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Television (TV) is a telecommunication medium used for transmitting moving images and sound. Television can transmit images that are monochrome (black-and-white), in color, or in three dimensions. Television is an iconic mass medium, serving as a conduit for entertainment, advertising and news.
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- The role of television is the illusion of company, noise. I call it the fifth wall and the second window: the window of illusion.
- Mumia Abu-Jamal I spend my days preparing for life, not for death The Guardian, Laura Smith 25 October 2007 [1]
- The viewer of television, the listener to radio, the reader of magazines, is presented with a whole complex of elements—all the way from ingenious rhetoric to carefully selected data and statistics—to make it easy for him to "make up his own mind" with the minimum of difficulty and effort. But the packaging is often done so effectively that the viewer, listener, or reader does not make up his own mind at all. Instead, he inserts a packaged opinion into his mind, somewhat like inserting a cassette into a cassette player. He then pushes a button and "plays back" the opinion whenever it seems appropriate to do so. He has performed acceptably without having had to think.
- Mortimer Adler, How to Read a Book (1940), p. 4
- What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish. This is bad for everyone; the majority lose all genuine taste of their own, and the minority become cultural snobs.
- W. H. Auden, "The Poet & The City", p. 83. The Dyer's Hand, and Other Essays (1962)
- Everything is being televised so you won't be able to tell where the Revolution is. "Who's revolting? Well, I don't know, what's on the other channel?"
- Maria Bamford, Nerdist podcast, episode #25, July 5, 2012
- The luminous screen in the home carries fantastic authority. Viewers everywhere tend to accept it as a window on the world... It has tended to displace or overwhelm other influences such as newspapers, school, church, grandpa, grandma. It has become the definer and transmitter of society's values.
- Erik Barnouw, The Sponsor: Notes On a Modern Potentate (Oxford University Press, 1978), ISBN 0-19-502614-4, p. 75
- Bread and circuses—to some observers, welfare and television seemed modern equivalents, pacifiers of empire, protectors of power and privilege.
If television has assumed this role, it is not the result of a struggle between good guys and bad guys. If it were, it would be easy to solve, like problems in televisionland... The sponsor who thinks in terms of maximizing sales and profits is doing his duty... The advertising agency executive who recommends programs and time-slots in terms of audience size and demographic targets is likewise doing his job... The network sales executive who favors programs that advertising agencies will recommend to sponsors is performing his task... The problem—the folly—is not in any of these, but in a system that has made the center of national attention a market item, for sale at auction prices. The system has put the leadership of our society on the auction block.
- Erik Barnouw, The Sponsor: Notes On a Modern Potentate (Oxford University Press, 1978), ISBN 0-19-502614-4, p. 171-172
- For intellectual authority, the appropriate version of Descartes's cogito would be today: I am talked about, therefore I am.
- Zygmunt Bauman, The Individualised Society (2001)
- I like to watch.
- Repeated lines by "Chance, the gardner" in Being There (1979), initially referring simply to his lifelong habit of watching television.
- My God, how can you stand such things, children? They say, "Mom, don't you know it is only television, it is not real."
- Dr. Lauretta Bender [2] Testimony of Dr. Lauretta Bender Testimony of Dr. Lauretta Bender, senior psychiatrist, Belleveu hospital Newyork N.Y.
- First radio, then television, have assaulted and overturned the privacy of the home, the real American privacy, which permitted the development of a higher and more independent life within democratic society.
- It is not so much the low quality of the fare provided that is troubling. It is much more the difficulty of imagining any order of taste, any way of life with pleasures and learning that naturally fit the lives of the family's members, keeping itself distinct from the popular culture and resisting the visions of what is admirable and interesting with which they are bombarded.
- Allan Bloom, The Closing of the American Mind (New York: 1988), p. 59
- Do you realize if it weren't for Edison we'd be watching TV by candlelight?
- Al Boliska, as cited in: Stuart Kantor (2004) Beer, Boxers, Batteries, And Bodily Noises. p. 39.
- We're aware of the scale of the planet, so we don't accept that our own circumscribed horizons constitute reality. Much more real is what's relayed to us by the TV.
- John Brunner, Stand on Zanzibar (1968), continuity (17) "Timescales"
- York: You're that freak from TV!
- Static: You say freak, I say unique!
- Static Shock Aftershock written by Stan Berkowitz & Alan Burnett
- There's times to be real, and there's times to be phony. That's right, I said it, phony! You think I'm this nice in real life? Fuck that, son! That's just 'cause I'm on TV. I'd pull my balls out right now... skeet skeet skeet skeet!
- Dave Chappelle Chappelle's Show season 2 ep. 6
- You're beginning to believe the illusions we're spinning here. You're beginning to believe that the tube is reality and your own lives are unreal. You do whatever the tube tells you: you dress like the tube, you eat like the tube, you raise your children like the tube, you even think like the tube! This is mass madness, you maniacs! In God's name, you people are the real thing, WE are the illusion!
- Paddy Chayefsky, screenwriter, Network (1976)
- Television is not the truth. Television is a goddamned amusement park. Television is a circus, a carnival, a traveling troupe of acrobats, storytellers, dancers, singers, jugglers, sideshow freaks, lion tamers, a football players. We're in the boredom-killing business. So if you want the Truth, go to God! Go to your gurus. Go to yourselves! Because that's the only place you're ever gonna find any real truth. But, man, you're never gonna get any truth from us. We'll tell you anything you wanna hear. We lie like hell. We'll tell you that, uh, Kojak always gets the killer and that nobody ever gets cancer at Archie Bunker's house. And no matter how much trouble the hero is in, don't worry. Just look at your watch. At the end of the hour, he's gonna win. We'll tell you any shit you want to hear.
We deal in illusions, man. None of it is true! But you people sit there day after day, night after night, all ages, colors, creeds. We're all you know. You're beginning to believe the illusions we're spinning here. You're beginning to think that the tube is reality and that your own lives are unreal. You do whatever the tube tells you. You dress like the tube, you eat like the tube, you raise your children like the tube. You even think like the tube. This is mass madness. You maniacs. In God's name, you people are the real thing. We are the illusion. So turn off your television sets. Turn them off now. Turn them off right now. Turn them off and leave them off. Turn them off right in the middle of this sentence I am speaking to you now. Turn them off!
- Paddy Chayefsky, screenwriter, Network (1976)
- I'd park myself a few inches from the RCA color television set we had. I was so close, I could feel the static electricity of the screen tugging at the peach fuzz on my face and smell the wonderful aroma of electrically heated dust coming from the vents of that lustrous wooden console. No matter how many times my mother yelled, "Kevin! Move back before you go blind!" I'd still feel myself powerfully drawn into that world, and the worn-out seats of my Lee jeans bore witness to the pull I was powerless to resist.
- Kevin Clash, puppeteer who plays Elmo on Sesame Street, on his childhood. Published in 2006 as part of My Life as a Furry Red Monster.
- Television is for appearing on, not looking at.
- Noël Coward; Barry Day (2007), The Letters of Noël Coward (illustrated ed.), Alfred A. Knopf, p. 585
- Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl, Pg. 139
- On series TV, you come in, you're a hired hand, you do your work, you go away, they re-cut it, and you don't even see it until the show airs. With those anthology shows, they're different. In order to get you to do it, they want you to get involved, they want you to finish it, they want you to make it your own little movie.
- I do watch a lot of television science fiction, and it is a particularly sexless world. With a lot of the material from America, I think gay, lesbian and bisexual characters are massively underrepresented, especially in science fiction, and I'm just not prepared to put up with that. It's a very macho, testosterone-driven genre on the whole, very much written by straight men. I think Torchwood possibly has television's first bisexual male hero, with a very fluid sexuality for the rest of the cast as well. We're a beacon in the darkness.
- Russel T. Davies "Parallel universe". The Age (Melbourne, Australia). 14 June 2007. Retrieved 27 June 2007.
- A democratic civilization will save itself only if it makes the language of the image into a stimulus for critical reflection — not an invitation for hypnosis.
- Umberto Eco, in "Can Television Teach?" in Screen Education 31 (1979), p. 12
- It is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome.
- T.S. Eliot, Ney York Post (Sept 22, 1963)
- I used to think that television could be potentially the most powerful medium for the dissemination of knowledge that the world has ever known, it could be a very rich and rewarding thing if handled properly and that the problem was in the execution. I've now come, after ten years in the business, five years of which was as a television critic, to taking the very extreme view point. I think television itself is bad. The idea of television, the act of watching television kills the imagination. It's not like radio, with radio you had to listen, had to make things, you had to build things in your mind. Movies do that. Television is something else again. Television lays it all out there in a very prescribed way and the bare minimum of imagination on the part of the viewer is needed and I really fear for all of us.
- Harlan Ellison Interview in 1979, quoted in The Online Copywriter's Handbook (2002) by Robert W. Bly, p. 19
- We are in the process of seeing the fulfillment of Edgar Allen Poe's prophecy in which the painter, impassioned by his mistress-model and also by his art, "did not want to see that the colors he spread on his canvas were taken from the cheeks of the woman seated beside him. And when several weeks had passed, and very little remained to be done, nothing but a stroke on the mouth and a glaze over the eye, the mistress's spirit still flickered like the flame at the base of a lamp. Then he put on the final touch, put the glaze in place, and for a moment the painter stood in ecstasy before the work he had finished. But a moment later, he was struck with panic, and shouting with a piercing voice: 'It is truly Life itself,' he suddenly turned around to look at his mistress. She was dead." Nothing ever constrains us to face what is dying when we see it so alive in our images.
- Jacques Ellul, The Humiliation of the Word (1981), J. Hanks, trans. (1985), p. 208
- The word, although prevalent in our day, has lost its reasoning value, and has value only as an accessory to images. In turn, the word actually evokes images. But it does not evoke the direct images related to my personal experience. Rather, it calls up images from the newspaper or television. The key words in our modern vocabulary ... are stripped of all rational content, so they evoke only visions that whisk us away to some enchanted universe. Saying "fascism," "progress," "science," or "justice" does not suggest any idea or produce any reflection. It only causes a fanfare of images to explode within us: a sort of fireworks of visual commonplaces, which link up very precisely with each other. These related images provide me with practical content: a common truth that is especially easy to swallow because the ready-made images that showed it to me had been digested in advance.
- Jacques Ellul, The Humiliation of the Word (1981), J. Hanks, trans. (1985), p. 210
- The young watch television twenty-four hours a day, they don't read and they rarely listen. This incessant bombardment of images has developed a hypertrophied eye condition that's turning them into a race of mutants.
- Federico Fellini, in I'm a Born Liar: A Fellini Lexicon (2003), "Younger Generation"
- Television is just another appliance- It's just a toaster with pictures.
- Mark S. Fowler, FCC Chairman, from an interview with Reason Magazine, May 1982 [4]
- Television, the drug of the Nation, Breeding ignorance and feeding radiation.
Where imagination is sucked out of children by a cathode ray nipple. T.V. is the only wet nurse that would create a cripple
- Michael Franti,Television drug of the nation, from Hypocrisy is the Greatest Luxury, by Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy, 1991 [5]
- Phil saw television as a marvelous teaching tool. There would be no excuse of illiteracy. Parents could learn along with their children. News and sporting events could be seen as they were happening. Symphonies would mean more when one could see the musicians as they played, and movies would be seen in our own living rooms. He said there would be a time when we would be able to see and learn about people in other lands. If we understood them better, differences could be settled around conference tables, without going to war.
- Elma "Pen" Farnsworth on Philo Farnsworth inventor of the televisions view of television. [6]
- Television is an invention that permits you to be entertained in your living room by people you wouldn't have in your home.
- David Frost, as quoted in A Companion to Television, Wasko, Janet (2005) Blackwell Publishing. Page 9.
- I think looking back on it now the thing I'm proudest of is that Lexx wasn't really like anything else on television. Most shows are just rip-offs of other shows, but I think there was something different about what we were doing that made it hard to come up with a good comparison with others shows -- not that it isn't comparable in some aspects to other shows, it's just that we weren't following anyone else's model. So it was, I think, a little unique in that respect.
- Lex Gigeroff [7]
- I know very well the sorts of pressures you're under in television. I don't work in television anymore myself, but I'm constantly hearing from colleagues who present scripts to networks and are told, "The script is too complex. You have to keep it simple because the audience is dumb. You can make more money for the advertisers that way."
- Michael Haneke as interviewed by Richard Porton, "Collective Guilt and Individual Responsibility: An Interview with Michael Haneke," Cineaste, Vol. 31, No. 1 (Winter 2005), pp. 50-51
- Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it.
- Like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didn't change people's habits. It just kept them inside the house.
- Alfred Hitchcock, NY Journal-American 25 Aug. 1965
- One of television's great contributions is that it brought murder back into the home, where it belongs.
- Alfred Hitchcock, National Observer 15 Aug. 1966
- Seeing a murder on television can … help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
- Alfred Hitchcock, National Observer 15 Aug. 1966
- In the days before machinery men and women who wanted to amuse themselves were compelled, in their humble way, to be artists. Now they sit still and permit professionals to entertain them by the aid of machinery. It is difficult to believe that general artistic culture can flourish in this atmosphere of passivity.
- Aldous Huxley, The Doors of Perception (1954)
- News is not at all an easy thing to do on television. A good many of the main news items are not easily made visual — therefore we have the problem of giving news with the same standards that the corporation has built up in sound.
- Sir Ian Jacob, BBC director General , c. July 1954
- "BBC launches daily TV news", BBC.co.uk; on the launch of the televised BBC News on 5 July 1954
- Television is simultaneously blamed, often by the same people, for worsening the world and for being powerless to change it.
- Clive James, introduction to Glued to the Box
- When you're young, you look at television and think, There's a conspiracy. The networks have conspired to dumb us down. But when you get a little older, you realize that's not true. The networks are in business to give people exactly what they want. That's a far more depressing thought. Conspiracy is optimistic! You can shoot the bastards! We can have a revolution! But the networks are really in business to give people what they want. It's the truth.
- Steve Jobs, Interview in WIRED magazine (February 1996)
- On the big screen they showed us a sun
But not as bright in life as the real one
It's never quite the same as the real one.
- Elton John "Grey Seal" from the album Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
- We have found that television is such a huge part of baby boomers' DNA that it makes sense that so much of America's pop culture jargon comes from TV.
- Larry W. Jones, TV Land president
- "You can say that again...and again...and again..". Reuters. December 7, 2006. p. p. 1. Retrieved on 2006-12-07.
- They had a pretty decent dose of humor. All struck a chord in the mainstream. What we weren't going to do was win a shelf full of Emmys. We got plenty of nominations for things, but ours were not the kind of shows that were doing anything more than reaching a core audience. I would like to think we brought a lot of entertainment into the living room
- Glen Larson [8]
- She turns on T.V., guess who she sees? Skater boy, rocking up MTV!
- Avril Lavigne, "Complicated" (2002), Let Go (June 2002), Arista Records
- If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.
- John Lennon, as quoted in Guitar Player (1 August 2004), and in "Pax Patter" at ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
- The new values transmitters are the television producers, the movie moguls, the fashion advertisers, the gangsta rappers, and a host of other players within the electronic media-cultural complex...
- ...These trend-setters exert an extremely powerful hold on our culture and our children in particular, and they often have had little or no sense of responsibility for the harmful values they are purveying.
- Joe Lieberman, In a lecture at the University of Notre Dame, Awake! magazine, April 8, 2000; Are Morals Worse Than Before?
- The culture is unchallenged as the standard setter, and the child's sense of right and wrong and his priorities in life are shaped primarily by what he learns from the television, the movie screen and the CD player.
- And more recently, the Internet can be added to this list.
- Joe Lieberman, In a lecture at the University of Notre Dame, Awake! magazine, April 8, 2000; Are Morals Worse Than Before?
- Abraham ... was sunk in Ur of the Chaldees among foolish idolaters. His father and mother and all the people worshipped the stars. ... He knew that all were mistaken and that what caused them to err was worship of the images which drove the Truth out of their minds. ... It was proper to destroy and smash the idols so that the people should not err by them like those who think there is no god save images.
- Moses Maimonides, Mishneh Torah, Treatise 4: "Idolatry," H. Russell, trans. (1983), p. 73
- I find television very educational. Every time someone switches it on I go into another room and read a good book.
- Groucho Marx, as quoted in Halliwell's Filmgoer's Companion (1984) by Leslie Halliwell
- Thanks to television, for the first time the young are seeing history made before it is censored by their elders.
- Margaret Mead, as quoted by Robert P. Doyle (1993) Banned Books Week '93: celebrating the freedom to read. American Library Association. p. 62
- I invite you to sit down in front of your television set when your station goes on the air and stay there without a book, magazine, newspaper, profit and-loss sheet or rating book to distract you--and keep your eyes glued to that set until the station signs off. I can assure you that you will observe a vast wasteland.
- Newton N. Minow, FCC Chairman, May 9, 1961 [9]; republished by Minow in Equal Time (1964), p. 52.
- Hollywood, television and film is not my prime area of interest. Because I would never have any control, working in those areas. It's nice to get the money from a Hollywood project, but whatever they do with it, it would be their piece of work, and not mine.
- Alan Moore De Abaitua interview (1998)
- He (Martin Luther King, Jr.) felt it was important that children of all races see an African American female appearing on television as an equal.
- Television may represent a threat to our culture analogous to the threat of atomic weapons to our civilization.
- Reinhold Niebuhr, The Irony of American History (1952), p. 59
- I haven't had a TV in 10 years, and I really don't miss it. 'Cause it's always so much more fun to be with people than it ever was to be with a television.
- Chuck Palahniuk, San Francisco Bay Guardian, October 30, 2002
- Television has changed the American child from an irresistible force into an immovable object.
- Laurence J. Peter, Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Time (1977), ISBN 0-688-03217-6, p. 324
- Unless and until there is unmistakable proof to the contrary, the presumption must be that television is and will be a main factor in influencing the values and moral standards of our society.
- Pilkington Report, Great Britain, Committee on Broadcasting (1960), Report (Command paper 1753) (1962), chapter 3, p. 15, 19.
- Television does not, and cannot, merely reflect the moral standards of society. It must affect them, either by changing or by reinforcing them.
- Pilkington Report, Great Britain, Committee on Broadcasting (1960), Report (Command paper 1753) (1962), chapter 3, p. 15, 19.
- Those who market provisions don't know what is good or bad for the body—they just recommend everything they sell. ... In the same way, those who take their teachings from town to town and sell them wholesale or retail to anybody who wants them recommend all their products, but I wouldn't be surprised, my friend, if some of these people did not know which of their products are beneficial and which detrimental to the soul.
- Plato, Protagoras, 313d, as translated by S. Lombardo and K. Bell, Plato: Complete Works (1997), p. 751.
- Those who say they give the public what it wants begin by underestimating public taste, and end by debauching it.
- Pilkington Report, quoting an unknown source. Great Britain, Committee on Broadcasting, 1960, Report (Command paper 1753) (1962), chapter 3, p. 17.
- Television. An advanced technical method of stopping people from making their own entertainment.
- Leonard Rossiter, English comic actor. '...To Rossiter', The Devil's Bedside Book, Hamlyn paperbacks (1980) p. 46
- The revolution will not be televised. The Revolution will be no rerun, brothers. The Revolution — will be live.
- How can you put out a meaningful drama when every fifteen minutes proceedings are interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits with toilet paper?
- Rod Serling, Rod Serling: Submitted for Your Approval (October 1997), American Masters (PBS: Thirteen/WNET)
- On the Twilight Zone I knew I could get away with having Martians say things Republicans and Democrats couldn't.
- Rod Serling, Rod Serling: Submitted for Your Approval (October 1997), American Masters
- For the first time in television a writer will have the opportunity to let his imagination take him where ever he wants to. The sky is no longer the limit.
- Rod Serling: Submitted for Your Approval (October 1997), American Masters
- My favourite show is The Sopranos. Movies would never have let [David Chase] do that ending. There would have been repercussions. They would have stopped promoting it a certain way and would have said 'hmm, we tested it and it's not doing so well, half the audience hates it', that kind of stuff. But on TV everybody watched it. They might have hated it, but they all watched it and it was up to Chase to decide the ending. He had that freedom.
- M Night Shyamalan [12]
- Watching violence in movies or in TV programs stimulates the spectators to imitate what they see much more than if seen live or on TV news. In movies, violence is filmed with perfect illumination, spectacular scenery, and in slow motion, making it even romantic. However, in the news, the public has a much better perception of how horrible violence can be, and it is used with objectives that do not exist in the movies.
- Steven Spielberg, in an interview by the Brazilian magazine Veja (1993).
- There is nothing wrong with your television set. Do not attempt to adjust the picture. We are controlling transmission. If we wish to make it louder, we will bring up the volume. If we wish to make it softer, we will tune it to a whisper. We will control the horizontal. We will control the vertical. We can roll the image, make it flutter. We can change the focus to a soft blur or sharpen it to crystal clarity. For the next hour, sit quietly and we will control all that you see and hear. We repeat: there is nothing wrong with your television set. You are about to participate in a great adventure. You are about to experience the awe and mystery which reaches from the inner mind to The Outer Limits.
- The Outer Limits (1963 TV series) (Opening narration) created by Leslie Stevens
- I think TV is sometimes more creatively satisfying because, you know, every week, like say on Samurai Jack, we were able to do something new and different. We really challenged ourselves. Oh, this week, we're going to fight zombies, and so, we'll do a real scary one. The next week, we're going to do a rave, and so we'll do it not as scary and just do more focusing on the dancing and the music. So, that was really fun creatively, but then the speed makes you suffer, because we have to go so fast. We have limited budgets, and so, we just go as fast as we can. Everything that we do is really our first instinct.
- Genndy Tartakovsky [13]
- The problem is I am just the creator. You'd think that would give me some pull. I have just as much power as you — isn't that funny?
- Tracy Tormé [14]
- One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us.
- Kurt Vonnegut, Cold Turkey, In These Times, May 10, 2004
- Thanks to TV and for the convenience of TV, you can only be one of two kinds of human beings, either a liberal or a conservative.
- Kurt Vonnegut, in Cold Turkey at In These Times (10 May 2004)
- I hate television. I hate it as much as peanuts. But I can't stop eating peanuts.
- Orson Welles, New York Herald Tribune, (Oct.12, 1956)
- TV is a drug, and we as a nation have become hooked.
- Kenny Werner, Effortless Mastery (1996, pp. 16)
- What do you get from a glut of TV?
A pain in the neck and an IQ of three
Why don't you try simply reading a book?
Or can you just not bear to look?
- Oompa Loompa's, Oompa Loompa (Mike Teavee ) Leslie Bricusse and Anthony Newley, Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (film)
You'll get no... you'll get no... you'll get no commercials
- I believe television is going to be the test of the modern world, and that in this new opportunity to see beyond the range of our vision we shall discover either a new and unbearable disturbance of the general peace or a saving radiance in the sky. We shall stand or fall by television — of that I am quite sure.
- E. B. White, "Removal" (July 1938) from One Man's Meat (1942)
- Television will enormously enlarge the eye's range, and, like radio, will advertise the Elsewhere. Together with the tabs, the mags, and the movies, it will insist that we forget the primary and the near in favor of the secondary and the remote.
- E. B. White, "Removal" (July 1938) from One Man's Meat (1942)
- I may be vile and pernicious
But you can't look away
I make you think I'm delicious
With the stuff that I say
I'm the best you can get
Have you guessed me yet?
I'm the slime oozin' out
From your TV set.
- "I'm the Slime", in Over-Nite Sensation (1973)
- I kind of treat moviemaking and TV like the Army, and I kind of always have. Whoever is in charge, is in charge, and if they're going to march you up a hill and get you all killed, that's what you do. You march up that hill. You have to respect that, you have to respect that chain of command. I've done it under directors I believed in, I've done it under directors I didn't believe in. I've done it with executives and on projects.
- Joss Whedon [15]
- I always hold to the premise that the first six episodes are the first six pilots.
- Joss Whedon Futoncritic (01/06/09)
- 'As a group? Definitely TV. As a mass entertainment? Definitely television…except for the independents. Except for Wes Anderson. Chris Nolan. People with enough power to tell the studio 'I'm going to make a movie about dreams and there's nothing you can do about it'. Except for those powerful independents and powerful directors like Martin Scorsese, Clint Eastwood, who can just say 'I'm gonna do this, I don't care what you say'. Except for those people, everything else is driven by marketing, entirely by marketing. And you get, at the most extreme, Battleship the movie.'
- S.S. Wilson [16]

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After all the drama that came with her Beverly Hills house, where she sued the previous owner because she claimed that it was not worth what she paid (due to the house leaking whenever in rained), Rihanna can now rest easy. She ended up selling that house at a loss of almost $2 million, but has gone all out with her new $12 million pad.
Rihanna's spectacular mansion is situated in Pacific Palisades in California and is 11,000 square foot, has seven bedrooms, nine bathrooms and twenty parking spaces! It has a huge kitchen, a 14-foot ceiling in the dining room, an outdoor bar and BBQ, a sun-deck and a huge backyard.
The house has a beautiful big swimming pool with jets that shoot water in arches around the sides, the singer tweeted: "I literally wake up every morning at 5:30ish and stare at my pool til the sun comes up! Just waiting! Is this my life."
But will the singer be inviting ex Chris Brown over to stay? The singer seems to be hinting that she is single and tweeted an e-card that said: "Being single sucks. The only thing I get to do anymore is whatever the f--k I want to do." Hmm very interesting considering all her tweets of them together recently...


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Travel with Brian Wilson, ace closer of your S-a-n F-r-a-n-c-i-s-c-o Giants as he takes a short break from his rehab assignment after a second Tommy John surgery.
Join Tom & Laurie as they share their decades-old love of the Languedoc with Brian, who quickly learns that castle-climbing in the Pyrénées is just as much a part of vacation as relaxing with a glass of chilled rosé.
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Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders Annual Report 2007 - Niger
|International Federation for Human Rights
|Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders
|Publication Date
|19 June 2008
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|International Federation for Human Rights, Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders Annual Report 2007 - Niger, 19 June 2008, available at: http://www.refworld.org/docid/486466757.html [accessed 29 May 2016]
|This is not a UNHCR publication. UNHCR is not responsible for, nor does it necessarily endorse, its content. Any views expressed are solely those of the author or publisher and do not necessarily reflect those of UNHCR, the United Nations or its Member States.
Political context
In 2007, Niger witnessed an appeasement of its social situation, particularly following the signing in February 2007 of a comprehensive agreement putting an end to the severe food crisis of 2005, which had led to a surge in prices and a profound economic and social crisis, as a result of financial adjustment measures decided by the authorities.1 The agreement was signed by the Government of Niger and the Coalition Against the High Cost of Living (Coalition contre la vie chère), which gathers associations from civil society, under the direction of the National Commission for Social Dialogue (Commission nationale de dialogue social – CNDS). Several essential goods and services, such as water, electricity, health care, gas and fuel, experienced increases in price, sometimes up to 50% of the original cost.
However, February 2007 also saw the creation of an armed group, the Nigerian Movement for Justice (Mouvement des Nigériens pour la justice – MNJ), which calls for the respect of the 1995 agreements signed by the Government2 and a better distribution of wealth, including income from uranium, as well as accompanying measures for families displaced because of the exploitation of the uranium deposits. The MNJ has carried out several attacks on Government targets in the north of the country, and clashes with security forces have resulted in numerous deaths. In addition, the Nigerian army has been reportedly responsible for numerous summary executions of civilians during reprisals to attacks by the MNJ.
The year 2007 was also marked by an upsurge in attacks on freedom of expression. The conflict zone in the Agadez region has been forbidden for journalists since August 2007, and several foreign and local journalists who have attempted to obtain and disseminate information on the rebellion have been arrested this year. For example, Mr. Moussa Kaka, a correspondent for Radio France Internationale and Director of the privately owned Radio Saraouniy, has been detained since September 20, 2007. He is accused of "complicity in plotting against the authority of the State" for having had regular contacts with the MNJ. Another journalist, Mr. Ibrahim Manzo Diallo, Editor of the bimonthly private publication Aïr Info, published in Agadez, was also indicted on October 29 for "criminal association" because of his alleged links with the rebellion. In late 2007, he was still detained in the Agadez civil prison.
Impossibility to denounce violations taking place in the northern conflict
In Niger, non-governmental organisations that denounce the serious human rights violations caused by the conflict and call for peace through negotiations instead of a military solution suffered threats and intimidation. Thus, throughout August 2007, the Niger Association for the Defence of Human Rights (Association nigérienne pour la défense des droits de l'Homme – ANDDH) and its leaders, as well as several other members of human rights organisations, such as Alternative Citizens' Spaces (Alternative espaces citoyens), the Collective of Organisations Defending Human Rights and Promoting Democracy (Collectif des organisations de défense des droits de l'Homme et de promotion de la démocratie – CODDHD), the Network of Development Agencies and Organisations of Defence of Human Rights and Democracy (Réseau des organisations de développement et de défense des droits de l'Homme et de la démocratie – RODDAD), the Collective of Organisations Defending the Right to Energy (Collectif des organisations de défense du droit à l'énergie – CODAE), the Coalition for Transparency in the Extractive Industries "Publish What You Pay," (Coalition pour la transparence dans les industries extractives "publiez ce que vous payez") and the Network of Organisations for Transparency and Fiscal Analysis (Réseau des organisations pour la transparence et l'analyse budgétaire ROTAB), received threatening e-mails from unidentified authors.
The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders is a joint programme of the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT) and the International Federation of Human Rights (FIDH).
1 Accusations of State responsibility for the surge in prices in 2005 resulted in repression against protest leaders, notably through arbitrary detention and acts of harassment against some of them.
2 The Peace Agreements of 1995 put an end to the revolt of the first rebellions of the 1990s in the north. They provided for the socio-economic reintegration of the Tuareg and the priority hiring of indigenous local mining companies as well as the redistribution of income from mining in the region.


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Joe Pike started as the sidekick in Robert Crais' crime novels, but he's the main guy again in the new book "The Sentry." Crais will be at Warwick's Monday at 7:30 p.m. for a signing. He answered questions recently by e-mail.
Q: This is the first time you've followed a Joe Pike novel with another one, keeping Elvis Cole in the wisecracking background. Why did you bring him out front again?
He's back by popular demand! Truth is, I'm fascinated by Joe Pike and never get tired of discovering more about him. The more I write about him, the more I uncover and the more I want to know. My readers feel the same way. They can't get enough of Pike. I believe what Robert Frost says is totally true: "no surprise for the writer, no surprise for the reader." As long as Pike continues to surprise me, I'll keep writing his character.
Q: How do you think Joe Pike has grown over the course of the stories? What has he learned about himself?
A: He's learned that he can make mistakes. He's grown because he knows he's not infallible, and the mistakes he may make — the wrong instincts he may have — will not kill him.
He's learned how deep his friendship with Elvis Cole is, and that loyalty to his friend and giving his word is still his driving force. He's grown because he's allowing himself to feel affection, and possibly more, for a woman.
When we see Joe in the earlier books, it's all too easy to write him off as some sort of stereotype, a double-Y chromosome male character, the ultra-macho man. He's quiet; he's got the sunglasses; he's got the red arrow tats; he dresses the way he dresses; he doesn't say anything and apparently doesn't have a sense of humor, but Joe Pike, outside of Elvis, is a very lonely man.
He doesn't have, at least as far as I've indicated in the books, a regular person in his life. And there must be a part of him that wants that; most of us do want that. In "The Sentry," when he first sees Dru, there's a part of him that sees something in her, and the seeds of a relationship are there. For the first time in any of the books, we see those stirrings in Pike.
Q: Some people view the crime novel as escapist, but you are going for more than that in your books. What kinds of themes and issues (and truths) do you think the genre enables you to tackle?
A: I always want to give my readers a good, entertaining story, but it's vital to me that my characters connect to my readers. I want them to feel emotion, to struggle with the same dilemmas my characters struggle with.
I try to tackle themes, issues and truths that are important to me and might be important to my readers, like how far would we go to save a friend, even when we may not agree with that friend — even when we know he may be hurting himself or endangering us? Elvis Cole is suspicious of the woman Joe Pike is becoming attached to and yet he goes along with it, wants to be there for Joe, to help him out, to save him. Elvis even considers keeping the truth from Joe so Joe can enjoy his feelings for this woman. When is it time to confront a friend with a truth you believe they need to know?
I also deal with isolation and loneliness. Pike spends lots of time alone, trying to figure things out. We all do. We're all scared at one time or another. My fiction is almost always inspired by a character's need or desire to rise above him or herself. No one is perfect and some of us have much adversity in our lives; it is those people who struggle to rise above their nature or background that I find the most interesting and heroic. Another theme is that often things are very different from the way they appear. People aren't necessarily who we think they are.


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It's the time of the year again: H&M launches its Fashion Against Aids collection. The previous ones were already very succesful and could be spotted all over the festival scene and this time is no different. I've got to hand it to you: it makes sense. The clothes have the summer (and festival) vibe written all over them. This time, artists from all over the world were asked to create a collection for a good cause. Twentyfive procent will go directly to international organisations that are focused on the awareness of hiv/aids. So by making a fashion statement, they also want to let us stop and think a bit about this disease and what it does to people. I'm already very excited for this collection to come out, because it's my first time going to a festival this year (Tomorrowland) and I'm also going to South-Africa. This collection has a bit of everything: colorful African decorations, folkloric Inuit designs from Greenland and of course many more. Imagine some dip dye, jeans, fringes and lots of Navajo prints. Oooh, sounds exciting, doesn't it?!
Now, I've got something for you as well. You can also participate in the whole thing by leaving a comment below with your email. You'll receive a personal code with which you can Make out for a good cause. I'm not entirely kidding there. You can join the website, get a sneak peek of the entire collection and expand the community by sharing! You can also post pictures yourself! For every picture of you kissing somebody, $1 gets donated to a good cause. Now, who wants to be an early bird?
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All-in-all, I'd rate this a very successful trip. Between some luck (being right on the canopy bridge at the moment a sloth was climbing down from his perch in the tree tops -- and they often only come down once a week!) and the skill of our various guides (again, our eagled-eyed river safari guide and our brave and well-practiced night hike guide), we were fortunate on a relatively short trip to see many creatures that some travelers have missed despite exploring for longer periods of time.
I found the timing, locations, and variety of activities to be well-suited for family travel. While it was just my eight-year old son and me, I had no difficulties throughout the trip. There was some time spent in transit a few of the days, but never so long that my son got overly bored or antsy -- he was usually looking at the scenery or reading up on the creatures we expected to find on our next stop.
The educational portions of the trip were also well-suited for all ages. On each hike, every member of the group learned something. And the education often overlapped with adventure! Having a mix of boats, buses, rafts, and hikes definitely kept things interesting, and allowed us to explore different types of terrain.
Of course, choices had to be made. Due to our limited amount of time, we chose this particular itinerary as being the best introduction to Costa Rica for my son, even though we knew he would necessarily miss out on some of Costa Rica's other pleasures, such as the Central Pacific and Nicoya beaches and the Monteverde cloud forest. Based on all that we did and saw, I think we made the right choice, and now we've left ourselves more to do and see when we return to this gorgeous country.


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Hey guys,
I have got my brothers old bike (a 1996 gemini mountain bike, which I fitted with thin knobless tires), this afternoon I rode 7 k's (sorry about the nomenclature I know most of you work with miles, but I live in Sydney, Australia).
Anyway, I was thinking of ways to get into training and being able to perform the ride easily. The ride took me 26 minutes with an average speed of 16K's. It is a pretty flat ride but theres a killer hill at the end (short but real steep).
I'm thinking that the water in my bottle won't do and am thinking of ways to make my own... The electrolytes in the sports drinks?? are they just normal table salt?? This might be a stupid question but is it?? Could I add a bit of apple juice (for flavour) to some water and add some salt and there I go ??????
I am going to be getting a Trek FX 7.0 (or 7.3) for my 21st off my partner so i will be moving up from this old bike that makes bad noises (I think its the chain, it clicks rapidly when I pedal??)
So how would a training regime look to get into riding? like frequency and intensity??? I pushed myself the whole way with only 2 sets of stop lights to have breaks at.


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Woman guilty of murdering boyfriend kept his body in a bin for 11 days
16:34 09 November 2012
A woman who killed her boyfriend and kept his body in a wheelie bin in her bedroom for 11 days is facing life in prison.
Karen Otmani, 42, was found guilty today at the Old Bailey of murdering Shaun Corey, also 42.
After doping his beer, Otmani tied him to her bed before smothering him at her home in Stanstead Road, Forest Hill, on June 4, last year.
Otmani then hid the body in a green bin for 11 days before a police search revealed what she had done, the court heard.
She had been talking about getting rid of her on-off lover and had even asked another boyfriend to experiment with some blue liquid to see if it would knock him out.
Bobbie Cheema, prosecuting, told the jury: "When she began to speak about killing Mr Corey, he did not take it seriously."
Mr Corey was heard arguing with Otmani in her bedroom before they were joined by Bernard Beddoe, 60, who she called uncle.
New boyfriend Keith Jones rang police after visiting the flat and being told 'He's in there'.
Miss Cheema said: "She said she'd measured her freezer but it was too small and she needed to get another freezer."
The court heard Otmani told officers: "I killed him. He freaked me out and I killed him."
Otmani was remanded in custody for sentencing on Monday. Beddoe, of Brockley, south London, was found guilty of assisting an offender and was remanded for reports to December 7.


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I would like produce a list of merge candidates between two branches that includes the changeset comments in a format that I can copy paste in an email.
I know I can do this tf command:
tf merge /candidate $/Branch1 $/Branch2
Which returns something this:
Changeset Author Date
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22282 developer1 08/09/2012
22354 developer2 08/14/2012
22361 developer2 08/14/2012
22365 developer2 08/14/2012
22381 developer3 08/15/2012
However, I'd like to get the comments as well. The Merge Wizard does something similar when doing a "Selected changesets" merge. Here is an example:
I was thinking that I might be able to combine
tf merge /candidate in some way with this command:
tf changeset /noprompt 12345
Which outputs something like this:
Changeset: 12345
User: developer1
Date: Thursday, August 09, 2012 5:20:01 PM
Completed various things
merge, edit $/Branch1/BreakFreely.asmx.vb
merge, edit $/Branch1/FreelyBroken.vb
Work Items:
ID Type State Assigned To Title
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21406 Sprint Backlog Task Done JoDeveloper1 Fix various things
Check-in Notes:
Code Reviewer:
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In short, my desired outcome is something like this:
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22282 developer1 08/09/2012 Fixed random stuff
22354 developer2 08/14/2012 Fixed specific stuff
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A nice review of the Wilson Custom Ammunition .38 Super offerings on the web's most comprehensive spot for .38 Super testing info.
I just had 2 of my LW Pros in 9mm converted to .38 Supers. Just learning this cartridge as I have always been a .45 guy. The only problem I am encountering is that the Wilson 115 TAC-XP has caused a few stoppage when the bullet nose-dives into the feed ramp. It is very expensive ammo so I have not shot it extensively but just enough to not really trust it for carry ammo. That is really too bad as it is scary accurate and hits hard with great penetration. I am wondering if this is more a problem of the semi-rimmed case rather than the bullet. I have some of the Wilson 124 Hornady XTP coming and will see if it has the same issue. If anyone has any thoughts on this I would appreciate hearing them.


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Six or so of the missing 38 Studios investor letters have surfaced, according to the Providence Journal. The documents provide new information about all of the different companies and organizations that backed the bonds that funded the $75 million loan to 38 Studios.
Investors included the Attorney's Liability Protection Society, the South Dakota State University Endowment Foundation and the Wells Fargo Corporation Pension Plan. The letters signed on their behalf by their portfolio managers, highlight that they were each "sufficiently knowledgeable and experienced in financial and business matters, including the purchase and ownership of taxable bonds, to be able to evaluate the risks and merits of the investment."
The letters also acknowledged that these agents were"able to bear the economic risks of an investment in the bonds… [and] withstand without material injury a complete loss of investment in the bonds."
These letters were required as part of the bond sale and copies of each were supposed to go to 10 entities, including two securities firms, five law firms and 38 Studios. One copy was also supposed to go to the state's Economic Development Corporation (now known as the Rhode Island Commerce Corporation), but the agency was unable to produce them until this week.
On Monday, just before a State House hearing on House Oversight chairwoman Karen MacBeth's legislation to prohibit repayment of the 38 Studios "moral obligation bonds," the letter were delivered.
According to the Providence Journal report, the following firms made these investments in the bonds: The Attorneys Liability Protection Society ($500,000), Pitt County Memorial Hospital ($400,000), South Dakota State University Endowment Foundation ($150,000), George Gund Foundation ($200,000), Minnesota Lawyers Mutual Insurance Company ($500,000), Mayo Foundation General Fund ($500,000), Germantown Mutual Insurance Company ($250,000), Ohio Indemnity ($500,000), Cape Fear Valley Health System ($500,000), Acuity ($1 million) and the Wells Fargo Corporation Pension Plan ($500,000).
The bonds were sold in three blocks totaling $75 million and paid interest ranging from 6 to 7.75 percent annually.
The Providence Journal report contains the documents in question, which you can read for yourself here.


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Cooks racked up more than 100 yards receiving on just a handful of receptions, highlighted by a twisting, falling catch of a deep pass from second-year reserve quarterback Ryan Griffin.
Later, Griffin found Cooks along the sideline, and the Saints' top draft pick stopped suddenly to elude a defender before sprinting about 30 yards to the end zone.
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We are so lucky to live in (or visit) Pasadena! To see a comedic play in this grand, historic theater with actors of this caliber, and written by such a notable playwright is nothing short of AMAZING! On top of all that, every seat in the theater is good and Pasadena Playhouse has "rush" tickets (about $20) one hour before the show.
The play explores the nature and limits of both art and friendship. It makes us laugh the entire time. The audience is totally engaged in the 90 minute show. Go to enjoy yourself as well as support the actors and the theater. Frankly, I want to go a second time because the dialogue is so dense and provocative.


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Anyone seen this movie? Looks pretty decent.
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Saw it a couple weeks ago. I was a little skeptical but it ended up being pretty good.
It was you basic "mutant" story, good special effects. We liked it. When I first saw the trailer it reminded me of Marvel Runaways which I thought was maybe going to get made into a movie
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Watching the trailer, it reminded me of Meteor Man. Couple of people find a meteor, its got power, it gives them powers and then a battle breaks out. Only Meteor Man was probably better.
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Saw it a couple weeks ago. I was a little skeptical but it ended up being pretty good.
Yeah i just saw it and it started out very slowly, for about 15 mins. It did a good job of showing What kids would do in real life if they ever did aquire super powers especially the messed up kid. It makes sense. I didnt like the ending but i enjoyed the movie.
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During the month of June the city of McDonough sponsored a Wellness ride in the city with the Mayor attending several times. With the encouragement of Epic Bikes in McDonough we would like to continue these types of rides. These are primarily for beginners and intermediates but all are welcome. We don't have a location for the first ride but are working on that and a date. We would like to have the first ride in a couple of weeks. These rides are designed to encourage new and inexperienced riders to continue cycling. We want this to become a regular thing and would like the support of riders in the community.


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I have a class
Polygon on which I wish to implement two iterators: one to run through all elements (vertices and edges in alternating order) just ONCE, and another to run through them ad infinitum (cyclically).
From a for-each usage standpoint, my guess is that I am only going to be able to have one of the above be the default iterator that can be used with for-each, via implementation of
Iterable.iterator(). Is this correct? Or is there a way I could use for-each with both?


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TUSCALOOSA, Ala. -- The University of Iowa softball team, off to its best start in three years, arrived in Tuscaloosa, Ala., Thursday for the Bama Bash. No. 1 Alabama is hosting the tournament, which features the Crimson Tide -- the defending national champions -- the Hawkeyes, Winthrop and Western Illinois.
The Hawkeyes, fresh off a title at the Lovelace Invitational, open tournament play on Friday against Winthrop at 1:30 p.m. Iowa continues action later that night against Alabama (6 p.m.). The Hawkeyes will face the same two teams on Saturday. Iowa and the Eagles will meet at 11 a.m., and the Hawkeyes and Crimson Tide will face off at 1:30 p.m.
Iowa concludes action Sunday against Western Illinois. First pitch is set for 11 a.m. All times are Central and all five games will be held at Alabama's Rhoads Stadium.
The Crimson Tide are a highlight on the Hawkeye schedule that includes 13 teams that advanced to the NCAA Tournament a season ago.
"We have tried to schedule tougher competition, because that is the only way we are going to be better," said UI head coach Marla Looper. "When you are facing the defending national champions in Alabama this weekend, that is how we get better. We play the best, if we can beat the best, then we can become the best and people want to play us. That is what I expect of our program from this point forward and that is why we have these teams on our schedule."
The Hawkeyes will play 10 teams that are ranked or receiving votes in the USA Today/Division I Top 25 Poll -- Alabama (No. 1), Missouri (No. 7), Louisiana-Lafayette (No. 12), Michigan (No. 15), Louisville (No. 18), Stanford (No. 20), Kentucky (No. 21), North Carolina (RV), Ohio State (RV) and Oregon State (RV). Iowa went 1-1 against the Ragin' Cajuns during the opening weekend (Feb. 8-10).
The win over the Cajuns marked Iowa's first over a ranked opponent since it defeated No. 23 Oklahoma State last year, 5-3, on March 3. No. 11 Louisiana-Lafayette is the highest-ranked team the Hawkeyes have defeated since winning at No. 1 Michigan on April, 23, 2011.
Upon arrival in Tuscaloosa, the Hawkeyes were able to utilize time in the batting cages at Rhoads Stadium.
"We were able to get some cardio in early," said Looper. "We got some swings and throws in and got a feel for the field a little bit in the outfield. We also got a feel for the environment. It will be different with people in the stands, but it is nice to get into a nice facility and get some work done."
The Hawkeyes left Iowa City via bus in effort to stay ahead of the impending storm.
"The bus ride is better than being stuck in an airport somewhere," said Looper. "We were fortunate to be able to get out of town before the storm hit. It was good bonding time for the team. Mentally, we are ready to go for the weekend."
Hawkeye fans can follow the Iowa softball team on social media platforms Twitter (@iowasoftball) and Facebook (facebook.com/iowahawkeyessoftball). Game updates will be tweeted during each game. Fans can also follow the action at hawkeyesports.com, where live stats (Gametracker) will be available.


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In Saturday's Austin American-Statesman, music scene reporter Michael Corcoran's lengthy feature story was about Too Smooth, who "could pack the 1,500-capacity Armadillo World Headquarters three nights in a row during its 1974-1979 heyday, and yet, because they weren't part of the romanticized outlaw country, psychedelic rock or electric blues revival scenes, they've become almost forgotten excepting a small, yet devoted cult called the Smoothies."
Guitarist Brian Wooten and bassist Danny Swinney, both from Beeville, played and meshed well with guitarist Jeff Clark and drummer Tom Holden.
The band, which never got its lucky break despite signing with several recording labels, broke up in 1981 without ever releasing an album.
Corcoran noted that Too Smooth formed in 1973, when Wooten replaced Stevie Ray Vaughan in Stump, which also featured Clark and Holden.
"The band's new harder rock sound, solidified with the addition of bassist Swinney, Wooten's best friend from Beeville in South Texas, necessitated a name change," he added.
Too Smooth, which was noted for its dual lead guitar sound, long improvisations and tight harmonies, regularly filled Austin nightspots such as Mother Earth and the Armadillo, as well as other venues in Dallas, San Antonio and even the old American Legion Hall and coliseum in Beeville.
According to the article, "When touring acts such as Golden Earring, Ted Nugent and Lynyrd Skynyrd made their initial forays into Austin, the Armadillo bookers would put Too Smooth as the opening act to ensure a full house."
As the band neared its end, Swinney quit to join Christopher Cross on the road in 1980. Clark and Wooten formed 14K, a cover band, which lasted about six years. Then, Wooten moved to Nashville, where he played guitar on several best-selling Christian rock albums (Petra, Whiteheart) before joining the road band of country singer Trace Atkins five years ago.
Meanwhile, Swinney is doing well with cover band Suede, which plays '80s hits from such groups as Journey and Boston. Suede reportedly packs Cedar Street Courtyard in Austin every Thursday night when not on tour with comedian George Lopez.
However, Too Smooth has come back together for several special reunions. According to their website, they are planning another one in February 2011, this time for a CD release celebration. After more than three decades, the band members will finally debut their first CD.


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This is a contrived example that illustrates a problem I've encountered. Basically, I create a vector of objects, then a vector of pointers to the objects, then print the pointers and the dereferenced objects.
#include <vector>
#include <iostream>
using namespace std;
namespace {
struct MyClass {
int* MyInt;
MyClass(int* i) : MyInt(i) {}
struct MyBigClass {
vector<MyClass> AllMyClassRecords; // Where I keep the MyClass instances
vector<int> TheInts;
void loadMyClasses();
void readMyClasses();
MyBigClass() {}
void MyBigClass::loadMyClasses() {
for (int i = 0; i < 10; ++i) {
TheInts.push_back(i); // Create an int
int *j = &TheInts[TheInts.size() - 1]; // Create a pointer to the new int
AllMyClassRecords.push_back(MyClass(j)); // Create a MyClass using pointer
void MyBigClass::readMyClasses() {
for (vector<MyClass>::iterator it = AllMyClassRecords.begin();
it != AllMyClassRecords.end(); ++it)
cout << it->MyInt << " => " << *(it->MyInt) << endl;
int main() {
MyBigClass MBC;
Basically, I want to create a vector of pointers to another vector of ints. The problem is that this code prints out the following:
0x97ea008 => 159293472
0x97ea02c => 1
0x97ea040 => 2
0x97ea044 => 3
0x97ea078 => 4
0x97ea07c => 5
0x97ea080 => 6
0x97ea084 => 7
0x97ea0d8 => 8
0x97ea0dc => 9
It appears to work as expected except for the first value, which is likely some garbage in memory. Why is only the first value affected? If my code is broken, why is it only broken for the first pointer inserted?
Update: I'm compiling this using
g++ on Ubuntu. As far as specifically what I'm doing, I'm creating a compiler analysis pass. The
MyClass objects hold information about instructions, which I want to update when I locate certain registers. The register number indexes a vector of vectors, so a particular register number will have a vector of
MyClass*s. Thus, if a register is found, any
MyClass pointers in the vector will be used to update the
MyClass object held in the separate
MyClass vector. Because I'm accumulating both instruction info stored in
MyClass objects and register info which must follow
MyClass pointers, I can't create the entire
MyClass vector first without creating a separate pass, which I'd like to avoid.
Update2: Now with pictures...
Pass Progress inserts... InstRecs (TheInt) and updates... UpdatePtrs (MyClass)
---------------------- ------------------ -----------------------
| => I1: Uses r0, r1 | | InstRec for I1 | | r0: InstRec for I1* |
| I2: Uses r0, r2 | ------------------ | r1: InstRec for I1* |
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First the pass inserts an InstRec with info about I1. It also creates pointers to this new InstRec indexed by register number. r0 here is actually a vector of one element that points to the InstRec for I1, so that if r0 is ever encountered again in a subsequent instruction, InstRec for I1 will be updated.
Pass Progress inserts... InstRecs (TheInt) and updates... UpdatePtrs (MyClass)
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| I1: Uses r0, r1 | | InstRec for I1 | | r0: InstRec for I1* |
| => I2: Uses r0, r2 | | InstRec for I2 | | InstRec for I2* |
---------------------- ------------------ | r1: InstRec for I1* |
| r2: InstRec for I2* |
Similarly, the second entry will be inserted into InstRecs and pointers will be added to the UpdatePtrs structure. Since I2 uses r0, another InstRec pointer is pushed to the r0 vector. Not shown is this: when it is detected that I2 uses r0, the pass looks in the UpdatePtrs structure at the r0 vector of pointers, follows each pointer to their InstRec entry, and updates the InstRec with new info.
Hopefully that makes what I'm trying to do a little bit clearer. I've implemented the suggestion first proposed by @MerickOWA of using InstRec vector indices rather than InstRec pointers (since once the InstRecs are added to the array, they never move), and it seems to be working now.


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When I interviewed women who had survived breast cancer for my art project The Woman Inside, I noticed that they all shared one remarkable thing in common.
They had all faced down death and decided to live every day like it might be their last. And then they all beat cancer.
The more interviews I did, the more I noticed that these women were living differently than most of the people I knew who had not been diagnosed with cancer. Here's what I learned from those survivor women. Learning these lessons changed my life, and I hope they'll change yours.
1. Be unapologetically YOU. People who survive cancer get feisty. They walk around bald in shopping malls and roll their eyes if people look at them funny. They say what they think. They laugh often. They don't make excuses. They wear purple muumuus when they want to.
2. Don't take shit from people. People who survive cancer stop trying to please everybody. They give up caring what everybody else thinks. If you might die in a year anyway (and every single one of us could), who gives a flip if your Great Aunt Gertrude is going to cut you out of her will unless you kiss her ass?
3. Learn to say no. People with cancer say no when they don't feel like going to the gala. They avoid gatherings when they'd prefer to be alone. They don't let themselves get pressured into doing things they really don't want to do.
4. Get angry. Then get over it. People who survive cancer get in your face. They question you. They feel their anger. They refuse to be doormats. They demand respect. They feel it. Then they forgive. They let go. They surrender. They don't stay pissed. They release resentment.
5. Don't obsess about beauty. People who survive cancer no longer worry about whether they have perfect hair, whether their makeup looks spotless, or whether their boobs are perky enough. They're happy just to have boobs (if they still do). They're happy to be alive in their skin, even if it's wrinkled.
6. Do it now. Stop deferring happiness. People who survive cancer realize that you can't wait until you kick the bucket to do what you're dying to do. Quit that soul-sucking job now. Leave that deadbeat husband. Prioritize joy. They live like they mean it.
7. Say "I love you" often. People who survive cancer leave no words left unspoken. You never know when your time is up. Don't risk having someone you love not know it.
8. Take care of your body. People who survive cancer have a whole new appreciation for health. Those who haven't been there may take it for granted. So stop smoking. Eat healthy. Drink in moderation. Maintain a healthy weight. Avoid putting toxic poisons in your God Pod. Get enough sleep.
9. Prioritize freedom. People who survive cancer know that being a workaholic isn't the answer. Money can't buy health. Security doesn't matter if you're six feet under. Sixteen hours a day of being a stress monster is only going to make you sick. As Tim Ferriss writes in The 4-Hour Workweek, "Gold is getting old. The New Rich are those who abandon the deferred-life plan and create luxury lifestyles in the present using the currency of the New Rich: time and mobility."
10.Take risks. People who survive cancer have faced their fear and told it to go to hell. They know life is for living. Fear is powerless. And joy lies in taking risks. So go sky diving if you want. Bungee jump. Hang glide. Spend your savings. Live like you might die tomorrow.
Are you doing these things? Or are you waiting for cancer to test out how much you want to live?
Don't wait for cancer, my love. Don't tempt the Universe that way.
Be brave enough to live NOW.
Unapologetically and fearlessly living for today,
Lissa Rankin, MD: Founder of OwningPink.com, Pink Medicine Revolutionary, motivational speaker, and author of What's Up Down There? Questions You'd Only Ask Your Gynecologist If She Was Your Best Friend and Encaustic Art: The Complete Guide To Creating Fine Art With Wax.
I absolutely LOVE this article. My sister-in-law is in the midst of breast cancer and it's been tough. Your words are inspiring, uplifting, and will help both women with and without cancer see through the fog! I would be honored if I could repost your article on my blog (http://secretsofmoms.com/) as a guest post from you with your picture, bio, and link back to your site. Please email me at firstname.lastname@example.com if you are interested. Thank you! Awesome post.
Oh, I love this article!!! I am a younger person, according to some people, but I so get it. I try to live it. It is funny how when you "get it" other people give you weird looks. Well, take those weird looks and dodge them away. Cancer or no cancer, or you know someone who is going through cancer, take these lessons and fly!!!! And while you're at it, go help someone else!!
Yes, anger should only be used to direct change. If you thrive in anger, that alone can be a killer, and/or make any condition worse.
So, go get'em tiger!!! xo
Hi Lissa:
I totally forgot that you asked me awhile back in another post how I survived cancer! And, I never responded. Well, I will here. I will give you the short version, and if you want more, send me an email. This Sept. 17 will be my 10 year cancer free date! I am so excited. I had breast cancer, which was discovered about 5 months after my mom died from ovarian cancer. My father had also died from cancer when I was the young age of 13. So, needless to say, I was ANGRY!! You are right; when a person has cancer, they are angry. At least, that was my predominant response. I was pissed. I was pissed that cancer had taken both parents, and pissed that I had it then. It was NOT going to get me!! In that state, my anger made me brave, and I chose to only have a lumpectomy, and refused all other standard treatment. I chose to get healthy through the help of my chiropractor and a lot of my own research. I changed my diet, (yes, health becomes so much more important) and attitude, and voila! Here I am. Not only did I survive, but I am thriving. Grateful to be here.
Oh. Wow. I don't think I've ever had such an overpowering reaction to words as I did to: "Are you doing these things? Or are you waiting for cancer to test out how much you want to live? Don't wait for cancer, my love. Don't tempt the Universe that way.
Be brave enough to live NOW."
This year, a very close friend of mine was diagnosed with breast cancer. Happily she is now recovering but her diagnosis was part of what has been pushing me to live my dream of moving to London for 6 months. Lately though I've been wavering, feeling trapped in the fears and worries that surround that decision. Reading what you just wrote was more powerful than I can even describe. A true kick in the backside. And uncanny that you posted it today and I stumbled across your link placed in my favourites probably over a year ago. I never browse through my favourites. Huh. Maybe the universe is trying to tell me something... Thank you for your amazing words.
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