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Artist of the month: Andy Warhol
Posted by atelierjudith on 06/05/2016 04/07/2016
Since attending Warhol lectures at uni I'm a huge fan of Andy. His personality was so great and his books inspired me a lot. That's why the master of Pop is my artist of the month.
As soon as reading the lecture title "Andy Warhol: machinism and subjectivity" I thought it wouldn't be that interesting because I don't really like machinery. But everything turned out different and I'm so happy that I've chosen this course anyway. Before going to these lectures I rarely knew anything about Warhol. I just knew that he had those blonde hair, he used to live in New York and painted/printed Marilyn's. Now I discovered there's so much more about the originally named "Andrew Warhola".
He was born in Pittsburgh in 1928, his parents were Slovakian immigrants. The family lived in a poor district of the city. At the age of 8 Andy got infected by a rare and sometimes fatal disease of the nervous system that left him bedridden for several months. It was then when the young boy discovered drawing and he would spend hours with a pencil and sheet. He was also a big fan of movies, and when his mother bought him a camera at the age of 9 he took up photography as well. He was also fascinated by filmstars and he used to hang up star's posters in his room. When Warhol was 14 another tragedy occurred. His dad died and Andy refused to go to the funeral because he was always scared of death. Additionally he rarely knew his dad.
In 1945 he started studying Graphic design at the Carnegie Institute of Technology. Right after graduating in 1949 he moved to New York City with a couple of friends. Warhol knew that was the artistic place to be and he hoped for a greater future there. His big dream was to become famous and earn a lot of money. And he made it! He started working as a commercial artist (Graphic designer) in New York but it wasn't easy at all in the beginning. Warhol worked day and night for his dream and besides the fact that he didn't really have any close friends whom he could tell about his problems Warhol actually wanted to sell his own artwork instead of working for firms and illustrate stuff they wanted to. He asked a few gallerists if they could show his work but all of them found he wouldn't be a good artist. By the way Warhol also suffered a lot because of his sexual orientation. He was homosexual but he was quite afraid of nearness, it made him get mad if people touched him. So he never really had a relationship and that made him feel lonely and sad. On the other hand he enjoyed being alone sometimes.
"Fantasy love is much better than reality love."
"The biggest price you pay for love is that you have to have somebody around, you can't be on your own, which is always so much better."
"Couples do become like each other when they're together for a long time, because you like the person and you pick up their mannerisms and their little good habits. And you eat the same food."
All 3 quotes by: Andy W. in "The Philosophy" (chapter: Love)
Even though Warhol seemed to be a shy person, kind of an observer, soon his circle of friends would be growing and he knew it was only for the money. By then he earned a lot of money and was one of the most popular and successful graphic designers of New York. But the friends didn't make him happier. Warhol said that he always felt like he was picking up his friend's problems. So one day he went to a psychiatrists to ask what his own problem would be. At the end of the day Warhol bought his first television and that became the best "medicine" against all of his problems. He kept on the tv while people told him about their problems.
"When I first got my TV set, I stopped caring so much about having close relationships with other people. I'd been hurt a lot to the degree you can only be hurt if you care a lot. So in the late 50s I started an affair with my television. But I didn't get married until 1964 when I got my first tape recorder. My wife." (Andy W. in "The Philosophy")
Andy was obsessed with technical devices such as tv, tape, radios and cameras and he also created films later in his career. One of the most known films is called "Chelsea Girls". When he first showed one of his movies most of the people wanted their money back because they were really disappointed by the "boring" scenes. Warhol liked to do scenes with a person in front of the camera doing the same thing (for example sleep or eat) for hours. Some movies take 6 or 8 hours. So the movies were kinda like paintings because they wouldn't change for hours. Something typically about Warhol's movies was that the stars were not really acting at all. He told them to be themselves and he filmed scenes from everyday life, for example a woman getting her make up done. Andy's number 1 superstar was certainly Edie Sedgwick. Andy was fascinated by her beauty. While admiring the beauty of other people Warhol didn't like his own way of looking. He had lots of problems with skin and one day (at the age of 23) he decided to buy a gray/silver wig so everyone would be impressed if he said how young he would actually be. There's a whole chapter dedicated to the topic of Beauty in Warhol's book "The Philosophy".
"Day after day I look in the mirror and still see something – a new pimple. If someone asked me, "What's your biggest problem?" I'd have to say, "Skin!"
"I've never met a person I couldn't call a beauty. Every person has beauty at some point in their lifetime."
"Beauties know that most people will wait for them, so they're not panicked when they're late, so they get even later."
"I usually accept people on the basis of their self-images, because their self-images have more to do with the way they think than their objective-images do."
All 4 quotes from: "The Philosophy of Andy Warhol" (chapter: Beauty)
People even reacted critically during his first public exhibition at the Stable Gallery in New York. The whole exhibition space was filled with Brillo and Campbell's soup boxes and the visitors thought it was ridiculous. It took a long time to find a gallery owner that would show Warhols art. Roy Liechtenstein, another famous pop artist seemed to have been "faster" and some New York galleries showed his work but didn't wanna show 2 similar artist, so they refused Warhol. In 1962 Warhol finally got his first own show in Los Angeles at the Irving Blum Gallery and in fall of the same year he finally had the chance to show his artwork in New York City (at the Stable Gallery).
As Warhol didn't succeed as a fine artists he wanted to do something totally new. He became part of the "Pop Art" movement because that was an idea he could absolutely identify with. Andy once said "Pop Art is for all" and that's so true. He simply took some objects of everyday life. A Campbell's soup can, Brillo boxes and Heinz ketchup tomato are things every American knows from the supermarket. And that's just wonderful, the artist thought. Pop Art was indeed the first art style made for the masses instead of only for the upper class.
In 1964, Warhol opened his own art studio, a large silver-painted warehouse known simply as "The Factory." He wanted it to be silver because that was his favorite color. The Factory quickly became one of New York City's premier cultural hotspots, a scene of lavish parties attended by the city's wealthiest socialites and celebrities, including David Bowie, Lou Reed, Jackie Curtis, The Velvet Underground, Madonna, Mick Jagger and Salvador Dalí. Warhol was shooting all of his movies and taking most of his (polaroid) photos there.
In 1968 Warhol's career almost ended. He was shot by a radical feminist called Valerie Solans and almost died. Solanis had appeared in one of Warhol's films and was reportedly upset with him over his refusal to use a script she had written. After the shooting, Solanis was arrested and later pleaded guilty to the crime. Warhol spent weeks in a New York hospital recovering from his injuries. The shooting changed Warhol a lot. He didn't stay out late and tried not to go around alone because he was too afraid that another person would want to kill him.
In 1969 Andy Warhol together with a journalist launched a lifestyle magazine called "Interview" – it's doing good business until the present. The paper is dedicated to Warhol's biggest passion: celebrity life.
Warhol's life and work simultaneously satirized and celebrated materiality and celebrity. On one hand his paintings of distorted brand images and celebrity faces could be read as a critique of what he viewed as a culture obsessed with money and celebrity. On the other hand, Warhol's focus on consumer goods and pop-culture icons, as well as his own taste for money and fame, suggest a life in celebration of the very aspects of American culture that his work criticized. Warhol always said that making money is art and working is art, and good business is the best art.
Nowadays we are confronted with Warhol almost everywhere and I'm pretty sure if Warhol would live today he would be obsessed with social media. He has already discovered the importance and effects of the media world back in the Sixties.
If you'd like to know more about the amazing person and work of Andy Warhol I suggest reading the following books: "The Philosophy of Andy Warhol; From A to B and back again", "Popism", "I'll be your mirror – The selected Warhol interviews" and there's several good articles on the internet.
You can clearly also ask me anything about the artist, his work and life by leaving a comment. Hope you liked this article and stay tuned for the next "Artist of the month" (coming in June)!
Warhol with his installation "Silver clouds" (silver helium filled pillows).
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Hey Judith,
I'm so happy that I've discovered your blog. I'm also studying history of art and I can totally relate to everything what you write about art. There are so rare blogs about art in this way and therefore it's gorgeous to find someone who does in this simple but great and lovely way you do. In every written line it is easy to read how much you're passionated about it.
On my blog I am writing about art too. In the last month less than normal, but reading your art articles makes me want to write more about art again. (If you're interested: http://www.wakodiwe.blogspot.com)
atelierjudith says:
Hello Valentina,
Thank you so much for this kind message.
Knowing there's people who appreciate my work really makes me happy.
I will certainly check out your blog!
xoxo, Judith
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This past week, I blogged about my skin care routine!
Today, I am back to share 3 of my favorite, "skin secrets" that I have discovered.
The skinvigorate cleansing brush by Mary- Kay! This is very similar to a clarisonic or another type of cleansing brush that you may have seen advertised. I like using a cleansing brush because it serves many purposes. It helps to better remove make- up, softens the appearance of lines/ wrinkles, and gently cleanses my skin.
2. I included this Indian healing clay face mask on a recent Fab Friday post but I love it so much that it is worth mentioning again. I use it twice a week. I have never used a face mask that feels this powerful. It tingles but it works! The directions say you can mix it with water or apple cider vinegar. I only use water!
3. I love jojoba oil. It is pure jojoba oil derived from the seed of the jojoba shrub. Occasionally, I'll add this into my nighttime routine. I just take a couple of drops and rub it all over my face like a moisturizer. It has great benefits such as: moisturizing, wrinkle remover, reducing any pink/ redness, home remedy for acne, etc. It can even be used on your hair or as a lip balm as well!
I have tried other things such as coconut oil which also works great for skin and hair, but these three are definitely my favorites when it comes to skin care!


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"All of that important material stored on those little cassettes," said Christen, Washington State University associate professor of English (http://libarts.wsu.edu/english/) and associate director of the Digital Technology and Culture Program (http://libarts.wsu.edu/dtc/). "I was so afraid the tapes would be accidentally damaged before they could be more safely archived."
Mukurtu's Michael Ashley with Terry Point (Musqueam First Nations member) at the Museum of Anthropology in Vancouver, B.C., demonstrating Mukurtu Mobile.
Christen is director of digital projects for the Plateau Center for American Indian Studies at WSU (http://plateau
portal.wsulibs.wsu.edu/
html/ppp/index.php). Her intense drive to help tribal people protect their heritage materials and increase their accessibility and use – while respecting the communities' limits in terms of resources and cultural sensitivities – has led to two new, federally funded grants totaling almost $1 million.
New fuel to tackle complex challenges
A WSU record-setting grant of $319,331 from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and a $499,186 grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) will enable Christen and her colleagues to expand the ways they're helping indigenous communities through digital archiving technology.
With half of the world's languages at high risk of extinction in this century and vast bodies of cultural knowledge already lost or endangered, preserving important cultural heritage materials is crucial. But it's not easy. Designing effective, efficient and culturally appropriate ways to archive diversely sensitive materials is a complex challenge.
Keeping sacred items safe
The NEH Digital Humanities Implementation grant will enable Christen and her team to expand the suite of Mukurtu (pronounced MOO-koo-too) digital archiving software they developed with support of earlier NEH and IMLS grants.
Shawn LameBull works on digital scanning materials for the Yakama Nation.
Mukurtu is the Warumungu word for "dilly bag," a traditional Australian aboriginal container. Elders of the Warumungu community in Australia's Northern Territory, where much of Christen's digital archive work began, use the bags to keep sacred items safe.
Built around a growing collection of photographs, videos and cultural artifacts, the Mukurtu platform is a "safe keeping place" in use by several indigenous groups across the United States and worldwide.
Mukurtu CMS and Mukurtu Mobile
Mukurtu CMS (http://www.mukurtu.org/) is a free, open-source, standards-based tool for managing digital content. It is adaptable and enables protected access and culturally driven sharing of heritage materials.
The recent NEH grant will allow expansion of the Mukurtu platform with development of Mukurtu Mobile (http://mukurtumobile.org/about), a dynamic digital tool for collecting and exhibiting cultural content. The mobile platform is another direct response to the needs of indigenous people across the globe, Christen said.
Michael Holloman, coordinator of American Indian Studies at WSU, showing tribal members a flat twined bag from the Plateau Collection at the Northwest Museum of Art and Culture in Spokane.
"Mobile phones are everywhere – especially in low-income communities where young people might never have used a landline," Christen said. "This mobile technology allows them to take pictures, video and audio just about anywhere and automatically upload them within the cultural and sharing protocols of their communities and preserve their heritage continually.
"Mukurtu Mobile will link the power of a robust, culturally responsive CMS to the direct collection of knowledge on the ground," she said.
Because many traditional and tribal groups define access to specific types of heritage materials based on criteria such as age, gender and clan, accommodating these cultural protocols is fundamental to Mukurtu tool designs.
Addressing community needs
The Mukurtu platform connects local sources of knowledge and data – from citizen archivists to citizen scientists – to fuel research and education, Christen said. It has the power to unite local communities around important global issues in natural and cultural resource management.
"We're leveraging technology as a partner for communities and bringing arts and sciences together to meet their goals," Christen said. "The really exciting thing about all of these projects is that they all respond to cultural, social and educational needs identified by communities.
"And it's significant that WSU – Washington's land-grant university – is at the cutting edge of thinking about ethical ways of managing cultural content," she said.
Training critical to expand preservation, sharing
Collecting digital assets is only the first step in the archiving process. Next come presentation, access and use.
Training is necessary to equip and engage individual users and content providers, including museum and library staff, tribal elders and members of the community who might have little other direct contact with digital technology.
The IMLS grant will provide for hands-on training at national conferences and regional locations. It will support development of a national registry to connect tribal archives, museums and libraries with key resources.
Web-based tutorials and multimedia "stewardship kits" will provide step-by-step guides for managing heritage materials, from digitization to curation and preservation to sharing. All will be grounded in international standards-based protocols, incorporating community values and needs.
Thoughtful, standardized management
"Almost all tribal cultural organizations engage in digitizing materials, but few have developed digital cultural heritage management plans," said Susan Feller, director of the Oklahoma-based Association of Tribal Archives, Libraries and Museums, a primary partner on the IMLS grant. "This new support will help address the ongoing issues of enabling culturally appropriate access to indigenous materials and maintaining international standards," she said.
For tribal archives, libraries and museums, the new funding will provide an "expanded toolset to continue bringing their cultural heritage materials to the forefront in a sustainable, contextualized way," said Alex Merrill, interim assistant dean for operations at WSU Libraries and co-principal investigator on the IMLS grant.
Inspiring students, young tribal scholars
"For WSU students, it will lead to a greater emphasis on a side of the tribal story that has been underrepresented, giving them a greater understanding of the breadth of a part of Washington history they might not have ever seen before," Merrill said.
Murkurtu Mobile and the digital stewardship projects operate on "vastly different scales to help solve very different but very critical needs," said Michael Ashley, Mukurtu director of development and chief technology officer for the nonprofit Center for Digital Archaeology at University of California Berkeley, another primary partner on the IMLS grant.
"One of the most important outcomes is to excite young scholars and interested young doers to learn seriously useful skills and bring them back to their communities," he said.
More about the grants
"Collaborative Stewardship: Providing Sustainable Digital Heritage Training for Tribal Libraries, Archives and Museums" is a three-year partnership among WSU, the Association of Tribal Archives, Libraries and Museums, the California Indian Museum and Cultural Center and the Center for Digital Archaeology at the University of California Berkeley. IMLS funding for the project is through a Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Continuing Education Program grant.
"Mukurtu Mobile: Empowering Knowledge Circulation across Cultures" is supported by a two-year NEH Digital Humanities Implementation grant (HK-50120-13).
More about the researchers
Christen holds a doctorate in the history of consciousness from the University of California at Santa Cruz. She has been a featured guest on the BBC radio program "Digital Planet" and is past recipient of a Northwest Academic Computing Consortium grant, an American Council of Learned Societies Digital Innovation Fellowship funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and an IMLS National Leadership Grant for Advancing Digital Tools.
Merrill studied information science at the University of Arizona and has worked with digital cultural material in varied contexts for eight years. He has published and presented nationally on topics ranging from sense of place in digital collections to organizational leadership.
Kim Christen, WSU Department of English, kachristen@wsu.edu, 509-335-4177
Adrian Aumen, WSU College of Arts and Sciences, (http://cas.wsu.edu/index_rotate.html), adriana@wsu.edu, 509-335-5671
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The Verbal Calorie
...literature's answer to relevance
Daughtry is Distracting You All
I'm not the type to use music as the background for my life—I use life as the background for my music. Subsumed within song, dictated by it and sublimated into it, life is a dizzying stream of physicality that is, on a good day, sufficiently benign and uneventful to remain ignored. If something tragic or gripping pulls me out of music consciousness for few moments, I don't panic. I play something by Death Cab, move the headphones to release the depressions in my ears, and embrace, again, soundtrack as foreground. Said another way, if life didn't stop to notice me, I fear I'd never notice it.
The above paragraph may or may not be true. I'm sure, however, that it encapsulates my experience last night: a normally uncharged bus ride from New Jersey to Manhattan hosted a wedding between music and soul, a fusion of melody, mind, rhythm, and bone. I didn't so much enjoy or anticipate or feel the music so much as I embodied it, manifested it, imparted it-was it. My skeleton spontaneously generated sound and vibration, and my gesticulations produced the energy that powered the instruments.
This very private, very enthralling experience illuminated two things: first, that listening to music alone is entirely different than sharing it with other people; and second, that trance music is an abused substance when taken in public. Trance is perhaps the most meditative genre, with a booming, unrelenting pulse and deeply hypnotic textures (hence, "trance"). Its manifestation in most countries, however—especially in Goa, Europe, and Israel, where trance is an overt, dominant style—is extremely juvenile. People obnoxiously announce that they "totally just took some e," that they're "raging hard" and "getting their ass melted." All of these are valid things to experience and to say, but it's the WAY they say it that denigrates the trance experience. It's analogous to getting married, and then, on the wedding night, having your spouse belch, grab his/her balls, and say, "I'm pleased as shit to be married to you." It's a nice, legitimate thought, but the expression is disgusting.
Popular music is made for mass consumption: three-and-a-half minute songs replete with verse, chorus, bridge, memorable hook, and catchy chord progressions. Millions of people hear songs built this way, memorize them, and go to concerts to sing along. I was recently forced (read: drunk and not wanting to reach for the remote) to watch the music video for Daughtry's "Home", and it struck me that, in the live performance shots, everyone was singing along. Apparently, people love to use their voices when they listen to music, and will take any opportunity to do so—lyrics, a sing-along solo, etc. Trance, for all its virtues, does not indulge that love for singing, since it has no lyrics to parrot or easy-speak melodies to hum, nothing that feeds into our predisposition to use our voices. It leaves you verbally frustrated, and that spawns the phenomenon of people compulsively proclaiming how intoxicated they are.
Public trance, therefore, is problematic, since speech-starved masses are left with nothing to say besides for jamband platitudes like, "sick set, bro." That same emptiness, though, is perfect for personal mediation. Without words or simple tunes, trance is not distracting in the same way that other music tends to be. Singing along is a diversion, a canard, only the apocryphal crux of a song. Trance strips away that element, and leaves purity—a timbre, a tempo, and nothing else. It brings out the same simplicity in the listener, but it cannot if the sweaty, tattooed fan next to you is rubbing his arms and asking if you want to blow lines in the bathroom. Not that you should turn down his offer—that's between you, God, and your therapist—but it might not be conducive to an introspective evening.
Stay Situational, Trance's Hypnotic Value
MC Music Machine
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Reading and Writing: Only One Is Important
I'm a slow reader. Always have been. Even when I pored over John Grisham and Mario Puzo in the third grade—which would be remarkably precocious if I'd been reading them for any reason other than prepubescent thrill-seeking—I'd settle on a chapter for 45 minutes and then go to bed. Completing any book prompted a monumental celebration, followed by the dread and foreboding that accompanied my pacing up and down the fiction aisles at the Teaneck Public Library while I hunted for the next read.
I'm much better at continuing books than starting or ending them—starting means arousing enough determination to begin Chapter One, while ending means parting with a project that took weeks of concentration and commitment. Finishing a book is like sleeping with a girl, insofar as both are memorable victories fraught with pleasure, tribulation, patience, and surprise. And you can't catch syphilis from a book, which is both the beauty and the boredom in reading.
Books, however, are inconsequential—you could live your whole life without reading one and be perfectly alright. The advertisement may claim that "reading is fun-damental," but it's not. Reading is something we all entreat ourselves to do, in hope of some short-term recreation and a heavier dose of long-term cognitive benefit. It's a type of working out that doesn't usually pay immediate dividends, whose value lies primarily in a future point that may or may not arrive. It's beyond comprehension that there are so many Barnes & Noble bookstores sprinkled throughout New York, the one place of all the impatient metropolises wherein people never have the time to read. In fact, reading for pleasure has been replaced in New York City by a) reading for necessity on the subway—newspapers and work-related items; b) porn; and c) big-bicepped romance novels purchased on the top floor of a seedy bookstore; namely, porn. Manhattan literacy consists in the neurotic and erotic, while the novel and short story have long been forsaken.
I conveniently espouse that I prefer writing to reading. My reasoning is sound: it takes me virtually as long to read as it does to write, while writing is infinitely more proactive and exponentially more interesting. It also places me in total control, which, unlike finishing a book, is nothing like sleeping with a girl. I could either spend hours searching for the right book or minutes writing something of my own. Writing is easy—unlike playing music, construction, or most other things, it doesn't require special skills. If you can talk, you can write. If you can think, you can write. If you can hold a conversation, you can write. If you ever speak to yourself, you probably should write. If music were writing, you'd only have to hum to compose a song. History's "great writers" are just diligent thinkers, while those who claim that they can't write are merely refusing to encode their sentient processes. Illiteracy or a language barrier is one thing, but, barring those, anyone could write something of import. Poke around Amazon or Blogger or the Onion, and it's clear that writing only demands an expandable idea and a little free time. It's just like masturbation, except without an orgasm. So it's not like masturbation at all—but it is like sleeping with a girl.
Stay Slow, Reading
DJ Dawes Green
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Terrorist Psychology, or, Fundamentalist H-O-R-S-E
Do terrorists have social anxiety? Phobias? Besides for the prospect of eternal damnation, do you suppose terrorists fear anything us laymen do? I, for one, am terrified of heights, humongous empty rooms with high ceilings, and Philadelphia. But someone seemingly unafraid of death—and of imposing his or her own death, moreover—couldn't possibly fear spiders or public speaking, right?
Think terrorists have blogs? Does Osama bin Laden unwind by jotting down his musings on Wahabi Islam and Dispensationalist Christianity?
The underlying question here is, do terrorists have lives? Not just phobias and blogs, but do they have hobbies, artistic interests, secret handshakes, H-O-R-S-E contests, the mundane, recreational things that, here in the West, we associate with a well-crafted lifestyle? The answer is probably "yes," that terrorists do, indeed, have lives outside of their suicidal, apocalyptic designs. But how could someone who's come to peace with killing him/herself in the name of heaven possibly engage in anything else? It seems incongruous, as though the commitment to take lives—including one's own, in some cases—subsumes and negates everything else.
The notion that the 9/11 hijackers made sure to squeeze in one last game of backgammon is one of the more intriguing existential concepts I could ever imagine. While the image itself is laughable, and completely irrelevant in a pragmatic way, it is nonetheless an abstract powder keg. Think about it this way: if Atta and co. did not stop for one last board game hurrah, it only proves further that these murderers were less than human, that there wasn't even that spark of normalcy that we all possess. And, if they did throw together a round-robin tournament late on the night of September 10th, it only proves further that these murderers were less than human, that there wasn't even that spark of normalcy that we all possess. Philosophically, they're damned if they do and damned if they don't—if they played backgammon, they're heinous, unfeeling killers, and if they simply said their prayers and turned in early, they're hyper-murderous automatons.
We try very hard to dehumanize terrorists. The media usually depicts them with a wrap around their faces, purposely concealing their countenances. We refer to groups of them as "cells," instead of the words we use for groups in our culture, like "teams," "squads," or even "forces." I'll be the first to admit that there is a quantitative difference between a band of terrorists and the San Francisco 49ers, the former being sanguinary death-dealers and the latter a professional football team. There is certainly a difference between what terrorists do when they convene and what a true "team" does on the field. Even a legitimate military, unscrupulously bloodthirsty though it may be, is quite distinct from rogue terrorists. Even so, it's still curious that, even in our parlance, we dehumanize terrorists, while our media literally hides their faces.
Obviously, they don't deserve any better. Terrorists are below shit, whether we can see their faces or not. But if one played guitar or collected stamps, it would say a lot about his/her psychology. At best, it could be a counter-terrorism tool. I'm no terrorist, but someone who wants something from me is infinitely more likely to get it if he/she (usually she) knows how my brain works. The same approach could apply to the jihadists, and perhaps stymie something terrible.
And if that doesn't work, we can always read Osama's blog.
Stay Scary, Big Rooms with High Ceilings
DJ Dread
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(Airport) Terminal 5
If you've ever been curious about what 40,000 square feet of noise, skinny jeans, and iridescent blue bathrooms looks like, wonder no longer: Terminal 5 is your cavernous answer. This past Thursday, October 11, the newest venue from the Bowery Presents (papas already to the Bowery Ballroom, Webster Hall, the Mercury Lounge, and the brand-new Music Hall of Williamsburg) opened on the West side lot that used to host Club Exit. Remnants of the space's previous tenant are scarce, totaling just a still-half-pink stairwell and--presumably--some of the same young clientèle that used to shake its collective, gainfully employed booty on Friday and Saturday nights at what was one of the largest clubs in Manhattan.
Terminal 5's official capacity is 3,000 people, but the edifice is spacious enough to accommodate closer to 5,000. Its layout is unnerving at first, with so many stairwells and alcoves and doorways that, for the first time in my life, I was intimidated and mildly insulted by a building. The personal affront stemmed from the conviction that Terminal 5 purposely aimed to bewilder and confound, and on opening night it took until The National galloped into the three-beat shuffle of "Fake Empire" for me to find my happy place: a bank of couches, set up at right angles and supplemented by ottomans, in the far recesses of the second balcony. Like I said, Terminal 5 is huge (fucking huge, even), and the couches are the best example of its expanse. Even on the venue's inaugural night, with a sell-out crowd exploring every inch and alveolus of a just-opened space, we were the only people sitting on the couches. There was no one within even 20 feet of us, and the bar to our left was our own personal watering hole. We've all been to so many crowded, germy clubs that it was a revelation to feel at peace both with my immediate radius and the bottom of my shoes. No gum, no sickly spit, no unidentified liquid, and no adhesive fliers advertising a band's MySpace page.
There is a downside to all this luxury: Terminal 5 is expensive as hell. Tickets for most shows hover around 30-35 dollars, and, as is the case at any self-respecting purveyor of spirits in Manhattan, beers cost about $7.50 and mixed drinks cost even more. Furthermore, while being situated between 11th and 12th Avenues is optimal for housing an enormous building, you have to venture eastward for a few long blocks to reach any subway. Late at night, the walk is a pain in the ass for guys and a safety concern for hotties, not to mention how burdensome the schlep might be in a month or two with snow on the ground and wind gusts coming off the Hudson.
Still, we finally have a comfortable place to see a concert in New York. Admittedly, even my favorite venue (the Bowery Ballroom) has sightline issues and sticky floors. My least-favorite place to see a concert (the Lion's Den) is too loud and too hot, and it's impossible to see the stage from the back half of the room. Terminal 5 is (probably) too big, (definitely) hard to navigate, and on most nights stands to resemble a Spin Magazine Subscriber convention. But you can see the stage, the sound is perfect, there's tons of booze, and the couches might as well be emblazoned with the advertisement, "Make out here without seeming creepy."
The only place half that potentially libidinous is the Delancey, a much smaller club all the way downtown. With a tropical-themed roof and a pleasingly dank, dark cellar sandwiching a respectable bar in between, there are three genres of getting-it-on at your disposal: exotic, grungy, and traditional. In much the same way, Terminal 5 offers a cross-section of feelings, from its industrial warehouse frame to its Yuppie crowd to its homey furniture. So what if it's a long stroll from the train? At least you won't feel like you're packed on the subway the entire time you're there.
Stay Spacious, Terminal 5
DJ Disoriented
In Rainbows: Oh, the Crap I Gave Before I Listened
"In Rainbows" might not be the most masculine album title, but it certainly encapsulates Radiohead's multicolor mood swings. In the last 10 years or so, no band has matched Thom Yorke and co. as a vibe contagion—as deeply as "There There" lolls in resigned masochism, "Packt Like Sardines in a Crushd Tin Box" is a directive to move, to make like a well-dressed greaser at a machine politics cocktail party. "Packt" makes you feel so sinister, so outside society's grasp, that it functions better as a motivational tool than as a song.
Just as remarkable, if not more, is the way Radiohead released their brand-new album, "In Rainbows." Their last work, "Hail to the Thief," completed their pact with their label, so they decided to release this new one sans corporation. The album is being sold both in hard copy and as a download (about a 40MB Zip file), and is only available at radiohead.com. Here's the twist: you, the buyer, decide how much you want to pay. You simply type in the desired price, anything from zero pounds and up (they're a British band), and you're immediately sent a link for the download or ordering instructions for the hard copy.
I downloaded "In Rainbows" today, and I'm giving it a mediocre review despite listening to only three-and-a-quarter songs. It's distinctly lacking in fire, and its few strong moments are overshadowed by the reality that, on "In Rainbows," Radiohead sounds like a Radiohead cover band. The melodies and beats are derivative, and the vocals are, on a good portion of the verses, pretty uninspired.
But that's not the point, at least not in today's music market. Radiohead's sales technique was, from the start, bound to overshadow the album's content—in ten years, "In Rainbows" will be remembered primarily as the album Radiohead independently sold for no price, and not as the average listen it really is.
In all, this year's album crop has been just that: average. Ben Harper's new CD was OK, as were the latest Kanye and 50 records. Indie releases were solid, if not stellar, as the Arcade Fire's "Neon Bible," for example, wasn't as scintillating as 2004's "Funeral." "Zeitgeist," the first album from the reunited Smashing Pumpkins, is ironically titled, since it unintentionally captures the perfunctory attitude of our time. The problem for songwriters like Yorke and Billy Corgan is that there we're currently floating between artistic epochs. We are steadily digging our globally-warmed, watery graves, and we're hacking away at a devastating, dead-end war in Iraq, but the public hasn't sufficiently mobilized to drive an artistic age.
Someone told me recently that we're living in the "post-post-modern" age, the restless ennui of post-modernism supplanted by a docile, inert era. It's hard to define "post-post-modernism," since "post-modernism" itself inherently escapes description, but we might summarize our era as follows: we're living in the time that came after the time that came after something important. We had classicism and industrialization a century ago, which dictated the Western world's socio-artistic values. Post-modernism followed, hand-in-hand with deindustrialization, and we knew was that it was some kind of answer to modernism, that it pushed back against the strict definitions and mechanization of the early twentieth century. Now, in the era after post-modernism, we don't know how to regard ourselves. If post-modernism is Point A, we're having trouble getting to Point B, since Point A is undefined in the first place. Our current station is the amorphous follow-up to an era of absolute chaos and intrinsic disorder. We're floating in the clouds, in rainbows, and without an intellectual GPS. We're living in pretty mediocre times, and our music, our art, and our zeitgeist reflect just how aimless we're feeling.
Stay Stolid, In Rainbows
DJ Desultory
One Test, Twenty-Eight Backwards Haikus, and Five Self-Satisfactions
There is a vengeful beast lurking inside the New York City public college system. It's called the CPE: the CUNY (City University of New York) Proficiency Exam. Administered to every CUNY student after the completion of at least 40 credits, the CPE tests basic academic skills: reading comprehension, comparative analysis, and sitting in a packed room sweating your ass off.
The CPE has two sections, and the first asks the student to compare and contrast two essays. My test, for example, asked me to distinguish between the philosophies of two writers, one who espouses the benefits of modern technology and another who lambastes modernity as a soulless departure from upstanding, traditional living. I called the first writer a sage and the second, Amy Wu, a terrorist. I referenced the Taliban. I figured that was good enough.
The student is allotted two hours for Part A; I finished in 35 minutes, as did most of the people at my table. However, CUNY rules mandate that students must sit until the full two hours expire—even bathroom breaks are, literally, against the rules. So, armed with nothing but two number-two pencils, a pen, and two sheets of scrap paper, I set about writing twenty-eight haikus. However, because I'm an idiot I thought that haikus are arranged 7 syllables-5 syllables-7 syllables, while in fact they're 5-7-5. Herein is a sample of my incorrect work (I just hope the test graders don't see what I did and flunk me for it):
Hand inside the cookie jar
Caught with your pants down
Blowjob and chocolate chips
Trick or Treat! It's Halloween
Dress up like a ghoul
Don't rape a kid in costume
Conspiracy JFK
Bullets in Dallas
Texans own too many guns
The haikus touched on a number of significant world issues, from Ahmadinejad (conveniently 5 syllables) to alcoholism (conveniently concealable). At one point, the person seated across from me was scribbling on his own scrap paper and, like me, counting on his fingers. I assumed he was also writing haikus, at least until I asked him about it during the break between Parts A and B, whereupon he said, "No man, I don't know what I was doing. I was just counting." That, if nothing else, describes exactly how boring it is to wait for Part A to end.
Part B was even more scintillating than its predecessor. We were given a three-paragraph synopsis of how much meat and vegetables Americans ate in 1970 as compared to how much meat and vegetables they ate in 1980, 1990, and 2000. On the opposite page sat two USDA graphs, one with statistics about meat consumption during those years, and the one below with the same stats for vegetables. Our assignment was to determine whether the paragraphs and graphs said the same thing (really). They didn't. Not even close. So I said so. We were given a complete hour for Part B, but most of us discharged the task in under 10 minutes. Mercifully, they let us out as soon as we finished, in lieu of making us wait the full hour, noting that, "You guys are really fast test-takers. I guess we'll have to make an exception for you."
I took a physical inventory as I left the testing center. Two number-two pencils: check. One pen: check. My bookbag: check. Serious B.O., left armpit: check. Trudging down the hallway afterwards, I called my friend JackO, who had taken the same test in a different room. The exchange:
Me: "I think I'm stupider now."
JackO: "I finished Part B in 10 minutes. I don't know what the fuck everyone was writing so much for."
Me: "I called Amy Wu a terrorist."
JackO: "I said that modern technology describes not how we live, but what we are."
Me: "I don't know what that means. What are you doing tonight?"
JackO: "Going to the Apple Store and seeing Resident Evil."
Me: "With a girl?"
JackO: "Yup."
Me: "A little make-out in the theater?"
JackO: "Fuck no, it's Resident Evil!"
Me: "You know, if you were 14, you'd be dying for any ass. Look how old you are."
JackO: "If I were 14, I'd be dying for a new type of Vaseline. Or a way to jack off five times a day without getting arrested."
Confident that I'd passed the CPE (it's administered on a purely pass/fail basis), and that JackO struggles with some combination of addictive masturbation and the law, I stopped by another building on campus to see Sideburns, who asked me how the test was.
"Retarded," I told her (yes, Sideburns is a girl. She doesn't have sideburns. Her nickname for me is "Big White"). "I wrote 28 haikus. And I called a female author a terrorist." It was almost 10 o'clock, and both of us were exhausted, me from a two-hour, 10-minute brain drain, and her from being forced to listen to at least 10 of my non-haiku haikus.
Thus, a proper way to conclude:
Stay Swapped, Lines in My Haikus
Wu a Terrorist
MC Meat Consumption Stats
Please Call for My Drool Cup
I'm contemplating going crazy. Not shitting-my-pants, hearing-voices, punching-my-own-reflection crazy, but something in the "imbalanced" region. Slightly off, perhaps, is the appropriate nomenclature. I wouldn't do it for very long, and I'd have specific goals in mind, like procuring medication, an extended vacation, and lots of sympathy. I wouldn't go crazy enough to scare anybody, and I'd terminate the project immediately if the benefits didn't work out exactly as I wanted them. I suppose I wouldn't be "crazy" at all, insofar as I'd have complete control over my mental state—and I suppose, further, that having pinpoint control over my faculties is the exact opposite of crazy—but I'd fake it really well. Plus, never say never: I wouldn't object to punching a mirror or two if I had to.
Why feign insanity, you ask (as if drugs and time off aren't sufficient motivation)? Because I'm curious about how people regard the insane. Movies portray the fissure between sanity and psychosis in various degrees of acceptability, while popular literature aggrandizes psychosis to a larger extent than one might assume is realistic. The dichotomy in how we perceive and categorize the process of going crazy is pronounced: on the one hand, we romanticize it—we associate artistic and academic genius with it, and ally it with great personalities of our time. On the other hand, we think that crazy people are crazy. We don't think they're sexy, and we don't want anyone we know—no matter how brilliant—to become afflicted with imbalance.
There is just one indisputable fact concerning going nuts: it happens. The question of how often it happens, why it happens, and how we classify it is less discernible than the circumstance itself. But is it useful to go crazy? That's the intriguing, potentially lucrative question—could it spawn a new career, or some efficacious product to which only a fractured mind could give rise? We all know that both Dave Chappelle and Mike Tyson nearly lost their respective careers because of mental illness, but there have been, presumably, world leaders whose own psychotic breaks have vaulted them to power. Travel to a place like Cuba, North Korea, or Iran, and despite any personal or ideological differences you may have with the leadership, you'd have to agree that insanity goes a long way towards ensuring a vice-like rule.
Herein lies the intrigue: would my trajectory more closely resemble Castro or Tyson? Moreover, I don't think that pretending I'm nuts would hurt the experiment, since empirical evidence indicates that, for some, insanity is partially affected —Tyson and every UFC ultimate fighter being the best examples. They're not as shit nuts as they'd like us to believe. So why can't I get in on the ruse? Why shouldn't they share the psychotic glory? Any person willing to risk their personal and professional reputation on a get-rich-quick insanity scheme deserves a piece of the Wellbutrin pie.
So, if you hear about me losing my mind in the next few weeks, don't be concerned. I'm probably faking it—and if I'm not, at least I'll be medicated.
Stay on Seroquel, Tyson
DJ Desipramine
Reflections on Still Being Pissed At the Mets
Everyone's a douchebag. I wasn't aware of this when I signed up for existence. I merely checked "English speaking" and "musician" when I filled out the preferences form, learned some in utero calisthenics, and jetted into the womb for what were, regrettably, nine months of celibacy. The saddest revelation of all the sorrowful truths I've accrued is, undoubtedly, that my conception of the world and the world's actual reality are evolving in inversely proportional ways: I grow increasingly sure that there is some bastion of goodwill here on this earth, while this earth continues to defecate large, undigested turds on my face. There is no battle between good and evil; rather, various degrees of evil battle for immoral supremacy.
Think about all the things you learned not to do with strangers: talk to them, take candy from them, get in a car with them. Later, when your father/mother/guardian/teacher/older sibling/LSD tab was edifying you about business, there were a few principles about people that you had to know: everyone just wants your money; everyone's out for their own ass; everyone is trying to screw you; everyone only sees you as a resource; it's dog-eat-dog, and everyone's trying to be the big dog. As if all that weren't sufficiently disheartening, the real misanthropy lies in the wisdom we impart about relationships. Women are evil. Women are vixens. Men are assholes. Men always cheat. Love is an illusion. Love isn't real. Love isn't worth it. Every relationship ends badly.
Quite caustic, this world of ours. Brimming with assholes, overrun with pricks, nothing but people getting fucked while they're groping for footing: just a big, unfortunate porno where all the actors contract VD. Loving kindness be damned—anyone who's spent a spiritless five minutes in a law firm knows that we're litigating our way towards an bleak future. Abandon hope, all ye who enter here.
I'm a bit encouraged by the Live From Abbey Road special on the Sundance Channel, and soothed further by the knowledge that the worst of the Mets' season is over. There is a new Californication in the TiVo queue and a promising Rangers season about to get underway (Drury and Gomez? What a treat. I don't deserve this. No, really. You're too much. Please, take back one of them. I couldn't possibly. Really? I can have them both? I feel so spoiled. Oh—I still have to watch the NHL on the VERSUS network? I guess life is worse than I thought.) The weather is decent, and it's been quite some time since I've been in a law office. I'm practically oblivious to society's most venomous sectors (law, politics, health insurance), and I'm at peace, for now, with my iTunes collection.
This life may not be grand, but it has its gentler moments.
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Shavkat Mirziyoyev's meeting with voters of Samarqand Region
posted 10 Nov 2016, 12:50 by Webmaster Ambasciata
The candidate for President of the Republic of Uzbekistan from the movement of entrepreneurs and businessmen – the Uzbekistan Liberal-Democratic Party (UzLiDeP), Shavkat Mirziyoyev, met voters of Samarqand Region on 8 November.
The meeting was opened by the chairman of the Samarqand Regional council of UzLiDeP, M.Holmuhamedov.
As a result of large-scale reforms implemented under the leadership of Uzbekistan's First President Islam Karimov, Samarqand Region is developing comprehensively as are all the other regions of the country. Since the year 2010, its gross regional product rose by a factor of 1.7, and this dynamic pace of development is consistently maintained. In 2011 industrial production accounted for 18 per cent of the region's economy, whereas this indicator for the year 2016 is expected to be 23.8 per cent. Over the past five years, more than 100 new joint ventures and foreign enterprises came into existence in the region, and their number reached 259. These enterprises are producing 2.5 trillion soms worth of products a year.
Candidate for President of the Republic of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev made a speech setting out the main points of his electoral programme.
The programme specifies such priority tasks as improving the system of state and public administration, ensuring the supremacy of law and further reforming the judicial-legal system, extending economic reforms, strengthening macro-economic stability, maintaining dynamic growth rates, developing the social sphere, further strengthening peace and accord in the country. Special attention is paid to such important issues as raising the effectiveness of the executive branch of power, strengthening the mechanisms of public control, ensuring the independence of the judicial branch of power and the justice system, economic modernization and diversification, the development of private ownership and entrepreneurship, expanding areas under fodder crops and export-oriented agricultural produce, providing employment and raising the people's living standards and quality of life.
The meeting was held in the format of video conference. Voters who gathered in the city of Samarqand and all the district centres expressed their opinions on the electoral programme of the candidate.
The chairman of the council of the Samarqand Regional department of the Nuroniy foundation, H.Normurodov; poetess H.Bobomurodova; labour veteran A.Hoshimov; a teacher of general education school No 6 in Payariq District, A.Shulga; the chairman of the Payshanba small town in Kattaqorghon District, K.Ahmedov; the head teacher of general education school No 7 in Ishtikhon District, Sh.Umrov; and others have said that the implementation of tasks specified in the programme will serve for the further development of the country. It was emphasized that the preparation for the elections of President of Uzbekistan completely conformed to the national legislation and international democratic principles. These people called on voters to take an active part in the forthcoming 4 December elections of President of the Republic of Uzbekistan.
(Source: UzA)


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Dotcom Boom —
Megaupload's Dotcom gets money and Mercedes back, involved in political scandal
He gets NZ$614,000 in cash back to help coordinate his defense.
Cyrus Farivar - Apr 30, 2012 3:57 pm UTC
Kim Dotcom, the colorful head of the file-sharing website Megaupload, will now have some of his assets returned to him following a seizure of his personal and corporate assets in February. According to a report on the New Zealand-based website, Stuff.co.nz, a High Court judge ruled that a court-ordered seizure issued in January was not valid, despite the fact that an interim order has been in place for two months.
Dotcom is to receive NZ$750,000 ($614,000) in cash that had been confiscated from him, in addition to his Mercedes-Benz G55AMG worth NZ$250,000 ($204,000) with the license plate "POLICE." Dotcom is also continuing to receive an NZ$20,000 ($16,000) monthly living allowance off of the interest of his NZ$10 million ($8.19 million) of government bonds. His wife, Mona, will also get her living expenses and medical bills paid (she recently gave birth), and she will have the use of her seized 2010 Toyota Vellfire, worth NZ$60,000 ($49,000).
Since early April, Dotcom has had the use of his mansion, including the use of his swimming pool for exercise. He is also able to use the Internet. He told Radio New Zealand (MP3) earlier this month that he was using his limited freedom to coordinate his legal defense—and record a "dance music" album as a way to raise money to pay his legal fees. Dotcom is also apparently required to take a photo of himself at the Auckland studio where he has been recording his album and send it to his bail officer to confirm his location.
The German-born entrepreneur has also been involved in a political row in New Zealand.
On Monday, the New Zealand Herald reported that Dotcom claims to have donated NZ$50,000 ($41,000) to John Banks, the head of the ACT New Zealand political party and the current minister for Small Business and Regulatory Reform, during his 2010 campaign for mayor of the city of Auckland.
Dotcom told the newspaper that Banks asked him to divide the payments into two installments of NZ$25,000 each so as to conceal their origin, and that the local politician called him personally to thank him. However, in a statement on his website, Banks denied calling Dotcom for the mayoral donations, adding: "I could not have, as any such contribution was anonymous."
New Zealand Prime Minister John Key, with whom Banks' ACT New Zealand party is in political coalition, also stepped into the fray over the weekend, saying that he trusted Banks, and that the police should investigate any potential wrongdoing.
Crushit Ars Praetorian
"On Monday, the New Zealand Herald reported that Dotcom claims to have donated NZ$50,000 ($41,000) to John Banks, the head of the ACT New Zealand political party and the current minister for Small Business and Regulatory Reform, during his 2010 campaign for mayor of the city of Auckland."
Since the New Zealand government is being run by the USA, then their should be no issue about these payments. In the USA its called Lobbying. Years ago it was called Influence peddling, which was against the law, so the USA passed some laws changed the rules and it is now called Lobbying. So lighten up Prime Minister John Key, if you want to let the USA Gov. (Corporations) run your country, you had better learn real fast how crooked, crooked can be.
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Wow, Dotcom had $750,000 cash on him? Sounds like he was ready to flee at any moment. /joking But seriously that's a ton of cash. It's about time he got some of his stuff returned, given how suspect so much of this whole mess has been. Now if we can just get the US to return his company's servers...
But damnit Kim, you make it so hard to back you when you do stupid @#$% like get a custom plate for your SUV that says "POLICE".
Black_Obsidian Ars Tribunus Angusticlavius et Subscriptor
I'd just like to know what genius decided to issue POLICE as a custom license plate. There's no way that could possibly be abused.
liono Ars Centurion
rich people problems.
skicow Ars Praefectus
liono wrote:
Mo money, mo problems? or maybe 99 problems but a bitch ain't one?
FrogmanTM Seniorius Lurkius
You need to post one of the many odd photos of Dotcom whenever you post an article about him. It really makes my day, and gives me a good laugh....
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Solomonoff's Secret Ars Legatus Legionis
Dotcom is hilariously over the top. I find myself rooting for him more and more.
AnthonyInVA Ars Praefectus
Cyrus Farivar, could I get a check on this?
His wife, Mona, will also get her living expenses and medical bills paid (she recently gave birth), and she will have the use of her seized 2010 Toyota Vellfire, worth NZ$60,000 ($49,000).
According to this, New Zealand pays for the medical expenses.
JPan Ars Tribunus Angusticlavius
On some level this, on another level I am shocked that it is possible to make so much money with clearly dishonest if perhaps not illegal actions.
bigdrew172 Ars Tribunus Militum
Dotcom is like a character out of a really bad comic. Can he just not help but do things that are either illegal or in a gray area? It really cracks me off though its kinda scary he is a real person.
JPan wrote:
You are shocked it is possible to make money by being dishonest?
Temetka Ars Tribunus Militum
Go Kim, Go!
Akarin Seniorius Lurkius
Good, about the swimming pool. When you see that mass of lard vaguely looking like a human being, you can only wish for him to exercise a little more.
CasbahBoy Ars Praetorian
You should read up on the worldwide illegal drug trade sometime
CasbahBoy wrote:
And movie-producing patent circumvention!
C Boy Ars Scholae Palatinae
Black_Obsidian wrote:
I think its the Royal Police over there. Without that Royal in front, everyone knows your not for real.
The New Zealand Air Force is a bunch of kids, but the Royal New Zealand Air Force (RNZAF) is the real deal.
ratcateme Seniorius Lurkius
Just a note on the John Banks bit, if he had decleard the donations as from Dotcom no one would of cared, its just he seems to have made them anonymous even through he clearly knew who they came from.
Also listen to this http://www.radiolive.co.nz/AUDIO-John-B ... fault.aspx
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Chris R. Ars Centurion
Akarin wrote:
Good, about the swimming pool. <crap not worth repeating>
wow, this has got to be one of the shitiest replies I've seen here on Ars.
goreproductions Ars Scholae Palatinae
Crushit wrote:
Looking forward to seeing the real Mad Max Days.
WaltC Ars Praefectus
That's no way to talk about Valve! I think Gabe has lost a lot of weight, myself.
If you do it this blatantly yes I am. Most of time if you want a lot of money by dishonesty you need to be fully illegal and smart about it. I.e. hope that people only find out once you have moved to the bahamas. Something Maddoff for example clearly screwed up. But to make so much money with stupid over the top stuff like Kim? Incredible.
What I'm shocked about is that New Zealand courts apparently know a lot more about the concept of "innocent until proven guilty" than US courts. The principle is enshrined in the US Constitution--I wonder if it is also a part of New Zealand's? O', the irony.
If DummyNull.Dotcom had been incarcerated in the US my guess is he'd still be trying to make bail, his wife might have been given regular conjugal visits (but maybe with someone else in the jail aside from DC), the judge and prosecutors would be driving his cars, spending his money, and laughing uproariously every time they ripped to shreds another petition from DC to get a lawyer and to get his stuff back. His only use of a computer would be the one he could occasionally see on Prison TV in a soap opera or a movie.
At least--based on the way the US has treated this guy (like he's Al Capone plus John Dillinger multiplied by ten)--it sure looks that way to me.
Wow, Dotcom had $750,000 cash on him? Sounds like he was ready to flee at any moment. /joking But seriously that's a ton of cash.
Not as a percentage of his total assets, I'm sure. I have a billionaire client (who always pays without question, nicely enough) that I helped with a QuickBooks issue, among other ongoing stuff I assist him with. While I attempt to not notice things like totals in such cases, the amount of money this guy has in liquid cash assets is staggering. That's just in the account he labelled "Household misc", too.
knbgnu Ars Tribunus Angusticlavius
bigdrew172 wrote:
The RIAA/MPAA seem far more like comic book characters too me.
It's not blatant at all. All of the alleged evidence against him is stuff that wouldn't be known to the general public, and seems to constitute a fairly minor part of their business. As much as the RIAA/MPAA wish filehosts were illegal, they aren't.
rmgoat Ars Praefectus
AnthonyInVA wrote:
Just like Canada if you are a legal resident or citizen, pay your taxes you are entitled to medical care. In fact a NZ doctor came here to Alberta and for a time ran our health care system. The Canadian provices fund health care out of general rvenue, a seperate sales tax or 'premiums' (really a tax) The federal government also provides some funding to the provinces for health care (and just like in US federal/state programs they always say it's not enough). It's publicly funded but privately delivered. And it does not matter if you are wealthy or penniless you are covered.
K1500 Seniorius Lurkius
C Boy wrote:
Nope - it's just the New Zealand Police (though we do have the Royal New Zealand Police College). If anyone was stupid enough to believe that a license plate with the word "POLICE" on it carried any sort of interpelative authority then they deserve what they get! I did get a laugh out of the mention of the RNZAF though (who are now part of the NZDF - and we don't even have a strike wing anymore, just some Hercule's and some choppers).
WaltC wrote:
The principle is enshrined in the US Constitution--I wonder if it is also a part of New Zealand's? O', the irony.
We don't actually have a constitution in the same way that the US does - we have a set of documents which, when combined, provide a basis for what I guess you could consider our version of constitutional law (IANL). However the presumption of innocence is "generally" given the same sort of ideological weight that it (as I understand it) carries in the US.
Kim Dotcoms story in NZ has always had some pretty highly political dimensions to it - even before the actions that have taken place recently. His actual entrance into the country and approval as a resident has been questioned as he didn't meet the criteria (due to criminal background in Germany if I'm not mistaken) but was still approved follwing a promise from him to invest in the NZ economy. Obviously our opposition parties have framed this as him buying his way into the country (which James Cameron has apparently just done as well).
Anyway it's interesting as a New Zealander to see how these very internal issues are being reflected in the internation media - and it's always interesting seeing the responses of the astute Ars readers too!
styron Ars Centurion
Why are you so shocked? And why is this ironic?
I'm still a little surprised that Americans can struggle to imagine other parts of the world being freer, fairer or more just than the US.
RojBlake Ars Legatus Legionis
What I'm shocked about is that New Zealand courts apparently know a lot more about the concept of "innocent until proven guilty" than US courts. The principle is enshrined in the US Constitution
Um, no it isn't. In US law, the presumption of innocence follows from its common law tradition, not through any constitutional enumeration.
AHuxley Wise, Aged Ars Veteran
NZ offers the best of both worlds, public and private health care. Your totally covered in a gov hospital by default or with some aspects paid by the gov and private mix or totally private if you like.
Wait... politicians defending the character of other politicians? Is it really not an obviously bad idea?
I'm more shocked by the illegal actions that governments get away with.
thomasfortherage Ars Praetorian
... she will have the use of her seized 2010 Toyota Vellfire, worth NZ$60,000 ($49,000).
The hell is a Vellfire? *Google Images*
Oh ... god ... why ...
JeffMcClintock Ars Centurion
rmgoat wrote:
Just like Canada if you are a legal resident or citizen, pay your taxes you are entitled to medical care.
Not only residents. Now rich Japanese women are flying in, giving birth, then flying out the next week (without paying)....
"Women from overseas arrive to give birth in New Zealand hospitals in increasing numbers. Many are allegedly exploiting the system and causing major problems for hospital authorities around New Zealand, who are obliged to care for them and their babies.
This situation is a considerable drain on hospital budgets and the one who ultimately pays is the New Zealand taxpayer."
http://www.life.org.nz/abortion/abortio ... birthcare/
EDIT - Kim DotCom is a resident, so his wife gets free care.
Last edited by JeffMcClintock on Mon Apr 30, 2012 8:59 pm
Wizardling Seniorius Lurkius
If you're not a resident you have to pay for medical care, but the fact is many toss the bill away and fly back home. Once out of the country it's very hard to recover debt. Still, to refuse care would be unthinkable. What we (NZ) need to do is make it considerably more difficult to get away without paying.
BREAKING NEWS.
The Politician used his influence to help DotCom apply to purchase coastal property.
Looking likely this politician may resign, and since our government's majority relies on this one guy our entire government is on edge.
http://tvnz.co.nz/national-news/odds-ri ... wn-4859792
JeffMcClintock wrote:
*sigh*. Never is an honest Politician, is there?
Nah, that's rubbish - the Key National Government has the Maori Party's support, remember? Plus the opposition hasn't enough votes for a vote of no confidence.
That said it would be a blow to Key if the Police find Banks broke the law and has charges to face. But it would take this x5 or so to bring the government down.
Wizardling wrote:
Nah, that's rubbish - the Key National Government has the Maori Party's support, remember?
Oh OK, I thought the Maori party didn't support the governments big promises - asset sales?, bigger casino? mining?
lowededwookie Wise, Aged Ars Veteran
Really? Isn't that how politicians make money.
Anyone who trusts John Banks is clearly in on it. I wonder how much money John Key gets as a kickback from Banks for his support? If the shoe was on the other foot and this was happening in the Labour party they would be baying for blood.
Proof that governments shouldn't be allowed to rule over people.


"No one in the world could prepare you enough for Motherhood. From the moment that you find out you're pregnant, your entire life changes almost instantly. Every decision you make from that moment forward, is made around the precious little life that is forming inside of you. This self-less love only grows deeper and deeper, and it is what fuels you on the hard days.
There are three prominent moments in my life that I will always hold onto. The moment I found out I was pregnant, the moment that I pushed out my beautiful son and held him in my arms for the first time and lastly, the moment I was wheeled out of the hospital and back into the world as a Mother. The greatest of these three ,without a doubt, was when I left the hospital with my son in my arms. I was so emotional, so overwhelmed, so tired, so incredibly in love, so scared. Here I was - so happy and so lost all at the same time. I lost it and could barely talk through the tears. I was 100% responsible for his survival and was so grateful to God for the opportunity. He was perfect and completely healthy, what more could I ever ask for?
The first month of my son's life was the hardest of mine. I was so discouraged as a new Mother and so sleep-deprived to top it off. The hormones, the emotions, adjusting to "my new life," none of it was easy for me. I was alone a lot and learning by the second how to care for a child. It was rough.
By 6 months, the rough patch had become a dark memory and my son became an absolute joy. It felt like each day I was slowly grasping this whole "Motherhood" thing, gaining confidence, speaking that mother-baby language where I could read him and know. With each milestone my heart beams with pride. He is my greatest accomplishment, my most precious gift. I have learned that hard days only make you stronger (as cliche as it sounds), and that our lives weren't meant to be lived for ourselves, but for others. He gave my life purpose. I wake in the morning and live each day for my son. He is my number one and my needs will forever come second. In those moments where I am challenged as a Mother, I am reminded that he won't always be a baby who needs me. He's going to grow up one day and be a man with a family of his own, and I will miss the days when all he wanted was my arms.
I have so many moments where I stop and stare at my son. I smile and sob at the same time just watching all his little gestures. His curious eyes that see everything. Man, the love is so powerful and so permanent. I really thought I knew what love was, but I didn't know a thing until I became a Mother."
We celebrated our dear Emma's 3rd birthday a week early this year! While planning for her party, I really wanted to do something that represented her and what she loves doing. So, when my good friend Tesia suggested I do an art gallery themed party, I was definitely up for it!
I worked as a preschool teacher for a while before having kids. Being introduced to Reggio Emilia while I attended college, I learned the importance of finding different ways for kids to express themselves. For me, I knew art was a great way for Emma to express herself, so that's where it all started. There were so many times when I knew an activity would get messy but I trusted the process and let her be and she always created something amazing in the end. It's not easy to give up control in these areas and I too struggle with this but knowing that Emma benefits so much in these activities makes it so worth it.
Now back from our small tangent ~ Emma has been painting weekly already, so this made it a fairly easy process to put this art gallery themed birthday together. For the painting gallery, I introduced Emma to a different medium and had her paint with Sumi Ink on canvas. During this time, she is free to paint whatever she wants. I usually ask her questions about what she's painting and that's how we come up with a story along with her artwork. Whenever she loses track of what she's doing, I remind her of what she's working on and she usually regains her focus to finish off her artwork. It's amazing to see and hear what she comes up with. I love seeing her image come to life when she explains her story to me.
For the photography portion of the gallery, we showcased all of Emma's photos she took by herself! She used her very own Holga Digital to take the photos on our daily walks. There are days when she goes on a hiatus and some days where she'll barely touch her camera, but most times she loves to take photos of random things wherever we go. It's a fun little camera because you get to build up excitement to see what photos you took only after uploading them to your computer. It's really so neat to see the world behind her lens.
For the color portion of the gallery, we've been using primary colors and discovering what colors come together when you mix them. She absolutely enjoys this activity because she loves getting messy haha!
For the nature portion of the gallery, I just laminated her treasures she found on our daily walks. I had her spread out her findings onto the plastic sheets and I laminated it. I loved how it turned out because each piece is unique and is exactly how Emma placed them.
I definitely want to give a shoutout to my generous friends who've inspired me and contributed their amazing talents for this party! My amazing sister-in-law Hanna did all the florals and decorated the balloon garland. My sweet friend Tesia actually made the amazing balloon garland and provided her photo booth for the party. (Who knew these kids would be so obsessed with taking photos?!) Lastly, my beautiful friend Danni provided the decals that really brought the gallery theme all together! Special thanks to my brother Eric and husband David for helping with setting up the event!
This was definitely a special day for not only Emma but for all our friends and family that made it out. Hope you enjoy the photos!


Discussion in 'Parts' started by ahaus, Apr 5, 2019.
Free to first one who will cover shipping (likely $5 or so). This has a 7 pin circular connection, see photo. I found it in a helmet after I sold the bike it went with. The new owner is going blue tooth and doesn't want it.


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filed: February 2, 2013 • Scotland
Windfarm battle grinds to halt
Credit: The Press and Journal | 2 February 2013 | ~~
A legal challenge to a huge windfarm project in Shetland was adjourned yesterday as campaigners were allowed to amend their case in the action.
Campaigners launched a judicial review this week seeking to reverse a Scottish Government decision to give the go-ahead for the Viking Energy project.
Sustainable Shetland have also challenged the decision not to hold a public inquiry prior to granting consent for the 103-turbine project.
The group maintained that the ministers acted unlawfully or unreasonably in not holding an inquiry prior to giving approval.
They also claimed that they failed to take proper account of obligations under a European Birds Directive over the whimbrel – a migratory wading bird whose numbers have been in decline but with 95% on the British population breeding in Shetland.
They now also maintain that the Scottish ministers have no power to act in a way that it is incompatible with European Union law over their obligations to the bird and that "having purported to act contrary to those obligations" the consent should be set aside.
It is also claimed that they had an obligation to provide adequate reasons for their decision not to hold an inquiry so that the campaign group should have an effective right to challenge it.
The Scottish ministers maintain that they had proper regard to the environmental information on the whimbrel and have complied with their obligations under the Birds Directive.
Developers Viking Energy, which is also taking part in the judicial review hearing, maintain that because of the proposed scale of the project and the high wind resource on Shetland, the windfarm offers "considerable economic and renewable energy benefits" which were properly taken into account by the Scottish Government.
Sir Crispin Agnew of Lochnaw QC, for Sustainable Shetland, asked Lady Clark of Calton at the Court of Session in Edinburgh to adjourn the action today and to allow the pleadings to be adjusted to incorporate new material.
The senior counsel said he understood four days of court time would be available at the end of April to continue with the case.
Source: The Press and Journal | 2 February 2013 |


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Willamette National Forest occupiers seek to stop logging
Zane Sparling
Cascadia Forest Defenders has built platforms atop several trees in a bid to prevent the Biden Administration from auctioning off the land.
Eco-activists have scaled several trees — and they aren't coming down, they say — until the Biden Administration halts the planned sale of logging rights in the Willamette National Forest.
Members of Cascadia Forest Defenders say they have built several platforms 100 feet above the canopy in order to deter the planned Flat Country timber auction from going forward.
"They're staying on these platforms for the foreseeable future to keep this space occupied," said Daniel, an organizer for the group, who asked not to use their last name. "If any timber companies buy that sale — they're buying our resistance."
The U.S. Forest Service approved logging in a 74,091-acre project area east of Highway 126 near the rural burg of McKenzie Bridge in January, though the actual harvest would occur on only 4,438 acres.
A record of decision issued by the Forest Service says the sale, which does not sell the land itself but only leases logging rights, would yield roughly 102 million board feet of timber from trees ranging in age from 27 to 150 years old. The area has been logged in the past, the document says.
"Harvest treatments would include thinning, gap creation, dominant tree release, regeneration harvest and skips," according to the decision. "Skips occur randomly throughout all proposed units to protect areas of concern raised by resource specialists and add diversity to the watershed."
Daniel says the activists have posted up on a crest in Lane County near the Deschutes County line, and are currently living on four-foot by eight-foot platforms just wide enough for two sleepers.
The organizer argues that logging will disrupt water quality and halt the sequestration of carbon.
"We know that logging actually increases the risk of wildfires, especially wildfires in mature old growth forests," he said. "Despite all of their greenwashing and claims of environmental stewardship, the Forest Service and in turn the Biden Administration are rubber stamping clear-cut logging in the midst of a climate crisis."
Rep. Peter DeFazio, D-Eugene, has come out publicly against the sale, telling Eugene Weekly that logging trucks are already doing record business hauling trunks toppled during post-fire salvage operations.
The Forest Service did not immediately respond to a request for comment.


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Маријанска острва ( или само -{Marianas}-; чамор.: -{Manislan Mariånas}-) или Ладронска острва (), су група острва (острвље) у западном делу Тихог океана. Налазе се у Микронезији, 2.400 -{km}- источно од Филипина. Укупно има 15 већих острва, а највећа су: Гвам, Сајпан, Тинијан и Рота. Дужина острвља је око 800 -{km}-, а површина износи 1.200 -{km}-2. Становника има око 125.000 (мешавине староседелаца Чамора и досељених Филипинаца и Микронежана).

Опште карактеристике
Северна острва су вулканског порекла, а остала су коралски атоли високи до 965 -{m}-. Клима је тропска и средња температура се креће у распону 24-28 степени. Годишња количина падавина у просеку износи 2.000-4.000 -{mm/m2}-. На овим острвима има много савана и прашума. Главни пољопривредни производи су: шећерна трска, кафа, кокосов орах (копра), агруми, банане, кукуруз и поврће. Развијени су туризам, сточарство и риболов. До почетка 20. века били су познати под надимком Ладроне ајландс, од шпанског -{Islas de los Ladrones}- - што значи "Лоповска острва".

Име
Маријанска острва су названа по шпанској краљици Маријани Аустријској у 17. веку.

Управна подела
Управно су подељени између две јединице:

Гвама (или Гуама), који је територија САД-а и
Северних Маријанских Острва (укључује острва Сајпан, Тинијан, Рота и већи број мањих ненасељених острва)

Историја

Праисторија
Староседеоци Маријанских острва су аустронежански Чаморои. Археолози су 2013. пронашли доказе који упућују на закључак да су први становници овог острвља, допловили до њега након најдужег непрекинутог путовања у људској историји до тада. Такође су изнели доказе, који сугеришу да је острво Тинијан највероватније прво острво у Океанији које су населили људи.

Откриће
Шпански истраживач Магелан, први је Европљанима открио ово острвље 6. марта 1521. Шпанија је затим колонизовала Маријанска Острва и основала престоницу колоније на највећем острву Гвам. Ова острва су била прва острва до којих је Магелан допловио, након што је прошао кроз Магеланов пролаз. Воће које је убрано овде спасило је преживеле од скорбута, од кога је претходно неколико десетина чланова посаде умрло.

Извори

Спољашње везе

Океанија
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Not so, NetKernel surprises me at least once every single day. So when I reviewed the Can I run multiple instances of NetKernel on the same host but on different ports question with Peter Rodgers (aka Thor, don't be misguided by his new twitter account @transrept where he supposedly shows his softer side), his solution (the answer is Yes) was different from mine.
How could I have known (read the manuals Tom, read the manuals ...) that a SystemProperty tag in a Jetty configuration actually means Java SystemProperty ?
The fulcrums will pick this up and ignore the default (another hint that should have told me there was another way to do it) attribute.
P.S. Of course full credits for this fine tip go to Thor (I wouldn't dare otherwise, have you seen the hammer he carries ?) !
P.P.S. Excellent post by Tony Butterfield (no known aka's) on his Durable Scope blog.


fleas, I have a solution to help your animals.
First try 15 parts of apple cider vinegar to 1 part water to make sure they have no side effects. Notice, this is only temporary and has to be used once a week until you can see the vet for the brand named product that works for a month, because 08 has been a very wet season and the fleas are plentiful and reproducing at alarming rate.
Thanks you so much for your tip on flea control. You're right, flea's have been really bad this year. I know people that don't even have pets and having problems with infestation in their homes.
I have several cats and was late getting started on the flea control this year, wish I knew your tip earlier, I'll be sure to remember it next year.
And thanks for sharing the picture of your beautiful cat. I can see you take very good care of your animals.


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Research ArticlePractice Resource
The American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law Practice Resource for Prescribing in Corrections
Anthony Tamburello, Jeffrey Metzner, Elizabeth Fergusen, Michael Champion, Elizabeth Ford, Graham Glancy, Kenneth Appelbaum, Joseph Penn, Kathryn Burns and Jason Ourada
Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law Online June 2018, 46 (2) 242-243; DOI: https://doi.org/10.29158/JAAPL.003762-18
Anthony Tamburello
Reviewed by: Jeffrey S. Janofsky, MD, Medical Director, American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law.
Jeffrey Metzner
Elizabeth Fergusen
Michael Champion
Elizabeth Ford
Graham Glancy
Kenneth Appelbaum
Joseph Penn
Kathryn Burns
Jason Ourada
The practice of prescribing in jails and prisons is often different from that in the community. Serious mental illness is common among inmates, and so are co-morbidities such as substance use, impulse-control, attention-deficit/hyperactivity, and personality disorders. Operational requirements, staffing, and the physical plant of the institution may complicate the provision of treatment according to community standards. Problems related to medication nonadherence, as well as the pursuit of medications for nonmedical reasons, are often seen in these settings and may be managed differently than they are elsewhere. Existing practice resources rarely account for these challenges. Pursuant to a recommendation by the Correctional Committee of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law (AAPL), the AAPL Council in May 2015 approved the creation of a task force charged with producing a document on prescribing in correctional facilities.
Full Document: Tamburello A, Metzner J, Ferguson E, et al: AAPL practice resource for prescribing in corrections. Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law Online Supplement 2018, 46 (2). Available at: http://www.jaapl.org/content/46/2_Supplement
This document is intended as a review of the literature and expert opinion to give guidance and assistance for providing psychiatric treatment, with a focus on psychopharmacology, to adults in correctional facilities. The process of developing this document incorporated a thorough review that integrated feedback and revisions from AAPL members into the final draft. The final draft was reviewed and approved by the Council of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law on May 21, 2017. It reflects a consensus among members and experts about the principles and practice of prescribing psychiatric medications in correctional settings. Although recommendations are sometimes articulated when backed by research evidence, ethics standards, or expert opinion, this document should not be construed as a practice guideline, or as dictating the standard of care. Rather, it is intended to inform practice in this area.
The AAPL Practice Resource for Prescribing in Corrections is organized as follows: Section 1 states the intent and limitations of the document. Section 2 describes the legal framework for prescribing in jails and prisons. Section 3 focuses on operational matters, such as medication administration and systems-level oversight of prescribing practices. Section 4 covers general prescribing matters including continuity and coordination of care, assessment, the role of education and nonpharmacologic treatment, and informed consent. Section 5 describes evidence-based practices related to specific mental health diagnoses or problems. Section 6 examines topics that are not addressed elsewhere but may have an impact on prescribing decisions, such as special settings within correctional institutions; adverse effects of medications; medication nonadherence; treatment over objection; misuse, abuse, and diversion of psychotropic medications; and electroconvulsive therapy. Finally, Section 7 discusses gaps in the existing literature that present opportunities to influence the quality of care in jails and prisons.
We encourage the use of this document for the education of students and trainees, as an orientation for those professionals new to practicing in jails and prisons, and as a resource for those currently providing psychiatric care for inmate patients.
The American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law acknowledges contributions to this document by Steven Berger, MD, Nickolas Culpepper, MD, Jose Hidalgo, MD, Jerry McKee, PharmD, BCPP, and Hal S. Wortzel, MD.
© 2018 American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law


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The story behind the song God of This City and Chris Tomlin singing it.
I wasn't able to find an official video from with Chris Tomlin or Bluetree for "God of This City" to show on my site. Google 'God of this city video' to watch a video.