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The Pathos Of Truth Seeked & Violated. Unexamined Fascist, Unexamined Prostitute? Both. Why Was That Covered Up, So Long? For The Same Exact Cause Which Made Socrates Famous!
The death of Socrates keeps haunting philosophy. And that, per se, is a sad, yet very revealing tale. The old common wisdom was that Socrates died, as a martyr to truth (as Hypatia, Boetius, Giordano Bruno, and many others certainly were). You want a hero for philosophy? Celebrate Jean Cavaillès. In the presence of Cavaillès, Sartre nearly wetted his pants. We will see that the mood behind Socrates' actions is significantly different. Socrates was rather on the side of those who killed Cavaillès.
Indeed, a casual look at the basic setup of Socrates' trial contradicts the theme that Socrates was mostly a martyr for truth. Socrates was simply accused to be the mastermind of the young dictators who ruled Athens after her tremendous defeat, and half annihilation at the hands of Sparta, the tool of Persia. Socrates was also mentor, friend and lover (!) of the young Alcibiades who, deprived of a generalship by Athens, then betrayed her for her lethal enemy, fascist, ultra-racist, Persian financed Sparta.
Agreed, philosophy needs heroes, and has plenty. Here is one:
[Jean Cavaillès was tortured and assassinated by the Gestapo in 1943-1944. He is buried in the crypt of the Sorbonne.]
Thus Socrates was a sort of Charlie Manson of serial traitors and killers, whose mental actions led, or accompanied, Athens' near-death experience in losing a devastating war, and the resulting dictatorship by Socrates' students. Temples of democracy such as Britain, France, and the USA have gaily executed traitors, or incompetents, for much less than that.
Stanford political science and classics professor, Josiah Ober opines in "The Civic Drama Of Socrates' Trial" that: "Conventional wisdom sees Socrates as a martyr for free speech, but he accepted his death sentence for a different cause… In his influential interpretation The Trial of Socrates (1988), the US journalist-turned-classicist I F Stone saw this trial as an embattled democracy defending itself. In Stone's view, Socrates had helped to justify the junta's savage programme of oligarchic misrule and was a traitor. More commonly, Socrates is seen as a victim of an opportunistic prosecutor and a wilfully ignorant citizenry. In truth, politics is indispensable to understanding the trial of Socrates, but in a slightly more sophisticated way."
I love sophistication, philosophy is all about increased sophistication (so is science). Sophistication, translated, is wisdomization: sticking to reality ever better by ever more subtle, complex logic.
The point was not so much that Socrates justified the savage programme, but that he formed the minds who organized said programme, "corrupting the youth". And he was at it again, even after being amnestied. Professor Ober describes the problem well (although he fails to fathom the enormity of what he describes).
Stanford's Josiah: "For what people today call 'the wisdom of crowds', Socrates had nothing but scorn. Athenian democrats who argued that the many, the group, were collectively more likely to get important matters right than any individual expert earned his antipathy. Whether or not anyone actually was expert in the art of politics, Socrates certainly supposed that there could be such an expert, and that the Athenians were deluded in thinking themselves collectively wise."
The "experts" would have been naturally his rich, best ("aristos") boyfriends. Professor Ober is led to the obvious question, but fail to recognize that he does not answer it:
"How did Socrates both scorn the idea of collective wisdom and yet maintain obedience to Athens' laws, even when he disagreed with how they were interpreted? The rudimentary answer lay in the foundation that Athens (as opposed to, for example, Sparta) provided in its laws and political culture. Athens mandated liberty of public speech and tolerance for a wide range of private behaviour."
Yes, but public incompetence could lead to trial (as happened to Pericles and many strategoi, generals and admirals). Anyway, that is not an answer. I will give a better answer: Socrates himself had no answer to his drastic self-contradictions, so hise self-delusion fatally committed him to self-destruction. Yet political science professor Ober sees the problem:
"By 399 BCE, however, four years after the end of the tyranny, and with Socrates doing the same things in public that had seemingly inspired the junta's leaders, the Athenians regarded his speech very differently. In the eyes of the majority of his fellow citizens, Socrates was no longer an eccentric with potential for contributing to public life. He was now either a malevolent public enemy, or deluded and dangerously unable to recognise that his speech predictably produced seriously bad outcomes. And so the way was left open for Meletus to launch his prosecution."
Right. What professor Ober fails to mention is that only the intervention of mighty Sparta prevented Athens' annihilation after she surrendered, having lost already half of her population (other cities wanted to do to Athens what Athens did to Melos). Try to imagine this: the city-state half annihilated, democracy destroyed by Socrates' students, and then? The strongest mood that Socrates had been instilling was to oppose democracy. And he was again at it, after the amnesty he had profited from. What could motivate such a rage?
Unsurprisingly, Socrates was put on trial for "corrupting the youth and impiety". (The City was to some extent divinized, with Athena as her protecting goddess.)
"With unsettling metaphors and logical demonstrations, he made it clear that he [Socrates] opposed democracy… Xenophon implies that Socrates chose that sort of speech as a method of jury-assisted suicide: he was… tired of life and allowed the Athenians to end it for him."
This is what I believe. And I go further than Xenophon, by explaining the cause of Socrates' depression. Socrates may have been tired of his own contradictions.And may have been ravaged by regret. (Regret, I reckon, is a powerful human instinct.)
The Socrates' worship interpretation is due to Plato. It poses Socrates as martyr to civic duty. But, as it turns out, "civic duty", for Socrates, seems to be mostly blind obedience to "the Laws", while viciously criticizing the Direct Democracy which gave birth to them.
That Socrates respected the laws of Athens while despising the Direct Democracy which had passed them is illogical in the extreme. Yes, I know Socrates said he respected "the Laws", as if they were disembodied gods with a life of their own. But We The People passed said laws, and they lived only because We The People had created them, and We thge People could extinguish them just the same.
The "Laws" were nothing. We The People was everything. Socrates behaved as if he could not understand that.
Insisting that the Laws were everything reveals that the concept of blind obedience was more important to Socrates than arguing about the nature of what one should be obeying to, and why. Blind obedience is also the traditional ultimate value of standard fascism: law and order as supreme.
Blind obedience had been what the junta's rule was all about. What the rule of Socrates' young students and lovers had been all about. That's also what fascism is all about. However, arguing, debating, fighting is how to get to the thorough examination necessary for the "examined life".
The contradiction was, and is, blatant. Socrates' mental system was shorting out. Socrates had been shorting out for half a decade or more: he ambitiously wanted to "examine life", but he could not even examine the minds of his followers, let alone his own, or why he was hanging around them. Why was he hanging around them? They were rich, he was not, but he lived off their backs and crumbs. And the feeling of power they provided with (after Obama got to power I saw some in his entourage becoming drunk with power).
Arguably, Socrates was a martyr to fascism, a Jihadist without god. There is nothing remarkable about that. The very instinct of fascism is to give one's life, just because fanatical combat is the ultimate value, when one gets in the fascist mood. In this case, the fanatical combat was against We The People.
Posing Socrates as a martyr for intellectual freedom is farfetched: fascism, blind obedience, passion for oligarchs are all opposed to the broad mind searching for wisdom requires.
Some will sneer: you accuse Socrates to be a fascist, why not a racist? Well, I will do this too. The golden youth Socrates loved so much and drank with were hereditary so. Socrates believed knowledge was innate (so an ignorant shepherd boy knew all of math: this is the example he rolled out!) If knowledge was innate, one can guess that the "aristos", the best, were also innately superior. That is the essence of racism.
Logically enough, Socrates disliked science: nothing was truly new under the sun (as all knowledge was innate). So much for examining life.
It is more probable that Socrates was indeed, just a stinging insect buzzing around, stinging the idea of Direct Democracy. In exchange, his rich, young, plutocratic boyfriends would fete and feed him. Such was Socrates' life, a rather sad state of affair, something that needed to be examined, indeed, by the head doctor.
Socrates may have been clever enough to feel that he was an ethical wreck. His suicidal submission may have been an attempt to redeem himself, or whatever was left of his honor (which he also tried to regain with his insolence to the jury).
Plato would pursue the fight for fascism ("kingship"). Aristotle, by teaching, mentoring, educating, befriending, advising a number of extremely close, family-like friends, the abominable Alexander, Craterus and Antipater, finally fulfilled Socrates' wet dream: Athenian Direct Democracy was destroyed and replaced by an official plutocracy overlorded by Antipater (supremo dictator, and executor of Aristotle's will, in more ways than one).
This trio of philosophical malefactors became the heroes 22 centuries of dictatorship ("monarchy") needed as a justification. A justification where "civic duty" was defined as blind obedience to the "Laws" (whatever they were, even unjust "Laws"). This amplified Socrates' hatred of Direct Democracy. So the works of the trio were preciously preserved, and elevated to the rank of the admirable.
It is rather a basket of deplorables. We owe them the destruction of Direct Democracy for 23 centuries, and counting.
And what Of Socrates' regret for being so deplorable? (Which I alleged he had to experience.) A dying Socrates lying on a couch, uncovered his face and uttered— "Crito, I owe the sacrifice of a rooster to Asklepios; will you pay that debt and not neglect to do so?" Asklepios cured disease, and provided with rebirth, symbolized by the singing of the rooster calling the new day. This has been traditionally interpreted (by Nietzsche) as meaning that (Socrates'?) death was a cure for (his?) life. Nietzsche accused Socrates to be culprit of the subsequent degeneracy of civilization (and I do agree with that thesis). Certainly, Socrates, a self-described "gadfly" was deprived of gravitas.
Wisdom needs to dance, but cannot be altogether deprived of gravitas, as it is, after all, the gravest thing.. Maybe Socrates felt this confusedly, besides having regrets for his status of thinking insect. Socrates could have easily escaped, and Crito had an evasion ready. By killing himself Socrates behaved like a serious Japanese Lord opening his belly to show his insides were clean, and its intent good. Well, many a scoundrel has committed seppuku, and hemlock is nothing like cutting the belly.
Human beings are endowed with the instinct of regret, because we are the thinking species. It is crucial that we find the truth, and when we have lived a lie, indulged in error, the best of use are haunted by the past, and revisit it to find what the truth really was. Regrets has many stages, like cancer. The most correct philosophical form of regret is to re-established the truth. The cheap way out is to flee from reality, as Socrates did.
How to explain Socrates' insolence to the jury? There again, it was a desperate attempt at reaching the sensation of self-righteousness and trying to impart it to the jury (this is often seen on the Internet, with the glib one-liners and vacuous logic which pass for depth nowadays).
The inexperienced democracy in Athens did not always behave well. Athens behaved terribly with Melos (see link above). But the case of Socrates is different. Ultimately, the train of thoughts and moods promoted by Socrates weakened those who wanted to defend the free republics of Greece against the fascist, exterminationist Macedonian plutocracy. Demosthenes and Athenian Direct Democracy was mortally poisoned by Socrates.
Thus, Socrates execution was not just tit for tat. It was not enough of tit for tat. It was a preventive measure, in defense of Direct Democracy, which failed, because it was too meek.
Democracy does not mean to turn the other cheek, to have the golden beast eat that one too. In ultimate circumstances, democracy has an ultimate weapon too, and that is fascism. This is why the Roman, French and American republics prominently brandish the fasces. Fascism is the ultimate war weapon. But fascism is not the ultimate society. Far from it: political fascism, just a few individuals leading entails intellectual fascism, namely just a few moods and ideas leading. Before one knows it, one is in plutocracy, where not only wealth rules, but so does the cortege of the worst ideas and moods which characterize it.
Socrates often talk the talk, contradicting completely the way he lived (for example he said one should never return an injury, but, as a hoplite, he killed at least four men in combat!)
Socrates spoke so well sometimes, that he can stay a symbol of truth persecuted. But, because it is a lie, replacing him by Hypatia, Boetius, Bruno and, or Cavaillès, and, or, others, is urgent. Indeed, the reality is that Socrates was not just inimical to democracy. The current of thought he floated by was inimical to science, mental progress, and the truth he claimed to be pining for. And even him may have been so overwhelmed by these astounding contradictions, that, in the end, assisted suicide for his pathetic mental writhing was, indeed, the optimal outcome.
Patrice Ayme'
Tags: Athens, Direct democracy, fascism, Hero, Jean Cavaillès, Philosophy, plutocracy, Prostitution, Socrates, Trial Socrates, Truth


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Box office report: 'Apes' stays in first with $27.5 mil, and 'The Help' opens strongly to $25.5 mil
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In a crowded field that featured four new movies, last week's winner, Rise of the Planet of the Apes, managed to keep its top spot on the box-office chain by recruiting $27.5 million. Fox's sci-fi action film dropped 50 percent in its second weekend. That's a decent hold, as most summer action flicks decline 55 to 60 percent. Apes will cross the $100 million mark today and has already surpassed its relatively modest $90 million production budget. As a result, it's looking likely that we'll be seeing more of Caesar the chimpanzee (and less of the human race) in the future.
Not far behind was The Help, which surprised the industry with a substantial $25.5 million. Disney released the PG-13 drama on Wednesday in an attempt to build buzz heading into the weekend. That strategy seems to have paid off. The Help, based on Kathryn Stockett's bestselling novel and starring Viola Davis, Emma Stone, Octavia Spencer, and Bryce Dallas Howard, grossed a combined $9.9 million on Wednesday and Thursday — boosting its five-day total to $35.4 million. It also garnered a rare A+ rating from CinemaScore audiences, which means the film should be benefiting from exceptional word of mouth. Adult women were the driving force behind the $25 million movie's success this weekend. According to Disney, 74 percent of the audience was female and 60 percent was over the age of 35.
The Help may have won the weekend had it not been released early, but I doubt Disney is regretting its decision. Even without its additional revenue from Wednesday and Thursday, the movie opened stronger than both Eat Pray Love ($23.1 million) and Julie & Julia ($20 million) — two prior August releases that were also big hits with female moviegoers. If The Help's word of mouth is as flattering as CinemaScore says it is, the picture could very well become a $100 million smash.
Third place went to Warner Bros.' Final Destination 5 with $18.4 million. That's a considerable drop from the last Destination movie, 2009's The Final Destination, which debuted to $27.4 million. Still, Final Destination 5 cost only $40 million to produce and received a fairly good B+ grade from CinemaScore viewers. One thing worth noting is that 75 percent of the film's opening came from 3-D theaters, indicating that audiences will still pay for 3-D when they believe the movie warrants the extra dimension. Apparently Death is even more frightening while wearing glasses.
Sony's dark comedy 30 Minutes or Less debuted in fifth with a middling $13 million. Ever since The Hangover Part II was released in late May, every new R-rated comedy has opened to a smaller amount than the one before it. 30 Minutes or Less continued the trend by falling short of last week's The Change-Up, which mustered $13.5 million. Perhaps American audiences are starting to tire of raunchy comedies. CinemaScore audiences handed 30 Minutes or Less, which stars Jesse Eisenberg and Aziz Ansari, a merely okay B rating. The $28 million movie particularly appealed to young men, with 58 percent of its audience male and 69 percent under the age of 25.
And in 11th place was the week's fourth new release, Glee: The 3D Concert Movie, which earned a paltry $5.7 million. The Fox movie was extremely front-loaded, falling 37 percent from Friday to Saturday. Those who paid to see the New Directions on the big screen were mostly young women. According to CinemaScore, 82 percent of the audience was female, and 66 percent was too young to rent a car. However, the Gleeks liked what they saw, as CinemaScore graders gave it a solid A rating. The PG movie, which cost just $8.5 million to produce, is currently playing in only 3-D theaters during its exclusive two-week run.
Among holdovers, The Smurfs declined a mere 35 percent for $13.5 million. Like Apes, the movie should cross $100 million today. Check back next week as Hollywood unleashes four more new films: the action remake Conan the Barbarian, the horror remake Fright Night, the romance One Day, and the olfactory assault Spy Kids: All the Time in the World.
1. Rise of the Planet of the Apes — $27.5 mil
2. The Help — $25.5 mil
3. Final Destination 5 — $18.4 mil
4. The Smurfs — $13.5 mil
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SUNNYVALE, CA – July 28, 2015 – Fortinet (NASDAQ: FTNT), the global leader in high-performance cyber security solutions, today unveiled its new Cyber Threat Assessment program designed to provide organizations a detailed look into the type and amount of cyber threats posing risks to their networks, yet are going undetected by their existing security solutions. This new offering is part of a broader effort by Fortinet and its FortiGuard Labs threat research team to integrate risk and advisory capabilities with its end-to-end security platform to provide customers greater insight into dynamically changing cyber risks that threaten their businesses.
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Venice's ACTV transit authority has four main categories of passenger boats. You'll encounter the first two types, vaporetti and motoscafi, on rides within the city center:
The word "vaporetto" is often used to mean any kind of ACTV water bus, but officially, the term refers to flat-decked, single-level vessels such as the boats on Line 1 (Grand Canal to Lido) and Line 2 (Grand Canal and Giudecca Canal).
These vaporetti are fully accessible by wheelchairs, strollers, baby buggies, and wheeled luggage, and there are no steps between the entrance and the passenger cabin.
The boats also have large open spaces in the center, by the boarding area, where passengers can stand and enjoy the fresh air. A small open seating area is in the stern, behind the cabin.
On older vaporetti, seating is also available in the bow. (Bow seats have been eliminated on newer boats, since clueless passengers often stand up and and block the captains' view.)
The average capacity of a vaporetto is 230 passengers. Some readers have asked if these standard vaporetti have toilets. The answer is "No."
Motoscafi are more streamlined and protected from the elements than vaporetti are, with fore and aft passenger cabins that are recessed in the hull.
They're used on routes such as the 4.1/4.2 and 5.1/5.2, which travel outside the sheltered waters of the Grand Canal, Giudecca Canal, and St. Mark's Basin.
In recent years, motoscafi have been redesigned with space for wheelchairs on the entrance decks. Steps lead down to the passenger cabins, where views are limited by the high, narrow windows.
The average capacity of a motoscafo is 160 passengers.
Motoscafi do not have toilets.
Motonave (single deck)
On a handful of lines such as the Linea 12 route to Murano, Burano, and more distant points in the Venetian Lagoon, ACTV runs single-deck motonavi (motorships) that look like wide-bodied vaporetti.
The wheelchair-accessible boats have large twin-aisle cabins, a few open-air seats in the stern, and capacities of up to 600 passengers. Unlike conventional water buses, these larger boats have toilets, although the toilets weren't working the last time we checked because they didn't comply with new environmental regulations.
Alilaguna, a company that runs a scheduled airport-boat service between Marco Polo Airport and Venice, uses similar motonavi on some of its busier routes.
Motonave (double deck)
Double-decked motonavi operate between Venice S. Zaccaria Pietà (near the Piazza San Marco), the Lido, and commuter suburbs in the northern reaches of the Venetian Lagoon. The wheelchair-accessible ships can carry up to 1,200 passengers.
Note: All of the passenger boats shown above are operated by ACTV, and all use the same fares and tickets. (Different fares apply to ACTV car ferries.) The boats have Turkish-style squat toilets that have been shut down for pollution reasons until further notice.
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Which Stroke or Drill is best for reducing abdomen?
Hello Everyone,
Recently I've been getting unsolicited comments from my tennis buddies about how I'm getting a beer belly, even though I don't drink any alcohol. :-(
So, I would like to know which stroke or drill(s) is most effective for reducing the abdomen.
Hope to get some good advice.
Thank you,
There are really two issues when it comes to abdominal girth. One is amount of fat. The second is abdominal muscles. If you're fat, your abdomen is going to be large regardless of how good your abdominal muscles are. But if you're not fat, your belly can still sag if your abs aren't tight.
Fat is, in some degree, a balance between calorie intake and how many calories you burn. I've never seen any statistics on which stroke burns the most calories. It isn't easy to measure, because you have the issue of sprinting versus distance swimming. In sprinting, you're burning more calories per minute, but you're normally going short distances with pauses in between where you're not burning many calories. In distance swimming, the rate at which you're burning calories is lower, but you are going to be doing it continuously for significant periods of time. I doubt that statistics exist for distance swimming in any stroke but freestyle.
What I can tell you from my own experience is that the more time you spend per week swimming, whatever you're doing, the more it helps fat reduction. When I became a TI coach, I went through 5 days of training where I was in the pool literally every day, and even though my eating habits weren't as healthy as they would have been at home, I still lost some weight during that week.
I suspect that all 4 of the swimming strokes help to improve abdominal muscles. Probably one of the strokes is best for this, but I've never seen any statistics on which stroke it is. I suspect it would be difficult to measure, because swimmers who know how to do more than one stroke usually want to do a mixture of those strokes during their practices. And if you look for differences in the leanness and abdominal development of swimmers who specialize in a particular stroke, you would be left with the question of whether the differences were the result of the stroke in which they specialized, or whether their choice of stroke was the result of differences in the leanness and abdominal development they already had.
Coach Bob,
Thanks very much for spending the effort to put together such a detailed and thoughtful reply.
I'm disappointed to know that there's no specific stroke or drill to help reduce abdominal fat, but at least now I know the reason why there isn't.
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That thirst for an ice cold beer is welling up big-time as we look at this trio of home beer-dispensing devices called Wunderbar. You can stock it with a 4, 5, or 6-liter keg in your choice of 300 brands of draft beer, and if you don't like the brewskis, you can cool off wine and soft drinks, too. But for us, we'll stick with our beers. Now if we could just find one of these babies here in the States pronto, we could use it for the big GizParty keg season.
Wunderbar is offered in your choice of three cooling methods: the low-end Cooler Party ($105) can't chill down drinks but can keep them cold using AA batteries for a beach party or picnic. The midrange kegger is the Cooler Thermo with a thermoelectric cooling system, and the high-end model is the Cooler Professional ($238) using quick compressor cooling just like a Sub-Zero refrigerator. This is getting us thirsty. Very, very thirsty.
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A plain "Happy Birthday!" just won't do. With this banner, each letter has a birthday-themed illustration behind it - candles, present, balloon, or cupcake – in blue, green, purple, or red. Print the letters and string the banner so everyone knows that someone just got a year older.


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Snow Leopard cubs a sign of hope for species on the brink
Posted on 26 December 2013
Frolicking snow leopard cubs show population is bouncing backImages of two snow leopard cubs frolicking in the remote mountains of Siberia is evidence that the once decimated population is bouncing back.
The photos from camera traps partly financed by WWF were captured in the Argut River Valley in eastern Russia.
The area is estimated to have been home to nearly 40 individuals at its peak two decades ago.
During the 1990s this population of snow leopards was almost entirely destroyed by poachers.
In 2011 WWF-Russia in collaboration with a number of other organisations including the Altai Project and Snow Leopard Conservancy, launched a project on snow leopard research and restoration in the Argut River Valley.
This project involved a crackdown on poaching that included several anti-poaching raids in previously unpatrolled areas, retrieving illegal weapons and destroying snares.
Several expeditions organized this year by the project proved that at least five to eight snow leopards currently inhabit Argut, the photos were obtained on the most recent expedition, which was organised by Arkhar, a local conservation NGO.
"These photos are the evidence of the effectiveness of our work in Altai, the snow leopards are breeding," said Sergei Spitsyn from the Altaiskiy State Nature Reserve, who participated in the expedition.
Argut and Batyr are believed to be less than one year old and are significant as they indicate that the population of snow leopards in the Argut Valley can be restored.
An ex-poacher retrieved the images from the camera traps. He now works in collaboration with WWF and other organisations to conserve snow leopards by checking and maintaining camera traps and searching the area for snares.
There are up to 6,000 snow leopards in the wild across 12 countries, but its numbers are gradually declining, with hunting and habitat loss among the contributors to its endangered status.
Stretching across Russia, Mongolia, Kazakhstan and China, the Altai-Sayan ecoregion is one of the last remaining untouched areas on earth and is identified by WWF as a key global ecoregion.
Being a flagship species in this ecoregion, snow leopard conservation is a key target for WWF in this protected area.


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Toby Froud's New Puppet Film Returns Us to the Magical World of 'Labyrinth' and 'The Dark Crystal'
In case you missed it last week, Toby Froud, the baby in the striped PJs from the movie Labyrinth, grew up, moved to Portland for a job at LAIKA, and premiered his own fantasy puppet film on Saturday in collaboration with Jim Henson's daughter, Heather. He might not have been raised by Goblin King Jareth (a.k.a. David Bowie in an explosion of lace and locks) and his goblin hordes in real life, but he came as close to it as possible, growing up the son of Brian and Wendy Froud, the reigning artistic royalty behind The Dark Crystal, Labyrinth, and an entire illustrated world of faeries and goblins with an international following.
In the few days before the screening of Toby's Lessons Learned, the buzz grew so deafening that I think it's worthy of its own phrase: the Froud Frenomenon. Our interview with him wracked up 100,000 visits in the first two hours, and has gone on to some 300,000. (For those who are interested, in our poll of favorite songs, "Magic Dance" is squeaking out "As the World Falls Down" by 3 percent, 38 percent to 35, after nearly 5000 votes from 45 countries and all 50 states.)
The screening itself was an event: folks dressed in faerie horns flying kites on the sidewalk, people of all ages flooding the lobby, tickets so oversold that the Hollywood opened the upstairs theater for a second simultaneous screening, and at the center of it, Toby with both his parents holding court in front of the film's spectacular cast of puppets.
In other words, just as Toby has embraced the Froudian legacy of his parents, so too have the people embraced him as the goblin heir, with the hope that the wondrous world the Frouds created might once again grace theaters and imaginations. Call it 80's nostalgia or a backlash to soulless CGI, but hand-made, hand-operated puppets still possess the magic to enchant like nothing else.
Lessons Learned screened as part of three puppet shorts produced by Heather Henson's company, Ibex Puppetry, for its Handmade Puppet Dreams film series. It's worth noting that the second short, "Melvin the Birder," was a charming paper cutout work also created by Portlanders, Beady Little Eyes Productions, about a birder's quest to photograph the elusive Mustard Billed Wood-pecking Belly Wiggler.
But the centerpiece was Lessons Learned, a 15-minute tale about a boy whose grandfather gives him a "lessons learned" box, a physical receptacle of sorts to collect all the things he learns in his life. The curious boy can't help but look inside his grandfather's box (now a trunk), only to be pulled into a musty storage room where his grandfather's lessons (e.g. "when it rains, it pours") are catalogued in boxes that come alive when the boy reads them. The boy eventually ends up in another world of stone spires and swirling mists, where he confronts King Time and Granny Fate as embodied by an old grey man and a female spider who is knitting the course of time, respectively, before his grandfather pulls him out.
Toby's puppets pick up right where his parents' creations left off (which is not surprising, given his father helped with their design and fabrication). They are fantasy made foam-flesh: pointed ears twitch, elfin eyes blink, our spider lady sports stacked spectacles for her eight eyes. The production values, too, are exceptional. No doubt thanks to the many LAIKA professionals who lent their skills, the camera work, editing, and sound design coalesce to create an expansive world that feels just as mystical and captivating as The Dark Crystal and Labyrinth.
More than anything, it felt like an exhilerating beginning. The short is more of a teaser for a bigger story than a narrative complete in itself, but it's a story and a world for which audiences seem ravenous. We can only hope that Lessons Learned signals a new Froudian/Henson collaboration, where new tales will immerse us, and a new generation of fans, in the fantastical world of Froud.
If you missed the world premiere, Lessons Learned will screen again as part of the Portland Film Festival in August. For those not in Portland, it has been selected as part of FilmQuest in Salt Lake in July, and will possibly play at festivals elsewhere pending acceptance. We'll be sure to update screening dates as we get them.
- On July 5, Lessons Learned won Best Make-Up and Best Production/Art Direction at FilmQuest.
LL will screen at Dragon Con in Atlanta on Aug 29–Sept 1.
Read more about Toby, including how he peed on David Bowie...


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CHICAGO – Clay Guida is now 1-0 at featherweight, but his victory over Hatsu Hioki didn't exactly come in convincing fashion.
In his first fight at 145 pounds, Guida's movement on the feet was as frantic as ever, but Hioki used his reach advantage and pinpoint accuracy to deliver stiff counter strikes at every opportunity. "The Carpenter" was busy throughout the opening round, and the crowd chanted his name, but Hioki seemed to be the more effective striker.
In the second, Guida landed a crisp leg kick and immediately scooped up Hioki and slammed him to the floor. Unfazed, Hioki sat up underneath and briefly threatened with a kimura. Guida defended well and remained safe as the flexible Hioki twisted and turned underneath him while seeking out potential submission attempts. Guida found it impossible to move past Hioki's guard, but he did enjoy top position for most of the round and was able to land an occasional blow from the top.
The pair was reset on the feet with 40 second left, and Hioki scored with a slick kick to the head, but the fighters moved on to the final frame.
Hioki stalked on the feet to open the third, but it was Guida again who drove in for a takedown one minute in. Hioki immediately set up a few triangle choke opportunities from his back, but Guida was able to pull free each time and maintain top position. Hioki eventually scooted to the fence and worked to a knee, but Guida remained tied to his body as the referee asked for action.
The pair was stood again in the final minute, and Hioki looked to capitalize with another high kick and a few straight punches. At the bell, Guida took a few victory laps, and it turned out that two of the three judges valued his takedowns and top control and awarded him a split-decision result.
"He was like a rubber band; he was so hard to keep in one space so I could get anything going," Guida said after the win. "I saw a lot of tape on him and he usually tires in the second and third round, and that's why I went gang-busters in the first to tire him. But he was ready, man. He was still strong in the last minute of the fight.
He got me with some nice body shots; for a tall guy he hit me pretty good to the ribs in just the right spot a couple of times. But I think the takedowns won it for me."
After back-to-back losses at 155 pounds, Guida (30-13 MMA, 10-7 UFC) is victorious in his first fight at 145 pounds. Hioki (26-6-2 MMA, 2-2 UFC) suffers consecutive losses for just the second time in his career.
"I think he probably won it," Hioki admitted. "Under the rules, with takedowns being so important, he won under those terms. He won a contest, fairly, but I won a fight.
"I am not unhappy with the decision – it was split because it was so close."
Up-to-the-minute UFC on FOX 6 results include:
- Clay Guida def. Hatsu Hioki via split decision (28-29, 30-27, 29-28)
- Pascal Krauss def. Mike Stumpf via unanimous decision (30-27, 30-27, 30-27)
- Ryan Bader def. Vladimir Matyushenko via submission (guillotine choke) – Round 1, 0:50
- Shawn Jordan def. Mike Russow via TKO (strikes) – Round 2, 3:48
- Rafael Natal def. Sean Spencer via submission (arm-triangle choke) – Round 3, 2:13
- David Mitchell def. Simeon Thoresen via unanimous decision (30-27, 30-27, 30-27)
For complete coverage of UFC on FOX 6, stay tuned to the UFC Events section of the site.
Matt Erickson contributed to this report on-site in Chicago.


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Louis Zamperini will be given a hometown farewell Thursday night when the city of Torrance sponsors a public celebration of life at the high school football stadium named in his honor.
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Shlomo Carlebach Comes to Broadway in 'Soul Doctor' Musical
Almost 20 years after his death, Shlomo Carlebach is still a problem.
To some fans, Carlebach was the "Singing Rabbi," a folk music star who performed alongside Bob Dylan and the Grateful Dead. To others he was a scholar and a sage, a talmudic genius and a spiritual leader in the tradition of the early Hasidic rebbes. In certain circles he's viewed as an architect of Orthodox outreach while elsewhere he's a 1960s hippie who broke with Orthodoxy in favor of ecumenism and egalitarianism. And to many critics he was a charismatic guru whose reputation is forever tarnished by allegations of sexual abuse against women.
Despite the problems of his legacy, Carlebach easily eclipsed any other composer or performer of Jewish music in the 20th century. If you ever attended a Jewish school, summer camp, youth group or synagogue, you have heard his songs. You can likely hum some of them, even if you don't know that they're his. (Consider his anthem in support of Soviet Jewry, "Am Yisrael Chai.") Carlebach changed the sound of Judaism and he did it from Berkeley to Bnei Brak. No other Jewish musician has come close to that kind of achievement.
Now, Carlebach is the subject of a Broadway musical, "Soul Doctor," which opened August 15 at Manhattan's Circle in the Square Theatre. Written and directed by Daniel S. Wise — a theater producer whose parents were friendly with Carlebach — and featuring English lyrics to Carlebach melodies by David Schechter, another New York stage veteran, "Soul Doctor" was already a hit with audiences off-Broadway and in Florida before arriving on 50th Street. But like Carlebach himself, the musical's themes resist easy definition.
Even while Carlebach was alive, his followers had difficulty piecing together the different aspects of his life. Born in Berlin in 1925 to a prominent rabbinic family, Carlebach fled to New York with his parents and siblings in 1939, where his father became the rabbi of Congregation Kehilath Jacob on West 79th Street. (Following his father's death in 1967, Carlebach, together with his twin brother, Eli Chaim Carlebach, would take over the pulpit of what his now known as the Carlebach Shul.) After studying at elite yeshivas such as Beth Medrash Govoha in Lakewood, N.J., Carlebach joined the Hasidic milieu of the sixth Lubavitcher rebbe, Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn, who encouraged him to conduct outreach to university students.
This mission turned out to be Carlebach's forté, though he soon departed from the Lubavitch mode to create his own model of folksinger, Hasidic storyteller and spiritual guru, all rolled into one. In 1959 he released his first album, "Haneshama Lach" and in 1966 he performed at the Berkeley Folk Festival alongside Pete Seeger and Jefferson Airplane. In 1968 one of his early San Francisco followers, Aryae Coopersmith, rented a house for Carlebach and his entourage in the city's Inner Richmond district, calling it the House of Love and Prayer. Surrounded by his "holy hippielekh," the Singing Rabbi had joined the counterculture.
It didn't take the religious community long to get wind of Carlebach's doings. Yet for most of his life, Carlebach managed to maintain a precarious balance between the Orthodox world from which he came and the New Age circles in which he traveled. Even while he played at Jewish Renewal retreats (he and Renewal leader Zalman Schachter-Shalomi were friends since their days in Lubavitch) he maintained his Orthodox pulpit on Manhattan's Upper West Side. To this day he occupies an ambiguous position within Orthodoxy, where his music is prevalent but his activities are vaguely disreputable.
This nebulous position allowed Carlebach to spread his music and teachings widely, but it came with a host of unresolved contradictions. Was he attempting to push against the strictures of Orthodox Judaism in order to create a more inclusive, spiritual practice, or was he was just willing to bend the rules in order to bring people closer to Orthodoxy? According to one story, told by Coopersmith in his 2011 memoir, "Holy Beggars: A Journey From Haight Street to Jerusalem," Carlebach rejected a mechitzah to separate men from women in the House of Love and Prayer because "There are enough walls in this world between people." But on other occasions he used a triage rationale for this arrangement, arguing that the flaws of his approach were minor compared with the spiritual threats facing American Jewry. When it came to the controversies surrounding his methods, it's unclear what Carlebach's underlying position was, or if he had one.
As a Broadway musical aimed at the general public, "Soul Doctor" focuses more on Carlebach's rebellion than on his outreach. Here we see him defy his parents and community, first by joining the Hasidim and then, more seriously, by connecting with gentile musicians like Nina Simone and moving to San Francisco to fulfill his calling as a spiritual teacher. Unsurprisingly, it does not bring up the allegations leveled at Carlebach in a 1998 Lilith magazine article — Carlebach died in 1994 — that he routinely made sexually suggestive late-night phone calls to female acquaintances and that he physically molested numerous women over the course of decades. Such accusations naturally provoked fierce controversy about how to remember a man many considered a saint. For his part, Wise has rejected those allegations, as you would expect the creator of a Shlomo Carlebach Broadway musical to do.
"Soul Doctor" suffers from other difficulties stemming from the life of its subject. Even though the musical casts Carlebach's struggle as the fulfillment of personal spiritual destiny at the cost of family and community ties, the story isn't simply about a son's break with his father's religion. The drama of Carlebach's life was about inter-Jewish controversy, not a departure from Judaism à la "The Jazz Singer." Unfortunately, that's hard to translate into a general-interest musical. Why should a non-Jewish audience care that boring synagogue services are alienating the younger generation and need to be reinvigorated? Or why should a Jewish audience member, who is attending a musical rather than synagogue on Saturday (as I was), care either? It's not clear why the substance of Carlebach's rebellion was all that important, except to him.
It also doesn't help that at two-and-a-half hours, "Soul Doctor" is overly long, or that it combines questions about post-Holocaust forgiveness and black-Jewish relations with the theme of religious conflict. Such weaknesses are partly overcome by top-notch performances — Eric Anderson's impersonation of Carlebach is accurate to the level of vocal and physical mannerism, and Amber Iman is equally captivating as Simone, with whom Carlebach was apparently acquainted. But the problem with "Soul Doctor" is more fundamental: For all of Carlebach's influence, his mission to repair the spiritual health of the Jewish people is not really suited to a Broadway show.
But then there's the music. At the end of the first act, Carlebach is in the recording studio, laying down tracks for his first album. Lacking familiarity with professional recording techniques, he cannot seem to transfer his exuberant approach to vinyl. His manager is about to give up, when he has an epiphany. The problem is that, as Carlebach has been complaining, he can't hear his own voice. Not literally, but figuratively: His spirit is being smothered by the slick studio-band accompaniment. To solve this dilemma, the manager instructs Carlebach to start singing first and the musicians to come in only when they "can't help it anymore." The idea works, and Carlebach enfolds the band, the producer, and the entire audience into an ecstatic song.
Here, "Soul Doctor" successfully conveys its real inspiration: the euphoric effect that Carlebach had through his music, and the reason his melodies are ubiquitous today. The full meaning of his legacy may never be resolved, on Broadway or elsewhere. But at synagogue services and campfire sing-a-longs, Hebrew school assemblies and now on theater stages, Shlomo Carlebach will be with us for a while.
Ezra Glinter is the deputy arts editor of the Forward. Follow him on Twitter @EzraG


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Getting Nervous
Whenever we are nervous we start doing something strange that easily develops into a habit. Such nervous habits are usually annoying to people around us however they can be harmful for our health. Here are some of the nervous habits your should be careful with as these may hurt heart your health. Image Courtesy: Getty
Biting Nails
One of the most common nervous habits is to bite the nails whenever nervous. While it may seem a normal act of it is a transfer of germs from the mouth to the nails and vice versa. It can cause damage to the nails, the skin around them and even cause infections of the gums and throat. Image Courtesy: Getty
Touching the Face
A nervous habit of touching the face or picking at acne can damage the top very thin microscopic layers of the skin. Avoid touching your face and picking at pimples otherwise it may result in permanent scars. Image Courtesy: Getty
Sucking on Hard Candies
Sucking on hard candies too often can result in cavities. Bacteria feed off the sugar from the candy and may cause tooth decay. Even if you like sucking on candies when nervous make sure you go for sugar free candies. Image Courtesy: Getty
Grinding Teeth
Habit of grinding and clenching teeth during stress or anger can be very harmful for your oral health. It can cause teeth to crack or break and may also result in damage to the jaw joint in the form of temporomandibular joint disorder. Image Courtesy: Getty
Twirling the Hair
The habit of twisting and twirling a strand or a bunch of hair around during nervousness can damage the hair as well as cause significant harm to the roots. It can cause hair loss as well as infection. Image Courtesy: Getty
Cracking the Neck
Twisting your head forcibly when nervous or tired may feel good, but doing it repeatedly can make the surrounding ligaments hyper mobile and more susceptible to injury. It may also lead to arthritis if done repeatedly for a long time. Image Courtesy: Getty
Biting Lip
Nervously licking your lips exposes them to your mouth's digestive enzymes which can chew away at the skin and can lead to dermatitis and cheilitis. Biting your lips when nervous can cause the development of firm flesh coloured growths. Image Courtesy: Getty
Chewing Gums
Chewing gums pose all the risks that a sugar candy can pose. Even if the gum is sugarless, it can cause digestive ailments. Swallowing excess air while chewing also increases risk of a gassy stomach. Image Courtesy: Getty
Nibbling at Things
Nervously nibbling at things at hand such as pens may cause several health related problems. The objects usually carry so many germs that can make you feel ill. It can also cause damage to the soft tissues of the gums. Image Courtesy : Getty


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LeBron may be gone and the Cuyahoga River no longer catches on fire but Cleveland still has Dennis Kucinich, the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and something even most Clevelanders will find surprising: America's only exhibition of contraceptives.
Tucked away in the halls of the Dittrick Medical History Center at Case Western Reserve University, is a collection of beaver testicles, cat bones, crocodile dung, ear wax from a mule, spider and deer skin, Mexican yams, formaldehyde powder, Goodyear Tire rubbers, rhythm beads, seed wool, dates, honey, sponges, diaphragms, loops, pills and IUDs, all displayed in a chronological tribute to women's attempts to control their fertility over the past 1,000-plus years.
"People used all kinds of things and they've been doing this forever," says Jimmy Wilkinson Meyer, guest curator of "Virtue, Vice, and Contraband: A History of Contraception in America" at the Dittrick Center. "The oldest mention of contraception is in an Egyptian papyrus scroll from 1550 BC," which describes a prescription for a cottonseed wool, acacia and date-seed infused tampon that was said "to cause a woman to cease to conceive for one to two years."
Not all of the almost 800 methods on display were effective, though. Cat bones, amulets and magic clearly weren't, but "some of this stuff actually worked," says Meyer, pointing to the cabinets chock full of examples of early contraceptives. Even those that seem ridiculous today, such as the early-Egyptian tampon, could have controlled fertility. "Acacia contains a spermicide," Meyer explains. Like some of the other compounds women used, it contained lactic acid, a component of birth control today.
Without a formal scientific education, women in Mexico discovered that yams prevented pregnancies, according to the exhibit. Scientists took this folk medicine and used compounds extracted from the root veggies to develop the modern birth control pill. "That's part of this amazing story that we don't know," Meyer says. "We think we know all there is to know."
Learning this surprising history fascinated Percy Skuy, who amassed this collection. Skuy, the former CEO of Ortho Pharmaceuticals in Canada, which has manufactured birth-control devices such as diaphragms and spermicidal jelly since the 1930s, started gathering these artifacts while he was in the company's marketing department. Says Meyer, "He decided to spice up his booth at trade shows so he got a contraceptive or two and he realized this drew people to his booth."
So Skuy began collecting more contraceptives, not knowing what he would find. He fell in love with the stories behind each item and would take his ever-growing collection with him on the road. It finally grew too large to travel and he set it up at Ortho's Toronto factory. But when Ortho changed hands he had to find a new home for it. After talking to several museums in the U.S. and Canada, he chose the Dittrick Center. "This collection crosses the boundaries between medical history, social history, women's history as well as technology," Meyer explains.
Like Skuy, I became entranced by the stories behind each object. A visit to the Center reveals how birth control lore was handed down orally by women in America during the 17th and 18th centuries; how Anthony Comstock, the once-powerful czar of the U. S. Post Office, made mailing information about birth control illegal; how Margaret Sanger, who'd been jailed for publishing an "obscene" booklet describing birth control methods, dedicated her life to overturning Comstock's law. I also found out that while the Comstock law of 1873 was amended in 1971, it's still in place to prevent the import of obscenity–but without the contraception clause.
All this and a history of the pill, IUD's, diaphragms, condoms, sponges and more reminds the visitor that the search for the perfect birth control method is nothing new. And seeing the displays, it's impossible not to think about the countless women who have stories that they've buried throughout their lives. Meyer adds, "It gives me the chills to think to what lengths women have gone to and how we've put barriers in women's way in order to prevent her from controlling her own body."
Sex has always been the perfect complement to rock 'n' roll, so after a trip to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame take a tour of the exhibit "Virtue, Vice, and Contraband: A History of Contraception in America." It will make you appreciate modern science and all the women over the centuries who've paved the way for the many choices we have today.
Here's a video of my visit to the museum, including my conversation with Meyer:
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Slama making his pitch for the big league roster
FORT MYERS, Fla. -- At some point it's going to be tough for the Twins to keep right-handed reliever Anthony Slama in the Minor Leagues.
After all, Slama has a career 1.99 ERA with 12.4 strikeouts per nine innings in the Minors, including a 1.24 ERA with 56 strikeouts in 36 1/3 innings with Triple-A Rochester last season.
He would have been a candidate to be called up last season but suffered a broken fibula on a comebacker in early June and missed eight weeks before returning to Rochester late in the season.
It was an unfortunate setback, but he's back in big league camp this spring after being in Minor League camp last year. And so now he is out to prove that his Minor League numbers are no fluke.
"Whenever they throw me out there, I'm just going to pitch my game," said Slama, who posted a 3.68 ERA with 22 strikeouts in 22 innings in the Mexican winter league this offseason. "You can't think about who is pitching ahead of you or behind you or who you're in competition with. You just have to throw your game and not worry about that stuff."
Slama is on the list of those traveling to Sarasota for the Grapefruit League opener against the Orioles on Saturday, but he could also pitch on Sunday against the Rays at Hammond Stadium if he doesn't get a chance to pitch in the first game.
Slama is competing for a spot in the bullpen but isn't on the 40-man roster. It could come down to a numbers game in the bullpen, especially considering that three relievers fighting for spots -- Anthony Swarzak, Tim Wood and Josh Roenicke -- are out of Minor League options.


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Over the past few months, I've become increasingly convinced that we're on the cusp of a transformative cycle that will rival the rise of the Internet. And it's going to hit users where they live: the desktops, laptops, and mobile devices they use every day.
At the heart of the matter is virtualization. In the data center, no technology I can think of has enjoyed the hockey-stick adoption curve exhibited by server virtualization, where admins can now scale capacity by spinning up virtual machines with the click of a mouse, instead of provisioning physical hardware.
[ Also on InfoWorld: Find out "What desktop virtualization really means." | Read Neil McAllister's eyewitness account of Google's Chrome OS announcement. | Download Paul Venezia's comprehensive Thin Client Computing Deep Dive Report. ]
Yet for all the scalability, availability, and hardware utilization benefits of server virtualization, I believe there's an even stronger argument for wrapping up user desktops as virtual machines (although, as you will see, I mean that in an abstract sense). There's more to it than the usual pitch for desktop virtualization -- which asserts that desktops should be packaged as VMs and run on a server because physical desktops now incur unbearable security risks and administrative overhead. That's only half the story.
The other half is portability. The user environment people experience today as tied to a physical desktop device should not simply slink into the data center. That virtual machine should be fully portable, so users can take it with them anywhere, even if they lack a network connection; also, when they reconnect, it should sync with the server VM. Plus, that virtual machine should be downloadable -- or, worst case, remotely accessible -- from any device. Ultimately, the operating system UI for that VM should adapt itself to whatever physical device is available, from a PC in an Internet café to an iPad.
That day may seem far away, but already, two approaches to the fully portable VM have worked up a head of steam. First and most obvious is the client hypervisor, released in "test kit" form by Citrix Systems and currently under development by EMC VMware. If client hypervisors reach their full potential, users should be able to carry their VMs with them on a wide range of laptops or other mobile hardware, compute without a connection, and sync with the server when that connection is restored.
The second approach is the one being pursued by Google with its Chrome OS. As Google has characterized it, Chrome OS is merely a Linux kernel with the Chrome browser as its shell -- basically an operating system for a cheap Web appliance. Ultimately it will be more than that.
Already, Google Gears lets developers create Web applications that run without a connection. You can be sure Google is also working on the cloud equivalent of a virtual machine for users -- a personal, customizable desktop environment, complete with applications and preferences, accessible from any device running a Chrome browser. Google's recent $30 million purchase of Bump Technologies, whose wildly imaginative BumpTop UI turned heads at the TED conference one year ago, is just the latest indication that Google may be moving in this direction.
So pay no attention to the idea that the surge in mobile computing will marginalize the desktop or that desktop virtualization will send us back in time to generic, mainframe-style computing. The new, virtual desktop may technically reside in your company's datacenter or on a server in the cloud, but that doesn't mean it's slipping away from you. In fact, not so many years from now, that reliable old companion in its new virtual form will follow you wherever you go -- and you'll be able to interact with it through whatever computing device is near at hand.
This article, "The coming rebirth of the desktop PC" originally appeared at InfoWorld.com. Read more of Eric Knorr's Modernizing IT blog and get a digest of the key stories each day in the InfoWorld Daily newsletter and on your mobile device at infoworldmobile.com.


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This was an interesting story, I came across on Yahoo Sports it was worth reading and posting.
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Former St. Louis Cardinals star Jack Clark is out of his sports talk radio job along with co-host after saying Albert Pujols took performance-enhancing drugs.
Clark said on the air last week on WGNU in St. Louis that Pujols' former trainer, Chris Mihlfeld, told him 10 years ago that he injected PEDs into Pujols, the former Cardinals great now in his second season with the Angels but sidelined by a foot injury.
Pujols responded with a vehement denial on Friday night and said he planned to take legal action against Clark and his employers.
Early Saturday, the company that owns the show hosted by Clark and Kevin Slaten, insideSTL Enterprises LLC, said in a statement that Clark "is no longer associated with the company," then later cancelled the show, costing Slaten his job, too.
"Any opinions, views or statements made by him (Clark) strictly reflect his own personal views and do not reflect the views of insideSTL," the statement read. "insideSTL Enterprises, LLC and any related companies have never asserted and do not assert that Albert Pujols has ever used steroids or any other type of performing enhancing drug."
In his statement on Friday, Pujols said he planned legal action to send a message "that you cannot act in a reckless manner, like they have, and get away with it." As of Monday no lawsuit had been filed by Pujols in U.S. District Court in St. Louis, or in state court in Missouri.
Mihlfeld told ESPN.com that Clark's comments "are simply not true. I have known Albert Pujols since he was 18 years old, and he would never use illegal drugs in any way."
Slaten said Monday that he plans to sue over his termination. He said he didn't know why he was let go.
"All I said is what I've said for years," Slaten said. "It's always been my belief that Pujols is using, but it's just my opinion."
Clark told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch he was weighing a lawsuit. A telephone listing for Clark could not be found. A spokesman for the Albert Pujols Foundation in St. Louis referred calls to Pujols' agent.
Pujols spent 11 seasons in St. Louis before signing with the Angels prior to the 2012 season. Clark, 57, played three of his 18 seasons in St. Louis and was part of National League pennant-winning teams in 1985 and 1987.
My own comment on this is simply, no need for the players to get angry, when someone accuses them this is the fall out from being lied to over and over again.Pujois reaction is the same to Ryan Braun's like ARod's and anyone else who was caught and lied about PED's, sadly in this day and age we don't know who is telling the truth and who is lying. So this is nothing more than a sad story and a continuing fall out of something that has been going on for alot longer than anyone wants to admit.


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Those who have attended the Berkshire Hathaway
The Wesco Financial -- where Munger is chairman -- shareholder meeting is a completely different story. Free from the overwhelming spotlight cast on Buffett, Munger spends a few hours every year sharing his thoughts and opinions on, well, just about everything.
Below is a summary of my notes from Munger's three-hour meeting in Pasadena, lightly edited for clarity.
On how serious our economic problems are: "I think it's deadly serious. You can never tell what's going to happen when people get as disappointed as they are now. "
On when we'll see significant economic improvement: "Japan provides a very interesting and threatening example of this type [of] problem. Japan cut interest rates to zero and pumped in all kinds of stimulus through deficit spending, and the result was stasis for 10 years. If that happened in America, it would be terrible. Whether it will happen or not, I don't know. It would be very awkward to go 10 years with zero economic growth."
On what caused the financial crisis: "It's been a lollapalooza effect -- a confluence of causes pushing in the same direction. Three main areas I'd say got us to where we are:
Abusive practices in consumer credit. Banks did things because their competitors were doing them and wanted to keep up. This is crazy. There are times when you should let your competition do things and not want to follow. A lot of consumer lending was venal. It was bad morality that led to a horrible mess in due cause.
Wall Street. Wall Street found every which way to make money short of robbery. A lot of it was a bunch of sleazy crooks, but if it worked, no one cares.
- Poor regulatory apparatus. Democrats wanted to give things to poor people, thinking it was pro-social activity. They urged Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to make really dumb loans. Some of it was just ghastly. And the Republicans overdosed on Ayn Rand. It was like they wanted legalized armed robbery. They wanted to create an ethos simply built on 'buyer beware,' which is all wrong."
On free market financial systems: "People really thought that giving a predatory class of people the ability to do whatever they wanted was free market enterprise. It wasn't. It was legalized armed robbery. And it was incredibly stupid."
On accounting standards: "Anyone with an engineering frame of mind will look at [accounting standards] and want to throw up in the aisle. And go ahead if you want to. It will be a memorable moment for all of us."
On bailing out the banks: "We had to save these people whether we wanted to or not. And [the Treasury and Federal Reserve] did a fantastic job."
On regulation: "Banks that are 'too big to fail' shouldn't be allowed to be anything but boring. And that's how it used to be. Investment banking used to be a consulting business. It was extremely boring. The partners didn't make nearly the kind of money they do today. They were very conservative businesses.
There's no reason to have a system where every young man has $8 billion to play with and buy whatever he wants. It's incredibly stupid. It's absolutely crazy. If I were in charge, I'd take away everything from banks that wasn't boring. Completely shut down [credit default swaps] 100%. What's the harm in this? The world worked just fine without them. We don't need an economy that resembles a vast poker tournament."
On President Obama reining in Wall Street: "I admire Obama for wanting to reduce the power of New York City. It would have a constricting effect on the economy at first, but we need it."
On Wall Street pay: "A man does not deserve huge amounts of pay for creating tiny spreads on huge amounts of money. Any idiot can do it. And, as a matter of fact, many idiots do do it."
On Wells Fargo's credit quality: "Warren [Buffett] and I think Wells Fargo
On current stock prices: "Our best years were recession years. If you wait for the recovery, it's too late. Am I willing to invest long-term money at these prices? Sure. I'd invest long-term money in Wells Fargo. I'd invest long-term money in Coca-Cola
On what to expect from the stock market: "To expect a lot is irrational. You're likely to be happier and gain felicity by aiming low."
On how to avoid 50% losses in the future: "It's in the nature of stock markets to go way down from time to time. There's no system to avoid bad markets. You can't do it unless you try to time the market, which is a seriously dumb thing to do. Conservative investing with steady savings without expecting miracles is the way to go."
On Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner: "He's a very able person and will do a good job. The job is terribly constrained by politics. This is why I've never had any interest in government. Considering what he's facing, he's doing a great job."
On how inflation will impact investing: "I remember the $0.05 hamburger and a $0.40-per-hour minimum wage, so I've seen a tremendous amount of inflation in my lifetime. Did it ruin the investment climate? I think not."
On investing in Goldman Sachs even as he and Buffett scolded Wall Street: "We invested in Goldman Sachs
On executive leadership: "Some people are more teachable than others. This is also true of dogs, however, so take it as you wish. [The executive level] should be a tough meritocracy. It shouldn't be easy. I look for people I can trust. Hiring people you can't trust is like starting off by dropping a spider in your bosom."
On AIG: These are sad days at AIG
On the trade deficit: "Warren [Buffett] is way more pessimistic on this topic than I am. He often talks about China buying up our little pieces of paper [Treasury notes]. I think China has become enormously prosperous by buying our little pieces of paper. It's a huge benefit to them."
On ethanol: "Ethanol is quite possibly the stupidest thing ever invented by rational people. The ultimate social safety net -- which is a very good idea, by the way -- is cheap food, and ethanol production is destroying this. It was a monstrously stupid idea like I haven't seen before."
On cap and trade: "It's an absolutely insane idea. I mean a really, really stupid idea. If everything [global pollution] was contained to one country, it might work. But it isn't. Do they think China will stop polluting and go back to student labor? Of course they won't. It's insane. We're being distracted by stupid things that have been popular in the past."
On General Motors
On stockbrokers: "Most stockbrokers are a disaster waiting to happen. If anyone ever promises you miracles, show them the door."
On adapting to peak oil: "The world will adapt to higher oil prices, because it has to. It won't be the end of the world. Even at $200 a barrel, we'd be fine. People would adapt [mentions smaller cars, electric cars, solar power]. We have an enormous power to adapt."
On Berkshire Hathaway's business model: "No one wants to try to copy us because they don't think it would work, and they're probably right. A lot of people think our model is nuts."
Asked whether Berkshire Hathaway will be more valuable in five years: [shrugs ...] "Sure." [crowd erupts with laughter.]
On corporate lawyers: "Law has become far too prosperous. It's way overrated. The cost is too high and the education [of lawyers] is wildly imperfect."
On newspapers: "Ordinary newspapers will come to perish. The microeconomics are too tough to overcome. It's not a place to invest your money."
On communism: "China has communist builders and communist engineers. That's my kind of communism."
On books he'd recommend: "Malcolm Gladwell's Outliers is a terrific book. It guides reason very well. By the way, I tend not to read self-help investment books. They're like soap operas: I know all the plots."
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UPDATE: Stabbing victim from Bridgewater dies, suspect to be charged with murder
Police say an 18-year-old East Wareham man who was arrested on two counts of assault with intent to murder for allegedly stabbing two Bridgewater brothers in Wareham Sunday morning will be charged with murder after one of his victims died Tuesday morning.
Police said 18-year-old Bridgewater resident Brendon J. Mahoney died at approximately 4 a.m. Tuesday at Rhode Island Hospital. The second victim involved in the stabbing incident, 19-year-old Brian P. Mahoney, remains in critical condition.
Police stated in a press release, "An amended charge of murder is expected to be brought forward against Mr. Grassie through the office of Plymouth County District Attorney Timothy Cruz. The arraignment date and time regarding the charge of murder has not yet been scheduled."
Bryan Grassie, 18, of 16 Bartlett Lane, East Wareham, was initially arrested on two counts of assault with intent to murder for allegedly stabbing the two Bridgewater brothers in Wareham Sunday morning. He was ordered held without bail pending an Aug. 6 dangerousness hearing following arraignment Monday in Wareham District Court.
Police said they arrested Grassie, 18, of 16 Bartlett Lane, East Wareham, without incident at the home of a Plymouth relative at 8:55 Sunday morning.
Grassie's attorney, Eric Goldman, said during the arraignment Grassie acted in self-defense.
According to a witness, Grassie showed up to a graduation party uninvited, acted belligerently, and was, "making insulting comments and attempting to start altercations."
The witness states that Grassie left after being asked repeatedly to do so, but as he was walking down the street he made comments to the Mahoney brothers that prompted them to confront him, according to the police report.
The witness watched what he initially thought were punches being thrown until he noticed blood on both brothers, and one of them collapsed to the ground. According to the report, "Grassie reportedly stood there for a moment without saying a word, then calmly turned and walked away."
Police were called to Priscilla Avenue in East Wareham on a report that two people had been stabbed Sunday at 3:32 a.m. Officers arrived at the scene and found the Mahoney brothers with apparent stab wounds lying on the dirt roadway at the intersection of Hardy Road and Priscilla Avenue, according to a press release.
Chief Richard Stanley, and other Wareham officers, along with state police detectives assigned to Plymouth County District Attorney Tim Cruz's office, arrested Grassie without incident at the home of the relative in Plymouth.


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Minnesota man pleads guilty in poaching case of record deer
A Cannon Falls man accused of poaching a world-class buck was sentenced Thursday to a year in jail and had his hunting privileges suspended for five years.
A Cannon Falls man accused of poaching a world-class buck was sentenced Thursday to a year in jail and had his hunting privileges suspended for five years.
Troy Alan Reinke pleaded guilty to taking and possessing big game out of season, a gross misdemeanor, and two other poaching-related charges. As part of a plea agreement, eight other poaching-related charges were dropped.
Reinke also must forfeit his hunting bow and permanently turn the trophy-class antler rack over to the Department of Natural Resources' enforcement division. Other terms of the agreement call for Reinke to pay $1,500 in restitution to the state and a $500 fine, First District Court Judge Thomas Bibus ruled.
Reinke's attorney, Timothy Dillon, said his client maintains he found the trophy-class buck and did not shoot it himself.
"Troy made a big mistake when he thought he could make some money off this rack," Dillon said.
The case drew outrage among deer hunters last year when Reinke was first accused of shooting a world-class buck out of season. As the charges escalated, prosecutors alleged he shot the buck with a firearm during bow season.
"He knows he's a demon in the hunting community," Dillon said. "He knows he's not going to be accepted in the hunting community ever again."
Goodhue County prosecutors said Reinke was hunting in the White Rock area Oct. 31 when he killed an eight-point buck that DNR officials say was a record-breaker.
The massive buck's rack out-sizes any other eight-pointer, according to Boone and Crockett, an organization that chronicles trophy rack kills. The deer accumulated a gross score of 190 5/8 and green score of 185, DNR officials said.
Authorities said Reinke's deer tag should have gone to one of the first two deer he reportedly shot in early October. He allegedly waited to fill his tag until killing the trophy buck. Consequently, all three were taken illegally, according to the charges.
Dillon said state officials never tested the hunting jacket Reinke claimed he wears on hunting excursions. The jacket was supposed prove that the 32-year-old had not shot a firearm.
"They understood that it wasn't going to test in their favor," Dillon said.
But since he was "financially depressed" at the time, Reinke saw the dead deer's rack as an opportunity, his attorney said.
"He got greedy and thought, 'This rack could be worth some money,'" Dillon said.
DNR Conservation Officer Tyler Quandt denied rumors claiming a sporting goods outfitter had sought to buy the trophy rack from the state for $200,000.
Still, inquiries from "numerous" taxidermists have indicated the rack is worth "quite a bit of money," Quandt said.
Reinke will receive credit for 120 days served. The sentence runs alongside another conviction he received Thursday for a probation violation.
He begins his jail term April 2.


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The Down East Journal (08/02/13)
Methyl bromide gas is considered a hazardous air pollutant by the EPA. A fumigation facility proposed for the Morehead City port wants to use the chemical to treat lumber before export. This week on the Down East Journal, we talk about the issue in advance of a public meeting that has yet to be set. And, a local non-profit is collecting school supplies during this last tax free weekend to help children in need. We'll catch you up on "Stuff the Bus," Friday at noon on all of the PRE stations.