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Merenia Gray Dance Theatre
Merenia Gray Dance Theatre was founded in 1994. It is a freelance contemporary dance company that focuses on creating innovative multicultural Dance Theatre. MGDT relies on funding through Creative New Zealand and private corporate sponsorship. Merenia is the Artisic Director and she likes to work with performers that are classically trained with a secure contemporary technique and who have strong affiliations to Maori culture.
The company's works to date are:
Rongo – Ma –Tane ( 2011) Kowhiti Dance 2011 State Opera House
" its striking sculptural quality evoked Whakairo and contained strong aerial work by Tanemahuta Gray and a dynamic performance by Ivicia Novakovic", DANZ Quarterly review, 2011 Ann Hunt
Te Mana 2003, Soundings Theatre, Te Papa, Wellington
Commissioned by Toi Maori Aotearoa
Soulful Synthesis of Sound and Movement.
"Choreographer Merenia Gray has created her most important work to date,
with her premiere of the enigmatic and soulful Te Mana, in a short season at
Te Papa's SoundingsTheatre"
- Jenny Stevenson, Dominion Post. October 17 2003
' I left the theatre reminded of our responsibilities as NewZealanders to
cherish our chance to be keepers of future generations, "ko te taonga whare
tangata." '
- Deirdre Tarrant, Capital Times. Oct. 16 2003
Wild Civility 2001 Te Whaea Theatre, Wellington
Wild Civility. Switch on your Answer phone.
" it's a non-stop hour of carefully prepared and sequenced dancing ...
poignant evidence of Gray's bicultural aesthetic. May I suggest you slip
along to Wild Civility....you'll find confirmation in dance of the things
you want ot believe in."
Reviewed by Jennifer Shennan, The Evening Post, Thursday June 7 2001
Alchemy 1998 Bats Theatre, Wellington Fringe Festival
Best New Work in the 1998 Fringe Awards.
Alchemy - dance - play magic not to be missed.
The Alchemy of the title is at work in the choreography.... phone BATS
early to book yourself on the waiting list for what will inevitabely be a
sell - out season. Ahakoa iti, he pounamu.'
- Reviewed by Jennifer Shennan, 'The Evening Post. Thursday, March 12, 1998.
I.V.E. Interiors Versus Exteriors 1994 Taki Rua Depot Theatre, Wellington.
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Chiney Ogwumike scored 25 points and grabbed 19 rebounds, and Stanford reached its 12th Pac-12 Conference tournament title game by pulling away in the second half for a 61-47 win over No. 18 Colorado on Saturday night.
The Cardinal - who have reached the championship game in every year of the tournament - won their 16th straight and will face No. 14 UCLA in Sunday's title game. The Bruins upset No. 5 California 70-58 in Saturday's first semifinal.
Colorado hung with the Cardinal into the second half before Stanford (30-2) took control thanks to a 14-3 run in which Ogwumike got plenty of help from her teammates. Of the 14 points, Ogwumike scored only two.
Chucky Jeffery led the Buffaloes (25-6) with 19 points, but made just 9 of 26 shots.
Stanford swept the season series against the Bruins, beating them by 26 at home and by 11 in Los Angeles. The Cardinal have won the past six conference tournament titles, their last loss coming to UCLA in the 2006 final.
After carrying the Cardinal in the first half, Ogwumike's teammates made vital contributions in the second half as Stanford finally shook Colorado. Amber Orange added 13 points and Mikaela Ruef scored 11 for Stanford.
The Buffaloes shot just 23 percent and committed nine turnovers in the second half after leading at the break. Arielle Roberson added 10 points, but Colorado had its 10-game win streak snapped.
Ogwumike had her usual double-double already recorded well before halftime, despite missing her first four shots. But the Buffaloes held a 28-27 lead at the break because no one was helping Stanford's star. Ogwumike scored seven straight during one stretch and 13 of her 14 first-half points over the final 10 minutes of the half.
Sara James, who had 17 points in the quarterfinals, was scoreless in the first half. Orange and JoslynTinkle combined to make just 3 of 14 shots and the Cardinal shot just 28 percent. They also had just one 3-point attempt after making 10 of 21 in the quarterfinals.
It was the fourth time this season that Stanford trailed at halftime and the first since Jan. 13, when the Cardinal lost to California.
The deficit didn't last long.
Stanford took control early in the second half thanks mostly to Ogwumike's teammates. Colorado took a 33-31 lead on Roberson's rebound and basket with 17:59 remaining, but the Buffaloes went the next 6 minutes with just one basket. Stanford ran off 10 of the next 13 points to take a 41-36 lead, including five points from James and a driving three-point play by Orange. The run continued out of a timeout with Ruef scoring on consecutive possessions and suddenly the Stanford lead was 45-36 with 10:38 remaining.
Jamee Swan briefly stopped the run with an inside basket for Colorado, but Ogwumike scored four straight, including a coast-to-coast steal and layup to push the Cardinal lead to 11.

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The Volunteer State Community College Alumni Association welcomes back Vol State alum as they celebrate the Alumni Basketball Homecoming Bash on Saturday, November 13. The Pioneer basketball teams will take on Jackson State in two games: 2 p.m. for the women and 4 p.m. for the men. Alumni in attendance will be recognized at half court between the games. Vol State Cheerleaders, the Vol State Dance Team and Middle Tennessee Junior League Cheerleaders are set to perform. The Alumni Association and the Athletic Department will host a hospitality room beginning at 1:00 p.m. Alumni can enjoy refreshments and reconnect with friends.
Admission to the event is free. The Alumni Advisory Council is challenging Alumni with the "Your Change Can Make a Change" Campaign. Bring your loose change to donate to the Vol State Alumni Association Scholarship Fund.
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January 07, 2012 by Jokai
2012 is upon us. Prepare to be bombarded with Mayan-end-of-the-epoch-themed movies and TV specials as we approach the fall. Here at Yokoji we brought in the New Year in our usual way, with a Sesshin and fire ceremonies. I say "usual" though of course each year has it's unique qualities. Sesshin was pretty well attended, with the usual late rush of practitioners coming in on New Year's Eve. After a Fusatsu (renewal of vows) ceremony in the late evening, we all gathered for zazen to mark the moments of transition from the old year to the new. Afterwards, we moved to the dining room for a toast and a chorus of Auld Lang Syne. For many of us this brought into sharp relief the memory of Kevin Rakusan Riley and how he would pour himself into that verse with nothing held back. We raised a glass for Rakusan. After the comparative high jinx of New Year we have now settled back into Interim Training Period. January is typically a quiet time here in the mountains, punctuated by there usually only being a skeleton crew of residents. However, 2012 seems off to an auspicious start with a few new faces around the Buddha Hall and grounds. The weather continues to be unseasonably warm. It feels wonderful if a little surreal to be working outside dragging brush in a t-shirt in January. The other side to this though is some concern for the ecology of the canyon and the level of the water table.
For myself, I have been noticing the desire to maintain the attention to practice that Sesshin stimulates. The schedule of Sesshin can be a firm and effective teacher. Once we re-enter the regular training weeks, that need for the taking of personal responsibility with the time we have certainly looms large for me. Transitions are often times of unease and yet great opportunities are there as well. Opportunities to ask myself "how do I want to live?" and then, to manifest those intentions. With the season of annual resolutions still upon us (just!) I invite you to join me in focusing in on clear intentions for this wonderful practice of our lives as we move forward into 2012. Please join us here at Yokoji whenever and however you can, and if circumstances currently do not allow that, please join us on the cushion in the practice of zazen.Blessings for 2012 and beyond.
It's still a dog's life
07 Jan 2012 23:10:55
Happy New Year, Jokai, and to all of you. Thank you again for all the work you and the residents have done to make the Sesshin so memorable.
"How do I want to live?" and how to manifest that intention has been foremost in my mind lately. I'm so glad that I am a part of Yokoji and your community.
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The New Yorker's David Remnick Moves Beyond the Magazine (Video)
In his interview at D: Dive Into Media today, New Yorker editor David Remnick said that mobile devices, even phones, are creating new opportunities for long-form content.
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Transforming the City: Community Organizing and the Challenge of Political Change
As an avenue for progressive politics in a nation still skeptical of change, community organizing today faces significant challenges. This book assesses that activity within the context of political, cultural, social, and economic changes in cities—from World War II to the present—to show how community-based organizations have responded to these challenges.
Transforming the City is the first book to examine the current state of community organizing in American cities, analyzing its place in contemporary progressive politics and assessing whether it has changed in response to changes in the political economy. Leading urban scholars from a wide range of disciplines offer original commentaries on the strengths and limitations of community organizing, a form of political and civic engagement that is too often overlooked by those who bemoan the decline in social capital.
While embracing community organizing as a way to cope with the problems afflicting inner cities, these essays acknowledge the challenges inherent in globalization, de-industrialization, the demise of ward-based politics, and the values that shape contemporary American culture. They argue that larger changes in the political economy have reshaped the local ecology of civic engagement, thereby affecting the focus, orientation, and effectiveness of community organizing.
The book features case studies from Chicago to New Orleans to El Paso, covering community organizations from many organizing networks and models, such as ACORN, IAF, PICO, and DART. These cases address key policy areas such as education and housing, and the role of race in these issues and in organizing in general. By examining the actual practice of this form of democratic politics, they also show the potential of community organizing for addressing concerns about Americans' disengagement from civic and political life.
Whether pursuing longstanding problems about housing or more recent issues such as wages paid by big-box retailers, community organizing continues to have an important role to play as part of a broader progressive movement. As America decides what kind of society it wants to be, these insightful articles illuminate those larger trends in the local ecology that are forcing organizers to alter their strategies, operations, and visions for the future.
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Wednesday, March 31, 2010
"Famed global warming activist James Schneider and a journalist friend were both found frozen to death on Saturday, about 90 miles from South Pole Station, by the pilot of a ski plane practicing emergency evacuation procedures.
"I couldn't believe what I was seeing", recounted the pilot, Jimmy Dolittle. "There were two snowmobiles with cargo sleds, a tent, and a bright orange rope that had been laid out on the ice, forming the words, 'HELP-COLD'."
One friend of Prof. Schneider told ecoEnquirer that he had been planning a trip to an ice sheet to film the devastation brought on by global warming. His wife, Linda, said that she had heard him discussing the trip with his environmental activist friends, but she assumed that he was talking about the Greenland ice sheet, a much smaller ice sheet than Antarctica.
"He kept talking about when they 'get down to chili', and I thought they were talking about the order in which they would consume their food supplies", Mrs. Schneider recounted. "I had no idea they were talking about Chile, the country from which you usually fly or sail in order to reach Antarctica."
Apparently, while all of Prof. Schneider's friends were assuming that the July trek would be to Greenland, during Northern Hemisphere summer, his plans were actually to snowmobile to the South Pole - which, in July, is in the dead of winter.
Mr. Dolittle related how some people do not realize that, even if there has been warming in Antarctica, the average temperature at the South Pole in July still runs about 70 degrees F below zero. "Some people think that July is warm everywhere on Earth."
The wife sounds sharp!
When will this madness end?
Andrew Williams facebook page with a pic of Rodney Hide morphed into Hitler superimposed over a swastika.
Nice. If you are a 12 year old retard.
Click the pic for a link through to the post at Gotcha.
Clearly Williams is completely and utterly unfit for any type of role where he is responsible for other people and their money.
Personally I don't have much time for Rodney and as I am still waiting for anybody to show me (or even claim) that ratepayers will enjoy lower rates from the super city changes I am just clinging to the fringes of support for the idea in the vain hope that we will see less drunk, racist fuckwits like Williams anywhere near the ratepayers pockets.
Hide & Smith make a monumental gamble
Another Universe?
President Obama was elected on an almost unprecedented wave of emotional popularity, defeating a president and his party which had lost their way. 'Independents' carried the day (and between them and the Democrats they elected a symbol when they needed a president) and swept the Republicans aside on a catchy slogan, 'hope and change.'
The Democrats and their president embarked on an ideological and extreme legislative programme which introduced socialism on an unprecedented scale, starting with the nationalisation of the auto industry and culminating in the takeover of the hitherto private health care and insurance industries.
They succeeded in alienating many of those independent voters and more importantly, they (a) galvanised the aimlessly drifting conservative side of politics into a cohesive and noisy anti-Democrat movement called the Tea Party and (b) shocked the Republican Party into putting aside some of its divisions and going back to its roots - which largely coincide with the ethos of the Tea Party. Since the enactment of Obama's health care putch, his ratings have been languishing between 16% and 21% negative - the lowest ever. It is an unprecedented reversal of political fortunes in so short a time.
Americans got more change than they bargained for, no change where they wanted it and no hope for any improvement in their daily lives.
Translate this scenario to New Zealand and you begin to see why our current administration is in no big hurry to strip away the follies of Labour's nine years.
To do as the IMF suggests and as many of the people Adolf called 'shouters of the right' suggest will simply hand to Labour the wherewithal to recreate itself on a wave of media induced public outcry and hysteria aimed at our very own 'independents' otherwise known as swing voters. Labour will have its very own Tea Party - with some damn fool name like 'Fair Go' or 'Down with Rich Pricks.' These are the people who deserted Labour and NZ First in droves and put NACTionalMP into power.
You have only to cast an eye over The Herald's and the left's beat up on the Mining discussion paper to get a sneak preview of the media onslaught which would follow slashing of the public service, removal of interest free student loans and free doctors visits and the winding back of WFF.
The IMF needs to understand that New Zealanders have been brainwashed into becoming a nation of welfare dependents. The unpicking of this disastrous mindset requires much care, cunning and patience. It seems to me John Key, Rodney Hide and Tariana Turia have enough of these qualities to carry the day but they will need another term to complete the job.
Tuesday, March 30, 2010
Sister Cities
Jerusalem has The Wailing Wall
North Shore City has The Pissing Tree
Red Alert strangely quiet.
Answers in comments. A virtual prize for the most bizarre comment.
John Machiavelli Banks
*Anybody else waiting with baited breath to see what the Clown of Campbells bay is going to slur into the microphones this afternoon?
*Is Banksie walking around happier than a dog with two dicks today after Tamihere took time out of the pub to raise his flag in the race for the supercity mayoralty?
Personally I do not think Len Brown has a hope in hell of winning next year.
Once Sue Bradford declares she is standing for council the billboards will be up telling us that she is one heartbeat from the Mayoralty. With Browns serious health issues who would want to vote for him knowing one more greasy burger in his gob could see Bradford elevated? Certainly not the Polynesian populus of Auckland who deserted Labour en masse after Bradford stopped them thrashing their kids.
As for JT, he will split the left vote nicely giving Banksie the big job with around 30% of the vote (with a 50% turnout) and enough to win.
We can then look forward to Bomber Bradbury spontaneously combusting in a frenzy of angsty blogging.
Everything is coming together quite nicely for NZ's number 1 royalist.
Happy days.
Merkel in Turkey
Two years ago in a sports stadium in Cologne, Erdogan caused outrage in Germany by dubbing alleged policies of assimilation of the Turkish minority as a "crime against humanity".
At the weekend he upped the ante by calling for the establishment of special Turkish high schools in Germany and the abolition of a German ban on dual citizenship so that Turks in Germany could acquire German passports while keeping their Turkish ID papers.
"What we want is people who live among us over several generations to integrate into this country," she said. "That obviously involves learning the German language and obeying German laws."
"Why this hatred against Turkey?"
Our readers might like to ponder for a moment the fate of minorities in Turkey who reject "assimilation" - it's not pretty...
Monday, March 29, 2010
Still Much To Do........
This evening Adolf was struck down by an intense guts ache. So intense was it that after two hours he gave up, got dressed and drove down to A & E at North Shore Hospital.
Seeing a sign 'Patient's Car Park' he left his car and spent ten minutes finding a door which would let him into the establishment. Eventually a creature turning up for work was able to wave vaguely in 'that direction' and direct the dying patient to the A & E entrance.
I kid you not. 'What if I die before I get there?' I asked the creature. He had gone. Eventually I found my way to the reception. Some fool asked "Are you right?" I refrained from the usual reply which is "I'm never known to be wrong" and asked instead "No, do I look right?"
A person with a stethoscope then asked a few questions and directed me to take a seat and await a doctor. I asked "Do you know how long I might be waiting?"
''We can't give you a time but it is unlikely you will see a doctor in less than four hours." came the encouraging reply.
One hour and $100 later I was on my way home with an ECG record and a diagnosis of gall bladder issues. That was from the private clinic across the road. They said "You were lucky. Most people have to wait six hours or more."
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Pissed Again?
Remember his outburst a couple of weeks ago? Our bepiddled hero had found a windfall billion dollars worth of GST and license fees in the leaky homes saga.
Bad luck Andy. Treasury doesn't agree with you.
You'd better hot foot it back down to GPK for a bit more of that Barossa valley Torbreck shiraz at eighty bucks a throw
Next project an RPG
Oh! Well That's Alright Then
The wriggling and spinning from the daft supporters of the Shiraz Mayor are as entertaining as they are pathetic. Take this delightful bit of nuancing from this morning's Herald:-
Another councillor, Jan O'Connor, said she had confidence in Mr Williams, saying the allegations that appeared in the Sunday Star Times were "about as low as you get".
She did not condone men who urinated outside bars in Takapuna, but said Mr Williams would have been in the dark at the council.
"If he was up there and he watered a tree, he watered a tree."
The dear lady does not seem to realise how close she is to the truth. Mr Willliams is in the dark at the council most of the time it seems. He's perpetually pissed if comments from respected politicians like Labour's Anne Hartley are anything to go by.
One of the signatories, Ms Hartley, a former Labour MP, said Mr Williams' behaviour last Thursday summed up the past two-and-a-half years.
"We have had to put up with a lot of very questionable behaviour from the mayor," she said.
"He is quite a bullying person and gets away with it because he has his 'A' team who support him 90 per cent of the time."
The Shiraz Mayor has made a strategic blunder. He has denied the incident even took place. The drinking and driving, that is. He would not comment on dropping his dacks outside the council office. (Good God, only girls drop their dacks to wee!)
First the denial, then the crucifixion over Easter as video of the mayoral stumblebum piddling his way back to his car hits the airwaves just in time for Good Friday.
Mr Williams, who was at GPK bar and restaurant on Hurstmere Rd, Takapuna, with friends on Thursday night, said he consumed a "very minimal" quantity of red wine with food from about 6pm to 9.30pm.
"I went to GPK at the conclusion of council business. This is my private time. These are friends who just want to meet up, have a bit of a yarn and catch up on things. They don't have to get involved with the mayor's business. They were acquaintances who invited me, end of story."
The conversations which were loud and overheard by many, apparently had much to do with council business and how the Shiraz Mayor 'enjoys his role.' Adolf understands the bar tab came to a pretty penny that evening. It must have been a very minimal quantity of Chateau Mouton Rothschild.
Sunday, March 28, 2010
Lets check red alert moderation
and maybe if you were serious about this you would get on with it on National terms rather than immediately spitting the dummy and braying about it online
Fair and Balanced
Adolf reckons that means of all reporting on matter remotely political, Labour should get no more than 30% air time with NACTionalMP entitled to at least 56%.
Now THAT would make some sphincters quiver at TVNZ and Radio Left Wing.
A couple of days ago, Pita Sharples walked all over the dosey old commie Geoff Thingummy on Morning Report. Radio Left Wing had been busy trying to create news by way of OIA requests about his e-mails. Dr Sharples pointed out that he had sought more information on the particular subject of his e-mail and, as a result, had changed his mind. The concerns he had were now satisfied. In fact, he told the silly old shit that the report made him sound like 'a secret agent within the gummint' which was simply nonsense.
A great example of the actions of a rational man rather than an ideologue.
Well the lefties at Radio NZ didn't think so. They led the news with the story all day but it was headlined - Sharples CONCEDES he has changed his mind.
What a brillant idea
Spend $2mil taxpayer money and we'll be a step closer to solving the problem.
What a bloody brilliant idea.
If only she had thought of it sooner.
Time Treasury Got a Shake Up
Why NZ is F****d #15
Have a look at this little revelation of socialist group think from within Treasury.
From this morning's Q and A interview with Paula Bennett-
Bennett also denied that she had ignored Treasury's advice which recommended the work tests should not go ahead because some people would end up working for nothing.
Treasury gave the example of a beneficiary on minimum wage who would only receive $1 extra an hour.
Notwithstanding the notion that $8 per day is 'nothing,' Adolf hopes Treasury doesn't think beneficiaries should stay on the benefit when they are capable of working. It appears that is the advice our minister is receiving.
It's time to put the advisers Treasury onto the job market where they can do something useful like shovelling shit in Louisiana. (With apologies to general Patton.)
They have institutionalized the notion that a benefit somehow is of the same value as being in work. In other words, unless once can make a 'big margin' over and above the benefit, one should not feel obliged to work.
Pissing Your Rates Up Against a Tree
Drinking for six hours, dropping his dacks and pissing on a council owned tree and then driving himself home. Shit, he didn't have enough brains to call dial a driver. Well of course he couldn't do that or the word might have got out.
The local Gummint minister has had enough of this alcoholic keyboard basher's antics and is calling for the immediate resignation of our pisstank mayor.
He talked to a couple at the popular eatery and could be heard referring to himself in the third person. He said he was North Shore's mayor and enjoyed his role.
Inquiries with two bar staff revealed Williams had been drinking red wine at the establishment since 4pm. Six hours later Williams left GPK alone and headed down Hurstmere Rd towards the offices of the North Shore City Council, where he has been mayor since 2007.
On his way he stopped, pulled down his trousers and urinated on a tree outside the council offices.
Williams then headed for the council underground carpark, collected his mayoral vehicle and drove home to Campbells Bay, a 6km trip.
I'll bet he enjoys the role. My rates are keeping this jerk in a perpetual state of intoxication.
He goes on to concede (reading between the lines) that he spends more time at GPK drinking my rates than he does on genuine council business:-
Further inquiries that evening at GPK revealed the mayor was a "very frequent visitor", "possibly one of our most regulars", said one waitress.......
.......... Asked if he had been working on Thursday evening, Williams replied: "I can't recall. I might have been. I go to meetings every day, every night." .
Those meetings must be pure hell. So tiresome, so boring, so DRY.
Adolf looks forward to his contrived explanation.
Will he allege he is being stalked by ACT party members disguised as journalists?
Will he allege that his belt broke as he was walking back to the car park and simultaneously his bladder malfunctioned?. You know, it happens as you get older. Ask Dover Samuels.
It's high time for an OIA request (go for it Whaleoil) for the records of his spending on his NZCC credit card.
Saturday, March 27, 2010
Classic Comment
- Michaels (784) Says:
March 27th, 2010 at 10:16 am
Mr Goff……..
Just like the old hooker on K Road after 30 years…..
Everyone knows she's there, but no one cares anymore.
Obama's foriegn policy steps up a notch
The fundamental problem with the theory is that Arab anti-Americanism predates significant U.S. support for Israel. Until 1967, the United States gave very little aid to Israel. What aid Washington gave was in the form of very limited loans to purchase agricultural products from the United States — a program that many countries in the world participated in. It was France, not the United States, which was the primary supplier of weapons to Israeli.
The fact is that while the argument that U.S. Israel policy caused anti-Americanism in the region may not be altogether true, the United States does not need any further challenges or stresses. Nations overwhelmed by challenges can behave in unpredictable ways. Netanyahu's decision to confront the United States at this time on this issue creates an unpredictability that would seem excessive to Israel's long term interests. Expecting the American political process to protect Israel from the consequences is not necessarily gauging the American mood at the moment.
Nearly twenty years ago, President George W.H. Bush and his Secretary of State James Baker made it clear that they were not going to pursue the pro-Israeli policies of the Reagan administration and were expressing strong criticism of the "Greater Israel" policies of the Likud government in Jerusalem as they attempted to revive the Middle East peace process.
He concludes:There is no reason why President Obama and other officials should not use the American connection with Jerusalem to try to strengthen those forces in Israel whose vision of the country's future converges with American interests and values. That would mean taking sides in the ongoing debate in Israel by making it clear that the settlement policy threaten Israel's ties with the United States, its lifeline to the international community. An Israeli leader who fails to maintain the American connection or worse, one who harms those ties - would eventually be punished by the Israeli voters like Shamir had been in 1992. A tough stand by Obama would force Netanyahu to consider that unless he changes Israeli policies he too could be facing the same political fate. It would be his own choice; but Obama could help him make it.
Friday, March 26, 2010
Phil .... on the road again
Thursday, March 25, 2010
China has 3 1/2 times the steel capacity of Europe.
China produced about 30 million tonnes of steel in the 1980s but in mid-recession last year it produced 568 million tonnes, 14 per cent more than the previous year. Steel analysts say China's total capacity is close to 700 million, compared with European steel-making capacity of about 200 million tonnes.
- World 1326
- China 500
- European Union 198
- Japan 118
- India 55
Now Get Rid Of It
Blend the bloody thing in somewhere and give it six months to wither and die as the departmental CEO redirects its funds to something useful.
Those Dirty Little Diggers
He produced a large colour photo of Mallard, Goff and Co taken outside the Black Ball miners hall during the 2008 election campaign. There they were, the dirty little diggers, swearing allegiance to the industry which spawned their party but now is all BAD BAD BAD.
These are the same guys who issued 218 mining permits on the DOC estate when they were in power.
So, today's Labour brains trust consists of who and what?
Mallard the Miner
Goff the Gouger
King the Komatsu
Barker the Bucket Wheel
Dyson the Dump Truck
Cunliffe the Conveyor
Parker the Pick Axe
And so it goes on..............
Our not so brave new world
What does this tell me.
1. We are failing as a people when we have lost the ability to even control our own means of production.
2. We have poured our money instead into speculative investments run by people with big hats and no cattle, because we thought we could get a lazy profit.
3. Have we lost the ability to work with our brains as well as our hands.
4. Our mineral wealth will probably be stripped out by overseas interests as well because we will be too stupid to even set up and invest in our own mining companies.
5. All the while we argue about who pays for our welfare state and who will spot us the next $250m.
6. I wonder where this will all end up?
One day "To go surfing" may take on a different meaning here.
What Were They Thinking?
No information whatsoever on the real benefits to New Zealanders.
Were they mad? Adolf thinks so and apparently so does The Herald. This from yesterday's editorial:-
"Yet there is nothing in the stocktake about the possible economic upside, either in jobs or general benefits to GDP or direct financial gains for the Crown.
The amounts the Government might expect as royalties from private companies exploiting non hydrocarbon deposits are likely to be small. The absence of an economic case, even theoretical, is an important omission. "
Thinking, nobody could be as dumb as that, Adolf put a call into Gerry Brownlee's office and discovered to his amazement that his staff could point to not one piece of analysis. None of the questions raised by Adolf are able to be answered.
- Gummint will gain immediate GST revenue from all exploration expenditure excluding wages and salaries.
- Gummint will gain PAYE revenue on all those wages and salaries and GST when they are spent.
- Gummint will gain a significant boost to GDP from exploration activity, extraction activity and sale of product. (More on this later)
- NZ will gain thousands of jobs in support industries with consequent inflow of skilled migrants and boosts to GST and PAYE - this is precisely Australia's experience.
The Gnats put up Brownlee as their opening bowler and he threw down a rank long hop to Labour and allowed Phil Goff a free hit to the boundary. Goff is being ably assisted by the Herald which is running a daily torrent of jacked up adverse commentary. More today.
Meanwhile Whaleoil, bowling from the other end, beats the bat a couple of times with an excellent maiden over - brilliantly exposing the cant and hypcricy of the anti-mining brigade. A blogger is doing the job the Brownlee is hashing up.
The only consolation is that there's sufficient time to recover but by hell they'd better not muck this up for too much longer.
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
Vastly Improved
Today Adolf happened to see his speech on the Seafoods something or other bill and he was very impressive. For a time, coherent. Full marks.
Regrettably, he was followed by some dork from National who stumbled through an awful mangled and embarrassing attempt at a greeting in Maori. It was the fool from Whangarei, Heatley.
If people have insufficient brains to learn how to correctly pronounce the beautifully melodic and phonetic Maori language they should not make goats of themselves in public.
Phil Heatley, go away, a long long way, and learn the language.
Nauseating Baloney
Notwithstanding that Labour has been doing nothing less for years, suddenly our world is going to crash around our ears when National moves to continue this most sensible policy. Or so you would think if you believed the vacuous Ms Malcolm.
It is a bitter irony to me that the very image of NZ which entices the rest of the world to our doorstep - tracts of untouched country and its unique eco systems, miles away from big Global industry and development - is about to be gutted "surgically", leaving only the odd "thumbprint".I do not pretend to be a mining expert. I also do not wish to present an hysterical response.
That says it all really.
Another silly bitch with no brains.
Stick to acting girly, where unreality, fiction and make believe are the order of the day.
The Phil U Test
Well another phrase would be - the Phil U Test.
Because I get the gut feeling that Paula Bennetts so called welfare reforms will turn out to be mostly academic.
The DPB is a lifestyle choice for many people, so the Phil U Test will be to see what he actually is doing in a year or even two from now.
My bet is nothing different, for him and countless others.
Apart from popping out more babies to ensure they always have one under 6.
I know several people from South Korea and they all tell me the same thing.
After the war they had two options.
Work or starve.
The fact that they are alive and rich tells you something.
Tell Us More...
(There was no comment on the possibility that perhaps there might have been more if the papers had not been leaked to the Green Wankers before preparations for an orderly release were complete.)
Meanwhile, back at the mine, phailed phlailer Phil Goff and his incompetent wailing mates were busy trying to prove there's no bonanza for the Gummint in these potential mines. (That gap in his teeth looks like an open cast mine on Coromandel.)
You know, the sheers gall of these idiots is amazing.
Every time someone says 'let's catch up to Australia' they cry 'it can't be done so don't bother trying. Australia has all those minerals.' Then, when someone says 'hey look, so do we, lets dig them up and sell them so we can buy some better roads and hospitals' they want you to believe that the wealth is a mirage.
Fortunately, voters are not nearly as dumb as the liars from Labour.
Anyway, Adolf agrees with the Herald, so here's an uneducated go at listing the ways in which mining will grow the public purse. I'll be interested to see the official projections when they arrive.
First up, all the wailers' arguments seem predicated on the notion that mineral royalties will be 1% of sale value.
- I would put each mining license out for tender, carrying an up front 'entry fee' payable along with competitively bid royalties. There might be some sites which would bear a 5% royalty.
- Gummint will gain immediate GST revenue from all exploration expenditure excluding wages and salaries.
- Gummint will gain PAYE revenue on all those wages and salaries and GST when they are spent.
- Gummint will gain a significant boost to GDP from exploration activity, extraction activity and sale of product. (More on this later)
- NZ will gain thousands of jobs in support industries with consequent inflow of skilled migrants and boosts to GST and PAYE - this is precisely Australia's experience.
Oh yeah, what about that increase to GDP?
Well folks, if you can bump your GDP up by five percentage points, suddenly all the bad ratios become good ratios. Suddenly the nation gets credit upgrades instead of downgrades. Suddenly there's less interest to pay on overseas borrowing. Suddenly there's less need for overseas borrowing. Suddenly there's more to spend on infrastructure, better education, better health care and so on and so on.
But Labour doesn't want that. They want to keep you poor so that you can rely on the Gummint for a hand out and they can rely on you for a vote.
The most dangerous drug
In its purest form, a newspaper consists of a collection of facts which, in controlled circumstances, can actively improve knowledge. Unfortunately, facts are expensive, so to save costs and drive up sales, unscrupulous dealers often "cut" the basic contents with cheaper material, such as wild opinion, bullshit, empty hysteria, reheated press releases, advertorial padding and photographs of Lady Gaga with her bum hanging out. The hapless user has little or no concept of the toxicity of the end product: they digest the contents in good faith, only to pay the price later when they find themselves raging incoherently in pubs, or – increasingly – on internet messageboards.
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
Who has really sinned?
Phil Goff puts his 2 cents in by prattling on about the children not suffering because of the "sins of the parents".
Well he should understand that for the many, many, many years that he has been in politics, he has helped oversee the endless rise of the welfare state.
His party in particular have been zealous advocates of making people dependant on the State.
So Phil, if you want to see the real sin here, then look no further than the end of your own nose.
Mallard season is open.
Silly boys
The Phil U Bill
The Government is taking aim at 43,000 solo parents who it says should go back to work.
Prime Minister John Key and Social Development Minister Paula Bennett have this afternoon unveiled a major package of welfare reforms.
Ms Bennett said that for some beneficiaries "the dream is over".
There were 43,000 single parents on the domestic purposes benefit whose children were of a school age and who were ready to transition back to work.
"We expect those people to be at work for at least 15 hours a week," Ms Bennett said.
Polish the shoes and buy a new tie Phil. You're off to work.
New Blog
Anyway, I was pondering the notion of starting a new blog, the sole purpose of which might be to elevate in the public consciousness the innumerable virtues of this virtuoso politician.
I'm thinking of calling it
Wait for it
Be patient
Update from Farrar's Troll Farm: "You're onto it, Richard. Now I know why Coromandel and Barrier were specifically mentioned. Two of our greatest Meccas for the unemployed. It's a brilliant jobs creation scheme funded by the mining industry at the behest of the Gummint.
The brilliance of John Key knows no bounds.
hattip: Keywiblog"
Labour's Porcelain Mug
Pissed on daily by Labour.
If You Believe This .........
Here's what you get when meddling regulators take complaints from people's competitors.
The note to the widow was sensitive and not at all intrusive.
Adolf's bet is the bitch agent from Mangawhai thought she had a sure listing and suddenly someone else was on the scene. Why didn't the reporter tell us whether the house had since been listed for sale or not?
Monday, March 22, 2010
Pigs Really Do Fly.......
As Suicidal Labour Selects Seppuloony, skin and hair flies. It's worth dropping in for a look just for a bit of humour. Illiterate bovver boy Mallard goes feral over Chris Trotter's measured, accurate and thorough evisceration of Labour's woeful selection. In so doing Mallard cops a subtle shellacking from Trotter and reveals his Wainuiomartian grasp of the English language. The poor bugger can never hope to best Trotter in a verbal stoush which requires more acumen and intelligence than scuffling fisticuffs in the parliamentary lobbies.
- Trevor Mallard says:
Chris we don't know who it is.
On the other point you drunk with dogs and caught some of their fleas.
It was a nasty little post and I hope you feel a bit of shame soon.
- Chris Trotter says:
The day I need lessons in shame from you, Trevor old son, I'll let you know.
Adolf's polite response was removed by the commie sensors.
Adolf Fiinkensein says: Your comment is awaiting moderation.
An education spokesman who doesn't know the difference between drank and drunk?
While all this is going on Phlailing Phailing Phil has a bleat on TVNZ about Gerry D10 Brownlee digging up jewels from the jewel of the conservation estate. Adolf is larfffing his arrrse off at the mischievous naming of Coromandel and Great Barrier Island as potential mine sites. How incendiary! Why on earth have they not included Waiheke Island? A couple of pit mines soaked in cyanide next door would do the world for Chris Carter's land values.
This is certainly much better sport than anything at the Basin during the last few days.
Dig Baby, Dig
When Adolf wins Lotto he's going to send Gerry Brownlee one of these.
1,150 raw horse power. Enough to rip Keith Locke's arse off fifty times and still have plenty left for the dipsticks at Forest and Bird.
Watch for the avalanche of lies and emotive crap from the greens and their followers.
Democracy only through race based politics,
Adopting some duck brained UN declaration,
Making one (Maori) vote worth more than others
and having an apartheid team at a RWC
Here's an idea.
Lets do away with the Race Relations Day.
What useful purpose does it serve other than give a platform to moan and bitch about the world.
And while we are at it, let NZ use the upcoming debate on MMP to question why we even need Maori seats.
Because it seems to me that through them, a Maori vote is already worth more than anyone elses.
They have the Teaty of Waitangi, is that not enough?
Sharples Speaks, Jones Lies
Maori Party questions one party, one vote concept
Well that's his opinion but he's pretty lonely.
The real story was about the tensions and difficulties experienced by Dr Sharples in managing his relationship with National. Well, that's about what you would expect in ANY coalition. (Like Doug Anthony and Malcolm Fraser.) Wouldn't you? Of course you would.
But then along came Jones. Pot gutted Jones. Loud mouth Jones.
It's time this idiot went back to the bush to grow kumara and dig fern roots while the nation waits for the trial of his mate Bill Liu. (If there is one.) He's not doing any good for his party, that's for sure.
Labour Party MP Shane Jones says the comments by Dr Sharples outlining tensions in the governing relationship is an admission of failure and a plea of desperation.
Mr Jones says the Maori Party has found itself in an agreement where it lacks the strategy and the imagination to take the country forward.
Many of us who have done that trip would testify as to the accuracy of the observation.
Equally, many of us who have done the Apia-Auckland trip would know that many Samoans ask for blankets. Big deal.
And HongKong Chinese are fussy. Ok with that too.
Just what is wrong with alerting Cabin Staff to the issues they are likely to face?
One observation that apparently does not appear in the Manual is that Cabin Crew hate the Auckland-Perth flight given the propensity of EVERYONE on board to drink the plane dry.
Sunday, March 21, 2010
They Paid Their Own Way
What's more, these guys are going to take home some of their ancestral fish's eggs.
That's not a bad start. I wonder if they will take the Waihope Three along as well and let them loose on the dams. I hope they do because the Yanks won't muck around with some damn fool jury.
The power of prayer
But I'd go further - Christians around the country will be rejoicing at the sight of what, to them, must be an awe-inspiring demonstration of the power of prayer. Consider: the three are patently guilty. It's inconceivable that a jury should aquit them. How then has it come about that a jury did aquit them, knowing full well they did the deed? Only one answer suggests itself: all three are Christians, all three and their supporters have presumably prayed fervently for their release. It appears God heard their prayers and softened the hearts of the jurors. It also appears God is a hippy commie terrorist-lover, which is more than a little worrying...
Cutting Off Labour's Knees
THE GOVERNMENT looks likely to escalate its tax attack on investment property by clamping down on the way losses can be offset against other income.
There is already a wide expectation the May Budget will axe depreciation on buildings, one of the tax reform options raised by the Tax Working Group (TWG) in January, along with cutting income tax and raising GST.
Adolf has long considered such a move fair but in past conversations with Gooner, my co-author has maintained it is not possible to separate a taxpayers PAYE liabilities from his business related tax liabilities and therefore the move is not possible. Gooner also suggests that one does not need an LAQC to arrange these tax write offs and Adolf is not sufficiently versed in accounting law to argue one way or the other. The figures would suggest otherwise.
According to IRD, the number of LAQCs filing returns more than doubled between 2003 and 2008, from 63,400 to 129,900, and the total tax losses relating to residential property investments owned by LAQCs increased nearly 800% over the same period, rising from $105m to $812m.
However, I'm inclined to think he is right on the latter point, so the Gummint will need to simply focus on PAYE payments and forget about LAQCs..
It really appears quite simple to me.
All Blenglish has to do is to tweak the law so as to require (a) all PAYE to be deducted at source and (b) those seeking tax deductibility for rental property expenses to declare their salaried income on their tax returns along with the amount of tax already paid on that income and (c) disallow return of PAYE to the tax payer.
If a tax payer incurs a loss on his rental property, then he will simply need to increase the rent or sell the property. No more taxpayer subsidies distortion of property rental and sale values. What's so hard about that? Just have a thought for all those people currently renting who suddenly will be able to buy these properties as their values decline due to the removal of taxpayer subsidies. That's got to be good for lower income people.
The political ramifications are delicious. Can you imagine Phil Goff trying to spin this package as a gift to rich pricks? Can you imaging how much this would cost the Bilious Bitch via her rental property empire?
Saturday, March 20, 2010
Braindead Labour choose Sepuloni the phony
It's been announced that Carmel Sepuloni, the latest in phony, insincere Labour harpies, has been selected to be the Labour candidate for Waitakere.
In doing so, they rejected Phil Twyford, perhaps the only Labour politician who has been able to whip up public discontent over a government policy – the Auckland supercity.
Sepuloni is famous for not very much, except her ability to whinge about a lack of speaking rights at a Polynesian festival the other week. (Come to think of it, it now seems awfully contrived given that her selection was coming up, doesn't it).
The other Labourites seeking nomination included Hamish McCracken, a former gameshow winner who grates worse than an early 1990s boy band and wannabe Labour MP, and Ann Pala. According to my sources, Pala gave a speech so bad that it probably prevents her from holding any kind of quasi-political responsibility anywhere in the nation. I'm including DOC boards and the local school board in that assessment too.
But back to the main contenders – Sepuloni and Twyford.
Waitakere is a largely middle class electorate. For all the talk about westies and bogans, the locals there are aspirational. Its 60% European, 14% Maori, 17% Pacific Islander and 13% Asian. Given that Paula Bennett of National is part Maori, and Sepuloni is Polynesian, neither would have any tactical advantage in appealing for votes on race.
But there is an issue that is up for grabs out west – the supercity. It's not an issue associated with either Bennett or Sepuloni, but the people out west are nervous about loss of identity. It would be an issue Twyford would have been able to artfully pursue, and one Bennett would have been unwilling to debate Twyford on. But the lazy, shrill Sepuloni will not be able to prosecute that argument anywhere near as effectively.
Instead, Sepuloni would have to rely on other Labour talking points, plus make the argument for change based on personality. But why would anyone vote out a prominent, pleasant, part Maori youthful cabinet minister for a less prominent, unpleasant Polynesian backbencher? There's no compelling need for people to change their allegiances to Labour, no "unique selling point" for Sepuloni to accentuate?
So why did Twyford lose? My header suggests that Labour were braindead to choose Sepuloni, but there must have been more to it than political incompetence by the party. Twyford must have abysmally weak links into the party faithful if he is incapable of gaining the nominations for Mt Albert, Auckland Central and now Waitakere. He will now be damaged goods in Parliament for this third rejection.
Twyford, as a rather intelligent looking middle class white liberal male must be completely out of kilter with the factionalised gay/maori/polynesian/trade union Labour Party. Put short – he's a smart man who has failed to build his links into a party that is factionalised. Twyford, ironically, would have thrived in the Greens, who could have used an erudite, middle class looking white man with real world talents to lead them.
For example, Twyford's background as former head of Oxfam will mean he will have skills in management, humanitarian issues, advocacy and analysis, international relations and diplomacy. These are all valuable skills in the real world and in productive government. But they are not values of a defeated Labour Party that seeks to reward race and mediocrity instead of real life talents.
And that's precisely why Labour are in opposition, and will continue to remain there.
Arse quiver
It's that sinking feeling that you experience when you realise that you have over committed, been caught out or stuffed up, finally sinks home.
It is usually accompanied by a stuttering "but, but..." as you cling to some desperate excuse.
So I well and truly look forward to a butfull of quivering amongst the previous government's MPs as 7000 pages of their spending records are made public.
Of course being New Zealand, nothing of real consequence will happen as "mistakes and errors of judgement" are unearthed, but at least we will get to witness some fine examples of ring puckering.
Disgraceful Conduct
I'm not going to grace that post with a link but suffice it so say Whale, this is where you lose me. You have crossed the line where one can agree to disagree. How am I to know that one day, should the mood take you, my own identity might not appear in the midst of unfounded innuendo, slander and other crap?
I'm very much aware of some of your victim's transgressions but NOTHING justifies your actions here. Perhaps you might consider a grovelling letter of apology, or are those reserved for MP's who have the resources to successfully threaten you with defamation?
Roy Morgan Signals End of ETS
Yesterday's RoyMorgan poll contained a hint that the ETS and people's loathing for it might already be seeping into the political consciousness.
".......comprising National Party 51.5% (down 2%), Maori Party 2% (down 0.5%), ACT NZ 2.5% (up 1%)......"
For the first time in I don't know how long, one can see a one percent drift from National to ACT. I suspect this represents a growing dissatisfaction by conservatives over the apparent unwillingness of National to act on a whole raft of issues, with that dissatisfaction focusing more and more on the ETS. (The last time such a swing lasted for more than one month was Feb - April 2009 when National moved from 56 to 54.5 to 50.0 while ACT moved from 1.5 to 2.5 to 4.0.)
Adolf was all in favour of the ETS until climategate came along and pulled the rug from the hitherto ascendant global warmenisers. Even before that, the ETS was always a political rather than economic or scientific device. It was never going to have the slightest effect on reducing CO2 emissions but it was going to have a huge effect on protecting our export markets in the lands of the deluded. Those Eurowankers who would lock us out of our markets at the perceived drop of an incandescent light bulb.
But that's all history now.
The carbon trading markets have died as people lose faith in the global warming religion and it's disciples are revealed to be really a bunch of conniving international con men. The US will not go to cap and trade, Rudd is set to lose the next federal election because of his fixation on his version of ETS and NACTionalMP will go the same way if they persist with it.
Perhaps the ETS will be the defining issue for ACT between now and November 2011?
Keep an eye on the next Roy Morgan poll for further clues.


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Archive for the 'F-Script' Category
Next CocoaCoder meeting in Austin: F-Script And View-Backed in Core Animations
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Smalltalk 4 U: Getting started with F-Script
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A new episode of James Robertson's Smalltalk for U series.
Ask F-Script
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Vincent Gable on using F-Script for answering quick API questions instantly.
Video: New Cocoa Programming Superpowers
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Thanks to the support of the good folks at the Mac Developer Network, the NSConference talk on F-Script 2.0 is now available for free. The session explores the need for interactive manipulation of objects and shows some of the cool graphical tools provided by F-Script to achieve it. Other new features in F-Script 2 are discussed, including dynamic Cocoa class creation, system wide scripting and the latest in exploring applications from the inside through run-time injection.
If you have never used F-Script and want to know what it is all about, this video should provide you with a good overview, packed with demos of interesting dynamic object-oriented technologies. If you are a regular F-Script user, you'll feel at home but might still learn a few neat tricks.
You can watch the embedded video above or get to the video on its Vimeo page.
F-Script 2.1 released
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You can download F-Script 2.1 now (for Mac OS X 10.6 or later).
The main new feature in this version is support for adding methods to existing classes. This is similar to Objective-C categories, but works dynamically at run-time. This is quite useful for prototyping stuff and experimenting with new designs, as well as for making object-oriented frameworks developed independently work together. Besides, it is a natural extension of the ability to define Cocoa classes directly in F-Script and lets you write a bigger part of your application code in F-Script, should you want to.
You can teach new tricks to any class registered in the Objective-C runtime, regardless of its original implementation language (Objective-C, F-Script or other). The syntax is straightforward: class name followed by new methods inside a pair of curly braces. For example, here is how we can add a
- (void)print
"Print the receiver's description on standard output."
stdout print:self description
Of course, this also works for class methods. For example, the following code adds a
pi method to the NSNumber class:
+ pi
^ 3.141592653589793
The following example, a little bit more sophisticated, adds some common Smalltalk collection methods (namely
groupedBy: and
select:) to the NSArray class:
- collect:transformer
"Answer a new NSArray constructed by gathering the results of
evaluating transformer (a block with one parameter) with each
element of the receiver."
^ transformer value:@self
- groupedBy:criteria
"Answer an NSDictionary whose keys are the result of evaluating
criteria (a block with one parameter) for all elements in the
collection, and the value for each key is the collection of
elements that evaluated to that key. For example
{'Hello', 'guys', 'I', 'enjoy', 'programming', 'with', 'style'}
returns a dictionary with the following key/value associations:
4 -> {'guys', 'with'},
5 -> {'hello', 'enjoy', 'style'},
11 -> {'programming'}"
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result := #{}.
self do:[:each|
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key := criteria value:each.
group := result at:key.
group == nil ifTrue:
group := {}.
result at:key put:group.
group addObject:each.
^ result
- inject:initialValue into:operation
"Answer the final result of evaluating operation (a block with
two parameters) using the previous evaluation result and each
element of the receiver as the parameters. The first evaluation
of operation is performed with initialValue as the first
parameter, and the first element of the receiver as the second
parameter. For instance, to sum the numeric elements of an
array, use:
anArray inject:0 into:#+"
| nextValue |
nextValue := initialValue.
self do:[:each|
nextValue := operation value:nextValue value:each
^ nextValue
- select:discriminator
"Answer a new NSArray which contains the elements in the
receiver which cause discriminator (a block with one parameter)
to evaluate to true. For each element of the receiver,
discriminator is evaluated with the element as the parameter.
Each element which causes discriminator to evaluate to true is
added to the new array."
^ self where:(discriminator value:@self)
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Michael Tyson's Core Data Browser.app is a nifty tool which lets you easily open a Core Data database for graphical exploration with F-Script. You can read more about it in
Browsing Core Data databases using F-Script. I wonder where in Europe it has been developed…
F-Script Switching Options
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In F-Script, blocks combined with message sending can be used to create new control structures fitting your needs (and mood!). Indeed, things like if/else, while or exception handling control structures are all provided at the library level, with no need for specialized syntax in the language itself. In F-Script Switching Options, Jeff explore creating new kinds of conditional control structures:
There are many ways to think through the flow of a program, and times when certain constructs like switch statements are a nice option, even in a language with no syntactical support for it, per se. Philippe Mougin was discussing just such options in F-Script back in the Oughts. I had a need for switching in F-Script, and came up with a few versions that I found useful. Read more…


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Published since 1977, Dutch Crossing is devoted to all aspects of Low Countries Studies: history and art history of the Low Countries, Dutch and Flemish (and occasionally Afrikaans) literary and cultural studies, linguistics of Dutch and Dutch as a foreign language, and intercultural and transnational studies. Coverage includes both the Netherlands and Belgium, as well as other places where Dutch historically had or continues to have an impact, including parts of the Americas, Southern Africa and South-East Asia. A special focus concerns relations between the Low Countries and the English-speaking world in all periods from the Middle Ages to the present day.
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The Saving Grace Church of Brethren on Pacific Avenue had some guests this week, and if you visited ECHO at any time, you would have seen them.
A work team of about 15 people from throughout the United States came to North Fort Myers to do some missionary work at the farm, see some of the sights Lee County has to offer, and conduct the COB Sunday service before heading back to the home base in Elgin, Ill.
It is the second year the church has done this, according to Teresa Beardmore, church administrator.
"The church has kids who go out and work during the summertime," Beardmore said. "It's an outreach into the community and they always ask what they can do for us, and we said for them to conduct our service."
The teens are a group from Illinois, Virginia and Pennsylvania, said work camp coordinator Katie Cummings, and they go out and do two dozen other assignments throughout the summer.
"Each week we've been traveling, but it's not the same group of kids. They have the option to go to different ones," Cummings said. "The program is 25 years old this summer and we've done soup kitchens, and fixed up homes for the underprivileged."
The group arrived on Monday and, after taking a tour of ECHO in the morning, went to work, digging holes for posts and pulling up weeds in the Florida heat.
Most, like Monica McFadden, 17, from Elgin, Ill., didn't mind the extra sweat.
"I'd heard from other people that it was really awesome and even from adults. The type of missions they do here, the intense types of farming, are really cool," McFadden said before she went out to pull weeds. "The tour was really cool."
Madeline Mellinger, 15, of Lancaster, Pa., came with her sister, and mother. She said service has been a family tradition.
"My two brothers and fathers did this nine years ago, so we thought it would be fun to repeat history," Mellinger said. "I love it. We live on a goat farm, so this is an interest."
"Because we're farmers, we're looking for practical ways to do things, but we as a family have a commitment to ending hunger," Madeline's mother, Mary, said.
Meanwhile, Nicholas Klein, 15, of Virginia, went on post-hole duty. He also came here through family.
"It's cool seeing these plants and how they teach people to grow crops in different areas," Klein said.
At night, they slept at the church in sleeping bags before going out again to work. Only on Saturday is the group to get a chance to really relax and see some of the sights.
But going on missions for the church and helping others is a win-win for everyone involved.
"It's good to see the kids because it teaches them responsibility. Last year, they put in a concrete bridge," Beardmore said. "They do some good stuff for the people."


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Top models see more clothes up close than anybody else. They're constantly slipping in and out of dresses, visiting showrooms and witnessing the best designers at work. Lois (pronounced "Loy") Samuels has been modeling for 16 years, working with everyone in the fashion world from Yves Saint Laurent to Calvin Klein to Ralph Lauren, Thierry Mugler and Banana Republic.
Just this past Christmas, she appeared in a series of national advertisements for Macy's. She was among the first models of her era to sport a shaved head on the runway, paving the way for the many beautiful buzzed coifs that have graced the catwalk recently.
Samuels has written two well-received books: A Glow in the Dark, about her career in modeling, and Jamaica Through My Eyes, a collection of her photography. She started modeling at 21 after she was discovered in Jamaica, where she was born, and lived in London for several years before moving to New York six years ago with her son.
She took a break from modeling this week to introduce her latest styles from the Vessel by Lois, the collection she debuted last year. It's a spare, sharp group of clothes in black wools and cashmeres, perfect for the career power player or social mover looking for something other than a sleepy, four-button jacket for the office or meet-up. Presented by Samuels herself, the clothes were placed on mannequins and depicted in photographs of Samuels modeling the looks.
The Root asked the 37-year-old Samuels about life as a model and a designer.
The Root: So you've left modeling and gone into design?
Lois Samuels: I still do modeling. I'm signed to Q Models. I do a lot of commercials. I do print and broadcast.
TR: When you were designing this collection, what were you thinking of?
LS: My inspiration has always been classic tailoring. The uniform. This season I came up with the seven days of winter; it could be seven days of a woman's life. I didn't want it to be too masculine, so there are plunging necklines, slits up the leg. Simple, yet sexy.
TR: How does the fact that you're a model affect your casting of models for your presentation?
LS: Whenever I have shows with models, I always have a diverse cast. It's always important to me to have diversity not just in race but also in age and in size. I use older and younger models. And why should all the models be size zero — or minus zero [laughing], as I call it?
TR: What do you think about the current state of diversity on the runways?
LS: I don't think it's as diverse as it used to be. In some ways, it seems it might have gotten worse than it was. There are one or two [black] models in a show, but I feel there should be more. It's always like 20 [white models] to one [black model]. I don't know when it's gonna change. There was a time it was changing, and now it feels like we've gone back. I have a son who's 9, and I tell him, "You can do anything; you can be anything." So you can't let it stop you.
TR: What led you into design rather than, say, acting, which a lot of models do as a second career?
LS: I feel like this is my life. Fashion is what I'm used to; modeling or design, the glamour and the grit are the same. Once you're in fashion, you're involved. I've been an account manager at Thom Browne. I do photography. I've written two books. I do painting. It's my personality to create.
Also, with design, I am doing something where I am in control of my life. I'm creating something. In acting, you are constantly judged and told what to do, and you have to deal with, "Do they want me?" You have to deal with all that.
TR: Where is the collection sold, and what's the price range?
LS: Right now it's only available through my company. I hope to sell to stores like Barneys. Prices are $350 to about $1,000. Most things are under $1,000.
TR: How do you keep in shape for your modeling?
LS: Well, you know, you get older, you have kids and you start to put on a few pounds, you get a little belly. I am tall [5 feet, 10 inches] and my legs are thin, so it doesn't show as much, but I put on a few pounds. But I eat well. Lots of vegetables, soups. I cook at least five times a week, with my son. I try to make sure we're eating healthy.
TR: That's it? You eat healthy? Do you exercise?
LS: I dance a lot at home. We have a lot of parties, and I always dance.
TR: Where did you get the name "Vessel"?
LS: I always used to say, "We're all vessels of life. We are all vessels of love." So when I started the line, I said, "That's it!"
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A jury was selected Monday to try disbarred local attorney James �Harvey� Tipler on charges of attempting to hire someone to kill Assistant State Attorney Russ Edgar.
A jury was selected Monday to try disbarred local attorney James �Harvey� Tipler on charges of attempting to hire someone to kill Assistant State Attorney Russ Edgar.
Tipler, 61, was incarcerated at the Okaloosa County Jail, authorities say, when he hatched his plan to kill Edgar, who had pursued him since 2008 and had him arrested three times on racketeering charges between 2009 and 2011.
A plot to hire a hit man unraveled when Tipler tried to enlist the help of another disgraced Okaloosa County attorney, according to an affidavit filed at the time of Tipler�s Aug. 22, 2012, arrest on three counts of attempted murder.
R. Scott Whitehead, 41, who last October pleaded guilty to a racketeering charge of his own, told authorities that Tipler had approached him in July of 2012 seeking his help in arranging a murder for hire.
Tipler had allegedly concocted the plan to kill Edgar and discussed it with a couple of other inmates months before Whitehead, who has faced a number of alcohol-related charges in recent years, was booked on a charge of driving with a suspended license.
Tipler confided to Whitehead, whom Edgar had also had arrested for racketeering, that he�d found two men willing to kill the prosecutor, the affidavit said.
He wanted Whitehead to borrow $10,000 from his mother to have Edgar killed, it said, and promised to reimburse his half of the cost of hiring the hit man.
According to the affidavit, Tipler enlisted a former cell mate, Dion Lowe, to secure a hit man to kill Edgar, and Lowe told him a person he knew in Atlanta would do the job for $10,000.
Authorities located a letter sent by Tipler that they say shows his intent to carry out the hit.
Undercover officers apparently arranged a $1,500 payment to Lowe who, when confronted, told investigators he never intended to assist Tipler in the murder-for-hire plot but was simply �blowing smoke.�
State Attorney Bill Eddins, who will work with Assistant State Attorney Bobby Elmore in trying the case against Tipler, said the defendant actually faces three counts of attempted murder.
The first was filed for his effort to solicit Whitehead�s involvement in the hit, the second for bringing Lowe into the scheme and the third for conversations he had with a man named Wallace Morris.
Whitehead, Lowe and Morris are scheduled to testify during the Tipler trial, Eddins said, which should last about a week.
Following the trial, Whitehead will be sentenced for racketeering. Sentencing has been scheduled for May 13.
Tipler will go on trial for the racketeering charges he faces, along with charges of theft and practicing law without a license, on June 3.
County Judge T. Patterson Maney will preside over the Tipler trial. The county�s circuit court judges, who typically hear felony criminal cases, have all recused themselves.
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NCBA's Cattlemen's College® Lineup Set for Feb. 5-6 in Tampa
DENVER — Now in its 20th year, the National Cattlemen's Beef Association's (NCBA) Cattlemen's College® has established a reputation as one of the most thorough cattle producer education programs in the nation. Sponsored by Pfizer Animal Health, the 2013 edition of Cattlemen's College® offers a wide range of informative, one of a kind hands-on educational workshops designed for cattle operations of every size and sector.
The program will be held Feb. 5-6, 2013, in Tampa, Fla., headlining the first day of activities at the 2013 Cattle Industry Convention and NCBA Trade Show. Early registration for Cattlemen's College® and the convention ends Jan. 11.
Cattlemen's College® workshops include an outstanding lineup of industry experts during the course of two jam-packed days. On Tues., Feb. 5, attendees will be able to participate in classes about reproductive technologies and low stress cattle handling principles. Learn how to put reproductive technologies to work in your cow-calf operations to enhance the performance and profitability of your herd, as well as learn about appropriate methods of moving cattle as a herd, penning techniques and pressure points in moving animals.
On Tuesday evening, Cattlemen's College® participants will be treated to great Florida hospitality and enjoy an exciting night of ranch horse competition as the American Quarter Horse Association brings ranch horses to the Tampa bay. These cowboys and horses will show off their skills in reining, cow work and roping as they show the versatility, athleticism and willingness that make the American Quarter Horse the ultimate ranch tool.
Class begins bright and early on Wed., Feb. 6, with a keynote address by internationally respected futurist Dr. Lowell Catlett, who will educate the audience with his predictions for the long range outlook for the agricultural industry and factors that influence profitability and sustainability of beef cattle production. Sessions will go from 8:45 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., and include a cattle market update presented by CattleFax, preserving family relations on the ranch, weather predictions for 2013 and beyond, consumer attitudes toward beef and beef production, how to cope with drought and high feed prices, animal welfare issues and how to identify risk factors that affect your business' bottom line.
"During Cattlemen's College® producers not only have an opportunity to hear from some of the leading experts in topics that impact their cattle operations every day, but they also have the chance to interact with those experts and ask questions," said NCBA Executive Director of Producer Education John Paterson. "Many of the presenters are legends in the beef industry, and the wide variety of classes offers something for every producer. We highly encourage cattlemen and women to take advantage of this informative and educational program.
"Registration for Cattlemen's College® includes all classes along with a two-hour lunch program on Feb. 6. This schedule allows cattlemen to attend up to five 45-minute workshops. Cattlemen's College® registration also includes admission to the Cattle-Fax Outlook Seminar, which will be held on Fri., Feb. 9. Topics will include a detailed outlook for cattle and beef inventories and prices, the state of the cattle cycle, analysis of feed grain supplies and prices, a long-term weather outlook, global trade opportunities, and a discussion of emerging beef industry issues and trends.
Cattlemen's College® registration information, as well as a complete schedule for the 2013 Cattle Industry Convention and NCBA Trade Show are available at www.beefusa.org.
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Father Pat's Pastoral Ponderings
Twentieth Sunday After Pentecost
October 10, 2010
St. Luke's account of the baptism of Jesus is contained in a single, closely constructed sentence: "Now it happened, when all the people were baptized, and Jesus — having been baptized — was praying, that heaven was opened, and the Holy Spirit, in bodily form like a dove, came down upon Him, and there was a voice from heaven: "You are My beloved Son; in You I am well pleased" (3:21-22).
The reader observes two curious features in the formal construction of this story: First, John the Baptist is not mentioned; Luke, having already spoken of John's arrest (3:20), leaves him out completely. Second, the baptism itself is not of central concern; it has already happened and is mentioned only in a subordinate clause. Luke's focus is directed, rather, to Jesus' experience of the Father and the Holy Spirit.
>From a material perspective, there are four details worthy of particular attention in Luke's version of the baptism of Jesus:
First, Jesus' baptism is not isolated from that of the crowd: ". . . when all the people were baptized . . ." The evangelist's stress on this point indicates Jesus' solidarity with the rest of humanity. This solidarity is also addressed by Luke's inclusion — immediately after the baptism — of the genealogy, in which Jesus' ancestry is traced all the way back to Adam (3:23-38). In other words, Luke's mention of "the people" in this place pertains to his larger interest in the humanity of Jesus.
Second, only Luke speaks of our Lord at prayer in the baptismal scene: ". . . Jesus — having been baptized — was praying . . ." This is the first of many times when Luke will speak of Jesus communing with God as other human beings do-namely, by prayer (cf. 5:16; 6:12; 9:19,28; 10:21-23; 11:2; 22:32,41-44; 23:46).
Third, Luke emphasizes the manifest way the Holy Spirit descended on Jesus: ". . . the Holy Spirit, in bodily form [somatiko eidei] like a dove, came down upon Him . . ."
Although the activity of the Holy Spirit has already become thematic in Luke's account (cf. 1:15,35,41,67; 2:25,26,27; 3:16), a particular theological note attends the Spirit's appearance in the baptismal scene — namely, this evangelist portrays our Lord's baptism as a public anointing by the Holy Spirit. Jesus uses this very expression, in fact, when, in the first words of His public ministry — and quoting the Book of Isaiah — He announces, "The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me, / Because He has anointed Me" (4:16; Isaiah 61:1).
The Spirit's baptismal anointing of Jesus is theologically decisive for Luke. For starts, this event is the chronological terminus a quo of the apostolic message (cf. Acts 1:21-22). In respect to this anointing, moreover, Luke goes on to quote St. Peter's assertion that the Gospel "began from Galilee after the baptism which John preached: how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power, who went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with Him" (10:37-38 emphasis added).
Fourth, in Luke's version of the baptism — as in Mark's, the voice of the Father addresses Jesus directly. He does so twice: "You are My beloved Son; in You I am well pleased" (emphasis justified by the grammar of the Greek original). We take note of the vigorously repeated I/You structure.
The proclamation of Jesus' sonship hardly comes as "news" to Luke's readers, of course, who recall the announcement of Gabriel: "The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Highest will overshadow you; therefore, also, that Holy One who is to be born will be called the Son of God" (1:35).
Nor does this identification come as "fresh information" to Jesus. More especially, the Father's word should not be heard as Jesus' "vocation," in the sense familiar to the Hebrew prophets. It was nothing of the sort. Eighteen years earlier, after all, He had asked His parents, "Why did you seek Me? Did you not know that I must be about the things of My Father?" (Luke 2:49)
The Father's voice expresses, rather, a heightened reassurance; as St. Peter remarked of this scene, "God was with Him." The Father's word is an encouraging response to Jesus' prayer. It conveys, more intensely, the Father's presence and loving approval. Luke's emphasis is, thus, on Jesus' experience.
Fr. Patrick Henry Reardon is pastor of All Saints Antiochian Orthodox Church in Chicago, Illinois, and a Senior Editor of Touchstone: A Journal of Mere Christianity.
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