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Favorite eye makeup remover, hands down. The pads work great - gentle and effective. Sometimes a single pad can last a couple days. For those complaining that it doesn't take off waterproof mascara - it's not supposed to! It says so on the container. For those who use waterproof mascara, you need the pads that aren't "non-oily."
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These just didn't work for me at all. I tried so hard to get my waterproof mascara off with them, and I ended up losing eyelashes while I was at it, which really turned me off of them. Pretty greasy and not inexpensive either. I wouldn't recommend them - use some jojoba oil instead.
A so-so product. They work ok, but I do find them too small (use one pad per eye) and it seems I have to really work to get all my eye make up off. And I don't wear waterproof anything! I bought these hoping to be able to remove my make up without rubbing, as I want to treat the area around my eyes as gently as possible. Probably wouldn't buy again. I'm sure there is something out there that works better.
greasy and oily!
These eyepads are really bad against waterproof mascara, I had to rub too much to get it to work. In addition, this actually made my eyes really irritated, very itchy! I like the moisturizing pads much better, even though they are a bit too oily.
Non-oily, effective, cheap. What more is there to say?
i bought this because of the pretty good reviews and the idea seemed good. convenient and good for travelling. one word: SUCKS! the pads are small, and it didn't even take off all my eye makeup. especially mascara, my mascara didn't budge. it didn't take anything off, it just smeared/smudged my eyeshadow everywhere around my eyes. i had to use my pond's eye makeup remover to remove everything after. good idea but very dissapointed. what a waste of $7 CAD!
I didn't find these to be non oily at all despite the name. They irritated and left a film on my skin and it took at least 3 to remove all my makeup!!! They also made my eyes very itchy and red. Would not repurchase.
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I'm on my second bottle of these pads and I think they work great. The only other eye makeup remover I have tried is the lotion stuff from Avon which always got in my eyes and I couldn't see a thing! These are SO much better than that. It is sometimes hard to remove every last bit of mascara but it gets about 95% of everything off. I'll keep repurchasing.
Generally speaking I like this product. I have always prefered the my eye makeup remover on prepackaged pads for the sheer simplicity of it, I find them slimmer and easier to work with around my eye area. Anyway, I have oily skin, but its pretty sensative around my eyes, and this doens't seem to bother me at all. Sometimes my eye area felt a little overly tender, but I think some of my Salicylic Acidclenser got a bit to closer which just aggrivated it a bit (giving almay the benifit of the doubt, it never bothered me until I switched to this new clenser with SA). It does a pretty good job removing my makeup up, ormally in just a swipe and then a bit of rubbing for the eyeliner. I haven't had any problems with removing my waterproof mascara, but then I have been sing an Almay one rescently...so maybe their products work well with eachother. Normally I can use one pad for both eyes, one for each eye if I happen to have a lot of eyeliner on. The container is small and works pretty well (easy for travel), but the screw top seems to hold in the moisture pretty wekk since I'm almost at the end and they haven't drived up yet. My only complaint is that they are a bit hard to get out now that I'm getting down to the bottom, but I never had any issues in the begining.


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About Schmidt
2002, US, Directed by Alexander Payne
Colour, Running Time: 120 minutes
Review Source: DVD, R2, EIV; Video: Anamorphic 1.85:1, Audio: DTS
After a lifetime of working hard and leading a respectable, conventional routine we catch up with Warren Schmidt (Jack Nicholson) during the final minutes of his career as he sits there watching the clock count down towards his retirement. A nice big fuss is made with a dinner in his honour, speeches, etc., and Warren eventually wakes up on a new Monday morning not entirely sure what to do with his newfound freedom. A trip back to his old workplace paints a picture that suggests his purpose is served and his presence no longer welcome beyond surface gestures. His sympathy piqued by a television advert, Warren decides to sponsor the life of a third world child, Ndugu, in recognition of some deeper desire to do something worthwhile. In conjunction with this he also begins writing to the child to keep him up to date with what's happening in his own life, this forming occasional parts of the story's narrative. His optimistic wife Helen is looking forward to trying out their new motor home but a few weeks later she drops down dead and he's left pretty much alone. After doing her bit following Helen's death, their daughter Jeannie all but wants him out of the way until her wedding in a few weeks so when he sets off in his motor home to join up with her early a mid-trip phone call prompts her to emphasise the point that she doesn't want him around until a couple of days before the wedding. So to kill time he embarks on a spontaneous road trip with the intention of revisiting places from his past, etc., seemingly on a quest to simultaneously eradicate boredom and find out what the point of his life was.
I often tend to warm to soul-searching kind of scenarios, ideas that force the central character(s) to explore their value to themselves and the world, the meaning of their existence (as well as that around them), who they are, etc. It's something I can personally relate to and if the story is executed intuitively with talented people it can often result in a profound experience that goes beyond the fantastical confines of film. That's what I found in About Schmidt. Despite being played by a very well known actor Warren Schmidt the person is thoroughly delineated to a point where he's exceedingly real in many ways - his mind is visibly ticking away in response to many of the things that are happening around him and the script does not become so patronising as to have him verbalise every single thought. We can imagine what's going on in his mind and very often empathise with it, or at least those with a tendency towards introspection and acute awareness may be able to. In fact it's mostly in his spoken letters to Ndugu where we learn what's going on inside his brain. The situations that he finds himself in often give way to a level of realism that is quietly embarrassing, such is their ability to tap into the nature of that which is fundamentally and contemporarily human, while at other times his encounters approach more of a traditional comedic style that's not quite over the top enough to ruin it. It's not, however, quite the straightforward comedy the marketing campaigners would have had you believe, more so a drama mixed with humour cum road movie - this sort of film almost creates its own cinematic category if one is even needed. What I also like is the air of unpredictability. What you very often expect to happen, given the experience of watching hundreds of movies before it, doesn't - you may expect Warren to realise how much love is worth after his wife's death, but then he finds out she's had an affair years before and ends up throwing out her clothes in anger. Or you might expect him to find love in the divorced mother of Jeannie's new husband, but it doesn't quite work out like that. The people he comes across during his adventure are colourful and mundane at the same time and may in some cases remind you of some you know. It's a truly meaningful story that's ultimately about aging and the reflection of one's own worth after a lifetime of doing what you're supposed to, therefore becoming relevant to almost anybody and thus a significantly rewarding experience.
An amazing transfer that boasts a natural colour scheme with just about as much detail as standard definition can muster, combined with both DTS and Dolby Digital 5.1 soundtracks that, whilst not exploited to the full with this kind of material, do their subtle job very nicely. Extras are a tad limited but I like this kind of work to speak to the viewer for itself without the writers/directors/actors having to come along and explain it all for us. By the conclusion of the film, and as could be considered the case with real life, it's really down the viewer to decide what the point of Schmidt's existence was.
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Back in 2006 the Italian design studio Zagato unveiled the 575 GTZ , a one of a kind concept created for Japanese collector Yoshiyuki Hayashi. Today Zagato has revealed the first details on the Ferrari 550 GTZ, a model limited to only 5 units, each with the lofty price tag of $1.6 Million per vehicle.
The 550 GTZ is based on the 550 Barchetta , a model powered by a Ferrari 5.5 Liter V12 pumping out a total of 485 HP to the rear wheels. The prancing horse managed to run from 0 to 60 MPH in just 4.2 seconds and reach a top speed of 199 MPH. As far as we know, Zagato has yet to release any specifications on the 550 GTZ, but we do know that all five examples are already spoken for.


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Possessive. Everyday, Sasuke was getting more and more intense when it came to Naruto. It even scared him to leave his boy alone with Sakura, since he knew he still liked her. More so, Gaara came in the picture. Sasuke knew that guy had eyes for his Naruto and that scared him.
"Sakura," Naruto called. She was sitting next to him on the coffee shop they had decided to meet up, so they could reunite with Gaara. Sasuke, who was sitting across from Naruto, had decided to go to the bathroom, and Gaara hadn't arrived yet. Sakura turned his head and looked at Naruto, her eyes told him she was waiting for a question. "Have you noticed Sasuke's been acting very weird," he questioned.
Sakura scrutinized his perfect blue eyes, noticing how gruesome they looked this morning. For a second, she thought that maybe Sasuke and him were hitting a hard point in their relationship, but the way they saw each other, it was very hard to imagine. Sakura wished she could look into someone's eyes and see that desire for love, but for now she was only pleased with how simple her life was and how great her friend were.
"What do you mean?" Sakura asked back. After a couple of minutes, she noticed she hadn't answered his question and that the boy was still looking at her with those dull eyes.
Naruto looked at the opposite side, biting his lower lip. "I don't know how to say this," he began. "But, lately he had been a bit more physical."
"Forget it," Naruto whispered.
"Listen," Sakura said. "I might not really know Sasuke that well but I can tell he loves you. Don't worry about him acting weird, maybe his just going through something…"
"I wish he would just tell me," Naruto commented. "I mean, he has told me things but I know something's missing. He is hiding something. Every time I try to ask him something, he kisses me or does something to avoid telling me the truth."
Naruto looked up and saw Gaara standing there. He looked kind of intimidated; both cheeks were lightly pink but made an incredibly strong contrast on his white skin. "Hey Gaara!" Gaara softly smiled. "Sit!" Naruto motioned.
Sasuke looked at his blurry reflection on the restroom's mirror. He looked so insignificant, so tired. His hands met his pale lips as he remembered kissing Naruto before leaving the apartment. His boy has probably noticed how weird he had been lately. He had probably noticed how emotionally distant he had been and it was all because he was scared.
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The Days Inn La Fayette near the Lookout Mountains is conveniently located south of Chattanooga, Tennessee, west of Dalton and north of Rome, Georgia. The hotel is only minutes from the Chattanooga and Chickamauga Battlefield, Cloudland Canyon State Park, Marsh House, and Pigeon Mountain. We offer Free High Speed Wireless Internet, Free Daybreak Breakfast an...
Overall Rating - Okay - 63 reviews
Excellent 10.0
Okay 5.0
The fact that it was close to where my sister lives. I could get to her house or downtown in about 5 minutes.
The fact that there were roaches in the room.The floor was dirty and the place had bugs.
|Good - 28 reviews
Overall Rating - Good - 28 reviews
Good 8.0
Staff was nice. Location is fine.
My room listed as non-smoking had not been non-smoking for long. It certainly needs more airing out.This is a nice hotel with relatively new owners. They are working to rehab and redecorate. It will only get better as they seem to be very conscientious and care about the guests having a nice experience.
Excellent 10.0
The staff were great . I couldn't have had a better stay . Located close to the park
NoI enjoyed everything about my stay !
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Located in Lookout Mountain, The Garden Walk Bed & Breakfast is in the mountains and close to Rock City and Point Park. This bed & breakfast is within the vicinity of Ruby Falls and Chattanooga Convention Center. Make yourself at home in one of the 14 guestrooms featuring refrigerators. Complimentary wireless Internet access keeps you connected, and cable pr...
Overall Rating - Excellent - 102 reviews
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a peach of a place in the heart of northern Georgia.. welcome to the Hampton Inn Ringgold-Ft. Oglethorpe. Nestled in the shadow of Lookout Mountain, Ringgold is a history-rich community that's punctuated with the familiar Southern accents of Northern Georgia while boasting a unique charm all its own. This patriotic village named for a war hero is home to Civ...
Overall Rating - Good - 2 reviews
Good 7.3
Air conditioning was not adequate in room. Mattress was a bit lumpy.
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We invite you to see the natural beauty and family fun that have made Chattanooga the "Scenic City" at our East Ridge hotel. Easy interstate access is one more great reason to choose our East Ridge hotel. You'll be convenient to Chattanooga and North Georgia. We welcome our biker friends and get you ready to hit the road with our complimentary Motorcycle Rin...
Overall Rating - Excellent - 2 reviews
Good 7.6
Location very close to I-75; well appointed room.
We arrived around 7 PM, on a cold evening. Temperature in the room was about 60 degrees, and the room heater took a couple of hours to get the room to a comfortable temperature. No excuse for this - I would have expected hotel staff to recognize that the room was booked, and to have the room properly heated when we arrived. Also - although the hotel looked to have a couple of hundred rooms, it appeared (from cars in the parking lot) that they had less than 10 rooms occupied. We were in a room at the furthest end of a bottom floor, about as far as possible from the lobby and front desk; felt very isolated and a bit spooky. Do not think that we'll return.
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A big, warm, southern Hello to all of you from Hometown Inn Ringgold! Located just 7 miles south of Chattanooga, Hometown Inn is poised gracefully to offer you all the delights of Chattanooga, combined with all the comforts of home! We offer breathtaking tranquil rural beauty, yet the business as well as the leisure traveler will appreciate easy access to po...
Overall Rating - Good - 207 reviews
Okay 6.0
Nice hotel for the price and purpose. We stayed one night for a tournament nearby. A/C worked great, clean, good breakfast.
Okay 5.0
Close to Interstate, quick check in.
Paid way much for this room due to misleading practices of Price.com. I will never use Priceline.com for a hotel room purchase again. Very unhappy with price paid versus value received and price of comparable rooms nearby for far less money.If priceline's goal as a company is to make maximum profit off each customer on one purchase and not seek any repeat business from its customers then you succeeded with me.
|Good - 55 reviews
The Holiday Inn Express® Ringgold Welcomes You If you're looking for great hotels near Chattanooga, then look no further because there is no better place to stay than the Holiday Inn Express® Ringgold hotel. This quality facility serves the entire North Georgia corridor, including the cities of Atlanta, Knoxville, Nashville, Chattanooga and Dalton. When you...
Overall Rating - Good - 55 reviews
Excellent 9.0
Ease of check in and the room was nice.
No.This hotel was conveniently located close to the interstate and several stores where essentials could be purchased. It was reasonably priced and close to Chattanooga.
Excellent 10.0
I like that it was convenient to everything we needed
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Stay at this Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia hotel ideally situated six miles off Interstate 75 and six miles South of Interstate 24 in Northwest Georgia. The BEST WESTERN Battlefield Inn is conveniently located eight miles from downtown Chattanooga and four blocks from the famous historical landmark, The Chickamauga Battlefield. Hotel guests will have easy access...
Overall Rating - Good - 22 reviews
Okay 6.0
We stayed here a couple of nights with our kids who were on spring break. The room was clean, but could stand a bit of upkeep. The toilet was slow and plugged while we were there. Were given a plunger upon request. Having stayed at Best Western Hotels in the past, we expected a bit more for the free breakfast which consisted of OJ, milk, coffee, 3 types of cereal, biscuits, hard boiled eggs and glazed doughnuts. The Wi-Fi worked, but seemed a bit on the slow side even thought the connection was good. The write-up states that there in an indoor pool as did the sign for the establishment when we drove up. The pool is really an outdoor pool with a glass enclosure and is really a 3-season pool at best. When we were there it was closed and infested with a really bad case of algae. Quite nasty looking. There are pleny of restaurants nearby to choose from and Chattanooga is about 10 minutes away. Overall it was OK, but I believe that there are probably better alternatives in the area to choo...
Mediocre 4.0
My husband and I live in the area and just thought we would take a night without kids and get a room with a jacuzzi. We check in ok then go to our room only to realize we have 2 wash clothes, 2 hand towels and ONE DIRTY BATH TOWEL ON BACK OF BATHROOM DOOR! So, this becomes first trip to office to get towels granted the dirty one stayed where it was because we were not touching it. The remote dont work for the tv. Desk clerk tells me to come to office to get codes...NOT. My husband calls him back and he gives him the codes over the phone. Remote still doesn't work. He goes back to office to get remote changed...still doesn't work. They end up giving us one from another room after he came to our room because he was convinced my husband was not doing it right. So, I end up hiding in the bathroom after having to get out of jacuzzi so the clerk could come to room......wasted night!!! Then to sit and look at dirt on the floor just topped it all off. You would think since owner was one who fi...
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Our distinguished Inn is conveniently located just 10 minutes from downtown Chattanooga, TN. Many of our guests enjoy making a day out of visiting some of the many Chattanooga area attractions. Shopping is abundant in Chattanooga whether it is at the unique Warehouse Row, North Shore area, the several antique shops, or Hamilton Place Mall. You are sure to fi...
Overall Rating - Excellent - 30 reviews
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Welcome to the Award Winning Pride of Super 8 in Historic Fort Ogelthorpe, GA. Conveniently located on the outskirts of the largest Civil War Battlefield in the US. Our close proximity to Chattanooga Downtown will give our guests easy access to all of the best Attractions, Restaurants and Shopping that the Chattanooga area has to offer. We are nestled in the...
Overall Rating - Excellent - 255 reviews
Okay 6.0
Decent for what I paid, but staff was rude and unhelpful.
Good 8.0
The hotel is located very close to Chattanooga, TN and some of the great scenic areas around the city (Ruby Falls and Rock City). The room was a descent size and very clean. The staff was also very helpful and nice. There were a few issues with the room...the hotel is next to a bowling alley or skating rink and there were a lot of kids in the area. I was somewhat fearful that my car would be vandalized or damaged but all was alright. Another issue I faced was a half naked, drunk patron outside the room that kept moaning. I called the hotel staff and they were extremely helpful in contacting the police.
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Overall Rating - Excellent - 363 reviews
Excellent 10.0
Friendly Staff. Very nice and clean.
Pool was a little small. Not a great surrounding area.I would stay there again for an overnighter. Not for extended stay.
Excellent 9.0
Breakfast was great. Sheets and towels were clean.
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Welcome to the Super 8 in Ringgold, GA with easy access to I-75. We are less than 20 miles from the Chattanooga area. We are conveniently located near all of the major restaurants in Dalton/Chattanooga area. Designed for Business or Pleasure, the new Super 8 Ringgold, GA will exceed your expectations. Our friendly staff is waiting to accommodate your lodgin...
Overall Rating - Good - 60 reviews
Good 7.0
Very nice for the price, staff excelent, room was great for the money!!!!!
Cracker Barrel behind motel, everything else fast food.Older units, small, but you get what you pay for. Great for us!!!!
Good 8.0
It was nice and clean and plenty of pillows for a good nights sleep.
Parking spaces weren't marked or available when returning for the night out after 11PM.
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Overall Rating - Good - 12 reviews
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Enjoy the relaxed country setting with pastures and livestock and yet you are only twenty minutes from major tourist attractions, dining, and shopping. Whether you want to spend the day hiking the Chickamauga National Park or enjoying the view from Rock City Gardens atop Lookout Mountain, you will look forward to your evenings in this beautiful country sett...


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A lone armed guard stands watch in front of evacuated Science Center Saturday morning as police investigate bomb threats.
Campus Given 'All Clear' After Bomb Threat Prompts Evacuations
HUPD Spokesperson Steven G. Catalano announced that campus buildings were safe in an email to the University community shortly before 1 p.m. Catalano wrote that "no information was found to substantiate the threat" but that buildings were nevertheless searched "out of an abundance of caution."
UC Will Meet With Smith To Request Increased Funding
After meeting with University President Drew G. Faust last week, UC leaders said Wednesday that they will continue their push for increased funding with other administrators.
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Eldo Kim poses in Quincy House courtyard during the season's first measurable snowfall on Dec. 9. Kim, a sophomore in Quincy, will appear in court on Wednesday for charges related to the bomb scare that disrupted final exams on Monday.
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In 2009, then-high school sophomore Eldo Kim '16 earned first place in the state of Washington in the U.S. Institute of Peace essay contest for his composition, "Cultural Genocide: A Look into the Unknown." On Tuesday, he was charged with threatening to set off explosives in Harvard buildings.
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Dean of Undergraduate Education Jay M. Harris addresses evacuated students in Annenberg Hall Monday morning after unconfirmed reports of explosives in four campus buildings.
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University President Drew G. Faust reassures evacuated students waiting in Annenberg Hall after unconfirmed threats of explosives in four campus buildings Monday morning.
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text: Stuttgart: Day 3 Gallery Penguins, Easter Eggs and some stellar results from the German contingent highlighted Day 3. Published April 21, 2011 12:00 In their first meeting, Vera Zvonareva scored a 36 64 62 win over Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova. Feeling as fresh as ever at age 29, Kristina Barrois reached her first Premier quarterfinal. Yanina Wickmayer took time out to visit the Stuttgart Zoo and some of its cuddly residents. Yanina Wickmayer made a new friend in Fritz, one of the penguins living at Stuttgart Zoo. Yanina Wickmayer is currently ranked No.22 in the world, but she has been as high as No.12. Sabine Lisicki beat Li Na in the second round for her first Top 10 win since 2009 Wimbledon. After reaching the quarterfinals, Sabine Lisicki signed autographs for her many German fans. Petra Kvitova painted some Easter Eggs in anticipation of this weekend's Easter holidays. Andrea Petkovic rejoiced after upsetting No.7 seed Jelena Jankovic in the feature night match. German No.1 Andrea Petkovic was one of four Germans to reach the final eight in Stuttgart. Topics: 2011, porsche tennis grand prix, tournaments, news, photos or videos, kristina barrois, yanina wickmayer, vera zvonareva, petra kvitova, sabine lisicki, andrea petkovic, stuttgart [+] More Share this page! Print Email Related photos Stuttgart Gallery: Fast Cars & Tennis Stars April 28, 2014 Check out 10 more pics from the Porsche Tennis Grand Prix, where the WTA stars met their fans, signed some autographs and checked out some fast, fast cars. Stuttgart Gallery: The Best Of Finals Day April 27, 2014 Maria Sharapova went for her third straight Porsche Tennis Grand Prix title, while Sara Errani and Roberta Vinci tried to get back on the winning track. Stuttgart Gallery: Porsches & Ceremonies April 24, 2014 The stars of the WTA have been keeping very busy off the court at the Porsche Tennis Grand Prix - see all of the best pics from the week so far right here! To The Top 3


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Two seek school trustee position at May 5 election
Prairie County voters will have a choice between two candidates for this year's school board election. Michael Sterchi is challenging incumbent Sherry Strasheim for the three-year-term position on the Terry School board. Voters will choose between the two at the May 5 election. Polls will be open between noon and 8 pm in the Terry High School lobby.
Changes to Buffalo Rapids board noted
The Buffalo Rapids Irrigation Project will be holding a May 5 election for a district one board member. Brian Whitmer, who currently holds the position, is running, along with Don Buxbaum. Both reside in district one of the BR Irrigation Project.
BR irrigation project district one landowners, which include those living in both Dawson and Prairie counties, will vote at the Milne Implement Company in Glendive between noon and 8 pm.
Lindsay meeting will discuss pipeline project
Search continues - Willing candidates, mapping errors plague filling soon-to- be-vacated commissioner seat
By Kay Braddock
The quest continues and although Prairie County Republican Central Committee Chairman Larry Keltner is remaining optimistic he readily admits finding willing candidates for the soon-to-be vacated commissioner seat has been a trying task.
Few attend annual economic meeting
About ten individuals attended the annual Prairie County Economic Development Council meeting Tuesday evening, where future plans for VISTA volunteers, the Cameron diary project and hiking trails were discussed.
Musical performances receive top rating
Ten of Terry High School's musical entries, under the tutelage of music instructor JoDee Hess, achieved a superior mark for their performances at the District Festival. Superior is the highest ranking possible and is one that qualifies those entries to move into the state competition.
Area projects to be planned
Hiking trails and Cameron diaries will be among the topics discussed during Tuesday evening's Prairie County Economic Development Council meeting.
Community, hospital staff gather to say goodbye to Reymans
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Listing a host of accomplishments made in the past five years at Prairie Community Hospital, out-going administrator Reed Reyman said he's proud of the staff and the recent developments made at the facility.
Crash near Fallon kills North Dakotan
FALLON (AP) - A North Dakota man has died from injuries suffered in a weekend crash in Prairie County.
The Montana Highway Patrol says 51-year-old Charles Luedtke of the Bismarck-Mandan area of North Dakota was a passenger in a car that went off a gravel road four miles south of Fallon on Saturday. The patrol says the driver lost control of the car on a turn.
Neither Luedtke nor the driver, 49-year-old Daniel Beelmann, used a seat belt.


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It was one of the highlights of my equine fandom when I got to see the Prix de L'Arc de Triomphe at the Hippodrome de Longchamp in
The Arc is the most prestigious horse race in all of
Held on the first weekend (Sunday) in October, this prestigious event attracts the best horses from around the world. The Queen races her horses here, as does the Aga Khan and U.S. multimillionaires, wealthy Arab oil sheikhs, movie stars, celebrities, Englishmen, Irishmen, etc - all rubbing shoulders with the paying public and other racing fans. They all congregate here on this day - the most famous horse race in
Held at the beautifully landscaped bucolic and historic setting of
The walking ring is about the size of
The main grandstands are white-painted concrete and glass, bedecked with streamers and banners in the burgundy colours of the sponsors: the Qatar Racing and Equestrian Club. Since 1982 the "Arc" has had several sponsors, including Trusthouse Forte, Ciga Hotels and Groupe Lucien Barrière. The present sponsor of the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe is the Qatar Racing and Equestrian Club (QREC) and it covers the five runnings of the "Arc" from 2008 to 2012.The crowd is fashionable and elegant with women wearing fashionable hats and dresses, and men in expensive suits and ties. The horses and jockeys may look the same as they do back in Canada and the USA, but the similarities are definitely outnumbered by the differences when comparing North American thoroughbred racing to European racing.
General admission on Arc day is €8 Euro (approx $12 US/CDN). Upon entry are tables with stacks of day's racing program, printed in newspaper format. The big, glossy magazine Prix de L'Arc de Triomphe show program is 5€ Euro (you can download and view a copy HERE). As you walk around the grounds, clubhouse, & stadium there are bands playing everywhere and the mood is festive anticipation.
Since the course is so large, you cannot see the backstretch (part of which is obscured by trees), so the infield has three large jumbotron screens to watch the action. At the clubhouse turn is a windmill. The finish line is decorated with a large horseshoe shaped tote board which shows the time of day, race number, the finishing positions of the top seven horses in the previous race, and a one-line message board which indicates whether the last race result is Provisoire (unofficial) or Officiel (official). A second finish line (a simple white post) is located 1/16 miles past the regular finish and is used for certain distances.
Unlike in
When the race is over, the top seven finishing positions are displayed on the toteboard and the horses are brought back to the walking ring where the jockeys dismount and the horses are unsaddled - there is no winner's circle in front of the stands. A small stand is set up for trophy and other award presentations.
So, as you can see, a little different from North American races, but some things never change. No matter where you are, horse racing fans love the thrill excitement of the horses thundering down the track, racing for home. It was a wonderful feeling for me, to be at one of the world's most famous racetracks to watch
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Hoping to find out what Nicholas (Humbert Allen Astredo) is up to, Prof. Stokes (Thayer David) invites him to dinner. On the verge of killing Eve, Barnabas (Jonathan Frid) realizes that he has walked into a trap -- sprung by Angelique (Lara Parker). This episode was originally broadcast on October 18, 1968.


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The Stability Of The Turkish Phillips Curve And Alternative Regime Shifting Models
AbstractThis paper presents empirical evidence supporting instability of the Phillips curve in Turkey. We employ the multiple structural break models and the Markov switching models and then evaluate the performance of the two models. The data pertains to the monthly inflation rate in Turkey for the period of 1987-2004. The results show that the Turkish Phillips curve is not linear. There exists no evidence on the asymmetry in the inflation response to output gap. The persistence of inflation is found to be much lower than in linear models. After 2001 slight decline in persistence of inflation is observed.
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"that high-powered Philadelphia offense"
I'm sorry; I missed that.
Lee is still worth every dollar that he's paid. Every dollar. Philly fans know it. Management knows it. It would be foolish in the extreme to miss a game that he pitches.
Poor Cliff welcome to the former life of Matt Cain. (Ah, I'm smiling just thinking back to 2010)!
Should have taken the Yankees offer.
I am so glad that Nolan Ryan made the right decision to let him go to the Phillies – Texas Rangers are still HOT without him. It's sad to say this, but it seems like players like Alex Rodriquez and Cliff Lee tend to think the success of their team is due to their presense on the team – So wrong they were!
Go Rangers!
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Gove's illiterate critics (again)
Last week, I managed to wind up almost the entire population of Leftie teachers with my blog post about Michael Rosen's elementary grammatical error in his Guardian article attacking the idea that primary school children should be taught elementary grammar. I've never had so much potty-mouthed abuse on Twitter. And to think these people are entrusted with teaching our children how to behave.
Today, it's the turn of First News, a weekly newspaper aimed at schoolchildren, to be put in the dunce's corner. To be fair, the paper has got its hands on a decent little scoop. Rebecca Lee, a schoolgirl from Christchurch School in Bristol, has written to Michael Gove to complain about three mistakes in the spelling, punctuation and grammar paper she had to sit last week. (This is the new exam for Year 6 children known as "the SPAG test".) The mistakes consist of three rogue commas, apparently, but she doesn't say what they are so it's impossible to say whether she's right or wrong.
In its front page story about this, First News quotes the following sentence from the girl's letter:
I understand that you are very keen for us to all learn our complex sentences and use of accurate punctuation.
Now, if Miss Lee really did write that, that's a bit unfortunate because she uses a split infinitive: "…to all learn…" But did she? If you click through to the actual letter, which you can read here, what she actually wrote was:
I understand that you are very keen for us all to learn our complex sentences and use of accurate punctuation.
So she didn't, in fact, commit the error. It's been falsely attributed to her by First News.
First News then goes on to compound its mistake by misquoting someone else and falsely attributing a punctuation error to them – this time the Under Secretary of State for Education and Childcare. First News says of Miss Lee's detective work:
The discovery comes after education minister Liz Truss said the exam would help students to use English "properly, creatively, and effectively".
Now, as you've no doubt spotted, there shouldn't be a comma before the "and". In America, perhaps, but not here. Would Liz Truss really make such a terrible mistake? I went back and checked the original DfE press release which you can read here. The answer is no. The Liz Truss quote in full reads:
This new test will mean that children are again taught the skills they need to understand our language, and to use it properly, creatively and effectively.
So, just to recap, in a story chastising the DfE for misusing the comma, First News has misused a comma. And in a story praising a little girl for spotting a punctuation error it falsely attributes a grammatical error to her. If I was Miss Lee I'd be quite cross.
Tut, tut, First News. Back of the class.
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UNDATED (WHTC) - NFL Football on 1450 WHTC at 8 PM this evening finds New Orleans at Atlanta. On Sunday, hear the Detroit Lions' game with Tampa Bay from Ford Field at 12 Noon on Holland's Hometown Station, followed at 7:30 PM with the Denver at New England contest.
The Chicago Blackhawks skate in Winnipeg tonight. Tomorrow evening at 7:10 PM, catch the Detroit Red Wings game with Ottawa from Joe Louis Arena on 1450 WHTC.
Paul Milsap scored 19 points as Atlanta beat the visiting Pistons last night, 93-85. The two teams have a rematch at the Palace of Auburn Hills tomorrow evening.
The Chicago Bulls are in Denver to play the Nuggets tonight.
Mitch Callahan scored three goals and Petr Mrazek stopped 17 shots as the Griffins blanked visiting Milwaukee last night, 5-0. Grand Rapids travels to Iowa on Friday evening.
In state major college basketball last night, Western Michigan fell to visiting North Dakota State, 83-74. This evening, Michigan plays Long Beach State at the San Juan Shootout in Puerto Rico, while Central Michigan entertains Austin Peay. Tomorrow night at 7:40 on 92.7 The Van and http://927thevan.com/listen-live, Hope College begins its men's basketball regular season by visiting Wisconsin-Whitewater.
The NCAA Division III women's volleyball quarterfinals are at DeVos Fieldhouse in Holland today. The action begins at 12:30 PM with Eastern of Pennsylvania facing Emory of Atlanta, followed at 3 PM with Calvin meeting Massachusetts-Boston. At 5:30 PM, California Lutheran goes up against Clarkson of New York, and Hope College hosts Wisconsin-Stevens Point at 8 PM. The semifinals are tomorrow evening at 5 PM, with the finals on Saturday night at 7 PM.
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I've decided that bringing a squalling, blood- and pus-covered infant into this world is not for me. I have no major ish with other people's squalling, occasionally blood- and pus-covered offspring -– in fact, I find some of them downright adorable.
- You know your friend's mind, hopes, dreams and desires better than your friend ever could. Your friend is mistaken about his/her desire to live a childfree life, and, by proxy, maybe not so smart.
- You think your friend's very responsible, often quite difficult, decision has been made flippantly and without much consideration.


text: Today brings one of my annual preparing-for-vacation-trip posts, with a dash of comics for kids (we'll get back to the second part of our Music Master series next time). First, some Pixies, from their fourth comic book, issued in 1947. This one caught my eye recently because of a mention I read about a scene from this book that was censored in a later reprinting. Well, that had to be something worth a look, and we'll see a couple of highlights from this odd comic book to open our post, followed by a really nutty Captain Marvel story from 1948 that also tickled my fancy. Just some light reading today, to break up the 'harder' stuff that I have lined up for future posts. Join me for some surrealism and insect fun after the jump!


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Eulalie's Playfully Bohemian Nursery
Nursery Tour
Name: Eulalie (8 months)
Location: Townsville, Queensland, Australia
Room Size: 3m x 4m
Before becoming a new mom, Claire was a fashion stylist in Sydney. Since then, a surprise to no one after taking this room tour, she has developed a true passion for interior design and styling. What might surprise you is that Eulalie's nursery was an evolution, starting out as a simple gender neutral room with just the handmade crib (that was Claire's as a baby!) and a couple of pieces of furniture. When Claire brought Eulalie home, with still no theme in mind, she started filling the room with things she loved and gradually it became more and more the whimsical and playful space she was hoping for; a perfect little haven for her girl.
What was your inspiration for the room? Before I was pregnant, I spotted the antique green cabinet at a secondhand store in Sydney and fell in love. My husband and I were talking about starting a family, so I went ahead and bought the cabinet, thinking it was the ideal colour and could work in either a boy or a girl's space. I already owned the cot (which was handmade for me as a baby by my Granddad) and knew that I wanted to incorporate both pieces of furniture into something that was both aesthetically beautiful and meaningful, using lots of vintage bits and pieces that I had collected over the years. I wanted a space that was whimsical and playful, yet doubled as a calming and relaxing haven.
What is your favorite element in the room? The cot which was made for me by my Granddad when I was a baby. It's so special that my own daughter now sleeps in it too! The mosquito net is more practical than anything, we live in a tropical climate with lots of mosquito's! The cute owl mobile was a gift from a friend living in China.
Before starting, what did you know you wanted to include, for sure? The cot, the green cabinet and the Ikea hemnes chest of drawers (as a change table and storage). All of these items I already had, so I worked the space around them. I also knew that I wanted to incorporate a quiet reading spot, something low to the ground that felt accessible to Eulalie where she could relax and play, and where we could snuggle together and read stories before bedtime.
Were there any surprises? Good or bad? I had been thinking that I wanted to include some organic, natural elements and one day at the very end of my pregnancy I found a branch on our driveway that was the perfect formation of a miniature tree. It was the perfect way (along with the branch rack and curtain rail) to bring the 'outside' in. Finding it was a lovely surprise and I love it for both it's aesthetic value and for what it symbolises. Bad surprise? Baby's like to peel wall decals off the walls! They may need to be moved away from her change mat where she can't destroy them. It's a shame though, because they look so pretty there!
What was your proudest DIY? Probably the branch curtain rail and clothes rail. They turned out beautifully and the branch softens the unattractive roller blind most effectively. I didn't have much of a budget for artwork so I framed vintage embroidered napkins to add some visual interest and colour. Her name on the wall was created in photoshop and printed off on my home printer and attached to the wall with double sided tape. Most people assume it's a proper wall decal ... so I'm pretty pleased with that!
What was your biggest indulgence? The vintage green dresser and the floor cushions. Oh, and the Mae wall decals. Even so, these items weren't really that expensive. Everything else we either already owned or collected over time at second hand stores, markets etc.
Any advice for other people starting this process? Eulalie's nursery evolved over time -- I added and changed elements as I got to know my baby and imagined what sort of person she was going to grow into. I think I've created a space that reflects my baby's personality and that will grow beautifully with her. In other words, don't rush -- take your time and don't try to get caught up on a theme. Just add what you love, it will create a much more personal space and somehow it will all come together.
If money was no object, what would your dream source be? I would still much prefer to rummage in second hand stores and markets ... the character and charm that comes with vintage treasures is priceless.
Source List:
• Green cabinet: Antique
• Change table: IKEA Hemnes (changed hardware)
• White shelf with basket storage: Freedom Furniture
• Cot: Handmade by my Grandad for me when I was a baby
• Door sign: A custom made gift made by my friend Miriam
• Wall stickers (except name): Love Mae
• Floor cushions and cot canopy: Far Pavilions (Australian Asian import store)
• Rug: My Mum's!
• Curtains and various cushions: Tree of Life (Australian Asian import store)
• Branches: DIY
• Teeny Bunting: DIY via Ohdeedoh (Aubrey and Lindsay Little House Blog)
• "Eulalie" wall decal: DIY
• Soft ride-on camel: Locally made in Townsville
• Indian fabric lantern: local market
• Lamp: vintage
• Suitcases: vintage
• Chair: vintage
Thank you Claire! Readers, you can find Claire online at one claire day where she wrote about Eulalie's nursery. Pop over and say hello.
(Images: Claire Connell)
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I love the tenting around her crib. . .so beautiful. It wouldn't work with my daughter--she ripped down the roller shade in her room by reaching through the rails of her crib (I thought the window was out of reach). Such a pretty room though.
This room is truly gorgeous.
this is absolutely brilliant and so beautifully done!
Using a branch to hang curtains... so simple yet brilliant, I might steal that idea !
The room is gorgeous !
I think this is my favorite nursery so far. AMAZING job mama! The floor cushions are great...perfect for reading and playing and not something you typically see in a child's room. LOVE!
That green cabinet is truly fantastic. I almost never click through these tours but this one was way too cute to pass up. Thanks for the tour!
So beautiful! I ll have to save this one. Where the tree on the green cabinet comes from?
This room is stunning (while still very liveable). Love the branches & camel.
& what a darling baby :)
favorite tour ever.
Adorable! I love the large cushions on the floor and the Indian accents! she looks as happy on her camel as any little girl ever looked on a rocking horse! I'm inspired to add more Indian style to my daughter's room!
wow!! thats all I cant say..absolutely beautiful!
this room is so beautiful. your daughter is so lucky.
What a peaceful room! I love all the little personal touches in there.
And Eulalie's sweet grin makes me want another baby, like, yesterday.
That crib is so beautiful. I just love this whole room too.
Everything in this room is perfect!
This is, by far, the best nursery I've ever seen on here.
Its exactly how I envisioned how I would decorate one when I have a baby - but still a thousand times better! She is one lucky little lady! (And boy-oh-boy is she adorable!!)
That crib is beautiful and has such a great history to it... I'm blown away by the whole room.
My favorite nursery tour thus far. Truly inspiring!
Thank you so much for your sweet comments! We're so thrilled with how it turned out!
@moimarcie - The tree on the green cabinet is actually a palm tree branch that I found in my garden (it's shaped like a perfect little tree!).
Love, love, love this so much!
Love this! Where did you get the little mother child yellow leaf hanging? I love it!
Hi britters273 - the mother and child (Mary and Jesus?) is vintage. It was a dark timber and I just gave it a coat of the yellow paint to tie in with the vintage picture frame in the room!
Beautiful room - truly a lovely space. Love!
Perfect in so many ways! Love the colors, the camel, well there too many things to list...everything is beautiful! Including Eulalie ♥
Forget babies! I want a room that looks like this! Kidding. She's a gorgeous little girl. Love her name (reminds me of when I was in The Music Man).
most gorgeous, beautiful, inspiring, amazing, and perfect room. ever. ever. ever! Love!
I love this room, totally my style. The crib is GORGEOUS! Your grandad is not only talented, but has great taste, creating such a beautiful heirloom. Love the floor cushions and the camel (you would think I could find a great ride-on camel living in the Middle East, but I have yet to come across a good one.) The green cabinet was also a fantastic purchase. I could go on. All this and an adorable little girl to boot. Lovely!
Love it! It's so personal and tranquil.. Love the colors, floor cushions, the storybook collection, the camel, clothes hanging on a branch, the rug.. Darling baby too!
Everything featured here is just beautiful!
Possibly two dumb questions though...how is the branch hung over the window. And how do you pronounce her name? I googled it but found a couple different ways.
Absolutely adorable. Love every bit of it. What a wonderful room she has.
Thanks again everyone for the positive feedback!
@krgr1428 - The branch is hung by two long strips of fabric that are attached to the ceiling on little hooks!
We chose to pronounce our daughters name 'yoo-lay-lee' but it can be pronounced 'yoo-lah-lee' and obviously the french 'oo-la-lee' :)
Oh my. This room is so beautiful. I love the curtains, lighting, floor pillows and textiles. Swoooooon.
What great proof that the most amazing rooms evolve over time - this space is just gorgeous!
OMG! Love this room :) Totally saving the pictures for inspiration. Eulalie is adorable!
adorable room, adorable baby. Congrats! I love bohemain style. The rug, floor cushions and tree branch accessories specifically.
I would love to live in this room. That "cot" (we call it a crib in the U.S., and therefore could NOT figure out what my Irish relatives were talking about on our honeymoon!) is the most beautiful crib I have ever seen. I have to assume (and it looks like) it meets safety standards.
This is hands down the best nursery! I love everything about it.
This is absolute perfection....cozy and eclectic. Would LOVE to see the rest of your home!!
Getting pregnant tonight so I can have an excuse to recreate this room!!! Love, love, love.
Lovely room indeed. You can really tell this room has had an organic evolution. Nothing appears too planned but all fits in just perfectly.
Claire, you are amazing. Fact.
Lalie, I WILL smooch you- just you wait!
Beautiful! And the floor cushions -- what a cozy corner to cuddle, read, and nap!
favorite kids room ever. I absolutely adore every detail here. bravo!
A beautiful room. Wish I had one like it! You can see it is filled with love.
But most of all, I want Eulalie's sexy yellow shoes! Where did you ever find them?
With Mom's help, she's on her way to becoming a fashionista!
Love this room!
This is beautiful and the whole cushions-on-the-floor area is brilliant and so practical for great cuddle-reading time!
Artsygirl - Eulalie's shoes are from an Australian company called 'All About Heidi".
love love love this nursery! just gorgeous! i'm wondering where you got your cute mobil above her bed.... i'm on the search for one!
Hi Lindsie - the mobile was a gift from a friend - it was purchased in china. That's all the information I have on it, I'm afraid. Good luck in your search x
I need one of those camels! Is there any way to find one online? Or call the person who makes them? Thank you!
Yes! Where did the camel come from? I love it!
I am in love with the wall color (or non-color) It's the perfect shade of white/cream. Could you share the name of it. I need to repaint my little girls and this is such a nice one.
Hi Allie Mood and Becmatho - the camel was handmade by a local mum. The brand is called 'A tale to Tell'. That's all the info I have.
MollyJ - thankyou! The paint is Dulux 'Antique White USA'
Hi, just to say that every time I see your nursery pop up somewhere, I love it all over again. It is really the only one I have this with... It is just so pretty and peaceful.., and 'real', by which I mean not overly designed. The colours are lovely too. When I will finally get my daughter's room ready, this one will be a big inspiration.


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Reinventing a political culture is a difficult task to set oneself; political aesthetics develop alongside political movements, and tracing the direct influence of any one group is a bold claim. If one group can be said to have had any serious influence on the culture of activism in the last twenty years, however, it is Adbusters – a glossy Canadian magazine which has played an influential role in the alterglobalisation movements right up to the instigation of Occupy Wall St. At the forefront of the magazine's development has been the filmmaker and author Kalle Lasn.
Emerging out of the despondency of post-socialism in the early nineties Adbusters, a 'journal of the mental environment', aimed to expose and interrupt the stranglehold advertisers and the media have over our brains, relationships and lives. From the start Adbusters rejected the established organisations and aesthetic regimes of the left, instead mixing post-situationist and punk aesthetics with the more everyday visual techniques of advertising and marketing.
This rejection, alongside its professional production and distribution methods, established Adbusters as a clear and important voice amongst the nascent social movements rising against the huge global conferences and free-trade agreements that shaped the political landscape for activists in the late 1990s. It would be fair to say that the Adbusters magazine itself (as opposed to the Adbusters Media Foundation, which organises 'social marketing campaigns') is characterised by a tendency to collage, both in its visuals and its ideological slant. There is something for everyone in the magazine: images compete on the page for the attention of the time-strapped consumer-activist, just as punchy slogans and articles appeal for the ideological fealty of the reader. 'We're trying to sell ideas, rather than products,' Lasn said in 1996.
Its strength – a low bar for ideological investment in the magazine – is also its weakness, with Adbusters often producing contradictory, lightweight and occasionally dangerous and disgusting 'critiques' of capitalist and geo-political systems, with frequent recourse to consumer choice and moral indignation. Whilst Adbusters has played a significant role in the development of post-socialist aesthetics on the left, its economic critique has frequently lacked depth or clarity.
Lasn's latest book, Meme Wars, is intended to change that – to extend the political reach of the Adbusters project beyond the 'social movements' of activists and designers that constitute their regular readership. As an attempt to affect political change it is certainly bold; it aims nothing less than to shake institutions of power through an intellectual revolution from the inside. The question is whether the powerbrokers that Lasn has identified – the economists – will be persuaded by the economic critiques of Meme Wars.
QThe White Review — The book comes at an interesting time for Adbusters. Whilst the foundation and magazine were an important voice within the anti- and alter-globalisation movements, there was a sense that those movements had lost a popular traction by the financial crash of 2008. And yet Adbusters has since played a role in the early days of Occupy Wall Street, setting the tone in terms of horizontal decision-making and accessible activism. Now, this book seems to address a quite narrow audience of prospective economics students. Is that a tongue-in-cheek conceit to focus the book away from the collapsing ideology of neoliberal economics, or is the intention to shift a new generation of economists away from that still dominant paradigm?
AKalle Lasn — Well, in our discussion sessions we keep talking a lot about the fact that we've been around now for twenty five years and we've had all kinds of social marketing campaigns and a number of 'cracks of the whip', and somehow nothing has really ever gained any traction. I guess the biggest one was Occupy which had its incredible magical moment in the sun and then, somehow, it's faded away. So we were thinking 'What can the political left actually do that will add up to something? That starts to veer this human experiment of ours on planet Earth back onto some sort of a path?' Can we really do something or are we just crazy anarchists and crazy leftists shouting into the wind there, and somehow hoping that things will work out?
Of course, the Occupy movement was a bit like that as well. We deliberately didn't have any demands and now that it's gone away we wonder what happened. 'What was that all about?' We decided that just about everything else we've ever talked about, all the 'Buy Nothing Days' and occupations, somehow it doesn't mean anything.
What could actually happen is that the students of the world could suddenly wake up to the fact that their future doesn't compute, using the economics students as the spearhead of a larger student movement. If they started revolting against the theoretical foundations of economic science, and if we were able to get some students at the prestigious universities to play a catalytic role and actually, in a visceral way, start talking back against the professors and putting up posters in the corridors… And if that revolt spread to hundreds of universities around the world and all of a sudden started spilling over into the larger economic think-tanks and IMF and World Bank, then we would have a kind of a crack at demolishing the theoretical foundations that have run the world for the last fifty years and actually start off on a sort of whole new paradigm.
To us, this felt grandiose, maybe a little unrealistic. But nonetheless it felt like something that could actually happen that could save the world. And that's why we published this book. We tried to make it as credible as possible so if a professor picks it up and reads it there's nothing there that is obviously flakey or easily demolished. Above all it's a book that will hopefully light a fire underneath students all around the world.
QThe White Review — Is that quite a profound shift in the Adbusters project? In terms of moving from the very grassroots activist and 'anarchist' perspective that power can be bypassed through your everyday life to an actual acknowledgement that there are these institutions of power. Perhaps a more serious left project would need to get into those institutions. Do you think it bears any sort of relation to Rudi Dutschke's 'March through the Institutions'?
AKalle Lasn — We've always worked on two levels. The level of you as one human being, living here and trying to make sense of the world, trying to live and die in some way that means something – that you should live without dead times and you should be awake and your life empowered. But on another level we've always gone after the big boys. We've always wanted to revoke corporate charters and kill off some of the corporations like Exxon. We've launched projects like the Blackspot shoe venture where we said, 'Alright, we're going to come up with our own brand and demolish the Nike brand'. So in a way we've always operated on these two levels and I think that this project to light a fire underneath the students of the world – especially the economics students -is very much in the tradition of what we've been doing for the last twenty five years, operating on a personal but also a very grandiose level.
QThe White Review — So you could say that perhaps this book is the flipside to the Occupy project in that Occupy followed the line of 'changing your everyday life', whereas this is about affecting power?
AKalle Lasn — You know, we didn't really see it that way. We came up with that poster of the ballerina on the bull (the initial call-out for Occupy Wall Street) and we said, 'What is our one demand?' Even though that one demand never quite came to the fore, there was a lot of discussion in all the occupations all around the world about what that one demand could be.
There was the usual kind of stuff about 'maybe it could be a Robin Hood Tax', or in America it could be the reinstatement of the Glass-Steagall Act. There was a sort of bread and butter kind of a feeling about it – 'let's zero in on one project that would really make a difference'. And yet in our discussion sessions we had the feeling that even if we were able pull off a Robin Hood Tax, somehow we'd still be operating within the existing paradigm.
If you suddenly get a 1% tax on all financial transactions on currency trading and everybody, including the US and UK, ratifies it, suddenly we have a Robin Hood Tax that collects a few billion dollars that still wouldn't solve the problem. We'd still be running a Doomsday Machine; the capitalist project is still a Doomsday Machine, with or without the Robin Hood Tax. That's why we said, 'So, how can we go deeper? How can we have one demand in the tradition of Occupy? What is that one demand that could actually fix the problem?' We started talking about going to the deeper recesses of capitalism and trying to pull off a shift in the theoretical foundations of the system itself. We felt that this book gets to the very heart of the matter and we're hoping that it could be the catalytic moment that gets people thinking on the deepest level rather than always on the surface, which is basically why the political left has failed so dismally over the last twenty or thirty years: because we're always operating on that surface level.
QThe White Review — So with relation to Occupy you feel that as an experiment its demands were still reformist? In that it was attempting to operate within the pre-existing paradigm and not fundamentally change that structure?
AKalle Lasn — Exactly right. In the beginning when we wanted a Robin Hood Tax, we had all these 'within the existing paradigm' kind of demands. Yet this book is our attempt to answer that question of what that one demand is. We believe that if the political left and students and people all over the world suddenly said, 'We need to tinker with the very foundations of the current global economic system', if we can actually get people thinking on that level and starting off on that level – the paradigm shift from the neoclassical to the ecological paradigm or the bionomic paradigm or the psychonomic paradigm, the very foundations of our system – then after that it'll be simple to pull off the Robin Hood Tax and all these other surface things that obviously also have to happen.
QThe White Review — I always thought of Adbusters, within a wider project on the left, as 'decodifying' a lot of the left-wing politics up to that point – in terms of taking down the red flags and the ideas of denim clad workers on machines, reimagining an aesthetic of left action that is more in tune with people's lives.
AKalle Lasn — Yes, that's true. That's been inspired by the Situationists and Guy Debord. Of course, in a sense we're still trying to do that because if you shift the paradigm, as you see in the tail end of the book, if you really shift the paradigm then you're not just shifting the ideas about growth or different ways of looking at money but you're also trying to shift the aesthetic. You'll notice in the last pages of the book that we're actually talking about an aesthetic shift and that this project of shifting the very foundations of our system, it goes right across the board, you know? We have to rethink the axioms, but we also have to rethink the aesthetic and we have to rethink the way we live. In some strange way this book encompasses everything we've ever tried to do, but with a singular focus of digging as deep as we can into the origins and foundations of the existing global economic system that we're caught in.
QThe White Review — When people are trying to rework a new aesthetic, quite often they end up rejecting a lot of the ideas that did have value in a previous political movement. Maybe this is a moment where the left has deprogrammed a lot of the heritage of the Soviets, and is now at a point where it's starting to realise it needs a structural analysis again?
AKalle Lasn — What you're saying still feels a little bit like the old left talking, somehow. We've been saying for the last twenty years at Adbusters that we have to jump over the dead body of the old left, and that we've not really been able to do anything significant since the fall of the Soviet Union. The fall of the Soviet Union took the piss out of us and somehow since then we've been shouting the same old slogans and talking the same old language and coming up with the same old analysis. I must admit that I'm totally disillusioned with the political left. I think that we have to not just rethink the theoretical foundations of economic science but we have to go deep, deep down into the political left itself and say, 'Well, what is it still that we can salvage?'
I think one of the things we can salvage is this deep down feeling about collectivism – I guess you could say 'communism' (laughs) – this idea that we in the left don't stand for this rational utility-maximiser kind of guy who runs around trying to become a millionaire but we stand for some sort of a collectivism. What does that collectivism mean in the context of this moment that we're living through, where everything seems to be collapsing around us? Where ecologically we're collapsing, and psychologically we're collapsing, and politically we're collapsing, and financially we're on the edge of entering into another 1929 scenario? In this moment of crisis when all these eco-, psycho-, political and financial crises all seem to be intertwining with each other and spiraling down to the bottom, in this dangerous moment what does the political left still have to say? It isn't just the theoretical foundations of economic science but is there an activism out there that comes from the political left that is up to the task?
QThe White Review — What worries me is that there are core values that you're highlighting as being 'of the left' which, without that wider structural analysis, aren't intrinsically good – for example collectivism. While I'd say a type of collectivism is a core value of the left, collectivism in itself isn't necessarily positive. There's a collectivism of the nation-state, or the German American] Bund. There's all sorts of types of collectivism. Quite often when I was going through the book I felt there was an idea of building new myths and new narratives, but they were too detached from a clear understanding of the economic position, and that they therefore could be co-opted. They weren't necessarily emancipatory forms of collectivism. Would you say that's fair?
AKalle Lasn — My own feeling is that we shouldn't try to be too clear. I don't think that any one of us has figured out the way forward and that's one of the reasons I thought the Occupy movement was such a wonderful, magical moment. The political left was floundering, as it has been for the last thirty or forty years, and all of a sudden a few young people that weren't part of the left establishment – who felt in their guts that the future doesn't compute and that they have to stand up and fight for a different kind of future – totally took the left establishment by surprise and it was kind of a magical moment. Like back in the Sixties when I was young!
They were politicised in a way that absolutely dumbfounded, for a while anyway. One by one all the Naomi Kleins and the Žižeks came to Zuccotti Park. And yet the phenomena itself, this attempt to occupy the iconic centre of global capitalism on Wall Street and take it over, this was a totally surprising new moment.
I think what we need is more 'new moments'. We need new moments like Pussy Riot in Russia, or like all those young teenagers who are dashing off into the streets in Chile and demanding some sort of education reform, or those people who suddenly rose up in Québec and threw the whole province into a loop, and, of course, the anarchists in Greece and the Indignados in Spain. It seems to me that all over the world young people who feel that the future doesn't compute are all rising up and trying to figure out how to create a future that does compute.
I don't think we are in the moment of going back to this sort of 'old lefty' idea that we have to somehow come up with some sort of structural analysis of what's right and what's wrong. I think we're in a crazy, anarchic global moment that does have a possibility of leading to a global spring. I think we'll either have a global spring or we'll finish up in a thousand year dark age. That's the basic choice we're faced with and we have to be open to new magical moments like Occupy, not try to go back to this left-cortex analysis of 'what the fuck is actually wrong and how do we fix it?'
QThe White Review — We don't need that analysis?
AKalle Lasn — Open to the future! Open to the future in a way that the political left has never been open to future before.
QThe White Review — Throughout the book I felt there were a series of different narratives that were challenging each other as to what the causes of this crisis are. You seem to be saying that all these disparate uprisings from the Arab Spring to Québec to Chile to the UK and Occupy are linked, but through the book I found it hard to pin down exactly what you thought the cause of this financial crisis was. There was a mixture of discussion about neoliberal economics, but then there was also a strong moral criticism running through of greed and usury and a lack of 'community values'.
AKalle Lasn — I like the idea that this book doesn't articulate exactly what the problem is and say exactly how to fix it. I think that if you pushed me against the wall and said, 'What IS that one thing?', then I would go back to what I said earlier – that the starting point for veering our human experiment back onto the tracks again is going back to the theoretical foundations of economic science itself: these axioms. Then we can start to process and over the next few years we can figure out what place greed plays in it, what place the professors play in it. In a way, you need a starting point and I think the starting point is the economic foundations of this global economic system that we're caught in right now – to wake up to the fact that we never talk about!
We never talk about the core axioms that propel our system. If we start talking about those fundamental things, like 'Can we really keep growing forever on a finite planet?', or 'Can we really have an economic system that makes any sense if, at the centre of that economic system, is this parody of a human being called "a rational utility maximiser"?' Or can we have any kind of system that works and is sustainable if we dismiss the externalities, if we dismiss climate change and if we ignore people like Sir Nicholas Stern who said that 'climate change is the biggest market failure that the world has ever seen'? If we keep on ignoring the biological, ecological and philosophical foundations of our system, then how can we ever fix anything?
I think there is a glimmer of hope in this book. For if we start fighting a 'Meme War', a war of ideas against the keepers of the current system, and we go right to the very foundations of that system, then we can begin a war of ideas where the good guys can eventually win.
QThe White Review — To pick up on this 'Meme Wars' idea – throughout Meme Wars you highlight the importance of injecting narratives as a key way to change 'western society's' view of itself, and to become more in tune with its environment, with the poor, with inequality. To remove some of the micro-issues and deal with a much broader, more literary conception of society's direction. That's something that's been happening in Europe with movements like the Dark Mountain project and groups that question ideas of growth and progress through new stories and new myths. You talk about a new cultural myth that needs to be created and propagated by 'Meme Warriors'. I'm wondering how you see this myth being created. Is it a communal form, or is it more of a small group or multiple groups who can fire out different ideas and see which takes? I'm struggling to differentiate the difference between a 'Meme' as a specific cultural form rather than a myth or wider story.
AKalle Lasn — Well, that's a fantastic question. I think that nobody quite understands how myths are formed or how religions begin. I think that what happens is that we human beings struggle away and every now and again at some point in our history we come across something that actually threatens to demolish us. If you look back at any of the religions or big myths of humanity then these were always crisis moments where some new – I like to call them 'Memes' – some 'Meme' or even mythology emerged. I think that we are at this point now.
I think we need to fight a 'Meme war'. We need to have 'Meme wars' in our universities, and 'Meme wars' are already going on. I mean if you look at philosophy or you look right across all the endeavours of humanity then right now there is a fundamental questioning of everything that happened over the last few thousand years, right down to this big question that has perplexed me all my life: What is it about Western civilization? How were we born? Were we born out of logic? Were we born out of the left-cortex? How come that we in the West were the people who came up with the foundations of logic? Why is it that we have always tried to prove the existence of God by using the laws of logic and is that logic is some sort of a fatal flaw within our civilization?
The more 'right-cortex, feet-in-the-mud' kind of philosophy that came out of the East… Is there some way that the logic of the West and the 'feet in the rice fields' kind of an ethic can create a new mythology that suddenly does start to make sense and capture the imagination of everybody on the planet? Is there going to be some sort of a 'Messiah' kind of a character? You know it could be an economist, like Keynes. That hasn't happened yet. Is it possible that some ecological economist will suddenly rise up like Keynes did during the crisis of the 1920's and 1930's and suddenly give us a new way of looking at economics? Is there some sort of philosopher who can come up with a new connection to nature we've never had before?
We do need a new mythology. I believe there is a glimmer of a new mythology hovering on the horizon right now.
QThe White Review — I can agree with you that we're at a very significant moment in our cultural, political and economic history. But when you combine this conversation about 'new myths' with an idea that it's a 'tabula rasa' for the left, and with your book itself, where you say 'there is no analysis' but rather a whole series of different ideas which you aim to stimulate – I think dangerous myths can emerge within this framework. That is a problem I've had with Adbusters in the past – that it's been very keen to have a sort of 'suck it, and see' approach to things.
AKalle Lasn — I think that Adbusters is an experiment in activism that is still unfolding. We've learnt a hell of a lot over the last twenty five years. After the Occupy moment when we were able to catalyse a global magical moment, now we're trying to build on everything we've done. I do believe there is something to be said for being 'fuck-it-all' open to the future and allowing your emotions to take over for a while. I think that economics itself is a perfect example of where a whole bunch of left-cortex, unfeeling scientific type personalities have taken over this discipline and tried to turn economics into an exact science on the model of physics. I think a lot of what's wrong with western civilization right now is a lot of this sort of rational, logical streak.
When I was young and was studying philosophy at University there was this thing called 'logical positivism' and there were people like Gilbert Ryle in the UK and a whole bunch of people coming out of France at the time who tried to get rid of metaphysics and hated existentialism. There was this sort of a battle between a more emotional Europe versus a hyper-rational Britain and I do believe that somehow between those two approaches is some clue to the future. I think that we on the political left, and we in the West, do have to jettison some of that tradition of logic, rationality and exactness that people like Bertrand Russell stood for. Perhaps the other side, the people who come out of the Islamic tradition and the Eastern tradition – especially the Chinese and Japanese tradition – you know, maybe they have something to learn from us about being a little bit more exact and a bit more rational. I think that the only glimmer of hope is for there to be a synthesis of those two traditions that have fought for the imagination of the world over the last few thousand years.
Capitalism is like a religion; it's like a mythology that has all seven billion of us in its grip.
QThe White Review — My worry is the degree to which people are coerced by mythologies. A mythology becomes dominant and hard to challenge and without that rational analysis there may be a blurring of the democratic control of ideas. The power structure becomes mystified. This is always what has worried me about the Adbusters horizontal project; that in its attempts to remove all the previous power structures through mythology it actually takes away all the decision-making structures. Then there's an appearance of horizontalism but in reality the people who can control the narrative become the powerful ones.
AKalle Lasn — I think that your analysis is right on the button but that it made a hell of a lot more sense in previous eras of human history. At the moment my feeling is that humanity is standing at some sort of a very dangerous moment.
Ecologically, psychologically, politically and financially we're about to hit the wall, and if we do hit the wall all this 'rationality' that you talk about will mean nothing, you know. It'll be like a fart in the ocean because if all of a sudden we go through a 1929 scenario – and back in 1929 of course we climbed out of it because we still had the forests and we had the fish and we had most of the oil still in the ground and we had the clean water and we had all that fantastic stuff going on, we had the natural capital of the planet still to fall back on – this time if we go into a 1929 scenario then we won't have the forests! We won't have any of that stuff anymore and you know you can't eat derivatives!
Again, I have a feeling that we're in danger of descending into a thousand year dark age: it takes a thousand years even to grow back 1 inch of fertile topsoil. So maybe the difference between you and me is that I see the immediate future in much more apocalyptic terms. The rationality that you talk about, as I said, is like a fart in the ocean if this human experiment of ours descends into chaos, into hubris, into a long dark age. Rationality doesn't make any sense when people are killing each other for food and if there's not enough clean water to drink anymore. This is the dangerous moment that I think we're sitting in right now. So we need new approaches, we need new mythologies. We need more moments like the Occupy moment, where young people suddenly become politicised. Rather than rational analysis we just need magical new approaches that wake the world up to what's really happening, because at the moment we're still in denial. Most people are still sort of saying, 'Oh, we'll be OK. We'll slowly work out this recession that we're in and then it'll be sailing forward again'. But if you see the world in the same apocalyptic terms that I see it, then maybe you'll be more ready for some of these free, open, anarchic, fuck-it-all approaches. Let's just go forward in a 'fuck-it-all' way and keep our fingers crossed and hope for the best.


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The last series is the only series I turn over if I flick onto it.
I dont like the prison setting, them constantly getting into trouble isnt funny and it just isnt as inventive.
I could sit and watch any episode from series 1-6(ish) all day, though.
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