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Head coach Bret Bielema discussed some of the key players in Saturday's win over Austin Peay, as well as the Badgers' upcoming game and Big Ten opener at Michigan State.
Bielema began the press conference by stating his excitement for getting into Big Ten play. He then went on to focus on some of the key players in Saturday's record 70-3 victory over Austin Peay, as well as the team's preparation for rival Michigan State.
Freshman running back James White was the offensive MVP in the team's victory this week, carrying the ball 11 times for 145 yards and scoring a remarkable four touchdowns. White joins Ron Dayne as the second freshman in Badger history to score four rushing touchdowns in one game. White was also named Big Ten Freshman of the Week for his performance.
"[It was] fun to see him grow and get those touchdowns. That was really neat for his confidence," Bielema said.
On defense, Bielema named junior defensive back Aaron Henry team MVP. Henry racked up four tackles and a career-high three pass breakups in the win on Saturday.
"[Henry has] played his most two complete games back to back," Bielema said.
Bielema said he is also very excited about where his team is from a health standpoint.
"Since fall camp started, this is the healthiest we have been ...We were able to rest a few guys in the second half Saturday, which was critical because there were a number of guys that we didn't know if they were going to be able to actually play in the game," Bielema said. "For us to be able to get those things done on Saturday without them being out there was very, very big in our preparation for this week."
The Badgers must have a strong focus this week in preparation for Michigan State.
"We know that going up there is a tremendous challenge. I think they are rolling pretty good as a 4-0 football team," Bielema said.
This year, the Spartans have shown a very strong running game, racking up over 900 yards already. They also have a very efficient quarterback, Kirk Cousins, who has completed 67 percent of his passes thus far.
It is not just Michigan State's offense that worries Bielema though, it is their defense as well.
"To me, they might feature the best defensive player from last year's film, and he is playing at high level this year, Greg Jones. He is a guy that is just really, really special to watch," Bielema said.
The Senior All-American linebacker was named the Big Ten Defensive Co-Player of the Week after recording the first two interceptions of his career, along with four tackles and a forced fumble, in the Spartans' 45-7 win over Northern Colorado on Saturday.
The Badgers will have their work cut out for them going to Michigan State on Saturday, with the Spartans holding a 14-7 advantage in games played in East Lansing, and hope to improve upon the 2-2 record they have under Bret Bielema in conference openers.
Lets hope the Badgers can win at Michigan State. GO BUCKY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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So I'm partially kidding…the Ubuntu Edge is quickly becoming a crowdfunding phenomena, and everyone should support it if they can. If we succeed, it will be a historic moment for Ubuntu, crowdfunding, and the global phone industry as well.
But I Don't Wanna Talk About That Right Now
While I'm definitely a fan of the phone stuff, I'm a cloud and server guy at heart and what's gotten me really excited this past month have been two significant (and freaking awesome) announcements.
#1 The Juju Charm Championship
First off, if you still don't know about Juju, it's essentially our attempt at making Cloud Computing for Human Beings. Juju allows you to deploy, connect, manage, and scale web services and applications quickly and easily…again…and again…AND AGAIN! These services are captured in what we call charms, which contain the knowledge of how to properly deploy, configure, connect, and scale the services and applications you will want to deploy in the cloud. We have 100′s of charms for every popular and well-known web service and application in use in the cloud today. They've been authored and maintained by the experts, so you don't have to waste your time trying to become one. Just as Ubuntu depends on a community of packagers and developers, so does Juju. Juju goes only as far as our Charm Community will take us, and this is why the Charm Championship is so important to us.
So….what is this Charm Championship all about? We took notice of the fantastic response to the Cloud-Prize contest ran by our good friends (and Ubuntu Server users) over at Netflix. So we thought we could do something similar to boost the number of full service solutions deployable by Juju, i.e. Charm Bundles. If charms are the APT packages of the cloud, bundles are effectively the package seeds, thus allowing you to deploy groups of services, configured and interconnected all at once. We've chosen this approach to increase our bundle count because we know from our experience with Ubuntu, that the best approach for growth will be by harvesting and cultivating the expertise and experience of the experts regularly developing and deploying these solutions. For example, we at Canonical maintain and regularly deploy an OpenStack bundle to allow us to quickly get our clouds up for both internal use and for our Ubuntu Advantage customers. We have master level expertise in OpenStack cloud deployments, and thus have codified this into our charms so that others are able to benefit. The Charm Championship is our attempt to replicate this sharing of similar master level expertise across more service/application bundles…..BY OFFERING $30,000 USD IN PRIZE MONEY! Think of how many Ubuntu Edge phones that could buy you…well, unless you desperately need to have one of the first 50 :-).
#2 JujuCharms.com
From the very moment we began thinking about creating Juju years ago…we always envisioned eventually creating an interface that provides solution architects the ability to graphically create, deploy, and interact with services visually…replicating the whiteboard planning commonly employed in the planning phase of such solutions.
The new Juju GUI now integrated into JujuCharms.com is the realization of our vision, and I'm excited as hell at the possibilities opened and the technical roadblocks removed by the release of this tool. We've even charmed it, so you can 'juju deploy juju-gui' into any supported cloud, bare metal (MAAS), or local workstation (via LXC) environment. Below is a video of deploying OpenStack via our new GUI, and a perfect example of the possibilities that are opened up now that we've released this innovative and f*cking awesome tool:
The best part here, is that you can play with the new GUI RIGHT NOW by selecting the "Build" option on jujucharms.com….so go ahead and give it a try!
Join the Championship…Play with the GUI…then Buy the Phone
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Past and Future
I love that moment when
She realizes and I realize
We each realize the other has wanted to
(Maybe since dinner
Or third period
Or she first saw my profile pic
Or I first saw her across the party)
The first time was in the back-yard
Of a senior center.
The grounds and we were
In formal Spring dress.
Our instruments and our parents and our friends
Probably existed without us
In the glowing distance.
And we rested against, behind a tree,
Less and less able to focus
On talk of friends or Dvorak,
And who would be first chair next Fall.
We are not young for
Fifteen, Twenty, Thirty, Fifty Years.
We are young for about
Five minutes altogether.
We are young for the first times,
The three seconds in which
Her eyes first say yes,
Or our baby first coughs
Or our mom becomes
(it takes just a few seconds)
Feeble in front of us.
The rest of life is just somewhere in the middle,
Like the train-stops between
Here and Home.
In the gym, I watched her
She might have been
Seventy, Eighty, Ninety.
Taking off her coat took with shaking hands.
Eighty-six seconds.
When her pale quivering legs
Hit the treadmill at
Two-point-two, two-point-three,
We all watched
In polite horror.
We are so lucky, so cursed.


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It's been a good series between Greenwood and Shiloh Christian.
Greenwood will host the final installment tonight of the rivalry between two of the most successful programs in the entire state the last two decades.
Greenwood and Shiloh Christian have each won seven state championships with the Saints winning their first in 1998 and the Bulldogs winning their first in 2000. During the past 18 years, Shiloh Christian has won 184 games and Greenwood has won 182.
Only Charleston, Harding Academy and Nashville have won more during that span.
Shiloh Christian will not petition to play in the 5A-West next year and will drop to 4A. Greenwood will remain in 6A and play Springdale, Northside and Southside in nonconference play.
"It's been a really good game," Greenwood head coach Rick Jones said. "I hate to see it go. They have a great place to play up there with a great atmosphere. We're really going to miss it."
Greenwood holds a 6-3 edge against Shiloh Christian in the nine-year history of the series that developed into one of the most exciting rivalries in the state in a short time.
"It really has," Jones said. "We haven't had too many boring games, they've been high scoring."
Greenwood won a 55-51 shootout in 2009 and a 45-42 slugfest in 2005. Shiloh Christian won a thrilling 49-48 game in 2006.
"It's been a really competitive game," Jones said. "There have been times where they've got us pretty good, and there have been times where we've got them pretty good. Then, we had a one-point up there. It's been a competitive hard fought game that our kids look forward to every year."
The last team to beat the Bulldogs was Siloam Springs in the fourth week of the 2010 season. The week before, Shiloh Christian rolled past Greenwood 48-27 behind quarterback Kiehl Frazier.
Greenwood has beaten the Saints 52-21 and 55-0 since then, but Shiloh Christian is bringing another capable team to Greenwood this year.
"(Shiloh coach) Josh (Floyd) told me this summer that they were going to be a lot better, and they really are," Jones said. "They've got some guys that can really play. The quarterback is playing really well. They have five or six guys that can play all over the field."
Led by quarterback Daniel Shimer, who was stuck behind Austin Allen at Fayetteville and transferred to Shiloh Christian after his freshman season, the Saints have rolled to 1,018 yards in two games.
In a 35-35 tie against Siloam Springs in the season opener, Shimer ran for 270 yards, including touchdown runs of 92 and 72 yards. He also passed for 207 yards and two touchdowns.
Last week, Shimer passed for 120 yards and two touchdowns and ran for 68 yards in a 44-7 win against Broken Bow, Okla.
"He can run, and he can throw," Jones said. "He competes hard. He's a tough competitor."
Greenwood quarterback Jabe Burgess paces the Bulldogs' offense and has shaken off most of the rust from a six-week layoff from a broken bone in his foot.


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This has probably been asked and answered before but I'm just wondering what S&C-gym work recommendations to do, instead of doing anything and everything, what would be ideal for a fencer to do? In terms of exercises, reps, sets, etc. If anyone has any suggestions I'm all ears.


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FAQ Search Memberlist Usergroups Register Profile Log in to check your private messages Log in INGALLS, Clyde Edwin 1904-1992 PHGS Members Forum Forum Index -> Steuben Bio's View previous topic :: View next topic Author Message pgiomettiJoined: 31 Aug 2006Posts: 425 Posted: Thu Aug 06, 2015 9:23 am Post subject: INGALLS, Clyde Edwin 1904-1992 Clyde Edwin Ingalls October 11, 1904 — December 6, 1992 Clyde Edwin Ingalls was born in Canisteo, New York on October 11, 1904. As boys, Clyde and his brother, Arthur, worked in their father's hardware store in Canisteo and became known locally as a pair of inventive youngsters. His interest in engineering and technology followed naturally from these activities and led him to enter Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) in Rochester, New York. He received the degree of electrical engineer in June 1927 and remained at RPI until 1929 as a graduate student, instructor in electrical engineering and communications, and as assistant operator of broadcast, experimental, and amateur radio stations. During this period Clyde developed his deep interest in radio engineering, the field that was to become a major component of his life's work. Clyde had a distinguished career in non-academic circles before coming to Cornell. From 1929 to 1941 he was with the Stromberg-Carlson Telephone Manufacturing Company in Rochester, New York as radio engineer, head of the Research Laboratory, and head of the Instrument Development Laboratory. In those capacities Clyde made many innovative contributions to high-frequency electronic engineering, particularly in radio broadcasting and reception and in early television. During the war years, from 1941 to 1945, Clyde was with the eminent Massachusetts Institute of Technology Radiation Laboratory where he was in charge of all work on fire-control radar receivers. One of his most significant developments in that period was a fast automatic-gain-control technique that reduced feedback instabilities and minimized most forms of radar jamming. He was also the author of several articles in the Radiation Laboratory Series of books on radar. In 1946 he formed a private consulting firm, Canisteo Electronic Instrument Laboratories, with which he was affiliated for many years afterward. In 1947, Clyde was recruited by Charles R. Burrows, director of the School of Electrical Engineering. He joined the EE Faculty as an associate professor in September of that year, and was associated with the School for 24 years until his retirement in 1971. Throughout his career as a member of the EE Faculty, Professor Ingalls taught both elementary and advanced courses, but principally theory and laboratory courses to upper-class and graduate students. He taught the first course in television at Cornell, which developed into two courses, one in transient operation of networks, and the other in network analysis and synthesis based on the use of the Laplace transform and convolution methods. He taught the first course in transistors in the School and developed several courses in acoustics. He built the first computer at Cornell and was chairman of a committee that established computing facilities on campus that eventually developed into the Cornell Computing Center. Cornell University Faculty Memorial Statement http://ecommons.library.cornell.edu/handle/1813/17813 Clyde was active on many committees in the School and in the College, with particular emphasis on those involved with graduate study. For three years he was chairman of the Graduate Committee of the Engineering Division of the Graduate School, and in that period served as the first adviser in the School to all graduate students in the M. Eng. (Electrical) Program. He also served as special committee chairman and minor committee member for many doctoral and masters graduate students. He was a member of a committee in the School that revised the entire laboratory program beyond the second year to conform with a new Engineering College program that placed all engineering students in a common curriculum in their first two years. The EE School building, Phillips Hall, has a tower without windows that was originally designed to house an acoustics laboratory. It is likely that Director Burrows had that project in mind when he convinced Clyde to come to Cornell. Since the funding for an elaborate anechoic chamber for the tower never materialized, Clyde had to conduct his acoustic research with electric organs and various loudspeaker configurations in an inexpensive chamber that he designed, built, and installed in the tower. In 1961, Clyde and a colleague from the General Electric Laboratory conducted some acoustic research of an unusual nature. He presented the results of that study at a meeting of the Acoustical Society of America at the University of Texas in Austin in October 1964. The newspaper, The Austin Statesman, reported (erroneously) that Clyde had said humans could hear electromagnetic waves, specifically radar waves. The resulting flurry of reports by other newspapers created a minor sensation that did not subside until Walter Sullivan reported the correct version of the phenomenon in the New York Times of December 6, 1964. It seems Clyde and his colleague had found that certain individuals with good hearing at high frequencies could indeed detect pulsed radar waves that impinged directly on the cranium, and that the pulse-repetition rate of the radar signal could be "heard" without benefit of the ear. Clyde reported he had experienced the phenomenon himself, although he advised others not to try the experiment. He also said that a somewhat parallel phenomenon had been reported on several occasions by people who had heard a hissing sound when they observed a falling meteorite, even though the object was travelling at a speed far exceeding that of sound. Clyde received many letters and inquiries as a result of all this publicity and was particularly amused by a book about UFOs that justified their existence on the basis of his work. His paper, "The Sensation of Hearing in Electromagnetic Fields," was published in the New York State Journal of Medicine, Vol. 67, No. 22, November 15, 1967. Clyde was a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) and of the Institute of Radio Engineers (IRE), and a member of the Acoustical Society of America. He held all of the offices in the Ithaca Cornell University Faculty Memorial Statement http://ecommons.library.cornell.edu/handle/1813/17813 Section of IRE and served as program chairman of the Cornell Chapter of the Society of Sigma Xi. He was a licensed Professional Engineer in New York State. Although Clyde maintained he was not a musician, he enjoyed playing the piano as a hobby and always tuned the instrument himself. In the latter stages of his illness, when he could no longer speak coherently, he still retained his ability to sing and harmonize. Some members of St. Paul's United Methodist Church in Ithaca may recall that Clyde used his acoustical expertise to design and install the church sound system. When Clyde retired from Cornell he moved to Potsdam, New York and taught in the Electrical Engineering Department at Clarkson University for one semester until an accident and subsequent ill health caused him to end his academic activities. He was able to continue as an amateur radio operator and to enjoy music for some time until increasing medical difficulties necessitated admission to a nursing home. Well before his retirement Professor Ingalls had the satisfaction of knowing that many of the innovative ideas and techniques he introduced into the EE curriculum and in the laboratories of the School for the first time had become standard material in many courses. He came to the School at a time when electrical engineering education was undergoing major changes. In his quiet and modest way he preferred to work behind the scenes, but his extensive theoretical background, clear understanding of engineering principles, and broad industrial experience allowed him to make key contributions to the evolving new standards in the EE School. On June 29, 1929, Clyde married Mary Ann Ross in Canisteo, New York. He is survived by his wife who lives in Potsdam, New York; a daughter, Barbara Trerise of Potsdam, New York; a son, Norman R. of Parish, New York; a daughter, Janet Cameron of Washington, Pennsylvania; a brother, Arthur of Huntington, West Virginia; twin sisters, Rachel Titus of Bloomfield, Connecticut and Ruth Morrison of Lakeland, Florida; and nine grandchildren. Professor Ingalls will be long remembered as a dedicated teacher and adviser, and a respected colleague and friend. 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Quick Slants:
- Bills deferred on the opening kickoff again. They promptly went offsides on opening kickoff and Hillis took the Browns right down the field but the Bills defense stiffened and held them to a field goal.
- The Bills went for it on a 4th and 2 play at the Browns 35 in the first half. Right call but the pass in tight coverage went incomplete.
- Cleveland chose to kick a field goal on their opening drive on 4th and goal at the 1. They got the points but should have went for it and gave it to Hillis for what likely would have been a score. The Bills than reciprocated by going for it on 4th and goal from the one foot line and kicking a FG.
- Jairus Byrd may not be picking off passes but he has forced three fumbles in two games. He forced two today, one recovered by the Bills.
- During a third quarter drive, the Browns fumbled three times and recovered all three fumbles! On the third one, the Bills had three players on the ball and Joshua Cribbs got it back. The drive ended in a punt.
My Take:
This game was as ugly as most people thought it would be but for the first time since 2004 the Bills came out on the winning end of a series filled of bizzare games. Last year they lost a slightly uglier game so this may be a show of progress. Afterall, ugly wins are better than ugly losses.
What's Ahead:
The Bills head down to South Florida to take on the Dolphins in a game that likely won't mean anything for Miami either as they appear to be dead in the playoff picture.


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After all these years I'm still bitter she didn't release a studio version or at least a proper live version of Princess Die.
This is fan made. But am enjoying this acoustic version of The Cure.
After all these years I'm still bitter she didn't release a studio version or at least a proper live version of Princess Die.
^ I think it will eventually be released as part of a 'rarity' collection.
I'm loving the throwback style for the Supreme x Louis Vuitton collaboration.
I have always been honest about my physical and mental health struggles. Searching for years to get to the bottom of them. It is complicated and difficult to explain, and we are trying to figure it out. As I get stronger and when I feel ready, I will tell my story in more depth, and plan to take this on strongly so I can not only raise awareness, but expand research for others who suffer as I do, so I can help make a difference. I use the word "suffer" not for pity, or attention, and have been disappointed to see people online suggest that I'm being dramatic, making this up, or playing the victim to get out of touring. If you knew me, you would know this couldn't be further from the truth. I'm a fighter. I use the word suffer not only because trauma and chronic pain have changed my life, but because they are keeping me from living a normal life. They are also keeping me from what I love the most in the world: performing for my fans. I am looking forward to touring again soon, but I have to be with my doctors right now so I can be strong and perform for you all for the next 60 years or more. I love you so much.
From her Instagram...
Gaga seems to have taken up temporary residence and possibly recording in Portland.
All I want to be is the very best machine I can be.
Interesting... thanks for sharing Andyland. Not a super impressive cover IMO. It doesn't really add anything new to the material, and the original feels more poignant and heartfelt, though her performance is solid.
She's no Gaynor, Garland, or Streisand, but I'm still looking forward to seeing how she does in this.
Watching that trailer, I'm very impressed by Cooper. She seems a bit flat, though. I don't know if it's because she's not a great actress or because all I can see is "Lady Gaga". I hope beyond hope this isn't a bad moment for her ( *cough* like madonna *cough*).
The Landslide Never Brought, Brought Me Down
Based on the few short clips, I actually think (before she starts singing) she does a nice job disappearing into the role but as soon as that vocal starts it's so unmistakably her. I'm definitely looking forward to seeing it.
I remember reading she was going to be credited as Stefanie Germanotta for this film. I guess they changed their minds!
tuna rubber a little blubber in my igloo
Oh that looks really good! I definitely want to watch.
This is so charming and great (BC really is a dreamboat):
I saw the trailer before a movie this weekend. I highly doubt that this will be a disaster! It looks well-made.
Not that I'm Nostradamus, but I bet she gets an Oscar this year for Best Song and likely gets nominated for Best Actress if she's halfway decent. Gaga seems to have been fully embraced by Hollywood, and there's a narrative that she was "robbed" of a Best Song win the year she was nominated and Sam Smith won. Plus, when an original song from a musical is nominated in this category, it almost always wins. I think come next spring she has an excellent chance of being able to add "Academy Award Winner" before her name.
I thought she was bad in American Horror Story, but I imagine this role will suit her much, much better. The hype machine is also going to be big on this one--celebrities are already praising it, and I'm sure we'll be hearing about how all the singing was live every time this movie is mentioned (the press for Les Miserables similarly drilled that point home). Typically, when a music diva lands a baity role like this and handles it well, she at LEAST gets an Oscar nod (Diana Ross in Lady Sings the Blues, Bette Midler in The Rose, Cher in Moonstruck). The exceptions are Madonna for Evita and Courtney Love for The People Vs. Larry Flynt, but both of those women came with a lot more baggage and were probably considered outsiders in the film industry far more than the other ladies I mentioned.
Long story short--I think this is going to be a success for her. And I echo what has been said about Bradley Cooper--he looks good in this and sings surprisingly well. I honestly would have thought he was a professional country singer based on what we heard in the trailer.
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You will find me at the JRB Gallery on the Paseo tomorrow evening. I can't wait for this opening.
Tonight, I'll be on lower Bricktown in front of the Harkins Theater from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. watching Cami Stinson. Watch this and you'll know why I'll be out tonight.
Daily Kos on Oklahoma's 2d Congressional District election in wake of Rep. Dan Boren announcing he won't seek re-election:
Yesterday morning, ex-Rep. Brad Carson emailed me to let me know that his plans have changed and he will not be seeking his old seat back in the wake of Dan Boren's retirement. Fortunately, Democrats have a strong bench here despite the red hue of the district, and there are several other possible candidates, including ex-state Sen. Ken Corn (who previously said he's "very likely" to run) and state Rep. Ben Sherrer. The Hotline also mentions state Sen. Josh Breechen as a possible GOP candidate.
When Ezra Klein at Washington Post looked at the deficit negotiations, he found the GOP rejected their own proposals and walked out. Who's the dick?
So when the GOP's economic policy team sat down to make the strongest case they could for growth-inducing deficit reduction, they recommended a mix (of) 85:15 (blogblah's note: of spending cuts to tax increases), not a 100:0 mix. And then, when the Obama administration agreed to an 83:17 mix, the Republican leadership walked out of the room and demanded that taxes be excluded from the deal altogether. How do you negotiate with that?
Here's a novel way to get past the debt ceiling crisis: rely on the 14th Amendment and just ignore it. According to CNN Money, it's one of the answers to the puzzle proposed by the Treasury Secretary, Tim Geithner.
The 14th Amendment states: "The validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law, including debts incurred for payment of pensions and bounties for services in suppressing insurrection or rebellion, shall not be questioned."
The chairman of the state legislative ethics committee in Indiana may have a slight problem, according to local reports.
a very attractive 26 year old woman who has connections to a strip club in Lawrenceburg, Indiana was in the car with 59 year old Republican State Representative Robert Mechlenborg at 12:08AM when he was pulled over by the Indiana State Police and subsequently tested positive for alcohol and Viagra.
Blogblah note: enjoy the schadenfreude my droogies.
Time magazine editor and MSNBC political analyst for the Morning Joe show Mark Halperin gets suspended and apologized for saying President Obama was "kind of a dick" during last night's press conference. Obama should consider the source.
If you do nothing else today, please watch THIS VIDEO. Please, please please. DO IT! It's the most inspiring thing I've seen in an age. It will change your attitude.
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I haven't really had much to say about the New York legislature passing gay marriage equality legislation because, well, I don't know much about it. However, I couldn't resist the video below. In it, Howard Zinn, a counter-historian (my formulation), introduces part of an oral history of the so-called Stonewall Rebellion and actor Tim Robbins reads (with such wonderful verve) the eyewitness testimony of Martin Duberman. This is just so good, it's awesome sauce!
Tim Robbins reads Martin Duberman, "Stonewall" from Voices of a People's History on Vimeo.


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Hi ladies. I usually try to keep this blog focused on professional development, but someone in my network, Empowered Black Women, posted a question in the forum. She asked what does it mean to be black and I had to respond from my gut. So here is my response. I hope we can start some dialog on this and hopefully a movement!
In a Corporate context I think this is a great discussion. You already know I'm of mixed parentage as well (for those who don't know my Mom is Hispanic and my Dad was black). For a long time I had trouble identifying with either race because of the unspoken "rules". I wasn't black enough to be black and I was too black to be Hispanic (I know weird right). But eventually I had to learn that I am who I am and I embraced both of my ethnicities. I am very proud of both of my heritages. I formed Empowered Black Women to both honor that side of me and to give sisters a chance to form bonds and enhance their careers as Black Women in the corporate world. There are groups, organizations, etc out there but nothing that ever lasts and the fact that Empower Me has been around 11 years is a testament. I formed the Empowered Latinas for the same exact reason. But I digress.
I'm going to be real here (and raw) so I apologize if offend anyone. A lot of girls I speak to, and even some in my own family feel ashamed to be black because of the negative images out on the internet and media. The Video Hoe image is the number one reason. The young ladies walking around with attitudes and ghettofied mentalities is the other. It hurts my heart when I do a Google search on black women the type of junk that comes up. There is hardly anything of a positive nature describing us. Even when I do an image search on Google or Yahoo or whatever, I am hard pressed to find any positive images. I have a cousin who is 25 and has her behind plastered all over Myspace. She grew up awkward and with braces and wasn't cute by society's standards. Today she is a beautiful young woman (with a 2 yr old child) and she has her self worth tied up in what complete strangers think of her almost naked pictures. Somewhere her mother failed.
I am so grateful to Dove & Proctor & Gamble for the My Black Is Beautiful campaign. From what I heard, it is an inspiring and uplifting program and is really taking off. But it's not enough. We need to tell our daughters, cousins, granddaughters, nieces, friends how beautiful and unique they are…then make them see and feel it. As professionals we need to show them there is a pride and dignity that comes along with success….then be that example. We need to teach them that they are worthy and to never ever settle for less than the best. And finally we need to encourage them in their dreams and help them achieve if even through coaching them along. That is what it means, in my opinion, to be black.
We need to look at the Ursula Burns', Michelle Obama's and Anne Fudge's of the world and realize we CAN do it. We need to let our girls and young women know that we CAN do it. And we can do it being proud of being Black Women. It's time to take back our image of the Black Woman and redefine it to reflect the respect, dignity and success that comes along with it. We need to stop working against each other and start working with each other and dispel the myth that black women can't get along or do anything for each other. We need to tell one another how beautiful we are. Stop letting our children (boys and girls) watch this nonsense on tv that degrades women and especially black women. BET, MTV, VH1 all of them need a message sent. I find things like Candy Girls, New York Gets a Job, Flavor of Love and all of those other nonsensical shows to be one of the culprits in why our girls have low images of themselves. THAT is ugly. And it makes me go on the defensive to prove that all of us are not "ugly" like that. They seem to find the girls with the most jacked up problems and exploit them on these shows. it shows them being ugly inside and out and further damages the Black Woman's image.
I am proud of my heritage- both of them. I am a 40 year old, mother, wife, daughter, sister, cousin, friend, entrepreneur, author, recruiter…but most of all a BLACK WOMAN. I hope this answers your questions. I kind of got off on a tangent. LOL But I take this very serious.
Til next time,
Adrienne Graham


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Nearby words
Origin of conservative
British Dictionary definitions for semiconservative (1 of 2)
adjective, noun
British Dictionary definitions for semiconservative (2 of 2)
adjective (in Britain, Canada, and elsewhere)
Word Origin and History for semiconservative
late 14c., conservatyf, from Middle French conservatif, from Late Latin conservativus, from Latin conservatus, past participle of conservare (see conserve).
As a modern political tradition, conservatism traces to Edmund Burke's opposition to the French Revolution (1790), but the word conservative is not found in his writing. It was coined by his French disciples, (e.g. Chateaubriand, who titled his journal defending clerical and political restoration "Le Conservateur").
Conservative as the name of a British political faction first appeared in an 1830 issue of the "Quarterly Review," in an unsigned article sometimes attributed to John Wilson Croker. It replaced Tory (q.v.) by 1843, reflecting both a change from the pejorative name (in use for 150 years) and repudiation of some reactionary policies. Extended to similar spirits in other parties from 1845.
Strictly speaking, conservatism is not a political system, but rather a way of looking at the civil order. The conservative of Peru ... will differ greatly from those of Australia, for though they may share a preference for things established, the institutions and customs which they desire to preserve are not identical. [Russell Kirk (1918-1994)]
Phrases such as a conservative estimate make no sense etymologically. The noun is attested from 1831, originally in the British political sense.
Medicine definitions for semiconservative
Culture definitions for semiconservative
A descriptive term for persons, policies, and beliefs associated with conservatism.


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1. Whatever major you pursue in college it should be one that you find enjoyable and stimulating. If this is the case with economics, then that in of itself is reason enough to major in the field. You'll find a group of dedicated faculty within the department, each of whom brings a unique philosophical and pedagogical perspective to the classroom, who care deeply about student learning and the education of the whole person, and who try to make economics fun.
2. Economics will provide you with different ways to understand the world we live in. Whether it's becoming more sensitive to the unintended consequences of public policy and personal decision making or exploring the economic trends that are transforming our society and changing the way we live, you will become a better informed citizen and better equipped to know how to respond to the rapidly changing environment that confronts us on a daily basis.
3. Economics will open up many job opportunities. While few majors can guarantee you employment in a job directly related to your undergraduate field of study, economic majors are in demand. In part, this reflects the set of "tools" and a way of thinking that you will acquire as an undergraduate that many firms find useful. It is also a challenging major that sends a strong signal to prospective employers that you do not shy away from hard work and that you are capable of abstract and analytical thinking, skills that are in demand throughout the economy.
Bob McTerer, the former head of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas noted:
"My take on training in economics is that it becomes increasingly valuable as you move up the career ladder. I can't think of a better major for corporate CEO's, congressmen (and women), or presidents of the United States. You've earned a systematic, disciplined way of thinking that will serve you well."
4. Among the most important skills that you should learn in college is how to think, write and speak more clearly and forcefully. These are skills that are most effectively taught in the type of small personalized classes that student will find within the department.
5. In light of the subject matter that students of economics study, and the tools used to analyze these subjects, the major provides an ideal background for those who hope to pursue advanced degrees in business, law, public policy or economics.
6. Economists address a wide range of issues that are of interest to both the public and to government officials. Questions that you will explore during your undergraduate years include: What impact does immigration have on our workforce and standard of living? What can explain growing income inequality in the U.S.? Why do some countries grow quickly and others more slowly? Why has the Federal Reserve Board kept interest rates at historical lows? Is American industry becoming more concentrated and is this important in today's globalized world? What impact will health care reform have on the economy? Are trade deficits a threat to our economic well-being? What are the long term consequences of budget deficits? Is higher education still a good investment?


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I was going to ask if anyone went. So...that bad?
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 10 August 2017 01:16 (one year ago) Permalink
I didn't get a chance to go to the live show, but my brother enjoyed it. He said the way it was put together was handled well, felt like watching the real show
Finished the new season, the last few episodes were a slog. the amount I enjoyed the movie depended more on the movie than the riffs, and after the two Wizards of the Lost Kingdom movies (season highlights), the movie quality goes way down. I don't know who said the pace of the riffing gets more comfortable - I thought the riffs were overdone even in the better movies towards the end, and too wordy a lot of the time. There are times they rush through a line so fast you can barely understand it. Overall, the season was fine: mixed quality, with some strong highlights
― Vinnie, Thursday, 10 August 2017 01:40 (one year ago) Permalink
This is AMAZING.
― Old Lynch's Sex Paragraph (Phil D.), Thursday, 17 August 2017 15:55 (one year ago) Permalink
In a weird way this might be even more of a revive-from-the-dead than Manos, because at least that actually got released.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 17 August 2017 16:20 (one year ago) Permalink
that's so awesome. I always thought it was a made up movie
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 17 August 2017 16:41 (one year ago) Permalink
Uh. It's turkey day isn't it?
― President Keyes, Thursday, 23 November 2017 18:35 (one year ago) Permalink
Yep. Twitch steam is region locked for me & YouTube buffering like crazy, gave up watching it :/
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Thursday, 23 November 2017 18:37 (one year ago) Permalink
Well the youtube stream is working fine for me!
― Evan, Thursday, 23 November 2017 18:48 (one year ago) Permalink
ps4 app streaming was bad but i can stream it through Tivo & that is working good
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 23 November 2017 18:53 (one year ago) Permalink
Haven't been able to tune in today — busy in the kitchen! But hope viewing is all going well.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 23 November 2017 18:57 (one year ago) Permalink
Oh they've added a second YouTube stream & delayed it to the start, that's kinda awesome of them.
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Thursday, 23 November 2017 19:15 (one year ago) Permalink
night of the blood beast on now
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 23 November 2017 19:17 (one year ago) Permalink
preceded by Honeymoon short
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 23 November 2017 19:18 (one year ago) Permalink
switched to alternate stream, def much much better
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 23 November 2017 20:05 (one year ago) Permalink
great line up this year!
― kurt schwitterz, Thursday, 23 November 2017 20:57 (one year ago) Permalink
So I gather the big news is they got renewed. Still, strange that announcement has come so relatively late.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 24 November 2017 06:45 (one year ago) Permalink
good news either way
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 24 November 2017 06:47 (one year ago) Permalink
good for them! very cool that the bootstrapping of the first batch rolled into something that could keep going on its own. i actually still haven't finished watching the first batch though! to my fan shame. we just got busy around the house with other things and finding time that me and my roommate can share with it has gotten harder. but stoked to see what they do with the second batch, wonder if they make any substantive adjustments.
― gimme the beet poison, free my soul (Doctor Casino), Friday, 24 November 2017 13:42 (one year ago) Permalink
I caught Overdrawn at the Memory Back and Warrior of the Lost World. I don't remember watching them before. A good time was had.
― Einstein, Bazinga, Sitar (abanana), Friday, 24 November 2017 22:18 (one year ago) Permalink
i'm irrationally fond of warrior of the lost world... maybe it's the talking motorcycle. got funnier after i visited corviale and realized that nearly all the locations were just that, under construction. or sometimes nearby office buildings of the same vintage.
― gimme the beet poison, free my soul (Doctor Casino), Friday, 24 November 2017 22:26 (one year ago) Permalink
Warrior of the Lost World is so much fun, and that motorbike is hilar
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 25 November 2017 01:57 (one year ago) Permalink
"Awww, now how does he know they're bad mothers?"
― gimme the beet poison, free my soul (Doctor Casino), Saturday, 25 November 2017 02:07 (one year ago) Permalink
...and the bad fathers who love them
― YouTube_-_funy_cats.flv (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Saturday, 25 November 2017 02:08 (one year ago) Permalink
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 25 November 2017 02:10 (one year ago) Permalink
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 25 November 2017 02:26 (one year ago) Permalink
So our own tylerw posted this on Twitter, a nice little snapshot of a moment:
NYC, December 1967 pic.twitter.com/Mza9TLYnqS— Tyler Wilcox (@tywilc) November 27, 2017
But I'm posting it here because note what is the other film on the bill with Dylan's _Don't Look Back_ there.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 27 November 2017 21:54 (one year ago) Permalink
If only they could have gotten Dylan onto that party boat. Hijinks ensue!
― gimme the beet poison, free my soul (Doctor Casino), Monday, 27 November 2017 22:14 (one year ago) Permalink
They already had Little Richard!
― Screamin' Jay Gould (The Yellow Kid), Monday, 27 November 2017 22:19 (one year ago) Permalink
Such a strange film. That one band covers a Ray Davies song that the Kinks might not have recorded themselves, I think.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 27 November 2017 22:25 (one year ago) Permalink
Anyway I'm just trying to imagine who would go see that in 1967 and honestly enjoy both films. (These days, yes.)
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 27 November 2017 22:26 (one year ago) Permalink
The Avalanche episode is decent, though I agree with what was said upthread about their not always knowing the best way to fill the many blank spaces in action and incident that the film leaves. The best joke: "Tonya Harding in Sophie's Choice on Ice!
Avalanche itself is a truly dreadful film, btw. It has everything that I hate about the disaster genre--the sadistic deaths of random extra characters, the way these films always busy themselves with boring relationship melodramas as filler before the disaster happens--in addition to just feeling lazy and undercooked: the genre was obviously breathing its last gasps in 1978 (or, this first wave of disaster movies, at least) and this movie just felt like a quickie last-ditch cash-in on a movement that already running on fumes by the time this would have gone into production. Occasionally, I come away from some of these episodes with a tiny bit of affection for the films being skewered (say what you will about the nutso Cry Wilderness, but it is certainly trying to be...something), but this is precisely the kind of junk product that truly deserves the thrashing the show gives it.
― iCloudius (cryptosicko), Tuesday, 9 January 2018 03:46 (one year ago) Permalink
Watched the Starcrash episode today. My favourite thing about it was that I wasn't always sure if some of the Southern (???) robot's lines were actually in the film or just part of the riffing.
Whatever they paid Plummer, it wasn't enough.
― Dangleballs and the Ballerina (cryptosicko), Tuesday, 27 March 2018 00:44 (one year ago) Permalink
"...halt the flow of TIME!"
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 27 March 2018 01:28 (one year ago) Permalink
i love Starcrash. it is worth watching without riffs imo. if you decide to do so there is an extended international cut that is even funnier, as some scenes were cut short and there are additional lines/reactions.
also it's kind of funny that Star Wars has now ripped off Starcrash.
― Hazy Maze Cave (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 27 March 2018 14:07 (one year ago) Permalink
this podcast on WFMU, Night People, has an interview with Joel Hodgson from September 29, 2014:
in the interview he says he initially got the idea for the show from an illustration in the gatefold art for Elton John's "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road" LP. the image in question:
― Hazy Maze Cave (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 22 June 2018 17:32 (one year ago) Permalink
Yup, been part of the lore for a while -- nice to see this again though!
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 22 June 2018 17:37 (one year ago) Permalink
― Evan, Friday, 22 June 2018 18:19 (one year ago) Permalink
I was probably wrong to side with Fujiwara upthread. These days, I dig MST3K a little bit more than the entire concept of movies.― Eric H., Friday, November 2, 2007 1:28 PM (ten years ago)
The pendulum. It always swings.
― I Never Promised You A Hose Harden (Eric H.), Friday, 27 July 2018 16:10 (ten months ago) Permalink
(Informed by a re-read of the infamous article.)
Which I'm posting here in its fullness because it's no longer on the original site, far as I can tell.
One sign of the death of the cinema is the zombie-like persistence of the "bad film" cult that rose to public-nuisance status in the late Seventies, feasting noisily on things like the Ed Wood films. From the start, this was just an especially obnoxious manifestation of a general intolerance for films that try to free themselves from the dominant mode of cinematic realism.Thus it's but a short step from sneering at the budgetary deficiencies of Plan 9 from Outer Space to scoffing at, e.g.:
1. Any non-state-of-the-art special effects and visions of the future, even though these things date themselves anyway from period to period, and future generations may find Independence Day less "realistic" (whatever that will mean) than the 1956 aliens-smash-the-state programmer of which it is an unacknowledged remake, Earth vs. the Flying Saucers;
2. Overtly non-realistic visual and acting style used for expressive purposes, as in Soviet master S. M. Eisenstein's outrageous Ivan the Terrible, which uses actors' bodies as components of a delirious architecture;
3. "Implausible" plots like Vertigo—as if we're supposed to ignore the holes in the stories Hollywood tells now just because men don't wear ties to walk around the block and no shot lasts longer than 1.4 seconds—and "banal" ones like the potboiler-like thriller stories from which Orson Welles made his superb Lady from Shanghai, and Touch of Evil—as if Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripedes working together could have come up with an original story or cared less about it;
4. Mythic dialogue and situations like those in Rebel Without a Cause and Douglas Sirk's Written on the Wind, The Tarnished Angels, and Imitation of Life, whose emotional power intimidates audiences lulled by the rituals of appeasement enacted in nighttime soap operas.
The irrelevant yocks that frequently greet the films just mentioned when they show at a revival house or a college auditorium are the voice of a viewing public paralyzed by fear, desperate for any externalization of a comforting "distance" to protect them from recognizing their own anxieties writ large in the image unspooling from the past not dead enough to suit them.
Such a distance is abundantly provided by the robots on the cable (now also broadcast-syndicated) show Mystery Science Theater 3000, devoted to stomping on "the worst movies ever made." The big gimmick (the "plot" behind which isn't worth explaining) is that these robots are sitting in a mockup of a theater and we the lucky TV audience are watching the films from over their shoulders and ostensibly being entertained by their scornful running commentary. The numbing, irritating effect thus achieved is not unlike watching a Josef vos Sternberg film in the eighth row of the Brattle Theater in Harvard Square the week after midterms. What is most amazing about MST3K (the acronyum preferred by the show's adherents) is that the robots can blather on for an hour without saying anything witty or interesting—and people can't get enough of them! (As of this writing, MST3K, which has been in hiatus, is due to be "revived" in new episodes [it was—ed]; meanwhile, the repeats are still shown contantly on Comedy Central.)
(A similar dead-end sensation can be found by watching what is supposed to pass for heady, unsettling stuff in recent cinema. I refer to the ubiquitous superficial irony that has become the stock-in-trade of Robert Altman, the Coen Brothers, and many less skillful directors, the maddening profusion of brain-eating detail in one of Terry Gilliam's nasty conceits, and the pompous theatricalized events of Peter Greenaway.)
I'd like one of the misties (in-group code for the shows devotees) to explain to me (a letter in care of the editor of this magazine will do, thanks) why if these mechanical creeps are such Oscar Wildes don't they take on something just a bit juicier, a tad more worthy of their withering satire than The Beasts of Yucca Flats. What about, say, Fellini's La Dolce Vita? There's a film that has everything the robots love to disdain: pretentious dialogue, long dull stretches, and people with funny clothes and big asses. Obviously, the contempt for cinema, history, and the audience that fuels the whole robot insanity can be applied to low-budget horror and exploitation filmmaking.
MST3K isn't really about "bad movies" anyway. This is proved by the choice of 1955's This Island Earth as the film basted in Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie, the recent theatrical spinoff from the show. In a kinder, gentler era of genre film appreciation (whose tone was set by Forrest J. Ackerman, the benevolent editor of Famous Monsters of Filmland), This Island Earth was regarded as a classic. Whatever you think about the film, to rank it one of "the worst movies ever made" is clearly absurd. Of the 30,000 features released in the United States from 1915 to 1960, This Island Earth is probably in the top 3,000-4,000. Considering that countless films have been made since (most of them bad in ways that could scarcely have been imagined in 1955), I would guess that This Island Earth is sitting comfortably in the top five percent of all films.
(That's right, I'm saying that 19 out of every 20 films are worse than This Island Earth. Prove me wrong.) Why pick on This Island Earth? To raise the intellectual stakes a little ? Probably not—it's doubtful that many members of the intended audience of MST3K:TM had ever heard of This Island Earth or could distinguish it from Rocky Jones, Space Ranger. Anyway, the level of humor in MST3K:TM is preposterously low: roughly a third of the robots' remarks are alarmed, sniggering references to homosexuality, putdowns of the hero's sidekick's virility, and other manifestations of male adolescent sex-role anxiety. (Another third are mostly farting and toilet jokes, which possibly belong to the same category.) In its treatment of Faith Domergue's sexy scientist, This Island Earth may betray what we now recognize as the sexism of the Fifties, but what are we to make of the fact that the woman aboard the MST3K spacceship is a maternal vacuum cleaner with no arms? MST3K is obsessed with sexuality and afraid of it. The absence of women highlights the show's treehouse psychology.
MST3K's use of robots for heroes is no accident. MST3K's sarcasm at the expense of the past is techno-elitism at its most self-congratulatory, asserting mastery through acts of cultural misrecognition. Perhaps the reason the MST3K people despise so much that they choose to mount an attack on it in the nation's theaters is that they're disturbed by the way the film reduces the unimaginable future of interplanetary communication to the level of an erector set. MST3K's creators, who resemble science nerds using their first grant as an excuse to lord it over their former peers, would probably be thrilled to be drafted for a totalitarian planet's nuclear program (the fate of the protagonists of This Island Earth).
The robots on the bottom of the MST3K screen are scotomas that indicate a more fundamental visual disturbance, the inability to see anything in films except the same things over and over again: hot women, men who match masculine stereotypes either too well or not enough, and supposed defects of representation (too slow, too cheap-looking, not realistic enough, etc.).
Then there's The Mystery Science Theater 3000 Amazing Colossal Episode Guide. Just as MST3K represents a depressing low in "golden turkey" television, TMST3KACEG marks a stupefying new milestone in "golden turkey" film books by having no information about any film, apart from short, inaccurate plot summaries. Instead, the book recounts supposed highlights of the robots' parasitic interventions and explains how the robots behind the robots "strived to make [the films] funny." Readers are thus treated to 172 large-format, haute-design pages filled with pointless descriptions of robot skits and unreadable writing-room anecdotes ("I recall this episode as being the first time we decided to write sketches having nothing to do with the movie..." —from the section on Monster a-Go-Go). Nauseatingly self-important, TMST3KACEG leaves wide open the door I wish had remained shut; I expect to see a new wave of film books that focus on the writers' bus rides home.
The book exposes the cluelessness behind the smug sensibility evident on the show. MST3K writer Kevin Murphy proclaims reverence for Frank Zappa (and in real goo-talk yet: "When all his tapes are played and his music is studied, I'm guessing he'll go down as one of the finest composers and performers of the century," p. 109) but makes fun of an angry viewer for wanting to hear Eddie Cochran in Untamed Youth without robots talking (p.16). It makes sense that someone who thinks it's cool to put robots in front of The Killer Shrews would have no problem revealing in print that he thinks the composer of "Don't Eat Yellow Snow" and "St. Alphonzo's Pancake Breakfast" is a greater artist than the man who recorded "Something Else" and "Nervous Breakdown."
There's nothing new about MST3K—it's just a tasteless crossbreeding of the tradition of the TV horror host (Zacherle, Ghoulardi, the Ghoul, Elvira) and the "Golden Turkey" way of misreading films that was codified by inane right-wing reviewer Michael Medved and his equally vapid brother, Harry. All this comes indirectly from the surrealists, but the MST3K robots, following their idols the Medveds rather than André Breton and Ado Kyrou, deny and trivialize the power of strange films to disturb, confuse, and give hope.
It's time the "bad movies" movement died a quiet death. This goes not just for MST3K-style vendettas against low-budget films but also for the would-be more sophisticated "camp" onslaught against glossy major productions like "Valley of the Dolls" and the Delmer Daves-Troy Donahue cycle (A Summer Place, Susan Slade, etc.). Of the many possible ways of enjoying a film that deviates from standard criteria of adequacy, the least interesting is to treat it as a source of unintentional humor. Robot Monster, The Sinister Urge, The Brain That Wouldn't Die, Hercules and the Captive Women, It Conquered the World, Attack of the Giant Leeches, Aleksandr Ptushko's fantasy films—"bad" as some of these films may be (although many of them are, in fact, "good"), all of them will be admired long after their potential for robot humor has been exhausted (i.e., starting right now) for the unique aesthetic experiences , strange personal visions, and precious cultural documentation they offer.
Someone should invent MST3K glasses with the robots printed on the bottoms of the lenses for people to wear to movies, except that it would be unnecessary, since the robots are already built into the cognitive and aesthetic faculties of an entire culture. MST3K assumes its audienes are so impotent that they can't enjoy even "bad" films first hand but can derive pleasure from them only over the shoulders of robots.
― I Never Promised You A Hose Harden (Eric H.), Friday, 27 July 2018 16:16 (ten months ago) Permalink
Still think he has no idea about how comedy can work, but if it was just the newer incarnation of the show he was addressing I'd be more understanding.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 27 July 2018 16:19 (ten months ago) Permalink
Reads like early eruption of the contemporary irony backlash
― devops mom (silby), Friday, 27 July 2018 16:22 (ten months ago) Permalink
I recall reading some article or maybe just Dr Morbius complaining about young people laughing inappropriately during movies and maybe that's to do with our irony-poisoned culture but it might also be perfectly okay to just laugh at anything, idk.
― devops mom (silby), Friday, 27 July 2018 16:25 (ten months ago) Permalink
it's ok not to like mst3k, fella. more for the rest of us. never read that article before, but what a load. "vendettas"!!! lol. ned's right, though. he should've waited a few years and tried to stomach rifftrax and the others. just zapping all the fun out of the whole thing. imo.
― andrew m., Friday, 27 July 2018 16:32 (ten months ago) Permalink
Hercules and the Captive Women and "precious cultural documentation" in the same sentence.
― andrew m., Friday, 27 July 2018 16:34 (ten months ago) Permalink
I do think there's something there tbh.
― I Never Promised You A Hose Harden (Eric H.), Friday, 27 July 2018 16:39 (ten months ago) Permalink
Head writer of season 11 Elliot Kalan pointed out on an episode of his podcast The Flop House that the truth is you can make fun of any movie, not only "bad" movies. Which seems perfectly true. Maybe it's distancing but it's also a potentially cogent formalist close reading of the artifice of film. The robot shadows make the film-object obvious, and prevent us from falling into the experience as we would otherwise—certainly that is a distancing mechanism. But it also facilitated the analysis of a movie as a collage of parts. Busting apart the temporal continuity and spatial totality of the film-viewing experience makes it possible to riff on—that is, to read—the component elements that a film is built of. Each cliche, type, washed-up movie star, technical infelicity can be riffed on, and the spectacle thereby disassembled. Surely not the only way to read a movie, but it's a way.We just watched all the Hammer Draculas at my house in the last month or so (though I only caught about half of them) and it was impossible to resist the temptation to ironize. The red paint and raspberry jam are tough to take at face value. Christopher Lee as Dracula isn't just Dracula, he is "Christopher Lee as Dracula". Heck they even reused the name "Paul" in two consecutive movies. But irony-poisoned though we were we weren't dismissing these movies or rendering them inert. Isn't it more condescending to talk about the raspberry jam without laughing? Can you even see it without laughing about it?
― devops mom (silby), Friday, 27 July 2018 16:41 (ten months ago) Permalink
The biggest failure of the essay is not thinking the robots are ever funny, and/or that the jokes are always about how the movie is bad. The latter are usually the weakest and least-loved lines, I think.
― This is a total Jeff Porcaro. (Doctor Casino), Friday, 27 July 2018 18:00 (ten months ago) Permalink
when it comes to consumer policing (telling you HOW you should be consuming something) people tend start from a bad premise (ie. MST3K is about making fun of bad movies for being bad) and just line up the dots. add in further bad consumption evidence (gasp - he likes Zappa!) and let your lazy assumptions do the rest.
MST3K is about more than ha ha it's bad. i don't think it's about distance necessarily either, often the shitty b movies that fill their schedule were made to best be appreciated in between makeout sessions, the plots and characters all stock for economy of production and story, etc. ironically some of the best riffs are when they get even more invested in the story than is to be expected, asking questions that the filmmakers didn't consider necessary or important to explain.
― Hazy Maze Cave (Adam Bruneau), Saturday, 28 July 2018 15:56 (ten months ago) Permalink
yes. i also think it's important to keep in mind that the creators had been weaned on these films/genres/archetypes. as gen x-ers growing up amid the three networks plus UHF stations, they actually would have sat around watching this stuff as the late-night movie, not to mention all the stuff that actually came out when they were kids/teens and was targeted at them in the first place. they've inhabited these films, their values, their pacing, their sense of what counts for plot or characterization. it's not as simple as digging up something they know nothing about and adopting an easy, distant attitude of superiority. maybe with some of the really, really old shorts, or I Accuse My Parents, i guess, but pretty sure they probably encountered that stuff in the course of life too.
― This is a total Jeff Porcaro. (Doctor Casino), Saturday, 28 July 2018 21:29 (ten months ago) Permalink


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PHOENIX (AP) Eddie House had one of those unforgettable nights for Arizona State a dozen years ago, paying back California for not recruiting him by torching them for 61 points.
That his memorable game didn't even match the second half of Jack Taylor's record-setting performance nearly left the loquacious House speechless.
``Eighty points in 20 minutes? Come on guy, that's ridiculous,'' House said from his Scottsdale home Wednesday. ``That's just unbelievable.''
A sophomore at Grinnell College in Iowa, Taylor lit up the basketball world and beyond Tuesday night by setting an NCAA record with 138 points in the Pioneers' 179-104 home victory over Faith Baptist Bible.
Slightly-built at 5-foot-10 and 170 pounds, Taylor had 58 points by halftime and kept firing, taking down records as the shots fell through.
Taylor broke the NCAA record with 4:42 left in the game and went on to smash it by 25 points, hoisting an are-you-serious 108 shots - one every 20 seconds. He took 71 shots from the 3-point arc, more than some players take an entire season, and made 27.
``Seventy-one? I can't even imagine,'' said House, who retired from the Miami Heat in 2011 after 11 NBA seasons with nine teams. ``That's like a pre-game workout.''
Taylor finished 52 of 108 from the field overall, eclipsing the NCAA record of 113 points set by Rio Grande's Bevo Francis against Hillsdale in 1954. He also blew past the previous, impressive-in-its-own-right Grinnell record of 89 by Griffin Lentsch a year ago against Principia.
Current NBA players like LeBron James, Kevin Durant, Kobe Bryant and Carmelo Anthony had plenty of praise for Taylor, and so did House.
``I couldn't imagine taking all those shots,'' House said. ``I know it was fun, though. It had to be fun.''
House had a little fun of his own against Cal.
He grew up in the Bay Area and considered the Bears his hometown team. Despite getting offers from numerous schools, Cal didn't even send House a questionnaire, much less a scholarship offer.
Using the slight as motivation, he had extra focus every time the Sun Devils played Cal, wanting a little see-what-I-can-do payback.
House got it on Jan. 8, 2000.
Playing in Berkeley, Arizona State and Cal went back and forth in a tight game that went to two overtimes.
House got hot early and his teammates kept feeding him.
Stroking jumpers and dropping in floaters, he scored 61 points that night, breaking the school record and tying the Pac-12 mark set by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar - then known as Lew Alcindor - for UCLA 33 years earlier.
House hit 18 of 30 shots from the field, including 7 of 10 from 3-point range, and went 18-for-19 on free throws to earn himself a prominent place in college basketball lore.
``I've always had a grudge against them and I do not like them to this day for that,'' House said about Cal. ``Every time I played them, I made sure I was focused on hurting them as much as I could. I wasn't selfish and taking every shot, but I did make sure they got some of this business.''
House got plenty of help from his Arizona State teammates, who saw the rhythm he was in and kept feeding him the ball. The Sun Devils needed all his points, too, pulling out the 111-108 win after House hit two free throws with 2.9 seconds left in the second overtime.
Taylor's teammates did the same thing for him, which caught House's attention nearly as much as the points he scored.
``You take your hat off to the guy for going out there and getting it done, and the guys who kept passing because I don't know if that would have gone off at some schools,'' House said. ``You would think somebody at some point would be like, hey man, I need some of these shots. You already got 85, let me go ahead and get 60.''
House got his against Cal, putting him with a small fraternity of players who can understand what it must have felt like for Taylor when shot after shot kept going in.
``It's an unbelievable feeling, a good feeling,'' he said. ``It's hard to explain, you're just one with everything that's going on. You feel every moment, almost like your biorhythm is on point. It's hard to explain unless you've been there.''
House has been there and even he's blown away by Taylor's accomplishment.


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Foreign Ministry spokesman Masaru Sato said Saturday that the two countries acknowledged the talks in the Mongolian capital of Ulan Bator were "useful for the improvement of the two countries' relations." He said they agreed to cooperate on issues that have long strained their ties, including the abductions of Japanese citizens by North Korea in the 1970s and '80s, Pyongyang's missile and nuclear programs, and compensation for Japan's wartime past. The two countries have no formal diplomatic relations.
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ELON � Tomeka Watson smashed her 27th career home run to become the all-time home run leader for Elon University, which defeated Hampton 8-2 on Sunday to sweep all four games in the Phoenix Softball Clash at Hunt Softball Park.
On the first pitch she saw, Watson hit her milestone home run, a two-run shot that drove in Carleigh Nester, who had singled and advanced to second base. The shot over the left center fence was Watson�s seventh homer this year.
Watson tied her total home runs for all of last season and broke a tie with Brandi Jones (2006-09) to take sole possession of the school�s career home run record.
Watson finished 2-for-4 with two runs and three RBI.
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Kayla Caruso (2-2) picked up the complete-game victory giving up two runs on three hits while striking out four.
Adrianna Scott hit a two-run home run for Hampton (4-9).
Women�s tennis
At Wilmington, Elon came from behind to defeat UNC Wilmington 4-3 at UNCW Courts.
Tied at 3-3, Maria Camara Ruiz clinched the victory for the Phoenix at No. 6 singles by defeating Christine Kharkevich in three sets 4-6, 6-3, 7-5.
Elon (7-1) has won seven straight matches and is one victory shy of tying its longest winning streak at the Division I level, set by the 2010 squad that won eight straight.
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Aretha Franklin is jazzed about more than music at the Ohio State Fair: She's also looking forward to the food.
"I love the state fair, and I love the elephant ears," says the Queen of Soul, who is scheduled to perform Thursday night.
There may be plenty of opportunities for fried, sugary treats ahead, given that her busy 2014 tour also includes performances at the Wisconsin and Minnesota state fairs in August.
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Her upcoming recording doesn't have a name yet, but Franklin says she's six tracks and five vocals into it. She expects to finish the final three cuts in August.
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An additive foray for stories, pictures and information about the ancestry and descendants of the James Family. Remember to wear your helmet, drink plenty of fluids, and enjoy yourself. The research on this blog and on Ancestry.com is for me, my children, my grandchildren, future generations and anyone else who is interested. The family unit is the most important organization in time and eternity.
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
Catherine Kingfisher
The most extensive Harlan family history states that Ellis Harlan married "Catherine Kingfisher, daughter of Kingfisher, a famous Chief, and Chigau". Chigau is better known as Nancy Ward, from her marriage to a second husband Bryan Ward. This is the same Nancy Ward who was a friend to the whites, and aided the escape of Ezekiel Buffington from Cherokee upper town.
Catherine was the widow of John Walker at the time of her marriage to Ellis Harlan in Tennessee. Probably at the Inn operated by her mother at Woman Killer Ford on the Ocowee River.
Catherine "Ka Ti" KINGFISHER
"HISTORY OF THE CHEROKEE INDIANS", Dr. Emmet Starr, Hoffman Printing Co., Muskogee, 1984
She was a full blood Cherokee. She married Ellis Harlan a white man.
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My Great great 6Th generation grandma was Nancy Ward. I have verified my Cherokee ancestry, just this month. Very excited to see your info.
I spend a hour or so a night reading the stories of my family. Thank you
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- AnonymousMay 2, 2009 at 10:07 AM
There are a large number of us. David Hampton is doing some fine work with his books.ReplyDelete
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Thanks David for the book tip.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMarch 20, 2010 at 5:13 PM
David Hampton has a great book out--Cherokee Mixed Bloods, Additions and Corrections to Family Genealogies of Dr. Emmet Starr Volume 1--Cordery, ghigau, Ridge-Watie, Ross Sanders and Ward.ReplyDelete
He also formed the Association of the Descendants Of Nancy Ward, Beloved Woman of the Cherokee. We are always looking for other descendants. We meet twice a year! Thanks, Shirley Rider email@example.com
- AnonymousApril 21, 2010 at 5:29 PM
I am getting back to doing my husband's genealogy.ReplyDelete
He is a Thompson/Starr/Rider. I was in contact with David Hampton many years ago...I would once
again like to connect with the Cherokee Roots!
Rose Thompson Ft. Collins, CO
Harlan families may find Harlan, Ky of interest, since it was built on an Indian mound. The town is supposedly named for a Civil War officer, but has very strong Cherokee links, then and now. Also note a Chief Kingfisher living near present day Salisbury, NC, with links to Crane's Nest Indian Towns in present Virginia and southeast Kentucky.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMarch 26, 2011 at 6:33 PM
looking for information on Lucretia Blevins, daughter of Johnathan Blevins and Charolette Muse. Johnathan Decended from Katie Troxel who i beleive was the daughter or grandaughter of Cornblossom. my e-mail is email@example.com ,my name is Debbie , this is my family line. thanks for any help.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJune 28, 2011 at 4:50 PM
As many of you may know, Kati Kingfisher and Harlan Ellis' daughter, Nannie, married Caleb Starr, not too far from Tellico Plains, TN. The long mountain ridge running north from the Hiwassee River is now called Starr Mountain.ReplyDelete
- Martin RedbirdAugust 31, 2011 at 10:35 AM
Chief Kingfisher, sometimes living near present day Salisbury, NC, is of interest for some King Fisher and Fisher and other related families. There appear to be some links to Crane's Nest Indian Towns of present day Virginia and southeast Kentucky. The Kingfisher Bird totem is also of interest, as well as Crane Bird. The Cherokee Mountains does have Piedmont links.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 17, 2015 at 12:11 PM
Catherine Kingfisher is my great-great-great-great grandmother (I believe), and I am just now learning all about my Cherokee ancestry. Thank you for sharing this - I am looking forward to gaining more information.ReplyDelete
- VanessaMarch 12, 2016 at 8:58 PM
I just had my cherokee ancestry traced back to Ka-Ti Kingfisher as my 5th great grandmother. Thank you so much for this info!!ReplyDelete
Thats my great great gma turn upReplyDelete
Hi evveryone... I'm trying to find out, for sure, who the mother was of Pauline "Little Starr." Her father had married full sisters (at different times" and had many children with both. I am not sure if Pauline's mother was Sukie/Susie Maw/Maugh or Nellie Maw/Maugh... Pauline, I believe is a directly related to Catherine Kingfisher. Thank you in advance for your help :)ReplyDelete
Hi evveryone... I'm trying to find out, for sure, who the mother was of Pauline "Little Starr." Her father had married full sisters (at different times" and had many children with both. I am not sure if Pauline's mother was Sukie/Susie Maw/Maugh or Nellie Maw/Maugh... Pauline, I believe is a directly related to Catherine Kingfisher. Thank you in advance for your help :)ReplyDelete


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CYTOO to Launch the CYTOOplates Motility
|(Nanowerk News) CYTOO S.A., a life science systems & tools company that offers disruptive solutions for cell-based assays and High Content Screening (HCS), will launch the CYTOOplates Motility, based on CYTOOs 2D+ Cell Culture Platform with its adhesive micropatterns, at the ASCB 2012 Annual meeting in San Francisco, USA.
|After sponsoring last years World Cell Race, showcased at ASCB 2011 with huge success, CYTOO returns to ASCB 2012 to launch a new product to study cell migration for screening applications in both oncology and drug discovery.
|The objective of the first World Cell Race was to perform a large-scale comparison of cell motility across many different adherent cell types under standardized conditions. Many contestants and laboratories over the world proposed their cells as competitors, and this collaborative competition1 demonstrated how fun and serious science can be mixed, commented Alexandra Fuchs, COO of CYTOO.
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|CYTOOplates Motility feature adhesive tracks of 4 different widths from 2.5 to 20 µm allowing a wide range of applications including single vs collective cell migration, and cell pairing , explained Constantin Nelep, Sr. Product Manager of CYTOO. We have also seen our Motility products used in other application areas, such as directional neurite outgrowth assays.
|During ASCB 2012 meeting, CYTOO will also present the companys 2D+ Cell Culture Platform, that was launched in July. Based on the use of adhesive micropatterns to guide cell architecture and behavior in culture, this technology contrasts with traditional 2D culture where cells spread and move in an uncontrolled manner, introducing a considerable but unnoticed variability in cell function. By defining the 2D topology of cell adhesion, 2D+ Technology enables the fine control of the spreading and 3D shape of cultured cells in single- or multi-cellular configurations, resulting in control of cell contractility, cell polarity, organelle positioning, or cell division axis.
|For more information, visit www.cytoo.com/ASCB2012
|1. Maiuri P, Terriac E, Paul-Gilloteaux P, et al. The first World Cell Race. Curr Biol. 2012;22(17):R673R675.
|2. Sharma V, Beaty B, Patsialou A, et al. Reconstitution of in vivo macrophage-tumor cell pairing and streaming motility on one-dimensional micro-patterned substrates. IntraVital. 2012;1(1):7785.
|About CYTOO S.A.
|CYTOO S.A. is a distinctive life sciences systems & tools company that offers a disruptive solution that brings robustness, sensitivity and powerful quantification to cell-based assays and High Content Screening (HCS). The Companys 2D+ Cell Culture Platform based on adhesive micropatterns offers control over the cells' microenvironment, leading to normalized cell morphology and behavior. The technology allows the optimization or resurrection of complex or difficult cell-based assays and opens possibilities of innovative assay development.
|Source: CYTOO (press release)
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