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AC/DC top Australian charts and make history with Power Up
AC/DC have made Australian chart history as their new album, "Power Up", debuts at No. 1 in the country.
According to the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA), the project earns the group a place in music history by being the only Australian band to have No. 1 albums at least once over the course of five decades.
Recorded with producer Brendan O'Brien in Vancouver in 2018, "Power Up" takes its place atop the ARIA charts alongside "Back In Black" (#1 March 1981), "Live" (#1 November 1992), "Ballbreaker" (#1 October 1995), "Black Ice" (#1 October 2008) and "Rock Or Bust" (#1 December 2014).
"A very big thank you to Denis, and all at Sony Music Australia, and everyone else in Australia who've put in their time, effort and creativity to get PWR/UP to #1!," says Angus Young. "Also a big shout out to all our fans, old and new. You are, and always have been, our guiding inspiration."
"Congratulations to AC/DC on topping the ARIA chart for a record-breaking fifth decade in a row," adds ARIA CEO Dan Rosen. "In a year of uncertainty, at least we can rely on AC/DC to rock the roof off the place. Legendary barely describes their place in Australian music, and after all these years, we continue to salute AC/DC."
Introduced with the lead single, "Shot In The Dark", "Power Up" sees Angus Young joined by three members of the group's "Back In Black" lineup – singer Brian Johnson, bassist Cliff Williams and drummer Phil Rudd – alongside rhythm guitarist Stevie Young, who stepped in for co-founder Malcolm Young after he retired in 2014 due to dementia before passing away in November of 2017.
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The Western Heritage Classic Ranch Rodeo features some of the largest and most historic ranches in the United States. Each year the ranches gather to compete in events that are designed to test the cowboys' skills in aspects of every day ranch life. Events including team penning, branding, cow milking, doctoring and bronc riding provide plenty of challenges for the team and excitement for the crowd. Stock contractor Bennie Beutler along with rodeo announcer Bob Tallman adds excitement and world-class professionalism as they introduce the ranches, cowboys, dignitaries and sponsors of the event in the Grand Entry each night.
Bronc Riding is the only event in which only one member of the team participates. For 8 seconds the cowboy tests his bronc riding skills as he tries to obtain points for the team. On the ranch it is important to have an adequate supply of good horses for working cattle. "Starting" and training new broncs each year is just a typical part of the job for a cowboy. This event is usually considered one of the most exciting events to watch in the Western Heritage Classic.
Team Branding is an event that is based on calf branding. This event requires four team members: one on horseback, two ready to flank the calf and one ready with the branding iron. As the team member on horseback ropes the calf, the two flankers must wait until the calf is dragged across a line before they can remove the rope and brand the calf. Winners in this event are based upon the fastest time of branding the calf.
Team Doctoring is an event that is accomplished on horseback with one cowboy roping the head and another roping the heels. As the calf is held with ropes from both ends, the doctoring takes place. The ranchers are faced with a limited number of tries, which makes this event intense and exciting to watch.
Wild Cow Milking is an event that often brings laughter and heightened anticipation as a team of four cowboys does whatever it takes to catch and milk a wild milk cow. When the cow is roped three team members on the ground hang on the best way possible to bring the cow to a standstill so that one of the team members can collect milk in a long neck bottle and run to the finish line. The actual bringing the cow to a standstill usually causes a lot of laughter. If no milk is collected the team gets no points.
Team Penning has become known as one of the most popular events in ranch rodeos. It requires four team members to read and judge the cattle's behavior. A good cutting horse is vital, as three cows must be cut from the herd. Team members must keep the three cattle separated from the herd and drive them to the pen. Patience and teamwork is the key in this event. The winner is determined by the fastest time.


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Sergei RACHMANINOV (1873-1943)
Six Songs, Op. 38 [15:21]
Songs, from Op. 4, Op. 8, Op. 14, Op. 21, Op. 26 & Op. 34
Julia Sitkovetzky (soprano)
Roger Vignoles (piano)
rec. 2019, All Saints Church, East Finchley, London
The soprano Julia Sitkovetzky had been making a big impression on the international scene up until the time when the epidemic put things on hold. This is her first recital disc, in which she is joined by the eminent pianist Roger Vignoles, one of the world's leading accompanists.
The daughter of the eminent violinist Dmitri Sitkovetzky, she admits that she is not fluent in Russian and sometimes works with him as her language coach: 'I'm actually not bilingual – I speak German pretty well, but that's the closest I come to having a second language. With Russian I can understand about half of what's being said, and I can read it pretty well, but I'm not fluent by any means: my dad was away so much when I was young and we didn't have a Russian nanny or anything like that, so I didn't grow up with it being spoken around me. If I need a Russian coach I use my dad, and in fact he was the language coach for this album.' The combination of her professionalism and his insights means that the Russian heard in these songs sounds altogether idiomatic to a non-Russian ear, and doubtless to Russian speakers too.
Rachmaninov's career can be divided into two halves: up to the time of the 1917 Revolution when he was in Russia, and after that when he was in Europe and America. All his songs date from the Russian years, and this recital disc contains many of the best of them. There are more than eighty in total and it is the last set, his Opus 38, which is positioned first on the disc. Gerard McBurney in his excellent sleeve notes mentions that this set of six songs gives a significant focus to the world of nature, beginning with one of the composer's finest examples, In my garden at night, which sets the tone for this whole recital. The set also includes the song Daisies whose charming vocal line made it a great favourite with Rachmaninov.
Spring Waters, Op 14 No. 11, has abundant challenges for both singer and pianist, all of them in the cause of art. In many respects, they characterise the nature of Rachmaninov's approach, having an ecstatic climax that is logically reached and compellingly released.
The shadings of the dynamic range are tellingly present throughout, and it would be dangerous for any critic to make too much of Stravinsky's famous comment that Rachmaninov was 'six feet six of Russian gloom'. Even so, that aspect of his personality can be present in the music, and Sitkovetzky certainly responds to it in her rendition of Brooding, Op8 No. 3. Here the title and the music and the performance are unequivocal. However, other subtleties, such as lightness of touch, details of dynamic nuance and responsiveness to the text, are more important, in the piano part as much as in the vocal line. For example, Vignoles matches Ashkenazy in making the most of the shimmering sounds of the piano writing in Lilacs, Op 21 No. 5. It is no wonder that the composer made an arrangement for solo piano of this favourite song when he was in America, with the purpose of it being an encore item in his piano recitals.
The programme ends, fittingly enough, with Rachmaninov's best-known composition for the soprano voice, his Vocalise, Op34 No. 14. Its popularity is reflected in the fact that it exists in three different versions: the present one for voice and piano, another for soprano and orchestra, and a third for orchestra alone. Each of these is equally successful, and here Sitkovetzky's fluency and flexibility of phrasing are eminently satisfying.
The benchmark comparison performances are of course those by Elisabeth Söderström and Vladimir Ashkenazy on Decca, recorded during the 1970s. While the pre-eminence of their interpretations is not displaced by this new album, the versions by Sitkovetzky and Vignoles do form a notable addition to the catalogue and represent a remarkable achievement by an artist making her debut on disc.
Terry Barfoot

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Long Night
Developer: Trickster Face
Publisher: Trickster Face
Genre: Action , Adventure , Indie
Languages: English, French
Features: Single-player, Full controller support
Trickster Face
OS: Windows XP 32 Bit
Processor: 2 GHz Dual Core
Graphics: nVidia GeForce 8600 GT, ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT
OS: Windows Vista SP2, Windows 7 SP1, Windows 8 (32/64 bits versions)
Processor: 2.4 GHz Quad Core CPU
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 275, ATI Radeon 4770 Series or higher
Long Night Episode 1: Alone I Break description
Unfortunately, professional review of the Long Night game is not yet ready. This game is on the list and will be reviewed in the nearest feature. Meanwhile, you can find more from the official description below.
Long Night: Alone I break is the first episode of a three episodes season. The next episodes will be released in the next few months
Long Night is a Third Person Survival-Horror video game series which aims to reconnect with the atmosphere of its ancestors, the old classics from the 90's and early 2000
With this game Trickster Face wants to put Lurking Fear back to the center of the gaming experience, rather than pure action sustained by an escalation of noisy special effects.
Here we have no shot guns nor giant monsters, but simply David, a youngster who can only count on your pugnacity and your instinct, to survive, and save his friends.
This black tale takes place in an American holiday camp next to a forest, at the end of a summer in the nineties.
The heroes are a group of four teenage friends, accustomed to meet there every year. Spending their last evening together telling horror stories for fun, they find themselves plunged into a nightmare, bringing their most secret anguishes to life, tormenting them. All of a sudden everyone is on his own. During the night David will try to find and help his friends, but doing so, he will have to face worse than the fear that pursues him.
- Take control of your environment, keep the balance of your mental state to run and hide from your nemesis
- Resolve enigma to understand the intimacy of the 4 teenagers and become the wall between them and their fears.
- Explore Long Night camp to discover great side quests, giving better understanding of the background.
- Choose to play with Old School (without checkpoints and interaction icons) or Modern Gameplay (with all the help you want)
Long Night is rated 17+ M for mature by ESRB for the following content
Sexual Themes
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We hear all the time about how we need to give students more choice. About how we should be helping them discover their passions, how we need more student-directed, inquiry-based learning in the classroom. But all of that can feel like a load of abstract, pie-in-the-sky hooey without practical instructions for how to actually do it. We need a structure, a format, a plan for delivering this kind of experience.
Good news: That plan is here, and it's called Genius Hour. More and more teachers are implementing this brilliant learning practice in their own classrooms. Chances are, you already have a pretty good idea of what Genius Hour is. You might even have it on your list of things to try "some day." If that day hasn't come yet, it's probably because you have some unanswered questions.
So to help you out, I invited my friend A.J. Juliani to answer the 10 most frequently asked questions about Genius Hour. A.J. is the Director of Technology and Innovation for Centennial School District in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. He did his first Genius Hour project back when he was an 11th grade English teacher, and since then has supported many other teachers as they implement Genius Hour in their own classrooms.
Now A.J. has created a full online course, the Genius Hour Master Course, where he walks teachers step-by-step through the implementation process. (Learn more about the course at the end of this post!) The teachers who are already enrolled are seeing incredible results with their students, so I wanted to share some of A.J.'s wisdom with you and maybe get you one step closer to trying Genius Hour in your own classroom. To learn more about the course, scroll to the bottom of this post. In the meantime, there's plenty here to keep you busy!
1. What is Genius Hour? Is it different from 20 percent time?
2. Is Genius Hour just "do whatever you want," or is there a way to structure it?
After introducing the project to students, they choose what they are going to learn and what product they are going to create at the end to demonstrate their learning.
At the same time, students are also sharing their progress along the way. "You want to have them documenting in their journal, sharing on a blog, doing videos and sharing them on YouTube, doing a podcast," says Juliani, "because they want to share out what they're doing with the world. You don't want to keep this hidden. You want to actually put it out there." Doing this builds classroom community and helps students learn from each other.
3. How do I grade Genius Hour work?
4 & 5. How do I find time for Genius Hour in an already packed schedule? Can Genius Hour meet my required standards?
6. What if students want to study something weird or inappropriate?
7. What if students just slack off instead of working?
8. How do I convince parents, my administrator, or my colleagues that Genius Hour is worth trying?
9. Will this work with younger students?
"Start with just a day or two," Julani says, "Start with an hour where students are just kind of going through this process really quickly. Like, what do you want to learn? Take a whole period just to learn something and tell everybody at the end of the period what you learned, why you wanted to learn it. Just kind of get that inquiry going in the classroom. It doesn't have to be a full eight-week unit or anything like that. Start small, and bring inquiry and choice into your classroom. It doesn't have to be a big, long project." From there, teachers can learn more from the growing community of teachers online who have run successful Genius Hour programs in their own classrooms.
This course equips you with everything you need to run a successful Genius Hour program in your classroom: step-by-step instructions, printable and digital downloads to help you get organized, plus membership in a private Facebook community of experienced Genius Hour practitioners who can answer your questions every step of the way.
Every now and then, A.J. runs a special promotion where we offer a discount on the course tuition. If you'd like to wait for that, I can notify you the next time a special comes along. Just sign up here and I'll email you when the next promotion rolls around.
Disclaimer: I am an affiliate for the Genius Hour Master Course. That means if you enroll after visiting the course through my link, I will get a small commission for referring you.
I am really excited to try out Genius Hour with me science classes. How do teachers deal with materials? Should I provide them or do they bring them in?
Because each student's projects will be different, it might be hard to supply materials to them. I think part of the learning process could be for students themselves to research what materials are needed for their individual projects and how they might go about obtaining them. Also, if you know you and your students will have limited resources, you may want to restrict students to projects where there is little need for physical materials — learning skills and concepts online, for example. Does that help?
Quick question…could I frame the topics in a category? (Give them a broad range but this would help me conquer two birds…) For example, I am all about the Common Good and Community Service. Would this be appropriate or violate the premise of Genius Hour?
PS- I still want to talk about "RETIREMENT CLOUD" …LOL Although I have found my answer….I am "EMBRACING CHANGE"! No matter what… I follow this mantra and it has so helped me! I also know I am NOT ready to retire because I am so pumped about planning for this new school year! I am also developing a PD (hopefully more than just in my school) on the Women of the American Revolution!
Maura! You just said what I've been thinking this past year. I'm very close to retiring but I found Skype In The Classroom [mystery Skype, Virtual Field Trips, Guest speakers], and also Flipgrid and it changed the way I teach! So much excitement and new learning going on!
I was starting to get tired and just counting the days ,,,and now,,,a total 360,,,I feel like a brand new teacher, motivated, high energy, looking forward to the next day!
I worried that I wasn't doing what the other teachers were doing, but my instinct told me, this was right for the kids, and the curriculum fell into what we were doing just like it would have if I had used text books and photo copied sheets.
Anyway, this year has been a blessing and with 14 days to go, I'm looking to do the same thing in September!
Genius Hour btw, awesome idea.
I am so happy to see this encouraged. I tried it twelve years ago with 3rd graders after hearing about GOOGLE using it and continued for the next five years I taught in a classroom. It was great to see students setting up chess lessons, trying out music on various instruments, researching, creating service projects. Well worth the investment in class time. I'm back in the classroom and ready to start this up again!
Awesome, Charlene! I'm so happy for you and your students!
I tried Genius Hour (20Time in my classroom) last year with my high school freshmen. While it was a big hit with many of my students, I felt my implementation of the process needed fine-tuning before I tried it again. Some students' projects fell flat, and I didn't feel like I had the know-how and resources to help them perform at their best. I was going to take a break from 20Time this year to research and revamp for next year. BUT after seeing this course, I got so excited and didn't even hesitate to enroll! I've already started thumbing through the materials, and I've got a new excitement to put it into practice this year! Thanks for the new direction and the discount! I can't wait to bring 20Time back to our classroom third trimester!
Kathleen, I'm so excited for you! And I'm thrilled that this year's students are going to have this opportunity. Please come back and tell us how it goes!
I am a veteran teacher of 37 years…for the past 12 years I have been teaching kindergarten. I fully support this practice of teaching. How might I implement The Genius Hour in Kindergarten?
LOVE Genius Hour with my 8th graders!! This will be my 5th year of having the kids study and share their topic of passion with classmates and our school/parish community at our annual night to share….We start in September and finalize in May with TED talks being filmed by the students. (We're also a TED-ED class!) I have a timeline on our G.H. bulletin board that keeps the program structured enough so that the kids are successful at completing every component of the project. But I still provide enough flexibility so that the kids can make choices along the way. One of the most impressive and significant outcome of this year-long project is how well the kids do with formal presentations that they are required to give. I guide them through public speaking skills and strategies. They come back after graduation to tell me that they are SO glad that they did their G.H. work because doing projects and presenting them in their high school classes is "no big deal"…their confidence levels soar. I just joine the Genius Hour Master Course for the discounted fee of $100…I am blown away by all of the resources and information provided, even for someone like me who has done this for a few year now…am always looking for ways to make the program better for the kids!
Ooops…caught a couple of mechanical errors in my post…ugh! It's almost midnight and I'm tired…plus I'm typing fast as this G.H. topic is so exciting to me….even after having taught for 40 years and loving it when I come across such meaningful activities for my 8th graders!!
Hi I am so grateful for all the information you shared here about GH. I am the CAS, Co curricular and Community Service coordinator for our school and I am simply in love with the many opportunities and possibilities GH have to offer. I am learning while implementing in our school. Cant wait to share what we are doing here in our school.
Genius Hour is the perfect type of project for a collaboration with your school librarian! Please don't overlook the valuable resources in your school library and your school librarian's expertise.
Students will be able to share the brainstorming ideas that will be incorporated into the projects.


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Story of Toyota
Last night I was reading a book by renowned economist Ha-Joon Chang – 'BAD SAMARITANS' the book is excellent worth purchasing. Chang argues that unregulated international trade (free markets) has very rarely succeeded in producing economic development. I would like to share one paragraph with you…
Once upon a time, the leading car maker of a developing country exported it's first passenger cars to the US. Up to that day, the little company had only made shoddy products – poor copies of quality items made by richer countries. The car was nothing too sophisticated – just a cheap compact. But it was big moment for the country. Unfortunately the product failed.
The car had to be withdrawn from the US market. This disaster leads to a major debate among the country's citizens. Many argued that company should have stuck to its original business of making simple textile machinery. After all the country's biggest export item was silk. Other disagreed. They argued that no country had got anywhere without developing serious industry like automobile. They just needed more time to make car that appealed to everyone.
The year was 1947 and the country was JAPAN.
The company was TOYOTA and car was called the Toyopet.
Toyota started out as a manufacturing of textile machinery (Toyoda Automatic Loom) and moved into car production in 1947. Half a century after the launch of Toyopet , Toyota's luxury brand Lexus has become something of an icon for globakisation…had the Japanese government followed the free-trade economists back in the early 1960's, there would have been no Lexus.


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Countdown to Infinity War: Spider-Man: Homecoming
Posted on April 18, 2018 by jaycluitt
The third Avengers move is due to be released in under a fortnight and frankly I'm more than a little excited about it. In preparation for the last Avengers film my buddy Robert and a couple of his friends took a look at all the MCU films running up to it, and they're doing the same for Infinity War, only this time they've invited me to tag along. I've already contributed to some of the other posts, but the one I've been handed to focus on is Spider-Man: Homecoming, and I couldn't be happier. Before you read this, go check out these other reviews, written by Robert from To The Escape Hatch, CT from Nerd Lunch and Pax from Cavalcade of Awesome:
And now, he're my coverage of Spider-Man: Homecoming:Before Spider-Man: Homecoming was released, I didn't expect a great deal from it. I didn't think it'd be terrible, but also it felt to me like Marvel was trying to throw together a film in an attempt to justify the proprietorial battle with Sony over the rights to the characters. It didn't help when the director was announced to be Jon Watts, otherwise known as "I'm sorry, who?", who had previously only directed an Eli Roth-produced horror movie called Clown that I will never see, and the Kevin Bacon movie Cop Car, which I hear is fine but not of the Let's-Give-This-Guy-A-Major-Blockbuster quality. I was so apathetic towards Homecoming's release that we didn't even cover it on the Lambcast, something we'd done for every MCU film since Guardians of the Galaxy. It looked to be just another Spidey film, and we'd already had at least three too many of those, and I was not ready to yet again watch Peter Parker get bitten by a blue and red radioactive spider, lose his Uncle Ben and learn the cause-and-effect of great responsibility being an integral by-product of great power. I also wasn't ready for Homecoming to be not just one of the best superhero films of 2017 (#3, after Thor: Ragnarok and The Lego Batman Movie), but one of the best movies of the year overall.
Having established Tom Holland in the role and revealing the roots of the character in Captain America: Civil War, Homecoming was able to skip all the usual pitfalls so often stumbled upon with original stories. We were fortunately spared seeing Parker's tragic backstory and first see him already fully spidered up and living with his Aunt May (Marisa Tomei) in a Queens apartment. I've never been a comics guy so it hadn't bothered me too much in the past that his previous on-screen incarnations (Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield) have been far too old to accurately portray Parker, but I was appreciative of the fact that this time around Parker is a bonafide child, aged just 15 years old, still very much in school and suffering through everything that comes with that. Regardless of the on-paper backstory, it makes him refreshingly different to the rest of the MCU's much more adult cast, and provides the freshest of meat to carry the franchise forward when some of the older hands throw in their towels very soon. For the record, those specific towels are probably a heavy, metallic red and yellow one, a round blue one with a star in the middle and a flowing yellow one made from Mythril or whatever they make towels from on Asgard.
Homecoming is the definition of popcorn entertainment in that it's immensely enjoyable from start to finish. With the Marvel franchise it's planted firmly in the more comedic side of things (along with Guardians, Ant-Man and Ragnarok), and that's just the right tone to set it in, especially given how familiar we as an audience are with the specific goings-of on Spider-Man and his world by now. Therefore we get scenes where he's running through the suburbs because there's no tall building to swing across, and Parker discovering tricks and abilities as he goes and being fascinated by them because he's literally just a kid. It could be argued that there are too many action set-pieces – if you count some of the smaller ones there's at least six, with at least three being large enough in scale that they could quite easily have been the money-shot climax from the Sam Raimi era. That being said the action never feels like it overshadows the real story, that of Peter coming to terms with the fact that yes, he has super powers and has already fought against or alongside his childhood idols, but he's not quite ready to take on national or global threats. As he is reminded by Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.), he should, for now at least, remain a friendly, neighbourhood Spider-Man, rather than biting off more that he can chew.
Speaking of Stark, Homecoming is almost a standalone film when it comes to its MCU involvement. Sure, Tony plays an integral role as Peter's mentor, with Jon Favreau's returning Happy Hogan acting as a reluctant and begrudging point of contact between the two, and indeed the events of the film are heavily influenced by the goings-on of earlier films, particularly 2012's Avengers Assemble. However I don't think much of what happens within Homecoming will have too much of an impact on the rest of the franchise, other than having developed Spider-Man and his abilities in preparation for his apparently heavy involvement in Infinity War, at least given the trailers. No, this film is more about how the actions of the big guys affects the ground-level working class folks, and it's a lot of fun to have Peter and his friends (particularly Jacob Batalon's Ned) be big fans of the Avengers. This is a world where kids draw cartoons of their favourite real-life super heroes, where the man in the Iron Man suit offers science internships, and where Captain America (Chris Evans) records educational videos for schools (speaking of which, it's never been more essential to stick around all the way to the end for a post-credit sting).
The villain here, Michael Keaton's Adrian Toomes, is a contractor hired to assist in the clean up after the Battle of New York, only to have the work pulled out from under him by Stark's own initiative, sending Toomes on a vengeful curve that leads to him becoming a black market weapons distributor, specialising in the alien tech salvaged from the numerous attacks. Spidey has a terrific and often absurd pantheon of villains, but Toomes, otherwise known as The Vulture, is a particularly great, grounded choice. He's far more believable than the likes of The Lizard, Sandman or, um, The Spot, and like the best of Marvel's villains there are several points in the story where it's very easy to be on his side of the situation.
In terms of looking forward at the future of Spider-Man, as a character he has the thickest plot armour of anyone else in Infinity War, given that there's an as-yet untitled Spider-Man sequel scheduled on Marvel's slate for July next year, within which it's extremely unlikely that someone other than Peter Parker will be donning the new high-tech suit. Other than 2020's Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, no other characters have their own film's on the schedule, so it's a very safe bet to say that Peter Parker will emerge from the events of Infinity War relatively unscathed and in a situation very similar to his current one. That being said I am looking forward to that Homecoming sequel immensely, given the final scenes of this film and the relationships that will be affected by what has just been revealed.
Here are some additional thoughts that CT had on the film:
I enjoyed this movie. I have problems with the "eight years later" piece. However, I just ignore it and move on. I could chime in more on the movie, but I'm sure Jay covered it fine.
For my additional thoughts, I wanted to give a shout out to a couple major milestones that this movie connects the dots on and Avengers: Infinity War will complete.
1. Chris Evans will have played Captain America in one movie a year for 8 straight years (and it'll be 9 come next year with Avengers 4). Without his appearance in Spider-Man: Homecoming, this streak would not have been possible.
2011 – Captain America: The First Avenger
2012 – The Avengers
2013 – Thor: The Dark World
2014 – Captain America: The Winter Solder
2015 – Avengers: Age of Ultron
2016 – Captain America: Civil War
2017 – Spider-Man: Homecoming
2018 – Avengers: Infinity War (and he's also supposed to be in 2019's fourth Avengers film)
2. This year, Robert Downey, Jr. will tie Hugh Jackman for most appearances in movies as the same comic book character (DOWNEY: Iron Man, The Incredible Hulk, Iron Man 2, The Avengers, Iron Man 3, Avengers: Age of Ultron, Captain America: Civil War, Spider-Man: Homecoming, Avengers: Infinity War; JACKMAN: X-Men, X2, X-Men 3, X-Men Origins: Wolverine, X-Men: First Class, The Wolverine, X-Men: Days of Future Past, X-Men: Apocalypse, Logan). This sets him up to surpass Jackman in next year's Avengers 4. Again, without Homecoming, this would not have been possible.
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I turn red and feel hot!
I freeze, smile and look down,then Ilaugh and slowly and creepily say "you're right" or something else to that effect that is appropriate.
i do am embarrassed laugh.
I make jokes about it....I've learned to laugh at myself a lot.
I usually laugh. Joke around about my stupidity and shrug it off.
Depends on what happened. 1) my mouth clams up 2) I get veeeeery shy 3) Laugh very loud, very long, and very annoyingly 4) Start talking to myself "Way to go BJ". Either way I just embarrass myself more.
Awkward + defensive = me when I am embarrassed. I don't know what to do and get nervous, then I get defensive because I probably shouldn't be as embarrassed as I am. This happens a lot.
When I'm really, truly embarassed, I'm fairly good at playing it off. That is until the blushing kicks in. I get really red, so much that you could probably notice it from a distence of two hundred yards. As you might imagine, this throws off my nonchalant behavior.
I say wow that was embarrassing so I can stop the flush that is climbing up my neck before it reaches my ears.
I burn with mortification until my sense of the ridiculous emerges from the ashes and saves me from death by humiliation.
I sometimes get really embarrassed when talking in front of a group of people. I talk really fast, go bright red, and feel like I'm overheating!
I usually laugh at myself and make a bigger fool.
My face takes on a most impassive, deadpan expression. It's a deliberate act to convey to the other person that what s/he said is of absolutely no consequence. And I have been complimented for it more than once.
How do you react when you get compliments, more than you can actually deserve?
How does the way you dress affect the way you act?
What do you do when you encounter or have to deal with mean, really mean people.


I am unfortunately considering doing something I never planned on and that is parting ways with my 7-year long ongoing 911 project... I need some help from the excellent community that we have on this forum.
I purchased the car in 2012. Over the next several years I drove it the way it was and then I started the long journey of disassembling each and every component, tagging all the parts, zip-lock bagging them, etc. The car is originally grandprix white and came with the certificate of authenticity; however --- it did have several coats of paint on it.
After disassembling everything I found a painter who (while working with me) spent an immense amount of time media blasting the car (i remember it wasn't sand as that was too abrasive --- however, don't remember exactly what it was that was used), prepping it for paint, and finally painting it. The paint was done in 2017. After it sat in the paint shop for several months allowing for paint to fully dry, etc. I wrapped it up, brought it back to my garage where it has been sitting quietly tucked away on a few furniture dollies.
Unfortunately with changing priorities, family situation, and a change in focus I am now considering parting with the body/shell/chassis as well as all other components of the car. My main goal is to get rid of the chassis. All else I will focus on parting out later.
The car is originally a California car. It spent a massive portion of its life there. Below are some pictures of it prior to the disassembly. Note, pictures make the "original" paint look pretty good; however it was chipping all over the place and that was really caused by the multiple coats of paint that it had on it. The great thing is it had absolutely zero rust. With that said --- there is absolutely ZERO bondo under the fresh paint! A few dents did get pulled via welded on studs. Outside of that this car was a perfect candidate for repaint.
Everything was done the right way. Right now the car sits masked off for undercoating. It's fully ready for re-assembly after that. I was planning on doing the undercoating this coming spring and then finally re-assembling it this summer.
I am looking for input on what you guys believe the body/chassis is worth (with all the doors, bumpers, etc. etc.
Look forward to a fruitful discussion!
Looks like quality work, Paul. Sorry your circumstances have changed.
Are you selling just the shell? Are the engine and trans to be sold differently?
I will be selling everything. I have a fully built/rebuilt engine with 0 miles on it as well as a fully rebuilt transmission as well.
You don't say if this is a numbers matching car, unless I missed it. If so I think you would do better selling the car as a whole or at least the engine, transmission and chassis together.
Why not just sell it as a basket case with all of the parts??
Dang, wish it was in Colorado. I'd be interested if it was local. Don't have much input on price. It's a tough one.
Man, for the right person this could be the ticket and could be a tremendous value.
I wouldn't sell it in this state, but then again time is very important.
I'd try to get $15K out of that shell with no parts. Getting strong money is going to be hard on a SC Targa. If it were a longhood Targa, I would probably add $10-$15K. But alas it's a SC - but a darn good one.


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I hope everyone had a good Thanksgiving this year, and as we enter the mondo holiday season, it starts me thinking about all the issues that arise.
The holidays come every year, whether you want them to or not.
Of course, you have the option of not participating in anything holiday-related, but that in itself becomes a big issue. You can choose to opt out by staying at home alone, or going away on a trip, or getting together with friends and going to a movie or to a restaurant (to truly separate yourself, you'd have to find one without a special Thanksgiving Day menu).
But no matter what you do, it surrounds you. The markets and malls play holiday music, holiday movies and specials are all over TV, lights and decorations adorn shops and homes, and despite your feelings, people will wish you happy holidays.
So, my philosophy has been this: Enjoy the good things about the holidays and ignore the rest.
The "good things" will mean different things to different people. For me, it's all the great food that people make, the get-togethers with friends, and the white lights everywhere. And although I haven't had a real tree in my house for a few years now, I love the smell of pine when I walk into my living room (I've been settling on pine-scented air freshener). As corny as it is, I also like watching the classic movies and shows, such as Miracle on 34th Street (the original only), It's a Wonderful Life, A Christmas Carol in all its various incarnations (one of my favorites is the musical Scrooge with Albert Finney), and Merry Christmas, Charlie Brown.
I abhor the commercialism and have pared down my gift-giving to my immediate family, and I try to make those gifts mean something. I avoid, to the best of my ability, the large department stores, or shopping on weekends. I do what I can to make it more tolerable for myself.
If you're one of those people who has difficulty with the holidays, what do you do to get through?
Here's hoping you have a wonderful, stress-free holiday season.


Leicester's Curve aims to "banish the blues and nourish the soul" with its production of Irving Berlin's White Christmas.
Chief executive Chris Stafford and artistic director Nikolai Foster said, "it's shaping up to be another eccentric year, with much turbulence and uncertainty close to home and across the globe. White Christmas undoubtedly represents the very best festive escapism.
"Berlin's magnificent score—some of the finest created for the American songbook—are woven around a suitably madcap, exuberant and funny story.
Danny Mac takes the role of Bob Wallace who delivers the musical's titular song. He played Joe Gillis in Curve's production of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Sunset Boulevard in 2017 for which he received the Manchester Theatre Award for best actor in a visiting production.
Emma Williams, who appeared in Curve's world première of Douglas Day Stewart and Sharleen Cooper Cohen's An Officer and a Gentleman the Musical, will play one half of the all-singing, all-dancing sister duo, Betty Haynes.
The cast also includes Monique Young, Dan Burton, Garry Robson, Wendy Mae Brown, Michael Anderson, Delycia Belgrave, Chantel Bellew, Luke Byrne, Sophie Camble, Roger Dipper, Nicholas Duncan, Davide Fienauri, Nia Jermin, Robbie McMillan, Jo Morris, Sam Murphy, Alex Tranter, Sion Tudor Owen, Alexandra Waite-Roberts and Bleu Woodward.
Foster directs. Choreography will be by Stephen Mear. White Christmas will run at Curve from Thursday 6 December until Sunday 13 January 2019. Press night will be Friday 14 December.


In this article, Geoff Southworth draws on research findings, inspection evidence, and first-hand experience to describe four strands that, woven together, seem to form the thread of leadership and leading 'learning and teaching' schools.
Successful school leadership, Southworth outlines, is dependent on leaders from throughout the school consciously 'developing and connecting' these strands.
Although primary schools provided the context for this report, the ideas are also of relevance to intermediate and secondary schools.
Take the four strands for leading learning and teaching schools that Southworth highlights. Think carefully about your own context, and then reflect on what the teacher culture is in your school, and the things that you do that are 'culture building' in terms of developing workplace learning and learning networks.
What is the depth of focus on student achievement in your school?
At your school how much responsibility do individual teachers and the school community take for the goal that 'all children will learn'?
Southworth, G. (2001). Leading Learning and Teaching Primary Schools. National College of School Leadership. Nottingham, United Kingdom.


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I momentarily lost it last fall when another senior complained about reading 22 pages assigned over two nights—in 14-point font, with sections interrupted and the rest of the page blank. In I983, my first year of teaching, I asked my department chair what homework reading load was reasonable. I operated on her standard for nearly a decade, 30 pages, but since then…
People outside my profession ask me, "How do your current students compare to the first students you taught?"
Honestly, I fear the question, as who wants to be a prune-faced back-in-my-day-er howling about change most label progress? I've rehearsed my answer, picturing the students I teach lugging their stretched-to-bursting backpacks into class. I like them. They smile at me. They thank me. They wave hello, goodbye.
The invention of averages hasn't done much for subtlety. If I say, on average, my students are not as good at reading and writing, then one of the sharpest of my current students appears at an imagined door. I do teach some powerful thinkers, idealists, imaginative innovators. Some revere books and commit themselves to absorbing, testing, and exploiting ideas. The rest are, as a whole, good people. I respect them and would hate offending them.
But you hear me winding up. Whether I want an answer, I have one.
Unsurprisingly, reading challenges my students most. They seem unpracticed because few circumstances in the rest of their lives expects reading, and it's a trial to convince them patience matters, that, the more they notice and retain, the more discerning their understanding and interpretation will be. For them, nuance matters less and less. They make dramatic links between disparate ideas but aim for fireworks, not gentle brushstrokes. Skilled at the broadest thinking, they sometimes resemble bots devoted to cursory recognition. Complications, exceptions, paradoxes, and mysteries don't interest them as much. Instructions falling between extremes tax them. They want to know what's required.
Impatience, I think, makes a bigger difference. The issue isn't the number of pages but the page number where they become frustrated. The particular assignment my seniors objected to was Eula Biss' "Pain Scale," a roaming lyric essay about Biss' back pain that included allusions to Dante's Inferno and the history of numbers. Quixotically, I believed they might take to its strange and dramatic leaps between different arenas of thought, but some barely reached the bottom of the first page before deciding, and later letting me know, "This is bullshit."
Every good student is a good critic, but judgment can be peremptory, skipping knowing, understanding, interpreting, detecting authors' aims, and formulating thoughtful responses. Obviously, I'm heavy on judgment myself—it's in the RNA of our times—but I'd love more than a "I didn't like it."
Maybe pragmatism explains their perspective. They've been conditioned not to deviate from straight paths. Their parents urge them to fix on destinations with less help getting there. Many parents forget about encouraging joy. To recognize how limitless they might be, students need to struggle and overcome, yet, because minor dents are too costly to their reputations, every accident or setback needs immediate remediation. They hardly have time to stumble or to distinguish between stumbling and failing. They're told they must not fail and seldom come close. Few experiences lead to the redefinition—refinement—arising from discovering where strengths and weaknesses lie.
They're an anxious generation—of course and understandably. Yet sometimes I wonder why. Granted, we've given them a terrible world, but they're also ready to tell you how much harder they have it, and each challenge can feel to them like too much on top of too much. I long for the student who asks me to be hard, who accepts struggle as fundamental to education.
None of what I've said diminishes my affection, but it doesn't lessen my concern either. I generally don't compare current students to historical ones. I know it could be my problem, my nostalgia for a past that never was. Maybe I shouldn't speak at all, but there they are, right in front of me, every day.
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The Stupor Bowl
I'm drawn to the Super Bowl the way junebugs in my Texas youth were drawn to our porchlight. Though the bulb sat inside four secure panes of glass with seemingly no junebug-sized access, every fall we opened the lamp to clear out remnants of another summer's massacre.
There are so many reasons not to watch: seventeeen minutes of actual sports action in three-plus hours, the crass commercialization that preys on fans' affection and loyalty, the exploitation of players asked to sacrifice healthy futures for their profession, the American-ness of American Football complete with faux patriotism and resistance to first amendment rights to protest, the gladiatorial, bread and circus nature of the contest itself, and the not-so-vaguely militaristic celebration of barely controlled violence.
That, and I loathe the Patriots.
Yet, at around 5:30 CST, I'll probably be watching. Why? I've arrived at four answers:
Nostalgia: I played a lot of football growing up in Texas. Though I didn't attain the height or weight to play for my high school, junior high, or even the peewee league, every fall weekend found me behind La Marque Intermediate School playing sandlot with my bigger and badder neighbors. If I could get tangled in their legs or bull-ride them down, I could gain some stature among them. And, yes, I enjoyed playing. For a long time, when I watched football on television I could imagine—fantasize, really—running routes or dropping back to snatch an interception from a sure-armed quarterback. My love of the Cowboys (sorry) made football my every third thought, and I still regard that era with some warmth. Of course, those were really times of ignorance not innocence, but football seemed purer when straight-arrow Roger Staubach led the team and strong and silent Tom Landry strode the sidelines.
FOMO: I might elude my nostalgia—I'm well over other youthful devotions—except that everyone else is watching the game. At work tomorrow, the first or second question from colleagues will be whether I saw some play or, just as likely, some commercial. It takes a person proud of splitting from the herd to leave the TV off. A strange and rare solidarity surrounds the event. We live in a Chicago neighborhood with multiple bars within earshot. Most nights we don't hear them. Tonight, though, shouts will alert me to some highlight or turn in momentum I'm missing. Having spent 17 years in Delaware, well within the Eagles' orbit, I'm not sure I'll have the fight to resist tuning in.
Any excuse to celebrate: The game appears when my will is weakest. It's a terrible gray day in Chicago with spitting snow and dropping temperatures. The holidays are long forgotten, and don't I deserve a break, some excuse to eat poorly and let my resolve go for one night? Don't I deserve some relief from bleak national news reports?
Cognitive Dissonance: Please don't answer. The Super Bowl brings out all my greatest powers of denial. Watching or not watching is more than a contest between head and heart, knowing and feeling. It's the same struggle of our time writ large. We live in a nation that isn't what it once was, certainly not all it presents itself as. Football is just one example of clinging to what it is supposed to be instead of really scrutinizing what it is. Ultimately, I'll be watching for the worst reason, to fill a deficit I feel in the rest of my life these days, a stubborn wish that, though this nation and its national sport don't truly match what people want to believe, there may be a little dream left.
Fly, Eagles, fly.
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Every day, almost every hour, I imagine being a sought-after editor, a teacher's teacher, a designer for Crate and Barrel pillows and tablecloths, a podcaster, a muralist, an educational theorist and consultant, a freelance writer specializing in personal essays, a highly-paid fine artist. I could add masters athlete, but my body says, "no."
My circumstances fuel these fantasies. When you reach a certain age, people ask, "When will you retire?" Then they ask, "What will you do then?"
I don't know and blame our society's new understanding of the word "retirement." The dictionary says retirement is "leaving one's job and ceasing to work," but we've revised the concept. Where it used to entail traveling, gardening, doing crosswords, and just bemusedly (and charmingly) puttering about, now it means "second acts," "rewiring," and "side hustles."
The impulse to stay vital makes sense. "The best way to stay on a bicycle," a friend reminds me over and over, "is to keep peddling." And I like completing tasks, helping out, creating what did not exist before I conceived it. I love being productive. What seems different now, however, is the vision of a post-work life I've absorbed, that, if I'm ready to cease teaching, I need to find something essential to my being and remunerative, preferably something I always dreamed of doing yet never did. I so easily confuse what I might do and what I should have done before now.
Like that other life-redefining moment—college—retirement isn't cheap, but, unlike college, you can't borrow for it, which may be what motivates people to remain in their jobs as long as they can. The pension era has passed. In 2002, the average age at which Americans expected to retire was 63. Now it's 66. If Medicare fades away, we may end up working until we can work no longer, but, even now, if you haven't saved for idleness, you can't afford it.
If you have saved, you might still feel compelled to work. Books and articles claim savings justify bold ventures and alternative identities you've had to abandon. Like a professional athlete whose playing days are over, your situation is a golden opportunity to remake yourself. You can go back to school or start working in another industry or throw yourself into entrepreneurship… never mind that few places want to admit or to hire or to finance someone of your "experience."
The "tired" part of "retired" no longer carries much weight. I confess, sometimes every fantasy appears more interesting than continuing down the same road, yet the prospect of starting over terrifies me enough to keep me on the job. My own father received his last paycheck the day after he died. Part of me hungers for an old-fashioned, more traditional retirement, the one where I see a lot of movies and feed the ducks in the park. What if I relearn the sidestroke or take up painting bad watercolors that don't yield a dime? I'm not talking about idleness, I promise. Can't my post-work life be busy without being stressful? Is that acceptable?
My school contracts with a service providing substitutes on short notice, and we see a parade of retired teachers pass through. A few don't have laptops, don't know how to attach or un-attach documents, and absent-mindedly forget to collect what we ask, but many are vibrant and capable, enjoying students as much as they ever did but going home without papers or parent phone calls to return. They earn nearly nothing—I've looked into it—except the satisfaction of putting in a decent day's work.
There's plenty of productivity left in me, and I could be someone's new model employee, but is it so terrible to rest my drive and contribute what I can?
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Anyone who has run competitively knows what it means to press. Exertion edges past comfort, and you pray for some pleasure in punishment, or at least you hope for an outcome erasing the torture whispering in your brain. When the voice grows loud and insistent, you tell yourself you're a better person for enduring it, embracing it.
But you don't need to run to know what pressing is. Some of the things you're sure you want, you don't want… and vice versa. You know—because you've been told—choosing to travel downstream means never seeing the mountains. If you do more than you think possible, you'll redefine what possible is.
What does not destroy you… oh, you know the rest.
Yet my most rare pleasure is doing what occurs to me. I'm surprised when I find myself enjoying, without guilt or self-recrimination, some activity I wandered into. I'm happy for each break from thought and action. As a child I occupied time, and not in the way I use that expression now—as expending or wasting time before important events—but in the gentler sense of dwelling in and on the present's comforts.
The line between relentless determination and masochism grows fuzzy. In the marshmallow test, the contest goes to the child who leaves the first sweet alone in anticipation of two later. The children who only want one, we're told, go on to lives of mediocrity. Yet, the test seems biased. What if there truly is no time like the present? By what measure of success are the satisfied unsuccessful? What if contentedness is the ultimate success?
Today, like every day, I've jotted a list of what must be done. The day's value comes from the number of check marks added to that list. Anything else distracts. Three phone calls, emails to answer, and every variety of follow-ups await me. Even this post makes the list—creativity becomes production. Because moving is crucial, every minute demands gripping the road, making progress on projects… whatever "progress" and "project" mean.
Though I recognize forces of instant gratification working in the world too, I'm of the bigger-better-faster generation. We've been conditioned to distrust comfort and complacency. We've been led to believe we're useful only when we expend breakneck effort. Anything easy, my parents taught me, is not worth having, and, hence, I've come to believe less (and less) in accomplishments. Once attained, they tell me I've aimed too low.
Having makes me wonder about something more, harder, more worthy.
I'm not alone. We've forgotten how to rest. We want to devise, institute, adjust, amend, alter, generate, or overturn. Our phones are out and we're doing and doing. We nurture hope the next moment will be better (or at least different). The present is perpetually incomplete. No subject or object can be left alone. Because we're a half-turn from bringing everything into a more fulfilling alignment, we spin and spin.
I worry our addictions to novelty and progress will disqualify the value of the past. We seldom, if ever, consider what we give up. We miss the repeated lesson that heedless innovation produces unanticipated, often complicated and ambiguous, results. Despite our technology and sophistication, we remain animals who so fear being prey they don't dare pause. We exhaust ourselves to attain some safe state of relaxation that never arrives.
Herds of lemmings, I understand, don't really rush off cliffs… but we may if we whip ourselves into a dead run where we're frantic, exhausted, and addled. Satisfaction and consummation obsesses us, but when do we have enough?
Some ambition is necessary—we have problems to solve, and that takes dedication. And I'm not against a runner's type of pressing if your motive is to test your capacities, exercise your talents, generally revel in the blessings of being alive and strong. I'm all for the glory of that sort of effort. Yet, past a point I wish I could better define, ambition begins to look like compulsion, the twitching of a rabid mammal.
Can't resting be glorious too?
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What—Me Worry?
When the person likely to be the next U.S. Senate Environmental Committee chair wrote a book called The Great Hoax denying global climate change, maybe it's time to address a new strain of anti-intellectualism… delusion.
American ambivalence about intellect isn't new. From the beginning Americans have favored plain-speech and uncomplicated thinking. They've always believed in simple answers to every complex problem. Trusting in fresh perspectives, putting aside received truths to encounter issues anew, that produces answers. The utopian "City on the Hill" faith in the possibility of starting over created the constitution.
However, the founding fathers, for all their flaws, were no dummies. They were subtle men whose elegant (and inelegant) solutions arose from rumination, deliberation, persuasion, and resourcefulness. They embraced complexity and kept up with the political science and regular science of their day.
They did not, as some do now, solve problems by denying they exist and vilifying any "overthinker" or "alarmist" who looks too closely.
Social scientists can offer decades of research on interdependent causes of poverty, and still some Americans cut through "all the crap" with the real truth—that some people don't take advantage of opportunity. Graphs depicting the imbalanced distribution of wealth inspire yet another rags-to-riches tale, and, if social scientists unfavorably compare economic mobility in America to almost everywhere else, someone will assert the possibility, no matter how remote, is all that's important. And, because if you work hard you should get ahead, those left behind must not have worked hard enough. They ought to blame themselves, the thinking goes, so helping them, giving them "handouts," only saps their will to try harder. Cite economists who explain the mechanisms of inherited wealth and the game of musical chairs everyone else plays, and you'll be accused of fomenting class warfare, plotting to rob the deserving, being a socialist. The deserving believe in "the market," as a counterbalance to (and not a manifestation of) human greed—no regulation or redress is necessary.
Americans untroubled by economic inequality are equally prepared to discount social inequality as a vestige of bad old days now gone. The mountain of statistical and anecdotal evidence demonstrating white privilege, they judge, only rationalizes indolence. Some go as far as to say the problem of race in America is solved, and any talk about persistent intolerance—surrounding class, creed, and sexual orientation—only reignites dead flames. It seems as long as you believe you are not personally (or at least not obviously) racist, sexist, and bigoted, these issues don't exist. And expressing desire for equity elicits petulance. Pundits cry they're not only blameless but also oppressed.
Though in scientific circles, human causes for climate change are rarely debated, some Americans choose to believe we know nothing and can know nothing about greenhouse gasses and the melting ice caps. They treat scientists with disdain, either correcting them (very slowly, as they would a child) with fundamentally flawed conceptions of the physical world or, alternately, declare, "I'm not a scientist" to turn ignorance to their advantage. Both responses share a view of science as evil and/or unintelligible—sorcery, not one of humanity's best methods of seeking truth.
The catalog could go on: Gun control, environmental regulations, banking abuses, corporate tax loopholes, and healthcare divide along similar lines with some seeking to study problems and devise solutions and others carping there IS no problem. If anything needs to be done, the carpers say, it's rolling back the meager amelioration managed so far.
To be fair, sanctimony exists on both ends of the political spectrum. The left dismisses opposition as much as the right. Neither listens to the other. Most Americans, left or right, read and watch only what echoes their viewpoint, facts be damned. Worse, Americans' healthy appetite for drama has inspired the creation of loud and insistent megaphones to shout half-truths and whole lies. Subtlety and intellectual rigor aren't, everyone knows, very sexy.
The conservatives' position seems more dangerous, however. It's much too easy for them to get away without persuasion or policy. In making ignorance and denial viable political stances, they've institutionalized distrust of scientists, economists, environmental experts, social scientists, and intellectuals devoted to study, discovery, and—let's be direct—reality.
And, in the process, their delusion has infected the general electorate with a nearly nihilist sense of hopelessness. How do you argue with someone who believes there's nothing to argue, who vows nothing is known conclusively, who says nothing can be done, and, moreover, should be done?
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Critiquing the Critic
I value critics, but some take the job—and themselves—so seriously they go beyond illuminating their subject. Instead, they hint at their superior understanding. They assume awareness greater than those they criticize. They sound smug or condescending or dismissive and thus elicit criticism themselves.
In these publicity-hungry, hot-headed times, we're accustomed to vehement critics. How valuable can a half-hearted viewpoint be, after all? Yet egotism often poisons criticism. Confidence helps, but self-assurance without self-awareness reveals ignorance akin to the cluelessness it denounces. Instead of discernment, the critic's motives come first. Yet fighting over rectitude rarely convinces anyone. It rarely exposes something hidden and important. I wish all our social critics were a little less vociferous, but I prefer Jon Stewart's dissections to Sean Hannity, Bill Mahr and Bill O'Reilly's rants.
Printers' Row, the book supplement associated with The Chicago Tribune, recently started a new feature called "Time Machine" offering old Tribune reviews of famous books. The first entry was H. L. Mencken's response to The Great Gatsby, which I encountered with some skepticism. I mostly admire Fitzgerald and the novel, and the little I've read from and about Mencken fills me with ambivalence. Sometimes he's witty, incisive, and unstinting. Sometimes he's sarcastic, biting, and petty. And this review evoked both reactions—demonstrating, for me, when criticism does and doesn't work.
In this case, I should say, "Doesn't and does," for Mencken swings his sword wildly in his opening before calming down to say something valuable. He calls the novel "No more than a glorified anecdote," and writes off Gatsby as "a clown" and the other characters as "marionettes—often astonishingly lifelike, but nevertheless not quite alive." In the end, he says, "The immense house of the Great Gatsby stands idle, its bedrooms given over to the bat and the owl, its cocktail shakers dry. The curtain lurches down."
Maybe Mencken wanted to launch with a blast of his characteristic vitriol, but he seems so self-satisfied. As muscular as Mencken's prose is and as much as I get his perspective, he speaks to those who enjoy (as Warren Buffet put it), "Interpreting all new information so that their prior conclusions remain intact."
Granted, that's most humans, but you either revel in his savagery or put the review aside immediately. If you've read the novel and agree, fine. If you haven't, the critic's snark is all you get. Illustrating broad proclamations is tricky, nigh impossible. Yet, if proof is impractical and explanation superfluous, only empty assertions remain.
Many of our pundits, politicians, and television personalities operate similarly. No longer inhabiting a three or four network world, we all have our shows. Whether to the left or right side of blue or red, you need never challenge prior conclusions. You can luxuriate in the affirmation of your disgust. Meanwhile, thought and self- examination suffer. Mencken described the U.S. as a "boobocracy," ruled by the uninformed. We're no longer quite that (because it's hard to be uninformed in a nation saturated with media), but we can bask in the sneering certainty of the critics we accept, which may be worse.
Mencken's appraisal of Fitzgerald improves after his initial salvo, not because he begins to give the book some credit—Mencken continues to assert rather than demonstrate or prove—but because he uses the book to address the practice of writing, a subject bigger than the author, the novel, and the critic.
At first, Fitzgerald chiefly receives faint praise for improvement. According to Mencken, Fitzgerald's earlier writing was "Slipshod—at times almost illiterate" and "devoid of any feeling for the color and savor of words." Then, however, Mencken stops punching Fitzgerald, whose progress is, to Mencken, "Of an order not witnessed in American writers; and seldom, indeed, in those who start out with popular success." Mencken's point also stops being personal. It tackles artistry and success, how the latter blunts the ambition of the former. The popular author who has "Struck the bull's-eye once" may stop learning new techniques, Mencken says, and undergo, "a gradual degeneration of whatever talent he had at the beginning. He begins to imitate himself. He peters out."
Which seems, to me, wise and well-put. Mencken is no longer talking about Fitzgerald at all, but about the temptations and pitfalls of popular fiction. Fitzgerald is the opposite of Mencken's scenario, a talentless author who achieves success and then labors to improve. He is the exception to a rule. Having dropped insults, Mencken also abandons dismissing The Great Gatsby and turns to what's in it. He notes Fitzgerald's interest in the elite's "Idiotic pursuit of sensation, their almost incredible stupidity and triviality." Mencken's statement that "These are the things that go into his [Fitzgerald's] notebook," marks a shift toward description and criticism's real power, its capacity for careful observation and valuable distinctions.
I wish all criticism were so thoughtful as those last few paragraphs and that all critics might leave off hollering to speak in more audible tones. I know that's less entertaining, and maybe it's our nature to slip into ad hominem. Yet, to me, criticism seems most effective when it's respectful. Critics don't have to love everything—that'd be a different evil—but it'd be nice if they made their work about their subject and not about self-righteousness.
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Author: Subject: The coming Obama dictatorship
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Registered: 2/27/2006
posted on 11/11/2008 at 09:00 AM
See! More and more people are coming to the fore, warning of a Stalinist-style society under BarryO. Are we ALL crazy? I hope so - but I rather think not.
Georgia congressman warns of Obama dictatorship
By BEN EVANS (AP)
WASHINGTON (AP) — A Republican congressman from Georgia said Monday he fears that President-elect Obama will establish a Gestapo-like security force to impose a Marxist or fascist dictatorship.
"It may sound a bit crazy and off base, but the thing is, he's the one who proposed this national security force," Rep. Paul Broun said of Obama in an interview Monday with The Associated Press. "I'm just trying to bring attention to the fact that we may — may not, I hope not — but we may have a problem with that type of philosophy of radical socialism or Marxism."
Broun cited a July speech by Obama that has circulated on the Internet in which the then-Democratic presidential candidate called for a civilian force to take some of the national security burden off the military.
"That's exactly what Hitler did in Nazi Germany and it's exactly what the Soviet Union did," Broun said. "When he's proposing to have a national security force that's answering to him, that is as strong as the U.S. military, he's showing me signs of being Marxist."
Obama's comments about a national security force came during a speech in Colorado about building a new civil service corps. Among other things, he called for expanding the nation's foreign service and doubling the size of the Peace Corps "to renew our diplomacy."
"We cannot continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we've set," Obama said in July. "We've got to have a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded."
Broun said he also believes Obama likely will move to ban gun ownership if he does build a national police force.
Obama has said he respects the Second Amendment right to bear arms and favors "common sense" gun laws. Gun rights advocates interpret that as meaning he'll at least enact curbs on ownership of assault weapons and concealed weapons. As an Illinois state lawmaker, Obama supported a ban on semiautomatic weapons and tighter restrictions on firearms generally.
"We can't be lulled into complacency," Broun said. "You have to remember that Adolf Hitler was elected in a democratic Germany. I'm not comparing him to Adolf Hitler. What I'm saying is there is the potential."
Obama's transition office did not respond immediately to Broun's remarks.
As a patriot and a loyal member of the opposition I pledge to offer our new President the very same benefit of the doubt and unwavering support that the left offered George Bush over the last eight years.
LikeToSmoke
Extreme Peach
So he is no longer a Communist, now he's a Fascist. I'm glad you cleared that up.
Possibly either/or. Hopefully neither.
magodee
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Registered: 8/7/2007
Im was honestly embarrassed when you said you were from Michigan. Move down south with all the other ignorant, racist, losers.
musicmann
Maximum Peach
Here's a generalization that should cause some more controversy....
The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits. Albert Einstein
True Peach
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The GA congressman who said this must have only watched the 20 sec Youtube of Obama's national service speech. From an ignorant partisan, I could see not looking into it further, but Rep Broun is a medical doctor! And even more stupid is to say these things post-election. If his district needs help from the President at some future point(like disaster aid), his constituents may not get the help they need because of this doofus!
Thankfully I'm not in Broun's district, but I am embarrased for my fellow Georgian.
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You are an idiot magodee, glad you are up there, we don't need racists like you down here in God's country. What an idiot, no wonder Yankees have a bad name.
And I need you more than want you. And I want you for all time.
lespaul58
A Peach Supreme
I hope he is as dictatorially left as Bush was dictatorialy right. That would just even thingsout a little.
gondicar
"You have to remember that Adolf Hitler was elected in a democratic Germany. I'm not comparing him to Adolf Hitler. What I'm saying is there is the potential."
WTF? Invoking Hitler? This statement alone shows what an idiot this guy is.
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jerryphilbob
Sublime Peach
The 4th Reich is here and running your country!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZpWrlpHgUA
BigDaveOnBass
Zen Peach
Jesus....Broun is my congressman....and I voted for him? Can I get a do over? I voted for him because he was incumbent...and up to now, he's done nothing to raise eyebrows. As one of his constituents, I think I'll write Rep. Broun an e-mail and give him an ass chewing.
All these people who think Obama is going to waltz and and turn our government into a dictatorship...GET REAL!! I didn't vote for him, but I don't have any unreasonable fear he's a Marxist, a Communist, Fascist, whatever. I'll give him a fair shake.
And Magodee...you, sir, can KMA. I may be a native Hoosier, but I am southern by choice.
Bhawk
I'll say this. There are some folks round here that went absolutely ape$hit when people would (wrongly) compare Bush to Hitler. I'm looking forward to their comments.
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He must have been talking about the current administration. You know the one that spyed on it's citizens and socialized the finacial industry allowed torture and invaded a non threating country based on manipulated intelligence.....
RBK.....we all ready have exactly what you are worried about and you voted for him.....what can we say
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mulehead13
Hitler........... This guy is a real gem. Something tells me that we will be hearing a whole lot of Al Sharpton the next 4 years. Fear mongering hatebreed racist pig.
A generalization about a guy making a generalization. Ummm.... OK.
I am good at those Otie!
bigann
For the Chicken Littles who can't wrap their minds around an Obama presidency, here is part of an article about this very topic....and Bush did it. I find it interesting that when I posted something about this waaaay before the election not one Bush supporter said a word! Now some sore loser in Georgia is trying to stir things up about Obama....guess the job fell to him now that Palin is out of the national loop.
Thousands of Troops Are Deployed on U.S. Streets Ready to Carry Out "Crowd Control"
By Naomi Wolf, AlterNet. Posted October 8, 2008.
Background: the First Brigade of the Third Infantry Division, three to four thousand soldiers, has been deployed in the United States as of October 1. Their stated mission is the form of crowd control they practiced in Iraq, subduing "unruly individuals," and the management of a national emergency. I am in Seattle and heard from the brother of one of the soldiers that they are engaged in exercises now. Amy Goodman reported that an Army spokesperson confirmed that they will have access to lethal and non lethal crowd control technologies and tanks.
George Bush struck down Posse Comitatus, thus making it legal for military to patrol the U.S. He has also legally established that in the "War on Terror," the U.S. is at war around the globe and thus the whole world is a battlefield. Thus the U.S. is also a battlefield.
He also led change to the 1807 Insurrection Act to give him far broader powers in the event of a loosely defined "insurrection" or many other "conditions" he has the power to identify. The Constitution allows the suspension of habeas corpus -- habeas corpus prevents us from being seized by the state and held without trial -- in the event of an "insurrection." With his own army force now, his power to call a group of protesters or angry voters "insurgents" staging an "insurrection" is strengthened.
U.S. Rep. Brad Sherman of California said to Congress, captured on C-Span and viewable on YouTube, that individual members of the House were threatened with martial law within a week if they did not pass the bailout bill:
"The only way they can pass this bill is by creating and sustaining a panic atmosphere. … Many of us were told in private conversations that if we voted against this bill on Monday that the sky would fall, the market would drop two or three thousand points the first day and a couple of thousand on the second day, and a few members were even told that there would be martial law in America if we voted no."
If this is true and Rep. Sherman is not delusional, I ask you to consider that if they are willing to threaten martial law now, it is foolish to assume they will never use that threat again. It is also foolish to trust in an orderly election process to resolve this threat. And why deploy the First Brigade? One thing the deployment accomplishes is to put teeth into such a threat.
I interviewed Vietnam veteran, retired U.S. Air Force Colonel and patriot David Antoon for clarification:
"If the President directed the First Brigade to arrest Congress, what could stop him?"
"Nothing. Their only recourse is to cut off funding. The Congress would be at the mercy of military leaders to go to them and ask them not to obey illegal orders."............
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Registered: 12/1/2001
Congressman: Obama wants Gestapo-like force
GOP rep invokes Nazis, Soviets, but Bush backed Obama's civilian corps idea
updated 3:16 a.m. ET, Tues., Nov. 11, 2008
WASHINGTON - A Republican congressman from Georgia said Monday he fears that President-elect Obama will establish a Gestapo-like security force to impose a Marxist dictatorship.
Obama's comments about a national security force came during a speech in Colorado in which he called for expanding the nation's foreign service.
Obama's idea endorsed by Bush
The Obama transition team declined to comment on Broun's remarks. But spokesman Tommy Vietor said Obama was referring in the speech to a proposal for a civilian reserve corps that could handle postwar reconstruction efforts such as rebuilding infrastructure — an idea endorsed by the Bush administration.
Broun said he believes Obama would move to ban gun ownership if he does build a national security force.
"We can't be lulled into complacency," Broun said. "You have to remember that Adolf Hitler was elected in a democratic Germany. I'm not comparing him to Adolf Hitler. What I'm saying is there is the potential of going down that road."
Well what is really interesting about this thread is that RBK AKA "the peasant" cut out the part where Bush endorsed this idea.
[Edited on 11/11/2008 by PattyG]
Copying from a single source is called plagiarism, copying from multiple source is called research.....
Bush is the one who implemented this action.....not Obama....so RBK is now telling us by posting this article that Bush is a wimp who has been doing Obama's bidding since July? Amazing.
dougrhon
You know I do believe you mean this.
I was one of them. I think this sort of thing is absurd no matter who says it and I wish it would stop. BTW, I voted for Obama even though I have been highly critical of the Democrats for the past several years. Loyal opposition means loyal opposition. When an Obama opponent is arrested for criticism then I will start to be concerned. I felt the same way during the Bush years.
World Class Peach
Using Hitler as a historic reference, not as a comparison.
Remember that Hitler had his own army formed of Nationalsozosialistiche Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (Nazi) members. The S.A. or stormtroopers, were attired in a brown uniform.
They were thus known as the "brown shirts". They enforced party rules, not laws, and were the front runners in the anti Semitic persecutions. They were also used to terrorize and intimidate political rivals.
Some people are seeing a historic correlation to both the election of Obama (Hitler was elected President during a financial crisis) and the statement on the need of a civilian security agency.
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Revealing the impartial, balanced, and liberal education you received up north? Seems like your parents need to file for a refund.
IF you took his remarks to mean that. I've watched that clip 10 times and every time I hear it I take it that he is saying that we need more money and better quality at the local law enforcement level.
Interesting. RBK accuses Obama's supporters of being Stalinists. To do this, he uses the Stalinist tactic of altering things to fit his agenda. Ironic, isn't it?
Well someone had to do it; I suppose it might as well be "the peasant".
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