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I'm curious about the new "cross-process" functionality and especially related to integration tests with HTTP endpoints.

Today the main drawback with our HTTP integration tests (localhost/IIS) are that they are not included at all in impact analysis nor code coverage.
I'm curious if this cross-process means that we can e.g. utilize ASP.NET Core and get code coverage etc. for HTTP integration tests?

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It's hard for me to give you a straight answer on this without knowing more about your setup, but I can give more details about how the cross-process coverage works so that you can target your expectations :)

When NCrunch starts to execute tests in its task runner, it sets an environment variable containing an ID. This ID is then used to identify a chunk of shared memory that is allocated by the task runner.

Because child processes always inherit environment variables from their host process under Windows, any process created by the task runner (regardless of when or how it is created) will inherit the environment variable containing the ID.

If the child process contains code that has been instrumented by NCrunch (i.e. you're running NCrunch-generated assemblies inside this process), the instrumentation will kick in on the first line of executed code and will load the shared memory using the ID inherited by the child process. Code coverage can then be stored in the shared memory where it can be retrieved by the host task runner process at the end of each test run.

My understanding is that ASP.NET Core assemblies need to be built using the either the legacy project.json system or the new MSBuild system released with VS2017. In either case, they cannot be built without special handling by NCrunch (which doesn't yet exist). Because NCrunch can't yet build these projects, it also can't instrument them. Without instrumentation, there is no way to extract code coverage for the projects. So I expect that you'll probably be unable to use this system to get code coverage for ASP.NET Core, but it should be possible to get it for HTTP tests running classic .NET assemblies.
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Smith Micro has officially launched Manga Studio 5 EX, a new edition of its comics illustration software. The EX releases are more professionally-oriented than their non-EX counterparts. In the case of Studio 5, the core EX addition is a multi-page story layout module, which let people organize complete comic books.

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I've been eagerly waiting for this since 5 was announced--Manga Studio 4 EX is incredibly powerful, but it has one of the worst user interfaces I have ever used, and that's coming from somebody who designs arcane scientific test bench software for a living. Playing around with the Japanese version of the software it's based on, it looks like it'll be a significant improvement.

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Though of opportunities in their young years they were never denied
Their achievements bring to me and my husband great satisfaction and pride

My son in law a successful fellow he owns his own plane
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Far north of this great Country the U S of A
In my childhood place i did not wish to stay
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Hello there! I hope everyone had a nice holiday weekend! As I shared before, hubby and I celebrated 22 years this weekend. It was a great weekend! We opted to stay home and chill rather than getting out of town. Since our younger three left for a church trip on Saturday we really only had to deal with the 20year old, and he’s hardly home anyway! Saturday we spent some time exploring a flea market, eating yummy bbq for lunch, napping (which I never do, but apparently really needed), followed by some yummy Mexican food on the lake, and watching the sunset. And we got to witness a cute proposal – bonus!

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Hey there!  Thanks for all the love for the entryway stencil project! I find myself admiring it several times a day.  🙂 It was just the little something that space needed and it now feels complete!

So, I mentioned I was working on getting the outside entry spruced up to match. I’ll show you a before in a minute but I must share the after!

Come on in y’all!! For some reason the color that caught my eye this season was hot pink! This is the only flower bed that I put annuals in so I like to have some fun each year. Our summers get pretty warm and I really like to have color through until the fall if I can so I have a couple of go-tos.

Vincas (the ones with the longer shiny leaves) are my absolute fav.  They fill in nice and big,  about a foot tall and can withstand the Oklahoma heat. Of course petunias are always fun and do pretty well with the heat too. Geraniums, I just love because of the big clump of flowers. They don’t last as long for me usually, but by the time they have died out the others will have taken over so I’m okay with that.
Here is the before where you can see the large bush in the corner there. This corner has always puzzled me. It doesn’t get as much sun as the rest of the bed, so I’ve never had much success growing anything pretty there that I like.

A few years back I bought this bush, really thinking it would stay somewhat small. But, you can see that it did not. I was done with it, so we moved it to the back yard. (the jury is still out as to whether it will survive the not-so-nice transplant it received) You can also see the vincas that are still growing strong in October!

Last summer on our trip to the lake we collected a few rocks to remember our trip. I decided to gather them together, along with a few others, in the corner, and then filled the space with a garden flag

I could have purchased a flag, but I decided instead on a DIY custom one. Tutorial soon!

I pulled the crosses and the welcome sign out of my stash, and had my hubby help me hang them. What a difference they make!

The mat was requested by my hubby. Purchased at Hobby Lobby along with the polka-dot metal “G” hanging on the door.

This little side table got a makeover with a quick coat of spray paint, and some more hot pink flowers – roses from a back yard bush. And of course no front porch outing would be complete without a little sweet tea! 🙂

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Each morning I sit at my kitchen table in front of my big picture window and drink my coffee. And, this is what I am greeted with each morning.

Granted it’s not all bad.  And the large crop circle to the left is something I have learned to overlook – that’s where our ghetto pool goes during the hot summer months.

But that bare corner back there has been calling to me for a while now.

It’s all shade – hence the lack of grass.  So, I decided to embrace it and plant some hostas, bordered by some monkey grass (as my hubby calls it).
Simple, colorful, low maintenance, comes back year after year (with prayer) – what could be better. So, now I have a new and improved view for my morning coffee.  Ahhh.

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As I was walking around watering flowers and trees this morning, I realized that I had never updated you on my “landscaping” progress.

I showed you the before pics here so today I’ll show you some pretty after pics, and some of where we are now.

I’m trying my hand at plants in pots again this year – I have never had much success with that cuz I am lazy – that’s all.

Here is the front flower bed today.  We were blessed with a lot of rain while I was on my trip to New York.

The other thing that happened while I was in New York was not so happy.  I was joyfully anticipating the pots on my back porch to be overflowing with beautiful color, just like the one in the front but instead I found this.

Yes, all four planters looked just like this…the culprit…our puppy…

he decided they looked like a good snack.  Ugh!!  I guess I will try again next year!!

Oh well, moving on.  I also transplanted a climbing rose bush which completely overtook a flower bed that is in front of our master bedroom window.  This is what it looked like in full glory before I moved it – see a little unruly, and crowding out the other regular rose bushes in that bed (please ignore all the grass growing in there).

Here it is after I chopped pruned it down to size and moved it to a sad little flower bed on the side of our house around the corner from the front of our house.  You can see this one from the street and gets good morning sun.  I also planted some daylillys in this bed.  I have wanted some of these for a long time.
Next, if you follow me on instagram, you know we scored some really good sized burch trees @$50 each!!  Here’s a little fun collage of them going in.  {my hard-working man decided to strike a pose, while I sipped on my sweet tea in the shade ;)}
And the after.
and my hard-workin man after 😉 – oh and our puppy

My hubby was awesome and knocked out another yard project that was pretty high on his list while I was in New York.  I’m saving that for another post though since this one is already pretty long :).  Tune in tomorrow for that one – it involves, mud and rocks.

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Like “See My Baby Jive”, “Rubber Bullets” is a really dense bit of popcraft – a restless concentrate of hooks and ideas. 1973 seems to have been a moment in pop when this overload strategy was commercially viable: intelligent, detail-rich, sometimes exhausting pop music has been made ever since but it’s usually been marginal, often self-consciously so. In ’73 10cc, ELO, and Roy Wood were regulars at the business end of the charts: what was going on? My guess: some of it’s a post-Beatles hangover (they quit instead of going further up and further in to studio solipsism); some of it’s a reaction to progressive rock; some of it’s a simple and agreeable desire for the charts to be more overtly clever than they usually are.

“Clever” is a weasel word in pop criticism, there’s almost always a silent “too” attached. “Rubber Bullets” is clever, though, a bit of wry pop marginalia. It’s a record that makes sense – or makes a certain kind of sense – when you grok its central conceit: a version of “Jailhouse Rock” from the authorities’ perspective. I appreciate the joke – and the track had an extra frisson at the time, as its sardonic glee at repressive tactics could be seen as a comment on police action in Northern Ireland. But now I know the riddle’s answer I can’t help but think, when I listen to it, “This isn’t actually as good as Jailhouse Rock, is it?”*

It’s still quite good, though – full of life and gallop and the occasional awful pun. And it’s an interesting record, because it’s posing a question which is enormously important to seventies pop – what do we do about rock and roll? Both in the sense of realising that the generation who listened to it are still listening, and in the sense of coping with the memory of its energy, and how that energy might be rediscovered. Rock and roll revivals were one recurrent, numbing answer – “Rubber Bullets” may not be a complete success, but 10cc’s solution is certainly more intriguing.

*(Which made it quite easy to mark, of course – it lost a second point, quite unfairly, for reminding me of the Beach Boys’ horrendous “Student Demonstration Time”)

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    FFS, there’s nothing “lazy” or “superficial” about 10cc or Abba!

    “Waterloo” sounds a lot more like “See My Baby Jive” in construction, arrangement and production, as both Abba and Roy Wood acknowledged, so much so in the case of the latter that he performed on the Doctor and the Medics cover version in 1986. Also it handles its central metaphor with exceptional skill, as the rest of the world except for Robert “Victor Meldrew” Christgau has long since realised.

    The “great balls of fire” in “Big Seven” was in reference to what happened after Jack sat on the candlestick. The track was subsequently sampled by the Dream Warriors on “Ludi.” He was mates with Marley, you know.

    “Pepper Box” which was “a huge dance hit whenever I played the clubs” (D Winton). Incidentally, is it a chicken/egg situation with “Pepper Box” and “Autobahn”?

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    Rosie on 15 Aug 2007 #

    The Crucible was ‘about’ the Salem witchcraft trials, but both Arthur Miller and its audiences ‘knew’ it was really a dig at the House Un-American Activities Committee.

    There’s more to meaning than what’s on the surface.

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    Marcello Carlin on 15 Aug 2007 #

    We had to do three Arthur Miller plays as part of our English Highers – Death Of A Salesman, All My Sons and The Crucible. They struck me as the forerunners of dysfunctional American TV movies starring Brian Dennehy and/or Cheryl Ladd and/or Tyne Daly and/or Frederick Forrest so it was quite amusing to see the Dennehymeister playing Willy Loman in the West End production a couple of years back. I thought the Crucible analogies were rather clunky myself.

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    meaning includes:
    i. what author says openly
    ii. what author slips in secretly
    iii. what author is not aware of at the time but realises afterwards
    iv. what author and audience both recognise and agree on
    v. what audience sees but author didn’t
    vi. what audience explores and creates in subsequent use and discussion, with or without author’s approval
    vii. probbly i have forgot others

    these are sometimes at odds with one another: appeal is often made to one to trump another but this rarely works, not least bcz being at odds is a good thing bcz it provokes exactly the buzz the author wd have wanted (unless s/he is an idiot in which case who cares what s/he wanted)

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    shorter sukrat: meaning is a cheerfully squabbly community!

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    Marcello Carlin on 15 Aug 2007 #

    viii. what author leaves in by accident.
    ix. what author sticks on at the last minute.
    x. Number One was a sledge.

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    Tom on 15 Aug 2007 #

    Just popping in to say that the no spoilers rule is ESPECIALLY STRICT on “Waterloo” :) (tho Marcello is right)

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    Erithian on 15 Aug 2007 #

    The issue of whether the band intended the reference to Northern Ireland reminds me of what JRR Tolkien said about “Lord of the Rings” being an allegory of World War II: “I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations…
    I much prefer history, true or feigned, with its varied applicability to the thought and experience of the reader. I think that many confuse ‘applicability’ with ‘allegory’; but the one resides in the freedom of the reader, and the other in the purposed domination of the author.”

    Far be it from me to suppose 10cc were thinking along the same lines as Tolkien, but if the phrase “rubber bullets” was current, and you wanted to make the link to Ulster, I guess they weren’t about to stop you.

    BTW, Marcello, that nice analysis of “Waterloo” comes from the guy who hates spoilers!

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    Pete on 15 Aug 2007 #

    Just to add that I don’t agree with my Dad with what its about (or at least I don’t agree with him with what its NOT about since it is clearly about more than just one thing), but if in ’73 someone wrote a song which lyrically seems to be about a US prison riot, a recent US prison riot might come to mind.

    Thinking about The Crucible, the ease with which its analogy pops out (what you might call the clunkiness of the analogy) is also why it works well as mass entertainment, and PARTICULARLY well in GCSE English groups.

    I think your being a bit harsh Marcello on some of the TV movie actors you pick. OK, I’ll give you Frederic Forrest for “Who Will Look After My Children”, and Cheryl Ladd is a given. But I think Denehey and Daly are better than that.

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    adding: meaning when it comes to music — as opposed to words on the page — is an even wider territory to contest

    tolk’s point is that “allegory” tends to function as a critical-authorial stunt to shut down the reader/listener, i think — viz
    “this song is about pigs!”
    “do you not see it is really about CAPITALISM!?”
    “b-but PIGS?”
    “ur 1xdupe of the system and i DISDANE u”

    haha it is much easier to comment “on this song” when you haven’t heard it for 20 years, as i have not

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    Marcello Carlin on 15 Aug 2007 #

    Perhaps it was an extended metaphorical meditation on contraceptives.

    Dennehy certainly is a lot better than that which makes me wonder why he makes so many of these weepies about redundant steel workers who won’t work for no Japanese and his son’s about to drop out of college and his daughter’s got cancer so he yells “SON? I HAVE NO SON!” and goes and rows a boat out into the middle of the lake at midnight and then we get an extended court scene because they’re cheap and give actors the opportunity to act and then they come out on the courthouse steps triumphant to speak to the waiting reporters and cameras and he shakes his fist in the air and then freeze frame/pognant piano music (see also: the later career of Karl Malden).

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    Rosie on 15 Aug 2007 #

    xi what the author leaves out. Cf Pierre Machérey, “Le texte dit ce qu’il ne dit pas”

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    Erithian on 15 Aug 2007 #

    Waldo – I remember a Judge Dread quote which went something like: “I’m no perv but I’ve seen a few 14-year-olds I wouldn’t mind giving one to.” Verily, this was a different century…

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    Doctor Casino on 15 Aug 2007 #

    I think I’ve gotten in over my head here! I’ll just bow out of this one quietly – although I do want to say that no spoiling was intended re: “Waterloo,” which I didn’t even realize at the time of typing was in the queue at all! (It rather surprises me to find it there – but I’ll save that till the time comes.)

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    Erithian on 15 Aug 2007 #

    Hell no, Doc, no offence meant – I was just winding Marcello up a wee bit…

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    mike on 16 Aug 2007 #

    Like David Belbin above, I’m more of a “The Dean And I” man; it may only have reached #10 in the UK, but it got to #1 in the Republic of Ireland, and quite right too.

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    Erithian on 16 Aug 2007 #

    Doc, just to add to what I said last night, my comment about spoilers (and I guess Tom’s as well) was a gentle chide to Marcello for giving us an analysis of “Waterloo” in this thread – the same Marcello who, when things were getting a bit heated in the “Telegram Sam” thread a few months ago, said “it would be nice if we could lay off talking about specific number ones UNTIL THEY ACTUALLY COME UP”!

    It’d be very harsh to criticise you for this if you didn’t even realise “Waterloo” had been a UK Number 1 – which will make your views all the more intriguing when we get there. And you were making a valid parallel with the record under discussion, after all. So no need to bow out : )

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    Marcello Carlin on 16 Aug 2007 #

    Note that nowhere in the above did I mention anything about “Waterloo” getting to number one.

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    Rosie on 16 Aug 2007 #

    What’s up with the link? Is it just me or is it screwed?

    I can get through to this page, and to Freakytrigger front page, but not to the latest entry nor to teh Popular front page.

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    doofuus2003 on 20 Aug 2007 #

    The problem with no always on internet, or indeed when I am out doing field work, no connection at all, is that I can end up way down below the comments I’d like to refer to. Anyway, I saw both 10CC and Steely Dan in Leeds student union, and didn’t really put them together, but now I do kind of see the too clever by half potential link. I think, by the way, that the SD gig was one of only 4 they ever did in the UK until many many years later. Also, for what it’s worth, Leeds University was a major venue in those days – Bob Marley only got to play the Polytechnic.

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    Erithian on 20 Aug 2007 #

    Better late than never doofuus! Love the bit about who got to play Leeds University.

    Re the umpteen levels of meaning discussed above – reminds me of a Peanuts strip I provocatively sellotaped to one of my Eng Lit exercise books at school. Peppermint Patty trying to answer a question in class: “What was the author’s purpose in writing this story? Err – maybe he needed the money?”

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    Marcello Carlin on 20 Aug 2007 #

    Popular needs a sound-posting capability so I can answer that with a lugubrious plunger trombone as the voice of the teacher.

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    Caledonianne on 21 Aug 2007 #

    RE Marcello @ #53

    Oh, yes – we clearly studied the same Higher English syllabus, though my English teacher was clearly most enamoured of All My Sons, which always took centre stage among the trinity for us.

    Years later I wrote an article about Salem, and it all came flooding back. (Also took in Brian Dennehy in DoaS in Boston) while in New England for the research.

    But I have a direct link between 10cc and Higher English. The boys were due to play Glasgow Apollo in February 1976, but when we got there the gig was cancelled because one of them had a sore throat. It was rescheduled for April – so that’s where I spent the night before my Higher English…

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    Erithian on 3 Sep 2007 #

    Belated response to Billy in post #22 – “Rubber Bullets” didn’t feature in “Rock’n’Roll Years”. The Northern Ireland news featured in the relevant part of the 1973 episode was backed by Roxy Music’s “In Every Dream Home A Heartache” and David Essex’s “Rock On”.

    Surely somewhere on the Web there’s a listing of what music corresponded to which news item in this excellent series?

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    Marcello Carlin on 3 Sep 2007 #

    Ah, I’ve got it – blow-up doll, blowing up troops, DO YOU SEE WHAT THEY DID THERE?

    The only thing I can remember from that lamentable series is that at the end of the 1989 one, to soundtrack the fall of the Berlin Wall, they chose that generational anthem “Kiss This Thing Goodbye” by Del Amitri.

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    Geir H on 23 Dec 2007 #

    I believe this single is Jonathan King’s only connection with a UK #1 ever. By the time of “I’m Not In Love” he has quit working with them.

    The 10cc of this track is a strange thing. On one side, you have a feeling of novelty, that they are just having fun, not taking the whole thing too seriously, and the entire thing is very tongue-in-cheek.

    But then, along comes the “Sergeant Baker and his men….” line, hinting at some really musically talented guys behind behing it. And the perfect production (done by the band themselves already at this time) gives the same impression. So there must be more to 10cc than just a bunch of tongue-in-cheek guys making fun of pre-Beatles pop. And they would of course show us later on (no, not as late as Marcello hints upthread that I would think – their prime was while Godley & Creme were still in the band).

    “Rubber Bullets” isn’t my favourite 10cc single, just like “10cc” isn’t my favourite album. But it’s still a great pop song, pointing forwards towards even greater stuff to come from one of the finest pop acts that there ever has been.

    As for Jonathan King, time has shown him to be quite creepy indeed. In spite of that, I will always be thankful for the fact that he discovered two of my all-time-favourite bands.

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    roger turner on 23 Jul 2009 #

    weird al yankovich ripped of “rubber bullets” for his song “trigger happy,” a song parodying the beach boys style with lyrics about shooting guns. it even features a line about calling in the national guard, yeah the national guard.

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    Jonathan Bogart on 24 Jul 2009 #

    Ripped off? If I know my Weird Al, it was a deliberate nod.

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    wichitalineman on 24 Jul 2009 #

    Weird Al’s Trigger Happy is a car-crazy-california era spoof, while Rubber Bullets is Beach Boys of a later vintage. Just a coincidence, I reckon.

    It might be mentioned miles earlier on this thread, but this is much more of a Beach Boys homage than an inverted Jailhouse Rock, innit? I can hear that in the lyric but it certainly doesn’t overwhelm the song or render it a pastiche – I’d undock that point! I remember seeing 10CC interviewed on tv at some point in the late 70s and they said the Beach Boys were an influence all four of them agreed on.

    I’m not sure why they always get the “poor man’s Steely Dan” thing beyond the occasional over-confident smirk – this and (especially) The Dean And I, both as complex and joyous as Heroes & Villains, sound more like Smile outtakes to my ears (multi-part structure, arcane Americana et cet). Very glad to hear that The Dean And I was a number one in Ireland!

    A couple more 10CC gems for non-believers: Channel Swimmer (flip of Life Is A Minestrone, Umbopo (under the pseudonym Doctor Father).

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    Lena on 7 May 2013 #

    My name is Marc, and I’m The Groover: http://musicsoundsbetterwithtwo.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/one-more-time-for-marc-trex-groover.html Thanks for reading, everybody!

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    Lena on 2 Jul 2013 #

    A moment of reflection on the summer of ’73: http://musicsoundsbetterwithtwo.blogspot.com/2013/07/interlude-1-fleetwood-mac-albatross.html Thanks for reading, tout le monde!

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    Larry on 1 Nov 2014 #

    First time I ever heard this was today. I never knew that 10cc were a glam band that sounded like Sparks! A major revelation to someone who knew them for “I’m Not In Love.” FWIW the lyrics also evoked Attica for me.

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Why Mubarak Regime has the Same Effect as the Muslim Brotherhood?

Many of my non-Egyptian friends keep asking me this question, isn't it better to have the Mubarak family in power than the Muslim brotherhood? I am usually speechless. I would contradict my conscience if I say yes President Mubarak is better. I all go against all my beliefs and my confidence that Egypt deserves a better present and a future of democracy and freedom. If I say yes to the Muslim Brotherhood through ballot boxes, then I am agreeing to humiliate my humanity. Being a woman under a regressive backward ruling means asking for asylum in one of the western countries to live with dignity.

My answer now is that the current regime and the Muslim Brotherhood are equally dangerous to the future of my beloved Egypt. I knew it all the time, but here is a clear cut evidence.

The Egyptian Minister of Culture, Farouk Hosni, is under ferocious attack for his comments about the veil in Egypt. He said that the veil is a regressive trend in Egypt. It was expected that he comes under fire from Islamists representated in the Muslim Brotherhood. But Mubarak's ruling party, National Democratic Party, is giving him a harder time and asking him to resign. He admitted that his comments were personal and do not represent any official line. Still he is tormented by all the ministers and member of parliaments who belong to the National Democratic Party. In their defense, they said we won't take any statments that touches our Islam or attempts to insult our religion.

This is just a hint to tell you how rigid and intolerant Egypt became under military Islamic ruling and how strong the religious institution became. There is no room for freedom of expression and there is no freedom to question the herd's culture.

Islamists are asking the minister of culture to quit over remarks and the government is summoning him over remarks!

The other scary part is that there is nothing to get annoyed about except the veil comments! It is unbelievable! As if there are no trains or bus accidents every month and dozens are killed... As if there are no one million homeless street children... As if there are no pollution problems........ As if there are no patients dying in thousands on a daily basis from cancer and organs' failures not of the diseases themselves but because of the bad health care ... As if public transportation are the best and available to all citzens .... As if education system is the best and we can compete...

At 1:56 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

"This is just a hint to tell you how rigid and intolerant Egypt became under military Islamic ruling and how strong the religious institution became."

lol... how long have you been out of Egypt?? 100 years?

Where is that "military Islamic ruling and how strong the religious institution became."? Feen da?!

Do you want to convince us that Mubark’s regime is a “military Islamic ruling”? you must be kidding! lol

As for the” how strong the religious institution became”, it is a known fact that the religious institution became is extremely weak in Egypt. Ask any Egyptian in the street if he\she thinks that Al Azhar is as strong as it used to be...they'll say "no, of course not"...your dreaming :)

As for what you said...
"There is no room for freedom of expression and there is no freedom to question the herd's culture."
I agree with you.
He had the right to say what he thinks. But, the thing is that as an official you have to be careful what you say.
If you want to say such things, go ahead...but do it after you leave your official it as an individual.
As a Minister of Culture you should act like one.

Imagine this happening in a different way ( with a bit of a twist)…
Imagine if a European Minister goes out and says:” I think that women showing off their bodies is outrageous”. As we know this is completely opposite to what the vast majority of Europeans think.
Do you think people will be happy with that minister?
Maybe as an individual he has the right to think that. But not while he is in office.
Of course we all know where he’ll end up!

Back to the subject… as long as he did not insult\humiliate\curse anyone or any belief, he has the right to say what he wants. That’s how I see it.

At 4:31 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

I read the blog post but I cant help to point out that Hosni said that the veil was a sign of “regression”, not a regressive trend. I think there is a difference to the wording you used and Hosni used.

On a note of content, does it not strike you as strange that Egypt's Minister for Culture is ordered to stay on after resigning over a fire killing dozens in a Beni Suef makeshift theatre and is now almost ousted by inter alia his fellow party members over a comment on the nature of the veil? It seems that Egypt's administration needs to get its priorities straight.

At 6:04 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

I'm not against hijab myself, but the remark that its a sign of regression could actually be true, seen objectively. The spread of hijab in Egypt didn't come with an increased moral and it didn't turn people into tolerant accepting and polite people, I'm afraid its only a way of dealing with a superficial society that judges the woman by what she wares and I don't blame women who are facing the "hell" of not getting married in an already regressed society. A simple proof on what I'm saying is the "sexy mohagaba" model where she satisfies the community by covering her hair but at the same time she's not cutting her chances of getting married by being sexy.

At 7:53 AM, Anonymous Ha Ana Za said...

Great Post! And I particularly lik your conclusion- it is strange that the people focus on the words of one minister and yet ignore the actions of an entire government.
I would also like to comment on adham's comment which I totally agree with- definitely a regressive trend when it is worn out of mere hypocrisy and a herd instinct.

At 9:43 AM, Anonymous Jonathan said...

I do agree with you, though i have one problem. if we want democracy, how can we add the different sects - including the Muslim Brotherhood, without letting them kill democracy? and on the other hand, is having a democracy without them better?

Re Mubarak, i'm not sure he is the best solution, but he is second to worst at least.

At 10:23 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

To have true deomcracy we have to take in ALL groups... let's not have double-standards about it.

And to control them...that's the Constitution's job.
In short, if we have a stronge constitution that gives the power to people through ballot boxes. We can control anyone in Office!

That's what we need.

At 6:36 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Great blog as always. I agree with your assessment. People are becoming more intolerant to oppposing views. Why not let Farouk's remarks open up a good avenue for discussion of hijab and how important is it in respect to other issues in life we do not heed religion in.
I think some members in the NDP want to be more catholic than the the pope in order not to give the MB the propaganda floor as being the 'guardian' of Islam. How pathetic!
Egyptian in Germany

At 2:42 PM, Anonymous Magnus Andersson said...

fadfadation: In an egypt village some distance from Kairo a freind of mine couldnt get outside her room without a veil. Especially not during the cartoon buzz. Had to stay inside. Different in the large cities of Egypt.

If we must respect all groups - including the fundamentalist muslims - we must not permit women to appear in public places without the veil, or? We must actually adopt all the intolerant "do-this-and-do-that" and finally the intolerant religious law, or?

The answers on these rethoric questions other countries may give as examples in history?

Tolerance is not the tolerance of intolerance. It is the tolerance to think and speech in "an intolerant way" but NEVER to act and transform society in an intolerant direction. (A tolerant society - I think - may prevail if tolerating the seperation of intolerant gruops and their practices, if the members living within the seperated gruops stay there by choice and are free to leave.) To respect intolerant groups is not a good idea if respect is to meet their claims for intolerance.

The word NEVER: See, there is a kind of absolutism in tolerance too! Human rights is another absolute "object" connected to humanity and freedom (where tolerance is alive).

We shall never be intolerant to intolerant point of views! The arrested blogger in Alexandria is a shame for the city historically known for its library (knowledge and freedom). The interrogation of the Minister of Culture is too! There is no freedom to speech if different opinion is not tolerated. Why can't we allways look after the source of intolerance is and fight it?! In these examples it is not too hard to see the intolerance source, is it?

At 3:35 PM, Anonymous Magnus Andersson said...

Sorry that I wrote we shall never be intolerant to intolerant point of views just before the arrested blogger in Alexandria and the Minister och Culture was mentioned. These two are tolerant, but not aim to introduce intolerance in society. Intolerance at power accept no freedom or speech, political or personal freedom, and too many people i guess simply accepting the rules under intolerant regimes helps them to gain more power; decrease freedom.

To debate is probably the opposite to simply accept. Never stop debate this! The debate may also give ideas on how a totalitarian trend can be resisted?? The debate may be one of relatively freedom, where unique non-controlled voices can be heard. (Blogs are a beutiful tool here, not?)

fadfadation, You participate in a debate. Thats good. You can have apathy and tolerate the intolerant politics but this makes counter arguments that anyone be read and thoughts about what is discussed. If one act in intolerance within a intolerant society, that is bad but one can even say it's okey to murder someone in the free society, if its not a step in a murder plot of course. (Murder is a crime, yes! So is the arrest of Kareem.)

Regarding your remark about ballots and democracy:
If, now, intolerant politics does not tolerate the blogger or worry about veils in Egypt, then it is hard to believe that there is freedom to start and/or run political parties. If the alternatives is limited by the intolerance from one part in the political spectrum (influencing other parties, even within them!), then one can not say that there is a freedom of democracy. No freedom of speech, no freedom of thoughts - and definitely no democracy. Then there is one single political power surpressing all the criticism.

They have today ballots in many totalitarian regimes. Billions of people without democracy have and has had vote system.

At 4:26 AM, Anonymous Unimpressed said...

Its laughable to watch european fascists and the native informants discuss other people clothing as if they them. Get a life perverts, if a woman wants to wear a veil, its none of your fucking business.

At 9:28 AM, Anonymous Impressed said...

Unimpressed: Your language is more likely to be defined as that of the village idiots. Besides, it's interresing that you, as the idiot you are, happily avoid the topic. The topic that women are forced to wear the veil in hard line islam. No freedom there! By this reason millions of women are refuges from islamic contries. A rule included in radical islam oppressing women.

Thinking that even idiots know this, or at least could read and understand simple text and topics. I'm glad to learn something new! That some people don't even have that ability. Kinda impressing...

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This Sunday is Mothers Day in Oz. No biggie, it won't stop the economy, resurrect Elvis, calm down Beiber fans or rid us of global warming. It IS really just another day...

For me, however, it's an almost magical experience! I truly feel the love & appreciation of my offspring. It's although, for one (or part thereof) day, they truly value me as the person who loves them unconditionally, does so much for them, is both mother & father & who is so extremely proud of them. I may even have a argument-free day. For me, it's not about gifts, rather FEELING the lurve.

Plans have been made, I am banned from bedrooms at certain times, a shopping trip is scheduled in & hushed conversations are taking place in darkened corners...

All promising to be a wonderful day, including cold toast in bed, followed by more than likely cold coffee, as I will have to open pressies before eating... It's just not the done thing to wait!

This particular Mother's Day, however, I expect to hear nothing from my eldest. No card, sms, kiss on the cheek, or even an appearance. He didn't bother with Easter or Christmas & has been asked to vacate the premises, permanently.

He is playing the 'let's punish mum, by not coming home' game at the present. I know where he is (I have my sources), he is well & safe & trying to tick me off. I shall not chase him this time. Rather, let him take the initiative & when he does, let him know I've missed him & I care.

So, I shall prepare my special Mother's Day high tea, for my own mum & let the younger three spoil me with their well laid plans. Yes, I will be disappointed, but I WILL NOT let it ruin my day, or the other family member's day.

Who knows, he may surprise me? I doubt it.

Girding my loins......

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