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The military assault on Iraq may not have been a wise move. But few people, even those who were most firmly opposed to the Bush administration, can have felt anything but joy at the sight of Saddam Hussein being dragged from his underground pit. There is sweetness in a tyrant's come-uppance. It doesn't happen too often. Many have lived to a ripe old age; some still live on, as mummies, their waxen corpses displayed to the public. But rather than dwell upon what may turn out to have been a Pyrrhic victory in Iraq, I would like to consider a different question. Was Saddam one of the last of his kind? Have great dictators become obsolete?
This might seem an absurd question, for there are still too many of them around: Robert Mugabe is still busy wrecking his country; the Dear Leader Kim Jong Il runs North Korea like a nationwide concentration camp; Uzbekistan is ruled by Islam Karimov, a murderous despot and, as it happens, a US ally. Fidel Castro is said to be popular, but has never allowed an election, and his police regularly arrest dissidents. But on the whole, history's tide has run against the Great Leaders of late. If we take the last thirty years or so, and especially that annus mirabilis 1989, the list of deposed dictators is longer than fresh ones: Nicolae Ceauçescu, Todor Zhivkov, Gustav Husák, Ferdinand Marcos, "Baby" Doc Duvalier, Idi Amin, Mariam Mengistu, the Shah of Iran, Emperor Bokassa, to name just a few. And, though horrible enough, these were provincial tyrants, small fish in the ocean of mass murderers. And the late Communist leaders were hardly great dictators, but more like autocratic bureaucrats. There is no one left of the stature of Hitler, Stalin, or Mao. Not even Saddam was remotely in their league. And this alone is something worth celebrating.
I do not mean to say, like some neo-con Pollyanna, that democracy will sweep the world in the wake of armed US liberators. It may even be that some democratic states will become steadily more authoritarian. Vladimir Putin, though not yet a dictator, shows signs of intolerance toward any opposition. But the God-Kings, Führers, Great Helmsmen, Big Daddies, Number One Brothers, and Caudillos are vanishing. They might of course come back some day, reincarnated in a different form. I rather suspect that they will. For dictators cannot rule by terror alone. Terror is a necessary part of their monopoly on power, but not sufficient in itself. Dictators would only disappear forever if people were to give up their willingness, and sometimes even desire, to be ruled by them. But alas, man is weak, especially when faced with a crisis, and his desires are easily manipulated.
Before speculating on the future shape of dictatorships, I would like to return to the past, not only to reflect on the nature of the great dictators themselves, but on something that to me is more interesting, namely our fatal attraction to them. What is it about them that is so alluring, and allows them to destroy the lives of millions? Why, to be more concrete, did so many Poles cry in the streets when Stalin died, even though he had done Poland nothing but harm? Why do Chinese taxi drivers still have images of Chairman Mao in their cars, even though he killed tens of millions? If only we knew that, we might have a better chance of seeing what might still be in store for us, before it is too late.
Jacques Vergès, the radical French lawyer who once defended Klaus Barbie and now hopes to defend Saddam Hussein, put the case for great dictators in a nutshell. He admired Stalin and Mao because they had "grandeur," unlike democratic politicians, who were by nature mediocre. The great dictators, he observed, give the people a destiny, whereas democrats can only promise happiness. Dictators embark on great missions, while the plans of politicians are inevitably crippled by shabby compromises. This view has been shared by too many intellectuals in the past, who fell under the spell of absolute power. It is the fatal romanticism that justifies unlimited murder.
I do not know who would qualify as the first great dictator in the history of man, but the Emperor of Qin, who unified China in 221 BC, was certainly a man of destiny who had unmistakable grandeur. A mere king when he conquered the states of other kings, he became the first Chinese emperor and was known as Qin Shi Huang Di, a title with divine connotations. Although his name has made Chinese shudder for the last two thousand years, the influence of his reign is still profound. He was the archetypal despot, and it is astonishing how little has changed. The Qin Emperor was a permanent warrior, a great unifier, a builder of grandiose projects, a censor of thought, and a paranoiac obsessed with his own mortality.
It was the Qin Emperor who unified the Chinese writing system, established a standard legal code, common weights and measures, and a centralized bureaucracy. His most famous grand project was the Great Wall, erected to divide Chinese from the barbarians. Since no barbarian invasion was actually stopped by the wall, one suspects that this was largely symbolic. It gave the Chinese people a sense of unity by defining a common enemy, to be feared at all times. Instead of keeping the barbarians out, it fenced the Chinese in.
The reason for the Qin Emperor's reputation as a brutal tyrant was not just the huge death toll among the slaves who built his Great Wall, or the draconian nature of his legal code, but the way he monopolized the truth. Again, like all tyrants, he wished to control not only the present, but also the past. History was in his possession. He was the first great book burner. The traditional task of scholars was to measure the virtue of kings by invoking the Confucian classics, and criticizing their rulers if they were found wanting. An idealized past of virtuous rulers was used to judge the present ones. The Qin Emperor did not wish to be judged or criticized; his rule was the beginning of everything, and history was bunk. So the classics were torched and the scholars buried alive.
Not only humans had to conform to the tyrant's view of reality, but inanimate objects too. Enraged by a persistent storm that impeded his progress during a mountain climb, he had all the trees felled by slaves and the mountain painted red, the color of a condemned criminal. When the fall of a meteor was deemed to be an omen of the Emperor's death, he had the offending stone melted by fire and the people who lived in its vicinity executed. The thought of his eventual demise was so intolerable that anyone or anything that reminded him of his mortality had to be eradicated.
We don't really know what his subjects thought of their emperor at the time. As Kafka described brilliantly in his short story "The Great Wall of China," the farther away people lived from the wall the more remote the center of power was. In fact, we only have limited knowledge of the man himself. His notoriousness was largely due to his bad press among the Confucian scribes whose fortunes revived under his successors on the dragon throne. For many centuries the Qin Emperor's Great Wall was associated with tyranny and bloodshed. But in modern times something interesting happened. The symbol of oppression became a symbol of modern nationalism, universally admired for its grandeur. And the Qin Emperor's own reputation was also rehabilitated, in the early 1970s, by Mao Zedong, who saw himself as his modern heir. The violence of the Emperor's rule was praised for its revolutionary spirit. And the burning of books and burying alive of scholars was seen entirely in a positive light, as a case of "emphasizing the present while slighting the past."
This is a common characteristic of radical dictators; they create a tabula rasa whic cannot be challenged by meddlesome priests or fussy scholars. The immediate past i by definition inferior, even evil. Still now one hears people respond to critica descriptions of Mao's China by saying that China under Chiang Kai-shek wa infinitely worse. In the same way, Leninist-Stalinist tyranny is sometimes glossed ove by pointing out the horrors under the tsars. In the propaganda of postcolonial dictators the evils of colonialism justify the violence of their rule. Mass murder is cleansing purifying, wipes the slate clean. Those who emphasize the past to chastise the presen are conservatives, like those Confucian scholars, and revolutionary tyrants are neve conservative
The violent break with history, the illusion of a tabula rasa, appeals to a certain kind of youthful idealism. There is beauty in destruction. Think of the relish with which thousands of Chinese students took hammers and axes to the priceless treasures of Buddhist or Confucian temples. The idea that a completely new society can be forged through sheer human will is attractive to dreamers of grandeur. During the Cultural Revolution, armies of Red Guards thought they were exercizing their will. In fact, they were acting out the will of their oppressor. To make enough people believe that he, the great leader, represents the collective will of his people is an essential skill for a tyrant…
In fact, of course, few dictators are totally one or the other. There is no such thing as a clean slate. Even revolutionaries use the past, but usually a remote, mythical past, as a masquerade to lend legitimacy to their aim to destroy. If Mao was obsessed by the Qin Emperor, Stalin liked to compare himself to Ivan the Terrible. Pol Pot talked about reviving the glory of ancient Ankor. Saddam Hussein, a keen student of Stalin, wished to be likened to Saladin, who recaptured twelfth-century Jerusalem from the infidels.
Although obsessed with his image in the West, Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi ruled Iran as the heir of Cyrus the Great. The Shah's Great Civilization was a mixture of rapid and often hopelessly flawed modernization and the fantasy of a pre-Islamic past. In 1971, the ruins of Cyrus's capital, Persepolis, were the stage set for the Shah's coronation. Celebrations took several days. Hundreds of French chefs were flown in. The Queen of England was presented with rare Caspian horses. An entire city of palatial tents was erected. A ton of caviar was consumed by the crowned heads and other global dignitaries, invited for this greatest of all durbars. Armies dressed like soldiers of Cyrus and Darius marched by in their thousands and the Shah was crowned as the Son of Aryans, the King of Kings of Iran.
All this pseudohistorical flimflam, all these borrowed costumes, were meant to convey a sense of grandeur, of greatness. It didn't quite work for the Shah, whose extravagance enraged many of his subjects. Perhaps his mistake was to aim his grand spectacles more at foreign dignitaries than his own people. Other dictators arranged these things better. Whatever evils he may have committed, Nero's games were wildly popular in Rome. And Joachim Fest, one of Hitler's best known biographers, ascribes some of the Führer's huge success to the German love of operatic spectacle: the Third Reich as a murderous Gesamtkunstwerk. A collective love of spectacle is an odd excuse, if an excuse it is, but the aesthetic side of dictatorship should not be underestimated, for circuses are the substitute for politics…
When asked about the lack of great leaders in our benighted world, Gore Vidal once remarked that great leaders make great wars. Shakespeare wrote well about such men: Coriolanus, for example, the mama's boy inside a crust of shiny armor. In the words of his friend Menenius, his "wounds become him." Making war is his way of ruling.
The beauty of Shakespeare's portrait of the despot as warmonger is the combination of personal psychology and politics. Coriolanus has to be a war hero, because his mother demands it of him: "To a cruel war I sent him, from whence he returned, his brows bound with oak." But the politics are just as interesting. War is a necessary distraction from other problems, which might stir up rebellion.
Napoleon's promise that he would "surprise the world by the grandeur and rapidity of my strokes" was based on the same principle. The French economy was still suffering from the ravages of revolution, but popular discontent was diverted by the victories of the Grande Armée. Civil liberties were curtailed, but glory, bread, and circuses made up for the hardships. The people were swept away by patriotism, and royally entertained. The problem is that once a dictator has chosen this route, he must, as they say, stay the course.
It is also worth noting that hubristic wars are often sold to the public as wars of liberation. On the face of it, Mussolini's declaration of war against the United States was mad. But this war to free civilized European values from rootless Americanism would soon be over, for the Duce promised that a single bombardment of New York would be enough to bring the Americans to their knees.
One victory is never enough, however. Like any gambler, the compulsive warrior has to keep on upping the ante. Wellington once compared Napoleon to a cannon ball: he had to keep moving for fear of losing all momentum. Hitler operated on the same principle, gambling for ever bigger stakes. By the time his armies were being decimated in the frozen steppes of Russia, it was too late. Germans were beginning to shed their illusions. And yet the Führer himself was still obeyed. His power lasted to the very end. Even among the ruins, it seems to be hard for people to stop believing in a leader they had once worshiped.
Great leaders fight great wars against external enemies, but also against enemies at home. The bloody purges of class enemies, Trotskyists, capitalist roaders, landlords, feudals, bourgeois revisionists, imperialists, spies, stinking intellectuals, Bolshevik Jews, capitalist Jews, or just any old Jews are part of the same savage perpetual motion necessary to keep a tyranny going. The fact that purges and massacres are often quite arbitrary, and no one, not even the leader's loftiest paladin, is exempt, is built into the system of permanent war. It is indeed a necessary condition, for by institutionalizing his own paranoia, the leader keeps everyone in a constant state of terror.
Chairman Mao unleashed the Cultural Revolution just as things were calming down in China, when cooler heads began to prevail, and people could start to relax a little. But as his revolution lost its momentum, Mao felt his power slipping. This was the origin of his Cultural Revolution, so much admired by radical intellectuals in faraway cities. And if the tyrant runs out of plausible enemies, because he has already killed them all, he will simply invent new ones, which is why in the world of great dictators the killing never stops.
The terrifying thing about dictatorship is people's willingness to believe in the divine aspirations of dictators. The hundreds of thousands of screaming, crying, praying, book-waving, flag-waving men and women in Beijing, Berlin, Moscow, or Pyongyang, worshiping their leaders, are not only doing so because they are forced to; many, perhaps even most, really are caught up in the hysteria. This is partly a matter of crowd psychology. Collective emotion can spread like a brush fire. I saw this myself once in Pyongyang, shortly after the death of Kim Il Sung, when we were dragged to a hideous monument to mourn the Great Leader. Professional mourners wailed through loudspeakers about losing "our Father." Schoolteachers, followed by the disciplined ranks of their pupils, began to weep, and at the sight of adult tears, so did the children. Was this emotion genuine? Were they really sad about the dictator's death? It is difficult to know, and perhaps a silly question, for sincerity in the midst of mass hysteria is impossible to measure. But the desire to worship gods is surely part of being human. And when traditional gods are banned, humans have a way of taking their place.
During the first two hundred years of the Roman Empire, sane emperors did not claim divinity during their lifetimes. They became gods only after they died, even though they were worshiped as gods by eastern Greeks even while they were still alive. The Sons of Heaven in Chinese history were not gods, but they ruled with the mandate of Heaven. They had a divine right, as did monarchs in other parts of the world. And they acted as intermediaries between Heaven and Earth, like priest-kings. In the case of Japanese emperors, their divine right was kept separate from political authority. By giving his blessing, the priest-king lent his divine right to secular rulers. This had consequences even in the twentieth century. One reason Japan in the 1930s, unlike the European fascist states, had no dictator was that no one could match, let alone supercede, the exalted status of the emperor. And even though the emperor was worshiped as a divine figure, he was stopped short of becoming a dictator. This did not prevent a catastrophe, for it meant that anyone acting in the emperor's name, however atrociously, could lay claim to his sacred aura.
Some of the most monstrous crimes have been carried out by dictators who destroyed or emasculated traditional religious institutions, and substituted their own forms of worship. The Hitler cult was founded on the ruins of the German monarchy, and was accompanied by systematic assaults on organized religion. The same, incidentally, was true of the wartime Japanese emperor cult, which for a short time became almost the exclusive focus of religious fervor, since other spiritual practices were either banned or harnessed to the imperial cause. Stalin and Mao went even further. Neither the Japanese leadership nor Hitler was able to achieve a complete religious tabula rasa. They still had to make some compromises with established institutions. The Communist leaders had no such trouble.
As in the Inquisition, people under Stalin and Mao were persecuted and killed, not for what they did, but for what they believed or, more to the point, refused to believe. It is sometimes claimed, as a way of contrasting the evil of fascist dictators with the lesser evil of Communist despots, that the victims of Mao were not exterminated in the camps but reeducated. Even if we leave aside the fact that many so-called class enemies were exterminated simply for who they were, this kind of reeducation was hardly benign. You had to convince your torturers not only that you had renounced your evil thoughts and become a believer, but that you had done so in all sincerity. This was mental torture of the worst kind, for people were forced quite literally to lose their minds…
Authoritarian technocracy borrows its legitimacy in a variety of ways. The Eas Asian model, pioneered by Lee Kuan Yew in Singapore, and now taken up by th secretive managers of the People's Republic of China, is often claimed to be in lin with the Confucian tradition, or Asian values. Asians, the technocrats claim, have n interest in messy confrontational politics, which destroy harmony under Heaven. Al they want is order and a full rice bowl for themselves and their families. What th autocrats fail to mention is that Confucius, and especially Mencius, believed in th people's right to rebel against corrupt rulers. This is precisely what happened i Taiwan and South Korea, and in the PRC as well, albeit with bad consequences Typically, the response of the Communist regime to the events of 1989 was to pile o more rice, by letting the educated urban classes, the very people who demonstrated o Tiananmen Square, get rich
Economic success has given Asian technocracies an advantage over earlier forms of dictatorship. Prosperity without politics has a wide appeal, much wider than the superficially egalitarian poverty of scientific socialism. Western businessmen, and indeed Western governments, like doing business with the technocrats, because the deals you make are unhindered by such noisome things as independent trade unions or opposition parties. But the stability of the Asian model may well prove to be more fragile than many expect, for the pact with a complacent middle class is unlikely to survive a severe economic crisis.
This new technocracy is an example of dictatorship's most fatal temptation, the illusion that we are better off without politics, that tough leaders with the will to get things done should not be hampered by organized dissent. This is what Asian technocrats and Russian autocrats believe. But people who care about freedom and openness should be worried about trends that are visible in the United States. For here, too, human fears and desires are exploited to chip away at the rule of law and to substitute spectacle and religious faith for political debate.
I do not agree with some panic-stricken commentators who have used such phrases as "soft fascism" to describe the US today. The United States is not a dictatorship, and the chances of it becoming one are still remote. But the use of Islamist terror to justify a war in Iraq and the manipulation of popular fear to shrink civil liberties are threats to democracy and the rule of law. It would be well to remember the words of Mohammed Mahathir, the former Malaysian autocrat who locked up his main political rival in prison on dubious charges. This is what he said not long after September 11, 2001: "We know if they are under attack, they also took actions ignoring the law and the court, take actions to their whims and fancies against people who they think were involved in violence."
The awful thing is that he is right. If even the world's greatest democracy behaves like that, what is there to prevent others from doing much worse?
The Indiscreet Charm of Tyranny
Ian buruma – The New York Review of Books
The military assault on Iraq may not have been a wise move. But few people, even those who were most firmly opposed to the Bush administration, can have felt anything but joy at the sight of Saddam Hussein being dragged from his underground pit. There is sweetness in a tyrant's come-uppance. It doesn't happen too often. Many have lived to a ripe old age; some still live on, as mummies, their waxen corpses displayed to the public. But rather than dwell upon what may turn out to have been a Pyrrhic victory in Iraq, I would like to consider a different question. Was Saddam one of the last of his kind? Have great dictators become obsolete?


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The Holidays - Broken Bones
The Holidays 'Broken Bones' from PEDESTRIAN.TV on Vimeo.
fCKN LOVE THIS,
I THINK IT Was directed b Tom Kuntz
Yep Tom Kuntz Almost sure
ffffound.com called they want their photos back! i keed i keed. nice video, but the random imagery trend is getting a bit tired, no?
doesn't really look like Tom Kuntz's work.
no shit captainmarc22.
@pancho - agreed - the random image concept from fffound thing is well done by now. This adds nothing new to the equation infact there are a few shots in there that are direct rip offs from the El Guincho video and I think the eye in the mouth shot comes from Keith Schofield's Chromeo video?
Its one thing to replicate the random fffound image idea and fffound images themselves but it's a whole new level of unoriginal and questionable behaviour when you start replicating other directors work who are themselves replicating fffound images.
I don't see why you would bother unless this is some sort of hommage to Keith Schofield and Canada?
On a positive note - nice cinematography.
PS Kingofdong is the actual director trying to drum up attention and views by mentioning Tom Kuntz in the comments thread. I guess congrats should be in order as it got me to watch it.
dir. Dimitri Basil
i think is cool, everyone gets inspired from somewhere, i guess.
reminds me of the Charlotte Gainsbourg 'Heaven can wait' video.... awesome visual


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Not quite as thorough a review as it could be...
A pretty basic review to go with a pretty basic box. Some of the things that I would have liked to see explicitly covered in the review:
1. Support for UPNP AV - my guess from the review is that this isn't there, but it's not mentioned.
2. Support for AFP (Apple Filing Protocol) natively rather than just SMB/CIFS - as above.
3. Power consumption - low power consumption is one of the big reasons in my view for using a NAS box rather than a fuller-featured server.
Writing good reviews means addressing as many questions that someone might have about a product as possible, not just mentioning the things that immediately come to mind.
As things stand I can't see in what ways this beats one of the Infrant boxes, which do feature all of the above along with many others features. Mentioning more of the technically leading competitive products (such as the Infrant, Thecus and Excito products) in the review might have helped as well to make it more comprehensive.


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Once again, Blackberry Farm in Walland, Tenn. has gained national recognition.
Southern Livingnamed The Barn at Blackberry Farm as one of its 100 Best Restaurants in the South. Blackberry Farm cracked the top 20, coming in at No. 15.
The list's author, Jennifer V. Cole, recommended the rainbow trout with buttermilk consommé and watercress.
The Walland restaurant was the only eatery in East Tennessee that made the list. But several restaurants in Nashville were featured: The 404 Kitchen, Capitol Grille, The Catbird Seat, City House, Husk, Lockeland Table, Pinewood Social, and Rolf and Daughters.


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Refusal skills are communication strategies that help a person say "no" effectively:
1. State reasons - you don't have to apologize or defend your position, but if you wish to, state your reasons clearly.
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Hand each student a piece of paper and a pencil. Show students the jar and have them guess the number of candies in the jar.
Remind students of the estimation techniques that you have learned in Math. Have them write the estimation down on their paper. Next, have each student work with a partner and compare answers. Each pair should agree on the guess and write it down. Continue the process in groups of 4, and then 8. When the class is basically divided in half, inform the class that the group with the closest estimation will receive the candy to divide evenly among themselves. Tell the students the number of candies in the jar.
Discussion Questions
1. How did you make your estimate?
After concluding the activity, introduce the concept of positive and negative peer pressure. Have the students list some types of positive peer pressure (any pressure that inspires you to do something worthwhile) and some types of negative peer pressre (pressure that could hurt you or others).
Talk about refusal skills.
Ask students, "How do you say no?"
Have the students get into groups of 3 or 4 and role play a situation where they may encounter negative peer pressure. Have the students practice refusal skills.
Assessment Plan:
1. Define the term peer pressure in your own words.
2. What is the difference between negative and positive peer pressure?
3. List one example of positive peer pressure
4. List one example of negative peer pressure, and provide a refusal
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The major labels often release the biggest albums of the year, however that doesn't always insure quality. It was hard to find 10 releases that we rated @@@@ or above from the major label system, with many of the releases on this list only scoring 3.5. That being said, here are the "best" major label albums of 2013.
10. Mac Miller – Watching Movies With The Sound Off – Rostrum / Universal – Despite this album cover making our "worst" list this year, Mac Miller proved you can't always judge a book by its cover. Largely self-produced, save contributions from Pharrell, Alchemist, and a few others, Mac delivered a decent LP with Watching Movies that didn't take itself too seriously.
9. A$AP Rocky – Long.Live.A$AP – ASAP Worldwide, Polo Grounds, RCA – A$AP Rocky made his leap into the majors with Long.Live.A$AP, a flawed but fun release that made him a household name. Packing two of the biggest club hits of the year with "Fuckin' Problems" and "Wild For The Night", he also had one of the best underground posse cuts of the year on "1Train", featuring Action Bronson, Big K.R.I.T., Joey Bada$$, Yelawolf, Danny Brown, and Kendrick Lamar. Coupled with a handful of solid solo cuts, Rakim Mayers did his thing on Long.Live.A$AP.
8. J. Cole - Born Sinner – Dreamville, Roc Nation, Columbia – J. Cole's sophomore LP received mixed reviews from critics, yet almost everyone could agree that it was a solid LP, despite its flaws. He ruled radio with "Power Trip", yet went more introspective on the album, putting himself out there on "Let Nas Down", a gamble that paid off with a Nas featured remix in the end. While Cole has yet to make the all-encompassing LP that resonates with everyone, third time may be the charm.
7. Talib Kweli – Prisoner Of Conscious – Javotti Media, EMI, Capitol – The oft-delayed final album for Capitol from Talib Kweli was once feared to be his "commercial" album, yet that was hardly the case. He made a respectful radio ready cut with Miguel on "Come Here", and brought the best out of Nelly on "Before He Walked", neither of which sacrificed his core sound. What we actually got in the end was another solid LP from Kwel, and perhaps the closest companion to the Reflection Eternal LP, boasting additional, solid collaborations with RZA, Busta Rhymes, Kendrick Lamar, Curren$y, and others. To top it off, Kwel followed up with a second LP on Gravitas, released independently at the tail end of the year.
6. Childish Gambino – Because The Internet - Glassnote, Island Records – Rarely do we see successful artist transformations from one medium to another, but Donald Glover may prove to be a better musician than he is actor. Because The Internet was an incredibly put together LP, written, produced, and performed by Childish Gambino, that not only was musically rich, but high on concept as well. An incredibly self-referential project that extended to additional viral materials such as short films and a 75-page screenplay, this was far from just a vanity project.
5. Kanye West – Yeezus – G.O.O.D. Music / Def Jam – A largely polarizing album that left people with a "love it" or "hate it" response, wasn't something you could needledrop, or listen to one time and throw out the window. Kanye's sparse, pared down LP was actually his heaviest, and consecutive listens proved it to be his most bold. Excellent moments such as "I Am A God", "Black Skinheads" and "New Slaves" found 'Ye rhyming with both middle fingers up, while songs like "Bound 2″ and "Blood On The Leaves" were more traditional fare from Mr. West. Not a perfect album, but undeniably solid, Kanye's "Fuck You" to the industry still had us all in approval.
4. Drake – Nothing Was The Same – Young Money / Ca$h Money / Universal – Love him or hate him, Drake makes solid LP's, as he has proven once again with Nothing Was The Same. Building on the blueprints of Thank Me Later and Take Care, Drake again teamed with 40 to create a well balanced album, packing in anthems like "Started From The Bottom" and "Worst Behavior", to smoother songs like "Hold On We're Going Home" and the controversial "Wu-Tang Forever". Its easy to hate on Drake, but his albums always reveal his talent.
3. Jay Z – Magna Carta Holy Grail – Roc-A-Fella, Roc Nation, Universal – Jay-Z turned the industry on its ear and established some "new rules" with the release of Magna Carta Holy Grail. Given away free to the first million Samsung customers that downloaded the app, he forced the RIAA to recognize the album as a Platinum selling release, despite its unconventional release. This move was pretty amazing, since his wife was able to take money out of the pockets of their direct competitor, Apple, by releasing her unannounced Beyonce LP exclusively on iTunes. The result was an LP that became the most talked about thing of the moment, instantly resonating with its fanbase. Songs like "FuckwitmeuknowIgotit", "Holy Grail", "Somewhere In America", and "Tom Ford" became instant club anthems, skating way past Jay's own choice of single, "Picasso Baby". The #NewRules allowed the fanbase to decide the singles for the quickly announced LP, in a strange case where the album didn't need a record company to work it; it worked itself.
2. Pusha T – My Name Is My Name – G.O.O.D. Music / Def Jam – All year long, Pusha T boasted that he would have the best album of the year. That point is debatable, but damn if he didn't release one of the strongest, uncompromising major label releases of 2013. This is Pusha T at his darkest, with the closest thing to a "single" being "Sweet Serenade", a song about the sound of gunfire in the streets, featuring a subdued, filtered-out Chris Brown. Much of the album was ridiculously raw for "commercial" rap standards, as songs like "Nosetalgia", "Who Am I", and "Numbers On The Boards" defy the sound of the major label polish. Remarkably produced and intricately written, King Push exceeded expectations with this spirtual successor to Yeezus. This is educated thug music.
1. Eminem – The Marshall Mathers LP 2 – Shady / Aftermath / Interscope – Many times when artists try to create sequels to their classic albums, it's merely a poor attempt to try to capitalize on or relive their past glories (here's looking at you, Bacdafucup Part 2.) That being said, Em took a bit of a risk naming his eighth studio album The Marshall Mathers LP 2, which not surprisingly had the gravitas to back it up. Perhaps the best use of Rick Rubin all year long, and the clear difference between "producing" and "executive producing from the couch", MMLP2 brought back out the lyrical beast in Eminem, and found him writing some of his most complex verses ever. An amazing feat, considering this is his 17th year, and he is already wildly rich and successful. What motivation does Em have to produce this level of quality this late in his career? Yet he still does. Well done, old friend.
The eminem album was ok, Pusha t was ok, talib was ok. The rest were pretty wack. I like Donald Glover as an actor and he has some skills on the mic, but the album was meh.
Kanye album was GARBAGE. And know one plz say that "Listen to what he's sayin crap" it was bullshit. Kanye isnt about the music anymore. He is a diva, and wants to start doin fashion. Which is fine. But like i been sayin. Music sucks now except for Kendrick, J Cole, Skyzoo, Joey Badass, Rapsody, and only a handful of others. FOR ALL U CORNY ASS FUCKIN RAPPERS LIKE KANYE , 2 CHAINS, TRINIDAD JAMES, FUTURE. FUCK YALL. WE SPEND OUR HARD EARN MONEY TO BY YOUR CD'S WHICH I USE FOR CUP CULSTERS. FUCK YALL. Cuz yall aint in it for the music. Fuck yall word up
I just don't see what people see in this Eminem album, to me its utter crap! I think its a weak grasp at mainstream RAP staying relevant when we all know its not. cal and wtf are so correct in what they said collectively. Glover is smart to bite the crooner style Drake shit all of us over with because that's where the money is.
Pusha t was the go to album for me in this list followed by em, it's major shit right, make singles that sell don't forgot , to ears that like cheese hooks and female chorus. Sell sell sell.=$$$$$
Wale "The Gifted" gets no love!? I thought it was the album of the year
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The Burleigh House residences feature romantic balconies, and few select expensive terraces. The Real Estate is true sanctity for the spirit, mind body and soul. It begins in the lobby which features design and luxury that can only be complemented by the beauty of Miami Beach. The Burleigh House is one of Miami Beach Real Estaes main attractions that any one would be fortunate to have. In the heart of South Beach, there is no other place like it for a condo owner.


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Saturday January 8, 2011
National Coffee Break Campaign
to Kick Off NCA Centennial Year
NCA is celebrating a century of service to the industry in 2011, and will kick off its Centennial year by setting aside Thursday, January 20, 2011 as a day for a National Coffee Break. Commemorating coffee's iconic place in U.S. history and culture, NCA will encourage industry members nationwide to mark the day by spearheading special customer-facing activities and events.
This nationwide coffee celebration is part of the NCA's National Coffee Break campaign, a larger effort to create excitement around coffee culture and consumption that will continue throughout that week and into NCA's Centennial year. Providing a thematic backdrop and driver for the campaign is an anchor website – www.nationalcoffeebreak.org – which combines knowledge, entertainment and promotional opportunities on a dynamic, interactive platform. NCA also has set up special social media platforms on Twitter (@NtnlCoffeeBreak) and Facebook (NationalCoffeeBreak) to expand visibility and industry engagement.
"Coffee has brought people together for centuries, and the coffee break has been part of the fabric of U.S. culture since the 1880s," said NCA President & CEO Robert Nelson. "As we mark our Centennial, NCA wants to put coffee culture and traditions into the eyes, ears and minds of industry members and their customers as they share a cup of coffee on January 20 and continue to celebrate coffee heritage and enjoyment in 2011 and beyond."
By design, the campaign seeks active participation from industry members who will drive National Coffee Break activities on January 20, as well as creates a rich and comprehensive compendium of coffee knowledge, history, memorabilia, testimonials and more in a dynamic online format. NCA is inviting industry members to participate by submitting current and historic brand materials, print advertisements, television commercials, links to websites and social media accounts, logos and other insignias, memorabilia, and so on, for posting on the site. The resulting content will reinforce NCA's efforts to celebrate coffee's heritage, encourage curiosity and involvement, and drive interest and consumption, as well as create visibility for industry brands, products and services. NCA is also offering special sponsorship opportunities for those interested in enhanced participation and visibility.
For more information, contact Joe DeRupo at 212-766-4007 or email@example.com to learn more.


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Out playwright-performer Ben Rimalower will return to the New York stage in Bad With Money, a new one-man show about his struggle with debt, Time Out New York reports.
Rimalower's "addiction to spending beyond his means has driven him to extreme lengths all his life," read press notes about the production. "In Bad With Money, he charts his sometimes hilarious, sometimes harrowing struggle to overcome his problem — or get rich trying."
"People tend to be familiar now with alcohol and drug abuse — and I've got those too," says Rimalower. "But spending money I don't have is really my drug of choice. And considering how many people suffer from the same problem, it's staggering how seldom that is discussed."
A celebrated director, Rimalower made his debut as playwright and performer in 2012 with Patti Issues, which drew parallels between his connection to diva Patti LuPone and his strained relationship with his gay father. The Advocate named the solo piece among the best LGBT-inclusive New York theater of 2012, calling it "smart, poignant, and dishy as hell."
Bad With Money premieres September 4 and runs through November 6 at the historic Duplex Cabaret Theatre.
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SAN DIEGO — The annual gift card for guns program in San Diego started Friday with a moment of silence for victims of violence and ended with a prayer and a promise that the program would be expanded countywide.
This is the fifth year for the weapons exchange event, which is sponsored by the United African American Ministerial Action Council, and had resulted in the collection of 851 guns before Friday.
Ministerial council officials said they plan to expand the program to the North County in the next six months. Sheriff Bill Gore and District Attorney Bonnie Dumanis said they are onboard with the plan.
"We all said yes right away," Dumanis said.
As of Saturday morning, 364 firearms had been collected after a steady stream of people in cars waited to turn in guns. They received a $50 grocery gift card for rifles and shotguns or a $100 card for handguns and assault weapons, one card per car.
One man brought in 10 rifles. Two people turned over Uzi-style handguns, one with a 30-round magazine, and another exchanged a TEC-9 machine pistol. All three weapons were fully-automatic and illegal in California.
Some of the other firearms included an antique revolver, an 1887 Danzig percussion musket, a Word War II-era Russian-made rifle and a Russian Makarov .9mm pistol that was still in the box. One woman brought in a handgun packed in a box that once held a Bible.
"None of these guns will find their way back to the streets," Assistant San Diego Police Chief Boyd Long said.
The weapons will be checked to see if they were reported stolen and, if so, an effort will be made to return them to their owners. The rest of the guns collected will be destroyed.
The Rev. Gerald Brown, the ministerial council's executive director, said the group had $20,000 in gift cards to give away. The Sheriff's Department donated $10,000, $5,000 came from District Attorney Bonnie Dumanis' office and another $5,000 came from an anonymous donor.
Gore said the donor told him that next year he will donate more.
Officials in attendance said the event took on a special significance after the violence in Newtown, Conn, that took the lives of 20 children and six adults. The gunman also killed himself.
"Our hearts and arms are around them," Dumanis said. "It's better to be gathered here in this way than to be gathered here because another one of our youngsters has been murdered."
Bill Stowers of College Grove was one of the first in the long line of cars that snaked around a parking lot at ministerial council's headquarters at the corner of Market Street and Euclid Avenue. Accompanied by his dog, Lucy, Stowers said he brought in an old .12-gauge shotgun that was just sitting in a closet.
"I am afraid it will get into the wrong hands," he said.
Stowers said he needed the money more than he needed the gun.
Jerry Dunn of Mira Mesa brought in a handgun that he said he no longer wanted to have around the house. He said he planned to donate his gift card to charity.
This was the second year the Sheriff's Department was involved in the program.
"If there's a gun in a house that can fall into a criminal's hands and we prevent that, it'll be worthwhile," Gore said.
The gun exchange started in 2008 after high school students Monique Palmer, 17, and Michael Taylor, 15, were shot to death in San Diego's Valencia Park as they walked home from a party.
Residents outraged by the killing of the high school students vowed to stop the violence, and the first gun buy-back event was held just days after the crime.


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Effects of channel restabilization on habitat diversity, twentymile creek, mississippi
Version of Record online: 12 DEC 2006
DOI: 10.1002/rrr.3450060303
Copyright © 1991 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd
Regulated Rivers: Research & Management
Volume 6, Issue 3, pages 163–181, July/September 1991
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Shields, F. D. and Hoover, J. J. (1991), Effects of channel restabilization on habitat diversity, twentymile creek, mississippi. Regul. Rivers: Res. Mgmt., 6: 163–181. doi: 10.1002/rrr.3450060303
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In Fields: "Beginnings" (Vocal Edit)
Another great release from La Belle Records. The London-based duo In Fields, aka Raoul Marks and Ed Cox, just dropped their brand new EP, entitled "Beginnings", full of great funky grooves. The release contains three original tracks and a tasty remix by Get A Room!. The vocal edit of the title track, which features Kasra, is so damn good. Stream the whole thing here, and then buy your copy here. Also, check out the video teaser below:
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Ok. Here, i want to know, in the first 'while', it starts with first char, so we have for ex. 'a'. Then the word, second 'while', it starts with first char and we have ex. 'b'. I want to compare them, want to compare two words. Then 'if' comes. If 'if' is true, br++. Where does it goes next, does it runs until second 'while' is finished or what? It should be running second 'while' until '\0', and every time char is the same as first char of '*po2' it should do 'br++', but of course it doesnt work.
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One of the best ways to get to know a new city is to simply walk its streets. Wandering, without a particular destination in mind or direction to head to. Having just moved to New York not two months ago, I've been walking around the city, visiting different neighborhoods and getting oriented with this great city.
A couple of weeks ago, I had invited a friend from Brunei, who is studying in DC, up to New York City for the weekend, and that provided the perfect excuse to spend the entire weekend exploring the city and stumbling upon the great variety and quality of food on the streets of New York.
So on Saturday the plan was to take the (free) Staten Island Ferry from South Ferry to see the Statue of Liberty. We had to have lunch before going so we went first to the Tribeca Saturday Greenmarket, which was unfortunately a little bit smaller than expected. Nevertheless, we managed to procure a bag of homemade cookies just stave off our hunger until we reached Staten Island (not a very good plan).
South Ferry is a short walk from Tribeca, and there's a scenic riverside path that you can just stroll along to get down to the southern tip of Manhattan. Unless of course, you walk in the completely opposite direction because of your non-existent sense of direction, which is compounded by a security guard who points you north instead of south. We found ourselves eventually at 18th Street-ish, in need of some iced coffee to cool off from a relatively long walk. The good thing about getting lost is that you occasionally stumble upon a street market that you completely did not know about, and that was exactly what we found. I have no idea what the market was called, but it was long, along 10th Avenue (I think), spread over four blocks.
After some iced coffee, it only made sense to get some donuts, which was exactly what we found. I got the Salted Chocolate flavor because I firmly believe that that any sweet-salty-bitter combination could never be bad. The donut did not disappoint. It was huge, and absolutely doused with a sticky, gooey salted chocolate glaze that will inevitably get your fingers dirty. It was finger-licking goodness, literally.
The next day, we headed out to the famous Brooklyn Smogarsburg on Sunday. The first thing to note is that it's not so easy to get to. The market is usually located at Pier 5 at the Brooklyn Bridge Park, but on that weekend it was at Pier 2, which, if you look at the map, looks deceptively easy to access. After a treacherous hike down Furman Street to get to river-level, I was getting impatient for the market. After getting slightly lost (again), we found the clutch of stalls tucked away just off the track on the left (we went right) and it was a welcome sight after the walk.
The great difficulty with such markets is that there is so much good-looking food and so little time, and even less money. Paying $9-10 for a gourmet sandwich and no service may seem fair enough, but to fork out another $10 for another one, and $4 for a cup of bubble tea may be slightly taxing on the wallet. I succumbed, though, obtaining an excellent beef brisket sandwich, with slices of succulent beef that had cooked for 16 hours, which you can drown in deliciously smoky homemade BBQ sauce and top liberally with as many pickles, onions and jalapeños you like, all tucked in a delicately soft, golden bun. It was the perfect way to enjoy the fantastic view of downtown Manhattan from across the East River, bathed in glorious September sunshine. My friend got himself a bowl of Nasi Lemak, a coconut rice dish from a Malaysian stall (run by a reticent Thai lady).
It was a great weekend, getting lost in the city, and getting acquainted with the different markets and street food stalls that dot this huge metropolis. The immense diversity of food, served up by many people, both old-timers of, and newcomers to New York provides a seductive and alluring, confusing and chaotic scene that will take time to uncover. Amid the chaos, the order of the day is, walk, and eat, and enjoy it while it lasts.
Over the next year, I'll try as best as I can to get out of my apartment, to pound the streets of New York, and indulge in the great buffet served up on New York streets. In the meantime, I'll leave you with a picture of the Brooklyn Bridge:


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Famous Short Paris Poems. Short Paris Poetry by Famous Poets. A collection of the all-time best Paris short poems
Poems are below...
Spend the winter at the bottom of Florida and the summer on top of
the Adirondriacs.
You go to Paris and live on champagne wine and cognac
If you're dipsomognac.
If you're a manic-depressive
You don't go anywhere where you won't be cheered up, and people say
"There, there!" if your bills are excessive.
But you stick around and work day and night and night and day with
your nose to the sawmill.
If you're nawmill.
Note: Dipsomaniac -- alcoholic
What I propose is not
Marxism, which
is not dead yet in
the English department,
Not maximalism, which was
a still-born alternative
to minimalism,
Nor Maxism, which rests on
adulation of Max
Beerbohm, parodist
But maximism, the love
of adages,
Or Maximism, the advocacy of
maximum gastronomic
pleasure on the model
of a meal at Maxim's
in Paris in, say, 1950.
Is that clear?
("Aveugle comme Homère.")
{Improvised at the Café de Paris.}
Blind, as was Homer; as Belisarius, blind,
But one weak child to guide his vision dim.
The hand which dealt him bread, in pity kind—
He'll never see; God sees it, though, for him.
H.L.C., "London Society."
Stairstep music: ups,
downs, Bill Robinson smiling,
jazzdancing the rounds.
She raised champagne lips,
danced inside banana hips.
All Paris wooed Jo.
Banana panties,
perfumed belt, Jazz tatooing
lush ecstasies felt.
Josephine, royal,
jewelling her dance, flushing
the bosom of France.
The line
that remained, that
became true: . . . your
house in Paris -- become
the alterpiece of your hands.
Breathed through thrice,
shone through thrice.
It's turning dumb, turning deaf
behind our eyes.
I see the poison flower
in all manner of words and shapes.
Go. Come.
Love blots out its name: to
you it ascribes itself.
Tr. Michael Hamburger
My name used to be in the papers daily
As having dined somewhere,
Or traveled somewhere,
Or rented a house in Paris,
Where I entertained the nobility.
I was forever eating or traveling,
Or taking the cure at Baden-Baden.
Now I am here to do honor
To Spoon River, here beside the family whence I sprang.
No one cares now where I dined,
Or lived, or whom I entertained,
Or how often I took the cure at Baden-Baden!
It's the day of the ram
and the head of the year
Rosh Ha'Shanah at
services I sat next to
Mel Torme who outshone
all comers with his bar
mitzvah heroics while on
my left is Barnett Newman
big talker whose favorite
subjects include the horses
and the stock market he
knows the odds the women
are seated upstairs this is
an orthodox congregation
very serious I make
eye contact with the wife
of Menelaus who runs off
with Paris confident I'm Paris.
O bid me mount and sail up there
Amid the cloudy wrack,
For peg and Meg and Paris' love
That had so straight a back,
Are gone away, and some that stay
Have changed their silk for sack.
Were I but there and none to hear
I'd have a peacock cry,
For that is natural to a man
That lives in memory,
Being all alone I'd nurse a stone
And sing it lullaby.
The sunshine seeks my little room
To tell me Paris streets are gay;
That children cry the lily bloom
All up and down the leafy way;
That half the town is mad with May,
With flame of flag and boom of bell:
For Carnival is King to-day;
So pen and page, awhile farewell.
Pigmy seraphs -- gone astray --
Velvet people from Vevay --
Balles from some lost summer day --
Bees exclusive Coterie --
Paris could not lay the fold
Belted down with Emerald --
Venice could not show a check
Of a tint so lustrous meek --
Never such an Ambuscade
As of briar and leaf displayed
For my little damask maid --
I had rather wear her grace
Than an Earl's distinguished face --
I had rather dwell like her
Than be "Duke of Exeter" --
Royalty enough for me
To subdue the Bumblebee.
{Bought with the proceeds of Readings of "Les Châtiments" during
the Siege of Paris.}
Thou deadly crater, moulded by my muse,
Cast thou thy bronze into my bowed and wounded heart,
And let my soul its vengeance to thy bronze impart!
IN Mauchline there dwells six proper young belles,
The pride of the place and its neighbourhood a';
Their carriage and dress, a stranger would guess,
In Lon'on or Paris, they'd gotten it a'.
Miss Miller is fine, Miss Markland's divine,
Miss Smith she has wit, and Miss Betty is braw:
There's beauty and fortune to get wi' Miss Morton,
But Armour's the jewel for me o' them a'.
That which Grecian art created,
Let the Frank, with joy elated,
Bear to Seine's triumphant strand,
And in his museums glorious
Show the trophies all-victorious
To his wondering fatherland.
They to him are silent ever,
Into life's fresh circle never
From their pedestals come down.
He alone e'er holds the Muses
Through whose breast their power diffuses,--
To the Vandal they're but stone!


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Hmmm perhaps the overconfidence makes up for things...?
Hmmm perhaps the overconfidence makes up for things...?
Stopped by Sucks and found the thread over there. I had no idea such a thing could exist on a man...
For those of us not in the know, what is the link to this survivor place?
Impression of Scott:
He seems confident. I think sometimes when people interview you, you don't know how to answer the questions.. you think you're being funny, or you just say what's in your head..
So far, I think I like Scott. I hope he goes far.
http://p085.ezboard.com/fsurvivorsucksfrm13Originally Posted by dietcokegirl
You'll see Scott's thread very easily... Just be careful over there, there's lots of disturbing stuff going on. After you see his pic you will flip.
After you see his pic,you'll have a sudden urge to clean your ears...Originally Posted by Rab
I can't wait to see Scott's face when he gets a look at some of the other male houseguests, because he's probably not used to having other good-looking guys around! I can't decide whether they will all stay outside and work out together and rub suntan lotion on each other, or if they will just turn into catty, jealous guys knocking each other out of the way for the best view in the mirror! Either way, it's entertainment for me, so I'm happy!
I vote for Scott as the one who first mentions his upcoming appearances on David Letterman and Oprah, etc. and who will mentally practice signing his autograph for his adoring fans.
Originally Posted by Clipse
Based on his answers, he also seems to have a varied, and hopefully interesting, personality. Maybe he'll be a departure from the usual one note characters.
I still have my pre-show feel on this guy intact. Something is screaming "gi-normous tool" to me. Him and Jase.
"You don't rehearse Mr. T, you just turn him loose."
-----Sylvester Stallone, on Mr. T-----
He's a tool,alright,Krom.Originally Posted by Krom
Doesn't have much of a tool,though.
Alright,that's my last tiny peenie joke.
For today.
Seems like he's this year's arrogant jerk - But these days reality show contestants are all very sophisticated and know the more outrageous they are, the more face time they get on camera and the more chance they have at being the "BB" star who gets a c hance to extend their 15 min of fame, esp when theyre on a show that isnt very popular but does air 3 hours/week


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The annual Jim Hershberger Gridiron Golf Classic is set for Friday, July 25 at Lake Creek Country Club west of Storm Lake.
The format will be a four-person best-ball for 18 holes. A shotgun start time is scheduled for noon with registration beginning at 11 a.m.
Cost is $90 per person and that includes green fees, cart usage, and the evening meal following the event. The price is $70 for current Lake Creek members that have a golf cart and $75 for members who will need a golf cart.
$10 of each registration will be donated to the Floy and Jim Hershberger Endowed Fund.
Pre-Registrations can be made without having a group together. Four-man groups can be made onsite.
For additional questions, contact BVU Assistant Football Coach Adam Bisenius at 712.749.2259 or firstname.lastname@example.com


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If your doctor has recommended Advair, you may feel panicked to learn that it has a black box warning. What exactly is a black box warning? What are the potential side effects and safety issues associated with the use of Advair? And how can you weigh the risks and benefits not just of Advair, but all medical treatments you consider?

What is Advair?

Advair (fluticasone/salmeterol) is an inhaled medication used to treat asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases (COPD) such as emphysema, chronic bronchitis, and bronchiectasis. It is a combination medication consisting of an inhaled steroid and a long-acting form of the beta agonist medication albuterol, called Serevent (salmeterol). The combination of these medications works especially well to control the inflammation in asthma. The salmeterol does not replace the need for rescue inhalers, such as albuterol, which are still needed for the immediate relief of asthma symptoms, and, in fact, should be avoided when a rescue medication is needed.

Medications included in the black box warning include Advair Diskus, Foradil Aerolizer, and Serevent diskus.

What is a Black Box Warning?

A black box warning is a precautionary statement given by the Food and Drug Administration informing the public that a medication may cause a serious or life threatening adverse reaction.

The term "black box" refers to the box on packaging information in which the warning is issued. Black box warnings have been issued for medications for many years, but have become much more common over the past few decades.

A black box warning may be granted for several reasons ranging from the ability of the drug to cause conditions ranging from birth defects to tendon rupture to suicidal thoughts. In other words, a black box warning indicates that there is potentially a problem with a drug, but does not state exactly what that problem may be. Many manufacturers enclose guides along with these medications explaining the black box warning in greater depth.

You may be wondering why a black box warning is sometimes only added long after a medication has been approved by the FDA. The reason is that clinical trials look at potential safety issues, but some of those issues are not found until the drug is used widely among the public.

Understanding the Black Box Warning with Advair

The black box warning for Advair was listed in 2003. This warning came about as a result of various studies on the safety of salmeterol, the bronchodilator portion of the medications.

The largest study, called the SMART trial, showed a small increase in the risk of death and hospitalization asthma and breathing problems when taking salmeterol, particularly in African-American patients. For this reason, the FDA placed a "black box" warning on salmeterol, as well as Foradil (formoterol), which works in much the same way.

The SMART trial did not study Advair, but since Advair contains salmeterol, the "black box" warning was also given to this medication. In fact, any medication that contains salmeterol or formoterol also has the same "black box" warning.

Salmeterol and formoterol are long-acting beta agonist (LABA). used in the treatment of moderate and severe asthma. LABAs are not an adequate controller therapy by themselves for asthma, and can potentially cause life-threatening asthma attacks if used alone. This fact has been known for years, just as it is well-known that overuse of albuterol, or any other rescue medication, can place a person at risk for severe asthma attacks, and even death from asthma. A person with asthma, therefore, should always use an inhaled steroid for treatment of their asthma when a LABA is required.

Unfortunately, the SMART trial did not address whether a particular patient was taking an inhaled steroid for their asthma, only if salmeterol was safe by itself in the treatment of asthma. Most of the patients with the most severe asthma, particularly African-American patients, were not taking an inhaled steroid when placed on the LABA. However, when the study went back and looked at the patients who were taking an inhaled steroid along with the LABA, there did not appear to be an added risk of severe asthma attacks or death from asthma, even in the African-American patients.

Further testing to get to the bottom of the remaining questions was started in 2011 and is expected to be completed in 2011.

Should I Take Advair if I Have Asthma?

The FDA states that a LABA medication should not be used if a person with asthma is controlled on an inhaled steroid alone, and should never be the first medication which is prescribed for asthma.

If asthma is not controlled on an inhaled steroid, or the level of asthma is classified as being moderate to severe, then combination therapy including an inhaled steroid and a LABA can be a good choice of therapy. Other treatment choices include increasing the dose of the inhaled steroid or the addition of another medication such as Singulair (montelukast) or theophylline. These other medication choices may not control asthma as well as the combination of an inhaled steroid and LABA.

For most people with moderate to severe asthma, or those whose asthma is not controlled on an inhaled steroid alone, the benefits of a LABA medication outweigh the risks. However, it is important for a person to know the risks and benefits of taking any medication, particularly those with a "black box" warning. Learn more about the treatment options available for asthma.

Are You at Risk for a Fatal Asthma Attack?

Long Acting Beta Agonists in Children

As with adults, we are awaiting further studies looking at the safety of LABA drugs in children. A 2015 review of studies to date found that the additions of long-acting beta-agonists to inhaled steroids did not result in a reduced rate of asthma exacerbations or the need for oral steroid medications. They did, however, improve lung function. If your child's allergist is considering adding a LABA drug, talk to her about what you may expect to gain and what the risks are in children in particular.

Bottom Line - Weighing the Risks and Benefits of Medical Treatments

It's important to realize that nearly every medical treatment available, whether a drug or a procedure, can have side effects and result in adverse events. In some ways, weighing the risks and benefits of Advair is easier as a warning is included and both patients and physicians are well aware of this potential problem.

If you are considering using Advair, have a good talk with your oncologist. Make sure you have considered any other possible options, including avoiding the conditions which trigger your asthma. Make sure to go over the risk factors for asthma as well. Many of these are out of your control, but others may be easily remedied. For example, a low vitamin D level is a risk factor for asthma attacks and a simple blood test can determine if your levels are too low. Avoid secondhand smoke. Learn about and get treated for GERD if that is a factor in your asthma.

Make sure that you have an asthma action plan in place, and never hesitate to call your doctor or to go to the emergency if you think you may be in trouble.

Sources:

Cates, C., Wieland, L., Oleszczuk, M., and K. Kew. Safety of Regular Formoterol or Salmeterol in Adults with Asthma: An Overview of Cochrane Reviews. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews. 2014. (2):CD010314.

Chauhan, B., Chartrand, C., Ni Chroinin, M., Milan, S., and F. Ducharme. Addition of Long-Acting Beta2-Agonists to Inhaled Corticosteroids for Chronic Asthma in Children. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews. 2015. (11):CD007949.

Sears, M. Safety of Long-Acting Beta-Agonists: Are New Data Really Required?. Chest. 2009. 136(2):604-7.

U.S. Food and Drug Administration. FDA Drug Safety Communication: FDA requires post-market safety trials for Long-Acting Beta-Agonists (LABAs). 04/15/11. https://www.fda.gov/Drugs/DrugSafety/ucm251512.htm


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UN558 Faith and Global Solidarity
capstone program
Jennie Purnell
Professor of Political Science
This course is also offered as PO 225.
Mondays 3:00 - 5:20 p.m.
Gasson 303
course description
What does it mean to live in solidarity with the poor and the marginalized of the world? What do we owe others, and which others do we owe? If we see global solidarity as a commitment of faith and a commitment of politics, what does this mean for our education, relationships, vocations, civic and political engagements, consumption choices, and spiritual lives?
Topics to be explored in this course include international immersion trips, service-learning, and Jesuit higher education; Catholic social teaching on solidarity and justice; faith-based social movements; individual and collective action; and global solidarity in the habits and choices of everyday life.
This course is intended for juniors and seniors who have participated in an international immersion trip at Boston College, and who wish to further explore the meaning and significance of this experience in their intellectual, personal, social, and spiritual lives. Interested students should email Prof. Jennie Purnell for further information and for permission to register.
contact information
Office: McGuinn 502
Department offices: McGuinn 200 and 201
Telephone: 617-552-4177
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Office hours: Tuesdays, 11:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m. and by appointment
Please feel free to stop by to chat anytime during my regular office hours—you don't need an appointment or a particular problem to discuss. If you would like to see me and can't stop by during office hours, please e-mail me to set up an appointment for some other time. I am usually not on campus on Wednesdays and Fridays.
course requirements
Your grade will be based on the following course components:
- seminar participation and leadership—25 percent of final grade;
- education essay—20 percent of final grade;
- research paper—35 percent of final grade;
- end-of-term synthesis and reflection essay—20 percent of final grade.
Most class sessions will be facilitated by two or three students. Student leaders are responsible for the following: formulating and distributing discussion questions based on the readings (to be e-mailed to the class no later than noon the Friday before); selecting two short passages of prose, poems, music, prayers, and/or meditations to open and close the class session; leading class discussion; and summarizing the gist of the discussion at the end of the session.
See the individual assignments for more information on the education essay, research paper, and end-of-term synthesis and reflection essay. Each assignment includes an assessment rubric.
course readings
The following books are available for purchase at the Boston College Bookstore:
- Bernard F. Evans, 2006, Lazarus at the Table: Catholics and Social Justice, Collegeville, Minnesota: Liturgical Press.
- Margaret Swedish and Marie Dennis, 2004, Like Grains of Wheat: A Spirituality of Solidarity, Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books.
- Christian Smith, 1996, Resisting Reagan: The U.S. Central America Peace Movement, Chicago: Chicago University Press.
- John Neafsey, 2006, A Sacred Voice is Calling: Personal Vocation and Social Conscience, Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books.
- Pema Chodron, 2001, The Wisdom of No Escape and the Path of Loving Kindness, Boston: Shambala Publications.
course schedule—topics, readings, and assignments
Part one—a well-educated solidarity
- Week 1 - Introductions and overview of course.
- Week 2 - International immersion as pedagogy and practice:
Jo Ann Van Engen, 2000, "The Cost of Short Term Missions," Other Side (January and February);
Sara Grusky, "International Service: A Critical Guide from an Impassioned Advocate," American Behavioral Scientist 43(5): 858-863;
Ali Newcomb, 2008, "Thoughts from the Other Side of Service and Immersion Trips," Advanced Study Grant research project conducted in Guatemala;
Stephen J. Pope, 2010, "Immersion Trips," in Thomas P. Rausch, S.J., Educating for Faith and Justice: Catholic Higher Education Today, Collegeville, Minnesota: Liturgical Press, pp. 127-142.
- Week 3 - Being men and women for others—perils and potential of service and service-learning:
Video: Invisible Children;
Binyavanga Wainaina, 2005, "How to Write About Africa," Granta 92(winter); Ivan Illich, 1968, "To Hell with Good Intentions," Conference on InterAmerican Student Projects, Cuernavaca, Mexico.
David D. Blouin and Evelyn M. Perry, 2009, "Whom Does Service Learning Really Serve? Community-Based Organizations' Perspective on Service Learning," Teaching Sociology 37(2): 120-135.
Mark Ravizza, S.J., 2010, "Praxis-Based Education," in Thomas P. Rausch, S.J., Educating for Faith and Justice: Catholic Higher Education Today, Collegeville, Minnesota: Liturgical Press, pp. 111-126.
- Week 4 - Educating whole persons for solidarity in the real world:
Dean Brackley, 2006, "Higher Standards," America;
Peter-Hans Kolvenbach, S.J., 2000, "The Service of Faith and the Promotion of Justice in American Jesuit Higher Education," Commitment to Justice in Jesuit Higher Education Conference, Santa Clara, CA (http://www.loyola.edu/yotc/father_kolvenbach.html).
Stanley Fish, 2008, Save the World on Your Own Time, New York: Oxford University Press, chs. 1 and 7.
Education essay due today.
Part two—global solidarity in faith and politics
- Week 5 - Social justice and Catholic social teaching:
Bernard F. Evans, Lazarus at the Table.
- Week 6 - Spirituality and solidarity:
Margaret Swedish and Marie Dennis, Like Grains of Wheat.
Spring vacation—no class
- Week 7 - Solidarity, faith, and collective action I:
Christian Smith, Resisting Reagan.
- Week 8 - Solidarity, faith, and collective action II:
Christian Smith, Resisting Reagan.
Part three—solidarity in everyday life
- Week 9 - Solidarity and vocational discernment:
John Neafsey, A Sacred Voice is Calling.
- Week 10 - Ethical consumption—who works for you and under what conditions?
Made in a Free World Slavery Footprint: How Many Slaves Work for You? (www.slaveryfootprint.org);
International Labour Organization (ILO), Forced Labor (http://goo.gl/Nos58);
David Masci, 2004,"Human Trafficking and Slavery," CQ Researcher.
Easter Monday—no class.
Patriots Day—no class.
- Week 11 - Ethical consumption— solidarity and sustainability:
"Who's Under Your Carbon Footprint?" Catholic Climate Covenant (http://catholicclimatecovenant.org/);
Thomas J. Billitteri, 2008, "Reducing Your Carbon Footprint: Can Individual Actions Reduce Global Warming?" CQ Researcher;
Rachel S. Cox, 2006, "Ecotourism: Does it Help or Hurt Fragile Lands and Cultures?" CQ Researcher.
- Week 12 - Meditation, mindfulness, and compassion:
Pema Chodron, The Wisdom of No Escape and the Path of Loving Kindness.


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10997 Berlin
Peres Projects is pleased to present GAY TOWN, a solo project with James Franco. Please note this exhibition will be presented in a temporary project space on the historic Karl- Marx-Allee 87 prior to Peres Projects' move to its new main space at Karl-Marx-Allee 82.
GAY TOWN explores a variety of themes that are central to Franco's artistic practice, mainly issues related to adolescence, public and private persona, stereotypes and other societal concerns such as society's preoccupation with celebrity. Franco created most of the works for GAY TOWN over the past two years, making many of the works in hotel rooms, makeshift studios and other temporary locations whilst completing other projects, mainly motion pictures. Franco makes reference to several of his motion picture work and related projects in parts of the installations and other works on view in GAY TOWN.
James Franco works across media including painting, drawing, film, sculpture, installation and photography, electing the media that best fits the project rather than committing to a sole artistic practice. All of these practices will be presented in this exhibition in one of his most ambitious installations to date.
James Franco (b. 1978, Palo Alto, CA) is an acclaimed American actor, filmmaker, writer, and artist. This is his second solo show in Berlin with Peres Projects.


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The House of Vanheems make church furnishings, etc.
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They don't seem to have a website or e mail address.
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Harry's Bar in Banbridge snapped up by former owners of The Coach nightclub
A well-known pub in Banbridge has been sold – to the former owners of the town's landmark nightclub The Coach, which itself remains on the market.
The keys of Harry's Bar in the Co Down town have now been handed over to the Scullion brothers, Myles and Brian.
That means that the chain built up by the Quinn family in the town has been broken up.
The Quinns put The Coach on the market last year through agents Osborne King with a guide price of £975,000 – along with their other assets, Harry's at £475,000 and the £1.5m-priced Iveagh Movie Studios cinema. They are still running a third pub in the town, AJ Quinn & Sons.
The front bar at the Coach is still open for business – though its famed nightclub has been shut since the start of this month after a long history of drawing in crowds from as far away as Newry, Armagh and Belfast.
A notice placed on the nightclub's website last month said it had been sold – but it's understood no sale took place.
Myles Scullion said the nightclub had not been of interest to them as a possible acquisition.
They are operating Harry's Bar as tenants, after the freehold was bought by unidentified investors, who also acquired the freehold of former Botanic Inns bars The Parador and Ryan's last year.
Mr Scullion said: "Harry's Bar is probably the best bar in Banbridge.
"We are originally from Banbridge, and knew the former owners. t has a good food trade. We intend to do a few renovations and bits and pieces to increase the business."
His business had enjoyed a good December. "It was a very good December, for the first time in three or four years, and maybe people now have a bit more money to spend.
"But if you have the right place serving the right food and the right entertainment, and what you are offering overall is good, a pub should do well."
The brothers also operate the Halfway House near Banbridge and the well-known Seagoe Hotel in Portadown, Co Armagh.
Upturn in pub trade is just the beginning, writes Colin Neil - CEO of Pubs of Ulster
Last year showed very positive signs for the economy and, while this did not translate into cash in real terms for pub owners, we hope that the continuation of these trends will be good for the pub trade in 2014.
There is a feeling that the pub industry – in line with other sectors – has turned a corner over the past 12 months, but this doesn't mean it hasn't been a tough year for many licensees.
In spite of the Cathedral Quarter bomb in December, Christmas trade was reasonably good. Belfast had an increase in activity from as early as September.
Other areas, like Londonderry, were slower to pick up, but did so from the end of November and performed well through Christmas. This upturn did require a lot of investment from pubs, such as additional entertainment.
We look forward to the swift progression of the Licensing of the Pavement Cafes Bill through the Assembly and the reform of liquor licensing. Whilst we recognise the need for appropriate regulation, we also need to be able to move with the times to compete as an international tourist destination by making the pub more appealing than a night in.
Pubs of Ulster are encouraged by all of the above but are also keen to demonstrate what the great Ulster pub can offer.
Belfast Telegraph


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Ann Coulter finally lets loose on her critics on this morning's "Morning Joe":
To steal Hotline's Last Call idea:
"I had written five New York Times best-sellers. People like the way I write. I comment on America in a lively entertaining way. These are legitimate topics. I'm a little sick of being browbeaten by a bunch about why I chose this word or why I told that joke and then people turn around and say 'Oh, you are so mean, you are so mean."
""I AM A REGIONAL MANAGER. YOU WILL NOT TALK TO ME LIKE THAT. I DRIVE A DODGE STRATUS!" -Will Farrell, "Saturday Night Live"
At the conclusion of the show, Scarborough says that he and Coulter should just "Hug it out, Bitch!"


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A lot happened in 1983: The first mobile phones were introduced to the public by Motorola, Sally Ride because the first woman in space and Michael Jackson's album "Thriller" was released.
It is also the year Mama Sid's Pizza opened up at its Barnett Shoals Road location. On Tuesday, the restaurant will celebrate its 30th anniversary.
"We're on our fourth generation of serving people who have come in," said Jim Waters, who opened the restaurant with his wife, Sidney Anne. Their son, Shaun, is now in charge of the restaurant.
"It's always been a family project and working with friends," said Sidney Ann Waters.
The decision to open a restaurant came after Jim Waters stopped teaching at the University of Georgia.
"We did not want to move with Shaun going into his senior year," Sidney Anne Waters said. "Jim taught recreation and leisure studies, which is training students to become park rangers, park managers, and the biggest part to a park is its concessions and he was well versed in it, so we started a restaurant."
The Waters bought a pizza place already in the location, but they knew they needed to come up with their own name.
"In eighth grade, all the guys would always try to figure out all the other guys' mother's name and call the guy that name, to make fun of them or whatever," Shaun Waters said. "Eventually, they saw my mom's name and they started calling me Sidney Anne. My closer friends got to where they called my Sid. It stuck to me and my friends when they came over to my house, they never called my parents Mr. and Mrs. Waters, it was Mama and Papa. Since they called me Sid, they started calling them Mama Sid and Papa Sid. And when we bought the store everybody was like, 'Well what are you going to call it? You gotta call it Mama Sid's."
At one point, Mama Sid's Pizza had four locations — in Watkinsville, Lexington, on Jefferson Road and Harris Street. But they closed one by one, and now just have the original restaurant remaining.
After 18 years, Jim decided to go back to teaching at Clarke Middle School and the Waters gave the restaurant to Shaun, who had been working with them since he was 15.
"We turned the store over to Shaun to run. He has done a very good job in these bad economic times," Sidney Anne Waters said. "The main thing we have tried to maintain is quality and service and even though we go through waves of service when you're hiring kids, we've tried to maintain the quality of our product because the recipe has not changed in 30 years. Outside of adding things to the menu, our menu has been the same for 30 years."
Among those items added to the restaurant over the years are subs, hot wings, pasta and even calzones. But the most popular pizza is still pepperoni. In January, they started having a BYOB service, where patrons can bring their own beer in.
"The kids still prefer cheese and we have some kids who like cheese and a couple of olives," Sidney Anne Waters said. Their grandson Jackson has invented his own pizza with pepperoni and dill pickles while his brother, Miles, invented a pizza with potato chips.
They also have a pizza buffet, but it's different from most restaurants. Pizza lovers can come in and order their favorite pizza for them to put on the buffet.
"Years ago, we just served pizza to you as an individual and then we started with the buffet and put whatever we wanted out there. Then several years ago, someone came in and said what they wanted and we started doing that," Jim said.
On Tuesday, Mama Sid's Pizza will be celebrating 30 years with a special — 30 percent off everything.
"We want people to know how very appreciative we really are for the community for supporting us all these years," Sidney Anne Waters said. "It's been a blessing."
• Follow reporter Karah-Leigh Hancock at www.facebook.com/KarahLHancockABH or www.twitter.com/KHancockABH.