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Director Tom Tykwer (Run Lola Run) is everything you would expect him to be, if you're familiar with his films. German, impeccably groomed, dressed all in black, he is fierce and passionate. He appears relaxed at first, but then you realize that's just a well-practiced cover for the nervous energy underneath, which comes springing out unleashed when he gets talking enthusiastically about something -- like his latest film, the bizarre, dark fable Perfume: The Story of a Murderer, adapted by Tykwer from the enormously popular Patrick Süskind book of the same title. Tykwer was in town recently on a press tour for his film, and sat down with Cinematical to chat about the intricacies of making a film about scent. p>
Cinematical: I wanted to talk first about what drew you to this story and adapting the book into a film.
Tom Tykwer: Well, I'd read the book when it first came out, I was 20, maybe younger. And I had a strong memory about the intensity of the novel, and the graphic nature of it. I had forgotten about some of the subplots, and then I reread it when I was approached to adapt and direct it, and there was so much I found that attracted me to it, that it was almost a continuation of what I had been doing before. It is, at its core, about a person who is very lonely, who is trying very hard to be somebody, who is trying to find some kind of recognition, and is ready to break all kinds of rules to get that. And that's something that feels very familiar to me, you know, from other heroes of my stories that are all in similar situations. And what they're all looking for, really, in the end, is some sort of redemption through love. And either they get it or they don't – in this case, he ... miscalculates a bit.
I love that I could have this very personal relationship, this identification with the character of Grenouille. And at the same time of course, the way the story goes and of course the period of the piece, were completely alarming challenges.
I had never done a period piece before, I'd never been involved with costume dramas and such. And also because in most cases, this life, 18th century, 17th century films -- in aesthetic terms, so often you feel like they are presenting to you the production design; the people are wearing costumes that don't look or feel at all as if they've been really living in them, they are just wearing them like marionettes, like puppets. I hate that.
Cinematical: I didn't get that sense from this film. The design felt quite authentic.
TT: That was a major, major struggle, to get it not like that. I said okay, I can complain about those things, but maybe that is a good reason to make the film – to make a film that is not like a bad period drama. The dream that I was having was to get a feeling of a period as if we were in a time machine, as if we'd brought a camera back with us and were just able to shoot it as it was, in a cinema verité style. We're just there.
And we shoot as if it's a modern film, except that of course it is the 18th century. And that is a major effort, as you can imagine. Because when you pan over it, every element has to look like the 18th century. That is the secret of it, and also the secret about why I wanted to do it, and also the secret of the novel. The novel was not about the aristocracy, it was not about the kings and queens, it was 18th century, the lower classes, the dirt and the filth and the stink that they had to live among.
Cinematical: And you captured that very realistically -- there were times watching it when I was thinking, "I'm really glad I didn't live back then."
TT: It was an endless process. And with all the extras of course, we had to be very careful, because they make it real. And so we had to pay attention to every single person's teeth, you have to really get the hair -- I mean, they didn't wash themselves for months, for God's sake. Even with a pan shot, it has to all be there, because you can't have one wrong thing pop out at you to take you out of that time and place. One wrong thing really sticks out. And people don't really analyze that, but they do get it. They'd notice it if it wasn't done right.
Cinematical: The story is so focused on scent, which is not something you can really capture and convey visually. How did you work to bring that theme to life in a visual way?
TT: Well, I always felt the novel was very good at translating his (Grenouille's) addiction to scent. And so I felt like, okay, as the book doesn't smell itself, it's obviously due to the quality of the literature, of the language. And so I felt that it was a wonderful challenge to see what we can do with cinematic language -- to, let's say, describe and embrace someone's perception of the world that goes entirely through the nose. So what we were trying to do was actually achieve a way with camera work and color schemes and everything, to really adapt ... how he perceives everything – when he walks into a room, we pick up these elements. He focuses on the details, dissects them. So rather than just going with a wide shot, we focus on specific elements as he is smelling them, as he's putting together a "note," and then those notes become chords, which slowly become a composition, which then ultimately became a wide shot. So we were working our way through the nose, from the object and the tactileness of all that, to certain idea of how to build up an imagery.
Cinematical: So in structuring the film you basically followed the structure of perfume itself: From note to chord to composition, throughout the film.
TT: Yes, exactly. And also what we were trying to do was to have this guy be our guide through everything, and to be as subjective as possible, because, you know, he's a rather complicated character to follow – which I loved about him, that's he's so difficult to understand and all – but it makes a challenge. So I thought that the whole strategy of the film should be around his energy, that we should follow him all the way through, even when he goes into regions where we are kind of reluctant to follow – when he becomes a murderer, of course.
Cinematical: The whole film was very much from his perspective, his point of view – which is actually the same thing you did with Lola (in Run Lola Run).
TT: Exactly, it is what we always do, we structure around the character.
Cinematical: In Perfume, though, you're dealing with a character with this very complex personality. Did that make it more of a challenge, structuring around a character like Grenouille?
TT: Well, yes, in a way, but that's the fun of it, isn't it? If it was an uninspired, not very complicated person, that would lead to an uninspired, not very diversified style of film, and I am not interested in exploring those kinds of characters.
Cinematical: There are enough uninspiring films out there already.
TT: Exactly. And I really want to investigate characters who I find interesting, and if I don't see a project has that potential, I cannot see myself attached to it. But also what I thought was really fundamentally important to me was music – music really played such a great role in the developing the film. A bit like with Lola, where the music is really the pulse of the film, and you can't really imagine the imagery without the music because the two are so intertwined. It's really kind of one unit, one element. And I felt this was one more kind of material that really asked for this kind of, one unit of music and imagery and sound design in general.
(In) most if not all references to smells (in the film), the music is the one that gets closest to that abstract impression of something which is so much connected with our idea of memories, and how we organize them. We organize them very much through connections, and through the way our memories are triggered .And as we all know, there is a connection between the memory and smell. You capture a smell that becomes a part of you. It can be something like: it has just rained ... and there's the smell of wet vegetation around ... and someone is cooking something that smells good ... and suddenly I'm brought back to a day when I was walking to school as a six-year-old boy -- the way I looked and what I was thinking about and how I felt -- and that was 35 years ago! And this whole emotionality of it is part of the millions of pieces of what my memories are made of. The way in which I organize them, you could say, is who I am.
And so the whole equalization of smell equals identity, this whole concept that Grenouille is so obsessed with, makes sense to everyone when you think of it. And the funny thing is that music is just the same, you know? When you hear a favorite song you haven't heard in twenty years ...
Cinematical: ...it brings you right back.
TT: (laughs) Yes, it does, doesn't it? Three dimensionally, you are suddenly back in that room, where you had your first kiss or what have you, and there's nothing like it! Scent and music, they have this kind of sibling relationship, and that's why I felt from the start that music would be really crucially important to the development of the atmosphere, and the whole texture of the film.
Cinematical: The tone of the film was so set by your musical choices – I especially wanted to talk to you about the choice of music for the sequence where Grenouille murders the majority of his victims. Your choice there was to keep the music very light-hearted, not sinister or dark or spooky, which gives that scene a very different feel emotionally from what you would expect. So I wanted to ask you about how you feel that musical choice reflects what is going on inside Grenouille as he is taking his victims.
TT: Oh, very much so. It was to make it clear, especially for that sequence, that he isn't the kind of killer who – he doesn't get any satisfaction out of the killing. He is a collector of beauty. And he doesn't really – the whole moral implications, and problems of course, once you start thinking about it morally, he is completely unaware of. And what he's doing is, he is completely obsessed with and quite intently working on creating an artistic masterpiece. And these are all elements he is collecting, which are all a part of his ... sculpture of maximum beauty. So they are all like pieces of a sculpture.
Cinematical: And as a part of that, it's about making himself feel like a complete person as well, yes? Because he has no scent of his own.
TT: Yes, but of course what he considers to be complete turns out to be quite tragical. But at the same time, yes, that is what the music does there, to make it like a very inspired "playground" sound there. And that is very much what the music does, is to sort of guide us along his life, and also to introduce the concept of smell by a musical theme. And I was lucky because I could start writing the music right from the start of the script. I was composing the same day I started writing the screenplay. So that whole writing process of script and music was completely parallel.
Cinematical: So it was all very symbiotic, the way in which you built the film?
TT: Yeah, and when you write a script you are investigating structure, and modulation and things like that, and when you write music it is much more about abstract emotion than about the outside world that you are investigating. So if you can develop in parallel, it is perfect really. So if you've written the script and done the music as well, you have a much better idea of what the atmosphere of the film is supposed to be like.
Cinematical: Lets talk about the casting of the film, particularly Alan Rickman and Dustin Hoffman. Were those actors already attached to the film when you started working on it?
TT: No! How could they? I am casting it.
Cinematical: Sometimes it does happen that way, though – a big name actor gets attached to a script before a director comes on board.
TT: No, no. I do not work that way. I have to find the actors during the process of developing the film. I would never be attached if I was not doing the developing. This whole process to me of writing a script, and attaching actors, and then just adding a director – it's completely absurd. That's bullshit! It's bullshit, you know? I'm upset by this whole idea, because it means that it's just like, a regular meal that you are cooking. There are some films, I guess, where you can do that, but not mine. If you are to make a particular movie with a specific voice, a whole language, then you need to be right there. And with the whole crew, I have specific people that I work with.
Cinematical: So for you as a director, it's really crucial to be involved with all elements, from the writing to the design to the music.
TT: Yeah, well, that's for every director, you are always very involved with the production designer. But these guys are people that I've grown up with, I've known them for a long time already. I always work with the same key people on my films, it's kind of like growing up together. So when we work together we already know certain things. And so I insist as a director on having my own team. You can't hire me without my posse. I have never had another DP (director of photography) -- most of the people at the center of my crew, the department heads, have been with me for quite a long time already.
Cinematical: Working that way gives you so much more creative control over your films.
TT: But you are able to work that way, only if you insist upon it. Most people are not strong enough to just insist. You have to just insist and then what can they do? I'm not going to make a movie if I can't bring my people. And either they (studios) don't want to let you do that, or they'll let you do it.
Cinematical: Don't you think there's a tendency in some directors to kind of "sell out," though, and do what the studio wants, just to make a movie?
TT: I feel like that happens, I don't know how often though.
Cinematical: When Run Lola Run came out it did very well in Europe first, and then became a huge hit also in the United States. Perfume also has already done very well in Europe, but the book is more well-known there, and this is a different kind of film – how do you think it will play here?
TT: I have a very good instinct here. Most of my films have done quite well here. Even though there is a cliché about lazy Americans who ultimately look for something convenient and easy to digest, I've had quite the opposite experience. My general feeling now is that audiences here are very open to discovering, as long as what they see is also entertaining. If Perfume is not entertaining, then I don't know what is – it's just also very ... strange and bizarre. But that's the best of both worlds you can get, and I think people will recognize. I really believe that.


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The American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) recently released a policy statement advocating that oncologists engage in candid conversations about prognosis and treatment options with patients suffering from advanced cancer. Published in the January issue of the Journal of Clinical Oncology, the article argues for individualized care entailing realistic conversations not only about prognosis and the risks and benefits of treatments, but also about the patient's preferences, and his or her perspectives on quality of life. In fact, the authors state that "care intended to enhance patients' quality of life should be a priority throughout the disease trajectory of advance cancer." Importantly, the statement makes clear that the option of palliative care should be presented. As the basis for these new recommendations, the authors point to emerging evidence that such conversations take place late in the course of illness or not at all.
In their discussions, the authors refer to studies showing the benefits of palliative care both for patients and their family caregivers. Yet, a preliminary analysis of over 5000 patient records from ASCO's Quality Oncology Practice Initiative found that only 45% of patients had been enrolled in hospice care before they passed away and of these, one-third became enrolled within a week of their deaths.
The source for and the tenor of the recommendations are refreshing, not least in light of the recent politicization of end of life care conversations as part of the health care reform debates. The hope is now that oncologists will become trained to have such conversations and that they will persevere in the face of objections. At the end of the day the purpose of the recommendations is to reduce suffering among patients and their loved ones.
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Being Avant-Garde is one of the most challenging and rewarding things a person who is not comfortable with the exhausting , tedious and limited views of modern culture can do. Few can truly pull it off, but with patience and this guide... you just MAY be able to transcend the soulless masses.
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1Act creative. You don't have to BE creative, but at least act creative. Choose a creative outlet such as a musical instrument or some form of art. You don't need to be good at it, you just need to convince everyone else you are good at it. Abstract painting is a perfect example. Abstract art in all its forms is responsible for most of the avant-garde movements of the century. 95% of the world has no idea what makes a good abstract painting so throwing a bunch of house paint you found in your moms shed at a piece of plywood will fool pretty much anyone you want to use. No matter what anyone says, insist that it is genius.
2Be arrogant. None of this will work unless you are absolutely certain that you are a genius and everyone else is a pathetic child playing in the mud. Your very presence should help elevate them from that mud.
3Wear a very specific and inconvenient style of clothing. For example, 1950's period wear that is accurate and vintage. However, be sure to Avant-Garde it up with something contradictory such as new balances or random paint smears from your latest project. This brings us to our next step.
4Be Contradictory. People often think that people who act contradictory are simply getting insights that are way over their heads. This makes them feel lower than you and convinces them that you are a valuable friend. Again, act certain in your "logical contradiction" or they'll just think you're a poser.
5Laugh at people who say you are a poser and then tell your friends that its sad that they'll never understand. Then (smiling to yourself) write something in a small journal you should ALWAYS be carrying and not show anyone what it is. For all they know, it could be some deep insight on humanity.
6Go to a college somewhere for something pointless and completely unmarketable. Justify this by saying you are seeking an "Honest existence". Again, art is a great bet as many lower end art schools will take almost anyone and art school is super fun. (Most people not involved with the art world won't be able to tell the various art schools apart anyway.) Other good majors are English, Music, History and of course Philosophy. You don't really need to graduate, as you can say the college environment was too "oppressive".
7Make Avant_Garde friends. Even if you are into the loner aesthetic it is good to have a few Avant -Garde friends to throw paint at walls and have orgies with. This is easily done within your major at afore mentioned college. Arguing about your theories is a must, but NEVER call into question their Avant-Garde nature in itself. The fact that you are avant-garde together is a pillar of your friendship. As is maintaining the facade that you are an exclusive social group of intelligentsia.
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The latest episode of Eurogamer's EGTV show is entitled The Videogames Election and scrutinizes just how important—and necessary, perhaps—government support is to the UK games industry.
The piece features interviews with pro-game MP Tom Watson, ELSPA's Michael Rawlinson, Peter Molyneux of Lionhead Studios, EA Sports President Peter Moore and TIGA's Richard Wilson, among others.
Rawlinson took time in the piece to note a toning down in the anti-game rhetoric from MP Keith Vaz, who reacted some years ago to the UK's Manhunt tragedy with a call to ban all violent videogames. When responding to the violent scene from Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, Vaz wanted to ensure that the game could not fall into the hands of children, to which Rawlinson replied, "That's our message."
The UK's historic contribution to the beginning of game development is covered as well, sandwiched around segments that lament the UK's current free-fall among countries producing games. By some accounts, the UK now ranks fourth in the world, behind the U.S. Japan and Canada.
Eurogamer visited developer David Braben of Frontier Developments, who stated:
We (the UK) essentially led the world right at the start… A lot of the people I know from then are still in the industry and are still doing very well, but they are in California, they are in Montreal… they are all around the world. Very few have stayed in the UK.
Watson questioned the British Broadcasting Corporation's commitment to gaming, noting that it has spent a billion pounds on their websites since 1994, adding, "They could have breathed life into a lot of small game companies." He continued, "I'm not blaming the BBC, because all this is new and fast moving."
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It's spring break in our house this week, and in honor of the fact that I'm feeling lazy and out of my regular routine, I've decided to take a cue from television sitcom writers, and do a blog version of a flashback episode. You know what I'm talking about; those shows where all of the characters sit around and reminisce about the good old days, a/k/a a bunch of two-minute clips pulled from past seasons. My version, however, isn't nearly as lame. I'm actually writing a full post, it's just that it is about prior posts that I've written, and how some of the issues/problems I wrote about were or were not resolved. Now that I think about it, this is actually not akin to a sitcom flashback at all, but rather, more like a reality tv "reunion" show, where the characters all get together and talk about what they've been doing since they got voted off. Well, okay, maybe it's not quite like that, either. Actually, I may be creating an entire new genre here. Cool.
Anyway, in case you were wondering, here's the update, presented to you in a neat, commercial-free, bullet-point format.
• Believe it or not, Seashell the goldfish (Seashell III, for those of you who were counting) is still alive. Let me tell you, that is one resilient goldfish. I had no idea that fish could go entire weeks without eating. (See Life, Death and Seashell the Goldfish, July 2006)
• Bitch from my daughter's preschool class last year is still not speaking to me or acknowledging my presence. But thanks to the excellent advice I received from many of you, it doesn't upset me anymore. I think it's funny, actually. I especially like to go up to her with a huge smile on my face, and say "Hi, Bitch" in a really loud, really cheery tone of voice, and then watch how uncomfortable she becomes as she tries to ignore me. It's awesome. (See The Bitch and Big Daddy, Feb. 2008)
• I totally caved on the gun thing. My son is now the proud owner of a Power Rangers Operation Overdrive Drive Blaster, which can become both a gun and a knife with just the touch of a button. (See Guns but No Roses, Dec. 2007)
• We're one month into the new food rules in our house, and although my daughter and I don't fight about food anymore, her dinners often consist of breadsticks, or rice, or plain pasta, or fruit. I don't say anything to her, but I am more stressed out than ever, and wondering if I am doing the right thing. (See Food Fight, March 2008).
• Notes From the Underbelly, Season 3…it's not looking good, people. The timing of the strike was unfortunate, the ratings were more unfortunate. There are still eight or nine episodes that haven't aired, but I don't know if they will. If you were a fan, I guess you could start a letter writing campaign. (See Notes From the Underbelly is Back, October 2007)
I'd just like to offer support...stick with the food thing for your daughter. She WILL get sick of the "brown diet" eventually. One day, you'll catch her eating a raw vegetable or something equally shocking. On that day, you can smile quietly to yourself while inwardly shouting, "Yessssssssssssssss!"
Ha, thank you Risa! As far as your daughter's diet goes, just make sure she gets some protein every other day and she's fine. I'm on the same diet right now (thank you pregnancy sickness all the time) and my doc said it's all good! :) I'm sorry about Notes - I have all of Season 2 on my DVR and hubby & I watch it together. He likes to know I'm not the only crazy pregnant lady in the entire world. (Ha) Well, thanks again for the update :) Can't wait to read next week's blog.


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JACKSON, Miss. -- Instead of focusing on preparations for their season-opening contest versus Southern Miss, scheduled for Sunday, Sept. 4 in Hattiesburg, and the first day of classes, the Tulane Green Wave football team spent its first full day in its evacuation home of Jackson, Miss., Monday, awaiting news on the situation in New Orleans and taking advantage of the hospitality offered by Jackson State University.
At approximately 10:30 a.m. Sunday, members of the Tulane women's soccer and football teams, their coaches and other athletics department personnel, boarded buses and vans for Jackson, Miss. where arrangements had been made by Tulane University officials for both teams, as well as nearly 400 other students and staff from Tulane, to wait out Hurricane Katrina in safety.
The Green Wave caravan arrived in Jackson, usually a three-hour trip, nearly 10 hours later, at 8:30 p.m. Sunday. Later that evening, the Tulane players were able to shake off the travel fatigue with a workout on the field turf at Millsaps College.
On Monday morning, Hurricane Katrina made landfall perilously close to the center of New Orleans, even ripping holes in the roof of Tulane's home stadium, the Louisiana Superdome, which was set up as a temporary "shelter of last resort" for people unable to observe the mandatory evacuation order. Meanwhile, even as power went out in Jackson as Katrina passed through, the Green Wave went through a lively indoor workout in the Wave's makeshift home in the T.B. Ellis Gymnasium on the Jackson State campus.
In addition to the workout, Tulane student-athletes passed the time playing basketball, tossing the football, playing cards, doing puzzles and reading. Classes had been scheduled to start Wednesday, August 31, but will not begin before Wednesday, Sept. 7 according to Tulane University officials. Mattresses and air mattresses were set up on the gym floor as makeshift beds. After eating breakfast in the Jackson State dining hall, box lunches were provided, while 200 pizzas were consumed for dinner.
With food, a place to sleep and a place to practice provided, the main concern Monday was the situation back in New Orleans and the security of all.
"In a situation like this, safety is our first concern," said Tulane women's soccer coach Betsy Anderson. "But everything has gone smoothly here in Jackson. We're continuing to train and prepare for this weekend's tournament at UAB. Throughout the preseason, we've focused on team bonding and team chemistry, but nothing we have done matches this experience."
"Our kids have great character," said Tulane football coach Chris Scelfo. "They have responded well to adversity in the past and have come together again through this situation. But New Orleans is their home. They have a lot on their minds with many of their families being from the area. It's been stressful for the kids, but we're all together, we're safe and we're relying on each other."
Green Wave Athletics Director Rick Dickson, who accompanied the teams as well as the 400 other Tulane students, to Jackson, echoed his coaches' sentiments and added that he and Southern Miss Athletic Director Richard Giannini and Conference USA Commissioner Britton Banowsky were scheduled to talk Tuesday as the Hattiesburg area was also hard-hit by Katrina Monday.
"Clearly, safety is the primary concern, but we've also looked to keep the two teams that are here trained and focused on their seasons," Dickson said. "Everyone has responded very well and kept focused, but at the same time have recognized the significance and severity of the situation."
The Green Wave football team saw its game week preparations interrupted for the third time in the last four years due to the possibility of severe weather. In 2002, Hurricane Isidore threatened the Gulf Coast during the week of the Tulane-Texas game in the Superdome, forcing postponement of practice and a night in the Reily Center, Tulane's on-campus student recreation center.
Last year, the Green Wave's September game versus Louisville was postponed when much of the New Orleans metropolitan area was evacuated due to Hurricane Ivan. The game was rescheduled for the end of the season.
Even as far back as its perfect season of 1998, Tulane has been readjusting its football practice schedule to accommodate the weather. That year, Hurricane Georges bore down on the coast during the Tulane-Navy game in the Superdome, and the team was sent home following the game, not returning to campus until Tuesday prior to the Tulane-Southern Miss game. Ironically, the Golden Eagles are the Wave's scheduled opponent this weekend.
"At this point in time, thinking about the game is secondary," Scelfo said. "We don't know what tomorrow will bring. We need to get an assessment of the damage and the situation in New Orleans and in Hattiesburg. We'll talk to Southern Miss and the conference office and do what we need to do and what's best for our student-athletes and for our communities."
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June 27, 2013
CHARLESTON — He doesn't know when the next vote may come, but U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin said in an interview this week that he isn't giving up on his quest to broaden gun buyer background checks....
Could not have said it any better myself!
"Joe, No matter how many times you swing that gun around in the TV ads - West Virginian know you sold us 'down the river' on Guns and Coal."
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Joe, what the F*** are you doing?!?!
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Who's afraid of a background check? I'm not. The same people yelling no back ground checks are demanding to investigate your entire lifes back ground in order to vote.
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Uncle Joe is making a mistake with his effort to be a player in the now forgotten gun controversy. My God, our country is falling apart and he is trying to secretly disarm America while his President is arming the terrorist in Syria with weapons that will eventually be used against our armed forces abroad and our citizens here at home.
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we have a lot of mentally deranged politicians.the criminals out there already have their guns that they bought off the street.
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Hoopie, Back ground check all you want! Just making those 300,000,000 guns worth more on the "black market!"
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When is he up for re-election?
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budman, He can't be beat in a WV election! Please note the last time (1949) a sitting US senator was defeated in an election! The good peeps of WV let him break laws (With the Help of the WV Supreme Court) when the "special" election was held....
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Treasonous Joe enemy of the people!!
This clown SWORE an oath to UPHOLD and DEFEND the constitution!!!!
Then the communist subversive attempts to destroy it!!!!
He is guilty of no less than TREASON and should be hanged!!!
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A backgroung check to buy a gun makes about as much sense as a background check before you buy a cell phone.
Neither check will stop anyone from using the device in a way that will endanger or kill someone.
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(Aurora, Ind.) – Tri-state area police, firefighters, EMTs, and other first responders are invited to a training opportunity hosted by the Aurora Fire Department.
The Traffic Incident Management Responder Training session will take place at the Aurora Fire Department on Saturday, June 28 from 9:00 a.m. until 1:00 p.m. To register, please email [email protected].
The training is provided by the Federal Highway Administration in partnership with the Indiana Traffic Incident Management Effort.
Food will be provided to those participating in the training session.
According to the announcement from Aurora Fire Department, clearing incident scene quickly with a well-coordinated, multi-disciplinary team of first responders and transportation personnel is an important means of reducing the risk of secondary crashes and congestion delays.


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Jeez, he really has the dumb today
Is the cognitive dissonance getting to him or is pollen?
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Jeebus, it's been so long since I've looked at a D blog I didn't realize how badly the rot had set in. This doltish post from Booman really takes the biscuit:
(1) When Democrats and liberals notice that one of our own is unambiguously a scumbag, we reject that person.
(2) When one of our own is unambiguously a scumbag, we actually notice the obvious scumbaggery, which is what leads to rejection.
For some definition of scumbag, I guess.
For example, surely it's clear -- and follow me closely, if you're a Booman reader who came over here -- that a President who assassinates US citizens without due process is a scumbag.
I mean, how much scummier do you get than waking up in the morning, deciding that shooting a US citizen (you, me, even Booman) is a good idea, and then ordering the hit? But Booman defends this.
Which tells you everything you need to know about Booman, the dominant faction of the Ds for which Booman shills, the Ds themselves, the legacy party system of which they are a part, and the collapse of Constitutional government. (Remember "He's a professor of Constitutional law!" Happy, innocent days....)
NOTE To be fair, Booman may not be as stupid as he seems to be. He could be a good German.
UPDATE Sheesh, by this time, some Booman acolyte has generally wandered over here to call me an asshole. They must really be demoralized over there. And for good reason.
Is the cognitive dissonance getting to him or is pollen?
They turn a blind eye to their war criminals, while we never turn a blind eye to our adulterers.
I spoke to Booman once. He told me that the reason he is not hard on Obama in his blog, is that if he was, the Obama staff wouldn't listen to what he had to say for he regularly speaks to them with some other bloggers on conference phone calls.
Like Klein and Yglesias, he has access to the White House. He has squirt gun fights with Peter Orszag. He's on a first-name basis with Ben Bernanke. Surely he's not a member of the veal pen.
... since everybody knows the only campaign organization that matters is the fully white dude-compliant digital media operation in Chicago, and most definitely not the blogs like Booman that Obama sucked dry and then discarded.
Such a shame. Generally one of 'em coincidentally shows up here to call me an asshole and then disappears again. Oh well!
If I were a better poet, I'd become Tom Allen Ginsberg and Howl:
"I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked,"
Except this generation of sycophants is fat and well-clothed. Pity they haven't read their King Lear. Then they'd have a glimpse of their fate.
So I'll continue to be poor mad pie-faced Tom O'Bedlam. You know what happened to him, don't you? Oh, right. He survived the disaster and became a righteous king.
(Well, this might be a bit of braggadocio. Or at least a good afternoon's entertainment.)
The left as a whole seems to lack a consistent set of values and instead operates on situational ethics, oppositional politics, and tribalism. Conservative values are only slightly more consistent. As Noam Chomsky says about the two parties, they could change positions 180 degrees and no one would even notice.
A recent article on the left's situational ethics by Lawrence Davidson:
MLK and Howard Zinn strike me as examples of lefties who did have consistent, well articulated values.


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I also posted this in "NE Regional" but almost no one reads those forums....plus the 41 is a better place to talk about road cycling....
DC Inquiry...
I am staying in DC for a week this summer for a family vacation. We are renting an apartment in Capitol Hill.
I am a road cyclist and not especially comfortable with urban traffic. I like to ride hard.
Anyway, I am wondering if it's worth it to bring my road bike with me. I would like to find a way to get in a few 2-3 hour bike rides during the week, but if the bike paths are full of pedestrians etc. then it may not be worthwhile. OTOH if I can find a reasonably safe way to get out and have a few hard rides I would like that.
Any of my DC brethren have some suggestions? I generally dislike MUPs because they are generally too crowded, but I am willing to consider them especially if they can get me to an area where I can have some good road riding.
p.s. I run too so if the cycling does not work out, I can just go run instead. I am guessing that may make more sense. I would rather ride than run (duh) of course.


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Egypt's Alexandria gripped by feud over future
ALEXANDRIA, Egypt The Qaed Ibrahim mosque, revered by Alexandrines as the embodiment of their Mediterranean city's cosmopolitan heritage, has become a battleground between the two visions fighting over the future of Egypt, literally.
When prominent ultraconservative cleric Sheik Ahmed el-Mahalawi denounced opponents of the Islamist-backed draft constitution as "followers of heretics" in a sermon, angry protests erupted, turning into clashes between sword-wielding supporters of the cleric and rock-throwing opponents, while police did nothing. The 87-year-old el-Mahalawi was trapped inside for over 12 hours during the battle, while protesters outside tried to free several of their comrades detained - and beaten, they say - in the mosque.
Afterward, powerful Islamist groups in Egypt's second largest city threatened to deploy their own armed militias in the streets to protect their symbols.
Alexandria is often seen as a predictor of Egypt's trends - one prominent local writer, Alaa Khaled, calls it "Egypt's subconscious," where the country's true nature comes out.
So the battle at Qaed Ibrahim last Friday could be a sign of the volatile direction Egypt's political crisis is taking. On one side, Islamists threaten to take up arms to defend what they call their right to propagate Islamic rule. On the other, a cocktail of young, secular, revolution-minded activists have grown bolder in rebelling against their domination, willing to directly assault long untouchable religious symbols like mosques.
Ostensibly, Egypt's crisis is centered on a controversial draft constitution that would bring greater rule by Islamic law. A first round of voting in a referendum on the charter took place last Saturday, and the final round is to be held the coming Saturday - with the "yes" vote so far ahead by a slim 56 percent margin.
But more broadly, it is a conflict of visions. The opposition accuse President Mohammed Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood and his Islamist allies of steamrolling anyone who disagrees with them and imposing their domination. Many of Morsi's supporters, in turn, vow to defend "God's law" and accuse liberals and secular opponents of trying to subvert their election victories the past year. Both sides have brought mass crowds into the streets around the country the past weeks.
The Qaed Ibrahim clash represents an intensified version of that conflict, centered on a battle for Alexandria itself.
In ancient times, Alexandria was a symbol of enlightenment. In the first half of the 20th Century, it was synonymous with modernist, multicultural ambitions for Egypt. In the past two decades, the sprawling city of 5 million became a stronghold of Egypt's most ultraconservative Islamists. With last year's uprising that toppled autocrat Hosni Mubarak, it has also become a hotbed for revolution movements.
Now there is a backlash against the Islamists' domination of the city, fueled by young activists. For years, Alexandrines allowed the city to grow more conservative, but now that the conservatives have political power, more residents see them as a threat, said Khaled, the writer.
"Alexandria is very angry. People are feeling that a new style is being imposed on them," he said. "What is happening here is the beginning of a conflict that can develop in other places." In line with the city's anti-authority fervor, hundreds of women blocked a street with a protest on the referendum day, accusing a judge of blocking them from voting against the constitution.
Islamists are rising to face the challenge.
The day after the clashes, leaders of the top Islamist groups in Alexandria, held a press conference on the roof of el-Mahalawi's home, outraged by what they called an attack on an esteemed cleric and the mosque itself. The leaders - some in clerical turbans and robes, others in suits, most with long beards - billed themselves as the "Agency for Unifying Islamist Ranks," representing groups ranging from the Brotherhood to the ultraconservative Salafi movement to the radical Gamaa Islamiya, which once waged a terror campaign against the regime but later renounced violence.


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When I went to Stevenson Elementary to pick up my kindergartner, I was surprised at the new gift we received — a new book bag. Being stylish and useful, it was proportionate to my daughter's size. I later got home and see the words "Golden Helix" printed on the bag, on top of an image of the Columbia River Gorge. I was at first a little mesmerized: Golden Helix-River Gorge, a great duo on a daily used item. I then wondered what she will think of it when she starts to read. What will she think if she were able to read last December's main headliner for the U.S.: "Stem cell research controversy?" (Golden Helix's website describes itself as a "leading bioinformatics company that enables the world's leading researchers to find or diagnose the genetic causes of disease.")
I have to admit I am just one person from the 7 billion in the world — and I do have opinions. But what would the introduction of a hot topic into the minds of elementary school-aged children do? In a way, are we allowing more approval "here and there"? This is certainly a topic to think about. Somewhere in the modern busy life may one person take this in and think how easy for any simple action to shape the minds of children.
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Most car enthusiasts would be happy to own or even to simply drive one Porsche 911 in their lifetime. For Magnus Walker however the 911 has become more of an obsession. Over the years Walker has owned around forty 911s. Growing up during the heyday of formula racing he was exposed to racing culture very early. At an even with his father he discovered the car which started it all. It was a white 1977 Porsche Turbo with the classic red and blue Martini Race striping.
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Modern Pictograms
Modern Pictograms is my favorite new "font". These perfectly designed pictograms are a great touch for web and interface designers to make use of in projects. You can pop over to Font Squirrel to download them where they are licensed under the SIL Open Font License.
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City Scout
Ever try finding relevant travel information on a city and even more specifically design related advice on where to go and what to do? Well the girls from Studio Sweet Studio have come through for us. Their newest project is called City Scout, which offers the inside scoop from designers and creatives on their favorite spots in their city. Currently you could say City Scout is in beta with information only on offer for Chicago, with Brooklyn to be added soon. I also have to say the icon set they created for the project is great.
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The Noun Project
The Noun Project is an awesome new project with the mission of "Sharing, celebrating and enhancing the world's visual language". By creating a library of symbols and icons they have created a universally accessible visual language that anyone can use at anytime free of charge. Whether you are a designer or otherwise you can download and use the images. Beyond having created a visionary idea, the UX and site design are very fun to use despite their simplicity.
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Little Big Details
Little Big Details is a nice minimal tumblr blog, which allows you to view a great collection of UI details and explinations of the interactions in a easy scrollable format. This will definitely come in handy when I am having trouble deciding how something should function.
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Al Kimiya Typeface
Designers Benjamin Varin and Pierre Ferrandez have created this sans-serif typeface called Al Kimiya, based on alchemical symbols. This is a great example of adaptation and the use of reference material to create something wholely different. In the end product, besides the set up glyphs that are infact alchemical symbols, the typeface only hints at the symbols it is derived from.
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USA Beer: Ordinary Company
The porfolio site of Matthew Genitempo, oddly named Ordinary Company, is a nice simple housing for some super clean and varied work. In addition to working for himself Genitempo is a member of the collaborative work space Public School in always beautiful Austin, Texas.
The self initiated project of branding a fictitious beer company is badass. Great colors and a cool array of icons and peripheral design elements. The type lockup is also a highlight of this project.
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Icon Series: Post 1
I have been obsessed with icons since I can remember. Their nature to clearly communicate such an array of things both intrigues and inspires me. Whether using an arrow on a way-finding sign or a website it says something in context of the space, environment and collaborative content. It could be saying the bathroom is that direction or if you click this link it will take you to past entries. Either way the field of icon design seems to have become so much more integral with the advent of IXD and UI that I continue to see unique and fun ways to approach icon design and usage. Hopefully as I find and collect more icons this will develop into a larger series of posts. For now here is a great series of arrow icons collected from websites.
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The Movie Icons
The Movie Icons is a project by a slightly hard to track down designer by the name of Timo. That aside these icons that distill two hour movies down into a single bold graphic are striking. I appreciate these quite a bit more than that minimalist movie poster trend that was going on a few months ago.
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For Rebecca Morales of Sea-Tac, the Midway Swap Meet was where she bought her first baby crib. For Yakima native Ric Gasca, the bazaar's...
KENT — For Rebecca Morales of Sea-Tac, the Midway Swap Meet was where she bought her first baby crib.
For Yakima native Ric Gasca, the bazaar's 500-plus stalls were the closest thing in the Puget Sound area to Mexico City's mercados.
And for West Seattle native Paul Sexton, who has sold goods at the flea market almost since its founding in 1971, the market had kept his entrepreneurial dreams alive.
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The sun set for the last time on the Midway yesterday, an oasis of lively cultural exchange along an otherwise nondescript highway of gas stations, car-repair garages and fast-food joints. Soon the Midway's parking lot will give way to a Lowe's home-improvement store, joining 15 other Lowe's stores in the Seattle-Tacoma-Everett metro area.
"It's kind of a shame it's being replaced by something as commonplace as a Lowe's," said Gasca, as he and his 7-year-old daughter, Noel, strolled by a table of Mexican wrestling masks and rosary beads.
In the heyday of drive-in movie theaters, the old Midway took visitors to Hollywood. When the drive-in industry faded, Pacific Theatre, one of the largest operators on the West Coast, turned the Midway and similar properties into swap meets.
Thirty years later, Kent and other suburbs south of Seattle are growing rapidly, attracting families and big-box retailers such as Lowe's.
Gary Plante, 67, isn't interested, even though he has a claw hammer hanging off his belt. There's a Home Depot and a McLendon Hardware by his house near White Center, he said.
For years, Plante and his wife have driven to Midway.
"You never know what you're going to see," Plante said. Like the Jarritos Limón soda he bought at a hot-dog stand. Or the $2 hammer he procured, albeit with a crack in the handle. It would've cost $18 to $20 new at a hardware store, Plante said. He's now on a quest for an intact handle.
Plante is sad about the swap meet's end. "We'll just have to give it up," he said. "I'm not going to drive an hour from where I live for a flea market."
Gasca and his girlfriend, Delia Cortes, may be willing to make the trek to swap meets in Tacoma or Everett. Cortes, 27, who arrived five years ago from Mexico City where she worked as a lawyer, reminisces as she wheels her baby stroller past a merchant hawking fresh cactus and sugarcane.
"We come here with nothing, [so] this is someplace for us to buy things cheap," Cortes said, who now works as a paralegal while studying to get her law degree here.
For some of the Latin American, Asian and African shoppers roaming the aisles, the items they buy at the swap meet chronicle part of their story of settling in a new land.
Cortes found her first chairs here. First vacuum. First blender. First microwave. First VCR. "We still come even though we don't buy anymore," she said.
Mexico doesn't feel so far away here. Note the smells of "elotes" — corn on the cob coated with mayonnaise, chili powder and cheese — and crunchy pinwheel-like chips drizzled in picante sauce and lime juice. Walk down any row of stalls and the sound of Mexican folk music undulates from open vans selling inexpensive CDs.
Even these old-time swap meets haven't escaped the pull of globalization. A CD album by a folk group, Alegres de la Sierra, was produced in China.
Rows of handmade straw baskets neatly laid out on the ground aren't from Mexico, Cortes said. They're from Africa.
Gasca's son, Jordon, excitedly shows Cortes some Yu-Gi-Oh! trading cards he bought from a merchant. The Japanese game is similar to Pokémon.
For Sexton, the longtime swap-meet merchant, just the sight of thousands of people from all walks of life is evidence enough of the global village. He's anxious about what the future holds for the Spanish-speaking young man in the stall across from him.
"The kid next door works on commission," making good money, Sexton said. "Nowhere else he's going to work except a hamburger joint."
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Super competitive small jumper that is
ready to dominate in the jumper ring.
Kingston is a brave and efficient jumper
that will jump carefully from any
distance. With his small compact size,
he can turn on a dime and easily open
his stride up to make the horse strides.
Kingston is an incredible speed horse
that is soft in the mouth with an easy
and adjustable ride. He has shown up to
a 1.00, and has the talent to compete
and win higher. Kingston is looking for
a junior or ammeter that loves to jump
and show as much as he does.
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The Korea Herald has spoken, and according to them the top language book for learning Korean is the one written by none other than 10 Magazine Managing Editor, Stephen Revere.
The Herald's choices for the top Korean language textbooks are:
For More Articles Like These
1. Survival Korean by Stephen Revere
2. Korean Made Easy by Seung-eun Oh
3. Ganada Korean for Foreigners by Ganada Language Institute
There is a second book in the Survival Korean series, Survival Korean: Basic Grammar Skills. There is also a third book in the series, a vocabulary book, but we spoke with Mr. Revere and it turns out that he was not consulted at all, and that in fact it was actually published without his knowledge, hence he does not vouch for the quality of the book.
Check out youtube.com to watch "Let's Speak Korean," the 260 episode series on Arirang TV taught by him as well and stay tuned for more Korean language lessons and videos from the creator of 10 Magazine in coming months.


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I don't.
My wife doesn't.
My Sister doesn't.
My Brother doesn't.
We have them, but have no use for them. A college degree is overated IMHO.
I don't.
My wife doesn't.
My Sister doesn't.
My Brother doesn't.
We have them, but have no use for them. A college degree is overated IMHO.
I majored in online forum participation. So, yes.
They told me to wear more lycra, and I said "no, no, no."
YES. I use them both (have masters too). I'm a professional musician. Bachelors in music education (used to teach), masters in music performance. I wouldn't have my job or be able to keep it without the training and education I received in college and grad school.
I use psychology almost every day. That isn't the field I work in, but I do use some of what I learned in college regularly.
In search of what to search for.
I use the organizational and research skills I learned in college all the time.
As with mud, life, too, slides by.
Stayed in the same general field.
i do. every day.
University Degree: Civil Engineering.
Job: Civil Engineer.
Answer: yes.
In case you can't tell, I'm a big fan of a liberal arts education. Knowing a little bit about a wide range of human endeavors is a real civilizing influence. There is nothing so scary as an exceptionally bright and talented person who has absolutely no perspective outside of their narrow, specialized field. Such folks are inevitably divorced from the larger realities of life that influence even their little corner of the intellectual world and thus render their intelligence and talent moot.
Such folks are a real bore to try to talk with, too.
"I'm in shape -- round is a shape." Andy Rooney
if by GED then no
yup, Masters in Environmental Science....fish biologist
We cannot solve problems with the same level of consciousness that created them. A.E.
1990 Diamond Back MTB
2007 Leader 736R
No...then again I don't have a degree. I found school to broad for my liking and left very early (other reasons to but I don't feel the need to be hateful towards the school system for a change). I have very specific areas I enjoy studying. While not a specialist, I sure didn't need the full range of generalized crap that schools spew in order to "help" you decide what direction you might want to go.
Now...i have been working in technology for 2 decades. Most of my childhood was spent in front of a computer, teenage years in front of a computer and adult years, in front of lots of computers. High school and college computer classes were sorely lacking in my day so I left. Thanks to highschool (and parents being in university at the time) I have a keen interest in history, anthropology and sociology.
Since I don't drink that much anymore and go out partying even less, most of what I learned at Texas A&M is wasted.
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I got my job using the Degree certificate I printed off the interweb
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There is a medium size hole in the drywall, the degree covers it nicely with a slightly oversize frame. So, yes, I use it.
Those voices in your head aren't real, but they have some great ideas
Define "use."
Cyclists of the world, unite! You have nothing to lube but your chains!
PhD in Materials Science. When I worked in R&D, you basically had to have one in order to get
one of the more advanced positions or if you wanted to do any kind of management (meaning
directing the work of others). There were exceptions, but having a PhD made things easier.
Now I'm teaching college chemistry and also do biotech consulting with a group I started with a
couple of former colleagues from industry. A PhD also helps a great deal. However, the details
of my work are very different than what I pursued for my PhD thesis or the courses I took. These
days I am doing much more with bio/nanotech than I ever thought I would. Much of these (understandably) wasn't covered in my coursework in school. Mostly what the PhD taught me is
developing methodologies for scientific investigation. It was more the process by which to conduct
research etc. than the nature of the work.
More and more I'm seeing the need for people to be flexible in their jobs at least in the sciences.
Some of my college professors who never touched a cell in their life are now doing biotech research
because that's where a lot of the funding is. I've seen similar things within some of the national labs but with other subject areas.
I think at least a bachelors degree is important in a competitive work environment. Down the road a lot of employers (at least in my area) won't care too much about the specific degree or even the grades, but will want to see the fact that someone pursued the degree and finished it.
I have a bachelor's degree in biology.
I started working in virology and microbiology before I graduated, doing research work with a local clinical lab when I was home on my 6 week winter break.
When I was doing that, I got a call from a company I was ordering supplies from (which happened to be based in the town in which I went to college) and they offered me a part time job during my last quarter of classes.
About a week before I graduated, I accepted a full time R&D position with the same company and worked there for 6 years before moving on to bigger and better things.
Now I'm the lead engineer for my department with a company that manufactures autoimmune diagnostic devices.
Not only do I use my degree, but I'm glad that I passed up an opportunity to get my MS in Molecular Biology; because advancing through the merit of my work has brought me far past where I'd be if I stayed with a graduate degree for an additional 3 years.
"I feel like my world was classier before I found cyclocross."
- Mandi M.