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Not Everything Is Munich and Hitler
April 25, 2016 Topic: Security Region: Americas Tags: Barack ObamaHistoryWorld War IIForeign PolicyISIS
Comparing modern threats with World War II is neocon nonsense.
by David A. Bell
IS OUR culture suffering from an excess of historical awareness? At first glance, it seems like an absurd question. Surveys have repeatedly revealed that when it comes to history, the American population is anything but well informed. According to a 2008 Common Core survey, more than half of American teenagers had no idea when the Civil War was fought, while a quarter believed Columbus came to the New World after 1750. In a video that deservedly went viral, Texas Tech undergraduates, interviewed at random in 2014, were unable to say which side won the Civil War, or from which country the United States gained its independence.
Besides, is it even possible to have too much historical awareness? Surely we can better face the challenges of our own time if we know as much as possible about the historical roots of these challenges, and about similar challenges in the past. For a professional historian like me, you would expect these propositions to be articles of faith.
In recent years, though, I have grown increasingly dispirited at the way certain historical references continue to dominate American political discourse, particularly on foreign affairs. The problem is not that the people who invoke these references get the history wrong (although they often do). It is that they get the present wrong, seeing it insistently through the prism of a history that has less and less relevance to the early twenty-first century. Indeed, even the vocabulary used to discuss foreign affairs—first and foremost the words "war" and "peace" themselves—comes freighted with historical meanings that are increasingly outdated and distracting. References that were already misleading a generation ago have become dangerously absurd. The putative lessons of history have become imprisoning, rather than enabling. In this sense, we really do suffer from an excess of it.
The history in question is, almost entirely, that of the World War II era, and this fact is hardly surprising. In these years the world experienced a spasm of violence and cruelty whose magnitude remains almost impossible to grasp. It included the Holocaust, the horrific aerial bombing of cities (including the atomic bombings), the cataclysmic losses suffered throughout Eurasia in World War II (as many as twenty-eight million victims in the Soviet Union alone) and an almost endless catalogue of other horrors. The United States faced one of the gravest threats in its history, and mobilized a greater percentage of its population for military service than in any conflict since the Civil War. While many scholars have described the Holocaust as a kind of collective trauma that still scars modern consciousness, the idea applies just as plausibly to the war years as a whole.
For Americans, this history also provides a singularly clear and attractive moral lesson, despite such blemishes as the internment of Japanese Americans (or, more controversially, the bombings of enemy cities, up to and including Hiroshima and Nagasaki). Secular Americans today may have trouble putting a face on absolute goodness, but they have no trouble doing so for absolute evil: it is Adolf Hitler, the uncontested devil of modern times. Those who risked their lives to defeat Hitler and his allies quite rightly have the status of unalloyed heroes—the "greatest generation," in Tom Brokaw's cloying phrase. Meanwhile, those who tried to appease Hitler enjoy nothing but scorn, a phenomenon that took off as early as the publication of the indictment Guilty Men in England in 1940. Americans today also have no trouble putting a face on foolishness and weakness in international affairs: it is that of the umbrella-toting Neville Chamberlain, as he waved a piece of paper in the air upon his return from Munich in 1938 and proclaimed "peace in our time."
Nothing since 1945 has compared in sheer power, drama, horror or clarity to the events of this era, so it is understandable that they have had such staying power in our political imagination. Ever since the war, populist politicians who excel at whipping up national or ethnic hatreds are tarred as "fascists" or "Nazis." Meanwhile, as early as the summer of 1945, American officials were already invoking the supposed lessons of Munich with reference to new foreign challenges. Soon after Hiroshima, for instance, Secretary of the Navy James Forrestal warned against sharing nuclear secrets with Stalin with the words "we tried that once with Hitler. There are no returns on appeasement." Ever since, it has been de rigueur for Americans to justify action against alleged foreign threats with Hitler analogies, and to denounce the alleged appeasement of such threats with Munich analogies. Sometimes, the comparisons have been laughably inappropriate. Speaking of Manuel Noriega, the tin-pot dictator of Panama, whom Washington was accusing of protecting drug smugglers, Deputy Secretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger declared in August 1989, "That is aggression as surely as Adolf Hitler's invasion of Poland fifty years ago was aggression." Four months later, the United States invaded and deposed him.
Meanwhile, neoconservative commentators like Charles Krauthammer and Norman Podhoretz deploy Munich analogies in virtually everything they write about foreign policy (in Krauthammer's case, the list stretches from China in 1989 and North Korea in 1994, through Iraq in 2003, to Iran and Russia today). But they have hardly been the only ones to do so. Bill Clinton's Czech-born secretary of state Madeleine Albright confessed in 1997 that "my mind-set is Munich," while Clinton himself dragged out the Hitler comparison for Serbian dictator Slobodan Milosevic. In 2014, John Kerry called Syria's use of chemical weapons "our Munich moment." Every American president since the war has also received his share of Chamberlain comparisons. The scholars Sam Kleiner and Tom Zoellner have noted that "when President Eisenhower returned from a summit with the Soviets in 1955, he gave his remarks in the pouring rain without the courtesy of an umbrella," because of the umbrella's associations with Chamberlain.
So ingrained have World War II references become in our political culture that some commentators use them without even knowing what they refer to. Famously, in May 2008, conservative commentator Kevin James went on Chris Matthews's show Hardball and compared then presidential candidate Barack Obama to Chamberlain because of his willingness to negotiate with Iran and other adversaries. Matthews humiliated James by asking him again and again to explain what Chamberlain had actually done in Munich. The blustering James, who refused to answer, clearly had no idea.
Yet even when wielded by ignoramuses, these references have the ability to introduce a brimstone-tinged whiff of apocalypse into any political debate. Speak of Munich or fascists and the hand of the clock always jumps to one minute to midnight. In the ordinary course of political life, it may be important to stand up to bullies, but with the recognition that if a particular strategy fails to work, it can be refined or replaced. But invoke Munich, and the message is that if you fail to stand up to an enemy with all the force at your disposal, it is only a matter of time before bombers decimate your cities, tanks pour across your borders and millions of your citizens perish.
THE COMMENTATORS who invoke Hitler or Munich never seem to appreciate the massive irony that the events of the war itself—and above all its nuclear ending—ensured that the events of 1939 to 1945 could never, in fact, come close to repeating themselves. At the moment when James Forrestal denounced possible "appeasement" of the USSR, the United States enjoyed a nuclear monopoly that made any direct threat to its territory unthinkable. When the Soviets acquired their own nuclear weapon a few years later, a new and apocalyptic threat arose, but the nuclear deterrent and the premise of "mutually assured destruction" made any actual attack unlikely.
Yet over the following decades, the difficulty of imagining nuclear war arguably helped World War II keep its dominant position in the American political imagination. Nuclear war was so terrible to contemplate, and so wholly outside human experience, that few prominent political figures dared treat it as a real possibility, or argue for the "first use" of nuclear weapons against America's adversaries. (Of course there were some, such as General Curtis LeMay, who urged the use of nuclear weapons in the Korean War.) Disarmament movements might invoke the specter of nuclear war, but those who believed the Soviet Union posed a threat to the West that needed to be confronted and contained naturally found it far easier to justify their policies by invoking an earlier time in which nuclear weapons did not yet exist.
Yet at least with the Soviets during the Cold War, analogies with this earlier time still had some credibility. In addition to its nuclear arsenal, the Soviet Union had a huge conventional military and, as the experience of Joseph Stalin showed all too clearly, few safeguards against absolute power coming into the hands of a brutal paranoiac. The USSR was a totalitarian adversary that supported revolutionary forces across the globe, and its official ideology aggressively described its social system as the destiny of the human race. Historians have endlessly debated the Soviets' actual strategic intentions, and the question of which side bore more responsibility for the Cold War, but no one can doubt that the Soviet Union had the ability to pose a real conventional military threat.


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My name is Jessica. I've been married to my wonderful husband, Nathan, for 3 years. Our anniversary is July 12th, 2008. We had our wonderful daughter, Allissondra Elizabeth, on October 8th, 2009 via emergency c-section.
We have been TTC for a while now and have lost three babies thus far. We are excited to be expecting again and we are just praying that this baby 'sticks' and is healthy!
I am planning a home water birth with my second child. A bad experience at the hospital with my first is the main reason but also I want to be relaxed and have that connection to my husband and child. We already have a midwife picked out and are excited to meet her and get this whole experience going!
Congratulations on your pregnancy and best wishes for your home birth plans!


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PAMELA PLATT STUDIO
Pamela Platt has been painting her entire lifetime following in the footsteps of her mother and grandmother. Graduating from Rhode Island School of Design in 1985, she has been working professionally as a fine artist, designer, fresco restorer, color consultant, teacher and decorative painter for 36 years.
Pamela is an artist whose work is rooted in painting and design. She is directly inspired by nature, color, texture and light/shadow of the environs in which she lives and has traveled to. Pam's work is also influenced by the realms of dreams, mystery, intuition and the sub-conscious. She is interested in how these various worlds intersect, merge or contrast.
Pamela moves between interior/exterior painting in private and public spaces to creating studio art work of bold colors swirling wildly on paper to more quiet and contemplative pieces. Her work is made on paper, wood panels, mica panels, plaster, walls, ceilings and floors using various paints, pigment, metal leaf, plasters and American Clay.
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We hired Blueline Moving to move my recently widowed mother into a condominium. There were items which had to be moved from her house and a storage unit, as well as taking items to be donated.
The crew was extremely professional and courteous. They placed runners throughout the home, wrapped furniture in padding and took great care to ensure a smooth transition on a very stressful day.
I would highly recommend this company to anyone who is looking for qualified professionals to move their belongings.
It took is 10 hours start to finish with 3 mean and a truck. The crew was excellent, friendly, co-operative and very careful with our belongings. I would truly recommend this moving company to anyone and everyone.
Thank you for you kind words. We will relay them to the crew.
Sincerely, Blue Line Moving management.
My Auntie moved last Saturday from Toronto to Ajax. She was nervous. She had lived in her home for 60 years. Jimmy and Glen came to her home at 9 am. They layed down mats on the carpeting, covered her mattress and box spring, placed her clothes from her closet into wardrobe boxes and lifted all the boxes we had packed out to the truck. They covered every piece of furniture. Made sure the truck was loaded and packed so that nothing would shift or break and headed to Ajax to her new retirement home. They moved her with such care, professional service, cleanliness and consideration. I can't thank them enough. I would recommend BlueLine to anyone that ever asked me if I knew a mover as they did such a great job. Who knew moving could be so easy. They removed all her fears and answered any questions we had along the way. Bravo, and very well done.
Hello Ms. Middleton, Thank you for your comments. We will relay them to the crew. Sincerely, Blue Line Moving & Storage (Ont.) Inc. management.
My first time moving was a positive experience. BlueLine Moving and Storage was efficient, professional & the guys were very polite.
I was referred by a friend & my expectations were met!
Hello Ms. Lacoche, thank you for your review. Sincerely, Blue Line Moving & Storage (Ont.) Inc. management.
Our moving experience with BlueLine Moving and Storage was very positive and efficient consistent with the referral we received.
The booking process was easy, the actual move day played out completely in line with our expectations by a friendly and professional team.
Thank you Bryant and team for your great service.
Hello Mr. Daigliash, Thank you for the kind words. We will relay the too the crew. Sincerely, Blue Line Moving & Storage (Ont.) Inc. management.
The 3 guys who showed up to move my mom were very polite and friendly and very professional. Everything was wrapped; all clothes put into wardrobes; boxes for pictures and we had made great use of the packing materials delivered weeks earlier. We were very pleased with the team and dealing with Bryant at the office was a pleasure too. We would definitely recommend Blueline!
Hello Ms. Deacon, Thank you for business and review. Sincerely, Blue Line Moving & Storage (Ont.) Inc. management.
Blueline Movers are fabulous to deal with and it made our move so easy. Our move took 2 days, with 2 trucks, going to 4 destinations. EVERYTHING arrived to the correct location and NOTHING got damaged. The total cost was not inflated at all. They brought and used the equipment they said they would. Everything was wrapped in a blanket and they brought plenty of boxes. Originally I ended my review here with a glowing recommendation. The reality became very different. Blueline are experts at hiding damage. We are missing MANY items, including the legs to my pecan dining room table, a carved hallway mirror, art, and the list goes on. We always figured all of the missing items were in storage. We have now emptied the storage and are in shock. Everything was just thrown at the back and placed properly at the front. Also on the last and third day of the move blueline told us a maximum price to place what was left in storage and the cost almost doubled. They were not able to complete the move in 2 days. That was ok. The additional costs on the third day were pure greed. Things are not what they seem with these people. They are all friendly. You will regret choosing them to do your move. I am sorry I haven't amended this sooner.
Hello Karin, Thank you for your review. Please contact our office. We were advised by our crew that you were present, overseeing the loading of your public storage unit from back to front and no concerns were brought to our attention. Missing items is concerning however, after loading moving van, crew followed you over to your facility and at no time were they left alone and you overseeing the complete process, were so happy, you tipped handsomely. Maybe you should consult your mover you hired for your final move. Again, please contact our office regarding these matters. Blue Line Moving management.
The people doing the moving were great, BUT dealing with the office is horrible!
The three men doing the actual moving were great, BUT dealing with the office is horrible!
Before the move date, they said they offered free mattress bags, wardrobe boxes, and TV boxes. We told them we didn't need any wardrobe boxes, but we did need some mattress bags and some TV boxes. The day of the move, the men showed up with NO mattress bags and NO TV boxes but had LOTS of wardrobe boxes. The company wouldn't send any over, so in the middle of my move, I had to run out and purchase mattress bags myself. The three men that were moving us explained that there were no notes for them for these extra items so I do not blame them, but I blame the office for not telling them.
After the move, we received our invoice and paid it. After reviewing the invoice, we noticed many mistakes on it.
-When asked to see the GPS tracking (which they say they will send you), we waited WEEKS for it and we had to call multiple times for it.
- When asked for a refund of the mistakes on the invoice, they kept saying they will refund us, but it's been a month and still NOTHING.
We have called them every week, multiple times a week and they keep saying someone will get back to us, but they never do.
If you want to book this company, the movers we had did a wonderful job and we thank them for it, but I hope you don't have to deal with the office staff!
We do apologize for the issues with our office. We have been in contact with this customer and compensated accordingly. Sincerely, Blue Line Moving & Storage (Ont.) Inc.
The service I received was very good. The gentlemen showed up and got to work very quickly and efficiently. I was sincerely surprised at how easily the move went. Not one hiccup along the way, and all of my stuff was well taken care of. Furthermore the quote came in line with all others I received. Would certainly recommend Blueline.
Hello Sir, Thank you for review. Because of your level of readiness, things went very smoothly for our crew. Sincerely, Blue Line Moving & Storage (Ont.)Inc. management.
Blueline came with three experienced competent men who handled a difficult removal very well. Goods were taken to a storage which was easy to access and we have no problem providing a positive reference!
Thank you Dave! We appreciate your business and your kind review! Blue Line Moving & Storage (Ont.) Inc.
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Пламвуд () — переписна місцевість (CDP) в США, в окрузі Медісон штату Огайо. Населення — 319 осіб (2010).

Географія
Пламвуд розташований за координатами  (40.008792, -83.414812).  За даними Бюро перепису населення США в 2010 році переписна місцевість мала площу 1,61 км², уся площа — суходіл.

Демографія
Згідно з переписом 2010 року, у переписній місцевості мешкало 319 осіб у 108 домогосподарствах у складі 85 родин. Густота населення становила 198 осіб/км².  Було 120 помешкань (75/км²).

Расовий склад населення:

До двох чи більше рас належало 2,8 %. Частка іспаномовних становила 1,3 % від усіх жителів.

За віковим діапазоном населення розподілялося таким чином: 29,5 % — особи молодші 18 років, 60,2 % — особи у віці 18—64 років, 10,3 % — особи у віці 65 років та старші. Медіана віку мешканця становила 36,7 року. На 100 осіб жіночої статі у переписній місцевості припадало 118,5 чоловіків;  на 100 жінок у віці від 18 років та старших — 100,9 чоловіків також старших 18 років.

Середній дохід на одне домашнє господарство  становив  доларів США (медіана — ), а середній дохід на одну сім'ю —  доларів (медіана — ). За межею бідності перебувало 6,2 % осіб, у тому числі 16,7 % дітей у віці до 18 років та 0,0 % осіб у віці 65 років та старших.

Цивільне працевлаштоване населення становило 103 особи. Основні галузі зайнятості: виробництво — 24,3 %, освіта, охорона здоров'я та соціальна допомога — 18,4 %, роздрібна торгівля — 16,5 %.

Джерела

Переписні місцевості Огайо
Населені пункти округу Медісон (Огайо)

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The IMCAC is actively collecting. Be a part of this unique 21st century museum.
The Doll Army The Doll Army is for the creation of art projects and exhibitions and performances using hand made dolls as surrogates of the artists in peace related projects as a representative voice.
The Collage Museum has the yahoo email group called COLLAGE (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/collage/) . This group is currently comprised of nearly 1,100 collage artists from around the world who converse with each other daily on a variety of subjects of interest to the collage artist. There are also many announcements of web sites, projects and opportunities for collage artists that you may wish to be aware of.


The obesity crisis, like our nation's waistlines, is big and getting bigger. Obesity rates have soared over the last wo decades: One-third of adults in the United States and 17 percent of children are now obese, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
"Obesity is the No. 1 health challenge facing our country right now," says APA President Suzanne Bennett Johnson.
For that reason, she chose to honor two psychologists who have devoted their careers to fighting obesity: Kelly D. Brownell, PhD, director of Yale University's Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity, and Rena Wing, PhD, professor of psychiatry and behavior at Brown University, and director of the Weight Control and Diabetes Research Center at the Miriam Hospital in Providence, R.I.
"Brownell and Wing have each contributed greatly in different ways," says Johnson, one on the individual patient level and the other on the public policy level. They will receive the APA Award for Outstanding Lifetime Contribution to Psychology and give a keynote address at the opening ceremonies of the APA Annual Convention, Aug. 2–5, in Orlando, Fla.
Wing has spent her career helping her patients overcome obesity. She's widely known for developing behavioral treatments for obesity and efforts to prevent the onset of Type- 2 diabetes.
Perhaps her most important contribution to the field has been acting as principal investigator of the Lifestyle Resource Core of the Diabetes Prevention Program, a major research study conducted at 27 clinical centers across the nation. From 1996 to 1999, Wing and her colleagues recruited more than 3,000 people with impaired glucose tolerance, a condition that put them at high risk of developing diabetes. The investigators randomly assigned participants to one of three groups: One received the diabetes drug metformin plus minimal information about diet and exercise, and a second received that same basic information plus a placebo. The third group participated in an intensive lifestyle intervention that Wing developed.


The aircraft was part of the Warbird Rendezvous taking place at CWA in connection with AirVenture in Oshkosh.
WAUSAU - An airplane carrying 11 people touched down safely Wednesday after having trouble with its landing gear as it tried to land at the Central Wisconsin Airport in Mosinee, according to Jim Olson, the airport's director of operations.
The plane circled overhead, burning up fuel, while the pilot tried to get the landing gear to work, Olson said.
The crew was able to manually put the gear down, then landed safely.
The plane is a part of the Warbird Rendezvous event, with military fighter planes flying to the Mosinee airport from the Experimental Aircraft Association's annual AirVenture show in Oshkosh.
Olson said he wasn't sure of the exact model of the plane but said it was a larger military aircraft.
Multiple fire departments and ambulance rushed to the scene. They were called off at about 10:55 a.m. after the safe landing.
The Warbird Rendezvous event is continuing as planned and was scheduled to end at 1 p.m. Wednesday.


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$10 million to support Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Values
JOINT MEDIA RELEASE WITH HON MATTHEW GROOM MP, TASMANIAN MINISTER FOR THE ENVIRONMENT
The Commonwealth and Tasmanian Governments are delivering improved outcomes for the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area with $10.2 million for the identification, protection, conservation, presentation and rehabilitation of the World Heritage values of the property.
The funding will be provided by the Commonwealth Government to support the Tasmanian Government's increased and ongoing management responsibilities in the areas added to the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area in 2013.
The funding includes a one-off payment of $3.2 million next financial year to address identified priority issues such as road safety and biosecurity concerns including managing the spread of invasive species, pests and pathogens.
The funding also provides $575,000 to undertake further study and consultation with the Tasmanian Aboriginal community, as requested by the World Heritage Committee, in order to develop a more detailed understanding of the Aboriginal cultural heritage values of the property.
This work will document both tangible and intangible Aboriginal cultural values in the World Heritage Area and will ensure the Aboriginal cultural values of the property are properly documented, that the threats are identified, and provide recommendations for their ongoing management.
To date the work has focussed on identifying known cultural values within the Tasmanian Wilderness, including in the 2013 extension. Planning has commenced for the next phase, including detailed on-ground surveys in consultation with the Tasmanian Aboriginal community.
The Commonwealth and Tasmanian Governments are committed to working together to ensure that the Outstanding Universal Values of the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area are fully and properly protected.
We look forward to a constructive engagement with the World Heritage Committee and its advisory bodies as we finalise the management plan for the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area and would welcome direct technical discussions in Tasmania to help ensure the final management plan is consistent with the proper protection of cultural and natural values of the Area.
Australia's experience with the Great Barrier Reef has demonstrated the value of close engagement with the World Heritage Committee to progress the effective governance, protection and management of our World Heritage properties.
We remain absolutely committed to the protection of the natural and cultural values of the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area and, as we have always stated, the plan will deliver on Australia's obligations under the World Heritage Convention.
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Cam Sherrill
Cameron Sherrill is a designer and writer for Esquire.com, where he covers technology and video games.
The New Xbox One S Doesn't Have a Disc Drive and Only Costs $250
You can pre-order the new, "all-digital" console right now.
Everything We Know About Sony's Powerful New PlayStation Console
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What we're reading: digital long-form enterprise, quest narratives, a goalie's dream, recession survivors, the curated Ayn Rand
Five from the field:
1. Rachel McAthy's recent roundup of eight long-form digital projects included sites you probably already know about, like The Atavist, Byliner and Longreads, but also Matter, which recently met its Kickstarter funding goal and plans to publish one in-depth science and technology narrative per week. Learn more via Matter's Kickstarter page:
Narratively, meanwhile, is trying to raise $50,000, also via Kickstarter, by Sept. 10, in order to launch a project devoted to New York City stories, and with a build-out plan for other cities. Backers had pledged $23,754 from 353 backers as of this morning:
2. Speaking of Kickstarter, Matt Thompson, an editorial product manager at NPR, and Center for Public Integrity board member, wrote about how the Internet is giving the "quest narrative" new journalistic relevance:
I've long made the case that to understand Internet time, you can't just look at what happens every minute, with new information zooming around chaotically. You have to look at the full picture of how narratives unfold — and that can take place over months, or longer.
Kickstarter, for example, is one of the new darlings of the Internet, yet campaigns on Kickstarter take eons in our conventional understanding of Internet time. Each campaign is a quest distilled to its simplest form — a clear protagonist (the project creator) with a straightforward quest object (the amount to be funded).
The long-form journalistic quest also has its online analogue in the gradually unfolding investigation. Talking Points Memo pioneered the format online with its Polk-Award-winning U.S. attorney scandal coverage. More recently, TPM alum Paul Kiel, now at ProPublica, applied the strategy toward investigating the foreclosure crisis in the U.S. housing market. It was a classic long-form quest unfolding in real-time.
3. A nice read: Jordan Conn's Grantland piece on Mo Isom, the former LSU goalie who's trying to become the football team's placekicker. A taste:
Today, she wears a baggy purple-and-gold T-shirt with knee-length Nike leggings, her hair piled atop her head. "This place is like a sanctuary for these guys," she says. "There's no way I'm walking in here in short shorts and a sports bra." When she nestles the ball under the tee, she stands up straight, her back arched and her shoulders wide. You can see why she says, with no reservation, "I'm a big girl." Right now, she says, she's a little too big. A summer in the weight room has left her with too much muscle and too little flexibility. For 22 years, she has inhabited this body, and at almost every step of the way, someone has found it to be too something. She's been called too fat and too skinny, too weak and too strong, too pretty and too ugly, too provocative and too chaste. She says, however, that none of that matters with this team. To them, she insists, it doesn't even matter that she's a woman. Just put it through the uprights, and biology will be forgotten.
4. In one of the saddest stories about the recession, Jeff Tietz wrote about a whole population of Californians living in their cars, in a parking lot. His piece ran in Rolling Stone and featured a 56-year-old woman named Janis Adkins, who kept her "previous-life belongings" in a Yakima SpaceBooster on top of her van, which she parked in a back corner, near some avocado trees, so she could "pick their fallen fruit." A scene where Adkins goes out begging:
Adkins couldn't bring herself to look dirty. Then she remembered that after the stock market imploded, guys in business suits had walked through New York's financial district wearing sandwich boards with their résumés on them. "People read them because it's so ridiculous, it's effective," she says. So she picked a strategic thoroughfare in Santa Barbara, dressed for a job interview, and spent her last money making copies of her résumé, laminating one so that drivers could handle it without getting it dirty. She found a four-foot-tall piece of cardboard at a grocery store and wrote on it:
I'D RATHER BE WORKING
HIRE ME IF YOU HAVE A JOB
Then she stood alongside the road and held up the sign. The day was so windy it was hard to hold on to. "I was like, 'Please hire me,' and everybody's flying by, trying to ignore you, but this one guy drives up, looks at my résumé, looks at me and goes, 'Very effective. I'll take one of those.' I said, 'Thank you, I really appreciate that,' but I never heard from him. And then a homeless guy came up to me and goes, 'Wow. That ain't gonna work.' I didn't want to talk to him about it. I just wanted to stick my sign out there – I didn't have any more cardboard. And about halfway into it, I just started crying and I couldn't stop. I was so embarrassed. It was incredibly humiliating. You know how a lot of women hold their hand over their mouth when they cry? I started doing that, and that's when I raked in the money. I was sort of scared because there were so many cars that I was boxed in, and I was holding this gigantic sign and I was saying, 'I'd rather work, I'd rather you take my résumé, please help,' and I'm crying and the dollars just started coming out of the windows." But finally she cried herself out, and people stopped giving. She made $12 in three hours, all of it drawn by tears.
5. If you hate the concept of storytelling curation, why? It's like orchestrating a great dinner party: chemistry + content, with the possibility of drama. If you're not already sick of the topic, we recommend Mother Jones' list of Ayn Rand-centric must-reads. As talk of Republican vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan's reading history continues to metastasize, Mother Jones' Dave Gilson has culled pieces by Amy Benfer (Mother Jones), Whitaker Chambers (The National Review), Andrew Corsello (GQ), John Hodgman (New York Times magazine), Thomas Mallon (The New Yorker) and Cathy Young (Reason).
Here's Young, writing in Reason:
Reading Rand's philosophy can be an exhilarating, head-turning experience; it was for me when I first picked up her nonfiction manifesto For the New Intellectual at the age of 19, two years after coming to the United States from the Soviet Union. (Rand herself was an American immigrant from the Soviet Union, leaving her family behind to move here in 1926.) Rand's rejection of the moral code that condemns selfishness as the ultimate evil and holds up self-sacrifice as the ultimate good is a radical challenge to received wisdom, an invitation to a startlingly new way to see the world. While Rand was hardly the first philosopher to advocate an ethos of individualism, reason, and self-interest, no one formulated it as accessibly or persuasively as she did — or as passionately. In Rand's hands, the "virtue of selfishness" was not a dry, abstract rationalist construct with a bloodless "economic man" at its center. It became a bold, ardent vision of defiance, struggle, creative achievement, joy, and romantic love. That vibrancy, more than anything else, accounts for her extraordinary appeal.
And here's Corsello, in GQ:
Goddamn, the experience of being 19 years old and reading Ayn Rand! The crystal-shivering-at-the-breaking-pitch intensity of it! Not just for that 19-year-old, but for everybody unfortunate enough to be caught in his psychic blast radius. Is "experience" even the right word for The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged? Ayn Rand's idolization of Mickey Spillane and cigarettes and capitalism—an experience? Her tentacular contempt for Shakespeare and Beethoven and Karl Marx and facial hair and government and "subnormal" children and the poor and the Baby Jesus and the U.N. and homosexuals and "simpering" social workers and French Impressionism and a thousand other things the flesh is heir to: experience?
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The Rise Of Social Media And Its Impact On Mainstream Journalism – A very interesting paper for the Reuters Institute by Nick Newman. Fascinating stuff
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M.J de Wit, cellar master for Signal Gun Wines has now leaped in a new direction, craft beer, brewed on the farm. It is a first in the Durbanville Wine Valley.
"Hoogeberg Lager" is for the everyday beer drinker, whilst Yster Vark is more for the discerning Craft Beer drinker. Hoogeberg Craft Beer is slow brewed in small batches.


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What does Kashmir mean?
Led Zeppelin: Kashmir Meaning
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Kashmir Lyrics
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Oh let the sun beat down upon my face, stars to fill my dream
I am a traveler of both time and space, to be where I have been
To sit with elders of the gentle race, this world has seldom seen
They talk of days for which they sit and wait and...
Mar 8th, 2014 3:45pm report
The song is about, when in a place or State of Nothing, one can more easily transcend, and find their true higher Self.
Sun beats down upon my face... worldly pressures, stars to fill my dreams... one's hopes for the future.
traveler... elders...gentle race... seldom seen... the few who are Enlightened, waiting for the day when All will Be Revealed (enlightened).
Next verse: he hears the message, but doesn't quite get it.
All I see turns to brown (the color of all colors mixed into One), my eyes fill with sand... for this journey sight is not required. Trying to find where I've been... the higher Self so easily distracted/lost by the same wasted land and ground that is burned by the sun.
Pilot of the storm, leaves no trace, like thoughts inside a dream... turmoil, trials, tribulations, in life are guides/lessons to the Way (Toa, etc.)
Heed the path that led me, Shangrila, will return again.... A brief experience of Nirvana or Enlightenment from the space created by nothingness (vast desert).
Father of the four winds, fill my sails, across the sea of years... a prayer that the higher energy or Being will give him the strength and guidance to make the journey... with no provisions but an open face.... open heart, no baggage, nothing, no Ego... along the straits of fear.... our self created psyche fears bind us in ego fabricated walls of prison... prayer to be free, supported by the Father of the four winds and his open heart... fearless.
When I'm on the way, when I see the way, you-stay... he is now able to transcend on the way, even though you stay... he can/will leave the unenlightened behind.
The song closes out by touching on all humans come down from Nirvana, but when he's down... let me take you there! Desire to show All the way to Nirvana...Starting from a place of Nothing! Nothing: meaning no past, no future, only Now, traveling forever in a sea of brown, with no judgement.
Jul 4th, 2008 7:08pm report
This song is about so much more than drugs or some trip to morroco.
"a traveler of both time and space"
"sit with elders of the gentle race"
"They talk of days for which they sit and wait and all will be revealed"
"And my eyes fill with sand, as I scan this wasted land
Trying to find, trying to find where I've been."
"I've been flying, ain't no denyin', no denyin'"
Kashmir is the principal point of conflict, a tiny nation in dispute between Pakistan and India.
The history of this area, once the great Rama empire,is what made Robert Oppemheimer say the now famous words
and I qoute from Wikipedia...As Los Alamos director J. Robert Oppenheimer watched the demonstration, he later said that a line from the Hindu scripture the Bhagavad Gita came to mind:
"I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds"
"This wasted land" is so because of a nuclear war fought there 5000 years ago.
Recorded in thier ancient records, along with hundreds of differnt types of flying machines, both terrestial and interstellar, is a war so devasating between a "gentle race" of spiritual people and a materialistic race of "war mongers" bent on world domination that it distroyed both sides.
Sound familar? History repeats itself to the doom of those who refuse to learn from it.
Great Britain gave back this area in 1947, aprox. Half to the Muslims (Pakistan) and half to the Hindus (India)
Kashmir is in between them both and in dispute.
It is currently again one of the world's most likely places for nuclear war to erupt...and just a small example of how religion is used as a tool in the hands of those who would bring the world again to the brink of annihilation.
kooljohn176
May 10th, 5:15am report
Kashmir is one of the greatest Led Zeppelin songs of freedom that spoke to my soul's imagination then and now. This owesome and amazing song that was and still to this day could be about any international traveler, or any sovereign citizen of any sovereign country when born. Like it was once in the old days of America and Yugoslavia that raised free traveling men of time and space. All after our God created soul from above that comes traveling down into energizing the sovereign flesh and blood human being ''baby'' first most to become sovereign Freemen travelers. Who are the real you and not the other YOU that is ruled down to travel in the ''space fiction'' of the dead corp. owned ''person'' name given to us to be revealed and known to us on this earth.
Yes I agree it's about a travel experience.
Yes I agree it's also about a drug trip.
May 2nd, 2018 5:08am report
Zeppelin is from the future. They jumped back in time to save rock & roll and steer it high above the mountains . Lets face it. " Hammer of the Gods" ring a bell ??
Jul 1st, 2017 7:00pm report
I tend to think that this song proves that not only were Led Zeppelin Fans of Tolkien but also viewers of Dr. Who. Just for a laugh imagine you are the companion learning about the Dr. through your experiences with him. A Traveller of both time and space, TARDIS, the Dr.s vehicle is an anagram for Time And Relative Distance In Space.
Dec 7th, 2016 12:14am report
Hey! Where's "boogie with stu". Remember Mrs. Valens helped write that. Whoever she is
Aug 16th, 2016 8:13pm report
I think Kashmir is about a DMT trip.
Apr 3rd, 2015 4:59pm report
song about death, about meeting the makers, about traveling back in time & space to the past of one's life experience, about facing up to the sun & stars, about eyes wide open with sand filling in those eyes, about soul flying out of the dead body.
Krujay
Robert Plant has been to Kashmir. His wife is Indian and he said his father in law took him there. When he went there is unknown but I guess it was pre 1976.
debra.given.3
Inspired time travel novels "The Elder Effect" and "Vital Perception" by D. L. Given
Mar 27th, 2014 3:14pm report
Led Zeppelin's song "Kashmir" inspired the novels "The Elder Effect" and "Vital Perception." The author, (D. L. Given) stated in an interview she has no interpretation for the meaning of the song only that is an amazing piece.
Mar 9th, 2014 3:19am report
It is about a person's journey to becoming a Bodisattva. If you don't see it, look up the meaning of Bodisattva on Wikipedia.
Isnt it about heroin trafficing ,the surroundings. They have to race to sell theyer heroin and are waiting for theyer signal, or they will be killed so they hide and wait. Then its at a full speed run to get there do the deal and get back. With out being killed and they are high.
Sep 18th, 2013 9:27pm report
been listening to zeppelin in the mid 70's in high school. I believe this song is about sputnik's dog laika who traveld in space and its body died , but maybe the spirit went through metaphycosis on the way back to earth. there might be a man who fell to earth around somewhere.
It does seem to bring to mind Doctor Who. The traveler, "Talk and songs from tongues of lilting grace, whose sounds caress my ear" reminds me of "Planet of the Ood". I mean, I get Kashmir and the war, but the razed land, traveling time and space, him trying to find where he's been, it all sounds like it.
Jul 21st, 2012 7:13am report
wow a lot of you people are pretty stupid. I don't know what souls and all that crap have to do with Kashmir. It's relating a trip to Morocco to the conflict in Kashmir. Nothing more nothing less. NONE of the member of Led Zeppelin HAVE EVER been to Kashmir.
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Q: How to select item from list by using index number I am currently working on an ordering meal system using python and the task is to let user select the meal options that are available on the menu. It should allow the user to enter a meal selection number (which matches the number shown in the menu) and the appropriate validation should be performed on user response
After a valid choice the program should print "now cooking [name]"
Otherwise it should print "invalid choice".
def customer_selection():
    menu_items = ["Budda Bowl(vg)", "Eye Fillet Steak",
                  "Spaghetti Bolognese", "Pad Thai(seafood)"]
    user_input = int(input())
    if(user_input in menu_items):
        print('Now cooking',menu_item[user_input-1])
    else:
        print('invalid choice.')

print(customer_selection())

A: The issue is the line user_input in menu_items. The in operator with a list is referring to the actual items in the list -- not their indices.
If you want use indices like that, you can use a dict:
def customer_selection():
    menu_items = {k:v for k,v in enumerate(["Budda Bowl(vg)", "Eye Fillet Steak", "Spaghetti Bolognese", "Pad Thai(seafood)"],1)}
    user_input = int(input())
    if user_input in menu_items :
        print('Now cooking',menu_items[user_input])
    else:
        print('invalid choice.')

customer_selection()

Another way is to replace your if/else with try/except to catch the bad index of a list:
def customer_selection():
    menu_items = ["Budda Bowl(vg)", "Eye Fillet Steak", "Spaghetti Bolognese", "Pad Thai(seafood)"]
    user_input = int(input())
    try:
        print('Now cooking',menu_items[user_input-1])
    except IndexError:
        print('invalid choice.')

customer_selection()

A: Your test user_input in menu_items means "is user_input a element of the array menu_items" : not at all, you don't want to exactly type an item, what would be the point
So as you input an index, you need to verify that it is lower than the array size. As arrays are 0-indexed, do int(input()) - 1 do let the user enter a 1-indexed value
def customer_selection():
    menu_items = ["Budda Bowl(vg)", "Eye Fillet Steak",
                  "Spaghetti Bolognese", "Pad Thai(seafood)"]
    user_input = int(input()) - 1
    if user_input < len(menu_items):
        print('Now cooking', menu_items[user_input])
    else:
        print('invalid choice.')

customer_selection()

A: The in operator checks whether a specified value is a constituent element of a  list. Since user_input is not present in the menu_items ,customer_selection function always executes else part.
def customer_selection():
    menu_items = ["Budda Bowl(vg)", "Eye Fillet Steak", "Spaghetti Bolognese", "Pad Thai(seafood)"]
    user_input = int(input())
    if user_input>0 and user_input<=len(menu_items):
        print('Now cooking '+menu_items[user_input-1])
    else:
        print('invalid choice.')
customer_selection()

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Acting municipal spokesperson Isaac Mahlakwane says the damage on roads, flooded bridges and housing units were recorded in several parts of the district including Makhuduthamaga and Fetakgomo-Tubatse local municipalities.
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"It's a huge honour to be able to join Swansea," she said after putting pen to paper.
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TEAM SETS NEW SCHOOL RECORDS
"Youth" seemed to be the answer for the success of
Bees' harriers this season. Coach Roy Owen relied
heavily on underclassmen to put together the most successful track team in St. Ambrose College history.
The team began its season early in January when
they travelled to Chicago to take part in an indoor meet
against the University of Chicago and Bradley University. The Bees came away with a win over Bradley and
a loss to Chicago. They rounded out their indoor season
with losses  against Western Illinois,  Coe,  and Loras.
The Cindermen came to life when the outdoor season began. Led by veterans Bill Fulton and Joe Cervantes and Ron Schachel, and Freshmen Monroe Keys
and Jim Collins, the Bees won three out of their four
dual meets.
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ten meet records as the two schools renewed athletic
relationships, after a 17-year layoff.
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losing only in the distance runs, the hurdles, the discus,
and the high jump.
Ron Schachel, junior, set meet records in the 100 yard
dash (10 flat) and 220 yard dash (21.7) and anchored-in
VARSITY TRACK
Dual Meets:
St. Ambrose
Loras
record-winning relay teams in the 440 (43.1) and mile
(3.21.9).
School records and meet records went to Schachel
in the 220, to Don Krebs in the pole vault (12-6) and
to the 440 and mile teams. The team also had time to
travel to the Drake Relays in Des Moines, Iowa. In the
Iowa College Division, Bill Fulton, Monroe Keys, Jim
Collins, and Ron Schachel, the relay team, came away
with a third in the 880 relay and a fifth in the mile relay.
A nucleus of veterans will return again for the Bees
this spring, along with a group of talented freshmen
to help strengthen the weak points. The Bees should
put together the finest track team in St. Ambrose's history.
Track Team: (l to r.) Front Roto: D. Wilson, E. Lillis, R. Zahlman, M. Keys, W. Fulton, B. Lehew, T. Kelley, R. Schachel, M. Hurto.
Second Row: D. Krebs, C. Perry, J. Mezinskis, K. Bresnan, C. Johnson, T. Dwyer, D. Shea, A. Szafranski. Back Row: Coach Roy Owen,
L. Bell, D. Kerwin, W. Robertson, S. Miclot, R. Lamp, R. Frye, W. Lillis, M. Brodell, R. Holycross, J. Carroll.
Transcript TEAM SETS NEW SCHOOL RECORDS "Youth" seemed to be the answer for the success of Bees' harriers this season. Coach Roy Owen relied heavily on underclassmen to put together the most successful track team in St. Ambrose College history. The team began its season early in January when they travelled to Chicago to take part in an indoor meet against the University of Chicago and Bradley University. The Bees came away with a win over Bradley and a loss to Chicago. They rounded out their indoor season with losses against Western Illinois, Coe, and Loras. The Cindermen came to life when the outdoor season began. Led by veterans Bill Fulton and Joe Cervantes and Ron Schachel, and Freshmen Monroe Keys and Jim Collins, the Bees won three out of their four dual meets. The highlight of the season was a 90-46 win over Augustana College. The Bees had a hand in wrecking ten meet records as the two schools renewed athletic relationships, after a 17-year layoff. St. Ambrose won ten out of 16 events in this meet, losing only in the distance runs, the hurdles, the discus, and the high jump. Ron Schachel, junior, set meet records in the 100 yard dash (10 flat) and 220 yard dash (21.7) and anchored-in VARSITY TRACK VARSITY TRACK Dual Meets: St. Ambrose Opponents 70 Loras 68 89 Monmouth 52 90 Augustana 46 67 Platteville 68 record-winning relay teams in the 440 (43.1) and mile (3.21.9). School records and meet records went to Schachel in the 220, to Don Krebs in the pole vault (12-6) and to the 440 and mile teams. The team also had time to travel to the Drake Relays in Des Moines, Iowa. In the Iowa College Division, Bill Fulton, Monroe Keys, Jim Collins, and Ron Schachel, the relay team, came away with a third in the 880 relay and a fifth in the mile relay. A nucleus of veterans will return again for the Bees this spring, along with a group of talented freshmen to help strengthen the weak points. The Bees should put together the finest track team in St. Ambrose's history. Track Team: (l to r.) Front Roto: D. Wilson, E. Lillis, R. Zahlman, M. Keys, W. Fulton, B. Lehew, T. Kelley, R. Schachel, M. Hurto. Second Row: D. Krebs, C. Perry, J. Mezinskis, K. Bresnan, C. Johnson, T. Dwyer, D. Shea, A. Szafranski. Back Row: Coach Roy Owen, L. Bell, D. Kerwin, W. Robertson, S. Miclot, R. Lamp, R. Frye, W. Lillis, M. Brodell, R. Holycross, J. Carroll.


Nidii yayt t'aahl g̱alts'abim Ging̱olx wil wayt bakwhl g̱alipleet, iit t'aatdiithl g̱alts'ap dim wil ḵ'ap wanhl g̱asimutkwsit ahl 1867. N̓ihl ts'eets'ikshl t'aat ahl Saxwhl Lisims wil adigwil siilin̓skwhl Nisg̱a'a. Ii g̱a'aatdiit loot, nidiit naa ji wanit loot wilt adigwil tḵ'eskwhl Hay̓dax̱ g̱anhl Ts'imsan n̓idiit lax̱-ts'eets'iks tgun.
Ḵ̱'ap sgi g̱an gin̓amtkwhl wa ahl g̱alts'abim̓ Ging̱olx. Mahlkwshl adaawaḵhl g̱aniye'etgum̓ ahl hlidaa la'ooy̓. Wahl Ging̱olx-wilt n̓ii-maḵsa'anhl Nisg̱a'ahl g̱ag̱olxhl g̱aw̓ildigitgwit hlaa jahldiit. Maḵsa'andiit lax̱ts'eehl aks ahl Saxwhl Lisims. N̓it wilaakwdiit tgun dimt wilaa ax̱ huxw tḵ'esa'ahl g̱aw̓ildigitgwit. Hli g̱alaans gun, iit doḵhl Nisg̱a'ahl g̱a g̱olxhl w̓ildigitgwit iit n̓ii-maḵsa'andiit lax̱-nn̓il̓ugum g̱an, dim wilaat ga'ahl tx̱aa n̓itkwshl gathl bagwit ahl ḵ'alii-aks.
G̱alaanhl 1867, sii Ging̱olx (n̓ihl wilaayihl ḵ'amḵsiiwaa ahl Kincolith) n̓iwil sit'aatkwshl gisi-luxwlukwhl Nisg̱a'a, bakw n̓idiit ahl Git'iks ii Gwin̓ahaa. G̱abiihl lugwit ii g̱agwilks-at'itkwsdiit, ii hlag̱ats'uudiit ii gisi-luxwlukwdiit wil g̱aldix pdaalhl aks wil joḵdiit ḵ'alii-Lisims.
Ging̱olx was not a regular village until Christian missionaries established it as a permanent settlement in 1867. This flat site at the mouth of the Nass River had previously been used by the Nisg̱a'a as a hunting ground and a fishing station, but it was not permanently inhabited due to its vulnerability to attack from raiding bands of Haida and Tsimshian peoples.
The name Ging̱olx has its origin in this violent period of pre-contact history. Ging̱olx means "Place of Scalps", a reference to an episode where the Nisg̱a'a are said to have hung the scalps of defeated warriors along the shoreline in order to deter future raiders. Following the massacre of a raiding group, the Nisg̱a'a took the scalps of the warriors and stuck them on tall wooden pikes where they would be plainly visible to anyone arriving by water.
After 1867, modern Ging̱olx (also known as Kincolith) was steadily populated by Nisg̱a'a families as they relocated from other Nass River villages such as Git'iks and Gwin̓ahaa. Some families relocated as they converted to Christianity, while others were forced to move when periodic flooding of the Nass destroyed their own villages.


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A collection of all of Artbabe volume 2 and several non-fiction and journalistic stories published during the same period (1997-1999).
Artbabe was a comics series that ran, in jumbo minicomics and standard American comic book format, from 1992 – 1999. The comics contained fictional short stories (none of which, by the way, featured cover model Artbabe as a character). The subjects of the stories run the gamut, but it's safe to say that a lot of them deal with young Chicagoans grappling with serious questions in their lives, such as Does she love me?, Can I stay friends with someone who has betrayed my trust?, and Can I make a life as an artist? There's also a lot of funny stuff, don't worry.
An editorial review from Publishers Weekly:
Since she began making underground mini-comics in Chicago in the early 1990s, Abel (Artbabe) has developed into a wonderfully literate comics storyteller and a skilled draftsperson.
This collection of her most recent Artbabe stories captures Abel at her best, presenting the emotional texture of the lives of the young and unfocused. She's a literary cartoonist, chronicling a free-floating crowd of young, hip, pleasure-seeking barhoppers who also double as art students, wannabe writers, rock musicians and low-wage clerical workers.
Whatever Abel's characters may lack in experience beyond college is made up for by the thoughtful presentation of their relationships, friendships and unfortunate one-night stands. Abel's young female characters project both a sense of unfettered social audacity as well as a capacity for neurotic self-absorption, a fictional profile of Abel's own go-getting post-feminist generation. In "Chƒin'," she explores the deep friendship between Paloma, a reflective and fretful dancer on the downside of her career, and Nina, a cheerful and unflappable party girl, and their efforts to reconcile the contrasting demands of their lives. "Goddamn Hollywood" presents two women friends awkwardly and disastrously interested in the same dubious guy. Abel's black and white drawings are as assured, sensitively rendered and delightfully personal as her prose. The book also collects several short comic and nonfiction narratives.
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First edition: July 2000
Second edition: December 2004. Second edition has an improved interior, with chapter headers and heavier paper, but a slightly misprinted cover.
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Published by Fantagraphics Books, Seattle
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The 2018 SPEED Energy Stadium Super Trucks season came to a formal close in 2019 as the series traveled to Mexico City for the Race of Champions. For Matt Brabham, he left the Race of Champions as a newly-crowned champion.
In a first for the series, the final month of the year was not the final month of the 2018 season. In late December, SST announced plans to compete in the 2019 Race of Champions, held at the Foro Sol baseball park in Mexico City's Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez, which was eventually revealed as the final race of the 2018 tour. While a season-concluding race weekend the following year is new, it was not SST's first foray into ROC, having been fielded as a category for the 2014 event in Barbados.
Like in 2014, the trucks were a category for the ROC-competing drivers, though the series regulars also competed in a standalone doubleheader over the weekend. Due to the track layout and ROC's race format, the trucks' separate races were modeled after ROC with one-on-one duels in which the winner advanced to the next round. Even if a driver lost in the opening round, he could advance if he had the fastest time of the defeated. If a driver hit a cone, he would receive a five-second penalty. Races were divided into three laps, each split into two halves.
Robby Gordon led the way in qualifying with a session time of 57.921 seconds, followed by Blade Hildebrand (58.367), and Jeff Hoffman (58.409). Brabham, who entered the Race of Champions holding a 37-point lead in the standings over Gavin Harlien, was fourth-quickest at 58.541 ahead of Davey Hamilton Jr. (59.074), Harlien (59.138), Cole Potts (59.485), Casey Mears (59.670), Jerett Brooks (59.675), and Apdaly Lopez (1:01.207).
The first battle of Saturday's racing was between Hildebrand (#2 seed) and Brooks (#9 seed), the latter driving the #57 UFD Racing truck. Hildebrand led the first lap with a time of 1:01.7152, a 1.07-second advantage over Brooks, which was increased to over three seconds shortly after. Brooks was unable to make up the deficit as Hildebrand finished at 3:00.9764.
In a duel of UFD Racing teammates, Hoffman (#3) took on Mears (#8). Despite a strong jump at the start by Mears, he fell behind early as Hoffman's 31.4719 opening section time trumped his 33.9273. Mears closed the gap to .6685 seconds (Hoffman led at 1:02.1850) as Hoffman began to slip. At the checkered flag, Hoffman crossed the line first, while Mears' time suffered a hit when he was given a penalty for hitting a cone.
Brabham (#4) and Potts (#7) were next on the order, the latter beating the former by nearly 2.5 seconds (30.8208 to 33.3198) on the opening sector. The points leader rebounded to edge Potts out 1:01.7080 to 1:02.1253. The two briefly swapped first before Brabham led the closing sections to come out on top at 3:00.5938 to 3:04.2241.
Hamilton (#5) vs. Harlien (#6) opened with the two trading the lead early on as Hamilton led first 31.2713 to 32.7043, followed by Harlien beating him 1:01.3055 to 1:02.4832, and Hamilton reclaiming it next 1:31.1066 to 1:31.8259. By the white flag, Harlien led by nearly three seconds and ultimately held on to win before Hamilton received a time penalty.
For the final race of the first round, Gordon (#1) squared off with Lopez (#10), the latter driving the #1 truck for Paul Morris in his home nation. Gordon dropped behind quickly and Lopez led the first portion 32.0138 to 32.7770 before bouncing back to lead by over two seconds (1:01.1140 to 1:03.7074). Lopez eventually began to fall off the pace as Gordon scored the round win 3:01.8941 to 3:08.8925).
Although Mears had the fastest time of the losing drivers, Potts was promoted to the second round due to Mears' time penalty.
Gordon and Hoffman opened the second round. Hoffman briefly led before Gordon had the faster run and began to distance himself. By the final lap, Hoffman trailed by approximately one second and could not close the margin as Gordon won 3:02.1420 to 3:03.3639.
Hildebrand faced off against Brabham in the following race, the former leading the opening half by 1.76 seconds before he nearly collided with the wall as he was on his right-side wheels. Brabham took advantage to pull ahead by two seconds and subsequently won 2:59.3194 to 3:03.2668.
The third and final battle of the round was Potts vs. Harlien. Harlien led at the first waypoint 30.5632 to 32.7040 and maintained his position. At the white flag, Harlien continued to lead by over two seconds; Potts could not catch up as Harlien claimed the win 2:59.5486 to 3:01.9920. Despite the defeat, Potts' time was the fastest of the three losing drivers, pushing him into the third round.
The third round commenced with Gordon facing Harlien, a duel that race commentator Sean Sermini remarked "could be the final, this could be the main event because there's so much talent on the track right now." Gordon led the opening sector by 2.4 seconds (30.1864 to 32.5563), a margin that eventually closed to .59 seconds. Although Gordon received a five-second penalty for hitting a cone, Harlien was also penalized, balancing the times. At the start of the final lap, Gordon led by 1.21 seconds, which eventually ballooned to 3.35 after completing the first half. Harlien suffered another time penalty as Gordon pulled away to win 3:01.0773 to 3:07.2031.
Potts led Brabham early on (31.2540 to 33.1236 after the first checkpoint) before he lost ground, enabling the latter to cross the line first to complete lap one by .67 seconds. The gap grew at the last lap (Brabham's 2:00.9505 to Potts' 2:02.7752) before shrinking to .04 seconds upon finishing the first sector. Upon reaching the checker, Brabham secured the win 3:00.8495 to 3:02.9593.
Brabham led the first sector 30.7291 to 32.2780, though Gordon fought back to lead the lap. The points leader retaliated by leading the second lap's opening half 1:29.7290 to 1:30.1381 before the pattern repeated of Gordon completing the lap in front, this time leading 1:58.2391 to 2:00.0893. The trend broke on lap three as Gordon led the first section 2:28.2316 to 2:28.7621 and extended his advantage upon finishing the lap (2:56.7852 to 2:59.4064).
On the final lap, Gordon narrowly maintained his lead, crossing the line at the checkpoint 3:27.7930 to 3:28.0703. The series founder clinched the day's victory with a final time of 3:56.0808 to Brabham's 3:58.5839.
Brabham's second-place finish secured him the 2018–19 SST championship, a feeling he described as bittersweet considering his ROC defeat.
"That was a pretty good Race 1," Gordon said during his interview. "I think we ran the trucks too long without putting any fuel in them, and I think both Matt and myself were running out of fuel on that last lap.
"What a cool event that Fredrik (Johnsson, ROC President) does with Race of Champions. It's an honor that we could bring Stadium Super Trucks here and race with you guys.
Potts joined Gordon and Brabham on the podium as third place.
With the title now his, Brabham opened Sunday's action against Hamilton. The two swapped the time lead, with Hamilton being faster when they began the final lap (2:02.4901 to 2:03.0234) before he brushed the wall; Brabham would take the win 3:01.9464 to 3:03.2312.
A rematch of Hoffman and Mears was next. Mears held the early lead as he completed the opening sector first before Hoffman led the full lap 1:01.4753 to 1:02.3462. On the final lap, Mears led by over two seconds before Hoffman decreased the margin, though Mears held on to win by half a second (3:00.4336 to 3:00.9413).
The third race of the first round was Hildebrand and Brooks. Hildebrand led the first lap 1:01.4011 to 1:02.8591; while Brooks passed him at the lap two checkpoint, Hildebrand reclaimed the top spot at the lap change. The two continued to trade the lead before Hildebrand defeated Brooks 3:02.1845 to 3:03.9479.
Gordon and Potts were next up. Saturday's race winner took the early lead by 1.4 seconds at the first waypoint before Potts led the first lap by .11. Gordon retook first at the white flag (2:01.1687 to 2:02.2648) and drove off to the round win 3:00.2468 to 3:01.6900.
Lopez vs. Harlien was dominated by the latter, who led lap one by over four seconds (1:01.5114 to 1:05.4277), which ballooned to more than six seconds after lap two (2:01.1410 to 2:07.1672). Upon completing their runs, Harlien's 3:01.3384 was more than eight seconds faster than Lopez (3:09.4445).
As the fastest of the losing drivers, Hoffman advanced to round two.
The second round began with Hildebrand and Hoffman. Hoffman led the first lap 1:00.6460 to 1:01.3970. Hildebrand started to drop after hitting a barrier and knocking it loose, trailing by nearly three seconds after lap two (1:59.3234 to 2:02.1939) and six seconds by the checkered flag (2:57.8796 to 3:03.6959).
A duel of the season's top drivers was next with Brabham and Harlien. Harlien was the early leader before Brabham closed the gap and led lap two 1:59.8595 to 2:02.0441). Although Harlien chased him down to make the distance half a second at the last checkpoint, it grew to over two seconds by the finish (2:59.7166 to 3:01.8007) as Brabham claimed the round win.
"It's just kind of frustrating," Harlien said in an interview. "We get docked five seconds for hitting cones and stuff. I was hoping to be the Lucky Loser but there's a cone knocked over. I don't know who hit it but they weren't docked five seconds, but it is what it is.
Gordon led Potts after one lap 1:01.1048 to 1:01.8278, with the margin increasing a lap later (2:00.0881 to 2:01.8058). Potts fell by over four seconds at the final sector as Gordon stormed off to a 2:58.4820 to 3:01.7202 victory.
Potts moved on to the semi-final round with his time.
In a rematch of Saturday's final, Brabham took on Gordon to open the third round. Brabham crossed the first checkpoint with a two-second advantage that shrank to half a second after completing lap one (1:00.7053 to 1:01.1244). During the second lap, Gordon was assessed a five-second penalty after knocking a cone as Brabham continued to lead. While the two were close as they took the checkered flag, Gordon's penalty dropped him as Brabham won 2:58.4859 to 3:03.3774.
Hoffman led Potts after lap one 1:00.7837 to 1:02.5441, which increased to over three seconds after lap two (1:59.0832 to 2:02.3797). In the end, Hoffman won 2:57.9059 to 3:02.0578 to advance to the final.
Like on Saturday, Potts finished third in the results as he had the faster time of the two losses.
For the last competition of the season, Brabham faced Hoffman.
Hoffman led the first lap's sector 30.0691 to 32.5983 and retained the position after completing the first lap (59.9998 to 1:01.0752). He continued his strong run into the second (1:28.0738 to 1:31.2556 at the checkpoint, 1:58.2571 to 1:59.5177 upon completion) and third laps (2:26.4626 to 2:29.7537 at halfway).
At the white flag, Hoffman led 2:56.5161 to 2:58.1919, which became 3:24.9650 to 3:28.8965 at the waypoint. Brabham could not make up the deficit as Hoffman crossed the line first by over two seconds (3:55.1557 to 3:57.5635), but a five-second penalty for brushing a cone relegated him to second and Brabham took the win.
"I made it all the way to the final so I was pumped on that," Hoffman commented in his post-race interview. "I had gone up against (Brabham). It was a good race, I had him covered for a while, it looked like, but I guess on the last lap, I knocked over a cone so that set me back with my penalty. I don't know, I'll take it.
"I was stoked obviously, beating Robby, that was like the homework and all the hard work over last night and today, and it's hard to beat him. He's a tough competitor, so I was happy about that," Brabham stated. "I wasn't sure where we were with the rounds.
"I'm disappointed for Hoffman. He was so fast there on that last round and he obviously did a better job at trying to learn the track than I did, and he came out firing. I'm just bummed because obviously, he was quicker, but the penalties are what decided it. I'm happy to win, but I'm also equally bummed for him; I mean, he deserves to win as well.


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Venus of Willendorf
Sculpture has it's origins in the very earliest of modern man. While still living in caves and hunting and gathering food, man was also carving or shaping small figurines depicting various stages of life and behavior. A fertility figure, called the Venus of Willendorf, was found at Willendorf in Austria. She is about 4" tall, crudely but accurately carved, and is thought by scholars to be a religious object. She is about 25,000 years old.
From such humble beginnings sculpture has evolved into a modern form of art. Before 3000 B.C. the Egyptians and Cyclades were developing forms of sculpture that although different in style, form and material, still give insight into their cultures and lifestyles. The Egyptians began with smaller pieces, usually depicting royalty, and evolved into the enormous Sphinx and larger-than-life monuments of Ramses II. The Cyclades are thought to have begun with marble figures of women depicting death, and evolved into small, but visually powerful, fertility figures depicting life.
Around 1200 B.C., American sculpture continued with the naturalized figures of the Aztecs and Olmecs, crudely carved but ofttimes massive structures. The primitive nature of these pieces removes nothing from their powerful visage, and predates classical Greek sculpture.
Jesus Sculptur
The 5th century B.C. brought with it the predominant art forms of modern sculpture. The realism of Greece and the feature distortion of Africa, although incompatible, have survived, and remain the foundation of modern art. Although there have been many changes in sculpture between 500 B.C. and today, what we view as the beginning of modern sculpture was produced and perfected around that time in history.
Today, sculpture is anything. Any type of material can be made into a work of art depicting the artists' vision. Although we may not understand it, beauty is, indeed, in the eye of the beholder.
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Even on an intermediate basis, chart patterns often hold form.
Recently getting a copy of the CRB Commodity Yearbook for 2001 delivered to the office, gave me both a renewed interest in futures, as well as in chart patterns. Sometimes, there's nothing like spotting a seven-year, head and shoulders top in the 5-year Treasury Note yield to remind me of how powerful, how telling, chart patterns can be.
All the same, an interest in shorter, more tradable time frames often means looking for chart patterns not at all-time tops or bottoms, but at intermediate tops and bottoms. While some chart readers pooh-pooh top and bottom formations unless they occur at the end of the Mother of All Up (or Down) Trends, the fact of the matter is that intermediate moves must come to an end as well, and top and bottom formations--be they double tops or bottoms, head and shoulders patterns, or diamonds--are as good a way to "come to an end" as any.
A breakout, pullback and retest of the lows characterizes this intermediate, complex head and shoulders top.
Looking at the December Canadian dollar (CDZ1 or CDZ01) provides a textbook example of an intermediate top--a complex head and shoulders top, to be specific--developing and breaking out on the downside. The peak of the complex H&S Top, reached at the beginning of July 2001, is lower at 0.6625 than a previous peak in the Canadian dollar (reached in late January 2001). However, the complex H&S top in the Canadian dollar comes at the top of a four-month intermediate move off of the mid-March lows. In fact, the entire move can be seen as an attempt to take out the previous highs from January.
Even the inevitable pullback, during which the Canadian dollar rallied from mid-September to mid-October, was present--even if it barely tested the breakout area (neckline). The rally has been completely corrected since then, and now threatens to test the breakout lows mentioned above. Whether or not the Canadian dollar reaches the projected low of 0.6263 (projected from the size of the intermediate complex H&S top), it may be worthwhile to begin looking for either continuation or bottoming patterns in the short-term. The rally that led to this particular formation was itself initiated by a small, three-week head and shoulders bottom pattern that developed from March 2001 into May.


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Kullen är en ort i Härryda socken i Härryda kommun, Västra Götalands län. Den östra delen klassas som en småort.

Kullen är lokalt kanske mer känt som Vägskillnaden eftersom man tar av här från vägen mellan Härryda och Hällingsjö för att nå de södra delarna av Härryda socken, Sandsbacka och Risbacka.

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There's no denying that travelling is a bloody expensive hobby. As much as I'd love to hop from place to place all year round, it's just not feasible for someone who hasn't won the lottery 81 times. One way to do it is to have a look at the travel sections of discount voucher websites – there are so many deals to choose from at really good prices, especially if you're going with other people and can split the cost up.
This is quite an obvious one, but you can't go to Dublin without doing a tour of the Guinness Factory. That'd be like going to Italy without eating pizza, or going to Yorkshire and not having a brew. Anyway, it's about €20 for a ticket (depending on which time slot you choose), but you really get your money's worth as the tour takes a couple of hours covering three huge floors, and then you get a free pint at the rooftop bar at the end.
We came across this place while we were wandering through the city and it's a treasure trove of vintage clothes. I bought a shirt from there that has received more compliments (a grand total of three, buzzing) than anything else I've ever worn, so I recommend this groovy place to everyone.
We originally planned on going to The Temple Bar, but it was completely rammed with people who'd had the same idea and the queue was almost out the door. My friend's dad had recommended Oliver St John Gogarty so we headed there hoping for better luck, and it turned out to be perfect – a little traditional pub with an Irish band playing live music. Beer, music, and Irish accents, what more could you want in life?


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Q: Having both Visual Assist X 10.6 and Resharper How to make VAX turn off on C# projects? Having VAX and RS installed how to make VAX turn off on C# projects (because Resharper and default VS2012 hightlightning are more acceptable for me)?

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Prepare supporting schedules for Form 10Q and Form 10K.
Assist in maintaining current narratives for SOX.
Communicate and work with external auditors and SOX consultants.
Assist in technical accounting research.
Public company experience in a SEC financial reporting role.
Strong knowledge of U.S. GAAP.
Strong organizational, time management and problem-solving skills.


A solar food dehydrator / dryer made from a dead freezer. Brian Kerkvliet from Inspiration Farm in Bellingham, Washington gives us a tour of his contraption. This solar food dehydrator comes with a blackened air intake and a blackened air pull.
Complete with biotracking! This is where somebody moves the dehydrator several times a day to point at the sun better.
Brian mentions hooking up a rocket mass heater to it.
This is a permaculture farm. And he is trying to place the solar dehydrator in the zone one path.


The intensive course consists of 20 lessons per week at 8 different language levels. Students can choose to study anything from 1 to 36 weeks.
Every day intensive course classes begin with a presentation of a structural element of Spanish grammar and go on to illustrate its use by applying it to situations that you will encounter in real life.
A twin room in a residence can only be booked by two persons travelling together.
Please note: studio prices are subject to change (according to availability and season). The final price will be confirmed after booking.
The price mentioned here is for a transfer on arrival in Madrid (by private taxi).
Staying with a Spanish family is the ideal means of completing your Spanish course. You will make the most of your stay, getting to know the authentic Spanish way of life. It will also be easier to practice your Spanish.
The selected student residences for students are during the academic year occupied mainly by Spanish students. Only during the summer months (July, August and September) are they used exclusively by international students. Consequently the places available during the winter are limited. In the residence you will enjoy a student atmosphere, very international in the summer and very Spanish in the winter.
You can also choose to stay in a single-use apartment. These are very comfortable studio apartments for either one or two people who wish to enjoy total independence and comfort. The apartments are located in the city centre and very close to the school.
The studio apartments consist of one or two bedrooms with private bathroom and a kitchen, furthermore they dispose of a television and a weekly cleaning service.
These are flats with three or four bedrooms, a kitchen (fully equipped with all cooking utensils, washing machine and refrigerator) and a shared bathroom. The flats are shared by students of all nationalities.