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In his new rapid-fire spelling-bee comedy, "Bad Words," Jason Bateman opens his mouth in more ways than one. When a young Indian boy is talking too much, his 40-year-old spelling-bee contestant, Guy Trilby, tells the boy to "point his curry hole" in another direction. When a chubby kids calls him a weirdo, he fires back, "Your chair called me for help."
Some of his vicious quips are funny; others less so. But the pleasures in "Bad Words" aren't the jokes themselves. It's the idea of the jokes — or, more specifically, the idea that someone can make jokes that others won't. For all the film's stabs at humor, it rests on a single comedic premise: a man who speaks his unexpurgated mind.
Characters in Judd Apatow, Todd Phillips, Farrelly brothers and Adam Sandler movies — not to mention W.C. Fields long before — have been indulging their id for years, doing the outrageous in pursuit of a reaction. But despite their startling, often ribald pronouncements, most have been drawing between the lines; for the modern filmmakers and stars, at least, their humor may be frequently scatological but hardly shocking, little more provocative than what you might hear on an FM morning-radio show.
Bateman, though, is different. His Guy Trilby character is doing something more subtle by doing something more explicit. He's saying what people really feel, or at least what someone with impulses like this really feels.
You don't have to look too hard to see that "Bad Words"--which Bateman directed from a script by Andrew Dodge--isn't the only example. It's one of several movies to offer an emerging comedic archetype that might be called the male jerk hero.
In "Crystal Fairy," Sebastian Silva's Chilean road-trip comedy released last year, Michael Cera is seeking an elusive hallucinogenic plant as he opens up a can of obnoxiousness on any and all he meets — inviting a woman on a road trip and then disinviting her after she accepts.
Meanwhile, the Sundance Film Festival this year saw the debut of Alex Ross Perry's "Listen Up Philip." Ross Perry has been doing this kind of hatred-for-humanity thing for a while — in the words of the critic Todd McCarthy, "a cinematic quest to test the limits of just how far you can take the obnoxious misanthropy of your leading characters" — and in "Philip" he has upped the ante. Jason Schwartzman, playing a Philip Roth-like novelist with what might be called insecure smarm, continually berates the very people he should be nice to.
Jonah Hill has been going into male-jerk territory for some time too. Most recently, though, he went all in with his turn as Donny Azoff in "The Wolf of Wall Street," in which he said things that, if they ever were on anyone else's mind, no one else would dare speak. (Ditto for his "I'm 6" skits on "Saturday Night Live," in which he would say the most offensive thing in mixed company and justify it by being merely in first grade.)
This isn't entirely new, of course, with the grouchy wit an occasional presence on the screen. Billy Bob Thornton in "Bad Santa" is an obvious precursor, and Larry David has been doing a version of this on "Curb Your Enthusiasm" for years. Carroll O'Connor is perhaps the most famous male jerk hero of all in American comedy with his role as Archie Bunker on "All in the Family," even if he and David emphasized the grouch more than the wit. But so many male jerk heroes have never appeared at once, and certainly rarely manifest their jerkiness as eye-poppingly directly.
These guys, it should be said, also aren't that other new archetype, the antihero. They're not Walt White. They very much want to be the hero. They just have a really odd way of getting there.
So where is all this coming from? Susan Faludi, the author of "Stiffed," has argued that movies like "Rambo" are a response to a feeling of a larger masculine disempowerment, and it's hard not to see some of these as the verbal equivalent, the rat-a-tat-tat of Bateman's mouth a locutional equivalent of Stallone's gun. "Bad Words" and "Listen Up Philip" may do their damage with a quip instead of a weapon, but it's no less brutal and coming from no more secure a place.
In that sense, the antecedent is less other comedies but more the action movies (they also include "Beverly Hills Cop" and most of the oeuvre of Charles Bronson) that have centered on men outside the system, looking to regain power their own lives don't provide.
Like those films, there's an easy appeal. "Bad Words" and its ilk offer a kind of license for dubious behavior, however indirectly. Consider Hill's Azoff, who when confronted with a puzzled question from Leonardo DiCaprio's Jordan Belfort about whether Azoff is in fact married to his own cousin, offers this perfectly convoluted piece of male-jerk logic.
In précis, "We grew up together and she grew up hot … and all my friends are trying to … And I'm not gonna let one of these … So I used the cousin thing as, like, an in, with her." He concludes, "If anyone's gonna … my cousin, it's gonna be me. Out of respect."
It's not just that there's a free-speaking obliviousness to the monologue, or even that it flirts with a taboo like incest. (Or, for that matter, that it's hilarious.) It's that there's a perverse moral logic as to why he did it. The bit may be absurdist, but the subtle effect is to offer a kind of identifiably contorted justification for any of us who have ever had a less than morally acceptable urge.
But filmmakers say the archetype may be more the result of their own frustration. I asked "Bad Words'" writer Dodge about this, and he said these characters are a response of sorts to the straitjacketing effect of corporate Hollywood "I think comedies have gotten a little vanilla, we're so afraid of offending, so this is a reaction to that." He says that with executives less willing to take risks, "it makes independent filmmakers" — Dodge wrote "Bad Words" as a spec, and it bounced around Hollywood for years — "more willing to be bold." The writer knew he had done something outside the box when one studio executive told him, 'This is funny, but could Guy start helping the kids in the third act?"
Dodge adds that, as fun as it can be to observe, it's not exactly easy to write the male jerk. "It's super hard to do. You have to make a character likable enough that you still want to watch him but hateful enough that it's still funny."
It's fair in all this to ask where women fit in. And the truth is that--for better or worse--they haven't been given the same types of characters on screen. Though they are supposedly given parts in which they can be the honest, emotionally expressive ones, women in modern comedies will say what's on their characters' minds only in the relatively safe confines of areas like relationships and domesticity (or, if you're Melissa McCarthy, the bro-like realms of bodily functions); if a filmmaker put a woman in the Guy Trilby role, I suspect we'd never hear the end of it.
So is this archetype, you know, good for movies? Well, that depends on whom you ask the question — and, maybe, when you ask it.
O'Connor's Bunker was at first rejected by some but eventually regarded as offering a sly condemnation of racism. Sacha Baron Cohen's Borat character, who flirts with his own kind of jerk (or at least foolish) humor, sometimes seems to be inviting laughter at the object of the bigotry as much as the subject. Bateman has similarly generated a debate about this with "Bad Words"; "no one escapes Guy's racist, homophobic, misogynistic wrath," writes Christy Lemire on Rogerebert.com, noting that "Guy's shtick is just plain mean in a way that becomes dull and repetitive as he dares us to tolerate him."
In an era when an abundance of cable shows have made us skeptical of sweetness, the male jerk character allows directors to get away with a happy ending, or at least a happier one. If we're laughing at acid humor for 90 minutes, we can take a little saccharine in the last 10. Indeed, Bateman's Guy shows a softer side, and Cera's Jamie learns a lesson too. Said Silva at the Sundance Film Festival when "Crystal Fairy" premiered, "For me what's most important is the lesson Jamie learns in crying for somebody else's pain."
But while there may well be some catharsis for these characters at the end, for much of the audience, the release comes at a different time--the minute these characters open their mouths.


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So i've been gone for a while. I moved to a new apartment and there has been no internet for over 2 weeks. I have been super angry for 2 weeks because of this. i have to move my whole desk to a cafe everyday to work and drawing and doing illustrations in these cafes in Beijing where they leave the windows open and its freezing is not the best. I also went to Tianjin for a few days to visit my old buddy and old roomate from korea and rooomate in NYC for a few months, Yoon. he was there on business doing the "East Asian Economic Forum". i stayed at his hotel. Here is a Tianjin primer. it has 10 million people making it one of the 10 cities in china that has a population larger than NYC. it is famous for is goubuli baozi. that is all there is to tianjin. the buildings are all really short, like 2 storys or less, and I can't really recommend Tianjin.
look at the waiting area for the bullet train to tianjin! look at those chairs!
there are rumors that this is the fastest train in the world but it only matches the japanese shinkansen at 300km/h there is a train in france that goes 320 km/h
cute stewardesses too.
this is probably the coolest thing in Tianjin
went to karaoke and then a lounge/club later, should have been the other way around.
drank one of these things
all the places i went in tianjin were in this format. these "bands" would "play" "sets" where they sing over a dj/cd track and a guitar and bass player lay down thumpin' lines. I don't know how you can go to sleep at night knowing you're in one of these "bands". anyway I have one friend who lives in Tianjin and she is friends with these guys so it made it ok.
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Facing challenges can be unnerving, especially when the outcome is unknown. Commonly, we imagine overcoming the challenge by thinking, "if only I can accomplish this task," or "when I pass my exam," everything will get easier. This "I just have to get through this and then things will be easier" attitude can provide a false sense of comfort during the process of overcoming adversity. In reality, challenges don't ever disappear, they only change over time. Omnia will speak about how to face these challenges in the moment, and use them as an advantage. She will discuss how to view each challenge as a new opportunity to not only succeed, but excel in both your personal and professional life. Omnia will share her unique experiences facing diversity in the form of cultural, language, and gender barriers throughout her career in STEM. With leadership experience in academia and government roles promoting diversity in STEM fields as well as in business running a family hotel business, Omnia has powerful and inspiring insights on how to take risks, follow your gut, and make the unthinkable possible. Her story is certain to ignite a feeling of deep motivation to stay focused and enthusiastic during the most challenging times in your career.
Dr. Omnia El-Hakim has an established record of leadership in community service and academia. Since January 2009, Dr. El-Hakim accepted an IPA (Intergovernmental Personnel Act) assignment at the National Science Foundation, becoming Director for Diversity and Outreach in the Directorate of Engineering. Before NSF, she joined Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, in 1984 while holding a joint appointment as Professor of Civil Engineering at Fort Lewis College, Durango, CO, where she also served as Department Chair of Physics and Engineering from 1996-1999. During this time, she learned about small business ownership firsthand by owning two motels. In addition, Dr. El- Hakim served as Assistant Dean for Diversity of the College of Engineering at Colorado State University from 2003-2006. Diversity is El-Hakim's passion; she created and led a Colorado Consortium of 14 universities, community and four-year colleges, and tribal Nations as Principal Investigator and Director of the Colorado Alliance for Minority Participation (CO-AMP), as well as several other diversity programs for 20 years. She developed diversity programs to assist underrepresented minority students from K-12 to graduate schools. Dr. El-Hakim obtained her doctoral degree in Civil Engineering from Colorado State University (1984) after completing her undergraduate studies and receiving a Masters Degree in Civil Engineering from Cairo University in Egypt. El-hakim is the program director of the NSF BRIGE program (Broadening Participation Research Initiation Grants in Engineering) and GRDS (Graduate Research Diversity Supplements). Indicative of her passion of assisting women navigating STEM careers in academia, Dr. El-Hakim was selected by the NSF Director as one of the core members to create the Career Life Balance initiative. She received the NSF Director's Equal Opportunity Achievement Award in 2010, as well as the NSF Director's Award for Collaborative Integration in 2012. In her spare time, Omnia enjoys travelling, dancing, music, ballet, and opera.
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Yes, they do, it happen just after they stopped being vigilantes. After that, a lot of stuff happens, such as them being a backup dancer on a J-pop concert and stuff (with a disguise of course). Chifuyu always thwart their effort
Note 1 - Yes, since there's no other means unless Joshua use the day they met as his birthday.
Note 2 - Him entering I.S.A. is a mean to protect him from harm (Excuse plot at the finest point indeed), he never talk about career after it. This is the reason of which, why he must go to college in Sacred Twins, in order to become a proper teacher.
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@ Senpai - Olay, how the heck did they get a j-pop concert job? Any other job I can get, but what about that one?
Then I guess he's 13 at the youngest, assuming his B-day is late in the year. Child soldier indeed
Just thought of something: once Ichika graduates, wouldyhe girls follow him to college? Then again, maybe there's a specialized college for ISA students.
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A job that pay very well (though it requires Dan and Ichika to... well, learn how to), it was revealed that the woman seduced/teased Dan is a well known producer and asked if he's interested in that job because she thought both of them is interesting. Incidentally, the only job they EVER successfully accomplished and get paid for it. Too bad Chifuyu confront Ichika directly after that, saying that if he EVER try to get a part time job, she'll punish them
I'm not sure about which girls follow Ichika because by the time graduation rolls in Ichika and Madoka (and MAYBE Houki) is pretty much official.
Going to school, see you later.
|2012-02-05, 22:23
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@'Senpai - Why didn't they get paid for the other jobs? Also, why does she threaten Dan as well? Its not her business what he does. Lastly, do neither of ten think of working for the Gotanda Eatery?
Side note - I meant in canon
See ya later
|2012-02-06, 04:32
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Chifuyu don't threaten Dan for the specific, just Ichika. However, the threat also implies to Dan persuading Ichika about it.
As for why they don't work at Gotanda eatery... Ichika actually do that, but Chifuyu told Gen and Ren not to accept him. As for Dan, precisely because he's a little adventurous about it, and think that working in the family restaurant is boring and static.
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@'Senpai - Why do they keep trying to get jobs again? Ichika, I can understand. But Dan seems pretty well off all things considered.
Side note - Is there any place that would hire kid's and pre-teens for work? I got a chapter idea.
Going home, be back in an hour.
|2012-02-06, 05:54
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@ Demi
As early as 2 years, bust most people can only remember what happened in their fourth year.
@ Eras
As I said, Dan is not eager about continuing the legacy of Gotanda Eatery, while Ran pretty much is free to choose her own future. Dan is planning to build experience even if he's a minor currently so when he become a real adult m he has a lot of experience.
No such place, that's pretty much against the law. some teens that look old can fake their age, but preteen and kids is... too farfetched.
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U.S. President Barack Obama has stepped up his appeal to Congress to approve the tax deal struck with Republican leaders.
If approved, the deal would prevent taxes from increasing for Americans on January 1.
During his weekly address Saturday, President Obama said the plan provides help for middle class families, and helps the unemployed through extended benefits for up to 13 months.
Republican leaders get an extension of the tax breaks sought for the wealthiest citizens – an action that angers many Democrats.
Mr. Obama says he is confident lawmakers in both parties will do the right thing. He brought in former president Bill Clinton to shore up his efforts during a Friday news briefing. Mr. Clinton said the plan is the best deal available.
In the Republican weekly address, Representative-elect Kristi Noem said the plan is good for small businesses. Noem also applauded President Obama's efforts to avoid the planned Jan 1 tax hike, but said more needs to be done to jump-start the economy. voa


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Remy is correct when he says that debugging can be a real PITA when you are using a manifest file. A technique I've found useful is to monitor your web server logs while running your app to see exactly what resources your browser is requesting.
For example:
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3) Run: sudo tail -f access_log
4) Reload your app in the browser; your request(s) should pop into the terminal.
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Parliamentarian EM Macartney officially opened Toowong Memorial Park on 7 September 1918 in honour of the 101 locals who enlisted in WWI. Decorative wrought iron memorial gates were erected to mark the park's official opening.
Beyond, on the summit of a ridge, is the 12 metre high Toowong Soldiers' Memorial, unveiled by Governor Sir Matthew Nathan on 2 July 1922. A fluted column with a Queensland marble drinking fountain at its base, surrounded by carved wreaths and swags, this memorial's base provides a valuable roll call of local involvement, naming all who enlisted on three marble slabs.
A commemorative avenue of palms was planted in 1918. A large section was relocated in 1993 to run parallel to Sylvan Road from the car park, curving gently towards the memorial gates.
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Wow! It seems like every month it gets harder and harder to judge our Mojo Madness contests. Y'all are such extremely talented stampers and it's just so hard to choose! After the DT picked their finalists and I threw in a couple of my own favorites, I spent an entire day trying to narrow down the list to just 7 winners. Be sure to check out the slideshow at the bottom of this post to view the gorgeous creations from the top 19 finalists. Without further adieu, here are this month's Mojo Madness contest winners.
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After a few months of waiting, Nintendo announced plans to release the Virtual Console on Wii U this spring.
Nintendo unleashed a host of important reveals during Wednesday's Nintendo Direct live stream, including the release window for the Wii U Virtual Console. Set to arrive this spring, the Wii U Virtual Console will bring the ability to play NES and SNES titles to the new system. Unfortunately, all the games available on the Wii VC won't be available at the start, as all games are being completely redesigned just for the Wii U.
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Champaign, Ill.- The No. 4 Nebraska volleyball team (17-2, 9-1) proved to be too much for the No. 25 Fighting Illini on Sunday afternoon as the Huskers downed Illinois in three sets (25-16, 25-23, 25-16). The Huskers earned their ninth-consecutive win of the season and their 10th sweep overall.
Morgan Broekhuis led Nebraska on the day with 10 kills and three aces. Gina Mancuso tallied eight kills, while Hannah Werth had eight kills and a season-high 18 digs. Meghan Haggerty was seven-for-nine in attacks, recording a .778 hitting percentage, as Hayley Thramer led the Nebraska block with eight, and Lauren Cook had 27 assists.
Nebraska hit .310 in the match, while Illinois hit just .147. NU out-blocked the Illini 12-6.
Nebraska came out firing in the first set, taking a 6-2 early lead behind a kill from Mancuso and back-to-back errors on the Illini. Back-to-back aces by Broekhuis gave Nebraska a 10-5 lead, while the Huskers then went up 13-6 on a hitting error by the Illini. NU took a 10-point lead on a kill by Werth, as back-to-back kills from Broekhuis put Nebraska up 21-10. Three set points eventually gave Nebraska a 25-16 first-set win.
Mancuso tallied four kills for the Huskers in the first set, while Broekhuis and Werth both had three. Cook notched eight assists, guiding NU to a .286 hitting percentage in the set. Illinois hit .133 as both teams recorded two team blocks.
Illinois earned its first lead of the match at 4-3 on a service ace from Nebraska early in the second set. The Huskers cut it to 6-5, but Illinois stretched its lead to 11-6 as Nebraska called a timeout. A block by Haggerty and Werth and another ace from Broekhuis put Nebraska within one at 15-14, as the Huskers used a kill from Mancuso to go up 19-17. The Huskers took a 23-21 lead on another kill from Mancuso, as NU won the second set 25-23 on a kill by Werth.
Mancuso had five kills in the second set, while Broekhuis notched four and both Werth and Haggerty had three of their own. Cook tabbed 11 assists for NU, as Nebraska notched a .257 hitting percentage. Illinois hit .222 in the second set and tied the Huskers with four team blocks.
In the third set the Huskers took a 4-1 lead on a kill by Werth, while a huge block from Thramer and Mancuso powered NU to a 13-10 lead and forced Illinois to call a timeout as NU went up 14-10. A double-stuff block by Cook and Haggerty gave the Huskers an 18-13 lead, as a kill by Haggerty made it 20-14, NU. Nebraska went on to close out Illinois with a 25-16 third-set win, completing the sweep.
Thramer posted five kills in the third set, while Broekhuis had three of her own. Nebraska hit .400 in the final set, while Illinois was held to a .086 hitting percentage.
Nebraska returns home next weekend to face the Ohio State Buckeyes at 7 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 26, while the Penn State Nittany Lions will travel to Lincoln for a conference showdown at 2 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 28.


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England have worn black armbands on day two of the second Test against South Africa in memory of Matthew Hobden.
The 22-year-old's club, Sussex, announced his death on Saturday evening, although the cause is not known.
Hobden was due to travel to South Africa with the Potential England Performance Programme this month.
He and five other promising county bowlers were due to link up with the senior squad in Johannesburg in preparation for the forthcoming one-day international series.
A message on the England cricket team's Facebook page read: "We are shocked and saddened to hear of the death of Matthew Hobden. Our thoughts are with his family, friends and team-mates.
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"The wonderful thing about making records is something comes out you never expected," explains Ray Davies, who knows of what he speaks. In nearly five decades as leader of one of rock's great bands, the Kinks, and as a solo artist, Davies has been involved with more than 30 LPs, helped innovate the concept album and created classic-rock staples such as "You Really Got Me" and "Lola."
"Ray's one of the greatest pop rock songwriters of all time," says Britt Daniel of acclaimed indie-rockers Spoon.
"He's a legend," Metallica drummer and co-founder Lars Ulrich says.
Metallica and Spoon contributed to the most unexpected record of Davies' career, "See My Friends," a new solo effort featuring Davies collaborating on his most distinctive songs with Bruce Springsteen, Mumford & Sons and Jon Bon Jovi, among others. The album moves from obscure gems such as "This Is Where I Belong," a beloved B-side performed by Pixies frontman Black Francis, to well-known Kinks classics such as "All Day and All of the Night," a duet with the Smashing Pumpkins' Billy Corgan.
Davies crisscrossed the globe for the project. He traveled to Oslo to record a storming version of "You Really Got Me" with Metallica backstage at one of the band's arena shows. "When Ray asked if we'd contribute to his record," Ulrich says, "that was what we call a 'Metallica no-brainer.' "
Metallica first played with Davies during 2009's 25th anniversary celebration of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame; at the same event, he also bonded with Springsteen, venturing soon after to Springsteen's New Jersey studio for a jovial crack at the Kinks' 1981 hit, "Better Things." "We ended up talking forever about our influences," Davies says. "We discussed how we both love Buddy Holly, and Bruce knew so much about the Kinks."
Davies has made an art of turning snapshots of English life into classic songs and concept albums, like 1968's "The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society," and his way with narrative and character has drawn the attention of not only musicians but also respected writers.
Notable fiction authors Zadie Smith, Bobbie Ann Mason, Salman Rushdie and Audrey Niffenegger have made numerous homages to Davies' work in their books.
His mark can be heard in British acts Madness, Elbow, the Jam, Oasis, Suede, the Smiths and Pulp; in fact, Davies could arguably be considered the father of the '90s Britpop revolution. "The bands that influenced me to start songwriting, like Blur, were influenced by the Kinks," says Ted Dwane of Mumford & Sons. "Ray stays true to his roots: He's heralded as the great British songwriter because his songs come from that genuine experience. Someone from Nebraska can still relate to "Till the End of the Day," but if you're British, it's a treat to really understand the references."
"See My Friends" began during a trip Davies took to Los Angeles to write songs with Garbage chanteuse Shirley Manson.
"The experience made me feel I could work with other people in a collaborative manner," he says, so in summer 2009, the album's first recording session took place in London with Alex Chilton. There, the iconoclastic solo artist and singer for the Box Tops and Big Star turned "Till the End of the Day" into a blazing rave-up. (Chilton died eight months later.)
Such collaborations gave Davies new insights about his own material. "Lucinda Williams picked 'Long Way From Home,' which I wouldn't have thought of, and turned it into her own song," he says. "Jackson Browne wanted to do 'Waterloo Sunset,' which I wasn't sure would work; it's such an English song, but he was great. Likewise, Jon Bon Jovi made 'Celluloid Heroes' more dynamic: The way I sing it, the chorus withdraws, but Jon's voice makes it jump at you."
For some "See My Friends" collaborators, their song choice proved deeply personal, as was Francis' selection of "This Is Where I Belong." "I learned it to sing at a friend's wedding," says Francis. "I had the lyrics taped to the back of my guitar for years after, leaving the title phrase on there as a kind of mantra. It always relates to what's going on in my life, like a little passage from my holy book."
"The Kinks mixed intellectual bravado with primal rock 'n' roll, and that dichotomy appealed to me," Daniel explains. "It was liberating to hear Ray make even the smallest details into a song."
"A song doesn't have to be about a big event," Davies says. "What I do is like a musical camera, taking snapshots of life. The listener then visualizes who would be cast in those roles."
Davies' songwriting also receives praise for its sophisticated literary quality, inspiring artists even outside of music.
"Ray Davies is an extraordinary storyteller; his lyrics have the compression and power of poetry," Niffenegger says. "The song I imagined playing in 'The Time Traveler's Wife' was 'You Really Got Me' -- I was looking for a group that would make the reader think '1964,' and the Kinks debuted that year. My second book, 'Her Fearful Symmetry,' is set in London. Whenever I am crossing Waterloo Bridge, my favorite Kinks song, 'Waterloo Sunset,' plays in my mind."
His song craft also exudes a cinematic scope that's influenced directors, including Wes Anderson, who has prominently featured Kinks' songs in films "Rushmore" and "The Darjeeling Limited." "Ray Davies' music is one of the greatest inspirations in any medium for my own work -- as much as any book or movie, ever," says Anderson.
A Kinks reunion, meanwhile, remains elusive. The group's 66-year-old frontman has been famously estranged for years from his younger brother, Kinks' guitarist Dave Davies (who hasn't performed since suffering a stroke in 2004). "I would be happy to do a reunion if the intention was to do some new music and not just revisit the past," says the elder Davies, who is busy regardless. This year, he will serve as curator for London's prestigious Meltdown Festival (previous curators include David Bowie, Massive Attack and Richard Thompson).
There's also the possibility of a "See My Friends 2." Additional songs from the Alex Chilton session remain unreleased, and Davies maintains a list of potential collaborators, including the Who's Roger Daltrey and Pete Townshend, Paul Weller, Nick Lowe, Ron Sexsmith and Blur/Gorillaz mastermind Damon Albarn. "Like all sequels, it will have a different curve," Davies says. "It's a blessed thing to be able to create an image in one's mind. I still haven't worked out how it's done, but it's always very rewarding when I finally make it happen."


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Contemporary Issues of American Empire- January 21, 7:30pm
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Chicago, IL: Choppers, Home of the Choppak
Burger reviews in the Chicago area.
1659 North Ashland Avenue, Chicago, IL 60622 (map); 773-227-7800; choppers-chicago.com
Cooking Method: Grilled
Short Order: The regular burgers are too charred, but the Minis are simple, balanced, and delicious.
Want Fries with That? The steak-cut fries are big, thick, and droopy, while the coleslaw is disappointingly soggy cabbage with mayo.
Price: 1/4-pound burger, $2.89; Choppak, $5.59 (comes with fries and slaw); The Mini by the Dozen, $12.59
After I moved into Wicker Park about eight years ago, I would drive by Choppers and see its sign, proudly stating that it was "Home of the Choppak." Every time I passed it, I wondered what the hell a Choppak was. My imagination ran wild. I had visions, imagining that a Choppak was a thing, an amazing food invention involving unicorn meat, rainbow sauce, french fries (everyone loves french fries!), and flakes of pure gold. A few years later, when I finally visited for lunch, I was sorely disappointed to find out that a Choppak is really just a combo meal consisting of a double char burger, steak fries, and homemade coleslaw. Oh well. Can't win them all.
I hadn't been back in years, so I thought another visit would be in order. Choppers is one of those places you smell first, blocks before you see it. During peak hours, you can see and smell grill smoke billowing out the rooftop, which beckons you to come in with its siren song of charred ground cow discs.
So now that you know what a Choppak ($5.59) is, how does that double cheeseburger taste? These pre-formed, tightly ground, frozen beef patties are salted well enough, and are grilled to order—but they suffer from a fatal flaw. They're cooked over a high flame, charring the periphery of the patties to the point where they taste like charcoal. The acrid taste carries over into every bite and hijacks the flavor of the burger. If you like burned backyard burgers, then you might enjoy it better than I do. I won't judge you.
The bun is a commercial sesame bun, which, unfortunately, isn't toasted, and is entirely too thin for the meat. After just a few bites, the bottom disintegrates into a mushy mess. I noticed that the toppings for both burgers were on the bottom for whatever reason, which contributes greatly to the death of the bottom bun.
In terms of meat-to-bun ratio, the single works much better, mostly because the bun is fairly thin when compressed. And when you ask for everything, like I did, you get lettuce, tomato, grilled onions, mustard, mayo, and ketchup. Aside from the fact that the onions are grilled and mustard is added, you've got a burger that's strikingly similar in flavor to Burger King's Whopper.
The french fries at Choppers are the thick-cut steak ones, and unfortunately, they're pretty soggy and lifeless. Even the smaller ones are soggy. The homemade coleslaw is heavy on the mayo and, well, tastes like mayo and wilted cabbage.
The Minis ($12.59), only available by the dozen, are the real surprise. While the Choppak is the big seller, I like the Minis much better. They have less of the acrid burnt taste from the grill, and are adorned simply with American cheese, grilled onions, and slices of pickle. They come on commercial, pillowy, little white buns that are the perfect size. The combination of flavors is classic—you've got sweet, nearly caramelized griddled onions with slightly charred grilled beef, silky melted American cheese, and a little tart crunch from the pickle. There's no mustard, but you know what? You don't need it.
I secretly like small food, though, because I have small hands. And no, that's not my silver nail-polished hand in the picture. Or is it?
The malts and shakes are about what you'd expect: really sweet and large by default (the regular is 20 ounces). You can mix and match flavors, if you like, so that's exactly what I did. The chocolate banana has real banana blended in, and its always nice to get some fresh bits of banana mixed in with cold, sweet, thick, chocolate malt.
So, maybe I didn't get any unicorn meat with rainbow sauce, but I did find myself surprised at how much I liked the miniature cheeseburgers. And now, in conclusion, here is my grammatical, yet mathematical explanation of the name Choppak. (Choppers - pers) + (Pack - c) = Choppak. I'm what you call a scientician, you see.
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Here is an interesting Wikipedia article about the history of chain letters. Fortunately, though, all of my genealogical encounters have so far been benevolent. Have yours? In my experience, people who research their family history are usually lovely people.
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to several other people?
Today, I would like to mention not just the awards I already know about, but one that is about to be launched. The Bisnonni Blogspot Award is, as far as I am aware, quite different from any of the others. It is one you may like to help establish, too. It does not require any chain communication or any other type of chain mail.
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The Bisnonni Blogspot Award will not be an award for any blogs. It will be an award for the most insightful, interesting and useful comments I discover on any of my blog posts - on any of my four blogs.
So, how should I judge what is insightful, interesting and useful? Perhaps it will be a comment giving me a clearer understanding of something. Maybe it will be a comment that helps me to solve a mystery, a problem, or some sort of puzzle. Alternatively, it could be a comment that will probably be of help to a great many other people, and not just me.
The above image from the Bayeux Tapestry shows a raven banner. Does the raven symbol have any significance in your family history? It does in mine.
If you are a regular reader not just of Ancestors Within, but of my other blogs, too, then you will know that I am quite a busy person, with a wide range of research interests. I am very glad that people find some time in their lives to enjoy the results of my blogging efforts.
I have chosen the above picture as a symbol of the Bisnonni Blogspot Award. It is of two people you may have met somewhere before in your experiences of my writings. The larger person had the name of George. The smaller one is known here as Via.
When I was little, the blue ball seemed to be enormous. You might like to view the ball as a metaphor for family history. An older relative passes it to a younger one, who tries to catch it... even if it appears to be huge!
The excitement (and subsequent relief) of catching the ball is like finding the right piece in the historical puzzle. Dropping the ball, or missing it, can represent the struggles of the learning process. Chasing after it as it rolls past is like the energy we expend when trying to recapture the history of our existence.
Perhaps in a year or two I will have different priorities than I do at present - and may then have more time to visit other people's blogs. In the meantime, I have a large pile of general history books I want to understand more deeply. The more I read, the more ignorant I feel I am!
Well, that is about all I want to say about the Bisnonni Blogspot Award for today. Do you know that the word bisnonni means great-grandparents in Italian? I think the word sounds so much more poetic in Italian than English.


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The origins of screen printing can be traced back to China's Song Dynasty, a period covering the years between 960 and 1279 AD. The printing technique was introduced in the Western world in the 18th century after silk became a more popular trading commodity. The rest, as they say, is history. Other forms of printing have come and gone during this time—the linotype machine, for example—while screen printing continues to evolve to meet the needs of modern society. But that doesn't mean that the evolution will continue as it is today and that the future is assured.
We've asked several industry experts to give us their take on where screen printing is headed for the coming years and what factors will likely shape its future. Their experience covers a broad range of subsets in the industry so we were able to get a panoramic view of the landscape that is just over the horizon. Commercial and industrial printing dominated the conversations, but experts also commented on screen printing's continued relevance in the arts community and for do-it-yourselfers. You may agree or disagree with their insights, but you'll probably agree that it is a useful conversation to have.
Mike Young
As a consultant to screen printers throughout the world, it is Mike Young's job to find ways that the industry can remain relevant and necessary in the face of newer technologies and processes. He's been at it for more than 40 years and recently spent two months studying the matter in over 28 marketplaces. Young believes that screen printing must continue to evolve to meet new needs and demands as they develop.
"The challenge, as I see it, is acquiring quality, up-to-the-minute screen making techniques and advance process training. This is specifically to meet newer complex and demanding screen-print requirements that manufacturers need to fabricate a finished product; something that is widely inadequate or entirely absence. To meet these exceptional and intrinsic printing obligations, oftentimes, either as a three-dimensional coating requirement or precise uniform ultra-thin deposition; the screening process is taken to a new plateau in execution and performance, but the industry at this level sadly lacks the necessary skills to reach quality objectivity in an acceptable comfortable and profitable manner," Young says.
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A slow, graceful zoom moving deeper into the nighttime sky descends on an image taken by the Hubble Space Telescope's Advanced Camera for Surveys. Nicknamed the "Spiderweb Galaxy," MRC 1138-262 shows dozens of star-forming satellite galaxies as individual clumpy features in the process of merging. This galaxy, which is 10.6 billion light-years away, shows the universe's formative years, only 3 billion years after the Big Bang.
NASA, ESA, and M. Kornmesser (ESA)
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When Khristopher Brooks received a job offer with the Wilmington News Journal, he was so ecstatic that he announced it on his personal Tumblr blog.
This turned out to be a devastating career move.
Brooks' blog post caught the attention of Jim Romenesko who wrote a post about Brooks' announcement. Not long after, the 27-year-old was notified that his job offer had been rescinded, due to "illegal use of the company logo" and for having quoted from their offer letter.
He writes in the Huffington Post:
"After I hung up, I panicked. My dreams of having a job out of college were gone. One blog post. I couldn't believe it. I had been applying for jobs for four months and now I'm back to nothing.
The way I announced my new job was a personal 'Khristopher is a reporter' take on informing my family and friends about the next stage in my career. To me, it was no different than an actor telling his family that he'll star on Broadway by announcing it in a tiny stage play."
But Brooks says that if he had to do it all again, he would "do the same, minus the logo, minus the quote from [the offer letter]."
Alexia Vernon, author of 90 Days 90 Ways: Onboard Young Professionals to Peak Performance, told Heather R. Huhman at Forbes that Brook's firing reveals some valuable lessons for young people entering the workforce:
"Khristopher Brooks' firing shines a light on two key questions for companies and specifically HR departments. What is considered private information between employee and employer? Is an offer letter really privileged information? And second, what is an appropriate way for handling what most of us would agree is a first and minor infraction?"
There's a big positive in this for Brooks though. He's getting more publicity than he could have ever dreamed of, and since it was just an innocent mistake and not something malicious, he's easy to forgive.
Brooks says in the post at HuffPo that he has already gotten job offers and contributor opportunities from publications across the country.


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Applicants planning to undertake the biology major must present credits for one year of chemistry and four years in mathematics. One course in biology, one year of physics, and three years of a second language are strongly recommended. Students with less than a B average in high school science, mathematics, and languages or with any course deficiency should seek the advice of the Admissions Office and the Biology Department before beginning their studies. A diagnostic chemistry examination is required of all students beginning a science curriculum at Saint Mary's. This examination is administered by the Deparment of Chemistry before the start of classes each fall and is designed to detect important deficiencies in a student's background. In some cases, the student may be advised to correct any deficiencies before undertaking the biology major curriculum. This can often be done within a four year stay at Saint Mary's but may require summer school attendance.
Major Requirements
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- Mathematics 27-28 ( or equivalent, e.g. Math 38);
- Chemistry 8, 9 (lab), 10, 11 (lab)
- Physics 10, 11, 20 (lab), 21 (lab)
- Physics 1, 2 (lab), 3, 4 (lab)
- Biology 1, 1L , 2, 2L
Lower-division requirements for split majors must be determined by consultation between the student and his/her advisor, and approved by the chairs of the departments involved.
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The following upper-division courses are required for a major in Biology: Chemistry 104, 105 (lab), 125 (lab), 106 and 107 (lab)
The Biology major must include seven upper division biology courses, at least five of which must include a laboratory component. In order to develop a broad background and to experience major areas of study within the disciplines, biology majors are required to take at least one course from Groups II, III and IV. The remainder of the seven required may come from any group.
- Group I Genetics and Ecology: Biology 105, 125;
- Group II Organismal: Biology 100, 102, 110, 113, 122, 127, 128, 144, 146;
- Group III Cellular/Molecular: Biology 130, 132, 135, 137, 139;
- Group IV Evolution and Ecology: Biology 113, 115, 120, 142, 152; or
- Group V Electives: Biology 116, 119, 192, 193, 194
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Project ASTRO FAQs
What is Project ASTRO?
What is a Project ASTRO site?
Who leads a Project ASTRO site?
How do we find astronomer and educator partners to participate in the program?
What happens at a Project ASTRO training workshop?
Who trains the partners at Project ASTRO workshops?
How are Project ASTRO sites funded?
What is involved in becoming an official Project ASTRO site?
What interaction is there among Project ASTRO sites?
What is the role of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific?
How do I get started if I want to get a site going in my area?
Project ASTRO is an innovative national program to improve science education by linking volunteer amateur and professional astronomers with local educators and young people in grades 4 through 9. Developed by the non-profit Astronomical Society of the Pacific (ASP), with a start-up grant from the National Science Foundation, the project provides materials, training, and support to sustain effective partnerships between astronomers and educators, and to get students excited about science through astronomy. After attending a training workshop with their educator partners, Project ASTRO astronomers "adopt" a class or youth group for at least a year, working with them during 4 or more visits. The underlying approach of the program is to encourage students to think and act like scientists, by helping them engage in hands-on, inquiry-based astronomy activities.
The project is organized into regional sites, each encompassing one metropolitan area or, sometimes, an entire state. Each site trains and supports between 10 and 35 partners each year, puts on follow-up training activities for all the local partners, and becomes a member of the Project ASTRO National Network.
Note that if you are unable to make a commitment to have at least 10 new partnerships a year, we encourage you to explore the possibility of a more limited and informal Project ASTRO effort. National Office Staff at the ASP are happy to assist in an advisory capacity in such cases, but we are unable to designate you an official Project ASTRO site or to send staff to your site (although you can travel to other site workshops to learn how to do the training of the partners).
Who leads a Project ASTRO site?
Each Project ASTRO site consists of a lead institution and a Project ASTRO coalition. The lead institution is responsible for organizing, staffing, and fund-raising for the local project, and is typically a science center, planetarium, observatory, college, university, or other organization involved in science or astronomy education. Ideally, each site will have paid staff, consisting of a part-time director, a part-time coordinator, and a part-time administrative assistant. In the real world of limited funding, it is at least necessary to have a part-time coordinator who organizes and oversees the project, and a committed individual to serve as the site director. The site director is often a more senior scientist or educator, who provides the support and legitimacy necessary to garner resources within the lead institution and encourages other local organizations to support the project.
Each site works with a coalition of local educational, scientific, and community groups, coming together for the purposes of finding participants, activities, resources, and publicity for Project ASTRO (for example, a local amateur astronomy club may put on a "star party" at one or more schools, members of a university astronomy department may pool educational funds from several NASA grants, and a local school district may provide meeting rooms and let all its teachers know about the program). Experience has shown that such a dedicated coalition is essential to the survival and growth of the project. Through its coalition, each local Project ASTRO actively encourages communication and cooperation among educational and scientific groups in their community that may otherwise not be working together.
How do we find astronomer and educator partners to participate in the project?
If you have cast a wide net in selecting the members of your coalition, they will most likely have many good ideas on how to enlist local astronomer and educator partners for the project. Presentations by project staff or coalition members to teacher conferences, astronomy department colloquia, or amateur astronomy club meetings can be very effective. So can articles in local newsletters, e-mail messages distributed to special interest groups or research organizations, and special mailings to likely candidates. The ASP can sometimes provide the names of astronomy groups and institutions, and even lists of astronomers (amateurs and professionals), in your local community.
Astronomer and educator partners complete an application form and are selected and matched according to criteria that include location, interests, grade level, etc. Some priority is typically given to educators who work with young people who are traditionally underrepresented in science due to race, gender, or socioeconomic status.
What happens at a Project ASTRO training workshop?
The two-day ASTRO workshops are typically held over a weekend (or on Friday and Saturday) in the summer or early fall. The astronomers and educators attend the workshop together and learn about inquiry-based astronomy teaching, forming effective partnerships, and making use of local and national astronomy resources. A key component of each workshop is guiding the partners through several hands-on astronomy activities from beginning to end.
During the workshop, partners are provided with many useful materials (including The Universe at Your Fingertips and the Project ASTRO How-To Manual) and are given guidance to help in planning their series of classroom visits. Our astronomers and educators are never given a prescribed set of activities, but are encouraged to use what they learned during the workshop to develop a program that fits with their own interests, strengths, and students' needs.
After the workshop, astronomers make at least four visits to one classroom or youth group. Neither astronomers nor educators receive payment for the visits. During and between their visits, the astronomers help the educators develop their science skills and astronomy knowledge, assist with hands-on classroom activities, lead discussions and special projects, and/or serve as mentors and role models. The partners typically engage in a range of activities, from hands-on classroom activities to school-wide events like "star parties" (evening telescope observing sessions) for children and their families.
Who trains the partners at ASTRO workshops?
The annual training workshop for the partners is led by the local Project ASTRO site staff, with the help of experienced astronomy educators from the community. Often, these mentor educators will be part of the local ASTRO-coalition institutions. The national ASTRO staff will provide workshop templates and discuss the workshop design and philosophy with the staff of each new site.
If necessary, new site leaders can receive training in organizing a good workshop. If the new site is able to fund it, representatives from the National Project ASTRO Staff can attend and co-lead the first workshop. In this way, current and future workshop leaders from the local site can see demonstrated some of the workshop techniques that have been developed elsewhere. Alternatively, your staff can attend a workshop for partners at one of our existing Project ASTRO sites.
How are Project ASTRO sites funded?
While the National Science Foundation provided start-up funds for the Project ASTRO National Network, at the present time all Project ASTRO sites must provide their own funding. Among the sources of funding that the various sites have been successful in tapping are:
- Donations from local corporations, foundations, and individuals.
- Education and outreach components of NASA or NSF grants (sometimes pooled from several local investigators or research projects).
- NASA Space Grant or other NASA educational program funds.
- State education funds (many states have special programs to which you can apply, often with help from knowledgeable members of your coalition).
- In-kind support from coalition institutions (such as meeting space, free mailings, underwriting of administrative costs, etc.).
What is involved in becoming an official Project ASTRO site?
A Project ASTRO site must share and support the goals and methods of the project, as described above. Note that you do not need to be a Project ASTRO site to purchase and use such project materials as The Universe at Your Fingertips from the ASP's online store. But if you do wish to become a site, you will be asked to complete a Project ASTRO application, outlining your plans for getting your site going and obtaining funding to cover its expenses. Once your application has been reviewed and accepted, your institution will be asked to sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Astronomical Society of the Pacific. The MOU is reviewed annually, and each site is asked to make a brief annual report to the ASP.
What interaction is there among Project ASTRO sites?
All official Project ASTRO sites are linked into a National Network of site leaders, which meets annually and keeps in touch regularly. Experienced site leaders are often available to answer questions from new or prospective sites about issues or problems that come up in getting a site started. Good ideas originating at one Project ASTRO site are quickly shared among all of them through this network.
What is the role of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific?
The ASP coordinates the national Project ASTRO effort from its offices in San Francisco, and holds the trademark and copyright on the program and its materials. All Project ASTRO materials are published by the ASP, and distributed to official Project ASTRO sites at a significant discount from retail prices. The ASP provides training and guidance for new site leaders, sends leaders for the first workshop when possible, and develops new and revised materials for all Project ASTRO partners to use. In addition, the ASP will provide free templates for commonly used Project ASTRO materials (such as educator and astronomer applications, site news releases, local newsletters, workshop handouts, etc.) to all official Project ASTRO sites. One of the main roles of the ASP is to ensure the philosophical integrity of the project among the sites.
How do I get started if I want to get a site going in my area?
The first step is to gauge interest in Project ASTRO locally. The natural first contacts to make are with the local astronomy community, including university and community college astronomy departments and the amateur astronomy clubs in your area. We find that it is seldom difficult to interest local teachers in Project ASTRO; most teachers love the idea of having "their own astronomer." It is really those individuals whom you are going to be tapping as astronomer volunteers who must be courted. The next step is to set up a local coalition of individuals and organizations that have an interest in astronomy education. Host a meeting to talk about Project ASTRO and the ways in which it can positively impact the community and those in attendance. Be sure to bring up the issue of fundraising and solicit input from those present as to possible organizations, businesses, and individuals that might be interested in supporting the project (you may want to have information about the project, and a copy of The Universe at Your Fingertips and the Project ASTRO How-to-Manual at the meeting to show everyone).
If there is local interest, contact the ASP more formally and speak with our National Project ASTRO Staff. We can offer advice and direct you to other Project ASTRO sites resembling your own. These sites can help by identifying and addressing challenges before they arise, providing customized materials for recruiting and publicity, and perhaps even serving as informal advisors as you begin your activities.
Project Director: Greg Schultz
Project Coordinator: Brian Kruse


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Let's hope he continues to prosper throughout a long and successful career, but he has accomplished so much in so little time that it already merits discussion. At age 24 and with six seasons with the Blackhawks behind him, the question is valid: Is Patrick Kane headed for the Hockey Hall of Fame?
Answer: Yes.
Kane already has built a resume that would be considered for the Hall of Fame if his career ended today. Voters would need to take into account what he accomplished during his career, if it were cut short. Gale Sayers, for example, had only five productive seasons before a knee injury ended his NFL career.
This is not to say Kane in hockey equals Sayers in football, which would be a separate debate comparing two sports from two eras 40-plus years apart. That discussion isn't worth the trouble. The parallel does help explain that a player can reach the Hall of Fame with a smaller sample size if – IF – he was productive enough during that period.
Kane has been one of the 10 best forwards in the last six years when all factors are considered, especially when adding bonus points for championships and performances in big games. Even if his next six seasons are as productive as his first six, taking him to age 30, the South Buffalo native would have an argument for induction.
To review, Kane has won two Stanley Cups in the last four seasons, the second coming Monday night in a 3-2 victory over the Bruins in Boston. He skated away with the Conn Smythe Trophy as the most valuable player in the postseason, becoming only the fourth American in history, and third straight, to win the award.
He led the Blackhawks with 19 points (nine goals) in 23 playoff games this year. He had 10 goals and 28 points in 22 postseason games in 2010 and scored the Cup-winning goal in overtime to beat the Flyers in 2010. Jonathan Toews won the Conn Smythe that year after leading the Blackhawks with 29 points (seven goals).
Kane had a hat trick in the deciding game over the Kings in the conference finals this year. He had a goal and helped set up the winner in Game Four against the Bruins to tie the series, then had two goals in the next game to lead the Blackhawks to within a win of the title. He has 29 goals and 71 points in 74 career playoff games.
Yes, others have been more productive in the postseason over the past six years, including Sidney Crosby, Evgeni Malkin, Henrik Zetterberg and Pavel Datsyuk. All are likely headed for the Hall.
Another is Daniel Briere, who had 37 goals and 72 points in 68 postseason games over the past six years. He has been a terrific player in the postseason, but he has never won a Cup and lacks career production during the regular season (286 goals, 659 points in 847 games) to warrant induction into the Hall.
David Krejci had 29 goals and 73 points in 81 playoff games over the same span. He won the Stanley Cup. He did not win the Conn Smythe in 2011, when the Bruins won it all. He also has failed to put up career numbers during the regular season (91 goals, 309 points in 424 games) that would be worthy of consideration.
Kane, who was selected first overall in 2007, was named Rookie of the Year in 2008 and is a three-time all-star. He would have been selected this year, but the game was canceled with the lockout.
He was a key contributor in the United States winning a silver medal in the 2010 Olympics. He finished second this season behind Martin St. Louis for the Lady Byng Trophy, given to the player who exhibits sportsmanship and gentlemanly conduct.
He has averaged 27 goals and 78 points per 82 games for his career. If he continues the same pace for another eight years, or until he's 32, he would have 365 goals and 1,048 points in 1,102 games for his career. That's well within reach, assuming he stays healthy, but would it be enough?
Although his statistics would fall short among recent forwards inducted into the Hall, the era in which he played would need to be considered. It has been much more difficult to score during his six-year career than it was in the 1990s and earlier. Goals were in decline for the fourth straight season this year.
Glenn Anderson, who was inducted in 2008, scored 498 goals and 1,099 points in 1,129 career games. However, most of his production came when he played with Wayne Gretzky and the high-scoring Oilers in the 1980s. Anderson had two 50-goal seasons and three 100-point seasons. He also had fewer than 75 points in each of his final eight seasons.
If anything, Kane's numbers are likely to increase as he continues maturing into a smarter, more complete player. He has 282 points in 284 games over the past four seasons. He's better overall than at any previous stage of his career. He's also coming off a career year in which he had 23 goals and 55 points in the lockout-shortened season.
Kane this year was on pace for 39 goals and 94 points over an 82-game season.
In the previous five years, only Crosby, Malkin, Steven Stamkos, Daniel Sedin, Corey Perry, Alex Ovechkin and Jarome Iginla have had more than 39 goals and 94 points in the same season. It's an impressive list.
Kane has won more Cups than all of them. And he's just getting started at age 24.
If he maintains the same effectiveness and plays long enough, he'll waltz into the Hall. It's a big IF, but he appears to be on his way.
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Hi guys, sorry it took me so long to come up with these – I've been through a full-blown drama with my website (changed the hosting provider and the registrar, long story..).
Anyways, here they are: the Twitter backgrounds to go with my Twitter badges. You can see the first one in action on my Twitter profile.
Click on the thumbnails to see the larger version (tip: you can open more than one at the time – great if you want to compare). More detailed instructions for using them below.
Using the Twitter backgrounds
- To download the background: right click on one of the thumbnails below and "save target as" with a name and destination of your choice.
- To change the background in Twitter: go to "Settings" – "Design" – tick "use background image" and make sure the "Tile" checkbox is NOT ticked.
- On the same screen, change the colours to match your new background. For example on my page I'm using #09BFF0 for background (not really necessary, but anyway) and link colour, and white for sidebar fill and stroke.
- When you're done with the changes, REFRESH the page a couple of times, it takes a little while for the new background to display.
- TRANSPARENT background option: I have also designed a transparent Twitter background (the second one on the first row), that only includes the Twitter bird and no background colour. You can use this on top of any background colour of your choice, which you can specify on the "Design" screen. Tip: it works better on darker backgrounds, as the bird is white.


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We SAY we value our privacy, and yet we give it up all over the place. I was recently in the market for a guitar amp, and now, two weeks after I bought it, I find ads for guitar amps and guitar-related product in the sidebar all over the place in sites totally unrelated to each other and having nothing much at all to do with music.
If you really valued privacy, you wouldn't be on Facebook because they seem to be working non-stop to find out things about you and to help their advertisers find out about you. They introduce security updates and other changes with privacy implications so regularly that they've virtually trained us not to look them over.
Outdoors, while it's not quite as bad as it is in the UK, we are under surveillance a good deal of the time, and one regularly hears on the evening news about crimes solved via some surveillance camera or other. We should be thinking, "If the camera saw them, has it ever seen ME?" but we don't.
While, under the law, there's no privacy when you're in public, a lot of us resent the idea that some person can see us but we can't see them, and that often are activities aren't just being observed but are being recorded.
Since we don't seem to WANT privacy anymore, do we really need it?
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I was recently in the market for a guitar amp, and now, two weeks after I bought it, I find ads for guitar amps and guitar-related product in the sidebar all over the place in sites totally unrelated to each other and having nothing much at all to do with music.
Thanks Mr K!!!
+1 For adblockers :] I have not seen ads for years.
There's also NoScript for Firefox, which will stop scripts on websites from executing without your permission.
Adblockers only block ads. Most sites - and we frequent extremely few sites, 100 sites having around 99.99% of all internet traffic - will embed cookies which track your movements. I sometimes have fun with the airline i often use which does this; I delete their cookies the prices on the tickets I want plummet.
The Mormons will soon be reading all our godless emails. (credit - Sunday School link)
Now as for the topic itself, yes we do need privacy. But the problem isn't about the casual internet user. I too get pissed off when some random Joe Nobody bitches about some website customizing his ads, or when they ask him for personal details etc.
"Oh they keep track of what I buy and I hear facebook sells my information to third parties we have no privacy!!!" So what? Google doesn't care about the black batman dildo or the laptop batteries you ordered. Nobody cares. People overestimate their worth. If you walked up to someone on the street and started telling them about your interests and details, they'd tell you to fuck off. Why do people think that when it's online, somehow the world is after them?
Aside from that however, privacy is crucial to our freedom. Read any news and you'll see that more and more companies and government cry for more government intervention on the internet.
They'll use any deceitful methods and lies to try and pry their greasy molesting fingers into the internet.
Oh we need tougher government intervention because of pedophiles / child porn / piracy / terrorism !!!
Whatever. There are always some cover up excuses, which all range from the cliche think-of-the-children to the piracy bullshit.
The true message behind it is "let us control you!" And I don't want that. Nobody does. First they'll push laws to make it easier for the government to spy on its people, and next thing you know you'll be arrested for watching gay porn online.
That being said, yes, people on facebook and the like are retarded. Especially those who don't even know how to use it properly and compromise their privacy.
+1 lol
In a shocking revelation, what people say they want ≠ what they actually want.
People want ease and convenience, not remembering 50 passwords for sites they sign up for, having big brother protection of CCTV, pay less taxes, rely on automated surveillance, use money they don't have on credit cards, and so forth.
To a large degree it is possible to not be trackable, just move off-grid, but this demands a lot of extra work compared to those who accept window peeping into their lives. Most people, myself included, are just too damned lazy to do anything like that, and since we generally have nothing too bad to hide we don't care.
(Though buying your drugs in cash is still a good idea..)
I think an individual's level of personal privacy is their own responsibility. If you are putting yourself out there all the time without regard for who can see it, then it is your personal choice to forfeit your privacy. True, when you are out in public you have to be aware that you are most likely under surveillance all (or a lot of) the time and there is little you can do about that, save for never leaving your house or wearing a very convincing disguise; simply going out into the world is and invasion of your privacy, in a way, because there is usually other people around.
If you feel the need to have privacy, then you should live your life in a more private way. If you find out that your creepy neighbor has been filming you in the loo, by all means, call the cops and let them deal with it! But if you're expecting 100% privacy in everything you do, then you are delusional because it's never going to happen.
If you find out that your creepy neighbor has been filming you in the loo, by all means, call the cops and let them deal with it!
Depends on local laws, but you may find there's little you can do about your neighbor filming you in the loo from inside his house (standing outside your window to watch you on your property is a different matter and would certainly be illegal almost anywhere). You should have pulled the blinds. Anything it's legal for him to see from his windows or even from his yard it's going to be legal for him to record in some way, if its for his own use.
Now publishing or distributing the image(s) is another matter entirely. Normally—unless your loo usage is newsworthy, which is a separate and special case—that would require a release and some arrangement for compensating you.
Privacy is something we all have a need of. On google you can set your privacy level. Yes you get ads occasionally when you buy stuff. My objection is when companies use your very personal information. such as Your income, area you live, your very identity. People often leave their personal information on sites without really thinking about it. Personal responsibility comes into play don't put anything on the web you don't want people to know. Personally I think computers should require double security.something you have and something you know.


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There have been a lot of questions about the upcoming open world Forza Horizon and what it means. Some are excited, some are disappointed, while others seem borderline suicidal.
I spoke a little bit about the game in our Forza Horizon review, but feel free to ask whatever about the actual gameplay, the cars, whatever, right here and Travis Okulski and I will stop in and answer.