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Mishima, Murakami, the Dalai Lama and CIA: genius, banality and the closet
Lee Jay Walker
Modern Tokyo Times
Haruki Murakami is clearly popular and sales of his new book, 1Q84, will hit the roof because of huge demand. It is therefore abundantly clear that Murakami is a writer who appeals to millions of people throughout the world. However, one of the most iconic food chains in America is equally popular for different reasons but in a sense you do have a connection.
The connection is banality but an enjoyment all the same and both the American iconic food chain and Murakami are in huge demand but sometimes it is difficult to understand why they stand out against other options.
In truth, this world is complex and often contradictory beyond reasoning. After all, the Dalai Lama is a man of peace but was sponsored by the Central Intelligence Agency of America (CIA). This certainly doesn't fit the imagination but the $1.7 million dollars a year in the 1960s and early 1970s certainly helped to boost his profile.
However, in the world of reality and unreality, then the Dalai Lama being sponsored by the CIA does make sense. After all, the United States spends vast sums of money on redeveloping Afghanistan and propping up the Karzai regime and many soldiers have died for "freedom" and fighting for their country. However, all apostates from Islam to Christianity face the death penalty in Afghanistan and clearly the Dalai Lama would have difficulty in building a Buddhist temple.
This may appear to be getting away from the point but actually it is meant to be getting nearer. Therefore, while the appeal of Murakami continues to grow and nobody can doubt this based on sales, it still doesn't hide the banality of Murakami compared with Yukio Mishima.
It is not only the placid nature of Murakami's writing when compared with Mishima but also the richness, passion and mystery of Mishima which pales the other author into oblivion. Yes, it is factual that intellect means little if people ignore and if the individual can't connect but Murakami certainly can connect despite his lack of creativity.
It must be remembered that Leon Trotsky was an intellect unlike Joseph Stalin but we all know that an ice pick awaited Trotsky while Stalin manipulated power control mechanisms. Therefore, just like many great artists who lived in poverty and died in debt or with little money to their name (their art today costs untold sums of money), intellect and genius didn't spare Trotsky and countless artists who struggled to survive.
Therefore, reality and unreality is very difficult to define with so much chaos. However, the passion of Mishima is rare even if this passion turned against "the self" and ultimately led to his brutal death which he desired.
In Mishima's novel, Runaway Horses, he writes on page 236 that "Isao's young lips had yet touched no other lips, and he brushed them delicately against the petals of this withered lily with all the exquisite sensitivity that they possessed."
"Here is the source of my purity, the warrant for my purity," he told himself. "I am certain that it is here. When the time comes for me to turn my sword against myself, lilies will surely rise from the morning dew and open their petals to the rising sun. Their scent will purify the stench of my blood. So be it! How can I have any more doubts?"
This passion is what made Mishima special and the fact that he had high intellect is secondary because without this creative spark then his novels would still be of high quality, just like Murakami, but they wouldn't stand out or hit a raw nerve.
Also, while Mishima is tainted by "progressive liberals" for being too nationalistic it is ironic that many of the same "progressive liberals" will revere the Dalai Lama. However, Mishima had no CIA closet or links with an organization which sometimes went to extremes via covert and bloody operations.
Michael Backman in The Age commented that "The government set up in exile in India and, at least until the 1970s, received $US 1.7 million a year from the CIA."
"The money was to pay for guerilla operations against the Chinese, notwithstanding the Dalai Lama's public stance in support of non-violence, for which he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1989."
"The Dalai Lama himself was on the CIA's payroll from the late 1950s until 1974, reportedly receiving $US 15,000 a month ($US 180,000 a year)."
"The funds were paid to him personally, but he used all or most of them for Tibetan government-in-exile activities, principally to fund offices in New York and Geneva, and to lobby internationally."
Therefore, whatever the failings of Mishima and his nationalist leanings which are reviled by "progressive liberals," at least you see and feel the "real" Mishima unlike the closet of the Dalai Lama.
In literary terms Murakami is "progressive" and unlike Mishima he doesn't veer to the right-wing mindset. However, the image of Murakami suits the style that he writes and unlike the "CIA closet" of the Dalai Lama, you don't have any bombshells within his books and this is what is so disappointing.
Yes, books by Murakami appeal to vast numbers of people and clearly he thinks deeply about his writing. However, I fail to see a spark or "a bigger picture" but maybe Murakami is correct on this point because it could be that all "bigger pictures" are illusions.
It may well be that 1Q84 by Murakami is very special but given past novels, I hesitate to believe that he can break free and reach a new height. Therefore, while it is difficult to put Mishima's book down it is equally difficult to believe that a fresh book by Murakami will be unique based on past novels.
In an earlier article I wrote about Mishima I state that "The book Sun and Steel relates to Mishima throwing away his earlier novel, Confessions of a Mask." Now Mishima was building up to be a man of strength and the Nietzsche "ubermensch" was born within the ego and spirit of Mishima."
Further down in the same article I comment that "The boy from Tokyo was enigmatic and had a raw passion and sadly the passion of Mishima is missing today and maybe this is where his genius belongs."
"In Mishima, you can imagine the energy of the past and where the individual is visionary; therefore, the failings in his life, like the failings of all people; must be brushed aside because to ignore Mishima's writing is to ignore a potent force within the literary energy of Japan."
"Mishima, unlike the majority of writers, transcended the nation he belonged to because his writing hits a raw nerve within the "inner soul" and he will continue to be read by millions of people all over the world."
Of course individuals are different and the energy of Mishima and the self-destructive nature of his thinking is rare, to say the least. Therefore, while Murakami connects with millions of people all over the world, which is amazing by itself, it mainly applies to a mindset based on commonality and un-uniqueness.
Mishima, however, can be felt in the fervor of the Islamic Revolution in Iran, the communist take-over in China, the disillusioned in all societies who see a crumbling indigenous culture being swept away by globalization and a growing monoculture.
The first aspect, the Islamic Revolution in Iran and the communist take-over in China, was based on self-made illusions and both events unleashed suffering, brutality, and mass persecution, especially in the early stages.
However, the second aspect, fearing the destructive nature of globalization, a growing monoculture, societies disconnecting with past history and culture, is more understandable, irrespective if people disagree.
It is easy to visualize, even if incorrectly, cosmopolitans and "progressive liberals" championing a writer from a different culture. After all, what could be more hip and internationalist?
Yet with Mishima, you feel "the shadow" and "the marginalized" and his books can appeal to people on many different grounds. Not only this, Mishima's writing style is on a different wavelength when compared to Murakami.
Turning back to the Dalai Lama and taking money from the CIA and relating this to this article, then unlike the reality and unreality of life, the action by the Dalai Lama was all too real. The unreality about the Dalai Lama is the myth behind the hidden agenda.
Mishima equals complexity, intrigue, creativity, and chaos. However, Murakami represents normality, safety, and predictability but he is a writer who appeals because he delves deeply into the reality of the characters he writes about. The Dalai Lama represents "unreality" because the picture is clearly not the real image which is being provided. Despite this, it could be argued that his realistic approach serves the Tibetans well because CIA funding enabled the Tibetan cause to become known but it shatters the "peace myth" about the Dalai Lama.
It could be that the over-hype about Murakami is correct and that I am mistaken and maybe I am just an ignorant individual? However, the passion and spark of Mishima was potent, irrespective if people welcomed or liked his thinking. Therefore, the unreality of the Dalai Lama's image which based his CIA funding on reality is the best way to sum up the popularity of Murakami – that is, I fail to see what makes him stand out unlike the genius of Mishima.
http://www.nytimes.com/1998/10/02/world/world-news-briefs-dalai-lama-group-says-it-got-money-from-cia.html Dalai Lama and CIA
http://www.theage.com.au/news/business/behind-dalai-lamas-holy-/2007/05/22/1179601410290.html Dalai Lama and CIA cloak
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRXFyOh6yzQ&feature=related Video of Dalai Lama and CIA
http://www.vill.yamanakako.yamanashi.jp/osusume.php – Yukio Mishima Cyber Museum
http://dennismichaeliannuzz.tripod.com/index.HTML – Tribute to Yukio Mishima
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/mishima.htm – Yukio Mishima
Haruki Murakami
http://www.murakami.ch/main_4.html Haruki Murakam i

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I also made stir-fried dandelion greens with this. Here, too, wine was really helpful, because the greens are so tough that they need to stew a little in extra liquid that cooks off, rather than just quickly fry. These were cooked with garlic, tamari, white wine, and red pepper flakes.
Tempeh-Mushroom Stroganoff
olive oil
1 onion, chopped
3-4 cloves garlic, minced
pinch salt
lots of mushrooms, sliced
1 block tempeh, cut into small cubes or crumbled
1-1.5 c white wine
1 c stock
fresh rosemary
fresh thyme
dried sage
red pepper flakes
3 TB flour, mixed with 1/2 c water
Instructions1. Heat olive oil in a medium saucepan. Saute onion several minutes, then add garlic and a pinch of salt; cook several minutes more. Add mushrooms and tempeh and cook until mushrooms have released their liquid, then deglaze with the wine. Add stock as well.
2. Bring pot to a boil, then reduce heat and simmer. Add herbs and red pepper flakes. Cook about 15 minutes, uncovered. Then add the flour-water mixture. Simmer until everything thickens. Serve hot with noodles. Serves about 4.
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Tennis adopts biological passport for anti-doping
LONDON (AP) -- Tennis is adopting the biological passport program and increasing the number of blood tests as part of a new anti-doping drive that players themselves have demanded.
With the sport under pressure to do more against doping, the International Tennis Federation said Thursday the measures will go into effect this year on both the men's and women's tours in an effort to ensure the game is clean.
The biological passport tracks a player's blood profile over time for any changes that could indicate doping. The system is already applied in track and field and cycling and has resulted in sanctions against athletes without positive tests.
"The implementation of the athlete biological passport is an important step in the evolution of the tennis anti-doping program as it provides us with a great tool in the fight against doping in our sport,'' ITF President Francesco Ricci Bitti said.
The ITF said the project will mean an increase in the number of blood tests carried out each year, as well as an overall rise in out-of-competition controls, which are considered the most effective method for catching cheats. Figures for the number of planned tests were not given.
The move follows a meeting this week of an anti-doping group comprised of officials from the ITF, ATP, WTA and the four Grand Slam tournaments. All the bodies expressed "unified support'' for the program, the ITF said.
Additional funding will be provided by all the governing bodies and administered by the ITF.
Bill Babcock, director of the Grand Slam Committee, said the biological passport program "is essential to ensure that tennis remains a clean sport for the future.''
Players are already subjected to regular drug-testing for substances prohibited by the World Anti-Doping Agency.
In the wake of cyclist Lance Armstrong's admission that he doped during his seven Tour de France victories, tennis and other sports have come under scrutiny for their own anti-doping programs. Leading tennis players, including Roger Federer and Andy Murray, have called for more out-of-competition and blood testing.
"The players have been clear that they support increased investment in anti-doping and we feel that this is the most effective way to show the world that tennis is a clean sport,'' ATP President Brad Drewett said.
Tennis has been criticized for a lack of rigorous testing, particularly blood controls.
The ITF and WADA conducted only 21 out-of-competition blood tests - used to detect growth hormone, EPO, transfusions and other blood-doping substances - in tennis in 2011. The vast majority of tests in tennis in 2011 - 2,019 of a total of 2,150 - were urine.
Last month, the ITF banned 124th-ranked Barbora Zahlavova Strycova of the Czech Republic for six months after she tested positive for the stimulant sibutramine at a tournament last fall. She said the drug got into her system through a supplement and denied taking it to enhance her performance.
Wayne Odesnik, a former top-100 player, was suspended by the ITF in 2010 after Australian customs officers found eight vials containing HGH in his luggage when he arrived in that country ahead of a tournament. He denied using HGH and never tested positive for it. His two-year ban was cut in half because the ITF said Odesnik cooperated with its anti-doping program.
Eufemiano Fuentes, the Spanish doctor on trial in the Operation Puerto blood-doping case in Madrid, has said that he had clients from tennis as well as cycling, soccer and boxing. He has not revealed their identities.
Pete Sampras, retired winner of 14 Grand Slam titles, said in Los Angeles this this week that he doesn't believe doping is a problem in the sport.
"I don't think players are that sophisticated in tennis,'' he said, referring to the elaborate system Armstrong used to avoid detection. "It's not their culture. I don't think it's in their nature.''
Rafael Nadal, winner of 11 Grand Slam titles, said recently that testing should strike a balance between catching the cheats and respecting the athletes.
"Not everyone has to pay for some sinners,'' Nadal said.
Returning after a seven-month layoff with a knee injury, the Spaniard said it should be made public who is being tested and how frequently.
"The important thing is that those who are cheating, pay for their cheating,'' Nadal said. "With Armstrong the image of sport has been damaged, especially in the case of cycling. The important thing is for sport to clean up its image, that the controls are made public.''


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Reflex finders use a clear or lightly tinted window. In the center of this window is a projected small illuminated dot, the dot indicating where the telescope is pointed. The simple red dot finder (F001) is made of plastic, it is economical and is easiest to use. It has a simple red dot showing where the telescope is pointed. The multi-reticle finder (F002) has a red dot but one may turn a lever on the unit to change the dot to a small circle or cross.
Optical finderscopes are like a very small telescope. They magnify only a small amount and show several degrees of sky making it relatively easy to locate the desired object. Optical finderscopes also use an objective lens which gathers more light than the naked eye does. So you see more when looking through an optical finderscope than you do with the naked eye or a reflex finder. If you are looking for a barely visible star cluster, the optical finder reveals these dimmer objects. Correct image optical finders allow for natural movement; push the telescope left and the view moves to the left and vice versa. The larger the optical finder the more light it gathers so one can see even dimmer objects. The Stellarvue F50 optical finderscope is the highest rated on the market with a much sharper lens and higher contrast than less expensive units. All optical finderscopes have an eyepiece with a crosshair reticle. The crosshair indicates exactly where the main telescope is pointed. It is often difficult to make out the crosshair at night against the dark sky so we offer optional illuminators. These screw into the eyepiece and make the crosshair glow a red color making it clearly visible at night.
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David Charles Hinyup – Fake Navy SEAL26
09/22/2017 by hombrerana1221
David Charles Hinyup hails from Metairie, LA. Military Phonies became aware of David from his Facebook posts claiming that he received an "Iceman Iron man" Winter Hellweek award. David also has other documentation saying he was a "SEAL."
Look at the cute little Trident that David wears.
Wait, is that an Elite US Navy SEAL Team license plate frame that only real SEAL's have? No, no real SEAL would buy that crap, well at least the ones I know. Cool ass sticker Navy SEALs 1 Bin Laden 0.
David talks about him being an "ex-navy operator medic", that's some very interesting wording. BTW he calls himself Seawolf.
Let's look at David's online resume, he lists himself as NSWTC BUD/S 127 then (Boot Camp, Hospital Corpsmen, SEAL) on page 2. He also mentions the HELL WEEK, ICEMAN-IRONMAN Award on page 3 and page 4 he just reiterates that same crap. Seriously, this is a 6-page resume, after reading it and removing the redundant crap it could be a 1/2 page.
I highlighted the SEAL part for you.
Then there is his Linkedin account. After you read this it will become clear how ridiculous he sounds. Now he calls it HELL WEEK "HONOR STUDENT' ICEMAN IRONMAN Award.
He also states "File can be checked at Coronado, CA. BUDS/SEAL'S Class 127, David Hinyup, Hospital Corpsmen"
Guess what, we have checked.
Below is a Facebook post started by David and he was called out, this is over 60 pages long, most of it is him rambling on about nothing and trying to justify himself, I only put a few because I guarantee no one wants to read all of it.
David talked about earning a HELLWEEK Trident, there is NO such thing as a HELLWEEK Trident. You only get the Trident when you become a SEAL. There is NO such thing as and ICEMAN-IRONMAN Award in BUD/S.
David stated that once we order his training record he would expect an apology… He states it's an Official Award.
After contacting the UDT/SEAL archives and checking the UDT/SEAL database we found that there is NO record of David Charles Hinyup ever being a Navy SEAL.
David Charles Hinyup's military records were requested through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request.
David's summary sheet shows he was on active duty in the Navy for approximately 3 years and 15 days and got out as an E-1, yes that is correct, an E-1. Records show that David did check into BUD/S. I contacted the NSW Center and they have no record of him classing up with 127. I also contacted two SEALs from Class 127 and one instructor for that class, yes that all laughed when I mentioned the "HELLWEEK ICEMAN-IRONMAN Award" because they knew it was B.S. and they never heard of the name David Charles Hinyup.
David it looks like you owe everyone an apology.
And of course he wears that Trident pin on all hats and has a typical BUD/S shirt.
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I checked out his LinkedIn page, at the very bottom of experience he put Navy Corpsman BUDS/SEALS class127….which begs the question, that if you show up for a few days and quit, before you class up; does that really warrant a bullet in your resume, and a mini Trident? What a complete piece of garbage. Wow, him and his buddy Webb. He dishonors the Teams and not to mention about 35,000 others who had the nads to try, fail and move on honorably.
No sir it does not. I was at NDSTC in 97′. There was an entire EOD class that quit in the fucking locker room!! When the instructors found out a, Paissed off P/O came in and got them. A few did quit, after PT though.
Just another poser cocksucker! The only SEAL you could ever be is the one on tupperware!
Dickstepper extraordinaire. 3 years and change then out as an E-1? Sounds like a less than honorable discharge to me. Overcompensate much there "Iceman Seawolf"?
Love to hear the rest of the story.
BUD/S #127 + 'made it to 2d phase diving'
2d phase
Keep up the good work MP
Sad. Clearly some need to be recognised. Self esteem issues here. Oh well now he has more, being shown as a liar is much worse than just being "ordinary" accept who you are mate and stop trying to be someone you are not, this kind of "outing" goes round the world, not just your dinner table!
Sorry. Fat fingers. Please amend my email and name.
I was in BUD/S with David and it is true he did not graduate. I knew David well, and I graduated w/ Class 127. He did not, but he did ask me to comment on this page about his time at BUD/S.
As I read this information, I was actually saddened. David and I encouraged each other through a very tough winter class Hellweek. He helped me make it, and I think there was only 11 original members that made it through to graduate, the rest were "rollbacks". I don't remember the numbers well – most SEAL's forget details of BUD/S. It's not important and once you make it to the Teams, no one cares…you are an FNG, again. I told David I wouldn't comment because it was obvious he was trying to portray himself as a SEAL, but I changed my mind to set the record straight -due to the comments.
The ground truth is David was a "fish" in the water, and at least average in the other physical stuff -toughed out Hellweek with the rest of us. He was an encouragement to me and I encouraged him. I don't remember any "Ironman" award. I think it may have been something Chief's Gill/Tullas/Donagan made up on the fly to screw with our heads. I don't remember or care.
What I remember vividly is during Dive Phase (2nd Phase) David struggled tremendously with the academic Dive Physics portion -Boyles Law, etc. I know….I spent hours with him on the weekends, rather than us taking a much needed break, sleeping, or going to the EM Club looking for ladies -we cracked the books and I tried to help him understand the math. To this day, I still remember the look of anxiousness on his face, because he just couldn't understand it, nor get the sample problems right. I would show him, he would try it, and just struggled. We both felt helpless, knew what that meant after failing another test. I also felt very frustrated because I couldn't help my friend. We tried over and over…it was simply very tough for him.
David was academically dropped from Class 127. I never saw him, again. I don't know why he left the Navy as an E-1, but it was probably due to his internalizing his BUD/S disappointment.
That doesn't justify his pretending to be a SEAL, etc. What I do know is becoming one was very important to him. He had made it through the first "physical toughness" screening, and it difficult for him to leave over some "math problems". It was a hard pill to swallow.
I don't know why David did (or anyone) does fakes it, except maybe to feel a sense of belonging and self-worth? I became a SEAL when we weren't even known by most. I also think it's long-term hurt many people, because special forces folk tend to get their personal self-worth tied up in being a SEAL, Green Beret, etc.; and ultimately it is very dangerous because it's a 100% let down later on…"is that it?" becomes the mantra. It's quite possibly why service member suicide rates are so high….maybe we have forgotten humans are valuable beyond the measure of an occupation. I'm a SEAL, but that's not who I am. At the end of the day, I'm a country boy from Nickelsville, Southwest VA. A guy that my BUD/S classmates called "Shoo-Howdy". I learned to swim in Copper Creek, and had been to the ocean once before going to BUD/s. Now I work in the MFG Sector, and the only ones I want to make me feel special are my 2 kids; calling me Dad.
William Craig Short
BUD/S Class 127
Obviously you didn't read this in the write-up above:
Records show that David did check into BUD/S. I contacted the NSW Center and they have no record of him classing up with 127. I also contacted two SEALs from Class 127 and one instructor for that class, yes that all laughed when I mentioned the "HELLWEEK ICEMAN-IRONMAN Award" because they knew it was B.S. and they never heard of the name David Charles Hinyup.
Well…let's just trust the Navy and their wonderful record keeping ability, shall we…🙄; especially for Docs prior to electronic records. I think I'm on my 3rd Medical Record, now?
What I stated was TRUE regardless what the Center shows or states. I'm a SEAL, I was there, and research and challenge me" on my credibility; none of the guys throwing rocks here were diving in SD Bay with Class 127 in 1983-84…I was. Nothing I said flattered / justified David's actions. It's just the way things happened. He was in that class with me.
I don't care what you or the NSWTC states.
Thanks CDR Craig Short for the truth about my class records. After I failed dive physics, Chief Gill Corpsman,moved me in BUDS Medical Dept. And I attended two medical schools, and had a recommendation to return and enroll in another class, after getting dive physics help,the recommendation was from Buds base CDR..Nolan, DirectorAmbhibious Warfare Dept.
It baffles me why you felt the need to claim to be someone that you are not. You enlisted in the Navy to serve the country – that is an honor enough, for there are so many who cannot, and many who can but chose not to, but you did. But that's not enough for you. You completed Phase 1, that by itself is already an achievement, for there are many who tried and didn't even make it through Phase 1. Heck, tens of thousands of sailors didn't even consider applying, for they know they don't have what it takes, but you did. Yet that achievement is not enough for you.
Like Cdr. Short said, you made your own bed. You should have been content with your achievement, and others would have been thankful for your service. I am not throwing rocks, but certainly doesn't condone your action either. It's a disgrace to the Navy itself, and brings dishonor to the real SEALs.
Thank you CDR Short…
David, If you're truly sorry, where is the PUBLIC apology on your FB page?? It won't happen, you're not sorry…You're like others that get caught doing whatever, they're only sorry they got caught. Let's see the apology on your social media sites, then and only then will some forgiveness be given.
"Ive read all the comments, but continue to see negative opines against me, even though Ive apologized. As stated, I no longer wear or have a SEAL Insigna, or associate with being one. I was not a SEAL. It was a mistake,its no longer in my resume, etc. That was all wrong, I freely admit it. We, all have do-over situations in life. I have regrets and I wish I could go back and do that part of life over. I cannot. If this apology isn't good enough, then nothing will be. Please, continue taking shots at me if it makes you feel better about your own imperfect life. Again, I'm sorry, but Im done with this website and moving on. I want to Thank my dear Friend CDR Craig Short…I'm Proud of you and your legacy on the TEAMS…I Pray you are returned home soon, and that your family and you get the time needed ….GODSPEED SIR.. I Thank GOD for the SEALS that are fighting for our freedom, and the ones gone, but never forgotten…ever! Amen 127
My father is a navy seal do not test me.Delete everything that you have said ,you do not know my father like me so get a job and get a life.This information is private and you took a picture of me and my dad so delete everything you jealous punk.
I'm a retired US Army First Sergeant and In 22 years in the Army, all I ever did was my job, no matter what that job was or where I had to go to get it done. I am most certainly not a hero. These fake seals are getting boring. They have no imagination. I think there are more fakes than real SEALs. Can't we see some other kinds of fakes??? Seals and other special operators such as Green Berets have my utmost respect. I served in Bad Tolz Germany when the 10th SF was there and I had a lot of friends in the group. I was an instructor at the 7th Army NCO Academy. Among many things, we taught integrity, and most of these folks don't even know what that word means. Maybe if they posed as Secret Midnight Mess Kit Repairman they might get a little farther along in their fake lives. The real problem with these folks is their fakery does not hurt them, but it can cause damage, disappointment and heartache to the people who believed their lies. How can these fakes ever look their former friends in the face again. Beats the hell out of me..


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Monday, July 26, 2010
Is poetry boring?
I find this strange -- not because I don't think poetry is boring, but because I'm surprised they didn't think it was boring before. Is poetry boring? Yes, of course it is. Life is boring. Writing of all kinds (novels, movie reviews, the news) is boring, museums are boring, TV and movies and the Internet are mostly boring, exercise is boring, work is boring, school is boring, even sex can be boring. Most of modern life is an elaborate exercise in killing time, since there is little doubt we'll all live into our nineties, if not eternally. Anything novel is a temporary cure for boredom (a new hobby, being pregnant for the first time, drugs) but things become boring again eventually (even money).
I like the subhead of Kathy Rooney's latest column for the Southtown Star: "Why poetry doesn't matter now any less than it ever has." It doesn't insist that poetry matters, whatever that means, just that it didn't use to matter more.
Most poetry readings are indeed terribly boring. I can't be bothered to finish most poems I start to read, much less most books. Most food is not worth eating (unless you're starving), I prefer silence to most music most of the time, given anything else to do, I'd rather languish with my own thoughts than watch most TV, etc. Poetry is boring, except when it isn't.
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this is an awesome postReplyDelete
in my case, it has nothing to do with the writing. the writing is the same. it's my reaction to it that's changed. i just don't know why. (well maybe i do, somewhat.)ReplyDelete
Boring suggestion: see John Berryman on "boring!"ReplyDelete
Don't you think it's just that it isn't novel anymore? Both the poetry itself and the scene?ReplyDelete
Don: One of my favorites :)ReplyDelete
no, that's not it, in my caseReplyDelete
What do you think it is, if you know somewhat?ReplyDelete
it's a little too personal to discuss, i think:)ReplyDelete
but it isn't a problem of novelty, because novels are even less novel (ha ha) and i still enjoy those immensely.
Poetry and the poetry scene have always been around. The fact is there is very little great art. Truly great art. We read more poetry these days because it is accessible. Most of it is crap.ReplyDelete
The art of poetry is extremely difficult. Lots of people these days assume poetry is easy because they like to write. Or they have an advanced degree. This is simply not the case.
True true, RK.ReplyDelete
M, I find most novels boring too. It can take me months to find one that appeals enough to be worth weeks of my life. Most stuff at bookstores, of course, I dismiss entirely out of hand.
i know most poetry is crap. that's not the issue, trust me:)ReplyDelete
actually i think i like more novels than i dislike. to me they are easy to like, even if the writing isn't the best.
I might like more perfume than I dislike currently, but I think I still have novelty on my side.ReplyDelete
i also prefer music over silence, tv over my own thoughts, etc. my own thoughts are depressing!ReplyDelete
I couldn't agree with you more. Everything is boring, either because it's all been done before, or because we've all grown so desensitized to novelty that we couldn't recognize real innovation if we wanted to.ReplyDelete
I blame the Internet for this (as I blame it for just about everything that's wrong with humanity); the volume of words, images, and sounds that bombard us today is impossible to process and it's growing exponentially. Our only defense is to curl up into a sort of intellectual fetal position. We happily limit our mental bursts to 140 characters. We spend our time reading shit that people take minutes to write instead of years. And the majority of what we read is not really written for humans but for some Googly-eyed algorithms.
Poetry is organic. I don't think we're conditioned to do "organic" anymore which is why it has become boring. (I have a 1959 issue of LIFE magazine where beat poetry was featured prominently on the cover. How likely is something like that to happen today?)
In the past 15 or so years, I've spent the majority of my time in an environment where my scope of vision and thought is strongly influenced by the physical limitations of a machine. I can give you the hexadecimal and RGB values for 10 different shades of green for a web graphic but I couldn't identify 10 of the hundreds of varieties of wild plants growing around my house.
My own thoughts have veered toward depressing lately too, but depressing and boring are different ...ReplyDelete
Conversation is better than most of these things. I've never understood (well, not in my adult life) why people go to movies as a social activity. If you're going to be social, be social. You can watch movies alone.
LR, the poet Christian Bok was featured in Wired recently, though not on the cover ...ReplyDelete
depressing or boring, it's undesirable either way! i would take up drinking, but i've heard that kind of habit can be bad.ReplyDelete
Drinking when you're depressed just makes you more depressed. Not sure if it has the power to make you more bored, though.ReplyDelete
Drinking bores me lately too. I don't get buzzed anymore and the hangovers just get worse.
infinite jest was a good novelReplyDelete
actually yeah maybe you are getting a little depressed, you know what with food not tasting good etc. maybe you should pound the caffeine for a weekReplyDelete
Hey, thanks. I just read the Wired piece on Christian Bök but it really had nothing to do with poetry. It was about his plans to encode the alphabet into DNA so that his work would "live on after he was gone." And he would have to make some serious literary concessions to do so:ReplyDelete
"Bök will have to choose his ciphers carefully, as his poem chemically ordains the sequence of amino acids that the bacteria will create in response...He says his poem will probably need to have a 'repetitive, incantatory quality.'"
So he wouldn't be writing the stuff; he's be programming bacteria to do it. Boring. Once again, the organic quality of art is sacrificed to accommodate technology.
I don't know that I'd agree it had nothing to do with poetry. I mean, the Beats were famous for their lifestyle more than their writing, probably.ReplyDelete
Agreed. Maybe "little to do with poetry" would have been more accurate. It just seems like a look-how-clever-a-poet-I-am joke to get his name in the press. No way is he ever going to pull it off.ReplyDelete
I don't think it was the lifestyles of the Beats that made them famous. Rather, they were the literary/academic embodiment of a lifestyle. They kind of legitimized the reefer-smoking, bongo-playing, black beret and turtlenecking subculture that was developing at the time.
Well, that guy really is deeply interested in technology. I think he's legitimately interesting, but you have to be interested in conceptual poetry (which I am). And he had already written a best-selling poetry book (Eunoia) so it's not like he was desperately groping for his five minutes.ReplyDelete
BTW that's best-selling period, not just "for poetry":ReplyDelete
A Calgary poet whose book won the Griffin Poetry Prize in 2002 has scored an hit with the U.K. publication of his book, which came seven years after its release in Canada.
Christian Bok's Eunoia, released in Britain in October, became the No. 8 seller on Amazon U.K. Christmas week, made the Times of London's list of the year's top 10 books and remains the top-selling book of poetry in Britain.
Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2009/01/05/eunoia-poet.html#ixzz0uoTPrmHR
i've been struggling to stay interested in poetry lately. fortunately, some other kids and i have formed a poetry book club that gets together once a month. just knowing i have to be prepared to discuss our book for the month makes me more engaged (and the poetry less boring).ReplyDelete
one book i just read that is the opposite of boring is CA Conrad's The Book of Franks. Killa-illa!
I've been bringing in 3-10 poems to my workshop each week to illustrate some concept I want to discuss, and reading a poem deeply enough to say something interesting about it makes me like it much more. Similarly, I get a lot more out of a book when I intend to review it.ReplyDelete
Wow. Very cool stuff. When I was a kid, I found a book in the BPL that was written without using the letter "e" and it was almost readable.ReplyDelete
I find conceptual poetry as interesting as the next guy but, for me at least, it's not real poetry (whatever that is). It's linguistic parlor tricks -- finding a way to still make sense while voluntarily submitting to a rigid set of arbitrary rules.
Why write a chapter of a book using no other vowel than "a"? Because it's fun, a mental challenge, and to show that it can be done, I suppose. But not to "communicate" anything since there are far more efficient and effective ways to do that.
Hey. Here's a poem I just wrote where every line is an anagram of my pseudonym:
Ted leers ere
Ed leers tree.
Deserter eel
Leered Ester
Else red tree.
That was fun.
Pshaw. Most real poetry isn't real poetry either. Are sonnets not real poetry? There are more effective and efficient ways to communicate than in iambic pentameter. There are more effective and efficient ways to communicate than poetry. Every poem involves arbitrary choices. Anyway, poems convey in ways other than direct one-to-one reference of words to concepts. The form in which one chooses to write a poem always says something, the method is simply foregrounded in conceptual poetry. Meta ideas are just as interesting as overt ideas.ReplyDelete
people often use the words "parlor trick" or "game" in a disparaging way, but what's wrong with games and tricks? play, in other words. play is good. it's what art is about, i think.ReplyDelete
I agree, art with no element of humor/play/invention/adventure usually leaves me cold.ReplyDelete
I agree. Play is fun. Parlor tricks are fun. Language can be a lot of fun. (I do the "Jumble" in the newspaper every day before I read my horoscope.) A life without fun, adventure or novelty is boring. Maybe poets just aren't having that much "fun" anymore when they write and are taking it all too seriously.ReplyDelete
Everything says something, no? Even the choice not to write a poem says something (i.e., I am not writing a poem). So then, could the absence of poetry in some sense be considered a form of poetry?
BTW, one anagram of your name is Algebra Bites.
Algebra's not so bad. I'm rather fond of algebra.ReplyDelete
Lit babe ragesReplyDelete
Bleariest gab
is treble a bag?ReplyDelete
No offense. Just cool anagrams of your name that are remotely related to poetry.ReplyDelete
Teargas bible.ReplyDelete
Abate gerbils!
Poetry is not nearly boring enough for me.ReplyDelete
I find myself wanting to think about poems even after I've finished them.
And I want to keep some of the books, rather than throwing them into the Weber.
It's most disconcerting!
Oh dear ... perhaps you should read books about poetry rather than the poems themselves? That might do the trick.ReplyDelete
One of the principal reasons I've never applied to an MFA program is that (assuming I was admitted to a program) I've suspected that it would ultimately make most poetry boring for me.ReplyDelete
In real life, however, I can't conceive of feeling that poetry is boring.
Very much of the poetry I've read, or attempted to read, or skimmed or glanced at, over the past 40+ years I've been writing, doesn't much speak to me, and so I don't feel motivated to read it, but that seems to me a slightly different thing from boring.
Something like 3 or 4 or 5 percent of the poetry I check out does speak to me, and I can't get enough of it.
The film critic Roger Ebert a number of years back wrote an article or essay, some such thing, on the replacement of existentialism by irony as a central motivating force in modern culture.
From this, boredom follows in the wake.
But there is still hope. We carry on in the face of it. And quietly, bravely, scientists work toward one day finding a cure...
Coffee is not boring. I should write a poem about the correlation between caffeine and writing. I agree with Biddinger here, but I'm trying to get accepted at Barn Owl.ReplyDelete
It's strange you should say that, because my MFA was one of the times in my life when i was most excited about poetry. it of course had to with my age (27-29), the fact that i had just moved to NYC and the awesome people i met in my program. it was a great time in my life.
the only time i was more excited about poetry was when i was just getting into DIY publishing went to my first AWP (the one in austin).
maybe what i'm trying to say is that part of what makes poetry exciting to me is the idea of a poetry community. the times above were when i was most involved on a daily, intense basis with other poets who's work i admired.
I also got most excited about poetry after going to AWP for the first time. And I was hella prolific during the last couple of years of my MFA program ...ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 27, 2010 at 8:13 AM
I love this post.ReplyDelete
Although to me, while there are a ton of boring things, among them the show MASH, going to church, and listening to drunks talk, I have always been completely perplexed by the idea of boredom. I'm never bored unless I am trapped. Writing can be boring, but there's always something to read, and when I can't find anything worth reading, there's sleep, and sleep is fun. More fun than fucking MASH, anyway, God I hate that show.
how can you not like M*A*S*H???ReplyDelete
Ha! I've never watched MASH in adulthood. As a kid I always flipped right past it, I thought all war-/army-themed stuff was unconscionably boring. My attitude hasn't changed that much, actually.ReplyDelete
The subtext of this post is that I think there's value in boredom. Running is a lot more boring than watching TV, which is why I think a lot more when I'm running than when I'm watching TV. The only escape from boredom is your own thoughts.
Church is the worst because the freaking sermon is so distracting you can't even properly think. Sometimes poetry readings feel like church.
"I thought all war-/army-themed stuff was unconscionably boring."ReplyDelete
do you really feel that way? even when it's satire?
have you at least seen the movie? i guess it's okay if you don't like the tv show, but i don't see how anyone could not like the movie. but even with the tv show, how can anyone not like alan alda???
No, I've gotten over it to some degree. I liked Catch 22. And Full Metal Jacket. But no, I've never seen the movie. I do like Alan Alda, of course.ReplyDelete
i haven't seen catch-22. it's my favorite book but i heard bad things about the movie.ReplyDelete
when i was a kid i felt the same as you about M*A*S*H. it looked old, like it was from the 70s or something, and depressing. i was annoyed because it came on before star trek: tng, so i had to wait. but then when i actually started watching it i found out it wasn't what i thought it was, and i liked it.
there are 11 seasons worth of alan alda you're missing out on!
There's a movie? I was talking about the book, which I read in high school.ReplyDelete
I'd probably watch it now, if I had a TV on which it might occasionally appear. But I'd have to go out of my way to watch it now.
The only interesting thing about MASH was the fact that Diane Arbus's husband played the shrink.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 27, 2010 at 1:57 PM
I honestly don't entirely understand it myself. I think maybe the slow theme song puts me half asleep before the show starts, and now I'm watching people dying, and someone's cracking a joke, and we lost this war, and I feel like I'm in my dad's hospital room and someone's trying to cheer me up, and it's just not happening.ReplyDelete
you really think museums are boring?ReplyDelete
(i honestly don't think life is all that boring, for the record.)
Most of the time, yeah. Again: except when they're not. I've had a few museum experiences that were amazing/unforgettable, but same with poetry readings. I don't think museums/galleries are intriguing by default. I've seen a lot of bad visual art, and not bad in a camp sense -- mediocre bad, bad with no grandeur.ReplyDelete
i don't really know anything about visual art, so it all looks interesting to me. i wouldn't know how to identify bad art.ReplyDelete
I've liked most of the poetry readings I've gone to (i.e. not found them boring). I am, however, really selective -- I don't go to readings just for the sake of going, or because the poet is famous or in town or whatever. I go, usually, because I'm at least a little familiar with the poet's work and I like at least some of what I've read.ReplyDelete
I liked M*A*S*H* the T.V. show for the first three or four years. After that the writing and directing and acting deteriorated steadily, and the show waffled endlessly between third-rate borscht belt retread and third-rate soap opera. I liked the movie M*A*S*H* (on which the T.V. show was based) better than the T.V. show.
The reason M*A*S*H* the T.V. show looks like something from the 1970's is because it is.
The M*A*S*H* theme song in the movie was the same as in the T.V. show, but in the movie it had words. The song was titled "Suicide Is Painless."
I liked the novel Catch-22, just hilarious in many places. Couldn't put it down. I read it during high school, which was when the Vietnam war was going on. The movie Catch-22 came out shortly after that -- the movie is okay, though only a moderate shadow of the book.
Really liked the movie Full Metal Jacket.
"The reason M*A*S*H* the T.V. show looks like something from the 1970's is because it is."ReplyDelete
yes. i was being sarcastic.
I really loved your post. I found it after doing a search on French poetry blogs. I was looking for French poetry because listening to poetry in French is sometimes as relaxing as eating chocolate.ReplyDelete
I like English poems when they are read aloud in films but poetry readings are not my thing and nor are classical music concerts or art galleries or museums though part of me thinks that I should really like those things better.
Poetry at its finest is a very fine drug but, yes, it can be boring too.
Hi Aidan, sorry you don't find any real French poetry here but thanks for stopping by. :)ReplyDelete
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Hm, I think "dull" and "boring" are different. To me "dull" means it's just flat, uninspired, not engaging. Dull things are boring, but not all boring things are dull -- a poem might be boring because it's slow or difficult, but reading it more slowly, deeply or just better might be rewarding. I've read a lot of poetry that I ended up getting something out of even though I initially passed over it, deeming it boring and moving on.ReplyDelete
Dear Elisa,ReplyDelete
When it comes to boredom (and all matters related thereto) E.M. Cioran's very perceptive.
My thing is just the opposite. Almost nothing bores me. I assure you, it is a kind of curse.
everything is totally boring. i support this blog postReplyDelete
The shrink on MASH was married to Diane Arbus? Really?ReplyDelete
That momentarily mitigated my boredom, but it's beginning to pall already. The pall of boredom is settling on me again.
I once read a Mary McCarthy novel set in an artists' colony. At one point it mentions an actor who carved a steak on a floor. I found out later that Montgomery Clift carved a steak on the floor of some cottage owned by McCarthy and her actor brother Kevin. The Invasion of the Body Snatchers guy.
Am I boring you?
Yep...Alan Arbus.ReplyDelete
I've actually gravitated "back" to poetry. I'm certain it has something to do with turning 40, but I cannot define why I've felt such a strong urge to re-connect with the poetry I read as a student.ReplyDelete
I find TV boring. Debates are boring. Poetry works, at least.
Berryman, life, boring, enough said.ReplyDelete
I can't agree that life, or poetry, is boring. I think it's that our brains tire very quickly, and what was exciting for a few moments is no longer exciting. That's not quite the same as boring. Someone going on too long about a dream they've had--that's boring in some objective sense. However, your use of the word boring as a club is funny, and gets me to see all the things you refer to in your post in a fresh way; and your implied point about the non-importance of poetry not being important seems valid and important.ReplyDelete
An answer to long to post in its entirely here:ReplyDelete
There aren't boring things, but boring people.ReplyDelete


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Hagiography is the writing of saints' lives. It comes from the Greek words αγιος and γραφη = "holy writing" or "writing about the holy (ones)."
- Hagiography refers literally to writings on the subject of such holy persons; specifically, the biographies of persons publicly glorified (canonized) by the Church.
- Hagiology, by contrast, is the study of saints collectively, without focusing on the life of an individual saint.
Hagiography as a Form of Biography
Hagiography is unlike other forms of biography in that it does not necessarily attempt to give a full, historical account of the life of an individual saint. Rather, the purpose of hagiography is soteriological—that is, the life of the saint is written so that it might have a salvific effect on those who encounter it.
As such, hagiography often fails to include details which are standard for most biographical works, such as birthdate, childhood, career, and so forth. Rather, the details included are those which pertain to the saint's life as an icon of Christ, as one who points us to the abundant life available from our Lord.
The secondary purpose of hagiography is to glorify persons in whom Christ has powerfully worked. Therefore, one often can notice a dearth of mention of the saint's sins in this life. Sometimes, those sins are mentioned (as with St. Mary of Egypt or the Prophet King David) so that their great repentance can be demonstrated, but other times, hagiography includes no mention of the saint's sins at all. This character of the genre should not be understood as propaganda—after all, it is axiomatic that only Christ is without sin—but rather that such details are not germane to the purpose of hagiography.
Development of Hagiography
Hagiography comprised an important literary genre in the early millennia of the Church, providing informational history as well as inspirational stories and legends. A hagiographic account of an individual saint is often referred to as a vita.
The genre of lives of the saints first came into being in the Roman Empire as collections of traditional accounts of Christian martyrs, called martyrologies. In the 4th century, there were 3 main types of catalogues of lives of the saints:
- Menaion, an annual calendar catalogue (in Greek, menaios means "month") (biographies of the saints to be read at sermons)
- Synaxarion, or a short version of lives of the saints, arranged by dates
- Paterikon (in Greek, pater means "father"), or biography of the specific saints, chosen by the catalogue compiler
In Western Europe hagiography was one of the more important areas in the study of history during the Middle Ages. The Golden Legend of Jacob de Voragine compiled a great deal of mediæval hagiographic material, with a strong emphasis on miracle tales.
In the 10th century, the work of St. Simeon Metaphrastes—an Orthodox monk who had been a secretary of state—marked a major development and codification of the genre. His Menologion (catalogue of lives of the saints), compiled at the request of Emperor Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus while Simeon was still a civil servant, became the standard for all of the Western and Eastern hagiographers. Over the years, hagiography as a genre absorbed a number of narrative plots and poetic images (often of pre-Christian origin, such as dragon fighting etc.), mediaeval parables, short stories and anecdotes. Simeon's contribution was to collect these saints' lives from written and oral traditions, copying directly from some sources and reworking others, then arranging them in order of the saints' feast days.
The genre of lives of the saints was brought to Russia by the South Slavs together with writing and also in translations from the Greek language. In the 11th century, the Russians began to compile the original life stories of the first Russian saints. In the 16th century, Metropolitan Macarius expanded the list of the Russian saints and supervised the compilation of their life stories. They would all be compiled in the so called Velikiye chet'yi-minei catalogue (Великие Четьи-Минеи, or "Grand monthly readings"), consisting of 12 volumes in accordance with each month of the year.
- Article adapted from Wikipedia:Hagiography


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Bill O'Reilly, Mike Buckabee, Al Gore and Chris Matthews all had scathing statements about the election and the process of casting votes.
O'Reilly didn't mince words on Fox News when he said the demographics of the country have changed and are no longer in line with "traditional America anymore."
"The white establishment is now the minority," O'Reilly said. "And the voters, many of them, feel that the economic system is stacked against them and they want stuff … People feel that they are entitled to things and which candidate, between the two, is going to give them things?"
O'Reilly's comment mirrors controversial comments by Mitt Romney about 47 percent who "believe that they are victims." Romney was able to rebound from those comments to gain momentum in the final weeks of his campaign.
Minutes after O'Reilly's comments, Huckabee said the Republican party had done a poor job of "reaching out to people of color."
"That's something we've got to work on," he said on Fox News. "It's a group of people that frankly should be with us based on the real policy of conservatism."
While O'Reilly and Huckabee commented on the vote, Matthews and Gore added their opinions on the voting process.
Gore criticized voting laws, calling them "un-American" and a "disgrace" on Current TV.
"It is a strategy that is a direct descendent of the racist Jim Crow tactics that were used in the wake of the Civil War to prevent black people from voting," Gore said. "It's more sophisticated now, it's dressed up in different kinds of language, but it is un-American."
Matthews, who anchors for MSNBC, said the U.S. was beginning to act "like a Third World country" in regards to early voting laws.
"What's going on in our country?" Matthews said. "We begin to act like a Third World country – and I mean no disrespect to Third World countries here – when we start having elections you can't trust because they keep changing the game and the rule."


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BBC Probe: "Unacceptable" Journalistic/Management Failures
More senior BBC staff could leave the corporation as an internal report into the Newsnight fiasco that cost former director general George Entwistle his post draws damning conclusions. The investigation by BBC Scotland director Ken MacQuarrie concluded that "unacceptable" journalistic and management failures caused the broadcast of false claims against a senior political figure. Newsnight aired the allegations of child sexual abuse in its November 2 program, but didn't name the man, later revealed to be Lord McAlpine. As a result, it didn't offer the retired adviser to Margaret Thatcher a right of reply as BBC editorial guidelines mandated, and it was subsequently revealed that the victim had mistaken the identity of his attacker. "Basic editorial checks were not completed," the report said. Newsnight's acting editor Liz Gibbons and its supervising executive Adrian Van Klaveran are expected to face disciplinary action, according to The Guardian. Ironically, both were in their positions as a result of the earlier Newsnight scandal involving Jimmy Savile. Gibbons had taken over from suspended editor Peter Rippon, having previously served as his deputy. And Van Klaveran had been seconded from running BBC Radio 5 Live as "defacto editor" of coverage pertaining to the Savile affair. The BBC's internal magazine, Ariel, says Gibbons has already been replaced as acting editor by Karen O'Connor, a former deputy editor of the program. – Joe Utichi
Australia's Quickflix Calls A Trading Halt
Directors of Quickflix, Australia's only combined online DVD rental and subscription streaming service, asked for an immediate halt in stock trading Tuesday local time, pending an announcement of a new strategic investor and capital raising. The shares are due to resume trading on Thursday. Earlier this year Quickflix flagged that it was discussing a potential merger or strategic partnership. The company, in which HBO bought a 15.7% stake for $A10M ($10.7M) in February, incurred an operating loss of $1.8M on revenues of $5.3M in the quarter ending September 30 as its cash reserves dwindled to $2.2M. On Monday Quickflix said its streaming service will launch this Wednesday on Xbox, giving it access to more than 1 million users.—Don Groves
Lachlan Murdoch Admits Network Ten's Performance is "Unacceptable"
Ten Network chairman Lachlan Murdoch did not mince words when he reviewed the company's performance in fiscal 2012 after it incurred a net loss of $A12.9M ($13.3M). Murdoch described the sharp drops in ratings and revenues as "unacceptable," albeit in a weakened advertising market. TV revenues fell by 14.5% to $728M while the outdoor advertising division Eye Corp (since sold) declined by 7.6% to $137.2M. The TV unit's earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortization plunged by 46.5% to $82.4M. Murdoch said the company is taking "immediate action to address its ratings and financial performance" but insisted the ongoing strategic review, which includes more than 100 layoffs in TV news and production, would not affect its investment in programming. And he maintained a bullish outlook for the 2013 programming schedule which includes new U.S. series Elementary and Ripper Street, the return of American Idol, new seasons of The Good Wife, Glee, Modern Family and Homeland, and fresh Australian offerings Mr and Mrs Murder and Reef Doctors. – Don Groves
Screen Australia Funds New Local Pics
Emmanuelle Béart will play a French S&M mistress who tries to help a grieving teenager reconnect with life after his father's suicide in My Mistress, an Australian drama that's due to start shooting on the Gold Coast in January. Harrison Gilbertson (Beneath Hill 60, Conspiracy 365) will play the teen. The film marks the feature directing debut of Stephen Lance, with a script by Gerard Lee. LevelK is handling international sales, with Transmission releasing in Australia with executive producer Robyn Kershaw's RKPix. Producer Leanne Tonkes tells Deadline the film is fully funded with investment from Screen Australia, Screen Queensland and Film Victoria. Screen Australia also announced that it is co-funding Son of a Gun, writer-director Julius Avery's debut film which stars Ewan McGregor. UTA helped raise the finance and is handling sales in North America, with Altitude Films repping the rest of the world. Avery and casting director Nikki Barrett are in LA testing Aussie actors based there for the co-lead, and actresses to play a young woman also featured in the film, producer Timothy White tells Deadline. The plan is to start shooting in Perth and regional Western Australia next March. Screen Australia said it's investing nearly $A5.5M in those two films plus the second series of Blackfella Films' indigenous drama Redfern Now, which was created by Jimmy McGovern for Australia's ABC-TV, generating more than $21M worth of production. – Don Groves
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More bikes for South East stations
Hyperlocal site SE1 reports that TfL is seeking to expand the Barclays Cycle Hire scheme at as many as 12 new locations on the South Bank and will add 350 new docking points next to Waterloo Station.
The online home for all things Brockley (SE4), Deptford, Ladywell, Lewisham and New Cross
Hyperlocal site SE1 reports that TfL is seeking to expand the Barclays Cycle Hire scheme at as many as 12 new locations on the South Bank and will add 350 new docking points next to Waterloo Station.
Mark my words, in 5 years time all that will be left of this scheme will be the docking stations - the most expensive dog urinals in history!
Sorry not simply to take you at your word, but care to explain why you think that?
All I see every morning is empty docking stations, which I read as success. Hard to see why that shouldn't last?
Anyone that uses the phrase 'mark my words' is invariably wrong, an idiot, or usually both.
With all these bikes, maybe they could have a Tour De London.
They're breaking even in two years, so even if they do become dog urinals, they won't be funded by the taxpayer.
As we're moving to a world where the social contract has broken down and only those who contribute to the asset should be able to use it, we should demand 10p from every scabby mutt or drunken clubber who decides to use them.
I wrote the first comment. Many reasons why I think this: stats are misleading as they count bikes docked in AND out, so they're only half as popular as publicised. Scheme relies strongly on the sponsor & them not pulling out. And all the stations I see are hardly used at all. Very rare I see one bike missing.
And calling me an idiot for having a different opinion to you about a bike borrowing scheme seems a little harsh...
Perhaps the 'idiot' remark was not necessarily for having a different opinion, but more to do with the way you express your opinion.
Mark my words though, the bike scheme will be a huge success ;)
Three things need addressing to improve the Cycle Hire scheme:
1. Better coverage(more docking stations)
2. Docking stations at major national rail stations
3. Expansion outside of zone 1
This announcement helps 1 and 2, though there is some way to go on getting decent coverage at all the major terminii. If Boris is to be believed, he has aspirations for 3, though I don't expect to see the scheme hit SE4 any time soon. More likely extensions into the Isle of Dogs and Stratford in time for 2012.
Oh, and Anon who thinks the bikes are never used. Check the real time map info on the TfL site: https://web.barclayscyclehire.tfl.gov.uk/maps
There always seem to be plenty of bikes in use when I look.
I think people are disappointed that when they reach there destination the docking stations are all full.
And, of course,
4. Making it available to unregistered users
Oh, and,
5. Use your Oystercard to pay.
Bike scheme seems very popular to me. When it 1st started I used to see 2-3 people perhaps on Boris bikes, per day. Now it's more like 20-30, I pass at least 10 in the morning as I cycle to work... I should think like the schemes in Barcelona and Paris it'll go from srtength to strength, especially if Bob Crow continues to cause hassle on the Tube and ticket prices continue to spiral.
I think that if the scheme is ever extended outside of zone 1 and into the commuter zone, it will become wildly popular.
It is simple maths: as it stands the cheapest way of getting about is £664 a year for a bus pass. Many people pay a great deal more than that (£1,032) for a zone 1 and 2 annual pass.
Boris bike if used judiciously could be a great money saver. Moreover, they solve the problem of security and reliability that normally discourage would be cycling commuters.
If there were some proper dedicated cycle paths into the City and West End, they would address the third great bugbear - safety. If they had a load of showers and a personal locker conveniently located uptown a city worker might turn up looking spruce and lively for work rather than haggard and frazzled. I can dream!
The scheme is in its infancy and has benefitted greatly from avoiding some of the bigger problems encoutered elsewhere. I am mightily impressed that so few bikes have been pinched.
The scheme has great potential if the government are really serious about weaning folk off motorised transport and onto their own pedal power.
I shall observe the next phase with interest. Many a tourist casts an envious eye upon the
the bikes when UK bank account holding classes are out and about.
Matt-Z: As I pointed out earlier, you have to take the Barclayscyclehire stats with a very large pinch of salt. It counts bikes in AND out, so halve the stats and then see if it's as popular as you think it is! And as far as the previous comment goes, if we're comparing this to a £664 bus pass, why not just buy your own bike?! This is why in my opinion the scheme is dead in the water.
I appreciate that counting bikes in and out is slightly misleading, but that wasn't my point.
If you click on each docking station on the map, it shows the numbers of bikes available and empty racks for each one in real time. Do this throughout the day and you will see some stations are constantly busy, others less so, and there are peak times. I don't know why TfL would lie about bike availability, as it is relayed to every docking station and helps them coordinate the service, move bikes around according to demand etc, so I assume the data to be correct.
As it happens I cycle past about 10 docking stations on my commute each day, there are always empty slots, some often have almost no bikes available. The scheme seems popular to me, especially given it is only a few months old. I can only see it growing.
And as far as the previous comment goes, if we're comparing this to a £664 bus pass, why not just buy your own bike?! This is why in my opinion the scheme is dead in the water.
If this were true, then the schemes would not have been a success in the cities where this has been running for years - Paris and Lyon, for example.
Purchasing your own bike is, in the long run, more cost effective but it is not always practical to use your own bike and I have already experienced times when I am in the city centre, having got there by train, and wished I had registered for the scheme so that I didn't have to walk or use the tube. For those that are new to cycling this gives them the perfect means to try it and perhaps they will go on to buy their own bike in the future – it worked for me having taken the plunge with the Velib in Paris and thoroughly enjoying myself, despite having little clue of French road regulations and French in general. I am sure there are also some who can't be asked with the hassle of owning a bike - maintenance, storage, risk of theft etc and will happily rely on the scheme as and when it suits them to get around.


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The U.N. wants to use drones, the French news agency Agence France-Presse reports. "The United Nations wants to use drones for the first time to monitor fighting in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, where Rwanda has been accused of aiding rebels," says the report, quoting U.N. officials.
The international body "is considering a range of ways to strengthen the capabilities of MONUSCO to protect civilians from the threat of armed groups in the vast area of eastern DR Congo," a U.N. spokesman says.
"Unarmed aerial vehicles, drones for monitoring the movements of armed groups, are one tool we are considering."
The spokesman, Kieran Dwyer, insists the U.N.'s use of drones would be done carefully.
"Of course, we would do this carefully, in full cooperation with the government of the DR Congo, and trialing their most effective uses for information gathering to help implement our mandate to protect civilians," says the spokesman.
"Ultimately, to introduce these, we would need the support of member states to equip the mission."
An unnamed diplomat says, "The UN has approached a number of countries, including the United States and France, about providing drones which could clearly play a valuable role monitoring the frontier. ... Clearly there will be political considerations though."
It is not clear whether any of the countries have agreed to work with the U.N. on the budding drone program.
According to AFP, this recommendation could be coming to the Security Council soon. "UN leader Ban Ki-moon is to recommend options to the UN Security Council soon," reports AFP.
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text: That's Marcus Lewis of the Eastern Kentucky Colonels, ruthlessly and acrobatically throwing it down against Southeastern Missouri State yesterday during an Ohio Valley conference game. Lewis, a junior, only transferred into Division I this year and only has 140 points total in the Colonels' 23 games. But he also did that, so let's hope he at least gets a couple mentions for POY.


text: There's plenty of context for midfielder Dare Vršič's injury time free kick goal against Serbia yesterday in 2012 Euro qualifiers, if you want it. Slovenia had never beaten a team from the former Yugoslavia, their historic rivals. The goal continues Estonia's miracle run to the playoffs. But context is irrelevant in the face of a swooping 130-foot bomb that was nigh-indefensible.


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Peppered with fun facts and cheeky asides, actor Roger Moore's "Bond on Bond: Reflections on 50 years of James Bond Movies" (Lyons Press), is a treat for 007 fans. He takes us on a lively spin around the milestones of cinema's longest-running franchise.
Page after page of photos display the villains, the gadgets and the girls, making "Bond on Bond" a kind of 007 family album for those who grew up with the British secret agent — and never outgrew the fantasy of driving a fast car with an even faster girl on the way to saving the world.
You can still start a fight arguing whether Moore was a better Bond than Sean Connery, though that might show your age as much as your taste in 007s. Moore says he developed his approach to the character after noting a line from one of Ian Fleming's novels: "Bond did not particularly enjoy killing."
Indeed, in his seven outings as Bond, Moore brought a light humor that set him apart from Connery's more serious and at times sadistic manner.
Did you know:
— Unlike Connery, Moore's Bond never smoked cigarettes. The actor writes that he had quit a few years before "Live and Let Die," his first Bond movie.
— Actor Desmond Llewelyn, who played armament expert "Q'' in 17 of the films, was a technophobe who could barely operate a video recorder.
— Moviemakers would dress up an air base near Britain's Pinewood Studios, home to the Bond franchise, so it could stand in for air bases as needed — in Cuba, Azerbaijan and even America's Fort Knox.
— Actress Lois Maxwell contacted "Dr. No" director Terence Young, a friend, in search of a job to tide over her family in the wake of her husband's heart attack. A two-day gig as lovelorn secretary Miss Moneypenny in the first Bond film led to appearances in 14 films spanning 23 years.
— What vanquished arch-villain Blofeld and his evil organization SPECTRE? It wasn't sharks or lasers but lawsuits. Moore says a dispute over who created SPECTRE resulted in its being dropped from future films.
Other books have far more trivia and making-of material from each of the films. Moore, understandably, is most chatty about his own experiences, though he is too much a gentleman to criticize his colleagues without a smile. An exception might be one-shot wonder George Lazenby, portrayed as a bratty Bond who took the blast of fame that came with "On Her Majesty's Secret Service" all too seriously.
That cannot be said of Moore, either as an actor or as an author. No other Bond, from Timothy Dalton to more recent stalwarts Pierce Brosnan and Daniel Craig, has managed to make 007 quite as charming and endearing as Moore. He brings those traits to "Bond on Bond," inviting us to sit back and enjoy the ride.


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PISCATAWAY, N.J. (AP) Rutgers running back Jawan Jamison has elected to forego his final two years of eligibility and enter the NFL draft.
Jamison is the sixth player since 2008 to leave the school early for the draft. Cornerback Logan Ryan also decided to leave school recently.
Jamison rushed for 1,075 yards this season, averaging 4.2 yards per carry. The Starke, Fla., native scored four touchdowns and also caught 28 passes for 323 yards.
For his career, Jamison rushed for 1,972 yards and 13 touchdowns in 25 games.
Rutgers coach Kyle Flood says Jamison ``has tremendous vision, great balance and has the gift to make people miss in the open field.''