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BBC Sport Feb 18, 2020 11:14:14 GMT
Post by Dane B on Feb 18, 2020 11:14:14 GMT
Just looked at BBC Sport online.
Main Headline.
Breaking News....
Everton striker Kelly named in England squad for SheBelieves Cup.
Who gives a fuck? I've nothing against women trying to play a man's game, but it's hardly breaking news that some dizzy bint from Everton is in the England squad.
Is it just me, or does anyone actually give a toss about women's football?
BBC Sport Feb 18, 2020 12:01:24 GMT via mobile
Post by savo on Feb 18, 2020 12:01:24 GMT
BBC are quite cringe worthy in their attempts to force women's sport down our throats in the name of 'inclusion'. Sky do it a bit too with their insistence on female pundits
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Post by charliecheswick on Feb 18, 2020 13:06:06 GMT
I tried watching women's football and I think if they made the goals and pitches slightly smaller it could be pretty good instead of a bit shit. Unless those things happen I'm not checking back in.
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Post by Art Vandelay on Feb 18, 2020 21:35:57 GMT
Agree about the goals but the rest of this thread just smacks of sexism. The bbc often has headlines about all kinds of relative minority sports and I never see anyone mention it yet women's football regularly attracts negatives comments
And complaining about women on tv coverage is mental when the standard of male pundits is so dismal. I saw BT Sports for the first time tonight and alongside Gary Lineker, who is apparently seeking additional work to supplement his obscene BBC salary, there was that dope Rio Ferdinand and football's most boring man (and there's a contest with severe competition) Michael Owen. There must be women working backstage who'd do a better job.
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Post by corncobguy on Feb 19, 2020 17:28:24 GMT
I've become more accepting of woman's football over time, purely because it doesn't hurt anyone, and I actually think some of the female pundits have been a breathe of fresh air.
My bugbear is that i wish it was easier to distinguish between the two on the BBC sport website. There should be separate sections for each sport.
Other than that, the site tries to do too much. Theres a lot of inane fat to trim, hopefully addressed with the scrapping of the TV license
BBC Sport Feb 20, 2020 0:28:24 GMT via mobile
Post by savo on Feb 20, 2020 0:28:24 GMT
Feb 18, 2020 21:35:57 GMT Art Vandelay said:
The standard of the male punditry, particularly on BT Sport is awful I agree but at least those involved have played at the highest level. Seeing Alex Scott saying De Bruyne or someone should've squared it instead of shooting isn't something I can take seriously. Just as I wouldn't if Robbie Savage or Clinton Morrison was having a pop.
I could care less about watching women's sport to be honest. In every way it's inferior to the men's version so to watch it on telly just leaves me with a complete lack of excitement and that's probably wrong in today's society to say but fuck it. I'm fairly sure I'm not alone in the country in thinking it so that's why the BBC Sport website should reflect it's popularity. Tonight is a bad example to look as there's been premier league and champions league games involving an English club but normally you look on there and it has a weirdly high number of articles on the women's game.
BBC Sport Feb 20, 2020 5:05:38 GMT
Post by Art Vandelay on Feb 20, 2020 5:05:38 GMT
Fair enough but I don't think the implication from Scott or Morrison is 'I'm as good as De Bruyne, so I'm giving him some advice', although Savage probably does regard himself as on the similar level. If the BBC replaced their main man to talk films Mark Kermode with say Guy Ritchie, would he be better as he'd worked at the highest level? (He definitely wouldn't).
I just don't see talking about football as having anything to do with their playing ability. I just want someone reasonably knowledgeable who can talk with a degree of enthusiasm and eloquence, maybe even come up with an original thought or make a joke? I'd actually prefer it if they abandoned the policy of having former players being involved altogether.
Last Edit: Feb 20, 2020 5:08:45 GMT by Art Vandelay
Post by mrsmith on Feb 23, 2020 7:44:54 GMT
I am not interested in women's football and have no objection with it receiving coverage. What pisses me off is how it is not effectively filtered from the men's football and serves as click-bait. It's also annoying as fuck that women's football gets a disproportionate coverage (relative to supporters) than the lower leagues in the mens game.
BBC sports coverage of the women's cricket World Cup is absurd. Where has this interest been for the men's game over the past 15 years 😁
On Saturday West Indies beating Thailand was getting more headlines than the 6 Nations.
BBC Sport Mar 1, 2020 8:32:27 GMT
Post by Art Vandelay on Mar 1, 2020 8:32:27 GMT
Don't forget to vote everyone
www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/51388702
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Post by nemesiz on Mar 2, 2020 7:36:09 GMT
Sexism? Not really the standard of Professional women's International football is equivalent to top non-league football. Why do you think the National US Women's Football team was beaten by an U-16 Men's Side? If BBC televised Non-League, grass roots football then it would be understandable to promote Women's Football to the same degree. Unfortunately what we're seeing is that BBC cannot afford or desire to promote any sport as emphasized by non-renewal of the F1 contract, and now British Athletics unless it is cheap or encouragement of Women's sport in general. This smacks of BBC's Cronyism agenda, and equity. In a few years though when Women's football develops, the standard and professionalism will improve drastically with more young girls take up the sport, only then should media avenues promote the sport. The question is would Women's Football develop further without this incentive or promotion?
Concerning Women pundits, cricket has emphasized that their standard of knowledge is excellent and their oration and presenting skills are on-par with other male professional colleagues. Unfortunately in general football BBC Male and Female Presenters chosen for match presentation are severely limited by their insistence of choosing ex-Internationals, whinny Liverpudlians / Scousers, Glaswegian's or a Foreign Manager to disguise their incompetence, and lack of knowledge . The annoyance is the quota or equality system of insisting that minority presenters who lack basic knowledge, presentation, elocution and pronunciation skills to put their valid viewpoints across. Yes it sounds harsh, but 'YOU KNOW' doesn't cut it when discussing the particularities of an off-side or a foul. Of course this is definitely changing but are they choosing the wrong candidates?
Mar 2, 2020 7:36:09 GMT nemesiz said:
I imagine they lost to the U16 men's team because they were men, and therefore much stronger and faster. I assume the best U16 male sprinters would beat the top women, and the best U16 male tennis players would beat the top women, and the same for rugby, and for boxing, and for everything. Not really the point though is it, because women will compete against other women. I never see anyone complain about women's tennis or athletics or whatever getting media coverage yet the tiniest bit of coverage for football and always some bloke pops up moaning about it. And in this case it's DaneB
I don't think the comparison with non-league football makes sense. To be honest I suspect the top non-league sides would beat the best women's teams quite comfortably but it's not really about the standard. I've seen non-league men's football on tv before and nobody watched whereas England in the women's world cup got 12 million viewers. Just among women I know there was a real interest in football during the women's World Cup whereas I don't believe there are any men out there who ignore all the current football coverage just waiting for the chance to one day see Bedworth United taking on Nantwich Town.
I agree women's football will improve considerably over the coming years, due largely to the increased media coverage. Would women's Football develop further without this incentive or promotion? Almost certainly not, and therefore I'm pleased it's getting it.
Last Edit: Mar 2, 2020 10:23:51 GMT by Art Vandelay
Some time in the early 90s when I was still at school and Channel Four used to show women's football we were having lunch and the topic of the women's football coverage came up. Someone commented that they really liked it as you could 'watch football and look at tits at the same time'. The phrase 'all those tit bouncing up and down' was used, which developed into a sort of song, which he enthusiastically developed and several more kids then took up.
After about a minute there were six or seven kids singing 'All those tits bouncing up and down' while bouncing up and down in their seats. At this point the house master* arrived accompanied by who I assume were the parents of a potential new pupil he was showing around the school. He was really quite annoyed.
Not really anything to do with anything but I thought I'd post something.
*It's been brought to my attention that the term 'house master' could give give the impression I was at some posh private school. I wasn't. In fact it was so non-posh that this incident took place in the sixth form block even though we were about 14 because we'd been moved in there as our actual house had been burned down in an arson related incident.
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In 1966, Here Where There is Love was released by Dionne Warwick on Scepter Records. Recorded at Bell Sound Studios in New York City and it was produced in full by Burt Bacharach and Hal David.
This was Warwick's first Scepter album to make the Top 20, reaching 18th on the pop charts, and also her first album to be certified by the RIAA as a gold award winner in the U.S.A. signifying sales of over 500,000 copies. It also reached #1 on the R&B albums chart.
Two of Warwick's hit singles from 1966 were included on this album: "Trains and Boats and Planes" and "I Just Don't Know What to Do with Myself" also included was "Alfie" which became Warwick's signature song. This version became a bigger Top 40 hit than any of the 40-plus versions that had previously been recorded, peaking at #15 on the Billboard Hot 100 and #5 on the Billboard R & B Chart.
On this album are these songs: Go With Love; What The World Needs Now Is Love; I Just Don't Know What To Do With Myself; Here Where There Is Love; Trains And Boats And Planes; Alfie; As Long As He Needs Me; I Wish You Love; I Never Knew What You Were Up To and Blowing In The Wind.
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View: Giant brick and mortar stores can do a power of good to Indian economy
By S Murlidharan | Dec 21, 2021, 05:32 PM IST (Updated)
The subtext of Amazon episode is it was coveting a brick and mortar business despite being an e-commerce portal. Amazon quite rightly perceived synergy in the two models supposed to be at loggerheads with each other. The truth is they can coexist and supplement each other.
The recent Competition Commission of India (CCI) order on Amazon that has halted the e-commerce giant in its tracks on its dream of extending its footprints in the bricks and mortar stores-scape as well chiefly by acquiring Big Bazaar chain has had the commentariat cluck-clucking over the smoke and mirrors tactics adopted by the e-commerce giant. But the larger message for economists and policy wonks is that Amazon sees immense potential in bricks and mortar stores.
Walmart, the US bricks and mortar giant made its mark in India by acquiring Flipkart the Indian e-commerce major (its cash and carry stores for wholesalers are not for the masses). That flummoxed the observers because its forte back home has been brick and mortar stores for the masses and not e-commerce. So, both Walmart and Amazon, arguably the leaders in their respective niche areas concede that e-commerce and brick and mortar stores can go hand in hand.
The major FDI norm on multi-brand retailing is a foreigner can invest only 51 percent at the maximum in the Indian business's equity which means perforce he will have to find an Indian joint venture partner for the remaining 49 percent stake. The other major norm is he will have to invest at least $100 million out of which 50 percent at least must be in backend infrastructure like cold storage to facilitate farm to fork business model. Indian businesses are not hemmed in by any such restrictions. So, the question that naturally springs up is why Indian businessmen haven't thought big and started such stores nation-wide.
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To be sure we have more, Spencers, Big Bazaar etc. but they are by no stretch of imagination stores in the mould of Walmart one comes across in the US where one can shop for all items under its capacious roof. Apart from being pygmies in contrast, they have not beckoned customers with nothing to differentiate them from the ubiquitous mom and pop stores except perhaps in self-service and cleanliness.
E-commerce platforms might promise quick delivery thus indulging those who do not want to bestir for shopping either out of indolence or out of physical disability including advancing years but the ultimate in shopping is going to a giant store with a shopping list for the week and buying both perishables and durables conveniently and economically. Direct buying from the manufacturers cuts the middlemen and their commission.
The cost cutting potential of direct buying is so immense that it not only renders middlemen redundant but also considerably diminishes the role of salesmen employed by the manufacturer. That salesmen of FMCG companies, Reckit, HUL, Colgate etc. are up in arms against Jiomart tells the poignant tale of how direct selling can bring about tectonic changes in the world of selling.
Jiomart buys direct and passes on a substantial part of the lower price it has wangled to its e-commerce customers many of whom lo and behold mom and pop stores. This incidentally is also the business model of Walmart. So basically, both e-commerce stores and brick and mortars store have considerably reduced marketing expenses of manufacturers. By the way, direct buying would also insulate benighted farmers from middlemen who strut the country's farms cheating both the producers and consumers.
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E-commerce portals, however, have to spend a lot more on distribution—packing and delivery. That a Chennai buyer of Amazon gets his item from Gurgaon shows the extent of wastage inevitable in its business model though the customer herself has nothing to lose except that she has to bide her time for the item to reach her.
Apart from the much higher packing and delivery expenses, the high burn rate as well as the constant suspicion it arouses in the minds of the government that it is not adhering to the marketplace model but is brazenly following the inventory model frowned upon by our FDI rules, shows that its business model is not sustainable in the long run. Perhaps that is the reason why Amazon is keen on getting into bricks and mortar business as well.
It is not beyond the Indian business houses to set up giant bricks and mortar stores where one can see what one is buying. In case of clothing and shoes, try and buy renders the dreaded prospect of returning practically nonexistent. Employment opportunities for blue collar workers are more in a vast store. They can in fact use their stores to sell online as well. The two are not cast as adversaries but can harmoniously coexist.
Delivery within ten minutes, as it were, may be the USP of e-commerce platforms but that incidentally also makes the delivery boys reckless on roads.
— S. Murlidharan is a CA by qualification and writes on economic issues, fiscal and commercial laws. The views expressed in the article are his own.
Read his other columns here
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"Nowadays citizens are not transforming the world around them through the use of their bodies. The primary way we transform the environment and the world around us in the twenty-first century is through prostheses, machines, automation, and computers."
DISNOVATION.ORG is a working group based in Paris, initiated by Nicolas Maigret and Maria Roszkowska. At the crossroads between contemporary art, research and hacking, the collective develops situations of disturbance, speculation, and debate, challenging the dominant ideology of technological innovation and stimulating the emergence of alternative narratives. Their current exhibition, realized together with Baruch Gottlieb, Clémence Seurat, Julien Maudet, and Pauline Briand at Brussel's iMAL Art Center for Digital Cultures and Technology, critically examines growth and progress through a series of artworks and filmed interviews with experts in the field.
Q: When and how did you become interested in the concept of post-growth?
A: For the past decade we've been looking at the role of techno-solutionism in society. Two years ago, we started to focus on the idea of growth after we began to gather a corpus of conferences, discussions, and texts that revealed a strong correlation between economic growth and the environmental crises we are going through at the moment. Based on this research question we started to meet with academics, activists, writers from a wide diversity of fields of knowledge to see what they could tell us. We quickly realized that not only might two labs be researching the same topic and not know about each other, but that most of the knowledge and concepts we were coming across were almost non-existent online, in journals, public discourse, and so on. We started to think that, as artists, we might have a role to play in linking these knowledges—which seemed to us to be of real use in understanding our current condition and the deep material connection of the environmental and biodiversity crisis we are going through—with the very basic economic and political choices that we are confronted with every day.
Q: How do some of these concepts play out in your exhibition at iMAL?
A: For "Post Growth," we started to not only document discussions about those concepts through recorded interviews, which became the multi-part series Post Growth Toolkit, but also think about other ways to circulate, activate, and create the space for those ideas to be used, discussed, debated, and criticized. It began to take the shape of game experiments, where we started to design prototypes of games, which we do as a way to circulate and debate and discuss those notions, but it also takes other forms, such as physical or sculptural works that will embody some of the notions that are harder to comprehend in a verbal form. As artists, we can have a strong impact by producing physical instruments that can very clearly demonstrate a complex circumstance, and therefore how it is seen and talked about in society.
DISNOVATION.ORG's exhibition "Post Growth" at iMAL, Brussels
Q: Can you give an example?
A: One example is a series of 'energy slave' tokens that are included in the show. The work is based on the concept of the energy slave, which was proposed by the American futurist Buckminster Fuller in the 1940s as a notion used to express the energy required to power a modern lifestyle. The concept refers to the technological or mechanical energy equivalent to the physical working capacity of a human adult. In 2020 we have an average of 400-500 energy slaves per living European, which means the lifestyle that we have is the result of about 400-500 times the energy that a single human body can produce. To grasp those orders of magnitude, we started to build bitumen bricks or units of measure that are basically embodying the energy equivalent in fossil fuel of various durations of human labour. We thought that this direction of work was quite eloquent as fossil fuel is the core driver of the global techno-infrastructure. Nowadays citizens are not transforming the world around them through the use of their own bodies. The primary way we transform the environment and the world around us in the twenty-first century is through prostheses, machines, automation, and computers. We recognized that in order to better understand our condition, and what a desirable outcome could look like, it was essential to understand this very material-informed model of how we interact with the world today.


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Republicans aren't staying quiet because they fear Trump — this clown-car coup has nothing but upside for them
By Amanda Marcotte
Published November 20, 2020 1:11PM (EST)
Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, lawyer for U.S. President Donald Trump, speaks during a news conference about lawsuits related to the presidential election results at the Republican National Committee headquarters in Washington, D.C., on Thursday Nov. 19, 2020. (Sarah Silbiger for The Washington Post via Getty Images)
Donald Trump and his, uh, lawyer Rudy Giuliani are moving into the next phase of Trump's attempted coup, which entertainingly involves Giuliani sweating out the previous day's martinis into his hair dye while barking incomprehensible conspiracy theories at bewildered reporters.
Unfortunately, the less amusing and more worrisome aspect of the whole ordeal involves Trump's efforts to lean on Republican-run state legislatures to appoint pro-Trump electors in states where Joe Biden clearly won.
Like most people reading this, I, too, wish I had a crystal ball and could look into the future at Jan. 20, 2021, to see how this all shakes out. In the meantime, the main point of concern is that nearly all Republican politicians are, to one degree or another, supporting Trump's efforts. Some, like Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, are flirting with openly seditious behavior by actively trying to get legal ballots thrown in the trash. Most, including Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, are playing word games to avoid saying who they think will be or should be sworn as president in two months. The only Republican senator to speak out so far is Mitt Romney of Utah, who was also the only Republican senator who voted to convict Trump after his impeachment trial earlier this year.
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The common theory in the political class is that this silence is borne out of fear of Trump and his tweeting fingers. Former President Barack Obama, who has been blunt in his concerns about the threat Trump represents to our democracy, characterized the GOP's passive consent to this coup exactly this way.
"I'm more troubled that you're seeing a lot of Republican officials go along with it, not because they actually believe it, but because they feel intimidated by it," Obama told MSNBC's Jonathan Capehart on Thursday.
Obama is right on two out of three counts. It's true that Republican officials don't believe a word of Giuliani's sweaty conspiracy theories, which Heather Digby Parton has described as "going full Infowars." It's also true that this GOP compliance is the real problem here. As I explain in the latest Standing Room Only newsletter, successful coups rely on various bureaucrats and lower level politicians who go along. If Trump pulls this off, it will be entirely because he has the tacit support of both state and congressional Republicans all along the way.
But Obama is wrong on the third front: Republicans aren't doing this because they're scared of Trump. They're doing this because most of them, on one level or another, want him to succeed. And even if he fails, they appreciate him advancing the idea that voters in certain areas — notably, cities where Black people outnumber white people — shouldn't really have the right to vote.
Let's face it: The reason Trump has gotten this far is that he's building on decades of Republican antipathy to democracy, an antipathy borne out of resentment that people they deem as "less" American than themselves — people of color, urban people, people who know what "tempeh" is — have the right to vote at all.
For instance, look at this 2016 article from Heritage Foundation writer John Merline, who argued that Hillary Clinton's popular-vote lead in that election didn't really matter, because if "you take California out of the popular vote equation, then Trump wins the rest of the country."
Breitbart writer Joel Pollak made a similar argument regarding this year's election, claiming on Twitter, "Biden won the popular vote — unless you exclude California." He went on to say that "you shouldn't" exclude California, but implied that this alleged fact is "worth noting," which is only true if you believe California voters are somehow less American than other voters. (For the record, this isn't even true. Biden's overall popular-vote lead now exceeds his 5 million-vote lead in the Golden State.)
This belief of Republicans that some voters shouldn't really be voters is especially evident in their enthusiasm for voter suppression, which has kicked into high gear ever since 2013, when Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts, a George W. Bush appointee, gutted the Voting Rights Act of 1965. This kicked off a flood of GOP-sponsored efforts clearly aimed at stopping as many people of color as possible from exercising their right to vote.
While it's become routine these days for pundits to lament Giuliani's supposed fall from grace, the reality is the man was always a virulent racist. As Radley Balko reminded readers of the Washington Post in 2016, Giuliani kicked off his 1993 New York mayoral campaign by helping to incite a racist police riot aimed at denying that elected Black leaders should have any authority over the NYPD. Giuliani led the drunken and armed crowd of cops as they blocked traffic on the Brooklyn Bridge, waving signs with racist cartoons of then-Mayor David Dinkins, and calling Black elected officials the n-word. The cops also physically terrorized two Black city council members.
Trump and Giuliani's official arguments for why Trump deserves to invalidate the election are a bunch of incoherent and baseless conspiracy theories. The actual argument underlying all that, however, is simple: The coalition Joe Biden built is composed of people who don't deserve the right to vote.
The reason the larger Republican Party isn't pushing back is that they largely agree with this underlying argument. Whatever personal distaste many Republicans may have for Trump's gauche behavior or the alcohol content of Giuliani's shoe polish sweat, they're inclined to see only upside for themselves in letting this play out.
Maybe Trump pulls off a miracle and succeeds in his coup, which means their party captures the White House for four years — or more.
But even in the far likelier event that the Trump coup fails, it's a win-win for most Republicans: He has done an immense amount to advance the goal of delegitimizing huge swaths of the American electorate that prefer Democrats. Besides, "establishment" Republicans don't have to go out to dinner with Trump anymore and listen to his vainglorious monologues. So of course Republicans aren't standing up to him. Why mess with a good thing?
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To improve air quality and reduce its carbon footprint in urban areas, L'Oréal has launched the Green Last Mile (GLAM) project, proposing delivery solutions for its products using an active and sustainable means of transport.
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Ever wonder what it would be like to be Keitaro and be surrounded by a harem full of cute girls dying for your affection? Well, now you don't have to wonder anymore. Take on the role of Keitaro and learn the hard way that a harem anime isn't all it's cracked up to be.
A cute and fast paced dating sim. Love Hina Advance brings to life the story of Love Hina with dialog and images taken right out of the TV series. The goal is basically to gain love points with the girl(s) your interested in, while trying to avoid the jealousy and wrath of the other girls. One of the nice things about the game is you can choose whom you wish to have a relationship with, leading to multiple different endings that are different from the original. While you never break free of the events in the anime, it is still nice to be able to rewrite the ending (even more so if you weren't happy with the way it ended).
Unlike most dating sims, you have time limits on your reactions with a range from nearly instant in a few cases to a few seconds to think over your choice. While Keitaro is nearly invincible and can take beating after beating in the anime and manga he is not in the game, and can be killed if he is abused too much. This can be quite a challenge when much of the time any choice you make will lead to you being beaten and abused by one of the residents of the Hinata Inn. This leads to a need for the player to become more aware of what they say and do, but also to think more carefully about the females they are trying to impress as health is limited and trying to do too much at once may lead to Keitaro's untimely demise.
Despite fairly solid game play for a dating sim there are a few holes in the story line that may confuse people who are not familiar with the Love Hina universe. If your love points with a certain character are too low, or you choose a certain path that differs from the events in the original story it can lead to jumping over details in the story and make for a confusing turn of events. An example of this would be skipping an event in the story or choosing an alternative and then later having it brought up and not have actually happened within the game.
Fans of the series will find this a must have for their collection. Though it does have a few small holes in the story, Love Hina Advance is still a decent dating sim. Even if you are not a die hard fan of Love Hina you should still be able to enjoy this game and follow the story line with a fair amount of ease.


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Bullz-Eye's Favorite Albums of 2008: Staff Writer Michael Fortes' picks
Posted by Michael Fortes (12/28/2008 @ 3:30 pm)
This year has seen some extraordinary new music come our way. I've heard the opposite opinion from elsewhere, but for me, being on the West Coast has a lot to do with my enthusiasm. In fact, seven of the albums in my top ten are by West Coast artists, some more well-known than others. Not only that, three of the albums in my top ten aren't albums at all. The "EP" is an anachronistic term that originally referred to a 7" vinyl record with more music crammed on each side (usually at the expense of volume and general sound quality) than what a normal single would hold. It's an abbreviation for "Extended Play." And yet, today's EP is really just a half-length CD. They tend to be overlooked, either because they're too short to warrant much attention or they contain songs not deemed strong enough for a full album, or both. But, like Bob Dylan said, "things have changed." Our lives are busier, our attention spans are shorter, and our disposable income is shrinking by the hour. What better time for the EP to make a mini-resurgence than now?
1. The Parson Red Heads: Owl & Timber (EP)
There's a timelessness to the sound and the vibe of the Parson Red Heads that's beyond explanation. You can single out the familial harmonies, the guitar interplay that recalls the Byrds and the Dead, the irresistibly solid pop songs, or their flowery evocation of a bygone era. But when it comes down to it, this band's music simply feels good. No other band has released music this irresistible and uplifting in years, and only a select lucky few up and down the West Coast have had the luxury of being able to see and hear them live. With a little luck, this may change, and we'll be able to look back at Owl & Timber as one of the elements that made it happen.
2. Brian Wilson: That Lucky Old Sun
Following up the 37-years-late Smile with another similarly built song cycle seemed like little more than a fantasy in 2004. But here we are in 2008, and Brian Wilson pulled it off. Mike Love would be proud to hear that there's only one "downer" on the album (the beautiful, Pet Sounds-worthy "Midnight's Another Day"), while all the rest are upbeat, aural murals depicting the sunny side of Southern California. It's Brian doing what he does best, and outside of Smile, it's easily his best, most enjoyable solo work.
3. Bob Dylan: Tell Tale Signs: The Bootleg Series Vol. 8
Technically, Tell Tale Signs is an archival release, but the recent vintage of the material (1989 through 2006), the abundance of never-before-heard songs, and the fact that most of it was recorded during the same period in which Guns n' Roses' 14-years-late Chinese Democracy gestated, qualifies it as new. And even if it didn't qualify, it would still be listed here, since it does as good a job (if not better) as any of his last three records of proving that, even in his old age, Dylan has lost none of his power to inspire, confound, delight and move his audience.
4. The Gutter Twins: Saturnalia
Mark Lanegan and Greg Dulli have collaborated in the past on a few tracks from Greg's Twilight Singers albums, and while those duets were pretty good, they were never major stand-outs. Not until the two covered Massive Attack's "Live with Me" on last year's A Stitch in Time EP, anyway. As good as that cover was, this full album of originals by Greg and Mark is even better. Dulli stretches himself here, eschewing his usual rockin' R&B swagger and falling under Lanegan's dark, spiritual influence.
5. Chris Robley & The Fear of Heights: Movie Theatre Haiku
That straight-laced dude from Portland with the Harry Nilsson fixation strikes again, this time crediting his road band and turning in an even more confident record than last year's The Drunken Dance of Modern Man in Love. If the 1966 Beatles were a young band today, they'd likely be playing songs like Robley's "User-Friendly Guide to Change."
6. Joseph Arthur: Vagabond Skies (EP)
Of the four EPs and full-length album Joseph Arthur released this year, Vagabond Skies rises to the top not only for bearing some of his most captivating and ethereal songs, but also for containing the year's most memorable guitar solo, in the EP's centerpiece "She Paints Me Gold." Plus, the cover art is damn cool.
7. The Happy Hollows: Imaginary (EP)
They're funny, they're smart, they're tight as a conservative's behind, and they're the most exciting live indie rock band in L.A. right now. Imaginary is just a short burst of five songs, but what a burst it is – from the simple exclamatory chant of "Colors" to the almost prog-like tour-de-force of "Lieutenant" with singer/guitarist Sarah Negahdari's Eddie Van Halen-esque guitar tapping, Imaginary tantalizes and teases, just like you want it to.
8. Guns n' Roses: Chinese Democracy
Yes, it's bloated and overproduced. No, it's not the old, sleazy Guns n' Roses of the late '80s. Yes, it should have been out ten years ago, and would have sounded even more contemporary in 1998 than in 2008. But Axl Rose is still the king of tortured, overwrought power ballads and menacing rock n' roll screams, and on these counts, Chinese Democracy more than delivers – it beats you over the head with its twisted logic.
9. Metallica: Death Magnetic
Metallica sounds like Metallica again! It may be clichéd to say this is their best album since …And Justice for All, but it's true, and it bears repeating: Death Magnetic is Metallica's best album since Justice.
10. My Morning Jacket: Evil Urges
Evil Urges goes to great lengths to prove that My Morning Jacket is no typical southern jam band. Not that they ever needed to go so far as to throw some Prince-like falsetto singing and funky R&B into the mix, but as it turns out, it sounds pretty cool.
The Fireman: Electric Arguments
Rachel Taylor Brown: Half Hours with the Lower Creatures
Vampire Weekend: Vampire Weekend
Portishead: Third
Neil Diamond: Home Before Dark
Juliana Hatfield: How to Walk Away
Randy Newman: Harps and Angels
Deerhoof: Offend Maggie
Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan: Sunday at Devil Dirt
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My grandmother used to call it Decoration Day. She never got used to calling it by its new name. The day originated as a day to memorialize veterans who died in America's Civil War, but over time and the act of congress, Memorial Day now commemorates the deaths of all combat veterans serving the price of freedom.
As the War on Terror, with fronts in Iraq and Afghanistan, continues seemingly forever, perhaps briefly it is good to take a moment to look at the structural problem that made this simple military campaign a quagmire of hostility and delusion.
Most will blame President Bush and Tony Blair of Britain, but they have really become scapegoats for the fundamental problem that now faces all of civilization as it is known in the west. That is the complete loss of any means by which to counter the limitations and the iniquitous consequences of human rationalism.
The great and now supreme religion in all the lands of western civilization is human evolutionary rationalism. It calls itself the benefactor of all science. However, the science that it promotes is really only that science which rationally supports this religious establishment.
The problem with our incursion into Iraq was not with the moral character of our leaders, but a lack of any moral input into the decision theory of those actions. It was essentially assumed that the Iraqi people would embrace there freedom as would urban dwellers on the streets of New York, London, and in the halls of Parliament and Congress.
But Iraqis are not rational people, at least in the sense of our model of rationality. Simply put, they have not evolved beyond their need for a visible religious crutch to govern their affairs. How uncivilized and backward can a people be. Some of them, besides their lust for personal power, also hold some religious beliefs that they are willing to die for, or at least indoctrinate others to die for the cause.
Theology and philosophy were actually the balancing forces to cancerous human rationalism for much of America's history. Now they have been virtually outlawed in the nation that they led to an economic and social zenith. America's churches and religious leaders have walked in lock step unity with atheistic rationalists in the desire, if not to eliminate God, but at least create a God in the image of self serving materialism.
Grandma, was by no means an intellectual giant, many times she told me that can't wasn't in (her) dictionary as it was in mine. I can't see a way out of this swamp of rational chaos, unless the God who formed us out of the dust of the ground again lets us understand our humble roots to the earth. But I suppose in my grandmother's outlook, I can hope that people again be willing to stand for true religion, with a systematic theology and accompanying philosophy of life, letting unlimited evolutionary religious rationalism die a quickly deserved passing.
Then, and only then will America have a Memorial Day to celebrate in the present, that looks forward to a bright future, as well as memorializing the deaths of our military hero's who truly served the cause of all human freedom.


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1828 Catalogue Collection Adds Spelman's Discourse
This week Sir Henry Spelman's Discourse on Law Terms, an explanation of Jewish, Grecian, Roman, Norman, and Saxon law published in London in 1684, arrived at the University of Virginia Law Library well-preserved and with that smoky smell of many readings beside a fireplace.[1]
The acquisition of Spelman's work continues a forty-year effort by the Law Library's Special Collections to reconstruct the collection of 375 law books listed in the 1828 Catalogue of the University of Virginia library. Many of the titles inventoried in 1828 burned in the U.Va. Rotunda and Annex fire of 1895 or scattered over time. To date, Special Collections has acquired duplicate editions—the same as those originally acquired by the University of Virginia— of 318 law texts from the 1828 library Catalogue. This Spelman acquisition is currently the only physical copy of Law Terms within the University of Virginia Library system.
How did Spelman's Law Terms become part of the University's original library? Thomas Jefferson. In 1825, Jefferson compiled a 7,000-volume wish list of books, including Spelman's Law Terms, to guide acquisitions for the new University of Virginia library. Jefferson, who believed law dictionaries would be a "1st want" of the original thirty students to study law at the University in 1826, likely selected Spelman's Law Terms from John Clarke's Bibliotheca Legum, published in London in 1819 and Jefferson's go-to guide for law titles, or from his own personal library.[2] In 1825, the University hired Boston booksellers Cummings, Hilliard & Company to acquire books for the University library using Jefferson's book list, and the firm purchased Law Terms in London along with many of the titles in the original library inventory.
After a quick stop for some preservation, the Law Library is excited to add Spelman's Law Terms to its Special Collections and make it available to students and researchers. Meanwhile, Special Collections staff continue the hunt for the missing 1828 Catalogue texts!
For more information on the 1828 Catalogue Law Books Collection or to research other items at the Law Library Special Collections, see our webpage or contact Special Collections at refdesk@law.virginia.edu.
– Randi Flaherty
Handley, Stuart. "Spelman, Sir Henry (1563/4–1641)." Stuart Handley In Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. Oxford: OUP, 2004. Online ed., edited by Lawrence Goldman, October 2005. http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/26104 (accessed October 9, 2014).
University of Virginia, and William Peden. 1828 Catalogue of the Library of the University of Virginia. Charlottesville: Printed for the Alderman Library of the University of Virginia, 1945.
1828 Catalogue Law Books Collection at the University of Virginia Law School Special Collections: http://lib.law.virginia.edu/specialcollections/collections/1828-catalogue
Thomas Jefferson's Libraries Project at Monticello: http://tjlibraries.monticello.org/
[1] Henry Spelman, Of the law-terms, a discourse wherein the laws of the Jews, Grecians, Romans, Saxons and Normans, relating to this subject are fully explained (London: Printed for Matthew Gillyflower, 1684).
[2] Thomas Jefferson to Cummings, Hilliard & Company, April 22, 1826, printed in Elizabeth Cometti, ed., Jefferson's Ideas on a University Library: Letters from the Founder of the University of Virginia to a Boston Bookseller (Charlottesville: The University of Virginia, 1950), 43. For Jefferson's reliance on John Clarke's Catalogue, see Thomas Jefferson to William Hilliard, August 7, 1825 in the same volume. John Clarke, Clarke's Bibliotheca Legum; Or, Complete Catalogue of the Common and Statute Law-books of the United Kingdom, with an Account of Their Dates and Prices, Arranged in a New Manner. New ed. (London: W. Clarke and Sons, 1819).
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Randi Flaherty is the Special Collections Librarian at the Arthur J. Morris Law Library. She is also an early American historian with a focus on foreign maritime commerce in the early American republic.
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Posted on October 10, 2014 October 16, 2018 Author Randi FlahertyCategories Special Collections
Dengrove Art Show
The Law Library is pleased to announce the 17th annual University of Virginia Law Library Art Show, "The Courtroom Sketches of Ida Libby Dengrove." The opening reception for the exhibit was Thursday, September 4.
A court sketch from the Ida Libby Dengrove exhibit.
This year's featured artist, Ida Libby Dengrove (1919-2005), was an Emmy award-winning courtroom sketch artist for WNBC-TV in New York City during the 1970s and 80s. Cameras in courtrooms were strictly prohibited then, and the only visual representations of inside-the-court events available to news media were the renderings of sketch artists. Dengrove's masterful drawings brought viewing audiences closer to the newsworthy trials of the day, including those of Mark David Chapman, John Hinckley, the "Son of Sam," John Gotti, the Mayflower Madame, the Quinlans, Mafia dons, and many others. The art show features 118 sketches documenting 60 trials, while our online exhibit features nearly 6,000 digital images rendered from Dengrove's works. We are grateful to the Dengrove family for the generous gift of this collection, which will remain on display in the Arthur J. Morris Law Library through May 2015.
Posted on October 7, 2014 October 31, 2016 Author Amy WhartonCategories Events and Announcements, Special Collections
A Short Walk, A Historical Journey
The Law Library invites you to take a few moments to experience the exhibit at the Library's front entrance on the history of the Law School. We hope that both current and prospective students, as well as our many visitors, will gain a better understanding of who we are, where we have been and how we came to be a top ten law school. Some of the items you will find in the display cases include a letter in Thomas Jefferson's hand, student notebooks from the 1800's, a once-renowned golden calf trophy from the annual faculty-student softball tournament, the first Virginia Law Weekly, pictures of Barristers Balls and Libel Shows from as early as the 1950's and a mason jar with a special meaning to a couple of students from the Roaring Twenties!
In this exhibit, our history unfolds in photographs, books, buildings, statues and other artifacts. The display is designed to present a decade-by-decade timeline of our history, with law school architecture from all eras serving as the backdrop. Replicas of archival documents and period photographs are mounted in the foreground. A reader-rail running along both sides of the room provides further description of the images. Although the space will not be completely finished until new lighting is installed, most of the display's content is in place.
We appreciate our students' patience while the project was underway and apologize that we had to barricade the entrance several times during the construction period. But now the noisy part of the work has been completed, and we hope that you will feel that the effort was worthwhile. As we were constructing the exhibit, several law students walking through the area contributed very good ideas for content, including the notion that a bust of Jefferson must be present. Your thoughts on items that would be of interest to you and your colleagues are welcomed. Check occasionally for changes, because we plan to rotate items on the walls and in the display cases. Now, you who are a part of our history, go investigate!
– Taylor Fitchett
Posted on February 24, 2014 October 31, 2016 Author Arthur J. Morris Law LibraryCategories New in the Library, Special Collections
A Glimpse of the Past, A Peek at the Future
For the first time, the annual Alumni Reunions Weekend program included a program by Law Library. Last Saturday in the library's Caplin Reading Room, staff members Philip Herrington, Elizabeth Ladner, and Kristin Jensen presented "Capturing the Past, Preserving the Future: People, Places, and Pedagogy." The program featured fellow Philip Herrington's look at the history of U.Va. Law School as place. Herrington began with the law program's early years as a class offering in a Lawn pavilion and a collection of law books in the Rotunda Annex. He then chronicled how the school became its own place at Minor Hall, but overcrowding and a passion for murals soon led to the building of the more spacious Clark Hall. The Law School continued to grow and eventually moved to North Grounds, where several expansion projects transformed the structure into the place it is today. Elizabeth Ladner, also a Law Library fellow, illustrated U.Va. Law School as a curriculum, exploring how Thomas Jefferson's uncommon hiring of a single law professor for undergraduates evolved over time into free standing professional graduate school. Kristin Jensen then explored U.Va. Law School as a story, as told through student and faculty memorabilia and writings. Among the interesting artifacts Jensen shared were letters home from Elizabeth Tompkins, the Law School's first female graduate, which revealed her struggle to find her place among the men of her 1L class.
At the close of the program, Director Taylor Fitchett issued standing invitation to alumni to share their own U.Va. Law stories and memorabilia. She shared her hope that our past students will come to regard any law school books or class notes stored in their attics, as well as their personal stories, as welcome future additions to the U.Va. Law School history. If you're an alumnus or past faculty member with something to share about your U.Va. Law experience, please contact Taylor Fitchett at tf2u@virginia.edu or at http://libguides.law.virginia.edu/alumni.
Posted on May 14, 2013 October 31, 2016 Author Amy WhartonCategories Events and Announcements, Special Collections
Brown II Through the Eyes of a Supreme Court Clerk
While a number of UVA Law alums have served as clerks in all levels of the judiciary, it is probably a good guess most were not thinking about the documents they generated in their clerkships as providing insight for future scholars into the inner workings of the court. The work clerks do, however, has an effect on jurisprudence as they help their justices research, form positions, and draft opinions that may have a lasting impact. The final product created by the court, the opinion, often obscures the amount of work that was dedicated to creating the document. The University of Virginia Law Library's Special Collection is fortunate to have the Prettyman Papers, which provides a peek into the behind-the-scenes work done by the United States Supreme Court on the seminal Brown v. Board of Education cases.
E. Barrett Prettyman graduated from the law school in 1953 and served as a law clerk to Justice Robert H. Jackson, and upon Justice Jackson's death he clerked for Justice Felix Frankfurter. The Brown v. Board of Education cases were a vital part of the Court's agenda during Prettyman's clerkships. The archival papers in the library's Special Collections provide access to the justices' debates and dialogues as they grappled with how much they would require of the states to end segregation and how quickly they would ask the states to meet those requirements. The Prettyman Papers show the amount of research the law clerks did to help inform the justices on disparate issues involved with the cases, and the papers also highlight the role the clerks played in informing the dialogue between the justices. While the Brown II decision, which implemented the Court's decision in Brown I, was unanimous, the documents show how much work was needed to bring about unanimity.
UVA Law Professor Risa Goluboff provides insight into the importance of the Brown v. Board of Education decisions and the wealth of information available on the Brown II case from the Prettyman papers. The Prettyman Papers, which are available in the library's Special Collections and have been digitized on the library's Special Collections website, highlight the important role of the clerks and provide insight into the behind-the-scenes maneuverings of the Supreme Court, and are a fascinating example of the scope of materials to be found in the library's manuscript collections.
– Leslie Ashbrook
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Leslie Ashbrook is a Research Librarian at the Law Library.
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Posted on February 22, 2013 October 31, 2016 Author Leslie AshbrookCategories Special Collections
New: The Life and Photographs of André Kertész
Check out our Research Fellow Philip Herrington discussing the life and photographs of André Kertész. The Law Library's is hosting an exhibition of his photographs; a digital version of this exhibition is available online as well at http://lib.law.virginia.edu/kertesz/ .
– Loren Moulds
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Posted on November 14, 2012 July 22, 2016 Author Loren MouldsCategories Special Collections
Presenting André Kertész: Capturing Paris and New York
André Kertész is one of the most celebrated photographers of the twentieth century. In 1985, an anonymous Law alumnus donated a set of Kertész's black-and-white photographs to the Law Library Special Collections. The Law Library is pleased to exhibit forty-two images capturing Kertész's impressions of Paris and New York, the two cities where he spent the central epoch of his life.
The exhibition is complemented by an online gallery of the complete set of fifty prints. Visitors with smartphones can scan a QR code next to each photo to view a description and map that pinpoints where the image was taken.
The exhibit, which will run through July 2014, results from the efforts of curators Loren Moulds, Philip Herrington, and Cecilia Brown.
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Posted on August 8, 2012 Author Arthur J. Morris Law LibraryCategories Events and Announcements, Special Collections
Law Library's Tokyo War Crimes Trial Exhibit Featured
"Frank Stacy Tavenner Jr., a 1927 graduate of the University of Virginia School of Law and assistant chief prosecutor of the Tokyo War Crimes trial, stood at the lectern on April 16, 1948, and delivered the final summation in the case against 28 Japanese defendants who stood accused of starting an illegal war, atrocities and crimes against humanity committed during World War II." Read more on the UVA Law School website.
Posted on July 3, 2012 Author Arthur J. Morris Law LibraryCategories Special Collections
Mr. Jefferson's "Special Collection" Featured in the Local News
The efforts of our Special Collections Department to recreate and preserve all of the books in Thomas Jefferson's 1828 catalog for "Law" was featured yesterday on Charlottesville's NBC29. Taylor Fitchett and Cecilia Brown were interviewed for the piece. The video includes an inside look at some of the Law Library's rare books.
Since the airing, we've received a number of requests for the lists of what books we have and what books remain outstanding. We're pleased to provide those here:
Download UVA Law Jefferson Book List – Missing
Download UVA Law Jefferson Book List
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Posted on April 11, 2012 Author Arthur J. Morris Law LibraryCategories Special Collections
Making Your Research Go Viral
In a paper soon to be published in the American Economic Review, economists Scott Stern and Jeffrey Furman studied biology scholarship and found that making research materials easily available to others has a viral effect. When the research materials were placed in a Biological Resource Center easily accessible to other researchers, "the post-deposit citation boost is estimated to be between 57 percent and 135 percent."
Would making legal research easily available to other researchers have the same viral effect on legal scholarship? It just might—ask Professor Brandon Garrett. With the help of the law library, Professor Garrett has made much of his research accessible online, including the research for his book Convicting the Innocent, the set of corporate prosecution agreements he used for a 2007 article "Structural Reform Prosecution," and the corporate plea agreements used for his 2011 article "Globalized Corporate Prosecution."
We do not know the exact effect of making his research publicly available, but the pages for these materials have been accessed more than 16,000 times. Professor Garrett's research has certainly received national attention. Convicting the Innocent has been featured in the New York Times (and here and here), cited by Supreme Court Justice Sotomayor in a recent dissent on eyewitness testimony, and used by the New Jersey Supreme Court to support its sweeping changes in how eyewitness testimony will be treated in New Jersey courts. "Structural Reform Prosecution" has been cited over fifty times in law reviews and other secondary sources.
If you would like to think about making your research similarly publicly available, just contact Jon Ashley in the law library. He and Professor Garrett are currently working on making the data sets even more accessible by adding faceted and full-text search functions.
– Ben Doherty
Posted on February 8, 2012 Author Arthur J. Morris Law LibraryCategories Databases, Special Collections