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On Racism in the Antebellum North – 2 – Douglas
I recently had the opportunity to listen to a performance of the first four debates between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas. There is no better example of the Northern Antebellum perception of the black man than in the words of Douglas during the first of those debates held on August 21, 1858 in Ottawa, Illinois. He used the opportunity to mock Lincoln and abolitionists. More importantly, he showed his colors to be that of a true white supremacist. The comments from the crowd are noted in parentheses.
"I do not question Mr. Lincoln's conscientious belief that the negro was made his equal, and hence is his brother, (laughter,) but for my own part, I do not regard the negro as my equal, and positively deny that he is my brother or any kin to me whatever. ("Never." "Hit him again," and cheers.) Lincoln has evidently learned by heart Parson Lovejoy's catechism. (Laughter and applause.) He can repeat it as well as Farnsworth, and he is worthy of a medal from Father Giddings and Fred Douglass for his Abolitionism. (Laughter.) He holds that the negro was born his equal and yours, and that he was endowed with equality by the Almighty, and that no human law can deprive him of these rights which were guarantied to him by the Supreme ruler of the Universe. Now, I do not believe that the Almighty ever intended the negro to be the equal of the white man. ("Never, never.") If he did, he has been a long time demonstrating the fact. (Cheers.) For thousands of years the negro has been a race upon the earth, and during all that time, in all latitudes and climates, wherever he has wandered or been taken, he has been inferior to the race which he has there met. He belongs to an inferior race, and must always occupy an inferior position. ("Good," "that's so.")" (1)
Douglas also made a point of repeating in several of his debates with Lincoln the improprieties of an abolitionist who he observed driving a carriage while Fred Douglass lounged in the cab with the driver's wife. This inflamed sense of impropriety regarding black men and white women was consistent with fear mongering in the South that led to greater controls on slave populations.
Read the first post in this series here.
(1) Abraham Lincoln, Stephen A. Douglas, "First Debate: Ottawa, Illinois August 21, 1858," (<http://www.nps.gov/liho/historyculture/debate1.htm> Accessed on 18 Jan. 2009).


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The wife of a cyclist run over and killed after plunging into a "pothole" on Settle bypass says there are still questions to answer.
Kate Uzzell's 51-year-old husband Martyn died when he fell from his bike into the path of a car while on a Land's End to John O Groats charity ride, on June 17, 2011.
The wheel of his cycle dropped into a trench in the road, which had appeared around a drainage grate, causing him to wobble and fall.
The coroner, Rob Turnbull, who recorded a verdict that Mr Uzzell of Clevedon, Somerset, died as a result of a road traffic collision, heard that the defect in the bypass, near Giggleswick, had been reported twice prior to the accident by Ingleton police officer Sgt Mark Hill.
His alert on May 5, 2011, was passed from police control to North Yorkshire County Council, but no action was taken.
Mrs Uzzell, 47, said: "The nature of the inquest hearing doesn't provide all the answers but the coroner stated the pothole around the gulley is what caused Martyn to be thrown into the path of the car."
Before recording his verdict, Mr Turnbull reminded those present at the hearing in Skipton that his job was not to attribute blame but simply to establish the facts around Mr Uzzell's tragic death.
He said from the evidence it appeared the hole – its depth ranged between 102mm and 65mm – had been there some days.
"No doubt the condition of the road was the cause of the accident," he said.
He heard evidence from county council officers who were responsible for the maintenance of the road.
Highways Inspector Ian Jewitt, now retired, said he had inspected the road on May 13, describing it as "scabby" and starting to break up. He did not believe it needed immediate attention but would have to be repaired within a month. I would have noticed if it was like it was at the time of the accident and resolved it immediately, I would not have left it in that condition," he said.
His colleague, Martin Webster, said he had inspected the site on June 10 and did not spot that it needed any attention.
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He said that "catastrophic" failures of the surface, as he believed it was, could appear over a very short period.
Michael Roberts, the county's head of highways opperations, said: "I would be astonished if the hole had been there for any length of time. It would have been seen and action taken."
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"He was still on his bike when he fell and I went over him," said Mr Panesar, who needed time to compose himself as he gave his evidence. He believed he was giving sufficent room when overtaking.
Coach driver Kenneth Backhouse, who was taking a group of school children from Eastburn to Clapham, said he clearly saw Mr Uzzell's cycle go into the pothole and Mr Uzzell fall into the path of the car.
Other witnesses were consistent in their description of Mr Uzzell falling from his bike in an attempt to avoid the hole.


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The tribe, through its investors, so far has anted up $1 million, but some officials were wary the town would be on the hook if plans for the casino fell through. Last week, the Finance Committee advised selectmen to stop spending the money. Now, the tribe says it not seek reimbursement if its casino plan fizzles.
Selectmen will now move forward with spending casino planning money after the Mashpee Wampanoag tribe sent a letter stating the town does not have to pay back those funds, even if its casino plan fizzles.
The tribe, through its investors, so far has anted up $1 million, but some officials were wary the town would be on the hook if plans for the casino fell through. Last week, the Finance Committee advised selectmen to stop spending the money.
On Aug. 19, Wampanoag Tribal Council Chairman Cedric Cromwell sent a letter to Town Manager Charles J. Cristello stating, "the Tribe has no intention of seeking the return of monies provided by the Tribe that were spent by the Town according to the terms of the Intergovernmental Agreement."
Selectmen Chairman Patrick E. Rogers said he was satisfied the town is protected between language in the contract and a verbal commitment from Cromwell.
"I never questioned we would have to pay it back," said Rogers.
Rogers now is ready to go forward tonight, saying, "We will spend the money as we see wisely to protect the town if the casino goes forward."
Rogers said selectmen will accept input from residents, other boards and town departments.
"We have the responsibility to make the right decisions to plan for this potential project," he said.
The money could be spent on road upgrades and other changes to accommodate a resort-style casino.
The investors behind the proposed $1 billion casino are no longer funding the Mashpee Wampanoags but are still making payments to the town.
The partnership between the investors and the tribe is up in the air amid concerns that a U.S. Supreme Court ruling in February has doomed the casino project.
The so-called "Carcieri" ruling said the U.S. government has no authority to set aside sovereign land for tribes, such as the Mashpee Wampanoags, that were recognized by the government after 1934.
The tribe is seeking to have more than 500 acres in Middleboro set aside as a reservation to open the resort casino there.
Members of the Mashpee Wampanoag tribal council have told The Enterprise they've been cut off from all funding by casino investors Sol Kerzner and Len Wolman.
But the investors did come through last month on their annual $250,000 payment to Middleboro for casino planning work.
In his Aug. 19 letter from the tribe to the town about the payments, Cromwell wrote, "I want to reiterate our desire to proceed with the gaming project in Middleboro."
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Spent all of Thursday thinking it was Wednesday and went in to work on Friday thinking it was Friday. Despite not even opening that bottle of vodka I bought. Probably a good thing I didn't.
Here's yesterday's entry in Dwight Frye-days at Limerwrecks, on SON OF FRANKENSTEIN. And so —
LES ANGES DU PECHE, Robert Bresson's nunsploitation film? Well, the title, ANGELS OF SIN is a fantastic one — Nigel Wingrove should recycle it for one of his softcore habits-and-tits films. The film itself is something else.
Bresson's style is still at an early stage of evolution, which means he hadn't yet eliminated everything he didn't like, or modified everything he didn't quite like — the movie is more like a traditional one of the period (1943), albeit a particularly elegant and tasteful one. And it has actors, not models, in the lead roles, including the brittle Jany Holt, who was leading a double life at this time, acting by day and working for the resistance by night. Her sharply-sculpted face, often chic, is here useful to suggest frosty, hard-bitten cynicism.
She plays a woman framed for a crime she didn't commit who resolves to kill the man who framed her. Bresson gives her a gun-buying scene to compare with Cagney's in THE PUBLIC ENEMY or Schwartzenegger's in THE TERMINATOR. "This is the best. It takes six bullets. Six more in the extra clip. Will that be enough?" Jany replies: "If it isn't, I'll come back." Which fills the mind's eye with the cold-blooded image of her plugging her betrayer twelve times, noticing some vestigial respiration in the ventilated form, and calmly returning to the store to buy another round, then strolling back and perforating him again. It doesn't happen that way in reality, of course.
Meanwhile, Renee Faure, a young novice, has become obsessed with saving Holt's soul, and invites her to join the convent, which welcomes women with a shady past (the first scene shows the Mother Superior and her cronies planning to collect a parolee from under the nose of her pimp, the whole operation planned like a heist or a military raid–gripping stuff!). Holt moves in to the nunnery as a way of hiding from the law, but resents the way her would-be-rescuer sees her as some kind of personal project. She resolves to destroy Faure rather than be saved by her.
When John Boorman unwisely undertook EXORCIST II: THE HERETIC, he said that rather than making a horror movie he wanted to make a theological thriller. Ignoring the fact that Friedkin's original already is that, at least to an extent. Boorman made a gloriously silly film. When Paul Schrader unwisely undertook the film that, incredibly, wound up entitled DOMINION: PREQUEL TO THE EXORCIST, he acknowledged that the first film had powerfully visualized the struggle for a soul (albeit in somewhat corporeal terms).
But Bresson's film does all that much more simply, without the distraction of pea soup — it's a really exciting movie, as exciting as PICKPOCKET though less mature in Bresson's style, and even though I regard the business of marrying Christ with a certain amount of horror, I was able to get into it and see it from the point of view of the sisters. It's a point of view that sees salvation as more important than life itself, which I always struggle with a bit, but this is one of the more compelling dramatic uses of the idea I've seen.
Cinematographer Philipe Agostini also shot part of Ophuls' LE PLAISIR, and all of Dassin's RIFIFI, Carne's LES PORTES DE LA NUIT, Duvivier's UN CARNET DU BAL.
Strange to see Bresson so much part of the mainstream at this point. I enjoyed this so much I'm resolved to try LES DAMES DU BOIS DU BOULOGNE without delay.
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Data warehousing pioneer and big data playa Teradata has just turned in the best fourth quarter and full year in the company's 33 year history, thanks to the big data wave and a number of key acquisitions that the company that have moved it beyond its core data warehousing biz.
In a conference call with Wall Street analysts today, Teradata president and CEO Mike Koehler said that the 45 new sales territories that the company added this year were "well above" the target of $120m in incremental revenue, and said that the it would be adding more territories this year and staffing them up with experts and sales people to pursue opportunities in in traditional data warehousing and big data jobs.
That core data warehousing business, by the way, grew by 16 per cent this year, which is the best growth the Teradata machines have ever shown in their history. The previous record was 2010, with 12 per cent revenue growth across the data warehouses and related appliances. The number of customers that have data warehouses that are 1PB or larger rose by 1.5 times in the past year, according to Koehler.
In the quarter ended in December, revenues were up 23 per cent to $673m and net income rose 15 per cent to $98m. Hardware and software revenues were up 24 per cent to $331m in the period, while consulting services had a 26 per cent bump to $197m and maintenance services were up a more modest 16 per cent to $145m.
For the full year, product sales at Teradata came to $1.12bn (up 20 per cent), with consulting services of $695m (up 30 per cent), and maintenance services at $545m (up 17 per cent). Total sales for 2011 were $2.36bn, an increase of 22 per cent, and net income was $353m, rising a little more slowly at 17 per cent.
Teradata does not yet break out sales for its Aprimo marketing software and systems or its Aster Data columnar database appliances (often used in conjunction with Hadoop MapReduce applications), but Koehler said that the performance for Aster Data was "good" in 2011 and reminded Wall Street that the $263m acquisition last March was more about positioning for the future of big data than generating current revenues and profits.
Breaking down product sales by industry, financial services companies accounted for 28 per cent of the pie during Q4 at Teradata, with communications companies (telcos, media, e-business, and such) making up 24 per cent of hardware and software sales. Retail accounted for 16 per cent, manufacturing 12 per cent, healthcare 7 per cent, government 6 per cent, and travel and transportation 5 per cent.
On the competition front, Koehler said that Teradata still mostly sees IBM's Netezza and Oracle's Exadata appliances when there are competitive bids for new systems, and said that the company's win rate was above 90 per cent in truly competitive deals – not ones where a customer is just upgrading a system and bringing in other vendors to work the price down of their incumbent vendors. Presumably, the dislodge rate is very low in such deals, and also presumably most customers with experience with one kind of data warehouse tend to stick with it.
So what El Reg surmises is that - as is the case with mission-critical, backend servers - at any given time there are a relatively small number of greenfield installations that are hotly contested and a small percentage of shops – maybe 5 or 10 per cent – that are annoyed enough with their suppliers to actually be contemplating a rip-and-replace. This is the only explanation for the high win rates that IBM, Oracle, and Teradata always claim on these calls with Wall Street.
In any event, Koehler says that the 2000 Series Data Warehouse Appliance machinery is what it tends to sell against Netezza and Exadata iron, and that this appliance business had nearly doubled in 2011 after 90 per cent growth in 2010.
Teradata expects its complete appliance line – which includes the 1000 Series Extreme Data Appliance (heavier on the compute) and the 4000 Series Extreme Performance Appliance (heavy on the flash) continues to grow and should represent around 15 per cent of total sales at Teradata in 2012 if current growth trends persist.
Teradata ended the quarter with $772m in cash, up by $81m a quarter ago, and about a quarter of that dough is available in the United States for executive management to play with. Last year, Teradata used $127m to buy back its own shares, and the company's board today issued a new share buyback authorization that gives the company the option of spending $300m going forward to buy more shares if Koehler and team think this is a good idea.
Other acquisitions could be in the works, too, but with Aster costing $263m and Aprimo costing $550m back in December 2010, it is a safe bet that Teradata does not want to blow its cash on such big acquisitions again.
The company is more interested in getting its products enhanced with Aster Data tech and ramping up Aprimo sales. The latter company was bought not just because marketing is the activity that a lot of data warehouses ultimately drive, but also because Teradata wants a recurring revenue stream of software licensing and system maintenance. In Q4, recurring revenue made up 37 per cent of the total, and Koehler said he wanted that to grow. So other nichey applications that run atop data warehouses and Hadoop clusters would be a good acquisition, if Teradata is going to make any.
Looking ahead, Teradata said it expects for sales in 2012 to grow by between 10 and 12 percent, to around $2.6bn to $2.64bn, and for the company to have GAAP earnings per share of $2.27 and $2.30. The company did $2.05 in GAAP EPS in 2011, and that means profits will grow more or less along with revenues. Wall Street will probably not be happy that Teradata can't grow as fast as it did in 2011, but then again, look at how poorly Wall Street did for our 401(k)s in 2011. Like they have any freaking room to talk. ®
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Understanding why a Bellfield tree services charges the prices they do for tree services is important.
90% of tree surgeons in Bellfield are small businesses, which means they don't just charge by the job, but they charge by how busy they are.
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If a company is booked out a month in advance they don't really need more work, and are looking to slow down the stream a little until they catch up.
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When is it quiet for tree services in Bellfield?…. winter!
From about June to September in Bellfield, vic, people are out in their gardens a lot less.
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It is extremely difficult to price a tree pruning job over the phone or by pictures. The arborist will need to come out to your property and inspect the job. The price of tree pruning is not just dependent on the tree itself, but the location, access, obstacles and a myriad of other factors.
No, a tree service is able to work without you there just as long as they have access to the tree. They will not need power cables or anything to work. You can have the job done and arrange to pay them after you have come home and inspected the job.
In most cases yes. Most self-respecting arborist will include the waste removal in with the price. There are done dodgy operators out there like in any trade so I would get them to specify on the quote they the waste removal will be included in the pruning cost.
Yes you need to use an arborist for any tree that is larger than 5m (single story house). Tree pruning and removal is highly dangerous and needs to be carried out by a professional arborist with the expertise and tools to do the job in a safe and efficient manner. There are plenty of "gardeners" who will claim to be able to do the job, but few will have the tools experience or insurance to cover them in case of an accident.
This will depend on the work being done. Tree pruning starts at $125 and goes right up to $1,200. Tree removal can go as high as $4,500. It will depend on the size of the tree, number of trees, time of year and a number of other factors. For more information on cost, please go here for our tree removal cost guide.
As a general rule of thumb, trees should be trimmed in winter. The reason for this is mainly to do with the trees health. Trees are dormant in winter so removing limbs will be less of a shock to their system. Pests like bora beetles or fungal infections like Oak wilt are also less prevalent in winter which give your tree time to heal before summer hits.
If the tree is on our property you will need to pay for it to be trimmed. If it is a rental property, you might be able to get the owner to pay for it, but you would need to ask them before going ahead. If the tree is growing into the roof or fences, they will not have a problem with paying for the trim.
If your tree is hanging over your neighbour's yard they are well within their rights to trim your tree, just as long as they are not breaking any tree audience laws in the process. It's the norm for them to ask your permission first before pruning, but it is not against the law as it is encroaching on their property.
Home insurance will cover tree trimming in emergency situations. If a branch come down in a storm, insurance companies will come the party to pay for the branch(s) to be removed and other branches to be trimmed. It might not be worthwhile depending on how much your excess is though. Insurance companies will not cover tree trimming for trees that are healthy.
You should always get at least 3 quotes from local tree services before deciding on one. Prices can vary greatly (between 10% and 40%) between tree services, so it always pays to shop around before going ahead.
Generally the answer is no. If the tree has fallen in a storm, your home owners insurance will cover it, but if it is healthy and you just want it remove, you are going to be hard pressed to find someone willing to work for free. Tree service companies are expensive to run as they have large overheads with insurance and labour costs. They will need to charge you to do the work to make a living.
This will depend on the council laws on tree removal in your area. Every local council has what's called a Tree Preservation Order. This outlines the rules regarding tree removal. An example of a rule might be; "If the tree has a trunk circumference of 1.0m or more when measured at 1m above ground level will need a permit for removal." To see the TPO for your area go here.
You may prune any branches that are hanging over your yard from your neighbour's side, just as long as it is not breaching your councils TPO. You may remove your neighbour's tree after they have given you permission and if it does not breach the council TPO.
Because outdoor type services like lawn care, landscaping and tree maintenance is seasonal, prices can fluctuate depending on the workload of the local services. During winter, especially later winter, tree services are scratching around for work and are much more likely to quote cheaper prices to win your job. If you can hold out, I recommend you get trees removed in the winter.
The cost to remove a gum tree in Brisbane will depend on the size of the tree, the number of branches and how easy it is to access and remove. The average price for a medium-size gum tree removal is $1,750, but the real range starts at $950 for smaller eucalyptus, and goes right up to $4,300 for very large ones.
There are a few things you need to look for when selecting a tree service to remove your tree. Firstly when doing an internet search you need to have a look at their reviews. If they have too many 1 and 2 star reviews, you need to keep looking. Next you need to do a background check. Go to ABN lookup and type in their company name. Have a look to see how long they have been in business and whether they have changed their trading name recently. When they are out quoting your job you need to ask for an arborist certificate and insurance details.
This will depend on the size of the tree being removed. The best way to gage whether you are getting a good price, is to get more than 1 quote. A good number of quotes is 3, but there is nothing wrong with getting 4 or 5 quotes for very large jobs.
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Feel the tropical breeze, experience the tropical tune and dance to the rhythm of the waves at Sea Dance Resort. Nestled in Koh Samui's secluded and tranquil Hanuman Bay, Sea Dance is an intimate boutique resort that celebrates love, joy and laughter. Sea Dance features tropical private pool villas and garden cottages with wooden terraces amidst a peaceful garden setting where you can relax and unwind. All units are carefully designed and equipped with all necessaries to guarantee a relaxing holiday. The Sea Bass Restaurant invites you to an unforgettable culinary experience with authentic Thai cuisine that reflects a refined balance of traditional Thai flavors and spices. The Almond Bar is a great place to unwind your day with the island's best chilled out tunes and sundowner specials with a weekly rotating cocktail of the day. Weddings and all kind of activities can be arranged by the Resort.
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Séjour enchanteur un très bon accueil Hotel petit et chamant plage solitaire ideal pour ceux qui veullent se ressourcer et tut cela à deux pas de chaweng
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We (2 travelers) stayed at the Pool Villa for 5 days and were completely pampered by the staff from head to toe. They took really good care of us, remember our every need and are constantly thinking one step ahead to try and make our holiday as smooth as possible! We were won over by the beautiful location, the attentiveness of the staff and most importantly, the passion and energy the staff brings to the place. The villa we stayed in was clean and nice. No major issues. Everything was beyond our expectation.
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Nestled in KohSamui's secluded and tranquil Hanuman Bay,
Sea Dance
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Sea Dance Resort
is conveniently located near important and happening places such Chaweng, Cheongmon, Big Buddha, ferry piers and airport but tucked away on tranquil bay and out of the flight part.
Sea Dance
features tropical thatched roof private pool villas and garden cottages with wooden terraces amidst a peaceful garden setting, a perfect place to relax and unwind.
:: Cottage with Garden - 3 Units ::
Tropical thatched garden cottages are charming sanctuaries nestled amidst lush greenery. This cottage is attached/part of two-bedroom pool villa. Enjoy your outdoor wooden terrace and your own tropical garden.
:: Deluxe Cottage - 6 Units ::
The round shape thatched cottages are located on a gentle slope offering an open view whilst nestled amidst lush greenery. Enjoy the gentle sea breeze from your outdoor wooden terrace while relaxing in your own tropical garden. Deluxe cottage featuring partial out door bathroom with garden.
:: Villa with Private Pool - 4 Units ::
Villa with Private Pool are located behind Seashore pool villas, take a dip and cool down in your own plunge pool in a warm sunny day and watch the day goes by. Enjoy minimalist with luxury feel of comfort of Seashell pool villas positioned among lush tropical garden.
:: Deluxe Villa with Private Pool - 3 Units ::
Privacy or view? Some like it private but some prefer a good sea view. Deluxe Villa with Private Pool are just a stroll away from the beach. There are villas that offer a wonderful view however Seashore honeymoon hideaway offers privacy and seclusion. Enjoy your own plunge pool surrounded by tropical greenery ideal for honeymooners or couples who seek the intimate experience. The choice is yours.
:: Two Bedroom Pool Villa ::
Two bedroom pool villas are private sanctuary family or friends travelling together. There two bed rooms under one roof. One room fitted with double bed where the other room is with twin bed but can change to a double bed if required. Enjoy a quality time with your friends and loved ones at your own plunge pool positioned among lush tropical garden.
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Villa Beach Front is located just steps away from the beach, comes with its own freeform infinity edge plunge pool. Relax on your outdoor wooden terrace, listening to the sound of the waves and be embraced by a tropical tranquility.
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Sea Bass invites you to an unforgettable culinary experience. A sister branch to the award winning Thai restaurant Lemongrass, in Dubai, Sea Bass offers an authentic Thai cuisine that reflects a refined balance of traditional Thai flavors and spices.
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's passion for food combined with more than twenty years of experience in the culinary industry, Poy is excited to build Sea Bass's reputation as the best Thai restaurant on the island. In addition to the Thai dishes, the menu also offers a selection of western favorites attentively prepared. Dining options range from the restaurant's tropical cozy interiors to the romantic candlelight-dining atmosphere underneath the stars.
Sea Almond Bar
is a great place to unwind your day with the island's best chilled out tunes and where the sand embracing the sea. Offering sundowner specials with a weekly rotating cocktail of the day, you can choose to enjoy your drink at the bar with Sea Almond's fellow life-loving guests or lounge in one of our comfy beach chairs as you watch the soft warm glow of the fading sun make its soothing farewell.
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intimate size and tranquil location makes it an ideal setting for a private wedding or honeymoon. With our extensive experience of more than twenty years in catering and organizing private events, we will ensure that you will have the ultimate wedding celebration.
A tropical island that is situated off the east coast in Southern Thailand, Koh Samui is known for its coconut palm trees and pristine beaches and with its variety of activities, diverse selection of cuisine and warm tropical weather, making Koh Samui a much sought after destination for a wedding or romantic honeymoon.
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is conveniently located on the northeastern tip of the island between the two most sought after beaches, Choengmon and Chaweng, and is less than seven minutes drive from the airport (But away from the flight path). With only a short drive from most of the island's main attractions, while at the same time enjoying a tranquil location, Sea Dance offers their guest the best of both worlds.
Kayaking and Snorkeling
The beach at Sea Dance offers great snorkeling and kayaking experiences. Explore the vibrant underwater world near the rocks and coral situated just off the coast of the resort.
Sea Dance is less than a ten minutes drive from Koh Samui's most popular beach Chaweng and its boutique shops.
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For guest that enjoy exploring the surrounding islands, Sea Dance is less than a fifteen minutes drive to the piers that offer various excursion trips such as Island hopping around Angthong National Marine Park, diving in Koh Tao and the full moon party in Koh Phangan.
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Nuit de l'ennuiSeptember 30th, 2012
I went out for Toronto's Nuit Blanche again this year. Might be the last time. For those living in cities without a Nuit Blanche, it's a sundown-to-sunrise event with a hundred art stations scattered throughout the city. The art varies from regular sculptures to performance pieces to outdoor and indoor movies projected onto irregular screens, with many of the works having light-related themes.
Mostly, though, Nuit Blanche seems to be a chance for teenagers to flood the city, smoke pot, and engage in low-level mischief. Not that there's anything wrong with that! But in terms of showing off gloriously well-executed, thought provoking, or transcendent artwork, Nuit Blanche falls way flat.
The problem wasn't that the works were bad. Among the well done exhibits was an oversized array of blinking space invaders, a collage of movie clips accompanied by dramatic music, and Laurent Gagnon's wonderfully appealing rusty techno-obelisk. The French do love their phallic symbols, don't they? Almost as much as the Americans or their tomb-robbing English forefathers.
To some extent the event is a victim of its own success. The huge crowds, which barely diminish even as the night wears on, make for long lines to see many of the exhibits, especially the more participatory ones. Combined with a highly disperse layout, plus a program guide and signage which encourage checklist touring, and the night can very easily become about consuming as much interesting art as possible. It's Disneyland, with the animatronic actors from Mr. Toads Wild Ride replaced by live performance artists.
We consume art, of course, but art isn't consumption. Art is experience. Consumption is the pedestrian cousin of art, bearing the same relationship to its experiential cousin as a carefully packaged vacation tour does to travel. Nuit Blanche is, above all else, a carefully packaged experience. All of the artwork was official, and clearly signed, the only rogue elements to slip through the cracks were a couple buskers trying to be heard over the din, and a living batman statue. Crowd members were tourists, not participants in the mode of festivals like Burning Man. At most they dressed up in oversized hats or a funky dresses as they traveled from one station to the next, documenting everything with cell phone photos and tweets.
Even the more thoughtful exhibits seemed to have their scope reduced and their environments setup to encourage quick-hit consumption. The fantastic movie collage, which was projected up and all the way around a giant funnel, looped through its content in just a couple minutes, hardly enticing the audience to spend much time lingering on the bare concrete floors to watch it.
The best exhibit I saw seemed to play with this very dynamic of art as bite-sized consumable. It featured a large translucent tent stocked with thousands of different "products," each one really an empty shell of packaging stuffed with glowing LED lights. Customers could wander into the store and grab an ethereal-looking single-serve box of Rice Krispies, then have it attached to a bamboo rod to hold in front of them like a lantern. From both outside and in, the exhibit shone like a multicolor oasis of (literally) hallow consumerism, a thousand points of light waiting for their diaspora into the crowds, serving double-duty as souvenir trinkets which proved your entrance into the gift shop, and beacons to light your way to the next officially sanctioned, carefully produced event.
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I will be stronger. Maybe.
Over the past few weeks I've dropped a couple pounds. Not much, but it feels good, like getting back into fighting shape. My one and only official amateur bout, 15-plus years back, I got creamed. Went up against a golden-boy with his own embroidered uniform and cheering squad. I had on a borrowed sweaty tank top from another fighter: my own shirt wasn't regulation cut. I never went down, but at the end of three rounds the winner was clear, and it wasn't me.
Nowadays boxing has no mojo; all the excitement in fighting has moved over to MMA. Can you name any boxer who's held a title in the last 10 years? Strangely, even as the sport is waning, movies about boxers just keep coming out.
The most interesting fights, of course, aren't boxing or MMA, but ideological battles, relationship dramas, and our own internal struggles. In the ring there's always one official (if not always undisputed) winner. Outside the ring winners are harder to peg, especially so when we fight with ourselves. If we win, then who lost?
Excess weight has never been that big of an issue for me. I struggle with other kinds of flab and decay and battle a sweet tooth for mind treats. No matter. The fight goes on, long after our prime is over, and our big fat bellies (real or symbolic) hang out, with blood stains on our frayed shirts set in for good.
Digital artwork above from Chong Roden.
Ornament and CorrectionAugust 22nd, 2011
by Winnie Truong. Reminds me a bit of this piece by Deveras.
The OutingJuly 20th, 2011
by Judson Huss
Betty or Wilma?June 28th, 2011
In cartoon land, with very few exceptions, the young are eternally young and the old never die. Celluloid images fade in color, but never in form; the zeros and ones of a JPEG keep their youthful appearance for as long as the files stay uncorrupted.
We tend to like the iconic images of our youth untarnished, unaffected by the natural cycle of decay. I suspect that aging cartoons would ruin the nostalgia felt by some, and that the added layer of realism gives others the queasy feeling of staring into the uncanny valley.
For my own part, I would love to see an explosion in artwork depicting aged versions of cartoon characters, to compliment the untooning phenomenon.
Supposing that Wilma Flintstone and Betty Rubble were 25 years old when The Flintstones made their TV debut in 1960, and if time and gravity took its normal course, they would turn 76 this year and no doubt look just like illustrator Matthias Seifarth portrays them.
Ouvre-ventreMay 17th, 2011
My arms were made to hold you tightMay 16th, 2011
In the lonely images of John Brosio, indifferent everymen pose before backdrops of impending doom and supernatural horror. Tornadoes ravage suburbs and giant shellfish wreak havoc. My favorite is the image above, titled Fatigue. Lit like a Magritte and every bit as surreal, I imagine the octopus represents the worker's inner projection on arriving home to his domestic life. Does he really want to go inside, does he have a choice?
Your head will collapse if there's nothing in itDecember 31st, 2010
Obviously I haven't been posting much recently. I've got a problem. Others have written before about the perils of spending all your time connected to the internet. The NADD, the ADD, the email twitch. I have a related problem. Perhaps specific to the particular way I work online, but I suspect others might be having similar issues as well….
All the things you try to hide will be revealed on the other sideOctober 6th, 2010
David Jablow has a fantastic series of Do It Yourself Doodles at flickr. They all feature the same incomplete woman completed and woven into dozens of imaginative scenes. Shown above is my favorite detail from the set.
MatryoshkaJune 26th, 2010
by illustrator Guilherme Marconi.
And her hair becomes a flameJune 16th, 2010
My Darlingtonia by Madeline von Foerster.


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Retread: 'Footloose' remake out of step
There's one thing to be said for a remake of a 1984 movie that uses the original screenplay. This 2011 version is so similar – sometimes song for song and line for line – that I was wickedly tempted to reprint my 1984 review, word for word. But That Would Be Wrong. I think I could have gotten away with it, though. The movies differ in such tiny details (the hero now moves to Tennessee from Boston, not Chicago) that few would have noticed.
Was there then, or is there now, a town in Tennessee or any other state in which the city council has passed a law against "dancing in public"? There may have been a brief period, soon after Elvis first began grinding his pelvis and preachers denounced rock 'n' roll as "the devil's music." But for most young moviegoers this plot point is going to seem so unlikely as to be bizarre.
We again get a plot in which a high school beer party leads to a fatal crash, taking the lives of five teenagers. The city council bans the music, under the influence of Rev. Shaw Moore (Dennis Quaid). Rev. Moore, who seems to be the only preacher in town, acts as the de facto civic moral leader. Full review.Read more on: movie review
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Hollywood has apparently run out of creativity.
I watched the original movie, but to see the remake (or suffer through), Hollywood would need to pay me my hourly billable rate and ship me the DVD (free) with some NoDoz pills (also free).
Footloose II (now), Footloose III (maybe), and, what, Footloose IIII by 2070?
Will the consumer support this ad nauseam?
One could say the same about most of what gets advertised as entertainment but to each his own.


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October 15, 2005. It was truly a perfect weekend for Wabash football. The weather in Wooster was fantastic with a slight fall chill in the near cloudless sky and the trees turning all sorts of bright colors. The food at every local establishment we visited was superb, and the Little Giants played a great game! Despite a sizeable Homecoming crowd cheering for the Scots, the Wabash more than help their own in cheering the Little Giants on to a 44-10 victory.
The Wabash fans put together another fun tailgate with a Mexican food theme. (Check out the pictures in the photo album.) The alumni, parents, and friends who travel have become very close friends and that's made these tailgates a lot of fun. We had an entire parking lot to ourselves, thanks to the help of Sandy Nichols and the staff of the Alumni Office at Wooster. Despite their Homecoming schedule, Sandy made sure we were taken care of in style. Many thanks to our Wooster counterparts!
The last organized, away-game tailgate will be at Allegheny College on October 29, 2005. Please check the web site elsewhere for details.
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GM/Chrysler Merger Saves Chevy Camaro & Other News- Message Board
Popularhotrodding.comUnder GM/Chrysler Merger Camaro and Challenger Both Survive!It may be old news by now, but that's not saying it sits any better with us. As we prepare this, GM and Chrysler are in merger talks, and barring another catastrophic Wall Street event, it looks like the union will happen. At present, the U.S. Treasury Department has denied a request by General Motors to provide the $10 to $12 billion in loan guarantees that would be required to effect the merger-in direct contrast to the slam-dunk $700 billion bailout given to Wall Street back in October. After getting the Heisman maneuver from the Treasury Department (i.e. ex-Wall Street fat cats Henry Paulson and bailout czar Neel Kashkari), GM CEO Rick Wagoner has turned to overseas investors to fund the merger-not good if you hate the idea of the largest domestic automaker being owned by off-shore interests. The alternative to a merger is one or both companies entering a pre-planned bankruptcy, in which suppliers and workers would be paid, but investors (and the credit ratings of either company) would take a big hit. At the core of the problem: a 15-year low for annual auto sales, and the certainty that one or both companies will run out of operating cash in the next few months. In the best-case scenario, according to the Anderson Economics Group of Southfield, Missouri, approximately 35,000 jobs would disappear from the merging companies, versus a 200,000-job loss under a bankruptcy scenario.
What does this mean for our favorite performance cars? For the moment, the Camaro is safe by virtue of its product cycle being too far along for significant change. The October 30 edition of the Calgary Herald reports that-according to Chrysler-Chrysler's two profitable Canadian plants would survive: the minivan plant in Windsor, Ontario, and the rearwheel-drive Brampton, Ontario, plant that builds the Chrysler 300, Dodge Charger, and Dodge Challenger. Out of Chrysler's 27 vehicle lines, 16 of them would disappear almost immediately.
Thegrantorino.comEastwood Flick Features TorinoAs this issue drops on the newsstand, a new Clint Eastwood movie will be hitting the theatres (either December 17 or January 16, depending on who you ask), and we're making plans to see it. The title, Gran Torino, says it all. In a movie that Eastwood directs, he plays the role of Walt Kowalski, a retired Korean War veteran and ex-Ford factory worker living in Detroit's bombed-out suburbs. The thing you need to know about this movie is that Kowalski has two loves: his M1 rifle, and his '72 Gran Torino. And you don't mess with either.
When a young Asian neighbor kid tries to steal his prized Gran Torino as part of a gang initiation, things start getting complicated. We've only seen the movie trailer, which you can check out at www.thegrantorino.com, but in typical Dirty Harry fashion, there is no love lost between Kowalski and the MAC-10-toting, Honda-driving gangsters who spray his home down with hot lead. Even if the acting turns out to be only half as good as Dirty Harry, it's more than enough to make up for The Bridges Of Madison County. And you gotta love Kowalski's name-a wink to car-guy insiders, telling them this movie is the real thing!
Heartattackgrill.comWorld's Best Burger JointWe got a tip from Jeff Lacina of ProCharger about a new burger joint in Chandler, Arizona, a suburb of Phoenix. Next time we're in town, we'll be checking this place out for sure. If you go, however, know in advance that there is no place for political correctness at the Heart Attack Grill, which is located at 6185 W. Chandler Boulevard. On the menu you'll find such things as the Quadruple Bypass Burger, Jolt Cola, and non-filtered cigarettes. All this is served by a bevy of beautiful nurses who will even wheel you out of the joint in a wheelchair when you're done. Hey, if you gotta go, you might as well do it with a smile on your face! The Heart Attack Grill is open from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m., seven days a week.
Let Your Voice Be Heard!We want your input in Popular Hot Rodding, but we aren't psychic. Sound off on how you feel about this issue, or anything that's on your mind. Contact us by email at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Sound Off!Rant Of The MonthMissing Door HandleI was just rereading my November PHR, and was looking at Randy Johnson's 66 Chevelle ("Unconventional Killer"). What's up with the disappearing door handles on the second page of his article? I am VERY disappointed in your mag that ya'll are doctoring the pics of the cars. You must have made the car look better than it was, or tried removing a shadow from the side using Photoshop or something. Shame on ya'll. If this is what you're doing, I'll send you a pic of my '70 Chevelle that's unpainted, and ya'll can just Photoshop some paint on it and there you have it, a cover car. I must admit I didn't catch it till about the fourth time reading the mag. David ShoemakerChelsea, AL
We're busted! Yes, we do spruce up cars from time to time, and in this case we cleaned up some reflections in the side of the car. Unfortunately, the door handle got taken out along with those reflections. Send in your Chevelle. We'll fix it up good!
Oldsmobile: Far From DeadI wanted to say that I appreciate your Oldsmobile support. I was happy to see your enthusiasm for the Dale Robinson and Bill Trovato EMC entries; all of us Olds enthusiasts are proud of their efforts, and in a sense we all get to share in their success. Of course, most of us in the Olds community are well aware of Bill's success campaigning his Starfire, and of the quality work that comes out of his BTR shop. We are looking forward to seeing stories of these entries in the pages of PHR. Attached is a pic of my 455-powered Starfire. It's been a two-year project that I am now just finishing up. Steve CurryPhoenix, AZ
Thanks for the good word, Steve. We will be featuring both Olds engines by BTR (400 ci) and Robinson Analytical (307 ci) in full stories this coming year. In the meantime, you can get a sneak peek at both engines-along with dyno numbers-beginning on p. 38.


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CARSON, Calif. (Monday, July 1, 2013) – The LA Galaxy will open the Group Stage of the 2013-14 CONCACAF Champions League at home on Tuesday, August 20 when they host Costa Rican side Cartaginés at StubHub Center. For the second straight year, the Galaxy will open the competition with a pair of home games before heading on the road for the final two games of the round, closing out the Group Stage against Isidro Metapán of El Salvador on Thursday, October 24. The club's complete Champions League Group Stage schedule can be found at the bottom of this release.
The Galaxy, who were drawn into Group 8, have advanced out of the Champions League Group Stage in each of the last two years, winning their group in both the 2011-12 and 2012-13 tournaments. They reached the semifinals of the Champions League for the first time ever in the 2012-13 competition, knocking off Costa Rican side Herediano in the Quarterfinals before falling 3-1 on aggregate to eventual champion Monterrey in the Semifinals. In 10 all-time Group Stage games, the Galaxy are 7-2-1, including a perfect 5-0-0 at home.
As a result of their involvement in the Guinness International Champions Cup, the Galaxy will not play in the first week of the Champions League schedule; with Metapán hosting Cartaginés on Thursday, August 8, one day after the International Champions Cup is completed in Miami.
The Galaxy will host Cartaginés, who are playing in the Champions League for the first time ever, at StubHub Center on Tuesday, August 20 to open their Group Stage schedule. Following that game, there will be nearly a month before the Galaxy return to Champions League play, hosting Isidro Metapán at StubHub Center on Wednesday, September 18. This will be a rematch of the two sides' first meeting in the Group Stage last year with the Galaxy winning that game 5-2 behind a pair of goals from Juninho and single tallies from Robbie Keane and David Beckham as well as a Metapán own goal.
A week later, on September 25, the Galaxy will travel to Costa Rica to face Cartaginés for the second and final time. This will be LA's third trip to Costa Rica in the Champions League, losing to a Marcelo Sarvas-led Alajuelense team 1-0 in September 2011 while playing to a 0-0 draw with Herediano in the first leg of their quarterfinal series on March 7, 2013.
The Galaxy will close out the Group Stage on Thursday, October 24 when they travel to El Salvador for the second straight year to face Isidro Metapan. Last year, despite having already clinched the top spot in their group, the Galaxy defeated Metapán 3-2 in El Salvador in the Group Stage finale with Jack McBean scoring a pair of goals and Michael Stephens scoring the eventual game-winner in the 79th minute.
All four of the Galaxy's Group Stage games will begin at 7 p.m. (PT) and a complete television schedule for those games will be announced at a later date.
Tuesday August 20 vs. Cartaginés 7 p.m.
Wednesday September 18 vs. Isidro Metapán 7 p.m.
Wednesday September 25 at Cartaginés 7 p.m.
Thursday October 24 at Isidro Metapán 7 p.m.


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Optimistic Outpost
Athens is known for its protests and crises, but that's not all. When the Greek capital co-hosts the famous Documenta art exhibition, what forces might this unleash?
It's perfectly still up on top of the Acropolis, high above the urban ocean that is Athens. It seems strange to hear nothing of the din of noisy engines and street life far below. Here we are amid ruins almost 2500 years old, and over all of this presides the majestic Parthenon, its mighty columns standing more than ten meters tall. This is where democracy was born; this was once the center of European civilization. Could any place be more steeped in symbolism? And now here comes the sun, slowly peeling itself out of the clouds to cast its beams on the gleaming marble – a true picture postcard moment.
Change of scene. Down in the city center, you have to be careful not to be knocked over even when the crossing light is green. Rough reality reigns here. Gray concrete blocks stand so tightly packed they even appear to overlap. This is the mark the modern age has left on the Greek capital: no rules, no urban planning, no regulatory hand exists. On some facades, boxy air conditioning systems hang like outmoded accessories from the flaking plaster. You have just two choices: to be fascinated or repelled.
The contrast between classic perfection and apparent anarchy also interests artist Andreas Angelidakis, 49, a bald-pated, bearded man with friendly blue eyes. He receives us in his studio on the ground floor of an apartment block. The large windows are draped with light-colored fabric, and there are various things standing and lying around on the floor: a blue occasional table, a kitchen roll, a broken computer. Is this one of his installations? Angelidakis laughs and apologizes for the chaos. He has made an international name for himself with installations and sculptures, and shows his work in Germany and New York, at the Berlin Biennale and the Swiss Institute for Contemporary Art. Now he's preparing for the next high point in his career, his contribution to Documenta 14. The world's leading series of contemporary art exhibitions has been going strong since 1955. This year, for the first time, it will be taking place in two cities – first in Athens and later at its home venue in Kassel, Germany.
Starting April 8, the works of international artists will be shown at several public locations across Athens, including the Megaron concert hall and the former headquarters of the mili-
tary police. More than 100 artists have been invited to develop projects for both cities. Angelidakis is not yet willing to divulge what he plans to exhibit in Germany. But he does say
that in Athens, he will be showing an installation and in Kassel "probably" video work featuring his hometown's "two identities," the ideal and the real, their ongoing dialogue and the friction between them. On the one hand, there's the ancient architecture, perfect, democratic, hewn in marble to last forever, and alongside it the anarchic concrete eyesores that have been slammed into the cityscape. It's a contrast Angelidakis also sees as reflecting the difference between Greece and the rest of Europe. Comparing Kassel and Athens, for instance: "To me, Kassel is everything Athens is not – green, peaceful and clean." He sees Germany as well organized, protected and working according to plan, "while here in the South, there are many problems."
For years, one word has tended to sum up the reality of Greece: crisis. It comes up all the time, whether the subject is refugees, the government, the economy, the banks or the EU. Everywhere here, you see shuttered shops, unemployment, people selling single handkerchiefs by the roadside. Money is universally short – especially for the arts. Greece has rarely sponsored contemporary art, instead reserving funding for ancient heritage sites. Many artists lament that new creations are not regarded as particularly significant to the Greek identity. Artists in Greece need private patrons or must finance themselves. Ten years ago, when bankruptcy first threatened the country, many projects already in progress were put on ice. The state slashed subsidies and sponsors withdrew. As a result, the prestigious Benaki Museum was forced to hold fewer exhibitions, the annual budget for the National Museum of Contemporary Art (EMST) was halved, leaving that important state institution without a venue of its own for years.
My hometown has two identities, one ideal, one real
Yet necessity creates opportunities, and while a string of established galleries closed, small spaces opened up, organized by "off" gallerists or artists themselves. "Athenian art has always been guerilla, we're used to that," says Angelidakis, sounding confident rather than defiant. He's a realist and also quite proud that though he's never had a red carpet rolled out for him, he has still managed to stay innovative and bold. Asked about "Learning from Athens," the working title for Documenta, he considers, then replies: "People shouldn't constantly complain about the state of things, but use what's there."
That Documenta is coming to a venue explicitly in crisis fits well with the beginnings of the exhibition, which emerged from the ruins of a major West German city ten years after the end
of World War II. Predecessors of Adam Szymczyk, the art director overseeing this year's Documenta, also visited cities such as Cairo and Kabul with the aim of forming partnerships, but never on the scale of spreading the exhibition across two locations. Szymczyk was the first to convince the selection committee to stage a guest exhibition in the South. By broadening the concept of the show, concept art expert Szymczyk aims to draw attention to Europe's economic, cultural and social issues. And in his concept, Greece symbolizes the rapidly changing global situation.
Documenta is a great opportunity for local artists, to raise their profile, says curator Helena Papadopoulus, who for the past two-and-a-half years has run the non-profit gallery Radio Athènes, where both artists from Greece and abroad show their work and compare notes. She previously curated in Berlin and New York and understands how important it is for art to receive international attention. "Curators and gallerists from across the world come to Athens, take part in events, and network with local artists, and that leads to new projects." Now the city must seize its opportunity and play Documenta as a trump card to take things forward – with the opening of the first EMST venue in a disused brewery, say, which will also host Documenta events. The project has made a hopeful, if modest, start – so far only a fraction of the 20 000 available square meters of space is occupied. The remaining rooms, all done out in clinical white, remain untouched as the budget covers neither staff nor the acquisition of a collection. Still, the will to succeed most definitely exists.
The Documenta office is in Exarchia, home of the alternative scene, where much creativity is born of political frustration. Reminiscent of Berlin's Kreuzberg district in the 1980s, it's seen as a problem area with a large student and anti-fascist population, junkies and homeless people. But it's also the home of many intellectuals, and a good breeding ground for creativity and fierce protest – against the Archbishop, against militarism in all its forms, and again and again against the government. The streets of Exarchia are one big graffiti gallery, with barely an empty space on its walls. "Lose," "Hate," "Crash" – anti-Merkel tags abound. Posters call for support at demonstrations. Art is purposely "right in the middle of things" here.
Follow the culture trail
It's a peaceful Thursday evening in Exarchia. A few young people are standing outside the 3137 artist-run space, beer in hand, chatting in English. The tone is respectful, cosmopolitan. British curator Poppy Bowers, who has worked for the prestigious Whitechapel Gallery in London, is opening an exhibition. Documenta Committee staff are also present. Chrysanthi Koumianaki, a slight, youthful-looking woman in her early thirties, was one of the young artists who started the 3137 gallery in 2011. She takes her motivation from the enduring crisis, but doesn't expect it to last forever – even the most ardent enthusiast eventually tires. She mentions several artists who reached that point and then left Greece. Her opinion of Documenta? Koumianaki takes a realistic view. She doesn't expect it to turn Athens into an art hotspot. "We will have to wait and see what remains when it's over." But the timing is just right, she says. "Because Documenta will bring new inspiration to the Greek art scene," and also, at last, a platform on which to present itself to the art world.
Paulina Czienskowski
Our author was fascinated by Athens's gray concrete landscapes, but would gladly have forgone the aches and stiffness that lingered after walking up and down the city's hills.


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Nacimientos, or nativities, are something that both Carlos and I grew up with. In my case, the nativity was a simple wooden manger scene with plastic figures: Mary, Joseph, baby Jesus in a bed of straw, an angel, the three wisemen, a cow, a donkey, a couple sheep and their shepherd. My mother always placed the nativity beneath the Christmas tree and my sisters and I were allowed to play with it just like we played with our Barbies or any other toys where we'd act out elaborate storylines while laying on the carpet, completely lost in our own imaginations.
In Carlos's case, the nacimiento of his childhood took up a large area of their house during the Christmas season. The clay figures included all the same characters we had, plus many more. Salvadoran nacimientos often look more like a bustling city than an intimate scene. No figure is considered inappropriate, from a woman at a pupusería, national soccer players, politicians, drunks, Chavo del 8, and short-skirted cheerleaders with batons known as "cachiporras" to the devil himself.
Carlos's childhood nativity sounds like a dream come true! I can only imagine how many hours my sisters and I would have played with such a scene – except that Carlos tells me that playing with it was absolutely not allowed.
Now that we're grown and married with our own household, we put up our own nativity scene. The first year we bought it and put it up, we had an argument about baby Jesus. Carlos couldn't understand why I put baby Jesus into the manger and I couldn't understand why he kept taking it out and hiding it. Carlos says that in El Salvador, you don't put El Niño Jesús in the manger until he's born. What I was doing – displaying the complete scene with the baby weeks before Christmas – made absolutely no sense to him – (Although cheerleaders attending the birth of Christ apparently makes sense, but I digress.)
For a few years, although I thought it was weird, I let him hide baby Jesus. I also insisted that by his logic, the three kings should be hidden until January, but he ignored me. At this point I must have gotten used to his way of doing things because when I set up the nativity, I handed Jesus over to him without a word and watched him stick him behind a picture frame on a shelf.
This year I've tried to make our Nativity a little more Salvadoran. I added a house plant as a palm tree and some rocks from la Libertad, but I definitely want to buy some characters in the years to come. I like the idea of expanding the nativity to look like a town in San Salvador… as long as Carlos let's me play with it.
What kind of nativity do you have? Do you allow your children to play with the nativity? Why or why not?
Other links to check out:
Los tradicionales nacimientos de barro – Youtube video from ElSalvador.com


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This is really an irrelevant question in the sense that the answer isn't remotely "logically crucial for the Langlands programme" or whatever---it's just something that occurred to me when writing some lectures on the subject.
Let $F$ be a number field and let $D$ and $D'$ be division algebras over $F$ with centre $F$. Let me put myself in the following simplified situation: assume $D$ and $D'$ both have dimension $p^2$ over $F$ (so are forms of $M_p(F)$) with $p$ an odd prime, and let me also assume that $D$ and $D'$ are both ramified at precisely the same finite places of $F$ (and at no infinite places of $F$) but that $D$ and $D'$ are not isomorphic.
The question: Are $D^\times$ and $(D')^\times$ sometimes non-isomorphic as groups?
Let me put this slightly strange question into context. Experts will already know what is coming: $D^\times$ and $(D')^\times$ are group-theoretically similar in certain ways; this is what I'm about to explain. This group-theoretic similarity would be trivially explained if the groups were isomorphic! But I think the whole point should be that the groups aren't isomorphic, although I don't know an instance where I can prove this.
OK so here are the details. Given $D$ and $D'$ as above, there is a link between automorphic forms on $D^\times$ and $(D')^\times$. When proving this link using the trace formula, one has to check that two complicated formulae for traces, one associated to $D$ and one to $D'$, coincide. The formulae are of the form "sum over conjugacy classes of certain orbital integrals". The strategy I understand to check these sums coincide is first to use general theory of central simple algebras to explicitly list the conjugacy classes in the groups $D^\times$ and $(D')^\times$, and then to write down an explicit natural bijection between them, and then to check that things add up in the sense that each term on the $D$ side is equal to the corresponding term on the $D'$ side, and then to deduce that certain traces are equal, and then you follow your nose to the answer (modulo a technicality that has to be dealt with using a Plancherel measure argument but which isn't relevant here).
Crucial in this strategy is the identification of the conjugacy classes in $D^\times$ with the conjugacy classes in $(D')^\times$. The way this works in this situation is that a conjugacy class in $D^\times$ is either an element of $F^\times$ (the central classes) or contains some $e\not\in F$; in this case $E:=F(e)$ is a field extension of $F$ of degree $p$ which splits $D$, and the fields that split $D$ of this form are precisely the degree $p$ extensions of $F$ which have one prime above $v$ for all $v\in S$ our bad set. The miracle that has occurred here is that this argument (when fleshed out) shows that the conjugacy classes in $D^\times$ are parametrised by a set that depends only on $F$, $p$ and $S$, and in particular this set is the same for $D$ and $D'$, which have the same degree and which ramify at the same primes.
I will present this argument in detail in class today, and my instinct is to stress that a miracle has occurred, because $D^\times$ and $(D')^\times$ are non-isomorphic groups whose conjugacy classes are completely naturally in bijection with one another. Of course if $D$ and $D'$ are isomorphic then then $D^\times$ and $(D')^\times$ will be isomorphic. Moreover, if $D'=D^{opp}$ then again $D^\times$ and $(D')^\times$ will be isomorphic as groups. In both cases it is hardly surprising that I have managed to canonically biject the conjugacy classes of $D^\times$ and $(D')^\times$! But in general I am still convinced that a miracle has occurred. However to really convince the audience of this I want to assert confidently that the groups $D^\times$ and $(D')^\times$ really are not always isomorphic. Is this definitely true??
{\bf EDIT}: Here's an even stronger question, which is even less likely to be true, and given that I'm hoping/guessing that such things aren't true, it seems worth formulating (the stronger it is, the easier it should be to falsify).
OK so same set-up: $D$ and $D'$ division algebras of dimension $p^2$, $p$ prime, and ramified at the same set of finite primes $S$, but $D$ and $D'$ not isomorphic. Let $G$ be the form of $PGL_p$ associated to $D^\times/Z(D^\times)$ and let $G'$ be the form corresponding to $D'$. If $\mathbf{A}^S$ denotes the adeles of $F$ away from $S$ then choosing isomorphisms $D_v=D'_v$ for all $v\not\in S$, sending $O_v$ to $O'_v$ for two chosen maximal orders $O$ and $O'$ in $D$ and $D'$ when $v$ is finite, gives us an induced isomorphism $G(\mathbf{A}^S)=G'(\mathbf{A}^S)$. Call this group $X$. Now $\Gamma:=D^\times/F^\times$ and $\Gamma':=(D')^\times/F^\times$ are two discrete subgroups of $X$ and using the trace formula one can prove that not only do the conjugacy classes of $D^\times$ and $(D')^\times$ match up, but (if my understanding is correct) the covolumes of $\Gamma$ and $\Gamma'$ are the same. This would be explained by the highly unlikely statement that $\Gamma$ and $\Gamma'$ were actually conjugate within $X$! This is perhaps even stronger than just being abstractly isomorphic, in this setting? One might also ask to give an explicit example where this cannot possibly be the case?
I mention this stronger statement because people might find it easier to use high-powered methods to refute it.