Some in the press have accused us of bias. We suggest they just deal with the things that we've said.
Synopsis: Some in the press have accused us of bias. We suggest they just deal with the things that we've said.
We say it again: we think the press story of the year, post-impeachment, has been the negative coverage of Gore. It began in mid-March with the farm chores debacle, which we think was the most striking press event of the year. For three solid months, CelebCorps accused Gore of being "deeply dishonest" (Donald Lambro) and "delusional" (Michael Medved). Why? For a comment that reflected a part of Gore's life that the Washington press corps had written about for twelve years! To this day, this bizarre press conduct has gone unremarked, unreviewed, unexplained, undiscussed. It stands as a tribute to the press corps' willingness to cover up its mistakes—and to tell readers the stories it likes.
MILBANK (10/18): No doubt, the above portrait of the Gore campaign will bring an angry rebuke from one Bob Somerby of Baltimore. Somerby, Gore's roommate when they were students at Harvard University, runs a website that lashes out at media miscreants who dare to criticize the vice president's flawless campaign. In a recent dispatch, Somerby, employing a naughty word for equine feces, describes your correspondent's campaign coverage as "stomach-churning" and accuses me of making light of child molestation, having an obsession with naked presidential candidates, and worst of all, being too hard on Gore.
Alas, poor Milbank! We simply must have him visit the sprawling campus of THE DAILY HOWLER's spectacular World Headquarters, nestled in the rolling foothills of Baltimore County's horse country, state-of-the-art in world press critique web sites! Like some others in the Washington press, he identifies THE DAILY HOWLER with this fellow Bob Somerby, the humble messenger who simply types up the critiques which our analysts bring him! Here and in a follow-up note (see below), Milbank implies that it is some bias of Somerby's that explains the views of THE HOWLER. We thought the time may well have come to address that issue forthwith.
But before we speak to Milbank's complaint, let's note a problem with allegations of bias. Such allegations are a form of the ad hominem argument; they choose to address a writer's motives, rather than his arguments or his facts. They are easy to make, virtually impossible to prove—and often provide a wonderful way of avoiding what a writer has said. Indeed, if anyone ever needed a perfect example of how seductive the ad hominem approach can be, Milbank's presentation in TNR provides a perfect illustration. Indeed, one would never guess, from what Milbank wrote, that the article which we termed "stomach-churning" was an article Milbank had written about Bush—that it was Milbank's "campaign coverage" of Bush that we had described so uncharitably. The article in question is "Touchy," which Milbank wrote in the 9/27 TNR, an article we critiqued on September 17 (see THE DAILY HOWLER, 9/17/99). Weird, isn't it? By a slip of the pen, Milbank had accidentally given TNR readers the impression that we'd slammed him for his coverage of Gore! Of course, any TNR reader who wanted to check could see for himself what our article said. Except: Oops! Another big oversight! In his discussion, Milbank had completely forgotten to mention the name of THE HOWLER! Having completely misstated what THE HOWLER had said, he gave TNR readers no way to look for themselves. Ommigod! Image the chagrin TNR must have felt when it realized it had made this mistake!
We wrote a letter to TNR, published in the November 22 edition; Milbank responded in a short note which we must describe as the standard dispatch-from-Mars. Making no comment on the fact that we had principally criticized him for what he wrote about Bush, Milbank again accused us of bias toward Gore, proving his point to (we hope) puzzled readers by citing the fact that recent HOWLERs had criticized Gore's campaign coverage. He never said whether we were right or wrong in our claims—in fact, he essentially forgot to say what our claims were—but simply seemed to say that, because we'd so written, that apparently showed we were biased toward Gore. And so you see why logicians have long argued against ad hominem presentations—they lead to a note like this one Milbank penned, in which he doesn't seem to have heard that arguments are right or wrong, and should be addressed on the basis of evidence.
In basic reasoning, here's how "bias" works, friends. A writer's argument is either right or wrong. If you've actually shown that the argument is wrong, you may start wondering why the writer has made it. But in the culture of the celebrity press corps, writers often prefer to skip over arguments, looking for reasons to avoid having to address them. That's what Milbank did in these notes. And in his original 10/18 piece, he also completed a cyber trifecta—misstating what our critique of him said, and failing to mention the name of our site so TNR's readers could see for themselves.
Bottom line: we criticized Milbank for his "stomach-churning" coverage of Bush. He told readers we'd slammed him for his coverage of Gore. Do you see, dear readers, the crying need for one, two, many DAILY HOWLERs?
SHAPIRO: The fellow from The Daily Howler, Bob Somerby, who's not only an accomplished media critic, he's a very good stand-up comedian and a terrifically nice guy, but he's also one of Al Gore's college roommates. So to some extent, though he's doing his best on media criticism, he's doing it from a perspective of really believing that Al Gore should be the next president. He also did it during impeachment, defending Bill Clinton, all of which is totally fine.
Several comments. First, Somerby wishes Shapiro had mentioned how handsome he is—why the curious omission of that? And Shapiro, like Milbank, seems to confuse poor Somerby with the incomparable DAILY HOWLER itself. But our views of Clinton last year, we think, generally agreed with Shapiro's views—we didn't think Clinton should be impeached or removed, but we think that was Shapiro's view also. (It was the view of roughly 65% of the country, by the way.) And we think we mentioned in passing what Somerby frequently said in the outside media—that we thought Clinton's conduct with Lewinsky was ridiculous, and dangerous, and suggested that something was wrong with Clinton, and that a better case for impeachment could have been made on the basis of national security. But THE DAILY HOWLER does not exist to evaluate pols—THE DAILY HOWLER exists to evaluate the press corps. We evaluated press coverage of Clinton last year, not Bill Clinton himself. As for Somerby's views on who should be president—Shapiro is basically guessing. Does Somerby "really believe that Al Gore should be the next president?" Somerby has said many times that he is a Democrat, who almost always votes for Democrats. (He has also said—on Washington Journal, for example—that he thinks it was a good thing for the country when the GOP took over the Congress. He did not get that from the DNC or from Gore.) But what do Somerby and THE DAILY HOWLER really think? We really think that there are a variety of qualified hopefuls out there; that they deserve to be covered in a rational way; that the election is about the candidates, not the pundits; and that people should vote for who they like.
One final note on the Gore-shill theory: THE DAILY HOWLER has repeatedly pointed out that Gore and Bradley both propose paying for health plans out of a projected surplus is built of budgeting gimmicks. (Bush says he would pay for tax cuts and certain spending the same way.) We have repeatedly said that the press corps should ask the hopefuls, including Gore, if they plan to stick to the 1997 spending caps, without which the projected surplus goes away. Anyone who thinks that Gore 2000 hatched this thought is living in a dream-like state. To our knowledge, no mainstream journalist has offered this critique—just us biased folks right here at THE HOWLER, shillin' away for ol' Gore.
MILBANK (11/22): Now why would anybody think Bob Somerby is biased because he was Gore's Harvard roommate? Perhaps because the last twelve stories on his website about candidates complain that the press is too mean to his pal Al. A few of the latest installments: "It's time to ask an awkward question. Is the press corps sand-bagging Gore?"; "The writers insist young Gore was stiff. Their reporting seems to say something different"; and "Gore said Bradley would spend too much on health. On three follow-up shows, nobody noticed."
Milbank avoids addressing the main point of our letter, the fact that we had principally criticized his coverage of Bush. But note the points he does raise. "Gore said Bradley would spend too much on health?" Our complaint concerned the vacuous commentary on the town hall forum; we expressly said we do not know if Gore's complaint about Bradley is accurate. If the press would stop talking about Gore's hair and clothes, maybe some day we'll find out. "The writers insist young Gore was stiff?" Their writing did seem to say something quite different. In this note, Milbank presents the ancient, ad hominem dispatch, completely ignoring the arguments we made. Logically, allegations of bias arise when an argument is proven wrong. Milbank likes quicker solutions.
MILBANK (10/18): Now, the first two charges are fair enough, but Somerby's point about Gore demands rebuttal. True, the coverage of Gore's campaign has been excessively negative. But the Gore campaign has brought much of this on itself by being tactical and reactive rather than by articulating a vision.
In short, Milbank says we were right in complaining that he "made light of child molestation" and has "an obsession with naked presidential candidates" (principally in his coverage of Bush, let's recall). And he seems to agree that the coverage of Gore has been "excessively negative." We say he seems to agree because he then immediately says that the Gore campaign brought the coverage on itself. But if the Gore campaign brought the coverage on itself by its own conduct, then in what sense is the coverage "excessive?" Milbank's comment doesn't seem to make sense. At THE HOWLER, we don't have that problem.


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It has been a long time coming, but the GMC Yukon finally has a third row that folds flat. GMC had to add a little extra height to the load floor to make it work, but it's not wasted space – lift up a panel and there's hidden storage space.
This technology allows this big SUV to handle like a much smaller vehicle. The secret is in the shock absorbers, which read the road and adjust their stiffness instantaneously, allowing this the Yukon to absorb bumps, but not wallow in corners. Too bad it's only available on the expensive Denali models.
This is where the GMC Yukon is head and shoulders above its predecessor, and where it sets itself apart from Ford, Nissan and Toyota competitors. The materials are first rate, the switchgear is logically arranged and feels high-class, and the driver's seat is exceptionally comfortable. The same is true for the second row, which can come with either a bench or a pair of captain's chairs. The third row is best for kids in a standard Yukon, but the XL manages grownups thanks to extra legroom. The new fold-flat third row makes it easier to maximize cargo room.
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The 2015 GMC Yukon costs a couple thousand dollars more than its predecessor, although you're getting more for your money. Base SLE trims with rear-wheel drive start a little above $47,000, while the more lavishly equipped SLT starts a little under $56,000. Yukon XL models start at about $50,000 for the SLE and $58,500 for SLT. As for the Denali models, the Yukon Denali starts at about $63,000, while the Yukon XL Denali starts at $66,000. If you want 4-wheel drive on any Yukon model, add about $3,000. Over the long haul, the GMC Yukon's resale value is about the same as its competitors from Ford and Nissan, and a bit below the Toyota Sequoia. Before you buy, be sure to check the Kelley Blue Book Fair Purchase Price for the 2015 GMC Yukon to find out what other buyers in your area are paying.
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A lot has been written about the so-called Golden Age of Television, which unofficially began with The Sopranos in 1999, and unofficially seems to transitioning into a new-era with the ending of Mad Men. I think those two moments are excellent bookends to the commonly accepted Golden Age.
Side Note: what's next? Something to do with shows being designed to be devoured in marathon doses, I suspect. The Marathon Age? Anyway, who knows?
I got to thinking about Mad Men and where it stands among the all-time greats. And it stands head and shoulders above the rest. Golden Age or otherwise. So, then I wondered about the next, and the next after that, and came up with the following list. My only rule for the Top 10 and Honorable Mentions categories was that I needed to have seen every episode.
If we're talking off-the-record, of course this is a "best of" list, but, while I've seen a lot of television, I haven't seen everything, so I'm comfortable with calling this a favorites list.
A bit on what I look for in television show: characters, relationships, and moments involving the previous two. I'd wager that whenever you talk to people about what you love in a movie, TV show, book, etc., it's when you recap a moment of character, and not just regurgitate the plot.
I love long-form storytelling where the focus is not to rush headfirst through a plot to the ending. Give me a slow-burn where the characters can marinate and grow and develop, and any worries about plot take care of themselves. Meanwhile, take your plot and shove it up your ass.
All of these shows could get an entire essay about their influence and place in history, and each probably deserve it, but ultimately here's a list and some thoughts. Have at it.
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1. Mad Men - The new champ. The new benchmark. Poised to be at the top for a very long time. For me, this is what other shows get compared to. Honestly, there's a huge amount of space between this and the rest of the list.
2. The Sopranos - The former kingpin and former greatest of all-time. Much of this list doesn't happen with Tony and the crew. Like Citizen Kane, it may not still be the best ever, but there's a definite line of what existed prior to it and what was able to follow after. The show was an earthquake that forever reshaped and redefined the medium.
3. The Wire - As much I said that plot isn't a huge consideration for me, I love me some thematic structure. The Wire structured the entire series better than any show before or since. It's a show where each individual season only gets better in hindsight once the entire picture of the series has been painted. And McNulty, say what you will, but he's good murder police.
4. Breaking Bad - All the way down at number four? Am I crazy? I don't know. Maybe. But you know what, the first draft of this had it switched with the below entry. Scandalous, I get it. On the bright side, it's already climbing the list.
5. The Shield - From start to finish, The Shield was the most enjoyable viewing experience for me for a television. The blend of character and action with humor and pathos was always on point and never lost that balance for me.
6. 24 - There's been so many attempts to recapture this show and none of them hold a candle. Dismissed by many as a George W. Bush era fantasy of the war on terror, a criticism that's always been off-base and superficial at best. Like how The Sopranos changed the face of television as a whole, 24 made a similar impact on network television. Often overlooked department: the show's realistic (as possible, given the world of the show) attempt to show the toll of violence on the psyche of Jack Bauer.
7. Six Feet Under - This one is slipping down the list. In a couple years, this might become an honorable mention. It's excellent, and I'm glad I'm watched, but I will never revisit the Fisher family.
8. Justified - As good of a genre show as you can get. A lot of people would swap this out with Deadwood or Game or Thrones and they wouldn't be wrong.
9. Curb Your Enthusiasm - This show is "The Sopranos" of comedy television. Just about every comedy on television since CYE owes a debt to Larry David (fictional and otherwise).
10. House - Yeah, I went there. Deal with it. I suspect that most people who dislike House never actually watched it. I have no proof of this theory of course. Just a hunch. Sure, the case-of-the-week formula approached parody at times, but Dr. House was as compelling of a character as there's been on television. He's in the same therapist waiting room as Tony, Don, and Walter are.
Look out, Larry David.
Put any of these in slots 6-10 and you get no argument from me.
Louie - The most likely entry to jump into the Top 10. It's the Mad Men to Curb Your Enthusiasm's Sopranos.
Game of Thrones - Second only to Louie for me as a sure-thing Top 10.
Deadwood - Two seasons away from a Top 10 finish. The first-round draft pick who blew out his knee too early. What could have been.....
Jackass - A guilty pleasure, but this is my list, so piss off.
Homeland - A borderline pick. Let's check back in season five or six and see where we are.
The Walking Dead - Probably never going to get much higher than here, but when it slows down and spends time with the characters it illustrates the show's dramatic potential, but dammit then those zombies attack, but it's those zombies that make the people and the situation so interesting. A vicious cycle. So goes life.
I better be in that Top 10 soon.
These are the shows with a lot of upward trajectory that I expect to shoot up the list (Better Call Saul, I'm looking at you), but you never can tell because of the entries in the category below...
Better Call Saul - So far, it's a sure thing.
True Detective - Time will tell here. Fingers crossed for greatness, but not tightly.
The Americans - More people should watch The Americans.
Arrow - Probably has gone as high as it's going to go on my list, but a worthy show nonetheless.
Daredevil - I'm curious to see how Marvel builds their Netflix television universe of Daredevil, Luke Cage, Jessica Jones, and Iron Fist. If the seasons of those shows build to an Avengers-like TV series in street crime world of New York, I would be very happy.
Notable Declines
These were all solid shows, blue-chippers, sure-things, that just went off the rails badly for a variety of reasons. It breaks my heart thinking about some of these.
Dexter - This is what happens when the creators/network/whoever falls in love with the deplorable main character.
Sons of Anarchy - Remember when this was a retelling of Hamlet? That was a really good show.
Prison Break - A poor man's 24, but two great seasons of serialized action. Should have stopped there. Once you break out of prison, a show called Prison Break should be over.
Californication - See Dexter
Weeds - See Dexter/Californication. Get your shit together, Showtime.
LOST - Ugh. Just ugh.
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Review: Texas by The Tail by Jim Thompson
Texas by The Tail seems to earn a mixed reaction from Thompson fans. It's a good one. It's not S-Tier Thompson, but it's not the hot mess some folks may try to convince you it is either. It's a solid upper-mid tier range output. Closer to mid, if we're being honest. It's a gate-keeper for the upper echelon.
Unfortunately, Texas by the Tail suffers from following The Grifters (a bedrock of the S-Tier), and unnecessarily draws comparisons to it. On the surface there's a lot of overlap. Stories about con men with troubled relationships with women, including the older women who serve as fill-ins for the protagonist's unusual relationship with a floozy mother.
Short of the surface-level thematic overlap, Texas by the Tail stands on its own. Fans of the super dark worlds Thompson creates may be disappointed here, but there are moments of Thompson's trademark viciousness -- in particular a scene where two effete hoods go to shakedown a lady. Rough stuff t…
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What am I? Crazy? Giving away one of my babies like that?
The rumors are true. Dog Duty, my first novel, is free from today (that's 6.13.17) through this Saturday (6.17.17) on Amazon.
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What's the book about? Great question.
A Canine Noir revenge story!
When a late-night foot pursuit through dark back alleys goes terribly wrong in the jaws of an ex-military Rottweiler, Fritz, Grand City PD's top German Shepherd is driven into retirement to a place far worse than the crime-infested streets he patrolled: the suburbs!
Surrounded by suburbanite hounds and derelict mutts of all shapes and breeds, Fritz narrates his quest for revenge and redemption that takes him into the fringes of the seedy canine underworld of cat-races, underground clubs, back alleys, and dog parks.
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USMNT heads to Guatemala tonight as favorites for difficult World Cup Qualifier
Posted by Josh Espinal on Mar 25, 2016 16:30
The USMNT continues their path to Russia 2018 by heading to Guatemala City to play Guatemala in the Estadio Nacional Mateo Flores. The USMNT currently sit in first place in Group C of CONCACAF Qualifying on goal differential, while Guatemala is just one point away from reaching both Trinidad and Tobago and the U.S. for the top spot.
While the USMNT is heavily favored in this match, being that the United States has not lost to Guatemala in 28 years, going 15-0-6 against the Central American country. The last time they lost a game to them was 1-0 in a friendly game in Guatemala City in 1988. However, that isn't good enough for head coach Jürgen Klinsmann.
"It will be very difficult to get 3 points. When the game starts tomorrow, previous results don't matter at all … We've watched Guatemala and see what the new coach is trying to do. He has a young team full of energy that will make it difficult," said Klinsmann about the streak and about the strength of his opponent.
With that said, Klinsmann has a great depth in every position and all eyes will likely fall on the goalkeeper position with Tim Howard making his return to the USMNT, as well as to Major League Soccer. However, the question is: Will he get the start?
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Brad Guzan has been solid against the Guatemalans ever since he made his debut against Guatemala. He has never conceded a goal to Guatemala going 3-0-0 against los Chapines, and that might factor in his decision to start Guzan over Howard, but we will have to see.
Not to mention, the attacking side of the USMNT also raises some questions as Jozy Altidore is set to make the start, as he is freshly recovered from his injury, we might see Bobby Wood lead the attack for the United States.
Clint Dempsey will also be key to the U.S. as he is the leading scorer against los Chapines. Dempsey has scored five goals in eight games against Guatemala, with four coming in the last three games against them. Look for him to start in midfield and to create some trouble up top, as he will most likely try to add to his tally against the Guatemalans.
The Guatemalan side has some dangerous players on their squad, as well as some familiar faces to MLS fans with Marco Pappa (Rapids), Moises Hernandez (FC Dallas) and Rodrigo Saravia (Crew SC). Dempsey, Pappa's teammate at Seattle for two years, told ussoccer.com, "He's a player with a lot of quality — you have to watch him on set pieces and also he's very skillful and has a really good left foot … You need to make sure you're aware of that and try to do a good job of limiting his touches in the attacking third."
Another piece to keep an eye out for on Guatemala's squad is their veteran keeper, Ricardo Jerez, who plays for Colombian side Alianza Petrolera. He is a solid player, and he is considered to be a staple in the team, so look for him to keep Guatemala in the game, especially if the speedy Wood and powerful Altidore are on top for the USMNT.
It will be a tough task at hand for Guatemala, especially if they entertain any idea of getting three points over the USMNT. And if history is a telltale sign of how this game will go, then los Chapines will surely have a difficult time against the Statesmen.
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Academy Award nominee Gary Oldman gives a "towering performance" (Richard Lawson, Vanity Fair) in acclaimed director Joe Wright's soaring drama Darkest Hour. As Hitler's forces storm across the European landscape and close in on the United Kingdom, Winston Churchill (Oldman) is elected the new Prime Minister. With his party questioning his every move, and King George VI (Ben Mendelsohn) skeptical of his new political leader, it is up to Churchill to lead his nation and protect them from the most dangerous threat ever seen. Also starring Academy Award nominee Kristin Scott Thomas and Lily James, Darkest Hour is a powerful, inspirational drama.
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CANNES, France--3D mobile gaming is still in its infancy (outside of Japan, at least), but this particular baby's teeth are starting to come in. Verizon's V CAST made its debut earlier this month with a full slate of 3D games, and most of the mobile publishers at 3GSM were eager to show off their new 3D projects to passersby. UK-based Superscape, formerly a tech company specializing in software graphics rendering, is now making the transition to full-blown games developer and publisher. It's already put a few titles, like Evel Knievel 3D and AMF Xtreme Bowling, on the V CAST deck, and it's readying several more for prime time. The most impressive of these is Independence Day, a third-person aerial shooter that evokes games like Rebel Assault and Star Fox.
Independence Day, one of the greatest alien invasion-themed summer blockbusters (starring Will Smith, Bill Pullman, and Jeff Goldblum) ever filmed, sported a huge effects budget, a famous shot of the White House being turned into kindling by a giant pulse of energy, and a truly great cameo from Star Trek: The Next Generation's Brent Spiner. The mobile game picks up right after Goldblum's nerdy character has knocked out the alien-invasion fleet's invincible energy shields, thus leaving the extraterrestrials vulnerable to an old-fashioned ballistic shellacking. That's when your US Air Force fighter jet comes into play.
The game is set above a simple polygonal cityscape, with boxy ray-traced skyscrapers growing out of a checkerboard ground to provide some terrain hazards. The area is populated by a variety of hostile alien craft, including standard UFOs, insectoid turrets called "spiders," and the huge mothership. We started the level with only a handful of missiles, which we had to constantly replenish by blowing up spiders and grabbing the resulting power-ups. Independence Day's flight controls are excellent. Right and left on the navigational pad control your jet's roll angle, while up and down effect its pitch. Barrel rolls and flips are a cinch to pull off as well. You can also throttle your speed up or down to avoid collisions or pull off tight maneuvers.
Independence Day's graphical engine has apparently been repurposed from Superscape's existing Jet Fighter game, as well as optimized for greater performance. On Motorola's E680 multimedia handset, which is not yet available in the US, the game runs at a smooth 20 frames per second. There's no telling what sorts of speeds Superscape will be able to wring out of American handsets like the LG VX8000, but anything much lower than 15fps won't be much fun. We sincerely hope the company manages to preserve Independence Day's playability when the game hops the pond sometime in 2005, because this is an action title with a lot of potential.


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Q: How to Combine Two Powershell Commands for Listing Folders and ACLs I have separate Powershell commands I run, one gets me a list of all folders at a specific level, the other list all folders and associated ACLs.  I'd like to combine then to list only "level 3" folders, and their associated ACLs.  Command for level 3 folders is:
    Get-ChildItem "I:" -Recurse -Directory | Where-Object {$_.FullName.split("\").count -le 4} | ForEach-Object FullName

Command for folder ACLs is:
    Get-ChildItem j:\ -Recurse | where-object {($_.PsIsContainer)} | Get-ACL | Format-List

I tried:
    Get-ChildItem I:\ -Recurse | where-object {($_.PsIsContainer)} | Where-Object {$_.FullName.split("\").count -le 4} Get-ACL | Format-List

But got error Where-Object : A positional parameter cannot be found that accepts argument 'Get-ACL'.
Thanks in advance for any help!  Using PS 5.1, btw.

A: You can accomplish this by using the pipeline.  Simply pipe the output of your first set of commands directly into the Get-ACL cmdlet, like so.
$path = "I:\"
Get-ChildItem -Path $path -Recurse -Directory | `
    Where-Object {$_.FullName.split('\').count -le 4} | `
    Select-Object -ExpandProperty FullName | `
    Get-ACL | `
    Format-List

A: I think you're missing a pipe character (|) after Where-Object.

A: This worked:
dir "I:"  -Recurse -ea silentlycontinue | where { $_.PsIsContainer -and $_.FullName.split("\").count -le 5} | % { $path1 = $_.fullname; Get-Acl $_.Fullname | % { $_.access | where { !$_.IsInherited } | Add-Member -MemberType NoteProperty -name "Path" -Value $path1 -passthru }}

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Das Belvedere in Neubrandenburg ist ein Aussichtspunkt oberhalb des nordwestlichen Steilufers des Tollensesees. Über den Tollensesee herüber schimmern vom westlichen Ufer die an einen griechischen Tempel erinnernden Konturen.

Herzog Adolf Friedrich IV. ließ 1775 auf den Höhen südlich des Dorfes Broda in Fachwerkbauweise ein Sommerhaus errichten und nannte es Belvedere (schöne Aussicht), nachdem er auch schon das Neubrandenburger Schauspielhaus und das Stadtschloss (Palais) hatte errichten lassen. Dieses Haus, welches auch der ersten Neubrandenburger Freimaurerloge Zum gekrönten goldenen Greif Heimstatt bot, wurde später abgetragen und als Logenhaus in der Beguinenstraße in Neubrandenburg wieder aufgebaut.

An Stelle des alten Belvederes ließ Großherzogin Marie 1823 durch den Baumeister Friedrich Wilhelm Buttel als Ausflugsziel für ihre Töchter Luise und Caroline ein neues Haus in Form eines griechischen Tempels errichten. Der rechteckige Putzbau erhielt die Gestalt eines dorischen Prostylos.

1934/35 erfolgte der Umbau des Belvederes durch Heinrich Tessenow zu einer Gedenkstätte für die Gefallenen des Ersten Weltkrieges, die heute jedoch nicht mehr besteht. 1994 bis 1996 wurde das Gebäude umfangreich restauriert. Vom Belvedere hat man einen weiten Blick über den Tollensesee.

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DAoCTrade wrote: Well, I was just looking around Druim Cain and figured I'd drop a CT in the middle and let all the pict settlers aggro it and run through and zone out to New Frontiers, well guess what? that wasn't the case.
I got a message saying "You do not meet the requirements to enter this region!" Just thought I would share that they seem to be working on a new zone type area used with those Passage necks IMO.
I just tested on Gaheris, and the post is accurate. The message appears on the System channel. I tried with and without a Tarnished Medallion of Passage (new item from Pictish quest). The toon is not allowed to port.
You think this means a portal to the old frontiers may be coming?
Could be. That might explain why Mythic added the invisible nukers that prevent people from going into old frontiers. Maybe they were stopping players from seeing work in progress so it would be a surprise when it's finished.
Odd's are they set it up so you can't do it due to the invasion. You can't port TO there when it's going on, so it's not a far stretch to say maybe you can't port out either. Or it could be....a....ummm...bug? Dunno if they are gonna put a new zone in place of each realms BK zones, that would be a big undertaking and change to the game at this stage.
Somebody wrote in the thread on postcount.net that this message happens because the toon is in combat. I tested and in fact, the message appears even when the toon's not in combat.


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The color of water: a Black man's tribute to his white mother
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1997, c1996. Riverhead Books, xvii, 291 p. : ill. ; 21 cm. English
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Good Lord Bird , winner of the 2013 National Book Award for Fiction, and Kill 'Em and Leave , a James Brown biography. Who is Ruth McBride Jordan? A self-declared "light-skinned" woman evasive about her ethnicity, yet steadfast in her love for her twelve black children. James McBride, journalist, musician, and son, explores his mother's past, as well as his own upbringing and heritage, in a poignant and powerful debut, The Color Of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother .
The son of a black minister and a woman who would not admit she was white, James McBride grew up in "orchestrated chaos" with his eleven siblings in the poor, all-black projects of Red Hook, Brooklyn. "Mommy," a fiercely protective woman with "dark eyes full of pep and fire," herded her brood to Manhattan's free cultural events, sent them off on buses to the best (and mainly Jewish) schools, demanded good grades, and commanded respect. As a young man, McBride saw his mother as a source of embarrassment, worry, and confusion--and reached thirty before he began to discover the truth about her early life and long-buried pain.
In The Color of Water , McBride retraces his mother's footsteps and, through her searing and spirited voice, recreates her remarkable story. The daughter of a failed itinerant Orthodox rabbi, she was born Rachel Shilsky (actually Ruchel Dwara Zylska) in Poland on April 1, 1921. Fleeing pogroms, her family emigrated to America and ultimately settled in Suffolk, Virginia, a small town where anti-Semitism and racial tensions ran high. With candor and immediacy, Ruth describes her parents' loveless marria≥ her fragile, handicapped mother; her cruel, sexually-abusive father; and the rest of the family and life she abandoned.
At seventeen, after fleeing Virginia and settling in New York City, Ruth married a black minister and founded the all- black New Brown Memorial Baptist Church in her Red Hook living room. "God is the color of water," Ruth McBride taught her children, firmly convinced that life's blessings and life's values transcend race. Twice widowed, and continually confronting overwhelming adversity and racism, Ruth's determination, drive and discipline saw her dozen children through college--and most through graduate school. At age 65, she herself received a degree in social work from Temple University.
Interspersed throughout his mother's compelling narrative, McBride shares candid recollections of his own experiences as a mixed-race child of poverty, his flirtations with drugs and violence, and his eventual self- realization and professional success. The Color of Water touches readers of all colors as a vivid portrait of growing up, a haunting meditation on race and identity, and a lyrical valentine to a mother from her son.
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The color of water : a Black man's tribute to his white mother
The color of water : a Black man's tribute to his white mother / James McBride
The color of water :
a Black man's tribute to his white mother
McBride, James, McBride-Jordan, Ruth, Mothers, Race identity, Racially mixed people, Whites