Scott Safadi graduated from Dartmouth College in 2003 and soon after moved to Saratoga, Calif., where he began his property management career. Scott Safadi is the president of Cal Bay Property Management (CBPM) located in Palo Alto, Calif. Scott Safadi holds a CCRM (California Certified Resident Manager) designation.
Aicube: We are talking to Scott Safadi, owner and president of Cal Bay Property Management. Thank you, Scott, for taking the time to speak with us today.
Aicube: You mentioned earlier that you have a message for today's youth. What is that?
Scott Safadi: Just that life doesn't get any easier. If you get a chance to do something you thoroughly enjoy—seize it. The best time to do it is before you take on the obligations of a family and career.
Aicube: That sounds like great advice, but isn't it rather difficult to avoid responsibilities?
Scott Safadi: Yes, but when life's mounting pressures and expectations overwhelm us with all the things we need to do, sometimes what we really need is to have some fun to stay sane. One day I suddenly realized that college might be my last opportunity to be unfettered of the responsibilities that awaited me in the "real" world.
Aicube: What brought about this epiphany?
Scott Safadi: During an internship at a San Jose hospital, it became obvious to me that hard work doesn't end when you graduate from school. My stress at school paled in comparison to the constant pressures the doctors experienced.
Aicube: Is that what led to your Jackson Hole adventure?
Scott Safadi: Most definitely. The comparison lingered in my mind until one evening during my college days, a friend and I happened to watch a snowboarding video. A crazy thought popped into our heads. What if we took a couple of winter months off from college and followed the snow? One year later, we did just that.
Aicube: How did you arrange it?
Scott Safadi: Before the start of our junior year, we both went to summer school so we could take the winter quarter off. We moved to Jackson Hole and proceeded to have the time of our lives. It was great!
Aicube: Tell me a little about Jackson Hole.
Scott Safadi: Jackson Hole is a mountain resort located in a large valley surrounded by high-peaked mountains. A lot of the terrain in Jackson Hole has steep sections with long chutes and trees. It offers challenges that snowboarders like me especially enjoy.
Aicube: It sounds like a very nice winter resort.
Scott Safadi: It's that and more. It has more backcountry terrain than in-bounds. We were in the backcountry at least 50% of the time.
Aicube: It sounds different than a typical resort.
Scott Safadi: It is. It has all the appeal of a classic American resort with saloons and cowboys, but Jackson Hole is not the usual rolling mountain, tree-lined resort found in many other western U.S. resorts.
Aicube: What other activities did you enjoy while there?
Scott Safadi: Snowboarding was our main focus, but it's definitely not the only activity available. Snow skiing, sleigh rides and dog-sled tours are also attractions to explore if you happen to tire of snowboarding. Of course, that wasn't a problem for us.
Aicube: It seems like a great winter vacation destination. Is it quiet in the summer?
Scott Safadi: Not at all. Jackson Hole is great for whitewater rafting, hiking, horseback riding and golfing. Other activities available are hang gliding, kayaking, mountain biking, hot air ballooning and stagecoach rides.
Aicube: Jackson Hole seems to have a variety of attractions for all ages.
Scott Safadi: And that's just a sample of the activities you'll find there. There's so much to do you can't possibly get bored.
Aicube: So, it seems you have no regrets?
Scott Safadi: No regrets. Today, as a husband, father, homeowner and businessman, I am so thankful that I didn't let that opportunity pass me by. While most Dartmouth students were going to class or doing internships, I was having the time of my life.
Scott Safadi and his wife, Rachel, were married in 2007 and have a daughter named Sophia. Scott Safadi and his family live in Saratoga, Calif. For more information about Scott Safadi visit aboutscottsafadi.com.


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The Cable: Jon Stewart was wrong: Coburn is not holding up the Haiti relief money Jon Stewart was wrong: Coburn is not hold...
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Jon Stewart was wrong: Coburn is not holding up the Haiti relief money
More than $1 billion of aid to earthquake-torn Haiti still has not reached the island nation, but that's not the fault of Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK) — despite the recent charge leveled against the conservative senator by the Daily Show's Jon Stewart. Rather, the complicated State Department-Congressional appropriations process is to blame for the delay. ...
By Josh Rogin
More than $1 billion of aid to earthquake-torn Haiti still has not reached the island nation, but that's not the fault of Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK) -- despite the recent charge leveled against the conservative senator by the Daily Show's Jon Stewart. Rather, the complicated State Department-Congressional appropriations process is to blame for the delay.
On Sept. 30, Stewart took Coburn to task for his hold on the Haiti Empowerment, Assistance and Rebuilding Act of 2010, a pending bill that would set five years' worth of authorizations (how Congress wants to see the money spent) for Haiti reconstruction and relief funding. Coburn wants to see Congress find savings in other parts of the State Department to pay for $500 million for Haiti next year, in fiscal 2011. Stewart's rant was based on this Sept. 28. AP article.
Referencing that, Stewart called Coburn an "international a**hole of mystery" and continued: "So for any Haitian who right now lives on top of a pile of rubble washing their clothes in their own urine bucket, while Sean Penn gives your kids cigarettes while regaling you with Fast Times at Ridgemont High anecdotes, hang in there. Cause we need to sort all this out so you won't have to fill out duplicate forms. You're welcome!"
More than $1 billion of aid to earthquake-torn Haiti still has not reached the island nation, but that's not the fault of Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK) — despite the recent charge leveled against the conservative senator by the Daily Show's Jon Stewart. Rather, the complicated State Department-Congressional appropriations process is to blame for the delay.
On Sept. 30, Stewart took Coburn to task for his hold on the Haiti Empowerment, Assistance and Rebuilding Act of 2010, a pending bill that would set five years' worth of authorizations (how Congress wants to see the money spent) for Haiti reconstruction and relief funding. Coburn wants to see Congress find savings in other parts of the State Department to pay for $500 million for Haiti next year, in fiscal 2011. Stewart's rant was based on this Sept. 28. AP article.
Referencing that, Stewart called Coburn an "international a**hole of mystery" and continued: "So for any Haitian who right now lives on top of a pile of rubble washing their clothes in their own urine bucket, while Sean Penn gives your kids cigarettes while regaling you with Fast Times at Ridgemont High anecdotes, hang in there. Cause we need to sort all this out so you won't have to fill out duplicate forms. You're welcome!"
The problem is that Coburn's hold is not responsible for delaying the $1.15 billion Congress already appropriated in late July to help Haiti. That bill, which is totally separate from the one Coburn is holding up, was the supplemental appropriations act signed by President Obama on July 29. Authorization bills, like the one that Coburn objects to, are useful for setting out Congressional direction on how money should be spend, but aren't strictly necessary to the disbursement of the funds. The appropriations bills are the ones that actually spend the money.
Even the State Department acknowledges that Coburn is not responsible for the delay in this tranche of funds for Haiti.
"Senator Coburn's hold is not related to the $1.15 billion pledge made by the administration in March," State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley told The Cable. He explained that the State Department and Congress are still working on how exactly to spend the money, totally apart from Coburn's hold on the separate authorization bill.
State was given 45 days from July 29 to submit a "spend plan" for the Haiti money, after which Congress had two weeks to submit questions about its plan. Today, Coburn posted the State Department's spending plan for Haiti, along with its transmittal letter, which shows that it was given to Congress Sept 20. That's 52 days after the bill was signed, more than the 45 allowed — but still not bad for government work.
Now, State and the relevant congressional committees are finishing up their work on the spend plan and the State Department should start actually giving out the money soon, Crowley said.
"We continue to answer questions and address issues that members of Congress have raised, but we will soon be obligating those funds on the ground in high impact ways to help the people of Haiti build back better," Crowley said.
He also pointed out that Congress had already put $300 million on the ground in Haiti while the process to release this $1.15 billion progressed.
Coburn also posted USAID's fact sheet on humanitarian assistance to Haiti, which shows that over $1.1 billion has already been spent, although that was for emergency relief, not the longer term recovery and reconstruction assistance that is now being sought.
Overall, Crowley argues, "there has been no undue delay by the administration in releasing the $1.15 billion, given the notification requirements legislators included in the supplemental legislation."
Regardless, whether you are a Haitian or a late-night comedian wondering why the money hasn't flowed yet, in this instance, you should direct your questions to the State Department and Congress, not Tom Coburn.
"Coburn may be an a**hole when it comes to holding up bills, but he's not the bad guy here," said one Senate aide. "The a**hole here is the bureaucratic process… and Jon Stewart."
Josh Rogin covers national security and foreign policy and writes the daily Web column The Cable. His column appears bi-weekly in the print edition of The Washington Post. He can be reached for comments or tips at josh.rogin@foreignpolicy.com.
Previously, Josh covered defense and foreign policy as a staff writer for Congressional Quarterly, writing extensively on Iraq, Afghanistan, Guantánamo Bay, U.S.-Asia relations, defense budgeting and appropriations, and the defense lobbying and contracting industries. Prior to that, he covered military modernization, cyber warfare, space, and missile defense for Federal Computer Week Magazine. He has also served as Pentagon Staff Reporter for the Asahi Shimbun, Japan's leading daily newspaper, in its Washington, D.C., bureau, where he reported on U.S.-Japan relations, Chinese military modernization, the North Korean nuclear crisis, and more.
A graduate of George Washington University's Elliott School of International Affairs, Josh lived in Yokohama, Japan, and studied at Tokyo's Sophia University. He speaks conversational Japanese and has reported from the region. He has also worked at the House International Relations Committee, the Embassy of Japan, and the Brookings Institution.
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The key idea of our new rectification method consists of reparameterizing the image with polar coordinates (around the epipoles). Since the ambiguity can be reduced to half epipolar lines only positive longitudinal coordinates have to be taken into account. The corresponding half epipolar lines are determined through equation (7.2) taking orientation into account.
The first step consists of determining the common region for both images. Then, starting from one of the extreme epipolar lines, the rectified image is built up line by line. If the epipole is in the image an arbitrary epipolar line can be chosen as starting point. In this case boundary effects can be avoided by adding an overlap of the size of the matching window of the stereo algorithm (i.e. use more than 360 degrees). The distance between consecutive epipolar lines is determined independently for every half epipolar line so that no pixel compression occurs. This non-linear warping allows to obtain the minimal achievable image size without losing image information.
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Q: How to pass a urlRoot to a model in Backbone I need to pass a urlRoot to a model at runtime, as several different classes of the model use different urlRoots.
Here is my model:
App.Models.Table = Backbone.Model.extend({ });

And here is where I am going to use it:
var m = new App.Models.Table();
var t = new App.Collections.Tables(m, { url: this.url });
var tables = new App.Views.Tables({ collection: t, template: this.template });

this.url returns the correct value, based on the event that calls it.  Am I passing my model into the collection wrong?  Here is my collection:
App.Collections.Tables = Backbone.Collection.extend({
    url: this.url,
    model: App.Models.Table,
    initialize: function(models, options) {
        if (options && options.url) {
            this.url = options.url;
        }
        this.fetch({
              success: function(data, options) {

            }
        });
    }
});

How do I pass in this.url to my model?

A: Assuming this.url is the correct url in your example, then do the following:
table = new App.Models.Table({
    id: id
});
table.urlRoot = this.url;

A: The URL should be either a string constant or a function that returns a string.  In your collection, you'd want to do something like:
App.Collections.Tables = Backbone.Collection.extend({
    url: function() { return "http://my.url/" },
    // or, url: "http://my.url"
});

Using an anonymous function gives you the ability to process some data (that is, potentially modify the string) before the request is sent out.
Am I understanding your question correctly?

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We mentioned Sintel the Game back in July. Here's a status update on the project and an excellent preview!
Focus since then has been on character modeling and re-thinking our workflow. David wrote a post about our modeling workflow on our blog as well as a time-lapse video.
A lot of our levels are being re-made (some entirely) so forgive us for the lack of in-game screenshots on our site. There will be updates in that regard in the upcoming weeks.
We've also re-worked our Sintel character to look more easy on the eyes. Although she isn't finished, we think we've improved her a lot. Noah re-did the hair entirely and re-designed the way we did character's eyes. You can read more about it here.
Also, we are still looking for character animators! Email jon(at)sintelgame(dot)org) if interested!
anon: punished for being happy? :D -should see me when I get a trace that says "works" on a screen while coding :) followed by: "you know what this means!?? -we can go to mickey dee's now !" then by: "wait.. wait.. no.. this one's easy to crash -needs handlers and character converters for those trigger happy sql injectors out there.."
I personally think that it looks quite professional as a game. It was already stated to be in pre-alpha stages, so with more work, it seems like it'll be good.
Damaged: well, they're probably testing the groundwork for everything -for all you know, you're probably looking at proxies.
Nice timelapse, I am a bit bothered by the chin and the ear, but good work!
Love the progress on the game. I don't know what your plans are but I could imagine a combat system similar to Batman: Arkham Asylum would work really well with for the game. I can imagine that would be quite the undertaking though, I think maybe look at the combat in Beyond Good and Evil as an example of what would be more feasable.
Looking forward to seeing more from you guys.
I'll have to second yoff on the timelapse, the chin I can live with, especially from a distance, but the ear could use some touch up. Otherwise it's an awesome model, the ear is just off putting.
there is a reason why I do not show work which is to early to show.
Haha...both Colin and Ton were way too easily amused by the disintegrating logo. I can see the problem with showing something in such an early stage, but at the same time it sets a bench mark for the final product. In a refined final game Colin could sit down, play it, enjoy it, and then recall with laughter this very early version. It's looking like a great start regardless...some quality animators, some scripting fixes and better camera handling to avoid foreground obstacles and this will shape up nicely.
A few complete games have already been made in BE, you know. Check it out.
Yeah. And, obviously, Yo Frankie.
Still, a few of those games have NOT been made in BGE, only modelled/textured there. But most HAVE been completely made in Blender, including Yo Frankie.
I think that the critics are just so used to most games being beta now when they are released that they think that pre-alpha must mean that its nearly finished.
It looks nice so far. Needs more work for sure but you have made quite a job already. Making a whole game though, requires some awesome amount of work. The bigger the team the better, if you got things organised well enough. But you should open up a bit more I think. Ask for people to join or contribute models and such. What this project needs is more weight put into animations, especially the fight animations and there seems to be no fight stance nor defence moves. Or Colin just didn't use it... More weight to the animations including shaking camera or at least more dynamic camera. And more random stuff to the scene.
So far though, it's really nicely done and you've done some great work with this. Real nice start. If you got the sub-stories right, interesting quests with individual stories, LOTS of interesting items/weapons to collect, money balance right, interesting townsmen, interesting factions and nice way to tell all this, you're in for the win. :D Call Bethesda for reference. :3 But keep it up and this will go far.
Great job on the game so far, the people who made sintel seem very impressed. must be extra special for them to see an interactive version of their movie.


The contributions of voluntary medical male circumcision (VMMC) to reducing new HIV infections in Uganda and to screening men for other health conditions in Namibia were among the topics discussed at the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI) in Seattle, Washington, USA, 13-16 February 2017. Two presentations addressed risk compensation, with presenters reporting on studies from South Africa and Zimbabwe that compared the sexual risk behavior of circumcised and uncircumcised men. Five of the seven abstracts on VMMC were presented during a poster session on the scale-up of the intervention for HIV prevention.


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Rabbis' Letter To Murdoch: 'Sanction' Beck For Nazi, Holocaust References
A coalition of 400 rabbis has taken out a full-page ad in a newspaper calling for Rupert Murdoch to "sanction" Glenn Beck and Fox News CEO Roger Ailes and stop Beck from invoking the Holocaust and Nazism in his rhetoric. The paper in question is Murdoch's own Wall Street Journal.
The ad, which ran in Thursday's Journal, was spurred by Beck's frequent use of Nazi imagery and analogies on his show, as well as Ailes' defense of Beck. In an interview with the Daily Beast, Ailes said the controversy over Beck had been stirred up by "left-wing rabbis who basically don't think that anybody can ever use the word, Holocaust, on the air."
The rabbis, part of the Jewish Funds for Justice group, said they were "profoundly offended" by these statements. It also denounced Beck's attacks on left-wing billionaire George Soros, which many called anti-Semitic.
"We are calling on Fox News to meet the standard it has set for itself: 'to exercise the ultimate sensitivity when referencing the Holocaust,'" the rabbis wrote. "We respectfully request that Glenn Beck be sanctioned by Fox News for his completely unacceptable attacks on a survivor of the Holocaust and Roger Ailes apologize for his dismissive remarks about rabbis' sensitivity to how the Holocaust is used on the air."
Dear Mr. Murdoch:
We are rabbis of diverse political views. As part of our work we are devoted to preserving the memory of the Shoah, and to passing its lessons on to our future generations and to all humankind. All of us have vigorously defended the Holocaust's legacy. We have worked to encourage the responsible invocation of its symbols as a powerful lesson for the future.
We were therefore deeply offended by Roger Ailes' recent statement attributing the outrage over Glenn Beck's use of Holocaust and Nazi images to "left-wing rabbis who basically don't think that anybody can ever use the word, Holocaust, on the air."
In the charged political climate in the current civic debate, much is tolerated, and much is ignored or dismissed. But you diminish the memory and meaning of the Holocaust when you use it to discredit any individual or organization you disagree with. That is what Fox News has done in recent weeks, and it is not only "left-wing rabbis" who think so.
Abe Foxman, National Director of the Anti-Defamation League, a child survivor of the Holocaust, described Beck's attack on George Soros as "not only offensive, but horrific, over-the-top, and out-of-line." Commentary magazine said that "Beck's denunciation of him [Soros] is marred by ignorance and offensive innuendo." Elan Steinberg, vice president of The American Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors, called Mr. Beck's accusations "monstrous." Rev. Welton Gaddy, president of the Interfaith Alliance, called them "beyond repugnant." And Deborah Lipstadt, professor of Holocaust Studies at Emory University, says Beck is using traditional anti-Semitic imagery.
"I haven't heard anything like this on television or radio -- and I've been following this kind of stuff," Lipstadt said. "I've been in the sewers of anti-Semitism and Holocaust denial more often than I've wanted."
We share a belief that the Holocaust, of course, can and should be discussed appropriately in the media. But that is not what we have seen at Fox News. It is not appropriate to accuse a 14-year old Jew hiding with a Christian family in Nazi-occupied Hungary of sending his people to death camps. It is not appropriate to call executives of another news agency "Nazis." And it is not appropriate to make literally hundreds of on-air references to the Holocaust and Nazis when characterizing people with whom you disagree.
It is because this issue has a profound impact on each of us, our families and our communities that we are calling on Fox News to meet the standard it has set for itself: "to exercise the ultimate sensitivity when referencing the Holocaust."
We respectfully request that Glenn Beck be sanctioned by Fox News for his completely unacceptable attacks on a survivor of the Holocaust and Roger Ailes apologize for his dismissive remarks about rabbis' sensitivity to how the Holocaust is used on the air.
Lead supporters (organizational affiliation listed for purposes of identification only):
Rabbi Bradley Shavit Artson, Vice President, American Jewish University, Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies
Rabbi Dan Ehrenkrantz, President, Reconstructionist Rabbinical College
Rabbi Daniel Nevins, Dean, Jewish Theological Seminary Rabbinical School
Rabbi Yael Ridberg, President, Reconstructionist Rabbinical Association
Rabbi Ellen Weinberg Dreyfus, President, Central Conference of American Rabbis
Rabbi Steven Wernick, Executive Vice President, United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism
Rabbi Eric Yoffie, President, Union for Reform Judaism
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Dubai, United Arab Emirates; 8 April 2018: DIFC's Dispute Resolution Authority (DRA) and Maastricht University's Faculty of Law have signed an agreement that will explore the impact of emerging disruptive technologies for lawmakers and legal systems.
The Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed during a hackathon organised by the independent law and technology community Technolawgeeks, with the support of Maastricht University and the Brightlands Smart Services Campus.
Themed as 'Rethinking Justice', the hackathon covered four different challenges: The Hague Institute for the Innovation of Law (Social Justice challenge); eBay (E-Commerce Conflicts challenge); Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC) Courts (Courts of the Future challenge); and Maastricht University's Institute of Data Science (Data-Driven Justice challenge).
The agreement will reinforce existing work by the Courts of the Future Forum – a joint initiative between DIFC Courts and Dubai Future Foundation – to explore new ways to facilitate safe pre-legal innovation. The Forum's work focuses on three key areas. First, creating legal clarity to ensure that valuable and innovative intellectual property created by entrepreneurs and investors is protected. Second, it coordinates international efforts to ensure that courts and legal systems understand likely future developments in technological innovation and online consumer behaviour. Lastly, the Forum investigates the development of smart dispute resolution services.
Maastricht University's Faculty of Law is currently developing a research programme on law and technology that will play a pivotal role in driving collaboration with DIFC Courts. Plans for shared initiatives in the fields of law and technology will enhance research, knowledge and awareness of how law and technology interact with each other to support access to justice.


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Unter Räderpflug bzw. Karrenpflug versteht man einen Pflug, welcher die Anspannung an einem Rädergestell hat.

Der schollenwendende, schwere Räderpflug ist eine technische Weiterentwicklung des aus prähistorischer Zeit stammenden leichten Hakenpflugs. Er zeichnet sich neben einem Hauptpflug durch ein Vordergestell mit Rädern und Achse aus.

Vorteile gegenüber anderen Pflügen

Bei der Pflugherstellung wurde Eisen eingesetzt. Der Wendepflug hatte vorne ein Rädergestell, dahinter saß das Pflugmesser, das den Boden senkrecht aufschnitt, Streifen davon nach oben drückte und umdrehte. Die eiserne Pflugschar konnte tiefer in den Boden eindringen als der bis dahin gebräuchliche Hakenpflug, dadurch wurden ganze Schollen angehoben. Das unter den Pflugbaum montierte Streichbrett ermöglichte das Umdrehen der angehobenen Schollen in einem Arbeitsgang. Der Ackerboden war somit stärker für die spätere Aussaat aufgelockert. Die Nährstoffe wurden durch das verbesserte Pflügen mobilisiert und an die Oberfläche gebracht. Das Zusammenspiel von Räderpflug und Dreifelderwirtschaft führten zu höheren landwirtschaftlichen Erträgen und begünstigten ein Bevölkerungswachstum im Mittelalter.

Geschichte
Bereits im 1. Jahrhundert v. Chr. ist der Einsatz eines tiergezogenen Räderpfluges (lateinisch carruca) im Römerreich belegt. Aufgrund der germanisch-römischen Wirtschaftsbeziehungen wurde in den Provinzen zwischen Niederrhein und mittlerer Donau der Räderpflug zum Ende der Römerzeit eingesetzt und von zuwandernden Germanen in der Landwirtschaft genutzt. Er verdrängte ab dem 8. Jahrhundert nach und nach den aus Holz bestehenden, leichten Hakenpflug (lateinisch  aratrum) aus dem Neolithikum. Er begünstigte die Einführung der Dreifelderwirtschaft nördlich der Alpen.

Die Grundform des Wendepfluges erhielt sich bis in das 19. Jahrhundert. Von dem lateinischen carruca für Pflug leitet sich auch das französische Wort charrue (Pflug) ab und das deutsche Schar, nämlich Pflugschar. In Frankreich wird zudem die Hufe, die mit dem Räderpflug bewirtschaftet wird, als charrue bezeichnet.

Aufbau
Der Räderpflug setzte sich aus einem Vorderteil mit Rädern und Achse, dem so genannten Vorpflug, und einem Hauptpflug zusammen. Der hölzerne Pflugbaum (Grindel) war mit einer Haltevorrichtung ausgestattet. An diesem wurde eine eiserne Schar und ein bewegliches Streichbrett (Riester) zum Umbrechen der Schollen befestigt.

Technik
Beim Räderpflug wurde die Kraft der Zugtiere mehr für das Aufbrechen der Erde und weniger für das Ziehen wie beim Hakenpflug eingesetzt. Zum Ziehen des schweren Räderpfluges waren drei bis vier Ochsen oder zwei Pferde und zwei Personen notwendig. Der Gebrauch des Pfluges setzte somit den Besitz von ausreichend Zugtieren voraus. Waren diese nicht vorhanden, wurden andere Bewirtschaftungsformen wie Hackbau betrieben. Die Zugtechnik und Zugkraft wurde durch die Entwicklung des Stirnjochs für Ochsen und des Kummets für Pferde erheblich verbessert. So konnte die Zugkraft eines Pferdes mit Verwendung des Kummets um das Vier- bis Fünffache gegenüber der Anschirrung mit Riemen um Hals und Brust gesteigert werden. Um die Tiere zu führen, war eine exakte Handhabung erforderlich. Zum Heben und Wenden des Pfluges musste Kraft eingesetzt und Geschicklichkeit aufgebracht werden. Die tierische Zugleistung wurde durch den Räderpflug stärker für das Pflügen des Bodens nutzbar gemacht.

Literatur

 Schlipf: Schlipfs populäres Handbuch der Landwirtschaft. Gekrönte Preisschrift. 18. Auflage. Verlagsbuchhandlung Paul Parey, Berlin 1917, S. 36–37.

Einzelnachweise

Landmaschine
Agrargeschichte (Feldwirtschaft)

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package org.bdgenomics.adam.cli

object BuildInformation extends ADAMCommandCompanion {
  val commandName: String = "buildinfo"
  val commandDescription: String = "Display build information (use this for bug reports)"

  def apply(cmdLine: Array[String]): ADAMCommand = {
    new BuildInformation()
  }
}

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The award-winning Bluez 2S are the only wireless headphones to offer uninhibited situational awareness, complete with a sound quality that will shock you. A patented design and bone conduction technology guides mini vibrations through your cheekbones to your inner ears, delivering sound without plugging or covering them. Exceptionally lightweight and comfortable, this unmatched open ear listening experience is further enriched through innovative technologies that make it possible (and safe) to tune in to music or voice communication without tuning out the world.


"Hell No, we need to go somewhere exotic and colorful and fun" . Don't get me wrong ,the US are fun too but you know what I mean. Once again we hopped on a plane and we were off to Brazil !
We stayed for 8 days in Rio and then we went to Ilha Grande for 3 days. You know us, it is virtually impossible to go to a country and stay in just one place.
We arrived on a Thursday morning and on that same afternoon , we jumped right into it by going to the Pão de Açùcar (Sugarloaf Mountain). We had an amazing view of the city and guys... the sunset up there is to die for. I promised I would never applaud a sunset anymore because it's kind of ridiculous but I had no choice...We had a standing ovation for the sunset.
I must admit that I am pretty jealous of Mister E because he got to see El Christo Redentor on his 30th birthday. Can I have an AMEN ?! I have no words for this experience as it was amazing and thrilling. I have seen this statue in movies , video clips and pictures, so to finally see it in real life was like a dream come true.
You don't realize how big it is until you stand at the very bottom. It is 98 feet tall but I swear it felt like it could touch the sky. We were so high that at one point, the clouds started to surround us and the statue disappeared for a moment. All of it felt very surreal but looking back at the pictures makes me realize the we were actually there.
The days that follow were more about chilling at the beach , discovering the local food,... Although , one day before leaving for Ilha Grande we visited the Santa Marta Favela with a tour guide. We were a small group of 4 which was easier for the guide to answer to each one of our questions. The visit lasted 2 hours and 30 minutes and we pretty much saw everything. We went from the very bottom of the favela to the top. We really enjoyed the visit mainly because most of our apprehensions about the favelas were swept away.
After that experience, we went back to Rio for two more days before finally heading back to Belgium.
Luckily for you guys, I vlogged like never before so that you can see everything that I am talking about with your own eyes. I hope my vlogs will make you want to buy a ticket right away and leave for Brazil!


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Roman Britain. Bronze Pennanular Brooch. Possibly A Votive Type.
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Georgian Period. Gilt Bronze Seal 18th/19th Century.
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The Bible says that Jesus Christ built His church. Does that mean the church still exists today? What is the church?
In Matthew 16:18 the Lord Jesus told the apostle Peter, "On this rock (the confession of Christ) I will build my church" (NKJV). Many believe the church began in the Old Testament, but this verse teaches us that the Lord Jesus would build it in the FUTURE. The word "church" is the Greek word "ecclesia" which means "a called out company." Up until this time, there were many "individual believers," but the day would come when the Lord Jesus would UNITE all believers into ONE COMPANY called the church. After the Lord's death and resurrection He met with His disciples and He commanded them to stay in Jerusalem "to wait for the Promise of the Father…for John truly baptized with water, but you shall be baptized with the Holy Spirit not many days from now" (Acts 1:4-5). The Lord then ascended to heaven and the disciples assembled together and waited for the Holy Spirit to come (Acts 1:9-14).
Peter preached the gospel that day to many Jews attending the feast and verse 41 informs us, "Then those who gladly received his word were baptized; and that day about THREE THOUSAND SOULS WERE ADDED TO THEM." This "called out company" grew by 3,000 souls after one short gospel meeting! We then read that "they continued steadfastly in the apostles' doctrine and fellowship, in the breaking of bread and in prayers." Again, the "church" is made up of individual believers who are now "one body," and thus they continue in happy fellowship together. Verse 47 goes on to teach us that the church would continue to grow: "And the Lord added to the church daily those who were being saved." Every time someone believed on Christ as their Savior they were immediately "added to the church," and there are STILL souls being added to the church today.
The church is looked at in three ways in Scripture. We already saw in Ephesians 1:22-23 that the church is "the body of Christ." The main thought in connection with the "one body" is that of MINISTRY, with each member of the body being given a spiritual gift for the edifying of the whole body (see 1st Corinthians 12 and Ephesians 4:1-16). The church is also called the "house of God" in 1st Timothy 3:15, "I write so that you may know how you ought to conduct yourself in THE HOUSE OF GOD, WHICH IS THE CHURCH OF THE LIVING GOD, the pillar and ground of the truth." The "house of God" speaks of ORDER, as well as WORSHIP (see 1st Peter 2:5). And lastly, the church is the "bride of Christ," as intimated in 2nd Corinthians 11:2: "For I have betrothed you to one husband that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ." The marriage relationship on earth is a picture of this (see Ephesians 5:22-32); it clearly illustrates the INTIMATE RELATIONSHIP between Christ and the church.


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FS #213: The Fall / Kung Fu Panda / Man Who Fell to Earth / Top 5 Sydney Pollack Movies
June 6: From whirling dervishes to whirling red pandas (who sound an awful lot like Dustin Hoffman), this week Matty and Adam ogle a scrumptious smorgasbord of visual feasts with reviews of Tarsem Singh's "The Fall" and the latest offering from Dreamworks Animation, "Kung Fu Panda."
Not to be out done, Nicholas Roeg offers up his own complex cinematic intarsia featuring David Bowie as an alien hanging with Rip Torn, Candy Clark, and Buck Henry in 1976's "The Man Who Fell To Earth," the final movie in Filmspotting's '70s Sci-Fi Marathon.
Also on the show: Listener Feedback, Massacre Theatre, our Top 5 Sydney Pollack Movies -- a tribute to the late, great director -- and music by Austin Donohue.
** Filmspotting is presented by SpoutBlog and the FilmCouch podcast. Find out why The New York Times says, "SpoutBlog's got it all," at blog.spout.com.
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:35-10:36 - Review: "The Fall"
10:37-17:32 - Review: "Kung Fu Panda"
Music: Austin Donohue, "Slow Vibration"
18:56-22:30 - "SATC" Voicemails, Poll Results
22:31-23:52 - "Indy 4" Voicemails
23:53-33:59 - Listener Feedback ("Indy 4")
Music: Austin Donohue, "Forgetting Your Name"
34:39-38:32 - Massacre Theatre (Winner: Trung Mai)
38:33-47:40 - '70s Sci-Fi #6: "The Man Who Fell to Earth"
Music: Austin Donohue, "Listing"
52:51-1:04:20 - Top 5: Sydney Pollack Movies
1:04:21-1:06:49 - Close/Next Show/Outtake
- We recognize that Sydney Pollack's agent character in "Tootsie" isn't, as far as we can recall, necessarily ethically-challenged. Just play along... However, Tom Cruise is the doctor, of course, in "Eyes Wide Shut." Pollack is just some sort of power broker. The poll has been corrected.


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Ajax Orlando Prospects was an American soccer team, founded in 2002. The team was a member of the United Soccer Leagues Premier Development League (PDL), the fourth tier of the American Soccer Pyramid, until 2006, when the team left the league and the franchise was terminated.

The Prospects played their home games at Warden Stadium on the grounds of The First Academy, a Christian college preparatory school in Orlando, Florida. The team's colors were white, red and black.

The team was part of the Ajax America organisation, an exclusive affiliate of the renowned Dutch football club AFC Ajax's North American marketing and player development program.

Final squad
vs Palm Beach Pumas, 22 July 2006

Year-by-year

Competition history

Notable former players

Coaches and staff
  Greg Petersen (2004–2005)
  Mark Dillon (2005–2006)

Technical Director
  Barry Hulshoff (2004–2006)

Stadia
 Stadium at Dr. Phillips High School, Orlando, Florida 2004
 Disney's Wide World of Sports Complex, Kissimmee, Florida 2004–05 (2 games)
 Austin Tindell Sports Complex, Orlando, Florida 2004 (1 game)
 Stadium at Lakeland Christian Academy, Lakeland, Florida 2005
 Bryant Stadium, Lakeland, Florida 2005 (1 game)
 Warden Stadium, Orlando, Florida 2006

Average attendance
 2006: 60
 2005: 89

External links
 Official site

References

Orlando
Defunct Premier Development League teams
Soccer clubs in Orlando, Florida
Association football clubs established in 2002
Association football clubs disestablished in 2006
2002 establishments in Florida
2006 disestablishments in Florida
Defunct soccer clubs in Florida
Diaspora soccer clubs in the United States
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Sports in Kissimmee, Florida


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checklist
=========

A simple Node.js checklist for synchronising asynchronous tasks by maintaining a list of items to check off before calling back.

## Features

- should callback immediately if there are no items to check off
- should callback once all the items have been checked off
- should callback with an error if an item is checked off that we are not waiting for
- should callback with an error if an item is checked off twice
- should callback with an error if an item is checked off out of order and ordered has been set to true
- should not callback again after error
- should throw an error if checked again after completion
- should not alter the array passed in on construction
- should callback with a list of errors for each item that was checked off with an error

## Installation

```
npm install checklist
```

## API

```javascript
var Checklist = require('checklist');

var testItem = {
  test: 'hello'
};

var checklist = new Checklist([
  'item 1',
  testItem,
  'item 2'
], {
  ordered: true, // Set to true to error if items are checked out of order (defaults to false)
  debug: true    // Set to true to print each item to the console as it is checked off (defaults to false);
}, function(error) {
  if (error) {
    // A problem occurred
  } else {
    // Everything in the list was checked off
  }
});

checklist.check('item 1');
checklist.check(testItem);
checklist.check('item 2');
```

## Roadmap

- should allow more items to be added after construction
  - This would only be useful if before checking off an existing item it is expanded into a new list which is then added - as such maybe it may make sense to just create a new checklist and chain them

## Contributing
In lieu of a formal styleguide, take care to maintain the existing coding style. Add unit tests for any new or changed functionality. Lint and test your code using ``./grunt.sh`` or ``.\grunt.bat``.

## Release History
_(Nothing yet)_

## License
Copyright (c) 2012 Peter Halliday
Licensed under the MIT license.


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The Euston Manifesto, a reminder .....
We hold the fundamental human rights codified in the Universal Declaration to be precisely universal, and binding on all states and political movements, indeed on everyone. Violations of these rights are equally to be condemned whoever is responsible for them and regardless of cultural context.
Here's the Harry's Place thread on the Goldstone report.
Any betting on Professor Norm's reaction? Or Michael Walzer's?
posted by Captain Cabernet at 9/16/2009 10:00:00 AM
even by their standards, that copy and pasted piece is atrociously poor quality.
Its dissenting source is from a self-confessedly partisan pressure group ffs - and z word is also an offshoot of another partisan pressure group. all the links provided are to really quite dodgy sources for 'neutral' information.
If they're going to take issue with 'bias' these are not the best places to be loking for analysis.
I shouldn't even have looked. The really sad thing (after the rubbish which H'sP will publish as a 'guest post') is David T's comment about a woman who once taught him.
She was mine - we used to get on rather well. She also once hired me to teach Property and Trusts.
I had no idea what sort of person she was at the time.
I nearly wrote a post during a recent drought where I was going to say that I thought David T was basically a small d decent person. But bloody hell, how can you judge someone you know and 'get on [with] rather well' by something that they wrote you didn't like? It's really very like the purges; Harry's Place is just a platform to denounce your former friends and colleagues.
Mind you, I've got no idea who he's talking about. He replied to another comment which read "Also, I wonder if Chinken was Joseph Brown's professor?" But whoever she is, she's not mentioned anywhere in the report.
Captain Cabernet said...
Isn't the HP Sauce banner quote even more wickedly appropriate than ever in relation to Goldstone's report!
too true about the banner. I've always thought it was really not a good idea to have that plastered up over a McCarthyite website which seems to be an enduring case study in refusing to see two sides of an argument.
I don't think Toube is small d decent - he might well be fairly amiable in the flesh, but that doesn't excuse the myriad examples of his acting like a boorish oaf online. and in his 'Lucy Lips' persona he writes some utterly abhorrent things.
Chinkin was one of the 4 people who wrote the report, I think, and in January she wrote a letter to the times calling the Israeli bombardment of Gaza a 'war crime'. That's the 'sort of person she is' - someone who holds fairly uncontroversial views which Toube disagrees with - and since she teaches law she should know her stuff; though it undoubtedly gives the 'UN are innately biased' people who work for pro-IDF NGOs ammunition. She is another Human Rights expert on the HP Sauce blacklist.
Incidentally, amateur psychology time, but David Toube has taught at universities and I can't help thinking that some sort of bad experience during that time might exaplin his baffling obsession with the UCU and with student politics generally.
OC you're almost certainly right. It's a fault that a 6.5MB PDF file doesn't have room to name its authors. If it does, I can't see them.
Speaking for myself, rather than AW, I'd really prefer if we didn't wander off into psychology. It's too much "I have a reasoned argument; you have psychological issues; he is a moonbat." That's the sort of argument that we're against here. I know I seem to be criticizing commenters here, but IMO what went wrong with Harry's Place is that they didn't set standards, and the trolls took over. The other thing about Harry's Place is that I'm sure all their posters are competitive and they actually try to get more comments than each other. (I know I feel this way sometimes.) Perhaps quite unintentionally, they write posts which will inflame the Morgoths and the Mavens. Let's not be like them.
While I agree to a sizeable extent about psychology - I think that certainly when it comes to individuals, it nearly always involves drawing very large conclusions from very sketchy evidence - there are elements of monster-creation and getting-back-at-one's past in Decency that can't entirely avoid some degree of musing as to their origins and formation.
Ah, incidentally, did you know you wrote "I'd really prefer if we didn't wander off into psychology" and then "perhaps quite unintentionally"? As I say, keeping out of that territory can be hard...
The Couscous Kid said...
Indeed. AWers may recall that in that magnificent pamphlet on political correctness, The Retreat of Reason, one of the ten strategies Anthony Browne recommended for purging yourself of any tendencies towards PC was learning not to psychologise your opponents -- in a text which psychologised PC types again and again and again. (It was guilt, mostly, if memory serves.)
Yes, Justin. I did notice that I did that. But not until after I'd published it. And deleting and rewriting would have been an even worse thing to do. But I'd still rather that we at least try to stick to evidence rather than empty speculation.
I agree that it's very tempting to wonder about the roots of Decency, but I think we're ad argumentam rather than ad hominem guys. If we stick to that, we'll commit Anthony Browne type hypocrisies less often.
Sometimes I think the smartest thing I've ever said was 'Snark comes back at you' (in my Normblog profile). Criticise someone else, and you often find the same fault in yourself being pointed out. Not that has ever really stopped me of course.
What sparked this BTW, was the comment by "Ann On" in the previous thread which attacked Johann Hari at some length for something which he hasn't done yet and therefore exists only in Ann On's imagination. This really crosses some sort of line, especially as AO then cotrasts Hari unfavourably with George Monbiot in what is a purely fictional comparison. I'm sure there are grounds for preferring Monbiot to Hari but invented scenarios don't convince me, and I doubt they convince anyone.
OT, but I've just got my Private Eye. Turn to page 27. Holy piss.
Just thought it worth pointing out that the Z-word guy's main argument seems to be that Israel couldn't have been making war against the people of Gaza, because they didn't kill enough. In other words, the only situation in which we can say civilians were targeted is a war of extermination.
"Just thought it worth pointing out that the Z-word guy's main argument seems to be that Israel couldn't have been making war against the people of Gaza, because they didn't kill enough."
This quote is particularly fatuous:
"In a war apparently directed against civilians, one would expect that the number of non-combatant fatalities would be astronomical."
This is Dr Strangelove territory.
The argument goes - that there can be no basis for questioning the legality of the Israeli operations as they do not amount to text book casualty rates in the targeting of civilians. (Aside from the legality of the war anyway!)
Surely there is some stomach churning unethical number crunching going on at the very base of this overall piece.
You said "Holy piss" when you received Private Eye two weeks ago, Mr Splinty. I hope this isn't going to become a habit.
I'm afraid Nick is having that effect on me these days. But I was still startled to see him take over the book review section to bore on again about this litigious sheikh. Oh, and Judge Eady as well. And for such a long article, bearing in mind that the Eye has been obsessed with the late sheikh for ages, there seems to be very little solid fact at the core of it, but rather a lot of smoke-blowing.
Yes, on reflection, I stand by my initial reaction.
I'd really prefer if we didn't wander off into psychology. It's too much "I have a reasoned argument; you have psychological issues; he is a moonbat."
Yes, I think you're right, and I do try to avoid it. apologies, and feel free to delete earlier post if you'd like. Though - this is not to disagree really - Decency seems to have so much irrationality at its heart (especially for a movement that styles itself as entirely rational) that it's hard to avoid looking for other reasons.
That takes us onto the Gaza report stuff, I guess:
The Z Word piece is a rehash of that unpleasant argument that was going on at the time of the war itself (the IDF are so ACES that if they wanted to kill civilians they'd kill loads more and THUS any killings are the fault entirely of 'the Palestinians'), it doesn't actually add anything and the obvious bogusness of that argument is totally avoided. As usual there's an awful lot of huffing and puffing (vast swathes of the report by the British general, which to reiterate was commissioned by a pro-IDF thinktank) and very little more than the kind of troll-ish comments you see all over the blogosphere.
This is why I think that Israel really is a big deal for the HP Sauce side of decency, because there's no way they'd publish this kind of tripe if it was justifying the killing of over 500 civilians by another state (in fact Toube claims to be close to tears when typing pieces about innocent Iranians being killed, and this sits very awkwardly with that). There's also some very unpleasant anti-Palestinian racism in the comments boxes that's going totally unchallenged. Am guessing it was like this during the Gaza war, i tried to avoid it at that point, having undertaken a brief exchange with Toube on Liberal Conspiracy where he used the argument that 'since Hamas lies occasionally about IDF actions, the IDF never do anything wrong and deserve our total support'.
What I find so odd about this strand of IDF apologism in general is that it makes people so thoroughly unhinged - they end up believing in and even perpetuating propaganda, they end up endorsing the killing of civilians, etc etc. an emotional response maybe but there are more than two sides in the arguments over Gaza - you don't actually have to be either pro-Israel or pro-Hamas. Too many people (in general, not just in the world of decency) seem ready to excuse anything the IDF does and I do think that's problematic.
Postal strikes mean that my Eye has not appeared yet but I'm truly sick of this litigious sheikh stuff. Like MMR, the more they flog these issues the less solid they seem - surely a reader will have made up their mind about it by now? That's one thing that frustrates me about the Eye - so much of the content is filler where the same issues are waffled on about without any new information. It does frustrate me when the books section is handed over to someone with almost no interest in reading, too.
So what happened to the Euston Manifesto then? I remember all the publicity it got at the Guardian, CiF, and New Statesman. But that was way back. I can't imagine that many of the Euston Group, certainly not the HP crowd, would associate with those publications now.
Organic Cheeseboard, well, I can confirm. I used to follow HP quite closely during the invasion of Lebanon, and then Gaza. Very pro-Israel, with occasional critical noises. But the comments were far worse, particularly over Gaza. Really awful stuff at times.
flyingrodent said...
Very pro-Israel, with occasional critical noises. But the comments were far worse...
I don't think this does justice to the astonishing depths of mendacity they reached, especially during the 2006 Lebanon War. It would be more accurate to say that almost everyone at HP - posters and commenters - suddenly morphed into miniature Joe McCarthys in cheerleader uniforms. It was, without a doubt, one of the most disgraceful displays I've ever seen in blogging, a medium notorious for being based on bullshit, smear campaigns and partisan hackery.
Every time David T. runs one of his LOL, conspiracist 9/11 troofers are daft posts, it's worth posting some links to the various International Red Cross/teh librul media are conspiring with Hezbollah to make Israel look bad posts he ran during the conflict.
Plus, "pro-Israel with occasional critical noises" doesn't really cut it either. I think "100% rah-rah propaganda for one side plus endless, malicious attacks on anyone and everyone who dared dissent from the line that War (x) is the most moral and humane war EVAR in the history of the human race". The fact that they occasionally stopped to observe that hey, blasting civilians to smithereens is bad, but it's all the evil terrorisses' fault in the first place, doesn't make their behaviour any less reprehensible in my book.
hear hear FR, can't add much to that. Aside from their entering into one of the dodgiest sides of the pro-IDF blogosphere - the pre-empting of reports which criticise Israel as inherently untrustworthy - usually based on, er, some comments by a bloke on a blog. The joshua Brown example is perhaps the worst - he has lost his job because of internet smears that were perpetuated by HP Sauce. Playing with people's livelihoods in this partisan way is reprehensible.
This, again, is why I think it's such a big deal for Decency as it's where Decency loses its way as (er) a coherent set of beliefs, as the Euston quote above makes clear. Euston was really all about special pleading. You can't claim to believe in universal human rights and yet publish denial after denial of quantifiable, empirical evidence of IDF war crimes based on what some bloke on a blog said about one of the people who investigated.
Toube has now taken up the meme that the whole thing was a fit-up from the start. The UN survey's remit was oddly worded, granted, but it's no reason to deny the claims therein since they're based on yer actual evidence. most of it seems to be debunked because 'teh Arabs are untrustworthy and teh Israelis never lie'. recent posts are chock-full of racism against palestinians, not countered by anyone on the site, by the way, if that Decent racism post is still in the pipeline.
This is a central problem with their approach to, well, everything - rather than being open to contrasting viewpoints, they try as hard as they can to ignore facts based on their own prejudices about the people from whose mouths they come.
...if that Decent racism post is still in the pipeline...
I suspect we'll see that one round about the same time we see the Decents' Principled Protests Against The Far Right And The Jihadisses. BB is surely just fucking with us.
You can't claim to believe in universal human rights and yet publish denial after denial of quantifiable, empirical evidence of IDF war crimes...
In fairness, I think it's far more about us vs. them than it is about Israel itself for most of them, Charles Nukey-Nukey-Burden being an obvious exception. It was the same kind of thing with Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib, IIRC - sure, these Departures From Universal Principles are bad, but some Jihadisses blew up a hospital, so how can Abu Ghraib be bad? etc. etc.
The I/P conflict just gives them a chance to jump on their high horses with some seriously black and white issues. After all, Hamas actually are horrible bastards, and there actually are a lot of people online trying to pretend that they aren't. So if Hamas are horrible bastards, how can the Israelis be guilty of deliberately targetting civilian infrastructure? and so on and so forth.
I don't doubt there's a fair bit of Orwell's transferred nationalism going on here, but I think that the DL genuinely see all of these issues as one great Gary Cooper vs. the Black Hats struggle. That's why they see nothing wrong with harrassing anyone suggesting that bombing everything within three miles of the Black Hats' ranch might be a bad idea, and launching smear campaigns designed to get them fired. If the issue is black vs. white, anyone giving aid and comfort to black deserves whatever they get.
Flying Rodent
Well yes, I agree. I was just being succinct. Also, I don't really don't want bring back my bad memories; that is, muggins here wasting enormous chunks of time arguing with them.
I agree with that. Up to the Lebanon war it was just about possible to argue that HP was principled and well-intentioned, if a trifle misguided. After that it was obvious that they had become just another gang of sectarians, and a year or so later they had morphed into full-on culture warriors.
By the way, on Lockerbie...
http://www.lrb.co.uk/v31/n18/peir01_.html
saucy jack said...
I would not wish to be accused of amateur psychologising, but "Lucy Lips" is also the name of a transvestite cabaret performer operating out of northern Italy (please don't ask how I know this).
On the Decents and Israel, I think the country plays a similar role to that played by Albania in relation to the remnants of Maoism in the late 1970s and the 1980s - ie they know nothing whatsoever about the actually existing country and don't really care, but are prepared to believe everything its leaders say as it represents the last buttress of their crumblng ideological fantasies.
Jack, I was never quite sure whether or not this Indy story about Stephen Pollard was on topic for this site or not. Good fun, even so.
andrew adams said...
In fairness, I think it's far more about us vs. them than it is about Israel itself for most of them, Charles Nukey-Nukey-Burden being an obvious exception.
Of course - the whole raison d'etre for Decency is to distinguish the decents from the "indecent" left who have "betrayed the traditional principles of the left". The Euston Manifesto is full of references to those indecent leftists and of course there's "What's Left" and Andrew Anthony's effort.
One of the problems with this is that while adopting a puritanical attitude towards the rest of the left they have been less than fussy about the kind of friends they have attracted on the right, so you get the likes of Nukey Nukey, Morgoth etc. in the comments boxes at HP, Nick singing the praises of David Horowitz, the willingness to make common cause with assorted neo-cons.
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