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March 1986

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issue 157 | March 1986

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S.O.S. for the E.P.A.
The US has far-reaching laws dealing with pollution.
Its Environmental Protection Agency, which implements
those regulations, is the envy of environmentalists elsewhere
whose own governments have a more cavalier approach to the
countryside. But all is not well at the EPA. Along with chemical
wastes and cowboy dumping, it is facing another serious hazard

- the Reagan Administration. Eric Draper reports.

THE entrance to the EPA's Washington headquarters is carefully guarded. Once inside, the foyer is imposing. The agency's aims are displayed in cast bronze letters. Above these icons, the wood-panelled wall carries framed portraits of the presidential appointees who carry out the laws. There is William Ruckelshaus, first appointed by Richard Nixon. Next to him is Anne Gorsuch Burford, the Republican Party fund-raiser brought in by Reagan who did so much to destroy the EPA. She was finally chased out by Congress for mishandling the Superfund toxic waste program (see below). The President's revenge was to re-appoint Ruckelshaus, after he'd spent time with one of the country's big polluters, the Weyerhauser Corporation.

A visitor might find themselves conducted to one of the offices high on the south side of the building where they could view the muddy waters of the Potomac River - one of the EPA's more symbolic failures. As this source of Washington's drinking water flows down to the Chesapeake Bay it carries pollutants that are slowly killing the Bay.

Fishable and swimmable rivers and lakes were the first rallying cry of environmentalists in the United States. And the response by government and industry has been promising. No longer are rivers and streams convenient places for disposing waste. Outfall pipes with raw sewage have all but disappeared. Industry no longer pours so much chemical waste into rivers that they catch fire as happened to the Cayugua River in Ohio in the early 1970s.

The first, 'environmental wave' of regulations went smoothly enough. But the EPA is finding itself bogged down in the second, 'toxics wave'. The monumental task, slashed budgets and corruption all play a part.

The US currently uses some 66,000 chemicals, and the EPA estimates that about 60,000 of these are potentially hazardous to our health. Many are the direct result of our demand for a hygienic, high-tech lifestyle. They produce waste that is an environmental tar baby no modern society can shake off. It clings to us as paint sludge, as solvents that have dry-cleaned our clothes and de-greased the microchips for computers, as detergents that have cleaned up industrial machines. Mercury in a used watch battery becomes a hazardous waste. So is the butane residue in a disposable cigarette lighter. Household bleach, garden insecticides - even old TVs - all contain toxic, ignitable, corrosive or dangerously reactive chemicals.

Their disposal threatens the advances in material quality of life that we take for granted. The Office of Technology Assessment, a research arm of Congress, contends that 'at least 10,000 hazardous-waste sites pose a serious threat to public health' and should be given priority clean-up treatment.

No one really knows the size of the problem. The EPA regulated 264 metric tons of waste in 1981 - enough to fill the New Orleans Superdome 1,500 times over. But much waste remains unregulated - that is, no laws control its disposal. There has however been some progress. The 1976 Resource Conservation and Recovery Act gave the EPA powers to regulate wastes for the first time, requiring them to be tracked and handled from creation to disposal at approved sites. This Act, progressive in itself, has an additional value since it increases the costs of disposal. This has prompted many companies to alter their operations to reduce waste or to re-use it.

But the problem of hazardous waste remained. The Love Canal incident in 1978, where long-buried chemicals oozed through the soil causing the evacuation of the community, was only one of a series of frightening cases. It is 'an environmental emergency', declared the Surgeon General in 1980.

And the response was typically American: not Superman but Superfund, a five-year $1.6 billion program set up by Congress in 1980 to clean up old waste sites. But Superfund has come to symbolise the clash of interests between the Reagan Administration and environmentalists with the EPA caught in the middle.

At the outset the message was clear: clean up the worst sites. The EPA picked out 850 dumps as needing priority clean-up. Five years on, according to the watchdog group, the National Campaign Against Toxic Hazards (NCATH), less than ten per cent have been tackled. At that pace, says NCATH 'millions of Americans will wait decades for the EPA to clean up their poisoned communities'.

All the errors and mismanagement are highlighted in the Butler Tunnel site in Pitsdon, Pennsylvania. Millions of gallons of toxic sludge were illegally dumped into abandoned coal-mine shafts. In 1979 heavy rains washed 100,000 gallons of the noxious substances into the Susquehanna River. The water supplies of communities downstream were contaminated and the EPA responded by cleaning up the spill. Investigators identified the 'motherlode' of chemicals in the tunnel but the clean-up was suddenly stopped. EPA claimed it had run out of money.

Later when the Superfund was available for use, the EPA was warned by NCATH activists that heavy rains would again wash the toxic sludges into the river. The warning was ignored until the area was hit by Hurricane Gloria during 1985. This time nearly 200,000 gallons spilled. Downstream water supplies were again contaminated and EPA conducted another expensive clean-up of the river. But six months later still no attempt has been made to clean up the tunnel.

The decision to stop the work has been traced to Rita Lavelle, one of the EPA officials brought in by Anne Bufford at the Reagan Administration's bidding. Lavelle was a California publicist who had worked for chemical company Aerojet General before joining EPA to direct the Superfund. She was later convicted of perjury for denying any involvement in the EPA's dealings with the notorious Stringfellow Acid Pits waste dump in California - a site where Aerojet General along with other companies had dumped tons of caustics, cyanides and heavy metals.

In the midst of this turmoil, the White House has imposed drastic funding cuts on the EPA. In 1984 it operated with the same purchasing power as it had in 1973, even though the workload was increasing. Current EPA director Lee Thomas has worked hard to get the agency back into gear. But his background as head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency explains the EPA's current fire-fighting approach. Long-term solutions are not sought. Much more could be done, for instance, to find new methods of taking the poisonous punch out of hazardous chemicals. Some industries have seriously tried to cut down their polluting wastes. Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Co. (3M), for instance, cut its volume of toxic wastes in half, partly by switching from solvent-based glues to water-based ones in its manufacture of adhesive tape.

Even with the expected re-authorisation of Superfund money, the EPA is up against a formidable opponent in the Reagan Administration. Passing laws is only one side of the coin. Having enough money and staff to carry them out is quite another. Violations at legitimate disposal sites usually draw only a warning letter, and illegal dumpers stand every chance of escaping EPA's thin net of 35 criminal investigators.

Cartoon: R Cobb In a large part the revolving door between industry and the agency is responsible for the EPA's poor record. Sweetheart deals with dumpers have left the federal government stuck with millions of dollars in clean-up costs while absolved corporate executives take their liability releases, gained through token clean-up agreements, and run. A government attorney who is prosecuting a waste disposal company for violations one day may be on that company's payroll the next. In fact this is the ambition of many.

At the same time industries producing hazardous wastes have stepped up their political activities. No major environmental law passed Congress in Reagan's first term. Even valuable programs like the Clean Water and Clean Air Acts have not been renewed.

The growing power of the chemical industry on Capitol Hill is matched by the campaign contributions handed out by the companies. One recent comparison of political contributions by chemical companies to votes on Superfund reauthorisation for instance showed a near exact correlation between large gifts and lousy votes.

The tale of the EPA is a sad one. William Drayton of the Environmental Safety group, says it took 'an enormous movement in American history' to develop a national consensus that the US would provide public health protection against chemical contaminants. But what followed, says Drayton, was a 'classic Greek tragedy. Enter stage right the Reagan revolution with its enormous ideological antagonism to regulation of any sort.' Reagan would do well to listen to what the voters say. In a recent Time poll, 79 per cent of Americans said that not enough has been done to clean up toxic waste sites. More surprisingly, when asked 'Would you be willing to pay higher state and local taxes to fund clean-up programs in your area', 64 per cent answered yes.

The real problem, thinks Drayton, is that the US has 'a leader who just doesn't understand what all those Latin-named chemicals are and what they do.'

Eric Draper works with the National Campaign Against Toxic Hazards in Washington.

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Rensselaer Researchers Predict the Electrical Response of Metals to Extreme Pressures

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Rensselaer Researchers Predict the Electrical Response of Metals to Extreme Pressures

Findings Published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Could Have Applications in Computer Chip Design

Research published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences makes it possible to predict how subjecting metals to severe pressure can lower their electrical resistance, a finding that could have applications in computer chips and other materials that could benefit from specific electrical resistance.

The semiconductor industry has long manipulated materials like silicon through the use of pressure, a strategy known as “strain engineering,” to improve the performance of transistors. But as the speed of transistors has increased, the limited speed of interconnects – the metal wiring between transistors – has become a barrier to increased computer chip speed. The published research paper, “Pressure Enabled Phonon Engineering in Metals,” opens the door to a new variant of strain engineering that can be applied to the metal interconnects, and other materials used to conduct or insulate electricity.

“We looked at a fundamental physical property, the resistivity of a metal, and show that if you pressurize these metals, resistivity decreases. And not only that, we show that the decrease is specific to different materials – aluminum will show one decrease, but copper shows another decrease,” said Nicholas Lanzillo, a doctoral candidate at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and lead author on the study. “This paper explains why different materials see different decreases in these fundamental properties under pressure.”

The research involved theoretical predictions, use of a supercomputer, and experimentation with equipment capable of exerting pressures up to 40,000 atmospheres (nearly 600,000 pounds per square inch). It was made possible through a collaboration between three Rensselaer professors – Saroj Nayak, a professor of physics, applied physics, and astronomy; Morris Washington, associate director of the Center for Materials, Devices, and Integrated Systems and professor of practice of physics, applied physics, and astronomy; and E. Bruce Watson, Institute Professor of Science, and professor of earth and environmental sciences and of materials science and engineering – with a diverse mix of disciplinary backgrounds and skill sets. Jay Thomas, a senior research scientist in Watson’s lab, was primarily responsible for designing the complex experiments detailed in the paper.

When an electrical current is applied to metal, electrons travel through a lattice structure formed by the individual metal atoms, carrying the current along the wiring. But as an electron travels, it is impeded by the normal collective vibration of atoms in the lattice, which is one of the factors that leads to electrical resistance. In physics, the vibration is called phonon, and the resistance it creates by coupling with electrons is known as electron-phonon coupling, a quantum mechanical feature that amplifies strongly at the atomic scale.

Lanzillo and Nayak, his doctoral adviser, said earlier research using the Center for Computational Innovations – the Rensselaer supercomputer – showed that electron phonon coupling varies depending on the scale of the wiring: nanoscale wire has typically higher resistance than ordinary size, or “bulk,” wiring.

“Our goal was to understand what limits the resistivity, what accounts for the different resistance at the atomic scale,” said Nayak. “Our earlier findings showed that sometimes the resistance of the same metal in bulk and at the atomic scale could change by a factor of 10. That’s a big number in terms of resistivity.”

The researchers wanted to conduct experiments to confirm their findings, but doing so would have required making atomic-scale wires, and measuring the electron-phonon coupling as a current passed through the wire, both difficult tasks. Then they saw an alternative, based on the observation that atoms were closer together in the atomic scale lattice than in bulk lattice.

“We theorized that if we compress the bulk wire, we might be able to create a condition where the atoms are closer to each other, to mimic the conditions at the atomic scale,” said Nayak.

They approached Watson and Washington to execute an experiment to test their finding.

Washington and Nayak have long collaborated through the New York State Interconnect Focus Center at Rensselaer, which researches new material systems for the next generation of interconnects in semiconductor integrated circuits with a strong interest in interconnects at dimensions of less than 20 nanometers. Existing experimental data indicated that the resistivity of copper – the current preferred interconnect material – increases as the wiring size dips below 50 nanometers. One goal of the center is to suggest materials and structures for integrated circuit interconnects smaller than 20 nanometers, which often involves fabricating and characterizing experimental thin film structures with the resources of the Rensselaer Micro and Nano Fabrication Clean Room. With this background, Washington was critical to coordinating the experimental research.

To pressurize the metals, the group turned to Watson, a geochemist who routinely subjects materials to enormous pressures to simulate conditions in the depths of the Earth. Watson had never experimented with the electrical properties of metal wires under pressure – a process that posed a number of technical challenges. Nevertheless, he was intrigued by the theoretical findings, and he and Thomas worked together to design the high-pressure experiments that provided information on the electrical resistivity of aluminum and copper at pressures up to 20,000 atmospheres.

Working together, the team was able to demonstrate that the theoretical calculations were correct.

“The experimental results were vital to the study because they confirmed that Saroj and Nick’s quantum mechanical calculations are accurate – their theory of electron-phonon coupling was validated,” said Watson. “And I think we would all argue that theory backed up by experimental confirmation makes the best science.”

The authors said the research offers a new and exciting capability to predict the response of the resistivity to pressure through computer simulations. The research demonstrates that changes in resistivity can be achieved in thin film nanowires by using strain in combination with existing semiconductor wafer fabrication techniques and material. Because of this work, the physical properties and performance of a large number of metals can be further explored in a computer, saving time and expense of wafer fabrication runs.

Lanzillo said the results are a complete package.

“We can make this prediction with a computer simulation but it’s much more salient if we can get experimental confirmation,” said Lanzillo. “If we can go to a lab and actually take a block of aluminum and a block of copper and pressurize them and measure the resistivity. And that’s what we did. We made the theoretical prediction, and then our friends and colleagues in experiment are able to verify it in the lab and get quantitatively accurate results in both.”

Funding for the research was partially supported by the National Science Foundation Integrative Graduate Education in Research and Traineeship (IGERT) Fellowship, Grant No. 0333314, as well as the Interconnect Focus Center (MARCO program) of New York state. Computing resources provided by the Center for Computational Innovations at Rensselaer, partly funded by the state of New York.

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Miller, a 43-year-old Ahwatukee Foothills resident and former campaign worker for U.S. Sen. John McCain, was re-elected to a second one-year term last month. He said constant verbal attacks after that election and Internet blog posts by some local members with Tea Party ties made him worry about his family’s safety.

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It was about this time 7 years ago that I first stepped into a Nia class.  One dance was all it took.  One dance completely and irrevocably changed my life.Truthfully? The 3rd song in was it for me.

I could feel something awaken, something that had long ago been surrendered to conformity and compliance.  I left the class riding bliss, which I had experienced to a much lesser degree through drugs and alcohol, and neither could compare to the floating freedom that had been stirred by Nia.

One class and 6 weeks later, I was in Prince George taking my White Belt.  Yeah, love makes me do crazy things. And I was in love, with feeling like me or perhaps feeling the stirrings of that the beginning of a deep love affair with me was about to begin. Fast forward to 2012. Now I have Blue, Brown, and Black Belts hanging in my closet.  The belts are lovely, the trainings life expanding and totally life altering which led me all the way Me. Finding me. And, with that, allowing myself to meet the most amazing souls I never even knew walked this blessed planet.

Why do you practice and/or teach Nia?

Why? This is why. One of my favorite memories in teaching Nia is meeting Cathy. When she first came to my class in Coaldale, SA, I sensed a quiet reservation and hesistancy. A bit of a shell to crack. (I do enjoy the challenge of cracking a dancer's exterior, watching the fissure of light be released. And, yes, we are ALL dancers.)

Skip ahead a couple years and Cathy became a pioneer of Nia in Cochrane (another small city in Alberta). Why this story of Cathy? Well, to be honest, few inspire me the way Cathy does. I call her My Lovely Goddess of Grace.  Once I had the pleasure of experiencing her light, I was never to be the same again.  Ooozing grace, life as art, and easy sensuality are some of my favorite qualities of Cathy.

My knowings of Cathy are only in the cocoon of love that Nia so easily creates.   My Goddess Cathy has been a warrior of Grace and Beauty bringing said qualities into every Nia class she has taught or partaken in.  Even after having had her upteenth surgery, this time to remove a growth next to her voice box, she brought 9 Nia instructors together in Sacred Sisterhood.

We were treated like Goddess, showered with the sacred energy of femininity and wisdom.  Cathy was teaching classes last week with barely a voice to be heard and still  the determination to teach what makes her feel alive.  Why do I practice Nia?  Where else am I going to meet such amazing human BEings?

Where and with whom do you take Nia classes and/or trainings?

I am blessed with my own space, Studio Om Lila, in Claresholm, AB.  I also travel to Lethbridge, Pincher Creek, and Okotoks to spread this intoxicating and life altering practice.  Why? Because I love to feel alive and Nia is the best drug I have ever had.

What is one thing most people don't know about Nia?

That JOY, our birthright, is so easily accesible in class.

What tip can you give someone who is considering trying Nia for the first time?

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Letter -- Regarding the Principles for Modernizing the Military Compensation and Retirement Systems

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No Friendly, No More Insua

I was hoping to write about Liverpool's first friendly today. Lord knows I'd much rather "analyze" matters on the pitch. Ha.

Instead, after postponing and then canceling the game against Al-Hilal due to torrential rain in Austria, the official site announced that the rumored Insua to Fiorentina link is a done deal. When it rains, it pours...

I expected bad things to happen this summer. I still expect more. But I did not expect the sale of Emiliano Insua.

Don't get me wrong; "worse" things can happen. And, yes, I admittedly have more time for the player than most, having been firmly on the bandwagon since his debut against Pompey in April 2007. But this sale makes zero sense.

He is young, on comparably low wages, and would have counted as a homegrown player come next season. He was the only senior left back at the club. The deal will reap all of £4-5m, which will scarcely be enough to purchase any new left back, let alone keep "bigger names" at the club. This move is stupid and short-sighted any way you look at it.

More ominously, this came out exactly one week ago:
“I saw him play in the last three days and I like him both as a player and on a personal level,” Hodgson told Radio Blu in Florence.

“However, talks with Fiorentina started before I got here, so I don’t know how advanced they are.

“I cannot say if Insua will stay at Liverpool or not. I’ll have to discuss that with the club.”
Super. It's not proof, but it's yet another sign the bankers (read: Purslow) are running the club. I doubt Hodgson's seen enough in the past week to change his mind, and it's exceptionally strange Insua came along on the Swiss training camp. It also, again, begs the question of who's running the football side of the club, but, sadly, I don't think that question needs answering.

The only, only explanation I came come up with is that it's "senior sources" yet again. Insua was a scapegoat last season, even though he played more games than expected because of Aurelio's inability to stay fit and the sale of Dossena for working capital. I can't help but think that, like with Rafa, the media's doing Liverpool's business through Cecil. Picking off the players that Purslow thinks the fans will make the least fuss over, even if they're the young prospects the team should be built off of. Wonderful.

Despite last season's difficulties, Insua still had five Premiership assists, six in all competitions, which made him joint-third in the squad (Gerrard and Benayoun had more in all competitions; Gerrard and Aquilani had more in the league). Yes, he was beaten like a rented mule at times last season, but he thrown into the deep end with bricks tied to his ankles. His acceleration and pace on the turn are questionable, but otherwise, he's always an above-average attacking fullback and will only get better defensively. And he is 21 years old. Other than Ashley Cole and Gael Clichy, I'm struggling to come up with any left-backs who've been defensively solid or made the breakthrough in the Prem at that age.

I am so baffled and irate about this transfer. And I'm sure it won't be the last time before the end of August.

Ed said...

If I can speak freely, it's a fucking joke.

In the midst of him playing so much last season I forgot that he was 21 and essentially saved Liverpool's ass after Dossena busted and Aurelio couldn't get fit. He needed a spell during the late winter months (and who didn't), but he kept his head down and played his ass off.

To sell him at this point is absolutely baffling--two weeks away from a competitive match and Liverpool don't have a left back.

nate said...

Hey, thanks Ed, that brings up a good point I forgot to mention.

Liverpool has exactly 12 days to buy a left back in order to register him for the Europa League. I'm almost positive any sales after that date are ineligible until after the group stage.

It was already obvious that Liverpool was looking for a left back. Now clubs will try and hold them to ransom knowing this deadline.

Way to concede any negotiating leverage, Cecil. Seems like piss poor money management from a banker...

Mike Georger said...

I don't know if I'd prefer Agger or Taiwo right now, but I'm guessing those are the two options.

drew said...

Not worried about if we get a player registered, just who it will be. We'll likely pick up some left back from the Norwegian third divsion or something.

It increasingly feels like Liverpool FC has become Purslow's own private version of Football Manager. Ponder this: we are a poorly-run financial shambles by the standards of high-dollar football teams. The mind boggles.

Anonymous said...

But in his version of FM2010 it's all about asset stripping. Why on earth would any player be convinced to stay now? No left back with very few prospects with very little time. Insane. Really insane.

nate said...

Agger is a centerback, dammit. And as long as Marseille want £7-8m for Taiwo, Liverpool has as much chance of getting him as Evra.

But hey, by my count, Liverpool's made more than £18m profit since January 2010 (Out: Dossena, Voronin, Mihaylov, Benayoun, San Jose, Insua. In: Maxi, Shelvey, Jovanovic), so maybe we will get Evra!

Very rarely do I write something and wish I ranted more stridently in retrospect. There's a first time for everything, I guess. However, in anger, I did forget to wish Insua the best of luck. I kind of don't mean it, since I'm still very bitter he's been sold, but I eventually will.

Mike Georger said...

He's also the best passing centerback we have and from the current roster who is a better option? Don't want it to happen, but it may be what he has to do. Either way I refuse to believe they're so stupid that they don't realize there isn't a LB now. Though that's probably a ridiculous assumption to continue making.

I would prefer Agger over Pranjic though. Midfielder who couldn't get in at midfield then kept out of the side at left back by a twenty year old and nineteen year old. Fuck no.

Anonymous said...

It's so much bigger than just a LB. I don't think Insua was a great prospect by any means - mentally he was lazy and he wasn't particularly impressive at either end of the pitch. He wouldn't be first or 2nd choice on any top team. However, he is a decent back up for our current mid-tier squad and given the fact that we no longer have a back up, it was extremely reasonable to have him stay on.

But who cares about all that - we have people with NO football experience making transfers and setting our first team. It's just another sign of the imminent implosion.

nate said...

We may disagree about Insua, JP, but you're absolutely right on the larger point.

As much as I try to keep the bigger picture in mind, I tend to focus on the football aspects even though they're fairly irrelevant at this point.

I wish I could just write about the football, but the four horsemen of the apocalypse have made that impossible.

Anonymous said...

Yeah, rearranging the deck chairs etc. Hard to not talk about the owners. So much rot.

I was looking forward to the match today because the offseason has been awful to sit through. Nothing like football to make things bearable. But a terrible start for Hodgson - he looks like a big time sucker right now and his quote about Purslow is downright frightening. I didn't pick him to be the patsy type, but as things stand right now that's exactly what he sounds like. How do you let someone sell your only left back with 10 days before registration?

This is a really, really scary development. A small percent of me thinks that some sort of plan must be in place because right now things are absolutely haywire.

Noel said...

Football's the accessible point, though; it's something that as fans and supporters one feels a connection to as armchair manager. A part of me says, well, of course it's about more than the footballing side of it, but that aspect to it--that a man brought in to drum up investment and take care of the financials who largely failed at that and has no footballing knowledge is now the de facto general manager of the club making management and player decisions apparently based on the whims of the English press who write their stores based on the lines he feeds them as an anonymous senior source and meanwhile he's lying through his teeth saying things about how players won't be shipped out without the input of the new coach/manager who is now making as many noises as he can to let the world know he doesn't get a say in who's coming or going on the squad and... so forth in a continuingly stream of thought manner....

That aspect of it's not especially easy to get a handle on. It's foreign to the sports fan's usual experience. And it's bleak as fuck, really. In continuing news, Hicks and Gillet and Boughton and Purslow continued to fuck us over, a large portion of the support still doesn't really seem to see a problem, the media on the whole still doesn't seem to see a problem, and while sponsorship and TV dollars are there they probably don't give a damn about any cute little rants and protests and petitions. Meanwhile, ranting about the stupidity of selling an English trained Left Back and the only one on the squad for around £4M when any quality replacement would cost more than that and still need a back up in any case, and that even if you're one of those who believes that at 21 years old Insua was a failed experiment as a top line starter (though given how few genuine quality fullbacks you see before the age of 24-25 I don't tend to buy this) it should be obvious that it's a daft footballing move, is a rant that's much easier to feel a bit of passion for rather than complete despair.

I get wanting to re-arrange deck chairs on the Titanic. Mostly because I've very rarely in the past felt so much desire to re-arrange the deck chairs. And anybody out here swapping things around who doesn't have as a given starting point that the captain and his mates should be shot will get tossed into the water post haste. Though perhaps I'm stretching the metaphor too far.

Matty said...

I remember when we used to have 3 left backs at the club...wasn't that long ago either. Surely they'll have to sign SOMEBODY for left back now. If we got Taiwo I'd feel a bit better about this whole thing. He's class and still has a lot ahead of him at 25. What are your thoughts on him Nate?

nate said...

Taiwo's a tidy player; I was impressed with him when Liverpool played Marseille, especially in the November 2008 game. But, as said above, Marseille's been so vehement about him not being for sale that I'd be stunned if he came. Even if OM does decide to sell, which doesn't look likely, I'd assume he's out of Liverpool's price range.

Matty said...

Thanks Nate. At least it's encouraging to see some kind of positive movement in the transfer market for us. Hopefully now Roy & Co. will focus on some of those gaping holes in our squad. But still, it's kind of hard to complain about snatching up Joe from under 'arry's nose.


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His Eminence, the Most Reverend Nicholas (Nalimov) of Vladimir and Suzdal was a bishop of the Church of Russia and the second archbishop of the Diocese of Finland serving during the period from 1899 to 1905.

Nicholas Alexrandorvich Nalimov was born on July 17, 1852 in Novaya Ladoga near Lake Lodoga in Russia. After Nicholas completed his basic education through high school and college, he was tonsured a monk in 1885 with the name Nicholas. In 1886, he was appointed to lead the Smolensk Seminary as an archimandrite. In 1889, he moved to the position of rector of the seminary at the Alexander Nevsky Lavra in St. Petersburg. In 1890, he was consecrated Bishop of Ladoga, vicar to the Eparchy of St. Petersburg. A few years later he was appointed Bishop of Saratov and Tsaritsin.

In 1899, Bp. Nicholas was appointed Archbishop of Finland. During the period of his episcopate, Abp. Nicholas was confronted with unrest by the Finnish population to the Russian presence. Repressive measures by the imperial government reflected on his efforts as church leader who was from the Russian Church.

During his administration, Abp. Nicholas established a large number of religious schools in the Karelian area of Finland. He also sponsored the construction of a number of new churches, including the large Ss. Nicholas, completed in 1903, and Alexander Nevsky Church in Kuopio and St. Nicholas Church in Tuusula.

The status of the Orthodox Church in Finland was confirmed during his tenure, although it was not popular with the Finnish national figures. Their discontent was due to political and not idealogical dissatisfaction. After the Russian loss in the Russo-Japanese war and the assassination of the Finnish Governor-General Nicholas Bobrikov in 1904, Abp. Nicholas was transferred in 1905 to Georgia as the Archbishop of Tbilisi.

Later Abp. Nicholas was appointed Archbishop of Vladimir and Suzdal. He reposed in 1914 at the age of 61.

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Nicholas (Nalimov) of Vladimir
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Mitrophan (Nevsky)
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Melchizedek (Payevsky)
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Avraamy (Letnitsky)
Bishop of Saratov and Tsaritsyn
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Anthony (Vadkovsky)
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Alexius (Opotsky)
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Meal Planning

One of the easiest and most important tools we have incorporated into our kitchen is the meal plan.

Meal plans come in many shapes and sizes. A meal plan can be created by meal, by day, or by type of food/nutrient (so as to ensure you are including all in your daily eating). People use meal plans to keep track of calories, portion sizes or nutrient content. They can help you organize one or more meals per day, prepare a shopping list and incorporate foods into your diet that you have been meaning to but never have. They can be very simple to very detailed. It all depends on what you want to accomplish.

For us, we were tired of last minute decisions about dinner, made while we were hungry at the end of the day and with often missing or unprepared ingredients. We wanted to save money by eating out less, both at dinner, when the end of the day rolls around and we are too tired to decided what to eat let alone cook, and at lunch without leftovers, dinner out would often mean lunch out the next day.

Save money

  • Now, I shop from a list made from our plan and I don’t deviate, so that has decreased our grocery bill.
  • I’m not guessing about what we will eat. I’m not buying too much food that will go uneaten and wasted.
  • Most recipes are 4-6 servings, so we make the full recipe and then eat the leftovers for lunch.  Neither of us are buying lunch out anymore.

Improve nutrition

  • By mapping out the week’s meals, we can balance foods each day, incorporate healthy fats, proteins, vegetables and grains.
  •  We make sure that we incorporate fish a couple times a week
  • We prepare ahead of time: we can properly prepare our beans and grains, by soaking them in filtered water and a dash of apple cider vinegar overnight or early in the morning.
  • We are almost never eating out and are in full control of the quality of the nutrients we are taking in.

 Save time

  • Since we no longer have a debate each night, we save time by planning our meals only twice a week. It was a little more time consuming when we first started, but now we are a well oiled planning machine and it takes less than 10 minutes.
  • I also save time at the grocery store. I know exactly what I am there for, so I no longer wander around or run back and forth to different departments.

Create ease around mealtimes

  • We know exactly what we are going to eat each day, so instead of debating and deciding at the end of the day, we sit down twice a week and map it out (see more about our process below). My husband and I have limited time together since he works long days, I often work evenings and weekends and we have a toddler. Decreasing the amount of time we talk about logisitical things, like what’s for dinner, gives us more quality time together on a daily basis.
  •  On busy nights, we can choose easy, quick to prepare meals or meals that whichever of us who is less busy that evening enjoy to prepare the most.

We have chosen a very simple process of creating meal plans. If you are interested in creating meal plans to track calories, nutrients or portion sizes, click here for downloadable forms or do a google search for meal planning forms.

Choosing Meals
Twice a week we sit down and choose which meals we will have over the next 3-4 days. What we choose depends on many factors, including: what each evening’s schedule is, what meat we have from our CSA in the freezer, what staples we have, who will likely feel like cooking, what is seasonal, what are our current favorite meals and many others. We eat primarily fresh foods so we do this twice a week and I go shopping twice a week, so that the vegetables, fish and meat aren’t going bad in our fridge. This can easily be done once a week using frozen or canned ingredients to streamline the process further.
As you can see from the photo, we have a reserved section of a white board in our kitchen just for our meal plan. We have chosen the simplest form or meal planning. You can write out your meal plan on a piece of paper or a form and put it on the fridge. No need to buy a fancy board or spend time hanging it!

Creating the Shopping List
Once we have chosen our meals, we use the recipes to create a shopping list. I put only the ingredients that I need on the list. I also have on my whiteboard a list of foods and household products we have out of and need to buy. As soon as we are out of something notice, we write it up there. Then I add that to my meal plan shopping list. Now, I am rarely missing something I need.

You’ll notice that we only plan dinners. We eat breakfast separately and have “staples” in our family. My husband eats his granola, yogurt and fruit every morning and my daughter and I rotate between eggs, oatmeal, pancakes, steamed greens, smoothies, sausage and bacon. So those I add to the “out of” list on the whiteboard as needed. When we make dinner we make a full or double recipe so that we can each eat the leftovers for lunch, often more than once. Another thing we do is make a big pot of soup on Sunday that is solely for lunches, in the case that we don’t have leftovers, like when we have a big salad for dinner.

We were worried that we’d wouldn’t want to eat the meal that we had planned, since we were used to just eating whatever we felt like each night. That has only happened now and then and usually it is wanting a meal that is scheduled for another day of that week so we just switch or we go out to dinner. I think there is something about choosing the meals and then seeing them posted on the wall that prepares the mind and body for that meal. I look forward to dinner time now!

I also thought that we would not stick to this and it would be another good idea we let go of. However, we have received so many benefits and it has become so easy to do that we do it religiously. I have come to depend on it to make our food shopping and preparation so much easier.

Other concerns, questions or experience with meal planning? Post in the comment section below.

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  1. this is one terrific blog, even cooking for one it will be a great help, especially not buying too much food that often gets wasted. Will you be offering a change of menus occasionally? I feel I’m in your kitchen at dinner, very welcoming and accessable. Thanks Merti Walker

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In March, just in time for Open Education Week, the Communicate OER project will launch the free course "Writing Wikipedia Articles: The Basics and Beyond" in conjunction with Peer to Peer University's new School of Open. This six week, facilitated course is designed primarily to people in the Open Educational Resources movement, which includes educators of all kinds; but all will be welcome. Those interested in teaching Wikipedia are invited to join us as we design the course. In addition to the link above, we will be developing detailed course notes on the WikiEducator site. Please feel free to edit in either place, or get in touch (via the Communicate OER talk page, @CommOER on Twitter, etc. -Pete (talk)


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a poem or many
maybe more like
prose nouns clung
to her eyelashes verbs
wet her lips articles tickled
her nose metaphors grazed her
neck exciting the stanzas lurking
behind her ears while off-rhymes
tangled themselves in her hair framing
what lay beneath her anthology’s surface

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  1. Loved it! It’s a real writer’s poem – each line carefully crafted, each word specifically chosen and perfectly placed – tingling like silver bells. Just beautiful! I’ve already read it three times!

  2. Love the play of touch and escalation in form and image, a brush with luscious syntax and a well-dressed diction. A poem to read if reality is threatening to destroy you.

    1. Noel,

      Since I respect your writings so much, your words are the loveliest of gifts wrapped up in beautiful packaging and tied with satin bows. Thanks for coming over. Yes, sometimes, poetry has the power to fend off harsh reality. Other times, the two are intertwined. Either way, a kind of catharsis.

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Whedon Wednesday :: color theory as it applies to a few Drusilla-specific Buffy promo photographs

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I love Drusilla (Juliet Landau) a lot, and I’m sure I don’t talk about her enough.  And the sets of promo photographs from season two of Dru and Spike (James Marsters) are possibly my favorite sets of promotional photographs ever.  I’m not even sure why this is, exactly; they’re not particularly out of the ordinary, as far as promotional photographs go.  I think it might in part be that I get very nostalgic about back when Dru and Spike were a thing, because they were so wonderfully malicious and weird, and I think it is also that while lots of promotional photographs have the cast assumedly in-character and posing in standstill, these sets are so on, so active.

drusilla (juliet landau)

Anyway, I also think it’s fascinating that Drusilla’s photographs (and indeed her entire season two wardrobe) fall into three distinct color palettes, each of which represents a separate part of the puzzle that is her.  There is the white dress; “white is associated with light, goodness, innocence, purity, and virginity. It is considered to be the color of perfection,” and therefore this reflects the Drusilla that was.  The whole story of Dru is, after all, that she was so innocent and good that Angel (and Darla) just had to ruin her, and in presenting so as to suggest that kind of innocence and goodness that she no longer has, she misleads observers.  Opponents do not take her so seriously at first, because what danger is a crazy child and really that’s what she is.  There is also a part of Dru that does, to whatever extent, remain that crazy child, that retains innocence, though it is corrupted.

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Then you have the shades of red.  Red (and black) are the colors that most often get associated with vampires in general, regardless of mythology or canon or personality; this is pretty obvious.  Black for darkness, red for blood.  Variants of this outfit probably get the most overall screen time, and it’s decidedly the most eclectic: top like a corset, long skirt, fur-trimmed beaded jacket, very appropriate-to-the-90s shoes.  It’s capital-r Romantic but not nearly so literally vintage as the white dress.  Red is also “emotionally intense,” which — yes, obviously, of course, the majority of crazy fictional characters (and “crazy” ones, but there’s no “” necessary for Dru, as she is 100% insane) have that particular thing in common.  Red is danger — of course, she’s a vampire — and red is strength — again, vampire — and red is “passion, desire and love” — well, yes, I’ve discussed vampire sexuality before, but Dru is one of the Buffyverse’s more overtly sexual vamps to be sure, and what with the “we can love quite well, if not wisely” business, she’s one of the vampires who arguably was in a kind of love with another vampire.  Dark red additionally has “longing, malice and wrath,” the first of which foreshadows the inevitable fate of her relationship with Spike and matches the fate of the Whirlwind as a whole, the latter two of which are fairly inherent, though hers is less of a directed malice and more a malice-for-fun’s-sake.

drusilla (juliet landau)

And finally, you have Drusilla in black.  Black for darkness (she is a vampire, she is of the night), black for mystery (who in the heck knows what she’s talking about half the time?  Also, she is a vampire), black for evil (again, vampire, and one with a reputation at that).  There is something to putting vampires in black old-fashioned outfits, highlighting a certain level of inherent mourning that comes with being the undead, but it is especially potent with Drusilla, who either wants to mourn or to kill, maybe to kill and then mourn by dancing in the ashes.

–your fangirl heroine.

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  1. MistressCinder May 2013 at 5:59 am #

    Dru is a one of my all time favs. Thanks for taking the time to analyze how her character was promoted.

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The Coaching Game

There is much written about coaching specifically how effective coaching benefits employees and in turn their employer.  If you ask any manager if they believe in coaching as a way to improve employee performance and behavior, the answer most likely uttered would be “yes.”  The more experienced, skillful managers will likely know how to go about it. These managers know that coaching can be an important tool used to manage subordinate performance and an effective method for “teaching” others effective performance skills.

But do you know what to do when employees refuse to participate in coaching or rather play games in an effort to get out of being coached?  I am not saying employees are devious by nature. But even when you as the manager approach a coaching session with constructive intent, some employees will feel they are being scolded, manipulated, or otherwise disrespected.  And the evasive actions begin.  Listed below are some common employee diversionary coaching tactics, along with suggestions for stopping them:

  1. Let the Accusations begin.  As a manager, it is not unheard of that we may have to coach an employee whose behavioral problems were reported by co-workers. And we have all seen the employee that is being coached begin to lash out at us: “Who said that about me? Somebody’s trying to get me in trouble and I have a right to know who”.  As managers, we know it does not matter who reported the behavior, as long as the reports are accurate.  Tactic:  Remember that as managers we have confidentiality on our side.  A good response can be: “I understand you wanting to know the source of this information. But I keep my discussions with others confidential, as I do my discussions with you. So let’s focus on the issue and not who said what.”
  2. Playing the Comparison Game.  Another common employee ploy is to point out others who supposedly have the same problem and sometimes they even make the other employee’s problem worse: “Employee Y has a higher error rate than me. Or Employee X does it too.  Are you talking to them too?”  Tactic:  A good way to get over this obstacle would be to say: “If there’s an issue with Employee X or Y, I’ll talk with them. But right now we need to stay focused on your error rate and what’s been causing it.”
  3. The Pre-emptive Strike.  Employees usually have a good idea what the coaching session is about, and try to pre-empt it by saying things such as “You don’t have to tell me. I already know what you’re going to say. I’ve made a few mistakes lately but I promise that’s going to stop.”  As the manager, you should not let that end the coaching session. There’s much more that needs to be said, and done.  Tactic:   Do not let the employee divert.  Acknowledge and agree and set your expectations such as:  “It’s great you realize there’s a problem, because that will make it easier to solve. But I need to make sure you’re very clear on my view of the situation and my expectations.”
  4. The Denial or Minimizing.  Even if employees know what they’ve done, be prepared for them to deny it hoping that you will back down: “It’s not true that I talk inappropriately.”  Or the employee may feel that the facts are too clear to deny and will try to minimize them: “Sure, I don’t follow standard procedures. But why does it matter? I always get the work done.”  Tactic:  A good response: “If you don’t talk inappropriately, we have no problem. But I’ve gotten some feedback that’s different, so we are here to talk about that.”  Also, “It is great that you get the work done but it is important to follow procedures because of x, y, and z.”
  5. Deflection:  The employee admits there’s a problem, but claims they are not to blame. “These issues we are talk about, I’m never the one who starts them. It’s usually Employee X or Y.”  Tactic:  A good tactic to stop this diversion is to remind the employee that you are less concerned about who started what and want to set expectations on how to help avoid repeating these situations in the future.

Do you agree or disagree?  Have you faced these or similar diversion tactics from your employees?  How have you handled the situation?

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Hello and welcome. My name is Patricia Knight. Thank you for taking the time to view my blog. I’m a Human Resources professional who is currently pursing an MBA at the University of Nevada-Reno. I am an analytical, detail-oriented professional who believes that collaboration and negotiation are critical for successful employee relations between leadership and employees.

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  1. peterthorburn says:

    A good tactic to use as a coach is listen more than you talk. Let the employee speak. Direct the conversation but listening to the employee will get to the root of any problem.

    Nice post Patricia!

    • Thanks Peter! I agree that listening is very important and unfortunately not used very well. Good managers know that half the battle is allowing the employee to get out what they feel about problem to begin the process of fixing it. I hope you are doing well.

  2. peterthorburn says:

    I’m doing great, thanks!

    Even if we know we have to listen first, we have to remember that fact in the heat of the moment!

    • I could not agree with you more. Just the other day, during a coaching moment, I let the employee get to me & forgot to listen. Needless to say, it went downhill from there & took awhile to get focused again.

      • peterthorburn says:

        We are human and prone to mistakes. Taking responsibility is important so we don’t so readily repeat those mistakes again and again. I’m sure you learned from the situation and that is the take-away.

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Peel District School Board

Dunrankin Drive Public School Child and Family Learning Centre

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Alternate Name Readiness Centre (Dunrankin Dr. P.S.)
Description The PDSB Child and Family Learning Centres are FREE, drop-in social and educational programming. No pre-registration is required.
A parent, grandparent or primary caregiver (i.e. babysitter) must accompany the child/ren, so they can learn together in a welcoming and stimulating environment.
Active participation in a variety of social and educational activities sets a strong foundation for lifelong learning, behaviour and health.
The Child and Family Learning Centre program offers:
- an opportunity for children to learn literacy, numeracy and social skills through play (i.e. art, circle time, free play, reading activities)
- emotional/physical development for children and social support for parents/caregivers
- support for parents/caregivers in all aspects of early childhood development, literacy, numeracy and parenting
- parents/caregivers an opportunity to connect with community agencies through information sharing and referrals
Your family is welcome to attend any of Child and Family Learning Centres, regardless of where you live in Peel.
Please bring indoor shoes for you and your child and clothing appropriate for outdoor play.
This CFLC is staffed with an ECE Lead Teacher and part-time Community Outreach Worker.
Hours Mon-Fri:
8:40am - 11:40am
12:40pm - 3:10pm
Dates Sept - June
Areas Served Malton ; Mississauga - Morning Star Dr/Darcel Ave
Boundaries Region of Peel
Eligibility Ages: 4 year(s) and under
All children must be accompanied by a parent, grandparent or caregiver (i.e. babysitter).
Application The PDSB Child and Family Learning Centres are FREE, drop-in social and educational programming.
No pre-registration is required.
Fees None
Languages English ; Interpretive Services
Contact Information
Address & Map
Dunrankin Drive Public School
3700 Dunrankin Drive
Mississauga, ON L4T 1V9
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Site Location Dunrankin Drive Public School
Intersection Darcel Ave. and Dunrankin Dr.
Accessibility Fully Accessible
Office Phone 905-677-2202
Fax 905-677-6895
Primary Contact Liese Rilling, Lead Teacher; Phone: 905-677-2202; Email:
Alternate Contact Sonya Trines, Community Outreach Worker; Phone: 905-677-5844; Email:
Primary Executive Sunita Joshi, Principal; Email:
Alternate Executive Susan Stanford, Susan Stanford, Family Centres Leader; Phone: 905-890-1010 ext 2363; Email:
Other Details
Print Material CFLC information pamphlets are available, upon request.
Please contact Sonya Trines, Community Outreach Worker.
Established 1 Sept 1999
Funding Regional / Municipal - Peel District School Board
Service Level (50) Non Profit
Subjects Early childhood education ; Learning centres

Every effort is made to ensure that the information in this database is accurate, up-to-date, and comprehensive. Community Information Partners Peel cannot assume liability resulting from errors or omissions. Inclusion or omission of a program or service is not a comment on its quality.


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Kangpul’s sunjongmanhwa everyone may be don’t know but Kangin hyung is in this movie!

My house is at Seokke. One day that i woke up late bcuz of my lazy. Kangin hyung who never called me before just call me. I answer the phone and ask “what’s the matter?” He told that he shoot the drama near my house. Bcuz the drama just begin shooting so he didn’t close with anyone, he ask me to be with him kkkkk
So i went and don’t know anything, just walk around and greet staffs and director. When it’s Kangin hyung’s turn,he must get in subway for 20 times. We had lunch together and i’m back home to continue sleeping

If there’s subway scence ,pls look carefully may be there’s my head in the camera

awwwww…thats so sweet of Kyu 🙂

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Posted: April 15, 2012 by Daniel Simpson (PG Cooper) in Commentary, Lists

My Movie Year is a project started by Fandango Groovers Movie Blog where bloggers are to choose their favourite year in film, and five films that exemplify why. I thought it be fine so I’m giving it a shot.

The year I’m picking is 2004. Now I wanna make it clear that I don’t think this is the finest year in cinema history. Heck it might not even be my favourite. But it was a great year, and my five films are all very different from each other, and 2004 seemed a more unconventional pick. With that in mind, here are my five favourite films from 2004, from least favourite to favourite.

5. The Aviator

 Release date: December 25th, 2004

Running time: 2 hours and 49 minutes

Written by: John Logan

Based on: The novel “Howard Hughes: The Secret Life” by Charles Higham

Directed by: Martin Scorsese

Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Cate Blanchett, and Alan Alda

Biopics became extremely common in the last decade, but Martin Scorsese’s The Aviator is anything but common. The movie focuses on the life of Howard Hughes from 1927 to1947. Extensive focus is given to his success in film, his relationship with actress Katharine Hepburn, and the struggles he and his airline faced. The film is just shy of three hours, and yet never drags for a second. John Logan’s script is always interesting and features great dialogue. Scorsese also brings some great things to the film visually, and I especially love the colour scheme. In many ways, this is Scorsese’s biggest and most epic film. I also love the way Scorsese choose to portray Hughes’ OCD. Speaking of Hughes, I think Leonardo DiCaprio gives the best performance of his career as the brilliant but borderline insane Howard Hughes. I also think Cate Blanchett delivers her best performance as Katharine Hepburn.

4. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

 Release date: June 4th, 2004

Running time: 2 hours and 22 minutes

Written by: Steve Kloves

Based on: The novel of the same name by JK Rowling

Directed by: Alfonso Cuarón

Starring: Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, and Emma Watson

The first two Potter films are good movies, but they are a bit kiddish and have a lot of problems. Prisoner of Azkaban
really elevated the series. This is a film that is far darker than the previous installments, and eliminated all the major problems from the first two films. The three leads really step up their game, and Radcliffe especially really shines here. The film also has the added bonus of having Gary Oldman as Sirius Black. Not only was this film the darkest at the time, but it also stands out as being the most fun film of the series. It’s hard to imagine how director Alfonso Cuarón pulled such a feat off, but he did. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban is a great film and a definite highlight of the series, for my more detailed thoughts, click here.

3. Collateral

Release date: August 5th, 2004

Running time: 120 minutes

Written by: Stuart Beattie, Michael Mann, and Frank Darabont

Directed by: Michael Mann

Starring: Tom Cruise, Jamie Foxx, and Mark Ruffalo

Collateral is practically made of awesome. The basic premise is great. A cab driver has to drive an assassin around all night. Tom Cruise gives the coolest performance of his career, and one of his best for that matter, as the calculating and badass assassin Vincent. Jamie Foxx is also great as the cab driver tormented by Vincent. Stuart Beattie’s script is excellent, and Michael Mann gives the film a beautiful look. Collateral is one of those films that stays just as good every time I see it, for my full thoughts, click here.

2. Kill Bill Volume Two

Release date: April 16th, 2004

Running time: 136 minutes

Written by: Quentin Tarantino

Directed by: Quentin Tarantino

Starring: Uma Thurman, David Carradine, and Michael Madsen

Quentin Tarantino’s first Kill Bill is an awesome film, but it wasn’t the deepest of stories. Or at least it appeared that way, until Tarantino’s Kill Bill Volume Two came out and proved there was a lot more going on. The film studies revenge, death, and enemies in a fascinating way. Tarantino’s script is also excellent, featuring great dialogue and story structure. Tarantino also shows more style in Kill Bill than he does in any of his other films. The cast is also great. Uma Thurman creates one of the strongest action heroes of all time, and David Carradine and Michael Madsen are also excellent. Kill Bill Volume Two is an epic revenge film, for my full thoughts, click here.

1. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Release date: March 19th, 2004

Running time: 1 hour and 49 minutes

Written by: Charlie Kaufman

Directed by: Michel Gondry

Starring: Jim Carrey, Kate Winslet, and Tom Wilkinson

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. I love this movie. I think it’s one of the greatest films of all time. Everything from the acting, to the writing, to the directing is done flawlessly. I can’t think of another film so thought provoking while also being so emotionally stirring. It’s a film I think everyone should see. In truth, I don’t want to say too much about the film because it’s one I definitely want to talk about at length in future posts. So I’ll end with this; the first time I saw Eternal Sunshine, I was so blown away that I watched the film three more times that same week. I’ve never done that for any other film, before or since.

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  2. Great choices, thanks for taking part.

  3. Henke says:

    Great list PGC. Your no 1 is on my all time greatest. My top 5 of 2004: 5: Kill Bill 2, 4. Azkaban, 3: Eurotrip, 2: Before sunset, 1: Eternal sunshine…

  4. mettemk says:

    Love your choice!
    The Aviator was wonderful, though I wouldn’t re-watch it – and I think Cate’s best performance was Im Not There.
    Harry Potter 3 is my favourite movie and book of the series, and it was the first one I saw in the theater.
    And finally, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind is one of my absolute favourites!

    • pgcooper1939 says:

      Cate is excellent in I’m Not There. I still lean toward her work in The Aviator, but she’s brilliant in both. Azkaban was my favourite in the series until The Deathly Hallows Part Two. And yeah, Eternal Sunshine is great.

  5. ianthecool says:

    Nice. 2004 is not a year I usually think about when it comes to movies, but you’ve got some good ones in your list.

    • pgcooper1939 says:

      2004 didn’t strike me as my movie year right away, but when I was looking through my movies by year, I suddenly realized what a great selection 2004 had.

  6. Bondo says:

    2004 was probably the top year that didn’t make the cut, though oddly for none of the films you picked. I’d go with The Woodsman, Innocence, Garden State, Sideways, Vera Drake…man, I could go on forever. I like every film you picked and still only Harry Potter made my top-25 for the year.

    • pgcooper1939 says:

      The only ones of those I’ve seen are Vera Drake and Sideways.

      I have to ask…how did Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind NOT make your top 25?

      • Bondo says:

        It was probably in my top-5 at the end of 2004 but watching a lot more 2004 films (seen 149 of them) combined with a less enthusiastic rewatch two years ago dropped it. I’m not really on board with the whole Kaufman-Gondry-Jonze triumvirate.

  7. Alan says:

    This is the first list so far where I’ve actually seen all the movies. Some great choices here.

  8. twodudereview says:

    I enjoyed The Aviator and Kill Bill Vo. 2 and loved Prisoner of Azkaban. Collateral is a very underrated film, and I’m glad to see it make your top 5. I hate to say it, but I’ve never seen Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. I have extreme difficulties watching Jim Carrey films. I thought The Passion and Million Dollar Baby were also pretty good for the year.

    Thanks for sharing!

    • pgcooper1939 says:

      Haven’t seen The Passion of the Christ, but I’m with you on Million Dollar Baby, great movie. Another film that almost made this list was The Incredibles.

      Even if you’re not a Carrey fan, Eternal Sunshine is phenomenal and well worth your time.

  9. Amazing choices and so diverse!!

  10. Dave says:

    A very, very memorable year, and if I chose this year, our lists would be highly similar. I’d probably find a spot in there for Bad Santa and Before Sunset, but no idea who I would sacrifice! :-)

  11. zombieboy79 says:

    Solid list and definitely a big fan of Kaufman and Eternal Sunshine, but man no love for Ron Burgandy?! Also, I gotta think that Collatoral was one of Tom Cruises finer performances, such a great flick.

  12. alec96 says:

    Can’t disagree, especially when one of my favorite movies of all time is there, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.

  13. Eric says:

    Cool choices! This reminded me that I really need to revisit Eternal Sunshine… I wasn’t as impressed when I saw it years ago, but my tastes have changed drastically since then. I get the feeling I would like it a lot more today.

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In recent years, neologicists have demonstrated that Hume's principle, based on the one-to-one correspondence relation, suffices to construct the natural numbers. This formal work is shown to be relevant for empirical research on mathematical cognition. I give a hypothetical account of how nonnumerate societies may acquire arithmetical knowledge on the basis of the one-to-one correspondence relation only, whereby the acquisition of number concepts need not rely on enumeration (the stable-order principle). The existing empirical data on the role of the one-to-one correspondence relation for numerical abilities is assessed and additional empirical tests are proposed. In the final part, it is argued that the fact that the successor relation and the one-to-one correspondence relation can play independent roles in number concept acquisition may be a complication for testing the Whorfian hypothesis.
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Summer Sounds at the Rothko Chapel -- Zydeco, Creole and Brass from New Orleans take center stage during free concert series on the Chapel’s plaza

The Rothko Chapel’s 2015 Summer Sounds on the Plaza concert series will commemorate the 10th anniversaries of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita by featuring music that originated in Louisiana.

The series will kick-off with the New Orleans Hustlers Brass Band at 7 p.m. on Thursday, June 11. This energetic performance promises to transport guests from the Rothko Chapel plaza to the streets of the Big Easy. This brass band formed after Hurricane Katrina, and mixes classic New Orleans sounds with new influences. Yeti Sunshine will also be on site selling snowballs, and Saint Arnolds will provide free samples of cold brews.

The second concert, slated for 7 p.m. on Thursday, July 16, will feature Step Rideau and the Zydeco Outlaws, a traditional zydeco band served with a side of contemporary influences. The group is guaranteed to make toes tap and hips swing. With eight CDs to his credit, Step Rideau has been a fixture of the zydecomusic scene for almost 20 years.

The final concert in the series is scheduled for 7 p.m. on Thursday, Aug. 13 – with Ed Poullard singing traditional creole music and conjuring images of “fais do dos” in Acadian sugar canes field on humid nights. Poullard is recognized as the premier creole musician on both sides of the Sabine River, part of a family tradition passed down through the generations.

“We invite Houstonians of all ages to bring a blanket and spend the evening at the Chapel plaza, soaking up the sounds of Louisiana with friends and family,” program director Michelle Ashton said.

Ashton is a Louisiana native and was living in New Orleans during Katrina. She believes taking time to commemorate the time of the hurricane is important.

“We want to honor the culture of Louisiana, knowing the great loss the state suffered during the hurricanes,” she said. “We’re looking forward to showcasing the cultural influence Louisiana music has on the Houston music scene.  Every day I meet people in Houston from Louisiana, and I hope they join us this summer and enjoy the sounds of home.”

In its 40 years, the Chapel has achieved recognition as one of the greatest artistic achievements of the second half of the 20th century.  In 2001 the Chapel was listed in the National Register of Historic Places. The Chapel regularly makes top ten lists of places to visit and is a featured entry in National Geographic’s “Sacred Places of a Lifetime: 500 of the World’s Most Peaceful and Powerful Destinations,” published in 2009.

Visitors from around the world visit the sacred space to meditate and reflect, as they gaze at the tremendous paintings by Mark Rothko – or when they step outside to view Barnett Newman’s powerful sculpture Broken Obelisk, which stands in memory of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

For more information about the Rothko Chapel and the full calendar of upcoming programs, workshops and events, visit or call 713-524-9839.


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As President Obama, most Democrats, and most of the media proclaim it racist to enforce immigration laws, five students were sent home from school in Morgan Hill, California because they wore American flag bandannas and t-shirts, and refused to take them off or hide Old Glory. School officials considered the flag display provocative.

— "Students sent home for wearing American flag on Cinco de Mayo," the American Thinker, May 6. 2010.

Northwestern University continued to stumble over diversity issues this week as Mexican students voiced disagreement with a campuswide letter that advised students not to celebrate Cinco de Mayo by engaging in racially-offensive activities, such as eating tacos and drinking tequila.

— "Latino student group says eating tacos is offensive to Mexicans," the Daily Caller, yesterday.

Back in March, after a seven year old was suspended because he chewed his Pop Tart into the shape of a gun, Glenn Reynolds, the author of The Higher Education Bubble and The K-12 Implosion wrote:

In The K-12 Implosion, and also in these pages, I've noted that government-run public schools are facing a problem: There are more and more alternatives. It's not so much that the public schools are getting worse, I've argued, as that the alternatives are getting better and more attractive.

But now I'm starting to wonder. Maybe the public schools are getting worse. At least, to judge from recent news reports, they seem to be getting crazier.

Ace has written extensively about the "the new aristocracy," who build much of their power on the arbitrary nature of political correctness. PC can trump both law and common sense, and creates a series of bureaucratic fiefdoms, particularly in, but not limited to, the field of higher education. What is acceptable behavior in one fiefdom is anathema in other. It  keeps the commoners on their toes and gives the local PC burgomeister his power.

(It's no coincidence, as several pundits have observed, that Barack Obama's worldview was steeped in this milieu, and he wishes that the American government operated the same way as a college campus does. In other words, in his heart of hearts, he wishes he was America's headmaster, not its president. See also: Wilson, Woodrow.)

As with many bad ideas, it's been a staple of socialist Europe for a century or so. It took a while for it to arrive in the US, but back in 2010 Janet Daley of the London Telegraph wrote, "American politics has caught the British disease. Under Barack Obama, the phenomenon of class resentment is a live political issue:"

What is more startling is the growth in America of precisely the sort of political alignment which we have known for many years in Britain: an electoral alliance of the educated, self-consciously (or self-deceivingly, depending on your point of view) "enlightened" class with the poor and deprived. America, in other words, has discovered bourgeois guilt. A country without a hereditary nobility has embraced noblesse oblige. Now, there is nothing inherently strange or perverse about people who lead successful, secure lives feeling a sense of responsibility toward those who are disadvantaged. What is peculiar in American terms is that this sentiment is taking on precisely the pseudo-aristocratic tone of disdain for the aspiring, struggling middle class that is such a familiar part of the British scene.

Liberal politics is now – over there as much as here – a form of social snobbery. To express concern about mass immigration, or reservations about the Obama healthcare plan, is unacceptable in bien-pensant circles because this is simply not the way educated people are supposed to think. It follows that those who do think (and talk) this way are small-minded bigots, rednecks, oiks, or whatever your local code word is for "not the right sort".

The petit bourgeois virtues of thrift, ambition and self-reliance – which are essential for anyone attempting to escape from poverty under his own steam – have long been derided in Britain as tokens of a downmarket upbringing. But not long ago in America they were considered, even among the highly educated, to be the quintessential national virtues, because even well-off professionals had probably had parents or grandparents who were once penniless immigrants. Nobody dismissed "ambition" as a form of gaucherie: the opposite of having ambition was being a bum, a good-for-nothing who would waste the opportunities that the new country offered for self-improvement.

But now the British Lefties who – like so many Jane Austen heroines looking down on those "in trade" – used to dismiss Margaret Thatcher as "a grocer's daughter", have their counterparts in the US, where virtually everybody's family started poor. Our "white van man" is their Tea Party activist, and the insult war is getting very vicious. It is becoming commonplace now for liberals in the US to label the Tea Party movement as racist, the most damaging insult of all in respectable American life.

Both England and America may have gotten it from the initial same common carrier...

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...Though not to go all Hillary on you, ultimately, what difference does it make how the mental illness of PC was initially transmitted, now that it's gone pandemic? As William F. Buckley once said, “In the hands of a skillful indoctrinator, the average student not only thinks what the indoctrinator wants him to think . . . but is altogether positive that he has arrived at his position by independent intellectual exertion. This man is outraged by the suggestion that he is the flesh-and-blood tribute to the success of his indoctrinators.”


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First Bites: Kamasouptra

Kamasouptra, the latest addition to the second floor of the Public Market House officially opens on April 13.  After a ‘soft-opening’ on Sunday it has been serving a variety of soups and gearing up for its Grand Opening on Tuesday.  Based on a few soup samples and my bowl of chili, the restaurant is a great option for a quick, hearty, and satisfying lunch.

Although it’s never a good idea to review a restaurant based on its first couple of days, the folks at Kamasouptra have been cooking and selling these soups for the last ten months (via delivery and at restaurants such as Novare Res and Bard Coffee).  Thus, there’s no doubt that they know their soup and have these recipes down cold.  The only question is how it will incorporate the promised seafood options into the repertoire of vegetarian and vegan soups.

The vegetarian chili features kidney and black beans, red bell and poblano peppers, onions, and tomatoes in a medium-thick vegetable stock redolent of cumin and ground chili pepper.  It’s a good, hearty chili without the fattiness or oiliness you often find in meat-based versions.  The spices lend a subtle heat which pleasantly grows as you work your way through the dish; warming comfort food in a bowl.

The roasted red pepper and Gouda was different, yet equally as good, demonstrating the restaurant’s skill with both chunky and pureed soups.  The Gouda adds a rich nuttiness and imparts a hint of smoke to this smooth potage.  This soup is right up there with some of the best soups I’ve enjoyed at Duckfat.  Only the vegan scotch broth soup was disappointing, with a slightly blander veggie base (particularly when compared to the deep flavors of the chili and roasted red pepper soups).

Since I work a few short blocks from the Public Market House I am planning frequent return trips to try more soup and provide a complete overview of the offerings at Kamasouptra.  I’m particularly looking forward to trying the beer and cheddar, loaded potato, and vegetarian tortilla soups featured on today’s menu as well as the many other rotating soups listed on its website.  The breakfast offerings have also piqued my interest, with freshly made Scottish oatmeal and breakfast quinoa.

If you are in the Monument Square area on Tuesday, Kamasouptra will be offering free soup samples (and cupcakes!) during its Grand Opening from 10:30 a.m. until 7:00 p.m.

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Self-Concept Self-Concept
is formed
in 3 ways: 2. Social Comparisons 3. Reflected Appraisals L e t ' s R e v i e w 1. Social Experiences Our concerns about what
others think about us will
probably influence the way
we behave. Self-concept is what we come to
think about ourselves over time as
a result of our experiences with others.

It is our thoughts as we draw them
from others around us, but they
are still OUR thoughts. Teen Leadership The messages we accept
from our life experiences
help form our self-concepts. As we grow, we make judgements about ourselves by comparing ourselves to others. Social Circles of Influence Influences ~ Ages:
12-? Teachers, Coaches, Classmates Playmates, Friends Team-mates, Boss, Colleagues,
Boy/girl-friend, Spouse, Children Family, Caregivers "A girl like me" Featurette: Nick Vujicic: Dove "Evolution of Beauty" Dove Evolution "Male Verion" Dove Campaign: Mothers and Daughters Bebo Norman: Brittany
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