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Olivier Lortholary is Professor and Chair of the Department of Infectious and Tropical Diseases at the Hôpital Necker-Enfants Malades, Paris, France. He is also Section Head for Invasive Fungal Infections Faculty of 1000, part of the Infectious Diseases Faculty of the Institut Pasteur, Paris, France, where he serves as Deputy Director of the National Reference Center for Mycoses and Antifungals. Professor Lortholary serves as Co-director of the International Postgraduate School of Medical Mycology at the Institut Pasteur. Professor Lortholary received his medical degree from the Paris University VI, France, in 1990 and was awarded a PhD in Mycology in 1999 at the Institut Pasteur. He is a member of the Infectious Diseases Society of North America and of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases(ESCMID). He is also a founder member of the European Fungal Infections Study Group of the ESCMID. He has contributed to several clinical trials and numerous translational research projects as an Investigator and also as Study Director, and acts as Expert for the 2013 French Ministry of Health HIV Guidelines. Professor Lortholary has authored over 495 referenced publications and three books, and has participated in many plenary sessions at international microbiology and infectious disease congresses. His key research interests include the pathophysiology, innovative diagnostic strategy and new therapeutic approaches of fungal infections in immunocompromised and neutropenic hosts, and in transplant patients, cryptococcosis, mucormycosis and other infectious diseases. He is a member of the 2009 ECIL Mucormycosis Guidelines, the 2010 IDSA Cryptococcal Guidelines Experts Panel, and the 2012 ESCMID Candida Guidelines, and Co-coordinator of the 2013 ESCMID Rare Yeasts Guidelines.


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I didn't want you to think that I ran off to Hawaii and forgot all about our Craft: along project this month because I didn't.
I totally made the Ginger Spa Cookies that don't really taste all that gingery but are still very good and, now, mostly gone from the recently very full cookie jar.
I believe there was behavior such as this to blame for the jar's current status. Which is to say, empty.
Which is fine since we leave soon for vacation and I can't have cookies going stale in the house while we live in swim suits for a week and eat ourselves insane with pineapple and fresh caught fish and coconuts from the tree out front.
I can't have it I tell you! The thought of staling cookies haunts me from afar!
Ok, not really, but you know I don't like waste.
And that is why I went out to the garden last night and harvested my fingers to the bone so that I could abandon the dog at my mom's house with a bag full of produce and so that I could surreptitiously drop a bag of produce next to the Reformer in my Pilates class for my instructor and be all WHOOPSY what do you mean you didn't need 5 lbs of tomatoes?
I'm very sly and clever, don't you know.
Melissa - please come pick vegetables.
Anyway, I'm happy to report that the cookies have been baked, eaten and requested for a rematch. This time with more ginger.
I'm also happy to say that I will peace out for a week now and then come back and do Craft: Along September which may include some different kinds of crafting (plus sewing DON'T FREAK OUT) since I am feeling the need for adventure - in the crafting sense. We'll see. Perhaps kayaking during cocktail hour will quench my need for adventure...


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Grassland vegetation is either the most widespread vegetation type or an otherwise significant vegetation type all across the American Southwest. For example, in the Southern Plains it is the most widespread vegetation type, and in the Chihuahuan Desert it comprises about 30% of the land area. Grasses are uniquely able to thrive without the benefit of a canopy and with major disturbance processes such as drought, fire, and grazing. In contrast to most plants, which grow at their tips, grasses grow from their base and have an extensive root system. Sensitive growth tissues remain below the soil and are protected from disturbance. The extensive root system allows for regrowth after disturbances and can extract moisture deep below ground during time of drought. Exotic species invasions, overgrazing, fire suppression, and soil erosion have all contributed to arid grassland degradation.
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Loud, massive, ecstatic, modern. Calm, elegant, majestic, traditional. Frenzy and serenity. A self-portrait? An allegory of life? Between 1909 and 1911 the British composer Edward Elgar wrote an intriguing symphony in E-flat Major, op. 63. I heard it yesterday night for the very first time at the Philharmonie de Luxembourg. I did not like it. It was not the orchestra's fault. I will have to listen to it again. Soon. And then perhaps I will know what to think about it. I have an idea that there is something great hidden in this piece. But I didn't find it yesterday.
Elgar usually knew what he was doing after all. He was an accomplished musician and a self-taught composer. In 1919, he composed a wonderful cello concert (op. 85), that I have discussed in an earlier post. For this symphony, his second, the composer went back to sketches for a symphonic work honouring the British general Charles Gordon, known for his fight against the trade of African slaves. When Elgar was done, he had written a symphony in four movements with brutal contrasts. He dedicated it to King Edward II. It didn't meet much success at its premiere. It met little enthusiasm from the audience yesterday evening.
Elgar qualified the symphony as one of his most personal works. The second movement takes up painful memories. On one of the pages of the score, he quotes the Romantic writer Percy Shelley: "Rarely, rarely, comest thou, Spirit of Delight." The poem speaks of the two extremes of joyous ecstasy and brooding despair. The symphony expresses these two extremes too, through its form and… through the music? I don't know yet. It is an intriguing piece. I will have to listen to it again. Downloading now.
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It's been a while since my first-hand experience with Elgar's Symphony No. 2 in E-flat Major, op. 63, and as I had promised, I have listened to this piece of music now several more times. I stand corrected: This is a fantastic piece!


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The Good Doctor Guillotin
The lives of five men converge in on one epochal event – the first use of the guillotine as a method of capital punishment in Revolutionary France. The book follows the paths of each of these men – the first customer of the device, his priest, the executioner, the builder of the device, and its designer, the good doctor as they come together on that lovely spring day in 1792.
The book is an interesting mix of fiction, essay, and authorial intrusion, a blend of philosophy, modern political commentary, and historical fiction. The dialog is mannered – more a vehicle for philosophical concepts than human interaction – and the writing overall is not easy, but certainly interesting and at times even elegant.
As a polemic against the death penalty, it is effective; as an historical novel, somewhat less so. While the details of life under the Ancien Régime, and then under the Revolution, were graphic and convincing, I felt held somewhat at a distance – as though I was being read a report or a philosophical treatise about the Revolution, and not brought into the story itself. That said, I would still recommend this book for readers with an interest in Revolutionary France, and those looking for a more challenging philosophical read.


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Nuestro Camino
Public Hi-Fi Records, 2013
Nuestro Camino was made the old fashioned way. A few players, well acquainted with and sympathetic to each other, got together in a good-sounding room to run through a set of songs, and a talented producer/engineer got the results down, in real time, on tape. Certain details were, of course, changed. The session did not take place in Rudy Van Gelder's New Jersey living room; instead, Jim Eno captured the sounds at his Public Hi-Fi Studio in Austin, Texas. The modern day Ben Dixon is drummer Kyle Thompson. In lieu of Baby Face Willette or John Patton, we hear Mike Flanigin, a Hammond organ maestro who regularly plays blues with Jimmie Vaughan at the Continental Club, and lays down serious funk behind Mike Barfield. Rather than Grant Green, Jake Langley–whose versatility has been shown through his work with artists as diverse as Pinetop Perkins and Cindy Cashdollar, and in his five years touring with Joey DeFrancesco–is on guitar.
Their band is called Dupree, and the music they make, refreshingly free of environmental contaminants and artificial additives formulated by modern science, is organ trio jazz in the best tradition: heavy on soul and standards; lowdown, yet often elegant; and clearly intended to move the body and spirit at least as much as the mind. Nuestro Camino is, quite simply, superb. Six songs make up the core of the album (more about that later). Greasy and propulsive, Flanigin's "The Turtle" recreates the blue beat sound of vintage soul jazz. Thompson's impossibly syncopated groove underpins the proceedings; Langley blends funky chording and Green-inspired single notes; and Flanigin builds tension mercilessly in his solo. The smoky blues "Malibu Classic" runs cooler, the B3 adding stabs and swells in the background as the guitar outlines the head and takes the first few lead choruses, mixing octaves, burbling note combinations, and fluid lines. Flanigin's organ solo is full of hip rhythmic displacements and winding phrases.
Cooler yet is the moody, minor lope "All Or Nothing At All." Thompson drops bombs throughout, giving the standard a rolling feel that sets the table for Langley's fleet lines and some beautiful work from Flanigin, who dials in a series of fantastic tones as he plays around the melody. In the invigorating "KC," Flanigin holds a pedal note beneath increasingly insistent lead lines to great effect; his overdriven tone is sure to induce ecstacy in B3 fanciers. Thompson's part is hard R&B, just a funky, displaced beat away from Motown's signature four-to-the-bar snare hits. The swinging "Leon's Thing" motors along nicely, Flanigin's trebly, hollow tone balancing Langley's rounder sound. A vaguely flamenco-flavored guitar introduction eases the trio into the exotic "Moto Guzzi," a sultry piece that evokes palm trees and tropical breezes, splitting the difference between Latin and tiki sounds.
Four bonus tracks round out the set. Langley submits "Nightcap," a mellow, swaying meditation. Tina Brooks's "David The King" and Horace Silver's "Cookin' At The Continental" shift the focus slightly, letting Dupree work out in hard bop settings. They excel here, too, playing with imagination and intensity while maintaining a solidly bluesy feel. The album's surprise pick hit, taking a page from later developments in soul jazz, when pop tunes provided new launch pads, is the Bacharach-David composition "Close To You," originally made famous by The Carpenters, here taken to church with beautiful tones and a subtle approach.
I began this piece by pointing out the project's throwback vibe. Probably nothing illustrates that more clearly than the fact that the CD edition was actually an afterthought. The bonus tracks, included on the CD, are available as downloads to those who purchase the LP or 8-track versions of Dupree's album. Yes, you read that correctly: the recording is available on 8-track tape. In any format the listener chooses, Nuestro Camino is wildly successful at extending the organ trio tradition. The album feels great and sounds incredible; its music is perfect for driving, for dim-light chilling, or for intensive listening. Dupree has it going on in every department: creativity, chops, groove, dynamics, tone, and songs. Highest recommendation.
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By Nicole Dean
My coaching clients know that I am wicked dedicated to helping them develop recurring income that they can count on from month to month so there is NO feast and famine (only feast!).
There are several ways they can accomplish this (which I'll get into a bit) but my #1 and #2 "let's do this" goals for them are to:
1. Earn enough to pay for their coaching. Because why not, right? I don't want them in a financial pinch while we're making progress.
2. Earn enough additional recurring income to pay for their business and base personal expenses each month. (Mortgage, car payment, utilities, etc.) I find it's much easier to be creative when I'm not worried about if I can pay my bills to survive. (You think?!)
After that, it's just fun to grow for the extra play money for travel, investing, etc. (I put several thousand each month into my SEP automatically – mostly from recurring income. I use this service to make it easy.)
So, HOW do you earn recurring income?
There are a bunch of ways but I'm going to focus on one today (one of my favorites). If you guys like this, I may get into a few more.
Promote Awesome (Recurring) Stuff as an Affiliate.
One of my favorite ways to grow recurring income streams is to find a awesome product or software that's a recurring program – and see if it has a great recurring affiliate program.
In fact, I'm still getting monthly payments from two launches that I promoted back in 2005. Yes, you read that right. 13 years later, and money is still coming in. (To be 100% honest, it's not as much as when I first promoted, but it is still coming in.)
No matter what niche you are in, there are membership site owners who need members.
If they're smart (and a lot of them aren't.. but I'll save that rant for another day), they'll offer a generous affiliate program that is recurring as long as the person who you referred remains a paying member.
They key notes to take from that part above is that:
The product or software should be something REALLY good.
It should be related to what your audience wants to hear about from you. (For instance, if I found a great program for a "Toupee of the Month" club, I would not promote it to my lists. You guys signed up to hear about leveraging your business and life – not for toupee resources.)
The owners / people in charge should offer an affiliate program that pays you recurring for people who you send their way.
The people who sign up through your link should be happy and want to stay!
Example 1: Software for Business
We all need and love software. Why do you think I keep telling you about my "Tools I Use to Run My Business" page? Because so many of the things I use and recommend are services that also happen to have recurring affiliate programs.
For instance, these all are recurring:
ConvertKit – I recently left the service I used since 2005 to manage all my newsletters, ecourses, and ezines. (If you get any emails from me, they now come through this safe list managing service.) They are marketing-friendly, easy to use, and I'm getting a lot of flexibility that I've always wanted.
Thrive Leads – I used to get really frustrated if I wanted to put an optin for in the middle of a blog post. Or I'd see all these other site with cool drop downs with freebies to get people to optin. Thrive Leads is how a lot of them are doing it. PLUS split testing is built in. (I use this WITH ConvertKit, rather than using the forms ConvertKit provides.) We just moved Beachpreneurs.com to Thrive Leads.
LeadPages – I love Leadpages. Honestly, though, for the cost and flexibility, look at Thrive instead. You get a lot more for less cost, with tons of added flexibility.
I recommend them because I use them myself.
Example 2: Cindy Bidar, Training Membership Site
My coaching client, Cindy Bidar, has been having GREAT success selling her marketing checklists and social media checklists.
People kinda love them. She had her highest month ever in August, but had a desire for a more steady income stream.
So, we brainstormed and decided to enhance her checklists concept into a monthly program.
She came up with something really special.
It comes with:
- Training – a video training session covering a topic about marketing your business
- Checklists – step-by-step checklists to make sure you don't miss a step or get overwhelmed.
- Templates – emails, pages, scripts, that you might need to do the monthly task.
- A FB group where Cindy is personally actively answering questions.
You can BET I started promoting it the day it was ready.
Why? Because first of all, it's Cindy, so it'll be FREAKING awesome. I love her. I trust her. I value her knowledge. So, of course, I want to bring her in front of my audience.
Remember Rule #1? The product must be QUALITY before you promote it. 🙂
But also, because of what I just told you about. RECURRING INCOME for me!
Think about it. It's $27/month, so that's $13.50/month PER PERSON who signs up coming to me.
While $13.50/month may not sound like a lot, if I send her 100 members, that's $1350/month of PURE profit for me.
Again, that may not sound like a ton of money in the scope of things, but that's an extra $16,200 a year.
Just by telling my audience about something freaking awesome!
If you reach people who are interested in business, I highly suggest you sign up for Cindy's affiliate program and start promoting her checklists which lead to the recurring program. 🙂
You may be shaking your head wondering why I would be telling you to sign up for an affiliate program that I'm promoting? Why would I want more affiliates (competition) selling the same thing I am?
I'll tell you about that another day. It's another form of passive and recurring income that brings in moola every day for me. Go sign up and we can both promote and profit.
Example #3: Coach Glue – Done-for-You Content
Of course, I would be totally silly if I didn't tell you that my site, CoachGlue.com has several awesome recurring programs AND we have, if I can be totally honest, one of the best affiliate programs around.
If you have an established business with an audience, and a list, check it out here.
We have tons of free promo content that you can use to promote and you'll get updates from me about all new programs. We love paying our affiliates. 🙂
Having an income base that I can count on has saved my sanity in so many ways.
When I've been sick and can't work, I can stay in bed.
When I've struggled with depression, I could focus on self care.
While I've dealt with hurricanes, floods, and tornadoes, (yes, all three) – I can deal with the problem at hand.
And I KNOW that I have money coming in. Can I just check out, go to Italy for 5 years and never open my computer again? No. My income would drop.
But… it would take a while. 🙂


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Depending on how you interpret statistics, it seems that 80% of people check their phones within fifteen minutes of waking up. I imagine them rummaging around under the duvet, growing more frantic if their fingers don't connect immediately with their precious device. An irrational fear of missing out on something that had happened over night, seems to override common sense. I know this feeling, because I was one of those people.
I'm looking out through my study window down to the river, pondering on those halcyon days before the internet sunk its claws into us. I'd be gently woken by the radio, tuned quietly to a local station while the Teasmade whirred into action. Fifteen minutes of uninterrupted time, before getting ready for work, always put me in the right frame of mind for the day. Nobody would have dreamt of phoning so early, unless in an emergency. An unspoken etiquette wrapped a framework around such intrusive behaviour.
Today's waking up times are shattered by compulsive tweeting and messaging. Just because everyone else seems to be plugged in, doesn't mean we have to be. Surely whatever feels so urgent can wait. Count to ten, breathe slowly and let that urge to respond in a flurry of righteous indignation dissipate.
I asked some sensible, grounded people I've met since I started my writing life, to share their post-waking up moments. Many are common sense but that doesn't mean they're common practice.
- Smile. A new day brings new possibilities and opportunities. John Fish, book reviewer, @TheLastWord1962 I love the idea of smiling the minute you wake up. It releases those feel good chemicals of serotonin and endorphins, lowering blood pressure and heart rate and… it costs nothing.
- Read a motivational quote and reflect on its meaning.
- Make tea into a pleasurable ritual – warm the pot, spoon in the tea leaves, wait for it to brew, pour into a favourite mug/cup. It encourages patience.
- Drink a glass of water. A great tip to start the day from Anne Coates, author of the Hannah Weybridge series. www.annecoatesauthor.com So simple, but how many of us do that on a regular basis? It fires up the metabolism and helps the body flush out toxins.
- Don't worry about what the day will bring. Reflect on the words of the Stoic philosopher, Seneca. Tomorrow will take care of itself, so take care of today, otherwise tomorrow will take ill-care of you today — thus losing today. If you lose today every-day, you are lost every-day.
- I walk around the garden with my second cup of tea. This makes it sound like I live in a National Trust property. I don't. It's a short walk but it's calming, depending upon overnight slug carnage. Tom Hocknell, Author of The Life Assistance Agency. https://amzn.to/2LrwMWC
- I lie on the floor and breathe slowly and deeply for five minutes whilst listening to soft piano music. Angelena Boden, Author. Life coach.
- I take the dogs into my field of the back of the house, lean on the gatepost and have a fag. Then it's black coffee time! Charles Evans, Artist, Author, TV presenter, Main demonstrator for Daley-Rowney, UK http://charlesevansart.com/
- I nearly always go outside first thing, wander around, sniff the air and look at the sky. Dr. Andrew K Black, retiring consultant psychiatrist, author.
- I write down my dreams, if applicable. If not I breathe and listen to the birds. Nikki, IT Tech and psychic. Nikki @Daimon Mediation
Tea, (and biscuits), books, walking, wandering, observing, watching the morning news, nature and dogs all featured in the research results. Maybe you do some or all of these things, or you have your own morning routines that don't involve technology, but if not, you might want to consider the benefits of replacing that small blue screen with nature's enormous, colourful canvas. If only for fifteen minutes.
Photograph courtesy of Charles Evans, Northumberland.
Thank you to everyone who took part.


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After the Washington Nationals lost, 3-2, to the Braves on Sunday, hundreds of children were allowed on the field to run the bases. They sprinted, low-fived the Teddy Roosevelt mascot and loved every second. You could tell they were Bryce Harper fans, too. Not one of them stopped at second base.
The Nationals play with the exuberance of gifted children. But they also make the mistakes of youth. In this game, Harper turned an 0-2 count into a clutch late-inning walk, drilled a 390-foot double and homered to the second deck. But he also got thrown out trying to stretch for a triple with only one out and the heart of the Nats' order due up.
That was just one of a half-dozen crucial Nats mistakes in fundamentals — such asGio Gonzalez being a step slow to cover first base — that turned a likely win into a jaw-grinding unnecessary loss. "My ears are deaf from hearing [pitching coach Steve] McCatty yelling, 'Get over,' " said Manager Davey Johnson of the inning-opening lapse by Gonzalez that ignited Atlanta's two-run game-winning rally.
When you're in first place, as the Nats still are, baseball changes. Gaps in ability shrink. You are your habits, perhaps even more than your talents.
This glistening afternoon before 38,046 shouldn't have produced a loss. Steve Lombardozzi and Harper became the first rookies to hit back-to-back home runs to lead off a game in the modern major league era, since 1900, according to Elias Sports Bureau. And on consecutive pitches, too. Fully formed teams don't get shut out for nine innings after such a start. But mature is what the Nats want to become, not what they are.
"The ingredients are there," said Johnson. "We're not a unit yet."
Coming after Stephen Strasburg's hint-of-Koufax game on Saturday, the Nats seemed poised for a two-game sweep behind Gonzalez, who leads MLB in strikeouts. But poised is what they weren't.
Early in the year, the Nats often got away with mistakes. Now they're in the midst of playing the best of the AL East and NL East — all teams with winning records — for 32 games in a row. So far they're 7-7, but face six more series against teams that take advantage of minor mistakes.
For two days, the reunited heart of the Nats order, Ryan Zimmerman, Adam LaRoche and rusty Mike Morse, has been overanxious and unproductive. Just when there are more shoulders to lift, they grunt too hard.
Even when Atlanta tried to be helpful, walking the first two hitters in the eighth inning, Zimmerman, a graybeard of 26, ignored the first tenet of situational hitting: Think — what is the situation?
"Zim was over-aggressive early in the count. Drive it out of the park," said Johnson, "instead of using the whole field, like he's usually so good at."
Instead of an opposite field hit that might have tied the game and moved Harper to third base, Zimmerman fell behind 0-2 and grounded into his eighth double play. Zimmerman just stinks right now. Actually, those were his exact postgame words and not long after showering, too.
The Nats admit their mistakes but repeat them too much, nonetheless.
"My fault," said Gonzalez. "I should have gone out there and exploded right off the mound and got that ball. Was lost a little bit in the stands but it's no excuse."
That's why the expression, "Be on guard" was invented.
Just two months ago, nagging the so-recently-awful Nats about details of the game might've seemed cruel. But this is no longer a team trying to post a winning season. Three things have gone extremely right and changed expectations quickly.
First, Gonzalez, despite this poor start, is just one click of focus away from being as good as any starter in baseball. After one-third of his '12 starts, he's on pace to go 21-6 with 252 strikeouts in 199 innings, a 2.31 ERA and a microscopic 120 hits allowed. His stuff is close to Strasburg's. As a one-two punch, they might dominate any postseason series, should the Nats get there. So, the value of an accelerated Nat learning curve has grown.
Second, the Nats have apparently fixed a flaw in Edwin Jackson's delivery that led him to tip his pitches when he was in his windup. So, he was one of the few pitchers who were better with men on base. Now, he's normal — and spectacular. In his career, his OPS-against was .787 with none on and .744 with men on base. This year, he's .592 with nobody on base and .783 with men on.
"We thought we could target some things and help him be an improved version," said General Manager Mike Rizzo. "Some was mechanical, some psychological and he really trusts his defense now. But it's not an accident."
It's early, but Jackson, the 61-63 career pitcher, may be gone. His 3.17 ERA and improved control may indicate that the Nats have a fourth top-flight starter, not a .500 innings eater.
Finally, Harper, especially hitting second, has raised the Nats' offense an entire level. The team's OPS since he was called up is more than 100 points higher than it was before he arrived. Harper, slugging .542 with a .380 on-base percentage, is already so respected that he sees a lower percentage of fastballs than any player in baseball.
"Cool stat," said Harper.
Also, the 19-year-old wears his mistakes but seems unshaken by them. "They got me. I should have backed off," he said for being gunned down.
In the outfield and on the bases, Harper can be inspired or blow up. At the plate, he's also a lit fuse, but of a different kind, one headed toward the dynamite. "I like to guess," Harper said, "so I can look bad on a pitch early in the count." Or, if he's right, a cutter can end in the upper deck off Tommy Hanson or a curve get smacked off the wall for a triple off Roy Halladay.
"That's why they give you three [strikes]. When you get to two strikes, then spread out [your stance] and battle, battle, battle."
They're young. They're learning. And they're going to end up being very good. How soon? Depends on the little things, the details that require focus and judgment, the things you absolutely need against the good teams.
How fast will the still-first-place Nats learn? With their schedule, we won't have to wait long for more answers.
For Thomas Boswell's previous columns, go to washingtonpost.com/boswell.


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I have long been an advocate for listening to the users (see this old thread in in GNOME's ml), and through the years I have discussed over and over with GNOME developers why it's important to listen to your users, and why they are barely doing it.
However, that hasn't prevented me to cooperate in their bugzilla, I have filed bug reports, participated in discussions, also fixed bugs, and I even maintain one component; gst-openmax. You can check yourself here, or for a few interesting ones: 629349, 640859, 640665, 650724, 655361, 480858, 623473, 630910, 598771, 535074, 534975, 548776, 340375.
Yet, because of a couple of comments in bug #629161 (Support voting in GNOME Bugzilla), and without any warning, I got banned. But of course, they deleted the evidence, so you can't see it.
The official response
Anyway, let's leave the ban pending, and concentrate on the real issue: why are votes not enabled? This is what you can find from GNOME's site:
Voting would give the impression that your vote would make someone fix the bug faster. That is almost always not the case. As this gives a false impression, voting usually creates a lot of extra comments because of that (eg 'this bug has XXX amounts of votes and still not fixed') and just frustates users.
A better way to get a bug fixed faster is to either:
- Provide a patch, or
- Look, review and test the patches provided by other contributors. Especially the reviewing part takes a lot of time and developers will really appreciate people who say if a patch does or does not fix the bug for them. Reviewing the patch (looking for potential problems / good code style / etc) is even better.
Note: If you want to express interest in a bug, just CC yourself (and leave the comment field empty). The developer can easily see if a lot of people have cc'ed themselves, without causing the bad voting side-effects.
Voting would give the impression that your vote would make someone fix the bug faster.
No, it wouldn't. That's a miss-conception, there's plenty of evidence to the contrary, as Tim Janik pointed in his blog post, both GitHub and Google Code offer voting methods, but not only that, Mozilla Firefox, KDE, Mediawiki, WineHQ do too.
Let's take a quick look at the most voted bugs in some projects: Chromium Issue 60101: webRequest extension API (2264 stars), Wine Bug 421 – Implement a DIB engine (161 votes). Do you see anybody having the impression that the bug should be fixed fast as GNOME people suggest? No.
That's because it's not true, people assume that a bug with a lot of votes should have a high priority, that's a completely different thing; speed != priority.
As this gives a false impression, voting usually creates a lot of extra comments because of that (eg 'this bug has XXX amounts of votes and still not fixed') and just frustates users.
Again not true, and backed up by a lot of evidence. People don't complain if a bug is not fixed in a timely manner, they complain if it affects many people, and developers give to it no importance. But if they did their job properly, that would not happen, in my experience, just setting the right priority but explaining that it's not that easy to implement is enough. Additionally, I set milestones based important bugs fixed, this way users know that 1.2 won't be released until the bug they care about is fixed, so they know there's no point in raising attention to it.
But even assuming what they said was true, the amount of annoyance the complains would generate is overcome by the value provided by knowing which bugs are really important.
If you want to express interest in a bug, just CC yourself (and leave the comment field empty)
That's not what the CC field is for, therefore people would not use it for that, defeating the purpose. Plus, you can't sort bugs by number of people in CC.
That's it. It was easy to debunk wasn't it?
The bug
Let's go now to the bug in question; bug #629161. A bunch of GNOME developers (Tim Janik, Jürg Billeter, Sandy Armstrong, Travis Reitter, Javier Jardón, Gabriel Burt) made it clear that they would want this for their components, yet nothing happens. There's basically only arguments in favor, nobody is arguing against.
So, now you have refuted arguments from their official position, and an enhancement request to allow voting in some components. Why wouldn't they just allow it, if anything, just to see how things go? At the end of the day it's the maintainers of the components that would decide if voting has been beneficial, or not. One can only speculate, but I assume the reason is political; if you enable voting for some components, people would automatically assume that the other components don't want to hear feedback from users (which might very well be the case).
In anyway, it won't happen–not for certain components, not as a trial, not ever. There's no real reasons against, and it doesn't matter how many arguments are put forward. Strange, huh?
The ban
These comments were deleted, so I'm providing them in full so you can judge by yourself, also, because there's no public hearing or any way one can defend itself against arbitrary bans.
--- Comment 14 Felipe Contreras 2011-09-08 23:24:33 UTC (In reply to comment #5) > Google's star approach is nice because the user does not see how many other > folks starred the issue (or if they do, it's not nearly as visible as something > like "votes"). Wrong. http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=60101 2273 people starred this issue and may be notified of changes. (In reply to comment #12) > The argument that users will be disappointed that bugs with high numbers of > votes are not being fixed has been raised here, and also previously on Bug > 390454. My counter-argument to this is: so what? Every other bug tracker I > use (KDE, Novell, SeaMonkey, OpenOffice.org, MediaWiki) allows users to both > make and view votes. Yes, occasionally some users complain that bugs haven't > been fixed. No, this hasn't resulted in planes falling out of the sky, all > development work ceasing, etc. Such unhelpful comments are thankfully rare, > and either get ignored, or else someone politely reminds the poster of bug > tracker and free software development etiquette. Exactly. The value of the information gathered by this outweighs tremendously against the small possible annoyances. In my experience however adding voting does not lead to annoying comments. In my own project hosted in Google code I always make it clear when a feature is extremely popular but it's difficult to implement, I just say that, and the users seem to understand, that if it's not fixed in a certain period of time, it doesn't mean that nobody cares, it just means it's not that easy. Now, if this was actually *tried* for some period of time, and *then* it turned out that there was indeed too many of these comments I would understand, but that's not the case. The decision is based on pure speculation.
I say something is not true, and I provide evidence that shows that's the case. Then I say the decision is based on speculation, which is true, and the only way to know for sure is to give it a try. Is that too bad? According to Olav is it bad enough to warrant a ban:
--- Comment 15 Olav Vitters [bugzilla.gnome.org developer] 2011-09-10 03:46:00 UTC (In reply to comment #14) > The decision is based on pure speculation. Please just stop the way you're acting. Just because I see things differently doesn't make it ok to behave like this on Google Plus, desktop-devel-list, here, etc.
Olav says I should stop with the way I'm acting, without specifying what is that "way". First of all, notice that there's no threat of a ban at this point. Also, notice that I don't know what exactly I'm supposed to stop doing. So…
--- Comment 16 Felipe Contreras 2011-09-10 12:34:24 UTC (In reply to comment #15) > (In reply to comment #14) > > The decision is based on pure speculation. > > Please just stop the way you're acting. Just because I see things differently > doesn't make it ok to behave like this on Google Plus, desktop-devel-list, > here, etc. I'm not acting in any way. Here's the definition of speculation: * to think, meditate or reflect on a subject; to deliberate or cogitate * to make an inference based on inconclusive evidence; to surmise or conjecture That is what you are doing. If you don't like how it sounds, then don't do it. The only way you can know for sure what would happen if you enable voting, is to enable voting, and see.
Right? If somebody is speculating, what's wrong with saying "you are speculating", if you want people to say you are speculating, then don't speculate. Like a cheater that is complaining about people calling him cheater.
--- Comment 17 Olav Vitters [bugzilla.gnome.org developer] 2011-09-10 13:22:55 UTC To put it in other words: I don't like the way you're behaving. For example: (In reply to comment #16) > That is what you are doing. If you don't like how it sounds, then don't do it. Stating things in above way, just don't. I'm not talking about arguments you're trying to make. It is about the way you phrase them. More concretely: My objection is not about not like "speculation", it is the tone of your messages and the way you phrase those things. To more it comes acrosss as trying to "tick me off". This is the last I'll say on this matter on this bug, getting offtopic.
Oh! So it's the tone? Well, we could debate whether there's a nicer way to transmit the message I want to convey, but why linger on such lowly things? Olav certainly seems to have moved on and don't want to discuss about this.
Note that at this point there's still no warning about what would happen if I continue this behavior, that until the last comment wasn't clarified, and in my opinion, it should never be an issue in the discussion.
--- Comment 18 Felipe Contreras 2011-09-10 14:06:06 UTC (In reply to comment #17) > This is the last I'll say on this matter on this bug, getting offtopic. Exactly, this has nothing to do with the subject. And complaining about "tone" is not precisely considered a sophisticated way to engage in a discussion: http://www.paulgraham.com/disagree.html http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7c/Graham%27s_Hierarchy_of_Disagreement.svg
According to Paul Graham responding to tone is "a weak form of disagreement", so I try to make it more delicate by saying it's "not precisely a sophisticated way to engage in a discussion".
BANG. Without any other comment or notification, I got banned. I didn't notice until weeks later when I couldn't login to GNOME bugzilla with this message:
Bug 629161 -- continue behaviour after various requests to change it If you believe your account should be restored, please send email to firstname.lastname@example.com explaining why.
What? I go to that bug report and I don't see anything (my comments were deleted), so I ask personally Andre Klappler to fetch the comments for me, and at the same time I contact the bugmasters.
After I got the comments and analyzed them I proceeded to build my defense (attached at the end); I actually never used a wrong tone. Olav's problem was not with the tone, but with what I was actually saying, which was not flattering for him or GNOME, but actually true. I went into detail through those comments, and there was not nicer way of saying it.
In fact, I even proposed a compromise, I would not make any comment that criticizes GNOME, because apparently, that's not allowed.
But, not surprisingly I got no response, except from Andre Klapper, who said he didn't even read my defense:
On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 3:35 PM, Andre Klapper wrote: > On Fri, 2011-09-23 at 15:20 +0300, Felipe Contreras wrote: >> Of course not, you are only interested in patting each other in the >> back, and self-congratulate yourselves. You are not interested in a >> fair trial. > > It's exactly this style that makes me not interested in discussing > anything with you currently. > I stopped reading here, not interested in the rest.
So, no fair trial, banned with no warning, with reasons that are not true. That's justice in GNOME's world.
So that's why
Perhaps it should be clear now why is it that the GNOME project doesn't listen to it's users, doesn't allow voting in bugzilla, doesn't allow a user survey (I'll explain that in another blog post), ideastorm, or anything that gives the user masses the ability to speak.
GNOME is an autocratic oligarchy; it's a club of like-minded people which only allows like-minded people. It a group that is both pompous and self-congratulatory; patting each other on the back is an obligation. You should not rock the boat, criticize the status quo, be confrontational, or deviate from the norm. They are never wrong, or do lowly things, and their design is dogma.
As I found out, to suggest that a GNOME member is speculating is such an extreme offense, that one should be shunned forever, never to poison GNOME's precious ears, regardless of years of contributions (in my case since 2005).
Good riddance.
Since not Olav, nor anybody else presented any case, I'm going to infer it from this: --- Bug 629161 -- continue behaviour after various requests to change it --- What is that behavior? Using phrasing and tone that are not in the liking of Olav. How many instances? Presumably two, comment #14, and comment #16. How many requests were done to change it? Presumably two, comment #15, and comment #17. First of all, at this point it should be clear, that in no point in time any ban warning was issued. In fact, at no point in time any repercussions where stated. Having participated in countless online discussions, I thought saying "I don't like your tone" meant only that. Many people dislike the tone of other people, but most people don't have the power, or the indecency, to block somebody's comments just because they don't like them. Now, did the accused change his tone after the second request to change it? Well, lets look at comment #18. What is the tone of this comment? How could this comment transmit the same idea, but with a tone in the liking of Olav? If you go to the page http://www.paulgraham.com/disagree.html, on the section "Responding to Tone", the description is "this is still a weak form of disagreement". So, stating that the site says so, is merely stating a fact, not engaging in any form of inflammatory rhetoric. But instead, I tried to choose more "subtle words", and changed "a weak form of disagreement" to "not precisely sophisticated". So no, there's nothing wrong with the tone of this comment. What Olav didn't seem to like, was the content of the message which diminished his position. There is no way I could have made that point in a way that Olav would have lied it. So his "request" in comment #17 doesn't apply, thus the "second warning" was never enforced. Not to mention that at this point it seems more that Olav doesn't want to discuss the merits of tone, and thus he is willing to let go of his request. A person who was willing to improve discussions would have been willing to continue the discussion about merits of tone in a private manner. Or at the very least Olav should have made it clear that regardless of the importance, it's something that is not tolerated and warrant a ban. He didn't do any of such things. But if you look closely at comment #17: This is not a second request, it's a *clarification* on the first request. And it points out to a line in comment #16: --- That is what you are doing. If you don't like how it sounds, then don't do it. --- Is this tone bad? What could be done to this message to improve the tone? The point being made is that things are what things are; speculating is speculating, and there's nothing wrong with pointing out what is happening, instead, one should focus on avoiding doing it, rather than preventing people from pointing it out. So, there's really not much that can be done to change the tone of this message without changing its meaning as well. So, again, Olav was not concerned with the tone as he claimed, but he was concerned about what was being said. And finally, the line that started everything in comment #12: --- The decision is based on pure speculation. --- We ask again, is this tone bad? How can you say the same thing in a better tone? There are not many ways. So, yet again, Olav was concerned about what was being said, not the tone. In conclusion: 1) There was no law, no warning, effectively no way in which I could know what was going to happen. 2) There were no various requests to change the behavior, only one, explained in two parts, because the first one was not clear enough. 3) The complaint about tone is unsubstantiated, the real problem is pointing out things that put GNOME in a bad light.


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With certified technicians on staff and a century + of experience between them all, you can rest assured any instrument or accessory you purchase from Melody Music Shop LLC is in the best condition possible! Our ENTIRE STORE is maintained at 50% humidity year-round per manufacturer's stringent requirements. All items will be packaged carefully to ensure their safe arrival. Guitars will have their string tension lowered and packaged to manufacture specs or better. Melody Music Shop LLC guarantees quality products, fast shipping, and top-notch customer service!
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Youth Behavioral Health Coordination Project
|Guiding Principle: Better health and better quality
at less cost.Goal: Identify children with behavioral health
challenges (mental health and chemical dependency) as early as possible in both
education and health care settings, and connect at-risk children with community-based interventions and treatment services.
Outcome: Decreased number of school-aged youth with unmet behavioral and physical health needs through improved care coordination by schools, primary care physicians and pediatricians, and behavioral health providers. Improved health is expected to lead to improved school attendance and academic achievement.
Approach: Bring together different community sectors to work together toward a common goal through mutually reinforcing actions (collective impact).
Stakeholders: Behavioral Health Providers,
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Wadsworth Industrial Coffee Table
Spice up your living room with this stunning coffee table.
£525.00 – £850.00
- Order online today and expect delivery within 4 - 12 weeks
- Delivery time may be sooner if stated in the product description
- Bespoke made to measure service are available
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Order online today and expect delivery within 6 weeks!
This stunning Wadsworth vintage style industrial coffee table is adaptable to conveniently suit any situation!
The solid one-piece oak top as shown on the images will come standard as 25mm thick. This features a thick solid oak top sitting on a steel frame with another solid oak piece which sits flush with the steel on the second layer. Antique Oak dye has been applied to the wood in this example.
We have used 40mm mild steel box for the above images. If you choose a powder coated colour+£100 please email us after your purchase with your chosen RAL colour. View powder coated colours
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text: Posted 9 Mar 2008 · Report post Ford Hall ForumApollo and Dionysus Revisited: American Culture since WoodstockIn 1969 Ayn Rand's Ford Hall Forum talk, "Apollo and Dionysus," addressed the nearly simultaneous events of Woodstock and the first lunar landing. Employing Greek mythology's god of the sun and god of wine, she compared the awe-inspiring accomplishments of NASA's Apollo space program to the famous three-day concert that has come to exemplify the counterculture of the 1960s and the "hippie era." Almost four decades later, Dr. Yaron Brook, president and executive director of the Ayn Rand Institute, reflects on her words and explores the implications of how American culture since Woodstock has valued individualism relative to collectivism and civilization relative to primitivism. Thursday, May 86:30 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.Old South Meeting House310 Washington Street, Boston The program presented in collaboration with the Old South Meeting House as part of the Partners in Public Dialogue Series. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites


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Family of artists/designers (photography, watercolour, digital). Customising available - scale/colour - contact us. Licensing enquiries welcome. Unique wearable art at our stores below. roostery.com/e?user=bravenewart society6.com/bravenewart
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Pernod Ricard wine brand Campo Viejo, is hoping to take on the might of Prosecco by appealing to younger consumers with its Campo Viejo Cava Brut Reserva.
The Cava, which has previously only been available in the convenience channel, has been launched into major supermarkets in time for Christmas trading.
Cava tracks behind prosecco with 17.6% volume share but Pernod Ricard believes there is an opportunity to capitalise on sales of Cava.
"There's a huge opportunity to drive value into the category, which currently performs behind total sparkling wine. Just over £106m was spent on Cava in supermarkets in 2016 (Kantar Worldpanel), but there is a clear opportunity for us to bolster the Spanish offering and drive value for our retail partners," said Vicky Hoey, head of marketing at Pernod Ricard UK.
"Campo Viejo is incredibly popular with the younger affluent audience and with our new Cava offering we're giving them an alternative to celebrate with, by a brand they already connect with."
Campo Viejo said it was aiming to enter "new occasions", whilst continuing to drive double-digit growth into the Spanish wine category. It is launching a digital, social and out of home advertising campaign in proximity to grocery retailers, which will invite the nation to "uncork a bottle of Campo Viejo Cava to bring your celebrations to life, españa-style".
Hoey admitted that there was "a job to be done" to educate consumers about Cava. She said the brand would use its social media campaign targeted at millennials to bring to life the "vibrancy" of Cava.
Campo Viejo Cava Brut Reserva is entering the grocery channel following successes within the convenience channel. According to Nielsen, (MAT 09.09.2017) Cava was up +1.4% volume and +1.3% value.
The Campo Viejo Cava Brut Reserva expansion will be backed by a packaging refresh from January 2018, which will feature a modernised look and "sleeker labelling". The recommended retail price for the product is £11.60.


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CaTara is a full-service skin rejuvenation spa located in Chicago's Gold Cost neighborhood as well as in Algonquin. We are committed to enhancing and refreshing your skin by providing services and products for anti-aging, skin texture, acne, dryness, sun damage, rosacea and scaring.
Life long resident of Illinois, Cathy worked for over 30 years in the photographic business at Interesting Developments Photography in Algonquin. Throughout those years she was able to use lighting and retouching to correct skin imperfections on hundreds of people in their portraits. Her passion for skin care originated here with the ability to correct a person's complexion in a photograph and help them experience a renewed sense of confidence. This desire to help people look and feel better about themselves inspired her to open CaTara. Cathy is passionate about helping anyone improve their skin and educating them on the correct skincare regimen for individual concerns.
The skin care industry has made tremendous advances recently to improve skin with many different kinds of imperfections. Knowing they could now help improve skin imperfections long term, Cathy has became very enthusiastic about skin care because she saw first hand how beautiful skin can improve the quality of one's life even in the short term.
CaTara Medical Group, LLC. is owned by a board-certified plastic surgeon.


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Facebook, as you very well may know by now, is good for a lot more than posting pics of your recent vacation in Mexico or cute snapshots of your cat. While it may be fun to catch up with old friends and post articles that inspire you (or get your blood boiling), that's not all there is to it.
In fact, the social media platform strives to connect people with similar interests, and, in awesome professional news, serves as a fantastic networking tool. Whether you want to find freelance work, learn more about an industry, or speak to more women in communications, chances are Facebook Groups has got an option for you.
And now finding those groups just got a whole lot easier with the new Facebook Discover tool that debuted on the app. (Although it appears to be available on some people's desktop browsers, so keep an eye out for it.)
Here's how it works: Go to the app on your phone (iOS or Android), go to the "More" tab on the bottom right, and then touch "Groups." Once under that section, you can start discovering. Along with seeing groups you recently visited, you can add groups to "Favorites" and you can "Discover" local communities of interest. You'll see approximately 25 categories at the moment, including Professional Networking, Science & Tech, and Arts & Culture.
Private groups may or may not show up, depending on whether the administrators allow for its existence to appear. But in cool news, you can check out groups your friends are in, and you can check out communities connecting people across the globe. Suddenly networking from your couch just got so much easier. Seriously, you can be watching TV while simultaneously commenting on industry news on Facebook.
So, if you're not yet taking advantage of the social media platform's wide range of possibilities for enhancing your network, you're probably missing out. And now with this Discover tool making it making it easier than ever to find a group that suits you and a conversation that you want to be a part of, you have no more excuses.
Photo of person using Facebook courtesy of Ronnachai Palas/Shutterstock.
TopicsLifestyle , Facebook , Syndication , Career Advice , Trending Topics , Networking
Stacey Lastoe started writing short stories in the second grade and is immensely grateful to have the opportunity to write and edit professionally. Her work has appeared in YouBeauty, Refinery29, A Practical Wedding, Runner's World online, and The Billfold among other publications. She enjoys running and eating in equal measure and lives with her husband and dog in Brooklyn. All three of them are avid New York Mets fans. Say hello on @stacespeaks.More from this Author


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What's Your Posture Number?
"To live a long, active, energetic life, few things matter more than good posture."
– The Rejuvenation Strategy by Cailliet and Gross
Abnormal posture is linked to the development and progression of many spinal conditions and injuries. Normal posture is when the head, the ribcage and pelvis are perfectly centered on each other.
At Moss Chiropractic and Wellness, we believe that we can determine a Posture Number for each patient to show where mirror-imaging adjustments need to take place in the body. We will record the amount of displacement of the head, ribcage and pelvis to determine your Posture Number.
Unless you have recently been injured, most of us have had our abnormal postural displacements for years and sometimes decades. Research has demonstrated that in order to see appreciable strength gains, exercise must be performed for a minimum of 9-12 weeks.
Posture Pictures
At Moss Chiropractic and Wellness, we are involved in the community. That gives us a chance to meet you and give you the opportunity to get a "Posture Picture" on the spot! In the span of just 4-5 minutes, we can take a front view and side view picture of you, plot your posture points and almost instantly email your own Posture Picture for you to look over. If your posture looks off, you can schedule a time to come into our office, sit down and talk with Dr. Gabriella Moss to see if we can help you. All of this is at NO COST to you.
If you've had a Posture Picture taken recently and have questions about your results, call us here in the office to set up a time to meet which is convenient for you. You could also request an appointment in the upper left corner here on our website. If it's determined that we can help you, a more thorough Posture Print will be taken of you and we will discuss the best treatment options for your condition.
Are you a good candidate for chiropractic care? Find out! Give us a call today!


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Ryan Gosling's Big Year: Actor Attains Stardom with Looks, Talent and Class
For some, Ryan Gosling will always be the guy willing to fight for the girl of his dreams in 'The Notebook.' For others, he's just the handsome boy in the Mickey Mouse Club. However, if 2011 has proven anything, it's that Gosling is capable of a lot more than courting Rachel McAdams or dancing with Britney Spears.
With a Golden Globe nomination for his performance in 'Blue Valentine' and three leading roles in the last four months, Gosling has quickly turned into one of Hollywood's biggest male stars.
The thing about Gosling is that he can completely transform into any character he chooses. He's incredibly believable, and the audience can't get enough of him. As much as I love looking at him, I don't necessarily see him on screen. I see the three different characters he's portrayed in these last few months: a womanizer turned fool for love, a criminal stunt driver, and a brilliant campaign manager who finds out too much for his own good.
This past summer he played Jacob in 'Crazy, Stupid, Love' opposite Steve Carrell in the year's best romantic comedy so far, and one of the most perfectly-cast films as well. Jacob is a smooth-talking, well-dressed guy who loves women and takes a new one home practically every night, except the one who got away (Emma Stone). Gosling shows off his abs of steel and newly toned body that makes women wonder, "where has this guy been hiding?" It bears mentioning that the film brought in $82 million domestically, making it Gosling's highest grossing film by more than $40 million since 'The Notebook.' Not only does Gosling show off his hot bod, but his stunning acting abilities as well in the crazy smart film directed by Glenn Ficcara and John Requa.
Gosling also stars in 'Drive,' which hit theaters in September and was expected to be a box office hit. With a 93 percent "fresh"rating on Rotten Tomatoes, the film has brought in a lean $30 million. That's a bit of a let down given the raves, but the film only cost a cool $15 million.
Recently, a story came out about a Michigan woman suing the makers of 'Drive' because the trailer was misleading. Give me a break, lady; not every great movie has to consist of 90 percent car chases and things blowing up to be considered worthwhile. 'Drive' is one of the best films of the year, and that's because of its beautiful cinematography, lack of dialogue and Gosling in the most unique role of his still-young career.
The actor also earned praise for the political thriller 'The Ides of March' where he played Stephen Meyers, a press secretary/campaign manager for typical liberal politician Mike Morris (George Clooney, who also directs the film). If you've seen the film, you know what I'm talking about when I say 'typical,' and if you haven't seen it, I highly recommend it to all political junkies and anyone who has worked on a campaign. Gosling works his natural charms into the role, making it hard to resist the governor's aide with his fancy suits and winning smile.
The star has recently been hounded by the media for breaking up a fight in New York City between two men fighting over a painting. The amateur video of the altercation catches Gosling in a rather horrid stripped tank top trying to calm the men and diffuse the situation. At least we see that the actor has a soft side and is human, too. Gosling told E! News that women get disappointed when they realize he's not Ryan Reynolds. Well, Ryan, from me to you, I'd be happy to take a picture with you and maybe even throw in a hug.
Gosling is currently filming 'Gangster Squad' with Emma Stone, Josh Brolin and Sean Penn. The film is set for an October 2012 release.
Wicked abs, a smoldering stare and talent beyond his years, Gosling makes 2011 an exciting year for movies and brings back that characteristic — some might call it class — that made the stars of yesteryear beloved to their audiences.