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Why Americans Still Donx92t Vote
An interview with Frances Fox Piven
David Barsamian
Francis Fox Piven is professor of political science and sociology at the graduate school of the City University of New York. She is co-author with Richard Cloward of a number of award-winning books, including Regulating the Poor, The Poor People's Movement, The Breaking of the American Social Compact, and Why Americans Still Don't Vote.
BARSAMIAN: Why Americans Still Don't Vote was recently updated with the "Still" added to the title.
PIVEN: We originally published it as Why Americans Don't Vote in 1988. The "Still" was an ironic comment on the lack of progress in American elections and in turnout since then. It also is true that in the intervening years the situation actually worsened. On the one hand, the mechanics of registration became more accessible to people as a result of the motor voter reforms we had worked on, but, on the other hand, the political parties drifted even further away from the interests of ordinary Americans. They operated within a neoliberal ideology that argues markets must rule, not only nationally but internationally, and that government better get out of the way. That's of course a very old idea going back to the 19th century, but it's been resuscitated in the late 20th century. Just think about what it means. If markets must rule, if governments have to get out of the way, why should we bother to go out to vote?
The formal right of franchise is much celebrated in the political culture.
There are ways in which the celebratory tale is true. We were the first country in which the formal right to vote was ceded to white men regardless of their property or their earnings or their educational qualifications. Over the course of the 19th century, that arrangement helped to account for the early development of political machines, of clientalist arrangements, through which politicians traded votes for private favors. We were the country that became home to the political boss. But in the late 19th century, as industrialization and urbanization proceeded, as immigration accelerated, and as large numbers of workers and farmers began to feel the stresses and uprooting of industrialization and urbanization, a kind of popular politics emerged in the political parties. There were grassroots movements, insurgent third parties, and a kind of tumult in electoral politics. It was during this period that American political and economic elites tried to roll back the franchise that had been won after the Revolutionary War. They did this by imposing new conditions on the right to vote. They reinvented the poll tax, which had been eliminated in the early 19th century. They reintroduced educational requirements. They stiffened residence requirements. To make all this effective, they introduced a system unique in the world of personal, periodic voter registration, in which it's the responsibility of every prospective voter to see to it that they get on the voting lists and to do that by going to the election board when they're open, even if they're 30 miles away. That arrangement, together with the new educational and poll tax and residence restrictions, had the effect of driving voter turnout down very rapidly early in the 20th century.
But here's the complication. It wasn't just the rules and procedures. Political elites wanted to purge these discordant, difficult voters. But they didn't do it just by making it less likely that they would vote. Once it was less likely that immigrant working-class people in the cities would vote, that radicalized farmers would vote, the political parties stopped doing their campaign work in their areas and neighborhoods. They stopped talking their language. They stopped naming their grievances. It became more convenient for the political parties in several ways. One, a smaller electorate means a cheaper election campaign. An electorate that is not only smaller but that doesn't include the more dissident sectors of the population means an easier campaign to manage, particularly as money begins to flow into the parties, which also begins around the same time as voter registration restrictions.
Over the course of the 20th century, we've developed a limited democracy, a limited electoral representative system, which the parties manage. Nevertheless, the ideology, the story of America as the first democracy persists because these restrictions were not obvious and definitive. Voter registration restrictions discouraged voting. They didn't prevent voting. The illusion of the U.S. as the complete democracy was not damaged by the fact that we are among one of the most backward in terms of voter turnout. Black Americans didn't get the franchise until the 1960s. In terms of historical progress, that is a very bad showing.
Your lead chapter is "Does Voting Matter?" Does it? Does non-voting matter?
Yes and no. The democratic ideal that ordinary people should determine who occupies positions of state power and authority is rarely realized fully. But it is still nevertheless true that voting matters somewhat and voting matters more at some junctures than at others. If you compare the electoral histories of European countries and the U.S., voting seems to matter more in Western Europe. Voting matters more there even though the franchise was won later, fully a century after it was won in the U.S. But instead of the development and expansion of the rights associated with the franchise in the U.S., we saw their contraction, management, and manipulation. In Western Europe, when the franchise was won, the fledgling Socialist, Labor, and Social Democratic political parties that already existed became significant organizational instruments for political power. Working people did win things through electoral politics. You can gauge the measure of their victories by the differences between Western European governmental domestic policies and American domestic policies. Western European countries have far less inequality. Poverty is infinitesimal compared to what it is in the U.S. Their unions are stronger. They never attacked the welfare state. They've talked about it, to be sure, but in the end, the European welfare state has not much changed in the last two decades, and look at the changes that occurred in the U.S. So whether voting matters or not depends a great deal on other features of the electoral representative system and of the society in which the electoral representative system unfolds.
In the U.S., the effort to control and limit electoral representation, to limit formal democracy, was strenuous and successful. It's embedded in the Constitution. It is reflected in the decision of the founding fathers to turn over the question of who should have the franchise to the states. It's reflected in the decision to make the president not subject to the popular vote but to the Electoral College, something that came back to haunt us in election 2000. It's reflected in their decision to give every state two representatives in the higher legislative body, the Senate. States are just pieces of territory. What do they have to do with democracy? Why do they get representation when people are as a consequence so misrepresented. The half million people in Alaska have two Senators just as the 50 million people in California. All those decisions were made by the founders. They were made in the reflection of their anxiety about the democratic passions that had been unleashed by the Revolutionary War, democratic passions, by the way, that they could not ignore. We live with those limitations to this day.
What were the bases for these decisions in terms of race, class, and gender?
It never occurred to the founding fathers that women should have the right to vote. This was the moment in which the American upper class, the nationalist upper class, the revolutionary upper class was determined to create a state with the capacity to protect its interests, for example, in Western lands, in shipping, with the Navy, with the capacity to establish a sound currency so that these crazy radical farmers who wanted debt relief would not get their way. There were many things that the founders wanted that could only be gotten in a nation-state and not with 13 disparate colonies. When they met in Philadelphia to construct the terms of the compromise between the states that would make a powerful nation-state possible, they had to worry about the fact that each of these colonies had a different kind of society and economy. Most importantly, the economies of the South depended on slave labor. The first glimmerings of emancipation were evident during the Revolutionary War. The idea that all men were created equal and that slaveholding was inconsistent with democratic ideals was already apparent. These were not ideas that were widely held, and they certainly didn't mean that ordinary Americans believed in the equality of African Americans. They didn't. But slaveholding was nevertheless anathema to many people, especially in the North. The slave-dependent colonies of the South wanted a guarantee as a condition of their entering the Union of being able to continue a slave-based economy. They got that guarantee in the Constitution, which first incorporated the provision that fugitive slaves from the South had to be returned, incorporated a provision that weighted Congressional representation toward the South by counting slaves in the allocation of Representatives even though slaves of course did not have the vote. Again, the allocation of two Senate seats to each and every colony also helped to assure the slave power that joining the Union would not be a risk to their practices, as was the Constitutional provision which guaranteed the continued importation of slaves for 20 years.
What this meant to the Southern representatives in the Constitution-writing process was that the Southern states would be free to write the laws which guaranteed the continuation of slavery. They did write those laws. Moreover, because of these other provisions in the Constitution, until the Civil War, the South had dominant influence on the national government. The Abolitionists, for example, conceived of themselves as a minority movement, a sacred movement against an overwhelming power, the slave power, which dominated Washington and our national laws.
The Abolitionist movement was non-electoral?
It was maybe the greatest movement in American history, about which we teach our young people very little. It was a movement of fierce moral passion. It arose throughout the North, based mainly in Protestant churches. It was a movement committed to the emancipation of the slaves. Immediate emancipation was their slogan, in order to avert the sorts of stratagems that had blunted any Abolitionist sentiment at the time of the Constitution. But what was in a way most remarkable about them was their willingness to stand up to the scorn of politicians, of the leaders of the churches, and even of public opinion, since public opinion was not very friendly to blacks, even in the North. By doing that, by standing up to that scorn, insisting on their moral credo and organizing, they had the effect of helping to spur slave insurgencies, to create the Underground Railroad, which drained 100,000 slaves from the South, not so very many, perhaps, but enough to threaten the slaveocracy. Their persistence and insistence split open the major Protestant denominations. We have Northern Baptists and Southern Baptists. That all dates from the Abolitionist struggle. Eventually they split the parties, too. When they split the parties into Southern and Northern parties, they split the capacity of American elites to accommodate on the slave question, and war came.
Some argue that non-voting is a tacit expression of satisfaction with the status quo. What's the argument against that?
I like it when people make that argument because it's so idiotic, as evidenced by the fact that the people who are least well off in the U.S. are the ones who are least likely to vote. That has always been true, or rather, I should say it's been true in the last 100 years, since the contraction of the electorate began at the turn of the 20th century. Those who think that non-voting is a sign of satisfaction with the way government is working have to explain why there is a strong correlation between economic status and voting, between whiteness and voting. Until the last couple of decades, a correlation even between gender and voting.
Talk more about the process of who votes, how they vote, and how the votes counted.
As your questions indicate, it's gotten to be a problem on many levels. After the debacle of Election 2000, there was a lot of talk about the election machines. The one commitment George W. Bush has made is to support the purchase of new ones. The machines were flawed. They have always been flawed, because running elections is a state and county responsibility. Counties fulfill that responsibility in accord with their budgetary capacity, which reflects the affluence of the people who live in that county. So poor counties have poor machines. But in solving that problem, which exists all over the country, they will expose another problem which also exists all over the country. That is how elections are administered and who administers them. Americans are indifferent to that question, partly because they think that elections are administered in a bipartisan or non-partisan way. Elections are administered by the two major parties. That's how all election laws are set up. There should be both Republicans and Democrats on the state, county, and town boards of elections. What that means is that the two major parties, both of which have stakes in the status quo, collude to keep the electorate basically the same as it was before. The people who run elections don't like new voters. They don't like the trouble that it causes in terms of administering elections and in terms of election upsets. These election officials are all connected to local parties. A non-partisan system of running elections might be a little bit better.
You notice how in the Florida election one of the many scandals was that some private company was hired by local election administrators to identify felons who were on the voter registration rolls, because felons can't vote. The state laws that prevent felons from voting ought to be reexamined. Anyone who has served his or her time and has now established that he or she is a good citizen should have the vote. But what actually happened in Florida, and what happens all over the country, is that people who were not felons were identified by this company. The election officials told them that their names had been purged from the rolls. That sort of thing happens all the time. People go to vote and find that their names are not on the rolls. The extent to which this is the result of incompetence and collusion is very hard to speak about definitively. But I can assure you that this is much more likely to happen in poor and minority communities than in affluent communities, if only because the affluent would raise such an outcry.
Or in communities with large immigrant populations who don't have command of English.
Absolutely. In the Florida election, another scandal was that police roadblocks were set up on election day which often blocked minority voters who didn't want to go through them. The principle duplicates the stratagem used by Jesse Helms, for example, in I believe it was the 1990 election, where he sent out tens of thousands of postcards to minority voters warning them that if they went to vote and they were not fully eligible to vote, they might be guilty of a felony. It's pure intimidation. Or in Texas and New Jersey, the Republicans hired ballot cops, off-duty police, walking up and down the lines of waiting voters, warning them that they could be taken in for any transgression. That's intimidation. It happened in Florida, but it's important to remember that it always happens. It does seem that there was more coordination in Florida. The Jeb Bush machine was at work.
Then there was the arcane Electoral College, which meant that although Gore got more than half a million more popular votes, he got fewer electoral votes and when members of the Black Congressional Caucus tried to use that arcane law to challenge Florida's electoral votes, because the House of Representatives can challenge electoral votes, they were not allowed to do so because the law also said they had to have one Senator supporting them, and they did not get that Senator. Finally, there's the way the election was conducted because it was a big-money election. All of our elections are big-money elections if they're for important posts.
There's the final discouragement to electoral participation, to voter turnout, which is that people understand that the issues that are discussed, the promises that are made, do not control what these people do once they win power. Legislation is complicated. There are amendments. They'll raise the minimum wage and attach riders giving business more tax breaks. The system is out of control.
Electoral campaigns are awash with money. Billions of dollars are spent. The airwaves are saturated with advertisements. One would think, with that kind of visibility, that the turnout would dramatically rise.
Three billion dollars and counting was spent on advertising in the last presidential election. But people are not fools. All the surveys we have show that people have since the 1960s become increasingly skeptical and cynical about our politicians and the way our political system operates. While it's hard not to be stirred to some extent by a close horse race, people are cynical about American electoral politics. We usually give cynicism a bad name, but that cynicism is a good thing. It's the first step toward understanding, and understanding is a necessary step toward becoming part of a larger movement for reform.
You write, "Little attention has been given to the actual role of the parties as demobilizers of participation." What are the Democrats and Republicans doing to demobilize participation?
It's a long-standing pattern in American electoral politics that the parties compete as much by trying to keep people from the polls as by trying to bring them to the polls. That proposition flies in the face of a kind of truism that's taught in political science classes that competitive parties try to enlarge turnout. This was a proposition advanced by a very eminent and brilliant political scientist named E.E. Schattschneider. He thinks that it was party competition that led to enlarging the electorate in American political history. That was true for a little while early in the 19th century. But by the end of the 19th century, the parties had discovered another way of competing, by disenfranchising groups that wouldn't vote for them, by keeping them away from the polls, by making it harder for them to vote. We know it's true in the South, where blacks and poor whites were kept from the polls, but it was true in the North as well.
We can still see this in electoral politics. In our book we tell the story of our efforts to win agency-based registration to make it possible for people to register to vote when they used other government services. That reform was eventually embodied in federal law in the National Voter Registration Act, known as motor voter. We worked at that reform for 15 years. At the beginning, we thought that liberal Democrats would be our allies because, after all, if we made it easier for poor people and working people and blacks and Hispanics to vote, they would vote for Democrats, so why shouldn't Mario Cuomo or David Dinkins be on our side? They have the authority to order voter registration in state or city agencies. But they weren't on our side. They mouthed our principles. They said they were on our side. They slapped us on the back and issued orders, but they didn't see to it that those orders were implemented. We think it's because of the destabilizing impact that a large influx of poor and minority voters would have not only on the chances of Mario Cuomo, but on the entire Democratic establishment in New York State, and ditto for David Dinkins and the entire Democratic establishment in New York City.
We also tried to get interest groups like the unions or the social service agencies to work on this, but with very desultory responses. They were willing to support us in principle, but they were not willing to use any organizational capital to see to it that voter registration was offered to people who used the services in social agencies or in the agencies where unions were strong. In both of those instances, organizational maintenance concerns were preeminent. They didn't want any of the backlash they might experience if they were to make it easy for poor and minority people to vote.
Talk more about how income drives voting. In the U.S. two-thirds of those with incomes above $50,000 a year vote. Compare that to one-third of those who earn under $10,000 who vote.
There's a theory of why that's so that has flourished in American political science, which argues that poor people have certain kinds of social characteristics that deter voting. They're less educated, which means that the voting process may be difficult for them. They also have not imbibed the civic culture that more educated people have. They might have shorter time horizons. They pursue immediate gains rather than the longer-term gains that might result from electing a better political party or leader. There are endless studies showing the correlation between the socio-demographic characteristics of people who have lower socio-economic status and non-voting, and it's true.
But it's also true that in some places at certain times people with just those characteristics—low income, low education—are more likely to vote than more affluent people. In cities controlled by working-class parties, they're more likely to vote. In the 19th century, Paul Kleppner, a political historian, has argued that there's good evidence for thinking that working-class and poorer people voted at higher levels than better-off people. In Western European countries there's no correlation between social class and the likelihood of voting or not voting. So that theory, even though it's very popular among American political scientists, and you can understand its attractiveness, it means that whether or not you voted has nothing to do with politics. It has to do with your social characteristics or your social-psychological characteristics. It's always attractive to blame it on something else. It's much more reasonable to think that when political parties that dominate our politics, ignore lower socio-economic strata, that those strata are less likely to vote. When they're less likely to vote, you'll create a situation where social scientists will be able to correlate their social characteristics with not voting.
Alexander Cockburn in CounterPunch reports that in Cook County, Illinois, "more than 120,000 votes cast in black precincts were discarded. In Fulton County, Georgia, which encompasses most of the Atlanta area, nearly one in every sixteen votes cast in black precincts were rejected by the voting machines." So it certainly seems that this is a more national problem, not just Florida.
It's a very widespread pattern. We know here in New York, for example, that in poor communities polling places are more likely not to open on time or likely to have broken voting machines. This is partly neglect, disregard, but it also works for the dominant political regime. Because elections are run by people connected to the political regime, they will work for the political regime.
Talk about some possible remedies that you see. For example, in Italy, voting is done all day Sunday as well as half a day on Monday. Tuesday people work in the U.S. Polls usually open at 6 AM. They close as early as 7 PM.
Your chances of voting, whether in LA or East Harlem, are not very good under those conditions. Americans are enormously overworked. But there are a lot of things we could do if we wanted to. The political resistance to doing what we should do is also going to be huge. I think there will be support and some money for new voting machines. All of the other obvious reforms are going to be excruciatingly difficult. Election day should be a holiday, whether it's on a weekend or whether we declare it a holiday. It is a holiday everywhere among democratic countries, but not in the U.S. It isn't as if no politician ever thought, Well, maybe if people didn't have to go to work on that day more of them would vote. Of course they know that. That's why it's a working day and not a holiday. That's why we don't have weekend voting.
Same-day voter registration might help. We could implement the National Voter Registration Act the way the law says. It's now implemented in driver's license bureaus, but very spottily in the public welfare agencies, the WIC agencies, the Medicaid agencies that are required by law to offer voter registration typically do not. We could introduce reforms that would at least modify the impact of winner-take-all elections, instant runoff, for example, in the Electoral College, so that the Electoral College for a particular state does not all go for one candidate or the other. Those who had less than 50 percent would also be represented.
What do you think of proportional representation? Ralph Nader's Green Party got 2.7 million votes, yet with the winner-take-all system it counts for nothing.
Instant runoff is actually a step toward proportional representation. It would only apply to the Electoral College. Proportional representation would be excellent. It would mean that candidates who had less than 50 percent of the vote would also have some representation in our legislative bodies. That would be a good thing, and it would make it possible also for third parties, fourth parties, fifth parties, for diversity to be cultivated in our electoral politics. But for just that reason the opposition to these sorts of reforms is enormous within the established two-party system.
You don't see them as a source for reform.
It's a little bit too procedural a reform to spark excitement. But of course it would be better. We need campaign finance reform. We don't really know how to do that. We know how to plug some of the holes, but we basically don't know how to get money out of our elections. We should try to do what we can, but it's an enormous problem. People know it. It's one of the reasons for not voting.
One of the anomalies of the last few years from the mid to the late 1990s is that there was a substantial increase in registration, but that didn't translate into an increase in turnout. Why is that?
It did in some places where there were minority candidates running or where there was intense minority commitment to the election. Black turnout rose in Florida, for example. The fact that people were already registered through motor voter helped to explain why turnout could rise. But those examples give an answer to your question. If you increase registration, what you've done is helped a lot of people overcome one of the procedural barriers to voting. But by eliminating procedural barriers, you don't make voting more exciting, more meaningful. That's the job of the parties. The best we can hope for is that creating a larger enfranchised electorate, a larger number of registered voters, will create the room, the incentive, the opportunity for more insurgencies of the kind that Nader mounted in 2000, insurgencies that can also occur within the major parties.
Let's say someone was interested in these issues you've been talking about, what organizations might they connect with?
Public Campaign is a good organization working on campaign finance reform. The Center for Responsive Politics on campaign finance reform. The Center for Voting and Democracy has made proportional representation their premier issue. The specific issues having to do with the discriminatory administration of election laws are being advanced by the Legal Defense Fund, used to be the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, and by the NAACP. Those are the main ones that come to mind. The labor unions have begun not only to try to use their funds to fund the Democratic Party candidate, something I'm never enthusiastic for, but have also begun to try to invest more in their own voter turnout efforts, and that's a good thing, too. Z
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Leslie: Why do I wanna build this park so bad? Maybe because a pit filled with garbage isn't the best we can do in America. You know, in Russia they could pretend that pit was a park. Bring their kids down there. "Hey Vlad, look at these rocks! Let's pretend they're potatoes! Nikolai, do you want to swim in the dirt?"
But not here. 'Cause we're a nation of dreamers. And it is my dream to build a park that I one day visit with my White House staff on my birthday and they say: "President Knope, this park is awesome. Now we understand why you are the first female president of the United States."
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What a difference a day makes
This has been the pattern for what seems like the entire season. The Twins lose a few (usually badly) and the sky is falling. Twins fans go into a panic. They start buying tickets to JFK or Logan for Joe Mauer. Then we win and the Tigers and White Sox lose. Suddenly we are just four games back. Everyone starts thinking "You know, that Liriano isn't so bad".
I admit, I think this way too. You'd be lying if you said you didn't. Thats why baseball is great. You can seemingly turn things around in one day. For better or worse. In football you have to wait a week, sometimes two.
Now that we have waxed poetically about the greatness of baseball, lets get back to the issues at hand. The Twins looked good last night. Awesome. But remember, it was against the Royals. They simply aren't good. One of the best things we can take from this is Liriano's performance. Yeah, he beat up on a mediocre lineup, but I think this will help his confidence immensely. He needed a good start, who cares who it is against.
After scrolling through the #Twins twitter feed last night, I noticed that many people were a little upset that both Guerrier and Nathan pitched last night in a "blow out" game. Nathan hadn't pitched in forever, so he needed the work. Not using him enough is almost as bad as using him too often. A lot of people were clamoring for Manship and so was I (Go Irish!), but its not that big a deal. If we only allowed Nathan to pitch in save situations he will have pitched something like 3 times since the all-star break. How is that good for him? I hate the save, and I really hate the role of "closer" in the sense that most AL managers use them. If we are up by 4 in the ninth with a murders row coming up, do we want to be using someone like Brian Duensing, or Joe Nathan? Its not a save situation you say? Duensing it is. That makes no sense to me, but I'm no big city lawyer (snaps suspenders).
Anyway, lets see if Pavano can have a repeat performance this afternoon. A series win will be big here, especially since it looks like the Tigers can't hang with the Red Sox.
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sirsean August 13th, 2009 8:36 am
When it's the Vikings, it takes more than two weeks to turn it around.
It takes until February, when pitchers and catchers report to spring training.
FunBobby August 14th, 2009 9:38 am
It works both ways. Stupid Twins
sirsean August 14th, 2009 9:39 am
Mauer's getting past the point of being a big fish in a small pond.
He's bigger than the pond.
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Eagling joined the Royal Ballet company in 1969, he was promoted
in 1972 and promoted to
in 1975. During his time with the company he partnered a number of notable dancers, including Dame Margot Fonteyn, and also worked with the renowned British choreographer Sir Kenneth Macmillan. After retiring from the Royal Ballet in 1991, he decided to continue his career in dance as a choreographer and director, becoming Artistic Director of the
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Dutch National Ballet was formed in 1961 when the Amsterdams Ballet and the Nederlands Ballet merged. The company has been directed by Sonia Gaskell , Rudi van Dantzig , Wayne Eagling and is currently directed by Ted Brandsen. It is the largest dance company in the Netherlands and attracts many...
from 1991-2003. He has choreographed numerous dance works for the Royal Ballet and
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, Dutch National Ballet,
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, Rome Opera and Kremlin Ballet Theatre.
In 2005, Eagling was appointed Artistic Director of
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Created roles
, Kenneth Macmillan (1972)
Elite Syncopations
, Kenneth Macmillan (1974)
, Kenneth Macmillan (1980)
Different Drummer
, Kenneth Macmillan (1984)
Four Schumann Pieces
, Hans van Manen (1975)
Consort Lessons
, David Bintley (1983)
Choreographed works
Frankenstein, the Modern Prometheus
, Royal Ballet (1984)
Beauty and the Beast
, Royal Ballet (1986)
, La Scala, Milan (1988)
, Ballet of Naples (1989)
The Last Emperor
, Hong Kong Ballet (1997)
The Nutcracker and the Mouse King
, Dutch National Ballet (1996)
The Magic Flute
, Dutch National Ballet (1999)
Men Y Men
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The Nutcracker
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After watching the Democrats, specifically the Obama administration, break our nation's moral and financial spine since 2009, I feel comfortable in laying out these predictions. I have been waiting to see any signs of life in the body we used to refer to as the "loyal opposition". I see no signs of life. In fact, historians, lawyers and radio talk show hosts have all been running in circles while the GOP has been quietly engaged in business-as-usual and not trying to stop our nation's rapid and deliberate destruction.
The method being used by our opponents who make up the Democrat Party (and enough Republicans to damage us) is actually a hybrid of adaptations from Karl Marx's Crisis Theory which is found in his work "Theories of Surplus Value". This detailed theory is Marx's way of expressing the vulnerabilities of capitalism as it pertains to reactions in "surplus" conditions in manufacturing or exchange of capital into a commodity, then back again. That is to say if something stops the consumption of a product or commodity then it has a chain reaction across all spectrums of that particular chain of businesses, as well as the consumers in it. Are you confused yet? Let's make it simple by using the recently uncovered scheme of the Department of Homeland Security to acquire the unjustifiable amount of over 2 billion rounds of ammunition.
Knowing that the Democrats, Obama and even some Republicans want to take your guns, they have ordered DHS to order the ammunition in amounts that would disrupt the normal production of ammunition. This creates surplus commodity in the consumer's hands, and in this case the US Government and DHS are the consumers. The rest of the market for ammunition is disturbed, resulting in a "crisis" because the demand far outstrips the supply. Then the public got wind of what the government was doing and made a run on guns and ammunition in local gun shops and the Internet.
As was planned, the shortage of supply of ammunition as a result of unjustifiable demand from DHS starts to create Marx's predicted devastation model of commerce on the gun shop owners. The gun shop owner typically makes very little profit on the price of a gun if they intend to be competitive. The products that gun shop owners make their profit are on consumables which Marx termed "commodities". Since no ammunition is available to the public retailers as the producers are scouring for the components and raw material to fill those orders placed by the US Government, average citizens have stopped shooting their guns and have hoarded all ammunition that was available. Few people travel to a shooting range these days and for those that still have ammunition to sell, they are rationing what they have.
If there is scarce or no supply of ammunition, most gun owners have no need to set foot back in a gun shop. That means the gun store owner can't sell the other consumable commodities such as targets, holsters, cleaning materials, solvents, tools and guns. Who would buy a gun now that you cannot buy any ammunition? First, you will see the small and medium ammunition manufacturers going out of business as we see in this article Gun Stores Seeing A Run On Ammunition. Then you will see the corner gun shops close as their consumer traffic will be non-existent. Next, the manufacturing of holsters, targets, cleaning supplies, clothing, camping gear, etc. will close for lack of demand and retail outlets.
If you think this use of Marx's Crisis Theory is new I have some bad news for you. Liberals and Marxists have been using it since day one.& Some other famous larger gambits they have run are Cash for Clunkers, Obamacare and more TARPs then you can throw over all the gold ever minded in the world. They have all been enacted to destroy parts of our economy in the same fashion as the DHS 2 Billion-bullet buy-out. It's just easier to see it since it directly destroys one of the Amendments to our US Constitution and every state constitution.
From here I can predict with great certainty that the GOP will lose every precinct that has lost a gun shop by the end of 2013 (most rural counties). The GOP has already lost much of its core support since they've backtracked on their promise of stopping a communist health care system from destroying the best health care system in the world. They have allowed voter fraud to go unchallenged all across the United States and have, for the last few years, refused to respect the terms of the contract they have sworn to uphold. They allowed us to be driven into a box canyon trap by pretending to advance false-flag anti-gun legislation that they knew would go nowhere. It acted as the predictable trigger for panic buying of guns and ammunition that engaged the Marx engine of Crisis Theory. (Remember never let a crisis go to waste?)
The joke will be on us if we have no guns and ammunition because the Second Amendment will be relegated to words on paper like Obama Care. Obama kept telling everybody you could keep your doctor but he didn't tell everybody he was going to put your doctor out of business. Therefore, it was an inverted lie.
The GOP's last true support group was from those who exercised their natural right to the ownership of a gun. They thought Second Amendment support was automatic in the heart of the Republican Party. Now we know that since the GOP has allowed the DHS steamroller to destroy the gun market that they have never been serious about the Constitution. The GOP holds the purse strings in the House of Representatives so there is no excuse for their failure.
The RNC may not give a damn about this but I can tell you how this will translate at the state and local level races coming up this year and next. It won't be pretty for anybody running as a Republican. However, don't worry about us, RNC, we're just getting ready for the inevitable without you since you continue to refuse to perform your Constitutional duties and stop the destruction of our nation.
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A very spacious luxury villa built on the edge of a small hamlet in unspoilt rural countryside. The villa comprises of 400 square metres and sits on an 833 square metres of land. From the garden several stone steps lead to the covered veranda, and into a hallway of the villa. From there, a staircase leads down to the well appointed cellar, well as the fourth bedroom. Upstairs the staircase leads to two more bedrooms and a bathroom. On the ground floor is the main living area of the house and another bedroom. Air-condition units are in all the living rooms and bedrooms. The villa has a look of a typical old Istrian farmhouse, with the traditional pink façade, and a charming stone built single story extension. In the past, this would have been a stable or a storage space, but now this is where you find a wonderful sitting room and a ground floor bedroom. The freshness of the countryside and the quiet position of the villa within easy reach of lovely beaches make it a relaxing and lovely place to spend your vacation.
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Ground floor
To the right of the hallway is a 31 square metre sitting room, which is light and airy, and incorporates typical local architectural details, notably beautiful ceiling beams, pale cream floor tiles, and an open fireplace. A large plush sofa suits the relaxing tone of the room, which also has an entertainment centre with a satellite TV/DVD player and a music player, as well as internet. To the left is a striking modern kitchen and dining room, which occupy another 32 square metres, with a dining table which can sit 8-9 people. The kitchen is built from white and light wood finish units, and separated from the dining area by a breakfast bar. The kitchen is very well equipped and provides a four ring hob, oven, dishwasher, fridge freezer, microwave, toaster, coffee machine, kettle, iron and plenty of good cooking utensils, glasses, cutlery and plates. On this floor is also a double bedroom with a bathroom, and there is a separate guest WC.
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An elegant stone and wrought iron staircase leads to the upstairs landing, from which you can enter two good double bedrooms, which share a lovely bathroom. One of the bedrooms has a walk in closet, and both bedrooms have beautiful stone balconies. Good quality beds and excellent linen and towels are provided. From the first floor bedrooms you can see the sea in the distance.
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This villa has a truly amazing basement, which can be used as a separate entertainment area. Here you will find a wine cellar, where guests can help themselves to wine bottles at cost price. The style of the wine cellar is reflecting wine cellars of old, with ceiling beams and brick arches. Beautifully crafted cabinets contain wines and spirits, and bottles of local olive oil are also on offer. According to Croatian customs, friends meet here around the large wooden table and spend time together in summer heat or winter storms. There is a totally modern addition to all this – and that is an indoor Jacuzzi. The fourth double bedroom and a very nice bathroom are in this spacious and airy basement.
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The villa is approached via a small country road, through a wrought iron gate. The garden in front of the villa is in part covered with gravel and a wood pergola, which provides parking spaces. The other half of the garden has walled flower beds filled with laurel, rosemary, lavender and flowers, surrounding the pool. In parts the garden is covered with lawn and several old olive trees. All around the house are fields and vineyards, and the garden appears as if seamlessly flowing into them.
A very nice pool is divided into a small shallow pool for children, and a large pool for adults. Around the pool the sunbathing area is supplied with sun umbrellas and pool towels.
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The villa has a large ground floor covered terrace stretching along the width of the house. The terrace has a set of outdoor sofa and chairs, and in one corner there is an outdoor oven and a barbecue, with a dining table and chairs. In addition, the two upstairs bedrooms have their own private balconies with great views of the countryside and sea in the distance.
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The terraces at night |
There is parking for three cars in the garden. Car is recommended.
The villa has a large ground floor covered terrace stretching along the width of the house. The terrace has a set of outdoor sofa and chairs, and in one corner there is an outdoor oven and a barbecue, with a dining table and chairs. In addition, the two upstairs bedrooms have their own private balconies with great views of the countryside and sea in the distance.
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Dov Charney A No-Show At American Apparel Shareholder Meeting
American Apparel may be (temporarily) in the clear after a group of Canadian investors bought $15.2 million worth of company shares last month, but it's still deep in debt and recovering from losing a whopping $86.3 million in 2010 alone.
Given that the future of his company is bleak at best, it seems counterintuitive that Dov Charney, the company's chairman, CEO, and principal shareholder, was noticeably absent from American Apparel's shareholder meeting on Tuesday.
PHOTOS: American Apparel's New Boob-Filled Jeans Ads (NSFW)
You know what's not a secret? American Apparel is in serious financial trouble. You know what else is not a secret? Sex sells! Or at least it's supposed to. Which is why for the past decade or so American Apparel has resorted to hiring nude models in its advertising. The latest ads, for the company's new line of women's jeans, are just as porny as the rest of them, but they leave us questioning whether or not the strategy is actually going to work.
New American Apparel Investor Says Dov Charney Is Innocent
American Apparel's latest financial savior isn't worried about recent allegations that CEO Dov Charney sexually assaulted a group of his female employees. Michael Serruya, who last week managed to save American Apparel from defaulting on its debt covenants, said he thinks the sexual assault case against Charney is an attempt to take advantage of his bad image.
Canadian Yogurt King Saves American Apparel
Dov Charney's business is safe again — for now — thanks to a coalition of investors who managed to raise over $15 million to help American Apparel avoid defaulting on its loans. And the leader of that coalition is none other than a man who got his start selling frozen yogurt at a mall north of Toronto.
In Which High School Dov Charney Is Just Like Adult Dov Charney
Given that we're witnessing the professional and personal undoing of American Apparel head honcho Dov Charney, it's not surprising that people from his past are coming out of the woodwork. And we're not just talking about his accusers, we're also talking about his boarding school classmates.
Guess How Much Money American Apparel Lost In 2010?
How many sentences have we written lately that begin with the words "As if Dov Charney didn't have enough to worry about already …"? Well, as if Dov Charney didn't have enough to worry about already, it was reported this morning that the clothing company he founded, American Apparel, ended 2010 on a really bad financial note. How bad? Let's just say in a year, it lost more money than we'll ever actually see in our lifetimes.
Dov Charney Buys A Little More Of His Own Company
Over the weekend, American Apparel founder Dov Charney gave his flailing clothing company a much needed shot in the arm by way of trading a couple million dollars for a few million shares of stock. Because he's totally not going to need that money for anything else.
Will Wholesale Save The Floundering American Apparel?
American Apparel has been in trouble for some time now (and we're not just talking about those sexual abuse allegations which, as of today, just got about four times worse). The business side of things keeps looking more and more dismal. The debt, the delisting scare, the management changes — it's all just really messy. Looking to stay afloat, the company is now going to give wholesaling a try.
Dov Charney's Accuser Thought His Abuse Was 'Normal'
Dov Charney accuser Irene Morales went on The Today Show this morning to discuss her sexual abuse case that is currently on hold. Morales is seeking $250 million in damages from the American Apparel head honcho, who she claims psychologically and sexually abused her as teenager.
Judge Halts Dov Charney's Sex Slave Lawsuit
A judge in Brooklyn put a temporary halt on the $250 million sexual abuse lawsuit brought against American Apparel founder Dov Charney this week. The judge also ordered a hearing to determine whether or not the case should be tried in court at all.
American Apparel's Largest Investor Sells Big Chunk Of Shares
One of American Apparel's biggest investors has made a move that brought the value of the company's already low-priced stock even lower Reuters reports that billionaire investor Ron Burkle has sold almost two percent of the 6 percent stake he owned in the company.


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1) They do not give all employees a government car to use. Only upper management get cars. They are not used for private use. You've made this allegation before. When asked to prove this allegation you came up empty.
2) Only the Board of Supervisors and a few select senior managers get iPads.
3) The county uses Blackberrys, not iPhones. And not all employees get them. Only select managers get them.
4) Your allegation of 3 hr lunches is so ridiculous, it doesn't warrant a response. If someone takes an extended lunch it is usually offset by additional work hours. Managers and above are classified as salary exempt, meaning they don't get overtime. Nearly all work more than 40 hrs a week.
You continually make wild and baseless accusations. You have yet to provide any backup to your claims despite numerous requests to do so. This is merely another example.
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Area: 406,752 sq km
Landlocked nation between Brazil, Argentina and Bolivia. The Paraguay River divides the more fertile and developed east from the scrub forests, marshes and ranches of the sparsely populated Gran Chaco.
Population: 6,459,727 Annual Growth: 1.81%
Capital: Asuncion
Urbanites: 61.5%
HDI Rank: 101 of 182 (UN Human Development Reports 2009)
Peoples: 39 (3% unreached) All peoples
Unreached Peoples Prayer Card
Official language: Spanish, Guaraní. The latter is understood by almost 90% of the population Languages: 27 All languages
Largest Religion: Christian
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Christians | 6,220,717 | 96.30 | 1.8 |
Evangelicals | 393,263 | 6.1 | 3.1 |
A large proportion of Paraguays believers are from immigrant backgrounds: German-speaking (Mennonites and Lutherans), Brazilian (Pentecostals), Ukrainian (Baptists and Pentecostals) and Korean (Presbyterians). These immigrant communities are sometimes inward-looking and isolated from mainstream national life. But there is a growing awareness of their responsibility to reach out with the gospel; Mennonites actively work with indigenous peoples in the Chaco, and Koreans are involved in outreach also. Pray for a spiritual awakening and great mission vision in the immigrant churches.
Evangelical church growth continues, particularly within the churches with Pentecostal/charismatic tendencies. Most of these groups entered Paraguay from Brazil, Chile and Argentina. While zealous, there is much room for growth in fellowship with other Christian groups, in attitudes toward wealth and in leadership models. Pray for a balanced faith that submits to both the Word and the Spirit.
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more like intel ripping off amds product names how you ask?, have you ever heard of Radeon HD 3870? that predates intels i5s by years
Nice clocks. Glad to see the design scale so well...I wonder what sort of overclocks we'll get on air? Very tempted to buy one of these chips to play with.
In general I see this as more of a suicide boot, not a run. It sort of implies it was done in effort to "run" something other than just Windows. I like that these have the ability to go that far, but personally would have preferred to see 95% OC running a bench, or even something as lame as Crysis with ridiculous frame rates
How could he overclock the integrated GPU? I run A6-3400M on 2.4GHz, but I do not have clue to overclock the GPU part... Please share with me if possible
The A8-3870K equals the A8-3870 Black Edition Instead of saying two words more you only say one letter...it's more efficient The K in the K(Number) means Core 10/Core 15 and such
Nice I think my sample comes in soon. Will deff need LN2 session. i love AMD LN2 sessions, you can just fill up the pot, no CB no hassle.
He's got an unlocked CPU which allows changes to both GPU and CPU portions of the chip. You've got a locked chip so you're out of luck.


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Howdy. Some people here may have already seen these random sketchy things over on the original DrPetter forum, but I thunked I'd stick them up here too. Some of these were done way back with an early alpha, and some have some Photoshoppery involved (yay).
Last one is in Sculptris using the default plane as a 2d canvas for sketching in Paint mode (like Zbrushes quick sketch option), then passed over to Painter for touching up and finishing off.


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Being obsessive has its virtues.
The love of wisdom lives yet.
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The War on Hazing, 15th Century Edition.
Defining science.
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Thomas Mann, born June 6, 1875, makes a fine addition to our collected wisdom on writing.
Nietzsche interlude.
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Classical swine fever is a highly contagious, potentially fatal viral disease that affects pigs. This disease is a major constraint to the development of pig farming systems in northeast India where pig farming is a main source of livelihood for most households. About 80 per cent of households in northeast India rear pigs and pork … Continue reading »
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The road back to Rio: Scientists find final 'The Future We Want' document to be 'science light'
Scientists complain that the new Rio+20 accord barely mentions the scientific inputs needed for sustainable development (photo on Flickr by CGIAR Climate/CCAFS). 'The United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20) ended last Friday (22 June) with an international agreement on the need for all countries to commit themselves to achieving sustainable development. 'The agreement immediately … Continue reading »
India set to become world's largest beef exporter as well as largest dairy producer
India, wich several years ago passed America as the world's biggest dairy producer, is now set to become the world's biggest exporter of beef—buffalo beef, that is. 'Beef exports have doubled in three years between 2008 and 2011 and are set to scale further heights. In 2011, India edged out the US as the third largest … Continue reading »
Minding your three E's: From 'economically viable' to 'ecologically sound' to 'ethically acceptable'
Across most of Africa and South Asia, most cattle, buffaloes, sheep and goats are still raised in the open, in rangeland, common land or backyard systems, and are still largely 'grass-fed'. But that is changing fast as farm land holdings get smaller and range and common lands and migratory herding corridors disappear under development. Above, … Continue reading »
The road back to Rio: USD1 billlion CGIAR work agenda presented for a food-secure future
Donut diagram by Oxfam's Kate Raworth illustrating a safe and just space for humanity, inspired by Rockström's 2009 diagram of nine planetary boundaries constituting an environmental ceiling, or 'a safe operating space for humanity' (source: 'Can we live inside the doughnut?'). SciDevNet this week reports that 'Beginning in 2013, CGIAR will pump an extra $US … Continue reading »
IPMS contributes to gender mainstreaming guideline of Ethiopia's AGP
Twenty one experts drawn from Regional and Federal Agricultural Growth Programme (AGP) offices, Office of Agriculture, Cooperative Promotion Agency and NGOs participated in a three day workshop organized to finalize the draft a "Gender Guideline" prepared by the Gender Unit of the Federal AGP office. The objective of the workshop was to give input on … Continue reading »
m-Kisan: Using mobile technologies to strengthen farmer-extension-expert-linkages in India
This week, the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) joins partners in India for the launch of the m-kisan project, part of an mFarmer Initiative funded by GSMA (the worldwide association of mobile operators). In partnership with Handygo Technologies, a mobile value adding service provider for major network operators, ILRI will provide quality content mainly for small … Continue reading »
Interpreting trader networks as value chains: Experience with Business Development Services in smallholder dairy in Tanzania and Uganda
Today in Nairobi, Derek Baker, Amos Omore and David Guillemois reported on a project to analyze the impact of business development services. It took a preliminary look at the use of network approaches to trade in smallholder livestock systems, and some initial results using data collected in Uganda and Tanzania. View the presentation: Continue reading »
New EU-funded project to support Kenya dryland livestock markets and women camel milk traders
Women herding camels in Kenya (photo on Flickr by Curt Carnemark/World Bank Photo Collection). Polly Ericksen, a senior scientist with the People, Livestock and Environment Theme at the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), announced to the ILRI community last Friday new funding from the European Union that will finance a three-year food security project that … Continue reading »
On the road back to Rio: Is the new mantra – 'inclusive green growth' – really possible?
'The real question about green growth is whether it can fulfil its promise that poor countries can have both greenery and prosperity.'–Economist. An example of an 'investment-hungry project' that can bring high environmental as well as poverty-reduction returns is greater adoption of improved dual purpose 'food-feed' crops whose grain feeds people and whose residues after … Continue reading »


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Tonight is the first performance of the new Broadway musical "Priscilla Queen of the Desert." Just like the film that inspired it, the show is a whirlwind of over-the-top costumes, industrial-strength makeup and riotous musical numbers as Priscilla and the "girls" travel across Australia on a tour bus with a towering heel topper. But just in case you thought it couldn't get any more fabulous than the movie, Manolo Blahnik has designed a custom pair of stilettos for the show.
The Priscilla, a patent leather Mary Jane high heel embellished with a Swarovski crystal button, will also be available for purchase from March 21 at the Manolo Blahnik flagship on 54th Street. (It's $745, with a portion of the proceeds going to the New York Restoration Project, the pet charity of the show's producer, Bette Midler.) The Moment kicks off its heels to talk show tunes with Blahnik.
When did you first watch "Priscilla Queen of the Desert"?
I'm a big fan of Terence Stamp, so when the movie came out — I think it was around 1994 or 1995, I was very anxious to see it and I loved it. Way beyond the big lavender bus and the outrageous costumes, music and campiness, in the end it's a tender story about love and friendship. Read more…


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Kitesurfing, Powerkiting, Windsurfing - Our Expert Team
The EDGE Team are the guys that take care of the day to day running of things at Edge. The guys who will be at the end of the phone and helping guide you through your chosen water sport activity.
As with every great side, you must have some grass roots stuff going on! So the Edge youth team are the boys for the future!
Steph is 4 x World Kiterace champion and is aiming to stay at the top to compete with son Olly at the Olympic Games in Rio in 2016. Her other accolades include setting a world record for crossing the channel with Richard Branson in 2012 and the world record for being towed by a car on a kiteboard!
Steph grew up sailing in Exmouth and developed an incredible knowledge of the wind and racing tactics over many years, this stood her in fantastic stead for the advent of kitesurf racing Steph is hoping to defend her crown next year and is having a custom raceboard created for her, the design is top secret so watch this space for her speeding past you next time your out.
Steph is an part of the North kiteboarding International Team competing regularly all over the world and is often sounded out during product development.
After her first North trip to introduce the sport of kiteboarding to Iceland in 2004 Steph got the travelling bug and is now regularly running Kitesurfing holidays with Husband Eric and the rest of the edge team to many of the worlds great kitesurfing spots.
Erics product knowledge is unmatched and is the go to man at the shop.
Eric is the power rider amongst the Edge kiteboard team. Eric is 'out' when it is too windy for everyone else and will fashion a HUGE smile if the wind is from the east and he can get his fix of down-the-line wave riding action he is known for. Originally known for massive airs and powerful riding "Big Ric" is now known for his strapless surfboard riding prowess and his smooth controlled carves in just the right section.
Eric became an IKO Instructor in the early part of 2003 and soon developed a vision for teaching kitesurfing on the beautiful Exe Estuary. Eric has recently become a BKSA instructor trainer in 2007 and is now running instructor training courses at EDGE, and he is also a powerboat instructor. Eric has developed a great reputation for quality, safe teaching from running Spinnakers Sailing Centre for over 10 years.
The Bridgelets brothers are all up and coming kitesurfers who have already conquered the european and world stage.
OLLY (Right)
At 15 Olly is the oldest of the 3 brothers and is the out and out racer. in 2011 Olly came 3rd in the youth world kite race championships and has competed in numerous world and british tour events. Olly is aiming to be crowned British Kite race champion by the end of 2013 and has his sights set on competing at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio where kitesurfing racing will be present for the first time!.
GUY (Centre... Behind sammy the seal)
Aged 13 Guy finished 3rd in the European Junior Freestyle Championships in 2012 and is constantly pushing his brothers Tommy and Olly in their second home the bottom channel of the Duck Pond. Guy is aiming for further success in the freestyle events in 2013 and beyond.
TOM (Left)
Tommy is the youngest of the trio aged just 11 years old but has already won the the European Junior Freestyle crown in 2011 and 2012. Tommy blows away the competition with his technical ability and can nail any trick in the book!. Check out Toms interview with Northkiteboarding here;


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I will admit, however, that this mouse does look super cool. I'd like it for FPS, I imagine. Haven't seen anything about a wireless option, though.
While I've yet to play with this bad boy, I'm a big PC gamer and this doesn't look like it will fit my needs. I rock a mouse that has over 13 programmable buttons and need every one of them to ensure I dominate chumps on the field of battle. Well, at least I'll look cool (to my geeky friends and myself) while I get slaughtered by tweens.
This is probably the last evolution in mouse design until the it starts its decline with he advent of motion devices on the horizon.
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Hi everybody!
I create a new project and use .tcf file of EVM6474. Andthen, I use SRIO config as following this link:
Unfortunately, when debugging the program gets infinite loop at following segment of code
do { delay(10000); //check the response every 100 cpu clcok = 100 ns CSL_srioGetHwStatus (hSrio, CSL_SRIO_QUERY_SP_ERR_STAT, &response); }while(response.data & 0x1);
Please help me resolve this issue.
Thank you very much.
You aren't getting a port_ok signal, which is the very first step needed for initialization between link partners before sending any packets. What is your board setup? Are you doing loopback or board to board? I'd suggest you start with a more recent example for the C6474. Please download and try the MCSDK at:
you should be able import the project into CCSv5. The example is installed to:
If you need more help, please reply back. If this answers the question, please click Verify Answer , below.
Thank Travis for responsing!
Actually, I create a new project using both RTDX and SRIO to propagate data between two cores of a EVM6474. RTDX is used to load data from PC to a core of DSP through visual basic interface and return data from another core to PC. SRIO is used to connect two cores. However, SRIO gets infinite loop as presented above. If I don't use RTDX and following the srio example is to be ok. I don't know how to resolve this problem.
Please help me!
If the example is working for you, and you are only having issues in your new project, something is not being handled correctly in the SRIO initialization of your project. It should not have anything to do with RTDX. Can you check that the SRIO initialization is handled exactly the same. So if you have one EVM, the SRIO should be configured for SerDes loopback. Is this being maintained? There should be no reason to not get port_ok in this setup. Usually, when you don't get port_ok, it points to a physical connection error of some sort.


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Hey Sharpeshooter, I have to say I've been enjoyin your tips and ideas so thanks for them but your blog was always my favourite. Jethros blog made for an interesting read and Jayboats too!
Just wondered if we could maybe have a Christmas Sharpeshooter Special update? I'm sure others on here would be interested too. Anything new goin on, hit that 50k yet?


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The fabric pretty much inspired this dress, it just seemed so perfectly art nouveau (made me think of this building particularly http://bit.ly/12EIUHc). I cut back the fabric along the selvedge to use the scalloped edge of the embroidery as the hem and for the yoke. It fastens down the back with buttons and thread chain button loops. Pattern drafted by me.
2m embroidered cotton (Fabric Warehouse, Wellington)
Bias binding (self fabric)
Self cover buttons (19)
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18/05/2012 , 12:28 PM by john Thompson-Mills
Neil Murray is one of Australia's greatest singer songwriters. He grew up in Western Victoria. He was a founding member of the pioneering Aboriginal rock band, the Warumpi Band.
In 1995 his song "My Island Home" originally written for the Warumpi Band, was named the APRA Song of the Year and featured in the closing ceremony of the Sydney Olympics.
Despite all his critical acclaim, he is still a journeyman musician who after thirty years is playing solo and acoustic to earn a living.
He dropped into the 891 studios to talk to Ian Henschke about his latest project " The Essential Neil Murray."
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Brawling mayhem from PlatinumGames.
The undead beauty joins the fray.
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First of a series of exclusive trailers. Reveals every Thursday.
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text: Next stop for senior Laurits: Olympic gold? There is more to senior Brian Laurits than meets the eye. Aside from his illustrious career as one of Bowdoin's most valuable members of the Men's Indoor and Outdoor Track and Field Teams, Laurits has aspirations to be a U.S. Olympian in skeleton, a lesser-known sport similar to bobsledding. Skeleton requires its athletes to slide down an ice track at exhilarating and dangerous speeds. However, unlike other similar sports, in skeleton, athletes cruise down face first, with their chin only an inch from the ice. Called "sliding," riding a skeleton is not your average past time at Bowdoin. Laurits laughed as he explained the base of his interest in the rare sport. "I have always been obsessed with bobsledding," he said, "and during the most recent Olympics I sent the U.S. team an email. I never heard back, but eventually I got an email announcing bobsledding tryouts in my area. I attended the tryouts and, because of my size, was recommended for skeleton." Laurits is from Wakefield, Massachusetts, where he got his start in a more well-known sport, track and field. A standout at Wakefield High School, Laurits graduated holding seven records for his school, as well as one state-class record in the indoor 300-meter race. He applied to Bowdoin early decision, and once he got in he never looked back. "Freshman year was awesome. I loved my roommates, and still live with one of them," he said. "The track team was really accepting, it was a very easy adjustment for me." Laurits has excelled in track all four years here and credits the sport for his ability to balance his busy schedule. "The time commitment helps me make sense of my day," he explained. "It makes me more efficient, and forces me to have discipline in many facets of my life." His favorite event is the 400-meter relay, which he shares with three good friends. Describing track as "the most nerve-wracking sport," Laurits takes comfort in the camaraderie of his relay team members. "I never get that nervous for the relay; it is the last event of the day and all of the guys are on the same page," he said. "We get really excited and have fun with it. Individual events, however, are the ones that will get you." Laurits described the intense nerves he struggles with on the day of a meet, but laughed as he realized "I get so tense for only 50 seconds of my life!" Laurits is moving from the winter track season to the spring season with a lot to live up to: his relay team finished eighth in the NCAA National Championships held in Wisconsin over spring break, earning them an All-American title. Hopefully for Laurits, however, his athletic accolades will not end with his graduation from Bowdoin. "I am moving to Lake Placid after I graduate to train with the U.S. Bobsledding and Skeleton Federation," he explained. "The National Team tryouts are next year, so I need to train until then." Along with looking for a job that will allow him to feed his addiction to speed, Laurits is also looking for romance. "Know any interested girls?" he asked. "I don't like the beach, but I'd be interested in long walks on the Quad." Unfortunately there are no home track meets this spring, but for any interested women out there, you can catch Laurits just a short drive away at Bates on April 17 running his heart out in the state meet. For information on sending a letter to the editor, please click here. Features Opinion A&E Sports


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Here is a list of the ideas I would like to see lawyers believe. They are not original, but come from the ideas of a whole host of writers and philosophers and statesmen. At Trinity Law School, an evangelical protestant Christian law school, we do our best, not only to teach the law and legal thinking as they are, but also to present these ideas to the students in a persuasive way.Among his ideas:
It is appropriate for Christians to act as advocates in the legal system, even for parties that are guilty or in the wrong, provided that they are honest with the court and with their client, and do not knowingly participate in the offering of false testimony. In representing blameworthy clients the believing attorney, as a fellow sinner saved by God's grace, has the opportunity to be an instrument of God's mercy and grace. But, Christians should not file or maintain lawsuits they know to be frivolous.And:
All human beings are created in the image of God. As such they should be treated with dignity and respect regardless of status, origin, race, or conduct. All human beings should be seen as equal before the law in the sense that the law applies in the same way to them all, all are imperfect sinners, and all are entitled to appropriate due process. Lawyers should seek real due process of law for all, but should not seek special privileges or protections for genuine evil doers. Nor should lawyers advocate laws designed to shelter real evil from the reach of the law or the disapproval of society.I found the list of ideas to be helpful, not because I am a lawyer but because it would be profitable for us to think through what it means to be a Christian in whatever line of work we are in.


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The Yankees kicked off their offseason with the re-signing of Hiroki Kuroda on Monday. The hot stove is officially warming up, and we're going to see things really kick off the first week of December, when the GM meetings are held in Nashville. Surprisingly, we already have 20 new contracts this offseason. Be it re-signs, extensions, or just plain signs, there is a large enough sample-size to start a discussion on how much players are will be paid in this current market.
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