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Local newspapers are promoting the Columbia River Crossing plan in the editorial pages while northbound I-5 gridlock has started each day since 1998 when a left lane was changed Monday through Friday at 3 p.m. into a style of HOV lane shown to be ineffective in many national traffic studies. Vancouver's HOV lane was determined ineffective and removed in 2005. Also, police patrols stopping HOV traffic violators contribute to daily fuel waste and pollution from longer idling vehicles.
The I-5 northbound on-ramp at Hayden Island should be closed, and that traffic routed farther back from the bridge or combined with the on-ramp at Delta Park. Post signs to direct state Highway 14 users to merge right before reaching the I-5 Bridge. Truckers' shipments should be better directed or placed on the backs of rail cars. Keep tow trucks on call for bridge accidents or stalls. Plan all bridge lifts in evenings or early, early mornings.
Opening the Oregon HOV lane would be a great start. Let's change mind-sets like those at ODOT, who insist that the HOV lane "isn't going anywhere" as stated by Kate Freitag, an ODOT traffic engineer in an Oregonian online story in August 2012.
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We're only halfway through the week and we already have dozens of celebrity fashion disasters. From big names like Salma and Mena to reality "stars" like Lauren Conrad, take a look at some pictures from this week's worst fashion fails.
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It is a great lens, but search discussions here about the lens sucking dust - it is essentially an air pump each time you extend it in or out. Also search for how to vacuum the dust back out of the lens.
Yes, definitely. That was the reason not to use it too much during game drives. Also changing the lenses during very dusty rides is not recommended because of the exposed sensor.
I kept the same lens all the time. My main gear was D800+200-400/4 and secondary was D300+24-70/2.8. This was my backup-of-the-backup but it served very nicely during the village visits and e.g. during Hell's Gate hike.
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Charming Uphill Both Ways in the Snow
Ask women or men to name a living, publicly recognized charming man, and 10 out of 10 will say [REDACTED]. That there exists only one choice—and an aging one—proves that we live in a culture all but devoid of male charm.
Name a living, publicly recognized charming man. (Actors, mostly.) The question accompanies this article about how men have lost their charm, which starts taking some odd but entertaining turns almost right away ("Even in the most casual conversation, men are too often self-absorbed or mono-focused or—more commonly—guarded, distracted, and disengaged to an almost Aspergerian degree").
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With an average age of 26.4, the Seahawks were the youngest team to win a Super Bowl.
In something that might seem counterintuitive, though, the Seahawks also played the members of their 2013 draft class less than all but one other team, Miami.
Seattle's drafted rookies, according to a breakdown from The Palm Beach Post, played just 1,052 snaps during the season (Miami was last at 866, the New York Jets first at 3,810).
Just one drafted rookie played in the Super Bowl — backup tight end Luke Willson, on the field for just 13 snaps (undrafted free-agent offensive tackle Alvin Bailey also played).
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The lack of immediate production from Seattle's 2013 draftees, though, hardly marks that class as a failure in the eyes of Seahawks general manager John Schneider and draft analysts.
Instead, Seattle's 2013 draft was a mix of two objectives — a packaging of two picks (the first and a seventh-rounder) for receiver Percy Harvin to fill an immediate need; and a lot of selections aimed at the future.
And with Seattle in a position to retain the bulk of its players, the Seahawks could take a similar approach in the 2014 NFL draft, which is May 8-10. The draft begins to come to the forefront this week as team scouts and executives meet in Indianapolis for the annual NFL combine.
"I think this year's draft was a little bit more toward 2014 than it was 2013,'' Schneider said in January of the 2013 draft class.
"… I guess the way I view it is it's more about looking toward next year with these guys, and I think they'd all tell you they were extremely excited about next year."
Rob Rang, a draft analyst for the SportsXchange and CBSSports.com, says the Seahawks and 49ers last year "each seemed to recognize that they had two of the most talented rosters and also had a number of picks, so they were willing to take players that basically could sit and have almost like a redshirt year.''
Seattle, in fact, had 11 picks in 2013 despite trading two for Harvin (a trade that also sent Seattle's 2014 third-rounder to Minnesota).
Only five played for the Seahawks in 2013, with two starting games — Willson and guard/tackle Michael Bowie, whose eight starts and 560 snaps were the most for any Seahawks rookie.
Running backs Christine Michael and Spencer Ware and defensive tackle Jordan Hill all saw limited action, the latter two also sidelined for long stretches with injuries (Ware played only the first two games before landing on injured reserve).
Two other draftees, fifth-round defensive tackle Jesse Williams and fifth-round cornerback Tharold Simon, each missed the entire season with injuries that dated to their college years. Williams had knee surgery before the season and should be back for offseason workouts. Simon has had two foot/toe injuries, and his return might be further off, coach Pete Carroll said earlier this month.
All, though, remain potentially prominent in the team's future.
The team had enough confidence in Bowie to start him at guard in the playoff win over the Saints, and with right tackle Breno Giacomini and guard/tackle Paul McQuistan each free agents, the team could peg him for a full-time starting role in 2014.
The Seahawks could also decide to cut Zach Miller, saving them $5 million from the salary cap, potentially thrusting Willson into a bigger role.
Michael looms large in the tailback future, and should be better-positioned to battle Robert Turbin for the backup spot to Marshawn Lynch next season. Hill and Williams each could factor in soon on a defensive line that will inevitably undergo change in 2014, and Simon also could provide an option at a cornerback spot where Walter Thurmond is a free agent.
Asked if he still had high hopes for the draft, Schneider answered definitively.
"Yeah, absolutely,'' he said. "Like every draft, you look back and wish you would have done some things differently and you beat yourself up. But, as of right now, there's not too much of that going on.''
The Seahawks are scheduled to have seven picks in the 2014 draft — all of their own (which will be the 32nd in each of the seven rounds) except the third-rounder dealt for Harvin, and an extra fifth-rounder from Oakland for Matt Flynn.
"I don't feel like they'll feel like they have to address one specific position,'' Rang said. "They can kind of take the draft as it comes.''
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The master suite addition looks like it was part of the original home design. This is acheived by careful attention to detail in the choice of exterior finishes. The cedar lap siding is painted in the exact matching color and the trim, gutters and downspouts all match the original construction. No one would know that the master suite was added well after the original construction.
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Remodeling old homes can be difficult. In this case the house was over 160 years old. Walls and floors are no longer plumb. The renovations must try to reach a compromise between the original character of the home and the current owner's aesthetic preferences. Electric and plumbing infrastructure is often old and outdated. Pictured here is a new bay window that was added as part of the kitchen remodeling job.
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Verboten: Part 1
Welcome to Verboten, a smoking-hot new leather series from AVN Hall of Fame Director Steven Scarborough. 12 butch, sex-crazed Hot House hunks bring the art of S&M to life in Verboten, the steamiest new sex club in the notorious SoMa district of San Francisco. In Part I, Hot House Exclusives Alex Collack and C.J. Knight work the ropes and new Exclusive Dillon Crow makes his no holds barred debut in a scene that proves his rugged kick-boxing attitude is no joke. The club is tricked out with larger than life art installations and the latest gear from our accomplices Mr. S Leather and Dungeon Beds. So become a member of Verboten: Submission is free.
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There were however an abundance of five figure prices and no fewer than three which sold for more than £40,000, two of which came from Paul Hallam and his wife Sue who sold 12 shearling rams from their Derbyshire-based Arnfield flock to average a massive £17,525.
The first Arnfield ram, a shearling son of the £52,000 champion Ewbank bought here two years ago and out of a ewe by Aygill Upper Class, was knocked down for £47,000 to Richard Harker, Grayrigg Hall and Richard Hargreaves, Barley.
Just behind, on £46,000, was the second Arnfield shearling, a son of Arnfield Patch – a tup retained for breeding last year out of one of the flock's top show ewes – out of another ewe by Upper Class. The buyer was Geoff Marwood, Long Green.
Outwith the Hallam pen, Richard Harker set up a well earned double when he took the champion ticket on the second day's trading, to add to the same accolade achieved at Kirkby Stephen, the previous week. His pen leader this time, at £42,000, was a son of a £30,000 Bull and Cave tup bought two years ago out of a ewe by a £10,000 Seal Houses. The buyer was Arthur Slack, Stoneriggs.
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Jacob Burdge Woolley of Matawan died last Wednesday, aged 72 years. He had been sick with stomach trouble for about a year. Mr. Woolley was the son of the late William I. Woolley of Matawan. He was engaged in business in New York for a few years, but for thirty years he conducted a store at Matawan. Four children survive him.
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Heat beats Spurs in exhibition that is a rematch of Finals
Dwyane Wade scored 25 points in 26 minutes as the defending champion Miami Heat beat visiting San Antonio 121-96 in an exhibition game Saturday between the teams that met in last season's NBA Finals.
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Wade made 10 of 14 shots and teammate Chris Bosh scored 17 points on 8-for-10 shooting.
"I'm getting better every day," said Wade, who coped with knee problems during last season's playoffs. "But I'm not where I want to be."
Kawhi Leonard led the Spurs with 17 points.
Miami won the last two games of the Finals.
"It still goes through my head every day," San Antonio coach Gregg Popovich said.
"The other night, I dreamt about LeBron. The next day, it might be Ray Allen hitting a shot in the corner. It might be us missing a free throw, not getting a rebound. All those things go through your head."
Paul gets on a roll in Las Vegas
Chris Paul collected 40 points and 11 assists to lead the Los Angeles Clippers to a 118-111 overtime exhibition victory over the Denver Nuggets in Las Vegas.
Point guard Paul made 13 of 21 shots from the field and 12 of 13 free throws.
Utah's Favors gets extension
The Utah Jazz signed Derrick Favors, 22, to a four-year contract extension for a reported $49 million.
The 6-foot-10 forward-center averaged career highs of 9.4 points, 7.1 rebounds and 1.69 blocks last season. He had nine double-doubles.
"We have tremendous respect for and confidence in Derrick and see him as an important part of our future. He brings a toughness and defensive mindset that make him a key piece to what we are trying to build here," Jazz general manager Dennis Lindsey said in a statement released by the team.
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Velasquez keeps title at UFC 166
Cain Velasquez stopped Junior Dos Santos in the fifth round to retain the heavyweight title at UFC 166 in Houston.
Dos Santos came out firing to start the final round, but Velasquez (13-1) worked him down to the mat — only to have Dos Santos (16-3) get back up against the Octagon walls.
The two traded lefts before Velasquez landed a left and took Dos Santos down headfirst to the mat, causing referee Herb Dean to stop the bout at 3:09.
Wozniacki, Beck advance
Top-seeded Caroline Wozniacki of Denmark will play 19-year-old Annika Beck of Germany in Sunday's final of the Luxembourg Open.
Wozniacki, ranked No. 9 in the world, defeated third-seeded Sabine Lisicki of Germany 6-4, 6-4 in a semifinal match. Meanwhile, Beck advanced to her first WTA final when Stefanie Voegele of Switzerland retired while she trailed 7-5, 1-0.
Wozniacki, 23, has 20 career titles but has yet to win one this year.
Stosur to face Halep in final
Samantha Stosur of Australia beat doubles partner Svetlana Kuznetsova of Russia 6-2, 6-4 and will meet Simona Halep of Romania in the Kremlin Cup final Sunday in Moscow.
Stosur will play for her second title in two weeks; she won the fifth title of her career last weekend in Japan.
Halep routed Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova of Russia 6-2, 6-1 to advance to her fifth final this season.
In the men's semifinals, top-seeded Richard Gasquet of France defeated Ivo Karlovic of Croatia 6-4, 7-5, while qualifier Mikhail Kukushkin of Kazakhstan upset defending champion Andreas Seppi of Italy 6-1, 1-6, 6-4.
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Asada wins short program
Mao Asada of Japan beat Ashley Wagner to win the Skate America women's short program in Detroit, and Russians Tatiana Volosozhar and Maxim Trankov set a pairs short-program world record with 83.05 points.
Asada skated cleanly and had 73.18 points. American Wagner, the defending Skate America champion, was next at 68.26.
Russian Elena Radinova, who is 14 and the reigning world junior champion, was third.
Radinova is ineligible for next year's Sochi Olympics because of her age.
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My teacher, she taught me to cook, to chop, to do things using hand and eye, and to trust myself in the kitchen, even when things went wrong. She cooked with food flying and pleasure in the air. And she was NOT mean to people and not snobby! (You'd think this would be the easiest part but apparently not.)
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I was fortunate enough twice now, to see Julia Child's 'kitchen' at the Smithsonian Museum of American History.
I couldn't get enough, my husband had to take me by the elbow and lead me out! Siduri, you got to have leasons from her? Now THAT's fortunate!
No no! Kaneohegirl! She was my tv teacher, shared with everyone else who watched her on TV. I watched her show when i was in high school/college and learned all the techniques. Though i do have something very precious, a personal letter from her. I was having a problem with one of her cake recipes from mastering the art of french cooking. It was the first and only time one of her recipes didn;t work so i said, what the heck, i'll write to her through the publisher. She sent me a lovely letter, where i could almost hear her voice saying OH, How WONderful! you live in ITaly, with those WONderful tiny ARtichokes! etc etc. Then gave me advice on how to make the particular cream filling set.
When i lived in Cambridge Mass for a while i lived up the street from her, but never ran into her, not even in - what was her local grocery store? savenors? Though that was a little expensive for me to frequent very often.
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"When I lived in Cambridge Mass for a while..."
We too lived in Cambridge from the fall of 1957 to the spring of 1961. First on Sacramento Street (just over the line in Somerville, actually) and then on Avon, near the Radcliffe dorms. I didn't cook then, and indeed we didn't own a TV during that time, and I don't think Julia had started her program then, but I think she lived fairly near us when we were on Avon street. I remember her programs with great fondness, and I learned a lot from her later in my life when she got me interested in cooking.
She had a great appetite not only for food, but for the other fine things in life as well. In one of her books she told how in her OSS days, when she ran the office at headquarters, her husband the spook would come home every day for lunch; they didn't eat lunch, though, but hopped into bed and had a grand old time! Must have worked up a great appetite for dinner.
I miss her.
Oh wow, mike, my husband lived on prentiss street when i met him. I loved that area. Remember the cambridge coffee tea and spice house - the lovely smell it had, the wonderful things you could get there? It was actually affordable to live in that area then, even if there were expensive houses side by side with the cheaper ones. Nice times. Now cambridge has become yuppieville and high end and has lost all of its charm, all the old wooden buildings in the center of harvard square torn down and glitzy office buildings to replace them. sad.


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I've been trying to jump on the TDD bandwagon for some time now, and it's been going well except for one crucial thing, normally what I end up doing is Test After Development.
I need a mental shift and am wondering how did you force yourself to write tests first?
I've been trying to jump on the TDD bandwagon for some time now, and it's been going well except for one crucial thing, normally what I end up doing is Test After Development.
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The mental shift for me wad realizing that TDD is about design, not testing. TDD allows you to reason critically about the API of the thing you're constructing. Write the tests first and it's often very clear what API is most convenient and appropriate. Then write your implementation.
Of course you should be writing tests after too (regression tests, integration tests, etc). TDD often produces good design, but not necessarily good testing code.
A big moment came for me with TDD when I read a certain quote (I can't recall where) that the moment of triumph for a test is the moment when the test changes from red to green.
This is probably all stuff you've read before, but unless I start with a failing test, and it becomes a passed test, that's when I reap the huge psychological benefits. It feels good to change from red to green. And if you are consistent with delivering that moment to yourself, it becomes addictive, and then much easier to make yourself do.
But the trick for me was to isolate that moment and revel in it.
Once i started leveraging dependency injection, my classes became smaller and more specialized which allowed me to write simple unit tests to confirm they worked. Given the limited number of tests i knew my class had to pass to work, the goal of my TDD effort became more clear. It was also easier to identify which classes required integration tests due to dependencies on external resources and which classed required unit tests that injected mock/stub/fake objects into the SUT to narrow the focus of my test.
Pair Programming
I realize that this may not be an option for everyone, and that many devs don't like this idea. But I've found that if I pair program with someone who's also committed to TDD, we tend to "keep each other honest" and stay with TDD much more than I could programming alone by sheer will.
As a solo developer, one thing that helped me make the shift to TDD was setting a code coverage threshold for myself.
In my build script I used a code coverage tool (NCover) to determine the percentage of code that was covered by tests, and initially set the threshold at 80%. If I stopped writing my tests first the coverage percentage would fall below the 80% threshold, and my build script would cause a failure. I would then immediately slap myself on the wrist and write the missing tests.
I gradually increased the code coverage threshold and eventually became a full TDD convert.
For me it was all about realizing the benefits. Fixing bugs after the fact is so much harder than never writing them in the first place.
the easiest way to get start, imo, is to start with it on a new component. TDD, and effective unit testing in general, require that you architect your code in a way that allows for testing without dependencies (meaning you need to have interfaces for mock object implementations, etc). in any complex piece of software this has real implications on the structure of your code.
What helped me instill habitual discipline, was before making any change, say to myself, "What test do I write to demonstrate that the change worked?". While not strictly TDD (since the focus is quite small) it brought testing to the forefront of my thinking whenever the system was changed.
Start small, with a low barrier to entry, practice daily and the habit becomes second nature. After a while your scope for thinking about tests naturally widens to include design, and well as integration and system testing.
I found that "start small" worked well on legacy projects that had little unit testing in place and where the intertia to bring it up to scratch was too large so that no-one bothered. Small changes, bugfixes etc. could often be easily unit tested even when the test landscape for the whole project was pretty barren.
Our TDD drives the development, from the name. Best learned from someone that already is extreme/disciplined about it. If your velocity affected applying TDD immediately on the work project, what is stopping you from growing your TDD muscles outside of work on a side project?
Here's a repost of how I became a BDD / TDD convert:
A year ago, I had little idea how to do TDD (but really wanted to (how frustrating)) and had never heard of BDD... now I do both compulsively. I have been in a .Net development environment, not Java, but I even replaced the "F5 - Run" button with a macro to either run Cucumber (BDD) or MBUnit (TDD) depending if it is a Feature/Scenario or Specification. No debugger if at all possible. $1 in the jar if you use the debugger (JOKING (sort of)).
The process is very awesome. The framework we are additionally using is by The Oracle I've been blessed to come across, and absorbing information from, and that framework he/we use is MavenThought.
Everything starts with BDD. Our BDD is straight up cucumber ontop of iron ruby.
Scenario: ....
Given I do blah...
Scenario: ...
And that's not unit testing itself, but it drives the feature, scenario by scenario, and in turn the unit (test) specifications.. So you start on a scenario, and with each step you need to complete in the scenario it drives your TDD.
And the TDD we have been using is kind of BDD in a way, because we look at the behaviours the SUT (System Under Test) requires and one behaviour is specified per specification (class "test" file).
Here is the Specification for one behaviour: When the System Under Test is created.
There is one more specification (C# When_blah_happens class file) for another behaviour when a property changes, but that is separated out into a another file.
This is probably the simplest behaviour for a SUT, because in this case when it is created, the Diffuser property should be the same as the injected diffuser. I had to use a Concrete Diffuser instead of a Mock because in this case the Diffuser is a Core/Domain object and has no property notification for the interface. 95% of the time we refer to all our dependencies like Dep(), instead of injecting the real thing.
Often we have more than one [It] Should_do_xyz(), and sometimes a fair bit of setup like perhaps upto 10 lines of stubbing. This is just a very simple example with no GivenThat() or AndGivenThatAfterCreated() in that specification.
For setup of each specification we generally only ever need to override a couple methods of the specification:
GivenThat() ==> this happens before the SUT is created.
CreatSut() ==> We auto mock creation of the sut with StructureMap and 90% of time never need to override this, but if you are constructor injecting a Concrete, you have to override this.
AndGivenThatAfterCreated() => this happens after the SUT is created.
WhenIRun() => unless it is a [ConstructorSpecification] we use this to run ONE line of code that is the behaviour we are specifiying for the SUT
Also, if there is common behaviour of two or more specifications of the same SUT, we move that into the base specifcation.
All I gotta do to run the Specification is highlight it's name, example "When_diffuser_observer_is_created" and press F5, because remember, for me F5 runs a Rake task either test:feature[tag] if Cucumber, or test:class[SUT]. Makes sense to me because everytime you run the debugger it's a throw away, no code is created (oh and it costs a $1 (joking)).
This is a very, very clean way of specifying behaviour with TDD and having really, really simple SUTs and simple specifications. If you try and be cowboy coder and write the SUT crappy with hard dependencies, etc, you will feel the pain of trying to do TDD and get fed up / give up OR bite the bullet and do it right.
And here's the actual SUT. We got a little fancy and use PostSharp to add property notify changed on the Diffuser, so hence the Post.Cast<>. And again, that's why I injected a Concrete rather than Mock. Anyway, as you can see the missing behaviour defined in another specification is when anything changes on the Diffuser.
In conclusion, this BDD / TDD style of development rocks. It took one year but I am a total convert as a way of life. I would not have learned this on my own. I picked up everything from The Oracle http://orthocoders.com/.
Red or Blue pill, the choice is yours.
Read test code!
What blocked me from testing first is the lack of insight when trying to recreate the envirionment in which that module needs to run inside a test harness.
To overcome this dificulties, you have to read test code from other programmers and apply that code to your needs. The same way you do when you are learning how to program using a new language or a new library.
Although we were never able to implement a full TDD, the concept of reporting a defect and creating a phpunit (in our php shop) test case that failed, but would pass when the defect was addressed, proved to be desirable to all parties (dev and qa) due to the clarity of the defect specification and the verification of the changed code. We also incorporated these unit tests in the regression suite, in case we missed these 'defect fix' branches in the released code.
TDD works better and better the more experience you have with it. But it is difficuilt to reach the break even experience level that makes it easier to do tdd instead of tad.
so the opposite question: "What prevents me from doing tdd" may help to get a good starting point:
motivation comes for me if the benefits outrage the pain.
Currently i am developping parts in a java/tomcat/web shop where compiling all and starting the servers/shop requires about 10 minutes which is the opposit of rapid-app-developing.
Compiling and running businesslogic and the unittests requires less than 10 seconds.
So doing tdd is much faster than tad as long as it is easy to write the unit-test.
the same rad applies to my current android project where i develop the android independant java lib part that can be easily unittested. No need to deploy code on the device to see if the code is running.
In my opinion a good starting point to get more experienced with tdd: wait for a new green-field application where you do not have time pressure in the beginning.


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Coleman Hooligan 2 Tent Review
Known usually for reasonably priced, roomy tents with all the modern conveniences, Coleman seeks to appeal to the serious backpacker with its Coleman Hooligan 2 Tent. This two-person, three-season tent features an all-mesh design that extends right down to the bathtub-style floor, giving the tent excellent ventilation during hot days and supreme visibility for cool evenings of star gazing. For inclement weather, or to ensure maximum privacy, a rain fly can be attached that extends down to ground level. With the fly in place, a six-square-foot vestibule area is formed that will handily store backpacks and shoes, leaving the interior of the tent uncluttered.
Gear hooks attached to the ceiling provide opportune spots to hang a lantern, while a mesh storage pocket keeps small items visible without being underfoot. The spacious floor area, at 40 square feet, can accommodate a queen-sized air mattress or two side-by-side sleeping bags with ease. The dome design provides a peak interior height of 42 inches, leaving comfortable seated headroom even for tall campers.
As Coleman Hooligan 2 Tent is not a free-standing model, it will need to be staked out in order to maintain its shape. In addition, the fly requires taut guy lines in order for it to be seated properly. The tent features one side-facing door, as well as a large window on the opposite wall for good ventilation even with the fly partially in place. Pitching the tent is a simple matter due in part to the single center pole extending through continuous pocket sleeves. Instructions for assembly are printed on the carry bag, making them difficult to misplace.
There are, however, two issues that might impede the serious backpacker when using this tent. Weighing in at seven pounds, three ounces, this tent is slightly heavier than others in its class. With the increased weight also comes increased bulk; at 22 x 6 inches when packed, this tent will test the volume capacity of most backpacks. For hikers splitting the weight of the tent in multiple packs this will become a non-issue, but the soloist backpacker might find the weight and size prohibitive for long treks.
Another consideration is the use of fiberglass tent poles. High performance tents shy away from fiberglass, which can split or even shear under intense weather conditions. This is not a consideration for those backpacking in mild conditions, but serious backpackers scaling summits where high winds and driving rain are daily events might want to think twice. In classic Coleman fashion, these drawbacks are compensated by the price, which is significantly less than many backpacking tents on the market today.
Overall we gave the Coleman Hooligan 2 Tent 4 out of 5 stars. This tent won't get you through a night on Everest, but if cost wins over quality, this tent will provide many of the same features sought by backpackers from more expensive models at a fraction of the price.


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Outrageous Common Nonsense: Army Veteran Charged for Firing Gun to Scare Intruder
United States Army veteran, Corey Thompson, is facing charges for firing his gun to scare off a home intruder. On Fox and Friends, Thompson described the ordeal. He said it was around 11:30 p.m. when a man approached his Oregon home in a threatening manner. The stranger apparently tore up his patio chairs, yelled and banged on the house door.
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Thompson told the man he was armed, but that didn't deter the intruder. The two engaged in a confrontation on the front yard prior to Thompson firing a warning shot with his AR-15 assault rifle. "I was in fear of my life," he said.
The gun was confiscated and Thompson was arrested. Lieutenant Mike Budreau of the Medford Police said there was "nothing that the suspect was doing that was aggressive enough to justify the shooting."
The former Army specialist said that statement is false. "Everything that the suspect did was aggressive. He tried to bang on my door, he smashed up my patio furniture, he threatened me several times. So if that's not aggressive, then I don't know what aggressive is then."
Thompson said the suspect has multiple felonies and has been charged with breaking and entering previously. "He will be on the streets eventually and they will put me in jail I imagine."
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So it looks like indie-minded producer Megan Ellison of Annapurna Pictures, who backed upcoming Cannes entry "Foxcatcher" as well as such Oscar contenders as "The Master," "American Hustle" and "Her," is now developing her first TV series to be sold to the networks.
Set during Hollywood's Golden Age, the drama focuses on Nordic beauties Greta Garbo and Marlene Dietrich, who were known for their androgynous mystery. "The Swedish Sphinx" and "The Blonde Venus" could be both glamorous and alluring--and get away with wearing pants. Thus, much like one-time roommates Cary Grant and Randolph Scott, rumors swirled surrounded them.
Based at MGM, Greta Garbo ("Grand Hotel," "Ninotchka," "Queen Christina") never starred in a movie with Paramount's reigning diva Dietrich ("Shanghai Express," "Morocco," "Catherine the Great"), and the two so-called studio rivals claimed to have never met. (Back in Europe, they reportedly each enjoyed an affair with elegant aristocrat Mercedes de Acosta.) But that didn't stop people from gossiping about them. And photographer Edward Steichen once mashed up some pictures of them together for Vanity Fair.
Annapurna is financing with executive producers Angela Robinson and Alex Kondracke ("Hung" and "The L Word") a period drama focused on the young Swedish actress and German star--and the people in their lives, including Cary Grant, John Gilbert, Tallulah Bankhead, Alla Nazimova, Barbara Stanwyck and John Wayne.
So assuming this comes to pass, who should play these stunning women? Who could pull it off, accent and all? Garbo was tall, slim, and athletic with a deep Swedish-accented voice, while the more diminutive Dietrich had gorgeous gams and sang like an angel with a rich German accent. Who has the chops? Could an American actress pull a Meryl Streep? I'd wager that Michelle Williams, Kirsten Dunst or Jessica Chastain could pull off Dietrich. And for Garbo, how about Rooney Mara ("The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo"), Dutch actress Carice van Houten ("Game of Thrones") or Swedish actress Alicia Vikander? Any other ideas?


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The Top 3 Business Rules Vendors
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Analyst firm, IDC, recently released its competitive report on the top business rules vendors based on 2011 revenues. It's good news that the overall market experienced healthy, double-digit growth (+11%). And IBM retains its lead over the second place vendor, FICO.
This concise report also includes a brief Future Outlook section wherein IDC mentions the broad appeal and suitability of business rules beyond its well-established niche in "general-purpose application development" and its stronghold in the financial services and public policy management areas. It's good to read that IDC recognizes the broader-utility view of business rules, a utility that spans industries and business use cases. It's something all of us in operational decision management – the next gen business rules – will continue to push given the broad base of successful implementations.
Although this post highlights a competitive report, the focus should be less about the competition and more about helping companies to identify situations where unlocking rules from existing applications can provide significant benefits; where business people can manage their own rule updates without waiting for IT.
If you're curious about the broader appeal and utility of business rule management systems, here's a top ten list of business use cases for Operational Decision Management – the next generation business rules.
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Profit and Loss, Public or Private: Tweedle Dumb and Tweedle Dee
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There has been a spate of "scathing" reports and comments lately about for-profit schools, which bring out the kissing-cousin questions of whether schools are "businesses," whether it's good to "privatize" them, and whether we need more "regulation."
And all the words in quotation marks in that sentence are meant to draw attention to the fact that the field is littered with misunderstandings, misstatements, and just plain gobbledygook.
But first, a word from Whitney Tilson, who summarized things rather succinctly in an August 8 email blast:
All of the fraud, sleaze, etc. that's recently been uncovered in the for-profit ed sector warrants its own email. This is probably one of the few areas Ravitch and I would generally agree on, though I suspect I'm much more open to for-profit providers – but there needs to be VERY strong regulation, oversight, audits, etc. Otherwise it's an invitation for disaster."
You know that something is amiss if Tilson says he agrees with Diane Ravitch. But he has a shotgun list of bad news about private- and quasi-private-sector education. He calls attention to a recent New York Times story which noted that:
- "a federal judge upheld the Department of Education's right to regulate unscrupulous for-profit schools that leave students with big debts and valueless credentials,"
- "a Senate committee released a blistering report showing that many of these schools pocket huge profits, even though most students leave without degrees," and
- "a study from the National Bureau of Economic Research found that people who started in programs awarding an associate degree—a big slice of the student population—reaped significant economic rewards with degrees from public and nonprofit institutions. Those with degrees or certificates from for-profits did not."
Tilson cites a follow-up editorial by the Times which called for, according to the headline, "Closer Scrutiny of For-Profit Schools." He quoted from a Pennsylvania story reporting that "a charter-school mogul was charged today in a multimillion-dollar fraud case by the U.S. Attorney's Office."
And speaking of Ravitch, she was very busy during this period writing blogs like: "How schools are like and not like business," "Profiteers circling the schools, looking for $$," "Chris Christie's plan to privatize NJ's Low-Peforming Schools," and "What you need to know about for-profit online schools."
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But that last post by Ravitch is the most interesting. It is a plaudit for what she called "a stunning article" in The Nation from last fall, titled "How Online Learning Companies Bought America's Schools." The piece by Lee Fang is stunning in many ways—it's long (almost 5,500 words) and it's detailed, as examples—but not in its depiction of, as Ravitch states, "how certain politicians and investors and entrepreneurs are working together to privatize public education and to generate huge profits for certain companies."
But wait. That characterization is actually quite remarkable for it could just as easily apply to the current education system—with its swirl of private labor unions delivering wheelbarrows of cash to "certain politicians" and with its profiteering text-book companies (and a host of other entrepreneurial sorts) milking public education for their personal and investor profit—as to the one Fang describes.
And this is the problem with the current debate about private and public, nonprofit and for-profit: There is no agreement on the terms, much less the reality that they supposedly describe. The ideological soup is thick.
Mr. Fang's Nation story is a perfect case study. On the one hand, he has done a remarkable reporting job, creating what might be called a who's who of the school-reform movement; on the other, it is a gushing guilt-by-association lecture littered with buzzwords to warm up the anti-reform (anti-business, anti-profit) chorus. Here's a quick, not comprehensive, list of excerpts from the story (names are not necessary):
- She also advised paycheck protection, a union-busting scheme;
- Combining financial firepower of their corporate clients with the seeming legitimacy of privatization-minded school-reform think tanks and foundations;
- Policies designed to boost the bottom lines of education-technology companies are cast as mere attempts to improve education through technological enhancements;
- Gold rush of investors clamoring to get a piece of the K-12 education market
- Most education-reform advocates cloak their goals in the rhetoric of "putting children first";
- Worked for almost fifteen years at converting the K-12 education system into a cash cow for Wall Street;
- The rush to privatize education will turn also turn tens of thousands of students into guinea pigs; and
- The frenzy to privatize America's K-12 education system.
You get the idea—or should. (Class, please underline the words and phrases that are inflammatory but not expository.) And I don't want to counter this kind of empty partisan rhetoric with similar broad-brush characterizations about the status-quo crowd. Indeed, there are hopeful signs that some educators in the current (failing?) system have gotten the message and are retooling. I am finishing up a report about six high schools in Ohio (due out in the fall) that have managed to do wonderful things in high-poverty urban centers—five of those schools are traditional public schools. It can be done.
But the current talk surrounding governance issues could certainly stand some critical thinking.
Take for instance, the plight of the Highland Park school district in Michigan, which I wrote about the other day, which was turning management of its 1,000 student system over to a for-profit charter-management organization. I suggested that the district had nothing to lose; the thing was practically bankrupt and over 90 percent of the kids couldn't pass a rudimentary college-readiness exam.
Is this part a "rush to privatize education"? You bet it is. And this is why we need to ask of these new establishmentarians (like Ms. Ravitch and Mr. Fang) two questions: "Compared to what?" and "So what?" Not all American public schools are as bad as those in Highland Park, but there are plenty enough of them that we should be asking ourselves, "What do we have to lose by not trying something new?" Vouchers. Charters. Longer school days and years. Common Core. End LIFO and lifetime tenure. Kill school boards. Online learning. Why not?
My guess is that lefties who read Fang's piece will be cheering as it seems to buck up their beliefs about the nastiness of the private sector. But I could also imagine a righty reading it and (removing all the hyperbole) applaud everything these Wall Street financiers are doing.
In fact, during this same period, I noted a piece in Forbes with the headline, "Let's Make Education Big Business, With Profit, Loss and High Pay for Top Performers." Exactly. Here's how writer Carrie Lukas sees it:
When you see that Americans spend more than $1.1 trillion on education—that's 7.8 percent of GDP—it's tempting to call education "big business." Except that it's not really: 80 percent of that spending is controlled by government and spent on public schools and universities. That means that it's divorced from the usual factors that make our competitive free market system work.
Interesting observation. Given those facts, with others suggesting that our public-education system is failing too many children, why wouldn't one consider doing something different? We should at least ask the right questions. Does the free market work? Why not run schools like a business? What's wrong with profit? More importantly, what's wrong with the current system? Why is it not working?
Class dismissed.
-Peter Meyer
This blog entry originally appeared on the Fordham Institute's Board's Eye View blog.
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"Why is it not working?" It's working about as well as it can given the constraints placed upon it by policymakers, politicians, and ignorant voters. Wrong question.
Carrie is a writer. A very ideological one. She sets up the question about value for money. Her response offers no real substance–just rhetoric.
Perhaps the biggest flaw in this kind of thinking can be found here: "A real market-based approach would focus on giving customers the power to control all of a child's share of education spending to design a learning program and experience that is uniquely suited to meet her specific needs." Folks who really, really believe in economic approaches to human problems, especially so-called free-market solutions, have this concomitant irrational belief in the ability of all economic actors (in this case, parents) to be rational and make perfect decisions.
If this is what you believe, Ford has this great new car that delivers great gas mileage and gets you where you want to go. It's called the Pinto. Buy one now at your local education dealer.
Thanks, Jeffrey, but why is "Why is it not working?" the wrong question. Unless you think it is working okay, then you have no choice but to look under the hood before driving off (unless it's a Ford, of course :)). The market-based approach does not assume that the consumers are smart or dumb; it only assumes that it is better that they have a choice than no choice. As Jefferson warned, though, it would behove a system like that to educate its consumers. Thus, back to the first question — or a variation of it: How do we get a good education system?
Thanks very much Peter for the response. "As Jefferson warned, though, it would behove [sic] a system like that to educate its consumers." You know, I actually thought about offering that response to my post in anticipation of your response but I thought it might be a tad presumptuous. Just let Peter think about it, I thought. It's a valid response and I might even come over to your side if we could live in such a world. I like choice in women's reproductive choices; I don't like DOW Chemical choosing where to dump toxic waste. Life is all so complicated, eh? But back to the question…
Your question presumes an affirmative response. I would prefer that we differentiate where the system "seems" to be working from where it "seems" not to be working. The group-think in the modern reform movement is that American education has contracted a kind of learning flu across the board of race, class, gender, income, and culture. Whatever solutions are proffered are done so with that assumption in mind. We are not targeting the children and the families of low performance, we are targeting systems of education. That is the big mistake. If we really wanted to address the causes of low performance of children, we would examine and measure their preparation for school including post-natal nutritional and cognitive care. Amazingly, no one thinks to measure those research-verified variables and apply them to policy issues. Why is that?
If you want schools and systems to right the wrongs of poverty, culture, and neglect then you better as all heck give us the financial and human resource foundation to do that job.
That, our society is unwilling or unable to provide. And that is why I will continue to fight for a truly child-centered perspective on education rather than a system-centered, politicized perspective.
Other items of note in your post: "That characterization is actually quite remarkable for it could just as easily apply to the current education system—with its swirl of private labor unions delivering wheelbarrows of cash to "certain politicians" and with its profiteering text-book companies (and a host of other entrepreneurial sorts) milking public education for their personal and investor profit—as to the one Fang describes." A "swirl" of exactly two, I believe. "Private" labor unions? Oh, come on. Are there public labor unions, then? Maybe there are just "unions". The wheelbarrows of cash delivered to politicians do not also come from Pearson, CMOs, and other assorted private interests?
"And this is the problem with the current debate about private and public, nonprofit and for-profit: There is no agreement on the terms, much less the reality that they supposedly describe. The ideological soup is thick." Perhaps this is a place in which we may agree the devil is in the details.
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i'll second that. cracking result tommy, and well done to the team for giving him a bike that, from where i was sitting looked to be absolutely planted.


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Today's front page story in the DT: "Ministers 'dishonest' over gay weddings," demonstrates that the proposed change in the law to legally re-define the word "marriage" is being demanded by only a tiny minority of the electorate and is far smaller even than the anti-hunting lobby . Most of the gay couples already involved in Civil Partnerships are not pushing for it and it has rightly been identified as a vote grabbing exercise. Cameron knows full well that the Labour Party and Liberal Party always chase the Gay vote and he is desperately keen not to lose what he sees as a vociferous and very powerful minority of Gay activists. He wants to position the Tory part as a caring, modern, hip party which has eschewed bigotry. He and Osborne have both stuck their necks out by saying that only bigots will oppose the change. What bothers me more than the "dishonesty" referred to in the DT story, is the utter stupidity of the man who refuses to acknowledge that legally redefining a word is dangerous and sets an unhealthy precedent. He insists that the change will have no impact on church ministers who are opposed to the concept of gay marriage. If he believes that, he is far too stupid to be allowed out on his own let alone attempt to run a country. We all know that certain Gay activists will try to force Ministers into performing services they fundamentally disagree with. We also know that the entire impact of this change will be on the Christian churches as no Gay Muslim couple in their right minds would attempt to pressure their own Clerics in the same way.
Cameron needs to wake up to the fact that dropping the proposal might lose him the support of Gay Activists in the media and in Show Business, but would win him support among his core followers who cannot not bear to see their leader pathetically trying to squeeze into the same trousers as Milliband and Clegg. If he follows it through Milliband will win the next election and Clegg will be begging to form another Coalition, but this time with a Party he has always had more in common with.


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"Witnesses said the six were taken to an intersection in the north of the city," The Daily Mail story continues, "where they were summarily shot for providing intelligence that helped Israel pinpoint key figures in Hamas and the Islamic Jihad targeted by their warplanes."
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"Hamas Aqsa radio quoted a security official," says The Daily Mail, "as saying the men had been 'caught red handed' with 'hi-tech equipment and filming equipment to take footage of positions.'
"Gunmen chained the body of one of the alleged collaborators to a motorcycle and dragged it throughout the main streets of Gaza City in a warning to others who 'betrayed' Palestinians," says The Daily Mail. Post continues below video:
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"Witnesses said a van stopped in the intersection," says that AP/Times Of Israel report, "and four masked men pushed the six suspected informers out of the vehicle." One witness, an 18-year old man, said the gunmen forced the accused to lie face down in the street, then shot them. A 13-year-old witness said the men were killed one by one, "as he mimicked the sound of gunfire."
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Some people on Twitter criticized Cooper for posting the photos, accusing him of pro-Israel bias. His comebacks on Twitter are worth a look. (I must say that, even as a long-time critic of CNN, I find Cooper's reporting from Gaza to be fairly well balanced.)
Hamas is the ruling power in Gaza. Israel is targeting Hamas positions in response to nearly a week of unprovoked rocket attacks on Israel.
CNN's Cooper was not the only reporter to post photos of the barbaric body draggings.
"There is broad consensus among Palestinians that informers for Israel deserve harsh punishment," says another AP report, "and it is rare to hear someone speak out against killings of alleged collaborators. Such public killings have been carried out in the West Bank and Gaza since the first intifada — or uprising — against Israeli occupation in the late 1980s."
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text: Publicis' COO on the geek and the deep in advertising Business 21 March 12 by Katie Scott Flickr / cc-licensed Markusram It is a balance between the geek and the deep that makes for successful advertising and marketing campaigns, says Jean-Yves Naouri, chief operating officer of Publicis Groupe and executive chairman of Publicis Worldwide.Interviewed by Guy Philipson, CEO of internet marketing research outfit IAB, at The Guardian Media Summit, Naouri stated that Publicis Groupe is currently making 30 percent of its revenue from digital, but has the ambition to push this to 50 percent. To put this into context, this figure was seven percent in 2005. Expansion has included purchases including Razorfish and Rosetta.Naouri argues that Publicis was early into the market and continues to take on more and more engineers, or technologists, but always with the need in mind to balance their abilities to data crunch with a need to create experiences "that will inspire".He pointed to the massive growth in China where there are currently 500 million web users and where there is often more choice in social networks than in the West (though did add that some are state sponsored). "The evolution is dynamic, almost frantic," he said, adding that Publicis's mission is to double its presence in China in the next two years. But marketers and advertisers should also be watching Turkey and Brazil as growth markets.Key to engagement in these countries is social media. Naouri described the difference between traditional advertising and the outreach from social media as the difference between bowling and playing on a pinball machine. "With bowling, you can strike all of the pins once but with a pinball machine, you can keep playing -- the engagement lasts longer," he said. Image: Pinball machine field / Markusram / CC BY-ND 2.0 Edited by Nate Lanxon Latest on wired.co.uk


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Regarded as a defining voice of Generation X following his early films Slacker and Dazed And Confused, Richard Linklater's subsequent filmography has included a mainstream comedy classic with School Of Rock, the controversial Fast Food Nation, and a trio of life-in-a-day romantic dramas, which commenced with Before Sunrise. His eminently quotable words have remained a constant, with even R.E.M. paraphrasing his words in their single 'What's The Frequency, Kenneth?': "Richard said, 'Withdrawal in disgust is not the same as apathy'."
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Again packed with verbose philosophising, Linklater's new film Boyhood ensues the 24-hour narrative for a story that charts 12 years in the life of a family. The parents, played by Ethan Hawke and Patricia Arquette, could be described as Gen X characters, but Linklater isn't repeating his past work. Instead, his focus addresses the ordinary existence of people from childhood to middle age.
Filmed for a few days each summer over the course of those 12 years using the same core cast, the main focus of Boyhood is Mason, played by Ellar Coltrane. Mason grows before our eyes from a child to a young adult as his identity and physicality evolves, year-on-year. The culture around him changes too, with subtle movements in fashion and current affairs drifting into his life, set to an almost chronological soundtrack that includes everything from The Flaming Lips to Lady Gaga. Indeed, the society around the family possesses a personality of its own, from the annoying older sister singing Britney Spears' '…Baby One More Time' to the Obama election campaign and the craze for all things Harry Potter.
"Whether it's the music or just what's going on in the world politically, there would always be some kind of backdrop," says Linklater. "We started the movie post-9/11 but pre-invasion, I guess, and I saw that shaping up. When I was growing up, the Vietnam War was the backdrop. It was always on TV; it was just something that was going on constantly. It just felt like there was always a war going on. I wanted to capture how that felt from a kid's point of view: it's there, but you don't really understand it."
Despite Linklater's obvious skills as a filmmaker, the success of Boyhood would have to depend on the performance of Coltrane, who plays Mason with growing confidence as the years roll by. "A six-year-old can't really agree to anything long-term, can they?" laughs the director. "You can't say, 'Hey, I've got a job for you for the next 12 years'."
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Coltrane's early interest and love of acting, together with the support of his parents, made him as reliable a choice as any six-year-old could be. "My goal was for it to be a fun expressive part of his life that would be something to look forward to. And Ellar never wavered; there was never a year where he said, 'Nah, I don't want to do it.' My own daughter [Lorelei, who plays Mason's sister Samantha], however, she wavered a little bit early on. But she got back with it. It helps if they get paid, too. You could make more money working for us for a week with three days of shooting than you can from an entire summer of flipping burgers."
The big elements of the story – or in Linklater's words: "The architecture of life" – was planned out in advance with even the closing image planned quite early in the process. The rest was "a collaboration with the future" during which Linklater had a year to plan ahead for the next scene. On one occasion, it was finally time to deploy a scene based around "a redneck bar mitzvah where he gets a gun and a Bible". In others, it was more reactive to events in Coltrane's own life. As Linklater recalls, "They were acting more in the first half of the movie. At some point, I said, there'll be more of collaboration with who you really are. By the end, I wanted it to be pretty close, and I think that's where we got to."
It's not, however, a laborious march from Mason's first day at school to the day he leaves home, via experiments with sex, drugs and alcohol. Linklater professes to be bored with the over-significance attached to coming-of-age staples, so those elements are soft focus sections of the narrative.
"I wanted it to feel like how you remember your life. A lot of the time you think, 'Why do I remember that?' It seems so insignificant. It's funny what has shifted out, and what's still there. And also, with those 'big events', you often feel like you're playing a role or something, like it's not even you, it's you going through some obligatory thing that you have to do."
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Essentially an everyman character with an independent streak, Mason's genetic roots are interconnected with many of Linklater's other creations. "He's not a superhero, he's not a secret prince of a kingdom or something, he's really just a guy who was born to live through a certain era, trying to make sense of it all," says Linklater, his voice carrying an element of surprise to even the most routine of questions. "I think, by the end, it looks like he's left Dazed and is heading right into Slacker, and who knows, maybe he'll go to Europe and meet a girl on a train in a few years. He ends up like a character from my other movies, but that was probably inevitable."
Most films get under your skin when you try to second-guess the fate of the main character. Boyhood's charms come to prominence with the realisation that Mason isn't going to suffer a life-changing event. Simply, he's going to keep existing. How does Linklater reconcile that concept with the need to entice an audience?
"It sounded good conceptually when people would ask about it. 'Twelve years, everyone grows up... But what happens?' And I'd go quiet." The conviction in Linklater's voice suggests that he always truly believed in the project, even if he admits to occasionally having doubts – which would only be natural over the course of more than a decade.
"I knew people would invest if they believed these characters and cared about them. With the way we perceive cinema and time, this cumulative power would hopefully play out. So at some point all these little things do add up to something." He notes that little things are huge events when you're a child, using a haircut as an example – perhaps inadvertently allowing a glimpse at little Linklater's own childhood.
Boyhood is a film with plenty to say about the nature of family and the changes that evolve within us all. But what does it say about recent American society?
"Oh, I don't know if it's trying to say too much about that," he states, but soon warms to the question. "I don't see that much cultural change. I don't see new forms of music particularly, I don't see super new fashion trends, I don't see new cars and architecture and new design. A lot of that creativity is in technology. I see a lot of change in that world.
"But in our world, I think I'm amazed by how little things change. My own little longitudinal cultural study tells me that things are slowing down. All of our creativity is coming out of technology and not so much the real world. If you go from 1959 to 1971, you've gone through some different looks; the culture looks different, right? Even '79 to '91, you've gone through different fashions, looks and hairstyles and music trends. But these 12 years? Ultimately, I'm not the best perceiver of that. A 20-year-old might pick out the nuances of how much culture has changed."
Linklater's status as an unappointed spokesman of Generation X may have passed, but his experience, together with a boyish enthusiasm for story, suggests that his best work is now emerging.
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Glee 100th Episode Spoiler: Expect a Huge Brittana Shocker!
At this point, we'd pretty much take any Brittana interaction that we can get on Glee, given how long it's been since the adorable twosome has shared screentime. However, we're in luck, since it sounds as though Brittany (Heather Morris) and Santana (Naya Rivera) have a scene in the upcoming 100th episode that will be one to remember! Translation: Perhaps there are more sweet ladies kisses in their future?
After having been absent on Glee throughout Season 5, Brittany is finally returning for Season 5, Episode 12: "100." Naya had already revealed that she would be sharing a scene with Heather — but now we're learning that the scene will be a wild one.
On January 14, Naya tweeted:
On set for Glee shooting a Britanna shocker! ????— Naya Rivera (@NayaRivera) January 14, 2014
Say what?! Could this be the Brittana hook-up we've been waiting for since they parted ways last season? And where does that leave Dani (Demi Lovato)? Hmmm. Or maybe the Brittana surprise doesn't involve them hooking up and is a different kind of shocker. Perhaps the show could imitate life and make Brittany preggers? You never know!
At any rate, Glee's cinematographer Joaquin Sedillo appeared to confirm the crazy scene by tweeting on the same day:
I'm shocked! (Shocked to the core.)— Joaquin Sedillo (@JOAQUINSEDILLO) January 14, 2014
Joaquin also tweeted a shout-out to Mark Salling (Puck):
Nice work today, @MarkSalling #JOAQUINthegleeDP— Joaquin Sedillo (@JOAQUINSEDILLO) January 15, 2014
And Mark clearly appreciated the kudos.
Thanx bro. Great to be back.i think the fans will love what were shootingRT @JOAQUINSEDILLO: Nice work today @MarkSalling #JOAQUINthegleeDP— Mark Salling (@MarkSalling) January 15, 2014
So what do we make of all this? Well, Glee shoots numerous scenes on any given day, so it's possible that Joaquin wasn't commenting on the Brittana scene. But perhaps Brittana's shocker has something to do with Puck? The suspense!
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No current Talk conversations about this book.
Gallagher's titles all seem very interesting to me, but she disappoints. This is neither a personal story nor a social survey, but a rather muddy stir of both. She pulls in much that seems irrelevent, but accomplishes the bulking up of what substance she offers into a publishable sized manuscript. But leaner would be better.
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Amazon.com Amazon.com Review (ISBN 0375755373, Paperback)Speaking to Americans who are skeptical about religion, but nonetheless feel a spiritual hunger, Winifred Gallagher offers a humorous and profound discussion about the state of national spirituality. Before writing this book, Gallagher made her living reporting on behavioral sciences (The Power of Place). Relying upon her impressive research skills and powers of observation, Gallagher decided to embark on a pilgrimage to resolve her uncertainty regarding the role religion would play in her life. She meditates in a Zen monastery, meets with the head of an African American mosque, journeys to Israel, and enters the protective fold of cloistered nuns. In the process she comes to many provocative conclusions, including the following:
I'm beginning to grasp that religion needn't focus on beliefs, but can at least begin with trust in your own experience of what is, but is mysterious--a different kind of challenge for a neoagnostic.... Most important, I'm already thinking of religion as a process of working on God.--Gail Hudson
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It's great to hear that the game is this good by IGN's metric. As a pre-order customer, I'm thrilled. I'm not questioning that, just yet. What I'm questioning is the entire process by which a site puts up material the way IGN did with their "Review In Progress" leading to an embargo-beating review of the game, a review that happens to mention the game as being an early Game Of The Year contender. Let's be clear on this: IGN stands to gain financially by having a review up in an exclusive window. EA/38 stand to benefit financially by having that particular review up in an exclusive window in advance of release.
I can tell you this: if I were an editor at a competing online entity to IGN who had a review ready to run for the game, I might well be wondering who we had to know to get our review up for web traffic in a similar exclusive window.
Which begs the next question, which is one you cannot answer (this song isn't entirely about you, Mick Jagger), but which perhaps a folks who read IGN would sure like to know: had EA/38 politely told IGN "No, we'd rather you didn't do a Review In Progress, and we'd like you to honor the embargo please" would the review score be the same?
That's a question only the IGN editors can answer. From what you say, I will assume that it had no effect on their review, and it was written without bias based on exclusivity.
So here's the deal. I know who you are Menzo. You've been a longtime poster here on Qt3 (and I remember you running the Sierra community boards as well as other hats for GK3 back in the day), so if you say there's nothing untoward here, that's good enough for me. That said, I think the initial question is a good one, and one created by some pretty clumsy optics caused by this situation.
...and that's outstanding PR right there.But whatever. Pull your tinfoil hat down tight if that's what makes you feel comfortable.


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