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Andamiro celebrated 30 years in the industry with a cake-cutting ceremony.
Company Profile – Andamiro – Celebrating 30 Years
By RePlay Editor on December 1, 2022 Featured, Profiles - Companies, Products & People
Andamiro Celebrates Three Decades
Game Maker Perseveres During Covid & Moves to New U.S. HQ
Celebrating its 30th anniversary this year is Andamiro Co. Ltd., a global amusement machine maker based in South Korea. Formed in 1992, originally under the name Oksan Co. Ltd., it became Andamiro in 1998 and opened its U.S. subsidiary, Andamiro USA Corp., in 2000 in Southern California. Today, Andamiro offers premium arcade attractions in most amusement machine categories as it gains market share in the competitive U.S. market.
Diversification is a cornerstone of Andamiro's product development and marketing strategy, explained Nick Montano, Andamiro USA's marketing director. "Proprietary products – like Safe Cracker and Super Star merchandisers, Baseball Pro and Basketball Pro sports novelties, or the legendary Pump It Up music and dance video game series – complement our growing portfolio of branded titles providing operators with a wide variety of solutions," he declared.
Andamiro Co. Ltd. CEO C.S. Lee (left) is pictured with Andamiro USA president Drew Maniscalco and COO Min Lee (right) at the 2021 IAAPA Expo in Orlando, Florida.
Charging Forward
"Before the coronavirus crisis threw the world into chaos, the out-of-home entertainment sector had been on an upward trajectory in 2017 and 2018, holding steady through 2019. Between March and June 2020, however, equipment sales from most amusement factories tumbled 85% or more," Montano said.
Covid-19 hit Andamiro hard. The start of the pandemic followed the company's late 2019 release of the Jurassic World redemption game, its second Universal title, and preceded trials for its anticipated Marvel Avengers coin pusher, its first Disney game. In terms of brand profiles, design ingenuity and earnings potential, both games could be considered the company's greatest achievements.
Back home in South Korea, which was initially praised for its rapid response to the health crisis, Covid dealt a severe blow to the nation's economy and Andamiro's overall operations. Amid the turmoil, however, Andamiro and its U.S. division began laying the groundwork for a stronger future.
In late 2019, just three months before the pandemic shut down the world economy, the manufacturer purchased a 25,000-sq.-ft. building in Irving, Texas, and started plans to move its U.S. headquarters from Gardena, Calif., where it had been based for two decades. On the product side, the development of new game concepts continued.
Key members of Andamiro USA's parts, service and administrative departments relocated with the company, which has since added new staff members to its service, parts and administrative teams. And in June 2021, Andamiro completed its move to the Lone Star State.
"Our relocation plan had been in the works for several years and 2020-2021 turned out to be the right time to execute on it," said Andamiro USA president Drew Maniscalco. "Being centrally located benefits our ecosystem. Andamiro is now able to invite customers to our building to see new games in person. We have set up a working showroom for our games and our door is open to all."
Andamiro USA completed its relocation from Gardena, California, to Irving, Texas, in June 2021. The 25,000-sq.ft. facility houses all departments, including parts, service, warehouse and administration. The address is 2222 Century Circle, Irving, TX 75062.
A Superhero Move
In addition to moving your team to a new facility during a pandemic and world economic shutdown, try launching your most promising product! That effort might sound irrational, but Andamiro did just that. While some industry pundits warned against it and advised to wait a year, Andamiro began the official rollout of its Avengers coin pusher in September 2020.
"While waiting a year might have been the cautionary approach, we felt the Avengers pusher offered great staying power and long-lasting appeal. Two years after its launch, it is the company's bestseller – and a top earner for many operators," said Montano.
Marvel's most famous superheroes take center stage in the spirited electromechanical amusement device. Avengers delivers a rich arcade experience by combining the Infinity Stones storyline of the blockbuster movies from Marvel Studios with the exciting rapid-fire, token-dropping sights and sounds of a contemporary coin pusher. It is the first arcade title developed under the Andamiro-Disney creative alliance formed in 2019.
"Our goal was to create a unique redemption experience, complemented by beautiful cabinet art that stands out. Our design and engineering teams in South Korea delivered the goods," Maniscalco said. "Who else can do that on a coin-pusher platform?"
Marvel's Avengers is one of the biggest superhero franchises of all time, so Andamiro couldn't resist adding "card play" to its latest licensed game. The in-game pieces comprise nine iconic Marvel characters appearing in the recent Avengers films, and whose comic book fame goes back decades. The eight Avengers in the card series are Black Panther, Captain America, Captain Marvel, Doctor Strange, Hawkeye, Hulk, Iron Man and Thor, along with one supervillain, Thanos, who dons the coveted "rare card."
Notwithstanding the popularity of collectible redemption cards, not all locations want to handle them. With that in mind, Andamiro offers its two-player Avengers game in a non-card version that provides the same thrills as its card-stacked sibling. And not all locations can accommodate a two-player, 6-ft. wide deluxe game (and price tag), so Andamiro put Avengers in its first single-player 3-ft.-wide pusher cabinet. Boasting the same ticket-awarding gizmos featured in the two-player deluxe unit, the one-player Avengers sells in a card and noncard version, too.
The adaptation of intellectual propriety to arcade gaming is one of the driving forces behind Andamiro's corporate organization and design culture. The company continues to invest heavily in the licensing of intellectual property. As a result, Andamiro has built one of the largest portfolios of licensed titles in today's amusement machine industry.
In addition to Marvel's Avengers, current Andamiro licenses include Nickelodeon's SpongeBob SquarePants (ViacomCBS), and Despicable Me and Jurassic World (NBCUniversal), along with sports brands from MLB Players Association, World Wrestling Entertainment Inc. and NFL Players Association.
"While popular brands can be an effective way to attract players to a game, it's innovative gameplay that will keep them coming back," Maniscalco observed. To that end, Andamiro's new lineup of games attempt to match iconic IPs with original gameplay.
Chips Down
SpongeBob Pirates of Bikini Bottom is Andamiro's new quickfire arcade pusher and operates with miniature balls instead of tokens. Players shoot those balls into a side-to-side moving treasure chest. Following a successful shot, the sequence is completed on the video screen, where a cannon fires and a bubble is put into the "bubble meter." Ten winning shots fill the bubble meter and when that is achieved, the prize wheel spins. SpongeBob Pirates plays with collectible cards (nine in the series) and colored chips that mingle with balls on the playfield. Chips can be redeemed for tickets right at the machine.
Pirates of Bikini Bottom is Andamiro's sixth SpongeBob arcade adaptation, which includes SpongeBob Pineapple Arcade (ret. 2020), which the company is proud to say is its best-selling product and still one of industry's top-earning coin/card pushers. "The key to a successful SpongeBob adaptation, however, is the game itself must be compelling on its own," Maniscalco underscored. "We are confident that Pirates of Bikini Bottom will be one of the most innovative pusher-style concepts to hit the market this year."
Another clever adaptation puts SpongeBob in an entertaining gravity game. Introduced a year ago, SpongeBob Ticket Coaster challenges players to accurately time landing a ball into the opening of one of the roller coaster cars. Players experience the excitement of a Jelle's Marble Run race, but win tickets. Ticket Coaster is packaged in an attractive two-player cabinet with two trains that circle the playfield and two corkscrew ball-drop gadgets. The player stations are positioned on opposite sides of the cabinet.
To be sure, SpongeBob commands a huge following. It is the most in-demand children's show in the world and 47 times more popular than the average TV show, according to Guinness World Records. But SpongeBob is not only enjoyed by children, Guinness pointed out. The show first appeared on Nickelodeon in 1999, so its original fans are all adults now. For this reason, among many others, Andamiro's SpongeBob games remain popular with all ages, they note.
Infinity Stone Challenge
Making its debut at last month's IAAPA Expo in Orlando, Fla., Avengers Infinity Stone Challenge is a quick-play, skill-based redemption game. Presented in an attractive Avengers-branded cabinet with two player positions, the newest Andamiro piece boasts intuitive gameplay that tasks players to collect six Infinity Stones to activate the Super Spin wheel. With good timing skills – pressing the button at just the right time – players can successfully drop a stone into one of three target holes on a revolving playfield to win tickets and collect stones. Specially crafted Infinity Gauntlets that keep score are central fixtures of each player side. Avengers Infinity Stone Challenge offers plenty of ways for players to win tickets.
Andamiro's second Marvel redemption game, Infinity Stone Challenge, allows amusement operators to participate in the superhero brand's far-reaching brand equity. The arcade game encapsulates the main storyline from Endgame, which is the second-highest-grossing film of all time, in a brief window. "Initial revenue tests suggest strong earnings potential. Infinity Stone Challenge will connect with players of all ages, joining family entertainment centers to the Marvel Cinematic Universe," Montano said.
Also new in Andamiro's licensed lineup is Jurassic World MINI, the short-track version of the company's popular muscle-memory game of the same name. This new version is only 74 inches deep, compared with the original game's 119-inch depth, making it almost 4 ft. shorter. It began shipping to arcades this past summer. In another summertime launch, Bobblehead Baseball pits arcade gamers against the bobble-headed avatars of MLB's biggest stars. It's Andamiro's newest video redemption game and first licensed title from MLB Players Inc., a subsidiary of the MLBPA.
To learn more about Andamiro and its latest games, visit the U.S. office's website at www.andamiro.com.
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Round 3. Williams def Stephens
Announcer Andy Taylor | Voice of the US Open | 2020 US Open Tennis Championships
Match Recap from Announcer Andy Taylor, Voice of the US Open
Serena Williams advances to the Round of 16
After a physical, come-from-behind victory over 2017 Champion Sloane Stephens — on Monday, Serena Williams will contest her 62nd career 4th-Round match at a Major.
<< Checks notes. Checks again. Face palm >>
It's crazy. When writing about Serena — every sentence starts innocently enough, but always climaxes with some statistically mind-blowing accomplishment. That's what happens when your subject has an impassioned commitment to simply be better. Every day.
The woman is inspiring — in thousands of different lanes. Here on the tennis freeway, she is the greatest of all time. Man or woman. But its unfair to only speak of her in terms of tennis. She completely transcends the sport, and rightfully belongs in conversations about the best athletes of all time.
Yet, I digress. After all, this is simply the 3rd-Round of her 75th Grand Slam Tournament. Today's win over a 2-time Major Finalist and Grand Slam Champion was just her 104th US Open match vict… — Sorry. Inescapable.
Serena gets Maria Sakkari next. For those who watched the "New York Bubble" Western & Southern Open last week — you know just how much Serena wants this do-over. It's surprising she gets the mulligan less than two weeks after the loss.
I literally should have won that match. There was no excuse. It was hard, but I had so many opportunities to win, and I have to figure that one out, like how to start winning those matches again. There is really no excuses, to be honest.
26 August 2020 | Serena Williams
Up a set and break in their Round of 16 match, Serena failed to serve it out. Maria won set-2 in a tiebreak then rolled in the decider. Final: 5-7, 7-6(5), 6-1.
Head to Head: Seventh meeting between these two players
[3] Serena Williams -08- (USA) | Round-3 Announcer Introduction
She captured her first Grand Slam title here in Arthur Ashe Stadium at 17-years-old. Today, she owns 23 Majors and 4 Olympic Gold Medals. From Palm Beach Gardens, Florida – 10-time Finalist and 6-time US Open Champion Serena Williams.
R3 — W | [26] Sloane Stephens -39- (USA) | Score: 2-6, 6-2, 6-2
R2 — W | Margarita Gasparyan -117- (RUS) | Score: 6-2, 6-4 | RECAP
R1 — W | Kristie Ahn -96- (USA) | Score: 7-5, 6-3 | RECAP
[26] Sloane Stephens -39- (USA) | Round-3 Announcer Introduction
Ranked as high as World #3, she is a 2-time Grand Slam Finalist – and 3-years-ago, captured her first Major title here in Arthur Ashe Stadium. From Plantation, Florida – 2017 US Open Champion, Sloane Stephens.
R3 — L | [3] Serena Williams -08- (USA) | Score: 6-2, 2-6, 2-6
R2 — W | Olgo Govortsova -130- (BLR) | Score: 6-2, 6-2
R1 — W | Mihaela Buzarnescu -122- (ROU) | Score: 6-3, 6-3
A New Reality | 2020 US Open Tennis Championships
In late February and early March, announcer Andy Taylor compèred two of the final professional tennis events before the global coronavirus pandemic put the skids on the 2020 season. In Doha, he hosted Aryna Sabalenka's relentless run to the Qatar Total Open title. Then in Honolulu, he emceed Team USA's Davis Cup Qualifier victory over Uzbekistan. Including Bob and Mike Bryan's final professional match.
As U.S. coronavirus cases continued to mount, the day following Team USA's 4-0 victory, all professional sports came to a grinding halt. Over the next five months, as Americans stayed home and "socially distanced," nearly 6-million contracted the illness. Tragically, over 180-thousand perished. Worldwide, COVID-19 killed over 840-thousand and sickened 25-million (at the time of this writing).
New York hosts the resumption of the 2020 tennis season
Early on, New York City was the epicenter of COVID's outbreak. The Billie Jean King National Tennis Center became prime real estate for New York's coordinated pandemic response. Additionally, the state used Louis Armstrong Stadium as a warehouse to pack meals for patients, front-line workers and students dependent on the city's school lunch program.
In late July, after New York "flattened the curve," Governor Cuomo green-lighted the USTA's plans to resume the 2020 tennis season in Flushing. Without fans. Without qualifying. Rather, the Western & Southern Open moved from Cincinnati to the grounds of the US Open. Furthermore, the USTA implemented strict COVID-19 testing policies. It limited the number in each player's entourage. Additionally, it created a protective "Bubble" for all tournament participants at nearby hotels and on-site.
Announcer Andy Taylor | 19th US Open Tennis Championships
After a five month pause, with the coronavirus "politicized" and still spreading unchecked through portions of the population, Andy was hesitant when asked to be a part of the sport's return. However, after carefully considering the USTA's extensive health and safety protocols, he soon realized the US Open could in fact be one of the safest environments to avoid COVID's spread.
Masks are mandatory. For crew, testing occurs every fourth day. To ensure best broadcast quality, the USTA understood that Arthur Ashe Stadium's announcer would need to work without a mask. Therefore, they isolated Andy in his own booth. Thus, keeping production team members free from aerosols emitted during player introductions.
Rather than fly, Andy drove to Flushing. He uses his own vehicle to shuttle back and forth from the hotel to the venue, which limits his exposure to others. Additionally, this allowed Andy to bring his own hot plate and coffee machine, completely eliminating the need for others to bring him meals and supplies. Essentially, the Voice of the US Open is working from a bubble within "The Bubble." Responsibly limiting contact with colleagues and players as much as humanly possible.
A new Grand Slam Global Pandemic Presentation
With the global emphasis on social distancing to avoid further outbreaks of COVID-19, the world of sport production is reinventing "the show" by harnessing new technologies that have emerged over the past decade. As always, the core goal is to meet fans where they are.
In other words, with fans exclusively watching on television – or on-the-go through mobile devices – the 2020 US Open "stadium show" is now geared toward the camera, rather than the ticket holder. This year, Andy and the stadium production team are working closely with ESPN to integrate the broadcast and stadium presentations. Instead of narrating player introductions exclusively for fans on site, intros and all aspects of the stadium show are now part of the broadcast product streamed to fans worldwide.
The true creator is necessity, who is the mother of our invention.
Jowett | English translation of Plato's "Republic"
Live sport presentation is a brave new world. Through perseverance and bold experimentation, the US Open continues to innovate; determined to feed each tennis fan's hunger after five months of the world's new and humbling collective-reality.
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NASA Moves Forward With Plans For Multi-Billion-Dollar Moon Rocket
By Nell Greenfieldboyce • Jul 12, 2019
Originally published on July 18, 2019 12:03 pm
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST:
When the Apollo 11 astronauts blasted off towards the moon 50 years ago this month, they rode on the Saturn V rocket. The Saturn V is still the most powerful rocket ever flown. NASA, now, is working on a new moon rocket, though, a massive one that should out-power the Saturn V. And as NPR's Nell Greenfieldboyce reports, it is a big rocket with a very big price tag.
NELL GREENFIELDBOYCE, BYLINE: The new moon rocket is being built in the same place as the old Saturn V, NASA's Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans. This is one of the biggest manufacturing facilities in the world. The factory covers 43 acres - more than 31 football fields. Walk in, and you'll see about a dozen bikes lined up, waiting for workers.
So are all these bikes 'cause this place is just so big?
CHAD BRYANT: Yes, it is (laughter). It's the best way to get around in here and get a little exercise at the same time.
GREENFIELDBOYCE: Chad Bryant is NASA's manager for this rocket. He says the interior of this factory has changed a lot since the days of Apollo, but the walls and the roof haven't.
BRYANT: So the roof is a nightmare to maintain here. We'll get really hard rain here in Louisiana. The roof will leak every now and then.
GREENFIELDBOYCE: Bryant's connection with the space program started when he did.
BRYANT: I was born the day that the Apollo 13 astronauts came back.
GREENFIELDBOYCE: His dad worked for the Apollo program and took him to Florida to watch the launch of the final moon mission.
BRYANT: At that time, I didn't really understand the magnitude of what I was witnessing.
GREENFIELDBOYCE: His dad worked on the space shuttle, too, and Bryant followed him to NASA. He remembers the shuttle's big orange fuel tanks being built here, until the shuttles stopped flying eight years ago. Tarps were put over equipment; the lights got turned off.
BRYANT: Then that was probably one of the toughest moments of my career, seeing the people that I had worked with here for the shuttle program leave - you know? - and this place pretty much shut down.
GREENFIELDBOYCE: These days, this factory is humming because as the space shuttle program was ending, NASA was planning a new space vehicle, a giant rocket. We ride around on a small cart - no bicycles for us - looking at giant aluminum cylinders. We go up two flights of stairs to peer down into one.
BRYANT: This is our engine section right here. This is the most complicated part of the rocket.
GREENFIELDBOYCE: Then he shows me the enormous fuel tank.
BRYANT: It's going to house 537,000 gallons of liquid hydrogen.
GREENFIELDBOYCE: The finished rocket will be more than 20 stories tall. Eighty percent of it is now complete and assembled.
BRYANT: And I think it makes everybody more focused, you know, and energized to see the hardware being put together and to know that we're getting closer every day now.
GREENFIELDBOYCE: But this rocket was supposed to launch two years ago, and a lot of the space community thinks it's a huge waste of money. In the last five years alone, it's cost NASA more than $12 billion. Back in the Obama administration, officials tried to get NASA out of the rocket-building business and killed a different program. Congress basically insisted that NASA still build a big rocket.
LORI GARVER: The bottom line is these were contracts worth billions of dollars, and the companies wanted to keep them.
GREENFIELDBOYCE: Lori Garver was deputy administrator of NASA back then. She opposed building this rocket even though others at NASA were for it.
GARVER: NASA wanted to build a big rocket because that's what we did 50 years ago, and people were drawn to NASA because of that. And we didn't have anywhere for it to go, and no one seemed to mind.
GREENFIELDBOYCE: She says, instead, NASA could rely on commercial rockets. Maybe they can't carry up quite as much cargo, but they're so much cheaper. The most powerful rocket currently flying is the Falcon Heavy built by SpaceX. It costs only around a hundred million dollars per flight. NASA's new rocket will cost more than a billion.
GARVER: Any architecture for going back to the moon and going to Mars using it will be strapped by the cost.
GREENFIELDBOYCE: Back at the factory, Bryant says NASA's rocket will inspire a whole new generation of space enthusiasts who never got to see Apollo or the space shuttles. And when it comes to the money, here's what he tells people.
BRYANT: Think of it as a jobs program. So we're taking - all of the funding that is given us to build this rocket, we're creating jobs everywhere. And not only that, we're all coming together to build a product that is going to make us proud to be Americans.
GREENFIELDBOYCE: The first launch, without people onboard, won't happen until next year at the earliest. And the Trump administration apparently isn't happy with how things have been going. Just this week, it abruptly replaced the two top officials heading this effort, saying the move was necessary to speed up NASA's return to the lunar surface.
Nell Greenfieldboyce, NPR News. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


Broadband Champion? — The 38-year-old Democratic nominee to fill Mignon Clyburn's seat on the FCC named expanding access to internet connectivity as the agency's top challenge, putting him right in line with a core priority of FCC Chairman Ajit Pai. "There should be no digital divides or broadband deserts," Starks wrote in written answers to the Senate Commerce Committee, where he'll testify Wednesday at his confirmation hearing. Other challenges identified by Starks: Protecting the public interest and using technology to better serve consumers.
Let's hope actions follow the words. Lots of words come out of Washington, but less action.


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The Federal Rules of Civil Procedure can go die in a fire.
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How Mumbai Indicts Iraq (Again)
Obviously, the horrifying attacks in Mumbai, India, continue to be in everyone's thoughts. It seems like the violence is winding down, but the repercussions are likely just beginning. India has faced terrorist violence before. But for some reason, this feels different. It was more organized, more coordinated, and (by the use of gunmen rather than bombs) more visceral than ever before.
Reading USA Today this morning, though, I was struck by how this attack really undermines a central component of how we've been prosecuting our war on terror.
Though it was unclear exactly who orchestrated the attacks, they appear to provide further evidence that the main battleground for Islamist extremists is shifting from Iraq, where violence has fallen dramatically this year, to the democracies of South Asia. Militants are inflicting heavy casualties on U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan, seizing control of territory from a fragile government in Pakistan and proving they can strike just about anywhere in India.
Some would look at this and say, "victory in Iraq"! And perhaps it is indicative of the fruits of American blood and iron in that country. But if so, so what? If the tangible impact of the Iraq war is simply to have terrorists shift terrain from Iraq to India, we've spent the last five years going in neutral.
The problem is one I brought forward in the very early days of this blog: the overemphasis on sovereign states as the arena for combating terrorists. This, I held, was misplaced, since the very nature of terrorist groups makes them transnational and relatively untied to traditional geographic borders. If we view al-Qaeda as seeking to disrupt the hegemonic power of the Western world (ideally to bring up a new Islamic counterweight), it can accomplish that through operations nearly anywhere in the world. Al-Qaeda could flee the field entirely in Iraq tomorrow, and it wouldn't accomplish anything if they merely reconstituted themselves in South Asia.
The signal of the Mumbai attacks is that we've been looking at the problem all wrong. Cowboy rhetoric of "force being the only language evildoers understand" notwithstanding, it is becoming more apparent that while force is necessary to react to terrorist violence, it is a relatively ineffective weapon for creating an offensive posture. We need to start looking into alternative strategies for stopping terrorist activity before it starts. That's an intelligence issue, in part, but (as much as conservatives hate to admit it) it also is a question of greater engagement with countries and peoples worldwide, and (perhaps more importantly) a greater commitment to inclusion in the world's bounty.
Iraq was the last gasp of the belief that American muscle, alone, could solve any problem. We went into Iraq with the deliberate view that we didn't have to account for any other place or any other people. This was where the terrorists were, we go in, we take 'em out, mission accomplished, let's go home. That has proven to be a fatal error in judgment. And the longer way take to learn from it, the more Mumbai's the democratic world will have to suffer.
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Labels: foreign policy, India, Iraq, Terrorism
Only the Real Thing
Eamonn McDonagh of the Z-word points out the importance of Palestinians receiving a "real state". By real, he means one with an independent and fully functioning military -- not the demilitarized option occasionally floated mostly by pro-Israel partisans:
[O]ne of the few things worse than the Palestinians not getting a state of their own soon would be them getting some kind of emaciated ghost of a state instead, an autonomous polity with a flag and an anthem but shorn of many of the basic rights and prerogatives of states.
The motive for restricting the powers of the new state would be to address the - entirely understandable - fears of Israelis that the new state would only serve as a stepping stone on the road to their destruction. That risk exist certainly exists, but the prevailing situation isn't exactly free of risks. I think that attempts to hobble the new state from the moment of its birth would do nothing to reduce the long term risks to Israel while serving as a perfect excuse for radical Palestinian groups to continue the struggle to destroy Israel.
I agree. McDonagh says (and I also agree) that a few very limited concessions may be reasonable (such as agreeing to an Israeli presence in the Jordan Valley -- a key early warning region for attacks coming from Iran), but by and large restricting Palestinian sovereignty would be disastrous. An independent, functioning military is a source of pride to every nation -- Palestine won't be any different. And if Palestine is to live independently and peacefully with Israel, it will need a strong internal security force capable of fighting radical elements, Islamic and otherwise (several Palestinian terrorist groups are not Islamist at all, like the PFLP). Is it true that a Palestinian army could turn on Israel, or at least shelter rather than suppress its radicals? Yes, of course. But that's no different than the status quo, where the radicals are in essence the army, and there is no chance of checking them at all save by constant Israeli military intervention.
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Labels: Israel, military, Palestine, Terrorism
Printer Trouble
You think of all places, the University of Chicago could have seen this coming in advance:
Dear House System residents,
I write to update you about a decision that has been reached regarding printing in the residence halls. As you know, at the beginning of this quarter we launched a system that enabled all residents to print for no charge to the printers in the residence halls. We did this because of the failure of our own internal pay-for-printing system and our decision to participate in a unified printing system that is scheduled to be in place this year. Unified printing, a system whereby students could print at the libraries, at the NSIT clusters, and the residence halls from the same printing account, is something our students have been requesting for the past 3 years.
Within the first three weeks of this quarter we saw unprecedented usage of the residence hall printing system. 232,000 pages were printed in three weeks compared to 625,000 pages for the entirety of last year. In mid-October we sent you a message to enlist your help in encouraging students to limit the amount of pages being printed. Unfortunately, despite those efforts, printing continued a high rate and we decided to limit printing to half of the computers in each of the residence hall computer labs.
However, this measure has not resulted in the hoped for reduction of printing. Printing has continued a rate of 60,000 pages per week, and from the beginning of the year through yesterday there had been a total of 635,000 pages printed. We project that the quarterly printing total will exceed 800,000 pages. This amount of printing far exceeds what we had projected and therefore we will need to discontinue printing in the residence halls, at the end of Fall Quarter, until we have implemented the new unified pay-for-printing system. We expect the new system to be up and running by the beginning of Spring Quarter.
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Director of Operations & Communications
Libertarian economic theory, for the win!
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Pre-Thanksgiving Roundup
I'm traveling tomorrow, and also kicking off the first tri-annual "study-for-law-school-finals-suicide-a-thon"! What fun! And what better way to start the festivities than a roundup?
Glenn Beck hates America.
CNN forced to rehire 110 workers fired for belonging to a union.
Yet another example of the Bush administration selling our wounded veterans short.
Ta-Nehisi: Saying someone is a "great Black woman" doesn't erase all the rest of their identity (American, intellectual, whatever).
Another Florida state judge has struck down that state's ban on gay adoption.
John Brennan has withdrawn his name from consideration to lead the CIA. Some have questioned whether Brennan was sufficiently opposed to torture and extraordinary rendition during his tenure with the agency.
Matt criticizes the appropriation of Jewish anti-Zionist voices by the gentile community.
The NYT deals with domestic violence in military families. Loved ones who return from war with PTSD, and aren't getting the counseling they need ... that's a problem we can do something about.
Continuing on the theme of calling a man's wife his "girlfriend" or "partner" ("I don't believe in marriage"), we also explore not letting adopted children use the term "mommy" or "daddy". What, do you want devalue natural reproduction and God's Will? (Courtesy of the same source as the last time).
Happy Thanksgiving, and enjoy your dead animal (as my lovely Jill would say)!
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And How Are Your Sinful Cavortings?
A Marriage Manifesto ... Of Sorts:
I no longer recognize marriage. It's a new thing I'm trying.
Turns out it's fun.
Yesterday I called a woman's spouse her boyfriend.
She says, correcting me, "He's my husband,"
"Oh," I say, "I no longer recognize marriage."
The impact is obvious. I tried it on a man who has been in a relationship for years,
"How's your longtime companion, Jill?"
"She's my wife!"
"Yeah, well, my beliefs don't recognize marriage."
Fun. And instant, eyebrow-raising recognition. Suddenly the majority gets to feel what the minority feels. In a moment they feel what it's like to have their relationship downgraded, and to have a much taken-for-granted right called into question because of another's beliefs.
Via kath.A.rine. Unfortunately, I don't think I know any straight couples who oppose gay marriage. But as guerrilla warfare, it kind of rocks.
The Spirit is Willing, but the Flesh is Spongy...Bruised
Minister who encouraged parishioners to have sex for seven straight days went only six for seven, claiming that one day he was too tired.
As to the "challenge" itself, I'm conflicted. The pastor is obviously approaching the topic of sex from an orientation that has some significant retrograde elements -- they're not front and center, but you can always taste them in the background. That being said, it does seem like his heart is in the right place: recognizing that sexual expression is an important part of human relationships, and trying to strip away some of the taboo and stigma that couples (particularly, I imagine, religious couples) feel about sexuality and potential sexual problems in their marriage.
Labels: religion, Sexuality
Playing the Odds
CNSNews is reporting that Catholic lawmakers who vote for the Freedom of Choice Act (FOCA) could face "automatic excommunication", if it is determined that such a vote constituted "formal cooperation" with the "evil" of abortion. This is a question of canonical law that I have no knowledge of, so I won't go into whether a FOCA vote actually warrants automatic excommunication.
What I am interested in is how much of a backlash the Catholic Church will suffer if it excommunicates a large number of high profile members. Obviously, this would be a very high profile act, sure to get lots of media attention. With more than half of all American Catholics holding the belief that abortion should generally be legal, it will be interesting to say how the American Catholic population writ large reacts to what amount to a huge escalation in the internal stand-off between pro-life and pro-choice members of faith.
It wouldn't surprise me to see many members simply leave the church as a result. That may not be a bad thing -- I know many more traditional Catholics would happily trade size for purity in practice. But it would definitely be interesting if an automatic excommunication triggered a significant chunk of the Catholic laity to leave their faith behind.
H/T: Southern Appeal
Labels: abortion, catholics
Essentially Married
French Court: Virginity not an "essential quality" for a bridge. Good to know.
UPDATE: Bride! BRIDE! God I'm an idiot. And here I am, trying to parse the double entendre behind PG's comment, when the real solution is (as usual) "David's a moron".
Labels: marriage, misogyny, Sexism, Sexuality, women
Goode to Seek a Recount
Rep. Virgil Goode (R-VA), down 745 votes in his race against Tom Perriello, is asking for a recount. Perriello's victory was one of the bigger upsets of the 2008 cycle, a fact made all the sweeter due to the nature of his opponent.
Yet, watch me be principled. Goode has every right to ask for this recount. If he requests it, it should be granted. Democracy means knowing who actually won contested elections. If it turns out Goode won, he should be re-elected. It's that simple.
Posted by David Schraub at 11:43 AM No comments: Links to this post
Labels: Election 2008, Virgil Goode, voting
Thai Win
Work those thighs, general:
A MAVERICK Thai general who has threatened to bomb anti-government protesters and drop snakes on them from helicopters has been reassigned as an aerobics teacher, the Bangkok Post said on Friday.
Major-general Khattiya Sawasdipol, a Rambo-esque anti-communist fighter more commonly known as Seh Daeng, reacted with disappointment to his new role as a military instructor promoting public fitness at marketplaces.
'It is ridiculous to send me, a warrior, to dance at markets,' he said, before launching an attack on his boss, army chief Anupong Paochinda.
'The army chief wants me to be a presenter leading aerobics dancers. I have prepared one dance. It's called the 'throwing-a-hand-grenade' dance', he said.
Via Hilzoy, who sees inspiration in how to treat unqualified Bush apparatchiks buried in the Justice Department.
Labels: dance, humor
Take a Pill
I wanted to post something substantive about this post, but never got around to it. Suffice to say, conservative contempt for "emotion" and "feelings" and all that jazz lasts right up to the point where they want to cry victim. It'd be amusing if it wasn't so pathetic.
Labels: conservatives
"Leave the land so we won't rape you"
An Egyptian blogger points to comments by a female Egyptian lawyer (who apparently heads up a "human rights NGO") urging that Arab men "sexual harass", and possibly rape, Israeli women, as a form of "resistance" to Zionism. Excerpts from the interview:
Interviewer: Egyptian lawyer Nagla Al-Imam has proposed that young Arab men should sexually harass Israeli girls wherever they may be and using any possible method, as a new means in the resistance against Israel.
Interviewer: We have with us the lawyer Nagla Al-Imam from Cairo. Welcome. What is the purpose of this proposal of yours?
Nagla Al-Imam: This is a form of resistance. In my opinion, they are fair game for all Arabs, and there is nothing wrong with...
Interviewer: On what grounds?
Nagla Al-Imam: First of all, they violate our rights, and they "rape" the land. Few things are as grave as the rape of land. In my view, this is a new form of resistance.
Interviewer: As a lawyer, don't you think this might expose Arab youth to punishment for violating laws against sexual harassment?
Nagla Al-Imam: Most Arab countries... With the exception of three or four Arab countries, which I don't think allow Israeli women to enter anyway, most Arab countries do not have sexual harassment laws. Therefore, if [Arab women] are fair game for Arab men, there is nothing wrong with Israeli women being fair game as well.
Interviewer: Does this also include rape?
Nagla Al-Imam: No. Sexual harassment... In my view, the [Israeli women] do not have any right to respond. The resistance fighters would not initiate such a thing, because their moral values are much loftier than that. However if such a thing did happen to them, the [Israeli women] have no right to make any demands, because this would put us on equal terms – leave the land so we won't rape you. These two things are equal.
I don't want young Arab men to be interrogated. I want these Zionist girls with Israeli citizenship to be expelled from our Arab countries. This is a form of resistance, and a way of rejecting their presence.
Yikes. Even if this was "limited" to sexual harassment, it'd be repulsive, and despite a mild backtrack by Ms. Al-Imam, it is clear that she thinks rape of Israeli women should be tolerated as legitimate "resistance".
I've been trying to figure out who Ms. Al-Imam is. Obviously, most of the google hits are in reference to this story. However, I did come across this story in which Ms. Al-Imam appears, in reference to Egypt's first successful prosecution for sexual assault. Ms. Al-Imam is cited as an attorney who initially supported the victim, but later turned on her:
Nagla Al Imam, a lawyer who initially voiced support for Rushdi, has also taken to the airwaves, claiming the young woman lied about her charges and argued that she is an Israeli and should be deported for "unsettling Egyptian sentiments".
Women's groups in Egypt have been scrambling in response to this "allegation", affirming that the victim is not Israeli while still stating that "Even if she were an Israeli tourist it wouldn't matter. She still got assaulted."
In any event, it's pretty clear that Ms. Al-Imam is a rather repellent individual, who is perfectly willing to let rampant anti-Semitism manifest itself in the form of violent misogyny. The fact that she styles herself a human rights activist makes matters only worse.
Via AAB
Labels: anti-semitism, Egypt, Human Rights, Israel, misogyny, rape, Sexism
Boxing Blogging: 11/23/08
HBO put on a very nice card last night, featuring rising star James Kirkland, and a genuine #1 versus #2 battle in the junior welterweight division between Ricky Hatton and Paulie Malignaggi. Both were united by one quality: arguably controversial stoppages.
Ricky Hatton (45-1, 32 KOs) TKO11 Paulie Malignaggi (25-2, 5 KOs)
Round one was close. Rounds two through eleven were not. After rocking Paulie in round two, Hatton took over, repeatedly stunning Malignaggi and preventing him from ever establishing a rhythm. Malignaggi looked awful in this fight. He was clinching a lot, which is not his game, his movement wasn't there, he was leaning in, his jab was mediocre. Malignaggi has been showing problems against pressure fighters -- unsurprising, since he has absolutely no pop whatsoever. He struggled in fights against Herman Ngoudjo and his rematch against Lovemore N'dou, both of whom got inside and mauled him. When fighters don't have to fear your power, what's to stop them from walking through you and bullying their way inside? Of course, Malignaggi didn't help by deciding to grab on the inside instead of slipping away.
But let's not take away from Hatton here. This was the best he's looked in a long time. Screw Mayweather and Lazcano -- this was a better performance than he put out against Collazo, Urango, and Castillo (the last merely because Castillo was clearly a shot fighter). After a lackluster performance against "the Hispanic causing panic" Lazcano (what a great nickname), folks wondered if Hatton's age and terrible training habits had finally caught up with him. It appears not. A fight with P4P #1 Manny Pacquiao may be on the horizon.
Oh, and the stoppage! Malignaggi's trainer Buddy McGirt warned him that he'd end the fight if Malignaggi didn't show him more. Malignaggi did not oblige, McGirt threw in the towel, and Malignaggi was furious, shoving McGirt away when the latter attempted to embrace him. You can see it both ways: Malignaggi, who takes huge pride in his toughness, was upset that he has a stoppage loss on his record when he wasn't really hurt. But he wasn't showing anything, he was getting beaten up all night, and, as Tim Starks put it, "fight for real or don't fight at all."
James Kirkland (24-0, 21 KOs) TKO8 Brian Vera (16-2, 10 KOs)
The "mandingo warrior" (how's that for a nickname?) tore through the tough and game Vera, who spent most of the fight smiling through tremendous punishment until referee John Kerry (not really, but the resemblance was uncanny) stepped in to stop it in the 8th. Vera was protesting he wasn't hurt, but this stoppage I think was clearly the right call: he had accumulated a lot of punishment and was not the type to show it willingly. Vera hadn't won a single round and had gone down three times. His heart had been proven -- no need for him to absorb any more shots.
I think the commentators were a bit rough on Kirkland: there's only so much you can do to knock a fighter out when they have the will of a Brian Vera, and Kirkland did what he had to -- apply pressure and pressure and pressure until finally something broke. Kirkland appeared to take his feet off the gas in the middle of the fight, leading some to question his conditioning. Given the savage training methods employed by Ann Wolfe, I'm guessing that wasn't the problem. Rather, I suspect he watched tapes of Vera's upset win over Andy Lee and decided it would not be wise to punch himself out against the incredible damage absorbing sponge that is Vera, giving the latter fighter a chance to catch Kirkland with something big. I think folks are reaching: Kirkland was firmly in control, showed great instincts, landed an insane percentage of his punches, and eventually scored the knockout. Plus, his last knockdown was a nice little Roy Jones throwback. He's an incredibly bright prospect.
I had a minor debate with some other boxing scribes prior to the fight, as to whether it's proper to characterize Vera as having a great chin. Certainly, nobody can question his heart. But what do you call someone who, as the commentators put it, "only" had gone down twice (this was in the middle of the fight) despite taking flush shot after flush shot from Kirkland? It seems a bit weird to extol the chin of a guy who got knocked down three times in route to a TKO loss. But there's something to be said for the amount of punishment it took to get him to that point. Certainly, it reinforces just the type of monster puncher Jaidon Codrington was, who put Vera away in two rounds and didn't leave any question about it (though to be fair, Codrington is two weight classes heavier than Kirkland, who was easily the smaller man in this fight).
Labels: boxing
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Mr. Roboto
Please Squeeze the Files
For a lighter, roomier system, a little file compression goes a long way.
By Jeffery Hicks
If you're like me, you still have a number of systems running that are more than a few years old. They're still viable, but they can frequently run low on disk space. Because I don't often have time or money to replace disks, I have to find other ways to save space -- or at least fool the operating system into thinking the situation isn't as dire as it really is.
I wrote a Windows PowerShell script that does the heavy lifting -- or compressing, as the case may be. The PowerShell script, SearchSqueeze.ps1, uses Windows Forms to create a graphical utility. It'll run on PowerShell versions 1 or 2. Once launched, everything else is handled in the form.
Under the hood, the script uses Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) and the CIM_Datafile class to find files that meet defined criteria. The script will compress each matching file by invoking the class's Compress() method. The form's purpose is to collect the necessary information to find and compress the files. Think of the script as a PowerShell wizard.
Setting up the Script
First specify a drive or folder to search. I'm assuming the underlying volume is formatted as NT File System (NTFS). There's a check-box control you can use to indicate a recursive search.
By default, the script will compress all files in the specified folder or subfolders. Usually, though, you only want to compress certain file types. The form has a default list of file extensions I frequently compress. Check the box and edit the list to meet your needs. Don't include any periods or wildcards; what you want is a comma-separated list of extensions. You may only want to compress files that haven't been modified since a certain date. Use the DateTime picker object to select a date and check the corresponding box. You may want to compress files based on size. Check the size box and enter a value for the minimum file size in kilobytes. The beauty of the tool is that you can mix and match any or all of these criteria.
Personally, I like having a record of what happens on my system, so I've included a logging feature that writes results to a text file. If you click the appropriate box, a .CSV log file is created that will contain the full filename, its size, when it was last modified and the Compress() method's return value. You should get a value of zero. For anything else, click here to decipher the result value. Regardless of whether you enable logging, all compressed files will be listed in the form's text box.
The last feature I included was my "WhatIf" box. If you check the List Only box, the form will still list all files that meet your criteria but won't actually compress them. You can log the results to a .CSV file as well.
Modifications Welcome
Once you've made your selections and click the Compress button, the script block tied to the button's OnClick event fires. The script block, $Verify, calls a function that displays a MsgBox verifying you want to carry out the operation. If you click OK, the Compress script block is called. In this script block, the WMI query is assembled based on what has been checked and the text-box values. Most of the query is displayed in the form's status bar, and filenames are displayed in the text box and compressed.
Beware of broadly searching for files under C:\Windows. Many folders are protected, causing the script to appear to hang for a while, though it should eventually keep going. The PowerShell script should be ready to run as is, but you can certainly modify it to meet your needs.
I'm not suggesting compression is an effective file-management technique -- but there may be times when squeezing a few files will make you feel better.
Jeffery Hicks is an IT veteran with over 25 years of experience, much of it spent as an IT infrastructure consultant specializing in Microsoft server technologies with an emphasis in automation and efficiency. He is a multi-year recipient of the Microsoft MVP Award in Windows PowerShell. He works today as an independent author, trainer and consultant. Jeff has written for numerous online sites and print publications, is a contributing editor at Petri.com, and a frequent speaker at technology conferences and user groups.


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Rowan Oak
by	Mr Americana August 10, 2018 231 Views
I've always assumed Faulkner was drunk when he named his house because there is no such tree as a rowan oak. There is a rowan tree, also called a mountain ash, and sometimes it's referred to as rowan ash, but that's as close as we get. It's a bushy tree of northern climes with red or white berries, and in some myths its reputed to ward off malevolent spirits, and maybe that's what appealed to Faulkner. Or maybe he called it Rowan Oak simply because it sounds better than Rowan Ash, that stressed syllable of a hard "k" a more stolid and resolute finish than the slide into the half-heartedness of a "sh" sound, the difference between a high five after something successful or a friendly rub of the shoulder. Whatever the reason, I bet he was sloshed when he named it and, once sober, saw his mistake but, like most drunks, flatly refused to admit it or change the name.
It's a gorgeous Greek revival home just a few blocks west of the town square in Oxford, Mississippi, surely one of the country's prettiest towns. It stands at the end of a quiet block of other old and elegant homes, wooden and colorful, and it is surrounded by a few acres of woodland, making it feel as if you are somewhere deeply rural and not a couple blocks from an active main street. In my late teens and twenties, I made a pilgrimage to Rowan Oak at least once a year, and all those trips now blend and mingle like old friends in the reunion of my memory.
One year I got a neurotically early start and was in Arkansas soon after the sun had risen. Wanting some coffee, I pulled into a small-town gas station just as it opened, and while I waited for it to finish brewing, I looked down at the day's headline about the surprise wedding between Michael Jackson and Lisa Marie Presley.
"What do you think of that?" asked the young woman behind the counter, boney and long-haired, the only other person in the store, her southern accent slight.
"Well," I said, "sure seems like an odd couple, but maybe they're nuts about each other." We had no proof, but like many I thought Michael was gay, and so his marriage to any woman was going to strike me as odd. That said, this was decades before gay marriage and being gay was so widely accepted, so I also thought maybe they were great friends and she was doing him a favor to ward off the gossip and speculation.
But for the young woman, gayness wasn't the issue. "I think her daddy is not pleased," she said, arms crossed, staring at me so intently, just daring me to defy her. General consensus at the time was that Elvis had been dead for about fifteen years. "Oh, he's alive," she said. "He's been in hiding for years, but this marriage is the thing that'll bring him out. You watch. He. Is. Not. Pleased."
I nodded in agreement, got my coffee and wished her a good day. And Elvis never came out of hiding, although maybe he knew the marriage wasn't going to last long. I have long wondered what on earth made that woman so emotionally invested and angry over the marriage between Michael and Lisa Marie, and I've used my imagination to arrive somewhere other than the obvious place, but there really is no other explanation beyond the hatred of a black man having sex with a white woman, the most crazed and feral of rages as alive and healthy today as it's always been; it must kill these racists to see so many mixed-race couples on TV commercials these days but then people don't have sex in commercials, they just sell things. Of course, a great number of lynchings, including the most notorious of them all, Emmet Till's, were borne of this crazed and fearful rage, but most of the time that was just an excuse to kill a black man and assert power. The fear has never been based in reality, but a fear whose fruit is racism or hate never is. When Teddy Roosevelt hosted Booker T. Washington in the White House for dinner, South Carolina's Senator Ben Tillman said the South would "have to kill a thousand niggers before they will learn their place again." To atone for his mistake, TR was quick to abet the past and coming deaths by saying in his annual message to Congress, "The greatest existing cause of lynching is the perpetration, especially by black men, of the hideous crime of rape." Numerous writers and filmmakers over the decades have created and crafted stories around this paranoia of black men on white women, but I still think nobody's done it better than Faulkner in his short story, "Dry September." It reads as urgent and fresh as if written last night to stop a crime planned for later this afternoon.
The best view of his house is from the front, those stringy-barked trees sentried along both sides of the brick sidewalk leading to the columned white house, the front door and balcony above. Even before you reach the sidewalk there's a massive old tree with limbs as thick as full-grown men and a sign asking you not to climb. One famous story has Faulkner running out of the house naked and climbing to sit in the tree in celebration of a fine day of writing. Perhaps it was the day he finished The Sound and the Fury, a family saga unlike any other whose genesis, he claimed, was his seeing a little girl with muddy underwear climbing high in a tree. Despite the sign not to, I climbed that tree out front, but fully clothed. I was pretty sure they asked folks not to climb for insurance reasons; those tree limbs were really too thick to be damaged by even thousands of climbers. Normally I am an inveterate rule follower, but this house was my shrine, and there was nobody there to tell on me. Pretty much every time I've been, the only other person present was the attendant inside, usually a college kid from Ole Miss.
One year I broke a rule inside the house, too. Faulkner had two bedrooms separate from his wife's, one upstairs and one down. The one upstairs had a plexiglass barrier in the doorway about four feet high to keep tourists out, and I reached up and used the door sash to hoist myself over so that I could go lie on the bed where he once slept. I lay on my back and rubbed around and was sure to straighten the blankets when I got up.
The bedroom downstairs, just off of the kitchen, was actually his study, but he kept a bed in there. On the wall in that room, up near the ceiling, he painted the outline for his book A Fable, which takes place over seven days. In larger, red letters he painted the day of the week, and below, in black, he scrawled an outline of the action. It's a hot mess of a book, quite possibly his worst, so of course it won the Pulitzer. By then he'd already been awarded the Nobel with nary an American award to his name, so the nitwits had to scramble to give him something so that they wouldn't look so derelict. Since writing is not a competitive sport, I discourage myself from taking writing awards too seriously, but it is almost profound how consistently inept the Pulitzer committee is in its choices, both in what wins and what doesn't. How on earth did it miss Blood Meridian and Song of Solomon by Cormac McCarthy and Toni Morrison, respectively, two of Faulkner's literary descendants?
In the lush back yard is a barn and a smokehouse where Faulkner smoked his meats, the kind of hobby that would endear me to even the worst among us. One year, as I sat on a garden bench back there during one "pinewhiney afternoon," two men strolled near, one tall and dressed in jeans, the other short and in slacks and tie. I immediately identified the tall one as a Faulkner. He was older, in his sixties, a mustache and the same eyes as William. I approached and introduced myself as a fan and said to the tall one, "You look like a relative."
"I'm his nephew. Jimmy." The other man introduced himself, a lawyer for the estate down from New York or something official and legalist like that.
I was a bit tongue-tied. This was as close as I was going to get to America's greatest writer, a guy whose work haunted and baffled and thrilled me and so often made me wonder how a human being managed to see and think like that. It was natural that I went straight for the work.
"I'm guessing you've read your uncle's books," I said.
"Read 'em all."
"What's your favorite?"
"'The Bear.' It's about the great hunt."
"You a hunter?" I asked. He nodded. "How good of a hunter was your uncle?"
"The best. He taught me everything I know." I thanked him for talking, we shook hands, and I wondered why it wasn't his father who'd taught him everything he knew about hunting.
"The Bear" is great, but it's about more than just the great hunt. It's also about the environment, the woods, and about how our hacking away at nature for development will be our undoing if we don't stop. And as with almost everything he wrote, it's also about slavery and racism and how delusional and inhumane you must be to think you ever really can own a person. Or land. Faulkner's sentences are unlike anything else in English and so every page he wrote takes you somewhere impossible for any other human mind ever to fathom, but the opening three paragraphs of "The Bear" could well be the height of American prose fiction.
One year I sat on the side porch and read those opening paragraphs. I read them aloud because it was late in the afternoon so the house was closed but the grounds weren't and no one else was around. Cliched as it was, I even had some Wild Turkey because, "There was always a bottle present, so that it would seem to him that those fine fierce instants of heart and brain and courage and wiliness and speed were concentrated and distilled into that brown liquor which not women, not boys and children, but only hunters drank, drinking not of the blood they spilled but some condensation of the wild immortal spirit, drinking it moderately, humbly even, not with the pagan's base and baseless hope of acquiring thereby the virtues of cunning and strength and speed but in salute to them."
That side porch was where Faulkner got the title for my own favorite novel of his, Light in August, a complex tale of racism and race centered around two wanderers who happen upon the town of Jefferson, Mississippi at the same time but never meet, Lena Grove, an unmarried teen from Alabama running away from home because she's in the family way, and Joe Christmas, a haunted and angry man raised in an orphanage and never quite sure if he is white or black. Faulkner's working title for the book was Closet of Darkness, but one evening late in summer as he and his wife sat on that porch for cocktails, she said, "The light in August always seems sadder," and he said, "That's it."
If you come to town and are looking for your own copy of a Faulkner book, Square Books is one of the best bookstores in the country. Oxford has been home to an inordinately large number of writers, including John Grisham, Jesmyn Ward, Larry Brown, Donna Tartt, Barry Hannah and Willie Morris, author of The Courting of Marcus Dupree, to my mind the finest book on football ever written—it covers high school athletics, college athletics, the unsavory world of recruiting, and race relations in the small Mississippi town, Philadelphia, where the three Civil Rights workers—James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner—were murdered and where Marcus Dupree played his high school ball. It is right on the corner of the town square, which has an array of interesting restaurants and boutique shops.
One restaurant you won't find there is Smitty's Diner, where I always used to eat but which has now closed. While it's pretty difficult to screw up breakfast, Smitty's really did it better than almost everyone—the grits, the biscuits, the dozen or so available gravies listed on the back of the menu. Pictures of Faulkner hung in the place, and one year I sat in the booth under a photo of him in his later years, a profile head shot of him thoughtful in a crisp Oxford shirt. My waitress was in her sixties, so when she poured me coffee, I asked, gesturing to the picture, "Did you know him?"
She set down the pitcher of coffee and looked around, not wanting to be overheard. She leaned closer. "He was weird," she said. "He'd come in here and sit over there with his pen and papers and write all morning, not talking to anyone. Then he'd leave, and sometimes he paid his bill, sometimes he didn't, and we'd have to call poor Stella to come down and pay for him. Oh, I know he was supposed to be a great writer and all, and I can't say, I haven't read his books, but he was weird. Now what can I get you for breakfast?" Alas, Smitty's is gone.
My quickest trip came one year when I was living in North Carolina and needed to be back home in Southern Illinois for a wedding. I decided to swing the six or so hours out of my way to complete my annual haj and arrived in town in the evening, just in time for dinner at Smitty's. Afterward, I went to the house long enough to touch the front porch, kiss the door, and thank Faulkner for all the work he did there. I got back in my van and drove north on I-55, so wonderfully flanked in those parts by all those straight pines. My van was a '63 VW bus, light blue, looking very much like the one to the left of Bob Dylan on the cover of his Freewheelin' album. In back was a bed with curtains for all the windows, and by the middle of the night I was too tired to continue so pulled into a rest stop in Missouri to sleep. Around seven in the morning, I heard a knock on my van door and was worried it must be some kind of emergency. I scrambled to open it. It was a Jehovah's Witness. Seven a.m. At a rest stop. Nobody knew better than Faulkner never to underestimate how bizarre and improbable the world could be.
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Well… I don't know why this morning on September 26th 2010 we don't have breakfast time together. Usually we always have breakfast, lunch and dinner together when its holiday. But I don't know why my homestay family stay in their room and they just prepare my own food on the table. So I just enjoy my breakfast alone. Today I have bread with tuna and some beef inside the bread. After finish breakfast, I wash my clothes.
Finish wash and hanging them on the outside I stay at my room clean everything, because after Tokyo tour all of my stuff not tidy well. After finish cleaning up I play with Haulu, my homestay family's son. Not long time Haulu have lunch time. I try to make Haulu happy, because he looks sad when he have lunch. But my homestay family angry to me and said don't disturb Haulu. It make me sad. I stay in my room and I getting cry. I don't know why they are angry… Because of that I become miss my parents and try to memorize my hometown.
Well… not long time my homestay family call me for lunch time. I try to happy and not want my homestay family know if I'm crying. Today I have lunch with yaki-soba and some vegetables. After lunch my homestay family asking me to go outside. But I refused it, because I feel tired and unhappy with things that happen before. So I stay at home to sleep and do something that I want.
In the evening my homestay family back. I try to help them and try to become polite or do something that make my homestay family not hate me. I also give them some food that called "abon" in Indonesia. I don't know they like it or not, but they said if its delicious when they try it.
Dinner time we have fried rice, chicken nugget, miso soup and pork. After finish dinner I take a bath and I stay in my room to do something. Oyasuminasai….


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Marie Léon (Léon) Flameng  (Parijs, 30 april 1877 - Ève, 2 januari 1917) was een Frans wielrenner. Hij nam deel aan de eerste Olympische Spelen in Athene in 1896.

Hij nam deel aan de 333 meter sprint, de tijdrit van 2000 meter, de 10 km en de 100 km. Hij was vrij goed in de lange afstanden, want hij won de 100 km in een tijd van 3:08:19,2. Hij behaalde zilver op de 10 km, na zijn landgenoot Paul Masson. Op de 2 km eindigde hij derde en in de kortste afstand, de 333 meter sprint behaalde hij geen medaille maar moest hij genoegen nemen met een gedeelde vijfde plaats.

Flameng was tijdens de Eerste Wereldoorlog sergeant-piloot bij de 2nd Aviation Group. Hij stierf tijdens een missie in Ève omdat zijn parachute weigerde open te gaan.

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We're pretty sure it's changed our life.
First I check my email. Mostly bank balances and online store events. Sometimes a late-night or early-morning message from a friend. What do I expect? I checked right before I went to sleep. Rarely any work emails lately, since most of what I do goes to a project manager who fields all the emails and works her other miracles.
Next, I check the weather, looking for something in the 60s. That's all I'm asking for, 60s. Today it's 49. That's really close to 50, which is right under 60. That's hopeful.
Then it's on to Facebook, to see if anyone there has said anything funny or profound, liked or commented on anything funny or profound I may have said, or friended me from another life.
From there I go to BBC News, where today I see my first typo, "revovered." I check in with the world and marvel at the BBC's organizational grace, dozens of concise news stories striated into a logical grid.
Then I'm stumped. This is the part where I need to get out of bed, but I'm sure I should check some more apps first. Oh yes, I can go to the app store and check for updates. Then maybe I should check my email again. Is it possible the temp has gone up a degree?
No. Get up. Just get up and do something. Make the coffee. No, Dave's making the coffee, I'll just check this Skype message. The Skype message is two months old, you don't know the person. Get up. Okay. Should I. Wait! I didn't check my calendar yet! You don't have anything today. You have to sit at your desk and finish your videos. Right. Okay. I'll just double-check. Sigh. Fine. Go ahead. Check it all again. Hey look, it's 50!
Dave brings in the coffee. Lather, rinse and repeat.
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Monday musings today are about what to drink on different occasions and why wine professionals must be well-versed in mass market wines. This past weekend at my college reunion I was confronted with the usual challenge – drink average wine or switch to something else, in this instance average beer. While it usually is a non-choice for me, people often believe I won't drink mass market wines. While I prefer something esoteric and unique, working in the industry I think it's fundamental that one tastes all kinds of wine and most mass market ones. It's useful both from a work standpoint but also from an educational one. It's important to understand why some brands are universally liked and what the success factors are behind the brands. There are also some organizations that give blind tasting exams and often use these kinds of wines.
This past weekend, they offered Chardonnay, Pinot Grigio, Carbernet and Zinfandel as choices, all from California. Reflecting on that today, that is a lot of choice in a tent on the field in a college reunion where everyone is in shorts, listening to music and catching up with old friends.
Like everything in life, it all depends on context and I try to do my research and learn at every occasion.


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Dr. Canino received the Rema Lapouse Award, at the APHA 137th Annual Meeting and Exposition in Philadelphia 2009, which is granted to outstanding scientists in the area of psychiatric epidemiology.
Dr. Benjamin Cook's latest article on Measuring Racial/Ethnic Disparities is now published in the Early View online section of Health Services Research.
Dr. Canino will serve as Principal Investigator of the Center a collaborative effort between the Cambridge Health Alliance and Harvard University. The main goal of the Center is to conduct research on Latino health and health care disparities, specifically mental disorders and asthma, and to use the knowledge obtained to generate and test models of improved service delivery to eliminate these disparities.
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Items related to Real Lives: Eleven Teenagers Who Don't Go to School
Real Lives: Eleven Teenagers Who Don't Go to School
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ISBN 10: 0962959138 ISBN 13: 9780962959134
Publisher: Lowry House Pub, 1993
Grace Llewellyn taught school for three years before unschooling herself and writing The Teenage Liberation Handbook: How to Quit School and Get a Real Life and Education. Her other books include Real Lives: eleven teenagers who don't go to school tell their own stories, Freedom Challenge: African American Homeschoolers, and, with Amy Silver, Guerrilla Learning: How to Give Your Kids a Real Education With or Without School. Ms. Llewellyn has spoken about unschooling to groups and conferences, given workshops, directed a homeschooling resource center, produced a mail order book catalog for unschoolers, and published an unschooling newsletter—all with the purpose of helping people (mostly teenagers) take more control of their own lives and educations. She is the founder and director of Not Back to School Camp (in Oregon and West Virginia) for unschooled teenagers, and enjoys a small bellydancing career on the side. She lives in Eugene, Oregon.
It is estimated that today there are approximately 150,000 to 300,000 children being homeschooled in the United States. This book is different in perspective from those published over the past few years, such as Borg Hendrickson's Home School: Taking the First Step ( LJ 3/1/89); Jane Van Galen's Home Schooling: Political, Historical and Pedagogical Perspectives (Ablex, 1991); Michael Farris's Home Schooling and the Law (Home Schooling Legal Defense Assn., 1991); and Christopher Klicka's Home Schooling in the United States (Home Schooling Legal Defense Assn., 1991). Here Llewellyn, author of The Teenage Liberation Handbook: How To Quit School and Get a Real Life and Education (Lowry House Pubs., 1991) has edited rich in-depth biographical and philosophical essays solicited from 11 teens who tell why they made the decision (with the help of their families) not to be "tamed" or stifled by traditional schooling methodologies and regulations. The essays shed light on what happens during a typical day in the lives of homeschooled individuals, how the teens became as educated (and self-confident) as they appear to be, what motivates them to learn, their views on homeschooling versus traditional education, hopes for the future, etc. Many misconceptions about homeschooling are debunked. This is essential for all collegiate teacher education collections and for those public libraries where interest in the topic abounds.
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The name of the program is KitchenDraw - you can download it from this page . (You can find the link to this program on our link page for members - and we update it there when necessary). The freely downloadable version is limited - you can use it only for a few hours - but it shouldn't be a problem.
The KitchenDraw software can be used to create a 3D kitchen or a 3D bathroom. And it supports the right and left views as well - but we will describe this function later.
Start the software, fill in the form (the company name should be sufficient) and then you can choose the color of your kitchen. In the list in the upper part of the window are parts of the kitchen, on the left you can select colors. Then you have to set a size of your kitchen, for example 3000 x 3000 milimeters.
When you set everything mentioned above you can work with a room editor. On the right side - in it's upper part - you should select a database of components (kitchen, bathroom...), below set the type of cupboard and below are cupboards. You can set it's features as well - the height, width etc.
Now you can drag and drop the cupboard to a selected place in your kitchen. Then click to it with the left button and with the right button of your mouse - and you can set it's features again (for example it could be positioned higher to be placed on another cupboard). You can't place an object to the same place where is another object - but you can place it above it or under it.
The editor offers a few display modes. If you want to place and move cupboards then the best mode is Ground plan (you can set it with the button beside the one with a picture of money), final picture can be created in the Perspective mode (the button with a camera).
In the menu (View) you can set if you want to see the picture with your left eye or with the right one. Set the left one - and save the picture (File/Export or Print Screen key + graphical editor) and then repeat it for the right view.
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Q: Evaluate $\Im(\operatorname{Li}_3(2i) + \operatorname{Li}_3(\frac i2))$ Applying the trilogarithm identity
$$ \operatorname{Li}_{3}\left(z\right) - \operatorname{Li}_{3}\left(1 \over z\right) =
-{1 \over 6}\ln^{3}\left(-z\right) -
{\pi^{2} \over 6}\ln\left(-z\right)\tag{1}
$$
along with $\Im\operatorname{Li}_{3}\left(z\right) =-
\Im\operatorname{Li}_{3}\left(-z\right)$,
I am able to obtain
$$
\Im\operatorname{Li}_{3}\left(2{i}\right) +
\Im\operatorname{Li}_{3}\left({{i} \over 2}\right) =
{\pi^{3} \over 16} + {\pi \over 4}\ln^{2}2
$$
However, the identity (1) seems a blackbox to me, offering little intuition. I would like to see the expression evaluated independently, preferably, self-contained.

A: Special functions are always. They are for eternity. But to find a common definition mathematicians do very very hard. I would solve this with a formula collection for example Abramovitch, Stegun nowadays in the Springer Verlag available.
The first equation is following Wolfram Alpha, which is available online, a series expansion for the left-hand side difference. This is polylog with n=3 common name is trilog or trilogarithm. The pod from WolframAlpha is:

This is slightly different to the given one. This is called the Puiseux series expansion. This can be found in the wikipedia.org. For Polylog Polylogarithm in wikipedia.org  there is the identity:

This evaluates to
-(1/6) ln[-z] (π^2 + ln[-z]^2)

and there is Your result. The section is named relationships to other functions. Here to the Riemann zeta function. s==3 in this case. The evaluation can be done too with Wolfram Alpha. This is proven by Jonquiere in 1889 in research on the functional equation for the Hurwitz zeta function.
Using the first equation with the identity gives the left-hand side in general for the imaginary part. So the calculation has to be done on the right-hand side of equation (1) at z==2i.
-(1/6) ln[-z] (\[Pi]^2 + ln[-z]^2) /. z -> 2 I

-(1/6) (-((I )/2) +
   ln[2]) (^2 + (-((I )/2) + ln[2])^2)

The imaginary part of this is:
 (^2/16 + /4 ln[2]^2

That is the confirmation that Your identity is correct. A simple verification as simplification and symbolic representation of the result.
The above difference is probably just formally.

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France's Kurds Protest after Paris Killings
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Representatives of France's Kurdish community gathered in central Paris Saturday for a demonstration to demand answers in the killing of three Kurds in the French capital they say has exposed the community's vulnerability.
A gunman carried out the killings at a Kurdish cultural center and nearby cafe Friday in a busy part of Paris' 10th district.
Police arrested a 69-year-old man, who authorities said had recently been freed from detention while awaiting trial for a sabre attack on a migrant camp in Paris a year ago.
After an angry crowd clashed with police Friday afternoon, the Kurdish democratic council in France (CDK-F) called on its website and social media channels for a gathering at midday (1100 GMT) Saturday at Republic Square, a traditional venue for demonstrations in the city.
Several hundred people gathered in the square, with many holding flags.
Paris prosecutor Laure Beccuau said Friday that possible racist motives would be part of the investigation, but Kurdish representatives said it should be considered a terror attack.
"We know that we are under threat, Kurds in general, Kurdish activists and militants. France owes us protection," Berivan Firat, a spokesperson for the CDK-F told BFM TV.
Friday's murders caused particular dismay in the Kurdish community as it prepared to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the killings of three Kurdish women in Paris.
"The Kurdish community is afraid. It was already traumatized by the triple murder (in 2013). It needs answers, support and consideration," David Andic, a lawyer representing the CDK-F told reporters Friday.
Paris' police chief was due to meet members of the Kurdish community Saturday morning ahead of the afternoon protest.
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Committee formed to facilitate return of cattle keepers from Equatoria
Author: Daniel Danis | Published: 4 weeks ago
A cattle keeper protects his herd with an AK-47 in South Sudan. PHOTO: bpnews.net
Local leaders representing pastoralists and farmers have agreed to form a committee that will facilitate movement of cattle out of farming areas in Greater Equatoria.
The leaders met in Juba yesterday during a consultative conference facilitated by the National Dialogue steering committee.
The resolution reiterates the commitment of the farmers and the cattle owners to abide by the decrees of the President.
The order banning cattle keepers from entering Equatoria region where farmers cultivate was issued 3 years ago by President Salva Kiir.
The President had instructed cattle keepers mainly from Terekeka, Jonglei and greater Lakes states to leave farming lands.
This was to help prevent violence over grazing areas, and to keep the farmlands safe for production.
But the directives have so far not been implemented by neither the organized forces nor the cattle keepers.
Last month, elders from Lobonok area of Jubek state complained that armed cattle keepers were still living in the farming areas of the County.
They said the continued presence of the cattle in their areas pose a great threat to farming and people's livelihood.
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After a series of meetings in Juba, the National Dialogue steering committee yesterday revealed that a committee that will facilitate the return of the pastoralists to their respective states will be presented to the President for endorsement.
"The committee will request the President to task a military unit or a contigent that will implement this, because the cattle will have to be driven under the supervision of some military or whatever force that will be agreed upon," said Abdon Agau, a member of the National Dialogue steering committee.
He said the reconstitute the committee that will be composed of representatives from the six communities of Terekeka, Jonglei, Jubek, Gbudwe, Western and Eastern Lakes, will work with the organized forces to facilitate a safe and harmonious return of the cattle keepers.
"The committee will then coordinate with the military commander and agree on routes, and other strategies to make the repatriation of the cattle a success," he said.
The cattle keepers that have remained in Equatoria farming lands are mainly; Bor, Mundari, Atuot, and Aliab communities.


There goes another injury for the Lakers.
According to reports, the Lakers star Jordan Clarkson strained the Patellar tendon in his left knee after he landed in a bad position in their match against the Denver Nuggets Wednesday (Thursday in the Philippines); he was out for the night after the injury.
Jordan Clarkson strained the Patellar tendon in his left knee. He won't return tonight.
Whether Clarkson's injury is serious or not is still unknown.
With Lou Williams (strained hamstring), Larry Nance (sore knee), and Kobe Bryant (Sore shoulder) out of play for the evening, losing Clarkson was a huge blow to the Lakers roster; Lakers took a bitter 117-107 loss against the Nuggets.
Despite his Sore shoulder, Kobe Bryant played a good 11 minutes in the first half as a final show for the fans from Denver. He even gave a lucky fan a signed shoe!
The Lakers play against the Hawks on Friday (Saturday in the Philippines), and it's unclear if Clarkson will make it in the game.
How do you think the Lakers can get out of this plague of injuries haunting the team?


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BRU-NO SHOW
Strictly's Bruno Tonioli will miss series finale after being banned from travelling from US
Andy Halls
STRICTLY Come Dancing judge Bruno Tonioli will miss the rest of this year's series and not return for the final.
BBC bosses had hoped the flamboyant Italian, 65, would return for at least the semi-final, and the grand finale just before Christmas.
Bruno Tonioli will miss Strictly's finalCredit: ABC
But they have decided him travelling from Los Angeles is not deemed essential travel, so he will now not take part.
A source said: "Bruno has been umming and ahhing about this for weeks.
"But him and the BBC have decided that it's nowhere near essential for him to fly halfway around the world for a few hours work so they'll make do without him."
The star had only appeared via videolink from his home in LA, where he films the American version of the show, Dancing With The Stars.
This year's series clashes with his US show Dancing With The StarsCredit: Getty Images - Getty
Travel restrictions have prevented Bruno from getting to the UK from LA
Bosses had hoped he would make at least the final four episodes – including the final and the semi final.
Their worst case scenario was that if he was forced to quarantine he would film two shows minimum.
Because of Bruno's absence from the Saturday shows this year, it has meant for the first time there have just been three judges - Motsi Mabuse, Shirley Ballas and Craig Revel Horwood.
Bruno has failed to appear in person during this year's Strictly Credit: Getty Images - Getty
And to make matters worse, they were forced to ask long-running professional Anton Du Beke to stand in for Motsi after she had to return back to Germany for a private emergency.
It comes after the long-serving judge – who has spent the last 15 years commuting between homes in Los Angeles and London to appear on Strictly – told The Sun it would be "impossible" for him to take part, giving Cheryl Tweedy his blessing to replace him.
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Bruno has appeared on both Strictly Come Dancing and the show's US version since they launched in 2005.
In both of the last two series of Strictly, he was replaced by Fresh Prince of Bel-Air star Alfonso Ribeiro for Week Five due to clashes in filming.
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