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Don't you hate it when mom and dad fight? Sure you do. But you love it when pundits fight, right?! First this week, we're not arguing about what's wrong with tech journalism, we're just arguing over who's the problem. Then a CNet writer helps a company do a drive-by on Apple. Finally, sometimes even Apple pundits don't agree.
Techo-pundit slap fight
MG Siegler has keyed up a self-righteous rant about the deplorable state of technology coverage and, well, who can argue with that? Let's find out.
Content Everywhere, But Not A Drop To Drink (foul language alert)
What set Siegler off is a New York Times piece calling out the iOS app and social network Path for having been caught uploading iPhone users' entire address books. Not fair, says Siegler, as other applications are still doing that (Path has deleted all user address book data). Then he launches into a tirade about low-information, time-and-pageview sensitive journalism; the Macalope brooks no argument on that topic, but it's a bit odd, considering that Path really was doing something it shouldn't have been.
Or maybe not that odd, according to Dan Lyons. As Lyons chimes in, Siegler and his ex-boss Michael Arrington (who Siegler defends for also attacking the Times piece) are both partners in CrunchFund, which invests in Path.
Oooh, a slap fight between serial jerk Michael Arrington and serial has-been Dan Lyons? There is not enough popcorn in the world.
Still, despite the questionable motives, the horny one agrees with Siegler's basic point, which is practically the Macalope's raison d'être.
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The only thing I can offer is the advice to take everything you read in the technology press with a grain of salt. Perhaps several. The likelihood that at least part of it is nonsense is very strong. And stronger by the day.
Well, maybe not that last part. Is it really any worse than it's ever been? It's been ridiculous for years. The Macalope would argue that people are just noticing it more now. He hopes so, because he's certainly tried to "raise awareness," by which he means "call a bunch of people names."
The Macalope's not here to claim he's perfect and above it all. He makes mistakes himself (see: last Saturday's column). The difference, he hopes, is that the Classic Mac head, the horns, and the hooves make it apparent that he takes himself less seriously than your Henry Blodgets and… well, pretty much everyone else in tech coverage.
He is proud to say that he has no idea what his traffic numbers are, other than decent enough that Macworld keeps dropping off bales full of sweet, crunchy alfalfa on his doorstep.
He's a little uncertain where a tech journalism site gets alfalfa, but he doesn't ask questions that he's afraid to know the answers to.
"Hey, it fell offa truck, you know what I'm sayin'? Don't you worry your furry little head about it! Just go back to writin' the funny stuff and don't be pokin' your nose where it don't belong."
(Also of concern is why Macworld editorial director Jason Snell talks like a stereotypical Italian mobster, but that's getting even further off the track.)
The point is, if there are just five of you out there reading and enjoying the Macalope's particular brand of knee-jerk Apple fanboi religious zealotry LOL-ism, that's OK.
The Macalope doesn't know specifically what it's like at ZDNet, or Gizmodo, or Angry Arnold's Apple Bashing Supersite, but several years ago, when he was at CNet, it paid a base monthly fee with a bonus for traffic over a certain amount. He expects that's not uncommon.
The Macalope frequently didn't get the CNet bonus because he failed to FREEly embed traffic-jacking keywords when posting from his IPHONE WHITNEY HOUSTON BREADED CATS HOT COLLEGE NYMPHOMANIACS.
Anyway, if there really are only five of you reading this, maybe we should rent an apartment together somewhere if this gig ever falls through.
No weirdos.
Drive-by shooting
CNet's Lance Whitney provides a great example of how tech journalists provide "balance" in a story.
While completely missing what's really going on.
Malware loves Android, but iOS users, do take care
How iOS users are supposed to "take care" is not discussed.
Malware aimed at Google's mobile OS surged to 13,000 samples at the end of last year from only 400 in June, an increase of 3,325 percent.
Wow! That's a lot of percent! Shouldn't that be in the title? No, we must spend almost half of the article finger-wagging at the company with the significantly more secure platform.
"While malicious applications on the iOS platform are limited in large part due to Apple's closed application marketplace and stringent screening model, it does not necessarily make it fundamentally more secure," Juniper said in its report. "For one, when a user 'jailbreaks' their device by removing the limitations on the operating system, the device can be susceptible to malicious applications downloaded from third-party sources."
Yeah! Maybe that's why Apple doesn't support jailbreaking.
In fact, an iOS security flaw was discovered in November that allowed apps to download potentially malicious unsigned code. Apple patched the flaw with its iOS 5.0.1 update. And an app exploiting this type of flaw would've been rejected during Apple's approval process. But the incident did show that even iOS isn't invulnerable.
Of course it's not invulnerable. It's just so much less likely to be affected by malware than Android that to create false equivalencies between it and a platform exploding with malware is laughable.
What could possibly be driving this? What? Could? It? Be?
"This lack of software protection and a competitive security market leaves users with little protection if malware were ever to make it through Apple's application vetting process," Juniper noted.
Oh. "Little protection". Really. The fact that Apple can remotely disable apps and provides timely updates that it delivers to all currently supported phones is "little" protection. That's an interesting opinion.
"In the long run, this could create a false sense of security for Apple users and prove to be an even bigger risk than Android's open model."
Here's the Macalope's translation of Juniper's report: "We are really, really mad that Apple won't let us make antivirus software for iOS. Furious, really."
Thaaat's right. Juniper makes mobile antivirus and antimalware software.
What a coincidence!
According to the company's report (PDF):
Apple prevents development of anti-malware applications for its devices, which limits the availability of a competitive security market for its platform. This means there is less innovation on security controls and no available protections for consumers against a potential malware outbreak.
This means Juniper does not make any money off of iOS.
As the Macalope has long said, the computer security industry has always struck him as being a bit like the mob: "This is a nice operating system you got here. It'd be a shame if something were to happen to it."
Whitney, of course, does not mention Juniper's motivation anywhere in his piece. Which is too bad, as that would have provided some actual balance.
Saturday Special: Merging ahead
Apple surprised us this week by releasing a developer preview of the next version of OS X, Mountain Lion.
And it's not even our birthday! (Unless, of course, it is your birthday, in which case: Happy Birthday, please accept this developer preview of Mountain Lion.)
Several pundits have rushed to say that Apple is basically doing slowly what Microsoft hopes to do overnight with Windows 8. Like AllThingsD's Ina Fried:
"Mountain Lion and Windows 8's Common Aim: Make Desktop More Like Mobile"
Ehhh, maybe sorta kinda, but not completely. At this point, what Apple's doing is less about merging the two operating systems than it is about just making them consistent. Microsoft, on the other hand, is taking a vastly different approach—that of trying to shoehorn an elephant into a smart car.
The Macalope hopes the folks in Redmond have enough bacon grease.
While Apple pundits agree that what the company's doing with Mountain Lion isn't what Microsoft's doing (gaw, as if!), some don't agree on exactly what it is Apple's doing.
Jim Dalrymple says:
If Apple were trying to make Mountain Lion more like iOS we would be touching the screen of our computers to interact with out apps instead of using the keyboard and mouse.
But Ben Brooks says:
The way I see it, Apple is trying to simplify OS X and bring to it some of the features from iOS that make sense. To that end Apple is very much making Mountain Lion more iOS like.
In the parlance of the Macalope's pal Merlin Mann, this argument is about "the narcissism of small differences". (Technically, Sigmund Freud may have said it first but the Macalope was unable to reach Dr. Freud before going to press.) What's different in Mountain Lion is mostly in the application space, but at the same time, we did get inverted scrolling in Lion. Apple doesn't want the same user experience on both mobile and desktop, but it does want them to be consistent. Microsoft wants them to be the same.
Which, as Adrian Kingsley-Hughes points out, raises some questions.
There's one question that Microsoft still hasn't answered with respect to Windows 8, and I think it's a key question. What problem does the Metro UI touch-interface solve on a desktop system that isn't touch enabled?
Well, are we talking about the user's problems or Microsoft's? Because…
[Editors' Note: Each week the Macalope skewers the worst of the week's coverage of Apple and other technology companies. In addition to being a mythical beast, the Macalope is not an employee of Macworld. As a result, the Macalope is always free to criticize any media organization. Even ours.]


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Hacker who turned in Bradley Manning takes stand
- WikiLeaks helped trigger Arab Spring%2C Manning backers say
- Bradley Manning is charged with aiding the enemy%2C which could carry a life term
- Adrian Lamo says Manning reached out to him for his hacker and GLBT reputation
FORT MEADE, Md. (AP) — A one-time computer hacker who told authorities Pfc. Bradley Manning was giving information to WikiLeaks testified Tuesday the soldier never said he wanted to help the enemy during their online chats.
Manning is on trial for giving hundreds of thousands of documents to the secret-spilling website WikiLeaks. He pleaded guilty to charges that could bring 20 years behind bars, but the military has pressed ahead with a court-martial on more serious charges, including aiding the enemy. That charge carries a potential life sentence.
Adrian Lamo, a convicted hacker, said he started chatting online with Manning on May 20, 2010, and alerted law enforcement the next day about the contents of the soldier's messages, including his mention of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. He said he continued chatting with Manning on and off for six more days.
On cross-examination, Lamo said Manning never told him he wanted to help the enemy and did not express disloyalty to America.
"At any time, did Pfc. Manning ever say he wanted to help the enemy?" defense attorney David Coombs said.
"Not in those words, no," Lamo said.
Prosecutors have said they will show the 25-year-old Army intelligence analyst effectively put U.S. military secrets into the hands of the enemy, including Osama bin Laden. They said they will present evidence that bin Laden requested and obtained from another al-Qaida member the Afghanistan battlefield reports and State Department cables published by WikiLeaks.
The soldier from Crescent, Okla., has said he did not believe the information would harm the U.S. and he released the information to enlighten the public about the bitter reality of America's wars.
His attorney has also said Manning struggled privately with gender identity early in his tour of duty, when gays couldn't openly serve in the military. Those struggles led Manning to "feel that he needed to do something to make a difference in this world," Coombs said.
Lamo testified Manning had contacted him because of his notoriety in the hacking community and because of his open support and leadership in the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community.
Lamo pleaded guilty in 2004 of computer fraud after he was arrested for hacking the computer networks of the New York Times and Microsoft. He was sentenced to six months house arrest and two years probation.
Manning chose to have his court-martial heard by a judge instead of a jury. It is expected to run all summer. Much of the evidence is classified, which means large portions of the trial are likely to be closed to reporters and the public.
Federal authorities are looking into whether Assange can also be prosecuted. He has been holed up in the Ecuadorean Embassy in London to avoid extradition to Sweden on sex-crimes allegations.
"This is not justice; never could this be justice," Assange said in a statement Monday. "The verdict was ordained long ago. Its function is not to determine questions such as guilt or innocence, or truth or falsehood. It is a public relations exercise, designed to provide the government with an alibi for posterity."
The case is the most high-profile prosecution for the Obama administration, which has been criticized for its crackdown on those who leak information. It's also by far the most voluminous release of classified material in U.S. history, and certainly the most sensational since the 1971 publication of the Pentagon Papers, a secret Defense Department history of U.S. involvement in Vietnam.
The 7,000 pages of the Pentagon Papers showed that the U.S. government repeatedly misled the public about the Vietnam War. Their leak to The New York Times set off an epic clash between the Nixon administration and the press and led to a landmark Supreme Court ruling on the First Amendment.
The material WikiLeaks began publishing in 2010 documented complaints of abuses against Iraqi detainees, a U.S. tally of civilian deaths in Iraq, and America's weak support for the government of Tunisia - a disclosure that Manning supporters said helped trigger the Middle Eastern pro-democracy uprisings known as the Arab Spring.
The Obama administration has said the release of the material threatened to expose valuable military and diplomatic sources and strained America's relations with other governments.


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Between the Euro 2008 and Olympic Track and Field Trials, I have had to avoid all news sources lately. That's because I can't watch any of this stuff while it's actually on.
The football's been on in the middle of the afternoon, which has necessitated waiting a few hours to make it the evening's entertainment. The T&F coverage started last night at midnight, fer cryin' out loud.
Little treasures await me in our Tivo box, but in the meantime I can't go to LetsRun.com, or open my NYTimes "track and field" article alert emails, or turn on the news until my other, sleepier half rises to greet the morning and its pre-recorded sports coverage. I am dying to know what happened in the women's 10,000m, for example. But I must be a patient grasshopper.
So, for now, I'll content myself this morning with planning a trip to Oregon next year. I want to race the Newport Marathon* in 2009, but use that as a centerpiece to a giant loop tour of the state.
I am happiest while planning something elaborate. Since I've planned my marathon training for Steamtown down to the last detail, I've been bereft in the planning department lately. At last…something new to plan.
*How can you not want to run a race that provides fresh raw oysters at the aid stations?


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"With an endless parade of distractions, political posturing and phony scandals, Washington has taken its eye off the ball."
– Barack Hussein Obama, July 25, 2013
These are the words of Barack Hussein Obama during a speech at Knox College in Galesburg, Ill., on July 25, 2013. Branding all of his burgeoning scandals ranging from Benghazi-gate, to Navy SEAL-gate, to IRS-gate, to NSA-gate, as simply "phony" is an attempt to deflect attention away from the seriousness of them all and their mounting disastrous effect on his presidency. If calling four dead Americans at Benghazi, the murder of 22 SEAL Team VI and special ops heroes, the targeting of Americans by the IRS based on their political views and the effective wholesale NSA telephone and Internet surveillance of citizens phony, then what is there that is "real" anymore? Importantly, it is Obama who conveniently overlooked that it is his "phony" birth certificate that provides proof for the likelihood that he is not a natural born citizen even eligible to be president. Now that is real!
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Plain and simple, Obama is the most despicable, criminally minded fraud to have ever occupied the Oval Office. He is not merely a disgrace, but a dangerous man whose allegiance to Islam, disdain of Jews and Christians, and favoritism toward all things black have cast him into the role of a very cheap, bigoted and hateful man. In contrast, Obama makes the felonious former President Bill Clinton look like a Boy Scout.
Notwithstanding his incredulous claim that his scandals are nothing but phony, trumped up charges by politicized Republicans and others such as myself, just this week we saw Obama's true colors in other ways. First, Obama, again whipping up racial divide, sided with the black juvenile delinquent Trayvon Martin, cleverly trashing the jury that acquitted George Zimmerman of second degree murder and manslaughter, upping the ante from his previous outrageously calculated statement that if he had had a son he would have looked like Trayvon, to its new incarnation – that he could have been in the shoes of Trayvon 35 years ago – meaning that he, too, would have been killed thanks to white, racial profiling. Coupled with the so-called criminal civil rights investigation that he obviously ordered through Attorney General Eric Holder, another black racist and certified anti-white bigot, you don't have to be one of the many bigoted black Muslim minister friends of the president to understand that Zimmerman will now be indicted by the U.S. Justice Department so that Obama and his racist friends can extract the desired "fair share" pound of flesh from "whitey."
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Second, coming on the heels of the Trayvon statement, this week also brought yet another indication that Obama is a Muslim through and through, which not coincidentally was the "faith" of his revered Kenyan father. Trying to resurrect his "brothers" of the Muslim Brotherhood who were just ousted from power by the Egyptian military, Obama suspended military aid to this largest of Middle Eastern nations, obviously to send a signal to this granddaddy of Islamic terrorist groups that he supported its return to power. A return of the Muslim Brotherhood to power in Egypt would be a blow to the Jewish state of Israel, not coincidentally also the birthplace of Jesus Christ and the rest of the Western world.
The primary aspect these two events have in common is that they show that Obama has a clear mindset to further what he perceives to be the interests of "his" people, meaning blacks and Muslims, at the expense of everyone else. He is thus a Hitler-like figure, finding scapegoats such as whites, Christians and Jews to use to rally the shock troops for his black-Muslim crusade. These words may sound harsh, but not in the context of the "fraudster in chief's" actions during his first five years in office. Coupled with his words, the nation is on its way to destruction unless this dangerous man is legally stopped in his slimy, prejudiced and hateful tracks.
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And, this is why I have said on many occasions that Obama is even more of a dangerous tyrant than King George III. The king may have wanted to rape the colonies of their wealth and exert his monarchical control over their populace, but he was never a racist Muslim socialist bent on remaking our Judeo-Christian culture and roots and furthering an agenda that seeks to destroy our Anglo-American heritage. It is now clear that Obama will use whatever means are at his disposal to reduce the United States to the equivalent of a socialist, African-Muslim nation.
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Time is short before this man succeeds at this mission. And, that is why the so-called phony scandals to which he refers must be used as a means to remove him from office, before all is lost.
I am doing my part through lawsuits and a citizens' grand jury in Ocala, Fla. But now is the time for others to also seriously step up to the plate, in what has become a "life and death" struggle for the heart and soul of the nation. We have seen the eyes of the enemy, and they are clearly focused on the destruction of the inspired vision of our Founding Fathers and our way of life as one nation under a Judeo-Christian God.
Indeed, there is room for all races and all religions (save radical Islam, which is not a religion at all but instead a terrorist apology that all "infidels" to Allah must be killed), under the big tent of our United States. But to have this big tent and harmonious relations among its inhabitants, we must have a president who respects the rights of all and does not play one race and religion against the other, does not seek to dismantle and destroy our Judeo-Christian roots and national culture, and does not dismiss his criminal activities as the phony cynical imagination of those majority of Americans who still believe in what our Founding Fathers believed in.
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Jan. 3 (Bloomberg) — Of course, 2013 will be fine, because the 1950s sure were. That's the premise for the coming year, especially in regard to the agreement in Washington to raise U.S. tax rates on the well-off.
In the 1950s, after all, tax rates were far higher than what the House and Senate have agreed on, a top rate in the high 30 percent range. Back then, they were even higher than what President Barack Obama might have proposed, if left to his own counsel. Republicans in that era went along with the idea that high rates took something away from the rich and thereby stabilized society.
Republican President Dwight Eisenhower's idea of a significant marginal rate cut was to push the top rate down to 91 percent from 92 percent. Corporate taxes hit 50 percent. Jobs proliferated, wages rose, and the economy prospered. Lately, several documentaries have tried to capture the period, including "Something Ventured," about how the technology boom got its start.
The implications of this 1950s narrative are clear. High tax rates and the redistribution they might yield can stabilize us now, giving the economy "good directional stability," to use an industry phrase for a 1950s car, the Nash Metropolitan. High rates can accelerate growth.
Even the staunchest fan of low taxes draws comfort from the 1950s storyline. The official tax rates to which the U.S. now reverts, such as the top income rate of 39.6 percent, still look so much lower than 1950s ones. So maybe the U.S. can thrive and innovate.
Effective Rates
Unfortunately, the tax situation wasn't what it seemed. The illusion commences with that famous 1950s top rate of 91 percent. Official rates matter, but so do effective rates, the percent of income that people actually pay in tax. The Internal Revenue Service reckoned that the effective rate of tax in 1954 for top earners was actually 70 percent.
Or lower. Marc Linder, a law professor at the University of Iowa, has shown that a more comprehensive interpretation of income that includes capital gains suggests the real effective tax rate for millionaires was 49 percent in 1953. The effective rate dropped throughout the decade, reaching 31 percent by 1960. That 31 percent is just slightly higher than the 29 percent level a Congressional Budget Office report figures the average effective tax for the top quintile will be in 2014. And that number for 2014 doesn't include taxes in Obama's health-care law.
A second fantasy about the 1950s is that government soaked the rich. Joseph Thorndike and Martin Sullivan in Tax Notes magazine took a look at the tax distribution of the decade. They found that those earning more than $100,000 paid less than 5 percent of the taxes collected in the U.S., a far smaller share than the wealthiest shoulder today.
A third aspect of the 1950s, and one that differs from today, was that taxes then were headed downward — there was "directional stability." Everyone understood that taxes were dropping, at first, modestly or unofficially, through loopholes, then officially in the rate cuts of the early 1960s under Democratic Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson.
Even Eisenhower pushed for a reduction in dividend taxes, though he succeeded only modestly. The prospect of lower taxes encouraged growth. Today, by contrast, whether they apply to dividends or income, taxes are set in the "up" direction. The only debate, as we saw this week, was by how much, and when.
A final reason that the 1950s were different from today was American primacy. In those years the U.S. might set its taxes, nominal or real, at whatever level it liked.
No Competition
The only competition it confronted, after all, was from Europe, still recovering from World War II, or the U.K., whose tax regime was even more confiscatory than our own. Now, however, the U.S. must compete. And this is where the U.S., with some of the world's highest corporate taxes, flunks.
The political dynamic of the 1950s is traced by Thorndike in a paper he wrote for New York University Law School and the Bush Institute, where I work. "The high tax rates of the 1950s represented a compromise of sorts," Thorndike writes, "between those who wanted to 'soak the rich' in the name of fairness and those who sought to 'float all boats' with a rising tide of economic growth. When we recall the era's sky high statutory rates, we are remembering only half the story."
The behind-the-scenes record of the 1950s portends both good and ill. The good is that the higher tax rates that are coming will last longer on paper than they do in reality. The bad news is that those rates will hold at first, with genuine costs to growth that both parties will be slow to acknowledge. In other words, "2013" may be another documentary, but not necessarily one we want to watch.
(Amity Shlaes, a Bloomberg View columnist, is the director of the Four Percent Growth Project at the Bush Institute. Her biography of Calvin Coolidge will be published in February. The opinions expressed are her own.)
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Opisthoteuthis bruuniRichard E. Young and Michael Vecchione
This species is known only from 16 juveniles (13-29 mm ML) taken in a single tow off Chile (Voss, 1982). It has not been reported since.
- Arms, web and suckers
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- Thickened web present on ventral side of each arm near web margin.
- Web extends further on dorsal side of arms.
- Web formula inconsistent.
- Arms subequal.
- 27-35 suckers on each arm I, number increases with size.
- Male arm: small row of small suckers around mouth, following 2-3 suckers increase in size, then 3 gigantic suckers, then small to about sucker 17 (near web margin) where 3-4 suckers somewhat enlarged, distally 7-8 suckers gradually decrease in size to tip.
- Female arm: Sucker size gradually increases then decreases; proximal suckers largest.
- Length of cirri less than diameter of largest suckers.
Figure. Oral view of arms and web of O. bruuni. From Voss, 1982
This description is taken from Voss, 1982. More details of the description of O. bruuni can be found here.
O. bruuni shares (where males are known) enlarged suckers in both proximal and distal fields that are the same on all arms with O. agassizii, O. chathamensis, O. grimaldii and O. hardyi. It differs from all of these species in the number of suckers in the distal field (2-3 vs 6-14); however, the specimens are not mature.
Life History
The smallest know specimen is 13 mm in ML (drawing below). The enlarged suckers of the proximal field are present at this size. The enlarged suckers of the distal field, however, are not present until 18-23 mm ML.
O. bruuni is known only from the type locality at 23°41'S, 70°34'W in the southeastern Pacific off Antofagasta, Chile.
Voss, G. L. 1982. Grimpoteuthis bruuni, a new species of finned octopod (Octopoda: Cirrata) from the Southeastern Pacific. Bulletin of Marine Science 32: 426-433.
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What does a slick-suited, tousle-haired, big-spending associate of Japan's infamous Yakuza drive? Apparently, as the saying goes, anything he wants.
Meet Morohoshi-san. He's just a regular guy from Kabukicho, Tokyo's "entertainment district." His business, he says, is in a "gray area," so perhaps he's been arrested a few times. He may also keep council with a few questionable, heavily-tattooed characters. His car of choice is a modified Lamborghini Diablo. Why? He's got his reasons.
That's the setup for this excellent mini-doc by Tokyo-based videographer, Luke Huxham. Huxham, who also did Racing In The Streets: Group C Porsche 962, has been producing short documentary style films out of Japan for several years, after having moved there six years ago with zero knowledge of Japanese or filmmaking.
"I always enjoyed watching documentary style films, Huxham said, "So I one day decided to start trying to document aspects of Japanese automotive culture; This lead me to find [a] passion I never knew I had, cinematography.
I am a one man film team that manages to somehow do the job of four people: storyboard, directing, editing, color grading, sound....the list goes on. Every project I go to people wait for me and my crew to walk in, they get a worried look on their face as I explain to them that I'm the only one."
How did the Moroboshi-san shoot happen? Can you just walk up to the Yakuza and ask for an interview? Huxham told us the whole story via e-mail:
Every day in Japan you can see questionable looking people driving around in supercars. Where do they get their money? Who do they associate with? All these questions flooded my mind until finally I found myself behind my Canon 1DC surrounded by Bosozoku, brightly coloured flashing Lamborghinis and the Yakuza.
Bosozoku in Japan are bike gangs with no real respect for laws, the general public or the police. They're obviously frowned upon, often causing problems for the general public. Very often they're the early makings of Yakuza. It's like a training ground. Some of them will grow up and become real gangsters.
You can't really just walk up to these guys and ask them to be in your film. You don't walk into Kabukichou after midnight and start trying to film people with tattoos all over their bodies unless you want to have your nose broken. You need to know someone that has a good relationship with the people in these underground cultures and ask them to invite you in for as long as you're allowed to stay which is usually not very long!
This is where we meet Morohoshi-san, a Lamborghini fanatic who's not shy about telling the world about his passion for Lamborghini. After a couple meetings, he also wasn't too shy to let us [Huxham and assistant director, K.T. Chan] explore his dark background and some his close friends surrounding his dangerous lifestyle.
I started storyboarding this film months before it finally got to the two-night shoot. I found out very quickly that you can't really organize these types of people. You try to gather them up in one place and then make it to the next location while directing them, filming them, yelling at them from a chase car as you try to orchestrate these scenes you have envisioned. Your carefully planned, minute-by-minute schedule goes out the door, you're simply along for the ride with camera in hand.
It's very stressful but also very surreal at the same time. You don't take in these moments until the next night when you sit down and start going through all the footage, and find out which parts of your original story are there, and which are missing. When you do these cultural documentary pieces you really have to embrace the run-and-gun style of shooting. It's horribly stressful but also a very rewarding experience at times. It's nothing like my commercial shoots where things usually go according to plan, and you're not still out at 4:30 am filming dolly shots of Lamborghinis.
I would like to welcome to the world of an Underground Hero, a person some of you will love to hate. Remember, style is personal, fun is universal and Morohoshi-san is far too busy having fun to give a s*hit about what you think of his flashing neons.
And even if we did think his flashing neons were lame, I'm pretty sure none of us would tell him to his face. We like all our fingers right where they are.


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Survivalist convicted of killing trooper in Pa. sniper ambush
MILFORD, Pa. - A man who hid in the forest under cover of night and opened fire with a sniper's rifle was convicted of capital murder on Wednesday in the ambush slaying of a state police trooper he targeted at random in hopes of sparking a revolution.
A jury convicted Eric Frein in the Sept. 12, 2014, attack at the Blooming Grove state police barracks in northeastern Pennsylvania. Cpl. Bryon Dickson II, a married father of two, was killed, and a second trooper was shot through the hips and was left debilitated.
Frein was "literally hunting humans" when he peered at his targets through a scope during a late-night shift change and squeezed the trigger four times, Pike County District Attorney Ray Tonkin told jurors in his closing argument. He called Frein a terrorist who sought to change the government through bullets and bombs.
The gunman led authorities on a 48-day manhunt through the rugged Pocono Mountains before U.S. marshals caught him at an abandoned airplane hangar more than 20 miles from the barracks.
After a two-week trial that presented uncontested evidence of Frein's guilt, the jury convicted him on all 12 charges, including murder of a law enforcement officer, terrorism and two weapons of mass destruction counts related to small explosive devices he left in the woods while eluding capture.
Frein, 33, showed no emotion as the verdict was read, and he avoided looking at his parents as he was led from the courtroom. The trial moves into a penalty phase Thursday, with the same jury deciding whether he deserves the death penalty or life in prison without parole.
Tonkin said he will be seeking "full justice," while defense lawyer Bill Ruzzo said he will appeal to jurors to spare Frein's life.
"We would like to present Eric in the most sympathetic light that we can," he said. "We can't make him a holy man, but we're trying to make him a man."
The verdict was expected after prosecutors presented more than 500 pieces of evidence tying Frein to the ambush. His DNA was found on the trigger of the murder weapon, and police recovered several handwritten notebook pages at his campsite in which he described the attack and his subsequent escape into the woods in chilling detail, writing how he shot Dickson twice and watched him fall "still and quiet."
Tonkin, in his closing argument Wednesday, called Frein "a terrorist with murder in his heart, a plan in his mind and a rifle in his hand."
Frein shot Dickson in the chest and through the shoulders and spine from a distance of 87 yards, waited nearly 90 seconds until Trooper Alex Douglass came to Dickson's aid and then shot him, too, Tonkin said.
The defense offered no evidence or testimony and conceded the government's overwhelming case for conviction.
Police linked Frein to the ambush after a man walking his dog discovered his partly submerged SUV three days later in a swamp a few miles from the shooting scene. Inside, investigators found shell casings matching those found at the barracks and Frein's driver's license.
The discovery sparked a manhunt that involved 1,000 law enforcement officials and spanned more than 300 square miles. The dragnet shut down schools and roads and hurt businesses in the mountainous region, which leans heavily on tourism. At times, police ordered residents to stay inside or prevented them from returning home as they pursued tips and supposed sightings. Trick or treating was canceled.
Frein spent more than a month hiding out at the hangar, using a laptop and pilfered Wi-Fi to follow news of the search. He also worked on a letter to his parents, writing that "only passing through the crucible of another revolution can get us back the liberties we once had."
Frein added: "Tension is high at the moment and the time seems right for a spark to ignite a fire in the hearts of men. What I have done has not been done before and it felt like it was worth a try."
A death sentence would send Frein to death row, but the state has a moratorium on executions under Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf. The state's last execution was in 1999, and it has executed only three people since the U.S. Supreme Court restored the death penalty in 1976.
Wolf applauded the verdict but didn't address Frein's sentence.
"Today justice was served and a brutal murderer will be held accountable for his heinous and cowardly acts against members of the Pennsylvania State Police," he said in a statement.


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I hope all of our readers have a great 2013, and I hope you enjoy reading the stats for 2012. You can follow our publications at our research website. Thanks for all your support over the years! The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog.
Here's an excerpt:
About 55,000 tourists visit Liechtenstein every year. This blog was viewed about 440,000 times in 2012. If it were Liechtenstein, it would take about 8 years for that many people to see it. Roger Pielke Sr.' blog had more visits than a small country in Europe!


text: Please note : /* PAPER SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENDED TO NOVEMBER 27, 2000 */ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Call for Papers The 2001 International Workshop on Distributed Shared Memory on Clusters DSM 2001 The Third International Workshop on Software Distributed Shared Memory WSDSM'01 http://resam.univ-lyon1.fr/~llefevre/dsm2001/index.html Organized At IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid (CCGrid'2001) May 16 - 18, 2001, Brisbane, Australia http://www.ccgrid.org | http://www.ccgrid2001.qut.edu.au/ In Corporation with the IEEE Task Force on Cluster Computing (TFCC) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Call for Papers Scope With the emergence of clusters based on high performance functionnalities (network, processing power....), DSM have a new role to play by providing easiness of programming a shared space combined with high performance architecture. The DSM 2001 workshop organized at the CCGrid'2001 symposium will serve as a major forum to present and share the latest research results of the work by international researchers, developers, and users. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * DSM Systems Implementation on clusters * DSM on High Peformance Networks * Memory Models * Consistencies Protocols * Hardware support * Compiler Support * Fault Tolerance * Applications on DSM systems * OpenMP Deployment * DSM Benchmarking * Performance and Debugging Tools Paper Submission ------------------- Submission should include authors names, affiliations, addresses and email addresses on the cover page. Submission implies the willingness of at least one of the authors to register and present the paper. Please submit original, full paper not exceeding 8 pages of two column text using single spaced 10 point size type on 8.5 x 11 inch pages, as per IEEE 8.5 x 11 manuscript guidelines, see: http://www.computer.org/cspress/instruct.htm. Authors should submit a PostScript or PDF file that will print on a PostScript printer to the workshop chair Laurent Lefevre (llefevre at resam.univ-lyon1.fr) by email. Hard copies should be sent only if electronic submission is not possible. Proceedings -------------- All papers selected for this workshop by peer-review process will be published in the the CCGrid'2001 symposium proceedings through the IEEE Computer Society Press, USA and they will also be made available online through the IEEE digital library. Workshop Chairs ----------------- Laurent Lefevre RESAM Laboratory - Bat ISTIL Universite Claude Bernard Lyon1 43 bld du 11 Novembre 1918 69622 Villeurbanne - France Tel: +33 4 72 43 27 29 Fax: +33 4 72 43 12 25 Email: llefevre at resam.univ-lyon1.fr Program Committee Members -------------------------- * Lionel Brunie, INSA, France * Sandhya Dwarkadas, University of Rochester, USA * Liviu Iftode, Rutgers University, USA * Peter J. Keleher, University of Maryland, USA * Laurent Lefevre, RESAM Lab, Univ. Lyon, France * Christine Morin, IRISA, France * Frank Mueller, Humboldt-Universitaet zu Berlin, Germany * Assaf Schuster, Technion, Israel * H.S. Shahhoseini, Iran University of Science Technology, Iran * Jackie Silcock, Deakin University, Australia * David Taniar, RMIT University, Australia Important Dates: ------------------- Draft Papers due on: November 27, 2000 Notification of Acceptance: December 20, 2000 Camera Ready Papers and January 24, 2001 CCGrid'2001 Symposium: May 16 - 18, 2001 ------------------------------------------------------------------------


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Buttermilk Fried Chicken
There's a reason that Town Hall has had buttermilk fried chicken as a menu staple since their inception. It is just awesome. It's the best fried chicken you may have in the last year, or perhaps your lifetime. It is simply that good. Perfect batter crunch, and sweetly tender inside, the fried chicken comes with smashed potatoes slurred with a fantastic country bacon gravy. (A colleague who had it reckoned it was the best country gravy she'd ever tasted.) The veggies are seasonal: either collard greens or, here, a chop of summer squash and tomatoes. At mid-year, Town Hall's buttermilk fried chicken is the best fried chicken of 2009, and gets our highest grade (awesome).
The Grade: Awesome
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The Skinny: Town Hall
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Phone: (415) 908-3900
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I've been making Teratoma Tumors for about 5 or so years. They are a something that I find both fascinating and horrifying. Browsing Teratoma images online is not something I recommend or like to do. It is confronting to see so many babies with Teratoma's.
Teratoma's often sell to young women who have had one found on there ovary, a very common place for a teratoma.
From Wikipaedia "Teratomas belong to a class of tumors known as nonseminomatous germ cell tumor (N.S.G.C.T.). All tumors of this class are the result of abnormal development of pluripotent cells: germ cells and embryonal cells."
You can read a little more about the link between the teratoma and the parasitic twin below.
From Wikipaedia
Fetus in fetu and fetiform teratoma
Fetus in fetu and fetiform teratoma are rare forms of mature teratoma that include one or more components resembling a malformed fetus. Both forms may contain or appear to contain complete organ systems, even major body parts such as torso or limbs. Fetus in fetu differs from fetiform teratoma in having an apparent spine and bilateral symmetry.[12]
Most authorities agree that fetiform teratomas are highly developed mature teratomas; the natural history of fetus in fetu is controversial.[12] There also may be a cultural difference, with fetiform teratoma being reported more often in ovarian teratomas (by gynecologists) and fetus in fetu being reported more often in retroperitoneal teratomas (by general surgeons). Fetus in fetu has often been interpreted as a fetus growing within its twin. As such, this interpretation assumes a special complication of twinning, one of several grouped under the term parasitic twin. In this regard, it is noteworthy that in many cases the fetus in fetu is reported to occupy a fluid-filled cyst within a mature teratoma.[13][14][15][16] Cysts within mature teratoma may have partially developed organ systems; reports include cases of partial cranial bones, long bones and a rudimentary beating heart.[17][18]
Regardless of whether fetus in fetu and fetiform teratoma are one entity or two, they are distinct from and not to be confused with ectopic pregnancy.


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'NCIS' says farewell to Ziva
- Cote de Pablo announced in summer she would be leaving series
- Her character is not being killed off
- Emily Wickersham will play a character joining show in November
NCIS fans may have mixed feelings after Tuesday's episode.
Many will get what they have long wanted -- a passionate kiss between agents Ziva David and Tony DiNozzo – but it will come at a price, as last season's most-watched series (CBS, 8 p.m. ET/PT) says goodbye to the former Mossad operative and the actress who's played her for eight seasons, Cote de Pablo.
Michael Weatherly, who plays DiNozzo, says he and de Pablo didn't need to stretch too far to convey the feelings of their characters, as they parted on an airport tarmac halfway around the world, echoing the final scene of the classic film Casablanca.
"Her eyes were filled with emotion and tears, as were mine, for the whole evening," Weatherly says. "It was cathartic, to say the least."
Executive producer Gary Glasberg reconfigured the season's start into a two-parter after de Pablo's summer decision not to return. (De Pablo declined an interview request.) He wove Ziva's farewell, after Tony travels to Israel to find her, into the aftermath of a Season 10 cliffhanger that ended with NCIS team leader Leroy Jethro Gibbs (Mark Harmon) aiming a sniper's rifle at friend and FBI agent Tobias Fornell (Joe Spano).
"I couldn't do it in one episode," Glasberg says, explaining why the character was absent in last week's season premiere. Tuesday's episode "delivers what you want from Gibbs and then you have this enormous story line of Tony and Ziva ... that hopefully leaves people having an understanding of what's driven Ziva, gets to the crux of their relationship and leaves them in an interesting place as well."
There are no plans for de Pablo to come back, but Glasberg doesn't rule out a return. "Ziva's not dead."
With Ziva gone, Tony, Gibbs and the other members of the NCIS investigative team, including McGee (Sean Murray), Abby (Pauley Perrette) and Ducky (David McCallum), will adjust as NCIS gets back to some more traditional episodes that feature the team using Twitter to help solve a case (Oct. 8); an emotional story involving Gibbs' mentor Mike Franks (Muse Watson) on Oct. 15; and a flashback look at Tony before he was a Baltimore detective (Oct. 22).
Ralph Waite and Robert Wagner will return as Gibbs' and Tony's fathers, respectively, and the search for the terrorist ringleader Parsa will continue, too.
Weatherly is interested in how Tony will respond to a squad room without Ziva and the corresponding emotional push-and-pull. (The characters kissed to maintain their undercover identity as a couple in an earlier episode.).
"What the departure of Ziva has done to this team is that it has strengthened the connections between all of us," Weatherly says. "Tony and McGee become much closer, and Tony and Gibbs have had some pretty deep discussions about moving on and moving ahead."
NCIS in November will introduce Bishop (Emily Wickersham), an NSA analyst who could become a regular character.
"My intention is not to replace Ziva, but I can introduce a character who is unique and quirky and fun, and hopefully people will embrace her and feel like she is a new element to this group and a new part of moving it forward," Glasberg says.
There could be plenty of time for a new character to develop, since the 11th-season crime drama, known for its heavy helping of humor, is still going strong, averaging 21.6 million viewers last season and topping 20 million with last week's premiere. The franchise, which also includes the popular NCIS: Los Angeles, might grow, too, with Glasberg and Harmon working on two spring NCIS episodes that could become the basis for a spinoff series set in New Orleans.
"New Orleans is basically a magnet for military personnel to come and blow off steam on leave. With having a good time comes trouble," Glasberg says. "It's a wonderful, colorful, quirky backdrop."


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Browns' Farmer has done his job
Johnny Manziel might have been the star of the draft, but make no mistake, it was Ray Farmer's from start to finish.
The Browns realized Farmer was worth hiring, and changed Mike Lombardi's title from director of player personnel to general manager so Farmer could be brought in as an assistant general manager. And Farmer must be talented, because teams other than the Browns wanted to hire him as well. He interviewed for the Dolphins' general manager position in the offseason.
But after Lombardi and team CEO Joe Banner were given the heave-ho by owner Jimmy Haslam, the Browns became Farmer's show. Haslam restructured the team so the direct reports to him were Farmer, new coach Mike Pettine and team president Alec Scheiner.
Farmer's predecessors left him in a good position. They punted on the 2013 draft, and with the deals they made, including trading Trent Richardson during the season, the Browns had 10 picks to use in the 2014 draft. The Browns ended up using six of them, but accumulated an additional three for next year, including another first-rounder from the Bills, who had their sights set Thursday on Sammy Watkins.
At the top of their list was a quarterback, and the Browns were able to draft 2012 Heisman Trophy winner Johnny Manziel with their second pick in the first round, no. 22 overall. Manziel comes with a tremendous upside, but there is risk inherent in picking a quarterback not known for his size and known for his risk-taking.
The fact the Browns were looking for a quarterback was no secret. But the Browns also bolstered the offensive line with the selection of Joel Bitonio on Friday, and got back into the draft, trading with the San Francisco 49ers to draft Towson running back Terrance West.
Manziel's known for running the ball, and West's addition means new coach Mike Pettine and the Browns appear to be going all-in with a running game this season — almost out of necessity if they find themselves without wide receiver Josh Gordon, who followed up leading the league in receiving yards by allegedly testing positive for marijuana. There is an appeals process, but if the football gods haven't smiled on the Browns in nearly 50 years, I have no reason to believe they'll start now.
In fact, the Browns didn't draft any receivers in this draft, described as one of the deepest at that position. So either the Browns will be standing pat with a receiving corps that includes Greg Little, Nate Burleson, Andrew Hawkins and Pro Bowl tight end Jordan Cameron (there is another free agent signing in the offing), or the Browns will look to invite undrafted free agents at that position to camp.
The Browns also bolstered the secondary, drafting cornerbacks Justin Gilbert (with the eighth pick overall) and Pierre Desir, as well as lineback Christian Kirksey. The Browns already had a strong defensive line — again, thanks to Farmer's predecessors — and the defensive-minded Pettine has always been an advocate of a strong secondary.
The appearance of Manziel alone will make the Browns training camp — and potentially the season — more interesting to be around. But the Browns, who haven't won more than five games in a season since 2007, are in win-now mode. The whole — including five Pro Bowlers — has been less than the sum of its parts, and Haslam is demanding accountability, a refreshing change from previous owner Randy Lerner.
Farmer's done his job. Now it's up to Pettine. And the leash is short for both of them.


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Learning more about facilitation| learning, planning, plans
In 2010, I want to improve my facilitation skills. Facilitation is a large part of the consulting that I do at work, and I can see how good facilitation creates value. I'm frustrated by the limits of what I know and can do, and I'm looking forward to learning more. I'm particularly interested in three areas:
- facilitating better online discussions (especially asynchronous ones)
- doing visual facilitation and visual recording
- helping people brainstorm wild success stories and worst-case scenarios
My work focuses on brainstorming rather than conflict resolution or other applications of facilitation techniques, although I'm also interested in facilitation of group processes in order to improve collaboration.
If I improve my skills, I can use that foundation to help figure out more effective patterns for virtual facilitation and collaboration.
In order to learn more about facilitation, I plan to:
- proactively take on more responsibility for facilitating discussions at work, including doing the background research and helping prepare the deliverables
- read and reflect on lots of resources about in-person and remote facilitation
- collect templates and processes
- practice visual notetaking and facilitation during meetings, conference calls, and talks
- reflect on and share lessons learned from the workshops and idea labs we do
- shift more of my talks to interactive formats
- build mentoring relationships with people who can help me plan my learning
I plan to share what I'm learning with you through blog posts, sketches, lessons learned, and talks.
Looking forward to the adventure!


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Last week, I did a short study on faith. This week, I want to touch on something I was reminded of this past Sunday at church.
This past week ended with a tragedy for a friend's family, and we were overcome with the "WHY?" question. At this point, I realize now that I will never really know why. I don't really need to know why. If I did, I would already know why. But I put my trust in one thing…that God knows why and it happened for a reason. That's all I need to know. Many of my friends and I have been encouraging each other this weekend and the start of this new week. Something my pastor said this weekend really hit home with me. Hope. Here's the verses we studied this weekend.
Not only so, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; perseverance, character; and character, hope. And hope does not disappoint us, because God has poured out his love into our hearts by the Holy Spirit, whom he has given us. (Romans 5:3-5)
Now, when I wasn't a Christian yet, I suffered a very painful time when I was young. My grandfather died, and I didn't understand why. All I knew was that he was gone. After his funeral, my family had a party (At least to my teenage mind, it was a party) Why were we celebrating? Hello! Did you not remember that Granddad died? Why are you all laughing and joking? What is so funny about it? I was hurting really bad. My grandma was celebrating because my granddad had come to know Christ before he died. Granddad cheated death so many times already, and Grandma knew it was because God wasn't done with him yet. So she was celebrating that she would see her husband in Heaven when she died. But I didn't understand that fully until I became a Christian myself and I felt my Father's hand on my shoulder comforting me. See, God wants us to thank him in times of happiness. He wants us to be grateful when we get a prayer answered. But he wants us to know that he is there when we are suffering, too. Even though we are suffering, God isn't through with us yet. Through our pain, through our suffering, the Master craftsman is molding us and shaping us for something new. The things we suffer make us stronger. In it's verb form, Dictionary.com gives this definition for persevere: "to persist in anything undertaken; maintain a purpose in spite of difficulty, obstacles, or discouragement; continue steadfastly." That's exactly what God wants us to do….keep on keepin' on, even in the worst situations. Keep your eyes on the prize, keep striving toward the goal. Perseverance builds character. Integrity. Our traits that form our individual nature as children of God. and character builds hope. I love this next part. And hope does not disappoint us. AMEN! Our hope is in the Lord. He always has our best interest at heart. We have a hope for the future. Our future is with our Lord in heaven, going about the business that he has planned for us. Our future IS NOT eternal separation from our loving God. I look forward to the day that God decides that my time on this earth has ended and my time with Him begins eternally. (that is when God decides it is my time) My hope looks to that future and my hope will never fail me. God loves me so much that he sent his Son to die for me. There is my hope. I have a Savior who loves me and would give anything to have me with him forever. That, dear ones, is a promise that will never be broken.
So yes, we will go through times of sorrow. We will go through times of pain. We will go through times that we just hurt so badly. These words from God tell us to praise him in this storm. God holds us all in his hands, and there are no other hands that can hold me so tightly and never let go of me. God is not through with you, dear one. When Noah looked out on all the rain that fell and flooded the earth, did he give up hope? Just because he couldn't see it through the rain didn't mean that the rainbow wasn't there. God's word is true forever and ever, AMEN! God's promises will never come back with a return to sender stamp on them. So thank God and praise Him when you are at your lowest. Take his hand. There is nowhere to go but up.
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It was lunchtime, in a private room at the Xianheng Tavern, the most famous restaurant in the ancient Chinese city of Shaoxing.
I opened the plastic boxes that I'd carried, sealed, all the way from London, and the stench of farmhouse cheeses began to waft across the room. The Chinese chefs and waiting staff seated around the table eyed them warily. Only two of the younger chefs had any cheese-related experience. None of the others, including the manager and executive chef of the Xianheng, Mao Tianyao, had tasted it in any form.
Cheese is not a favourite food in China, to put it mildly. Traditionally, dairy products were associated with the nomadic people who lived on the fringes of China and who were regarded as fearful barbarians. The Han Chinese, with a few notable exceptions, avoided eating dairy foods altogether: many were, and still are, lactose-intolerant. In recent years, influenced by western lifestyles, Chinese parents have begun to feed milk to their children, and their purchasing power has contributed to soaring worldwide milk prices. Cheese, however, is still generally regarded as beyond the pale. A few sophisticated Shanghainese might eat Stilton just as sophisticated Londoners eat tripe and chitterlings, but many people, especially in the provinces, have never tasted it.
But if the Chinese disdain the cheeses enjoyed by Europeans, they themselves adore some stinky foods that would appal many foreigners. Shaoxing, an hour's drive from the Zhejiang provincial capital Hangzhou, is best known for its rice wines, but it is also the Chinese headquarters of "stinking and fermented" (chou mei) delicacies. Although I first went to Shaoxing to taste the wine, over several visits I became fascinated by its odorous foods, including the relatively well-known stinking beancurd, and also "fermented thousand layers" (made from beancurd skin), and various semi-rotted vegetables. All were shocking at first taste, with their earthy, old underwear aromas, but strangely addictive. "Fermented thousand layers" reminded me of the part of a high old Stilton that is closest to the rind, that yellow, sandy bit that gets right up your nose, dirty and delicious.
Over several visits to Shaoxing, I wondered what the locals, such ardent lovers of rotted soymilk and vegetable stalks, would make of rotted cow's milk, otherwise known as cheese. Finally, I returned to Shaoxing with a boxful of artisanal cheeses from Neal's Yard Dairy in London, including the smelliest I could find in the shop. I had selected one mild hard cheese, Isle of Mull, to serve as a kind of toe-in-the-water; Stichelton, which is an unpasteurised version of Stilton; pale, veined Harbourne Blue; Ardrahan, a fairly whiffy washed-rind cheese that I adore; Milleens, another washed-rind variety with a punchy, farmyardy aroma that acquires a hint of ammonia as it ripens; and a wildly smelly Brie de Meaux. By the time I reached Shaoxing after a week on the road, the cheeses had all ripened nicely, and some were beginning to ooze.
At the Xianheng, a waitress cut the cheeses into pieces, and the assembled tasters began to pick them up with their chopsticks, sniffing and tasting. And where I had been impressed by what cheese and stinky soya products had in common, these culinary professionals were immediately struck by their differences. "Although in some ways you could say the flavours of cheese and fermented beancurd are similar," said Mao, "vegetable stinky foods are very clean and clear in the mouth (qing kou), and they disperse quickly, while milky foods are greasy in the mouth (ni kou), they coat your tongue and palate, and they have a long, lingering aftertaste."
Two other chefs said the cheeses had a heavy shan wei (muttony odour), an ancient term used by southern Chinese to describe the slightly unsavoury tastes associated with the northern nomads. Another said that the selection "smells like Russians". "The difference," he added, "is that the stinky things Chinese people eat give them smelly breath, while stinky dairy things affect the sweat that comes out of your skin."
Chinese fermented beancurd, an intense-tasting relish, had always reminded me of a ripe blue cheese, but the Shaoxing tasters, faced with a Stichelton, disagreed. "It does have a rich umami taste," said chef Chen Judi, "but there's also a bitter aftertaste that people in this region wouldn't like at all." Several of the tasters were repelled by the sourness and astringent aftertaste of the Isle of Mull, which I'd thought was the most innocuous. "Our rotted thousand layers just doesn't have that sour taste," said Mao.
The cheeses they found most palatable were the Harbourne Blue ("this is quite close to Shaoxing tastes," said Mao, "neither bitter nor sour, and quite clean in the mouth") and, surprisingly, the very strong Milleens, with its ammoniac whiff. "I think people here would be able to tolerate this," he added. The only cheese that provoked real consternation was the Brie. "It has this animal stench that assaults your nose," said Dai Jianjun. "Definitely the stinkiest," said Mao, "I really can't bear it." Most of the others agreed. Only one chef, Sun Guoliang, actually liked it. "It has such a complex flavour, like stinking beancurd, rotted thousand sheets and fermented beancurd, all mixed together."
After our first course of cheeses, we tasted some stinky local dishes for comparative purposes. And I had to agree with the assembled company that, despite the formidable aromas of the steamed stinking beancurd and the rotted amaranth stalks, their flavours were clean, dispersing quickly in the mouth, without the creamy clinginess of cheese. The cubes of fermented beancurd, too, had a magnificent creaminess, but it didn't hang around: quickly vanishing to leave room for appreciation of the delicate soups and stews that came afterwards.
Much as I love cheese myself, by the end of the meal I was beginning to understand why a Shaoxing local might turn up her nose at Brie, while enjoying the stinking beancurd that perfumes entire neighbourhoods. I was, however, fascinated by how well the mellow tastes of Shaoxing's amber-coloured wines matched the local stinking delicacies, a marriage as perfect as port and Stilton. The next tasting, perhaps, should be a gathering of European oenophiles around a table of Shaoxing wines and cheese.
This article originally appeared in Financial Times. Click here to read more coverage from the Weekend FT.


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On any weekend, if you go to the local DIY store like Bunnings (our version of Lowe's/Home Depot/B & Q), you will almost certainly smell hot sausages and onions in the parking lot as you enter the store. It's called a "sausage sizzle" and for a couple of bucks, you get a slice of squishy white bread, an average sausage with sauteed onions and a squirt of ketchup or bbq sauce. There is nothing about it that is sophisticated but it is a tasty and cheap snack that is loved here. I don't know why but I had always imagined an Australian BBQ to be pretty exciting and I think the marketing team at Outback Steakhouse (a completely American company) made me think that there was something different, or better about an Aussie BBQ.
Last weekend, we decided to volunteer planting trees at a nearby park for National Tree Day. Imagine my excitement that there was going to be a free BBQ as well! Even the wet, cold weather didn't deter us from planting some trees and having some BBQ. When we arrived, I noticed that "BBQ" on offer was the sausage sizzle which my husband likes with but I do not really enjoy. The main reason for my disdain is the taste of the sausages. If you go to any supermarket and buy plain sausages, they usually contain some type of lamb or mutton along with pork or beef. This is not something I am used to at all. You'd never find lamb in a generic sausage back home unless it was labeled specifically as lamb sausage. I am not a fan of strong flavored meats and can instantly taste it if there is lamb or mutton in the sausage (I have to be in the mood for lamb).
The choices that day were either burnt vegetarian patties or sausages on white bread and a can of soda. I think I was really hungry because I devoured two sausages with all the grease and didn't complain at all even when I was spitting out the gristle between mouthfuls. I was actually happier about the free soda since they cost about $2.50 for a 12 oz / 330 ml can here. I know, I know, I really shouldn't complain because it was free but my point is that it wouldn't have mattered where it was being served…it would've been pretty identical anywhere else, free or otherwise.
Today, I was walking through the University of Adelaide and it happens to be "welcome back from winter break" week for students and sure enough, there was the familiar smell of the sausage sizzle and a long line to eat the ubiquitous Aussie sausage in white bread for lunch.
What is my point? I just wanted to show people outside of Oz what a generic sausage sizzle looks like. It is a common thing to go to any average BBQ and have various meats and sausages grilling and a couple of loaves of squidgy white bread to use as buns. I wonder why the hot dog bun never caught on here? For me, I find the sausage in white bread very unexciting but when very hungry, it does the job. Don't get me wrong and don't send me hate mail…I still LOVE living here and so many things about Australia but I still think that we do a better average BBQ in the States.


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Welcome to this week's Math Munch!
Whoa. What is that?
Is that even possible?
This gear sphere and many others are the creations of Paul Nylander. There are 92 gears in this gear sphere. Can you figure out how many there are of each color? Do you notice any familiar shapes in the gears' layout?
What's especially neat are the sizes of the gears—how many teeth each gear color has. You can see the ratios in the upper left corner. Paul describes some of the steps he took to find gears sizes that would work together. He wrote a computer program to do some searching. Then he did some precise calculating and some trial and error. And finally he made some choices about which possibilities he liked best. Sounds like doing math to me!
Along the way Paul figured out that the blue gears must have a number of teeth that is a multiple of five, while the yellow ones must have a multiple of three. I think that makes sense, looking at the number of red gears around each one. So much swirly symmetry!
Be sure to check out some of Paul's other math art while you're on his site. Plus, you can read about a related gear sphere in this post by mathematician John Baez.
I figured there had to be a good math game that involves gears. I didn't find quite what I expected, but I did find something I like. It's a game that's called—surprise, surprise—Gears! It isn't an online game, but it's easy to download.
And if you're in the mood for some more gear gaming and you have access to a tablet or smartphone, you should check out Wuzzit Trouble. It's another free download game, brought to you by "The Math Guy" Keith Devlin. Keith discusses the math ideas behind Wuzzit Trouble in this article on his blog and in this video.
Last up this week, I'd like to share with you some souvenirs. If you went on a math vacation or a math tour, where would you go? One of the great things about math is that you can do it anywhere at all. Still, there are some mathy places in the world that would be especially neat to visit. And I don't mean a place like the Hilbert Hotel (previously)—although you can get a t-shirt or coffee mug from there if you'd like! The mathematician David Hilbert actually spent much of his career in Göttingen, a town and university in Germany. It's a place I'd love to visit one day. Carl Gauss lived in Göttingen, and so did Felix Klein and Emmy Noether—and lots more, too. A real math destination!
Lots of math has been inspired by or associated with particular places around the world. Just check out this fascinating list on Wikipedia.
Did you know that our word souvenir comes from the French word for "memory"? One thing that I like about math is that I don't have to memorize very much—I can just work things out! But every once in a while, there is something totally arbitrary that I just have to remember. Here's one memory-helper that has stuck with me for a long time.
May you, like our alligator friend, find some good math to munch on. Bon appetit!


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This year's tribute to Dr. King has to do with this country's economic well-being. When a person talks about his own well-being it is often in the context of how he is feeling physically, mentally and emotionally. When disease, injury or trauma occurs, then the saying generally is "I'm not feeling well". The same kind of self-assessment can and should be made for the country as a whole. Indeed, our current president seems to know this well and will often make observations of the country's poor economic health as a way to advance his political agenda. His carefully prepared diagnosis is generally: too much inequality and not enough shared sacrifice. And he will give this assessment the same way a doctor today would give his patient a diagnosis: mechanically and patronizingly. But for something that is akin to cancer in its potential to disrupt and destroy, that is no way to motivate a populace to change its way, to say nothing of whether he even believes change is needed at all.
For years now, the country has been gripped by an increasing sense of economic insecurity. One that says to a person if I don't do this now, I will never be able to do it at all. The thing that must be done, of course, is "make money". This mentality I think we can all agree has led to a lower quality of life than that which existed thirty, forty years ago. Because, for all the additional material goods and technology that we now have that we didn't have before, they do nothing to compensate for the time that one has to spend to make that extra dollar that he cannot spend with his family, his friends his community, and even himself (in the sense of self-reflection and self-improvement).
It is the kind of insecurity that has led to the creation of thousands of meaningless yet high-paying jobs where the only skill that is required is the skill to bullshit your way through meeting after meeting, and client after client, while doing everything you possibly can to protect your own turf. It is meant to employ the un-employable, and in the process, give them a sense of self-worth, while doing nothing to teach them a skill which might make a difference when the government is on the brink of collapse or the next nuclear bomb hits. Make no mistake, this is not a swipe at the so-called financial industry whose dispensability and frivolousness are already well-known to the general public. It is directed to some of the most revered institutions, like higher education and public service, that have at one time made this country — even with its many moral failings — a symbol of hope for many around the world.
This sense of insecurity is not entirely irrational. The growing gap between rich and poor, educated and uneducated, healthy and unhealthy has been thoroughly documented. It isn't news that the country is in ill-health and likely to get worse in the coming years. And it is entirely predictable that people today have an almost messianic attitude about money and its healing properties: "get as much of it as you can now because soon there won't be any left. And if we can't take care of ourselves, no one is going to do it for us.".
The problem, of course, is that this just makes the problem worse. The "me first" mentality further entrenches the rich at the expense of the poor. That is because the ones who are most able to make it on their own are the ones who already have the means to do so. What the current climate of insecurity has done is turn what were once blinders which the rich wore vis a vis the poor to full-blown hazmat suits. See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil, or so the saying goes. In cities, this can be seen in "gentrification" which allow the rich to enjoy all the benefits of the city without the costs that necessarily come with living in close proximity to others. In the suburbs, this can be seen in the proliferation of gated communities and private police forces. The common theme of all this change is the rejection of the idea that we all provide for each other as well as for ourselves, rather than simply ourselves, an idea that led many to embrace Dr. King and the civil rights movement.
Few if any public figures mention these things. To do so would make them a prime target for the "socialist" label and doom their careers. But the ideals at issue are ones that need to be revived if the country is to heal itself from the economic and moral malaise with which it has been inflicted. Dr. King recognized that, and history has proven his work valuable even if its effects have been limited (not through any fault of his own). And we must as well, for the alternative is at once unfathomable but all too familiar.


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We've all said things like "that meal just changed my life." And if you haven't, well…you might want to take a serious look at what you're eating. I've eaten lots of meals that have changed my life. I probably overuse that phrase, but that's how much I love food. There've been a few recipes (especially over the course of this past year) that I've made again and again for friends and family that I love and yeah, I think they've changed my life. They wake me up a little, they make me better. So…yeah. But the closest I've come to food tears was a couple of months ago at the Roots, Rants and Roars Festival in Elliston. Root cellar capital of Newfoundland (or quite possibly the world) and one one of the prettiest places I've ever laid eyes on. Shamefully, it was my first visit, but after this massive weekend celebration of food, I know it won't be my last.
Like a lot of Newfoundlanders and Labradorians I was tickled to find out that Todd Perrin had been chosen to be on Top Chef Canada. Todd's a chef here in St. John's and I'm pretty sure that cable companies had a few phone calls inquiring about the Food Network when word got out that a local was going to be a contestant. I was cableless in Cow Head this past summer but thankfully I could watch the episodes online. I'm not one for reality TV (except for Say Yes to the Dress, I love that shit) but anything to do with food and I'm hooked. Especially when there's going to be a ballsy Newfoundlander who's not afraid to use seal meat on the first episode for his signature dish. Todd was a straight-up classy guy on the show, got eliminated halfway through (robbed, naturally) but clearly made an impression with judges and his fellow chefs. Towards the end of the summer I caught wind of this festival that was happening at the end of September. A huge celebration of food using local ingredients at several different events around town. Some of the best chefs in Newfoundland would be there, and Todd Perrin himself had managed to wrangle six Top Chefs from the show to come to Elliston as well. I think I broke out in a cold sweat when I first read about the event. It was the stuff dreams were made of, like if someone asked "In a perfect world, if you were to organize a food event in Newfoundland…" This was it. I agonized about whether or not I could do it, if I could make it that weekend, if I would be working, if the car would still be alive to make it across the province again. But when I found out that a group of pals were headed out and one in particular was flying home from Toronto just for the food, I knew I was in. I bought the three day pass online and told myself that if Lucy the Honda Civic expired on the trip, I'd hitchhike.
Lucy made it. Thankfully you don't really need power steering if you stick to the main highway, so I arrived safe and sound in Port Rexton on a Friday afternoon. Friends had rented a house there and I was the weirdo who pitched a tent on the front lawn. We all piled into a car (not mine, headlights broken, excellent reason to not be the designated driver) and drove the forty minutes to Elliston. The first event on the schedule was "King of Cod"…five chefs from St. John's competing for the title, each one having to prepare an original dish using codfish. The little community hall was humid, hot and full of people and when the smell of the food hit me in the face when I walked in, my little heart shed a tear for what I knew had been the best food decision of my life.
I should have taken notes. I should have taken the time to jot down the names of the recipes, the chefs who toiled over them, the exact ingredients used. I went in with that intention, but it was everything in me not to take each and every little cod dish into a corner and weep for joy, let alone keep track of notes. I did however, manage to take a few snaps with my shitty but trusty Korean black market seven year old digital camera. The first heart-melting dish I tasted was cod poached in olive oil on a bed of split-pea masala. I didn't even know you could poach anything in olive oil. I though you could only poach eggs in water. Not really, but I felt humbled and pretty honoured to be there. And embarrassed about my lack of cod-poaching skills. After the votes were tallied, Jeremy Charles won with this blackened cod, Pernod and sea urchin beurre blanc, parsnip puree, jigg's dinner-ravioli miracle. Every dish was special, every dish made me want to hug the chefs, but that would have been weird and they were pretty busy.
I could have walked away happy that night, the food was so good. But I figured I'd stick around for the food hike the next day. Five stations manned by Canada's Top Chefs, serving five original dishes using fresh Newfoundland seafood and meat. The weather held and it went from rainy to humid and sunny…we trudged up and down the roads of Elliston and I felt like I was in a tourism commercial. Root cellars, laundry blowing in the wind, salt-box houses. I didn't see any red-haired freckly faced kids, but if they were around they were probably lining up for the moose croquettes, homemade squid-ink pasta, and cod with lime and coriander butter. It was like something out of a dream. All that and you could walk up and down the road with a glass of wine in your hand and no one looked at you funny.
So I didn't try to make a new dish that week, I let Roots, Rants and Roars do the work for me. I had to cut out of the festival a little early and miss the last day because of work, but I drove away in awe of what I'd eaten and what I'd experienced. The turnout was impressive and I'm pretty sure the turnout was impressed. If you're at all in like or in love with food, grab your tent, your friends, your dog, grab your kids and tell them their chicken nugget days are numbered. Get to this thing next year by whatever means possible. You'll marvel at what you thought you knew about Newfoundland cuisine. You'll use the word marvel. And you'll walk away a little prouder of what's happening in this have-food province.


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This past Monday night Montgomery County Commissioners and the higher-ups in several County agencies were on hand at Montgomery County Community College in Pottstown to talk about what they've done since taking office and to answer questions and hear residents' concerns.
Evan Brandt's article in yesterday's Mercury provides a nice summary. Public employee pensions, the state of Route 422, the potential for gerrymandering, the ongoing challenges of revitalization, the concentration of social services and the people they serve, and the effects of the concentration of housing vouchers in Pottstown were all up for discussion. The Commissioners were well-prepared and promised to provide follow-up information to numerous citizens.
One of the brightest moments of the meeting came when Shanae Roberts, the President of the West Campus student body announced the figures for the amount of community service provided by the College over the past four years. It was encouraging to see a young person at the meeting, participating in the give-and-take of democracy! Ms. Roberts reported the following:
Between 2008-2012, MCCC has reached out to the community with 3,695 volunteers putting in more than 33,700 hours with 117 partnering opportunities. This amounted to over $100,529 in monetary donations. In 2012 the College had the highest number of volunteers to date with over 918 volunteers contributing 15,500 hours of service to 28 partner organizations, including the Norristown Police Athletic League, Olivet Boys and Girls Club, Miller Keystone & American Red Cross Blood Drives, and Project Linues. An estimated $38,300 in monetary donations was raised.
Not only is the West Campus proving to be an important revitalization partner as it rehabilitates and re-uses historic buildings in town, but there is also a strong culture of developing and sustaining connections in the community. Thanks to MCCC for hosting this meeting, which had a very strong turnout, perhaps an indication of a new core constituency that believes in a better Pottstown and is impatient for change.


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It's bad when a trusted employee has to tell you that they've lost a future prototype of the product that single-handedly catapulted your company to the forefront of mobile devices. However, it is worse when the person who ends up with the lost treasure knows exactly what he/she has, and what it could be worth…and this soap opera ain't sitting well with the folks in Cupertino. CNET is reporting that Apple and the computer crime task force of the Santa Clara District Attorney's office are investigating whether the sale of the now infamous fourth generation iPhone violated the law in any way. CNET explains where Apple could have a case:
Under a California law dating back to 1872, any person who finds lost property and knows who the owner is likely to be but "appropriates such property to his own use" is guilty of theft. If the value of the property exceeds $400, more serious charges of grand theft can be filed. In addition, a second state law says that any person who knowingly receives property that has been obtained illegally can be imprisoned for up to one year.
Any prosecution would be complicated because of the First Amendment's guarantee of freedom of the press: the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 2001 that confidential information leaked to a news organization could be legally broadcast, although that case did not deal with physical property and the radio station did not pay its source.
The suit may, or may not, be aimed at tech blog Gizmodo — the purchaser of the found iPhone — as Apple, the Santa Clara D.A., and Gizmodo all declined to comment when contacted by CNET. What do you think? Will this be a landmark case for Constitutional scholars, or is Apple just letting off some legal steam?


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2010 Conference Buzz
Announcements From the Organizers
- Conference tag: c4l10
- Conference Program (also as a calendar feed thanks to Simon Spero)
- Internet in guest rooms at the Renaissance Asheville is FREE.
- Annotated Google Map
- Hospitality Suite: 1114 ("open when a warm body is there") - will have a portable projector!
- Hotel Map - aside from the first floor we're using Swannanoa Room (2nd Floor), Hospitality Suite 1114; one preconference will use Oakland Heights (12th floor)
- http://tinyurl.com/ashevillebuzz is an alias to this page
- Jobs4Lib - flipchart near the registration area (see code4libcon discussion)
- Release form 'cause we're videotaping
- weather
Does Anybody Want To...?
See also C4L2010_social_activities -- should we move summaries here?
Attending the conference and tweeting about it? Add yourself to 2010 Twitter List to end up in the @code4lib twitter list for convenient following.
An archive of tweets based on the #c4l10 hashtag can be viewed at Twapperkeeper.
- Breakfast Tuesday - Thursday is continental
- Lunch is provided on Tuesday and Wednesday. Lunch options on other days:
- Add some ideas here or see the Google Map or the print program
Dinner Plans
See C4L2010 social activities for some planned dinners (feel free to summarize here!)
- Sunday
- Monday - see Newcomer Dinner for one option
- Tuesday
- Wednesday - see 12 Bones BBQ and Vegetarian dinner at Ophelia's World Cafe and Bar
Things To Do
- "36 Hours in Asheville, NC" piece in the New York Times TRAVEL section from 2007.
See also C4L2010_social_activities -- should we move summaries here?
- Airport bus: Bus to the airport from downtown (doesn't run on Sundays)
- See also Asheville_Airport_to_Hotel_Van_Manifest and C4L2010rideshare
SSH Tunneling to get around blocked ports
Ports blocked? Try this:
- On your laptop, execute:
ssh -f -N -L 9999:chat.freenode.net:6667 machine.I.have.rights.on
...where chat.freenode.net:6667 is the machine/port you want to eventually get to, machine.i.have.rights.on is...well, that, and 9999 is an empty port on your local machine.
You'll be prompted for a password if you need one, after which you can put it in the background.
Then you can set up your chat software to talk to localhost:9999 and you're set.
Ground Crew Contacts
Please feel free to contact us about anything, any time, between now and the end of the conference.
- Jill Ellern 828-399-1286


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Around 1908, my great grandfather Julius (Jules) Frost started a Forestry business.
In 1914, the business was advertised in the Bridgeport Connecticut Directory and several photographs were added to the family photo album.
Jules brother Fred was involved in the Forestry business as well. He later became a plumber.
Assuming that these guys worked for the company.
By 1925, Jules had moved to the Bronx and in the New York census that year he listed his occupation as "Piano Company". He was likely moving Pianos, as he eventually owned a moving company for many years.


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Dear Remember Me & The Runaways-
If I see another commercial, video clip, interview, late night talk show, picture, WHATEVER about you it will be too soon. I think we have officially reached the over saturation point. You're EVERYWHERE I turn. On the TV, on huge billboards, on Twitter, and on every TWILIGHT site. I'm SOOO over it. I don't care how to get Kristen's eye makeup look from the movie (sleep in day old eyeliner and smudge), I don't care that Pierce Brosnon decided to use a "Brooklyn Accent" (he shoulda forgotaboutit, cause it's awful), I don't care who they wore to the premieres (Pucci, Doo.Ri, Elie Saab, Valentino, Derelique) and I DEFINITELY do not care that Dakota and KStew made out and it was "hot" (it wasn't).
In the total media onslaught for these two films we seem to have lost track of two very important things: New Moon and Eclipse! WTF are those, right? I totally forgot about the New Moon DVD coming out and what happened to Eclipse?! I was too busy watching Rob and Emilie kissing on E! News to remember such trivial things like having FACEPUNCH available in the comfort of my home! It's the day before New Moon comes out on DVD and we don't even know know which stores the cast will be making appearances at. Who wants to talk about "Cherry Bomb" when I can see Chris Weitz in the flesh?! That's a NO BRAINER.
I can't even go to a Twilight site to see whats new in the TWILIGHT FANDOM without having to sift through post after post of red carpet interviews with Cherrie Currie talking about Dakota or Rob talking about the nuances of a love scene with Emilie. I don't care anymore, that was last week give me my TWILIGHT BACK!! Give me Twilight/New Moon/Eclipse or give me death!
Oh and ANOTHER THING…
Seriously Twitter users, it's just overkill now. We know and agree wholeheartedly that Kristen and Dakota looked hot at the premieres but your 24/7 virtual lady boners for these girls are weirding us the ef out. One more day of this stuff and I'm going to hang a "gone fishing" sign on the virtual door of our Twitter and come back once the fake lesbian (or maybe not) Viagra has worn off. Damn.
So remember last fall when we finally had to call a moratorium on the word "jizz?" Yup, I think we're there again only this time it's on the Runaways and Remember Me. Please go away and give me my Twilight back.
Hiding in a fallout shelter till the viagra wears off or until something worthwhile comes out,
PS If you will be in LA at some undisclosed location with Chris Weitz and Nikki Reed and hopefully me (moon) and some other gals please come say hi and hand me a chill pill, or a hug. Thanks!
Are you over it? Can't get enough Runaways make up tips? Watched EVERY video of Rob on the RM red carpet? Want to hurt someone for some Eclipse information? What the crap is happening with Breaking Dawn? Do I need anger management class?
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