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Medicine and Empire

Steffie Woolhandler, MD, MPH and David Himmelstein, MD are Professors of Public Health at City University of New York, Visiting Professors of Medicine at Harvard, and co-founders of Physicians for a National Health Program.

Howard Waitzkin, Medicine and Public Health at the End of the Century (Boulder, CO: Paradigm Publishers, 2011), 256 pages, $25, paperback.

For the past three decades Howard Waitzkin has been (along with Vicente Navarro) the leading social medicine theorist in the United States. Medicine and Public Health at the End of Empire provides a superb sampling of Waitzkin’s wide-ranging work, and a readily accessible introduction to the searching insights offered by a Marxist view of medicine.

Trained as both a sociologist and physician, Waitzkin’s career has melded clinical involvement as a primary care doctor in oppressed communities with writing and activism, in both the United States and Latin America. He currently works with G.I.s resisting military deployment.

Much of the book is devoted to meticulous delineation of the myriad ways that globalized capitalism creates the social conditions that make us sick and puts a straightjacket on the health system’s ability to respond.

In an initial chapter, Waitzkin reviews the historical role of seemingly benevolent foundations (e.g., Rockefeller) and international health organizations in smoothing the way for the imperial project. He then traces the emergence of the tradition of revolutionary social medicine from Frederick Engels through Rudolph Virchow (a nineteenth-century German physician, much-revered in the mainstream of medicine as father of modern pathology) and Salvador Allende (who was a physician before becoming Chile’s first socialist president).

Engels, in his Condition of the Working Class, chronicled occupational conditions such as lead poisoning, black lung, and repetitive stress injury, and he also observed that the noxious conditions in English factories sickened the surrounding communities—prefiguring much of the modern work in environmental and occupational medicine. Virchow’s classic investigation of the social origins of cholera and tuberculosis epidemics was reflected in his ardent support for the uprisings of 1848. And Allende, long before emerging as a world-renowned political leader, made major contributions both as a theoretician of the social origins of ill-health and as a practical innovator when he served as Minister of Health in Chile. Waitzkin reminds us that the recent discovery of the “social determinants of health” is merely a rediscovery, generally in defanged form, of these earlier vibrant understandings.

Waitzkin brilliantly exposes the forces that pushed the development of (highly profitable) coronary care technology and assured that this unproven technology overwhelmed alternative approaches to the modern epidemic of heart disease. Indeed, Bernard Lown, who features prominently in Waitzkin’s tale as a founder of the intensive care approach to heart attacks, often decries the damage wrought by the focus on medical commodities and high-tech interventions in cardiology, and the concomitant neglect of the human beings who house the hearts.

Much of the book focuses on Latin American health politics and social medicine. Waitzkin offers hopeful glimpses of progress in Cuban health care and in social medicine in Brazil, as well as a bleaker portrait of the reversals in Chilean health care, first under the U.S.-backed dictatorship, and more recently due to the continuing domination of neoliberal policies.

He explores the unifying features of the efforts to make profit, rather than health, the ends of medicine. His carefully documented analysis of multinational firms, the World Bank, international trade and health organizations, and major philanthropic foundations demonstrates that the commodification of medicine represents a collective project of empire.

Waitzkin’s critique of neoliberal health policies is fleshed out by meticulously documented case studies of international managed care firms’ efforts to penetrate Latin America and the health care privatization that has paved the way for profit-making. In some nations, public-sector social-insurance systems have succumbed to the onslaught, and have been transformed to for-profit insurance and delivery schemes (a situation mirrored in the United States by the 2003 Medicare “reform” that pumped $50 billion annually in public dollars into managed-care firms). But in other countries, popular movements have mounted successful resistance to the efforts to wrest health care from public or quasi-public control. Waitzkin details the hard-fought struggle to preserve and strengthen public-sector health care in El Salvador; the victories of Bolivia’s indigenous communities against corporate efforts to privatize water systems; and the health successes wrought by Mexico City’s left-leaning local government. Nor does he neglect the United States, reiterating the importance of the ongoing struggle to achieve a single-payer health care reform.

Ultimately, Medicine and Public Health at the End of Empire is a hopeful book, persuasively reminding us that capitalist society, and particularly capitalist medicine, generates cogent discontents, oppositional social forces, and hence the seeds and motive force of its own transcendence.

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Singing, Maypole Dancing and Simon Amstell

26 May

1  Just ten of The Ingleheart Singers and Claire went to sing at a special birthday party in a field this afternoon. We practised first in the Garden Centre at Lelant, and found ourselves with a very appreciative audience there and then at the party much appreciated again which was lovely.

The Inglehearts at the party

2   After the singing came the Maypole dancing which was just delightful.

Maypole Dancing

3   Just come back, chuckling all the way home,  from seeing the lovely Simon Amstell (he of Grandma’s House on BBC TV) at The Hall for Cornwall in Truro – made us laugh a lot – always a  good thing!

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14 responses to “Singing, Maypole Dancing and Simon Amstell

  1. thoughtsfromanamericanwoman

    May 27, 2012 at 3:41 pm

    Thanks for sharing..I never seen a Maypole dance – it does indeed look fun and silly, which is something we should all do from time to time!! ~Patty~

  2. Flowerpot

    May 27, 2012 at 9:21 am

    Sorry not to be there but took Shelagh to see the Chicken Hotel, then walked Moll then we went and had a massage (bliss) and family came for a meal evening.xx

    • mybeautfulthings

      May 27, 2012 at 9:22 am

      Sounds like a beautiful day! Glad you two had such a lovely day together. Chicken Hotel?

  3. Don

    May 27, 2012 at 9:15 am

    That Maypole dance looks absolutely wonderful.

  4. Choc Chip Uru

    May 26, 2012 at 11:51 pm

    What a wonderfully festive season – I adore maypole dancing 😀

    Choc Chip Uru

    • mybeautfulthings

      May 27, 2012 at 5:56 am

      It was a lovely four generation party which we were privileged to be invited to sing at 🙂

  5. on thehomefrontandbeyond

    May 26, 2012 at 10:04 pm

    what is a Maypole dance?

    • mybeautfulthings

      May 27, 2012 at 5:55 am

      If you look carefully at the singing photo, you’ll see the pole wrapped in ribbons behind us. These are unwound, each person takes one and then alternate people face one way and the others the other way. (Got it so far?)

      When the music starts, they weave under/over each other so that the ribbons are then plaited up around the pole again! It’s enormous fun and can get quite silly but it’s beautiful when it all works 🙂

      • on thehomefrontandbeyond

        May 27, 2012 at 6:44 pm

        Thank you for the explanation – I have heard about the Maypole dance forever and not really known what it was

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BadgerSports Elite Lineman Challenge: First look at 2011 stars
PISCATAWAY, N.J. - While the Mid-Atlantic region was bombarded with snow ranging from 30 inches in Maryland to roughly 8 inches at Rutgers University in Piscataway, N.J., the high school prospect evaluation business didn't take a break. And while the weather kept some away, the first day of the BadgerSports Elite Lineman Challenge presented by New Level Athletics rolled on with many big names in attendance. Perhaps no one was more intriguing than Fort Piece (Fla.) Fort Pierce Central defensive end/offensive tackle Giorgio Newberry on Saturday.
Newberry, a 6-foot-5, 257-pounder wasn't the biggest name expected to attend heading into the event but the versatile big man certainly stood out more than anyone else. Newberry easily passed the eyeball test upon arrival, looked smooth and athletic in drills and was hard to contain in one-on-ones on the defensive side of the ball. And when he flipped over to take a few reps on the offensive side of things, he was dominant there as well.
Newberry, who has early offers from Florida, LSU, Tennessee, Clemson, Rutgers, South Carolina, North Carolina, Boston College, Virginia, West Virginia and others, has a terrific frame, long arms and quick feet. On defense he has an excellent swim move, a quick first step and uses misdirection to fool opponents. On offensive, he is quick out of his stance, uses his long arms to keep opponents off balance and keeps his feet moving.
In addition to Newberry, the most impressive defensive prospect on the day was Thomasville (Ga.) Thomas County Central defensive end Ray Drew. Drew is tall and lean at 6 feet 5 and 236 pounds with very long arms and excellent speed to the outside. He was too much for most linemen to handle when he used his speed rush and when he mixed things up and changed direction, he left them grasping at air. Drew won all but a few one-on-one battles and was excellent in drills, showing good agility and excellent footwork. One of the highlights of the first day was when Drew went against Newberry when the latter switched over to offense. Newberry got the better of the battle on Saturday.
Drew has offers from Florida State, Florida, Georgia, Georgia Tech, Alabama, Auburn, Tennessee, Notre Dame and many others early in the process. While he claims no leaders, many feel that the Seminoles are the team to beat. His school sent two players to FSU back in 2008 when defensive tackle Anthony McCloud and running back Debrale Smiley signed. Former FSU great Charlie Ward also hails from the school.
Others who stood out on defense included fellow defensive ends Kevin Miller and Chase Hounshell and defensive tackles Daryl Stephenson and Monte Golden. Miller, from Delran (N.J.) Holy Cross, has good size at 6-4 and 230 pounds and won most of his one-on-one battles. Hounshell, from Kirtland (Ohio) Lake Catholic, has even better size at 6-5 and 245 pounds and was one of the better bull rushers at the event. Stephenson, a 6-foot-3, 270-pounder from Parlin (N.J.) Sayreville War Memorial, showed off excellent quickness and agility for a big man while Golden, a 6-foot-1, 280-pounder, displayed a lot of power and natural leverage as a defensive and offensive lineman.
While the defensive linemen were impressive, the offensive line group was much deeper. And the battle to be the best in the group was a competitive one.
Making a case for the top spot on Saturday was offensive guard Anthony Zettel from West Branch (Mich.) Ogemaw Heights. The 6-foot-4, 255-pounder has plenty of room to fill out his frame and was the most active and energetic of the linemen in drills. And in the one-on-ones, Zettel showed a great combination of power, leverage and foot speed to win almost all of his reps. Zettel recently received offers from Michigan and Michigan State and will be at Notre Dame's junior day soon. He grew up a Wolverine fan but is keeping his options open.
Vero Beach, Fla., offensive guard Marcus Jackson was also impressive, showing off quick feet and good balance for a 6-foot-3, 280-pounder. Jackson, an early commitment to Miami over offers from South Carolina and Florida, flashed good footwork in drills and anchored very well in one-on-ones.
Port St. Lucie (Fla.) Treasure Coast offensive guard Mike Romano was also impressive in one-on-ones as was fellow Floridian Garrett Clark from Daytona Beach (Fla.) Mainland. Romano, a 6-foot-3, 275-pounder, adjusted well to misdirection, played with good leverage and didn't lunge while Clark, a 6-foot-4, 278-pounder, showed a mean streak, was physical and aggressive and kept his feet moving. Both prospects did a good job of riding their opponents to the outside.
Lynchburg (Va.) Liberty Christian Academy offensive tackle Grant Jones got better as the first day progressed. After struggling a bit early in drills, Jones became more and more comfortable and peaked at the one-on-ones where he beat Newberry in his last rep before being forced to retire for the day due to a nasty cut over his eye. Jones has very good size and uses his long arms well and has sneaky agility for a massive lineman.
Scottsdale (Ariz.) Saguaro offensive guard Cyrus Hobbi, a 6-foot-3, 285-pounder, was arguably the best technician in drills, showing great feet and excellent form, although he struggled a bit in one-on-ones. He has an early offer from Arizona State.
And the biggest prospect of the day was Sioux Falls (S.D.) Washington tackle Derek Farniok who checked in at 6-8 and 315 pounds. While Farniok struggled with quick outside pass rushers, he showed a strong work ethic, adequate agility for a huge tackle and was effective when he extended his arms. Farniok has an early offer from Minnesota.
Two of the top offensive linemen at the event came from a state not known for producing talent. Dover, Del., tackle/guard Trip Thurman and Wilmington (Del.) Salesianum School guard Evan Mulrooney were both impressive in different aspects on Saturday.
Thurman, a 6-foot-5, 295-pounder, showed off the best feet on the day in drills and has excellent instincts. He has a great build with a powerful upper body and thick legs and he is very explosive and sudden. He struggled a bit in one-on-ones mainly because he was lunging, but with a slight adjustment he has the potential to be dominant.
Mulrooney, slightly smaller at 6-4 and 275 pounds, didn't stand out as much in drills but was better in the one-on-ones, showing off an aggressive, tenacious style and competing to the whistle each time. Mulrooney got out of his stance quickly and was hard to beat to the outside.
Thurman has early offers from Boston College, Rutgers, Maryland, UConn, Wisconsin and others and is hearing from Tennessee, Penn State, Florida State and Oregon. Thurman's parents grew up in Knoxville, Tenn. and his mom went to Tennessee so an offer from the Vols would be special. However, Thurman said it will not factor in his decision.
Mulrooney doesn't have any offers just yet but is hearing from Rutgers, UConn, Maryland, Boston College, Virginia and others. He grew up a Penn State fan.
There were a few standout 2012 prospects on day one as well. On the offensive side of things, guard Ryan Brodie from Long Branch, N.J., was exceptional and even beat Newberry on the last one-on-one of the day. Brodie, a 6-foot-4, 265-pounder, still needs to fill out his frame but his footwork, smarts and technique make his upside excellent. With another full year before recruiting heats up, he's one to watch for sure.
And on defense, tackle Eddie Goldman, who also plays offensive guard, was outstanding as well. Goldman, a 6-foot-3, 290-pounder from Washington (D.C.) Friendship Collegiate Academy, showed off a fierce bull rush and a quick first step in one-on-ones and he was solid in drills as well. Goldman already has verbal offers from Maryland and New Mexico.


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On Wednesday, Crawfordville (Fla.) Wakulla three-star offensive tackle Chris Griffin received his seventh offer. It is arguably his most impressive offer to date.
"The University of South Carolina just offered," Griffin said.
The Gamecocks join Florida International, Louisville, South Alabama, South Florida, UCF, and Western Kentucky in offering Griffin.
For the 6-foot-6, 265-pound offensive lineman the offer stands out.
"It means a lot to me," Griffin said. "It is a really good program. Steve Spurrier is a legend already. South Carolina has been pretty good the last couple of years and they are definitely a force to be reckoned with now."
Griffin had an opportunity to speak with one of Spurrier's assistants on Wednesday.
"I talked to Coach (Kirk) Botkin," Griffin said. "He is the recruiting coach for my area. He is the one that told me I had the offer.
"We didn't talk that long, but he said they are really interested in me and they feel I would do great in their offensive scheme," Griffin added.
The Sunshine State prospect hopes to hit the road after spring football and check out the Gamecocks for himself.
"I haven't been up there," Griffin said. "I will hopefully be able to towards the end of May or in June. Somewhere in there."
At this stage in the process, Griffin doesn't claim a leader.
"I am just going to take it all in during the spring," Griffin said. "I will then start narrowing it down and make my decision at the end of June or in early July."
Griffin has received significant interest from Georgia Tech and Missouri recently and feels they are on the verge of offering.


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Sunday's Sports Georgia Elite 100 in Marietta will feature many of the region's elite players. Coming into the event, here are five things Southeast analysts Keith Niebuhr and Chris Nee are excited to watch:
1.Lawson the awesome
Can anyone stop Rivals100 strongside defensive end Carl Lawson of Apharetta (Ga.) Milton? That is easier said than done. In December, the 6-foot-3, 245-pound standout was practically unblockable during practices leading up to the Rising Seniors Georgia Junior Bowl. Before the event, he was without an offer. Now, he has several, and they've come from many of the country's elite programs. Lawson is extremely explosive off the ball, and combines that quickness with tremendous strength (he bench presses around 450 pounds). Will Lawson do enough to boost his ranking? And will any offensive lineman give him a battle?
2. Young guns
The group from the class of 2014 expected on hand is nothing short of sensational. Tyrone (Ga.) Sandy Creek receiver Demarre Kitt has already collected double-digit offers and is looking forward to competing against some of the top cornerbacks from the 2013 and 2014 classes. Defensive backs Nick Glass and Nicholas Ruffin, teammates at Atlanta St. Pius, are two of the country's most coveted sophomores. Offensive tackle Orlando Brown of Duluth (Ga.) Peachtree Ridge, whose father was a standout in the NFL, is 6-10, 360 pounds and already has double-digit offers. And don't forget about Georgia running back commit Stanley Williams of Bethlehem (Ga.) George Walton Academy. The ultra-talented Williams is one of the Peach State's fastest - and most exciting - players. Look for other top sophomores to emerge Sunday.
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Simply put, there will be an enormous amount of talent in the defensive backfield. And you can bet those competing in this group will want to leave their mark and show the other players what kind of skills they have. Besides Glass and Ruffin, two other headliners coming in are Rivals250 prospect Jalen Ramsey of Brentwood (Tenn.) Academy and Marietta (Ga.) Kell's Brendan Langley. Ramsey, a cornerback who claims 20 offers with Ohio State being among the most recent, is coming off an outstanding performance at a Nike Combine a few weeks ago in Atlanta. Langley holds nine SEC offers and is a big and athletic corner. Some of the other notable defensive backs include Shon Akins of Norcross (Ga.), Trevellous Cheek of Lawrenceville (Ga.) Archer, Ali Groves of Stone Mountain (Ga.) Stephenson, Noel Padmore of Flowery Branch (Ga.) and Demetrius Monday of Fairburn (Ga.) Arlington Christian School. It also wouldn't be a shock if a few more big names show up.
4. Better to receive
The DBs are strong, but the group of receivers expected isn't too shabby either. Four-star prospect Carlos Burse of Alpharetta (Ga.) will be worth watching closely. He possesses excellent size, good speed and a very solid set of hands. That's why schools such as Florida, Tennessee, Vanderbilt and Virginia Tech have offered. Kitt, who might be the best 2014 receiver in Georgia, is another standout. When he is on his game, Kitt stands out against the best of the best. Ryan Jenkins of Alpharetta (Ga.) Milton, Tyree Harris of Marietta (Ga.), Myles Campbell of Duluth (Ga.) and Darian Horn Jr. of Suwanee (Ga.) Peachtree Ridge are among the other receivers expected who likely will end up playing at the Division I level. Will Burse and/or Kitt be the class of the group or will someone else emerge and steal the show? This group will be tested thoroughly by the defensive backs, and that should make for some exciting moments during the one-on-ones.
5. The back attack
Running back is another position that will offer up truly outstanding talent. Junior Alvin Kamara of Norcross (Ga.) is a four-star prospect that is being heavily pursued by several major programs. He gained a good bit of notoriety recently when he received 105 letters in the mail on the same day from Alabama. Travis Custis of Hampton (Ga.) Lovejoy is another very good back, even though he doesn't receive as much publicity as some of the other players at his position in Georgia. Custis, who holds offers from programs such as Georgia Tech and Miami, is coming off a monster junior season. And, of course, you can't forget about the aforementioned Williams, the Georgia commit. Chaz Thornton of Toccoa (Ga.) Stephens County is another player to watch. While he is lacking offers, his film is impressive, and his speed and explosiveness should make him fun to watch in this type of setting. As is often the case, other less-heralded running backs are likely to emerge.
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Gender: M Meaning of Arkady: "from Arcadia" Origin of Arkady: Russian from Greek

Arkady is a rhythmic Russian saint's name from the Greek meaning "from Arcadia." As a literary name, it belongs to a genteel character in Turgenev's Fathers and Sons and a much less benign one in Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment, and is also a key figure in Gorky Park by Martin Cruz Smith.

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Arkady Kirsanov, friend to Evgeni Bazarov in Otsy i Deti (Fathers and Sons) (1862) by Ivan Turgenev


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Rhinos are broadly split into two categories – grazers and browsers – based upon their style of feeding and the types of food they eat.  Grazers prefer grasses and typically feed low to the ground.  Browsers favor leaves, twigs and hanging fruits, which often focuses their attention above eye level.  Grazers might be likened to lawn mowers, heads held low and broad mouths sweeping the ground.  Browsers are more like pruning shears, with narrower, prehensile lips reaching upwards into the trees.

The wide-mouthed white rhino of Africa is the consummate grazer.  Short grasses are its favorite foods.  The greater one-horned or Indian rhino is more difficult to categorize – sometimes a grazer and other times a browser.  It likes tall grasses, but also consumes leaves, branches and submerged aquatic plants.  The black rhino, which may share African grassland or savanna habitats with its white rhino cousin, is a browser that…

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This was Cookie's first time masturbating on camera ever! I decided to keep my distance to let her relax and get into it so we did a voyeur type video. Imagine stumbling across this beautiful, all natural woman by a river and watching her rub sunscreen into her amazing body. (Did you see her amazing hips!) and eventually lay down to masturbate. I love the way she pulls her hair back and very slowly rubs her clit. Such a beautiful, sensual video, more of her to cum!

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      I actually have a short interview with her I somehow forgot to put up. I’ll do that today. We didn’t talk that much about how she ended up modelling though. She is a friend of my housemate’s and contacted me and yes she is 36 exactly. Good guess!

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Learning the Hawk Talk

While watching the live camera feed and live chat on the same page, I’ve learned quite a bit about raising hawks. I now know what slicing is (shooting poop!) and what a casting is (see below).  These screenshots were taken today – May 15th.

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Baby Hawk Standing in Nest

The baby hawks in the nest high above Cornell University in New York, are growing quickly and while watching them on the live camera feed, I have certainly learned a bit about hawks.  There is a live chat going on most of the time and the moderators supply answers and info along the way.

Their pin feathers are now growing in – those are the black ones you can barely make out here.

hawk baby casting

Gagging up a casting

They hack up castings which are longish black things that contain all the elements of their meal that couldn’t be digested. Like an owl pellet I assume.  Here, in the picture above that hawklet just spit one out.  It’s hard to make out, but it’s right in front of them where they are looking.

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Trying out his wings

It’s so funny how they look at each other. This screen shot I took of the one trying out his wings seems to interest his / her little sibling.

Baby hawks fight over food

Baby hawks fight over a piece of chipmunk.

Another bit of hawk trivia – when they eat their crops (bulge in their necks) get big and fat! Here mom – aka, Big Red, feeds them a newly caught chipmunk and baby 1 and baby 2 have a tug of war over a piece.

Looking at them lined up, I can tell by the feathers coming in which is which.  They were all born days apart and the first born is on the right with the last born in the middle.  Number 2 seemed to be especially aggressive while eating – I thought.

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    05/15/2012 10:24 am

    Great shots…especially the one with the outstretched wings. I think you may have been there at roughly the same time I was, this morning. Did you see the one if the foreground repeatedly tossing a casting into the air…and then shaking his head. Apparently, didn’t like the taste. Didn’t stop him from doing it again, though.

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Liberals have an obsession with the presidency. Since Franklin D. Roosevelt strode across the political arena like a colossus (albeit a colossus in a wheelchair), liberals have tended to equate success with electing one of their own to the White House. The New Deal, the New Frontier, the Great Society—these are fondly remembered as the glorious, if brief, eras of liberal political history, times when the country seemed to leap forward to a better place, before conservative Republicans found ways to jerk it back again. It's an obsession that also expressed itself in pop culture: After George W. Bush took office, with a big assist from the Supreme Court, many liberals consoled themselves by cheering on Jed Bartlett as he outfoxed his right-wing opponents.

Now that there’s a 50-50 chance that Obama could actually lose, the obsession is saturated with anxiety. Nearly every liberal I know checks the polls every few hours and frets over each debate, as if the future of the republic depends on Obama winning a second term. (OK, I confess—I do it too.) But we should realize that merely electing, or re-electing a progressive president has never been how lasting reform occurs. A one-term Obama administration might be considered a failure—but it would be a failure that liberals would be partly responsible for.

Every chief executive who signed major pieces of liberal legislation benefitted from thinkers, organizers, strategists, and grassroots insurgents who did their most critical work without the aid of an electoral college majority. The Social Security Act culminated over two decades of planning by such brilliant advocates as Louis Brandeis and Frances Perkins—and pressure from a movement of angry old people led by a charismatic physician named Francis Townsend. Only after years of violent mass strikes, including general strikes in San Francisco and Minneapolis in 1934, did Congress pass the National Labor Relations Act. Once workers got federal protection for organizing unions, lawmakers hoped, they would no longer need to pursue that goal by bringing production to a halt.

The process of change which resulted in the Civil Rights and Voting Rights Acts of the 1960s began during World War II when JFK was fighting in the Pacific, and LBJ was still a lowly congressman from Texas. The threat of a march on Washington forced FDR to open up good jobs in war plants to black workers. Gunnar Myrdal’s An American Dilemma was widely applauded for its definitive attack on official and cultural racism, and the NAACP increased its membership by a thousand percent. During the next decade, a Democratic convention passed its first civil rights plank, the Supreme Court unanimously ruled that segregated schools violated the 14th Amendment, and the black citizens of Montgomery won the right to sit on any available seat in a city bus. By the time President Kennedy proposed a civil rights bill in the spring of 1963, the defenders of legalized white supremacy were already on the run.

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When Obama swept into office in 2009, liberals had nurtured a few sprouts of reform. Well-funded LGBT activists had waged numerous spirited, if losing, campaigns for marriage equality and to repeal “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.” Immigrant rights organizers had staged big marches and secured assistance from Catholic bishops and enthusiastic support from the Latino media and community groups.

But, unlike in the 1930s and 1960s, this progressive president could not rely on surging liberal movements to help him advance his key legislative goals and to counter the powerful, and predictable, opposition of conservatives. Labor unions were struggling to stop decades of declining numbers and political clout, and advocates of universal health insurance had never been able to reach much beyond a passionate but small cohort of policy wonks. Obama certainly should have made a better case for his health care bill and for his American Jobs Act. But his task was a lot harder in the absence of vigorous pressure from a growing left.

Most conservatives, to their credit, have never shared the illusion that, without a president of their own, there is nothing much they can accomplish. In the 15 years after Barry Goldwater suffered one of the worst electoral drubbings in American history, right-wing activists slowly and methodically captured control of state parties outside the Northeast. At the same time, they launched new think-tanks, feisty publications, talk-shows, and direct mail firms, and forged an alliance between anti-union businesses, anti-tax crusaders, and anti-abortion churches. As president, Ronald Reagan could not enact all of their agenda. But what he did achieve was due, in large part, to the diligent preparatory work of his fellow “movement conservatives.”

Of course, a Romney victory will be depressing as hell. Every physically able liberal, every Democrat should be making phone calls and/or knocking on doors in a swing state between now and when the last polls close on November 6. But if Obama does end up losing, it will be as much due to the weakness of liberal movements as to any flaws in his message, style, or policies. The time to generate popular momentum behind the changes you desire is before the quadrennial circus dominates the media and your mind.

Michael Kazin’s most recent book is American Dreamers: How the Left Changed a Nation. He teaches history at Georgetown University and is co-editor of Dissent


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Having pretended to be police officers and SBU, unknown kidnapped in broad daylight the Mariupol businessman

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Yesterday about 10 o'clock in the morning unknown, having presented, police officers and SBU, approached to the person on Levchenko Square, twisted him and, despite shouts and resistance, jostled in the car and took away in the unknown direction.

All this occurred in the face of tens people which stood at a stop waiting for transport. Stolen, allegedly, is engaged in oil business.

"Kidnappings it was valid. According to SBU and the militia, any detentions on Levchenko Square their employees didn't carry out yesterday. Upon illegal imprisonment and kidnapping criminal case" is already brought, - the prosecutor of the Ilyichevsky district of Mariupol Georgy Kozub reported.

According to preliminary data, thieves was three. Investigation is made.

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Instigators of a dry grass are expected by a penalty in 1 700 hryvnias

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Leaving for borders of the city it is possible to observe quite often a dense black or gray smoke which dims almost a horizon floor. It burns a dry grass and the so-called pozhnivny remains, and in other words - an eddish.

Mostly, it not casual violence of elements, and conscious, obviously illegal activity of agricultural producers. Especially without reflecting over the consequences, certain land owners or tenants burn an eddish to clear a field. To them it is indifferent that the flame exterminates a superficial fertile layer that fire, reaching forest belts and the open steppe, destroys all live, huge volumes of carbon monoxide are released into the atmosphere.

It is obvious that they too don't respect the law, after all even if the artificial fire didn't lead to a loss and didn't extend for field borders, his "organizer" is threatened by the administrative responsibility provided by article 77-1 (An unauthorized burning out of vegetation or its remains) the Code of Ukraine about administrative offenses, namely a penalty to 1700 UAH

The Ministry of Emergency Situations warns! The burning out of an eddish is strictly forbidden!

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Review of T3: Rise of the Machines 731

The Terminator movie series offers explosions and cyborgs galore, but you knew that already. Guns too, and cool special effects involving R-rated nude people in electrified spheres, but you probably guessed that too. So you've seen the trailer and are wondering whether "T3: Rise of the Machines" is worth seeing. Short answer: eh, whatever, it's big and dumb. For the long answer, keep reading. (No real spoilers.)

Let me first draw your attention to CNN's review. The CNN reviewer tells you this "darker and slicker" sequel is "worth the wait," gives you the long-form plot setup, shows you the sexy look of the "babe-a-licious" babe, and promises you "emotional weight" with "wit" and a "stunning and thought-provoking" climax. What he doesn't mention is that CNN and the movie's producer/distributor are both owned by AOL Time Warner.

It's been ten years since I watched the first Terminator and maybe I'm remembering it better than it was. But it had an emotional depth, a heart that neither of its sequels matched. T3 is slicker, yes, but darker!? It's light fluff. The nightmare of nuclear destruction in the original was rendered without CG effects, but I'll remember the skeleton clutching the chain-link fence long after I've forgotten this week's pixel-perfect explosions. And the "storm is coming" ending of the original was genuinely thought-provoking, with a chilling resolve that just embarrasses this week's Hollywood ending. Claire Danes is no Linda Hamilton.

The effects are what you'd expect from a modern zillion-dollar action movie, but not groundbreaking the way that T2's were at the time.

I found nothing about it witty. I chuckled through the chase scenes -- it's mostly chase scenes -- because they were so over-the-top and the plot holes were so glaring. Apart from that, there was only one funny line. (I assume everyone else is as bored as I am with the "dry cool wit like that" dialogue.)

Best unintentionally funny line: "I've got enough C-4 to blow up ten supercomputers!"

Best unintentionally funny visual: tie between fumble for the car keys, and offscreen killing sprays blood across photo.

Dumbest joke: gratuitous mocking of effeminate guy.

Best absurd effect: missile blows apart the wall in a small office ten feet from our heroes, they avoid injury by diving to floor. Duck and cover!

Best plot hole: Terminatrix's chronic failure to remember that she can run fast.

Heavy on the exposition, light on brains and heart, forgettable. See it if you really jones for big trucks smashing stuff. If you just have to see a movie, see "28 Days Later" instead. Rated R, not recommended for anyone whose mental age matches their valid ID.

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  • by tizzyD ( 577098 ) * <> on Friday July 04, 2003 @09:12AM (#6366902) Homepage
    I actually read the book they wrote after the movie, and in it you learn some interesting facts.
    • The Terminator was sent into the past just before the big mainframe was to be destroyed by the rebels. John Connor had just about won the war.
    • The materials from the Terminator sent into the past created Skynet. This plot line was addressed in T2.
    • A la Hawkins, the Terminator could never succeed. If it did, it would cease to exist. Skynet would not have been created, and thus, it could never have existed. Ergo, no Terminator.
    T2 took some of this plot, but conveniently forgot that the humans were about to win, and created the second movie.

    Problem: it's a time causality loop. You cannot stop it! Why? Because if you do stop the war, you stop the Terminators, and you then never get them sent into the past. Without them in the past, you cannot have Skynet. Get it?!!?!

    T3 is thus the real stumper to me. By this time, all info about the cyborg chips was to be destroyed (remember going back to the office building and performing a bit of good "Office Space"-ish reconstruction). AAMOF, with the destruction of the Terminator in T2, there are to be no systems left. Recall Linda's final dialog . . . (paraphrase)I look to the future with hope...

    And now, there's to be a T4 in discussions? Why would the Terminator be molded after an old man? Arnold looks great, but he's not the glistening Austrian god he was in T1. Oh well, I hear money calling...

  • by Blind Linux ( 593315 ) on Friday July 04, 2003 @09:25AM (#6366986) Journal
    But, as you remember, the premise of T3 was that humans would inevitably create sentient, artificial life (the afformentioned Rise of the Machines). Skynet, the name given to the sentient AI system controlling the machines, took the form of a software-based US Defense program in T3. this program was called SkyNet for continuity's sake, if you ask me.

    I agree with you about the time causality loop... It was the return of the Terminator to the past that triggered the alternate timelines, as the possible future interactions of Connor and others were altered, resulting in different incarnations of SkyNet. However, regardless of whether the Terminators went into the past, the creation of sentient AI was inevitable, as was Judgement Day, the opening salvo of the war between humans and machines.

    And as for Terminator being molded after an old man, it does serve one purpose: T-101 was a state of the art killing machine in T1. By T3, it is obselete, having been eclipsed by both T1000 and T-X.
  • by Buzz_Litebeer ( 539463 ) on Friday July 04, 2003 @09:31AM (#6367016) Journal
    Now see thats the way you should be thinking, people seem to forget that the way they are using time in the terminator movies is how they use time in say, Orson Scott Cards "Pastwatch: Redemption of Christopher Columbus"

    Each time the machines send back a terminator they create a small paradox, IE things stop happening the way that they happened the previous time.

    The first skynet could have been created in a different manner the first time, but by sending back the first terminator also facilitated his existance at an earlier date.

    When they destroyed the hands and such of the first terminator in Terminator 2, they merely destroyed the timeline that involved skynet coming to exist in 1997.

    In fact, they boldly say that is the case in the movie, when he is talking about the chick and how he met her, and he said "if you had never been sent back that time, I would have hooked up with her then"

    The original part of the series "could" happen, simply because UNTIL the first terminator was sent back, things DID happen where skynet was created, and almost created its own causal loop in creating john connor, who might not even have had the same father in the original timeline (ie some guy other than the future guy).

    Then when he came back he becames the father, thus destroying some of the time line, etc..

    it gets complicated but if you think of time is completely mutable from any instant to the intstants ahead of it, then the plot can work out just fine.

  • by praxim ( 117485 ) <(moc.etistapeht) (ta) (tap)> on Friday July 04, 2003 @09:34AM (#6367027) Homepage
    Well, five years at least- he was in American History X.
  • T2 Redux (Score:3, Interesting)

    by fbg111 ( 529550 ) on Friday July 04, 2003 @09:35AM (#6367036)
    The actual movie was pretty much T2 Redux with a badder evil terminator and same old Arnold, and I'm getting reeeaaally annoyed that just any old liquid-metal-covered machine can zip through the supposedly organic-material-only time machine as easily as a human can. But I did find a few things interesting in T3:
    One is that Skynet is not the product of any one human or unique technology (eg, the computer engineer Miles Dyson, or the chip from the first terminator which was destroyed in T2, or even Kate Brewster's father in T3), but rather it is the result of the evolution of AI. Skynet is the product of unavoidable historical forces set in motion long ago by the Industrial Revolution, or perhaps even longer ago when man first learned how to make and use tools. Admittedly this is an old and recurring theme in many sci-fi movies, from 2001: A Space Odessy to Matrix/Reloaded, yet I am always interested in seeing different takes on it.
    Further, it is interesting that Skynet is not hardware, it is self-aware software that uses the entire Internet as its corporal host, so to speak. I doubt the script writer was the first to come up with that idea, I'm sure its been floating around AI circles for some time now, but it was nevertheless a new concept for me to ponder. Talk about distributed computing... Are we all doomed to domination by a massive network of PS3's running Linux and infected by a self-aware nanovirus?
  • by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 04, 2003 @09:37AM (#6367048)
    T1: In the future machines send back a Terminator to the past to kill John Connor's mother, because they are losing the war. The Terminator gets destroyed BUT a chip remains (the half arm in T2). The chip in the arm changes the timeline completely and accelerates the coming of Skynet.

    T2: Despite Skynet beeing built earlier, humans still win in the future. Another Terminator is sent back (T-1000). Rebels from future manage once again to save their leader AND this time Sarah and John manage to destroy everything related to this new revolutionary CPU. This only delays the coming of Skynet, again, timeline is changed.

    T3: There is no new CPU, but, there is near infinite computing power in the Internet. Skynet is born.

    Skynet is inevitable, whatever takes form in a super CPU from the future or on the vast porcessing power of the Internet, it's inevitable.

    IMHO, T3 plugged the hole of the paradox in T2. Ok story, nice movie, nothing to write home about.
  • Not so fast... (Score:5, Interesting)

    by Bedouin X ( 254404 ) on Friday July 04, 2003 @09:40AM (#6367061) Homepage
    Actually it's not as bad as you think and that's thanks to a massive plot hole in T2. If Skynet were truly destroyed in T2 and the war averted, then John Connor would have ceased to exist since his whole being was centered around the fact that he became the leader of the resistance and sent his father back to save his mother. So if you're going to harp on these details you're gonna have to jump on T2 as well.

    Personally I liked T3. As shown, the continuity between the other two films wasn't bulletproof and you ALWAYS have to give the writers the benefit of the doubt on time travel stories because they always tend to be paradoxical on some level. T3 is for old school action fans who can appreciate REAL stuntwork and REAL explosions as opposed to the 3D Studio MAX fests that we see all the time now. This is how action was before people started trying to base their freaking worldviews on it and I, for one, welcome it.

    I also liked the ending...

    spoilers - though they'e probably been said 100 times before this post

    A lot of people seem the miss the fact that the major Terminator theme is one of fate and destiny. The question is whether these can actually be changed. The ending of the 3rd film finishes an arc that gives their idea. Apparently the reason that Connor didn't disappear at the end of the second film was because the WAR STILL HAPPENS.

    The first film was about preserving the humans' chance against the machines by making sure that John Connor is born. The second one was about keeping the war from ever happening. The third is the same but the reality of the situation becomes apparent, like the Terminator said, "Judgement Day is Inevitable."

    I think it's cool that they took the darker path. While people say that it begs for a sequel, I think that it is the perfect ending to the story. John Connor is a classic literary JC character, which means that he CAN'T avoid his destiny. A destiny that becomes even more fitting to his type of character as you learn in T3.
  • by Cnik70 ( 571147 ) <> on Friday July 04, 2003 @09:50AM (#6367109) Homepage
    At age 54, Arnold still kicks ass. But what the fuck happened to Claire Danes? When did she go from 18 to 40 overnight.... damn she looks like shit! Overall plot was a bit bland, but you can see the setup for T4. The action was great, nice effects! And the one liners were perfectly blended into the dialog. Well worth the few bucks, and a nice escape from the summer heat.
  • by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 04, 2003 @09:53AM (#6367127)
    Seems like the T-universe supports determinism after all which makes sense and resolves some of the paradoxes; alas it invalidates Cameron's big "The Future Is Not Set" argument as it clearly is in a single universe set-up.

    There are two arguments for time travel which strangely enough mirror the Matrix Reloaded's arguments about free will versus determinism:

    The first theory is based on determinism: for time travel to remain consistent the past cannot be altered. In other words, the time traveller from the future always existed within the past so whatever changes he attempts to make cannot and *do not* occur in such a way to alter a future timeline. In other words the entire past is set in stone for the present to exist, and as the present is the future's past, the events of tomorrow are similarly predetermined to ensure continuity of the timeline. There is no free will, and the grandfather paradox does not occur: it will be impossible to murder your grandparents and any changes to the timeline you made in the past *always* happened in the past relative to your present.

    The second theory is free will and relies on parallel universes. In this case the grandfather paradox is also fixed because each time traveller ends up in a similar but not equal universe to the one they left. If they change the timeline it does not effect the timeline of the universe they left, only the one they arrived in. Alas, this also means the chances of returning to the exact universe you left are remotely slim. You can never go home again.

    Finally, a time traveller travels along a closed time-like curve that is created when the first time machine is created. In other words they would not be able to travel back to a point previous to the first time machine existing, and would only be able to travel along the 4th dimension on the fixed xyz co-ordinate of the time machine in question. This essentially invalidates all the Terminator films anyway as there is no evidence of time travel equipment present in the 1984 film.

    Ronald Mallett is currently working on a light-based time machine (using the concepts of spacetime frame dragging) so we'll know what is right (if anything) when he turns it on.
  • Re:Ruined (Score:5, Interesting)

    by hhnerkopfabbeisser ( 645832 ) on Friday July 04, 2003 @10:03AM (#6367169)
    Some poeple in the US tend to be a little to uptight about this.
    I mean, there is nudity in reality, so why shun it from a movie? A bit of realism in movies doesn't hurt, it's not like you'd want to remove the blood and noise from Saving Private Ryan and show it to your children.
    I always find it hilarious when movies obviously avoid nudity at all cost, which is no problem for a movie that was meant to be hilarious in the first place, but would really destroy the experience of most movies for me.

    As far as I know, most nude-scenes are cut out anyway for the US-versions.

    Actually, in europe, we regard violence in movies as more harmful to young people than nudity, so even without a single nude scene, it wouldn't ever be rated what we call equivalent to PG.
    Remove the violence, leave the nudes, and it would be a perfect PG over here. (this may not apply to all of Europe, but at least significant parts)

    You have your opinion about nudes, however many (or most?) people don't mind, and movies are not produced for you alone. Live with it.
  • Re:Ruined (Score:5, Interesting)

    by Lemmy Caution ( 8378 ) on Friday July 04, 2003 @10:17AM (#6367256) Homepage
    I don't think the nudity per se is the issue for a lot of people, it's the pandering aspect. What T&A says to the audience is "this is meant for horny straight males - anyone else is just tolerated here." AKA, the E3 effect.

    The straight male desire assumption (when it shouldn't be necessary in works with more universal appeal - erotica/porn is another question) is more offensive to me than depictions of sex or incidental nudity.
  • Re:Not so fast... (Score:5, Interesting)

    by veneficus ( 4718 ) on Friday July 04, 2003 @10:47AM (#6367451) Journal
    Hey guys,

    I just wanted to take this moment to clear up something about time travel. Many contemporary scientists have weighed in on the subject of time travel and continuous-arc timelines, and many believe it just wouldn't happen.

    Existence is just a set of infinite points of time; it is the human in us that says that if the son of X goes back in time and he kills X, then the son must "disappear." In contemporary theory, this is not so.

    The son goes back in time, from a point which he exists. Since he did exist in that time, if he moves to a different "reference point", he still exists. If he kill his father, before he was born, he would not be born in the modified chain of events, but the son would still exist from that point.

    I don't know if I'm quite explaining this right, but that would explain why Reis (Reese?) would still exist after John Connor melted the evidence, and it would still explain why John Connor himself existed after the act. Just because our minds correlate all these facts together to evaluate "passage of time," it does not mean that these things had a specific linkage that would be disrupted through the affect of a particular cause.

    Hope I'm making sense here...
  • by Edgewize ( 262271 ) on Friday July 04, 2003 @10:50AM (#6367464)
    You make the classic mistake about a one-path deterministic future: "There is no free will."

    From an external viewpoint, it would seem that free will must not exist, because the timeline is completely determined. But we exist as creatures in time, not external to it. At any moment, we are free to make our own choices. Just because these choices have already happened from another viewpoint does not mean that we did not have free will at the time of the choice.
  • by pi42 ( 190576 ) on Friday July 04, 2003 @10:54AM (#6367480) Homepage
    Right after watching the movie, my friends immediately began to speculate about what could happen in T4, if there is to be one.

    Now don't get me wrong, I'd like to find out what happens as much as the next guy, but I don't really think that T4 would fit with the other movies. Terminator movies, as much as they're about the plot, they're more about great invulnerable-robot-laying-waste-to-stuff action.

    Something post-apocalyptic, as T4 would have to be, couldn't have any of that. IMHO, it'd be just another post-apocalyptic movie without capturing any of the real charm that Terminator movies have.

    Agreed about the Terminatrix being cool, though. I liked how they didn't overplay the sexiness angle. I mean, sure, the T-X is a babe, but she's still a Terminator.
  • by Skyshadow ( 508 ) on Friday July 04, 2003 @11:13AM (#6367594) Homepage
    T2: Despite Skynet beeing built earlier, humans still win in the future. Another Terminator is sent back (T-1000). Rebels from future manage once again to save their leader AND this time Sarah and John manage to destroy everything related to this new revolutionary CPU. This only delays the coming of Skynet, again, timeline is changed.

    Not quite true.

    At the end of T2: the T1000, the original T101's chip and arm and the second T101 were all melted in the steel.

    The second T101's arm, however, was left in the machinery where it lost it (remember, the T1000 jams it into some gears, then leaves the T101 stuck there while he goes off to kill John -- the T101 severs it to get loose).

  • IMHO this movie wasn't as good as T2, but it was better than the first Terminator, and what made most of the difference was that it could laugh at itself. Fumbling with car keys and blood splatters from off screen are a little cliched, but not exactly laughably bad images; the only real unintentional groaner was the "blow up ten supercomputers" line.

    And the intentional humor more than made up for it. There were a couple failed tries ("She'll be back" was too obvious to be funny, for instance), but most of it came off well. Redoing the "naked Arnold walks into a bar to steal clothes" scene, but then tongue in cheek replacing the bar with a male strip club, was hilarious. The Terminator's exchanges with Kate managed to be witty without breaking character, as were the first few Terminatrix scenes.
  • Slashdot's "review" (Score:3, Interesting)

    by Overly Critical Guy ( 663429 ) on Friday July 04, 2003 @11:41AM (#6367773)
    Was that really a review of the movie, jamie? All we got was a list of "best" and "worse" trivialities. How lame.

    Bottom-line: The movie is the first true ass-kicking movie of the summer. Everyone thought it would suck without Cameron, Hamilton, and so forth. It turned out to be very good, and it's exciting to see Arnold in a movie role that's perfect for feels like 10 years haven't passed at all.

    The car chase beats Matrix Reloaded's. My jaw was on the floor. And the fight scenes are refreshingly gravity-based. No wire-fu.

    You'll love it. Go see it.
  • Re:Ruined (Score:5, Interesting)

    by Lemmy Caution ( 8378 ) on Friday July 04, 2003 @11:43AM (#6367779) Homepage
    I'm distinguishing between the nudity and the pandering; you obviously can have either without the other. It's the promise of nudity, rather than the delivery of it, that secures the eyeballs of the teen male demographic (obviously, they need to stay within ratings limits to get that demographic.) My issue is with the selective representation of desire, and the way it creates a "canonical" audience when there isn't any call for it. Some films do have a reason for a canonical audience (Porky's, for example, or even American Pie); for others, it's unnecessary. This translates to games, as well.

    Oddly enough, I'm more patient with Tomb Raider per se because I think the cheesecake factor is part of its raison d'etre, rather than being a gratuitous add-on.

    I haven't seen T3, so I'm making a bit of a prediction: that the nudity of the Terminatrix was filmed in a far, far different way than the nudity of male terminators was. If you take a lot of these movies and invert the genders - not just for the story line, but for the way they're filmed, the way that the figure of the woman as an object of desire is portrayed in a way that most males would never accept a man being portrayed - you'd see what I mean.

    The odd thing about a lot of Japanese anime and game culture is that they sometimes play with this sort of asymmetry of desire with gender-flipping plots and ambiguous characters, as if the artists are chafing at the market constraints and subtly undermining them. Think of "Bridget" from Guilty Gear XX, or Ranma...
  • by arlow ( 649026 ) on Friday July 04, 2003 @01:08PM (#6368270)
    I just saw Terminator 3, and the (predictable?) plot-twist at the end unquestionably smacked of the ideological analog of "product placement" by none other than the MPAA -- and no, I am not a conspiracy theorist ;)

    [ Warning: extreme spoilage ahead! ]

    The beginning of the film informs the viewer that a virus is rapidly spreading through the civilian and government Internet, disabling major infrastructure and causing general chaos. Furthermore, by evolving and adapting in ways never seen before by the military analysts, the virus is evading detection/disinfection, and as such is slated to infect the overwhelming majority of the internet in short order. The only seeming recourse available to the US military is to deploy an untested new artificial intelligence system called "SkyNet" that would take over control of nearly all computers in the world, and by some untold virtue of its (artificial) brilliance, expunge all of the world's infected computers of the virus.

    However, the military big cheese (Robert Brewster) running the SkyNet project is very reluctant to deploy it, as he reveals in a prognosticative conversation with the Commander in Chief. The President suggests that launching SkyNet would wrest control of the US military's computers from the virus and give it back to the military. However, Brewster counters that launching SkyNet would give control of the military's computers to SkyNet -- instead of to humans. Nonetheless, when pressed he concedes that SkyNet will still be under human control.

    Unsurprisingly, (consistent with the previously-released but chronologically-subsequent films,) when SkyNet is deployed it becomes sentient, decides that humans are its enemy, seizes control of itself from its operators, and begins the preparations for launching a massive nuclear missile attack against the major population-centers of the world. Our brave protagonists race to the supposed location of the mainframe that runs SkyNet, (deep within a desert bunker,) to destroy it before it can launch the missles. However...

    ...upon penetrating the bunker, they discover that there is no SkyNet mainframe to blow up -- instead, SkyNet *IS* the virus, and is carrying out its computation in a decentralized manner on the millions of infected computers around the world. As such, there is no central "mainframe" to blow up, and our protagonists can do nothing but hide in the bunker to be protected from the impending nuclear apocalypse, knowing that they were tricked into coming there in the first place by several benevolent fate-like forces.

    However, leaving the theater, I began to consider that perhaps the film's examination of the "Pandora's Box of defense technology" theme had a more specific message: if left unchecked, decentralized peer-to-peer networks would eventually cause the downfall of civilization as we know it. Their means of conveying this message seems to be a subtle strategy of suggestion, similar to the advertising practice of "product placement", (in which marketers attempt to improve the brand of a product by paying to have it appear in a positive light in a film.) As such, it seems reasonable that the metaphorical implication of the SkyNet plot-twist is an attempt by the MPAA and friends to cast a negative "branding" light onto decentralized peer-to-peer file sharing networks (like Kazaa) by associating them with the similarly-decentralized SkyNet network that in the film destroys the world -- and is the physical manifestation of the evils of hubris that the film thematically admonishes.

    While the public debate on the efficacy of product placement is similar in nature to debates on the potency of all forms of advertising, (e.g. subliminal advertising,) marketing companies have no doubts that subtle branding has dramatic effects of the behavior of consumers; note the recent explosion of the "viral marketing" strategy in which agencies attempt to brand a product thro

  • Looking for an Essay (Score:2, Interesting)

    by BelugaParty ( 684507 ) on Friday July 04, 2003 @02:03PM (#6368535)
    I remember reading a really interesting essay about how T2 portrayed a conflict between gruff solid working class (Arnold) and the sleek shapeshifting, white collar middle middle class(T1000). Does anyone know who wrote it?
  • Re:Help please... (Score:3, Interesting)

    by Super_Frosty ( 82232 ) on Friday July 04, 2003 @02:37PM (#6368712)
    Arnold kills John in the future, then Kate captures Arnold and reprograms him. All of the robots that the humans used were captured - they could not manufacture them.
  • by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 04, 2003 @03:12PM (#6368851)
    I doubt it.

    Probably running on a 65816. The old terminators use a 6502. You know microsoft doesn't touch that kinda stuff.
  • Oh come on! (Score:3, Interesting)

    by GuyMannDude ( 574364 ) on Friday July 04, 2003 @03:46PM (#6369021) Journal

    And did I mention that Linda Hamilton's speech about the wonders of childbirth was possibly the most disgusting thing committed to celluloid in the last ten years? I think "T2" probably did as much for a shortage of kids becoming scientists as anything else.

    Look, I agree that Linda's ranting in T2 about how scientists are evil and so forth was insulting but I think it was pretty clear from the movie that she was just talking crazy. Even young John Conner realizes that she's teetering on shaky ground with the nonsense she spews.

    The reasons why kids don't want to become scientists is a topic well outside the scope of movie reviews of T2 and T3. Here are a couple potential reasons that are much more likely than Linda Hamilton's speech in T2:

    • Scientists don't get fame or fortune from their work (and by fame I'm talking about recognition by the general public, not their scientific collegues)
    • Science is hard work and most people don't want to dedicate themselves to their career that much
    • Many scientific disciplines are taught in such a bland manner that it's not until kids take advanced classes in a subject do they start to see why interesting it can be
    • The dot-com era convinced many talented youngsters that designing websites allowing people to purchase dogfood online would be a greater contribution to humanity than performing detailed research in the physical, natural or biological sciences
    • After the cold war, the US government decided that science was no longer funding at such high levels since we didn't need to show off how superior we were to the Soviets. Potential future scientists caught wind of the funding shortful and quickly changed their career trajectories

    Well, I could go on and on. But I think you're way off the mark by blaming the current scientific woes on a blurb in one movie.

  • by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 04, 2003 @06:39PM (#6369826)
    " I'm making a bit of a prediction: that the nudity of the Terminatrix was filmed in a far, far different way than the nudity of male terminators was."

    Well then you would be wrong.

    There's almost no nudity. The only people who think there is "nudity" are uptight people who think their own bodies are "dirty" and "sinful".

    The truth is, when you see a great body ... male or female ... its fun to look at it nude. Its a celebration of life.

Receiving a million dollars tax free will make you feel better than being flat broke and having a stomach ache. -- Dolph Sharp, "I'm O.K., You're Not So Hot"


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Church offers prayers, Mexicans express outrage for missing students

Posted on November 12, 2014

Church offers prayers, Mexicans express outrage for missing students

By David Agren
Catholic News Service

MEXICO CITY (CNS) — Cardinal Norberto Rivera Carrera of Mexico City offered prayers during Mass Nov. 9 for Mexico’s 43 missing teacher trainees, who authorities allege were captured by crooked cops, killed by organized crime and had their bodies burned.

At the end of his general audience at the Vatican Nov. 12, Pope Francis said he wanted to express to the Mexicans present in St. Peter’s Square, “but also to those in your homeland, my spiritual closeness at this painful time.”

While the students are legally missing, “we know they were killed,” the pope said. Their disappearance and deaths “make visible the dramatic reality that exists behind the sale and trafficking of drugs.”

People carry banners and flags in Mexico City Nov. 9 as they take part in a protest to demand more information about 43 missing students. (CNS/Reuters)

The Mexican bishops’ conference, meanwhile, issued a statement of solidarity with the families, who refuse to accept the authorities’ explanations and continue calling for their children to be brought back alive.

“Adding our voice to theirs and to all of society, we say, ‘Enough with so much corruption, impunity and violence,'” the bishops said in a Nov. 7 statement.

“Respectfully and energetically, we ask the authorities to take the investigation to its final consequences so that it’s known with certainty what has happened with the disappeared and the intellectual authors … are punished with the full weight of the law,” the statement continued.

“At the same time, we demand the enforcing of the rule of law to put an end to all forms of violence, illicit activities, corruption, impunity and the complicity of some authorities with organized crime.”

Everyday Mexicans have taken to the streets, condemning the crimes committed against the students and the apparent collusion between criminals and the political class in parts of the country.

The protests and outrage are among the strongest in recent years and reflect anger with the ongoing insecurity in the country. Many have adopted the slogan, “I’ve had enough,” echoing off-the-cuff comment of Mexico’s Attorney General Jesus Murillo Karam after a Nov. 7 news conference that has been interpreted by many as insensitive.

“It was the straw that broke the camel’s back,” said Jesuit Father Conrado Zepeda, who celebrated Mass Nov. 4 at the Jesuit-run Iberoamerican University for students and four family members of the missing.

“It has to do with the young, students, the poor, people unable to defend themselves being attacked in this way. This is why civil society has revolted.”

Authorities arrested Jose Luis Abarca, mayor of Iguala, and his wife, Maria de los Angeles Pineda, Nov. 4 in Mexico City, alleging they ordered the attack on the students. The couple claimed the students were coming to protest a community event planned by Pineda.

Classmates said the students went to Iguala, 120 miles south of Mexico City, to collect funds for a future trip to the capital, but had their borrowed buses shot at by police — who detained 43 of the teacher trainees and handed them over to members of the Guerreros Unidos gang.

Murillo spelled out the details Nov. 7, saying three gang members confessed to burning the bodies in a garbage dump. Six bags of ashes and bones have been discovered at the site.

Families of the missing students refuse to believe the government and said they only will accept evidence presented by Argentine forensic experts working on the case.

Father Victor Manuel Aguilar, spokesman for the Diocese of Chilpancingo-Chilapa, where the students’ school is located, said the mistrust comes from an unhappy history of human rights abuses in Guerrero state, which is south of Mexico City and full of impoverished, indigenous communities that have been exploited and pushed to the society’s margins for centuries.

“Justice is often delayed … if it arrives at all,” he said.

The case has caused outrage and a political crisis for President Enrique Pena Nieto, who had stopped speaking on security matters in an attempt to improve the image of Mexico as an investment destination.

“There has never been a rebuke like now,” Father Aguilar said.

Pena Nieto — who has not visited Iguala or the students’ school since the tragedy, but departed for an overseas trip Nov. 8 — appears to have been caught flat-footed. He has proposed an all-party pact to curb crime and corruption. While not unlike the consensus he achieved to approve 11 structural reforms in areas such as education, energy and taxation, it has found tepid support.

Catholic leaders have called for a change in Mexico, even though they are seen in some cities as part of the establishment — rubbing shoulders with prominent politicians and businessmen and staying silent on issues such as insecurity and corruption.

“The reality of our present-day Mexico did not surge from one year ago or five years ago,” Bishop Francisco Moreno Barron of Tlaxcala told the Reforma newspaper. “It has been gestating for a long time through corruption and impunity and I believe that it’s time to put a stop to it.”

Protests have continued, especially in Guerrero, where students and their supporters have burned government buildings, blocked highways and marched through the tourist zone of Acapulco. Father Aguilar sees the protests continuing as long as the students’ whereabouts remains uncertain.

“We all want the student to appear alive. But it they don’t appear, I think that this discontent could become radicalized,” Father Aguilar said.

“There are people willing to do whatever it takes to make their demands known.”

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Houses on Water

Masurian Lakes

Masurian Lakes

Masurian tourism is expanding. A Masurian shipyard has begun constructing luxury, environmentally-friendly houses on water. Michał Szafrański, owner of the company that is building the houses, said that the first floating house will be ready in May. They will be constructed in a shipyard in Oleck. Szafrański has said that the cost of building a house on the water is lower than the construction of a traditional home and the idea developed for two reasons. Firstly, houses on water are a great way to relax and get away from people. Secondly, they will be an alternative to the crowded resorts of the Masurian lakes in the high season. “In the summer there is often no place to moor. Floating homes do not need ports, they can be moored at the marina and anywhere on the waterfront,” emphasised Szafrański. The Masurian shipyard is building prototype floating homes of two sizes. The larger (11.5 by 3.9 metres) will have two triple rooms with bathrooms and a modern kitchen. The smaller version (8.6 by 3.9 metres) is designed for one family. Houseboats, that is luxury boats equipped to live in, were last season’s fad in the Masurian Lake District, but according to Szafrański, “Houseboats are more for boating than for living”. Marek Jasudowicz, the mayor of Giżycko, admitted that the idea of houses on water is interesting and innovative. “Unfortunately, the budget shortfall of Giżycko municipality will not allow us to buy such houses for the coming season. However, it is something for the future,” he added. Houses on water are extremely popular in the Netherlands and the United States. Several floating houses have also been built in Poland but so far there have been no such houses in Poland to rent yet.

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Chocolate Covered Bat and Mummy Cookies

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Mummy Cookies have long been a tradition for Halloween baking at our house. It is our only Halloween baking tradition. Until today! We have now added chocolate covered bat cookies to our short list of Halloween favorites.

I added mint extract to a chocolate cut-out cookie recipe and covered the cookies in a dark chocolate coating. These quickly became the adult favorite. Neither Brian nor I are a big fan of white chocolate. But a cookie that tastes like a Girls’ Scout Thin Mint cookie? Absolutely!

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I used an orange gel icing for the eyes, but it didn’t set firmly. Next time I will use a bright orange melted colored candy coating to make eyes. I had a pale green colored chocolate that I thought would look nice, but it was too pale, so I went with the gel icing.

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A naked bat ready to take the plunge:

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These white chocolate covered chocolate mummies are still the kids’ favorite (except for Little A- I usually make a few vanilla mummies for him, and he picks the eyes off).

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For recipe and details on making Mummy Cookies, click HERE.

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Chocolate Covered Bat Cookies
——(cookie dough recipe adapted from Martha Stewart)

2 1/2 cups flour
1 cup unsweetened Dutch-process cocoa powder
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp baking powder
1 tsp salt
10 Tbs butter, softened
1 1/2 cups sugar
2 large eggs
2 large egg yolks
1  tsp pure peppermint extract, optional
about 2 pounds dark chocolate, coarsely chopped
colored candy coating or frosting for eyes

Preheat oven to 325°F. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper or a silicone mat.

Whisk flour, cocoa powder, baking soda, baking powder, and salt in a bowl. In another bowl, beat butter and sugar with a mixer on medium-high speed for 1 minute. Reduce speed to medium-low, and add eggs and peppermint extract. Slowly add flour mixture, and beat until just incorporated.

Divide dough in half and place on two large pieces of plastic wrap. Wrap dough securely in the plastic wrap and refrigerate until firm, at least 1-2 hours, or several days.

When ready to bake, place dough on a new piece of plastic wrap. Press with hands to make a thick disk of dough. Place another piece of plastic wrap over dough and use a rolling pin to flatten dough to about 1/4 inch. Remove top piece of plastic wrap and cut out cookies with a cookie cutter.

Bake cookies for 10 minutes, or until dry to the touch. Cool 2 minutes on baking sheet before transferring cookies to wire racks to cool.

Melt chocolate in a heatproof bowl in the microwave or in a double boiler (melt chocolate slowly). Dunk cookies into melted chocolate. Use a fork to turn the cookie over in the chocolate. Pick up the cookie with the fork, let excess chocolate drip off, and gently scrape bottom against edge of bowl. Place on parchment (or waxed paper)-lined baking sheets. Let chocolate harden. (TIME SAVING NOTE: You can also just use your fingers to hold the cookie and only dunk the top and sides of the cookie, gently scraping the excess chocolate off of the top of the cookie before placing it on the parchment paper) To make eyes, place melted candy coating in a Ziploc or pastry bag. Poke a small hole in the end with a toothpick and pipe eyes onto bats.

Makes about 4 dozen, depending on the size of your cookies.

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3 responses to “Chocolate Covered Bat and Mummy Cookies

  1. Loooove these- so cute! I just finished some mummy cookie pops for a post next week and your cookies made me smile- fun ideas- very creative!!!!

  2. Mo

    I love those!! Those are adorable!! Thanks for sharing!

  3. OK. I didnt’ think you could top the autumn leaves but these are just as cute. You have been one busy woman baking up a storm.

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We Watched Justin Bieber Get Booed At The Canadian Super Bowl

Shockingly Canadians were impolite for once.

When it comes to North American sports leagues, the Canadian Football League is definitely one of the most overlooked. Sure, there's plenty of diehard fans out west in Saskatchewan, Alberta, and British Columbia, but no one really cares about the CFL in Toronto and the rest of Canada. There's an NHL lockout happening right now--which means it's likely there won't be any hockey for an entire season--and most Canadians still can't be bothered to watch the CFL. They're far more likely to turn to watching the NFL or even American college games, because the rules are more straightforward and the players are more likely to be filthy rich. The biggest story leading up to this year's Grey Cup (the Canadian equivalent of the Super Bowl) game between the Calgary Stampeders and the Toronto Argonauts, was Toronto's widely-reviled mayor (ex-mayor) Rob Ford making a bet with Calgary's widely-beloved mayor Naheed Nenshi, with the loser donating his weight in food to a food bank in the winner's city. A bit of a kerfuffle arose when the Stampeders' mascot, a living, breathing horse named Marty, was barred entry from Toronto's Royal York Hotel, which provided a bunch of bored journalists with a reprieve from a slow news day. There was also a zipline for no apparent reason.

This brings us to this year's halftime entertainment, which featured performances from two of the biggest pop stars in Canada, and probably the world. I'm talking about the pride of Stratford, Ontario, Justin Bieber, and the only contestant to appear on Canadian Idol and go onto any success, Carly Rae Jepsen. They were "supported" by Gordon Lightfoot, who for those of you who don't know, is a Canadian folk-rock OG like Neil Young (seriously, YouTube "The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald" right now, I'll wait) and I wouldn't dare talk shit about for fear of being run out this country by a pitchfork-wielding mob. While I know next to nothing about football, the possibility of writing about this cultural spectacle was to intriguing to pass up, so I applied for accreditation and was only slightly shocked when I was approved.

After picking up my press pass and dodging the throngs of tailgating fans (apparently freezing temperatures weren't enough to stop several individuals from covering their entire bodies in red and blue paint) that had taken over the downtown core, I headed over to the SkyDome (which is technically known as the Rogers Centre now, but only the company's employees or cowboy hat-wearing tourists call it that). The press box hardly contained the depths of human desperation that Hunter S. Thompson described in his 1970 article "The Kentucky Derby Is Decadent and Depraved"--there were a few people in suits talking in serious tones about fucking "special teams" for Christ's sake. The most excitement was at the buffet table, where there was a full Thanksgiving spread pre-game (complete with a MVP-worthy apple crisp). At halftime there was a pizza party, which combined with the performances, turned a bunch of professional journalists (and this guy) into the equivalent of a group of 16 year-olds having a sleepover.

After a dull first half, the lights were turned off, and a stage was rolled out. Lightfoot played and then it was time for Mariana's Trench. They were fucking dreadful, but their lead singer co-wrote "Call Me Maybe" which probably made him enough money to buy his way into the Grey Cup halftime show.Carly Rae Jepsen did a medley of "Call Me Maybe" and her new single, "This Kiss," which sort of sounds like a less catchy "Call Me Maybe." Unlike Janet Jackson at the 2004 Super Bowl or Madonna at last year's Super Bowl, Jepsen's set was pretty tame, with nary a nip slip, middle finger or Roman chariot in sight.

Then it was time for Bieber, who entered through a tunnel and a bevy of backup dancers, which had all the production values of a vaguely ambitious high school musical. Based on the black leather tanktop and single glove he was wearing, I'm willing to bet any money he caught Spike Lee's Michael Jackson documentary on ABC the other night. While the cheerleaders who flocked to the centre of the field were going crazy, the majority of the 53,200 people in attendance weren't impressed and weren't afraid to be vocal about it.

Why was he booed? A few theories:

—He was clearly singing with the use of backing tracks.

—Fans were really upset about his decision to wear overalls when he met Prime Minister Stephen Harper recently to receive some medal for being Canadian.

—While the CFL were clearly hoping his massive Twitter following would translate into more younger viewers, he simply was too much of a departure from the league's history of picking shitty radio rock bands like Nickelback and Theory Of A Deadman.

My money is on a bit of the former and mostly the latter. Still though, the press gallery was loving every minute of it, and Bieber seemed relatively unfazed by the less-than-hospitable reaction (he was probably just excited to get home and watch the interview he did with Oprah). He can also take comfort in the fact that he wasn't booed nearly as bad as Justin Timberlake was during his infamous performance at a charity benefit concert in Toronto in 2003.

Here's a shitty video of the set that I found afterwards:

If I were to rank the whole performance in the annals of Canadian sports and music, I'd put it above Shania Twain singing "Forever And Forever" in a sequined Maple Leafs jumpsuit but below Drake's performance at the NHL All-Star Game in Ottawa. Oh, and just in case you were wondering, the Argos won, with the final score being 35-22. Nobody rioted because it's still Canada.

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Avast there me hardys!

<start silly pirate voice>
Aarrrrrrrrrrrrrgh, I be showing ye land lubbers a peep of me new time sink… Desktop Armada!
</end silly pirate voice>

OK  Desktop Armada doesn’t have pirates in it, but it is a game involving ships and I don’t need much of an excuse to talk like a pirate :o)

2 blue ships are spotted by reds battleship.As I reported in our last post Paul has been working on the 3rd multiplayer game for the Casual Collective “Desktop Armada”

The aim of the game is simple, use your base to build ships, give them instructions on what path to take and send them on their way. The other player is doing the same and any ships that pass in range of each other engage. There are 4 different ships, all with their own unique abilities and all can be upgraded 2 times.
The game play is great fun, there is fog of war so you can’t see what ships the other player is making nor where they are sending them, you may think you have the other player on the run only to see a whole fleet of ships emerge out of the fog and hammer your base to pieces! Of course it is even more fun when you send ships down the edge of the map and flank the artillery of your enemy :o) We hope to get Desktop Armada  up as a BETA very soon for upgraded members to host and all members to play  (the same way Buggle worked when it was BETA)

Talking of Buggle… it is very close to losing it’s BETA armbands as we believe all the bugs with the scores and different opperating systems playing together are now fixed, once this is done work can start on adding more modes as well as the very cool “Super Powers” mode… prepare to explode some buggles!

Until next time, Aarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrgh!

19 Responses to Avast there me hardys!

  1. Miek says:

    Zomg, looks AWESOME!

  2. Fredward says:

    Looks like great fun!

  3. Ham says:

    Nice, cant wait to play, when’s it planned to be released?

  4. Neat. How does one get on your beta list?

  5. Teh_Lemon says:

    Oh my god, man, this looks AAAAWESSSOOOME!!!

    I wonder- is the object to destroy the base, or…? Not sure i get on how to win. Oh well, i’ll figure it out soon enough!!

  6. Murph89 says:

    I’m sure I don’t have to wait for the beta to know you guys have done it again- you make a unique game, with an addicting twist of a strategy element, and the game doesn’t even come with a textbook for an instruction manual (see Civilization). It even will cost me as much time as those textbook games. Off to buggle then…

  7. zelab says:

    Awesome game! Cant wait!

  8. Daniel says:

    Looks cool! Can’t wait for it to be released

  9. ogremkv says:

    When this goes beta, I’m signing up for a full membership!

  10. scott47 says:

    That looks like fun, it reminds me of a more intricate and advanced version of battleship

  11. LJohnstone says:

    I want!

  12. Somebody else says:

    how do you get the game???????

  13. Dingolicious says:

    Wow gief.

  14. Dave says:

    Ooooh, 14 comments while I slept, I will try and answer them all:

    Ham: “when’s it planned to be released?”
    As a BETA this week!

    sarekofvulcan: “How does one get on your beta list?”
    Join the collective and look for an upgraded member hosting or upgrade to host your own. All other non-beta games can be hosted by non upgraded members.

    Teh_Lemon: “is the object to destroy the base, or…?”
    Yes, the ships try to make it across the map to the middle enemy base to destroy it, once destroyed it’s game over man!

    And to all the other commenter’s… cheers!

  15. Carlos says:

    Oh no! another addictive gaming coming from you guys – I guess my boss won’t be too pleased… Ehehehe :)

  16. AndyE says:

    I assume that you’ve checked that Armada doesn’t also have the multi-OS bug?

  17. Andy says:

    This looks like it will only be for 2 players. Is that correct?
    I think a 4 player version could be possible with an octagon shaped playing field.
    Actually, making this into an octagon shaped field would make things more interesting too.
    Anyway, looking forward to this. You two have made this an art form.

  18. Hi5 Codes says:

    I’ve played this game and grown addicted to it… ruinious! haha

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NSB's Dan Arvizu and Jon Strauss discuss sustainable energy

Dan Arvizu and Jon Strauss, cochairs of the National Science Board's Task Force on Sustainable Energy, discuss with Lisa-Joy Zgorski of the National Science Foundation, their work on identifying and developing sustainable energy alternatives for which the United States is in dire need.

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