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WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Authorities in eastern Poland have ordered an evacuation of some 10,000 people and the temporary closure of the road to Belarus on Sunday to allow for the removal and destruction of a massive World War II bomb.

The 500 kilogram (1,102 pound) German ST-500 bomb was found late Thursday during road works in the town of Bialystok, 190 kilometers (117 miles) northeast of Warsaw.

Bialystok authorities said Friday that about 10,000 people live within its range of 1.35 kilometers. They will be evacuated in buses early Sunday to allow sappers to remove the bomb and take it to the test range where it will be detonated.

Local residents will be taken to school buildings and should be able to return home in the evening. Bialystok has about 300,000 residents.

Border Guards have ordered the road to the border crossing with Belarus in Bobrowniki closed during the bomb disposal operation.

Sappers from a military base in Orzysz, some 120 kilometers (75 miles) away, have already brought a crane to lift the bomb onto the special truck that will transport it to the Orzysz test range, Warrant Officer Marian Kujawa, who will command the action, said.

The Orzysz military base is also home to a U.S. battalion of some 800 troops.

Fierce fighting took place in Poland during World War II between the occupying Nazi Germans and the Soviet Red Army. Bombs are often found during big digs, but they are usually half the size of the bomb found in Bialystok, Kujawa said.


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Africa has new UN heritage sites in Angola, Eritrea, SAfrica

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JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Africa has several new sites on the United Nations world heritage list, including an old royal capital in Angola, the Eritrean capital of Asmara and a desert area in South Africa that was inhabited during the Stone Age.

UNESCO said this weekend at a meeting in Poland that Mbanza Kongo in northwest Angola was the capital of the Kongo kingdom, a largely independent state between the 14th and 19th centuries.

The U.N. cultural agency says Asmara, which experienced large-scale construction under Italian rule in the 1930s, showcases "early modernist urbanism" in an African context.

And it says the Khomani cultural landscape at South Africa's border with Botswana and Namibia testifies to the way of life of the once-nomadic San people that influenced the area over thousands of years.

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Uruguay: Ex-Gitmo detainee also tried to travel to Russia

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Uruguay: Ex-Gitmo detainee also tried to travel to Russia

MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay (AP) — A former Guantanamo Bay detainee resettled in Uruguay recently tried to travel to Russia in one of at least four attempts to leave the South American country, an official said Tuesday.

Syrian native Abu Wa'el Dhiab tried to board a flight to Russia but was turned away because he lacked an entry visa, said Christian Mirza, the government liaison with six ex-Guantanamo Bay inmates resettled in Uruguay.

Mirza said Dhiab's failed trip took place between an attempt to enter South Africa last December and his recent deportation from Morocco after arriving with a false passport. Dhiab also went missing for weeks last year before turning up in Venezuela.

Dhiab returned to Uruguay's capital over the weekend after being deported from Morocco. It is unclear how he got there.

Uruguay's police chief says there is no record with migration of when or how Dhiab left Uruguay, leading authorities to believe he slipped across the border with Brazil.

Uruguay took in Dhiab along with five other former Guantanamo prisoners in 2014. But he has expressed unhappiness about being in the country and has gone on a hunger strike to demand he be allowed to leave and join his family in Turkey or in another country.

The Uruguayan government has said Dhiab is free to travel but they cannot force another country to take him. Officials say Turkey, Lebanon and Qatar have rejected taking in Dhiab.

The Syrian was detained as an enemy combatant with suspected ties to militants and was held for 12 years at Guantanamo, but he was never charged. He drew international attention by staging a lengthy hunger strike and frequently clashing with guards. The hunger strikes and forced feedings at Guantanamo left him with health problems, and he walks using crutches.

Dhiab could not immediately be reached for comment despite repeated telephone calls.


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HS2016. Charles Goodwin – en réponse à Louis Quéré

« La structure feuilletée de l’action humaine », in Goodwin 2016, p. 31

Louis Quéré, « L’écologie sémiotique de Charles Goodwin »

Comments by Charles Goodwin

Louis Quéré provides an extraordinarily perceptive, sensitive and accurate view of the ideas that animate my work.

I absolutely agree that I am attempting to describe action as a semiotic ecology constituted through the mutual elaboration of diverse resources with different kinds of properties. And also that I draw upon many intellectual resources, despite the prohibitions of orthodox Conversation Analysis (CA), and disciplinary boundaries more generally. Very briefly these include, among many others the following: Goffman, and especially his description of mutual monitoring (Goffman 1963:15-16), which not only goes beyond the accepted formulation of conversation as “talk-in-interaction”, but which (as well as my encounters with Gail Jefferson) animates my deep interest in the unfolding organization of action, not as an action type to be categorized, a speech act, or turn-at-talk, but a rich, unfolding process constituted through, and shaped in its course, through the mutual work of multiple participants. Indeed, I consider this Goffman’s most original contribution, something that goes beyond his phenomenological ancestors and contemporaries, including Husserl, Sartre and Garfinkel. Here he provides a point of departure for exploring in detail what Schutz described as intersecting consciousnesses growing older together through unfolding time.

Encountering Ed Hutchins, like my earlier encounters with Sacks and Jefferson, transformed my thinking by showing how to look seriously at the mutual articulation of actors and their inhabited worlds, a process that was further developed by having the opportunity to work with Lucy Suchman. As I will note briefly below I was also strongly influenced by one of my students, Don Favareau, who introduced me to Biosemiotics (and helped create the modern incarnation of the field), and semiotics, and especially Peirce.

Finally, despite explicit prohibitions from Schegloff and others, I consider my work a form of ethnography, done not through interviews, but instead by examining in my recordings how participants demonstrate to each other the relevant intelligibility of their actions, and the world they are inhabiting and acting within together. In my recent work I am thus especially interested in the constitution of both objects of knowledge, and the formation of actors capable of recognizing and working with those objects within specific communities (archaeology, geology, etc.). I always had a difficult relationship with Garfinkel (as did almost everyone), and wouldn’t presume to speak for him, but I think this is relevant to his call for studies of work and his notion of unique adequacy (though I feel that access, even if incomplete, can be gained into the worlds of other communities, in part by examining closely how they articulate these worlds for each other). Finally, I see myself not as a linguist or sociologist, but as an anthropologist with an interest in the linguistic, biological, social, and historically sedimented “material” resources participants in specific communities intertwine to build action, shared phenomenal worlds (culture), and mundane events in concert with each other (and thus not specifically as a linguistic anthropologist giving a privileged focus to language).

In follows I want to focus specifically on the issue Quéré raises of construing the environment semiotically. On pp-51-52, after a very perceptive analysis of my arguments in Action and Embodiment (2000) Quéré writes :

Goodwin accentue ici son tournant à la fois sémiotique et écologique: il traite la structuration de l’environnement matériel lui-même comme un champ sémiotique, c’est-à-dire comme offrant plusieurs ressources sémiotiques publiquement accessibles. … Pourquoi cette sémiotisation de l’analyse de l’action et de la conversation?

After a very rich analysis of my reasons for doing this on p. 56 he writes :

Dans cet article de 2013, Goodwin reprend et développe sa conception sémiotique de l’environnement: celui-ci est un substrat constitué de multiples couches de signes publiquement accessibles, sur lesquelles les acteurs effectuent des opérations diverses et variées d’ appropriation et de transformation. Il reprend à son compte certains apports de l’anthropologie écologique d’Ingold. Mais on peut penser qu’Ingold serait très réservé face à une telle sémiotisation de l’environnement, notamment parce qu’elle conduit à concevoir les objets comme inertes et à sous-estimer la contribution active de l’environnement à l’action et l’interaction.

I take these comments very seriously. Several of my colleagues whose opinions I most respect have also raised questions about my use of signs to analyze unfolding action within human interaction. These are issues I genuinely grapple with. I want to briefly comment on some of the issues involved, while emphasizing that I do not oppose what Quéré says, and deeply appreciate the subtlety and insight of his reading of my own position.

On p. 57 Quéré notes the production and reading of signs is only possible because of their association to an environment that is not semiotic. I strongly agree. Indeed, by being able to incorporate as its object material phenomena in the environment, the Peircian sign bridges the Cartesian gap between the thinking subject and the world. Thus as Deely (Deely 2001:125) notes:

The sign performs its task at the crossroads of nature and culture. And though it marks paths variously deep into both realms, the sign itself in its proper being is native to neither, always ‘mixed’ in its ontogeny — at least as it comes to be a reflexive instrument within anthroposemiosis, where alone we first and initially grasp it as such.

My own thinking about such phenomena, and about the relevance of signs in my analysis, has been deeply informed by Biosemiosis (Favareau 2008, 2010; Hoffmeyer 1996; Hoffmeyer and Favareau 2008) which argues that biological life and semiosis are essentially co-extensive with each other. Thus every organism, from viruses, through cells, eukaryotes, primates and humans, is faced with the task of interpreting its environment in precisely the ways that make it possible for the organism to sustain itself (what counts as food for example). Such semiosis is intrinsically both embedded within action, and a constitutive feature of the organization of action: the focus of my research.

A powerful, vivid formulation of the relationship between semiosis and the diverse construals of the environment required by different animals can be found in Uexküll’s (1934; Uexküll 2010) notion of the Umwelt, a concept that was influential in both subsequent biology and phenomenology (for example it was explicitly used by both Husserl and Heidegger). In a vivid exemplar Uexküll describes how a range of different animals — a worm, a butterfly, field mouse, a farmer — perceive the same flower in a meadow in radically different ways: as a place where eggs can laid for an insect, food for a cow, for a farm boy a gift of his girlfriend, etc. Through this he draws attention to the crucial importance of “the phenomenal world or the self-world of the animal” (Uexküll 2010:90). Favareau (2010:83) generalizes the import of the Umwelt in a way that is most relevant to my own research, and how I view the mutual constitution of actors and their environments:

the notion of a biologically instantiated and causally efficacious set of agent-object relations reducible neither the organization of the subject nor to the organization of the environment but always as the product of the interaction between the two.

It is for this reason that I prefer, where possible, the term inhabitant to the more common actor, or member of a culture or society. An inhabitant is a skilled actor who has mastered the ability to recognize and work with the rich, historically sedimented cultural and natural resources of the endogenous environment(s) where the work of his or her community is accomplished, and who is shaped by these very resources.

Focusing specially on the place of semiotics in engagement with the environment Uexküll, in an example that has perhaps become too famous, describes a blind tick that sits on leaf until it encounters prey it can drop upon and gouge blood from. It locates prey through a very small set signals given off by an appropriate animal, including the ordor of butyric acid, and the temperature of its prey. These signals are signs that make it possible for the tick to sustain itself by construing its environment in action-relevant terms. Through them a very real environment that is not in itself semiotic, is construed from a limited perspective that is relevant to the activities of a positioned actor through signs. Both the independent reality of the environment (the actual blood need by the tick), and the way relevant apprehension of it is shaped through consequential, biologically instantiated semiosis are crucial. Thus the signals used by the tick make no distinction between deer and human beings. The way in which the tick bites each indiscriminately has created (at least in the United States) an epidemic of lyme disease.

I have briefly tried to show how I recognize the independent reality of the material environment, but also how that environment is construed and made consequential in action-relevant ways through situated processes of semiosis that mutually shape both the actor and environment, and indeed constitute them as an indivisible, though differentiated, unity.

This does not fully engage with the “lui-même” in Quéré’s (p. 51) “la structuration de l’environnement matériel lui-même comme un champ sémiotique.” I recognize that in my analysis I may have frequently treated the environment as static, and not examined its diverse organization in the way I do talk and interacting bodies. I am deeply grateful to him for drawing my attention to Ingold (2012) and Quéré (2016). Reading these (as well as Ingold 2013) has inspired me to look at some materials I work with in new ways, and shaped new analysis.

I would however note that analysis of the temporally unfolding correspondence between emerging properties of materials and the sensory experience of actors has received some attention in my work. Thus in Goodwin (1997) — an analysis of the situated practices chemists use to recognize in action-relevant terms when fibers undergoing a chemical reaction have become “jet black” — there is both the serendipitous construction of new color categories (such as the contrast between “gorilla fur” and “orangoutang hair” that capture not only very fine color distinctions, but also the sensory aspects of the fibers they are working with), and emergent recognition that the state marked by “jet black” can also be felt as the texture of the fiber changes. This different form of embodied access to the changing materials being worked with emerge from the embodied process of repetitively lifting the fibers out of their vat of chemicals.

From another perspective I think that a focus on an actor encountering a material world frequently fails to take into account something crucial (at least for humans). A most central aspect of the environment for human beings are other human beings, both in the present, and through objects, such as organized settings, tools, Munsell charts, hopscotch grids, etc., inherited from predecessors. Quéré very insightfully notes the importance of this in my analysis.

More generally, and simply glossing rather than presenting phenomena more adequately developed in my forthcoming book, path-dependent chains of accumulative action — re-use with transformation of materials inherited from others, including Peircian symbols — leads to unfolding diversity in languages, cultures, settings, tools, etc. Each community is thus faced with the ongoing task of creating new inhabitants — cognitively skilled actors able to recognize the discursive and material “objects” that populate its environment in just the ways required to accomplish the distinctive activities of its particular community. I investigate this in archaeological and geological field schools. There, the ability to work appropriately with tools — such as trowels and sledge hammers — and to recognize the phenomenal and material objects that populate the environment that is the focus of the community’s work, is shaped across generations through social practice (see also Ingold 2000:37). While linguists can imagine a world where sentences are created within the mental life of isolated actors, the prototypical home of language, tool use, and engagement with objects is an historically sedimented environment populated by other inhabitants as well.

Modern human beings emerged during the Middle Stone Age (MSA) in Africa. Research by a generation of archaeologists integrating findings from different sites (Wadley 2015) demonstrates accumulative diversification of both what in the environment was the focus of the activities of specific communities, and the rich skills and knowledge of the specific cohorts of actors that inhabited each of them. In terms of what was argued above, one finds diverse, culturally (rather than biologically) organized umwelts mutually shaping actors and their environments together. Hafting, the ability to combine separate parts to create something new, was a crucial innovation that led to a proliferation of new and diverse tools. Experimentally re-creating the practices required to create glue used for hafting by artisans at least 70,000 years ago Wadley, Hodgskiss and Grant (2009:9592) report that

[T]hese artisans were exceedingly skilled; they understood the properties of their adhesive ingredients, and were able to manipulate them accordingly. … Temperature control depends on understanding wood types, their moisture contents, and their propensity to form long-lasting coals. Vigilance is essential because our adhesives burned, or boiled to form air bubbles, when they were too close to the fire. … Ongoing evaluation and control of texture, viscosity, plasticity, and temperature is required. No set recipe or routine can guarantee a satisfactory adhesive product.

Though Wadley et. al. analyze the knowledge required in terms of traditional mental and cognitive process, what they describe does not seem very different from what the chemists in the lab I observed were doing. A community’s co-operative monitoring of its environment, and relevant changes in the materials being used within it, can shape and sustain across generations both the distinctive resources used by the community, and simultaneously its skilled, knowing actors. This public engagement with an environment, shaped through co-operative action with a community of others, rather than mental phenomena situated within the minds or brains of individuals, might be the central site for the continuing, incremental changes that shape human knowledge, cognition (of the type described by Hutchins 1995), language, tools, objects and actors.

I am deeply indebted to Louis Quéré for his insightful understanding of my work, for presenting it with such clarity, and for stimulating my thinking now.

Deely, John, 2001 Umwelt. Semiotica 134 (/4): 125-135.

Favareau, Don, 2008 The Biosemiotic Turn. Part 1: A Brief History of the Sign Concept in Pre-Modern Science. Biosemiotics 1: 5-23.

Favareau, Donald, 2010 Essential Readings in Biosemiotics: Anthology and Commentary. Dordrecht, Heidelberg, London, New York: Springer.

Goffman, Erving, 1963 Behavior in Public Places: Notes on the Social Organization of Gatherings. New York: Free Press.

Goodwin, Charles, 1997 The Blackness of Black: Color Categories as Situated Practice. In Discourse, Tools and Reasoning: Essays on Situated Cognition. Lauren B. Resnick, Roger Säljö, Clotilde Pontecorvo, and Barbara Burge, eds. Pp. 111-140. Berlin, Heidelberg, New York: Springer.

Hoffmeyer, Jesper, 1996 Signs of Meaning in the Universe. Translated by Barbara J. Haveland. Bloomington IN: Indiana University Press.

Hoffmeyer, Jesper, and Donald Favareau, 2008 Biosemiotics: An Examination Into the Signs of Life and the Life of Signs. Scranton: University of Scranton Press.

Hutchins, Edwin, 1995 Cognition in the Wild. Cambridge MA: MIT Press.

Ingold, Tim, 2000 The Perception of the Environment: Essays in Livelihood, Dwelling and Skill. London: Routledge.

Ingold, Tim, 2013 Making: Anthropology, Archaeology, Art and Architecture. New York: Routledge.

Ingold, Tim, 2012 Toward an Ecology of Materials. Annual Review in Anthropology 41: 427-442.

Quéré, Louis, 2016 Retour Sur L’agentivité Des Objects. Occasional Papers du CEMS 25:

Uexküll, Jakob von, 1934 [1957] A Stroll Through the Worlds of Animals and Men: A Picture Book of Invisible Worlds. Translated by Claire H. Schiller. New York: International Universities Press, Inc.

Uexküll, Jakob von, 2010 The Theory of Meaning (With Introduction and Commentary). In Essential Readings in Biosemiotics: Anthology and Commentary. Donald Favareau, ed. Pp. 81-114, Translated by B. Stone and H. Weine. Dordrecht, Heidelberg, London, New York: Springer.

Wadley, Lyn, 2015 Those Marvelous Millennia: The Middle Stone Age of Southern Nafrica. Azenia: Archaeological Research in Africa 50(2): 155-226.

Wadley, Lyn, Tamaryn Hodgskiss, and Michael Grant, 2009, June 16 Implications for Complex Cognition From the Hafting of Tools With Compound Adhesives in the Middle Stone Age, South Africa. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 106 (24) (and online): 9590-9594.

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This dashing young man meets Soledad de Obregon, a gorgeous, refined girl and the two are bound together by sudden passion, though matters are complicated by Hugo's desire to hide his infirmity.[3]

As the adoring couple prepares to marry, tragedy strikes again.[4] Hugo's sinister brother, Alcides, who has always been in love with Soledad, betrays him and steals his betrothed. The rest of the telenovela deals with first Hugo's quest for vengeance and then his attempts to regain the trust and love of Soledad.

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Getting Better at Making Games

The Universal Truth

While there is no universal truth of what a good game is (or how a game should be made), there are some ways of getting better at making games that you want to make.

This article is not about the properties of an objectively good game. Even if those existed, they would be hard to define, I suppose.

Instead I want to share with you my experience with getting better at making games you want to make.

So here are the three tips I have for anyone trying to get better at making games. They should work just as well for beginners as for intermediates and advanced game-makers:

1. Play Games

“How can I get better at making games”, you’re asking? Well, at least part of it is easy: Play the games other people make.

But don’t just play them, pay attention to what you like or dislike about them and why. If you attentively play enough games, this can give you a good overview of what works well and what doesn’t. Find out what makes a game fun or enjoyable to play for you personally. There’s a good chance that (at least some) other people will agree.

If you don’t know where to start, you can (warning, self-promotion!) check out my latest games here and here.

Getting better at making games like Coffee Clicker

2. Regular Practice

One way of getting better at making games is regular practice

Here comes the most obvious part: Practice. It’s the universal answer to any question beginning with: “How can I get better at –?” But it’s also true, which is why it can’t be left out in this list.

The point of this is to get to know your tools, be it the development environment of your choice or software for graphics and audio creation and editing. Only practice can help you learn to be more diverse and efficient in your work.

3. Finish Games

Regular practice is one thing, but the learning experience from finishing a project is really the most important part, at least in my opinion. You could also take this point as “don’t just practice coding of and art creation for a game, but also starting and finishing projects”.

It’s not just about the process of making a game, it’s also about the start and end points of this process.

Making games like my latest finished project: Avoidance

The Ludum Dare Game Making Competition

The Ludum Dare is a 48-hour game making competition and it combines all three of the tips above. On a relatively regular basis it forces you (at least, if you force yourself to participate) to find an idea and get stuff done in just one weekend. It provides a theme and a deadline, which urges you to start making a small game and then to actually complete it.

PS: There’s a Ludum Dare starting this weekend, so hurry up and get your coffee ready!

I know I’ve learned much more about making games while participating in the Ludum Dare, than I have while working on a “bigger game” for months without ever coming close to a complete game.

In a way, if someone asks, “How to get better at making games?”, “participate in the Ludum Dare” is a valid answer to the question.

If you’d like to read further into this, I have written my Ludum Dare story of how to make a game in 48 hours a while ago.

Getting Better at Anything

The tips I told you in regard to making better games are applicable to pretty much anything. Say you want to get better at making films: Then you should watch films, film regularly, but also finish your film projects, no matter how short they might be.

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21/12 -Incompetent trading example

Today’s trading session (thus far at least) was quite a contrast to Thursday’s session in terms of preparation and execution:

  • I completed my 15 minute visualization but also had my mind on an important personal conversation I had yesterday – so my focus wasn’t 100% on the financial markets
  • Following that, I did a small amount of prep work – but nowhere near as much as I did on Thursday – I would not have considered myself to be “in the zone”
  • Market conditions: What didn’t help is that I was trading into quiet market conditions (a mix of being Monday, festive season and distinct absence of Tier-1 or Tier-2 data, nor any fundamentals driving the market) – this significantly increased the odds of muted price movements
  • My first trade was a short on Cable, a reasonable setup.  However within the space of 60 minutes I added four further positions, all except one of them betting on the same principle (dollar strength) as I shorted EURUSD, AUDUSD and longed USDCHF.
  • All of these trades, plus a long on the DAX, turned into losing and partially losing trades.
  • Normally in this type of situation I would kick an empty storage box – however since we got rid off it last week – I had to resort to slamming my fist on the desk.
  • Looking back over things it seems silly that I traded like that.
  • This in turn gets me (us) into the realm of trading psychology – why did I trade knowing that I had not done adequate preparations? Why did I add more and more trades when price was not moving?  Why did I deliberately act in a way that I believe in the long run will not help me achieve consistently profitable results?
  • Was this an example of self-sabotage?
  • If so, was the self-sabotage caused my a lack of confidence in my trading abilities?  Thus allowing my real trading results to line up with a deep-rooted belief that I cannot trade profitably – and turn into a self-fulfilling prophecy.  [Do remember that I am actively working to increase my self-confidence in the trading area.]
  • What were the emotions at the forefront of my brain when I added all these trades? Greed, needing to get even, anxiousness?

And here are some trading statistics covering the period from 7th to 21st December, in which I completed 68 trades.

Trading Statistics Dec21

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  1. Lara/Trace says:

    (Laughing so hard I spit up my tea)

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  2. sojourner says:

    I would sit naked at the center of this city for an hour, if you could get a live shot of you with these two scumbag assholes!

    Then we could both bunk together (you on the upper and me the lower, to be specific), and get “three squares” and a “lights out”!

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  3. sojourner says:

    “Yeah, the French are funny like that!”

    Oh, you think I meant that Paris! Nope! i meant the one that once was and is no more!

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  4. swo8 says:

    Well, well that was quite the exchange! I’m just glad I wasn’t drink tea or coffee.

  5. donzo442 says:

    Not just point of view. Succinct commentary quick and conceptual.

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  6. I think I can just about see my two middle fingers right behind yours Tubularsock. Those dickwads deserve a heaping helping of ‘fuck yous’!

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Well thank the Gods that THAT’S OVER!

Another 9/11 has hit the history dust bin again and we are still in the dark over just which Saudi and Carlyle Group investment scheme helped to do it.

But hell that is water under the bridge so really who cares anyway. Everybody is dead and buried and what in the fuck do they want, they all got a gillion dollar memorial and tourist book store!

We’ve got bigger fish to fry!

And by golly we’ll poke somebody with a stick hard enough to have them attack say like a rowboat floating next to the USS BULLSHIT and we’ll have that UNIFYING WAR each president starts to rally the citizen behind the president. NO MATTER HOW FUCKING STUPID HE HAPPENS TO BE!

And before you anal retentive Trumpites get all pushed out of shape over the above sentence, well it refers to Baby Shrub and the gaggle of assholes that occupied his administration.

Not that Orange Tweet isn’t attempting to corner the market on “STUPID” but Shrub beat him to it on this subject.

And it is true that once the “General” took over as “Chief of Staff” Orange Tweet is learning to bend over for the neocons so ALL IS GOOD in dip-shit-land.

So will it be North Korea? Russia? China? Nope, everyone is tried of hearing about them already. Boring!

No we have to have another Grenada! You remember 1983 and the proposed THREAT TO THE UNITED STATES by the Caribbean Island of Grenada, right?

Parkinson-riddled-brain-dead-Ronald-Reagan sent in 10,000 American troops to protect the U.S. against several hundred lightly armed policemen and Cuban construction workers.

The U.S. military lost 19 and incurred 116 injuries during the eight day “war” but peace came at last and Paul Scoon was reinstated as the Governor-General of Grenada who represented the monarch, Queen Elizabeth II.

And of course the American public supported the invasion even though it was a flagrant violation of international law. Because the United States is a government of laws not of men. Or so the story is told. Go figure that out.

BUT WE WON! And this was our “brave?” military’s first operation conducted after our Grand War with Vietnam which we LOST at pretty much ever criteria one could list.
So you can see how important the War With Grenada (WWG) was then. We really are winners, no really we are, and our military will kill unarmed men, women and children in any number to prove it!

So presently we have an entire 5 sided building filled with dedicated workers finding just the “right” place to attack next in the name of freedom.

Hell we need a win!

  1. Sha'Tara says:

    Hear! Hear! Well said. Peanut brain California bad actor launches a “war” against an island 12 miles wide by 24 miles long and the even smaller brains who voted for the monkey swallowed the propaganda and strutted around like they’d won a World War… and now… North Korea? Sure, when you need to boost up your fan base, start another war. I cannot imagine a country deserving of going down in historical infamy (and buffoonery) that the US of A-H’s

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  2. Batt Guano says:

    Tube–we do need a win and here’s how we can get one or even several. The US military should invade, conquer, and destroy…. Taco Trucks across America. Why Taco Trucks? Because they are almost surely staffed by illegal immigrants. They are not heavily armed. And the food ingredients captured could be used to supplement military food budgets at military bases around the world. Of course military mess halls would be heavy on Mexican food and the resultant flatulence. But that’s a small price to pay for a string of much needed military victories.

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  3. sojourner says:

    LET’S WAR SOME MORE! “like we did last Summer!”

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  4. Jay says:

    Your title sounds like a hit song I want to dance to.

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  5. Well said, Sunshine! I do enjoy your blog but WordPress is playing silly buggers and won’t allow me to push the “like” button. Consider the button pushed here!!!

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Great Sunday Brunch at Parma Ridge Winery and Bistro

It was a beautiful drive from Boise with the fog forming along the river and in the valleys. Surrealistic. The food was good and the service was super. I’m glad we had reservations as the Bistro was getting full with at least 1 large party. I highly suggest you call for reservations – (208) 946-5187 or text them.
My only suggestion, and I mentioned this to Chef Megan, is to watch the salt content in the Poutine Bowl. I know it was well above the 1¼ teaspoon of daily allowance. It was excessive. But the plus side is the flavors were all there from the chardonnay sautéed mushrooms, cheese and bacon. Look at what we had. Yummy! Add to this a wonderful glass (or two) of the Parma Ridge 2016 Merlot, and you are bound for a super experience. Here is their Menu. If you want a fun and delicious visit to a winery bistro and you are in the Boise area, you must go here. Definitely a 5-Star bistro.

REGULAR HOURS: 12-9 pm Friday
12-5 pm Saturday and
11 am – 5 pm Sunday and serve cuisine all weekend.
Happy Hour on Friday from 4-7 p.m. and a Special Menu all day Sunday!

“Fog in the Valley”

Tasting Room and Bistro
Chef Megan is such a delight. Great to have her come by the tables and see if everything is OK. Beautiful smile!

Storm’s Famous Northwest Clam Chowder (bowl or cup)
with a slice of
Grilled Sourdough Baguette Awesome!

“The Kathleen”
Smoked Blue Cheese
Sautéed Pears
Spicy Pecans
Arugula with a Balsamic Reduction

This is HUGE!

Poutine Bowl
Rosemary Truffle Fries
House Made Demi Glace
Local Fresh Cheese Curds
Chardonnay Sautéed Button Mushrooms
Applewood Smoked Bacon

This is HUGE! Big enough for four!

Wine Club Party at Parma Ridge Winery and Bistro

Close to 100 people, or more, in the new barrel room, which is awesome. And it looks like everyone found the winery ok with the new sign “pointing the way” on hiway 95 – pictured to the left. Look for it! And then being able to use the new barrel room to accommodate all of the people. Such a treat! Artist Stephanie Hodge was the perfect hostess. And Chef Storm Hodge produced some awesome treats to go with the wines being poured. Both Stephanie and Storm are doing a great job with the winery. Look at the following photos to see what Chef Storm made and we consumed. Left Click any of the photos to see them enlarged. And if you want to see what they are doing each week, follow them on the AVA Happenings blog at Parma Ridge Page. (This page changes weekly so follow the page. It’s free.)

We started with a Salmon Spread Bruchetta, but I failed to get a photo. It was too good!

The new barrel room.
Let the party begin!
Some of the many people who attended.
These are the wines that were in our package.
The Smyser’s pour some wine.
Yummy sliders!
Storm’s Flatbread
chicken, house bbq sauce, cilantro and cheese
Bacon Wrapped Shrimp

Thank-You Storm and Stephanie Hodge, owners and winemaker of Parma Ridge Winery in Parma, Idaho for a great evening of food and wine!

Brunch at Parma Ridge Winery

Thank you so much Artist Stephanie and Chef Storm Hodge for another delightful brunch! These brunches are superb! 5-Star! (Bistro Weekend Menusubject to change – or Parma Ridge Winery and Bistro) And many thanks to Garry and Donna for meeting us at the bistro for lunch, despite the highway detours! Here is what we had along with our 2016 Parma Ridge Winery Tre Bianchi and a 2015 Parma Ridge Winery Carmenere. Cheers! Left-Click any of these photos to see them enlarged.

Coconut Breaded Deep-Fried Shrimp
Coconut Lime Rice
Korean Barbeque and Sweet Chili Dipping Sauces
They were that good! Started out with 6 shrimp.

Korean Barbeque Chicken Skewers
Coconut Lime Rice and a Korean Barbeque Sauce

Parma Ridge Pear Salad
Mixed greens with apple cider vinaigrette, Bleu Cheese and Poached Pear with Grilled Bread

Grilled Flat-Bread
Italian Sausage, Pepperoni and Mushroom with Homemade Red Sauce

Parma Ridge Cream of Mushroom Soup

Brunch Burger – Quarter-Pound Black Angus Burger
Melted Double Cream Brie, Apple-wood Smoked Bacon, and Sunny-side up Egg
Lemon-Tarragon Aioli and Rosemary Garlic Truffle Fries

Best Ever Biscuits and Gravy
Sausage Gravy

Fresh Bacon Cheddar Biscuit topped with a Sunny Side Up Egg

And to follow-up from the Parma Ridge Winery web page,

Savor the Flavor
Offering both an in-house menu in the Tasting Room and custom menus for your scheduled event, Storm is looking forward to making your day special. From appetizers to full course meals, Parma Ridge offers both the taste and the view. Come by during tasting room hours to enjoy one of his delicious menu items, or contact us today to plan your special event!

I did mention to Stephanie that Robin and I have probably had close to all of the items offered on the menu. We have never had a bad selection, but there are some we prefer! The Parma Ridge Bistro is definitely a 5-Star winery bistro in the Snake River AVA.

Love this photo by Stephanie Hodge! So dramatic! I understand that it may be a label sometime in the future.

Wine Dinner at Grit – American Cuisine and 3 Horse Ranch Vineyards Wines

A very good dinner and some fine wines. Grit – American Cuisine, located at 360 S Eagle Rd, Eagle, ID 83616, Hours: 11AM–9PM, Phone: (208) 576-6666, presented a very good wine dinner showcasing 3 Horse Ranch Vineyards, 900 Pearl Rd, Eagle, ID 83616, Phone: (208) 863-6561. This was thee first time Robin and I have been to Grit – American Cuisine and it is worth a 4-Star rating, out of 5-Stars. Good food, especially the French Lentil Soup, pictured below. It was superb. The appetizers, Seared Beef Filet and Crab Cakes with Aioli were also superb. They are also pictured below. The wines with the appetizers, a Roussanne, were paired perfectly. The wine with the soup, Eagle Foothills Sangiovese was also a perfect pairing. Left-Click any photo to see enlarged.
Gary and Martha Cunningham, owners of 3 Horse Ranch Vineyards, did a fantastic job keeping us informed about the wines that were served and some of the specifics of the wines. The parings with our dinner were well received. 3 Horse Ranch Vineyards is in the Eagle Foothills AVA, Idaho’s newest AVA. Look at what we had. Hope to see you next time at an interesting Wine Dinner someplace.

Amuse Bouche of Bleu Cheese Crackers with Seared Beef Filet
Crab Cakes with Aioli

French Lentil Soup with Rye Croutons and House Cured Ham.
Sangiovese – Eagle Foothillsills

Frisee Salad with Lardons
Poached Egg
Champagne Vinargrette
Pinot Gris – Eagle Foothills

Sorry, but the photo I took of the next course was not good enough to post.
Mussels with Pernod
Fennel and Basil
Syrah – Eagle Foothills

Beef Wellington
Cognac Shitake Mushroom Duxelle
Glazed Carrots
Potato Puree
Sauce Bearnaise
Beau Geste – Eagle Foothills

Beef Wellington

Baba au Rhum
Cream and Vanilla Strawberry Jam
Riesling – Snake River Valley

Really a good night of fine food and delicious wines. Great to meet and make new friends.

Wine and Chocolate – The Buzz

10feb2017_1_the-buzz_front-counterSuch a great evening of fine wines and some really good food, especially the Spicy Chocolate Soup! A nice crowd was there and it was good to see 30 people! All of the wines that we had, as it turns out, were all rated at a [17]. There was only one that rated below [17]. Cristi’s birthday party at The Buzz, will be on February 24, even though her “real” birthday is February 29th. The next Wine Dinner is March 14th and 15th. The dinner is repeated on each evening. The theme will be “Italian Wines”. See you there! Here is what we had tonight. Left-Click any of these photos to see them enlarged. Cheers.

Opening wines were from South Africa.
Opening wines were from South Africa.
Brie and Chocolate Tart Chorizo Chocolate Toast

Brie and Chocolate Tart
Chorizo Chocolate Toast

2015 Revelry Merlot

 Spicy Chocolate Soup (Awesome) 2011 Ammunition Pinot Noir (Awesome paring! Best paring of the night.)

Spicy Chocolate Soup
2011 Ammunition Pinot Noir
(Awesome paring! Best paring of the night.)

Spinach and Pear Salad Chocolate Vinaigrette 2015 Tranche Rose [15]

Spinach and Pear Salad
Chocolate Vinaigrette
2015 Tranche Rose [15]

Chocolate Rubbed Pork Cocoa Vegetables 2013 Arsonist Red

Chocolate Rubbed Pork
Cocoa Vegetables
2013 Arsonist Red

 Trio Chocolate Truffle 2014 Decoy Zinfandel

Trio Chocolate Truffle
2014 Decoy Zinfandel

Cristi presented The Legend of St Valentines Day. Interesting.
It may be based on the Roman pagan festival of Lupercalis which was a fertility celebration on February 15th. In 496 Pope Gelasius changed the celebration to St Valentine’s Day. According to the Catholic encyclopedia, there were at least three early Christian saints by the name of Valentine. One was a priest in Rome, one a bishop in Terni and nothing is known about the third St Valentine except that he met his end in Africa. Surprisingly, all three of them are said to have been martyred on the 14th of February.
Pope Gelasius intended to honor the first of these three men: This St Valentine was a priest who lived around 270 AD in Rome and attracted the disfavor of Roman Emperor Claudius II who ruled during this time. St Valentine held secret marriage ceremonies of soldiers in opposition to Claudius II who had prohibited marriage of young men. Claudius II believed that if men were married they were more loyal to their families than the state. Therefore, not good soldiers. St Valentine was against this and would marry young couples secretly. Claudius II found out and had him imprisoned.

It was during the 14th century that St Valentine’s Day became securely associated to love. Chaucer had a lot to do with this day. In France and England it was believe that birds mated on February 14th. Chaucer used this image of birds as a symbol of lovers. “For this was on St Valentine’s Day. When every fowl cometh there to choose a mate.”

Brunch at Parma Ridge Bistro!

26oct2016_1_parma-ridge_dusk-viewIt was great to get back to Parma Ridge Winery and Bistro. It’s been a while. And this time, we sat at a large table and others, who we did not know, joined us. What fun meeting some new folks. And Chef Storm still does a great job in the kitchen, as does his crew. Thanks for a great brunch! We also had some un-labeled wine, 2015 Parma Ridge Carmenere and a 2016 Parma Ridge Chardonnay – unoaked! I am not a Carmenere fan, but this was superb and will go good in any cellar. Very fruity and smooth. Went very well with the chowder and thee Brunch Burger. The 2016 Chardonnay has also a superb wine. Unoaked helped! How good were these wines? We bought some of each. Look at their site: Parma Ridge Winery and Bistro Here’s what we had for our brunch. See you there sometime? Hope so. And keep this in mind – All entrees and sides are made fresh and on site! (Left-Click any photo to see it enlarged)

Cream of Mushroom Soup (Awesome)

Cream of Mushroom Soup

Best Every Biscuits and Gravy(And they are!)

Best Ever Biscuits and Gravy
(And they are!)

NW Clam Chowder(Differently delicious!)

NW Clam Chowder
(Differently delicious!)

Brunch Burger(Awesome Brunch burger!)

Brunch Burger
(Awesome Brunch burger!)


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silver_surfer_1998_2As the 90s wound down, so did many of the superhero cartoons. By 1998, Batman had been over for a few years, X-Men (1992)  had just ended and Spider-Man (1994) was coming to a close (yes, Superman was in its prime). With the landscape clear, it was the perfect time to launch a new show, Silver Surfer. If you didn’t watch, you missed out.

silver_surfer_1998_1Marvel cosmic is a wonderfully untapped resources. Silver Surfer took full advantage of that, not relying on any previously established character or element. While Norrin Radd’s origin neglected bits like the Fantastic Four, it more than made up for it with great storytelling and appearances from other cosmic Marvel mainstays. Aside from the mandatory appearance by Galactus, Kree, and Skrulls, the Watcher, Thanos, Adam Warlock, Ego the Living Planet, Pip the Troll, Nebula, Gamora, Drax, Beta Ray Bill, and even Celestials Eternity and Infinity were present.

Some characters, like Warlock and Drax were slightly altered without explanation. One peculiar change was Nova, Frankie Raye, was now a mutant while Thanos worshiped Lady Chaos rather than Death. At least the latter made some sense.

silver_surfer_1998_5The biggest weakness was the animation. Produced by Saban, this had a similar style to X-Men. While this was fine, the mix of computer animation, permeating nearly every scene, was obnoxious. Every vehicle and planet sported the terrible style. Galactus was the worst offend, comprised entirely of vectors and shiny bits. Mixing cel and computer animation doesn’t work in 2014, it certainly didn’t work in 1998.

silver_surfer_1998_4Despite all this galactic goodness, there was still some problems. The plots, while dealing the same topics the Surfer comics usually did (imperialism, pacifism, environmentalism, other various isms), the character execution was poor. I hope the voice actors were paid by the word because wow, they’d certainly earn their paychecks. Nearly every character had an overwritten monologue. It was a little much. The Surfers origin certainly didn’t need three episodes. Maybe they were trying to be a little too faithful to Kirby.

For better or worse, Silver Surfer only lasted 13 episodes. The show, ending on a cliffhanger (a part 1 even), was renewed for a second season, but production fell through. Marvel had a dispute with Saban, cancelling production. Eight scripts were written, though never produced.

silver_surfer_1998_3Silver Surfer, while not up to par with shows like Spider-Man or X-Men, was certainly better than Fantastic Four (1994). Though Marvel Studios is on a roll, with no concept too grand for film, this is one that will likely never happen, with most of the characters owned by Fox. While there’s certainly a chance for another Surfer cartoon, I wouldn’t bet on it. In the mean time, you could do worse than watch this. Much worse.

Enjoy all this Marvel cosmic goodness? Think they talked too much? Comment below!

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Melania Trump’s Convention Dress Continues to Inspire Copycats

Kristine Solomon
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Melania Trump’s white puff-sleeved Roksanda dress from the Republican National Convention in 2016 continues to inspire knockoff looks. (Photo: Getty Images)

Call it the “Kate Middleton effect.” When you’re one of the most watched women in the world — and your fashion game is on point — it should come as no surprise that you’ll soon become a trendsetter.

Such is the case with Melania Trump, who is inspiring knockoffs of her public looks ever since her husband, Donald Trump, began running for president.

Although many of the first lady’s looks are seriously covet worthy, one dress in particular is emerging as a favorite among the Washington, D.C., and Hollywood elite. In July, Melania Trump made her public debut at the Republican National Convention in a now-iconic bubble-sleeved dress. The wife of the then-Republican nominee looked both angelic and regal in the stark, white frock, which was created by U.K.-based designer Roksanda Ilinčić, a native of Serbia (Melania Trump hails from nearby Slovenia).

The world took notice, and variations on the $2,195 dress seem to be popping up everywhere. Most recently, at Monday’s star-studded Met Gala in New York City, actress Zoey Deutch glowed in a white gown that bore a striking resemblance to Melania Trump’s convention dress. Deutch told W magazine that she chose the custom Tory Burch design in an attempt to stick to this year’s gala theme: “Rei Kawakubo/Comme des Garçons: Art of the In-Between.”

Zoey Deutch attends the Met Gala in a Tory Burch gown that bears a striking resemblance to Melania Trump’s Republican convention look. (Photo: Getty Images)

With its high neck and accentuated bell sleeves, the look carried all of the tasteful charm of Trump’s. Like the first lady, Deutch even opted for minimal accessories, wearing only a pair of oversize Tory Burch earrings and letting the gown speak for itself.

Unlike Trump’s frock, which was strictly a cotton-silk blend, Deutch’s was floor length and featured flourishes of tulle. Deutch called the dress a “minimalist, white silhouette” and praised Burch in the interview, but made no mention of the gown’s striking resemblance to Trump’s dress.

Shortly after the convention, the first variation on Trump’s ethereal dress popped up at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, where it stirred up controversy. The scandal started shortly after Melania Trump was accused of plagiarizing her convention speech from then-first lady Michelle Obama — all while wearing the white number. When Rep. Joyce Beatty, D-Ohio, gave a speech at the Democratic convention in a white dress that was identical to Trump’s, it sent social media into a tizzy. Some felt Beatty was trolling Trump with her fashion statement — “plagiarizing the plagiarizer,” as one person put it.

Then, in January, Natalie Portman wore a floor-length copycat of Trump’s look, bubble sleeves and all, to the Screen Actors Guild Awards. The gown, a piece from Italian fashion designer Maria Grazia Chiuri’s Spring 2017 Dior couture collection, had come straight off the runway and fit the pregnant star perfectly.

Portman had been nominated for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role for Jackie, a Jacqueline Kennedy biopic. She made sure to credit the former first lady for inspiring her wardrobe choice — “I’m sure that even subconsciously I’m inspired by Jackie, who had such an incredible style,” she told People/Entertainment Weekly Network at the time — but didn’t extend that courtesy to the current first lady.

It’s hard to ignore the uncanny resemblance, though — and it’s important to note that Melania Trump, too, has drawn comparisons to Kennedy with her aesthetic.

Shortly after the Republican convention, Trump’s original Roksanda dress sold out on, where the former model purchased it herself “because she liked it,” according to her spokesperson. It has since been restocked. Called the “Margot” dress, the piece is marketed onsite as “a beautiful option for the modern bride.” In addition to white, the look is available in black and pink. In 2012, both Kelly Ripa and Ginnifer Goodwin rocked the bright pink version to separate events.

The dress is clearly a crowd pleaser, as droves of social media users would agree — even if they don’t necessarily agree with the Trumps’ politics. “I oppose everything Melania Trump stands for but I will not hear a syllable against that dress,” Tara Ariano tweeted. Another tweeted, “Politics aside, I love that dress.”

Want to get on the Roksanda puff-sleeved dress bandwagon, but can’t afford the price tag? Several designers offer less expensive commercial knockoffs — but good luck finding a retailer that has inventory. Jovani makes a chic version of the dress in both white and black, which retails for $550 on Saks Fifth Avenue’s site. Neiman Marcus sells the dress for $560 in navy. Bloomingdale’s sells a version of the dress, in white, by Laundry by Shelli Segal for $236 — when it is in stock, which it is not — along with online retailers Dillard’s and Spring.

Still coming up short? You can always wait for Melania Trump’s next big look — and stay ahead of the copycat curve.

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2015 Sonoma NHRA Pro Stock Motorcycle | Harley’s Krawiec Sweeps Round
Harley’s Ed Krawiec

For the second-consecutive round, Harley-Davidson Screamin’ Eagle/Vance & Hines pilot Ed Krawiec was victorious. The Harley-V-Rod rider swept the NHRA Nationals at Sonoma Raceway, taking the Pro Stock Motorcycle number-one qualifier, the Pro Bike Battle special event and then the win. Krawiec beat Savoie’s Alligator Farm Suzuki’s Jerry Savoie by 0.010 of a second.

After eight of 16 rounds Krawiec now has 702 points – 106 ahead of Hector Arana Jr. (Lucas Oil Buell). Krawiec’s teammate Andrew Hines is in third with 546 points.

“We’ve known all season what potential the Harley V-Rods have,” said Krawiec. “We just needed to find the right performance mix. We are going to keep working and testing to make what we’ve got even better. There are two races left before the Countdown starts and we want to be ready to run for the title.”

Krawiec, the defending Sonoma champion, topped Pro Stock Motorcycle qualifying with a best Elapsed Time of 6.787 seconds. Hines, the defending NHRA Pro Stock Motorcycle champion, qualified the team’s other V-Rod motorcycle in second position with an ET of 6.837 seconds.

On Saturday, Krawiec won an all-Harley final in the NHRA Pro Bike Battle when Hines fouled at the start. The Pro Bike Battle is a special event conducted during qualifying rounds at Sonoma and open to the top-eight qualifying performers from the previous season. Hines defeated Hector Arana and Hector Arana Jr. to reach the final, while Krawiec advanced with wins over Scotty Pollacheck and Jerry Savoie.

“We started with this power combination on the V-Rods in Denver and now after Sonoma, we’ve got some valuable data from a sea-level track,” said Hines. “We are preparing for the next race at Brainerd and then will head into the U.S. Nationals and the Countdown with some momentum.”

Krawiec defeated Angie Smith, Steve Johnson and Pollacheck to reach a final-round match with Savoie. Krawiec posted an ET of 6.881 seconds to better the 6.891 second-run of Savoie, a margin of victory of about 14 inches. Krawiec now has two victories in five final-round appearances this season and has 29 final-round wins in his career.

The Harley-Davidson Screamin’ Eagle/Vance & Hines drag team will be back in action Aug. 20-23 at the 34th Lucas Oil NHRA Nationals at Brainerd International Raceway in Minnesota.


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As many international organizations, including the UN, debate the various international issues surrounding the idea of a no-fly zone over Libya here is an article from Al Jazeera summarizing recent developments:

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An Update in Three Chapters

Well, have you?

Consider this your update. It’s really more of me acknowledging I have not written anything in three solid months.

It’s not that there hasn’t been anything to write about. Quite the opposite, actually. So here it is: A Comprehensive Update on the Life of Jordyn Pair.

You’re welcome, grandma.

Chapter 1: Finding my (radio) voice

When I took a radio class last semester, I never expected it to be anything more than an obligatory rounding-out of my journalism skills. I never expected to take a second class, and I certainly never anticipated eventually taking charge of three separate shows.

That’s right, folks, Jordyn Pair is on the air.

Getting my first radio show, Have You Heard? on the airwaves was a long process, mostly due to my lack of diligence. I didn’t know who to talk to or how to edit what they said. But now you can hear the unusual stories, passions, and experiences of Hillsdale College students at seven in the morning, provided you are in town. Otherwise, you have to wait for the Soundcloud file to make an appearance on the Facebook page.

Although I also produce The Devil’s Advocate, and will soon be hosting The Collegian Week in Review, my first show, Have You Heard? is my fun project. I’m in journalism to tell the unknown stories, and, at Hillsdale, that’s the not-quite-newsworthy-but-still-cool students. There might not be a news hook, but there is passion.

And, in my case, passion fed passion.

Although I have worked with words for so long, learning to work with them in audio format has been a new challenge. These shows are a different beast than ones I have approached before, but it’s a beast I love tackling.

The radio shows I work on are creative. It’s not just straightforward journalism, and they’re more personalized. Although journalism does occasionally lend itself to flexing artistic muscles, the radio shows I work on are more like a time for me to play. It’s a chance to sit down in front of a microphone and just have fun.

Chapter 2: Small town girl, meet big city

I have a love affair with travelling, but am rarely able to.

Which is why I am absolutely stoked that I get to spend the summer in Washington, D.C. After I finish a  two-week stint in Iowa for a journalism intensive, I will immediately turn around, cram everything I own (plus my parents and me) into a car, and drive down to D.C.

Although I am unsure of what my journalism internship holds, I’m thrilled to be in a town where the main occupant is not corn.

Yes, I am sharing a room. Yes, I will be stuffing myself into pencil skirts all summer. Yes, I will absolutely love every second of it.

And if you have any “Top Ten Places to Visit in D.C.” listicles, send them my way.

Chapter 3: The one where I write a million headlines

I have spent every Wednesday of the last year in the Collegian office. Apparently, I am a glutton for pain and the AP Stylebook, because that is where I am spending every Wednesday of this coming year, too.

Dearest readers/fellow students/grandma, meet the Hillsdale Collegian’s next News Editor.

Being an editor is difficult work. It’s long hours and managing new writers and harassing old ones. But it’s work that I will find fulfilling, rewarding, and so, so worth it.

I know my second two chapters are so much shorter than my first, but it’s only because they haven’t been fully written yet. This is just a preview of me throwing myself into the deep end of the journalism pool.

Pen to paper. Sink or swim.

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Rooftop growing is exploding everywhere. Some cities now allow owners to exceed height restrictions if they’re growing food on their roofs. Many of these are hydroponic, as in Vancouver’s Alterrus rooftop greenhouse on the unused top floor of a downtown … Continue reading

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The murder of Virginia teen Nabra Hassanen is most likely the outcome of a “Road Rage” rather than a hate crime. On Monday, June 19, the Fairfax Police Department clarified the same after 17-year old Hassanen was found dead in a man-made pond. She was murdered by 22-year old Darwin Martinez Torres on Sunday, June 18. The police state that the incident is likely to be a result of road rage and not an outcome of hate toward a particular community.

22-year-old murders teen in Virginia

Virginia resident Hassanen was murdered on June 18 after she had gone out with her friends. The group of teenagers was out late at night to attend an event at the All Dulles Area Muslim Society in Sterling, Virginia.

The teen along with her friends was on their way back home after visiting a fast-food restaurant when the incident took place. The police stated that the group had as many as 15 teenagers, some of them were walking while others were on their bikes when they encountered 22-year-old Torres.

For some reason, an argument started between Torres and one of the teenagers from the group who was on a bicycle. In a fit of rage, the man drove his car onto the pavement, scattering the group. The teenagers ran away from him but regrouped at a parking lot where they were tracked down by the accused. According to the police, on the second encounter the accused, chased them by wielding a baseball bat. The police shared that he was able to get hold of Nabra and in rage hit her with the baseball bat.

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After Torres attacked Hassanen, he kidnapped her and took her into his car, which he drove to a nearby place in Loudoun County.

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Hassanen’s body was discovered almost 11 hours later in a close by the man-made pond in the same area. The autopsy revealed that Nabra was subjected to blunt force trauma on the upper part of her body after being kidnapped. However, the police have not specified the exact cause of her death.

Torres was arrested at 5:15 a.m. on June 18. Officer Tawny Wright stated that the accused was roaming around the search area in his car and caught the attention of an officer. He was stopped on charges of vehicle violation and was later detained for questioning. He has been accused of murder after Nabra’s body was found.

Was it a hate crime?

Although the police statement maintains that the murder was the result of road rage, there is a chance that hate crime charges could still be filed as the investigation proceeds. Torres has been assigned a public defender for now, but it has been suggested by his aunt that the family may hire a private lawyer of their own.


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Managed fund trading platform uXchange launches with 26 fund managers

Managed fund trading platform uXchange launches with 26 fund managers

Co-founder of MA Operator Shannon Bernasconi has received early support from large and boutique fund managers.

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More than 25 big-name fund managers including Magellan, Vanguard and Macquarie Group, have thrown their weight behind a new managed fund trading platform that its founder says may be a challenger to established bank-run platforms and the ASX’s mFunds.

The platform, uXchange, allows members to manage a portfolio of Australian and global managed funds and was launched last week by fintech MA Operator. It has more than 80 managed funds on its investment menu and 14 Australian Financial Services licensees from non-bank aligned financial planning groups have started using the service.

Shannon Bernasconi, co-founder and executive director of MA Operator, said uXchange charges no ongoing fee to its users, instead charging per transaction, capped at $50 per trade.

“But uXchange also provides a distribution channel for fund managers that wasn’t there before. It’s a concentrated distribution channel for high net worth and self-managed superannuation fund investors, through an independent channel that isn’t then influencing their own products and services like a platform would,” Ms Bernasconi said.

“The reaction [from fund managers] has been that this is a great mechanism for them to start connecting to a market [of non-aligned licensees] that was quite hard to get to before because is was so fragmented.”

Fund managers can appear on the exchange fee-free for the first 12 months. Ms Bernasconi said that managers might then pay a one-off fee of $1000.

“If as a community we wanted to do some kind of marketing, something for the purpose of growth, then we could leverage that $1000,” she said.

“It was not my intention to make money from fund managers. It’s a channel for the people, mostly the adviser and the client, but the fund managers get to benefit from this distribution channel.”

According to uXchange’s approved product list as at June 16, global fund manager Dimensional had 21 funds on the platform, while Vanguard was close behind with 18 funds. Magellan’s global fund appears, along with some of its other of its funds.

Eight of Pinnacle Investment Management’s funds from managers including Hyperion, Plato and Spheria have also joined the platform, which has Equity Trustees as its responsible entity.

Pinnacle director of distribution Adrian Whittingham said the financial services industry needed more creative ideas.

“What is attractive about uXchange or mFund, or other product providers, is that the market needs innovation,” he said.

“If you make it challenging for people to invest they will choose passive or do it yourself. So at the heart of this is about accessibility.”

Ms Bernasconi predicted that uXchange would compete directly with both bank-owned platforms but also mFunds, which she said had disappointed from an accessibility perspective.

“mFunds came out of a need, like any innovation, for those investors that are moving off platform to have access to managed funds. The concept was right, the need was there, it’s just the implementation of it has fallen short of the expectations,” she said.

“From personal experience, when you do place an order through mFund, you do have to go specifically to the broker’s actual screens, so a person at the adviser end has to physically do something, whereas they’re used to a world where that just happens.”

The mFund service was launched in March 2014 to satisfy investor appetite for an alternative to shares.

Data from the most recent ASX funds monthly update shows mFund now offers access to 173 funds from 55 fund managers, with funds under management at the end of May standing at about $347 million, representing an increase of just over 148 per cent over 12 months.

“ASX’s mFund continues to show strong inflows with the level of funds under management doubling in the last 12 months from $140 million to $350 million at the end of May 2017. The ability to hold mFunds through CHESS as part of an overall portfolio of ASX-quoted investments, makes the service particularly attractive to retail investors, including those in the growing SMSF sector,” Andrew Campion, ASX’s senior manager of investment products said.

In February the Australian Securities and Investments Commission allowed products requiring long-form product disclosure statements – such as hedge funds and derivative products – to sit on the ASX-operated exchange, which allows retail investors to invest in unlisted managed funds.

Ms Bernasconi said uXchange “crowd sources” any funds its adds via adviser or client requests.

“We don’t determine the list, which is what a bank-based platform does … we’re not going to add funds on unless there is some demand,” Ms Bernasconi said.

“We have quite a dichotomy of the big end and the smaller end and there are quite a few specific fund managers we’ve been asked for.”

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Alestorm ready to set sail with Dragonforce

image (1)Scottish pirate quartet Alestorm will join Dragonforce on a string of dates in the UK and Ireland kicking off in Dublin on September 25, 2012.

They’ll be joined by The Defiled and Cavorts.

The dates are as follows:

September 25 – Dublin, Academy
September 27 – Belfast, Mandela Hall
September 28 – Glasgow, ABC
September 29 – Newcastle, Academy
September 30 – Wolverhampton, Wulfren Hall
October 1 – Bristol, Academy
October 3 – Nottingham, Rock City
October 4 – Norwich, UEA
October 5 – Manchester, Academy
October 6 – London, Shepherd’s Bush Empire
October 7 – Portsmouth, Pyramids

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Mother LoverWhen a young woman, one who looks young enough to warrant an ID check, came up to me and asked me if I wanted her body, of course I said no!  She did not take this well, and grabbed onto my muscular arm, saying that she wanted my body.  I was about to calmly let her down, but then she poked my arm with some sort of marble, leaving me in her fairly skimpily dressed body.  I quickly lost track of my body, despite running as fast as my skinny legs would let me.  I thought about finding the marble to switch back, but in my panic I had dropped it, and this being a mall on a Saturday, it was likely long gone for good.

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The Road of Lost Innocence by Somaly Mam

Title: The Road of Lost Innocence
Author: Somaly Mam (Translated from French by Lisa Appignanesi)
Publisher: Spiegel & Grau; First Edition first Printing edition (September 9, 2008)
Genre: Non-fiction(Autobiography)
Source: Library
Set in: Cambodia
Rating: 5/5

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This was one of the most difficult books I have ever read. We all know that prostitution and human trafficking is million dollar business that seems to continue to grow over the years. But most of us probably don’t know the extent of this problem and how it affects lives of young girls. All over the world and especially in underdeveloped/ developing countries, this is a problem that is quickly getting out of hands.

The Road of Lost Innocence is a story from Cambodia. Ms. Somaly had a very horrific life, 100 times more horrific than you can guess from the synopsis of the book. The worst phase was her life in the brothel. She describes the desperate and dirty living conditions in the low-end brothels where one girl had to sometimes service 10-15 men in one day. She says Cambodian men are very violent people, the years of Khmer regime has left a mark on them. She describes how the prostitutes are forced into the trade by their family members, by their own mothers and fathers. Poverty drives them to do this.

When she left the brothel for good, she married a Frenchman who was a social worker in Cambodia. After that she decided to use her status as a white man’s wife to help girls like her. She started a center that housed women rescued from brothels. Her center also provided health care and a way for these girls to build their life again by teaching them various skills. She also initiated an educational program which educated men into what prostitution was really like for those girls. Cambodian men seemed to treat women like commodities and she tried to speak against that by showing them that they were after all human beings.

The most shocking part was the ages of these girls in the brothels. There are as young as 5-6 year old girls. Some men seem to believe that having sex with a virgin will cure them of AIDS. To ensure that the girls were virgins, they bought in girls as young as 5.

I have such immense respect for Ms. Somaly and the work her organization is doing instead of the constant threats they get. In Cambodia, big brothels are controlled or owned by powerful people. Even policeman have a share in the brothels earnings. When the system that is supporting you is going against you, people like Somaly Mam provide a beacon of hope.

I had watched a documentary on these very children of Cambodia but I guess the documentary masked some of the horrific details. This book tells you things as they are. And even when sometimes things become too difficult to read, I just had to keep going on. If we cannot help these girls, we at least owe it to them to be informed about their fate and know that there are people like them who suffer endlessly for no fault of theirs.

Note: The paperback edition contains some pictures, whereas the hardback doesn’t.

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Internet links:

Somaly Mam’s foundation
AFESIP: Acting for women in distressing situation

When a Hotel is a brothel and vice versa
Cambodia faces problems enforced new sex trafickking law


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Political Poetry Journal

The Occupy Poetry Project published between 2011-2013. A  poetic response to ideas related to Occupy Wall Street and Occupy Fed movements, to bankers and corporations, to world Occupy, the journal shares views from various writers with personal and clear message. The OPP does not take political sides, and remains as an open forum opposing two-party thought. These are new voices. These are now voices. Stay tuned to the Virgogray Press Blog for further developments, or visit,

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Hey... I found a cool site that isn't a scam! woot. anyway, help me get a free ipod and sign up using this link [ link removed ] the cool thing is, if you do it as well, you can get a free one too.

check this site (free ipod guide) for a guide on what to do exactly. the guide has pictures from people who actually got their ipods and such, and the organization doing this is registered with the better business bureau and has been for several years in good standing. feel free to ask me for help in a comment here if you have any questions. I highly recommend following the ebay route.. it is quite simple, no credit card needed, etc etc.

EDIT: I need *1* more person to complete their offer, so if you signed up and didn't complete it.. please do. Once mine is completed and I recieve my ipod, I will take pictures to show everyone it is legit. :) Also, anyone that helps me get to completion, will get their referral URL's linked here on this post. Thanks a ton for the help.

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I don't mind helping you out but the problem is that those free ipod offers usually are scams. How do you know for sure that they aren't? Because I wouldn't mind a free one my-self.

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there are a few people i sorta know that have gotten them through it.

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