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Experienced coach and Masters swimmer, Dan Bullock, Head of Coach of Swim for Tri (www.swimfortri.co.uk) provides some practical advice on how to combine swim drills together (but in isolation…) to improve your triathlon and Front Crawl swimming.
I have been working on the idea of combining swim drills of late. A few well-known coaches refer to improving the timing and coordination between the arms and legs as coupling. This concept is key to create a fluid full stroke, but I feel that when two drills are linked/coupled together they can have a remarkably improved effect on a swimmers' full stroke.
The idea is that two areas working together enhance or restrict a movement so that the sum then generates a better full stroke Front Crawl when the drills end.
The usual process is to take a movement off the wall for 5-10m and then build on it with a separate, but linked, movement to half way of a 25m pool. The swimmer then finishes the length on fast full stroke as the drills end and the heightened or enhanced stroke is unleashed.
I wrote a while back about hybrid drills, but this is something different. Hybrid drills integrate two drills to improve or limit a bad habit. Adding a shark fin movement in-between a single arm movement will encourage you to complete your rotation. Coupling two drills together – in isolation – is slightly different.
FISTS w Catchup is a nice variation in its own right but first add 10m fins pointed down with normal hands to offset the fists clenched position and encourage more from the arms. Initially you are working hard to pull with the hands and forearms to offset the dragging legs. The legs are then returned but the hands are taken away to heighten the use of the forearm. When the legs and arms are both 'returned' for the full stroke the legs feel higher, more involved and we feel we can now hold more water.
Legs crossed 5m off the wall will speed the arms into fists clenched for 5m which will wake the legs and continue the momentum of the fast arms. Swim hard for the final 15m of the length.
Swim Torpedo for 5m off the wall to promote your rotation and wake up the legs to enhance them into Legs crossed with normal FC arms. The previously exaggerated rotation will feel stifled but then enhanced when you launch into full stroke for the final part of the length.
10m easy swimming as you return practice sighting looking for your pull buoy.
15m easy with the pull buoy.
There are lots of variations to implement; as a general rule the harder drill should be placed first so you can utilise the push off from the wall and assist with some momentum. The second drill should build or enhance the compromised position and help you flow into the full stroke.


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This article, The Magical Thinking of Guys Who Love Logic, strikes a chord. You've probably all noticed the reverence the most irrational, horrible, repulsive people hold for "logic" and "reason" — it's a common affliction in the atheist community.
Danskin points out that, even when their beliefs skew towards the bizarre and conspiratorial, people on the online right often identify as "rationalists."
This will be unsurprising to those who often engage with the wider online right, whether it is with someone who identifies as alt-right, libertarian, conservative, as a fan of the "Intellectual Dark Web," or even "moderate" or "centrist" (turns out a lot of people online are self-identifying as moderate while also believing in conspiracies about "white genocide"). Although their beliefs may not be identical, there are common, distinct patterns in the way they speak (or type) that one can't help but notice.
Specifically, these guys — and they are usually guys — love using terms like "logic." They will tell you, over and over, how they love to use logic, and how the people they follow online also use logic. They are also massive fans of declaring that they have "facts," that their analysis is "unbiased," that they only use "'reason" and "logic" and not "emotions" to make decisions.
Oh god yes. It's particularly bad on YouTube — search for "logic" or "reason" in the names of channels there, and you'll turn up a collection of insufferable cocky snots who actually have no particular credentials or life experience that qualifies them to be experts in rationality, other than their own self-declared commitment to the ideology of holy reason. It's also a wholly evangelical belief, and the people who convert to it are intolerable.
The men interviewed in the piece, once sweet and caring, started changing after going down a rabbit hole of extremist political content on YouTube and involving themselves in radical right-wing online communities. Convinced of their absolute correctness, these men became at first frustrated, then verbally abusive once they realized their female partners did not always agree with their new views. Any dialogue attempted by these men was not made — at least as far as their partners could tell — with the goal of exchanging views and opening themselves to being challenged. Their goal was to assert their beliefs as fact; to teach their partner the truth, as a Christian missionary might put it. Every woman interviewed in the article — including those who were more formally educated than their boyfriends — makes reference to their former partners belittling their intelligence and rationality. These men were certain that they were the smart ones, that they had correctly assessed the "facts" with "logic," and that if their womenfolk did not accept this without question, they were simply too dumb to understand.
The article mentions one of the early events that led me to question my involvement with atheism at all.
Perhaps the nadir of the movement was 2011's "Elevatorgate," in which a prominent New Atheist woman mentioned that a man had behaved inappropriately to her at an atheist convention and advised other men to avoid this situation in future, and lots of atheist men promptly lost their shit. An over-the-top reaction to women speaking out against harassment is not unique to this movement; for every article praising #MeToo, there seems to be another from a Very Concerned Man who worries that everything is going too far and he's afraid to even TALK to women now!
But I suspect the reason the reaction to Elevatorgate was so vitriolic was not just about general sexism, but also about the threat it posed to the New Atheist sense of moral superiority. It was much less fun for them to reckon with say, the complex social structures within the skeptic community, and the way that might affect the movement, than it was to make fun of some hick who couldn't get his head round evolution. Those were the people who had some learning to do — for the New Atheists themselves, there was nothing more to learn. If people from marginalised groups within the movement started speaking about issues which involved listening and learning, or self-reflecting on one's biases… well, that was unacceptable, since it would require wider reading and understanding of issues that were not immediately accessible or aesthetically pleasing to many New Atheist men.
I don't think Rebecca Watson would like to be labeled a New Atheist now. Neither would I. That's the movement that undercut itself by pretending that rationalizing prior prejudices is exactly the same as "logic".
I am not saying that logic and reason and rationality are bad things, far from it. I'm saying that the Red Pill, Ben Shapiro, Atheism is Unstoppable crowd have stolen those words and abused them. For a beautiful example, look to Jordan Peterson, who uses logic to excuse Nazis.
Footage emerged this week, from a podcast recorded last year, of the professor discussing the conditions that led to the Holocaust. There was the normal equating of fascist and Antifa, on account of the latter's "proclivity to violence" (as if violence were a moral constant); there was discussion of Hitler's bravery during the First World War, as well as the revelation that "[he] was very sensitive to disgust". According to Peterson (and I've no reason to doubt him), Hitler used Zyklon, an easy version of the gas used in the gas chambers at Auschwitz, to clean rats from German factories – and this, along with the economic instability in post-Versailles Germany, to Peterson's mind, is evidence that the Holocaust was a logical progression.
That the Holocaust followed a series of logical progressions is, in a sense, true: if one were to reverse-engineer the Final Solution, each step would appear to follow rationally from the one before.
Watch it.
Jordan Peterson argues Hitler and the Nazis were doing what was only normal and logical "given the circumstances", thus exculpating them
that's textbook Nazi apologiapic.twitter.com/Ul8nYMze3B
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The problem is that he treats history as an inevitable logical progression of events. Horrors of WWI + Postwar Economic Hardship → Holocaust. It's like math. Perfectly "logical". Germany was in the grip of an ineluctable rational progression, it was inevitable. We are therefore led to the conclusion that picking a scapegoat and murdering them for unconnected phenomena is a forced choice, and the Germans had to bow to the pressure of history, as we might now have to bow to the decision to imprison and kill brown-skinned immigrants. Therefore, the alt-right is justified.
But anti-semitism is an irrational belief built on centuries of myth, bigotry, religious dogma, and xenophobia, and he fails to note that many of the decisions leading to the Holocaust were bad or not at all necessary. Congratulations, red-pilled buckos, your hero has just argued that the illogical is logical.
I must also point out that if you look at creationist arguments, it's quite common to hear them declare that atheism or evolution are illogical. If the magic word "logic" can be invoked on both sides of the argument, isn't it obvious that you have to do more work than saying you're logical in order to make your case?
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Reginald Selkirk says
The Magical Thinking of Guys Who Love Logic
I suggest that when we make fun of them for their non-logical logic, we spell it logick. It makes it seem pretentious and silly; which in their hands it is. Analogous to magick.
augustpamplona says
I never liked the "New Atheists" label because I did not understand what it meant (I still don't). It seemed like it was the same as the atheists of before except with a little more public exposure (due to Dawkins, Hitchens, Dennett & Harris having published a few books that sold well).
slithey tove (twas brillig (stevem)) says
crying "logic" is attempting to dispel the overwhelming role emotion is playing with their rationality. A form of distraction technique, making the conversation about the flaws in their logic rather than recognizing how much of their argument is emotion. Emotion plays a big part in our selves, and how we respond to our experiences, sometimes emotional response is a valid short cut our brains take to respond quickly to unexpected events, for long term survival. I struggle with emotions and am writing this to explain to myself they are not useless artifacts of biology, They are a valid result of billions of years of natural processes, so must not be dicounted in favor of something (ie logic) we recently created ourselves.
thank you for letting me ramble
Dunc says
It doesn't matter how logical your reasoning is if your premises are unsound. Garbage in, garbage out.
Sastra says
I watched the Jordan Peterson clip ( it's a little over 2 minutes long) and it didn't sound like Nazi apologetics to me. It sounded more like an explanation of how demagogues are shaped by the dark, angry, resentful elements of a culture looking around for someone or something to blame. Which is " reasonable" enough, I think, as far as it goes.
I'm guessing it went further.
Saad says
I can't believe I'm saying this, but that tweet is misrepresenting what Jordan Peterson is saying in that particular clip.
Fuck Jordan Peterson.
Marcus Ranum says
… and post-modernism is labeled and mis-characterized because one of its projects was to burst enlightenment claims that everything could be reduced by logic and reason. Post-modernists like Foucault were particularly pointing out that racism and political authoritarianism were embedded in our frame of reference so deeply that our logick becomes "garbage in, garbage out." It's like garlic to a vampire.
(I expect that to be obvious but it seemed like a good place to complete the feedback loop)
voidhawk says
'Logic' alone tells you nothing about how to structure society. There has to be an aim in mind. For instance, if you want to increase the amount of dead people, then nuking major populations is a 'logical' approach.
chrislawson says
Did Rebecca Watson ever self-identify as "New Atheist"? I'm not sure. I know she used to feel positively towards the movement before the "Dear Muslima" letter.
The story of Elevatorgate is even worse than portrayed here. Watson was invited to a panel at the 2011 World Atheist Convention specifically to address "Communicating Atheism" and in particular the oft-posed question at atheist conventions of why there weren't as many women there as men. She said it's at least partly because some women feel uncomfortable at these events, and gave a very mild example from her own experience to illustrate why (in point of fact, she and other women had experienced much much worse, she was trying to illustrate a point as gently as possible rather than attack anyone). The response was extraordinary. Essentially a huge chunk of the atheist community decided that if women weren't going to meekly accept unpleasant sexual behaviour online or at conventions then they should be driven out of the movement with floods of rape and death threats.
This is not an exaggeration. One man boasted on Twitter that he would sexually assault Watson if he had the opportunity; he did not even feel the need to make the tweet anonymous — and he was allowed to attend a convention where she was speaking despite this being drawn to the attention of the organisers.
Finally, for all that these alt-right/libertarian thinkers celebrate their own triumphant use of logic, I bet almost none of them could write down a formal logical inference with 3 steps of basic propositional logic, let alone explain the different levels of logic, the limitations of deductive reasoning, or the unresolved disagreements among logic theorists.
mikehuben says
Dunc @4 wrote:
"It doesn't matter how logical your reasoning is if your premises are unsound."
Quite so. And it is easy to show that lots of premises are unsound. Nut we can't show that any premises ARE sound, can we? Best we can do is science, where we show to what extent we know premises are sound.
For pretty much anything we say that is political, instead we base arguments on values, not sound premises.
Even for mathematics, assumptions are not "sound": which is why we have plane geometry and spherical/hyperbolic geometry. Different mathematics for different assumptions.
Logic and reason are of very limited use: see my Skepticism of Rationality page for my take on it 20 years ago.
Cat Mara says
Marcus Ranum @ 7: It wasn't even the post-modernists that had the first inklings that all was not right in Happy Fun Logic Land– hell, that was evident with Russell's Paradox putting a spanner in Frege's work on set theory. Going even further back, you had the Pragmatic school in the US in the late 19th/ early 20th Centuries, guys like Dewey who were hardly flaky, who were responding to the currents that research in new fields like semiotics were opening up. They felt the foundations were shifting and the bland certainties of the Enlightenment philosophes could not be taken for granted. Two World Wars within a generation made that feeling certain. Post-modernism was not just obscurantism for obscurantism's sake, no matter how much its ideological opponents would like to paint it as such (and how few favours the Continental school did themselves with their deliberately abstruse style)– as Doug Hofstadter points out, our mental tools develop strange loops when you point them at themselves.
I mean, a lot of these IDW guys are STEM, FFS. They have to know about shit like Gödel's Theorems and the Halting Problem and they still think they can handwave it away and cling to naive materialism like medieval scholastics. "Rationalists" my Irish ass. I'm a fucking Electronic Engineer and I know this shit doesn't wash anymore.
The other thing as well, and one I've mentioned before, is that all their post-modernist/ post-structuralist bogeymen– Derrida, Lacan, Foucault, Barthes– they're all dead. Not only that, most are so long dead at this point that their graduate students are hitting retirement age! They're fighting the ghosts of an academic battle a generation gone. Find another fucking set of windmills to tilt at already.
Dunc@4–
Yep. If you have a bunch of propositions and you want to know what inferences can be supported from them, then nothing beats logic. But unless you have some idea of how good your propositions are in the first place, logic can lead to some spectacularly bad conclusions.
(Not to mention that sometimes formal logic is less robust than informal natural-language reasoning — e.g. Curry's Paradox.)
robro says
You might suppose that a clinical psychologist and professor of psychology would have read, or at least heard of the work of research psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky. As Kahneman wrote in Thinking: Fast and Slow interpreting the results of one of their tests: "This set of choices has a lot to tell us about the limits of human rationality. For one thing, it helps us see the logical consistency of Human preferences for what it is—a hopeless mirage." Although not an economics researcher, Kahneman won a Noble Prize in Economics because his "empirical findings challenge the assumption of human rationality prevailing in modern economic theory." (Wikipedia)
Meanwhile, over at We Hunted The Mammoth, the latest post rounds up online Nazi outage at an ad for Durex brand condoms that portrays a (cartoon) interracial couple, with posters condemning it as a Jewish (who else?) conspiracy against white men. Such rational. Very logic. Wow.
rcurtis505 says
"Man is not a rational animal; he is a rationalizing animal." – Robert A. Heinlein
Giliell says
The mob made Hitler do it. Amazing how the mob managed to do that when he was writing "Mein Kampf" in prison…
Tabby Lavalamp says
I've learned that if you see "reason" and/or "logic" on a Twitter bio, the person is inevitably an asshole.
Curious Digressions says
You got it. My partner was a philosophy major and on involved in the horror that is debate club. He'll occasionally pick terrible premises and argue them logically. For example, he made a structured an logical argument that since genetically modified organisms can be copyrighted (a la Monsanto), the company that owns the copyright on any modified human would own and could license their reproductive capacity. His conclusion was logically sound and he could defend it based on precedents. Counters about how it's wrong didn't fit the logical structure. Counters that human rights and reproductive rights were in opposition didn't make his argument less logical. He "won" the discussion, with the caveat that I was disturbed that he believed that property rights superseded human rights.
Then he was shocked that I thought he was serious and not just arguing for "fun". So, TL:DR crap premises lead to crap positions. Challenge the premise, not the logic.
heftig says
This reminds me of Captain Disillusion's excellent talk on how not to be an asshole.
JoeBuddha says
"Put aside Logic. Do what seems right." – Spock, to Spock. ;)
KG says
Cat Mara@11
Post-modernism was not just obscurantism for obscurantism's sake, no matter how much its ideological opponents would like to paint it as such (and how few favours the Continental school did themselves with their deliberately abstruse style)
Um… isn't a "deliberately abstruse style" pretty much the same as "obscurantism for obscurantism's sake"? Unless the deliberately abstruse style was adopted to disguise the intellectual poverty of the content.
all their post-modernist/ post-structuralist bogeymen– Derrida, Lacan, Foucault, Barthes– they're all dead. Not only that, most are so long dead at this point that their graduate students are hitting retirement age! They're fighting the ghosts of an academic battle a generation gone. Find another fucking set of windmills to tilt at already.
So are you saying postmodernism is dead? That no-one takes Derrida, Lacan, Foucault and Barthes seriously any more? If not, what are you saying here? Are no ideas originating with those who are now dead worth criticising? People still criticise Plato, FFS.
Brian Pansky says
once sweet and caring, started changing after going down a rabbit hole of extremist political content on YouTube and involving themselves in radical right-wing online communities. Convinced of their absolute correctness, these men became at first frustrated, then verbally abusive once they realized their female partners did not always agree with their new views. Any dialogue attempted by these men was not made — at least as far as their partners could tell — with the goal of exchanging views and opening themselves to being challenged. Their goal was to assert their beliefs as fact; to teach their partner the truth,
I haven't read everything else here, but being really bad at educating, correcting, and handling disagreement is something I see all the time in my leftist bubble. I'm sure people have noticed it here or on other social media every now and then. I've even learned that I have to catch my own first reactions, and think things through before saying stuff.
Another problem with "logical thinking," one which I don't see mentioned very often, is that what people call "logical" is really just whatever seems logical to the people whose opinions matter. Even aside from the often horrific premises, there are also frequently gaping holes in people's "logic", which the people who want believe the results don't see because the argument justifies their prejudices.
TL;DR: human beings are really bad at logic and reason, and would get into a lot less trouble if they'd just accept that fact.
BTW, one of Temple Grandin's books talks about people who've had brain damage such that their thinking isn't affected by emotion. The observation of the people who dealt with them was that such people have really lousy judgement. I.e., emotion actually improves one's "logical" thinking.
KG @ 21:
Um… isn't a "deliberately abstruse style" pretty much the same as "obscurantism for obscurantism's sake"?
Maybe I wasn't as clear as I should've been (ironic, given the subject matter). I was trying to say that just because the Continental philosophers chose to hide their point under a pile of flabby writing shouldn't lead people to conclude that they had no point at all. I mean, I've heard it alleged that Newton wrote the Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica in Latin even though it was starting to decline in use by then as a scientific lingua franca just to keep out the "dabblers" (and knowing what a peevish arsehole Newton was, I wouldn't altogether discount that theory), but that doesn't mean I think it's content-free!
(BTW, the post-structuralists are not universally opaque. Barthes' Mythologies is very readable IMO, though maybe that's because he was writing for a lay audience– they originally appeared as columns in a French newspaper. They're quite funny little essays too, basically about memes, something which would probably annoy the alt-right/ alt-right lot as they're convinced they invented the concept)
So are you saying postmodernism is dead? That no-one takes Derrida, Lacan, Foucault and Barthes seriously any more? If not, what are you saying here? Are no ideas originating with those who are now dead worth criticising?
No, what I'm saying is that the Intellectual (sic) Dark Web have built up post-modernism/ post-structuralism as a bogeyman, a massive, over-arching, corrupting conspiracy in Western academic humanities, when it is demonstrably nothing of the sort. Most of the key thinkers are dead– many several decades dead at this point– their graduate students retired or nearing it, and they have left no obvious intellectual descendents (that I am aware of, but please note: I'm not a professional philosopher or an academic. Even so, one would expect to hear about someone lauded as "the new Derrida" or whatever if one were to turn up) to inherit their quite significant public profiles. What I'm saying is that post-modernism and post-structuralism as cutting edge tendencies in academic thought have had their day in the sun and things have moved on. Maybe at some point in the 1980s you couldn't get academic preferment in the humanities unless you were part of the Deconstructionist Mafia, I don't know, but I doubt if that's been the case anywhere this century.
People still criticise Plato, FFS.
I don't think these people are really criticising them, not engaging in anything like honest criticism anyway. Just cherry-picking howlers from a few bad papers that the authors have already apologised for, and conflating them with hoary old "cultural Marxism" conspiracy theories to make about as much ontological sense as a physicist talking about "quantum relativity". It's bullshit.
mnb0 says
"they only use "'reason" and "logic" and not "emotions" to make decisions."
A classic self-defeater. Science beyond reasonable doubt has established that humans cannot make decisions without emotions involved. So anyone who says this rejects science and hence is unreasonable.
consciousness razor says
Cat Mara:
I was trying to say that just because the Continental philosophers chose to hide their point under a pile of flabby writing shouldn't lead people to conclude that they had no point at all.
I think that's fair enough, that we shouldn't jump to conclusions like that. But I don't think it's established that any of them did have a point at all, one which is valuable, insightful, useful, interesting, or what have you. So now the slogan "garbage in, garbage out" can make another appearance in the thread. If they did not, then in effect they obscured their lack of a point … either for the sake of obscurantism itself (if that's something people care about) or perhaps for the sake of shielding themselves from criticism (which is definitely something people care about). That's unacceptable to me in either case.
Well, that may be how some think about it, although this is a rather elaborate set of interpretations on your part. But if they did make a good point (see above), then wouldn't that point still stand, whether it's the 1980s or the 2010s? I don't know why it would be necessary for someone to be branded "the new Derrida" or some such – just a notion that they have (or had) something valuable to offer.
There are still some people, in various academic circles, who follow this tradition or have inherited it in some sense. Whether or not we should regard these people as having a similar historical/cultural significance or status as some of the originators of these ideas, they are nonetheless still waving that flag. Maybe that's okay, because this is a good thing which is worth defending (even if you're not willing or able to give a defense). Or maybe it's not okay, and what you want to do is brush it off as not a big deal. But I don't think you can actually maintain both positions, if you've got any sort of coherent way to assess the quality of their work.
I was trying to say that just because the Continental philosophers chose to hide their point under a pile of flabby writing shouldn't lead people to conclude that they had no point at all.- Cat Mara@24
Well it seems reasonable at least to suspect that; and the burden of proof is surely on those who think they did have a point (that had not been made earlier and more clearly) to say – clearly – what it is or was. Whenever I've challenged defenders of p-m/p-s on this, I've got fairly anodyne – or else evasive – responses. See a recent example of such an exchange here (where I see you also contributed to the thread).
Barthes' Mythologies is very readable IMO
Yes, as far as I recall (I read it probably 35 or 40 years ago) I agree. But I didn't think it was particularly profound.
Azkyroth, B*Cos[F(u)]==Y says
So Postmodernism has the same problem in miniature as "philosophy" as commonly understood does as a whole. That's kind of amusing.
indianajones says
I'm not sure I agree with the utility of emotion over logic. Not when the examples presented are logic being used wrong to illustrate it. So much of the IDW big wheels are just terrible at logic that invoking an over reliance on logic as a major problem is unnecessary I think. Having said that, I do find a little bit of encouragement in a trend in general.
Without praising a particular example, because fuck those guys, t seems that many IDW denizens et al feel the need to have at least a veneer of logic. It shows that even when being distorted, misused, abused etc that at least the dim recognition that logic is useful exists.
An analogy: it's like watching someone trying to use a saw upside down. Or to cut something it isn't designed to.. It's not gonna work very well, or perhaps not at all. And it is very frustrating to watch.when you know how to do it right. It's even worse when you point out the problem and instead of turning the saw the right way up or using a pair of scissors instead they abuse you for it. But at least they have seen a saw being used before and understand it's potential utility. And to finish the thought, it seems to me that to argue against using logic in favour of emotion or whatever is a bit like saying that cutting in general is a bad idea. Not to say that 'cutting stuff' it's always and universally a good idea. It isn't. But I would improve someones saw technique first. Growing trees in just the right shape might be a possible alternative sometimes, but fix the saw thing first.
Crip Dyke, Right Reverend Feminist FuckToy of Death & Her Handmaiden says
I'm not sure I agree with the utility of emotion over logic.
I'm not sure that anyone is arguing "emotion over logic". Instead, we're pointing out,
1) these people are saying they're using logic when, in fact, they aren't, and
2) even if they were able to use only logic, that wouldn't be a good thing because
2a) logic tells us what is true, but
2b) logic doesn't tell us what we want to do about that.
3) goal-setting requires emotions as well as an ability to perceive others' emotions, and therefore
4) logically figuring out the most efficient way to, e.g., get to Poughkeepsie doesn't help you if you don't know whether or not you actually want to go to Poughkeepsie.
Logic and emotion have to both be present, and you have to be able to identify which one is operating at any given time because the uses for which each is best suited are different uses. Logicking what you want doesn't work. Emotioning how to get what you want either doesn't work or is at least very inefficient. These clueless puppies don't even recognizing when they stray from logic or when they're employing emotion, then they're labeling everything they do "logic" because (to them) it sounds smarter, more betterer, more uber-alles & stuff. In reality it's not better, it's just different.
Instead of the saw example you use, I'd suggest a different metaphor with which the tendency of some to allow emotions and unreason to dictate the arguments they label logic. In this metaphor, they have a saw, some knitting needles, an old shoe, and a refrigerator. They can rig an elaborate pulley system to hoist the fridge if they want, and while it's suspended they can rub it back and forth over a piece of whatever, but it's going to look downright weird. And then when I ask, "What are you doing?" and they answer, "I'm sawing this 2 by 4," it doesn't actually help if I say, "But you need to use the saw!" The problem is that they're convinced that whatever their using IS a saw. You can point to the shoe or the knitting needles and they'll call those things saws as well, because anything used in their construction project is most definitely a saw. You can point to the actual saw and suggest they use it, but they'll respond, "I'm already using a saw!" as they point at the hoisted fridge.
They simply have no idea what logic is, where it ends, and why one uses it. They might use it sometimes – if there are only 4 tools in the metaphor, then 25% of the time you'll expect them to grab the right tool on accident – but they don't really understand why they should use it or why its advantages in one situation are disadvantages in other situations. To them it's not about recognizing the situation they're in and picking the most appropriate tool for the job. To them "logic" is merely a label they stick on whatever tool they're using to sound superior.
John Morales says
IDW… bad choice.
Intellectually dark contrasts with intellectually enlightened.
(Better to be a bright than a dark, no?)
Crip Dyke, much as I appreciate your didacticism, your form is less than optimal. Still, take out (2), and you're IMO on the money.
Consider your enumerated points:
I put it to you that, given (1), (2) is perforce inapplicable and thus irrelevant, logically speaking.
(or: "X, but if not X [blah]" is logically equivalent to "X")
(Tsk)
DLC says
Logic is only a tool set. You can use logic, or some twisted version thereof, to talk yourself into any position you like. Justify any perfidy by using forms of logic, so long as you aren't too picky about what rules you follow. Want to exterminate the Jews ? I'm sure there's a "logical" reason to do so, if you try hard enough. Want to believe in "White Genocide" ? there's enough "logic" to show that, so long as you aren't very picky about the facts you use and the logical steps you apply. Want to prove that chocolate cake is good for you ? Well, let's see : there's eggs, wheat and milk in cake. eggs, wheat and milk are all good for you. Therefore chocolate cake is good for you. Logic FTW!
Well, let's see : there's eggs, wheat and milk in cake. eggs, wheat and milk are all good for you. Therefore chocolate cake is good for you.
Ahem. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallacy_of_composition
Anyway, "logic" is not a thing nor merely a tool, it is a concept. And there are many logics; that is, closed inferential systems.
PS DLC, forgot to mention your purported (if ironic) example didn't mention chocolate as an ingredient of chocolate cake.
I'd suggest. as a side note, that we're promoting awareness that "emotion" in a decision-making context does not (necessarily…) equate to "doing whatever your first strongly-felt impulse dictates without any consideration for likely consequences." I went far too long without being given a reason to challenge that assumption, back in the day.
mineralfellow says
Does anybody have the rest of that clip? It cuts off before he makes whatever point he is going to make. The setup could take things in different directions. On the one hand, it could be setting up as a Nazi apologetic, saying that Germany got a bad deal after WWI, Hitler was messed up by the war, vis. anybody in Hitler's shoes would have done what he did. On the other hand, it could be setting up to say something else, perhaps that Hitler was evil, and we can understand how he got there because of his circumstance, or even setting up a contrast with other people who were in the war who didn't turn into genocidal maniacs. The essential point that is made in the clip, that Germany had some reasonable causes for WWII and that Hitler as a young man was a normal enough soldier, are valid and important things to understand when considering the history of what happened. But I can't evaluate whether or not Peterson was making a valid point or a crazy point, because the clip is cut off.
Muz says
On that side conversation – one thing I found most intriguing about Derrida was that people agonise their way through his writing, battling to unpack and untangle some route to meaning and they're often left with this crushing impression that all meaning is falling to bits around them (sometimes anyway. And that becomes the stuff people read and quote to say post structuralism is out to destroy all meaning and authority down to words themselves). Then they go ask the man himself if (whatever their sweeping, catastrophicinterpretations happen to be) is really what he's driving at and, in person, he quite clearly and succinctly says "Oh, no I'm just talking about this one aspect of literature and even then only sometimes. Authority is fine, meaning is fine. Nothing to worry about" or something to that effect.
I can't remember well enough to be specific, but that's what my vague recollection is about a few big controversies of his.
It's also funny how that is often left out of undegrad discussions around him. It's almost as if course co-ordinators like to set his writing for the brain beating exercise of it.
@Crip Dyke. I get your point, and I agree with it. It is tangential to what I was trying to say though. I guess I was unclear as to what my main thrust was so I'll try again. That even though they are doing it wrong, that they feel the need to even use the term 'logic', indicates some awareness of its' importance. I take some small encouragement from that trend. I agree that emotion is important, however I would illustrate that point otherwise than pointing at people using logic wrong.
@John Morales. I am sure that it is clear that we are using 'logic' in it's most common form and as it applies to communication and the use of rhetoric. I'll get back to you on alternative forms of 'closed inferential systems' next time I need a Borg Algorithm. There is nothing more annoying than some fucking Vulcan who desperately tries to derail conversation with semantic BS.
Muz@38,
You put your finger on the "motte and bailey" nature of postmodernism/poststructuralism/etc.: say things that sound terribly radical and wide-ranging, then when challenged, retreat to some much more restricted. or simply commonplace and uncontroversial, assertion.
John, #31
Better to be a bright than a dark, no?
For the IDW crowd? Definitely.
I never got the impression it was a retreat exactly. It might have been. I don't know. But either way it highlights the communication and interpretation problem both supporters and opponents have had with Derrida in particular.
I know people have run with deconstruction as a way to speciously defeat any argument and avoid criticism. And then you've got critics looking from without (the latest populariser being Peterson, of course) reading all this oppositional logic seemingly undermining all reasoned positions and reelling in terror at the implications.
Whatever one thinks of his work, it's at least interesting that such readings maybe weren't at all what he had in mind and such comments or amendments got lost. (Maybe. If he is actually guilty of dishonesty and evasion I'm not expert enough to comment)
Sorry, that was for KG @40
Jake P says
Regarding nazis, it is worth mentioning that they never got a majority of votes in truly democratic elections. If it wasn't for von Papen's clique, which gave Hitler chancellorship, nazis would quite likely be nothing more than a historical footnote today. It is something we should always remember when mainstream politician pander to extreme right.

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The City of Cleveland continues to execute snow removal operations during Winter Storm Harper.
• The City has 65 available trucks, 7 road graders, and several pickups and more than 11,000 tons of salt.
• The second shift currently has 60 trucks deployed on city streets, all of which are loaded with salt.
• As of 10:30 a.m. today, after servicing the main streets, snow removal operations transitioned to residential streets.
The snow emergency parking ban remains in effect. Click here to view the streets affected by the ban.
I just watched a large fire engine get stuck turning from Hipple Ave, to W 192nd st. truck then had to back all the way down W. 192nd to Apelt. Pretty sad. Can we get someone to plow over here?
Well nobody has plowed my side street and it's a mess literally gotten stuck 3 times already and can't make it to work today so thanks for nothing.
W 153 has not been plowed yet (Monday the 21st) we can barely get up and down our street and all other streets around have been plowed.
Hi Debbie. We do as necessary.
I would like to see the SUV parked on W192nd with expired Oregon plates, ticketed! Tired of seeing it on the street as it hasn't moved in over a week!


When we think of "redneck" music, bagpipes aren't the first thing that comes to mind. Banjos? Sure. The spoons? Absolutely. The jug? For sure.
But a while back we stumbled on a reddit post about a "redneck bagpipe," and we were intrigued. As it turns out, it's just an inflated balloon placed over a harmonica.
When we explain it, the concept doesn't seem all that impressive. But give it a quick listen, and hot damn: It sounds like a bagpipe.


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THE source of news about science and the environment as they relate to the Hawaiian Islands, hosted by veteran science reporter Jan TenBruggencate. Issues covered include archaeology, astronomy, botany, climate science, conservation, efficient transportation, geology, marine sciences, sustainability and zoology, with occasional forays into other areas, including traditional navigation and canoe voyaging.
Vampire mice killing hundreds of Laysan albatross on Hawaiian island of Midway
Bloodied albatross. USFWS photo.
The mysterious vampire mice of Midway Atoll have left hundreds of adult Laysan albatross dead, their necks torn open in garish bloody wounds.
These mice are doing something no mice anywhere else in the world are known to do.
Late at night, they climb the necks of nesting seabirds and chew through the skin, apparently feeding on the birds' blood, skin, fat and muscle.
The albatross' commitment to protecting their eggs is so strong that they will shake their heads, but will not leave the nests even with a predatory rodent chewing on them.
And the problem has grown since it was first spotted in 2015.
Wildlife officials assess injured Laysan albatross. Credit: USFWS
"It is horribly destructive what they do to those birds," said Matt Brown, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service superintendent for the Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument, which includes Midway.
The Fish and Wildlife Service has teamed up with a number of agencies and now hopes to eradicate the mice, which are an alien species to Midway. Among the 10 major atolls, reefs and islets of the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands, mice only occur on Sand Island, one of the three specks of dry land within Midway Atoll.
The mice have been here at least since World War II, but the new vampirish behavior is both new to Midway and apparently new to science. Mice are known to take eggs and nestlings of seabirds elsewhere, but only on Midway do they attack large adult birds.
"This isn't a behavior that has been observed before, although rodents have been responsible for a number of seabird extinctions and extirpations on islands," said Megan Nagel, public affairs officer for the Fish and Wildlife Service in Honolulu.
A Fish and Wildlife Service fact sheet quoted Midway Atoll Refuge manager Bob Peyton: "The Service is working against the clock to determine how many birds have been attacked, what the rate of spread is, and how to stop the attacks. Albatrosses lay only one egg a season."
The proposal they've come up with is to try to eradicate the mice. New Zealand just completed a successful five-year effort to remove mice from the Antipodes Islands, where they were feeding on chicks and eggs of seabirds, apparently including the Wandering Albatross, whose 10 to 11-foot wingspan makes it one of the biggest of birds.
The Midway approach will be similar to the one used at the Antipodes: a helicopter drop of toxic bait pellets during a period when the nesting seabird population is at its lowest. That's also similar to the technique that has been used to remove mice from more than 80 other islands and to remove rats from more than 400 islands around the world.
In Hawai`i it's much like the system that was used to eradicate Pacific rats from Mokapu Island off Molokai and black rats from Mokoli`i off O`ahu, and which has been used to control rats at Lehua Island off Ni`ihau, a process that is still underway.
Rats were eradicated from Midway's three islets in 1996.
The environmental assessment for the Midway mouse effort, under the name Midway Seabird Protection Project, describes the issues and the proposed solution. The public comment for the environmental assessment is open through April 20.
The helicopter would achieve a uniform islandwide distribution of specially designed bait pellets that contain the anticoagulant Brodifacoum. Some hand distribution will be employed in sensitive areas such as near the shore. The work would be done in the summer of 2019, during a period when seabirds are comparatively scarce on the island, and when dry weather limits mouse food supplies—making the grain-based bait pellets more appealing.
There are a number of reasons to use a helicopter, including assuring an even bait distribution but also foot traffic in many areas would collapse many of the thousands of nesting burrows of Bonin Petrels, which recovered strongly after rats were removed.
Similar eradication efforts on other islands have usually but not always been successful. In recent years, the success rate has gone up with improvements in technique. The environmental assessment reviews alternative approaches, and looks at the option of doing nothing at all. The Brodifacoum bait delivered by helicopter at the right time of year, in specific amounts over time, as described in the proposal, is viewed as the best alternative.
The project is estimated to cost $3.5 million. It is not yet clear the source of that money. Many previous eradications have been funded through a combination of government funds, grants from foundations, and money from private institutions like conservation groups.
The Fish and Wildlife Service would be the lead operational agency, with technical support and assistance from Island Conservation and the Midway Restoration Partnership Group. This is a collaboration of the Fish and Wildlife Serfvice and Island Conservation as well as American Bird Conservancy, the National Wildlife Research Center of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Agency, U.S Geological Survey and the state Office of Hawaiian Affairs.
© Jan TenBruggencate 2018
What's at risk :Midway albatross colony. Credit: USFWS.
Posted by Jan T at 12:55 PM
Labels: Birds, Fisheries, Government, Marine Issues, Oceanography, Pesticides, Reefs, Zoology
Mice attacking albatrosses is not new to science - mice have caused the same problems on other islands including Gough and Marion.
Jan T said...
Issues on Marion in the Indian Ocean's Prince Edward Islands and Gough in the South Atlantic's Tristan de Cunha Islands were mouse attacks on chicks. Before this, there have not been documented cases of multiple attacks on adult albatross.
Geckohale said...
Isn't there anything that be done to help the situation in the interim? This is so devestating. :(
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More than a quarter of young Aussies are now living with anxiety. Read on for more on the latest data, and what might be behind the increase.
Rates of anxiety continue to increase, especially amongst young Australians according to new Medibank Better Health Index data, which surveys 1000 Australians every week.
More than one in four - or 28% - of those aged 18-29 reported an anxiety disorder in the year leading up to March 2018.
This represents an uplift from 27% in the year prior, and 11% ten years prior in 2007-08.
Young women were more than twice as likely as males to be affected, with 40% suffering from anxiety, compared with just 16% of males.
The data also indicates that those affected by anxiety are more likely to suffer from mental health conditions, such as depression, anxiety and panic attacks, when compared to the general population.
Read more: Am I just worried, or is it anxiety?
What's behind the increase in anxiety? Theories as to why mental health conditions are on the rise vary. From decreased stigma, to increasing use of technology and loneliness.
"Today's young adults are among the first to grow up with technology playing the ever-present role it now does – giving way to new and flexible ways of working, as seen in the rise of the freelancer economy. While this brings with it countless new opportunities, it also means today's young people are required to be far more adaptable and accept a less regimented way of living. We know that a lack of routine can heighten stress and symptoms of mental health issues, and this could be playing a role in the trends indicated in this Index.
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"Are there bread-crumbs on the moon?" I ask M.
"There's precisely one bread-crumb on the moon."
We're staring at the stars.
it's the total eclipse of the moon!
It's three in the morning and we haven't seen anything yet.
It's five in the morning and the curtain descends at a distance.
You can see earthlight as frustrated earth denies its own shadow.
"There you are, that's the disk I've been telling you about."
"The moon is round, isn't it?"
"There aren't any lunar winds."
that the moon is windless? I don't believe it!"
"I've heard that, it must be true! Not a breeze!"


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package org.apache.dubbo.demo.provider;

import org.apache.dubbo.demo.DemoService;
import org.apache.dubbo.rpc.RpcContext;

import org.slf4j.Logger;
import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;

public class DemoServiceImpl implements DemoService {
    private static final Logger logger = LoggerFactory.getLogger(DemoServiceImpl.class);

    @Override
    public String sayHello(String name) {
        logger.info("Hello " + name + ", request from consumer: " + RpcContext.getContext().getRemoteAddress());
        return "Hello " + name + ", response from provider: " + RpcContext.getContext().getLocalAddress();
    }

}

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Shane Warne cut the ribbonat a doughnut shop in Crown Casino yesterday.
The new doughnut dispenser in the Crown Casino centre will donate $1 AUS of every doughnut sold to the Shane Warne Foundation.
The retired cricketer,and recentDon winner, said at the opening of the store that it was okay to have a treat, but advised people to be healthy with their food choices.
As well as securing the charity donations from the Crown doughnut shop, Shane Warne, through his foundation, has also pledged to give $1 million to a children's charity on Boxing Day, the first day of Australia's most famous Test Series.


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"Farinata is a gluten-free Italian flatbread made with chickpea flour that is very easy to make. I'm sure this recipe will become part of your regular repertoire. I have added some spring onions and garlic for a more gourmet version of the simple farinata."
Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C). Brush a 9-inch tart pan with 2 tablespoons olive oil and place in the oven to warm up.
Melt 1 tablespoon butter in a medium skillet over medium heat. Add green onion and garlic. Cook and stir until softened, about 5 minutes. Remove from heat.
Mix chickpea flour with lukewarm water until smooth. Set aside for 20 minutes at room temperature.
Skim foam from the top of chickpea-water mixture. Add remaining 2 tablespoons of olive oil. Mix in onion-garlic mixture. Season with salt, pepper, and nutmeg. Add Gruyere cheese and mix well. Remove tart tin from oven and pour in chickpea mixture.
Bake it in the preheated oven until crispy, about 15 minutes. Remove from the oven and cut into triangles before serving.
Easy & super tasty! Love it.


Each of these practices promotes active teaching over direct teaching: Rather than education being a one-way street in which a teacher lectures, learning becomes a collaboration between teacher and students. And if you're looking for a way to get started with Responsive Classroom in your classroom, these practices are a great way to begin.
Could This Be Your Classroom?
Caltha Crowe retired in June after 35 years of teaching. Most recently, she taught third graders at King's Highway Elementary School in Westport, Connecticut. She is a certified Responsive Classroom consulting teacher.


Jaguar Jungle, was inspired by a painting I had done in 1986. The black background is reminiscent of the dense canopy of the trees in the jungle. and incorporates the wonderful species of South America. As the mother jaguar hunts at night, she places her cubs in the trees to play safely. This small octagonal bowl is a striking piece of the Jaguar Jungle collection from Lynn Chase. The dimensions of this piece are approximately 2.75" x 5" x 5".
Jaguar Jungle one of Lynn's earliest and, perhaps, most iconic design remains in the collection and was honored with the International Tabletop Committee's Best Design and Impact Award in 1991.
Lynn Chase has been creating wildlife art for over 20 years. In 1988 she launched Lynn Chase Designs to bring her wildlife scenes to home decor. Over the years she has created dinnerware collections and a wide assortment of giftware and accessories. Lynn Chase remains the sole designer and guiding force behind her company. Ms. Chase is also the founder of the Lynn Chase Wildlife Foundation (LCWF). A portion of the pre-tax profits from the Lynn Chase Atelier Collection will be generously donated to LCWF.
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"New media" was a big part of both the 1919 and 2011 Revolutions. The phrase, "new media", can be used to explain new forms of communication used to express people's feeling towards the revolutions in ways that were not typical like newspapers and on TV. The most dominate forms of "new media" in 1919 were songs and plays. The most dominate forms of "new media" in 2011 was Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, and other forms of social media. Mainly the people who were against the government and the revolutionaries used "new media". This new wave of communication infuriated the officials. Many people were arrested and jailed for their songs and what they said. For instance, Ramy Essam, the singer in the 2011 revolt, was arrested and brutally beaten for his music. The effect of "new media" in 1919 and 2011 was very different. In 1919, "new media" was used either as a way for people to be able to express themselves, to persuade people to believe their viewpoint, or to persuade other people to revolt. In contrast, in the 2011 revolt, "new media" was used to keep the government from hiding their crimes and to get foreign countries to hear their cry for help. "New media" was a much bigger deal in the 2011 revolt. People were arrested and jailed in 1919 more frequently for "new media", but people were murdered more frequently in the 2011 revolt for "new media". Overall, "new media" was a good "venting mechanism". As said in Fahmy's chapter on New Media in 1919, "It reflects the sense of universal shock felt by average Egyptians over the occupation of the country." I think that most "new media" was not used so much to belittle the government, even though there was a large amount of resentment for the government, but the main purpose was to vent. Plus, they thought that it would eventually lead to a change if people could understand the troubles they were facing on a daily basis. I think that the venting approach was used more in 1919 and the "cry for help" approach was used more in the 2011 revolt. The biggest form of "new media" during the 1919 revolution was plays, just like in the Sayyid Darwish film. These plays were an easy way to deal with their pain. I think that there were less revolutionary murders in the 1919 revolt as opposed to the deaths in the 2011 revolt because since the plays were a source of entertainment, they did not feel as harsh and judgmental towards the government as the Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter posts did. Just as plays were the biggest form of "new media" in the 1919 revolution, YouTube was the biggest form of "new media" during the 2011 revolt. Since the methods, local and global publicizing, were different, so were the outcomes. The 2011 revolt received much more global attention. YouTube changed the revolution completely. It allowed people all over the world to see what the government was doing and it put a stop to the government covering up their hateful and cold-hearted crimes. If it weren't for the 2011 revolutionaries globally crying for help, they probably would still be stuck in the same place, even now. In contrast, the 1919 revolution could have been much more successful if the revolutionaries had have been able to publicize the Egyptian problems globally. There may not have even been a need for a revolution in 2011 had the revolutionaries in 1919 been publicized globally. The publicizing could've ended the problem for good.


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Prior to this Bob was a senior clinician with Nucleus Network, Australia's largest clinical trials unit where he was an investigator in over 180 trials, including as PI. In addition to his experience in drug development, Bob previously held clinical appointments in some of Australia's leading tertiary hospitals, including the Royal Melbourne Hospital and Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre. He also held teaching appointments in the University of Melbourne's Medical School.
Bob obtained his medical degree in the University of Melbourne, and is a registered medical practitioner with the Medical Board of Australia.


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September 1, 2021 By Noah Richman 1 Comment
Based in the world of Frank Miller's Batman: Year One, The Long Halloween is something of a follow-up tale that continues the focus on Batman's early years using a stripped down, minimalist style. Rather than bombarding the viewer with non-stop action sequences, The Long Halloween takes the approach of building an atmospheric and moody film noir punctuated with moments of sharp violence. This is the gritty world of the Dark Knight Detective, a world where mobsters meet their fate at the barrel of a gun and lawmen struggle against a corrupt system.
The Long Halloween films do a good job capturing the style and atmosphere of its material. Much like Batman: the Animated Series it effectively conveys a sense of tone and pacing that harkens back to the pulp detective fiction of the 1940s and 1950s. This is a story of the early Batman, finding his way as a detective in an increasingly shifting mystery surrounding the mysterious Holiday killer. Members of prominent mob families are being murdered by this figure during the major holidays throughout the course of a year. Every time Batman thinks he knows who Holiday is, the field shifts and he finds himself back to square one.
Where The Long Halloween is most effective is in its presentation and immersion into the world it creates. It is in many respects a relief to encounter a DC animated project that engages the intellect and invites the viewer into its story rather than pummeling its audience over the head. However, something else that must be said is when these movies call themselves The Long Halloween, emphasis should be put on the word Long. While the slower pacing is in many ways welcome, if the movies are taken in all at once they can become sleep inducing.
The films also suffer from a little bit of an identity crisis. There is only so far one can strip down a story to fit a real-world police procedural before it no longer stays in keeping with the superhero excesses of a Batman story. At times it feels like these films want to make everything as grounded and down-to-earth as possible while simultaneously throwing outlandish characters such as The Mad Hatter and Solomon Grundy into the mix. It feels as if the story works against itself at those moments and I found myself wishing the filmmakers would either lighten up and allow themselves have some old fashioned comic-book fun, or else eliminate those subplots and adhere more to the main mystery. What we wind up with instead are scenes where something silly is being presented in a heavy and serious light, and as such they don't quite work.
My other complaint, which is probably directed more at the original source material than the movies themselves, is I don't think the basic story of the Holiday killer is epic enough to warrant two full movies. It seems as if the original comic writers had an idea to tell a story of someone murdering people during the major holidays, but then to keep this story going over the course of a year they layered on a lot of unnecessary subplots involving a "greatest hits" list of many of Batman's most prominent villains. While this story does wind up telling a definitive, tragic tale about how Harvey Dent, Gotham's City's crusading District Attorney, became twisted into the arch-villain Two-Face, much of the rest of it seems extraneous.
Overall I would consider The Long Halloween to be well done in its presentation but a disappointment in its narrative and its length. It has an interesting mystery story at its core but is filled with too many side plots and overstays its welcome.
Blu-ray & Digital Special Features (Part One)
DC Showcase – The Losers (New Animated Short)
A Sneak Peek at the next DC Universe Movie – Batman: The Long Halloween, Part Two.
From the DC Vault – Batman: The Animated Series – "Christmas With The Joker"
From the DC Vault – Batman: The Animated Series – "It's Never Too Late"
Blu-ray & Digital Special Features (Part Two)
DC Showcase – Blue Beetle (New Animated Short)
A Sneak Peek at the next DC Animated Movie – An advanced look at Injustice.
DC Universe Movies Flashback
• Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Part 2
• Batman: Hush
From the DC Vault
• Batman: The Animated Series – "Two-Face, Part 1"
Batman: The Long Halloween Part One and Part Two are now available on Blu-ray, DVD and Digital
Inspired by the iconic mid-1990s DC story from Jeph Loeb and Tim Sale, Batman: The Long Halloween, Part One begins as a brutal murder on Halloween prompts Gotham's young vigilante, the Batman, to form a pact with the city's only two uncorrupt lawmen (Police Captain James Gordon and District Attorney Harvey Dent) in order to take down The Roman, head of the notorious and powerful Falcone Crime Family. But when more deaths occur on Thanksgiving and Christmas, it becomes clear that, instead of ordinary gang violence, they're also dealing with a serial killer – the identity of whom, with each conflicting clue, grows harder to discern. Few cases have ever tested the wits of the World's Greatest Detective like the mystery behind the Holiday Killer.
Batman: The Long Halloween, Part Two continues as the Holiday Killer is still at large and, with Bruce Wayne under the spell of the venomous Poison Ivy, Batman is nowhere to be found. Liberated by an unlikely ally, Bruce quickly uncovers the real culprit: Poison Ivy's employer Carmine Falcone. The Roman, his ranks decimated by Holiday and his business spinning out of control, has been forced to bring on less desirable partners – Gotham City's rogues' gallery. In the meantime, Harvey Dent is confronting battles on two fronts: attempting to end the mob war while also dealing with a strained marriage. And, after an attack that leaves Harvey hideously disfigured, the District Attorney unleashes the duality of his psyche that he's strived his entire life to suppress. Now, as Two-Face, Dent decides to take the law into his own hands and deliver judgment to those who've wronged him, his family and all of Gotham. Ultimately, the Dark Knight must put together the tragic pieces that converged to create Two-Face, the Holiday Killer, Batman and Gotham City itself.
"Batman: The Long Halloween": an effective if over-long story
Where The Long Halloween is most effective is in its presentation and immersion into the world it creates. It is in many respects a relief to encounter a DC animated project that engages the intellect and invites the viewer into its story rather than pummeling its audience over the head.
Filed Under: DVD Reviews Tagged With: animation, Batman, DC Entertainment
About Noah Richman
Noah Richman is President of the Phoenix Fantasy Film Society, the longest running group dedicated to sci-fi/fantasy movie fandom in the Phoenix area. An avid board gamer, he has also amassed a library of immersive sci-fi/fantasy themed strategy games. A life-long film buff, Noah enjoys film commentary and criticism and has been having a blast writing film reviews for the Slice of SciFi website.
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Aaron Butler says
Having watched both parts, it felt stretched out, with long moments of silence and scenes with not much happening, and the story didn't exactly lend itself to requiring that for any kind of buildup in atmosphere. It honestly felt like it was one movie stretched into two. I think it would've been a lot better if they had condensed it into a single movie. About an hour and forty minutes would've probably been enough.


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CDJ Today: June 14 in Classic Rock
June 14, 2020 | Published in Derek and the Dominos, Eric Clapton, Metallica, Mick Jagger, Ozzy Osbourne, Rory Gallagher, Wings
Derek and the Dominos in 1971
June 14, 1986 – One fan dies at an Ozzy Osbourne/Metallica show at the Long Beach Arena after falling from a balcony. Long Beach Police say the man "fell over backwards because he was probably overdosing, hit his head, broke his neck and died." Three others also jumped from the balcony and sustained life-threatening injuries.
June 14, 1970 – Derek and the Dominos play their first show at London's Lyceum. They initially told the promoter they were "The Dynamics," but he convinced them to add "Derek," which was a nickname for Clapton. "The Dynamics" was somehow changed to "The Dominos."
June 14, 2002 – Mick Jagger becomes Sir Michael Philip Jagger when he is knighted at the Queen's Birthday Honours even though Jagger once called the Queen "Chief Witch" and proclaimed "anarchy is the only slight glimmer of hope."
Classic Rock Birthdays
June 14, 1963 – Chris Degarmo, guitar (Queensrÿche)
June 14, 1956 – King Diamond (born Kim Bendix Petersen), vocals (Mercyful Fate, King Diamond)
June 14, 1949 – Jim Lea, bass, keyboards, violin (Slade)
June 14, 1945 – Rod Argent, vocals, keyboards (The Zombies, Argent)
June 14, 1949 – Alan White, drums (Yes)
June 14, 1958 – Nick Van Eede, vocals (Cutting Crew)
June 14, 1961 – Boy George (born George O'Dowd) vocals (Culture Club)
June 14, 1943 – Spooner Oldham (born Dewey Lindon Oldham), keyboards (Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section)
June 14, 1958 – Brian David Willis, drums (Quarterflash)
Rock Remembrances
June 14, 1995 – Rory Gallagher (born William Rory Gallagher) dies after contracting a MRSA infection, while awaiting a liver transplant. He was 47. Gallagher sold over 30 million albums worldwide and was a major influence on guitarists including Brian May, The Edge, Slash and and Glenn Tipton.
June 14, 2016 – Henry McCullough, best known as a guitarist in Wings, dies at his home in Ireland. He was 72. McCullough had suffered a severe heart attack in 2012, from which he never fully recovered. McCullough played with most of the English musicians of the day in the late 60s and 70s, appearing at Woodstock with Joe Cocker, recording guitar for the Jesus Christ Superstar soundtrack and then appearing with Spooky Tooth. McCartney asked him to join Wings in 1971; his topmost moment in Wings was his lead guitar solo on "My Love."
In this article: Derek and the Dominos, Eric Clapton, Metallica, Mick Jagger, Ozzy Osbourne, Rory Gallagher, Wings
Published in: CDJ Today
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After launching Obamabags.com, Fair Winds Trading Inc. asked Daniel Won and his design partner to redesign their company website. This website was created using WordPress as a content management system. It required a specific customization of WordPress in order to be updated by a non programmer.
1. Tech lead on the project: front-end, back-end and server issues.
2. Built designed layouts into a website.
3. Extensive customization of WordPress.
i) Homepage is getting four different posts from four different categories. The homepage touts on the bottom will be updated with the latest post from each category.
ii) Touts on the sidebar of 'Single Pages' are linked to different pages.
iii) The theme was built specific to the needs of Fair Winds Trading Inc.
4. Homepage has a rotational featured area built with php.
Site was launched on June 2009 and has been maintained by the client after the launch date.


Matthew Martin (1962) is director of Debt Relief International and Development Finance International, both non-profit organisations which build developing countries' capacities to design and implement strategies for managing external and domestic debt, and external official and private development financing.
Previously he worked at the Overseas Development Institute in London, the International Development Centre in Oxford, and the World Bank, and as a consultant to many donors, African governments, international organisations and NGOs. He has co-authored books and articles on debt and development financing.


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In 1971, Botanicus opened its doors as the Plant Parlour on Main Street in Buffalo. The first plants-only retail store in Western New York, we sold bonsai, grafted cactus, succulents and small plants.
By 1974, the company boasted three retail stores, a glass greenhouse in Lockport, New York, and a 28 acre nursery in Bonita Springs, Florida. In the mid-1970's, Botanicus began offering commercial plant services to businesses in the Buffalo market, expanding into Rochester in the early 80's. By 1986, operations were consolidated in order to concentrate exclusively on business customers..
Botanicus has expanded its offerings to include quality planters and easy care green walls. We sell and ship planters and green walls throughout the U.S. on our website www.BotanicusGreen.com. At BotanicusGreen.com, we offer a wide selection of high quality indoor and outdoor planters. You will love the range of styles, sizes and colors. From modern and contemporary, to traditional styles, you will find everything you need and more. Our vertical living green wall options can create wonderful wall art of organic tapestry.
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When using inproc:// transport, message is never copied. Thus, the buffer sent in one thread, will be received in the other thread and should be deallocated there. Thus, when doing recv() we should get pointer to deallocation function alongside the buffer itself.
For very small messages (VSMs) it's cheaper to copy the message than keep it on heap. These messages thus have no associated buffer and the data are stored directly in the zmq_msg_t structure — presumably on the stack. This has huge impact on performance as it almost entirely avoids need to do allocations/deallocations.


I've gone back and forth a bit on how, exactly, I wanted to present this new team to you. The best way I've figured is to give you a player-by-player bit of analysis, from model to stats, and then give a final overview of the team and how it plays. I'll start with the Starter Set (seemed like a logical place) and then move into the two extra players you can currently get. The Starter comes with Theron, Fahad, Zarola, Jaecar, and Egret. Seenah and Chaska are the two extra players.
Some quick notes about the photos. The ones where you see the individual pieces for the figures: those are taken before any cleaning has been done. They are literally "out of the bag, in front of the camera." So any flash or sprue you see there you can expect to see on one you pick up. The assembled photos are taken before any sort of gap-filling or green-stuff has been added. I wanted to show off what you'd expect to get without having to go into any "mid-level techniques" like rolling out green-stuff.
We'll begin with Team Captain Theron. His miniature comes in three pieces, which you can see there. His pose is having just shot an arrow, quite possibly into the knee of one of the opposing players. Theron, being the captain, sets the theme for the Hunters. His traits include causing the Snared condition (which causes -1 DEF and -2"/-2" MOV) whenever he damages an enemy (you'll see this in a couple places in the Guild, as many of their other abilities play off of Snared). He also ignores forests when drawing LOS. "But I didn't place any forests on the field." I hear you say. Well, to start off, that's silly. And second, Theron brings his own forests. Once per turn, he can place a 3" forest within 8" of him (but not closer than 3" to another terrain feature). Theron's a bit unique for Captains in that he doesn't have a Legendary Play. He, instead, has a Heroic Play. It allows one other player within 6" to us a Cost 3 (or less) character play without spending Influence.
Moving on, we head to the team mascot, Fahad. Fahad comes in 3 pieces. Pro-tip: attach the legs before you attach the base (which is a 40mm). I attached the base first, thinking, "that way, I'll make sure the feet touch the base." Yeah, don't do that. Being a large cat, Fahad is, of course, pretty fast, moving at 6"/8". They're also pretty lithe, coming in at defense 5+. Considering their one Character Play is Nimble (Cost 1. They get +1 DEF), not a lot of enemies are going to be hitting them. Fahad can charge for free and gets +1 Damage against Snared Targets (told you stuff that interacted with Snared would show up). Fahad is also linked with Zarola, meaning that Zarola can activate immediately after Fahad, if you want.
After that, it seems only right that we go to Zarola. She comes in three pieces, positioned in a crouched pose (not the only one we'll see today). Pro-tip: also don't attach Zarola to her base before you attach her one arm that's touching the ground. Yup, did it twice. It's alright, though. Zarola's also rather lithe, coming in at DEF 5+. She's also got Unpredictable Movement (letting her make a 2" Dodge if enemy ends their movement in her melee range), as well as Light Footed. She's also linked with Fahad, so the two can switch up who activates first, but then the other can activate. Her Chain Bolas have an 8" range and can Snare targets. She can also make your own team a bit faster via Midnight Offering, which lets a friendly model make a Jog immediately.
Next up will be Jaecar, because I wanted to continue with the "crouched stance" characters. He comes in 4 pieces. I was very happy with how well the swords on his back fit into place. Nicely slotted there. Good fit. Jaecar has a lot going on in terms of Character Traits. He's got Anatomical Precision, meaning enemies have less ARM versus his attacks. There's Light Footed, which we'll see often in the Hunters. Then there's Back to the Shadows, which gives Jaecar a 4" Dodge at the end of his activation, as long as he damages an enemy. Then there's Pitfall, which stands him apart. During his activation, you can place a 40mm Pitfall Trap (provided) within 2" of him. If an enemy moves within 1" of the Pitfall Trap, they suffer Bleed and Snared. You can only have one Pitfall in play at a time.
We come to Egret next. Egret comes in two pieces. With lots of experience, whenever I see a model with a weapon being held in both hands, I roll my eyes and wonder "ok, how big are the gaps here going to be?" I have to say, Egret fits fairly well together. No gaps to talk about, really. As for abilities, she's DEF 4+ and ARM 1, which you might not expect for someone as Dodgy as she turns out to be. She's got a 1-cost, Range 6" play that causes 1 damage. That might not seem like too much, but looking over her Character Traits, she gets a 1" Dodge every time she damages an enemy. Also, enemies damaged by her suffer Poison. AND she's got Jaecar's "Back to the Shadows" ability. She could very much end up far from where she started her turn.
Then we get to "the big man" of the team, Hearne. He's on a 40mm base and comes in 2 pieces. Like Egret, I wondered how much of a gap there was going to be since he had his hands on the spear. There is an indent in his side where the spear fits in. But my guy did end up with a bit of a gap in one wrist. For a big guy, he's Light Footed. And he's a quick one, too. Once per turn you can pick a forest terrain piece within 4" of him and then place him anywhere within that forest. That's great with Theron's ability. Or you can just place a 3'x3' forest terrain piece on the board. *thumbs up* Hearne also has Theron's Heroic Play where a friendly model within 6" can cast a 3 or less-cost Play for free.
That covers the Starter Box figures. That leaves the two figures they're taking pre-orders for now.
The first of those is Chaska. He's a single piece. Like Jaecar, he has traps he comes with. But instead of one 40mm marker, Chaska has three 30mm ones. So assembling him is just putting the pieces on the base. He can place one of the markers during his activation within 2" of him. If an enemy moves within 1" of them, they become Snared. Chaska's also Light Footed and has Mud Concealer (which gives him +1 ARM when in Rough Ground). He's also got a pretty good play called Boom Box that deals 4 Damage and pushes the target 4" directly away. Great for some ground-control. As well as moving enemies within range of traps.
That just leaves Seenah. The bear comes in 3 pieces. The two halves fit together rather well. There was some gaps around the bottom of the neck when the head was placed on, though. But you can't really see it when the model is on the board. So, I have to say, I tend to pay attention to bear models that come out. Most just don't look right. They end up looking like bloated dogs or something. Bears have a distinct shape that's different than dogs. But most models just don't look right. Seenah, I feel, looks great. It really does look like a miniature bear, as opposed to some sort of overstuffed other creature. Getting to stats, Seenah's rather straight-forward. Seenah charges for free, does +1 damage against Snared targets, and just does all the damage when they hit. Oh, and you get +1 VP when Seenah causes an enemy model to gain the Taken Out condition. Defensively, Seenah's got a 2+ DEF and 1 ARM, but they also have Tough Hide, so take -1 damage usually. Seenah's got 21 HP. So your enemy's gonna have a bit of a time taking Seenah off the board.
Model-wise, the figures were fairly easy to put together. This is the 3rd team I've put together (behind Fishermen, Butchers, and Masons). I feel the figures are better-designed. The first season guys are extremely lithe. And while that might seem good for athletes, it also means a lot of small, soft joints on figures. So before you've got to worry about a lot of things bending and breaking. With the Hunters, they seem to be slightly more robust. A small thing to note, though, was I had to clip the tab on just about every 30mm model in order to fit them in the slot on the base. There weren't a lot of gaps, and they were easy to fill in once I did get out the Green-stuff.
Play-wise, the team is a bit area-control as well as a lot of condition-placement. It's pretty easy for them to get Snared on much of the enemy team. That can be done either via the various Plays and Traits they have, or via the traps that can be set by Jaecar and Chaska. They're a fairly fast team with good defense. They're not Fisherman-levels, but they're still pretty quick. They don't have the Kick stat like the Fisherman have. But the Hunters certainly have a lot of beat-stick in their ranks. They might have an issue versus other beat-stick teams, since they don't have very high Defense (with a couple exceptions) or much in the way of Armor. So smashing headlong into someone like the Butchers might be a bit of a blood-bath.
Personally, I'm going to go with the two trap-makers, Chaska and Jaecar, along with Fahad and Zarola (because Linked is too good an ability to pass up), finishing off with Theron (since you need a team captain) and Seenah (because… bear).
It feels like the guys at Steamforged read up on what sort of models I generally like and then created just that in the Hunter's Guild. The area-denial via the traps is nice and is a bit like the Alchemists. They're rather quick and can mostly ignore difficult terrain. And… they've got… y'know… a bear.
The Hunter's Guild Starter Set as well as the two extra players are available to order from the Steamforged webshop. You can also get guild dice, if you want (… which I probably will…).
If you'd like the full stats for the Hunter's Guild, along with all the other guilds, you can find those on the Steamforged website as well (I love when game companies do that).
Thanks for reading and stay tuned for more team overviews like this in the future.


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