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Following on from #95, let's consider reasons and methods to avoid mutable sharing in the first place…
Consider the following code from GotW #95's solution, where some_obj is a shared variable visible to multiple threads which then synchronize access to it.
// thread 1
lock_guard hold(mut_some_obj); // acquire lock
code_that_reads_from( some_obj ); // passes some_obj by const &
// thread 2
lock_guard hold(mut_some_obj); // acquire lock
code_that_modifies( some_obj ); // passes some_obj by non-const &
JG Questions
1. Why do mutable shared variables like some_obj make your code:
(a) more complex?
(b) more brittle?
(c) less scalable?
Guru Questions
2. Give an example of how the code that uses a mutable shared variable like some_obj can be changed so that the variable is:
(a) not shared.
(b) not mutable.
3. Let's say we're in a situation where we can't apply the techniques from the answers to #2, so that the variable itself must remain shared and apparently mutable. Is there any way that the internal implementation of the variable can make the variable be physically not shared and/or not mutable, so that the calling code can treat it as a logically shared-and-mutable object yet not need to perform external synchronization? If so, explain. If not, why not?


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Check out the listing at quarterback on the South Carolina depth chart the OBC released yesterday.
Either Connor Shaw is a real prodigy or Spurrier still hasn't figured out a way to get inside Stephen Garcia's head. I know which one I'd put my money on.
Whatever the reason… please, please, please play a true freshman QB against Grantham's defense, Steve. He'll take any kind of break he can get.


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Hello friends!! I'm very excited to share my card with you today for Cute Card Thursday! We are celebrating our 11th birthday this week!! WOO HOO!! So of course, the theme for this week is "CELEBRATE"!! Hope you can pop on over and celebrate with us by sharing your creation!!
This week we are sponsored by All Dressed Up Stamps and I have used one of their adorable images for my card today:
I have used this very sweet image called Time to Shine and she is having so much fun dancing around with all of the stars floating about her!
For the card, I have taken some silver sparkle cardstock and cut the stitched scallop frame and then placed some pretty papers behind it. I mounted these pieces onto a piece of black cardstock as well as the image that was cut out with another stitched scallop rectangle die, also mounted with a piece of black cardstock and then added to the center of the sparkle framed panel.
I also took some pretty, pink, silky ribbon and wrapped it around the corners of these layers and also tied a bow with it that I've attached to the upper right corner of the wrapped around ribbon. These layers were then mounted onto a white, top folding A2 sized card base. Lastly, I've added some stars that were die cut from the same sparkly cardstock and I've also added one to the center of the wooden star veneer that was glued in the center of the pink bow.
Here's a closer look at the Copic coloring I've done on this image. I have added some extra sparkly details to the image by taking a Spectrum Noir Glitter Brush Pen and went over just the bottom portion of her dress. I then took a silver gel pen and colored in the stars around her and added some dots to her dress and hair with it as well. I wanted to create lots of sparkle and shine to this one! 🙂
Thanks so much for dropping by! I really appreciate your kind comments and I enjoy reading them so much! Hope you have a fabulous day!
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text: Trevor Rees 1 Posted February 10, 2013 (edited) Here we have the inside of a Sea & Sea DX-D80 housing showing the wiring from the 2 Nikonos bulkheads. The wires join at a small board before going to the camera hot shoe connector. There are 5 wires from the TTL converter bulkhead and 2 from the other one. Any idea how the wiring works and what the components are and why they are there. Would I be right in thinking that they might be diodes. Is this a standard configuration when two strobes are wired together electrically? Any insight would be helpful. Edited February 10, 2013 by Trevor Rees Share this post Link to post Share on other sites


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I haven't done much writing in a while (well that's not true, Fever Pitch is coming along, just slowly lol) but I have a good excuse for the past few days at least – One Direction's concert in MN. OH EM GEE.
Yes this going to be a very self-indulgent post but I don't care!
I went to the show with my friend Katie, and we literally planned this over a year ago so it's crazy to think that it's come and gone already! We bought the tickets a few weeks after the show was announced (on StubHub, obvs, since the show was completely sold out) and we'd text each other every so often with a "one year until the concert!" "six months until the concert!" until FINALLY the concert was here!
I won't bore you with the details of the rest of my trip (which included two 7 hour drives from Winnipeg and back with my boyfriend who was nice enough to accompany me on this crazy boyband adventure as well as Mall of America and a fantastic day of boating and tubing on the St. Croix river) but on Thursday night, Katie and I were PUMPED. We're total dorks and dressed like the guys at the concert – Katie in a varsity Jacket for Zayn and me in a red polo and tan pants for Nialler. Ha! It was a super fun car ride of listening to 1D on the way and discussing fanfic lol.
The Target Center is massive. I'd never actually been there before (which is funny, since In Pieces is set in between there and the Crowne Plaza which I stayed at) but it was quite a typical arena. We bought some merch (read: I bought out the merch stand with two t-shirts, a program and a hoodie) and headed to our seats.
We were in section 205, so we were on the upper deck towards the back, but a little off the the right so we saw the stage at a weird diagonal angle. It was good though because we were close to the platform they were on during the middle part of the show. There were some cool people around us, including a woman with a 1D shirt that said "#1 Directioner Mom" on it LOL. The girls beside me were adorable and seemed like they were having a lot of fun. No one in front of me had a huge sign this time, YAY! We sat down during 5SOS's set, and while they weren't bad I'm not super into them. They did a few of their own songs and they also did a cover of Teenage Dream.
After that the screens played all sorts of ads for 1D (like their fragrance, their Claire's line, their Office Depot line, their Oreos… basically every company in the world who sponsors them) as well as some Little Mix stuff and Olly Murs stuff. It's definitely clear who their associated acts are.
Eventually the ads stopped and the lights went down and all of the twelve year olds screamed (okay fine, we did too) There was a video that played of the boys at a house party that was hilarious, and then they burst on the stage and sang Up All Night.
After that they did their little intro and said 'Minneapolis' about 30 times just to get the crowd to sing. They sang a few more songs and honestly, they were so much more energetic than the last time I saw them. That's saying a lot because I thought they were amazing on the Up All Night tour, but it's clear they've become a lot more comfortable on the stage and even around each other.
They eventually came up on this big platform thing and sang Change My Mind, before being dropped off on this mini-stage in the middle of the floor. That was a lot closer to us, so I was able to get some good pictures.
They answered some twitter questions, which were really fun. They were asked to do a 'Minnesoooooootan' accent, which they didn't understand, so they ended up asking someone in the audience what it meant and she told them to really hold the 'o' sound. So they tried it and of course it was really funny because none of their American accents are very good as it is. They were also asked if they'd go back in time or go into the future, and they had a variety of answers, but Louis said that they have history books, so he'd go forward as you don't know what's going to happen in the future. They were then asked what day of their life they would relive if they could, and they answered pretty standard, saying they'd relive MSG, and the day they were put together. Zayn (I think) said he'd relive one Christmas where he got some Superman PJs and it was awesome, hah. Niall said he'd go back to when they were first put together and they stayed at Robin's house. He turned to Louis and was like "Do you remember when we played Football out in the yard and you hit me in the face with the ball? I'd relive it so that could not happen." And Louis was all sassy (obvs) and was like "Have you had a grudge this whole time? Do you hate me?" And Niall was like "Yes." haaa
Then they were questioning Zayn about his "spectacles" (well, Niall was) since he wore glasses for the entire show. And once Niall started questioning him the rest of them crowded around him as well. It was quite funny. They sang One Way or Another on the platform and Teenage Kicks, then they went back up on the platform and back to the main stage.
They did a few more songs, including Over Again which had Niall and Louis sitting off to the side of the stage where Niall played guitar. They also did Little Things, which was lovely with all the phones in the air. They shows a video which featured the boys dressed in disguises going around and tricking people, Louis in a fatsuit giving out free hugs was especially hilarious. No one knew it was him until he revealed it to a little girl at the end of the video.
They sang Teenage Dirtbag, which had this cool comic book background featuring the lyrics and the boys all animated. Then they did Rock Me, which I completely fangirled over because it's my favourite song. It was the only song I recorded.
They were pointing out their favourite signs in the crowd and Liam seemed really "offended" by one saying "That one's just rude! It's just rude!" LOL. Aw Liam. There was also this really cool screen in the middle of the stage that at one point was broken up into five parts and had each boy on one of the parts. But they move around the stage so much so it was difficult for them to stay on one screen each haha.
Towards the end for the encore, Niall came out wearing his sunglasses, and Louis was making fun of him for it, so that was pretty funny. (There were a lot of Nouis moments during the show!) Then, after LWWY, Niall was in the middle of the stage (the others were sitting off to the side) thanking everyone for coming out. They said that Minneapolis was the loudest crowd they'd had and that it was truly their favourite show so far, they also said they don't ever say that, but I think they're making it up! 😛 They said they only had one song left, and that it was nice that no one was leaving because they usually see people leave at that point to try to beat the rush. He said they had one song left and one of the other boys called out "It's Na Na Na!" and Niall thought that was hilarious and he was like "Yeah, one song left, and it's Stole My Heart!" But, obviously that wasn't it. Before they sang it, Niall was like "For any parents out in the crowd who didn't know the last 21 songs, you'll know this one, it's What Makes You Beautiful." and then the entire arena erupted with screams. I've never been to anything louder than a One Direction concert, honestly.
They sang WMYB with a ton of energy and confetti and their signature goofiness and dancing around the stage. I'm pretty sure Niall was the last one off the stage because he was still there when the others were gone, and then he just zipped down into this trapdoor on the stage. The band kept playing and then the lights came on and it was over.
Unbeliveably fun and completely worth the year-long wait! The boys put on such a fun show and even though none of it's choreographed, it's almost better that way because it seems like they're just having fun along with everyone who's there to see them. Absolutely love them, Katie and I were gushing the entire car ride back to my hotel.
Literally so much fun. Bring on the Where We Are Tour!!! (And boys, PLEASE announce some dates in North America soon, k?!)


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Shaykh Muhammad ibn Saalih al 'Uthaymeen rahimahullaah comments:
Beware of the disease of the tyrants – and it is kibr (pride). And the Prophet sall Allaahu 'alaihi wa sallam explained it in the best manner, and it was that pride is arrogance towards the Truth and belittling the people – meaning looking down upon them and having disdain for them…
(And know that) your behaving in an insolent manner towards your teacher is pride. And this behaving in an insolent manner might be upon the tongue and it might be also through being irritable and agitated. A person may be walking along with his teacher whilst strutting in a cocky manner, saying "I did such-and such and I did such-and-such."
And likewise pride is having aversion towards the person who benefits you from those people who are lesser than you; and this also occurs from some of the students when someone lesser than them in knowledge informs them of something, they have an aversion (to this) and they do not accept it.
(Sharh hilyah taalib il 'ilm p28 – 29 of Shaykh Muhammad ibn Saalih al 'Uthaymeen rahimahullaah, translated by Nasser ibn Najam )


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September 13, 2010
Hello Stefan -
So why not suggest to your students to use Microsoft Outlook as well as GoogleMail, since both of them work? ;-)
That is a very good question about the added attachment - I have no idea why. Since SignPuddle is being re-designed right now anyway, I think it is best that Steve complete the new SignPuddle 2.0, rather than try to fix the old program right now, which may not be used in a few months anyway...
The old SignMail program will definitely get an upgrade, and at that time, if we find problems with the new program, of course we will focus on fixing the new program, to make it the best it can be...so the future is bright ;-)
Meanwhile we are managing as we are right now, until the new program is ready -
Software is never perfect, but it is better than not having any software at all!
The first decade of SignWriting, from 1974 to 1985, existed without any software. We wrote everything by hand...both daily writing and formal publications...the formal publications were done with fine ink pens and stencils and transfer sheets to help us, and it took a lot longer to create a publication, and it was not as standardized without computers - so I am so grateful to have software...I admire the monks who wrote the first Bibles by hand with ink pens centuries ago - we went through that publishing the SignWriter Newspaper, which was a 20 page newspaper, using ink pens...from 1981-1984...
SignWriter Newspaper History
Then the irony to it all was decades later, when we had software, people were skeptical that anyone could write SignWriting by hand, because they assumed that we started SignWriting with computers, but not at all...SignWriting began as a handwritten writing system that was already used and established before the first computer program was developed by Richard Gleaves in 1986, which was SignWriter for the Apple //e and //c. Then years later we transferred SignWriter to DOS, and you know the rest of the history...smile...then came SignWriter Java and Tiger and Python, and SW-Edit and other software from Brazil, and then SignPuddle and the related PocketPuddle and PersonalPuddle...the SignWriting Image Server (SWIS) etc...
And new programs are being developed now in several countries, besides SignPuddle 2.0... as soon as they are ready we will enjoy them of course!
But meanwhile, I understand that your students are writing by hand fluently...isn't that right, Stefan? Erika told me how impressed she is with your student's skill to write SignWriting by hand on the blackboard at school - I think so too ;-))
Val ;-)
On Sep 13, 2010, at 1:26 PM, Stefan Wöhrmann wrote:
> Hi Valerie and everyone,
> well yes Val. The positive experience is that we can get along with a
> googlemail account. Perhaps some day some expert will lead us the way to
> change the settings in gmx.de or hotmail.de ... free.net ... to look at the
> graphics without any trouble.
> I myself can view all the signmails without any problems with the "Microsoft
> Outlook" Program ..
> What I am interested in is to find out why the first column of the
> SignWriting message is an attachment while the others show up in the email
> directly??... like in your screenshot. You find the first column as an
> additional attachment!
> Stefan ;-)
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Exploring the West's land sculptures -- made by artists and industry
"Art erodes whatever seeks to contain it and inevitably seeps into the most contrary recesses, touches the most repressed nerve, finds and sustains the contradictory without effort." -- Robert Morris in a 1979 essay in which he suggested hiring land artists to reclaim spent industrial sites and open-pit mines.
When I first see them, fuzzy and burnished brown on the horizon, ambling among the creosote bushes, I freeze. Grizzlies? I think. In the southern Nevada desert? I've been walking for an hour, maybe two, my sense of time and distance distorted by solitude and a thick blanket of clouds that has kept the sun invisible and unmoving all day. They aren't grizzlies, you idiot, I tell myself. They're cows. I approach cautiously, anyway: They might be mad cows. Six million-year-old caliche, a sedimentary rock, crunches under my feet at every step.
But the brown fuzzy things aren't even cows; they turn out to be barrel cacti. I feel stupid and discouraged, not just because I can't tell a cow from a cactus, but also because I haven't found what I'm looking for: Double Negative, a land art icon made up of two huge trenches, separated by empty space. Michael Heizer blasted and bulldozed it into the edge of Mormon Mesa in 1970. Instead of following the directions, I decided to forge my own path -- always a temptation in the West, sometimes a mistake. I figured I could take Exit 100 off I-15, follow the road south until the rental car's oil pan got knocked around a bit, get out and just start walking south and east.
And that's what I've done. Still no artwork, though. I didn't think to print out the map, or calculate distances. The sculpture could be over the next subtle rise, or another 10 miles away. How would I know?
I continue, prodded by a fantasy in which I reach the sculpture and find it surrounded by a group of effete art-critic types straight out of The New Yorker -- drinking chardonnay and eating fancy little crackers. When they see me staggering toward them like some bedraggled desert hermit, they will not only pour me a glass, they'll succinctly explain Double Negative's meaning and significance.
Because, frankly, I don't get it. Double Negative is well-known in the art world, and aficionados from everywhere pilgrimage out here to see it, along with some of the West's other famous land art -- Robert Smithson's Spiral Jetty, Walter De Maria's Lightning Field and Nancy Holt's Sun Tunnels among them -- as though they were the Mona Lisa or Starry Night. Yet the photos I've seen of Double Negative look less like art than a pair of road cuts without a road. And the most succinct description I've found is this: "Double Negative presents the void, not by the failed strategy of abstraction but using 'figure against figure to figure what cannot be figured.' " Good luck untangling that.
I think I've walked nine miles, maybe more, but the dark mountains on every horizon look the same as when I started. Then, just as I'm about to give up, a stark white post on Mormon Mesa's edge catches my eye, almost glowing in the eerie light. I race towards it.
But there is no giant trench, no negative space from which 240,000 tons of material have been removed. The concrete post marks the Old Spanish Trail, which crossed Mormon Mesa at this spot. In May 1844, John C. Fremont came through here and described the place thusly: "We left the Rio de los Angeles and continued our way through the same desolate and revolting country, where lizards were the only animal, and the tracks of the lizard-eaters the principal sign of human beings."
I have not encountered anyone out here, either, lizard-eater or not, but humanity haunts the landscape: a rusted iron grate with no discernible function, plants growing up through it. Wooden stakes poking up randomly from the earth, one with a small vial containing a document that claims this particular tract of land for Powerline Precious Metals of Reno. A cluster of deflated balloons that say "Babies R Us." The razor slice of a power line against the clouds, the stream of big rigs sliding down the distant interstate, and the ghost of that old trail where wagons once rolled.
I have yet to eat a lizard, but the sight of a huge, hairy, cross-eyed spider, puffing itself up to look even bigger, is strangely tempting. The thought is enough to break my spirit, and I trudge back to the car.
Despondency washes over me on the drive back. Not because I didn't find the sculpture, but because my sojourn on the mesa has ended. Being lost like that, wandering aimlessly through vast spaces, with every step one mystery solved and a brand-new one created, is as exhilarating as finding one's quarry, whatever it is. Is there a better way to see the terrible beauty of the Western landscape?


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Dinosaur Memory Challenge belongs to Puzzle and it is often associated with Dinosaur Games and Games For Kids. This game has received 11 votes, 10 positive ones and 1 negative ones and has an average score of 3.9.
It is a game played in landscape and it's playable on Desktop and Mobile on www.gamepix.com. This game has been published on 2022-03-21 and updated on 2022-03-21.


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Commodore prices up games machines
Commodore Gaming - the latest reviver of ye olde Commodore brand - has priced up its high-end Wintel gaming systems, pledging to "redefine the line between gaming and reality" - whatever that means - for up to £2899 inc. VAT.
That's what it's charging for the top-of-the-line Commodore xx, unveiled in March this year. The lesser Commodore gx is priced at £1759. Both machines are available from the company's online store.
The xx gaming PC sports an Intel Core 2 Extreme four-core processor, a pair of 768MB Nvidia GeForce 8800 GTX graphics card and a Creative X-Fi soundcard, all fitted inside a casing covered with one of a half-dozen or so painted 'skins' applied to the interchangeable front and side panels.
The machine's specification also inlcudes an Asus P5N32-E motherboard based on Nvidia's nForce 680i SLI chipset. Each system has 4GB of Corsair Dominator DDR 2 memory clocked at 1066MHz. There's a choice of hard drives: two 150GB 10,000rpm boys in RAID configuration, or a single 500GB 7200rpm job.
Running on top of all this: Windows Vista Ultimate. Keeping it supplied with power: a 1,000W ICE Cube PSU.
That Commodore line-up in full
Commodore Gaming didn't say how much the lower-end g and gs machines will cost. These it hopes to offer through retailers later this month. Online stores for Germany, France and Benelux countries will go live in the same timeframe, the company said.


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Guy Fieri fires back at searing 'NYT' restaurant review
- Fieri suspects there was "another agenda"
- Celebrity chef insists he's "striving to do it perfect"
- Says it's a great way for the reviewer "to make a name for himself"
The old saying is that any publicity is good publicity.
Celeb chef Guy Fieri better hope that's true because there has been big buzz building about Tuesday's New York Timesreview of his new Manhattan restaurant, Guy's American Kitchen and Bar.
He got raked over the coals. Skewered. Burned.
Big time.
The opening sentence: "GUY FIERI, have you eaten at your new restaurant in Times Square?"
Writer Pete Wells goes on to say (in 34 rhetorical questions) that a drink tastes like "radiator fluid and formaldehyde." He notes that French fries arrive "limp and oil-sogged" and "served cold." He attacks the service, the sides, even the nachos ("deeply unlovable"). His overall rating: "Poor."
Many commenters on the piece loved it (one woman asked Wells to marry her). Supporters on Fieri's Facebook page urge him to ignore it.
Today on the Today show, Fieri defended himself in an interview with Savannah Guthrie. The Food Network star's reaction to the piece? "I thought it was ridiculous. I mean, I've read reviews —- there's good and there's bad in the restaurant business, but that to me went so overboard, it really seemed like there was another agenda."
He went on to say, "The tone, the sarcasm, the question style." Fieri didn't think it was fair to visit the restaurant four times in two months. "That's tough times, especially this size of a restaurant."
Did any of it strike a chord as sounding accurate? "Without question. I've been in the restaurant (business) 25 years. This is an ever-changing, evolving process." He added, "Do we do it perfect? No. Are we striving to do it perfect? Yes."
Savannah noted that 56 reviews on Yelp give Guy's American Kitchen and Bar an average of 2.5 stars out of five, so it's not knocking people's socks off. "At two months? Not really expecting to," said Fieri. "I mean, we're trying to. We're trying as hard as we can to make it right, to do it right. ... Is it perfect right now? No. ... Let's see where we are in six months."
He mentioned he has 11 restaurants and he's into being a hands-on chef and manager, from creating the menu to training the staff, not just putting a "stamp" on the place.
And he said, "To me, it's impossible to come in and have a dining experience and have every single thing is wrong, unless you come in with a different agenda and you want to sensationalize something and you want to blow it out of the water. It's a great way to make a name for yourself — go after a celebrity chef that's not a New Yorker that's doing big concept in his second month. Great way to hit it," he said, punching his hand.
His words for Wells: "You're welcome."
And Fieri added, "I stand by my food. I stand by my team."


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text: It's so much fun to attend Lowell Celebrates Kerouac and visit this great American literary icon's old stomping grounds, many of which still exist today. However, much of Lowell has changed over the years. The streets are smoothly paved. There's a color television in almost every home. UMass Lowell continually expands its presence. New restaurants serving delicious food have opened up. Even new communities of immigrants have moved in. Instead of rotary phones plugged into the wall, people have iphones with apps. A new family lives in Kerouac's birth home. Experiencing Kerouac's Lowell is about more than just dots on a map. You have to step back from the tour group, close your eyes and really listen to the rush of the Merrimack River. You have to imagine a time period when chocolate chip cookies were a novelty, Art Deco looked crazy modern, and women used menstrual cups instead of tampons. You have to imagine the Great Depression. You have to imagine a gallon of gas costing 10 cents. You have to hear swing music. The NFL draft is a new concept. Ball-point pens are invented. And you are just a kid soaking it all in. Jack Kerouac was born in 1922 and was a kid growing up in Lowell in the 1930s. Here are a few nostalgic photos of Lowell….


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The board of directors of Samsung Electronics has decided to spin off the company's LCD (liquid crystal display) panel manufacturing unit, it said Monday.
The new company, provisionally named Samsung Display Co. will be launched on April 1, and will have an investment of 750 billion won (US$665 million) in capital, the company said.
Samsung's decision comes as it and its competitors are struggling with slow demand and falling profits in its LCD business.
The new structure will give the LCD panel business the ability to take business decisions quickly and respond to clients' needs more swiftly, Samsung said in a statement.
The move will still require approval from the company's shareholders in March.
After five straight months of steep declines, prices for large-size LCD panels stabilized in December, 2011 because of better sales than expected and decreased production, according to research firm IHS iSuppli. The firming in panel prices in December can be attributed to lean inventories throughout the supply chain and to lower factory utilization rates, after suppliers were forced to cut production in order to control supply and stem financial losses, it said.
John Ribeiro covers outsourcing and general technology breaking news from India for The IDG News Service. Follow John on Twitter at @Johnribeiro. John's e-mail address is firstname.lastname@example.com


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September 18th, 2010
You can follow along with the Cultural Catchup Project by following me on Twitter (@Memles), by subscribing to the category's feed, or by bookmarking the Cultural Catchup Project page where I'll be posting a link to each installment.
When Harmony arrives in Los Angeles, it is a bit of narrative pleasure for me as a viewer: the realization that Cordelia wouldn't be aware that Harmony had been turned into a vampire was downright delightful, and seeing Harmony dance her way around the issue was yet another comic highlight for Mercedes McNab. Because I have been watching Buffy alongside Angel, I understood the disconnect between the characters' awareness and my own, and it framed the early scenes in "Disharmony" in a very clear fashion.
However, watching the episode made me realize that Angel viewers without the same knowledge would have read Harmony's arrival in the opposite fashion: where Harmony's transformation into a vampire was almost a joke for those "in the know," it might have been legitimately suspenseful for those without that knowledge. "Disharmony" is so impressive because it manages to overcome this potential disparity, coming together as a compelling investigation of friendship in the wake of Angel's epiphany regardless of one's level of Harmony-related knowledge.
Although I much prefer intertextual pleasures, I must admit.


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PE: For those unfamiliar with your past, could you introduce yourself?
YES SIR, INMATE #03895-000…oh wait, sorry, old habits…
Hi my name is rod and I'm from the desert southwest, but live in the great lakes bioregion now. I've spent my life fighting for the earth and animals and have just finished a 5 year period of federal supervision that prevented me from being involved in environmentalism or animal issues. I've spent a total of 6 years in prison for actions related to the protection of animals, and am now moving forward in my life with new strategies and tactics, that are both effective and legal. Though I walked a controversial and radical path, I no longer advocate illegal activity. That's a personal decision that I made before with very intense personal consequences, so I'm not doing that anymore. I'm doing what a lot of people are doing now, and that's struggling to find a way to help stop some horribly violent federal and state policies that currently are allowing for the killing of wolves and other wildlife.
PE: What have you been doing these last 7 years while on probation? Other than helping wolves, what else are you doing these days with your life?
Trying like hell to stay out of prison. When you've made a mark for yourself like I have in the law enforcement community, it gets real easy to get back into trouble. So I did what I had to do, I severed all contacts with the activist world, didn't email, phone, write or do any social media with anyone with an activist past history and just worked my job at a brewery where I'm a server. I also was a big part of my children's lives. I wasn't in prison. I was a present father, raising children, teaching them to love life and nature. Loving life myself. I went kayaking when I could. We played in lakes and rivers, camped. I did what Geronimo and others like him had to do when they were forced to surrender and live on the rez. I will still be a father, but now ts time to stand up for the wild once again.
PE: It seemed for a while like every time you moved they were trying to put you in jail again. I had thought you retired to raise your child, What have you actually been doing during all the years where you seemed to disappear from the public eye?
No one will deny that federal law enforcement agencies had identified me as a target. Not only had I already spent 4 years in prison for Animal Liberation Front actions in the 1990′s, but in the ensuing years I had become a spokesperson for the group while continuing to organize with Earth First! And Stop Huntington Animal Cruelty. I even made it easier for them by hanging out with other suspects of federal investigations. So while I did have to go back to prison as part of a non-cooperative plea agreement, at least I didn't get the 16 year sentence they threatened me with in trial. So yes, it was time to lay down my arms and think about my children and the future. I spent the last five years just keeping my head low and not traveling or seeing any close friends and only very restricted travel to see my family. I wasn't allowed to visit my elderly parents in Portland, because my probation officer said all of the Northwest was off limits due to its history of radical environmentalism and animal rights activities.
Like so many other men recently released from prison, I focused on the financial survival of my family. I also got involved with my children's school and met other parents raising children nonviolently who became friends. We tried to start a community garden near the school and introduced a zero-waste program that survives today. The last five years allowed me to be a part of my kid's lives rather than only hear about it in letters.
Now that my federal supervision is over, I can think about acting as a responsible human being and organizing against the destruction of the wild. Here in Michigan that means stopping the recent sport hunt for wolves. That's where the tour came in. Folks from the Hunt Saboteurs approached me offering to help build a broader grassroots campaign drawing from several movements. Not just against wolf hunts in the six states where they are now being hunted, but against contest predator hunts and control efforts by the USDA's Wildlife Services program.
PE: A lot of people seem to see animal liberation and anti-colonial work as opposed. But to you they seem to be very deeply connected?
The connection for me comes with the concept of seeing an animal, person or mountain as part of something bigger, or whether they are just a resource to be exploited and dominated. That is the foundation for the invasion of planet earth and for me I'll work with anyone fighting against that destruction. Here in the Great Lakes, the wolf is a sacred animal to the indigenous people. So you ave not only animal welfare and animal rights people opposed to the hunt, but the tribes as well. Combine that with environmentalist and even sportsmen against hunting and trapping wolves and you have the potential for a lot of solidarity which equals strength. The Idle-No-More movement s amazing and supporting indigenous peoples engaged in struggles against colonialism is vital or they are going to be marginalized and silenced. All us parties affected by the same Invader need to build stronger alliances and push back in the legal channels we have left.
PE: I asked David Barbarash, a former ALF spokesperson what he would want to ask you if he was interviewing you. He wondered if you regret any of the actions you participated in over the years?
Ahhh, the regret question. Who doesn't have regrets? But if the interviewer is evading asking me more directly if I regret my illegal actions on behalf of wildlife, I'd have to say no I don't. I could be cheeky and say I regret not sinking the third whaling ship with the watchman aboard, or finding more lion snares, but that's kind of how I feel…I'd never want to hurt anyone, but with so many victories like wolf recovery being reversed, I wonder whether its less about "winning" and more about simply standing for what you believe even when its unpopular to do so. It wasn't popular to take the actions I did, but I did them not with the intention of winning any popularity contests, but to save some lives…however temporarily that might have been. And I don't regret that.
PE: David also wondered if you would share your thoughts on whether people's activism may be motivated by past experiences of trauma or anger, and how that affects their actions?
I think this has to do with what I said about the connection between animal and Indigenous issues. A lot of people relate to animals and nature because they are ground up by the same machines. In that way, I think a lot of people are empathetic to animals and can relate to them because we all have a bond with animals some time in our lives and like children, we believe it is wrong to abuse them. But if your saying that such activism attracts unhealthy or unstable people, well I've seen that too.
PE: I have read that you became vegan and started working to defend animals after listening to punk music, in particular the song This Is The ALF by Conflict?
That's kind of funny because its only partially true. Here's the real story. I began working to protect animals when I was 12 and listening to Paul McCartney and John Denver. Punk music didn't come until I went overseas on Sea Shepherd in 1985. I started fighting against whaling and the Canadian harp seal hunt after being exposed to both through dramatic direct action campaigns by Sea Shepherd and Greenpeace. In England, the Sea Shepherd crew included hunt saboteurs who were also vegetarian and vegan. They were the first ones to lead me to question my beliefs about all animals. I had tremendous respect for members of the American Indian Movement who were still fighting colonialism, then I witnessed nonviolent civil disobedience used in anti-nuclear protests, but these people exposed me to the principles behind the Animal Liberation Front, and that's where "This is the ALF" comes in. After working on Sea Shepherd in port one day, some hunt saboteur volunteers had me over to listen to music. I couldn't understand a word of what sounded like screaming, but they handed me the album cover which had the lyrics and I wanted to join. That's when I went vegetarian and convinced I would start an ALF group.
PE: Did you grow up around animals? When did you learn your love for animals from?
I believe everyone has an inherent compassion for animals. It's just the question of whether it gets repressed by institutionalized thinking that convinces us to see animals another way. I guarantee that if you switched babies between hardcore hunters and vegans, each child would be raised with the corresponding parent's worldviews, at least while they were children. But if nature is allowed to prosper, compassion for animals will come to anyone. The only thing unique about me s that I chose a path of action that made my compassion more noticeable.
PE: Do you still see punk or other music cultures today as having radical potential to radicalize youth
I'm sure that's true, but I don't have my finger on that pulse. I've always had my movement musician favorites, Dana Lyons, Alice DiMicele, Jim Page, Joanne Rand, Casey Neil and many others whose music was a kind of soundtrack for my life in the 80′s and 90′s, but I don't know who is leading that charge anymore. I believe that music is a sacred medium to reach people and I still love listening to any new song with a story sympathetic to animals or nature, because you know that we are not a minority and those kinds of songs are received well.
PE: What is hunt sabotage?
Hunt sabotage has evolved for me over the years. It began with my English friends who sabotaged British hound foxhunts with false scent trails and horn calls, then it evolved to similar tactics in America to interfere with desert bighorn sheep hunts. I'd say hunt sabotage is nonviolently interfering with the recreational killing of wildlife. I was arrested in 2004 for sabotaging a mountain lion hunt and went to prison for 8 months. Now hunt sabotage means something different for me. It means utilizing any channel you have available to stop not just individual hunts, but entire hunting seasons. Its very dangerous confronting armed men in the woods, but we can sabotage hunts by getting involved with the agencies that establish hunting seasons and begin to lobby to have the views of the non-hunting majority represented. These agencies are supposed to be following principles of conservation that recognize that wildlife is a public trust resource and as such the opinions of non-consumptive "users" matters. Presently the states where wolf hunting and
A picture of some bait that was found, this is cheese blocks with nails through them
trapping was recently enacted, the state wildlife agencies have cosy relationships with sportsman's groups. It's not a unique situation. The hunters through payments for licenses and tags provide the budget for those agencies, so they tend to manage wildlife with the needs of hunters as a priority. So for me, hunt sabotage is any tactics or strategy that aims to stop the recreational killing of wildlife.
PE: What is the reason they are intending to kill the wolves? Can you talk a bit about the campaign?
In Michigan, the justification for the wolf hunt is that wolves are preying on livestock and hunting dogs as well as being seen in the neighborhoods of some rural towns. This is what was said leading up to the hunt and then when it began, we discovered that 90% of livestock depredations in Michigan were at one farm where the farmer practiced horrible farming practices. Cattle that died were left in pastures and when wolves were attracted they were blamed for the deaths and permits issued to kill them. This one farmer also received over $60,000 in compensation for his livestock losses and was recently criminally charged with animal abuse. One of the other justifications was the killing of "pets" which means dogs trained to chase down bears. Bear hunters place bait piles to attract bears, but they also attract wolves too sometimes or are placed in areas where wolves have their dens. These hounds are released to chase bears through wolf territory and occasionally get killed when they do this. But that's not the wolf's fault. Then we have the state's wildlife agency lying to the media about the level of danger wolves were posing to humans in one town and those lies being repeated by a state representative to justify the hunt to the legislature. And on top of this, we have laws in Michigan which already allow hunters or farmers to kill a wolf they witness attacking their animals. In addition, the USDA's Wildlife Services has been called in to kill over 20 wolves in recent years in Michigan. So that's what we are fighting. We are opposed to the indiscriminate killing of wolves and we want to see wolves returned to endangered species listing.
PE: It seems a lot of people see wolves as a pest, or a threat to be afraid of. Do you find it is hard to convince people wolves need to be protected?
I don't think its hard for people to get this issue. We've learned it before after we eradicated wolves the first time. Society as a whole has changed, but the agencies responsible for livestock and wildlife refuse to evolve and reflect those changes. And these agencies have little accountability. People understand that predators play a vital role in maintaining the health of prey animals like deer and elk. What I've been hearing is people asking, "why are people still killing wolves?" In addition to the role predators play in the ecosystem, I also believe they should be protected because we still don't know a lot about them. The campaigns of persecution have continued literally since Europeans first arrived, and I think we should demonstrate a little human evolution by no longer waging such a war on wildlife. Wolves returning to the landscape is a success story in endangered species preservation that desperately needs to be defended right now.
PE: Anthropologist Layla Abdel Rahim writes about how the idea of a predator is a problematic construct, because the animals don't see other animals as prey all of the time – but rather just as other animals most of the time and only as prey when they need to feed. I wonder what you think of this and if you think using scientific categorizations such as apex predator is at all problematic?
Well, let's see where else do we use that word? To describe sexual predators! So undeniably, there is a negative connotation for some people. But yes, we allow science and taxonomy to frame our relationship to animals when the relationship can be so much more sacred. It's a agreed upon concept to call some animal relations "predator" but we should also question our personal and spiritual relationship to animals. Not just because I am indigenous, but I also gravitated towards the way native people viewed animals. It was never demeaning, it was always on an equal standing. The animals were (and still are) people too, or people are animals too…Wonderful stories of mysticism and magic that sounded better than Bible stories to me.
I love to be educated and read wildlife agencies reports on wolf management, but at the end of the day I choose to see the wolf as my sacred relation. And as a resident of Maa'iigan's homeland, I feel an obligation to speak up among the humans when the wolf's future is at stake. Yes, because they are a apex predator who helps hold the ecosystem in balance, but also because they are the sacred brother/sister to the Anishinaabe who still call this place home, and wolves and coyotes and other predators are just mega-cool…
PE: How can we build bridges between Indigenous resistance and movements for animal liberation?
By first, not being so fucking judgmental of people who eat animals. Long before there was an animal rights movement, there were indigenous peoples defending the earth and her animals with their lives. And they still are! Just because they eat meat doesn't make them the enemy. Until we learn tolerance we will continue to be disenfranchised. It doesn't mean WE have to be like them, but there's such beauty in diverse worldviews that all hold nature and animals on the same level as us. It is the oppositions worst nightmare for us all to be unified against their policies that destroy the same world we all love.
PE: How does being a parent change things now for you?
I heard this story where a young warrior wants to be at the front of the war party, in the thick of any fighting, but when you're a little older, you let the younger warriors lead the battle, and then when you're a little older, you're fine being in the rear guard and when you're a little older than that, maybe you're crouching behind a tree or rock watching to see how things are going before jumping into the fray… I think it's like that for me. I've been in enough battles, I'm not an adrenalin junkie doing this for the thrill. I'm a middle-aged man with kids dammit, and I have to take care of them to be a warrior, that's why indigenous resistance exists, to protect our families and communities. It's always been about protecting the vulnerable, the young and elderly, it's the same way in our struggle.
We are trying to protect people and the environment for the good of all, so that we may simply maintain our right to exist. Being a parent has given me a deeper understanding of the need for a long-term sustainable strategy for fighting and living. I also know that those I might come into conflict with are also trying to do the same thing, eke out a living and protect their families. So that means not being so adversarial, and being less willing to fight, and more willing to try and work together first.
Having children has made me a better warrior, because I've realized when you're willing to defend something with your very own life as many father's are prone to feel, you understand the motivational power as it exists in nature where many creatures are driven by the same strength of love. Because that's what it's about for us, about defending what we love. And if we can't experience that raw passion and love for something close to us, then we're dead already. I'm not ready to give that up. It's also why no struggle can be real unless its inclusive of people raising children. People with dominating, destructive worldviews have been breeding like crazy, we need some kids to be raised in the new old ways…
PE: You spent a lot of time in prison, and on probation over the years. Can you talk from your experiences about what is effective prisoner support, both when people are in prison and when they get out? Is there any advice you would give to people who might be looking at doing time?
First, advice to people looking at doing time. Don't have children. Going to prison doesn't just effect you, it effects those who love you, so be prepared to put them through incredible trauma and suffering too. Don't think you can maintain relationships while you are in prison. The best you are doing is sharing your traumatic experience. There is nothing good about going to prison. It should be avoided at all costs.
Once you are in the system, your purpose is no longer the survival of your family and community, its about your own survival. That's what I experienced and that's why I'm grateful to be able to be organizing again and am very conscious to not step over that line into anything even remotely illegal. It's simply not worth it. We have to constantly be doing a cost/benefit analysis of our modes of resistance and weigh whether its a sustainable strategy or not. If our tactics result in our bravest warriors being imprisoned for years, then its time to rethink. It doesn't mean we condemn our past tactics or strategies, it just means we evolve to our changing environment. Like coyotes or wolves.
PE: There has been a dramatic rise in ALF actions over the last year, bands like Los Crudos and Earth Crisis are touring again, and now Rod Coronado is back on tour encouraging activists to get active; kinda feels like the 90s again. How do you figure the current state of radical movements compares to past decades?
I don't think it's a resurgence, it's the survival of our struggles. Some of us might have gone to prison, but the need for organizing never went away, and thankfully brave people are following a very dark time for the radical environmental and animal rights movements and pushing forward. I don't think we can compare this to past decades because twenty years ago 9/11 hadn't happened and we weren't labeled as terrorists. We have to evolve and recognize that there are strong forces out there that want to treat us like criminals rather than the harbingers of social change. So in that way, I can't say what the state of radical movements is like because I don't consider myself radical anymore, nor am I up on their progress. I hear about infighting, the debates on issues that distract us from being a broader more public movement that focuses on solidarity building issues with people we too often call the enemy. I'm just trying to share with the new generations of activists out there what I've learned and help them realize the cost-benefit analysis of doing actions that won't lead you to prison. There's a time and place for everything, but right now its time in the US to reclaim the public process in regards to wildlife issues and do something completely different. In a way, organizing in these old fashioned traditional ways can be very radical because its a strategy that has been left to very conservative people.
PE: Can you talk a little about your history with wildlife defense and hunt sab?
My first hunt sabotage actions were in England targeting foxhunts and badger baiting back in 1985. In 1987 we started a hunt saboteurs group in California to interfere with trophy desert bighorn hunts. A lot of my ALF actions were on behalf of predators, the most prominent being our actions against the fur farm industry and our Don Quixote-esque raid on the USDA's Predator Research Facility in 1992. We destroyed the laboratory, but they just rebuilt it bigger, but at least a few coyotes got away that night.
I returned to opposing trophy hunting in 2002, going into the Kofa National Wildlife Refuge in Arizona to interfere with desert bighorn sheep hunts. We spent winter weekends searching out a handful of trophy hunters across a huge desert mountain landscape. The bighorn sheep hunt sabs were the perfect balance of effectiveness and experiential bliss, because the desert is beautiful in winter time.16 mile hikes looking for hunters, seeing the sheep themselves, and other wildlife, you are literally seeing what your fighting for. We also began going to wildlife agency meetings, giving testimony on hunts we were opposed to and documenting illegal hunting in the field.
It culminated in 2004, with the very public hunt interference against attempts to remove mountain lions from the Sabino Canyon National Recreational in the Coronado National Forest outside of Tucson, Arizona where I lived. Public opposition to the hunt was overwhelming, and the whole city knew the only thing standing in the way of the state and federal lion hunters was us Earth First!ers. We spread false scent trails with mountain lion urine, and I was chased down with a helicopter after we sprung a lion snare. I was sentenced to 8 months in federal prison for that one.
The most effective campaign we did was against the hunting of sandhill cranes which winter in southern Arizona. We would lay in cornfields between hunters in blinds and incoming cranes who upon seeing us waving our arms or reflective mylar would veer away from the hunter's. The best part about it is that never once did we get caught. When we did interact with hunters, it was as fellow hunters as I always have the appropriate tags and licenses. We also documented the hunt, including cranes attempting to aid their wounded relations. We also solicited public comment on the hunt at birding events and repeatedly testified against the hunt on ecological grounds that it wasn't sustainable or necessary. Once again, it was amazing just to be in the fields watching thousands of cranes flying overhead.
I had wanted to continue the campaigns against trophy hunts in Arizona, but then I was overtaken with my legal defense on not just the lion hunt front, but for a lecture I gave defending arson the same day an ELF fire caused a $60 million fire in San Diego. So that's why now I'm jumping on board to help wolves now, because I think the same strategy can work, to participate in the process of changing policy by attending public meetings and calling on these agencies to reform to reflect the interests of citizens who appreciate wildlife as a working component of the environment, not only as some kind of resource.
Wednesday February 26th Buffalo NY 7pm at Burning Books
420 Connecticut St.
Thursday February 27th Troy NY X's to O's Vegan Bakery 97 4th St.
Friday February 28th Brooklyn NY at the BASE 1302 Myrtle Avenue @ Stockholm.
Saturday March 1st Philadelphia PA, at Wooden Shoe Book store. 704 S. st 7:pm
Sunday March 2nd Philadelphia PA 6pm at the Grindcore House.
Monday March 3rd Saratoga Springs NY, TBA
Friday March 14th at the Kalamazoo PeaceCenter
Thursday March 20th Oakland CA. 7PM at The Holdout: 2313 San Pablo Avenue, near 23rd ST.
Friday March 21st San Francisco CA. 7pm at The Eric Quezada Center for Culture and Politics: 518 Valencia Street, near 16th Street BART.
Saturday March 22nd Animal Liberation Forum in Long Beach CA at 12pm.
Sunday March 23rd Animal Advocacy Museum in Pasadena CA. at 6pm.
Thursday March 27th Humbolt State University.


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For Olga Kurylenko, life after Bond gets better
SANTA ANA, Calif. — Olga Kurylenko is racking up the frequent flier miles these days.
With two new movies in theaters — director Terrence Malick's "To The Wonder" and the Tom Cruise post-apocalyptic thriller "Oblivion" — the Ukrainian-born, Parisian-trained and London-based actress has been flying from one premiere to another.
In fact, when the former Bond girl ("Quantum of Solace") picked up the phone to call the Orange County Register, she was on her way to the airport after attending the Moscow premiere of "Oblivion." From there, she was headed to premieres in Taipei, Vienna, London, Dublin, Buenos Aries, Rio de Janeiro and Toronto.
Judging by her travel schedule, the one-time model apparently has overcome the typecasting and subsequent career disappearance that follows many actresses who appear opposite 007.
In "To The Wonder," Kurylenko plays a French woman who meets and falls in love with an American (Ben Affleck) vacationing in Paris. The couple and her young daughter move into the man's Oklahoma home, where the glow of new romance begins to dim.
The 33-year-old actress plays an endangered crew member aboard a space vehicle who is rescued by Cruise in the futuristic "Oblivion." The science fiction movie, directed by Joseph Kosinski and based on his unpublished graphic novel, takes place years after an invasion of Earth by an alien race bent on stripping the planet of its natural resources.
Raised by her mother and grandmother, Kurylenko was discovered at 14 on a Moscow subway by a modeling agent who was so intrigued by the tall teen (she now stands 5-foot-9) that he handed her mother his business card. The youngster signed a contract with a modeling agency the next day, and moved to Paris when she was 16. Two years later, she was on the covers of Vogue, Glamour and Elle. She speaks five languages, and her first English-speaking movie role was in the 2007 film "Hitman." Last year, Kurylenko appeared opposite Colin Farrell in "Seven Psychopaths," and she recently completed her second season on the Starz cable series "Magic City," in which she plays Vera Evans.
I've already seen photos of you and Tom Cruise posing together on the red carpet in Moscow just an hour ago. It must have been nice to be back in Mother Russia?
Not in this little dress (laughs). It was very cold.
You were born there; you should be used to it.
This was cold for April, and I was dressed for Hollywood.
Q:Well, you and Tom seemed to work well together. How was he on the set?
Tom is so professional and generous. He takes cares of everybody on the set. You feel like you're in good hands because he's on top of everything. It's a pleasure to work with someone who is so invested in everything he does. He never left the set to sit alone in his trailer. Even if someone else was working, he'd always be there for the other actor.
Q:I can't think of two more different movies than "Oblivion" and "To The Wonder." Does it seem that way to you?
They are so different. When I watch the two movies, it's like I'm looking at two different people. I don't recognize myself. Even my hair color is different. In "Oblivion," my hair is dark brown. It looks almost black. In "To the Wonder," I'm almost blond. The hair styles are so different that I look like completely different nationalities.
Q:How did you get the role in "To The Wonder"?
I was in Paris and a casting director came from London to audition French actresses. My agent rang me and asked if I'd like to go by and talk to the casting director. There wasn't a script or dialogue. But it was a Terrence Malick movie so I said, "Sure."
Q:If there was no script, what was the audition like?
It was silent. They were filming how I moved, and my basic facial expressions. Then I flew to Austin to meet with Terry.
Q:I've never met Terrence Malick, but he remains pretty much a mystery to the world. Can you unravel some of the mystery for us?
I don't think so. When I flew to Austin to meet him, he wasn't in the room. There was just the producer and the cameraman. They said they were going to start without Terry. I said, "Isn't that why I came here — to meet Terry?" They told me not to worry, and they started filming. A couple of minutes later, I was in the middle of improvising a scene when the door opened and a man in a wide-brimmed hat that covered his whole face walked in and quietly sat down on the couch. He kept watching what I was doing. I thought, "This must be Terrence Malick." It was all so mysterious.
Q:Did he say anything?
Every once in a while, I would hear this voice say, "Move to the left" or "Look out the window." Finally, he started directing me. He was talking from inside that big hat. I couldn't see his face, but it was magical.
Q:There is not a lot of dialogue in this movie. I don't understand how he was directing you when you don't have lines to recite?
The funny thing is that we spoke a lot during the filming, but most of it was cut out. I had pages to memorize each day, but you don't hear the words in the movie. I think Terry has us speak as an exercise, but the words weren't important to what he is trying to say in his movie. I had to convey my thoughts with my face, my body and my being.
Q:Did a lot of scenes end up on the cutting room floor?
If he used everything he shot, it would be a 10-hour movie. He shoots so much. He never stops. I'll bet he shoots more in one day than a normal production does in a week. Most productions move so slowly because they're always setting up and getting ready. Terry walked in one morning and said to me, "We don't need any hair and makeup; you look good just like that." The poor make-up and hair people were so upset. They didn't know if they still had a job (laughs).
What does he have against hair and makeup?
Terry likes natural. He likes things as they are. In the scenes, we just walked around and he filmed us. No set-up. No long instructions.
Q:Did you understand this movie?
Because I knew my character from what Terry told me and from what I read, I kind of understood what was going on. Don't forget, I did voice-over narration for the character for almost a year after we stopped filming. I probably read 400 pages of voice-over dialogue. I really got to know this character.
Q:That sounds like a time-consuming project?
I did voice-over in Ukraine. I did it in Miami. I did it in Paris. I did it in London. I did it in L.A. Terry would call me and ask where I was, and he would send me the new pages. I would read for three hours and then wait until the next call.
Q:Is all that effort worth it to you as an actress?
I admire Terrence Malick. I admire his movies, and I admire him as a person. He is a very special person. There is something about him — about the way he speaks, the way he thinks and his vision of the world. His movies are special, and to be part of one of his movies makes it worth it. Yes, a lot of work was cut out, but we knew it would. You don't do a Terrence Malick movie for commercial reasons. You do it for the heart. You do it for the soul. You do it out of respect for the filmmaker. I consider myself lucky to have been a part of this movie.
Q:Your character is a single mom, and I know you were raised by a single mom. Did that connection resonate with you at all?
Oh, it absolutely did. My mom's name is Marie and my character's name is Marie. I felt so much closer to my mom after this movie. In fact, she came to Moscow to be with me for the premiere. That's where she is right now — watching "Oblivion" at the premiere (laughs).
Q:You seem to have beaten the Bond-girl curse. Was there ever a time when you worried that there might not be life after Bond?
Although I come off as confident sometimes, one can never really be confident in this business. Nobody knows the future, but I did have excitement and enthusiasm about my career. I wanted to try many different roles. I didn't want to be just the girl who did Bond. I didn't know if I could do it, but I knew that I would try. And that's all you really can do.
Has it been difficult?
To be honest, it has been difficult. It has been very difficult. It's always a struggle, and I still don't feel that I won the fight. I think I'm always going to have to fight to be taken seriously. It's something I'm going to have to live with.


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Tonight while I was surfing around looking for updates on the Malaysian jet still missing somewhere between Malaysia and Vietnam – or perhaps somewhere else – I happened upon a long story in the New York Times about the new documentary about Anita Hill. Sheryl Gay Stolberg's review of the movie is actually a long profile of Hill. I'm very happy that Hill allowed the documentary to be made because it means that a whole new generation of young men and women will be introduced to a remarkable person.
Back then there was no social media, no Facebook, no Twitter but the word still spread quickly among women that someone was about to accuse a nominee for the United States Supreme Court of sexual harassment. No one knew exactly who she was, but we knew this was going to be important. I was in Washington, D.C. that day at a meeting, but I remember sitting in a bar that afternoon with several other women all of us transfixed by what was happening on the television. I was astounded that none of the men, and the Judiciary Committee was all white men, had any clue. Stolberg puts it this way
"I think this event changed the course of her life and gave her a public mission that she took on," said Fred Lawrence, the Brandeis president and a Yale Law School classmate of Ms. Hill's. "It's not a duty that she volunteered for, but I think she understood that the circumstances had put her in a unique role, and gave her a voice."
The hearings were a surreal spectacle, as senators prodded an obviously uncomfortable Ms. Hill through awkward testimony about penis size, pubic hair and a pornographic film star known as Long Dong Silver — shocking public discourse at the time. When the hearings ended, Ms. Hill returned to teaching commercial law at the University of Oklahoma, trying, as she says in the film, to find "a new normal." It proved difficult.
And I think every women who watched the hearings remembers that electric blue suit.
There were thousands of letters of support, but also death threats, threats to her job. Conservative state lawmakers wanted her fired; fortunately, she had tenure. Even years later, she felt "a discomfort," she said. One dean confided that he had tired of hearing colleagues at other schools remark, "Isn't that where Anita Hill is?"
In Washington, her testimony reverberated. Sexual harassment claims shot up. "Our phones were ringing off the hook with people willing to come forward who had been suffering in silence," said Marcia D. Greenberger, founder and co-president of the National Women's Law Center in Washington, where Ms. Hill serves on its board.
Congress passed a law allowing victims of sex discrimination to sue for damages, just as victims of racial discrimination could. Waves of women began seeking public office. In 1991, there were two female senators. Today there are 20.
Clarence Thomas was confirmed even though, as Hill puts it
"I believe in my heart that he shouldn't have been confirmed," she said in a recent interview, acknowledging that it irritates her to see Justice Thomas on the court. "I believe that the information I provided was clear, it was verifiable, it was confirmed by contemporaneous witnesses that I had talked with. And I think what people don't understand is that it does go to his ability to be a fair and impartial judge."
And there are still those who believe she made the whole story up. Then I started thinking about a more recent woman's experience with Congress. This is from a story in the Daily Beast.
Rep. Darrell Issa's Thursday hearing went off the rails early. "What I want to know," demanded Rep. Carolyn Maloney, D-NY, as she looked at the all-male panel of clerics before her, "is, where are the women?"
The hearing, titled "Lines Crossed: Separation of Church and State. Has the Obama Administration Trampled on Freedom of Religion and Freedom of Conscience," was about religious freedom, Issa said, but it took place against the backdrop of a national controversy regarding the White House's mandate that all employers provide birth control as part of their insurance plans.
As it happens, there was one woman present prepared to testify on the issue of birth control. Sandra Fluke, a 30-year-old Georgetown University Law School student, had been contacted earlier in the week by committee minority leaders after Democrats saw a video of her speaking about the mandate at the National Press Club on February 9.
Congress had a woman to ask the question, but the panel was all men. Fluke went on to testify at an informal hearing arranged by Democratic women. The Huffington Post described it this way
This week she received almost rock-star treatment as the lone witness at an unofficial Democratic-sponsored hearing. While the rest of the Capitol was mostly empty, Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi, three other Democrats and dozens of mainly young women supporters crowded into a House office building room to applaud Fluke as she spoke of the importance of reproductive health care to women.
Prominently displayed by Rep. Carolyn Maloney, D-N.Y., was a photo of five religious leaders, all men and all appearing at the invitation of the Republican majority, testifying last week with Fluke visible in the background, sitting in the visitors' section.
Democrats pounced on that image of a hearing discussing contraceptive rights being dominated by men while the one person Democrats had asked to appear on the witness stand, a woman, was turned away. Pelosi, D-Calif., said they had since heard from 300,000 people urging that women's voices be heard on the issue.
"We almost ought to thank the chairman for the lack of judgment he had," in denying a seat to Fluke, Pelosi said.
Committee chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., had said at last week's hearing that the panel's focus was on whether the administration policy was a violation of religious freedom. He said at the time that Fluke, invited by Democrats in her capacity as former head of Georgetown Law Students for Reproductive Justice, was not qualified to speak on the religious rights question.
"I'm an American woman who uses contraceptives," Fluke said, when asked Thursday by Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md., about her qualifications to speak on the issue.
So maybe we have made progress in the years since Anita Hill. Some Republican men don't seemed to have learned much, but there were plenty of woman and men in Congress who wanted to hear Fluke's testimony. And we can thank Anita Hill for her part in making change happen.
Photograph of Anita Hill: American Film Foundation
Photograph of Sandra Fluke: Getty Images
Daily Beast story: Matthew DeLucca
Huffington Post story: Jim Abrams


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Woolies – Who Do You Love (Dunhill)
Beauregard and the Tuffs – Ramblin' Rose (Decca)
Brenda Lee – Is It True (Decca)
Evie Sands – I Can't Let Go (BlueCat)
The Knack – Time Waits For No One (Capitol)
Monkees – Star Collector (Colgems)
Nat Stuckey – Listen To the Band (RCA)
Tommy Boyce and Bobby Hart – Smilin' (Aquarian)
Royal Guardsmen – Leaving Me (Laurie)
WC Fields Memorial Electric String Band – Hippy Elevator Operator (HBR)
Morning Glories – Love-In (WB)
Liberace – Suite Judy Blue Eyes (WB)
Mike Stoller and the Stoller System – Silver Sea Horse (Amy)
Nobody's Children – I Can't Let Go (Bullet)
Kitchen Cinq – Codine (LHI)
Spotlights – Batman and Robin (Smash)
Wayne Logiudice – Come On (Let's Get Some Action On) (Philips)
What-Knots – I Ain't Dead Yet (Dial)
Bougalieu – Let's Do Wrong (Roulette)
Connie Francis – Fallin' (MGM)
The Gosdin Brothers – The Sounds of Goodbye (Bakersfield Intl)
Listen/Download -Iron Leg 2012: The Year In Vintage Pop – 99MB/256kbps
Greetings all.
What you see before you is the annual gathering of the 'Best of' Iron Leg for the year 2012.
Every year about this time I go back and comb the year's posts looking for what I consider to be the finest tracks.
As the track listing above indicates, this has been an exceptional year, both for my record collection and for your MP3 delivery/storage device.
There are hot garage punk tracks, psychedelia, power pop, sunshine pop and all kinds of other goodies for you to soak yourselves in as the new year approaches.
As always, I hope you dig it, and that you join me in 2013 for more of the same.
Until then, stay cool, and I'll see you when I see you.


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Are you ready for my exciting news? Are you sure?
Oh. If you read the title of this post you already know. Oops. :)
I just signed a three-book deal for my trilogy, CITIZENS OF LOGAN POND!!!
I can't believe it. You know how you work and work and work on a project, and after long enough, it feels like it will never end? Yeah. But it happened — or it's happening, or it's going to happen, or whatever. I'm very excited to work with Crescent Moon Press. They've been so enthusiastic about my book, characters, and setting. I love them already. I'm thrilled and honored to be working with them.
So what's this new trilogy about?
Glad you asked. :)
Here's the brief (ha!) description:
CITIZENS OF LOGAN POND is a New Adult Dystopian Romance (wow, that's a mouthful). It's set only a few years in the future after the economic collapse of America. While a lot of Dystopian books have a broad focus on the nation and impending war/doom, this book takes a look at how an economic collapse would impact a small neighborhood outside of Chicago.
Technology no longer exists, and because of that, this 'clan' of neighbors are sheltered from the outside world. They have to pull together to learn how to grow crops, sew clothes, find clean water sources, and basically survive. But there's a catch. They're living illegally. They weren't supposed to stay in their homes after the Collapse. They were supposed to move into the government compounds where they could be 'taken care of.' The clan is forced to hide from the patrolmen who sweep the countryside for illegal squatters like them.
The story focuses on Carrie, a twenty-something girl, who forms an alliance with one of the patrolmen. He, in turn, protects the clan. Unbeknownst to Carrie, this patrolman has fallen for her. But unwillingly, she's falls for another man, and she's forced to choose whether to protect her clan or follow her heart.
Here's the more official brief description:
When the financial collapse of America wipes out life as Carrie knows it, she finds the will to survive with the help of a man determined to hate her. Citizens of Logan Pond: LIFE, is the first in a trilogy set in the not-too-distant America.
If you're a Pinterest-y kind of person, I've started a board to give you some ideas of what this trilogy is about. Find it here. But here's a sample of some pictures:
I can't tell you how excited I am about this new trilogy! It's quite different from SADIE and AUGUSTINA, but I hope you guys still LOVE it. I do!!! (Oh, btw, Augustina should be out late summer or early fall. More details coming on that, too.)
As I get more info, I'll pass it along, but I had to share my news with all you awesome people because you guys are so supportive of me. You're the best cheer section ever. :)
(a little giddy over here, can you tell? If I had the ability, I'd be doing backflips.)


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UBS cuts estimates for Cisco, citing increased competition and a decline in enterprise spending
Components maker nabs FTTH and cable widget manufacturer in an effort to improve its manufacturing
Light Reading's Ethernet directory reflects increasing demand for connectivity across the puddle
Finnish vendor looks set to expand deal with further European launches
Switchmaker aims to get more for its R&D dollars; offers US employees 'curry in a hurry' relo package
UBS cuts estimates for Cisco, citing increased competition and a decline in enterprise spending
The government will remain an IT cash cow regardless of next week's election result
Unstrung Insider uncovers glut of startups attempting to salvage public hotspots
As UTStarcom meets more competition in China, its days of sky-high financial forecasts may be coming to an end
As UTStarcom meets more competition in China, its days of sky-high financial forecasts may be coming to an end
Like others, the company found integration of optical components into ATCA linecards was tougher than expected
Latest report from Heavy Reading finds WiMax may not be a good fit for urban broadband services
Comcast Corp., America's largest cable operator, added 549,100 broadband Internet subscribers during the third quarter of 2004, the company's highest total ever. Cox also set a record in Q3 with 184,446 additions.
Latest report from Heavy Reading finds WiMax may not be a good fit for urban broadband services
Now, as it wades through its financial mess, it's aiming to file restatements in mid-November. Honest!
Veteran VC is off to Petaluma to hunt for brand-name carrier deals and potential partner
German vendor isn't ruling out possible OEM partnership
LAN Dressed as MAN Extending 802.11 into hot-zone, metro areas is like making a double-down bet on WiFi hotspots – great if you win, a disaster if you don't
OSS vendor postpones results over revenue recognition issues. Can it avoid a Sonus situation?
Rumors abound that Alcatel is designing a new core router
Verizon has selected Motorola Inc.'s Broadband Communications Sector to provide video network infrastructure and customer premises equipment to support Verizon's expanded fiber-to-the-premises (FTTP) network launch next year.
The Wall Street Journal reported today that America's largest cable company, Comcast Corp., will tap Level 3 Communications and Sprint as its primary suppliers of long-distance network services to support its IP telephone service rollout.
Logs its first $100M quarter in its retrofitting as it bulks up its signaling and softswitch product portfolio
Scott McGregor, formerly of Philips Semiconductors, takes top post January 3
Motorola picked as the video network provider/integrator in Verizon's FTTP rollout
Scott McGregor, formerly of Philips Semiconductors, takes top post January 3
Chipset startup announces its first customer win in WiMax market
Massages the market as it sells a wider set of solutions, but opts not to be an end-to-end systems integrator
Manufacturing hitch means it misses analysts' estimates; says AFC acquisition on course to close in Q4
Startup has new offering for the fashionably petit office
Chris Rust departs and sources say new CEO Bill Cadogan has been enlisted to seal some big deals UPDATED 6PM
ADC completes its OSS purge by offloading its performance management software unit to WatchMark-Comnitel
Switchmaker beats analyst estimates with Q3 results; 19 cent EPS is almost double last year's figure
Despite disappointing earnings, Harmonic and C-COR both see great things from video-on-demand later this year
Carrier will decide on either Flash-OFDM or CDMA 1x EV-DO early next year
As TriQuint frets over the former Agere components group, a sale of the manufacturing plant falls through
Number of Ethernet services in North America continues to grow, but geographic coverage remains patchy
Set to buy wireless network security firm for $74M in cash
To hire up to 5,000 staff as it expands its plans to six more states
Set to buy yet another network security technology firm, this time Perfigo for $74M in cash
Posts strong Q3 profit but points to slower market growth in 2005
Qwest pays a nominal fee, doesn't admit guilt, and promises to hire a 'chief compliance officer'
CEO Bobby Johnson says that at least Q3 was not as 'lumpy' as previous quarters
Semiconductor firms are having a tough earnings season, but they say inventory problems are just temporary
Alcatel may have the monster infrastructure contract, but the deal doesn't include its video middleware
Spirent employees pay their respects to VP of marketing Dave Gellerman, killed in a car accident on Saturday
Australian customer leaks news of Oxford trial
Core router vendor still bullish about partnership prospects as Q3 revenue slumps to $3.7M
Extreme Networks beats analyst expectations with Q1 revenues of $95.1 million
Will be the main supplier and integrator for the carrier's access network upgrade UPDATED 7:00 PM
Countering rival Cavium, Hifn plans to use the IBM network processor to create an all-in-one security chip
Corporate services carrier to deploy WiMax technology in effort to cut costs
Mobility drives growth, as Lucent reports its first profitable fiscal year since 2000
Mobility drives growth, as Lucent reports its first profitable fiscal year since 2000
Our services site is updating its 'Who Makes What' taxonomy of the OSS sector. Is your company in it?
Session controller vendors spew news, net.com gets in on the act, hosted VOIP gets a boost, and much more
Intel's latest network processor closes the book on its IXP1200, while Xelerated redoes its X11 chip
Launches service to help resource-challenged carriers roll out VOIP, targets triple-play testing
Prior investors, joined by UTStarcom and CTC, pony up another round for the WDM systems maverick
Wireless router startup appears to have secured win with MVNO
The FCC loves nascent broadband powerline (BPL) deployments, but the technology's future is far from certain
Only a month after a CEO change, General Bandwidth is greeted by some familiar sales and marketing execs
The FCC loves nascent broadband powerline (BPL) deployments, but the technology's future is far from certain
New report says Cisco will ante up in the softswitch game within 12 months
Security vendor beats its numbers, boosts its guidance, and talks some trash about Juniper
Softswitch player encroaches on session border controller territory with product upgrade
The little deals matter
Flash-OFDM startup breaks into wireless LAN market with Netgear partnership
The price tag of its planned acquisition of InterWave is slashed by more than $15M following bitter war of words
Layoffs, but 'no major whacking' at WLAN switch startup
Submersible DSLAMs, IP video phones, and random pirates aplenty -- welcome to Las Vegas
An author of the IETF's 'Dry Martini' spec joins the company, as does a new VP of sales
Flash-OFDM startup says Arizona is likely location for latest market trial
British carrier encouraged by results of multi-vendor SIP interoperability testing for its next-generation network
More long-distance layoffs: Sprint cuts 700 from its Business Solutions division and will take a Q3 charge
Amid talk that its new core router isn't being used, Cisco touts its two installations and 14 trials
Profits of 13 cents per share beat analyst expectations again, while revs grow to $375M, but stock takes a hit [UPDATED 10/15 11AM]
It's ready to launch its Hammer brand out of the labs with a VOIP test solution aimed at large carriers
Larry Roberts' latest venture raises cash to pack flow-based routing into a 1U customer-premises device
Infrastructure division helps keep Finnish vendor's Q3 net sales afloat
Carriers looking to provide Ethernet services might get ambushed by low price expectations
A recent California PUC decision led Verizon to shut down a VOIP network. Why are folks still talking about it?
Pulls plug on PC market, focusing instead on VOWLAN [UPDATED 10/13 9:53 PM]
A slew of 802.11 players have their eye on WiMax
Net.com reports Q2 profit and Microsoft win, but trims R&D staff due to slow carrier spending UPDATED 10/14
The Supreme Court has passed on three line-sharing cases, allowing earlier pro-RBOC decisions to stand
If ADC sells its Metrica OSS division to WatchMark-Comnitel, will it become WatchMark-Comnitel-Metrica?
Touting concern over 802.11a's market potential, WLAN chipmaker poo-poos single-chip multimode products
Swisscom's trial of IPTV services has had early integration problems, according to system supplier Microsoft
Recent earnings from Adtran, AFC, and Ciena cite weak DSL sales, but others say it'll boom. What's going on?
Cable-related stocks C-Cor and Harmonic announce revenue shortfalls, but analysts say it's no big deal
Cable operator NTL Ireland withdraws Tellabs boxes from homes, claiming a fire risk; Tellabs denies the danger
Adtran's Q3 suffered from a decline in late September sales and DSL continues to be 'lumpy,' says CEO
Swedish vendor is tipped to control 15 percent of CDMA market by year's end
As test vendors pump their latest VOIP gear, BT deploys Radcom's VOIP quality tester in its next-gen network trial
The newfangled carrier, which created global VPN services, hopes to do the same for MPLS
Cable and RBOC CEOs holster their weapons here in pursuit of clearer, less intrusive regulations
The industry's most rockin' awards program has just been launched -- go in big or go home
The industry's most rockin' awards program has just been launched -- go in big or go home
Win a Lightie!
Security specialist Caymas Systems emerges from stealth with a range of identity-management gateways
RBOC is set to award major access kit deals in the coming months, reckons analyst George Notter
Vendors and service providers arrive in Vegas for the USTA meeting, and Calix, MRV, Nuvio, and UTStarcom ante up
Telecom jobs still tumbling; Ciena moves on marketing; Fultz falls at RBN; Allied Telesyn shakes things up
JV launches an entire line of switches and routers, trying for a Japanese alternative to Cisco and Juniper
What will WiFi file servers be when they grow up?
Alcatel has set up an internal affairs team to investigate allegations of corruption in Costa Rica
Unstrung poll suggests departure of Ericsson won't send technology to an early grave
Flash-OFDM startup unveils first announced OEM deal
US Chamber of Commerce report finds the country would be more competitive with fewer telecom regulations
Psuedo-Canadian startup plots fun stuff with WiMax
BT has awarded Cramer one of the biggest OSS deals seen for years, but why is it so meaty?
HP's putting its faith in an emerging ATCA standard for the launch of its first telecom blade server next year
IXCs love their Ethernet access
Continent's major carriers appear reluctant to commit to push-to-talk technology
A slow telecom recovery leads Corning to take a $2.9B correction [UPDATED 4:00 pm]
As shakeout grows, Airespace is climbing up the enterprise WLAN ranks
The RPR company wants to challenge micro-MSPPs with its customer-premises pizza box
OSS firm says it's working towards a London listing in 2005, but how would it use the cash?
British vendor takes cautious approach to 802.16 technology
Calls on vendors of telecom equipment to comment on the latest "Who Makes What" taxonomy
Stock slumps as remote DSLAM vendor says it'll miss third-quarter targets, but analysts see an upside
Scott Marshall, a former Cisco cohort of Kevin DeNuccio, takes the engineering helm at the edge router company
The IEEE 802.3ap standards effort is making progress, piggybacking on other 10-Gig Ethernet work
Supercomm will change shape in 2006 as its co-owner USTA focuses on its own conference
Finnish vendor rumored to be supplying German carrier's infrastructure kit
Chipset startup targets first mover advantage in battle with incumbent rivals
As the industry focuses on TV over fixed broadband, Dutch incumbent KPN will resell an over-the-air service
Agere's stock got a boost on rumors of an acquisition by Broadcom, but analysts say it's a longshot
Strikes OEM deal with middleware vendor Myrio as it chases carrier triple-play deals
Chip maker reveals softer earnings and revenues, while some executives of note head for the door
With a wireless JV already in place, the vendors team up to target enterprise users. What next?
Alvarion moves the goalposts over $56M million acquisition of InterWave UPDATED 10:15 AM
Trapeze claims it has the answer for branch office wireless LAN deployments
A Seller's Market Wireless LAN has clear benefits for enterprises, but it's the job of integrators and VARs to go out and sell it.
Could a low-end PC bring down an entire enterprise VOIP network? Experts think it's possible
Blowing the Doors off 802.11 Unstrung Live! event to address the art and science of enterprise wireless LANs by the Staff
Wireless LAN switch semiconductor startup has had its chips, sources say
WLAN switch startup sells off and shuts down, sources say – NextHop may pick up the pieces
Disappointing SMS orders will lead to disappointing Q3 earnings, the company says
WLAN switch startup sells off and shuts down, sources say
Nortel's president of optical networks, Brian McFadden, takes over the CTO role from Greg Mumford today


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