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Some players have a knack for adapting wherever they are on the field. With a dearth of center back options facing the Houston Dynamo heading into a crucial match with Sporting Kansas City, it was no surprise that Ricardo Clark was that player.
The 30-year-old has been one of the best players for the Dynamo this season as a defensive midfielder. With the club in a pinch, Clark took his spot 15 yards further back from where he normally plays and led the back line in holding Sporting's potent attack at bay in a 1-1 draw.
"Rico's a stud and I'll leave it at that," head coach Dominic Kinnear told MLSsoccer.com after Sunday's game. It's a simple but honest assessment considering the type of performance the midfielder has put up this year.
READ: CCL - 24-team field nearly set for 2013-14 tournament, draw set for June 3
With Jermaine Taylor - who is listed as out on Thursday injury report - still recovering from a left shoulder injury and Bobby Boswell in the middle of a two game suspension, Clark will likely take one of Houston's center back positions again when the Dynamo face the Columbus Crew (6:30 pm CT, CSN Plus).
Is it a potential long-term landing spot? The coach says it is a possibility.
"A lot of guys when you see it, they start out as defensive midfielders that end up moving back," Kinnear said of a potential switch. "I don't know. That's a long time coming."
For Clark, where he plays comes down to a simple choice of where the team needs him most. "It's whatever situation presents itself. Right now the team needs me at center back because of suspension and injury so that's what I will do. In terms of long term, who knows what the future will bring."
Clark's success at center back shouldn't surprise observers. While in Germany center back was the position that he found the most success while playing for Eintracht Frankfurt, as well as when he was on loan at Norwegian club Stabaek. It was that time at the back that gave Kinnear the idea to try him there in 2012 when in a pinch, with good results.
READ: Houston Dynamo veteran Mike Chabala happy to be back in the mix
"The coach [at Frankfurt] had experimented with me in that position and I was just ready to help the team and ready to play," Clark said of his time with Eintracht. "For the most part I was pretty comfortable [against Sporting]. It's little things like that that makes it a big difference in playing in the midfield."
With that experience, filling in the void left by the injured Taylor - whose left shoulder has ruled him out of Jamaica's World Cup plans - and the suspended Boswell wasn't that much of a leap; even if it was at one of MLS's most raucous stadiums, Sporting Park. Additionally, Clark's skills translate to the back. His galloping runs and 360 degree radius gave way to a more position-oriented game where he was worried more about holding the line than covering ground.
"When situations like this come around you don't even think twice about it," Kinnear said. "He's shown he can do it and you're just really comfortable about it."
Added Kofi Sarkodie: "He was everywhere [against Sporting]. It's massive when you can do that both in the central midfield position and in the center half position."
Darrell Lovell covers the Houston Dynamo for MLSsoccer.com.


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King_of_Salt needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 225 designs submitted by 47 freelance designers.
King of Salt
The best salt in the world, because of its taste. We produce salt from rare, 220million year old liquid primal ocean. The salt is manufatured by hand.
Our small family company, based in Germany is in existance for nearly 3 years now and we plan to expand from a local/regional to a global market by rebranding our product.
Our recent range spans over 30 products/package sizes. From crystal salt to a basic version that can be easily spread, from liquid salt spray and herbal salts to candy.
You can find the current, much to colorfull brand under http://www.sanasol.net
It was sufficient for starting out small and this is bringing attention in the market aisle, but distracting from the content.
The rebranding is planned to appeal to a much wider audience, while transporting the value of a handmade salt. In ancient times salt used to be worth its weight in gold. We want the logo to convey this luxury and bring back the feeling of having a high value product. This salt is natural and free of chemcials – organic to say at least. It is slowly dried and wholesome in its unmatched mineral content (3x as high as good sea salt).
We chose the name "King of Salt" to give at first glance the impression that this product is ahead of its competitors. 1 kilogram is at 36.90 Euro retail price in comparision to 1 pound of chemical salt for 30 cent at the supermarket – so it needs that extra bit of distiction.
The target audience is male and female and they either just want a gourmet product or really understand the difference in taste, mineral content and its health benefits, as a good natural salt is one of the 4 most important substances for the body.
The markets where we see the biggest chances for this product are the USA, Germany, Middle East, China and Japan. As in these markets not everybody is too well versed in English it is important that the font is easy to read at first glimpse and doesn't need time to recognize the characters.
The plan is to display the logo on a dark/black background to have the luxury feel of a top brand. In some instances the product labels might even be printed with the logo embossed and/or in gold color. So the design should work on different background colors and in its plain, colorless version, too.
The idea of incorporating a stylized crown or making a simple, subtle crest/coat of arms is floating around, but this is not a deciding factor.
The logo will be used, as it is the brandname on its products, stationary, in advertising, on the website and in product videos – this means it should work its magic when displayed very small, but also blown up on banners.
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Sunday, 24 August 2008
Dainty cupcakes
These cupcakes are slightly different to the norm in that they use golden caster sugar. This is an ingredient I like a lot as it adds a subtle extra something to the cake – you get an almost caramel hint to the sponge but without any loss of lightness in texture.
I love white icing and find it so satisfying watching it set – it's definitely not the culinary equivalent of watching paint dry! The icing is glossy and runny at first but then turns matt finish and sets just enough to hold firm. Beautiful! If you fancy a twist on the classic, use lemon juice to make the icing rather than water.
These are traditional cupcakes (in my youth they would have been called 'fairy cakes') and are simple to make, but put them on a fancy cake stand and they suddenly look very chic. Obviously, there is a myriad of ways to decorate these – I chose to use wafer flowers.
You can see the lightness of the sponge here:
For the cupcakes:
175g unsalted butter, at room temperature
175g golden caster sugar
3 eggs
175g self raising flour
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
For the white glace icing:
225g icing sugar
2-3 tablespoons water (start with 2 – you can always add more)
For decoration:
Wafer or icing flours
How to make:
- Preheat the oven to 190°C/fan oven 170°C/375°F/Gas mark 5.
- Line a 12 hole muffin pan with paper cases.
- Cream together the butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Due to the proportions of the ingredients and the fact that you're using golden caster sugar, the mix won't go pale as creamed mixes usually do.
- Beat in the eggs, one at a time adding a little of the flour if the mix starts to curdle.
- Fold in the flour and vanilla until well combined.
- Spoon the mixture into the paper cases and bake for 15-20 minutes or until a skewer comes out clean. Mine took 20 minutes.
- Cool on a wire rack.
- To make the icing, put the icing sugar in a bowl and mix with the water until you have a smooth dropping consistency.
- Spoon the icing onto the cupcakes (work quickly as the icing will set) and decorate as desired.
- Bask in glory at the wonderful thing you have made.
- Eat.
Posted by The Caked Crusader at 18:09
2 comments:
- Dee said...
They're very pretty, CC. I too like to use golden castor or brown sugar in my cakes.
- 28 August 2008 at 11:20
- Cakelaw said...
Sooooooooooooo cute. I have never been able to find golden caster sugar - I always cheat when a recipe says that and use ordinary sugar, but I must search again.
- 29 August 2008 at 12:04
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Filmmaker Ken Burns won a favorable ruling in a battle to keep outtakes from his 2012 documentary "The Central Park Five" from the New York City Police Department after a federal judge in Manhattan sided with his production company on Tuesday.
Last October, the city subpoenaed all images, audio tapes and other items related to the making of the documentary, which chronicles the conviction of five black and Hispanic teenage boys for the brutal 1989 rape of Trisha Meili, a white woman who was jogging in Central Park. The case was reversed in 2002, leading to a still-unresolved $250 million lawsuit that the so-called "Central Park Five" and their families brought against the city and the police department.
The city said it wanted the material because parts of the film conflicted with prior testimony some of the plaintiffs provided in their criminal trials, among other reasons, according to court papers.
Burns' production company, Florentine Films, motioned to quash the subpoena, arguing in part that they were protected under New York's shield law for journalists. The city countered that Florentine failed to qualify for the protection, in part because the filmmakers had a "longstanding sympathetic relationship with the plaintiffs."
U.S. Magistrate Judge Ronald Ellis agreed with Florentine, writing that it met its burden in demonstrating journalistic independence with the film.
"It was a marvelous decision, of great value to the media industry generally and to documentary filmmakers in particular," said John Siegal, an attorney representing Florentine.
The city said it was reviewing its options.
"This film is a one-sided advocacy piece that depicts the plaintiffs' version of events as undisputed fact. It is our view that we should be able to view the complete interviews, not just those portions that the filmmakers chose to include," Celeste Koeleveld, a senior lawyer for the city, said in a prepared statement.
The case is In re McRay, Richardson, Santana, Wise and Salaam Litigation, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, No. 03-09974.
Reporting By Bernard Vaughan; Editing by Daniel Trotta, Bernard Orr


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Back in October 2008, one of the first stories I ever covered on Asphalt & Rubber dealt with an interesting statistic: in the prior 12 months, more Marines had died from riding their motorcycles here in the USA, than did from enemy gunfire in Iraq — worst of all, all of those 25 of those deaths were on sport bikes. The statistic wasn't a fluke either, as in 2009, the Army National Guard announced a similar trend, where it lost 36 Guardsman to motorcycle crashes that year, compared to the 25 lost fighting in Iraq.
Evaluating the causes for these motorcycle fatalities, the Army National Guard discovered an alarming trend in the paperwork. Almost without exception, the ultimate reason given for why a Guardsman died while riding his or her motorcycle was "a loss of control due to inexperience." These crashes were typically in the 70-100mph range, and more often than not, the crashes featured soldiers who had recently bought a new sport bike.
Part of a larger program by the US military to better train and protect our soldiers with mandatory MSF courses and minimal riding gear requirements when on-base, the Army National Guard took things a step further, and setup a free program where Guardsmen could get their hands-on advanced motorcycle training in a track environment. The man for the job was none other Jason Pridmore, whose STAR Motorcycle School now features military-only school days around the country.
It was our supreme privilege here at A&R to recently attend one of Pridmore's STAR classes for the Army National Guardsmen, and witness first-hand what the US military is doing to protect its soldiers — not only when on the field of combat, but also when they have returned home from duty.


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Motoring into an uncertain future, the wrestling industry as a whole is
notorious for forgetting about the people whose contributions in the past
made the business what it is now. The icons who year by year and brick by
bloodstained brick built the formidable foundation upon which everything
rests today. This is what makes Filsinger Games' newest venture so unique.
They do remember the sacrifices that were made and they want you to as well.
In their new 'Legends Of Wrestling' game, fans have the opportunity to
become some of the most memorable athletes and personalities wrestling has
ever known. Men like The Destroyer, Harley Race, Johnny Valentine, Gorgeous
George, Nick Bockwinkel and Killer Kowalski. Thrown in for good measure are
some modern era stars who, as they weren't under contract to any
organization at the time, could lend their names and personas to the game.
Fan favourites like The Sandman, The Road Warriors, Jimmy Snuka, Ted
Dibiase and King Kong Bundy.
Following the exact same rules used in Filsinger's fun-filled 'Champions Of
The Galaxy', players can act as the booker of their own wrestling
federation and create whatever fantasy cards or feuds they wish. There are
the options of putting together Texas Death, Steel Cage, Brass Knuckles and
Battle Royal specialty matches too.
The 'Legends' game system is fairly simple. Each character has their own
game card. By rolling dice and referring to these cards and various charts,
each match can be played out to its conclusion. That is the beauty of the
'Legends' system. There aren't tomes and tomes of manuals to memorize or
ever-changing stats to keep track of. After you've run through a handful of
matches, the gameplay becomes second nature.
The only drawback for those (like me) who were hardcore 'Dungeons and
Dragons' or 'Marvel Superhero' roleplaying gamers in the past is the game's
lack of freedom. In standard RPGs, the players (in the role of characters)
decide what course of action they wish to take. Whether to pry a gemstone
out of a fabled statue or whether to leave it be. Whether to rest in a
darkened cave or in the forbidding forest. Whether to shoot laser eye beams
or use telekinetic powers. You don't have those choices in 'Legends'.
Whether you throw your opponent outside the ring or not. Whether you go for
a pinfall or not. Whether you give your foe a piledriver or a suplex. For
good or for bad, the dice and the charts make those decisions for you. For
gamers who are used to system that provides a true role-playing experience,
'Legends' can be a bit frustrating and monotonous.
With 'Legends', Filsinger Games has taken a monumental risk. Unable to hook up with the short-sighted WWE to use their recognizable personalities,
Filsinger did the next best thing by immortalizing some of pro wrestling's
peerless talents. Whether younger fans who are used to the razzle and
dazzle of video gaming will appreciate the historic value of 'Legends' is
unknown but Filsinger deserves high praise for keeping the names and their
places in wrestling history alive.
Game includes: The retail price is $19.00 U.S. In the introductory set is a player's handbook, wrestling action charts, advanced rules book, two
six-sided dice and 24 playing cards.
The playing cards included are: Killer Kowalski, Johnny Valiant, Greg Valentine, Nikolai Volkoff, Jimmy Valiant, Red Bastien, Bobo Brazil, Nick Bockwinkel, Gorgeous George, Ted Dibiase, King Kong Bundy, Road Warrior Hawk, Road Warrior Animal, Harley Race, Ox Baker, The Destroyer, Frank Gotch, Johnny Valentine, Playboy Buddy Rose, Jimmy Snuka, Buddy Rogers, Giant Baba, Iron Sheik, The Sandman and Wolf (bonus 'Champions Of The Galaxy' card).
For more info, check out the Filsinger Games site at http://www.gwfwrestling.com/home.htm
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John Powell, along with Greg Oliver, created SLAM! Wrestling a bazillion
years ago. He still longs for the days when he slew orcs and beholders in
his spare time and suffers from the effects of a truly harsh 'Feeble Mind'
spell cast on him in the eighties. According to him, Monks, Paladins, Drow
Elves and the old D+D gaming system rock hard. While Shambling Mounds,
Gelantious Cubes, Kobolds and the new D+D system are utter trash. Whatever
that means. He will probably be reviewing The Hulk flick next week in
Jam!...and no...you wouldn't like him when he's angry.


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Scuba Symphony and prize sponsors reserves the rights to publish the winning photo for our marketing campaigns, of course full photo credit to the photographer will be mentioned.
Marketing campaign = commercial advertising. This falls outside the definition of a celebration of underwater photography via a competition. There is also no time limit for such use, whereas photographer-friendly competitions normally stipulate 'Up to 2/4 years for the purposes of congratulating the winner and promoting future competitions' - or something close to that.
Of course, there may be a misunderstanding with how the terms read but as it stands there is at best ambiguity and at worst a rights grab.
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MCC teams drop Region IX double header to Sheridan
The Miles Community College basketball teams hosted Sheridan College in a Region IX double-header on Saturday afternoon at the MCC Centra.
The Lady Pioneers lost 66-55 and then the Pioneers dropped a heart-breaking 81-80 game in the nightcap.
The MCC women dropped to 11-9 on the season and 2-5 in the Region IX North standings. The MCC men fell to 10-10 and 3-4. Both teams will be in Glendive on Wednesday night against arch-rival Dawson Community College.
In the men's game, the teams played close throughout.
In the first half, the teams had five ties and four lead changes. Sheridan led by as many as seven and the Pioneers led by as many as eight before settling for a 46-42 lead at halftime.
The trends continued in the second half with eight more lead changes, including five in the final minutes.
With 4:22 to play, Ryan McCarty gave the Pioneers a 76-70 lead with a three-pointer, only to have Sheridan answer with seven straight points.
Quinn Smith gave the lead back to the Pioneers with a basket at the 1:32 mark, but Sheridan answered with a basket to go back up 79-78.
After a few missed shots for both teams, the Pioneers got the ball into the hands of Smith, who connected to give the Pioneers an 80-79 lead with 16 seconds to play.
The Generals (18-3, 6-1) hustled the ball down the court and missed a three-pointer, but got the rebound.
After a timeout, Preston Wells hit a short jumper at the buzzer to give the Generals the win.
"It was a heartbreaking loss," Pioneers Head Coach Chase Tait said. "We missed a couple chances before that last shot. Missed a layup and a free throw before that may have salted it away. In a game that comes down to one possession, things can add up. I do feel good about the way we're playing right now. Any time you can take Sheridan to a one-possession game, you've played a pretty good basketball game. Unfortunately, it didn't go the right way at the end."
The game was delayed at the 2:43 mark of the second half when Joshua Adeyeye of Sheridan suffered a devastating broken leg in front of the MCC student section.
The Pioneers shot 42 percent from the field and were 12-15 from the free throw line. McCarty finished with 22 points, including three three-pointers to lead the Pioneers. Jonathan Dogbo had 16 points and Smith finished with 13.
Adeyeye had 15 points and 14 rebounds before suffering his injury.
In the women's game, the Lady Pioneers fell behind early by as many as 11 points. But they clawed their way back into the game, cutting the lead to 26-22 in the final minutes of the first half before trailing 31-24 at halftime.
Sheridan shot 52 percent from the field in the first half, while the Lady Pioneers shot just 23 percent from the field.
Sheridan maintained their lead through the second half. A three-pointer from Ashley Hildreth cut the score to one, 44-43 and after a Sheridan basket, Tess Blaquiere hit a three to tie the score at 46. But Sheridan responded with a 9-0 run that sealed the win.
The Lady Pioneers had a poor shooting night, shooting just 27 percent from the field and 6-36 from three-point range.
Petra Lumpert led the Lady Pioneers with 14 points, Jaycin Tini had 13 points and 13 rebounds and Blaquiere finished with 11 points.
Madison Forney led Sheridan with 18 points.
Sheridan 81, Pioneers 80
Sheridan 42 39 - 81
Miles 46 34 - 80
Pioneers (10-10, 3-4)- Teslim Idris 8, JOnathan Dogbo 16, LaSalle Massey 8, Quinn Smith 13, Emmanuel Olufemi 4, Conner Smyle 3, Tyree King 6, Ryan McCarty 22.
Sheridan (18-3, 6-1)- Abednego Lufile 6, Joshua Adeyeye 16, Ra"Vonn Posey 2, Rudolphe Joly 5, Preston Wells 7, Frederic Dure 19, Jamir Andrews 11, Jeff Amazan 13, Iakeem Alston 4.
Sheridan 66, Lady Pioneers 55
Sheridan 31 35 - 66
Miles 24 31 - 55
Lady Pioneers (11-9, 2-5)- Tess Blaquiere 11, Jaycin Tini 13, Ashley Malmquist 9, Shelby Weeks 1, Petra Lumpert 14, Ashley Hildreth 7.
Sheridan (14-7, 4-3)- Sierra Toms 15, Josie Three Irons 12, Tiana Hanson 7, Phoebe Hinds 4, Madison Forney 18, Katie Kuhn 6, Morgan Wille 2, Shae Bruursema 2.
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Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar is part of Weill Cornell Medical College. It was established in 2001 through a partnership between Cornell University and Qatar Foundation. WCMC-Q offers an innovative educational program that includes a two-year premedical program followed by a four-year medical program leading to the M.D. degree from Cornell University. Each program has a separate admission process guided by the standards of admission at Cornell University in Ithaca and its Medical College in New York City.
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Quest Software's latest community initiative, Windows Azure-based Project Lucy, has debuted! Project Lucy is part infrastructure analytics, part social media experiment, and part performance data warehouse.
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What happened to Project Lucy? I've recently developed an interest in something like this and have only now discovered Project Lucy. Did Quest give up on it? There doesn't seem any recent buzz for it on Google. I have a similar, but more broad idea that I'm tinkering with and would like to know what others are doing in this space.
Good question - I'll check with my contacts that are still at the company! -Kev
Hi - I work for Dell and own R&D on Project Lucy. We have not been idle and have been working on some stuff behind the scenes. Look for an announcement of some new stuff at TechEd in June.


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This guy is Mike La Jute Blanche. He's a French cosplayer, and holy crap, he is good.
Just look at his work. The outfits and make up are incredibly impressive, and he does a great job of capturing Predator, Dragonball's Piccolo, and Motal Kombat. The hip-hop Piccolo is especially wonderful.
Sure, his Kratos cosplay needs more muscles, but the make up is spot on. Bravo.
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Keith G. needed a new web page design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 110 designs submitted by 38 freelance designers.
We're ClearClick Software, a small business that sells mostly audio/video related software.
We sell software and electronics that are easy and quick to figure out and use.
Our audience is NOT technical people. Our products is designed for consumers and business owners, mostly in the USA: everyday people of ages 25-80 (not kids).
We need a 1-page web page designed for a new product: the Data Recovery Cable.
This web page should follow the general "sales page" layout of our other 2 websites (see attached screenshots), but with a different design/style/feel.
Important: this will be a sales page, so it needs to really impress visitors & keep their attention!
The design should feature one of the 2 attached 3D graphics (full resolution will be provided later), and/or another photo/graphic.
Words to describe design: web 2.0/cutting edge/easy to use/up to date/shiny/young. Should include big fonts & arrows to draw visitors' attention.
** No HTML coding required. We just need the unflattened design files! **
Attached is the web page text, as well as the company logo, and other images referenced in the sketch.
Note: we do not have a "Data Recovery Cable" logo yet. So, it is best if your design includes a "DataRecoveryCable.com" logo (not too flashy) on the site, and even better if the "Data Recovery Logo" is placed onto the 3D diagram of the cable!
Absolutely NO copyrighted images, although stock photos & illustrations are awesome.
Finally, if you enter this contest, be prepared to make several minor changes to the final design if you win.
Marketing team, ClearClick Software
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Brussels, 22 July 2009
European rail transport: a major step towards a harmonised signalling system
The European Commission today adopted the plan implementing the European rail signalling and traffic management system ERTMS 1 . This plan provides for the progressive deployment of ERTMS along the main European rail routes. This will reduce running costs and improve the system's efficiency on long cross-border distances. ERTMS is also used on Europe's high-speed lines.
'The European plan adopted today is proof that the Member States are prepared to play the Community card where necessary to ensure the success of a major European industrial project and to work together for the future of rail freight', said Antonio Tajani, Vice-President of the European Commission with responsibility for transport.
Lines and trains in Europe are still running on national systems that are incompatible with one another. When a Member State equips its lines to run on the European system, it benefits from a modern, high-performance system and removes a technical obstacle to the development of competition on its network.
Without a coordinated plan at European level, each Member State might tend to wait for a neighbouring country to take the first step. The ERTMS can only be implemented in Europe on the basis of an overall agreement, along with an implementation schedule specifying the lines to be equipped by specific dates. With the European plan adopted today, this agreement is now a reality.
In practice, the plan provides for almost 10 000 km of lines to be equipped by 2015. These lines will form an initial network with vital corridors for goods transport, such as Rotterdam-Genoa, Antwerp-Basel, and Barcelona-Lyon-Budapest-Constanța.
By 2020 there should be a network of 25 000 km linking the main European ports and freight terminals. However, many Member States have committed themselves, via their own national plans, to exceeding their Community obligations, so in fact there should be around 40 000 km equipped with the ERTMS by then.
This plan should now give rail companies the necessary assurance to invest in the ERTMS. Many of them have already anticipated the plan's implementation, which the Commission has been backing with cofinancing of a total of 500 million euros in the 2007-2013 budget for the trans-European transport networks and via the Regional Fund and Cohesion Fund.
The technical background
The ERTMS concept is simple: information is transmitted from the track to the train, where an on-board computer uses it to calculate the maximum authorised speed and to slow the train down automatically if necessary. The on-board computer therefore has to understand the information sent from the ground.
This concept is not really new, as there are already over 20 national systems for automatically controlling the speed of trains. Unfortunately these national systems are incompatible with one other. To be able to circulate on networks equipped with different systems, either the engines must be changed at the borders (which means a considerable amount of time is lost) or the engines must be equipped with different on-board systems compatible with the different track systems used by the different networks (which increases costs and the risks of breakdown); either way, this creates a rift in the single market and an obstacle to free movement.
This has an especially adverse impact on goods transport: although, by definition, rail transport should be more competitive over long distances, each border adds significant extra costs and delays, translating into market losses and saturation of the road network.
The ERTMS could significantly increase the competitiveness of rail transport. This is particularly true for freight when the system is deployed in a coordinated manner along a corridor and is accompanied by relevant measures, such as harmonisation of the operating rules or enhancement of the infrastructure if necessary. On the Rotterdam-Genova corridor, for example, the volume of goods transported could be doubled by 2020, which would be the equivalent of one more heavy goods vehicle passing along this route every 37 seconds.
The ERTMS is also a major industrial success for Europe. Its performance and its cost mean that it has rapidly gained acceptance even beyond Europe and it is currently the global reference standard, used on all new lines.
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I've started a new series of work called Hidden & Revealed. It emerged out of some of the last paintings I made for my show in April in conjunction with the shadow work I'm doing that Debbie Ford teaches. So far I'm really happy with it, however, I seem to have so many ideas popping into my head at the same time I don't quite know what to do and often end up sitting there staring at blank panels doing nothing.
I think part of the reluctance to dive in is that I'm working much bigger now and I have this problem being stingy and not wanting to waste expensive materials. Previously, if I made something that I thought sucked, it was not much of a loss.
I just finished reading Debbie Ford's The Dark Side of the Light Chasers so I know I have to do some work on my stingy, cheap, afraid to not have any money shadow self.
If you have never heard of Debbie Ford and have no idea what this shadow is that I refer to, here's a little blurb I pulled off Amazon summarizing the concept: We know the shadow by many names: alter ego, lower self, the dark twin, repressed self, id. Carl Jung once said that the shadow "is the person you would rather not be." But even if you choose to hide your dark side, it will still cast a shadow, according to author Debbie Ford. Rather than reject the seemingly undesirable parts of ourselves, Ford offers advice on how to confront our shadows. Only by owning every aspect of yourself can you achieve harmony and "let your own light shine," she explains. "The purpose of doing shadow work, is to become whole. To end our suffering. To stop hiding ourselves from ourselves. Once we do this we can stop hiding ourselves from the rest of the world."
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'Common Problems and Issues' topic doesn't tell you what to do when the file exists in the filesystem and it's not owned by any package AND you didn't install the package from source. Such an error can happen if the 'files' file (containing the package metadata) got corrupted - is empty or missing.
Should we suggest simply 'pacman -Sf foo' ?
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As long as there's a clear indication of what the prerequisites are (to avoid someone stumbling upon the topic, running pacman -Syuf and making the situation even worse); that sounds like a fairly decent idea.
Sorry for replying so late. Every time I remember this topic I'm not somewhere I can respond.
Would you guys prefer to move that section to the wiki? Then 'Common Problems and Issues' can describe what the problem is and link to the wiki for a solution.
Maintaining it in the wiki seems a good idea, but there should at least be a link kept on the forums, like with the Forum rules & Arch Linux Forum Etiquette, The Arch Way etc.
Sounds like a plan.
Do you guys mean to move the entire 'Common Problems and Issues' to the wiki? I meant just that one section should be moved and in the 'Common Problems and Issues' sticky that section would be replaced with a description of the problem and a link to the wiki for a solution. Am I making sense? Have I misunderstood?
Moving just one section is fine with me. Right now, I just want to provide a fix for that one issue.
There's https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ge … leshooting in the wiki.
Once it's more fleshed out, maybe it could act as a FAQ list - we would add a link to this wiki article to 'Common Problems and Issues' then.
'Common Problems and Issues' collects answers to really common questions for which solutions are already documented or are obvious. People can search the forums and that thread comes up. It's useful to have it there. Since the section "FILENAME exists in Filesystem" is already kind of large and you guys want to add to it, it's better to move the solutions to somewhere on the wiki.
As long as the wiki page doesn't turn into a real long laundry list of all the stupid ways people break their systems.
OK. It'll just be another page for people to ignore anyway.
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As karol said, if you want to move some info of that kind to the wiki, https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ge … leshooting seems to be the right place; it's also linked directly from the Beginners' Guide by the way.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ar … y_category is a discussion about merging also https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/St … ging_Guide there.
Can we link to https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pa … stem.22.21 + add 'pacman -Sf foo' to that FAQ? Removing files not owned by any package doesn't always help, as shown by another victim: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 6#p1094116
I'm marking this thread as solved as fsckd just did what I asked for :-)
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text: Dave's ESL Cafe's Student Discussion Forums :: View topic - 5 Ways to Get Better at English Reading Comprehension Dave's ESL Cafe's Student Discussion Forums"The Internet's Meeting Place for ESL/EFL Students and Teachers from Around the World!" FAQ Search Memberlist Usergroups Register Profile Log in to check your private messages Log in 5 Ways to Get Better at English Reading Comprehension Dave's ESL Cafe's Student Discussion Forums Forum Index -> Learning English View previous topic :: View next topic Author Message EnglishLCIJoined: 20 Aug 2009Posts: 49Location: Denver, Colorado Posted: Mon Aug 23, 2010 10:40 am Post subject: 5 Ways to Get Better at English Reading Comprehension Improving your ability to read in English fast and accurately requires a lot of work, and if the materials you read dont interest you, most probably your English learning experience is becoming a nightmare and will not prove too effective. It is not necessary to read boring materials to get good at reading in English, in fact it is counterproductive. Once you know the basics of the English language, you are free to choose among a wide array of reading materials and different methods of presentation. Here are 5 ways to practice your English reading comprehension, which in addition to being effective and dynamic, are lots of fun: 1. Play word games Today you can find all kinds of crossword and word game puzzles to amuse native and ESL speakers of all ages. These games will improve your vocabulary, sharpen your mind, and are a great way to have fun and pass the time. Consider playing Scrabble and doing word searches, these can be of great help to train your mind to think in English. 2. Take a speed reading course If word games are not your thing, consider taking a speed-reading course. In this course you will learn how to pick the key words out of a paragraph to understand the message without having to read every word; thus, you must have, at least, an intermediate knowledge of English to be able to recognize and separate nouns and verbs. 3. Take notes on matters of interest to you When you read a book about a topic you like, take notes. You can copy parts of the text word by word or you can try to write something in your own words. As you write, you will have the chance to think in English, to think about the sentence structure, and to see how ideas are expressed; as a result, you will learn to talk about the topic in a more natural way. 4. Choose challenging materials You must regularly establish new personal goals when learning English in order to progress and get better, just as you do when you exercise. Lets say you can already understand a 100 page childrens book, then it is time for you to try a 200-page book or one directed towards your age group. No matter the topics that interest you, some books will be easier to understand than others; every time you chose the ones that are more challenging, you will be gaining mastery at understanding what you read in English. 5. Read materials from many different sources and authors The number of websites out there gives you a good idea of the wide range of English writing styles that exist. You will most definitely discover how flexible the English language is and in which ways people feel more comfortable communicating. If you are an expert in a certain topic in your native language, use that expertise to read websites in English that focus on similar topics. In the same way, read books by different authors that talk about the same topics and try to understand the differences in writing styles. After you learn the basics of the English language, only practice and time will make you proficient. It is crucial that, as a complement to your ESL class , you read about things that interest you in as many different forms as possible, and it is imperative that you have fun in the process. If you liked this article, tell all your friends about it. Theyll thank you for it. If you have a blog or website, you can link to it or even post it to your own site (dont forget to mention our ESL blog as the original source). Rachel Clarkson Rachel Clarkson is an English teacher at LCI English ESL Programs and blogger at the ESL Blog._________________LCI offers the best ESL classes through experienced teachers and high quality programs in Denver, Colorado. Check out great ESL resources and articles at www.englishlci.com/blog Back to top co111Joined: 05 Oct 2010Posts: 2 Posted: Tue Oct 12, 2010 4:33 pm Post subject: seem to be not a good suggestion for beginging learners In the forum, we see many useful tips for English-learning, including the reading suggestions. However, few begininger could get the ideas well through this website due to they are still afraid of or tired with chuck of materials on the site. I mean, it seems not to be easy to readable for ESL beginners, and it is like a board on which teachers chat about their experience. Maybe, the forum shall encourage more ESL learners to show their difficulties on the board. Eric Tainan, Taiwan Back to top 28483035Joined: 05 Oct 2010Posts: 1 Posted: Tue Oct 12, 2010 5:42 pm Post subject: Learning English I think leaning English reading should be read book more and read newspaper, I beging to study English.Our teacher's introduction me the website to make me learn more English. Webber TAINAI,TAIWAN Back to top sibohnchouJoined: 05 Oct 2010Posts: 3 Posted: Tue Oct 12, 2010 5:44 pm Post subject: My experience talk Hi, I agree the five way to learning english, I remember when I was little I was study in cram school, the teacher is an english,he use two or three english children books for a class in one semester ,sometimes we will play a game a crossword game, if the class still have five or ten minutes the teacher will paly cartoon video for us every class all the kids are wating a chance for video it's really funny, every class the teacher will ask all the studens to talk it's like a traing, and now I am a adult now, I upgrade the method , when I read this topic I want to share my english cram school memory, thank you. Back to top mikikeJoined: 05 Oct 2010Posts: 3 Posted: Tue Oct 12, 2010 5:46 pm Post subject: Learning English After I watching the topic, I think learning English is not difficult for me. I usually use learning English magazine to improve my English reading. And I use Elllo website to improve my English listening. Then sometimes I write diary in English on my blog. In order to improve my English reading. As you can see, these are my learning English ways. Miki Ke Tainai,Taiwan Back to top Lala changJoined: 05 Oct 2010Posts: 3 Posted: Tue Oct 12, 2010 6:51 pm Post subject: Learning English I think reading English newspaper and English magazing can improve English reading. When you read English newspaper, you don't understang what mean the words. You can use the dictinary to fine the word meang so that you can increasing your vocabulary. Lala Chang Tainai, Taiwan Back to top a22972786Joined: 12 Oct 2010Posts: 3 Posted: Mon Oct 18, 2010 6:11 pm Post subject: Learning English I think ready English books can make me to get better at English ready. And English books include English newspaper, magazine and children books. If you think English newspaper is too hard to you, then you can try children books. In the beginning, you can choose the children books, because its easy to read. After soon, you can read English newspaper. Chi-Hsan, Wu Tainan, Taiwan Back to top jeanhoeryJoined: 12 Oct 2010Posts: 3 Posted: Tue Oct 19, 2010 12:03 am Post subject: 666 I think watching English movies and Englih novel can help you to learn English much easy,or use Dave's ESL Cafe you can make some friends to pratice English. Thanks. shuan-YU Lin Tainai, Taiwan Back to top rashaJoined: 12 Oct 2010Posts: 3 Posted: Tue Oct 19, 2010 5:29 pm Post subject: learning English I think learning English is good to me. I always learning English from watching movies or reading magazine. But now this websit I can use Back to top CarideeJoined: 12 Oct 2010Posts: 3 Posted: Tue Oct 19, 2010 5:33 pm Post subject: Learning English Learning English is not difficult, but you should learning it very hard. 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Well, here in Australia, it's almost the start of the new academic year. I thought it would be a good time to review some of the topics on our Grammar Gang blog and because it's just 2 days until St Valentine's Day, I want to take a look at my favourite Shakespearean sonnet.
Sonnet 18
Shall I compare thee to a Summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer's lease hath all too short a date:
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And oft' is his gold complexion dimm'd:
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance or nature's changing course untrimm'd:
But thy eternal Summer shall not fade
Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest;
Nor shall Death brag thou wanderest in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou growest:
So long as men can breath, or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee
Can you believe the length of this sentence? Does anyone want to 'have a go at' counting independent clauses? (Have a go at = attempt to, in Australian English usage.)
Of course, Shakespeare's use of punctuation is known as 'poetic licence' but I wonder if you all approve of his use of colons and semi-colons and if you would find it easier to read if he'd used more sentences with full-stops? (I know I would find it easier to read if he had.)
If I compared you with a day in summer, I'd have to say that you are even more beautiful and gentle'
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Will the Wachowskis' Flick 'Cloud Atlas' Deliver? — 10 Things To Check Out This Week
The most ambitious movie of the year opens this week -- the same week we're getting a reissue of one of the best sci-fi films of all time, a new comic book series that's being called "an instant classic," and the glorious return of Krysten Ritter's legs to TV.
Read on for 10 Things to check out this week.
Cloud Atlas
Can the Wachowskis redeem themselves for the muddled 'Matrix' sequels with their ambitious, star-studded new effort, 'Cloud Atlas?' All signs seem to point to … maybe. Critics are mostly split on 'Cloud Atlas,' the Wachowskis' three hour-long genre-hopping collaboration with 'Run Lola Run' director Tom Tykwer. Many are praising the film's massive scope, bravery and imagery while others say the picture starts with promise but is too unfocused and shallow deliver a real emotional impact. ScreenCrush's Matt Singer liked it, but he suggests it'll take more than one viewing to absorb all of the film's finer points. Singer writes, "a second viewing sounds like an absolute pleasure rather than a chore." All we know is, we never thought we'd be excited about a movie in which Halle Berry plays six roles. 'Cloud Atlas' opens Friday.
Silent Hill: Revelation 3D
Hey, this looks like fun. We haven't had a dumb video game adaptation in theaters for a while, and this one's got Sean Bean, Carrie-Anne Moss, Radha Mitchell, and Malcolm McDowell! In 3D! Promise at least three beheadings and one topless scene before the third act and we're in. 'Silent Hill: Revelation 3D' opens Friday.
'Blade Runner' 30th Anniversary Collector's Edition on Blu-ray
Director Ridley Scott's final cut of the classic sci-fi mindfrak gets a re-release this Tuesday, and it's packed with extras like lobby cards, documentaries, screen tests, and several versions of the film, including the dark "Workprint" version.
'Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter' on Blu-ray
Honest Abe's vamp slaying adventures kinda sorta bombed at the box-office, but we're rooting for Timur Bekmambetov's action-horror fantasy to become a hit on home video. Enjoy all the historically inaccurate bloodletting on DVD and Blu-ray on Tuesday.
'Don't Trust the B— in Apartment 23' Season 2 premiere
Two Words: Krysten Ritter. Three more words: Krysten Ritter's legs. Oh, and the jokes are pretty funny too. 'Don't Trust the B—' premieres Tuesday at 9:30 p.m. ET on ABC.
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Alan Robert's Killogy
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'Lost Songs' by … And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead
Austin, TX assault rockers … And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead release their eight studio album this week, 'Lost Songs.' The LP is reportedly inspired by Russian punk collective Pussy Riot and their protests and struggles with the leadership in their home country. A new Trail of Dead album is always a reason to celebrate for rock fans.
'Born to Quit' by Smoking Popes Reissue
Side One Dummy Records reissues Chicago punk band Smoking Popes' brilliant sophomore album 'Born to Quit.' Punk hasn't sounded this blissful since 1994 (when the LP was first released). The 'Born to Quit' reissue hits stores today. Stream a free MP3 at Diffuser.fm.
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"The means is dialogue, the end is learning, the purpose is peace." ~ Founder Dr. Jane Vella
Jane Vella was born in 1931 and raised in New York City, a daughter to an Italian immigrant family. Drawn to a vocation in the Catholic Church, Jane became a Maryknoll Sister in 1950.
Jane went to Tanzania in 1956 and spent her formative years in education teaching in various settings for the next 25 years. She taught at the Institute of Education at the University of Dar es Salaam from 1968 to 1973. Her teaching there brought her into contact with Sally Timmel and Ann Hope who developed the Training for Transformation program, Julius Nyerere, visionary and former President of Tanzania, and Paulo Freire, a legendary advocate for the democratization of learning in South America. Freire's work has inspired adult educators around the world.
In 1977 Jane left Maryknoll and returned to the US. She took up a program of study at The University of Massachusetts at Amherst where she completed her doctorate in Adult Education, doing research entitled Community Education for Development. She began teaching at North Carolina State University in Raleigh.
Jane started the Jubilee Popular Education Center in 1981. As a training entrepreneur, Jane took the best of her experience and study of formal and participatory education and developed a series of training courses. The principles and practices of Dialogue Education™ outlined then are the foundation of today's GLP courses. Many men and women all over the world learned how to use dialogue in the design and management of adult education programs. Over time Jane trained several graduates of her courses to become "Master Teachers," able to take on teaching her courses independently. In 1998 Jubilee became Global Learning Partners, Inc.
In early 2000 Jane Vella, at the age of 69, was committed to research and retirement. GLP had high quality, much sought-after courses and a community of Certified Teachers who were committed to Dialogue Education. That summer Peter Noteboom, already a GLP Master Teacher and Connie Kuipers (now also a "Certified Teacher" - after a change of terminology in 2002) assumed ownership of Global Learning Partners. Jane is honored as the Founder of GLP.
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Jane is a budding pianist, an earnest kayaker (quiet lakes only!), an enthusiastic opera fan, an avid reader, and a relentless lover of her home. She welcomes students and friends to the back porch - any season of the year! Her current work is leisurely philosophizing on education, music, friendship and life. For this she used to keep a bi-monthly journal and now writes for GLP's Speaking of Dialogue blog.
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I met photographer Richard Schulman and his wife, Barbara, a few years back and instantly developed a friendship with them. Their love of design and architecture is infectious—they eat, sleep, and breath design. And in Richard's case, he shoots it. He photographs both buildings and the people who create them with equal precision and he's shot pretty much every significant artist and architect of the last 50 years. He sat down for an exclusive interview with Dwell about working with legends like Philip Johnson and Andy Warhol, and he curated and provided commentary for a collection of his work, twenty-two images in all. Stay tuned for that slideshow, which we'll share later this week.
What's easier, shooting buildings or architects? Which is more fun?I am fortunate to be commissioned to shoot both portraits and architecture. They are both fun. I love meeting the personalities and capturing their spaces, and I love illuminating architecture for all to see.Of your portrait subjects, who surprised you the most?Probably Philip Johnson. He knew everything about my career and was generous with his time and was supportive of my career.What was it like shooting Andy Warhol?Significant. It was an amazing moment because Andy introduced me to Jean Michel Basquiat during the shoot. During the session I made a portrait of the two men together. Historically, it's now the only "posed portrait" of the two in the world.You've shot what seems like every major artist and architect of the last fifty years. Are there differences between the artists and the architects?The artist imagines an idea. An architect imagines the world.Who do you wish you could photograph, but never had the opportunity?Dead or alive? A portrait of Miles Davis, President Obama, Bill Clinton, Robert Oppenheimer, Einstein, and Sophia Loren when she was twenty years old.You're also a professor at Parsons. What's the greatest piece of advice you could give to those looking to become photographers?Go with your heart, define your passion, and organize a business plan.What was your most unusual shoot?Photographing "Samantha" a 23-foot-long reticulated python, feeding on a 40-pound pig, "Babe." Have you become friends with any of your subjects?I have friends from my sessions from many countries—architects, designers, artists, and collectors.How is it that you began shooting the Pritzker Prize winners?I have photographed 27 of the 32 winners. I think for one photographer it's the most substantial archive of the Pritzker Prize winners in one portfolio. It started with Philip Johnson and Richard Meier introducing me to other unique architects. My books have also allowed me access to some of the most interesting voices in architecture.


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Daniel & Ben talk with author Gabe Gomez, whose latest poetry collection is entitled "The Seed Bank." Gomez talks about winning the Andres Montoya Poetry Prize for his first book, and how it coincided with his displacement from New Orleans after the devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina. Gomez also talks about the differences between his first collection and his latest, "The Seed Bank." In this online-only extended interview, Gomez talks about the poetry he wrote that was inspired by Katrina, and how the poems liberated him from his previously-held beliefs about poetry. www.gabegomez.com
For this week's Poem of the Week, Gabe Gomez reads "Clovis Culture" from his newest collection of poetry, "The Seed Bank."
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December 1962. I'm a junior in high school, and during Christmas break a chum and I revisit the grade school we graduated from two and a half years earlier. Lo and behold, there we find, in our old classroom, our eighth grade teacher, in mufti, along with his wife and daughter. "With a little more effort and attentiveness, Paul can accomplish much more than he presently is," is what he'd written on my report card in 1960. Man, did he have me figured. Check out my then-de rigueur white-socks-with-black-loafers and semi-peg pants. I was bound and determined to at least not
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Anyway just wondering what people thought about this concept of a little hurt to learn?
Personally I never cared for 'weapons training' other than bayonet training in advanced infantry, and pistol craft in the civilian world... as I always relate skills usefulness to what's most likely to happen in the street or in the 'theater' you are likely to find yourself in.
I don't want to program/ingrain 'dueling' with blades or sticks in my subconscious…I want to ingrain the 'sensing' of a weapon about to be deployed, and as soon as the 'deadly force' implement is about to be shown…I want to ingrain the stop/kill response action, with one move, same way as we were taught in bayonet training.
Also to keep in mind is that once you get into a mutual dueling situation, you will be in a heap of legal problems.
Digressing here for a moment...Bayonet training with no scabbard is kind of scary, especially when they show you a particular way you must step out of a killing thrust 'center mass' to 'unstick' the blade from the body, with the bayonet coming back out taking bloody entrails with it…
…part of the training was for the infantry men to be crowded into a small, hot, movie 'house' and be shown footage of war carnage with dying soldiers holding their spilled guts. We were also warned that such a sight on the screen would cause many of us to vomit on soldiers seated next to us.
When this invariably happened, the stench of the vomit would trigger more vomiting in the 'house' with a rush to the door outside…but, as I said, I digress.
The most important reason we condition and we train with some hurt, is because every one of us has individual weaknesses…and we must train in areas of our weaknesses...this is something many of us deny...just as we deny the effects of psychological 'brick wall'_
Once we find out what our weaknesses are, we should try to rectify them by exposing them to the 'hurt' Rick talks about.
The Uechi Body conditioning we do _day and day out is 'hurtful' to a certain extent and shows us where our weaknesses lie, to start with…
this needs to be combined with realistic free sparring, as we did in the seventies, and preferably free style competition against other systems' fighters that will give us a chance to work thru some of the 'beat downs' physical and mental…likely to experience in a real fight.


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As I read more about the student movement in Quebec, known as the "Maple Spring" or the "Casserole Revolution," it brings to mind the final scene from Possessing the Secret of Joy, by one of my favorite authors, Alice Walker. In that scene, the main character Tashi, a minor character from The Color Purple discovers a truth. From Wall Street to Wisconsin, and Cairo to Quebec, people the world over are realizing that same truth every day.
Today, that truth is echoed in the chants, protests and placards of protesters in the streets of Montreal. It's the same truth Walker spelled out in huge block letters near the end of her novel: RESISTANCE IS THE SECRET OF JOY.
It started simply enough, as a provincial story familiar enough to resonate around the world. In February, the Quebec government announced a 75% tuition hike at universities in the mostly French-speaking Canadian province. The tuition hike is due to cuts in education supplements, which Quebec's government says are necessary to tackle its budget deficit. Students responded by boycotting classes, blocking bridges, and holding smaller protests in what quickly became the longest strike in the province's history.
When the Quebec government responded with draconian legislation, banning gathering of more than 50 without a permit, and threatening student unions and associations with heavy fines, the movement only grew. On March 22nd, an estimated 300,000 to 400,000 students from all over Quebec marched in the streets of Montreal, in what organizers called the "largest act of civil disobedience in Canadian history."
The government's response also had the effect of causing the movement to transcend both the issue of tuition and the borders of Quebec itself. In truth, the issue has always been about more than tuition. As one student protesting the austerity-driven tuition hike, "It will be the middle class that pays for this." The Fight Tuition Increases website, created in response to government's decision to increase tuition fees, explains the cost to students and the whole of Quebec society.
The $1,625 tuition increase has nothing to do with the quality of teaching or the value of a university degree. In fact, this fee hike (the largest in Quebecs history) will force students to take on more debt, second jobs, or even drop out of school. The Charest governments proposal directly compromises equality of access to the benefits of a university degree for individual students and hurts Quebec society as a whole.
While tuition fees would still be significantly lower than in other Canadian provinces, and in the U.S., the Quebec government will increase tuitions by 143% by 2017, since the 2007 "defreeze" on tuition fees. The increase will have the effect of making higher education less accessible.
The students of the Quebec movement understand their protest is bigger than tuition increases. The Fight Tuition Increase website notes that sacrifice is anything but "shared" in Quebec.
In 2007, the Canadian government transferred more than $700 million in additional federal funding to the Quebec government. The Charest government could have invested this money in education, which would have far exceeded the $325 million currently collected by tuition fee increases. Instead, the richest individuals and corporations got a tax cut and students were left with nothing.
As Linda McQuaig writes in the Toronto Star, "The Quebec students, more attuned to the outside world, have figured out that this self-denial has more to do with dogma than with some new reality allegedly necessitated by the global economy."
As it continues to grow, the Quebec student movement holds some lessons for the home of phenomena like the Occupy Movement and the Wisconsin movement that recently forced a historic gubernatorial recall elections. Here are six lessons from the Maple Spring.
1. Remember what you already know. Martin Lukacs writes in The Guardian that the Occupy Movement was a "game-changer" that inspire the Quebec student unions with its "spirit of direct democracy," and gave students "a fresh language with which to understand the 1%'s attempt to pass the buck to students." That spirit of "direct democracy," the results of the Wisconsin recall notwithstanding, has resulted in "a progressive movement that is deeper and broader than before." That "fresh language" changed the focus of our national discourse from "shared sacrifice" to inequality and economic justice.
Digby points out progressives are going to have to remember both, if we're to be the change we seek, and that the country so desperately needs.
However, if you still believe that progressive principles can be successfully applied to democratic government, then supporting progressive candidates for congress is one way to do that. It's less glamorous than the ecstatic "Camp Obama" experience of 2008 and it's long term project that goes forward in fits and starts and features plenty of disappointment --- but it can result, over time, in changing the way government works.
But we need progressive political leaders to do that, leaders who are not beholden to the big money interests or to the Party establishment apparatus, who are committed to liberal principles and are smart enough to work the levers of state power for the benefit of the people. The four Blue America candidates who are on the ballot tomorrow are among those leaders.
I'm all for doing whatever it takes to save the country. Social movements are necessary and I hope that everyone is thinking about how they can participate. Local involvement is also important, whether in politics or some other form of community work. Education and persuasion on a personal and public level must be among our priorities as well. But you can't leave the national government solely in the hands of the plutocrats and the authoritarians. We have to at least try to influence the state. It simply holds too much power over all of our lives and the lives of people all over the planet.
2. It doesn't happen overnight. At Waging Nonviolence, Zoltán Glöck and Manissa McCleave Maharawal write that what seems like a movement sprung up overnight was actually a long time in the works. The tuition increase have been on the table since 2010, and student unions across Quebec spent two years working to build the movement that has spilled into the streets of Montreal, and brought the government to the bargaining table, at least for a time. The unions have provided students a way to "organize politically, granting them both legitimacy and power." They made possible the "longer-term mobilizing strategies" and campaigns that built support for the strike.
Progressives need to emulate that the movement-building that led to the Quebec movement. Katrina vanden Heuvel writes in the Washington Post.
And in the last 15 months, Wisconsin's progressives have shown us that the battle against bankrolled austerity can be bravely waged by an army of dedicated people committed to protecting working families. They've reminded us that good organizing is our only chance to withstand the blitzkrieg of corporate funded advertising and better yet, leave a lasting mark. Their movement, with thousands of new Wisconsin activists mobilized, energized and educated, can be permanent and it can keep growing.
3. Sustained resistance is effective. Biola Jeje and Isabelle Nastasia, at Alternet, write that "occupation of physical spaces" will continue to be essential to the success of student movements. This, they say, is one lesson of the Occupy movement. Yet, it's one that conjures up memories of the coordinated eviction of Occupy encampments in several cities, followed by questions about the movement's viability without a space to "occupy."
Perhaps occupation is better employed as a tactic, within a larger strategy of sustained resistance. Chris Hedges sees the Quebec movement as an example of the kind of sustained resistance that progressive should engage in here at home, in solidarity with the Quebec movement, and similar movements around the world. Hedges cites the crackdown on Occupy movement as a sign of its success, because "the corporate state understood and feared its potential to spark a popular rebellion." That fear is reflected in the Quebec government's response to the "Maple Spring."
Sustained resistance is already underway. Though ignored by the media, the Occupy movement has been busy spinning off an Occupy Our Homes movement focused on helping people keep their homes, rallying agains NATO, reviving May Day and restoring its message. In Wisconsin, progressive forced Governor Scott Walker into a recall election he barely survived.
4. Realize that social conditions are not inevitable. The contrast between Quebec students and American students is stark, in more ways than one. The Fight Tuition Increases makes it clear that the Quebec students' protest against tuition increases is also resistance against the inevitable, insidious result of those increases: increased student debt.
The tuition increases represent a "massive burden for middle class students," 75% of whom remain excluded from financial aid. Their choices are: more work, more debt, or no college education. The tuition hikes mean a nearly impossible burden for low-income students. The running debt clock of the Canadian Federation of Students puts the total amount of Canadian students' loan debt at $14.5 billion, most of which falls on low-income students.
That's why Quebec students painted Montreal red. The squares of red felt pinned to jackets and backpacks, taped to shoes and baby carriages are symbolic of both the crushing debt carried by Canadian students, and Quebec students resistance against tuition increases that will yoke them with even more debt. The red squares originated from the Quebecois phrase, "squarely in debt," which is where more and more middle class students will find themselves if the tuition increases go forward.
Perhaps being "squarely in debt" with graduation loomin, repayments coming due, and a dismal job market on the horizon would make students easier to control, or at least less likely to resist. Jeje and Natasia suggest that's why no similar student movement has occurred in the U.S. Despite a few rallies here and there, American students have largely accepted the inevitability of increased tuition and the burden of increased debt.
Thus, the first and most necessary "occupation" is internal.
Given how profoundly US students have been cut off from channels of power at universities, the road before us may be long. But if we hope to achieve our goals, we first must realize, collectively, that the social conditions we face as students are not inevitable. We cant just erect tents in the middle of our campuses and expect the world to change around us. We need to take control of our own minds, as well as take space. Only then will we breathe new life into our educational system.
Or, to borrow a line from Funadelik, "Free your mind... and your ass will follow."
5. Remember the consequences of enduring political paralysis. I can't put it any better than Chris Hedges.
If these mass protests fail, opposition will inevitably take a frightening turn. The longer we endure political paralysis, the longer the formal mechanisms of power fail to respond, the more the extremists on the left and the rightthose who venerate violence and are intolerant of ideological deviationswill be empowered. Under the steady breakdown of globalization, the political environment has become a mound of tinder waiting for a light.
...Those of us who care about a civil society, and who abhor violence, should begin to replicate what is happening in Quebec. There is not much time left. The volcano is about to erupt. I know what it looks and feels like. Yet there is a maddening futility in naming what is happening. The noise and cant of the crowd, the seduction of ideologies of hate and violence, the blindness of those who foolishly continue to place their faith in a dead political process, the sea of propaganda that confuses and entertains, the apathy of the good and the industry and dedication of the bad, conspire to drown out reason and civility. Instinct replaces thought. Toughness replaces empathy. Authenticity replaces rationality. And the dictates of individual conscience are surrendered to the herd.
There still is time to act. There still are mass movements to join. If the street protests in Quebec, the most important resistance movement in the industrialized world, spread to all of Canada and reach the United States, there remains the possibility of hope.
6. Resistance is the secret of joy. We already know this, of course. We've seen it. We've felt it in the streets of Madison, WI, at Zuccotti Park, and Occupy encampments in other cities.
Young Americans, joined by everyone from airline pilots to labor unions and U.S. Marines (about as far from "hippies" as one could imagine) have occupied Wall Street for weeks now, because they know who "broke" the economy. Americans are occupying Washington, D.C., because they know who "broke" the economy, who allowed it to happen, and who still hasn't done much of anything about it. We have been living with the consequences of "sins" not our own, because our government failed to protect us from the sins of others. Namely, Wall Street.
Americans are occupying their own cities all over the country, because we know in a crisis this big, the scene of the crime is in our own cities, our neighborhoods, and sometimes even in our own living rooms; because we have friends or family who are getting laid off because of local/state budget cuts that state/local jobs cuts that are slowing down what passes as a recovery; because we are or have children who are graduating off a cliff into a jobless recovery and an economy with no place for them; because foreclosures have left our neighborhoods struggling with blight; because the future we dreamed up for our children is in peril.
For all these reasons and more, Americans are taking to the streets. There's a line that runs from the Wisconsin protests, connecting them. Instead of hardening our hearts against each other, the economic crisis has "sharpened our instincts for empathy" and, as President Obama said in his Tucson speech, caused us to "remind ourselves of all the ways that our hopes and dreams are bound together." We have not used it as an opportunity to turn on each other. Instead, a sense of shared struggles empowers us to demand accountability and justice.
We are seeing it again in the streets of Montreal.
As this movement goes on, and grows by leaps and bounds, it is increasingly clear that it is not a movement of anger, of rage or of hate. It is a movement of love, of community and of hope. People who would be alone in their houses watching TV take to the streets and march with neighbors they never knew they had. Back when we had real communities, they were driven by the coming together of neighbors each night. Instead of watching TV, we met in the street, we exchanged details of our day and we made plans for our future. Just as the "casseroles" cause us to do now.
Perhaps the most lasting effect of this movement will be to build stronger, more connected communities. Every day that it goes on, more of us meet in the street, build relationships and talk about what kind of a society we want.
This is what Charest is afraid of. This is what keeps the powerful awake at night. If we talk, if we exchange ideas and debate the future of our society, we will want to change it. And nothing terrifies the powerful more than a change to the system which gives them their power.
The most honest reason which can be given for why people are in the street is the simplest. We do not see ourselves reflected in our government. But we see ourselves, our concerns, our hope, our love and our aspirations, reflected in every smiling face we see on the street. For the first time in a long time we are having a real conversation about what kind of society we want. We're having it with each other, every night when we meet in the streets. And slowly, but surely, we are realizing that we have the power to make our dreams a reality.
Resistance is the secret of joy.
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A Little Background Information...By Rabbi Jack Abramowitz
There is a difference of opinion as to when parshas Terumah and Tetzaveh were given. Many commentators feel that these laws were commanded after the incident of the Golden Calf in parshas Ki Sisa (see Rashi on 31:18). Many hints to this can be seen in the text. For example, in 26:30 (in last week's parsha), G-d tells Moshe to set up the Mishkan the way he was shown on the mountain, suggesting that these parshas were said after Moshe descended from his first trip up the mountain.
So why tell you this now? Because this parsha treats Aharon and his sons as the kohanim (priests) and we are following the opinion that this is a job they don't actually receive until after the incident with the Golden Calf. (It is not uncommon for the Torah to go out of chronological order. For example, the Book of Bereishis frequently reports people's deaths before they actually occur, simply because the Torah is done talking about them – see Talmud Pesachim 6b.)
So, where were we? Oh, yes…
G-d told Moshe to have pure olive oil made for the Menorah. Aharon and his sons would be responsible for setting up the Menorah every evening, so that it would burn all night.
Special garments were to be made for Aharon to wear while performing the service. The clothes are an indispensable part of his consecration. They include a breastplate, an ephod (kind of an apron), a robe, a tunic, a turban and a belt, which will be described in greater detail.
The ephod was to be made of gold thread, plus blue and crimson wool, woven in a pattern. There would be attached shoulder straps and a waistband. On the shoulders, they were to place two gems engraved with the names of Yaakov's sons, six on each. This way, Aharon would carry a constant reminder of the Jews before G-d.


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[Just what will the achievementization of the world mean? Author and game designer Ian Bogost ponders Jesse Schell's DICE talk and blends his interpretation with research. Will it work... and, more importantly, is it good?]
In a widely disseminated talk at DICE last month, Carnegie Mellon University Entertainment Technology Center professor Jesse Schell made a provocation: can game-like external rewards make people lead better lives?
To answer the question, Schell explored hypothetical scenarios that might combine awards of Xbox Achievements-like scrip with emerging sensor networks that would track our everyday behaviors. Teeth brushing might earn sponsored awards from Crest, for example, and taking the bus might earn awards from a government mass transit program.
Sounds farfetched? Schell points out early signals that support his vision, including the dashboard of the new Ford Fusion, which features an image of a plant that flourishes or droops based on how efficiently the driver pilots the vehicle.
Reactions to the talk have been mixed, with some heralding him as a brilliant oracle of a desirable future, others wondering how he could have failed to mention related, high-profile work by Frank Lantz (Area/Code) and Jane McGonigal (Institute for the Future), and others dismissing Schell's prophesy as dystopian nightmare.
Here, I want instead to explore a few philosophical problems that arise from Schell's position -- problems which proponents and detractors should both consider.
In addition to his professorship at CMU, Jesse Schell operates a game studio. They make electronic and location-based entertainment, under the shingle "Schell Games." It's a clever name, because it plays its founder's surname off a well-known gambling game, the shell game.
Everyone knows it: a small ball is hidden under one of three walnut shells. The operator shuffles the shells around quickly, and a player is made to guess which shell houses the ball. Wagers are usually made, and indeed a typical run may appear to draw in a great many bets around a makeshift table on a street corner.
But the shell game is not a game of chance at all. It's a confidence trick. A skilled operator can remove and replace the pea at will, insuring that the player only wins if the operator chooses (which he might do in order to encourage additional bets). Most of the audience is in on the swindle, and their bets serve to encourage a target to place (and then ratchet up) the wagers. The shell game is not a game at all. It's a fraud, a swindle, a con.
With apologies to Mr. Schell's good name and studio, we might give the title schell games to video game incentive tricks that cause people to "do the right thing," such as brush their teeth or drive their cars efficiently. (I'll spell it in the lower case to distinguish the type of game from Jesse Schell's company.)
Just as the shell game dupes players into believing that they are making wagers against chance, so the schell game dupes players into believing that they are completing virtuous actions toward righteous positions.
When seen from the perspective of their outcome alone, a wager in a shell game looks like an earnest gamble. But when seen from the perspective of the operator, who is altering the game to suit his desired outcomes, the wager is merely a foil to be used against the player.
Likewise, when outcomes alone are considered, an action taken in a schell game looks like an earnest honor. But when seen from the vantage point of the agents who dole out incentives, that honor again becomes merely a foil to motivate an action.