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Men's Basketball Opens in Triumphant Fashion
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San Antonio – The Rattlers had been down this road before, jumping to a sizable first-half lead over cross-town rival Incarnate Word thanks to an energetic start.
It was the scenario early last season – as it was again in Saturday's season opener – when the St. Mary's men's basketball team saw a 13-point halftime lead slowly slip away.
This time, Rattlers senior point guard Lamb Autrey and his teammates weren't about to loosen their bite.
Pulling away down the stretch with sharp free-throw shooting and an intense defensive effort, the Rattlers topped the Cardinals 70-61 before nearly 1,000 fans at Bill Greehey Arena on a night in which the Rattlers hosted "Operation: Drive to the Basket," an initiative geared to support St. Mary's ROTC alumni deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The victory gave coach Jim Zeleznak his 100th career victory in seven seasons leading the program. He is 100-72 in his career.
The turning point Saturday? Only a halftime speech in which the Rattlers reminded themselves about last year's loss to UIW.
"They were telling us, 'It's 0-0 again," said Autrey (Sr., Cibolo, Texas), who scored 12 points. "Everyone reflected back to last year, when we came out with intensity early but lost. We brought back our intensity and we played well as a team on defense."
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Autrey continued: "I felt like the game was ours when everyone came in at the half with that speech. It was some of the redshirt guys talking, like Mychal (Pinson) and Bryce (Smith), and some other guys like Moses (Sundufu), Shavon (Scott) and Berto (Soto)."
Center Kevin Kotzur (Jr., La Vernia, Texas) had a double-double with a team-high 16 points and 12 rebounds, while Sundufu (Jr., Hopkins, Minn.) added 12 points on 2-of-7 shooting from 3-point range. Senior post Ray Marshall (El Paso, Texas) had 11 points and eight boards.
For the Rattlers, it was a night that saw the old blend with the new quite seamlessly, as St. Mary's never looked back after carrying a 32-28 lead into the break.
While Kotzur, Autrey and Marshall are among the returning mainstays of the program, the Rattlers have welcomed in a number of new faces this season, especially along the perimeter.
Sundufu, a potential shutdown defender, showcased his sharp shooting touch, while newcomer guards Shavon Scott (So., Milwaukee) and Daryell Taylor (Jr., Houston) combined for 13 points.
Isaiah Matthews (R-Fr., Texas City, Texas), a returning newcomer of sorts, also contributed 14 solid minutes of play off the bench, scoring four points and grabbing six boards after redshirting last season.
"I knew the new guys from playing with them in (junior college), Autrey said. "They're great scorers, all 6-foot, 200-plus. As a point guard, I know we have other guards I can trust who can score and play defense."
The Rattlers will return to the court on Friday, when they host Angelo State at 7:30 p.m. at Bill Greehey Arena in the annual St. Mary's Thanksgiving Classic.

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It is located in Qazvin Martyrs Cemetery (in Farsi Shahid means martyr), Jomhouri Eslami Boulevard, Qazvin Province, Iran. Also Imamzadeh Hossein (third Imam of Shia) is placed right at its corner.
History and culture of Tomb of Shahid Babaei
He was born in a middle-class religious family in Qazvin on December 5, 1950. After getting his diploma in 1969, he got into medical school but he volunteered to participate in Air force classes instead as he was more interested in piloting. After finishing primary courses, he went to America for further education in 1970.
Abbas Babaei (also transliterated as Abbaas Babaee) had successfully finished 60 war missions before his death. On his last mission, however, he was hit by a 23 mm round of an air defense system on Sardasht air space, a city located in West Azerbaijan, while he was in the rear seat of an F-5B on August 6, 1987. It was Eid Qurban (literally Festival of the Sacrifice) and he was returning from a mission in which he went to Iraq to set up a tactical plan to attack.
Martyrs cemetery may not interest everyone to bother enough to visit, but if you just take a moment to think deeper you can see that all those people chose to accommodate there for good so that people like us could have a better life. They fought so selflessly knowing that they may never return to their family, their loved ones, just so their fatherland would stay safe for people who live in it. The least we can do is to go there, walk around, and show respect to these noblemen who sacrificed themselves believing that it would make the world a better place. And who knows? Maybe it would. We only have to give it more time.
As I mentioned, it is located near Imamzadeh Hossein so you can kill two birds with one stone and visit this marvelous dome on your way out. Also Sepah Street, the first modern street of Iran, is only a few minutes away which has housed Jomeh Mosque, Sheikh al-Islam School and Mosque, Ali Qapu Gate (also transliterated as Aali Qapou or Aaly Ghapoo), Masjed Jameh Cistern, and Sepah Bazaarcheh.
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Labor Commissioner Hal Wirths Participates in Governor Chris Christie's 'Season of Service' Initiative – Prepares Thanksgiving Meal Packages for More Than 125 Sussex County Families
Posted on November 26, 2013 by Jennifer Jean Miller in Government, News Sections, Non-Profit Corner, People in the News // 0 Comments
New Jersey Labor Commissioner Hal Wirths, volunteering his time during the "Season of Service" in Sussex.
SUSSEX – The United Methodist Church was abuzz with activity on Monday, Nov. 25, as volunteers packaged up bags full of food, which were distributed later on in the day to more than 125 Sussex County families.
One of the volunteers who rolled up his sleeves was New Jersey Labor Commissioner Hal Wirths, a resident of the county.
"It's a great program," Wirths told NJ Inside Scene.
He said his family has been involved for years, including his mother-in-law, wife Debbie, and their children.
Wirths marveled at the approximately 130 turkeys that he and a group of volunteers picked up from Weis in Franklin, then dropped off around 9 a.m. at the church, when the efforts really began.
Turkeys outside of the Sussex United Methodist Church, ready to be placed into food bags.
He said that 15 to 20 families were recently added to the list of families in need, who are assisted in the Sussex area.
The group that coordinates the effort during Thanksgiving, and the year through, is the Sussex Help Center, located at 28 Main Street, in Sussex.
Joan Thomas, who is one of those involved with heading up the Sussex Help Center, said that the amount of individuals helped by this Thanksgiving initiative range from single people, to families with 11 people.
The items packed on Monday, she described, were ones that were "anything appropriate for Thanksgiving."
In addition to the turkeys, there were boxes of stuffing, Potato Buds, and cake mix; cans of vegetables, cranberry sauce, and soup; jars of gravy; bottles of juice, and more. Boxes of cereal, jars of spaghetti sauce, cans of tuna fish, and others items, rounded out the items for distribution.
This past collection focused primarily on Thanksgiving items, with other items that were donated outside of the Thanksgiving classification, brought to the Sussex Help Center for the pantry.
Thomas said local churches participated in collection of the items, and sorting. Those churches included: Sussex United Methodist, the First Presbyterian Church of Sussex, Wantage Methodist, St. Monica Church, the Church of the Good Shepherd, Beemerville Presbyterian Church, Holy Spirit Orthodox Church, First Baptist Church of Sussex, and the Christian Reformed Church of Sussex.
The Wanderers Car Club has been another regular and generous contributor, Thomas said.
"They start us off in November with a wonderful donation," she said.
Groups like the Boy Scouts, also kick in.
Hal Wirths helping to fill up food bags.
Additionally, students from the Sussex Middle School student council helped bag items on Monday. There was an internal collection effort at the school that rallied for items, with a special prize for the class with the greatest number of donations.
"The class with the most food gets a pizza party," Thomas said.
Brian T. Murray, the Director of Communications & Marketing for the Department of Labor and Workforce Development said members of Governor Chris Christie's cabinet, which includes Wirths, will participate in community service efforts and volunteer their time, through the end of December, as part of the Governor's "Season of Service" initiative. This is the third year the "Season of Service" has taken place.
"Season of Service" (click here for more information ) began in Burlington County with a boy named Aidan McManus, who saved money and devoted time to help feed homeless residents. The example started by McManus, age 8, sparked the initiative.
Volunteer opportunities are listed on the "Season of Service" website. One listed as a "Hero Organization," on the site, is Project Self-Sufficiency in Newton. Click here for a list of Volunteers Centers statewide.
"It's second nature to Hal," Murray pointed out about Wirths' spirit of volunteerism, as he made his way from station to station, gathering up items to place into food bags.
Volunteers, including New Jersey Labor Commissioner Hal Wirths, carry turkeys to the food bags. Photo courtesy of Brian T. Murray, New Jersey Department of Labor.
The Sussex Help Center seeks non-perishable food donations year round, to keep its shelves stocked. Items needed include: canned meals, vegetables, fruit, tuna, meat, soup; jars of mayonnaise, peanut butter, spaghetti sauce; boxes of pasta, macaroni, powdered milk, Potato Buds; bags of rice, tea bags, sugar-free food for diabetics, and more.
Call (973) 702-1922 for the Sussex Help Center, to donate, or if in need of food.
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I opened my eyes to see a clear blue sky and two men leaning over me to put a brace around my neck. I don't know if I was already on the stretcher or if I was still on the pavement, but there are plenty of things I don't remember. As I would later find out, I had a brain injury.
Was I badly hurt, I asked. I felt as though someone had smashed a two-by-four across the entire left half of my face. The two men on either side of me carefully lifted my upper body to finish with the brace, giving me a view of my legs. I wiggled my left toes, which were more obliging than my lips. It couldn't be that bad, I decided. My spinal cord still worked.
The man on my right — either an EMT or a paramedic; I had no way of knowing — asked if I knew where I was. Was I… outside the Whole Foods? Did I know what happened, he asked. No. Wait… when the bronze car turned left in front of me, cutting me off, I hit the brakes on my bike. It didn't matter, I remembered realizing. I wouldn't stop in time. The next thing I remembered was the sky. I had been unconscious for about 15 minutes.
"She's confused," the guy on my right said to the guy on my left. I had hit my head, the maybe-paramedic told me. I had a concussion. It was a good thing I was wearing my bike helmet. I think he said it then, but he might have said it later, in the ambulance, when he was removing my helmet. In any event, I was going to the hospital instead of my yoga class.
I spent the hours after the crash immobilized and braced, while things I didn't fully understand happened around me. Like most writers, I am a control freak. And like most editors, I am accustomed to telling people what to do. On any kind of normal day, this situation would have filled me with anxiety or fury, possibly both. I had the energy for neither. I was having trouble making memories and also frequently losing consciousness.


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●Events: bauhaus imaginista. Learning From, São Paulobauhaus imaginista, Berne
Shifting, Rotating, Mirroring
Lena Bergner's Minutes of Paul Klee's Classes
Lena Bergner, Carpet design, Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern, Inv. No. LM-B5/01, © Heirs after Lena Bergner.
Lena Bergner developed carpet patterns applying specific methods learned from Paul Klee discernible in her finished work. The results, however, are quite unique. This is precisely what Klee sought to achieve with his classes at the Bauhaus: to point to paths of design so that the formal language is not arbitrary, without, however, prescribing predetermined outcomes.
Lena Bergner (1906-81) studied at the Bauhaus in Dessau from 1925 to 1930. In 1929 she completed her training to become a weaver with a journeyman's examination, and in 1930 she graduated with a Bauhaus diploma. In addition to attending the basic courses held by Josef Albers and László Moholy-Nagy, as well as courses by Oskar Schlemmer and Joost Schmidt, she attended Paul Klee's form classes—compulsory for all students—and the theoretical classes he offered specifically for weavers. After her training at the Bauhaus, she became director of the Ostpreußischen Handweberei (East Prussian Hand Weaving Workshop) in Königsburg, and then followed the former director of the Bauhaus, Hannes Meyer, to Moscow in 1931, becoming active as an "engineer-artist" in the drawing department of a factory for Jacquard furniture fabrics. With the beginning of the Moscow Trials in 1936, Lena Bergner left Russia for Switzerland with Meyer, whom she married the following year. After a trip through the United States and Central America, in 1939 Bergner accepted an appointment as professor at the state-run textile institute in Mexico, accompanied by Meyer, who had been offered the directorship of the Instituto del Urbanismo y Planificación (Institute of Urbanism and Urban Planning). Until her return to Switzerland in 1949, she worked as a weaver on various projects in Mexico, some of which were, unfortunately, never completed. For example, she was commissioned by the government to develop a plan to promote hand-weaving in the region of Ixmiquilpan, allowing the local Otomí population to augment their income from agriculture with textile production. Since artistic goals were subordinate to socio-political objectives in all of Bergner's professional activities, the skills she acquired at the Bauhaus were only intermittently expressed and hardly any of her textile work has survived.
Lena Bergner, Negative silver gelatin print with illustrations from Klee's classes, Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern, Inv. No. LM-B4/07N and LM-B4/02N, © Heirs after Lena Bergner.
Her minutes of the Bauhaus classes, on the other hand, bear vivid witness to what Paul Klee taught in his Theory of Configuration Form class and his other form classes within the weaving workshop. His lectures were of a purely theoretical nature.1 He did not talk about practical implementation or the materials and techniques weaving students might apply in their work: Gunta Stölzl, director of the workshop, was responsible for these issues. According to Bergner, consultations with weaving students occasionally took place outside of formal lectures, when the fabrics produced were critiqued under Klee's direction in forums possibly modelled on discussions during the basic course.2
Lena Bergner, Clean copy of Klee's classes, Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern, Inv. No. LM-B 1/08, © Heirs after Lena Bergner.
Surviving minutes of the students, such as those of Bergner, allow a reconstruction of certain semesters of Klee's theoretical classes,3 for unlike at Weimar, where his teaching was recorded in dated lectures,4 at Dessau Klee dispensed with detailed notes, creating numerous geometrical sketches with very little text instead. As Bergner reports, Klee drew these models on the blackboard, giving brief explanations: "Klee spoke very little. We copied the sketches that formed the basis for tasks that we then had to accomplish at home."5 Due to his often very brief explanations, some students claimed to have difficulty comprehending the full meaning of his thoughts. Others, like Helene Schmidt-Nonne, described his classes as very objective and thorough. Over time, he adapted the themes of his lectures to the given circumstances.6 Since he taught students at different levels in 1928 and 1929,7 the lectures and tasks for the basic courses overlapped with those of the theoretical classes for the weaving workshop.
In his teachings, as summed up by Bergner, Klee dealt with the laws of the surface as such, and with the relations between forms and colors. But how is this to be understood? There are more than 3,900 teaching notes written by Klee, which have been available online as facsimiles and transcripts since 2013,8 providing information on Klee's aesthetic theory. Bergner's minutes and exercises, included in the archive of the Zentrum Paul Klee, do so as well.
Klee's theory begins with a general part, where he explains the principal order (I.2) of the pictorial elements: point, line and surface, as well as the pictorial means: line, black-and-white and color. As opposed to the calm principle order, the pictorial elements and means are set in motion by the special order (I.3). Klee's theory is based on the idea of a lively, thus interesting, composition that can only be created through movement. According to Klee, movement can take place based on various methods such as shifting, mirroring, rotating or superimposing. Particularly in chapter I.4 Structure, Klee describes various methods with which a surface can be rendered rhythmical. In his classes, he wanted to demonstrate to his students how surface could be structured and new forms developed through the work process.
Lena Bergner, Exercise on shifting, mirroring and rotating, Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern, Inv. No. LM-B6/13, © Heirs after Lena Bergner.
Klee's second, quite extensive chapter is dedicated to the configuration of the surface, or so-called planimetric design. It mainly consists of geometric drawings. In the first subchapter (II.5 Paths to Form), Klee describes the paths through which the elementary forms of circle, triangle and square are created, with movement and tension playing prominent roles in the process. He then proceeds to analyze the internal construction of the elementary forms (see the notes for II.6 Elementary Form with Bergner's illustrations, e.g. the interior schematic depiction of the triangle in II.6/132).
In the following chapters, Klee goes through the different possible combinations of the elementary forms—including composite forms, added or subtracted forms, or the nestling of forms. Finally, Klee shows how to develop irregular forms based on elementary forms by selecting and emphasizing construction lines within the circle, triangle and square: for example (II.11 Deviation on the Basis of the Standard). Klee's intention is always to focus on generating forms through the path of construction rather than one's imagination. It is therefore hardly surprising that Bergner sums up Klee's classes with the following words: "For us weavers, his elaborations were extremely important, because they helped us overcome excessive playfulness in our designs [in order to] … create stricter compositions. On account of his often all too brief explanations, we occasionally had problems grasping the full meaning of his thoughts, which dawned upon us only later during our practical professional work."9
Bergner's minutes more or less correspond with Klee's teaching notes. The material can be divided into four mixed lots: 1. Transcripts in pencil and colored pencil created during the classes (Inv. No. PN LM B3); 2. clean copies in ink with illustrations in pencil (Inv. No. PN LM B1); 3. meticulously executed exercises and color studies (Inv. No. PN LM B2, B5, B6); 4. negative silver gelatin print with illustrations from the classes (Inv. No. PN LM B4); and 5. a typescript of several notes with an English translation along with illustrations (PN LM B7). This compilation was probably made for a planned English publication, which, however, never appeared. In 1978 a selection of the aforementioned sheets was printed in Bergner's essay 'Unterricht bei Klee' in the periodical form+zweck.10
Lena Bergner, Transcript of Klee's classes, Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern, Inv. No. LM-B 3/08, © Heirs after Lena Bergner.
For Klee, the production of forms in pictorial configuration was of paramount importance. For this reason, from 1923 onwards he elected to change the title of his lecture notes from "Theory of Pictorial Form" (bildnerische Formlehre) to "Theory of Pictorial Configuration" (bildnerische Gestaltungslehre). In his opinion, the term "Theory of Configuration" (Gestaltungslehre) better characterized the processuality of the form-making process better than the term "theory of form."11
In order to achieve a vivid, i.e. interesting, surface configuration, Klee introduced various types of movement. In chapter I.3 Special Order, for example, he presents the geometric methods of rotating, shifting and mirroring. This theme can be found in both Bergner's notes and Klee's manuscripts (see BG I.3/73). In exercises, the students freely implemented what they had learned in the lectures. Klee always made an effort to understand his students' intentions, making brief suggestions and encouraging them to further develop their ideas. Solutions for the tasks he posed were never predetermined. At the end of one lecture series, he allegedly said: 'This is one possibility—I don't make use of it, by the way.'12 Bergner's collection also includes various outcomes to exercises in which rotating, shifting and mirroring as types of movement are implemented in various ways—through rhythmically linear and rhythmically planar progressions, for instance.
Shifting, mirroring and rotating are universal design principles widespread in ornamentation practices—specifically, in North African weaving art of the period. It is well-known that Klee, as well as many of his contemporaries and colleagues at the Bauhaus, was familiar with and sought to emulate non-European art and craft traditions. Both his personal library and the library of the Bauhaus reveal this shared interest in various folk cultures.13 With regards to designing textiles and carpets, engaging with premodern formal languages offered an interesting path away from the "refined imitations of stale oil paintings of dubious taste," as Gunta Stölz described the European tradition of narrative Gobelin tapestries.14 But Klee did not consider geometric patterns as templates for finished products; instead, he would explain to his students how these patterns are created and how they can be individually altered in the creative process. Bergner, for example, also developed carpet patterns applying specific methods learned from Klee (shifting, rotating, mirroring, superimposing) discernible in her finished work. The results, however, are quite unique (Fig. 7 and 8). This is precisely what Klee sought to achieve with his classes at the Bauhaus: to point to paths of design so that the formal language is not arbitrary, without, however, prescribing predetermined outcomes.
Translation from German by Karl Hoffmann.
Marion von Osten & Grant Watson: bauhaus imaginista: Corresponding With. Exhibition at MoMAK in Kyoto
Marion von Osten & Grant Watson: Interdisciplinary Symposium 'bauhaus imaginista: Corresponding With' in Tokyo
Photo documentation of the exhibition in Kyoto
Cosima M. Grohmann, Yuko Ikeda & Helena Čapková: Focus on the Bauhaus educational principles. An Interview with Yuko Ikeda and Helena Čapková
Eric Gjerde: In a new light. Bauhaus paper studies by Eric Gjerde
Luca Frei: The legacies of the Bauhaus. For the Present and the Future
1 On Klee's classes at the Bauhaus see Fabienne Eggelhöfer & Marianne Keller Tschirren (eds.): Paul Klee. Bauhaus Master (exhibition catalogue). La Fábrica/Fundación Juan March, Madrid, 2013.
2 Lena Meyer-Bergner: 'Unterricht bei Klee', in: form+zweck. Fachzeitschrift für industrielle Formgestaltung, 3/1979, p. 60–62, see p. 60.
3 Further information on the topics dealt with in these classes is provided by Klee's surviving pocket calendars from the years 1926, 1928 and 1929 available in the archive of the Zentrum Paul Klee or as transcripts in: Felix Klee (ed.): Paul Klee Briefe an die Familie 1893-1940, Dumont, Cologne, 1979, Vol. 2, p. 1018–1022, 1077–1080 and 1084–1085.
4 See Beiträge zur Bildnerischen Formlehre (Contributions to a Theory of Form), dated notes of chapters I.2 Principielle Ordnung (Principal Order) and II.21 Mechanik (Mechanics).
5 Meyer-Bergner: 'Unterricht bei Klee', 1979, p. 60.
6 Helene Schmidt-Nonné: 'Der Unterricht von Paul Klee in Weimar und Dessau', in: Paul Klee: Pädagogisches Skizzenbuch, reprint of the edition from 1925, Kupferberg, Mainz/Berlin, 1965, p. 53–56, see p. 55 f.
7 He offered concurrent courses for weavers in both the second and fourth semester, alongside the compulsory classes of the basic course.
8 See facsimile and transcripts at www.kleegestaltungslehre.zpk.org.
11 One can find the reasons given by Klee for this lexical change in: Bildnerische Gestaltungslehre, I.1. Gestaltungslehre als Begriff (Theory of Pictorial Configuration as Concept), BG I.1/4.
12 Schmidt-Nonné: Der "Unterricht von Paul Klee in Weimar und Dessau," 1965, p. 56.
13 His wife Lily gave him the first edition of Carl Einstein's seminal book Negerplastik from 1915 containing a personal dedication from Einstein. Moreover, Einstein personally gave Klee his 1921 book Afrikanische Plastik, and Klee possessed the following books from the Orbis Pictus series: Otto Burchard: Chinesische Kleinplastik, Berlin, n.y., Sattar M.A. Kheiri: Indische Miniaturen der islamischen Zeit, Berlin,n.y., and Karl With: Asiatische Monumental-Plastik, Berlin, n.y.
14 Gunta Stölzl: 'die entwicklung der bauhausweberei', in: bauhaus. zeitschrift für gestaltung, No. 2, 5/1931.
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It's here. Every grown-up 10-year-old kid's action wet dream is here. Stallone! Statham! Mickey Rourke! Stone Cold! Arnie! Taste the testosterone.
Matt Harvey
Back in the good old days, before the Premier League with its £100k a week salaries came along, when a footballer came to the end of his career his club would organise a testimonial match in his honour. Current stars and former legends would turn out to play a one-off friendly to mark the contribution of the retiring hero who would receive all the proceeds from the game to put towards the start-up costs of his new scaffolding business.
The Expendables is essentially Sylvester Stallone's testimonial.
Somehow he's managed to assemble the most awesome line-up of action stars ever seen together in one film. It includes the clunking fists of Mickey Rourke, Dolph Lundgren and Stallone himself; relative new-comers like Jet Lee and Jason Statham; UFC machine Randy Couture and WWF legend Steve "fucking hell he's enormous" Austin. Oh, and Bruce Willis and Arnold Schwarzenegger turn up as well. Pound for pound, this has got to be the most heavyweight cast ever seen – you can almost smell the Maximuscle protein shake emanating from the cinema screen.
Together they are The Expendables, an elite squad of mercenary warriors who take on only the most foolhardy and suicidal of missions. Missions that largely involve killing thousands and thousands of anonymous South American goons in a brutal and spectacular fashion. Sometimes they throw a knife at the goon, slicing gruesomely through his throat. Other times they wrench the goon's limbs out of their sockets and smash their fists through his bones with sickening force. And sometimes they shoot the goon with a special bullet that makes him literally explode in a CGI-enhanced plume of blood and gore. If, like me, you have the appetite of an over-excited 12-year-old boy, you will find of this all fucking outstanding.
The Expendable's latest assignment is to overthrow a murderous dictator, General Garza, and his slimy CIA backer on the fictional island of Vilena (not the most imaginative of names – they may as well have called it Badguyland.) Along the way, they meet a beautiful local freedom fighter called Sandra who becomes Stallone's "Adriannnn"-style love interest. However, when the op goes bad, the gang are forced to flee the island in a hail of bullets and massive explosions leaving Sandra behind to face a certain death. Haunted by his failure, Stallone must convince the rest of his team to return to Vilena to rescue Sandra and finish what they started. Then maybe, just maybe, he can save a soul… his own.
"If you have the appetite of an over-excited 12-year-old boy, you will find of this all fucking outstanding."
That, admittedly, sounds shit. This is undeniably far from being an amazing film with lots of areas you could pick holes in if you wanted to… the plot is wafer thin, the characters thinly sketched and it feels as though Stallone has delegated the dialogue-writing bitentirely to the animated paperclip man on Microsoft Word – "it looks like you're writing a gratuitously violent nostalgia-fest..."
However, while all these things would obviously be a problem for any other production, in this case it doesn't really matter. The Expendables, you see, doesn't really count as an actual film. It's more just a loose collection of awesome things, with stunts, fights and cameos all thrown in for no other reason than Sly thought it'd be cool. The bit with Schwarzenegger is a case in point; his cameo has precisely zero dramatic bearing on the plot (it reminded me quite a lot of his "So vot are you vaiting vor" appearance at the end of that Visit California advert) but it was still a genuinely exciting moment that got a massive cheer in the auditorium.
Essentially, this is a film that gets by on the charm and novelty of its line-up and requires a certain amount of goodwill from the audience. It's almost like one of those Comic Relief charity singles - I kept expecting Pudsey Bear or Mr Blobby to show up. Actually, how amazing would that be? Imagine Stone Cold Steve Austin versus Blobby in a vicious fight to the death! Maybe something for the sequel, Sly?
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When we think of reputation, particularly corporate reputation, we are really thinking about trust in an organisation. A successful company must gain the trust of its employees, suppliers, shareholders and customers to help win a commercial advantage over its competitors and protect the value of its business. Losing stakeholder trust can result in the failure of a business, as recently demonstrated by a host of high-profile corporate scandals. Enron, Xerox and Barings Bank are all examples of brands that failed their stakeholders and lost the trust of consumers. Good governance should be at the heart of any business and not just a reaction to a reputational or media crisis. It is vital to the long-term prosperity of a business and there have been several recent changes in the law aimed at improving corporate governance.
assists chief executives and other senior staff in maintaining a strong public image.
Businesses that think ahead and carefully plan how to deal with reputational risk will be best placed for avoiding meltdown. When a company does face a reputational crisis, it is essential that it conducts a governance review, including a full audit of any risks, especially those applicable to its human resources, information technology, legal and communications departments. Lawyers are increasingly being asked to provide services that minimise the chances of a reputation crisis, including audits of organisations with which clients are doing business.
Five years ago, BAE Systems, the world's second largest defence contractor, was caught in a media storm resulting from allegations of bribery involving business in Saudi Arabia. Following investigations by the Serious Fraud Office and the Ministry of Justice, BAE commissioned an independent review of its ethical conduct that sought to determine any changes needed in the company to achieve global leadership in ethical standards and help improve stakeholder trust in the organisation. Roger Wiltshire, BAE's chief counsel UK, has shared his experiences of the committee's report and how the business is committed to a policy of superior corporate governance relating to its business conduct and reputation. The scale of the project is extraordinary and a full case study is included in the box on p58.
Companies that have built a high level of trust are far more likely to bounce back from a reputational crisis. Investing in sound corporate governance and ethical behaviour creates a reserve of trust that makes stakeholders far more likely to forgive future mistakes.
In-house legal advisors play an important role in establishing trust in the company for which they work. A counsel working in co-ordination with communications, public relations, human resources and IT teams, as well as a board of compliance and regulation, will be well placed to identify the warning signs of a reputation crisis while there is still time to act. Such an advisor will be a valuable asset to their company and success in this role depends on combining a commercial mindset with legal prudence. For further reading please visit www.justice.gov.uk/publications/docs/draft-bribery-bill-tagged.pdf and www.justice.gov.uk/publications/draft-bribery-bill.htm.
By Jo Paton, solicitor, Schillings.E-mail: jo.paton@schillings.co.uk.
'Bribery' is not clearly defined but ss1-3 of the draft bill set out two examples of offering a bribe and one of receiving a bribe.
Section 5 of the draft bill proposes that a 'relevant commercial organisation' will be guilty of a criminal offence where there is proven negligent failure by a responsible person (the person at the company or partnership responsible for preventing bribes, or a senior officer of the company or partnership) to prevent a bribe being paid on behalf of company or partnership, both in the UK and abroad. In such circumstances, the company or partnership, rather than the individual offender, would be held liable and there is no limit to the amount that a business may be fined as a result.
A company or partnership will have a strong defence to allegations of bribery only where it can prove that it had adequate anti-corruption procedures in place at the time of an offence.
The proposed new offence emphasises the need for companies and partnerships to ensure they have sound anti-corruption procedures and policies in place. In-house legal counsels will need to manage risk by ensuring that their employers create such measures.
There are currently three main corruption offences in the UK.
This offence is defined as a bribe given or offered to induce a public official to fail to act in accordance with their duty (R v Whitaker  3 KB 1283).
The 1889 Act makes it an offence for any person to 'corruptly' solicit or receive any advantage as an inducement to any officer of a public body, doing or omitting to do any matter or transaction.
The Anti-Terrorism, Crime and Security Act (ATCSA) 2001 extended the 1906 Act to include bribery carried out overseas, but the new statute has rarely been used to prosecute since its enactment and the effect of ATCSA 2001 remains to be seen.
Amidst ongoing media allegations, investigations on both sides of the Atlantic and the controversial end to the Serious Fraud Office investigation covering its business practices in Saudi Arabia, BAE Systems' board commissioned the Woolf Committee in June 2007. The committee was asked to provide an independent review of the 'ethical' state of the company and a 'road map' for it to become a global leader in ethical business conduct. The committee was authorised to go anywhere and speak to anyone. The board agreed to act on all of the committee's findings before the publication of the Woolf Report. Published in May 2008, the report covers the ethical standards to which a global company should adhere, the extent to which BAE met those standards and action that the company needed to take to achieve such standards. The review made 23 recommendations for BAE to enact to become a global corporate leader in ethical business conduct, setting out how it should 'establish a global reputation for ethical business conduct that matches its reputation for outstanding technical competence'. It also emphasised the importance for global businesses of managing reputational risk through the adoption of high ethical standards.
BAE set itself three years to implement the Woolf Committee's findings. It created a dedicated team that was led by a full-time programme director and was overseen by Philip Bramwell, the group's general counsel. A steering group of senior business leaders provided strategic oversight and monitored the team's progress. The 23 recommendations were divided across six working groups and covered future contracting, anti-corruption and compliance, governance and operation of BAE's board and management, leadership in business ethics, external engagement, and the creation of a code of conduct. It aimed to make the recommendations part of the company's day-to-day practices and governance.
BAE also implemented a code of conduct across the business. Recognising the importance of clear and visible leadership, the code was 'cascaded' from the chairman through to the board and executive committee, so that every employee was briefed by their line manager, helping to make the code relevant to an individual's role. Every employee undertook a training programme and signed a declaration confirming that they understood and would comply with the code. By the end of 2009, more than 90,000 employees had been briefed and trained. In addition, every executive and those employees dealing with people outside the company had to undergo integrity in business dealings training, covering anti-bribery and anti-corruption, gifts and hospitality, facilitation payments, conflicts of interest, fraud, money laundering, and behaviour in negotiations. BAE established a confidential ethics helpline to provide guidance to employees and a mechanism for 'whistleblowing'.
The Woolf Committee states that individual directors had a clear responsibility for ensuring high standards of business conduct, and that ethical conduct and reputational risk should be standing items on board agendas. Part of the company's senior executives' bonuses are now aligned to business conduct. The committee also said that the board must deal with these issues itself, and ensure that values, principles and standards of business conduct are established corporately and applied globally. The company appointed a managing director for corporate responsibility.
The committee highlighted a change in the organisation from a UK-headquartered exporter to a global enterprise with strong operational footprints in six home markets and said that the wider business culture needed to follow suit. BAE revised 23 corporate governance policies and created three new ones, establishing three-yearly reviews to ensure they remain up to date. Responsible trading principles, together with a new code of conduct, now underpin the way that BAE intends to do business in the future, and applies to all employees of wholly owned and majority-owned businesses.
To support its response to the Woolf Report, BAE has developed a principles-based compliance to assess non-financial risk in everything the business does, including decisions to sell products, use suppliers, purchase capital equipment, or sell or develop land. The public will not believe that a company is well run and responsible unless it can demonstrate that this is the case. BAE is externally audited twice a year and advisor appointments are overseen by a panel chaired by independent experts.
Eighteen months into its response to the Woolf Report, BAE has made significant progress. There is still work to do, however, despite more robust governance and a global code of conduct now being embedded in the company's practices. BAE developed its total performance cultural model, underpinned by the three values of trust, innovation and boldness. These are the characteristics that it wants people to attribute to BAE. Enshrined in its corporate governance, this marks a clear commitment to a different way of doing business, placing customer focus and responsible behaviour on an equal footing with financial performance and programme delivery. Together with its response to the Woolf Report, BAE's global code of conduct and responsible trading principles, backed by a rigorous compliance programme, is developing a culture of total performance. This culture will not only support the delivery of BAE's strategy and future prosperity, but will also ensure that it manages its reputation and turns it into something of significant value to the company.
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MOSCOW (Sputnik) - The new concept of a non-nuclear aircraft carrier for the Russian Navy provides for over 40 aircraft, jets and sea drones to be placed on it, Pavel Filippov, director general of the developer of the model, Krylov State Research Centre, said in an interview.
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Russian Navy Deputy Commander-in-Chief Adm. Viktor Bursuk has confirmed that the Navy expects to receive two helicopter-carrying amphibious assault ships before the year 2025. RIA Novosti military observer Alexander Khrolenko offers new details on the prospective ships' design, and the challenges shipbuilders will face during their construction.
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Giannis Antetokounmpo Issues an Apology to LeBron James, Stephen Curry and Others After Disturbing Twitter Hack
Ever since the coronavirus crisis worsened in the US, the NBA players have been active in voicing out their concerns and their support regarding the situation. Likewise, Giannis Antetokounmpo has been doing his part, but recently he had a dreadful time on social media.
An unidentified person caused a lot of trouble to Giannis after hacking into his Twitter account. By further posting a series of derogatory and racist tweets, he immediately caught the attention of a lot of fans.
The identity of the person is yet unknown, but his insensitive act left many people affected. More than a dozen tweets appeared from Giannis' account in the span of five minutes.
According to Katie DeLong of Milwaukee's Fox 6 Now, the tweets began appearing on Antetokounmpo's feed around 2:30 p.m. local time and were deleted within 15 minutes.
Giannis' brother confirms the hacking of multiple accounts
Kostas Antetokounmpo, who plays for the Los Angeles Lakers, swiftly came to the defense of his older brother. Kostas confirmed that the hacker did not stop with Giannis' twitter account alone.
His phone, email, twitter and bank accounts were all hacked. "He genuinely apologizes for everything that was tweeted and he will be back as soon as possible," Kostas wrote on Twitter. "The things that were said by this hacker were extremely inappropriate and disgusting!"
Using expletive terms, he accused LeBron of hiring a hitman. The hacker then went on to post on behalf of Giannis that he is moving to the Warriors and defamed Steph Curry as well. Basically, he took over the account and posted a series of tweets from whatever came jumping from the back of his mind.
It is unsure if the hacker has a past beef with the Bucks star or if it was just a random act of cyber threat. Nonetheless, it is alarmingly increasing in today's world. The Milwaukee Bucks are investigating the situation, as per Eric Woodyard of ESPN. Alex Saratsis, Giannis' agent, verified that his client had no part to play in the incident.
Giannis Antetokounmpo apologizes for the inconvenience caused by the hacker
Giannis found the act extremely offensive and expressed his utter disappointment after getting his account back. "I was hacked and the situation is currently being investigated. The tweets and posts were extremely inappropriate and I am so disappointed and disgusted that somebody would say the terrible things that were said!"
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— Giannis Antetokounmpo (@Giannis_An34) May 8, 2020
The 25-year-old apologized to the people affected by the tweets. The hacker did not even spare late Kobe Bryant's family. This act of the hacker enraged the fans and the Twitter community.
However, things are back to normal, now that Giannis has got back control of his social media. The league's MVP primarily uses his account to spread positivity amid the ongoing crisis.
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I'm working on uploading replays to YouTube. All videos are now HD 720p at 59.94 FPS!
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Although I use Grys-Vok, my anti-Grys-Vok strategy could use some work. I just don't see that many good Grys-Vok players, though.
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I'm not sure if I've ever defeated t0193. This was a pretty close match, but maybe he didn't start trying until round three.
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I saved this replay because of a nice shark hit in round 2 (it curved around and hit Temjin from behind 4 seconds after being launched).
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Last one for tonight. A couple more are in the Adobe Media Encoder queue so I'll let them encode overnight and upload them tomorrow (time permitting).
This match has some CC in it... people don't do CC-only in Ranked mode often, plus it's pretty hard with the lag, so I didn't try it until the last round. Enjoy!
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Here's a close match I had with Schooly D.
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Here's a close one against seabass hunter. I was probably 1/10th of a second away from winning round 1... it might not be visible on the YouTube version, but my missiles hit with 0.01 seconds on the clock... not enough time to do enough damage, so I lost the round by a 2% health difference.
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You don't see Ajim replays too often, so here's one. I got a lucky break in round 2.
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I've rewatched this a couple times to try to figure out why I saved it. I think I saved it because I had a high percentage of "special" freeze cancels, and I showed some pretty good avoidance skills (at the end of round 2, I skillfully avoided several attacks and delivered the final hit).
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This was a match I had against an excellent Angelan player. Round 2 didn't go so well for me but otherwise it was an good match.
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I have a replay somewhere against Kalxath on RANK with a favorable end results . Maybe I'll record for youtube. My rank matches tend to be either a win or lost, nothing really exciting. Heh, Bal-bados.
Thanks. It was a close match. I don't think I've ever conquered Kalxath's wicked red Cypher.
How do you like the videos so far? For example, choice of replays, encode quality, etc.? Any match-ups you'd like to see, or suggestions on improvements?
Also, any interest in high-quality (high bitrate 720p at full 59.94 FPS) versions for download? I will probably make some for myself since I care about that stuff, but I'm not sure if I should bother uploading them if people are satisfied with YouTube quality.
MentholMoose wrote: Thanks. It was a close match. I don't think I've ever conquered Kalxath's wicked red Cypher.
For public download, sub 480p 60fps is fine. Most important is 60 fps anyways. Anything bigger seems a bit excessive. With over 1,000 VO videos at 50+ GB (none of them are my recording), I don't think I can spare the space if they were all 720p+ .
Awesome videos. Keep them coming when you have time!
The quality of videos are very good, except for youtube's 30 fps limit but that's not your fault. I can view your matches fine on my phone.
I do like your choice of viewing first player's PoV then replay the match with second player's PoV. I wish I had thought of that!
Thanks for the feedback. I'll try to get some new videos done this weekend.
Now that YouTube finally supports 60 FPS videos, I'll re-encode and re-upload the above videos (I still have all the raw captures and the Premiere files so it is relatively simple, though time consuming).
All of the above posts have been updated with the new 60 FPS videos. Now that I have Adobe Premiere installed again I will try to capture at least a few more videos to try out my new capture card (I bought it a while ago but haven't used it yet).
I don't know what level counts as good to you, but it seems true that as of late there are no active top-level Grys-Vok players playing VOOT. There are still a couple active Japanese Grys-Voks who are at least better than average, probably around MentholMoose and FlyExponent level. Soyoka plays Grys-Vok much better than them but he's not a Grys-Vok specialist, just a top-level player with many VRs.
With the diminished active population, some other VRs are in the same boat as well. There's only one active Angelan player, who is top-level, but if he leaves there won't be any left. Likewise, there are only two active Fei-Yen players, me and cure chiba (who was runner-up of the last online Japanese tournament). It's been this way for the girls since last year.
edit: I was apparently talking to a bot whose posts have now been deleted!
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he only seems to have one post that isn't actually copy-pasted bits so that leaves me to wonder if he's a bot or doesn't know English very well.


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Fiddling While Rome Burns and The Right to Be Wrong
It has been a difficult week for liberalism in the world. The notion that people ought to respect the election results even if it puts in power those they oppose isn't working. The idea that cosmopolitanism – diversity and respect for other cultures – is better than everyone looking and thinking the same seems to be literally under attack in Europe.
But perhaps our liberal institutions can shield us and help us ride through the rough times. Lets see.
We were told a hundred times "Donald Trump can't win." Yet this week he accepts the nomination as the Republican Party's presidential candidate. The concept of being a nation of immigrants doesn't matter to the man. The Washington Post reports that he doesn't read. He doesn't need to since his gut tells him what to do.
We were told "Britain could never vote to leave the EU." But by a 4 point margin, the people did just that even though the process is designed to make that outcome nearly impossible. Even with more than 40% of the population of London being foreign-born, and nearly all major cities voting to stay in, the countryside turned out to vote Leave.
The Swedes agonized that "Swedish culture prides itself on welcoming immigrants." Or at least they thought so when those immigrants were European Bosnians who were Muslim in name only. Now Sweden has such a problem with its immigrant Muslim population that the once-welcoming country has closed its doors and is trying to figure out how to stop attacks on women without offending their recent arrivals who make up a significant population in Stockholm.
Turkey presently is led by an autocrat that recently built himself a 10,000 room (not a misprint) presidential palace with taxpayer money. Erdogan, who said that one of the greatest modern evils is social media, relied on that social media to defeat last weekend's coup.
In the words of one old D.C. hand: "To make sure nobody can organize another attempt to bring down my government, I'll fire TWELVE THOUSAND armed and trained military and police officers. That way, they'll have no way to make a living and nothing to do all day except think about what a great leader I am and how wrong they were to oppose me. Then I'll fire the top 3,000 legal minds in the nation, to make sure they don't get any ideas either." It seems to me that those lists were either drawn up awfully fast or else were already kept in a drawer in case something like this ever came up. Is it any wonder why some people see Turkey not as a stable NATO member, but as the next country for the Islamic State to call home?
And yet the West fiddles while France burns and plays Pokemon Go and is told to "trust" that everything will work out well and challenge "everyone to respect democratic institutions."
But reality shows that Austria, France, Netherlands, Hungary, Poland, and the US are all either seeing strong right-wing challenges to their governments or have already elected them to office. And when your country's constitution says that those with the most votes wins, then the people get what they wanted. Just search for the words "illiberal democracy" to see what is happening around the world, not just in Europe.
But lets not look down our noses at the will of the people in all these countries. For decades the people have been fed a steady diet of illiberal policies through opaque processes. Who can truly say they understand the way laws are made within their countries or within the EU? If you really do, then your country is probably doing ok.
As James Traub, of Foreign Policy, writes, liberalism (respecting or at the very least tolerating others and the decisions of elections) is in danger in Europe where the EU makes decisions through an opaque process. It's not working in Europe where children of immigrants terrorize their countrymen. It's not working in the US where people with little hope of meaningful employment believe that immigrants are taking all the jobs (even if the Americans wouldn't likely work in them).
And this past week we hear President Obama say that globalization is here to stay and that the jobs lost aren't coming back. The very issue so concerning to so many is not necessarily disregarded by elites, but those elites seem to think that the people are too insignificant to explain things to. The people just have to accept things the elites do for their own good.
Until, that is, the people decide they've had enough and vote for radical change. And when elites charge the people with ignorance or racism in an attempt to shame them back in their boxes, at some point that doesn't work. People do vote. And sometimes they vote for an illiberal democrat.
A friend from DC who was often in the White House across multiple presidencies said that many Americans have, indeed, had enough of experts and elites, for three main reasons:
1. The experts sold the heartland down the river. NAFTA, the WTO and globalization, we were told, would create winners and losers and we would have to take care of the losers through job retraining an other support. Except we didn't.
2. The experts said technology would change our lives. It has. People quickly came to see the Internet and the Smart Phone as birthrights, though, not technological miracles capable of plugging them into global knowledge for free. Instead, heartland folk see guys driving Teslas in San Francisco while they can't buy grandma a Chevy. They feel exploited and they're sick of it.
3. The experts said we wouldn't need pensions because we'd all get a 401(k) instead. Except that, the way it really works, is that 1 percent of the population got rich on hedge funds and complex derivatives and the rest of us got the bust of 2008, from which million of our workers have never recovered.
Bottom line: experts said globalization, technology and high finance would usher in a brave new world and lift all boats. It did – but only for the precious few who could figure out how to master the new world order. Guys who wanted to keep spending 30 hours a week watching the game never saw that the new competition was a kid in South Korea spending 14 hours a day in school.
The same folks who didn't see this triple-headed locomotive steaming down the tracks now imagine a strongman can magically make America great again, by which they mean I can get Dad's Craftsman box out of the back of the van and go back to Delco as a tool and die maker, retire happy and go ice fishing. And no damned Mexican is going to stop me. Donald Trump will see to that. It's a cruel and ridiculous lie, of course, but if you didn't see the last freight train coming you're no more likely to catch this one.
The rise of Trump, I believe, will be viewed by historians as the moment it became evident that our shoddy education system, money-for-influence politics, shameful media pandering and celebrity-is-king culture combined to bring the machinery of American democracy – an informed electorate – to its knees. Or, as Bob Dylan has put it, "your corrupt ways have finally made you blind."
More's the shame, there was an alternative.
Republicans could have walked into the White House in January by putting Jeb Bush and John Kasich on the ticket. That, though, would have required Republicans who understood the stakes for the country, the value of reason and fact and something about the job description of president of the United States. The fact that a plurality of the party threw that out the window to instead choose a vulgar bully boy with the policy grasp of a nine year old strongly suggests that Dylan, as usual, was right.
So perhaps our people will elect an illiberal autocrat. But we've had those in our history. And so have other countries. And yes, sometimes it produced a Hitler or a Mussolini or an Andrew Jackson. But that doesn't necessarily mean war is on the horizon. Viktor Orban hasn't invaded one of Hungary's neighbors. Neither has Poland, and likely neither will Marine LePen if she wins in France.
Listen, I'm certainly not advocating for illiberalism. I've written on numerous occasions about the importance of learning about others, of traveling to new places, eating new foods, incorporating new customs. I agree with James Traub that rationalism is at stake and that some politicians are exploiting an anti-intellectual narrative by whipping up the masses against "the system."
But at some point, the people who are told to be rational rebel against those who themselves have not owned up to the natural consequences of their policies. And in the end, the people get what they deserve. They have a right to be wrong. We just have to hope that the potential wrong brought about by the populist won't cause some greater problems down the road than the ones that got them elected.
By Tom Ruby|2017-11-23T18:26:03+00:00July 19th, 2016|Blog|3 Comments
Tom Ruby August 8, 2016 at 4:37 pm - Reply
Hi Kim. Thanks for the comment and thoughtful questions. Lets see…
First, I'd have to look at your assumptions, namely that there is more opacity now than at some earlier point in our political process, that there is a lower level of knowledge in the polity, that social media and increased information have widened the gap between elites and common voters, and to what extent the abandonment of liberal arts has caused these phenomena.
I agree that our political process is extremely opaque. Sunlight is the greatest disinfectant and sunlight is something our process hasn't seen in decades. The US ranks lower on the transparency/corruption scale than I would bet most self-proclaimed American Exceptionalists would accept and higher than angry leftists would accept based on the openness of our political process (see Transparency International). At #16 in the world with an overall rating of "Extensive" openness of the budget process, perhaps it isn't as much that the process is opaque as that people generally don't bother looking into their issues as that is more difficult than complaining.
Next, I would agree that social media and technology have given people far more options on what to watch and read than they had when your choices were three broadcast news programs and your local city's newspaper. And with the increase in information, it is not at all surprising that people will read or watch what validates their own positions rather than what challenges it, or not read or watch any news since there is so much else in the offering. But is the chasm between elites and common voters now greater than it was at some point in the past? I'd have to see strong evidence for that and doubt it is there. Our elites have always been tremendously separated from the average person. Nuance itself is elitist as most people want simple black and white answers, not more questions to develop a more nuanced understanding of issues. I lament that, but that is and always has been a reality in our country (see Richard Hofstadter's Anti-Intellectualism in American Life).
Finally, I really agree with you on what I think is one of the greatest causal issues in our country. The move away from liberal arts education to a standardized test education has, in my personal opinion, removed from our collective consciousness a critical thinking ability, an ability to understand the nuance in issues. While it is obvious that technology makes the world today smaller and faster than the world of even 30 years ago, I do not buy the notion that we need to abandon classical liberal arts to live with this new technology. Children and toddlers figure out the technology because it is made intuitively for people to figure out. But removing philosophy, foreign languages, shop class, gym, and classical history removes a common foundation that all people at one time had which we no longer have. Will this lack of foundation doom us as a country? No. But it does limit the number of people that can understand how certain issues are linked that they otherwise would see as unrelated. That is the importance of critical thinking.
Vince December 3, 2016 at 1:38 pm - Reply
Thanks for the website Tom. As a fan of Brett McKay, I´ll point out that Trump has all the fundamental qualities of manhood; courage, strength, competence, and honor. American men have been so feminized and brainwashed by feminism (which is a Marxist derivative), that many were compelled to shun Trump simply because he made crass comments. I believe no one can call himself a real man and have supported dishonest Hillary Clinton just because Trump was "rude;" especially since his policies are great. The Trump era is a huge blessing to our nation.
Tom Ruby December 3, 2016 at 8:15 pm - Reply
Hi Vince,
Thank you for the response and thank you for reading the web site.
Please remember that the purpose of the article was to say that although there is a move towards illiberalism in the Western world, when people have the right to vote, they have to have the right to be wrong. The Democrats put forth Clinton, as insider a candidate you can get. The Republicans put forth Trump, who in the most objective terms was an independent who took over the Republican party fair and square.
I think it is quite possible for people to think that Trump is exactly what we need to shake up the system in DC and at the same time to think that he is a huge gamble for the country. Those are not dichotomous beliefs. I will not agree or argue with you about his strength, courage, competence and honor. Now that he is the President-elect, lets see what the natural experiment of his time in office gives us as far as evidence.
If you have read my work or listened to my interviews, you will know that I have lamented the pussification of the Western Man. As a high school coach, I spent nearly as much time this past season talking to the boys about manhood and AoM as I did tactics. However, honor as Brett and Kate wrote in their earliest series on classical manly honor, you'd have to say that the President-elect is lacking in many of these areas. But that doesn't disqualify him outright. His selection of James Mattis shows something that his detractors didn't think he had in him. I think many of his cabinet selections will be likewise.
In closing, I go back to the point I made in the original article…When people have the right to vote, they have the right to be wrong and if they are, they have to live with the consequences. That's the beauty of our system. I pray for him and that he turns out to be what we need. I also pray we are resilient enough to bounce back if he isn't. If you read my piece from last week, you'll see that according to historical cycles and our current trajectory, we are in for a historical "turning." Our President-elect will either hasten that turning or hold it off. No in-between.
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DALLAS (AP) — The editorial board of The Dallas Morning News announced Saturday that it has picked philanthropist Melinda Gates as its "Texan of the Year," in part for her work to help combat the coronavirus pandemic.
Gates, a 54-year-old Dallas native, is co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The foundation has spent decades working to help people lead healthy lives, including through investments in vaccine development programs and other efforts to combat infectious diseases.
In selecting Gates, the paper cited her foundation's $1.75 billion in donations to fight COVID-19 in 2020.
"In a year of pandemic and economic turmoil, at a time when our communities are deeply divided and facing steep challenges, Melinda Gates' leadership stands out," Dallas Morning News editorial page editor Brendan Miniter said in a statement.
Gates grew up in Dallas and joined the Microsoft Corporation in 1987 after completing a bachelor's and a master's degree. She and Microsoft CEO Bill Gates were married in 1994. They live near Seattle with their children.
The Morning News chose Gates as "Texan of the Year" from among more than a dozen finalists. She joins past winners including Holocaust survivor Max Glauben and former first lady Laura Bush.
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The classroom sessions end at 6:30, when we'll begin our first PTA meeting of the school year in the auditorium. This is an important meeting, at which you'll get to meet the cluster teachers who will be working with your child – science, art, music, and more – as well as hear more about the new Common Core curriculum and this year's state test results. You'll also get to meet the incoming PTA Executive Board and School Leadership Team.
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LumiQuant leverages a multi-modality cassette that allows a mouse to be imaged in an optical instrument and then moved and imaged in the Bruker Icon compact MRI without perturbation. The image reconstruction and co-registration package uses a proprietary set of algorithms to create a three-dimensional distribution of luminescence signal.
Luminescence, which is the most widely used pre-clinical in vivo imaging modality for assessing pre-clinical disease models, suffers from the physical constraints of the absorption and scattering of light in tissues. This absorption and scattering hinders the ability of luminescence systems to differentiate between luminescence signal in different organs and on the surface or signal deep within the tissue and therefore limits the researcher's ability to tell whether a luminescence-expressing tumor, for example, is on the surface, is deep in the organ, is a single tumor mass or possibly is the signal expressed from multiple lesions at different positions in the body. LumiQuant seeks to resolve this obstacle through enhanced insights and quantitation of 3-D luminescence/MR imaging and disease phenotyping.


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Rebuild Cleveland: How much house will $1,000,000 buy you?
How much house will $1,000,000 buy you?
Recently, a blog article on Zillow.com published a uniquely shaped chart illustrating how far your dollar goes in each of the top 40 major markets, pictured to the right. The full text of the article may be found here.
The cities in this chart can be categorized and split into three general categories: the coastal cities (San Francisco-Seattle), "middle America" (Denver-Cleveland) and Detroit.
Arguably, the two second-bottom cities, Memphis and Cleveland, tend to break away from the "rest of America" trend--$1mm might buy you four Denver-size houses in Cleveland, which is a bit of a contrast. But the graph does illustrate a concept that I've been espousing for years: Cleveland and Detroit are utterly incomparable when it comes to discussing urban decline and poverty. We don't shut the streetlights off or fail to respond to fires in the City of Cleveland. We're functional and they're dysfunctional. It's so infuriating that we ought to have a law on the books that makes Cleveland-to-Detroit comparison a misdemeanor.
I don't mean to jump on the dump-on-Detroit bandwagon because I think they've got their hands full over there with detractors. There are many other cities and parts of the country out there that are far more worthy of criticism, such as Washington, D.C., or the entire state of Florida. Detroit's shortcomings are obvious, and they're working on fixing them. There are other parts of the country that people seem to accept unquestioningly as "a nice place to live" or a "booming metropolis" despite the cracks beginning to appear in their foundations (see also, Chicago's looming financial crisis).
I digress. Back to the chart. Important to note here is the fatal flaw of many statistical city comparisons, especially those Forbes city comparisons (remember who won "America's Most Miserable City" a few times while its suburbs continually win "best places to live in the US" awards). How can the best place to live in the United States be located just four miles from the worst place to live in the US? Focusing on the Greater Cleveland area, the population generally regards the center city as an undesirable address, and prefer the more substantial city services, perceptions of lower crime, and the feeling of community that its 53+ incorporated suburbs offers. The city has a "donut hole" of poverty surrounding the relatively robust central business district, and the overwhelming majority of those 300,000 souls who work downtown live beyond the donut, 6 or more miles from the city center.
Unfair as the comparison may be, I'll point out anyway that this "donut hole," "inner-city dilapidation," "concentration of poverty," or whatever you may want to call this phenomenon, is the very problem that is holding the metro area back from becoming the next Chicago, or, ahem, Pittsburgh, or wherever the next media darling "Best Place to Live in America" might be.
Nonetheless, it is still useful to compare apples-to-apples data. Some of the cities in this list contain nearly their entire metro areas, like Las Vegas, Charlotte, Denver, or Seattle. These cities became established major cities at a time when annexation of surrounding land was popular, and do not have nearly as elaborate of a suburb structure like Cleveland or Pittsburgh does. Local politics are kept to a low roar in the former cities, and the populated area is able to grow and plan in a more cohesive manner rather than in fits and starts involving kickbacks and "anti-poaching" deals like what happens here at home all the time.
So, to satisfy my curiosity, I reorganized the data by metro area. According to the original blog article, the city data was sourced from Zillow and Movoto, so I decided to use Zillow to source metro area per-square-foot area. In cases where Zillow did not display metro area data, like Austin, I assumed that an average home was 1,500 square feet and used the median home sale price to calculate a dollars-per-square-foot price. The results do not make the Detroit metro area look nearly as bad as the above graph, so kudos to them!
Note in this configuration of data, Memphis actually clocks in last (or first, depending on how you view it), and Detroit is more expensive than Cleveland. Note that some cities in these rankings are actually in the same metro area (Phoenix and Mesa, Dallas, Fort Worth and Arlington, etc) and will have the same numbers, appearing to create plateaus in the data. In any case, $1 million for a 12,000 square foot house in Cleveland ($83/sqft) appears to be a lot more reasonable than 21,000 square feet ($46). See what $1.65 million will buy you if you're in the right place in the right time in the outer suburbs (exurbs?).
Pool maintenance is a major PITA, but at least you've got room to store the tools in the 14-car garage.
I took the liberty of comparing my metro-area dataset with the original data in the graph below. Note that Detroit, as we probably expected, is off the charts while most other cities are roughly equally expensive between city and metro. Interestingly enough, it's far more expensive to live in Dallas or Atlanta cities proper than the suburbs, which probably can be accounted for by less stringent building standards in the outlying unincorporated regions, which are very far away from the city center.
To recap, the lesson to be learned here is not to arbitrarily stop an examination of two cities at the city borders. Given that less than a third of the population of Cuyahoga County calls Cleveland home, it's especially important when comparing Northeast Ohio with other regions. All we have to do is merge the city and county, and Cleveland is the 9th largest city in the country!


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