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French import Little White Lies works better as a travelogue than a drama, and I found myself checking Expedia for tickets to beautiful Cap Ferret in southwest France. Like an afternoon on a sun-drenched beach, Little White Lies is warm, relaxing and a bit boozy. The cast is stocked with France's best actors, and Guillaume Canet directs with similar skill but less urgency than he did with Tell No One. A group of adult friends goes to the cape for a two-week vacation soon after their most jovial companion is badly injured in a moped wreck. Tension is high from the start, and strained personal relationships spill out of the bedroom for collective judgment. Comparisons to The Big Chill are inevitable, from the classic pop soundtrack to the casual melodrama, but Little White Lies is distinctively French with its red wine and sunshine amicability. There's much to admire and enjoy here, but the film ultimately tests both patience and plausibility with its bloated running and incessant human crises.
Canet opens the film with a jittery, unbroken sequence in which recent Oscar winner Jean Dujardin takes cocaine in a crowded club bathroom, then retreats to the dance floor to kiss a buddy's girlfriend before taking off on his moped into the Paris dawn. Dujardin's brief presence as Ludo anchors the film, and his friends debate but decide against cancelling their annual vacation. Americans may not be familiar with the concept, but many Europeans get several weeks off from work in the summer. François Cluzet heads the pack as high-strung Max, who offers up his vacation home but obsesses over the lawn and his cigarette boat. Also invited are moody, love-starved Marie (Marion Cotillard); sexually frustrated Vincent (Benoît Magimel); hot-tempered Éric (Gilles Lellouche); and nice-guy Antoine (Laurent Lafitte). Max and Vincent are both married with kids, but Vincent shocks Max by revealing shortly before the trip that he is sexually attracted to Max, which sends Max deeper into his confused, manic state. At the coast, the friends drink wine, bond over failed relationships and deal in half truths.
If you haven't already guessed, Little White Lies is a film more concerned with mood and its amicable, communal vibe than narrative. Sure, things happen, but each detour into one friend's love life or career troubles mirrors another, and before long Little White Lies resembles a breezy soap opera. That's not necessarily a bad thing; particularly when you consider how talented and watchable these actors are. Their characters vary in likeability: Max becomes grating after his tenth tantrum, which is misdirected at Vincent's young son, and Max's wife (Valérie Bonneton) seethes over his behavior. Marie is all over the place, shifting from bohemian beauty to lovesick harpy depending on the scene. The guys goad her anger, too, and in one unnecessary scene Marie shrieks at them from the water when Max won't lower his boat's ladder. Éric and Antoine share a hasty trip to Paris, where each man makes his case for forgiveness to a scorned lover, and these men are the most grounded of the bunch.
Canet, who proved a master of mood, pacing and intrigue in Tell No One, one of my favorite thrillers, again captures plenty of intimate character moments. The actors expertly feign intimate familiarity with one another, and you'd be forgiven for thinking Canet simply filmed a group of real friends on vacation. The cinematography, from Christophe Offenstein, is beautiful but understated, and Canet's script is often warm, funny and authentic. For long stretches of Little White Lies, I just enjoyed sitting at dinner with Canet's characters and words. Some conflicts are innocuous, others are humdrum, and a few are compelling, particularly the prickly Max/Vincent dynamic that simmers into a family-room showdown late in the film. Canet infuses the film with typical French sensibilities about love and friendship, and the film is less cynical than an American version would be. This talky, relaxed structure is effective to a point, but grows tiresome in a film that clocks in at 154 minutes. Perhaps Canet had trouble cutting his own material, but a good tightening would have heightened the overall impact.
As an ensemble drama, Little White Lies is variably affecting, but the scenery fills in some of the dramatic gaps. The soundtrack is pervasive, but some of the 60's and 70's tunes feel out of place. And Canet might have chosen another track from Creedence Clearwater Revival's arsenal than the overused "Fortunate Son." I wanted to love Little White Lies but, by the teary, extended finale, came away merely liking it. When a film is this bloated, some of the material is bound to be forgettable. Like the characters' sunset fruits de mer dinner, an extra course sometimes sours the overall experience.
The 2.35:1/1080p/AVC-encoded image supports the sunny cinematography with excellent detail and clarity. Shot on 35 mm, Little White Lies appears filmic, with a nice grain structure that is actually a bit thick during nighttime scenes. Colors are warm but well saturated, and skin tones are natural. Wide shots of the cape are gorgeous, with excellent depth and sharpness, and close-ups reveal minute details of the sun-tanned faces. There are no problems with edge enhancement or compression artifacts.
The French 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio mix is crisp and clean, with good dialogue separation and clarity. Most of the action comes from the front and center, but the surrounds are used for ambience such as the chatter of a nightclub or waves at the beach. The extensive soundtrack is supported by balanced, weighty delivery and LFE assistance. A French 2.0 LPCM mix is also included, and subtitle options include English SDH and Spanish.
There's only a brief featurette, Behind the Scenes (8:43/SD), with a few cast and crew interviews and location footage, and the film's trailer (1:57/HD).
I really wanted to love Little White Lies, with its talented French cast and skilled director, Guillaume Canet. But, like overindulging in a delicious meal, too much of a good thing sours the experience. A French The Big Chill of sorts, Little White Lies travels to beautiful Cap Ferret, where several adult friends dissect their lives and relationships with the recent moped accident of a friend fresh in their minds. The scenery is beautiful, the performances strong, and the drama often affecting, but Little White Lies grows tedious as it nears its conclusion. But, for fans of Canet and French cinema, Little White Lies is still Recommended.
William lives in Burlington, North Carolina, and looks forward to a Friday-afternoon matinee.


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|Courtesy MILB.com
The level at which Cingrani has performed in his 1+ professional seasons has completely altered the perception of him as a prospect. In professional baseball, it's not easy to shake a label once it has been applied. Cingrani has done that. However, I now think it's fair to wonder whether he is still being undervalued. Whether the original view of him is still dragging down the current view.
Given that the previous opinion was based, at least in part, on Cingrani before he changed his mechanics and before he switched from the bullpen to the rotation, it arguably has little bearing on the pitcher he is now. If we didn't have that initial data point, would he rate higher than he is now? (Is this scenario akin to the Daniel Kahneman improper anchor effect?) If you throw out the original opinion and view him based solely on who he is now and what he has done as a professional, then he *might* actually be considered even better than the current hype, which would really be saying something.
The Reds selected Cingrani out of Rice University with the 114th overall pick in the 3rd round of the 2011 draft.
Cingrani actually began his collegiate career by pitching two seasons at South Suburban Junior College in Illinois, breaking both the single-season and career strikeout records. He transferred to Rice and posted a lackluster 8.58 ERA in six starts as a junior. Due to his struggles, he reworked his pitching mechanics at the behest of Rice pitching coach, David Pierce, and head coach, Wayne Graham, resulting in a breakout season as a senior. (Another example of taking the good with the (alleged) bad when it comes to college programs. Programs like Rice, with pitcher workload, and Stanford, with the swing mechanics they teach, take so much criticism that it becomes easy to overlook all the things they do well.)
In 2011, as a senior, Cingrani was used as a closer and truly excelled, posting a 1.74 ERA, 12 saves, and a 66/10 K/BB ratio in 57.0 innings. The baseball program at Rice University is one of the best in the country, but also, justifiably or not, has the reputation of overworking its starting pitchers. As a result, Cingrani's time in the bullpen could be a blessing, as it arguably reduced his injury risk and left him with a fresh arm when he reached the professional ranks. Working exclusively as a reliever also, for better or worse, enabled him to rely heavily on his fastball, a focus which made that a special offering and left his other offerings unpolished. The final benefit of Cingrani's bullpen role was a lowered profile, which enabled Chris Buckley's "gut" to land him in the 3rd round for the Cincinnati Reds.
Shortly after the draft, some pundits, including John Sickels, immediately pointed to Cingrani as a sleeper for the Reds. One of the great things about sleepers (for organizations) is that their lack of mainstream appeal limits their leverage, which resulted in Cingrani signing a contract quickly enough to pitch in the 2011 season. He wasted little time in proving those pundits (and the Reds scouting department) correct.
Cingrani joined the Billings Mustangs of the rookie Pioneer League, where he dominated the competition to the tune of a 1.75 ERA, 0.80 WHIP, and 80/6 (!!) K/BB ratio in 51.1 innings. As a college age prospect, he had a significant age vs. level advantage, but he even outperformed that expected advantage, raising his prospect profile and setting himself up nicely heading into the 2012 season.
In 2012, Cingrani started out in high-A Bakersfield, but again proved way too advanced for the competition, posting a 1.11 ERA, 0.92 WHIP, and a 71/13 (!!) K/BB ratio in 56.2 innings. His GB/FB ratio was a neutral 0.94 and his batting average against was a miniscule189. It was clear that he was too polished for high-A and the Reds promoted him up the ladder to double-A.
|Courtesy Jamie Sabau/Getty Images
For the big club, Cingrani pitched 5.0 innings over three appearances, posting a 1.80 ERA, 1.20 WHIP, and a 9/2 (!!) K/BB ratio. During his MLB stint, Cingrani leaned heavily on his fastball (91.0% of the time), occasionally mixing in his slider (5.0% of the time) and changeup (4.0% of the time). Obviously, going forward, he'll need a better mix of pitches, but it was an impressive debut, though not one that earned him a spot on the postseason roster. When considered in total, Cingrani's two promotions and performance at three separate professional levels was just as impressive as his remarkable 2011 debut.
There's something special about Cingrani's fastball. For a pitcher with very good, but not elite, velocity, he generates swings-and-misses at a very high rate. For a pitcher still developing a consistent breaking ball, his strikeout rate is tremendous. So, is it deception? Is it late "rise/hop" like Matt Cain's fastball? Whatever it is, it's not readily apparent, so we turn to the mechanics.
There's an amusing and insightful article on MILB.com discussing Cingrani entitled "Cingrani Looking Smooth: Billings southpaw racking up strikeouts with easy delivery." Amusing because the article is paired with the following photo:
|Courtesy Chris Talley/FutureStarPhotos.com
Insightful because of the following blurb: "Cingrani said he worked to tweak his mechanics and that his arm and lower body became synched. That allowed him to throw with more velocity and be more consistent in the strike zone."
The photo shows the arm swing that Cingrani used at Rice before tweaking his mechanics, so it's a poor fit for both the title and substance of the article. The blurb supports the notion that Cingrani followed through with the refinements to his mechanics to more effectively generate force with the lower body, resulting in improved performance and less stress on the body.
As with Robert Stephenson's mechanics, Cingrani's mechanics are very clean during the first phase. It's the second stage, after the apex of the leg kick, where things get interesting. The primary difference between the mechanics of the two prospects is efficiency. Cingrani does a better job transferring all the momentum generated in the first phase of the windup to the baseball in the second phase, whereas Stephenson's delivery bleeds some momentum due to his limited hip rotation.
Cingrani begins his windup with an actual rocker step, which is becoming increasingly rare. These days, it seems much more fashionable to simply step down and forward with the stride foot to begin the windup. Cingrani takes a legitimate step towards third base to trigger his windup, which I prefer both for its fluidity and potential for increasing the generation of momentum. After the rocker step, he rotates his body and brings his leg up into the leg kick. His knee comes up past parallel and he maintains good balance at the apex. His leg kick doesn't include much body coil, as his knee doesn't wrap around the body, but he does manage to cock his hips.
As he begins to unpack the leg kick and drive to the plate, he breaks his hands to begin his arm swing, which is probably the most recognizable characteristic of his mechanics. Even after he reworked his mechanics, Cingrani still has a long arm action, beginning when he breaks his hands and ending when he brings the ball up into throwing position. Cingrani's arm-swing goes from 9 o'clock to almost 3 o'clock. When his arm reaches 6 o'clock, he begins using a wrist-wrap. Before he changed his mechanics at Rice, he would swing his straight arm all the way up to the 9 o'clock position (see photo above), a la Madison Bumgarner and Marc Rzepczynski, but now Cingrani bends the elbow to a 90 degree angle when the arm reaches the 5 o'clock position, just before bringing the arm up into throwing position. It's impressive just how quickly and effectively Cingrani revised his mechanics, which isn't always easy to do.
In the two photos below, taken at similar points in his delivery, you can see the refinements he made to his arm swing, as his pitching arm is more rigid in the left photo and more fluid and flexed in the right photo. Cingrani believes the refinements he made to his mechanics allowed his upper and lower body to work more effectively together.
|Courtesy Eric Sorenson
|Courtesy Chris Nelson, MILB.com
Cingrani's longer arm swing and the use of the wrist-wrap actually cause him to be late in getting the arm up into throwing position. When his stride foot lands, his pitching arm is not up in proper throwing position. However, while this is usually a bit of a red flag, it may actually work to Cingrani's advantage, as the lagging arm seems to effectively delay the rotation of his upper body, increasing the differential between his hip rotation and shoulder rotation. This differential increases the force he can impart to the baseball and reduces stress on the arm by generating more of the required force with the lower body. The coordination and rotation of Cingrani's upper and lower body is both very impressive and highly efficient. The strong hip rotation and delayed shoulder rotation combine to ensure that the hip rotation simply pulls the upper body and the arm right along with it, rather than the arm having to generate that force by itself.
Another factor that seems to really boost Cingrani's fastball is his physical stature. He stands 6-4, which gives him longer arms. Taller pitchers, with longer arms, not only release the ball slightly closer to the plate, but their longer levers also have the ability to generate more whip-like force. In the kid's game of crack-the-whip, the longer the whip, the more force generated at the end of the whip.
The combination of Cingrani's kinetic-chain mechanics, longer arm, and longer arm-action seems to give his arm-action added whip-like force. When his hips fire, they pull his upper body (including a long and loose arm that generates its own whip-like force) right along with it.
Cingrani utilizes a high three-quarters release point when he pitches. Some people point to good deception as a reason for his impressive fastball, but, in light of his extensive arm swing, I'm not convinced that that's the main the reason. He really shows the ball to the hitter when he brings it away from his body, but there is a touch of deception when he brings the ball to the release point, as the delayed shoulder rotation keeps the ball lower and hidden behind his head for a touch longer than normal.
After he releases the ball, his strong body rotation naturally brings his trailing leg all around to finish the pitch and controls his momentum into a balanced, squared-up fielding position.
Here's a good look at Cingrani in action courtesy of Steve Fiorindo on YouTube:
And, since I couldn't decide between the two, here's another good look at Cingrani courtesy of Mike Newman on YouTube:
Overall, Cingrani features my favorite pitching mechanics in the system.
Cingrani has 90-94 mph fastball that serves as his main pitch. The whip-like arm action, possibly adding rise/hop to the pitch, and a touch of deception in his delivery enable his fastball to play up, as it gets on the hitter sooner than he expects. He also has the ability to locate his fastball, not just throwing strikes, but consistently hitting his spots inside the zone. To go along with his impressive fastball, Cingrani features both a slider and changeup.
The changeup, which has late movement, fading to the arm side, is already a plus pitch. And, the movement on the pitch works to his advantage, as it tails away from a righthanded hitter, giving him an effective weapon against opposite side hitters. The fact that he already has a pitch to get opposite side hitters out is yet another reason for long-term optimism.
The slider is the pitch that Cingrani needs in order to be an effective MLB starter, as his main two pitches are essentially straight offerings. He needs a breaking ball to change the eye level of hitters, giving him a pitch with a two-plane break. His slider shows flashes of being a very good pitch, but remains inconsistent. Still, giving the arm-whip generated by his mechanics, he should be able to get good wrist snap on a breaking ball. If he can master it, it'll increase his effectiveness, especially against lefthanded hitters. Cingrani has leaned heavily on the fastball (and justifiably so) in his professional career, but his other pitches have the potential to be effective in their own right.
Before digging into both pitchers for these write-ups, I was expecting Robert Stephenson to rate higher than Tony Cingrani. Cingrani turned out to be more impressive. In the long run, Stephenson certainly could turn out to be the superior pitcher, but, for me, Cingrani's combination of effective and efficient pitching mechanics, lefthandedness, plus fastball, and higher probability of panning out simply outweighed Stephenson's better velocity and more polished breaking ball.
It'll be interesting to see how Cingrani's career plays out. He needs to continue refining his secondary offerings in order to have consistent success as a starter, but has had experience and success as a reliever. The Reds rotation is also getting crowded, especially if the "Aroldis to the rotation" experiment is carried through to fruition. At the same time, Cingrani has yet to run into a level of competition that has managed to slow him down, though the MLB experience was a very, very small sample size.
Given his ability and upside, the Reds would be wise to see what he can do as a starter, even if the temptation is to shift him to the bullpen. For now, Tony Cingrani lands comfortably in the #2 slot on the list.


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Hatonn on Missiles and Obama
At Stephanie's request, I wrote Suzy Ward and asked her to ask Matthew or Hatonn to tell us what the missile launches represented. I hesitate to ask Suzy for information very often because I know she's busy but when SaLuSa did not address the matter of the missiles this morning I did.
Hatonn has responded and what he says contradicts the theory that the Chinese launched a missile and gives very reassuring news about President Obama and the looming defeat of the cabal. Hatonn tells us that the galactics did indeed neutralize the missiles.
He says that President Obama now knows that he and his family are under galactic protection. He now knows the Ascension timetable. He is in touch with other world leaders to close down the cabal.
He tells us that some Earth allies from other planets have appeared in their real forms to powerful individuals causing some cabalists to leave the sinking ship. He advises us that things are going to pick up speed and we can expect massive changes. It will be quite a ride, he says.
This message is a real boost for me. Let me not need to be reminded again and again that the forces of light are in charge of our destiny and that all is proceeding towards a successful conclusion.
Let's get behind the President now as he takes the lead in the effort against the cabal. If others don't know what we know or don't believe it, well, that's their lookout. But we know.
Speaking personally, knowing helps me move through this time of unprecedented chaos, anticipating a time, not too far removed, of unprecedented growth.
Here is Hatonn's message:
"No government [that is, in contradistinction to the Illuminati] with military might is willing to initiate an 'incident' in this global economic climate and their people's growing unrest, and any show of power is by order of the Illuminati to their 'shadow' force.
"I can tell you, they are frustrated beyond imagining because no nuclear warheads check out to be viable and none of the missiles achieves its objective.
"Obama now knows we have him covered and he can proceed without fear for his family's safety and his own. Media report what they are told, of course, but the truth is, now that he knows Earth's ascension timetable, he's negotiating with powers that be either personally or via safe communication channels to shut down Illuminati strongholds in his country, Europe and the Orient.
"Some of our colleagues on the planet have made their presence known undeniably because they appeared in their real forms. They are meeting with powerful individuals, including some who operate out of public view, to inform them about our on- and off-planet network, and rats are starting to abandon the ship around the world. You won't hear about that or the mopping up that's underway.
"Don't interpret this as our taking control! Our colleagues among you are working with Obama and others with influence to dislodge the Illuminati's remaining strongholds and establish groundwork for wide-scale reforms.
"It's a matter of all that must be accomplished within a comparatively short time and the dark resistance has to be dismantled before that can happen. We've been telling you that for some time to prepare you for the massive changes coming. The next several months will be quite a ride — stay in the light and you'll navigate the rough waters in good stead."
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Junior quarterback Andrew Clements threw for a touchdown and ran for another score, but the Central Connecticut football team fell to Wagner by a score of 31-13. The Blue Devils generated a season-high 330 yards of total offense, but the Seahawks went for 271 yards and four rushing touchdowns.
The Blue Devils (0-4, 0-1 NEC) fell behind 7-0 on a three yard touchdown run by Nick Doscher.
Central answered two minutes later on a 17-yard touchdown pass from Clements to senior Anthony Julbes. The touchdown was the first of Julbes' career. The Blue Devils' extra point attempt was blocked and Central still trailed by a point.
The Seahawks (1-3, 1-1 NEC) David Lopez connected on a 51-yard field goal as time expired in the first half to extend Wagner's lead to 10-6 at the half.
On Wagner's second drive of the third quarter the Seahawks were able to extend their lead to 17-6 on a 27-yard touchdown run by Otis Wright.
Wagner added another touchdown in the period to extend their lead to 24-6 with 4:13 remaining in the quarter.
Clements cut the Blue Devils' deficit to 24-13 on a two yard touchdown run early in the fourth quarter. The touchdown was the third rushing score of the season for Clements.
It took Wagner less than two minutes to answer with a touchdown. Dominique Williams scored on 37-yard touchdown run, his second of the half.
That touchdown extended the Wagner lead to 31-13 and closed the scoring for the game.
Junior Rob Hollomonrushed 17 times for 64 yards. Clements ran 16 times for 63 yards and the touchdown. Clements also threw for a career-high 165 yards and a touchdown. He was 19-of-25 in the game.
Junior Denzell Jones caught eight passes for 52 yards and senior Deven Baker had 79 yards on seven catches.
Junior Antwione Reese and sophomore Tyrell Holmes both had a game-high nine tackles. Each had three solo tackles and six assisted stops.
A crowd of 4,515 filled Arute Field for the opening Northeast Conference game of 2012.
The Blue Devils will return to action at Sacred Heart next Saturday. The game will kickoff at noon and will air on Fox College Sports, Cox Sports and ESPN3.Com through NEC TV.


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Baker's Dozen, located on 81-09 Lefferts Blvd. in Kew Gardens, has been operating for the past 18 years. Every morning at the break of dawn, the shop is filled with the aroma of fresh bagels and other baked goods. There are more than a dozen types of bagels and rolls, and even more varieties of spreads, along with a selection of Boar's Head meats.
Jay Goodman, co-owner of the shop, says that the shop has been around for almost two decades. "I think Saint Patty's made it eighteen years," said Goodman.
On a regular weekday morning, lines of customers fill up the shop, sometimes reaching all the way to the entrance. On weekends, the shop gets even busier, with whole families coming in for a cozy breakfast.
Because of Baker's Dozen's long history in the neighborhood, the employees and customers share a special bound, like that of a family.
The owner greets many customers by name, and exchanges friendly conversations while they wait for their order.
Even though Baker's Dozen has a sister shop in Greenpoint, the bagels usually do not get distributed to other locations. When asked how many bagels are sold each day, Goodman said, "A lot."


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Tuesday, January 18, 2011
3D Glasses
It feels like my nose is going to cave in, and I have to constantly adjust them during the movie which takes me completely out of the film. They always have smudgy fingerprint or popcorn smears all over them which are IMPOSSIBLE to remove... even with my special eyeglass cleaning cloth, believe me I've tried. And as if the smears aren't bad enough, the dark coated lenses completely screw up the colors of the film. I take them off and the brilliance of the color shows through until I get dizzy from the double vision thing, and then I have to watch the rest of the film in a dulled down smudgy version knowing what awesomeness my eyes are missing out on. Plus, it's not bad enough being called 4 eyes when you were younger, but six eyes... yeeesh. 3D goggles (as I like to call them) just go away.
18 comments:
- Beji said...
Sometimes I have to work with those glasses and it's even worse. I love your blog.
- January 19, 2011 at 12:14:00 AM PST
- Unknown said...
haha that's funny zar. in the 3d-cinema I must always think of those poor people. :) what do people they wear big nerd glasses???
- January 19, 2011 at 12:23:00 AM PST
- Meg Park said...
Oh man, I feel exactly the same way about 3D Glasses. And to think we have to pay ridiculous ticket prices for the experience..
- January 19, 2011 at 1:19:00 AM PST
- Nate Villanueva said...
here here!!! down with 3d glasses!
- January 19, 2011 at 1:30:00 AM PST
- Dougmian said...
Movies in 3D shouldn't be a rule, but I think most of the next movies will be in 3D. I agree with you, they could thing about a comfortable way to watch it.
I like this drawing to show the situation!
- January 19, 2011 at 2:57:00 AM PST
- Miss-Manitas said...
OH! I had never think befefore what happend with the persons who already wear glasses when they go to the cinema. haha.. You are right, this must be a very extrange and unconfortable situation. I've also notice that the colors are more dull when you wear the glasses :(
Good job!
- January 19, 2011 at 5:08:00 AM PST
- Benoit Therriault said...
Your drawing is so spot-on!
Just have a look at my profile picture...it'll tells a lot about that:)
- January 19, 2011 at 6:01:00 AM PST
- Isaac Orloff Illustration said...
when i went to see how to train your dragon i didnt realize it was in 3d till we got to the door of the theater. I was so pissed i wanted to leave, but i went in anyway. But after feeling i was actually soaring through nathan fowkes's background, i was totally hooked haha. definitely wouldnt wanna have a 3d tv at home though, wearing those glasses is silly..what if you wear contacts and the 3d glasses?
- January 19, 2011 at 6:04:00 AM PST
- Avner Geller said...
Hahahaha, I've been feeling exactly the same every time I had to put on those glasses. I feel your pain!
wonderful illustration!
- January 19, 2011 at 6:54:00 AM PST
- Marie Bower said...
LOL! I agree, and it just feels so weird having to wear TWO pairs of glasses in a movie! It also gives me a headache sometimes...this is why I avoid most 3D movies all together. Thanks for posting this, I feel a lot of people can relate! :D
- January 19, 2011 at 12:07:00 PM PST
- PLANET-PULP said...
I saw Alice in Wonderland and Toy Story 3 in 3D and swore I wouldn't do it again. The loss of color on such beautiful films is a tragic thing. I'm over 3D until studios can find a way to preserve the color. hopefully that doesn't mean over saturate to compensate!
- January 19, 2011 at 2:17:00 PM PST
- Unknown said...
ditto! I've always wondered how big a pain that would be... : D
- January 19, 2011 at 2:18:00 PM PST
- Joseph Mingoo Lee said...
totally agree, double glasses are lame!
- January 19, 2011 at 2:54:00 PM PST
- Chris Kennett said...
glasses on glasses, I feel your pain.
- January 19, 2011 at 4:45:00 PM PST
- Emikaye said...
Preaching to the choir, here =]
- January 19, 2011 at 4:53:00 PM PST
- Unknown said...
I'm not a lover of the 3d technology, but I'm a lover of your artworks! I follow you!
- January 20, 2011 at 3:08:00 AM PST
- Aurore Damant said...
OMG I so agree with you. The worse thing is that lately you don't even have the choice to see the movies without the 3D. I think it should remain in Disneyland.
(great sketch BTW)
- January 20, 2011 at 3:24:00 PM PST
- Maya Shavzin said...
yess!!! exactly!
thank you!!
- May 3, 2011 at 5:58:00 AM PDT


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Thursday, March 11, 2010
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Wow! This is a great look for you Dr. Bill! I am so glad the new Blogger Template Designer worked out!ReplyDelete
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Nice Bill...I redid mine too...come on over and take a look :)ReplyDelete
Ooo, I like it. As you already know, I redid mine, too.ReplyDelete
Ah, you've all beat me to it. I've been waiting to make the change because I noticed that not all of my pages show up on some of the templates.ReplyDelete
Very nice look, Bill. I may have to think about updating my look, too.ReplyDelete
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Can I specify that a gem is for JRuby only?
Is there something I can put in my .gemspec to indicate that the gem will only work with JRuby? I'm working on a gem that wraps Java libraries, and so requires JRuby. I couldn't find any information on this. It seems like you can only specific platform and (numeric) ruby version.
I'll of course document this requirement, but it would be nice if the gem simply fails to install with a reasonable error (or is not even available for install) with MRI Ruby. If there's nothing I can do in .gemspec, maybe I can do something else to make the installation fail?
Specifying the
javaplatform usually does it, and if you a build a gem from JRuby it should do that automatically. You could also set the
Ok, it sounds like I should simply add:
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spec.platform = "java" in the gemspec seems to simply append "java" to the end of my gem name. It still installs into MRI ruby.
Someone suggested I use gem's (native) extension mechanism to write a script that would fail if not running under JRuby. But I can't seem to get this to work. I always get the error "cannot build native extension" even when my ext script does nothing.
I also tried building with both jgem and normal gem, but it didn't seem to make a difference. Although it's not clear to me if the local behavior when testing these things will be the same as when installing from rubygems.org. I only used the gem command "for real" so far. Next time I'll try to remember to build and push via jgem and see if that helps.
Maybe there's a bug report or enhancement request in here somewhere, but I guess it's not that big of a deal. I suppose if people can't RTFM or figure out a gem that starts with "j" and ends with "java" is intended for JRuby, that's not really not my problem ;)
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If you ask for an e-book this Christmas, don't be disappointed if you get a paperback instead. Because it seems that Amazon is unlikely to launch its Kindle over here this year.
The online retail giant's UK managing director, Brian McBride, recently told trade publication The Bookseller that the e-book reader is more likely to launch into Europe next year.
Although Kindle's been available in the US since November 2007, McBride hinted that the machine's European launch has been delayed by the number of wireless operators throughout Europe.
"If you buy a Kindle in the UK and want to read it on the beach on holiday in Spain, unless we have signed deals in Spain it's not going to work on that beach," McBride said.
By contrast, Kindle only works over a service called Whispernet in the US, which uses the EvDO 3G service provided by network operator Sprint.
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- "There is a room in the Department of Mysteries that is kept locked at all times. It contains a force that is at once more wonderful and more terrible than death, than human intelligence, than the forces of nature. It is also, perhaps, the most mysterious of the many subjects for study that reside there. It is the power held within that room that you possess in such quantities and which Voldemort has not at all."
- —Albus Dumbledore to Harry Potter about love.[src]
Love is a deep, powerful, and ineffable emotion of attachment to, and affection for, another being or beings.[1] It gives those who experience it the ability to do very great things. Someone full of hate, such as Tom Riddle, who has never known it even once in their entire life, cannot understand love's full magical properties. Love is one of the hardest and strongest kinds of magic and as such, there is a room devoted to the study of it in the Department of Mysteries. Love is also quite possibly the most mysterious branch of magic and is extremely difficult to comprehend.
11th centuryEdit
The Bloody Baron had fallen in love with Helena Ravenclaw, but she did not reciprocate, and rejected his many advances, the last one which led to him impulsively killing her, and then himself out of regret.[2] Helena never found true love due to never having found a man worthy of her standards.[3]
12th centuryEdit
Cadmus Peverell fell in love with a woman, but she died before the two could be wed. After creating the Resurrection Stone (though in the story version, Death gave it to him), he used it in an attempt to bring his late lover back to him, but this "revival" was incomplete and she was sad and cold, giving off the feeling of the two were still separated. Cadmus was driven mad by being unable to be with his love in this life, so he committed suicide to be truly reunited with her.
In 1899, Albus Dumbledore's love for his brother and sister pushed him to turn against his old friend Gellert Grindelwald and attack him, finally defeating him in 1945.[2]
In 1925, Merope Gaunt had fallen deeply in love with Tom Riddle, and betrayed her family's beliefs in blood purity to be with her love. She used a Love Potion in order to attract Riddle to her, but ceased feeding him it once she was pregnant, thinking that Tom would finally love her in return or at least stay for their unborn child out of love for it, of which Tom did neither. The usage of a love potion for Tom Marvolo Riddle's conception is symbolic for his inability to understand love for his entire life as it was due to coercion rather than true love.[4]
Around 1977, James Potter's love for Lily Evans changed his character a little by the fact that he stopped hexing people just for fun.[5]
Bellatrix may have married Rodolphus Lestrange out of obligation for her her family's beliefs, but her true love is Lord Voldemort.[6] Voldemort, on the other hand, did not reciprocate, as he cannot understand love due to his upbringing, although he does value Bellatrix's talents and loyalty. Unlike their eldest sister, Andromeda and Narcissa married their respective spouses out of true love, and in Andromeda's case, went against her family's beliefs, which led her to be disinherited.
- "The Boy Who Lived. How lies have fed your legend Harry. Shall I reveal what really happened that night thirteen years ago? Shall I divulge how I truly lost my powers? Yes, shall I? It was love. You see, when dear sweet Lily Potter gave her life for her only son...she provided the ultimate protection. I could not touch him. It was old magic. Something I should have foreseen. But no matter, no matter. Things have changed. I can touch you...now!"
- —Voldemort reflecting on his first defeat[src]
In 1981, Severus Snape's love of Lily Evans pushed him to join the Order of the Phoenix, even though he hated her husband, and then Snape begged Lord Voldemort to promise to spare her when he went to kill her son Harry.[2] In that same year, Lily's love for her son Harry protected him against Lord Voldemort. He became the only known person in history to survive the Killing Curse because of the power of her loving sacrifice.[7] However, it could be that while love was the motive, the cause of Harry's protection was that Lily had lured Voldemort into a binding magical contract so that having killed her, he would be unable to kill Harry, because he had already promised to spare Lily, and only her offer allowed him to kill her.[2]
After Barty Crouch Jr. was imprisoned in Azkaban, his mother persuaded his father to help break him out. Crouch Sr. agreed out of love for his wife, even though he did not love his son at the very least. Winky the house-elf, who also loved Barty Jr., cared for him with a sense of motherly affections, though Barty believed that it was pity and duty.[8]
- Albus Dumbledore: "Harry, do you know why...Professor Quirrell couldn't bear to have you touch him?...It was because of your mother. She sacrificed herself for you. And that kind of act leaves a mark... This kind of mark cannot be seen. It lives in your very skin."
- Harry Potter: "What is it?"
- Albus Dumbledore: "Love, Harry. Love."
- — Albus Dumbledore to Harry Potter.[src]
In 1992, because of the protection that Lily Evans's death created for Harry Potter, Professor Quirinus Quirrell could not touch Harry without serious harm to his physical well-being. In doing so, this led to Professor Quirinus Quirrell's death and Voldemort was once again without a body to possess.[7]
In 1993, the love for Ginny and Hermione Granger caused Ron Weasley and Harry Potter to head down to the Chamber of Secrets to rescue Ginny.[9]
In 1994, the love for his godfather and the prospect of living with him gave Harry a powerful and happy enough memory to perform a Patronus Charm and drive away the Dementors.[10]
In 1995, Harry managed to escape Lord Voldemort when his loved ones came to him through Priori Incantatem.[8]
In 1996, his love for Sirius again helped him, when his grief over his godfather's death overcame Voldemort's attempt to possess him and forced him out of his mind. In that same year Dumbledore ignored Harry, thinking that this would prevent Voldemort from using the connection with Harry Potter to gain insight into his own mind because Voldemort would sense he cared "too much" about Harry and would be eager to use their relationship to gain access to Dumbledore's mind and knowledge of the activities of the Order of the Phoenix.[5]
In 1997 it is revealed that the pain inflicted upon Voldemort when Harry forced him out of his mind scared him away from attempting the same tactic again. Harry Potter's love for Ginny Weasley was shown when he entered into the common room after the Quidditch match that took place during his detention with Professor Snape and ended up kissing her and it also drove him to leave her in fear of her being a target of Lord Voldemort. In that same year, Harry's love for Professor Albus Dumbledore pushed him to attack Severus Snape with one of his own spells. Draco Malfoy's love for his family pushed him to attempt to kill Dumbledore, even though he really did not want to. Fleur Delacour asserted her love for Bill Weasley even after he was horribly scarred in battle by Fenrir Greyback. Her declarations prompted Tonks to once again impress upon Remus Lupin she did not care about his being a full werewolf, older than her, or that he was poor and that she loved and wanted to be with him anyway.
Their love for Harry motivated Hermione Granger and Ron Weasley to accompany him on the Horcrux hunt, leaving their families and risking their lives.[11] When the Harry, Ron and Hermione were taken to Malfoy Manor, Ron begged Bellatrix to interrogate him instead of Hermione because he deeply loved her.
- "...Do not pity the dead, Harry. Pity the living, and, above all, those who live without love."
- —Albus Dumbledore.[src]
Harry Potter's love for Ginny Weasley (his future wife) made her the last person he thought about before facing his own death.
Love in literatureEdit
- Amata in The Fountain of Fair Fortune fell in love with a Muggle named Sir Luckless.
- The Warlock in The Warlock's Hairy Heart regarded love as a sickness and used Dark Arts to prevent it from happening to him, therefore he paid dearly for it.
Love and magicEdit
- Albus Dumbledore: "...you have never been seduced by the Dark Arts, never, even for a second, shown the slightest desire to become one of Voldemort's followers!"
- Harry Potter: "Of course I haven't! He killed my mum and dad!"
- Albus Dumbledore: "You are protected, in short, by your ability to love! The only protection that can possibly work against the lure of power like Voldemort's! In spite of all the temptation you have endured, all the suffering, you remain pure of heart, as pure as you were five years ago, when you looked into a mirror that reflected your heart's desire. Harry, do you have any idea how few wizards could see what you saw in that mirror?"
- — Albus Dumbledore and Harry Potter in 1996.[src]
Love has a profound effect on magic. Lily Evan's love for her son made her willing to die for him, and because of that sacrifice, Harry was protected from the most powerful Dark magic of all — the Killing Curse.[2] Love is the only protection against the lure and power of the Dark Arts, which are fueled by hateful emotions.[11] Harry failed to learn Occlumency in order to block his connection to Lord Voldemort's mind, but he managed to block the link when he focused on his feelings for his loved ones, such as when he felt grief over his godfather's death,[5] and when he was frantic with worry about Hermione Granger when she was being tortured by Bellatrix Lestrange.[2] Those who are filled with hatred, such as Tom Riddle and Quirinus Quirrell, can be inflicted great pain and even death by the power of love.
- "Your mother died to save you. If there is one thing Voldemort cannot understand, it is love. He didn't realise that love as powerful as your mother's for you leaves its own mark. Not a scar, no visible sign ... to have been loved so deeply, even though the person who loved us is gone, will give us some protection forever. (...) It was agony to touch a person marked by something so good."
- —Dumbledore on why Quirinus Quirrell could not touch Harry[src]
Love can also affect other types of magic, notably the Patronus. Harry's Patronus is the same as the Patronus and Animagus form of his father, a stag.[10] James' wife had a doe Patronus to match her husband's, and Severus Snape's mimicked hers because of his love for her.[2] Nymphadora Tonks's Patronus changed to a werewolf when she fell in love with Remus Lupin.[11]
- "Hermione was screaming again: The sound went through Harry like physical pain. Barely conscious of the fierce prickling of his scar, he too started to run around the cellar, feeling the walls for he hardly knew what, knowing in his heart that it was useless.... He felt Voldemort's fury, but as Hermione screamed again he shut it out, returning to the cellar and the horror of his own present."
- —Harry Potter cutting off his connection to Voldemort.[src]
Love Potions, like Amortentia, and Entrancing Enchantments, are meant to artificially create love, but they cannot; nothing can reproduce love. Instead, they can at most produce an intense infatuation. When a person smells Amortentia, they will smell things that remind them of what and who they love.[11] Within the love room of the Department of Mysteries is where love is being studied, and a large fountain of Amortentia is kept.
It appears that those who abuse the power of love, or apply it for the sake of those who have an affinity for the Dark Arts, usually suffer some severe backlash, based on the First Law of the Fundamental Laws of Magic. A prime example is seen when Merope Gaunt used enchantments to subjugate the man she genuinely loved, only to be abandoned and left to die in despair (along with her magical powers being drained from the sorrow) when she lifted the control out of her besotted believe, and giving birth to a loveless being who would create a campaign of hatred for many decades before that being is left to suffer a terrible after-death fate due to his lack of understanding of love. Also, despite Mrs. Crouch and Winky truly loving Barty Crouch Jr. and forfeited many of their own benefits for his sake, he was utterly ungrateful, and instead let their sacrifices be in vain (if not for the worse) as he abused their affections and returned to the Dark Arts, which led to his worse-than-death fate.
External linksEdit
- Love on Wikipedia
- Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (First appearance)
- Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (film)
- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (film)
- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (film)
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (film)
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (film)
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (film)
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (video game)
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
- The Tales of Beedle the Bard (real)
Notes and referencesEdit
- ↑ Love at Wikipedia
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
- ↑ Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 - Author's comments
- ↑ 30 July, 2007 Bloomsbury webchat
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
- ↑ [www.the-leaky-cauldron.org/2007/7/30/j-k-rowling-web-chat-transcript Leaky Cauldron: J.K. Rowling Webchat 30 July 2007]
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
- ↑ Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 11.3 Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince


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Teamwork leads to equivalent of 47 trips around Earth
It's hard to imagine walking around the globe, let alone doing that 47 times in only six weeks. But that's just how much participants exercised last year as part of the statewide BizicallyFit 2012 Health Challenge.
Last year, nearly 150 Auggies took part in the challenge and won, for a second time, a good-natured competition against St. Thomas.
Please join your Auggie faculty and staff colleagues as they take on the Tommies for a third year. This year might be shaping up to be a bigger challenge, though, since the Tommies already have more than 150 people on their teams.
More Auggies are needed to help level the playing field and drive Augsburg to a third victory over our friends across the river. As the saying goes: "Many feet exercising makes light work."
Please sign up to take part in the Challenge. With your help, maybe we can collectively circle the globe 48 times this year.
Get the full details on registering to participate on a team in the Daily A-Mail.
Shown here are Auggies with Minnesota Vikings cornerback Asher Allen at the fitness challenge kickoff at Vikings Winter Park.
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a few statements I believe are true-
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God is the creator of procreation, desire, and eros.
God wants us to be happy.
I like to draw naked mice.
Drawing naked mice makes me happy.
― and what, Tuesday, 4 March 2008 19:12 (twelve years ago) link
Doonsebury gang riding in a VW van.
― Pleasant Plains, Tuesday, 4 March 2008 20:46 (twelve years ago) link
Shine on, you crazy diamond.
I'm working on a revision of the last panel-it would be much more appropriate if Mallard runs over a newspaper vending machine.
― Dan Lacey, Tuesday, 4 March 2008 21:30 (twelve years ago) link
Isn't that a bit obvious, though?
― Bodrick III, Tuesday, 4 March 2008 21:34 (twelve years ago) link
I suspect there's enough energy in the rest of the drawing where it won't become the first thing you see.
― Dan Lacey, Tuesday, 4 March 2008 21:54 (twelve years ago) link
dan, i think it's much more satisfying to see those smug doonesbury jokers in an epic smash-up, imho
― elmo argonaut, Tuesday, 4 March 2008 21:55 (twelve years ago) link
also, the picture of the gay bear buttsecks -- the topman's ass-pucker looks a little too, uh, exposed. like, it's either the most prominent butthole ever, or he's prolapsing. that aside, i really enjoy your artwork, dan!
― elmo argonaut, Tuesday, 4 March 2008 22:07 (twelve years ago) link
fillmore strip is great
nsfw strips are insane
― abanana, Tuesday, 4 March 2008 23:51 (twelve years ago) link
dan do you like doug tennapel's stuff?
― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 4 March 2008 23:52 (twelve years ago) link
what abanana said.
― GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ, Wednesday, 5 March 2008 03:10 (twelve years ago) link
Who's Doug Tennapel?
― Dan Lacey, Wednesday, 5 March 2008 14:32 (twelve years ago) link
A few sketch requests from goons at SA-
Picking up the Taint Maturbation arc again-
Taint/Obama Blastoff-NSFW
― Dan Lacey, Wednesday, 12 March 2008 18:37 (twelve years ago) link
― Dan Lacey, Wednesday, 12 March 2008 18:39 (twelve years ago) link
Last Winehouse is best. Dan, do you consider yrself to be influenced at all by Robert Crumb?
― libcrypt, Wednesday, 12 March 2008 23:03 (twelve years ago) link
I'm a big Crumb fan, so that's probably true.
― Dan Lacey, Wednesday, 12 March 2008 23:18 (twelve years ago) link
dan lacey what are your top 5 most important political issues?
― and what, Wednesday, 12 March 2008 23:20 (twelve years ago) link
I've been trying to care. I'm not much motivated by politics anymore, mainly because I see neglect everywhere. 'Hot issues' run for a while as fads and then nothing gets accomplished; I've been trying to get off of that stupid train.
As a partial answer I would say life issues, if anything. Euthanasia still interests me, as does cloning. Renewable energy; if we had advanced solar capacity it would solve many of our domestic and defense related problems.
I'm more interested in why people care about certain issues, particularly as seen through the lens of faith and sexual motivation.
― Dan Lacey, Wednesday, 12 March 2008 23:41 (twelve years ago) link
what are your religious beliefs? are you against euthanasia because you believe it takes a life provided by god?
― and what, Wednesday, 12 March 2008 23:54 (twelve years ago) link
That's a good question.
I've sort of had a falling out with God as of late, so I'm not really advocating anything except doing good, or trying to do good.
There are still too many cases of people 'coming back' after all hope was gone, so I would err on the side of caution. But as for moral absolutes; except for a few cases I've lost my enthusiasm.
― Dan Lacey, Thursday, 13 March 2008 00:03 (twelve years ago) link
thanks for the answers!
― and what, Thursday, 13 March 2008 00:16 (twelve years ago) link
dan, if you haven't posted it here yet, please post the bob ross/happy tree one. that's awesome. if i had unlimited funds i'd buy 6.5 billion copies of that and mail one to everyone on earth.
― GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ, Thursday, 13 March 2008 13:51 (twelve years ago) link
this one?
― StanM, Thursday, 13 March 2008 16:32 (twelve years ago) link
― Dan Lacey, Thursday, 13 March 2008 22:54 (twelve years ago) link
Taint/Room For Two NSFW
― Dan Lacey, Friday, 14 March 2008 05:35 (twelve years ago) link
I've had Ilxor's ask me now and then if they can buy a cartoon; if you click on the above image it will take you to a page where you can purchase a high resolution copy from Paypal for $5. If you guys would like to support the cartoon that's a great way to do so.
I'll post a link where you can download a print-copy of the Neverborn/Bob Ross Happy Tree toon as well for GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ. Would make a nice coloring sheet.
― Dan Lacey, Thursday, 20 March 2008 17:47 (twelve years ago) link
Someone's going to ask me this-
Chantal Sebire is saying "Thank you for releasing me, little one. Now I am finally free!"
― Dan Lacey, Thursday, 20 March 2008 17:49 (twelve years ago) link
That condition she had made me definitely sympathise with her request.
― Michael White, Thursday, 20 March 2008 18:25 (twelve years ago) link
I recommend against GISing Chantal Sebire. Oh, my lunch.
― libcrypt, Thursday, 20 March 2008 20:03 (twelve years ago) link
Hell, even a Google text search wasn't worth it:
A rare form of cancer had burrowed through her sinuses and nasal cavities, causing her nose to swell to several times its original size, and pushing one of her eye sockets out of her head.
― Pleasant Plains, Thursday, 20 March 2008 20:35 (twelve years ago) link
Dan, I hate to be all frenchy pedantic here, but the 'e' at the end of petite makes it a feminine adjective. Petit is the proper spelling and p'tit is "li'l".
― Michael White, Thursday, 20 March 2008 20:41 (twelve years ago) link
Well, let's get it right. Drop the 'e' and what do you suggest with 'p'tit is "li'l"?'
― Dan Lacey, Thursday, 20 March 2008 20:48 (twelve years ago) link
If she's going to call someone 'bonhomme', she's quite likely to say 'p'tit' instead of 'petit'. It's kind of idiomatic, is what I'm saying.
― Michael White, Thursday, 20 March 2008 20:59 (twelve years ago) link
this is how you leverage the internet to make you look smart!
― El Tomboto, Thursday, 20 March 2008 21:00 (twelve years ago) link
Change made, thanks!
― Dan Lacey, Thursday, 20 March 2008 22:41 (twelve years ago) link
So after Chantal Sébire is dead her body will make a great pro-life costume?
― Electronic Bugaloo, Friday, 21 March 2008 00:01 (twelve years ago) link
― Dan Lacey, Wednesday, 26 March 2008 02:13 (twelve years ago) link
― Dan Lacey, Wednesday, 26 March 2008 02:14 (twelve years ago) link
damn that jenkem epidemic.
i like the guilty raincoater in that last panel.
― GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ, Wednesday, 26 March 2008 07:34 (twelve years ago) link
haha, ilx finally has jenkem jokes
― kingfish, Wednesday, 26 March 2008 07:36 (twelve years ago) link
'i like the guilty raincoater in that last panel.'
May have to revise that. Robe, not raincoat. He's one of the 'live xxx show' employees on a break.
― Dan Lacey, Wednesday, 26 March 2008 12:39 (twelve years ago) link
Idea for a Faithmouse/Chick Tract parody-
Goon request, Blade Runner theme-
9-11 drawing-
Inspired by story of New Zealand man who claimed he was raped by a wombat which caused him to speak Australian-
Foster's Is Australian For Beer - NSFW
Recent drawing-
Gary Gygax memorial cartoon in progress-
Former WalMart employee brain-damaged by second-party truck accident chases CEO of WalMart which tried to recover half million in paid medical expenses-
Padre Pio-
That 'Amy Winehouse' YouTube midget transvestite from Chile-
Goon request, after Rosicrucian tapestry-
Following up on the previously posted Taint cartoon-
I'm happy to take sketch requests, which helps to support the cartoon. $20 for a custom cartoon and I'll throw in a signed Mallard Fillmore cartoon (danlacey(at)faithmouse(dot)com.)
I have a pretty fun nude Olympics San Francisco protest cartoon in progress as well.
― Dan Lacey, Thursday, 10 April 2008 18:03 (twelve years ago) link
Dan lives!I still have his Chase no Face portrait hanging in my office.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 5 February 2020 21:58 (three months ago) link


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Five quick hits out of Chicago
Maybe one day Chicagoans will see this sign: "Chicago City Hall – Brought to You by Pepto-Bismol." Or maybe not. The city has hired a consultant to explore the possibility of the city selling naming rights to its programs, events and assets, according to published reports. Under well-known sponsorship deals in the sports world, a corporation attaches its name to a stadium – such as the White Sox' U.S. Cellular Field.
Would you like fries with that? A Chicago-themed restaurant chain, Uno Chicago Grill, is getting sliced in Men's Health magazine. Its personal-sized Classic Deep Dish Pizza is dubbed one of America 's "Worst Foods." The food item contains a whopping 2,310 calories and 162 grams of fat, the magazine said. Dietary concerns aside, Pizzeria Uno in Chicago's River North neighborhood is an institution and supposedly invented the deep dish style.
Elvis is in the state building. Gov. Rod Blagojevich, a huge Elvis Presley buff, keeps several pieces of King-related memorabilia – including figurines and record albums -- in one of the glass display cases outside his 16th floor office in the James R. Thompson Center. Some of the more odd items: a bottle of Elvis Presley Cabernet Sauvignon and a package of "Burning Love" coffee. The pieces have been given to the governor by constituents, an aide said.
Inquiring minds want to know. Forget the local tax increases and pending implosion of the Chicago Transit Authority. Much of the Chicago media has focused its attention 40 miles to the south to report the latest twists and turns surrounding the disappearance of Bolingbrook wife Stacy Peterson and suspicions about her ex-cop husband, Drew. The dark story has reached a broader audience by appearing on the cover of People Magazine.
What's new. If you're in downtown Chicago some evening this winter, take a gander at the Carbide and Carbon Building at 230 N. Michigan Ave. (now known as the Hard Rock Hotel Chicago). The 1920s-era Art Deco masterpiece has been renovated for a reported $106 million, and the work included applying new gold leaf at the building's peak. The tower is now lit at night.
Mike Ramsey is the Chicago reporter for GateHouse News Service. He can be reached at (312) 857-2323 or email@example.com .


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Press Release: Why the Future Availability of Affordable Space for Manufacturing, Warehouse, Wholesale Trade, Arts & Crafts, Recycling, Contracting, & Retailing Is At Stake and What This Means
At their February meeting, the City Council took a 5 to 4 sense vote to open up ALL Protected Industrial Wholesale Trade and Warehouse space (an unverified 2 million sq ft) to Research and Development (R&D). WEBAIC has proposed opening up a smaller subset of this space (100,000 sq ft) so as not to create destructive displacement pressure on valuable industrial & arts enterprises and good jobs and more closely match projected R&D demand.
On April 29th the City Council will discuss this issue, public comment will be taken, and Council may direct staff to write actual zoning language that would open a Council-directed amount of protected industrial space to R&D. Whatever the amount, this directive will have far reaching consequences for the future viability of industry and arts, the sustainability of our economy and culture, and the economic equity and ethnic diversity of our community and region. WEBAIC has been in discussions with City Council members on this issue over the last 2 months. Your presence on the 29th provides the best chance of a positive resolution to this issue for our companies, studios, jobs, and for Berkeley.


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"When College freshman Sherry Tseng decided to take Computer and Information Science 110 this spring, she did not expect the popular introductory-level computer science course to curtail her interest in computer science altogether." summarizes Haley Suh, Staff Reporter.
|78 percent of the entry classes listed as having above a 3.0 difficulty on Penn Course Review are STEM courses.
Photo: Zach Sheldon / The Daily Pennsylvanian
After a semester, she found the course so challenging that she decided not to take any CIS courses in the future.
Tseng's experience is not a unique. CIS is not the only major that offers challenging introductory level courses for prospective majors, often referred to as "weed-out" courses designed to eliminate students who are not fit to pursue the major.
These "weed-out" courses are particularly prevalent in subjects to do with Science, Technology, Engineering and Math.
There are 300 courses listed as department-recommended classes for College students who want to explore a particular major. 53 of them fall under the category of STEM, and over 47 percent of those STEM entry courses are listed at a 3.0 (out of 4.0) or higher for difficulty level on Penn Course Review, while only 2.67 percent of non-STEM entry courses are rated in the same range of difficulty.
Furthermore, 78 percent of the entry courses above 3.0 difficulty belong to STEM fields.
|Photo: Penn Course Review
Entry courses in the humanities that are also at or above the 3.0 difficulty level include Philosophy 005, Communication 226 and Visual Studies 102.
A recent article by U.S. News quoted STEM higher education experts who expressed concern over the notion of "weed-out" classes.
"We need to wash out the 'weed-them-out orientation' in the classroom," Mary Fox, co-director at the Center for the Study of Women, Science, and Technology at the Georgia Institute of Technology, said to U.S. News. "That is not a hospitable climate for students. We have to teach students to move along rather than have them sink or swim."
At Penn, many students verify the existence of weed-out courses, though professors disagree.
First-generation College junior David Thai said there were no Advanced Placement or honors courses offered in his high school, and that he felt unprepared for the level of difficulty of introductory classes at Penn — particularly those in the pre-medicine track.
"I did really well in the science classes in my high school, so I thought I could definitely take these general intro classes at Penn and do well," Thai said. "But I realized that I was extremely unprepared for the rigor and difficulty of these classes."
Thai later dropped the pre-med track and opted to pursue a major in health and societies.
He said he believes that professors should do a better job of retaining students in their classes, knowing that their curriculum might be very challenging for some.
"I don't appreciate the University's one-size-fits-all approach, where it assumes everyone comes from the same background," Thai said. "Professors recognize the difficulty of their course, but don't do a good job of making sure their students stay."
CIS Department Chair Sampath Kannan said it is not the intention of the department to make CIS 110 a weed-out class.
Source: The Daily Pennsylvanian


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PAUL NORDEN NEEDS a break. He is winded, sweating heavily after a stint on a stationary bicycle and the slow walk to a padded treatment table. It is hard work for Norden, who lost his right leg that Monday afternoon in April.
"I used to say, 'I'll never go to a gym,'" he says with a weary smile. "Now I'm stuck here."
He is in Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital's large state-of-the-art gym for his afternoon physical therapy session. Just a few short weeks ago — a lifetime ago — Norden, 31, was clambering on the very roof above his head, a "tin knocker" who helped attach sheet metal to the new $225 million facility.
Now, Norden and 21 other survivors of the Boston Marathon bombing, including two of Norden's boyhood friends, are among its first inpatients.
As Norden rests, Adam Soiref, a physical therapy intern, takes advantage of the break to show him how to properly wrap his stump. Norden soon will be doing this on his own, and it's important that he knows how to maintain its conical shape as the tissue shrinks, to ensure a good fit with the prosthesis he will receive in coming months.
They remove an Ace bandage, revealing the angry, jagged suture line. With Soiref's guidance, Norden rewraps what remains of his leg, which ends above his knee.
Rehab at Spaulding is the second phase of the attack victims' recovery, a grueling, at times painful, step in their transition to an uncertain future. The immediate physical and psychological impacts of the blasts have slowly begun to subside. Ahead is the difficult period of learning to function outside the cocoon of support that has been spun around them. For Norden, that will mean negotiating the 14 steps up to the second-floor home in Wakefield where he will live with his mother. It will mean learning to reach for something high in a kitchen cabinet while balancing on one leg and a crutch. It will mean adjusting the way he bathes, grappling with medical expenses, and finding new ways to simply get around. His family also must care for his older brother, J.P., who lost his right leg in the bombing as well.
For now, though, Paul Norden and the others are in the care of a small army of doctors, psychologists, physical therapists, occupational therapists, family, and friends at Spaulding, as they learn those new skills and regain others.
"They are getting through this," says Spaulding psychologist Christopher Carter. Many victims have moved on from the need to rehash the attack itself. Some have begun to startle less easily and calm down more quickly when they do. Burned skin is healing. Damaged hearing is returning.
In the gym, Norden says: "I'm just focusing on learning how to walk. I don't know what the future holds. I'm not giving up, I know that."
THE FIVE BUDDIES from Stoneham, a mostly working-class bedroom community of 21,000 north of Boston, have known each other since elementary and middle school. Some have become closer as time has passed. They have worked, fished, and played poker and basketball together for years. Most also have been coming down to the marathon every Patriots' Day since they were able to drink legally.
This year, they were there to cheer for Mike Jefferson, another friend who was running the race and was headed up the final stretch on Boylston Street. They gathered outside Forum, a bar near the finish line. The Norden brothers were there, along with Jacqui Webb, Paul Norden's girlfriend of eight years; James "Bim" Costello; Marc Fucarile; and Jarrod Clowery, who was making his first trip to the marathon. Three older women who knew the gang were nearby.
The first blast went off near the finish line, a short distance down Boylston Street from where the group stood.
"Right away, I knew it was a bomb," Costello says as a physical therapist helps him stretch his badly burned legs in the Spaulding gym. It didn't make sense that race officials would fire a cannon to celebrate people finishing long after the winners had crossed the line. "I said, 'That's a bomb' three times," he remembers.
At 35, Clowery had given up his dream of making a living as a professional pool player. Now he was sleeping on J.P. Norden's couch, doing residential construction work with the brothers when he could get it. He was with them and their family for Easter dinner.
Something told Clowery the group would be safer in the middle of Boylston Street than behind the waist-high spectator barricade outside the bar. He put one hand on the barricade and began to vault it. When the second bomb went off at ground level just a few feet away, Clowery's legs were atop the metal fence. That's why he still has them.
"Before I could finish saying, 'Get your ass in the street,' boom!" Clowery recalls.
He was blown into Boylston Street by the blast and opened his eyes to a scene of unspeakable carnage. A few feet away, a small boy lay dead. The street was awash in blood, littered with body parts. Costello was tangled in a barricade, his shirt and pants partially burned away.
"I actually thought to myself, 'Are these my last breaths?'" Costello recalls. "From head to toe, I was like on fire." He got up and started to make his way down Boylston Street, his shirt smoldering, asking for help. No one came to his aid in those first few moments. He sat on the curb and pulled two nails from his abdomen.
Clowery could be any guy in long, dark sweatpants and a light sweatshirt, until he rolls up his sleeve to show what looks like a small field of blackheads on the underside of his left wrist. It is actually debris — wood, plastic, dirt, and other detritus blasted into his arm by the bomb. The nastiest wound is from a hot nail that entered his skin lengthwise. Sometimes Clowery uses tweezers to pull out tiny bits. Surgeons have removed denim from his thigh.
In his right leg are three nails, 20 BBs, and a metal spring. He faces more surgery to remove some of the objects, but others will be left to work their way to the surface or remain in his body forever. His left hand, contracted and burned by the blast, has been massaged back to health by occupational therapists. Sometimes it shakes uncontrollably.
EVERYONE IN THE Stoneham group survived. But both Norden brothers lost their right legs. Fucarile lost his right leg and suffered severe damage to his left. Costello was badly burned. Webb suffered shrapnel wounds in both legs, but, like Clowery, has gone home.
Costello and Paul Norden are still at Spaulding, and J.P. Norden may be there soon.
Costello cannot stand still, because the blood pools in his leg, causing intense pain despite the medication he takes. Therapists have worked basketballs into the regimen for him and Paul Norden, hoops fans who played regularly in pickup games and rec leagues. Costello dribbles, cuts, passes, and pretends to jump shoot under the watchful eye of his physical therapist, each drill designed to improve his balance, strength, and movement.
At the end of his Thursday afternoon session, he gazes across the gym at Norden, who is beginning to make his way across the floor on crutches. "That's my inspiration right there," he says.
Norden admits he did not work out much before the attack. He weighed 246 pounds. He is 206 now, but an apples-to-apples calculation is difficult. "I don't know how much my leg weighed," he says. He looks drawn and pale, his head newly shaved. Burned skin is a fiery red below the bandages on his remaining leg.
The luxury of being out of shape is one of many things Norden has lost to the bomb. If he is to walk again normally when he is ready for his prosthesis, he must regain his balance, strengthen his core, and develop his remaining leg. He will need more upper body strength in coming months as he moves around on crutches or with a walker. He has to improve his stamina and agility.
Soiref and his supervisor, Kristen Vito, put Norden through a tough 90-minute set of exercises Wednesday. He practices going up and down stairs on crutches, negotiates an obstacle course with his walker. He sits on an exercise ball and plays catch with a basketball. At times he is nervous about falling over.
"If I give out, I don't have another leg to catch me," he says.
The therapists are relentlessly positive and by Thursday's session, Norden's spirits have rebounded. "I just want to be prepared, and they're going to get me prepared," he says about leaving Spaulding sometime soon. "So I think I'll be confident."
IN THE GYM on Wednesday are half a dozen soldiers from Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, all with amputations or leg injuries. One man in a wheelchair is missing the lower half of his body. Another, Staff Sgt. Travis Mills, 26, lost all four limbs to an improvised explosive device in Afghanistan. Mills, who wears three different kinds of prostheses, including a myoelectric left arm that works via muscle contractions, shows amputees how to get up after falling to the floor.
The soldiers walk among the injured, on hand to answer a question or deliver an "attaboy" but careful not to intrude.
"We kind of came up here to show them there's life after amputation," Mills says. "You gotta get stronger and keep going. You can't sit and dwell on the past.
"You're not a bad person," he adds. "It's not because of anything you did with your life. Things just happen."
There has been an outpouring of physical, emotional, and financial support for the survivors. They are celebrities, feted at pro sports events, visited by everyone from President Obama to New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft. When Clowery, at a news conference, said the choreography of the medical response surpassed any drive that Patriots quarterback Tom Brady had orchestrated on a football field, Brady signed a jersey and had it delivered to Clowery, who keeps the prized possession in a cabinet in his room.
The nearly $30 million donated to the One Fund for victims, and the money pouring into smaller and individual funds, seems staggering until costs are closely considered. For an above-the-knee amputee such as Norden, a prosthesis will cost $30,000 to $60,000 and will need replacement about every three years. During each three-year period, adjustments and component and socket replacements can add another $10,000 to the cost. Insurance coverage varies widely, he said.
"You're [31] years old and you're missing a leg and you're not working," Clowery says of Norden. "It's going to take five years to get well."
But all that is for the future. The Stoneham victims share a determined focus on the here and now. They spend less time each day on the past, little yet on what is to come.
"I know we'll be normal," Norden says. "It's just a different normal."
By Lenny Bernstein. ©2013 by The Washington Post. Reprinted with permission.


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There are so many amazing choices available for flooring!
I have found myself feeling almost overwhelmed by the beautiful array of options, while daydreaming of all of the flooring possibilities for The Dream House (which will probably remain just a dream for a long time--maybe forever--but it's pleasant to imagine what could be!).
I thought you might like to see some of my favourite floors.


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Monday, October 8, 2007
Chiesa on Outsiders Looking In: The American Legal Discourse of Exclusion
This article examines and critiques the American government's use of discourses of exclusion during times of crisis to legitimate the adoption of measures that target certain groups of people primarily on the basis of their status as members of a particular class. The article consists of four parts. In Part I, I discuss the political philosophy of various prominent European and American thinkers in order to explain why discourses of exclusion seem to lie at the heart of social contract theories of the State. This might explicate why governments have always been seduced by the idea that it might be legitimate to safeguard the rights of some (the non-excluded) at the expense of the rights of others (the excluded). The next part briefly recounts several instances in which the government of the United States has placed unfair burdens on some groups of people in order to guarantee the safety of the rest of the population. I focus on four cases, namely: the curtailing of the free speech rights of aliens during the Quasi-War of 1798, the persecution of political dissidents after both world wars, the branding of Japanese Americans as an "enemy race" that needed to be contained in order to avoid another Pearl Harbor, and the recurrent attempt to treat suspected terrorists differently depending on whether or not they are American citizens. This historical inquiry will reveal that the United States government has continuously engaged in the practice of inequitably burdening certain groups of people during times of actual or perceived emergency. In Part III I attempt to demonstrate that the State cannot legitimate the use of an official discourse of exclusion by pointing to the existence of a state of emergency. Even if one accepts that the government can justifiably impose significant burdens on the population during times of emergency, it does not follow that it can do so in an inequitable manner. Besides the fact that enacting measures that target certain groups of people is constitutionally suspect on various grounds, the benefits of making use of such measures do not outweigh the costs. The short-term profits seem to be offset by the fact that trading their liberties for our wellbeing will render us less safe in the long run. Even though these types of measures might help prevent attacks against our nation in the near future, they may also undermine our legitimacy both here and abroad. Ultimately this has the potential of increasing our vulnerability because it will most likely diminish cooperation from those who will probably be in a better position to furnish us with valuable information about possible attacks against our nation. Finally, in Part IV, I discuss the potential perils of attempting to inequitably target certain groups during times of emergency by examining and critiquing the recent enactment of a statute that authorizes the construction of a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border. Contrary to what its proponents have suggested, this measure, which asymmetrically requires Mexicans to assume a burden that is not imposed on our neighbors to the north, will likely augment the risks of a future terrorist attack, not reduce them.
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- Unknown said...
Hi Professor Dudziak,
Thanks for posting a link to my article in your Legal History Blog.
For what it's worth, I posted a revised version of the abstract to my "Outsiders Looking In" article. I don't know if it's better than the last one, but it's longer and more fully explains the claims set forth in the piece.
You're right to point out that abstracts are frustrating to write for many in legal academia. A couple of weeks ago I was in a conference and the subject of how to write a good abstract came up. No one seemed to have concrete advice.
Maybe you could post a comment addressing this issue.
In any case, thanks again for writing about my piece in the blog. Here's a copy to the link with the revised version of the abstract:
Warm regards,
Luis Chiesa
- October 16, 2007 at 9:04:00 AM EDT
- Mary L. Dudziak said...
New abstract posted! The new one is great, and helps readers to see how interesting the paper is. Your idea of a post on abstract writing is a good one. It is easier to edit an abstract than describe how to write an effective on. But I will think about whether I can say something useful.
- October 17, 2007 at 9:15:00 AM EDT


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|RI45 Effects of Agricultural Practices and Septic-System Effluent on the Quality of Water in the Unconfined Aquifer in Parts of Eastern Sussex County, Delaware
|Denver, J.M.
|RI41 Hydrogeology and Geochemistry of the Unconfined Aquifer, West-Central and Southwestern Delaware
|Denver, J.M.
|OFR20 Configuration of the Base and Thickness of the Unconfined Aquifer in Southeastern Sussex County, Delaware
|Denver, J.M.


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Phillips 66 Type A Aviation Oil 120AD is an ashless dispersant, single-grade engine oil specially formulated for use in aircraft piston engines. The ashless dispersant formulation helps minimize the formation of engine sludge, varnish, piston deposits and combustion chamber deposits, resulting in a much cleaner engine compared with the use of straight (nondispersant) mineral oils. This oil provides many years of outstanding field performance in a wide variety of aviation applications. It is also FAA approved.
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- High film strength for protection against wear and piston scuffing
- Protects against rust and corrosion
- Formulated with the same high-quality base oils as used in Phillips 66 X/C Aviation Oil
- Radial piston aircraft engines that require an SAE 60 or Commercial Grade 120 engine oil