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The Black Keys are the worst band ever
No authenticity at all but people lap it up
never heard them
always think of black eyes whenever i hear the name. black eyes were good
Why do you say that?
Not picking a fight, but they seem real enough to me - long back catalogue etc. Only the last couple of albums where they've transitioned from more straight up bluesy stuff like on Thickfreakness to more of a rock n roll sound.
- DeadJames and amputee-porn this'd this
I can sum them up in one word.
I agree that there's not much to them
A lot of their earlier stuff is, very boring, formulaic, and a bit fake. Some of their more recent tunes have been better now they've widened their scope and got a production budget.
I tend to not really like the people who like them, as they try to pass off a 'I'm well into blues, me' vibe the same way people do with 'I like folk music, you know, like Mumford & Sons?' And it's usually exactly the same people.
im going to see them next week
probably just going to get drunk and that, have a good time. proper haircuts.
I don't get the whole authenticity argument for them
They've been playing for ages with little to no major success, just making music they enjoy.Albert-Swearengen and Acquiescence this'd this
I can understand people thinking they're rubbish, but 'fake'? Nah.Matt_was_taken this'd this
they're absolutely huge in the US
like, headlining-festivals-of-100,000-people hugejustanothersheeldz this'd this
He's talking about their beginnings...
when they were recording albums of grubby blues-rock in basements and factories and jobbing it in tiny circuits. You can essentially call them authentic because of how they started out.rainmaker this'd this
I wasn't questioning anything to do with them
just pointing out they've had more than "little to no major success"
When I went to Bonnaroo last year Dan Auerbach did a 'superjam' with Dr John. Dr John!
Only got into them with the later albums
Which have some great tunes. Nothing wrong with great tunes. And proper haircuts. Don't really get the hate. Seems a bit 'pitchforky' to me.
Genuine complaint
Ive seen them 7 times over the years, as a two piece up until around rubber factory, they were worth every penny of the admission fee, electric exciting raw, a top live band.
More power to them for evolving...its just sad theyve evolved into a dull turgid 5 piece turd....they certainly never used to be fake. if i could see them again at the manchester academy 3 in 2003/4 again i wouldnt hesitateLo-Pan and JohnnyZaza this'd this
spot on
i saw them on the 'brothers' tour and the songs they played when it was just the two of them were far greater than the kinda standard dull turgid 5 piece stuff. that said, i liked the album quite a lot (hated el camino) and thickfreakness and rubber factory were really great.Lo-Pan this'd this
They're ok.
Surprised by just how big they suddenly got but yeah they're alright.alcxxk, shinymcshine, SCROTUM, wonton, Coja, Matt_was_taken, Annoying_person, blimeycharlie, oceanRain, oh_gerardus_MERCATOR, funkycow, Antelope, littlebirds, and andyvine this'd this
Horrendous band. Never really understood why everybody just decided to give them a free pass.
As you get older you'll probably care far less about...
...authenticity and trying to score indie points. I'm genuinely not trying to be patronising or condescending but I've noticed that in the last few years I care less and less about the perception of bands and how popular they are or aren't. I just listen to what I like.
Doesn't mean I don't get pissed off with the fans of certain bands and whatnot and a bit dismayed when a band changes their sound to be far more pop-centric but life's too short to get so annoyed.
I've always been a bit wary of fanboys though so if I met someone who told me The Black Keys were their favourite band or in their opinion the best band in the world I'd probably think them a bit silly but The Black Keys are a good band.
Whatever.funkycow, justanothersheeldz, phontaine, Pale-eyedBadger, and Teeej this'd this
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black angels too
I've no problem with Black Keys, can't see anything fake about them, but agree they were better as a raw duo. Does the 'fakeness' stem from them not being poor black cotton pickers or something? Can two white guys with a love of blues, soul and rock n roll not bang out the music they love? I don't get that line of thinking at all.
Mumfords are shite though ;-)Acquiescence this'd this
'I Got Mine' is a great song.
But that's about as far as it goes for me...
you tube their version
i got mine, from Abbey Road, its pretty brilliant
really predictable, boring garage rock dressed up with a nice production. Unfortunately this is the kind of stuff that get's acclaimed nowadays.
Anybody who uses the term
'authentic' in regard to music needs a serious beating with something heavy and wooden.
Black Keys - meh.
still using the term 'meh' can shove that heavy and wooden something right up thei
- BMS1 this'd this
Rubber Factory is the only one I have ever listened too
Set You Free is still a tune.
And that's on ThickFreakness.
Oh well
Oh no. I accidentally pressed a "this" instead of reply to say that
The Black Keys are dull. I unfortunately saw them live earlier in the year. The only surprise was when they played the song that was the title song to the TV show "Hung". It's a shit song anyway. Bad gig. Crap band.
My mum often plays El Camino in her car
Along with other riffy music (Joe Bonamassa, Tame Impala, Jeff Buckley). Fits the bill pretty well.
from the jump: guitar/drums, black keys/white stripes. But after 60 years of rock & roll, authenticity is out the window anyway. Well, maybe not when the artist tries to be quirky - radiohead, bjork, sigur ros - and that's just not fun to listen to after awhile. But they're not the worst by far.
Why do the White Stripes sound genuine
and these don't
- DarwinDude and shrewbie this'd this
couldn't really care whether they're fake/authentic
that's all bullshit anyway. but my god they are tedious. boring band for boring people.
sometimes feel like the only one who doesn't get them
cheers for having my back DiS.
we need 'em...
to remind us how good the Flat Duo Jets were: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbVV3dzj18I
Worse than The Rifles and The Drums?
i think notLofisongsaregreat this'd this
I never understand these kind of threads.
They made some music that got popular and they expanded their band. That is all that really happened. If you lost interest fair enough but not worth your while discussing your hatred for any kind of band. In fairness proper emotions.
Well, you played right into his hands, you gave him exactly what he wanted, he got a reaction out of you, you've got to give him that.
- Icarus-Smicarus this'd this
Rubber Factory is a damn fine record
Agreed the latest album courts mass popularity...although it's still a wtf-how'd-this-happen? I'd have guessed they became a local blues bar band before betting they'd become mega. But there you go, that's why I'm not an A&R guy.
More power to 'em, I say.
didn't realize that untrue was an idiot
not for not liking the black keys - everyone's entitled to their opinion, but the way he's put his views across are incredibly irritating.
Fake - he's yet to prove this - I mean I know that there's 2 of them and then suddenly live, shit, there's 5 of them, but they record everything as a two piece and they're musically talented.
Shite - obviously that's an opinion and not fact, because factually they are at least quite good musicians!
What untrue could have said is "Black Keys aren't really my cup of tea and really are a bit too derivative of blues and music from the 1970s, like T-Rex."
Yes, I am a cunt.
you have probs got him spot on.
Threads like this make me fucking hate this place
comments such as 'can't believe they got a free pass' who the fuck are you guys, the fucking indie police?
The Black Keys, on topic. Great band, solid library of albums now and El Camino is a confident, tune filled step towards popularity. They are not 'fake', fuck off this this authenticity crap, there's nothing contrived or fake about it. Many of these comments are pernicious for the sake of just being scathingly negative.sexydave, funkycow, El_Goodo, and Acquiescence this'd this
I think The Black Keys and Mumford & Sons are sold on their authenticity
I suppose they're authentic enough, they're travelling the world bringing their types of music to people in a way that they can enjoy it. The problem with trying to be too authentic is that it just comes off as pastiche.
I like this comment,
Spot on. It's the same with how Major Labels have indie style imprint labels, to appear more 'authentic'.
- Icarus-Smicarus this'd this
I think authenticity is only a problem when:
A) You rely on being an authentic alternative to inauthentic acts - see James Arthur/Ed Sheeran
2) Your chosen character and ideology is retrospective, conservative, or naff - see Mumford
What I mean is
We know David Bowie wasn't a spider from Mars but this wasn't a problem as it wasn't sold as genuine and his music was good, his character interesting
Don't care either way about Black Keys
but their hip hop record was cool. They should do more of this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDxC4u_4TK8


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More Patent Lawsuits Over Interactive Sex Toys -- The Teledildonic Patent Thicket
from the quite-a-patent-thicket dept
Well... now it appears that some others are claiming teledildonics patents, and they're not at all happy with Internet Services. Apparently a company called New Frontier Technologies, which licensed a patent (6,368,268 -- "method and device for interactive virtual control of sexual aids using digital computer networks," -- and you shouldn't miss the (possibly NSFW) flow charts on pages 5 and 6 of the patent) from another company, Hassex, is suing Internet Services for violating that patent with its "Real Touch" masturbation tool. Of course, it will be interesting to see if Internet Services fires back with the Immersion patents that it licensed.
In the meantime, this all brings new meaning to the concept of innovation happening when ideas have sex.


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I combine these to repeat, in myself, the wonders of the world in my sense of place - gestures of the beauty and richness I perceive, in car rides through the country.
Much of this work , both wall and three-dimensional pieces are directly made in a fast handling, as if to catch a moment in time where it will never come back. I am surrounded by pine trees, and the lusterous textures of Nature and its form. Qualities of geometry through the organic-ness of the markings are drawings to me, movement like I feel and know in my head, of dancing, and my mother putting a crown of yellow daisies on my head as we played in the field.
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From the MIchael Sragow Gets Reel blog:
Today the Library of Congress announced 25 more selections for the National Film Registry. The Registry is designed to highlight the American cinema's broad social-cultural significance as well as mark its key creative leaps. It also underlines the need for film preservation -- to safe-keep our native art and our collective historical memory.
Happily, in doing so, the Library each year manages to honor an eclectic group of entertaining or fascinating movies.
Airplane!" (1980). At the tail-end of the Seventies disaster-film craze, this smash-hit parody of a plane-in-peril movie brought Hellzapoppin' brashness and energy to the burlesque of Hollywood genres. Though it spawned sub-standard sequels and a debased comedy sub-genre of its own (see, for instance, the "Scary Movie" series), it also led to some other disreputable classics -- the "Police Squad!" TV show and "Naked Gun" franchise, also starring Leslie Nielsen.
"All the Presidents Men" (Pictured above, 1976). This rendering of how Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward ( Robert Redford) and Carl Bernstein ( Dustin Hoffman) exposed the underbelly of the Nixon White House both fed into contemporary political disillusionment and romanticized investigative journalism. (The romance peeked with Jason Robards' debonair depiction of editor Ben Bradlee as a swashbuckling commander in a well-tailored suit.) Screenwriter William Goldman cannily inserted a show-biz saying into the script -- "Follow the money" -- that was widely seen as the most authentic and meaningful line in the whole movie. It was nowhere to be found in Bernstein and Woodward's original book.
"The Bargain" (1914). Cowboy star William S. Hart's debut movie. The Library of Congress says, "the film was selected because of Harts charisma, the films authenticity and realistic portrayal of the Western genre and the stars good/bad man role as an outlaw attempting to go straight."
"Cry of Jazz" (1959). African-American independent filmmaker Ed Bland made this 34-minute short subject in Chicagos black neighborhoods with scores of volunteers helping him conduct, film and edit interviews with "interracial artists and intellectuals." Featuring Sun Ra and his Arkestra, this short, according to the Library of Congress, "argues that black life in America shares a structural identity with jazz music" and "demonstrates the unifying tension between rehearsed and improvised jazz."
"Electronic Labyrinth: THX 1138 4EB (1967)." This is the short film that George Lucas wants you to know about when he discusses returning to "small experimental movies." Made while he was studying film at USC, later expanded into "THX 1138" as part of Francis Ford Coppola's American Zoetrope production slate at Warner Bros., it's a Big-Brother-is-Watching-You dystopia that created a sensation in film circles -- I remember reading about in the basement of the Bleecker Street Cinema when I was working for a defunct magazine called "Film Society Review."
"The Empire Strikes Back (1980)." Lucas invented and sustained the "Star Wars" series, but director Irvin Kershner elevated its artistic standing with this second entry in the series. (For my tribute to Kershner, click here.) Now how about including Kershner's other great movies, like the film that won him this assignment -- a lesser-known but also terrific sequel, "The Return of a Man Called Horse?"
"The Exorcist" (1973). However you feel about William Friedkin's monster hit of a horror movie (I'm among the skeptics), it widened the horror audience, poured new ingredients into the cauldron, and brought other gifted filmmakers into the form -- including John Boorman, who made the visually extravagant "Exorcist II: The Heretic." That's Max von Sydow and Linda Blair in a scene from Friekin's film, above.
"The Front Page" (1931). This gleeful rejiggering of the crack Ben HechtCharles MacArthur stage comedy about Chicago newspapers influenced rapid-fire farces like the inside-Hollywood spoof "Bombshell" and spawned the now-more-famous "His Girl Friday." It remains a gas to see and hear Hecht and MacArthur's ink-stained clowns spew purple jokes and argot in Lewis Milestone's gritty, energetic version. Director Milestone ("All Quiet on the Western Front" always worked best in the trenchesthe movies press room has all the testosterone of a gym or a barracks.
"Grey Gardens" (1976). The Albert and David Maysles cinema-verite milestone created a cult for East Hampton, New York's mother-and-daughter eccentrics, Big Edie and Little Edie Beale, relatives of Jacqueline Kennedy. It was the basis for the Broadway show and the HBO movie of the same name.
"I Am Joaquin" (1969). Luis Valdez, who later created the Los Angeles theater sensation "Zoot Suit" as well as its movie version, and the Ritchie Valens biopic "La Bamba," made this 20-minute adaptation of Rodolfo Corky Gonzales's epic poem. According to the Library, the poem "weaves together the long tangled roots of his Mexican, Spanish, Indian and American parentage and a past mythology of pre-Columbian cultures" and the film "is important to the history and culture of Chicanos in America, spotlighting the challenges they have endured because of discrimination."
"Its a Gift (1934)." It's the third W.C Fields film on the list; we'd be happy if the Library decided to include his entire canon.
"Let There Be Light" (1946). Let's hope some astute revival programmers think of showcasing this great film, not just with John Huston's other classic war-time documentaries, Report from the Aleutians and Battle of San Pietro," but with his intelligent and haunting biopic, "Freud." The War Department's ban on "Let There Be Light, an unsparing documentary about the psychological treatment of traumatized combat veterans, lasted for three and a half decades. Those of us who saw it on public television in the 1980s will never forget it. The Library says it "was blocked... because no effort was made during filming to disguise or mask the identities of combat veterans suffering from various forms of psychological trauma." Critic James Agee wrote, "the glaring obvious reason has not been mentioned: that any sane human being who saw the film would join the armed forces, if at all, with a straight face and a painfully maturing mind."
"Lonesome" (1928). As cinema, Paul Fejos's movie is beautiful and inventive; as a romance it's equally robust and delicate as it depicts two lovers caught in a storm at Coney Island.
"Make Way for Tomorrow" (1937). Orson Welles said that Leo McCarey's movie about old age in hard times would "make a stone cry," but it temporarily made McCarey unemployable -- which is why he took on the assignment of "The Awful Truth." I've been dying to see this portrait of a senior couple and their selfish children since Criterion released a disc of it this fall; this is one more good reason to catch up with it.
"Malcolm X" (1992). Spike Lees biopic, featuring a charismatic performance by Denzel Washington in the title role, is important for all sorts of historical and cultural reasons. But for movie-lovers its biggest gift may have been to nudge this gifted but erratic director into fact-based filmmaking -- and into his current standing as one of our great documentary-makers. (That's Lee, above, in 1992.)
"McCabe and Mrs. Miller" (1971). One of my 115 favorite films. Click here to read my reasons for it on my list of "unabashed movie ecstasies."
"Newark Athlete" (1891). An experimental film made at the Edison Laboratory in West Orange, New Jersey, where the fhe filmmakers, W.K.L. Dickson and William Heise, would help create the Edison Kinetograph (the great inventor's breakthrough camera) and the Edison Kinetoscope (the great inventor's breakthrough playback device).
"Our Lady of the Sphere" (1969). The Library calls this Lawrence Jordan movie, inspired by The Tibetan Book of the Dead, "a surrealistic dream-like journey blending baroque images with Victorian-era image cut-outs, iconic space age symbols, various musical themes and noise effects, including animal sounds and buzzers.
"The Pink Panther"(1964). Terrific choice. See my post on director Blake Edwards and this movie here.
"Preservation of the Sign Language" (1913). The Library describes it as "a two-minute film featuring George Veditz, onetime president of the National Association of the Deaf (NAD) of the United States, demonstrating in sign language the importance of defending the right of deaf people to sign as opposed to verbalizing their communication."
"Saturday Night Fever" (1977). Is this the first time that a list has contained both a seminal movie and a parody of it? John Badham's superb pop musical (above) exploded into theaters -- and schools and clubs and streets -- with its red-hot Bee Gees sound track and its dynamite John Travolta performance. Travolta showed real movie-star greatness as a Brooklyn boy who achieves poetry in motion on the dance floor; he helped Badham snag audiences of all ages into the emotional vortex of frustrated post-'60s urban youth. This movie turned the disco craze volcanic -- inspiring Robert Hays' riotously funny burlesque of Travolta's dance moves in "Airplane!"
"Study of a River" (1996). The Library praises Peter Hutton's "meditative examination of the winter cycle of the Hudson River over a two-year period, showing its environment, ships plying its waterways, ice floes, and the interaction of nature and civilization. Some critics have described Huttons work as reminiscent of the 19th century artist Thomas Cole and other painters of the Hudson River School."
"Tarantella." (1940). Again, according to the Library: "A five-minute color, avant-garde short film created by Mary Ellen Bute, a pioneer of visual music and electronic art in experimental cinema. With piano accompaniment by Edwin Gershefsky, Tarantella features rich reds and blues that Bute uses to signify a lighter mood, while her syncopated spirals, shards, lines and squiggles dance exuberantly to Gershefskys modern beat."
"A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" (1945) Elia Kazan displayed his extraordinary movie talent in his very first feature film, based on the novel by Betty Smith about a girl growing up in Brooklyn tenements at the turn of the last century. It inspired one of critic James Agee's most moving and original reviews. He praised Kazan's handling of the girl (the incandescent Peggy Ann Garner) and her alcoholic father (the searingly poignant James Dunn), and noted Kazan's budding visual artistry: "There is a shot of Dunn ghastly drunk in his inky waiter's suit, so painfully malappropriate to daylight, being shoved and shouted along his home street, which is as poetic and individualized an image of a state beneath humiliation as I have seen."
"A Trip Down Market Street" (1906). Give the Library of Congress credit for both historical and contemporary journalistic savvy. " Sixty Minutes" recently covered this 13-minute actuality film of a cable-car ride along San Franciscos Market Street, detailing how historian David Kiehn discovered that it was (as the Library notes) "likely filmed just a few days before the devastating earthquake on April 18, 1906."


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community - revitalization of buildings, culture, arts, jobs, transportation - liberty city, Miami
Three header images needed for Miami-based community organization web site.
Local community and anyone outside the community that is interested in afro-caribbean music, art, and culture. Kind-hearted souls interested in effecting positive change in a challenging part of Miami and throughout the world.
We need three images.
1. header for the charity- Community Builders Holistic Development Corp.
Please see the attached banner and the old CBHDC logo osuns_village_logo.png.
Background on CBHDC:
- helps build partnerships between business, govt, non-profit
- promotes and stimulates economic development of under-served communities.
- creates sustainable social-entrepreneurship programs
- promotes community building and financial empowerment
- establishes international programs to help intl trade, global understanding; reinforce the significance of ancient traditional cultures.
- educates communities on the significance of the earth's resources
2. image representing Osun's Village, one of the CBHDC's projects.
A mocked-up street view of part of the urban area located between NW 54th St and NW 60th St, between North 27th Ave and I-95, Miami FL.
- focus on urban redevelopment
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3. African-Caribbean Cultural Arts Corridor, another CBHDC project.
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GF Whole grain English muffins
This is my 2nd attempt at a GF product and it wasn't too bad. I would enjoy eating this if I didn't know it was GF but I wouldn't call it an English Muffin since this would set me up for a different expectation.
The muffin was dense but pleasingly so. It was not a brick and the crumb was moist and not at all gummy. The taste was nutty and flavorful, thanks to the teff flour in the mix . It toasted well and was quite delicious with a bit of homemade jam.
I am learning a lot in a short period of time. There is a lot of info out there and knowing how gluten bread works and being familiar with how different flours react gives me a good basis to extend to the GF flours and gums (natural and refined).
I like the flavor of this flour mix-teff flour adds a nice flavor just by its presence. It is quite brown, though. Is there such a thing as a white teff? Is it available anywhere (I haven't looked), and does it taste as good as the brown?
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Rick Warren, Church Planters Talk Discipleship on First Day of Exponential West
The subject of discipleship took center stage on the first day of the Exponential West conference hosted at Saddleback Church in Lake Forest, Calif., where 2,000 church planting leaders onsite were treated on Tuesday to the first 10 of 27 speakers planned for the 3-day event.
Saddleback's own Pastor Rick Warren led a mid-day session on the topic of making disciples, along with pastors Robert Coleman and Ray Chang. Other speakers on Tuesday included Jim Putman, Derwin Gray, Obed Martinez, Shawn Mitchell, Alan Hirsch, Debra Hirsch, and Larry Osborne.
Warren said that although not always practiced among Christian leaders, being a servant such as the example Jesus Christ set is the key to making good disciples. He pointed out that the term "servant leader" is an unnecessary one.
"Why do you have to be a servant leader? Just be a servant," Warren said. "Jesus said, 'I came to serve and to give my life as ransom to many.'"
He added, "The more I serve the more influential leader I become. I don't try to be a leader. I try to be a servant. By the way, you cannot learn leadership in a class. There's only one way to learn leadership – let people lead. That means they are really going to screw up. But that's how you learned," Warren said, referring to the audience of pastors and ministry leaders. "You didn't learn leadership in a book. You learn leadership by actually leading and you let people make mistakes."
Warren is scheduled to lead morning Bible studies to be webcast from the conference on Wednesday and Thursday at 7:15 am PT. The studies can be viewed for free on the conference website at http://live.exponential.org/. More live-streaming video of the conference will be available as well.
The conference includes a growing movement of Christian leaders committed to accelerating the multiplication of healthy, reproducing churches. Exponential leaders say they are fueled by a goal to see as many church leaders, small groups, church planting launch teams, individuals and even full churches participating in the discipleship conversation as possible.
The webcast is the second one Exponential is hosting this year in partnership with LifeWay Christian Resources. In April at Exponential in Orlando, more than 40,000 leaders from 93 countries tuned into the free webcast featuring 25 leaders, including Francis Chan, Wayne Cordeiro, Craig Groeschel and 22 others. Anyone registering for the free webcast was asked to indicate how many people would be watching.
Prior to Exponential West, the organization's director Todd Wilson and president Dave Ferguson were encouraged by the numbers of entire teams that had already signed up to participate in the webcast. The total number of viewers for Tuesday had not been tabulated as of press time.
"This topic is an important one for all of the church; Jesus gave the Great Commission to everyone," Ferguson says. "These early registration numbers indicate that churches see this webcast as an important equipping tool to challenge and inspire everyone in the church."


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The Republican party is returning to fight for the centre which will return them to power, and Sarah Palin will not be a mistake they will seek to repeat.
Last week the most internationally mocked American politician was gracelessly tossed out by Fox News, a network under which she had once developed huge popularity as the right-wing's female star of Obama-bashing and main-stream-media-attacking. Sarah Palin (best known around the world for her portrayals by Tina Fey in Saturday Night Live and Julianne Moore in the less-than-complimentary election film Game Change) has fallen from her heights of media stardom and a doomed campaign to be the first American female vice-president.
However this is not some isolated event of the fall from grace of a single politician, it is part of a wider political shift of the past year in US politics. This shift is the popular collapse of the once powerful Tea Party movement. What had begun with a slow slide in popularity has become a widespread abandonment of the movement and its rejection from the Republican Party within which it once held so much influence. Where only three years ago almost a quarter of voters affiliated themselves with the movement, now less than one in ten do. Where over half of voters once supported it, now just as many see it negatively and support has fallen to under a third. The 2012 presidential election killed the Tea Party, and it is a sign of much larger changes to come.
Three years is extremely fast for a country-spanning ideological movement to collapse, but the Tea Party's rise was just as spectacular. Emerging in 2007 in the "Boston TeaParty07" event for Ron Paul's presidential campaign, the Tea Party movement only really began to gather pace in 2009, after the response to the financial crisis became the most important political issue in the Western world. Rick Santelli's rant in response to the bailout of the collapsing financial institutions of the time created the new movement as he called for a "Chicago Tea Party". The result was instant. Protests against the bailouts and rising taxes erupted across the United States, rallies which were noticed across the world as the most significant opposition to President Obama's handling of the financial crisis.
The Tea Party movement reached it's peak in 2010, over half of the Republican vote was members and the vast majority of Republican politicians owed the fever-pitch opposition to Obama to its grassroots drive. But what did this grassroots owe their support to? Largely big-business and individual billionaire investors with libertarian leanings. Unfortunately this initially very powerful combination between the anti-tax grassroots and their allies in politics and business opened cracks which would break the movement.
This break began shortly after the Tea Party movement began. Raised in the face of Obama's landslide election victory and his big-government response to the financial crisis the Tea Party was unprepared to face a series of bloody losses to the Obama administration. First the big-bank bailouts and financial stimulus. Then the auto bailouts. Then the healthcare bill. The Tea Party was (and is) not only getting an absolute mauling in national politics but was also losing to successful policies. No matter how huge the airtime dedicated to the "grassroots" movement, funded by big-money donations to media organisations, there was no fighting the tide of goodwill the Democrats faced between 2010 and 2012 as the economy drove towards recovery.
Nor was Obama's political success the only problem. Tea Party candidates were an increasing embarrassment to the Republican Party. Attempts to run inexperienced grassroots campaigners against experienced Democratic politicians was not as effective as the GOP had expected. Continuous gaffs from Tea Party favourites such as Sarah Palin and Michele Bachmann destroyed both candidate's hopes in 2012 and could be ill-afforded as the Christian-right joined them in self-immolation on women's rights.
The 2012 elections were the last gasp of an already struggling political movement. In an attempt to secure their vote anti-tax politician Paul Ryan was nominated as Vice President. However not only did securing the Tea Party vote fail to galvanise support and overturn Obama's huge 2008 majority, it actively damaged the Republican vote. In trying to capture the radical-right during the primaries Republican presidential candidates had completely alienated themselves from the centre, the place where all elections are won and where the vital swing-states lie. After months of predictions of Republican victory the right-wing were stunned to watch Obama waltz to an easy victory spurred by the women, industrial working class, racial minorities and LGBT that the Republicans had offended time and time again in their attempts to spur Tea Party-like activism in the radical right.
Now, with Obama yet again sworn into office, the Republicans are cutting the anchor lines to the Tea Party, Christian evangelist and anti-immigrant right wing which lost them the election they seemed so set to win. The sacking of Palin by Fox News is not just a symptom of the collapse of the Tea Party, but of the entire GOP radical right. The Republican party is returning to fight for the centre which will return them to power, and Sarah Palin will not be a mistake they will seek to repeat.
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If supply and demand rules everything, then please tell me what is going on with the market right now.
The calendar year started with a ten-year low in inventory, 3285 listings for sale. Instead of seeing a build up in inventory in January, inventory actually dropped to 3157 listings by February 1st. This sometimes happens, where January is the doldrums and not much is going on in either the buying or selling side of things. Things usually start happening in February and get rolling in March.
Well things started happening in February, but it wasn't a build up of inventory. As of this morning there are 3161 listings (patio home and single family combined) for sale. An increase of four units in a traditional inventory-build month. This has happened before, in 2002, inventory levels were almost identical and sale rate was almost identical. Average and median prices were also similar. And February ended up lower than January in terms of inventory.
The part I find crazy is the sales rate: Last week when I ran the check on Tuesday, there were 1551 "contracted" listings (pending, under contract, under contract short-sale and first-right of refusal contingent on buyer's listing closing). Six days later… there are 1742. If you throw out the short-sales and contingencies, there are 1325 pending and under contracts. That number is similar to a summer-time figure in 2007. But in summer 2007 there were 7000 listings to choose from. There are less than half that many now.
I had a buyer scoff at the concept of anyone paying over asking price for any property on Friday. Well, I've been involved in 20 written offers since December 1st. I have put together less than half of those. Thirteen have been multiple offers.
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The Police Log is a digest of reports filed by the Warwick Police.
A Warwick man was arrested on Aug. 6 and charged with stealing $25 from a co-worker's purse at Warwick Liquors on West Shore Road. The co-worker told police she saw the man open her purse and take the money on the store's video surveillance on July 31 and went to headquarters the next day to file a complaint. Officer Joel Thomas reported that he had an arrest warrant for the man that was executed at the suspect's house on Aug. 6. He said he found Paul Jackson at home at 469 Church St. and took him into custody without incident and held at headquarters for arraignment in District Court due to a probation violation.
Officer Robert Gauvin reported he was dispatched to the Stop N' Go convenience store around 2:50 p.m. on Aug. 3 for a disturbance but was advised en route that the party had left the store by an unknown side street. He said the plate number came back to a Harvard Avenue address and he was on his way there when he saw a car stopped in the middle of the road that was blocking an SUV directly behind it. He said the driver of the SUV was waving his hands and looking frustrated at the car not moving. He said there was a blonde woman behind the wheel and he saw the car lurch forward. He said he got out and told her to get out of the car. He said she stumbled as he ordered her to the side of the road. Gauvin said there was an infant in a car seat on the back seat of the car. He said the woman appeared disheveled and was pulling her hair and scratching at her arms and legs; her eyes were darting in several directions; she was making smacking motions with her lips; and she was clenching her fists. Gauvin said she bounced from one topic to another and her speech was hard to follow and her pupils were constricted. He said the woman denied driving the car, even though Gauvin saw her behind the wheel and her boyfriend said she had. He said he learned that she had a suspended license and arrested her for that. He said she switched from mood to mood in the back seat of the cruiser, crying about losing her kid one minute and then saying, "Go [expletive] yourself, you [expletive] cop!" He said she then changed her mind and said she would to a field sobriety test, which he gave her, and she failed. He also gave her a test with the portable breath tester and said she registered a .000, indicating she was not drunk. Officer Matthew Moretti, who is a trained drug recognition expert, concluded she was under the influence of some drug other than alcohol, but she refused to have her blood tested.
The child in the car had already been turned over to a sober adult. Christina M. Dori, 26, of 15 Harvard Ave., Warwick, was charged with DUI, refusal and driving on a suspended license.
Gauvin added that there was a beer can and a copper "Choreboy" that Gauvin said "is commonly used to filter and smoke crack cocaine."
Officer Randy Francis said he was on patrol around 1:30 a.m. on Aug. 6 when he followed a car that was weaving in and out of lanes and crossing the centerlines on Warwick Neck and Samuel Gorton Avenues before he pulled it over on Fairhaven Avenue. He said the driver appeared to be drunk and smelled of alcohol and had trouble putting the paperwork for the car in order. He said the driver failed a field sobriety test and was taken to headquarters, where she refused to take a breath test. Karen A. Martin, 36, of 28 Warwick Neck Ave., was charged with laned roadway violations, DUI and refusal and later released to a sober adult.
Officer Aaron Kay reported he followed a car that made a left-hand turn through the red light at Warwick Avenue and Post Road around 1 a.m. on Aug. 9. He said there was a cover over the rear plate that made it difficult to read as he pulled the car over. He said the man appeared to be drunk and smelled of alcohol. He said he gave the man a field sobriety test that he did not perform very well and he arrested him on suspicion of drunk driving and took him to headquarters, where he refused to take a breath test. Daniel T. Howe, 25, of 29 Parkside Dr., Warwick, was charged with running the light, laned roadway violations, improper display of plates, DUI and refusal and later released to a sober adult.
Officer Matthew Moretti reported he was on patrol on Jefferson Boulevard on Aug. 5 when he saw a car swerving between the lanes and going into the fog lane before he pulled it over at the Marriott Courtyard parking lot. He said he asked the woman driving where she was going and she said, "Here," and started giggling. He said she smelled of alcohol and was unsteady on her feet when he asked her out of the car for a field sobriety test, but he stopped the test before it was completed out of concern for her safety. He said he was taking her to headquarters when she started crying and said she had driven vehicles "in much worse condition than this" and didn't think she should be arrested. He said she also told him her parents would kill her and she threatened to kill herself. He said he called Sgt. Stephen Fernandes and advised him of the situation and he told him to take her to Kent Hospital instead of headquarters so she could be evaluated. He said she refused to take a chemical test at the hospital. Tyler L. Cunha, 25, of 175 Hardig Rd., Warwick, was charged with laned roadway violations; DUI, second offense; refusal, second offense; and then left in the care of the hospital staff.
Officer Thomas Duncan reported he stopped a car that was operating erratically on West Shore Road around 1:40 a.m. on Aug. 5. He said the car was doing about 15 miles per hour on Oakland Beach Avenue before he pulled it over. He said the driver appeared to be drunk and smelled strongly of alcohol. He said she stumbled out of the car for the field sobriety test, which she failed, and he arrested her on suspicion of drunk driving. Barbara J. Jiminez-Paulin, 48, of 349 Pequot Ave., Warwick, blew a .164 on both tests and was charged with DUI. She was later released to a sober adult.


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In this month's selection of top properties we will show you spectacular estates and apartments in Belgium, the USA and Spain.
USA, New York City
It is the elegant, contemporary interior design which makes this luxury apartment overlooking the Hudson River such a gem. On three floors and an area of 929 m2, it offers all imaginable conveniences of modern living, including state-of-the-art home technology. Also included: a 24-hour room service, an in-house fitness studio, a pool as well as a beautiful landscaped garden in the inner courtyard.
Further information: E-00235L
Belgium, Antwerp
Harmony Down to the Last Detail
Everything you could possibly expect from a luxury residence is brought to perfection in this penthouse in Antwerp. The interior is harmoniously designed and elegantly and stylishly furnished using many elements of French interior architect Christian Liaigre. The high-quality oak parquet floors bestow the living area with a warm and friendly atmosphere.
Further information: W-016VW6
Spain, Mallorca
The tasteful combination of Mediterranean and modern style lends this natural stone finca in Andratx its distinctive character. The house is equipped with state-of-the-art technology such as a home and safety electronics and a solar system. A special highlight is found in the outdoor area, which accommodates several terraces as well as a large pool and spa area embedded in a beautiful garden setting.
Further information: W-024H3A
Belgium, Walloon Brabant
Spacious Living Without Constraints
All requirements of modern, comfortable living on an area of more than 1,150 m2. A stylishly furnished in-house library, a home cinema, a wine cellar as well as a wonderfully designed indoor swimming pool illustrate the overall spaciousness and luxury of the estate.
Further information: W-0237NY
Spain, Mallorca
Contemporary Living in a Prime Location
This estate in Son Vida is characterised by distinctive elegance, spacious ambience and modern, minimalist design. The living area with open kitchen, home cinema and various en-suite bathrooms leads straight to a spacious terrace with spectacular pool.
Further information: W-022V6W


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Daniel 'Codeworkx' Hillenbrand on why he's not going to work on cm10 for the Galaxy SIII anymore: "Before the release of the Samsung Galaxy S II we were promised support and devices. We received the S2 and the whole community was praising Samsung. To me, that was nothing but a good PR stunt, because there has not been even the slightest bit of support ever since. Actually Samsung vehemently refuses to hand out any information or even a single line of code to us. Our contact at Samsung seems to be willing to support us, but gets blocked by his superiors." His advice to prospective Android buyers is clear. "All manufacturers have an equally bad update policy, so if you like a Samsung device, just buy it. If you want to use AOSP or CyanogenMod on the other hand, you should stay away from Exynos devices, because they just don't meet the requirements. Instead I recommend you to buy Nexus or Qualcomm/OMAP devices that haven't been completely botched by the manufacturer."
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September 28-October 1, 1997
Abstract I-31. The impact of highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) on the incidence of CMV disease
Baril and colleagues from Paris reported on the dramatic decrease in CMV disease in France since the beginning of widespread use of highly active combination regimens which include protease inhibitors, and cast some light on the effect of HAART on the risk of disease. (Editorial comment: I don't love the term HAART because it is not clear what is meant. Does it include adding a protease inhibitor to existing therapy? What about less effective agents, such as the old hard gel formulation of saquinavir? In these presentations, it generally meant indinavir or ritonavir with at least one new nuke)
She examined the rate of CMV disease among all patients with AIDS at Hopital Pitie Salpetriere, from the beginning of 1995 until the end of 1996. Indinavir and Ritonavir became available in late March of 1996. The rate of new cases of CMV plummeted in the second half of 1996 from 16-20 cases per 100 AIDS patients to 1 per 100 patients. However, they did diagnose 14 cases of CMV among patients on HAART. Eleven of the 14 cases occurred during the first 8 weeks after starting HAART, even though CD4 counts had risen. All new CMV episodes occurred within 4 months of starting HAART.
This study shows that the increase in CD4 cells seen with HAART provides significant protection against CMV, and other papers presented today showed similar results for oral thrush, disseminated MAC, and cryptosporidia. However, a very important point shown here and in a recent paper by Jacobsen is that opportunistic infections can occur during the first few months on HAART, despite newly improved CD4 counts that are quite high. After several months, OI's become much less common. This suggests that the reconstitution of the immune system lags behind increases in CD4 numbers. Can prophylaxis be stopped after the CD4 count rises? Clearly in the first few months. Can it be stopped after a few months of continued response? The answer is not in yet, but some interesting clues are provided in the next two papers.
Abstract I-33. Lack of progression after discontinuation of maintenance therapy for cytomegalovirus retinitis in AIDS patients responding to HAART
Dr. Francesca Torriani from UC San Diego presented a tantalizing paper that raised some questions but did not fully answer them. Between October 1995 and May 1997, 8 patients with CMV retinitis and CD4 increases on protease containing regimens chose to stop their maintenance therapy for CMV.
Typically, all would experience recurrence with in a few weeks. The reasons the patients chose to stop were not consistent, and no specific criteria were followed. These were patients with advanced disease: they had had CMV for a median of 1.8 years and the median CD4 count before HAART was 54 cells. At the time they chose to stop CMV therapy, the median CD4 count was 172 (range 63-404). However, 6 of 8 had detectable viral loads. They were followed closely with full opthamologic exams and photographs every 4 weeks. After an average followup of about 6 months, all 8 remain free of CMV recurrence.
It is important to remember that these patients had been on HAART for about 6 months before stopping and were followed very closely. There are only 8, and the period of followup is still very short, but this is very exciting IF it can be confirmed in larger studies. It is too early to recommend this outside of studies. See the next abstract for additional information and discussion.
Abstract I-36. Long lasting remission of cytomegalovirus retinitis without maintenance therapy in HIV+ patients.
Dr. Tural from Barcelona reported a similar experience with 7 patients, although they attempted to be more systematic to try and define who is a candidate for stopping maintenance. They approached patients with CMV retinitis who had been on HAART for at least 3 months who met specific criteria. They had to have CD4 counts that had risen to greater than 150, an undetectable HIV RNA (viral load), and no detectable CMV in the bloodstream by PCR. (CMV PCR of the blood identifies patients with a much higher risk of new CMV or recurrences on maintenance) They identified 7 patients who met these criteria and offered them the choice of stopping maintenance therapy.
Antiviral therapy consisted of D4T, 3TC, plus either ritonavir, indinavir or ritonavir with saquinavir. Most were on IV ganciclovir or foscarnet. All 7 chose to participate in the study and had checkups every week for 3 months, including dilated eye exams and CMV PCR. All continued to have undetectable HIV RNA, and the CD4 count rose to and average of 290. With 9-12 months of followup, none of the 7 have had any CMV recurrence.
This study seems to confirm the Torriani paper, and begins to outline who might be a good candidate: those with at least 3 months on HAART, excellent CD4 and viral load response, and no CMV detectable in the blood. A recent paper by Autran in Nature showed a possible laboratory explanation. CD4 cells from patients with AIDS who began HAART were examined in the test tube for their ability to respond to CMV. After 4 weeks, there was some return of response, and it increased steadily over 9 months.
But a great deal of caution is necessary before we start to stop maintenance therapy for CMV. This is only 7 patients and there is only brief followup. They were followed very closely by their opthamologist. CMV may be different from some other OI's since it is a chronic life long infection, and it may be easier to restore immunologic memory. Still, further studies are justified, and for carefully selected patients with complications from maintenance therapy, it is time to think about the balance of risks.
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The family of a former high school football coach who committed suicide while a patient at Larned State Hospital, has filed a lawsuit accusing hospital officials of not doing enough to prevent his death.
Michael Lykins, a former Kansas State University football player who coached football at Skyline High School near Pratt, hanged himself shortly after being admitted to the hospital on Sept. 6, 2011. He was 43.
Dan, Lindsey, and Chase Lykins filed the lawsuit in Shawnee County District Court on Aug. 23.
Chase and Lindsey Lykins are the 20-year-old son and 21-year-old daughter of Michael Lykins. Dan Lykins is Michael Lykins' father and administrator of his estate. He is also an attorney and a former member of the Kansas Board of Regents.
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Oil prices settled lower on Friday after U.S. data showed a sharp rise in gasoline inventories and as investors worried that U.S. budget negotiators may not reach a deal in time to avert a fiscal crisis that could erode oil demand.
Weekly data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration showed U.S. gasoline stocks rose by 3.8 million barrels last week, capping a five-week build of nearly 23 million barrels. Demand for the motor fuel is down 2.8 percent from the same period of 2011. The weekly build in gasoline stocks was larger than analysts had expected, and EIA data also showed U.S. crude stocks declined by less than expected last week.
The White House set a Friday afternoon meeting with congressional leaders to seek a budget deal to avert looming automatic tax hikes and spending cuts — the fiscal cliff — that many fear could push the world's largest economy into recession.
"All eyes are on Washington," said Addison Armstrong, senior director for market research at Tradition Energy, in a research note.
U.S. crude futures fell 7 cents to settle at $90.80 a barrel. They were up 2.4 percent on the week. Brent crude fell 18 cents to settle at $110.62 a barrel.
U.S. equity prices slid for a fifth day, on pessimism about whether a budget deal will be reached before year end.
Trading in crude futures was thin during a holiday season lull, with Brent volumes around 40 percent below 30-day average levels, and U.S. crude volumes down by around half.
Brent's $109.83 session low tested support below the 200-day moving average at $109.94.
U.S February crude dipped below a 100-day moving average level, after reaching the highest front-month price since October — $91.49 a barrel — earlier in the session.
Broader Trends
International benchmark Brent is still on track for a full-year gain of about 3 percent, although U.S. crude is on track for a 8 percent fall in 2012.
Among the factors have kept average Brent prices near historic highs this year are potential threats to Middle East oil supplies from turmoil in the region and signs of rebounding Chinese and U.S. economic growth.
Separate reports on Friday showed U.S. home resales hitting a 2-1/2-year high in November and Midwest factory activity expanding in December.
The reports follow relatively upbeat U.S. trends in fourth-quarter indicators for consumer spending, housing, employment and manufacturing.
US Oil Inventories
U.S. crude oil inventories fell last week, but only by 586,000 barrels, in the week to Dec. 21, the Energy Information Administration said.
The crude stocks drop was less than the drop of 1.9 million barrels expected in a Reuters survey of analysts.
While crude stockpiles slipped, distillate stocks jumped 2.42 million barrels and gasoline inventories rose 3.78 million barrels.
U.S. January heating oil fell 2.75 cents to settle at $3.0448 per gallon, while RBOB gasoline futures fell 2.14 cents to $2.799 a gallon.
Middle East Tensions
Syria's opposition leader rejected an invitation from Russia for peace talks with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's government to end the civil war.
The West's dispute with Iran over Tehran's nuclear program continues to simmer as Iran on Friday began six days of naval drills in the Strait of Hormuz, the region's vital oil shipping route.


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The Washington Student League in full swing, first race of the series now in the books - actually a few weeks ago - call me Mr. Slow Blogger. My team, Northshore Middle School Composite, joined the fray with with most of 'em experiencing their first ever race. And not exactly under perfect conditions with rain and temps in the 40s. Wet 'N' Mud-O-Rama.
Middle School (Junior High) boys staged and ready to roll (top pic), my team included. Some of 'em literally shivering after being pre-soaked from the pre-ride one hour earlier. Then away they go, racing away from the start line.
The girls hit the second turn after their start. Great to see these young women get involved with the sport. Girl rocking the skirt and single speed - family has 7 kids and they all race - and they're all really fast. Amazing.
Jack on the left, Dylan in the middle, Andy on the right - three boys from my team in their first ever race. Awesome. Well, first XC race for Dylan - he does have downhill race experience and is quite the bike handler.
Race venue was Fort Steilcoom Park in Lakewood (Washington). Ian and I have been to this site a few times previously, for various mountain bike and cyclocross races. I also assisted at the first Washington high school mountain bike race held here, a few years ago. Now back with a team of my own. Pretty cool, eh?
Another young girl racer out on the course. Fantastic.
My son Ian, rolling along in the rain, also on my team. He found the competition a bit stiffer then expected, not all that different from the usual junior level race.
Teammate Scotty matched his helmet to course tape, how did he know? Scotty very new to mountain biking, now with a race under his belt. Nice job.
Teammate Andy with post race muddy smile, scoring 12th place out of 15 middle school kids. First race and he appeared to have a fun day, despite the weather. He also gets the hard core award - pulling off the pre-ride, race, and afternoon recreational ride on the muddy course. 15 total miles of wet off-road action, in jeans and a sweatshirt to boot.
Teammate Scotty scored 11th place, riding injured added to the fun. Previous day bike mishap scored him a bruised tail bone, but still wanted to race - and that he did - great job.
Teammate Jack in his first ever race experience, rolled in for 7th place. Excellent.
Dylan, downhill racer and expert bike handler, pulls off a 4th place finish in his first XC race. Missed the podium by only one spot. Fantastic ride.
Ian, looking a bit pensive, after his 8th place finish. Solid ride in messy conditions - way to roll - nice job.
Teammate Cormac cruising into the finishing chute. 15th place for the day. Great effort.
Assistant coach Marne gives Ian the post race muddy high five. Great group of kids and adults associated with our team.
Teammate Cormac wearing some of the course - as everyone did.
The fast high school boys give it a whirl, high school kids being broken up into various groups, based on skill and experience. The two boys in blue, Evan and Theo, former teammates of Ian's previous JL Velo junior race team. Very fast high school kids with previous race experience.
Zac, a member of the Northshore high school team, spins the 29ers.
The course, about a 5 mile loop, a mixture of gravel roads and single track.
Mixture of experience and racers found in this program, from total beginners to junior level racers with years of races on their resume. There's a place for everyone.
Sean and Zane, two more boys on my team, elected to ride the recreational event instead of racing. No wrong answers to any of this. All about getting kids on bikes, matching their level of interest. Great stuff.
Our first race day went well, 8 of the 14 students on our team elected to participate - races being optional in the program. Good turn out. All of 'em appeared to have a positive experience, even with the not-so-pleasant weather. It's a blast seeing these kids getting into mountain biking - from basic trail riding to racing - it's all good.


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Watch Description
Watch - "The Chicago" 180 is the 180th one-of-a-kind piece in Vortic's "Chicago" line of the American Artisan Series. This watch features a water-resistant, titanium 3D printed case with a bronzed titanium finish and a knurled raw crown. The mechanics of the restored movement are visible through the Gorilla Glass crystal of the exhibition style, stainless steel back.
Case - When powdered titanium is fused together one layer at a time in the direct metal laser sintering process (metal 3D printing), the outcome is a rough surface finish due to the layers in which it printed. Vortic lightly polishes and finishes each case before the heat treating and coloring process.
This 3D printed titanium case is bronzed using a long and tedious process; bronzing titanium is an art form in itself. This deep bronze color is achieved through long hours in the heat treating kiln. This is not a paint, and will not scratch. This is chemically altered and will keep its beautiful color for life.
Movement Info - This "315" grade movement was originally produced by the Elgin Watch Company in 1917. This manually wound movement is beautifully decorated, and has a fully jeweled gear train (15 jewels).
Original Serial: 20013252
All product and company names, logos, brands, and other trademarks featured or referred to within Vortic's products and services are the property of their respective intellectual property rights holders, if any. Those intellectual property rights holders, other than Vortic, LLC, are not affiliated with Vortic, LLC, our products, or our website. They do not sponsor or endorse our materials.
Watch Specs
- Manufacturer: Vortic Watch Company
- Product Year: 2018
- Warranty: Vortic 2-Year Revolving Warranty
- Watch Dimensions:
- Diameter = 46mm
- Height = 12mm
- Lug-to-Lug = 55mm
- Lugs = 22mm
- Case Finish: Bronzed Titanium
- Crown/Hardware: Knurled Raw
- Crown Location: 12 O'Clock (Open Face)
- Water Resistance: 1 ATM
- Crystals: Anti-Fingerprint Gorilla Glass
- Case Back: Exhibition, Stainless Steel
- Hands: Original Blued Steel
- Strap: Leather
Movement Specs
- Original Manufacturer: Elgin National Watch Company
- Jewels: 15j
- Size: 12s
- Function: Manual Wind
- Power Reserve: 36-42 Hours
- Finish:
Vortic's mission is to salvage, restore, and preserve an important part of United States history. Today, beautiful antique pocket watch mechanisms are often cast aside when their original case is scrapped for precious metal value. American pocket watches were made with an incredible level of quality. So, after 100 years, many simply need a little patience from a skilled individual to make them run like new. Vortic fully restores these mechanisms and builds them into wristwatches to make them functional again and to preserve them for another 100+ years.
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We feel proud and blessed to live in the country, state, and city that we do. However, our motivation to build everything in the United States, and to source locally whenever possible, is derived from a different source of inspiration. We believe that the close relationships, face-to-face interaction, and tight quality control we achieve while dealing domestically produces a truly superior product. Because of this, we are very transparent about where our components are made as we continue to build our in-house capabilities.
2-Year Revolving Warranty
Vortic's 2-Year Revolving Warranty gives individuals the opportunity to warranty their watch for a lifetime. We exist in a throw-away society and we believe that's not right. The mechanisms inside our watches and the watch cases we build around them were made to last forever if taken care of. That is why our 2-year warranty re-starts when your watch is serviced by Vortic.
The United States has a rich history of manufacturing the best watches in the world. The greatest challenge for the watch industry is longevity, and these movements have passed the ultimate test of time by maintaining their integrity for over 100 years. Vortic is able to preserve the legacy of American watchmaking in the 21st century because of the unbelievable standard of quality that was commonplace during this era.
Many individuals are not aware that the United States was the leader in mechanical watch manufacturing during the late 1800's and early 1900's. Prior to this, watches were produced one-at-a-time and each part of a watch was made by one individual (mostly in England and Switzerland). The industry was not optimized to meet demand, and Americans seized the opportunity to manufacture watches in a new way that would encourage widespread use of timepieces, and pocket watches in particular.
American companies invented countless tools and machines for cutting metal parts that allowed them to make a superior product for a reduced price. Additionally, this advanced machinery developed for watch parts quickly spread to other industries. In fact, many believe that this is what led to America's reputation for industrial prowess in all forms during the 19th and 20th centuries. The original great American watch companies were known for their skill, craftsmanship, and ability to produce each part of a watch more efficiently, more accurately, and on a larger scale.
Eventually, the Swiss adopted American machinery with great success, and the introduction of cheap, disposable, battery-powered, quartz watches in the 1960's led to a rapid decline in demand for quality mechanical watches. The art of American watchmaking quickly vanished and each historic company was ultimately purchased by foreign investors.
The Elgin Watch Company (pronounced "El-Jin") was not only the largest watch manufacturer in the United States, it was the largest watch manufacturer in the world for almost 100 years. The company often used a depiction of Father Time as a logo in advertisements and company documents. Total production over their 100 years of operation reached nearly 60 million watches, which is almost 50% of all jeweled watches produced in the United States!
At one point the company was making 7,500 watch movements a week, had 2,300 employees, and the main factory (largest watch manufacturing facility in the world at the time) had 583,343 square feet of floor space. The company was involved in both world wars; first training men to make watch repairs in the field for the First World War, then switching over all production to support the troops with military watches, marine chronometers, fuses, and other precise instrumentation for WWll.
The Elgin National Watch Company was founded in 1864 in Elgin, Illinois, just outside of Chicago. That year, organizers of the company took a trip to Waltham to recruit watchmaking talent and walked away with seven machinists/watchmakers (sometimes referred to as Elgin's Seven Stars). One of these seven (Charles S. Moseley) would become the first superintendent of the Elgin watch factory. The company's main goal was to produce a high quantity of high-quality watches for a reasonable price, and they did this by inventing brilliant machinery and highly efficient systems of interchangeable parts.
Initially called the National Watch Company, the organizers were later to become some of the biggest names in the American watch industry: J.C. Adams, P.S. Bartlett, D.G. Currier, Otis Hoyt, and Charles H. Mason. With financial backing from former Chicago Mayor Benjamin W. Raymond, the factory for the National Watch Company was completed in 1866, and the company officially changed their name to the Elgin National Watch Company. The Elgin name remained until the company stopped producing watches in 1968, but the fabrication of watch movements in the U.S. ended some years before that.
Elgin attempted to diversify its manufacturing as demand for quality pocket watches declined and quartz watches, as well as low priced foreign alternatives, were introduced. However, without the demand for their core business, watch manufacturing, the company eventually went belly up. The main factory in Elgin, IL was completely torn down in the mid-1960's, although a few satellite campuses survived longer.
While known for making quality watches for a reasonable price, sometimes referred to as the "working man's watch," Elgin's high-end watches rivaled the best. The machinery that Elgin created to mass produce quality mechanical watches was some of the most advanced of its time. Elgin watches remain extremely popular with collectors today, and there was such a large quantity made that parts for repair are relatively easily to find.
The Vortic Watch Company is a high-end wristwatch engineering and manufacturing company based in Fort Collins, Colorado. Their inspiration lies in pairing classic watchmaking techniques and traditions with cutting-edge, modern technology.
After conceiving the company in Pennsylvania and attending Penn State, the founders relocated themselves and the business to Fort Collins, Colorado. The move was originally conducted to pursue career opportunities prior to full-time employment opportunity with Vortic. However, the pair fell in love with the location and decided to officially base the company in Fort Collins.
Since its founding, Vortic has been recognized by the likes of the New York Times, NPR, The Boston Globe, WatchTime Magazine, About Time magazine, and many other publications for their work in preserving United States history. Additionally, Vortic watches have been inducted to the NAWCC museum in Columbia, PA as well as the Charles River Museum of Industry in Waltham, MA.
The company is currently applying its product-focused attitude, unique aesthetics, and fresh ideas to creating additional products and perfecting their trade.
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Started 17 games, including eight of the last nine, and played in 29...notched six double-doubles...averaged 11.0 points per game to rank second on the team and 22nd in the OVC...was named to the OVC All-Tournament team for his performance during Tech's run to the championship game in which he averaged a double-double, scoring 13.3 points and pulling down 11.3 rebounds per game...was named Most Improved player on the team...ranked sixth in the league in defensive rebounding, grabbing 4.3 per game, and eighth in total rebounding with an average of 5.8 boards per game, the best on the team...enjoyed his best rebounding game in a first-round OVC Tournament victory over Tennessee-Martin in which he pulled down 16 boards...shot 49 percent from the field to rank seventh in the OVC...scored in double-figures in 17 games and posted a season-high 23 points at Tennessee-Martin on Feb. 12...shot 36 percent (5-for-14) from three-point range and 72 percent (92-for-127) from the charity stripe...averaged 1.2 steals and 1.0 assists per game.
Played in all 32 games, starting two and averaging 20.1 minutes per game... shot over 50 percent from the field (.558) and ranked second on the team in offensive rebounds with 55 and total rebounds with 140...contributed a total of 281 points on the season, averaging 8.8 per game.
Played basketball all four years of high school, playing his first three years at Mt. Zion HS and playing his senior season at Riverdale HS in Riverdale, Ga…averaged 25 points, 10 rebounds and five assists his senior season, and broke the school scoring record set by current L.A. Laker Josh Powell…saved his best for last, as he scored 49 points on Senior Night…earned first-team all-region and first-team all-southern crescent honors…was high school teammate of fellow Tech junior Terrell Barnes.
Full name is Judson Terrell Norman Dillard…son of Terrell Dillard and Betty Thomas…born May 19, 1991…enrolled in general curriculum.


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In Search of a New Strategic Imperative
Under President George W. Bush, US foreign policy problems in the Middle East have multiplied, whereas the ability to solve them in the interests of the USA has been drastically reduced. It comes as no surprise, then, that Barack Obama's election as the 44th president of the USA has produced a positive echo in the region.
This reflects expectations in American society that President Obama will make fundamental changes after taking office on 20 January 2009, particularly to Middle Eastern policy. There is little evidence to suggest he will do so – yet basic decisions on the country's new administration have not yet been taken, so that all considerations are subject to one proviso.
That proviso is that it is not clear what guiding idea the Obama administration's foreign policy will adopt. Under President Bush, the official strategic imperative of US policy on the Middle East was to spread democracy and freedom across the entire region.
Many observers of US foreign policy would welcome a move to take individual conflicts out from under this ideological roof in future. Such a step would keep the option of targeted interventions in individual conflicts open.
Obama's "grand narrative" for US foreign policy
Yet there are two reasons to expect Obama to find his own "grand narrative" for America's foreign policy. Firstly, the American president has a weak institutional role when it comes to domestic policy. Although the foremost tasks are currently located in this sector, sooner or later Obama will seek to gain political stature via international politics. Secondly, Obama's campaigning style showed he was determined to offer voters a "personal story". With the importance of PR for the Obama administration, this key idea on foreign policy will define the presidency, no less.
Central significance of the Iraq war
One central factor in the eyes of US society will be how Barack Obama deals with the Iraq war. During his election campaign, he made not only a political and moral argument out of the issue but also an economic one. If he does not pull out the troops within the next 16 months, he will have to reckon up the costs of the war. And it will place doubt on his credibility.
The Bush administration is currently negotiating a withdrawal from Iraq's cities by 2009 and from rural areas by 2011. For practical reasons, Obama is unlikely to be able to speed this process up. But more dangerous than a delay would be if the situation in Iraq were to destabilise. Withdrawal, destabilisation of Iraq and then a new military intervention would spell political disaster for President Obama.
This risk drastically reduces his options in Iraq. On top of this, elections are scheduled there for 2009, and it is unclear what direction the nationalist election campaign will take. If Iraq does not develop into a politically and economically stable country, and fast – which no one expects at the moment – the Obama administration will have to explain why it still has several tens of thousands of soldiers stationed there. Judging by the current situation, we can expect the war on terrorism to remain the "grand narrative" for this purpose.
Little room for manoeuvre on the nuclear issue
The challenge in Iran is that the country's nuclear capacity is constantly increasing. The multilateral negotiations have not convinced Teheran to alter its nuclear policy. Bilateral US attempts to end the standoff, which Obama hinted at in his election campaign, could intensify the fear of a unilateral approach among US allies without solving the problem. American diplomacy would have failed all on its own. Diplomatic success is entirely dependent on a decision by the Iranian leadership.
Barack Obama has never ruled out military intervention – and has always pointed out that Israeli security interests are defined in Israel. Ultimately, however, everything hangs on the answers to two questions: can we distinguish between peaceful and military use of nuclear power and if so, under which conditions? And is Teheran prepared to accept these conditions?
Again, the USA has little room for manoeuvre on this issue. If the Obama administration wants to stop Iran playing for time, it will have to clearly define the goals of the six states. And it will have to set out what will happen in the event that Teheran refuses to accept these goals.
Afghanistan: a central front in the battle against terrorism
Barack Obama has already stated he will station more soldiers in Afghanistan, as a central front in the battle against terrorism. General David H. Petraeus is currently drawing up a concept based on the "surge" in Iraq. It is likely that the border region to Pakistan, currently being taken into greater account in the US military strategy, will see even more intensive involvement.
Europe has already realised this will be accompanied by requests for the allied states to raise their troop numbers. The question will be how much of a say the European governments are granted in the decision-making process in return.
However, it remains absolutely unclear how the parallel problems of a war economy and rule by clan structures are to be solved. Unless he determines the political purpose of the war and tables a withdrawal strategy acceptable to the US allies, Afghanistan may become one of Obama's central problems.
Obama may well appoint a special ambassador to deal with the Middle East conflict and take the pressure off his foreign minister. Perhaps the new administration will pay greater attention to Turkey's strategic importance again. The key question, however, is whether Barack Obama will continue to justify the USA's activities in the Middle East through the war on terrorism, or US foreign policy will be given a new framework.
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Reactions to Obama's Election Victory in the Islamic World
A Call for Change – in the Islamic World Too?
Not unexpectedly, Barack Obama's election as the next president of the United States harvested a mainly positive echo in the Arab states and Iran, where people are hopeful for a change in US policy. Peter Philipp sums up the reactions
US-President Bush in the Middle East
German Expert: Bush Waited Too Long With Mideast Trip US President George W. Bush embarks on a multi-country tour of the Middle East, a prominent German expert says that his chances to achieve something are fairly slim
US Foreign Policy and Iran
Of War Games and Guessing Games
The question currently occupying the minds of journalists, politicians and think tanks from Washington to Los Angeles is whether or not the final five months of the Bush administration will see an armed American strike against Iran. Ali Fathollah-Nejad looks for some answers