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Harley Quinn WIP, wanted to make her appear in her padded room at the assylum but i've not really done much on the background(obviously). Any constructive criticism/critiques welcome.
Harley Quinn WIP, wanted to make her appear in her padded room at the assylum but i've not really done much on the background(obviously). Any constructive criticism/critiques welcome.
I see her expression and I see the Joker really instead of Harley. It's in the grin. The shading work you put into the outfit on the hands, arms, and gun look wonderful, but there are anatomy issues right now. Judging where the crotch area is, her torso would be insanely elongated, and it's causing her legs to look very short.
Really tough pose to pull-off. The perspective on the face and the guns, especially. Good effort.
The facial anatomy needs the most attention. As far as the color ... the shadows and highlights are well realized ... but they don't have any color personality because it looks like you shaded with black and white. Need to get some color into them, especially the shadows, to make it sing.
Cool idea
You might wanna think about her upper body; it's kind of mannish at the moment.... big muscles, no breasts...
Oh, and also -- if you made her nose a little more turned up, she might look less Joker-y.
very good. I'm not good at photoshop but thats amazing work. EXCEPT she needs more shape in the hips and legs. Usualy when in an angle like that the torso would be most important but that amazing idea you had with the arms and guns covered them leaving the legs lifeless. So you can go back to the legs. Theres lots of things you can do with girls legs because theres less muscle form + they can bend backward or more detail in the knees. But still its great.
Hey thanks for responding I really appreciate your critiques! I initially started this from a little thumbnails sketch i did during a meeting and I forced myself to really try and paint, I spent about a week on and off working on it before i got so used to staring at it that i inevitably got stuck. Now that the anotomical abnormalities have been pointed out to me they stick out like a sore thumb, i must do something! I think perhaps if i used reference next time instead of just going for it i would have avoided such awekward problems. i do think she looks a bit too manly as well, again ref would solve that.
Any suggestions for the background? Or for color variation, I'm pretty much a noob when it comes to color theory and painting so any further suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Great work of course. However, Harley's facial expression is usually a wacky, ditzy (even cute) one, which is her trait and makes her, her.
You've shown her here in a more evil and calculating manner.
This is not really a critique, just a personal nitpick really.
Hey Stan, great job!
I agree with the others on several points: Her smile, body and such. Let me add a couple that I personally noticed.
Eyes: Her right eye appears to be looking at us...while her left is ...looking over our shoulder, or to the right more. And the whites are too white IMO.
Revolvers: They are both well done except for....the far one...should not be reflecting Harley's face. Firearms in general rarely have the top surface polished to that extent because it would reflect sunlight into the shooter's eyes...making it difficult or impossible to aim well. By rarely I mean firearms that are used....you can find an occasional collectable or display gun that has such polishing done....but just try to shoot it on a bright sunny day.
The near one...perspective still applies to guns. Basically the barrel just needs to widen a little and the muzzle needs to be less round and more oval shaped. Oh...and the chambers in the cylinder are off....but hey, I just notice these things because I am intimately familiar with them. (Waits for everyone to run away screaming)
I love the job you did on the colors and lighting...but agree that it would improve with some other tones thrown in.
Okay so i made some changes....
I didn't like the background and i wanted it to feel more cold so i adjusted the color a bit, the background still needs quite a bit of work though...
I made some changes to her anatomy, specifically I fixed her superduper long torso, added some more shape to the legs, slimmed down the arms, and pushed her right shoulder back a bit...
I added some more yellows and reds into the eyes as they were to stark white, as well as changing her left eye's focus...
I made the suggested, slight alterations to the gun muzzle as well as reflection...
Again, thanks for the critiques. As for her facial expression being a bit more evil, well personally i like it, I mean she IS the sidekick of a homicidal clown so I thought i'd try and show her more devious side And as for her not showing off her boobs, with this pose i'm not sure how i would even go about showing them so i guess that will remain the same as well...sorry!
Any further comments, suggestion, critiques are always welcome and appreciated, especially concerning color and attention to the background...
This is much better than I could do but the main problem I see is that if someone is not familiar with the harley quinn character, they might not be able to tell she is a woman from this picture. Otherwise...nice job.
I love the piece and agree with everyone here. She needs that girly almost kidlike feeling in her face kinda like she just got busted stealing cookies, make sense? I hope so. and if you want a great example check out Alex Ross
Yeah i completely understand where you guys are coming from saying she looks a bit too menacing and not kid-like, cutesy, playfull kinda look but the look was deliberate in that i wanted to show her in a more menacing dangerous sort of way,(hence the dramatic pose) but i appreciate everyone's input and suggestions Thanks again!
I agree on what people say about the face, the grin doesn't fit her and her eyes look a bit dead. From my experience Harley usually looks more smug than manic or sasistic. What I'd try is to close the mouth and squint the eyes a little, simply make her a little more mischievous. Maybe raise one eyebrow a little.
Shorter nose, bigger lips, maybe make the smile more crooked. It'd just seem to fit better.
arms in the way, cant see boobs, make the smile more nice, and innocent seeming, thats her character... nice and innocent but deadly
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So is the 1990 movie American biographical film "Henry & June", loosely based on Anaïs Nin's French book of the same name.
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(The Diary of Anais Nin Vol. 5 (1947-1955) By Anaïs Nin, 1975; p.149)
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(In Favor of the Sensitive Man and Other Essays By Anaïs Nin, 2012, The New Woman; p.17)
"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." – Anaïs Nin
(The Diary of Anaïs Nin Vol. 3 (1939-1944) By Anaïs Nin, 1971, Letter from Henry; p.125)
"People living deeply have no fear of death." – Anaïs Nin
(The Diary of Anais Nin Vol. 2 (1934-1939) By Anaïs Nin, 1970, August, 1935; p.60)
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Duke's first two home games of the season have been complete disasters, with the Blue Devils failing to score a point in hapless losses to Richmond and Virginia.
Wallace Wade Stadium has been a house of horrors in 2006, and on paper it looks like chances are good it won't get any better this weekend, but Duke can shake the college football world if the Devils find a formula to upset Florida State.
Devils Illustrated gives the weekly scouting report on this week's opponent.
Neither team has had the type of success throwing the ball it would like. Florida State quarterback Drew Weatherford has completed 60 percent of his passes but the aerial attack has been pretty low power by FSU standards. Weatherford has drawn criticism for holding onto the football too long and being too conservative in his decision making, causing some fans to call for backup Xavier Lee. Lee has reportedly taken increased snaps with the first team offense in practice this week. Duke had some good moments in the passing game last week, but Thaddeus Lewis threw a pair of interceptions and had a very poor completion percentage. Weatherford clearly has the experience edge over Lewis and is a better pure pocket passer, but Duke's strong willed freshman broke through on the ground last week with an impressive rushing touchdown and an additional 11-yard scramble. We'll give the advantage to Weatherford, but it wouldn't completely shock us to see Lewis rise up with a good performance.
EDGE: Small Florida State
Last week, I spent this section arguing basically that Alabama had far superior backfield talent than Duke. Naturally, the Blue Devils came out and made me look foolish when they piled up more than 200 rushing yards against Alabama. Requan Boyette showed his big play ability and the offense clearly benefited from having a healthy combo of Justin Boyle and Ronnie Drummer. Florida State has two great talents in Lorenzo Booker and Antone Smith, but so far neither one has gotten it going. Smith had a good outing against Duke last year but Booker was a nonfactor. On paper, FSU has the better players, but Duke has better depth and better recent production (FSU had just 96 rushing yards against NC State). It's a close call, but FSU is a slim pick here.
EDGE: Small Florida State
Florida State hasn't lit up the scoreboard with its passing game, but the Seminoles have had a very balanced attack. Five players have tallied more than 150 receiving yards so far this season, with De'Cody Fagg's 17 catches for 206 yards leading the unit. True freshman tight end Brandon Warren is starting to become a bigger factor in the offense, which is going to make defending the perimeter threats more difficult. Warren caught a touchdown pass against NC State and is averaging 11.2 yards per catch. Duke can't match the overall size and athleticism of FSU's receivers, but the Blue Devils have had some good development this year at the pass catching positions. Eron Riley has been steady, while Jomar Wright and Raphael Chestnut have each shown their playmaking potential. To match evenly with the 'Noles though, all of Duke's weapons would have to be clicking on the same day. So far, that hasn't happened.
EDGE: Medium Florida State
Both teams have had some problems in pass protection, but the 10 sacks allowed by Florida State are partially attributable to some poor decisions by Weatherford. Whispers from Tallahassee are that FSU's offensive line is just not up to snuff with some of the program's past lines. The rushing numbers bear that out. FSU focused a ton of attention on the line in last year's recruiting class because the ranks had been depleted so much. The potential is there for a solid unit, particularly with senior Mario Henderson and standout junior college transfer Shannon Boatman holding down the tackle positions, but so far the consistent production has been missing. Duke knows all about O-Line struggles. The Blue Devils had been a mess up front until an excellent performance last week on the road at Alabama. Repeating that effort will be difficult, but it was good to see the ability that is present when the group is all on the same page and executes. The stats don't lie though. Duke has still allowed 24 sacks this year, and it will take more than one good outing to really start changing some minds.
EDGE: Medium Florida State
Florida State's defensive front will come limping into Wallace Wade Stadium for this week's game. Defensive tackle Emmanuel Dunbar has been out since injuring his back against Troy and nose guard Paul Griffin is also out. That has required defensive coordinator Mickey Andrews to do a lot of reshuffling, including having some players change positions and some youngsters climbing up the depth chart. The Seminoles' youngsters are still very talented, but the injuries have robbed the defensive front of depth, and it showed in the second half of the loss at NC State. Duke's D-Line played well again last week against Alabama, but also closed the game meekly by allowing the Crimson Tide a late touchdown drive entirely on the ground. Even with Eli Nichols out of the lineup, the Blue Devils still have a better depth situation than Florida State, although the Seminoles have an edge in athleticism. Both lines will be relying on several inexperienced players this weekend, which makes predicting the positional battle next to impossible.
EDGE: Even
FSU has been completely decimated by injuries at linebacker. The top three linebackers are still in one piece, but the depth behind Buster Davis, Lawrence Timmons, and Geno Hayes has been basically wiped out. That means the top trio is being forced to play with very little rest. Davis played every defensive snap of the loss to NC State. The situation has been so difficult that linebackers coach Kevin Steele has called it a 'crisis.' Freshman Dekoda Watson has been moved back to linebacker to help fill the ranks after previously being moved to defensive end for the same reason. Duke's linebackers are coming off a solid outing last week. Codey Lowe had a pair of sacks and Jeramy Edwards and Mike Tauiliili combined for 17 stops. Florida State has a clear talent edge when looking at just the top three players, but injuries have forced the Seminoles to alter a lot of their 3-4 looks, so the overall edge is diminished somewhat. However, playmakers like Davis, Timmons, and Hayes are few and far between. Duke better hope those three guys get tired.
EDGE: Medium Florida State
Again, injuries have severely hurt the FSU pass defense. Sophomore cornerback Tony Carter missed the NC State game after suffering a knee sprain against Rice. His availability for the Duke game is not known, but if he can't go then FSU's secondary just isn't the same. If Carter had been on the field against the Wolfpack, chances are good FSU would have salted that game away when it had a 20-10 lead. As of early this week, the starting corners were listed as redshirt freshman Jamie Robinson and sophomore Michael Ray Garvin. NC State picked on the Seminoles' secondary to the tune of three touchdown passes in last week's upset. Prize freshman Myron Rolle is starting at safety for FSU and he recorded eight tackles against the Wolfpack. Duke's secondary has had some ups and downs this year but has largely underachieved. It's downfall has been allowing too many big plays through the air, either by losing battles for the ball, taking a bad angle, or just flat out getting beat. The fact is neither secondary really scares anybody right now, but Florida State has overall better playmaking potential. FSU ranks sixth in the ACC in pass defense while Duke ranks next to last.
EDGE: Small Florida State
Duke's field goal misadventures continued last week, a theme that is beginning to sound like a broken record. Sophomore Joe Surgan appears to have lost confidence, but at least he is kicking the ball off better and giving Duke's coverage unit a chance to make a play. After Randy DeSmyter got the starting nod punting the football against Alabama last week, he promptly had a pair of shanks and gave way to Alex Feinberg, who we expect will get his customary start against FSU. Duke's special teams hopes against the Seminoles may hinge on Jabari Marshall and Leon Wright. Duke needs a big play from one of them in the return game to really have an opportunity to put a scare into FSU. Florida State's return game has been lacking pop this year. Chris Davis will handle punt returns while Joslin Shaw will probably be the primary kick returner. The Seminoles have a huge advantage at kicker with Gary Cismesia. Cismesia has hit on eight of his nine attempts this year.
EDGE: Medium Florida State
Duke's best chance at an upset will materialize if the Blue Devils can get a big play on special teams and protect the football enough to keep the game competitive into the second half. Florida State's depth issues may come into play if Duke can continue to hang around within striking distance. The Blue Devils can't afford to fall behind by more than 10 because the offense just doesn't work well in catch up mode. We expect the Blue Devils to come out with a determination to reestablish the running game, but in the end a win over Florida State is just too much to ask. Duke's defense will play respectably, but the Seminoles just have too much big play potential, and big plays have been an achilles heel so far for the Dukies.
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'Til death do us part — or live long and prosper? Either will do on Sunday, as George Takei, best known as Mr. Sulu on "Star Trek," prepares to marry his longtime partner, Brad Altman.
"We've been living in sin for the past 21 years," George, 71, told People. "It's high time we made it legitimate."
While George told People his mood was "nervous-ville," Brad, 54, sounded anything but.
"This is going to be the most exciting day of my life," he told the mag. "I'm going to be married. I'm the luckiest guy in the world."
The couple will reportedly wed Sunday evening in downtown Los Angeles.
While George has had a long career in film and television since his "Star Trek" days, including a recent role on "Heroes," he's still close with several of his "Trek" co-stars. Walter Koenig, who played Chekov, will serve as best man, and Nichelle Nichols, who played Uhura, is also in the wedding party.
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Defensive turnovers by Syracuse spoil Abbey Miller's performance in 3-2 loss to Mercyhurst
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Using her frame and stick handling skills Lindsay Eastwood deked around one defender at the blue line and began to try another deke, but it failed. Mercyhurst's Michelle Robillard striped the puck off the defenseman's stick, spun around and started a 2-1 before an off-balance Eastwood could fully get in position to close of any passing lanes.
Robillard backhanded a pass right onto the stick of a cutting Brooke Hartwick who faked forehand and instead went backhand over Abbey Miller to give Mercyhurst a 2-0 lead.
"We were kind of selfish tonight and we had a lot of turnovers, a lot of really bad turnovers," Miller said.
Another defensive turnover had resulted in a scoring opportunity, but after making save after save, Miller was left out to dry and Syracuse's hopes of winning the game turned from bleak to grim.
Syracuse (11-12-5, 10-4-2 College Hockey America) mounted a comeback to tie the game at two but like much of the game failed to play a consistent defensive game and lost 3-2 to Mercyhurst (11-17-2, 7-8-1) on Saturday afternoon at Tennity Ice Pavilion, spoiling a good performance from Miller.
Syracuse shut out Mercyhurst the night before and looked to pounce on the Lakers from the start. Instead the Lakers, who were more physical, quickly turned errant passes and mishandled chips off the boards into instant offense.
Miller, who finished with 23 saves on 26 shots and kept the game from getting out of hand early, admitted that Syracuse wasn't ready for the push the Lakers came with.
"We just kind of overlooked them and thought we had (a win) in the bag," Miller said.
The combination of a stagnant offense and a defense on its toes lead to Miller facing shots from every inch of the ice, including many off of rebounds in close. Throughout the game many of these chances often led to dramatic reflex saves.
In the first period, she was able to control her rebounds and in the second and third periods she was able to slide from post to post with ease, at one point getting her left pad out just in time on a 2-on-1 to keep her team in the game.
"Thank God someone showed up with a focus," SU head coach Paul Flanagan said.
As the team tried to push the offense from the blue line out turnovers started to pile up. Forward Stephanie Grossi attributed the turnovers to increased pressure form the Lakers, particularly in the neutral zone. She said that continuing to slow the game down and make the right play, not the easy play, would have solved the pressure.
"When you have pressure, just get it deep (into the offensive zone), " Grossi said. "And make the plays when you got to make them tape to tape."
While Syracuse adjusted in five on five play, the same tactics arose on the penalty kill, allowing Lakers players nothing but white and the goalie in front of them.
On the first goal of the game, a power-play goal, Jennifer MacAskill took the puck down low to Miller's right and quickly found a wide-open Nicole Guagliardo who took her time before gently sliding the puck into the right corner of the net past Miller's pad.
On the third goal, also on the power-play, a wide-open Jillian Skinner pounced on a loose puck that ricocheted off Millers pad and again there were no white jerseys to clean it up, or lift the stick of Skinner in turn allowing Miller to cover the puck up for a faceoff.
Flanagan said that while some of the turnovers stemmed from the offense, out of position forwards were critical in allowing Mercyhurst to get the amount of chances in close.
"On both their power play goals, our forward that's supposed to come down (from the blue line) and help out front just stood there," Flanagan said.
The defense that played yesterday that limited turnovers, was relentless on the boards, and at times was literally attached to an opposing player had propelled Syracuse to second place in the conference, allowed too many odd skater rushes and didn't value possession and it cost them the game.
"This loss is not (Miller's) fault," Grossi said. "We have to support her better."
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In the early years of Ohio's voucher programs, proponents of private school choice cautioned that schools wouldn't participate if government asked too much of them in the way of regulations and accountability for student achievement. That was certainly a plausible theory at the time – after all, when the EdChoice Scholarship program launched in 2005, Ohio's public schools were only just getting used to our increased battery of state tests. But evidence from a new report shows that the theory doesn't hold true today, and that policymakers could pursue expanded accountability for private schools—especially when it comes to transparency about student achievement and progress.
The Fordham Institute's national team commissioned David Stuit of Basis Policy Research and his colleague Sy Doan to examine closely thirteen existing voucher and tax credit scholarship programs and describe the nature and extent of their regulations as well as how many private schools participate in them (and how many do not). They also asked them to survey private schools in communities served by four of the country's most prominent voucher programs (including EdChoice and the Cleveland Scholarship & Tutoring Program) to see how heavily regulations and program requirements weigh in schools' decision whether to participate.
The result is the new Fordham report School Choice Regulations: Red Tape or Red Herring. What does it tell us?
Specific to Ohio, Stuit and Doan determined that:
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Currently twenty-two thousand Ohio students attend a private school using a state-funded voucher. Two years ago lawmakers raised the cap on EdChoice vouchers to 60,000 slots statewide (reserved for kids in low-performing public schools) and launched a new special-needs scholarship. In his recently unveiled FY2014-15 state budget, Governor Kasich has proposed expanding voucher eligibility to children from low-income families and K-3 students in schools that fail to meet a minimum grade on the new early learning report card component. Alongside this growth in publicly funded school choice should come an appropriate increase in accountability of participating schools and whether they are helping students succeed. This report provides evidence that they open to just that.
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Ministry chief: Talvivaara mine should be shut down
Officials at the Talvivaara mine in eastern Finland are hopeful that they will be able to plug a leak in a gypsum waste pond on Thursday after five days of efforts. Meanwhile a top state official says the whole plant should be shut down pending new studies.
Hundreds of thousands of cubic metres of waste water have leaked since Sunday, some flowing out of the mine area into the surrounding nature.
The leak has been partially repaired, so that waste water is no longer flowing northward out of the plant area. However there is still a southbound flow.
"The leak in the southern direction has been significantly reduced," CEO Harri Natunen told Yle.
On Thursday Environment Minister and Greens chair Ville Niinistö visits the site. The previous afternoon he issued a sharply-worded criticism of how the crisis has been handled by the company and local officials, calling it "a serious environmental crime".
Ministry chief seeks shutdown
On Wednesday evening, the Permanent Secretary at the Ministry of Employment and the Economy, Erkki Virtanen, said that the company's operations cannot continue before further studies are completed.
The top civil servant at the ministry was interviewed on Yle TV1's current-affairs programme, A-studio.
He said that the readings now being found from waste water indicate that the environmental permits issued were incorrect for its current operations.
For instance, he says, sulphate levels are much higher than those stipulated by the mine's environmental permits.
Virtanen added that the firm's behaviour has seriously damaged the reputation of the mining industry, which is seen as crucial to Finland's economy as the telecoms sector slumps.


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I just read about a coffee berry supplement that contains antioxidant power and no caffeine. Is this true? What do you know about this? I found them in a store and they cost $1 per capsule.
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Coffee grows in the sun and needs to have antioxidants to survive. There are antioxidant substances in the green coffee bean and, while some remain, a number are destroyed after roasting.
Coffee berry is the fruit of the coffee plant that contains the green coffee bean, and it's a rich source of polyphenol antioxidants. The issue is whether there is something unique in that coffee berry that makes it important to take it as a dietary supplement.
I wasn't able to find any evidence to support this and justify the purchase. The compounds are there, and it does bring something to the party, but until we have evidence of special qualities, I would opt for a glass of orange juice, a cup of cocoa or a bowl of berries.
New products are often marketed with an infectious "you gotta have this" mentality, but the evidence tends to support the idea that whole foods bring much more to the table.
I am getting a mixed message from you concerning spinach. You just wrote about nitrates and nitrosamines, saying that there were nitrates in spinach. Then you wrote about the benefits of spinach because it has lutein for macular degeneration. I usually have a spinach salad with my lunch. I also have read that spinach is high in calcium. Should I stop eating too much of it?
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There are definite health attributes to spinach so I want to be clear about these messages. We are talking about nitrates versus nitrites, and the foods that contain these compounds.
The nitrates found in spinach are not problematic like the nitrites (notice the different spelling) found in preserved meats (bacon and other deli meats). With the preserved meats all the components needed to form nitrosamines (nitrite together with amines) are there in the product before you take your first bite and high temperatures encourage nitrosamine formation.
Sodium nitrite is used as an additive in many preserved meat products because it prevents growth of Clostridium botulinum, the bacteria that causes botulism. On balance, the risk of botulism is considered to be a greater threat than the potential risks of nitrosamine formation.
In spinach you have naturally occurring nitrates that can turn into nitrite but this will only happen under certain conditions; eating spinach does not favor this process.
You mention spinach and calcium. It is true that spinach is a good source of calcium, ½ cup of cooked spinach contains approximately 150 mg of calcium. The issue with spinach as a dietary source of calcium is that spinach is also a source of oxalic acid, a compound that tends to bind (chelate) the calcium and make it unavailable for absorption. Calcium aside, spinach represents an excellent source of nutrients, including vitamin A, C, iron and dietary fiber (tinyurl.com/dhkhf7) as well as a host of phytochemicals.
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npviewer.bin eating my cpu. help!
A few weeks ago, the performance on my computer started deteriorating badly, and it's not come back. When I execute "top," the culprit, usually eating around 25% of the cpu, is "npviewer.bin." Firefox itself seems to be sitting on 25% of my memory, which seems excessive.
Unless I'm mistaken, npviewer is a wrapper for running flash apps in firefox. I don't have permanent flash apps running on my Wordpress blog page. Is it possible I've acquired a virus of some sort? Can anyone suggest a way to streamline this firefox beast, and help me improve the performance of my desktop machine?
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Oh, PS: Fedora core 9 on Athlon i386, 2 gig of RAM.
Firefox doesn't help either, it's a ram hungry beast, but I guess that we will have to live with that for now.
Same here. After a while of browsing and a couple flash *crap* npviewer turns into a wild thing. But I don't mind, restarting Firefox every now and then isn't some huge burden I can't take.
I don't know if you already do, but if you don't, you might want to try noscript or flashblock. That way, you will only see the flash contents that you strictly need, instead of bogging down your system with useless crap.
Wow. I just installed noscript, and my cpu usage dropped to next to nothing. Apparently I had acquired some sort of sticky flash app that was running without my permission.
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Reuters reported that Russian gold miner Nord Gold reported a third quarter net income increase of 32 percent, year-over-year. buoyed by strong sales.
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Author: Antony C. Sutton
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To date I have read six books by scholar / expert economist Antony C. Sutton (sometimes misspelled Anthony C. Sutton) and I have to say they're a great read for anybody wishing to make sense of world politics and the corruption that often accompanies it.
You have probably never heard of this guy purely on account of the controversial nature of his research. Despite extremely thorough documentation and sourcing in his books, major media establishments have, for four decades, steered as far away from Sutton as they can get. Character assassination in funded media is a consistent tool for persuading the public to turn a blind eye to researchers who try to expose corruption, but even this has only been used sparingly against Sutton, simply because there is very little in his writings that can be used against him. A policy of ignorance appears to have been the preferred approach. Thanks to the more insightful courage of a few smaller publishing houses, his work is still available to us.
The six books I've had the pleasure of reading from Sutton's works are – Wall Street And The Rise Of Hitler (1976), The War On Gold (1977), Trilaterals Over Washington (1978), Energy: The Created Crisis (1979), The Best Enemy Money Can Buy (1986), and America's Secret Establishment (1986). Each of these cuts through establishment media spin and gets straight to the core issues – who funds what through which organizations and how they profit. It makes for some rather disturbing reading.
In particular, The Best Enemy Money Can Buy offers extensive documented evidence that western corporations consistently sold weapons technology and raw materials to the communist Soviet regime during the cold war. According to Sutton, the cold war Soviet military machine would not have been able to develop to anywhere near the levels it did without this treasonous support from our own back yards. The very weapons sold to enemies of the west would later be used to kill US forces in Vietnam, yet these companies were not held to account.
If you thought that was bad then read Wall Street And The Rise Of Hitler. Once again Sutton reveals how "enemies" of the western world are often covertly supported by powerful players in our own backyards who wish to reap the economic and political benefits of engineered war. Some of the evidence in this book resurfaced in 1994 via journalist John Buchanan, which was then reported on by The Guardian newspaper in london.
The War On Gold is a powerful expose of modern monetary systems. Sutton gives a historical overview of how gold backed currencies have always protected economies from inflation, with the 800 year Gold based Byzantine empire as a prime example of economic endurance. In recent times a propaganda war has been waged against Gold as a basis of currency, and in its place has emerged hyper-inflationary FIAT paper currencies, first used in Ancient China.
The other books mentioned above are equally powerful and convincing.
A plus also has to go to Sutton for the accessibility of his books. He is concise and to the point and does not embellish his writings with vague and unnecessary jargon. He maps out key organizations and family names that are consistently linked to corrupt activities. He also has the courage to name key individuals directly, often with their names in bold type, so that his readership know who exactly to hold responsible.
It's a shame these books aren't required reading in modern economic and political circles. If you want a good foundation in the mechanisms of our current economic problems and their potential solutions, Antony C. Sutton's your man. His books aren't the easiest to get hold of, but they're worth the effort to find. Abibris is a good source.


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The young in India are re-inventing, and MTV India organised the MTV Youth Marketing Forum to provide clues on how to de-code them. This year, the forum's focus was on 'The Curious Minds' study which has thrown some interesting insights on how today's young people are evolving.
Explaining the theme 'The Curious Minds' further, Aditya Swamy, Executive Vice President and Business Head, MTV India, said, "Curious Minds is the largest insight study we have commissioned in terms of the spread of the study. We have brought in fresh new techniques to collect and analyse the data. The headline of what has emerged is that today young people are using their curiosity to curate their lives. It was a great pleasure for me to share this with our business partners in order to build a strong connect with young people through cutting edge content. Think Young, Think MTV."
Every year, MTV undertakes a massive research to understand what makes its core audience – the youth- make the choices that they do. The findings and insights gathered from this research are then presented through interactive seminars and presentations every year at the MTV Youth Marketing Forum, thus making it the ultimate word on the youth. This year, MTV had conversations with more than 11,000 young people across more than 40 cities across Sec A& B in India to find out what exactly what makes them tick. MTV spoke to youth between 13-25 years of age, as the definition of youth is getting stretched.
This year at the Forum, MTV invited some of the best known marketers, trend hunters and thought leaders from across the globe to come together and dissect the bold and ever-changing world of the youth. The day saw trend presentations and interactive sessions delivered by content creators, brand bosses and everything in between.
This year's line-up of speakers included:
Irfan van Ewijk – Founding Member of ID&T
Steven Sos – Regional Sales Director, Shazam Entertainment
Heather Smith – Board Chair, Rock The Vote
Christian Kurz – VP – Research, Insights and Reporting, Viacom International
Shashi Tharoor, Member of Parliament
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Filmmakers, and not just those do animated features, could and should take a few lessons in storytelling from Japan's Hayao Miyazaki.
The creator of such animated delights as "My Neighbor Totoro," "Laputa: Castle in the Sky" and "Kiki's Delivery Service" has found a way to tell an engrossing story and still sneak in subtle messages; a fervent environmentalist and humanist, Miyazaki encourages the audience to be kinder to the Earth and to each other.
His latest, the magical fantasy "Spirited Away," may showcase the master animator/filmmaker at the top of his craft. It's perplexing but always enthralling. And it's one of most beautiful animated films in recent memory one that, refreshingly, doesn't rely on digital trickery.
That said, it's not necessarily family-oriented. The story and characters are peculiar, and there are some images that could scare sensitive young ones. And at more than two hours, it might test their patience as well.
However, animation fans especially devotees of Japanese anime are in for a real treat. (This English-language version also involves another animation master, Pixar's John Lasseter, who oversaw the film's dubbing.)
The story echoes "Alice in Wonderland" and "The Wizard of Oz" as it follows 10-year-old schoolgirl Chihiro (voiced by Daveigh Chase) when she and her parents move to a new city. Chihiro is at them, and at life in general. En route, the family gets lost, and off the beaten path they find a mysterious temple leading to what appears to be an abandoned amusement park. As it turns out, it's actually an entrance to another world.
In short order, Chihiro's gluttonous parents are transformed into pigs, and Chihiro suddenly finds herself hiding from bizarre animal spirits and other creatures. Fortunately, she finds a sympathetic ear in Haku (Jason Marsden), an enigmatic youth who isn't exactly who or what he appears to be.
It would be unfair to disclose more of the plot; suffice to say that it features several more bizarre but enchanting twists. Unlike his most recent effort, the environmental fantasy "Princess Mononoke," "Spirited Away" also features much more of Miyazaki's trademark whimsical humor.
Miyazaki and his animation team have outdone themselves with the rendering of characters in lush pastels and the backgrounds in tones that resemble watercolors.
Also, the English-language voice cast was well-chosen; the performers don't use the bland monotone delivery that marred the dubbed version of "Princess Mononoke." Chase, also heard as voice of Lilo in "Lilo & Stitch," makes Chihiro distinctive and likable, and the film makes good use of Suzanne Pleshette's throaty delivery (she does, not just one, but two characters).
"Spirited Away" is rated PG for animated violence, some mild vulgar humor (flatulence gags), scattered use of mild profanity (religiously based) and glimpses of nude figures. Running time: 124 minutes.
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Cape Town - Hashim Amla has emerged as the leading candidate ahead of AB de Villiers to take over the Proteas Test leadership from Graeme Smith.
The official announcement is scheduled for 12.30pm on Tuesday in Johannesburg, shortly after a Cricket South Africa board meeting where the credentials of Amla, ODI captain De Villiers and Twenty20 skipper Faf du Plessis will be discussed. Amla flew back to South Africa over the weekend after a short stint at English county championship team Surrey, where he ironically replaced the injured Smith, who retired from all international cricket last March after a decade at the helm.
The Cape Times understands that at this stage Amla is the preferred applicant due to his vast experience (76 Tests), astute tactical awareness, esteem with which he is regarded within the Proteas environment and his renowned batting skill. Amla would also be South Africa's first official black Test captain, a fact that cannot be ignored, especially as the country's sports minister Fikile Mbalula has recently become more vigilant in the quest to transform sports such as rugby and cricket.
De Villiers was previously touted as the "heir apparent" to Smith's throne, with the exceptionally talented 30-year-old serving as vice-captain in the longest format for the past couple of years. He also previously declared that he is "ready" for the increased responsibility, unlike Amla, who has distanced himself from leadership roles in the past.
However, Amla has had a change of heart since Smith and Jacques Kallis's retirement from the Test side, believing "it is a good time for me, if appointed, to add value to the team".
Team strategy also has to be considered due to De Villiers also fulfilling the double role of wicket-keeper/batsman in the Test side - a duty that he has already forfeited in both limited-overs formats due to the emergence of Quinton de Kock. He has stated that he would have to quit the gloves if made captain in the longest version of the game.
Although the young Highveld Lions star is expected to be included in the Test party for Sri Lanka, which is also being named on Tuesday, experience is required in such a crucial position due to the spate of retirements last summer.
Installing Amla as captain would allow De Villiers to continue behind the stumps, especially as contrary to popular belief, his batting average is actually higher since taking over the gloves. De Villiers has scored 1 823 runs, which includes six centuries, in 21 Tests at an average of 56.96 when he's kept wicket, compared to his overall average of 51.94.
Du Plessis's credentials as a future leader rose at the World T20 after leading the Proteas through some close encounters, which ultimately climaxed at the semi-final stage. The former Affies prodigy, though, is believed to have slipped down the pecking order since Amla made himself available due to his lack of Test-match experience. Du Plessis has only played 14 Tests.
The process of appointing the new captain will see CSA chief executive Haroon Lorgat make a presentation to the CSA Board of Directors to put forward the national selection panel's views. The Board will then hold a discussion, where they will either reach a consensus or vote independently for the nominee of their choice.
CSA last appointed a Test captain back in 2004 when they made the bold decision of appointing a 23-year-old who "has no baggage", with then-chief executive Gerald Majola saying "we are venturing into new terrain".
With Smith leading the Proteas in a world-record 109 Tests and to the No 1 ICC World Test ranking during that period, it would be fair to say South African cricket is entering a new era regardless of who spins the coin on July 16 on the morning of the first Test against Sri Lanka in Galle.
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Florida pitcher Dontrelle Willis throws a strike in the first inning of the Marlins' 3-1 win over Philadelphia.
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PHILADELPHIA - Dontrelle Willis allowed an unearned run in 6 2/3 innings, leading the Florida Marlins to their 11th straight victory over the Philadelphia Phillies 3-1 Tuesday night.
Willis (3-0) struck out in his first at-bat, snapping his streak of 10 consecutive hits, dating to last season and including the playoffs.
But Florida's hitters gave him all the runs he'd need to stop the Phillies' four-game winning streak.
The NL Rookie of the Year gave up four hits, struck out three and walked none. He hasn't allowed an earned run in his three starts, spanning 1913 innings.
Willis finished 0-for-3 at the plate after going 3-for-3 in each of his first two starts, including a home run last week.
Expos 2, Mets 1: In New York, Jose Vidro led off the eighth inning with a tiebreaking home run and the Montreal Expos snapped an eight-game losing streak.
Montreal had been on its worst skid since the 2000 season. The Expos are the first team to not score more than four runs in any of its first 14 games since the 1988 Texas Rangers, according to the Elias Sport Bureau.
Zach Day (1-1) limited the Mets to four hits in seven innings. Luis Ayala pitched the eighth, and Rocky Biddle needed just six pitches to complete the four-hitter and get his third save in three chances.
David Weathers (1-1) relieved Al Leiter to start the eighth and Vidro, his first batter, connected on a 3-2 pitch.
Cubs 9, Pirates 1: In Pittsburgh, Alex Gonzalez homered, doubled and drove in four runs and the Chicago Cubs beat up on Ryan Vogelsong for the second time in a week, defeating the Pittsburgh Pirates.
Corey Patterson, Todd Walker and Michael Barrett also homered to back Carlos Zambrano (2-0). The Cubs won for the fifth time in seven games and ended the Pirates' three-game winning streak.
Brewers 4, Diamondbacks 2: In Milwaukee, Lyle Overbay and Junior Spivey, two of the six players the Milwaukee Brewers got for Richie Sexson, each had three hits in the win over Arizona.
Altogether, the four everyday starters who came over in the Sexson trade went 8-for-16 with Craig Counsell and Chad Moeller also collecting singles against their former team.
Sexson went 0-for-4 with two strikeouts.
Arizona lost second baseman Roberto Alomar for an undetermined about of time with a broken bone in his right hand when he was hit by a pitch from Ben Sheets (3-0) in the sixth inning.
Geoff Jenkins homered off Elmer Dessens (0-2).
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Red Sox 4, Blue Jays 2: In Toronto, Pedro Martinez beat Roy Halladay for the second time this month in a matchup of Cy Young Award winners.
Martinez (2-1) retired 15 of his first 17 batters, allowing two runs and five hits, and Keith Foulke pitched a perfect ninth for his fourth save, completing a five-hitter.
Halladay (1-3) gave up three runs and nine hits in six innings. While Boston won for the fourth time in five games. Toronto lost its fourth straight and dropped to 3-10, matching its worst start (1981).
Orioles 9, Devil Rays 1: In Baltimore, Sidney Ponson (2-0) needed just 88 pitches in a four-hitter, and Rafael Palmeiro drove in three runs as Baltimore won its fifth straight.
Melvin Mora homered, and Miguel Tejada and Javy Lopez both had three hits.
Royals 15, Indians 5: In Cleveland, Matt Stairs' eighth grand slam followed an intentional walk to Juan Gonzalez. Stairs matched a career-high with six RBIs, helping Kansas City end a six-game road losing streak.
Brian Anderson (1-0) became the first Royals' starter to win, allowing four runs - two earned - and seven hits in six innings.
Twins 6, Tigers 4: In Minneapolis, Lew Ford, Michael Ryan and Nick Punto each drove in two runs to lead the Twins to their sixth straight victory.
Ryan, a seldom-used outfielder who beat out Ford this spring as the last position player on the roster, went 3-for-3 for the Twins.
Rondell White hit a two-run homer, his second in as many games, to give the Tigers a 2-1 lead in the fourth inning.
Carlos Guillen put them up 4-3 with a two-run single in the sixth, but starter Jason Johnson (1-3) couldn't hold it.
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A Chicago foodservice distributor has installed a wind turbine at its new environmentally-friendly distribution center.
Testa Produce Inc. installed a 750-kilowatt turbine at its center in the Chicago Stockyards Industrial Park May 7, according to a company news release.
The turbine is expected to generate 950,000 to 1 million kilowatt hours of energy annually, enough to supply 35% to 40% of the 91,000 square-foot facilityâs needs.
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A Gauteng father will have to live with the fact that he killed his beloved daughter in a case of mistaken identity during an attempted robbery by unknown intruders.
The case closely mirrors that of former Springbok Rudi "Vleis" Visagie, who shot and killed his only daughter Marlé on May 24, 2004, after mistaking her for a car thief.
Glenn Boshoff, of Centurion, could be charged with culpable homicide, according to the police, after the Friday morning tragedy.
According to the man's brother-in-law, Jannie Maritz, Boshoff shot Edith, 8, known as Edi, through the closed door of his bedroom in a gated complex. Edi, a Grade 2 pupil, was hit in the head and died in hospital a short time later.
"My brother and his wife, Adele, are broken," said Maritz.
The police said Boshoff was woken by the sound of his dogs' frantic barking at around 3.30am. He went to investigate and reportedly saw an armed intruder at the foot of the staircase. A second man was climbing through a window.
"He screamed to his wife to fetch his gun, and then ran back into their bedroom, slammed the door and removed his gun from the safe," said a spokesman.
Alerted by his father's cries, the couple's teenage son, Trevor, locked himself in his bedroom.
A terrified Edi ran to her parent's room for reassurance, but when her father saw the door handle to the room moving, he fired the fatal shot.
Police believe there were at least six intruders involved in the attempted robbery, but at the time of going to press none had been apprehended.
The girl was rushed to the Life Unitas Hospital in the early hours of Friday in a critical condition.
Hospital spokeswoman Isobel Fowler said the girl died at about 11am.
The girl's parents were severely traumatised and the hospital had arranged for them to see a counsellor.
Carin Clemons, a neighbour of the stricken family, said it was the fourth break-in at the complex. The electric fence around the property was not switched on because building work was in progress.
The only item removed from the Boshoffs' home was a handbag.
The Director of Public Prosecution will wait until the investigation has been concluded before deciding whether to proceed with a charge of culpable homicide against the grieving father.
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I am a great fan of The Paris Review for the simple reason that they play the really big game. You get to read the great novelists talking about art, or about the works of other great novelists, and about what they think of the novel form, at times even how they became writers, how they plan their day, sometimes the light in which they see their own works, the frightening hardships of being a full-time writer, and very rarely a bit about themselves.
This quote I found is particularly-delightful and I feel like sticking it on top of John Banville's essay in The Guardian in place of the intro that says: "An allegory of the fallen man's predicament, or an expression of guilt at a tormented love affair? John Banville explores the story behind Kafka's great novel of judgment and retribution." The replacement: "By the way, do you realize that people don't know how to read Kafka simply because they want to decipher him? Instead of letting themselves be carried away by his unequaled imagination, they look for allegories and come up with nothing but clichés: life is absurd (or it is not absurd), God is beyond reach (or within reach), et cetera. You can understand nothing about art, particularly modern art, if you do not understand that imagination is a value in itself."
The undisputed classic of American literature, The Great Gatsby, opens with F. Scott Fitzgerald's narrator saying: "In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since.' Whenever you feel like criticising anyone,' he told me, 'just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.'
He didn't say anymore, but we've always been unusually communicative in a reserved way, and I understood that he meant a great deal more than that. In consequence, I'm inclined to reserve all judgments, a habit that has opened up many curious natures to me and also made me the victim of not a few veteran bores. …Reserving judgments is a matter of infinite hope. I am still a little afraid of missing something if I forget that, as my father snobbishly suggested, and I snobbishly repeat, a sense of the fundamental decencies is parcelled out unequally at birth. And, after boasting this way of my tolerance, I come to the admission that it has a limit. Conduct may be founded on the hard rock or the wet marshes, but after a certain point I don't care what it's founded on."
One of Chekhov's works, The Robbers, appeared in Suvorin's New Times in 1890 and the publisher reproached Chekhov for his 'objectivity' (that is, lack of 'message'), and Chekhov responded with a tired irony: 'You tell me off for my objectivity, calling it indifference to good and evil … When I depict horse thieves, you want me to say that stealing horses is wrong. But surely this has been long known without me saying so. Let the jury condemn them, but it is my job simply to show them as they are.'
Different cultures, different times, complete contrast in social life and yet we have the two great writers speaking in their own way of the same thing: the suspension of moral judgment. Fitzgerald as a reflection linked to his narrator in the beginning of his great novel and Chekhov as a reply to his publisher. People who ask for the meaning and the message of a work of art are basically still sitting in their moral science class.
The first chapter of The Art of the Novel is a monologue by Kundera called The Depreciated Legacy of Cervantes. The history that began with Don Quixote setting off into a world he could no longer recognise. Cervantes (1547-1616) was a Spanish novelist whose magnum opus Don Quixote is considered the first modern European novel. The spirit of the novel is no longer confined to the geographical boundaries of Europe and the novel belongs to the world—to America, Latin America, India, Africa, Afghanistan, Turkey and to every other place in the world where an artist creates what can be called a novel; and wherever there is a reader who appreciates this supreme art form.
Kundera's other non-fiction work Testaments Betrayed is a masterful, musical evocation of the interior history of the novel. Consider this wonderful anecdote from it: Just as Rabelais starts his book by dropping Gargantua onto the world's stage from his mama's ear, so in The Satanic Verses after a midair plane explosion, Salman Rushdie's two heroes fall through the air chattering, singing, and carrying on in comic and improbable fashion. While "above, behind, below them in the void" float reclining seats, paper cups, oxygen masks, and passengers. The novel opens with that scene, for, like Rabelais, Rushdie knows that the contract between the novelist and the reader must be established from the outset; it must be clear: the story being told here is not serious, even though it is about the most dreadful things.
The marriage of the not-serious and the dreadful: witness this scene from Rabelais's Fourth Book: on the open sea Pantagruel's boat meets a ship full of sheep merchants; one of them, seeing Panurge with no codpiece and with his eye glasses fastened to his hat, takes the liberty of talking big and calls him a cuckold. Panurge is quick to retaliate: he buys a sheep from the fellow and throws it into the sea; it being their nature to follow the leader, all the other sheep start jumping into the water. In a panic, the merchants grab hold of the sheeps' fleece and horns, and are dragged into the sea themselves.
Panurge picks up an oar, not to save them but to keep them from climbing back onto the ship; eloquently, he exhorts them, describing the miseries of this world and the benefits and delights of the next, declaring that the dead are more fortunate than the living. Even so, should they by some chance prefer to go on living among humans, he wishes them a meeting with some whale, like Jonah. The mass drowning accomplished, the good Frere Jean congratulates Panurge, only reproaching him for having paid the merchant beforehand and thus thrown away money. Says Panurge: "By God, I got a good fifty thousand francs' worth of fun for it!"
Says Octavio Paz: "There is no humor in Homer or Virgil; Ariosto seems to foreshadow it, but not until Cervantes does humor take shape… Humor," he goes on, "is the great invention of the modern spirit." A fundamental idea: humor is not an age-old human practice; it is an invention bound up with the birth of the novel. Thus humor is not laughter, not mockery, satire, but a particular species of the comic, which, Paz says (and this is the key to understanding humor's essence), "renders ambiguous everything it touches." People who cannot take pleasure from the spectacle of Panurge letting the sheep merchants drown while he sings them the praises of the hereafter will never understand a thing about the art of the novel.
In the Fourth Book , there is a storm at sea. Everyone is on deck struggling to save the ship. All except Panurge, paralyzed with fear, who just whimpers: his great lamentations go on for pages. When the storm abates, his courage returns and he bawls all of them out for their laziness. And this is what's odd: not only does this coward, this liar, this faker, provoke no indignation, but it is at the peak of his braggadocio that we love him most. These are the passages wherein Rabelais's book becomes fully and radically a novel: that is, a realm where moral judgment is suspended. Suspending moral judgment is not the immorality of the novel; it is its morality.
The morality that stands against the ineradicable human habit of judging instantly, ceaselessly, and everyone; of judging before, and in the absence of, understanding. From the viewpoint of the novel's wisdom, that fervid readiness to judge is the most detestable stupidity, the most pernicious evil. Not that the novelist utterly denies that moral judgment is legitimate, but that he refuses it a place in the novel. If you like, you can accuse Panurge of cowardice; accuse Emma Bovary—that's your business; the novelist has nothing to do with it.
Kafka's art has been endlessly compared to what was going on in his life by dozens of scholars. It is an argument I am loath to accept because implicit in it is the charge that Kafka's writing was a result of his 'special circumstances'. Kafka had a very ordinary life; he was no Shackleton, and his experiences were roughly the kind that life offers many a people. Indeed, there are autobiographical inspirations everywhere but the point is Kafka's genius in using them to create something that the novel had never seen before and will perhaps never see again. Of course, Kafka wrote to his father that his writing was all about him but that line in the letter too is a brilliant ode to how he felt and not a literal fact suggesting that his father was somehow the reason for his unique and brilliant prose. "My writing was all about you; all I did there, after all, was to bemoan what I could not bemoan upon your breast."
Then there is the other interpretation that Kafka was some sort of a prophet as the world he created in his novels came into being a decade after his death in the form of Nazi Germany and a generation later plunged Europe into a totalitarian hell. No. The Trial does not anticipate the insanity of modern bureaucracy as many critics would have us believe. Kafka was a novelist and not a seer who somehow envisioned the rise of Hitler or knew that the Bolshevik Revolution would give way to mass exterminations in the gulags and lead Eastern Europe into a hell by showing it the promise of a heaven where all humanity would be equal and one.
Then comes Oneiric narrative. Or rather imagination freed from the control of reason and from concern for verisimilitude, ventures into landscapes inaccessible to rational thought. The question is how can 'uncontrolled' imagination be integrated into the novel, which by definition is supposed to be a lucid examination of existence? That calls for a real alchemy. Kundera believes that the first person to think of this alchemy was Novalis; he interpolated three dreams into his novel Heinrich von Ofterdingen. He wasn't satisfied as the three dreams, he felt, occurred like islands within the novel. He wanted to write a second volume in which dreams and reality were inseparable. But he never wrote that second volume and all we have are some notes describing his aesthetic project.
"It was realized a hundred and twenty years later, by Franz Kafka, whose novels are that seamless fusion of dream and reality. His novels: that supremely lucid gaze set on the modern world, along with the most unfettered imagination. Above all, Kafka represents an enormous aesthetic revolution. An artistic miracle." …Before Kafka, such density of imagination was inconceivable. The periods of the novel's history are very long (they have nothing to do with the hectic shifts of fashion) and are characterized by the particular aspect of being on which the novel concentrates. Thus the potential of Flaubert's discovery of the quotidian was only fully developed seventy years later in James Joyce's gigantic work.
It is often said that Kafka's novels express a passionate desire for community and human contact, that the rootless being who is K. has only one goal: to overcome the curse of solitude. This is not only a cliché, a reductive interpretation, it is a misinterpretation. The Land-Surveyor K. is not the least pursuing people and their warmth, he is not trying to become 'a man among men'; he wants acceptance not from a community but from an institution. To have it, he must pay dearly: he must renounce his solitude. And this is his hell: he is never alone; the two assistants sent by the Castle follow him always. When he first makes love with Frieda, the two men are there, sitting on the cafe counter over the lovers, and from then on they are never absent from their bed. Not the curse of solitude but the violation of solitude is Kafka's obsession.
This can be independently confirmed by Kafka's own life and his attitude towards his work; he spent most of his life in the noise of the Old Town of Prague and was fed up with it. Check this wonderful diary item. After the diagnosis of his tuberculosis, he went to stay with his favourite sister, Ottla, in Zürau, northwest of Prague, which was peaceful, healthy, and most of all for the hypersensitive-to-noise Kafka, quiet. Here he wrote what would become The Blue Octavo Notebooks, a collection of proverbs, thoughts and sketches. After eight months of what he later termed the happiest period in his life, he returned to Prague.
The great Czech poet Jan Skacel writes:Poets don't invent poems The poem is somewhere behind It's been there for a long long time The poet merely discovers it
Kafka made no prophecies. All he did was see what was "behind." He did not know that his seeing was also a fore-seeing. The hypnotic eye of power, the desperate search for one's own offence, exclusion and the anguish of being excluded, the condemnation to conformism, the phantasmic nature of reality and the magical reality of the file, the perpetual rape of private life, etc.—all these experiments that History has performed on man in its immense test tubes, Kafka performed (some years earlier) in his novels. The Kafkan (Kafkaesque essentially captures a situation and the world in which that situation comes out starkly is better represented by the word Kafkan) is not a sociological or a political notion. The Kafkan essentially is just a fundamental possibility for man and his world. It has been a possibility hidden behind in the dark somewhere always and Kafka discovered it.
"The convergence of the real world of totalitarian states with Kafka's "poems" will always be somewhat uncanny, and it will always bear witness that the poet's act, in it's very essence, is incalculable; and paradoxical: the enormous social, political, and "prophetic" import of Kafka's novels lies precisely in their "non-engagement", that is to say, in their total autonomy from all political programs, ideological concepts, and futurological prognoses. Indeed, if instead of seeking "the poem" hidden "somewhere behind" the poet "engages" himself to the service of truth known from the outset (which comes forward on its own and is "out in front"), he has renounced the mission of poetry. And it matters little whether the preconceived truth is called revolution or dissidence, Christian faith or atheism, whether it is more justified or less justified; a poet who serves any truth other than the truth to be discovered (which is dazzlement) is a false poet.
If I hold so ardently to the legacy of Kafka, if I defend it as my personal heritage, it is not because I think it worthwhile to imitate the inimitable (and rediscover the Kafkan) but because it is such a tremendous example of the radical autonomy of the novel (of the poetry that is the novel). This autonomy allowed Franz Kafka to say things about our human condition (as it revealed itself years after Kafka's death) that no social or political thought could ever tell us."
It is impossible to gauge how Kafka would have reacted to the translations of his works into other languages as he died even before they were published in their original form in German. Kundera is immensely-particular about the translations of his texts. My favourite Kundera novel is his first major work The Joke (originally published in Czech in 1967 under the title Žert), although I am also enamored by his most-famous work The Unbearable Lightness of Being, and his polyphonic novel The Book of Laughter and Forgetting. In 2008 Milan Kundera got embroiled in a controversy of gigantic personal and professional proportions. It was reported by all the big newspapers of the world and my contrarian views can be accessed via this link to my blog.
The earliest English translations of Kafka were done by Edwin and Willa Muir and published by Alfred A. Knopf. I was lucky to have read Kafka after the turn of the century and so I had access to the volumes that Penguin brought out under the broader theme of Modern Classics. In 1939, carrying a suitcase stuffed with Kafka's papers, Brod set out for Palestine on the last train to leave Prague; just five minutes before the Nazis closed the Czech border. Brod had not only saved his manuscripts from the fire; it seems he also packaged them. Brod presented a religious Kafka, and it was this Kafka that the Muirs translated for English-language audiences. Their Kafka was chiefly a religious allegorist, alienated from modern life and searching for something deeper and more secure. This was a massive distortion. Like much of Kafka's work the manuscripts had to be bought (an original manuscript of The Trial was auctioned in 1988 for $2 million). Felice Bauer withheld Kafka's letters for many years and then finally sold them in 1955 when she was confronting financial difficulties. Only Kafka's side of the correspondence remains.
On books Kafka said: "I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound or stab us. If the book we're reading doesn't wake us up with a blow to the head, what are we reading for? So that it will make us happy, as you write? Good Lord, we would be happy precisely if we had no books, and the kind of books that make us happy are the kind we could write ourselves if we had to. But we need books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us. That is my belief."
In 1998 Schocken Books published vital new translations of The Trial and The Castle and with Michael Hofmann's 2002 translation of Amerika: The Man Who Disappeared, the three big works based on restored German texts were available to the readers. Then with the publication in February 2008 of a new volume, Metamorphosis and Other Stories, also translated by Hofmann for Penguin Classics Deluxe Editions, this generation's major Kafka translations got completed. Check Benjamin Lytal's beautiful piece on the new translations for the New York Sun.


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Hebrides & Western Scotland
Photographs from two visits, one in 2004 (wet and windy) and in October 2015 ( mostly calm, dry and sunny).
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|We visited in October 2015 with friends from the US. Unlike my last trip the weather was wholly benign. And this time with FF digital rather than 5x4 film. Times have changed.
|A portfolio arising from a wet and windy week in the Outer Hebrides in 2004.


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San Marcos stands to lose $20.2 million this fiscal year and $4.2 million next year if the state follows through with its plan to dip into redevelopment funds California's cities and counties have accumulated, San Marcos officials said this week.
The plan is part of a budget deal that California's legislators approved last month.
Designed to help close a $26 billion state deficit, the plan would allow the state to take a total of $1.7 billion away from cities' and counties' redevelopment agencies this year and $350 million next year.
The state would use the money to backfill the amount of money California is legally required to provide to its school districts.
State finance officials have said it makes sense for California to dip into redevelopment agencies' coffers because many of them have built up significant reserves that can help avoid cuts to education.
However, city spokeswoman Jenny Peterson said the state "grab" would limit the city's ability to carry out projects it has spent years planning and saving for.
Budgets that the City Council approved earlier this year gave the city's redevelopment agency roughly $65.3 million to work with this fiscal year and about $65.2 million next year.
The construction of bridges and other infrastructure needed for the highly anticipated Creek District development is one of the projects that could be affected if the city loses money to the state, Peterson said. Approved by the City Council in 2007, the Creek District would add a mix of housing, stores, restaurants and public spaces along a section of San Marcos Creek.
"It's the building blocks that we're trying to get in place," Peterson said, referring to the infrastructure . "And the slower that goes, the slower the whole project goes."
Planned improvements at the Woodland Parkway-Highway 78 interchange and on Discovery Street are among the other projects that could be delayed, she said.
The county, California Redevelopment Association, the League of California Cities and other entities and agencies are considering a lawsuit challenging the state's plan.
San Marcos finance Director Liliane Serio said the redevelopment money that San Marcos expects to lose is in addition to about $10.5 million worth of property tax revenue the city has already lost to the state since 1992. The state had promised to repay those funds but has yet to so do, she said.
Serio said no promises are being made about the redevelopment money, which the city is expected to hand over by May.
This is not the first time California has dipped into the city's redevelopment funds. Serio said San Marcos sent more than $8.3 million to Sacramento from 1992 to 1995 and from 2002 to 2006.
"So we're not very happy with them," she said. "It's like you and me, and we both have our separate bank accounts. And then I'm broke because I've overspent and I go to you and say, 'Give me $10,000.' And you have to give it to me. You don't have any choice. It's just insane."
Call staff writer Andrea Moss at 760-739-6654.


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FUKUOKA — Jose Reyes rolled into Japan a week ago unable to speak a word of Japanese.
Japan-MLB series on Wednesday at Yahoo Dome. MLB won 5-3 and swept the five-game exhibition series.
Reyes hit a sayonara two-run home run in the 10th inning, giving MLB a 5-3 win on Wednesday at Yahoo Dome in the final game of Nichibei Yakyu.
That's a 5-0 sweep and three words in the Dominican shortstop's third language.
"We came all the way over here from the United States to win," the New York Met said.
Facing Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagle Hisashi Ogura, Reyes homered to right field, scoring himself and Bill Hall.
"I was looking for a pitch to drive, and I put my best into the ball," Reyes said.
Scot Shields retired one batter in the top of the 10th to pick up the win.
MLB gave American baseball its first sweep in Japan since the minor-league San Francisco Seals went 7-0 during a 1949 tour. The 1955 New York Yankees went 15-0-1, the final time an American team didn't drop a game across the Pacific.
The last MLB sweep was the Babe Ruth-Lou Gehrig All-Stars in 1934, a 17-0 romp.
"When you look at the talent we brought here and you see the young talent and veterans, it doesn't surprise me what happened here," San Francisco Giants manager Bruce Bochy said. "You're not going to see better players in the world than you've seen here in the last week."
Reyes was the hero of Game 5, but Philadelphia Phillies first baseman Ryan Howard won the MVP award.
Howard drove in eight runs and hit four homers, including knocking in the tying run Wednesday and scoring MLB's first run of the night.
"I'm glad the fans were able to see me hit some home runs and that we could win the whole thing," Howard said.
"I got some pitches to hit and I was able to do something."
In Game 5, Howard did it against Hiroshima Carp righty Katsuhiro Nakagawa, who blew hometown hurler Tsuyoshi Wada's chance for a win.
Wada took a perfect game into the fifth when the MLB hitters finally got to him.
Who else but Howard led off the fifth with a single, scoring later in the frame on a Kenji Johjima single.
Wada had given up consecutive singles to David Wright and Johjima, and Hall made it three straight basehits, but Wright was thrown out at home on the play to end the inning.
Wada checked out with a run, four hits and six strikeouts in five innings, but the win would never come thanks to Nakagawa.
In the sixth, Reyes reached on a wild pitch on strike three, the speedster taking first base. Nakagawa then plunked Tadahito Iguchi, and after Jermaine Dye struck out, Howard's double knotted the score.
NPB had taken a 2-0 lead in the fourth inning, when Takahiro Arai and Shuichi Murata each hit solo homers against John Lackey, whose pitching line mirrored Wada's, save giving up two runs — four hits, no walks and six strikeouts in five innings.
Andruw Jones bailed out Lackey right on Howard's heels, blasting a sac fly to center field that scored Iguchi.
Johjima and Iguchi both were in the starting lineup for the first time of the Nichibei Yakyu series, although the two started in the exhibition game against the Yomiuri Giants last week.
The duo contributed to the tight win in front of their former home crowd both players were Fukuoka Softbank Hawks before heading to the majors.
MLB was lined up for a win without extra innings, but Colorado Rockies closer Brian Fuentes couldn't slam the door on NPB.
Murata singled with one out, and two batters later, Tomohiro Nioka knocked a pinch-hit single to give NPB two men on the board.
Hawks outfielder Naoyuki Omura singled to left to score Murata and knot the score.
Minnesota Twins closer Joe Nathan got out of the ninth, and Takahiro Mahara threw his second scoreless inning of relief in the bottom of the frame, keeping MLB at bay.
In the 10th, Nathan got into trouble thanks to a pair of Chiba Lotte Marines as first baseman Kazuya Fukuura singled and catcher Tomoya Satozaki hit a ground-rule double.
Shields got Fukuoka native Murata to fly out to Chone Figgins in right field to escape.
Eagles manager Nomura went to Ogura in the 10th, and the right-hander didn't retire a batter before the walls caved in.


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Wet or Dry
I like my Chicago style beef sandwich on the dry side but tend to leave the dry flies in the box. I bring them out on occasion on those perfect calm trout siping days and to get a giggle out of my five year old daughter when we are out fishing for gills. I think it is a confidence thing with me and fishing sub surface. Not to take anything away from the needed perfect presentation it takes with dries but I enjoy the concentration level needed to connect with a fish where the strike is unseen. Can't tell you how many times when I first started I felt a strike and by the time it transferred all I could think of was "dang that was a strike, Dang that was a strike, Dang that was a strike!" What do you guys and gals tend to get of the box more often? I fish with a buddy that dang near only fishes surface. Can't tell you how many days he has said he would rather go home skunked than fish one of my nymphs or streamers!
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For trout, I prefer to fish surface mostly because I only have small trout streams anywhere close to me. They are more willing to take surface flies in smaller streams than in bigger rivers, IMO
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Everybody has their preferred fishing style. I would rather be versatile and increase my chances of catching fish. Your friend isn't wrong though. IMO whatever makes fishing a success for him is how he should approach it.
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Its a passion of mine to throw dries in small streams......
With that being said. I still let the fish decide what they want and adjust accordingly.
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There is no doubt fishing dries is fun, however nothing gives me more pleasure
than throwing big meaty streamers for big meaty trout!
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My go to is dry fly fishing, followed closely by throwing streamers, and then nymphing.
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Here is the answer to your question. I tend to fish subsurface flies more often. Usually conditions will dictate this.
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Trout do 80% of there feeding below the surface. Number varies as to which study(ies) you consult. I fish soft hackles unless they aren't working, then wets, then micro streamer, then streamers then dries.
Dries take some of the fun out of it for me, but that is just me. I'll dose up a soft hackle with floatant before I tie on a dry. (I would would guess I am carrying 9 sub-surface flies for every dry I am carrying.)
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Here's the read on Glossoma Caddis by Ralph Cutter.
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I'm bi! I'll tie a dropper nymph to a dry fly.:D That's just to see what they want. Once I do, the trout decide. If it were up to me I prefer dries, but I want to catch fish, not just watch a dry fly float, so I'm happy with nymphs and streamers. In warm water, I tend to go with streamers over poppers as I think they are more productive over all.
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