course the Forum itself. But, owing to the structure of the forum (the most interesting subject of the moment usually being higher, the least lower and about to disappear), there is a consequential order of interest that prioritizes News, then Blogs, Hiring is totally uninteresting for anyone who's not looking for a job and there is no reason why it shouldn't just be training below one of the left-hand tabs, then Features...which would get more traction if it weren't allocated at the bottom of the forum where posts go to die.
Dear all,
Have you recently noticed an unusual upsurge of new "members" who are posting their very first post -typically lazy dumbass questions - around the same time that the horde of zionist hasbara bots left the Israeli Boycott thread? Keep in mind this is a weekend - and typically the forum is a zombie on a weekend.
Is this perhaps only to drive down other threads? Another tactic?
Anyway, click on their name and their history
I can't believe I'm giving some suggestion of support to one of Miles' suggestions.
Now they're talking to each other. Dear Archinect, someone is sending you an army of trolls.
Tammy, the only one talking to themselves here is you. It's like something out of the twilight zone isn't
Yup, i think there are around 10 or 11, including Rick + Roll - "well timed" troll memberships. Kindly review their history of comments, when they joined and ..well, the blatant vapidity of their first posts.
What if you are the only one on archinect and Rick and roll is one of your many multiple personalities...
i'm perseverant ...but not superman. Archinect editors will be able to tell. I don't know, perhaps they're happy because they have more traffic now...and a bunch of inane questions. Funny that some of you should fall for this.
And I told you, when I want a tail, I'll think of you - but till then, stop tagging along.
Tammuz, I sincerely think the influx of new accounts and dumb questions is fairly typical
Obviously the "isupprtisrael" account or whatever was joined for your thread, but I suspect it's a pseudonym for someone else on here, sort of like led signal light has a different name on here.
Tammy poo, don't give up. I'm rooting for you. Come on I think we can get to 1k posts on that thread of yours
curtkram, i know archinect well. i know how it paces itself. and on a weekend especially, its near dead. an unusual emergence of a bunch of new memberships, new first posts and stupid ones at that. hamburger, rick rack or whatever, and other permutations of letters and numbers.
AND a well timed exit -from the Boycott Israel thread of xian, LITS4Formz, CD-Arch and so on. This is obviously coordinated - three or four individuals attacking incessantly (let me not count you in - i give you the credit of a doubt(is that the expression?) don;t just simultaneously withdraw and, at that time, another coincidental emergence of another group which is unusual in Archinect. I could care less - the inhumanity of Israel is on display for all- just observing.
Now I'm expecting them to use a mixed technique. To disprove me. It would be the predictable next move.
Okay Patton, whatever you say. Didn't they trick hitler with fake tanks just before D-day.
I have links too.
a better trained troll, i see.
i already said: who believes you anymore?
Miles, you must have jumped out a window by now...just trying to get it back on track.....
I agree with your premise. I'm new here and have been trying to contribute but probably too much. I've done though like you suggest, spending time posting before proposing a forum.
I agree that Archinect should be monitoring/managing the threads for the reasons you outline, doesn't seem like anybody is home. I posted something on another site, made the mistake of getting too edgy and had some guy outright attack me personally. I panicked and tried taking my comment down but there wasn't any way to do it. It just sat there like a big hair ball. Thankfully the site saw it and took his comments down and left mine. Reddit offers this feature to delete a comment if it goes south.
Voting on forums is an excellent idea, if it's not welcome, a repetition or poorly framed we would be doing the author a favor. Is there a way for authors to take-down their own forums? Doesn't seem so, so many forums here divert off the original topic too far and should be taken down and rebooted or reframed. I see a lot of forums where the author just sits back and allows things to drift, doesn't contribute or steer the discussion. I also see a lot of forums here that just don't fly, you contribute then later you get an email notice of activity and you go back only to find people talking about nose hair.
I don't believe in any form of boycott/exclusion, it should be an open forum, just moderated.
I hope Archinect is listening but I don't think so.
hmm. if i was rick+roll, my link would have looked like this
curtkram, I thought about it. He's foreign though, for as much internet notoriety as being rick-rolled has, I don't think he would have "got it". I practically told him about the username and he still seems unaware
Are you sure you want to block this user and hide all related comments throughout the site?


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They could be the most unusual shoes you'll ever see on the running path, but many runners have jumped in the FiveFinger shoes, from Vibram.
Now that company has agreed to offer refunds to customers to settle a class-action suit that argued the company's health benefit claims went too far.
The lawsuit maintained that Vibram misrepresented health research to advertise its shoes, convincing consumers to purchase the shoes at prices that ranged from $80 to $125. The suit was filed in March 2012.
Vibram denies any wrongdoing but is expected to offer refunds between $20 and $50. Proof of purchase is not required unless buyers submit claims for more than two pairs. Consumers will be able to file claims at the website fivefingerssettlement.com, but the site hasn't gone live yet.
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Fueling the Future: Sustainable BioFuels Using Missouri's River Floodplains
Featured Speaker: Shibu Jose, PhD., Harold E. Garrett Endowed Chair Professor and Director of the Center for Agroforestry, University of Missouri - Columbia
Researchers have long known the fertile lands of Missouri and the Midwest have the capacity to be powerhouses for biofuel production. What remains elusive is a way to grow the biomass needed to make biofuel without encroaching on land dedicated to food crops, and a way to profitably transport and refine the biomass. Big energy challenges require big ideas and even bigger collaborations. University of Missouri – Columbia's Advantage researcher Shibu Jose has both.
Photo credit: University of Missouri - Columbia
In response to our country's advanced biofuels goals, the University led the formation of the Mississippi/Missouri River Advanced Biomass/Biofuels Consortium (MRABC) in 2010, a team of more than 40 academic institutions and agricultural and energy companies working to turn the Missouri and Mississippi rivers into a "biomass corridor" that will provide clean energy for the U.S. and economic opportunity for Missouri—a system with the capacity to produce up to 8 billion gallons of advanced biofuels. It's a fascinating look at a biomass and biofuels innovation you won't want to miss.
Past dates
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|Saint Josemaría Escrivá de Balaguer
|Saint of Ordinary Life
|9 January 1902Barbastro, Aragon, Spain,
|26 June 1975 (aged 73), Rome, Italy
|Venerated in
|Roman Catholic Church
|17 May 1992, Vatican City by Pope John Paul II
|6 October 2002, Vatican City by Pope John Paul II
|Major shrine
|Our Lady of Peace, Prelatic Church of Opus Dei, in Rome
|26 June
|Celebration of the Holy Sacrifice of the Altar
| Part of the series on
Josemaría Escrivá
|Saint Josemaría Escrivá de Balaguer
|Personality and Attitudes
|Beatification and canonization
|Teachings and Legacy
|The Way (book)
|Article discussion
Saint Josemaría Escrivá de Balaguer (January 9, 1902 – June 26, 1975) (also known as José María or Josemaría Escrivá de Balaguer y Albás, born José María Mariano Escrivá y Albás) was a Roman Catholic priest from Spain, and founder of Opus Dei. He was canonized by Pope John Paul II, who declared Saint Josemaría as "counted among the great witnesses of Christianity". He is the most recently deceased Saint.
He had a doctorate in civil law at the University of Madrid and a doctorate in theology at the Lateran University in Rome. He was a member of the Pontifical Academy of Theology and Consultor of the Congregation of Seminaries, and Consultor of the Pontificial Commission for the Authentic Interpretation of the Code of Canon Law.
His principal work was the foundation, government and expansion of Opus Dei. He and the organization have been accused of many things, including political involvement. However, some independent journalists, among them CNN Vatican analyst John Allen, Jr., say that these accusations are mere myths that grew from black legends propagated against Opus Dei and Escrivá. Opus Dei and Escrivá continue to be polarizing subjects among certain members of the Catholic Church. Popes and Catholic leaders strongly endorse Escriva's teaching on the universal call to holiness, the role of laity, and sanctification of work.
His best known book is The Way which has sold more than 5 million copies in 50 languages. All in all his works have sold a total of 8 million copies.
See also
Official Catholic Church documents
- Pope John Paul II. Homilies and discourses about the founder of Opus Dei.
- Luis Carandell (1992). Vida y milagros de Monseñor Escrivá de Balaguer – hosted by OpusLibros (critical)
- Kenneth Woodward (1992). "A Coming-Out Party in Rome, Opus Dei prepares to stand by its man" (pdf; 540 kB), Newsweek, May 18, 1992
- Opposition to Canonization by ODAN (opposition)
- B. Badrinas, ed. (1992). Testimonies on Josemaría Escrivá, Founder of Opus Dei, Sinagtala. – collection of some testimonies given by ecclesiastical officials which were used for the beatification process.
- Jesús Ynfante (2002). El santo fundador del Opus Dei. Biografía completa de Josemaría Escrivá – hosted by OpusLibros (critical)
- William May (2003). Holiness and Ordinary Life in the Teaching of Saint Josemaría Escrivá – theological analysis of Escrivá's teachings
- Blaye, Edouard de. (1976). Franco and the Politics of Spain. Penguin Books, ISBN 0140219498
- Ramón Garriga (1977). El Cardenal Segura y el Nacional-Catolicismo. Planeta, Barcelona, ISBN 8432056375.
- Fabro Cornelio, Garofalo Salvatore, Raschini Maria Adelaide (1992). Santi nel mondo. Ares, ISBN 8881550709
- William Keenan (2004). St Josemaría Escrivá And The Origins Of Opus Dei: The Day The Bells Rang Out. Gracewing, ISBN 0852445814
- Eugueny Pazukhin (2000). Blessed Josemaría Escrivá's Life and Achievement – first Russian biography by an Orthodox thinker, philosopher and journalist
External links
- Patron Saints Index: St Josemaría Escrivá (primary source)
- St Josemaría Escrivá, the founder of Opus Dei
- Documents of the Holy See about Opus Dei and its founder
- Writings of Josemaría Escrivá
- ODAN Opus Dei Awareness Network (opposition)
- Letter from Escriva to Franco
- Josemaria Escrivá and Nazism
- EWTN webpage, containing biography, spiritual writings, video-audio presentation
- Comments by Popes on Josemaría Escrivá
- Interview with Cardinal Julian Herranz about Josemaría Escrivá
- Josemaría Escrivá's Crusade for Holiness: The Life and Times of Opus Dei Founder
- Most recent accounts of favors received
- St. Josemaría Escrivá Historical Institute, Rome


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One moment of brilliance from the Moroccan and some dogged defending saw the hosts record a vital win, despite being forced to hold out with 10 men toward the end
QPR took a huge step towards Premier League survival and severely dented Tottenham's Champions League prospects with a 1-0 victory at Loftus Road.
An even first half saw little goalmouth action, yet the home side produced a touch of class to take the lead, with Adel Taarabt curling a sublime 25-yard free-kick into Brad Friedel's bottom corner.
The second half was similarly void of quality as QPR defended doggedly to see out the 1-0 win, despite playing the last 15 minutes with 10 men following match-winner Taarabt's second yellow card.
Mark Hughes opted to stick with the same starting XI beaten at West Brom a week ago, meaning Spurs old-boy Bobby Zamora retained his place as the lone striker, with Djibril Cisse handed a place on the bench upon his return from suspension.
For the visitors, Harry Redknapp made three changes to the side humbled at Wembley on Sunday, with Jermain Defoe chosen to spearhead the Spurs attack in the absence of Emmanuel Adebayor.
Meanwhile, Carlo Cudicini was replaced by Friedel, who made his 300th consecutive Premier League start, as Aaron Lennon dropped to the bench at the expense of Sandro.
The visitors enjoyed a lively start to the game keeping the ball well, but it was QPR who were posing the bigger goal threat, with Samba Diakite ghosting past two Spurs men before dragging his effort wide.
Spurs responded well to the early warning shot and Gareth Bale had a gilt-edged opportunity to open the scoring from Rafael van der Vaart's corner, but the Welshman's header was straight at Paddy Kenny who comfortably tipped it over.
An end-to-end battle ensued but it was the home side who produced a potentially knockout blow mid-way through the first-half.
After challenging with Zamora, Sandro was penalised by referee Mark Clattenburg for what seemed to be a soft handball. Former Spurs man Taarabt stepped up to sweep a sublime curling effort into Friedel's bottom right-hand corner, notching his second Premier League goal of the season and sending the Loftus Road faithful into raptures.
Both teams began to cancel each other out as the half wore on, as the hosts entered the half-time break a goal to the good.
Redknapp introduced Lennon at the break in place of Sandro in an attempt to liven up the midfield, but it was QPR who started the brighter of the two. Diakite again produced a surging run through the heart of the Spurs defence, but he prodded wide of the post under pressure from Ledley King.
Without the presence of Adebayor upfront the visitors seemed to lack a plan B against a determined 5-man midfield, and their attempts began to smack of desperation as Parker was reduced to speculative long-range efforts.
The visitors continued to press but it was QPR who produced the best chance of the half.
After Zamora had turned the hapless William Gallas in the box, the former Fulham man found himself 12 yards from goal with just Friedel to beat, but Spurs had King to thank for producing a brilliant last-ditch challenge to block the shot.
With referee Clattenburg beginning to flourish yellow cards at will, the game took a dramatic twist as potential match-winner Taarabt was shown a second yellow card for kicking the ball away.
The visitors had a little over 10 minutes to salvage something from the game, yet their pressure failed to produce any clear-cut chances as QPR saw out a terrific 1-0 win.
The defeat means Spurs are still yet to record a Premier League away victory in 2012 and they drop out of the top-four at the expense of Newcastle. QPR, meanwhile, take a massive leap towards safety, moving ahead of Wigan into 16th by virtue of goal difference, three points clear of the drop-zone.
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Emery named sales manager at U.S. Cell
Posted March 28, 2011, at 4:16 p.m.
U.S. Cellular has named Amanda Emery as sales manager for its retail store in Bangor.
Emery joined U.S. Cellular in February.
Prior to her current role, Emery, of Hermon, was a sales manager for Logistic Management systems.


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WHEL-666.1 FM, Acheron - Skybridge Opening... 7:30 am
The exhibit "WHEL-666.1 FM, Acheron," which will have its opening reception on Thursday October 31, at 5:00 p.m., will transport participants to the hours...
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Look Only at the Movement - Exhibition 9:00 am
A video presentation by smudge studio examines the entangled infrastructures of nuclear waste transportation and the United States highway system. Generated...
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A series of lectures on Jan Patočka's philosophical legacy by David Carr, James Dodd, Michael Staudigl, and Ludger Hagedorn.
6 E 16th St., D1103
Fashion Interactions 12:00 pm
Fashion Interactions is a multidisciplinary exhibition that explores fashion culture by means of contemporary art, design and media. The exhibited works...
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Shared Capacities Initiative: Open Information... 12:00 pm
The open information sessions will be introduced by Provost Tim Marshall, with the subcommittee members sharing with attendees the process for the year, as...
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"兩岸關係" | "Cross-Strait Relations" | "两岸关系" ... 12:00 pm
Opening reception: Thursday, September 26, 6:00-8:00 p.m. Ideas and experiences of "China" live across many borders. The slim strip of the Taiwan Strait...
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Activist New York Field Trip 2:00 pm
Join us for this adventure to the Activist New York exhibit at the Museum of the City of New York. This fantastic exhibit explores 16 critical moments in New...
Museum of the City of New York
Marine Corps Musician Program Information Session 3:00 pm
Are you a musician planning for your post-graduation career? Talk to Marine Sgt. Percesepe who can give you information that will enable you to decide if...
79 Fifth Avenue, Room 501
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George Wein, Jazz Impresario - Pianist | Eyes... 4:00 pm
The New School for Jazz's Eyes of the Entrepreneurs series presents a talk with George Wein. Wein (born October 3, 1925) is an American jazz promoter and...
School of Jazz Performance Space, Arnhold Hall
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Ben Katz, saxophone | Fall '13 Ensemble &... 7:00 pm
The New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music presents student Benjamin Katz (saxophone), who will be performing his senior recital. Ben will be playing...
School of Jazz Performance Space, Arnhold Hall
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Ruff Cuts III - Please Note Date Change 7:00 pm
Ruff Cuts sessions are opportunities for New School students to exhibit and discuss their media works while they are still in progress. Ruff Cuts is...
Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Auditorium (Room N101), Sheila C. Johnson Design Center
Andres Malagon, saxophone | Fall '13 Ensemble... 9:00 pm
The New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music presents student Andres Malagon (saxophone), who will be performing his senior recital. Andres Malagon was...
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Paul Mellon Collection
Yale Center for British Art.
Published in 1815, the Historical view of the Commission for Enquiring into the Losses, Services and Claims of the American Loyalists at the close of the war between Great Britain and her colonies in 1783, contained an engraving of Benjamin West's allegorical painting The Reception of the American Loyalists by Great Britain. West's original oil painting has been lost; however, a smaller copy of the painting can be seen in the background of this portrait of John Eardley Wilmot, the chief commissioner of the Loyalist Claims Commission.
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Martina Florido: Trying to save her class from bullying
January 26, 2012
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This audio interview is part of a series completed by STA journalism students who sat down with middle school students from around Kansas City. We hoped to find out the realities of middle school life, from dating to cliques, from playing violin to playing volleyball. The series was inspired by Ira Glass's public radio show This American Life and its episode "Middle School." Please check back each day for the next few weeks to listen to another installment.
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In today's society, cliques and bullying are gaining more power each and everyday in middle school classrooms. As many young middle school students feel the effects of cliques and bullying while at school, I began to see the impact first hand in my own house.
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Black fish scam: £1.1m confiscation orders for Peterhead fishermen
Four fishermen who admitted their part in a major black fish scam in Peterhead have been hit with confiscation orders totalling more than £1.1m.
Ian Buchan, 55, master of the Quantas trawler, faced the largest order, being told to pay £1m.
There were also orders of £99,000 for 55-year-old James Duthie; £64,612 for 49-year-old Stephen Bellany; and £23,669 for Oswald McRonald, 64.
They had previously pled guilty to landing undeclared fish.
The offences happened at Fresh Catch Ltd and Alexander Buchan Ltd between 2002 and 2005.
'Staggering amounts'
Following the hearing at the High Court in Edinburgh, Solicitor General Lesley Thomson QC said: "Serious and organised crime can take many forms and these individuals were involved in significant organised criminality.
"They put their own financial gain first and sought to obtain staggering amounts of money with blatant disregard for the impact such large-scale overfishing would have.
"Our message is very clear that there is no place in Scotland for those who want a lifestyle funded by crime."
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Archive for September, 2011
Jim Minz–Both Old and New YA SF
Jim Minz is an editor at Baen Books. I've had a fair amount of experience at polluting young minds with genre fiction, since I have more than a dozen nephews and nieces, not to mention children of my own–though my kids are still a bit young for some of my favorites. And the best part […]
Posted: September 29th, 2011 under General.
Comments: 2
Blaine Hoak–SF and Fantasy for Kids 10 and Under
Blaine Hoak is the daughter of Deanna Hoak, World Fantasy Award-nominated copy editor. When my mom told me that Locus might like to have an article from me about science fiction and fantasy for kids ten and under, I was incredibly excited. After all, I've grown up in a household filled with SF/F books, and […]
Posted: September 27th, 2011 under General.
Comments: 2
Support Strange Horizons!
Strange Horizons is in the middle of their 2011 fund drive–but they've only raised a quarter of their goal of $8000. We all should support them, since they are consistently one of the best venues for genre fiction and non-fiction on the internet. Often we're happy to support a Kickstarter campaign for something that could […]
Posted: September 25th, 2011 under Links.
Comments: 1
Tricia Sullivan–Kid Approved SF
Tricia Sullivan is the author of sf novels such as multiple award nominated Maul and Lightborn. She lives in England with her partner and three children. Finding SF for younger readers can be challenging. Fantasy dominates the market, but classic SF for children is often out of print, and new science fiction titles are rare. […]
Posted: September 22nd, 2011 under General.
Comments: 5
Sarah Prineas–Fantasy and SF for Young Readers (And Older Ones, Too)
Sarah Prineas is a fantasy author living in Iowa. Her current series is The Magic Thief for children. Thanks to He Who Shall Not Be Named, there has been plenty of room lately on library and bookstore shelves for fantasy novels aimed at young readers, and for SF as well. Often in the SF/F community […]
Posted: September 20th, 2011 under General.
Comments: 1
Sam Jordison–Child-like Wonder
Sam Jordison is a writer for the Guardian newspaper in the UK. He often writes and blogs about matters of interest to the sf/f community. Dragons are no more absurd or strange to most of the toddlers I know than aeroplanes. They're just a little bit rarer. Animals talk far more comprehensibly than politicians. And […]
Posted: September 15th, 2011 under General.
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Stacie Hanes–Space! Books About Space!
Stacie Hanes is a graduate student focusing on British Literature, including authors such as Terry Pratchett and Bram Stoker. She has long been involved with the International Conference for the Fantastic in the Arts. I have a son named after Robert A. Heinlein, so as you might imagine, I always hoped he'd love reading at […]
Posted: September 13th, 2011 under General.
Comments: 2
Adam Roberts–Science Fiction Picture Books: or, SF for the very young
Adam Roberts is a scholar, critic, and author of science fiction. His most recent books include New Model Army, with By Light Alone just out now. He blogs at Punkadiddle, among others. There has been a good deal of work on the crossover between SF and children's literature—the YA market, after all, is an important […]
Posted: September 8th, 2011 under General.
Comments: 5
Tansy Rayner Roberts–Saving Space, One Planet At a Time
Tansy Rayner Roberts is a writer, a mum, a doll merchant, and in her spare time (ha!) likes to cut up fabric and sew it back together in an amusing fashion. She lives with her partner and our two constantly alarming little girls in Hobart, Tasmania, and she is one of the three voices of […]
Posted: September 6th, 2011 under General.
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Series Introduction–Children's Fantastic Literature
For obvious reason of impending motherhood, I've been thinking a lot about children and children's things. Between that and this being the back-to-school (in the US) time of year, it seemed like the right time to ask around about children's literature. There's been a lot of talk about YA science fiction and fantasy in recent […]
Posted: September 6th, 2011 under General.
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The final blog talks a bit about enterprise IT, but many of the proffered advantages of the Start screen approach apply to the Start menu as well -- for example, the ability to remove items from the Start menu and lock it down. While the final version of Windows 8 will "support deployment scenarios that include Start screens with a layout of tiles that matches their business group's needs, allowing for an even greater number of pinned apps to be pre-defined for their users," it isn't at all clear that having more Start screen tiles will do anything to improve worker productivity. The ability to put 150 app tiles on a 27-inch monitor's Start screen just gives me a headache.
Before you haul out the tar and feathers, realize that all of this is changing. In the Developer Preview, you only see simple demo Metro apps, for example, but soon many of the apps you'll want to use all the time will be on the Start screen. That may make the black hole more appealing. Or maybe not. We're still in the Developer Preview -- not even in beta -- so anything can happen. But more and more people are starting to get worried that the black hole will ship in the final version of Windows 8.
(By the way, you can bring back the old Windows 7 Start menu in the Windows 8 Developer Preview. J. Peter Bruzzese's Enterprise Windows blog shows you how. Be aware of the fact that by filling in the black hole, you lose the ability to see the Metro tiles.)
Microsoft says that this debate about Start menu versus Start screen is "eerily like the debate in the 1980s over whether a mouse was a gimmick, a productivity time waster, or an innovation in the user experience." I disagree. The debate is a whole lot more like the one over the ribbon in Office 2007. (Full disclosure: I don't like the ribbon, and I never have.) In that case, Microsoft made a wholesale change to the user interface, throwing away a perfectly usable -- but arguably less capable -- interface that millions knew, replacing it with a new interface that threw everyone into months of therapy.
I hope and pray that the current Windows 8 management team learned a bitter lesson from the Office 2007 team. (I say that realizing fully that they're basically the same people.) Office 2007 sales took a hard hit because enterprises -- and, to a lesser degree, individuals -- didn't want to learn the new interface. It would've been trivially easy for Microsoft to build Office 2007 with both the ribbon and an option to switch the old menus back on. Microsoft didn't, and it lost a lot of sales because of that decision.
Even if the Start screen is the greatest thing since object-oriented programming, Microsoft still needs to give us an option to bring the old Start menu back. It doesn't need to be pretty. It doesn't need to do anything different. It doesn't even need to link to the Metro, er, Start screen apps. It just has to be there. Give us a chance to use both the Start menu and the Start screen, and let us make the transition at our own pace.
This story, "The death of the Start menu: Microsoft's defense goes into high gear," was originally published at InfoWorld.com. Get the first word on what the important tech news really means with the InfoWorld Tech Watch blog. For the latest developments in business technology news, follow InfoWorld.com on Twitter.


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I was very unsure on purchasing these shoes due to the $$$ attached to them. However, I bit the bullet and purchased them. When I received them, I literally could not put my foot past the first row of ties. I followed the size guide on the website, at most I could probably wear these shoes on my hands. For the price tag attached, I was expecting some Cinderella slippers, but these were not made for human feet and the insole foam padding was sticking out of the sole. I mean...c'mon now, $275 shoes should be made right. Sadly these shoes will be returning as I keep on my search for shoes that will actually fit my feet.
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